A People’s History of Koch Industries: How Stalin Funded the Tea Party Movement

And the connections between Armand Hammer and the Gore family run long and deep. Life is twisty sometimes.

The Koch Brother's father, who had a booming (oil pun intended) business in Russia lost his "investment" when the Communist government took it all away and he was a staunch enemy of Communism from then on!

That's why he began the John Birch Society! To expose commies whereever he THOUGHT he saw them...which was EVERYWHERE.

So, the number one theme of the Koch Brothers and the JBS is their abject hatred of Communism.

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.
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At my first dyslexic glance I read "How Satan Funded the Tea Party Movement". I thought it made perfect sense until I saw the Russian.

good post wakeuppeople.

See, money really can buy power! Power to rape, pillage, and obfuscate, of which the koch[suckers] are sooo good.
Pwr 2 the 99%! Dismember the 1% and their political WHORES!

Don't forget the current endorsers of OWS, the Nazi party, American Communist Party, KKK. Don't forget the links the Kennedys had with Hitler or the vehicle plants Henry Ford built in Berlin prior to WWII. History is rife with people lying down with dogs. Stalin has been dead since 1953. The Tea Party did not have nearly the protest time line that OWS has had. I think it is a huge stretch, and more than a little disingenuous, to say that Stalin funded the Tea Party movement unless one can point to a segregated fund that can be traced back to Stalin containing bucks specifically retained to fund the Tea Party.
There is a lot of hatred (fear?) among the left regarding the Tea Party. To say that the supporters of this movement are such to advance the ideals of Stalin or Marxism would be a huge lie. It is far, far more believable to see these ideals in our present administration.
The TEa Party stated beliefs are a more limited government, fiscal responsibility, individual freedom. All of these things cannot be accomplished within a Stalinist framework. What OWS wants: elimination of capitalism, government micro control of private corporations, more regulation resulting in less freedom, income and wealth redistribution ARE beliefs which would fit right in there with Stalin. This deflection is typical of the left which constantly projects the freedom killing policies they believe in to other groups in order to use a lie to gain the power they need to implement statism.
Nice try but no cigar.

I've always thought the Tea Party were secret communists.

Fabulous! Where do you find these gems?

Have to show this from the end of the article. BIG TIME SCANDAL:

Excerpt: William Koch, the third brother who had a falling-out with Charles and David back in the ’80s over Charles’ sociopathic management style, appeared on “60 Minutes” in November 2000 to tell the world that Koch Industries was a criminal enterprise: “It was – was my family company. I was out of it,” he says. “But that’s what appalled me so much… I did not want my family, my legacy, my father’s legacy to be based upon organized crime.”

Charles Koch’s racket was very simple, explained William. With its extensive oil pipe network, Koch Industries’ role as an oil middleman–it buys crude from someone’s well and sells it to a refinery–makes it easy to steal millions of dollars worth of oil by skimming just a little off the top of each transaction, or what they call “cheating measurements” in the oil trade. According to William, wells located on federal and Native American lands were the prime targets of the Koch scam.

“What Koch was doing was taking all these measurements and then falsifying them on the run sheets,” said Bill Koch. “If the dipstick measured five feet 10 inches and one half inch, they would write down five feet nine and one half inches.”

That may not sound like much, but Bill Koch said it added up. “Well, that was the beauty of the scheme. Because if they’re buying oil from 50,000 different people, and they’re stealing two barrels from each person. What does that add up to? One year, their data showed they stole a million and a half barrels of oil.”

In 1999, William decided to take his brothers down. He sued Koch Industries in civil court under the False Claims Act, which allows whistleblowers to file suit on behalf of the federal government. William Koch accused the company of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars in oil from federal lands.

The band of brothers settled the case two years later, with Charles agreeing to pay $25 million in penalties to the federal government to have the suit dismissed. It turned out to be a great deal for Charles and David, considering that in the 1980s their “adjustments” allowed Koch Industries to siphon off 300 million gallons of oil without paying. It was pure profit–free money–to the tune of $230 million.

At the trial, 50 former Koch gaugers testified against the company, some in video depositions. They said employees even had a term for cheating on the measurements.

“We in the company referred to it as the Koch Method because it was a system for cheating the producer out of oil,” said one of the gaugers, Mark Wilson.

Ah, finally! We’ve stumbled upon the secret to the family’s success! At the bottom of it all, the Koch Method that funds all the libertarians is nothing but good old-fashioned plunder. Or, as Koch hero Ludwig von Mises might say, “The Koch Method is just an unceasing sequence of single scams.”