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RADICAL RIGHT
The Billionaires Behind The Hate
Billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch are the wealthiest, and perhaps most effective, opponents of President Obama's progressive agenda. They have been looming in the background of every major domestic policy dispute this year. Ranked as the 9th richest men in America, the Koch brothers sit at the helm of Koch Industries, a massive privately owned conglomerate of manufacturing, oil, gas, and timber interests.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Dont forget each and every average non-billionaire internet-poster who is posting something hateful, polarizing, demonizing. Each of us is personally responsible for what the world looks and sounds like.
Originally posted by zeddissad
Money = power. And where is responsibility? How did they gain their wealth? I do not know in this example. But if I look into history, power is addictive. Extreme wealth base possibility of extreme power misuse. That is why I'm sceptic on wealthy people. All guys who got really wealthy in past 20 years in Czech Republic are MAFIA guys. Even Bill Gates earned his wealth on base of deception (others stupidity).
Extreme wealth is danger for society - please discuss this point, it is obvious for me, and I would like to change my opinion if you give me some argument/example against it. I think that majority of (really) wealthy people are immoral, even psychopathic - same as top politics.
Koch has funded the leading groups dedicated to spreading skepticism of climate change:
– Koch’s Americans for Prosperity, the right-wing tea party group which Koch founded in 1984 and continues to finance, has just announced that it will send a team of political operatives to Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. AFP intends to hold a press conference to attack any climate change solution the President promises as a mistake that will “kill jobs here” and “infringe on our personal and national freedoms.”
– Koch has funded the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has been the most aggressive conservative front group heralding hacked e-mails as proof that climate change does not exist.
– Koch funds the “Hot Air Tour,” a campaign led by lobbyists stopping in cities across the country to call into question the science underpinning climate change. The tour also features an actual hot air balloon to illustrate their beleif that climate change science is just “hot air.”
The National Academy of Sciences, the US Global Change Research Program, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have all come to the same conclusion: “that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use and the loss of carbon-sink capacity in heavily timbered forests are increasing temperatures and making oceans more acidic.” David Koch’s Koch Industries derives much of its profit from its oil refineries, one of the major emitters of carbon dioxide, and from its George-Pacific timber subsidiary, one of the largest contributors to the loss of carbon-sink capacity. So while it’s clear Koch’s bottom line is in conflict with addressing the world’s climate crisis, it should also be clear that he is no champion of science — no matter how many halls he buys at the Smithsonian.
Originally posted by NoHierarchy
Something to think about when you're wondering who's pulling the strings behind political propaganda/disinformation...
pr.thinkprogress.org...
RADICAL RIGHT
The Billionaires Behind The Hate
Billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch are the wealthiest, and perhaps most effective, opponents of President Obama's progressive agenda. They have been looming in the background of every major domestic policy dispute this year. Ranked as the 9th richest men in America, the Koch brothers sit at the helm of Koch Industries, a massive privately owned conglomerate of manufacturing, oil, gas, and timber interests.
Originally posted by Carseller4
Was "ThinkProgress" considered hateful when they questioned George Bush, and the War in Iraq?
Originally posted by Carseller4
It is great to know that it isn't only the left that has billionaires advancing their causes! Anyone ever heard of George Soros???
Good to know there is a little balance!
Originally posted by chrisd250
reply to post by NoHierarchy
someones got to stop socialism from comming to america, since they have the money they can get alot more done then I can. then again, you probably like the idea of having no money and having big brother tell you what you can eat, drink, wear, when you can go out, and how much you have to work to help out your comrades.
Originally posted by Carseller4
Which billionaire would you rather back?
The billionaire that wants to expose the hoax of global warming, the junk science behind it, and how governments profit from it.
OR
The billionaire that openly wants the destruction of the dollar, to hasten the march to socialism?
Anyway....why is the questioning of Global Warming considered hate? Why is questioning the government considered hate?
Was "ThinkProgress" considered hateful when they questioned George Bush, and the War in Iraq?
Originally posted by chrisd250
Originally posted by Carseller4
Was "ThinkProgress" considered hateful when they questioned George Bush, and the War in Iraq?
of course not. because it served the socialist agenda. i remember nancy pelosi(i wish she would die off allready) joining in on calling bush a nazi and having no problems with people protesting him. but as soon as people compare her god obama to hitler like they did bush, she pees her depends adult diaper lined with versaci and says she "is sickened with the hate in america today"...well im sickened with her elitist socialist drabble.
Dude calm down, cussing does not make you right, it really just says you can't calmy and rationally get your point across.
sh*t f*cking stupid f*ckin
Originally posted by Carseller4
It is great to know that it isn't only the left that has billionaires advancing their causes! Anyone ever heard of George Soros???
Good to know there is a little balance!
Originally posted by Carseller4
Dude calm down, cussing does not make you right, it really just says you can't calmy and rationally get your point across.
I actually thought ATS had a policy against using cuss words even if they were masked by silly puncuation? I swear they used to. (I have been away for 3 years, so that might have changed.)
They reason most rich people are conservative is because they actually work hard for their money and get a little peaved knowing it is being confiscated from them and wasted by the government, instead of it being used by them to create more jobs. Then you have billionaires like the Nazi sympathizer, George Soros, using his money that wasn't taken from him, to destroy the dollar and install policies that put more money in his pocket.
As far as Global Warming is concerned, it is a flat out hoax, a great excuse to spread the weath to poorer countries. This is all about the redistribution of wealth, which is a common theme in any socialist policy. You go on a tangent about "fossil fuel industries", but fail to realize that right now government profits from taxing these industries far outweigh the actual profits these industries make. Weird...government actually comes out ahead without having to do a thing, while these companies have to put out what is left of their profits to actually hire people, take huge risks of finding the next well, and having to jump through government hoops to actually find the next well.