Where are the network newhounds on this; those fearless defenders of the 1st and 5th Amendments. Where is the "Fair and Balanced" Channel when you need it? If one person can piece this together, why in hell can't major news organizations at least "fact check" their own stories and guests?
Here's some quick links if you want to pass this info along without all of my commentary:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040305/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_political_ads_7 Quote:
"It makes me sick," said Colleen Kelly, who lost her brother Bill Kelly Jr., in the attacks and leads a victims families group called Peaceful Tomorrows. "Would you ever go to someone's grave site and use that as an instrument of politics? That truly is what Ground Zero represents to me."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040305/ts_alt_afp/us_vote_attacks_040305180734 Quote:
"Ground Zero is a sacred site," said Rita Lasar, a steering committee member of the group, September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.
http://peacefultomorrows.org/contribute.html Quote:
Donate online - Please specify the book as a gift item with your donation.
Or make a check out to Peaceful Tomorrows/Tides Center and send to:
Peaceful Tomorrows Book
PO Box 1818
Peter Stuyvesant Station
New York, NY 10009
http://www.tidescenter.org/project_detail.cfm?id=60053.0 Quote:
Peaceful Tomorrows
Organized primarily by families of victims, Peaceful Tomorrows seeks to open up a public dialogue about appropriate alternative responses to the September 11 tragedies. Efforts will be made to raise awareness of the complex issues involved in responding to terrorism and influence the US policy towards more effective, democratically-based responses to terrorism in both domestic and foreign policy.
Contact Information:
Kelly Campbell
Peaceful Tomorrows
5111 Telegraph Avenue
Suite 185
Oakland, CA 94609
(415) 518-1991
kelly@peacefultomorrows.org www.peacefultomorrows.org
Director:
Kelly Campbell
Project Co-Director:
David Potorti
http://www.gristmagazine.com/pdf/crc.pdf Quote:
in 2001 the Tides Foundation and the Heinz Endowments, which are based in Pittsburgh, opened the Tides Center of Western Pennsylvania, also based in Pittsburgh. The chairman of the Howard Heinz Endowment is Teresa Heinz Kerry, widow of the late John Heinz, the Pennsylvania Republican senator, and wife of Senator John Kerry (D-MA), a candidate for President in
2004. The Howard Heinz Endowment had 2001 assets of $788,633,056. Between 1995 and 2001 it donated $4,298,500 to the Tides Foundation and Center. Howard Heinz’s father (and John Heinz’ grandfather) founded the Heinz food company, and his wife Vira founded the Howard Heinz Endowment in 1941.
The Tides Center also manages the Youth Gender Project whose goal is to "empower and support transgender, gender-variant, intersexed and gender-questioning youth and young adults." I freely admit, not all of these terms are in my spell-checker.
Grant recipients also include the Iraq Peace Fund that has so far granted $489,000 to 27 groups to promote anti-war marches and their coverage by the news media, as well as the mission of one of those groups, MoveOn.org, whose purpose is to defeat George W. Bush.
The news that Wilson met with Kerry's campaign before the CIA exposure claims gives me some serious doubts as to just who is behind the issue.