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Post by duke on Feb 15, 2013 14:09:51 GMT -5
False Spontaneity of the Tea Party By Al Gore, Reader Supported News 15 February 13 A new study >> www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/big-tobaccos-tea-party-ties-exposed-20130213 funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health reveals that the Tea Party Movement was planned over a decade ago by groups with ties to the tobacco and fossil fuel industries. The movement was not a spontaneous populist uprising, but rather a long-term strategy to promote the anti-science, anti-government agenda of powerful corporate interests. The two organizations mentioned in the report, Americans for Prosperity and Freedomworks, used to be a single organization that was founded by the Koch brothers and heavily financed by the tobacco industry. These organizations began planning the Tea Party Movement over ten years ago to promote a common agenda that advocated market fundamentalism over science and opposed any regulation or taxation of fossil fuels and tobacco products. The disturbing history of links between market fundamentalists, the tobacco industry and the Tea Party movement is part of an even larger trend that I describe in my new book, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. Following the era of Progressive and New Deal reforms that restrained corporate influence in American politics following the infamous Robber Baron Era, market fundamentalists were once again motivated and radicalized by the social turbulence of the 1960s. In 1971, a prominent lawyer for the tobacco industry, Lewis Powell, wrote a memorandum for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that presented a comprehensive plan aimed at shifting the balance of political power in favor of corporations. President Nixon appointed Powell to the Supreme Court just two months later. Guided by the Powell Memo, market fundamentalists have pursued a comprehensive strategy to dramatically increase corporate influence in American politics. Powell himself worked with other pro-corporate justices to interpret laws in ways that were favorable to corporate interests, most importantly expanding the precedent of corporate personhood. As a direct result, corporate lobbying exploded, increasing from $100 million in 1975 to $3.5 billion in 2010. Corporations also used increasingly voluminous campaign contributions to promote the election of pro-corporate politicians at all levels of government. Wealthy donors founded conservative think tanks to influence public opinion in favor of market fundamentalism. The Tea Party is a clear extension of Powell's strategy to promote corporate profit at the expense of the public good. <snip> readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/16042-focus-false-spontaneity-of-the-tea-party
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Post by Sgt K USMC on Feb 17, 2013 6:06:42 GMT -5
False Spontaneity of the Tea Party By Al Gore, Reader Supported News
Is as far as anyone really needs to go on this article.
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Post by duke on Feb 17, 2013 9:48:03 GMT -5
Ostridge Like behavior. LOL
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Post by Sgt K USMC on Feb 17, 2013 14:44:14 GMT -5
You don't have to actually stick your hand in the flame to learn that it burns once you have gained that experience a first time.
This is no different.
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Post by duke on Feb 18, 2013 0:40:34 GMT -5
Sarge: the source of financing for the Tea party groups was quoted from a Rolling Stone article and linked in the original post. Here is another source of the same information: Financial support In an article in the August 30, 2010 issue of The New Yorker magazine, author Jane Mayer links the billionaire brothers David Koch and Charles Koch, owners of Koch Industries to tea party movement funding. Mayer writes, The anti-government fervor infusing the 2010 elections represents a political triumph for the Kochs. By giving money to 'educate,' fund, and organize Tea Party protesters, they have helped turn their private agenda into a mass movement. Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist and a historian, who once worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based think tank that the Kochs fund, said, 'The problem with the whole libertarian movement is that it's been all chiefs and no Indians. There haven't been any actual people, like voters, who give a crap about it. So the problem for the Kochs has been trying to create a movement.' With the emergence of the Tea Party, he said, 'everyone suddenly sees that for the first time there are Indians out there—people who can provide real ideological power.' The Kochs, he said, are 'trying to shape and control and channel the populist uprising into their own policies.[2] Reports indicate that the Tea Party Movement benefits from millions of dollars from conservative foundations that are derived from wealthy U.S. families and their business interests. It appears that money to organize and implement the Movement flows primarily through two conservative groups: Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks. www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tea_Party Sorry I don't have relatives in the military to quote. On the Other Hand. A a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. No doubt your opinion trumps all others. But that will not change the facts. Like our Canadian poster who claims he has never been wrong about anything. And I have some Ocean front property in Arizona for sale cheap.
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Post by Smilin' Jack on Feb 18, 2013 2:19:55 GMT -5
False Spontaneity of the Tea Party By Al Gore, Reader Supported News Is as far as anyone really needs to go on this article. You've got that right!! What a piece of Progressive drivel from a Progressive propagandist.
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Post by Smilin' Jack on Feb 18, 2013 2:27:05 GMT -5
Sorry I don't have relatives in the military to quote. On the Other Hand. A a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. No doubt your opinion trumps all others. But that will not change the facts. Like our Canadian poster who claims he has never been wrong about anything. And I have some Ocean front property in Arizona for sale cheap. I thought I was wrong once. But I was mistaken.
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Post by Smilin' Jack on Feb 18, 2013 3:53:00 GMT -5
So, let me get this straight.
The National Cancer Institute is spending taxpayer's money to 'expose' tobacco company political activity and the funding of the grassroots Tea Party movement which is pushing back against government intrusion, incursion and tyranny.
And here I thought they were researching cancer cures.
No tobacco company has ever taken money out of my pocket against my will in order to fund any political activity, whether I agree with it or not.
This is of course, completely unlike the money that government forcibly takes from me, which it then launders by way of grants and handouts to groups like ACORN and all of its progeny, and by making lucrative collective bargaining agreements with, passing laws and issuing regulations favorable to, large international Communist unions, who in turn fund and support the political campaigns of the Progressives and thereby complete the money circle.
Corporations or groups of free citizens, dare not stand against the fascist Progressives or face vilification and destruction, by any and every means possible, which includes this 'peer-reviewed study'.
Which of course to Al Gore, means that now that its been 'proven' and the debate is over, the consensus is that the government can justify taking measures, for the common good, to de-legitimize and criminalize dissent.
It's one thing to have your head in the sand and quite another to have your head stuck firmly up your a$$.
The brown shirts come next. Putz.
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Post by duke on Feb 18, 2013 4:07:15 GMT -5
Jack: "This is of course, completely unlike the money that government forcibly takes from me, "
Let get this straight. You are in Canada, therefore the US Government does not take anything from you forcefully as you falsely claim. Because the you are not in this country you have no standing to challenge anything this government does. Don't believe that statement, file a complaint in the court of your choosing and see how far you get.
Now yes the tobacco companies do take money out of your pocket and mine through the increased health care that their products create.
And your dear corporations have taken billions of dollars of tax payer funds in bailouts to launder that money in the form of buying out my congressman and and senator, Judges, and all other levels of government actors.
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Post by Fredo on Feb 18, 2013 11:36:35 GMT -5
As judge and final arbiter of the laws of Fredoland, I declare that Jack has standing to post on this message board the obvious fact that he has money taken from him by the government and spent foolishly on silly communistic plans that are frequently fawned over by simpletons. His country of residence is immaterial.
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Post by wheels on Feb 18, 2013 13:29:58 GMT -5
this story has about as much validity as the occupy-funded-by-soros story.
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Post by duke on Feb 18, 2013 14:27:58 GMT -5
Fredo wrote: "As judge and final arbiter of the laws of Fredoland, I declare that Jack has standing to post on this message board the obvious fact that he has money taken from him by the government and spent foolishly on silly communistic plans that are frequently fawned over by simpletons. His country of residence is immaterial."
The only reason Jack has 'standing' here is because he supports Fredo's view. Not long ago Fredo Banned another poster who had a different view from Fredo, and claimed by Fredo that the ban was because the poster was not from this area. More flip flopping?
Yes the government here takes money from me and spends it on perks for Fredo. But of course that is OK with Fredo.
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Post by Smilin' Jack on Feb 18, 2013 20:33:40 GMT -5
Jack: "This is of course, completely unlike the money that government forcibly takes from me, " Let get this straight. You are in Canada, therefore the US Government does not take anything from you forcefully as you falsely claim. Because the you are not in this country you have no standing to challenge anything this government does. Don't believe that statement, file a complaint in the court of your choosing and see how far you get. Now yes the tobacco companies do take money out of your pocket and mine through the increased health care that their products create. Are you trying to set your hair on fire again? I can almost hear you running around the room screaming like a little girl, and trying to light a match. (Here's a tip, slow down and the match won't blow out so easily.) You also seem to have trouble with reading comprehension. This is the second time that I've had to call you out for attributing words to me that are not there. Nothing that I wrote refers to the US specifically and yet it applies to both countries. Your attempts to bully my speech are quite unbecoming of an American, yet entirely consistent with what ignorant Progressives do on either side of the 49th. As is the attempt to characterize everything a free person might do as a 'burden' on the health care system. Once down that slippery slope, there's no government intervention and control that can't be justified as for the 'common good'. Let's go straight to government ration cards for Big Macs and Big Gulps. They'll know how many we can have before becoming a 'burden' on the health care system. What about the 'burden' that match books have on the health care system? Kids play with them and burn themselves, burn down their houses, adults light cigarettes with them and then fall asleep and burn down their houses... ahhhh, now there's a double 'burden'. And then there's all the forest fires started by matches (for simpletons aka firesticks)! Oh my god!! Think of all of the small furry woodland creatures killed and displaced. The environmental carnage. Not to mention the vast amounts spent to maintain the capability to fight the fires. Surely that justifies government intervention. If only to save one life. Why a book of 20 firesticks? That's an insane number of firesticks. Who needs twenty firesticks to light a candle? Each book should only have three firesticks. What about lighting cigarettes, you say? They come in packs of twenty. Well, you shouldn't be smoking them any way so there's a double bonus. Let's do background checks so lunatics and felons can't get their hands on them and license every other user. Should concealed carry firesticks be allowed? At what point does this progression start to sound ridiculous even to a Progressive putz?
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Post by Smilin' Jack on Feb 18, 2013 20:52:21 GMT -5
this story has about as much validity as the occupy-funded-by-soros story. Right on!!
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