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(10,103 posts)Figaro78
(37 posts)...you know what to do. Right?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)PBS is the only decent free-public TV/radio with NEWS left..and thats why republicankochs want it to die.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)They should have hung all the nazi kochs in the neurenberg trials.
Someone should check their immigration papers..I bet the Father Koch lied on those papers. America let about 10k high-up nazi officials move here...what a mistake!!
Report: The Kochs, A Nazi Past, Oil & The Foundation of The Right
http://unknownjournal.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/%E2%96%BC-report-the-kochs-their-nazi-past-american-oil-the-foundation-of-republican-ideology/
keep on mirroring this report because the Kochs troll here at DU and this link will be gone.
WRH2
(87 posts)so much for fearless journalism on this subject.Koch bros. are activley taking over many colleges with their grants and donations, while demanding curriculum and staff hiring decisions. This is surreal.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)FairWinds
(1,717 posts)throwing a Gooper-style hissy fit over this?
"liberal media" indeed !!!
PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)does anyone know where it can be seen? Has any other station picked it up? Or can it be viewed online somewhere?
Thanks in advance to anyone who may know.
midnight
(26,624 posts)perdita9
(1,144 posts)If DU is going to sell them, I'll make my purchase here.
prairierose
(2,145 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)n/t
midnight
(26,624 posts)Posted on May 23, 2013
PBS recently made the decision to pull the plug on Citizen Koch, a documentary about money and politics that paints a less than flattering picture of the conservative billionaire Koch brothers. As The New Yorkers Jane Mayer reported, the decision was made in order to appease mega-donor David Kochwho has contributed some $23 million to public televisionafter the politically active industrialist was offended by another PBS documentary that was highly critical of him.
That hasnt sat too well with many, including Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert. On The Colbert Report on Wednesday night, the political satirist criticized PBS for killing the documentary. Noting that government contributions constitute only 12 percent of PBS funds, Colbert explained that public television is now more and more dependent on viewers nothing like you.
I guess for a donation of $75 you get the PBS tote bag, he said. And for $23 million, you get PBS nut sack.
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/colbert_slams_pbs_for_appeasing_koch_brothers_20130523/
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)Rise Up or Die
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/rise_up_or_die_20130519/
Posted on May 19, 2013
By Chris Hedges
Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. We went into our nations impoverished sacrifice zonesthe first areas forced to kneel before the dictates of the marketplaceto show what happens when unfettered corporate capitalism and ceaseless economic expansion no longer have external impediments. We wanted to illustrate what unrestrained corporate exploitation does to families, communities and the natural world. We wanted to challenge the reigning ideology of globalization and laissez-faire capitalism to illustrate what life becomes when human beings and the ecosystem are ruthlessly turned into commodities to exploit until exhaustion or collapse. And we wanted to expose as impotent the formal liberal and governmental institutions that once made reform possible, institutions no longer equipped with enough authority to check the assault of corporate power.
What has taken place in these sacrifice zonesin postindustrial cities such as Camden, N.J., and Detroit, in coalfields of southern West Virginia where mining companies blast off mountaintops, in Indian reservations where the demented project of limitless economic expansion and exploitation worked some of its earliest evil, and in produce fields where laborers often endure conditions that replicate slaveryis now happening to much of the rest of the country. These sacrifice zones succumbed first. You and I are next.
Corporations write our legislation. They control our systems of information. They manage the political theater of electoral politics and impose our educational curriculum. They have turned the judiciary into one of their wholly owned subsidiaries. They have decimated labor unions and other independent mass organizations, as well as having bought off the Democratic Party, which once defended the rights of workers. With the evisceration of piecemeal and incremental reformthe primary role of liberal, democratic institutionswe are left defenseless against corporate power.
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midnight
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