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Behind Stanford’s pleasant exterior is a facist political agenda which is evidenced by their funding and hosting of the Hoover Institute. Hoover is both directed Stanford (although they deny it) and is a false front for Stanford and other wealthy patrons who have a very undemocratic streak.

In an earlier article we noted that Hoover Institute was an embarrassment to Stanford. We could not figure out why Stanford would allow such a transparently fraudulent research institute to reside on its campus. Our original interpretation was that Stanford simply took the money and allowed Exxon-Chevron-Halibuton-etc… to place a fake research institute on its campus. However, we learned some discouraging news recently. That is that 25% of Hoover’s operating budget comes from Stanford. There is very little choice but to conclude that Stanford is on board with Hoover’s fascist extreme right research and further that because Hoover taps so many professors from Stanford, that Hoover is in fact partially a false front for Stanford. That is Stanford shared the funding of Hoover with other undemocratic contributors who want false but pro-elite research and media influence.

How the Standford-Hoover Relationship Works

Stanford publishes work through Hoover that would that the top administration wants published, but which would damage Stanford’s academic reputation. What this means is there are some seriously mean and narrow minded people in the Stanford administration-funding system. Like the type of people who used to own slaves, use the term “let them eat cake” talk about their superior “breeding” and invest in South African diamond mines. Those type of people. Hoover not only likes people like Rumsfeld, it is the Stanford administration at the highest levels that supports both his appointment to Hoover as well has his general philosophy of aggressive social Darwinism and corruption. To be direct, Stanford is running Hoover. When we brought this issue up to a person who works at Stanford, they stated that Hoover is not part of the academic Stanford so its not a problem. We believe this is part of the scam. It is deliberately setup that way to make you think there is a separation. In fact this was probably always the purpose of Hoover, since its inception back in 1919. There is a long history of this in politics. When a political candidate wants to run a negative ad against rival, they make sure the ad is released through a non affiliated lobbying group. This way the candidate, that both came up with and produced the commercial has plausible deniability.

Stanford-Hoover’s Positions

Hoover funds global warming denier Thomas Gale Moore, author of “Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn’t Worry About Global Warming. Global warming deniers are essentially the idiots of the sciences. Laughed at in scientific conferences where they get zero respect, nevertheless, they receive a warm reception at think thanks. The Cato Institute – another faux think tank recently took out an ad stating that concerns about global warming are overblown. Of course, but until recently, they denied it completely. This type of of “research” Stanford can simply not publish from its sciences department. However it is research its wealthy fundraisers and corporate sponsors really want published. So it is released through the Hoover.

Hoover covers its positions with a lot of high sounding language, and they like to use the term “syposium” as a term for what really are just old-boy get togethers. Stanford-Hoover are in favor of a number of not so nice things that would be extremely embarrassing to Stanford if it was known that they Hoover is their lapdog. Things Hoover supports includes:

• Attacking Iran (and therefore taking its oil, as has been one with Iraq) – this is covered up with high sounding papers and conferences on “Democracy in Iran.” In the new Orwellian vocabulary, those countries that you want to separate their resources from, you begin to take a real interest in promoting democracy in that country. This is kind of like the democracy we brought to Iraq – where most the inhabitants preferrred conditions under Saddam Hussain to the US occupation
• Curtailing environmental regulation
• Privatizing schools (the ultra-wealthy are positively furious about having to pay for the education of non ultra-weatlthy children, especially the children of what Stanford-Hoover would call “wet-backs” and “negros.” The ultra-wealthy need a polititically correct term to reduce public funding of education so that only the wealthy can afford to be educated. The term they have settled on is “privatizing schools.”
• Torture (as evidenced by their hiring of one of the main architects of Abu Ghraib – Donald Rumsfled – actually Rumsfeld’s association with Hoover goes way back) One can only conclude that Stanford-Hoover supports torture as this is one of Rumsfeld’s main parts of his resume is promoting torture techniques in the armed forces.

Stanford’s Intensely Fascist Views

We could list more pet issues of Stanford-Hoover, however its quite easy to guess where Stanford-Hoover will end up on any issue. Essentially, any undemocratic policy which benefits elite interests has a special place in Standford-Hoover’s heart. Their history shows they will go to any lengths to falsify research to make the points their monied doners want made. An extra benefit of Hoover’s research is that it is not peer reviewed, which is necessary because Hoover’s work is some of the worst research performed in the country. At Stanford-Hoover, papers are created, and then simply released to the media without any review or oversight. Stanford-Hoover then attempts to shape the discussion based upon this fraudulent research. If any criticism is brought up about the terribly undemocratic viewpoints presented by Hoover, Stanford can simply say – “its not our research and has nothing to do with us”

The whole things is quite a scam Stanford has running.

References

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=43

http://www.stanford.edu/group/peace/hoover/HooverArguments.html

Important Information About The Stanford Hoover Connection from Stanford.edu/peace

• Hoover is officially a part of Stanford, like Stanford Linear Accelerator
• In financial terms, all of Hoover’s money is Stanford’s money. Checks are written to “Hoover institution, Stanford university.” The Hoover account is a Stanford account; the Hoover endowment ($60 million) is a Stanford endowment; Stanford owns everything in the Hoover Institution buildings.
• There is significant involvement in the Stanford community. Of the 100 fellows, nearly 60 did some teaching or advising for Stanford students, many of these are as courtesy appointments in which Hoover fellows teach classes for lower pay than a Stanford professor.

Funding

According to Wikipedia these are some of Hoover’s largest contributors. The donations are listed as “charitable contributions” on these foundations’ tax funds, but there is nothing charitable about them. This is money paid to a professional lobbying and pr firm, which is what Hoovers is.

• Archer Daniels Midland Foundation
• ARCO Foundation
• Boeing-McDonnell Foundation
• Chrysler Corporation Fund
• Dean Witter Foundation
• Exxon Educational Foundation
• Ford Motor Company Fund
• General Motors Foundation
• J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust
• Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation
• Procter & Gamble Fund
• Rockwell International Corporation Trust
• Transamerica Foundation

Reference

Like Stanford, most conservatives support slavery in one way or another.

http://onhumannature.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/everyone-wants-a-slave/