{"id":12972,"date":"2015-10-03T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12972"},"modified":"2015-10-03T09:34:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T14:34:11","slug":"how-americas-think-tanks-are-compromised-and-bought-off-by-foreign-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12972","title":{"rendered":"How America\u2019s \u201cThink Tanks\u201d are Compromised and Bought Off by Foreign Governments"},"content":{"rendered":"

How America\u2019s \u201cThink Tanks\u201d are Compromised and Bought Off by Foreign Governments<\/a><\/h3>\n

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The think tanks do not disclose the terms of the agreements they have reached with foreign governments. And they have not registered with the United States government as representatives of the donor countries, an omission that appears, in some cases, to be a violation of federal law, according to several legal specialists who examined the agreements at the request of The Times.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As a result, policy makers who rely on think tanks are often unaware of the role of foreign governments in funding the research.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Several legal experts who reviewed the documents, however, said the tightening relationships between United States think tanks and their overseas sponsors could violate the\u00a0Foreign Agents Registration Act, the 1938 federal law that sought to combat a Nazi propaganda campaign in the United States. The law requires groups that are paid by foreign governments with the intention of influencing public policy to register as \u201cforeign agents\u201d with the Justice Department.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At least one of the research groups conceded that it may in fact be violating the federal law.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 From the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0article:\u00a0Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks<\/a><\/p>\n

Liberty Blitzkrieg readers will be under no illusions when it comes to\u00a0the role \u201cThink Tanks\u201d play within America\u2019s crony, unethical, slimy and entirely compromised political system. Nevertheless, today\u2019s New York Times article exposing how foreign government, likely illegally, use them to buy influence in Washington D.C., is extremely important and disturbing. Let\u2019s examine a few excerpts.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0the\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2014 The agreement signed last year by the Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs was explicit: For $5 million, Norway\u2019s partner in Washington would push top officials at the White House, at the Treasury Department and in Congress to double spending on a United States foreign aid program.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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How America\u2019s \u201cThink Tanks\u201d are Compromised and Bought Off by Foreign Governments The think tanks do not disclose the terms of the agreements they have reached with foreign governments. And they have not registered with the United States government as representatives of the donor countries, an omission that appears, in some cases, to be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4285,6174,1921,9549,9550,827,834,865],"class_list":["post-12972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-new-york-times","tag-night","tag-think-tanks","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12973,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972\/revisions\/12973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}