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goldie goldie no tilson to elvis you seeks to destroy the skin. and you see it come this visit. the latest from libya the un is withdrawing its staff from tripoli after angry mobs target its offices of following a nato air strike that killed colonel gadhafi youngest son and three grandchildren . and in a review of the week's top stories russia blocks a u.n. condemnation of syria saying foreign meddling will only stoke a potential civil war. on the twenty fifth anniversary of the nuclear disaster an international fund gathers over seven hundred million dollars for a new dome to contain to the still deadly levels of radiation. next we continue an investigation into whether some grassroots groups in the us really represent the
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voice of the people as a whole that's our documentary the billionaires tea party. i want to talk about cap and trade or as i call it tax and i think probably 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 feel last ten years we haven't had any warming i think that shows that the models are phony by portray global warming as just another excuse for big government intervention by leftists audio loeb's it's just another way of government controlling our lives and you know i'm dead set against that and certainly. human beings are not bad for the planet well 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
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overwhelming vast majority absolutely most of the scientific 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 term decades all along making billions and billions of dollars in dirty energy according to the p.r. man and author jim hogan and the success of his echo chamber 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 and your average person will never know they just see some articulate guy may 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 seeing in washington d.c. where he was briefing senate staffers on the scientific reasons why they should support a cap and trade bill the suggests. is for the moment that's not correct that's been cooling so it's not every one of the function of this technology machine used today disseminate the quasi science of people like dissing on. the science is not finished the debate is not over as the left to support this legislation would tell you i think global warming is a complete hoax we've got you getting cooler for the past ten years some suggest that the research has been manipulated and those questioning the effects of climate change have been silenced myron ebell is director of energy and global warming
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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 they pump out pro-business pro-republican talking points take place to a miles center for stuff like two thousand and nine the first directed all reporters to site global warming theory the point guard of the critics have called into question well 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 contrast to change the way you and your family were seen health care the tea party also was a lot of folks who urged its legions 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 in front of us we can join the tea party action from your home if you go to the fox station that has the tea party revolution this probably run right by you. we have a map to show you just how widespread these are fees are people who demand to be heard and so there are places to sleep like their. favorite. ox news they want partly. for fox news is. i think about it by. manufacturing i don't want to i don't want to do the organizations and give you specific examples would be the i didn't think that you were disingenuous or call me names right ok they don't tell the whole story they told one side story and we see that now we're speaking out but if there's one person it forks who's become the doll and if it's a party movement it's going back watching picks paranoid populism and right spicing
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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 arguably 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 shooting into his t.v. and radio shows that study picks obsession with communism also makes him a powerful ally to oppose things like that happens right bill. let's bring in phil kerpen he is the director for policy for americans for prosperity you like watermelon i think this is a watermelon bill but i think you're exactly right this bill is green on the outside fifteen it's green on the outside and inside it's deep communist red this was especially evident when i have pace who could fit a 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 and these guys are marxists in the white house i have.
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run a. voice from the past you spread coke. oil millionaire member of the radical anti communist john birch society and. of charles and di but the threat of communism has long since passed it's striking how effective it still remains to instantly demonize opponents as evidence in the descriptions of the climate and healthcare policies and right through out the tea parties and i had the n.c. obama spin doctors resorted to the language of the cold war propaganda. and why has it been so effective in causing the styria among the tea party go was. curious i went to see mark crispin miller enron you professor and corporate candor expert
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there are certain techniques that that propagandists really need to use and they're so basic that you know they believe the same in argue with all to us or we've never even noticed but one thing that one must tell of course is cloak on this message and a kind of moral righteousness you know we really believe in liberty we believe in and create enterprise we hear that all the time when that they 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 tween free enterprise and communism and that's the other technique and that that has to be you know the simple you've also got to have enemies even those that serve a scapegoats and against which you will candle and all of the angry feeling that's
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there the propaganda war also its side all for them socialism conjures up all this weird will be a long list of them will be met with obama's associated with the bad by the right wing for example he's also associated with muslims you know business and everything was in the start of 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 and current threats and this is why they like people like glenn beck and rush limbaugh who are the tribune smarm. understanding of it more about how propaganda works and i went to examine its use
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as freedom works close to the first ever national tea party in washington d.c. we just believe that the government takeover of all the businesses we care the government takeover of our liberties would go up we're losing the constitution and . we have said at home and not said anything but not the latest polls going on fine like what you've done about the challenge and come to do something and we're not going to start. coming. to the way we're. out of. the emirates a couple of the other three are. the or.
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the or. the or socialism has taken over got a script on it that always leaks communism still facing that really gets let's look at. the risk the constitution the bill of rights. bringing. yeah we came out here today for freedom i think that the right just bursting to talk to you. how you got it ah ok thanks both of them and one can take our freedoms that were not given. me by my feet. and now this trash can i am right now my. god.
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these things here i am i have the way the way the was the way the right thing the right thing the more you do not move to move move. the the mood was moved out of the mood out of our minds the the the lineup of passionate tape partially organises get the hundred thousand patriots drawing eventually the sponsors from libertarian groups take to star age to preach the gospel of free markets let me hear. the
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was not sound. this hell hath no fury like a taxpayer you know want. to sleep for freedom what's one organization that leads a lower taxes less government. you can't be freedom you have. got . easy didn't you your. money didn't. at least he's not so much it's nothing was it was in the heart and soul of america. it was just like those old campaigns against the back or 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. not to go out and get americans from all walks of life involved so that in their
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economic freedom more importantly because. our freedoms having successfully steered protesters to revolt. balmer agenda in the name of freedom faced with to succeed where the cops had failed. 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 was the training session for tea party was held by the competitive enterprise institute. what is the theme to the people what is the tea party about is it about just opposing this is opposing that opposing this or is there really integrated p. and that idea i submit to you 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 people at each of course are the
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battleground we're in today we are today as an army we are the thin line between freedom and the status spokeo 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 i hope we're all. in nashville i met up with a collection of libertarian groups crossing the country teaching 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 are there for the media and we learn the media even if you like the medium 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
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its money up the hills majority is trying to give you the tools the muskets right so. 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 books i i put a star on i don't read so that's how it works ok there's places others where kids i promise you this where your kids get information rotten tomatoes flixster 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 michael moore's to come up so i always give bad ratings i spent about thirty minutes a day just so that's guerilla tactics if there's a place to comment a 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 that the founders
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believe strongly in with the idea of individual liberty rule of law limited government's free market system their correlations free market religious and personal freedom we lose the free market we will lose personal religious freedom while we fight for. the end of the session and suddenly introduce ourselves to the group of trust my camera for entertain a lady sitting next to me and i'm just prying i don't blow my cover. i've been saved also and i'm twelve thanks to louisville if i did express i'm going to lots of different crosswords my friends and respects and it's just exciting that you guys are writing and reading on the second revolution.
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on each enjoying the second american revolution. the radical capitalist revolution was under why the tea party establishment officially adopted the mantra for the markets it was a stunning comeback from the 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 but the regulation doesn't work you would have an ideology the free competitive markets are by far the on rival way to organize economies but if you found a flaw in the wrong ality or in the model what i perceive is the critical functioning structure of the defines how the world works or speak in other words you found that your your view of the world your ideology was not right it was not
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working so i see tea party backed republican candidates emerged all over the country to contest the two thousand and ten election promising to stop the energy tax repeal health care and reduce the size of government. well the koch's chipped in to support some through doesn't take party candidates as usual their real contribution was behind the scenes. in june at this resort in aspen colorado they hosted a secret strategy session with a network of ultra wealthy donors and powerful allies including glenn beck courting his lesson from charles at the june maybe participants committed to an unprecedented level of support soon after americans for prosperity announced plans to spend a staggering forty five million dollars on election. day ran ads attacking politicians for supporting the obama agenda. adama tried to hit back kucing at point of being
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a corporate front in more than a dozen speeches but if you're a battleground state right now you are being bombarded with negative events every single day and nobody knows who's paying for these ads they got these names like americans store prosperity meanwhile in a test kinds known as citizens united supreme court which included two judges who had attended secret amazing. that corporations were free to enormously invest as much as they wanted in front groups like i am a. republican operative seized upon the decision creating new groups and flooding the airwaves with tens of millions of dollars in ads for unknown donors. on the grassroots summit i have paid dusted off their buses and launching their november is coming campaign i s p and freedom works also use the considerable budgets to try and mobilize the tea party army identify your voters didn't register to vote bring
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about a vote that's it at a party was ready to strike hard last stand to the last panel not the president no we're out here on the corner in north philadelphia we're down about two hundred thirty and got out there we have my operational go back up and of nine of morning we're americans for prosperity we don't run out there we have our people out there door knocking and we're standing here and out here but we're going to die we don't like the why do you want to not like your beyond america we don't like your company if i were to get back on november thank you. for this morning it is being called a g.o.p. sweep and it tea party title away in the biggest line found 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 to this agenda that is
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taking us in the wrong direction it's a message of. limited constitutional government in principle you since you got the regulation in the you. know washington has become law. there's a new day now the republicans took control of the house in november two thousand and ten very anti government agenda in fact one of their agenda items is to you know take out four 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 new found zeal for the koch's radical free market audiology is the real where evolution of the tape party movement has nothing to do with people any old cost frames waving flags holding protest of things but it is a revolution that has everything to it's a hidden corporate agenda is complicit media players season propagandists
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a highly coordinated network of free market groups and most of all a 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. reagan dream to me you should one word freedom if any american dream means defending our own i live in our freedom and liberty and mean this country 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 bikes what about the freedom to trust the grassroots movement such as facts and not tools of the wealthy and what is the sky on which
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this is hack a site about the state of american democracy. i think it's a serious threat of ocracy and i think people are mostly unaware of it if not completely unaware of the threat they are very much a unaware of the front groups and aware of how their thoughts are being manipulated and how their actions are actually being manipulated in many cases. i think they are unaware that we 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 the rise of power and influence of corporations and the way that they've been able to use p.r. p.r. tactics and propaganda to get what they want they want we are grounding and propaganda drowning it. and i'm not speaking
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figuratively i think it's threatening our lives it's good it's cutting off our air 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 as i've been 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
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these people have a perfect right to do it and hide their involvement. 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 this forty eight perper it agenda is to stop regulations and to stop taxes and they're not going to stop in two thousand and ten they will continue through to the twenty probably lections as the tea party is much on to two thousand and twelve and the goal of taking out president obama and installing politician who fought for the right to free markets my only message to them is to be careful what you wish for because you just might get us. the.
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