One of the Koch network’s most powerful allies was on board: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Though Charles Koch is one of the 25 richest people in the world, worth an estimated $64 billion, he raises money from other wealthy people to amplify the network’s reach. The network brought in at least $700 million in 2021, the most recent year for which data is available. It has more than 1,000 employees who, on paper, work for different groups.

But for all its complexity, the network is a centralized operation, staffers said. Many of the groups occupy the same buildings in Arlington, Virginia, and share leadership and often staff. Many of the donations go into a central pot, from which hundreds of millions of dollars are disbursed to the smaller groups focused on various political and social concerns, according to tax filings and former employees.

For decades, the Kochs have held deep antipathy to government regulation. When Charles Koch’s brother David ran for vice president on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1980, the party platform called for abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy and the Food and Drug Administration.

Every winter, the network holds its marquee fundraising event in the Coachella Valley in Southern California. Hundreds of donors fly in to learn how their money is being spent and plan for the coming year. Former staffers describe an emphasis on preventing leaks that bordered on obsession. The network often rents out an entire hotel for the event, keeping out eavesdroppers. Documents left behind are methodically shredded. One recent attendee recalled Koch security staff in a golf cart escorting their Uber driver out of the hotel to make sure he left. The former staffers spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation.

Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus

nejakej okamura opet a kolovratek s clauserem, clintel, modely neumi apod

To Gretu nepotěší. Vůbec není... - Tomio Okamura - SPD
https://www.facebook.com/100044413300319/posts/pfbid029UEScGwghfWpSnXdFkfnWhyE4dt4BWUHPkxsmZQNS98FwUg8GUoCiSKymCCysZwgl/?app=fbl

TUHO: recenze naomi oreskes na knizku “rise of deadly anti-science” - o paralelach mezi antivax hnutim a climate denial

TUHO: Another suggestion in the book is that academic institutions and scientific organisations need to do more to stand up against anti-scientific aggression, and to encourage scientific outreach and public engagement. Hotez notes that the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine—along with many individual scientists—have largely stood on the sidelines of these debates, most likely for fear of being seen to be “political”. As Hotez argues, the difficulty with this position is that the anti-science problem we face is political. When scientists refuse to acknowledge this, we are being unscientific, because we are ignoring evidence. Similarly, when scientists dismiss anti-scientific claims as “emotional”, we are ignoring the well-established evidence that most people respond more to emotional appeals—and appeals to core values—than they do to dry facts. And when we stand on the sidelines, refusing on principle to become involved in a partisan debate, we allow anti-scientific forces to frame the terms of that debate.

KEB: muzu se ptat stejne, kde se bere ta pohadka, ze se pripoji .. na produkci ze solaru a vetru nema ani osminu, fosilni produkce v absolutnich cislech roste rychleji nez OZE ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_China

NYRLEM: kde se pořád bere ta pohádka o tom, že svět se nepřipojí? Čína staví v obnovitelných zdrojích víc než celý svět dohromady, valí reaktor za reaktorem a prý se chystá zavádět vlastní systém povolenek.

California is the world’s largest economy to file a climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies, joining more than 40 other U.S. states and municipalities

CALIFORNIA — California has sued ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute to make them pay for lying to the public for decades about their fossil fuel products’ central role in the climate crisis, joining a growing nationwide wave of climate accountability lawsuits against Big Oil.

California Sues Big Oil for Climate Deception
https://climateintegrity.org/news/california-sues-big-oil-for-climate-deception

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Alexandr Vondra ostře o von der Leyenové: Green Deal je tragédie - CNN Prima NEWS
https://cnn.iprima.cz/vondra-ostre-o-leyenove-green-deal-je-tragedie-vsechno-zdrazuje-a-horko-je-furt-dal-411958