Koch Goals: 1. Own the Republican Party 2. Have Control over Congress by 2016 3. Own the President

What’s the Koch goal?

The Republicans have the House, likely until 2020. Soon the Kochs will have the party, which will give the House to the Kochs (they and their Koch Conference friends). They have two good shots at the Senate, 2014 and 2016. And they’ve already set up their next shot at the White House by putting Koch (and Wall Street) favorite Paul Ryan in the 2012 Veep seat next to failed candidate Romney. As Rick Perlstein says, Republicans always nominate the “next in line.” Well, Paul Ryan has a strong claim to that, and a pretty face.
So what’s the goal? If I were the Kochs, I’d aim for a takeover of all three branches by 2016. Why not? Do these men think small? Asl yourself: Would you aim lower, if you were evil, greed- and power-obsessed, richer than god, very good at “mergers and acquisitions” — and if all the power in the country were actually within your reach in the next three years?

http://americablog.com/2014/01/kochs-engineering-merger-acquisition-republican-party.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americablog+%28AMERICAblog+News+%29

Kochs and the Keystone XL Pipeline - 100 BILLION IN PROFIT FOR THE KOCHS

100 BILLION in Profits for the Kochs.

Building Keystone XL Pipeline Could Mean Roughly $100 Billion in Profits for the Koch Brothers, New Report Reveals.

The owners of Koch Industries, Charles and David Koch, will benefit should President Obama allow the Keystone XL Pipeline to be built. In recent years it has been reported that the Kochs hold up to 2 million acres in Alberta, could earn roughly $100 billion in profits from the project, and have spent more than $50 million on congress and think tanks that heavily push for the pipeline.
The Kochs have long been one of the largest players in the tar sands region of Alberta, Canada. The report connects the Kochs’ 50 year history and large footprint in the Canadian tar sands to the current debate about the pipeline. Since the Kochs are big players, it stands to reason they will be big winners when the pipeline gets built. IFG crunched the numbers and puts forth a compelling answer to why the Kochs have used their influence networks to push for fast-tracking of pipeline – $100 billion in potential profits.

http://kochcash.org/just-released-billionaires-carbon-bomb/

Koch Funding Network spent 400 Million on Climate Denial 2013

The Washington Post and the Center for Responsive Politics have just published an exposé revealing how a labyrinth of 17 tax-exempt groups and limited liability companies tied to the billionaire Koch Brothers raised at least $407 million during the 2012 campaign. The staggering amount is equivalent to the combined spending of all unions in state, federal and local races — it dwarfs nearly all other sources of political spending in 2012. The groups were designed to help conceal the sources of the money, much of which went to voter mobilization and television ads attacking President Obama and congressional Democrats. For more, we are joined by Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, and publisher of PRWatch.org and ALECExposed.org.

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/7/from_funding_climate_deniers_to_shadowy

Richest among us DO WELL with Gridlock and a Do Nothing Congress.

There is big money for a few in doing NOTHING in Congress.

The researchers looked back over 70 years of data, and found that the more dysfunctional Washington is, the bigger the share of the pie the top one percent tends to grab. And most importantly, they also found that when economic inequality is high, the kind of polarization and gridlock that have been the hallmark of Washington since Barack Obama’s election make legislative efforts to change course all-but-impossible.

The study’s authors looked at how three variables influenced the share of the nation’s income grabbed by the top one percent of households between 1940 and 2006. First, they considered how much gridlock existed in the Senate. Then, they studied the distance in political preferences between the president and the House and Senate. And then they looked at how much each Congress got done.

Their findings suggests that Congress, and especially the Senate — where a minority can gum up the works– has a strong bias toward maintaining the status quo, and when there’s already a lot of inequality, a self-reinforcing cycle emerges. Volscho explained to Moyers & Company that, ”in the United States, the institutional design of the government was designed to be inherently conservative – to make it hard to get things done. Inequality is self-reinforcing, so as the rich become richer, Congress’s inability to pass legislation that could change that situation gets worse.”

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/study-polarization-and-gridlock-work-well

Koch Brothers - MONEY LAUNDERING, Millions and Millions

The Koch Brothers simply buy up who they want to pass ideas that will make them money.  (It is not what is right for our country but what will bring in Big Bucks for the Koch Brothers.)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/06/1267656/-Money-laundering-Koch-style?

Koch's to Rachel Maddow - Stop Negative Reporting on us - Rachel says, "NO, it is accurate."

She did not apologize. I believe her exact words were "I will not renounce or retract reporting that is true, even if the subjects of that reporting don't like it." As for the script, she let them know she does "not read scripts provided to me by anyone else. I don't do requests."
She also reminded them that if they don't like it when the truth is brought to light, they should just stop doing those things that generate attention.
The only thing she forgot was the part where she informed her audience that the Kochs are a couple of libertarian thugs with big wallets and emptier heads. The only thing bigger than their own egos might be their bank accounts.
- See more at: http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/rachel-maddows-epic-koch-brothers#sthash.ijYfmkpg.dpuf

Rachel Maddow told the Koch Brothers to buzz off.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/rachel-maddows-epic-koch-brothers

Dirty OIL: Conservatives spend 1 Billion per year in fighting Climate Change Progress

There is a lot of money in dirty oil and destroying our environment.  Wouldn't it be nice to start using this money on clean energy - LIKE OTHER NATIONS.

http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2013/12/conservatives-spend-nearly-1-billion-year-fighting-climate-progress/

Koch and the John Birch Society: A LOVE STORY

Most John Birch Society scoundrels are buried deep in the recesses of American history, known only to politics junkies, history wonks and me, a Birch kid.
There is one exception however, a Birch name that echoes across today’s political landscape: Fred C. Koch, founding member and national council member.
Before Koch’s sons―David and Charles―became synonymous with 2000s corporate power, Koch built a fortune from an oil drilling techniques he developed. When oil companies in the United States ignored him, Koch looked elsewhere. In 1929, he landed a $5,000,000 contract for his company to build fifteen oil refineries in Russia, Joseph Stalin’s Communist Russia
Koch supervised the refinery installations, traveling extensively across the country over three years. He claimed that his hatred for Communism grew out of his Russian experiences, but he had pocketed $500,000 (his part of the company’s profits) before his outrage set in. That money, $8,000,000 in today’s dollars made Fred Koch a very rich man.


http://claireconner.com/2013/11/13/koch-john-birch-society-a-love-story/

Koch Brothers Bad Day: Along with a few other Billionaires.

Poor Kochs and other Billionaires:  There are new rules to follow which hinder their unlimited gift giving while being anonymous.  Poor Guys

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/billionaires-bad-day-new-rules-would-rein

Land Tax: If we really want the 1% to pay their fair share of taxes

Tax Land value. If we want a real overhaul/simplification of the tax code, the way to do it is to tax land value. It might be the only tax we need. No sales tax. No income tax. No payroll tax to fill a Social Security trust fund. No corporate income tax that, as we can plainly see, offshores profits. No need to tax labor and industry at all. Just tax the stuff that humans had nothing to do with creating, and therefore have no basis to claim ownership over at all. You’ll find that almost all of it is “owned” by the fabled 1 percent.

http://www.alternet.org/tax-land-end-1-percents-plutocracy?akid=11177.294211.UTPmsy&rd=1&src=newsletter928098&t=17

KOCH BROTHERS: Organized the Government Shutdown - The truth

I covered previously the decades-long Koch-operation that got us to where we are (see those earlier posts here, and here, and here, and here). I shall now describe the money-trail from there to Senator Ted Cruz, who directly headed the shutdown-effort in the U.S. Congress.
The two chief contributors to Cruz's political career donated over a million dollars to it (and no other entity donated as much as $100,000 to it). These two top sources of contributions to Mr. Cruz's political career were Club For Growth, and Senate Conservatives Fund, which together donated over a million dollars to it.


http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18302-koch-brothers-organized-federal-shutdown

5 Ways the Super Rich are betraying America

1.  They have taken 25 Trillion in new wealth while paying less taxes.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/5-ways-super-rich-are-betraying-america?akid=11105.294211.LFrUYE&rd=1&src=newsletter918950&t=5

KOCH BROTHERS BLACK MONEY; CA - 2 Koch groups getting HUGE fines in Black Money Case

Two Koch brothers supported dark money groups are facing the largest fines in the the history of the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC). The organizations involved include two Arizona based Koch funded groups, the Center to Protect Patient Rights (CPPR) and Americans for Responsible Leadership. The two groups funneled millions of dollars into the state of California, in order to sway voters minds on two of the state’s ballot initiatives, in 2012. The one million dollar fine is the third largest ever to be imposed in the U.S., in relation to campaign finance. All funds which were transferred illegally must also be handed over to the state’s general fund, per California law.

The case involves the transfer of $11 million from one of the Arizona based groups.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/27/koch-groups-largest-fine-history/

Koch's are brazenly buying up USA Politicians. Just like any Oligarchy would do.

They are buying the US with Daddy's money. (He got it from Russia oil)  They feel they bought and paid for it so THE POLITICIANS MUST DO AS THEY SAY or they will fire them.  The new politics:  Not Government for and by the people but Government for the wealthy.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/kochs-brazen-buyout-our-democracy-right-there-worst-oligarchs-american-history?akid=11081.294211.NfSyHq&rd=1&src=newsletter915315&t=5

KOCH BROTHERS - A video about how they are screwing us middle class and poor folks.

This video covers the background of the Koch Brothers and how they have made lies become truth by constant repeating.  I found it very interesting.  This is an important video - about 30 minutes.

http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/propublica/koch-brothers-linked-donors-pay-1-milli#sthash.FYaYbQXZ.dpbs

KOCH BROTHERS WOULD MAKE 100 BILLION DOLLARS from a Keystone XL Pipeline

A new study released today concludes that Koch Industries and its subsidiaries stand to make as much as $100 billion in profits if the controversial Keystone XL pipeline is granted a presidential permit from U.S. President Barack Obama. 

   

http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/study-koch-brothers-could-make-100-bil#sthash.lyj8oLlk.dpbs

KOCH BROTHERS: Provide MILLIONS to Stop Health Coverage Expansion to poor

Conservative advocates funded by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch have  launched a massive campaign pressuring states to deny health care coverage to lower income Americans through the Medicaid expansion contained in the Affordable Care Act.

The GOP’s refusal to fully implement the Affordable Care Act will leave more than half of the nation’s uninsured working poor, approximately 8 million people, without access to health insurance. The 26 GOP-controlled states not participating in the law’s Medicaid expansion are home to a  disproportionate share of low-income Americans who aren’t poor enough to qualify for the existing Medicaid program and make too much to be eligible for subsidies in the ACA’s insurance marketplaces.

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/billionaire-koch-brothers-spending-millions-deny-health-coverage-low-income?akid=11062.294211.mPkJPl&rd=1&src=newsletter912615&t=19

Supreme Court: 500 Wealthy People will control US Democracy if the Campaign Finance Law is overturned.

The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to strike down most of the remaining limits on massive spending by wealthy donors on political campaigns. On Tuesday, justices heard arguments in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, which has been referred to as "the next Citizens United." Republican leaders and wealthy GOP donor Shaun McCutcheon wants the Supreme Court to throw out aggregate limits on individual contributions in a single two-year cycle, saying they violate free speech. "If these advocate limitations go down, 500 people will control American democracy. It would be 'government for the 500 people,' not for anybody else — and that’s the risk,"

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/500-people-will-control-american-democracy-if-supreme-court-overturns-campaign?akid=11045.294211.ZIlatD&rd=1&src=newsletter910521&t=23

IMF Report says, "TAX THE RICH AND CORPORATIONS MORE" It caught a lot of people by surprise.

Tax the rich and better target the multinationals: The IMF has set off shockwaves this week in Washington by suggesting countries fight budget deficits by raising taxes.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/tax-rich-imf-report-shocks-establishm

The GRAND BARGAIN HOAX exposed : A Billionaire works to get more Billions of middle class money

A short video about the Grand Bargain Hoax funded by Billionaire Pete Peterson. Very interesting.

http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/pete-peterson-exposed-grand-bargain-ho#sthash.NqpzFFJn.dpbs