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in order. then turning up the heat a wave of credit rating downgrades palin europe priming france and australia their top notch grades on mounting concern about the bloc failing to control it that of them. up next our special report the billionaires party that reveals the story of the us movement which challenge and threaten the democratic party's promises of hope and change after president obama's election. i want to talk about cap and trade or as i call it cap and 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
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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 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 two decades all along making billions and billions of dollars in dirty energy according to p.r.
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man and author jim hogan the success of this 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 and your average person will never know they just see some articulate guy may even be 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 d.c. where he was briefing saying that stoffel is on the sun to fix raisins why shouldn't support the cap and trade bill this suggests that. this frugal wanting that's not correct that's been cooling since not everyone in the function of this nomination is to disseminate the quasi signs of people like dr singh on. this
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science is not finished the debate is not over as he left to 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 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 fox news twenty four hours a day by pump out pro-business pro-republican talking points take two emails sent to fox stuff like two thousand and nine the first directed all reporters to the global warming theory of bikes the point dot 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
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reforms 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 the tea party also was a lot to folks who it's legion of loyal fans to get involved it's a movement that is sweeping the nation all across the country hundreds of these protests across the country and 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 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 fees are people who demand to be heard and so there are places for as they fight for their future favorite network of fox news they want work week. for fox news is. thinking about time that are manufactured i can point to every one of these
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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 tell one side of the story and we see that now we're speaking out but if there's one person at fox who's become the doll in the for tea party movement it's glenn beck watching fixed paranoid populism and rice biting a bullet 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. and the lib. fascism
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. is whatever you want to. be doesn't mean. we have to. do. with nine million people tuning in to his t.v. and radio shows each diety picks 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 i think this is a watermelon bill and i think you're exactly right this bill is green on the outside fifteen missed green on the outside and inside it's deep communist red this was especially evident when i have pace to fit a story to big but i was green jobs advisor was a commie this is the beginning this is the port hole into all of this this is the
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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. i mean you know. one. voice from the past for ed koch. oil millionaire member of the radical anti communist john birch society and. father of charles and di of a well the threat of communism has long since passed it's striking how effective it still remains to instantly demonize opponents as evidenced in the descriptions of the climate and health care policies and right throughout the tea parties why had
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the a.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 tea party go was. curious and when to say not crispin miller n.y.u. professor and corporate propaganda expert there are certain techniques that that propagandists really need to use and they're so basic that you know they will leave the scene in arguable to us or we never even notice them but one thing that one must 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 that basically means crony capitalism but it implies something that most americans will you know feel a surge of positive emotion about right now there is
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a tacit opposition there between free enterprise and communism and that's the other technique that that has to be used you've also got to have enemies demons that serve a scapegoats and against which you can vent all the angry feelings that the propaganda war also in sight. for them socialism conjures up this weird and long history of bogeyman obama is associated with that by the right wing for example he's also sociate it with was limbs you know this myth that he's a muslim and so on it's also black so all these things serve for a highly volatile and irrational minority of the american population. anyway 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
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know the petro chemical interests i mean we could go on or not it suits them fine this is why they've basically encouraged this and this is why they like people like glenn beck and rush limbaugh who are the tribune of this moment. understanding a bit more about how propaganda woods and i went to examine its use as freedom works close to the first ever national tea party in washington d.c. we just feel they government type of all the businesses we hear the government takeover of our liberty we've got releasing the constitution and. we have sat at home and not said anything but not believed in what was going on and finally we have done that the challenge and come to do something and we're not going to stop. coming. to the ballet were
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the. very same we got the thunder car. the earth the. socialism has taken over it's got a script on it that always leads communism you'll think you're seeing that were against us to listen in america we wouldn't risk the constitution the bill of rights we want our freedom freedom. yeah we came out here today for freedom had exactly right just bursting to talk to you. well you've got it all there was
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a place just like him and if one can take our freedom we're not going. to have my free. time out of this trash and i am ranking now not. god. the things here yeah o'er the way the was the was the the one the what. was the you do not move out didn't move in. the mood to move on the move out of the love was
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in the while the line up of passionate tape party organizes get the hundred thousand patriots going eventually the sponsors from libertarian groups take to the stage to preach the gospel of free markets let me hear him say the a. no nonsense how does this move this hell hath no fury like a tax me or ignore the blue grass roots let your freedom what is going to organization that believes a lower taxes less government and more freedom you can't be proved freedom if you have. the government. you're easy you knew your freedom to do it is a good. move. at least he last months he was there. when the heart and soul of america. it was just like
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those old campaigns against the back or regulation the groups weren't selling free markets they were selling freedom. and the tea party americans were buying it we came out here today for freedom and freedom. you know we go out and get americans from all walks of life involved to do that in their economic freedom more importantly to them because. our freedoms having successfully steered protesters to revolt against the entire balmer agenda in the name of freedom feist who was to succeed with the coax and filed. 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 book with a training session for tape party was held by the competitive and price institute. what is the theme to the tea party what is the tea party about is it about just
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opposing this is opposing that opposing this or is there really integrated and that idea 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're in today we are today as an army we are the thin line between freedom and the status the scope you know 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 always educated. in nashville i met up with a collection of libertarian groups crossing the country teaching guerrilla 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
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were activists then we are activists now make no distinction about it so what we do we become digital activists we have to fight 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 us running up the hills america 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 this place is all this is where your kids i promise you this is 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 documentaries on health care i don't want to go to come up i don't want michael
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moore's to come up so i was given bad ratings i spend 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 ideals a fighting chance the principles that i believe strongly in that the founders believe strongly in with the idea of individual liberty rule of law limits of governments the 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 rust mike hammer falling into the hands of the lady sitting next to me and i'm just prying i don't blow my cover. i mean i've been saved all of the nine twelve days but louisville i'm a party express. i've been to lots of different crossroads movements and events and
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it's just the say you guys are amazing and bring on a second revolution. on joining the second american revolution be we're so radical 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 barely one year earlier the symbol of which was federal reserve chairman and champion of free markets alan greenspan orbited missing but the regulation doesn't work you would had an ideology the free competitive markets are by far the on rival
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way to organize economies pretty if you found a flaw in the reality or in the model that i perceived is the critical functioning structure of the find how the world works so to speak in other words you found that your is your view of the world your ideology was not right it was not working it had it that precisely tea party backed republican candidates emerged all over the country to contest the two thousand and ten elections promising to stop the energy tax repeal health care and reduce the size of government. well the koch's chip team to support some two dozen tape party candidates as usual their real contribution was behind the scenes. in june at this resort in aspen colorado by hosting a secret strategy session with a network of ultra wealthy donors and powerful allies including glenn beck cording to this letter from charles at the june meeting participants committed to an
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unprecedented level of support soon after americans for prosperity and now its plans to spend a staggering forty five million dollars on elections they ran ads attacking politicians to supporting the obama agenda. bamma tried to hit back accusing aspect of being a corporate front in more than a dozen speeches but if you're in a 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. republican operatives seized upon the decision
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creating new groups and flooding the airwaves with tens of millions of dollars in ads for unknown. on the grassroots side i have paid dusted off their buses launching their november is coming campaign i have pay and freedom works also use the considerable budgets to try and mobilize the tea party army identify your voters get them registered to vote bring them out to vote that's it the tea party was ready to strike to get this far left than to the last stand of my president no we're out here on the corner in north philadelphia we're down out there in the city and not out there we have a money operational ball magnet that's been up in the ninth morning 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 that we're going to that we don't like the way you do you want we don't like your beyond america we don't like your policy if i were take it back on november second half. full this morning it is being called a g.o.p.
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sweep and a tea party title away in the biggest why found for either party since nineteen forty eight the new one hundred twelfth congress will feature forty two party members a lot of libertarian leaning individuals within that tea party movement especially when it comes to taxes and over regulations stand up to this agenda that is taking us in the wrong direction it's a message of. limits to constitutional government in this thread to be excessive government regulation of the huge out of control rules that washington is because. there's a new day now 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 full government agencies like the part of education part of energy to the p.a. 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 koch's
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radical free market ideology is the real we have a. of the tape party movement it has nothing to do with people and yield 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 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. american dream to me sure one word freedom if any american dream means defending our own life and our freedom and liberty that had made this country great to me the american dream is to live in peace and prosperity and freedom and
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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 movements such as that and not tools of the wealthy and what does the sky on which this is happening cite about the start of american democracy. i think it's a serious threat to our democracy and i think people are mostly unaware of it if not completely unaware of the threat they're very much a unaware of the front groups and aware of how their thoughts are being manipulated and how their actions are actually being the new belated in many cases. i think they're unaware that we to a large extent have a plutocracy in this country or at least in the merging line rather than democracy and i think that's because of the the rise of power and influence of corporations
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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 drowning in propaganda drowning in it. and i'm not speaking figuratively i think it's threatening our lives it's gets 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.
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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 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 rights 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 two thousand and twelve elections as the tea party is march on to two thousand and twelve and the goal of taking out president obama and installing politicians who fought for
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