Anonymous ID: 61bf58 Feb. 9, 2020, 5:53 a.m. No.8082219   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to Headline First HISTORYTalks Event

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https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/-Bill-Clinton-and-George-W-Bush-to-Headline-First-HISTORYTalks-Event-20200207

A+E Networks® today unveiled additional details of HISTORYTalks™, a traveling speaker series of live events that will explore newsworthy topics and historical milestones through conversations with global leaders, trailblazers, historians, authors and filmmakers. The series' first event will be held Saturday, February 29, 2020 in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in New York. Details of the event can be found at www.history-talks.com.

 

HISTORYTalks™ inaugural event, "Leadership & Legacy," will feature an exclusive session with President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush in conversation with presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.

 

In addition to the featured conversation with Presidents Clinton and Bush, guests will hear from "Women Changing the Conversation," including Billie Jean King, sports icon and social justice pioneer; Padma Lakshmi, television host/executive producer, NY Times best-selling author, UNDP Goodwill Ambassador and ACLU spokesperson; and Gloria Steinem, writer, lecturer, political activist, and feminist organizer. Moderated by investigative journalist Ronan Farrow, the discussion will highlight the ways women from all backgrounds have catalyzed conversation and forged the course of recent history in sports, popular culture and beyond.

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Anonymous ID: 61bf58 Feb. 9, 2020, 6:08 a.m. No.8082316   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2329

Oprah and Michelle Obama Discuss Life After the White House: "It's a Hard Job, It Takes a Toll"

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Winfrey sat down with the former First Lady at the Barclays Center during her tour to speak about marriage, parenthood, and self-love.

During the fifth stop on her Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus tour, Oprah Winfrey welcomed 15,000 guests to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY, where speakers such as Julianne Hough, WW CEO Mindy Grossman, author Rachel Hollis, and meditation leader Jesse Israel took the stage to inspire and motivate the audience toward wellness and purpose. Audience members included Lupita Nyong’o, Hoda Kotb, Niecey Nash, Nate Berkus, and more.

 

At the all-day event, Winfrey led guests through workbook exercises and intention setting challenges to create goals for the coming year. She emphasized the importance of purpose and intention, drawing on her experience on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

 

"When you start to live your life through this lens of intention, I’m telling you it becomes filled with new and greater possibilities, but it actually takes practice," she said. "The reason we were number 1 for 25 years — listen to me Hoda — is because it was an intentionally based show."

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Anonymous ID: 61bf58 Feb. 9, 2020, 7:26 a.m. No.8082563   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2635 >>2658

'QAnon' conspiracy theory creeps into mainstream politics

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https://news.yahoo.com/qanon-conspiracy-theory-creeps-mainstream-132443434.html

Associated Press

MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

Associated Press•February 9, 2020

MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Donald Trump was more than halfway through his speech at a rally in Milwaukee when one of his hand gestures caught the eye of a supporter standing in the packed arena.

 

The 51-year-old woman believed the president had traced the shape of the letter “Q” with his fingers as a covert signal to followers of QAnon, a right-wing, pro-Trump conspiracy theory. She turned to the couple on her right and excitedly asked, “Did you see the ‘Q’?”

 

“He just did it?” asked Diane Jacobson, 63, of Racine, Wisconsin.

 

“Was that a 'Q'?" added Jacobson's husband, Randy, 64.

 

“I think it was,” replied their new friend, Chrisy. The Geneva, Illinois, resident declined to give her last name in part because she said she wanted to avoid negative “attention."

 

The Jacobsons met Chrisy and her husband, Paul, hours earlier in the line to get into the Jan 14 rally. The couples bonded over their shared interest in QAnon, which centers on the baseless belief that Trump is waging a secret campaign against enemies in the “deep state” and a child sex trafficking ring run by satanic pedophiles and cannibals.

 

What started as an online obsession for the far-right fringe has grown beyond its origins in a dark corner of the internet. QAnon has been creeping into the mainstream political arena for more than a year. The trend shows no sign of abating as Trump fires up his reelection campaign operation, attracting a loyal audience of conspiracy theorists and other fringe groups to his raucous rallies.

 

Trump has retweeted QAnon-promoting accounts. Followers flock to Trump’s rallies wearing clothes and hats with QAnon symbols and slogans. At least 23 current or former congressional candidates in the 2020 election cycle have endorsed or promoted QAnon, according to the liberal watchdog Media Matters for America, which compiled online evidence to support its running tally.

 

Conspiracy theorists aren't the only fringe characters drawn to Trump rallies. The Oath Keepers, an anti-government group formed in 2009 after President Barack Obama's election, has been sending “security volunteers” to escort Trump supporters at rallies across the country.

 

University of California, Davis history professor Kathryn Olmsted, author of a book called “Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11,” said it's unclear whether QAnon has attracted more believers than other conspiracy theories that have intersected with U.S. politics.

 

“What's different now is that there are people in power who are spreading this conspiracy theory,” she said, adding that Trump's conspiracy-minded rhetoric seems to fire up part of his base. “Finally, there is someone saying they're not crazy.”

 

Conspiracy theories are nothing new, but experts fear the powerful engine of social media and a volatile political climate have ramped up the threat of violence. An FBI bulletin in May warned that conspiracy theory-driven extremists have become a domestic terrorism threat. The bulletin specifically mentions QAnon.

 

A Trump campaign spokeswoman and a White House spokesman didn't respond to emails seeking comment. Asked about QAnon in 2018, then-White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump “condemns and denounces any group that would incite violence against another individual.” Some major Trump supporters, including former White House aide Sebastian Gorka, have denounced QAnon.

 

For more than two years, followers have pored over a tangled set of clues purportedly posted online by a high-ranking government official known only as “Q.” Many followers believe the late John F. Kennedy Jr. is a Trump supporter who faked his death in a 1999 plane crash. Another core belief is that thousands of deep state operatives and top Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Obama, will be rounded up and sent to Guantanamo Bay during an event called “The Storm."

 

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