#COVID #TrumpRegime #KochNetwork #DarkMoney

"The academy was inspired by the pandemic. 'As we reflect on the worst public health fiasco in history, our pandemic response has unveiled serious issues with how science is administered,' noted the college president in a press release.

But the venture isn't exactly an effort to apply science to the COVID-19 crisis. The so-called 'fiasco' was government pandemic measures like mask and vaccine mandates, contact tracing, and lockdowns.

Hillsdale is a conservative Christian institution with ties to the Trump administration. And the scholars behind the academy — Scott Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya, and Martin Kulldorff — are connected to right-wing dark money attacking public health measures.

The trio also has ties to the Great Barrington Declaration, a widely-rebuked yet influential missive that encouraged governments to adopt a 'herd immunity' policy letting COVID-19 spread largely unchecked, even as the virus has killed more than 800,000 Americans.

The academy is the newest initiative designed to provide intellectual cover to a nearly two-year campaign by right-wing and big business interests to force a return to normalcy to boost corporate profits amid a pandemic that is now surging once again thanks to Omicron."

https://www.levernews.com/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/

How The Koch Network Hijacked The War On COVID

As Omicron surges, a shadowy institute filled with fringe doctors appears to be part of big business’ two-year strategy to legitimize attacks on pandemic interventions.

The Lever

A new report by @taylorlorenz for WIRED reveals how a web of dark money, with scope that's drawn comparison to the Koch network, has been used to coerce liberal influencers into parroting Blue MAGA talking points, with lucrative contracts tied to strict censorship clauses.

The program is unironically called "Chorus," and the first rule of the liberal "Chorus" is that you don't talk about the Chorus...

https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers

#uspol #SixteenThirtyFund #chorus #BlueMAGA #darkmoney #KochNetwork

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.

WIRED

@w7voa

The 1% funded a fascist movement and they're finding out the consequences.

Smoot Hawley & WW2 cost over $4 trillion in today's dollars and ended 90 million lives.

The six dynasties funding Project 2025 are about to find out what Trump's tariffs and a WW3 will cost them.

#KochNetwork
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife, Seid, Uihlein

#RockbridgeNetwork
Musk, Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison, Rebekah Mercer, Omeed Malik

Miriam Adelson, Jeff Yass, Schwarzman, Paul Singer, Ken Griffin, Koum

@UweHalfHand @wdlindsy

#KochNetwork owns & operates the very best prognosticators.
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148376084/exxon-climate-predictions-were-accurate-decades-ago-still-it-sowed-doubt

Nate Silver was paid to produce election maps targeting women voters.

Lo & behold, calls to repeal the 19th Amendment surge, and the SAFE act is passed that will disenfranchise an estimated 30 million married & divorced women.
https://suffrageandthemedia.org/source/19th-amendment-social-media-trending-repealthe19th/

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/

They knew that prolonging the covid pandemic with disinformation would trigger a government bailout.

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The Other Transatlantic Alliance | Internationale Politik Quarterly

Challenges to the liberal West are no longer limited to Russia and China. Within the West, a new generation of transatlantic right-wing populists are networking and looking to attack the establishment, as developments in France show.

@GottaLaff

#KochNetwork analyzed what worked & didn't work for Jan 6.

They're improving the business process of their fascism with each attempt. They're getting better at it.

The billionaires behind the Cato Institute recognize the need to "practice, practice, practice" fascism until it succeeds.

Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife, Seid, Uihlein don't care about the consequences.
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/

Hitler had his practice run too.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/1923-nazis-coming-to-power/

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025

Unraveling a $130 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties.

DeSmog
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.

The Intercept

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Turkey was helping Putin evade oil sanctions.
https://www.agbi.com/oil-and-gas/2025/01/turkey-hopes-to-offer-russia-gas-route-into-europe/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-18/turkey-shifts-away-from-russian-crude-as-tupras-buys-from-brazil

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Turkey-Gets-Waiver-to-Pay-for-Russian-Gas-via-Sanctioned-Gazprombank.html

To keep its captive consumer markets, cheap Russian oil is necessary.

If #KochNetwork & OPEC are to keep funding anti-democracy movements globally, they need a cheap source of oil. By invasion if necessary.

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-us-saudi-arctic-energy-rdif-ukraine-russia-capital/

The six dynasties of Project 2025 (Koch, Coors, Bradley, Scaife, Seid, Uihlein) want to end any democracy acting on climate.

Turkey hopes to offer Russia a gas route into Europe

Following the closure of a pipeline from Russia through Ukraine, Turkey hopes it can benefit by providing a new path for Russian gas

AGBI
Revealed: The Charles Koch Foundation's Staggering Donations to UK's Top Universities

New research by Byline Times reveals that billionaire oil magnate Charles Koch – behind hundreds of millions in annual donations promoting climate science disinformation and right-wing causes in the US – has been contributing to academic research in UK institutions

Byline Times