Rep. Rashida Tlaib urges climate alarmists planning on blocking American highways and vandalizing art to be 'much more aggressive'



Democrat Michigan Rep. Tashida Tlaib's enmity is not reserved for Israel alone. The so-called "Squad" member apparently does not trust the American people and their democratic process to produce her desired outcomes. As a result, she has reportedly instructed climate alarmists to achieve her objectives by other means.

Tlaib recently joined multimillionaire socialist and screenwriter Adam McKay in addressing around 125 extremists from Climate Defiance, Declare Emergency, and other leftist outfits on a private call to which the Daily Mail gained access.

"Nothing cuts through the BS and rigmarole more than straight-up disruptive activism. I’m talking about the power of the people," said McKay. "I’m talking about the people that created democracy, that threw the kings out of power."

According to the Daily Mail, Tlaib stressed, "If we don't get the policies we need, if our legislative process is failing us, then direct action gets the goods."

"We have to be much more aggressive in regard to fossil fuel expansions," said the 46-year-old Palestinian-American.

Tlaib reportedly noted that neither Congress nor the White House would cut pollution to the activists' satisfaction unless "the streets demanded it."

Declare Emergency's Seattle-based mobilizer Donald Zepeda discussed plans to mount disruptions on federal properties in New York City and Washington in August.

"We aim for whatever causes the most kerfuffle. Everyone has to see it. Everyone is impacted," said Zepeda. "Doing massively disruptive, nonviolent civil disobedience, it's a necessary and important part of getting us to where we need to be."

The groups whose past criminality Tlaib lauded on the call have been responsible for recent blockades, iconoclasm, and other efforts to extort concessions from American officials.

Declare Emergency, for instance, demands that President Joe Biden "declare a formal state of climate emergency." To that end, the group routinely disrupts traffic "similar to the way a hurricane, flood, or wildfire might," even if that means threatening lives and livelihoods.

The iconoclasts charged last month with defacing an art exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Timothy Martin of North Carolina and Joanna Smith of New York, both belong to Declare Emergency. According to ABC News, the duo allegedly inflicted $2,400 in damage, which resulted in the exhibit's removal for repairs.

\u201cAround 11 am today two parents who are terrified about their children\u2019s\u2019 futures (as well as all children) made a statement at the National Gallery in DC. Climate change will cause famine, floods, droughts and destruction unless we act now. #DecEmergency #ActOnClimate\u201d
— Declare Emergency (@Declare Emergency) 1682615659

Days prior to the extremists' attack on the Edgar Degas sculpture, Declare Emergency shut down a section of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, resulting in heavy traffic jams.

Climate Defiance, whose leaders were on the call with Tlaib, similarly does not trust the American electorate to legally advance its grand designs, opting instead to "compel politicians to act" on the basis of the group's fears by way of strikes, blockades, or "mass occupation."

Earlier this month, Climate Defiance temporarily shut down a keynote address by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), accusing him of being "an ecocidal millionaire."

Extinction Rebellion's British co-founder Roger Hallam also joined Tlaib on the call.

Hallam's outfit is a decentralized group of radical leftists keen on ridding Western nations of affordable energy, antipathetic to fossil fuels and nuclear energy alike. The Daily Caller reported that Hallam's group caused millions of dollars worth of losses during a 2019 series of extremist outbursts that shut down London.

While these groups together seek an end to inexpensive, stable energy, it appears they are also committed to identitarian and socialist programs. For instance, Climate Defiance indicates on its site that it stands "in solidarity with our sister-struggles for racial and economic justice."

Should Tlaib, McKay, and their climate alarmist allies get their way, the fallout could prove catastrophic.

TheBlaze previously noted that in his 2022 New York Times best-selling book "How the World Really Works," scientist and policy analyst Vaclav Smil detailed how fossil fuels are absolutely critical when it comes to feeding, warming, and nurturing humanity.

Ending or abruptly curbing oil production, as the vandals demand, would have profound consequences, not the least on all those who may no longer be able to heat their homes in the winter or cool them in the summer.

Smil wrote, "Our food supply — be it staple grains, clucking birds, favorite vegetables, or seafood praised for its nutritious quality — has become increasingly dependent on fossil fuels."

Smil also indicated that "after adding the energy requirements of food processing and marketing, packaging, transportation, wholesale and retail services, household food storage and preparation, and away-from-home food and marketing services, the grand total in the US [of the direct energy use in food production] reached nearly 16 percent of the nation's energy supply in 2007 and now it is approaching 20 percent."

Extra to the diesel that powers tractors and the transports that move food from farm to market, natural gas plays a critical role in farming, as it is used as a feedstock to produce nitrogen-based fertilizers, essential for crops.

In a recent Mississippi Center for Public Policy speech, energy expert Alex Epstein highlighted how climate alarmists appear willing to overlook the benefits and essential uses of fossil fuels, even if their utopian alternatives have no basis in reality and are likely to jeopardize the well-being of billions of people if pursued.

While Declare Emergency warns that billions will starve if the alleged threat of climate change isn't dealt with, it does not appear the group has factored in the consequences or the unpopularity of its own proposals.

According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, only 31% of American respondents said the country should "completely phase out oil, coal and natural gas"; 67% of Americans disagree with climate alarmists, insisting on a mixed use of energy sources, including fossil fuels.

Whereas 78% of Democrats described climate change as a major threat to the country's well-being, only 23% Republicans agreed.

Tackling the specter of anthropogenic climate change is far from the top of Americans' priorities, ranking 17th out of 21 national issues in a January Pew survey.

The Daily Caller noted that Tlaib, Declare Emergency, and Extinction Rebellion had not responded to requests for comment.
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Climate alarmist Greta Thunberg's 'arrest' at anti-labor protest exposed as media stunt, widely ridiculed



Images of climate alarmist Greta Thunberg's supposed arrest by German police circulated widely after the Tuesday incident, prompting some to contemplate her apparent bravery in the face of statist force.

Raw footage of the incident and additional scrutiny have together revealed that the 20-year-old Swedish activist, like her actor father, has a knack for the theatrical. Not only was Thunberg's arrest reportedly staged, it wasn't an arrest at all.

What's the background?

Climate alarmists flocked to a condemned western German village Tuesday for an anti-labor protest, denouncing a job-creating coal mine expansion.

Hamstrung by domestic anti-oil policies and unable to count on renewables, Europe ended up overly reliant on Russian energy. As Russia began to cut off the continent during its war on Ukraine, countries like Germany — which previously obtained roughly 30% of its supply from Russia — were forced to return to using coal.

While climate alarmism had a hand in driving Germany's desperate need for coal, Thunberg and others nevertheless voiced their opposition to the demolition of the abandoned village of Luetzerath, required for the expansion of the Garzweiler 2 mine.

Though condemned and owned by the mine, Luetzerath has recently become an ecosocialist squat for leftist militants and climate extremists.

Leftist extremists from the condemned village can be seen here attacking journalists:

\u201cAt the autonomous zone in #Luetzerath, Germany by militant leftists, #Antifa & climate extremists, Antifa surrounded and attacked journalists. The violent occupation has been praised by leftists & Greta Thunberg for stopping a coal mine expansion.\u201d
— Andy Ng\u00f4 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@Andy Ng\u00f4 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08) 1673762169

Police, who had been trying to prevent protesters from getting injured in the open-pit mine, were reportedly pelted with incendiary devices. Over 70 officers were injured.

Climate alarmists and other anti-labor protesters also reportedly damaged police patrol cars.

Reuters initially reported that Greta Thunberg, who had trespassed to as far as the edge of the mine, had been arrested.

Police told Reuters that "Greta Thunberg was part of a group of activists who rushed towards the ledge [of the mine]. However, she was then stopped and carried by us with this group out of the immediate danger area to establish their identity."

After police rescued the dramatist's daughter, Thunberg was reportedly "held by one arm at a spot further away from the edge of the mine where she was previously sat with the group."

Thunberg, ostensibly wearing a jacket and bag made with petroleum products, told the Associated Press that "what everyone does matters. ... And if one of the largest polluters, like Germany, and one of the biggest historical emitters of CO2 is doing something like this, then of course it affects more or less everyone — especially those most bearing the brunt of the climate crisis."

Some of Thunberg's fans saw the initial images, apparently believing that she had been arrested doing something that mattered.

NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus tweeted, "Greta's first arrest. It's time for many more of us to stand up and risk arrest for the sake of a livable planet. It will turn the tide."

Climate activist Mike Hudema tweeted with similar urgency, "Greta Thunberg has been detained in Germany for protesting the expantion [sic] of a coal mine despite the government claiming it will exit coal by 2030. The coal expansion betrays 'present and future generations.' There is no time to wait."

\u201cGreta Thunberg has been detained in Germany for protesting the expantion of a coal mine despite the government claiming it will exit coal by 2030. \n\nThe coal expansion betrays "present and future generations."\n\nThere is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate \n#IStandwithGreta #L\u00fctzerath\u201d
— Mike Hudema (@Mike Hudema) 1673985657

Frown for the cameras

The Guardian reported that, contrary to previous claims, Thunberg was briefly detained, not arrested.

The Hill noted that Thunberg, who had been trespassing, was simply escorted along with other climate alarmists away from the coal mine site on private property.

Snopes all but conceded it was nothing more than a photo op, writing that "activists often plan such sit-ins and protests as media events to publicize their cause, in full knowledge that police and media will be present — which is to say that they are, in a sense, 'staged.'"

A video has emerged of Thunberg chuckling away with her supposed captors.

The footage shows Thunberg and her police escorts striking different poses for the cameramen and videographers in their orbit, laughing sporadically.

After the photo op, the police escorted the Swedish trespasser off the private property.

\u201cYes, the Greta Thunberg arrest was staged for the establishment media.\u201d
— Catch Up (@Catch Up) 1673993443

Sky News host Chris Kenny said the photo op was "Just farcical, isn’t it? Deceptive too – it’s theatre, climate theatre, and most media just goes along with the charade."

Townhall editor Guy Benson noted that Thunberg's photo op with German police had the "Same energy" as when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y.) pretended to be handcuffed when being escorted from a pro-abortion protest at the U.S. Capitol.

\u201cSame energy\u201d
— Guy Benson (@Guy Benson) 1673997674

At the time of the incident, Thunberg said, "Germany is really embarrassing itself right now. ... I think it’s absolutely absurd that this is happening the year 2023."

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