The John Birch Society and the Kochs: Peas in a Pod

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22. I don't photobucket google search photos:

That is a version of the Kochoctopus theme from Crooks and Liars:

GOP Funding Octopus - Many Tentacles, Same Groups

By karoli - 8/28/10

The next time you hear a news story where Republicans cry poor, remember this. The RNC is irrelevant. These days, post-Citizens United, the money is staying in the control of independent organizations, all $400 million of it pledged toward the midterm elections.

Four hundred million dollars. Wow. Think Progress has an eye-opener of a report about the organizations behind the big bucks. Clearly the Republican strategy was to fragment and spread out the money across many different facets, so they could sweep in the most people/interests at once...

(That is followed by a break down of all the groups in the image.)

...These groups, and the people behind them, are the architects and funding source for the attack ads, mailers, robocalls and print ads we're barraged with on a daily basis. They're responsible for stirring the teabaggers into a froth and overlooking inconvenient facts about reality in order to feed a media frenzy about imagined threats to our nation. They arrive in the form of news broadcasters from Fox to CNN to even MSNBC, and have absolutely no problem lying and misleading to win back control of this Congress.

It's also interesting to see what names aren't in the spotlight, but still stand right behind the list and the money. Names like Steve Forbes and Ross Perot, for example. Perot funds the Tea Party Express, among other organizations. Steve Forbes is more likely to be behind the scenes, pulling the strings right. But in the end, it's a very few people putting a lot of money into their hopes that a new Congress will get them more money. And power.

Vote.

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/gop-funding-octopus-many-tentacles-same-gro

On posting images, I suggest that if an image is not specifically forbidden by copyright, instead of what Steve has recommended. Some that are copyrighted only request a link back to their website. Some images are so ubiquitous, they need no linkage.

Click on the image found in a google search that you are looking for. I found the above image and article through a google images search under the terms of 'Kock octopus.' The image result will take you to the webpage and give them views.

After you click on the image, it will bring you to a new page with the link to the image in the address bar. That is the internet ID for that photo. I often save the image and its link in a folder for fast reference. I only use an online photo service for my own photos, not these kinds or images for which I've lost the link.

If you want to share a video, such as a youtube video, post the link in the DU message box as I did above with the Hartmann video. Most uploaders don't object to their work being posted or even downloaded and uploaded by others, as it will bring their cause page views anyway. At times videos had very few views when I found them, then the count for views went up because so many people saw them at DU.

That will bring attention to this 'hiding in plain sight' scheming.