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How Al Gore Got Rich
newsweek.com — Al Gore just won a Nobel Prize for "teaching the world to think green", but he's also showing he knows a thing or two about another kind of green: money
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- BrapAllgood, on 11/19/2007, -4/+11I know he's Golden Boy to many and I'm likely in a minority...but I don't trust this man.
- syxle, on 11/19/2007, -2/+7I don't trust him either.
- tehowe, on 11/19/2007, -3/+13I don't have anything against people making money. But I do cast a glance askance at the political office -> university post -> executive position -> political office treadmill that these high profile public servants are only too willing to jump on. The handshaking between corporate America and political office needs to be broken for the same reasons that those between the church and state were once sundered.
- ozymandias2012, on 11/19/2007, -4/+10This guy is as shady as they come. He's nothing but a elitist ***** interested only in elevating his image (and bank account) on the backs of middle class Americans. Mark my words, the only thing all his "Go Green" nonsense is going to accomplish is a wider division between the rich and the poor.
- Catspaw, on 11/19/2007, -3/+10This article forgets to mention how Gore got rich. Throughout the years Al Gore has flogged the “carbon polluters,” he and his family have been aiding and profiting from an oil company on a grand scale. Gore’s political influence has enabled the Occidental Petroleum Company, which former CEO, Armand Hammer said had Gore’s father in his back pocket, to acquire the oil-drilling rights over 47,000 acres of the Elk Hills reserve in California. Not only did the 1997 sale represent the largest quantity of public land to be turned over to a private corporation in US history, but it also spelt doom for the Kitanemuk people’s traditional lands and encroached upon an area environmentalists said was home to three rare animal species. Read: www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=468.
- oceanrain, on 11/20/2007, -2/+1This is why Al Gore is FOS. He is an inconvenient truth!
- PATSCRU, on 11/20/2007, -8/+2There's nothing like an article hailing Gore to bring out the yahoos from all corners.
- Observant1, on 11/20/2007, -2/+5gore touring with the rothschild brat is plenty clue what gore is really about.. global carbon tax the rich can afford and will probably get discount for buying in bulk when they print the money anyway... as us poorer people just get to pay more taxes to fund a one world fascist totalitarian government that we dont want, which wants to kill off 90% of the population.
- lazyink, on 11/20/2007, -0/+3http://digg.com/world_news/How_The_Bush_Family_Mad ...
Just to give a little perspective !! - OBDriftwood, on 11/20/2007, -2/+1Al Gore got rich the old fashioned way... he inherited big bucks from his daddy.
- MarkEarhart, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1Gore should be investigated for treason along with Clinton, Bush, and Cheney. He's a freak.
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