When they lie right on the cover, it speaks volumes about the content of the film.
![Greedy-Lying-Bastards-Movie-Review[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/greedy-lying-bastards-movie-review1.jpg?quality=83)
What’s the lie in the cover you ask? I contacted the West Coast press agent to confirm my suspicion.
At first glance, I said to myself “they really wouldn’t be that stupid to make an oil slick for a photo op, would they“? After all, as any boater knows, the US Coast Guard has severe penalties for getting any oil on the water, be it intentionally or accidentally:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act prohibits the discharge of oil or oily waste into or upon the navigable waters of the United States or the waters of the contiguous zone if such discharge causes a film or sheen upon, or discoloration of, the surface of the water, or causes a sludge or emulsion beneath the surface of the water. Violators are subject to a penalty of $5,000.
I asked the West coast press agent, and got this reply:
I spoke with Craig and This picture was created digitally http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/greedy-lying-bastards-review.jpg
Thanks and please let me know if you have any other questions
Alexandra Drapac
MPRM Communications
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Los Angeles, CA 90036
Tel: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Fax: xxxxxxxxxxxx
I replied:
OK so that picture is fake, which speaks volumes about the content I suppose.
And got this reply in return:
Yes definitely fake-
Thanks!
Alex
Well and good to know. It reminds me of the famous Ursus Bogus scandal with Science, where fake digital photography was also used to make a point.
To illustrate its item about scientific facts, Science chose this image of a doomed poley bear:
One small problem.
As James Delingpole reveals, that poley bear image is fake. It’s been photoshopped. Science subsequently admitted:
The image associated with this article was selected by the editors. We did not realize that it was not an original photograph but a collage, and it was a mistake to have used it.
As Science says: “There is always some uncertainty associated with scientific conclusions.”
So just like that episode, Greedy Lying Bastards lies to the viewer right on the cover of the DVD. What a great start. It gets even more interesting, so lazy are the producers and contributors, they use erratum recycled language from 2005:
WUWT reader Russell Cook writes in an email:
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Our AGW friends are so lazy as to drop in material from 2005.
From this other page, notice how just a couple of words of substitution turns this farce into a spectacular example of sheer projection: http://www.exposethebastards.com/jim_hoggan_clearing_the_pr_pollution_that_clouds_climate_science
Few PR offences have been so obvious, so successful and so despicable as this attack on the science of climate change. It has been a triumph of disinformation – one of the boldest and most extensive PR campaigns in history, primarily financed by the ̶e̶n̶e̶r̶g̶y̶ ̶i̶n̶d̶u̶s̶t̶r̶y̶ enviro-activists’ benefactors and executed by some of the best PR talent in the world.
And right after that, Hoggan says…
…. Ross Gelbspan, in his books, The Heat is On and Boiling Point sets out the whole case, pointing fingers and naming names. PR Watch founder John Stauber has done similarly exemplary work, tracking the bogus campaigns and linking various pseudo scientists to their energy industry funders. ….
That is lifted verbatim from Hoggan’s 2005 WordPress blog, pre-Desmogblog. As I’ve said so many times, all paths in the smear of skeptics lead to Gelbspan.
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Heh. Recycled propaganda.
Apparently I don’t rate as a ‘bastard’. Color me disappointed. The list of heroes is equally funny. On the plus side, at least they weren’t stupid enough to put Peter Gleick on the list. They did however, interview Dr. Pieter Tans.
Pieter Tans, keeper of the CO2 records for Mauna Loa, is a self-declared 911 Truther. Here’s a letter to the editor he co-signed in 2006:
World has lost a true, humble friend
The world has lost a true friend in Gilbert White, winner of the 2000 National Medal of Science, natural resource adviser to FDR, ecologist before the word existed, president of Haverford College, social scientist and much else he was too humble to mention.
Gil was a fearless thinker who supported ideas that were before their time, such as the project at Vote.org and ideas that many ridicule or fear, such as evidence that a few people in our government allowed or caused the 9/11 attacks. He’s the eldest in the Oct. 21, 2004, Boulder Weekly photo with us, attending a 9/11 Truth event, although we weren’t identified — see Boulderweekly.com/archive/102104/coverstory.html. At lunch afterward, he expressed surprise and frustration that the media simply refused to make this an issue in the coming presidential election.
Gil was pretty sure that 9/11 was treason partly because, when he was working in the FDR White House, he witnessed the congratulatory atmosphere there the day of Pearl Harbor. He believed the government had invited the attack to get people’s support to enter World War II, and that something similar happened to get Congress’ (not the people’s) support for the Bush wars.
Gilbert could have been a member of almost any elite, but he preferred non-elitists. He believed in giving power to the people rather than keeping it in the hands of any elite. He hoped that when people learned that the government was complicit in 9/11 that they’d demand the kind of participatory government you can help realize at Vote.org. That’s why we risk accusations of sullying the dead by writing this.
Steven Jones, BYU Physics professor suspended for his work with Physics911.net, and Kevin Ryan, fired from Underwriters Laboratories for speaking out, will speak Oct. 29 from 2 to 6 p.m. in CU’s Math 100, along with the founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, Kevin Barrett, Ph.D.
EVAN RAVITZ, ROBERT McFARLAND,
PIETER TANS and MARTIN WALTER
Boulder
And here he is in a photo, he appears to be the one in the middle holding the banner:
![coverstory1[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/coverstory11.jpg?quality=83)
Source of the photo: http://archive.boulderweekly.com/102104/coverstory.html
Here’s Tan’s NOAA page: http://cires.colorado.edu/people/tans/
I wonder if Dr. Tans has ever heard of the Hatch act?
Watching the trailer and reading the synopsis, it seems to be the same old stuff, skeptics are (take your pick):
In the employ of big oil, recycled tobacco lobbyists, not scientists, ruthlessly greedy industrialists, don’t care about your children or your grandchildren, only out for profit, blah blah, blah.
We’ve heard it all before.
[ UPDATE:
I get this via one of my sources, Paul Dreissen, via email:
In case you don’t recall the name, GLB director Craig Rosebraugh used to be the mouthpiece for Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front anarchists and terrorists, who liked to brag about their firebombing of homes, cars and research labs. Nick Nichols and I discussed him and his exploits in some depth in Nick’s Rules for Corporate Warriors, pages 46, 47, 50, 217 and 306. He was investigated, and his computer hard drive was searched, but I don’t think the authorities were ever able to link him directly to the terrorists he assisted, and don’t believe he was ever successfully prosecuted.
When called to testify before a congressional committee that was investigating eco-terrorism, he took the Fifth on every question he was asked.
I confirmed this via Wikipedia and the citations here
From 1997 to 2001, Rosebraugh served as a spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front receiving anonymous communiques from the ELF and forwarding them on to news media internationally. In 1999, Rosebraugh co-formed the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office (NAELFPO) with Leslie James Pickering, where he continued to forward communiques, conduct international press interviews, and nationwide informational lectures on the ideology of the ELF movement.[10] Between 1997 and 2006, Rosebraugh received eight subpoenas to appear before federal grand juries to discuss his sources, but he has said he has no knowledge of them and refused to cooperate with the proceedings.
end update]
Only the weak minded will pay much attention to this movie, but then again, isn’t that the purpose of propaganda? Here is the movie trailer and the producer’s synopisis from the press kit:
“GREEDY LYING BASTARDS” SYNOPSIS
Hurricane Sandy. Wildfires in the West. “Brown-Outs” in the East. Farmers losing crops to the worst drought since the Dust Bowl. Climate change is no longer a prediction for the future, but a startling reality of today. The U.S. Pentagon believes it to be a matter of national and international security. Yet, as the evidence of our changing climate mounts and the scientific consensus proves a human causation, there continues to be no political action to thwart the warming of our planet.
“Greedy Lying Bastards” investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the scientific community that it is not only a reality but also a growing problem that is placing us on the brink of disaster. The film details the people and organizations casting doubt on climate science and claims that greenhouse gases are not affected by human behavior. Filmmaker and political activist Craig Rosebraugh, in association with Executive Producer Daryl Hannah, documents the impact of an industry that has continually put profits before people, waged a campaign of lies designed to thwart measures to combat climate change, used its clout to minimize infringing regulations and undermined the political process in the U.S. and abroad.
Millions are spent each year by oil and related interests to fund the think tanks, groups, scientists and politicians waging what the film deems a campaign of deceit regarding the science of climate change and its dire impact on the planet. Between 1998 and 2012, “Greedy Lying Bastards” reports ExxonMobil spent over $27 million to dispel claims of global warming. The Koch brothers, who run the conglomerate Koch Industries, also provide significant funding. From 1997 through 2012, they spent over $67 million.
A far different story about climate change is told by the residents of Kivalina, a small Alaskan island above the Arctic Circle. Over the last fifty years, winter temperatures have risen nearly seven degrees and the ice that once protected the land is not forming properly leading to increasing erosion. As one tribal administrator notes: “The debate is over, we are dealing with the realities of climate change.”
“Greedy Lying Bastards” also presents a shocking analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Citizens United. According to the film, not only did this 2010 ruling pave the way for unlimited corporate contributions to political campaigns, but additionally it highlighted the blatant corruption of the country’s highest Court and its cozy relationship with top corporate interests.
Filmed in the US, Tuvalu, Peru, England, Uganda, Kenya, Belgium, Denmark and Germany, “Greedy Lying Bastards” includes interviews with scientists, industry experts, international political delegates, and people impacted by the changing climate as well as deniers. Among them: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon; Rep. Henry Waxman (CA); former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman; top U.S. climate scientists Dr. Pieter Tans (NOAA), Dr. Mark Serreze (NOAA), Dr. Kevin Trenberth (NCAR), former President of Copenhagen Climate Summit
COP15 Connie Hedegaard, UN Environmental Program Executive Director Achim Steiner, leading climate science skeptics Myron Ebell, Christopher Monckton, and Jay Lehr, and victims of the 2012 wildfires and drought in the U.S.
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Kevin Trenberth displays the kind of objective, judicious, and probing insight we have come to expect from leading ClimateScience-TM propagandists:
Kevin Trenberth on “Greedy Lying Bastards”
One might think that Trenberth should hesitate to join in a propaganda campaign in company with such vile characters as a former ELF/ALF spokesman, a 911 Truther, and other obvious charlatans.
Oh…and, by the way…given the Hatch Act as currently written (i.e., following the 1993 amendments, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939 ), which of the prohibited activities do you believe that Tiens was engaging in?
Digital manipulation is very prevalent in today’s world. How do you think the new category of “Low Information Voter” came about? It sure was not from an accurate communication of current events.
The challenge is to indentify and verify. Hard to do for some, hence the situation we currently expernience.
My Grandma always told me to tell the truth!
That way I never had to remember what I said 🙂
Do you think some of the “high visibility” climate scientists could pass a “Lie” detector test?
Ha, let alone our POTUS!
They gonna get ya in the end!
If you want a prime example of how censorship is in play, try to find the original version of this song on YouTube, as dictated by the CAGW crowd sponsered by Google. LOL !
Well, in the book, there are lots of government documents that back up or support what the author has said. Seeing them made me doubt the official story.
I have read those books and honestly one must be a conspiracy Kook to give any of this crap credence
Mr. Danhoff:
Gilbert White, who worked for FDR, is dead. He was a courageous intellect and, (apparently) a friend of Pieter Tans. Re-read. ….Lady in Red
Reminds me of an old Buffy episode:
“Why don’t I believe them?”
“Well, they lack credibility.”
No gutter too deep for the AGW wack-jobs to troll. btw James Earl Ray, Oswald, etc… those are poor foundations to build a theory on. Stuff happens and sometimes one loser with a gun makes a shot.
They really should direct their ire to the Earth–that’s the thing not cooperating with their fictional cult!
Or, like incorrigible, spoiled children, they can vent to their heart’s content–It provides ample entertainment.
I should be listed as the Chief Blogging Bastard. I exploited climategate and did spread the word all over the internet crossblogging day and night all over the place. I was a major help in killing the global governance carbon tax financing. Where’s my recognition? Long live Climate Change, as if anyone can stop it.
Although I often hear leftists (and others I consider to be ignorant) saying this, I SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. The US was fighting against a well organized group that were agitating to keep the US out of the war, a war that they desperately were needed in, No, the US didn’t enter the war and single-handedly end it, but if they were in it from September 1, 1939 they could have dramatically reduced the loss of life and devastation through Europe.
Don’t kid yourself, the anti-war activists during WW2 were just as well financed and organized as they were for Vietnam… by communists and, then, Nazis. The ones we’ve seen for the last decade are, in comparison, ineffective and look as ridiculous as they should.
Anyway, back to the original point, the FDR White House had every right to party and backslap. If the fifth columnists and other traitors had continued to have their way, who knows where things would have ended up? Pearl Harbor was a brilliant miscalculation by Japan, and it infuriated Hitler who, although didn’t understand what the US would be capable of, recognized that they would pile on.
As for the rest of this “mockumentary”, it’s laughably childish, apparently from the michael moore school of smears and innuendo, and is completely safe to ignore.
I experienced a moment of confusion when I first saw “ELF” as I was unable to fathom why someone connected with the French energy company Elf Aquitaine (purchased by Total, S.A. in 2000) would be involved in a Grade D propaganda film.
wikipedia entry for Elf Aquitaine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_Aquitaine
Executive Producer Daryl Hannah was on O’Reilly the other night and proved that she is as dumb as nails. This was after her arrest in Washington.
Along with promoting solar panels and windmills she told O’Reilly that he could run his non diesel auto on ethanol from a fueling station at his home as long as he had room for a trash can. No mention that he better check to see if his car is suitable for 100% or that the warranty might be voided or that it might totally ruin the engine. I wonder if she knows that there might be legal problems installing a fueling station at your home.
She also told him that he could heat his home on Long Island with alcohol burners.
Finally she claimed that alcohol is not flammable not realizing that then the car engine would not run if it is not flammable. The video is here:
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/index.html#http://video.foxnews.com/v/2203432541001/daryl-hannah-enters-no-spin-zone/?playlist_id=86923
(My last post on this subj. Promise, mods)
CrackerJack boxes are such a wealth of info … right ferd?
I’m just curious now, and I’m going to make this my last post on this subj (golf claps heard all ’round!), but, I’m curious, have you done any research/reading of material outside of what the hucksters and purveyors of ‘crap’ publish, something a little more studied, like what is found at the source below?
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
Remember: ” Con-spiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded. ”
Past history: I spent time (to much time, really) around the 40th anniversary looking into and researching this event, never before having done so, and having looked at the evidence available, read Posner’s book … AND including reading about a prior event in this e.g. Os wald’s earlier attempt to assassinate General Walker (WHICH no one, esp , the con-spiarcxy hucksters ***ever*** talk or write about!!!!!! Ever!!!!!!!) I think that a natural ‘skeptic’ would like to see some alternative, rational viewpoints and facts, on this subj (but I could be wrong) …
(Okay. My last post on this subj.)
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When caught lying, tell bigger lies, louder, faster.
This video looks like another own goal.
I love the smell of desperation coming form “Team Carbon Cult”.
‘The stench of corruption is strong………may the disinfectant be with you…’ – unknown
Oh….I get it. I thought they were talking about the AGW promotion industry.
How could I have been confused?
I was looking for this one when I found the one above:
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because
everything would be what it isn’t. And contrarywise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t
be, it would. You see?” —Alice in Wonderland
Who’s going to want to see movie about a guy sitting in a redneck bass boat without a fishing rod?
“In case you don’t recall the name, GLB director Craig Rosebraugh used to be the mouthpiece for Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front anarchists and terrorists”
In the name of science can we please call a spade a spade here… the ELF and ALF are both hardcore socialist groups who want the government to ban all kinds of stuff.
No anarchist wants the government to ban anything… because anarchists want the government to stop existing and thus in turn want all government regulations to stop existing as well. No anarchist would ever support these groups because these groups heavily support government… which is why they are socialist in nature.
‘Pieter Tans, keeper of the CO2 records for Mauna Loa, is a self-declared 911 Truther. Here’s a letter to the editor he co-signed in 2006:
World has lost a true, humble friend
The world has lost a true friend in Gilbert White, winner of the 2000 National Medal of Science, natural resource adviser to FDR,…
Gilbert could have been a member of almost any elite, but he preferred non-elitists.’
Ok, Pieter Tans, please explain to me, without employing too much distracting gibberish, precisely (or even not so precisely) how someone who was a ‘natural resource adviser to FDR’ actually preferred ‘non-elitists’. You mean FDR was not a member of the elites. Is a patrician something other than an elite? Or, was FDR not one of those either? Was he actually a White House garbage collector masquerading as president?
But before you answer, let me thank you for noting how someone represents their superior status through their natural membership in that special class of humanity called ‘elites’ yet manages to even rise above even that superior station through their decision to descend to a much lower class of humanity called the non-elites for their associations. How wonderfully condescending. That, plus your ‘911 Truther’ association makes it quite clear what you’re doing in this movie. BTW: Did you know that the heads of the FBI and the CIA on 9/11 were both Clinton appointees?
ferd berple says:
March 7, 2013 at 6:42 pm
“Oswald makes miracle shot on moving target with poor quality weapon and no sniper scope.”
I’ve been to Dealey Plaza several times. Everything looks bigger on TV. The fact is, Dealey Plaza is quite small. It really wasn’t a difficult shot.
CodeTech says:
March 7, 2013 at 7:43 pm
“Don’t kid yourself, the anti-war activists during WW2 were just as well financed and organized as they were for Vietnam… by communists and, then, Nazis. The ones we’ve seen for the last decade are, in comparison, ineffective and look as ridiculous as they should.”
Eventually the country goes bankrupt paying for false flag wars. Here’s what the think tanks are coming up with to start our next war, this is not one of those silly little theories;
Lobbyist suggests False Flag attack needed to start war with Iran
Wow, Tans keeper of the CO2 scriptures and believer in conspiracy theories. was he contacted by that “scientist” in Oz? wossisname? you know, the kooky cheater ..oh wait who cares.
“GreedlyLyingBarstards”
Starring
Al Gore, Micheal Mann, James Hansen, , John Cook, Stephan Lewindowsky, Perter Gleik,…
and a realm of other catastrophists, whose sole aim is to lie and cheat so as to enlarge their bank balances from the funds of governments and the oil industry.