From: Rupert Ferguson
Sent: 06 December 2019 22:51
Subject: Voices from the Hive 3
As Extinction Rebellion UK’s Election Rebellion continues, with XR activists disguised as angry bees confronting Liberal Democrat Leader Jo Swinson or glueing themselves to the Brexit Party’s Battle Bus, the big battle across the Pond in New England has erupted around the site of the Weymouth Compressor Station where construction has started on the Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline network. Thursday’s action, in response the to commencement of work at the Weymouth site, which is located in Norfolk County, Mass., saw supporters of XR and others stage a well organised and successful road block which prevented plant from entering the site and resulted in four arrests.
Algonquin Gas Transmission, the front company responsible for the development of the Weymouth Compressor site is a subsidiary of the multinational energy giant Enbridge, which has not only been linked to the infamous Dakota Access Pipleine, but also to the transportation of the highly toxic carbon intensive product known as ‘Tar Sands‘. In view of this it should come as no surprise to regular readers of this news letter that, once again, the controversial global investment management corporation, BlackRock, which has been a major focus for Extinction Rebellion protests both in the UK and in the US, has been cited by the blackrocksbigproblem.com website as being closely linked to Enbridge.
Last month’s big controversy for Extinction Rebellion involving co-founder Roger Hallam’s much criticised statements on the Holocaust has taken an interesting turn, as some of Mr. Hallam’s comparisons between certain aspects of contemporary Eco-Fascism and Nazi Genocide have been echoed in part by Jane Fonda in an interview with BBC Newsnight on Tuesday night. Although Fonda has been harshly criticised on social media for her own statements on this very contentious issue, even the mainstream media have refrained from wading into Hollywood’s Grand Old Dame of Activism in quite the same way that they attacked Roger Hallam. This would tend to suggest that the mainstream media appears to have adopted a very different set of rules in relation to how it deals with grand old lady celebrity activists, as opposed to ‘uncooperative crusties’ as Boris Johnson has referred to XR on occasion.
In spite of the fact that XR Hunger Strikers appear to be being ignored during their vigil outside of Conservative Party Headquarters in the run up to next week’s Election, Conservative politician Sir Patrick McLoughlin was forced to acknowledge the importance of tackling the Environmental and Ecological Crisis on this week’s edition of ‘Any Questions‘ thanks in many ways to the on going protests. And, although Labour’s pledge to initiate a Green New Deal if it comes to power in the coming days makes its election to office probably the most realistic option in the short term, the Party’s links to David Mills, the former husband of the late Tessa Jowell, itself a recurring theme in all of these newsletters thus far, keeping up the pressure on all fronts will almost certainly have to continue even if Corbyn becomes PM! Mill’s involvements with a company called Oceanic Disposal Management my readers will recall have linked him to the illegal dumping of nuclear and other highly toxic waste on the seabed exposed in a controversial Greenpeace report on organised waste trafficking!
‘Dulcis ex asperis!’
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