Category: I hate hippies

I spent a lot of time in Europe leading up to the death of the old Soviet Union when they used covert operations to undermine the US’ influence on the continent. They funded overt terrorism (Red Army Faction) as well as covert operations amongst the hippies and local protesters to turn the public opinion of our hosts against us. Since the Soviet Union fell, their connections to the terrorists and to the European peace movements have been documented, as well as their connections to US peace movements.

Apparently, those lessons weren’t lost on the succeeding nation. Foreign Policy says that the Russians are funding the anti-fracking drones behind the scenes in order to maintain their grip on the European economies;

“I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engage actively with so-called non-government organizations — environmental organizations working against shale gas — obviously to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas,” NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said after a Chatham House speech this week.

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But one thing has for years puzzled energy experts: Well-organized and well-funded environmental opposition to fracking in Europe sprang up suddenly in countries such as Bulgaria and Ukraine, which had shown little prior concern for the environment but which are heavily dependent on Russia for energy supplies. Similar movements have also targeted Europe’s plans to build pipelines that would offer an alternative to reliance on Moscow.

“It’s very concrete; it relates to both opposition to shale and also trying to block any alternative pipelines with environmental challenges,” said Brenda Shaffer, an energy expert at Georgetown University.

“There is a lot of evidence here; countries like Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine being at the vanguard of the environmental movement is enough for it to be conspicuous,” she said.

Europe’s heavy dependence on Russian energy sources makes them vulnerable to political pressure from Russia. Witness the empty threats in regards to the annexation of the Crimea this last winter from our European allies. Of course, local fracking is a real threat to that dependance on Russia’s oil and gas resources. So it’s back to the Cold War tactics that worked for the Russians, to some small effect, decades ago.

Hippies are such useful idiots.

Retired Lieutenant General Frank Wiercinski wants to be President of the University of Hawaii, but somehow, the students get a say in the process of the hiring. He appeared in front of the student body the other day, reports the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and it wasn’t pretty;

A few dozen people in the audience held signs and posters that read, “Demilitarize Our Education,” “Universities Shall Serve the Community Not Promote Militarization” and “Hawaiian Values?”

Some booed and hissed as he talked about his leadership style, areas where he thinks UH can improve, and why he’s interested in the job before a standing-room-only auditorium on the UH-Manoa campus.

Stank-ass hippies, the whole lot of them. The general presented his case to them, and of course, his qualifications for the job went right over their pointy heads;

“I make no excuse that I served in the United States military. … I’ve stood and protected villages, I’ve built schools, I’ve gathered governors together … and I’ve buried 163 of my friends,” he said. “But what I’ve learned in the last eight years … my daily job was building consensus with leaders, it was working the budget, a declining budget — oh, by the way, catapulted by sequestration and trying to make everything fit.”

“We didn’t want to target him necessarily as an individual, but we wanted to send a really strong message to the Board of Regents and to the university as a whole about what our vision for UH is and how this is at odds with their commitment to make this university a Hawaiian place of learning,” she said.

“I think he made it very clear he intends to cater to the Asia-Pacific military buildup at the forefront of the Obama administration’s military strategy. We’re seeing it nationally, as the military infiltrates universities to be its research institutions. We’re trying to send a message, not just to him, that we will not stand for that.”

So, who cares what a bunch of snot-nosed little brats think? They just pay their tuition and get their degrees in Hemp Weaving or whatever the hell the nimrods take in school these days. Or not. If they don’t like the president, they can go back to coke snorting, because that’s what they’re going to do after college anyway.

The purpose of college is learning, not dictating to your betters about how you want your life to be. If you want to do that go back home and order your parents around. I’m sure they miss that.

Hiring a college president is what adults do, not a bunch of wet-behind-the-ears ne’er-do-wells. And, of course, the media tells us that we veterans are the reason that there is a cultural divide between the military and the rest of the country.

This is from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where two fellows, one wearing a USMC T-shirt, rescues an American flag from it’s stank-ass hippie masters. Why write about it when you can watch it. Because they’re Marines and this is TAH there’s a language warning;

Now, I’m no lawyer, but I know I hate hippies and I know that whenever they claim their first amendment rights it’s so they can trample someone else’s rights. That’s the case before the Supreme Court now. The LA Times reports that stank-ass hippy, Dennis Apel has taken his case to the Supreme Court, or, more accurately, the Department of Defense has taken his case to the Court when the Ninth Circuit (who else?) ruled against them when Apel claimed that he had a right to protest in front of Vandenberg Air Force Base. Apparently, the command there had an area set aside for protests and when Apel violated the boundaries of decency during his protests there, they banned him;

Apel had been barred from Vandenberg after his earlier arrests, which led to convictions. But he believed he could legally protest in the designated area across Highway 1 from the base.

“I didn’t reenter the base,” he said on the court steps Wednesday. “No one should be arrested for protesting on a public highway.”

The justices, however, said he was mistaken. The property agreement with Santa Barbara “makes it very clear that the military commander has authority to exercise control over the easement property,” said Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, referring to the part of Highway 1 that runs through the base.

While I agree that hippies do indeed have a right to protest, no matter how distasteful their protests might be, there are boundaries, and throwing your own stank-ass hippie blood on a base sign is outside those boundaries, especially since some airman will have to clean the sign and expose himself to whatever biological hazards are contained within said stank-ass hippie blood.

The military goes out of it’s way to accommodate hippy protests without affecting or hindering their mission and the hippies should be appreciative of that fact. But, they want to push the limits of those accommodations – like the Code Pink and labor union protests at Walter Reed celebrating the casualties of the Iraq war.

Chock Block sends us a link in regards to the new socialist recently elected to Seattle’s city council, Kshama Sawant, who has big plans for her city – like inspiring insurrection at the local Boeing plant;

On Monday night, she spoke to supporters of Boeing Machinists, six days after they rejected a contract guaranteeing jobs in Everett building the new 777X airliner for eight years, in exchange for new workers giving up their guaranteed company pensions.

Now Boeing is threatening to take those jobs to other states. “That will be nothing short of economic terrorism because it’s going to devastate the state’s economy,” she said.

Sawant is calling for machinists to literally take-possession of the Everett airplane-building factory, if Boeing moves out. She calls that “democratic ownership.”

Yeah, that should inspire Boeing to keep their plant in the city.

Sawant says after workers “take-over” the Everett Boeing plant; they could build things everyone can use.

“We can re-tool the machines to produce mass transit like buses, instead of destructive, you know, war machines,” she told KIRO 7.

Yup, they could probably do that all on their own, huh? Then they could convert that big front yard into a unicorn farm. You know. And they could plant Skittle trees along their runway.

Of course, you really can’t expect a socialist to understand things like economics or capital. If they understood the basic concepts, they wouldn’t be Socialists, would they?

Mostly, I’m surprised that the environmental activists didn’t know that it’s tough in a Russian prison. I mean, didn’t they read “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”? Apparently not. There were arrested for their protest over Arctic oil drilling a few months ago. In a link sent to us by Mark, from Fox News the protesters are “close to shock” over their treatment;

The foreign detainees are struggling to make themselves understood since virtually none of the prison staff speaks English, she said. One of the activists has consulted a psychologist.

Several of the foreign nationals have been placed in cells with Russians even though this breaches Russian law, Paikacheva added.

A Polish activist is sharing a cell with four Russians, while one of the British activists has two Russian cellmates, both accused of robbery.

Several non-smoking activists also complain of being placed in cells with chain-smokers.

Gee, imagine that – they were arrested for illegal behavior and sent to some Russian prisons north of the Arctic Circle. Poor little hippies. Who knew that in this day and age, people actually get punished for breaking laws?