Quarantine the Kochs: Billionaire Brothers Associated With One Political Scandal After Another Now Infecting Canada

Rachel Maddow on the Koch brothers, the U.S. billionaires who are using their money to oppose action on climate change, clean energy, and environmental regulation:

“[The Koch brothers] names pop up in every scummy political scandal, one after another. From the wisconsin union busting and the phony astroturf bus tours to the questionable partiality of the American Supreme Court Justices. It feels like every time a really gross new political scandal erupts, big or small, there’s the Koch brothers, with a chair pulled up to the table….every time you turn over a political rock, there they are…

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The campaign to boycott these toxic brothers is growing.  For more information, go to the “Boycott and Defeat Koch Industries” page on Facebook, or to go How You Can Boycott the Kochs on alternet.org

Need any more reasons to boycott the Kochs?  Here’s U.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) thanking David Koch for supporting his election in 2010 and making a plea for help in his re-election campaign next year.

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And now, the Koch brothers are infecting Canada, in (where else?) the Alberta tar sands. Check out Koch Brothers Set Up Shop In Tar Sands Territory. But that’s not all – their oily tentacles have reached my home province, Ontario, as well: Koch Brothers Continue Their Canadian Takeover

More links:

‘War on Science’:  Committee From Koch Votes To Deny Climate Change

Waxman: All That Seems to Matter is What Koch Industries Think

Rachel Maddow Exposes Fake “Controversies” Cooked Up by Political Right

You gotta love MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, a Rhodes scholar with a Ph.D. in politics from Oxford.  Maddow grew up in California, but has a Canadian connection, as her mom is from Newfoundland! In this excerpt, “Let them eat fake”  from April 2, she exposes the bold-faced lies that are being propagated by the political right in America, specifically with regard to “climate-gate” and the ACORN scandal. Lest Canadians feel superior, don’t forget we have the Sun Media Corporation, and the Heartland Institute (to name just a few) north of the border feeding the public dubious “facts” on a regular basis.

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