The new axis of evil
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- 74LEO0
He looks baked! He wil be dead soon from all the chems anyway. What else other than a pic do you have about him?
- ********0
- ********0
pronounce Coke
- ********0
this,
http://www.qbn.com/topics/564613…
and,
http://www.qbn.com/topics/564613…
and...
http://www.qbn.com/topics/564613…need more?
- ukit0
I believe his name is Koch
- 74LEO0
So ideal what do you suggest we do?
- luckyorphan0
Philanthropy:
In July 2008, it was announced that New York State Theater in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts would be renamed the David H. Koch Theater after he pledged $100 million over 10 years to renovate the theater.
David Koch is also a major contributor to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) show Nova, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. In 2006, he made a $20 million gift to the American Museum of Natural History, creating the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing. He made a contribution of $15 million to the National Museum of Natural History in 2009 to create the new David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, which opened on the museum's 100th anniversary of its location on the National Mall on March 17, 2010.
He financed the construction of Deerfield Academy's $35 million state-of-the-art Koch Center for mathematics, science and technology.
A prostate cancer survivor himself, Koch also sits on the Board of Directors of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and is the eponym of the David H. Koch Chair of the Prostate Cancer foundation, a position currently held by Dr. Jonathan Simons.
He contributed $100 million in 2007, to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help fund the construction of a new 350,000 square foot research and technology facility to serve as the home of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. He also contributed $20 million to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, $30 million to the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York, $25 million to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and $15 million to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Koch, along with his brother Charles, George Soros, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, each contributed $10 million to the American Civil Liberties Union to defeat parts of the USA PATRIOT Act. Parts 15, 16, 17 of the act were then overturned in U.S. federal court in the Southern District of New York. Marion Bowman, chief legal counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, vowed to take this decision to the United States court of appeals.
A city park is named after Koch in Placentia, California.
...and he's still the 2nd wealthiest person in NYC.
- To be clear, none of this makes his Tea Party work okay.luckyorphan
- luckyorphan0
But then...
Political advocacy:
In 1984, Koch founded Citizens for a Sound Economy. Koch also funds Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group that has close ties to the U.S. Tea Party movement that opposes U.S. President Barack Obama's proposed health care reforms.
An August 2010 essay in the New Yorker magazine also describes the Koch brothers as major funders to the U.S. Tea Party movement, as well as outspending ExxonMobil from 2005-2008 in giving money to organizations fighting climate change legislation, and underwriting a vast network of foundations, think tanks, and political front groups that are mounting opposition campaigns against many Obama Administration policies, ranging from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program. The scale of their funding is so vast that the essay notes that "in political circles, their ideological network is known as the Kochtopus". A study released in 2010 by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the top ten air polluters in the United States. The essay cites Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity as saying, "The Kochs are on a whole different level. There’s no one else who has spent this much money. The sheer dimension of it is what sets them apart. They have a pattern of lawbreaking, political manipulation, and obfuscation. I’ve been in Washington since Watergate, and I’ve never seen anything like it. They are the Standard Oil of our times."
- Wait...doesn't all of this belong in the Politics thread?luckyorphan
- what i said ^********
- Who caresukit
- ukit0
Who cares what thread it's in, does it really matter?
- zarkonite0
The guy is a massive philanthropist but he seems inclined to defend the no-tax no-rules right wing agenda... which mostly benefits wealthy people like himself.
I'd say he's helped society a lot and his views are his to have. This is still the land of the free, it sounds like he's just putting his money where his ideas are.
What good have you done to take the moral high ground and call the guy evil?
and no, I'm not a fan of all those who pretend like government regulation and taxes are bad.
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I just say, he funds National Museum of National history, no mention in all the exhibitions on where the global warming come from (his business is the worst polluter in the US, CO2 emission), he funds Global Cancer Resaerch, his business in Formaldehyde that is considered as highly cancerigen. and...according wikipedia :In March 1999, a Koch subsidiary pleaded guilty to charges that it had negligently allowed aviation fuel to leak into waters near the Mississippi River from its refinery in Rosemount, Minnesota, and that it had illegally dumped a million gallons of high-ammonia wastewater onto the ground and into the Mississippi River.[24]
In January 2000, Koch Industries subsidiary, Koch Pipeline, agreed to a $35 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Department and the State of Texas. This settlement, including a $30 million civil fine, was incurred for the firm's multiple oil spills in Texas and five other states going back to 1990.[25] The spills resulted in more than three million gallons of crude oil leaking into ponds, lakes, streams and coastal waters.[26]
In 2001, the company reached two settlements with the government. In April, the company reached a $20 million settlement in exchange for admitting to covering up environmental violations at its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas.[27][28] That May, Koch Industries paid $25 million to the federal government to settle a federal lawsuit that found the company had improperly taken more oil than it had paid for from federal and Indian land.[29][30]
In 2009, Koch subsidiary Invista agreed to pay a $1.7 million civil penalty and spend up to $500 million to correct self-reported environmental violations at its facilities in seven states.[31][32] Prior to the settlement, the company had disclosed to the EPA more than 680 violations after auditing 12 facilities acquired from DuPont in 2004....
He funds tea party, extreme right wing party.
I just say watch out americans. These guys shouldn't be able to buy your silence.- Oh ok, he's just covering his ass. thank you for the information.zarkonite
