Inside the Koch Brothers' 2011 Summer Seminar: Part 1

[and-justice-for-all]

Source: Truthout.com

Those of you who follow The BRAD BLOG closely may know that I've been working in the background, for a number of weeks, on an exclusive series concerning the billionaire Koch Brothers, the co-owners of the nation's second largest private corporation, the oil and chemical conglomerate Koch Industries. They are also massive funders behind much of the Rightwing political disinformation machine. The articles, as I can now reveal, cover audio I've obtained as recorded from inside their super-secret, super-confidential, invitation-only Summer Seminar held in late June at the tony Ritz-Carlton Beaver Creek Resort near Vail, CO (seen above).

Among this year's attendees, in addition to hundreds of corporate baron billionaires and millionaires, were GOP public officials such as current Republican Presidential front-runner Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) and Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL).


Read more: http://www.truthout.com/inside-koch-brothers-2011-summer-seminar-part-1/1315332722

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I do not care how it happens, but these fucking Koch Brothers need to be destroyed.

[teddy51]

1. "I do not care how it happens, but these fucking Koch Brothers need to be destroyed.

" I totally agree, along with Rick Scott.

[texastoast]

2. Poster children for unmitigated greed

I swiped a little about them from wikipedia.

Political career
"Koch was the Libertarian Party's vice-presidential candidate in the 1980 presidential election, sharing the party ticket with presidential candidate Ed Clark. The Clark–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.<2><12> The ticket proposed legalization of prostitution, recreational drugs, and suicide.<2> The ticket received 921,128 votes, 1.06% of the total nationwide vote,<13> the Libertarian Party national ticket's best showing to date.<14> The Koch brothers were proud of what they had accomplished. “Compared to what gotten before,” Charles said, “and where we were as a movement or as a political/ideological point of view, that was pretty remarkable, to get 1 percent of the vote.”<15>

"After the bid, according to a book by Brian Doherty, an editor of Reason magazine, David and his brother Charles viewed politicians as "actors playing out a script" and they wanted to "supply the themes and words for the scripts" by influencing "the areas where policy ideas percolate from: academia and think tanks".<2>"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Koch

Telling, wouldn't you say? All is going to plan. The Teabaggers are the tools.

[benld74]

4. Oh, the Teabaggers are tools alright!!!!!

[Sancho]

3. yep...this was a great coup to reveal the koch's

:yourock: :woohoo: :applause: :headbang: :fistbump:

[windowpilot]

5. And on the same page

A New Nuclear Weapons Plant in Kansas City! A job creation we can all do w/out.:nuke: