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Koch Industries refuses to break ties with Russia despite Corporate America's mass exodus

Rogue Valley

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Koch Industries refuses to break ties with Russia despite Corporate America's mass exodus

The conglomerate owns three subsidies with direct involvement in the Russian economy
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Billionaire Charles Koch, a huge contributor to the Republican Party, will not shut down his Koch Industries operations in Russia.

I can only surmise that Mr. Koch supports Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine.
 
He won't get my vote in the upcoming elections.
 
Rogue Valley said:
I can only surmise that Mr. Koch supports Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine.
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No, I think you can surmise that he cares more about money - as someone with an enormous fortune, one of the biggest in the world - more than mass murder. That he is indifferent to war. If anyone wanted to know what it looked like as US corporations kept helping Hitler to profit, they're getting a look.
 
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He won't get my vote in the upcoming elections.
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How about the Republican Party he is one of the biggest donors to, if not the biggest as he organizes many other right-wing plutocrats to donate to them?
 
"He cares more about money".............yes, he does. It also means that like Trump, he has no morals, ethics, principles or humanity. This is especially true when you consider he is among the top 20 richest persons in the world. At this stage of the game, one would think that someone with "some" morals, ethics, principles and humanity would be willing to sacrifice some "profits" as it would not change his economic status one iota. Given that he still cares about his money so much, I put him in the category of being a "deplorable".
 
We should take advantage of this opportunity to expose Koch to the country for who he is, when the country is ready to condemn such behavior helping Putin. It's been hard for years to help people understand how bad Koch is and this shouldn't be missed. It should be a big news story - but won't. I suspect you won't hear it on PBS/NPR, where Koch is a big donor.
 

Most people don't even know that all that "Tea Party grassroots movement" back in 2009 was actually astroturf bought and paid for by the Koch brothers. And of course the Tea Party was just the progenitor of Trumpism today.

How the Koch brothers built the most powerful rightwing group you've never heard of

Americans for Prosperity is a little-known, billionaire-funded organization that has pushed US politics to the right. How did it happen?
www.theguardian.com
 
Mr. Koch supports money and power and he's obviously a person who does not care where it comes from.
 
Someone should make a 'meme' image comparing companies who kept providing help to Nazi Germany, and Koch.
 
Koch has his lips firmly planted on tRump's, and thus putin's, ass.
 
So we cut him off from the US...cancel all of his operations permits right now
 
What does anyone expect from a group that manages their operations relying on deception? When Koch and ALEC lie to we the people they are also lying to their campaign donors and America in general.

https://www.politico.com › magazine › story › 2016/01

Among those delivering papers on how the fringe movement could obtain genuine power was Charles Koch. The papers are striking in their radicalism, their disdain for the public and their belief in the necessity of political subterfuge aka the art of deception.

What exactly does subterfuge mean? ALEC is centered around deception apparently which may also indicate ALEC lies.

Choose the Right Synonym for subterfuge​

DECEPTION, FRAUD, DOUBLE-DEALING, SUBTERFUGE, TRICKERY mean the acts or practices of one who deliberately deceives. DECEPTION may or may not imply blameworthiness, since it may suggest cheating or merely tactical resource. magicians are masters of deception FRAUD always implies guilt and often criminality in act or practice. indicted for fraud DOUBLE-DEALING suggests treachery or at least action contrary to a professed attitude. a go-between suspected of double-dealing SUBTERFUGE suggests the adoption of a stratagem or the telling of a lie in order to escape guilt or to gain an end. obtained the papers by subterfuge TRICKERY implies ingenious acts intended to dupe or cheat. resorted to trickery to gain their ends


Speakers proposed that libertarians hide their true antigovernment extremism by banishing the word “anarchism,” because it reminded too many people of “terrorists.” To attract a bigger following, some suggested, they needed to organize synthetic “grassroots” groups and issue meaningless titles to volunteers, without yielding any real control.
 
ClaraD said:
So we cut him off from the US...cancel all of his operations permits right now
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People are afraid of Charles Koch .............. For all of the scams and deception that ALEC lives by very little is mentioned about the organization much less the man.
 
Prescott Bush sold weapons to Hitler ....... Fred Koch built stalin a refinery .......
 

Chase Morgan said:
Just how right-wing/republican FILTH rolls...
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Koch corporation got payments in Ukrainian golden teeth for its the services in 30s
 
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