A Big Oil heiress is a key funder of a sprawling global network of grassroots climate groups, including the U.K.-based Just Stop Oil, which staged a protest Friday vandalizing a famous painting.
Aileen Getty, the granddaughter of the Getty Oil founder, is the founding donor of the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF), a Los Angeles-based organization that finances several high-profile climate protest groups around the world. Getty, who is a prolific environmental philanthropist, wired $500,000 to CEF shortly after it was founded in 2019, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Boosted by Getty’s initial and continued contributions, CEF has awarded millions of dollars to radical groups that have engaged in disruptive protests worldwide. Among CEF’s grantees is the A22 Network, which is made up of Just Stop Oil, the U.S.-based Declare Emergency and groups in nine countries including Germany, France and Canada.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/big-oil-heiress-funding-just-stop-oil-group-threw-soup-van-gogh-painting?intcmp=tw_fnc
In recent months, the group has repeatedly organized protests in which its members have glued themselves to famous paintings. Just Stop Oil activists have also blocked major roads and highways in the U.K., in some cases forcing emergency vehicles to take different routes to their destination.
There’s nothing new here, whiny narcissistic children prattling on in their deluded sense of moral superiority and committing vandalism, financed by the spoiled heirs of industrial magnates, who can only give meaning to their luxurious but empty lives with virtue signaling.
If you watch the video, either because it loads above or you go to link, note the inflection of the girl speaking. It’s an exact Greta Thuneberg imitation. The indoctrination is ubiquitous.
I’ve embedded the video, but Fox News embeds are notoriously slow to load.
Also, by choosing Tomato Soup (cans), an extremely important historical symbol in American modern art, ala Warhol, they have actually created a performance art piece which could be said to have an interesting media-is-the-message self-referential art loop. Campbell’s would have been a better choice.
I doubt many art critics will take note.
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Heinz is partly supporting John Kerry, through his marrying one of the heir’s widows.
A RICO prosecution against Getty and other nuisance cause funders would be in line.
The Rockefellers?
The old expression “Soup to Nuts” comes to mind with these spoiled ignorant “children”.
Since they glued themselves t the floor and were not actually impeding passage of people with better things to do, could they not have been left until hunger or call of nature forced them to beg for relief. That would have yielded some light entertainment, or better still the pain of just being ignored would have forced them maybe to reflect on their values. sort of like a naughty step.
I’m wondering if they prepared by wearing depends but those do have a limited holding capacity.if I was the art gallery I would live stream them stuck to the floor.
It’s in the eye of the beholder after all…
They should bill it as “living art”.
The mistake is firemen wasting time ungluing them. They should be left to their own devices, at least until they are in need of hospitalisation.
Just take them both to jail, and if skin from their hands remain on the wall, well too bad for them!
Call it installation art.
Pour Tomato soup over them.
Invite visitors to the gallery to participate by pouring soup over them.
BYO, I’ll start with a nice chicken soup.
The act of gluing themselves to things is just part of the theatrical performance – cyanoacrylate doesn’t adhere well to flesh
It adheres to mine….
It bounds instantly! The only reason it isn’t an effective glue is because the surface of the epidermis pulls away from the rest of the skin when fresh. Eventually, the oils in the skin cause it to release.
Not sure where you get that info from. Cyanoacrylate is even sometimes used as an emergency first-aid measure to close wounds.
Medical cyanoacrylate is different to the version used as super glue. It’s less toxic and designed to cope with the oils in the skin. The oils which hinder cyanoacrylate from working well. Advice to stop superglue sticking to your hands when using it is to rub mineral oil, petroleum jelly or just plain vegetable oil
Many years ago before cyanoacrylate adhesives became available to the general public many mechanics, engineers and sheet metal workers of my acquaintance, having noticed its ability to stick to skin took to using Loctite Bearing Fit to treat small cuts and as a general purpose adhesive for all sorts of tasks.
It sticks really well to skin? There are lots of plastics it doesn’t stick very well to, but it works great for flesh.
I don’t know where you buy your glue, but if it is cyanoacrylate it definitely bonds well to skin. Ask any rc model builder.
TY, CR. Interesting background. And of course the tomato soup did no damage since the painting is behind glass for security reasons. Says how effective the whole mess was/is. NOT.
The tomato soup PROBABLY did no damage.
The glass (or plastic) is there primarily as a barrier to stop people touching the surface of the painting. Open to correction but I put that there was very little technology or science beyond ‘put a glass panel in front’.
There is real possibilities that the soup could have leached up at the edges via capillary action.
These people may have realised that if they had gone to school more than 4 days a week.
It was the frame that was damaged when they glued their hands to it. That is one of the charges in the court.
that was the other fools in aus? they stuck to the wall here
Fortunately then it was a Van Gogh
or 4 days a year.
Well, judged by the amount of publicity these people have received, it was highly effective. Now if everybody (except the police and the judiciary) just ignored them………….
It got them a lot of publicity of questionable value. I doubt that they changed anyone’s mind. In my case, it did demonstrate to me that they are not deep thinkers, and don’t have any appreciation of the role that petroleum products play in their clothes or pink hair dye.
Will she have them go chopping off ears as an act of revenge, or are bull fights out of order?
Van Gogh and John Paul Getty III both lost ears so a weird sort of connection there
The “protestors” (spoilt, self-regarding children) should be made to run with the bulls in Pamplona.
Why do ignorant, stupid people have so much money?
Usually it is because they had intelligent and productive parents or grandparents.
Sometimes the acorn falls a loooooong way away from the tree!
The expression “from clogs to clogs in three generations” has its equivalent in many languages.
Thanks Nick for teaching an old dog something new.
This makes good sense and again shows that older generations came up with quaint aphorisms from careful observation and logical thought – something that is in short supply among the many of the rich and educated today. Perhaps, if education were not so dumbed down and politicized today, climate alarmism would be scorned in academic circles.
No they’re just acting out – they’ll be ‘daddies little rebels’ for a few years, then go to work for one of their parents friends and become the same as everyone else in the monied classes; arrogant, privileged and self-absorbed.
Seems to me they’ve already got the “arrogant, privileged and self-absorbed” part down pat whether or not they every get/stay in the monied class.
Their parents are capitalists.
Innovative, productive, conservative (e.g. “retained earnings” a.k.a. capitalism) for the People and “our Posterity”… for better and worse.
Many rich capitalists make poor parents because of the tendency to spoil their children. Can’t say the same thing about socialists because there are no rich socialists, only people living in shared poverty.
Oh I don’t know about that, Jtom.
Some socialists are a little more equal than other socialists and do quite well. Just ask Bernie Sanders.
Jon Lansman, Jeremy Corbyn; inherited wealth, never grew up – still playing at being a rebel.
Hugo Chavezs granddaughter is on the Forbes 400 list. I dont think she worked for it.
She’s worth a cool $4B and lives in Miami.
Perhaps Florida Governor Ron DeSantis needs to drain the swamp of corruption in his state to prove he will also be able to do it in Washington one day. 😉
In 2021 Forbes wrote about Isabel Dos Santos, the daughter of the Marxist-Leninist president of Angola:
Eight years ago, Forbes declared Isabel dos Santos the richest woman in Africa, worth an estimated $3.5 billion.
She is being investigated for massive fraud and investigators appear to be having difficulty entangling the web of corruption.
Hmmm, Interesting! The numbskulls picked one of Van Gogh’s oil-based paintings for their Just-Stop-Oil protest, but it was likely a plant-based oil like linseed oil, not a petrochemical one.
Regards,
Bob Tisdale
Just Sop All Oil Paintings
Good chance that some of the oil in the paints used by van Gogh was whale oil. Do these ignorants really want to go back to that?
Do you mean sop up the soup with bread?
👍😁
With their hands glued to the wall, you could have kicked them hard.
Or possibly pour their remaining soup on them.
For those people that pour milk out at supermarkets, I think I would take their hats and throw them into their puddles.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11318913/Vegan-extremists-trash-Harrods-Fortnum-Mason-Waitrose-dumping-milk-protest.html
Nobody forced them to be vegans, but they won’t be happy until they force everybody else to become vegans.
I suspect there is something more than just a little out of kilter with that mindset.
They want to be able to exercise power.
That would be assault. Think I would rather pour itching powder, ants, or roaches on them, or maybe all those things. No real damages to sue for.
Mental Anguish
Under UK common law force can be used to stop a criminal act which leads to a jail sentence. Criminal damage if the damage caused is more than £5k can mean a jail sentence. So a valid defence to assault is that since the painting is irreplaceable then the cost of the damage would be assumed to be very high. Therefore force can be used.
“Two people deny criminal damage after soup thrown on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting” is the non-gender specific headline in the British non-binary online newspaper The Independent.
Don’t those two non-binary identities realize that sunflowers are a possible source of climate-friendly biofuel substitutes for diesel engines and heating oil burners? Shame on them.
Maybe it’s a subtle pro-Russian / anti-Ukraine statement. Or just anti-what-ever’s-required-to-grow-sunflowers.
Sunflower seeds are a favourite of most over-wintering birds here. Clearly it was an anti-avian act by birdbrains. (No insult intended to actual birds, some who are highly intelligent)
I’d suggest a term of agricultural work for these two. Plowing and haying using horses and stooking by hand comes to mind. Maybe if they spent enough time productively outdoors they’d become less paranoid about weather.
Good.
But I would prefer to see them glued to the pedals and saddle of a bicycle-generator.
For a looooong time.
I question the intelligence of anything that drinks their own bathwater.
The headline still assumes they are ‘people’ when these days they could identify as fur-kin masquerading as human to gain entry to the museum. Rampant speciesism.
I wonder if J. Paul Getty is rolling over in his grave.
Fetal Green Syndrome
More like, Fatal Green Syndrome.
The two kids should be prosecuted, however it’s time to start going after those who fund and organize these stunts as well.
It is definitely time to go after the funders of this insanity.
Fine the organisation the full insurance value of the painting – if they can’t or won’t pay then suspend the organisation’s bank accounts and seize their assets. If the individuals have committed a crime then give them a custodial sentence that’ll stay with them for the rest of their lives.
Someone should suggest that to the gallery’s lawyers. But that would mean actually standing up to the green mob.
They evidently never had the rule of education applied to the seat of learning.
There are no foolish teen pranks that a good cane cannot knock out of a spoilt brat.
You mean government and those who print.
Just say Gogh!
Well, I guess the museum knows who to charge for the cost of cleaning & conservation of the painting.
government
Of course, fabulously wealthy heiresses fund this nonsense! But I have to wonder, how much of that funding reaches the young lackeys who do the actual work/vandalism? I mean, a couple of cheap T-shirts, some hair dye, and canned (non-organic!) soup are their tools, and that can be had for peanuts. My guess is the middlemen have extra money for their assorted yachts, private jets, and exotic vacations.
Convict and sentence the vandals to prison until damages are paid to find out. Either the sponsors bail them out or have problems recruiting the next cadre of dupes.
I always wonder how organisations like WWF, Client Earth, Greenpeace etc fund their multiple offices, salaries and conference attendees et al. I don’t think it is possible to have operations of their scale based on the change dropped in the tins at check outs. I once tried to work back through Client Earth’s accounts and my recollection is that a large portion came from the European Commission via other “charity” NGOs. Funding someone to take legal action against you strikes me as an odd thing to do and I can only conclude it is a way of avoiding responsibility for actions that you want to take but don’t want to won.
*won=own
Sue and Settle. Mostly federal agencies.
Anyone else notice that the video was not in the ubiquitous I phone vertical format? That hints at pre-positioned media and possible insider involvement. If I were on the governance board for the gallery, then the senior staff would be on notice of possible dismissal with cause following the results of a third- party full investigation of the incident and how it occurred.
I have a camera that fits in the palm of my hand and records at 1080p with a 16:9 format. It’s common and not expensive.
They rotated their phone that’s all.
Remind me, how do you make pink hair dye? 100% organic and sustainable is it?
Also of notes is these people are part of some sort of splinter group. This is worthy of discussion.
‘We’ are expected to comply to a new set of rules for the Greater Good (The Greater Good) but these people demanding our compliance cannot even agree on their own structure and organisation.
If there is anything good about the Left mindset it is that the inbuilt selfishness and belief that ‘they’ and ‘they’ only know what is best for everyone else prevents their groups from ever getting along with each other for long enough to do any real damage.
Beetroot.
Yep , you are never progressive enough therefore another progressive is your biggest enemy.
Show me the green[backs]!
So, what is new?
The Australian newspaper, January 1979, Great Barrier Reef.
“The Queensland Government wants any possibility of oil drilling to proceed,
regardless of consequences, according to the director of the Australian Littoral Society, Mr. Edward Hegerl.
“In the same way some Queensland Cabinet ministers would be capable of using the Mona Lisa for kindling a fire on a cold night”, Mr. Hegerl said in Sydney yesterday.”
Reader (me) responds
“The Mona Lisa, Mr. Hegerl, is an oil painting, not a water colour.”
Geoff S
“There’s nothing new here, whiny narcissistic children prattling on in their deluded sense of moral superiority”
Children of very famous accomplished rich folk commonly have serious self-image issues, a self-destructive tendency, and are searchers for meaning (a how-do-you-follow-an-act-like-daddy’s syndrome). In the case of Getty, what better way to do this than to ‘cancel ‘ Daddy himself. Cast Daddy as an evil destroyer of the planet and use his money to fix it. Who’s the mover and shaker in the Getty family now, huh?
It gets better.
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/
Under ‘About’
“Getty advances and shares the world’s visual art and cultural heritage for the benefit of all.”
Ms. Getty is even canceling Daddy’s good deeds! Cultural heritage for the benefit of all? Pass another can of soup! Ms Getty is a garden variety, shallow, hateful, empty-handed little twirp. She’s not trying to save the planet. She’s having a public hatefest with her grandfather. She’ll be remembered for her tantrums.
empty-headed! @ur momisugly#$^
Does anyone else on here remember the great Douglas Sirk movie “Tarnished Angels”?
It’s impact investment. Fund the nutty green groups, fund the university courses on climate change, create the problem so you can sell the solution. The impressionable youth are being used yet again.
You did not notice the connections? It’s oil money (Getty Oil) and the old man was a huge art collector (5000pcs?) even including some Van Gogh! This wastrel granddaughter hasn’t the brains to be a bit unpredictable. She’s blowing the fortune canceling her Grampa.
All you need to do is look at their stupid faces to know these morons are clueless and inconsequential.
Clueless certainly, if only they were glueless that would be an advantage for society.
They were picked for their age and judicial treatment at that age.
I am in favour of crowdfunding a proper Anti-activist/E-R vigilante group.
Local members are activated within mins by SMS-text, and mysteriously appear from all over the UK to kick the living daylights out of any nutter that wants to commit vandalism/glue themselves to something to impeded other citizen’s work.
Lightning action, very little regrets
I predict it would have instant success and make the even more clueless b…astards in the UK police look so woefully incompetent they would be begging for mercy within 3 days.
Very big negative reaction to these braindead children in French twitter, with a few notable exceptions:
retweeting conureCC
That was an unbalanced buddhist activist who’d been searching for a cause to die for; well he found one. Not a huge amount more to be said really.
I retract. That was more lukewarm than frank. Plenty of support from the intelligentsia: yes it’s X but Y.
Or: do you think we will have any nature to portrait in the climatic future anyway?
Not sure it was reported much because what can anyone say … seek help
One of the very few French twittos who supports the stunt:
https://nitter.net/sychazot/status/1580922486279241728#m
And thanks to Bouli (French twitter account) for tracking these morons.
Tomato soup is slightly acidic. Hopefully an art restorer can clean up what these brats did.
glass-covered, all for show
Why not go to China and India to pull stunts like this? They’re the two big CO2 emitters now, especially China. Maybe its because India is jailing climate protesters now. One of the prominent ones is being charged with sedition.
Greenpeace tried to disrupt oil production in the Russian Arctic once and for all time!! Their ship was boarded from the sky, seized and 39 on board arrested. They were held in the Murmansk jail from early October 2013 to a bail hearing Nov 24th. The cells had barred windows but no glass to keep Arctic weather out! They finally released all but 3 Russian nationals who were released later.
The West, having been held hostage for 3+ decades by ecolo-marxists, will hopefully be less acquiescent to the tyranny of this lot following the crumbling of the whole enterprise currently in progress. Surely there will be class actions, charges and boilerplate laws and Constitutional amendments to protect the core requirements of civilization: the institution the family, cheap reliable energy and fuels, true democracy, true freedom of speech, make it illegal to cancel someone and outlaw extraterritorial, non elected interventions in political, economic and cultural matters. Probably there’s a dozen more things.
I think we can conclude that the “time out” generation didn’t produce as good of citizens as the “ass beating” generation.