Players and fans turn on Just Stop Oil protesters as Premiership Rugby final interrupted

The Premiership final was interrupted by Just Stop Oil protesters as yet another showpiece sporting fixture was hijacked by environmental groups.

At least three protesters entered the pitch with just 20 minutes on the clock between Saracens and Sale Sharks, unleashing orange paint which marked the playing surface.

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Just Stop Oil and the climate class war

Environmentalism is a bourgeois cult that wants ordinary people to put up with less. No wonder workers are fighting back.

I’m starting to think that Just Stop Oil is a Big Oil plant. What else could explain these campaigners’ phenomenal ability to turn the public against them and confirm their critics’ worst prejudices. Namely, that this environmental activism / amdram troupe is stuffed with upper-middle-class irritants who couldn’t give a damn about working-class people. Surely, this has got to be on purpose?

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Chelsea Flower Show visitor hoses down Just Stop Oil assholes

A Chelsea Flower Show visitor hosed down three Just Stop Oil protesters after orange powder was thrown over an award-winning garden during a climate protest.

Three activists dressed in white Just Stop Oil T-shirts stepped over a rope barrier to enter the RBC Brewin Dolphin Garden, designed by Paul Hervey-Brookes, at around 9am on Thursday.

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German police raid climate activists who blocked traffic

German police have carried out raids in seven states in a probe into climate campaigners suspected of forming or backing a criminal group because of their controversial activities.

Among those raided was Last Generation spokeswoman Carla Hinrichs, whose door was broken down by armed police while she was in bed, the group said.

For months Last Generation has disrupted traffic in German cities.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has condemned their campaign as “completely crazy”.

Good for the Germans!

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Washington State’s New Climate Curriculum Attacks ‘Rational Thinking’

Teaching climate science in schools can be valuable, but not when it’s blatantly oriented toward ‘social justice’ and views rationality as an obstacle to proper learning.

One sentence from Washington State’s new high-school curriculum on climate science betrays how bizarre the discussion about teaching science has become:

For too long, science and science education have prioritized my rational thinking.

Instead of prioritizing rational thinking, the purportedly scientific curriculum argues that “we must learn to pay attention to our own emotions and those of other people.”

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“There was living space for thirteen families in this one SUV!” – Comrade Mallick Comes For Your Vehicle

Comrade Kaprugina delivers a scolding

SUVs are Toronto’s dinosaurs headed for extinction

How big does your car have to be? Do you really need an SUV?

Those behemoths you see bearing down on you in Toronto, high, heavy and wide, with a tow hitch and lots of cargo space, aren’t all owned by people with three children and a cottage and sports gear and a boat.

They’re also owned by urban people, possibly singletons, who bought big sport utility vehicles in preparation for bigger lives that may not have worked out that way in the downturn. Gas prices were low then. Superficially at least, there was no downside.

More communism is always the solution.

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PROTECTING NATURE, DESTROYING LIVES – The chemist vs. the Dutch farmers

Johan Vollenbroek is accustomed to threats on his life. On a cold January day, as he was opening his mail at his home in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, a fine powder spilled from an envelope.

With the calmness of a trained chemist, Vollenbroek closed the package, washed his hands and dialed the police contact number he’s been told to use to report death threats. The police arrived in full protective gear. It turned out to be silicate, a benign chemical sent with malign intent, but it was not the first time the 73-year-old had received a menacing letter.

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‘Unprecedented’ Rise in Whale Deaths Along East Coast Prompts Calls for Moratorium of Offshore Wind Farms

At least 18 whales have washed up dead on the U.S. east coast in recent months, prompting concern from a group of mayors in the state of New Jersey who have called for an “immediate moratorium” on offshore wind farms.

In a letter to New Jersey congressional lawmakers, the mayors said they stand “united” in their concerns about the “unprecedented” number of whales that have washed ashore recently.

They called for an immediate moratorium on all offshore wind activities, a key part of New Jersey’s climate change strategy, until federal and state agencies can investigate the deaths and “confidently determine” that offshore wind activities are not contributing to them.

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Climate protesters who squashed cake into King Charles waxwork told to pay damages

The climate protesters who threw cake into the face of a waxwork of King Charles in Madame Tussauds have been ordered to pay the London tourist attraction £3,500 in compensation.

Eilidh McFadden, 20, and Tom Johnson, 29, were found guilty of criminal damage at Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday for each smashing a vegan chocolate cake topped with shaving foam into the waxwork on 24 October last year.

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Liberal ‘Green Energy’ Plan Adding to Inflation: Bank of Canada Paper

The most persistent trend adding to inflation is the transition to “green energy,” which “raises costs,” according to a new Bank of Canada staff discussion paper.

“The 2021–22 Surge in Inflation” says that Canada has undergone the most pronounced surge in inflation in the 2021–2022 fiscal year since the 1970s.

A dollar in 1970 was equivalent to about $7.44 in purchasing power today, according to the Canada Inflation Calculator, based on Statistics Canada consumer price index (CPI) data.

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Climate Activists Receive Funding for Cultural Destruction

They glue themselves to streets, block traffic, occupy airfields, and sully precious works of art: climate activists have caused havoc in many major European capitals over the past few months. They call themselves ‘The Last Generation’ and defend the sticky character of their protests as a strategy for bringing attention to the ‘climate catastrophe.’ They demand drastic actions against ‘climate change,’ including a cessation of oil drilling operations in the North Sea, an end to all fossil energy consumption, and new ways to limit food waste.

However, what’s taken place over the last few months, indeed, what looks like a passionately sincere—albeit loudmouthed—generational trend is actually a well-funded plan executed by a well-organised association. The ‘Last Generation’ is no exception. Recruiters and NGOs for climate activism advertise lucrative ‘jobs’ as protestors, offering €520-1,300—plus benefits. The jobs are “part-time” or “full-time,” as reported by Welt am Sonntag.

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Michael Shellenberger: No, humans are not causing a ‘sixth mass extinction’

On CBS’s “60 Minutes” earlier this month, scientists claimed that humans are causing a “sixth mass extinction” and that we would need the equivalent of five planet earths for all humans to live at current Western levels.

“No, humanity is not sustainable to maintain our lifestyle — yours and mine,” claimed Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich. “Basically, for the entire planet, you’d need five more Earths. It’s not clear where they’re gonna come from.”

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Meet the Green Energy Group Behind the Study That’s Driving Calls To Ban Gas Stoves

Rocky Mountain Institute partnered with China to implement ‘economy-wide transformation’ away from oil and gas

The green energy group behind a study cited in Consumer Product Safety commissioner Richard Trumka Jr.’s call to ban gas stoves has partnered with the Chinese government to implement an “economy-wide transformation” away from oil and gas.

Colorado-based nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute, which published the December study that attributes 13 percent of U.S. childhood asthma cases to gas-stove use, is hardly staffed by an objective group of scientists.

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