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Passing Through
Champion Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Location: At home Status: Offline Points: 79532 |
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David Koch 79
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SkyDancer
Champion Joined: 02 Aug 2014 Location: Cranbourne Status: Offline Points: 8429 |
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The Cash Cow will be devastated
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Passing Through
Champion Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Location: At home Status: Offline Points: 79532 |
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Wrong Koch
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SkyDancer
Champion Joined: 02 Aug 2014 Location: Cranbourne Status: Offline Points: 8429 |
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Whoops.
Didn’t think he looked 79 |
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VOYAGER
Champion Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 18736 |
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I was going to say, that, that Port Adelaide board meeting must have been rough!
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Passing Through
Champion Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Location: At home Status: Offline Points: 79532 |
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This one was wealthy enough to buy Greenland.
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stayer
Champion Joined: 10 Aug 2010 Status: Offline Points: 21897 |
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Tlazolteotl
Champion Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Location: Elephant Butte Status: Offline Points: 31416 |
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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Tlazolteotl
Champion Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Location: Elephant Butte Status: Offline Points: 31416 |
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"Russian athlete Margarita Plavunova has been found dead on the side of the road while out jogging during a training session. The champion hurdler, 25, was discovered in the Morshansky District in the Tamblov Oblast region of western Russia. She suffered a cardiac arrest while training, according to the regional athletics federation, while local media reports claim her sudden death was likely caused by her heavy workload." |
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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Whale
Champion Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Location: St Kilda Beach Status: Offline Points: 38719 |
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A Republican donor but quite enlightened on social issues and disliked Trump Should be more like him
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Whale
Champion Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Location: St Kilda Beach Status: Offline Points: 38719 |
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and drugs ?
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Tlazolteotl
Champion Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Location: Elephant Butte Status: Offline Points: 31416 |
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This is the 1980 Libertarian Party platform when Koch ran for VP
There are some doosies in there. |
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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Tlazolteotl
Champion Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Location: Elephant Butte Status: Offline Points: 31416 |
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"In other words, the agenda of the Koch brothers is not only to defund
Obamacare. The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major
piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80
years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children,
the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country." |
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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Tlazolteotl
Champion Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Location: Elephant Butte Status: Offline Points: 31416 |
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"We interviewed a guy who used to work as a doorman at 740 Park. I asked
him to rank the tippers at the building, and he said the absolute worst
was David Koch. He said he would get from him, every holiday season, a
$50 check. I really found that appalling." |
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
Simon Cameron |
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VOYAGER
Champion Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 18736 |
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Look like true Americans to me.
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Tlazolteotl
Champion Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Location: Elephant Butte Status: Offline Points: 31416 |
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By the time he died on Friday at the age of 79, David Koch was worth $42.4 billion. He will be remembered for what he did with it. Some people will probably praise his charitable spirit, perhaps even his support for criminal-justice reform, or his skepticism of military intervention. “The vast bulk of Koch’s philanthropy was not political,” Brian Doherty noted in an obit for Reason magazine. “It included hundreds of millions of dollars for cancer research (he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1992) and major arts and sciences institutions, museums, schools, and public television, with much of his institutional philanthropy centered in New York City, his home for decades.” But Koch’s largesse wasn’t free. We are paying for it now, and have been paying for it for decades. Koch’s legacy is a testament to the power of weaponized philanthropy. For Koch did not restrict himself to supporting artists and scientists. He, along with his brother Charles, who survives him, committed their vast family fortune to the construction of a powerful conservative network. We live in the world that he helped build, and it is on fire. Koch, who ran for office on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1980, helped funnel billions into climate-change-denying organizations for decades. His motivation wasn’t a mystery: He did it because he was greedy. Political action to arrest climate change threatened Koch’s business interests. His family originally made its money in oil and gas, and Koch Industries, as Tim Dickinson laid out in a 2014 piece for Rolling Stone, is one of the biggest polluters in the U.S. “Thanks in part to its 2005 purchase of paper-mill giant Georgia-Pacific, Koch Industries dumps more pollutants into the nation’s waterways than General Electric and International Paper combined,” he wrote. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/david-kochs-monstrous-legacy.html?utm_source=nym&utm_medium=f1&utm_campaign=feed-part |
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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Whale
Champion Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Location: St Kilda Beach Status: Offline Points: 38719 |
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I only know what I read in today's paper which said they had some enlightened views on women's rights, migrants etc.
Seems they have mellowed a bit recently The brothers didn’t support Trump in his 2016 campaign, although they praised his efforts to cut taxes and regulations. After Charles Koch criticized Trump’s approach to trade and his leadership style during a donor retreat in 2018, the president tweeted that the brothers “have become a total joke in real Republican circles.” Their political network by then was backing away from reflexive support for Republicans, such as then-Representative Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, who arguably strayed too far from the brothers’ vision of free-market orthodoxy. Cramer nevertheless beat an incumbent Democrat, Heidi Heitkamp, for a Senate seat. Days after the midterms that year, when the Democrats retook the House despite millions in Koch spending for Republicans, the network called for a more bipartisan focus on what unites Americans with work on criminal-justice reform, immigration and promotion of free trade “A lot of billionaires make their contribution and their name is on the board of directors, but they have no intention of showing up to the meetings,” said New York philanthropist Adrienne Arsht. “He came to meetings. He was always hands-on.” Arsht said David Koch never acted like Manhattan’s wealthiest person. “He was most understated,” she said. “There was nothing about anything that he did that made you think he was anything but a man from Kansas.” But the Koch brothers played a massive role in politics, helping shape state and federal policy. Confounding CriticsCharacterizing himself as a social liberal, David Koch was pro-choice when it came to abortion and supportive of same-sex marriage and stem-cell research. Further confounding liberal critics, the brothers supported efforts to free nonviolent prisoners and overhaul sentencing, changes they argued would reduce recidivism, save taxpayers money and remove barriers to opportunity. “He believed he had a responsibility to a world that had given him so many opportunities to succeed,” his family said in a statement Friday. “David’s philanthropic dedication to education, the arts and cancer research will have a lasting impact on innumerable lives.” |
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JudgeHolden
Champion Joined: 16 Apr 2011 Status: Offline Points: 11728 |
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Privatisation of public roads...WT royal F!?!!?!
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jujuno
Champion Joined: 25 Jan 2010 Location: Coasting Status: Offline Points: 36421 |
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they used them as a template in series 6 of House of Cards...how to influence politics by monetary blackmail...sounds familiar, doesn't it, Rupert Murdoch? |
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Desert War, Rain Lover, Latin Knight, Hay List, Mustard...my turf heroes...
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VSP.
Premium Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 8337 |
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Jessi Combs, 39, daredevil, race car driver, and TV show host, also known as the world's fastest woman on four wheels, dead after speed crash during world record attempt.
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VOYAGER
Champion Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 18736 |
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She hosted on Mythbusters didn't she VSP?
I see actress Valerie Harper passed away yesterday. Best known for her role in the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Became one of the, queens of 1980's made for television movies. |
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VSP.
Premium Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 8337 |
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Yes she did Voyager.
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crooked_gambler
Champion Joined: 27 Jan 2015 Status: Offline Points: 4676 |
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Robert Mugabe dead at 95
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Passing Through
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Good riddance.
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VOYAGER
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Unfortunately for his nation about twenty five years late. Finally nature has done, what Howard should have in 1996, 97 or 98! |
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djebel
Premium Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Status: Offline Points: 53960 |
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Guessing nobody had the mercurial Abdul Qadir ?
He was absolutely mesmerising at his best. |
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reductio ad absurdum
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ExceedAndExcel
Champion Joined: 20 Dec 2008 Status: Offline Points: 16243 |
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Saintly is cheering more than most. He had him in the comp. Anyone else score with Mugabe? |
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Tlazolteotl
Champion Joined: 02 Oct 2012 Location: Elephant Butte Status: Offline Points: 31416 |
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Howard?
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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Rocker Eddie Money from esophageal cancer aged 70.
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Paul Cronin aka Dave Sullivan, aged 81 at home surrounded by family.
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