Harper projecting Canada into the world and some early international reaction...
M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Sondheim Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:33 AM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] A huffy Canada shuts down 'Yes Men'. This is unbelievable and hypocritical, given Canada's image in general. Greed will kill us all. - Alan On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, marc garrett wrote: > A huffy Canada shuts down 'Yes Men'. > > Stung by a satire at the Copenhagen climate conference, Canada's > government has shut down two parody Web sites criticizing the Great > White North's glacial policy on global warming. > > In the process, however, it has taken down 4,500 other Web sites that > had nothing to do with the prank played two weeks ago at the global > climate summit. > > The two "offending" sites, developed by "Yes Men" pranksters, > announced that Canada would reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 40 > percent from 1990 levels, and 80 percent by the year 2050. > > The "announcement" came as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government > was privately circulating a plan to permit a 165 percent INCREASE in > emissions from Alberta's huge, dirty oil sands project. > > The two Web sites, "enviro-canada.ca" and "ec-gc.ca" are "directly > connected to a hoax which misleads people into believing that the > Government of Canada will take certain actions in relation to > environmental matters," Mike Landreville from Environment Canada wrote > in an e-mail to the German Internet Service Provider (ISP) Serveloft. > > "We trust you appreciate the importance of avoiding confusion among > the public concerning Canadian governmental affairs and that you will > assist us in preventing this hoax from spreading further." > > more... http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/189467.asp > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org sondheimat gmail.com, panix.com == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
