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The 'Offended' 911 Group “Peaceful Tomorrows” is funded largely by Teresa Heinz
various sources, mostly Tom Randall of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
| 3/5/04
Posted on 03/05/2004 12:23:38 PM PST by dead
Peaceful Tomorrows is being portrayed as an independent group of relatives of victims of the 911 attacks. They are getting a lot of press claiming to be outraged over the new Bush ads.
Call me insensitive if you like, but I wonder if this outrage could possibly be a tad overblown, and more likely attributable to the millions and millions of dollars this group has received from endowments chaired by Teresa Heinz, wife of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry.
According to their own contribution page, Peaceful Tomorrows is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
According to an article in the Pittsburgh Review, Between 1995 and 2001, $4.3 million of that money came from the Howard Heinz Endowment. In 2002, it and the Vira Heinz Endowment blessed The Tides Center, a San Francisco spin-off of the Tides Foundation, with another $190,000 while the two endowments gave $1.6 million to the new Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania. (The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group)
The money that flows into The Tides also flows out. They have given grants totaling $489,000 to the Iraq Peace Fund, who used that money to fund the anti-war marches and media costs of 27 groups, including MoveOn.org, whose purpose is to defeat George W. Bush.
Other Tides Center projects include The Youth Gender Project, which seeks to "empower and support transgender, gender-variant, intersexed and gender-questioning youth and young adults."
They also shoveled $200,000 towards The Ruckus Society - founded in 1995 to train activists in violent protest against biotechnology, globalization and the World Bank. It incited property destruction in the Seattle riots of 1999 and Washington, D.C., the following year.
Now, if you really want to get mad, you should also know that $8,000,000 in taxpayer money flowed into the Tides Center in the form of federal grants made by eight different agencies between 1997 and 2001.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2004; 911; bigcogwheelturns; fundingtheleft; heinz; kerry; kerrythecommunist; lwfunding; peacefultomorrows; teresaheinz; teresakerry; thetidesfoundation; tidesfoundation
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To: EggsAckley
Kerry hasn't quit spinning since 1971.
To: dead
Wow, excellent work, dead! I haven't heard anything on the lamestream media about this...YET
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posted on
03/05/2004 9:48:06 PM PST
by
nutmeg
(Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F’in Kerry)
To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
MAJOR ping!
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent miscellaneous ping list.
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posted on
03/05/2004 9:49:37 PM PST
by
nutmeg
(Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F’in Kerry)
To: dead; Hon; nutmeg; Howlin; Grampa Dave; MeekOneGOP; JohnHuang2; kayak
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posted on
03/05/2004 9:53:46 PM PST
by
Coleus
(Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
To: doug from upland; Mia T; ALOHA RONNIE
ping!
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posted on
03/05/2004 9:57:30 PM PST
by
nutmeg
(Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F’in Kerry)
To: dead
Good job
226
posted on
03/05/2004 10:07:46 PM PST
by
Diddle E. Squat
(I'm Diddle E. Squat, and I approved this tagline)
To: dead
Why am I NOT surprised?
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posted on
03/05/2004 10:09:00 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: MJY1288
This is really BIG, this needs to be sent to all media outletsThe basic info, that Mrs. Heinz-Kerry's group is funding these people who are all over the media, should be included in Letters to the Editor in papers all over this nation!
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posted on
03/05/2004 10:10:26 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: dead; CyberCowboy777; diotima; Bob J
My my my! Now isn't this interesting...
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posted on
03/05/2004 11:42:53 PM PST
by
Libertina
(The Passion of the Christ - inspired, inspiring. Thank you Mel Gibson!)
To: Shermy
Having worked with Teresa for almost 13 years, and her late husband John Heinz for three years prior to that, I can attest to Teresas integrity and professionalism. She is a gifted and caring person who uses her philanthropy to develop pragmatic solutions to some of the most difficult problems of our time. Thats what drives her, a genuine passion to make the world a better and safer placean impulse that eludes the understanding of her critics. Jeffrey R. Lewis
Take it from me, John Lewis, Mother Teresa would never do the illegal things she's done....
To: freebilly
Maybe legal, but certainly unethical....
To: dead
good story
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posted on
03/06/2004 12:26:04 AM PST
by
Jimbaugh
(They will not get away with this. Developing . . . . .)
To: dead
This could go on the "not too @#$%^&*! surprising" list, if there were one. ;')
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posted on
03/06/2004 1:22:57 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Hangin's too good for tyrants, but I mean that in a non-violent way. Sort of.)
To: ValerieUSA
:'o
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posted on
03/06/2004 1:23:22 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Hangin's too good for tyrants, but I mean that in a non-violent way. Sort of.)
To: nutmeg; WorkingClassFilth; jla; Gail Wynand; Brian Allen; Lonesome in Massachussets; ...
thx!
It is candidate heinz.. er...kerry and the rest of the dems who are politicizing 9/11 and the war on terror even as they accuse Bush of doing so in an attempt to maginalize Bush's amazing accomplishments fighting terror.
Heinz..er..Kerry is trying to obscure the plain fact that he and the rest of the Ds are national-security utter failures.
Heinz..er..Kerry is utterly despicable. The plodding senator will do anything to win the White House (or line his pockets--the cadaverous gigolo).
We must expose him.
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posted on
03/06/2004 2:51:10 AM PST
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Mia T
236
posted on
03/06/2004 2:55:25 AM PST
by
backhoe
(--30--)
To: PhilDragoo
237
posted on
03/06/2004 3:48:10 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(The Democrats believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
To: Mia T
Heinz..er..Kerry is utterly despicable. The plodding senator will do anything to win the White House Now that f'n Kerry is locked into the nomination, there is, of course, another senator who is even more despicable. What I can't get out of my head is that Hillary! is behind these and other revelations. She will keep him in the race, and at the same time, ensure that he loses.
Hard to believe but, "The enemy of our enemy is our friend."
To: rwfromkansas
Who is he and what would you suggest I write?
To: Shermy; dead
For the record, I posted #90 for your information only, not because I was buying it.
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