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a kennedy

(29,719 posts)
Thu May 30, 2013, 08:18 AM May 2013

Anyone see this on Nova last night?? "Oklahoma's Deadliest Tornadoes"

Interesting show, funded in part by the DAVID H KOCH!! http://video.wpt2.org/video/2365016316 National corporate funding for NOVA is provided by The Boeing Company. Major funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS viewers. While watching I kept thinking about climate change, and not one word of climate change was mentioned during the whole program......

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Anyone see this on Nova last night?? "Oklahoma's Deadliest Tornadoes" (Original Post) a kennedy May 2013 OP
I have seen him listed as a major funder for a number of NOVA shows DrDan May 2013 #1
It's reputation-laundering. SoCalDem May 2013 #3
It's also tax write-off. lapislzi May 2013 #4
Of course it was never mentioned SoCalDem May 2013 #2

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
3. It's reputation-laundering.
Thu May 30, 2013, 08:32 AM
May 2013

Just as the drug dealer launders his money through legitimate businesses, the Kochs do it through charity & PBS.

lapislzi

(5,762 posts)
4. It's also tax write-off.
Thu May 30, 2013, 08:41 AM
May 2013

They spread their dirty money across the board.

On the other hand, a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut.

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
2. Of course it was never mentioned
Thu May 30, 2013, 08:31 AM
May 2013

These shows are weather-porn..meant to convince those of us not affected to thank our lucky stars and to help us open our wallets for "those poor folks" who were..

There is no direct evidence of connection to climate change (for tornadoes), BUT is is UNDENIABLE that the overall pattern of weather is creating more SUPER-STORMS, and the whole pattern of predictability will become more devastating.

Until these storms drop leaflets from within that say "THIS SUPER-STORM BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FOLKS WHO PUMP CO2 INTO THE ATMOSPHERE", there will always be enough naysayers in powerful places to doom us all..

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