Rush Limbaugh says climate change is a hoax.
Climate change might be disputed but it can not be a ‘hoax’
The only reason for him to say something so ridiculous is,

the coal companies pay him well to say so.

http://www.nytimes.com/ 2009/ 08/ 12/ us/ politics/ 12firings.html

Failure to investigate “voter fraud” was the rationale for the US Attorney firings that surfaced during congressional investigations of the Bush Justice Department.

For years the GOP has alleged widespread fraudulent registration impacts on election outcomes, a contention that has never been proved.

Electoral fraud is the catagory reserved by reform advocates to distinguish from implausible GOP claims that voters constitute a greater threat to democracy than corporations.

We need to impose capital punishment on corporations who engage in such outrageously destructive behaviors. The corporation should have its charter revoked and its assetts sold off; the board of directors and everyone who was involved in the decision-making should be fined some multiple of the amount they profited, imprisoned and banned from ever working in their field or participating in corporate decision-making again, and the money should be used to pay restitution to victims and to bolster laws and enforcement against both corporate crime and the legalized bribery that allows it to happen over and over.

In no time at all, what little attention this issue gets will be verbatim repetitions of the PR campaign launched to deny, minimize, and obscure the crime. We know that because it’s what happens every time this cycle repeats. We have to prevent that or it will happen again, starting immediately. Write to your elected officials, protest creatively enough to media attention, and don’t stop until this stops.

“There was a telling incident at a town hall held by Representative Gene Green, D-Tex. An activist turned to his fellow attendees and asked if they “oppose any form of socialized or government-run health care.” Nearly all did. Then Representative Green asked how many of those present were on Medicare. Almost half raised their hands.”

So, you tell me. Are these people the informed electorate or are they limbaugh-listeners who are paid to attend these meetings?

[JR: Yes, I understand that your side sees it as them winning vs. us "losing." Future generations, however, will see it as your side winning and the next 100 billion people to walk the earth losing a livable climate. But you just go on rooting for your team as if the issue actually had no substance to it whatsoever -- that's what you all are best at any way.]

The Koch family is a powerful group. One brother, Bill, is the money behind the Alliance for Nantucket Sound which is fighting the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts. The other brother, David (the 19th richest man in the world), is one of the people behind the disruption of the Town Hall Meetings around the health care issue, which was exposed on Rachel Maddow’s show last week. He is the chair of “Americans for Prosperity” which is busing people all across the country to attend these town hall meetings and disrupt them.

I don’t know if the Cape Wind project will ever get built, because the Kochs know how to use the legal system to delay and obstruct and have the money to keep suing.

As an aside, the Koch patriarch helped establish the John Birch Society.

DeSmogBlog has a list of all the Koch companies,

http://www.desmogblog.com/ koch-industries-inc-holdings-investments

Yes it has mysteriously disappeared. However, the Google cached version from July 25th still exists as I write this:
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:vRuwqjkRMuwJ:www.linkedin.com/in/courtneyforrester+http://www.linkedin.com/ in/ courtneyforrester&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Not sure how long this will be around before it expires, so I “printed” it to a pdf file as well, so I can review it later.

Carl

There are many consumer brands that are owned by these companies, including the brands of gasoline of course. So, it’s getting very close — very — to the time when we should all stop buying those products. No joke.

That includes some media brands and products too. Most of the media are not really, genuinely, doing their jobs to serve the public good on this issue. Time for them to start doing so, or let’s switch to other media.

Be Well,

Jeff