"Jim" wrote in message
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Thoguth this was very interesting:

From http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f...osts?page=1,100
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

"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.