| The film shows images of a nuclear reactor, a | | | | good buddy of Josef Stalin and his Kremlin |
| wind farm and running water. Was the blustering | | | | successors. Hammer's dad introduced Little |
| Al or his bewildered movie director hoping the | | | | Armand to Stalin, who helped him build the |
| audience would choose a solution for them? At | | | | Hammer Empire. All this in return for one small |
| least Ross Perot, in his infomercials, had some | | | | favor: Julius Hammer founded the U.S. Communist |
| solution for the ills then facing America. Al has | | | | Party. |
| none. Zippo. Nada. Just join Al's crusade and start | | | | Have the sins of the father visited the son? For |
| driving a hybrid car. Or did he mean a bicycle? | | | | the past thirty or forty years, Al Gore has |
| After all, in one scene, Al boasts about the | | | | allegedly received a "mining royalty" check from |
| Chinese riding their bicycles and flashes a dated | | | | Occidental Petroleum for zinc ore discovered on |
| photo showing this. Wake up, Al, last we heard, | | | | the Gore family property. Reportedly, Al has been |
| the Chinese were driving Beemers and Benzes, | | | | paid about $20,000 annually for mining rights to |
| not bicycles. Bikes are reserved for | | | | the property. But, that's just chump change. Long |
| environmentalist weenies who can't find a real job. | | | | before the Buddhist Temple fund-raising fiasco in |
| Al seems to be pro-nuclear, but claims there are | | | | Los Angeles, Al Gore was involved in dubious |
| problems with proliferation and waste disposal. In | | | | political financings. |
| an interview with Australia's The Age newspaper, | | | | We didn't look that much more deeply into Al |
| published in November 2005, Gore told the | | | | Gore. Truthfully, why bother? Gore's remorse |
| reporter he was not "reflexively against" nuclear | | | | appears rigged; his acting is pathetic. For example, |
| energy. Wearing his hat as a fund manager for | | | | his sister died of lung cancer, before the family |
| the Generation Fund, he told the newspaper that | | | | stopped growing tobacco. He makes a really big |
| investing in uranium mining comes down to | | | | deal about this in his movie (despite his own |
| sustainability. In another interview with "Grist | | | | alleged chain-smoking habits as a college student). |
| Magazine's" David Roberts, published in May of this | | | | But he failed to mention he continued receiving |
| year, Gore responded to questioning about the | | | | royalties from his tobacco farm for years after |
| nuclear energy renaissance, saying, " I doubt | | | | his sister died. |
| nuclear power will play a much larger role than it | | | | Gore also forgot his vivid 1988 presidential election |
| does now." How's that for naiveté in the | | | | campaign speeches, defending tobacco farmers in |
| context of dozens of countries having already | | | | the southern United States. Imagine Mr. Clean |
| announced their plans to advance their nuclear | | | | telling tobacco farmers about how he, himself, |
| energy programs? | | | | tilled the soil with his bare hands and picked dem |
| Perhaps, Gore will begin touting renewables, as | | | | dar tobacco leaves wit his own fingers! Our |
| Hillary Clinton has done on behalf of lapdog/energy | | | | research shows Gore continued accepting |
| guru Amory Lovins. We asked third-term | | | | campaign donations from tobacco companies until |
| Wyoming legislator, David R. Miller, who is also | | | | at least 1990. Instead of being truthful with his |
| president of a U.S. uranium development | | | | audience, Gore mentioned in passing that the |
| company, Strathmore Minerals, about the | | | | reason he ran for President in 1988 was to give |
| madness over renewables becoming a serious | | | | Global Warming some exposure. Hypocrisy or |
| factor for baseload electricity generation. Miller told | | | | ambivalence? You decide. |
| us, "We were 100 percent renewable 300 years | | | | In his film, Gore claimed to have changed the way |
| ago, 50 percent renewable 100 years ago and 30 | | | | he performed his congressional duties after his |
| percent renewable 50 years ago. Now, we are | | | | six-year old son was hit by a car and nearly died. |
| less than 10 percent renewable and shrinking fast." | | | | Throughout his movie, Gore uses every personal |
| About nuclear energy, Miller added, "It nearly | | | | tragedy to play upon the audience's heart strings. |
| unlimited. We are learning to use better | | | | What does that have to do with Global Warming? |
| technology to make purer energy to do more for | | | | Nothing, but it aids and abets an otherwise |
| us." Miller's rebuttal on Al Gore's message was | | | | insincere politician to better sell his purported |
| emphatic, "Those that preach about saving the | | | | sincerity concerning abrupt climate change. The |
| earth should practice what they speak, but the | | | | message is good; the messenger needs to take |
| loudest voices are those that consume the most." | | | | up a new hobby. Like unsuccessfully running for |
| Miller pointed out, "Only the rich and idle have time | | | | president again so he can finally get his just |
| to rail against too much consumption. But they | | | | deserves: "Strike Three, you're outa here!" |
| want you to stop the consuming, not them." | | | | Why pay good money to get bored out of your |
| One could look deeper to better understand Al | | | | skull with this blasé movie? Save the $7 |
| Gore's ambiguity toward any solution. For | | | | to $10 (or more) on "Al Gore's Inconvenient |
| example, is Al Gore's family still a large | | | | Infomercial" by reading the same stuff for no |
| shareholder of Occidental Petroleum? After all, his | | | | charge whatsoever (and without the |
| father took a consultancy with a subsidiary of the | | | | deep-thinking, brooding ex-politician who spends |
| multi-national oil firm, upon leaving the U.S. Senate | | | | nearly all of his 100 minutes preaching in your |
| in 1970. Just in time to cash in on the oil embargo | | | | face). Kevin Bambrough and Eric Sprott wrote a |
| of 1973, Al Gore's dad was paid $500,000 per | | | | detailed report, covering a great deal, if not more |
| year for his services. Al Gore Sr. also served as a | | | | than what the Gore movie attempted to discuss. |
| company director. Why was Al Gore's father on | | | | COPYRIGHT © 2007 by StockInterview, Inc. |
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| founder of Occidental Petroleum? Hammer was a | | | | |