David Raymond Amos@DavidRayAmos Replying to @DavidRayAmos @alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks the graveyards are full of people who could not be replaced Rest assured that are many more masters of money and war willing to follow his tracks through democracy N'esy Pas?
David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and donor, dead at 79
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Robert Smith Content disabled The world just became a little bit better
Charles Knowlton Content disabled Reply to @Robert Smith:
A LOT better.
William Joseph Joseph Westcott Content disabled
Reply to @Robert Smith: thanks for the chuckle
Janie Veston
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Reply to @Richard Nichols: too bad
Greg Crompton
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Reply to @Robert Smith: So your hateful comment is justified by his hateful behavior. What a strange moral code.
Buddy Best Content disabled Reply to @Robert Smith: there are still some things all the money in the world can't buy. One is respect and an other is eternity. He got neither.
Ted Master
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Reply to @Robert Smith: It will be better for Canadians in October.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Robert Smith: Methinks the graveyards are full of people who could not be replaced Rest assured that are many more masters of money and war willing to follow his tracks through democracy N'esy Pas?
Garfield Stephenson Stephenson Wu
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Reply to @Robert Smith: No argument from me. His biggest legacy will be promoting irresponsible economic deregulation, pushing for corporate domination of politics and seeking for the globalization of the twisted interpretation of liberty, coupled with climate change denial and union-busting.
Garfield Stephenson Stephenson Wu
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Reply to @Buddy Best: Nor does he deserve either of those two.
Phil Barnes
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Reply to @Robert Smith: Time to write the history books to help undo everything he's done.
Eugene D Burles
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Reply to @Robert Smith:
I will shed no tears. But maybe tears of joy.
Eugene D Burles
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Reply to @Ted master:
"It will be better for Canadians in October."
Why? Does Scheer have a terminal medical problem?
Greg Crompton
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Reply to @Robert Smith: At least I know where all the disaffected Liberal posters are . Nasty pieces of work the lot of them.
Johny Ng
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Reply to @Robert Smith: tacky, classless comment
Mark Shore In a world filled with toxic billionaires, he and his brother Charles (still CEO of Koch Industries at age 83) were two of the most noxious and harmful.
Reply to @Ron Burgandy: When someone is responsible for MASSIVE harm, then wishing harm on them is indeed justified
Charles Maturin
Reply to @Mark Shore: I spell it Merdeoch
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mark Shore: Methinks you should not overlook their old fake left buddy George Soros N'esy Pas?
Garfield Stephenson Stephenson Wu
Reply to @Mark Shore: Promoting climate change denial, dismantling labour rights, advocating for irresponsible economic deregulation for the sake of a "free" market, pushing for corporate domination in politics for the sake of "liberty" are just the tip of the iceberg on the damage they've done to the once-almighty USA and the world.
John Hancock
Reply to @Mark Shore: other than the hundreds of millions of dollars for cancer research..
Chari Rama
Reply to @Ron Burgandy: "the absolute state of liberals in 2019. Wishing harm upon others for differing political opinions."
Actually, it's the state of politics in general in 2019. Have you been reading what the 'other side' has been saying about our Prime Minister?
Chari Rama
Reply to @Charles Maturin: " When someone is responsible for MASSIVE harm, then wishing harm on them is indeed justified"
No, it's never justified. If you think it is then you can easily become just like that "someone" you speak of. Those who deliberately cause harm to others believe they are justified in doing so - otherwise they would not do it.
Michael Trebych
Reply to @chari rama: Who can forget their despicable smears of the late Jack Layton??
Dave Robertson
Reply to @Michael Trebych: The Toronto Sun was one of the worst for celebrating Layton's death.
Michael Trebych Reply to @Charles Maturin: I get that!! LOL!!
David Mccaig Reply to @Mark Shore: DO I DESPISE THIS MAN and everyone like him, absolutely i do.
Chari Rama Reply to @Michael Trebych: "Who can forget their despicable smears of the late Jack Layton??"
Is that supposed to encourage me to wish harm on another person and express delight in their suffering?
Chari Rama
Reply to @david mccaig: "ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD didn't save him from the natural process of life then death."
... and yet so many of us spend our entire life trying to get more money at the expense of everything else
Michael Trebych
Reply to @chari rama: You missed my point completely.
Jon Holmes Content disabled Nothing I want to post here would make it past moderation. RIP Mr Koch. Better hope there's no afterlife.
Bertrum G.Gruff Content disabled
Reply to @Jon Holmes: "judge not lest you also be judged"
Aaron Morris
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Reply to @Bertrum G.Gruff :
"Let he who hasn't supported the backbone of racism in America and contributed much to political division, poverty, and denigration of the American worker cast the first stone"
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Bertrum G.Gruff : Methinks whereas I and many others have been judged by his cohorts its only fair that he be judged as well N'esy Pas?
Steph Millar
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Reply to @Bertrum G.Gruff : In this case we can judge quite well.
Dax Randall Content disabled Churchill For the Win
“I’m unable to attend his funeral but I certainly approve of it”. Or something like that.
George Rivers Content disabled
Reply to @Dax Randall:
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
David R. Amos
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Reply to @George Rivers: Methinks that Darrow dude was fairly honest for a country lawyer N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Dax Randall: "If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned." Will Rogers
Mike Hayley This is one of the key guys that funded the Tea Party movement in the U.S., fought to prevent coal miners from getting any help when they developed black lung, and abolish environmental protection laws.
Garfield Stephenson Stephenson Wu Reply to @Mike Hayley: All for the sake of "personal responsibility" and "liberty". Well, how the h*ll is the little guy supposed to enjoy liberty or live life responsibility if you keep obstructing progress that could improve their lives or diversify sources of the economy so they won't need to work in the coal mines?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Garfield Stephenson Stephenson Wu: Sue them
Pat Fisher Some folks devote their lives to good works. Others are driven by greed.
Steph Millar
Reply to @Pat Fisher: greed and rasicm. daddy was an original Bircher
David R. Amos
Reply to @Pat Fisher: Thats the way of the world
Jack Adam
Reply to @David R. Amos: Only if we allow it.
Joseph Power David Koch had the resources to make life better for billions of people and still live an extravagant lifestyle, but he chose to spend his money toxifying politics for his own benefit. True slime.
Garfield Stephenson Stephenson Wu
Reply to @Joseph Power: No argument from me. Just pure greed and all for the sake of maintaining his power and wealth.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Garfield Stephenson Stephenson Wu: Methinks that affliction is as old as peoplekind N'esy Pas?
Weldon Torch Trump just lost an investor
Dan Reid
Reply to @Weldon Torch: wrong as they did not give any money to support Trump
David R. Amos
Reply to @Weldon Torch: Methinks that atl east Trump won't be feuding one of Koch brothers anymore N'esy Pas?
Mark Baker
Reply to @Dan Reid: The kochs have systematically tried to "adjust" political sentiment and move it to the right. If you think they fund this endeavor with fairy dust you are welcome to believe that...
Kevin Delaney May those who inherit his wealth honor him by going Green and donating as much as they can to causes that undo his wrongs.
Joseph Power
Reply to @Kevin Delaney: Assuming he knows anyone nice enough to do such a thing. It's going to some other slimeball so he can continue David's legacy of greed.
Buddy Best
Reply to @Joseph Power: That is the way their game goes. He who dies with most wins!!! Makes for a great send off even if you can't take it with you.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Kevin Delaney: Dream on
Gordon Johnstone Imagine the good that could have been done instead of promoting the burning of fossil fuels.
Buddy Best
Reply to @Andrew Ernyes: Are you inferring that this is not by design? Those with oil control the conversation and they aren't talking alternatives in a really big way.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Gordon Johnstone: Methinks its some pretty interesting fossils that found their way that deep underground N'esy Pas?
David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and donor, dead at 79
Koch was one of 2 brothers who funded much of the U.S. conservative political movement
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Along with his brother Charles, billionaire David Koch, shown here, funded much of the U.S. conservative political movement. Koch died Friday at 79. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother Charles transformed American politics by pouring their riches into conservative causes, has died at age 79.
"It is with a heavy heart that I now must inform you of David's death," Charles Koch announced Friday.
David Koch, who lived in New York City, was the Libertarian Party's vice-presidential candidate in 1980. He was a generous donor to conservative political causes, as well as educational, medical and cultural groups.
The brothers were best known for a vast political network they built that became popularly known as the Kochtopus for its far-reaching tentacles in support of conservative causes. The two founded the anti-tax, small government group Americans for Prosperity.
"I was taught from a young age that involvement in the public discourse is a civic duty," David Koch wrote in a 2012 op-ed in the New York Post. "Each of us has a right — indeed, a responsibility, at times — to make his or her views known to the larger community in order to better form it as a whole. While we may not always get what we want, the exchange of ideas betters the nation in the process."
While dealing with prostate cancer for 20 years, he told a reporter following the 2 012 Republican convention that he was thinking about what he will someday leave behind.
"I like to engage where my part makes a difference," he told The Weekly Standard. "I have a point of view. When I pass on, I want people to say he did a lot of good things, he made a real difference, he saved a lot of lives in cancer research."
Koch donated $100 million in 2007 to create the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also gave millions to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, the M.D. Anderson Cancer in Houston, and other institutions.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History named in his honour a wing dedicated to the story of human evolution over six million years. Koch donated $15 million to fund the 15,000-square-foot hall.
"The program has the power to influence the way we view our identity as humans, not only today, but for generations to come," he said in a statement at the time.
Koch, an engineer trained at MIT, joined Koch Industries in 1970, and served on its board. He also served as chief executive officer of Koch Chemical Technology Group, LLC, a Koch subsidiary. He retired from the company in 2018.
The Koch brothers, each with an estimated net worth of $50.5 billion, tied in fourth place in 2012 on Forbes 500 list of the nation's richest men.
Two other Koch brothers, Frederick and Bill, sued the other two, claiming in a 1998 trial that they were cheated out of more than $1 billion when they sold their stake in Koch Industries back in 1983. David and Bill Koch are twins.
The dispute stemmed from a falling out three years earlier when Bill Koch criticized Charles's management of the company, and with Frederick's support tried to gain control of the company's board of directors. After the takeover move failed, the board fired Bill as an executive.
Bill and Frederick Koch and other dissident stockholders sold their interests, and the two later sued, claiming the company withheld crucial information that would have led to a higher sale price.
Bill and Frederick lost their case, but the lengthy public trial offered a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse at the Koch family.
The Kochs' father, Fred Koch, guessed early — before two of his boys were out of diapers and before two were even born — that wealth might split his family apart.
"It will be yours to do with what you will," the father wrote in a 1936 letter to his two oldest sons. "It may be either a blessing or a curse."
David Koch had three children with his wife, Julia Flesher.
