We’ve seen Marc Morano from time to time on network news programs. Usually he’s being heckled by somebody brought on for “balance” like Joe Romm or some clueless professor named Watson from East Anglia. This time, nobody wanted to come on, and it wasn’t because of fear of debating Marc. “no pressure”
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BTW, is it just me, or has there been a load of trolling from users with a first name and initial in the last few months? I wonder if that is the same person, or just coordinated? Of course, if I’ve pointed it out, it will surely stop now….
This just blew up a few days ago… so to speak.
Global Warming activists betrayed a sinister underlying truth about themselves. They do not respect human life. They see people and an infection on the planet. They are willing to consider the notion that the culture of death is a solution to the loss in popularity of the global warming lie, and killing the opposition is a workable solution.
They have been “killing” good scientists for years, professionally speaking. They have been socially isolating any skeptics with this kind of attitude. Ask Timothy Ball.
The film is simply a reflection of what the global warming alarmists really think and that alone is justification to stop them.
I got an email back from O2 stating that they didn’t sponsor 1010. I sent them a link back with a press release on it stating thea O2 was a sponsor of 1010 and asked for clarification.
Yeah but Fox news is pretty difficult to watch too.
Sony have bailed from the 10:10 Campaign.
“it is now evident that Sony does not see the funny side of 10:10’s “snuff movie”. In an e-mail statement, it says:
… we strongly condemn the “No Pressure” video which was conceived, produced and released by 10:10 entirely without the knowledge or involvement of Sony. The company considers the video to be ill-conceived and in extremely bad taste. We also believe the video risks undermining the work of the many thousands of members of the public, schools and universities, local authorities and many businesses, of which Sony is one, who support the long-term aims of the 10:10 movement and who are actively working towards the reduction of carbon emissions.
As a result we have taken the decision to disassociate ourselves from 10:10 at this time.”
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/10/epic-win.html
So they exploded a container of red stuff and splattered the children with goo, and the children weren’t wearing protective eye goggles? And ear protection? Where was health and safety?
Note for non UK countries – health and saftey is very much at the forefront here in the UK.
My first thought was; is this not just more of the same? Apart from the stupidity in the choice of the storyline the message is and has been that people with a dissenting view are worthless, of no consequence, to be dismissed without consideration. But on reflection and if I may dare to suggest it, to be disposed of and society to be cleansed. Ughh.
I’ve been looking at other 10:10 sites.
10:10 Portugal was quick to put a disclaimer on their site, dissociating themselves from the video, essentially saying that they had nothing to do with it. They stop short of condemning it, and say something about the uniqueness of British humour etc. The whole tone is “I didn’t do it”.
10:10 in France, Germany and Spain have ignored the issue as far as I could see. I suppose they think it’s better to ignore it and pretend it goes way.
Zeke,
Some parents deny public school from kids from religious / other grounds and the kids will end up discounnected from the society, with very poor skills. This is mostly aproblem with families with different cultural backgrounds – I have personal and professional experience of this issue.
How do you suggest the kids rights to a proper education and integration into the society are upheld? I agree that parents should get to decide but the kids have rights too and if the parents fail them, having the ability to chat with them and visit the place of tuition is a necessary failsafe system imho.
>>>It still boggles my mind that no saboteur was involved.
No need, this is how they think. I had an argument about renewable electricity with one group, and pointed out that the intermittent supplies may bring down civilisation, and reduce their children to poverty and penury.
Their answer?? “”If that is what it takes….””
There you have it. From the horse’s mouth, they are willing to sacrifice their own children. Worse than Abraham himself.
Don’t be too hard on the sponsors … YET..
Sony, I am sure were totally oblivious to all this, and have BAILED OUT immediately (ie a weekend got in the way)
I’m sure the other sponsors will follow..
The actuall idea of the campoaign, whilst never possible of doing anything about emmissions was not to bad….
In the UK there were 1600 schools listed in the 10:10 website…
Including my six year old dfaughter’s infant school..
I spoke to the HeadTeacher, (oblivious) sent her the below email..
And she withdrew the school IMMEDIATELY….
Email to my child’s headteacher ( I may do the same to other schools in my area , and a few sponsors)
This 10:10 Campaign video was proudly launched as a scoop in the Guardian..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/30/10-10-no-pressure-film?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments
watch the video…. How to Cut Carbon Emmisions
DO NOT WATCH IT WITH ANY CHILDREN AROUND
It was prominently displayed on the from page of the 10:10 website.
They were proud of it, ANY child in a 10:10 campiagn school, looking at their website.. this was the first thing that they would see.. First thing you would come across, if you were innocently looking for 10:10 information.. SAFE to do so, because you had seen about 10:10 in school.
The (ignore the blood and guts for a moment) the underlying message is appalling, go along with voice of authority, those who disagree, or not totally commited, are labelled, identified as, lazy, scruffy, indifferent, unintelligent…
It is pure propaganda to impose one groups world view, and desensitise people.
put aside the violence (that is just an excuse to make it a joke) the message is bullying and conformity..not something any school should be involved with.
What shocks me the most is that hundreds of people wewre involved with this, and did not see how it would be perceived, Including the Guardain, who were excited to promote it…
It was due to be shown in cinemas, posted on Youtube, twitter, etc, all the media that children would and could see.. and look out for, alongside, Greenpeaces ‘Angry Kid’ ‘ UK governments’ Bedtime Stories’ and ‘The Falling Polar Bears’ cinema ad.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/30/10-10-no-pressure-film?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments
one of many comments from the Guardian..
1 October 2010 11:26PM
What struck me were the faces of the children after their friends had been blown to pulp, astonishment. As if understanding had suddenly registered to their young brains what “no pressure” really means when it comes from the mouth of an ecowarrior.
If it were supposed to be light hearted and funny they would not have included those images of fear on the faces of the children who had complied to their green carbon message.
This tells me this was never meant to be humour, it was a deadly serious attempt to intill a climate of fear. And then the final sequence when the girl has given her time for free, she is a supporter, but it is not enough, she must also be disposed of.
In Cambodia they executed people for owning glasses. I think this come close to that mindset.
This really is about inciting hatred and violence against anyone who is outside the paranoid world of extreme green politics. I hope it really causes a storm in
the media, but I am not holding my breath. The Guardian actually seem to be proud of their association with the film!
The comments in the Comment are Free section are interesting, it starts with all the greenies saying how funny it all is before a deluge of hostile comments arrives. The hostile comments have approval ratings of up to 500, the people who find it funny are left languishing with very few approval ratings. This has been a big mistake.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/30/10-10-no-pressure-film
Some of words of the founder of 10:10 campiagn
“Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age” Franny – The Founder of 10:10
“Because we have got about four years to stabilise global emissions and we are not anywhere near doing that. All our lives are at threat and if that’s not worth jumping up and down about, I don’t know what is.” – Franny – The founder of 10:10
“What to do with those people, who are together threatening everybody’s existence on this planet? ”
I guess that means me…
So what is Franny to do with those people……………
So what is Franny to DO, with , ‘insert your name here’
Official apology from Kyocera.
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From: Tracey Rawling Church
Subject: 10:10 video
Date: 5 October 2010 08:09:37 CEST
To: r****@***
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your email, just received. I totally understand your reaction to this video, which was very similar to my own.
Kyocera Mita UK has supported the 10:10 campaign because we share its ambition to reduce carbon emissions. However, we don’t support the “No Pressure” video and are dismayed by the suggestion that we might have been knowing partners in its production; in fact, we had no knowledge of its content until it appeared online. We consider that 10:10 made a grave error of judgement in its choice of creative approach, which is totally at odds with the inclusive and positive attitude that has been the hallmark of its other activities. We understand that 10:10 has acknowledged its mistake, withdrawn the video and issued an apology.
I assure you that we are taking this issue extremely seriously. A formal statement will be issued in due course.
Kind regards
Tracey
Tracey Rawling Church
Director of Brand and Reputation
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KYOCERA MITA (UK) Limited
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Tel: +44 (0) 118 923 0665 Fax: +44 (0) 118 931 1108 Mobile: +44 (0) 7785 316612
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By the way, the video you have all been looking at is not the original. This was what they wanted to put out, but it was deemed to be too shocking.
This is what the Greens really want.
😉
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>>I’m just waiting for the parodies to appear, you know where
>>the ‘exploded’ declare themselves: gay, christian, muslim, jewish etc.
The spoofs are already out there. This was the best, but they have already pulled it.
http://www.youtube.com/videos?ytsession=nUevqHAO1isfH1Mju4oQ01p92Qt88JIYgj1s380DagspQuR78jXSifRoVToQN7QRRWhNu_X_7rztDGV2oOKLs8F0nIRSUzQyz_0CeMZ31CxfNOg-2lTUXOufqRNJXaQWkoNcgptuJj8MfnLf-d9xkZBerEce1gKmM5Cn6NlHInz6AiyffjnmT3VmBhszZMI8FI6IXN2zrtWSsuYSgm8wN5nHhF4FDW1cSdfyS43W10yDv4CATbCr1HfTZfB1Ay-V3SVwxaI1cPain7sCttIlqXrmIjbEre6KfXshCE2dlIzwIT3gyXnwTQpxeqco0ELrmQlhJUt0tdg4RFsAB0BzgEJua_HHubvZ-kID5dTuIUfZbh4Ak2jWhjsNP4thM2BTJgebyaFAmZY
Someone is embarrassed, obviously. Damage limitation is full swing….
Spanner Films is putting a spanner in the works !!
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As an adendum, this is Spanner Films, who appear to have made the video.
http://spannerfilms.net/
Strange, but they have no acknowledgement for this video on their website. !!
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Optimizer at 10:14 pm makes the most important point to me, and one which Fox barely touched.
“People being collected up and politely reassured that they were safe, when in fact they were about to be mass murdered? This doesn’t ring familiar with anyone?”
It rung all the same bells with me, mate. The point to focus on is not the exploding of children per se but that anyone who fails to embrace the cause with sufficient enthusiasm, never mind actually disagree, is of absolutely zero value and can be ended at the touch of a button with no more regret than is felt when taking out the garbage. Even Gillian Anderson’s character is treated as disposable once it’s clear that while she’s an enthusiastic supporter she doesn’t care to join in. All they missed was someone saying, “Thanks, Gill, but you’ve just outlived your usefulness.”
That kind of callous indifference to human life is indeed familiar, and while the obvious comparison breaks Godwin’s Law I feel that for once the comparison is a fair one. If you want to go with Stalin or the Khmer Rouge or whatever bunch of headcases who have the same kind of attitude to dissenters, go for it (your choice, no pressure 😉 ), but I think it’s slightly unfortunate that Fox focussed on the children aspect over the simple callous indifference to human life that the 10:10 video portrays. It’s that indifference that I find more worrying.
I am a very Important Official, & you must listen to me, I understand the issues that Mr Morano raises, but we feel he has behaved “irresponsibly” in his deliberate misinterpretation of the thread of the video in bringing the extremely dangerous issues of Climate Change to the fore!
Well that’s the sort of PC bovine faecal tosh that we’ll be fed over this most unpleasant piece if entertainment! We have had 13 years of a Socialist government telling us what our rights are, all fed through the sanitised portal of the EU. (& 20 years of PC garbage). The only time I have ever heard a member of that government ever use the word repsonisbility, is as used in the above paragraph! It’s the typical PC socialist put down to refer too an opponent as “irresponsible” of course! My views have been expresses elsewhere on this blog. I have no excuse for it. I used to love British humour, it was always on the risky/saucey side, slightly lavatorial if you will, but this is not British Humour at all, is British sickness, a disease that’s engulfed the entire country. The UK is a provincial state in the PDREU/UESR, where they give millions in grants to Greenpeace & WWF to lobby, err…….well the EU & British Government (provincial council), to make environmental laws based on alleged independent reports by these organisations, so that they can claim that their hands are tied, they don’t want to pass these laws, but they have to so hard cheese! Do you think the USA/Canada/Australia et al are so immune? I don’t think so.
BTW I’m not a golfist & don’t own a set of golfist bats, so apologies for the UESR winning at that peculiar past-time! I also apologise that we played under that ghastly blue banner. The circle is almost complete. I wonder when the Thin Red Line will be called upon yet again to make a stand, holding out long enough to buy time & then turn to our colonial cousins across the water to help us out?
>>Barry Woods says: October 5, 2010 at 12:11 am
Ouch !! What a disgusting GreenPeace video !!
What fascist regime produced this video eh? Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, PR of China, Pol Pot??
Just replace the word ‘adult’ with ‘Jew’ and you get the idea.
Fascists.
The Guardian (a 10:10 “media partner”) has an article here describing the film as “intended as a tongue-in-cheek spoof of hectoring greens”. Er, yes, so we’re supposed to believe, are we, that they went to all this trouble – money, people, time, etc. – just to make fun themselves? Somehow I don’t think so – the excuses are getting increasingly absurd.
Sorry for the long post, email just sent…
Dear O2
I imagine that O2 like Sony, were completely unaware of the content of the 10:10 Campaign ‘No Pressure’ video…
I just sent this email to 10:10 (attached below) I forgot to copy O2, O2 still apparently support this stupidity..
James Delingpole – Telegraph journalist – credits me with sending him this story (and half the civilised world – he said)
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100056510/go-green-or-well-kill-your-kids-says-richard-curtis-eco-propaganda-shocker/
Fox News has just shown, the 10:10 Campiagn exploding children on their News channel in the USA
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/04/morano-on-fox-news-on-the-1010-exploding-children-film/
The Headteacher at my 6 year old child’s INFANTS School, watched 1 minute and 11 seconds of the ‘No Pressure’ video.
(when the first child that disagreed with 10:10 is killed by the teacher)
She then immediately, contacted 10:10 and withdrew the school completely from the 10:10 Campaign
Sony pulled out VERY quickly from 10:10, what will O2 do….?
!! Your Choice, No Pressure !!!!! (I have no red button !!!)
What were they thinking!!!!
And the Guardian, to sponsor the launch.!
Best Regards
Barry Woods
—– Original Message —–
From: Barry Woods
To: xxxxxx@1010ukCc: jonovaxxxxxx ; willettsd@parliamentxxxxx ; stringerg@xxxxxxxx; Roger Harrabin – BBC ; Richard Black-BBC ; millera@parliamenxxxxxx; Telegraph, Herald Sun, Eureferendum blog
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:47 AM
Subject: The lesson learnt is….. 10:10 Campaign’s sickening ‘No Pressure’ video.
the lesson learnt is…
Delete all the critical comment of you…Supress any criticism as if it wasn’t there….
This is going to be huge in the USA: Fox News ran with it.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/04/morano-on-fox-news-on-the-1010-exploding-children-film/
Thousand of comments, that you invited on your website (ignore the rude,swearing ones) you just deleted everyone, your child supporters amongst them, because you were embarrased..
Bit like the video, Or In Franny’s words…
What DO with THOSE people….. (the afflicted: she said, her words and video in the link below)
What WERE the Guardian thinking?!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/30/10-10-no-pressure-film?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments
Many thousands of children were part of the 10:10 Campaign, many have been doubly betrayed, by the video, and by your censorship.
They have NOW LEARNT an IMPORTANT LESSON, that there voices can be deleted to, by the people they supported, just for critcising..
Some (now deleted) comments below.. that is the mindset, delete/ignore/supress/label, wish away anyother thoughts or people…
Some of the 3000 plus (your own supporters) missing now from the 10 10 apology page…
http://www.1010global.org/uk/2010/10/sorry
2. Dan Woodfine
Dear 10:10
I’m a teenager who has spent the last year trying to convince my parents to be more aware of the environment, to put more effort into recycling, to save energy etc. And what’s more – it was working.
They’ve now seen your video and have been interrogating me about who I’m associating with, warning me about “eco-terrorists” and other such nonsense.
In short, with this video, you’ve completely undone everything I’ve tried to do to help my parents. You’ve made them suspicious of me, and you’ve made them downright angry.
Thanks for nothing, you bunch of idiots.
1. Carol Ann Cattell
Is that the best you can do, 10:10 leaders? Still no apology even to your supporters. Mention jokingly a “lively round on cake”, which was about 5 out of 3000 comments? Like a finishing school dormitory girls’ giggle? And your main statement still says “most” thought it funny but “some” didn’t – but the truth is, as you know, the opposite – that globally, thousands found it crass and unfunny and authoritarian and just, well, crap in promoting your cause.
You. Just. Don’t. Get. It.
And some – a handful of goodhearted souls – have loyally supported you, but not terribly well, all the time you were silent. All a bit of a laugh, was it? Going back to Mummy and Daddy and their contacts for a bit more money, now, are we?
God, you make me angry. And most of us were on your side, if you hadn’t been so blinkered. No, the eco stuff is still there and serious and needs serious consideration, proper scientific facts, and effective action. But I hope to god you lot aren’t anywhere near it. You’re toxic. You can’t even say sorry properly. You’ve no idea, have you? We’re just plebs to be sniggered at, fodder for your little wanky games. For the earth’s sake, just grow up, will you?
Yeah, I’m a smidgen cross.
3. Managing Director
Our corporate accountants alerted me this evening to the existance (sic) of this video and to remind me that we had made a financial contribution to the 10:10 campaign. Having viewed it, I find it personally repulsive in the extreme. You have had the last donation you will ever get from our business or any business with which I have any influence. What could you have been thinking?
4. Dear all at 10:10
I have supported your campaign to date, am pro-green, pro-cutting carbon emissions, and generally very environmentally conscious. I also grew up in a country where people were blown up and killed by terrorists on a daily basis. I know people who died in this way, and from this video, I imagine from this video that no one at your office, or on your creative team, has experienced this.
The mini-movie campaign indicates a total lack of sensitivity. Further, whatever the intended message might have been, it does implicitly suggest that those who disagree with you should be blown up. If this had been aimed at people who are of a different race, religion, sexuality, etc, it would have been evidently grossly unacceptable.
Sadly, the mini-movie makes me ashamed to have lent my support, and put my name to 10:10. I imagine your corporate sponsors may feel similarly. I am reluctant to continue to be associated with an organisation which can advertise its cause in this way, even if I support the underlying green cause.
This is compounded by what is somewhat obviously a non-apology. It is not a sense of humour failure (as you seem to imply) for people who may actually have seen children, friends, etc blown up, not to consider your mini-movie particularly funny.
The environmental cause will now to have to deal with the damage that you’ve managed to do it. Your supporters deserve a decent apology for the damage you have done to the general reputation of the green movement.
We will just have to continue onwards and upwards without you.
Barry Woods (12:04am), your quote bears repeating and I’ve bookmarked it
Kath @ur momisugly 11:26 on the 4th.
Quite so. I am very annoyed that being a ‘sceptic’ is equated with being wasteful and uncaring of the world’s resources. We have been trying to do ‘green’ things for many years, but all this coercive nonsense from 10:10 makes me feel like going out and having a massive energy binge.
I feel this too bears repeating:
FREE THE DEBATE
Here are the main science issues for debate and reexamination (IMHO):
* The inflation of warming due to a whole basketful of factors like UHI, corrupting the data and insufficiently or improperly accounted-for.
* The artificial depression of past temperature records due to the very nature of the calibration of proxies, that cannot help but mine for hockey sticks.
*The artificial depression of past CO2 levels due to a whole basketful of factors including the reasons for CO2’s partial escape from ice cores before measurement.
* The city-dwellers’ failure to comprehend the vast mass of the oceans, compared with the tiny mass of the atmosphere, and the oceans’ capacity, following Henry’s Law, to outgas CO2 far in excess of all our emissions, at the tiniest global temperature increase.
* Reluctance to look at what is staring everyone in the face: the Sun and astrophysics: because the measured solar effects, still very inadequately understood, are not large enough to cause the measured temperature changes – although there is correlation.
* The unstated, unrecognized abandonment of Scientific Method, and adoption of models rather than data, again for a whole basketful of reasons.
And here are the ethical issues (h/t Layne Blanchard):
…… the activists who have abandoned science,
…….who have falsified data to support their fantasy,
……..who have slandered and intimidated those who simply told the truth,
……..who have worked to wrongly destroy reputations and livelihoods,
……..who sought to silence dissent AND STILL LOST THE DEBATE,
so now they turn to defenseless children with their indoctrination.
http://www.cartoonsbyjosh.com/Gore_extra.jpg