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DoomsdaysCWCommentary: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterProtectors</a> on trial again as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenpeace</a> case begins in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorthDakota</a> by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WinonaLaDuke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WinonaLaDuke</a> February 24, 2025 Excerpt: "North Dakota v. USA"In March of last year, I was a federal witness in the North Dakota v. United States of America trial in Bismarck, where North Dakota charged that the United States Army Corps of Engineers had caused the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingRock</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resistance</a> by issuing a conditional use permit for the flood plain. Attorneys asked if I came to Standing Rock resistance camp because the Army Corps issued a permit. My response: No. I came for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a>,and I came because <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaDonnaBraveBull" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaDonnaBraveBull</a> Allard asked me to come. I came because <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Enbridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Enbridge</a>, the Canadian <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pipeline</a> company, had proposed a Sandpiper <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pipeline</a> across our territory in northern Minnesota and we defeated them, only to find that they later financed 28% of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccessPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DakotaAccessPipeline</a>. I came for the water."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyTransfer</a> v. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenpeace</a>"There’s another big trial starting Monday in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MandanNorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MandanNorthDakota</a>, too, in Morton County District Court. There, Judge James Gion will preside over a jury trial in the case of Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace. Energy Transfer charges that Greenpeace effectively orchestrated and was a force driving the Standing Rock resistance. That allegation is pretty surprising to the thousands of people who came to Standing Rock without even hearing about Greenpeace being there. That case will be heard behind <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClosedDoors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClosedDoors</a>, no livestreaming, and yet somehow a judge in a small county without a law clerk will make sure the justice of a jury trial is carried out. The case with a multitude of pretrial motions is described as the largest in North Dakota history, so carrying out justice, well that’s a challenge."'This is a pretty ludicrous accusation,' noted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepaPadmanabha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepaPadmanabha</a>, Greenpeace’s senior legal counsel, responding to charges that Greenpeace effectively orchestrated and was a force driving the Standing Rock resistance. 'Standing Rock was one of the largest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a>-led protests in history. It was a grassroots-led resistance, and the idea that Greenpeace orchestrated it is a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racist</a> attempt to erase <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousHistory</a>.'"But it might be what you’d expect from a company whose CEO once said that protesters who damaged construction equipment should be 'removed from the gene pool.'"I’d encourage you to watch the trial online, but unfortunately, Judge Gion has denied a motion to arrange for the trial to be streamed online."As The Wall Street Journal reported in September, 'both sides expect a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuel</a> - friendly jury.' Check out the 'community' page on the company’s daplpipelinefacts.com website and you’ll understand why. There’s a picture of Mandan town employees appreciatively holding up a giant check representing Energy Transfer’s $3 million donation to upgrade the town’s library and other infrastructure."Energy Transfer is suing Greenpeace for damages, initially proposed at $300 million, in what Greenpeace has called an effort to bankrupt the organization. Greenpeace is the 50-year-old environmental organization which has been part of opposing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearTesting</a> in the Pacific, saving <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/whales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whales</a> from factory <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trawlers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trawlers</a>, and challenging <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOil</a>. That’s something you are not supposed to do in North Dakota, it seems, where oil money slicks through all the systems. In North Dakota, the message seems to be, No one should oppose a pipeline project. No one." Read more: <a href="https://northdakotamonitor.com/2025/02/24/greenpeace-dakota-access-trial-commentary/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://northdakotamonitor.com/2025/02/24/greenpeace-dakota-access-trial-commentary/</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandWithStandingRock</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoDAPL</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KelcyWarren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KelcyWarren</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandWithStandingRock</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOilAndGas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingRock</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SLAPPs</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoDAPL</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPsLawsuits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SLAPPsLawsuits</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SilencingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyTransfer</a>

DoomsdaysCWThe Circus is Coming to Town -- The Bizarre Lawsuit of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyTransfer</a> v <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenpeace</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedWarriorSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RedWarriorSociety</a>by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CensoredNews</a>, January 1, 2025"It's the most bizarre lawsuit -- Energy Transfer v Greenpeace and Red Warrior Society, eight years later."There are loads of documents hidden away with 'confidential' stamps in the court records, and a whole lot of players -- governors, Congressmen, and law enforcement, in the shadows."The fragments, , between the blackouts of 'redacted,' show that the head of Energy Transfer hasn't been answering all the questions in depositions. Other snippets show that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilPipeline</a> doesn't want to reveal its spills, and whether there's been contamination already into the water at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingRock</a>."Meanwhile, there's a 'newspaper' tainting the potential jurors, attorneys say, which promotes the sheriff."And where are all the files on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TigerSwan</a>, the paid <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FBI</a> informants, and the military <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpecialOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpecialOps</a>? Tens of thousands of documents of TigerSwan were gained by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheIntercept" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheIntercept</a> in another court battle."Where are the files on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drone</a> being shot down by law enforcement, the U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BorderPatrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BorderPatrol</a>'s surveillance plane, and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BIA</a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> van parked at the casino, with undercover officers wandering around inside?"The judge, appointed by the governor, won't recuse himself."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnicornRiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnicornRiot</a> media is in Minneapolis Supreme Court fighting the pipeline's subpoena to seize its confidential media records."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterProtectors</a> and media have been served with third party subpoenas by the pipeline for this fishing expedition for their info. "And it's all coming to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MandanNorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MandanNorthDakota</a>, at the end of February, to North Dakota's District Court, home to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MortonCountySheriff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MortonCountySheriff</a>. "It's a $300 million <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SLAPP</a> lawsuit to shut them down, says Greenpeace. Greenpeace said there was a large dump of records into the case. "Stay tuned, and dig through the files -- good luck."<a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-circus-is-coming-to-town-bizarre.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-circus-is-coming-to-town-bizarre.html</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReaderSupportedNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoDAPL</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandWithStandingRock</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPsLawsuits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SLAPPsLawsuits</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SilencingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a>

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