reece said:
stuartambient said:
reece said:
http://factcheck.org/2009/12/climategate/
And they provide links throughout as well as sources at the end as evidence to support their conclusions (GASP!). Why would they do that? (scratches head)
LOL , so gullible fools will drink the kool aid.
It's an Annenberg Foundation site . Dig up some dirt on them , there is enough out there on them.
One lies for the other.
Providing sources so you can check it out for yourself is some sort of deception? Yeah,
I'm the fool.
Please show some evidence that Factcheck.org is biased in their reporting. It's easy to sit there and lob accusations.
Here are headlines on their home page..............
Here is a few paragraphs extracted regarding foundations. You might consider Annenberg's work with Bill Ayers, Barack and Michelle Obama. Poverty Pimps Inc. LOL , that wasn't the actual name but basically is what they did. I will look into providing more specifically regarding Annenberg (a Ford Foundation offshoot) when I get to it.
Sorry for the long post.
FOUNDATIONS
Foundations are either state or federally chartered. The first was chartered by Benjamin Franklin in 1790, in Philadelphia and Boston, from a $4,444.49 fund, to make loans to young married artificers (artisans) of good character. In 1800, the JAGCorps: * navyjag-humint.co.nr * jagcorps.co.nr * thomas-j-mcveigh.co.nr 103
Magdalen Society was established in Philadelphia, to ameliorate that distressed condition of those unhappy females who have been seduced from the paths of virtue, and are desirous of returning to a life of rectitude. In 1846, the Smithsonian Institution was established by the bequest of English scientist James Smithson for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men. The Peabody Education Fund
was initiated in 1867 by banker George Peabody, to promote education in the South. Before 1900, there were only 18 foundations; from 1910-19, there were 76; during the 1920s, 173; the 1930s, 288; the 1940s, 1,638; and during the 1950s, there were 2,839 foundations. United Press International (UPI) reported on July 19, 1969, that the top 596 foundations had an income that was twice the net earnings of the countrys 50 largest commercial banking institutions.
According to Rep. Wright Patman, in a report to the 87th Congress, it is because of the existence of foundations, that only one-third of the income of the nation is actually taxed.
Some of the important foundations are: Ford Foundation (Ford Motor Co.), Rockefeller Foundation (Standard Oil), Duke Endowment (Duke family fortune), John A. Hartford Foundation (Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea), W. K. Kellogg Foundation (the Kellogg Cereals), Carnegie Corp. (Carnegie Steel), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (General Motors), Moody Foundation (W. L. Moodys oil, realty, newspapers, and
bank holdings), Lilly Endowment (Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals), Pew Memorial Trust (Sun Oil Co. or Sunoco), and the Danforth Foundation (Purina Cereals), which all have assets of well over $100 million.
The first Congressional Committee to investigate the tax-free foundations was the Cox Committee in 1952, led by Rep. Eugene E. Cox, a Democrat from Georgia. Its purpose was to find out which foundations and organizations are using their resources for purposes other than the purposes for which they were established, and especially to determine which such foundations and organizations are using
their resources for un-American and subversive activities or for purposes not in the interest or tradition of the United States. Cox discovered that officers and trustees of some foundations were Communists,
and that these foundations had given grants to Communists or Communistcontrolled organizations. A former Communist official, Maurice Malkin, testified that in 1919 they were trying to penetrate these organizations (foundations), if necessary take control of them and their treasuries ... that they should be able to finance the Communist Party propaganda in the United States. During the investigation, Cox
died, and the facts were glossed over in a cover-up.
Another member of the Committee, Rep. Carroll Reece of Tennessee, the former Chairman of the Republican National Committee, forced another investigation in 1953, to see if foundations were being used for political purposes, propaganda, or attempts to influence legislation. The Washington Post called the investigation JAGCorps: * navyjag-humint.co.nr * jagcorps.co.nr * thomas-j-mcveigh.co.nr
104 unnecessary, and that it was stupidly wasteful of public funds. Reece even referred to a conspiracy.
The Eisenhower Administration was clearly against the probe. Three of the four who were selected for the Committee, with Reece, were House members who had voted against the investigation. Rep. Wayne Hays of Ohio worked from the inside to stall the investigation. During one 3-hour session, he interrupted the same witness 246 times. He prohibited evidence discovered by two of its investigators from being
used. Rene A. Wormser, legal counsel to the Committee, revealed why, in his 1958 book Foundations: Their Power and Influence: Mr. Hays told us one day that the White House had been in touch with him and asked him if he would cooperate to kill the Committee. Wormser also revealed that the Committee had discovered that these foundations were using their wealth to attack the basic structure of our
Constitution and Judeo-Christian ethics; and that the influence of major foundations had reached far into government, into the policy-making circles of Congress and into the State Department.
Reeces Special Committee to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations discovered that many foundations were financing civil rights groups, liberal political groups, political extremist groups, and supporting revolutionary activities throughout the world. The Committee reported: Substantial evidence indicates there is more than a mere close working together among some foundations operating in the
international field. There is here, as in the general realm of social sciences, a close interlock. The Carnegie Corporation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Rockefeller
Foundation and, recently, the Ford Foundation, joined by some others, have commonly cross-financed, to a tune of many millions ... organizations concerned with internationalists, among them,
the Institute of Pacific Relations, the Foreign Policy Association (which was virtually a creature of the Carnegie Endowment), the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute of International
Affairs and others ... and that it happened by sheer coincidence stretches credulity.
On August 19, 1954, Reece summed up his investigation: It has been said that the foundations are a power second only to that of the Federal Government itself ... Perhaps the Congress should now admit that the foundations have become more powerful, in some areas, at least, than the legislative branch of the Government. The investigation ended in 1955, when funding was withheld.
Stuart
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