From the “A miracle has occurred” department. It appears that the same people who are dumb enough to glue themselves to pavement to protest climate, apparently have no clue about online security of their own organization.
From what has been discoverd so far, it seems they ran their entire worldwide organization online, but apparently left all the document security settings “public”, so anyone can read them. The XR group seems completely oblivious to the fact that hundreds of their most secret internal documents are readable by anyone, anywhere in the world.
Almost ten years ago, we had Climategate, in which scientists were found to be playing fast and loose with data and techniques to achieve desired results in climate science. Now, it’s the activists turn with ‘XRGate’.
XR is mostly UK based, and UK journos have been looking at the publicly accessible documents. James Delingpole and Paul Homewood of the UK both have done investigative work. Excerpts of both articles they have written today are below.
First, Delingpole:
Exposed? Soros on List of Mega-Rich Extinction Rebellion Backers
An anonymous source claims to have extracted lots of documents from Extinction Rebellion’s computer database and has put them up online.
The documents, if genuine, seem to have been exposed through carelessness on the part of Extinction Rebellion, not a computer hack. Anyway, Paul Homewood has been filleting some of the best bits and here is what he has found.
If verified, this confirms Extinction Rebellion is disturbingly flush and well-funded: over £1 million raised this year, half of it still unspent, according to the documents.
Major donors are said to include — inevitably — George Soros; Vivienne Westwood’s son Joe Corre (the saucy underwear and dildo tycoon, worth $48 million); the European Climate Foundation (which funnels money from far-left American philanthropic foundations to European climate projects); Greenpeace; the far-left Tides Foundation; and a little known Swiss asset management company, called Furka Holdings, founded by a banker with Russian links, which gave £50,000.
Another of their previously revealed donors is the popular beat combo Radiohead.
Here are some of things that the eco-fascist protest group has achieved for its sponsors so far:
- Prevented a man from saying goodbye to his dying father because their roadblock prevented him getting to hospital in time.
- Exposed the police to ridicule after one officer was filmed skateboarding to show how down with the green kidz he was during a protest at which Extinction Rebellion had blocked an entire London bridge by turning it into a mini-Glastonbury.
- Cost the taxpayer at least£16 million for extra policing, plus untold millions more for the cost of dealing with the 1200 Extinction Rebellion activists arrested in 11 days of protests.
- Threatened to ruin the summer holidays of thousands of travellers with a plan (happily nixed) to use drones to shut down Heathrow Airport.
- Cost London businesses upwards of £12 million in lost revenues.
Short of actually killing someone – they claim to be non-violent, though let’s see how long that one lasts – it’s hard to imagine what Extinction Rebellion could do that they haven’t done already to show what very nasty pieces of work they are.
So why would anyone wish to give such a wickedly unpleasant organisation money?
One reason, perhaps, is the gulf between how Extinction Rebellion presents its aims publicly and what it actually believes privately.
As was noted in a recent report by Richard Walton – former head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter-Terrorism Command – Extinction Rebellion is a hard-left extremist organisation with anti-Semitic associations.
“Those encountering Extinction Rebellion should be under no illusions about just how destabilising and extremist their agenda is. Not only is it unclear how their three formal demands could realistically be satisfied, but also it appears unlikely that their actions would end even if government committed to trying to implement them. The words of Extinction Rebellion’s founders and its posts on social media make clear that the objective is system change. This means bringing down our existing democratic system—which several of the campaign’s leading figures hold in contempt—and causing rapid economic disaster for the country. The proponents of this course of action have no serious explanations for how the country would function if their demands were implemented.”
Full story here
Paul Homewood:
Is George Soros Funding Extinction Rebellion?
https://xrdump.home.blog/2019/07/27/the-dump/
An enterprising individual has got hold of a lot of documents from Extinction Rebellion’s computer database.
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There are all sorts of files on show, containing so much detailed information that they must be genuine. Many contain details on tactics etc.
The one below caught my eye, particularly the third aim, which rather gives the lie to XR’s defenders who say that they are not a bunch of anarchists.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gN92NvQEAw4MJ5rNAf3kVIJtLcc3KDUJVVYHQjtB-9E/view
But the real thing I wanted to focus on is the funding side.
There is one spreadsheet file, which keeps track of fundraising projects:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V3iPUltW8MJBdILkmQJRrz4gR9AO46vqf0wWCiJwOJ8/edit#gid=0
And on the Team 2 tab, listing major donors, we find an entry for George Soros. Intriguingly, the amount has been blanked out, the only donation where this has happened.
One wonders what they want to hide, if the amount is to be kept secret even from their own staff!
In fact, XR are remarkably open about their financing, as their own website links to their list of bank transactions (see “our payments to date”:
Full story here
And it continues, just this morning, another XR document, from “mikexr”, was made available by the anonymous source, and it is chilling. They plan to shut down airports in Europe with drones.
Excerpts:
Action proposal for “The European Pause”
This document is an action proposal to pause all flights from airports in Madrid, Paris and either Berlin or Frankfurt (TBD). This will start from October 10th. Dates, locations and other details are preliminary, but could change if new and preferable ideas are forthcoming. Following a 3 week expedition to Europe, speaking with activists to evaluate enthusiasm and probable capacity, the approach outlined below was devised. The strategy mirrors the Heathrow Pause proposal, with local modifications where necessary, and has the potential to cause major, effective disruption with modest numbers of activists.
I. Overview of proposed action
It is important to emphasise that this action is entirely peaceful and non-violent. There is no threat to aircraft, and therefore life, at any point. This is because no drone and aircraft will be in the same area at any time. We pause flights by flying drones at head height in the vicinity of the airports before any plane approaches the airport, and thus the authorities are obliged to close the airspace; simply, we are there first. Safety is further embedded in every aspect of the action by the 9 safety rules listed in section III.
Step-by-step guide to pausing an airport’s operations:
Publicly declare plan to disrupt the airport a month ahead of time
Determine area in which drone flight of any height is entirely prohibited (this is between 1.5km and 8km radius, TBC by French and German land Spanish lawyers ASAP).
Recruit around 100 rebels per airport who are willing to go to jail
Provide full legal briefing, training, and as much legal support as possible to these rebels
Coordinate large-scale accompanying protests near to the airports, demonstrating broad support for significant disruption while showcasing the creativity and beauty of The European Pause through art, education etc.
On the first day of the pause, before first flights are scheduled, at least two rebels fly drones at head height within this exclusion zone. They then inform authorities of this and wait to be arrested. The airspace is now closed, as we were there first (as the authorities were informed a month ahead of).
To continue the pause, rebels then fly drones within the exclusion zone throughout the day. These rebels should be spread out in both where they operate and when they do so.
Continue until end of scheduled flights, and then repeat the following day.
II. Context of action
This action strategy is extremely efficient in terms of disruption and economic pressure on the authorities, compared to numbers of activists willing to go to jail per day – around 15-25 people to entirely close the airport.
We should therefore fully leverage this strategy whilst still possible. The window of opportunity for this action will be closed, by technological or other means; we just don’t know when.
The 2025 decarbonisation demand is based on the IPCC ‘10-12 years to save the world’ report, but applying principles of climate justice such that the global north and south decarbonise in a relatively just way.
Carbon neutrality by 2025 is a moderate demand, given that IPCC predictions are likely very conservative, yet we are on track to drastically overshoot targets across Europe.
Not meeting this demand likely ensures extinction of most life on Earth
We needs to show the climate movement to be truly pan-European; this is a perfect opportunity to show the true power of rebels outside the UK.
Psychologically, this will prompt fear of contagion by the authorities. The authorities may make unforced errors (e.g. attempts at disproportionate repression), fuelling blowback in the movements favour.
The European Pause’s Theory of Change draws on relevant data to see what works: open, accountable, mass participation civil disobedience; nonviolent actions that are respectful to everyone and involve personal sacrifice from participants; actions that build pressure through economic and social disruption. Actions that follow this model will lead to the necessary system change through our three Demands being met. We submit that this action proposal includes all these elements, and provides a way in which any wishing to act on the truth can do so.
This Heathrow action proposal opens up unique and major strategic possibilities. The peaceful use of drones leads to the closure of the airport. No other tactic can create such decisive economic disruption with the same reliability while being completely safe. In the face of such substantial but peaceful economic disruption, taken by people of obvious good conscience, the authorities are presented with a dilemma in how to react. It should be noted that a significant number of people have already shown interest in participating in this action.
The proposal thus incorporates two key features of successful rebellions: significant economic disruption, and either state capitulation or “filling the jails”. These outcomes will heighten pressure and change the national conversation (move the Overton Window). They will break the “Fear Barrier” identified in the Egyptian Revolution. When enough people are prepared to risk going to prison, they and others will have overcome the main obstacle to successful rebellion: fear. Fear is the way governments control people. Once the fear is gone, the way is clear for our three Demands to be met, and the necessary system change can take place.
Unfortunately, the data suggests that people being willing to go to prison is an essential part of bringing about the needed system change. We will ensure that those who are willing to go to prison will be supported in doing so. No one will be placed under any pressure to do this. We will help people to make informed decisions about their actions, asking them to consider best and worst case legal scenarios, and the impact on their personal lives. We will do our best to mitigate for power in all decision making processes and are open to ideas. We will also provide additional support to those from diverse backgrounds wishing to participate in this action in any way, and ensure the action includes a range of ways to engage and participate, not all of them arrestable/imprisonable.
NB. It is important to note and be aware that those coming from white and middle class backgrounds will likely have different / better experiences of the criminal justice system, as compared to people of colour and of lower socio-economic status.
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IV. Reasons for timing of action
– Rebels from across Europe are already coming together for rebels without borders action
– It is expected that the Heathrow Pause on September 13th will drive up rebel participation for the European pause
– Can learn from Heathrow Pause to improve the European Pause.
– The authorities may find ways to counter this type of action (changing laws, prohibiting drones which can fly near airports etc), so this should be pursued with urgency.
– Pausing three airports simultaneously just 3 weeks after the Heathrow Pause will be significant pressure building
– Starting on 10th gives rebels 3 days to participate in the blockades, starting October 7th, before carrying out the action
– Having 3 days of blockade before the action builds substantial pressure on the authorities
o A variety of actions, such as the DLR action, contributed to success of the April rebellion. The media like variety and will ‘lose interest’ unless things change.
This is a developing story, there will be more coverage as journalists comb through the cache of documents.
UPDATE:
Josh come through as usual:
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So Soros is funding an antisemitic organization. How… in character.
Hardly surprising: If St Greta Virgin of Davos is able to benefit from such exclusive treatment by the UN elite and the rest of political powerful, it is only because she is their product. So is XR.
They glue themselves to the building…tie a rope on them and rip them off. They will soon learn not to do this.
I suggest we leave them right where they are glued.
A better headline would have been:
XR Comes Unstuck
And the MSN ignores it
That’s the real problem
The whole storyboard remembers me to the book “Blackout” where the author Mark Elsberg describes a by activists forced blackout to “reset” the society back to pre industrial. It’s a well written story, also available in English: https://www.amazon.de/Blackout-Marc-Elsberg/dp/1784161888 .
About the gluing oneself to the pavement thing, … two words come to mind — red ants.
AH HA! clueless about INFOSEC => wrong about climate change!
QED
Impeccable Logic! (don’t know what QED means? I rest my case)
Any grown man who dresses up in a mouse suit and spends his ridiculous life blocking traffic has air where his brains are supposed to be.
His parents should be sued for the expense of removing his silly behind from the pavement. He needs to learn what it’s like to go hungry and cold, with no prospect of ending either condition.
This only confirms my concern that if these Leftist radical organization had anyone with a brain organizing them, they would be extremely dangerous. All the more reason to call them out NOW as a domestic terror organization.
I seem to be missing something is this post. I understand and appreciate that secrets are being exposed, but the fact that Soros, Et al. are funding leftwing organizations is neither surprising or unexpected. And the fact that this “eco-fascist group” demonstrations have caused personal hardship to many, while lamentable, is no different from New Jersey politicians closing a bridge for political reasons, or other political demonstrations causing not only inconvenience, but in some cases preventing people from getting medical aid, etc. Selective righteous indignation of actions that have unfortunately become routine by those we support as well as those we oppose tend to turn people off. Perhaps someone can tell me what in this post would cause an undecided person to oppose eco-terrorism; otherwise it is just preaching to the quire.
Pray tell, who exactly is preaching to 24 sheets of paper?
Gluing yourself to the pavement is probably harder than it sounds.
Obviously this bunch thought it through.
Tell me about it?
As with the ‘communist/socialist’ revolutionaries of bygone years, the ‘unattractive’ males pushing leadership get attractive females. This time around, since the don’t want to add to the population, both are frustrated.
Ah. Ran into an actual video of one of their meetings. Very informative! We should band together and fight this powerful grass roots force! Look! They even play IN the grass roots! Now that is ominous!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N7iPxb0uwos
Sorry to burst their bubble but their extinction science isn’t settled-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandscience/rare-find-hidden-for-decades-in-queensland-rainforest/ar-AAFfK0K
If they aim to overthrow democracy that is completely consistent with Soros behaviour as exemplified in his funding of the overthrow of the democratic referendum vote to leave the EU. Orwell’s 1984 was based on what I was told was a readily available policy aim document of the super rich to end democracy and create a few super states they could control and through that the ordinary people.
Climate change action was originally openly touted as a mechanism for achieving the change to an oligarchy driven society in that set.
Here is what I found interesting. 3% of it’s funding are spent on living expenses. Now you know who to sue.
There’s that word existential again. Justifies a lot of crap in people’s heads. Regardless of veracity.
Also, I was not previously aware of the word sortition. Smugly elitist usage?
The Left hand doesn’t know or care what its Rich hand is doing.
George Soros,[a] Hon FBA (born Schwartz György; August 12, 1930)[1][2] is a Hungarian-American[b] investor and philanthropist.[8][9] As of February 2018, he had a net worth of $8 billion,[10] having donated more than $32 billion to his philanthropic agency, Open Society Foundations.[11]
Soros is a well-known supporter of progressive and liberal political causes, to which he dispenses donations through his foundation, the Open Society Foundations.[15] Between 1979 and 2011, he donated more than $11 billion to various philanthropic causes;[16][17] by 2017, his donations “on civil initiatives to reduce poverty and increase transparency, and on scholarships and universities around the world” totaled $12 billion.[18] He influenced the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s,[19] and provided one of Europe’s largest higher education endowments to the Central European University in his Hungarian hometown.[20] His extensive funding of political causes has made him a “bugaboo of European nationalists”.[21] Numerous American conservatives have promoted false claims that characterize Soros as a singularly dangerous “puppetmaster” behind a variety of alleged global plots, with The New York Times reporting that by 2018 these claims had “moved from the fringes to the mainstream” of Republican politics.[22][23][24][25][26]
Open Society Foundation
In 2015, Russia banned the activities of the Open Society Foundations on its territory, declaring “It was found that the activity of the Open Society Foundations and the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation represents a threat to the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation and the security of the state”.[33]
In 2017, Open Society Foundations and other NGOs that promote open government and help refugees have been targeted for crackdowns by authoritarian governments who have been emboldened by encouraging signals from the Trump Administration. Several politicians in eastern Europe, including Liviu Dragnea in Romania and typically right-wing figures Szilard Nemeth in Hungary, Macedonia’s Nikola Gruevski, who called for a “de-Sorosization” of society, and Poland’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who has said that Soros-funded groups want “societies without identity”, regard many of the NGO groups to be irritants at best, and threats at worst.[34] Some of those Soros-funded advocacy groups in the region say the renewed attacks are harassment and intimidation, which became more open after the election of Donald Trump in the United States. Stefania Kapronczay of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, which receives half of its funding from Soros-backed foundations, claims that Hungarian officials are “testing the waters” in an effort to see “what they can get away with.”[34]
Glued to the road . I say leave them to enjoy that asphalt bake their arse’s . It’s a free country isn’t it ?
In my opinion: The Extinction Rebellion “so-called movement”= post-modern-faux-anarcho-protest-boot-camp to feed youthful angst by giving them a platform around which to collectivize ando feel they have “some purpose in life” or at least for a day; while social experimenters are observing and being well-funded/sponsored behind the scenes by market manipulators.
Here is what I found interesting. They plan to shut down airports in Europe with drones.