Over the weekend, climate change activists associated with teen Greta Thunberg’s Climate Strike movement took to the streets, demanding “action” on climate. On Monday, climate activists tried to “Shut Down DC,” resulting in more carbon emissions as cars stall in worse traffic. Even climate activists have denounced the Climate Strike manifesto as extreme and useless, but Thunberg herself may be very useful to a certain type of climate financier.

Standpoint magazine’s Dominic Green revealed the corporate financiers and the Climate-Industrial Complex that stands to gain from Thunberg’s activism.

“The Greta phenomenon has also involved green lobbyists, PR hustlers, eco-academics, and a think-tank founded by a wealthy ex-minister in Sweden’s Social Democratic government with links to the country’s energy companies. These companies are preparing for the biggest bonanza of government contracts in history: the greening of the Western economies. Greta, whether she and her parents know it or not, is the face of their political strategy,” he wrote.

Thunberg became a viral sensation on August 20, 2018, when she launched a one-girl “school strike” at the Swedish parliament. Ingmar Rentzhog, founder of the social media platform We Have No Time, happened to be passing by, or so the story goes. Rentzhog posted Thunberg’s photo on his Facebook page and the newspaper Dagens Nyheter picked up the story.

Yet the Swedish teen’s viral moment was far more orchestrated than this official version of events. While Rentzhog insisted that he “did not know Greta or Greta’s parents” before the Parliament protest, he later admitted to meeting Thunberg’s mother, Malena Ernman, “3-4 months before everything started.” He had shared a stage with Ernman at the Climate Parliament conference. He was also tipped off about the teen’s protest at the Swedish parliament — informed “the week before” by climate activist Bo Thorén, leader of the Fossil Free Dalsland group.

In February 2018, Thorén and other activists strategized about getting young people involved. In May, after Thunberg took second prize in an environmental op-ed writing competition, Thorén approached the competition winners with a plan for a “school strike” — modeled after the gun control protest after the shootings in Parkland, Fla. Only Thunberg was interested.

The teen’s decision to launch the protest coincided with the publication of Scenes from the Heart, her parents’ memoir about how climate activism had saved their family. Svante Thunberg, the teen’s father, is an actor, and Ernman is an opera singer. Their prominence made their teen daughter an ideal face for the climate movement.

As Green noted, Rentzhog “combined Thorén’s plan and Malena Ernman’s musical fame with Greta’s uncanny charisma and We Have No Time’s mailing list, he turned Greta into a viral celebrity.”

The man who launched Greta Thunberg was trained by Al Gore:

Trained by Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, Rentzhog set up We Don’t Have Time in late 2017 to “hold leaders and companies accountable for climate change” by leveraging “the power of social media”. Rentzhog and his CEO David Olsson have backgrounds in finance, not environmental activism, Rentzhog as the founder of Laika, an investment relations company, and Olsson with Svenska Bostadsfonden, one of Sweden’s biggest real estate funds, whose board Rentzhog joined in June 2017. We Don’t Have Time’s investors included Gustav Stenbeck, whose family control Kinnevik, one of Sweden’s largest investment corporations.

In May 2018, Rentzhog and Olsson became chairman and board member of Global Utmaning (Global Challenge), a climate think tank. Kristina Persson, Global Challenge’s founder, is an heir to an industrial fortune, a career trade unionist, and a Social Democrat politician. She previously served as deputy governor of Sweden’s central bank.

Labor leaders hold board positions at the think tank, as does Catharina Nystedt Ringborg, former CEO of Swedish Water, advisor at the International Energy Agency, and former vice president at the Swedish-Swiss energy company ABB. Ringbord is also a member of green energy venture capital firm Sustainable Energy Angels, which counts a who’s who of the Swedish energy sector among its members.

When Greta met Rentzhog, he was the salaried chairman of a private think-tank owned by an ex-Social Democrat minister with a background in the energy sector. His board was stacked with powerful sectoral interests, including career Social Democrats, major union leaders, and lobbyists with links to Brussels. And his board’s vice-chair was a member of one of Sweden’s most powerful green energy investment groups.

Green admitted that Thunberg and her parents “probably did not know this.” Yet he added that Ernman and Rentzhog signed an op-ed in Dagens Nyheter calling for “bottom-up” action against national governments to fight climate change. Heiress Persson and three other Global Challenge board members signed the op-ed, but cited other affiliations.

Rentzhog later explained that “many of us involved in Global Challenge were also involved” in the op-ed. He also admitted showing Ernman “the article and the other signatures, but not their titles for Global Challenge.”

Thunberg’s father denied any connection to We Have No Time or Global Challenge. Yet the teen activist served on We Have No Time’s advisory board between November 2018 and January 2019, and — as noted above — Ernman signed the letter with four Global Challenge board members.

In December 2018, We Have No Time and Global Challenge launched the Climate Emergency Plan. Anders Wijkman, president of the anti-growth group Club of Rome, which collaborated with the other groups to launch the project, told Green that Thunberg was invited to the launch event, but declined because she was already booked to deliver a TED Talk.

The Climate Emergency Plan pushes the same narrative as Thunberg. Wijkman claimed the teen activist has been “instrumental” to getting young people involved in the climate movement. “She has been a lightning rod or catalyst of this.” He also said Rentzhog was essential to Thunberg’s rise.

In January, Rentzhog and We Have No Time used Thunberg’s face and story in promotional materials. Rentzhog claimed the family knew, but Thunberg and her parents insisted they did not. They announced their association with the financier-turned-activist was over, a curious statement given the father’s insistence that the family never associated with him in the first place.

“Whatever Greta or her parents know or think, her eco-mob increases the likelihood of legislation and investment that will make colossal profits for people like Global Challenge, We Don’t Have Time and Sustainable Energy Angels,” Green concluded. “For Sweden’s energy titans, saving the planet means government contracts to print the green stuff.”

“Green energy lobbyists use populist scare tactics and a children’s crusade to bypass elected representatives, but their goal is technocracy not democracy, profit not redistribution. Greta, a child of woke capitalism, is being used to ease the transition to green corporatism,” he wrote.

In January, Myron Ebell, director at the Center for Energy and the Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), told PJ Media that the climate crisis “has been manufactured in order to create a huge climate-industrial complex that can command the redistribution of colossal amounts of money.”

“There is a huge climate-industrial complex benefitting from this, but it’s not reducing emissions,” he said.

Under President Barack Obama, the government directed millions to the solar panel company Solyndra. The federal government offered $535 million in low-cost loan guarantees, and the company went belly-up. Senior executives collected hefty bonuses in the months before the company filed for bankruptcy.

Climate change activists like Greta Thunberg are likely motivated by the purest of intentions, but that doesn’t mean the Swedish financiers who helped her launch her Climate Strike movement won’t cash out if she convinces governments to “go green.” The Climate-Industrial Complex stands to gain a great deal from climate alarmism.
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Mesut P, managing director of PIM-Gold, was arrested on September 4th during a raid in Frankfurt Heusenstamm. 10,000 German small savers are now worried about their old-age provision. According to the public prosecutor’s office, a total of 1.9 tons of customer gold disappeared according to the Handelsblatt newspaper.According to an employee’s testimony, Mesut P. “had neither a school-leaving qualification nor vocational training. He “cannot even write two German sentences without making mistakes”.According to a courageous whistleblower in his criminal complaints to the public prosecutor’s office in Darmstadt, the criminal rip-off system was supported and promoted by a lawyer specializing in capital investment law, an auditor, and several distribution directors.Among them are the Turkish businessmen Hayri E. and Cemil Ö., against whom a criminal complaint has now also been filed with the public prosecutor’s office in Darmstadt for “complicity and incitement to fraud in the sale of Bonusgoldkauf-Plus contracts”. Also against the attorney and the tax consultant charges are pending. 
The business newspaper Handelsblatt reports:

It was a ghostly scene in front of the headquarters of PIM Gold GmbH in Heusenstamm on Wednesday afternoon. Again and again drove in front of dark Mercedes sedans. Out of them men with serious faces, apparently employees or partners of the gold trader, rose. They hurried past armed civilian police and the blue police patrol car into the building. The officers had already arrived in the early morning, until about 4 p.m. they left again. The prosecutor Darmstadt confirmed on Handelsblatt request that she has searched on Wednesday the premises of PIM Gold. The district court Darmstadt had proclaimed in this context a pre-trial detention order against a 48-year-old man. “The man is charged with, inter alia, commercial fraud,” said the spokesman for the prosecutor, Attorney Robert Hartmann. The execution of the detention had been ordered. The arrest, according to the Handelsblatt, is the managing partner of PIM Gold, Mesut P. (48), against whom the prosecution has been investigating for more than a year. Mesut P.’s defense attorney was initially unavailable for comment. An ex-employee of PIM, who later worked in the environment of a rival company, had already raised serious allegations in 2017 and repeatedly filed criminal charges against management personnel of PIM. He claims that more than 1.5 tons of customer gold worth around 60 million euros have disappeared. PIM Gold has always denied these allegations and sees itself as a victim of a “filth campaign” of ex-employee. In a sworn statement, Mesut P. said the allegations were “false and defamatory.” His gold inventory estimates were based on wrong or manipulated numbers. “Missing inventories could not be determined after a critical, manual review of the data in the computer so far.” The company said two months ago: “We are very sure that this process will be stopped soon and all charges against us will falter.” After that, it does not look like it anymore. An investigation for suspected fraud continues, said prosecutor Hartmann. As part of Wednesday’s search, “assets have been secured to ensure compliance with legal recovery requirements,” the agency said. Whether it is about customer gold and how big the assets are left them open.The news should strike gold buyers like a bomb. Because PIM not only sold gold, but paid his customers an interest between three and six percent, if they stored the precious metal in the safes of PIM. Mesut P. or a spokesman for the company was not available for comment on Wednesday afternoon. On-site at the headquarters, PIM staff did not want to comment. A top distributor, the Handelsblatt reached in the short term, said only that he was in shock and must inform himself. PIM Gold has repeatedly been the subject of critical reports in recent weeks. Consumer advocates had warned about the business model. In addition, the Handelsblatt reported that the public prosecutor in Frankfurt on suspicion of money laundering against executives identified. The company also denies these allegations. On Wednesday, the Handelsblatt continued to report that consumer websites and financial journalists have been victims of a hacker attack after reporting on PIM. A lawyer from PIM said: “It is utterly absurd to associate PIM Gold with the attacks. It is obviously a renewed attempt to discredit the company. “PIM Gold basically distance itself from the attacks

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In the night from Friday to Saturday an aggressive man took the suburban train line 19 to Cologne main station. When he spotted employees of the German Railway he insulted them and behaved extremely violently. As the incident escalated, the Federal Police was called in to aid and arrested the offender at Cologne Central Station. After midnight, a 23-year-old in the Cologne district of Lövenich boarded the suburban train in the direction of Cologne Central Station. As soon as the train entered the station, the man kicked against the train and behaved violently. When he spotted the employees of the German railway company, he started his insults.Calming words had no effect. He approached the employees and attacked them. He spat at the men and continued to insult them. Thereupon the Cologne Federal Police was called upon to assist, and they arrested the attacker at Cologne Central Station. The 23-year-old Afghan also behaved violently and in an aggressive and uncooperative manner towards the federal police. He spat at the officers and insulted them as well. A voluntary breath alcohol test showed a value of 1.64 per mille. The man now has to answer for bodily injury and insult.

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“I have never seen such a case of domestic violence in my career,” says Judge Andreas Pfisterer. The photos in his file are disturbing. Haematomas all over her body, plus a black eye.”I have never seen such a case of domestic violence in my career,” says Judge Andreas Pfisterer. The photos in his file are disturbing. Haematomas all over my body, plus a black eye. The perpetrator must have beaten the petite woman from Jordan with unrestrained violence. Using at least two wooden rustic clothes hangers, one burst when he did it. Last Thursday the 30-year-old’s husband, a  refugee from Iraq, is on trial.  On August 2, 2018 between 4 p.m. and 11 p.m., the father of three children aged two, five and six allegedly brutally beat and seriously injured his wife in a clinic in the northern district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen after a dispute. “In the courtroom, the young woman remains silent, leafs through the Koran and cries again and again.She wears a headscarf and sometimes also sunglasses. She denies the judge’s question as to whether she would at least like to release the doctor from her duty of confidentiality. The police witness records are also not to be used in court.The suspicion that the wife was urged by her husband to this sudden change of heart is obvious. The defence counsel’s requests not to accept any of the witnesses who had been summoned are also consistent with this. The defense’s strategy of hushing the case does not work. At the prosecutor’s request, the police officers, the doctor and the social worker are questioned as witnesses. The three police officers are not allowed to say anything about the content of the interrogation reports, but they describe how they found the woman, whether she was able to communicate well and whether she had visible injuries. The black eye, at least, could not be overlooked by anyone. The doctor finally decides to testify and reports what the woman told her. She spoke of frequent outbreaks of violence by her husband, approximately once a month. Also that he pours ice water over the children to punish them and locks them in dark rooms. This is also confirmed by the social pedagogue, who is not subject to a duty of confidentiality in her work. On Thursday, August 2, 2018, she found the victim unharmed. The next day, she was injured. She was still surprised that nobody had taken note of the quarrel and the blows: “You can hear everything through that wall.”The young mother had got used in the course of time not to scream in order not to unsettle her children.

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During an irritant gas attack in a city bus in the night on yesterday Saturday in Marburg, nine people suffered injuries. As a precaution, the bus driver was taken to the university hospital for further treatment. The police arrested three people for the time being. The background to the incident is currently still completely in the dark. The incident occurred shortly after midnight at the central station. According to witnesses, eight younger refugees entered the bus of line 14 and immediately attacked two 18- and 19-year-old passengers, who also have a migration background, with blows. One of the suspected perpetrators used pepper spray in the following confrontation. Afterwards the attackers fled undetected. Eight passengers suffered respiratory irritations during the incident, which were treated on site by the crew of an ambulance.The 33-year-old female bus driver also suffered injuries from the irritant gas. She also received a blow to the head during attempts at mediation. As a precaution, the woman was taken to the university hospital for further treatment. About 50 minutes later, another incident occurred not far from the main station. Two of the victims from the bus were picked up by a relative after medical care. Shortly after their departure, they discovered three of the suspected attackers from the bus in the street Bahnhofstrasse and another clash broke out.A nearby police patrol spotted the incident and temporarily arrested the three suspects of the bus attack. The young men were taken into custody after police measures to sober them up. Investigations into other persons involved in the crime are ongoing. The police ask for help: Who has seen the incident in the bus and has not contacted the police yet? Who can provide information on other people involved in the dispute? Who can provide information on the background to the incident? Please inform the police station Marburg by calling 06421- 4060. 

https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/09/germany-irritant-gas-attack-committed.html

Yesterday, an African is said to have sexually harassed a 17-year-old handicapped wheelchair user at the Ismaning S-Bahn stop and once again on the platform in Englschalking. Around 1:30 p.m., a 17-year-old disabled wheelchair user waited for her friend as well as the suburban train at the platform of the Ismaning station. While waiting, a 26-year-old Senegalese is said to have touched the girl – against her will – several times in the breast area, kissed her on the mouth and finally touched her in the genital area.Together with her 16-year-old girlfriend, the 17-year-old boarded the suburban train (S8) in the direction of Munich. All three got off at the suburban train stop Englschalking after the two young people had talked to their mothers on the phone in the suburban train.On the platform, the 26-year-old sexually harassed the 17-year-old again. It was only when two witnesses addressed the Senegalese and resolutely intervened that the 26-year-old left for platform 2. An informed patrol of the Federal Police was able to spot the 26-year-old during a local search, temporarily arrest him and take him to the office. A breath alcohol concentration of 1.48 per mille was measured there. The public prosecutor’s office in Munich I ordered a blood sample to be taken from the 26-year-old man and the district court in Munich ordered a prosecution for sexual harassment.The Senegalese, who has already become known to the police, has been in Germany since April 2015 and has a valid residence permit. The Federal Police commended the behaviour of the two youths, who immediately phoned on the suburban train to describe the incident. The state and federal police could thus quickly be on the spot in Englschalking. In addition, the resolute intervention of the witnesses prevented the man from committing further attacks against the girl.

https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/09/germany-african-sexually-harassed-17.html

On the last Friday around 09:00 p.m., the tram line 903 arrived at the underground station “Steinsche Gasse” in Duisburg  to continue the journey northwards. At that moment, people from a group of seven youths stepped outside against a closed door of the tram. The door was damaged and opened. This triggered a warning signal, which led the 50-year-old driver of the train to immediately carry out an emergency stop. This caused several passengers on the train to fall, and one passenger fell through a pane in the train (photo).A total of nine people, five men and four women between the ages of 18 and 52, were injured, mainly bruised in different parts of their bodies. Seven of them were taken to Duisburg hospitals for further treatment by ambulances of the Duisburg Fire Brigade.The fleeing youths are said to be between 12 and 15 years old, due to their external appearance all are supposed to be migrants. Witnesses are asked to report to the Duisburg police by calling  0203 – 2800. 

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