To quote my old Fourth Grade teacher, Miss Stoy, "You bet your bottom
booties they're watching you". And me, too. Bullies and cowards are
not prone to playing fair. So I always assume someone is being bored,
reading what I toss out. I don't like it, but I would be shocked if I
learned that they did not spy on their opposition. What scares the
socks off me, however, is the rabid cackling, cheering crowd sucking
up every mean spirited word that drools out of the mouth of
Presidential Candidate Donald Trump. True to the "Play Book" of the
Radical Right, Trump turns Working Class men and women against
themselves. There are all sorts of implications in these recent rants
by Trump. And none of them are good.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/24/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Herzog writes: "There's a secret intelligence network funded by evil
billionaire brothers determined to choose the next American president. No,
that's not the plot of the new James Bond movie - it's life in the U.S.A.
circa 2015."
David Koch and his brother Charles are trying to buy young peoples minds.
(photo: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters/Corbis)
No, You're Not Paranoid: The Koch Brothers Really Are Spying on You
By Katie Herzog, Grist
23 November 15
There's a secret intelligence network funded by evil billionaire brothers
determined to choose the next American president. No, that's not the plot
of
the new James Bond movie - it's life in the U.S.A. circa 2015.
A Politico article reveals that industrialist brothers Charles and David
Koch have a team of 25 - including at least one former CIA operative -
quietly gathering intelligence on the American left. "The operation,"
reporter Kenneth Vogel writes, "which is little-known even within the Koch
network, gathers what Koch insiders refer to as 'competitive intelligence'
that is used to try to thwart liberal groups and activists, and to identify
potential threats to the expansive network."
Terrifying! But is it really all that surprising? The Kochs are reportedly
sinking $889 million into this campaign season. Why not have a secret
agency
to spy on the opposition too?! Gotta cover all your bases when you're
dropping nearly a billion dollars on an election.
The motivation for this secret spy network, according to Politico, was the
2012 presidential election, when the Kochs' handpicked heir to the White
House was trounced by the Democratic incumbent. But the brothers want more
than just a president in their pocket. "While the Republican Party focuses
on winning elections, the Kochs want to realign American politics,
government and society around free enterprise philosophies that they hope
to
spread more broadly," Vogel writes. That's right: Welcome to Earth, brought
to you by Koch Industries.
Here's more from Politico:
In addition to delving into the left, the competitive intelligence team
also
monitors potential Koch network threats, according to sources familiar with
it. It tracks people deemed suspicious outside the offices of Koch network
groups, circulating be-on-the-lookout photos to internal network email
lists, while keeping an eye on the network's own ranks for possible leakers
or disloyal employees.
One former network executive remembers an email containing a photo of a man
identified as an operative with the environmental group Greenpeace who
allegedly had been spotted taking his own photos outside the network's
cluster of offices in the Courthouse neighborhood of Arlington.
Connor Gibson, a Greenpeace researcher who focuses on the Koch network,
said
he visits its component groups' offices once a year to pick up their tax
filings, and he speculated he could have been the operative photographed by
the competitive intelligence unit. While he said he's never sought to
conceal his identity during such visits, he added "If the Kochs consider me
an opponent, I'm flattered."
In another instance, sources say, [the surveillance] team set out to
identify an IT contractor who was working for one of the network's groups
and was posting anonymous messages to Reddit, proclaiming that he worked
for
the Koch brothers but despised their stances. Within 48 hours, the team had
sleuthed out the offender and his contract was terminated.
"They were scared to death of moles," said the former executive.
And the rest of us should be scared to death of them.
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David Koch and his brother Charles are trying to buy young peoples minds.
(photo: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters/Corbis)
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spying-on-you/http://grist.org/article/no-youre-not-paranoid-the-koch-brothe
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No, You're Not Paranoid: The Koch Brothers Really Are Spying on You
By Katie Herzog, Grist
23 November 15
here's a secret intelligence network funded by evil billionaire brothers
determined to choose the next American president. No, that's not the plot
of
the new James Bond movie - it's life in the U.S.A. circa 2015.
A Politico article reveals that industrialist brothers Charles and David
Koch have a team of 25 - including at least one former CIA operative -
quietly gathering intelligence on the American left. "The operation,"
reporter Kenneth Vogel writes, "which is little-known even within the Koch
network, gathers what Koch insiders refer to as 'competitive intelligence'
that is used to try to thwart liberal groups and activists, and to identify
potential threats to the expansive network."
Terrifying! But is it really all that surprising? The Kochs are reportedly
sinking $889 million into this campaign season. Why not have a secret
agency
to spy on the opposition too?! Gotta cover all your bases when you're
dropping nearly a billion dollars on an election.
The motivation for this secret spy network, according to Politico, was the
2012 presidential election, when the Kochs' handpicked heir to the White
House was trounced by the Democratic incumbent. But the brothers want more
than just a president in their pocket. "While the Republican Party focuses
on winning elections, the Kochs want to realign American politics,
government and society around free enterprise philosophies that they hope
to
spread more broadly," Vogel writes. That's right: Welcome to Earth, brought
to you by Koch Industries.
Here's more from Politico:
In addition to delving into the left, the competitive intelligence team
also
monitors potential Koch network threats, according to sources familiar with
it. It tracks people deemed suspicious outside the offices of Koch network
groups, circulating be-on-the-lookout photos to internal network email
lists, while keeping an eye on the network's own ranks for possible leakers
or disloyal employees.
One former network executive remembers an email containing a photo of a man
identified as an operative with the environmental group Greenpeace who
allegedly had been spotted taking his own photos outside the network's
cluster of offices in the Courthouse neighborhood of Arlington.
Connor Gibson, a Greenpeace researcher who focuses on the Koch network,
said
he visits its component groups' offices once a year to pick up their tax
filings, and he speculated he could have been the operative photographed by
the competitive intelligence unit. While he said he's never sought to
conceal his identity during such visits, he added "If the Kochs consider me
an opponent, I'm flattered."
In another instance, sources say, [the surveillance] team set out to
identify an IT contractor who was working for one of the network's groups
and was posting anonymous messages to Reddit, proclaiming that he worked
for
the Koch brothers but despised their stances. Within 48 hours, the team had
sleuthed out the offender and his contract was terminated.
"They were scared to death of moles," said the former executive.
And the rest of us should be scared to death of them.
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