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InvisibledeadHead321
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LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert
    #6572004 - 02/15/07 07:00 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

baisically another Live 8..good cause I guess. People do need to wake up to the fact that global warming is real.


Gore plans to rock against warming

24-hour concert blitz aims for 100 performers to create 2 billion activists

Al Gore unveiled a global concert series to raise awareness about global warming.

LOS ANGELES - Al Gore, the former vice president and now hit documentary maker, on Thursday added rock promoter to his resume, announcing plans for a 24-hour concert series on all seven continents to highlight, you guessed it, the dangers of global warming.

With a powerhouse lineup of acts from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Snoop Dogg to Bon Jovi, what's being called "Live Earth" aims to gather more than 100 of the world's top musicians on July 7 ¡ª and attract 2 billion viewers, most of them via television, radio and the Web.

The concerts will be streamed live on MSN, Microsoft's information portal. (MSNBC.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

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Ahead of the formal announcement in Los Angeles, Gore said that the push, which includes a new campaign called Save Our Selves, has the potential to reach far beyond his earlier audiences.

"In order to solve the climate crisis, we have to reach billions of people," Gore said in a statement. "We hope to jumpstart that movement right here, right now, and take it to a new level on July 7, 2007."

The SOS campaign was founded by Kevin Wall, the producer behind the Live 8 global concerts in 2005 that raised money for Africa.

"Our climate crisis is the biggest challenge facing humanity," Wall said. "SOS is more than a global distress call. SOS will give the world the tools we need to answer that call with meaningful action."

Wall said that these performers had already signed up: Pharrell, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Snoop Dogg, Lenny Kravitz, Bon Jovi, Paolo Nutini, Sheryl Crow, AFI, Melissa Etheridge, John Mayer, Damien Rice, Corrine Bailey Rae, Duran Duran, Snow Patrol, John Legend, Black Eyed Peas, Akon, Enrique Iglesias, Fall Out Boy, Mana, Keane, Kelly Clarkson, Korn, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, Ray LaMontagne, Robin Thicke, and Kenna.

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The concerts will take place in Sydney, Australia; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Shanghai, China; London, England; Kyoto, Japan; Johannesburg, South Africa; and a U.S. city that has yet to be determined, Wall said. Gore added that the campaign even plans to stage the first-ever rock concert on Antarctica.

Each concert will run between four and eight hours, Wall said. Stadium locations and ticket sales information will be announced in March.

Proceeds from the concerts will fund initiatives by the Save Our Selves campaign, which launches the same month that a climate experts reported that they are more convinced than ever that human emissions of greenhouse gases are behind an accelerated warming trend around the Earth.

Gore is often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2008 despite his repeated statements that he's not running. Recently, some former aides met in Boston to discuss a campaign to draft the former vice president.

The concerts bring newfound publicity to Gore, who already is enjoying celebrity status with his Oscar-nominated documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." Gore said he was thrilled that the film, on the perils of global warming, was nominated for best documentary and for best song, the latter nod coming for Melissa Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up."


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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: deadHead321]
    #6572019 - 02/15/07 07:04 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

"Wall said that these performers had already signed up: Pharrell, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Snoop Dogg, Lenny Kravitz, Bon Jovi, Paolo Nutini, Sheryl Crow, AFI, Melissa Etheridge, John Mayer, Damien Rice, Corrine Bailey Rae, Duran Duran, Snow Patrol, John Legend, Black Eyed Peas, Akon, Enrique Iglesias, Fall Out Boy, Mana, Keane, Kelly Clarkson, Korn, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, Ray LaMontagne, Robin Thicke, and Kenna."

Im boycotting everyone on this list..

Oh wait.

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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: buckwheat]
    #6572027 - 02/15/07 07:06 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

al gore is a fake.

just another way to sell himself to voters.

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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: deadHead321]
    #6572030 - 02/15/07 07:07 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

is it not ironic that he wants to combat global warming, yet is going to do so on international television in an extremely excessively consumptive manner?

Kind of defeats the purpose, no?


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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: demiu5]
    #6572035 - 02/15/07 07:08 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

demius said:


Kind of defeats the purpose, no?




Not when the purpose is taxes and making everyones life miserable.

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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: buckwheat]
    #6572037 - 02/15/07 07:08 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

they should call the concert "sellouts uniting to make people think they give a shit"

meh...yay i guess, if it helps raise awarness...

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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
    #6572124 - 02/15/07 07:24 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

al gore very recently convinced the owner of Virgin Airlines to offer a 25million dollar prize to the person who can invent a way to harvest CO2 from the atmosphere. The Virgin owner guy is also putting all of his companies profits for the next ten years towards global warming research.

...yeah, al gore is such a phoney huh :rolleyes:

have a little faith in the man, watch An Inconvenient Truth. It's an eye-opener. Ignore the politics. Politics are what's hurting progress.


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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: Colbadol]
    #6572137 - 02/15/07 07:27 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

lol open your eyes man

all politicians are punks

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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: deadHead321]
    #6572153 - 02/15/07 07:30 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

What a horrible line up.

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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: buckwheat]
    #6572159 - 02/15/07 07:31 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

buckwheat said:
"Wall said that these performers had already signed up: Pharrell, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Snoop Dogg, Lenny Kravitz, Bon Jovi, Paolo Nutini, Sheryl Crow, AFI, Melissa Etheridge, John Mayer, Damien Rice, Corrine Bailey Rae, Duran Duran, Snow Patrol, John Legend, Black Eyed Peas, Akon, Enrique Iglesias, Fall Out Boy, Mana, Keane, Kelly Clarkson, Korn, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, Ray LaMontagne, Robin Thicke, and Kenna."

Im boycotting everyone on this list..

Oh wait.




They all suck the cock anyway.


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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: Revelation]
    #6572254 - 02/15/07 08:02 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

nah...snoop is legit


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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: Leanin]
    #6572358 - 02/15/07 08:30 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

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Leanin said:
lol open your eyes man

all politicians are punks




Votes for WHAT? Do you see him running for ANY office?

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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: DNKYD]
    #6572372 - 02/15/07 08:32 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

DNKYD said:
Quote:

Leanin said:
lol open your eyes man

all politicians are punks




Votes for WHAT? Do you see him running for ANY office?




my thoughts exactly, although it could be for future (10-20 years down the line) image improvement


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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: demiu5]
    #6572391 - 02/15/07 08:35 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

I sincerely doubt it. This (global warming) has been a passion of Gore's ever since he was taught by the professor who was the first to measure CO2 in the atmosphere.

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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: demiu5]
    #6572402 - 02/15/07 08:36 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

image improvement?

bullshit.

he's getting things done. If getting things done qualifies him as an evil person with his secret alternative political agenda, then so be it. At least he's doing SOMETHING. We need more people who actually DO.


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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: DNKYD]
    #6572409 - 02/15/07 08:37 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

DNKYD said:
I sincerely doubt it. This (global warming) has been a passion of Gore's ever since he was taught by the professor who was the first to measure CO2 in the atmosphere.




finally.
someone NOT talking out of their ass. Once you get the facts you cant see, it all becomes clear.


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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: Colbadol]
    #6572419 - 02/15/07 08:39 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

We're a rare breed here in the Pube.

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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: Colbadol]
    #6572450 - 02/15/07 08:44 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

sorry dude, but I heard him come speak to my school about all this

while yes, he is doing something, he is blowing all of this out of proportion


you want to know who the real people are, look into a guy named Dave Pelton and Dr. Samuel Ricketts


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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert *DELETED* [Re: demiu5]
    #6572466 - 02/15/07 08:47 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: Leanin]
    #6572479 - 02/15/07 08:49 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

huh?


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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: deadHead321]
    #6572838 - 02/15/07 10:34 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

I have one thought on the matter:

Fuck Al Gore, that stupid crackpot hippie.

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Re: LiveEarth: Gore announces multi continent rock concert [Re: Gumby]
    #6572877 - 02/15/07 10:48 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

Al Gore is annoying

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