Koch Brothers Are Screwing America

Three New Ways the Koch Brothers Are Screwing America

The fourth-richest men in America target low-wage workers, minority voters and unions

BY ELISABETH GARBER-PAUL June 4, 2014
David Koch
David Koch Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)"They are truly cowards in the worst way," says filmmaker Robert Greenwald, of the notorious billionaires Charles and David Koch. And he should know. After he released his 2012 documentary, "The Koch Brothers Exposed," Koch-funded organizations took out ads trying to discredit Greenwald and his work, yet the brothers still declined his repeated offers to debate the topics covered in the film, like the re-segregation of schools and the defanging of the EPA. "I wanted to engage in a policy debate," he says. "But they won't engage." 

For most people, an attack from the fourth-richest (and perhaps most politically conniving) men in America would slow them down. But instead Greenwald, who became interested in the powerful duo when he read Jane Mayer's 2010 New Yorker profile, decided to double down, and began work on "The Koch Brothers Exposed: 2014 Edition." The update, which is now available free online, is centered on their influence in (and outpouring of money since) the Citizens UnitedSupreme Court decision. While researching and producing it with his small staff at Brave New Films, Greenwald says he was "surprised by not just the sheer numbers, but the extraordinary lengths they go to legally to hide the amounts they're giving." Here, three of the fights to which these undocumented millions flow:

Suppressing the Minimum Wage 

Not only do the Koch brothers not want to raise the minimum wage – now a federal $7.25 – they say it creates a "culture of dependency" and would like to see it abolished altogether. "One of the facts I've been most struck by is that it would take a full-time minimum-wage earner 76 years to make $1.8 million," says Greenwald. "Or, about what each Koch brother earns in an hour." But bottom lines are more important than bottom workers for the Kochs – since the early 1990s, they've given at least $23.3 million to think tanks that have published over 4,000 articles, papers, studies, and media projects targeting the minimum wage. "They want to abolish the concept of minimum wage," Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) said at the film's D.C. premiere. "So people can work for free."

Breaking Unions

"Really, what we would like to see is to take the unions out at the knees, so they don't have the resources to fight," says Scott Hagerstrom, the Michigan director of Americans for Prosperity – a group heavily funded by the Kochs – in a damning clip from the film. And it seems to sum up the Kochs' approach to unions: Americans for Prosperity were integral to the 2011 union-busting fight in Wisconsin, and American Legislative Exchange Council (or ALEC, which works closely with the brothers) has drafted the model anti-union legislation used to slash collective bargaining rights for workers in 36 states. "They do not want to have safety regulations," says Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, in the film. "They do not want workers to be able to negotiate wages and benefits."

Read Rolling Stone's feature on the GOP war on voting

Disenfranchising Voters

During the 2012 election, an organization called True the Vote called itself a "citizen-led effort to ensure free and fair elections." Their tactic? Placing mostly white "poll-watchers" in polling places, many of them in minority areas, which led to complaints of voter intimidation. The funding came from Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity. What's worse, ALEC, which counts roughly 20 percent of all state legislators as members, also drafted a model Voter ID bill and used its ranks to disseminate it across the country. Now, 41 states have introduced more than 180 such bills, which could mean that over 21 million people could be denied their most basic right as a citizen. "The reason that you target somebody's voting rights," Ben Jealous, the former head of the NAACP, says in the film, "is it makes it easier to take away the rest of their rights. You come for that first, and the whole house of cards starts to fall."


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A brief (and rare) Political Announcement

I eat, breathe, and sleep music - mostly jazz - it is my life's calling. 

It may seem to be 'all about me' sometimes, but I make a conscious effort to help friends, family, and others, in this field and others, and to have an ongoing Social Conscience. It occurred to me long ago that if I didn't take the helm to get my music message out there and share my accomplishments, that it would be unlikely that I could sustain a career and keep doing what I do. With that in mind, I try to remain humble in my posts, and receiving my accolades, and try to keep my specific charms in perspective within the long history of music- past, present, and future. I am happy just to be effective! There are many with a truly stellar history who really deserve it! 

That said, I firmly believe it is not 'all about me' (nor you), and that we all have to be aware of our world in motion, distress, and in conflict (as well as joy and brotherhood). Not that we need to live fearful lives, but we do need to be aware and live integrated lives- because we may lose whatever choices and freedoms we have earned and learned if we don't act to protect our freedoms in an informed manner. 

My rare political message is one of thinking locally as well as globally and applying egalitarian values to everything you do. Change what you can change, and support the others who can make changes. I do not offer specifics very often, but since we are here, how about a few? 

GET INVOLVED. BE IN THE KNOW. MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!! Start here:

1.  Transit Plebiscite Pros and Cons (this is how you weigh the pluses and minuses of Vancouver's proposed transit tax - personally I vote 'NO')

2. Stop the KOCH BROTHERS. They are the money behind Citizens United (in the US - which allows unfair, unlimited funding of Presidential candidates by the uber-rich)

and also behind the Oil Sands in Canada (whose oil will it be and to what end?). Read More

3.  Learn more about ISIS/ ISIL. The world is facing a global crisis and ongoing war that rivals Hitler's rampage. However the game has changed- instead of facing a one headed monster snake, the world is faced with a multi-headed monster that can easily hide in the coat-tails of its Islamic generality, and does not need an army of tanks and jackbooted soldiers to accomplish horrendous acts of terror. Just today, breaking news re: West Edmonton Mall and Halifax...... Don't know to what I refer? That's the point! What about Bill C-51? (Bill C-51 gives security forces too much power for too little reason. It is worth fighting.) THINK. ACT. SHARE.

4. Subscribe online to The Daily KOS (below), to keep barometer readings on the insufferable US Political chaos and stupidity, which will ultimately affect us all as Canadians as it unfolds in our backyard and shapes Stephen Harper's (non-transparent) agenda. Even a quick browse will bend your mind! 

There are things you can do to make a difference, and being aware is one!

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Transit Plebiscite Pros and Cons - Vancouver

Make up your own mind, but any Corporation who acts as fiscally irresponsible as TransLink, does not need more of YOUR MONEY to support bad business practices. There are many viable alternatives to Urban Growth that does not reward ex CEOs still on the $39K a month payroll. Ian Jarvis, CEO of TransLink, received $83,700 in bonuses in 2013, making his total compensation for the year $468,015, a rise of almost seven per cent over 2012, according to salary disclosure documents released by the transit organization late Friday.Sep 2, 2014. Although on 'furlow' he still earns his (staggering) wages for (staggering) failures. The decision to continue paying Jarvis' $39,000 a month salary until his contract expires in June 2016, rather than give him severance, is raising the issue of  ... read more.

Translink Failures 

Vote and make a difference! Till May 29, 2015. You must register to vote~!!!

How to vote: To vote in the plebiscite, residents must be Canadian citizens, have lived in B.C. for at least six months before May 29 and be a resident of Metro Vancouver. They must also be at least 18 years old as of May 29 and registered with Elections BC. To register online or update your name or address, go to: https://eregister.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca/OVR/RegistrationActivity.aspx

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And other related issues involving the Government Shell Game

  • Momentum for the upcoming transportation plebiscite appears to have swung 180 degrees since December, ... MetroVancouver residents saying they will definitely vote No ...
  • Replacing TransLink CEO Ian Jarvis derailed yes side in transit plebiscite, but only temporarily
  • TransLink bonuses, executive salaries draw criticism ... - CBC



  • Fwd: Forbes destroys John Boehner in scathing smackdown

     Lots of good stuff here to rile egalitarians!! Forbes, Christie, Broadband, and the freakin' NFL!

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    PILOT SPEAKS HIS MIND

    AMERICAN AIRLINES' PILOT SPEAKS HIS MIND
    For us to keep our country as comfortable as when we grew up, we need to teach the younger ones the importance of standing together and standing united in their beliefs.  If there is anything to stand united about this is a core trepidation we all have but speak very little about as we are afraid of how it will be interpreted.
    Send this on if you believe in the importance and more importantly stand up for what you believe in. 
    No name calling, no hatred, no political agenda.
    CANADIAN COMMENT  APPEARS AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE AND IS MEANINGFUL. THERE ARE ALSO SOME  RECENTLY ADDED BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN COMMENTS.
    This pilot hit the  nail right on the head in his open letter.
    A recent newspaper article stated that some Muslim doctor is saying we are profiling him because he has been  checked three times while getting on an airplane. The following is a letter from a pilot. This well spoken man, who is a pilot with American Airlines, says what  is in his heart, beautifully.
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    YOU WORRY  ME!
    By Captain John  Maniscalco, American Airlines Pilot
    I've been trying to say this since 911, but you worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked  down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still  blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country. But you  don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me.
    I notice you because  I can't help it anymore. People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims,  have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than  20 years now. I don't fully understand their grievances and hate, but I know  that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.
    On September 11,  ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats of  women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others. They took  control of those planes and crashed them into buildings, killing thousands of  proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, and children's  mothers.
    The Palestinians celebrated, the Iraqis were overjoyed as was most of the Arab world. So, I notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't want to be consumed by the same rage, hate and prejudice that has destroyed the soul of these terrorists.  But I need your help. As a rational American, trying to protect my country and  family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference  between you, and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.
    How do I  differentiate between the true Arab/Muslim Americans and the Arab/Muslim  terrorists in our communities who are attending our schools, enjoying our parks,  and living in OUR communities under the protection of OUR constitution, while  they plot the next attack that will slaughter MORE of the same good neighbors  and children?
    The events of  September 11 changed the answer. It is not MY responsibility to determine which  of you embraces our great country, with ALL of its religions, with ALL of its  different citizens, with all of its faults. It is time for every Arab/Muslim in  this country to determine it for me.
    I want to know, I  DEMAND to know and I have a right to know, whether or not you love America .....  Do you pledge allegiance to its flag? Do you proudly display it in front of your  house, or on your car? Do you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will  bless this nation; that He will protect it and let it prosper? Or do you pray  that Allah with destroy it in one of your Jihads? Are you thankful for the  freedom that this nation affords? A freedom that was paid for by the blood of  hundreds of thousands of patriots who gave their lives for this country? Are you  willing to preserve this freedom by also paying the ultimate sacrifice? Do you  love America ? ? If this is your commitment, then I need YOU to start letting ME know about it.
    Your Muslim leaders  in this nation should be flooding the media at this time with hard facts on your  faith, and what hard actions YOU are taking as a community and as a religion to  protect the United States of America .
    Please, no more benign overtures of  regret for the death of the innocent, because I worry about who you regard as  innocent.... No more benign overtures of condemnation for the unprovoked  attacks, because I worry about what is unprovoked to you. I am not interested in  any more sympathy; I am interested only in action. What will you do for America  - our great country - at this time of crisis, at this time of  war?
    I want to see  Arab-Muslims waving the AMERICAN flag in the streets. I want to hear you  chanting 'Allah Bless America '. I want to see young Arab/Muslim men enlisting  in the military. I want to see a commitment of money, time and emotion to the  victims of this butchering and to this nation as a  whole.
    The FBI has a list of  over 400 people they want to talk to regarding the WTC attack. Many of these  people live and socialize right now in Muslim communities. You know them. You  know where they are. Hand them over to us, NOW! But I have seen little even  approaching this sort of action. Instead I have seen an already closed and  secretive community close even tighter. You have disappeared from the streets.  You have posted armed security guards at your facilities. You have threatened  lawsuits. You have screamed for protection from  reprisals.
    The very few  Arab/Muslim representatives that HAVE appeared in the media were defensive and  equivocating. They seemed more concerned with making sure that the United States  proves who was responsible before taking action. They seemed more concerned with  protecting their fellow Muslims from violence directed towards them in the  United States and abroad than they did with supporting our country and  denouncing 'leaders' like Khadafi, Hussein, Farrakhan, and  Arafat.
    IF the true teachings  of Islam proclaim tolerance and peace and love for all people, then I want  chapter and verse from the Koran and statements from popular Muslim leaders to  back it up. What good is it if the teachings in the Koran are good, pure, and  true, when your 'leaders' ARE teaching fanatical interpretations, terrorism, and  intolerance? It matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE if huge numbers of the  world's Muslims interpret the teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a  degenerative form of the religion. A form that has been demonstrated to us over  and over again. A form whose structure is built upon a foundation of violence,  death, and suicide. A form whose members are recruited from the prisons around  the world. A form whose members (some as young as five years old) are seen day  after day, week in and week out, year after year, marching in the streets around  the world, burning effigies of our presidents, burning the American flag,  shooting weapons into the air. A form whose members convert from a peaceful  religion, only to take up arms against the great United States of America, the  country of their birth. A form whose rules are so twisted, that their traveling  members refuse to show their faces at airport security checkpoints, in the name  of Islam.
    We will NEVER allow  the attacks of September 11, or any others for that matter, to take away that  which is so precious to us -- our rights under the greatest constitution in the  world. I want to know where every Arab Muslim in this country stands and I think  it is my right and the right of every true citizen of this country to DEMAND it.  A right paid for by the blood of thousands of my brothers and sisters who died  protecting the very constitution that is protecting you and your  family.
    I am pleading with  you to let me know. I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a  fellow American...... But there can be no gray areas or ambivalence regarding  your allegiance, and it is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand. Until then, "  YOU WORRY ME!"

    CANADIAN  COMMENTS:
    I totally agree with  this sentiment. I hope you will forget all about the 'political correctness'  mandate we've had rammed down our throats, and see if this doesn't ring true in  your heart and mind. For Canada , with all the multiculturalism we've been told  is so important....why should we not, as Canadians, expect that the millions of  new people immigrating to our country will show their love for our country,  their allegiance to our country, their willingness to obey the laws of our  country, and acceptance that we are a Christian country? Just because they are  able to enjoy exercising their own religion, they should NOT expect us to be  ashamed of ours. They knew Canada was a predominantly Judeo Christian country when they came here.  Why are we erasing Christianity because immigrants who are unwilling to adopt  our way of life expect us to? There is just too much insanity in the world, and  we have to start taking a stand. I hope you will forward this, so that others  will feel they are not alone if they are starting to feel the  same.

    BRITISH COMMENTS: At  last a clear non racist example of the concerns that the vast majority of our  Nations population probably share. The pilot's letter encapsulates all that is  fair and just about national pride and protection of one's national culture. I  fear it may be too late here in UK , BUT we too want our country back in the  form that attracted all these different cultures to come here in the first  place!! In all our conversations with a wide range of friends and acquaintances  we have not met one that disagrees with our own views. If only we all had the  courage of our convictions to pass this on, it is a statement that should be  accepted as the heart-felt feelings of someone with honest commendable national pride.
    AUSTRALIAN COMMENT :  Best email I have had in years it needs to be in every paper every day until we  get some answers.

    Copyright Board's Grave Error - PLEASE READ

    To all Copyright Board members, consultants, and lobbyists,


    In this age of diminishing returns for the hardest working in ANY field, you have dealt a severe blow to the music industry and you act like it was nothing at all!

    Many musicians have spent their lives perfecting their craft, only to have the rug pulled out from under them as the landscape changed quickly and dramatically. It took some scrambling to regain any type of music income when mp3s replaced the CD, when the CD and stores fell out of favour, and the hardy were just getting some of their footing back with an increase in internet performances and their (meager) royalties... and now this? A cold hard bludgeoning is what you perpetrated, and see what you caused?!

    Royalties were already low, but they were there in spirit, and commensurate with the US. Now Canada's rates are far, far below the US, and if you do the math you will see that a massive 'hit' might earn just enough for a burger and fries.

    Stations of all stripes are getting a cushy ride using other's hard won art for little or arguably no payment. What little comes back to the artist is not just low, it is negligible, and does not take the creators of the works seriously enough to compensate them in any realistic way. Soon the art will stop because there is no avenue left to recoup ANYTHING.

    You really need to AT LEAST match the US rates and stop cutting deals for the stations who whine and want it all free!

    I have spent my life with my craft and even though I have had a half dozen Billboard charting 'hits', it translates to NOTHING! (Oh, I did get a burger and fries once).

    And I thought Canada had the greater good at heart?!

    Do something for the GREATER GOOD!

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    Juno Award winner and Album of the Year winner 2011
    6 singles hit Billboard charts-  new album in production!

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    Fake Senator on Fire!

    The last 3 days have been unbelievable!

    Our fake Senate candidate, Honest Gil Fulbright, went viral. The next thing we knew, a storm of national media was talking about America’s corrupt political system, and our plan to fix it.

    It started on Tuesday with a story on Fast Company and an Honest Political Ad on Upworthy, then BoingBoing, then Huffington Post, and then Time Magazine reported on the campaign’s five-day crowdfunding surge. On Wednesday morning, NBC’s Today Show featured the story and it exploded… USA Today, CNN.com, Washington Post, and Al Jazeera created a wave that led to Represent.Us director Josh Silver being interviewed live on CNN.

    Then last night, we hit our second crowdfunding goal just five short days after the first one! The momentum is undeniable, the excitement is palpable, and we’re not done yet.

    Will you help kick off the next wave of momentum by watching and sharing Honest Gil’s hilarious new “Honest Ad” on the economy? Together, we can blast through our next fundraising goal too.

    Here’s why all of this momentum matters:

    Honest Gil is pushing our issue into mainstream news and culture. That’s absolutely essential to building awareness of the problem AND the idea that there’s an innovative, nonpartisan, grassroots effort emerging to fix it.

    The 800 folks who have pitched in to make this happen need your help to take it to the next level with TV and radio ads, and a massive PR push with the Kentucky media. 

    Will you watch and share Honest Gil’s next video with a couple of your friends to help keep the momentum alive? It’s hilarious. They’ll love it, I promise.

    Things are happening fast. If you’d like to stay more up to date and be part of the excitement, you should like Honest Gil on Facebook, and follow Represent.Us on Facebook for up-to-the-minute campaign updates.

    And of course, please share Gil's campaign with your friends so we can take Kentucky by storm. The bigger we get, the more power we have!

    Go Honest Gil!!!

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    CNN.com

    CNN Newsroom

    USA Today

    The Today Show

    The Washington Post

    Time Magazine Online

    Huffington Post

    Techdirt

    Fast Company

    Boing Boing

    Political Wire

    Al Jazeera America

    Kentucky TV (WHAS) 

    Kentucky TV (WDRB)

    Political Liberty Digest (Libertarian Blog)


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    Alarming lack of transparency

    Concerned Citizens,

    One of the hallmarks of a great democracy is transparency, which is why the secrecy surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is so alarming. End the Secrecy

    This free-trade pact represents a major change to our trade relations with 11 countries and could have a profound impact on our manufacturing industry. Bottom line: hundreds of thousands of high-quality American jobs could be shipped overseas!

    We have to speak out on this and we have to do it now. If you haven’t already signed Pam’s petition to bring transparency to TPP negotiations, please add your name today! CLICK HERE.


    The American people and our representatives in Congress deserve to know the details of this highly controversial trade agreement. If we don’t demand to know now, we might regret it later.

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    Increasing wealth and income inequality in the United States is the great moral and economic issue of our time

     What Bernie Sanders said about the minimum wage?

    Did you see the email below from Sen. Bernie Sanders? More than 50,000 DFA members have already signed his petition to raise the federal minimum wage, and that number is growing by the minute.

    Sen. Sanders is working hard in Congress to force a vote on raising the minimum wage, but he needs your help to overcome Tea Party obstructionism. If you want to give tens of millions of Americans a raise, don't miss this chance to speak out. Sign our petition and tell Congress to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 today.

    http://act.democracyforamerica.com/go/3830?t=2&akid=4462.2264341.DKut35

    Thanks for fighting the good fight.

    - Jim

    Jim Dean, Chair
    Democracy for America

     

     

    Increasing wealth and income inequality in the United States is the great moral and economic issue of our time.  It speaks to whether we will be a nation with a vibrant and growing middle class, or an oligarchic form of society in which a handful of incredibly wealthy families control our economic and political life.

    In America today, the top 1% owns 38% of our country's financial wealth. The bottom 60% owns all of 2.3%. In the last several years, 95% of all new income has gone to the top 1%. Sadly, we recently learned that in 2012 the top 40 hedge fund managers in the country earned $16.7 billion dollars, as much as 300,000 public school teachers combined -- almost a third of all high school teachers in America. How's that for national priorities!

    In recent months, world leaders from the president to the pope have been speaking out on this long ignored, but critical issue. Several months ago a number of us in the Senate and House urged President Obama to issue an executive order to raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. Recently, the president did just that. I applaud him for taking this important step forward.  But much more needs to be done.

    Within the next several weeks Democrats in the Senate will be bringing forth legislation to raise the national minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. If this effort succeeds, 30 million Americans will be getting a long overdue pay raise. And, just last week, House Democrats indicated that they are preparing to undertake what is known as a discharge petition which would force a vote on the minimum wage in the Republican controlled House of Representatives.

    Momentum is on our side. Now is the time for Congress to act!

    Please join me and Democracy for America in calling on Congress to increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.

    http://act.democracyforamerica.com/go/3830?t=5&akid=4462.2264341.DKut35

    Currently, powerful forces in the Republican Party, under the influence of the Koch brothers and other billionaire families, continue to call for major cuts in programs desperately needed by working families. While the rich become richer and the poor become poorer, these billionaires are waging a relentless fight to cut nutrition programs, education, health care and more.

    Incredibly, instead of supporting an increase in the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, they want to end the concept of the minimum wage -- and create a situation where workers in high-unemployment areas could be forced to work for $3 or $4 an hour. For them, "freedom" means that desperate people are "free" to work for starvation wages.

    Working together, our job is to create an economy and a government that works for working families and the most vulnerable Americans, and not just Wall Street and multi-national corporations. And Congress should begin by raising the minimum wage!

    Please stand with me and Democracy for America today in demanding that Congress increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour!

    http://act.democracyforamerica.com/go/3830?t=7&akid=4462.2264341.DKut35

    Thank you for all that you do.

    Sincerely,







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