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As an indication of how long the oil industry has been sabotaging democracy... Project 2025 first appeared in print in 1980...

https://newrepublic.com/article/154849/david-koch-1980-fantasy

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/politics/quixotic-80-campaign-gave-birth-to-kochs-powerful-network.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/30/covert-operations

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/late-libertarian-icon-murray-rothbard-charles-koch-considers-himself-above-law/

They've been using Oracle's CIA origins nearly as long
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/project-2025-oracle-19654875.php

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/07/koch-brothers-database-2012-election

https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238

Ellison is accustomed to ripping off taxpayers
https://www.cio.com/article/3830277/how-birminghams-48m-oracle-erp-project-turned-into-an-epic-failure.html?amp=1

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/dxc_oracle_uk_contract/

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/openai-teams-up-with-softbank-and-oracle-on-50b-data-center-project/