{"id":18979,"date":"2016-01-12T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18979"},"modified":"2016-01-12T11:17:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:17:20","slug":"more-nazi-support-warns-of-republican-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/more-nazi-support-warns-of-republican-reich\/","title":{"rendered":"More Nazi Support Warns of Republican Reich!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Other than what they do to transfer wealth from the poor and middle classes to the 0.1%, everything Republicans do is to establish a permanent Republican Reich, a totalitarian fascist plutocracy in which elections exist only for show, because the outcomes are predetermined.&#160; Support for the Nazis is deeply embedded in the Republican hierarchy.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0112Kochs\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0112Kochs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/0112Kochs.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The father of the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch helped construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was personally approved by Adolf Hitler, according to a new history of the Kochs and other wealthy families.<\/p>\n<p>The book, \u201cDark Money,\u201d by Jane Mayer, traces the rise of the modern conservative movement through the activism and money of a handful of rich donors: among them Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking fortune, and Harry and Lynde Bradley, brothers who became wealthy in part from military contracts but poured millions into anti-government philanthropy.<\/p>\n<p>But the book is largely focused on the Koch family, stretching back to its <strong>involvement in the far-right John Birch Society and the political and business activities of the father, Fred C. Koch, who found some of his earliest business success overseas in the years leading up to World War II. One venture was a partnership with the American Nazi sympathizer William Rhodes Davis, who, according to Ms. Mayer, hired Mr. Koch to help build the third-largest oil refinery in the Third Reich, a critical industrial cog in Hitler\u2019s war machine<\/strong>\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/12\/us\/politics\/father-of-koch-brothers-helped-build-nazi-oil-refinery-book-says.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Koch Family is not alone.&#160; Several prominent families were Nazi supporters.&#160; Perhaps the worst was the Bush family, who helped Hitler rise to power.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kBKMN-pdp6M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Even after the US entered the war, Prescott Bush continued to trade with the Nazi Reich until the US froze his assets and threatened to imprison him.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2004\/sep\/25\/usa.secondworldwar\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian had an excellent article on Prescott Bush and the Nazis<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The more things change, the more they stay the same.&#160; WEW must prevent a Republican Reich!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other than what they do to transfer wealth from the poor and middle classes to the 0.1%, everything Republicans do is to establish a permanent Republican Reich, a totalitarian fascist plutocracy in which elections exist only for show, because the outcomes are predetermined.&#160; Support for the Nazis is deeply embedded in the Republican hierarchy. 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