------ Forwarded Message > From: "dasg...@aol.com" <dasg...@aol.com> > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:24:17 EDT > To: "dasg...@aol.com" <dasg...@aol.com>, Robert Millegan <ramille...@aol.com> > Cc: <ema...@aol.com>, <j...@aol.com>, <jim6...@cwnet.com>, > <christian.r...@gmail.com>, <h...@daegis.com>, <rd...@daegis.com> > Subject: [2] Things Go Better (for BIG OIL) with Koch: The "Global Warming > DENIAL" Con... >
> But best of all ... > > http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Dorothy:Bush.htm > > http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Koch > > Dorothy Bush Koch (born August 18, 1959), sometimes called "Doro", is the > younger sister of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States. > > In 1992 she married Robert Koch, by whom she has two children. Robert > "Bobby" Koch, a Democrat, is a lobbyist for the Wine Institute and a member of > the family that owns Koch Industries. > > > > http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/052105Madsen/052105madsen.html > > At the same time Enron Chairman Kenneth ("Kenny Boy") Lay was involved in Vice > President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force secret dealings and when he was > stuffing hundreds of thousands of dollars into the pockets of George W. Bush > and Cheney's political campaign, he also managed to illegally stick $206, 757 > into the pockets of Saddam Hussein and his cohorts. > > The Iraqi Oil-for-Food scandal also involves one of the Bush children -- > Dorothy "Doro" Bush Koch, sister of George W. Bush and married to Bobby Koch, > a cousin in the oil industry's Koch family, the owner of Koch Industries, one > of Bush's largest political donors. > > The minority committee report indicates that Koch Industries was also a major > recipient of illegal Iraqi oil and a huge source of kickbacks to Saddam > Hussein. The total sum in kickbacks from George W. Bush's cousin-in-laws to > Saddam's bank accounts: $1,294,620. > > > In a message dated 3/31/2010 11:23:29 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, > dasg...@aol.com writes: > > http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Family_Foundations >> >> >> >> >> >> Funding for the foundations >> <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundations_and_Funders> comes >> from the conglomerate Koch Industries >> <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Industries> , the "nation's >> largest privately held energy company, with annual revenues of more than >> $25 billion. ... Koch Industries is now the second largest family-owned >> business in the U.S., with annual sales of over $20 billion." >> >> >> "The company is owned by two of the richest men in America," David H. Koch >> <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_H._Koch> and Charles G. >> Koch <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_G._Koch> (described >> as 'reclusive billionaires'), who have a combined personal fortune estimated >> at more than $3 billion and who have emerged as major Republican >> contributors in recent years >> >> >> >> >> >> http://pr.thinkprogress.org/2009/12/pr20091208 >> >> >> David Koch and his brother Charles are among the leading funders of think >> tanks and organizations at the center of the climate denial industry like >> Americans for Prosperity. >> >> >> Their role in the propaganda machine is well-summarized by a recent Think >> Progress report entitled, "The Billionaires Behind the Hate >> <http://pr.thinkprogress.org/2009/12/pr20091208> ": >> >>> >>> >>> Billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch are the wealthiest, and perhaps >>> most effective >>> <http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/0 >>> 6/in_glitzy_shadows_a_health_reform_foe_lurks/> , opponents of President >>> Obama¹s progressive agenda. They have been looming in the background of >>> every major domestic policy dispute this year. Ranked as the 9th >>> <http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/54/rich-list-09_David-Koch_QMFE.html> >>> richest men >>> <http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/54/rich-list-09_Charles-Koch_Z9KL.html> >>> in America, the Koch brothers sit at the helm of Koch Industries, a >>> massive privately owned conglomerate of manufacturing, oil, gas, and timber >>> interests. Over the years, millions of dollars >>> <http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/David_H_Koch_Charit >>> able_Foundation/grants> in Koch money has flowed to right-wing think >>> tanks, front groups, and publications. >>> >>> >>> Much of the fierce opposition to health reform can be credited to Koch >>> organizations. As the health care debate began, AFP created a front group, >>> known as "Patients United <http://patientsunitednow.com/> ," dedicated >>> itself to attacking Democratic health care reform proposals. Patients >>> United has blanketed the country with ads distorting various >>> <http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200905270002> provisions of the >>> health reform legislation, particularly the public option. A speaker with >>> the roving Patients United bus tour repeatedly compared health reform to >>> the Holocaust >>> <http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/08/americans-for-prosperity >>> -compares-health-care-reform-to-holocaust.php> while an eight-by-five foot >>> banner at an AFP health care rally >>> <http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/0 >>> 6/in_glitzy_shadows_a_health_reform_foe_lurks/> with Rep. Michele Bachmann >>> (R-MN) read, "National Socialist Health Care >>> <http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/05/holocaust-sign/> : Dachau, Germany" >>> superimposed over corpses from a concentration camp. >>> >>> >>> Although many were surprised at the level of anger AFP channeled >>> <http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/11/afp-perriello-townhall/> into >>> Democratic healthcare town halls >>> <http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/31/recess-harassment-memo/> in August, it >>> wasn't the first time Koch groups have helped to hijack the health reform >>> debate. Back in 1994, Americans for Prosperity, then known as Citizens for >>> a Sound Economy, worked closely with then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich to >>> bring mobs of angry men >>> <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/may96/background/health_debate_page3.html >>> > to health reform rallies with then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. >>> >>> >>> ... Their opposition stems from a long family tradition of funding >>> conservative movements to shift the country to the far right. [Texas >>> oilman] Fred Koch, father of [present co-owners] Charles and David, had >>> helped found >>> <http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/0 >>> 6/in_glitzy_shadows_a_health_reform_foe_lurks/> the John Birch Society ... >>> warning conservatives that President Kennedy and [Martin Luther King] were >>> in league with Soviet Communists ... >>> >>> >>> By presenting progressive reform as a capitulation to the Soviet Union >>> <http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/0 >>> 6/in_glitzy_shadows_a_health_reform_foe_lurks/> , Fred Koch and other >>> industrialists bankrolling the Birch Society were able to galvanize >>> hundreds of thousands of middle class people into supporting their narrow >>> agenda of cutting corporate taxes and avoiding consumer regulations. >> >> >> Perhaps even more troubling than the Koch Brothers¹ activities founding and >> funding groups like Americans for Prosperity and the Cato Institute is their >> role among the worst polluters in American history. >> >> >> If any American corporation has ever earned the title ³environmental >> criminal,² it must be Koch Industries, as SourceWatch explains >> <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Industries> : >> >>> >>> >>> Koch Industries is also a major polluter. During the 1990s, its faulty >>> pipelines were responsible for more than 300 oil spills in five states, >>> prompting a landmark penalty of $35 million from the Environmental >>> Protection Agency (EPA). In Minnesota, it was fined an additional $8 million >>> for discharging oil into streams. During the months leading up to the 2000 >>> presidential elections, the company faced even more liability, in the form >>> of a 97-count federal indictment charging it with concealing illegal >>> releases of 91 metric tons of benzene, a known carcinogen, from its refinery >>> in Corpus Christi, Texas. >>> >>> >>> If convicted, the company faced fines of up to $352 million, plus possible >>> jail time for company executives. After <the recipient of Koch's >>> millions in campaign donations> George W. Bush became president, however, >>> the U.S. Justice Department dropped 88 charges. Two days before the >>> trial, John Ashcroft settled for a plea bargain, in which Koch pled guilty >>> to falsifyingof the documents. All major charges were dropped, and Koch >>> and Ashcroft settled the lawsuit for a fraction of that amount. > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message
