AkydefGoldberg wrote:EmperorWu wrote:AkydefGoldberg wrote:Which party do these brothers support?
Surely, they must want something in return for their support such as leeways, incentives etc?
Republicans, as for the second one...
that might be a safe assumption.
Ha, stating the obvious there, but forgive me, been a long day. What exactly would they want? Never heard of them tbh
What country do you live in by the way? They're pretty damn famous over here.
What they want is a little too complex for me to tell you. Someone much smarter and articulate could maybe tell you what they're all about.
But basically, in my layman's view, they don't give a shit about anyone but themselves and are willing to spend money to make money. They try to have their agendas passed by any means possible. We can tell ourselves pro USA propaganda all we want but our government is just as corrupt if not more so than many of those countries we look down on. I don't even want to get into all the ways (that I know of, although I'm sure there are many more) that corporations use to influence our politics and policies.
...according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group. In an article about the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study (Chair Richard A. Muller), Los Angeles Times reporter Margot Roosevelt called the Koch Brothers "the nation's most prominent funders of efforts to prevent curbs on fossil-fuel burning"
he Koch brothers have played an active role in opposing climate change legislation. In 2011, the EPA reported that Koch Industries "emitted over twenty-four million tons of carbon dioxide", as much as is typically emitted by five million cars. A study from the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University reported that "[I]n 2011 and 2012, Koch Industries Public Sector LLC, the lobbying arm of Koch Industries, advocated for the Energy Tax Prevention Act, which would have rolled back the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could regulate greenhouse gases."The Koch Foundation is a major funder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, an effort to address the criticism of records of the earth's surface temperatures. At least two of the project's seven scientists are seen as climate change skeptics by many in the climate science world.
The Charles G. Koch Foundation gave climate skeptic Willie Soon two grants totaling $175,000 in 2005/6 and again in 2010. Soon has stated that he has "never been motivated by financial reward in any of my scientific research". The foundation helped finance a 2007 analysis suggesting that climate change was not a threat to the survival of polar bears, which was questioned by other researchers. The foundation also funded a $150,000 study by UC Berkeley physicist Richard A. Muller who initially concluded that global warming data was flawed, but later reversed his views, supporting scientific consensus.
The list keeps going and going...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux/ ... 20780.htmlhttp://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothershttp://www.cnn.com/2014/06/02/opinion/w ... -brothers/I don't know if you're familiar with the Tea Party but they were huge for a while, and are still relevant mostly. They were portrayed on the media as a grass roots citizen lead group standing up against the government for the benefit of the average American citizen. They magically appeared when the black guy got elected but that's another issue. Anyway yeah the Koch brother were entirely behind that along with some others and the sad part is all the people in the Tea Party had/(have?) no idea they were just pawns.
The scary part isn't just the Koch brothers trying to buy our country, and fuck any American who lives there interests, the scary part is that so many of these different corporations work together for their common purposes. You can't fight that kind of power and influence, especially when the corporations own all the media we watch. Just look up all the stories that the news buries because a certain corporation, or government agency is in some way related to the subject.
This country has an imagine of Truth, Freedom, Liberty. Freedom of the press was a pretty huge one we used to love to tout, but now a days we barely drag ourselves into the top 50 countries. It's pretty sad.
Anyway that's just a small sample, as well as the opinions of a man who is far from educated, so make of it what you will. At the end of the day the power is in your hands to think critically about what is happening and deciding the truth for yourself, so that's cool.
