TODAY: Bette’s Happy Hour with Dietmar Pichler on “Elections, Sanctions, Law, and Investigations”
Please register for our Happy Hour today, Oct. 1, noon Pacific, as disinformation analyst Dietmar Pichler joins us for updates on global elections and law. Plus a beautiful President Carter portrait
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Today, I want to share with you this beautiful portrait of President Jimmy Carter on his 100th birthday by my friend James Silk.
I recall as a child growing up in San Francisco feeling so safe with this good and decent man as our President. Please read Thom Hartmann’s tribute to him today:
Also, today is the VP debate — again, I question the sanity of America in this moment. We continue giving members of a criminal gang the benefit of the doubt, even after they cause terror in our country. Have we learned so little from history?
Please share the two reports above with your networks. They are cutting through the noise and making their way into the news-sphere and every share helps.
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Happy Hour Today!
And speaking of hard facts and history, I had such a great time with Dietmar Pichler and Monique Camarra at Bette’s Happy Hour last Tuesday, I asked them both to come back and Dietmar is joining us today. Monique just informed me she’s jamming on preparation for a presentation so we will miss her this week, but I know she is doing important work, and we’ll bring her back soon. So here is today’s menu:
Bette’s Happy Hour with Dietmar Pichler, October 1, Tuesday, Noon Pacific — Elections, Sanctions, Law, and Investigations
Dietmar will be with us with an update on Austria’s recent elections, and the latest investigations into Russia’s covert influence activities and more.
“The sanctions against Russia prevent Western business relations with certain autocratic states, especially Russia, but the propaganda relations with these countries are neither investigated nor sanctioned.”—Dietmar Pichler for Bette Dangerous
More on Dietmar here:
Dietmar Pichler is a Vienna-based disinformation researcher, media literacy educator, and the founder of Disinfo Resilience Network. Please have a listen to RadPod’s interview with Dietmar here. To support Dietmar’s Building Resilience Against Dictator Propaganda project, please go here and drop some coin if you can.
Happy Hours are open to all levels of membership, and we look forward to meeting new members!
As I noted on Sunday, I am trying to carve out some time to catch up on sending paid members recent Speakeasy and Happy Hour interview recordings, and, God willin’ and the creek don’t rise, I should be able to get to that this week, likely all in one post, so be on the look out for it. The audio recordings will include interviews with Martin Sheil, Greg Palast, Alex Alvarova, and Dietmar and Monique.
Thank you everyone for your support of my work, and thank you to each of you helping grow this vibrant, pro-democracy network.
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