TIDES 101
AN OCEAN of MONEY
Tides Foundation and Tides Center
Excerpted from 57 Varieties of Radical Causes
Excerpted from 57 Varieties of Radical Causes
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The
Tides Foundation is a tax-exempt charity established in 1976 by antiwar
activist Drummond Pike. It distributes millions of dollars in grants
every year to political organizations identified with leftwing causes.
Among these are United for Peace and Justice, a group led by pro-Castro
activist Leslie Cagan; the National Lawyers Guild; the Center for
Constitutional Rights; and the Council for American-Islamic Relations, three of whose executives have been indicted for terrorist activities.
From
1994 – 2004, the Heinz Endowments, which Teresa Heinz Kerry heads, have
given the Tides entities $8.1 million in grants. Until February 2001,
Kerry was also a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Carnegie has given Tides numerous six-figure grants.
Tides
allows donors to anonymously contribute money to a variety of causes --
and thereby avoid public accountability for their donations. The donor
simply makes the check out to Tides and instructs the Foundation where
to forward the money. Tides does so, often keeping as much as ten
percent of the total amount for “charitable advisory fees.” This allows
high-profile individuals to fund extremist organizations by “laundering” their money through Tides, leaving no paper trail.
The
entities the Tides Foundation has chosen to fund are overwhelmingly
left wing. The so-called “legal left” is the primary beneficiary of
Tides ocean of monies. One of its principal beneficiaries, for
example, is the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), which began as a Communist
front organization and remains proud of its lineage. Its national
convention in October 2003 featured a keynote address from Lynne
Stewart, a lawyer specializing in defending terrorists who has been indicted by the Justice Department for providing
support to sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, whose organization, known as the
Islamic Group, bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, killing six people
and injuring more than a thousand.
Along
with George Soros and the Ford Foundation, Tides has also funneled tens
of thousands of dollars to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR),
an organization established by Sixties radicals William Kunstler and
Arthur Kinoy. Prior to creating the Center, the two floated a plan to
establish a new “Communist Party.”
Tides
has also given grant money to the Council for American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR). Ostensibly a “Muslim civil rights group,” CAIR is in
fact one of the leading anti-anti-terrorism organizations in the United
States. CAIR regularly opposes American efforts to fight terrorism,
claiming that Homeland Security measures are responsible for an
undocumented surge in “hate crimes.”
Many
CAIR officials are on the record supporting terrorist organizations.
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad openly stated in 1994, “I am a
supporter of the Hamas movement.” Community Affairs Director Bassem K.
Khafagi pleaded guilty to charges of visa and bank fraud in connection
with terrorist support activities. 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 violent
anti-American jihad. CAIR has defended terrorist
“charities” shut down by the Bush administration. CAIR’s abysmal record
led Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to observe that its leaders have
“intimate links with Hamas…we know CAIR has ties to terrorism.”
Tides established an Iraq Peace Fund and a Peace Strategies Fund to finance the antiwar movement. These projects fueled MoveOn.org,
the website that featured two separate commercials portraying President
Bush as Adolf Hitler. The antiwar movement often boasted that
MoveOn.org and the website Indymedia provided them “alternate media
coverage.”
Tides
also runs an“alternative media source,” the Institute for Global
Communications, which describes itself as “a project of the Tides
Center, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization.” The IGC was the leading
provider of web technology to the radical left during the 1990s. With
Tides money, the IGC’s Canadian affiliate used an undersea cable to
connect Castro’s Cuba to the Internet in 1991.
Further reading
Henry Makow
Islamic groups
Apparently,
the Tides Foundation does not consider any Islamic group to be a
threat, even if they have been implicated in terrorist activities by the
government. It has funded the Council for American Islamic Relations
(CAIR), probably the leading front group for Islamic radicals in
America. Indeed, three of CAIR's leaders have been arrested for
pro-jihadist activities and CAIR spends much of its time attacking
American efforts to track, monitor, and arrest domestic terrorists.
They have opposed, for example, virtually every effort by the
Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to monitor Islamic radicals
known to be engaged in pro-jihadist activity.
Another
Tides recipient, the Democratic Justice Fund, works to end restrictions
on Muslim immigration to the United States from countries designated as
"terrorist nations."
The
Tides groups also funds other groups who work against the creation of
internal security measures such as the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination
Committee.
Voter Fraud groups
When
ACORN founder Wade Rathke was caught embezzling a million dollars from
ACORN, it was Tides founder Drummond Pike who reimbursed ACORN for the
missing money. Pike did not want an investigation of ACORN that would
force it to open its books.
FUNDERS
Four of its largest supporters are as follows:
The Heinz Endowment.
Led by
John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, this group has contributed at
least $8.1 million to the Tides entities since 1994. This is the
endowment created by the Heinz food empire which Teresa Heinz still has
ownership interest in.
George Soros.
Soros
has given more than $7 million to the Tides Foundation. Tides founder
Drummond Pike serves as the treasurer for Soros's Democracy Alliance, a
major funder of ACORN.
Ford Foundation. This
foundation consistently supports causes Henry Ford would never have
supported and has become one of the largest donors to Tides, giving them
millions of dollars since 1997. Not only that, but the Ford Motor
company also gives to Tides.
Rockefeller Foundation: They have been funding the left in America for 40 years, so this is no surprise.
Other
large Tides donors include: the Pew Charitable Trust, the James Irvine
Foundation, Citigroup Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, Hearst
Foundation, Fannie Mae Foundation, JP Morgan Foundation, Bank America
Foundation, Chase Manhattan Foundation, Verizon Foundation, David
& Lucile Packard Foundation, AT & T Foundation, Bell
Atlantic Foundation, Citicorp Foundation, ARCO Foundation, US West
Foundation, John D. MacArthur Foundation, ALCOA Foundation, Richard King
Mellon Foundation, and the Carnegie Foundation.
Americans need to realize that this is how the hard left in America is now funded. Indeed, this
is the same network used by the Obama campaign machine to manipulate
public opinion. This coalition of left wing groups and hijacked
foundations will destroy America unless Americans wake up and quit
funding the corporations linked to these foundations.
MORE ties to the LEFT
ACLU
The ACLU has defended numerous people active in or affiliated with terrorist organizations. They
wrote a letter to the DOJ asking it to drop charges against
Sami-Al-Arian who was connected to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The New Left terrorist, Bernadine Dohrn, sits on their board. In the 1970’s Dohrn was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. Bill Ayers, 1960s leader of the Weather Underground - which he described as the American Red Army - is her husband.
GEORGE SOROS
George Soros (Open Society Institute) has given millions of dollars to the ACLU over the years. The
ACLU and other leftist organizations receive money from the Annie E.
Casey Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation,
Scherman Foundation, JEHT Foundation, Lear Family Foundation and the
Rockefeller Foundation.
The
Open Society Foundations are billionaire George Soros’ most prominent
funding channel. OSF supports a vast number of organizations and
operates worldwide in more than 70 countries.
Over the years, OSF has had expenditures of $8 billion. In
2009, the Open Society Foundations had expenditures of $683 million in
support of justice, human rights, public health, media, governance, and
education.
Author Ron Arnold describes the Open Society Foundations as a global network of dozens of Soros entities that have paid millions to overthrow governments in the Soviet Union, Serbia, Georgia, and the United States. Soros' personal attitudes about America are very negative and he regards capitalism to be the major threat to the world, as he once regarded communism to be. Soros makes no secret of his beliefs. The man who made it big because of America and capitalism now hates both and seeks to destroy them.
To
create the 'Age of Open Society,' Soros’ vision would require
terminating U.S. sovereignty, disposing of the Declaration of
Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights, or at least
significant amendments to make them square with open society norms, and
reforming the United Nations to facilitate a world socialist governance
with the new social-political institutions to enforce its principles,
such as the International Criminal Court.”
See www.groupsnoop.org for more information about the hijacking of America
And Discover the Networks www.discoverthenetworks.org
Tides Connections
Drummond Pike has been involved with all of the following foundations and organizations. This list is far from complete. He is married to Elizabeth "Liza" Cohen who helped create Resource Media for enviro group outreach. He started out as associate director for the Ford Foundation Center for Community Change's Youth Project in Washington D.C. He learned that rich young heirs financed poor young activists in anti-business organizing projects. Soon he was hired away by Alan Stephen Davis, son of insurance mogul and AARP co-founder Leonard Davis. Pike led his ShAlan Foundation.
Anti-War and Pro Muslim
Peace Strategies Fund
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Gave money to Center for Constitutional Rights that wants to establish a Communist Party
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Iraq Peace Fund
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Gives money to MoveOn.org
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Also gives $ to National Council of Churches, Arab-American Action Network, Physicians for Social Responsibility
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Also pro-Castro groups: United for Peace and Justice; Center for Constitutional Rights
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A Better Way Project
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Coordinates activities of United for Peace & Justice and Win Without War coalition
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Indymedia
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Rec'd thousands from Tides
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Institute for Global Communications
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Leading provider of web tech to radical left
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Links to all kinds of left groups
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ANSWER - communist org
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United for Peace and Justice
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Communist Party member Leslie Cagan
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See Better Way Project
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Win Without War Coalition
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Bill Moyers-funded Florence and John Schumann Foundation
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9/11 Fund, now the Democratic Justice Fund
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Part of the half million dollars in grants went to NY Gay and Lesbian Anti-violence Project to protect rights of homo Arabs
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Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
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Rec'd Tides Money
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A leading anti-terrorism org in the Wahhabi Lobby with links to Hamas
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Exec Dir Nihad Awad openly supported hamas. in fact, they are terrorists - wolves in sheep's clothing
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National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
See World Trade Center bombing
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Communist front
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Lynne Stewart, atty, communicated with Egypt terrorist cells
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Alliance for Justice
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Asian Law Caucus
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Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
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