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Greenpeace is one of most visible environmental groups in the world.

It was launched more than 50 years ago in Canada and has been active in its chosen wars against global warming, deforestation, fishing, whaling and more.

But its American division now it is facing an existential threat in the form of a lawsuit over its work with others, including Indian tribes, to attack the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,200-mile pipeline project to move crude oil from the Bakken Shale field to Illinois.

The Wall Street Journal, in fact, said it appears fossil-fuel billionaire Kelcy Warren is about to land "a knockout punch" on the organization.

His company, Energy Transfer, was behind the pipeline, and his lawsuit is over the Greenpeace group's obstruction.

He's seeking $300 million in damages over the project that eventually was completed.

The confrontations developed starting in 2016 when Greenpeace, Indian tribes and others literally camped out in North Dakota to impede the work on the project.

"Warren sees green activists, who he once said should be 'removed from the gene pool,' as a serious threat to the industry. Starting with protests of Keystone XL, which successfully derailed that project, activists have targeted pipelines across the country," the report explained.

He said, in a previous interview, "Everybody is afraid of these environmental groups and the fear that it may look wrong if you fight back with these people. But what they did to us is wrong, and they're gonna pay for it."

He's worth an estimated $7 billion, and his lawsuit charges that Greenpeace groups incited the Dakota Access protests, "funded attacks to damage the pipeline, and spread misinformation about the company and its project," the report said.

It is going to trial in February in the fossil fuel-friendly North Dakota.

Greenpeace has claimed it played a limited role in the protests, but leaders acknowledge that the threat of massive damages makes the case an existential threat.

"Greenpeace says losing its affiliate—and influence—in the U.S. would have a profound impact on the group's ability to address climate change," the report said.

Indian tribes claimed the pipeline threatened sacred sites and drinking water.

The report noted, "In Warren's view, Greenpeace was largely to blame for a construction delay he said cost the company millions of dollars, and Energy Transfer sued the group for $300 million under a law created to prosecute the mafia that could allow the company to claim triple that amount. When a federal judge dismissed the suit, the company filed a new one in a North Dakota state court."

A Greenpeace official said a negative outcome for the environmental group would set a "really dangerous precedent."

Greenpeace, which has admitted it could lose the case, has prepared contingencies, including bankruptcy.

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JERUSALEM –– A new report into the BBC's coverage of the Israel-Hamas war revealed Britain's flagship news service broke its own reporting guidelines on more than 1,500 occasions since Hamas' Oct. 7 onslaught.

The research revealed a "deeply worrying pattern of bias" against Israel, according to its authors who analyzed four months of the BBC's output across television, radio, online news, podcasts and social media, according to the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph newspaper.

British-Israeli lawyer Trevor Asserson – a long-term BBC critic – led the research, which used artificial intelligence to analyze a breakdown of certain terms – including "genocide" – over the first four months of the Israel-Hamas war, which produced alarming statistics.

Asserson's team included some 20 researchers and 20 data scientists who, using artificial intelligence, trawled through some nine million words of coverage across several languages and various platforms. The Spectator will release the report – which runs to some 100 pages – on Monday.

Indeed, the analysis showed Israel was linked to the term "genocide" more than 14 times the number Hamas was, despite the fact the Gazan terrorists entered southern Israel on Oct. 7 with the intention – by its own admission – of slaughtering as many Jews as they could get their hands on.

Jewish Chronicle editor Jake Wallis Simons lamented the bare statistics, which he said "appears to be an extraordinary indictment of BBC reporting, which seems to be working to project Hamas propaganda."

The report found that in BBC coverage, Israel was associated with war crimes, genocide, and international law violations far more often than Hamas was. It also claimed that the BBC downplayed Hamas terrorism, and asserted the BBC's Arabic service was among the most biased global media outlets in covering the Israel-Hamas conflict.

While its charter claims it strives for objectivity and balance, this more usually relates to the U.K.'s political scene where it is felt it'd be more problematic if there was an obvious editorial stance. However, over the years its staff has shown a clear bias for Democrats over and above Republican politicians – especially former President Donald Trump – and it has frequently been accused of anti-Israel bias too.

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A team of researchers that included a number of medical experts as well as individuals with creditable science backgrounds has uncovered what is believed to be an "off switch" that could be used by those who were given the COVID-19 mRNA treatments, and now face that possibility of "turbo cancers, heart failure, strokes, blood clots, and damaged immune systems," according to a new report.

It is Slay News that revealed the "historic discovery" that now "offers hope to the billions of people around the world who have been injected with the 'vaccines.'"

The report cites a preprint study called, "Strategic Deactivation of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines: New Applications for RIBOTACs and siRNA Therapy."

The promoters of the experimental treatment originally said the "vaccine" injection would stay in a person's arm but tests show it spreads, which has prompted health experts to express concern about the safety.

The report confirmed the "spike protein triggered by the mRNA from the shots has been linked to multiple deadly diseases and sudden death."

The study, led by renowned American cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, uncovered a novel approach using "small interfering messenger RNA (siRNA) and ribonuclease targeting chimeras (RIBOTACs) to bind and deactivate the mRNA from these vaccines."

The report said evidence is that that process allows a body to clear out mRNA from the injections.

McCullough said he already uses products like "Patisiran" and "Inclisiran" in his practice.

The process is that they "bind up messenger RNA to inactivate it."

That, the report said, hits at the mRNA and its potentially lethal spike protein call and reduces the overall toxicity.

"The urgency for an 'off switch' becomes even more pressing since Moderna's mRNA vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus and influenza were recently approved," the report said.

The threat is, McCullough said, "Without any way to turn off the messenger RNA, we think every single messenger RNA shot, because it's been made synthetic and resistant to human breakdown, is going to make people progressively sick."

Slay News noted McCullough previously raised an alarm after finding data showing that COVID mRNA shots caused an increase in brain clots by 112,000%.

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The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has filed a lawsuit against the city of Surprise, Arizona, and several officials after the mayor decided his policy of not allowing residents to offer any criticism of city officials overruled the U.S. Constitution at council meetings.

WND reported earlier when Mayor Skip Hall ordered resident Rebekah Massie arrested for her speech during a portion of a government meeting set aside for residents' concerns.

She was opposed to a city's decision to give its lawyer even more money.

"I have concerns with allocating more funds to him specifically for a few different reasons," she explained. Her public records requests are under "review" regarding the actions of lawyer Robert Wingo, already one of the highest-paid city officials in the Phoenix region at $265,000.

Hall threatened that she wasn't allowed to make such comments.

"You are violating my First Amendment rights," she said.

"That's your opinion," Hall said.

"It's not a matter of opinion."

Hall then threatened, "Do you want to be escorted out, Ms. Massie? Because that's what's gonna happen. And it's gonna happen in the future also," he responded.

Ultimately, she was arrested, cuffed and accused of trespass, as she shouted: "Are you kidding me?" and "Do not put your hands on me!"

While city officials have to acknowledge they will "Recognize the worth of individual members and appreciate their individual talents, perspectives and contributions" and "Help create an atmosphere of respect and civility where individual members, City staff and the public are free to express their ideas and work to their full potential," that didn't happen.

The dispute arose because of city officials' own insistence that an anti-First Amendment ruled be imposed on residents. It states, "Oral communications during the City Council meeting may not be used to lodge charges or complaints against any employee of the City or members of the body, regardless of whether such person is identified in the presentation by name or by any other reference that tends to identify him/her."

The complaint, filed in federal court in Arizona, lists Rebekah Massie and Quintus Schulzke as plaintiffs and the city and officials Skip Hall and Steven Shernicoff as defendants.

It states, "The Supreme Court has made clear that 'one of the most precious of the liberties safeguarded by the Bill of Rights' is the sacred promise to every American, enshrined in the First Amendment, that citizens enjoy the freedom to complain about their leaders. … But Defendants Surprise, Arizona and its mayor, Skip Hall, broke that promise, arresting Plaintiff Rebekah Massie in front of her 10-year-old daughter for criticizing a public official at a city council meeting.

"Video of the arrest speaks for itself. On August 20, 2024, during the public comment portion of the Surprise City Council meeting, Massie spoke in opposition to a planned pay increase for Surprise's city attorney. But Mayor Hall interrupted her remarks, scolding her for violating a City Council policy prohibiting 'complain[ing]' about public officials. Massie insisted—correctly—that the First Amendment protected her comments. Mayor Hall didn't care…"

Hall then ordered a police officer, Shernicoff, to detain and eject Massie, and he did.

The complaint charges, "When Massie exercised her constitutional right to criticize officials at a city council meeting, a right 'high in the hierarchy of First Amendment values,' Lozman, 585 U.S. at 101, the Council Criticism Policy and Mayor Hall ensured she left the meeting in handcuffs. That might be how repressive regimes treat government critics, but it's an affront to our Constitution. Surprise's sudden move to arrest dissidents and enforce the Council Criticism Policy is casting a cloud of fear over the city. Plaintiff Quintus Schulzke, a frequent speaker at City Council meetings, now fears criticizing Surprise officials, knowing he, like Massie, now risks arrest when he exercises his constitutional rights."

The complaint charges the city is in violation of the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

And, in fact, state law allows the public "to criticize members of a public body during a public comment period."

Massie opposed paying the city lawyer more money, expressing her opinion that he had failed to comply with the Constitution, state law, and his duties of professional conduct.

"Defendants injured Massie by silencing, detaining and arresting her because she criticized government officials – an exercise of rights 'high in the hierarchy of First Amendment values,'" the case charges.

The case accuses of Hall of using government power to "suit his own whims."

The case charges almost a dozen violations of the Constitution by the city and its officials, and seeks a court order ending that particular policy. It also seeks compensatory, nominal and punitive damages as well as attorneys' fees.

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Kamala Harris, along with her "emotional support governor" VP candidate Tim Walz, sat down for an interview on CNN, and the results were as expected, according to an analysis by the Gateway Pundit."

It was her attempt, the article reported, "to hoodwink the American public."

Harris, who was installed as the Democrats nominee by fiat to replace an aging and failing Joe Biden, so far had refused to talk about her plans or policies, except for the one "price gouging" fight she proposed to address by using communist-style price controls.

"What unfolded was a masterclass in political double-speak, half-truths, and outright lies, all carefully curated to mislead voters," the analysis found.

She boasted her values hadn't changed, "And that's exactly the problem. Harris's values include support for mass amnesty for illegal immigrants, ending cash bail for criminals, decriminalizing illegal border crossings, banning fracking, and even abolishing private health insurance," the report said.

Here she is on flip-flopping her values:

On her opposition to help for children and families:

On her changing values:

One how good Bidenomics has been for the country, with its 20% plus inflation:

Longtime Democrat activist David Axelrod thought she didn't help herself much:

On the nation's economic "recovery" after the COVID-19 crisis:

And VP candidate Walza trying to explain:

Then, too, there's her demand to ban fracking:

Her perspective on inflation:

And how in her mind the Biden administration-created crisis on the southern border is all the fault of President Donald Trump:

Harris comments included, when confronted with her own statements demanding a ban of fracking:

"In 2020, I made very clear where I stand. We are in 2024, and I've not changed that position, nor will I going forward. I kept my word, and I will keep my word. … I believe it is very important that we take seriously what we must do to guard against what is a clear crisis in terms of the climate. And to do that, we can do what we have accomplished thus far, the Inflation Reduction Act, what we have done to invest by my calculation, over probably a trillion dollars over the next 10 years, investing in a clean energy economy. What we've already done, creating over 300,000 new clean energy jobs. That tells me, from my experience as Vice President, we can do it without banning fracking."

After the taped interview, Harris attended a rally, and wasn't quite up to delivering words to the audience:

"He even called for the termination of the United States supreme, the c—the supreme land of our nation! The United States Constitution!"

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A defamation lawsuit by one-time GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who sued the New York Times after it published an editorial suggesting she inspired or incited Jared Loughner's 2011 shooting of then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, is alive again.

The latest iteration comes out of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals where a three-judge panel threw out a 2022 jury verdict in favor of the publication due to the errors of Jed Rakoff, the district judge in the case.

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, a popular commentator on legal issues who has testified multiple times before Congress, said the fight could end up before the U.S. Supreme Court where it could make changes to the New York Times v. Sullivan precedent that gives special protection to those who say bad things about "public figures."

That standard, he said, "is an obvious benefit to the media. However, without a compelling argument for a constitutional standard for public figures, it seems more like a judicially maintained subsidy or shield. The purpose of Times v. Sullivan was not to simply prop up the press. The Palin case and other cases could present a new opportunity for the court to review the doctrine."

The appeals panel said that Rakoff had dismissed the case earlier, using an improper process, and then when reversed held a trial and gave the case to the jury. But he again dismissed the case while the jury was deliberating.

"We conclude that the district court's Rule 50 ruling improperly intruded on the province of the jury by making credibility determinations, weighing evidence, and ignoring facts or inferences that a reasonable juror could plausibly have found to support Palin's case," the court said.

The decision noted that despite the dismissal, the jury was allowed to reach a decision, which was in favor of the Times.

"Unfortunately, several major issues at trial – specifically, the erroneous exclusion of evidence, an inaccurate jury instruction, a legally erroneous response to a mid-deliberation jury question, and jurors learning during deliberations of the district court's Rule 50 dismissal ruling – impugn the reliability of that verdict," the court said, listing multiple errors by Rakoff.

It sent the case back for another trial.

Turley explained the foundation of the case: "The case involves an editorial that suggested Palin inspired or incited Jared Loughner's 2011 shooting of then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). It was outrageously and demonstrably untrue. The editorial was published in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and other GOP members of Congress by James T. Hodgkinson, of Illinois, 66, a liberal activist and campaign supporter of Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). It appears The Times wanted to shift the narrative back to right-wing violence; it stated that SarahPAC, Palin's political action committee, had posted a graphic that put Giffords in crosshairs before she was shot, described it as direct incitement of violence and opined that while not as guilty as Palin, 'liberals should of course hold themselves to the same standard of decency that they ask of the right.'"

But, he said, the reality is that the map SarahPAC distributed put targets on various districts that were viewed as possible flip districts by Republicans, and the map was published long before the shooting.

Turley said the big concern now is that it appears Rakoff again will be allowed to make decisions in the new trial, even after he'd been publicly humiliated by being reversed twice for errors that harmed the plaintiff.

He said the "hit piece" on Palin was "all-too-familiar for conservatives and Republicans routinely targeted by the newspaper. In that sense, the Times has become the very thing that the original decision sought to combat: a threat to free speech. The Times, they argue, often uses this protection to shield false attacks on political opponents."

The standard calls for a knowledge that a damaging statement is false, or a "reckless disregard" regarding comments about public figures.

The Times was integral to that standard. "Decades ago, The Times was being targeted by segregationists who wanted to deter media from publishing accounts of segregationists opposing the civil rights movement. This effort was creating such a threat that media had to choose between a type of self-censorship or insolvency. In his concurrence in New York Times v. Sullivan, Justice Hugo Black said that 'state libel laws threaten the very existence of an American press virile enough to publish unpopular views on public affairs and bold enough to criticize the conduct of public officials,'" Turley documented.

He opined that Palin offered "sufficient evidence to allow a jury to render a verdict," but Rakoff claimed she had failed to offer evidence meeting the actual malice standard.

He noted Rakoff even insisted on ordering the jury not to speak to the media after the case, "an abusive demand that worked to protect his own errors," Turley noted.

And he revealed two current Supreme Court justices already have indicated "they might be open to the idea of revisiting" the standard.

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Back in the day when television still was relatively new and the space program was developing, there was concern about a new "ice age," as earth's temperatures were dropping.

Then there was global warming when those data points reversed themselves, and for years it held.

But those trends also stopped, and activists who had been using "global warming" for their political benefit changed to "climate change," which presumable was a good talking point no matter the evidence.

It's what's behind that unseemly push for expensive and environment-impacting electric vehicles. And the attacks from Biden and Harris on fossil fuels. And much, much more.

But now there's trouble for the ideologues, as a new report from the Daily Sceptic is headlined, "Party over for alarmists as sea temperatures plunge around the world."

The report said scientists are "reported to be puzzled at the speed of the recent decline. Less puzzlement was to be found when the oceans were 'boiling' during the last two years. Plebs flying to Benidorm for an annual holiday and causing 'global heating' was a favorite explanation, although mainstream media put it in marginally more polite terms."

But, it said the current surface sea temperature graph documents that those readings now are 0.2 degrees Centigrade lower than before.

"In the Atlantic, the turnaround has been even more dramatic. Temperatures have cooled quickly since May and in the central equatorial region are up to 1°C colder than average for this time of year. The American Weather Service NOAA notes that the high SSTs at the start of the year were the strongest warm event since 1982. The rapid transition from warm to cold SST anomalies (current temperatures compared over a longer past trend) was said to be remarkable," the report said.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in fact, said, "Never before in the observed record has the eastern equatorial Atlantic swung so quickly from one to another extreme event."

The report explained, "It is not unusual for waters in these parts of the Atlantic to cool in the summer months as seasonal southern winds drag surface waters away from the equator and expose deeper colder water. The process is called 'upwelling', but this year it coincided with a weakening of the trade winds which should have led to warmer anomalies."

NOAA admits to conditions that are "perplexing."

According to the Daily Sceptic, "These days we must of course welcome any outbreak of scientific head-scratching in the usually 'settled' climate business. Temperatures suddenly go down and scientists are seemingly clueless as to why it happens. Yet temperatures go up and it is all due to global warming and humans must return, instanter, to a pre-industrial societal and economic hellhole."

It continued, "The fact that some scientists are perplexed when temperatures go down, but full of fear-mongering explanations when they go up, says it all."

According to the publication, it's not just in the Atlantic, either.

"In the Pacific, a strong El Niño natural variation that warms the ocean and affects weather across the planet has dissipated. The higher SST anomalies recorded over the last year have fallen sharply as the latest figures below from NOAA show. The blocks record the anomaly on a rolling three-month basis with the last figure of 0.2°C referring to May, June, and July 2024. As the latest figures along with records that go back much further show, recent changes in SSTs due to El Niño are nothing out of the ordinary."

The report found words for a logical explanation of recent upturns in temperatures: "As with most natural variation, that process is being reversed – what goes up, usually comes down."

In fact, it noted that three of four Pacific locations used to determine El Nino now are lower than the long-term trend, including water down to 300 meters before the surface.

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Tim Walz, the leftist Minnesota governor who already has been caught in a long list of statements that have been documented to be untrue, now has been caught in another.

This time it's for an award he claimed during a previous campaign that he got, but he didn't.

The report comes from the Minnesota Sun, which explained "Walz's pattern of misrepresenting his record continues to come under scrutiny as he steps onto the national stage as Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate."

The latest controversy uncovered developed when Walz was running for the U.S. House back in 2006.

"His campaign website stated that he had received an award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for his contributions to the business community," the report said.

But not so, said Barry L. Kennedy, then president of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce.

In fact, in a letter to Walz, Kennedy confirmed, "We researched this matter and can confirm that you have not been the recipient of any award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce."

A copy of that letter was obtained by Alpha News.

The letter pointedly explained, "I am not going to draw a conclusion about your intentions by including this line in your biography. However, we respectfully request that you remove any reference to our organization as it could be considered an endorsement of your candidacy. It should be pointed out, however, that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has endorsed your opponent, Congressman Gil Gutknecht, for his support of small business issues."

Walz later had his website changed, to reference the "Nebraska Junior Chamber of Commerce," and his campaign manager blamed the falsehood on a "typographical error."

Other issues of truthfulness that Walz already has needed to address including his multiple claims to have retired from the Army National Guard with the rank Command Sergeant Major. While he was in that rank at his retirement, he had not completed the requirements to keep it in retirement, so was downgraded at that point.

He also is on video stating he handled assault weapons "in war," during an anti-Second Amendment campaign.

"We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is [sic] the only place that those weapons are at," he said, triggering charges of "stolen valor" since he was deployed to Italy as a lawyer at the time.

Further, the report said, "CNN recently acknowledged that Walz's 2006 congressional campaign 'falsely described' important details regarding his September 1995 drunk driving arrest in Nebraska."

CNN reported that the 2006 Walz campaign "repeatedly told the press that [Walz] had not been drinking that night, claiming that his failed field sobriety test was due to a misunderstanding related to hearing loss from his time in the National Guard. The campaign also claimed that Walz was allowed to drive himself to jail that night.'"

But, said CNN, "None of that was true."

And, the report said, "Additionally, Walz has repeatedly implied he and his wife used IVF procedures in order to conceive their children," which was not true.

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Those people who have sustained brain injuries and are hospitalized in an unresponsive state sometimes provide the biggest puzzles in health care.

Sometimes their condition is a result of an accident, or injury, and sometimes it may come about because of a heart attack or stroke.

There are no strict rules for such cases as some patients live for years and then die without returning to consciousness, while others spring suddenly awake after weeks or even months in what appears to be a coma.

Stunningly, there are those who die from deliberate actions, starvation and the deprivation of fluids, as doctors and family give up on them.

But those suffering those conditions may be more cognizant that many realize.

A report from the Christian Institute in the United Kingdom explains, "Researchers have demonstrated that a quarter of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) can follow simple commands cognitively. In an international study of 241 brain injury patients, 60 performed 'a cognitive task' as detected on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) scans."

There are an estimated 25,000 such patients in U.K. hospitals and homes, the report said.

"Some patients with severe brain injury do not appear to be processing their external world. However, when they are assessed with advanced techniques such as task-based fMRI and EEG, we can detect brain activity that suggests otherwise," said study author Yelena Bodien.

She continued, "These results bring up critical ethical, clinical, and scientific questions, such as how can we harness that unseen cognitive capacity to establish a system of communication and promote further recovery?"

The report warns of horrific consequences, such as withholding food and water or withdrawal of life support, and cited the case of U.K. teenager Jack Dolan, left in an apparent vegetative state following an accident, who rallied after his life support was removed.

Jack's stepfather, David Dolan, explained in the report, "Jack is blowing everything doctors said out the water. He is moving his arms, wiggling his toes, holding eye contact and, while in pain with belly ache, looked his mum in the eye and said 'help.'"

A report at the Independent explains the study monitored brain activity while patients were told to imagine opening and closing your hand or imagine playing tennis.

The report said experts believe now there is "an ethical obligation to engage with these patients, to try to help them connect to the world."

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In the wake of his own running mate publicly saying he was considering quitting the presidential race and joining forces with former President Donald Trump, Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will address the nation on Friday.

His campaign press secretary Stefanie Spear said the announcement will be "about the present historical moment and his path forward."

The event, slated for 2 p.m. Eastern in Phoenix, Arizona, will be live-streamed on X and other social channels.