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http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fred_C._Koch<\/a><\/p>\n At some point in the recent past, you probably have heard the “Koch Brothers” mentioned [Cue the evil hissing from MSNBC]<\/p>\n Fred C Koch was the father of the Koch Brothers, two of whom run Koch Industries.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fred Koch was born in Texas, the son of immigrants from Holland.\u00a0 He went to MIT where he studied chemical engineering.\u00a0\u00a0 He then became involved in the oil business in the midwest United States, then a hotbed of oil producing and refining.\u00a0\u00a0 He co-invented a new process that made it more efficient to create gasoline from crude oil, and was immediately pounced on by the major oil companies and put out of business.<\/p>\n Fred C Koch took his technology instead to the Soviet Union, building plants for them to make gasoline from 1929 to 1932, and then around Europe and the Middle East.\u00a0\u00a0 Following the Russian Revolution in 1918, Lenin died in 1924, and Joseph Stalin took power.\u00a0 In 1928, Joseph Stalin would launch the first of the Five year plans to industrialize Russia pulling people off the farms to work in factories – the result was mass famine in 1933 and a purge of disloyal people in the Great Purge of 1938<\/a><\/p>\n In 1960, Fred Koch wrote a 29 page pamphlet called “A Business man looks at Communism”.<\/p>\n http:\/\/digilib.usm.edu\/cdm\/compoundobject\/collection\/manu\/id\/1420\/show\/1401<\/a><\/p>\n If you have the time, read it all.\u00a0\u00a0 If you read between the lines and use some imagination, you can see him predicting that the Ford Foundation would create Barack Obama in order to become the first Communist President of the United States.<\/p>\n Fred Koch was a co-founder of the John Birch society in 1958 – he was living in Iraq in 1958 when the Soviet backed Revolution overthrew the British controlled Monarchy.<\/p>\n http:\/\/claireconner.com\/2011\/11\/15\/dad-koch\/.<\/a><\/p>\n Back when the TEA party surfaced, I cautioned people to not blindly follow it, but to first ask who is behind it, what do they believe and what are their goals?\u00a0\u00a0 That’s not saying I disagree with them – but if you don’t know the above, when a fake TEA party comes along you won’t be sure which group you want to be involved with and go down a path you don’t understand….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obligatory Wikipedia starting point http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fred_C._Koch At some point in the recent past, you probably have heard the “Koch Brothers” mentioned [Cue the evil hissing from MSNBC] Fred C Koch was the father of the Koch Brothers, two of whom run … Continue reading