RK ARCHIVE - Overlords in a Tree

Instead of graphics, some of the information is now organized in a tree via FreeMind. The structures and relationships are so complex that forcing down to a simple tree structure imposes some much needed simplicity.

You only see nine nodes in the initial display, but altogether there are about 100 or so as you open the nodes up.
Locally, the output looks like the color picture. The web link is b/w but it's now interactive.

Java has to be enabled in your browser to use it. In firefox Tools -> Options -> Enable java.
Click on the outside (away from the root Kochtopus) to open and close the node. Click near the arrow to go to a link on the node subject. If there are no children nodes and there is a link, then you'll be taken to the link no matter where you click on the node. It would be to have a visual cue for a terminal node in the web content. The little circle is the cue in the application.

If you would rather use freemind on your machine, download it from above. You can get the kochtopus file at http://www.skatha.co... and save as anything with an mm extension.

2. Oscar Wyatt went to jail for his involvement with Oil for Food. The Koch people were not charged as far as I know. Wyatt contributed to Dems, Koch to Republicans.

Graphics don't embed in the document, so one is missing. Here is the part of the IIC document that shows that Koch was involved in Oil for Food:

3. Attorney Ben Ginsberg is a critical link between the Bush administration, the Koch machine and the Swift Boat Vets.

when forces collide
with the damage strewn wide
and holes blasted straight through the fence
-- Emily Saliers

Comments

Interesting stuff (Kindler - 1/27/2007 10:34:03 PM)

Many of the Bush administration's appointees (sub-cabinet level) are drawn from the right wing foundations and centers funded by Koch -- like GMU's Mercatus Center and the Reason Foundation.

P.S.: isn't "Rich Fink" is a pretty appropriate name for an Exec. VP of Koch?

Thanks, Kindler (Kathy Gerber - 1/28/2007 12:17:58 AM)

I wonder if there's an easy way to find out who they are and add them in.

To name a few... (Kindler - 1/28/2007 3:58:46 PM)

Perhaps someplace there's a database of appointees with their bios. I just can think of a few examples:

Susan Dudley, Mercatus Center -- Senate just refused to consider her as a top appointee at OMB, so now she's a "consultant" there.

Lynn Scarlett, Reason Institute -- Depty. Secy. of Interior

Brian Mannix, Mercatus Ctr. -- Assoc. Administrator for Policy, EPA

I'm sure there are many more...

Thanks! (Kathy Gerber - 1/28/2007 8:41:32 PM)

I just saw many more at the pff page for the Aspen Summit.

... that's going to be more labor intensive to find the right links.. Maybe the overall theme can be something linke "middlings" instead of "underlings"

And in case you weren't frightened enough by the "vast right wing conspiracy" (AnonymousIsAWoman - 1/28/2007 2:30:25 PM)

Thanks Kathy. The theocrats, dominionists and Opus Dei members would not be so powerful without the funding they get from groups and individuals like these, who have their own agenda, which may be different from that of the people they fund but is dangerous just the same.

AIAW (Kathy Gerber - 1/28/2007 8:42:57 PM)

Here's another map - check out the Arlington group under religion (upper left node).

http://www.skatha.co...