Fred Koch became angry toward Communism because of the nationalization of the oil refinery, not because of the awful crimes of Stalin

@chrisbayridge23

6 жыл бұрын

Joel Harold the West funded and armed a counter-revolution in the Soviet Union shortly after World War 1 most of the people who died during that time were starved to death as forces backed by the West and the Communists burned Villages and Farms to the ground all across Southern Russia

@starmanskye

6 жыл бұрын

lew; Can't refute something with critical thinking, logic or facts, just go for the cheapshot character assassination. That about sums-up your 'integrity', eh? ~ ; )

@jonathanstill29

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds as if you touched a sensitive nerve there, Joel ! Touchy aren't they ?

@joemonroe9456

5 жыл бұрын

This is so intellectually dishonest. It was 5 years before the war. And the sons are supposed to be responsible for HItler's crimes some how. This is known as yellow journalism.

@soulergy1soulrgy1

4 жыл бұрын

​@@joemonroe9456 is called brainwashing when you are so young everything your parents say stays in the brain.

So these are the people who are about to get a huge tax cut???

@leealexander3507

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@jonathanstill29

5 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@forlangspencer5136

4 жыл бұрын

They’re getting what they paid for.

@augustlandmesser1520

4 жыл бұрын

Why else would they invest in policy?

@michaelpreston233

4 жыл бұрын

A nice French Style Revolution is in order.

This book belongs in EVERY LIBRARY! Thank you for publicizing it!

@72marshflower15

3 ай бұрын

It’s been the U.S. all along. I pointed this out here years ago and now look at Ukraine.. I was correct.

"Behind every great fortune is a crime." Victor Hugo.

@ibrahimkuyumcu2649

2 ай бұрын

"Details make the man." Hugo Boss

No one person or family should have that disgusting amount of money

@Zeldarw104

4 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly!! 🤨 T)o. M)uch. I)ncome. Damn-it!!🗣️

@LolLol-nn8td

Жыл бұрын

@@Zeldarw104 so your poor and jelous

@LolLol-nn8td

Жыл бұрын

so you're poor and jealouss

@art4freak795

Жыл бұрын

@@LolLol-nn8td no am not, it's just common sense, that was how monarchy worked.

@LolLol-nn8td

Жыл бұрын

@@art4freak795 some of us have hard-working parents who earnt their billions. Your parents' fault for being lazy pigs.

Hateful Greedy people are the lowest forms of life

Koch response says they didn't help "During WWII". Mayer wrote it was in 1934-35. So they didn't deny he did it.

@jorgegomez524

5 жыл бұрын

payank505 in i1934-35 there were lot of american jews companies also making money with germany. dont forget hollywood, to give an exemple. maybe even some Mayer company...

I think what's really significant is not so much the sinister nature of people like the Kochs but how blind and ignorant the common man is of what's going on in our world. After all, but for that ignorance, people like the Kochs could not succeed in their sinister plans.

@robanderson84

6 жыл бұрын

education helps, but how to change things is still hard to figure out, sigh...

@deannadelmar4485

6 жыл бұрын

And you have fixed this horror with all your wisdom? You are part of the ignorant?

@starmanskye

6 жыл бұрын

Deanna; Well gosh, mustn't talk about and critique things until someone else 'fixes' them, is that your point? Your 'solution' to widespread blindness and ignorance is to double-down on it. Brilliant!!!

@jonathanstill29

5 жыл бұрын

@@starmanskye Well Stated !

@jonathanstill29

5 жыл бұрын

@Richard Cole -we are already seeing the " dumbing down " of the American populace. The illiterate find it easier to let other people do the thinking for them and so appeal to the lowest common denominator mentally, emotionally, spiritually. They' re easier to control that way, when they can't think for themselves, have a limited vocabulary so they can't express themselves, and /or find it taxing to employ deductive or rational reasoning. Like sheep they can be led by their emotions, base desires and by forceful personality types.....like Hitler was. If any of this sounds familiar, you are now held captive in the Trump Zone. ooooOOWEeeoooo ! ! ! Scary, isn't it ?

If a TV ad is going to get you to vote for a candidate that says, ' we need to cut aide too the needed or cutting regulation that prevent a company from dumping its waste into a river that feeds into the drinking water of your town just so you can have a JOB. Then money is not the problem in politics, it's the people that vote against their own self interest.

@artcircus4772

4 жыл бұрын

Don't blame the powerless

Don't forget the Bush family who also made their fortune out of the WWII...

@monikapadilla3949

4 жыл бұрын

Fab24hdumans Bush family are known in Texas as child traffickers and pedophiles!!! They have child sex parties in their ranches in Odessa and midland Texas where underground tunnels were used to transport kids to bush elite pediphile parties! This is their legacy here in Trxas .

@thomasjaggers3576

4 жыл бұрын

Does make you wonder if Fred and Prescott where buddies...

@clairedeiotte8898

2 жыл бұрын

Bush is a federalist too

@cadittac3411

2 жыл бұрын

dont forget Bushes are jewish

@janedoe8570

2 жыл бұрын

@@monikapadilla3949 Wow that's news to me where can I find this information???

It's ironic that Fred Koch condemned communism (and even founded the John Birch Society) but had no reservations accepting communist money. Profit mends all wounds so it seems.

@Vbluevital

6 жыл бұрын

The John Birch Society goes hand in hand with fascist supremists and Nazis. I attend a school with the head of the JBS, he detested his father.

@jonathanstill29

5 жыл бұрын

....when that's where your loyalty lies......

The Koch brothers benefited tremendously from the incredible scientific and research advances that came out of Germany .

@zenlei8258

3 жыл бұрын

Are you suggesting Shell, Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, BP, etc. do not have good oil refinery technology in the late 1950s ? Can you please provide examples to advanced technology they got from Germany after WW2 ?

If they would blackmail their own brother, you know what evil they are capable of.

Why would people dislike this video...?

@fifermcgee5971

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps they don't like the truth.

I honestly wonder what it's like to be so goddamn evil. At least one if the brothers is burning in Hell now. All that hoarded money sure helped when the Reaper came for him, huh?

@elizabethsullivan7176

4 жыл бұрын

It's for bastards like these that I hope there is a Hell

@c.profits6156

3 жыл бұрын

Funny how I would have agreed with this statement on the Koch’s a year ago. But now on the brink of communism I’d take Koch politicians any day. There is no utopia

@addysidhu5669

2 жыл бұрын

What they will tell their grandkids that how they kill the planet? Just how they will explain to them?

@HoloScope

Жыл бұрын

@@c.profits6156 you're delusional

People need to galvanize and not let them divide us. It’s great to point this out but nothing will change unless people of all strata come together.

Of course they did. W Bush's Grandfather Prescott Bush had his assets frozen for supplying raw materials to them as well.

Amy, love Dem. Now but one request. I find it all very difficult to teach others political theory when phrases like "right wing radicals" are used to describe people like the Koch brothers. They are "right wing reactionaries" not radicals. Maybe this is one of the reasons so many average people have a hard time figuring out just where these terms fit into political commentary. It's not valid in political terminology and while we are trying to come to terms with the many terms used by the media (alt-right, etc.) it helps so much to be accurate or, at least, plain within the context of 'political science'.

@patrickhenry9846

2 жыл бұрын

Simple English please.

@georgekovacs4278

Жыл бұрын

Thank you David, the difference between a "radical" and a "reactionary'' politically and philosophically, is so profound that each term, 'to the root' and 'choosing not to 'pro-act'', that each needs its own spectrum and not be included together as separate ends of the same spectrum. That professional journalists seem to continually mistake these terms and call a nationalistic bigot a "right-winged radical" indicates tmal a problem at the university level education of both poly-sci and journalism grad students. That's taking into account the far-rights 'dumbing down' of the entire educational system. I do hope I've used "Plain English" to be understood by the "lowest common denominator" of English language readers.🗿

Hopefully Wyatt Koch is the future of the Koch's and with his bold shirts the Koch legacy will sputter out.

It amuses me that one of the Koch brothers actually used to like doing “koch” as his favourite pastime

" the Banality of Evil ? "

Sooooooo!Bill Maher was not wrong to hope for Koch's death to be painful. AWSOME

Ever heard of Henry Ford support for Nazi party?

@chrisbayridge23

6 жыл бұрын

Harry C Henry Ford even included a book with new car purchases called the international Jew anti-semitic propaganda book

Can't wait to Charles join David...

These are the guys that are gonna destroy the Eco system all for profit

@fifermcgee5971

4 жыл бұрын

Money, money, money is all that counts with these people. Greed.

I'm not saying they were NAZIs, but they were NAZIs! ;)

The Koch family sound like Marvel villains. We need Spider Man or someone like Iron Man to help us fight these evil brothers.

@buzzwaffle

6 жыл бұрын

Or SpiderWoman

@leealexander3507

5 жыл бұрын

There are plenty more to replace them.

imagine being responsible for so much hardship across the world to be what - richer than some other super rich people? What possible motivation can be behind such people.

Funny Tim Ferris interviewed Charles Koch recently on his podcast and Charles made it sound like all he really cared about was humanity. I don’t know if Tim actually believed it but I sure didn’t.

Citizens United was the worst thing to happen to us in the last part of the 20th century.

He's describing a patronage system where the wealthiest don't participate in politics but sponsor the candidates.

When will we learn?

@DanielField2023

6 жыл бұрын

When these Fucking Dumb Bell Idiots American weak up.

Koch & Dulles

She's not saying they were nazis! Why not? They are!.

I am reading this book now and am shook by the details! The Koch Bros are scaaaaaary.

Who says you can't buy a government

There’s always an end to everything.Time will tell .Remember we r all visitors of this beautiful world.

GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!! We will NEVER have a Free and open DEMOCRACY!!

There need to be lay that says only the government can provide money to the candidates and each can candidate receive equal amount and has the same amount of air time, and may the better candidate wins. And no group or individual other than the government can provide money.

This book should be required reading in America.

@snipview8363

4 жыл бұрын

Hamburg oil refinery was built in 1934, two years before the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics clueless bozo! Make THIS required reading! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why I am not surprised.

It seems that anything that lasts long enough eventually becomes respectable, especially if they're also rich.

The rotten apples fall close to the rotten tree.

Good info . Is there a George soros video in democracy now that I can view . I have listened to democracy now on NPR , I try to get information from several views , thanks

🗿 Jane Mayer: All I can say is...W O W❗ You are ONE SMART COOKIE. I admire your style. ✔

Wow amazing. None of us should be surprised by the fascist influences behind the Koch family. But I don’t want to diminish the importance of such findings. I think this needs to be brought to the awareness of the general public even more some how. The question is ...how??

Ms. Mayer's adding the minor-but-fascinating detail about Fred Koch, sets my imagination sailing into the universe of might-have-beens. The father of the current generation of obscenely wealthy, ruthlessly anti-democratic Kochs, was scheduled to board the ill-fated flight of the Hindenburg, the passenger-carrying dirigible whose ending was so disastrous and spectacular (the fatality-rate was 100%) in a New Jersey airfield in 1937. BUT he was delayed from climbing the gang-plank due to last-minute business. The twins, David & William, would not have been born (their birth-date occurring in 1940), so the other arch-conservative, democracy-hating brother, Charles (born in '35), would have had to carry out many of his projects to destroy the government of the US from within virtually by himself. How much different would things be today if Fred had made that flight?

And the Ford Motor Company provided engines for their tanks......Business as usual.....War is a Racket.

Oh

Most wealthy people made money during WW2. Isn’t that the purpose of most wars.

@genedebsfan

4 жыл бұрын

You are one of the few that get it!

Carlin : It's a big club ?

“Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob…” Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Where’s David’s grave I feel like Dancing on it

What i find interesting is how the beliefs of the father gets passed on as a virus to the children and the cycle of poisoned actions continues on. what is brought by an emotional attachment, becomes the voice of another generation and the same ill drives thrive in another generation .. and we all pay the price !

Found about all these Nazi collaborations and connections but couldn't find out how Koch personally felt about the Nazis? Nothing is known about this spefficially? Strange

Can't take it with you only the bad or good we do as people follow us into death door, no cash allowed!

OIY VEY! NOT THE KNOWTZEES!

@Democracy Now ~ I told you so..

And these Brothers called themselves Americans. They are Not even close. No words can describe just how Vile these brothers are. Even the Devil will reject them.

One generation of people succeeds another, the best of them are best in character.The final outcome is not mans decisions but rather his choice

David Koch’s net worth at this moment is $0 lmao ....

Donations are a form of free speech are they ??? So the more money you have, the more free speech you have..…. is that how it is ?

So he was a traitor? When did the Koch's come to America? They need to be held responsible for crimes against he environment, and the on to the others!

There has no be a Limit on donations just like the UK

She says the personal idea about Hitler and the Nazis of the Koch is unknown, but they didn’t seem disgusted by it nor did anything to help, and made business with Hitler. So there goes the predatory quality of their essence as individuals, as well. It doesn’t matter from which side you cut it - it doesn’t bode well for them our idea, accurate idea of who they are.

"Good riddance to bad rubbish."

We need to recruit the terminally ill to do the dirty work that no one else has the guts for !

The Koch family sound like Marvel villains. We need Spider Man to help us.

@feloniousmonk1973

8 жыл бұрын

+Guada Galindo how many times are you going to say that?? It's 3 times already.

Who ever the Kochs vote for I will not vote for...It's easy for us poor people. Us people who don't have a billion dollars. Just don't do it.

what did I just randomly stumble upon?

The USA like Australia and the UK does not have representative govt. Representatives vote on party lines and not for their electorates. Concerned that they won't gain preselection this ensures party unity and non representative govt. The system doesn't support representative govt and therefore lacks democratic process. The difference between these countries and totalitarian regimes is the monopoly of force. Ask Assange. Hitler had Henry Ford's photo on his wall. Look at the association between him and many others like the Bank of England and Hitler's Germany. Guns need wars and ward need excuses.

Once a " Reichwinger " , always a " Reichwinger " .... and it becomes generational . " Corporate Money " = Corruption & Greed .

This Corporation should have been nationalized long, long ago.

So the Koch dynasty helped to create blitzkrieg because without airpower that tactic does not work. I would say that is something to be ashamed of. But are they? Have they shown any regret? Of course not. War is nothing but unadulterated money to them. And they have clearly been the backbone of global weapons manufacturing ever since. They have helped create nay instigated the overwhelming number of wars that have happened since the bomb dropped. All for self interest. The Kochs belong to be put up against a wall and shot. Then buried in an unmarked grave. Just please someone make them and their ilk suffer the way they have manufactured global suffering.

Oh, and lets not forget the Harrimans coal and steel. Guess who Pamela would befriend?

These guys are still players. Now Art Pope's name is coming up a lot, too

Humanness is essential.

please read or listen to Joseph P Farrell, he describes the US/ Nazi relations and their impact today

Pfffff.....most of them were doin bizness with those people in those days, ford, rockefeller, hughes, bushes etc....

koch was not a nazi. he just aided them (and made lots of money) to build their machinery.

One is dead. The other one will not live much longer. Money will be worthless one day.

in short Koch has recreated or tried to create and fractured society with only corporate interest. right now they are winning. but .. this game is not over.

HOT DAMN educated people in the comment section

Another history of assisting Nazi's efforts includes Texaco selling lubricants (as I recall)

Wonder if there was any Koch ever that was good and escaped.

I love democracy now but it is scary how misleading these titles can be. The author admits early in the conversation- Fred Koch, an American businessman went to Germany in 1934 (during peacetime) and built a refinery. The liberal headline reads. “The Koch brothers father built a refinery for Nazi Germany personally endorsed by Hitler” Yikes

Not. Surprised.

They will be gillitines.

Okay I was just perusing, I think her channel is on my peruse list. After world war 1, all of Europe and the world oppressed Germany finding a potato to eat was hard. That brought the rise of Hitler, many companies started reinvesting in Germany . Of course Germans having their own technology, everyone's responsible for the rise of Hitler. In fact we were asleep at the wheel when Japan bombed the United States, very small countries in Europe had more members of the military than we did 5 in 3 years we rebuilt our military defeated the Japanese and Hitler..

One down one to go

To be fair Mr. Fred Koch built the refineries for Stalin also. They were willing to work for any evil dictator. Just like trump likes MBS from Saudi Arabia and little rocket man.

"Not saying they were Nazis..." They just had Nazi - like tendencies.

$82Billion...

💧

While Mitch McConnell was their stooge.

The only thing they really want they can't buy with all that money is being young again

Dutch Royal shell provided the fuel for the Nazis

The Koch’s are Super Villains period.

I want to see Trading Places II starring the Koch Brothers.

@marktiller7760

6 жыл бұрын

Sacred Grooves everybody would like to see that

American government should have to name their money 💰 🤑 💸 donors and how much money 💰 🤑 💸 they can give should be limited. Until we get big corporate money donors out of our politics we will always have problems. The kochs inherited fathers business sense but also his political agenda.