What is the name of the billionaire snake who funds conservative thank tanks aimed at destroying the American way of life and is the chief executive officer of Koch Industries?
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Koch family foundations The Koch family foundations are a group of charitable foundations in the United States associated with the family of Fred C. Koch. The most prominent of these are the Charles Koch Foundation and the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation, created by Charles Koch and David Koch, two sons of Fred C. Koch who own the majority of Koch Industries, an oil, gas, paper, and chemical conglomerate which is the US's second-largest privately held company. Charles' and David's foundations have provided millions of dollars to a variety of organizations, including libertarian and conservative think tanks. Areas of funding include think tanks, political advocacy, climate change scepticism, higher education scholarships, cancer research, arts, and science.
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Charles Koch Charles de Ganahl Koch ( ; born November 1, 1935) is an American businessman, political donor and philanthropist. He is co-owner, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer of Koch Industries since 1967, while his brother David Koch serves as Executive Vice President. Charles and David each own 42% of the conglomerate. The brothers inherited the business from their father, Fred C. Koch, then expanded the business. Originally involved exclusively in oil refining and chemicals, Koch Industries now includes process and pollution control equipment and technologies; polymers and fibers; minerals; fertilizers; commodity trading and services; forest and consumer products; and ranching. The businesses produce a wide variety of well-known brands, such as Stainmaster carpet, the Lycra brand of spandex fiber, Quilted Northern tissue and Dixie Cup.
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Alfred S. Regnery Alfred S. Regnery (born November 21, 1942) is an American conservative lawyer, author, and former publisher.
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Leo Hindery Leo Hindery Jr. is an American businessman, author, political activist and philanthropist.
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Daniel Halper Daniel Halper is an American political writer. He serves as the online editor of the conservative news publication "The Weekly Standard" and is the author of an unflattering 2014 biography of the Clinton family titled "Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine" (ISBN  ).
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Richard H. Koch Richard H. Koch (also known as R.H. Koch) was a judge, railroad magnate and prominent member of the state of Pennsylvania.
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John D. Arnold John Douglas Arnold (born 1974) is an American billionaire and former hedge fund manager who specializes in natural gas trading. His firm, Centaurus Advisors, LLC, was a Houston-based hedge fund that specialized in trading energy products. Arnold announced his retirement from running the hedge fund on May 2, 2012.
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Alex Beard (businessman) Alexander Frank "Alex" Beard (born 1967) is a British billionaire businessman, based in London and responsible for Glencore's worldwide oil operations.
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Chris Salamone Chris Salamone is an American attorney and entrepreneur. He is best known for deriving term, “Paradox of Prosperity” with Professor Gilbert N. M. O. Morris on his New York Times, Wall Street Journal bestseller Rescue America: Our best America is only one generation away. He currently serves as Chairman of Spartan Capital Investors, a private investment firm and sits on the board of the Chasin Music Group and Chasin Records.
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Richard Roberts (pharmaceutical executive) Richard H. Roberts (born 1957) is an American pharmaceutical executive, philanthropist, and political activist.
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Neil Barsky Neil Barsky is a United States-based journalist, former hedge fund manager, filmmaker, and philanthropist, best known for making the 2012 film "Koch" and for founding The Marshall Project, a journalism nonprofit intended to shed light on the United States criminal justice system.
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Fred C. Koch Fred Chase Koch ( ; September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which, under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons, Charles and David, is listed by "Forbes," as of 2015, as the second-largest privately held company in the United States.
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Robert Bass Robert Muse Bass (born 1948) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Aerion Corporation, an American aerospace firm in Reno, Nevada which seeks to build the first supersonic business jets. was worth approximately $4 billion in 2010 on oil and other investments Bass has served on the Texas Highway & Public Transportation Commission.
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Kochouseph Chittilappilly Kochouseph Thomas Chittilappilly is an Indian business magnate, writer, investor, inventor, and philanthropist.
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Harry Koch (businessman) Hotze "Harry" Koch ( ; 22 October 1867 – 21 June 1942) was a Dutch-born American businessman who founded the "Quanah Tribune-Chief" newspaper. He was the father of Fred C. Koch (1900–1967), founder of Koch Industries.
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William Dore William Jude Doré (born 1942) is an American businessman and political donor.
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Russell Abrams Russell Abrams is an American hedge fund manager and entrepreneur known as the founder of Russellcar, an environmentally friendly taxi cab company in Buenos Aires. He has been called the "Argentinian Taxi King."
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Shlomo Rechnitz Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz (born July 29, 1971) is an American businessman. He is the founder of TwinMed and owner of Brius Healthcare Services. He lives in the State of California. He is a billionaire with an estimated net worth of US$2.4 billion.
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The Predator State The Predator State: how conservatives abandoned the free market and why liberals should too is a book by economist James K. Galbraith, first published in 2008. The title refers to how in US society, as Galbraith sees it, public institutions have been subverted to serve private profit: the "predators" being corporate elites. He argues that these corporate interests run the state "not for any ideological project—but simply in a way that would bring to them, individually and as a group, the most money.”
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Dave Cantin David Cantin (born David Scott Cantin; October 26, 1979) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and life-business strategist.
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Peter S. Kraus Peter S. Kraus is an American businessman, philanthropist and art collector. He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AllianceBernstein (AB) from 2008 through 2017. AB is a global asset management firm with about US$400 billion under management listed on the New York Stock Exchange as . He formerly worked for Goldman Sachs for two decades. He is one of the largest collectors of contemporary art in the world.
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Jon Huntsman Sr. Jon Meade Huntsman Sr. (born June 21, 1937) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and executive chairman of Huntsman Corporation, a global manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals. Huntsman plastics are used in a wide variety of familiar objects, including (formerly) McDonald's clamshell burger containers. Huntsman Corporation also manufactures a wide variety of organic and inorganic chemicals that include polyurethanes, textiles, and pigments. Huntsman's philanthropic giving exceeds $1.5 billion, focusing on areas of cancer research, programs at various universities, and aid to Armenia.