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john jacobs's avatar

Heh, they are just following a family tradition. Koch built oil refineries in Russia in the 20's and 30's and for Nazi Germany built refineries that made airplane fuel. (Their late 30's slogan was, "The Battle of Britian - partially brought to you by Koch Industries.")

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VALERIE MELUSKEY's avatar

Thanks to Jane Mayer's superb book, Dark Money, we can be well-informed on just what the Koch Industries contribute to life on the planet: destruction for the earth, money for them, selfish disregard as a winning strategy. The inside cover of the hard cover copy of Mayer's book maps the history of their wealth and business very clearly.

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Pro-democracy MJ's avatar

Yes Valerie, and the shameless connections and direct undermining of our democracy with all of the Koch efforts against voters rights with funding of the right wing legislation at the State level across the country, the buying off of Manchin to oppose voters rights, etc. And for all Americans and those Catholics among us it must be exposed how Koch has funded the Heritage Foundation and anti-abortion groups to pound away at Biden and undermine him just when he needs our utmost support in the Ukraine situation. Like Trump, Koch is one that Putin is trying to depend upon for their fascist, anti-democratic tendencies to further the undermining of the West!

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Scott DeBerg's avatar

Will put the book on my list, thanks for mentioning it.

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VALERIE MELUSKEY's avatar

(Just realize that the soft cover doesn't have that descriptive chart on the Koch family wealth history--the library copy had it.)

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