rape and pillage the public's lands. at taxpayer expense

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Subject: Berkowitz-WFC-KOCH Boys from KANSAS run US's largestr private company
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:57:29 -0500 (EST)
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The powerful Koch boys from Kansas
Patron saints of several right wing think tanks now control the country's largest privately held company
Bill Berkowitz
WorkingForChange
02.09.06
Last year, in a move that does not bode well for the nation's forests, the Koch brothers of Kansas engineered a $13.2 billion buyout of forest products producer Georgia Pacific Corporation, making their company, Koch Industries, the nation's largest privately held company.

According to the Toronto Globe and Mail, Koch's purchase of Georgia Pacific would vault Koch past food producer Cargill Inc. as the largest privately held company in the United States, with $80-billion in revenue and 85,000 employees in 50 countries.

The Koch Boys from Kansas are smart, focused, and incredibly wealthy. For years they've been pushing both a libertarian and free-market agenda through tens of millions of dollars in contributions to conservative causes, candidates and organizations.

In a way, the Georgia Pacific acquisition "completes the circle" for Koch, Scott Silver told me in an e-mail interview. "The ideologues running the land management agencies are the product of the think tanks created by, and funded by, the Koch family," Silver, the executive director of the environmental group Wild Wilderness, pointed out.

"Those ideologues are now in a position to permit Koch's newest acquisition, Georgia-Pacific, to further rape and pillage the public's lands. These think tanks promote the Free-Market ideal when it serves their interests to do so, but in reality, they are firmly committed to the ideal of enriching private interests at enormous direct cost to the American taxpayer." --

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