Bush Ads in HeinzSight

Intellectual Conservative ^ | 08 March 2004 | Daniel Sargis

[presidio9]

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 the trough of Teresa “The Pickle Queen” Heinz...you know, Mrs. John Kerry.

Bob McIlvaine, whose son perished in the 9-11 attacks, condemned the content of the President’s ads because , “...using footage of the wreckage of the towers to further someone's political career...needs to be rejected outright....” Bob is a member of “September Eleventh Families For Peaceful Tomorrows." Long before the Bush ads aired, McIlvaine was no friend of the President.

McIlvaine, on July 4, 2003, was the guest speaker for the “Justice in July National Protest.” As the event’s announcement described it, “The National Constitution Center opens in Philadelphia on July 4, and George W. Bush has been invited to celebrate. We're inviting thousands of people from Philadelphia and around the country to gather and demonstrate against Bush....” Lordy, Lordy...why would “September Eleventh Families For Peaceful Tomorrows” be so motivated to criticize the President?

In the ebb and flow of special interest groups, Peaceful Tomorrows is a child of the Tides Center which, in turn, is a spin-off of the Tides Foundation. As explained in one analysis, “The Tides Foundation and its off-spring, the Tides Center, effectively ‘launder’ donor dollars when they give to other nonprofits...” Tides is "...the epicenter of a large financial operation that collects and disperses millions of dollars to left-wing activist groups...." In 2001, the Tides Foundation and the Pennsylvania-based Heinz private foundations launched the Tides Center of Western Pennsylvania.

The Heinz foundations consist of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vera I. Heinz Endowment. Teresa Heinz Kerry is Chairperson of the Howard Heinz Endowment and a director of the Vera I. Heinz Endowment. Collectively, the Heinz Endowments, under Teresa’s stewardship, have donated in excess of $5 million to the Tides’ operations. Who says that Senator Kerry is special interest averse!

The Tides Foundation is the brainchild of 1970’s anti-war activist Drummond Pike. Somehow, he overcame his capitalist phobias to create a spider web of non-profit and for-profit entities which approach the $100 million per year mark. The allure of the Tides’ non-profits is their ability to opaquely funnel money from private donors to activist causes.

Private foundations, such as the Heinz endowments, must publicly report their donations. Both the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center are 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporations considered by the I.R.S. to be public charities. As such, they are not required to disclose their donors.

Therefore, the millions of dollars that Tides receives from Heinz, Pew Charitable Trusts, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and others is, in turn, redistributed to organizations like The Ruckus Society, Greenpeace, Peaceful Tomorrows and others. Thus, using Tides as an intermediary, there is no direct reporting connection between the private foundations and the activist groups they support. And you thought Swiss banking was secretive.

Don’t worry about poor Drummond Pike. Besides declaring almost $100,000 in 2002 compensation from the Tides Center, he has a few for-profit enterprises that feed off the non-profits. A short list of the for-profits includes WAFS and Highwater, Inc. WAFS reportedly sells credit card, telephone and mutual fund services. Highwater, Inc. is a real estate management operation that rents space to the Tides Center. And...the Tides Center used some of those non-profit donation dollars to lend Highwater $650,000. If you find this hard to believe, the I.R.S. Form 990’s for Tides are public reading.

As a footnote, should you ever venture to the Peaceful Tomorrows’ website, you will find a page where you can make a donation. If you wish to donate by check, make it out to “Peaceful Tomorrows/Tides Center.” Or you may donate online via credit card by clicking on the “Donate Now” link supplied by Groundspring.org...a Tides subsidiary. And somehow, Peaceful Tomorrows “borrows” Tides' non-profit status to enable deductibility.

So, the next time John Kerry tells you that, “there is no excuse for special tax cuts for the rich,” try not to vomit. Unlike President Bush, who cuts taxes for those who actually pay taxes, Kerry’s friends seem to keep passing hundreds of millions around while protected by non-profit status. At least Teresa can buy humble John plenty of political friends without paying a penny in taxes. And... all this madness is subsidized by you, the taxpayer. Who says this election won’t be fun!

[abner]

Legs?

[BartMan1]

Ping for a follow the money heads up....

[Fun Bob]

"Follow the money"--Deepthroat

miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure war criminal

[1903A3]

Well!!
As of now any Heinz products is banished from my life
And so is any other label that supports Al Querry

[doug from upland]

When will Fidel Danny, Jennings Peter, and Brokejaw talk about this?

[Mo1]

Who says this election won’t be fun!

Oh Yea .. this has long legs

PING A LING

[doug from upland]

It is apparently up to FR to right the wrongs. :)

[Darksheare]

Yeah, the money that goes to Peasfull Tomorrows is an int'resting path to follow.
Gotta be something ill gotten about that method of funding.

As far as a 'Peaceful Tomorrows' is concerned the only way to a Peaceful Tommorrow is through destruction of one's enemies TODAY.

Thanks for the ping.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Thanks Mo1!!

...And to think, here I thought initially there was no damning evidence! It just keeps on piling on top of itself!

[abner]

It is apparently up to FR to right the wrongs. :)

It has been that way for a while now...

[doug from upland]

Just called the Wash Post --- 202.334.6000. Asked for news desk, then they connected me to the writer who did the story calling Peaceful Tomorrows a non-partisan group. I left a message for Paul Fahri asking him to correct the record and tell the whole story. These victims were approached by the Kerry operatives, given numbers of news rooms, and given talking points. They were funded by a Heinz foundation. Perhaps others need to call Paul Fahri. Heheheheh.

[presidio9]

I have never been able to figure out why Theresa is not allowed to contribute as much money as she pleases to the Kerry campaign. Can you explain it to me?

[doug from upland]

This is not about a contribution to his campaign. This was a stealth operation using 9-11 family members to attack Bush. They were not just outraged families angry with the president. It was a setup organized by Kerry operatives and funded through her foundation.

[dixiechick2000]

"Oh Yea .. this has long legs"

Roger Hedgecock spoke of this story, and of just about every interesting thread concerning Kerry that's been posted on FR since last week. He has been nailing the 'Rats, but good. ;o)

Thanks for the ping! I'm off to the grocery store. I'm just glad I wasn't listening to him while I was in the car. I might have had a wreck. lol

[baseballmom]

I won't be satisfied til I see this infomation in the lamestream press, and on cable. I want it to be "the big story", a Fox News Alert, front page, top of the fold, just like I saw with the other crapola.

[baseballmom]

Roger Hedgecock, subbing for Rush is speaking about Tides, etc., re: these ads.

[doug from upland]

Excellent. This thing will keep growing, and the mainstream will be dragged kicking and screaming until they are forced to report it.

[dalebert]

bump

[GailA]

more legs

[presidio9]

Take a pass on the A-1 Sauce (also a Heinz product) while you're at it. Here is their recipe. Make it yourself:

1/2 Cup Orange Juice
1/2 Cup Raisins
1/4 Cup Soy Sauce
1/4 Cup White Vinegar
2 Tbsp Dijon mustard
1 Tbsp Bottled Grated Orange Peel
2 Tbsp Ketchup
2 Tbsp Chili Sauce

1. Bring to a boil for 2 minutes stirring.
2. Remove from heat. Allow to cool to lukewarm.
3. Put mixture in a blender till it is pureed. Pour in bottle.
4. Cap tightly and refrigerate to use within 90 days.

[bondjamesbond]

It's almost embarassingly easy to eliminate all Heinz products from your life. On the next trip to the grocery store, simply stock up on non-Heinz brand ketchup and pickle products. The stuff lasts forever. That way, whenever you need some, you just go to the pantry instead of the store, you don't need to remember which brand to buy and can't make a mistake.

Get your Hunts ketchup now, and beat the rush!

[Ragirl]

Wow! Thanks for the receipe! We are doing our part and banishing all Heinz products from our household, but the A-1 is hard to give up.

War Criminal Traitor

[bondjamesbond]

A list of companies to avoid:

Bagel Bites
Boston Market
Catelli (pasta)
Classico (pasta sauces)
EZ Marinader
Farley's
Greeseas
Guloso
Heinz
Jack Daniel's Grilling Sauce (...darn...that one's gonna pinch...)
John West Ketchup
Ketchup KICK'RS
Linda McCartney Meals
Mr. Yoshida's Fine Sauces
Ne-nernia
Olivine
Ore-Ida
Orlando
Plasmon
Polly Mi Chicha
Polly Rice Flour
Poppers
Rosetto
Smart Ones
Tinytums
Watties
Weight Watcher's Foods
Wyler's

Print the list and purchase accordingly.

[dixiechick2000]

Thank you so much for the recipe!

I did a quick google search and found a lot of websites that have name brand recipes. Had you not posted your recipe, it wouldn't have occurred to me to do so.

Here are links to just a couple of them.

http://www.recipegoldmine.com/namebrand/namebrand.html

http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/cgi-bin/search.asp?andor=or&search=Poppers+&submit.x=6&submit.y=5

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks for the list. I will shop accordingly.

[cricket]

"Legs?"

For sure and long ones - I hope. . .

. . .and they took a walk today on Rush's show (Roger Hedgecock sitting in); went into Theresa funding terrorism et al. . .even brought up the 'asses of evil' pin.

Surely this will more than a walk around the block!

[JulieRNR21]

Emailing that list to everyone I can....also giving up Boston Market....even though I love their creamed spinach.

[TejasRose]

Make your own ketchup. :-) http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/recipes/hketchup.htm

[presidio9]

Interesting trivia point:

"Tomato" was not agreed on as the primary ketchup flavoring until Heinz started mass-producing it. Before that, ketchup came in every possible flavor you can think of, including "fish."

[TejasRose]

ketchup came in every possible flavor you can think of, including "fish."

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! LOL

[presidio9]

Anyone who is still readoing this thread will definitely enjoy this book. I thought it was fascinating.

[cricket]

"Get your Hunts ketchup now, and beat the rush!"

Always preferred Heinz. . .but will learn to love Hunt's. It's possible :^)

[cricket]

"I won't be satisfied til I see this infomation in the lamestream press, and on cable. I want it to be "the big story", a Fox News Alert, front page, top of the fold, just like I saw with the other crapola."

. . .agree and I am waiting. . .waiting.

Glad to hear Roger taking this on today/Rush; bet Rush will tackle this big time.

[Cuttnhorse]

Thanks for the Heinz-Tides Foundation ping Mo...great information.

[DeBug=int13]

 

 

 

Veterans for Peace, Inc. (VFP) -

 

 

Phooey on them, too -

 

 

 

CEASE FIRE!
VETERANS FOR PEACE--From Warriors To Diplomats (1999 story)
http://www.countryink.com/currart1.html

 

Membership in Veterans for Peace is not limited to veterans with honorable discharges. Associate memberships are open to family members and may soon be expanded to include anyone who supports their principles. Contact them at (202) 347-6780, 1511 K Street NW, Suite 525; Washington, DC 20005; email: VFP@igc.org.

 

 

There's been two addresses found for them - don't know (yet) for sure whether these are old, new or both current

 

 

1511 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 347-6780
fax: 202-347-6781
VFP@igc.org

 

One thing kinda interesting (maybe)  - The 733 15th Street address sits smack among a number of foreign embassies

 

733 15th Street, NW
Suite 928
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 347-6780 voice
(202) 347-6781 fax
vfp@igc.org

 

The 733 15th Street address is the "Woodward Building" in D.C., and "VFP" apparently shares building space with some interesting neighbors, among -

 

Volunteer Coordinator National Organization for Women (NOW), Second Floor
International Labor Rights Fund. (Human Rights and Labor Laws)
Gray Panthers
American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project, Suite 620
Code Pink Women's Pre-emptive Strike For Peace, #507     (how convenient)

 

 

 

 

 

"Veterans for Peace" is shown as a grant recipient from the HKH Foundation of New York, NY

per http://www.hkhfdn.org/directory/national.html
Veterans for Peace
David Hart
1511 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 347-6780
fax: 202-347-6781
VFP@igc.org
"An educational organization made up of veterans working to educate the general public concerning the cost of war, the arms race, US foreign policy issues, and the exigency of abolishing war as an instrument of international policy."

 

Contact addy -

HKH Foundation -aka- the Harold K. Hochschild Foundation
521 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1612
New York, NY 10175
hkh@hkhfdn.org

 

 

 

Here's a small rundown of some top grantees of HKH across varied timeframes -

per http://www.activistcash.com/donor_detail.cfm?DONOR_ID=125

 

 

	Activist Group		Total Donated		Time Frame
	Tides Foundation & Tides Center		$235,000.00		1991 - 1997
	Natural Resources Defense Council		$185,000.00		1990 - 2001
	Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy		$151,600.00		1997 - 2001
	Greenpeace		$100,000.00		1995 - 2001
	Western Organization of Resource Councils		$50,000.00		2001 - 2001
	Center for Media & Democracy		$45,000.00		1999 - 2001
	Union of Concerned Scientists		$40,000.00		1995 - 1998
	Center for Food Safety		$35,000.00		1996 - 1996
	Organic Consumers Association		$35,000.00		1999 - 1999
	American Corn Growers Association		$20,000.00		1999 - 1999

 

 

 

 

 

"Veterans for Peace" is listed as an organization that has had direct contact with the International Action Center - you know, the outfit apparently founded by Ramsey Clark 

http://www.iacenter.org/orgs.htm
"International Action Center"

 

Towards the top, after wading through the "mission" gobbley goop -

Organizations opposed to sanctions

 

"The following list covers a number of groups that have organized some form of opposition to sanctions against Iraq, especially those based in countries that were part of the alliance that waged war on Iraq in early 1991. The list is by no means complete, but consists of those groups that have been in direct contact with the International Action Center. The activities carried out by the organizations described here cover a wide variety of approaches to opposing sanctions: providing humanitarian assistance, organizing political opposition, publishing books and other educational material, and taking direct action. They illustrate both the growing opposition to sanctions and the variety of tactics to fight them."

 

 

(and what a list it is)

 

 

("Veterans for Peace" is shown using the 5011 "K" St. NW, #525 Washington address here)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sprinkled around on the "Veterans for Peace" site, such as on a page http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Defaultold.htm, can be seen "Email VFP", which turns out to be vfp@igc.org ,

 

 

What is "igc.org"???

 

 

A quick descriptor is on http://www.cein.net/cgi-bin/en/company_info.asp?CID=263 (circa 1999)

Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
Address   POBox 29904
              San Francisco, CA  94126-0904
Voice     (415) 561-6100
Fax       (415) 561-6101
Web       http://www.igc.apc.org/

 

http://www.igc.org/

 

 

Excerpts off of http://www.cein.net/cgi-bin/en/company_info.asp?CID=263 

 

"Since 1992, IGC and its APC members have been the primary information and communications service provider at UN world conferences, including the 1992 United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the 1993 United Nations Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing."

 

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

 

and most interesting, down towards the bottom -

 

"IGC Internet is a project of the Tides Center, a 501 (c) 3 tax-exempt organization."

 

 

 

 

 

 

On their "links" page is a link to the September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, which stuck out like a sore thumb
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/links.htm

(Them again)

 

 

 

And finally, Veterans for Peace has a listing in the San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory - http://www.bapd.org/dir.html, an index of organizations in the San Francisco area that are related to "progressive activism", though only their website is listed for contact

 

Hmm, okay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

more Ketchup stains.......