Do You Want To Re- Elect Bush For Presendent!

[diogenes]

enjoy! 😀

I did!

 

[Captain Ed]

Take a look at the foundations supported by Kerry's wife, especially The Tides Foundation.

Also notice that Heinz 57 has 79 overseas operations.


http://www.tidesfoundation.org/supporting_social_change.cfm

http://www.iacenter.org/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091129/posts

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/heinz.asp

http://www.aei.org/news/filter.,newsID.20059/news_detail.asp

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=37244

 

[mweiss]

Sounds like someone worth supporting. As your Snopes link points out, she has a whopping 5% ownership of H. J. Heinz corporation, giving her no real control over the business. She is not an employee of the company, either.

Tides Foundation appears to support a number of worthy causes; that Free Republic Daily calls them "Communist" is little more than a compliment, given FRD's political leanings.

And World Net Daily's comment

Don't be surprised if some of the tax-deductible donations by Tides results in political endorsements of Heinz Kerry's husband this year.

is laughable. As if the organizations supported by Tides would ever remotely consider an endorsement for anyone as conservative as Bush. Please.

 

[sentrido]

Are you for or against Her? Some of the links support her, some critisize.

 

[TWAnr]

Also notice that Heinz 57 has 79 overseas operations.

What is left out of that incendiary inference is the role that those offshore plants fill in the multi-national structure of the Heinz Corporation.

Those are not outsourced American jobs manufacturing for export to the United States but local plants making products for local consumption.

 

[TWAnr]

The truth about Teresa Heinz Kerry and the Tides Foundation:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tides Foundation and Tides Center Statement Regarding Recent Scrutiny over Heinz Endowments

Date: March 11, 2004

Tides Foundation and Tides Center have come under attack in several opinion pieces recently appearing in media such as the The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times, among others. The articles make false allegations relating specifically to Tides and the funding it receives from The Heinz Endowments, as well as Tides' support of a group called "September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows." The allegations are without merit, consisting entirely of errors and innuendo.

Here are the facts: The Heinz Endowments have granted Tides Foundation $230,000 dispensed between 1994 and 1998. These grants were used solely to support a pollution prevention initiative and other environmentally friendly practices by industries in Western Pennsylvania. Tides Center, an independent organization providing administrative and financial services to hundreds of projects across the country, has received additional support from The Heinz Endowments specifically to support projects in Pennsylvania. The vast majority of the projects funded through these endowments were related to either environmental protection or youth education. No Heinz- related money has gone to fund September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Senator John Kerry, chairs The Howard Heinz Endowment and sits on Vira I. Heinz Endowment's board.

For the record, the Tides family of organizations is proud to provide support and services to Peaceful Tomorrows - a grassroots organization whose activities revolve around nonviolence and peaceful resolutions - through Tides Foundation, Tides Center, and Groundspring.org, an organization that provides training and web-based services for online fundraising. Tides Foundation has made four grants in 2002 and 2003 for a combined total of $34,665 to Peaceful Tomorrows. Peaceful Tomorrows has raised $19,097 through Groundspring.org since August, 2002.

Tides Foundation employs donor advised funds, the same financial vehicle administered in precisely the same way as the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund and similar programs operated by Schwab, Vanguard, and more than 600 community foundations across the country. Tides works under the rigors of fund accounting, restricted grants, and annual audits, ensuring that all monies released by Tides are properly distributed and accounted for. Tides Center projects each raise funds for their individual program activities, with these funds being separately accounted for and administered. These funds are limited for the specific purposes for which they were given.

At Tides, our goal is a society based on fairness, equally shared economic opportunities, engaged and active citizens and environmental sustainability. In 2002 and 2003, Tides Foundation made more than 6,000 separate grants to nonprofit organizations totaling more than $100 million and Tides Center provides over 250 emerging projects with support services. Our work speaks for itself in the range of program activities that supports a diverse array of organizations working on projects from human rights to disaster relief and youth education.

Tides Center Press Release

 

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BUSH LIED

 

[TWAnr]

BUSH LIED

He most certainly did, no matter what a right wing columnist may claim to the contrary in News Corporation (as in Fox News UnFair and UnBalanced) owned newspapers.

The Republicans on the committee refused to address the issue of pressure that members of the Bush administration placed on the CIA to produce inaccurate intelligence analysis tailored to suit the Bush political agenda.

George Bush lied to us and is continuing to lie about Saddam Hussein's involvement with the Sept. 11 attacks. His purpose was to get us into a war that he and his right wing cabal seemed to desperately want.

He refused to testify under oath before the Sept. 11 Commission.

He refused to testify under oath before the grand jury investigating the vengeful illegal leak of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame.

Refusing to swear that your words are the truth serves only one obvious purpose.

Lest us forget that two days after Sept. 11, while most of the nation's air traffic still grounded, he secretly arranged to fly a group of Saudi "friends" out of the country. He refuses to comment about this action. Meanwhile, a majority of the Sept. 11 attackers were Saudis.

People have and continue to die and be maimed because of his lies and the secret maneuvering of his administration.

 

[delldude]

you're never getting King George outa office.....conspiracy in the works....
I'M IN CHARGE HERE !

 

[mweiss]

Dell, are you meaning to suggest that you are in favor of such behavior?

 

[sentrido]

this looks interesting

 

[mweiss]

this looks interesting

The interesting thing is that Murdoch is only supporting the Republicans in the US because he believes that they are more sympathetic to him gaining media power.

THE MAN WHO RULES THE WORLD

The Most Powerful Man In America – And The World – Is One That You Never Get To Vote For, But Who Controls Who Gets Elected Or Not And What Laws Pass All Over The Globe

by Ben F. Terton

February 16, 2004 – Some Americans know the name Rupert Murdoch – far from all, but a number know the name and its association with at least one of this man’s media outlets, such as FOX News or The New York Post.

An even smaller number of people know that this man – whose full name is Keith Rupert Murdoch – has media holdings overseas as well.

But very few people are aware that this Australian-born political activist controls more of the world’s media than anyone else – most of it, perhaps – and, on a daily basis, plays out a combination of lowball tabloid propagandizing combined with political hardball that has let him – and lets him at this very moment – shape the business, social, and political realities of most of the nations of this planet.

To begin to get an idea of the span of Murdoch’s reach, here is a simple listing of his current holdings:

• Adalaide News, Australia
  
• News America Publishing, Inc.
  
• Times Newspaper Holdings, vice president
  
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp, co-owner and chairperson
  
• William Collins PLC, Scottland
  
• News Corp, Ltd., Australia
  
• Fox Entertainment Group, CEO
  
• British Sky Broadcasting, UK, chairman (the BBC’s top competitor)
  
• City Post Publishing Corp, chairperson
  
• Cruden Investments, co-owner
  
• News Ltd, Group and Assoc. Companies, Austrailia
  
• Bemrose Publishing, owner
  
• Bay Books, owner
  
• United Technologies, director

And a few other companies. Each of these companies has many holdings within its overall umbrella. So, for example, media outlets controlled by this one Australian-born political activist include:

• Fox Broadcasting Co. (Fox News, Fox Network, Fox Family, Fox Sports)
  
• Twentieth Century-Fox TV
  
• Fox Filmed Entertainment movie studio
  
• over twenty Fox-owned TV stations
  
• FX Cable TV Network
  
• An additional 20+ regional sports outlets
  
• Channel 10 in Sydney, Australia
  
• Channel 10 in Melbourne, Australia
  
• News Group Productions and Skyband in the US
  
• Satellite Television PLC in England
  
• BSkyB, UK (cable and satellite station that reaches all of Britain)
  
• Star TV, Asia
  
• JSkyB, Japan
  
• SkyLatin America, Telepiu
  
• London Weekend Television (part-owner)

Before you even get into the details, this seems like a whole lot of the press from a single man – never mind a foreign-born man – to own in America, and around the world.

When you get into the details – like that Star TV Asia alone, "reach(es) more than 300 million viewers in 53 countries across Asia (and) STAR is watched by over 173 million people every week." (source: startv.com) – you begin to get the true picture of just how vast, powerful, and completely dominating all across the globe Mr. Murdoch’s control of the media is – and each and every piece of it he actively – making no pretense not to – uses to push his personal political agenda through flat out propaganda-type tabloid reporting.

But wait, let’s not leave out at least a partial list of his newspaper holdings, just so you know what his reach and control is even on that level:

• New York Post
  
• Village Voice (yep, that’s him, too)
  
• Boston Herald
  
• Chicago Sun-Times (some pretty big ones all over the country, huh?)
  
• San Antonio Express-News (where it all began for him in the US in 1973, sold to Hearst Corp. in the 1990's)
  
• Times, Sunday Times (and associated publications) in London, England
  
• The News Of The World And Today, UK
  
• Australian, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Sunday Sun, News and Sunday Mail, and Sunday Times in Australia

He also owns TV Guide, TV week, and the Star Trader, among other magazines. Yes, your TV Guide is one of his tools as well.

Hmm, funny that the three nations he dominates most in the West, America, Great Britain, and Australia, led the charge into Iraq, being on a completely different page than the rest of the world, huh?

Oh yeah, he owns a network in Italy as well – Sky Italia. Wait, they, not so coincidentally, came along into Iraq, didn’t they, bucking the European trend.

Odd. It almost seems like the Iraq war was launched by support drummed up by an Axis of Murdoch media holdings if you stop to think about it, doesn’t it?

The above listings are in no way complete. We left out things like The Sun, a UK tabloid with a circulation of over 4,000,000.

What sort of stories does The Sun run?

Well, as luck would have it, tabloid-level smear stories like this one (see
article: John Kerry Girl Tells All):

THE beauty said to have had a fling with presidential hopeful John Kerry has recorded a bombshell tell-all interview.

Journalist Alex Polier taped a talk with a US TV network at Christmas.

The former Washington intern, 27, told all about an alleged fling with the 60-year-old super-rich senator in spring 2001.

Yes, a day before the actual woman actually spoke to say there was no affair and she wasn’t even an intern (see AP News article: Woman Denies Affair With Kerry), Murdoch’s paper not only made the above claim, but went further on to push his right-wing political agenda by asserting against all
reality:

Kerry was front-runner for the Democratic nomination to take on George Bush in November. His hopes were hit as hints of a scandal emerged.

Hmm, odd statement to make when, in fact, this "scandal" has not emerged as anything but rumor and has not "hit" Kerry at all, as he continues to roll on.

But what The Sun is really reporting is that Murdoch is planning a "hit" on Kerry, and, as you see clearly here, he will use his vast holdings worldwide to carry out his agenda.

Murdoch’s agenda in the past has included union-busting in the UK, pushing first capitalism in China (i.e. his right to make money) than a reversal to a soft stance on communism in return for the right to own media there. In the UK currently, he is doing everything possible to undo the BBC – and the situation regarding the death of David Kelly is bringing him nearer to his goal, as currently, "Leaked Whitehall documents revealed the (British) government has considered breaking up the (BBC) corporation into "separate entities for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland". (see Scotsman
article: Ministers Urged to Rule Out BBC's National Break-up)

As reported in a July 21, 1995 New York Times article titled, "Murdoch and
Laborite: Britain’s New Odd Couple":

Rupert Murdoch is Britain’s most powerful non-Briton. His media outlets… are so influential that critics charge him with single-handedly destabilizing the monarchy and snatching the elections.

The article details how then-Labor Party leader Tony Blair had moved "far ahead in the public opinion polls" to replace then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with the help of a new ally for Labor, Rupert Murdoch. Back then, the article reports, Murdoch owned 37 percent of the UK newspaper market, in addition to his B Sky B network that "blankets Britain."

Well, did Murdoch leaving his usually ultra-conservative alliances and siding against his once staunch ally Thatcher show that he was indeed an unbiased, fair-minded man not allied to any party?

Indeed, it did show his true allegiance, as the NY Times reported. The issue that caused him to ditch Thatcher and push Blair was none other than the one that is his central concern in America today, and why he sides with the Republicans here: media regulation. As reported back in the UK in 1995:

The 63-year old media tycoon is known to be furious at the ruling Conservatives for proposals released in May that could effectively block him from expanding further in television here unless he was willing to scale back his newspaper holdings.

So Blair went before Murdoch and said that he was "concerned about the role of a powerful "media regulator" in the Government plan," the Times reported.

And so Murdoch dropped Thatcher and adopted Blair. And so, not coincidentally, Britain shortly thereafter voted out Thatcher and in Blair.

See any possible seeds of Blair being brought into the Axis of Murdoch?

Not coincidentally, when both Republicans and Democrats got together last year to vote to restrict how much media one person can own in America, President Bush opposed the legislation. (see Washington Post article: Lawmakers Defy Bush on Media Rules)

You see, Mr. Murdoch’s agenda is not right-wing or left-wing after all – it is simply Murdoch-wing. He uses and manipulates entire nations for the sake of his own personal business interests. In Britain he was granted "privilege allowed to no other newspaper proprietor," as the NY Times reported, which allowed him to buy up 5 national newspapers while also combining Sky and British Satellite Broadcasting into what is now the all powerful B Sky B. Again and again he was allowed to go around the Monopolies Commission thanks to special status granted to him by – you guessed it – candidates he had helped get elected, including Thatcher herself.

It is astounding to think that a foreign-born man could so openly come into the UK, then into America, and manipulate their very governments and electoral processes and still fly under the radar for most of the nation. Ted Turner was a household name, Murdoch still is not in America.

Murdoch’s central game to maintain his hold on power consists of a two-pronged attack:

1. base-level tabloid style news that puts entertainment value far above integrity, and
   
2. a claim to be the true patriotic station for whatever country he happens to own a network in.

For example, as we have reported previously, while Murdoch’s Fox News Network is flying the American flag on the corner of its screen 24 hours a day and telling us it speaks for true American patriots, he is using his British holdings to preach anti-Americanism in a "patriotic" pitch to Britain. (see story: Rupert Murdoch on a Rampage)

Murdoch is not just a force for change today in the UK and America, he has been for decades all over the world. He was at the top of Michael Gorbachev’s list of favorite people at the time of the coup that led to the end of the former Soviet Union. In fact, as reported in an October 4, 1991 New York Times article titled, "The Media Business; The Deal Is Already Done For Gorbachev’s Coup Book," Gorbachev had the Soviet Embassy contact Murdoch personally when he wanted to write his memoirs.

HarperCollins received a telephone call from the Soviet Embassy in Washington last week, asking that Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the News Corporation, the publisher’s parent company, fly to Moscow to meet with Mr. Gorbachev about publishing his book…

Not that Rupert was involved over there or anything, right? And, another oh yeah, we didn’t mention exactly what all Murdoch’s News Corp. owns, such as the massive publisher HarperCollins – yes, that on top of everything else is controlled by this one Australian-born man. In case you weren’t aware, HarperCollins is the company that just took over, "William Morrow & Company, Avon Books, Amistad Press, and Fourth Estate," which has, "made HarperCollins one of the largest and most dynamic trade publishers in the world." (source: News Corp website - spend some time looking around at all the things this company owns, and notice he owns even more newspapers than we listed above, but remember, this is only one of the media companies he has – it is not everything, but only one part of his total holdings.)

Yes, he dominates the book presses, too. HarperCollins operates in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, among other places.

Just for kicks, Murdoch even owns the National Geographic channel, both the US and Worldwide versions.

Oh yeah – again – he also owns DirectTV. You know, the satellite TV that is taking over what used to be the cable TV market and controls what stations are available in millions of American homes.

He owns a UK record company called Mushroom Records, the National Rugby League in Australia, and – oh yeah part 4 or 5 I guess – "the leading OOH advertising company in Emerging Europe," a News Corp subsidiary called News Outdoor

And let’s not forget The Weekly Standard, a ridiculous right-wing US magazine. Yep, that’s him, too.

And Broadsystem, "the UK's leading provider of outsourced marketing communications."

One man. From Australia. A political activist. Who does his best to aid himself by "single-handedly destabilizing," the governments of nations he has a business interest in, "and snatching the elections."

So look at those American flags waving on the Fox News Network, but don’t tell me they represent America. The flag on the Fox News screen flies only so that Australian-born Rupert Murdoch can pretend he is looking out for you, when, in the simple reality of things, he is playing you against the rest of the world and the rest of the world against you, toppling governments and installing his personal political choice for the sake of increasing his already unfathomable fortune and hold on world power.

Rupert Murdoch’s Axis of Murdoch nations launch wars that the rest of the world deems insane, elects the candidates of his choosing, and hate each other as he plays them against each other.

Who ever imagined a single, non-office holding man could grow so powerful? Who ever imagined nations would let a single man – who is not even from their land – dominate them so?

There is one man alive today who is the most powerful person on planet Earth, and no, it is not the man who lives in the little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue – indeed, it is a man who has the power – and uses it – to determine who lives in that White House, as well as in capitol houses all over the globe.

 

[RJcasualty]

Internal FOX News Memos. Courtesy, <www.outfoxed.com>


> 6/3/03: "The national forest as pot field story is pure Fox."
> 4/4/04: Fallujah: "We will cover this hour by hour today, explaining repeatedly why it is happening. It won't be long before some people start to decry the use of 'excessive force.' We won't be among that group."
> 04/28/04: "Let's refer to the US marines we see in the foreground as "sharpshooters" not snipers, which carries a negative connotation."


> 3/18/03: "Resist the urge to make any assumption about the potential Al Zawahiri story. Pakistani reports are often confused, especially when they come to us secondhand. Report only what we know and attribute it."
> 04/08/04: "A battle is more than a macabre statistics report."
> 04/21/04: "If Michael Jackson is indicted on sex charges, it's a big story for us, but PLEASE don't turn it into a nonstop circus."
> 04/28/04: "Do not ignore the Oil for Food story, please. Fox News is making steady progress in investigating what could be, without exaggeration, the biggest ripoff of all time."


> 05/03/04: "We are all so used to using the AP wires that their (temporary) absence today provides not just a challenge, but an opportunity. Check websites (including AP) and pay special attention to the urgent queue until AP service is restored. But use the outage to check just how much we rely on one service, and figure out alternatives."
>03/26/04: "We have competing speeches from the candidates for president...We'll take whichever one starts first, time how long we stay with it, then give the same time to the other."
> 03/24/04: "For everyone's information, the hotel where our Baghdad bureau is housed was hit by some kind of explosive device overnight. ALL FOX PERSONNEL ARE OK...Please offer a prayer of thanks for their safety to whatever God you revere (and let the ACLU stick it where the sun don't shine)." 1112 AM

 

[sentrido]

http://www.cafeshops.com/vpquote 😀

 

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He most certainly did, no matter what a right wing columnist may claim to the contrary in News Corporation (as in Fox News UnFair and UnBalanced) owned newspapers.

The Republicans on the committee refused to address the issue of pressure that members of the Bush administration placed on the CIA to produce inaccurate intelligence analysis tailored to suit the Bush political agenda.

George Bush lied to us and is continuing to lie about Saddam Hussein's involvement with the Sept. 11 attacks. His purpose was to get us into a war that he and his right wing cabal seemed to desperately want.

He refused to testify under oath before the Sept. 11 Commission.

He refused to testify under oath before the grand jury investigating the vengeful illegal leak of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame.

Refusing to swear that your words are the truth serves only one obvious purpose.

Lest us forget that two days after Sept. 11, while most of the nation's air traffic still grounded, he secretly arranged to fly a group of Saudi "friends" out of the country. He refuses to comment about this action. Meanwhile, a majority of the Sept. 11 attackers were Saudis.

People have and continue to die and be maimed because of his lies and the secret maneuvering of his administration.

BUSH LIED AGAIN