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Veggeta X posted...

If Repubs can turn on Bill

I'm not convinced they turned on him.
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https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/910108082646085633
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https://apnews.com/f97fbf53c0c84468ae046f861ecf3b64

The Republican Governors Association has quietly launched an online publication that looks like a media outlet and is branded as such on social media. The Free Telegraph blares headlines about the virtues of GOP governors, while framing Democrats negatively. It asks readers to sign up for breaking news alerts. It launched in the summer bearing no acknowledgement that it was a product of an official party committee whose sole purpose is to get more Republicans elected.

Only after The Associated Press inquired about the site last week was a disclosure added to The Free Telegraph’s pages identifying the publication’s partisan source.

The governors association describes the website as routine political communication. Critics, including some Republicans, say it pushes the limits of honest campaign tactics in an era of increasingly partisan media and a proliferation of “fake news” sites, including those whose material became part of an apparent Russian propaganda effort during the 2016 presidential campaign.

“It’s propaganda for sure, even if they have objective standards and all the reporting is 100 percent accurate,” said Republican communications veteran Rick Tyler, whose resume includes Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign.

The website was registered July 7 through Domains By Proxy, a company that allows the originators of a website to shield their identities. An AP search did not find any corporate, Federal Election Commission or IRS filings establishing The Free Telegraph as an independent entity.

As of early Monday afternoon, The Free Telegraph’s Twitter account and Facebook page still had no obvious identifiers tying the site to RGA. The site described itself on Twitter as “bringing you the political news that matters outside of Washington.” The Facebook account labeled The Free Telegraph a “Media/News Company.” That’s a contrast to the RGA’s Facebook page, which is clearly disclosed as belonging to a “Political Organization,” as is the account of its counterpart, the Democratic Governors Association.
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Democrats say Republicans are laying the groundwork with headlines that will appear in future digital and television ads, while also providing individual voters with fodder to distribute across social media.

“They’re just seeding the ground,” said Angelo Carusone, who runs Media Matters, a liberal watchdog group. “They are repackaging their opposition research so it’s there as ‘news,’ and at any moment that publication could become the defining moment of the narrative” in some state’s campaign for governor.

Political communications expert Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a University of Pennsylvania professor who has studied political advertising for four decades, said The Free Telegraph commits a form of “identity theft” by “appropriating the integrity of news” because “the form of news carries credibility” that blatantly partisan sites do not.

Jamieson was particularly critical of RGA’s initial failure to disclosure its involvement. “What we know about audiences is they factor in the source of information when judging that information,” she said. “If you are denying the reader, the listener or the viewer information you know the reader uses, the question is why do you feel the need to do this?”

A recent RGA fundraising email said the site was “fact-checking the liberal media” and is a counter to “decades of demonizing Republicans.” Playing off President Donald Trump’s dismissal of “fake news,” the email said media “can say whatever they like about us — whether it’s true or not.”

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Caution999 posted...

You guys still love McCain or no?

No one should have loved McCain in the first place.
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https://apnews.com/46113dc3463a4078a06940499e866ef7

Eight voted against it:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKDrocpUIAAowed.jpg:large
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Here's some recent gameplay footage for the hype




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My man's name is Tayler
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Anteaterking posted...

Higher or lower than you expected?

Higher. But...
Other reviews haven't been so positive
They gave the first game an 8.9, and that was notoriously buggy at launch.
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Senator Mastercard strikes back
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explain it to me, an idiot
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Well this isn't encouraging


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darkphoenix181 posted...

but he was a communist

You don't say
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littlebro07 posted...

Kennedy?

Like, JFK?

No relation.
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https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/909882947217608704
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Yeah that's deeply troubling.
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Western movies
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Here's a more critical review, citing continued issues with gamepad handling and wonky AI
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/world/europe/stanislav-petrov-nuclear-war-dead.html

Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.

A 44-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, he had begun his shift as the duty officer at Serpukhov-15, the secret command center outside Moscow where the Soviet military monitored its early-warning satellites over the United States, when alarms went off.

Computers warned that five Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles had been launched from an American base.

“For 15 seconds, we were in a state of shock,” he later recalled. “We needed to understand, ‘What’s next?’ ”

The alarm sounded during one of the tensest periods in the Cold War. Three weeks earlier, the Soviets had shot down a Korean Air Lines commercial flight after it crossed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 people on board, including a congressman from Georgia. President Ronald Reagan had rejected calls for freezing the arms race, declaring the Soviet Union an “evil empire.” The Soviet leader, Yuri V. Andropov, was obsessed by fears of an American attack.

Colonel Petrov was at a pivotal point in the decision-making chain. His superiors at the warning-system headquarters reported to the general staff of the Soviet military, which would consult with Mr. Andropov on launching a retaliatory attack.

Leonard Perroots, General Who Defused Nuclear Crisis With Soviets, Dies at 83 FEB. 10, 2017
After five nerve-racking minutes — electronic maps and screens were flashing as he held a phone in one hand and an intercom in the other, trying to absorb streams of incoming information — Colonel Petrov decided that the launch reports were probably a false alarm.

As he later explained, it was a gut decision, at best a “50-50” guess, based on his distrust of the early-warning system and the relative paucity of missiles that were launched.

Colonel Petrov died at 77 on May 19 in Fryazino, a Moscow suburb, where he lived alone on a pension. The death was not widely reported at the time. It was confirmed by his son, Dmitri, according to Karl Schumacher, a political activist who, after learning in 1998 of Colonel Petrov’s Cold War role, traveled to Russia to meet him and remained a friend. The cause was hypostatic pneumonia.

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was born on Sept. 7, 1939, near Vladivostok, Russia. His father had been a fighter pilot during World War II; his mother was a nurse. He studied at the Kiev Higher Engineering Radio-Technical College of the Soviet Air Force.

After joining the Air Defense Forces, he rose quickly through the ranks; he was assigned to the early-warning system at its inception in the early 1970s.

Historians who have analyzed the episode say that Colonel Petrov’s calm analysis helped avert catastrophe.

As the computer systems in front of him changed their alert from “launch” to “missile strike,” and insisted that the reliability of the information was at the “highest” level, Colonel Petrov had to figure out what to do.

The estimate was that only 25 minutes would elapse between launch and detonation.

“There was no rule about how long we were allowed to think before we reported a strike,” he told the BBC. “But we knew that every second of procrastination took away valuable time, that the Soviet Union’s military and political leadership needed to be informed without delay. All I had to do was to reach for the phone; to raise the direct line to our top commanders — but I couldn’t move. I felt like I was sitting on a hot frying pan.”

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Just so we're clear, there are no objective reviews. Reviewers are paid for their biases and subjectivity.
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I Like Toast posted...

But pc2 will have better physics than forza 7, but I expect 7 to look significantly better and have more tracks and cars even after you eliminate the fluff you'll never want to drive.

You're right about cars (like 700 vs. 180 total), but PC2 is gonna have like 20 more tracks than Forza (maybe not as many different layouts, though?)
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Solid Sonic posted...

Project CARS was le b/s because even with TCS on I spun out whenever I accelerated out of a corner.

Yeah, it was pretty crap on a gamepad, but all accounts say that's been fixed.
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http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/09/18/project-cars-2-review

To be fair, this guy gave the original an 8.9 though.
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What NBC show is this?
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Because the AI learns from how real players drive, the first turn against the AI in FM6 is now a massacre, just like online!

Like, it wasn't always this bad. At least I don't think so. But at this point I'd rather have the well-behaved AI of F1.
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Came in to post baseball. Also darts, archery, cricket...
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DreadedWave posted...

But those aren't funny.

hmmm
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n/a
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http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170916/wjar-forced-to-run-pro-trump-programs

The company that owns WJAR-TV is mandating the broadcast of multiple programs favorable to President Donald Trump on the state’s most-watched television station.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, a rapidly growing media company that bought Channel 10 in 2014, produces “must-run” segments and distributes them to its local stations nationwide. They must air during daily news programming, Sinclair executives said.

Sinclair is poised to become the nation’s largest owner of TV stations and, with its recent hire of former Trump aide Boris Epshteyn, viewers can expect to see more of the chain’s political programming.

The practice, which has infused a political flavor into the 68-year-old WJAR’s broadcasts, started quietly there at least a year ago.

Three of the segments have rattled viewers and WJAR’s own news reporters, according to Fletcher Fischer, the business manager and financial secretary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1228, the union that represents broadcast workers there:

‒ The Terrorism Alert Desk, advertised as a daily news update about terrorist activity.

‒ News pieces from Epshteyn, Sinclair’s chief political analyst.

‒ A clearly labeled opinion show featuring Mark Hyman, a former vice president of the company.

These pieces are fed to Sinclair’s 174 stations in the United States every day.

Sinclair’s insertion of the segments into news programming has been harshly critiqued by Rhode Islanders and national commentators.

Gloria Crist, a 54-year-old actress from Tiverton, says she’s stopped watching the station.

Rep. David N. Cicilline condemned the practice, saying: “Rhode Islanders rely on our local news being produced in Rhode Island, not directed by a national conglomerate for local broadcasters to deliver.”

Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan wrote, “What Fox News is for cable, Sinclair could become for broadcast: programming with a soupçon — or more — of conservative spin.”

And HBO’s John Oliver dedicated a show to what he calls Sinclair’s corporate propaganda.

But Sinclair says it’s providing national commentary to “free up” reporters “to create more local news, which we considered to be squarely in the public interest.”

A closer look at Epshteyn illuminates the potential for conflict. He was recently on the White House payroll as the communications director on the president’s inaugural committee, and before that worked as a Trump campaign strategist.

The 34-year-old is being questioned by Congress as part of the investigation into the campaign’s dealings with Russia. And Politico reports that Epshteyn, a Russian Jewish immigrant, penned President Donald Trump’s controversial Holocaust Memorial statement in January that did not mention Jews. After reports that Epshteyn got into a yelling match with a Fox News booker after a tense appearance on the network, and offended network bookers and contributors across Washington, he left the Trump administration and Sinclair hired him.

Now, on “Bottom Line with Boris,” he delivers the same message in his “chief political analyst” role that he offered journalists on CNN, MSNBC, Fox and others as a Trump surrogate during the campaign

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wtf was Vettel doing?
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LordTrinen posted...

We need an UNBIASED media machine.

This is an impossible wish. Every outlet is staffed by people, every outlet will have biases.
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Normal president
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Union solidarity is a beautiful thing
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Yes, and I regret falling out of the habit
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Kinda like what the NFL did a few years back
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/26/b0/28/26b028e1d0964b95d5621c2824b071a9.jpg

A refresh rather than a big overhaul
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Update: uhhhhh

https://twitter.com/GlennThrush/status/909157668916486145

Note: the U.S. can't legally withdraw for another two years, so
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lilJoe457 posted...

I won't believe for a second co2 is gonna change the way a planet is after just 100 years.

Why do you think you know better than the people who study this stuff for a living?
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45 on disk, 50 download
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Wutobliteration posted...

also if you want to disagree on something, give a explanation for it, not be some meme king.

The "free market" as we understand it distorts and undermines democracy by giving disproportionate power over the state to unelected rich folks.
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Lol, this is how the article first loaded for me



That would have been inappropriate
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10-dimensional Stratego moves
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Anteaterking posted...

Can you give a partial summary? Pay wall.

Sorry about that, pasted the article into the OP now.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-wont-withdraw-from-paris-climate-deal-1505593922?tesla=y&mod=e2tw

Trump administration officials said Saturday the U.S. wouldn't pull out of the Paris Agreement, offering to re-engage in the international deal to fight climate change, according to the European Union' top energy official.

The shift from President Donald Trump's decision in June to renegotiate the landmark accord or craft a new deal came during a meeting of more than 30 ministers led by Canada, China and the European Union in Montreal.

"The U.S. has stated that they will not renegotiate the Paris accord, but they will try to review the terms on which they could be engaged under this agreement," European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete said.

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XxKrazyChaosxX posted...

Kid is leaving little strips of grass because his mowing paths don't overlap. smh.
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--kresnik-- posted...

Why is it that his line of politics always results in the leaders having fleets of sports cars while everybody else digs for worms to eat?

"It's bad for politicians to have wealth" is a weird line of defense for Donald Trump.
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Wow, guess some people get upset when you speak the truth.
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