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droned leader who told the count the release of marco results will result in the sole geography. location of the results much will never be closer to home with her revealing the child would turn into a child with her own. talk about here with me here's a look at the top stories leading countries are threatening to ramp up pressure against syria to bring an end to the violent crackdowns against them as freighters but there are concerns it could lead to another no fly zone and leave yourself airstrikes. france is being blamed for compromising civil liberties and discriminating against muslims the country's security rolls over concerns of retaliation for its actions in libya. and radical islamists are finding it easier
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to recruit young people in russia's north caucasus the government's more than battling influence in the region which is known as a terrorism breeding ground. next we'll look at where america's right wing tea party movement is getting its support from. this is our. this is art. to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we are one that wall we breathe we hope and where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't we will respond with that time a street that sums up the spirit of a people yes we came. here to this city to. take it seriously. this is good you know it isn't so they can't have it when they think
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a bigger. they. are right for barack obama and the democrats but the sweepings of power with the promise of oil and the citizens uprising called the tea party movement and the message was known to be government spending to health care and climate change legislation and notes what made him so i bought it because he doesn't get it because it's been to using this president's tea party candidates to sway the republicans to victory in the house of representatives thirty two percent of the candidates who were elected last night across this country are affiliated with the tea party there's the tea party john elway and we're sending a message to you. and they see it as a repudiation of the president and his policies. what does it feel like. feels bad
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. i came to the united states to examine the tea party phenomenon and in particular the accusations that the protesters were points in a code power play by a small group of billionaires and corporate players their recruiting their. to do the bidding of corporate america this is not some corporate sponsored thing these citizens' groups are told us the media portrays being based on billionaire. personhood people prove it's not merely because it is a story just like to make it. who . was coming. up come to kentucky the heart of tea party
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country it's more than a year before the movement will organize to become a force at the two thousand and ten elections the diverse group of protesters here are united by a combination of anger and patriotism is all american families and militia groups trolling for new members of this the so-called bertha's we think is really a canyon this robot i were the first ever and the cost of historical figures if i can the spirit of the american revolutionaries at the boston tea party from which this movement takes its name beginning less than a month after obama took office the protests reflected a mounting anger at both democrats and republicans legislating massive bailout packages in response to america's economic crisis so while the tape party idea was first right during this on a rant by saying base
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a reporter greeks and telly this is america how do you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage you want to get a family to chicago tea party in july i mean capitalist they want to show up the lake michigan out of the star or. testifying to the crossroads nature of the uprising the vast majority of tea partiers a middle class americans with little or no experience in political organizing i'm just i'm on that was tired of seeing what was going on in my country and i decided to do something about it. with the. the day after rick santorum only had his way and there were about twenty thousand people that got together on a conference call and we decided to have around the tea parties one week from that day we have fifty tea parties with thirty thousand people and i tend. to work on the so february when we have on april fifteenth eight hundred fifty plus tea
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parties across this country with one point two million people wouldn't stand that. but if the tea parties began as a bipartisan not prizing against government waste they quickly morphed into an all out attack on president obama and his entire policy agenda he kept i'm not trying to grok i'm going back or not i promise turn our writing are interested crocked. sure as the jam i'm going to be a part of come back speed and power. while many factors are involved in the shoot i was particularly impressed by what role being played by a group called americans for prosperity. their mission is to engage citizens in the nine of limited government and free markets essentially they are activists for radical form of capitalism with private enterprise not government as the guiding
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force and so i see a particular interest with a chief benefactor brothers charles and david koch. according to the forbes list of the richest americans the cloak city kofi with personal fortunes estimated at more than twenty billion dollars. to find out more come to the annual convention of americans for prosperity. both distancing himself publicly from the tea party movement david quite is known to play a very hands on role with i have pate. and sure enough as representatives of the groups by hundred thousand members reported on their activities they later was there to keep the news it's now my great pleasure to. begin my favorite part of the summit conference and that is the report by representatives of each of the
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twenty five chapters that paid their activities over the last year we helped organize huge tea parties all throughout the state we had lads from our just tea party in the state the largest tax day tea party in the nation on april fifteenth. i voted we prevailed twenty nine t. parties organize dozens of tea parties mr chairman our grassroots efforts are engaged they're energized and they're ready to fight for their freedom and if you try to raise our taxes and clap on our liberties we're either going to. or make your life yes thank the members flatly deny the charge that the i.r.s. reuters the name given to fight cross roots organizations that are essentially corporate fronts it's nonsense that there is no such thing among our our people as
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astroturfing i'm here with four hundred fifty other people from north carolina and we're all individuals. to find out more about the recent curiously publicity shy brothers and their company koch industries i turn to a man who was cleaning investigating them for a number of years. diabetes from the environmental group greenpeace koch industries is the company nobody's ever heard of it's the second or first largest private company in this country we don't even know how much money they make they're primarily a refining company and pipeline company they now have expanded into paper and chemicals acquiring other companies in recent years there worldwide based here in the united states in which come kansas davies and green can assert that americans for prosperity are essentially just a low beam tool for koch industries david koch deliberately founded these groups to intervene in the government to reduce taxes on corporations to reduce the impact of
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environmental laws. that intersected with what became the tea party movement and uprising against the government and against governments with large against taxes and against health care regulations so they basically used this public sentiment to forward their corporate agenda this charge of profiteering is especially evident and i have peace or position who proposed climate change bill that would harm profits of oil industry players like coke industries. in two thousand and nine after the obama administration came on there was massive momentum towards climate regulation suddenly there was a real possibility of getting a new good law passed and they went into high gear attacking obama from day one even started before the obama administration attacking any climate legislation they've run for years these summer hot air tours where they run what looks like
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a grassroots activists campaign around the country with abbas and t. shirts and pacs and and outs and little vents and small towns in fact it's a corporate funded propaganda tour as i arrived in philadelphia for one of the forty it's who are events and i have peace railed against the climate change bill known as cap and tried legislation oh. well keep prosperity. right jobs this country is heading in the wrong direction. and that's reaction got me more. trouble over here taking over our. lives yes. attack attack attack they re framed it cap and tax as opposed to the term cap and trade term for carbon trading and went on the attack and declared this part of the
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obama agenda to impose new government regulations and grow the government global warming regulation equal to socialism attacking green jobs and renewable energy as some imposition on people's freedom this is the last stop in this leg of what we call our hottie a tour where we're exposing the ford of what is basically a massive trillion dollar tax on american energy users the following is a green jobs and government subsidized alternative fuels and what we're doing at americans for prosperity is educating americans to understand the threat to our to our future what's motivating the government to try and bring in the cap and trade through it's a marxist regime basically the obama administration with democratic party is going to call it the left so extreme now it's about seizing control over our lives as a total government scheme and it's going to destroy jobs to this country. a local
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tea party is also one hand to lend their support and one thing that i really want to get through to people is that this is not some corporate sponsored thing we are and therefore i know i am i live in apartment i have two kids in a white struggling but this is a feel sorry for me thing to come to spelling you know we're not corporate sponsors period and everything is grassroots our organization itself was never around no budget not low budget you know but the benefits of free i thought on the website for free you know gone to great lengths to make this happen and it's all in the name of liberty and justice. i don't want a founding father to propose this country be a republic. but i have paid far more than just a tool for the cops oil interests as evidenced by their leading role in opposing another of obama's assaults on liberty healthcare reform. that would have seen the
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government's. short americans and breaking the private. health care. for veterans political operatives and i have paid president team phillips the group success lies in their ability to tap into the american spirit of individual ism all americans have a long tradition of individual ism and of good healthy skepticism toward their government i mean about the worst thing you can say in america is i'm from washington d.c. and i'm here to help instantly americans go wait a minute i don't trust that for a second and so i don't coalition americans for prosperity we go out and we educate americans on hey here's the threat here's what this health care bill is going to do the take over here's what happened trade going to do your job and to your utility
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rates and we just say if you want to get at it here are ways to get out this goes to the heart of how the clothes not you manipulating tea party protesters and a fair proportion of i have peace and support it on a much too political and personal financial gain because while americans might have a healthy skepticism about government i wonder how many of them really share the koch's extreme vision of a free market economy you and i know that free market principles make sense for american families american jobs and i want term prosperity and that is essential at a time when the very foundations of our nation are being challenged. government has become a monster crippling the economy and devouring personal liberties this poster is from a not a night the libertarian party campaign in which david koch ran for vice president the party's political platform is an insight into just how radical his views and
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those of the free market movement. they saw the abolition of the department of energy the environmental protection agency the food and drug administration and a host of other public health and safety bodies not to mention social security welfare the public school system and of course huge tax cuts across the board but after spending over two million dollars of their own money on the campaign and receiving just one percent of the thought the brothers changed course deciding that if people wouldn't come to their philosophy they take their philosophy to the people they created and invested in a network of free market curds including the establishment in one thousand nine hundred four of a grassroots group called citizens for a sound economy that was the forerunner to americans for prosperity a number of documents have emerged from the citizens for a sound economy dies which give a candid insight into how these groups work to discard corporate donors and radical
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ideological goals. undertaxed look these nonprofit groups are allowed to keep their donna's identities confidential as is the case with many critics including greenpeace but this late one nine hundred ninety eight budget reveals just how much money citizens for a sound economy were saved from a wide variety of donors. more troubling was the fact that citizens for a sound economy took money through an asteroid to campaigns. on behalf of a number of these hidden dharnas. then there was they work for the tobacco industry thanks to a major legal settlement in the light ninety nine millions of internal tobacco industry documents have been made public the documents showing how citizens for a sound economy and other free market groups were secretly millions of dollars to fight tobacco taxes and regulations using what they call
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a retail sales if they pitch these to their own members as a tax on individual freedoms by the government the idea being that while people may not be moved to fight on behalf of big tobacco or almost anything to protect their own freedoms one campaign of particular relevance was the lading wrong citizens for a sound economy played in killing the last major attempt to reform the health care system with a clinton administration posing a new tobacco tax to help pay for their plan to record company philip morris funded i major grassroots effort by the group. citizens for a sound economy also whip hand in hand with the health insurance industry to defeat the reforms by running a few campaign the clinton plan the soviet style socialized medicine that would lead to denial of fossils of kids treatments they said this supports democrats
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including first lady hillary clinton was late into the explain the reform and there's been all. that yours. was yeah i. was. trying to was that the majority of america. and all gary hart to make sure everything the american. one person who has worked on coalitions with citizens for a sound economy is going to cost us a former health insurance industry spin doctor turned whistleblower about these to sift practices. they have insurance industry is very much like a tobacco industry it's held in very low regard by the public and they know that they have very little credibility and sells so they have to establish these front groups to carry their messages for them they do this so that
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a third party is telling the stories that they want to be told and getting the word out that they want to get out according to when to caution ok benefit of using front groups is that they can say things the company couldn't actually get away we sang them so they're hired guns and they do what they are told to do and it doesn't matter necessarily what the packets are sometimes that if it involves a been doing ethics or a violating ethical standards they will do that terms like government takeover of the health care system this one that has been has many times to scare people away from reform and it's misleading no plan before congress would have come anywhere close to a government takeover but nonetheless it's a term that the industry knew would be effective slippery slope toward socialism and united states socialism still has this connotation of something that is akin to communism if not even worse the people who put those census together do it for
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a purpose and they know that that will that will be a focus certain emotions. for twenty five years these campaigns tapping into people's distrust of government and since the individual is attracted to saws will follow is so much so that within hours of rick's and tele making his famous tea party rights and i have to pay stossel was able to offer you know on national television possibly nines to get the movement started reading i've got i've got five hundred thousand people who signed our petition against the stimulus bill i'm willing to e-mail all of them and tell them to come out of your event just kept reading and they weren't the only ones two thousand and four an eternal reef actually caused citizens for a sound economy simply to group the second call. so freedom one. will no longer financially connected to the freedom works in a similar model of corporate funded free market activism from day one they worked on the ground to help small groups open ice tea party events and when i for
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a couple of months the movement was running out of steam freedom works helped to break their anger through mooching threats socialized medicine that i have paid some anonymous great americans with very pockets each teens to find a multi-million dollar campaign by the i'm a good job some great americans come to us and say they were concerned about this health care issue and and they can see this train coming down the pike and they want to do something about it are born madden said you know not americans for prosperity he wants to be a part of that. as i have paid. to hold events around the country their campaign was to be an almost carbon copy of the ninety ninety four excess sometime in the next sixty or ninety days. and let me. know what your help you want by the government that we want to make sure. that
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you're. also. scaring senior citizens. some potentially lifesaving drugs could be with you know in seeing your students and others are going. democrat politicians whole town hall meetings. and we started doing that for littering the facebook and the e-mails. and the people showed up. and said it was the worst august and democrats. in the temperature is. shouting at members of congress. police are called.
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if you're a senior citizen. take over is a disaster for you and the american people know that truth is on our side. well congress eventually passed and very much compromised health care. why then opponents that helped make it so unpopular health care became a major factor in the democrats the feat in two thousand and ten older voters in the last midterm split evenly this time they were overwhelmingly voting republican and why did they vote six out of ten said that they wanted to repeal health care. but to properly understand the cook's influence on the rising power movement has
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a much bigger picture to be saying the koch's exert influence in a number of ways when we know that they fund front groups like americans for prosperity the search astroturf effort they also throw money straight into the political machine so they funded millions of dollars towards political candidates specific candidates they also of course have lobbying money coming into washington so they're sending lobbyists up to forward their agenda the more more insidious stuff is starting in the one nine hundred seventy is a number of free market think tanks were born at the cato institute the heritage foundation heartland institute these groups were purpose built by right wing philanthropist like the coax to forward a corporate agenda and the regulatory agenda there is no better example of how the small poly coordinated network of currents the thought regulation been there almost single handed effort to manufacture debate as
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a global warming this two thousand and eight study one hundred forty one poops skeptical of global warming found that out of the ninety percent of them were written and or published by free market think tanks at the heart of what opponents have called big the noise machine are the resident policy experts such as myron ebell of the competitive enterprise institute saying here talking to a group of a of pay members. culture is that so much of an oldish musician sometimes in the bar when amidst the stalemate in palestinian israeli peacemaking a storm of diplomatic activity is growing palestinian leaders. will be. bringing you the latest in science stimson knowledge from around flushed.
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