Sentences with phrase «based opposition research»

The dossier was compiled by veteran British spy Christopher Steele, who was hired to investigate Trump's ties to Russia by the Washington, DC - based opposition research firm Fusion GPS.

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It argues that during the 2016 presidential election, the FBI used the so - called Steele dossier, a largely unconfirmed opposition research document alleging collusion between Trump and Russia, as the basis for a warrant to surveil former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

The memo argues the dossier became the basis for the surveillance of Page, the conclusion being that the entire Russia investigation is based on dubious political opposition research.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

«The forms of a living being are not but rather come to be,» says Ludwig von Bertalanffy (BW 120), and his «organismic» biology and later general system - theory for overcoming the opposition between mechanism and vitalism has given central insights of Whitehead a new formulation on the basis of science, 8 Something similar holds for all the directions of research which Jean Piaget has brought to the [264] concept of genetic structuralism.9 The genetic epistemology founded by Piaget has proved through empirical research on the problem of knowledge the fruitfulness both of genetic analysis and of Whitehead's principle of process.

Of course, such leaks of prepackaged stories are not new... [but] what has changed is the pace and profusion of stories based on opposition research, especially this early in the campaign cycle.

San Francisco — Government red tape and inertia, plus union opposition, have prevented widespread student access to K - 12 online learning according to the new book Short - Circuited: The Challenges Facing the Online Learning Revolution in California, released by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a California - based free - market think tank.

Hypothetical question to the New York Times and the UEA: if US Congressional (or UK Parliamentary) staffers and researchers decided that their work product upon which legislation is or will be based was not to be made available to investigators and / or opposition politicians, what would be the NYT and the UEA position on that refusal to openly provide information / data / research that was publicly funded?