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Weather reports should come with sponsorship statements like "This deadly hurricane brought to you by ExxonMobil and 50 years of climate denial politicians."
Or
"This destructive winter storm brought to you by a failing Gulf Stream current in the Atlantic Ocean and #KochNetwork ."
Or
"This disastrous flooding, that will increase grocery prices by 30%, is brought to you by Tory politicians in the pay of Saudi Arabia and Russia. "
We have the same CDC & WHO ineptitude going on about particulate size & public health with wildfire smoke & fossil fuel industry air pollution.
Instead of upgrading & modernizing HVAC systems to cope with both climate-caused wildfire particulates & airborne viruses, public buildings are doing odd things like wiping down surfaces or recirculating indoor air instead.
Add that to the risks of increased air pollution that #KochNetwork, Putin & Musk are brewing...
To be freed of fossil fuel funded fascism:
A fossil fuel phase-out starves OPEC, Russia, & #KochNetwork of the money needed for their attacks on democracy & climate action to succeed.
An accelerated transition to solar, wind, and hydro might just save the planet from frying.
It might also avert the subversion of democracy into petro-state despotism.
Too much Republican & Tory funding comes from the oil industry & its proxies in Wall Street & Silicon Valley.
Perhaps Labour has finally recognized that all democracies are under attack by fossil fuel interests.
Cross Musk & he takes his petro-state investment dollars & incites a riot
France & astroturf Yellow Vests.
Canada & #KochNetwork antivaxxer blockades.
USA & fossil fuel-funded Jan 6
Australia & coal
The industry is prepared to do anything, literally anything, to any democracy threatening a fossil fuel phase out
Funding fascism, xenophobia, & climate denial is just the start
That's another thing that Republican voters ignore: the legal settlements coming down the pike for GOP crimes against humanity.
Taxpayers pay for Trump's cruelty.
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Wonder how much Arnault will get from Musk's investors?
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Wonder how much Ukraine will eventually get out of Musk, for his betrayal?
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Or out of #KochNetwork for ecocide?
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Big oil faces a rising number of climate-focused lawsuits, report finds
Communities, states and advocacy groups push to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for role in climate crisisDharna Noor (The Guardian)
A fascist movement is multi-layered and took years to establish.
A single election cycle wasn't going to cure it.
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#KochNetwork oil money plus the fossil fuel money of Russia & OPEC funded the making of MAGA for decades.
Yes, an ecosystem of news media is needed but it'll be battling half-hearted billionaire allies like Hoffman & Cuban who can switch on a dime to the other side.
The Elon Musk effect: How Donald Trump gained from billionaire’s support
Tech tycoon played pivotal role in Trump win, pumping money into campaign and using X to megaphone hardline MAGA views.Lorraine Mallinder (Al Jazeera)
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As the mainstream media platforms disingenuous "Blame Democrats" narratives for Trump's re-election, remember that #KochNetwork torpedoed literacy levels for 50 years.
Pollsters miss the 30% of the electorate with difficulty reading. Limited social media because they can't read. A postcard or a pamphlet lacks meaning.
They rely on friends & family for news.
Mainstream news is pundits talking to other pundits about their feelz and vibes, not facts or data.
#KochNetwork also spent decades sabotaging the public education system.
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The average literacy level in the USA has plummeted as a consequence.
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After Trump eliminates the Dept of Education, even these limited statistics will vanish.
What’s the latest U.S. literacy rate?
Can they read you now? Half of Americans have basic or below-basic skills.Ann Wylie (Wylie Communications Inc.)
Good books on Systems Thinking.
Derek & Laura Cabrera "Systems Thinking"
David Peter Stroh "Systems Thinking for Social Change"
Albert Rutherford "The Systems Thinker"
It can be applied to so many global problems, like backsliding democracies & fossil fuel funded fascism.
#KochNetwork & #AtlasNetwork spent 50 years building a right wing ecosystem to keep its captive consumers captivated.
A bandaid was attempted by focusing only on electing Democrats.
Voting is ...
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Public education has long been a target of #KochNetwork for a reason.
Building a fascist movement from the ground up requires access to young minds.
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Why the Koch Brothers Are Funding Colleges
What’s new and interesting about the Koch brothers’ approach to funding academicsDave Levinthal (The Atlantic)
Here's another scary thought
Megadonors like #KochNetwork want to shut down the Dept. Of Education & privatize all schools
Guess who invests in both charter schools AND private prisons? Jeff Yass & Peter Thiel
Want CoreCivic & GeoGroup running your child's high school on a lucrative no-bid contract?
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California May Have Voted to Keep Slavery in Prisons
Prisoners in California will still be forced to fight wildfires and make furniture for minimal pay, as voters appear to have rejected Proposition 6.Naomi LaChance (Rolling Stone)
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... sabotage a company's Nazi products. Even temporary delays in the DevOp are useful.
Malicious compliance & goldbricking can take many forms.
Poison the LLM's used in Saudi-funded AI with poor data quality practices? Never met a manager who wouldn't leap at a chance to reduce costs by cutting corners on quality.
Or introduce subtle flaws in a cryptocurrency algorithm?
This attack on democracy was funded by #KochNetwork, China, Saudi Arabia, and Russia.
Payback is a b*tch.
#KochNetwork put a lot of effort into destroying the elements that shore up democracy.
Public education was an early target for every Republican administration.
A single Scott Walker GOP governorship turned a decent education system into a shambles.
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Average literacy in the USA is down past 9th grade & dropping.
Abysmal reading scores in Wisconsin: Causes, effects, solutions
Reading scores have decreased among Wisconsin students, and educators are working toward solutions.Sydney Steidl (Abysmal reading scores in Wisconsin: Causes, effects, solutions - The Daily Cardinal)
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... system is weakened or distracted.
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Post-polio syndrome is similar in pattern.
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Example:
Bill Barr (virus) hid in a telecom & a conservative law firm Kirkland & Ellis (neurons) after the Starr Report (infection) until reactivated for the Trump administration (reinfection).
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That's what #KochNetwork provides: a cache of ready-made partisan hacks.
The analogy I use for #KochNetwork 's practice of providing "jobs" for their hacks after their utility ends: Sinecures & Shingles, an allegory
A fascist movement doesn't discard their supporters: they sideline & recycle them, (or end them.)
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Sinecures & Shingles:
Shingles is a viral post-chicken pox disease. It lurks hidden in neural tissue until opportunity presents itself when the immune...
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Ken Starr, whose criminal investigation led to Bill Clinton's impeachment, dies
Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president's impeachment, died Tuesday at age 76, his family says.PBS News
James O'Keefe is a guy who steals from his own right wing organization
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Funded by #KochNetwork.
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James O'Keefe Accused of Mismanaging Project Veritas Funds: Audit
An internal audit found James O'Keefe used the right-wing group's funds for personal purchases, including luxury travel, DJ equipment, and liquor.Peter Wade (Rolling Stone)
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#KochNetwork has a decent record rewarding its hacks.
Ben Sasse gets to co-opt Florida college students.
John Yoo & Kayleigh McNinny get their talking head punditry on Fox News explaining that torture isn't bad.
Bill Barr got funding for law practices & speaking tours.
Kushner got $2 billion from the Saudis for classified secrets.
Judge Cannon got a promotion for thwarting Trump's trial for theft.
Trump was rewarded by Musk, MBS & Putin for selling out CIA agents.
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It's obvious that a rapid phase out of fossil fuels must happen
Cryptocurrency & AI are signs that petro-state despots are laying the groundwork for the future, if they fail to buy a Trump presidency.
Wall Street, #KochNetwork, #AtlasNetwork, OPEC, & BRIC are gearing up for a seismic shift in the trade; where fossil fuel is traded globally as a black market economic commodity, as their toxic product is phased out.
Instead of monitoring Musk's private jet flights, monitor oil tankers...
The oil industry & far right movements go hand in hand.
So does the public corruption & anti-democracy sentiment, just like Texas. These donors want their version of theocratic oil oligarchy to go national under Trump.
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The USA & UK have very limited coverage of the fossil fuel funded influence networks operating #KochNetwork & #AtlasNetwork
Canada, Australia, France, Japan & New Zealand - all democracies threatened by fossil fuel disinformation
In Texas fundraising, Greg Abbott is in a league of his own
The two-term governor’s donors enjoy access, appointments to boards and commissions, and a chance to bend the ear of a politician who may harbor bigger ambitions.Patrick Svitek (The Texas Tribune)
Now we know why #KochNetwork & #AtlasNetwork fund university endowments.
The academic corruption of business schools, law schools, & graduate studies pays off.
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Ken Griffin believes he & his ilk can buy a presidential win for a fascist, just like they bought a Supreme Court & Jan 6.
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Koch Injected Nearly $500 Million into Hundreds of Colleges and Universities Between 2018 and 2022 - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Nonprofits controlled by Charles Koch funneled $458.7 million to 338 higher education beneficiaries between 2018 and 2022, according to a Center for Media and Democracy analysis of IRS filings by the donor conduits.Colleen Scerpella (EXPOSEDbyCMD)
Putin, OPEC, and #KochNetwork intend to fry the planet. They're even funding fascist movements to ensure planetary level extinction events.
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The fossil fuel industry won't be happy until their greenhouse gas emissions kill billions.
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The industry's $3 billion in profits a day are buying the next "Great Dying" like the Permian extinction.
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Trump’s $1bn pitch to oil bosses ‘the definition of corruption’, top Democrat says
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse calls audacious request ‘definition of corruption’ amid investigation into Mar-a-Lago meeting in AprilPeter Stone (The Guardian)
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#KochNetwork funds attacks on reproductive care to disenfranchise women voters (felony disenfranchisement scheme like the "War on Drugs" & POC)
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Business leaders helped to bankroll the anti-abortion groups who could soon see Roe v. Wade overturned
Anti-abortion lobbying groups backed by corporate leaders have raised over $40 million since Donald Trump became president.Brian Schwartz (CNBC)
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The original EPA judgment came during the Clinton administration.
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#KochNetwork would wage war on the Clintons forevermore in a kind of personal vendetta.
Citizens United came about because of that vendetta against the Clintons.
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The erosion of the EPA's authority would be funded at a corrupt Supreme Court because of that case.
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How Charles Koch Purchased the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision
Decades of contributions aimed at influencing the judiciary bought fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch the EPA ruling he’s always wanted.Sharon Lerner (The Intercept)
#KochNetwork spent a lot of money on climate denying Republicans and a corrupt Supreme Court willing to kneecap the EPA.
This is the result. Billions in damages, pennies in recompense.
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Charles Koch has set aside $5 billion to finish what he started.
Ending Democracy. Frying the planet.
Embedding public corruption everywhere.
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How Charles Koch Purchased the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision
Decades of contributions aimed at influencing the judiciary bought fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch the EPA ruling he’s always wanted.Sharon Lerner (The Intercept)
@boelder @72mz
Trump can create cabinet positions at will with his newly unlimited presidential powers, granted him by a corrupt Supreme Court owned by #KochNetwork
SCOTUS has made bribery & kickbacks into a "gratuity", provided presidential immunity for "official acts", and a pretext for a unitary executive that sidesteps Senate confirmations using "acting" or "temporary" sinecures in #Project2025 .
Trump will be granted power to fire & hire at will for federal employees