Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle
• Apple Inc: In 2003, Gore took a position on the board for Apple, securing a director’s salary and significant shares of stock.
• Generation Investment Management (GIM) (in London, England): In 2004, Gore co-
founded GIM with David Blood, a Goldman-Sachs partner. GIM is a hedge fund that invests in companies supposedly committed to “going green.” As of July of 2008, GIM managed a portfolio worth $1 billion. GIM will not allow any of its financial statements to be examined, but it is said to have considerable influence over the major carbon-trading firms that currently exist such as the ECX and CCX. Every time a carbon credit is sold or purchased by these firms, Gore gets a slice of the transaction – a fee.
• European Climate Exchange (ECX) and the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX): GIM is said to have 20% stake in Europe’s official climate exchange, the ECX and also in Chicago’s CCX. Public record reveals that Goldman Sachs (that helped start GIM) owns a large share of ECX and 10% of CCX. Its own website boasts of such, “Goldman Sachs is active in the market of carbon emissions…In September 2006, we made a minority equity investment in Climate Exchange PLC, which owns several European and US trading platforms…the European Climate Exchange and the Chicago Climate Exchange.”
• Kleiner Perkins (KP): In 2007, Gore joined this venture capital firm in the San Francisco Bay area. KP is run by his longtime friend, John Doerr. KP gives financial backing to many “green” groups such as Google, Netscape, Sun, and Amazon.
• Green Growth Fund: In 2008, Gore and Doerr created Green Growth Fund to invest in startup companies in alternative energy. Green Growth is a mighty arm of the KP portfolio and is worth more than a $billion. It also has investments in CCX and invested $75 million in Silver Spring Network, the company that provides essential system infrastructure for the SmartGrid.
• Capricorn Investment Group LLC: In 2008, Gore invested $35 million with Capricorn. This is another Silicon Valley firm that selects private funds for clients and invests in makers of “environmentally friendly products,” according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. of EBay Inc.
It was founded by billionaire Jeffrey Skoll, former president Skoll just so happens to be the executive producer of Gore’s film, “An
Inconvenient Truth,” which is spreading the global warming hype in all of our public schools, and for which Gore won an Oscar and won the Nobel Prize in 2007.
• Alliance for Climate Protection: A “non-profit” public relations firm that Al Gore created from his Nobel Prize money. It is located just down the street from the office of his good friend Paul Ehrlich on the Stanford Campus. Ehrlich is a radical environmental professor at Stanford and the author of two dooms’ day books that gave dire predictions of terrible calamities that were soon to happen to the “over-populated” earth. The first was Population Bomb, published in 1968, and Population Explosion in 1990. Even though none of his predictions came true, Ehrlich continues to be the “prophetic guru” and icon of the environmental movement.
His books have caused many people to believe having
children is an “eco-crime.” Al Gore uses his non-profit Alliance for Climate Protection as his charity to give much of his money to as a tax writeoff. However, he is still eligible to receive a salary from his non-profit, as well as paid expenses. (Brian Sussman, Climate Gate, WND Books, Washington D.C., 2010, pp. 204-209)
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