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• Tea parties bring in big bucks

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  PT Barnum would be proud. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The tea-party movement, drawing in conservative activists across the United States, has also lured fundraisers, some of them for-profit companies. Our Country Deserves Better PAC-TeaPartyExpress.org, a group in California, reported raising $585,000, more than ...
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• Competitive Enterprise Institute intends to sue blogger over moderation policy

  
  Deltoid — Authority: 582
  Gavin Schmidt has done a wonderful job at RealClimate patiently explaining the context of the stolen emails . Hes made it perfectly clear that the claims of scientific malpractice are without foundation. He must be doing a really good job, because the Competitive Enterprise Institute intends to sue him . ...
  4 days ago

• GOP Group Undermining Robo-Call Laws Has Ties To DCI

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 770
  American Future Fund (AFF), the shadowy conservative advocacy group thats working to undermine state laws against robo-calling , has ties to DCI Group, a Republican lobbying firm with a reputation for dirty tricks and shady clients. And a closer look at AFF suggests the group has been designed to carry out political ...
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• Tea Party: The Documentary Film!

  
  Plunderbund — Authority: 560
  In a world…LOL. Grassroots.(h/t Fired Up! Missouri)Share on Facebook
  5 days ago

• SCAD student creates waterless sand-removal system using Astroturf and bamboo

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 443
  Designed by Casper Krouse, a senior industrial design student at the Savannah College of Art and Design, the system (pictured above) uses collected rainwater, a mat of bamboo poles and AstroTurf. The design-work is the part of a project that asks students to suggest ways to reduce the water usage and wastage on the ...
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• Palin-Beck: Yeah, That’s the Ticket!

  
  BartBlog — Authority: 476
  
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• ASTROTURF JERKS!! (Crowder Goes Liberal)

  
  snaggletoothie of the Loyal Opposition — Authority: 480
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• More Shady Astroturfing in Healthcare Reform

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 801
  Some groups, like the Chamber of Commerce and AHIP, are right up front about their opposition to healthcare reform. They might be slightly underhanded, like UnitedHealths effort to pressure employees into writing members of Congress in opposition to reform, but at least we know what theyre up to. Then theres ...
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• Monsanto and the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS)

  
  Newsvine - Pamela Drew's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 126
  Nominated for lobbying for RoundupReady (RR) soy to be considered a "climate-friendly" crop that is eligible for carbon credits and subsidies under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); and for pushing for meaningless responsible label for RoundupReady soy, which could be used …
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• Bermans Serious Secrecy

  
  Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch — Authority: 564
  The Employment Policies Institute (EPI), a front group created by veteran lobbyist Richard Berman , is planning an advertising blitz claiming that healthcare reform is too costly. The ads will run in Nebraska, North Dakota, Arkansas, Louisiana, Connecticut and Maine. “We’re putting some serious money behind ...
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• Will our views on GM food be modified?

  
  Newsvine - Pamela Drew's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 126
  Will our views on GM food be modified?Stand by for yet another attempt to persuade a resistant British public to consume genetically modified food.
  2 weeks ago

• 60 plus Association – Pharma Astroturf

  
  G2 Visual Design Salad and Other Healthy Appetizers — Authority: 143
  Only reason for even mention this is that the so called 60 plus association have started running ads targeting moderate congress critters with the intention of stopping health care reform. They are not who they claim to be i.e. an alternative to the AARP but rather a front group for big pharma. They have zero [...]
  2 weeks ago

• You are in a twisting little maze of think-tanks, all different: a new interesting finding

  
  International Journal of Inactivism — Authority: 411
  [cite as: F. Bi. 2009. You are in a twisting little maze of think-tanks , all different: a new interesting finding. Intl. J. Inact. , 2:95] Here’s a huge update to the diagram of global warming inactivist web sites. Besides incorporating the recent information on the web sites surrounding the America’s Power ...
  2 weeks ago

• A House Divided? The War Within The Tea Party Movement Heats Up

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 799
    The Tea Party movement is often seen by outsiders as one big monolithic force, especially by its detractors (who occasionally use nastier words than “monolithic” to describe it). But lately, there has been a mounting civil war between two rival factions of Tea Partiers. One big bone of contention: the ...
  2 weeks ago

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  Bildungblog — Authority: 451
  David Koch, Teabagger Extraordinaire
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• Utilities and Coal Companies Demean Vete…

  
  G2 Visual Design Salad and Other Healthy Appetizers — Authority: 143
  Utilities and Coal Companies Demean VeteransSeeing corporations and their interest groups / astroturf organizations use the military and / or patriotism to push their products and agendas always makes me feel queasy.The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) has really outdone itself now though. By ...
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• Coal group misrepresents veterans

  
  theCLog — Authority: 488
  When will they stop lying? The coal front group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity has been in hot water lately for employing an astroturf group that forged letters to Congress opposing the House climate bill—and then for possibly lying under oath about their position. Now ACCCE is in trouble ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Same Tired Talking Points Brought To You This Time by Senator Baucus and Dirty Energy Lobbyists

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 584
  Today, the Senate Finance Committee held its first hearing for the Boxer-Kerry bill. News such as this would typically be welcomed as necessary progress, as we are pushing for strong climate legislation to pass through the Senate before Copenhagen. However, one must take into consideration ulterior motives when ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Same Tired Talking Points Brought To You This Time by Senator Baucus and Dirty Energy Lobbyists

  
  Action Factory DC Blog — Authority: 407
  Today, the Senate Finance Committee held its first hearing for the Boxer-Kerry bill. News such as this would typically be welcomed as necessary progress, as we are pushing for strong climate legislation to pass through the Senate before Copenhagen. However, one must take into consideration ulterior motives when ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oil and Gas Company Wants You to Write Congress About the Undue Hardship Clean Energy Legislation Will Place on the Oil and Gas Industry

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 565
  Via Stephen Webster we learn of this ad that is being displayed at Valero gas stations in Austin, Texas: And you wouldn’t know by looking at the ad itself, but ‘Voices for Energy’ campaign is paid for by Valero. The site itself is a simple ’send a letter to Congress’ tool, which includes this ...
  2 weeks ago

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