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Business-Managed Democracy

“Business-managed democracies are those in which the political and cultural arrangements are managed in the interests of business”

Sharon Beder

Business-Managed Environment

Koch Industries and Global Warming

Koch Funding of Global Warming Denial

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The Koch foundations have provided more than $60 million to groups that oppose climate change action between 1997 and 2010, almost $38 million of this between 2005 and 2010.

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Koch funding of think tanks has included:

Koch funding of front groups has included:

Source: 'Koch Brothers - The Kochtopus', mrpolity1, 2 June 2011.
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Political Lobbying

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Koch protestKoch Industries contributed more than $1.8 million during the 2008 elelctions, mostly to Republicans, and has been the largest oil and gas industry donor to electoral campaigns since 2006, spending $7.27 on political donations between 2006 and 2010.

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Koch Industries spent $20 million on lobbying in 2008, including almost $18 million on oil and gas issues.

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In the 2012 elections, the Charles and David Koch and their companies contributed over $2 million directly, 95% going to Republican candidates, but they channelled much more to the Republican Party through "outside-spending groups that don't have to disclose their donors", particularly Americans for Prosperity (AFP) a non-profit foundation founded by David Koch that funded anti-Obama television ads in the lead up to the election. AFP disclosed that is spent $36.7 million. Charles and David Koch in fact pledged $60 million to defeat Obama.

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