{"id":2227,"date":"2014-11-30T08:20:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T13:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2014-11-30T08:20:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T13:20:26","slug":"blundell-the-missing-link-between-oil-baron-charles-koch-and-british-climate-denial-desmog-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"Blundell: The Missing Link Between Oil Baron Charles Koch and British Climate Denial | DeSmog UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.uk\/2014\/11\/29\/blundell-missing-link-between-oil-baron-charles-koch-and-british-climate-denial\">Blundell: The Missing Link Between Oil Baron Charles Koch and British Climate Denial | DeSmog UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"docs-internal-guid-e475056e-f675-f40b-8b38-2606b27ddc9c\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><a style=\"color: #d81b22; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iea.org.uk\/blog\/john-blundell-rip\" target=\"_blank\">John Blundell<\/a>\u00a0is welcomed into the inner circle of the Koch elite at at time of inner-family squabbling and political scandal. He soon gains insight into an empire run by obsession and apparent deception. This is part two of DeSmog\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"font-size: 0.9em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">UK<\/span>\u2019s\u00a0<a style=\"color: #d81b22; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.uk\/2014\/11\/26\/blundell-and-koch-empire\">history of Blundell and Charles Koch<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">Blundell was offered a well paid job at the<a style=\"color: #d81b22; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theihs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Institute of Humane Studies<\/a>\u00a0(<span class=\"caps\" style=\"font-size: 0.9em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">IHS<\/span>) in April 1982 &#8211; a hardline neoliberal think tank funded by the oil billionare Charles\u00a0Koch.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">He resigned as spokesman for the<a style=\"color: #d81b22; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fsb.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Federation of Small Businesses<\/a>\u00a0and as a councillor at a London borough and moved to California in the United States with his wife Christine and their three-month-old baby boy,\u00a0Miles.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">He was still working at the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"font-size: 0.9em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">IHS<\/span>\u00a0when it moved to George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, one of the many front groups and free market think tanks to benefit from Koch\u00a0funding.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blundell: The Missing Link Between Oil Baron Charles Koch and British Climate Denial | DeSmog UK. &nbsp; John Blundell\u00a0is welcomed into the inner circle of the Koch elite at at time of inner-family squabbling and political scandal. He soon gains insight into an empire run by obsession and apparent deception. 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