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Post by Live365 » 10-03-2007 09:56 PM

oh. :eek:

It appears all relevent posts have been deleted!

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Post by Linnea » 10-03-2007 11:02 PM

Sorry about that Live365. ;)

Forgot to post up the notice this is an area where posting is restricted to those from the parallel universe.

Notice is now up...

There are many places to post. This thread is more of a read only place, unless, of course, you are from a parallel universe.

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Post by Linnea » 10-03-2007 11:03 PM

The 'relevant posts' are still here.
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Report: Gore Nobel could increase chance of run

Post by SETIsLady » 10-10-2007 10:28 AM

A Nobel peace prize victory -- which Al Gore has been tipped to win -- could boost the chances of a 2008 candidacy, according to a report in the UK Independent.

Al Gore never quite closed the door on running for president again and his many loyalists are now pinning their hopes on Norway's Nobel committee, in the belief that the prize must be his, this year of all years," the Independent's Leonard Doyle writes, adding that "people close to the former vice-president are convinced that he is looking for an opportunity to jump in the race."

Gore never officially ruled out a run, his supporters say. Yet he'd certainly be well behind in fundraising, and many of the Democratic heavy-hitters who'd been holding their pursestrings saying they were awaiting a run have donated now to other candidates.

According to a recent report in the New York Times, those who said they were "waiting to see if Gore would enter the race" are pegged as "I just don't want to contribute."

Supporters now plan to place a full page ad in the Times.

"The supporters' group has already gathered about 127,000 signatures this year – 10,000 of them in the last week of September alone – and is planning to take out full-page advert in The New York Times as an open letter urging Mr Gore to run," he says. 'We feel that if [Mr Gore] wins the Nobel Prize ... then he can't not run for president,' Roy Gayhart, the man behind California's Draft Gore group, told Newsweek."

California Draft Gore, a grassroots political action committee, has hatched a plan to get their reluctant candidate off of theoretical fantasy polls and onto a real-life primary ballot.

Capitalizing on a provision of the state election law which allows for any name to be placed on a ballot provided enough signatures in favor of that candidate are secured, volunteers will begin scrambling next week to get 26,500 registered Democrats -- 500 from each of California's 53 congressional districts -- to sign off on the former vice president before a Dec. 4 deadline.

If all goes well, Gore's name will appear on ballots throughout the state when California's presidential primary is held in February of next year.

Gore has not indicated that he'll run. His Nashville headquarters declined comment to RAW STORY last week and did not immediately return a phone call or email seeking comment.

"In 2003, Gore asked us to stand down," Gayhart pointed out, but after contacting the Gore camp with their plans this year, the initiative has received no such suggestion this time around. "Everything he's doing appears to be leaving open the possibility."

In a May interview with Time, Gore didn't categorically deny he would consider a run, but did say he had "fallen out of love with politics," and that he wasn't "convinced the presidency is the highest and best role I could play."

http://rawstory.com//printstory.php?story=7851

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Post by Joolz » 10-10-2007 12:41 PM

One wonders WHY he has not just simply said, "NO, I am not running for president," as he did in 2003. He has, instead, as the writer in the above article suggests, danced around the issue, effectively leaving the door open. This is why so many of us have not given up hope.
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Post by Joolz » 10-10-2007 12:46 PM

I am thinking that IF he is going to announce a candidacy, he will likely do so between October 12 and October 23. The Nobel Prize announcement is on the 12th. October 23 is the first deadline (Michigan) for declaring a candidacy in order to officially be on the primary ballot. This is just a guess, however. There are other ways that this could happen, but this would be the least complicated.
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Post by SETIsLady » 10-10-2007 01:43 PM

Joolz wrote: This is why so many of us have not given up hope.
I am with ya Joolz, hoping he runs too.

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Post by Shirleypal » 10-10-2007 03:58 PM

'Draft Gore' Movement Makes '08 Pitch

October 10, 2007 1:11 PM

ABC News' Nitya Venkataraman Reports: Grassroots organization DraftGore.com pleaded with former Vice President Al Gore to enter the 2008 presidential fray via an "open letter" in the New York Times.

Written on behalf of volunteers and petitioners behind the DraftGore movement and addressed to Gore, the full-page ad in the Times' A-section says:

"You say you have fallen out of love with politics, and you have every reason to feel that way. But we know you have not fallen out of love with your country. And your country needs you now -- as do your party and the planet you are fighting so hard to save." (LINK)

(The ad's timing comes two days before the announcement of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winners; Gore's crusade for the environment landed him a nomination.)

DraftGore.com founder Monica Friedlander started the group in 2000 after her "outrage" towards the outcome of the Bush-Gore battle for the White House. Today, the group is run by a five-member executive committee, including Friedlander, each of whom operate from different locations. Alongside Friedlander, the committee includes: Treasurer Eva Ritchey in North Carolina, Nathalie Green in Kentucy, Andrea Aronhovde in Washington, D.C., and web guru Bill McCormick in California.

Ritchey says the five organizers met "by accident over the Internet four years ago just seeking fellowship with other people who believe Al Gore was a missed opportunity for America" and insists DraftGore.com has had no contact with Gore's office outside of delivering a petition of signatures to the former Vice President in July urging Gore to make an '08 run.

Ritchey describes their efforts as "a draft, not a fan club."

Though they serve mainly as an Internet hub providing "resources to the ground troops," Ritchey says DraftGore.com will launch a letter-writing campaign in the next week to Florida DNC Chair Karen Thurman to put Al Gore's name on the state ballot.

"If the president serves the people, we ought to get the choice. And since he is a viable choice he ought to be on the ballot," Ritchey says.

Ritchey describes their campaign's defining moment as the New Hampshire Democratic debate on September 26 "when the country came face to face with major candidates waffling on the issue of Iraq. I think it hit them like a brick."

Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes the next night began promoting Gore as a "political solution", Ritchey says, ever since she describes the swell of ground support "like a tsunami."

Ritchey told ABC News the ad cost them $64,575 and ran on stand-by, meaning the ad could run at any time within a seven-day window. Though the ad has been part of the group's larger strategy since late spring, DraftGore.com founder Monica Friedlander says the money for the ad was raised in six days following an appeal about ten days ago to their 136,000-member signature base.

Abbe Serphos, PR Director at the New York Times, said Times policy does not allow them to "disclose the rate that any one advertiser pays" but did confirm the rate and standby status of the ad given to ABC News by DraftGore.com.

Serphos confirmed that the rate for a full-page, seven-day standby ad in this category is $64,575.

DraftGore.com chair Friedlander says most contributions came in small donations in the $20-$50 range.

Because of that, Ritchey adds the "ad belongs to the petitioners."

Both Ritchey and Friedlander mentioned the importance of keeping their grassroots movement to draft the former Vice President separate from Gore's office.

Friedlander insists, "This is our effort, no way driven by him or encouraged by him," but she adds, "They also don't try to stop us."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar ... -move.html

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Post by Joolz » 10-11-2007 02:21 AM

Oh, oh, oh! Now, THIS is exciting news!!! Read between the lines... :D This from the San Francisco Chronicle:

Carla Marinucci:
UPDATE - Gore cancels appearance at Boxer fundraiser

Sen. Barbara Boxer's office just contacted us to say former Vice President Al Gore has been called "overseas" for a trip related to his work on global warming and has canceled his scheduled appearance Thursday in San Francisco at a fundraiser for Boxer's re-election effort. So the Boxer fundraiser -- which was to include Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne -- is off until Nov. 9.

Here's a note Boxer sent supporters about the change:

I just got a call from Vice President Al Gore. He told me that he needs to travel abroad tomorrow for an exciting and urgent mission that could result in a major breakthrough in the fight against global warming.

Unfortunately, this means that we must postpone our Thursday, October 11th event with him until Friday, November 9th. I wanted to be sure to e-mail you tonight in case you were planning on attending.

While I am really disappointed that we won't see Al Gore until next month, I am thrilled that he is continuing to provide critical leadership to address one of the most pressing issues of our time. You should know that only the most urgent global warming mission has called him out of the country.

I look forward to seeing you on November 9th so we can all hear first-hand about Al Gore's latest exciting initiatives. We will be back in touch in the coming days with more details about the rescheduled event.

Thank you so much for your continued friendship and support!

Barbara Boxer

Posted By: Carla Marinucci | October 10 2007 at 09:07 PM

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfg ... y_id=21062
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Post by Joolz » 10-11-2007 05:59 AM

Perhaps there are a multitude of reasons why Mr. Gore has chosen to be in Europe when the announcement is made...

A Climate Meeting With Nobel Laureates

By MARK LANDLER
Published: October 11, 2007


POTSDAM, Germany, Oct. 9 — Sixty-two years after the victorious Allied leaders convened in this stately Prussian town to create the post-World War II world, 15 Nobel Prize laureates assembled here this week for another momentous task: saving the world from global warming.

It was only an academic symposium, to be sure, and none of the scholars claimed to have a master plan to eradicate the threat of climate change. Still, there was a whiff of validation, if not victory, in the air.

“The scientific findings are clear: climate is changing, and it is a response to human activities,” said Mario J. Molina, a Mexican-American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1995 for being the first to posit that chlorofluorocarbons and similar chemicals could poke a hole in the ozone layer.

Dr. Molina spoke during a week of Nobel Prize announcements that the laureates at this meeting clearly hoped would culminate Friday with the awarding of a “green” Peace Prize.

Among those hotly rumored as candidates are three climate-change evangelists: former Vice President Al Gore; Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a Canadian Inuit who has warned of the threat to Arctic wildlife; and Rajendra K. Pachauri, an Indian scientist who leads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which assesses the risks of greenhouse gases for the United Nations.

Mr. Gore was not here, but his name came up frequently. And the Nobel winners, far from nitpicking “An Inconvenient Truth,” the film chronicling his climate campaign, seemed to embrace it.

Dr. Pachauri was here, and he kicked things off with his panel’s latest findings, which he said should end the debate about whether humans are making the planet dangerously warmer.

“People do raise this issue of what’s happening with the science, and whether the science is on board,” said Dr. Pachauri, showing slides of spiking emissions. “I think that argument really should be over.”

Even if the Norwegian Nobel committee passes over all the candidates who have worked on issues related to climate change, there was a bracing sense here that public opinion had finally caught up to science on the topic.

No longer is the United States, which refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol and continues to go its own way in climate policy, viewed as an insuperable hurdle to a global replacement deal.

“If you look at what’s happened in the last year or so, it’s been quite extraordinary,” said Sir Nicholas Stern, a British economist who wrote a report last year on the potential costs of not confronting climate change.

“It wasn’t until January this year that President Bush was at all clear there was a problem; now he’s sounding as if he’s a leader in the response to this problem,” Sir Nicholas said. That was one of the few times Mr. Bush’s name came up here, though he was the host of a recent meeting of 16 major carbon-emitting nations in Washington.

Asked why this was, the scientists offered a few theories. Mr. Bush, one said, was in the waning days of his presidency, and it would make more sense to look to his successor. “The expectation is that with the next administration, leadership will be recaptured,” Dr. Molina said.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, a scientist who advises Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany on climate policy, said that to be fair to the White House, it had come a long way on climate change.

At the Group of 8 meeting of leading industrial nations in June, Mr. Bush said the United States would “seriously consider” a European plan proposed by Mrs. Merkel to halve greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by 2050. The United States still opposes mandatory cuts, a policy advocated by Mrs. Merkel and the European Union and favored by the scientists here.

If the Nobel laureates have a political standard-bearer, it is Mrs. Merkel, a physicist who not only champions their cause but also speaks their language. She was here to give a speech and lingered to listen to Sir Nicholas and Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmental activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

Walter Gibbs contributed reporting from Oslo.

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Post by Shirleypal » 10-11-2007 09:02 AM

Thanks for the updates Joolz, I am so excited for the announcement tomorrow morning. Gore having gone to Europe at the last moment tells me he has won it and the announcement is forthcoming.:)

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Post by SETIsLady » 10-11-2007 08:35 PM

Why Al Gore deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

Oct. 11, 2007 | What's world peace got to do with global warming? Perhaps everything. Or it will if things don't change fast -- if, in 10 or 20 or 40 years devastating floods and droughts displace millions of refugees and spur nations and tribes to desperate bloodletting. At which point, no one will have the slightest doubt why members of the renowned Scandinavian foundation thought former U.S. Vice President Al Gore was an obvious choice for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Speculation has been growing that Gore will be chosen for the prize on Friday. Regardless of the outcome, Gore is, quite simply, the indispensable player in the drama of mankind's encounter with the possibility of destroying the climatic balance within which our civilization emerged and developed.

As anyone who read the book or watched the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" knows, Gore has been troubled by and fascinated with the science of climate change since his undergraduate days at Harvard, where he first encountered the theory that carbon emissions are slowly causing the planet to overheat. He began holding congressional hearings on the subject the moment he hit Washington in the early '70s and has not let up since -- perhaps because he understood instinctively that it was not a question of whether changing the atmosphere's chemical balance would disrupt climate, but when, and how fast.

He recognized, too, that the incredibly hard task of turning around the world's energy economy would become impossible if we waited for global warming to announce its presence, stage left, with alarum and hautboys as Shakespeare might have scripted.

So for years he accepted the thankless role of Cassandra, the Greek prophet no one would heed. But unlike Cassandra he did not sit by to watch fateful tragedy unfold. Once, when I was particularly frustrated by challenges I faced in my job at the Sierra Club, Gore heard me out and replied: "Never, ever give up." That would seem to be his motto, as reflected in the thousands of speeches he has delivered, the Live Earth concert he built from scratch, the naysaying he has endured, the movement he inspired.

What's all that have to do with peace? Look at Iraq, Darfur or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- bloody sites that have engendered three Nobel Peace prizes. Twenty-first century conflicts seldom feature stable governments colliding, but rather collapsing societies attacking themselves. These are much harder to solve with diplomacy or peacekeeping troops. Prevention is the key.

The Nobel Committee has recognized this in recent years, awarding its prize to such previously unlikely winners as Iranian feminist Shirin Abadi, and Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer of microfinance for the poor.

A quick list of trouble spots that climate chaos could ignite would include:

- The Sudan and Darfur -- where the ongoing violence, fueled by drought and destitution, might be described as the world's first global-warming civil war.

- South Asia -- where India, China and Pakistan might well go to war over the shrinking snow melt from the Tibetan Plateau.

- The eastern Mediterranean, where Syria, Iraq and Turkey contest the Euphrates.

-The Chinese-Soviet border, where the loss of agricultural lands could force even more of the Chinese population north of the Amur.

-The gradually drying region around the Aral Sea -- Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan

- Even Canada, Norway and the Soviet Union, whose governments are beginning to make bellicose noises about control of the suddenly ice-free Arctic.

In 2004, the Nobel Peace Prize went to Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai. She is not a general or president. She was founder of the grass-roots Green Belt Movement, which planted more than 30 million trees across the country, providing jobs, power and education to women in the process. In the Nobel committee's words upon awarding that prize: "Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment."

The committee apparently sees Gore in a similar light, as someone who has spent much of his career staving off conflicts by uniting strange bedfellows behind the common cause of protecting humanity's only home.

In the 20th century peace was something to be achieved after the horrifying bloodletting of world war began. In the 21st century, although the world faces a new era of turmoil, peace ultimately must be about identifying and resolving the sources of conflict before battles break out. That's why no one deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than Al Gore.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/10/11/gore/

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Post by SETIsLady » 10-11-2007 08:36 PM

Great Article Joolz, just like Shirley I am excited to hear the announcement tomorrow :)

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Post by Nightingale » 10-11-2007 08:54 PM

I am a big Gore fan and waiting for the big announcement, hope it will be two big announcements.:)

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Post by tiffany » 10-12-2007 09:43 AM

Well he won..........

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