This is Hilarious. When the going gets tough, the occupiers get going! Wild eyed climate svengali Bill McKibben claims the “atmosphere is occupied”, and that’s why we have global warming.
Only one problem, when the atmosphere gets too cold, people bail from the tents and head home. The Infrared camera video footage shot by the Telegraph reveals a lot of tents are missing bodies at night.
What a bunch of wimps! Why, in the 60’s their parents protested in waist deep snow, carrying signs, and the protest march was uphill both ways!
Or maybe they brought in some polar bears to help them “experience and be one with nature” more fully and that’s why people are missing?
Here’s the story from the Telegraph:
Only one in 10 St Paul’s protesters stay overnight
Just one in 10 of the tents at the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp which has closed St Paul’s Cathedral are occupied at night, it can be revealed.
The camp forced St Paul’s to close for the first time since the Blitz and is costing local businesses thousands of pounds a day.
But most of the protesters are heading home to sleep in their own beds at night.
Infra red images taken by a police helicopter during the early hours show that only around 20 of the 200 tents on the encampment actually have people staying in them.
The Daily Telegraph has shot its own video of the St Paul’s camp using thermal imaging equipment which appears to confirm these claims.
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On Monday the revelation was described as a “charade” and pressure was growing on the church and other authorities to evict the camp.
“It is like a phantom camp – a big charade,” said Matthew Richardson, a Corporation of London councillor, who is calling for action to be taken.
“It just shows that most of the people don’t have the courage of their convictions and are here just to make trouble and leaving your tent here overnight is a good way to do that.”
Full story and the video here
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“They hate the corporations yet get their coffee from Starbucks, a large corporation, thus helping profit growth.”
Now look, climate skeptics are supposed to be sticklers for details. What about the above quote can’t be right? Its pretty obvious isn’t it? Even feral protesters wouldn’t get coffee from Starbucks.
A few years ago, when in Heathrow in London I decided that Starbucks couldn’t be as bad as everyone said, and bought a coffee there. I was wrong. It was that bad.
Incidentally, I was in the same position at Tullamarine airport in Melbourne, and opted for a coffee from a non-descript vendor. The coffee was brilliant.
Why does it take a multinational to stuff up something that just about any coffee shop in Melbourne can get right?
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/thermal-imaging-proves-capitalism-doesn%27t-work-201110264466/
John Marshall says:
October 26, 2011 at 1:47 am
“They hate the corporations yet get their coffee from Starbucks, a large corporation, thus helping profit growth.”
Ah yes, but Starbucks is a big supporter of Cap and Tax, so it is OK to buy overpriced coffee.
Think about Netflix which is losing 100K+ customers becuase paying $20 a month is too much money to have access to thousands of movies and TV shows instantly, and tens of thousands more delivered to your door within two-three days. Why, because many younger people are pefectly happy watching movies and TV for free over their laptop computers or on their phone. Go back 10 years and try to imagine that. I remember 10 years ago getting crap for using Flash for a website becuase it requried too much time to download becuase we were still forced to design sites based on the premise that most of our patrons were on dial up.
It is rather disappointing to note that so many on this site are keen to engage in an arms-length critique of insignificant detail surrounding a legitimate protest. I suspect the comments originate from the privileged few, keen to label all protesters as bums and thus discredit their message. This, together with the regurgitation of biased media reports adds no value whatsoever and serves only to illustrate the very behaviour which prevents the open debate of important issues, including climate change.
T.Hill
UK
luismanueldias says:
October 26, 2011 at 2:16 am
“…This is a new low for you mr Watts. I know you detest these people (where were you when the also ignoramuses of the “tea party” were fighting for god knows what?),…”
The goals and objectives of the 912Project/Tea Party were and remain very specific. To list some of the main goals:
* a return to limited, constitutional government
* ending wasteful government massive deficit spending
* rational tax policies that encourage economic growth in the private sector, the only source of the money that government steals and redistributes
* personal responsibility
The same protest happened here in Melbourne (Australia) and the police finally forced them to leave. They were protesting about companies that make too much money as they talked on their iphones, listened to their ipods and sent emails on their ipads while eating Mcdonalds. Its simple, if you don’t want the big greedy company to have your money don’t buy their products.
Take the tents, put them in the police abandoned property locker and be done with it. This should be done on Wall St too.
It’s being dubbed the FLEA flops ’round the net.
Freaks, Liberals Enabling Anarchy.
Considering the nickname they put on the TEA Party members – spouting on and laughing about the nic name they gave them (baggers) on the alphabet networks in the USA during prime time, I think this one’s much kinder in that regard.
The ignorance these people display is astounding.
What’s their goal? I know their of gripes – sort of …. but there’s nothing that a protest – even world wide will change…not one thing as they’ve no merit.
Here in Canada they have no legitimate cause enough to do pull this stunt, so glad winters coming – they won’t last long. Free health care, ample welfare, shelter’s provided…no one is dying on the streets here from hunger, sickness or exposure – unless they chose to.
Bravo T.Hill, brilliantly put and spot on
+1
especially this:
“This, together with the regurgitation of biased media reports adds no value whatsoever and serves only to illustrate the very behaviour which prevents the open debate of important issues, including climate change.”
This is what thought WUWT was all about…
luismanueldias says:
“You hate the government yet get from A to B using public built roads.”
Your analogy is poor. Lack of sympathy for the OWS “movement” does not necessarily correlate with “hatred” for the government. Most sensible people understand that a government is necessary for certain well defined purposes, roads, law enforcement, and national defense would be good examples.
Also actually if the government did not maitain the roadway system in an essential monopoly. There could be a private or semi-private road system. I’m not advocating it just pointing it out there.
I got a better idea: “Liberate the Free Market.”
It is the Government regulations trying to pick the Crony winners that causes the problems
Abd yes, that includes the Government picking The International Religion of Climate Change as a Crony winner.
I remain sceptical of government regulation and intervention.
I think the backlash for Netflix was more about the pre-loading of fees than anything else. You were doubling the cost of an item without a commensurate increase in service or utility. I understand why they needed to do it, and at $20/month it is still a bargain, but to think that people would “understand” they were still getting a great deal was just ignorant. People would have been willing to pay more, as long as they were getting more right away.
This situation is similar to 2000/2001 time frame when gas went up what now seems a laughable $0.20/gallon. A hefty 20% increase over the current price at that time. People were outraged. There were public calls for politicians to do something. In Indiana, where I lived, they actually suspended the state gas tax. Of course the absolute impact for people, on average, was something like $0.30/day, which was not exactly a budget buster for the vast majority of people. The outrage was over the relative move, not the absolute one.
Gareth Phillips says:
October 26, 2011 at 1:05 am
…………..are at least out there doing something to protest about how everyday hardworking people have been treated by big business over the last few years..
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I doubt these are ‘everyday hard working people’…………..’everyday hard working people don’t have the time to protest because they are too busy working hard every day. I don’t see this in the OWS or OL or any other protest. Nope, no hard working people.
T.Hill “keen to label all protesters as bums and thus discredit their message.”
What is their message? Is it that it is unfair that people without tattoos and piercings in every part of their bodies including huge earrings that make 3-5 inch holes in their ears, and who instead have MBAs somehow managed to get rich by working hard, while the people with those tattoos and holes in their bodies amazingly failed to get a job? Is that the message?
No, we don’t think that all protesters are bums. We like the tea party. The tea party managed to pack up and go home and cleaned up after themselves. So yes if these people choose to look and act like bums, while the tea party looks and act like people with jobs and a life, then forgive us for pointing out the differences.
FWIW, I agree with the sentiments behind the occupy movement. Just because AGW is a fantasy, it doesn’t say anything about our economic system. The irony is the capitalists as well as the reds have seized upon AGW for their own twisted agendas. The real harm done to the environment is because of rampant consumerism (not CO2 BTW). Consumerism that is utterly unsustainable. Economically, we can’t carry on as we are. Just because some people realise this, it doesn’t make them Red or Pink. New interesting solutions are required!
Are the people who occupy the tents at night actual protesters or people who have missed the last bus following a night on the hoy? Seems a great way to save on taxi fares.
I wonder if they do that Arctic thing before they leave!
Capitalism is a broad church. Some of it is of great benefit and some of it stinks. The protesters should stick to specific issues.
As much as I could care less about the occupy movement. I think this is a sersiously flawed analysis. You can tell that the tents do obscure the thermal images of people when are behind them, and with about 10 seconds left (you can’t get a time off the slider) that someone sticks a hand out of a tent and its the only real “signature” of their presence. If this is taken late enough, people would be in their thermally insulating sleeping bags. I disappointed that this unscientific, biased political post was put up here and I am a very conservative individual. truth is truth. this is not a truthful representation, we just can’t tell what the occupancy is of those tents
Why is an opinion on OWS capable of being classified as right-wing or left-wing? I think you bring too much prejudice to criticism.
I agree, but there was increased value, the selection on Netflix streaming service is much better than it was two years ago, especially for TV series. But yes, it was a terrible PR move and the whole Qwikster thing was just stupid. Luckily Hastings listened to his customers.
But my point was for 2 hours of labor per month a working class person can instantly watch tens of thousands of movies with little to no hardware cost as netflix is standard issue on most new TVs or DVDs or game consoles. We as a society are missing the forest for the trees. Yes, there are some people in this nation and world with vast, and sometimes unwarranted ,wealth and they spend money on ridiculous bobbles that do nothing more than flaunt their wealth, but the average and below average American has access to leisure items and technology that was unthinkable to even the wealthiest people 15 years ago.
I don’t know, there are problems in our society, but overall I wouldn’t want to be living anywhere else at any other time.
On the other hand I do think most US companies would be much better served by building employee loyalty by taking those tens of millions earned by mercenary CEOs by providing health insurance, raises, and educational opportunites BEFORE the unions come in. An awful lot of money and time is wasted hiring and training employees at places like Wal Mart or McDonalds, or fighting unions. Wal Mart would be better off invensting in human capital than expanding as rapidly as they have and the failed rebranding they attempted in order to take business form Kohl’s and Target. I think the real sin of Wall St is that everyone is taught in their MBA classes that capitalism is a Zero Sum game and if your not winning you’re losing. Over expansion is the #1 reason for chain failures at the national level. If a Home Depot is in a town Lowes want to expand to, they won’t build the Lowes across town, they will build it right next to the Home Depot in an attempt to drive it out of business. Almost always one will fail leaving a hulking structure with acres of impermiable and usless asphalt. Does a town with 40,000 population need two Super Wal Marts and a Sams Club? Evidently the answer is yes.
Astroturf has roots like grass?
Hi there , folks, it’s only me. I was just wondering which government form I have to sign to get loads of dosh doled out to me so that I do not have to worry about paying my taxes, household bills, etc, & spend weeks protesting about whatever you want me to protest about. I really fancy a trip to South Africa in the next few weeks so that I can stand in the glorious sunshine waving a placard saying “Down with Capitalism, Stop Climate Change Now” or some such nonsense! 🙂 Sarc off!
They may have all moved into the 20 tents to keep warm ;>)
Funny how some here support OWS but fail to accept that perhaps a post like this might also be a protest in its own right.
“get Britain back on its feet”
Yep. Do that while watching your Chinese-made TV, chatting to your mates on your (Chinese-made) iphone.
Driving your foreign made, or foreign-owned car.
Say it while your home steel producers are bought by foreign business and then closed to claim carbon permits.
Still, as the Chinese are getting more affluent, while we are getting more effluent, maybe their wages will rise to a level where we can get the sweatshop work they do at the moment ?
Maybe you will also send more letters to your MP to stop shale oil/gas being exploited so your Russian oil shares do not suffer ?
Capitalism: Gotta love it.
Shame there is nothing much else that enables you to buy so much you don’t need, with money you don’t have.