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2019-12-06 Home Front: WoT

Another Reason to Loathe Billionaires: Koch & Soros Team Up For Iran

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Posted by Lex 2019-12-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Thing One and Thing Two.

Funding a Uniparty for you!

Posted by charger 2019-12-06 00:02|| 2019-12-06 00:02|| Front Page Top

#2 More votes for the decent folk!

Posted by Lex 2019-12-06 00:12|| 2019-12-06 00:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Restraint, sure. Makes sense. Kochs have given $$ to Barry Posen of MIT, author of the "Restraibt" strategy.

But why do they put an Iranian, for Allan's sake, in charge of their new JV w Soros?

Are they so stupid as to believe the Iran deal was not part of the Global Grifters' idiotic plan to run down this country and its allies?

These grifters make me think of Sally Field's line - inverted: They hate us! They really hate us!

Posted by Lex 2019-12-06 00:17|| 2019-12-06 00:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Most billionaires (soros especially) become that wealthy via rent seeking.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-06 00:32|| 2019-12-06 00:32|| Front Page Top

#5 The Kochs are actually (Charles esp) brilliant businessmen. Soros is a market manipulator who made his fortune by trashing Britain's finances.

But whatever the source of their wealth, their not-unreasonable call for more restraint in US foreign policy is undermined by their repulsive shilling for Iran and for de facto open borders with Mexico.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-06 00:42|| 2019-12-06 00:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Mr. Molotov, please shake hands with Mr. Ribbentrop.

Posted by b 2019-12-06 09:16|| 2019-12-06 09:16|| Front Page Top

#7 When I was a kid I always thought there was no such thing as too much money. Now, well, I would still like to be independently wealthy but not to the extent where I begin to believe I am suddenly a great visionary.

Why aren't these a$$holes out on a yacht or hunting elk, gambling, womanizing...enjoying their own Lives? Is it a dearth of imagination or is there a dollar amount to be avoided at all costs.

Posted by Cesare 2019-12-06 09:31|| 2019-12-06 09:31|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ reputation-laundering via Shows of Virtue.

Plus our tax laws shower their "foundations" with benefits, not least of which is next to no scrutiny.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-06 09:41|| 2019-12-06 09:41|| Front Page Top

#9 The relative tax rates on unearned income is next to zero but very harsh on earnings...

Guess which one billionaires tend to get paid by and lobby for and they also lobby to maximise the amounts funding the billionaires proxies...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-06 10:36|| 2019-12-06 10:36|| Front Page Top

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