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Just Stop Oil spray orange paint on four more buildings in London

The group said the buildings were chosen to represent the pillars that support and maintain the power of the fossil fuel economy.

ACTIVISTS HAVE SPRAYED orange paint on buildings in central London, demanding that the British government halt all new oil and gas licences and consents.

Just Stop Oil said its supporters sprayed paint from fire extinguishers on the Home Office, the MI5 building, the Bank of England and the headquarters of News Corp at London Bridge this morning.

The group said the buildings were chosen to represent the pillars that support and maintain the power of the fossil fuel economy.

Scotland Yard said protesters threw paint in a number of locations, naming Marsham Street, Millbank, London Bridge and Threadneedle Street.

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“Officers responded quickly to all incidents and a number of people have now been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage,” the force tweeted.

City of London Police said two people were arrested outside the Bank of England.

A Just Stop Oil spokesperson said: “We are not prepared to stand by and watch while everything we love is destroyed, while vulnerable people go hungry and fossil fuel companies and the rich profit from our misery.

“The era of fossil fuels should be long gone, but the creeping tentacles of fossil fuel interests continue to corrupt our politics, government and the media, as they have for decades.

“How else do you explain a Government ignoring sensible no-brainer policies like renewables, insulation and public transport, which would cut our energy bills and our carbon emissions, in favour of corrupt schemes to drill for uneconomic oil and gas at taxpayers expense?

“Well we’re done with begging. We are acting to stop new oil and gas because it is the right thing to do.

“As citizens, as parents we have every right under British law to protect ourselves and those we love.”

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    Mute John Long
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    Mar 14th 2023, 3:50 PM

    Stomach churning stuff!

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    Mar 14th 2023, 4:45 PM

    This just goes to show you the lengths that people will go to too to lose weight when they are desperate.
    Get Wegovy on the market now! Get people having conversations with their doctors and start taking a product in a controlled manner.
    Cap the price of each pen to €100 and make it easily accessible for everybody!

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    Mar 14th 2023, 7:38 PM

    @Fi Wyse: Exercise is free and not eating dirt is a money saver.

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    Mar 14th 2023, 9:20 PM

    @Don’t Forget: well straight away you have no idea how obesity works with an ill informed comment like that. Unfortunately eating less and moving more, while it does work for a very large portion of the population does not work for everybody because we don’t all share the same metabolic rates and DNA makeup. If you want to talk about this offline and in an adult manner drop me a message on Facebook and we’ll discuss it and I’ll go through the facts with you based on my own case history.

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    Mar 14th 2023, 11:20 PM

    @Fi Wyse: Hashimotos sufferer here, well aware of how the “eat less, move more” mantra that people like Don’t Forget spout is wrong and overgeneralizing

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    Mar 15th 2023, 5:58 AM

    @Tina Kelly: It’s kinda funny really, the narrative is changing now, the medics know they got it wrong. Weight Watchers the largest slimming group in the world has acquired Sequence in America a telemedical company in the US to prescribe GLP1 meds to people.
    That tells you everything that you need to know. We are on the right path to helping people suffering with food issues all their life. Telling a larger person to just stop eating, ignore cravings and exercise is like telling a depressed person to exercise and be happy or a drug addict to just stop injecting heroin with no meds or therapy to help them. Their bias is sickening and its time to call people out on this.

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    Mar 15th 2023, 6:05 AM

    @Tina Kelly: of course you can be guaranteed that Don’t Forget will never contact me to educate himself and will continue to spout incorrect waffle!

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    Mar 15th 2023, 8:34 AM

    @Fi Wyse: was prescribed ozempic last September in hospital when my hashimotos was diagnosed after years of hypothyroidism, by Christmas my thyroid blood tests were showing signs of returning to normal levels. They are life-changing drugs and not just for their weight loss side effect.

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    Mar 15th 2023, 8:39 AM

    @Tina Kelly: I’m on it myself the last 6 months, two stone down, no joint pain, able to really enjoy my weightlifting now and all my other exercise pain free, so much more enjoyable than what it was before, because ya know I was still doing that ‘free’ exercise but not getting to where I needed to be (insert rolley eyes here)

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    Mar 14th 2023, 4:13 PM

    Botox in your stomach!?!?

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    Mar 14th 2023, 5:44 PM

    @Gearóid MacEachaidh: Far better than in the liathróidí.

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    Mar 14th 2023, 8:23 PM

    They should have walked to Turkey.

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    Mar 15th 2023, 5:56 AM

    Desperation leads to desperate measures, many more cases like this need to be highlighted more often, people going for dental treatment also, in many cases are over treated by giving multiple Crowns, Veneers, Implants etc where they are not needed, it can very often take a couple of months before realising the level of damage that has been done to the mouth.

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