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It looks like Sony and Kyocera Mita have demanded their removal from all associations with the extremist climate group 10:10.org, which produced that exploding schoolchildren video last week. The corporations’ names have been removed from the list of partners, and a lengthy post by Sony’s point-person on climate change, Naomi Climer, has been deleted from the 10:10 site.
Not only that, but a huge U.S. environmentalist promoter and partner, 350.org (headed by Bill McKibben), is no longer listed as an organizational partner. Both 10:10 and 350 have been heavily promoting an October 10 (10/10/10) “global workday” to supposedly bring fresh attention to the global warming threat. The message from 350.org’s press shop:
We respect 10:10’s previous work to encourage companies, schools, and churches to voluntarily cut their carbon emissions 10%. Upon seeing the video, however, we have informed 10:10 that we can no longer remain partners on 10/10/10 or any other initiative. 350.org maintains an absolute commitment to nonviolence in word and deed.
After Friday’s weak apology, 10:10 U.K. director Eugenie Harvey issued this statement today, clearly stung by the global outrage:
We also issued a statement apologising but there has subsequently been quite a lot of negative comment, particularly on blogs, and understandable concern from others working hard to build support for action on climate change.
We are also sorry to our corporate sponsors, delivery partners and board members, who have been implicated in this situation despite having no involvement in the film’s production or release.
I am very sorry for our mistake and want to reassure you that we will do everything in our power to ensure it does not happen again.
10:10 is a young and creative team but we will learn lessons from this. We are going to investigate what happened, review our processes and procedures, and share the results with our partners. Responsibility for this process is being taken by the 10:10 board of directors.
Being “young and creative” is a bunch of garbage and another lame excuse. Gillian Anderson, whose CGI-generated guts were splattered in the film, is neither young nor creative, yet she went along with the program. Dozens if not hundreds of others were involved in the creation of the video and you can’t tell me they all were “young and creative.” They were just committed to the message. As Iowahawk wrote:
In order for your “No Pressure” advert to have been made, I am assuming several writers pitched a professionally-prepared storyboard to a committee, detailing shot-by-shot each second of the film. The committee approved it, along with a minimum $250,000 budget to hire actors, director, & crew. Each scene probably took 3-10 takes, and weeks of post production by special effects wizards.
At no time did a single person involved in this (expletive) say, “hey, maybe it isn’t the best PR to air our fantasies about detonating the people who don’t agree with us into a mist of blood meat and bone fragments.”
At his site Iowahawk imagines how the video plans came together, which sounds pretty plausible.
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SoCon| 10.4.10 @ 4:14PM
Leftists worship at the altar of death. They always have. Hatred is their bailiwick.
Next time they will be more careful their mask doesn't slip.
Esse Quam Videros| 10.4.10 @ 5:09PM
Succinctly put. You could write a book cataloguing their mayhem.
Handy| 10.4.10 @ 5:34PM
Can anyone say Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn?
Tantor | 10.4.10 @ 10:36PM
We had to destroy the people to save them.
Deborah D | 10.5.10 @ 6:58AM
Up next: ovens? They've compared those who dissent from the global warming religion to Holocaust deniers. Will they be the Holocaust resurrectors? That's the subtle message here.
Mike M| 10.5.10 @ 10:16AM
What a sorry bunch they are. With science no longer providing them any cover for their zealotry it lays bare the religious-like nature of their wishful guilt driven dogma. They expect us to submit to it or DIE, (sounds familar huh?). How much longer until they begin living out these fantasies?
Dein| 10.5.10 @ 10:30AM
10/10-calling attention to something that doesn't exist.What it does call attention to is the left's desire for power,control,and a way to separate hard working AMERICANS from their money.When someone comes to you and says "for just afew dollars more,I can make the climate fit your fancy",my reply is "no thanks Mr.Haney"[gore].The simple wisdom of Green Acres really does apply here.
John| 10.5.10 @ 1:44PM
Far-left thinking always winds up in the same place because having to deal with people unwilling to go along with the program always gets in their way because leftist ideology requires demanding others to do things, whether they want to or not. The result is thoughts of coercion, force, terror, imprisonment, and ultimately murder to get them out of the way.
Dean from Ohio| 10.6.10 @ 12:13AM
This is enough to bring "Walker, Texas Ranger" back into production to do a remake of the splattergate video. How about a scene with the blond DA teaching a lesson to the murderous schoolteacher before she gets her hands on the button?
Richard Swett| 10.6.10 @ 7:49PM
Following is an email I received from Sony. They are still pushing the AGW garbage, just sorry that there message was so ill received. Not buying Sony!
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10:10 campaign [voc 10/04]
Discussion Thread
Response (Mary Rose T) 10/05/2010 09:19 PM
Dear Richard,
Thank you for contacting Sony Style!
This is a follow up regarding the erroneous campaign released by 10:10 organization.
Sony is strongly condemning the release by 10:10, the climate change campaign group, of a video entitled "No Pressure" that Sony considers to be ill-conceived and tasteless. The company also believes this video risks undermining the work of the many thousands of members of the public, schools and universities, local authorities and many businesses, of which Sony is one, who support the long-term aims of the 10:10 movement and are actively working towards the reduction of carbon emissions.
The short video, which was conceived, produced and released entirely without the knowledge or any involvement of Sony, violates the thoughtful and collaborative philosophy that Sony has consistently supported as we strive to become a responsible global citizen.
Whilst recognizing that 10:10 acted quickly to remove the video from its web site and has issued a public apology, Sony believes that it had no other option than to also condemn the video in the strongest possible terms and Sony is disassociating itself from 10:10 at this time.
Sony also wants to take this opportunity to reaffirm its commitment towards reducing carbon emissions, which is the primary aim of the 10:10 organization, and confirmed that it is on track to reduce the carbon emissions from its sites by 30% by 2015, as part of its wider "Road to Zero" environmental plan. "Road to Zero" is an ambitious long-term strategy that seeks to achieve a zero environmental footprint throughout the lifecycle of Sony's products and business activities. For further details, please see http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/csr/eco/RoadToZero/ ).
Thank you for choosing Sony Style!
Tam