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Courts and Space—The Final Frontiers

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JL;DR SUMMARY The episode discusses the significant legal ramifications of a monumental lawsuit lost by Greenpeace, which could potentially bankrupt the organization, and explores the evolving landscape of space exploration with a particular focus on U.S. policies and the role of private companies. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Elon MuskLawsuitChinaNasaEnvironmentalismPrivate SectorDirect ActionSpace ExplorationSpacexGreenpeace

Places mentioned

North Dakota, United States
"This is the story of a lawsuit that began... began in 2017 against Greenpeace involving the laying of a fracking pipeline in the Dakotas and how the efforts to stop it at the Standing Rock, if you remember the... Right, that's the name of the reservation."
Standing Rock, North Dakota, United States
"Right, that's the name of the reservation. Yeah, the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation."
China
"and which has been intermittently involved in these extra-legal activities, famously a standoff in the South China Sea or the Indian Ocean or something like that with a French freighter"
Ferguson, Missouri, United States
"And what was different about this energy transfer story was, that in line with the change on the left, really beginning in 2015, I think, with Ferguson, Missouri, and others, this notion that it was time to go beyond respecting the niceties of the law to first principles"
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
"to create the conditions under which they would be attacked so that they could claim that they had been attacked. And then, of course, George Floyd 2020 and the mostly peaceful protests that involved setting, you know, half of downtown Minneapolis on fire and... and... and the like."
New York, United States
"We have the adoption of these tactics outside the world of environmentalism, maybe starting with the G20 in 1999 in Vancouver, but moving forward to Ferguson, you know, the... the... the kinds of provocations that, as Noel Rothman detailed in commentary in 2016, where leftist protesters would be attempting to draw Trump supporters or Trump rally people into fights"
Los Angeles, California, United States
"From Manhattan to Brooklyn for the party on a Saturday night, and the Brooklyn Bridge was shut down that Saturday night to 21 days after October 7th for a protest against Israel's monstrous behavior. And so it took people two hours to get to the party because the Brooklyn Bridge was, two weeks, three weeks after October 7th, all over the country, people were shutting down highways, shutting down the I-5, shutting down the 110 in Los Angeles and elsewhere."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"From Manhattan to Brooklyn for the party on a Saturday night, and the Brooklyn Bridge was shut down that Saturday night to 21 days after October 7th for a protest against Israel's monstrous behavior."
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Retrieved 2025-04-26 05:30:45 UTC
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