Monday, August 23, 2010

The Kochs and the Tea Party - and the Smithsonian, and global climate destabilization

"...this is a grassroots citizens’ movement brought to you by a bunch of oil billionaires..."
- David Axelrod
There's a wonderful deep piece on Charles and David Koch and the Kochtopus by Jane Mayer in the latest New Yorker, Covert Operations - The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.

The TPP folk do seem blind to the difference between people and corporations; I've spoken with two locals, Stan Meckler being one, and when I asked whether the "people" who needed to take back the government would include corporations, they didn't see it as an issue.
(Stan and J., if I misunderstood, please set me straight.)
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous8/24/2010 9:05 AM

    The Tea Party folks aside, what are the non-crazy rest of us going to do about it? I suspect the answer is the usual, i.e. close to nothing.

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  2. Anna Haynes8/24/2010 1:37 PM

    > "what are the non-crazy rest of us going to do about it?"

    Answer: Pass around links to the recent NYTimes piece Disaster at the Top of the World, which covers all the bases - cognitive biases, Arctic changes, experts, destabilization & famine, national security, the need to prepare.
    (i.e. build political will)

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