Open Thread: SEIU’s Astroturf Paid $20 To Protest For ObamaCare Outside SCOTUS
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 29th at 12:00 PM |
As you watch the video below [via SEIU Monitor], you can tell the astroturf protesters bused in by the SEIU yesterday to protest outside the Supreme Court for ObamaCare hold some very deep convictions. In fact, their convictions run so deep, it seems all they care about is the $20 given to them in brown envelopes by their union handlers. Ironically, as SEIU Monitor points | Read More »
Occupy DC: Corporate-funded, corporate-controlled, corporate-aimed.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | November 8th at 12:00 PM |
This ABC News article is correct enough, as it goes: On the surface, the “Occupy the Koches: Guerilla Drive-In” event looked like any other “Occupy” movement protest against the proverbial 1 percent of the population who hold the nation’s wealth. But a confederation of long-established progressive political advocacy groups — the Campaign for America’s Future, Campaign for Community Change, Common Cause, Health Care for America | Read More »
Astroturf on literal parade: Occupy DC agitator admits to paying protesters.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | October 7th at 09:45 AM |
The Daily Caller has some entertaining video up of a ‘Occupy DC organizer’ admitting that some of the spontaneous voluntary protesters that he has in tow – ones, not even incidentally, that are more, ah, diverse than the baseline of ‘pasty-faced white twenty-something hipster who’s seriously underwater in his/her liberal arts degree student debt’ – are actually being paid to show up and wave signs | Read More »
Tech at Night: Wireless competition, Regulation vs Jobs, Greg Walden
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | September 20th at 01:30 AM |
I’d like to start off tonight’s edition by saying that I enjoy some of the pushback I’ve been getting in this Tech at Night series. It’s fun when someone comes here, telling me I’m all wet, then ending up admitting they’re enamored of the whole Obama regulatory apparatus. It feels good to have my pro-liberty, pro-growth, small-government positions validated like that. So to the multifaceted | Read More »
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AT&T,
Barack Obama,
Cellular South,
Competition,
Eric Holder,
Eric Schmidt,
Facebook,
FCC,
George Soros,
Google,
Greg Walden,
jobs,
Net Neutrality,
Privacy,
Regulation,
sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
T-Mobile,
wireless
Tech at Night: Obama and Holder vs AT&T, CA tax corruption, Anonymous arrests are legion
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | September 3rd at 01:30 AM |
This is one of those weeks when all the important stuff happens at once, and there’s much to cover. I’ll start with the big national story. As I previously covered, The Eric Holder/Barack Obama Justice Department is coming after AT&T, using its own odd brand of economics to claim that the merger with T-Mobile would make the wireless market less competitive. When in fact, as | Read More »
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AT&T,
Barack Obama,
California,
Clearwire,
Competition,
Craig McCaw,
Department of Justice,
Dick Durbin,
EPA,
Eric Holder,
FCC,
Free Press,
GST,
HST,
Internet Sales Tax,
Julius Genachowski,
Michael Copps,
Mignon Clyburn,
National Sales Tax,
R. Gerard Salemme,
Regulation,
rick perry,
sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
T-Mobile,
Wikileaks,
wireless
Tech at Night: TN’s Haslam wants CA’s job killer tax, Al Franken too extreme for MN, Astroturf hits the FCC, Google roundup
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | August 16th at 03:30 AM |
Hello again to those I saw in Charleston over the weekend, and hope to see you next time to those who weren’t able to make it! While I return to California and get settled in again, it seems that some are leaving the state for good, and the hostile business climate is why. This includes the punitive Amazon Tax which has made it impossible for | Read More »
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Barack Obama,
BART,
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California,
COPPA,
Cryptography,
Cybersecurity,
DES,
FCC,
FTC,
Google,
GPS,
Internet Sales Tax,
Larry Page,
LightSquared,
Microsoft,
Minnesota,
Motorola,
Net Neutrality,
Open Source,
San Francisco,
Search Neutrality,
sprint,
T-Mobile,
taxes,
Tennessee,
Unions,
wireless
What a Shocker! Unions Are Behind Scaring Californians From Signing Ballot Petitions
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | July 30th at 04:30 PM |
[This is an update to Friday's post.] On Friday, attention was drawn to a radio ad and new website that popped up by a group calling itself “Californians Against Identity Theft.” While its backers were not immediately identified (nothing on the website indicates who is behind the site), it didn’t take long to discover that, lo and behold, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of | Read More »
Tech at Night: Amazon punishes CA, More on the FCC’s ideological lies, Marsha Blackburn: Tech Hero
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 30th at 02:00 AM |
Amazon’s not kidding one bit about punishing states that attempt to punish it. After Amazon sent a last ditch warning to Associates that all California Associates would be terminated in the event Governor Brown signed the budget with the Amazon Tax in it, the Governor went ahead and did it. So, every Amazon Associate in California just got terminated, including countless small businesses scraping by | Read More »
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Anonymous,
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ARRA,
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AT&T,
Barack Obama,
Blackouts,
California,
Clearwire,
Competition,
Cybersecurity,
Democrats,
Facebook,
fairness doctrine,
FCC,
George Soros,
Google,
Internet Sales Tax,
Jerry Brown,
Lulzsec,
Marsha Blackburn,
Net Neutrality,
NFL,
PIGs,
porkulus,
Republicans,
Skype,
Spectrum,
Sports Broadcasting Act,
sprint,
unemployment,
wireless
Tech at Night: Shoot the Hackers, Defeat the Patent Ripoff, Reform the FCC
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 23rd at 01:30 AM |
Can we just start shooting the hackers? It seems like it’s war on the Internet these days, and the more there is for me to cover, the more work it is churning out Tech at Night! Lulzsec denies the allies are in Baghdad the leader is arrested despite an earlier claim on Twitter that it was true. Anyway, Shame on the Daily Mail for trying | Read More »
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amazon tax,
America Invents Act,
Anna Eshoo,
antitrust,
apple,
astroturf,
AT&T,
California,
Cricket,
CTIA,
Cybersecurity,
Daily Mail,
Dana Rohrabacher,
FCC,
GLAAD,
Google,
Internet,
Internet Sales Tax,
iPhone,
Leap,
LTE,
Lulzsec,
Net Neutrality,
Patents,
Patrick Leahy,
Samsung,
Spain,
T-Mobile,
Texas,
turkey,
United Kingdom
The nonsensical, astroturf campaign against AT&T and T-Mobile
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 22nd at 08:00 AM |
I’ve said before that the case against the AT&T/T-Mobile deal makes no sense. Not only does the historical record suggest that the merger will increase competition, but the actions of key players are the opposite of what we’d predict if the merger were expected to reduce competition and raise margins. There’s something more to it, though. That something is astroturf pushing a basic agenda of | Read More »
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Free Press,
George Soros,
Neo Marxists,
Net Neutrality,
Open Society Institute,
OSI,
Public Knowledge,
sprint,
T-Mobile,
wireless
Tech at Night: Free Press under pressure, Cyberterrorists get arrested, Same old FCC
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 11th at 03:30 AM |
Free Press is getting the heat. It’s been exposed through FOIA that the far left front group was secretly coordinating media strategy with people at the FCC, including Commissioner Michael Copps. So when Copps makes a statement about media regulation, Free Press’s pet issue, I have to assume they wrote it for him. Media Reform is their code for nationalization of the press, after all. | Read More »
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Media Reform,
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NAACP,
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Neo Marxists,
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Patent Troll,
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T-Mobile,
Texas,
Verizon,
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Tech at Night: ALA, Wikipedia, Astroturf, Net Neutrality [updated]
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 30th at 01:00 AM |
Earlier this week I mentioned a story at Safe Libraries exposing American Library Association astroturf promoting the radical Free Press agenda on Net Neutrality. Now, the ALA does not come into this debate with clean hands. The ALA has taken stands before, notably to protect terrorists from being caught by the FBI. But now they’re getting aggressive. On the heels of this story about ALA | Read More »
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Andrew McLaughlin,
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Barack Obama,
Carbon Dioxide,
Congressional Review Act,
Deborah Caldwell-Stone,
Detroit,
EPA,
FCC,
fred upton,
Free Press,
George Ou,
Global Warming,
Google,
Internet,
kay bailey hutchison,
Net Neutrality,
Paid Prioritization,
reason,
Tim Phillips,
vint cerf,
Wikipedia
Are You Astroturf?
By: razshafer (Diary) | October 11th at 04:38 PM |
For the last year and a half the TEA Party movement has rallied Americans around the cause of bringing fiscal responsibility back to our Government. We have protested. We have made catchy t-shirts. We have raised awareness. We have confronted our liberal representatives and served notice that they will soon join the unemployed. Each of those activities is important and has a place but now | Read More »
Free Press = Astroturf. Greenish, plastic, rootless Astroturf.
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 22nd at 03:18 AM |
I hear that Free Press employees all have to see the New Orleans Saints’s old team doctor after one month on the job, because they all get turf toe by that point. But seriously, they really are. National Journal recently wrote them up (subscription only, unfortunately) but here’s what I think the key takeaway is about the neo-Marxist organization dedicated to the nationalization of all | Read More »