More and more here at PO.com we see the effects of corporate money learning the intricate ways of internet propaganda. Go to sites like freelancer.com or elance and there are job postings under "search engine optimization" for shills to spam message boards. Whether we have shills here or not, more and more posts here are cut and paste jobs from whatever astro turff site.
Since the SCOTUS ruling allowing corporations unlimited campaign spending:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '')No sufficient governmental interest justifies limits on the political speech of nonprofit or for-profit corporation,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority.
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Astro Turff Inc.
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Astro Turff Inc.
by Pops » Thu 17 Jun 2010, 16:30:20
... and the bought and paid for Astro Turffers groups busily turffing against a disclosure requirement now on the house floor, how much longer does it really matter?
I'm left if anything so take this with a grain if you please, but how these so-called patriots have let their deep felt convictions be usurped by such an obvious, stars & stripes wrapped ploy is beyond me. I worry about taxes and deficits and all that bull but no one was worried about it when the last administration was increasing the debit and stacking the SCOTUS with activist, yes activist judges.
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')Fred Wertheimer, a longtime advocate of McCain-Feingold, called today’s ruling [Citizens United] “the most radical and destructive campaign finance decision in Supreme Court history” and said the court’s majority had “abandoned longstanding judicial principles, judicial precedents and judicial restraint.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/01 ... z0r8prZLOP
Yet the only hits on Google I can even get on the bill to force Corps to disclose they "are" corps in campaign ads are unbiased citizens groups like http://www.amoland.com.
I'm really an optimistic guy and I realize money has always gained influence with politicians but as time goes by, the ever increasing influence of corporate money on the worldview of J6p is scaring the spit out of me.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5175/text
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/05/06-11
"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country."
~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Logan. November 12, 1816
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
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Re: Astro Turff Inc.
by Keith_McClary » Thu 17 Jun 2010, 23:22:54
Take your blood pressure meds before you read this:$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1719342620100618]WRAPUP 11-Lawmakers lambast BP boss on spill, one apologizes[/url]
But BP got unexpected support when Republican congressman Joe Barton of Texas, a major recipient of oil and gas industry campaign contributions, apologized to Hayward for BP having been pressured by the White House into setting up a $20 billion escrow account for spill damages. [ID:nN17241734]
"It is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, a $20 billion shakedown," Barton said.
Invading countries and installing puppet dictators is OK, but corporations are sacred.But BP got unexpected support when Republican congressman Joe Barton of Texas, a major recipient of oil and gas industry campaign contributions, apologized to Hayward for BP having been pressured by the White House into setting up a $20 billion escrow account for spill damages. [ID:nN17241734]
"It is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, a $20 billion shakedown," Barton said.
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Re: Astro Turff Inc.
by mattduke » Thu 17 Jun 2010, 23:27:15
It seems to me that with the internet TPTB can't control information, which is why they want to shut it off.
http://wistechnology.com/articles/7495/
http://wistechnology.com/articles/7495/
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Re: Astro Turff Inc.
by PrestonSturges » Fri 18 Jun 2010, 02:28:33
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'I')t seems to me that with the internet TPTB can't control information, which is why they want to shut it off.
http://wistechnology.com/articles/7495/
http://wistechnology.com/articles/7495/
You are aware of the massive telco-financed astroturf campaign on conservative blogs to "save" the Internet from Obama and government control (ie the way it's always been) and basically sell it off piecemeal to Verizon and AT&T. You're aware of that, right? Freedom Works, and the same people that finance the Tea Party? And it gets the usual free play on Fox about Obama seizing the net. you've seen those stories, right?
For all I know, Leibermann's bill would be some form of the usual pointless neocon crap he sponsors. He writes a lot of neoconservative crap with zero support from either party. He writes ridiculous bills that go nowhere. He's desperate for attention and alienated everyone except his pal John McCain. He and Joe are both plugged into the casino industry. Hell, this is probably part of the telco's campaign to generate backlash aimed at "saving" the internet from the government.
The President can do whatever TF he wants with the internet in time of emergency, not specifically under FCC regs but under preexisting executive orders going back to the 1940s.
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