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once again flared up. and these are the images seen from the streets of canada. showing up for asians to rule the day. talk or is this our naughty international divisions over syria's nations try to end the bloody crackdown on anti-government protest as russia insists intervention will only lead to more violence. washington support for opposition movements in the middle east and north africa could be backfiring on its biggest ally israel faces actually boosting radical islamists. final flight for russian pilots as an american court finds him guilty of drug trafficking. and also reporting this are compulsory tests and treatments of russian crackdown on drugs with new measures aimed at forcing addicts to kick the habit. when next we bring you the second part of our special report on america's right wing tea party movement and more goes on behind
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the scenes that. i want to talk about cap and trade or as i call it x. and i think most of you do as well. but first i want to talk about global warming for a minute here's the last thirty years you'll see for last ten years we haven't had any more me i think that shows that the models are phony they could try global warming is just another excuse for big government intervention by leftists audio loeb's it's just another way of government controlling our lives then you know i'm dead set against that and certainly. human beings are not that planet all that would be great if it was true and fortunately the scientific community doesn't agree as i found out when i spoke to bring the equivalent of the union of concerned scientists overwhelming vast majority absolutely it most of the scientific
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societies around the world national academies of sciences the intergovernmental panel on climate change all the leading experts of the world they get together and make scientific statements about climate change they all agree that climate change is real it's unequivocal and they're very worried about the lack of action on the parts of weaning ourselves off of fossil fuel these guys have been able to delay action on climate change for two decades all along making billions and billions of dollars in dirty energy according to pay homage and author jim hogan the success of this occur china has nothing to do with science and everything to do with spin it was a media campaign they wanted to create doubt in the minds of journalists they wanted to create doubt in the minds of the public your average person will never know they just see some articulate guy me even be
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a scientist basically being shills for industry people like fred singer he was a guy who worked for tobacco now works on climate change but because they're wearing a lab coat and they have a ph d. people believed them. i tracked down singer in washington where he was briefing senate staffers on the scientific reasons why they shouldn't support the cap and trade bill but suggests that it is for the moment that's not correct that's been cooling since not everyone a function of his to. use today disseminate the quasi science of people like to see . the science is not finished the debate is not over as the left who support this legislation would tell you i think global warming is a complete hoax we've got to getting cooler for the past ten years some suggest that the research has been manipulated and that those questioning the effects of climate change have been silenced myron ebell is director of energy and global
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warming policy for the competitive enterprise institute then there's the role of the conservative media establishment. by the nation's most watched news network folks news twenty four hours a day by pump out pro-business pro-republican talking points take these two e-mails seem to fork stuff in like two thousand and nine the first directed all reporters to cite global warming theory advice the point guard of the critics have called into question while another instructor echoed the insurance industry language by using the words government run health insurance to describe the proposed health care reform government run health care may include some rationing a government health care takeover could drastically change the way you and your family were seen health care but the party also was a lot to folks who it's légion of loyal fans to get involved it's a movement that is sweeping the nation all across the country hundreds of these
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protests across the country in may involve millions of people bam fox news is out front of us we can join the tea party action from your home if you go to the fox nation dot com the tea party revolution is probably one right by you. we have a map to show you just how widespread these are these are people who demand to be heard in some cases just like their trip. actually is they don't work. for fox news is. like taking your place by their own manufacturing i can point to every one of these organizations and give you specific examples would be the liar manufacture or disingenuous are called names right ok they don't tell the whole story they tell one side story and we see that now we're speaking out but if there's one person at fox who's become the darling of the tea party movement it's going back watching
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paranoid populism and rice biting what goes a long way to explaining some of the more extreme views in the tea party movement the media either can't see it or they're complicit or just wildly out of touch i don't know which it is but let me show you the big picture of what's happening here the roots of the tree of radicalism and revolution. this president i think has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep seated hatred for white people or the white culture i don't know what it is this guy is i believe a racist. with
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nine million people treating him for his t.v. and radio show is that each day makes obsession with communism also makes him a powerful ally to oppose things like the cap and trade bill. let's bring in phil kerpen he is the director for policy for americans for prosperity you like watermelon and i think this is a watermelon bill and i think you're exactly right this bill is green on the outside fifteen years green on the outside and inside it's deep communist red this was especially evident when i have pace. this story to pick was green jobs advisor was a commie this is the beginning this is the portal into all of this this is the biggest story in history self avowed communist activities there are communist marxist revolutionaries all around this president these guys are marxists in the white house i have.
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put forth from the past you spread coke. millionaire member of the radical anti communist john birch society and. saga of charles and di bid the threat of communism has long since passed it's striking how effective it still remains to instantly payment on its opponents as evidenced in the descriptions of the climate and health care policies and right throughout the tea parties why has the a.n.c. obama's been dalton's resorted to the language of the cold war propaganda. and why has it been so effective in causing the styria among tea party go was. curious i went to see mark crispin miller n.y.u. professor and corporate propaganda expert there are certain techniques that that
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propagandists really need to you is and they're so basic that you know they believe this scene in arguable to us or we've never even noticed but one thing that one must still of course is cloak on this message and a kind of moral righteousness you know we we believe in liberty we believe in free enterprise we hear that all the time but i simply means crony capitalism but it implies something that most americans will you know feel a surge of positive emotion about right now there is a tacit opposition there between free enterprise edible communism and that's the other technique that that has to be heroes and you've also got to have the enemies game and those that serve a scapegoat and against which you can and and all of the angry feelings that the propaganda will also it's psychopathic for them socialism conjures up all this and
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we're going to have a long list of the horrible bookie mandible obama's associated with the battle five right ring for example he's also associated with muslims you know this as if he was known as saddam was a black hole so all these things serve for a highly volatile and irrational minority of the american population. in a way that's just kind of classic propaganda and it's no accident that this serves the interest of the health insurance companies the big pharmaceutical cartel you know the petro chemical interests i mean we could go on or not it suits them fine this is why they have basically encouraged this and this is why they like people like glenn beck and rush limbaugh who are the tribune's of this moment. understanding a bit more about how propaganda works i went to examine its use as freedom which
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posted the first ever national tea party in washington d.c. which is still a government takeover of all the businesses we hear the government takeover and are leveraging with the like we're losing the constitution and. we have sat at home and not said anything but not too late to what was going on and finally we have done that the challenge and come to do something and we're not going to stop. and. now they are. here to cut it. and. there's a couple of the other three are. the in. the end.
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the or. the is socialism and this is taking over it's got a script on it and always leaks going it is a sure thing you're feeling that the guts to listen to the risk the constitution the bill of rights you must bring. yeah we came out here today for freedom i think that right the first thing he thought i had. he got there all right the place else was and he was right and take our freedom we're not going to. fight for you. get him out of this trash hammering you now not. was.
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to see things hear ye they the way the way the right thing the right thing the the you who moved out didn't move move move the the the moose was moved out of the mood out of my life was the quite a lineup of passionate tape party organizers get a hundred thousand patriots going eventually the sponsors from libertarian curbs take to the studs to preach the gospel of free markets let me hear. the old no nonsense. but hell hath no fury like
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a taxpayer you know what. i'm doing things we salute you for free you know it's one organization that believes that lower taxes less government and more freedom you can't be for freedom if you have nothing to do. it is the good of new freedom. is a good. move. these last months this is nothing was it was on the heart and so on now because. it was just like those old campaigns against tobacco regulation the groups weren't selling free markets they were selling freedom itself and the tea party americans were buying it we came out here today for freedom. we go out and get americans from all walks of life today in their economic freedom more importantly than because. our
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freedoms having successfully steered protesters through revolt affects the entire bomber agenda in the name of freedom faced who was to succeed with the cloaks of failed on three nights he to build a free market movement capable of staging a revolution at the ballot box to find out more i went on to cover as a budding fiscal conservative. my first stop with a training session for takeout he has held by the competitive enterprise institute . puts the game to the tea party was the tea party about is it about just opposing this opposing that opposing this or is there really if agreed to be and that ip i submit to the idea i want to show you one today is the idea of the rights of man the basic issue at stake is the destruction of the rights of those who produce in the united states and the tea parties of course are the battleground. we are today
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as an army we are the thin line between freedom and the status dystopia they want to create freedom is a wonderful thing to fight for it's time for us to join the army and that's something we all wanted to do. in nashville i met up with a collection of libertarian groups crossing the country pitching guerilla internet tactics for free market ideals over two hundred years ago guys a group of people just like you did something extraordinary ordinary people doing extraordinary things they were activists just like you i truly believe that they were activists then we are activists now make no distinction about it so what we do we become digital activists we have defied the media and we learn the media and we manipulate the media it was printing presses then it's the internet now that's where we influence the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens the tea party's got as many of the hills majorities trying to give you the tools to muskets right so.
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here's what i do i get on amazon i type in liberal books i go through and i say one star one star one star the flipside is you go to a conservative libertarian whatever go to their products and give them five stars ok so literally eighty percent of those i i put a star on i don't read so that's how it works ok there's places this is where your kids i promise you this is where your kids are going information rotten tomatoes fixed or was a place where you can rate movies ok so when you type in movies on healthcare or document on health care i don't want to go to come up i don't want michael moore's to come out so i was given bad ratings i spent about thirty minutes a day just so that's guerilla tactics if there's a place the common place to rate right a place to share information you have to do it that's how you control the online dialogue give our ideas a fighting chance the principles that i believe strongly in the founders believe strongly in with the idea of individual liberty rule of law limits of government's
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free market system their correlations free market religious and personal freedom we lose the free market we will lose personal religious freedom club we fight for. the end of the session and suddenly introduce ourselves to the worst of the rest my camera for. the lady sitting next to me and i'm just prying i don't play my cover. i've been saved all that going on twelve days to louisville i'm a party express. i think a lot of different crossroads my friends and i face and it's just like you guys are amazing and very on the second revolution.
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i think enjoying the second american revolution hundred. regret a cool capitalist revolution was on the why the tea party establishment officially adopted the mantra for the markets it was a stunning comeback for an ideology that seemingly lie in ruins after the mortgage crisis really one year earlier the symbol of which was federal reserve chairman and champion of free markets alan greenspan said missing at the regulation doesn't work you would have an ideology the free competitive markets are by far the on rival way to organize economies pretty he found a flaw in the reality or in the model that i perceived is the critical functioning structure of the defines how the world works or speak in other words you found that your is your view of the world your ideology was not right it was
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not working i don't it was iced tea party backed republican candidates and merged all over the country to contest the three thousand and ten election promising to stop the energy tax repeal health care and richest the size of government. well the koch's chipped in to support some two dozen a party candidates and as usual a real contribution was behind the scenes. in june at this resort in aspen colorado by hosting a secret strategy session with a network of culture wealthy donors and powerful allies including glenn beck courting his letter from charles. disappoints committed to an unprecedented level of support soon after americans for prosperity announced plans to spend a staggering forty five million dollars on elections they ran ads attacking politicians for supporting the obama agenda. adama tried to back kucing at
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being a corporate front in more than a dozen speeches but if you're in the battleground state right now you are being bombarded with negative ads every single day and nobody knows who's paying for these ads they've got these names like americans for prosperity meanwhile in a test kinds known as citizens united supreme court which included two judges who had attended sacred. rule that corporations were free to anonymously invest as much as they wanted in front groups like i have a. republican operative seized upon the decision creating new groups and flooding the airwaves with tens of millions of dollars in ads for unknown. on the grassroots summit i have paid just off their buses launching their november is coming campaign i s p and freedom works also use their considerable budgets to try and mobilize the tea party army identify your voters get
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a merger to vote bring them out to vote that's it the tea party was ready to strike hard last band to be the last man not the president no we're not here on a corner in north philadelphia we doubted that it got out there we have a point operational ball back up and of ny next morning the americans for prosperity we don't run and i'll bet we have our people out there door knocking and we're standing here now and hear what we're going to. like the wind you know i'm not like you're here on america we don't like your policy if i were to take it back in november thank you very much i was. told this morning it is being called a g.o.p. sleep and it tea party title away in the biggest one pound for either party since nineteen forty eight the new one hundred twelfth congress will feature forty tea party members a lot of libertarian leaning individuals within that tea party movement especially when it comes to taxes and over regulations they end up with this agenda that is taking us in the wrong direction it's a message of. limits
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a prostitution government in france be excessive government regulation in the control room to washington just because. there's a new day you know the republicans took control of the house in november two thousand and ten very anti government agenda and fact one of their agenda items is to you know take out for government agencies like the part of education part of energy. when you have politicians elected who want to shut down the government it sets a pretty interesting tone for the debate. for me this newfound zeal for the close radical free market or the old you use the real revenue. the tape party movement has nothing to do with people in yeovil cos trains or waving flags or holding protest of things but it is a revolution that has everything to do with hidden corporate agendas complicit media players season propagandists
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a highly coordinated network of free market groups and most of all the pair of brothers with a dream to create a privatized america the american dream of free enterprise capitalism is alive and well. and so what does the american dream mean. mary can dream to be true one word freedom to any american dream means defending our own all right in our freedom and liberty that and made this country free to me the american dream is to live in peace and prosperity and freedom and a government under socialism is not a government a freedom what about the freedom of individuals to make up their own mind through reason and rational to buy what about the freedom to trust a grassroots movement such as that and not clones of the wealthy and what is the
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sky on which the since happened site that will strike american democracy. i think it's a serious threat to our democracy and i think people are mostly unaware of it not completely unaware of the threat they're very much a unaware of the front groups and i don't where but how their thoughts are being manipulated and how their actions are actually being manipulated in many cases. i think they're unaware that we are to a large extent have a plutocracy in this country or at least an emerging one rather than democracy and i think that's because of the rise of power and influence of corporations and the way that they've been able to use p.r. p.r. claque ticks and propaganda to get what they what they want we are drowning in proper there are crowding out. and i i i'm not speaking figuratively i think it's threatening our lives it's the it's cutting off our air
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it's making real democracy. all but impossible it has brought the planet to the point of. ecological destruction it's had no positive consequences whatsoever because it doesn't serve the people it serves other interests. i've come to believe more and more inside and studying this this problem that the real currency in democracy is honest information. that if you are on a mass scale able to pump out false information then the whole democratic system kind of breaks up. and yet these people have
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a perfect right to do it and hide their involvement in. and now you have very motivated people out across the country who are activists who are willing to fight for what they think is right for themselves but in fact is forwarding a corporate agenda that is to stop regulations and to stop taxes and they're not going to stop in two thousand and ten they will continue through the twenty twelve elections as the tea party has marched on to two thousand and twelve and made all of taking out president obama and installing a politician who fought for the right to free markets my only message truth is to be careful what you wish for because you just might get us. to. be.
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