Rolling Stone magazine writer Tim Dickinson recently published a lengthy expose on the Koch brothers' business, or, toxic empire to be more precise. There's a lot of good background in this story that you probably didn't know about. These are the scumbags that funded the Tea Party and are trying to buy the government, lock, stock and barrel.
The concluding snip from the article is below. Read it and weep for our democracy.
Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire
...it appears the very essence of the Koch business model is to exploit breakdowns in the free market. Koch has profited precisely by dumping billions of pounds of pollutants into our waters and skies – essentially for free. It racks up enormous profits from speculative trades lacking economic value that drive up costs for consumers and create risks for our economy.
The Koch brothers get richer as the costs of what Koch destroys are foisted on the rest of us – in the form of ill health, foul water and a climate crisis that threatens life as we know it on this planet. Now nearing 80 – owning a large chunk of the Alberta tar sands and using his billions to transform the modern Republican Party into a protection racket for Koch Industries' profits – Charles Koch is not about to see the light. Nor does the CEO of one of America's most toxic firms have any notion of slowing down. He has made it clear that he has no retirement plans: "I'm going to ride my bicycle till I fall off."
Full article is here.
Full article is here.
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