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Derechos Donating Member (892 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 05:34 PM
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Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales
Source: Bloomberg

In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts.

“I uncovered the practices within a few days,” Egorova- Farines says. “They were not hidden at all.”

She immediately notified her supervisors in the U.S. A week later, Wichita, Kansas-based Koch Industries dispatched an investigative team to look into her findings, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its November issue.

By September of that year, the researchers had found evidence of improper payments to secure contracts in six countries dating back to 2002, authorized by the business director of the company’s Koch-Glitsch affiliate in France.


Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 05:35 PM
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1. give them a suite in Gitmo. n/t
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 07:13 PM
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9. They don't deserve a suite.
A janitorial closet would be too nice for those fucks.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 05:59 PM
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2. Republicon Family War-profiteering Cesspool Values
Edited on Sun Oct-02-11 06:03 PM by SpiralHawk
And yet the SuckerPuppet Baggers & Freepers continue to allow these billionaires to merrily jerk their strings and get them to dumbly dance to their tune -- and vote against their own interests.

Wake up Freepers. Wake up Baggers. Wake up RepubliCon Proles. You are being continuously & shamelessly SUCKERED & USED by the billionaire FatCats (R) who are your Overlords.

Foresake your republicon puppetmasters, and join with Americans for America.

The hour it is getting late. Way late.
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Kingofalldems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 06:03 PM
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3. Kick and Recommend for their Teabagger useful idiots
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NuttyFluffers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 06:09 PM
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4. oh my... where is there patriotism?
probably in their wallet -- and up for sale just the same, it seems.

:o :think:
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sasha031 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 06:11 PM
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5. K/R I was about to post this
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 06:21 PM
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6. Do these assholes do anything that's not illegal?
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lib2DaBone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 06:39 PM
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7. Don't forget Prescott Bush was arrested for "Trading with the Enemy during WW-II
The Bush Family founder was supplying cash, gasoline and scrap metal to the NAZI's in WWII.

Republican Values....
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 07:11 PM
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8. Makes me wonder of Fred and Prescott
were pals. They sure seem to share the same values.
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RyanPsych Donating Member (354 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 07:49 PM
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10. Get Rich or (let others) Die Trying
are the values those two families seem to extoll.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 08:02 PM
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12. And we had to put up with this insane family for three terms!
And look at what's happening to us now... :argh:
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 01:46 AM
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13. At least he was arrested. Koch brothers get honored.
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stockholmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 12:14 PM
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15. both US parties did their overlord's bidding (rise of Hitler via the Anglo/American banking cartel)
Edited on Mon Oct-03-11 12:15 PM by stockholmer
Hitler and his ideology was born forth, aided and financed by the USA/UK from the remnants of WW1. Large power brokers through the British Roundtable groups, which morphed into the Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs and its American counterpart, The Council on Foreign Relations in NYC (along with their member's Foundations (ie, Ford, Rhodes, Rockefeller, etc) helped set up the eugenics laws of Nazi Germany.

The Rockefeller's' chief executive of these institutions was the fascist Swiss psychiatrist Ernst Rudin, assisted by his proteges Otmar Verschuer and Franz J. Kallmann. In 1932, the British-led "Eugenics'' movement designated the Rockefeller's' Dr. Rudin as the president of the worldwide Eugenics Federation. The USA counterpart was the American Eugenics Society, which turned into Planned Parenthood through the latter's founder,(and Nazi and Klan supporter) Margaret Sanger.

The tattoos on Nazi concentration victims were a tracking system utilizing the IBM Hollerith punch card computer system, leased at below-market rates to the Nazis in 1933 by the US corporation under the direction of its CEO (and eugenics supporter/fascist sympathizer) Thomas J Watson. Watson also sent over one hundred IBM employees to Germany to help set up and run the initial system. It was first tested in the late 1920's in a Jamaican race-mixing study.

In regards to Hitler and the financing, I focus on the following .

Averell Harriman (Democratic US Secretary of Commerce, Governor of New York, and Ambassador to the USSR and the UK) and his brother Roland, founded one of the biggest banks in the World, Brown Brothers Harriman. This bank was like the Goldman Sachs of the 1930's and 1940's.

One of the founding partners of Brown Bros. Harriman, and point man for German investment was none other than Prescott Bush, son-in-law of George Herbert Walker (also employed at BBH) the father of George HW Bush, and grandfather of George W Bush.

BBH were the chief USA private banking source (along with the Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank and the energy assistance of their Standard Oil of New Jersey (now Exxon) of money that funded the rapid rise of Hitler and the rebuild of the German military-industrial complex via hundreds of billions (in today's dollars) in investments and loans to Krups, I.G. Farben, etc.

Also involved, in the Euro side were the British Rothschild-controlled Bank for Trade and Shipping (Bank voor Handel and Scheepvaart) in Rotterdam, and their proxy Emil Georg von Stauss, who before becoming the president of Germany's largest bank, the Deutsche Bank was Managing Director of the European Petroleum Union (a Rothschild front organization), and the Warburg family of Switzerland, Germany and the USA. (Paul Warburg. along with JP Morgan, was a principal driving force of the USA Federal Reserve in 1913 as well).

The Anglo-American banking cartel thus financed both sides of WW2, just as the British bankers have done for every single major war since the Napoleonic War, under Nathan Mayer Rothschild. He used spies from the battlefield to start a false rumour in London that Wellington had lost at Waterloo and Napoleon was sailing cross the Channel, thus driving down the entire London Stock Exchange by over 95% in a few hours. He then bought it up at pennies on the pound, thus becoming one of the richest men, if not the richest, in the world at the time.

The family eventually took over control of the Bank of England, and became the most powerful of all the international banker cartels. They today control via proxies the most powerful bank in the world (BIS or the Bank of International Settlements in Geneva) which is the global Central Bank's Central Bank, overseeing through indirect control the IMF, World Bank, US Federal Reserve, the ECB (European Central Bank), Bank of England, Bank of Japan, Bank of China (to a lesser extent), the G20 etc, etc.

We all globally suffer under this international banking cartel today.
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 07:54 PM
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11. That created a lot of jobs though.
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 01:47 AM
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14. Paging Eric Holder, paging Eric Holder.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 12:16 PM
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16. Shut up they are PATRIOTS!!!
:sarcasm: just channeling Freeperville
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buckrogers1965 Donating Member (515 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 11:34 PM
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17. Thank goodness we can finally arrest them.
Oh, wait, they aren't going to be charged?
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