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Thursday, February 24, 2011, Koch Brothers - more references

"Why Arch-Polluter Koch Industries Owes The Planet Its Entire Net Worth"

The only thing equal to the obscene wealth of Charles and David Koch, who jointly own the privately-held Koch Industries, is the obscene damage they cause to the environment. Every gold coin in their Scrooge McDuck money pool means a monetarily equivalent amount of damage to the planet, says a new analysis of the social impact of the company's cumulative impact on the earth.

If that pisses you off, you're not alone. This past weekend, a bunch of rageaholic malcontents protested the secretive annual meeting of Koch Industries bigwigs and various right-wing luminaries. (From where we're standing they actually looked like a bunch of old folks in Dockers, but the prophylactic police presence says otherwise. Malcontents are sneaky.)

What's got them so fired up: The Kochs are taking out massive loans against your future. Koch Industries represents a gigantic, direct wealth transfer from the environment to the pockets of the Koch brothers and their GOP beneficiaries, says Brad Johnson of ThinkProgress.

Koch Industries has a cumulative carbon footprint rivaling that of most nations, says Johnson. With a true cost of carbon pollution between $30 and $300 a ton, that means "[t]he potential liability the Kochs face for having knowingly destabilized the global climate system -- and funded a propaganda network to prevent political action to end their pollution -- represents practically the whole of their wealth."
http://www.grist.org/article/2011-01-31-why-arch-polluter-koch-industries-owes-t...

"Report: The Kochs, A Nazi Past, Oil; The Foundation of The Right"

Notorious Nazis Ilse Koch, her husband Karl Otto Koch and Erich Koch are the ghosts of Koch Industries, who seized the U.S. conservative political agenda years ago and seem capable of seizing the government in total through the Tea Party. Ilse Koch was the Nazi’s specialist in making objects from human skin; was the only woman charged with war crimes; and along with her husband was in charge of one of the most horrific horror camps in Nazi Germany.

Koch Industries is the child of the violence of Buchenwald, widely regarded as one of wartime Germany’s most notorious “death camps”.

Information connecting Ilse and Koch Industries is hard to find but is a string of fragments, pieces of information that connects the American and German Kochs and this connection gives us a clear image of the sentiment behind the Tea Party and conservative American politics since the 1950s. Where is the connection between the German Koch’s and Fred Koch? Besides evidence the American Koch was related to Ilse’s family, Erich Koch (a high level Nazi official in charge of Prussia) invites Fred Koch to sell his oil in Nazi Germany when he is banned from doing business in the US. After the fall of Nazi Germany, Erich Koch and Fred expand the oil empire to the Soviet Union. Erich Koch had been in charge of Prussia for Hitler so his ties to the Soviet Union ran deep. A few years later the Soviets took Fred Koch’s oil and prosecuted Erich for war crimes – Fred Koch returned to the US, became anti-communist, and was allowed to do business in the States again.

American Fred Koch, and through association the Kochs from Germany, establish the John Birch Society in the 1950s in NY, which becomes the policy center for American conservatives. The society was built on Fred Koch’s oil money in the 1950s and can be thought of as the center of neo-conservative politics as well as the Tea Party movement. The ideologies of each are not the same – but the Tea Party fits into the neo-conservative put for colonial corporate police state as a sort of consumer citizen of the neo-conservative strategy mad as hell at the government and the legacy of liberalism, postmodernism, multiculturalism, taxes….etc.
http://unknownjournal.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/%E2%96%BC-report-the-kochs-their-...

http://soleranotes.blogspot.com/2011/02/koch-brothers-more-references.html

How many times should I repost my comments? Uno mas? It appears that these kinds of corporate practices run DEEP in their "family blood". Speaking of...

We had the same issues recently by American companies having done business with Saddam while we, formally, had sanctions against that country. Or Iran. It's prevalent with corporations.

They FOLLOW profits, not FLAGS!!!

And here we are all over again! Corporations showing their loyalty, not for any National allegiance, but their unwavering faith in THEIR OWN selfish interests!

Think Koch Brothers and their sly way of being behind the scenes with running the Tea Party. Subterfuge is their ally!!!

The Koch family have their "connections", too, but you don't hear a peep out of anyone about it!

"lLSE, wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camps Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941, and Majdanek from 1941 to 1943, became drunk on the absolute power rendered by her husband.

Infamous for her torture of prisoners as well as her souvenirs–shrunken heads and tattooed skin taken from murdered inmates that were later turned into lampshades, her reputation for debauchery was well earned."

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/297977-the-...

Ilse Koch, "Bitch of Buchenwald"!

"Notorious Nazis Ilse Koch, her husband Karl Otto Koch and Erich Koch are the ghosts of Koch Industries, who seized the U.S. conservative political agenda years ago and seem capable of seizing the government in total through the Tea Party. Ilse Koch was the Nazi’s specialist in making objects from human skin; was the only woman charged with war crimes; and along with her husband was in charge of one of the most horrific horror camps in Nazi Germany.

Koch Industries is the child of the violence of Buchenwald, widely regarded as one of wartime Germany’s most notorious “death camps”.

http://unknownjournal.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/%E2%...