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Fire Walk With Me

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Sun May 19, 2013, 11:19 PM May 2013

Koch Funded Americans for Prosperity direct political link to Tea Party Losers

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#Koch Funded Americans for Prosperity direct political link to #TeaParty http://bit.ly/14Hp93v


http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/05/koch-funded-americans-for-prosperity.html

The documentary AstroTurf Wars connects the big corporate money to the tax exempt groups we know as the tea party.

"....exposes how front groups like the Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity, Energy Citizens, and Blankenship’s Friends of America have taken populist discontent during a Democratic presidency and redirected it to their radical right-wing corporate agenda of global warming pollution, regressive taxation, and health-care profiteering. In (Astro)Turf Wars, Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham journeys from Philadelphia to West Virginia, interviewing angry grassroots conservatives and the corporate public relations experts who are manipulating them. Going undercover at several Tea Party rallies, Oldham has exclusive coverage of how corporate profiteers are attempting to bring the United States government back under their thumb.

504(c)(4) is exclusively for "social welfare" organizations. After watching this, the IRS blunder might just be the thing that changes this corporate con job. We can hope anyway:





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