Greenpeace Airship Hovers Over Secretive Koch Summit with Message "Koch Brothers: Dirty Money"

[bdemelle]

A Greenpeace airship today flew over the secretive Rancho Mirage polluter strategy meeting hosted by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries. Wealthy elite interests and oil tycoons arriving at the posh resort to plot their anti-democracy agenda were greeted with the aerial message "Koch Brothers: Dirty Money."

Greenpeace also released information collected from tax records confirming that the Koch Family Foundations continue to fund climate denial organizations. The most recent records available document that the Kochtopus dished out $6.4 million in 2009 to front groups and think tanks that spread inaccurate and misleading information about climate science and clean energy policies. That brings the Kochtopus's confirmed Dirty Money total to $54.9 million since 1997, with the majority, $31.3 million, spent since 2005.

Kert Davies, Research Director for Greenpeace USA, commented:
“David and Charles Koch used their dirty money to block progress on clean energy and climate change policies, and now they’re scheming to roll back the Clean Air Act and other critical health and environmental protections with their partners in Congress. Their agenda of increased polluter profits at the expense of people, our health, and environment must be exposed and stopped.”


According to the tax records reviewed by Greenpeace from David H. Koch Charitable Foundation, Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation:

* Top recipients in 2009 included The Institute for Humane Studies, the Mercatus Center, Americans for Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute.

* Americans for Prosperity has now received over $5.6 million in documented donations from the Koch foundations.

Read more at http://www.desmogblog.com/greenpeace-airship-hovers-over-secretive-koch-summit-message-koch-brothers-dirty-money

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I love Greenpeace.

Their militant tactics are brilliant.

I especially applaud their guerrilla tactics.

[earthside]

2. Well, that's fine.

But wouldn't it be cooler if Sea Shepard's had a blimp like that ... and dropped butyric acid on the Koch brothers?

(Whale War watchers will understand this ... butyric acid is mostly just really smelly stuff.)

[Marblehead]

3. I would flush the toilet

[DCKit]

4. Either those numbers are seriously under-reported...

or a lot of Teabaggers footed the bill for shooting themselves in the foot.

Boy, do I ever want to be around when they find out how owned they are.

[saras]

5. Butyric acid is cute, but

personally I'd just as soon see someone just take their fucking money away from them. They've failed to manage it in a way that isn't toxic to hundreds of millions of Americans. They have no more right to keep it than Loughner does to keep his firearms.

[Kolesar]

6. Welcome to our forum

:hi: