Technoccult: In Manifesto, Mexican Eco-Terrorists Declare War on Nanotechnology
Klint Finley
From Danger Room:
The group, which goes by the name Individualidades Tendiendo a lo Salvaje (ITS), posted its manifesto to anarchist blog Liberacion Total last month. The manifesto takes credit for a failed bombing attempt that month against a researcher at the Biotechnology Institute at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. And the group promises more.
“We have said it before, we act without any compassion in the feral defense of Wild Nature,” the manifesto states. “Did those who modify and destroy the Earth think their actions wouldn’t have repercussions? That they wouldn’t pay a price? If they thought so, they are mistaken.” The group threatens more bombings against Mexican scientists because “they must pay for what they are doing to the Earth.”
A violent fringe group with anarcho-primitivist views — its name roughly translates to “Individuals Tending to Savagery,” although “Tending to the Wild” might be more exact — ITS sees technology and civilization as essentially doomed and leading humanity to an ecological catastrophe. Technology should be destroyed; humans should revert to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle; and all of this, ITS says, is for our own good. Nanotechnology is a particular scourge: Self-replicating nanobots will one day escape from laboratories to consume the Earth; and weaponization of nanotech is inevitable.
Full Story: Wired Danger Room: In Manifesto, Mexican Eco-Terrorists Declare War on Nanotechnology
See also: Terror tactics: Science in the anarchists’ cross hairs
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Lefty Begone: Global Warming Causes Less Snow, Unless It Snows More, in Which Case It Causes More Snow. No More Questions!
What ever happened to the looming ice age that was to spell doom for humanity? Remember the warnings from the 1970s? (Well, I don’t remember them—I wasn’t alive—but I have read about them.) If politicians, by which I mean liberal ones, were consistent in their conclusion-jumping—and not only consistent, but smart—they’d quickly latch back on to that story to fleece the public out of even more money, because, given the Snowpocalypse of 2010 in which we here in Virginia had to shovel two feet of global warming out of our driveways, and given the Snowmageddon that’s expected in New England as of this writing, it looks like an ice age is on the horizon.
I do miss the fears my elementary school teachers tried to fill me with regarding that nefarious acid rain. We kids knew what acid was. It was what burned and melted everything it came into contact with. It was what gave Two Face two faces. We felt pretty invincible drinking orange juice and reading the ingredient “citric acid.”
But warnings in the ’90s that the rain would eventually do to Earth what the pail of water did to the Wicked Witch at the end of The Wizard of Oz was not scaring us kiddies or the low-information voters near enough to be a lucrative addendum to our education. Politicians needed something more immediately apparent to take the place of acid rain.
What is something that people actually witness and feel, and not only that, but what is something that people actually complain about?
The temperature!
(This is where liberals say that “climate change” is not about the temperature, but about the climate. But that’s a bunch of crap; the initial warning of “global warming” was that the globe was warming. The word “warming” refers to temperature. The only reason the politicians have changed the label to “climate change” is because there was no warming occurring out of the ordinary. Temperatures are cyclical and travel over the globe in such a way that there are years of warmer temperatures followed by years of cooler temperatures. Get over it. It was originally called “global warming,” not “climate change,” so I’m calling it “global warming.” It’s not my fault if that label no longer perfectly fits the liberal narrative.)
Changing the temperature of an entire planet was a great cause to get low-information voters behind. Who doesn’t complain when it’s a hundred degrees outside and the humidity makes you want to cry? Thus global warming became the cause du jour, something of which the politicians could remind everybody every single summer, when people are really feeling the heat. Autumn comes, then winter and spring, and global warming is forgotten about. But the advent of summer always brings with it sirens being sounded by politicians. “Man, d’ya feel that heat? Can you feel it suckin’ the water right outa ya? Sheesh, that global warming is really somethin’! Say, if you slide me over a bit a’ your money, I can make that go away for ya.”
Remember when congressional Democrats told us that global warming would cause less snow? Remember when alarmist David Viner of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (of Climategate notoriety) said that global warming would soon render snowfalls a “very rare and exciting event” and that ”Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”? Remember Greenpeace and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change telling us the same thing in 1993 and in 2001, respectively? (Both those links are dead now, but those were the original sources.)
Well, now that the facts of more snow are contradicting original prophecy, the consensus among scientists is that global warming—a heating up of the planet—causes more snow.
So heads up, New England. Feet and feet of cold, icy global warming is snow-falling your way.
Congressman Henry Waxman to Introduce New Carbon Rationing Bill
At least that’s the rumor. Hot on the heels of President Barack Obama’s promise in his second inaugural speech on Monday to “respond to the threat of climate change,” Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) are evidently going to introduce a new version of the cap-and-trade scheme (Waxman-Markey) that passed in the House of Representatives in 2009, but which failed to get through the Senate.
The folks over at the free-market oriented American Energy Alliance are preemptively responding. Thomas Pyle, head of the AEA sneered in press release:
“The president had much to say about climate change in his inaugural speech this week. And while his Press Secretary made clear that the administration’s efforts in this area will largely bypass Congress, Henry Waxman deserves some degree of commendation for his persistence, however out of touch he is with the real problems facing everyday Americans. The American Energy Alliance looks forward to reviewing the latest installment in the failed cap-and-trade saga, now ostensibly known as Waxman-Whitehouse. And like any effort to increase the cost of energy for American consumers — whether legislative, executive, or regulatory — we will be prepared to fight, though I suspect this effort will have one of the shortest shelf lives of any legislative proposal in modern history.”
For an analysis of the earlier Waxman scheme, see my column, “Cap-and-Trade Delusions.” Will follow up once the new bill is unveiled.
Congressman Henry Waxman to Introduce New Carbon Rationing Bill
At least that’s the rumor. Hot on the heels of President Barack Obama’s promise in his second inaugural speech on Monday to “respond to the threat of climate change,” Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) are evidently going to introduce a new version of the cap-and-trade scheme (Waxman-Markey) that passed in the House of Representatives in 2009, but which failed to get through the Senate.
The folks over at the free-market oriented American Energy Alliance are preemptively responding. Thomas Pyle, head of the AEA sneered in press release:
“The president had much to say about climate change in his inaugural speech this week. And while his Press Secretary made clear that the administration’s efforts in this area will largely bypass Congress, Henry Waxman deserves some degree of commendation for his persistence, however out of touch he is with the real problems facing everyday Americans. The American Energy Alliance looks forward to reviewing the latest installment in the failed cap-and-trade saga, now ostensibly known as Waxman-Whitehouse. And like any effort to increase the cost of energy for American consumers — whether legislative, executive, or regulatory — we will be prepared to fight, though I suspect this effort will have one of the shortest shelf lives of any legislative proposal in modern history.”
For an analysis of the earlier Waxman scheme, see my column, “Cap-and-Trade Delusions.” Will follow up once the new bill is unveiled.
INFOWARS: Schwarzenegger calls for ‘hip, sexy’ environmentalism
AFP
January 31, 2013
image courtesy of Newsweek
Arnold Schwarzenegger called Thursday for an end to “doom and gloom” environmentalism as he hosted the first conference of his new green movement fostering action by local governments and individuals.
“If we want to inspire the world, it is time for us to forget about the old way of talking about climate change, where we crush people, where we overwhelm people with data,” the former California governor, bodybuilder and film star said.
“There is a new way, a more sexy, a more hip way. Instead of using doom and gloom and telling people what they can’t do, we should make them part of our movement and tell them what they can do,” he said.
Agenda 21: How Will It Affect You? (by TheJohnBirchSociety)
A clean environment is important to us all. We have an obligation to maintain our resources and sustain our environment for future generations. Sustaining our environment has led us down the road to environmentalism. Then a strange thing happened. Environmentalism came to a fork in the road. While the rhetoric took one route, the agenda took another. Explore this topic and discover how Agenda 21 will affect you.
How your community is implementing AGENDA 21 (by cvminutemen)
Top NASA climate scientist arrested at White House
One of the nation’s foremost experts on climate change was arrested outside the White House on Monday morning after he joined a protest against a planned Canadian tar sands pipeline.
Dr. James Hansen (pictured), who runs NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested along with 139 other protesters taking part in a series of demonstrations against the planned $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport 500,000 barrels of crude per day from America’s neighbor to the north all the way to the Gulf coast of Texas.
Michael Crichton on Environmentalism as a Religion
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Michael Crichton on Environmentalism as a Religion



