The podcast where we go beneath the surface to reveal the web of connected influence, money, and motivation driving the news, sourced primarily from our website InfluenceWatch.org, the Capital Research Center's online encyclopedia of the donors, non-profits, and influencers driving politics. You can watch the video version of the podcast at: http://bit.ly/2rnQygY
The podcast where we go beneath the surface to reveal the web of connected influence, money, and motivation driving the news, sourced primarily from our website InfluenceWatch.org, the Capital Research Center's online encyclopedia of the donors, non-profits, and influencers driving politics. You can watch the video version of the podcast at: http://bit.ly/2rnQygY
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The podcast where we go beneath the surface to reveal the web of connected influence, money, and motivation driving the news, sourced primarily from our website InfluenceWatch.org, the Capital Research Center's online encyclopedia of the donors, non-profits, and influencers driving politics. You can watch the video version of the podcast at: http://bit.ly/2rnQygY
The podcast where we go beneath the surface to reveal the web of connected influence, money, and motivation driving the news, sourced primarily from our website InfluenceWatch.org, the Capital Research Center's online encyclopedia of the donors, non-profits, and influencers driving politics. You can watch the video version of the podcast at: http://bit.ly/2rnQygY
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Wind power sounds lovely; supposedly free, indeed infinite “renewable” clean energy from the predictable patterns of moving air. Except it isn’t quite so simple. Turbines catch fire with disquieting frequency. The amount of land needed to produce electricity is quite high. And there’s a political protection racket keeping even clean-generating rivals out of the market and wind generators on the government dole. Here to explain is our colleague Ken Braun, who follows the energy and environmental issues for Capital Research Center.
Links:
https://capitalresearch.org/article/italian-energy-giant-invades-america-part-4/
https://capitalresearch.org/article/wind-turbines-produce-drama-cash-and-some-electricity-part-1/
https://capitalresearch.org/article/wind-turbines-produce-drama-cash-and-some-electricity-part-4/
https://www.influencewatch.org/movement/opposition-to-nuclear-energy/
https://capitalresearch.org/article/climate-alarmists-hoover-up-corporate-welfare-part-1/
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In 2022, Patagonia outdoors-wear brand owner and self-described socialist Yvon Chouinard and his family transferred ownership of the company to Holdfast Collective, an LLC that controls 98 percent of the shares, and the Patagonia Purpose Trust, an entity that holds two percent of the shares and allows Chouinard’s family to retain effective control of Patagonia. Holdfast Collective was announced as an environmentalist project, with Chouinard claiming, “Earth is now [Patagonia’s] only shareholder.” But Americans for Public Trust found something curious in some FEC filings: Holdfast Collective is using some nonprofit groups it created and manages Arabella Advisors-style to make contributions to Democratic Super PACs, and the paperwork is questionable. Here to explain is Caitlin Sutherland, the executive director of Americans for Public Trust, which filed a complaint asking the Federal Elections Commission to investigate.
Links:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/major-outdoor-clothing-company-quietly-operating-liberal-dark-money-group-hit-fec-complaint
https://americansforpublictrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Holdfast-FEC-Complaint.pdf
https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/patagonia/
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/holdfast-collective/
https://www.influencewatch.org/person/yvon-chouinard/
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You’ve probably heard of the Democratic Socialists of America, the left-wing radical faction we most recently discussed in episode 302 for its financial problems. But the DSA is just a relatively small part of a worldwide movement for Marxist-inflected Everything Leftism led by a former Greek government minister and having current and former heads of state among its current and former leadership: The Progressive International. Joining us to discuss the left of the international left, its ties to America, and its broader influence is Robert Stilson, who wrote a four-part series on the Progressive International for CapitalResearch.org.
Links:
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-progressive-international-part-1/
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-progressive-international-part-2/
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-progressive-international-part-3/
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-progressive-international-part-4/
https://www.influencewatch.org/organization/progressive-international/
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In 1965, future U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), then an Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Johnson administration, issued a report expressing alarm at rising rates of unwed childbearing, especially among Black Americans. In the intervening nearly six decades, the situation among Black Americans and white Americans alike has only gotten worse, and the left-progressive movement that has risen in influence has challenged the very idea that marriage and family formation, at least on historical American lines, is even a good thing. Joining us to discuss this trend and its effects on American society is Delano Squires, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family.
Links:
https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/commentary/america-needs-black-wives-matter-movement-rebuild-the-black-family
https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/the-moynihan-report-50-years-later-why-marriage-more-ever-promotes/#_ftnref1
https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/commentary/society-suffers-when-progressives-spurn-fatherhood-marriage-and
https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-get-schooled-on-radical-politics
https://www.influencewatch.org/organization/d-c-area-educators-for-social-justice/
https://www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/black-lives-matter/13-guiding-principles
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Whether or not it is the cause of recruiting shortfalls or not, rising left-wing ideology in the military is cause for concern. But who is pushing the military to adopt widespread social-liberal activist policies? Fred Lucas, a reporter from the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal, joins us to discuss the organizations pushing the military to sign up to Everything Leftism.
Links:
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-architects-of-the-woke-u-s-military-part-1/
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-architects-of-the-woke-u-s-military-part-2/
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-architects-of-the-woke-u-s-military-part-3/
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-architects-of-the-woke-u-s-military-part-4/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/why-military-recruitment-is-miserable/
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As state legislatures convene in what is likely to be a competitive federal election year, what can states do to ensure their elections are fairly conducted? Jason Snead of the Honest Elections Project joins us to discuss his organization’s recommendations for safeguarding U.S. elections.
Link:
https://chrome-extension//efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.honestelections.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/HEP_2024-Election-Reform-Report_v4.pdf
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All is not well at the Democratic Socialists of America, the most prominent and powerful openly socialist political advocacy organization in America. Longtime activists are quitting, the budget isn’t balancing, and Everything Leftism is propagating. Joining me to discuss the turmoil at the DSA are my colleagues Sarah Lee and Robert Stilson.
Links:
https://capitalresearch.org/article/turmoil-at-the-democratic-socialists-of-america/
https://capitalresearch.org/article/explaining-everything-leftism/
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If you’re like me, electricity is something that just comes out of the wall and turns on the lights. If you’re like our guest, energy policy expert and creator of the docuseries Juice: Power, Politics, and the Grid Robert Bryce, energy and electricity are so much more—he joins Ken and me to discuss the realities of the power we all use and how it got to our appliances.
Links:
https://juicetheseries.com/
https://www.influencewatch.org/movement/opposition-to-nuclear-energy/
https://robertbryce.substack.com/
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/federal-judge-sides-with-osage-tribe
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In theory, the case is a simple question: Must fishing rig owners pay the government for the mandatory government inspectors who attend those rigs? But in deciding that question, the Supreme Court must consider a more complicated one: How much “deference” do the courts owe to federal regulatory agencies’ interpretations of the law? The prevailing rules, known as Chevron deference after a Supreme Court case involving the oil company, demand wide deference to agencies, but that is now being questioned in a case before the Supreme Court which might reverse or constrain Chevron deference. Joining us to discuss this is Paige Gilliard, an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation.
Links:
https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/18/7-takeaways-from-arguments-in-the-scotus-case-that-could-slay-the-administrative-state/
https://pacificlegal.org/the-separation-of-powers-explained/#6
https://pacificlegal.org/chevron-deference-nightmares-3-examples/
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You would think that nobody remotely close to power in the United States would praise the barbarous attacks by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas against Israel of early October 2023. But one very prominent activist group’s leader did: The Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR, whose national executive director, Nihad Awad, told the American Muslims for Palestine convention that he “was happy to see the people of Gaza break the siege on October 7.” Joining me to discuss the background, influence, and future of CAIR are my colleague Ryan Mauro and Dexter Van Zile, managing editor of the Middle East Forum's Focus on Western Islamism (FWI).
Links:
https://islamism.news/
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-future-of-hamas-is-pretty-bleak/
https://freebeacon.com/israel/cair-leader-says-he-was-happy-to-see-hamas-attack-israel/
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/council-on-american-islamic-relations-cair/
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