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applegrove

(118,696 posts) Thu May 15, 2014, 08:18 PM May 2014

"American Bridge launches Koch project" (LOL! Kochs identified as a cult and the GOP braces for it)

American Bridge launches Koch project

By MIKE ALLEN at Politico

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/american-bridge-koch-brothers-106711.html

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”Senator Reid and the Senate leadership have raised this as an issue,” Brock said in an interview with “Open Mike”. “This is the party of Koch, and we want Americans to understand what that means in their daily lives. It will basically have two aspects to it. One is expose and rebut … their self-serving policy agenda, not only nationally, but in the states.”

Brock added, “Secondly, we’re going to do some really deep-dive research into Koch industries and related entities and their businesses practices. And at the end of the day what we’re going to show is that the Kochs are leaders of a freakish ideological cult that is designed to rig the system to their benefit and to rob Americans of Social Security and decent wages. … I think that the Kochs don’t view their investments politically as investments in the country but in their companies.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/american-bridge-koch-brothers-106711.html#ixzz31piXRrFc

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"American Bridge launches Koch project" (LOL! Kochs identified as a cult and the GOP braces for it) (Original Post) applegrove May 2014 OP

And americans gets closer to the truth. applegrove May 2014 #1

We need the truth! And it is beautiful. Well, right after we're done being pissed by it! freshwest May 2014 #2

All addicts in rehab, stat! Cha May 2014 #3

not rehab, deprogramming. Off to deprogramming all you on the right. applegrove May 2014 #4

You're right of course.. "rehab" was code Cha May 2014 #6

One of their brothers did a ton of research on Charles and David. He eventually found they were okaawhatever May 2014 #5

About time someone exposed this evil twosome on a grand scale. Marie Marie May 2014 #7

Mark Holden's statement rickyhall May 2014 #8

It was a politico article. What a bunch of whiners. applegrove May 2014 #9

In Greg Palast's book "Billionaires and Ballot Bandits" Midnight Writer May 2014 #10

applegrove

(118,696 posts)

1. And americans gets closer to the truth.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu May 15, 2014, 08:26 PM

May 2014

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

2. We need the truth! And it is beautiful. Well, right after we're done being pissed by it!

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu May 15, 2014, 09:44 PM

May 2014

Kudos to these guys for doing this project!!!

Off to the Greatest Page!!

Thanks for bringing this here.

Cha

(297,323 posts)

3. All addicts in rehab, stat!

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu May 15, 2014, 09:47 PM

May 2014

applegrove

(118,696 posts)

4. not rehab, deprogramming. Off to deprogramming all you on the right.

Reply to Cha (Reply #3)

Thu May 15, 2014, 10:04 PM

May 2014

Cha

(297,323 posts)

6. You're right of course.. "rehab" was code

Reply to applegrove (Reply #4)

Thu May 15, 2014, 10:16 PM

May 2014

for Deprogramming!

okaawhatever

(9,462 posts)

5. One of their brothers did a ton of research on Charles and David. He eventually found they were

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu May 15, 2014, 10:09 PM

May 2014

stealing, which the Kochs called "mismeasuring" oil from public and Native American land. He searched for years to find something to sue them for. I wonder if that brother will cooperate with American Bridge? That would be interesting.

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)

7. About time someone exposed this evil twosome on a grand scale.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu May 15, 2014, 10:18 PM

May 2014

Now let the fun begin...

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)

8. Mark Holden's statement

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu May 15, 2014, 10:37 PM

May 2014

At the end of the article was pure BirchShit . Lying bastard. "...Koch will continue to advocate for policies that will help all people improve their lives and that promote a free society." Yeah, right.

applegrove

(118,696 posts)

9. It was a politico article. What a bunch of whiners.

Reply to rickyhall (Reply #8)

Thu May 15, 2014, 11:17 PM

May 2014

Midnight Writer

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10. In Greg Palast's book "Billionaires and Ballot Bandits"

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu May 15, 2014, 11:52 PM

May 2014

There is a section detailing an FBI investigation of Charles Koch personally going to an Indian reservation to tamper with the meters that record how much oil his company was pumping from their land. An informant was "wired" by the FBI and recorded a bizarre conversation.

INFORMANT: You are already a billionaire. Why risk breaking the law to filch some family out of three bucks a month?

KOCH: I just want my fair share - and that's all of it.

The brothers eventually got the investigation squashed by donating to certain politicians who fired the federal prosecutor in charge of the investigation. The new prosecutor decide not to proceed with the investigation

The Palast book was published in 2012 but got no mainstream media attention. The Bros. are known for their SLAP lawsuits (even though they are for "commonsense lawsuit reform).

It is past time for a comprehensive biography of the Koch Bros. including how they got their amazing fortune but I doubt that any major publisher would have the guts to print it.

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