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Hollywood Stars Bankroll Anti-Capitalist Eco-Warriors Who Blockaded Burning Man
New York Post ^ | August 28, 2023 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 08/28/2023 10:14:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway

These aren’t your ordinary anti-capitalist climate crusaders.

Extinction Rebellion, the radical environmentalists who tried to blockade traffic to counterculture festival Burning Man on Sunday — only to be rammed aside by tribal police — are funded by some of the biggest names in Hollywood, along with an heir to the Getty fortune and outdoor retailer Patagonia.

The group calls itself part of a “decentralized, international and politically non-partisan movement” demanding climate action — and until now has largely stuck to causing disruption in Europe. Under its banner, protesters have superglued themselves to the Speaker’s chair in the British parliament, blockaded busy roads — often by affixing to each other and the asphalt — and even attached themselves to the top of a plane. Allied groups in Europe have vandalized a Walmart heir’s superyacht.

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1 posted on 08/28/2023 10:14:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Well of course, they would fly in by helicopter.


2 posted on 08/28/2023 10:30:38 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Did you think they’d ride in by burros?


3 posted on 08/28/2023 10:36:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

The radical left is financed by the wealthy, particularly wealthy older women.


4 posted on 08/28/2023 10:44:04 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

#4 Unattractive women


5 posted on 08/29/2023 12:20:00 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: SauronOfMordor
The radical left is financed by the wealthy, particularly wealthy older women.

That wealthy older women group group would include Bill Gates, right? He looks more like a sour old spinster every year.

6 posted on 08/29/2023 12:24:52 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Bernard Marx

Gates of hell


7 posted on 08/29/2023 12:47:29 AM PDT by dkGba
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Bezos ex as well as Steve Jobs widow are dangerous leftist with enormous deep pockets.


8 posted on 08/29/2023 3:40:09 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: nickcarraway
Like Antifa and BLM, Extinction Rebellion is Deep State sanctioned terrorism. The FBI, other Federal police agencies, and non-government groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center do not try to entrap members in operations that will result in long prison terms and mass media denunciation. They are useful idiots whose purpose is to promote the destruction of Western nations to promote “global governance”.
9 posted on 08/29/2023 4:09:14 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: nickcarraway
Wait! So the hollyweird lefties are now at war with the burning man lefties?

This is going to be great!

10 posted on 08/29/2023 4:13:20 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: DAC21

It gets harder every day, every day, to ignore the crap storm when they are constantly chipping away at your future


11 posted on 08/29/2023 4:46:34 AM PDT by dkGba
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To: nickcarraway

Ecowarriors blockading Burning Man?

I don’t think there’s a side I can back there.


12 posted on 08/29/2023 4:47:59 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SauronOfMordor

The big donors do the most funding—and they are predominantly men.


13 posted on 08/29/2023 4:48:39 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: nickcarraway
These Hollywood leftist donors need to have their driveways blocked to "raise awareness about the environment".

Then they need to surrender everything they own that's made from oil or using oil in the manufacture or delivery of the product.

14 posted on 08/29/2023 5:30:35 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: nickcarraway

Stalinists vs Trotskyites.


15 posted on 08/29/2023 5:35:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 9YearLurker

The Tribal Police take no crap from anyone.

Find the 16 minute + video that shows what happened. IT is AMAZING that the BM crowd didn’t just take them out before they called the cops.

Traffic to BM was backed up over 10 miles.

I do NOT care for Burning Man at all-—Nothing sensible about it...

But it is allowed & permitted.

These fools were lucky Tribal Police didn’t just shoot them.

Chained themselves to trailer across the highway —sitting on hot pavement-—Hope they have some burns on their backsides.


16 posted on 08/29/2023 7:19:01 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

17 posted on 08/29/2023 10:26:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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