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In reply to the discussion: Al Gore stands to gain about $70 million after selling Current TV to al-Jazeera [View all]harmonicon
(12,008 posts)68. Being well rested, I've already put out a few Sunday morning rants today.
I don't exactly know where we start, but it's not true that there are zero voices for these things. We do have people like Sanders in the senate. Ultimately, what we really have is our vote and our voice. I think we have a better chance of appealing to other poor people about how to exercise their vote and voice than we do in hoping and praying that those with money will just "do the right thing."
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Al Gore stands to gain about $70 million after selling Current TV to al-Jazeera [View all]
alp227
Jan 2013
OP
Gore was VP. He is not responsible for NAFTA. That is Clinton's cross to bear.
kestrel91316
Jan 2013
#59
did his positions on sustainability and geopolitics speak against ownership transferrence?
unblock
Jan 2013
#4
There's a countersuit to his suit, and he did violate the non-disparagement clause in his contract.
MADem
Jan 2013
#15
RW'ers ridicule Gore as being a joke for saying he "invented the Internet" and sweating global warm
progree
Jan 2013
#13
Yup. I was thinking after posting it that maybe I ought to clarify that "invented the Internet" was
progree
Jan 2013
#41
Do we know that Gore isn't seeking a new financial architecture for those voices?
patrice
Jan 2013
#56
Enrique, because they got it right once with Mittsy doesn't mean this article is terribly fair or
MADem
Jan 2013
#44
She is on several other radio stations, as well--that you don't have to pay to hear.
GoCubsGo
Jan 2013
#64
Not just a middle eastern state, but a PERSON in charge of a middle eastern state.
MADem
Jan 2013
#37
He sold it to an entity owned by the guy who rules Qatar, which is where USA has a large base.
MADem
Jan 2013
#45
how the f is current work 500 mil ? half a billion for a station nobody watches????
crazyjoe
Jan 2013
#74