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Forestry Commission To Recruit Additional Forest Range Managers

Peace FM Online 13 Dec 2018

... Ministry was operating with limited logistics ... The Minister said there was a District Forestry Office at Navrongo, which oversees forest management activities and operations in the Builsa, Builsa North, Kassena Nankana Municipal and Kaassena Nankana West Political districts....

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The Hartford Launches Credit and Political Risk Insurance Products

Market Watch 13 Dec 2018

“Operating in emerging markets can bring a number of political risks, such as acts of expropriation or confiscation of assets by a foreign government, that are not typically covered under a company’s global insurance policies,” said Jared Kotler, head of The Hartford’s credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) practice....

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Digital parties on the rise: a mass politics for the era of platforms

Open Democracy 13 Dec 2018

These platforms are indeed very important to the organisational processes of emerging parties, and carry important implications for the way in which political parties operate ... This opening up of membership has important consequences for the way in which political parties operate, and for the new mass politics that they bring to the fore....

photo: Creative Commons / Dominick Guzzo

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Apple to build new $1 billion campus in Texas

The News International 13 Dec 2018

The announcement follows a promise by Apple in January to invest $30 billion in the United States and comes as companies with major manufacturing operations outside America have been facing political pressure to ramp up investments at home....

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Mayor serves defamation notice on PTI MPA

The News International 13 Dec 2018

Speaking to media persons on Wednesday, Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar said the operation would not be stopped, even though it was harming his political career ... Speaking to media persons on Wednesday, Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar said the operation would not be stopped, even though it was harming his political career....

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Russia contacts alarm intelligence experts

Messenger-Inquirer 13 Dec 2018

Former intelligence officials say the pattern of Russian outreach emerging is similar to the early stage of a Russian intelligence operation. Russian agents or third parties will approach people offering to help improve U.S.-Russian relations or offering a business deal before talking politics, said Hall, a retired CIA chief of Russian operations....

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Trump campaign Russia contacts alarm intelligence experts

HJ News 13 Dec 2018

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Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina cooperating ahead of plea hearing Thursday

CNN 13 Dec 2018

She has been offering information about an American -- her boyfriend, GOP political operative Paul Erickson -- who helped her make inroads with conservative political groups. But it's unclear how much Butina can offer to lift the veil on Russian influence operations ... Some of Moscow's operations were highly-coordinated efforts....

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Trump overture sounds familiar

Arkansas Online 13 Dec 2018

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The enormous potential of #MeToo

The Telegraph India 13 Dec 2018

The refusal to co-operate with a political dispensation based on violence – a rule that was unjust and oppressive, in Gandhi’s telling epithet, “satanic” – would enable Indians to regain and retrieve the self-respect and dignity that they had lost by allowing themselves to be ruled by a foreign and alien power....

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Speed dating: Hickenlooper, other presidential hopefuls scramble to make a match with operatives

Colorado Politics 13 Dec 2018

“We ended up talking for about 45 minutes,” said one operative, who like many rising political stars has been approached by multiple presidential aspirants in recent months ... Jay Inslee recently started a federal PAC to pay his political advisers and has begun speaking with potential hires....

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Steve Bannon still has bluster and bravado, but is he old news?

Herald Mail 13 Dec 2018

LONDON – Once portrayed as one of Washington’s most powerful men, Steve Bannon is either back or he’s still out in the political wilderness ... Yet none of this, perhaps predictably for a political operative who rose from relative obscurity to help Trump win an improbable election victory, appears to bother Bannon....

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STEVE FAIR: Gossip is destructive

Stillwater News Press 13 Dec 2018

In politics, spreading rumors is a stock in trade. Politician operatives delight in using a “whisper” campaign to discredit a client’s opponent ... Gossip in politics is a huge problem ... In a court of law, unsubstantiated testimony is not allowed, but in politics a rumor is considered true until the subject of the rumor has proven otherwise....