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Koch Brothers and their Business Empire = Lex Luthor
January 2, 2012 at 9:03 pm
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This appears to be a tell-all of the Koch Brothers industry and their illegal dealsings with Iran - the government that our conservatives think called us dorks.
It's a very long and very interesting tell-all about the company's wheelings and dealings.
The Koch Method Wrote:The ‘Koch Method’
Internal company documents show that the company made those sales through foreign subsidiaries, thwarting a U.S. trade ban. Koch Industries units have also rigged prices with competitors, lied to regulators and repeatedly run afoul of environmental regulations, resulting in five criminal convictions since 1999 in the U.S. and Canada.
I can only hope that Goku saves us all.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
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RE: Koch Brothers and their Business Empire = Lex Luthor
January 2, 2012 at 9:21 pm
Koch industries is currently classified as a "person" now.
Since Koch industries has been found guilty in 5 criminal convictions can we throw koch industries in jail now?
I suggest a few thousand hours of community work for start.
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RE: Koch Brothers and their Business Empire = Lex Luthor
January 2, 2012 at 9:31 pm
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I would recommend a few hundred million man hours and a few donations to the state.
A few such donations would involve large warehouses with massive machines in it. These machiens could build things that people want.
The man hours would be divided between thousands of people. We'll call these "jobs."
The profits from these "jobs" could be used to donate to the relief fund of hte people they've wronged.
We could call that fund "the education department" and/or "healthcare."
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Nah. That's stupid.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
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RE: Koch Brothers and their Business Empire = Lex Luthor
January 2, 2012 at 10:13 pm
Crucify the fuckers.
That seems appropriate.
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RE: Koch Brothers and their Business Empire = Lex Luthor
January 3, 2012 at 2:07 pm
That is funny - he turned one of the few actual scientists that was skeptical of the whole climate change business and now that he's done the research on his own, he's only since joined the choir.
Good work, Koch Bros, you asshats.
They'll probably try to pretend that never happened.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
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RE: Koch Brothers and their Business Empire = Lex Luthor
January 3, 2012 at 2:17 pm
I'd like to hear more on this from Tiberius or theVoid. The Koch brothers are obviously very right wing libertarian/ economic liberals, what are your thoughts on green issues like pollution, climate change etc, where do you stand on de-regulating enviromental laws etc.
I'd like to point out that I am not implying libertarians do not care about green issues, I am aware that the Koch brothers will do anything for more money.
