Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, August 20, 2011,
Fellow traveller Graham Readfern has bravely written a searingly insightful article about the preponderance of appalling white male peenie wavers in the climate change
denialist camp.
But we have long known about this phenomenon haven't we fellow travellers? White male conservatives are past masters when it comes to bigotry. Not only are they climate change denialists, but they are invariably sexist, racist, homophobic and
fattist as well. But of their numerous prejudices it's their misogyny ...
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Herein I calmly respond to a right-wing blogger's death threats
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, June 24, 2011,
In response to what were perfectly reasonable observations from myself and fellow traveller Jill Singer about the planet-killing behaviour of eeevil climate change
denialists, the appalling Iain Hall has responded with something truly vile. In that offensively arrogant and sanctimonious manner that all conservatives seem to have, he has argued that we on the green left should "name our poison" and either neuter or kill ourselves to "make a real difference to
the environment".
Needless to say ...
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Leave Anna-Maria Arabia alone, Andrew Bolt!
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, June 20, 2011,
Why am I not surprised that the appalling Andrew Bolt is still beating his denialist drum against respected scientists fighting valiantly to save the planet from catastrophic climate change? Now he's attacking sassy sister
Anna-Maria Arabia. And he's doing so with even more vitriol than usual. Perhaps it's got something to do with his obvious Islamophobia. Her surname just too much to bear is it Andrew, hmm?
Hmm? While there's probably some submerged racism in his latest bit of hate speech, i...
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Professor Bob Carter is a climate change denialist
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, June 6, 2011,
Sassy sister Cate Blanchett recently, and quite movingly, said of her activism on the issue of climate change: ''I can't look my children in the face if I'm not trying to do something in my small way and to urge other people."
I applaud such courage and conviction. But for me, the sense of urgency is even more immediate. If I were not waging a (peaceful) war against the denialists and alerting the world to their appalling lies then
I wouldn't be a able to look Gaia Herself in the face (and I ...
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Australia now officially moving forward with NBN launch in Armidale
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, May 18, 2011,
Fellow travellers, I just heard Julia Gillard on the ABC at the official launch of the National Broadband Network in
Armidale, NSW. At the risk of sounding a little patriotic this is clearly a great day for Australia.
Now that the program is well underway, and - as Stephen Conroy said, on time and on budget - all those appalling NBN naysayers will just have to shut up, won't they!
The Government is truly
doing it once, doing it right and doing it with fibre! And a year or two down the track, wi...
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Tim Flannery, Panasonic and Gaia
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, April 19, 2011,
I am starting to get increasingly annoyed about this campaign against our Tim Flannery, fellow travellers. There's a really concerted effort to make him seem like some sort of opportunist because of his various sponsorship arrangements. Can you believe it? Tim Flannery, cashing in on the climate crisis? That's as absurd as saying that Nelson Mandela advocated terrorism.
Why this has even been allowed to happen is beyond me. Frankly, I think even
criticising our Tim should be deemed a crime ag...
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Tim Flannery, Gaia and ant colonies
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, April 10, 2011,
Fellow travellers, why am I not surprised that the appalling Andrew Bolt thinks that our Tim Flannery's latest searing insights into the state of our planet and its potential future are "wild" and (as he said on the radio)
"freaky".
But there is nothing unscientific or totalitarian about Professor Flannery's theories. They are clearly logical and undeniably egalitarian. I mean, what could be more fair and equal than a society that does not banish nature and all its teeming life forms as "the o...
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Stephan Lewandowsky, sockpuppets and the murder of Alene Composta
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, March 28, 2011,
In his usual swaggering manner the execrable Tim Blair compares fellow traveller Stephan Lewandowsky to Alene Composta, whom the good professor quite understandably took to be
a real person.
Now, what's really depressing about Stephan's piece at
The Drum is that it clearly shows that
he too has now adopted the dominant narrative on Alene: That she was a blogging sockpuppet created with the sole and malicious intention of embarrassing
the ABC. (Jonathon Holmes is another progressive duped by t...
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Andrew Bolt and Tim Flannery on MTR 1377 and that "thousand years" quote
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, March 25, 2011,
In a nauseating display of triumphalism, the appalling Tim Blair describes an entirely reasonable admission from Tim Flannery in his interview with Andrew Bolt on MTR1377 as if it was some gigantic faux pas that "blows the entire scam
wide open".
The offending quote
was this:
If we cut emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to drop for about a thousand years.Far from exposing some kind of scam, it just shows how wise, visionary and far-thinking Professor Flannery is. It also reve...
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Appalling Miranda Devine's vile hate speech on Q&A
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, March 22, 2011,
Fellow travellers, as you well know our enemies in the Australian media are many and powerful. As Jonathon Holmes so searingly observed last night on
Media Watch, those revolting shock jocks are stoking the carbon-spewing flames of climate change
denialism, giving scientists who
don't believe in climate change lots of air time, while denying it to scientists who
do (which is all of them).
And even though what those broadcasters are doing is against the law (that's L A W -
law - get it!) they c...
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Maybe suicide by carbon tax isn't such a bad thing after all?
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, February 28, 2011,
It's a given that conservatives are
eeevil, hateful bigots who desperately want to hurt the planet. But sometimes they cloak their sinister intentions in "rational" arguments.
Take this appalling screed by Terry McCrann, one of Rupert's rotties, in which he claims the proposed carbon tax is
akin to a suicide pledge. While at first blush it may seem like a logical take on Julia Gillard's bold promise and its consequences for our nation, there is much vile prejudice and falsehood at work undern...
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Impending Perth heat wave another sure sign of global warming!
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, December 31, 2010,
Fellow travellers, here in Perth, Western Australia we have already had some unseasonally hot days. And there are more to come. Next week several days of
40-degree heat are predicted.
Now, how can you still have your doubts about
anthropogenic global warming when such a strong trend is in evidence?
But of course the redneck climate change denialists have their doubts, don't they! Because Heathrow has been shut down for days due to the cold, and there have been
similar conditions in America, t...
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Gooseberry Hill fire proof of global warming. Skeptics blind, as usual
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, December 13, 2010,
Fellow travellers, one thing that I find extremely annoying about appalling right-wing peenie-waving climate change denialists is how they constantly bleat about how there's "no actual evidence" for global warming, and that it's "all just a theory" about what's "going to happen in the future" based on "dodgy computer models".
Yet time and again there is
irrefutable evidence of a catastrophically warming planet right before their very eyes! Take this fire in Gooseberry Hill
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Kimberley Toad Busters and their carbon dioxide solution
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, December 7, 2010,
Fellow travellers, there's no denying that our unique Australian environment needs protecting and nurturing. And wherever possible introduced pests should be compassionately dealt with so that they do not damage the delicate local ecosystems.
But being such a life affirming soul, I still find some of these culling techniques a
little upsetting. Take, for instance, the use of carbon dioxide to euthanase cane toads,
which has just been approved by the Department of Environment and Conservation. ...
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Desperate dam climb of the "spider goats"
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, October 18, 2010,
While reporting of environmental issues has improved over the years, many in the media continue to treat these subjects as fodder for light entertainment articles and "odd stories". Take this one about some so-called "spider goats" who are scaling
a near vertical dam wall in Italy.
The seriousness of the goats' predicament is trivialized and the story is presented as a curiosity. In the article, the goats are described as "plucky", which is a bit of anthropomorphism that I find
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Extra-terrestrials not impressed
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, March 29, 2010,
Fellow travellers, sadly
the aliens I was expecting during Earth Hour didn't show up! I was deeply mystified and disappointed.
It is very difficult to know why this might have been. It is hard to understand the motives of those who are more spiritually evolved than you are, after all. (I know this from personal experience. My many critics - who are locked in their primitive, materialist mindsets - just can't understand where
I'm coming from. So, full of fear and confusion, they accuse me of h...
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UFO in Sydney heralds Earth Hour
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, March 24, 2010,
Oh joy. Joy and cat dancing! One of our intergalactic fellow travellers has decided to pay us a visit.
Significantly,
the alien has flown over Chipping Norton, in Sydney's west. And Sydney is the very city in which Earth Hour began some three years ago. And when
is Earth Hour? On the last Saturday of March,
which is only 3 days hence!
Clearly, this is no coincidence. These highly spiritually evolved aliens are telling us that they approve of our mind-expanding, planet-loving ritual. And while t...
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Unnatural disaster hits Perth!
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, March 23, 2010,
Fellow travellers, when is this nation (and the world for that matter!) going to realize that
climate change is real, that
man is causing it and that
the science is in!
Take this terrifying storm in Perth. It was the worst that city has had
so far this whole millennium! How could you possibly deny the link?
Of course, appalling peenie-waving Premier Colin Barnett has deemed that it was a "natural" disaster. Talk about blaming the victim! It was as
unnatural as a disaster can be, since it simpl...
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Ninja monkeys for Gaia!
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, December 17, 2009,
Fellow travellers, as you all know I abhor violence. However, here is one event in which it is justified: A troupe of monkeys trained in martial arts
have used these very techniques on their trainer!
What they were protesting is not clear. But I suspect that with the Copenhagen conference in full swing, they were raising awareness of climate change; telling those watching that Gaia would revolt spectacularly if we did not show respect to Her and make a global deal to end all greenhouse gas em...
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Conservative "cave man" conspiracy!
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, November 6, 2009,
Fellow travellers, I'm sure that you are all sick and tired of climate change deniers insisting that those determined to stop the impending global catastrophe actually want to take humanity "back to the Stone Age" and "make us all cavemen". This is a
contemptible and utterly false accusation! (But even if it weren't, what would be wrong with living more in harmony with nature, like our distant ancestors did?)
In any case, the many reich-wingers in the media and politics never miss a chance to ...
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The age of bizarre
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, November 5, 2009,
Fellow travellers, you may have read about this strange event, in which the reactionary, peenie-waving London Mayor "Bonking Boris" Johnson saved Franny Armstrong - climate change activist and director of the searing film
The Age of Stupid - from an attack by several young women.
I'm sure that this "brave" act was completely unnecessary. Ms Armstrong surely could have protected herself had he not arrived so "heroically" on the scene. That's why these comments are so bizarre:
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