Published on YouTube March 19, 2012: This hard-hitting investigation of the 1% at its very worst is the latest from acclaimed director Robert Greenwald. Charles and David Koch are using their billions to put a stranglehold on American democracy. What are we going to do about it?
Koch Brothers Exposed is a hard-hitting investigation of the 1% at its very worst. This full-length documentary film on Charles and David Koch—two of the world’s richest and most powerful men—is the latest from acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, Rethink Afghanistan). The billionaire brothers bankroll a vast network of organizations that work to undermine the interests of the 99% on issues ranging from Social Security to the environment to civil rights. This film uncovers the Kochs’ corruption—and points the way to how Americans can reclaim their democracy.
What can you do to fight back? Get the film. Host a screening. Tell your friends. Get the Koch brothers out of the shadows and into the spotlight.
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Raise the soc sec age to 70 when corps won’t hire over 40? I paid into that
fund. It is Soc Sec INSURANCE. Awful people. Just awful.
TO ALL LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS: SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT GEORGE SOROS, TOM
STEYER AND A.C.O.R.N. Funny how you and Greenwald cannot see your own
hypocrisy. I guess Obamacare really is trainwreck when you cannot defend
it and your only bag of tricks left is Koch Bros. attacks
I can’t believe we’re sending dope sellers to jail while these assholes get
away with destroying nature and people’s lives. They’re disgusting.
OutlawedSpank said this film was propaganda… He was probably just
trolling, but I feel that this film does a big disservice to the cause it’s
trying to serve by mixing elements of blatant propaganda and smear job with
evidence backed valid points.
The efect is the discreditation of those valid points that, if presented by
themselves would have been irrefutable.
For instance:
They show how the Kochs are influencing the public oppinion and the
government to get their way, and then bash them for not helping the “home
owners who’s homes have been foreclosed on”… What the hell has that got
to do with anything?
Oh… they have that many houses and poor people have none… they are bad
bad people because they don’t help out and keep all their money for
themselves, and want to make more money…
That’s some sympathy alienating propaganda right there. A lot of people
will feel like identifying with them. They’ll think “What’s wrong with
being a little selfish?”
The point of this film shouldn’t be that they are being selfish, but that
they abuse (and are allowed to abuse) a lot of the power that their money
gives them. That’s the problem.
They are sick. They are addicted to money and power. And that’s by no means
a singular case (as, again, this film eludes to). This addiction is
omnipresent all over in our society, especially in the higher wealth
echelons. However, the entire stucture of our society is to blame for this
affliction, and it’s up to everybody to try and change it. Demonizing an
addict for being an addict is rarely productive…
I’m even starting to doubt the good intentions of this video. It actually
helps the Kochs get the sympathy of some of the people that used to hate
them, just because of the virulence and occasional irrationality of this
film…
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Here is the whole film. Well worth watching.
While the perspective in this film is somewhat skewed. These are exactly
the same tactics used by St. Joseph’s mining company and the I.L.A.
(International Lead Association). They infiltrated into government and
academia to promote the use of lead in water systems, discourage any health
concerns and ultimately destroy the public movement against lead use which
started in the New York popular press way back in the 1880’s. It wasn’t
until 1986 that the clean air and water act prohibited the use of lead in
water because it causes learning disabilities, developmental problems, and
brain cancer. Yet we still have hospitals bearing their name all over the
country. Many water systems still contain lead galvanized components and
continue to impact the health of people. If we really want to challenge
them, we need to find a way not to need what products they have monopoly
control over. Basically, we each need more efficient living situations,
ideally net-zero living (no external power). Also growing our own food, if
we do not need their money to survive then it counts for nothing in terms
of power. Regardless, this sustainable alternative is the only solution to
the problems arising from the great acceleration and several global mega
trends. Global warming is just one facet in this picture.
they should do one of these on the Rockafellas… same story.
Must see.
Please tell me the Koch Bro’s have not reproduced?
the propaganda of this film is laughable
They are not fighting unions to pay their workers less. They are not that
short sighted, they want to crush the unions to bankrupt the financial base
of the Democrats.
The Republican party are parrots for ALEC and The #Kochsuckers.
Pushing us to a Fascist state. #Kochsuckers.
I can’t understand how all these Koch drones can’t see what his intentions
truly are. Obama is trying to get the US off of foreign oil, trying to push
clean energy and suddenly all of these “libertarians and Tea party”
movements spring up calling for “smaller government” and “free market”, all
funded by big oil companies like Koch industries.
Of course, they want fewer regulations and less government oversight.
What has amazed me is that in the age of “global information” it has become
more easy than ever to cover the truth and hide information.
So bizarre….A tycoon who honed his business skills under the watchful eye
of the great capitalist…..Stalin? …returns to America a
foaming-at-the-mouth racist (go figure), and raises 2 egomaniacal sons who
claim to be libertarians who hate government, but in fact just hate
humanity…and launch a buy all you can campaign to control ALL of the
politics in the country just to pollute it, milk it,and punish the rest of
us for using their oxygen. Only a true “socialist” ( like Stalin!) would
have the need, the drive, and the soulless resolution to try to control an
entire population. Old man Koch learned well from a psychotic master, and
passed the lesson on, intact, to his boys. Papa would be so proud of his
little tykes.
They were attractive when they were younger
Nothing hurts like the truth
Read the statement by David Koch from 1980, how he wished to abolish Social
Security, Medicare, minimum wage, any taxation on the wealthy, all
business regulation. Read about how their father was a huge racist. The
Kochs have been at this for a long time. They are evil.
These Jewish elitists in America have gone out of control… Americans
should really wake up like the rest of Europe did in 1930. There is a
reason for that kind of hate. Hate doesn’t happen for no reason.
We have to stand all together and stop them
Democrats are gung ho for pitting ordinary women against their male
counterparts so the Koch Brothers have an abundance of cheap labor.
Democrats are gung ho for increasing low skilled immigration so the Koch
Brothers have an abundance of cheap labor. Democrats love the Koch Brothers
as much as Republicans do.
“I support a Constitutional amendment saying that corporations are not
people and they do not have the right to spend money to buy our
politicians.”
http://www.wolf-pac.com/petition
“I support a Constitutional amendment saying that corporations are not
people and they do not have the right to spend money to buy our
politicians.”
http://www.wolf-pac.com/petition
I love how theres a commercial supported by the Koch brothers at the
begining of this.