Activists demonstrating against the planned expansion of Tesla’s gigafactory near Berlin have violently clashed with police as some tried to rush the site after hundreds turned out in protest. The Mail has the story.
Graphic images from the scene showed how officers equipped with riot gear were embroiled in a brutal fistfight with a sea of enraged demonstrators carrying flags and banners which read “disrupt capitalism, create future”.
One shocking clip saw a stampede of protesters charge across a field toward the officers, who responded in kind by spraying CS gas and beating the oncoming demonstrators with batons and reinforced gloves.
Several were seen being dragged away with bloody noses and arrested as others continued to push back against the heavily armoured riot police, chanting slogans including “say it loud, say it clear – Elon Musk is not welcome here”.
It is unclear whether any of the protesters have managed to gain access to the facility which was shut down for four days as of yesterday amid the demonstrations.
This week’s protests were organised by Disrupt – an organisation that describes itself as “a coalition of groups” pushing for a “Just and solidarity-based world beyond capitalism”.
They say Elon Musk’s electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer is associated with “labour accidents, water scarcity, deforestation, environmental pollution and exploitation (in Berlin) and worldwide”. …
Tesla’s ambitions to expand its German plant hit a roadblock in February when citizens voted against a motion to raze trees and make way for a larger site.
The premises then suffered an arson attack in March which forced an evacuation of workers and caused a power outage.
Worth reading in full.
What’s not clear is how this mob relates to climate protesters. The electric cars that Tesla makes are central to the Net Zero goals of most countries. Yet here we have a gang of traditional anti-capitalist protesters trying to shut it down. What would Greta say? Maybe as long as Musk isn’t performing in Eurovision she doesn’t mind.
Note that, as at other Leftist demonstrations, the protesters are all wearing Covid face masks. Why has that become the accepted symbol of woke protests? To conceal identity, instil fear, protect from germs or out of nostalgia for the 2020 BLM riots? Discuss.
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The phrase “saving the planet” should always be in inverted commas because it is the most ridiculous of many in the eco lexicon. The planet is 4.5 billion years old and has been through a heck of a lot more in its history than we can ever throw at it. It will be here for several billion years more until the sun expands to swallow it. It doesn’t need to be “saved”, it will be fine.
The phrase that grates with me is ‘we need to…’
(i.e. YOU need to)
And saving it for what… a rainy day?
I suspect Louise Haigh’s stunningly attractive hair dye was probably made from petroleum products. Will Miliband please ban petroleum-based hair dyes?
Greta Thunberg’s day without fossil fuels – Part 1 by John A. Shanahan – Issuu
… the car-makers will tell the [our clown-world government] that thousands of jobs in the industry will soon be lost because of the unrealistic targets to sell Electric Vehicles. …
I imagine that their response would go something like this: “Industry, you say? Jobs in manufacturing, you say? Where people make things … with their hands? Good lord! Are these jobs by any chance for oiks and the other deplorables? Are they [shudder] for the white working class?”
All well and good, but once these facilities are shuttered and gone, and the economic cluster around the is done for, with at least as many jobs again exported to China, THERE IS NO WAY BACK.
England will be a pathetic shell economy.
I don’t think anybody certainly in government can imagine how bad it’s going to be.
I told those of my family who would listen, when the Scamdemic started that there would be blood on the streets. I see no reason to revise that opinion.
It won’t be a civil war. It will be a negotiation and the unions will be bought off in some way… at the expense of everyone else.
The union leaders might well be bought off. The union membership won’t be.
Slightly Off-T but worth posting…
https://off-guardian.org/2024/11/18/explained-how-uk-inheritance-tax-is-part-of-the-war-on-food/
Kit Knightly making the same points I have been making about Labour’s IHT land grab.
We are in a war with our government and people need to wake up.
I think the IHT fiasco is just another example of incompetent politicians not understanding what they are dealing with and the unintended consequences of their actions. Some think that not using land for farming is a good idea https://ukinvestormagazine.co.uk/why-increased-farm-inheritance-tax-will-be-good-for-the-uk-economy/?mc_cid=532a006992&mc_eid=abc92e5fcd Try this rubbish for example.
Off topic but highly important while everyone is talking about the farmers.
Dutch official reveals Covid was a military operation by NATO. I’m sure this is news to nobody who is aware that the US and the DOD runs (before Trump gets in) NATO.
But this is the first I have heard of an ‘official’ on Western Government admitting this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqv2YMn0q2o
It was the response to the pandemic that might have been but not the origin of Covid. It came from one of two labs in Wuhan.
Yes. I deduced that a while ago. In Europe, it was NATO and 5 Eyes countries which imposed the Covid Tyranny; Sweden didn’t.
Why? Because until very recently, Sweden wasn’t in NATO so didn’t have to follow Orders. It was an American Military Operation.
Labour – red in hair and tie!
It seems Farage is a sell-out to Islam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z0KoQ4Fot4&list=WL&index=2
What people miss is that Car Makers do not actually make the cars from scratch, but assemble pre made component items into a finished article. If a car plant shuts and the jobs are lost, so will the effects be felt by the component suppliers. The ripple effect goes onto, shops, cafes, all the places that those once employed by the car industry go to spend their money. 1 job loss can morph into dozens.
The decline in employment effects a decline in the economics of all areas concerned with life and all it entails.
Sunderland (Nissan) could have voted for a Reform MP; they voted Labour. Like the Welsh, who also continually vote for their own destruction, I have little sympathy.
I’m in Wales and voted Reform, though not sure I would again the way Nigel seems to capitulate to Islam. Anyway, it is mostly in the S Wales Valleys that they are hardened Labour supporters because of the Mining history. But compare the voting to a few years ago, Labour is not as popular as it was.
The UK a global leader??? The UK accounts for approximately 0.164% of the global land area, and not forgetting land is only 30% of the global surface area, with the oceans being a major (temperature dependent) CO2 sink/source. Some leader!
Nothing done in the UK’s Net Zero drive will reduce atmospheric CO2 by one molecule. This is not only because our emissions are minuscule but also because we are not reducing them but are merely offshoring them.
Net Zero is about setting an example for the big emitters to follow. But India and China, who each out more new CO2 every year than our entire annual output, cannot follow. Where are they supposed to offshore their emissions to?
The true Net Zero agenda is not about going green but about going extinct, or at least pre-industrial. It is rooted not in environmentalism but in misanthropy, pessimism, and mental illness.
Strikes, power cuts, inflation, high taxes, capital flight, brain drain, general gloom and doom, soaring debt and public spending, Labour Government.
Yup, that was 1974. Described to a tee.