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Eco-Loon James Lee Killed By Police In Hostage Standoff at Discovery Channel Headquarters

Published on September 1, 2010 in Eco-loons. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Why can’t these loons just off themselves quietly in their own homes instead of creating mass panic and trying to kill others?

A man who railed against the Discovery Channel’s environmental programming for years burst into the company’s headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body Wednesday and took three people hostage at gunpoint before police shot him to death, officials said.

The hostages — two Discovery Communications employees and a security guard — were unhurt after the four-hour standoff. Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger said tactical officers moved in after officers monitoring the gunman on building security cameras saw him pull out a handgun and point it at a hostage.

An explosive device on the gunman’s body detonated when police shot him, Manger said. Police were trying to determine whether two boxes and two backpacks the gunman had also contained explosives.  [Associated Press]

So why was this guy so pissed off at the Discovery Channel, well they didn’t do enough to promote global warming alarmism:

“The Discovery Channel produces many so-called ‘Environmental Programs’ supposedly there to save the planet,” Lee said in an ad he took out in a Washington newspaper to promote the protest. “But the truth is things are getting WORSE! Their programs are causing more harm than good.”

In court and online, Lee faulted the Discovery Channel for shows as varied as “Future Weapons,” “It Takes a Thief” and “Planet Green.”

A lengthy posting that could be seen Wednesday on a website registered to Lee said Discovery and its affiliates should stop “encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants,” a possible reference to shows like “Kate Plus 8″ and “19 Kids and Counting.” Instead, he said, the network should air “programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility.”

This guy and Paul Watson could hang out and discuss how they would sterilize people.  Oh and if you are wondering where he gets the time to conduct such protests, well he is unemployed and probably cashing government unemployment checks to fund his nonsense:

At Lee’s trial, he said he began working to save the planet after being laid off from his job in San Diego.

Also is anyone surprised one of his heroes is Al Gore:

He said he was inspired by “Ishmael,” a novel by environmentalist Daniel Quinn, and by former Vice President Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”

The bottom line here is that you have some loser inspired by mis-truths in Al Gore’s movie, which led to a fanatic devotion to the green faith which in turn led to violence.

Could you just imagine what the headlines would be if a global warming skeptic did this?

Sea Shepherd Has Yet to Find Japanese Whaling Fleet

Published on December 24, 2009 in Eco-loons. 0 Comments Tags: , .

The eco-theater on the high seas is beginning once again this year:

THE captain of the Sea Shepherd group’s anti-whaling ship says he is confident he will be able to locate a Japanese whaling fleet, despite a Japanese security vessel chasing and harassing him and his crew.

Paul Watson, captain of the Steve Irwin, says the Shonan Maru 2 had been harassing his ship in Antarctic waters for almost a fortnight while it attempted to prevent his crew from pursuing the Japanese whaling fleet.

The Ady Gil, a 24m trimaran speedboat belonging to the Sea Shepherd, met up with the Steve Irwin today and circled the Shonan Maru 2 to create a diversion and help the Steve Irwin to lose the Japanese ship.

The Steve Irwin then managed to steam ahead of the Shonan Maru 2 by 12 nautical miles but the security vessel eventually caught up.

Mr Watson says his crew will return to Hobart for fuel, then continue their pursuit of the Japanese whaling fleet.  [AAP]

I thought the Australian government denied Watson’s visa application?  I can’t stand Paul Watson for a variety of reasons.  I think however that South Park depicts Sea Shepherd the best.

Al Gore Heading to Melbourne as Temperatures Drop to Record Lows

Published on July 8, 2009 in Eco-loons. 1 Comment Tags: , .

You can tell Al Gore must be on his way to Melbourne considering this news:

MELBURNIANS have shivered through the coldest morning of the year, with the mercury plunging below zero degrees celsius in suburbs across the city.

In Melbourne’s west, temperatures dipped to a 12-year record low in Laverton with -2.1 degrees, while in Moorabbin residents woke up to a chilly -0.8.

Scoresby and Viewbank households also reached for extra blankets, as temperatures registered -0.6 and -0.5 degrees respectively.

Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Richard Carlyon said the CBD was the only area unaffected by the icy weather, which recorded 3.4 degrees overnight.

“Across the metropolitan region it was the coldest morning of the year,” he told AAP.

But he said open areas of central Melbourne – including Federation Square which broadcast the Michael Jackson memorial service live from Los Angeles at 3am (AEST) – would have felt much colder.  [AAP]

Yet I’m sure the global warming faithful will be out in force to welcome their evironmental capitalist environmental evangelist, Al Gore. 

Al Gore: “Environmental Evangelist” or “Environmental Capitalist”?

Published on September 20, 2007 in Eco-loons. 0 Comments

Did anyone see Al Gore on the Today Show this morning?  You can watch the video by clicking the video link on this webpage.  They were calling him the "Environmental Evangelist" and Today Show host Lisa Wilkinson looked like she had just witnessed Jesus in the flesh.  I was left wondering if she was expecting him to give her a blessing on her head before he left. 

Karl Stefanovic wasn’t as worshipful of Gore and actually asked him one tough question.  He did let Gore ramble about a lot of things and wouldn’t challenge him further on, but at least he asked one tough question which is something very few people do to Gore.  What he challenged Gore on was the reports that he was a hypocrite do to his home that was an energy hog.  Of course Gore denied it and blamed global warming denying groups for the report.  No it was not any global warming denying special interest groups but the USA Today newspaper that reported Gore’s energy consumption:

For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film’s distributor, pays this.)

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore’s office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.  [USA Today]

Than ABC News reported on Gore’s $30,000 electrical bills:

Armed with Gore’s utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president’s 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.

"If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn’t care," says the Center’s 27-year-old president, Drew Johnson. "But he tells other people how to live and he’s not following his own rules."

Scoffed a former Gore adviser in response: "I think what you’re seeing here is the last gasp of the global warming skeptics. They’ve completely lost the debate on the issue so now they’re just attacking their most effective opponent."

Kalee Kreider, a spokesperson for the Gores, did not dispute the Center’s figures, taken as they were from public records. [ABC News]

Karl didn’t challenge him on this and let Gore off the hook by allowing him to claim he was attacked by global warming deniers and has since installed solar panels.  During the rest of the interview Gore went on about the typical global warming religion talking points especially the newest one that the Arctic is melting at an alarming rate.  I would have loved someone to ask him why Antarctica has the highest amount of ice levels in recorded history?  Better yet I would love someone to ask him to explain why now the United States has been cooling since 1998?  These are just a few of the many questions such as these I would love someone to ask him.  However, everyone is scared to because any debate about global warming is considered blasphemy. 

So what is Gore doing in Australia you may ask?  Well looking for more disciples to spread his faith:

"Colonial First State has signed an exclusive retail distribution agreement with long term and sustainable investment specialists Generation Investment Management," he says.

"While I’m in Melbourne I will be contributing to a training program that will train 170 new climate change campaigners, through the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Climate Project," he says.

"Anyone can be a climate change ambassador/campaigner,’ he says.

Television gardening guru Jamie Durie will be in the training program to become a climate change ambassador. He will spend three days this month learning from Mr Gore in Australia about how to spread the message to curb global warming. [NineMSN]

And like any good television evangelist he is also looking to make a lot of money as well:

AL GORE has a story he wants to tell the world. But it will cost you a thousand dollars to hear it.

In a passionate attack on the climate policies of Prime Minister John Howard and US President George Bush, the former US vice-president, addressing a very expensive lunch in Sydney yesterday, called Australia and the US "the Bonnie and Clyde" outlaws of the global environment for their failure to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.

Mr Gore called on Australia to change course on Kyoto and its climate policies, saying if it did "it would be impossible for the United States to withstand the pressure" to join the rest of the world in ratifying Kyoto.

Labor under Kevin Rudd has promised to ratify the protocol while Mr Howard is adamantly opposed to it and is backing Mr Bush’s efforts to find a "post-Kyoto accord".

Mr Gore made his comments after reporters were asked to leave the lunch venue. Despite the cost, lunch in the 700-seat room at the Sydney Convention Centre was a sell-out, as is tomorrow’s event in Melbourne. VIP packages, which included a spot close to Mr Gore and a meet-and-greet with him, cost $25,000. [The Age]

With the prices Gore is charging he easily made a million bucks tonight in Melbourne and you add that to whatever he made in Sydney the before and you can say the "Environmental Evangelist" is actually quite a good "Environmental Capitalist".  If this dinner was supposed to be about global warming than why were all these people in an auditorium using up all the energy in there?  Why wasn’t this dinner held in one of the outdoor amphitheaters in Melbourne?  That would have saved energy and made a physical example of how committed they are to saving energy.  However, that would have made the dinner inconvenient for them.  The burden of cutting back on energy is not for the rich at this dinner tonight, but for the regular folks who can’t afford a $1,000 dinner to listen to Al Gore and are reading this instead. 

One of my favorite Gore and rich people in general excuses for their energy consumption and private jet plane rides is that they buy carbon offsets and thus live a carbon neutral life.  This reminds me of when the old Catholic Church used to allow the rich to pay the church large amounts of money to forgive their sins.  However, it just so happens that Al Gore is the president of his own carbon trading company that he stands to make millions from. 

So once again I ask the question, is Al Gore an "Environmental Evangelist" or an "Environmental Capitalist"? 

APEC Violence

Published on September 9, 2007 in Australia in the News and Eco-loons. 0 Comments

Violence was expected duirng the APEC summit and the usual suspects delivered:

A 40-year-old man threw a dart that lodged in a policeman’s skull and swung wildly at other officers with a metal pole, striking one of them in the head, a Sydney court has heard.

Gavin Begbie, of Pimlico in northern NSW, is facing a total of 13 charges arising out of demonstrations yesterday in Sydney against the APEC leaders’ summit.

He was one of 18 people arrested during the protests organised by the Stop Bush Coalition.
Parramatta Bail Court heard that at about 11.30am, as the protesters marched along Park Street to Hyde Park, Begbie threw a dart at Chief Inspector Mark Death, which lodged in the officer’s skull.
As police moved in, he swung at them with a metal pole, hitting them around their arms and bodies and striking the head of Constable Michael Nolan. [Herald-Sun]

The Daily Telegraph has pictures of the usual communists, hippies, anarchists, and other general riff raff  in action and the telegraph some how politefully labels them as "colourful protesters"; I call them idiots:

Just another reason why I can’t stand these people.

UPDATE: Andrew Bolt and Andrew Landeryou have much more. 

What to Do About the Eco-loons

Published on September 5, 2007 in Eco-loons. 0 Comments

Andrew Bolt really nails how I feel about the eco-loons in his column in the Herald-Sun, like the eco-loons that shut down a Victorian power plant this week,  Here is how his column starts:

MICHAELA Stubbs beamed euphorically for the television cameras, like a girl who won’t be made to clean up the bedroom she’s had such fun messing.

What a hoot! What joy for any of our underparented activists.

You see, behind this excited Friends of the Earth campaigner, police were still cutting free one of four of her fellow protesters who’d chained themselves to conveyer belts at the giant Loy Yang power station, forcing shut downs which cut the state’s power by 10 per cent.

The plant’s operators were losing hundreds of thousands of dollars, but what did Stubbs care when this stunt won her this brilliant chance to preach on TV about global warming?

Someone else would pay, right?

Nor did she seem in the least bit bothered that some security guys at the plant might now lose their jobs.

As Lenin said, you can’t make a revolution without breaking eggs! What’s some bloke’s job compared with giving Michaela Stubbs this chance to get her face — evangelical eyes shiny with self-love — on your television screen for 30 sermonising seconds?

Also of no concern to Stubbs was that the station operators will probably have to build expensive new fences and alarm systems to stop a break-in so costly – and potentially catastrophic on a hot and power-hungry day – from happening again.

Not her problem. Send the bill to The Man. To Big Daddy.

Make sure to read the whole thing.  Andrew Bolt pretty much agrees with what I have been advocating that these people need to be heavily fined for breaking the law and destroying property. 

Eco-Loons Shut Down Victoria Power Plant

Published on September 3, 2007 in Eco-loons. 0 Comments

The eco-loons were at again today by shutting down a Victorian power plant:

Disruption caused by a protest in which activists chained themselves to conveyor belts at a Victorian power station could cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars, the plant’s chief executive says.

Loy Yang Power chief executive officer Ian Nethercote said the protest at the plant, in Gippsland’s Latrobe Valley, reduced the amount of power generated by the station by 600 megawatts from a capacity of 2200 megawatts.

"It’s disappointing given that the industry has been working quite closely with a number of environmental movements and in fact, from a Loy Yang perspective we have been working to improve our greenhouse emissions for quite some number of years," Mr Nethercote said.

Police this morning cut free four protesters who chained themselves to the conveyor belts in a protest aimed at leaders gathering in Sydney for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

The protesters from Real Action on Climate Change chained themselves to two conveyor belts at the power station, which supplies a third of Victoria’s electricity, about 5.30am. [The Age]

What if these idiots had cut off power to a nursing home or a hospital with their actions?  Despite the possible consequences of cutting off power to a large part of Victoria, I fully expect these guys will get off light as usual by the justice system, which will just embolden them to do it again. 

What was most funny about this protest is that they are protesting global warming and it was freezing outside today with rain falling.  These guys are still no where as stupid as my favorite Australian eco-loon, Mr. There is the Snow.  If this loon hasn’t found the snow yet I found it for him right here.

You can read more from Andrew Bolt.

APEC Arrests Begin

Published on September 2, 2007 in Australia in the News and Eco-loons. 0 Comments

For those that don’t know Sydney is the sight of this year’s APEC summit which means the anarchists, wacko environmentalists, and communists are out in force protesting and vandalizing again.  Any bets when the first acts of violence will happen?  These same idiots trashed downtown Melbourne last year during the G20 Summit and this year it appears they seem set on trashing Sydney during this week’s APEC summit. 

The first arrests have already been made on Sunday and the summit had not even officially started yet:

A GROUP of Greenpeace protesters has been charged with malicious damage and dangerous navigation after painting an anti-APEC slogan on a coal ship moored in Newcastle.

Twelve environmental activists were arrested after setting out at dawn in inflatable dinghies to paint "Australia Pushing Export Coal" in 2m-high letters on the hull of the NSS Endeavor.

They also unfurled a banner, written in Chinese, urging China to be aware of efforts by Australia and the United States to undermine the Kyoto Protocol.

Specialist APEC police were brought in from Sydney to discuss with local officers whether to handle the matter under new police powers granted for the summit, a Greenpeace spokeswoman said.

Under the APEC Meeting (Police Powers) Act 2007 some protesters arrested during the summit week will have a presumption against bail.

No action was ultimately taken under the APEC legislation, the spokeswoman said.

Eleven were charged with malicious damage and a twelfth with dangerous navigation.

All were released this afternoon, with the charged boat driver to appear in Newcastle Local Court next week. [News.com.au]

I don’t understand why these idiots are not locked up in jail or a least heavily fined for vandalism?  It was the same thing in Melbourne last year where these protesters totally trashed the downtown area and only four people were arrested for it.  If some of my buddies and I went and trashed a neighborhood in Melbourne do you think the authorities would just let us get away with it?  Of course not but when it comes to the eco-loons, anarchists, and communists they continue to get away with breaking the law. 

If anyone cares these eco-loons claim they had an "environmentally friendly" protest:

"The crew appear to have cleaned it off," the Greenpeace spokeswoman said.

The clay-based paint was environmentally friendly, and the protest had been peaceful, she said.

If this protest is so "environmentally friendly" than why are these people using a gas powered engine to drive around in their boat with?  If they care so much about stopping fossil fuel usage than why are they burning fossil fuel for their protest?  Shouldn’t they be in a row boat?  Ah, but that would be to much work to have to actually row over to the boat to vandalize it, just like they probably drove a vehicle to get to the dock in the first place instead of riding a bicycle. 

It sounds to me like they are all for fossil fuels they can use for themselves, but are against the export of fossil fuels to a developing country like China to use.  Add this to the ever growing list of reasons why I can’t stand these people. 

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No Snow?

Published on July 12, 2007 in Eco-loons. 0 Comments

What the hell is this guy talking about?:

The man, dressed only in a pair of Speedos, approached the prime minister as he mingled with guests in the local RSL.

He shouted: “What are you doing about global warming? There is no snow, there is no snow”, before he was quickly bundled away by security staff into a nearby toilet.

We just had the coldest June in 50 years and today was the coldest day we have yet this year where I live.  The nearby mountains are covered in snow.  Mt. Buller which is the nearest ski resort to Melbourne where I live, is reporting the best start to a snow season in 17 years:

Mt Buller is having the best start to a snow season in almost two decades, with a resort average of 83cm of snow just four weeks into the season. 

More than 50cm has fallen in the past week, giving the resort the most natural snow on the ground at this stage of the season since 1990. The resort is only nine centimetres behind the epic 1981 season when natural snow depths peaked at 2.10 metres. 

I need to get up there to Mt. Buller soon.  I recommend this global warming idiot take a trip up there too and see the snow for himself. 

Coldest June in 50 Years in Australia

Published on July 7, 2007 in Eco-loons and Environment. 0 Comments

The global warming loons are out in force in Sydney for their Live Earth concert which has now created an estimated carbon footprint of 74,500 tons while the average person has a annual carbon footprint of 10 tons.  I find it just a tad bit ironic that someone like Madonna should be able to preach to anyone about global warming when you read things like this:

No doubt to rapturous applause, Madonna will call for mass global change to reduce carbon emissions and to tackle ‘climate crisis’.

Watching the veteran star lap up the adoration, her entourage could, however, be forgiven for exchanging slightly jaded glances – having witnessed her jet in for the concert from New York.

For her 2006 World Tour, she flew by private jet, transporting a team of up to 100 technicians and dancers around the globe. Waiting in the garage at home, she has a Mercedes Maybach, two Range Rovers, an Audi A8 and a Mini Cooper S.

To further show the ironic nature of this event Australian scientists have announced that last month was the coldest June in over 50 years in Australia.  Not only is it still cold here now, but the rain is still falling heavily here in Victoria and the mountains continue to be dumped on with snow.  You can see an updated weather forecast here.  Any bets that someone will claim all this cold, rain, and snow is because of global warming?  Maybe Madonna will let us know.