{"id":21580,"date":"2014-06-01T00:41:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T04:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21580"},"modified":"2014-06-02T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:27:13","slug":"desmond-tutu-calls-oil-sands-filth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/desmond-tutu-calls-oil-sands-filth\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Tutu calls oil sands &#8216;filth&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The retired Anglican eco-cult Archbishop, giggling guru, Desmond Tutu has pronounced the Alberta oil sands \u201cfilth\u201d. He must have flown from South Africa to Fort\u00a0McMurray, where he intoned his disapproval, using jet fuel distilled exclusively from nice clean Saudi oil, the country where women are not allowed to drive, Christians are persecuted, rape victims are caned and girls are likely to have their genitals mutilated. He remains obstinately silent about that; much easier and more profitable to whine about Canadian oil sands.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/desmond-tutu-calls-oilsands-filth-urges-cooperation-on-environment-1.2660804?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-21583\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tutujpg.jpg\" alt=\"tutujpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tutujpg.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tutujpg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tutujpg-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu has\u00a0called Alberta&#8217;s oilsands &#8220;filth&#8221; created by greed, and has urged\u00a0all sides to work together to protect the environment and aboriginal\u00a0rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that this filth is being created now, when the link\u00a0between carbon emissions and global warming is so obvious, reflects\u00a0negligence and greed,&#8221; Tutu told more than 200 rapt attendees a\u00a0conference on oilsands development and treaty rights in Fort\u00a0McMurray.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The retired Anglican eco-cult Archbishop, giggling guru, Desmond Tutu has pronounced the Alberta oil sands \u201cfilth\u201d. He must have flown from South Africa to Fort\u00a0McMurray, where he intoned his disapproval, using jet fuel distilled exclusively from nice clean Saudi oil, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/desmond-tutu-calls-oil-sands-filth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1665],"tags":[2101,1812],"class_list":["post-21580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-hypocrisy","tag-desmond-tutu","tag-oil-sands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}