Koch Brothers' Tea Party Movement

Tea Party Roots in the American Liberty League

DEFINITION OF OLIGARCHY

 

Definition Oligarchy: control by a few prominent families who pass their influence from one generation to the next.

Throughout history, some oligarchies have been tyrannical, relying on public servitude to exist, although others have been relatively benign.
Aristotle pioneered the use of the term as a synonym for rule by the rich, for which the exact term is plutocracy, but oligarchy is not always the rule of the wealthy, as oligarchs can simply be a privileged group, and do not have to be connected by bloodlines as in a monarchy.

 

Definition of Plutocracy - When these very families buy the politicians to protect their "special interests", this is also know as facism.

 

OLIGARCHY

"We Are the 53 %" movement, which refers to the 47% of Americans who don't pay federal income taxes.

"The fight for freedom" is really only about those fighting for their own business interests, by maintaining the status quo.

 

REAL HISTORY ISN'T ALWAYS WHAT OUR IDEOLOGY SAYS IT SHOULD BE

 

 

Fact Check: The historical roots of the Republican Party

Republicans weren't always about small government but on the contrary - they asked government to push big projects!

When fact-checking, you will discover that Illinois and Chicago and the Midwest were built by a government project, a big government project ! ! !

The Illinois Michigan Canal that connected the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River Tributary System got started when - government figures - in the territory of illinois, began pushing for it in 1810 and pushed, and pushed, and pushed until 1848, when the canal opened and changed the global economy.
They also pushed for a government built railroad if no one else would build it. But a private company finally came to the rescue with a great deal of what looks like government encouragement -- the result -- ?
The population of Chicago went from 350 to 90,000 in 50 years, all because of big government working with private enterprise. The roots of the party were in big government transportation infrastructure projects: the TARP of its day. The Homestead Act of 1862 with which the Republican Party bought its voters: a big government giveaway that made the kind of private liberties we dream of possible.

 

If You Are Being Used by the Powers that Be, You are Being Used for Class Warfare by the Oligarchy! ~ K. Ellis

 

• August 18, 2011: Warren Buffett enters the "class warfare" fray
• 1 In 5 U.S. Children Live In Poverty

KOCH BROTHERS

 

Koch Brothers

David and Charles inherited their fathers' money. Then they made quite a lot on their own following that. They are now Worth 100 Billion Dollars and can manipulates Policy, Law, and Government for their own pleasure and wealth. They own the second largest private company in the U.S.

Why Do These Koch Industries Neighbors Have Cancer? (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-greenwald/why-do-these-koch-industr_b_1005020.html

RIGGING THE GAME = GERRYMANDERING

 

2013 Stephen Colbert takes on the PA GOP plan to rig the Electoral College.

Republicans continue to hold on the the majority in the House, by a 33 seat margin, even though they lost the popular combined vote. They did this by gerrymandering - they redrew congressional districts to make them a lock on the GOP. Voters don't pick our leaders. It is just the opposite. LEADERS PICK THEIR VOTERS. GOP legislators in MI, WI, PA, & VA want "... proposals that would allocate [presidential] electoral [college] votes by congressional district...." "Pileggi argues that the winner-take-all system is inherently unfair because the losing party.... gets no credit in the electoral count." If you apply this plan, then the people never get to vote in the president they want. Video

“Guccifer” hacked the AOL account of Dorothy Bush Koch, daughter of former President George H.W. Bush and sister of ex-President George W. Bush.

25% of super PAC money coming from just 5 rich donors

501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation, primary purpose, by law, is NOT supposed to be political. 501(c) serves as a haven for these front groups to run electioneering ads and keep their donors completely secret.

keeping superpac $$ for yourself

Super Pac money stays in their pocket after the election and it's perfectly legal.

Secret Money -- 501c4 - Colbert's Lawyer Trevor Potter
Stephen Colbert learns how to give Colbert Super PAC money to himself and thereby hide it forever from all eyes and use it in a way that he wishes.
 

Superpac --> 501C4 -->Agency Letter --> Anonymous 501C4-- >

To Transfer the money from the Superpac over to your 501c4, create an "Agency Letter" that tells the C4 that he is going to create a whole new and anonymous C4 and then the FIRST one transfers the money to the second one. Then the second one which Stephen Colbert will also run then disperses it - into his own pocket if he wants. And we are sure that no one will be able to trace it.

Doesn't the IRS know about the money?

2013 The IRS is investigated because requests for 501C4 haven't been approved in a timely manner.

 

K12 Education Tea Party

The C4 says it never received the money and it never spent it so the NEW Anonymous 501C4 will send a postcard to the IRS with its tax return on it  - and there are no numbers on it!  You don't have to tell the IRS anything.

 

May 20, 2013 Trevor Potter Featured on The Colbert Report Regarding 501(c)(4) Groups

The Colbert Report regarding Stephen Colbert's application for tax exempt status of his 501(c)(4) organization.

Mr. Potter explained that "there is no legal requirement that you file with the IRS an application for exemption" and confirmed a 501(c)(4) organization can be formed without actually asking the IRS to form one. To view the full feature, please visit The Colbert Report's website 12:58
Colbert learned that his PAC, a 501(c)(4), was never granted tax exempt status by the IRS because the Colbert Super PAC SHH never filed for it, even though it is a registered Delaware corporation and hundreds of thousands of dollars have passed through it.

“Your lawyers advised you that there is no legal requirement that you file with the IRS an application for exemption,” Potter explained.

“Wait a second,” Colbert replied. “You can form a 501(c)(4) without asking to form one? These tea party anti-big government organizations didn’t have to ask big government for permission but they did anyway?”

“Right,” Potter replied.

 

2011 Billionaire Right-Wing Koch Brothers Fund Wisconsin Governor Campaign and Anti-Union Push

The Koch Family

Dorothy Bush-Koch is the sister of the Skull and Bones President George W. Bush.

For those who may not know, Dorothy Bush-Koch's husband, Robert Koch is a scion of the family that owns Koch Industries, at present the largest privately owned company in the United States. This relationship is established through her husband Robert 'Bob' Koch being the head of the Wine Institute.

Top 10 Koch Facts that every American should know about who the Kochs are and what they're doing to our country.
http://alternet.org/newsandviews/article/879472/top_10_koch_facts/

• one of the top ten polluters in the United States
• oil and gas industry’s biggest donors
• spent more than 200 million PAC money to make themselves richer
• Koch money started by engineering contracts with Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union
• The Kochs are suing to take over the Cato Institute, a think tank 
• pledged 60 million to defeat Obama
• got paid $100 million in government contracts, mostly from the Department of Defense.
• annual production capacity of 2.2 billion pounds of the carcinogen formaldehyde and doesn't go to jail
• combined fortune worth roughly $50 billion - more than Bill Gates!
• Koch Oil accused of scheming to steal $31 million of crude oil from Native Americans.

GREED IS GOOD - OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS

Soaking the Poor, State by State By Kevin Drum

There's not one single state with a tax system that's progressive. You have heard, perhaps, that rich people in America are egregiously overtaxed. And the poor? They're the lucky duckies! Why, 47 percent of Americans pay no taxes at all!
(This is not true, of course. Many poor and elderly Americans pay no federal income tax, but they pay plenty of other taxes.)
Still and all, it's true that the federal income tax is indeed progressive. Conservatives are right about that - though it's not as progressive as it used to be, back before top marginal rates were lowered and capital gains taxes were slashed in half. But conservatives are a little less excited to talk about other kinds of taxes. Payroll taxes aren't progressive, for example. In fact, they're actively regressive, with the poor and middle classes paying higher rates than the rich.

And then there are state taxes. Those include state income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, and fees of various kinds. How progressive are state taxes? Answer: They aren't.Check the table below to see how your state scores.
 

The Corporation for Enterprise Development released a scorecard for all 50 states, that includes overall tax rates, where data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy shows that in the median state (Mississippi, as it turns out), the poorest 20% pay 2x the tax rate of the top 1%. In the worst states, the poorest 20% pay five to six times the rate of the richest 1%.

 

Evidence Of Direct Tea Party Link to the Richest Men on Planet Earth

Remember, those who own/control the majority of any commodity, dictate its value.

The Secret Government aired on PBS in 1987

 

Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson on "Winner Take All Politics" from BillMoyers.com

Family Networks

 

Jamie Johnson documentary call the Richest 1% is heir to the Johnson and Johnson Family wealth and explains why he disagrees with Koch Brothers

Watch an NPR STORY in which JAMIE Talk about Family Wealth
So much in the hands of so few with payed for connections to Presidents. Spars with the 88 year old Milton Friedman who is exposed as being used by the wealthiest Americans to get what they wanted - no regulation and no gov't oversight.
Jamie says: "Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all, they are actually excited about it. To them, the crisis in the housing market, the recent slide in stock prices, and the general loss in purchasing power for millions of Americans have resulted in the thinning of the aristocratic ranks, or in other words, have decreased demand for the highest level of luxury living. Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle.
For the past eight years, I have been chronicling in documentary films the lives of the vastly rich and the role they play in the economy. As a member of the family that founded the Johnson and Johnson pharmaceutical company, I have been given unprecedented access to Whitneys, Vanderbilts, Forbeses, Gateses, Buffetts and Bloombergs. I have seen firsthand how many of these families run their businesses and I have watched them react to sudden shifts in the market and changing economic conditions. And now, with the threat of a recession looming on the horizon, I hear many of them saying-" Thank God, it's about time."

The Coors Family is the Coors Brewing Company which helped to establish the conservative Heritage Foundation in 1973 .

 

Charles and David Koch
David H. Koch and his brother Charles are lifelong libertarians and have quietly given more than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes.

In 1986, David Koch helped found the Citizens for a Sound Economy, and has given over $21 million to the Cato Institute. One 1997 study by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy identified 12 American foundations that have had a key influence on US public policy since the 1960s, particularly via their support for the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute and Cato Institute. Three of these 12 are Koch Family Foundations (Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, David H. Koch Charitable Foundation). Charles Koch co-founded the Cato Institute, whilst David Koch sits on its board.

Koch brothers quietly open lobbying office in downtown Madison

then set up MULTIMILLIONAIRE REPUBLICAN SENATOR RON JOHNSON, MADISON, WIS whose gross income of at least 1.46 million in 2009, probably much more,
is against government subsidies to business. Since 1998, his Pacur and Dynamic Drinkware plastic factories EMPLOY UP TO 9 PRISON INMATES WHOSE HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE PAID BY THE STATE according to records. Johnson is guilty of hypocrisy. Instead of employing hardworking Wisconsinites, he's employing prisoners to get out of paying for healthcare.

David Koch and brother Charles have quietly funneled nearly $50 million to climate-denial front groups…

This Millionaire Tea Bagger Ron Johnson also owns $100,000 in BP stock, supports Great Lakes oil drilling.

Blogger Ian Murphy revealed he had impersonated David Koch in a recorded phone conversation with an unsuspecting Koch Tea Bagger Gov. Walker in Wisconsin.

People are going to remember this ugly time and who stood up for historical truth and who was content to be silent or active enablers in the face of thuggery and stupidity. But to those who have sought for whatever reason to make an alliance with them, just a word of friendly advice. That old saying applies: “When you lie down with dogs, you rise up with fleas.”

 

DO NOT BE AFRAID ANYMORE!!

DON'T LET THE EVIL
KOCH BROTHERS OR FOX NEWS SCARE YOU!!

When you lose your fear, you will be willing to stand up and fight using your Non Violent Strategy. History proves this is when all Tyrants like the Koch Brothers and other Regimes Crumble!!

National Right to Work Foundation: The only right it defends is billionaires' right to their wealth. The anti-worker group attracts funding from the Mellon heirs, the Wal-Mart heirs and the Coors heirs."Right to Work" is really an anti-union law that prohibits security clauses in union contracts. Working families need to fight like hell against these dangerous attacks on their wages, their benefits and their job security.

Rethuglican Candidate in Boston

class warfare

 

 

[ ... 1990 In an interview this week, Mr. Weld insisted he could make the budget cuts.
 

He would find the excess, he said, by going into what are known as the "budget busters," expensive programs like Medicaid and state employee pension plans that are fixed by law. "They are not untouchable; there are more efficient ways of managing them," Mr. Weld said.
A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, as well as a graduate of Harvard Law School, Mr. Weld is married to a law school classmate who is a great-granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. The Welds live with their five children in a large early-19th-century Federalist house off Brattle Street in Cambridge, normally a liberal address. He is an enthusiastic hunter and fisherman.
During his stint as United States Attorney in Boston, Mr. Weld developed a reputation as a tough prosecutor, winning convictions against officials of former Mayor Kevin H. White's administration, as well as members of Boston's organized crime family. In the campaign, Mr. Weld's brand of literate, upper-class humor sometimes left reporters confused.

Once, when asked where he got his money, Mr. Weld paraphrased an old Boston joke about a Beacon Hill matron: "We don't get money, we have money."

 

Hannah Bell's Outstanding Research, Republic of Money: The Koch Brothers 2011

HARRY KOCH (circa 1867)
Information on Fred Koch's immigrant father "Harry" Koch is sketchy. Harry had been trained as a printer. He quickly got into the newspaper business in Quanah. In 1891, (about age 24) he bought out one of the local papers. He bought out another three years later. In 1918 he was President of the Texas Press Association. The name he chose for his son -- Fred Chase Koch -- is evidence of one of those friendships.

FRED CHASE
Fred Chase Koch was surely named for Fred Chase, Harry's brother-in-law. Chase was about 10 years older than Koch, and arrived in Texas (from Maine, reportedly son of William & Louisa Folsom Chase, old Yankee stock) the same year Koch immigrated to the US. Like Koch, he was a newspaperman. Koch & he married two sisters, Mattie & Minnie Mixon, at approximately the same time (1890s).
After some years working papers in Galveston and Colorado, in 1910 Chase had became the editor of the Quanah Observer, another Quanah paper: the loyal family competition, possibly.
Fred Chase Koch, son of Harry, namesake of Fred Chase, & the founder of Koch Industries, was born in 1900.
Harry gave Fred an excellent (& expensive) education for his time: Texas's Rice Institute (now Rice University, longtime fiefdom of the Baker-Botts-Farish gang) & MIT. His brother John Anton Koch, who stayed with his father at the paper, had a similar education. It's surprising there could be so much money in a paper with a circulation of about 2000.

Fred C. Koch, founder of the John Birch Society
graduated as a chemical engineer and got a job in the nascent oil industry (The Texas Company, formed as a result of the Spindletop strike, soon to become Texaco: He then went to work for Medway Oil in Britain. Medway Oil took over Power Petroleum in 1924 & seems to have been involved in supplying the Soviet Union with fuel during the post-revolution Civil War & thereafter:
Medway/Power Petrol eventually became part of the Royal Dutch Shell/British Petroleum conglomerate. This experience is suggestive as to the kind of connections that Koch might have taken back to Texas with him -- in light of Britain's earlier support of the Southern slave system, the Confederacy & the Texas War of Independence -- as is Harry Koch's Dutch background itself, considering the close historical relationship between Dutch & British capital.
Like his father, Fred named his own son (Charles de Ganahl Koch, one of the living Koch brothers) after his mentor -- his boss at Medway, Charles de Ganahl -- also a Texan, by way of Switzerland or Austria. At any rate, Fred Chase Koch went back to Texas, started his own series of oil-related companies, eventually financed the John Birch Society (one of the foundational moments for the New Right), and the rest is history.

Just one more Koch connection to relate.

ROBINSON-KIP-KINNEY-DODGE
Fred Chase Koch married Mary Clementine Robinson in 1932 (He was 32, she was 25).
Ernest F. Robinson
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Mary C. Robinson (1907) + Fred Chase Koch (1900)
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Mary Burnet Kip (1876)

Mary C. Robinson was the daughter of "prominent" Kansas City surgeon & U. of Kansas medical professor Ernest Robinson.
Mary C. Robinson's mother, Mary Burnet Kip, was the daughter of the US Foreign Service diplomat William Ingraham Kip (Jr.).

Wm. Ingraham Kip (Jr.) (1840)
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Mary Burnet Kip (1876)
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Elizabeth C. Kinney (1842)

Kip Jr. was the son of William Ingraham Kip Sr, for 40 years the missionary episcopal bishop of California, scion of an old and distinguished family going back to Dutch New York. Kip Sr's wife was the daughter of merchant and banker Isaac Lawrence.

Mary C. Robinson's grandmother, Elizabeth Clementine Kinney, was the daughter of two writers, William Burnet Kinney and Elizabeth Clementine Dodge.

William Burnet Kinney (1799)
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Elizabeth C. Kinney (1842)
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Elizabeth Clementine Dodge (1810)

William Burnet Kinney was also a publicist, the owner of the Newark Advertiser, and a diplomat. The couple spent a lot of time in Italy hanging out in literary salons with the likes of the poet Robert Browning.

DODGE-CLEVELAND
Elizabeth Clementine Dodge, the writer & diplomat's wife, was the Koch brothers' great-great grandmother.
She was the daughter of David Low Dodge & Sarah Cleveland -- two highly connected families that between them are probably intermarried with most of the American ruling class.

David Low Dodge (1774)
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Elizabeth Clementine Dodge (1810)
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Sarah Cleveland (1780)

Sarah Cleveland was the aunt of two-time President Grover Cleveland.
Her mother was a Folsom, one of a tribe that had settled New Hampshire & Maine -- interestingly, as Fred Chase's mother was also a Maine Folsom.
Husband David Low Dodge, businessman, was also a distant relation of the developer of William Grenville Dodge, the developer of the Ft Worth & Denver Railroad that ran through Quanah. Sarah & David L. Dodge spawned a powerful & long-lived business dynasty.
Son William Earl Dodge (1805) founded the metal & mining company Phelps-Dodge with his father-in-law Anson Greene Phelps. Phelps-Dodge was acquired by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. in 2007.

In other words, Elizabeth Clementine Dodge's brother founded Phelps-Dodge, one of the most important metal/mining companies in the world for over 100 years.

Which means that the Koch brothers' great-grandmother, Elizabeth Clementine Kinney, was the first cousin of William Earl Dodge II (1833-1903), for many years one of the two controlling partners in the company (check out WE Dodge Jr's other businesses as well):

Which means that the Koch brothers' grandmother, Mary Burnet Kip, was a second cousin of William Earl Dodge III, whose wife was Emeline Harriman (d. 1938), daughter of the financier Oliver Harriman.

Harriman's mentor & business partner was James Low, a member of the same clan as David Low Dodge's mother Anna. Oliver married James Low's daughter Laura.

Oliver Harriman was the mentor to his nephew, the railroad tycoon Edward Henry Harriman 1848, whose son was Averell Harriman (1891), associate of Prescott Bush & George Herbert Walker via Brown Brothers.

Which means that the Koch brothers' mother, Mary Clementine Robinson (1907-1990, Wellesley College) was the third cousin of all the Phelps-Dodge descendants, including Marcellus Hartley Dodge (1881, President Remington Arms), husband of Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller (1882), the niece of John Davison Rockefeller.

David Low Dodge (1774) + Cleveland
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William Earl Dodge (1805)
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Norman White Dodge + Hartley (1846)
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Marcellus Hartley Dodge + Rockefeller (1882-1973)

This is interesting to me because the Kochs are often implied to be right-wing "enemies" of the supposedly liberal Rockefeller wing of Capital.

Makes you wonder.

Mary C. Koch was, of course, a philanthropist.
 

Thomas failed to disclose that his wife Ginni Thomas received a total of $686,589 in compensation from the Heritage Foundation.¹ Furthermore his wife is currently advertising herself as a lobbyist who has "experience and connections" to conservative groups who have an explicit agenda to overturn health care reform -- by repeal in the Congress or overturning the law in the courts.² Justice Thomas is no stranger to questions of ethics. Along with Justice Antonin Scalia, he attended meetings organized by the secretive, Tea Party-funding billionaire Koch brothers. The Koch brothers have been key players in rewriting the political landscape after the Citizens United Supreme Court decision unleashed the floodgates of corporate money in federal politics.³ And Thomas' wife has received an undisclosed salary paid for by undisclosed donors as CEO of Liberty Central, a 501(c)(4) organization that was formed to take advantage of Citizens United rules and to play an active role in the 2010 elections.
¹"What else haven't they told us?" Common Cause, Jan. 21, 2011.
²"Adventures of Ginni Thomas," Ben Smith, Politico, Feb. 4, 2011.
³"Justices Scalia And Thomas's Attendance At Koch Event Sparks Judicial Ethics Debate," Sam Stein, Huffington Post, Oct. 20, 2010.

 

"Weapons Of Mass Deception" because one of the indications that indeed our democracy is in great trouble and moving towards a one-party state is when you can make the big lie tactic work, repeating an outrageous falsehood over and over and over to confuse the public and make them believe the falsehood.

 

 

The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America's “free market” policies have come to dominate the world)

Whether strain reflects lack of funds for enforcement or career incentives facing prosecutors, system capacity theory suggests how increasing prosecutorial capacity and resources can increase the number of prosecutions and convictions.

 

"Thomas Jefferson - the iconic hero of the Tea Party - also supported the legislation." ~ Forbes Magazine
How inconvenient, that such facts should be leaked in a conservative magazine.
http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/01/21/thomas-jefferson-also-supported-government-run-health-care/

"Thomas Jefferson Also Supported Government Run Health Care"
"... a number of our founders were more supportive of the notion of mandated health coverage and a government run hospital system than some may have imagined ..."

"Alexander Hamilton supported the establishment of Marine Hospitals in a 1792 Report, and it was a Federalist congress that passed the law in 1798. But Jefferson (Hamilton's strict constructionist nemesis) also supported federal marine hospitals, and along with his own Treasury Secretary, Albert Gallatin, took steps to improve them during his presidency. ..."
"... it was a payroll tax that all sailors on private merchant ships had to pay, and in return, they were basically given access to a small public health-care system. But it was, in essence, a regulation against a form of inactivity: You were not allowed to not do something, in this case, pay for sailor's health insurance."

Billionaire Brothers' Money Plays Role in Wisconsin Dispute Koch Brothers Money Fuels Wisconsin Fight
Tim Phillips, the president of Americans for Prosperity, given $40 million in 2010 from $7 million three years ago, was created and financed in part by the secretive billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch. - told a large group of counter protesters who had gathered Saturday at one edge of what otherwise was a mostly union crowd that the cuts were not only necessary, but they also represented the start of a much-needed nationwide move to slash public-sector union benefits. State records also show that Koch Industries, their energy and consumer products conglomerate based in Wichita, Kan., was one of the biggest contributors to the election campaign of Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a Republican who has championed the proposed cuts.

93% of Tea Partier Rupert Murdock's Wall Street Journal's Climate Op-Eds Misrepresent Science

 

@TWEETCONGRESS:
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Transparency

 

 

LEARN THE TEA PARTY SECRETS OF HOW THEY DO IT
YOU CAN FIND THE MONEY
YOU CAN LEARN THEIR TECHNIQUES OF
HOW THEY BUY THE POLITICIANS
Let's play Hide and Seek

The Loophole: KOCH Brothers Push the money through a Foundation or Trust.

Lobbying alone was a $2.6 billion industry in 2010, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. All that spending just sucks the oxygen out of the room for people trying to do true entrepreneurship.

• Council on Foundations
• Family Foundations, Community Foundations, Corporate Grant Makers, Independent Foundations, Global Philanthropy
• Regional Associations of Grant Makers

John Birch Society 770 N Westhill Blvd Appleton, Wisconsin 54914 (920) 749-3785 - Koch Brothers, Neil Bush, George Bush, Sarah Palin, Rupert Murdock

 

Clerk of the House of Representatives lobbying

 

• Regional Capital Campaign ReportsWAS CID=8239&DID=18732
  Find regional snapshots of capital and endowment fundraising across the United States.
• Regional Economic Outlook ReportsWAS http://www.givingforum.org/s_forum/sec.asp?CID=8573&DID=19305
  View reports that assess the outlook for grant making and discuss factors that affect the direction of giving growth in a particular region.
• Regional Giving Studies
  Regional giving studies are a necessary tool used to identify patterns of organized giving in a community or region.

Tea Party Astroturf Funders Caught On Tape

 

THE DIRTY LITTLE KOCH BROTHERS SECRET 

Koch brothers' father wanted to compete with the powerful American oil companies

who shut him out of the game so he made a deal with the Russians to go over there and, in exchange for their money game, got the technology he needed to compete with his own country, America. After working in Russia and trading his technology for their money, he came back to America. The Koch brothers inherited their wealth from their father's oil company which was started in Russia with Russian Technology and now worth $21.5 billion dollars.

Koch brothers - Jane Mayer (Fresh Air) 1/3 Covert Operations underwriters of right wing Republican politicians. Birch Brother ideologues like their father.
Covert Operations - The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama. - by Jane Mayer funding 34 organizations in opposition to Obama.

Koch brothers - Jane Mayer (Fresh Air) 2/3 funded think tanks, Cato Institute, academics, scholarships etc. Mercatas Center @ George Mason University - instrumental in gutting all environmental legislation for their own oil interests.

The Koch Billionaire Bastards Birch Society Rethuglican Resurgence who Pays Off Any whore who will help their pimp daddy make more money.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/20/beck-koch-chamber-meeting/

Attack Ads, Undisclosed Stealthy Money used for their own gains - their own wealth.. Responsible for 300 oil spills and wanted to get rid of any ability for the government to prosecute them. They are the Standard Oil of our time. Almost an unknown company to ruin America. 100 million dollars to right wing causes.

Secret Koch Brothers Influence (CATO)

http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm WAS Koch Industries Inc Political Action Committee (KOCHPAC)

"Matt Schlapp 3812 WASHINGTON WOODS DR. Alexandria, VA 22309 has nearly twenty years of government and corporate experience. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Federal Affairs at Koch Companies ..."
http://web.archive.org/web/20130829051139/http://covestrategies.com/team.html Frank F. Sadler

 

WAS AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE = Kock Brothers Lobby every person who is going to try to deregulate laws surrounding the oil industry and the gulf oil spill money. [was] http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=AD1E2A9B-A167-4DA2-89A8-AB6D97C5F719

Senate ID 3060-12 - House ID 306380000 and [was] http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=045410AC-FD73-4B3A-A7EF-DA3B2CDA4514 

Since 1997, the Koch foundations have contributed over $48 million in grants to climate opposition groups. More than half that total, almost $25 million, was given since 2005.
Mercatus Center $9,247,500 received from Koch foundations 2005–2008
[Total Koch foundation grants 1997–2008: $9,874,500]

The Mercatus Center is a conservative think-tank at George Mason University, in which Charles Koch sits on the Board of Directors. 
The Mercatus Center suggested in 2001 that global warming would be, “beneficial, occurring at night, in the winter, and at the poles. In 2009, they conceded that global warming is man-made and problematic but recommend doing nothing to cut emissions, instead promoting “work to facilitate movement of people from areas likely to be harmed by climate change.” page 21

1. The Fix - Who is "Americans for Prosperity"?"
26 Aug 2010... billionaire David Koch, and his brother, Charles Koch. ... Koch, the owner of the Koch Industries oil and manufacturing conglomerate, ... check out the Post's brand spanking new chart detailing weekly expenditures.) ... (The group's 2010 summit will take place in Washington this weekend; ..." voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/senate/who-is-americans-for-prosperit.html

2. PostPartisan - Boehner is right about one thing on taxes
"And, yes, we need to acknowledge that what Washington sometimes calls 'tax ..."

3. Story Lab - Story pick: Kochtopus
"A quick google search shows that the Koch brothers have contributed ..."

4. A Citizens United conspiracy, complete with two Supreme - Jimmy ...
"Is Ginni Thomas' nonprofit funded by the Koch Brothers? ... was for $500000 according to the Washington Post, a fairly rarified donor level. ..."

5. Capital Rivals: Koch Brothers vs. George Soros - OpenSecrets Blog
"21 Sep 2010 ... The Koch brothers, Soros and their respective companies have spent ... A Washington Post article from January of this year connects the ..."

6. ThinkProgress MEMO: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries ...
"20 Oct 2010 ... While the Koch brothers each worth over $21.5 billion have certainly underwritten much .... Charles Krauthammer, Media, Washington Post ..." thinkprogress.org/2010/10/20/beck-koch-chamber-meeting/

7. The Koch Brothers and the Tea Parties
"24 Aug 2010 ... The Koch brothers, after helping to create Cato and Mercatus, ... full post on The Washington Independent advertising Share and [...]

8. A Look at Tea Party Sugar Daddies the
Koch Brothers | Death and Taxes "14 Oct 2010 ... The Koch brothers have contributed $100 million to a so-called ... by The Washington Post's Dan Eggen and Philip RuckertheKochs are ..."

9. David H. Koch
"The Washington Post has reported that both Koch and FreedomWorks deny that Koch has ever ... "Koch Brothers Give More to Charity than to Right Wing Causes".

10. Capital Rivals: Koch Brothers vs. George Soros
"27 Sep 2010 ... A Washington Post article from January of this year connects the Kochs with the .... well-connected with the Koch brothers and George Soros. ..."

11. The Tea Party and the Koch brothers Talking Stuff
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12. Old Tulsan: The Cato Institute was founded by the Koch brothers , the
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13. Democurmudgeon: The Koch Brothers? Like Rupert Murdock,
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14. The Koch Brothers Profiled
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16. Who Are The Koch Brothers ?
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17. Enron, the Koch Brothers , and Grandma Millie's Revenge
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18. The Koch Brothers, the 2010 election, and the return of the John Birch Society
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19. Forbes Faces: The Koch Brothers
"18 Apr 2007 ... Not so for brothers Charles and David Koch, who run family oil .... Koch allegedly hid releases of benzene." The Washington Post. ..

20. Capital Rivals: Koch Brothers vs. George Soros
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Sarah Palin's Husband Exposed!

Uploaded on Aug 30, 2008 Video created by Norm Augustinus... In 1996 Bristol Palin daughter of Sarah Palin (presumptive vice-presidential republican nominee) was attending Iditarod Elementary School in Alaska. The teacher asked the students to ask their parents if they had any unwanted video cameras they could donate (for skits). Bristol Palin brought in a camera. The spurious VHS tape found inside that camera featured her husband Todd Palin talking aloud to five-year old Bristol (she's holding the camera) about wife Sarah Palin regarding her 1996 Wasilla election win. (Her first term as mayor) DON'T MISS THIS! YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT THIS MAN SAYS!