Monday, February 28th, 2011
Stephan: I support this boycott, and urge all my readers to boycott Georgia-Pacific products, and ask their friends to do likewise.
The report lists these brand names: 'In the US... Vanity Fair, Quilted Northern, Angel Soft, Sparkle, Brawney, Mardi Gras and Dixie. For Europe, they were Demak'Up, Kitten Soft, Lotus / Lotus Soft, Tenderly, Nouvelle Soft, Okay Kitchen Towels, Colhogar, Delica, Inversoft and Tutto.'
The machinations of the Koch brothers are a brazen attempt by two men to influence the American government to get what they want. It is to our shame that they have been so successful in this; in the process illustrating how easy it is to accomplish.
Given the profits they will make from this effort, the cost of doing it is just a business expense. They don't even really try to hide it, indeed, I think that is part of the kick they get doing it. It reminds me of the Otori novel series of 14th century Japan or, perhaps, Venetian affairs a century later; I feel like we have slipped back five centuries. Can there be a better reason arguing that we should have public financing of campaigns; isn't it is absurd that this should be possible? We need to vote with our pocketbooks, and shame politicians like Governor Walker who are Koch toadies.
What I found particularly interesting in the fake-Koch call was that although the brothers had poured millions into Walker's campaign, either directly or indirectly, they didn't even feel they needed to meet him. Like having your butler hire a gardener. Governor Walker clearly was not only excited to get the call, he clearly had not real prior experience with David Koch, didn't even recognize his voice.
The decentralized protest group ‘Anonymous’ has a new target: no, it’s not a middle eastern dictator, a major bank or even a bit player in the military-industrial complex.
It’s none other than tea party financiers Charles and David Koch, who were being targeted, an open letter stated, for their attempts ‘to usurp American Democracy.’
‘Koch Industries, and oligarchs like them, have most recently started to manipulate the political agenda in Wisconsin,’ an announcement posted to anonnews.org1 declared.
‘Governor Walker’s union-busting budget plan contains a clause that went nearly un-noticed. This clause would allow the sale of publicly owned utility plants in Wisconsin to private parties (specifically, Koch Industries) at any price, no matter how low, without a public bidding process,’ they explained. ‘The Koch’s have helped to fuel the unrest in Wisconsin and the drive behind the bill to eliminate the collective bargaining power of unions in a bid to gain a monopoly over the state’s power supplies.
The group, which was responsible for taking MasterCard Worldwide offline2 for an entire day — along with numerous other organizations that plotted against secrets outlet WikiLeaks — said it would now be ‘actively seeking vulnerabilities’ in Koch industries.
‘In a world where corporate money has become the […]
