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Hey Reince -- You Can't Buy Friends

Richard Robbins | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics
Read More: Voter Suppression, Gop, Hackathons, Women's Equality, Minorities, Reince Priebus, Growth & Opportunity Project, Immigration, Bottom-Up Movement, Astroturf, Politics News
Richard Robbins

The chair of national party with millions of members announcing a $10 million spend for a "bottom-up approach" shows a complete lack of understanding of the meaning of a bottom-up movement.

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Meet Koch Brothers Employee David Spady, Darling of LA Fox "News"

Rick Jacobs | Posted 01.04.2013 | Politics
Read More: Proposition 30, Prop 32, Politics, Tea Party, David Spady, California, Koch Brothers, Americans for Prosperity, Jerry Brown, Proposition 32, Prop 30, Astroturf, La-Federation-of-Labor, Knbc, La Opinion, Maria Elena Durazo, Anthony Thigpenn, Acce, Ktla, Courage Campaign, Kttv, Los Angeles., Politics News
Rick Jacobs

Want to know how the right-wing astroturf machine works? Want to see how they use power and money to drown out the voice of the people? Want to see the motivations behind the Koch Brothers' hit man in California?

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The Battle of Chicago Teachers Union Vs. Out-of-Town Billionaires

Kenzo Shibata | Posted 10.22.2012 | Home
Read More: Union Busting, Tea Party, Chicago, Ctu, Grassroots, Education, Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, Education Action Group, Resolute Consulting, Conservative, Chicago Public Schools, Rahm Emanuel, Education Reform, Astroturf, Cps, Video, Home News
Kenzo Shibata

In a recently released video, Chicago Teachers Union shows the games played by wealthy elites to smear the Union in the midst of heated contract negotiations.

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Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin: The Poetry of Everyday Objects (VIDEO)

VernissageTV | Posted 09.07.2012 | Arts
Read More: Waste, Contemporary Art, Gabriel Orozco, Art News, UK Arts, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Astroturf, Video, Arts News
VernissageTV

Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin is the 18th and final exhibition in the museum's commission program. For this show, Me...

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Unaccountable Oil: Enbridge Pipeline and "Ethical Oil" PR Pollution

James Hoggan | Posted 03.19.2012 | Green
Read More: Stephen Harper, Alberta Tar Sands, Oil Spill, Ezra Levant, Kathryn Marshall, Enbridge Northern Gateway, Ethical Oil, Astroturf, Canada, Enbridge Energy, Enbridge Pipeline, Video, Green News
James Hoggan

Is this the kind of transparency that would give you confidence in how Enbridge might account for itself in the wake of an out-of-sight oil spill?

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Trimming Astroturf From the American Petroleum Institute's 'Vote 4 Energy' Ad

Philip Radford | Posted 03.09.2012 | Green
Read More: Bp, Energy Citizens, Keystone XL Pipeline, American Petroleum Institute, Vote 4 Energy, Shell, Greenpeace, Executives, Tar Sands, Commercial, Big Oil, Exxonmobil, Chevron, Astroturf, Jack Gerard, Green News
Philip Radford

Americans are clearly too smart to be faked out by Big Oil's phony grass roots strategies. Vote 4 yourself, not oil executives.

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Blowback: The Failure of Cain Cool

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 12.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Herman Cain 2012, Koch Brothers, Americans for Prosperity, Astroturf, Mark Block, Herman Cain, Politics News
Shawn Lawrence Otto

Herman Cain's new ad is all the talk today. Mark Block, fresh from the Wisconson branch of the Koch-family-funded Americans for Prosperity Tea Party astroturfer, makes smoking into an anti-government act of defiance.

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Conservatives Astroturfing a Brave New World (VIDEO)

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 11.27.2011 | Politics
Read More: Google, David Koch, Conservapedia, Antiscience, Science, Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, Rick Perry, Amazon, Astroturfing, Hilary Clinton, Fool Me Twice, Drew Ryun, Ralph Reed, Eric O'Keefe, Koch Brothers, American Majority, Jim Ryun, Koch Industries, Astroturf, Tea Party, Politics News
Shawn Lawrence Otto

The Internet propaganda war is raging and far-ranging. It focuses on creating a revisionist alternative to history and established science, arguing that mainstream history and science is liberally biased.

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Fake Followers and Twitter Astroturf: It's Sorta Social, Demented and Sad, But Social

Celia Alario | Posted 10.09.2011 | Green
Read More: Tarsands, Gop Fake Twitter Account, Keystone XL Pipeline, Fake Twitter Accounts, Keystone Pipeline, Astroturf, Astroturfing, Green News
Celia Alario

I couldn't help but think of that great line from The Breakfast Club when I read that Big Oil has resorted to creating fake Twitter accounts in order to fabricate an illusion of 'grassroots' support for the controversial Keystone pipeline project.

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Al Franken Makes Senate Stand for Net Neutrality

Timothy Karr | Posted 07.05.2011 | Technology
Read More: Verizon, AT&T, John Boehner, Al Franken, SavetheInternet.Com, Citizens United, Net Neutrality, Senate, Astroturf, Technology News
Timothy Karr

Last month, a Republican-led House voted on a "resolution of disapproval" that would strip the FCC of any authority to safeguard freedom of speech and freedom of choice on the Internet. Now, Al Franken is fighting back.

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Tea Party, Corporate Front Groups Urge Democrats to Cave on Net Neutrality

Timothy Karr | Posted 06.05.2011 | Technology
Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Comcast, AT&T, Americans for Propserity, Michele Bachmann, John Boehner, Blue Dogs, Net Neutrality, Astroturf, Technology News
Timothy Karr

Net Neutrality, the First Amendment of the Internet, has come under withering attack from the Astroturf lobby -- corporate front groups that are determined to hand control of the Internet to companies like AT&T and Comcast.

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Surprising Way Race Colors Attitudes To Health Care Reform

The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Obamacare, David Scott, Lloyd Doggett, Daniel Byrd, Frank Kratovil, American National Election Survey, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Racial Resentment, Race, The Greenlining Institute, Health Care Reform Law, Astroturf, Brad Miller, Business News

Some opposition to the Obama administration's health care reform law is linked to racial bias, according to a study released by the Greenlining Instit...

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David Koch: "There's Some Extremists" in the Tea Party, but Mostly "Normal People Like Us"

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: David Koch, Kochtopus, Americans for Prosperity, Charles Koch, Koch Industries, Thinkprogress, Tea Party, Astroturf, DeSmog Blog, Politics News
Brendan DeMelle

Yes folks, David Koch is just a normal person, like us. In fact he's exactly like all the other "normal people" with an estimated worth of $21.5 billion.

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Why Is Fred Upton Lending His Name To The Koch Brothers' War On EPA And Americans' Health?

Pete Altman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Epa, Gop, Astroturf, Climate, Green News
Pete Altman

Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), the new chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is all over the news these days with his calls to block steps by ...

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Comcast Kumbaya

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Fcc, Comcast, Free Press, Lobbyists, Nbc, Congress, Net Neutrality, Internet Freedom, Astroturf, Technology News
Timothy Karr

Public policy is designed to make it profitable for corporations to behave in ways that don't harm the rest of us. The only thing that will keep Comcast honest is clear rules of the road and a real watchdog such as the FCC to enforce them.

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Tea Party Diversity Effort Is a Public Relations Scam

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Dick Armey, Van Jones, Jim Demint, Arizona Immigration, Freedomworks, President Obama, Anti-Gay, Christine O'donnell, Arizona, Tea Parties, Civil Rights, Carl Paladino, Astroturfing, Islamophobia, Politics News, Jim Crow, Tea Party Movement, Jan Brewer, Rand Paul, Koch Brothers, Americans for Prosperity, Voting Rights, Ken Buck, Homophobia, Racism, Koch Industries, Arizona Immigration Law, Voter Fraud, Astroturf, Tea Party, Diversity, Politics News
David A. Love

Real diversity means inclusion and tolerance of different viewpoints, backgrounds, orientations and lifestyles, not tokenism. So, if you are a diverse applicant for admission to the Tea Party gang, know what you're dealing with.

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Arthur Delaney

Tea Party Organizer: Effort "In A Very Disconcerting Position At The Moment"

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Eric Odom, Tax Day Tea Parties, Grassroots, Astroturf, Tea Party, Politics News

One of the leading coordinators of the tea parties that happened across the country on tax day, April 15, has penned a soul-searching letter to suppor...

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Blight at the Museum: The Smithsonian's Cloudy Climate Science (VIDEO)

Miles Grant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Green, Environment, National Wildlife Federation, Smithsonian, David Koch, Koch Industries, Astroturf, Museums, Climate, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Miles Grant

An exhibit on evolution & climate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History that doesn't even mention manmade climate pollution or the cur...

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Green News Report: September 9, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Nasa, Sustainable Design, Oil Spill Response, Australia, Renewable Energy, Factory Farms, Globalization, Obama Administration, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Offshore Drilling, Infrastructure, Proposition 23, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Electric Cars, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Astroturf, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Zen, California, Biofuels, Corn, Boulder, Aviation, Transocean, Barack Obama, Green Infrastructure, Ocean Dead Zones, Peak Oil, BRAD BLOG, South Korea, California Prop 23, Halliburton, Green News, Wildfires, Climate Legislation, Ethanol, Chamber of Commerce, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: New electri...

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Green News Report: September 7, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Salmon, David Koch, Sustainable Design, Antarctica, Australia, Oil Spill Response, Lobbyists, Helium, Renewable Energy, Factory Farms, Pakistan Floods, Obama Administration, Clean Energy, Fda, Green News Report, Offshore Drilling, Infrastructure, Proposition 23, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Genetically Modified Food, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Astroturf, Global Warming, Bp, Bpa, Gmos, California, Chevron, Pakistan, Nuclear Power, Ipcc, Wind Energy, Mafia, Open Secrets, Transocean, Barack Obama, Green Infrastructure, Arctic, BRAD BLOG, California Prop 23, Charles Koch, Halliburton, Noaa, Bjorn Lomborg, Green News, Koch Industries, Climate Legislation, Food Recall, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: We're back...

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Green News Report: August 26, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: David Koch, Oil Spill Response, Helium, Lobbyists, Renewable Energy, Factory Farms, Pakistan Floods, Sustainable Agriculture, Obama Administration, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Offshore Drilling, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Tennessee, Climate Science, Vladimir Putin, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Astroturf, Global Warming, Bpa, Bp, Pakistan, Nuclear Power, Salmonella, Open Secrets, Transocean, Ocean Dead Zones, BRAD BLOG, Halliburton, Charles Koch, Noaa, Green News, Koch Industries, Climate Legislation, Food Recall, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Aid slowly...

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Green News Report: August 24, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Chile, David Koch, Oil Spill Response, Lobbyists, Renewable Energy, Factory Farms, Obama Administration, Sustainable Agriculture, Clean Energy, Green News Report, China, Eggs, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Tennessee, Climate Science, Electric Cars, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Astroturf, Global Warming, Bp, Nuclear Power, Salmonella, Open Secrets, Ed Markey, Ocean Dead Zones, BRAD BLOG, Mining, Charles Koch, Noaa, Green News, Koch Industries, Climate Legislation, Food Recall, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Chilean Miners, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Egg-gregio...

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Green News Report: August 19, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Russia, Floods, Antarctica, Oil Spill Response, American Petroleum Institute, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations, Factory Farms, Russia Heat Wave, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Agriculture, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Pollution, Eggs, Tar Sands, Drought, Indonesia, Don Blankenship, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Astroturf, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Interior Department, Bp, Massey Energy, Ipcc, Opec, Pakistan, Salmonella, Mine Safety, Coral Reefs, Arctic, BRAD BLOG, Oil Prices, Green News, Climate Legislation, Food Recall, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Michigan Oil Spill, Mark Morford, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: IN TODAY'S...

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American Petroleum Institute's Revisionist History on Climate Change Position

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: EnergyCitizens.Org, Energy Taxes, Oil and Gas Industry, Energy Citizens Rallies, American Petroleum Institute, Jack Gerard, Climate Legislation, EnergyTomorrow.Org, Astroturf, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

The American Petroleum Institute, the trade group for the oil and natural gas industry, is trying to re-write history by claiming that it has remained...

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Four Easy Steps to Telco Control of the Internet

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Corruption, Fcc, AT&T, Free Press, Lobbyists, SavetheInternet.Com, Congress, Glenn Beck, Net Neutrality, Astroturf, Technology News
Timothy Karr

Media giants are spending a fortune to convince lawmakers and regulators to dismantle consumer protections on the Internet and give industry absolute power over the most important communications medium of our time.

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