The Podcast : 3rd Annual Vegan Helliday Special
by angryhippie

3rd Annual Vegan Helliday Special : Hellidays With a Vengeance.
Once again, the Angry Hippie turns his frustrated gaze towards the holiday season that we find ourselves inundated with. It covers being vegan at Thanksgiving, non-Christian at Christmas, and so much more…including a damning voicemail from Jim’s Dad
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The 3rd Annual Vegan Helliday Special
Here are some excerpts from the e-mail I received and read from at the end of the program.
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From Wikileaks:
“This archive presents over 120Mb of emails, documents, computer code and models from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, written between 1996 and 2009.
The CRU has told the BBC that the files were obtained by a computer hacker 3-4 days ago.
This archive includes unreleased global temperature analysis computer source code that has been the subject of Freedom of Information Act requests.
The archive appears to be a collection of information put together by the CRU prior to a FoI redaction process.”
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Behold! – Searchable Database of Leaked Emails Provided by Wikileaks
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Just a few excerpts from the emails:
From: Phil Jones. To: Many. Nov 16, 1999
“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature [the science journal] trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
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From: Mick Kelly To: Nguyen Huu Ninh. June 24, 2003
“NOAA want to give us more money for the El Nino work with IGCN. How much do we have left from the last budget? I reckon most has been spent but we need to show some left to cover the costs of the trip Roger didn’t make and also the fees/equipment/computer money we haven’t spent otherwise NOAA will be suspicious.”
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From Phil Jones To: Michael Mann (Pennsylvania State University). July 8, 2004
“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”
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From: Kevin Trenberth (US National Center for Atmospheric Research). To: Michael Mann. Oct 12, 2009
“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t… Our observing system is inadequate.”
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An excerpt from James Corbett’s message:
A Message to the Environmental Movement
“This is James Corbett of corbettreport.com and I come here today with a message for you.
You the environmentalists, you the activists, you the campaigners.
You who have watched with growing concern the ways in which the world around us has been ravaged in the pursuit of the almighty dollar.
You who are concerned with the state of the planet that we are leaving for our children and our grandchildren and those generations yet unborn.
This is not a message of divisiveness, but cooperation.
This is a message of hope and empowerment, but it requires us to look at a hard and uncomfortable truth:
Your movement has been usurped by the very same financial interests you thought you were fighting against.
You have suspected as much for years.
You watched at first with hope and excitement as your movement, your cause, your message began to spread, as it was taken up by the media and given attention, as conferences were organized and as the ideas you had struggled so long and hard to be heard were talked about nationally. Then internationally.
You watched with growing unease as the message was simplified. First it became a slogan. Then it became a brand. Soon it was nothing more than a label and it became attached to products. The ideas you had once fought for were now being sold back to you. For profit.
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Comments
sorry dude,i tried to stop him. hes very set in his ways. ive been waiting for this show. well, i guess ive been waiting for all of em. the jod-i and myself finally quit xmas. ive been wanting to for a while. the old folks make it hard to stop humoring them. i feel so free. we did the thanksgiving thing. it was cool that some dishes that we didnt bring ourselves were altered for us. one of jodis uncles was quite interested in my vegan ways. he was eating flesh as he questioned me. im thinking he was more concerned with health benefits.
great show, brother. i will remember your words the next time someone asks me why i do what i do. you put it so eloquently.
Hey Rob,
There’s a lot of fucked up shit going on and they’re too many people giving a blind eye about it. It makes me sick. Thank you for calling those people out, someone needs to. Also the Hell House mini episode was really good too. In fact that email you read by Taylor about Hell Houses is my girlfriend, I was listening to the episode and heard you mention her name and as I continued hearing you read it I was shocked. Thanks again for reading that email of hers on your show and creating an episode dedicated to that email. It really made her day and mine as well.
I loved the the Helliday Specials. The recent one was really good too. Keep up the good work. I’m looking forward to listen to some more of your ranting.
Hope you have a decent December,
Taylor
@ Jim – No problem, man. I loved it!! Glad the show delivered.
Awesome to hear about xmas. The rents don’t make it easy to turn down, do they?
@ Taylor –
Thanks for the kind words. I was happy to read the e-mail on the show. I was shocked by the content, and there was no way I could that craziness to myself. So thank her once again for sending it to me, if you don’t mind.
Great episode Rob! I just about crapped myself when the voice mail came on!! lol.. you know, you and Angie were our inspiration for following through on sticking to our No Christmas guns!! After you guys did it last year, we knew we could do it too! It’s so relieving to go to the mall during this mass chaos knowing that you aren’t going to spend an arm and a leg while there. Right on!!
Thanks you guys!!
.-= Jodi´s last blog ..Salem for Samhain! =-.