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Al Gore was the 45th Vice President of the United States, serving two terms under the administration of President Bill Clinton from 1992 - 2000. Al Gore was also the Democratic party's nominee for President in 2000, a controversial election he eventually lost to George W. Bush.

Since that time, Al Gore has gained notoriety as an environmental activist through such endeavors as Live Earth as well as the documentary book and film An Inconvenient Truth. The movie won two Academy Awards (for best documentary and best song) in 2007. That same year, he was bestowed the Nobel Peace Prize, sharing the honor with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Al Gore currently serves as a senior adviser to Google and is a member of the Board of Directors at Apple Computer. He is also chairman and co-founder of Current TV, a cable network focusing on young people and viewer produced content, as well as Generation Investment Management, whose efforts are in the arena of sustainable investments.

On the blogosphere, you can find Al Gore himself blogging both on his internet journal and on his Twitter Page. You'll find his fans blogging at sites like Progressives For Gore.

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  • And That’s The Way It Isn’t


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    From those wonderful folks who brought you Walter Cronkite politicizing the Tet Offensive, Dan Rather and RatherGate, and Katie Couric writing Christmas poems in praise of ObamaCare comes this gem from CBS anchor Scott Pelley , speaking to Quinnipiac University: “Our house is on fire,” said Pelley. The ...
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  • Al Gore Dear Diary: ‘Choke on a beaver tail, Canada’


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    The National Post re-imagines a week in the life of a newsmaker. Today, Tristin Hopper looks at the week through the eyes of environmentalist and former U.S. vice president Al Gore. Monday This afternoon, I met with a committee of American climate change activists in my office, taking pains to ensure that I held ...
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  • ‘Pragmatic’ Obama will eventually approve contentious Keystone XL pipeline: senior Democratic strategist


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    Foreign policy issues will dominate the rest of U.S. President Barack Obama’s tenure, his government will continue to stagnate and the Keystone XL pipeline will be approved, predicts Robert (Bob) Shrum, a senior Democrat political consultant. He expounded on politics south of the border while sitting in the lobby ...
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  • Joe Biden and Al Gore on KXL


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    VP Joe Biden (at Buzzfeed ) and former VP Al Gore (at Price of Oil ) have both recently opposed KXL, TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. Biden’s comment was to a Sierra Club member on a ropeline in South Carolina. His office quickly said his position really hasn’t changed, and he awaits the results of the ...
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  • Mauna Loa hits 400 PPM of CO2, alarmists wail and gnash teeth, Earth survives


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    Source: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/weekly.html Al Gore calls for a day of prayer and reflection, and bothering your neighbor: So please, take this day and the milestone it represents to reflect on the fragility of our civilization and and the planetary ecosystem on … Continue reading →
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  • ENVIRONMENTAL QUOTES. AL GORE


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    Environment quotes, always with illustration. In 2007, he won the Nobel Peace for his work on global warming and environmental problems. He regards himself an environmental activist and in addiction he is an author. Gore published recently the book “The Future, assessment of six critical drivers of global change in ...
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  • Al Gore’s Golden Years


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    The house in Nashville is gleaming white, with symmetrical wings and four twenty-foot-high Victorian columns. Under the soaring portico stands Al Gore, dressed in his casual uniform—a button-down blue dress shirt, jeans, and cowboy boots. This is Gore’s White House, a 10,000-square-foot mansion he and Tipper ...
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  • Huckster Al Gore smears Canada’s ethical oil


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    It’s also time to pull Al Gore’s “charity” (lobby group) off the Canadian government teat. Ezra Levant: Gore spewing hot air Click here to view the embedded video. Published on May 7, 2013 by sunnewsvideo Ezra Levant sets the records straight about Canada’s oil after Al Gore exposed himself as ...
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  • Al Gore worth $200 million, with ties to oil


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    SHARE: Tweet SOURCES: http://www.businessinsider.com/al-gore-wealth-money-current-sale-al-jazeera-2013-5 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-06/gore-is-romney-rich-with-200-million-after-bush-defeat.html #call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}
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  • Here’s How Apple and the Internet Made Al Gore Rich


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    Word on the street is that Al Gore has joined the pantheon of America’s multimillionaires. Bloomberg calculates that the former Senator and Vice President could be worth as much as $200 million, with as much as half of that money coming in just one month. Gore owned a 20 percent stake in Current TV, a media ...
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  • Alberta, Open Sewers and the Keystone Pipeline


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    Al Gore raised the hackles of the Canadian government this week when he criticized the country’s large scale extraction of oil from the Alberta tar sands.  The tar sand oil reserves are among the world’s largest but are particularly energy intensive to extract.  That means that extracting oil that will then be ...
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  • No, Al Gore Did Not Just Want to "Count All the Votes" in the 2000 Election


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    The idea that George W. Bush "stole" the 2000 election, while having died down over the years due to the total ineptitude of the Obama administration, is still pushed by some far-Left zealots who will go down to their dying breath hating and blaming Bush for everything wrong with the world. But as the ...
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  • Limbaugh Goes After Gore For Getting ‘Richer Than Evil White Guy Romney’ By Selling Current TV To ‘Terrorists’


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    It appears that Rush Limbaugh is just catching up on the news that Al Gore has sold his struggling Current TV cable network to Al Jazeera. The news broke back in early January, but with Bloomberg News and a profile in New York Magazine this week pointing out that Gore is likely “richer now than an ...
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  • Gore Received $70 Million from Al Jazeera


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    $70 million Amount former Vice President Al Gore and Current TV co-founder reportedly received for his 20% stake when he sold the cable network to Al Jazeera, Bloomberg reports.
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  • Global Warming said...


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    Mother N Needs Midol Laundry Caused The Drought
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  • Seib & Wessel: What We’re Reading Tuesday


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    The Syrian conflict, a testy legal battle over the final stages of the largest services contract in American military history, and more recommended reading from around the web.
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  • Gore ‘Romney Rich,’ Heck, Maybe He’s Richer Than That


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    Al Gore is “Romney rich ” with a cool $200 million in net worth, according to a new report in Bloomberg. Well, that’s not too amazing to anybody who ever spent any time in Tennessee, where I guess we all thought the Gores were always rich. Reporters Ken Wells and Ari Levy had a great opening line for the ...
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  • Gore Banked $70 Million from Al Jazeera


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    Bloomberg reports that former Vice President Al Gore and Current TV co-founder reportedly made an estimated $70 million for his 20% stake when he sold the cable network to Al Jazeera.
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  • Al Gore, Man of the People, Gets Paid Over $1 Million a Day to Sit on Apple’s Board, $125,000 per hour


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    If you want a poster child for corporate greed, you can look no further than Al Gore. After he failed to get enough votes to win Florida, and therefore the Presidential election in 2000, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs added him to the list of Yes Men on Apple’s board of directors. A report out today [...]
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  • Romney-Rich: Only thing Warming is Al Gore’s Bank Account


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    In 1999, Al Gore, then U.S. vice president and a Democratic candidate for president, sold $6,000 worth of cows The former senator, who spent most of his working life in Congress, had a net worth of about $1.7 million and assets that included pasture rents from a family farm and royalties from a zinc mine, remnants ...
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