Oil Sands:
Kochs' Flint Hills Resources Canada LP already imports
& refines 25% of Canada's oil sands and operates
a crude oil terminal in Canda. Kochs stand
to profit from increased tar sands flow.
Free The Press: A Public Buyout
The
Kochs: Biggest Global-Warming Denial Spenders?
The Kochs
Call Spending Hundreds of Millions "Free Speech"
It Looks Like It Also Buys "Get Out Of Jail Free"
Cards
The Kochs are considering building a new pipeline to transport Bakken shale oil from North Dakota/Montana to the midwest. Geologists have increased recoverable oil estimates from the Bakken shale area. All of which helps explain why the Kochs fund climate denial. Continue reading →
Should Profit Trump Environment And National Parks?
When it comes to choosing between making money or protecting the environment, “making money” always prevails in the plutocrat universe. The same is true of national parks. A plutocrat-created controversy over an oyster farm at a California wilderness preserve demonstrates how it works. Continue reading →
The Kochs Push “Tort Reform” But Win Millions In Tort Action.
The Kochsters have been pushing “tort reform”. But we surely won’t see Bill Koch complaining much about the $12 HE was awarded in a tort action. [File under "Hypocrisy"] Continue reading →
Kochsters Attacking National Park Service??? You Betcha.
Kochsters: “Who needs steenking national parks protection? We need more money, not some steenking parks!” Their AFP puppets attack Yosemite area preservation plan. Continue reading →
Protests Throughout The Country In Opposition To Koch Tribune Purchase
Protests were held in over a dozen cities on Wednesday, May 29, protesting any Koch media takeover. Continue reading →
The Kochs Reap Subsidies
According to the Kochs, things like tax breaks and subsidies are bad. They prevent a “level playing field”. A political science professor has examined databases and estimates the Kochs have received $73 million in subsidies. Continue reading →
PBS Panders To Kochbucks, Declines To Air “Citizen Koch”
Money talks. The Kochs have a lot of money. “PR Watch” reports PBS didn’t air a film critical of the Kochs as a move to pander to the Kochs and their Kochbucks. Continue reading →
A
Rich Family of Right-Wing Extremists: Charles
and David's father, Fred C. Koch, was a co-founder
of the John Birch Society. He gave a speech in
1963 warning of “a takeover” of America in which
Communists would “infiltrate the highest offices
of government in the U.S. until the president
is a Communist, unknown to the rest of us.
Rich
Puppet Masters:
During the 2008 elections, Koch Industries contributed
over $1.8 million, 88% to Republican candidates.
To further their libertarian beliefs in limited
government and a free market, they have supported
the Tea Party, in fact "The Koch brothers gave
the money that founded it", and they are "trying
to shape and control and channel the populist
uprising into their own policies." David Koch
has praised the Tea Party for demonstrating the
“powerful visceral hostility in the body politic
against the massive increase in government power,
the massive efforts to socialize this country.
(source)
From
the Jane Mayer article in
The New Yorker, "Covert Operations":
Five
hundred people attended the summit, which served,
in part, as a training session for Tea Party activists
in Texas. An advertisement cast the event as a
populist uprising against vested corporate power.
“Today, the voices of average Americans are being
drowned out by lobbyists and special interests,”
it said. “But you can do something about it.”
The pitch made no mention of its corporate funders.
The White House has expressed frustration that
such sponsors have largely eluded public notice.
David Axelrod, Obama’s senior adviser, said, “What
they don’t say is that, in part,
this is a grassroots citizens’ movement brought
to you by a bunch of oil billionaires.”
The
New Yorker
A
Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy:
Hillary
Clinton was ridiculed when she
uttered those words during the
Clinton administration.
Groups funded
by the Koch brothers
or to which the Koch brothers or Koch Industries belong
- Koch Family Foundations
- Americans for Prosperity (formerly Citizens For A Sound Economy)
- American Highway Users Alliance
- Americans for Tax Reform,
- Freedom Works (formerly Citizens For A Sound Economy)
- American Legislative Exchange Council
- Cato Institute
- Citizens For A Sound Economy Foundation
- Institute for Policy Innovation
- National Petrochemical and Refiners Association
(Koch Industries is a member)
- National Taxpayers Union
- Natural Gas Supply Association (Koch Industries is a member)
- Reason Foundation (and Reason.com)
- Manhattan Institute
- Heartland Institute
- Democratic Leadership Council
- Texas Prosperity Project
Noam Chomsky talks about
the privatization of education, but he begins with an overview of
how the plutocrats (Koch, et al) work to control the people and
the government to enrich themselves. It's about an hour in length,
but at least watch the first 20 minutes:
