Extinction Rebellion spin-off, Just Stop Oil has been indulged by endless media attention, which sheds little light on this bizarre cult. Instead, they serve its purpose.
You have pulled together this byzantine tapestry beautifully Ben. Frightening and fantastic at the same time. I can only conclude that these shadowy oligarchs want more power over the masses. They certainly don't need any more money. The public face of these radical movements appears on first glance to be anti-establishment but it amazes me how closely they buddy up to those in power and they love it.
The only question that must be asked of these zealots should be... "what makes you believe that Russia, India and China will follow net-zero, and if they don't isn't all we do doomed to fail given the issue is global?"
XR and the other radical Climate Change/Emergency groups have stated that “change is required”, but a part of the change they seek has bit been fully explored - the elimination of up to 90% of the existing population to eradicate the “un-natural strain on resources, and restore balance”. Simply put, assuming World population is 8,000,000,000, then 7,200,000,000 must be killed in order that the remaining 800,000,000 survive - look at how those numbers stack up - UK moves from 70,000,000 to 6,900,000, Europe from 447,000,000 to 44,700,000 and so on - but XR and Co. are unsure how the public would react to being told that in order to save unknown others,(whose selection process has not been set out but would need to include politico’s and devotees to maintain the cause), 9 out of 10 of you must die, it would actually be higher because the guaranteed “survivors (politicos etc.) would insist on their families being “saved” so to “balance” the books 95 out of 100 will need to die - please form an orderly queue. The planet is changing, it has always changed, and surprise surprise, it will never cease changing until such time as it is enveloped by a dying Sun in many billions of years time - if XR and Co. are really serious about changing Energy sourcing, and given that we have established beyond doubt scientific fact that Wind, Solar and Biomass are not the solution for sustainable, reliable energy supply working 24/7 -365, then why do they not come up with a solution (apart from just asking 95% to die) - one which can do all that FF do, with the same calorific values but without “harmful” emissions - remembering that CO2 is a fundamental building block of ALL life.
Margaret Klein Salamon, worked very closely with XR, and launched the US version (see Climate mobilisation website) and arguably knocked the XR founders into PR shape. If you compare what they had produced without her, when XR was just a project of Rising Up. Her input the Climate mobilisation ethos, and with their three demands and simpler messaging "improved" XR.
This 2018 video, where Margaret describes herself as XR's Interim funding director
You have pulled together this byzantine tapestry beautifully Ben. Frightening and fantastic at the same time. I can only conclude that these shadowy oligarchs want more power over the masses. They certainly don't need any more money. The public face of these radical movements appears on first glance to be anti-establishment but it amazes me how closely they buddy up to those in power and they love it.
The only question that must be asked of these zealots should be... "what makes you believe that Russia, India and China will follow net-zero, and if they don't isn't all we do doomed to fail given the issue is global?"
XR and the other radical Climate Change/Emergency groups have stated that “change is required”, but a part of the change they seek has bit been fully explored - the elimination of up to 90% of the existing population to eradicate the “un-natural strain on resources, and restore balance”. Simply put, assuming World population is 8,000,000,000, then 7,200,000,000 must be killed in order that the remaining 800,000,000 survive - look at how those numbers stack up - UK moves from 70,000,000 to 6,900,000, Europe from 447,000,000 to 44,700,000 and so on - but XR and Co. are unsure how the public would react to being told that in order to save unknown others,(whose selection process has not been set out but would need to include politico’s and devotees to maintain the cause), 9 out of 10 of you must die, it would actually be higher because the guaranteed “survivors (politicos etc.) would insist on their families being “saved” so to “balance” the books 95 out of 100 will need to die - please form an orderly queue. The planet is changing, it has always changed, and surprise surprise, it will never cease changing until such time as it is enveloped by a dying Sun in many billions of years time - if XR and Co. are really serious about changing Energy sourcing, and given that we have established beyond doubt scientific fact that Wind, Solar and Biomass are not the solution for sustainable, reliable energy supply working 24/7 -365, then why do they not come up with a solution (apart from just asking 95% to die) - one which can do all that FF do, with the same calorific values but without “harmful” emissions - remembering that CO2 is a fundamental building block of ALL life.
Margaret Klein Salamon, worked very closely with XR, and launched the US version (see Climate mobilisation website) and arguably knocked the XR founders into PR shape. If you compare what they had produced without her, when XR was just a project of Rising Up. Her input the Climate mobilisation ethos, and with their three demands and simpler messaging "improved" XR.
This 2018 video, where Margaret describes herself as XR's Interim funding director
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlJKA1sftJ8
Lois Perry of CAR26 suggests that oil magnate families are funding XR and JSO in the hope that their protests will bring about a reduction of supply, in order to push the price up, see https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1582458803026423808?t=TlwBWGu09O1OOo-VLzWScQ&s=09