"Gore said the single most important policy change would be placing a carbon tax on burning oil and coal."
Yeah, turns out GORE is going to PROFIT from his "altruism."
"Critics say Gore set to reap greenbacks from green backing; Former VP proud of investments in clean tech" by John M. Broder, New York Times | November 3, 2009
WASHINGTON - Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where the former vice president is a partner.
Related: VenCap Vroom-Vroom
Yup, Gore and Green cleaned out your pensions and sent your college tuition bills skyrocketing.
The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. It came to Gore’s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital providers, looking for $75 million to expand its partnerships with utilities seeking to install millions of so-called smart meters in homes and businesses.
Yup, the GLOBALIST WAY of CONTROLLING YOUR THERMOSTAT and SHUTTING OFF POWER if they so desire! All under the COVER of doing GOOD for you -- while Al makes a buck or two!!
Gore and his partners decided to back the company, and in gratitude Silver Spring retained him and John Doerr, another Kleiner Perkins partner, as unpaid corporate advisers. The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts. Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.
The SELF-SERVING INTEREST masking as CONCERN for YOU and the PLANET is SICKENING!!!
I feel SOOOOO BETRAYED by this guy!!!!
Silver Spring Networks is a foot soldier in the global green energy revolution Gore hopes to lead.
Don't you LOVE the WAR TERMINOLOGY even when talking the "environment!"
An APPROVED "revolution" by the AGENDA-PUSHING PRESS!!!
Few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the need to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy. And few have put as much money behind their advocacy as Gore and are as well positioned to profit from this green transformation, if and when it comes.
And HIS FRIENDS DOWN in WASHINGTON are DOING ALL THEY CAN to HELP!!
Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming skeptics, say Gore is poised to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire,’’ profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.
Yeah, that was the last domino to fall for me.
Representative Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee asserted at a hearing this year that Gore stood to benefit personally from the energy and climate policies he was urging Congress to adopt. Gore says that he is simply putting his money where his mouth is. “Do you think there is something wrong with being active in business in this country?’’ Gore said. “I am proud of it. I am proud of it.’’
PFFFFFFFFT!
Nothing wrong with business, Al, but LOOTING TAXPAYERS after PROMOTING YOUR LIES is right out!
In an e-mail message this week, he said his investment activities were consistent with his public advocacy over decades.... Gore has invested a significant portion of the tens of millions of dollars he has earned since leaving government in 2001 in a broad array of environmentally friendly energy and technology business ventures, like carbon trading markets, solar cells and waterless urinals.
Yup, and he has STOLEN SO MUCH MORE from PENSIONS and SCHOOLS!
He has also given away millions more to finance the nonprofit he founded, the Alliance for Climate Protection, and to another group, the Climate Project, which trains people to present the slide show that was the basis of his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.’’ Royalties from his new book on climate change, “Our Choice,’’ printed on 100 percent recycled paper, will go to the alliance, an aide said.
It is called PROMOTING and ADVANCING a SELF-SERVING AGENDA is what it is called!
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Also see: Al Gore: "Isn't Capitalism Great"
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Also see: Your Friendly Neighborhood Nuclear Plant
Yeah, they are "environmentalists."
And LOOK who is HELPING HIM!
"Three senators join forces to boost climate legislation
WASHINGTON - Three senators with differing political views are working behind-the-scenes to rescue troubled climate legislation.
Democrat John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut said yesterday they would work in conjunction with the White House to patch together a bill that could pass the Senate.
See: No Public Option Until 2013
So gatekeeper Joe is going to let the energy tax go through, huh?
Graham, who has come under fire in his home state for his support of action on climate change, said working on legislation was a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’’ to solve two problems: heat-trapping carbon dioxide pollution and the country’s dependence on foreign sources of fuel.
How galling for a Massachusetts Yankee to say God Bless the South!
The announcement came as a key Senate panel for a second straight day delayed voting on any changes to a climate and energy bill introduced in late September by Kerry and Democrat Barbara Boxer of California because no Republicans showed up....
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Losing battle?
"Senate Democrats push climate bill to next step
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats sidestepped a Republican boycott yesterday, pushing a major climate change bill out of committee in an early step on a long and contentious road to passage.
The partisanship threatened to cast a pall over the bill - one of President Obama’s top priorities - as it makes its way to the Senate floor and as nations prepare to meet in Denmark next month to hammer out an international treaty to slow global warming.
I'm so sick of that lie when we had NO SUMMER and TWO BRUTAL WINTERS the past two years! I know who I'm checking from now on....
Senator Barbara Boxer, chairwoman of the Senate environment committee, had delayed the crucial vote for days because of a Republican protest over whether the cost of the legislation had been fully examined. But the California Democrat said the Republican demand for more analysis was “duplicative and waste of taxpayer dollars.’’
But TOSSING TRILLIONS at BANKSTERS and WAR LOOTERS -- and unquestioningly funding Israel -- is NOT, huh?
The GLOBE-TROTTING TRIPS are NOT a PROBLEM?
Another fart-mister blowing gas from the Senate in a chamber full of 'em!
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"Yellowstone yields 1,200 species in 1-day study" by Mike Stark, Associated Press | November 5, 2009
HELENA, Mont. - Scientists searching for Yellowstone National Park’s lesser-known life forms - beyond its famed bison, bears, and wolves - found more than 1,200 species, including several never known before to exist in the park.
Yes, NATURE FINDS a WAY!!!!
Watch: George Carlin- Saving the Planet
LIFE will OUT!!!!!
A one-day study in late August found microscopic worms, mushrooms, a bluish-green lichen, a slender grass, and a colorful tiger beetle, among other creatures, in about 2 square miles of Yellowstone, according to initial results released this week. About 125 scientists and volunteers spent 24 hours canvassing an area in northern Yellowstone during the “bioblitz.’’
Translation: GLOBALISTS MAPPING the PLANET!
Yes, the AGENDA ADVANCES even though you DO NOT SEE IT behind the smokey facade of AmeriKan "news."
The park’s wolves, bears, bison, and elk are a popular topic for study, but rarely do scientists turn their attention to insects and other smaller creatures that provide the ecological building blocks for those larger mammals to survive, said Kayhan Ostovar, an assistant professor of environmental science at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Mont. “There are a lot of them, and we don’t even know which ones are there,’’ said Ostovar, who helped organize the one-.
WTF? Why the middle of a sentence whack?
It could be months or longer before the inventory is finished. But the initial report showed a rich biodiversity, including 46 kinds of bees, 373 plant species, 86 mushroom types, five kinds of bats, 24 butterflies, and more than 300 kinds of insects. Such brief and intensive inventories of species have been held in at least 40 national parks.
Related: EndGame
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Updates:
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