And you thought the Gestapo was infringing on human rights! Give it time, give it time man!

What kind of an ugly animal is sniffing the tire on the tractor unit??

Shades of utopia to come.

I try to sleep, they're wide awake, they won't let me alone.
They don't get paid or take vacations, or let me alone.
They spy on me, I try to hide, they won't let me alone.
They persecute me, they're the judge and jury all in one.

The Green police, they live inside of my head.
(Live inside of my head.)
The Green police, they come to me in my bed.
(Come to me in my bed.)
The Green police, they're coming to arrest me, oh no.

My apologies to Cheap Trick!

When I saw this I was immediately enraged.

In San Francisco, the "Green Police" are already out in force. We have mandatory recycling and they plan to search people's garbage cans to ensure they have sorted trash properly.

Torches and pitchforks, I say!

Joe, it was an armadillo

The Gestapo were the original "Green Police". Just ask Anne Frank.

Funny and clever. It certainly has people talking, which is maybe the point of the ad.

But will it sell cars? I dunno.

There are more vehicles than licensed drivers in the USA, info obtained from multiple sources

So, I think the cash for clunkers things was kinda about the environment, but also about trying to pump artificial demand into the economy by removing vehicles from the road.

Long term, I ain't buying any automotive stock, but for sure I'll buy a new car in a while, likely a Ford.

Joe Citizen
[......What kind of an ugly animal is sniffing the tire on the tractor unit??]
john brooks
[......Joe, it was an armadillo]

Anteater...dude!
Armadillos are armoured/segmented.

RESIST THE NEW WORLD ORDER

sasquatch, you definitely know your armour. Hmm, experience maybe

I think all the Auto Manufactures are saying something to the EPA..... It’s a warning shot that they can use advertising to demonize the greens.... I am waiting for the Ford F350 chase scene with the California Communists in their electric Clown Cars...

I found this ad pleasing. Most of the ad time was devoted to a very humorous expose of the madness of the green movement, with very little time actually devoted to the car itself.

You know what they say, when a movement is ridiculed it's a sign the end is near.

So what I took from this add is that the green movement's time is nearly up, and I hope I am right.

TJ probably has it right. There's the lunatic fringe that might not go out without a bang, but such is life.

TJ has the best easy going view of this.

I feel sorry for POWinCA who said..

''When I saw this I was immediately enraged. ''

This didn't bother me at all. Quite a production. Entertaining in a satirical sort of way.

The new 7% tax on every bite you take out or eat in at restaurants is worth getting STEAMED about.

That's 7% on top of 5% you already pay for restaurant and coffee shop food.

I already pointed out how the BC government slapped new recycle fees on hundred of items.

Six dollar$ on my new printer. Wha?

Now this TAX GRAB!

Thousands of restaurants could go down the drain. So please do your part. Sign the petition. Do some good.

NoMealTax.Ca and bite back hard.

Also, Bill Vanderzalm, who was premier of BC during Expo '86 is organizing a people's anti-HST tax petition closing on July 5th.

Count on me Bill! Gordon Campbell has gone TAX nuts! Scared to death that the olympics deficit will bankrupt BC.

That sure is one fine looking anteater.

I want to know: who's gonna clean up all the illegally dumped trash alongside roads and in the bush?
A friend tells me that he's unable to dispose of plaster and lath rubble, the dump attendee informed him that it "might contain asbestos"!
Asshats, plaster is sand, lime, and portland cement. Period. Oh, and in the good old days maybe some horsehair.
And if it did contain asbestos? It's being buried under tons of garbage followed by huge amounts of soil; who gives a crap if there's some asbestos in the garbage!

The commercial was a chilling vision of things to come and it taught me that Audi endorses environmental fascism.

We just need to combine the ad where the woman opens with a FA M-16 on the armed intruder and this one.

Audi makes the A8, have you seen the "Transporter" movies? It is a great car whose carburetor looks like a toilet flushing (its a metaphor and an analogy) Then they make the Lamborghini, which makes Al Gore's houseboat look like Ed Begley's bicycle when it comes to green (OK, I exaggerate again for effect)

Here is a comment thread from some greenies who were upset by the whole thing.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/02/07/the-green-police-audi-super-bowl-commercial/

You should go have some fun with them if you are sick of preaching to the choir.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=greenpolice&annotation_id=annotation_782592&feature=iv#p/f/3/TYxvtDMB1zk

The above was pretty funny too. The ad seems to have really upset a lot of people. One notable trend across the intertubes is that UK posters seem to feel like they live in this world already.

One thing is for sure. These guys know how vulnerable they are to ridicule now.

"The commercial was a chilling vision of things to come and it taught me that Audi endorses environmental fascism." Paul that is exactly the way I saw it as well. If Audi had meant this commercial to be a mockery of the green movement they would not have built a "supposedly" environmentally friendly vehicle. I wonder if now they are having second thoughts.

I am picking a new sport coupe in the spring and was looking hard at a couple Audi's.

After seeing that nause on Sunday, I dropped by the dealership on the way home yesterday and told them there was not a chance in hell.

Now it's only a toss up between Nissan, Ford and Hyundai.

I wish I could say this is a complete satire.
the truth is I figure its the future unless we stop it.
The World is now run by miscreants, fools, traitors & barbarians. All backed with Busybodies with their own agenda.
JMO

Brilliant! The whole world is chattering about it.
Though the Doritos commercial of the little boy slapping the boyfriend was my fave, again another commentary that went over people's heads.

I always liked that Cheap Trick song.

After that setup, Audi should be ... ashamed.

Except for the wimp ending, it was a great commercial! Everyone should see it and start to push back.

Andy the Anteater for President! or just maybe Cuomo's Job as NYAG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YA03v8yRps

I love anteaters, because I hate ants.

See, Pachy/UN/IPCC is error-prone; just "errors"; it's not intentional AGW Fraud.

"The only person who doesn't believe the science is President Bush."
...-

"IPCC faces another desertion – its own past chair!

The past chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has joined the growing list of IPCC critics. According to the Sunday Telegraph, Rajendra Pachauri, the disgraced current IPCC chair, now faces criticism from his immediate predecessor, Robert Watson.

The Telegraph reports that Watson “stressed that the chairman must take responsibility for correcting errors.” In another indication that Watson is taking pains to distance himself from the organization he once headed, the Sunday Times, in a story entitled Top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility, reports that Watson warned the IPCC that it must tackle its blunders.

Watson’s comments come on the heels of another glaring embarrassment to come out of the IPCC, this time a claim that global warming could cut crop production in north Africa by up to 50% by 2020. “Any such projection should be based on peer-reviewed literature from computer modelling of how agricultural yields would respond to climate change,” Watson stated. “I can see no such data supporting the IPCC report.”

... Apart from his post as past IPCC chair, Watson is also the UK’s highest level environmental scientist, as Chief Scientist at the UK’s environment ministry. Prior to his current position, which he assumed in 2007, Watson was Chair of Environmental Science and Science Director of the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia, the same university caught up in the Climategate scandal.

Watson’s new-found scepticism of the science being produced by the IPCC represents an ironic reversal. In 2002, he remarked that "The only person who doesn't believe the science is President Bush."

(Excerpt) Read more at network.nationalpost.com"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447415/posts

(Comment borrowed from BrianMChampion YouTube)
They could just call them the Grüne Staatspolizei -- or "Grüstapo" for short

Lizzie May is using it as green porn and finding much pleasure can be had.

Brilliant ad! Like any great advertising it captures an unspoken theme running in society and done ideally with humour. This ad fits in with the Apple ad from 1984, fear of overbearing government but they deal with it different ways.

Does it endorse green o phillia, no...but it offers an everyman way out or a pass on the eco-blocade (love the phrase). The examples are all people getting caught for doing regular things. The message of the ad is that the Audi offers you a way to do your part while still having a "real car", notice the engine sound and fast acceleration at the end to an open road.

Of course the greenies are fgoing to be upset, the real Green Police (the humour is built in self protection for the ad) dont like cars period...which is what this ad is targetted at, people who want "a pass".

Love the ad, major success. Greenies should be despondent over the fact that this is how they are viewed.

I think the "Green Police" ad was priceless, but then again I do not partake in the drinking of the Koolade. Anyone with a clue will also realize that, to a certain extent, this is happening already. I just think that the eco-greenies found it striking too close to home.

Irony is having to change the announcement of a Federal Global Warming Committee due to a snow storm.

Paul, Warren:

Your insularity is showing. Audi didn't design that car for the benefit of greens; they designed it to be a highly fuel efficient diesel chiefly for the European market where diesel is less highly taxed than gasoline, but still taxed 3-4 times what we pay in Canada. Diesel, in Germany, is about 77 English pence per litre; unleaded is about 90. (Note: since the pound is about $2 Cdn, that means German fuel prices are about double what they are in Canada.) The fact that fuel efficiency is accompanied by fewer emissions is a bonus. The Tdi uses about 13.2 l/100 km (city), the gas powered 3.6 litre uses about 14.5 l/100 km of premium unleaded, which is even more expensive than regular. Together, this means you'll save about 25% on fuel costs with the Tdi compared to the gas version.

Joe Sixpack isn't going to buy an Audi, so he doesn't care one way or the other. This ad is clearly targeted to Americans with a) money, and b) enviro-guilt. There's no shortage of those, and they're probably of an age where they were in university smoking pot with Cheap Trick blaring from their stereos thirty years ago. It's funny and it's effective. Just because you're not in the intended audience doesn't mean you can't laugh at the joke.

Bernaysian visual pre-conditioning of the eco-fascist police state ALL governments idolize.It's not the eco sense of Kyoto or AGW that has bureauvrats creaminh their panty hose, it's the control regime.

Repetitive commercial predictive programming is a powerful tool for acclimatizing the lemmings to incremental police abuse. Think about how much TV you see where cops are abusive with citizens - ignoring rights to assembly, mobility or to nor be harrassed - screaming orders at them, ordering them around like livestock, all geared up in black battle dress.

In another era not so long ago, abusive police behaving in such an abusive manner enforcing such pointless regulatory tyranny would have been a risky business. But these days politicians know they can routinely abuse the citizenry by slowly expanding the quasi police state without the slightest wimper from the toothless civil rights institutions.

I could laugh at the joke if it wasn't so real. As far as being effective, I suppose that depends on who it affects. It sure scared the hell out of me.

Kevin B:

the Audi diesel and all the other diesels in the Eu are built specifically FOR the green police. Cars in the Eu are taxed heavily based on how much CO2 they produce (not how much they pollute). Go check out a british Audi site (or any other manufacturers site) they have the CO2 emissions number displayed about as much as the Canadian site displays a car's fuel economy number.

As I said on a previous thread, this was a very very bad idea on Audi's part.

Oh BTW T in V:

Audis haven't had Carbs since at least the mid seventies. And converting even one A8 to run using one would be just about impossible.

Great add-- Don Drapper (8:26)has it right and
I'm having 'Cherry Bomb' mufflers installed on my Audi today.. :)

Cheap Trick

heh

Fitting.......

Park one of these in the driveway and keep the blue box nice and full and your covered, sheesh is this what we are coming too?

This ad is a compliation of a bunch of other ads. My favourite is the one where the Green Cop busts the real cops....the look on their faces is priceless and captures it all, bemused disgust.

I think the reaction to this might wake up many, which is that the movement jumped the shark, is now the subject of derision. That doesnt mean dont want to help, they just dont want to be hectored and lectured. Greens are now seen as the "no fun nannies".....LOL, about time. Lets get back to being reasonable and practical about all of this....I think this ad is reflective of a bigger issue.

Reading the reaction though is funny. The greenies are now saying its all about angry white men, tea party (using the tea bagger epithet) and the ultimate sneer...middle class. If they refuse to listen they deserve the next phase, which is anger and ultimately irrelevance. They blew they their time in the spotlight.....fittingly they will be sorted, seperated and put in a compost.

this ad will lose its humour with time as each phase becomes true.

in Calgary Bronco Dave and Bylaw Bill Bruce already create about a law a week.
soon everything in Calgary will be ala Swiss.
verboten oder vorgeschrieben

You're right an ant-eater, I see the fur now!

The not-so-funny-part sounds oh, so like KGB manual for suppressing counter-revolution.

That's an interesting list of conspiracies they'd like to ban. I wonder why 9/11 Truthers didn't make the list?

Speaking of those blue bins bob, (blue bin bob?) yeah, they are an eye sore now driving down back lanes (if you have them in your neighbourhood).

People don't know how to pull them back to their fence line, but leave them sticking out in the lane where the truck dumped it. Becoming an obstacle course/shalom now, feel like playing pin ball with them with the truck.

These bastards will only eventually succeed in drawing the guns out of Conservative's closets. And I am not talking confiscation.

Thank god for the second amendment. It may be the only thing that ultimately stops these monsters.

It's happened before.

TG, I feel sorry that you don't actually have mandatory recycling and enforcement officers giving you tickets at your house for not properly sorting your trash, including compost.

The "Green Police" may be witty satire for most of you. In San Francisco it's a frightening reality.

We just had the federal government declare exhalation a "pollutant." They've taken over the world's largest auto manufacturer and are forcing it to produce hybrid cars. We've got billions of government dollars pushing into giant fans, solar panels, and electric cars. What more evidence do you need that the Green Fascists are in power? Kristalnacht with broken SUV windows?

dp - re 9/11 truthers - my thoughts exactly. Maybe the government actually was behind it then - wait - no - retract that - I don't want to get taxed. Idiots. Total idiots.

Harvard law professor as a czar? Surprised??

The commercial was a chilling vision of things to come and it taught me that Audi endorses environmental fascism.
Posted by: Paul at February 9, 2010 3:30 AM

Exactly my sentiments Paul. Most corporations are taking the lunatic CSR (corporate social responsibility) to heart, taking the easy route, kowtowing to the anti-industrial marxist lunatics who believe that profits are things you 'take out of the community' and for which you must make amends by 'giving back' to the community.

There's something profoundly creepy -- and not at all funny -- when a company advertises its COMPLIANCE with green fascism, for that is what they are going here, and nothing more.

Re. the "not so funny" part, I'll bet some conspiracy theories are more equal than others, too. Wanna bet they'd have taken action against the "It's all about oil, Halliburton, Bushitler, Cheney blah, blah, blah!" theory?

Is Jim Prentice Canada's Cass Sunstein?

DaninVan.....do not throw your garbage in the ditch.....put it on the front lawn of your local politico,where it belongs.And who was the nutcase that suggested backing Vanderzalm?Oh wait...tony guiter....chief a$$sucker of the greenies in lefturdland....nuff said.

Posted by: wingwalker at February 9, 2010 12:26 PM

That job belongs to ol Jenny Lynch.

At any rate, it was nice knowing you Kate, write us from jail, will you?

Audi - the white flag with an ICE.

Hey larben, don't joke about Kate writing from jail. According to an article in the National Post, she and a number of others, including Ezra Levant, have been named in a suit brought by our favourite person in the HRC.

"Some 'conspiracy theories' recommended for ban by Sunstein include:

* 'The theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud.' ....

Sunstein allowed that 'some conspiracy theories, under our definition, have turned out to be true.'

.... Sunstein's paper advocating against the belief that global warming is a deliberate fraud was written before November's climate scandal in which e-mails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University in the U.K. indicate top climate researchers conspired to rig data and keep researchers with dissenting views from publishing in leading scientific journals."

Nuff said. I'm sure there's an opening for this guy up north with the HRC.

By the way, the point of the aardvark (not anteater?) in the commercial is, I think, that they are supposedly able to sniff styrofoam. That in itself suggests that the commercial is all satire and parody.

No wonder O'bummer chose him they sing from the same song sheet. O'bummers message to the republicans "Agree with me and we can have bi-partisan agreements" Oh how much better the one party system works commrade

Ken - I don't think we're going to let that happen especially under a Conservative government, if it does it could be a sound to arms (hypothetically speaking)! keyboards at the ready:

Now we know why PM Harper remained silent at “The Copenhagen crackup”.

PM Harper was there as an observer observing as the “dream killer”, aka reality, killed AGW.

Red-GreenSocialism is a fantasy which is always at our throats and wallets.

If you want to see the face(s) of the socialist fantasy, find/study the together-picture of Liberals Iffy and Dionky; find/study the picture of the commissars of the Separatist Coalition Troika.
…-

“The Copenhagen crackup was a dream killer in more ways than one. Not only did the breakdown give the lie to the notion that a cranky Texas oilman was the single greatest impediment to international cooperation and enlightened environmental policy; it laid waste to the argument that yoking the developing world to a “do as we say, not as we did” policy of energy consumption will somehow prove to be an economic and environmental “win-win.” If that’s true, the leaders of India and China—the latter of which has been serially praised for its green-energy initiatives by the likes of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman—certainly don’t believe it. No amount of international do-goodism is going to prevent countries from acting in what they perceive to be their own self-interest.

Obama and the Democrats have been peddling a similar win-win line about the creation of up to 5 million “green jobs” in America, through a combination of cap-and-trade carbon permits, home weatherization, clean coal, higher gas mileage standards, environmental regulation, and various renewable-energy mandates. The “green jobs” political juggernaut has been credited to Van Jones, who was obliged to resign as Obama’s “Green Czar” last summer after reports surfaced that he’d signed a petition supporting an investigation of Bush’s involvement in 9/11. What’s interesting about Jones’ beautiful-sounding concept is that even its chief supporters admit there’s no evidence the theory is true. Which is hardly surprising, since most of Obama’s proposed environmental policies involve making energy more expensive while using more tax dollars to subsidize expensive clean energy sources. As The New Yorker put it in a long, flattering profile of Jones in January 2009, “the mechanics of creating green jobs—or even what jobs should qualify for the title—have yet to be worked out.””
…-

“Back to the Drawing Board

Democratic fantasies face the bracing slap of reality.”

http://reason.com/archives/2010/02/08/back-to-the-drawing-board

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/02/09/changing-the-channel-on-climate-change/#comment-74481

Man this does remind me of my last trip to California. First there was the fruit inspection station on the Nev. Cal. border. Then someone's cousin tried to tell me I was going the wrong way in a campground because I did not understand the arrows that were not there. He was armed with a flashlight which I was sure we were all thankful for.

I'm still puzzled.

I guess the message is: The Green Police are here, buy an Audi or else!

Wishful thinking leads me to believe this is as Don Draper suggests, some clever self deprecating humour. My cynical side tells me this is another example of the emboldened left letting their guard down; a Freudian Slip.

For me this is funny, and a blow against the Warmongers regardless of the intent.

Canadian Tire sells reusable grocery bags here.

Those bags are black nylon (cheapest colour) but they say in green letters 'This bag is green'.

Fuels my theory that green-left suffers from reality bending syndrome.

Anyone else is maddened by those bags? It takes like 3x longer to fill them at the cash register than good 'ol plastic bags, now grocery shopping takes much longer. Why is it illegal to hurt stupid people?

The WND article is downright disturbing.

The Commies are at the helm in America, folks. The entire "experiment" is at risk.

Since our city switched to automated garbage trucks, it's so much easier to get rid of questionable landfill material. Those big cans will hold about a cubic meter of trash, and weight is no object. Now, I can throw old car batteries, and used motor oil, right into the trash, and no one ever sees it. That's a whole lot better than throwing it into the river, like I used to do.

Indiana -- the message is that the Audi is so green not even the Green Police stop it. The message is all about Audi and nothing about the consumer. The subtle message is that there is no greater crime than polluting or otherwise contributing to "climate change."

To say the commercial was depressing would be an understatement.

Ikea joins the green fight.

http://www.higginsith.com/

You know those re-usable grocery bags are very unhygienic. That's why I have developed disposable plastic liners for them. The liners are 5c retail each.

Green Police?

Who needs them anyway.

We gots the Green Hornet.

ohmigod what about condoms ?....when are they coming for the condoms ?.......

and what in the name of God will they allow as a replacement material ?

will saran wrap work ?....anyone know ?

or duct tape....is duct tape kosher still ?

howbout those paper tube thingys for rolling coins ?

Re Cass (what-kind-of-name-is-THAT?) Sunstein, President Obama's regulatory czar's solution to conspiracy theories: "We can readily imagine a series of possible responses. (1) Government might ban conspiracy theorizing. (2) Government might impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories."

Wouldn't the government first have to prove that what they call a "conspiracy theory" is, in fact, a conspiracy theory before they either ban it or impose some kind of tax on those who disseminate said-conspiracy theory?

What if what they call a conspiracy theory, which is alleging that a certain theory, itself, is a conspiracy theory is, in fact, the conspiracy theory and not the other way around?

Hey! Where's Kafka when you need him?

Interesting commercial but the citizens of California need to be prepared to put to death those that agree and move forward with "Green Police" tactics

Time to make some Soylent "Green".

The misery of the public is there livelyhod.

What a novel idea: government employed trolls ?

Gee his ideas sound so HRCish.

Vanderslime, I remember him. He was the guy who did the hokey pokey with the land use in Richmond and built Fantasy Gardens, he made a fortune and he should have gotten 5 years for fraud but with a little pull....

Hey, I need a job - I could Market myself as "The Troll for Toll". I could easily sign up as a liberal troll - stay completely true to the liberal rhetoric through parody and satire while enjoying myself immensely.

"Audis haven't had Carbs since at least the mid seventies."

That's why I said it was a metaphor...

The Green Police are already apprenticing.

I was at my kitchen table this morning watching my street through my window, waitng for an expected guest. It is garbage day.

A shiny Ford F-350 crew cab truck (gorgeous fully loaded, $70,000 minimum) with Region decals pulled up and out of it
came 2 Green Police.

One had a clipboard and the other had a miniature car antenna type of telescopic wand with a swivel magnet attached to it.

They went from home to home and the guy with the wand was rubbing it on the bags left at the curb for pick-up.

I guess they found something in one of my neighbor's bags because they stopped, went back to truck and magnet guy came back wearing a surgical mask, goggles, gloves and sliced open the bag near the bottom and removed something.

Clipboard guy went up to the house and inserted a bright colored paper(yellow) in the mailbox.

They went back to their truck (judging by body language) looking triumphant and while clipboard guy was placing a call on cellphone...magnet guy tossed both bags of garbage from curb into the back truck and they drove off.

This happened in Peel region, Ontario.

Your town is next!

I could easily sign up as a liberal troll - stay completely true to the liberal rhetoric through parody and satire while enjoying myself immensely.

Big deal, we all could, it has even been scientifically proven by psychologists (don't look at that sentence too closely)

Jonathan Haidt, an associate professor of moral psychology at the University of Virginia, argues in an essay this month, “What Makes People Vote Republican?”, that it’s liberals, in fact, who are dangerously blind. Haidt has conducted research in which liberals and conservatives were asked to project themselves into the minds of their opponents and answer questions about their moral reasoning. Conservatives, he said, prove quite adept at thinking like liberals, but liberals are consistently incapable of understanding the conservative point of view.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/no-laughing-matter/

Is this paste allowed, AGW asks?
It’s the NYT. Gotta be important when it speaks. No?

Here’s the punch(sic) line:
“its judgments provoking passions normally reserved for issues like abortion and guns.”

Sells papers.
…-

“Skeptics Find Fault With U.N. Climate Panel ( NY Times says something….)
The New York Times ^ | February 8, 2010 | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL

Just over two years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist’s version of sainthood: A vegetarian economist-engineer who leads the United Nations’ climate change panel, he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the panel, sharing the honor with former Vice President Al Gore.

But Dr. Pachauri and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are now under intense scrutiny, facing accusations of scientific sloppiness and potential financial conflicts of interest from climate skeptics, right-leaning politicians and even some mainstream scientists. Senator John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, called for Dr. Pachauri’s resignation last week.

Critics, writing in Britain’s Sunday Telegraph and elsewhere, have accused Dr. Pachauri of profiting from his work as an adviser to businesses, including Deutsche Bank and Pegasus Capital Advisors, a New York investment firm — a claim he denies.

They have also unearthed and publicized problems with the intergovernmental panel’s landmark 2007 report on climate change, which concluded that the planet was warming and that humans were likely to blame.

The report, they contend, misrepresents the state of scientific knowledge about diverse topics — including the rate of melting of Himalayan glaciers and the rise in severe storms — in a way that exaggerates the evidence for climate change.

With a global climate treaty under negotiation and legislation pending in the United States, the climate panel has found itself in the political cross hairs, its judgments provoking passions normally reserved for issues like abortion and guns.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com …”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447879/posts

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/09/climategate-plausibility-and-the-blogosphere-in-the-post-normal-age/#comment-313710

More Red-Green AGW Fraud by BC government.

Look at this:

>>> “Energy Minister Blair Lekstrom is defending the controversial bailout of a troubled wind farm near Chetwynd in his Peace River South constituency.”

Our Enemy, The State.

This is corporate-fascism, a twin of socialism.
…-

“Secrecy shrouds controversial bailout for ‘green’ wind farm

BC Hydro mulls more green power and, perhaps, dam-building

Energy Minister Blair Lekstrom is defending the controversial bailout of a troubled wind farm near Chetwynd in his Peace River South constituency.

“I was happy that we were able to move this forward,” said Lekstrom. “When it was under, it left a lot of people [in a tough spot] and a lot of money owing to a lot of businesses in the region.”

BC Hydro signed an energy purchase agreement with the private developer of the proposed wind farm at Dokie Ridge as part of a call for “green energy” projects back in 2006.

But work on the 144-megawatt first phase was halted during the global financial meltdown in the fall of 2008, amid rising construction costs and a consultant’s report that questioned the reliability of the site as a source of wind power.

Dokie was reactivated last fall, after being taken over by GE Financial Services and Plutonic Power, two firms that were already active in building independent power projects in B.C. However, they only agreed to step in after successfully persuading BC Hydro to sweeten the power purchase contract for the project.”

http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/Secrecy+shrouds+controversial+bailout+green+wind+farm/2539930/story.html

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/02/09/dalton-mcguinty-to-prorogue-ontario-legislature/#comment-74525

Cas Sunstein......

Did somebody clone Himler or was it Beria?
He should be mindful of the fate of Robespierre.

RESIST THE NEW WORLD ORDER

We're headed for a "brave new world" where we will live in bliss, for our benevolent government is going to do our thinking for us...reminds me of the Simpson's Halloween episode where Ned Flanders is running the world!

There’s nothing like conditioning the public with a good propaganda video.

Nothing wrong with random police checkpoints and home invasions with “probable cause”, after all it goes on in most of the world already right?

At least they were consistent with the target audience – middle to upper middle class victims. Not the outrageously rich or the poor who neither would be driving an Audi.

The message was simple – out with the old guard and in with the new. If you comply with the “new” you get a free pass in the “new” society while everyone else pays with their freedom and liberties

Why and anteater and not a dog?

A dog could smell drugs and illegal immigrants hiding in vehicles. VERY politically incorrect.

No worries folks, the new environmental Gestapo will continue to give those society cancers a free pass.

Knight 99. Awhile ago Cal. was worried about an invasion of 'foreign' ants displacing the 'California'ant. It was four or five years ago so maybe someone really did their homework and they used an anteater to clean the wheels of the vehicles at the checkpoint. Besides anteaters are cool.

All this ad does is reaffirm my desire to get a Porsche Boxster and go around for a nice drive anytime that I can.
Audi is a car for the boring, soulless individual who just doesnt have kids and therefore doesnt need the minivan. Their commercials just show that the boring soulless individual can still be annoyingly smug about nothing. As Top Gear said about diesel owners: "you love the planet so much that you want to leave a little protective sooty film over it".
If you're so obsessed with saving the planet, walk everywhere and let me drive!

At the end of the day, Audis still suck. P. S. The animal is a coatimundi. There were dozens of them running around Tikal when we visited Guatemala a couple of years ago. They're intelligent and really quite attractive, sort of a cross between a raccoon and a monkey.

At the end of the day, I'm still wrong. That is not a coatimundi. Suspect it is an anteater as a more intelligent poster suggested. Mutual of Omaha has a snazzy short video titled, "An odd design." Indeed.