There’s an ongoing policy war being waged between those who favor a weather dependent wind and solar approach to energy consumption and those who look to nuclear power and efficient electrical grids as the answer to future energy needs. And the dividing line between the two isn’t as easy to determine along ideological lines as people might think. While left-leaning charitable organizations and activists do currently fund a push toward the weather-dependent approach, there are some outliers. And while right-leaning legislators have long paid lip-service to nuclear power and efficiency in the energy sector, their behavior hasn’t always matched their words. Two new films explore this battle. Juice, a docuseries by energy journalist Robert Bryce and Tyson Culver, looks at the debate over nuclear power and government-induced inefficiencies in the power grid. And Climate: The Movie by British filmmaker Martin Durkin explores climate alarmism and the false claim that the scare tactics are based in science. Our colleague Ken Braun, who has seen both and reviewed one, is here with my colleague Mike Watson and me today to discuss all things energy.

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Film Review of Juice: The Reliability Error

Juice: Power, Politics & The Grid Is Out!

Climate: The Movie

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How did universities become dens of sympathy for ideologies and factions implacably opposed to America and her allies, most recently demonstrated by the “Hamas glamper” protests at various elite campuses? Many have argued that funding of American universities by rival foreign governments and allies of America’s enemies, perhaps most prominently the People’s Republic of China and the State of Qatar, helped create the situation in which higher education now finds itself, and the House of Representatives is taking action to further scrutinize these donations. Joining us to discuss foreign funding of higher education and the DETERRENT Act proposed to scrutinize it is Angela Morabito of the Defense of Freedom Institute.

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Colleges hide foreign sponsors of antisemitism

PRESS RELEASE: DFI Releases Statement on Bipartisan Passage of DETERRENT Act

Comment on the Department’s Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Foreign Gifts and Contracts Disclosures

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I’m Sarah Lee and this is the Influence Watch podcast. Joining me today is my colleague Parker Thayer because sitting in the hot seat is our regular host Mike Watson, and we’re going to be grilling him on a 5 part series he wrote on the American elite, about which there has been much discussion over the last several years. They are a semi-mythical class made up of an American socio-political creature who, depending on your perspective, either needs to be heavily taxed to pay their fair share or are currently occupying the seats of power and actively trying to create a permanent majority. So just what defines the “elite” in American culture, which way do they vote, and are they ascending or descending on the political stage? Here’s hoping Mike can shine a light on what he says makes the American elites so WEIRD. 

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On the Elites and Counter-Elites: WEIRD

T hem vs. U.S.: The Two Americas and How the Nation’s Elite Is Out of Touch with Average Americans

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Is it, or at least should it be, charitable to fund political-advocacy protest over controversial sociopolitical issues? Our colleague Robert Stilson calls it “megaphone philanthropy,” and perhaps the prototypical practitioner of “megaphone philanthropy” is the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the $800 million funder of some of the most radical activists within American politics’ Overton Window. Robert joins us to discuss Marguerite Casey Foundation and its “megaphone philanthropy.” 

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Megaphone Philanthropy

The Marguerite Casey Foundation: “Social Justice Philanthropy”

The Marguerite Casey Foundation: A Focus on Group Identity

The Marguerite Casey Foundation: Left-Wing Grantmaking

The Marguerite Casey Foundation: Thoughts and Questions

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NewsGuard: It’s a teachers-union approved tool purporting to rate information sources on how “nutritious” to one’s information diet they are, but the teachers’ union seal of approval should lead readers to question just what the NewsGuard “Nutrition Label” is actually rating. Joining us to discuss NewsGuard and its links to the left is Illinois-based conservative activist John Tillman. 

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NewsGuard primes children in public schools for life of leftist activism

NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: The Nutrition Label

NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: Vitamin Deficient Nutrition

NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: History-Making Hoaxes

NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: Disclosure

Championing opportunity and prosperity for all Americans.

NewsGuard

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You’ve heard of Mike Bloomberg; those longer in years might remember Tom Steyer; deep readers of Capital Research Center might remember Fred Stanback; the billionaire environmentalist donor is a repeating figure. But you’ve probably not heard of C. Frederick Taylor, a reclusive California billionaire who drives millions to the environmentalist movement. Joining us to discuss Taylor, his Sequoia Climate Foundation, and the effect he’s having on environmental policy is our Capital Research colleague Ken Braun. 

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The Sequoia Climate Foundation: The “Secretive U.S. Vulture Fund”

The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Following Fred’s Money

The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Funding of Anti-Energy Radicals

The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Climate Colonialism

The Progressive International: Members

C. Frederick Taylor

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The Freedom of Information Act was supposed to ensure public access to federal government documents, including written communications by senior officials. But the law has been wantonly circumvented; perhaps most notably by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “homebrew” email server, but more recently it has come to light that aides of former National Institutes of Health official and de facto COVID lockdown czar Anthony Fauci openly wrote about their FOIA circumvention. Joining us to discuss FOIA, how officials try to evade it, and what can be done about it is veteran journalist (and member of the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame) Mark Tapscott.

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Now Will The FOIA Get Some Real Teeth?

EcoHealth Alliance

Peter Daszak

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Note: This episode contains discussions of subjects that may not be suitable for children. Parental discretion is advised. 

Everybody’s doing it—sex education. And as American sexual mores have grown more permissive, the organizational institutions devising sex education curriculums have pushed the Overton Window of sexual permissiveness to its maximum. Joining us to discuss the rise of contemporary sex education and the institutions behind it is Kali Fontanilla, Senior Fellow at the Capital Research Center.

The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children: The First Formal Sex Ed

The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children: Since the Sexual Revolution

The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children: What’s Best for the Kids

The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children: Are There Any Solutions?

SIECUS Is Pushing Sex Ed for “Social Change” in Our Nation’s Schools

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change)

Social Justice Unionism: Pushing Planned Parenthood’s Propaganda

Advancing After Getting Education Right

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This week we cast our eye to the Pacific Coast, with inquiries into two major left-wing funders in the Golden State. First, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is suing the Tides Foundation; even as we say “Let them fight,” we must also ask what these two major left-wing institutions are fighting about. And then we introduce the California Endowment, one of many major left-wing grantmakers of which the average listener might not yet have heard. Joining us to discuss these major California institutions is Thomas Buckley, senior fellow at the California Policy Center.

https://californiaglobe.com/fr/blm-sues-tides-foundation/
https://thomas699.substack.com/p/pennies-for-health-care-millions
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/california-endowment/
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/black-lives-matter-foundation/

What efforts are American nonprofits funding overseas? By and large, we don’t know, and federal disclosure laws are no help because they don’t require American nonprofits (other than private foundations) to disclose their grants to organizations outside the United States. But that may change, as Congress considers legislation to reform “Schedule F” on the nonprofit tax return. Joining us to discuss the proposal is our colleague Robert Stilson, one of the loudest voices calling for the change.

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Require Nonprofits to Disclose Their Foreign Grantmaking

The Need for Foreign Grant Disclosure by Nonprofits

Smucker Foreign Grant Reporting Act Receives Unanimous Support in Committee

People’s Support Foundation (PSF)

People’s Welfare Association (PWA)

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