Al Gore never had a "censorship crusade," there was an effort to label music in the same manner as movies so that parents could be aware of what their (minor age) children were absorbing.
NAFTA has been a mixed bag but we as nation would definitely be better off had Gore been in charge instead of Bush. Gore's primary role was the national debate with Ross Perot on Larry King. Gore exposed Perot's free trade monoply and Perot was never the same political force after that debate.
Gore made the bulk of his wealth after he left public office only because the vast majority of the political establishment was too stupid, timid or corrupted to listen to him on the desperate need to address the looming castrophe of global warming climate change.
After his poltical career ended, Gore decided to use the economy to change the world; in order to save it from itself, as the political world wasn't able to provide the necessary leadership. Capitalism was and still is the preeminent driving force shaping our society so if he couldn't change things from the poltical aspect, the economic world was the next logical choice.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Investment_Management
"Generation Investment Management LLP (GIM) is a London-based investment management firm with an investment style that blends traditional equity research with a focus on sustainability factors, including social and environmental responsibility and corporate governance.
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Generation was founded in 2004[2] and began investing client money in April 2005. With offices in London and New York,[2] the firm employs 38 people.[3] Generation's Advisory Board, convened by Gore, helps set Generation's long-term thematic research agenda into global sustainability and renewable energy issues. Past areas of focus have included climate change, poverty and development, ecosystem services and biodiversity, water scarcity, pandemics, demographics and migration, and urbanization.
In November 2007, Generation and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) announced a global collaboration to "find, fund and accelerate green business, technology and policy solutions with the greatest potential to help solve the current climate crisis."[4] As part of the collaboration, prominent KPCB Partner John Doerr joined Generation's Advisory Board."
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However Gore didn't stop there, he founded Current T.V. which by far has done more to support and promote the OWS movenment than any other segment of the corporate media; which by the way waged a near two year "War against Gore" of slander and libel ie; Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet" etc. etc. etc. prior to selection of 2000.
The corporate media was highly motivated to betray the American People's best interests precisely because Gore was the preeminent poltical champion for opening the Internet to the people. As the Internet grew in power and influence, magnifying the American People's freedom of speech power more than anything since the First Amendment was adopted over 200 years ago, the corporate media came to view the Internet as a direct threat against their own long standing, one way, top down business model of brainwashing the American People for profit.
It kind of comes full circle, as the Internet greatly enabled the OWS movenment and the other protests taking place around the world, including the Arab Spring.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_gore
"Gore was one of the Atari Democrats who were given this name due to their "passion for technological issues, from biomedical research and genetic engineering to the environmental impact of the "greenhouse effect."[33] On March 19, 1979 he became the first member of Congress to appear on C-SPAN.[49] During this time, Gore co-chaired the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future with Newt Gingrich.[50] In addition, he has been described as having been a "genuine nerd, with a geek reputation running back to his days as a futurist Atari Democrat in the House. Before computers were comprehensible, let alone sexy, the poker-faced Gore struggled to explain artificial intelligence and fiber-optic networks to sleepy colleagues."[33][51] Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn noted that, "as far back as the 1970s, Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship [...] the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication."[52]
Gore introduced the Supercomputer Network Study Act of 1986.[53] He also sponsored hearings on how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating the response of government agencies to natural disasters and other crises."[54]
As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill" ) after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet).[55][56][57] The bill was passed on December 9, 1991 and led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII) which Gore referred to as the "information superhighway."[58]
After joining the U.S. House of Representatives, Gore held the "first congressional hearings on the climate change, and co-sponsor[ed] hearings on toxic waste and global warming."[59][60] He continued to speak on the topic throughout the 1980s.[33][61][62] In 1990, Senator Gore presided over a three-day conference with legislators from over 42 countries which sought to create a Global Marshall Plan, "under which industrial nations would help less developed countries grow economically while still protecting the environment."[63]
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The upshot is Gore did more than any other poltical leader to empower/magnify your freedom of speech, he paid a heavy political price for it and you tell the world "he's untrustworthy and his motives are suspect."
Will wonders never cease?
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