Foundation chief nutured conservative movement (Milwaukee JournalSentinel)

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by Alan J. Borsuk

Michael S. Joyce, past president of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, has passed away.
Mr. Joyce was a key figure in support of the neo-conservatives.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=404463

[HereSince1628]

1. Read that with the morning coffee...

I have to say I'm not sorry about that a bit.

[bobthedrummer]

2. It is helpful in some ways when researching the BFEE. n/t

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3. Note that he got his money from a defense contractor - a model for other

military-industrial types who on one hand work to create a Total Warfare and Total Information Society and on the other take their profits and fund ERW causes. In systems engineering terms that Joyce would recognize, it's called a self-reinforcing "closed-feedback loop."

From the Journal-Sentinel article:

(Joyce)led the Bradley Foundation to prominence as one of the pivotal forces in the rise of conservative think tanks and similar efforts. Neoconservative leader Irving Kristol once referred to him as "the godfather of modern philanthropy" related to conservative causes.

In 2001, shortly after the inauguration of President George W. Bush, Paul Gigot, now editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, wrote in that newspaper, "Michael Joyce is the closest thing to the original source for what Mr. Bush is trying to accomplish."

But Joyce was sometimes referred to as "the prince of darkness" and similar titles by liberals who opposed almost everything he stood for. Groups such as the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and opponents of school vouchers criticized Joyce, often while admitting his impact.

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Friends said Sunday that his first job in philanthropy was as head of the Goldseker Foundation in Baltimore. He held other positions and increased his involvement with influential conservative figures before being named to the Bradley Foundation in 1985. Until then a small organization, Bradley had received an infusion of $290 million from the sale of Allen-Bradley Co. to Rockwell International, making it the largest foundation in Wisconsin.

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4. Yep. I noticed that and a few other things. Like Charles Murray.

on edit: another Wisconsin connection to BFEE would be Wallace Hilliard who built up American Medical Security/AMS and took the profits into buying aircraft and flight schools.

One of his aircraft was seized with 43 pounds of heroin. Atta and other 9/11 terrorists trained at a flight school in Naples, Florida then owned by Mr. Hilliard.

The Hilliard family is also involved in a lot of philanthropic work along the lines of Michael S. Joyce.

[bobthedrummer]

7. This money trail is interesting. So is history.

Here are some interesting historical articles connected to the neo-conservatives, somewhat like how Mr. Joyce was.

CIA To Release More Papers About Nazi War Criminals (WaPo 2-7-2005)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3262-2005Feb6?language=printer

Study Shows Bank Linked To Nazis (by David McHugh AP Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5627554,00.html

There are lots more of these types of articles about the hidden history connected to the neo-conservatives.

[Kolesar]

5. The Bradleys were racists who kept blacks out of their company

...and Mexican Americans, too.

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6. Eugenics=racism and leads to genocide eom

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8. kick