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Now the Kochs are the subject of a blistering (but to all appearances factual) documentary by the activist filmmaker Robert Greenwald. Koch Brothers Exposed aims to show how the brothers' machinations affect the lives of "living, breathing human beings," as Greenwald put it to me at the films New York premiere in late March. "When I learned about the damage the Kochs were doing to our democracy, I wanted to make sure more Americans understood what they're up to."
It recounts how the brothers have:
helped fund efforts to undo a model diversity policy in the Wake County school system in North Carolina, effectively resegregating the district part of a larger campaign, the film alleges, to weaken the public school system and prepare the way for widespread privatization;
pushed voter ID laws purportedly aimed at combating ballot fraud but really designed to keep Democrats from voting through their financial support for the American Legislative Exchange Council, an increasingly radioactive business group specializing in the drafting of corporate-friendly pick-up-and-pass legislation for state lawmakers. (ALEC is also behind the insane "Stand Your Ground" gun laws at issue in the Trayvon Martin shooting case);
pumped millions of dollars into more than 150 colleges and university in exchange for control over hiring and curriculum decisions, to ensure students will be exposed to the free-market fundamentalism of Ayn Rand, Freidrich von Hayek and like minds;
bankrolled a coordinated campaign to swing public opinion in favor of privatizing Social Security, deploying Koch-funded think tanks, experts, and pundits to spread the myth that the program is on the brink of bankruptcy..
It recounts how the brothers have:
helped fund efforts to undo a model diversity policy in the Wake County school system in North Carolina, effectively resegregating the district part of a larger campaign, the film alleges, to weaken the public school system and prepare the way for widespread privatization;
pushed voter ID laws purportedly aimed at combating ballot fraud but really designed to keep Democrats from voting through their financial support for the American Legislative Exchange Council, an increasingly radioactive business group specializing in the drafting of corporate-friendly pick-up-and-pass legislation for state lawmakers. (ALEC is also behind the insane "Stand Your Ground" gun laws at issue in the Trayvon Martin shooting case);
pumped millions of dollars into more than 150 colleges and university in exchange for control over hiring and curriculum decisions, to ensure students will be exposed to the free-market fundamentalism of Ayn Rand, Freidrich von Hayek and like minds;
bankrolled a coordinated campaign to swing public opinion in favor of privatizing Social Security, deploying Koch-funded think tanks, experts, and pundits to spread the myth that the program is on the brink of bankruptcy..
Re-posting from GD since the Koch brothers are now running our state. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022806452
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/the-koch-brothers-exposed-20120420#ixzz2SY8DjtZg
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The Koch Brothers – Exposed! (Original Post)
octoberlib
May 2013
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Triana
(22,666 posts)1. Have it on DVD - HIGHLY recommend. Koch has their chosen assholes
and their chosen agenda even in some areas of Duke Univ. I saw one of the "free market" flyers posted around campus ie: "how to morally justify free market policy" - and I know they've bought influence there.
And well hell, Koch Bros and Duke Energy OWN NC now anyway.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)3. I'm convinced the Kochs are trying to turn the US
into an authoritarian-corporatist state. They make me sick.
blkmusclmachine
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