Posted on 02/11/2008 8:01:48 PM PST by Tigen
Candidate's Reform Institute also accepted funds from Teresa Kerry
As Sen. John McCain assumes the GOP front-runner mantle, his long-standing, but little-noticed association with left-wing donors such as George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry is receiving new attention among his Republican critics.
In 2001, McCain founded the Alexandria, Va.-based Reform Institute as a vehicle to receive funding from George Soros' Open Society Institute and Teresa Heinz Kerry's Tides Foundation and several other prominent non-profit organizations.
McCain used the institute to promote his political agenda and provide compensation to key campaign operatives between elections.
In 2006, the Arizona senator was forced to sever his formal ties with the Reform Institute after a controversial $200,000 contribution from Cablevision came to light. McCain solicited the donation for the Reform Institute using his membership on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, he supported Cablevision's push to introduce the more profitable al la carte pricing, rather than packages of TV programming.
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Caligula had his horse and Mad Tom has his dog.
So... Cecilia is part of their team to sell Climate Change mumbo-jumbo (perhaps even writing in Spanish?) and these two Chamber of Commerce dudes are probably part of the groups telling us how good all those illegal immigrants are for the economy and why we need McCainiacs shamnesty!
Here is Cecilia’s book intro (”climate colonialism, revolutionary ecology, and environmental commodification”?):
http://books.google.com/books?id=9XqJ3RxhlQ8C
Environmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy By John Byrne, Leigh Glover, Cecilia Martinez
Environmental justice is one of the most controversial and important issues in contemporary social science. Volume 8 of the Energy and Environmental Policy series challenges our understanding of environmental justice in a global context. It includes theoretical investigations and case studies by leading authors in the field.
Global forces of technology and the development of global markets are transforming social life and the natural order. These changes require a critical examination of nature-society relations. Increasingly, modernization assigns the risks of modernity to those with the least power and greatest vulnerability to environmental harm.
Conventional environmentalism, which focuses on the critique of the effects of humanity on nature, is struggling with the problem of environmental justice. In particular, it is having difficulty explaining persistent patterns of social injustice that accompany escalating environmental exploitation. As the capacity for environmental destruction expands, broader concerns about environmental injustice have come to the fore, including awareness of threats to whole cultures, ways of life, and entire ecologies.
The volume’s authors consider the links between expanded patterns of environmental injustice and the structures and forces underlying and shaping the international political economy.
Environmental injustice is examined across a variety of cultures in the developed and developing world. Through case studies of climate colonialism, revolutionary ecology, and environmental commodification, the global and local dimensions of the problem are presented.
The latest volume in this important series demonstrates that environmental justice cannotbe reduced to simple parables of indifference, prejudice, or appropriation. It forges an understanding of environmental injustice as a development of international political economy itself. Likewise, initiatives on behalf of environmental justice are seen as elements of broader movements to secure self-determination in a globalizing world.
This book will be of interest to policymakers, energy and environmental experts, and all those interested in the environment and environmental law. It provides new perspectives on the place of environmental justice in international political and economic conflict.
Just what we need - another dog in the race! LOL
Spike’s got my vote - he’s is truly a man’s best friend. Dogs have loyalty unlike man.
You should keep in on your homepage as well.
Good question. But I heard he took out a 3 million dollar loan.
Thank you. I’ve mostly ignored McCain because I thought his ascent was impossible. That’ll teach me.
S-O-R-O-S
Thank you Travis for the link.
You’ve had some terrific posts tonight..
As for File-Maker Pro, i’d say your guess is right about using it to create databases...Soros has funded various other groups through his Reform Institute; These links,among others, give more insight:
His Biography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
His Campaign Contributions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
OSI Open Society Institute
http://www.soros.org/
The Reform Institute
http://www.reforminstitute.org/Default.aspx?cid=2
Capn’s Blog
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/004026.php
The Reform Institute- another Link
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/004026.php
Thanks for the info.
You may like this one:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/004026.php
Oh, man! I can’t even get through the first few pages! “Social movement... United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice.. Cesar Chavez... environmental racism... .” Oh, this is great! She’s citing Churchill (as in Ward Churchill!)
Just a note: Cecilia Martinez was an editor of this book, and also was co-author of some chapters, specifically:
1. A Brief on Environmental Justice
John Byrne, Cecilia Martinez, and Leigh Glover
6. The Circle of Life: Preserving American Indian Traditions and Facing the Nuclear Challenge.
Cecilia Martinez and John Poupart
11. The Production of Unequal Nature
John Byrne, Cecilia Martinez, and Leigh Glover
Other chapter authors:
• Wolfgang Sachs
• Daniel Faber
• Subodh Wagle
• Steven M. Hoffman
• Anil Agarwal
• Sunita Narain
• Anju Sharma
• Nicholas Low
• Brendan Gleeson
http://books.google.com/books?id=9XqJ3RxhlQ8C
See what happens when you think out loud. Some are now more interested in ‘the bench’ and not the article! LOL Thanks, I needed a laugh break right about now! And you keep Miss Behave’n - we need it!
This sure as hell better sink this dirtball.
I'll confess, I'm already somewhat intrigued. What's his stance on illegal immigration...? ;)
“The volume’s authors consider the links between expanded patterns of environmental injustice and the structures and forces underlying and shaping the international political economy.”
“Environmental injustice is examined across a variety of cultures in the developed and developing world. Through case studies of climate colonialism, revolutionary ecology, and environmental commodification, the global and local dimensions of the problem are presented.”
“The latest volume in this important series demonstrates that environmental justice cannotbe reduced to simple parables of indifference, prejudice, or appropriation. It forges an understanding of environmental injustice as a development of international political economy itself. Likewise, initiatives on behalf of environmental justice are seen as elements of broader movements to secure self-determination in a globalizing world.”
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IOW, the environment alarm is just another step towards gobalization and Soros and McCain are deep into it...Looks like there is much more to McCain than meets the eye...
And it also looks like his McCain-Feingold may have been a shell game to keep soft money out of his opponents hands while lining his own pockets through the Reform Institute and with contributions from Soros’ other organization, OSI...Ya know, McCain may be an ultimate Washington insider who knows how to say one thing while doing another...I’m beginning to really wonder now....
It is on my homepage, pissant. Updated and everything. Refer to it often.
can anyone name any CONSERVATIVE legislation sponsored by McCain?????
The last time I used those precise same words in a sentence together, it ended up meaning a thirty day sentence for soliciting. ;)
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