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The world’s meanest oilmen get a Coke at Occupy DC

By Erik Curren | November 9, 2011

Last Friday night, after a day of live blogging the ASPO-USA conference near Capitol Hill, I walked ten blocks over the the Washington Convention Center to join Occupy DC and some environmental groups in a protest against the Koch brothers. Inside the center Koch front group Americans for Prosperity was holding their Defense of the American Dream Summit featuring among others … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ASPO-USA, Koch Industries, Occupy Wall Street, plutocracy

Will the Transition movement be the Tea Party’s next target?

By Erik Curren | June 7, 2011

Tea Party activist with sign

Could Rob Hopkins become the US right wing's next Van Jones? Could the Post Carbon Institute become the next ACORN? Thanks to Rob Hopkins for sending around a silly Tea Party video attacking the Transition movement. It features Rob himself along with PCI as part of a United Nations plot to "take away your land." On the one hand, I smiled. On the other, I cringed, because … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics, Transition Tagged With: Agenda 21, climate skeptics, conspiracy theories, Koch Industries, plutocracy, Post Carbon Institute, Rob Hopkins, Tea Party

Rapture deferred: Now, where’s John Galt when we need him?

By Erik Curren | May 23, 2011

rapture

No surprise, Ye of Little Faith, grumpy radio prophet Harold Camping's rapture didn't work out as scheduled this weekend. But maybe there's another hope for all of us garden-variety sinners to rid ourselves of people who are self-righteous, nutty or just dangerously ambitious. Who is John Galt? In honor of the terrible movie version that just came out of Ayn Rand's terrible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, ExxonMobil, Harold Camping, John Galt, Koch Industries, Massey Energy, rapture

Climate merger to fight Koch cash with people power

By Erik Curren | April 8, 2011

350.org action in Sydney, Australia

Tragedy in the making: Just as scientists are telling us that climate change is happening faster than anyone had anticipated, the climate movement in the US has grown weaker than ever. When it failed last spring, the cynical and cowardly push for cap-and-trade by the big green groups wasted the best chance in years for policy on the federal level. Since then, public support … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: 350.org, Bill McKibben, Chamber of Commerce, climate skeptics, James Hansen, Koch Industries, plutocracy

Koch brothers want to show their softer side

By Staff Reports | March 23, 2011

Koch Adds Life

In response to an increasing amount of bad publicity fingering them as puppet masters behind Governor Scott Walker's union-busting drive in Wisconsin, the Tea Party's push to cut government services and pro-corporate, climate-science denying astroturf groups such as Americans for Prosperity, Charles and David Koch are now fighting back. This month, they're launching a new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Americans for Prosperity, climate skeptics, Koch Industries, plutocracy, satire, Scott Walker, Tea Party

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