Posted on 08/24/2005 4:53:41 PM PDT by Thanatos
Hey, Great info! It ought to be sent to Rev Robertson; I bet he would think of a way to deal with these subversives.
This woman is being coached and used by the media and the left for their anti war agenda.
Her son will be honored and remembered as a hero and patriot....his mother will not.
Good read so far...ping for later.
Good work!
It's interesting that an organization that would claim (repeatedly) to care about "human rights," would embrace an ideology responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses (and abusers) in history. These people have become a parody of themselves, as they attack the one nation leading the way to rid the world of tyrants...and yet, defend some of the worst abusers on this planet.
I just got done listening to some liberal woman from the Global Exchange on Oreilly's show; and I was amazed at this woman's enthusiasm for what she really believed were the wonderful reforms under Hugo Chavez.
I use to be able to just dismiss these people as useful idiots...and with the collapse of the Soviet Union, hoped they would fade away. Unfortunately, when I see the resources these people now control, along with their paid politicians...and a media willing to perpetuate their message, I see a gathering threat that will have to be confronted before they do further damage.
bump!
And you absolutely nailed it with this line;
they will actually write the news storie(sic) and feed them to members of the press who put their names on it and submits it as their own work.
From my experience working with primarily trade press for 30 year, that is a true statement not just for the MSM, but for 90% of all publications and writers.
First of all, writing is hard work. Human nature says if someone wants to write it for me --- why not?
The trick to getting a journalist to publish your words is to feed his prejudices and not "obviously" go over the top in pumping your agenda or product. You simply need to state it in terms that the 'journalist' will buy on spec. A couple of drinks and dinner always help as well.
Having said that, the 10% of writers and pubs that I give the best stories to are the exception to the above. They are the people who believe absolutely nothing I tell them until I can prove it. They are also the writers and publications that the audience I am attempting to reach respect and trust. I always save my best for them and only give the lazy writers the crap that has to be hyped and spun to make it anywhere near newsworthy.
But I also treat the 90% and the 10% alike in one respect --- I NEVER lie to either --- but the 90% get the Clinton definition of truth while the 10% get the real story.
I heard her too. She was nuts for that dictator. Insisting that the elections were fine when we all know they were bogus.
She tried to go on and on about how wonderful the country of Venezuela is because of Chavez...medical, education, etc...all provided.
Shades of Castro..
Yep! What I find amazing is that all these liberals who despised the Cold War, MAD, the Arms Race, and even the further militarization of America, is that their policies have helped perpetuate all those things they despise.
Whether it was Clinton's ignorance in helping to "nuclearize" N. Korea, his transfers of technology to China or his general malaise for gathering threats, these people have helped America become what they so hate.
It has been their (in)actions that have left others having to address the threats they either created or ignored. Heck, Clinton's cavalier actions in Korea and China have now made an Asian Arms Race more likely, with the Mid-East following on the heels of the India/Pakistan detonations...not to mention Iran, whom he placated through his term.
It's ironic that in the liberal's desire to "level the playing field"...even WRT our own self-defense and national security, that what they have done is only make it more important for America to distinguish itself...and protect itself, from the rest of the pack. They've helped create the Frakenstein they wish to destroy.
When I saw that the "Tides Group" is involved, it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. This should be an eye-opener about how deep this all gets.
Thats the group Theresa Heinz donates a bunch of her dead husbands money to.
The Tides group also funds CAIR. Haven't we seen something about them around here recently?????
First some information about the Tides Foundation:
Teresa Heinz Kerry has financed the secretive Tides Foundation to the tune of more than $4 million over the years. The Tides Foundation, a “charity” established in 1976 by antiwar leftist activist Drummond Pike, distributes millions of dollars in grants every year to political organizations advocating far-Left causes. The Tides Foundation and its closely allied Tides Center, which was spun off from the Foundation in 1996 but run by Drummond Pike, distributed nearly $66 million in grants in 2002 alone. In all, Tides has distributed more than $300 million for the Left. These funds went to rabid antiwar demonstrators, anti-trade demonstrators, domestic Islamist organizations, pro-terrorists legal groups, environmentalists, abortion partisans, extremist homosexual activists and open borders advocates.
During the years 1995-2001, the Howard Heinz Endowment, which Heinz Kerry chairs, gave Tides more than $4.3 million. The combined Heinz Endowments (composed of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment) donated $1.6 million to establish the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh office of the San Francisco-based Tides Center. Since that time, the local branch has tirelessly pushed an anti-business agenda in the name of “preserving the environment.” However, it is the Tides Foundation’s national organization whose connections are most disconcerting.
The Tides Foundation is a major source of revenue for some of the most extreme groups on the Left. Tides allows donors to anonymously contribute money to a host of causes; the donor simply makes the check out to Tides and instructs the Foundation where to forward the money. Tides does so. The Tides Center will even manage a left-wing project, for a nominal fee. Drummond Pike told The Chronicle of Philanthropy, “Anonymity is very important to most of the people we work with.” That becomes understandable when one views the list of Tides grant recipients. And who are the beneficiaries of this money?
Tides established the Iraq Peace Fund and the Peace Strategies Fund to fund the antiwar movement. These projects fueled such hysterical protest organizations as MoveOn.org, the website that recently featured two separate commercials portraying George W. Bush as Adolf Hitler. (Howard Dean, not Kerry, won MoveOn.org’s “virtual primary.”)
The antiwar movement often boasted that MoveOn.org and the radical website Indymedia provided them “alternate media coverage.” Indymedia, an enormous news and events bulletin board with local pages in most of the world’s major cities, provided a vital link for radical activists often with violent agendas to coordinate their protests. Indymedia received $376,000 from the Tides Foundation.
The Institute for Global Communications is another leftist communications facilitator that received Tides grant money. IGC, which during the 1990s was the leading provider of web technology to the radical Left, links to “recommended sites” such as the War Resisters League (a group whose purpose is enabling peaceniks to refuse to pay taxes) and the leftist American Friends Service Committee. Most disturbing is the link to Ramsey Clark’s International Action Center, which has supported Slobodan Milosevic and North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Il. The IAC is the force behind International ANSWER, which sponsored the major antiwar (and anti-Bush) rallies before the invasion of Iraq. When ANSWER was outed as a Communist organization, United for Peace and Justice, headed by longtime Communist Party member Leslie Cagan was created as a "moderate" alternative. UFPJ is also a Tides grant recipient.The Tides-funded “A Better Way Project,” which opposed war in Iraq, also coordinated efforts of United for Peace and Justice and the Win Without War Coalition. The celebrity-laden Win Without War Coalition, along with the Bill Moyers-funded Florence and John Schumann Foundation, ran full-page ads in the New York Times opposing the War on Terrorism. This will not be the last overlapping of far-Left causes.
Immediately after 9/11, Tides formed a “9/11 Fund” to advocate a “peaceful national response” to the opening salvos of war. Part of the half-million dollars in grants the 9/11 Fund dispersed went to the New York Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project to protect the rights of homosexual Arabs. The Foundation replaced the 9/11 Fund with the “Democratic Justice Fund,” which was established with the aid of George Soros’ Open Society Institute. (Currency speculator and pro-drug advocate Soros is, like Teresa Heinz Kerry, a major contributor to Tides, having donated more than $7 million.) The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration to the United States, particularly from countries designated by the State Department as “terrorist nations.”
Tides has also given grant money to the Council for American Islamic Relations. Ostensibly a “Muslim civil rights group,” CAIR is in fact one of the leading anti-anti-terrorism organizations within the Wahhabi Lobby, with links to Hamas. CAIR regularly opposes and demonizes American efforts to fight terrorism, claiming, for instance, that Homeland Security measures are responsible for an undocumented surge in “hate crimes.”
CAIR officials have reason to fight Bush’s anti-terrorism measures: all too many CAIR officials are on the record supporting terrorism. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad openly stated in 1994, “I am a supporter of the Hamas movement.” Community Affairs Director Bassem K. Khafagi has been arrested for visa and bank fraud. Randall Royer, a Communications Specialist and Civil Rights Coordinator at CAIR, was arrested along with a group of Islamic radicals in Virginia for allegedly planning jihad. CAIR has defended terrorist “charities” shut down by the Bush administration. Every few months some CAIR campus official is arrested for aiding and abetting terrorism.
The Tides Foundation has funded a number of the pillars of the radical legal establishment. Chief among these is the National Lawyers Guild, which began as a Commnist front organization and is proud of its lineage. At its recent convention last October, the concluding speaker was Lynne Stewart, an indicted terrorist NLG lawyer arrested for helping her client – convicted 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman – communicate with his terrorist cells in Egypt. In her speech, Stewart said she and her NLG comrades were carrying on a proud tradition of their forebears, past and present:
And modern heroes, dare I mention? Ho and Mao and Lenin, Fidel and Nelson Mandela and John Brown, Che Guevara who reminds us, “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.” Our quests like theirs are to shake the very foundations of the continents.
More recently, the NLG has endorsed the March 20 call to End Colonial Occupation from Iraq to Palestine & Everywhere” organized by International ANSWER, and has posted a petition for “Post-Conviction Relief” for convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Tides’ Peace Strategies Fund has funneled money to the Center for Constitutional Rights. The CCR was stablished by Sixties radical William Kunstler, defender of the Chicago 8, and Arthur Kinoy. The two also had plans to establish a new Communist Party. Executive Director Ron Daniels has been honored by the Communist Party USA for his work. Daniels also has a long and cordial relationship with racist, anti-Semitic “poet laureate” Amiri Baraka. Since 9/11, CCR has channeled its efforts into fighting every effective Homeland Security measure. They have opposed increasing the government’s ability to wiretap Islamists suspected of plotting terrorism and moaned the sequestering of terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay was an unexcusable form of “racial profiling.” CCR President Michael Ratner has portrayed American soldiers as the offenders, guilty of 9/11 by their Middle East policy and guilty of keeping Islamist killers “shackled, hooded and sedated during the 25 hour flight from Afghanistan.” CCR has also defended Lynne Stewart’s “innocence” in aiding Sheikh Rahman’s Islamic Jihad.
The Tides Foundation has funded the Ruckus Society, a group of anarchist Greens who rioted and looted Seattle during the 1999 World Trade Organization riots. The Tides Center of Western Pennsylvania, established in Pittsburgh with Heinz Family funds, advocates for environmentalist measures that have helped put holes in the Rust Belt’s economy.
Tides money has also squashed free speech. Thanks to complaints generated by the Tides-funded Environmental Working Group, ABC cancelled a John Stossel piece exposing the misleading nature of environmental advocacy in public elementary schools.
Heinz family philanthropic funds have also had some dubious effects on the presidential race. The League of Conservation Voters has recently endorsed John Kerry’s presidential campaign. The Heinz Family Foundation gave LCV at least $20,000 and donated almost $250,000 to a member of the LCV board.
Perhaps this circular rotation of cash and endorsements should not surprise anyone. The grant-making institutions of the Left and their feverish recipients ultimately form an amorphous, leftist entity. One never needs to search very far to find connections between a leftist foundation and extreme advocacy groups. Teresa Heinz Kerry, George Soros, Bill Moyers and the Ford Foundation fund the Tides Foundation/Center; Tides funds the National Lawyers Guild, CAIR, MoveOn.org and United for Peace and Justice; those organizations then unite in fluid coalitions to protest against their common political enemies.
Anyone notice Lynne Stewart was mentioned????
Now some more on CAIR. Found out today that this wasn't the first time CAIR went after Michael Graham:
CAIR, which calls itself "America's largest Islamic civil liberties group," has lately focused its wrath on conservative radio talk show hosts. A new report by the group released this week attempts to tie talk radio to a dubious "sharp jump" in (self-reported) "Islamophobic hate crimes" in the United States. CAIR fights dirty -- fabricating quotes, taking comments out of context, indulging in the cult of victimology and exploiting a gullibly sympathetic press. By manufacturing an anti-Muslim hate epidemic that doesn't exist, CAIR obfuscates its own suspicious role in fomenting anti-American extremism.
The most recent target of CAIR's campaign to stifle critics of radical Islam is Boston-based radio talk show veteran Jay Severin. On April 23, CAIR issued a press release headlined: "Boston Radio Host Says Kill All Muslims; Islamic Civil Rights Group Calls for Host's Termination." On April 25, the Boston Globe parroted the charges in a story that quoted CAIR spokeswoman Rabiah Ahmed accusing Severin of saying on his show, "I've got an idea, let's kill all Muslims."
Just one teensy problem with the story. It wasn't true. On April 27, the Globe was forced to publish a correction admitting that Severin never said "kill all Muslims." CAIR, however, has refused to admit the fabrication and continues to call for Severin's termination.
In Washington, D.C., CAIR took aim at local talk show host and JewishWorldReview.com columnist Michael Graham for making an "implicit" call for violence against all Muslims and for advocating common-sense security profiling. Singling Graham out for criticism, CAIR announced a new initiative "designed to counter anti-Muslim hate on radio talk shows" called "Hate Hurts America." Like Severin, Graham refused to be intimidated.
"What CAIR does is try to portray all criticism of all Muslims everywhere as bigotry," Graham responded. "They singled me out because I said on the air (and have said in print as well) that Islam is a uniquely dangerous religion, that the religion itself needs a reformation much like those experienced by Catholicism and Mormonism, and that the one distinguishing attribute of 'moderate' Muslims is their reluctance to publicly criticize the actions of the Islamo-fascist extremists who continue to spread terror. Now, you might agree with me or you might disagree with me, but this is hardly bigotry. 'Stating the obvious' is a more apt description. But any criticism from an infidel like yours truly is unbearable to the folks at CAIR, and so they've launched their attack."
National radio personalities Paul Harvey and Dr. Laura have also come under fire for expressing opinions about Islam and calling on Muslims to dissociate themselves from terrorists. Harvey caved in to CAIR's pressure after members of the group besieged advertisers with threats and complaints because the veteran broadcaster alluded to Islam as "a religion which encourages killing." The ever-feisty Dr. Laura stood her ground, refusing to apologize for advising a mother not to let her daughter attend a field trip to a local mosque unless it was "one that has done its best to rout out terrorists in its midst."
CAIR attacks the "hate-filled rhetoric" of conservative talk show hosts, but as Middle East scholars Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer and others have amply demonstrated, several of the group's past and present leaders have refused to criticize the hate-filled rhetoric -- and bloody acts of violence -- of terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Three former CAIR officials have been indicted on charges of terrorism, money laundering or fraud. Most recently, Ismail Royer -- a former CAIR "communications specialist" who "wrote investigative pieces on anti-Muslim organizations" -- was sentenced to 20 years in prison for weapons convictions related to his participation in a network of militant jihadists centered in Northern Virginia.
and now what happened just in the past month:
Washington, D. C. morning talk show host, Michael Graham of WMAL AM, was suspended without pay on July 28 because he accused Islamic leadership of tacitly supporting terrorism by not taking a strong public stand against it. The station management originally stood by Graham. After receiving pressure from CAIR, WMAL who is owned by ABC suspended Graham and then fired him.
Anyone also notice that it was also ABC that is mentioned in the paragraphs I posted on the Tides Foundation:
"ABC cancelled a John Stossel piece exposing the misleading nature of environmental advocacy in public elementary schools. Thanks to complaints generated by the Tides-funded Environmental Working Group"
Then she needs to go to Venezuela or Cuba if she thinks they're both such paradises. I'm sure Chavez and/or Castro would welcome her with open arms. And they'd deserve each other.
This is all well and good, but surely you realize this will be used as evidence of the "swift-boating" of Mrs. Sheehan.
bttt
She needs much, much more than "swift-boating" IMO.
bttt
We've known Kathleen Hennessey has been a tool of the commies and Soro/Lewis for a long time. How do we expose her? I write letters to editors who print her stories all the time.
Just this week she started referring to the Support the Troops rallies as "pro-Bush" rallies with the intent to intimidate normal Democrats who might otherwise be happy to join a Patriotic Rally. This is an incredibly dishonest calculated act, designed to make it look as if the issue is divided along partisan lines.
Very good job! Amazing that the media is trying to act like Cindy et al are just a bunch of ordinary American's who happened upon each other and wound up in Crawford by accident!
It takes freepers to get to the truth! No surprise to me that this bunch is trying to overthrow the goverment, that has been happening since the Clinton administration.
The big lie is their main instrument of influence. They pretend to be the exact opposite of what they are. If they told the truth would anyone support them?
I use to be able to just dismiss these people as useful idiots...and with the collapse of the Soviet Union, hoped they would fade away. Unfortunately, when I see the resources these people now control, along with their paid politicians...and a media willing to perpetuate their message, I see a gathering threat that will have to be confronted before they do further damage.
Amen! Welcome aboard. Do all you can to alert others.
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