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The Kochs & the Nazis: Book Reveals Billionaires Father Connection to the Third Reich
2016-01-20 18:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democracy Now: In her new book, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer explores how the Koch brothers and fellow right-wing billionaires have funded a political machine aimed at shaping elections and public policy. The book contains a number of revelations and new details. Mayer begins with revealing that the Kochs father, industrialist Fred Koch, helped build an oil refinery in Nazi Germany--a project approved personally by Adolf...
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The new clean-tech billionaires' club
2015-12-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EnergyWire: Some of the world's richest people -- hedge fund managers, technology giants, industrialists, even Republicans -- have signed on with an investor group that will seek to bridge the nearly uncrossable gap that separates promising clean-energy technology from the marketplace. The Breakthrough Energy Coalition, announced yesterday at the opening of the U.N climate conference in Paris, seeks to perform two heavy lifts. One is to use the lure of its contributions -- estimated by one member at $2 billion...
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Global billionaires unite in Breakthrough energy coalition to support development of zero-carbon energy
2015-11-30 19:55:28| Green Car Congress
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Tech Billionaires Team Up to Take On Climate Change
2015-11-30 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wired: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and pretty much every other crazy rich tech leader you can imagine have announced that they`re banding together to combat climate change with a new partnership called the Breakthrough Energy Coalition. Their timing couldn`t be better-or more telling. Through the partnership, the group`s members have committed to use a substantial portion of their hundreds of billions of dollars in collective net worth to invest in early stage clean energy...
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With starting corpus of Rs 100 cr, Bengaluru billionaires register media trust
2015-09-20 07:35:07| IT Services - Topix.net
The Bengaluru-based Independent and Public Spirited Media Trust with a starting corpus of Rs 100 crore has been anchored by Wipro chairman Azim Premji and philanthropist Rohini Nilekani. A syndicate backed by three Bengaluru-based billionaires and consisting of at least 10 other wealthy Indians has registered a trust that will fund independent digital media companies which pursue quality and responsible journalism.
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