i mean the headlines now herald are teens we commit. violence continues to sweep through the arab world and the brutal crackdown on protesters in syria pressure nato airstrikes against their own god present yourself as a rush of blood some un resolution over syria i guess they try another full fledged civil war in which. the world marked twenty five years since the worst ever nuclear accident that the chernobyl the last century radioactive cloud across in europe

spreading contamination of kilometers away from the reactor. sixteen terrorists are killed in a string of successful antiterrorism rushes and says longer and longer time to a solution of every question three people. work for us to gauge whether some grassroots groups in the us really represent the voice of the people as a whole. this is our home 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 was free that sums up the spirit of a people yes we came. here

to see to. take seriously. and this is a good beginning. is it so they can't have it when they have a whole big year. for barack obama and the democrats after sweeping to power with the promise of ensuring a citizens' uprising called the tea party movement a message to a message was known to be government spending to health care and climate change legislation and no so obama because he has to hit the people because it's been two years into a bomb us presidents tea party endorse candidates emerged 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 a cheap already tell it all way and we're sending a message to. and both see it as a repudiation of the president and his policies. what does it feel like. feels bad . i came to the united states to examine the tea party phenomenon and in particular the accusations that the protestors were pawns in a covert 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 to sponsor thing these citizens groups are bogus the media portrays being backplane billionaire. person or people group is not going to be interested in the story just like.

who. was known to be. a come to kentucky the heart of tea party 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 this all american families and militia groups trolling for new members and this is the so-called bertha's we think is really ukrainian this profile were the first step in a cost of historical figures evoking the spirit of the american revolution or is it 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 well the tea party idea was first rights during this on a rant by sea and they say reports of bricks and telly this is america how many young people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage you want to take advantage of chicago tea party in july i know you can't close i want to show up to lake michigan i'm going to start over. 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 have decided to do something about it. of the. day after rick santorum he had his way and there were about twenty two people that got together on a conference call and we decided to have around the tea parties one week from that

day we had fifty tea parties with thirty thousand people and attend that. we were thought to myself a brew and if we had on april fifteenth eight hundred fifty plus tea parties across this country would want point two million people when it's in. but if the tea parties began as a bipartisan and prizing against government waste they quickly morphed into an all out attack on president obama and his entire policy agenda thank god he not going to iraq and dr not a prime turn our own making our own transparent crotch factories that jammed up and down from that paper out of. action. well many factors are involved in this shit i was thinking lee interesting what role being played by a group called americans for prosperity. their mission is to engage citizens in the

nine of limited governments and free markets essentially they are activists for a radical form of capitalism public private enterprise nor government is the guiding force in society of particular interest with their chief benefactor brothers charles and david carr according to the forbes list of the richest americans to coax a cool fifty with personal fortunes estimated at more than twenty eight billion dollars. to find out more have come to the annual convention of americans for prosperity. will distancing himself publicly from the tea party movement david cutler is known to play a very hands on role with i have a. and sure enough as representatives of the groups by hundred thousand members reported on their activities they laid it was there if you can use 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 twenty five chapters. on their activities over the last year we don't organize huge tea parties all throughout the state we have mad the largest tea party in the state the largest taxpaying tea party in the nation on april fifteenth. i vote we've now twenty nine p. 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. on our liberties we're either going to beat you or make your life. thank the members flatly deny the charge that they are astroturf the name given to fight

grassroots organizations that are essentially corporate fronts it's nonsense that there is no such thing among our our people as astroturf i'm here with four hundred fifty other people from north carolina and we're all individuals. to find out more about the recent tory sleep publicity shy brothers and their company industries i turn to a man who's been investigating them for a number of years. 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 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 wichita kansas davies and green assert that americans for

prosperity are essentially just a low being 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 environmental laws. that intersected with what became the tea party movement an uprising against the government and against governments writ large against taxes and against health care regulations so they basically use this public sentiment to forward their corporate agenda this charge of profiteering is especially evident and i have piece opposition to the post climate change group that would apply profits of oil industry players like koch 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 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 a grassroots activists campaign around the country with a process and t. shirts and hats and handouts and little vents and small towns in fact it's a corporate funded propaganda tour as i write in philadelphia one of the forty it's who are events and i have peace railed against the climate change bill known as contrite legislation oh. ok trust. us this country is heading in the wrong direction. and that's reaction just yet. more. control over health care take a look at. that.

attack attack attack may be framed as 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 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 hot it's who are we exposing the floor 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 that have been tried through it's a marxist regime basically abomination gratian the democratic party used on calling

to the left so it's stream now it's about seizing control over our lives it's a total garbage scheme and it's going to the store job to the country. a local tea party is also on hand to lend their support the one thing that i really want to get through to people is that this is not some corporate sponsored thing we really are for i know i am i live in apartment i have two kids and a wife struggling but this is a feel sorry for me thing that some just telling you no we're not corporate sponsors period and everything is grassroots our organization itself was the ground up nobody nobody nobody ever done everything free i thought on the website for free you know going to very nice make this happen and it's all in the name of liberty and justice. you know where founding fathers had proposed this country be a republic.

but i have paid a far more than just tool for the quote spoiling for it as evidenced by their leading role in opposing another of obama's assaults on limiting health care reform . that would have seen the government's. uninsured americans breaking the private health insurance is. out of here. for veteran political operative and i f p president team phillips the group's success lies in their ability to tap into the american spirit of individual ism while americans have a long tradition of individual ism and of good healthy skepticism toward their governess me 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 am 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 is what cap and trade going to do your job and to your children right and we just say if you want to get at it here are ways to get back to this goes to the heart of how the clerks not be manipulating tea party protesters and a fair proportion i have peace and support it on a much the 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 medicine essential at a time when the very foundations of our nation are being challenged. government has become a monster crippling the economy and of our own personal liberties this poster is

from a not a night he 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 those of the free market movement are 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 koch brothers changed course deciding that of people wouldn't come to their philosophy they take their philosophy to the people they created and invested in a network of free market groups including the establishment in ninety ninety 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 santa con of me dies which give a candid insight into how these groups work to discard corporate dharnas and radical ideological goals. undertaxed look there's no one profit groups are allowed to keep their donors identities confidential as is the case with many critics including graeme pace but these lakes ninety ninety eight budget reveals just how much money citizens for a sound economy received from a wide variety of donors. more troubling was the fact that citizens for a sound economy took money through an asteroid to campaigns directly on behalf of a number of these hidden dharnas. then it was they would 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 secretly paid millions of dollars to fight the backhoe taxes and regulations using what i called a retail sales effort they pitched these to their own members as a tax on individual freedoms by big 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 can kind of particular relevance with the lading wrong citizens for a sound economy played into feeling the last major attempt to reform the health care system with the clinton administration posing a new tobacco tax to help pay for their plan to better a company philip morris founded i major grassroots effort by the group. citizens for a sound economy also work hand in hand with the health insurance industry in the state

the reforms are running a few camps from the clinton the soviet style socialized medicine that would lead to a denial of bottles of kid freedman's they said they supported scots democrats including first lady hillary clinton as they attempted to explain the reform and love there isn't all that was. that europe. was getting global yeah like god was. trying to was that the our the majority of the. album here we are to make sure every single american that it was. one person who was worked on coalitions with citizens for a sound economy is wendell potter a former health insurance industry spin doctor turned whistleblower about these deceptive practices. they have insurance industry is very much like

a pack of history it's held in a very low regard by the public and they know that they have very little credibility themselves so they have to establish these front groups to carry their messages for them they do this so that a third party is telling their stories if they want to be told and getting the word alkan they want to get out according to window porsha ok benefit of using front groups is that they can say things the company couldn't actually get away we've signed 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 middling ethics or violating ethical standards they will do that terms like government takeover of the health care system this one that has been hit so 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 you distribute will be effective slippery slope toward socialism and united states socialism still has this connotation of something that is akin to communism it's not even worse but people who put those sentences together do it for a purpose and they know that that will that will evoke a certain emotion. over twenty five years these campaigns tapping into people's distrust of government and sense of individual isn't detracted saws will follow is so much so that within hours the bricks and tele he's famous tea party rights and i have placed awful was able to offer you on national television possibly nines to get movement started right and i've got i've got five hundred thousand people who signed our petition against the stimulus bill i'm willing to email all of them and tell them to come out of your bed just can't read it and they weren't the only ones two thousand and four an internal riffle actually caused citizens first under current to me to split into two groups the second will. so freedom one will no

longer financially connected to the freedom will explain a single model of corporate funded free market activism from day one they worked on the ground to help small groups organize tea party events and when i for a couple of months the movement was running out of steam and freedom works helped to break their anger at one of mooching threats socialized medicine. that i have paid some anonymous cry to merican this very deep pockets to fund a multi-million dollar campaign by the court some could go to some great americans come to us and say they were concerned about this health care if un and they can see this train coming down the pike and they want to do something about it our border madden said you know a lot of americans for prosperity wants to be a part of that. as i have paid. to hold events around the country they campaign with being almost. sixty or ninety days.

let me. quote. your note. that we want to make sure. that. they also. scaring senior citizens. some potentially lifesaving drugs could be would go and sit in your state leaders are wrong and when democrat politicians. and we started doing the twittering the facebook and the e-mails. and. people showed up. and said. the worst. democrats.

that's a change. police are. getting if you're a senior citizen. are you and the american people know that it's on our side. well congress eventually passed a very much compromised health care. by then opponents would help make someone popular the 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 cooks influence on the rising dharma movement is 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 that serve 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 this

small highly coordinated network of groups of for regulation been there almost single handed effort to manufacture to fight the global warming this two thousand and eight study one hundred forty one poops skeptical of global warming found that out of a ninety percent of them written and or published by free market think tanks at the heart of what opponents have called the denial machine. the resident poor see experts such as myron ebell of the competitive enterprise institute saying he is talking to a group with a of pay members. in those dining. rooms looked forward to be helped and

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