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Comment on Greens get some muscle by John Ogilvie

John Ogilvie — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:19:32 +0000

This is a great development for the Greens.
We have to shake people’s perception of us, make them look at us clearly.

This does that brilliantly.

Comment on DFAIT pays $100K to promote seal slaughter on Twitter by Ibis Euler

Ibis Euler — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:21:21 +0000

100k $ is a drop in the sea compared to the money spent by seal hunting opponents.

But most importantly, I’m starting to get worried here — is this stance an official Green Party stance? Because as prioritary as I think the global warming issue is, I’m not sure defending cute and overpopulous animals really is any close to it. I mean, can we put any effort in the thousand species that are *actually* in danger?

Comment on DFAIT pays $100K to promote seal slaughter on Twitter by Dick Rickulous

Dick Rickulous — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:03:39 +0000

I think DFO is really stepping on some toes here. Isn’t all this type of work the responsibility of the Ministry of Propaganda? Stevie won’t like this. He wants all his ministry’s to stay in their own box. Another Stevie storm coming.

Comment on DFAIT pays $100K to promote seal slaughter on Twitter by Erich Jacoby-Hawkins

Erich Jacoby-Hawkins — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:16:18 +0000

You know, if fishermen are so desperate to do something in the winter when they can’t fish that they have to go sealing for scraps, why don’t we spend this money setting them up to blog and Twitter for themselves instead? They can put some banners or product links on their sites and make about as much money that way. I imagine the Rock can use some more high-speed Internet infrastructure.

Comment on DFAIT pays $100K to promote seal slaughter on Twitter by My Blahg » BLAHG BITS DEC. 19/09

My Blahg » BLAHG BITS DEC. 19/09 — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:32:10 +0000

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Comment on DFAIT pays $100K to promote seal slaughter on Twitter by uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:07:47 +0000

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Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:35:49 +0000

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Comment on Watch Elizabeth May and George Monbiot take on climate laggards in tonight’s Munk Debate by "Sudbury" Steve May

"Sudbury" Steve May — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:07:10 +0000

One last item to comment on here: I noticed that during the debates, Bjorn Lomborg seemed to be receiving a disproportionate amount of applause over some of the comments he was making, given that 61 % of the audience stated at the outset that they agreed with the Resolution.

Maybe they found Lomborg compelling (although I think Elizabeth and George did a good job of completely disassembling not just his arguments, but him). Maybe they were buying into what he was selling.

Or maybe they were just buying tickets to the debate (or having those tickets bought for them), providing a false response to whether they agreed with the Resolution in order to pump up the numbers on the PRO side, only to “change their minds” at the end of the debate, handing the CONS a win.

I wasn’t there, so I don’t know if this happened. The Munk Debates website has posted the outcome yet (although it was announced last night in the lobby, I understand: no webcast of that, which was disappointing). So, if the numbers went down from 61% agreement, I will have to wonder outloud a little more about the numbers, given what I observed of the debate on the webcast. It certainly is within the realm of possibility that those with other vested interests might do something a little underhanded to stimey action on climate change, don’t you think?

Comment on Watch Elizabeth May and George Monbiot take on climate laggards in tonight’s Munk Debate by "Sudbury" Steve May

"Sudbury" Steve May — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:59:44 +0000

Just wanted to update anyone following my comments: the webcast was a total success! Just one tiny, 5-second glitch, that was all throughout the whole night (and since it happened during one of Nigel Lawson’s reality-spinning rants, likely we were all the better off for it).

A small group gathered in Sudbury (about 15 people) to watch on short notice, not all of us GPC people either. Went out for drinks afterwards and debated more amongst ourselves!

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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:21:40 +0000

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