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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/jeffrey-clark/2022/02/17/ap-climate-army-four-leftist-big-money-orgs-fund-ap-eco">https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/jeffrey-clark/2022/02/17/ap-climate-army-four-leftist-big-money-orgs-fund-ap-eco</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">gmail</font></div><div><article data-history-node-id="270113" role="article" about="/blogs/business/jeffrey-clark/2022/02/17/ap-climate-army-four-leftist-big-money-orgs-fund-ap-eco" class="node node--type-blog node--view-mode-full clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="nodecontent clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Associated Press </span>recently celebrated an $8 million cash infusion from left-wing mega-donors to fund a small army of eco-journalists. </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Associated Press</span> (<a href="https://apnews.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">AP</a>) <a href="https://apnews.com/article/science-business-arts-and-entertainment-journalism-united-states-087d1d5dd7189c529fe5d7a21a1ffb5f" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">declared</a> on Feb. 15 that “it is assigning more than two dozen journalists across the world to cover climate issues.” The announcement of the $8 million in funding marked the “largest single expansion paid for through philanthropic grants” in AP history.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.climatedepot.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">Climate Depot</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> founder </span><a href="https://www.cfact.org/author/marc-morano/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">Marc Morano</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://www.climatedepot.com/2022/02/15/paid-press-releases-now-officially-the-news-ap-announces-largest-single-expansion-paid-for-through-philanthropic-grants-of-8-million/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">put</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> it best: “The AP will now have zero 'obligation to serve as watchdogs over public affairs and government' and instead be approved messaging lapdogs to their paymasters. Will the AP ever offend [its] donors and look critically at the UN IPCC climate panel? Or NASA? It's a laughable thought.” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The organizations that opted to exchange cash for influence included left-wing organizations like <a href="https://hewlett.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.qdvm.org/#quadrivium" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">The Quadrivium Foundation</a>, <a href="https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">The Rockefeller Foundation</a> and <a href="https://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">the Walton Family Foundation</a>.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AP referenced an earlier time, when it suggested news agencies were more independent: “For many years, Journalists and philanthropists were more wary of each other. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bolder;">News organizations were concerned about maintaining independence and, until the past two decades, financially secure enough not to need help,</span>” [emphasis added].</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So what changed? AP explained the journalism industry’s need for “philanthropy” since its “financial outlook has been otherwise bleak.” But this flies in the face of independent journalism. The Society of Professional Journalists <a href="https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">Code of Ethics states</a> journalists should “[a]void conflicts of interest, real or perceived.” </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Hewlett Foundation <a href="https://hewlett.org/grants/climateworks-foundation-for-the-clean-cooling-collaborative/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">gave</a> at least $583,165,182 in grants to the <a href="https://www.climateworks.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">ClimateWorks Foundation</a> from 2008 to 2020, according to Foundation Directory Online. ClimateWorks has <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-lefts-green-giant-part-1/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">been linked</a> to the <b>“‘greening of the Belt and Road Initiative,</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>’</b> global trade infrastructure project pushed by Chinese President Xi Jinping to link the communist country with the rest of Eurasia,” according to investigative think tank the Capital Research Center.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The Rockefeller Foundation has a sordid history of extremism.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The Rockefeller Archive Center, a research center and grantmaking organization, documented the group’s </span><a href="https://resource.rockarch.org/story/rockefeller-philanthropy-and-population-related-fields/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">funding</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of population control research in the past. Additionally, “Dean Rusk, who served as Rockefeller Foundation president in the 1950s, led an effort to dramatically expand federal population control funds when he served as Secretary of State in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations,” </span><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/rockefeller-foundation/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">Influence Watch reported</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Walton Family Foundation of Walmart fame also got in on the climate action. It </span><a href="https://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/grants-database?grantee=00000169-91e5-d2a9-a7eb-bffd5cec0000&p=3" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">awarded</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> at least $64,597,090 in grants to the </span><a href="https://www.edf.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">Environmental Defense Fund</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (EDF). The EDF held </span><a href="https://www.edf.org/content/environmental-justice-event-series" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">a string of events</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in 2020 that exploited the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Marxist Black Lives Matter </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">protests and riots to rail how “[c]urrent demands for racial justice have put the spotlight on environmental racism.” </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Quadrivium is another environmentalist sponsor. Under </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Murdoch" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">James Murdoch</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, the son of News Corp. Executive Chairman </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rupert-Murdoch" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">Rupert Murdoch</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Quadrivium </span><a href="http://www.qdvm.org/#quadrivium" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">flexed its climate change</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> financing muscles. Quadrivium </span><a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2021/09/29/james-murdochs-foundation-gave-14250000-leftist" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">gave</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> at least</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> $14,250,000 to the same radical <a href="https://www.edf.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;">EDF</a> from 2013 to 2019.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 27px; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Conservatives are under attack. </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Contact The Associated Press at (212) 621-1500 and demand it reject climate alarmism.</span></font></p></div></div></article><section class="print-no" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="block block-views block-views-blocknode-blocks-blog-tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><div class="content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="views-element-container col-auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; width: auto; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0.2em 0.5em 0px 0px; position: relative; display: block; background: 0px 0px; border: none; border-top-left-radius: inherit; border-top-right-radius: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/people-and-organizations/jim-walton" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; border-right: 2px solid rgba(153, 153, 153, 0.5); transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Jim Walton</a></font></li><li class="list-group-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.2em 0.5em 0px 0px; position: relative; display: block; background: 0px 0px; border: none;"><a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/journalists/marc-morano" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; border-right: 2px solid rgba(153, 153, 153, 0.5); 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