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Tom Hayden, one of the central organizers of sometimes violent, civil disobedience protests at the Democratic National Convention in 1968, is pledging to disrupt this month's Republican convention with demonstrations "1,000 times bigger than Chicago," according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, WND's premium, weekly, online intelligence newsletter. Hayden, the co-founder of Students for Democratic Society, a left-wing group that splintered in the late '60s and early '70s, with one faction resorting to terrorism, is predicting between 100,000 and 1 million protesters will be in New York for the convention beginning Aug. 30. Hayden said there were at...

Cubans surfing the World Wide Web might have the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Endowments to thank, say three anti-Castro Republican members of Congress from Miami-Dade County, Fla. Heinz Endowments Chairman Maxwell King immediately wrote off the accusation, made Tuesday during a news conference in Miami, as "a cynical political stunt predicated on a lie." Teresa Heinz Kerry, of Fox Chapel, wife of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, heads the Heinz Endowments. The members of Congress making the allegations -- Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, all Cuban-Americans and all of Miami-Dade -- accused the Heinz Endowments of indirectly helping the...

CAMPAIGN 2004 Heinz Kerry charity assailed, defended Local Republicans say the endowment controlled by Teresa Heinz Kerry once gave money to a group that helped Cuba hook up to the Internet. Democrats say the allegation is a lie. BY LUISA YANEZ lyanez@herald.com Political dueling for Florida voters -- especially Cuban exiles -- erupted in Miami on Tuesday as charitable donations from Teresa Heinz Kerry's fortune came under fire by three local Republican members of Congress. Among the trio's allegations: The endowment Heinz Kerry oversees may have indirectly helped the Cuban government link up to the Internet over a decade ago....

Three Cuban-American US House members from South Florida (Reps. Lincoln Diaz Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Mario Balart) will unveil their case linking Teresa Heinz Kerry to Fidel Castro at their 1:30 PM Eastern press conference. In recent weeks the Heinz Endowment had been accused of funding the Tides Center of Western Pennslyvania to advance a laundry list of partisan causes and political fringe groups.The financial connection in question appears to be between the Tides organziation and an internet project based in Cuba.The project in Cuba involved the island nation in helping to establish an internet connection. $13,000 in grants were...

Bogus e-mail messages claim she's given millions to "radical" groups, some linked to terrorists, and located Heinz factories overseas. Both claims are false. 08.04.2004 Summary False allegations about Kerry's wife have been circulating for months, but the velocity of the Internet "whispering campaign" picked up substantially with the approach of the Fall campaign. One false message claims Teresa Heinz Kerry gave $4 million to a foundation that used the funds to support a list of "radical" groups including one with alleged links to Hamas and another that is said to have offered to provide a lawyer for Saddam Hussein. But...

Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left By Ben Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com | February 13, 2004 With Matt Drudge’s recent revelation that John Kerry is as faithful to his second wife as he was to his old Vietnam “brothers,” the senator’s presidential campaign may depend more than ever on the actions of his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. While the mainstream media has thus far overlooked the alleged infidelity, media outlets have also overlooked a far more important story: The former Mrs. John Heinz is also in bed – financially – with the radical Left. Teresa Heinz Kerry has financed...

In recent weeks, The Heinz Endowments has been accused of using its funding of the Tides Center of Western Pennsylvania to advance a laundry list of partisan causes and fringe political groups. This accusation is simply wrong. It originated in an opinion column written by a researcher for the conservative, Washington, D.C.-based Capital Research Center. The crux of CRC’s argument is that money directed by the Endowments to Tides is "fungible." By supporting projects through Tides, CRC alleged that Heinz has secretly funneled money to every other organization that has ever received funding through Tides Center and the separate Tides...

Tessie’s Cuba Libre? Canadian arm of Heinz-Kerry electronic octopus hooked Cuba up to Worldwide Net Judi McLeod, Editor, Canada Free Press Uncle Sam officially broke off relations with Havana under the 1961 Trading with the Enemy Act. Not so for Teresa Heinz-Kerry, who in 1991, using a Canadian connection funded by her Tides Foundation, linked the communist country up to the World Internet. The Toronto-based Web/Nirv, Canadian affiliate of the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) and its offshoot the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), used a 64 KBPS undersea cable IP link from Havana to Sprint in the United States,...

Some of the groups organizing protests at this summer's Republican National Convention in New York – including one anarchist outfit planning disruptions – get funding from a foundation chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of the presumed Democratic Party presidential nominee, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. Heinz Kerry, worth as much as $1 billion according to some estimates, has directed donations in the millions to the Tides Foundation, a 28-year-old grant-making institution that funds some of the principal groups organizing demonstrations and disruptions of the GOP convention.

Uncle Sam officially broke off relations with Havana under the 1961 Trading with the Enemy Act. Not so for Teresa Heinz-Kerry, who in 1991, using a Canadian connection funded by her Tides Foundation, linked the communist country up to the World Internet. The Toronto-based Web/Nirv, Canadian affiliate of the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) and its offshoot the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), used a 64 KBPS undersea cable IP link from Havana to Sprint in the United States, linking Cubans to the Information Highway. IGC and APC are one of the Tides Foundation’s largest ongoing projects. A massive, 24-hour,...

G2 BULLETIN GOP convention protests funded by Kerry's wife Anarchist 'Ruckus Society' trains for blockades, chaos, disruptions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 19, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Some of the groups organizing protests at this summer's Republican National Convention in New York – including one anarchist outfit planning disruptions – get funding from a foundation chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of the presumed Democratic Party presidential nominee, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. Heinz Kerry, worth as much as $1 billion according to some estimates, has directed donations in the millions to the Tides Foundation, a 28-year-old grant-making...

When is a foundation not a foundation? When it gives away other foundations’ money. Most of America’s big-money philanthropies trace their largesse back to one or two wealthy contributors. The Pew Charitable Trusts was funded by Joseph Pew’s Sun Oil Company earnings, the David & Lucille Packard Foundation got its endowment from the Hewlett-Packard fortune, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation grew out of General Motors profits, and so on. In most cases, the donors’ descendants manage and invest these huge piles of money, distributing a portion each year to nonprofit groups of all kinds (the IRS insists that at least...

Following is a brief background on Mrs. John Kerry .. She hates being called that, by the way: Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry. Married Senator Kerry in 1995. She only took his name eighteen months ago and she is an "interesting" paradox of conflicts. If you thought John Kerry was scary, he doesn't hold a candle to his wife Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese physician, was educated in Switzerland and South Africa. Fluent in five languages, she was working as a United Nations interpreter in Geneva in the mid-60's...

THERESA HEINZ CUBAN COMMUNIST CONNECTIONS THIS IS A LONG ARTICLE AND A COMBO OF 2 ARTICLES - THE FIRST ONE IS ABOUT THERESA HEINZ KERRY AND HER TIDES FOUNDATION WORK. THE SECOND ARTICLE IS ABOUT THE TIDES FOUNDATION CUBA-CASTRO-COMMUNIST FRONT GROUPS. THESE ARE LONG ARTICLES BUT THEY ARE WORTH IT - PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE! Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry FROM AN ARTICLE ON FREE REPUBLIC.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1169204/posts So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money? Just one example: According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave...

Rush is talking about the boot camp to disrupt the GOP Convention. The boot camp is being sponsored by the Ruckus Society. The Ruckus Society is directly supported by The Tides Foundation. One of Tides' most prolific contributors: Teresa Heinz Kerry

Long before John Forbes Kerry was cashing in on his JFK initials for a run at the U.S. presidency, his future wife was beating a path to the front door of the United Nations. In fact, through her Tides Foundation, Teresa Heinz-Kerry gave the United Nations an up-and-running, massive, transnational electronic communications network, the Institute for Global Communications, IGC for short. IGC is one of the Tides Foundation’s largest ongoing projects. IGC and its offshoot, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) are divisions of the 501©, non-profit, charitable institution, funded by Heinz-Kerry, currency speculator George Soros, journalist Bill Moyers and...

Saying comments about the death of Pat Tillman had become "disruptive," an anti-globalist website linked to Teresa Heinz Kerry has removed a hate-filled thread assaulting the memory of the ex-NFL player who became an Army Ranger. The Portland, Ore., branch of the Independent Media Center originally ran the headline "Dumb Jock Killed in Afghanistan" above a story by the Washington Post about Tillman's death last week in a firefight with militia forces in Afghanistan. The website was filled with comments affirming the headline, and adding others. One suggested an alternative headline, " … or, how about, 'privileged millionaire, blinded by...

<p>What would you call Pat Tillman, the former Arizona Cardinal football player killed in Afghanistan? A hero? An inspiring example of American military men and women? A model of principled strength?</p> <p>How about a "dumb jock"? A "baby killer"? A "dumb-a--"? A victim of "brainwashing"?</p>

I thought I had seen it all in my nearly 50 years on this planet. As someone who came of age in the 1960s, I was certain I had seen the depths of anti-American depravity. After 25 years in the news business – some of it covering Hollywood – I was sure nothing could surprise me when it came to bad taste, amorality and shocking vulgarity. I was wrong. What I saw on the Portland, Ore., branch of the Independent Media Center this week is something I never thought I would see in this country. That's where the memory of...

As part of the metamorphosis from private foundation to public charity, the Pew Charitable Trusts are pulling their major polling, research and information projects into a single organization to save on administrative costs. Last November, the directors of the trusts, together one of the nation's 10 largest foundations, decided to become a public charity, giving it more flexibility to raise money, lobby and contribute to other organizations, as well as tax advantages. Another benefit is that Pew, based in Philadelphia, can combine programs under one roof, rather than pay other groups to run them. Pew is to announce today that...

Organization Will Rely More on Polls Than on Expert Opinions The Pew Charitable Trusts is getting into the think tank business. The group, which has become increasingly influential in public policy debates, will announce a major reorganization today that will bring seven of its public information projects under one roof and a new name: the Pew Research Center. The center will host various ongoing Pew projects examining, among other topics, the significance of the Internet, the role of religion in public life, the growing Hispanic population, the news media and the way in which the rest of the world views...

John Kerry is the Senate's most liberal member. But his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, looks to be even farther left, judging from her charitable giving. Over the years, she has poured nearly $6 million into the San Francisco-based Tides Foundation, a kind of front philanthropy, founded by California activist Drummond Pike in 1976, that channels donations to left-wing causes in ways that make the original funders hard to trace directly. The Tides Foundation gives to causes to the left - sometimes way to the left - of the Democratic mainstream. It has been a big supporter (to the tune of...

Billionaire George Soros is my hero. I'm not used to looking up to rich people as a rule. You know, getting a camel through the eye of a needle and all. But the 73-year-old retired hedge fund operator who is the 28th richest person in the world, with an estimated worth of $7-billion, is like no other really rich guy I know. Soros has used his fortune to seed democracy around the world. By giving away nearly $5-billion globally, much of it to grass-roots organizations throughout the former Soviet bloc, the Hungarian-born Soros - who barely survived the Nazis and...

Among the New Year’s many unappreciated gifts to the seafood industry and ultimately to every industry reliant upon nature’s resources is the $2.5 million PEW-funded study by U.S. academics claiming high contaminant levels of PCBs in farmed salmon. That well-planned and funded assault on the global seafood trade has European nations eyeing the credibility of the United States research community with the same anger and derision portrayed in the 1958 novel, “The Ugly American” authored by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer. Imperious, incompetent, arrogant, and erroneous are reflective of the invectives being hurled at the so-called “U.S. study.” Eastern...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Neither the Washington, DC Police Department nor the Secret Service is commenting on the recent protest demonstration at the home of presidential advisor Karl Rove. Several hundred protesters converged on Rove's house two Sundays ago, banging on the windows and demanding a meeting. Only after Rove agreed to meet with a few of the group's leaders did the angry mob board the school buses that brought them to the quiet neighborhood. National People's Action (NPA), an activist group whose advocacy includes rights for illegal immigrants, organized the rally to demand presidential support for the Development, Relief...

A liberal San Francisco foundation is finding itself caught in the crossfire of presidential politics. The Tides Center processes grant money for philanthropic organizations overseen by Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of unofficial Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry. But in an effort to label Heinz Kerry as a supporter of the radical left, conservative groups are accusing Tides of ``laundering'' donors' money to extremist groups. The fray is another example of how foundations, particularly those that tackle controversial issues, can come under fire -- from the right or the left. And some foundations can be vulnerable to such accusations, with...

IGC / APC and Tides Foundation - Castro's electronic fellow travelers By Mario Luis Ramirez IGC Internet is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization that supports radical far left causes. For about a year now, and during my frequent research forays into the hypocritical world of the "Castro Fan Club", I have noticed a pattern. It seems that many of the web sites which are of a "progressive" nature, or which pertain to communist Cuba, (There are actually many.) have these letters (igc) or (apc) either on their web sites, in the form of a banner,...

LISTEN TO WABC Tides Foundation and leftist radical Teresa Heinz is being exposed right now on WABC radio.

A flood of anti-Bush headlines poured across the news outlets last week like a tidal wave: “Sept. 11 Families Disgusted By Bush Campaign Ads;” “Bush Ads Using 9/11 Images Stir Anger;” “Bush Exploiting 9/11;” and “Has Bush No Shame?” Morning and evening editions of national newspapers led with the story, and the major news television networks revisited the debate every half an hour like clockwork. The controversy arose from Bush’s presidential ad campaign, which depicts brief images of the World Trade Center after the tragedy of 9/11. Colleen Kelly, who lost her brother Bill Kelly Jr. in the attacks on...

<p>One of the dirty political tricks of the age is the surrogate attack on opponents from the fringes, allowing a candidate to reap the benefit while denying the responsibility.</p> <p>Both Democratic and Republican organizations play this cheap-shot game, but the Republicans seem to be more effective at it, especially when the subject is first ladies, prospective or established.</p>

The Teresa Heinz connection to the Tides Foundation and the left-wing activist group Families for Peaceful Tomorrows is the cover story on The Weekly Standard. I heard on Fox that it uncovers the phony orchestrated outrage of Bush's 9/11 ads. It's on newstands now. I can't access the article online, but I'm hoping someone has it. Thanks.

"Outraged 9-11 Victims" Tied to Kerry Campaign "September 11 Families Say Bush Campaign Treading on the Dead . . ." So reads the headline. It makes one think that Bush has enraged every member of every family who lost someone on September 11. It gives the idea that Bush has crossed the line and disrespected the victims of our nation's tragedy. . . . . . . then you read "the rest of the story." The article has quotes from some women like Rita Lasar, who lost her brother. Rita says, "Ground Zero is a sacred site . ....

<p>Your allegation ["(Mrs.) Kerry's Cash Connection," Editorial, March 9] that an organization called Peaceful Tomorrows has received funding from foundations directed by Teresa Heinz Kerry is flat-out wrong.</p> <p>The allegation rests on a false assumption - that Heinz Endowments funding of the Tides Center for projects in western Pennsylvania is "fungible," as you state in your editorial, and so can be redirected to other causes.</p>

<p>Every time this newspaper runs a commentary exploring a possible uncomfortable nexus between Heinz Endowments disbursements and the presidential campaign of John Kerry (or some wild-eyed liberal, socialist or Marxist cause du jour), a nasty gram from the Pittsburgh-based endowments can't be far behind.</p>

<p>March 12, 2004 -- IN a letter in the opposite column, the president of the Heinz Endowments - chaired by Sen. John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry - takes issue with our Tuesday editorial on the hard-left anti-war group Peaceful Tomorrows, which is spearheading criticism of President Bush's campaign ads. Peaceful Tomorrows - which has opposed the entire War on Terror, including the toppling of Afghanistan's Taliban regime - is heavily funded by the San Francisco-based Tides Foundation.</p>

Now that her husband, John Kerry, is locked into the Democratic presidential nomination, an assemblage of right-wing groups is gearing up to target Teresa Heinz Kerry, depicting her as a temperamental political spouse and financier of radical groups. Some of the organizations, such as Citizens United and The Center for the Study of Popular Culture, previously took aim at former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, now a senator from New York. Heinz Kerry, who inherited $700 million from her first husband, the late Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., and who heads a Heinz family foundation and is on the board of...

Theresa Heinz Kerry has said that she won't tap into her massive fortune left to her by her husband to fund her husband's campaign unless he is personally attacked. Of course campaign finance laws already prevent her from doing that. On the other hand, she has never said that she wouldn't use her position at the $1.2 billion Heinz Foundation Endowment, a job she inherited when her first husband, Republican Sen. John Heinz, passed away, to help advance John Kerry's candidacy. It is beginning to appear that she might be using that philanthropical position for just such a purpose. Theresa...

Have you ever wondered how far will the far-left Democratic establishment will go to undermine the President and advance the political interests of John Kerry Heinz? Today's recommended reading choices will give you an idea. First up is a New York Post editorial look at the machinations of Theresa Kerry and company that generated what turns out to be a very unspontaneous burst of outrage from a minority of 9/11 families over the latest campaign ads for George W. Bush. Of course, the mainstream liberal media were more than happy to magnify this "wide public outrage" way out of proportion...

The Heinz Endowments: By Tom Randall Sunday, December 14, 2003 CHICAGO - Pittsburgh is home to a new liberal funding organization that lists its priorities as the local environment, land use and "sustainability." However, its affiliations raise questions about its real purpose. Known as the Tides Center for Pennsylvania, formerly the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania, it is a creation of the Tides Foundation and Center, headquartered in San Francisco, and two Pennsylvania-based foundations -- the Vira Heinz Endowment and the Howard Heinz Endowment-- chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry, heir to the Heinz food company fortune and wife of Democrat...

Has anyone else out there begun to wonder just who these 9/11 "families" are that have been interviewed without end the past week about their "outrage" over President Bush's TV ads with a quick clip of September 11? Are they all neutral innocents, as depicted, or are they part of an organized anti-Bush opposition? It seems to us that the media that gives these folks so much free face time and column inches might push the story a bit further to help viewers and readers put this dispute in context. Alas, what a little pushing of our own unearths is...

<p>March 9, 2004 -- To hear some folks tell it, families of the 9/11 victims have risen en masse to denounce President Bush for using brief images from Ground Zero in his campaign commercials.</p> <p>We have no doubt that the use of the images is appropriate - given that the president's leadership in the wake of 9/11, and his conduct of the War on Terror, are under drumbeat assault by John Kerry and the Democrats.</p>

John Kerry’s Super Tuesday wins on March 2 marked the formal start of this year’s presidential campaign. This might explain why the liberal media silliness began with the first Bush-Cheney ad buy on March 4. The Bush ads were positive, promotional, piano-plunking, the type that usually bore reporters to death. But this time, they were quickly slammed by the press. The Democrats thought they had an angle to trip up the Bush campaign, and they pushed it. Say, didn’t those ads flash about a second of pictures of September 11? Well, yes, and so what? After being attacked unmercifully by...

USA TODAY: 703.854.3400 Gwenn Foster - political editor. Mark Memmott - Judy Keen, writers Here we go again, FReepers. Finally, the NY POST did the story about the funding of PEACEFUL TOMORROWS. The POST told its readers about the funding which was ultimately tied to Teresa Heinz. I'm still waiting for the WASHINGTON POST and NY TIMES to set the record straight. Perhaps I shouldn't hold my breath. And now, we come to USA TODAY. Are they a wholly owned subsidiary of the DemocRATic Party? No. Do they do the bidding of the DemocRATic Party? It seems so. I spoke...

Bush Ads in HeinzSightby Daniel Sargis08 March 2004Is President Bush really in a pickle over his recently released campaign advertisements?  The media would have you believing the issue has some traction.  As Reuters reported, “Families who lost relatives in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks pressed President Bush's re-election campaign on Friday to stop running political ads that use images of the devastated World Trade Center....”  Of course, there are “57 Varieties” of truth to this story. Almost without exception, the family members quoted in this and other similar stories are associated with pro-Kerry and/or, ipso facto, anti-Bush causes.  And, God forbid,...

9/11 Victims' Kin Angered by Bush Ads 12 minutes ago Add Top Stories - AP to My Yahoo! By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a firefighters union said Thursday they're angry that President Bush (news - web sites)'s new campaign ads include images of the destroyed World Trade Center and firefighters carrying a flag-draped stretcher through the rubble. They say the ads are in poor taste and accuse Bush of exploiting the attacks. Bush's campaign defended the commercials as appropriate for an election about public policy and...

Ladies and gentlemen, it is breaking hard right before our eyes. Sean Hannity is talking now about the phony outrage story regarding the President Bush ads. We are going to find that the RATS contacted family members who are anti-war, anti-Bush and who lost relatives on 9-11. We will find they were given the phone numbers of newsrooms. We will find they were given talking points. Although some who called got out of hand, we got the NY TIMES to take notice of the story. They were deluged with phone calls. I understand Neal Boortz was on the story as...

Is President Bush really in a pickle over his recently released campaign advertisements? The media would have you believing the issue has some traction. As Reuters reported, “Families who lost relatives in the September 11, 2001, attacks pressed President Bush's re-election campaign on Friday to stop running political ads that use images of the devastated World Trade Center....” Of course, there are “57 Varieties” of truth to this story. Almost without exception, the family members quoted in this and other similar stories are associated with pro-Kerry and/or, ipso facto, anti-Bush causes. And, God forbid, some of these causes feed from...

HERE IS THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE by FReeper dead Peaceful Tomorrows is a group largely funded by the wife of the RAT weasel running for president. Their outrage over the Bush ads was a setup on the media. This morning, I phoned NBC news and asked for the newsroom. I spoke with Lauren and she said to send an email. Please join me in sending to nightly@nbc.com Also, a phone call might be helpful. 212.664.4444, and ask for the news room. For those who were around yesterday, FReepers caused a stir by flooding the NY TIMES with calls. You have...

The Bush Campaign Ads: Irrational Hatred and Phoney Outrage March 8, 2004 by Edward Daley Once again the forces of extreme liberalism, moral ambiguity and pacifism have banded together to create the illusion of indignation over something that our president has done, and for obvious political reasons. I'm talking about the recent "outrage" over George W. Bush using images from 9/11 in two campaign advertisements released last week. (Video 1 | Video 2)When I first started hearing family members of certain victims of those horrific attacks saying that they were upset by the "unconscionable" use of those images by...