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Nov 2, 2014 11:52:57   #
Voice of Reason Loc: Earth
 
Rufus wrote:
:thumbup: Right on. The same with homosexual ism. Homo's are less than 2% of the entire population yet this sick perversion is constantly pushed on us on TV, movies and now even commercials. 98+% of us are not gay and do not like it. I hate that a small % of the population that hates God and America wants to push this evil on the rest of us.


It's worse than that. Only about 5% of that 2% are the radical activists. The other 95% just want to live their lives in peace, just like the rest of us. So, in reality it is 0.4% of the population that is pushing the radical gay agenda.

Personally I think we should treat the gay activists with the exact same amount of "tolerance" as they demonstrate towards those who have the audacity to disagree with them.

It doesn't really matter tho, when the muslims enact sharia law the gays will get theirs.

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Nov 2, 2014 11:55:34   #
Voice of Reason Loc: Earth
 
Old_Gringo wrote:
Numerically the gaystapo are insignificant, but they wield a lot of power and influence in the Country which belies their actual number.


That's because they control the media.

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Nov 2, 2014 14:50:18   #
PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.
 
cant beleve wrote:
Jackass hates anything but Jack! And he doesn't know jack squat... :thumbup:


But jack always 'squats'. That is how he performs his functions; kissing and suckling.

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Nov 2, 2014 19:01:55   #
emarine
 
Anyone who can't see the Plutocracy in America and understand that the Koch's are one of the major driving forces destroying our democratic system isn't looking real hard or doesn't care.... wake up people the Koch's are only out for themselves and don't give rats ass about you, me or this country... they have 60 other country's to choose from they have major investments in.

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Nov 2, 2014 19:11:12   #
Hemiman Loc: Communist California
 
emarine wrote:
Anyone who can't see the Plutocracy in America and understand that the Koch's are one of the major driving forces destroying our democratic system isn't looking real hard or doesn't care.... wake up people the Koch's are only out for themselves and don't give rats ass about you, me or this country... they have 60 other country's to choose from they have major investments in.


Thank God for true American patriots like the Koch Bros.

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Nov 2, 2014 19:27:09   #
emarine
 
Hemiman wrote:
Thank God for true American patriots like the Koch Bros.


The Kochs may be looked upon by conservatives as a normal wealthy American family but they have ties to one of the most evil regimes in world history. Fred Koch created his company, Winkler-Koch, here in America, and was sued for patent infringement because of his process for turning crude oil into gasoline. Litigation put Winkler-Koch out of business in the U.S. for several years. In other words, Koch was banned. Koch then turned his focus to foreign markets, including the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with the help of Erich Koch. A high level Nazi official in charge of Prussia, Erich Koch invited Fred Koch to sell his oil in Nazi Germany after he was banned from doing business in the US. After the fall of Nazi Germany, Erich Koch and Fred expanded the oil empire to the Soviet Union. A few years later, the Soviets took Fred Koch’s oil and prosecuted Erich for war crimes. Fred Koch returned to the US as an anti-communist, and was allowed to do business in America once again. In 1963, Fred Koch gave a speech 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”. Koch also “wrote admiringly of Benito Mussolini’s suppression of Communists in Italy, and disparagingly of the American civil-rights movement.” Fred Koch was a crazy right wing entrepreneur that was relegated to the extreme fringe of the Republican Party and as such, he had no real power. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of his sons.

Since the 1980?s, the Koch brothers, David and Charles Koch, have made it their mission to assault all of the aspects of American life and history that they hate or disagree with. To that end they have created a number of conservative think tanks and organizations dedicated to eliminating these aspects. Liberalism and virtually anything that has to do with government is their number one target. For example, when David Koch ran for the presidency on the Libertarian ticket in 1984 he was pretty blunt about his goals. According to David Koch, they would “like to abolish the Federal Elections Commission and all the limits on campaign spending.” The Koch ticket promised to abolish Social Security, the Federal Reserve Board, welfare, minimum-wage laws, corporate taxes, all price supports and subsidies for agriculture and business, and U.S. Federal agencies including the SEC, EPA, ICC, FTC, OSHA, FBI, CIA, and DOE.

Since this failed attempt, the Koch brothers have abandoned trying to control government through legal elections, and have instead opted to gain power through buying elections and the Republican politicians that run in them. As part of the strategy, the Kochs and their groups are using an old fear tactic. Scaring the voters into electing conservatives by accusing liberals of being secret communists. The Kochs should know all about that tactic. Their father helped invent it. And through their groups, the Kochs remain in the shadows of this movement all while still pulling the strings and providing the cash. The names of the various groups that the Koch brothers fund include Americans for Prosperity Foundation, FreedomWorks, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and have membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council, which allows them to actually write the legislation that they want to be enacted. The Koch brothers funnel millions of dollars into each of these groups for the purpose of buying elections and paying politicians to do what the Koch brothers want them to do.

After the Citizens United decision destroyed campaign finance laws, the Koch brothers unleashed millions upon millions of dollars and spent the great majority of that money buying elections for their Republican lackeys. For example, Koch groups were the largest oil and gas industry donors to Congressmen on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is responsible for legislation affecting the industry. Koch-backed groups donated $279,500 to 22 Republicans and $32,000 to five Democrats, including $20,000 to committee chairman Fred Upton. The Kochs have spent a lot on lobbying in Washington in recent years, from $857,000 in 2004 to $20 million in 2008. The Kochs then spent another $20.5 million over the next two years to influence federal policy, as the company’s lobbyists and officials sought to mold, gut or kill more than 100 prospective bills or regulations.

With the backing of the Koch brothers, the Heritage Foundation recently provided Republican Darryl Issa a wish list of regulations they want to see repealed, including environmental regulations, consumer protections, and worker protections. Without these important protections and regulations, the Koch brothers would be free to screw over consumers, treat their workforce like slaves, and pollute the environment as much as they want. And we are seeing these attempts to eliminate protective policies play out in the halls of Congress as we speak. But it is just not in Congress, its in individual states as well.

Over the course of the 2010 elections, the Kochs poured hundreds of millions of dollars into elections around the country. Many Republicans that were swept into office are beholden to the Koch brothers. One of these Governors, Scott Walker of Wisconsin, has slammed a bill through the state legislature that effectively destroys unions in the state. The Kochs are all for this maneuver. They hate organized labor, and have a strong belief that workers have no rights and have no purpose other than to work at whatever price an owner wants them to work for. Koch Industries does not employ union workers for this reason. This anti-labor belief stems directly from the Koch familial ties in Nazi Germany. Erich Koch was a high ranking Nazi official in the Ukraine, who, in addition to having control of the Gestapo and the police, worked together with the General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment, to provide the Reich with forced labor. Erich Koch faced charges of war crimes for the extermination of 400,000 Poles.
Another family member, Karl Koch, was a colonel in the German SS and the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald.

The Koch brothers have taken it upon themselves to make sure that our government is their puppet. They have bought and paid for many Republican politicians and since they created the Tea Party, they have sent a message, that if they can’t take the government legally, they are willing to buy it and overthrow it and take control that way. This family is dangerous. They have a deep hatred of the United States government because the United States government makes them act responsible for the environment and makes them treat their workers and consumers fairly. They absolutely hate unions as well, being a big contributor to and supporter of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. The Kochs refuse to hire any worker that is in a union and are now in the process of telling their workers who to vote for. This kind of tactic is spreading as well. Employers across the country are now beginning to tell their workers how they should vote, and I’m betting jobs will be on the line if they don’t vote how they are told.

The Kochs assault on the United States must be stopped. They are nothing more than treasonous enemies of the state that stand in the shadows, pulling the strings of the people they help elect to power. Corporations were never supposed to get involved in the political process for this very reason. We must rise up as Americans and forever ban corporate involvement in politics. The Kochs never gained political power for a reason. People rejected their platform because it was too extreme. The American people didn’t like it then, they don’t like it now. But the Kochs are more dangerous now than ever before, because they have chosen to buy politicians as a way to control government. Democracy doesn’t work that way. But when a corporation like Koch Industries can dictate policy, that is called fascism, something the Nazi Kochs knew all about. And we can either stand by and let them get away with it. Or we can cut the roots of this conservative extremist movement by hunting down these enemies of the state and sending them to a country where their style of government is accepted. I suggest China, Venezuela, or Iran.

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Nov 2, 2014 19:36:37   #
vernon
 
emarine wrote:
Anyone who can't see the Plutocracy in America and understand that the Koch's are one of the major driving forces destroying our democratic system isn't looking real hard or doesn't care.... wake up people the Koch's are only out for themselves and don't give rats ass about you, me or this country... they have 60 other country's to choose from they have major investments in.


they are in business to make money and you and harry dont like it
thats the way it goes.they pay their taxes and employ thousands
now what do you and ol harry do for the country.

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Nov 2, 2014 19:41:17   #
Hemiman Loc: Communist California
 
emarine wrote:
The Kochs may be looked upon by conservatives as a normal wealthy American family but they have ties to one of the most evil regimes in world history. Fred Koch created his company, Winkler-Koch, here in America, and was sued for patent infringement because of his process for turning crude oil into gasoline. Litigation put Winkler-Koch out of business in the U.S. for several years. In other words, Koch was banned. Koch then turned his focus to foreign markets, including the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with the help of Erich Koch. A high level Nazi official in charge of Prussia, Erich Koch invited Fred Koch to sell his oil in Nazi Germany after he was banned from doing business in the US. After the fall of Nazi Germany, Erich Koch and Fred expanded the oil empire to the Soviet Union. A few years later, the Soviets took Fred Koch’s oil and prosecuted Erich for war crimes. Fred Koch returned to the US as an anti-communist, and was allowed to do business in America once again. In 1963, Fred Koch gave a speech 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”. Koch also “wrote admiringly of Benito Mussolini’s suppression of Communists in Italy, and disparagingly of the American civil-rights movement.” Fred Koch was a crazy right wing entrepreneur that was relegated to the extreme fringe of the Republican Party and as such, he had no real power. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of his sons.

Since the 1980?s, the Koch brothers, David and Charles Koch, have made it their mission to assault all of the aspects of American life and history that they hate or disagree with. To that end they have created a number of conservative think tanks and organizations dedicated to eliminating these aspects. Liberalism and virtually anything that has to do with government is their number one target. For example, when David Koch ran for the presidency on the Libertarian ticket in 1984 he was pretty blunt about his goals. According to David Koch, they would “like to abolish the Federal Elections Commission and all the limits on campaign spending.” The Koch ticket promised to abolish Social Security, the Federal Reserve Board, welfare, minimum-wage laws, corporate taxes, all price supports and subsidies for agriculture and business, and U.S. Federal agencies including the SEC, EPA, ICC, FTC, OSHA, FBI, CIA, and DOE.

Since this failed attempt, the Koch brothers have abandoned trying to control government through legal elections, and have instead opted to gain power through buying elections and the Republican politicians that run in them. As part of the strategy, the Kochs and their groups are using an old fear tactic. Scaring the voters into electing conservatives by accusing liberals of being secret communists. The Kochs should know all about that tactic. Their father helped invent it. And through their groups, the Kochs remain in the shadows of this movement all while still pulling the strings and providing the cash. The names of the various groups that the Koch brothers fund include Americans for Prosperity Foundation, FreedomWorks, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and have membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council, which allows them to actually write the legislation that they want to be enacted. The Koch brothers funnel millions of dollars into each of these groups for the purpose of buying elections and paying politicians to do what the Koch brothers want them to do.

After the Citizens United decision destroyed campaign finance laws, the Koch brothers unleashed millions upon millions of dollars and spent the great majority of that money buying elections for their Republican lackeys. For example, Koch groups were the largest oil and gas industry donors to Congressmen on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is responsible for legislation affecting the industry. Koch-backed groups donated $279,500 to 22 Republicans and $32,000 to five Democrats, including $20,000 to committee chairman Fred Upton. The Kochs have spent a lot on lobbying in Washington in recent years, from $857,000 in 2004 to $20 million in 2008. The Kochs then spent another $20.5 million over the next two years to influence federal policy, as the company’s lobbyists and officials sought to mold, gut or kill more than 100 prospective bills or regulations.

With the backing of the Koch brothers, the Heritage Foundation recently provided Republican Darryl Issa a wish list of regulations they want to see repealed, including environmental regulations, consumer protections, and worker protections. Without these important protections and regulations, the Koch brothers would be free to screw over consumers, treat their workforce like slaves, and pollute the environment as much as they want. And we are seeing these attempts to eliminate protective policies play out in the halls of Congress as we speak. But it is just not in Congress, its in individual states as well.

Over the course of the 2010 elections, the Kochs poured hundreds of millions of dollars into elections around the country. Many Republicans that were swept into office are beholden to the Koch brothers. One of these Governors, Scott Walker of Wisconsin, has slammed a bill through the state legislature that effectively destroys unions in the state. The Kochs are all for this maneuver. They hate organized labor, and have a strong belief that workers have no rights and have no purpose other than to work at whatever price an owner wants them to work for. Koch Industries does not employ union workers for this reason. This anti-labor belief stems directly from the Koch familial ties in Nazi Germany. Erich Koch was a high ranking Nazi official in the Ukraine, who, in addition to having control of the Gestapo and the police, worked together with the General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment, to provide the Reich with forced labor. Erich Koch faced charges of war crimes for the extermination of 400,000 Poles.
Another family member, Karl Koch, was a colonel in the German SS and the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald.

The Koch brothers have taken it upon themselves to make sure that our government is their puppet. They have bought and paid for many Republican politicians and since they created the Tea Party, they have sent a message, that if they can’t take the government legally, they are willing to buy it and overthrow it and take control that way. This family is dangerous. They have a deep hatred of the United States government because the United States government makes them act responsible for the environment and makes them treat their workers and consumers fairly. They absolutely hate unions as well, being a big contributor to and supporter of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. The Kochs refuse to hire any worker that is in a union and are now in the process of telling their workers who to vote for. This kind of tactic is spreading as well. Employers across the country are now beginning to tell their workers how they should vote, and I’m betting jobs will be on the line if they don’t vote how they are told.

The Kochs assault on the United States must be stopped. They are nothing more than treasonous enemies of the state that stand in the shadows, pulling the strings of the people they help elect to power. Corporations were never supposed to get involved in the political process for this very reason. We must rise up as Americans and forever ban corporate involvement in politics. The Kochs never gained political power for a reason. People rejected their platform because it was too extreme. The American people didn’t like it then, they don’t like it now. But the Kochs are more dangerous now than ever before, because they have chosen to buy politicians as a way to control government. Democracy doesn’t work that way. But when a corporation like Koch Industries can dictate policy, that is called fascism, something the Nazi Kochs knew all about. And we can either stand by and let them get away with it. Or we can cut the roots of this conservative extremist movement by hunting down these enemies of the state and sending them to a country where their style of government is accepted. I suggest China, Venezuela, or Iran.
The Kochs may be looked upon by conservatives as a... (show quote)


Gee,I don't remember them being convicted of any crime,could it be this was written by a winey liberal afraid of losing the election.Thank you Koch Bros.we need more true American patriots like you to lay waste to the corrupt liberal agenda.
If you are so interested in corruption why don't you spend some reporting on some real corruption ,Obama.

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Nov 2, 2014 21:10:50   #
L.E. Liesner Loc: New Mexico
 
The Koch brothers in their lifetime have not done as much damage to this country as Obama has done in six years. Haven't these idiots on the left got anything better to do than attack them.

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Nov 2, 2014 21:14:30   #
Hemiman Loc: Communist California
 
L.E. Liesner wrote:
The Koch brothers in their lifetime have not done as much damage to this country as Obama has done in six years. Haven't these idiots on the left got anything better to do than attack them.


They just want to direct attention away from the totally corrupt OBAMA admin.

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Nov 2, 2014 21:25:20   #
vernon
 
Hemiman wrote:
They just want to direct attention away from the totally corrupt OBAMA admin.


:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

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Nov 2, 2014 21:47:52   #
Jack2014
 
Old_Gringo wrote:
But jack always 'squats'. That is how he performs his functions; kissing and suckling.


The rant of an old,old,man that crossed the senile zone of no recovery years ago. Sorry for you Gringerich,old boy brain.

Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst Are Desperate To Conceal Their Koch Connections

By: Rmusemore from Rmuse
Sunday, November, 2nd, 2014, 9:18 pm

So, now that it appears that lying, corruption, vote suppression and intimidation, and skirting campaign finance laws are hard and fast requirements to run for Senate as a Republican, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appears to be as corrupt as his peers; precisely what Republicans expect him to be. Right on the heels of a despicable voter intimidation, and likely suppression, move by McConnell, documents obtained by a trio of reporting sites reveal that the Kentucky senator withheld disclosure information on his campaign filings with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) or Senate Ethics.

When McConnell traveled to Dana Point California in June to promise the Koch brothers billionaire club that if Republicans won control of the Senate their only order of business was “going after the Federal government, all of it,” he did not disclose expenses for the trip. The Nation reports that McConnell failed to disclose expenses for the St. Regis Hotel that all federal legislators are required by law to disclose unless they pay for them personally. McConnell’s campaign did not return a request from the Nation for comment about how he paid for the hotel.

According to an attorney specializing in campaign finance ethics, Joe Sandler, there were several different ways McConnell could have paid for the trip if not out of his own pocket, but there is no evidence he used any of those. He could have just asked the Senate Ethics Committee for approval for a “third-party expense” that was paid for by a non-profit or for-profit group such as Freedom Partners or Koch Industries. But according to the Senate Outside Paid Travel Database there is no Ethics Committee filing for McConnell. There is also no record of the hotel expense in McConnell’s campaign committee or leadership PAC reported to the FEC. Something the other Republican Senate candidates attending the Koch’s secret meeting, Tom Cotton, Cory Gardner, and Joni Ernst all disclosed as expenses through their campaign committees.

To make matters worse for McConnell, the Freedom Partners Action Fund, the Koch organization that funded the billionaire confab, did not show any expenditure for McConnell’s hotel stay. Apparently, the Kochs could have disguised the hotel expense by lumping it “with in-kind contributions to candidates,” but McConnell still had to seek approval from the Senate Ethics; something he did not do. According to campaign ethics lawyer Joe Sandler, “The absence of any report of the expenditure by the campaign or leadership PAC raises serious questions about how the trip was paid for and why the costs were not treated as a campaign expense as they were by the other campaigns.”



McConnell theoretically could have listed it as a Senate office travel expense and billed American taxpayers, but that kind of welfare is supposed to be restricted to home-state travel for the purposes of legislative business. Sandler indicated that those kinds of disclosures do not come due until after the election, but thinks it is unlikely that McConnell would choose “this flagrantly incorrect route.” Obviously he is not aware of McConnell’s flagrant voter intimidation letter on Friday to frighten Kentucky voters into staying home on Election Day.

According to the executive director of the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Melanie Sloan, it is extremely rare for a senator or representative to personally pay for their own expenses. Sloan said, “That’s just not the way members of Congress operate. They have too many other pots of money at their disposal to pay for these things themselves.” According to disclosure rules of which there are very few requirements, it is simple for a member of Congress to obscure their trips if they do not stay overnight. Expenses such as flight expenses reveal the airline they used and the cost, but not the specific destination or the reason for traveling. The FEC uses hotel expenses that are often the only means of connecting a politician to an event like the Koch’s secret meetings. McConnell was connected to the Koch cabal when a recording of his speech promising to eliminate wide swathes of the federal government was revealed.

McConnell is not the only Republican Senate candidate distancing himself from connections to the Kochs. Last week Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst lied to a Nation reporter, and an Iowa business group, about her advocacy for, and connection to the Kochs, their secret cabal, and their agenda; including which federal agencies the Koch brothers want Republicans to eliminate from the federal government. Remember, at the same event, McConnell promised to “go after all of the Federal government” for the Kochs. When Ernst attended the secret Koch meeting, she credited them with “starting her trajectory” in politics and issued high praise for the Koch network including Aegis, Americans for Prosperity, and Freedom Partners. For allegedly not having any connection to the Kochs, she earned reciprocal praise from a panel moderator who said, “I think it’s fair to say you’ve exceeded everyone’s expectations.” Still, Ernst told business leaders in Des Moines complaining about negative ads run by Koch groups “that she doesn’t have any contact with outside groups running ads in her race.”

Apparently Republican corruption has reached such a level that blatant lying and obvious violation of campaign disclosure laws is part and parcel of what it means to be a Republican; at least a Republican Senate candidate. It has been reported for weeks that both Ernst and McConnell spent time with the Koch cabal in June, and yet Ernst effortlessly claims she has no connection and McConnell failed to disclose that he even went and promised to eviscerate the federal government if Republicans control the Senate.

It is blatantly obvious why Republicans have to resort to lying and dirty campaign tricks and it has everything to do with their dedication to advancing the Koch brothers’ anti-government agenda; a dedication and agenda they are desperate to keep concealed from voters, including their corruption-loving base. The real travesty is that they have garnered undying support from the corporate, conservative main-stream media that will not report on either their propensity for deception and corruption or their intent to impose the Kochs’ agenda on the country at their earliest opportunity. Because if the media did their jobs, Republicans would hardly survive an election; even with a preponderance of stupid, religious, and corrupt voters cheering them on and flocking to the polls.

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Nov 2, 2014 21:50:55   #
Jack2014
 
Hemiman wrote:
Gee,I don't remember them being convicted of any crime,could it be this was written by a winey liberal afraid of losing the election.Thank you Koch Bros.we need more true American patriots like you to lay waste to the corrupt liberal agenda.
If you are so interested in corruption why don't you spend some reporting on some real corruption ,Obama.


UNFORTUNATELY,LYING,CHEATING AND STEALING ARE YET TO BE A CRIME AND THE KOCHS WOULD BE FIRST IN LINE FOR CONVICTION

Koch slaves pay attention to your owner Nazis

Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst Are Desperate To Conceal Their Koch Connections

By: Rmusemore from Rmuse
Sunday, November, 2nd, 2014, 9:18 p
So, now that it appears that lying, corruption, vote suppression and intimidation, and skirting campaign finance laws are hard and fast requirements to run for Senate as a Republican, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appears to be as corrupt as his peers; precisely what Republicans expect him to be. Right on the heels of a despicable voter intimidation, and likely suppression, move by McConnell, documents obtained by a trio of reporting sites reveal that the Kentucky senator withheld disclosure information on his campaign filings with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) or Senate Ethics.

When McConnell traveled to Dana Point California in June to promise the Koch brothers billionaire club that if Republicans won control of the Senate their only order of business was “going after the Federal government, all of it,” he did not disclose expenses for the trip. The Nation reports that McConnell failed to disclose expenses for the St. Regis Hotel that all federal legislators are required by law to disclose unless they pay for them personally. McConnell’s campaign did not return a request from the Nation for comment about how he paid for the hotel.

According to an attorney specializing in campaign finance ethics, Joe Sandler, there were several different ways McConnell could have paid for the trip if not out of his own pocket, but there is no evidence he used any of those. He could have just asked the Senate Ethics Committee for approval for a “third-party expense” that was paid for by a non-profit or for-profit group such as Freedom Partners or Koch Industries. But according to the Senate Outside Paid Travel Database there is no Ethics Committee filing for McConnell. There is also no record of the hotel expense in McConnell’s campaign committee or leadership PAC reported to the FEC. Something the other Republican Senate candidates attending the Koch’s secret meeting, Tom Cotton, Cory Gardner, and Joni Ernst all disclosed as expenses through their campaign committees.

To make matters worse for McConnell, the Freedom Partners Action Fund, the Koch organization that funded the billionaire confab, did not show any expenditure for McConnell’s hotel stay. Apparently, the Kochs could have disguised the hotel expense by lumping it “with in-kind contributions to candidates,” but McConnell still had to seek approval from the Senate Ethics; something he did not do. According to campaign ethics lawyer Joe Sandler, “The absence of any report of the expenditure by the campaign or leadership PAC raises serious questions about how the trip was paid for and why the costs were not treated as a campaign expense as they were by the other campaigns.”



McConnell theoretically could have listed it as a Senate office travel expense and billed American taxpayers, but that kind of welfare is supposed to be restricted to home-state travel for the purposes of legislative business. Sandler indicated that those kinds of disclosures do not come due until after the election, but thinks it is unlikely that McConnell would choose “this flagrantly incorrect route.” Obviously he is not aware of McConnell’s flagrant voter intimidation letter on Friday to frighten Kentucky voters into staying home on Election Day.

According to the executive director of the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Melanie Sloan, it is extremely rare for a senator or representative to personally pay for their own expenses. Sloan said, “That’s just not the way members of Congress operate. They have too many other pots of money at their disposal to pay for these things themselves.” According to disclosure rules of which there are very few requirements, it is simple for a member of Congress to obscure their trips if they do not stay overnight. Expenses such as flight expenses reveal the airline they used and the cost, but not the specific destination or the reason for traveling. The FEC uses hotel expenses that are often the only means of connecting a politician to an event like the Koch’s secret meetings. McConnell was connected to the Koch cabal when a recording of his speech promising to eliminate wide swathes of the federal government was revealed.

McConnell is not the only Republican Senate candidate distancing himself from connections to the Kochs. Last week Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst lied to a Nation reporter, and an Iowa business group, about her advocacy for, and connection to the Kochs, their secret cabal, and their agenda; including which federal agencies the Koch brothers want Republicans to eliminate from the federal government. Remember, at the same event, McConnell promised to “go after all of the Federal government” for the Kochs. When Ernst attended the secret Koch meeting, she credited them with “starting her trajectory” in politics and issued high praise for the Koch network including Aegis, Americans for Prosperity, and Freedom Partners. For allegedly not having any connection to the Kochs, she earned reciprocal praise from a panel moderator who said, “I think it’s fair to say you’ve exceeded everyone’s expectations.” Still, Ernst told business leaders in Des Moines complaining about negative ads run by Koch groups “that she doesn’t have any contact with outside groups running ads in her race.”

Apparently Republican corruption has reached such a level that blatant lying and obvious violation of campaign disclosure laws is part and parcel of what it means to be a Republican; at least a Republican Senate candidate. It has been reported for weeks that both Ernst and McConnell spent time with the Koch cabal in June, and yet Ernst effortlessly claims she has no connection and McConnell failed to disclose that he even went and promised to eviscerate the federal government if Republicans control the Senate.

It is blatantly obvious why Republicans have to resort to lying and dirty campaign tricks and it has everything to do with their dedication to advancing the Koch brothers’ anti-government agenda; a dedication and agenda they are desperate to keep concealed from voters, including their corruption-loving base. The real travesty is that they have garnered undying support from the corporate, conservative main-stream media that will not report on either their propensity for deception and corruption or their intent to impose the Kochs’ agenda on the country at their earliest opportunity. Because if the media did their jobs, Republicans would hardly survive an election; even with a preponderance of stupid, religious, and corrupt voters cheering them on and flocking to the polls.

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Nov 2, 2014 21:58:20   #
Hemiman Loc: Communist California
 
Jack2014 wrote:
UNFORTUNATELY,LYING,CHEATING AND STEALING ARE YET TO BE A CRIME AND THE KOCHS WOULD BE FIRST IN LINE FOR CONVICTION

Koch slaves pay attention to your owner Nazis

Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst Are Desperate To Conceal Their Koch Connections

By: Rmusemore from Rmuse
Sunday, November, 2nd, 2014, 9:18 p
So, now that it appears that lying, corruption, vote suppression and intimidation, and skirting campaign finance laws are hard and fast requirements to run for Senate as a Republican, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appears to be as corrupt as his peers; precisely what Republicans expect him to be. Right on the heels of a despicable voter intimidation, and likely suppression, move by McConnell, documents obtained by a trio of reporting sites reveal that the Kentucky senator withheld disclosure information on his campaign filings with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) or Senate Ethics.

When McConnell traveled to Dana Point California in June to promise the Koch brothers billionaire club that if Republicans won control of the Senate their only order of business was “going after the Federal government, all of it,” he did not disclose expenses for the trip. The Nation reports that McConnell failed to disclose expenses for the St. Regis Hotel that all federal legislators are required by law to disclose unless they pay for them personally. McConnell’s campaign did not return a request from the Nation for comment about how he paid for the hotel.

According to an attorney specializing in campaign finance ethics, Joe Sandler, there were several different ways McConnell could have paid for the trip if not out of his own pocket, but there is no evidence he used any of those. He could have just asked the Senate Ethics Committee for approval for a “third-party expense” that was paid for by a non-profit or for-profit group such as Freedom Partners or Koch Industries. But according to the Senate Outside Paid Travel Database there is no Ethics Committee filing for McConnell. There is also no record of the hotel expense in McConnell’s campaign committee or leadership PAC reported to the FEC. Something the other Republican Senate candidates attending the Koch’s secret meeting, Tom Cotton, Cory Gardner, and Joni Ernst all disclosed as expenses through their campaign committees.

To make matters worse for McConnell, the Freedom Partners Action Fund, the Koch organization that funded the billionaire confab, did not show any expenditure for McConnell’s hotel stay. Apparently, the Kochs could have disguised the hotel expense by lumping it “with in-kind contributions to candidates,” but McConnell still had to seek approval from the Senate Ethics; something he did not do. According to campaign ethics lawyer Joe Sandler, “The absence of any report of the expenditure by the campaign or leadership PAC raises serious questions about how the trip was paid for and why the costs were not treated as a campaign expense as they were by the other campaigns.”



McConnell theoretically could have listed it as a Senate office travel expense and billed American taxpayers, but that kind of welfare is supposed to be restricted to home-state travel for the purposes of legislative business. Sandler indicated that those kinds of disclosures do not come due until after the election, but thinks it is unlikely that McConnell would choose “this flagrantly incorrect route.” Obviously he is not aware of McConnell’s flagrant voter intimidation letter on Friday to frighten Kentucky voters into staying home on Election Day.

According to the executive director of the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Melanie Sloan, it is extremely rare for a senator or representative to personally pay for their own expenses. Sloan said, “That’s just not the way members of Congress operate. They have too many other pots of money at their disposal to pay for these things themselves.” According to disclosure rules of which there are very few requirements, it is simple for a member of Congress to obscure their trips if they do not stay overnight. Expenses such as flight expenses reveal the airline they used and the cost, but not the specific destination or the reason for traveling. The FEC uses hotel expenses that are often the only means of connecting a politician to an event like the Koch’s secret meetings. McConnell was connected to the Koch cabal when a recording of his speech promising to eliminate wide swathes of the federal government was revealed.

McConnell is not the only Republican Senate candidate distancing himself from connections to the Kochs. Last week Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst lied to a Nation reporter, and an Iowa business group, about her advocacy for, and connection to the Kochs, their secret cabal, and their agenda; including which federal agencies the Koch brothers want Republicans to eliminate from the federal government. Remember, at the same event, McConnell promised to “go after all of the Federal government” for the Kochs. When Ernst attended the secret Koch meeting, she credited them with “starting her trajectory” in politics and issued high praise for the Koch network including Aegis, Americans for Prosperity, and Freedom Partners. For allegedly not having any connection to the Kochs, she earned reciprocal praise from a panel moderator who said, “I think it’s fair to say you’ve exceeded everyone’s expectations.” Still, Ernst told business leaders in Des Moines complaining about negative ads run by Koch groups “that she doesn’t have any contact with outside groups running ads in her race.”

Apparently Republican corruption has reached such a level that blatant lying and obvious violation of campaign disclosure laws is part and parcel of what it means to be a Republican; at least a Republican Senate candidate. It has been reported for weeks that both Ernst and McConnell spent time with the Koch cabal in June, and yet Ernst effortlessly claims she has no connection and McConnell failed to disclose that he even went and promised to eviscerate the federal government if Republicans control the Senate.

It is blatantly obvious why Republicans have to resort to lying and dirty campaign tricks and it has everything to do with their dedication to advancing the Koch brothers’ anti-government agenda; a dedication and agenda they are desperate to keep concealed from voters, including their corruption-loving base. The real travesty is that they have garnered undying support from the corporate, conservative main-stream media that will not report on either their propensity for deception and corruption or their intent to impose the Kochs’ agenda on the country at their earliest opportunity. Because if the media did their jobs, Republicans would hardly survive an election; even with a preponderance of stupid, religious, and corrupt voters cheering them on and flocking to the polls.

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The Kochs may be looked upon by conservatives as a normal wealthy American family but they have ties to one of the most evil regimes in world history. Fred Koch created his company, Winkler-Koch, here in America, and was sued for patent infringement because of his process for turning crude oil into gasoline. Litigation put Winkler-Koch out of business in the U.S. for several years. In other words, Koch was banned. Koch then turned his focus to foreign markets, including the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with the help of Erich Koch. A high level Nazi official in charge of Prussia, Erich Koch invited Fred Koch to sell his oil in Nazi Germany after he was banned from doing business in the US. After the fall of Nazi Germany, Erich Koch and Fred expanded the oil empire to the Soviet Union. A few years later, the Soviets took Fred Koch’s oil and prosecuted Erich for war crimes. Fred Koch returned to the US as an anti-communist, and was allowed to do business in America once again. In 1963, Fred Koch gave a speech 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”. Koch also “wrote admiringly of Benito Mussolini’s suppression of Communists in Italy, and disparagingly of the American civil-rights movement.” Fred Koch was a crazy right wing entrepreneur that was relegated to the extreme fringe of the Republican Party and as such, he had no real power. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of his sons.

Since the 1980?s, the Koch brothers, David and Charles Koch, have made it their mission to assault all of the aspects of American life and history that they hate or disagree with. To that end they have created a number of conservative think tanks and organizations dedicated to eliminating these aspects. Liberalism and virtually anything that has to do with government is their number one target. For example, when David Koch ran for the presidency on the Libertarian ticket in 1984 he was pretty blunt about his goals. According to David Koch, they would “like to abolish the Federal Elections Commission and all the limits on campaign spending.” The Koch ticket promised to abolish Social Security, the Federal Reserve Board, welfare, minimum-wage laws, corporate taxes, all price supports and subsidies for agriculture and business, and U.S. Federal agencies including the SEC, EPA, ICC, FTC, OSHA, FBI, CIA, and DOE.

Since this failed attempt, the Koch brothers have abandoned trying to control government through legal elections, and have instead opted to gain power through buying elections and the Republican politicians that run in them. As part of the strategy, the Kochs and their groups are using an old fear tactic. Scaring the voters into electing conservatives by accusing liberals of being secret communists. The Kochs should know all about that tactic. Their father helped invent it. And through their groups, the Kochs remain in the shadows of this movement all while still pulling the strings and providing the cash. The names of the various groups that the Koch brothers fund include Americans for Prosperity Foundation, FreedomWorks, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and have membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council, which allows them to actually write the legislation that they want to be enacted. The Koch brothers funnel millions of dollars into each of these groups for the purpose of buying elections and paying politicians to do what the Koch brothers want them to do.

After the Citizens United decision destroyed campaign finance laws, the Koch brothers unleashed millions upon millions of dollars and spent the great majority of that money buying elections for their Republican lackeys. For example, Koch groups were the largest oil and gas industry donors to Congressmen on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is responsible for legislation affecting the industry. Koch-backed groups donated $279,500 to 22 Republicans and $32,000 to five Democrats, including $20,000 to committee chairman Fred Upton. The Kochs have spent a lot on lobbying in Washington in recent years, from $857,000 in 2004 to $20 million in 2008. The Kochs then spent another $20.5 million over the next two years to influence federal policy, as the company’s lobbyists and officials sought to mold, gut or kill more than 100 prospective bills or regulations.

With the backing of the Koch brothers, the Heritage Foundation recently provided Republican Darryl Issa a wish list of regulations they want to see repealed, including environmental regulations, consumer protections, and worker protections. Without these important protections and regulations, the Koch brothers would be free to screw over consumers, treat their workforce like slaves, and pollute the environment as much as they want. And we are seeing these attempts to eliminate protective policies play out in the halls of Congress as we speak. But it is just not in Congress, its in individual states as well.

Over the course of the 2010 elections, the Kochs poured hundreds of millions of dollars into elections around the country. Many Republicans that were swept into office are beholden to the Koch brothers. One of these Governors, Scott Walker of Wisconsin, has slammed a bill through the state legislature that effectively destroys unions in the state. The Kochs are all for this maneuver. They hate organized labor, and have a strong belief that workers have no rights and have no purpose other than to work at whatever price an owner wants them to work for. Koch Industries does not employ union workers for this reason. This anti-labor belief stems directly from the Koch familial ties in Nazi Germany. Erich Koch was a high ranking Nazi official in the Ukraine, who, in addition to having control of the Gestapo and the police, worked together with the General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment, to provide the Reich with forced labor. Erich Koch faced charges of war crimes for the extermination of 400,000 Poles.
Another family member, Karl Koch, was a colonel in the German SS and the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald.

The Koch brothers have taken it upon themselves to make sure that our government is their puppet. They have bought and paid for many Republican politicians and since they created the Tea Party, they have sent a message, that if they can’t take the government legally, they are willing to buy it and overthrow it and take control that way. This family is dangerous. They have a deep hatred of the United States government because the United States government makes them act responsible for the environment and makes them treat their workers and consumers fairly. They absolutely hate unions as well, being a big contributor to and supporter of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. The Kochs refuse to hire any worker that is in a union and are now in the process of telling their workers who to vote for. This kind of tactic is spreading as well. Employers across the country are now beginning to tell their workers how they should vote, and I’m betting jobs will be on the line if they don’t vote how they are told.

The Kochs assault on the United States must be stopped. They are nothing more than treasonous enemies of the state that stand in the shadows, pulling the strings of the people they help elect to power. Corporations were never supposed to get involved in the political process for this very reason. We must rise up as Americans and forever ban corporate involvement in politics. The Kochs never gained political power for a reason. People rejected their platform because it was too extreme. The American people didn’t like it then, they don’t like it now. But the Kochs are more dangerous now than ever before, because they have chosen to buy politicians as a way to control government. Democracy doesn’t work that way. But when a corporation like Koch Industries can dictate policy, that is called fascism, something the Nazi Kochs knew all about. And we can either stand by and let them get away with it. Or we can cut the roots of this conservative extremist movement by hunting down these enemies of the state and sending them to a country where their style of government is accepted. I suggest China, Venezuela, or Iran.
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IOWANS HATE THE KOCHS

HOW CAN IOWANS VOTE FOR SOMEONE AGAINST EDUCATION, FARM BILLS, SENIORS, DISABLED AMERICANS, VETERANS, MEDICARE,SS, ETC... AND KENTUCKIANS FOR SOMEONE WHO IMPEDES VOTING RIGHTS IN HIS OWN STATE?

Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst Are Desperate To Conceal Their Koch Connections

By: Rmusemore from Rmuse
Sunday, November, 2nd, 2014, 9:18 pm

So, now that it appears that lying, corruption, vote suppression and intimidation, and skirting campaign finance laws are hard and fast requirements to run for Senate as a Republican, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appears to be as corrupt as his peers; precisely what Republicans expect him to be. Right on the heels of a despicable voter intimidation, and likely suppression, move by McConnell, documents obtained by a trio of reporting sites reveal that the Kentucky senator withheld disclosure information on his campaign filings with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) or Senate Ethics.

When McConnell traveled to Dana Point California in June to promise the Koch brothers billionaire club that if Republicans won control of the Senate their only order of business was “going after the Federal government, all of it,” he did not disclose expenses for the trip. The Nation reports that McConnell failed to disclose expenses for the St. Regis Hotel that all federal legislators are required by law to disclose unless they pay for them personally. McConnell’s campaign did not return a request from the Nation for comment about how he paid for the hotel.

According to an attorney specializing in campaign finance ethics, Joe Sandler, there were several different ways McConnell could have paid for the trip if not out of his own pocket, but there is no evidence he used any of those. He could have just asked the Senate Ethics Committee for approval for a “third-party expense” that was paid for by a non-profit or for-profit group such as Freedom Partners or Koch Industries. But according to the Senate Outside Paid Travel Database there is no Ethics Committee filing for McConnell. There is also no record of the hotel expense in McConnell’s campaign committee or leadership PAC reported to the FEC. Something the other Republican Senate candidates attending the Koch’s secret meeting, Tom Cotton, Cory Gardner, and Joni Ernst all disclosed as expenses through their campaign committees.

To make matters worse for McConnell, the Freedom Partners Action Fund, the Koch organization that funded the billionaire confab, did not show any expenditure for McConnell’s hotel stay. Apparently, the Kochs could have disguised the hotel expense by lumping it “with in-kind contributions to candidates,” but McConnell still had to seek approval from the Senate Ethics; something he did not do. According to campaign ethics lawyer Joe Sandler, “The absence of any report of the expenditure by the campaign or leadership PAC raises serious questions about how the trip was paid for and why the costs were not treated as a campaign expense as they were by the other campaigns.”



McConnell theoretically could have listed it as a Senate office travel expense and billed American taxpayers, but that kind of welfare is supposed to be restricted to home-state travel for the purposes of legislative business. Sandler indicated that those kinds of disclosures do not come due until after the election, but thinks it is unlikely that McConnell would choose “this flagrantly incorrect route.” Obviously he is not aware of McConnell’s flagrant voter intimidation letter on Friday to frighten Kentucky voters into staying home on Election Day.

According to the executive director of the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Melanie Sloan, it is extremely rare for a senator or representative to personally pay for their own expenses. Sloan said, “That’s just not the way members of Congress operate. They have too many other pots of money at their disposal to pay for these things themselves.” According to disclosure rules of which there are very few requirements, it is simple for a member of Congress to obscure their trips if they do not stay overnight. Expenses such as flight expenses reveal the airline they used and the cost, but not the specific destination or the reason for traveling. The FEC uses hotel expenses that are often the only means of connecting a politician to an event like the Koch’s secret meetings. McConnell was connected to the Koch cabal when a recording of his speech promising to eliminate wide swathes of the federal government was revealed.

McConnell is not the only Republican Senate candidate distancing himself from connections to the Kochs. Last week Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst lied to a Nation reporter, and an Iowa business group, about her advocacy for, and connection to the Kochs, their secret cabal, and their agenda; including which federal agencies the Koch brothers want Republicans to eliminate from the federal government. Remember, at the same event, McConnell promised to “go after all of the Federal government” for the Kochs. When Ernst attended the secret Koch meeting, she credited them with “starting her trajectory” in politics and issued high praise for the Koch network including Aegis, Americans for Prosperity, and Freedom Partners. For allegedly not having any connection to the Kochs, she earned reciprocal praise from a panel moderator who said, “I think it’s fair to say you’ve exceeded everyone’s expectations.” Still, Ernst told business leaders in Des Moines complaining about negative ads run by Koch groups “that she doesn’t have any contact with outside groups running ads in her race.”

Apparently Republican corruption has reached such a level that blatant lying and obvious violation of campaign disclosure laws is part and parcel of what it means to be a Republican; at least a Republican Senate candidate. It has been reported for weeks that both Ernst and McConnell spent time with the Koch cabal in June, and yet Ernst effortlessly claims she has no connection and McConnell failed to disclose that he even went and promised to eviscerate the federal government if Republicans control the Senate.

It is blatantly obvious why Republicans have to resort to lying and dirty campaign tricks and it has everything to do with their dedication to advancing the Koch brothers’ anti-government agenda; a dedication and agenda they are desperate to keep concealed from voters, including their corruption-loving base. The real travesty is that they have garnered undying support from the corporate, conservative main-stream media that will not report on either their propensity for deception and corruption or their intent to impose the Kochs’ agenda on the country at their earliest opportunity. Because if the media did their jobs, Republicans would hardly survive an election; even with a preponderance of stupid, religious, and corrupt voters cheering them on and flocking to the polls.

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