WHAT: Bloomberg News alleges it has “internal company records” showing that Koch Industries used subsidiaries in Germany and Italy to sidestep a U.S. trade ban barring American companies from selling to Iran.HOW: The Bloomberg report claim Koch Industries took elaborate steps to ensure that its U.S.-based employees weren’t involved in the equipment sales, which helped Iran build the world’s largest methanol plant.
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As National Review editor in 1962, William F. Buckley Jr. struck a blow for reason and truth when he effectively excommunicated John Birch Society founder Robert Welch from the conservative movement.Welch had been telling anybody who would listen that President Dwight Eisenhower was a “dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy.” Welch further claimed that the government of the United States was “under operational control of the Communist Party.”
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Who’s pulling the strings on Wisconsin governor Scott Walker? Well it’s got to be someone – since obviously no Republican would act out of principle.
The Center for American Progress reports:
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The New York Times‘ Kate Zernike and Center for American Progress’s Lee Fang both “obtained” a guest list from an event this past summer where I spoke. I was invited to speak on the condition of confidentiality, but now that the guest list is out there, I’ll fess up.
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The New York Times‘ Kate Zernike and Center for American Progress’s Lee Fang both “obtained” a guest list from an event this past summer where I spoke. I was invited to speak on the condition of confidentiality, but now that the guest list is out there, I’ll fess up.
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While Charles and David Koch try to keep a low profile, their influence on conservative and libertarian organizations around the country is far from a secret. But you wouldn’t get that impression from reading this sensationalist profile by Jane Mayer in this week’s New Yorker, “Covert Operations: The Billionaire Brothers Who Are Waging a War Against Obama.”
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