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Forma parte de los cinco think-tanks principales de Washington, los denominados DC-5
Ficha técnica
Miembro de las redes:
American Legislative Exchange Council
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
State Policy Network
Stockholm Network
Sustainable Development Network
Fundadores:
Paul Weyrich
Fundador de la Religious Roundtable (dominionista)
Fundador del American Legislative Exchange Council
Edwin Feulner
Miembro vitalicio de la Mont Pélérin Society
Joseph Coors
Richard Mellon Scaife
Año de fundación:
1973
Presidente:
Jim DeMint
Tea Party
Remuneración: $1,000,000 /año
Vicepresidente:
Phillip N. Truluck
Miembro de la Mont Pélérin Society
Director:
David S. Addington
Otros:
David Addington
Jefe de gabinete de Dick Cheney
William Beach (Director, Center for Data Analysis)
Miembro de la Mont Pélérin Society
Stuart Butler (Director, Center for Policy Innovation)
Miembro de la Mont Pélérin Society
William Hume
Foundation for Teaching Economics
Edwin Meese III
Ronald Reagan Fellow
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies
Defenders of Property Rights
Federalist Society
Hoover Institution
Miembro del equipo de transición de Ronald Reagan (1980)
Daniel Mitchell (política económica)
Stephen Moore
Consejo editorial del Wall Street Journal
Burton Yale Pines
Bridgett Wagner
Miembro de la Mont Pélérin Society
21 miembros del consejo y 200 (aprox) miembros del staff.
Activos:
$142,231,547 (2011)
Ingresos:
$72,170,983 (2011)
Negacionistas de referencia:
Ben Lieberman
Stephen Moore
Consejo editorial del Wall Street Journal
Sede actual:
Washington
Descripción propia:
Misión declarada:
To formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense
Orientación religiosa:
Orientación económica:
Ultraliberal
Agencias de PR:
Medios de comunicación:
Policy Review
Annual Guide to Public Policy Experts
TheConservatives.com (desactivado)
StopEPA.com (desactivado)
Carbon Busters
Posicionamiento negacionista climático:
No son los combustibles fósiles
Hay demasiada incertidumbre
Los modelos integrados económico-climáticos (incluido el moderado DICE de William Nordhaus) son erróneos e inútiles
Actuar ahora es hacer un uso ineficiente de los recursos
Discussing Global Warming in the Security Council: Premature and a Distraction from More Pressing Crises
Ataca a la iniciativa de economía verde de Naciones Unidas como un intento ‘colectivista nazi-soviético’
Otros negacionismos:
Causa y peligro de la lluvia ácida
Efectividad de la ‘guerra de las galaxias’
Actividades:
Strategic Defense Initiative (Guerra de las Galaxias)
Takings Project
Mandate for Leadership
Contract With America, documento de referencia de la derecha estadounidense cuyas recomendaciones fueron adoptadas por Newt Gingricht en 1994
Mandate for Leadership
Entradas relacionadas:
Procedencia de la financiación documentada:
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Donantes anónimos
Donors Capital Fund $96,000 (2009-2011)
DonorsTrust $343,151 (2002-2012)
Searle Freedom Trust $1,275,000 (2001-2012)
Empresas
Chase Manhattan Bank (mediados años 80)
Exxon Mobil $585,000 (2001-2012)
MyWireless.org $50,000 (2006-2011)
General Motors (mediados años 80)
Altria (antes Philip Morris) (2012)
Asociaciones de empresas
PhRMA $150,000 (2008-2010)
Fortunas particulares
Aequus Institute $1,155,000 (2001-2012)
Allegheny Foundation $1,350,000 (2007-2010)
Armstrong Foundation $725,000 (200-2012)
Arthur N. Rupe Foundation $48,500 (2008-2010)
Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation $5,000 (2005)
Barney Family Foundation $870,000 (2003-2012)
Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation $305,000 (2000-2007)
Bochnowski Family Foundation $10,000 (2012)
Carthage Foundation $2,544,000 (1986-2002)
Castle Rock Foundation $1,750,000 (2000-2008)
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation $11,274 (2012)
Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation $4,793,571 (2001-2012)
Deramus Foundation $1,100,000 (2001-2010)
Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation $120,000 (2000-2012)
Dorothy D. and Joseph A. Moller Foundation $260,000 (2001-2006)
Dunn’s Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking $1,000 (2013)
Earhart Foundation $40,000 (2007-2011)
Ed Uihlein Family Foundation $82,500 (2008-2012)
F.M. Kirby Foundation $1,420,000 (2000-2012)
Fairbrook Foundation $100,000 (2008-2010)
Fairchild-Martindale Foundation $285,000 (2001-2012)
George Edward Durell Foundation $50,000 (2007)
Gilder Foundation $100 (2000)
Herrick Foundation $7,530,000 (2002-2012)
Holman Foundation $431,971 (2001-2012)
Howard Charitable Foundation $19,000,000 (2006-2012)
Jaquelin Hume Foundation $1,725,000 (2002-2011)
J.M. Foundation $160,000 (2001-2012)
John Dawson Foundation $725,400 (2002-2011)
John M. Olin Foundation $2,250,000 (200-2004)
John Templeton Foundation $930,821 (2006-2010)
John William Pope Foundation $150,000 (2010-2013)
Joyce and Donald Rumsfeld Foundation $116,000 (2007-2012)
Kantner Foundation $71,000 (2003-2012)
Lillian S. Wells Foundation $5,742,428 (2001-2012)
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation $16,072,202 (1986-2012)
Lowndes Foundation $52,000 (2008-2012)
Neal and Jane Freeman Foundation $20,000 (2002-2006)
Orville D. and Ruth A. Merillat Foundation $150,000 (1999-2003)
Peter G. Peterson Foundation $200,000 (2011)
Philip M. McKenna Foundation $1,025,000 (1996-2012)
Pierre F. and Enid Goodrich Foundation $245,000 (2001-2013)
Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation $13,300,000 (1998-2012)
Richard F. Aster Jr. Foundation $64,000 (2009-2011)
Robert and Audrey Zinser Charitable Foundation $429,707 (2001-2012)
Robert and Marie Hansen Foundation $70,000 (2003-2007)
Robert S. and Star Pepper Foundation $495,000 (2005-2012)
Roe Foundation $1,361,000 (2000-2012)
Ruth & Lovett Peters Foundation $150,000 (2001-2006)
Same Line Foundation $170,250 (2005-2012)
Sarah Scaife Foundation $10,800,000 (2000-2012)
Scaife Family Foundation $702,640 (1992-1998)
Sidney A. Swensrud Foundation $234,812 (2001-2012)
Smith Richardson Foundation $41,000 (2005-2011)
Stiles-Nicholson Foundation $222,700 (2001-2012)
Stuart Family Foundation $657,500 (2001-2012)
Tepper Family Foundation $63,250 (2004-2012)
The Challenge Foundation $120,000 (2007-2012)
The Galbraith Foundation $1,000,000 (2005-2012)
The McWethy Foundation $60,000 (2009-2012)
The Opportunity Foundation $53,000 (2001-2012)
The Randolph Foundation $5,000 (2010)
The Rodney Fund $52,000 (2000-2005)
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation $9,440,000 (2000-2008)
The Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation $45,000 (1998-2001)
The Thirteen Foundation $700,000 (2011-2012)
The Vernon K. Krieble Foundation $243,400 (2001-2012)
The Weiler Foundation $120,000 (2001-2013)
The Weiler Foundation $120,000 (2001-2013)
The Whitcomb Charitable Foundation $51,000 (2004-2012)
Thewes Family Foundation $1,000 (2012)
True Foundation $26,000 (2001-2012)
Walton Family Foundation $87,500 (2001-2012)
William E. Simon Foundation $952,500 (2000-2012)
William H. Donner Foundation $527,000 (2000-2012)
Woodhouse Family Foundation $12,000 (2009-2011)
Marshall Heritage Foundation 22,382,000 (2002-2013)
Detalle de orígenes de financiación
Fuentes
Referencias
Descripción
Heritage Foundation – Right Web, 18/08/2012 – http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/heritage_foundation
“Although not as closely tied to the militarist foreign policies advocated by groups like the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Heritage has played a significant role in influencing debate on many U.S. foreign and security policies, pushing for an expansive «war on terror,» controversial weapons programs like missile defense, large defense budgets, and a hawkish line vis-à-vis potential U.S adversaries.”
Russ Bellant (1991) – The Coors Connection: How Coors family philanthropy undermines democratic pluralism – Cambridge South End Press – ISBN-13: 978-0896084162 – 149 Págs.
«Our goal is not to join the Washington establishment. It is to create a new establishment that would suplant the old … The Heritage foundation is often characterized as a ‘conservative think tank’, with origins in New Right activism. It is less a traditional think tank, however, than a propaganda center that creates justifications for preconcieved positions and then professionally packages in a format pallatable to politicians and the press.”»
Robert Kuttner – Comment: Philanthropy and Movements – The American Prospect, 20/06/2002 – http://prospect.org/article/comment-philanthropy-and-movements
“Edwin Feulner of the Heritage Foundation emphasized his institution’s strategic planning in building a conservative movement. He emphasized «the four M’s»: mission, money, management, and marketing. Heritage places hundreds of op-eds, all devoted to reinforcing the conservative message. On the money front, Feulner raises millions not just from conservative foundations, but from corporations and individuals. Like the Republican Party, the conservative think tanks use big money to raise small money. Heritage, for instance, gets contributions from 200,000 small donors. ”
Wiki – State Policy Network – Wikipedia, 31/01/2012 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Policy_Network
“SPN was founded in 1992 by Thomas A. Roe, a South Carolina businessman and Republican Party activist who also served as a member of the board of trustees of the Heritage Foundation and had in 1986 founded the South Carolina Policy Council, now an SPN member group … In conversation, he told Reagan that he thought each of the states needed something like the Heritage Foundation. Reagan’s reply reportedly was “Do something about it,” which led Roe to establish first the South Carolina Policy Council and later the State Policy Network.”
John J. Miller – Freedom’s Mr. Moneybags – National Review, 10/11/2005 – http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/miller200511100823.asp
“Lopez: What did the Olin Foundation make possible, when you consider other big conservative successes? – Miller: First and foremost, the foundation helped create what its longtime president William E. Simon called the “counterintelligentsia”–a group of scholars and activists who provided a balance to the liberals who have dominated the universities, the media, and the nonprofit world.”
Jonathan Chait – The Left’s New Machine – The New Republic, 21/05/2007 – http://www.newrepublic.com/article/the-lefts-new-machine-how-the-netroots-became-the-most-importantmass-movement-us-politics
“If you asked a Heritage Foundation fellow or an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal how his work fits into the movement, he would immediately understand that you meant the conservative movement. If you asked the same question of a Brookings Institute fellow or a New York Times editorial writer, he would have no idea what you were talking about. The netroots have begun to change all that.”
Joe Rogalsky – Edwin Feulner: The Heritage Foundation’s president revolutionized the Washington think tank scene – The Examiner, 01/10/2007 – http://www.examiner.com/a-964827~Edwin_Feulner__The_Heritage_Foundation_s_president_revolutionized_the_Washington_think_tank_scene.html
“A Feulner-inspired focus on marketing first brought national attention to Heritage. He pioneered Heritage’s use of policy papers in the 1970s, a rarity among D.C. think tanks at the time. “It doesn’t do us any good to have great ideas if we are not out there peddling our products,” he said. Feulner’s success at building Heritage’s substantial influence has not gone unnoticed by his ideological opponents. The foundation has played a leading role in winning public support for conservative positions.”
Curtis A. Moore (2008) – Revolutionary Justice – Octubre 2008 – Basel Action Network – Former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works from 1978 to 1989 – http://curtismoore.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/revolutionary-justice.pdf
“The non-profit law firms that work takings cases through the courts coordinate with each other through regular meetings in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Heritage Foundation. More than a decade after launching the Takings Project, Meese continues to play an important role in overseeing its progress. According to three published reports, Meese, now a Ronald Reagan Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Federalist Society and a Board Member of the Defenders of Property Rights, oversees regular meetings at the Heritage Foundation that coordinate the participants in the Takings Project.”
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee (2013) – Tea Party Conference Call Features Threat To Assassinate U.S. Senator Because She Supports Immigration Reform – Think Progress, 30/05/2013 – http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/05/30/2076221/tea-partiers-call-for-assassinating-senator/
“In a Tea Party-sponsored conference call held on Wednesday night, a participant called for the assassination of Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) over her support for immigration reform. Prominent conservative policymakers Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)’s communications director Stephen Miller and Heritage Foundation research fellow Robert Rector also joined the call, hosted by the conservative Eagle Forum group.”
Murray Weidenbaum (2009) – The Competition of Ideas: The World of the Washington Think Tanks – Transaction Publishers New Brunswick New Jersey – Edward Mallincrodt Distinguished University Professor of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis + Chairman of the Weidenbaum Center + ex-asesor de Ronald Reagan – ISBN 978-1-4128-0833-0 – 118 Págs.
“Early on, Heritage borrowed tactics from the large environmental organizations like the Sierra club and launched extensive direct-mail fundraising campaigns. It also involved local organizations, especially via its Resource Bank … Each year Heritage produces several hundreds rsearch papers, about ten books, and hundreds of web memos. It also mantains a widely used web site … Overall, Heritage sponsored 178 lectures and seminars in 2006 and its staff wrote over 1,000 op-ed essays which appeared in newspapers around the country … Heritage’s quality control appears to be less structured than AEI or Brookings.”
Financiación
David Callahan (1999) – $1 Billion for Conservative Ideas (Growth of power, influence and funding of conservative think-tank organizations) – The Nation, 26/04/1999 – Century Foundation – http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-54403129.html
“Last year the Heritage Foundation celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. For a progressive think tank, a birthday such as this might have been the occasion for a fancy banquet and perhaps a modest fundraising drive. For Heritage, it was an excuse to mount a massive «Leadership for America Campaign» designed to raise $85 million … Heritage’s success at filling its coffers is dramatic testament to the growing financial resources available to conservative think tanks in the nineties.”
Carl Davidson (2005) – Globalization, Theocracy and the New Fascism – 4th Annual GSA meeting in Knoxville TN – http://lists.portside.org/cgi-bin/listserv/wa?A2=ind0505c&L=portside&T=0&P=2261
“To fund it, Weyrich and Viguerie, and dozens of others who learned from them, raised millions from the super-rich of the right … They helped to deploy the money to build dozens of think tanks and hundreds of policy groups and coalitions, such as the Heritage Foundation, the Free Congress Foundation, and the Rockford Institute, just to name a few.”
Curtis A. Moore (2008) – Taking Control by Implementing the Manifiesto – Octubre 2008 – Basel Action Network – Former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works from 1978 to 1989 – http://www.saving-ourselves.com/pdf/Taking-Control.pdf
“The first of the modern “think tanks,” (virtually all of which are in actuality organizations of pretend scholarship) was founded with a gift of $250,000 to Republican activist Paul Weyrich from Colorado brewing magnate Joseph Coors. He had read the Powell Manifesto, and to assure that it was not ignored by mainstream business, Coors bellied up to the bar with his own cash. Coors asked his home state senator, Gordon Allott, who should receive the cash, and he nominated a member of his staff, Paul Weyrich.”
Ross Gelbspan – The XX in Exxon = «Fingers Crossed» – Desmogblog, 02/07/2009 – http://www.desmogblog.com/xx-exxon-fingers-crossed
“Despite a public pledge to cut support for … climate change denial … company records show that ExxonMobil handed over hundreds of thousands of pounds to … lobby groups in 2008. These include the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) … and the Heritage Foundation.”
Robert J. Brulle (2014) – Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations – Climatic Change 122:681-694 doi:10.1007/s10584-013-1018-7 – Drexel University – http://www.drexel.edu/~/media/Files/now/pdfs/Institutionalizing Delay – Climatic Change.ashx
“These think tanks, including the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute, are among the best known conservative think tanks in the United States. The American Enterprise Institute received 16 % of the total grants made to organizations that are active in the CCCM. The Heritage Foundation was a close second, receiving 14 %. The majority of foundation funding goes to multiple focus conservative think tanks. As previous analyses have shown (Jacques et al. 2008; Dunlap and Jacques 2013), these multiple focus think tanks are highly active in the CCCM [Counter CLimate Change Movement]. ”
Graham Readfearn – Exclusive: Mont Pelerin Society Revealed As Home To Leading Pushers Of Climate Science Denial – Desmogblog, 14/01/2014 – http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/01/15/exclusive-mont-pelerin-society-revealed-home-leading-pushers-climate-science-denial
“The US cohort of Mont Pelerin members includes many senior staff associated with «free market» think tanks that have manufactured doubt about the science of human-caused climate change or the need to act quickly. Alongside Charles Koch, DeSmogBlog’s document shows that Mont Pelerin Society members include senior staff, directors and associates from groups his family foundations have helped to fund. These include the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, the Acton Institute, the Reason Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. Other members include Wall Street Journal editor and columnist Mary O’Grady and John O’Sullivan, a columnist with the conservative National Review. ”
Posicionamientos políticos
Christian E. Weller and Laura Singleton (2006) – Peddling reform: the role of think tanks in shaping the neoliberal policy agenda for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund – En: Neoliberal Hegemony: a global critique – Dieter Plehwe Bernhard Walpen and Gisela Neunhöffer (2006) – Senior economist at the Center for American Progress + Research associate at the Economic Policy Institute; University of WISCONSIN+ Economic Policy Institute
“Heritage has a long history of opposing the IMF and additional funding for it (Johnson and Schaefer 1998, 1997a, 1997b; Schaefer 1998). In April 1998, Feulner detailed his opposition to increased funding for the IMF, and urged Congress to withhold funds to force institutional reform (Feulner 1998). Earlier that same month, in Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 1167, the author argued that although Congress should ideally eliminate the IMF altogether, the next best option was to enact legislation akin to the IMF Transparency and Efficiency Act of 1998 (HR 3331), sponsored by Representatives Jim Saxton (R-NJ), Richard K. Armey (R-TX), and Tom Campbell (R-CA).»
Igor Volsky – Heritage Puts Anti-Obamacare Billboard In Times Square After State Announces Huge Premium Drop – Think Progress, 12/09/2013 – http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/12/2614771/fail-anti-obamacare-billboard-erected-time-square-york-announces-huge-premium-drop/
“The billboard, sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, is shaped like a federal tobacco disclaimer and warns New Yorkers about the dangers of Obamacare: “WARNING: Obamacare may be hazardous to your health”:…”
Julia Ioffe – A 31-Year-Old Is Tearing Apart the Heritage Foundation – New Republic – 24/11/2013 – – http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115688/heritage-foundations-michael-needham-tears-apart-right-wing
“On April 12, 2010, Feulner announced the birth of Heritage Action in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. “The Heritage Foundation has been called ‘the beast’ of all think tanks,” the op-ed declared. “Last week our beast added new fangs with the creation of a new advocacy organization.” Feulner’s co-author was Heritage Action’s 28-year-old new CEO, Michael Needham … DeMint also shared another bond with the two men: unlike the Heritage ruling class of yore, none of them had Ph.D.s. All three, however, had MBAs. Their preference for incentivizing behavior on the Hill with scorecards and primary challenges was “a very MBA approach to politics,” the former scholar noted ruefully. “There’s really no room there for deliberation or argument.”
Fundamentalismo cristiano dominionista
Joan Bokaer (2006) – Paul Weyrich: The Man Who Framed the Republican Party – Talk to Action, 09/08/2006 – http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/8/9/55443/17515
“This is the fifth article in a series on dominionism and the federal government.”
Michelle Goldberg (2006) – Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism – W. W. Norton & Company – ISBN-13: 978-0393329766 – 253 Págs.
“One of the most telling (and amusing) anecdotes about the Reconstructionists’ view of justice appeared in the libertarian magazine Reason in 1998: ‘For connoisseurs of surrealism on the American right, it’s hard to beat an exchange that appeared about a decade ago in the Heritage Foundation magazine Policy Review. It started when two associates of the Rev. Jerry Falwell wrote an article in which criticized Christian Reconstructionism … for advocating positions that even they as committed fundamentalists found ‘scary’. Among Reconstructionism’s highlights, the article cited support for laws ‘mandating the death penalty for homosexuals and drunkards.’ The Rev. Rushdoony fired off a letter to the editor complaining that the article had got his followers’ views all wrong: They didn’t intend to put drunkards to death.’. (p. 37-38n)”
Curtis A. Moore (2008) – Tearing Down the Church-State Wall To Establish A Permanent Republican Majority – Basel Action Network – Former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works from 1978 to 1989 – http://curtismoore.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/tearing-down.pdf
“A Baptist, Pentecost, evangelical Lutheran or other Protestant minister might offer guidance—counsel or advice, perhaps, or a nudge in the right direction—but not instruction. That was between God and the worshiper. These faiths and others broke away from a Holy Roman Catholic Church … The dismantling of that wall began in Kanawha County, West Virginia. Billionaire brewer Joseph Coors paid to remove the first of the bricks, which were pulled out by Paul Weyrich and Morton Blackwell, agents of what eventually would be called the Heritage Foundation.”
Curtis A. Moore (2008) – Taking Control by Implementing the Manifiesto – Basel Action Network – Former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works from 1978 to 1989 – http://www.saving-ourselves.com/pdf/Taking-Control.pdf
“The Heritage Foundation was pivotally important to the 2 Republican Party in another way as well. Heritage intervened in a school textbook dispute in Kanawha County, West Virginia, to train those opposed to new books in various forms of confrontation. Before the dispute ended, the school board wa s assaulted, three schools bombed, one firebombed, a bus containing students who refused to honor a boycott called by textbook opponents was shot at, a CBS news crew was roughed up, and the Ku Klux Klan visited a local church. Using the Kanawha conflict as a spring board, Heritage established a bridge to the fundamentalist community that ultimately resulted in formation of the Moral Majority and an alliance between religious organizations and the GOP. A religious conservative, Weyrich and a few others started would become one of the best known of the corporate fronts, the Heritage Foundation.”
Curtis A. Moore (2008) – Tearing Down the Church-State Wall To Establish A Permanent Republican Majority – Basel Action Network – Former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works from 1978 to 1989 – http://curtismoore.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/tearing-down.pdf
“The Kanawha conflict created an upheaval throughout the nation. Publishers, whose books were rejected merely because they depicted racial and cultural diversity were no longer willing to market such books. Heritage emerged from the Kanawha conflict as a significant force advocating “traditional” education. Weyrich’s next step was to build on this foundation, and extend the Party’s reach deeper into Christian communities.”
Rob Boston – Measure Of Justice: Remembering The Battle Over Robert Bork – Talk to Action – 21/12/2012 – – http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/12/20/10390/909 – authors «Religious Right groups were very enthusiastic over the possibility of Bork joining the high court. The Rev. Jerry Falwell said the Bork nomination «may be our last chance to influence this most important body.» The Catholic League, the Heritage Foundation, Concerned Women for America, the Eagle Forum and other groups formed a pro-Bork caucus. The stage was set for a battle royal.»
Cambio climático
Greenpeace USA Research Department – ExxonMobil’s Continued Funding of Global Warming Denial Industry – Greenpeace, 01/05/2007 – http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/assets/binaries/exxon-secrets-analysis-of-fun
“Heritage continues to discount climate change science with claims that a ‘review of the evidence reveals fundamental uncertainties,’ as in this April 2007 “Discussing Global Warming in the Security Council: Premature and a Distraction from More Pressing Crises” urging the U.N. Security Council to shelve concerns about global warming because ‘Contrary to the impression given in press coverage, considerable scientific uncertainties and debate exist.’ Heritage argues that ‘Even if global warming occurs as envisioned, it is far from clear that acting now to address the threat is the most efficient use of resources.’ Most often led by scholar Ben Lieberman, Heritage releases regular challenges to the IPCC and other world authorities on global warming, as in its February 2007 statement “Don’t Rush To Judgment on U.N.’s IPCC Global Warming Summary,’ which emphasized that the Summary for Policy Makers was “Just a Summary,” and urged policy makers to reject ‘Kyoto-style requirements’ … ‘lest the U.S. embark on a course that does more harm than good.’.”
Joseph Romm – The intellectual bankruptcy of conservatism: Heritage even opposes energy efficiency – Climate Progress, 06/11/2008 – http://climateprogress.org/2008/11/06/the-intellectual-bankruptcy-of-conservatism-the-heritage-foundation-opposes-clean-energy/
“Now the grand-daddy of them all, the Heritage Foundation, reveals it is not aging gracefully. It launched an absurd website and an even more ridiculous video in a bizarre effort to fight the Supreme-Court mandated effort to reduce global warming pollution.”
Ben Lieberman and Nicolas Loris – Five Reasons the EPA Should Not Attempt to Deal with Global Warming – Heritage Foundation, 23/04/2009 – Senior Policy Analyst, Energy and Environment; Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation – http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/04/five-reasons-the-epa-should-not-attempt-to-deal-with-global-warming
“1. It’s an Economy Killer …; 2. Negligible Environmental Benefit …; 3. Lack of Scientific Consensus …; 4. Backdoor Policy …; 5. Expanded Bureaucracy ”
Mike González (2010) – Morning Bell: The Edifice Falls – The Heritage Foundation, 03/03/2010 – http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/01/morning-bell-the-edifice-falls-2/
“The whole edifice of global warming is now falling apart. It is collapsing with such rapidity that it is worth pausing from time to time to take stock. The foundations of such edifice rest on a single assumption. This hypothesis—one that drove many people, even some reasonable ones, to contemplate upending the world as we know it — is that that traditional fuels will have cataclysmic consequences on the environment because they emit gases that make the world too hot … The reason Sens. Kerry, Graham and Lieberman had to turn away from cap-and-trade, and target industries individually, is that the idea of an iron-clad scientific consensus is now being revealed to be a bit, shall we say, exaggerated. The IPCC’s turning of hypothesis into fact now looks less like the scientific process and more like the magician you paid $50 an hour to pull flowers out of hats at your daughter’s birthday.”
Clive Crook – Bjorn Lomborg’s Movie: Is Quiet the New Loud? – The Atlantic, 06/10/2010 – http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/bjorn-lomborgs-movie-is-quiet-the-new-loud/64186/
“Another questioner asked, why did he choose a conservative think-tank like Heritage to show the movie in DC? His answer: because they were willing to do it. He said he regretted the missing centre in the debate. People interested in the subject tended to see climate change either as a hoax or as an immediate existential threat to civilization. ‘The constituency we have to grow is the intelligent middle,’ he said–people interested in level-headed, cost-effective solutions.”
Coral Davenport – Brothers Work Different Angles in Taking On Climate Change – The New York Times, 10/05/2014 – http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/us/brothers-work-different-angles-in-taking-on-climate-change.html
“But it is, for the time being, politically untenable in the United States. The conservative Heritage Foundation has called the DICE model ‘flawed beyond use for policy making’ and warned that it should not be used to justify ‘trillions of dollars of government policies and burdensome regulations.’.”
Medio ambiente
Sharon Beder (2006) – The changing face of conservation: Commodification, Privatisation and the Free Market – En: David M. Lavingne (ed.) – Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability – International Fund for Animal Welfare – Guelph, Canada & University of Limerick, Ireland, 2006, 83-97 – School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication,University of Wollongong
“Such pricing mechanisms are also supposed to prevent depletion of natural resources. John Hood, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and Vice-President of the John Locke Foundation, maintains: For natural resources over which property rights are relatively easy to establish, such as oil, minerals, or timber, prices serve as an early warning signal to companies about scarcity. ”
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway (2010) – Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming – Bloomsbury New York – 27/10/2010 – Professor of History Science Studies Program University of California; National Aeronautics and Space Administration – http://climatecontroversies.ulb.ac.be/wp-content/uploads/slides/oreskes.pdf
“Besides being the only [acid rain committee] member proposed by the [Reagan’s] White House, Singer was also the only member without a regular, full-time academic appointment. He was affiliated with the Heritage Foundation.” (p. 84)
Otros
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (2004) – Crimes Against Nature – HarperCollins Publishers – – ISBN 0-06-074687-4 – Págs.
“Heritage became a top beneficiary of five right-wing foundations established by major corporate polluters: the John M. Olin Foundation, funded by a leading manufacturer of ammunition and toxic chemicals; the Sarah Scaife Foundation, funded by the Mellon industrial, oil, and banking fortune and run by the arch-conservative American Spectator financier Richard Mellon Scaife; the Castle Rock Foundation, funded by Coors, the Charles D. Koch Charitable Foundation, headed up by Charles G. Koch, chairman of Koch Industries, Inc., the largest independent oil company in the United States and one of the biggest polluters in Texas; and the Bradley Foundation, funded by the electronics fortune”
Daniel Montero y Joaquín Vidal – Aznar y la liga de los hombres del petróleo – Interviu, 10/11/2008 – http://www.interviu.es/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=39&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=53916&idseccio_PK=547&h=080929
“La actividad [de Aznar] como invitado de honor, ponente y miembro de diferentes sociedades … Dos de las más señaladas son el American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (conocido como AEI) y la Heritage Foundation (para la que ha dictado conferencias, la última en mayo de 2007). Ambas están localizadas dentro de la complejísima red de lobbies norteamericanos negacionistas del cambio climático.”
Juan Carlos Escudier – Los negacionistas españoles del cambio climático – El Confidencial, 12/12/2009 – http://www.elconfidencial.com/sin-enmienda/negacionistas-espanoles-cambio-climatico-20091212.html
“En noviembre del pasado año, la revista Interviu publicó un reportaje sobre la fructífera carrera empresarial del ex presidente, empleado de Murdoch en la News Corporation, en cuyo accionariado sobresalen varios magnates texanos del petróleo como Fayed Sarofim, Charles Wilson y Alfred C. Glassell Jr (ex presidente de Texaco). Y daba cuenta además de sus actividades como conferenciante, ligadas tanto a la Heritage Foundation, otro think tank regado por la Exxon, como a la ya citada AEI, entre cuyos colaboradores figuran altos cargos de la Administración Bush como Dick Cheney o Richard Perle.»
Corporate Europe Observatory (2010) – Concealing their sources – who funds Europe’s climate change deniers? – http://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/files/article/funding_climate_deniers.pdf
“IER has received over $300,000 in funding from ExxonMobil43 and also receives money from the Koch industries44. A report by Greenpeace45 showed that groups which had received Koch money, like the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, and the American Energy Alliance, were actively disseminating the study. Instituto Juan de Mariana co-sponsored the last sceptic conference organised by the Heartland Institute. Gabriel Calzada was one of the speakers.”
Fundación Internacional para la Libertad – Visitado 05/01/2013 – http://www.fundacionfil.org
“Objetivos: FIL auesta por aquellos principios cuya instauración constituye la base de la democracia, la libertad y la prosperidad y que no se traduce solo ni principalmente en la aplicación de recetas económicas concretas, sino de un proyecto global que hace de los individuos y no de las clases, de la raza o de la burocracia los protagonistas de la historia – American Enterprise Institute; Atlas Economic Research Foundation; Cato Institute; Fomento del Trabajo Nacional; Heritage Foundation, etc. Presidente: Mario Vargas Llosa.”
Lee Fang – The Right Leans In – The Investigative Fund, 28/03/2013 – http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/investigations/politicsandgovernment/1768/the_right_leans_in/
“Days after Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term, about 400 GOP donors gathered in a downtown San Francisco hotel to hear Jim DeMint — who had just resigned from the Senate to take a $1-million-a-year job as head of the Heritage Foundation — explain the way forward.”
Pere Rusiñol – El lobby neoliberal del PP boicotea a España en EEUU – Público – 19/07/2009 – http://www.publico.es/internacional/239598/el-lobby-neoliberal-del-pp-boicotea-a-espana-en-eeuu
“Por su parte, la conexión entre Calzada y el ex presidente José María Aznar es directa y múltiple … La FAES ha movilizado a su red en EEUU para dar al informe de Calzada la máxima resonancia. Su centro de referencia en Washington es la Heritage Foundation guardián de las esencias conservadoras y muy vinculado a los republicanos, que ha promovido el documento en su tupida red y organizó un gran acto público en Washington con Calzada. El grupo News Corp., que tiene a Aznar como consejero, desempeñó el papel de lanzar el informe en el debate mediático estadounidense, lo que arrastró a todos los grandes medios. ”
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