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I found this a tad disconcerting, if you will. Back in August, the New Yorker ran a lengthy profile on the Koch brothers, heads of the largest private company in the U.S., Koch Industries. The article focused mainly on David, the less reclusive of the two (the other, older brother, Charles, remains out of the limelight by not doing things like bestowing $100 million to the New York Sate Theater, as David did), and the company the two lead, which rakes in around an estimated $100 billion in annual revenues.
Is democracy ending in Michigan, to be replaced by a dictatorship seated in the governor? That is how some are reporting it: She talks about a wide range of new powers for the governor. What is the reality? Michigan Senate passes emergency manager bills A day after facing hundreds of rowdy, pro-union protesters that filled [...]
The results of an MSNBC/Wall Street Journal poll show what the American people are looking for from their leaders: Key results of the poll mentioned in the video: Percentage of People Who Believe We Should Tax Millionaires to Close the Budget Deficit – 81% Percentage of People Who Believe We Should Eliminate the Bush Tax [...]
Persona Management Software: A little birdie created your opinion
by Josh Clark | February 25, 2011
A Daily Kos post by Happy Rockefeller about the recent tearing back of the flesh of the media that has revealed the very real propaganda that makes up much of its sinew and tissue — the result of the work of WikiLeaks, Anonymous, mainstream media stories about the Koch Brothers, prank calls by alt-weekly editors to state governors and the like — worries that it poses a real threat to social stability and the well-being of the general public.
We looked at Wisconsin at the beginning of the week… Today’s uproar – Wisconsin – From the protests over unions to an amazing power company deal …and events continue to unfold. There are three videos on YouTube today that are in YouTube’s top 200 most-viewed list. This video in in YouTube’s Top 5 today: The [...]
The situation in Wisconsin certainly has caused an uproar. And there are at least three fronts for the uproar: 1) the idea of union busting, 2) the idea of political warfare, and 3) The idea of handing valuable power plants over to billionaires for “pennies on the dollar”. 1) the idea of union busting The [...]
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