By P Gosselin on 14. November 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterOnline Spiegel has a piece titled: Preaching travel by rail, but flying Business Class. It would be natural to expect environmentalist greens and climate activists to take commercial flights very rarely, opting for rail, bus, or bicycle instead. However, it turns out they do not practice what they love to preach. Spiegel news magazine writes […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. June 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterLooks like the anti-capitalist, tree-hugging Greenpeace organization doesn’t practice what it preaches when it comes to the evils of capitalism. A number of newspapers in the German speaking part of Europe are reporting how the environmental activist organization took millions of the money received as private donations and has blown it in high-risk casino-grade […]
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By P Gosselin on 29. May 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterAttention skeptics. Greenpeace International is calling to make executives liable for funding “climate denialism“. This would be tantamount to abusing the legal system as a weapon to harass and shut down freedom of science and the fundamental human right of freedom of expression. Are bloggers next? The next obvious step would be to go after […]
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By P Gosselin on 25. April 2014
Share this…FacebookTwitterGerman online Novo Argumente here features an interview with Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore. Today he is one of the environmental organization’s harshest critics. Photo right: Partick Moore, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. Moore tells readers how things have run amok at the activist organization, claiming it has changed from one that “not only cared about […]
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By P Gosselin on 10. November 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterIf Russia doesn’t behave responsibly soon, then there’s going to be a price to pay, Greenpeace is warning. Greenpeace thinks it can put the political pressure on Russia. We suspect that Russia as a result is getting really nervous by now and that she will soon cave in to Greenpeace’s mighty demands…maybe even within a few […]
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By P Gosselin on 30. October 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterHaving read the latest on the Greenpeace-30 activists detained by Russian authorities last month, I sense that they probably will be spending a few more years in prison than what some us thought just a couple of days earlier, just after it was announced that piracy charges would be dropped and that the activists […]
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By P Gosselin on 23. October 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterVarious reports are coming out claiming that Russian authorities have reduced the charges against the Arctic Sunrise activists from piracy to hooliganism. Russia’s RT here reports the lesser hooliganism charge carries a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison. ‘The actions of those involved in the criminal case have been reclassified to the charge […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. October 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterUpdated: 20 Oct 2013, 14:30 CET ======================================== New update: nofrakkingconsensus.com/look-again/ Greenpeace tweet from 17 September: “…we’ve got 4 boats in the water heading towards Gazprom’s Arctic rig. We’re going to try and stop the drilling.” ======================================== Online Spiegel today has an analysis by Benjamin Bidder and Christoph Seidler on the motives behind the detention of […]
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By P Gosselin on 19. October 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe latest Greenpeace activist has been denied bail by a Russian court in the Arctic port city of Murmansk. The online Mail here features photos of a young Greenpeace woman-activist behind bars – the face of innocence. Greenpeace portrays itself as the moral and ethical conscience of the planet and insists it is simply an innocent […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. October 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterI watched the following Greenpeace video clip of Camila Speziale, the youngest of the 30 Greenpeace activists. I really wonder if Greenpeace is getting the message at all. I found it peculiar that at the end of the video Greenpeace added the text (my emphasis): “Camila is one of the 30 activists taken captive […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. October 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterGermany’s online Bild newspaper here quotes German meteorologist Dominik Jung: “For the coming winter give a probability of 70:30% that it’s going to be a colder-than-normal winter.” Photo: SnowKing1, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. Jung is not the only meteorologist forecasting a colder-than-normal winter. Bild also reports that also Michael Klein […]
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By P Gosselin on 14. October 2013
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Moscow Times here writes that a Russian court has denied the Greenpeace activists bail, and the prospect of spending a long time in a Russian prison is increasingly becoming a grim reality. But unlike in the past, Greenpeace is now also being sharply criticized worldwide. The English-language Voice of Russia aims harsh criticism at Greenpeace, writing […]
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