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Rem Palpitt

Jumo, le premier réseau social humanitaire (lefigaro.fr) - 0 views

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jumo mybarackobama

shared by Rem Palpitt on 27 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Rem Palpitt on 27 Mar 10
     
    Ce nouveau site communautaire, lancé à la rentrée prochaine, est le dernier né de Chris Hughes, le cofondateur de Facebook et ex-directeur de la e-campagne d'Obama. Objectif avoué : connecter de façon durable citoyens et associations pour favoriser la solidarité.
Arnault Coulet

FreedomWorks, le MyBarackObama républicain, financé par l'industrie du tabac? - 0 views

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shared by Arnault Coulet on 20 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Less than eight months later, the seed planted in those anti-Obama Google groups has burst into flower on the streets of Washington. Tens – or even perhaps hundreds – of thousands of livid demonstrators filled the capital, brandishing banners saying "Don't tread on me!" and "Obamunism" – a reference to the president's perceived socialist or even communist tendencies. "Liar! Liar!"they shouted, echoing the outburst of a Republican congressman to Obama's face last week.
  • Matt Kibbe, who heads FreedomWorks, a national conservative group that led the push behind last Saturday's rally, goes further. He says that the movement has stolen from Obama the techniques he used to such effect last year and is now redeploying them as a stick with which to beat the president.
  • When Obama beat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, FreedomWorks studied how he did it and then copied him. They set up a ning site, a Facebook-like platform that allows members to talk to each other without having to go through the parent body. The result was explosive
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  • FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity are sister groups who came from the same parent body — a campaign called Citizens for Sound Economy, which split in two in 2004. It was set up by one of America's richest men, David Koch, an oil tycoon who has funded rightwing causes for decades.
  • FreedomWorks receives funding from the tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris, as well as from Richard Scaife, another business tycoon, who for years helped fund dirt-digging investigations into Bill Clinton. Local branches of Americans for Prosperity have also received tobacco money; the group has opposed smoke-free workplace laws and cigarette taxes
  • FreedomWorks insists that about four-fifths of its $8m budget this year comes from small individual donations. Kibbe interprets that as a sign of genuine pent-up anger towards spendthrift politicians in Washington of both parties, and believes it can be traced back to George Bush's bailout of the banks.
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