Saturday July 4, 2009, 6:05 pm
ALERT! The sites ActivistCash, PetaKillsAnimals, etc = exposed as a scam

ALERT!

ACTIVISTCASH = Internet Scam site


WARNING!
There is a site that some right wing pro-killers have been citing, called ACTIVISTCASH.COM This is a FRAUD SITE!


Animal killers, hunters, neocons, the gun lobby, right wingnuts, seal-killers, etc have been citing and attempting to post this site ActivistCash.com and also citing "studies" by a supposed group called the "Center for Consumer Freedom" in order to bash people. Watch out! Note that it is an internet scam site. Any hunter, pro-seal killer, whaler, meat-eater, cigarette-advocator, etc using that site is discredited. If you see any user try to use that in their blog, article, comments, etc that user just debunked themselves by quoting a Fraud site.

It turns out that the site named activistcash has been revealed to be a Front Group for the cigarette meat and big tobacco industry. It's run by a guy who is a special interest lobbyist!

The site is owned by a guy named Berman, who formed a shell corporation called the "CCF" that purports itself to be the "Center for Consumer Freedom" -- this is actually a fake site operated by lobbyists for the Cigarette Industry, Meat Industry, and Alcohol Pushers.

That site "ActivistCash" is run by the CCF, Centers for Consumer Freedom, and that group is run by a man who received over 660 million dollars in lobbyist money from big tobacco corporations to promote smoking.

The name "Center for Consumer Freedom" is made up. It's made to *sound* like its some kind of "consumer reports" site or something helping consumers, but it's not.

To give you an example, here are some of the Center for Consumer Freedom's postitions and activities:

The CCF and ActivistCash.com attempted to *denounce* Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
This is because MADD campaigns against driving drunk, driving after drinking alcohol. And the CCF got money from corporations that sell alcohol. So the "Centers for Consumer Freedom" and ActivistCash fought Mothers Against Drunk Driving because MADD threatened to decrease the growth rate of their alcoholic bottled beverages corporation sales.

Another one of CCF's ploys was to declare to pregnant women to eat a whole bunch of mercury-tainted fish. The Centers for Consumer Freedom and ActivistCash sent out press releases, memos, and articles declaring that mercury won't harm the human brain in a fetus, and that eating fish actually increased your intelligence, contrary to scientific and medical studies which show that eating fish containing methyl-mercury will damage the brain tissue of a mother's baby, especially while it is a developing foetus. CCF told mothers to go out and eat plenty of fish, because CCF obtains lobbyist money from the Fish Industry.

The CCF also tried to deny the latest swine flu outbreak.

The CCF and ActivistCash also fight against the Humane Society, because HS is against infected slaughterhouses, and CCF receives money from the MEAT INDUSTRY. And for example the CCF is behind the false website PetaKillsAnimals which tries to spread information about peta, because peta advocates not eating meat, and the CCF receives funding from the MEAT & Slaughterhouse lobby.

CCF also fights anyone who suggests that Meat can have ecoli, or salmonella, or can cause cancer. Because the CCF and Activistcash represent the restaurant industry which gets money from selling among other things... meat.

The Center for Consumer Freedom also puts out flyers and posts articles on its websites denying that Obesity exists. This is because CCF and ActivistCash is paid by the Restaurant industry which doesn't make as much money off thin people and makes more money off people if they eat a lot.

Likewise, CCF and activistcash fight and smear any animal helping organizations, because they discourage eating meat. And they tell people that eating meat is healthy the same way they tell people cigarettes are good for you to smoke.

CCF advocates smoking cigarettes.

This fraudulent ActivistCash site is often used by pro-seal-killers as part of a scam to smear and bad-mouth charities that help people and animals, like HSUS the Humane Society, IFAW, etc, ActivistCash will claim that charities, animal helping organizations, consumer help organizations, etc are only "in it for the money" when in reality, ActivistCash is the one putting out this fraudulent info, for the money.

If you ever see anyone citing activistcash, and especially if that person posts another claim, such as they value people more than animals, you can immediately red-flag that user as a participant in a scam. These are people that advocate more smoking, which leads to lung cancer, fight against people trying to reduce drunk drivers which kill people, etc. And these seal killers who kill seals fit right in to that group of lobbyist scammers.

Anyone who purports that they 'care about people' a lot more than animals, and then cites CCF or ActivistCash against animal organizations has just incriminated themselves, because what they have done is just advocated CCF which turns out to advocate alcoholism which hurts humans, and they advocate smoking. So what they've done is say they care for humans, and then supported a lobbyist group that entices humans to eat poison, contract cancer which kills humans, eat things that cause heart disease, and causes more drunk driving which kills people. Any person who tries to use ActivistCash to support anything is summarily debunked.

Go look up this scam site on the web. You will see the report uncovering them.

Like here: http://www.prwatch.org/node/957

The consumer watchdog site PR WATCH also put out an alert on the CCF and ActivistCash exposing them.

One of the PR peddlers working for ActivistCash is:
Sarah Longwell of The Center for Consumer Freedom, +1-202-463-7112
It is run by Berman, of Berman Consulting Corporation, a known lobbyist group.

ActivistCash is a front group for the Tobacco industry. They are lobbyists for Big Tobacco, Alcohol industry, and Restaurant Food Industry. In other words, Booze, Meat, and Cigarettes. The CCF advocates CIGARETTES which KILL PEOPLE! The CCF advocates MEAT and FAT which CAUSES CANCER & OBESITY. The CCF advocates ALCOHOL which contributes toDRUNK DRIVING AND THOUSANDS OF TRAFFIC DEATHS A YEAR.



Center for Consumer Freedom actually owns and operates more than 60 different fake websites!

HERE IS A LIST OF ALL OF ACTIVISTCASH & CCF's FRAUD SITES. SAVE THIS LIST:


Warning!
ACTIVISTCASH = Internet Scam website, this is to help you AVOID IT.

ActivistCash.com = confirmed scam site.
PetaKillsAnimals.com = confirmed scam site.
ConsumerFreedom.com = confirmed scam site.
animalscam.com = confirmed scam site.
animalscam.org = confirmed scam site.
bacdebate.com = confirmed scam site.
bermanandcompany.com = confirmed scam site. - NOTE: This is the Scammer. The owner of the fraudulent sites.
bermanco.com = confirmed scam site.
cspiscam.com = confirmed scam site.
drinkingresponsibly.com = confirmed scam site.
drinkingresponsibly.org = confirmed scam site.
fattaxfacts.com = confirmed scam site.
obesitymyths.com = confirmed scam site.
fishscam.com = confirmed scam site.
madcowscare.com = confirmed scam site.
physicianscam.com = confirmed scam site.
CSPIScam.com = confirmed scam site.

minimumwage.com = confirmed scam site.
minimumwage.net = confirmed scam site.
minimumwage.org = confirmed scam site.
obesityscam.com = confirmed scam site.
pcrmscam.com = confirmed scam site.
pcrmscam.net = confirmed scam site.
petapetition.com = confirmed scam site.
petasavesanimals.com = confirmed scam site. - NOTE the Fraudulent misleading name here.
physicianscam.net = confirmed scam site.
physicianscam.org = confirmed scam site.
responsibledrinker.com = confirmed scam site.
responsibledrinker.org = confirmed scam site.
abionline.org = confirmed scam site.
econ4u.com = confirmed scam site.
econ4u.org = confirmed scam site.
econforyou.com = confirmed scam site.
econforyou.org = confirmed scam site.
econfouryou.com = confirmed scam site.
econfouryou.org = confirmed scam site.
epionline.org = confirmed scam site.
firstjobs.org = confirmed scam site.
healthcaremandates.com = confirmed scam site.
lawsuitaddiction.com = confirmed scam site.
lawsuitaddiction.net = confirmed scam site.
lawsuitaddiction.org = confirmed scam site.
lawsuitaddictions.com = confirmed scam site.
lawsuitaddictions.net = confirmed scam site.
lawsuitaddictions.org = confirmed scam site.
livingwage.com = confirmed scam site.
livingwage.net = confirmed scam site.
livingwage.org = confirmed scam site.
madatgm.com = confirmed scam site.
maddatgm.com = confirmed scam site.
mercury-facts.com = confirmed scam site.
mercury-facts.net = confirmed scam site.
mercury-facts.org = confirmed scam site.
mercuryfacts.com = confirmed scam site.
mercuryfacts.net = confirmed scam site.
mercuryfacts.org = confirmed scam site.
rottenacorn.com = confirmed scam site.
stateflex.com = confirmed scam site.
unionfacts.com = confirmed scam site.
unionfacts.net = confirmed scam site.
unionfacts.org = confirmed scam site.
Trans-FatFacts.com = confirmed scam site.
HumaneWatch.org = confirmed scam site.

Reverse IP DNS List Results for 64.225.154.239 (Consumerfreedom.com)


THESE ARE ALL SCAM SITES OPERATED BY THE SAME SHILL PERPETRATOR.
Avoid these sites.
(They aren't "infected" with a virus, they are spreading tainted information!)


NEWS: "ActivistCash.com Exposed as Tobacco Front Group"

"ActivistCash keeps its own finances hidden, so PR Watch investigated & found (surprise, surprise) that its funding comes from the very industries that fund the tobacco and alcohol lobbies, as well as restaurant chains & taverns that want to keep employee wages low, avoid paying health insurance, & drive up sales of their high-markup products: alcohol (drunk driving), fatty meats (obesity) & cigarettes (cancer)."



You can use this information to post against anyone you see online or in comments or blogs that attempts to post any of these sites or ActivistCash to advocate hurting people and animals. Anyone who writes any one of these sites as their "source" has immediately debunked themselves.



Ok! Just watching your back & helping to protect ya!

Good Luck!


Ok, now tell OTHERS! That's how this thing becomes effective. By passing it on.

Also see:



http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom

Saturday July 4, 2009, 6:22 pm
Wow!!! Thank you for the information Suri. Noted.

Saturday July 4, 2009, 7:26 pm
THANK U

Saturday July 4, 2009, 11:25 pm
WOW IS RIGHT.
TX SURI, AND JANET FOR THE FORWARD.

Sunday July 5, 2009, 4:37 am
Extremely interesting - I've never heard of activistCash, but I've long had the feeling that CCF is a very dodgy concern,indeed!

Sunday July 5, 2009, 5:52 am
While I am willing to Listen/read this Info with an Open Mind;
The Atitudes Exppressed here are Prejudicial and Condemning those who may think they have a Valid Source for thier information...
to Condemn them As Being "Summariky Debunked"; Without Third Party Evidence; is No Better than The Complaints and Accusations You Lay at thier Feet. When Someone Makes a Choice or Decission Based on thier best available information; then Judge Not But Politely and Dillegently attempt to educate them; While Accepting and UnderStanding that they Did thier Best with the information They Had at that time...
Also Look harder at Your own sources As PETA has Shown itself to Be willing to Seek Publicity First and Act with Compassion when it Suits Them...

Sunday July 5, 2009, 10:05 am
Thanks, Suri and Janet. The funding says it all!

Sunday July 5, 2009, 10:13 am



Thnx Suri!!

Sunday July 5, 2009, 10:35 pm
Noted Suri, now we know what PETA haters are all about.....karma will follow them.

Monday July 6, 2009, 4:28 pm
Posted this in my group, "Lizard Brain"; which deals with propaganda, among other things. Thank you for this inclusive info!

Monday July 6, 2009, 4:32 pm
The "union" and "minimum wage" and "lawsuit" sites, among others, are DESIGNED TO DENY JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS to American workers -- no wonder the wealthy corporations LOVE those sites! If your Congresscritter needs an EXCUSE to vote AGAINST Progressive legislation, here's where he'll find it.... "Fake Science" and "Faked Factoids" did not die out with the overturn of the Bush/Cheney mis-Administration!