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AWARENESS RAISED
Apparently the point of these Gaiapalooza concerts is that they’ll raise awareness of global warming. You know, just in case you’ve never heard of it and require a seven-nation, 120-network Woodstock of warmening to bring you up to speed.
But if raising awareness is so crucial, why does Al Gore place restrictions on media coverage of his awareness-raising speeches? It’s all they’re talking about in sunny downtown Saskatchewan:
Gore’s contract bans reporters from recording audio or shooting video.
Questions are being raised because the province is fronting the $200,000 it costs for the former U.S. vice-president to speak through its publicly owned telephone company SaskTel.
Saskatchewan Premier Lorne Calvert says Gore’s mere presence is sufficient:
“His very presence in the province ... raises the important issue of the climate crisis change that is confronting us,” said Calvert.
This Calvert fellow is evidently Saskatchewan’s supreme spinmaster. His next line is brilliant:
He said the fact reporters are doing stories on not being allowed into the speech is in itself raising awareness of climate change.
UPDATE. Synova:
I would scoff and joke about it but I’m suddenly not the least bit amused. Pelosi refuses to meet with president Bush. The Dem presidential candidates are refusing to debate on FOX. Gore doesn’t want his speeches recorded by potential unfriendlies. And I’m reminded of our last local election cycle where people had to sneak personal recording devices into speeches or debates because the Dem candidates refused to allow themselves to be recorded. And that was at the few debates that happened. Democrat candidates refused debates over and over. I don’t think there was a even single debate between candidates for some of the offices.
And it’s working ... I look around and the same strategy is being employed, no cameras, no recordings, or else no meetings at all.
It’s not funny. It’s frightening, and mostly because the tactic is downright *lauded* by the Democratic base.
Love this from the “tips on how to stay cool in summer” from the giapallozer link above.
“Tip 7: Have Pool, Stay Cool
If you are lucky enough to be able to dip into your very own pool this summer, make sure your money isn’t going down the drain. Lower the pool’s temperature to the minimum recommended by the manufacturer, and cover to retain heat when not in use. (Covering the pool will also reduce debris, evaporation and chemical loss.) By simply installing a timer to the pool’s heater, you can predetermine heating times and duration.”
Good to see honest Al wont have to suffer too much…
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 12 at 05:27 AM • permalinkTwo Australians sitting at the bar in a small outback watering hole see a couple of strangers at another table. One of them says, “why don’t you go over and ask those guys where they’re from”. The other says, “I think I will”. So he walks over and says to the strangers “You’re new around here, where ya’ll from”? One of the strangers says, “Saskatoon, Saskatchewan”. The Aussie nods his head and walks back to his table. His mate says, “so where are they from”? He answers, “I don’t know, they don’t speak English”.
The premiers are aiming to raise John Howard’s awareness and are ganging up to push him to agree to a 60% reduction in emissions (thankfully for the PM, genesis are not involved).
They deny they’re doing the Kruddster’s bidding Premiers to push for emissions reductions
Beattie says “The planet’s in trouble - you can see that by the drought in the south-east corner,”- well of course we’ve never had droughts before.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 04 12 at 05:54 AM • permalinkWhat some of that post was, is that 7/7/07 in London there are 56 people and possibly some of the hundreds wounded by terrorists, that can’t SEE A “Live Earth”.
That threat, the terrorist threat, is by far the biggest facing this “Live Earth”.
You have done a great service though Al. Through your invention of the Internet and now letting ALL know that we have a “Live Earth”...just brings a tear to the eye.
I don’t know what WE would have done without you Al, but WE would have done our best trying.
Ive sacraficed 30 minutes of my life and found a list of performers at the US world concert and listings of a few of their properties.
I dont see many “semi-rural-yurt-with outdoor-hole-in-the-ground-for-shitting-in” listed in any of them.Maddona
Kayne West
Sting
Bon JoviThere are many more but I can only stand so much gushing celebrity crap at a time.
When Al moves to a 3 bedroom brick and tile Ill follow his advice. Fair?Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 12 at 07:40 AM • permalinkI hope there are hecklers.
From Saskatchewan
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 04 12 at 08:10 AM • permalinkIt’s snowing. Has Al ibn Gore already entered Canada?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 04 12 at 08:20 AM • permalink#26 & #28 aaron
Ya eh! on both counts, I wanted to go see the Police reunion tour in Detroit this summer, I just may have to pass…...
wimpy, hope you got your tuke!(sp)
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 04 12 at 09:10 AM • permalinkGore’s contract bans reporters from recording audio or shooting video.
“His very presence in the province ... raises the important issue of the climate crisis change that is confronting us,” said Calvert.
He said the fact reporters are doing stories on not being allowed into the speech is in itself raising awareness of climate change.
Who knew Global Warming was a mystery cult? Guess ole Algore learned something in that bible college he flunked out of after all.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 12 at 09:42 AM • permalink#7 eeniemeenie
If you want to visit Kakadu National Park, do it soon because we’re turning it into a desert if the ALP flunkies who run the show here go for this 60% guff too. We do not use coal fired power stations, instead relying on natural gas turbines, and with our population at around 200K we only produce 20% of total emmissions. The rest is from bushfires. That means flammable vegitation has to go if we have any chance of achieving these targets. Mind you, we could give Tasmanian Forestry a boost. “Come to the NT and Kill a Tree - Gaia will love you for it.”
Yeah. Lorne’s a real loser. The tax-and-spend socialist New Democratic Party [NDP] premier who is currently facing an upcoming election after destroying the province’s economy. Laugh, or cry, at the following:
Lorne courtesy of Small Dead AnimalsPosted by andycanuck on 2007 04 12 at 10:05 AM • permalinkPre-emptive self-flagellation will protect us from future plagues, you see. If you don’t see, someone else will have to whip you—unless you buy some offsets. I just happen to have some. Cheap.
Posted by Tai Chi Wawa on 2007 04 12 at 10:15 AM • permalink#35
I’ll take a dozen whipping offsets please, oh, and bill Al Gaiore, he seems to have a little extra scratch at the moment, courtesy of the Saskatchewan tax payers…...
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 04 12 at 10:21 AM • permalinkI’d love to see Al’s taxes. Do you suppose carbon credits are deductible?
Seriously—two hundred grand for one speech? How can I get in on that racket?
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2007 04 12 at 10:57 AM • permalink#40,
You just know those credits HAVE to be deductible, but hey, when you buy them from your own company, who cares….
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 04 12 at 11:14 AM • permalinkHmmmm.
“His very presence in the province ... raises the important issue of the climate crisis change that is confronting us,” said Calvert.
Welll…....
Where Gore poops, awareness follows.
Posted by memomachine on 2007 04 12 at 11:18 AM • permalinkMaybe it’s about him wanting to control the distribution so he can profit from it or maybe it’s about him wanting to control the message.
I would scoff and joke about it but I’m suddenly not the least bit amused. Pelosi refuses to meet with president Bush. The Dem presidential candidates are refusing to debate on FOX. Gore doesn’t want his speeches recorded by potential unfriendlies. And I’m reminded of our last local election cycle where people had to sneak personal recording devices into speeches or debates because the Dem candidates refused to allow themselves to be recorded. And that was at the few debates that happened. Democrat candidates refused debates over and over. I don’t think there was a even single debate between candidates for some of the offices.
And it’s working. And I look around and the same strategy is being employed, no cameras, no recordings, or else no meetings at all.
It’s not funny. It’s frightening, and mostly because the tactic is downright *lauded* by the Democratic base.
Probably it will backfire if the media is pushed too far. I’m an optimistic person and I try to tell myself that this will certainly happen.
Sorry to be no fun. :(
Gore’s contract bans reporters from recording audio or shooting video.
This is kind of creepy in cult-like fashion. Do we really want to know what feaky rites this religion does behind closed door? Self-flagellation has been mentioned and is obvious. But what happens next? Eating carbon or turning carbon into wine? Snake handling? Polar bear handling? Speaking in tongues?
Phlogging Ass Cat-o-nine-tails Offset: only $69 per lash. At PACO, we really whip the competition.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 04 12 at 12:05 PM • permalinkProbably it will backfire if the media is pushed too far. I’m an optimistic person and I try to tell myself that this will certainly happen.
Oh, it certainly will. They have the media on their side, but keep f***ing with them like this and watch how fast they turn. We RWDB’s like to think that journalistic integrity takes second place to ideology with the MSM. Not true. Integrity’s in third, ideology is second. Access is #1.
I would say #1 is narcissim. That’s the killer for the press. They will only allow themselves to be shut out for so long before their natural narcissim rears it’s head. “I’m simply too important to be ignored like this.” is the conclusion they’ll come to. In this case, it will actually be a good thing.
#32 richard mcenroe
Who knew Global Warming was a mystery cult? Guess ole Algore learned something in that bible college he flunked out of after all.
Has the Goracle become a Scientologist?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 12 at 12:21 PM • permalinkAnd don’t forget, anyone interested in how to start a cult should study up on political spin and manipulation by reading the Dianetics of Climatoligists.
#44 Synova “I would scoff and joke about it but I’m suddenly not the least bit amused. Pelosi refuses to meet with president Bush. The Dem presidential candidates are refusing to debate on FOX. Gore doesn’t want his speeches recorded by potential unfriendlies…”
How true. “Outreach” to terrorist Assad is laudable in their world and they’re rumbling about starting their own initiatives with the madman in Iran. But they’re morally opposed to meeting with our President to work through critical legislation and find FOX’s millions of viewers repugnant. (Sort of like Elizabeth Edwards’ “rabid, rabid Republican” attack on her working class neighbor who she’s never met.)
Very open and tolerant, they hate a mere 50% of their own countrymen.
al-Gore, you need to cut out the geobbels whorening nonsense now. People are dying.
“CHICAGO (AP) - More snow fell on parts of the Midwest Thursday, a day after a deadly storm grounded hundreds of flights, postponed a baseball game, iced up roadways and disappointed those longing for the warmth of spring.
A jet trying to land in heavy snow skidded 50 feet off a runway in Traverse City, Mich., early Thursday. The plane remained upright, and the 46 passengers and three crew members were unhurt, Pinnacle Airlines spokesman Phil Reed said.
Six deaths elsewhere were also blamed on the slick conditions”
“Seriously—two hundred grand for one speech? How can I get in on that racket?”
Monk, here’s how:
1. Invent a product that people don’t need.
2. Present the product in such a way as to make people think they want it.
3. Remember that people will shell out large sums of money when motived by either pleasure or fear.
4. Remember that people are vain and stupid. Aim your pitch at their stupidity, but be sure to flatter them while you’re doing it. In other words, be sure that your phony stock certificates have a highfalutin’ title, gilt edges, and lots of fancy scroll-work.
5. Always present yourself as a tribune of The Good. Always present your critics as promoting Evil.
6. Finally, never forget the immortal words of that noted philosopher Phineas Taylor Barnum: “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
Keep these rules in mind, and your sure to strike paydirt. After all, Al Gore - a guy who flunked out of a Bible college and a school of journalism - is raking in the loot, and being touted as a genius in the process.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2007 04 12 at 02:13 PM • permalinkNothing new for Agore. When he got his lecture gig at Columbia School of Journalism (after SCOTUS prevented him from taking his rightful place as POTUS), part of the deal was no cameras, no recordings, no discussions of what went on in the classroom. Afterwards, though, some of his students cheated and spilled the beans.
My theory is that if the public got wind of the kind of insubstantial insane rantings $200,000 buys, those bookings would dry up like the southeast corner of Australia.
After a day of posturing, Democratic leaders have deigned to meet with the President after all. “We will listen to his position, but in return we will insist that he listen to concerns of the American people that his policies in Iraq have failed and we need to change course,” say Dingy Harry and San Fran Nan who apparently remain unaware that we already have changed course in Iraq.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 04 12 at 02:38 PM • permalinkSynova, I have to agree with you. This is a disturbing trend. Dave is right, the MSM will only eat so much s**t, but I hate to imagine the damage we will take until they get their act back together. Or at least pretend to care, after they get access.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 12 at 02:59 PM • permalinkAmazing Scenes:
An article in The Age by John Roskam slams the ABC for its lack of diverse opinion.
Whether the ABC fulfils its self-appointed role is debatable. For example, man-made climate change is now as good as an accepted fact. The community and all political parties believe that dramatic reductions in emissions are necessary to combat the threat of a warming planet. There would be few better issues than this on which the ABC could contest the prevailing orthodoxy. In relation to climate change, though, this is unlikely to happen. The point is that the ABC picks and chooses the issues on which it will challenge public opinion.Sort of OT: it looks like there may be even more Gorebal Warmening on the way for the eastern US starting Sunday.
Does His Coldness have a speech planned somewhere on the East Coast?
Thanks, Al!
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 04 12 at 08:16 PM • permalinkas good as an accepted fact.
If only the Crown had transported a few more English teachers (er, teachers of English, er, English teachers of English…), we might have been spared phrases such as that…
Has the Goreacle become a Scientologist?
Spiny Norman—he took the free personality test but it came back negative.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 12 at 08:31 PM • permalinkPoor old Flim Flannery. He only gets US$50,000 per speach.
Posted by The Leadster on 2007 04 12 at 08:38 PM • permalinkI have been on the phone to the Australian tax office this morning enquiring as to wether being issued carbon credits would constitute either income or fringe benifits tax.
The chap I spoke to was taken aback by the question having “not heard that one before”. He did a search and came back with NO RULING on them with regaurds to their liability as far as tax goes.
I asked wehter in general, as they had a monetary value, they would attract tax. He was non-commital and invited me to write the question in for a in-depth response.
Interesting that with talk of a corbon credits scheme, rock stars being “gifted” credits and stuff the ATO hasent got any rulling out.
Would any of our American chums like to see what the ruling is over there?
This could be the biggest “bottom of the harbour” scheme for a generation!!!Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 12 at 11:19 PM • permalinkFrollicking
If they received the credits in conjunction with their performance-compensation for services rendered and therefore taxable.
If they performed gratis then they would value the credits under $600 to avoid the issuance of form 1099-misc.
If they received compensation for their performance the credit should just be added on to the normal pay for the event.
If they received the credit simply for attending this event it would probably be considered a gift and not taxable to the recipient.
yojimbo
(this is the American ruling?)
Thanks, for that, im sending off a letter for confirmation anyway, I was under the impression it would attract tax of some sort as it does have some monetary value.
But my curiosity has been piqued by the ATO (apparently) having no ruling on a scheme the state premiers are supposed to be pushing here at the heads of goverment meeting here in Oz this month.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 12 at 11:56 PM • permalinkIf Freedom of speech is a building stone of democracy what is hidden speech?
Posted by hollingshead on 2007 04 13 at 12:42 AM • permalinkExcellent article debunking the current crop of GW exponents (including the IPCC) by scientist Bob Carter.
blogstrop
Good article, will foreward it to my moonbat mate. (The BBC “great global warming swindle” made him half change his “end is nigh” position)
I see why politicans like the idea of GW. It allows them to wind back the publics expectations (water, power etc) of basic standards with a effective scarecrow.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 13 at 01:53 AM • permalinkTim Worstall:
My translator in the Green Zone in Baghdad insists that Al-Gore means “the valley” and John provides two further variations:If it’s Al-Ghor (the guttural ‘ghein’ sound) then it’s a declivity, lowland, depression.
If it’s Al-Gor (an Egyptian hardening of the letter ‘jim’), then it’s injustice, oppression, tyranny, outrage.
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDJlYWEwYTEzNmRiYWQ1ZWU0OGNlYjk0MTk0MDA4ZTg=Before you know it we’ll be reduced to seeing gaiapaloozin’ celebs get honours while many very deserving but low profile Australians get nothing. If you watch the honours lists you see so many awarded to people for .... well, in many cases just being there.
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(example): A Canadian at an Al Gore global warming concert.