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freshwest

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2. And there it is. As quoted here:
Tue Mar 12, 2013, 07:35 PM
Mar 2013
"I want my fair share--and that's ALL OF IT":

The Kochs & the XL Pipeline - By Greg Palast

According to the transcript of the secretly recorded tape, Charles Koch was chuckling like a six-year old. Koch was having a hell of a laugh over pilfering a few hundred dollars' worth of oil from a couple of dirt-poor Indians on the Osage Reservation.

Why did Koch, worth about $3 billion at the time (now $20 billion) need to boost a few bucks from some Indian in a trailer home? Koch answered:

"I want my fair share -- and that's all of it."

Now "all of it" includes a pipeline, the Keystone XL, which would run the world's filthiest oil, crude made from tar sands, down from Canada to his family's refinery on the Gulf Coast of Texas...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/I-want-my-fair-share-and-by-Greg-Palast-130214-669.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1102&pid=7837

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