‘We’re not criminals’: what Just Stop Oil’s poster girls told me

Whatever you think of Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland’s decision to throw soup at one of the world’s most famous paintings, it is undeniable that their act of eco-protest has had an unusual cut-through.

The two Just Stop Oil activists are likely to be given jail terms in September after being found guilty of criminal damage for throwing the contents of two tins of tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers in the National Gallery in London.

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The real reason Just Stop Oil target airports

Just Stop Oil’s campaign to infuriate ordinary people has moved up a gear. After bringing traffic to a standstill and disrupting play at the snooker, now its activists are targeting those havens of peace, harmony and low blood pressure: Britain’s bustling airports during the school summer holidays.

A group of JSOers sat themselves down on the floor and locked their hands together at Gatwick’s south terminal yesterday, in an attempt to block the path through security. (Intrepid holidaymakers merely stepped over them and they were swiftly removed.) Now, JSO poster girl Phoebe Plummer – fresh from her conviction for throwing soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers – has popped up at a protest in which paint was sprayed around Heathrow Airport.

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GUNTER: Parks Canada’s wokeism doomed Jasper

Bureaucracy and environmental wokeism did in Jasper.

Wait for it. There will be an onslaught of accusations that climate change is behind the devastation that occurred in the lovely mountain resort in Alberta.

Environmentalists, academics and the current Liberal government have blamed the Fort McMurray fire in 2016, the Lytton fire in 2021 and last summer’s Quebec fires on climate change. Why not blame it for Jasper 2024, too?

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Just Stop Oil Activists Who Threw Tomato Soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Get Prison Time

Two activists from the protest group Just Stop Oil have been found guilty of criminal damage after throwing tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh‘s Sunflowers.

On October 14 of2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw soup at the painting, housed at the at the National Gallery of Art in London, before super-glueing their hands to the nearby wall.

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I Wrote an Article for Forbes Defending J.D. Vance From Accusations of ‘Climate Denialism’. Forty Eight Hours Later, Forbes Un-Published the Article and Sacked Me as a Contributor

An article I wrote for Forbes about J.D. Vance published on July 18th began as follows:

Within a day of ex-President Trump’s announcement of “climate denier” Mr. J. D. Vance as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, the climate industrial complex and supportive mainstream media had the knives out.

Little did I know that within a day of publishing that article, the knives would come out for me. 

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Hundreds of celebrities rail against ‘injustice’ of Just Stop Oil sentences

Celebrities for public nuisances

More than 700 lawyers, celebrities and artists have called for an urgent meeting with the attorney-general to address the “injustice” of the historic sentences handed to five environmental activists for peaceful protest.

Roger Hallam, 58, was last week jailed for five years for co-ordinating the protest that disrupted the M25 in London over four days in 2022, during which 45 protesters climbed gantries on the motorway, forcing police to stop traffic. Daniel Shaw, 38, Lucia Whittaker de Abreu, 35, Louise Lancaster, 58, and Cressida Gethin, 22, were each given four years after being found guilty along with Hallam of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.

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We’re all getting sick of the lectures on climate change

In theory, people being more political sounds great. Less dreary conversations about the weather and the ‘footie’, and more water-coolers surrounded with colleagues fizzing with enthusiasm about democracy and its pleasures. But the actual practice of this presupposes that we will all be open-minded and curious and – unless we are extremely learned about something – that the opinion of all citizens shall be equal. Above all, it fails to observe that pontificating about something you’re not an expert in – just because you have a more elevated station than the people you’re preaching to – totally negates this democratic dream. It simply sets the stage for a silly symphony of busybodies.

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Anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson arrested in Greenland. He faces possible extradition to Japan

BERLIN (AP) — Greenland police said they apprehended veteran environmental activist and anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan.

Watson, a 73-year-old Canadian-American citizen, is a former head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society whose direct action tactics, including high-seas confrontations with whaling vessels, have drawn support from A-list celebrities and featured in the reality television series “Whale Wars.”

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Global Greening Becomes so Obvious That Climate Alarmists Start Arguing We Need to “Save the Deserts”!

The world is ‘greening’ at an astonishing and rapidly growing rate and deserts are shrinking almost everywhere you look. All due, it seems, to a natural rise in carbon ‘plant food’ dioxide, not forgetting the small annual 4% portion contributed by humans burning hydrocarbons. Inconvenient to the political Net Zero narrative of course – along with high numbers of polar bears, cyclical recovery in Arctic sea ice and recent record growth of coral on the Great Barrier Reef – so there is naturally little mention in mainstream media and politics. “Desertification is turning the Earth barren,” reports the Guardian, and the expansion of drylands is leaving entire countries “facing famine”. Great story, shame about the facts. A recent article in Yale Environment 360 states that rather than shrivelling and dying, vegetation is growing faster and deserts are retreating.

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Just Stop Oil ‘spiritual leader’ jailed for five years for M25 protest

The “spiritual leader” of Just Stop Oil has received the longest ever sentence for non-violent protest after being found guilty of conspiring to disrupt the M25.

Roger Hallam, 57, a farmer from Wales, has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance for co-ordinating protests on London’s orbital motorway over four days in 2022.

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World would need 55 per cent more copper mines to meet EV transition goals: study

The transition to greener, more sustainable transportation is impracticable as copper mine production cannot keep up with the rising global demand for electric vehicles, according to a new study.

“I think there’s a disconnect between, what the intentions are to meet the global warming challenges and the reality of the materials that are going to be required,” said Dr. Lawrence Cathles, an earth and atmospheric sciences professor at Cornell University.

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Environmentalists Killed Logging to Protect Owls. Now They Want to Kill the Owls.

Thirty-five years after “save a logger, eat an owl” could be seen across the Pacific Northwest, the government environmentalists at US Fish and Wildlife want to kill half a million owls…to save the owls.

In a world of transgender surgeries, terrorist cryptocurrencies, and senile presidents, the Owl Wars that entered the 1990 presidential election seem implausible. But they cost tens of thousands of jobs, wiped out sizable amounts of the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest, and helped solidify Oregon and Washington as hipster strongholds no Republican could win.

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Joe Oliver: Scientific method counters climate alarmism

An expert opinion, submitted pro bono last November to the Hague Court of Appeals by three eminent American scientists, presents a devastating refutation of climate catastrophism. Their conclusions contradict alarmists’ sacred beliefs, including that anthropogenic carbon dioxide will cause dangerous climate change, thus obliterating the desirability, let alone the need, for net-zero policies that by 2050 would inflict US$275 trillion in useless expenditures on wealthy countries and harm the poorest people in the world’s poorest economies. Predictably, the study has been ignored by mainstream media.

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