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Hunting in Brooklyn back in the 1890s.
Christie's auction house will offer a large group of paintings depicting the American West from the collection of billionaire businessman William Koch (kohk). The May 21 single-owner sale of 69 paintings ... You may also remember Koch is currently trying to sell his Aspen ranch for $90 million. Read about that on Forbes.com http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2014/08/27/bill-kochs-aspen-ranch-hits-the-market-for-89-999-million/
Billionaire Bill Koch’s House in Palm Beach, Florida
Billionaire Bill Koch’s House in Palm Beach, Florida
Billionaire Bill Koch’s House in Palm Beach, Florida
Billionaire Bill Koch’s House in Palm Beach, Florida
Billionaire Bill Koch’s Ranch In Aspen - On the Market for $90 Million
Bill Koch At His Home In Palm Beach
The Koch brothers, Texan Industrialist Billionaire's worth an estimated US$24 Billion each (They've each made an additional $1.5 Billion dollars since I first put this up) and said by Greenpeace to be THE "Climate Science Denial Kingpins" and so do I!
Charles and David Koch both back as you'll see in this video, a number of so-called "Conservative" or "Libertarian" groups ALL closely associated with the "Tea Party"!
Koch Carbon, owned by the Koch brothers, sell a HIGH Sulphur COKE, un-useable in the steel manufacturing process due to the HIGH sulphur content.
The COKE comes from a eighty year old refinery owned by Marathon Petroleum who's plant in Detroit processes 28,000 barrels a day already from the Canadian oil sands bitumen which is piling up faster than they can sell it!
They began to refine exports in Detroit, Michigan, directly from the Canadian oil sands of which the Canadians have 79.8 Million tons already stockpiled to be exported to the Koch brothers and Koch Carbon Inc., this has been in place since November 2012.
Even this waste product in the end gets thrown away and where else would you place a three storey high hill covering three football fields of a never ending"Toxic" waste? Detroit of course, right next to the river!
This can be see all the way over in Canada, and the residents of Windsor, Ontario are NOT impressed by this "intelligent" solution for this waste product which their Country produced!
As Third World Countries are lacking Environmental Laws and have Political leaders who are corrupt such as Mexico and China, they still burn this as a fuel, and here's where Charles and David's younger brother William steps in.
William Koch, Owner of Oxbow Corporation, one of the World's largest dealers of petroleum coke is the "Prince of Climate Science Denial".
Oxbow Corporation sells approximately 11 Million tons of this dirty "Fuel-grade" coke a year!
William Koch is getting a "free" waste product from across the river in Canada, refining the majority of it, then "on selling" some of it to poor countries for millions of dollars a year and contributing exponentially way beyond any one man's normal "Carbon Footprint" and getting rewarded for doing that, Where the HELL is the logic in that one?
According to Kerry Satterwaite, a Petroleum Coke analyst at Roskill Information Services based in London "It is worse than a byproduct", It's a waste byproduct that is costly and inconvenient to store, but effectively costs NOTHING to produce" which is why the Koch's are so keen to get the Corporate claws onto it! [slides PDF link, May 23 2013]
Lorne Stockman, who just released a formal study into Petroleum Coke for the Environmental Group Oil Change International said "It's really the dirtiest residue from the dirtiest oil on earth"
This video is based from the Henry Rollins letter to Ann Coulter video on Youtube, and if you've seen that you'll see the similarities i've incorporated into this video directed towards two of the most Wealthy & Politically connected manipulators of Power, second only to the former Australian Media Baron Rupert Murdoch!
Along with the help of Jello Biafra, i set about explaining some Truths about Charles and David, and how they use their money to subvert Democracy in America today!
Their younger brother William is NOT far behind them in his "Prince of Climate Science Denial" role. #CharleGKoch #JamesDeWeaver
Billionaire William Koch imprisoned and interrogated one of his executives at a secluded Aspen ranch, under a sheriff's guard, because the executive suspected Koch's companies of tax evasion, the employee claims in Federal Court.
Kirby Martensen, of Berkeley, Calif., says he was an executive for several companies owned and controlled by William Koch, including Oxbow Carbon & Minerals Inc. (OCM) and Oxbow Carbon & Minerals International (OCM International), until March, when he says he was suddenly fired.
OCM and OCM International are part of the Oxbow Group, an energy development holding company based in West Palm Beach, Fla. Koch founded the Oxbow Group in the 1980s after leaving his family's oil-refining conglomerate, Koch Industries.
Oxbow Carbon is the largest distributor of petroleum coke in the world, with annual shipments of nearly 11 million metric tons to U.S., Asian, European, Latin American and Pacific Rim markets, according to the company's website.
Martensen says OCM International promoted him to senior vice president, Asia, in 2011, and he relocated to the company's Singapore office with promises that his family's expenses and his children's education would be covered.
"Martensen understood that the goal of this assignment was to help legitimize OCM's Bahamian shell company," according to the complaint in the Northern District of California. "This included, but was not limited to, discussions and negotiations concerning the sourcing of pet-coke and sales to Asian customers. Plaintiff was informed that the move to Asia was for tax purposes. More than 75 percent of Oxbow's fuel-grade petroleum coke export profits were derived from its Asian trading business. Plaintiff has information and believes this relocation was part of a plan being implemented to evade paying taxes to the United States on profits in excess of $200,000,000 per year.
"In 2011, William Koch was notified of an anonymous letter alleging that Martensen and another employee Larry Black had been engaging in theft, breaches of fiduciary duty, fraud, and self-dealing against the Oxbow companies. Based on this information William Koch directed a lengthy comprehensive forensic review of thousands of documents, including the written corporate communications files (letters, memoranda, electronic corporate communications, etc) of several employees, including Martensen.
"Based on this surreptitious review of plaintiff's emails and voice communications Koch learned that Martensen and others expressed concern of the legality of what they were doing on behalf of Oxbow and their distrust of upper management. As a result, William Koch promoted and implemented a plan to intimidate and discredit plaintiff for the purpose of chilling his speech and damaging his credibility." (Parentheses in complaint).
Koch is the only defendant named in the lawsuit.
The billionaire allegedly used "false pretenses" to lure Martensen and other executives to Bear Ranch, his property near Aspen, in March.
Martensen says the property was secluded, accessible only through a private road, and had no cellphone reception or other connections with the outside world.
After Martensen flew in from San Francisco, Koch drove him and other employees to Bear Ranch to spend the night, according to the complaint.
Martensen describes the ensuing odyssey in the complaint:
"Martensen and other guests had breakfast at the ranch the next morning followed by a business meeting. Martensen and others were then invited by Mr. Koch to tour his Western town nearby - a collection of approximately 50 buildings designed to appear like an authentic late 19th century western town. This was followed by a helicopter tour of the ranch and a lunch hosted by Mr. Koch in one of the town meeting rooms.
"Following lunch Martensen and others were told by Mr. Koch that they would be interviewed by a compensation specialist as part of a 360 degree peer review. Martensen was then escorted to a small room and interviewed by two agents of Koch. The interview turned into an interrogation that lasted several hours. Martensen was accused of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to defraud Oxbow and Koch of millions of dollars, accepting bribes from competitors and 'diverting freight to a known competitor.'
"Following the interrogation Martensen was escorted to a SUV and directed to sit in [the] back. It was now approximately 5:00 p.m. Just outside of town the vehicle stopped, windows were rolled down, and Martensen was served with his termination papers and a lawsuit. As the vehicle returned to the ranch, Martensen asked where he was being taken. He was told by the driver that he would be taken to Aspen. Martensen then was driven to the main house on the ranch to collect his belongings.
"When collecting his belongings an agent of William Koch searched his suitcase and toiletries. Martensen then was escorted to a SUV and driven to a nearby cabin on the ranch. The driver then ordered Martensen to get out of the vehicle and escorted him to a cabin. While escorting Martensen the driver told Martensen, 'A sheriff is here to make sure you don't wander off.' Martensen observed a marked police vehicle parked nearby with a man in uniform behind the wheel. The police vehicle was clearly visible from the window of the room in which Martensen was imprisoned.
"After three hours of captivity Martensen was told to collect his things and that he would be taken to an airport. Martensen was directed to get in a SUV with a former co-worker, Charlie Zahn, and two agents of William Koch (driver and escort). Martensen asked to be driven to Aspen because he had a scheduled flight from Aspen to San Francisco the next morning. This request was denied. Martensen was told that he was being taken to Denver. Martensen then was kidnapped and kept captive in the vehicle during the trip to Denver.
"Martensen was driven to a small airport in the Denver area and escorted to a private plane. It was now approximately 2:00 a.m. on March 23, 2012. Martensen and Zahn were ordered to get into the plane. The private jet was manned by a pilot, co-pilot and escort Martensen believed was armed. The plane landed in Oakland, Calif. At approximately 4:00 a.m. On arrival Martensen was told that a car was waiting to take him to a nearby Marriot Courtyard Hotel. Martensen refused the request and asked an airport employee to call a cab. A cab arrived and Martensen left." (Parentheses in complaint).
Martensen says he suffered great anxiety, fear, humiliation and emotional distress.
He seeks compensatory and punitive damages for false imprisonment and civil conspiracy.
Martensen is represented by John Houston Scott in San Francisco.
After this story went to press, Brad Goldstein, Oxbow's director of corporate affairs, called the lawsuit "a desperate attempt" to divert attention form Martensen's wrongdoing.
"It's a desperate act by a desperate man," Goldstein told Courthouse News in a telephone interview. "His claims about being held against his will are ludicrous. He had been to Bear Ranch on numerous occasions, and to Mr. Koch's house in West Palm Beach, and to many other corporate retreats. He could have gotten up and left any time."
Goldstein added: "The fact of the matter is many of Martensen's co-conspirators have already confessed and some have implicated him."
Billionaire William Koch imprisoned and interrogated one of his executives at a secluded Aspen ranch, under a sheriff's guard, because the executive suspected Koch's companies of tax evasion, the employee claims in Federal Court.
Koch Employee Says Billionaire Kidnapped & Interrogated Him