Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Koch brothers influence on elected officials, schools
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 6 minutes ago
Ed Schultz talks with filmmaker Robert Greenwald about the Koch Brothers' influence on American colleges, and about their role in the 2012 election.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Are the Koch brothers teaching you
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 6 minutes ago
What s happening to academia in Florida demands national attention. Billionaires Charles and David Koch are infringing on intellectual freedom and independence in colleges and universities. It s an old fashioned quid pro quo where the Koch brothers get allied professors who ll preach Ayn Rand, supply side economic policies and the values of the 19th century Guilded Age to students and the college gets some funding.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: The Koch Congress Pushing Keystone Pipeline
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 6 minutes ago
The Koch Congress as Think Progress calls them are members of congress that accepted money, known as bribery in most countries, from the billionaire Koch Brothers. Keeping money out of government is the main issue of rulings such as Citizens United, and the general atmosphere of a long corrupted US Congress.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Responding to Koch Attacks, First Obama Campaign Ad Hits 'Secretive Oil Billionaires'
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 6 minutes ago
The Obama re-election campaign has launched its first advertisement of the 2012 election, responding to an attack ad from the petrochemical billionaire Koch brothers. The Koch's political front group, Americans For Prosperity, accused Obama of "cronyism" over the Solyndra solar company in a $6 million ad campaign launched this week. Obama's rapid response, hitting the "secretive oil billionaires" and touting the growing clean-energy economy, is running in Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin:
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: TransCanada Northern Border Inc. (Keystone XL) is a Subsidiary of ONEOK Inc., and ONEOK Inc. has a Partnership with Koch Industries
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 6 minutes ago
Talk about how oil and gas companies can dictate oil price. Well certainly having a hand in every major venture like it would seem Koch Industries has been could definitely impact on the price of gas, especially when you considered all the assets Koch Industries owns all around the world. To top that Republicans in Congress want the President to make a decision on the Keystone XL in sixty days (they added this to the Payroll tax extention bill where it should not have been), ignoring the environmental dangers, but through further investigation it appears the company that suppose to b... more »
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Koch-backed group spends $6 million on anti-Obama Solyndra ad
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 1 week ago
A conservative group is spending $6 million in battleground states on a new ad critical of President Obama's role in funding the failed green energy firm Solyndra, whose bankruptcy last year despite a federal loan guarantee has proven a major embarrassment for the administration. Americans for Prosperity - group partially funded by the billionaire Koch brothers - said that the campaign will begin airing Monday in Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia and Iowa.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Is Your Senator Representing Charles and David Koch
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 1 week ago
Billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch look like they're easy graders. Their Tea Party group released its rankings this week of senators and congressman who tow the Koch line most, and it gave a total of 44 A+s for the 112th Congress.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Koch-Backed Group To Release $6 Million Swift Boat Style Campaign Vs. Obama
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 1 week ago
Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group bankrolled by the multimillionaire Koch brothers, is about to unleash a $6 million dollar ad campaign in order to attack President Obama.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Five U.S. Senators Are Perfect Koch Servants, Americans For Prosperity Reports
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 2 weeks ago
Five senators and 39 representatives received a perfect 100 percent score from the Koch brothers Astroturf group Americans For Prosperity for the first half of the 112th Congress. AFP judged Congress on their votes to protect the Koch brothers right-wing petrochemical empire on such issues as the repeal of President Obama s new health care law, preempting EPA s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, Chairman Paul Ryan s budget to end Medicare, ending ethanol subsidies, several Congressional Review Act resolutions of disapproval to overturn new regulations and the fiscal year 2012 a... more »
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Norquist, ALEC and the Koch brothers
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 2 weeks ago
"America was never America for me, and yet I swear this oath, America will be." These are the words of Langston Hughes, the incredible African-American poet, who lived from 1902 to 1967. Perhaps the reason why can be understood in part by looking at the activities of a few very powerful, very rich people, and their effect on the laws of this country.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: ALEC Alumni in Congress
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 4 weeks ago
ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve "model" bills.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Koch Brothers To Benefit From "Savannah River Sellout"
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 4 weeks ago
In addition to the financial and political favors she s already alleged to have already received for betraying South Carolina s economic and environmental interests, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley may reap yet another major reward from her "Savannah River Sellout." -- Specifically, her decision to accommodate the state of Georgia s government-funded Savannah port expansion project - which will effectively kill a public-private port facility in Jasper County, S.C. - will benefit a pair of major players in Republican Party politics.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Koch Industries spreads influence in key places
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 4 weeks ago
I read with great interest Bruce Kading s September editorial in The St. Augustine Record protesting U. S. Rep. John Mica s sponsorship of HR 2018, which would dismantle large portions of the Clean Water Act. Of even greater interest to me was that Georgia-Pacific, who wishes to run a pipeline dumping toxic chemicals into the St. Johns River, is owned by Koch Industries. They and other industries that would benefit from HR 2018 have lavished more than $100,000 in campaign contributions to Mica. Sen. Marco Rubio has also received $32,000 in campaign contributions from Koch Industries.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Koch Brothers Financed 'Research' Institute Steps Up Misleading Obamacare Attacks
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 4 weeks ago
Sally Pipes, the President & CEO of the Koch Brothers funded Pacific Research Institute (which also received or currently receives hefty amounts of cash from corporations such as PhRMA, Pfizer and Exxon Mobile), recently shared her view of the findings of a Deloitte survey of America s physicians, offering the study up as the latest proof of how Obamacare is destroying the nation s health care system
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: How Republicans, the Koch Bros and Walker could lose the right to vote
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 4 weeks ago
Between the insecurity of our voting machines - and the right-wing push for strict voter ID laws - the right to vote and have that vote be counted - which is the beating heart of our democracy - is in trouble. That's why today it's more important than ever to listen to what Thomas Paine said about voting rights more than 200 years ago... Paine explained why the right to vote is so important, "To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Koch, subsidiaries to hire 300 people in Wichita
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 4 weeks ago
Koch Industries and 10 of its business units are hiring or planning to hire more than 300 workers in Wichita. That s according to Koch officials, who said this week that most of the jobs are professional - information technology, accounting and analysis, and engineering - and are new positions, not vacant ones. --- So if they are doing so well why are they fighting so hard against Obama?
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Another Ignored Protest - Civil Rights Activists March on the Koch Brothers
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 5 weeks ago
In yet another example of corporate media ignoring a massive demonstration on December 10, 2011 as thousands of civil rights activists marched on the New York offices of Koch Industries and then to the UN to protest the Koch brothers support of restrictive voting laws that are set to create electoral racial segregation and disenfranchise millions of American voters.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Tens Of Thousands March On Koch Industries For Suppressing Voting Rights
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 5 weeks ago
This past Saturday, tens of thousands of civil rights activists marched on the New York offices of Koch Industries to protest the Koch brothers support of restrictive voting laws that disenfranchise millions. In dozens of states, Republican politicians have pushed laws that disproportionately keep Democratic voters, including blacks, Latinos, students, and the poor, from the polls.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: Koch Brothers Positioned To Be Big Winners If Keystone XL Pipeline Is Approved
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 5 weeks ago
The Keystone XL pipeline, awaiting a thumbs up or down on a presidential permit, would increase the import of heavy oil from Canada's oil sands to the U.S. by as much as 510,000 barrels a day, if it gets built. Proponents tout it as a boon to national security that would reduce America's dependence on oil from unfriendly regimes. Opponents say it would magnify an environmental nightmare at great cost and provide only the illusion of national benefit.
Koch Brother News Feed From KBucket: The ALEC-Koch pipeline to Wisconsin Legislators and the Mining Bill
www.kochwatch.org aggregator - 1 month ago
The Mining Bill released by Assembly Republicans late last week is clearly a case of Legislative patronage to a corporate sponsor in this case, Gogebic Taconite Mining, LLC. Not surprising, but more disturbing, are the covert links to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Koch Industries, and closer to home, Hamilton Consulting in Madison. All three have created an expressway of influence to Wisconsin Legislation for co-opting state resources - creating record profits for themselves (which they will ultimately pay little tax on) and untold burdens on middle class taxpaye... more »