People send me stuff. Here’s a press release from a PR firm that I really don’t understand. Why are LGBTQ activists joining in a climate protest against Google? The only reason I can think of is that based on their past performance, “Forecast the Facts” couldn’t find enough warm bodies to hold a protest. I had to laugh at the tagline.
Media Advisory For: February 18, 2014
Contact:
Anna Zuccaro, anna@fitzgibbonmedia.com, (914) 523-9145
Molly Haigh, molly@fitzgibbonmedia.com, (907) 705-1999
TUESDAY: Google Faces Protests Over ALEC Ties
Progressives to Google: Don’t Be Evil, Stop Funding Right Wing Extremists
Mountain View, CA — Today, dozens of climate and LGBTQ activists will protest outside of Google HQ to demand the tech giant cut ties with the extreme right wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is one of the most notorious and influential peddlers of climate denial in the country.
What: Rally against Google funding climate denial and right wing-extremism in the form of ALEC
Who: Dozens of climate and LGBTQ rights activists. The event and campaign are being organized by Forecast the Facts, Courage Campaign, and SierraRise.
Where: Google Headquarters, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway. Mountain View, CA 94043
When: 2:30pm Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014
Visuals: Dozens of people with a 3’x8′ banner reading “Google: Don’t Fund Evil” and signs with the same message.
Right now, state legislatures in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado are considering bills developed by ALEC to force public schools to teach children climate denial.
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Forecast the Facts is a membership organization that seeks to ensure that Americans receive accurate information about climate change from the media, politicians, and corporations.
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I had to laugh at the tagline, because as we all know, former Climate Progress writer and now “Forecast the Facts” activist in charge Brad Johnson is all about “accuracy”:
ThinkProgress discussion of the tornado outbreak – click image for the full article
My rebuttal: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/29/the-folly-of-linking-tornado-outbreaks-to-climate-change/
Hate to say it but I wouldn’t be quite so complacent about this – as many commenters seem to be. Think Progress is an offshoot of the Center for American Progress. The CFAP was founded by none other than John Podesta who was brought into the Whitehouse recently as Barack Obama’s chief advisor. Following the 2010 midterms, where the Democrats took a “shellacking” in the House, John Podesta authored a 47 page instruction manual as to how the POTUS could use the bureaucracy, tricky legal maneuvers, and the presidential pen to bypass Congress. And now he’s on board. And Obama does not face reelection.
There’s one other issue to raise in which I may sound silly but I don’t intend to. When human beings set up exclusionary cliques or tribes they begin to develop an apparent visibly identifying similarity with its other members. We see this all the time and sometimes it’s downright humorous, but sometimes, when they’re seeking a devious control, it can be downright ominous. Check out Podesta and Obama’s hairstyles.
If I lived in that area, I would visit the demon-stration with signage in Support of Google
Jimmy Haigh says:
February 18, 2014 at 8:13 am
Molly is not a close relative of mine.
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Sure… you say that now.
(ducks)
“Why are LGBTQ activists joining in a climate protest against Google?”
Because they are loyal foot-soldiers in leftist extortion rackets.
I presume the local media will give coverage if only 5 people show up.
That’s how it is in the Portland arena.
Any few people can gather to chant left wing nonsense and get coverage but an entire room full of people making sense about climate isn’t news worthy.
Steve Oregon says: @ur momisugly February 18, 2014 at 12:37 pm….
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JP Morgan helps fund Greenpeace as I showed above. JP Morgan controls a lot of the MSM link (see first comment)
JP Morgan hired Ex-prime Minster Tony Blair. (You can do the search)
Reuters, 7/05/2013 – TABLE-JPMorgan’s U.S. power plants and energy trading deals
Following the money tells you where the string-pullers are.
Any Canadians (or those interested in Canadian protestors…zzzzz..zzzz) should go to a new(ish) blog that very clearly (and bravely) shows the interconnection between the various protest groups here, including the most recent recruits to Malthusian economics:
http://www.genuinewitty.com/
When you drill down to the actual numbers of participants in some of these groups, you get the idea that Monty Python, as usual was there first when it was truly satire, not pathetic reality:
“The only people we hate more than the Romans are the $^$#^ Judean People’s Front.
P.F.J.: Yeah…
JUDITH: Splitters.
P.F.J.: Splitters…
FRANCIS: And the Judean Popular People’s Front.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters…
LORETTA: And the People’s Front of Judea.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Splitters. Splitters…
REG: What?
LORETTA: The People’s Front of Judea. Splitters.
REG: We’re the People’s Front of Judea!
LORETTA: Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front.
REG: People’s Front! C-huh.
FRANCIS: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?
REG: He’s over there.”
Mike S. says:
February 18, 2014 at 12:24 pm
“Why are LGBTQ activists joining in a climate protest against Google?”
Because they are loyal foot-soldiers in leftist extortion rackets.
As a member of the LGBT community I slightly take exception to the idea that we can be relied upon to support a radical leftist agenda irrespective of its merits. I am at a loss as to why they need to graft the credentials of a noble cause (which LGBT rights is – being to do with human rights) onto one which isn’t (CAGW). Desperation I suppose. Most of my gay and transgender friends aren’t radical at all. Or if they are it’s out of necessity, not choice. They just want to lead normal lives. Doesn’t seem too much to ask. We have achieved a lot in the last 30-some years in terms of acceptance and equality. The anthropogenic global warming “cause” seems to be faltering. Maybe it lacks merit.
Yeah, that sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
I have found Google to be rather annoying. To have the LGBT click protest them, is (there isn’t a word for this) weird. This has to be some kind of plot by Google to get realists back on their side again…………
LGBTG, not Q at the end. Unless something changed again and I missed it.
“Why are LGBTQ activists joining in a climate protest against Google?”
Because the activists share an underlying ideology with environmentalists – the negative view of humans that comes from Marxism and related belief systems like Post-Modernism.
They blame freedom including capitalism for discrimination.
In contrast, the homosexuals in my network of objective friends are individuals known for their content of character.
More broadly, there are homosexuals among supporters of libertarian and serious conservative political efforts, because they recognize that what prevents a substantive economic effect of discrimiantion is individual freedom supported by defense and justice systems. (Yes, Libertarians do not believe in those, and many conservatives are against homosexuals for religious reasons, but individuals are trying to vote for the least bad.)
(You’ll also see the garbage appearance promoted in art by Post-Modernists, in the “Gay Pride” parades (aside from those who are simply looking for an excuse to flaunt).
Am I a ‘Climate Pollution Denier’ now? I can’t keep up with what it is I’m denying.
“…Forecast the Facts is a membership organization that seeks to ensure that Americans receive accurate information about climate change from the media, politicians, and corporations…”
…just don’t ask the climate scientists for accurate information. They’ll sue you if you do…
You nailed it; I was going to ask when the ‘witch trials’ were going to start …
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This isn’t the only time. The GLBTQ crowd seem willing to rent their lobbying services to anybody…
1) GLAAD sent a letter to the FCC supporting AT&T’s acquisition bid for T-Mobile in 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eddie-geller/att-t-mobile_b_877766.html And Huffington Post is pretty left wing, so it’s not like Fox News is reporting this.
2) Or the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force weighing in on gambling in Maryland http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/08/what_does_being_lgbt_gambling.php Again, Village Voice is generally sympathetic to GLBTQ
We are living in the age of activism. It’s an attempt to circumvent democracy and common sense, for whatever agendas some groups may want to push.
Who the hell are YUTRD%CNLPJUN&BFQQE$IOYTEEW EI EI O? I hate acronyms that are not spelled out in the beginning of articles.
[Dunno, but it sounds like the end of a nursery rhyme any farmer should know by heart. 8<) Mod]
Are they anything like the St. Francis N.E.S.B.F. A. of C. group?
So,,,,,,,, what is at the heart, core, bottomline, of activism of this sort?
Think about it,,,,,,,
No really, try that!
The weather has been a bit queer this year…
Ossqss says: @ur momisugly February 18, 2014 at 7:43 pm
So,,,,,,,, what is at the heart, core, bottomline, of activism of this sort?
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Maurice Strong.
No I am not kidding. Strong came up with the idea of NGOs because he first worked for YMCA international. NGOs corral activists and the dissatisfied and put them to work. The key of course is the NGOs are NOT DEMOCRATIC.….Strong’s realization that NGOs (non-government organizations) provide an excellent way to use NGOs to couple the money from philanthropists and business with the objectives of government.”
As I said Astroturf although the ardent young activist do not realize they are being used.
The “Q” is for people that want to be in the LGBT but are unsure of what they are. Just very confused people among confused people trying to fit in. As the loons lose support they are banding together to make up for their declining numbers and loss of power. “Dozens” of protesters where thousands used to gather. They yearn for the good old days of massive protest numbers and excitement. When they were important people. Now they are just a few old want to be s. pg.
Fenton connection.
http://www.fitzgibbonmedia.com/team/doug-gordon/
Prior to joining FitzGibbon Media, Doug was a Senior Vice President at Fenton Communications where he led the firm’s political advocacy practice area and managed the Washington office. Doug also worked for years on Capitol Hill and in Democratic politics including working on House, Senate and Presidential campaigns.
Pamela Gray: With you on the acronyms. I’m still struggling with what the ‘Q’ means….’Que….’ (don’t want to be snipped)