pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of not going to. hear a spring of nineteen forty five on our t.v. . costing around the world from central moscow this is the r.t. news channel thanks for being with us the top stories in our a view of the week foreign intervention in the arab unrest will just fuel new civil war says russia as it blocks you and condemnation of syria's involvement and listen asking who's next in line. colonel gadhafi son and three grandsons of reportedly been killed in a nato air strike on tripoli that's despite the alliance is claims it's not targeting

the leader. and russia's police strike hits a group of terror targets in the south of the country among those killed the two high ranking militant warlords with links to al qaida. now the first part of our in-depth report into america's teen party movement and what goes on behind the scenes find out where they're getting their support from next on r.t. . this is our moment this is our time. to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we are one that while 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 this to. take seriously. and the this is good again this is it so. they can't have it when they have danger. where did it all go wrong for barack obama and the democrats up to sweeping to power with the promise of police and citizens uprising called the tea party movement and the message was known to be government spending to health care and climate change legislation and no to obama himself obama because if you think it is the people because it's just thing to use into a bomb this president's tea party endorse candidates emerged to sweep 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 joggle way and we're sending a message to. them 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 protesters were pawns in a kind of power play by small group with billion is and corporate players they're recruiting them. to do the bidding of corporate america this is not some corporate sponsored thing these citizens' groups are bogus the media portrays of being basically billionaires. person or people is not going to be interested in the story just like.

who. was known to be. a come to kentucky the heart of tate how you 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 a united quiet combination of anger and patriotism has all american families and militia groups trolling for new members and it's the so-called bertha's we think is really a kenyan this robot i were the first ever and a cost of historical figures evoking the spirit of the american revolution was at the boston tea party from which this movement takes its name beginning less than a month after obama took office the protests reflected announcing anger i brought them across and republicans legislating massive bailout packages in response to

america's economic crisis so while the tape party idea was first right during this one a rant by c. and they say reports of bricks and telly this is america how many people want to take your neighbor's mortgage you want to take advantage of chicago tea party in july i know you care plus i want to show up to lake michigan i'm going to start or get. testifying to the cross for its 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 makes a intelli had his way and there were about twenty 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 i tend that. there was something brewing and we had on april fifteenth eight hundred fifty plus tea parties across this country with one point two million people when it's in. 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 i mean how much i'm going to rock i'm going back or not i'm brown during king our interests crocked sakura's the jammed up that's come from happy about a young not speak out and out action. well many factors are involved. i was thinking lean for what role being played by a group called americans for prosperity. the mission is to engage citizens in the

nine of limited governments and free markets essentially they are active for a radical form of capitalism with private enterprise government as the guiding force in society of particular interest with a 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 i've come to the end you convention of americans for prosperity. wealth distancing himself publicly from the tea party movement by the quote is known to play a very hands on role with i have. and sure enough as representatives of the groups by hundred thousand members reported on their activities they later was there at 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 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 have now twenty nine p. parties organized 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 going to beat you or make your life. thank the members flatly deny the charge that they are astroturf the nine given to fight

crossfire it's organizations that are essentially corporate fronts it's nonsense that there is no such thing among our our people as astroturfing i'm here with four hundred fifty other people from north carolina and we're all individuals. to find out more about this in the three sleep publicity shy brothers and their company koch industries i turn to a man who's been investigating this for a number of years. from the environmental group grain 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 which talk cancers davies and greenpeace 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 end in government to reduce taxes on corporations to reduce the impact of environmental laws. that intersected with what became the tea party movement and out rising 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 i have please a position to oppose climate change group that would harm 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 activist campaign around the country with abbas and t. shirts and hats 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. that ok trust. us contrary. and that direction is what they got more. control over. all of us. taking control of our lives that.

attack attack attack they referring to this 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 are noble energy as some imposition on people's freedom this is the last stop in this leg of what we call our hot it's sure we're exposing the floor of what is basically a massive trillion dollar tax on american energy users the following it's 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 the obama administration and democratic party is going

to call it to the left so extreme now it's about seizing control over our lives it's a total carbon scale and it's going to destroy jobs or to through this country. a local tea party is also on hand to lend their support the one thing that i really want to get rid of people is that this is not some corporate to sponsor thing we are and therefore i know i am i live in apartment i few kids and a wife struggling but doesn't feel sorry for me thing the truth i'm just telling you no we're not perfect period and everything's grass roots are organisation itself was from the ground up no budget no no budget no budget we've done everything free i phone the website for free we you know gone to great lengths to make this happen and it's all in the name of liberty and justice i don't wear a crown of father to propose this country be a republic. but

i have to pay a far more than just tool for the coat spoiling for. isn't evidence by the leading role in opposing another of obama's assaults on liberty health care reform. that would have seen the government's. money in short americans and breaking the private health insurance want to leave. out of here. the 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 a good healthy skepticism toward their governess i mean about the worst thing you can say in america is i'm from washington d.c. . i'm here to help instantly americans go wait a minute i don't trust that for as likely 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 to do to your job and to your utility rates and we just say if you want to get at it here are ways to get active this goes to the heart of how the cloaks might be manipulating tea party protesters and a fair proportion if i have piece on support it on a much deeper level than 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 a long term prosperity medicine essential at a time when the very foundations of our nation are being challenged the government has become a monster crippling the economy and of their own personal liberties this poster is

from a ninety ninety libertarian party campaign in which to run for vice president the party's political platform is an insight into just how radical his views and those of the free market movement. they sought the abolition of the department of energy the environmental protection agency the food and drug administration and a host about a public health and safety gordie's 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 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 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 sound economy dyes which give a candid insight into how these groups work to discard both the corporate dharnas and radical ideological. undertaxed these known profit groups are allowed to keep their done as identities confidential as is the case with many kurds including greenpeace but this lake nine hundred 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 there on astroturf 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 ninety 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 paid millions of dollars to fight tobacco taxes and regulations using what they called a retail sales effort they pitched these to their own members as attacks 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 the clinton administration posing a new tobacco tax to help pay for their plan to back a company philip morris funded a major grassroots effort by the group. citizens for a sound economy also with hand in hand with the health insurance industry reforms are running

a few from the clinton plan was soviet style socialized medicine that would lead to a denial of bottles of kid freedman's they said they supported scott down democrats including first lady. as they attempted to explain the reform and love there isn't all. that yours. was yeah like god was. trying to was that it was her that of the majority of america. al-ghamdi part to make sure every single american and. one person who has worked on coalitions with citizens for a sand 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 the tobacco

industry 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 the stories that they want to be told and getting the word alchemy they want to get out according to window portion 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 tactics are sometimes that it involves mending ethics or violating ethical standards they will do that terms like government takeover of the health care system is one that has been huge 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 would be effective slippery slope toward socialism in

the united states socialism still has this connotation of something that is akin to communism it's not even worse the people who put those senses together do it for a purpose and they know that that will that will evoke a certain emotion. over twenty five years of these campaigns tapping into people's distrust of government and sense of individual is attracted a saws both although it is so much so that within hours of rick's and tele he making his famous tea party writes and i have placed often was able to offer him on national television possibly nines to get movement started great i got out 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 to your back to stand ready and i won't be only one in two thousand and four and eternal reef actually coast citizens for a sound economy split into two groups the second pool. so freedom works well no

longer financially connected to the courts freedom works run a similar model of corporate funded for you market activism from day one they worked on the ground to help small groups organize tea party events and when after a couple of months the movement was running out of steam freedom works helped to break their anger to mooch and threats socialized medicine. that i have some anonymous cry to merican to very deep pockets to fund a multi-million dollar campaign by the court some good go some great americans come to us and say they were concerned about this health care if you and and they can see this train coming down the pike and they want to do something about it our board 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 the campaign was to be in almost. every ninety minutes and for some time.

that may be why but i think. your help here. that we want to make sure. that we're. here. also. scaring senior citizens. some potentially lifesaving drugs could be would go and sit in your schools and lose their home and when democrat politicians said. it all. and we started doing the twittering the facebook and email. and. people showed up. and said this was the worst god as democrats.

shouting in members of congress. police are called. getting physical if you're a senior citizen this takeover is a disaster for you and the american people know that it is on our side. well congress eventually passed a very much compromised health care. praveen opponents would help make someone popular but health care became a major factor in the democrats the free entry 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 coax influence on the rising movement there's a much bigger picture to the same the koch's exert influence in a number of ways when we know that they fund front groups like americans for prosperity this or 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 there for 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 partly an uncensored these groups were purpose built by right wing or anthropos like the coax to forward a corporate agenda and the regulatory agenda there is no better example of how the

small parly coordinated network of crips the thought regulation been there almost single handed effort to manufacture to pite of the global warming this two thousand and eight study of one hundred forty one pokes 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 the to noyon machine. the resident policy experts such as myron ebell of the competitive enterprise institute saying here talking to a group of if paying members. can be reached for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues did a human voice face to face with the news makers on the. wealthy british style.

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