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Landmark Calls for Probe into EPA Grants to Nature Conservancy
Landmark Legal Foundation ^
| May 15, 2003
| Press Release
Posted on 05/16/2003 2:55:10 PM PDT by farmfriend
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To: farmfriend
How does one donate???
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posted on
05/17/2003 8:26:12 AM PDT
by
Imagine
To: madfly
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posted on
05/17/2003 8:32:29 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Dixie Chimps! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: MeeknMing; holdonnow; marsh2; dixiechick2000; Mama_Bear; doug from upland; WolfsView; ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62135-2003May15.html
Charity Hiring Lawyers to Try to Prevent Hill Probe
By Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, May 16, 2003; Page A27
The Nature Conservancy is hiring outside lawyers and one of the nation's largest public relations companies to help head off a congressional investigation following disclosure that the nonprofit has sold scenic properties to its own trustees, internal Conservancy memos show.
The Arlington-based charity has retained Edelman Public Relations, whose Washington office is headed by former Republican and Democratic advisers, as part of a damage-control strategy that includes Capitol Hill meetings, calls to donors, third-party letters to newspapers, full-page advertisements and attempts to pacify charitable foundations, the memos show. Conservancy staffers also are working to "place stories" in the media that describe successful conservation projects.
This came to me throught email today. I only posted part because it is a Post story. I do believe the Conservancy is nervous. They should be.
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posted on
05/17/2003 9:00:54 AM PDT
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: farmfriend
BTTT...and LOL
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posted on
05/17/2003 9:02:17 AM PDT
by
hattend
To: farmfriend
Is Edelman the guy who is married to CDC chair Marion Wright Edelman. and the guy who was in the Clinton Administration in HHS, but quit over welfare reform?
To: DLfromthedesert
I'm the worst when it comes to names. I have no idea. Someone here will though.
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posted on
05/17/2003 9:10:00 AM PDT
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: farmfriend
BTTT!!!!!
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posted on
05/17/2003 9:12:03 AM PDT
by
E.G.C.
To: farmfriend
LOL! If "The Great One" was after me, I'd be nervous, too!
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posted on
05/17/2003 9:31:00 AM PDT
by
dixiechick2000
(Never have so many been so wrong about so much.)
To: DLfromthedesert
Daniel J. Edelman
Founder and Chairman, Chicago
Daniel J. Edelman is founder and Chairman of Daniel J. Edelman, Inc., parent company of Edelman Public Relations Worldwide; PR 21; Strategy One (Research); Blue (Advertising) and Edelman Creative Solutions (Interactive).
Edelman is the largest privately-held independent and sixth largest public relations firm in the world. The staff totals 2,000. Edelman Public Relations Worldwide offices are located in Chicago, New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Miami, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Washington DC, Montreal, Toronto, Brussels, Dublin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Taipei. PR 21 offices are in New York City, Chicago, St. Paul and San Francisco.
A native of New York City, Edelman was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia College in 1940 and earned an M.S. degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism the following year. During the Second World War he was an officer in the U.S. Army Psychological Warfare and Information Control Divisions, serving in England, France and Germany and received four battle stars and the Commendation Medal. He was a newspaper reporter and later radio news writer for CBS before moving into public relations in New York. He became public relations director of the Toni division of Gillette in Chicago in 1948 and started his firm there on October 1, 1952.
Edelman is the recipient of Columbia University's Distinguished Alumnus Award and John Jay Award. He is the 1992 Jewish United Fund of Chicago "Communicator of the Year." He was voted the 1993 "PR Professional of the Year" by readers of PR News and was an Inside PR Creative All-Star for 1994. He received the Ball State University 1996 National Public Relations Achievement Award. He was awarded the 1997 Top Gun Award from the Chicagoland Public Relations Society of America and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Inside PR magazine in 1998. The Arthur Page Society inducted him into the Hall of Fame in 1997. He was selected for the Chicago Business Hall of Fame by Junior Achievement in 1998. He also was named in 1998 for the Thomas Mosser Award by St. Bonaventure University "in recognition of extraordinary performance in communications." His firm has won 32 Silver Anvils awarded by the Public Relations Society of America for outstanding programs and also was selected 1993 "Agency of the Year" in the Inside PR magazine survey of public relations firms. Edelman is the 1999 Gold Anvil Award Recipient from PRSA, the highest honor accorded in the public relations field. In 1999, he also received the first-ever Outstanding Achievement Award from the China International Public Relations Association "for bringing modern public relations practices to China." The award was presented in Beijing. He was awarded the Lion of Finland for professional public relations services to that country.
Edelman served on the first Illinois Lottery Control Board; was President of the Chicago Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization; and is a member of the Chief Executives Organization. He's a former Board member of Save the Children Federation, served as Chairman of the University of Chicago Library Board and was a Board member of the Northwestern University Music School. He was formerly a member of the Board of Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society and is a current member of the Board of Lyric Opera of Chicago. He's a member of the Public Relations Society of America, the Publicity Club of Chicago and former Chairman, Counselors Academy, Public Relations Society of America. He's a member of the Arthur Page Society and PR Seminar and is a PRSA Fellow. Clubs: Arts Club, Chicago Club, Casino Club, Standard Club, Harmonie Club and Mid-America Club.
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posted on
05/17/2003 10:25:44 AM PDT
by
hattend
To: madfly
Thanks for the ping
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posted on
05/17/2003 10:50:25 AM PDT
by
firewalk
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To: TonyRo76
I live right near a huge Nature Conservancy spread.....
Some very, very beautiful land....some 35k acres worth.
I've heard many rumors....on how the NC ended up with this tract. None that I've verified....just stories. I do know that the state and the NC traded land tracts.....
fwiw-
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posted on
05/17/2003 11:45:49 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Q. What's big enough to hunt bear with? A. Hillary's legs.)
To: farmfriend
source
The Senate Finance Committee's chairman, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and the ranking Democrat, Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, are drafting a letter to the Conservancy seeking answers to a range of concerns about the land deals."Taxpayers have the right to know how The Nature Conservancy conducts its business," Grassley said in a statement May 9 to the Washington Post. "I'll be overseeing the charity's actions, asking tough questions and following through until satisfactory answers are given."
Some of the prominent families that have given to the Maine chapter include Richard G. Rockefeller of Falmouth, son of David Rockefeller Sr. of New York; and Leon and Lisa Gorman of Yarmouth.
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posted on
05/17/2003 11:51:56 AM PDT
by
madfly
To: farmfriend
The IUCN: From the UN to Your Back Yard ©1998, Sovereignty International (snip)
- The IUCN: From the UN to Your Back Yard
- ©1998, Sovereignty International
Why is it that Biosphere Reserves, World Heritage Sites, Sustainable Development Programs, The Wildlands Project, and Convention on Biological Diversity all call for greenways, protected areas, wilderness reserves and natural corridors surrounded by regulated "buffer zones"? And why do federal agencies, the Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, and other environmental groups strongly promote the same "sustainable" development agenda?
It is no coincidence. All of these programs, treaties, and organizations have one thing in common; the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Through the IUCN, government agencies such as the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, the US Forest Service, the EPA and other federal agencies can huddle in private with the Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, Society of Conservation Biology, UNEP, UNDP, UNESCO and many others to develop strategies to implement their "ecospiritual" agenda on the ground by changing US policy -- without any knowledge of Congress or the people who will be affected.
Making US policy is constitutionally the exclusive right of Congress, by the consent of the people, and not federal bureaucrats. Nonetheless, an August, 1993 EPA Internal Working Document states, "Natural resource and environmental agencies... should...develop a joint strategy to help the United States fulfill its existing international obligations (e.g. Convention on Biological Diversity, Agenda 21).... The executive branch should direct federal agencies to evaluate national policies...in light of international policies and obligations, and to amend national policies to achieve international objectives." (Bold and italics added)
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posted on
05/17/2003 1:20:57 PM PDT
by
madfly
To: hattend
Thanks. Quite an impressive bio. Definitely NOT the same guy.
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05/17/2003 10:29:32 PM PDT
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spunkets
To: farmfriend
BTT
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posted on
05/18/2003 7:46:52 AM PDT
by
jokar
(There I said it)
To: farmfriend
bttt
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posted on
05/18/2003 8:13:45 AM PDT
by
madfly
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05/18/2003 10:05:25 AM PDT
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madfly
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