Textos de referencia:
Institute of Religion and Democracy – Reforming America’s Churches Project – Theocracy Watch, 2000 – http://www.theocracywatch.org/internal_document_ird.html
“IRD writes regularly for Insight magazine, The Presbyterian Layman, Good News magazine (United Methodist), The Wanderer (Catholic), Touchstone magazine (ecumenical), Chronicles of Heterodoxy, American Family Association Journal (Evangelical), and the National Liberty Journal (Baptist). IRD staff have recently appeared on CBS¹s Sixty Minutes, on Fox News with Brit Hume, on ABC¹s Extra! and on PBS¹s Religion and Ethics News Weekly. Our op-eds have recently appeared in The Weekly Standard, The Washington Times, The Salt Lake City Tribune, The Detroit News, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Diane Knippers is a contributing editor to Christianity Today. The addition of new staff will facilitate more direct staff contact with religion reporters and other journalists. IRD plans to generate news releases regularly for our media list of over 1200 outlets. We also plan to generate occasional substantive analyses for journalists.”
Tom Barry – The Right’s Architecture of Power – IRC Right Web, 22/04/2004 – Policy Director of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC), online at http://www.irc-online.org . He is the founder of Foreign Policy In Focus and directs the IRC’s Right Web project. – http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/grebe1.pdf
“Commentary served until the late 1980s as the flagship publication of neoconservatism, but its influence among both neoconservatives and the Washington policy community has now been far surpassed by the Weekly Standard. Owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, the Weekly Standard regularly features Project for the New American Century analysts such as Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ellen Bork (daughter of AEI scholar and prominent Federalist Society member Robert Bork), Gary Schmitt, and Thomas Donnelly in addition to founders Kristol and Kagan. According to the Nation magazine’s media critic Eric Alterman: “The magazine speaks directly to and for power. Anybody who wants to know what this administration is thinking and what they plan to do has to read” this magazine.”
Tom Barry – The Right’s Architecture of Power – IRC Right Web, 22/04/2004 – Policy Director of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC), online at http://www.irc-online.org . He is the founder of Foreign Policy In Focus and directs the IRC’s Right Web project. – http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/grebe1.pdf
“With funding from the Bradley Foundation, William Kristol established the Project for the Republican Future in 1993 in anticipation of the 1994 congressional elections. Following the resounding victory of right-wing Republicans, he founded Weekly Standard in 1995 in the vacated offices of the Project for the Republican Future. The next year Kristol and Robert Kagan established the Project for the New American Century, which describes itself as a “nonprofit educational organization supporting American military, diplomatic, and moral leadership.” A wide range of neoconservatives, representatives from the social conservative right, and leading national security hawks coalesced around PNAC.”
Tom Barry – The Right’s Architecture of Power – IRC Right Web, 22/04/2004 – Policy Director of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC), online at http://www.irc-online.org . He is the founder of Foreign Policy In Focus and directs the IRC’s Right Web project. – http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/grebe1.pdf
“PNAC’s Executive Director Gary Schmitt once boasted that PNAC “helped set the table” for new policy decisions “by setting the agenda up.” Other factors that the nonetoo- modest Schmitt cites for PNAC’s success include: “We are articulate; we are very smart about when to say things and how to say it; and do have the advantage of an echo effect—if I write something, it may be picked up by the Weekly Standard or repeated by Bill or Bob in various media forums.”.”
Eric Alterman – Think Again: «Working the Refs» – American Progress, 26/05/2005 – Senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the author of six books, including most recently, When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences. – http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2005/05/b711509.html
“In the magazine world, two of the right’s favorite targets – Time and Newsweek – run columns by Krauthammer and Will, respectively. Speaking of magazines, there is certainly no dearth of conservative titles to choose from, with selections including Pat Buchanan’s The American Conservative, Kristol’s The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, National Review, Commentary, etc=, etc … But this has become par for the course. Conservative media outlets long for moments such as these, pouncing on any journalist who falls out of lockstep with their rigid ideological framework. In other words, they attack what in previous generations had been known as honest journalism, by throwing up the discredited but nevertheless effective accusation of «liberal bias» in order to protect their ideological fellow travelers from scrutiny. In the end, the «liberal media» accusation is just one of many tools in the conservative arsenal. They are, as Bond admitted, “working the refs” and it works. Thanks to their tireless efforts, the American people have lost faith in a cowed media that finds itself constantly trying to deflect charges that have no basis in reality.”
Tom Barry – Rise and Demise of the New American Century – International Relations Center Special Report, 28/06/2006 – https://sites.ualberta.ca/~raitken/documents/0606riseanddemise.pdf
“From an office in the same building that houses the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in downtown Washington and with funding from the Bradley Foundation, William Kristol established the Project for the Republican Future in 1993 in anticipation of the 1994 congressional elections. Following the resounding victory of right-wing Republicans, he founded the Weekly Standard in 1995 in the vacated offices of the Project for the Republican Future. The next year Kristol and Robert Kagan established the Project for the New American Century, whose offices are also located in the American Enterprise Institute building and which is also generously supported by the Bradley Foundation [ref].”
Richard W. Behan – Movement Conservatism – Progressive Trail, 09/08/2007 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Movement_Conservatism
“Mr. Rupert Murdoch served on the Board of The Cato Institute. He owns Fox Television News and the Weekly Standard, virtual house organs of the Bush Administration. Mr. Murdoch’s application to acquire Direct TV was finally approved by the Federal Communications Commission, chaired by Colin L. Powell’s son Michael. The approval was delayed because Mr. Murdoch’s communications empire exceeds the national media ownership cap of 35%. The Republican House raised the cap with a rider on the Omnibus spending bill to 39%–precisely the number Mr. Murdoch needs.”
David Miller and William Dinan (2008) – A Century of Spin. How Public Relations Became the Cutting Edge of Corporate Power – Pluto Books London – Department of Geography and Sociology, University of Strathclyde – https://bit.ly/2RKMH84
“’International patrons’ of the [Henry Jackson] Society [Project for Democratic Geopolitics] include leading American neo-conservatives, such as Robert Kagan, William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, Joshua Muraychik of the American Enterprise Institute, and Michael McFaul of the Hoover Institution. Also signed up are Richard Perle of the Bush administration, James Woolsey, former director of the CIA, and perhaps more significantly Irwin Stelzer, who is Rupert Murdoch’s representative in the UK and introduced Blair to Murdoch. The Society ‘campaigns for a ‘forward strategy’ to spread ‘liberal democracy across the world’ through ‘the full spectrum of ‘carrot’ capacities, be they diplomatic, economic, cultural or political, but also, when necessary, those ‘sticks’ of the military domain.’ [ref].” (p. 165)
Joseph Romm – The Audacity of Nope: The GOP channels Groucho Marx, “Whatever it is, I’m against it.” – Climate Progress, 21/07/2009 – http://climateprogress.org/2009/07/21/the-audacity-of-nope-the-gop-channel-groucho-marx/
“The article notes, “William Kristol, editor of the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard, implored Republicans to ‘go for the kill.’” The GOP reminds me of Groucho Marx in Horsefeathers — though more Groucho than Marx brother, I’m afraid.”
Kyle – How Will The Right Respond to Mitch Daniels’ Calls For a «Truce» in Culture Wars? – Right Wing Watch, 09/06/2010 – http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-will-right-respond-mitch-daniels-calls-truce-culture-wars
“The Weekly Standard has a long profile of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and the question of whether he plans to make a run for the White House in 2012. If Daniels does plan on running, there are a few issues the might temper support from the Religious Right, like his 1970 arrest for pot possession or his three year divorce and eventual remarriage to his wife Cheri … but those sorts of things would probably pale in comparison to Daniels’ view that a «truce» needs to be called in the culture wars so that our nation can focus on economic issues: …”
Joseph L. Conn – Rushdoony’s Legacy: The Overlooked Influence Of A Religious Right Godfather – The Wall of Separation, 16/08/2010 – http://173.201.183.37/2010/08/16/rushdoony%E2%80%99s-legacy-the-overlooked-influence-of-a-religious-right-godfather/
“When Rushdoony died, the neo-con Weekly Standard ran a fawning tribute, hailing his impact on American life. Today, Rushdoony acolytes continue the battle on a variety of fronts too numerous to mention here. The Georgia-based American Vision, for example, spreads the Reconstructionist viewpoint through a variety of mediums. Its 2007 conference, at a Southern Baptist conference center in North Carolina, drew hundreds of attendees. That same year, many PBS(!) stations ran a documentary on church and state written by Brian Godawa, a one-time movie reviewer for Rushdoony’s foundation. Reconstructionist guru (and Rushdoony son-in-law) Gary North was once a staffer for Rep. Ron Paul. The mainstream media has a disconcerting habit of declaring the Religious Right dead at regular intervals. Reporters killed it off when the Moral Majority went under, and again when the Christian Coalition went into eclipse. Some have done it in recent years as James Dobson was elbowed (somewhat less than gently) into quasi-retirement. The Religious Right is still here, of course. It no longer has prominent spokesmen on television such as the late Jerry Falwell, but his ideological allies operate influential political entities in Washington and the state capitals. And they are often influenced, directly or indirectly, by Reconstructionism. It’s best to take these obituaries of the Religious Right with a grain of salt. So, too, the Post obit on Christian Reconstructionism.”
Ali Gharib & Eli Clifton – The Neoconservative Echo Chamber 2.0 – Right Web, 09/09/2010 – http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/articles/display/the_neoconservative_echo_chamber_20
“Gary Bauer is a perennial link between neocons and the Christian right: Bauer was a founding member of PNAC and sits on the boards of Cliff May’s Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and Christians United for Israel. The onetime religious right presidential hopeful and his family even take an annual beach vacation with Bill Kristol’s family. (At a Christians United for Israel confab, Kristol once jokingly refused to comment on whether Bauer removed his trademark dark business-suit to go into the ocean.[20]) Most recently, Bauer launched his own letterhead/attack-ad organization, Keep Israel Safe, with Weekly Standard contributing editor Tom Rose. They modeled the group on Cheney’s Keep America Safe (right down to the name) and, as one might expect, the Weekly Standard was instrumental in the group’s launch, getting an exclusive by “obtain[ing] an advance copy” of the first attack ad on Obama even before the group’s website was up.[21] ”
Ali Gharib & Eli Clifton – The Neoconservative Echo Chamber 2.0 – Right Web, 09/09/2010 – http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/articles/display/the_neoconservative_echo_chamber_20
“Their efforts to keep the U.S. public uncritically supportive of Israel is in even more dire straights. Beinart’s article is emblematic of a rising consciousness about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the United States. While the Weekly Standard predictably takes a hard line, a growing number of outlets and blogs have arrived at more nuanced editorial positions about the transgressions of the Jewish State.”
Ali Gharib & Eli Clifton – The Neoconservative Echo Chamber 2.0 – Right Web, 09/09/2010 – http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/articles/display/the_neoconservative_echo_chamber_20
“One of the founding fathers of neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, was once quoted as saying: “If there’s a problem you want to solve, start a magazine.”[1] His words were taken to heart by the most recent generation of neoconservative leaders—including his son, William, who founded the Weekly Standard. The strategy was simple: With the right audience of elites, and a targeted message that captures their imagination, the limits of what you can do are nearly boundless. “With a circulation of a few hundred,” the elder Kristol once remarked, “you could change the world.”[2] … But neoconservatives’ methodology in the new millennium has undergone a transformation. As much of their rhetoric has been discounted or rejected—including touting the Iraq War as a success; defending a territorially-maximalist Israel; and lobbying for a strike on Iran—neoconservatives are broadening the movement’s horizons. They seem determined to expand beyond a strictly elite audience and appeal directly to the masses. The magazines with a circulation of a few hundred have given way to appearances on Fox News, CNN, newspaper editorial pages, and, most recently, the internet. The new neocon mantra might be: “If there is a problem you want to solve, start a YouTube channel.”.”
Jeffrey Bell – Right Web, 05/10/2010 – http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Bell_Jeffrey
“Jeffrey Bell is a longtime social conservative activist and contributor to neoconservative outlets like the Weekly Standard. Bell has worked for a number of right-wing pressure groups and is the former president of the Manhattan Institute. Among the groups he has been associated with are the Project for the New American Century, the American Conservative Union, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Foundation for Community and Faith-Centered Enterprise (FCFE), and the Council for National Policy. Bell has twice run for the U.S. Senate, in 1978 and 1982 (he lost both times). He worked as a campaign aide to Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.[1]”
Philanthropy Roundtable – Right Web, 12/01/2011 – http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Philanthropy_Roundtable/
“In February 2013, the Philanthropy Roundtable drew public attention when various sources, including the Guardian newspaper, reported on the organization’s connections to a club of rightist donors, including Donors Trust and the Koch Foundation, that have been funding efforts to debunk climate change science and environmental regulations. Commenting on this aspect of the Roundtable’s work, Media Matter reported: “One of its board members, Jeff Sandefer, is a former oilman. It is partially funded by The Charles G. Koch Foundation, and in 2011 it gave Charles G. Koch an award for ‘Philanthropic Leadership.’ In 2010, oil tycoon Philip Anschutz [owner of the Weekly Standard] received the award.”[2] According to Media Matters, the “Philanthropy Roundtable gave $250,000 to Donors Trust in 2010,” just as that trust began “funneling” money to “climate denial groups.”[3] Donors Trust is also notorious for serving as a pass through foundation for donors supporting anti-Islamic causes in the United States, as reported in a widely noted 2011 Center for American Progress report, Fear, Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.”
Philanthropy Roundtable – Right Web, 12/01/2011 – http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Philanthropy_Roundtable/
“In February 2013, the Philanthropy Roundtable drew public attention when various sources, including the Guardian newspaper, reported on the organization’s connections to a club of rightist donors, including Donors Trust and the Koch Foundation, that have been funding efforts to debunk climate change science and environmental regulations. Commenting on this aspect of the Roundtable’s work, Media Matter reported: “One of its board members, Jeff Sandefer, is a former oilman. It is partially funded by The Charles G. Koch Foundation, and in 2011 it gave Charles G. Koch an award for ‘Philanthropic Leadership.’ In 2010, oil tycoon Philip Anschutz [owner of the Weekly Standard] received the award.”[2] According to Media Matters, the “Philanthropy Roundtable gave $250,000 to Donors Trust in 2010,” just as that trust began “funneling” money to “climate denial groups.”[3] Donors Trust is also notorious for serving as a pass through foundation for donors supporting anti-Islamic causes in the United States, as reported in a widely noted 2011 Center for American Progress report, Fear, Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.”
Philanthropy Roundtable – Right Web, 12/01/2011 – http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Philanthropy_Roundtable/
“In February 2013, the Philanthropy Roundtable drew public attention when various sources, including the Guardian newspaper, reported on the organization’s connections to a club of rightist donors, including Donors Trust and the Koch Foundation, that have been funding efforts to debunk climate change science and environmental regulations. Commenting on this aspect of the Roundtable’s work, Media Matter reported: “One of its board members, Jeff Sandefer, is a former oilman. It is partially funded by The Charles G. Koch Foundation, and in 2011 it gave Charles G. Koch an award for ‘Philanthropic Leadership.’ In 2010, oil tycoon Philip Anschutz [owner of the Weekly Standard] received the award.”[2] According to Media Matters, the “Philanthropy Roundtable gave $250,000 to Donors Trust in 2010,” just as that trust began “funneling” money to “climate denial groups.”[3] Donors Trust is also notorious for serving as a pass through foundation for donors supporting anti-Islamic causes in the United States, as reported in a widely noted 2011 Center for American Progress report, Fear, Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.”
Philanthropy Roundtable – Right Web, 12/01/2011 – http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Philanthropy_Roundtable/
«The offices of the Philanthropy Roundtable are located in the same Washington D.C. building that has housed such neoconservative institutions as the Weekly Standard, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), and the American Enterprise Institute. The Roundtable and the now-defunct PNAC shared a common connection to the Bradley Foundation and had an overlapping employee base. For example, former Roundtable policy director Daniel McKivergan was a founding member of the Project for the New Republican Future, a project directed by William Kristol and sponsored by the Bradley Foundation, which aimed to orchestrate Republican victories in congressional and presidential elections. McKivergan later joined the neoconservative Weekly Standard, and then took up a post as PNAC’s deputy director.»
David Alandete – La gran cruzada – El País, 21/08/2011 – http://elpais.com/diario/2011/08/21/domingo/1313898753_850215.html
“Esa Iglesia, a la que Bachmann ha acudido durante décadas, está adscrita al sínodo evangélico luterano de Wisconsin, una congregación de 390.000 personas. Aunque en EE UU hay unos 80 millones de evangélicos, estos pertenecen a una rama especialmente conservadora. Los tres pilares centrales de su fe son la oposición al aborto; la idea de que la homosexualidad es un estilo de vida patológico, y una extraña convicción de que el Papa de Roma es el Anticristo.”
Michael E. Mann (2012) – The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines – Columbia University Press, 06/03/2012 – Penn State Earth System Science Center
“This venues include newspapers such as the National Post and Financial Post in Canada, the Daily Telegraph , Times, and Spectator in the UK; and U.S. newspapers such as the Murdoch, Scaife, and Anschutz conservative media empires, which include not only prominent outlets such as Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, but syndicates such as the regional Examiner.com network and Web sites like Newbusters (sic).” (p. 64)
Michael E. Mann (2012) – The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines – Columbia University Press – Penn State Earth System Science Center
“The NCPPR, meanwhile, even managed to tap a reserve from 1990s tobacco wars, Tom Borrelli, the former manager of Corpor, Scientific Affairs at Borrelli attacked me in an NCPI“-ll sponsored press release in mid-January 2010: “It’s shocking that taxpayer money is being used to support a researcher who seemingly showed li regard to the basic tenets of science—a dispassionate search for the truth.”1°° The irony in this line of attack did not go unnoticed by Mitche Anderson of DeSmogBlog.1°1 Anderson linked to a video,1°2 releasl as part of the historic tobacco industry legal settlement,1°3 show Borelli denying the health threat of secondhand tobacco smoke. A weeks later Deepak Lal, a senior fellow for the Cato Institute;1°4 repea false climategate allegations against me in a commentary that appea »{ in the Business Standard.“ Lal, it turns out, also had a tobacco connl tion; he had been hired by British American Tobacco in the late 19. to try to discredit a World Bank report on the health benefits of poli A to control tobacco use.”
Anschutz Entertainment Group – Wikipedia, 06/01/2014 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschutz_Entertainment_Group
“In Berlin, local groups started a boycott against the projected development Mediaspree, of which O2 World is a part, arguing that huge sections of public spaces were being lost to the private sector. Furthermore, the Anschutz company was criticized for bully-like behavior in regards to the changing of the outer parameters of the sports arena. … AEG was also accused of having attempted to profit from the death of Michael Jackson, who was due to perform at London’s O2 Arena in 2009/2010.”
Anschutz Entertainment Group – Wikipedia, 06/01/2014 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschutz_Entertainment_Group
“In Berlin, local groups started a boycott against the projected development Mediaspree, of which O2 World is a part, arguing that huge sections of public spaces were being lost to the private sector. Furthermore, the Anschutz company was criticized for bully-like behavior in regards to the changing of the outer parameters of the sports arena. … AEG was also accused of having attempted to profit from the death of Michael Jackson, who was due to perform at London’s O2 Arena in 2009/2010.”
Dana Nuccitelli – The Weekly Standard’s Lindzen puff piece exemplifies the conservative media’s climate failures – Skeptical Science, 06/01/2014 – http://www.skepticalscience.com/weekly-standard-lindzen-puff-piece.html
“The conservative media may currently be the single biggest roadblock to addressing the threat posed by human-caused climate change. There is virtually no support for any sort of climate policy among Republicans in US Congress, because even acknowledging the reality of global warming guarantees a wave of attacks by the extreme right-wing of the Republican Party and a probable primary election challenge. This politicization of science has been caused in large part by the conservative media like Fox News, who treat climate change like a punch line. Another conservative media outlet, The Weekly Standard has occasionally run articles encouraging the Republican Party to stop denying science and start engaging in constructive debate about the best climate solutions. Unfortunately, those types of constructive articles are the exception rather than the norm. Last week, The Weekly Standard instead ran a puff piece about contrarian climate scientist Richard Lindzen that embodied the fundamental problems in most conservative media coverage of climate change.”
Ethan Epstein – What Catastrophe? MIT’s Richard Lindzen, the unalarmed climate scientist – The Weekly Standard, 13/01/2014 – http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/what-catastrophe_773268.html
“In my extensive research into Richard Lindzen’s climate papers and talks, I’ve never been able to find an instance where he predicted how global temperatures would change in the future, other than to say in 1989, I personally feel that the likelihood over the next century of greenhouse warming reaching magnitudes comparable to natural variability seems small, The natural variability of the Earth’s climate rarely causes more than 0.2°C global surface warming over the span of a few decades to a century, yet we’ve already seen 0.8°C warming over the past century and 0.5°C over the past 3 decades, with much more to come over the next century. Based on his comments in that 1989 talk, I pieced together what Lindzen’s global temperature prediction might have looked like, had he made one, and compared it to the prediction made by prominent NASA climate scientist James Hansen in a 1988 paper (like Lindzen, Hansen is now retired). Between mainstream climate scientists like Hansen and contrarian climate scientists like Lindzen, it’s clear who has the better track record in making accurate climate predictions. Lindzen has made a career of being wrong about climate science, and he’s who The Weekly Standard is relying on to evaluate the risks posed by climate change.”
Philip Anschutz – Wikipedia, 21/01/2014 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Anschutz
“Philip Frederick Anschutz (December 28, 1939) is an American entrepreneur. Anschutz bought out his father’s drilling company, Circle A Drilling, in 1961 and earned large returns in Wyoming. He has invested in stocks, real estate and railroads. He then began investing in entertainment companies, co-founding Major League Soccer as well as multiple teams … Forbes ranks him the 38th richest person in the U.S. with an estimated net worth of $10 billion as of 2013. Contributed $70,000 in 2003 to the Discovery Institute, to specifically support the work of telecom guru George Gilder but not matters related to intelligent design. That fact was validated by Discovery President Bruce Chapman in a letter-to-the-editor to the Rocky Mountain News, «Anschutz never gave that program a nickel.» Financed and distributed films with Christian themes, such as Amazing Grace and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, for mass audiences through his two film production companies and ownership of much of the Regal, Edwards and United Artists theater chains. In 2009 Anschutz purchased the conservative American opinion magazine The Weekly Standard from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation … As one of the world’s wealthy billionaires, Philip Anschutz has been making a name for himself in the philanthropic community.[28] He was listed as #123 on the Forbes list of billionaires in March 2010, with a net worth of $6 billion.”
Philip Anschutz – Wikipedia, 21/01/2014 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Anschutz
“Philip Anschutz and fellow board members of the American Petroleum Institute in Washington are credited by Bush’s energy secretary for the Oval Office decision in 2001 to stand with the 95-0 vote in the U.S. Senate four years earlier against bringing ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to the floor for consideration. The primary reason cited was the crippling economic effects of the treaty.”
Philip Anschutz – Wikipedia, 21/01/2014 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Anschutz “Clarity Media Group, a Denver-based Publishing Group which includes:[36] The Oklahoman, largest newspaper in Oklahoma City and Oklahoma The San Francisco Examiner (purchased 2004, sold November 2011) The Washington Examiner, which was spun off from a number of D.C. area suburban dailies. The Baltimore Examiner, which launched in April 2006 and was shut down in early 2009. (Anschutz has trademarked the name «Examiner» in more than sixty cities.) Examiner.com, a hyper-local web portal where citizen journalists write on local topics, from news to blog-like stories. The Weekly Standard (purchased in 2009)[37] The Gazette, the second-largest newspaper in Colorado with a daily circulation of 74,172. (purchased November 30, 2012) [3”
Philip Anschutz – Wikipedia, 21/01/2014 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Anschutz “Anschutz has funded a number of conservative and Christian organizations including the following:[33][34][35] The Foundation for a Better Life, organization founded in 2000 to promote «positive behavioral values;» it is neither anti-gay nor right-wing and has no political agenda; the Foundation communicates its message through television, outdoor advertising, theater, radio, and the Internet; Institute for American Values, which campaigns against same-sex marriage. The Institute has received three grants to date for a total of $17,500 over the lifetime of the Foundation;[32] Colorado for Family Values, the organization behind Colorado’s anti-same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment, Amendment 2, approved by the voters in 1992 and later overturned by the US Supreme Court; Enough Is Enough, whose President and CEO is Donna Rice Hughes, the major figure in the sex scandal that ended the 1987 campaign of Gary Hart, in the Democratic presidential primary. The organization claims that it is «Lighting the way to protect children and families from the dangers of illegal Internet pornography and sexual predators»; In recognition of their philanthropic efforts, Phil and Nancy Anschutz were named the winners of the 2009 William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership.[30]”
Alex Henderson – 10 of the Worst Terror Attacks by Extreme Christians and Far-Right White Men – Alter Net, 24/07/2014 – http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-worst-terror-attacks-extreme-christians-and-far-right-white-men
“From Fox News to the Weekly Standard, neoconservatives have tried to paint terrorism as a largely or exclusively Islamic phenomenon. Their message of Islamophobia has been repeated many times since the George W. Bush era: Islam is inherently violent, Christianity is inherently peaceful, and there is no such thing as a Christian terrorist or a white male terrorist. But the facts don’t bear that out. Far-right white male radicals and extreme Christianists are every bit as capable of acts of terrorism as radical Islamists, and to pretend that such terrorists don’t exist does the public a huge disservice. Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev and the late Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev (the Chechen brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing of April 15, 2013) are both considered white and appear to have been motivated in part by radical Islam. And many terrorist attacks in the United States have been carried out by people who were neither Muslims nor dark-skinned.”
Lester Brown – The Accelerating Transition Away from Fossil Fuels – The Globalist, 03/05/2015 – http://www.theglobalist.com/the-accelerating-transition-away-from-fossil-fuels/
“The commitment of several billionaires to carbon-free energy is a promising driver of the energy transition. Warren Buffett, the wealthiest member of this group, had invested some $15 billion in the development of solar and wind energy by early 2014. This includes a giant solar complex in California that is now tied for the title of the world’s largest. In June 2014, Buffett announced, “There’s another $15 billion ready to go.” Also investing in energy from the sun is Ted Turner, who has teamed up with Southern Power — a subsidiary of the coal-heavy energy firm Southern Company — to acquire seven solar power plants. Turner is also looking at the potential for investing in wind. Denver-based Philip Anschutz, who made billions in oil and gas, is committed to the construction of a 3,000-megawatt wind farm in south-central Wyoming and also to building a transmission line that will carry wind-generated electricity over 700 miles to California, Arizona, and Nevada. For wind developers in Wyoming, a state with a wealth of wind resources but only 580,000 people, California’s 38 million residents represent a very attractive market.”
Science News – Mysterious disease may be tied to climate change, says researcher – Science Daily, 08/10/2015 – http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151008142416.htm
“A mysterious kidney disease that has killed over 20,000 people in Central America, most of them sugar cane workers, may be caused by chronic, severe dehydration linked to global climate change, according to a new study by Richard J. Johnson, MD, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. «This could be the first epidemic directly caused by global warming,» said Johnson, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and an expert on the underlying causes of obesity, kidney disease, diabetes and hypertension. «Some districts of Nicaragua have been called the `land of widows’ due to the high mortality rates occurring among the male workers from chronic kidney disease.».”
Science News – Mysterious disease may be tied to climate change, says researcher – Science Daily, 08/10/2015 – http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151008142416.htm
“A mysterious kidney disease that has killed over 20,000 people in Central America, most of them sugar cane workers, may be caused by chronic, severe dehydration linked to global climate change, according to a new study by Richard J. Johnson, MD, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. «This could be the first epidemic directly caused by global warming,» said Johnson, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and an expert on the underlying causes of obesity, kidney disease, diabetes and hypertension. «Some districts of Nicaragua have been called the `land of widows’ due to the high mortality rates occurring among the male workers from chronic kidney disease.».”
Jane Mayer – The Secrets of Charles Koch’s Political Ascent – Politico, 18/01/2016 – http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/charles-koch-political-ascent-jane-mayer-213541
“Charles cautioned his fellow radicals that to win, they would need to cultivate credible leaders and a positive image, unlike the John Birch Society, requiring them to “work with, rather than combat, the people in the media and arts.” The brothers followed this plan too. David became a lavish supporter of the arts in New York and appeared regularly in the society pages. Charles, meanwhile, kept a lower profile but assiduously invited sympathetic members of the media to his donor summits, such as the talk radio host Glenn Beck, the Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer and the National Review columnist Ramesh Ponnuru. Two of the top donors in the Koch network owned their own news outlets. The oil tycoon Philip Anschutz owned the Washington Examiner and the Weekly Standard, and the mutual fund magnate Foster Friess was the largest shareholder of the Daily Caller. The Kochs seriously considered buying the Tribune Company in 2013, too.”
Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs
“Philip Anschutz, a founder of Qwest Communications, whom Fortune magazine dubbed America’s ‘greediest executive’ in 2002, was fighting an uphill battle on a tax matter that practically required an accounting degree to explain. Anschutz, a conservative Christian who bankrolled movies with biblical themes, had attempted to avoid paying capital gains taxes in a 2000-2001 transaction by using what are called prepaid variable forward contracts … Anschutz raised $375 million in 200-2001 by promising shares in his oil and gas companies through the firm Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette.” (p 14-15)
Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs
“Charles cautioned his fellow radicals that to win, they would need to cultivate credible leaders and a positive image, unlike the John Birch Society, requiring them to «work with, rather than combat, the people in the media and arts.» The brothers followed this plan too. David became a lavish supporter of the arts in New York and appeared regularly in the society pages. Charles, meanwhile, kept a lower profile but assiduously invited sympathetic members of the media to his donor summits, such as the talk radio host Glenn Beck, the Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, and the National Review columnist Ramesh Ponnuru. Two of the top donors in the Koch network owned their own news outlets. The oil tycoon Philip Anschutz owned the Washington Examiner and The Weekly Standard, and the mutual fund magnate Foster Friess was the largest shareholder of The Daily Caller. The Kochs seriously considered buying the Tribune Company in 2013, too.” (p. 55-56)
Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs
“Many participants in the Koch summits were brilliant leaders not only in business but also in tax avoidance. For instance, the Colorado oil and entertainment billionaire Philip Anschutz, a founder of Qwest Communications, whom Fortune magazine dubbed America’s «greediest executive» in 2002, was fighting an uphill battle on a tax matter that practically required an accounting degree to explain. Anschutz, a conservative Christian who bankrolled movies with biblical themes, had attempted to avoid paying capital gains taxes in a 2000–2001 transaction by using what are called prepaid variable forward contracts. These contracts allow wealthy shareholders such as Anschutz, whose fortune Forbes estimated at $11.8 billion as of 2015, to promise to give shares to investment firms at a later date, in exchange for cash up front. Because the stock does not immediately change hands, capital gains taxes are not paid. According to The New York Times, Anschutz raised $375 million in 2000–2001 by promising shares in his oil and natural gas companies through the firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.” (p. 14-15)
Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs
“The Kochs, too, had investments in the chemicals, pipelines, and other aspects of fracking. The donor network also boasted spectacularly successful oilmen like Philip Anschutz, heir to a western oil-drilling fortune, who himself discovered a fabled oil field on the Wyoming-Utah border in the 1980s, after which he diversified into ranches, railroads, and communications. The network included many smaller operators too.” (p. 201)
Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs
“The foundation’s annual Bradley Prizes had by then become the glittering Academy Awards ceremony for conservatives, a night at Washington’s Kennedy Center on the banks of the Potomac filled with evening gowns, tuxedos, overlong acceptance speeches, live musical fanfares, and up to four annual $250,000 prizes given to a Who’s Who of the movement. Over the years, winners have included the newspaper columnist George Will, who subsequently became a trustee of the foundation. Also honored with the award were the founders of the Federalist Society as well as Princeton’s Robert George; Bill Kristol, the neoconservative editor of The Weekly Standard; the Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield; the Fox News president, Roger Ailes; and the Heritage Foundation’s stalwarts Ed Meese and Ed Feulner. Almost all of the recipients had played major roles in tugging the American political debate to the right. And almost all had also been supported over the years by a tiny constellation of private foundations filled with tax-deductible gifts from a handful of wealthy reactionaries whose identities and stories very few Americans knew but whose «overarching purpose,» as Joyce said, «was to use philanthropy to support a war of ideas.».” (p. 118-119)
Neil Gorsuch – Wikipedia, 04/04/2017 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch
“Neil McGill … born August 29, 1967)[2] is an American federal appellate judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.[3] On February 1, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia eleven months earlier.[4] Gorsuch is a proponent of textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in interpreting the U.S. Constitution.[5][6][7] However, he is also a greater advocate of natural law philosophy. … He received his bachelor of arts degree from Columbia University in 1988, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.[2][11][18] He was also a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.[19] As an undergraduate student, he wrote for the Columbia Daily Spectator student newspaper.[20][21] In 1986, he co-founded the alternative Columbia student newspaper, The Fed. … Instead of joining an established law firm, Gorsuch decided to join the two-year-old boutique firm Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel. Eschewing appellate briefs, he focused on trial work.[13] After winning his first trial as lead attorney, a jury member told Gorsuch he was like Perry Mason.[13] He was an associate in the Washington, D.C., law firm from 1995–97 and a partner from 1998 to 2005.[2][30] Gorsuch’s clients included Colorado billionaire Philip Anschutz.”
Stephen Moore (writer) – Wikipedia, 18/10/2017 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Moore_(writer)
“Stephen Moore (born February 16, 1960) is an American writer and economic policy analyst. He founded and served as president of the Club for Growth from 1999 to 2004. Moore is a former member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board. In 2014, The Heritage Foundation announced that Moore would become its chief economist. In 2015, Moore’s title at Heritage changed from Chief Economist to his current title, Distinguished Visiting Fellow.[1] Moore is known for advocating free-market policies and supply-side economics.[2] In 2017, he left Fox News Channel to join CNN as an economics analyst.[3] Moore’s work continues to appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, and various publications including The Weekly Standard and National Review.[4][5] … Moore grew up in New Trier Township, Illinois. He attended Saints Faith Hope & Charity School in Winnetka and graduated from New Trier High School in 1978.[6] He received a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.A. from George Mason University in economics.[7]”
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