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DONKEY: Oil Protesters Arrested After Throwing Tomato Soup at Van Gogh Painting · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Ikey's Donkey, Yes donkey Today from Monday, October seventeenth goes
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  Speaker 1: the members of a group called Just Stop Oil. Who
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  Speaker 1: is Just Stop Oil? They are a bunch of climate
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  Speaker 1: protesters and they protect They protest the extraction and use
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  Speaker 1: of fossil fuels. Noble cause, very honorable. It's really amazing
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  Speaker 1: to me how God gave us everything we needed to
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  Speaker 1: survive and thrive here on this third rock from the sun,
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  Speaker 1: and we have found a way to mess it up. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we don't, we don't. We didn't take care of earth,
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  Speaker 1: so wat should the earth take care of us? So
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate these organizations like Just Stop Oil. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: their attempts to save us from themselves. But protests have
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  Speaker 1: to make sense, and this protest makes absolutely no sense.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to ABC News for the report. Police two
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  Speaker 1: protesters who are arrested for vandalizing a masterpiece by Van
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  Speaker 1: Go at the National Gallery in London. Climate activists throwing
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  Speaker 1: but authorities. They appeared to be tomato soup on Van
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  Speaker 1: Go's famous Sunflowers painting, then gluing their hands to the wall.
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  Speaker 1: The painting protected by glass. It was not damaged. How
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  Speaker 1: in the hell, does vandalism of a van go equate
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  Speaker 1: to a protest of the use of fossil fuels? Score me,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how it was pouring two cans of
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  Speaker 1: tomato soup on a van Go painting a protest. The
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  Speaker 1: painting was protected by glass who it didn't self any damages,
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  Speaker 1: so what was the point? Then they decided to glue
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  Speaker 1: their hands to the wall just under the van Go.
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  Speaker 1: What is worth more are our life? One of the
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  Speaker 1: protesters said. Is it worth more than food? Worth more
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  Speaker 1: than justice? The activists yelled, adding, are you more concerned
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  Speaker 1: about the protection of a painting or the protection of
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  Speaker 1: our planet in people? Great question. I personally care about
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  Speaker 1: the protection of our planet in people. But I can
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  Speaker 1: see a security guard who works there at the National
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  Speaker 1: Gallery right now in that moment caring more about the
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  Speaker 1: protection of that painting. So you, my friends, are under
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  Speaker 1: arrest for vandalism, okay. The activists said they use soup
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  Speaker 1: to show that the cost of living the cost of
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  Speaker 1: living crisis is part of the cost of oil crisis.
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  Speaker 1: She said fuel is unaffordable with the millions of cold
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  Speaker 1: hungry families, and being that fuel is so high, it
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  Speaker 1: makes it to where they can't even afford to heat
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  Speaker 1: a tent of soup. Interesting, well, instead of wasting that
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  Speaker 1: soup pouring pouring in on the van go, how about
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  Speaker 1: donate the soup to those same families you say can't
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  Speaker 1: even afford the tent of soup. Huh, just the thought. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is a thing where a lot of members of
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  Speaker 1: the Just Stop Oil team are gluing their hands the
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  Speaker 1: frames of famous paintings, and I am here to tell
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  Speaker 1: you it's all a waste of glue. Okay. I know
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  Speaker 1: that you think you are bringing attention to this situation,
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  Speaker 1: and you are, but not for the right reason. See,
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing. If you want people to care, then
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  Speaker 1: you have to damage something a mass majority of people
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  Speaker 1: care about. Okay, Van goes, I mean that's what the
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  Speaker 1: bougie and the leader of the world. You gotta attempt
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  Speaker 1: to damage something that a massive amount of people use
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  Speaker 1: and care about it. Go damage a Chick fil A
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  Speaker 1: or something, all right, glue yourself to a counter a
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  Speaker 1: Chick fil A and keep everyone from getting that number
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  Speaker 1: one with cheese. Okay, you damage and glue yourself to
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  Speaker 1: something that's more than that, more than a niche group
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  Speaker 1: of people care about glue yourself to in these cheeks. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure somebody will pay attention in and I understand
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  Speaker 1: the Van Goal is one of the most valuable paintings
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  Speaker 1: in the world, and this worth for a lot. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't think a massive majority of people care about
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  Speaker 1: that level of elitism. Okay, damaging a van Goal and
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  Speaker 1: more of a protest against capitalism. Maybe I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just know that the more I talk about this,
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  Speaker 1: the more I forget what the hell they were protesting
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  Speaker 1: to begin with, and that is the point. Please give
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  Speaker 1: the members of the group, just stop oil the biggest
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  Speaker 1: sea hall got to think these protests a little. I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm through a little bit more. That's all, all right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for that. Don't here to day