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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">=</p><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: none; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/new-report-finds-shadowy-b_2017779.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34);">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/new-report-finds-shadowy-b_2017779.html</a></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: none; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new report released last week on DeSmogBlog <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/10/23/fakery-2-more-funny-finances-free-tax" target="hplink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(57, 152, 0); border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">unravels a scheme that funnels money</a> from the notorious Koch Brothers and the reclusive Chicago industrialist Barre Seid through a third party organization, which in turn makes anonymous donations in the millions to right-wing policy think-tanks.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: none; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a nutshell, the 200+ page report by Silicon valley scientist Dr. John Mashey shows in great detail how the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_the_Koch_brothers" target="hplink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(57, 152, 0); border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Koch brothers</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barre_Seid" target="hplink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(57, 152, 0); border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Barre Seid</a> flow money through two organizations called Donor Trust and Donors Capital Fund, which in turn passes that money on to major right-wing think-tanks like the American Enterprise Institute, Heartland Institute and Americans for Prosperity.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: none; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This money is then used for coordinated efforts to fight things like environmental regulations and the scientific realities of climate change.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: none; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In total over $311 million has been put through the Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund with much of that coming from David and Charles Koch and Barre Seid.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: none; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a summary of findings:</span></strong></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: none; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- The report presents evidence that confirms the speculation that <a href="http://deepclimate.org/2012/02/20/heartlands-anonymous-donor/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(57, 152, 0); border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Chicago Industrialist Barre Seid</a>has pumped millions into the Heartland Institute's "global warming projects" to boost their efforts to fight climate change science [page 57].</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: none; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Money from Barre Seid was pushed through Donors Trust to funded a major expansion of the Heartland Institute to help in their public relations efforts to deny the realities of climate change.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: none; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Shows how the majority of the Donors Capital Board is made up of right wing think tanks heads that also were heavily involved in the fight for Big Tobacco in the 1990's</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: none; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Exposes another philanthropic vehicle established by the Koch Brothers called the "Knowledge and Progress Fund" - this fund has moved over $7m through Donors Trust [page 71].</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: none; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- All funds that go through Donors Trust become tax deductions for the donors with much of that money going to political causes and policy fights.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: none; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Other major recipients of Donors Trust money are: Americans for Prosperity, American Enterprise Institute, Acton Institute, Cato Institute, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy and the Media Research Center.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; border: none; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><a name="more" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px; background-color: rgb(192, 161, 84);" /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px; background-color: rgb(192, 161, 84); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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Follow the money. October 23, PBS Frontline's <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/climate-of-doubt/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34);">Climate of Doubt </a>gave viewers an hour's coverage of the tactics of climate anti-science, its advocates and a quick look into the funding behind it. Read on to follow the money deeper into the funny finances, all free of tax.
Last February,<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/fake-science-fakexperts-funny-finances-free-tax" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34);"> Fake Science, Fakexperts, Funny Finances, Free Of Tax</a> explored some of those issues in detail. More information has been unearthed since, especially on DONORS TRUST, which Robert Brulle discussed with Frontline. Charles Koch and others use DONORS TRUST to anonymize their funding of policy/advocacy groups. The attached revision exposes more detail of the $311 million given through DONORS between 2002-2010, managed by Whitney Ball.
1. Heartland Institute'<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/fakeducation-years-heartland" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34);">s Fakeducation from fakexperts</a> is now integrated (Appendix Y.3).
2. Heartland Financials (H.1) is augmented with data from the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-exposed-internal-documents-unmask-heart-climate-denial-machine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34);">February Heartland Exposed documents</a>. It was known that much of <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34);">Heartland Institute</a>'s funding came via DONORS, and that there was one large donor, speculated by some to be reclusive Chicago businessman <a href="http://deepclimate.org/2012/02/20/heartlands-anonymous-donor/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34);">Barre Seid</a>. The combination of IRS Form 990s, February documents, and other information proves his identity, as the numbers simply do not work otherwise. (H.1.4-1). More detail on donations (H.1.5) shows explicit funding of climate anti-science activities whose tax-free status seems dubious.
3. DONORS TRUST (and DONORS CAPITAL FUND) have been studied in more detail. Robert Brulle found another Charles Koch fund, Knowledge and Progress, which seems to give money only to DONORS. Added to the others he controls (Charles Koch and Claude Lambe), money can flow through three separate funds. Then some of it goes through DONORS TRUST and DONORS CAPITAL FUND, which anonymize it, as Whitney Ball actually writes the checks. Some "<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/new-yorker-exposes-koch-industries-kochtopus-behind-tea-party-and-climate-denial-machine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34);">Kochtopus</a>" tentacles are difficult to see.
Some of this tax-advantaged money lands at George Mason University, including its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mercatus_Center" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34);">Mercatus Center</a> or even better <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Humane_Studies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34);">Institute for Humane Studies</a> ... Chaired by Charles Koch. See<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/see-no-evil-speak-little-truth-break-rules-blame-others" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 50, 34);"> Funding</a> and A.5-A.6 in the report there.
DONORS' grants have been analyzed in detail (I.4). Of ~500 "charities" examined 2002-2010, the Top 40 (I.4.2-1) got 66% of the total, and of that $205M, all but $43M went to policy organizations, such as the American Enterprise Institute ($17M) Heartland Institute ($14M), or Americans for Prosperity Foundation ($11M). About 75% of the $311M given over those 9 years went to policy groups, all tax-free, with real donors anonymized. They must like this, as 2007-2010 accounted for $265M, following a big expansion in 2007.
Finally, in "Whitney Ball, her brother and her father" (I.5) some strange history is explored. Barre Seid funds and Chairs the Chicago Freedom Trust, C/O John Ball (Whitney's brother), located in Salt Lake City. Trustees include Whitney Ball and Adam Myerson, who Chairs DONORS CAPITAL FUND. In tracking all this, I also found discussion of their father, a lawyer whose repeated financial manipulations lost him the right to practice law in West Virginia.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><h2 style="font-size: 1.333em; margin: 0px; color: rgb(58, 113, 143); line-height: 1.188em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="font-size: 16px;">Whitney L. Ball, President</strong> <br style="font-size: 16px;" />President & CEO, DonorsTrust</h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><br style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(92, 92, 92); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;" /><span style="color: rgb(92, 92, 92); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Ms. Ball is President and Chief Executive Officer of DonorsTrust, a donor-advised fund and community foundation established to promote liberty through limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise. Before launching DonorsTrust, Ms. Ball served as Executive Director of </span><a href="http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/" target="blank" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(58, 113, 143); cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">The Philanthropy Roundtable</a><span style="color: rgb(92, 92, 92); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">, as well as Director of Development at the </span><a href="http://www.catoinstitute.org/" target="blank" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(58, 113, 143); cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Cato Institute</a><span style="color: rgb(92, 92, 92); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">. She was also Director of Finance for the Education and Research Institute and Circulation Manager of Consumers' Research Magazine. Additionally, Ms. Ball has consulted with a number of nonprofit organizations and served on governing boards and committees of local volunteer organizations. Currently, Ms. Ball serves on the boards of </span><a href="http://www.donorscapitalfund.org/" target="blank" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(58, 113, 143); cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Donors Capital Fund</a><span style="color: rgb(92, 92, 92); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> and the </span><a href="http://www.spn.org/" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(58, 113, 143); cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">State Policy Network</a><span style="color: rgb(92, 92, 92); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">=</p><h2 class="title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.polluterwatch.com/blog/secret-climate-denial-finance-koch-and-others-hide-tens-millions-through-donors-trust-donors-ca" title="Secret Climate Denial Finance: Koch and Others Hide tens of Millions through Donors Trust & Donors Capital Fund" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">Secret Climate Denial Finance: Koch and Others Hide tens of Millions through Donors Trust & Donors Capital Fund</a></h2><div class="submitted" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.polluterwatch.com/users/cgibson" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">cgibson</a> | 14 February 2013 | 12:13 PM</div><div class="content clearfix" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(188, 190, 192); border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image-blog" style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px 10px 10px 3px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; float: right;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><img src="http://www.polluterwatch.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/profile_main/blog/donorscapital.jpg" alt="" title="" width="180" height="66" class="imagecache imagecache-profile_main imagecache-default imagecache-profile_main_default" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;" /></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">For those familiar with the effort of ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers to bankroll a network of organizations denying basic climate science, a new article in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network" target="blank" title="The Guardian - Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">the Guardian offers some revelatory information on the secret funding network</a> that outweighs even top denier sugar daddies like Koch and Exxon. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15566" src="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Guardian-climate-denial-graph.jpg" title="Guardian climate denial graph" style="border: 0px; margin: 5px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; width: 460px; height: 368px;" /></a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><strong>Donors Trust</strong> and <strong>Donors Capital Fund</strong>, based out of the DC suburb of Alexandria, VA, have sent <strong>$118 million to the '<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/" target="blank" title="Greenpeace: Koch Industries secretly funding the climate denial machine" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">climate denial machine</a>' from 2002-2010</strong>, according to a Greenpeace analysis <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network" target="blank" title="Guardian - Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">featured in the Guardian</a>. The graph above, from the article, illustrates the significance of this money as compared to giants like Koch and Exxon.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Of course, the Koch brothers are part of the Donors Trust network, using the DONORS groups to hide their own giving to a variety of corporate front groups. Because of the obscurity provided by DONORS, we don't know exactly who is getting exactly how much of the Koch payments to Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">An accompanying article by the Guardian shows how the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/donors-trust-funding-climate-denial-networks" target="blank" title="How Donors Trust distributed millions to anti-climate groups" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">DONORS groups provide large portions of organisations' entire budgets</a>, such as the <strong>Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow</strong>, which even among climate deniers is <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/12/27/climate-change-misinformer-of-the-year-marc-mor/191878" target="blank" title="Media Matters - Climate Change Misinformer Of The Year: Marc Morano" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">notably anti-scientific</a>.</p><blockquote style="font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(223, 223, 218); padding: 5px 5px 1px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><em>The support helped the <a href="http://www.cfact.org/" title="" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow</a> (Cfact), expand from $600,000 to $3m annual operation. In 2010, Cfact received nearly half of its budget from those anonymous donors, the records show.</em></p></blockquote><blockquote style="font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(223, 223, 218); padding: 5px 5px 1px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><em>The group's most visible product is the website, <a href="http://climatedepot.com/" title="" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">Climate Depot</a>, a contrarian news source run by Marc Morano. Climate Depot sees itself as the rapid reaction force of the anti-climate cause. On the morning after Obama's state of the union address, Morano <a href="http://climatedepot.com/a/19683/Obama-fails-climate-science-in-his-State-of-the-Union-address--Climate-Depots-pointbypoint-rebuttal-to-the-Presidents-global-warming-claims" title="" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">put out a point by point rebuttal to the section on climate change</a>.</em></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><strong>CFACT is among over a dozen organizations that get <span style="text-decoration: underline;">30%-70% of their total budgets</span> from the two DONORS groups</strong>. As we reported on <a href="http://www.polluterwatch.com/blog/exposed-how-koch-bros-secretly-launder-donations-dirty-front-groups" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">PolluterWatch</a> last October using 2010 IRS tax filings:</p><ul style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><li><strong><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/americans-for-prosperity-found/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">Americans For Prosperity Foundation</a> </strong>got $7.6 million from DONORS groups in 2010,<strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">43% of its budget</span></strong>. AFP Foundation is chaired by David Koch and has received millions in direct funding from Koch foundations since the Koch brothers founded it.</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_a_Constructive_Tomorrow" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;"><strong>Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow</strong></a> (<strong>CFACT</strong>) got $1.3 million from DONORS in 2010,<strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">45% of its budget</span></strong>.</li><li><strong><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/may/05/evangelical-christian-environmentalism-green-dragon" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">Cornwall Alliance</a></strong> (through the James Partnership) got $339,500 from DONORS in 2010, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">75% of its budget</span></strong>.</li><li><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/heartland-institute-hi/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;"><strong>Heartland Institute</strong></a> got $1.6 million from DONORS in 2010, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>27% of it's budget</strong></span>, which came from Chicago billionaire <strong>Barre Seid</strong>(<a href="http://desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/fake2.pdf" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">see p. 67</a>).</li><li><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/state-policy-network-spn/?utma=1.834972712.1309880319.1345044157.1345047894.336&utmb=1.6.10.1345047894&utmc=1&utmx=-&utmz=1.1345047894.336.247.utmcsr=google|utmccn=%28organic%29|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=%28not%20provided%29&utmv=-&utmk=19481784&utma=1.1950733693.1348600277.1350935718.1351183817.23&utmb=1.5.10.1351183817&utmc=1&utmx=-&utmz=1.1350490624.17.10.utmcsr=google|utmccn=%28organic%29|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=%28not%20provided%29|utmcct=/imgres&utmv=-&utmk=208761874" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;"><strong>State Policy Network</strong></a> got 36% of its 2010 budget ($4.8 million) from DONORS. <em>SPN <a href="http://www.spn.org/directory/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">members</a> include just about every climate-denying organization and every conservative think tank in the country</em><strong><em>, </em></strong>including AFP and Heartland.</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Koch is clearly embarrassed by the negative publicity (<em>see press roundup below</em>). Koch "Facts," the company's PR website that lashes back at unfavorable reporting on Koch, <a href="http://www.kochfacts.com/kf/ukindependentmisleadsreaders/" target="blank" title="Koch " facts="Facts" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">attempted to respond</a> to the flood of press on the DONORS groups without mentioning them by name. Similarly, Donors Trust president <strong>Whitney Ball</strong> has done her best to keep Donors Trust and Koch from being synonymous. To be clear--they are not, but the Kochs and their operatives are key players in the Donors network, with people like <strong>Arthur Brooks</strong> of the<strong>American Enterprise Institute</strong> and <strong>Steven Hayward</strong> of the <strong>Pacific Research Institute</strong> helping oversee DONORS operations, including millions in funding to their own organizations.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><em>Greenpeace has more coming on Donors Trust, Donors Capital Fund, Koch Industries and the ongoing misinformation pumping out of the climate denial machine. Stay tuned.</em> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Key articles on <em>Donors Trust</em> and <em>Donors Capital Fund</em>:</strong></span></p><ul style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em;"><li><strong>John Mashey/DeSmogBlog report:</strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong><a href="http://desmogblog.com/2012/10/23/fakery-2-more-funny-finances-free-tax" target="blank" title="John Mashey: Fakexperts report update" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">Fakery 2: More Funny Finances, Free Of Tax</a></span></li><li><strong>The Guardian</strong>: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial think tanks</a></li><li><strong>The Guardian:</strong> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/donors-trust-funding-climate-denial-networks" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">How Donors Trust distributed millions to anti-climate groups</a></li><li><strong>Mother Jones</strong>: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/donors-trust-2011-dark-money-heritage-cato-unions" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">Donors Trust, The Right's Dark-Money ATM, Paid Out $30 Million in 2011</a></li><li><strong>Mother Jones</strong>: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">Exposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement</a></li><li><strong>Center for Public Integrity</strong>: <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/14/12181/donors-use-charity-push-free-market-policies-states" target="blank" title="Center for Public Integrity" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states</a></li><li><strong>International Business Times</strong>: <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/koch-family-uses-fund-channel-millions-anti-climate-science-groups-report-1039906" target="blank" title="International Business Times" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">Koch Family Uses Fund To Channel Millions To Anti-Climate Science Groups: Report</a></li><li><strong>U.K. Daily Mail:</strong> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268070/Billionaire-Charles-Koch-secretive-fund-casts-doubt-climate-change.html#ixzz2Ktl1rtmT" target="blank" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">Revealed: Secretive funding organization 'providing millions to climate change counter-movement on behalf of fossil fuel industry'</a></li><li><strong>The Independent</strong>: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-billionaires-secretly-fund-attacks-on-climate-science-8466312.html" target="blank" title="The Independent" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;">Billionaires Secretly Fund Attacks on Climate Science</a></li><li><strong>PBS FRONTLINE</strong>: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/environment/climate-of-doubt/robert-brulle-inside-the-climate-change-countermovement/" target="blank" title="PBS FRONTLINE - Climate of Doubt" style="color: rgb(235, 78, 27); text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Climate of Doubt</span> interview with Drexel University's Robert Brulle</a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">=</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Modern anti-science was created by the tobacco industry in the 1950s and then used against climate science, often by the same well-experienced think tanks and individuals. Tobacco anti-science is strangely entangled with climate anti-science, as the attached report shows in detail involving Fred Singer's SEPP, Joseph Bast's Heartland, and more.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">S. Fred Singer</strong> is President of the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Science and Environmental Policy Project</strong> (SEPP), but has done almost all the work himself for 20 years., including help for tobacco in the early 1990s. Research for <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/weird-anti-science-donna-bethell-sepp-and-sandia-national-laboratories" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Weird Science</a>sent me on a trek through his and other IRS Form 990s, which unearthed many curiosities of strange governance, fakery and funny finances, all tax-free.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Singer claimed <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Frederick Seitz</strong> as Chairman for two years after his demise and 20 years after a Philip Morris staffer had written in 1989:</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Dr. Seitz is quite elderly and not sufficiently rational to offer advice.”</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SEPP’s finances were <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">curious</em>. </strong>SEPP paid no salaries, even for Singer’s 60-hour workweeks. Money flowed oddly. Asset trades often exceeded normal income and they accumulated to $1.5M, tax-free. Then one money trail led to Heartland.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Heartland Institute’s</strong> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Joseph Bast</strong> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">staunchly defended “Joe Camel,”</strong> the infamous campaign to addict younger children. Heartland got tobacco funding for many years, along with a Philip Morris Board member.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Whitney Ball</strong>’s DONORS TRUST funded a major expansion of Heartland climate anti-science. Singer collected old associates to help write “NonGovernmental International Panel on Climate Change“ (NIPCC) reports, filled with unsupported claims and long-refuted anti-science.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">He was helped by <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Craig Idso</strong>, of the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CDCDGC)</strong>, whose money flows also seem unusual. Robert Ferguson’s Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) was a website and a PO Box in a UPS store and he was actually a CSCDGC employee.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Under <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jay Lehr </strong>and<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> James Taylor</strong>, anti-science permeated Heartland’s Environment and Climate News (<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">E&CN)</em> sent mostly to elected officials. Heartland incessantly touted its access and influence with such officials, but its tax forms claimed no lobbying. It ran “fake science” conferences, paying for government staff attendance. It sent money to foreign non-charity advocacy groups, sent anti-science handbooks to school boards and urged parents to complain. It has been criticized in<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nature</em> and <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Science</em>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Free speech allows people to express opinions, even lie about facts, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">but tax-free operation is a revocable privilege</strong>. Spreading factual untruths and confusion about smoking or climate science is neither research nor education in the public interest.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Read the report, at least the first 21 pages, backed by nearly 200 of detailed backup.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">This report was scheduled to be published in a few days, and by astonishing coincidence, just today we see <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-exposed-internal-documents-unmask-heart-climate-denial-machine" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute Exposed</a>. The report was done entirely from public sources, but today's new information is quite consistent and fills some holes. However, the unnamed large Anonymous donor is now seen to be someone hiding behind DONORS TRUST, and some of the smaller ones dedicating funds appear in pp.57-59, with red itemizations. We also see some of the actual payments I had to infer.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">03/11/12 CORRECTION: p.58 omitted a DONORS CAPITAL item for 2008: “For media materials $100,000”, which should be added to various subtotals, making them consistent with the $4,610,000 reported on p.57, Fig. H.1.4. H/T to Michael Fisher.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">10/25/12 UPDATE: A <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/10/23/fakery-2-more-funny-finances-free-tax" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">major revision</a> has been posted, with much more information on Barre Seid, DONORS TRUST and other funding issues.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-upload field-type-file field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><table class="sticky-header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; width: 980.7999877929688px; position: fixed; top: 0px; left: 59.60000228881836px; visibility: hidden;"><thead style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><th style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 1em 0px 0px; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);" /><th style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 1em 0px 0px; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);" /></tr></thead></table><table class="sticky-enabled tableheader-processed sticky-table" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; width: 560px;"><thead style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><th style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 1em 0px 0px; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Attachment</th><th style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 1em 0px 0px; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Size</th></tr></thead><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><tr class="odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em 0.6em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 5px;"><span class="file" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img class="file-icon" alt="" title="application/pdf" src="http://www.desmogblog.com/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" /> <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/fake.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=5235163" title="fake.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">fake.pdf</a></span></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 5px;">4.99 MB
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