Sentences with phrase «group on conspiracy»

The day before the October 23, 1967, March on the Pentagon, Mr. Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and eight other activists met with an official in the Justice Department and turned in the draft cards of young war resisters — an action that was to result in the indictment of five of the group on conspiracy charges.

Not exact matches

The Democratic Party on Friday sued President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the Russian government and the Wikileaks group, claiming a broad illegal conspiracy to help Trump win the 2016 election.

Oh, this is fun, I like seeing «christian» conspiracies and mud slinging on CNN, but it makes me wonder, why arent there any other personal slanderings of any other religions group by CNN?

They have been going through the very same ordeal there, and they too have discovered that funding has been accepted from terrorist organizations, a group that has «a key influence on terrorists targeting Britain» and «a common link to a string of attacks and conspiracies»

Six Minnesota men were arrested on Sunday and charged with conspiracy and trying to provide material support to a foreign terror group.

On the up side, theres an interesting statement by a group of progressive bloggers on the Liberal Conspiracy site, proposing what is almost a charter for leftish blogginOn the up side, theres an interesting statement by a group of progressive bloggers on the Liberal Conspiracy site, proposing what is almost a charter for leftish blogginon the Liberal Conspiracy site, proposing what is almost a charter for leftish blogging.

His biggest victory was the conviction of Raj Rajaratnam, the billionaire co-founder of the Galleon Group, a massive hedge fund, on 14 counts of securities fraud and conspiracy.

The treatment group were assigned roles — alarmist, denier, conspiracy theorist or clickbait monger — and tasked with distorting a government fact sheet on asylum seekers using a set of cards outlining common propaganda tactics consistent with their role.

It hasn't been clear sailing all the way, mind: popular historian Stephen Marche recently took to the NEW YORK TIMES to debunk such «prophets of truthiness» — Emmerich and Orloff are but a new, high - profile strain of Oxfordians, a group who name nobleman Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's texts, even the ones dated after his death — for advancing a lunatic conspiracy theory based on little more than class snobbery.

Supposedly based on a true story, The Hessen Conspiracy, originally titled The Hessen Affair, follows a small group of American officers after the end of WWII that discover the German crown jewels and attempt to take them back to the states.

Now, they know that some parent groups and right - wing bloggers have concerns, but when brainstorming on all this, the champions have trouble seeing this pushback as anything other than the maddening complaints of conspiracy - minded, parochial luddites.

The investigations into extremism in Birmingham schools had been sparked by an anonymous and unverified letter claiming that there was a «Trojan Horse» conspiracy by a group wanting to impose a more hardline Muslim agenda on schools in the city.

You or your students can learn about other Nazi laws, including laws targeting groups other than Jews, such as the Gypsies and the disabled, by searching Yale Law School's The Avalon Project's archive of documents on Nazi conspiracy and aggression.

The differences between groups of Repub voters on any given issue are far smaller than the differences arising from more or less extreme conspiracy theories (for example, only about 20 per cent of each group think that the Sandy Hook shootings were faked).

Both groups are broadly inclined away from conspiracy theories, with the exception being the only positive assent to the conspiracy theory that — «The claim that the climate is changing due to emissions from fossil fuels is a hoax perpetrated by corrupt scientists who wish to spend more taxpayer money on climate research».

For instance, if we divide the respondents into «sceptics» and «warmists» on the basis of their assent to / dissent from the statement, «I believe that burning fossil fuels increases atmospheric temperature to some measurable degree», and then compare those groups» assent to / dissent from popular conspiracy theories, we get the following result:

Initially I assumed that they were just another high - level environmental think - tank and dismissed the conspiracy theories found on many website claiming that the CoR is a group of global elitists attempting to impose some kind of one world government.

That warmist believes that any funding to a group that encourages sceptical thought on climate is wrong, that they think sceptics are anti-scientific and that they think scepticism is a conspiracy all glows through in the briefing.

So this is what Green Audit and other anti-nuclear campaign groups thrive on: distrust of both the nuclear industry and official health protection and regulatory agencies, allowing them to invoke shadowy conspiracies by men in white lab coats who presumably enjoy foisting dangerous radioactive materials on an unwilling public, all no doubt controlled by a sinister mastermind bearing a striking resemblance to Mr Burns off the Simpsons, the evil boss of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

Are climate scientists not funded to the tune of $ 2 billion / year while complaining that Exxon threw $ 2 million / year to various groups, including Stanford, as though this proved a major conspiracy to suppress climate change, while ignoring their own funding — which exceeds that of physics and chemistry and depends on the alarmist implications of climate change?

The fact that groups opposing action on climate change are crying «conspiracy» shows how desperate they are to discredit scientists.

As you know, Lewandowsky has done research on this and the results strongly suggest that conspiracy ideation is more prevalent among certain groups than it is among others, although it appears that hardly any group is completely immune.

Commenting on criticism of the Lavoisier Group by Clive Hamilton, the Cooler Heads Coalition notes that «Hamilton accuses the Lavoisier Group of painting the UN's global warming negotiations as «an elaborate conspiracy in which hundreds of climate scientists have twisted their results to support the climate change theory in order to protect their research funding» and adds, «Sounds plausible to us.»

In a piece headed Crichton's conspiracy theory, Harold Evans described Crichton's theory as being «in the paranoid political style identified by the renowned historian Richard Hofstadter,» and went on to suggest that «if you happen to be in the market for a conspiracy theory today, there's a rather more credible one documented by the pressure group Greenpeace,» namely the funding by ExxonMobil of groups opposed to the theory of global warming.

On blogs I am often told that I believe in a conspiracy between 1000s of scientists who altogether want to con the world; I find it a difficult charge to counter, I say things like there has been group think, but I am still left to look like a loony.

It is therefore staggering that such minority views are given such air time by the ABC, and moreover, that they are trumped with such gusto by special interest groups (such as the «Lavoisier group ``, who were represented on the follow - up panel of debaters) as providing «the answer to the lies and conspiracy».

And of course with any major public event on climate change, the same small and very vocal group of climate change science deniers and conspiracy theorists are trying to distort the message, and (of all things) discredit Pope Francis and his concern about climate change.

(b) A union may make wage agreements with a multiemployer bargaining unit and may, in pursuance of its own self - interests, seek to obtain the same terms from other employers, but it forfeits its antitrust exemption when it agrees with a group of employers to impose a certain wage scale on other bargaining units, and thus joins a conspiracy to curtail competition.

Erste Group Bank AG v JSC VMZ «Red October» [2014] BPIR 81 (Comm Ct); [2015] 1 CLC 706 (CA)(with Richard Snowden QC and Richard Morgan QC): substantial jurisdiction challenge at first instance and on appeal in relation to conspiracy claims brought by an Austrian bank against Russian state - owned entities.

(The Volokh Conspiracy, Gay Athletic Group Has First Amendment Right to Limit the Number of Straight Players on a Team)

Perhaps this is intentional on the part of a small group of well - connected people, but we don't like conspiracy theories.

On 20 February 2018, as a group of students from the Parkland, Florida mass shooting attack traveled to their state capitol to lobby for tighter gun safety measures, far right conspiracy blogs pushed increasingly hysterical claims that at least one of the survivors of the massacre was a «deep state» pawn.