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To: fastpathguru who wrote (254992)	7/31/2008 10:31:47 PM
From: jay101	Respond to of 275872

<...far-right think-tank Pacific Research Institute funded by,,, wait for it... MICROSOFT!...>> Yeah ... You are rather dishonest in your phrasing, and I know you meant to mislead. You make it sound as if the "Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco, California" is ENTIRELY FUNDED by Microsoft, (and you knew it was NOT). So you MUST have read ALL this from the link YOU posted, and then CHOSE to be misleading?: sourcewatch.org <<"... Accorording to Media Transparency, PRI obtained 117 grants totalling $8,904,800 (unadjusted for inflation) from foundations between 1985 and 2005.[5] In 2003 PRI states that 50% of its income came from foundations, 13% from corporations and the remainder from individuals. [5] It lists foundation and corporate supporters who contributed over $10,000 in the 2003 financial year as: Corporations: Altria ChevronTexaco Cypress Semiconductor Exxon Mobil Corporation Freedom Communications Microsoft Pfizer PhRMA SBC (now AT&T) Verizon White House Writers Group Foundations: Anschutz Foundation Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation Capecchio Foundation Center for American Unity Charles Koch Foundation Chase Foundation of Virginia D & DF Foundation D & D Foundation David and Annette Jorgensen Foundation Dean Witter Foundation Earhart Foundation Farrell Family Foundation Girard foundation Hugh & Hazel Darling Foundation Lilly Endowment Lynder and Harry Bradley Foundation Milbank Foundation for Rehabilitation Philip M. McKenna Foundation Ruth & Lovett Peters Foundation Sarah Scaife Foundation Templeton Foundation The Gleason Foundation The Hickory Foundation The Little River Foundation The San Francisco Foundation Walton family Foundation Weiler Foundation William E. Simon Foundation William H. Donner Foundation The conservative Capital Research Center (CRC) Spotlight project provides some additional, though a little dated, information on PRI's major funders. CRC lists the Lilly Endowment as having contributed $175,000 annually between 1999 and 2002 (inclusive)....">> BTW .... 1)One of their primary Goals (as stated) in 'Business and Economics – "to strike down barriers to economic growth and innovation", which makes them a clear advesary of the EU policies .....Understand ?. 2) MICROSOFT and the Bill Gates foundation contributes BILLIONS of dollars to THOUSANDS of causes.... The "EU UNION" and their theiving policies wants a peice of that ..... under the guise of "protecting the consumer" .... it is so blatantly obvious, that is if you can think clearly. The list of contributers is ongoing....... Don't be surprised if harrased Italian and French fishermen contribute to it..... They are sick of it also: ..frustrated Fishing industry ..... the ever present EU sniffs around, .... under the leadership of Joe BORG ("EU Fisheries Commissioner"): Message 24809505 PATHETIC