Billionaires Charles & David Koch Give $100 Million to Right-Wing Causes - Democracy NOW!

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Run time: 12:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cW_3xO3w90   Posted on YouTube: August 25, 2010 By YouTube Member: ThisBoyTV Views on YouTube: 326   Posted on DU: September 05, 2010 By DU Member: Sky Masterson Views on DU: 983

 
I'd like to teach the world to sing, in right-wing douche-baggery..Wait..It's Koch not Coke..:P
Very much worth a the 12:25 seconds!

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2. What is your opinion on the Email recieved?

Do you feel it's credible?

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4. I did a little search

I would do a bit a more research than just reading Wiki..
http://ezralevant.com/2010/09/george-schwartz-the-jewish-naz.html
Found the same thing over at Free Republic.
It was spawned yesterday..I'd wait a few days and check Snopes as this is probably total bullshit

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2583506/posts

Posted on Sunday, September 05, 2010 4:35:17 AM by Clive

Have you ever heard of a Jewish Nazi? My new Sun column:

Moral hollowness at work

George Schwartz was born in Hungary in 1930 — not the luckiest time and place to be born a Jew.

George’s father Theodore tried to change the family’s fortunes by changing their name to something less Jewish-sounding. It didn’t help. And soon war came.

When the Nazis took total control of Hungary in 1944, the Holocaust followed. In two months, 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to death camps.

To survive, George, then a teenager, collaborated with the Nazis.

First he worked for the Judenrat. That was the Jewish council set up by the Nazis to do their dirty work for them. Instead of the Nazis rounding up Jews every day for the trains, they delegated that murderous task to Jews who were willing to do it to survive another day at the expense of their neighbours.

Theodore hatched a better plan for his son. He bribed a non-Jewish official at the agriculture ministry to let George live with him. George helped the official confiscate property from Jews.

By collaborating with the Nazis, George survived the Holocaust. He turned on other Jews to spare himself.

George moved to London after the war and then to New York, where he became a stockbroker. He’s rich now. Forbes magazine says he’s the 35th richest man in the world. Maybe you’ve heard of him. He goes by the name his father invented: George Soros.

How does Soros feel about what he did as a teenager? Has it kept him up at night?

Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes asked him that. Was it difficult? “Not at all,” Soros answered.

“No feeling of guilt?” asked Kroft. “No,” said Soros. “There was no sense that I shouldn’t be there. If I wasn’t doing it, somebody else would be taking it away anyhow. Whether I was there or not. So I had no sense of guilt.”

A Nazi would steal the Jews’ property anyways. So why not him?

That moral hollowness has shaped Soros’ life. He’s a rabid critic of capitalism, but in 1992 when he saw a chance, he speculated against the British pound, causing it to crash, devastating retirement savings for millions of Britons. Soros pocketed $1.1 billion for himself. If he didn’t do it, someone else would, right?

In 2002, Soros was convicted of insider trading in France, and fined millions of dollars. He admitted buying the shares, but denied it was a crime.

Last year, when he made $3.3 billion off the banking collapse, he called the world’s financial crisis “the culmination of my life’s work.”

This is a man who boasted he offered to help his mother commit suicide. Apparently he didn’t see enough death in Hungary.

Soros is a sociopath. But he’s a sociopath with $14 billion, and he likes to spend it on politics.

Sometimes his gifts are large, like the $24 million he spent in 2004, trying to defeat George W. Bush. Sometimes they’re small, like $20,000 to a woman convicted of helping terrorists.

Now Soros has turned his attention to Canada.

One of his front groups, called Avaaz, is lobbying to stop Sun Media’s license for a TV news channel. Soros doesn’t know anything about Canada — Avaaz called the Sun newspapers the “Suncor newspapers” — but we’re his latest toy.

Avaaz is sending a petition to Canada’s TV regulator, the CRTC, claiming that thousands of Canadians want to censor the Sun and keep it off the air.

The petition is a fraud — it’s an Internet petition, and anyone can sign anyone else up without their permission. Fake names are permitted, and so are foreign citizens. And the whole campaign is run out of New York.

Do you think Soros should determine what you can watch on TV? Do you think that decision should be made in New York? Is our freedom of speech just another trinket for him to buy and sell?

Hasn’t Soros silenced enough voices in his life?

Fight back.

Visit www.suntvnews.ca.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2583506/posts

[Sky Masterson]

5. About the author Ezra Levant

Also..I found this on Wiki as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Levant
"Early life and education
Born in Calgary, Levant holds a commerce degree from the University of Calgary and a law degree from the University of Alberta. His great-grandfather emigrated to Canada in 1903 from Russia to establish a homestead near Drumheller, Alberta.<1> Levant grew up in a suburb of Calgary. He attended a Jewish day school in his childhood before transferring to a public junior high school.

Levant campaigned for the Reform Party of Canada as a teenager and joined it as a university student.<1> In 1992, while at the University of Calgary, his two-person team won the "best debating" category in the Intercollegiate Business Competition held at Queen's University.<2> In 1994, he was featured in a Globe and Mail article on young conservatives after accusing the University of Alberta of racism for instituting an affirmative action program of hiring women and aboriginal professors. His actions outraged aboriginal law students, feminists, and a number of professors, and he was called to a meeting with the assistant dean who advised him of the university's non-academic code of conduct and defamation laws. As head of the university's speakers committee, Levant organized a debate between Doug Christie, a lawyer known for his advocacy in defence of Holocaust deniers and accused Nazi war criminals, and Thomas Kuttner, a Jewish lawyer from the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission.<1>

Levant gained a reputation as the university's leading conservative. in an internship arranged by the libertarian Charles G. Koch Foundation Summer Fellow Program. He worked for the Fraser Institute in 1995, writing Youthquake, which argued for smaller government, including privatization of the Canada Pension Plan. Levant saHe was invited to write a guest column for the Edmonton Journal and interviewed on television.<3> He spent the summer of 1994 in Washington, D.C.,w "youthquake", the term he used to describe what he identified as a conservative youth movement of the 1990s, as similar to the 1960s civil rights movement except that instead of being enslaved by racism, his generation was "enslaved by debt" and, in order to liberate itself, society needed to dismantle elements such as trade unions, the minimum wage, universal health care, subsidized tuition and public pension plans.<4>"



"Levant gained a reputation as the university's leading conservative. in an internship arranged by the libertarian Charles G. Koch Foundation Summer Fellow Program. He worked for the Fraser Institute in 1995,"

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7. It is easy to get sucked in to misinformation

The Email you just posted sort of proves the case that these guys (Through others)are trying to tweak public opinion.
Just look at who has what to gain by this?
It's sort of like saying something like "Yea,maybe the Koch brothers are Birchers and Libertarians but Soros is a Judas-goat-nazi-war criminal. :sarcasm:
It's all about muddying the waters..

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9. Koch Brothers. Richard Mellon Scaife. Grover Norquist. Rupert Murdoch. Stanley Hubbard.

Rick Smith. Carl Linder. Dick Farmer. Roger Milliken. and more and more and more

And all the right wing do to counter the evidence uncovered about substantial funding from right wing billionaires for anti-regulation, anti-union, anti-taxation, anti-national health insurance, "genuine grass roots" groups, etc. is wave around George Soros. George Soros. George Soros.

Billions of dollars have been spent to successfully push our national dialogue to the right. To crush unions. To defeat environmental and safety regulations on business. To defeat national health insurance. To pretend that tax cuts to the top 5% and deregulation of big finance will result in riches trickling down to all of us instead of crashing our economy, 2008 notwithstanding.

To get more background about how right wing billions have pushed our national dialogue to the right over the past few decades, check out "What Liberal Media?" by Eric Alterman. www.whatliberalmedia.com . The book title is derived from the technique called "playing the ref"-- accuse the media of being too liberal and journalists will bend over backward to show that they are not and so you'll get much more air time for conservative views. Alterman's book shows how conservative think tanks were established to generate lots more talking points for right wing politicians and give them more credibility.

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10. I guess duckduckduck was a goosegoosegoose

I hate that the triple d's post and responses had to go poof though, but thems the breaks.
Who am I to question the stars when I am just one crazy Sky :)
(Plus this gives me an excuse to kick my thread)