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Today, senior law enforcement officials from the United States, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras announced criminal charges in Central America against more than 700 members of transnational criminal organizations, primarily MS-13 and 18th Street gangs, which resulted from a one-week coordinated law enforcement action under Operation Regional

Terrorism is defined as “the use of violence and intimidation in pursuit of political aims”. This definition is the same definition used to declare ISIS and other groups, as terrorist organizations. AntiFa has earned this title due to its violent actions in multiple cities and their influence in the killings of multiple police officers throughout the United States. It is time for the pentagon to be consistent in its actions – and just as they rightfully declared ISIS a terror group, they must declare AntiFa a terror group – on the grounds of principle, integrity, morality, and safety.

An Obama administration official has floated the idea that Bowe Bergdahl was justified in deserting his platoon in Afghanistan and joining the Taliban over disagreements with the platoon's leadership. Brandon Friedman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the Department of Housing and Urban Development posted a series of tweets Wednesday evening in which he speculated that Bergdahl deserted over bad leadership of his platoon and that is why his fellow soldiers were smearing him."Here's the thing about Bergdahl and the Jump-to-Conclusions mats: What if his platoon was long on psychopaths and short on leadership? (1/5)"" What if he grew...

SALT LAKE CITY — Mike Otterson, head of the LDS Church's Public Affairs Department, has a message for those in the media who persist in referring to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a "cult": "expect to be challenged." Writing in the Washington Post's "On Faith" blog, Otterson asserts that the words continues to crop up in news stories about Mormonism because "it's a neat, shorthand and rather lazy way of putting a whole group into a box." From the archive Looking for understanding in the Mormon spotlight – July 1, 2011 LDS public affairs rep responds...

The Jewish Agency And Why Does Israel PR Fail? By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel ---- December 17, 2010 ...... Just a few days ago I applied for the position of VP Marketing Communications for the Jewish Agency. Within 48 hours I was told that I that I was too late to apply. They were interviewing "finalists". Is one ever too late to apply for a job? That is until someone is actually made an offer and signs a contract? No. It was an excuse. Was I disappointed? Yes. Was I angry? Yes. But not for the obvious...

Publisher Peter Osnos, who admits to personally working with former Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan on his new book, What Happened, began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist "journalist" named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin. But the connections don't end there. Boudin's son Chesa was raised by Barack Obama associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were Boudin's comrades in the communist terrorist group, after Kathy Boudin went to prison for her involvement in an armed robbery and assault that took the...

The following text SNIPPET is a quote: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-10-1084A1.pdf PUBLIC NOTICE Federal Communications Commission 445 12thSt., S.W. Washington, D.C.20554 News Media Information 202 / 418-0500 Internet: http://www.fcc.gov TTY: 1-888-835-5322 DA 10-1084 Released: June 16, 2010 MEDIA BUREAU ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF REQUESTS FOR QUOTATION FOR MEDIA OWNERSHIP STUDIES AND SEEKS SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STUDIES IN MEDIA OWNERSHIP PROCEEDING MB Docket No. 09-182 Suggestions for Additional Studies Deadline:July 7, 2010 Requests for Quotation for Media Ownership Studies. As part of the Commission’s 2010 Quadrennial Media Ownership proceeding,1the Commission is commissioning nine economic studies to evaluate the current marketplace and the state of...

CBSNews.com Exclusive: An Excerpt from "Sarah From Alaska" -- a New Book Telling the Inside Story of Palin's Campaign for VP (CBS) In "Sarah From Alaska," Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe draw on their experiences as embedded campaign reporters, the many weeks they spent reporting in Alaska during Palin's last days as governor, and exclusive interviews with almost 200 former McCain/Palin staffers, top political minds, friends, and foes in Alaska to tell the remarkable behind-the-scenes story of Palin's political career and the events leading to her surprising resignation. The authors share new insights and bring to light illuminating stories...

California government has changed dramatically over the last 15 years. Everything from term limits to restrictions on political campaign contributions has changed the way the business of politics works. Meanwhile, technological changes have altered the media business and fundamentally changed the way California citizens receive their information. These factors have all changed the way the state’s public affairs and political campaign industry operates. New super firms like California Strategies and Mercury Public Affairs, have appeared on the political landscape, snatching up former legislative leaders and seasoned political staffers to help build up their client lists. Much of the work these...

Israel PR Public Relations Directory By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel ---- May 18, 2007 ...... Perhaps one of most challenging jobs in the world is promoting the State of Israel. PR professionals, governmental directors and academics integrate an accumulated sum of creative brain power to defend the tiny, democratic Jewish state through research, images, sound bytes and written words. Not always agreeing, coming from a rainbow of political, religious, academic and professional backgrounds, the Israel public relations and public affairs professionals are the unsung heroes who confront a well oiled and continuous slanderous assault of PR campaigns...

Mixed Reviews For TheMarker’s International Israel Internet Convention By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem ---- March 19, 2007..... The news release read in Hebrew that 60 senior Internet executives from the USA and Europe would participate in TheMarker’s International Internet Convention. That convention attendees would be able to meet with the most senior entrepreneurs, visionaries and executives in the international Internet business. But the sad reality was that only about one half of this Internet convention's auditorium was filled with attendees. TheMarker Com.Vention was held March 18-19 in Airport City just next to Ben-Gurion Airport between Tel Aviv and...

It’s the time of year when long-suffering tuition-poor parents get primped up and drive countless miles to stew in summer’s heat, sitting on excruciatingly uncomfortable folding wooden seats on damp fields, gnats biting at their ankles and ears. They do this for one reason: to see their offspring get their long-hoped-for diplomas. (After which the detritus collected over four or more years gets piled into the car with the offspring and returned home.)

Passing this along for a conservative friend We will be protesting against Bill Clinton This Friday night starting at 6PM at the entrance to the Palmer Event Center located on 900 Barton Springs Road. There should be plenty of parking room inside the parking garage at the Palmer Events Center, that place is huge. Clinton is in town to give a fundraising speech at 7:30 PM for the Center for Public Priorities, a liberal group that lobbies for bigger government. We will meet at the entrance to the Palmer Event Center on Barton Springs Road across from Vinny's Cafe and...

Former President Clinton to speak at LBJ School graduation Event will be open to media, invited guests. By Laura Heinauer AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, April 12, 2006 Former President Clinton will give this year's commencement address to graduates at the University of Texas' Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the school announced Wednesday. Clinton will speak at the school's May 20 convocation ceremony, which is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. at the LBJ auditorium, school spokeswoman Marilyn Duncan said. The event is open to graduates, their families, invited guests and members of the media, she said. "We are delighted...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version April 07, 2006, 5:21 a.m. Your Own Lying Eyes Why aren’t reporters embedded with new Iraqi forces? On March 26, an Iraqi special-forces unit attacked a building on the outskirts of northeast Baghdad, where they had tracked a group of terrorists. They had good reason to do so, because three members of the unit had been kidnapped by the terrorists, and were savagely tortured and killed. Their fingers and toes were cut off, their joints were penetrated with an electric drill, and they were eviscerated while still alive. It later...

A new global poll reinforces the perception that Americans, as a whole, are far more religious than Europeans. The Associated Press teaming up with Washington, D.C., firm Ipsos-Public Affairs, found that 86 percent of Americans and Mexicans consider religion to be "important" in their lives, but that only 43 percent of residents in the United Kingdom and 37 percent of those in France have a similar attitude. The survey involved 1,000 respondents from ten countries -- Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Nearly 20 percent of Frenchmen and South Koreans...

Greetings All, I'm posting this announcement to let everyone know that the VetsCoR Public Affairs Officer, Roy Arnold, will be doing a talk radio show on Sunday, June 3 at 1PM (Arizona time). Roy will be on KVOI radio in Tucson with Charles Heller. If anyone is interested in listening, there is a Live stream you can listen to. The live stream is up from 12-2pm (MST) and Roy will be on for 1/2 hour starting at 1pm. Also, VetsCoR needs a Chaplain. 1. We unanimously approved a measure to create a Chaplain position (Non-voting) on the VetsCor Board of...

CJTF-7 Public AffairsBAGHDAD, IraqRelease #031228d 101st participates in youth center opening TALLAFAR, Iraq – Leaders from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) participated in the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Tallafar Youth Center today in northern Iraq. In attendance at the ceremony was Col. Michael Linnington, commander, 3rd Brigade, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), the Mayor and Chief of Police of Tallafar, and Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the 101st. “(This) is clearly a great day for Tallafar and the youth of Tallafar,” Petraeus said to the audience during his remarks. “(We are) proud to be...

Our (Israel) Newspapers Fail Us - (UPDATED) September 28, 2003 Editorial - Israel News Agency "Over at the Jerusalem Post, Israel's venerable English language daily newspaper, rumblings of publisher/staff dissatisfaction are being heard loud and clear. Long-time managing editor, Avi Hoffman was fired last week after he recommended pulling an ad that included language he felt would expose Israel to charges of war crimes. New Post editor Bret Stephens apparently agreed. Publisher Tom Rose was furious and ordered Hoffman fired. The full page ad appeared last Friday. According to Aviv Lavie writing in the rival Haaretz English edition, senior staff...

Our Newspapers Fail Us Editorial - Israel News Agency There is no public relations or public affairs without a carrier. The most established carrier is called a newspaper. And in Israel the only newspapers which enjoy abundant readership and wealth are the Hebrew dailies – Yediot, Maariv and Haaertz. As for the English newspapers here in Israel – one is a mere translation of the Hebrew edition and the other is fifty percent wire service copy. Yes – there are some brilliant writers on these papers but their voices become deluded when you have a lack of proper leadership integrated...