Black Lives Matter has gone Climate in a big way, with a protest which shut down London City Airport. London City Airport is a premium facility located in the heart of London, near one of London’s major financial / banking districts.
Black Lives Matter protest stops flights at London City airport
Police arrest seven of nine people chained to tripod on runway in protest against impact of air pollution on black people.
Flights have been cancelled at London’s City airport after nine protesters from Black Lives Matter UK got on to the runway and chained themselves together.
The airport said all flights were disrupted and that police were at the scene.
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The campaign said it carried out the protest to highlight the environmental impact of air travel on the lives of black people locally and globally.
It posted images of protesters lying on the runway after unfurling banners.
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The group issued a video that said the reason for the protest was that the climate crisis was a “racist crisis”.
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The BLM video;
Climate crisis is a racist crisis. Cut emissions. Open borders. #Shutdown. pic.twitter.com/IUOaeaTrmw
— #BlackLivesMatterUK (@ukblm) September 6, 2016
If Black Lives Matter really cared about Africa, they might have made an effort to discover that despite dire predictions nobody has yet managed to produce a genuine climate refugee. They might also have discovered that climate policies are having a devastating effect on native Africans, who in some cases are being evicted from their homes by violent gangsters, to make way for palm oil biofuel plantations.
But who am I kidding – greens never let facts get in the way of a photogenic climate protest.
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For ‘poor black people’ they have some pretty impressive funding of their cultural marxist movement….
Black university students in California are now demanding to live in …..segregated, black only housing ?
I saw this on the BBC news earlier and I wanted to throw something at the TV.
Those protestors are just a bunch of slack-jawed, mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers.
It took 6 hours to remove them from the runway, when it should have taken 5 minutes.
They should all be slung in jail.
“I saw this on the BBC news earlier and I wanted to throw something at the TV.”
I very frequently want to throw something at the TV when watching anything on BBC TV…
“Claim: Climate Crisis is a Racist Crisis”
There is a certain sense in which this is true. The effort by Greens in developed countries to slow or reverse the development of cheap energy in developing countries would adversely affect non-whites more than whites.
The poor who would suffer most and the lives that would be lost would be mostly Black lives.
The Black-Lives-Matter protesters have got their message backwards.
Throw ’em in jail. That should stop ’em flying to holiday destinations for a while. Once paroled, they should be forced to let “refugees” live in their house.
I am sure this applies to African homes as well:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/01/16/breaking-science-news-yak-dung-burning-pollutes-indoor-air-of-tibetan-households/
Not mine it doesn’t! In fact places without electricity in this part of the continent use wood, a product of carbon dioxide and photosynthesis. The rest of us use electricity produced by coal and nuclear fission.
So you want no freedom of speech, pursue of happiness, owning property for indigenous -because that rights belong to you.
You’re lucky.
Well it wasn’t, but I suppose it is now.
Victims will be victims. No stopping it.
Do I glimpse a small ray of light amidst all the doom and gloom?
http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/06/university-of-kentucky-stops-censoring-famed-mural-instructs-students-how-to-think-about-it/
Although it is small baby steps for the young preciousses and the safe spaces between their ears-
‘but they will be placing “digital boards” around it to make sure no one thinks some wrong thing.’
A little off- topic but Soros has been mentioned.
Little known but when new regulations forced many coal companies to go belly up and their stocks reached nearly penny stock status — Soros bought big time. He now is a prominent owner in coal companies that have mine assets. He owns a huge amount of coal that is still in the ground.
Eugene WR Gallun
BLM is a racist group peddling extreme fact free politics. It needs to be Birched. Being a member or offering sympathy and support should lead to ostracism from society. That it has not throws a bright light on a double standard.
A favorite quote from history ” We don’t want lower bread prices. We don’t want higher bread prices. We want National Socialist bread prices”
There is only one case I know of where a so called climate refugee took his case to court and that was in New Zealand and he failed.
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
A waste is a terrible thing to mind.
waist, not waste, dang auto-correct
I’m afraid it all matters a little less to me.
“London City Airport is a premium facility”.
Since when ? Even I have flown from there !
The statement seems to imply that only private jets use it.
Are there comments still up on the Guardian site? I’m not seeing them on either of my browsers.
Reblogged this on Climatism and commented:
If ‘Black Lives Matter’ cared about *black people, they should protest outside the UN’s World Bank HQ, for their declaration of a no-coal decree on Africa and 3rd-world countries, all but guaranteeing abject poverty, early mortality and immense suffering.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/17/world-banks-no-coal-decree-could-leave-developing-nations-in-dark-say-critics.html
(Excuse the use of “black”, rather than the fact that we should all be judged as individuals, not by colour or creed, but by our character.)
The comments at the Guardian are worth reading. The most recommended one (1295 up-votes) says
“Complete ****ing nonsense” (but without the stars).
Other highly recommended ones include
“Utterly pathetic”
“I’m sorry this ridiculous, and will lose public sympathy for a couple of real issues.”
“Utter Regressive Nonsense. This is shamefully ignorant, and aggravatingly absurd.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/06/climate-change-racist-crisis-london-city-airport-black-lives-matter
Racism alive and well… Here in the States we’re even re-segregating University housing and patting ourselves on the backs for being so progressive.
On another note, they are taking a play out of the unused portion of Usamah bin Laden’s play book here. He planned to use AGW as a sympathy/recruiting tool against the West
Ben Pile wrote a response to this, Do black lives really matter to greens?
As well as pointing out the absurdity of the climate – racism link, he expands on Eric’s point about ‘if they really cared’, drawing attention to greens blocking power projects in Africa etc.
Black lives matter… except for the ones who are inconvenient to Black Lives Matter.
If you are an urban black and another urban black decides he doesn’t like you, your life doesn’t matter. Chicago, USA has had over 500 homicides already, just this year, and most of them were young black males killing each other. BLM hasn’t made a peep about it.
They’re certified nutters.
It is a psychological truism that people who obsess over something see the world in terms of their obsession. That includes the people obsessed with race.
Or climate skeptics?
or obsessive trolls trying to preach griffonomics
We are beset by social justice warriors.
They remind me of President Duterte in the Philippines. His approach is to kill all the drug dealers. If they kill a bunch of innocent people, who cares?
They remind me of mob rule.
They remind me of lynch parties.
They are a prime example of noble cause corruption.
Thanks, commieBob! I have never encountered the concept of “noble cause corruption’ before. Having examined it closely, I can see that it is to be found within many ‘save the world’ causes and the careers of many politicians with highbrow altruistic goals that somehow require *other* people to make involuntary sacrifices. This list is almost endless.
It is racist in the sense that AGW has been entirely a white man’s game with Michael Oppenheimer suggesting that AGW can be solved if the white man pays the white man’s burdens in asia and africa to stay undeveloped and not aspire to live like white people with refrigerators and cars and such.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2812034