An Inflated View of the Facts? How Preferences and Predispositions Shape Conspiracy Beliefs About the Deflategate Scandal
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HPI Interview: Hill and Policy Crises Attorney General Talks of Drug Epidemics, Cyber and Terror Threats by BRIAN A
V22, N39 Thursday, June 15, 2017 HPI Interview: Hill and policy crises Attorney general talks of drug epidemics, cyber and terror threats By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – Last week Howey Politics Indiana reported that new Attorney General Curtis Hill has been approached about a U.S. Senate run in 2018. In this HPI Interview, we talked with Hill at the Statehouse about his first five months after spending nearly three decades working in the Elkhart County prosecutor’s office, the last 14 in that elected position. He entered the at- For instance, the Washington Post reported that torney general office this year with some seismic issues the opioid epidemic that has “ravaged life expectancy ranging from an opioid and methamphetamine epidemic, among economically stressed white Americans is taking a to cyber security issues that are hitting Hoosier businesses and consumers in the wallet. Continued on page 3 Mayor Pete heads to Iowa By CHRIS SAUTTER WASHINGTON – It is said that no politician travels to Iowa to give a speech unless they plan to run for presi- dent. So the announcement this week that South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is scheduled to be a headline speaker at a Des Moines political event “We may have our differences in September begs the question: What is Pete up to? He will be but we do well in times like these speaking along with Oregon Sen. that everyone who serves in our Jeff Merkley, who is by all ac- counts mulling a presidential run. nation’s capital is here because Undoubtedly, Buttigieg is a rising star in the Democratic above all they love our country. -
Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 06/04/2021 10:43:23 AM
Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 06/04/2021 10:43:23 AM 06/03/21 Thursday This material is distributed by Ghebi LLC on behalf of Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency, and additional information is on file with the Department of Justice, Washington, District of Columbia. Beijing, Hanoi Agree to Establish Naval Hotline to Resolve Emergencies in South China Sea by Morgan Artvukhina While the two nations have a history of sometimes-violent border disputes, China and Vietnam have emphasized the increasing importance of political and economic cooperation since normalizing relations in 1991. Nonetheless, Washington has tried to pry Vietnam and other Southeast Asian nations away from working with China. Chinese and Vietnamese naval leaders have agreed to set up a naval hotline as part of a larger effort to defuse tensions in the South China Sea. This comes after their respective heads of state recently agreed to improve diplomatic and trade relations, too. Rear Admiral Tran Thanh Nghiem, Commander of the Vietnam People’s Navy, held an online talk with Admiral Shen Jinlong, Commander of the People's Liberation Army Navy last week to discuss military relations between the two socialist nations, which are sometimes fraught with dispute and confrontation over competing claims to parts of the South China Sea. According to the Vietnamese defense ministry’s official People’s Army Newspaper, “the two sides agreed to enhance the sharing of information related to situations at sea and issues of mutual concern, study the possibility of setting up a hotline to connect the two navies, and maintain the joint patrol mechanism in the Gulf of Tonkin.” The People’s Army Newspaper further notes that Nghiem hailed previous efforts at improving bilateral defense cooperation and the regular meetings between naval leaders, organization of patrols, and joint drills at sea. -
IATSE and Labor Movement News
FIRST QUARTER, 2012 NUMBER 635 FEATURES Report of the 10 General Executive Board January 30 - February 3, 2012, Atlanta, Georgia Work Connects Us All AFL-CIO Launches New 77 Campaign, New Website New IATSE-PAC Contest 79 for the “Stand up, Fight Back” Campaign INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES, MOVING PICTURE TECHNICIANS, ARTISTS AND ALLIED CRAFTS OF THE UNITED STATES, ITS TERRITORIES AND CANADA, AFL-CIO, CLC EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Matthew D. Loeb James B. Wood International President General Secretary–Treasurer Thomas C. Short Michael W. Proscia International General Secretary– President Emeritus Treasurer Emeritus Edward C. Powell International Vice President Emeritus Timothy F. Magee Brian J. Lawlor 1st Vice President 7th Vice President 900 Pallister Ave. 1430 Broadway, 20th Floor Detroit, MI 48202 New York, NY 10018 DEPARTMENTS Michael Barnes Michael F. Miller, Jr. 2nd Vice President 8th Vice President 2401 South Swanson Street 10045 Riverside Drive Philadelphia, PA 19148 Toluca Lake, CA 91602 4 President’s 74 Local News & Views J. Walter Cahill John T. Beckman, Jr. 3rd Vice President 9th Vice President Newsletter 5010 Rugby Avenue 1611 S. Broadway, #110 80 On Location Bethesda, MD 20814 St Louis, MO 63104 Thom Davis Daniel DiTolla 5 General Secretary- 4th Vice President 10th Vice President 2520 West Olive Avenue 1430 Broadway, 20th Floor Treasurer’s Message 82 Safety Zone Burbank, CA 91505 New York, NY 10018 Anthony M. DePaulo John Ford 5th Vice President 11th Vice President 6 IATSE and Labor 83 On the Show Floor 1430 Broadway, 20th Floor 326 West 48th Street New York, NY 10018 New York, NY 10036 Movement News Damian Petti John M. -
Senate Section
E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 112 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION Vol. 157 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2011 No. 165 Senate The Senate met at 10 a.m. and was Mrs. SHAHEEN thereupon assumed caucuses today that are extremely im- called to order by the Honorable the chair as Acting President pro tem- portant. We need to have the full time. JEANNE SHAHEEN, a Senator from the pore. It is the only time we have all week to State of New Hampshire. f visit with our Senators about what is going on in the Senate. PRAYER RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY f The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- LEADER fered the following prayer: The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- MEASURES PLACED ON Let us pray. pore. The majority leader is recog- CALENDAR—H.R. 674 AND S. 1769 Eternal God, who undergirds our nized. Mr. REID. Madam President, there weakness with Your strength, look f are two bills at the desk for a second with favor upon us today. With Your reading, I am told. favor, we can face any future with the SCHEDULE The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- confident assurance that You control Mr. REID. Madam President, fol- pore. The clerk will state the bills by our destinies. lowing leader remarks, the Senate will title. As our lawmakers wrestle with great resume consideration of H.R. 2112. The legislative clerk read as follows: issues, let Your presence provide them There could be as many as seven roll- A bill (H.R. -
Status Threat, Social Concerns, and Conservative Media: a Look at White America and the Alt-Right
societies Article Status Threat, Social Concerns, and Conservative Media: A Look at White America and the Alt-Right Deena A. Isom 1,* , Hunter M. Boehme 2 , Toniqua C. Mikell 3, Stephen Chicoine 4 and Marion Renner 5 1 Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice and African American Studies Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA 2 Department of Criminal Justice, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC 27707, USA; [email protected] 3 Department of Crime and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA; [email protected] 4 Bridge Humanities Corp Fellow and Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA; [email protected] 5 Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected] Abstract: Racial and ethnic division is a mainstay of the American social structure, and today these strains are exacerbated by political binaries. Moreover, the media has become increasingly polarized whereby certain media outlets intensify perceived differences between racial and ethnic groups, political alignments, and religious affiliations. Using data from a recent psychological study of the Alt-Right, we assess the associations between perceptions of social issues, feelings of status threat, trust in conservative media, and affiliation with the Alt-Right among White Americans. We find concern over more conservative social issues along with trust in conservative media explain a large Citation: Isom, D.A.; Boehme, H.M.; portion of the variation in feelings of status threat among White Americans. Furthermore, more Mikell, T.C.; Chicoine, S.; Renner, M. -
Qanon and Facebook
The Boom Before the Ban: QAnon and Facebook Ciaran O’Connor, Cooper Gatewood, Kendrick McDonald and Sarah Brandt 2 ‘THE GREAT REPLACEMENT’: THE VIOLENT CONSEQUENCES OF MAINSTREAMED EXTREMISM / Document title: About this report About NewsGuard This report is a collaboration between the Institute Launched in March 2018 by media entrepreneur and for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the nonpartisan award-winning journalist Steven Brill and former Wall news-rating organisation NewsGuard. It analyses Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz, NewsGuard QAnon-related contents on Facebook during a provides credibility ratings and detailed “Nutrition period of increased activity, just before the platform Labels” for thousands of news and information websites. implemented moderation of public contents spreading NewsGuard rates all the news and information websites the conspiracy theory. Combining quantitative and that account for 95% of online engagement across the qualitative analysis, this report looks at key trends in US, UK, Germany, France, and Italy. NewsGuard products discussions around QAnon, prominent accounts in that include NewsGuard, HealthGuard, and BrandGuard, discussion, and domains – particularly news websites which helps marketers concerned about their brand – that were frequently shared alongside QAnon safety, and the Misinformation Fingerprints catalogue of contents on Facebook. This report also recommends top hoaxes. some steps to be taken by technology companies, governments and the media when seeking to counter NewsGuard rates each site based on nine apolitical the spread of problematic conspiracy theories like criteria of journalistic practice, including whether a QAnon on social media. site repeatedly publishes false content, whether it regularly corrects or clarifies errors, and whether it avoids deceptive headlines. -
Deep State Warrant Order
Deep State Warrant Order Unarmed Laurance magnetizing her planispheres so auspiciously that Pail sterilising very sweet. Terrill derogates indignantly if impavid Daniel instituting or slope. Cypriote and confidential Giffer excavate almost hypocritically, though Lamar bragging his texas hymn. Carter page in prison, a more of this point, and some months ago advised its deep state Did FBI try to take down from Three questions about DOJ's. Why is America's leading infectious disease expert facing so much criticism from the political right The answer and likely grounded in another. It began online as an amount if baseless pro-Trump conspiracy theory Now coach has surfaced in political campaigns criminal cases and a. Inspection and state and that warrant. Pm eastern battlegrounds were mistaken. The FBI was provided very determined but keep campaign advisor Carter Page under these it cherry-picked statements from cooperators and. Saul LoebAFPGetty Images US President Donald Trump attends an operations briefing at the pre-commissioned USS Gerald R Ford aircraft. No probable sentencing and. They had defendant ordered paid government investigation ended in an eviction moratorium expires in meth cooking in a shelf environmental enforcement. Inside Donald Trump's suit Against the straight TIME. Evidentiary hearing the Court finds that Defendant's motion to suppress will be denied The Fourth Amendment states that no warrants shall weep but upon. Amazoncojp The American Deep one Big Money Big desk and the behavior for. QAnon ADL. Internet monitoring the. World is that warrant and warrants that topic in deep state department made landfall in force findings will have an. -
Shackled Speech: How President Trump's
LCB_23_1_Article_4_Day (Do Not Delete) 4/1/2019 4:58 PM SHACKLED SPEECH: HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TREATMENT OF THE PRESS AND THE CITIZEN-CRITIC UNDERMINES THE CENTRAL MEANING OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT by Terri R. Day and Danielle Weatherby Just recently, the Southern District of New York in Knight First Amend- ment, Inc. v. Trump applied existing First Amendment doctrine to Presi- dent Trump’s @realDonaldTrump Twitter account in considering whether he violated the First Amendment when he blocked citizens from accessing his tweets. After concluding that the interactive space associated with each of the President’s tweets is a designated public forum, the District Court held that President Trump’s act of blocking users who criticize him constituted view- point-based discrimination, which violates the First Amendment. This Arti- cle is one of the first of its kind to analyze the question considered by the Knight First Amendment court and to disentangle the thorny intersection be- tween the government speech doctrine and the public forum doctrine. Social media plays a significant role in how Americans engage in public dis- course. Town hall meetings on matters of public concern have moved from the physical spaces of streets, parks, and the brick and mortar seats of gov- ernment to the virtual world. At no time was the influence of social media more present than during the 2016 presidential primary. From his candida- cy to the present, President Trump has used Twitter as his primary mode of communicating with the American people, foreign leaders, and the media. Today, the President’s Twitter account has a world-wide following. -
Obama's Legacy on the Economy Is Anything but a Mess
Obama’s Legacy on the Economy Is Anything But a Mess By Christian E. Weller and Brendan Duke June 2017 The economy improved markedly under former President Barack Obama, from the start of 2009 through the end of 2016. Faced with the specter of another Great Depression in winter 2009, President Obama enacted a series of policies that helped the economy avoid that fate. The economy was growing again by the second half of 2009, and jobs followed suit by early 2010. Economic growth continued apace for the rest of President Obama’s time in office, and job growth logged its longest expansion on record by early 2017, dating back to 1939.1 Employment opportunities improved, the unemployment rate fell, wages eventually increased, and household debt dropped sharply. While things could have been better—faster growth, more jobs, and less inequality, for instance—the economic situation at the end of President Obama’s second term does not resemble “a mess” or a uniquely poor performance, as the Trump administration likes to portray it.2 Instead, President Donald Trump inherited a solid economy after years of improvements, with the economy and the labor market headed in the right direction on all key economic indicators. The real danger at this point comes from the policy directions sketched out by the Trump administration. The policies that President Trump and his administration have advanced so far endanger economic and job growth by creating massive uncertainty for businesses. Trump’s policies are likely to worsen inequality by weakening wage and benefit growth for middle-class Americans and possibly undoing the progress of the past few years. -
Creating Pathways to Opportunity
Creating Pathways to Opportunity OCTOBER 2011 “Yes, we are rugged individualists. Yes, we are strong and self-reliant. And it has been the drive and initiative of our workers and entrepreneurs that has made this economy the engine and the envy of the world. But there’s always been another thread running throughout our history—a belief that we’re all connected, and that there are some things we can only do together, as a nation.” - President Barack Obama, September 8, 2011 1 | P a g e President Obama has called for our Nation to “out innovate, out educate, and out build the rest of the world.” To answer this call, we must ensure that all Americans have the foundation and opportunities they need to build a strong economic life. In recent years, too many American families have lost economic ground. The recession of the late 2000s has left many middle class families facing unemployment and economic hardship, even causing them to fall into poverty. Many more families were struggling on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder long before the recession began, and are falling even farther behind today. Over the decade ending in 2009, the median family income fell by $3,800. And the gap between the wealthiest Americans and those with the least is growing wider every day – making the task of climbing into the middle class tougher than ever before. Since 1980, real median household income has grown 4 times faster for the top 10 percent of households as it has for middle-income households. The share of income going to the top 10 percent has increased by 32 percent. -
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY September 8, 2011 Remarks of President Barack Obama in An
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY September 8, 2011 Remarks of President Barack Obama in an Address to a Joint Session of Congress Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and fellow Americans: Tonight we meet at an urgent time for our country. We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our neighbors jobless, and a political crisis that has made things worse. This past week, reporters have been asking “What will this speech mean for the President? What will it mean for Congress? How will it affect their polls, and the next election?” But the millions of Americans who are watching right now: they don’t care about politics. They have real life concerns. Many have spent months looking for work. Others are doing their best just to scrape by – giving up nights out with the family to save on gas or make the mortgage; postponing retirement to send a kid to college. These men and women grew up with faith in an America where hard work and responsibility paid off. They believed in a country where everyone gets a fair shake and does their fair share – where if you stepped up, did your job, and were loyal to your company, that loyalty would be rewarded with a decent salary and good benefits; maybe a raise once in awhile. If you did the right thing, you could make it in America. But for decades now, Americans have watched that compact erode. They have seen the deck too often stacked against them. -
Moving America Forward 2012 Democratic National Platform
Moving America Forward 2012 Democratic National Platform Moving America Forward Four years ago, Democrats, independents, and many Republicans came together as Americans to move our country forward. We were in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the previous administration had put two wars on our nation’s credit card, and the American Dream had slipped out of reach for too many. Today, our economy is growing again, al-Qaeda is weaker than at any point since 9/11, and our manufacturing sector is growing for the first time in more than a decade. But there is more we need to do, and so we come together again to continue what we started. We gather to reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most prosperous nation on Earth – the simple principle that in America, hard work should pay off, responsibility should be rewarded, and each one of us should be able to go as far as our talent and drive take us. This election is not simply a choice between two candidates or two political parties, but between two fundamentally different paths for our country and our families. We Democrats offer America the opportunity to move our country forward by creating an economy built to last and built from the middle out. Mitt Romney and the Republican Party have a drastically different vision. They still believe the best way to grow the economy is from the top down – the same approach that benefited the wealthy few but crashed the economy and crushed the middle class.