Monday, August 23, 2010

New Yorker Exposes David Koch

In a recent article in the New Yorker, reporter Jane Mayer writes about Koch Industries and the covert, self-interested political operations to simply expand their company's profit margin.  Favorite tactics include subverting scientific conclusions, pouring money into supposed "grassroots campaigns" and using heavy handed influence on supposedly independent boards and non-profit groups to control findings, reports, and manipulate decisions.  Oh, also stealing from Native Americans.

2 comments:

  1. I think Jermaine said it best:

    "It's not wrong. It's just extremely shallow and meant primarily to flatter the sensibilities of its readers, much like most of what is written in The New Yorker."

    http://reason.com/blog/2010/08/24/in-which-left-wing-think-tanks

    Mike Wille

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  2. A few more links:

    http://www.kochind.com/kochfacts/default.aspx

    http://reason.com/blog/2010/08/25/the-official-koch-industries-r

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