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napkinz

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Fri Mar 7, 2014, 08:23 PM Mar 2014

Koch Brothers Timeline [View all]






The Koch Brothers' father was a founding member of the John Birch Society.

The Koch Brothers are founding members of the Tea Party.



The Tea Party sprung up spontaneously in 2009, so the Tea Party tells itself. But its truth is much older ... Found in 2002, by the lobbying group, Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), the US Tea Party was the first attempt to start a “grassroots movement” against the US Government, as you can see through Archive.org’s WayBackMachine here. But who was backing the Tea Party back in 2002? Would you believe Big Tobacco and the Koch Brothers?

read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/12/koch-brothers-founded-the-tea-party-in-2002/




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Koch Brothers Timeline [View all] napkinz Mar 2014 OP
Yeah, we need this to go VIRAL, napkinz! Cha Mar 2014 #1
No mention of how Winkler-Koch was a contractor to Stalin. HereSince1628 Mar 2014 #11
it gets its own graphic ... napkinz Mar 2014 #13
And he did it because of a patent 'dispute' that squeezed him out. HereSince1628 Mar 2014 #14
They are economic terrorists in every sense of the term. Initech Mar 2014 #2
yep! ... napkinz Mar 2014 #5
Sick and evil - it is their heritage!!! lunasun Mar 2014 #3
heritage! napkinz Mar 2014 #9
Excellent post jsr Mar 2014 #4
Tea Party fools ... napkinz Mar 2014 #6
...Unless they meant Jamaal510 Mar 2014 #7
re "the right to breathe polluted air" napkinz Mar 2014 #8
the hypocrisy ... napkinz Mar 2014 #10
KICK! Cha Mar 2014 #12
Welfare Queen Koch Brothers Got $88 Million in Government Handouts napkinz Mar 2014 #15
share this napkinz Mar 2014 #16
kick napkinz Mar 2014 #17
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