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BOSS GOES GREEN
This should be interesting; it seems I’m now working for Al Gore.
If he has any credibility, he’d better loan his hybrid for the winner of this News Ltd promotion.
What will you do now? You can’t spruik the Iraq War anymore, you can’t champion a discredited, lame duck Prez anymore, your favourite Prime Minister is facing defeat and possible jail time, and now your boss goes green… What will there be left to talk about? Whether Mit, Rudy or John can energize the base?
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2007 05 09 at 07:53 PM • permalinkHe’s an old stupid man besotted by a pacific princess. his desitre to take over Reuters proves that.
Not to Tim’s boss: I said that, he didn’t.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 05 09 at 07:54 PM • permalinkI repeat, withoput typos:
He’s an old stupid man besotted by a pacific princess. His desire to take over Reuters proves that.
Note to Tim’s boss: I said that, he didn’t.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 05 09 at 07:55 PM • permalinkSo, he’s going to stop using newsprint and ink? And not build offices with concrete?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 05 09 at 07:58 PM • permalinkIt has nothing to do with being green. When companies start talking like Marquand’s aunt, watch your back pocket.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 05 09 at 08:07 PM • permalinkI knew there was going to be big money in this, but only now do I realise how much.
Bugger investing in stuff that produces anything, I’m carbon trading and I make fees, margins and commissions. All clean green money and no nasty waste to dispose of.
The well off are stupid, let’s soak em.
As for the poor, keep burning that camel shit, there’s always next century.
The Band, Elwood, The Band!
Jesus H Godbastard Christ I have seen the light !This will confuse the shi’ite out of the Greens.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 09 at 08:11 PM • permalinkMiranda D., I don’t know why, but I don’t feel any compulsion to go insane just because everyone around me is. It’s like one of those movies where a meteor crashes or something and causes everyone to go nuts except that one guy who just happened to be in the storage locker or the bank vault or wherever the rays didn’t reach (See also various episodes of “South Park”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, etc., etc.). Eventually he figures out a treatment or an antidote and saves everyone else in the movie from a lifetime of zombiehood or whatever. He is the person you cheer for, he is the hero of the movie, not the ones made insane by whatever malevolent outside force happens along. All it takes is one rational person to save the situation in the long run and bring his friends back to reality. Now run along and be a zombie if that’s all you’re capable of. Mmmmm, isn’t that some fresh brain over there?
Next step will be local reporting for Tim…
Perhaps Lileks and Blair should go into business together. Between the two of them they should be able to attract a substantial audience on the Internet. Andrea could be a dot com millionaire!
Of course, absent pr0n, I don’t see how anyone makes a profit through Internet publishing. But then Slate and Salon are still around, so who knows?
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 05 09 at 08:22 PM • permalinkFavourite PM...jail time? I must be behind the news cycle on that one.
Regarding the election, I’m getting a sense of deja vu. I’ll admit that, until now, I never paid terribly much attention to media coverage of elections still several months away, but something about Mark Latham’s honeymoon/hype period as the new Opposition leader strikes me as similar to Rudd’s. That, and the way Howard/Costello seem to just wait for Labour to put down a card, then trump it, go on to deliver a happy, shiny Budget for one and all and watch as the polls slowly swing back their way until bang! election in 6 weeks.
I’ve said before that I’m no good as a forecaster, but so far I ain’t seeing much happening this year that didn’t happen before. Comments please - I know a lot of you old buggers have been dissecting these election years for decades.
As for Murdoch, would love to know how much these token gestures (not just from him and other business, but those Kyoto signatories as well) contribute to actual reduced emissions, and how much is virtual-world book balancing through carbon credits, surely the greatest capital invention since the air guitar.
It’s getting pretty lonely in here, eh comrades? It’ll be seige mentality for the blogmire soon enough, and oh, won’t the atmosphere be dense.
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2007 05 09 at 08:24 PM • permalinkMiranda signed up (again) yesterday and she/he/is has already posted 195 comments. I’m guessing this troll is on welfare. No one who has a real job has that kind of time available. Either that or he/she/it is a typical trustifarian parasite.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 05 09 at 08:28 PM • permalinkThose include switching to more energy efficient light bulbs and solar-powered golf carts on the Fox Studios lot in Hollywood.
oh that will help a lot!
This is purely money driven. He thinks the readers want it, so responds. another way of raising a campaign so people buy his papers.
It wont work Rupee.
Not that I’m against working on reducing pollution and environment wastage. Start with Blogocracy.
:)
Unlike Tim, I fully endorse the opinions of Mr Murdoch and, for a mere fraction of the billions that Mr Murdoch is worth, stand ready to fill any empty column space that may yet become available in the Daily Telegraph.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 09 at 08:35 PM • permalinkLook, Rupert is a merchant, a tradesman. He goes where the money is. Centrist and right of center news an untapped market? Behold Fox News. Raunchy sitcoms and disturbed cartoons a metrosexual draw? Behold Fox. Green tests well? Everybody change their lightbulbs.
Look, if Pedophilia tested well, Rupert would have the founder of NAMBLA hosting Fox News Sunday and Fox would air six series based on clever gay priests outwitting stodgy parents for another crack at their little boys. It’s just business, Frodo. Nothing personal.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 09 at 08:38 PM • permalinkMiranda must be the lonely one to comment twice in one thread.
Speaking for myself, old girl, I’m well-off enough to ride out the economic misery your pals would inflict on us, and I’ve become pretty good over the years at not letting the injustice of their coercive, collective insanities spoil my mood.
But I do pity the hard workers who benefit from every dollar that comes their way, who would be affected most by Labour’s backward policies, and those whose jobs depend on a healthy jobs market. Lefty latte sippers can always sit back and survey the carnage, their cockles warmed in the misguided belief that the poor are better off under wealth redistribution, or that a single tenth of a degree centigrade’s going to change if Australia rushes headlong into climate change “action”. But then, Miranda, you’re probably one of the people that have been conned into thinking local emissions affect local climate (when even your own high priests know better; they just quietly let your politicians distort - no, lie - about that little bit). And you certainly don’t give a damn about the average living conditions of the truly poor and developing countries. This climate change thing’s been a great conscience-reliever, hasn’t it? Pretend you’ll be saving more lives by depriving them of energy, because climate change will be even worse! Sweet dreams, Miranda. The most sickening part isn’t whether or not this may be true (it’s unsubstantiated bull, but anyway) it’s that you want it to be so very much.
#22- the atmosphere’s not the only thing that’s dense around here. 20th Century Fox’s a big chunk of News Ltd these days, and luvviedom’s firmly entrenched in that industry, along with a sizeable part of its market. While it’s daffy, it’s also a pretty smart move (at minimal cost) to keep the retards happy; I won’t be getting rid of my News Ltd scrip just yet.
BTW- don’t you just love how the coal industry told Qld Premier Peter Beattie to go fuck himself when he went to the US, trying to panhandle cash to piss up a wall on “clean coal technology”. Premier Pusnut is now threateneing to raise coal bounties to fund this idiocy- what’s the betting the coal industry will then say “fuck you and every future generation your deformed chromosomes will produce, we can get it cheaper from the Chinks”, thus either bankrupting the state or causing a quicker retreat than a French motorised division. At least Rupert’s playing hippy with his own money.
#18 - ...it’s like one of those movies where a meteor crashes or something and causes everyone to go nuts except that one guy who just happened to be in the storage locker or the bank vault or wherever the rays didn’t reach (See also various episodes of “South Park”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, etc., etc.).
That plot goes back nearly 50 years—John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids. Great book but pathetic cinema adaption.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 05 09 at 08:50 PM • permalinkMy question is: When will Miranda fellate Murdoch, now that he’s “going green”, and Miranda lurvs him so much now?
And, oh by the way, from the linked article:
Mr Murdoch also acknowledged that going carbon neutral was “good business” as the issue attracted increasing levels of public awareness and support.
Doncha just love fads? And can you say “Ka-ching!”, people? ‘Cuz that’s what Murdoch is doing.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 05 09 at 08:53 PM • permalinkAnd before I forget, if people want to see carbon footprints reduced, here is a great place where the process is just starting. So give it your support, greenies! Do it for Mother Gaia™!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 05 09 at 08:57 PM • permalinkA simple rule of thumb: whenever Execs start talking about ‘the Triple Bottom Line”, start to pull your money out.
That sort of BS enviro-Socialism is the leper’s bell of impending business failure. Wanna be clean and green and ethical? Fine, we’ll buy in from China and one-tenth of the cost.
Rupert is silly to play this game, and I hope that Tim will stick it to his boss next Sunday - politely, of course.
Posted by Apparatchik on 2007 05 09 at 09:06 PM • permalinkAs per my chat with the taxman yesterday. THE TAX DEPARTMENT HAS NO POSITION ON CARBON CREDITS.
Can you say “bottom of the harbour”, or “fly by night scam”? I knew you could. Who checks on the reforestation or other sinks?
If I sold a million dollars in credits against 100 acres of rainforest in PNG who will check on it????Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 05 09 at 09:09 PM • permalinkAs the world descends into hysteria over the wholly imaginary problem of catastrophic AGW, the avian influenza pandemic which the experts tell us at some point is inevitable, bubbles along.
Mortality rate to date in Indonesia = 80%
AV could reduce the world’s carbon emissions by 80% all on its lonesome.
#31 - Habib
Yep and it gets better. The chaps with the real big guns in their pockets are the coal miners.
Essentially, all that has to be done to get a carbon credit is not do something that would result in a carbon emission.
Money for nothing and the chicks are free…
As the miners have rights to mine lots of coal all they have to do is set aside an amount of coal from mining, calculate the theoretical carbon emission from that coal and leave it in the ground.
Why invest in mining it when you can trade it’s value while leaving it in the ground?
If I agree, in exchange for G$1, not to fart and to regulate my breathing for 1 minute, will PACO employ my services? This could well solve unemployment forever! Think of the job ad:
...........................................
Wanted:
A human.Qualifications:
Medical certificate that you are a human and alive.Salary:
Gaia credits - spend them in our store!@!@Start:
Now!Finish:
When medical certificate expires.
.....................................I’m inspired!
#28 $3.50 per ton? Not sure where that figure comes from. Current http://www.pointcarbon.com “prices” are 0.41 Euros/ton. The article claims News Corp produced 641,550 tons of emissions last year, so it’ll cost Rupert less than half a million Aussie dollars to engage in this exercise in futility. If he’s going to go nuts and do useless shit, I’d rather he lined my bank account with the money, but unlike Al Gore I’m not set up to profit from the all-time greatest hijacking of science.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 05 09 at 09:21 PM • permalinkAs for Rupert’s hybrid car, any bets it was this 20mpg Gaia raper?
Maybe not, since it’s not for sale just yet.
Possibly this thing, then.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 05 09 at 09:26 PM • permalink#36- It’s a whole new form of economics as well, let’s call it peteynomics; normally when demand for a good or service declines, the price falls, but not in Premier Pusnut’s Playground, it rises! first water, now power; seeing as there’s no demand for Premier Pete’s swolen, inanely grinning head, its price must be colossal.
BTW, I’m yet to meet anyone who openly admits voting for these malfeasant, incompetent gibbons. Possibly for the valid reason that if they did, I would beat them to death with their own limbs.
Yet another good look at the swindle of global warming. This debate ain’t over, not by a long chalk!
And from my brother, who tells me he’s having trouble registering because of his hotmail e-mail address.
Remember Rupert is very ‘savvy’ he will have shares in just about every major industry on earth as well as ‘News’ he probabley has bought up all the solar panel plants and rain water tanks manufacturing under one of his many subsidarie companies.
Identify a future market and promote the idea and have just the right product under the desk!!
Convince gullible Pollies or avaricious ones to bring in legislation forcing the poor dumb public into buying whatever-or else into the gulag!#30 But then, Miranda, you’re probably one of the people that have been conned into thinking local emissions affect local climate
What? Since when have we been letting Chinese air invade Australian airspace? That’s just terrible. We need to have stronger air borders to keep all that nasty Chinese CO2 out. This is another nasty side effect of globalisation - allowing imported air to undercut our own locally produced CO2. Think of the poor breathers who will be put out of work by this cheap, Chinese CO2. We all now that the Chinks can produce CO2 more cheaply than us - you just feed them a bowl of rice a day and they breath like crazy!
“We will decide what CO2 comes to this country, and under what circumstances”.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 05 10 at 07:23 AM • permalink#72, Sounds like one of life’s little highlights - for you and the men at the door. I’d try it myself, but a pack a girl guides running screaming from the house does little for one’s reputation. And some Watchtower chap’s eyes lighting up as he tries even harder to get his foot in the door would be even worse.
Bet you’ve been grinning like the cheshire cat all day.
A point. It was just a few weeks ago that Murdoch described global warming as “alleged”. Can’t imagine he was suddenly convinced it was real
The wily old coot senses an advantage in going green. Wonder what it is? He does rather like power and influence, so is he about to back Gore for the White House? That would sink Obama and Clinton. These two are truly dangerous people. Gore, on the other hand, is driven by a need to amass wealth - and that is something Murdoch can understand. The reality of politics is that Gore can’t do a tenth of the things his movie reckons should be done because he won’t get support from Congress or the Senate even if they are Democrat controlled.
Mr. Murdoch, I have a little start-up in the carbon offset trading business, please, give me a call........
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 09:17 AM • permalinkMr. Murdoch, I’m serious, I mean to retire before I’m 45 and I think this one account could do it, maybe even by 41!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 09:19 AM • permalinkAsh,
I’m 40 in September, my guess is if I landed him, I could retire by then!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 09:53 AM • permalinkkae,
I listed my birthday on my profile....the 5th, so yes, I’m a fantastic, wonderful, amazing, marvellous, Virgo......or so I’m told!!
Gee, would I be correct in assuming you’re a Virgo??
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 10:11 AM • permalinkAsh,
I was educated as a teacher. As such I had to be able to spew forth all kinds of nonsense to make it sound like I knew what I was talking about, especially for the job interviews. It went counter to all the bulls@#t I could spew as a Chemistry and Physics major, but I actually understood the Chemistry and Physics.
Don’t ask me who the hell Piaget was though!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 10:15 AM • permalinkAsh,
Just looked at your profile, the first Aussie I’ve met that likes ice hockey!!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 10:16 AM • permalinkNite kae
Ash,
Have you been following the NHL playoffs then?? Or do you even have the opportunity to watch them down there?
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 10:36 AM • permalinkI live a little more than an hour from Detroit so it should be no surprise I’m pulling for my Red Wings who demolished San Jose in game six to close out that series, now they get Anahiem. The bad news is that the Sharks and Ducks are both West coast teams so even I have to watch those games late.
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 10:45 AM • permalinkAsh
Western Conference Finals start tomorrow Red Wings vs. Ducks. Eastern Conference starts tonight, Buffalo Sabres vs. your own Ottawa Senators. You can get a recap at the network carrying the games in the U.S. or I’m sure the CBC has lots of good stuff (certainly better hockey coverage)
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 10:56 AM • permalinkThe Red Wings of coarse!!
To be honest, I think we will see the Wings and the Sabres in the finales.
Ottawa hasn’t had any real hard series and I think when they do (Buffalo) they aren’t going to last. The Wings have been down in both of theirs and come back to win. The Wings have been a team that plays very well in the 3rd period all year and it seems that in every series they are getting better and better.
I do think the Wings have the best chance in the finals though. Buffalo has had some tough series and I don’t know how much gas they will have left in the finals.
GO WINGS!!
P.S. remind me sometime to tell you about the time I got to play the Red Wing alumni team at Joe Louis Arena.....
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 11:11 AM • permalinkBiased? me?? (as I sit wearing my #19 Yzerman sweater)
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 11:24 AM • permalinkya, how silly would that be...(as I look at the picture on my desk of myself and Pavel Datsuk)
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 11:31 AM • permalinkjust so when he shows up for my Friday morning drop-in game I know which side to play on!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 11:42 AM • permalinkCome on Mirander, we’re counting on you! Don’t give up now!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 05 10 at 07:30 PM • permalinkAsh_, you’re the same age as my Lovely Daughter (22Jan86), who’s marrying a USNavy recruit the 26th of May & expecting my first granddaughter October 23. Congratulations & thanks for the wisdom you share here, it does an old woman good to know there’s more than one decent young’un out there!
I know, it’s off topic, but I plead OLD, ok?
KC, I’m flattered!
Last time I did a census of how many decent young’uns there are out here, the total was 5,383. There are 58,680,018 ok-to-have-a-beer-with-once-a-year young’uns, and 684,198 “Oh God, please don’t let them near me” young’uns.
Of course, because I only interviewed myself, three friends, and looked around the classroom when I last attended class, I engaged the help of Lancet in coming up with these figures.
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