Read this leaked PDF. RE: Heartland Institute. It matters, it really does.

[BeHereNow]

http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/%281-15-2012%29%202012%20Heartland%20Budget%20%282%29.pdf

I swear, there appears to be a complete black out on this story.

If you READ the PDF- you will find all the evidence needed to reveal
the Koch Brothers, and other fringe elements very orchestrated attack on
America. Teachers, unions, anyone who threatens their supreme theocracy based
plan for a fascist America.

It's unbelievable to me that DU is not researching and dissecting this exposure.

This is my last attempt to bring it to attention.
It matters. It really does.

BHN

[sabrina 1]

1. Thank you, I will read it later when I have time, but anything to do with these

people definitely does matter. They are a threat to this country and I hope one day we can stop them from using their money to buy this country's government.

[BeHereNow]

3. Just skim the budget-

Graciously, the leaker has highlighted the really good stuff for
your perusal...
It wont take you long to skim it and get the picture.
BHN

[sabrina 1]

8. I have, I wonder who the leaker was btw?

I see that they are employing Ben Domeneci, one name that stood out.

Also money being spent to go to events, one of which involves John Stossel. Isn't that the guy on TV?

But, more interesting is where are they getting all the money? And it looks like they are spending it on promoting anti-Climate Change material.

Anonymous Donor: We expect the Anonymous Donor to contribute $1,250,000 in 2012 in gifts for budgeted projects, 28 percent more than he contributed in 2011, but still less than he contributed in any other year since 2004. He already pledged to give $1 million in January.

I had not heard of this organization before. There are so many of them. I noticed a few references to people who apparently were paid, but did not perform very well, or were not there at all, but still were paid.

I will look up the organization to learn more about them.

[BeHereNow]

13. GREAT link about them here:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0216/Explainer-What-is-the-Heartland-Institute

"But Heartland has deeper, less-apparent connections with a number of politically conservative groups, including the Cooler Heads Coalition, the Heritage Foundation and, notably, the influential American Legislative Exchange Council, along with many others. The web of institutional, individual, and corporate ties is endless, which may be why Heartland is so hard to define, and to criticize, compared to, for example, a registered lobbying group.

The Institute boasts what it calls 'a diverse funding base,' which includes roughly 1,600 individuals, foundations, and corporations. Heartland expects to raise $7.7 million this year. In 2006, the Institute stated that only a quarter of its income came from corporate sponsors. That same year, however, the organization said that it would stop publicly declaring its funding sources.

The leaked documents revealed current donors, some of whom are surprising. According to the documents, Microsoft donated about $60,000, and the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKlein gave about $50,000. Both of these companies told the New York Times that their contributions were billed for projects unrelated to climate-change policy.

And later in the article, the KOCH brothers...
Imagine that???
BHN

[sabrina 1]

18. Thanks, missed this yesterday. n/t

[MarianJack]

2. K&R!

PEACE!

[Starry Messenger]

4. k&r

[ClassWarrior]

5. It's getting some attention in America's Dairyland...

...which is connected to it in so many ways.

NGU.

[Saving Hawaii]

6. Heartland Institute? I thought they just did global warming and cigarette smoking.

Are they more so a 7-Eleven for any right-wing cause with wealthy backers?

[Saving Hawaii]

7. I really like how frequently they mention "The Anonymous Donor".

It's downright creepy.

[Saving Hawaii]

9. Telling excerpt...

"Anonymous Donor: We expect the Anonymous Donor to contribute $1,250,000 in 2012 in gifts
for budgeted projects, 28 percent more than he contributed in 2011, but still less than he
contributed in any other year since 2004. He already pledged to give $1 million in January."

[sabrina 1]

10. Lol, yes, I just posted that above. Wonder who it is?

Anonymous Donor: We expect the Anonymous Donor to contribute $1,250,000 in 2012 in gifts for budgeted projects, 28 percent more than he contributed in 2011, but still less than he contributed in any other year since 2004. He already pledged to give $1 million in January.

[BeHereNow]

11. Creepy is right!

I'm guessing some one pretty much on the top of the oil food chain.
Saudi perhaps?

Thanks to the SCOTUS ruling that corporations are people, could be
any number of multi national thugs, who have NO allegiance to this country.

BHN

[sabrina 1]

16. You're right, that is what is so wrong about all of this.

Why would they want to hide if what they are doing is above board, in the moral sense I mean?

The country seems to be for sale.

[Old and In the Way]

12. Interesting...your typical RW think tank.

Equal parts fundraising and propaganda editorials. They're heavily invested in WI, attacking teachers, and climate change denying. Looks like they have a few sugar daddies that pay the bills.

[Zalatix]

14. K&R... is a persistent bump-fest a violation of DU rules?

People need to wake up. Even on the DU.

[Rex]

15. As long as there are people out their

to rule over a plutocracy, we will have people like the Koch Brothers. Wanting to rule, of course.

[jimlup]

17. Perhaps the most significant is Hartland's contribution to partisian political campaigns

This is a violation of their tax exempt status.

[BeHereNow]

19. Is that something the Attorney General handles?

Seems to me, they are worthy of SOME type of investigation.
BHN

[Lifelong Protester]

20. This did get picked up by several groups

today on FB, especially a lot of the WI recall groups. It will get a good read there, and hopefully here. Thanks for bringing it to folks's attention.