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COP26 roundup: socialism and hypocrisy
November 19, 2021 in history | Tags: 2021, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Allegra Stratton, Alok Sharma, Angela Rayner, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall, China, climate change, coal, COP26, coronavirus, Dan Hodges, GB News, Glasgow, Green Party, Greta Thunberg, Guido Fawkes, history, hypocrisy, Joe Biden, masks, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland, socialism, Tom Harwood, UK, United States, Vietnam | Comments closed
COP26 ended last weekend.
The great Glasgow conference ended with an agreement to phase ‘down’ coal rather than phase ‘out’ coal.
This left COP26 chairman Alok Sharma MP (Conservative) in tears.
More on that below.
Let’s start at the beginning of the year and work from there.
Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg declared early in April that she would not be attending COP26:
Greta Says She’s Not Coming & Glasgow’s COP26 Should Be Cancelled https://t.co/80t0t0nKr9 pic.twitter.com/e2B10ms0fR
— Gaia Fawkes (@GaiaFawkes) April 9, 2021
The budding epidemiologist (irony alert) said that the conference should be cancelled until global vaccination rates had risen.
Odd that she did not mention carbon emissions from 30,000 prospective attendees, which the Global Warming Policy Forum did in May, strongly suggesting that the conference take place virtually. Guido Fawkes said that having done so would have saved British taxpayers £200m.
The UK Government stuck to the plan, however. A spokesman said:
We are working on the basis of COP26 being held in person this November, while closely monitoring the covid situation.
The summit team is working closely with all partners and exploring what different scenarios might mean for COP26 and how we plan for that, whilst putting the health of the participants and the local community first.
We are not looking to postpone the summit.
During COP26, Greta led a rally in central Glasgow, attracting hundreds of fellow admirers in the streets.
Mixed messages from No. 10’s COP26 spokeswoman
On April 20, No. 10 decided to scrap the plan for American-style press conferences which Downing Street’s spokeswoman Allegra Stratton was supposed to lead. Stratton became the Government’s COP26 spokeswoman instead.
What a mistake that was.
On July 27, she told Britons not to rinse their plates before putting them in the dishwasher. Good news for plumbers, then:
Not sure about anyone else but my dishwasher gets blocked and breaks down if I dont rinse the plates first 🤷♂️
— Dainer#SaveOurNHS (@dainer31) July 27, 2021
The next day, she — working for a Conservative government — advised Britons to join the Green Party:
Boris’s #COP26 Spokeswoman Allegra Stratton “Join the Green Party” https://t.co/bhZC1xmAct pic.twitter.com/G7dExe1VGE
— Gaia Fawkes (@GaiaFawkes) July 28, 2021
This seemed to be an attempt to walk back her dishwasher advice from the day before.
Guido Fawkes wrote (emphasis in the original):
In an unexpected turn of events, Boris Johnson’s COP26 spokesperson Allegra Stratton told The Independent that people should “join the Green Party” if they want to tackle climate change. When asked why organisations were critical of her advice to consider not “rinsing plates“ before putting them in the dishwasher, Allegra responded by saying:
“When people say to me, ‘What can they do?’, they can do many things, they can join Greenpeace, they can join the Green Party, they can join the Tory Party.”
A highly quotable if somewhat unusual endorsement…
On August 2, Stratton explained to Times Radio why she still drove a diesel car rather than buy an electric one (emphases mine, unless otherwise stated):
I have a diesel Golf. It’s third hand and I’ve had it for 8 years. I don’t drive it very much because I live in London, and it wouldn’t be right. I cycle, I’ve hurt my leg at the moment, but usually we cycle or get on the bus or walk most places. The car we use to go to granny’s and grandad’s who are mostly 200, 250 miles away. I should be moving to another car, before I hurt my leg I was thinking about getting another car…My son would really like me to buy an electric car. I think it is the idea that right now, if I had one, any of those journeys to my dad in South Scotland, my mum in Gloucestershire, my in-laws in the Lake District and my Gran in North Wales, they’re all journeys, that I think would be at least one quite long stop to charge. And my kids are seven and four and I don’t fancy it just yet. That’s not to say that very soon, that technology, the charging points, we’re already seeing an increase in numbers, we’re seeing the cost come down, and we are seeing the range go up. So the direction of travel is great, and is swift. So I am optimistic that at some point, like so many families around the country, I’ll go for it. But right now, I have hurt my leg and I’ve been told I can’t drive ...You know, sometimes when you’ve got a four year old in the car, they’re asleep, and you just want to keep going to get there, because you know, if they wake up, you know, they’ll want the loo, they’ll want food, they might be feeling carsick and so on. So you want to be in control of that journey ... And included in that might be that the stop times for recharging improve so much that it’s half an hour.
Stratton gave all the best reasons for not buying an electric car.
Commenting on Stratton’s quote, Emily Carver, Media Manager at the Institute of Economic Affairs, pointed out:
Of course, when polled, the majority of the public support addressing climate change. Who wouldn’t want a greener, more sustainable planet? However, as is the case with so many policies, it is far easier to support a rosy abstract goal than it is to face its real-life consequences.
Furthermore, very few in the media mention the African slave labour involved in mining cobalt for car batteries in general:
The same cobalt that is used in all cars microprocessors and batteries.
— Ruaribear (@DS89604848) November 9, 2021
How did Stratton get a position as press secretary then Britain’s COP26 spokeswoman?
Breitbart provided some clues:
Stratton became the first official White House-style press secretary for the prime minister last year. She is a former journalist who had worked with establishment outlets The Guardian, the BBC, and ITV. Despite spending £2.6 million on furnishing a press room, the government scrapped the plans in April, moving Stratton to the role of the Cop26 spokeswoman, with the conference taking place in November of this year.
The Times claimed in May that Johnson appointed the former journalist at the insistence of his then-fiancée Carrie Symonds, herself a keen environmentalist.
The newspaper of record alleged the hiring took place despite the interview panel recommending against it, with leaked remarks calling Stratton a “risky appointment” and voters allegedly preferring Ellie Price, the panel’s first-choice candidate.
“The PM said it would make his life too difficult. Carrie won’t accept it if it’s anyone else. He said, ‘I’ve promised this to her’,” a Whitehall source told The Times, with a second source saying: “Boris said Carrie would go bananas if she didn’t get her way.”
In 2020, Stratton worked for Chancellor Rishi Sunak. In January 2021, TCW told us that Stratton is married to The Times‘s James Forsyth, who also works for The Spectator:
It’s time for the journalist James Forsyth – who also writes a column in the Times – to reveal the truth about Sunak’s plans. Forsyth and Sunak are close friends. They attended Winchester College together in the 1990s. Sunak was best man at Forsyth’s wedding and they are godparents to each other’s children. In April 2020, Sunak hired Forsyth’s wife, Allegra Stratton, to be his media chief (though it’s not clear if this job was ever advertised and I don’t remember any of the above being declared publicly). Since then she has moved on to be No 10 press secretary.
The conference, the hypocrisy
Guido Fawkes looked through Government contracts for COP26 to see what taxpayers’ money was financing.
The filming costs were exhorbitant:
The government has splashed a whopping £36,083,135.81 on a production services contract with Identity Holdings Limited which includes a supply of production and media services.
Glasgow teemed with prostitutes for the first two weeks of November. So much for women’s rights and the Left’s virtue signalling moral compass.
Guido reported:
The 25,000 delegates who have flooded into Glasgow have brought protestors by the thousands and, according to Guido sources, untold sex workers from around the world who are advertising their services online. In the interests of research for this story Guido has been doing research on various “adult work” websites which filter by city. According to one of the website operators, business has really hotted up, with the number of hookers advertising their services tripling from the normal three hundred or so in the city, to upwards of a thousand.
Former Labour MP David Miliband told BBC’s Newsnight that the cost of net zero would be at least £100t of ordinary people’s money:
David Miliband & Co on #Newsnight want to spend $100 Trillion on climate change. ONE HUNDRED TRiLLION. Are they on crack in Glasgow?
— Gaia Fawkes (@GaiaFawkes) November 2, 2021
For whatever reason, a Green councillor from Brighton not only attended the conference, but flew to get there:
The question has to be asked why a local council leader feels the need to attend COP instead of concentrating on local matters that need clearing up. Like the bin issue for instance
— Zippy (@ToonArmyBarmy74) November 9, 2021
On November 9, Guido wrote (emphases in the original, the one in purple mine):
Why it is really necessary for a local council leader to attend a UN conference Guido doesn’t know given they have absolutely no locus or input into the COP process. To make matters worse Brighton’s Green council leader has been caught with his fly open and forced to apologise after jetting to COP26 in Glasgow. Just days after Caroline Lucas moaned Rishi’s Budget was a joke because of its tax cuts on domestic flights…
Councillor Phelim Mac Cafferty took a plane from London to Glasgow, a 460-mile journey after which he made a speech at a protest march led by Greta Thunberg on the importance of cutting carbon emissions. He also chair’s Brighton and Hove council’s carbon neutral working group. According to the LNER website, the train journey from Brighton to Glasgow would have created 26.68kg of CO2 – Cafferty’s plane journey created 169.94kg…
Having been found out, the councillor issued a grovelling apology to a Brighton newspaper, The Argus.
In sharp contrast, former Scottish Conservative MP Ruth Davidson spotted the Royal Train at Carlisle station:
Didn't expect this while waiting on the platform at Carlisle – the Royal train 'Queen's Messenger' pulls up for a change of driver. pic.twitter.com/hUgYwNFG3o
— Ruth Davidson (@RuthDavidsonPC) November 9, 2021
Meanwhile, Vietnam’s security minister Tô Lâm left Glasgow to journey to London for an eye-wateringly expensive gold leafed tomahawk steak at the newly opened Salt Bae Knightsbridge restaurant.
Guido has the video …
… and a post about the Communist enjoying a taste of capitalism:
… And where had he just come from prior to his luxury dining experience? A flower-laying exercise at Karl Marx’s grave…
This absurd spectacle should surely call into question the millions the UK’s given to the corrupt, communist state. Since 2001, £481 million of UK taxpayers’ cash has been given in aid to Vietnam, and they are set to get another £7 million bung in 2021/22. Based on the video, Guido calculates the three steaks alone cost the table £2,550…
His colleagues back home are clearly displeased. The #SaltBae tag on Facebook was blocked in Vietnam to prevent people seeing the video – something the social media giant is now investigating. Presumably if he is sacked for his typically corrupt communist antics, he can expect a golden handshake and a gold-plated pension…
One supposes he flew there and back.
Green MP Caroline Lucas has been a stickler for wearing masks in the coronavirus era, but look what she did at COP26. She dropped her mask:
Carol Drops Mask at COP26 https://t.co/hMvZOgXSTD pic.twitter.com/gwaSdnZip9
— Gaia Fawkes (@GaiaFawkes) November 9, 2021
The Daily Mail reported that Joe Biden had an emission problem of his own which left the Duchess of Cornwall highly amused. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is on the left, with Camilla on the right:
Biden’s emission problem at #COP26 – Camilla 'hasn't stopped talking about' hearing President 'break wind' https://t.co/owvOyKazlX
— Gaia Fawkes (@GaiaFawkes) November 7, 2021
Brand Scotland
More than halfway through the conference it became clear that Glasgow’s hospitality sector was not reaping the post-coronavirus benefits that COP26 promoters promised.
On November 10, The Times reported (emphases mine):
While hotels across Glasgow are fully booked to accommodate the thousands of delegates, the hospitality trade is understood not to have seen any uplift in trading since the event began on October 31.
There are even suggestions the event has led to a reduction in trade for some operators. Footfall in the city centre is said to have been affected as people try to avoid the demonstrations.
There is also thought to be a number of delegations which have stayed outside of the city, with Edinburgh hotels among those which are busy.
Oli Norman, whose Ashton Properties owns venues such as Brel and Sloans, said he had heard of some publicans and restaurant owners who have seen their trading fall by up to 50 per cent, and added: “It should have signified a resurgence in the local economy but if anything it has been a damp squib.”
Dan Hodges from the Mail interviewed self-employed Glaswegians in Easterhouse, a poor district away from the city centre:
Thomas is disillusioned with COP26. ‘I’ve missed my chance,’ the Glaswegian barber tells me. ‘My friend rented his flat at two grand a week. He’s making £6,000 and using the money to jet off for a holiday.’
I’m in Easterhouse, a few miles from where the global elite are gathering to save the world from itself. But few of them have ventured out to what was once the most deprived housing estate in Scotland. ‘I’m not sure why,’ Angus, the local butcher, laughs. ‘Perhaps Joe Biden got lost on the M8.’
What does he think about calls for us all to go vegan to protect the planet? ‘Well, I’m a butcher,’ he replies. ‘And my dad was a butcher and my grandad was a butcher. I grew up on pig’s feet soup. So I think people round here are still going to want to eat meat.’
Angus’s views could be ascribed to self-interest. The same can’t be said for local cabbie Andy. He’s made a small fortune shuttling delegates between Glasgow and Edinburgh at £120 a time. ‘Sorry, but the whole thing is a pile of crap,’ he tells me. ‘They’ve been driving round in big convoys telling everyone else to get the bus.
‘It all feels like a millionaire’s party.’
While a Scottish government minister caught coronavirus at COP26 …
Scotland's Just Transition and Employment minister has tested positive for Covid. He was at #cop26 on Monday. Now he's one of the 0.1% of attendees who've tested positive for the virus@LBC @LBCNews https://t.co/uln48VTIgL
— @GinaDavidson (@ginadavidsonlbc) November 10, 2021
… First Minister Nicola Sturgeon did her best to market at least one Scottish product, Irn Bru, a popular soft drink. She gave some to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
— @GinaDavidson (@ginadavidsonlbc) November 10, 2021
Sturgeon also marketed herself through a series of selfies:
@ScotGovFM @NicolaSturgeon posing for Scotland. Day job? NHS, education, Covid recovery? Not while there's a photo op for Nicola.
— Christine's ♀️💜🤍💚 (@Christine_ccj) November 11, 2021
This short yet amusing video tells the story perfectly:
Nicola Sturgeon's guide to Getting The Perfect Selfie #ElsieMcSelfie #COP26 pic.twitter.com/ZIgKp1hGrT
— The Majority (@themajorityscot) November 12, 2021
One senior Scot noted Sturgeon’s contradictory position on mask wearing:
As was said on radio scotland earlier, the messaging is very unclear. If the powers that be insist on masks inside, the powers that be should be masked, inside. On the other hand if we are now following England and un-masking, please tell us. https://t.co/zu2rjEfOCW
— Roddy Dunlop QC (@RoddyQC) November 11, 2021
Sturgeon had no policy mandate at COP26. She was invited only as Scotland’s political leader. It was a courtesy.
Still, as such, one can understand why she wanted selfies with world leaders. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her, even though she denied it:
"Queen of Selfies" Nicola Sturgeon, tries to explain the selfies she has been tweeting all week are Fake News……📸🤦♂️#GreatPretender #ResignSturgeonhttps://t.co/6Qp3pGPrDv
— Facundo Savala (@FacundoSavala) November 11, 2021
How it ended
Not surprisingly, much socialism was on display at COP26.
Harry Wilkinson discussed it with Tom Harwood of GB News on the last official day, November 12. This was an excellent interview:
'It will be the poorest people in different countries paying the cost of climate change policies'
— GB News (@GBNEWS) November 12, 2021
Head of Policy at the Net Zero scrutiny group Harry Wilkinson reveals whether he thinks the COP26 climate summit has been a success. pic.twitter.com/ObgMWq2ttG
'I am seeing a very socialist agenda here that's focused on reducing people's consumption… that's really disturbing'
— GB News (@GBNEWS) November 12, 2021
Head of Policy at the Net Zero Scrutiny Group @HarryWilkinsonn calls for new technological developments, warning 'we can't just subsidise the way to net zero'. pic.twitter.com/jMjabh1e5S
China and the United States signed a bilateral deal thought to be a big deal. We’ll see. That said, India is the second greatest polluter after China:
'Things are reaching a crunch point'
— GB News (@GBNEWS) November 12, 2021
Political Correspondent Tom Harwood reports on the final day of the COP26 summit, highlighting the importance of the 'seismic' bi-lateral deal between 'the world's two largest polluters' America and China. pic.twitter.com/meNXnH757t
Nicola Sturgeon wants a ban on nuclear fuel in Scotland, but if she does ban it too soon, the nation will not have the energy supply it needs:
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon refuses to answer GB News Political Correspondent Tom Harwood when questioned on whether she was considering lifting the ban on new nuclear power pic.twitter.com/lllPgdYbMf
— GB News (@GBNEWS) November 12, 2021
In the end, coal would be phased down rather than phased out. This is because too many developing countries need it to supply energy to their citizens.
Britain’s COP26 president, Alok Sharma, nearly broke down in tears, explaining why to Times Radio:
It was an emotional moment. I understood the disappointment. And six hours sleep in 3 days probably didn’t help.
Before he banged down the gavel on the pact, the tearful Sharma told delegates: “I apologise for the way this process has unfolded. I am deeply sorry.” The representatives of 197 countries at the summit responded with a standing ovation …
Sharma said the summit had kept “1.5 alive” but added “its pulse is weak” and described it as “a fragile win”.
Nonetheless, he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr that the agreement is a ‘historic achievement’:
Even Angela Rayner, the Labour MP who recently referred to ‘Tory scum’, praised Sharma for a ‘tremendous job’:
Sharma received many more compliments in Parliament early this week.
Those interested in combating climate change — largely impossible, in my opinion — should know that COP26 picked up from the Paris Agreement to flesh it out with specifics and COP27, to be held in Egypt in 2022, is thought to go even further with better pledges from participating nations.
Climate emergency involves more than climate change
January 8, 2020 in history | Tags: climate change, Greta Thunberg, history, socialism, UK, United States | 6 comments
The increasingly vocal call for action to resolve the climate emergency — some say ‘crisis’ — involves more than climate.
It would involve a whole new way of life for the West: widespread Socialism.
Issues & Insights (I&I) had a good article, published on January 7, 2020: ‘Climate Hysteria Is A Backdoor For Imposing Personal Interests On The Public’.
Excerpts follow below.
We should hope that Western governments, such as President Trump’s, resist such calls to collectivise us and, and with that, restrict our choices in life.
Food and farmland
We all know about the calls from climate change campaigners for all of us to become at least partial vegetarians, yet, there’s a bit of hypocrisy here with regard to their personal meat consumption (emphases mine):
None were easily found at the last United Nations climate conference in Madrid, where “U.N. bureaucrats chow(ed) down on burgers – while attacking meat.”
I bet those burgers were tasty, too.
With our increased immigration numbers in Europe, we find that some nations, particularly the UK, have a housing shortage. If the trend for more immigration continues, more resources (e.g. water) will be needed along with increases in schools and medical facilities, to name but two.
Yet, at least one prominent Briton says we need to turn farmland into nature preserves. How can this make sense when, surely, we will also need more food?
Ian Boyd, a former chief scientific adviser for the government, is claiming, according to a recent British Guardian report, that “half of the nation’s farmland needs to be transformed into woodlands and natural habitat to fight the climate crisis and restore wildlife.”
“We need a large, radical transformation and we need to do it quickly, in the next decade” said the good professor.
Communal housing
Across the pond, a UCLA professor, Kian Goh, wants to do away with private family housing in favour of communal housing:
“If we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership,” says the subhead of piece published in The Nation two days before Christmas …
“The idea of cooperative living,” (which clearly means “communal” living and therefore is socialism-based) “in both financial and social terms,” writes Goh, “needs room to breathe and grow.”
Obviously there’s no room for the freedom to choose in Goh’s world.
For those who are unaware, this was the mainstay of 20th century housing in the Soviet Union. I couldn’t find any photos to share with you, but I have seen enough documentaries on Soviet living to know that these flats were dreary, noisy and cramped. Furthermore, kitchen and bathroom facilities were shared, which meant that there was little privacy. One also had to guard against theft; food was often kept in the private rooms of these buildings.
This way of living dated back to the days following the Bolshevik-led Russian Revolution, which began in 1917 and ended in 1923.
An article from Reviews in History, ‘Gender and Housing in Soviet Russia: Private Life in a Public Space’, explains:
… early Bolshevik thinkers initially imagined a Communist state that would simultaneously provide housing for all citizens and relieve women of the burdens of household labour by transferring domestic chores to socialized kitchens, laundries and childrearing institutions. Organized and financially supported by the government, such facilities would also uphold another Bolshevik aim, that of creating a collectivist society. The municipalisation of housing immediately after the Revolution signalled the inauguration of a new byt by increasing the supply of available living space and essentially decreeing that people of divergent class backgrounds cohabitate …
Providing a shared kitchen and collective childcare, this type of dwelling was seen to hold the potential to radically reconstruct bourgeois living arrangements, which, according to Bolshevik thinkers like Aleksandra Kollontai, had enslaved women. Communal housing was also perceived to be the best solution for relieving the relentless shortage of space and enforcing collectivism.
Wikipedia’s entry for the communal apartment explains that the building design was often impractical and could be risky when a group of people who did not care about each other were placed together:
Space in communal apartments was divided into common spaces and private rooms “mathematically or bureaucratically,” with little to no attention paid to the physical space of the existing structures. Most apartments were partitioned in a dysfunctional manner, creating “strange spaces, long corridors, and so-called black entrances through labyrinthine inner courtyards.”[13] Entire families lived in a single overcrowded room, with little hope of changing their situation.[14]
The bit about light switches is surreal:
Residents were meant to share the kitchen, bathroom and corridors amongst themselves, but even these spaces could be divided. For example, each family might have their own kitchen table, gas burner, doorbell, and even light switch, preferring to walk down the hall to use their light switch to turn on the bathroom lights rather than using a closer switch belonging to another resident.[15] Furthermore, the hallways were often poorly lit, because each family had control of one of the lights hanging in the corridor, and would only turn it on for their own benefit. Though communal apartments were relatively small, residents had to wait at times to use the bathroom or kitchen sink. The kitchen was the primary place the residents interacted with one another, “sharing their joys and sorrows,” and scheduling shared responsibilities. Wary of theft, residents rarely left groceries in the kitchen unless they put locks on the kitchen cabinets. However, they often stored their toiletries in the kitchen as opposed to the bathroom, because other residents could more easily use things left unattended in the bathroom. Laundry was left to dry in both the kitchen and the bathroom.[16]
One never knew what one was going to encounter in a communal apartment building.
The government forced disparate people to live there:
… the communal apartment residents were placed together at random, as a result of the distribution of scarce living space by a governing body. These residents had little commitment to communal living or to each other.[17] In spite of the haphazard nature of their cohabitation, residents had to navigate communal living, which required shared responsibilities and reliance on one another.
Every resident or family group was assigned communal duties:
Duty schedules were posted in the kitchen or corridors, typically assigning one family to be “on duty” at any given moment. The family on duty would be responsible for cleaning the common spaces by sweeping and mopping the kitchen every few days, cleaning the bathroom and taking out the trash. The length of time a family was scheduled to work usually depended on the size of the family, and the rotation followed the order of the rooms in the apartment.[18]
There were drunks living among decent people:
Communal living posed unique challenges; one author tells of an incident when a drunk neighbor passed out on the floor in front of the entrance to their room and urinated, to the horror of her mother, who was entertaining foreign guests when the “little yellow stream slowly made its way through the door of the room.” She relates this incident to the experience of communal living, “both intimate and public, with a mixture of ease and fear in the presence of foreigners and neighbors.” [19]
Everyone knew your business and your daily routine:
Neighbors are forced to interact with each other, and they know nearly everything about each other, their schedules and daily routines, profession, habits, relationships and opinions, prohibiting any sense of privacy in the communal apartment.[20]
The communal kitchen was an epicenter of the communal life in the apartment, with its news and gossips, joys and dramas, friendly shared salt and nasty practical jokes.
Spying for the authorities was common, too:
Spying was especially prevalent in the communal apartment, because of the extremely close quarters people lived in. It was not unusual for a neighbor to look or listen into another resident’s room or the common room and to gossip about others.[21] Furthermore, the communal apartment was “a breeding ground of police informants,” [22] people were encouraged to denounce their neighbors, and often did so to ensure safety for themselves or to gain their neighbor’s room for themselves after they had them evicted or imprisoned.[23]
Sounds like a great plan, doesn’t it?
No doubt the aforementioned Dr Kian Goh would say he has a better idea in mind.
However, collectivism never has worked and never will, from the 19th century days of religious or ideological sects searching for utopia to the 1970s communes.
Furthermore, our betters — those in government and captains of industry — would not be living like this. They would continue to live in relative freedom and privacy. This is for the little people, the plebs, the ones they detest: you (most probably) and me.
Wealth redistribution
The I&I article mentioned …
a woman described as an “environmental strategist”
… who railed against what she called ‘fossil fuel capitalists’, demanding reparations and redistribution of wealth:
“We will demand reparations for the harm that they caused,” she tweeted. “Together we will redistribute trillions of dollars to fund a #GreenNewDeal.”
According to Townhall, the woman – who was given a microphone and stage clearly to stir up emotions, and has common ground with Joe “Put Fossil Fuel Executives In Jail” Biden – also said “let me hear your vigor for ending racism while you do it” and “we need to make them pay today.” So again we find evidence that the goal isn’t to stop Earth from overheating, but to fulfill a left-wing wish list.
Greta agrees
Greta Thunberg agrees that the climate emergency is about implementing socialism.
I&I quoted her speech at the COP in Madrid last December:
Last month, she told her thrilled-to-be-scolded followers that “the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice and of political will. Colonial, racist and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all.”
There you have it — straight from the Green Goddess herself.
The I&I article concludes on climate fanatics:
We should be appalled at the dishonesty that’s at the rotten core of climate fanaticism. But we’re not, because its disciples learned from some of the most deceitful and vicious characters throughout history.
I can’t say better than that.
Be forewarned. Get informed.
The furore surrounding the notional climate emergency is far from what it appears to be on the surface.
Church of Gaia: Catholic students anointed with chrism to protect environment
September 25, 2019 in Catholic, heresy, school | Tags: Catholic, children, chrism, Church of Gaia, climate change, Greta Thunberg, heresy, school, United States, Washington DC | 2 comments
Activity in the Church of Gaia continues.
The other day we saw that students at New York’s Union Seminary confess to plants.
Another recent development is the anointment with chrism of Washington DC’s Catholic school students in a pledge to the environment.
Last Friday, September 20, 2019 — Greta Thunberg’s first school strike day of the autumn — some students in the Archdiocese of Washington assembled in churches for Catholic Charities’ Season of Creation Prayer Service:
Catholic high schoolers from @WashArchdiocese gather for prayer before #ClimateStrike. pic.twitter.com/A4YOn7ekLn
— Carol Zimmermann (@carolmaczim) September 20, 2019
This included showing Greta’s climate address to the UN — and anointing students’ hands with blessed chrism (sacramental oil):
Students get oil placed on hands as sign of commitment to environment. #LaudatoSi pic.twitter.com/BlaBCGV2as
— Carol Zimmermann (@carolmaczim) September 20, 2019
Chrism is used in Catholic sacramental rites of Baptism, Confirmation and the Anointing of the Sick and Dying.
Therefore, use of sacramental oil is suspect when used in another context, such as this one.
Furthermore, anointing of the head — not the hands — is the general practice for Baptism and Confirmation. The brain rules what our hands do.
Devout Catholics had this to say about the service which elevates the environment above God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ:
And a mockery of going up to receive Communion.
— Matt (@Mswn0207) September 20, 2019
Sir you are 100% spot on. I’d never send my kids to a Catholic school. Private, non-diocesan classical Catholic school or homeschool. Those are the only moral options.
— Erica (@ericapoole12) September 20, 2019
It's their religion, they have doomsday prophecies, clergy (climate scientists) missionaries(activists) some even human sacrifice(abortions) to appease the climate.
— KilljoyOct31 (@KilljoyOct31) September 20, 2019
It's their religion, they have doomsday prophecies, clergy (climate scientists) missionaries(activists) some even human sacrifice(abortions) to appease the climate.
— KilljoyOct31 (@KilljoyOct31) September 20, 2019
Right?
— andthenwhat? (@NWcarol28) September 21, 2019
It’s one of those fruits of Vatican II.
— Joseph Sarto (@joseph_sarto) September 21, 2019
I wholeheartedly agree!
— 💎Pica 💎 (@admirathoria) September 20, 2019
There was more reaction here:
It’s a different religion, people. https://t.co/PcSxmyMikd
— Eric Sammons (@EricRSammons) September 20, 2019
We are living in the general Apostasy.
— John Stone (@Johnthemadmonk) September 21, 2019
Coming to the earth from an Amazon near you, courtesy Francis, neo-shaman.
— Remnant Clergy (@RemnantClergy) September 21, 2019
Yes, it is going to be either God or the devil that one chooses to follow, there is no third choice.
— Kathleen Lessman (@kathleenlessma3) September 21, 2019
Yes He does…to lead people to Him, not to plants.
— Eric Sammons (@EricRSammons) September 21, 2019
I’ll end with this tweet:
The practice you are depicting is blasphemy and idolatry. Pray for the conversion of all who participate in this sinfulness.
Indeed.
This ceremony is blasphemous and idolatrous. It also opens the door to heresy, elevating God’s creation above God Himself.
These are dangerous days for young Christians, whether Catholic or Protestant. Pray that the Holy Spirit works in them, turning them away from error and heresy towards the eternal truth as expressed in Holy Scripture and the Sacraments.
Australian commentator has a message for Greta’s climate change school strike kids
September 24, 2019 in history, school | Tags: children, climate change, Greta Thunberg, media, school, Sky News Australia, television | Comments closed
As we know, Greta Thunberg has resumed worldwide calls for children to bunk off school on Fridays in order to call attention to climate change.
Alan Jones, an Australian commentator on Sky News, had a pointed message for ‘little turds’ who should ‘get the facts’ before protesting. A partial transcript follows:
A message to everyone who bunked off school to “protest climate change” today. Brilliant. pic.twitter.com/VUy06zffbk
— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) September 20, 2019
I couldn’t agree more.
Here is the partial transcript:
Also — wouldn’t it show more dedication to protesting climate change if the students got up early on a Saturday morning so to do?
Just a thought.