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Message started by lee on Oct 9th, 2019 at 3:30pm

Title: Extinction Rebellion UK
Post by lee on Oct 9th, 2019 at 3:30pm
"EXTINCTION REBELLION has been mocked after a video surfaced of the group powering its camps using pollution-emitting diesel generators."

"Footage has emerged of an Extinction Rebellion camp using a diesel generator for power. The large machine was covered by wooden pallets in an attempt to hide it despite the loud whirring noise. Former SAS Regimental Sergeant Major, James Deegan MC, retweeted the video to his Twitter page, calling the climate activists “hypocrites”.

His caption read: “Hypocrites absolute Hypocrites.

“Extinction Rebellion camp in London using a diesel generator for power.

“Did they think the pallets made it invisible and soundproof?”

While new generation diesels emit lower levels of carbon dioxide than petrol engines, they tend to emit higher levels of nitrogen oxides.


https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1188102/Extinction-Rebellion-protest-diesel-generator-London-camp-climate-change-environment

Title: Re: Extinction Rebellion UK
Post by Frank on Oct 10th, 2019 at 6:12pm
Stuart Basden, one of XR’s co-founders, freely admits that “XR isn’t about the climate”. He denounces concepts such as “heteronormativity”, “class hierarchy” and “patriarchy”. He also calls for white people to pay reparations to black Americans descended from slaves. “It’s a call to the XR community to never say we’re a climate movement,” he writes. “Because we’re not. We’re a Rebellion.”

Or this from Gail Bradbrook, another of XR’s co-founders: “For me this is part of reweaving the human family back together again, it’s part of dealing with systemic racism, white supremacy and the wounds of patriarchy that want to separate us, make us feel powerless …” It sounds like XR is more concerned with my rehabilitation than it is the earth’s. And yet you wear a “Tell the Truth” badge and maintain “it is this ordinariness that is perhaps the most compelling aspect of Extinction Rebellion.” This movement is about as ordinary and mainstream as a verdant Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/extinction-rebellion-activists-are-ordinary-people-i-think-not/news-story/596590c197982cd9aee563bfbe50aa5a
It's a front for Leninists.




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