When one of the world's richest men, Warren Buffett, made a pledge to give away a record-breaking $31 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation the story grabbed international headlines and garnered adulation for Buffett from the news media and political left in the US.
However his pledge to give a separate $6 billion to the foundations of his late wife and children was largely ignored, at least until a watchdog group -- the Capital Research Center -- discovered that the $6 billion was destined to promote radical environmentalism and population control, abortion, embryonic stem cell research and perhaps other causes.
The Capital Research Center was created in 1984 to study non-profit organizations, with a special focus on reviving the American traditions of charity, philanthropy, and voluntarism.
Since the beginnings of the Great Society programs by President Lyndon Johnson and Congress in the 1960s, many thousands of nonprofit advocacy groups have emerged, often promoting more government welfare programs in areas once considered the domain of families, charities, neighborhood associations, and other voluntary organizations.
As a result, the growth of government has increasingly supplanted the voluntary action and community-based problem solving that the great observer of early American society, Alexis de Toqueville, recognized as a defining feature of our country.
Capital Research Center is analyzing organizations that promote the growth of government and in identifying viable private alternatives to government regulatory and entitlement programs. Their research forms the basis for a variety of publications.
CRC acts as a watchdog group on individuals such as George Soros, Warren Buffett and other deep-pocketed progressives who pepper numerous activist organizations with millions of dollars. Their website includes an invaluable database with key information on non-profit associations and those doling out grant money to such organizations.
Capital Research also monitors the activities of labor unions especially in the area of party politics.
CRC reports on the mischief created by some non-profits, such as, for example, an activist group demanding Nuremberg-style trials for those they refer to as the “bastards” who are part of what they call the global warming “denial industry.” In essense, they wish to criminalize free speech.
Writer/activist David Roberts wrote: “When we’ve finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we’re in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg.”
A report by CRC stated: Calling for kangaroo courts for global-warming skeptics could be a sign that the extremists who dominate the environmentalist movement are finally beginning to realize that despite massive support from leftists and the mainstream media they are losing.
Visit CRC's excellent website today: http://www.capitalresearch.org
Nathan Tabor is the Founder and CEO of TCVmedia.com and TheConservativeVoice.com. After just eighteen months, TheConservativeVoice.comThe Conservative Voice has over 100 columnists and features up-to-the-minute news. He is heard daily on over 250 stations nationally with AConservativeMoment.com. gets over 250,000 unique visitors a month, 1.7 million page views and has over 150,000 email subscribers.
At 29, Nathan ran for Congress (NC5) in an eight way primary. He raised over $750,000 and received over 7,500 votes in the most expensive primary in American history. Nathan's supporters included Dick Armey, Ed Meese, Steve Moore, Art Laffer, Pat Robertson, Bob Jones III, Congressmen Robert Aderholt, Congressmen Trent Franks, Congressmen Jim Ryun, Beverly and Tim LaHaye, Mike Farris and many others. Dr. Jerry Falwell dubbed him the "young Jesse Helms."
Nathan received his BA in psychology from St. Andrews Presbyterian College and his MA in public policy from Regent University.
Nathan is married to Jordan and they have a baby girl, Abigail.
