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David Koch Booed at NY Christmas Ballet Performance. Don't like getting Koch-Blocked? Are the Koch brothers denying your vote? Microsoft Funds Koch's Climate-Denying Tea Party Conference. By Brad Johnson on November 4, 2011 at 4:17 pm "Microsoft Funds Koch’s Climate-Denying Tea Party Conference" Microsoft Corporation, which argues that climate pollution requires a “comprehensive and global response,” is sponsoring the Koch brothers’ Tea Party convention taking place in Washington, DC.

Microsoft Funds Koch's Climate-Denying Tea Party Conference

Microsoft is a “gold sponsor” of the Americans For Prosperity Foundation’s fifth annual Defending The American Dream Summit, cheek and jowl with top climate denial front groups like the Heartland Institute, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Speakers at the conference include climate deniers Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, Rep. Koch Group Gathering Disrupted by Occupy DC Protesters; Things Get Tense as Activists Surround Building. New evidence could clear 14-year-old executed by South Carolina. By David EdwardsMonday, October 3, 2011 9:00 EDT Over 67 years after 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr. was put to death by the state of South Carolina, he may soon be cleared of the crime that people familiar with the case say he never could have committed.

New evidence could clear 14-year-old executed by South Carolina

A lawyer and an activist both told Raw Story recently that new evidence will show that the black boy could not have possibly murdered two white girls, 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and seven-year-old Mary Emma Thames. SHITPLANET.ORG. Supreme Court Preview: The Words of Summer - Andrew Cohen - National. Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales. In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France.

Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales

In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts. “I uncovered the practices within a few days,” Egorova- Farines says. “They were not hidden at all.” She immediately notified her supervisors in the U.S. Bernie Sanders Lays it out. Koch brothers’ firm hid subsidiary’s violations of criminal law. By Muriel KaneSunday, October 2, 2011 20:06 EDT In May 2008, the compliance and ethics manager of Koch Industries discovered that a French subsidiary of the privately-held firm had been paying bribes to gain contracts.

Koch brothers’ firm hid subsidiary’s violations of criminal law

As described in the November issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine, she promptly notified her supervisors, who found evidence that the business director of Koch-Glitsch had authorized improper payments in six different countries, going back to 2002. “Those activities constitute violations of criminal law,” an internal memo dated December 8, 2008 frankly stated. However, the company gave no credit to Ludmila Egorova-Farines, who had originally uncovered the corruption. She had been removed from the inquiry in August and was fired for “incompetence” in June 2009. Pizza Magnate Herman Cain Has Extensive Ties To Powerful Koch Group. IOWA CITY, Iowa — Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation's capital.

Pizza Magnate Herman Cain Has Extensive Ties To Powerful Koch Group

But Cain's economic ideas, support and organization have close ties to two billionaire brothers who bankroll right-leaning causes through their group Americans for Prosperity. Cain's campaign manager and a number of aides have worked for Americans for Prosperity, or AFP, the advocacy group founded with support from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, which lobbies for lower taxes and less government regulation and spending. Cain credits a businessman who served on an AFP advisory board with helping devise his "9-9-9" plan to rewrite the nation's tax code. And his years of speaking at AFP events have given the businessman and radio host a network of loyal grassroots fans. When President Barack Obama's election helped spawn the tea party, Cain was positioned to take advantage. Film exposes cancer epidemic downstream from Koch Industries plant.

By David EdwardsTuesday, October 11, 2011 13:40 EDT Residents of a small Arkansas community say that the toxic pollutants being dumped for years by a Koch Industries plant is killing them.

Film exposes cancer epidemic downstream from Koch Industries plant

Only 15 families reside around Penn Road and already 11 people have died of cancer. Even more are sick. GOP Mega-Donor Koch Brothers' Company Tied To Global Criminal Misdeeds In Bombshell Article. A just-published bombshell article in the November issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine implicates Koch Industries, the company controlled by Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch, in dozens of criminal acts around the globe over the past three decades.

GOP Mega-Donor Koch Brothers' Company Tied To Global Criminal Misdeeds In Bombshell Article

According the report, company officials have been caught paying bribes to win contracts, trading with Iran in violation of the U.S. embargo, price-fixing, neglecting safety and ignoring environmental regulations. The billionaire brothers are major donors to FreedomWorks, the Cato Institute, and dozens of other conservative think-tanks and nonprofits. They have also been tied to several independent expenditure groups supporting Republican candidates across the country — and last year The New Yorker exposed the family's efforts to oppose President Barack Obama. Bus Drivers Forced to Transport Arrested Wall Street Protesters; Union Going to Court to Stop It. The Transport Workers Union, among the first unions to support the Occupy Wall Street protesters, is going to court to prevent the city from forcing its members to drive buses carrying arrested protesters.

Bus Drivers Forced to Transport Arrested Wall Street Protesters; Union Going to Court to Stop It

Several empty buses were commandeered Saturday during the mass arrests at the Brooklyn Bridge and MTA supervisors ordered drivers to drive them: But that violates the contract between Local 100 and the MTA, Samuelsen said. "Our mission is to provide transit service to the riding public, not transport people who were arrested," he said. David Waldman puts it in perspective: But as we know, depriving women of medical care is different and pharmacists have a God-given right to refuse to fill some of the most common prescriptions there are. How the TWU fares in court will presumably depend on the exact language of its contract, but this has to be likely to boost attendance at Wednesday's rally as incensed transit workers show their support.

Koch Brothers - Boycott Koch Productss - Boycott Koch Brothers Products. In new bombshell story, "Bloomberg Markets" reveals that Koch Industries sold petrochemical equipment to Iran and paid bribes in six countries. By Patrick Thanks to our excellent contacts, we got hold of a copy of the still unpublished November issue of "Bloomberg Markets" magazine, because the cover story sounds more than just promising: We can reveal that this promise has been kept!

In new bombshell story, "Bloomberg Markets" reveals that Koch Industries sold petrochemical equipment to Iran and paid bribes in six countries

In a bold and spectacular move, Bloomberg Markets Magazine wrote a story titled "The secret sins of Koch Industries" which does not only focus on several new revelations, but also provides a comprehensive overview about scandals of Koch Industries which happened during the last decades.