Big Oil heiress funding
‘Just Stop Oil’ group that threw soup on Van Gogh painting (Connecting the Dots: Anna Getty, the
Environmental Working Group, Global Green USA, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ted Turner And
His Daughter & Soros Funded Think Tanks All Networking)
The granddaughter
of Getty Oil magnate is the founding donor of an org that funds Just Stop Oil
and other similar groups
CLIMATE CHANGE
Published October 14, 2022 2:40pm EDT
By Thomas
Catenacci | Fox News
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.
"We're in
this kind of surreal situation in which scientists are telling us this is the
point of no return. And yet all of our institutions — they're all just marching
forward with a little bit of window dressing talk about sustainability, but
basically continuing as usual," Margaret Klein Salamon, CEF's executive
director, said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.
Aileen Getty, the granddaughter of the Getty Oil founder, is the founding donor of the Climate Emergency Fund, the lead donor of Just Stop Oil and other global climate protest groups. (Prime Surgeons/YouTube/Screenshot)
"So these
activists intervene and they say, 'Things are not normal. They're so bad that
I'm gonna do this crazy thing and glue myself to a painting or a frame.' It only
makes sense because of how absolutely terrible the climate emergency is,"
Salamon continued.
CEF states on its
website that it works with, and is the lead funder of, the A22 Network, which
it adds that is planning an "October uprising." On its site, the A22
Network acknowledges that CEF is the primary funder of it and its "11
member project's recruitment, training, and capacity building."
On Friday, Just
Stop Oil activists were
arrested by London police after they poured tomato soup on a
Vincent van Gogh painting, worth millions of dollars, at a museum.
"What use is art when we face the collapse of civil society?" Just Stop Oil said in a statement following the action. "The art establishment, artists and the art-loving public need to step up into Civil Resistance if they want to live in a world where humans are around to appreciate art."
Just Stop Oil
protesters are pictured after throwing soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888
work Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London on Friday. (Just Stop
Oil via AP)
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.
"It's clear
that new oil and gas is going to cause unimaginable suffering for the people of
this country and, indeed, the people around the world who are suffering at the
expense of climate change now," a Just Stop Oil spokesperson told Fox News
Digital when asked about the group's tactics in July.
Through the first
four months of 2022, CEF contributed a whopping $650,000 to Just Stop Oil and
other protest groups, The Guardian reported in April. Just Stop Oil alone has
received hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Declare
Emergency, another A22 Network organization, has made headlines in the U.S.
for blocking
traffic near Washington, D.C., in an effort to convince President
Biden to declare a "climate emergency."
Just Stop Oil
didn't respond to a request for comment.
Connecting
the Dots:
Anna Getty is a board member for the Environmental Working Group and was a board member for Global Green USA.
Schmidt
Family Foundation was a funder for the Environmental Working Group, the New
America Foundation and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Eric
E. Schmidt is a co-founder for the Schmidt Family Foundation, the chairman of
the New America Foundation,
married to Wendy Schmidt and was a funder for the New America Foundation.
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the New America Foundation.
Terry Tamminen was
a senior fellow & climate policy director at the New America Foundation
and the secretary for the California
Environmental Protection Agency.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation
and the Natural Resources
Defense Council.
George Soros was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Natural Resources Defense Council was a major opponent for the California Proposition 23.
Wendy Schmidt is
a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense
Council, married to Eric E.
Schmidt, the president & co-founder for the Schmidt Family Foundation and was a major
opponent for the California Proposition 23.
Leonardo DiCaprio is
a trustee at the Natural Resources
Defense Council and was a board
member for Global Green USA.
Robert Redford is
a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense
Council and an honorary board member for Green Cross International.
Global Green USA is a US affiliate of Green Cross International.
Anna Getty was a
board member for Global Green USA and is a board member for the Environmental Working Group.
Mikhail
Gorbachev is
the founder of Green Cross International
and was the general secretary for the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union.
Ted Turner is an
honorary board member for Green Cross
International the founder of CNN, a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and Laura Turner Seydel’s father.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Laura Turner
Seydel is Ted Turner’s daughter, a board member for the Environmental Working Group and a trustee at the Waterkeeper Alliance.
Anna Getty is a board
member for the Environmental Working Group and was a board member for Global Green USA.
Global Green USA is a US affiliate of Green Cross International.
Mikhail Gorbachev is
the founder of Green Cross International,
was the general secretary for the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Robert S. Strauss was
the U.S. ambassador for the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (USSR), and a senior adviser for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Committee
for a Responsible Federal Budget was housed at the New America Foundation.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation
and Natural Resources Defense Council.
George Soros was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the New America Foundation.
Schmidt
Family Foundation was a funder for the New America Foundation, the Natural Resources Defense Council
and the Environmental Working Group.
Anna Getty is a
board member for the Environmental Working
Group and was a board member
for Global Green USA.
Laura Turner Seydel is a board member for the Environmental Working Group, Ted Turner’s daughter and a trustee at the Waterkeeper Alliance.
Wendy M. Abrams is
a board member for the Waterkeeper Alliance and a friend of Rahm
I. Emanuel.
Rahm I. Emanuel is
a friend of Wendy M. Abrams, was
the Chicago (IL) mayor and
the White House chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.
Ann Colley is a
trustee at the Waterkeeper Alliance and a director at the Riverkeeper.
Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. was the founder of the Waterkeeper
Alliance, a senior attorney for the Natural
Resources Defense Council and is
a director at the Riverkeeper.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Natural Resources Defense Council and the New
America Foundation.
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Schmidt
Family Foundation was a funder for the Natural Resources Defense Council, the New America Foundation
and the Environmental Working Group.
Anna Getty is a
board member for the Environmental Working
Group and was a board member
for Global Green USA.
Natural
Resources Defense Council was a major opponent for the California Proposition 23.
L. John Doerr was
a major opponent for the California
Proposition 23, a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
George Soros was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Walter Isaacson
is the president & CEO for the Aspen
Institute (think tank) and was
the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Ted Turner is the
founder of CNN, an honorary board
member for Green Cross International,
a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank) and Laura Turner Seydel’s father.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the Aspen
Institute (think tank)
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Hisashi Owada is
a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank) and was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Resources:
Past Research
Ignoring Drought, U.S.
to Divert Water to Mexico for Environmental Project (Past
Research on the Getty family)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
21, 2014
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/11/ignoring-drought-us-to-divert-water-to.html
Charleston: CNN’s Sick
Pattern of Using the Dead as Political Weapons Against the Right (Past Research on CNN)
SATURDAY, JUNE
20, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/06/charleston-cnns-sick-pattern-of-using.html
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