Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

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Rockefeller money is behind virtually all of fractivism, pushing an anti-gas agenda that serves to protect their own very special interests.

Mike Bloomberg, a few years before his short-lived attempt to buy the Presidency, inadvertently revealed the primary reason the gentry class supports so many radical causes that are seemingly against their interests. He said “You take the money from the rich, and you give it to the poor. You do it for altruistic reasons. You do it because you don’t want the poor on your doorstep and a variety of things.”

Keeping the poor off your doorstep isn’t altruism, of course, it’s jaundiced self-interest; an uppity view that commoners need to be kept at a distance and thrown a bone regularly to avoid them storming the gates. Pretending it’s altruism is essential to not giving the game away, though, and Bloomberg stumbled into doing that. This is, in fact, the game being played today with Rockefeller money as the family funds every sort of fractivist enterprise.

Kykuit, the John D. Rockefeller Estate in Tarrytown, New York, and the doorstep built with Rockefeller money

Rockefeller money and the role it plays came to mind recently when I read William Allison’s wonderful takedown, at Energy In Depth, of the climate litigation scam. Read the whole thing because Allison researches and documents everything. He has a keen understanding of how it all works. Here, though, are the paragraphs that caught my attention:

The entire climate litigation campaign got plenty of air cover from so-called “journalism” outfits like InsideClimateNews and the Los Angeles Times, which turned out to be bought and paid for by the Rockefellers to push the “Exxon Knew” narrative and provide support for state attorneys general filing lawsuits.

Another is Climate Liability News, a website set-up in 2017 to promote the campaign by Climate Communications and Law (CCL), which is run by Greenpeace activist Kert Davies and Richard Wiles of the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) – a project Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD). CCL has faced criticism for failing to properly register as a non-profit in its home state of Maryland, which may have helped it circumvent funding disclosures to Climate Liability News.

Like most organizations in the climate litigation campaign, CCI is funded by the Rockefellers, which has received millions from the Rockefeller Family Fund.

The entire climate litigation campaign got plenty of air cover from so-called “journalism” outfits like InsideClimateNews and the Los Angeles Times, which turned out to be bought and paid for by the Rockefellers to push the “Exxon Knew” narrative and provide support for state attorneys general filing lawsuits.

Another is Climate Liability News, a website set-up in 2017 to promote the campaign by Climate Communications and Law (CCL), which is run by Greenpeace activist Kert Davies and Richard Wiles of the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) – a project Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD). CCL has faced criticism for failing to properly register as a non-profit in its home state of Maryland, which may have helped it circumvent funding disclosures to Climate Liability News.

Like most organizations in the climate litigation campaign, CCI is funded by the Rockefellers, which has received millions from the Rockefeller Family Fund.

And, there’s more:

One of the most recent lawsuits was introduced by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison who sued ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, and Koch Industries in June. Shortly after, an activist with St. Paul-based Fresh Energy admitted on a public webinar that his group, along with the Center for Climate Integrity personally approached Ellison and convinced him to file the lawsuit…

Both Fresh Energy and the Center for Climate Integrity have received funds from the Rockefellers, demonstrating their wide influence in the climate litigation campaign. But this episode in Minnesota clearly shows just how far they’ve gone to recruit public officials to carry out their agenda. Never before has the corruption of law enforcement been more on display.

Allison explains how Rockefeller money has, to date, been used to fund a losing strategy and has now be reallocated to a different strategy, noting “the activist echo chamber dutifully whirred into action to assure the public that all the cases they had previously championed (and lost) were duds, but these new cases are definitely, somehow, better,” quoting comments made by Rockefeller toady Bill McKibben.

But, here’s the thing; the Rockefeller money isn’t wasted from the family’s perspective. Rather, it’s about making the industry spend time and money on defense, green virtue signaling, investments the family has made in green eggs and scam as well as Upstate New York land and, most of all keeping the green extremists and true believers off their own doorstep. They must be seen as altruistic contributors to the common good to avoid the target being put on themselves. That’s what the climate litigation is all about and every bit of the fractivism they fund.