Buy Canadian Tar Sands
If your jaw is still gaping, it’s completely understandable. Propaganda at its most base level can do that. Take a moment … ask yourself, who are these people? Where are their offices? How much political favor has their crude cash purchased?
Over the holidays let’s put our heads together: how can we make the people who made this ad pay a price.
What would be a tactical response of equal spectacle?
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Anonymous
It took no more of five minutes of link jumping to discover a couple prominent things.
1) This site has no information about who writes for it or who funds it.
2) At the bottom of the site is a link to the "book that started it all"
3) The author, Ezra Levant, is a conservative pundit/commentator for the Torronto Sun.
4) The book is categorized under petro-chemical engineering on Amazon. Levant has no education in engineering and especially not chemical engineering. He's a Lawyer by profession.
He isn't adequately equipped to be discussing the "ethics" of oil. He is not an ethicist and not an investigative journalist. He's certainly moderately experienced in the fields of political science considering his commentary on the Sun's channel.
5) His book "Ethical Oil" won Canada's National Business Book Award for 2011 http://www.nbbaward.com/winner-2011.asp The two business's that fund this award are the PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) Group and the BMO Financial Group. PwC has assisted in positive public relations spinning for the Keystone pipeline (http://pwc.typepad.com/tax_exchange/2011/11/americans-making-it-tough-on-canadians.html)
All said and done you have a sort of "Political Action Committee" interested in supporting the building of a Keystone Pipeline on what it claims are "ethical" grounds. I'm surprised because the longterm cost-benefit analysis and return on investment leads us to believe that not only is tar sands blasting an ecological nightmare, with huge problems regarding groundwater pollution, but simultaneously it is economically unfeasible and a poor investment that produces many temporary jobs and ends up costing more of the very resource that is being extracted to extract it.
Anonymous
It took no more of five minutes of link jumping to discover a couple prominent things.
1) This site has no information about who writes for it or who funds it.
2) At the bottom of the site is a link to the "book that started it all"
3) The author, Ezra Levant, is a conservative pundit/commentator for the Torronto Sun.
4) The book is categorized under petro-chemical engineering on Amazon. Levant has no education in engineering and especially not chemical engineering. He's a Lawyer by profession.
He isn't adequately equipped to be discussing the "ethics" of oil. He is not an ethicist and not an investigative journalist. He's certainly moderately experienced in the fields of political science considering his commentary on the Sun's channel.
5) His book "Ethical Oil" won Canada's National Business Book Award for 2011 http://www.nbbaward.com/winner-2011.asp The two business's that fund this award are the PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) Group and the BMO Financial Group. PwC has assisted in positive public relations spinning for the Keystone pipeline (http://pwc.typepad.com/tax_exchange/2011/11/americans-making-it-tough-on-canadians.html)
All said and done you have a sort of "Political Action Committee" interested in supporting the building of a Keystone Pipeline on what it claims are "ethical" grounds. I'm surprised because the longterm cost-benefit analysis and return on investment leads us to believe that not only is tar sands blasting an ecological nightmare, with huge problems regarding groundwater pollution, but simultaneously it is economically unfeasible and a poor investment that produces many temporary jobs and ends up costing more of the very resource that is being extracted to extract it.
Anonymous
Oh I thought Adbusters produced this ad, till I found out that it seems to be real. America is the land of oppurtunity for real.
greetings from germany
Anonymous
Oh I thought Adbusters produced this ad, till I found out that it seems to be real. America is the land of oppurtunity for real.
greetings from germany
Anonymous
Two things come to mind:
Write to their facebook wall: http://www.facebook.com/EthicalOil
Write reviews of Ezra Levant book at amazon.ca and amazon.com
Anonymous
Two things come to mind:
Write to their facebook wall: http://www.facebook.com/EthicalOil
Write reviews of Ezra Levant book at amazon.ca and amazon.com
Anonymous
it's a joke, right? a bad one, but a joke, right?
Anonymous
it's a joke, right? a bad one, but a joke, right?
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i thought ethical was $cientobomy lingo?
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i thought ethical was $cientobomy lingo?
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