UPDATED: ‘Green’ Energy Company Threatens Economics Professor … with Package of Dismantled Bomb Parts (Updated: No Threat)
Spain’s Dr. Gabriel Calzada — the author of a damning study concluding that Spain’s “green jobs” energy program has been a catastrophic economic failure — was mailed a dismantled bomb on Tuesday by solar energy company Thermotechnic.
Says Calzada:
Before opening it, I called [Thermotechnic] to know what was inside … they answered, it was their answer to my energy pieces.
Dr. Calzada contacted a terrorism expert to handle the package. The expert first performed a scan of the package, then opened it in front of a journalist, Dr. Calzada, and a private security expert.
The terrorism consultant said he had seen this before:
This time you receive unconnected pieces. Next time it can explode in your hands.
Dr. Calzada added:
[The terrorism expert] told me that this was a warning.
The bomb threat is just the latest intimidation Dr. Calzada has faced since releasing his report and following up with articles in Expansion (a Spanish paper similar to the Financial Times). A minister from Spain’s Socialist government called the rector of King Juan Carlos University — Dr. Calzada’s employer — seeking Calzada’s ouster. Calzada was not fired, but he was stripped of half of his classes at the university. The school then dropped its accreditation of a summer university program with which Calzada’s think tank — Instituto Juan de Mariana — was associated.
Additionally, the head of Spain’s renewable energy association and the head of its communist trade union wrote opinion pieces in top Spanish newspapers accusing Calzada of being “unpatriotic” — they did not charge him with being incorrect, but of undermining Spain by daring to write the report.
Their reasoning? If the skepticism that Calzada’s revelations prompted were to prevail in the U.S., Spanish industry would face collapse should U.S. subsidies and mandates dry up.
As I have previously reported at PJM (here and here), Spain’s “green jobs” program was repeatedly referenced by President Obama as a model for what he would like to implement in the United States. Following the release of Calzada’s report, Spain’s Socialist government has since acknowledged the debacle — both privately and publicly. This month, Spain’s government instituted massive reductions in subsidies to “renewable” energy sources.
Ah, the Tolerant Left.
Ah. The propagandized right.
The shipping company claims that it is their error and apologizes.
No bomb, just car parts. No package from ThermoTechnic to Dr. Calzada.
The only thing left is for Chris Horner to retract his story.
Ah, the the ‘liberal mind’. Nature’s best and most extreme example of an oxyMORON.
So Ron posts facts and you resort to an ad hominem response. How conservative of you.
What about his story is not true? Until the time that you can point to something specifically that was not true STFU.
Typical liberal jerk. Humanoids like you lie all of the time and when you’re called out you whine about being picked on then lie some more. No one can say that you’ve outlived your usefulness because you’ve never been useful.
‘jdkchem’ asks which part of this story is not true.
How about we start with just the title?
‘Green’ Energy Company Threatens Economics Professor … with Package of Dismantled Bomb Parts (Updated)
1) Thermotechnic did not threaten an economics professor.
2) There was no package of dismantled bomb parts.
So that’s two “failures of truth” in just the headline.
And for those of you just joining us – make sure you read the updates – all the updates – on page 2.
C’mon PJM editors! This is poor journalism. The story has been discredited but the uncorrected lede remain on your splash page. How about noting this on the front page or publishing a separate retraction from Chris Horner? You also have to wonder why this scientist did not go to the police to begin with.
So where’s the accompanying story about how the CEO of Thermotechnic was taken into custody, and others in the company are under arrest…?
Or is there one?
Only the right commits acts of violence. The left are peace loving activists. //sarc.
Yeah, a regular “peace flotilla” there.
There is really no other way to look at the situation: The AGW industry has become an organized crime syndicate.
Calzada messed with the Family, and if he keeps it up, he gets to swim wit’ da fishes. Capice?
Good question. Why haven’t the people at Thermotechnic been arrested? Or have they?
…and they wonder why we cling to our guns.
This is fascist, a behavior with with the Spanish are well acquainted.
If you bothered to check, it is a Basque company in Guipuzcoa, heartland of ETA.
The Basques were anti-fascistas (think Guernica).
I think that fascist in the descriptive sense, not Royalist vs Republican.
Send it back, assembled
LOL! Good idea!
first bill them for the repairs
Yeah! Very good idea!
You’re a genius!
Ciao from Italy
by send it back assembled do you mean send them a car?
Are there any independent sources on this story? Has the attendant journalist published an account?
See the line in the story that says “(Click here for coverage on this incident from Spanish media.)
“.
No such line/link in my copy of this PJM report.
Read to the next page.
Found it, thanks.
For what it’s worth, I believe most people expect links to appear close to the subject. Footnotes are sooooo 1993.
I don’t think the link can be classified as “independent” since it’s a magazine that Calzada has published in before. Even if that weren’t so, this story is highly suspicious. Mail bombers don’t put their return address on bombs and companies don’t generally want to sen as terrorist organizations.
Let’s see some actual independent accounts or a police report. A company sending someone a dismantled bomb should be pretty big news…
For the sake of argument, let’s assume the story is true. Since it was not a bomb that was intended to explode but was rather intended as a warning, and since no threats against “deniers” are too strong (the deniers deserve all the opprobrium and, yes, threats the warmists heap upon them), why would the company NOT proudly display their name on the package they sent?
Should they send a REAL bomb, I’m sure they’ll refrain from identifying themselves [and warning the (evil, denying) victim].
Polly, it’s a crime in Spain to make terrorist threats.
Dude, then nothing reported by the New York Times can ever be independent of Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, George Bush pere et fils, or for that matter me.
Oh, you global warming deniers, don’t you know the only way to save the planet is to kill the people, first economically with green jobs, then with assembled devices?
Yep, wipe us out economically first, then go for the real kill. Ya gotta love it when a plan comes together!
The university censoring is absolutely outrageous. The bomb threat is staggering.
This mafia-like threat is only comprehensible if one thinks about the billions of euros and dollars at stake for researchers, NGO’s, and assorted technocratic government workers.
If the AGW proponents were absolutely sure of the evidence, they wouldn’t need to stoop to such thuggish behavior. This is insanity.
I guess Joe the Plumber got off easy.
If the skepticism that Calzada’s revelations prompted were to prevail in the U.S., Spanish industry would face collapse should U.S. subsidies and mandates dry up.
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As we have stated before, the whole issue has nothing to do with climate, and everything to do with making those most heavily involved wealthy.
> they felt Spain would be in a dire position without the U.S. playing the role of sucker.
Well, there’s little chance of that happening, as long as The Zero is in power.
Like Muslims you criticize their religion and things mostly innocent people start to go boooom.
Yes, I want to know if anyone will be arrested. Any reasonable law enforcment organization would see this as a threat and thus actionable.
He should package that bomb up and send it to another solar company…or maybe to the minster.
YES WE CON! YES WE CON! http://www.M4GW.com
If this occurred in the US, it would be a crime. Spain, I don’t know about. Do they have laws?
Its worth noting that Spain currently suffers from over 20% unemployment (and rising), the worst in Europe.
The bombing isn’t a coincidence; people are really scared for their futures and their jobs there.
This is why we need more immigrants!
They do the GREEN JOBS, Americans refuse to do – http://www.BorderInvasionPics.com
Would that be green jobs? Or their job would be to produce Soylent Green?
Hey, make Soylent Green from illegals! I like it!
why aren’t charges of terroristic threatening being made against Thermotechnic? Or is this just the way business is done in a Socialist country? How soon before we can expect the same in the US? Or is it already happening on our boarders?
I guess Thermotechnic got some “green education” from that patron saint against technology – the Unabomber, Ted Kaczinski.
Well, we’re in a culture war, aren’t we? It was just a matter of time before it went weapons hot.
Clearly, it was a love bomb. If it had detonated, the professor would have been showered in rose petals and unicorn smiles.
Thermotechnic has denied that they sent the bomb.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertaddigital.com%2Feconomia%2Fla-empresa-solar-asegura-que-nunca-ha-querido-amenazar-a-calzada-1276395934%2F&sl=es&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
So they put their return address on the bomb, but are going to deny they sent it? That makes no sense. This story looks very bogus at this point.
Why would Thermotechnic put their company name on the box if they wanted to kill him?
Odds are, this story is completely made up. Google it. There’s nothing.
Follow the link contained in the line “(Click here for coverage on this incident from Spanish media.)”
Or, try googling it in Spanish.
Nincompoop.
Charlie, didn’t we go through this a few weeks ago, with the tape of the IDF boarding the “peace activist” flotilla?
It’s clearly part of the modus operandi of the (increasingly desperate) left… deny that the evidence is there even when it’s staring you in the face.
But then, most lefties are very good at ignoring reality.
We did indeed, but I’m currently assuming these two simply didn’t read to the end before popping off.
Anyone who doesn’t read the entire article before “popping off” is showing their lack of intelligence right there.
“With today’s revelation, now we know just how far the “green energy” lobby will go to keep the money flowing.”
They and parallel allies are going that far and farther to keep an indefinite choke hold on Congress, the Executive Branch and SCOTUS.
The Greens might be a threat…if only they were intelligent enough to figure out how to assemble a bomb.
The Unabomber was a Greenie.
And had a Ph.D. in mathematics, so he was smart enough to figure it out.
BTW, he was only a GINO. In reality, he was just plain nuts.
“The Unabomber was a Greenie.”
Well, that’s one out of ten million that’s smart enough.
Anybody see the home page of Thermotechnic? “Te damos confort, te damos futuro”
“We give you comfort, we give you future.”
Okaaaaay…..except when they scare the living bejezuss out of you with a bomb package!!! Too much….!
Wouldn’t it be a riot if Thermotechnic was the recipient of a real bomb that went off?
That’s an environmentalist message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the timing wires.
Today, an adviser to the Minister in Greece was killed when he opened a ‘box’ of chocolate. The Left is on the move!
Somebody’s passing a hoax. Here’s the part of the story from Expansion not printed here, translated using Google’s translator:
Please note, Ed Darrell’s blog, which is linked to in his name above, has a prominent post where he calls climate change skeptic Ken Cuccinelli a “climate change heretic” (emphasis mine).
I believe that shows quite clearly where Ed stands on this topic, and that should be kept in mind when reading the comment above and any other comments he may make on this topic.
You mean you think it’s okay to ignore facts if you think the person who calls your attention to them has a point of view that differs from yours, regardless the accuracy of the facts?
Or, are you trying to say I’m wrong, and Cuccinelli agrees with Michael Mann?
I think honesty requires us to note the entire news story, and not pretend it doesn’t exist. Apparently you think half-truths are not whole lies.
Actually, I am just pointing out the term “heretic,” which is far more often seen in religious debates, rather than political or scientific debates.
But we all know that for True Believers like Ed here, climate change is a religion.
Such a comment shows that you have a willingness to ignore any facts that don’t fit into your belief system.
Such a comment shows that you are willing to lie in order to advance your belief system.
Such a comment shows that anything you say is untrustworthy.
One might think I’d struck one of Ed’s nerves, wouldn’t you say, Mark?
Please note ConservativeWander’s blog quotes half the story, and ignores the other half. Clearly the person has a vested interest in covering up the facts.
“Clearly the person has a vested interest in covering up the facts.”
As in a “hide the decline” kind of way? Hmmm, sounds serious. Maybe we should check this with the covering-up-the-facts experts over at the IPCC. On second thought maybe that’s not such a swell idea, they’d just nominate Conservative Wanderer for a Nobel. Or is that now only reserved for closed-minded people that tout a made-up concensus?
‘…calls climate change skeptic Ken Cuccinelli a “climate change heretic”’
So…what’s the penalty for that?
Burning at the stake.
Baby Gaia sends you to atheist hell when you die?
Inquiring minds want to know.
The penalty is total loss of credibility.
You mean to say the guy in charge of the company that appears to have sent the threat said “Oh, no, we didn’t do it”?
My goodness.
1) The guilty party almost always declares their innocence. Such statements alone mean nothing.
2) While it is unlikely that a company would be stupid enough to send such a package under their own label, environmentalists in general aren’t the smartest tools in the shed.
3) It almost certainly was an environmentalist who sent the package, that person was probably associated with the company, since he had access to the package before it was sealed.
4) Lefties, especially those of the environmental persuasion have a long history of attacking those who disagree with them.
5) The other things done to Mr. Calzada are equally dispicable, and none of them are being contested.
Gentlemen, let’s not stoop the the level of those that we are opposed to. Stare not too long into the abyss… remember?
Now, Mr. Darrell’s version makes sense. It explains obvious flaws in the story (most importantly, a company publicly making terroristic threats by mail). It would also be within the norm for PETA, ELF, etc to do this sort of thing. If Spain’s laws are in any way similar to America’s, we are talking serious jail time for those responsible. Therefore, we must not be too hasty to condemn Thermotechnic. They are likely a victim as much as Calzada.
Ted Kaczinski is SO proud! Mainstream environmentalism has finally come of age. Bombs and death are just SO PROGRESSIVE!!!!!
We must keep the pressure on the AGW mob. All we need to do is tell the truth about the climate scam. Hopefully the people will get tired of funding a political agenda, in the name of science, and cut it off. You can tell they are in a panic, by resorting to a bomb scare, but you can also tell these are leftist radicals that see a dark bottomless pit into which they are about to fall. This is the end-game for movements that are based on lies and fraud.
You are exactly right, just keep putting out the truth. The average person is plenty smart enough to figure out what power-grabbers are up to. Since Nov. 19, “Climategate,” I think a majority of the people have their eyes open, and know that Cap and Trade is just a tax trap. You can’t fool 51 percent of the people all the time. Energy prices should skyrocket for dubious environmental reasons, and we should go along with that to work off our guilt? Uh, sure. The more light, the better, it makes the roaches run away.
You don’t have to fool 51% of the people. All you have to do is muster a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. See, e.g., ObamaCare.
It turns out that the IPCC section that dismissed the sun as being a possible cause of global warming turns out to have had precisely one author. An author who had written precisely one paper on the subject. An author who referenced her own paper as proof of her position.
The fact that there are dozens of papers, more coming out every month, showing that the sun has a sizable impact on climate and temperature, not withstanding.
Let me rephrase that.
In order to reach it’s conclusion that the sun played no part in the warming over the last half of the 20th century, the IPCC relied on a grand total of one paper. It also had only one author for that section of the IPCC report. Coincidentally, the one paper the IPCC used, was also written by the one author the IPCC used.
(A total of 8 papers were proposed for this section, but only one was selected. Most of the rejected papers found that the sun played a much bigger role than the IPCC ultimately concluded.)
If this does not flag Thermotechnic as a terrorist organization, no different in principle than Al Qaeda or Hamas, what will? Given the country’s ongoing Basque guerilla/terrorists known as ETA, surely Spain’s gendarmerie will raid Thermotechnic’s back-office assembly-lines and labs to see what else these homicidal creeps are cooking up?
My goodness what a bunch of naive, gullible, easily-led, brain-dead lemmings you all are.
Clearly, you will swallow anything that fits into your ideological clap-trap.
As if this happened and did not make headlines across the world? As if? Where are the independent corroborating stories. You guys really need a long period of introspection where you question every pathetic belief you hold, and the basis for that belief. You really need to bow your collective head in deep shame at you tragic lack of critical and independent thought.
Wadard, it happened on Tuesday. See, here at Pajamas Media, we try to do what they call “news”. That is, we don’t necessarily wait until lots of other people have published something before we do it.
So yes, this does appear to be the first thing published in English on this story. We consider this to be a good thing.
Precisely how many papers are covering the story of Al Gore molesting a massuese?
I suppose that in your world, any story that doesn’t make headlines around the world didn’t happen.
“[A]ny story that doesn’t make headlines around the world didn’t happen.” Precisely. That’s how we ended up with President Barack H. Obama.
The MSM always does its/their job, as long as the facts fit with its/their objective.
You’re right, if it hasn’t been widely and honestly covered in America’s MSM, then it must be a hoax or false or a trick trumped up by the deniers or… something.
I believe that the marketplace-of-ideas*, without which intelligent and scientific inquiry is greatly inhibited or even not possible, requires civility and civil protections for truth seekers. The 1st Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and of the press, but does not guarantee all the conditions required for the marketplace to be healthy and informed. The type of behavior described in your report makes that marketplace sick.
Thank you for reporting this gangster-type behavior from the Spanish government, in response to what seems to be a critical but scholarly analysis. This type of behavior toward legitimate study, inquiry, and scholarship is reprehensible. Coercion of scientists and distortion of scientific findings for political and economic gain is at unacceptably high levels, especially here in the US, with many outstanding examples from both the Democrat and Republican political arms of our oligarchy**. More and more there are very serious problems affecting our lives about which little or no public information is available, because people who wish to study these problems are being legally prevented from doing so or are financially penalized for doing so. Could these forces sickening our marketplace-of-ideas be threatened by just the idea of examination and discovery? Could current and future profits or political careers be at risk, just by asking questions and searching for probable explanations? Of course, they could.
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketplace_of_ideas
**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
You mean, we should not believe a scientist with an impeccable reputation, who made sure that the threat has been properly witnessed and identified.
But we should believe uncritically the “mutually corroborated” ideological clap-trap that the world mass media is incessantly pouring down our throats, trying to instill in us fear and guilt so we keep paying the Big Brother?
You dare talking about critical and independent thought? The first sentence of your comment told us everything we need to know about you. The rest is your oblivion.
Which company would do such a stupid thing as to send a bomb threat?
Who would be stupid enough to believe in such a hoax?
It’s the counterpart to anyone stupid enough to actually BELIEVE in global warming. Except that global warming is more obviously a hoax, with the pushers obviously in the game for self-enrichment; therefore the warmists (apart from the paid “scientists” and the well-positioned politicians & businesses) win the “Stupid,” or more accurately “Gullible,” contest.
#35 wadard. Yes, this story fits all the stereotypes that we righties believe about those peaceful, tolerant, positive thinking greenies. However, I can recall several things that happened and were not widely or immediately reported in international headlines. Examples are Floods in Tennessee, the initial publication of the Climategate E-mails, the John Edwards love child fooferaw, Wall Street donating far more money to the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
I googled “Gabriel Calzada bomb threat and got about 22,000 hits. Nearly all of these seem to be bloggers in the US, Canada, UK and Australia. I didn’t see any TV stations or newspapers except the Spanish one referenced in the article. If you translate the Spanish newspaper article using Babelfish you get a clumsy translation that gives a similar story to the post here by Christopher Horner.
Usually news arrives in the blogosphere first and then gets picked up by newspapers and TV. We might expect this story to turn up in the MSM later this week or next week. We should wait and see whether the blogosphere has the wrong end of the stick. I agree that misunderstandings are all too frequent. Consider my two Irish friends Mick and Seamus. Mick told Seamus “You should buy a Labrador – they make good pets.” “Fook you” replies Seamus. “Labradors make you go blind”
Absolutely correct. However, I expect to see this story in the MSM right after their breaking story on porcine aviation, and just before the news flash about a killing frost in Dis.
clear ether
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All the people who are trying to claim this is just a rumor and is completely unsubstantiated: pipe down and quit trying to run interference.
Here’s the most relevant link:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/36pl7dy
Creative journalism here:
“De la caja salieron un filtro de gasoil y una pieza con rosca que podía adaptarse al filtro.”
Translation: “From the package emerged a diesel oil filter and a part with a ring to attach it”. How does that become an unassembled bomb? Answer: It doesn’t!!! Blindingly obviously it was a mispost, meant for someone else.
“agente de seguridad”, ie security guard also somehow morphs into “terrorism expert”. As it happens he had previously been a bodyguard in the Basque county and had seen similar odd packages mailed to people. Though I can’t imagine eta sending anyone an oil filter either.
If Calzado felt threatened by this mispost (quite common in Spain) then he’s not playing with a full deck and his security guard should start writing thrillers and put that imagination to good use.
Let’s get real here folks. Calzada said 1 green job was worth 2.2 jobs in the real economy. Any solar company would normally have reacted with – “only 2.2 – we thought it was more than that – thanks Gabriel”. As the person above explains, Gabe was meant to be sent a glossy brochure but someone screwed up.
The contents of the box which were alleged to be the threat of a bomb were a fuel filter and wire. The box had an accurate return address for the business. The police were not called. Smells like a hoax to me.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/217145_Todays_Outrageous__Outrage_is_
No it wasn’t a hoax and it wasn’t a mislabeled package: the guy phoned to the company and they told him “it is our answer to your articles”. It is more like Lucca Brazzi in “The Godfather” when he placed a severed horse head into the bed of a man who was not doing what asked by the Maffia.
So, having read the translation of the follow-up article from libertad.digital.com, you still believe it was intended as a threat? I don’t.
http://www.libertaddigital.com/economia/la-empresa-solar-asegura-que-nunca-ha-querido-amenazar-a-calzada-1276395934/
I don’t need translations: I am fluent in Spanish. So, assumming Mr Calzada is saying the truth there is no way it can be joke from a third party like conjectured in the article: he phoned the company, the person _wasn’t_ surprised about it and answered “that is our answer”.
I don’t need translations but I should have read the article first. It is true that because Calzada is a common name they could have had a contractor named Calzada so when the “hostile economist” called them they believed it was their contractor. Howver I point yiou to the original article in Expansion “when Calzada the economist called them the employee told him: this is our answer to your articles in Expansion. Not “to your request” or something smilar but to your articles in Expansion. She wouldn’t have said that to a contractor. Now I agree we have only Mr Calzada’s word she told him that.
For he “believing” the company, well I don’t believe it. What I believe is either he lied or that he told the truth but he didn’t record the conversation (anyway I think it would have been illegal) so he hasn’t proofs and fears to be sued.
Perhaps, you are overestimating your fluency in Spanish, JFM?
Copyright? Fair use, no more than 10%, and attribution supplied, right?
“Eventually, after many inquiries, found responsible.
The courier company Thermotechnic, Tourline Express, has made a mistake. They sent the Instituto Juan de Mariana dismantled car pieces to be targeted towards a garage.
The rest is a history of bad luck, unfortunate coincidences and misunderstandings.”
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertaddigital.com%2Feconomia%2Fla-empresa-solar-no-estaba-detras-del-envio-a-calzada-1276395985%2F&sl=es&tl=en
No I am not overestimating it: I am a native speaker.
Note: This company’s siege is in Hernani that is the heartland of support for the ETA terrorist movement. Never mind that this region’s prosperity dates to the creation of companies funded with public money in times of Franco.
If you knew about Spain then you’d know that means the solar company is in more danger from eta extortion threats than anyone.
Mr Westerncanadian
If you translate the Spanish newspaper article using Babelfish you get a clumsy translation that gives a similar story to the post here by Christopher Horner.
The Spanish text says that the parcel contained a gas-oil filter and a metallic part who could be screwed into the filter. No more details about this second part. The article doesn’t mention explosives or a firing mecahnism so the “bomb” wasn’t complete. The threat was less in the parcel than in the answer given by the employee of the green company: una empleada de la empresa supo inmediatamente de qué paquete se trataba y contestó sin dudar un segundo que esa “es nuestra respuesta a los artículos sobre energía de Sr. Calzada en Expansión”. Translation : a female employee of the company knew immediately what parcel it was about and answered without a second of hesitation: it is our answer to Mr Calzada's articles about energy in Expansion)
BTW: My Spanish is more than good enough to translate the article but I am not sure about copyright problems.
So… The “greenies” and through association via policy beliefs, environmentalist, global warmist should be put on the man made disaster or non PC, “TERRORIST” list.
Although I’m not trying to “run interference”, there are several things about this that don’t add up.
First, if you give me a big enough pile of junk and some explosives, I can figure out how to make a bomb out of it. However, if you don’t provide the explosives, it’s just a pile of junk!
So, what about the explosives? Were there any? I seriously doubt the police would have opened the package in the presence of the recipient if there had been explosives included.
If there were no explosives, what was really in the package? With the history of bombings in Europe, I can understand people being nervous, and a collection of unrecognizable pieces could conceiveably be mistaken for a bomb threat. So, was there something unmistakeable, like a piece of pipe, some end-caps and wires? Or was it assorted strange electronic and mechanical parts that an uninitiated person interpreted as a bomb?
There is no mention of any arrests. There is no mention of the matter being turned over to Interpol, the FBI or anyone else for criminal investigation.
I don’t doubt that leftist morons (please excuse the redundancy) could be so stupid as to send such a tantrum. I just think a simple mistake in labeling packages is equally as likely. The line between malicious intent and bone stupidity is fine indeed!
Let’s see what happens in the next couple of weeks.
Do you mean, like, “Let’s see if Dr. Calzada really DOES get blown up?”
I certainly agree that the line between malicious intent and bone stupidity is fine, but given the political world’s attitude toward “deniers,” threatening a denier is about as dangerous as loudly expressing blatant anti-semitism. That is, nothing could be safer; nowadays neither is even considered politically incorrect.
Both of which facts boggle my unsophisticated mind.
So, what about the explosives? Were there any?
Read my previos post. The people at the company weren’t stupid enough to send a parcel with the sender’s address (this is in the Spanish article) and explosives in it since it would have been a threat blatant enough to land them in jail. What is significative is the wht the employee told: “this is our answer to your articles” in the purest Sicilian mafia style.
I seriously doubt the police would have opened the package in the presence of the recipient if there had been explosives included.
They had scanned the package remember?
Bubblehead, I think some caution is certainly worthwhile. On the other hand, I know Gabriel, met him at ICCC this year, and he doesn’t seem the sort to fly off the handle easily; he’s been through a lot this year, and this wouldn’t be the first threat he’d received. But my understanding is that mysterious packages that look suspicious (cylindrical objects, wires) in X-ray etc., but that aren’t real bombs, are a standard threat by ETA, among other groups.
The lack of explosives doesn’t seem to me to be a big issue — illicit explosives are expensive and hard to get. Why waste them on what is meant to be a fake bomb?
I didn’t know that Spain had ELFs.
Criminals and thugs.
That’s why Obama loves them.
Birds of a feather…
It’s obviously at test … I say assemble the bomb and return it … to show that you know about these things.
So will Pajamas media update this story? Police were never called. It was a fuel filter and a wire, not a bomb. Mr. Horner, are you out there?
Obviously, a bunch of ‘green’ Spanish tea baggers.
Beer summit, Barry?
The left is getting antsy. Day by day it’s getting more difficult to restrain their atavistic & destructive tendencies. The federal judge who ruled against the senseless, but to the left, happily hurtful moratorium on drilling receives death threats, the warning mailed to Calzada, the various smears and even attacks on Tea Party people, riots in European streets, repression and even violence is in the air, a combination of collectivist legislation and activist thugs, a heady brew reminiscent of an earlier Europe, say the 30′s, minus funny mustaches & funny hats, and bellowing speeches from balconies.
The type never goes away, the curse of history.
Do you suppose this is the intended culmination of the successful implementation of the Cloward-Piven Strategy?
Polly, I don’t know about a Cloward-Pliven strategy, I don’t think a vote bribing. semi-literate, power lusting bunch of suited apes requires a strategy, their primal lusts and instincts will do just fine. That and a media as debased as they are but with influence over a sizable portion of the population.
In any case the P-C strategy doesn’t, can’t, explain the ever increasing rise of outraged hatred and bubbling violence we are beginning to see, the urge to squash, crush the opposition, any opposition. Nope, what we are seeing is the breakdown of a civilized society, and with it the nuts are coming out from the cracks in the walls, the masks & pretense are being discarded, the primeval aggressions only partially suppressed in history coming again to the fore.
Liberalism[?] at it’s best, or perhaps most basic. You might expect this when politics becomes the new religion.
We’re totally not doing the Clovin Percy thing. It’s not the plan. I mean that one didn’t really work for starters, and it’s not like you would be able to just guess our secret plan.
Come to think of it maybe it would be a good plan after all. It kinda beats the current plan which seems to be that we lose Congress, then the White House to make the Conservatives overconfident, setting them up for defeat in.. uh, 2018?
Anyway, I was feeling ready to overthrow any opposition and animalistcally crush any opposition, but then the wife told me she was going to order take-out. 20 minutes later I had finished the chicken caesar and I really didn’t feel like discarding my mask at that time.
Anyway,
Lefty, super bright, super witty. After that magnum opus there can be no sequel. Do save something however for your publisher and an anxious public.
Always your admirer and erstwhile imitator,
Johnt
“anyway”
Pics or it didn’t happen.
He calls a private security expert rather than the cops? If I thought for one moment that someone sent me a bomb I’d call 911, SWAT team bomb squad etc.
The story stinks and just shows that Chris can manipulate Pajamas with half assed stories to sell his books. Calvatra and Horner are known shills for Libertarian organizations that receive funding from oil companies like Exxon. Doesn’t mean they’re not right it’s just not far from giving credence to medical smoking studies funded by Tobacco companies.
The “damning” report Calatrava came out with doesn’t pass muster with Reuters or the Wall Street Journal. This story is receiving criticism from Little Green Footballs, hardly Lefty territory.
Pajamas is crossing the line from justified skepticism of global warming to Chris Horner’s and by proxy CEI’s PR mouthpiece.
Yeah, LFG is a hardcore wingnut site? Goatfvcker Charles is a huge AGW cultist. Welcome to the internet, you have a lot to learn.
The myth of green jobs has been exposed time and time again.
Every contrived, predictable argumentative cliche. Yup, you’re a Lefty, alright.
I wonder if any of the pieces said “From Van Jones with LOVE!”
Just another Marxian Socialist criminal scheme to extort money and power from the people. Marxism is a racket and always has been. And a dangerous one at that. Memo to all Socialists and Marxists: There is no “government money” without the working man first producing it. The worker must remember he is the master of the government and there is no zero-sum money-pie for them to redistribute. Unfortunately the Marxist government apparatchiks continually sell themselves as the master. The world is awakening.
Why doesn’t the left understand that the biggest incentive is already there for the green movement. If you’re the company or person who Invents the battery or water powered vehicle that actually is practical and affordable then the reward will be as big as business idea ever. No goverment subsidies or regulation is going to push it faster, the reward for achieving it is enormous.
To JamesG; Marge, Bubblehead and Westerncanadian.
The package contained two metallic parts: a gas-oil filter and part who fitted it for assembling but they weren’t. There were no explosives in it. This would have been very, very stupid and would have landed them in serous legal trouble. So they just sent two disassembled metallic parts thus implying next time they would be assembled (and filled with explosives ) all while preserving deniability in front of the police.
But it was not a an innocent package who got mislabeled. Notice to begin with that Mr Calzad is not in their database of suppliers or customers so for their expeditions people he is an unknown. But what is important is: “the female employee immediately knew what the parcel was about”. The normal reaction to a mislabeled package would have been one of puzzlement and embarrassment “What? A parcel? From us? Are you sure? It must have been a mistake! How embarrassing! Sorry! And can you repeat your name?”. That is the normal reaction when a company learns it has sent a mislabeled package. That and asking the package to be returned to its expenses in case its content is important (Like a defective component being returned to a supplier). But not only did the employee immediately know about the package (meaning she was expecting being called about it) but she tells “This our answer to your articles” An answer? I can figure a lot of innocent answers involving flowers, chocolates or a copy of “Solar Energy for Dummies”. I can figure the meaning of sending a package full of bank notes. I cannot figure an answer involving a gas-oil filter and a part who can being screwed in it except for “Next time they will not be disassembled and there will be no missing parts (explosives)”
JFM, obviously from the update this no longer seems to be the case: like most accidents, it was the coincidental mismatch of two events, the first being a package of auto parts that looked enough like a hoax bomb on X-ray to convince a security company, and an ambiguous statement by the receptionist that was enough to make someone who was already having a bad time with harassment more suspicious.
That said, I think the people going on about “it was just an oil filter” — which I don’t think is quite correct, Calzada’s open letter says “container for (or of) diesel” — are letting their credulity get away from them. Think what a cylindrical contained, some wires etc, would look like on X-ray.
Think of it this way: if someone did a news story about how they’d gone through an airline screening without having such a package very carefully examined, would you be saying “no big deal”? Let’s say it was a story in, oh, an MSNBC report on bad TSA screenings.
I’m willing to believe that ecotards will go to extreme lengths, and that the media will usually try to do their best to give them cover. However, the evidence presented so far leaves me unconvinced that this was actually a bomb threat. I’ll keep looking around for more source data, but FWIW, that PDF that “Informant” links to just does not appear genuine. The wording doesn’t seem to fit…putting scare quotes around “green energy” and “renewables” raises red flags for me. Sounds more like an activist op-ed…way too biased with the language, even if the data supports the conclusion. Keep looking.
Looks and smells like a non-story to me:
1. No police report.
2. No news coverage (notice the article in the paper is in the opinion section).
3. No corroboration from any other sources.
4. Makes no sense — Spain punishes threats and bombs severely — what bomber in a right mind would include the return address, and then confirm he sent it?
5. No photos of the bomb, even from the partisans who claim it was.
6. Absolutely unbelievable story — who gets packages and calls to see what’s in it, then holds it for several days?
I call hoax. Please stop claiming it’s a dastardly deed by scientists or anyone else, at least until the thing is corroborated.
Any company that mailed a threat to me wouldn’t be a company anymore.
Yes this story is totally bogus…if by bogus you mean deja vu.
A small sampling –
At what point do we jail or execute global warming deniers? – Talking Point Memo post
…there’s an entire generation that will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds. – Climate Progress comment…Note: Site moderator Joe Romm defended the comment stating remark was not a threat, but a prediction.
Skeptical CEO’s should be put on trial for high crimes against humanity – James Hansen
We need to start treating them (skeptics) as traitors. Coal companies are criminal eterprises and their CEO’s should be in jail for all eternity. – Robert F Kennedy Jr
Nuremberg-style trials for skeptics. – Eco-magazine Grist
Skeptical government leaders should be thrown in jail. – David Suzuki
Ignoring warming would be criminally irresponsible – Yvo De Boer, UN top climate official
In an odd way this is cheering news. – Phil Jones responding to death of John Daly
Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted. – Ben Santer
Yes, any ‘skeptic’ of this story must be dead on…if by on you mean drunk.
So why do i have concealed-carry for a .45…?
Because they don’t make a .46!
Fascist, communist, socialist… they’re all the same. Just a bunch of elitist boobs trying to take away more of your freedoms and your money to keep you as an expendable ward of the State (read Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America).
The courier company has apologized for mixing up the delivery of a package intended for a mechanic.
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertaddigital.com%2Feconomia%2Fla-empresa-solar-no-estaba-detras-del-envio-a-calzada-1276395985%2F&sl=es&tl=en
This is good blog message, I will keep this in mind. If you add more video and pictures because it helps understanding
“The alternative media, Jerry. That’s where you hear the truth.”
- Kramer
A fuel filter and wire, admittedly delivered to wrong address, Gabriel Calzada, by courier service, Tourline Express.
PJ Media continues to be describe the contents of the package as “dismantled bomb parts” and “dismantled bomb”…….Seriously?
http://www.expansion.com/2010/06/24/opinion/tribunas/1277399007.html?a=6d9326ce0953647290db36c20d15f3ee&t=1277655457
http://www.libertaddigital.com/economia/la-empresa-solar-asegura-que-nunca-ha-querido-amenazar-a-calzada-1276395934/
http://www.libertaddigital.com/economia/la-empresa-solar-no-estaba-detras-del-envio-a-calzada-1276395985/
“PJ Media continues to be describe the contents of the package as “dismantled bomb parts” and “dismantled bomb”…….Seriously?”
Reading comprehension isn’t one of your skill sets is it? From my right wing conspiracy version of Mozilla I read this at the bottom of the article:
“Since then, especially following the controversy becoming public in the Spanish press, the company contacted Calzada; what appears to have happened is this:
* A package containing car parts was swapped for a package containing a report intended for Calzada.
* The Thermotechnic person Calzada contacted said something that was ambiguous.
* Calzada, already the subject of threats and intimidation, relied on expert opinion that it was a bomb threat.
As further information became available, it became clear it was a misunderstanding based on several coincidences. Calzada has written an open letter explaining this in detail, and now agrees there was no threat from Thermotechnic.”
So Pajamas Media has given a full accounting. You can rest easy now, I know that was worrying you.
Jethro, to be fair, Ike only posted that about a half-hour after I added the update. It’s certainly possible that he either took more than a half-hour to compose that comment, or — as several other people seem to have done — didn’t bother to read to the end of the article before assuming he’d seen it all.
Thanks for that Charlie. I’d read the article yesterday and wasn’t aware that additional information had been attached to the end of the article. Why is the header still, “Green’ Energy Company Threatens Economics Professor … with Package of Dismantled Bomb Parts” as of 8:30 EDT 6/27/10?
Because if we change the headline, it looks like a different post. Then the expansion. doesn’t get attached to the original story.
There needs to be some method for indicating that there have been updates added.
I for one usually read the article through the first time I see it, then when I revisit, I go straight to the comments section. I never see updates unless someone in the comments sections mentions them.
Charlie:
I assume that you work for PJM. I think you should leave the “updated” notation on, but add a separate story with a full retraction from Chris Horner. It seems like he let friendship get the better of him in the desire to have a “PJM” exclusive. This was very poor journalism of the type that you would absolutely skewer if it came from the “MSM”.
Jethro : Reading comprehension isn’t one of your skill sets is it? From my right wing conspiracy version of Mozilla I read this at the bottom of the article:
LOL. This is the current header, Jethro. Any mention of “bomb parts”? I’m sure you read well but did you put on your reading glasses?
UPDATED: ‘Green’ Energy Company Threatens Economics Professor … with Package of Dismantled Bomb Parts (Updated) 8:20 PM
Having read the article, yesterday, I didn’t look to the end of the article for a retraction. Silly me, I’d have thought the header might change.
Dark Jethro “Reading comprehension isn’t one of your skill sets is it?”
I read fine. Maybe you should have Ellie Mae, Granny, Uncle Jed, or Miss Hathaway read the header for you.
UPDATED: ‘Green’ Energy Company Threatens Economics Professor … with Package of Dismantled Bomb Parts (Updated)8:27 PM 6/27/10 EDT
Any mention of bomb parts still present?
Dark Jethro “Reading comprehension isn’t one of your skill sets is it?”
Maybe you should get some help from Miss Hathaway, Uncle Jed, or Ellie Mae since the header continues to refer to “dismanted bomb parts”.
UPDATED: ‘Green’ Energy Company Threatens Economics Professor … with Package of Dismantled Bomb Parts
Perhaps your right wing conspiracy version of Mozilla translates car parts to dismantled bomb parts?
Wadard,
the sad thing is, when leftist violence comes up, we can be assured of two things.
one, it will NOT make ‘headlines around the world’, because leftist press covers up stories that make the left look bad.
two, it is easy to believe that it happened, ergo no hesitation to believe this too.
If some story about a mob of tea partiers storming a congressman’s office and beating two aides to death were to appear on the web, would you LEAP to believe that? You bet. And it would be wrong. But it’s the leftist narrative, and they just can’t WAIT for it to be true.
We don’t want to believe leftists, even in the ‘establishment’, would go thug to protect subsidies, but we can’t help it– it’s too believable. History shows over this past year that leftists throw punches, shoot firearms, set fires and generally ATTACK, while tea partiers do none of those things.
How many stories have you seen about leftwing mobs trashing downtown Toronto? By itself it should be a major story. In conjunction with the G20 conference, it should be even bigger. But as usual, it’s been ignored.
On the other hand, let a Democrat congressman claim that somebody yelled the N word at him, even though none of the dozens of cameras in the area caught it, and it’s front page news for weeks.
As an electrical engineer, I have to laugh every time a “cop” on a TV show picks up some ordinary electrical component and utters … “bomb parts”
Like the Greenies or hate them, generally speaking they don’t go around blowing people up.
Muslim fanatics? Yes, they blow people up all the time.
AGW devotees…not so much.
Uni-bomber
Earth Liberation Front
Animal Liberation Front
It’s true that most greenies aren’t involved in blowing people up, but it’s also true that the percentage of muslims actively involved in trying to kill infidels is pretty small as well.
What’s true is that the enviro-whackos don’t usually go around blowing people up, or cutting people’s heads off, or shooting people down in droves. There isn’t any Green version of the WTC attack.
Muslim fanatics, OTOH, have killed tens of thousands of people, and they blow folks up pretty much every day of the week.
That’s what’s true.
The chance that a Green business is going to be blowing people up as a sideline to their business lies somewhere between slim and there ain’t no way.
It is also true, of course, that most Muslims aren’t going around slaughtering people, but the ones that do are making up for the slackers.
Since the headline and the first paragraph are completely false, I wonder if the word “Updated” should be changed to something a little stronger. Like “False.”
Nah, this is how Pajamas Media “breaks” news.
1. Horner, a right wing think tank employee publishes a piece of dubious propoganda.
2. Right wing blogs like Instapundit and all these other sites link and opine about how horrible the left/green/socialis/nazi people are.
3. The planted gossip item is distributed as truth to the rest of the Tea Party.
4. Horner cashes his paycheck for a job well done and flogs a few more books.
5. Any attempt to clear the smeared and slandered solar company are way too late.
Great job everyone.
The good doctor is a hero of the first order. The so-called Green movement is part of a world-wide fascist movement. They couldnt care less about CO2 or the Delta Smelt. Thats a benign fascade behind which they work to destroy Democratic and Constitutional government.
If people dont wake up to this soon….well, imagine a Hitler on the scale of World government…
Story idea. “Obama announced the energy department will award $1.45bn to Abengoa Solar to help it build Solona, which will be one of the largest solar generation plants in the world, near Gila Bend, Arizona. Abengoa Solar, based in Lakewood, Colorado, is a division of the Spanish renewable energy and engineering company Abengoa.”
Obama spends $1.45 billion on a failed but politically correct technology. I wonder how much a border fence would cost to build instead?
Once again the monumental stupidity and intellectual dishonesty of right wingers is demonstrated.
That’s very significant piece!!!