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Report: âDeath panelsâ author worked with big tobacco to scuttle health reform
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| In an article in the magazineâs October 1 issue, not
| yet available online, writer Tim Dickinson reveals that
| Phillip Morris âworked off-the-record with â writer
| Betsy McCaughey as part of the input to the three-part
| expose in The New Republic on what the Clinton plan
| means,â Rolling Stone reports.
|
| McCaughey, a conservative columnist and former deputy
| governor of New York, penned a 1994 article in The New
| Republic that was credited with helping to kill the
| Clinton-era health reforms. As RS noted, the magazine
| later retracted the story. And The Atlantic magazine
| ran a story in 1995, entitled âA Triumph of
| Misinformation,â debunking McCaugheyâs arguments at
| TNR.
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http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/20/death-panels-author-big-tobacco/
Recent:
The Cashroots Conspiracy Behind FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity
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| FreedomWorks receives funding from the tobacco conglomerate
| Philip Morris, as well as from Richard Scaife, another
| business tycoon, who for years helped fund dirt-digging
| investigations into Bill Clinton. Local branches of
| Americans for Prosperity have also received tobacco money;
| the group has opposed smoke-free workplace laws and
| cigarette taxes. ... ExxonMobil was a sponsor of Citizens
| for Sound Economy, and both FreedomWorks and Americans for
| Prosperity have campaigned vigorously against Obama's plans
| to reduce CO2 emissions through a cap and trade scheme,
| working closely with the American Petroleum Institute.
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http://www.prwatch.org/node/8564
Republicans steal Barack Obama's internet campaigning tricks
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| Matt Kibbe, who heads FreedomWorks, a national conservative
| group that led the push behind last Saturday's rally, goes
| further. He says that the movement has stolen from Obama the
| techniques he used to such effect last year and is now
| redeploying them as a stick with which to beat the
| president.
|
| When Obama beat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries,
| FreedomWorks studied how he did it and then copied him. They
| set up a ning site, a Facebook-like platform that allows
| members to talk to each other without having to go through
| the parent body. The result was explosive.
|
| FreedomWorks now has more than 800,000 members who largely
| organise and fund themselves; all the group itself does is
| arrange permits for demonstrations and advise on logistics.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/18/republicans-internet-barack-obama
Direct Action Confronts the Climate Crisis
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| The global political process to counter runaway climate
| change has become, for practical purposes, irrelevant. None
| of the currently proposed emissions reductions being
| seriously considered in policy making are appropriate to
| meet the severity of the situation. This overwhelming
| failure on the part of world governments is pushing the
| rapid unification of environmentalists, activists,
| scientists, and others to push for direct, immediate change.
|
| [...]
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| Many other websites, such as Coal Swarm, post constant
| updates on direct actions and resources for radical change.
| Twitter and similar online social networks are being
| utilized to outpace the communications and organization
| capabilities of the state and police. Independent media
| coverage of these events will be almost instantly shared
| throughout the internet, inciting resistance and solidarity
| across the world.
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http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0917-ryking.html
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