Sunday, August 23, 2009

Behold, the awesome power of a British actor

[British actor takes fossil-fueled trip to Australia to promote climate fraud movie]
ACCLAIMED character actor Pete Postlethwaite was in Sydney this week for Wednesday night’s premiere of his new film but he didn’t arrive in a limousine or live it large at any lavish after-parties.

Postlethwaite’s film, The Age of Stupid, a drama-documentary set in a world destroyed by climate change, aims to highlight environmental issues and its British premiere set records for the ”greenest” film event on record.
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The powerful response has already led to governmental change. After the record-breaking British premiere, Postlethwaite, in a live broadcast, threatened to give back his OBE if a new coal power station was commissioned in Britain, resulting in a turnaround in government coal policy a month later.
Order of the British Empire: Definition from Answers.com
(in the UK) an honorary order of knighthood instituted in 1917 and divided into five classes, each with military and civilian divisions.

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