Al Gore has been cleared of any wrongdoing in the allegations brought against him. And you could hear a pin drop in the halls of rumor and innuendo...

Recent events have given Al Gore's detractors a chance to declare open season on not only his reputation but the very science behind global warming. I think they are all in for a rude awakening on both counts.

by Cody Lyon




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In a July 12 press release, the Birmingham based JAG said it was launching a "Nelson & Kagan" ad campaign by co-hosting a press conference that day in Omaha, NE. The group confirms the effort is meant "to put pressure on Sen. Nelson to vote "No" on Kagan."  JAG said it was co-hosting the July 12 event with Jennifer Hulsey of Tea Party Express, Doug Kagan of Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom, and Benjamin Smith (former Navy seal) of Move America Forward.  They say similar Pressers and TV ad buys will occur Tues in Little Rock, AR and Thurs in Columbia, SC.

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Al Gore's media venture, Current, is said to be coming to a crossroads. I say, it's worth going down that road to save.

Who is financing Mountaintop Removal now that Chase got out of the business? Our answer came from Rainforest Action Network. Two banks, mostly, PNC Bank of Philadelphia and UBS Bank of Switzerland.

by Cody Lyon





OPINION

Washington reads like the ugly and mean spirited setting of a novel about corruption. It is a government where hypocrisy laden Republicans are bent on stopping any legislation that's touched by Democrats. Meanwhile, whiny Democrats eager to point the finger at Republicans, have apparently come to relish this role, better suited for the playground, where the annoying tattle tale child constantly points the flaws of the other. It seems that the truly sincere defenders of the down trodden are absent. In a nutshell, neither party seems to want to rise above the fray and exhibit the qualities of true leadership on this topic.

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As I'm sure those who may be reading this now know, new accusations years old have surfaced in the latest attempt to shut up Al Gore. And I say that because it looks so obvious based on the timing, and because of the response it is getting from the usual suspects who always froth at the mouth just at the mention of his name.

Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former Vice President of the United States Al Gore has a new book out entitled, Our Choice: A Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis. In reading this book however, it became more to me than just a plan to solve the climate crisis. It is a book to solve the human crisis.

In covering the environmental abuses of Monsanto one who is cognizant of the special relationship we have with the Earth cannot help but be repulsed by them. There is not one redeeming quality about them. They are arrogant, heartless, greedy, manipulative power brokers that use people, governments, organizations, consumers, and anyone else who gets in their way of domination. It is a domination of the global seed and pesticide market that is now bringing our Earth to a biodiversity and pollution crisis and a climate change precipice.

I usually do not comment on Mr. Gore's personal life, but in this case I feel I have to make a comment based on the fact that I have supported him for many years and have followed his work and essentially his life in those years and am repulsed by the continuing media assault on him and now his family.

So as a supporter of him and his work, I'm going to now be honest about my feelings regarding his involvement with Hollywood types who in my eyes are no different than Washington DC soul suckers and the media who is their willing accomplice:

Originally posted at my site Bob Higgins

"We need to be realistic about operating in a mile of water"

Tony Hayward, the cherubic little weasel who serves as the front man for British Petroleum, BP, Beyond Pathetic or whatever they are calling their 'brand' this week, made the statement above, on camera to reporters while standing on an oil fouled Louisiana beach a couple of weeks ago.

Earlier that day I had a fairly heated argument with an elderly acquaintance who recently became enraptured by the 'Teabaggers.' This giddy political infatuation has had the gruesome effect of making him more of a pain in the ass than he was previously.  At one point in the 'discussion' he asked me why BP was drilling at 5000 feet below the surface and I told him that most of the 'easy oil' has been used up and drilling is increasingly taking place in ever riskier and more technologically challenging sites.

His angry retort was 'Bullshit, the tree huggers won't let them drill in shallow water.'

I tried to point out that there are nearly 4000 active oil platforms in the Gulf at depths ranging from a few feet to more than two miles but it was like talking to a wall... or a Teabagger; I gave up and drank my beer.

Our plethora of connective devices are not a Commons in the center of town.  We can smart mob our way toward each other, meet in the farmer's market or at the peace rally or a swap-o-rama or the fist-waving crowd at the palace gate.