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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Maybe this is the beginning of a double jump the shark moment, where the BLM and climate movements jump the shark tank in opposite directions and collide over the tank. I would feel sorry for the shark in the resultant feeding frenzy.
This is one of the unseen dangers of institutionalized climate change fear.
It is a racist crises. The people of the developing and third world have been told for years now, that the west is responsible GW/climate change. Therefore, every flood, drought, storm etc… is caused by the west. This will continue be increase hatred for westerners.
So where are all the, er, black protestors?
This smacks of a stunt by Open Borders who have learned to tack on words like climate and racism to their cause.
If these protesters were forced to compensate everybody who looses money or time because of their stunts, these stunts would become a lot rarer.
blm are simply terrorists and should be treated as such.
Morgan Freeman agrees:
Which is why he plays God (or a narrator of one) in every other movie he’s in!
Freeman should have been our first black president…
Paid protesting is good work when you can get it. The ACORN pop up protesting franchise model will continue.
The last time I looked the UK was doing more land grabbing in Africa than anyone else, to grow bio-fuels etc. Climate change policies are racist.
Mean while in Niger, 800 thousand blacks still remain slaves under the ownership of blacks and white farmers are being slaughtered for being white:
http://www.dw.com/en/modern-day-slavery-still-rampant-in-niger/a-17871711
http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/national/murder-white-farmers-south-africa
Yeah, I think you’re way off base here.
Neither climate related so you’re way off base here.
The “Climate Crisis” is a made-up crisis, which they try to cloak in whatever convenient “social justice” issue is handy in the attempt to give it moral superiority. These white protesters are the perfect example of “useful idiots”.
The UK is not even close to being the per capita emitter of CO2. Is that what they mean?
Canada far outperforms the UK on that score. Oil sands, warm homes, a hundred million tons of grain crops, all sorts of energy with a smaller population.
We even have vehicles with proper engines for hauling our mobile homes across the country.
Your crop yields are up, UK.
You are welcome.
an aircraft (if it would fit at that airport) with a ge90-115b engine spinning up next to them will suck up the trash for good….
…..what can be said for this kind of insanity?
Maybe BLM should pay 5 cents and talk to that climate change anxiety counselor.
Holy Shi# liberals are stupid.
This is just an attempt to unite political movements with the same non scientific objective. Ironically, it’s actions do the most to make a situation worse because the ones defining their movement have convinced them, that what exists in the real world is the complete opposite of what all the evidence shows.
For instance, the slight beneficial warming in the last 4 decades, has resulted in the best weather/climate and growing conditions on this planet in 1,000 years……….NOT extreme weather/climate that is already happening now, that has been sold to the world.
CO2=Pollution? The most amazing pile of dung perpetrated on the world ever.
6CO2 + 6H2O +Sunlight energy ——> C6H12O6 + 6O2
Where: CO2 = carbon dioxide
H2O = water
Light energy is required
C6H12O6 = glucose
O2 = oxygen
Doing a substitution:
Pollution + water +Sunlight energy ——> Food + oxygen
Seems like we are living in some sort of alternate universe, where up has been defined as down and down is up.
If black lives really did matter(they very much do to me) they would be embracing law enforcement, assisting them to be better trained(wear body cams/less profiling) so that they can protect the real victims………the thousands of mostly innocent blacks slaughtered in the inner cities by the violent blacks.
Since violent crimes committed by young black men is 5 times higher than whites, do you think that this might possibly, maybe just be part of the problem?
Failed liberal policies in the inner cities, with low education, high unemployment and an increasingly less productive population, more dependent on the government(welfare/food stamps/free health care) is the root cause……..not the isolated bad white cop that shoots an unarmed/innocent black guy.
Just like one movement goes after the beneficial gas, CO2, we have another movement going after the good guys, the cops who are committed to making our inner cities safer for all law abiding citizens, with inner city blacks benefiting the most.
I haven’t the patience to read all the previous comments — but has anyone pointed out yet that the wildly suspect reports of “climate policies are having a devastating effect on native Africans” actually take place in Guatemala (which last I heard had not migrated to Africa from Central America)…and that the reports are from sources that can only be described as “crazed activists” and really relate to the questions of property ownership under high uncertainty in a country where “rule of law” is really “rule of gold” (he who has the gold rules). If one is going to comment on current affairs issues, one has to try at least to get basic geography right. Using “crazed activists” issued propaganda to counter “crazed activists'” propaganda is not logically sound — both sources are equally nearly totally unreliable .
The big news here is not what the speech says about the environment or even the global economy. The news is that BLM’s sponsor, George Soros, is no longer even trying to hide the fact that the movement’s public figures are his pawns.
There is a legitimate movement to reduce the use of excessive force by police (at least in the US — I dare say that UK and European police forces do so a lot less). Sites like CopBlock and PINAC are the heart of that movement, and I agree with it. But it is not a race-related problem, and BLM is an unjustified attempt to hijack that movement.
Indeed the only reason that race is still an issue in the United States is that professional race-baiters don’t want to lose their relevance. And Soros has become one of them. (His Ruckus Society planned the demonstrations in Ferguson and Baltimore and trained their participants. I would be surprised if the same doesn’t turn out to be true in the UK.) He belongs in jail for purposely instigating mob violence.
The issue of excessive force by police is an issue that is nearly 100% made up.
There are only a handful of instances where the issue is clear cut every year. That is in a country of 350 million with hundreds of billions of interactions between police and citizens every year. Out of these, maybe a handful of times the cops over react.
Could it be better? Yes. But then again, perfection is not an option.
Hear, hear! Go read what Heather Mac Donald has written about the myth of black persecution by police. As with AGW, it’s all narrative created by cunning manipulators and promulgated by useful idiots.
The problem isn’t anything to do with the colour of your skin but increasing lack of respect for the law and consequently the police in the front line-
http://www.2st.com.au/news/news/96706-violence-against-vic-police-rising-ashton
although naturally where so many black youths grow up in no go suburbs they’ll be overrepresented in the incidence of increasing violence toward police.
Case closed.
As far as their racial politics and tactics go, a large part of the black population has adopted a criminal mindset — you are empowered when people fear you.
Well, blacks have done a good job of making people fear them — the face of crime and murder in American is black.
Hard to get a job when the color of your skin strikes fear into the hearts of potential employers.
I stand by what i have just said.
Eugene WR Gallun
PS — Remember the Jesse Jackson quote? “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps….then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
Never mind racism. ClimateChange™ is killing our moose! Because it’s Way Too Hot for them (scroll down about half way). This wildlife biologist is an idiot two ways; one, he has obviously drunk the climate koolade, and two; he conveniently skips over the fact of a moose hunt which takes place every year.
Well, being called racist for everything from speaking English to eating peanut butter and jelly has pretty much trivialized the entire struggle.
It’s like a seven-degrees of Kevin Bacon game – I can get to racist in… seven steps. Except it’s really more ‘first step.’
Imagine – harnessing all that guilt for a crisis that hasn’t even happened and only exists in the predictions of exploitive alarmists.
Never mind that the policies pushed by environmentalists have duplicated the Holocaust several times over.
Mostly in third world countries populated by brown folk.
You say
‘climate policies are having a devastating effect on native Africans,’ as a link.
However that link leads to a story about Guatemala. Bad news for the poor farmers of Guatemala but not congruent with your story.
‘Black Lives Matter’ isn’t about Central American villagers .
“Black Lives Matter” is Obama’s little sock puppet. When he transitions to private citizen, expect a LOT more of this intellectually corrupt Allilnskyite theater.
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BLM is just one of many means to world government and the theft of your rights and country. The Marxists and Soros needs to be jailed. http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.tv/2013/11/13/david-horowitz-on-lou-dobbs-the-black-book-of-the-american-left/
http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.tv/2015/04/17/david-horowitz-2/
Rich white drama greens denying life enhancing carbon energy to the developing world sounds very racist to me.