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LINK Koch Industries stays in Russia, backs groups opposing U.S. sanctions

(Kock Industries underwrote (paid for) the Tea Party movement, funds the Hertitage Foundation and several other "conservative 'think tanks'.)

As hundreds of major U.S. companies exit Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, Koch Industries is staying put.

The industrial conglomerate — the second-largest privately owned business in America, with $115 billion in annual revenue — is among those defying public pressure and continuing to operate manufacturing plants and sell products across Russia, while up until Wednesday remaining mum on that nation's relentless assault on Ukrainian cities.

Wichita, Kansas-based Koch has several business lines in Russia, and is among the nearly 40 companies described as "digging in" by refusing to curb or stop business in that nation, according to a tally compiled by Yale University professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and his research team.

snytiger6 9 Mar 17
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The us governement should look at anything to do with Koch Industries and ban doing business with them too. Lets not give money to supporters of Putin and Russia. Who needs toilet paper...LOL

Isn't the US government & such industries owners one & the same?

@Garban Supposedly Koch Industries is too diversified to be considered a Monopoly or Trust.

@snytiger6 And that simply shows the extent to which they control government.

@FrayedBear They definitely have a hold on the right wing aspects of the government, and keep pushing the government to move farther to the right.

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Size, and money, does matter.

The 1776 attempt at freedom threw off a monarchy and its aristocracy. A government created by wealthy men did not limit the accumulation of wealth and created fascism.

Throwing off fascism will require limiting the accumulation of wealth. When will Americans throw off fascism?

The American oligarchs.
Let's now hear the hue & cry against them.

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