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Update May 26, 2013 -  It's the Koch brothers.  Again.

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The link gets you closer to an opportunity to sign a petition.  You'll need to click one more time, on the first option you see.  Best I could do.

http://www.action.democraticgovernors.org/page/s/stop-the-koch-brothers-add-your-name-fbpp 

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The word "chilling" has been overused recently.  Still, I would use it to describe what's been going on at PBS; it's what happens when private money exerts influence over public entities.  It makes my stomach clutch to know (thanks to the stellar journalism of Jane Mayer at The New Yorker)  that the Koch brothers' power is being felt at PBS.  And these guys are on the brink of buying eight newspapers, as well.   I doubt they're buying these papers for profit, since print media is not something a shrewd investor would be shopping for right now.   They'd be instruments for influence-peddling, not objective news.

Please read this piece at Truthout. 

http://truth-out.org/news/item/16494-pbs-killed-wisconsin-uprising-documentary-citizen-koch-to-appease-koch-brothers

 

We all need to be aware, beware, of what's going on with the Kochs and their determination to buy America.  They're getting way too close for my comfort.