A new report has identified at least 150 activists that have been targeted by the fossil fuel industry for harassment. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. link - https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/12/fossil-fuel-giants-have-targeted-150-activists-judicial-harassment-report Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. A new report's identified at least 150 activists that have been targeted by fossil fuel industry types for harassment. Wow, SLAPP suits, talk about it. Yeah. What's happening here is that for many years you have these environmental activists, you know, they, they, they show up at the pipelines. They show up, you know, to, to protest at the offices, the refineries. So what the fossil fuel industry has been doing is saying, okay, you know what? Let's sue the organizers. Let's sue the people who show up at the barricades. Let's make their lives a litigation nightmare. We know we're not actually gonna win lawsuits. But what we do is we tie them up, you know, with these SLAPP suits, we make sure that they can't get out there. They can't do this. They're gonna lose all their money from their organization by paying for lawyers. And it's just a delay tactic to get these people off their backs. It's truly disturbing because it does cost these people, you know, tens of thousands of dollars to fight these lawsuits coming from this industry that has endless money and can file as many suits as they want. Well, that, here's what they admit. They, they admit that it's harassment. Yeah. They admit that it, it's a way they even talk about now it's a way to make money. So because you got Greenpeace that's worth, you know, multimillions of dollars. So they, they sue them and actually wanna get paid money from Greenpeace for Greenpeace trying to stop them from slaughtering whales all over the world or whatever it may be, or the fossil fuel drilling in our parks. But the SLAPP suits, it's not just the SLAPP suits. They also use the power of subpoena, the use of depositions, every, every process in discovery that they can use to harass that person. They make telephone calls to universities if a professor's involved, you gotta get rid of that professor. They, they, they make calls about people in their jobs. You might want to know that this person is doing this, making it sound like there's really something nefarious going on. I mean, this is, these are tactics that, that you'd expect from ghouls. I mean. Yeah. You know, CIA ghouls and that's exactly what they're up to. But it goes on and I, I don't, I don't think it's gonna get any better. I don't think that there's, there's been, there's been a temp. You remember the Donziger case that we did? Yeah, absolutely. Talk about that just a second. Yeah. Steven Donziger, who was the lawyer who took on Chevron down there in Ecuador, absolutely obliterating the environment, screwing people over, poisoning them, paying off the government. Donziger took 'em to trial, won. Chevron comes back, sues him, allege all, all of this misconduct, somehow wins. Gets Donziger thrown in prison. Yeah. Stripped of his law license. It's insane. But Here, here again, that's one of these stories that I talk about, the federal judges that are appointed. The judge that did that to Donziger has never known anything except representing corporation. The judge absolutely saw that Chevron had, had murdered, murdered entire families down there with toxins, wiped them out with leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, brain cancer, birth defects, wiped out entire families. And this judge, New York type, you know, appointed, it was a Clinton appointment. Had come through the corporate, had come through the corporate law firm process year after year, made big money representing corporations, never represented a consumer in his life. One of by the way, one of the, the worst federal judges we have sitting up there, Clinton appointment. But we talk about this all the time. How does this happen? It's because the Democrats do the same thing the Republicans do. They go to these big silk stocking law firms that represent. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdcZQO5YAKg

*Make Zbiotics your first drink of the night to help have a better tomorrow. Go to https://zbiotics.com/rof to get 15% off your first order when you use ROF at checkout. Order now to get it in time for the 4th of July! Fox News host Bret Baier didn't do a perfect job interviewing Donald Trump this week, but he certainly put him in his place on a variety of issues. In addition to getting Trump to basically admit to obstruction, Baier also informed Trump that he lost the 2020 election and that none of his lies made any sense. The clip is astounding, as it represents one of the first times that Trump has been called out so forcefully to his face. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened. Link - https://www.mediaite.com/tv/bret-baier-tells-trump-you-lost-the-2020-election-during-tense-fox-interview/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. So by now I'm sure everybody's heard that Donald Trump did a disastrous interview with Fox News host, Brett Baier that aired this week. And although Baier was not perfect during the interview, he did let Trump get away with some very stupid comments. He did a really good job of pushing back on a lot of what Donald Trump said. And of course, basically getting Donald Trump to admit to obstruction of justice by having Trump admit that he didn't return the boxes of documents because he had some of his personal stuff in there. And by God, he just didn't have the time to go through to separate the who from the what. But it was the moment I'm about to show you that really got me that th this was the moment where Brett Baier became the first person in the media to actually properly push back against Donald Trump for his election claims. So it it to his face, I should say. So take a look at this. This is Brett Baier just demolishing Donald Trump's election lies. Here it is. What do you say to that female independent suburban voter who feels that way to win her back? First of all, I won in 2020 by a lot. Okay, let's get that straight. I won in 2020. You know that this, and if you look at all of the tapes, that's, if you look at everything that you wanna look at, you take a look at Truth to Vote, where they have people stuffing the ballot boxes on tapes or Mr. President, let's go to recent all look, well wait a minute. Let's go to recent fbi, Twitter, let's go to recent, the 51 agents, all corrupt stuff, Brett understand about the Under Biden, but all, all fair things cheating election. But, but that's cheating on the election. You lost the 2020 election. Uh, Brett, uh, you take a look at all of the stuff ballots. You take a look at all of the things, including things like the 51 intelligence agents. There were recounts in all of the swing states, there was not significant widespread. We're trying to get recounts, real recounts investigations, numbers of votes, widespread corruption. There was not a sense of that. There were lawsuits more than 50 of them by your lawyers, some in front of judges, judges that you appointed. Look at Wisconsin, that came out with no Wisconsin evidence. Fred Wisconsin is practically admitted. It was rigged. Other states are doing the same right now and it's continuing. There's been reviews of potential case of voter fraud in six battleground states, and they found fewer than 475 cases. You know why? Not? Because they didn't look at the right things. Okay? Are you going to be, they were counting, they were counting ballots. Not the authenticity of the ballot. The ballots were fake ballots. You had, this was a very rigged election. Are you going to go, this is how you're gonna tell that independent suburban woman voter. No, no, we're to vote for you. We're off to winning an election and I think we're winning very well. Uh, I got a poll just recently. I have it here. I show, show you. No, I know. And, and I watched the numbers ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9tHIRIUp08