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The Kochs are plotting a multimillion-dollar assault on electric vehicles
2016-02-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Billionaires Charles and David Koch, prominent donors to conservative causes, are now looking to put their money behind an advocacy group that would promote petroleum-based transportation fuel and fight government subsidies for electric cars, sources say. The oil and gas industry may have thought it had killed the electric car, but sales -- boosted by generous government subsidies -- rose dramatically between 2010 and 2014, and energy giants are worried the thing may have come back to life. Time...
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The Kochs & the Nazis: Book Reveals Billionaires Father Connection to the Third Reich
2016-01-20 18:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democracy Now: In her new book, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer explores how the Koch brothers and fellow right-wing billionaires have funded a political machine aimed at shaping elections and public policy. The book contains a number of revelations and new details. Mayer begins with revealing that the Kochs father, industrialist Fred Koch, helped build an oil refinery in Nazi Germany--a project approved personally by Adolf...
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Classic! Scott Walker Tricked into Posing $900 Million Check Signed by Kochs
2015-08-04 18:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: It was supposed to be a routine meet-and-greet at a local New Hampshire pizza parlor, but todays campaign stop turned into a Punkd episode for Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker, after he was tricked into posing with a phony check from the Koch brothers made out to him for $900 million. According to the Guardians Sabrina Siddiqui, who shared an image of Walker posing with the prop check, Walker appeared to believe he was posing with a sign reading Walker 4 President before the...
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Koch's Molex buys assets of electronics company Soligie
2015-05-07 01:08:37| Electronics - Topix.net
Molex Inc. , a subsidiary of Wichita-based Koch Industries Inc. , this week announced it has bought certain assets of Minnesota-based Soligie Inc. Illinois-based Molex said in a press release that the addition will compliment its own printed circuit-based solutions business.
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Koch's Molex acquires SDP Telecom
2015-01-09 01:54:00| Electronics - Topix.net
From iPhone to Samsung, there is a good chance your phone has some Molex product inside of it. However, the company also has customers numerous other industries, including aerospace, automation and the medical field.
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