Kochtopus
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For once in its miserable life, is Koch Industries being unfairly attacked?
Photo: Fibonacci BlueHacker hivemind Anonymous took some potshots at the Koch-fueled Americans for Prosperity website yesterday, taking the site down intermittently and disrupting the late-night propaganda snacking of insomniac right-wingers. It’s always fun to see Anonymous spank people, at least the ones who deserve it, but this time they may have misfired. The grievances that […]
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Guy who punked Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is running for Congress as Green Party candidate
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} The story of Ian Murphy — the editor of the Buffalo Beast who convinced Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) that he was billionaire David Koch and then recorded their union-bashing, possibly illegal phone conversation — just keeps getting better. Murphy just revealed to Samantha Henig of […]
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Prank call proves billionaire David Koch owns Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and the GOP
The editor of the Buffalo Beast blustered his way into a call with Wisconsin State Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday by claiming that he was billionaire David Koch, sworn enemy of environmentalism and all progressive causes and more or less the Darth Vader of the effort to destroy America’s cleantech competitiveness. Update: It’s been confirmed […]
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Real-life Darth Vader/ Emperor Palpatine duo now in charge of U.S. energy policy
The best government money can buy.Photo: Official Star Wars BlogThe bad news is that we now have a political climate in Congress that could only be more lethal to action on clean energy and climate change if it were made out of mustard gas. The worse news is that the reason things have gotten to […]
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Why arch-polluter Koch Industries owes the planet its entire net worth
Koch Industries is helmed by climate change deniers who fund a disinformation campaign aimed at committing planet earth to millennia of runaway climate change. No surprise, then, that if you calculate the cumulative damage the Koch brothers' company has done to the environment, it almost exactly equals their net worth!
