James Taylor Posted: Nov 22, 2019 12:24 PM
More than 200 people, including dozens of scientists, are in hiding right now in Germany. I am one of them. I can tell you that I am in Munich, but I can’t tell you my hotel. I can tell you that the scientists will meet on Friday and Saturday to share scientific knowledge, but I can’t tell you where. The meeting, in which scientists will present evidence contradicting an asserted climate crisis, was scheduled to be open to the public, but fascist climate thugs have forced us into hiding. The German government, rather than protecting scientists and free speech, has explicitly refused to protect scientists from the threat of violence.
The lineup of speakers at the European Institute for Climate and Energy‘s (German acronym EIKE) annual climate conference is impressive. Among the speakers are scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Aachen University of Applied Sciences, University of Bern, Danish National Space Center, Institute for Solid-State Nuclear Physics, Università di Napoli Federico II, and Universität Rostock. Their crime? Delivering talks titled, “The Real Condition of the Great Barrier Reef,” “The Influence of Greenhouse Gases on Climate Research,” “What Role Did the Sun Play in Climate Change,” etc. Seeking to shut down any scientific research and discussion that may endanger a purported justification for its anti-freedom political agenda, a climate activist group calling itself Offenes Antikapitalistisches Klimatreffen München, which is reportedly affiliated with the terror group Antifa, threatened the EIKE meeting, calling on thugs in Germany to mobilize against the conference.
EIKE, to its credit, courageously stuck to its conference plans despite the explicit threat. The Offenes Antikapitalistisches Klimatreffen München—which is roughly translated as the Munich Anti-capitalist Climate Activists—then upped the ante by storming the NH Conference Center in Munich. The group threatened additional action against employees and visitors at the conference center on the day of the conference and on the days leading up to the conference. Citing fears about the safety of its employees and guests, the NH Conference Center told EIKE it would not allow EIKE to hold its conference there.
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Climate thuggery is a first-order forcing of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. Well, perhaps a severe, temporary divergence in the local atmosphere. That said, be merry and gay. Ho. Ho. Ho.
I suppose no one here ever heard of Markovits , a Romanian-American Prof, nor Prof Goldhagen of Harvard, nor Prof. Herf of Maryland. Nor the Konkret newspaper of the Baader Meinhof gang?
These are the founders of Antifa, the anti-deutscher, along with Juergen Elsaesser and others.
The overriding theme after German re-unification, was that anyone who refused hedge-funds looting is to be libeled.
Now Blackrock, $6 trillion in assets, enters the picture. In 2018 police raided their Munich office for tax evasion, where a well known candidate for Chancellor, not a suspect, holds sway.
https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/politics/political-liability-after-blackrock-raid-merz-is-on-the-defensive/23625512.html?ticket=ST-29746756-oe3uUGFfN0EGsETXGLGE-ap2
Hey, D.C has no monopoly of filthy politics!
Kirkwood Community College professor Jeff Klinzman says: “I affirm that I am antifa”
Klinzman, who has worked as an adjunct English professor at Kirkwood since January 2010, told an investigative team, “I affirm that I am ‘antifa’.” Klinzman declined to take part in an interview with I9 citing safety concerns but said in an email he makes no apology for what he has posted online.
A search through Klinzman’s Facebook page shows over the years he has made statements expressing his desire to “stop evangelical Christians” where he included a poem that said, “Kill them all and bury them deep in the ground.” Klinzman went on to explain, “It’s not pretty, and I’m not proud, but seeing what evangelical Christians are doing to this county and its people fills me with rage, and a desire to exact revenge.”
Antifa has splintered into factions which sometimes fight each other. Whatever it represents now, what are the roots of the revival of something that started nearly 100 years ago?
An interesting article links antifa to big money which may answer a lot of questions about how antifa can survive and grow: Antifa Violence Protects Hedge Funds points out how antifa became a force to fight the resistance to the wholesale buying up of cheap housing and other assets in the former East Germany.
https://larouchepub.com/other/2007/3410antifa_hedges.html
‘Adjunct Professor’ ? At a Community College? LOL
He has since resigned, and is now suing the college.
In a follow-up interview with The Gazette, Klinzman denied belonging to an organized form of antifa, but said he was against fascism in general. He said he planned on suing his former school for how they handled it: He claimed they replaced him in class, and gave him an ultimatum: resign or get fired. He agreed to leave when they promised to pay him for the fall.
Kirkwood President Lori Sundberg denied aspects of his story. She said that yes, she removed him from the course, and the school agreed to pay him for the fall, but she denied that they asked him to quit. She showed an email from Klinzman: “Due to the controversy surrounding reporting about my activism, and in the interest of preserving the safety of the Kirkwood campus, its students, faculty, and staff, I resign my position as a member of the English faculty effective immediately,” he wrote.
Nonetheless, Sundberg said she was fine if she ended up being on the wrong side of this controversy, legally speaking. She cited safety concerns. (Klinzman said he was told they were getting thousands of complaints, including threats of burning down the school.
Sundberg said she was fine if she ended up being on the wrong side of this controversy, legally speaking. She cited safety concerns. (Klinzman said he was told they were getting thousands of complaints, including threats of burning down the school.)
“As of Thursday of last week, he was going to be teaching Monday, and we were well aware of the content,” Sundberg said. “There is no evidence that he has espoused those views in his class. But then once the news story ran and we had this outcry from the public and what we perceived as threats — at the end of the day for me, if I’m found legally wrong on this, I can live with that. But if I make a wrong decision regarding the safety of the students, and he’s harmed, our students are harmed, or other faculty are harmed, I can’t live with that. The school is beefing up security and that authorities were working to develop and implement a safety plan.”
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/former-professor-who-resigned-after-antifa-controversy-says-he-plans-to-sue-school/
https://jerseydeanne.com/2019/08/25/q-morning-jeff-klinzman-wants-your-family-dead-antifa/
Tension in western democracies and not least Germany.
I ran through some headlines in Der Spiegel and stumbled over this one, which is on the same topic as this article.
“Two-Thirds of Germans Afraid to Say What They Think?” from the article:
Germany Struggles To Define Limits of What Can Be Said
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-struggles-to-define-limits-of-what-can-be-said-a-1295229.html
When you read the article, you will find that meeting get canceled or raided by the left, no matter how prominent the speakers are.
There never has been freedom of speech in Germany as we know it in the Anglosphere.
It may have existed in some baby form for a very short while during the Weimar period, but was soon killed by polarisation. Right now its as it has been pretty much since the formation of the modern German State in 1871.
Wrongthink, or the accusation of such by towards others is a great way to get them out, and you into that cosy position they occupied. 🙂
Just mention the name of the smokeblower that Schiff is protecting and see your tweet shutdown.
Hey who coined “Fake News”?
The world really is upside down…
When the, elected, leader of your nation tosses the nations’ flag away in disgust in front of the worlds’ media you know your country is on a difficult path.
If anyone ever doubted that the claimed climate “crisis” is really about promoting socialism, not about saving humanity, this article settles the question.
I read this article – and pinch my arm to make sure I am not dreaming. Is this reality in 21st century Europe, since the enlightenment the bastion of free thought and speech? Yes, I know there have been occasional, local episodes of the absence of freedom – but Europe has always recovered from those episodes. It is ominous to note that this now happens in Germany – perhaps especially ominous to me because, born in Denmark 1935, my first memories are about freedom being trampled under.
Will Europe recover again?? How long must we wait??
They also serve who sit and wait….
Weird timing,I just finished reading Nigel Jones;”The birth of the nazis”
I was struck by the authors definition of the Freikorps as being right wing.
Is it possible we are separated by a common language?
As none of these warring groups appeared to have any sympathy for limited government and individual freedom.
The current state of affairs ,seem to indicate that humans cannot live without a religion,we had discarded Christianity as the State Religion,because having a State Religion imprisons the spirit of man? Has no room for free men?.
Or at least we came to resent the intolerance created by having such a thing.
Now we seem intent on creating another Official State Religion,but this time not one based on how humans may live together in peace, instead we are choosing to worship Great Gaia.
A State Religion that promotes idiocy,gullibility and mass hysteria.
We have been here before,it never ends well.
Strong rumors that the Pope is considering an 11th Commandment on the “Common Home”.
Repent!
More debunked conspiracy nonsense from bonbon. ::Rollseyes::
The Pope has not changed, removed, or added to the 10 commandments. Nor will he (even should he ever feel the urge to do so), as he has no authority to do that, given that the core moral teachings of Christianity and Judaism were said to have been revealed to Moses by God and are written in the Bible.
The gullible are a Dime a Dozen, trick is, to find the guy handing out the Dimes. At least that was Fred Blassie’s advice 🙂
Update –
Today Bank of England Governor Mark Carney wants to hand out green Blockchain credit in buckets. No greenbacks or dimes for anything involving CO2, that is.
The gullible? – just look at the Green New Deal queue lining at the trough.
Incredible number of antifa, anti-deutscher sympathizers here, weeping crocodile tears for the EIKE people.
Anyway that conference anti-deutscher mob were deprived of red meat by careful state action. Even the MSM was deprived of red meat. Lookout EIKE you were to be the menu!
The antifa, anti-deutscher and MSM are now chewin’ bones and eatin’ horse flesh, what do they know about music.
They looked for it.