UPDATE:
Charles and David Koch have more wealth than Bottom 40% of Americans together = KOCH BROS use their vast wealth to change rules and laws to fit their political views. = Undermining our democracy = Betrayal of America’s most precious thing. = Kochs strike at the heart of America. Political power tends to rise to where the money is. — Tilts the playing field in favor of the Kochs, and against the rest of us. KOCHS are driving America into an oligarchy.
1950s American democracy = “pluralism” = Capacities of parties to reflect preferences of the vast majority of citizens.
Reagan Era began focusing income and wealth concentrated at the top = GOP and Democrats started to morph into extracting money from mostly wealthy people. = Supreme Court’s “Citizen’s United” decision in 2010 = Billionaires created their own political mechanisms, separate from the political parties. Buying political candidates of their choice, and creating their own media campaigns to sway public opinion toward their own views.
2014 election cycle, “Americans for Prosperity,” the Koch brother’s political front group aired 17,000+ Broadcast TV commercials VERSUS GOPs 2,100 Ads.
“Americans for Prosperity” = Outspending Democratic super PACs in Senate races GOP are targeting this year. = 2-to-1 ADVANTAGE = Democratic super PACs have had virtually no air presence in five of the nine states.
Kochs spawned imitators. = 4 of top 5 contributors to 2014 super-PACs are now funding their OWN political operations = BYPASSING GOP AS MULTINATIONALS TRY TO DOMINATE NATIONS.
Billionaire Ricketts have own $25 million political operation called “Ending Spending.” TV ads against GOP Representative Walter Jones in a North Carolina primary for too often voting with Obama. + ads that attack Democratic New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen for supporting Obama’s health-care law.
Billionaires REPLACE political parties = BUY candidates beholden directly to billionaires. = Billionaires completely in charge.
China Casino Adelson worth $37.9 Billion is interviewing GOP candidates in what’s being called the “Sheldon Primary.” = The ‘Sheldon Primary’ = “It goes without saying that anybody running for the Republican nomination would want to have Sheldon ($1OO,OOO,OOO) at his side.”
Democratic-leaning billionaires Tom Steyer, a former hedge-fund manager, and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have also created their own political groups. But even if the two sides were equal, billionaires squaring off against each other isn’t remotely a democracy.
NO DEMOCRACY = BILLIONOCRACY = CONCENTRATED WEALTH & POWER
“Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” economist Piketty explains why the rich become steadily richer with wealth concentrated in few hands = WEALTH generates its own INCOME and EVER MORE WEALTH (USURY INTEREST) = Richest receive almost all the income growth. = Leads to EVER HIGHER INEQUALITY and FAMILY Dynastic Fortunes handed down from generation to generation = NEW ARISTOCRACY of a NEW Gilded age = Must be stopped through concerted political action. FACT: Only large-scale political action TODAY = Charles and David Koch, and their billionaire imitators.
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UPDATE: Koch Brothers denounced by Reid = “What is un-American is when shadowy billionaires pour unlimited money into our democracy to rig the system to benefit themselves and the wealthiest 1.”
REID remarks = A cresting point for Democrats to turn Koch brothers’ money into a GOP liability. BUT KOCH BROS are still at it!
DEMS = Demand more fact-checking of Kochs’ anti-Obamacare ads and More DEM money to fight back.
KOCH = Americans for Prosperity pours money to unseat Democratic senators in the 2014 midterm election cycle.
Reason Kochs persist = THEY ALWAYS DO IT SINCE 1979!
E.J. Dionne Jr. dug into the brother’s network of political influence = Libertarian eccentrics on gold and money and starting island republics of their own.
Koch = Efforts to bend government or political perceptions in their direction = REPAT AND PERSIST – REPEAT AND PERSIST = 50+ TIMES HOUSE GOP REPEAL OF OBAMACARE. KOCH BELIEF = IF YOU DO IT LONG ENOUGH IT WLL COME TRUE.
KOCHS = Citizens for Congressional Reform = BUY ELECTIONS.
KOCHS = Citizens for a Sound Economy = Conservative Lobbying organization
KOCH = Lower taxes ON MULTINATIONALS AND BILLIONAIRES + free-trade + REDUCED SAFETY NET + Unlimited environmental Damages including DRILLING of Arctic wilderness.
KOCH brothers = Koch Industries of Wichita = Oil marketing + EXPLOIT NATURAL RESOURCES EVERYWHERE = “free-market conservative(s) on economic issues”
“I’ve grown very disenchanted with the political system. Incumbents seem to be in office forever.”
— David Koch told the Seattle Times
Mark Foley decried the Koch brothers, saying they were “way off the charts” in terms of their conservatism….”extreme right-wing activists who have in effect hijacked, or are trying to hijack, the initiative process of the state.”
— Mark Foley
“There is a hidden agenda here that has been lost in all the rhetoric. The money is coming from groups whose primary interest is to weaken government — a carefully calculated effort to go after those institutions dominated by Democrats.”
— Thomas Mann, director of government studies at the Brookings Institute
We need 100% PUBLIC FINANCING OF SHORTENED ELECTION CYCLES TO STOP THIS ROBBERY OF OUR DEMOCRACY!
KOCH-SECRET POLITICAL NETWORK HIDING $4OO MILLION OF BRIBERY IN 2012
US CONSTlTUTlON SAYS BRlBERY OR OTHER REWARDS ARE lLLEGAL FOR OUR REPRESENTATlVES:
Section 6 – Compensation Paragraph 2:
“No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected.. (receive) the Emoluments (saIary, fee, or PROFlT) whereof shall have been increased during such time…(in office).”
MOST DO lNSlDE TRADlNG TO BECOME $MlLLlONAlRES!
We need 100% PUBLIC FINANCING OF SHORTENED ELECTION CYCLES TO STOP THIS ROBBERY OF OUR DEMOCRACY!
KOCH-SECRET POLITICAL NETWORK HIDING $4OO MILLION OF BRIBERY IN 2012
“Kochtopus” = KOCH Network = Unrivaled Tax-Exempt Complexity = Hidden Maze of Bribery and Ads = Come OUT Come OUT whoever you are!
KOCH Network = libertarian think tanks and advocacy groups
KOCH Network = Targets Constituencies and Programs = attacks ObamaCares
KOCH Network = Targets Environmental Regulations
KOCH Network = Targets Senators and House Members with hard-hitting ads
KOCH Network = 17 conservative groups = Raised $407+ million in 2012 = Hidden
KOCH Network = Amazingly Tax-exempt Groups with limited-liability = TV ADS
KOCH Network = Includes US Chamber of Commerce and NRA
KOCH Network = Groups swapped funds back and forth for protection of donors and to keep 501 (c) 4 Tax-Exemption = IRS is cracking down
KOCH Network = Koch Industries spokesman Robert Tappan
KOCH FATHER = Unable to use a questionable refining patten in America used it in USSR for Lenin to make a Fortune = Bitter Anti-Government ever sense.
“Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don’t have the power to coerce anybody.”
— Charles Koch = $400 MILLION IN NASTY HALF-TRUTH ADS!
Obama’s two victories were just a blip in KOCHS’ master plan measured in decades, not election cycles.
“We raised a lot of money and mobilized an awful lot of people, and we lost, plain and simple. We’re going to study what worked, what didn’t work, and improve our efforts in the future. We’re not going to roll over and play dead.”
— David Koch = $400 MILLION IN NASTY HALF-TRUTH ADS!
KOCH “true democracy” = NO LIMITS ON ROBBERY OF THE MIDDLE CLASS BY THE ELITISTS = NO RULES + NO REGS + NO PRlSON FOR WHlTE-COLLAR CRlMES = ELITISTS RUN THEIR OWN LIVES REGARDLESS OF THE GREATER GOOD!
Mid-1970s Charles Koch cofounded what became the Cato Institute with 120 employees devoted to promoting property rights, educational choice and economic freedom.
KOCHS = LEWIS POWELL AND THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
1978 KOCH brothers helped found Mercatus Center, DEREGULATION ACADEMY at George Mason University.
KOCH = Federalist Society = conservative JUDGES = Chief Justice John Roberts
KOCH = Heritage Foundation
KOCH = A California-based NO SUCH THING AS CLIMATE CHANGE Center
Bush = Appointed a watchdog on regulation from Mercatus
KOCH Network = Most money from two nonprofit groups that served as de facto banks, feeding money to groups downstream, according to an analysis by Center for Responsive Politics researcher Robert Maggiore.
Biggest = Arlington County-based group = $256 million = $150 million in dues from 200 members
$105.8 million came from something called “SA Fund.”
KOCH Network = Feeder funds = $407+ million in the last election cycle + revenue of eight groups that have not yet filed their tax returns
$302 million can be traced to Freedom Partners/TC4 Trust + MYSTERY.
Phoenix-based Center to Protect Patient Rights = Major cash turnstile to HIDE = political operative Sean Noble = USES SLIGHT OF ACCOUNTING HAND!
Freedom Partners and TC4 Trust transferred $129 million to limited-liability companies with changing names that are registered in Delaware = NEAR ZERO DISCLOSURE.
Dishonest Nonprofits = hold a piece of real estate to shield an organization from liability + harder to trace the movement of funds between RENAMED groups
KOCH Network = Americans for Prosperity = $20 Million in relentless television ad assaults for 2014
KOCH Network = American Future Fund, Des Moines-based $25 million into ads
KOCH Network = Concerned Women for America = get-out-the-young women vote
KOCH Network = the Libre Initiative Trust, Texas
KOCH Network = Generation Opportunity to engage millennials
KOCH Network = Themis Trust, database used by the allied groups.
KOCH Network = Freedom Partners and CPPR doled out $Millions to Chamber of Commerce + NRA ($6.6 million) + Heritage Action for America
KOCH Network = Focused on more effective long-range operation
KOCH Network = “fundamental liberties protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution…the law does not compel disclosure of donors to various causes and organizations.
KOCH Network = claims “IRS…systematic targeting of conservatives and free-market 501(c)(3) and (c)(4) organizations…. to stifle free speech…” = ZERO FACTS OR PROOF!
KOCH Network = POOR BABlES have been targeted for THEIR BRIBERY!
KOCH AND SOME OF THE BIG BOYS:
Let’s look at how the Koch brothers GOT their MONEY:
1. STOLE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF OIL FROM OKLAHOMA INDIAN RESERVATION. In 1989, the FBI caught the Koch brothers stealing oil from indian reservations. Bill Koch, the third Koch brother even testified against the other two about the crime. In 1999, Koch brothers were found guilty of short changing Native American 24,587 times.
2. DID BUSINESS WITH IRAN. According to Bloomberg news as late as 2OO7, the Koch brothers were selling millions of dollars worth of equipment to Iran. US companies have been banned from doing business with Iran since 1995 because of their terrorist ties. The Koch brothers have also be caught bribing Iranian official to get the business, a violation of US law.
3. COMMUNIST OIL REFlNERlES. Koch Industries got its start by constructing 15 Oil REFlNERlES for Joseph Stalin.
4. HUGO CHAVEZ GOVERNMENT MONEY. The Koch industries receive $123.6 million in subsidies from the Government of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez for Natural Gas Fertilizer from “Fertinitro” company.
5. CHEAP LAND THROUGH GOVERNMENT EMINENT DOMAIN. Koch Industries have used the government to seize private land through Eminent Domain so they can build a PlPELNE from their Canadian Tars sands operation to their REFlNERlES in Texas.
6. GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE. In spite of spending millions to oppose Obamacare, Koch applied for and received MONEY from Obama’s health care package to pay for the Health care of its retired employees.
7. FREE FOREST ROADS. Koch Industries gets over $1-billion from the US FOREST Service in road building subsidies each year.
8. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS. Because of their Campaign contributions, Koch industries received a $1-billion contract to supply oil for the Strategic Oil Reserves.
9. GOVERNMENT FAVORS. In spite of being opposed to “Government Welfare” Koch LOVES GOVERNMENT WELFARE FOR BUSINESS. They’ve asked for and received special consideration for their Alaskan Flint Hills REFlNERY from the Alaska government and Sarah Palin.
1O. TAX BREAKS. Koch Indus tires received a special tax break on the pipe line from Republican Governor Sam Brownback that will cost the Kansas Taxpayers $5O million.
11. CHEAP LAND LEASES. Koch industries ranches receive a 4OO% discount on their grazing leases from the government compared to what you’d have to pay for private leases.
12. CHEAP SOCIALIST TANKERS. Koch opposes socialism supposedly because it is inefficient, but they were happy to buy Croatian Oil tankers because they were the best and cheapest in the world.
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GOP = LET THE $Bankers ♛ AND TAX DODGlNG WELFARE SUCKlNG $BlLLlONAlRES ♚ SCAM THE PUBLIC – LIKE GOP HAS SETUP!
KOCH CORPORATE WELFARE QUEEEENS ARE BANKRUPTlNG AMERICA: But KOCHS say they OPPOSE ALL WELFARE1. KOCH takes $1+ Billion/Yr from US FOREST Service in road building subsidies. WELFARE
2. KOCH used US Eminent DOMAlN to take land to build a PlPLlNE from CANADlAN Tars sands to their Texas REFlNERlES. WELFARE
3. KOCH used $Millions to oppose Obama Care but TOOK MONEY from ObamaCare to pay their Retirees Health care. WELFARE!
4. KOCH took $Millions from PaIins AIaska for their FIint HiIIs REFlNERY – WELFARE
5. KOCH (FRED DAD) start by constructing 15 OlL REFlNERlES for COMMUNlST DlCTATOR STALlN using patents he took that were not his from the USA – FRAUDULENT WELFARE
6. KOCH special tax breaks on PlPELNE from Rep BROWNBACK cost Kansas Taxpayers $5O million. WELFARE
7. KOCH ranches receive a 8O% discount on grazing land from US government – MORE WELFARE
8. KOCH takes $1 Billion to supply Strategic OlL Reserves because of campaign contributions to crooked politicians – SPECIAL WELFARE
9. KOCH USED CHEAP US GOV MONEY to buy CROATlAN OlL tankers – WELFARE
1O. KOCH received $123.6 million from VenexueIa and Chavez – FORElGN COMMUNlST WELFARE
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