People send me stuff. Below is an image from New York City of the 350.org “climate march” from their website today. It’s the usual horde of useful idiots, holding up signs suggesting they are being gassed and that “climate chaos” is afoot.
It is mostly an emotional response to a non-issue.
I was amused when WUWT reader Arvind sent this screen cap of an ad that appeared on Craigslist. One wonders how many of these marchers have similar situations where they are there on pay rather than on their own volition. Here’s the ad:
Source: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/evg/4669216880.html
That movie was such a bomb, they are reduced to “paid volunteers” handing out fliers on street corners at $50 each. Heh.
UPDATE: I wonder if these people got paid:
Doesn’t that say it all, truly The Fools Walk!
http://roaldjlarsen.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/one-graph-tells-the-whole-story/
Roald J. Larsen
#Roaldjlarsen #Climatefraud #Climatehoax #Globalwarmingswindle
Presumably, tax is collected on all those earnings?
Nah, mommy and daddy are still claiming them as dependents.
The climate cult and their paid acolytes in the media seem quite active today.
Good thing slip on shoes were invented, otherwise those people would be tripping all over themselves.
It is obvious in the picture that the photograph was taken on cue: “All right everyone, hands in the air. Let’s show how the antiperspirant deodorant is working for global warming.”
Centrally designed color scheme for the posters and background. Look handwritten or handsprayed, probably done by a
sweatshopcompanyworkers collective.Such a special moment in saving the planet … quick, let’s have a group hug …
http://www.openhandweb.org/files/openhand/images/Group%20hug.jpg
Hey … what happened to my wallet? … who’s got my wallet? …
You have to admit, that’s some powerful green vegetation. Thank CO2 for it!
You are right; no sign of a wallet.
“To amuse the growing throng of idiots, Bert once again regurgitated his entire alimentary canal.”
The useful idiots are the ones who didn’t get cash in advance.
I sincerely hope there were at least a few people in the midst of this march carrying signs or wearing T-shirts that read “March of the Morons” and “← I’m with Stupid →”.
(Ah, too late I sense a business opportunity.)
Here’s a traffic cam view- south end of Central Park:
http://nyctmc.org/google_popup.php?cid=473
At 2:00 pm, it is an impressive crowd. Probably 2-5-10 people per second, avg. 300/min. would be 18,000/hr at that rate. Saw one float.
When those people are shot head on, foreshortened with a telephoto lens and carefully cropped. before being published on the front page of The Guardian they will look like millions!
3:02 – 3:05 pm Probably still 2-4-10 people/sec. Initially I thought 1-2-4, but at 3:04 a big clump came by.
I know for a fact that this event was attended by a government employee who makes a very fine living being paid by our leftist government to construct and promote global warming alarmism.
The event is nothing more that shameless political promotion. It’s all part of the socialist plan.
What “socialist plan”?
The plan that now has the US in 18th ranking for economic freedom, lower even than Denmark. 49% of the population dependent on some form of government payout (my Social Security included) and striving for 51%. A ceaseless flood of immigrants across an open southern border, but we have those damnable Canucks under control; no free pass there, by God. Unemployment is said to be 6.1%, but when 92,000,000 working age Americans are unemployed (early retirees and students included), you do the math. We have 146,500,000 employed, down from 153,750,000 in 2000. Of those, 116,000,000 are paying income taxes (me too), and a coincidental 116,000,000 are privately employed (again, me too).
36% producing for the socialist dream American style, cannot survive.
James the Elder
Thankyou, that is clear.
The supposed “socialist plan” is very similar to that other right-wing assertion known as the “Jewish conspiracy”, and it is similarly real.
We do have real problems to address. For example, we need to defend against the ‘global warming scare’, we need to oppose Agenda21, we need to etc.. But imaginary plans, plots and conspiracies distract from the real threats, and that is the usual reason they are asserted.
Richard
“The supposed “socialist plan” is very similar to that other right-wing assertion known as the “Jewish conspiracy”, and it is similarly real.”
That would be the LEFT wing assertion ….. Nazi types are socialists.
Not by myself surely, but a phrase has been coined for this. A fake grass-roots protest is called “astro-turfing”. When you’re paying protesters, it’s astroturfing.
I love all the leftist signage: “Capitalism Means Crisis & Climate Chaos” (oh, how scary)….
I also noticed many of the signs were printed and made to look hand painted to give the rent-a-mob “useful idiot” a grassroots vibe….
I also noticed a lot of orange used in signage, which is a traditional leftist color.
BTW, I’m still hacked off by the MSM (namely the New York Times, CNN, NBC & ABC) for purposefully switching the Republican Party color to Red from the 2000 elections, just as a cheap leftistist ploy to hide the Democrat’s rapid move to socialism at the time….
Since the Republican Party’s founding in the mid 19th century, blue was their traditional color… Leftists are a such a deceitful and manipulative lot….. If they were honest, Democrats should embrace the color red and change their party name to the Socialist Party—gee, I wonder why they don’t do that….. (Sarc/off)….
Orange is the colour of the Texas University Horned Cattle, I believe. Communists use red. However, old Soviet Art posters did use orange. The relationship between this Texas university and Communists is pointed out by their joint enemies known as the GO AGGIES!
Fernando– Yes, red is the main color used to denote leftism, but orange is also a commonly used color in many countries.
Yes, I can imagine associating orange with communism/socialism may not be that popular in Austin Texas, however,…… Austin is the most left-leaning district in the entire state of Texas…, I’m just sayin’…
Thankfully, Texas is still THE most conservative state in all of the US…. Texas also has one of the strongest economies in the US…
Gee…. I wonder if there is a causal relationship…
This is straight-out Orwell’s Newspeak: “paid volunteers”, a total corruption of language to give an image of one thing while it is it’s opposite.
It’s not black if I say it is basaltic white.
Do you think the organizers of the 38th Annual Columbus Avenue Street Fair were happy or unhappy with an invasion of thousands of bused-in protesters down the street from their event?
Well, it seems many of the protesters will have $50 bucks to spend. Then there are 500-some bus drivers that have some time to kill and will need a bit of lunch while waiting for their load of protesters to finish up. It just might be a win for the Street Fair vendors.
Watching the live feed from the PCM website, some folks flew in from Ireland, other countries too, oh the hypocrisy to fly a jet to this event, to take a diesel bus to this event, to drive a car to this event!!
THOUSANDS ATTEND the Toronto Climate Action March.
Okay, maybe 300 with some stragglers coming in when I left. I have pictures of the “crowd”. I cannot wait to see how the media reports it.
Can’t wait to see the pictures.
I’ve told this story before, but my father ran an errand on his lunch hour, crossing ahead of “thousands of anti-Vietnam-war protesters” and crossing back behind them. Had the march been as big as claimed, he should have been hours late getting back to work. Ha.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
Why so many smiling faces ?
“Why so many smiling faces ?”
If the march were held in Colorado, I could explain it, though they’d need to offer a lot more than $50 just to offset the munchies required by the paid volunteers.
Any wide angle shots of these demos?
Looks like a total non-event to me. They have demonstrated how little interest there is.
Paris 8,000. Pathetic.
Some of the new photos show a pretty large group – but no one is saying how many (except 100k were expected, so thats the number they are sticking with).
Looked like about 200 or so in Edinburgh today
Given that they are only offering fifty dollars, my guess is that the ad is targeted at people who were already planning to go on the march. So it isn’t really a case of creating a bogus crowd.
So you make a guess, and state your case based on that guess…
You have the makings of a “climate scientist”.
When you smile for the camera……
I for one and VERY happy to see these people show up just in time for the November election season! Just remember, if you want these left wing, extremist progressives to take over, then vote Democrat. Maybe someone should make a commercial…
Striking similarities to the hippie idiots on top of the Empire State building welcoming the aliens right before they got destroyed.
This tactic was extensively used by Hugo Chavez, till it stopped working and the money got scarce. Then they discovered plastic bullets were cheaper.
And I’m guessing very few will see their $50. Pity the pinheads.
If I were the evil fossil industry, I would stop delivering for a week or two, just to show those clowns how life feels without it.
They did in 1974. Nobody liked it.