http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/1984/ en-us Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:22:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412714/posts A new report reveals a British scientist and Wikipedia administrator rewrote climate history, editing more than 5,000 unique articles in the online encyclopedia to cover traces of a medieval warming period – something Climategate scientists saw as a major roadblock in the effort to spread the global warming message. Recently hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit expose a plot to eliminate the Medieval Warm Period, a 400-year era that began around A.D. 1000, the Financial Post's Lawrence Solomon reports. The warming period is said to have improved agriculture and increased life spans, but scientists at... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412714/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:22:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412617/posts Turns out there are real questions about the accuracy of that recent Quinnipiac poll showing President Obama’s approval rating at just 52 percent among Jewish voters. As the JTA’s Eric Fingerhut pointed out, the Jewish sampling “was derived from a sample of just 71 respondents, for a margin of error of plus or minus 11.6 percent — a sample size that pollsters generally say makes such surveys unreliable.” Actually, common sense and some knowledge of Jewish voting habits should be enough to render any such poll findings suspect at best. Obama enjoys two important advantages that make him almost a... Commentary http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412617/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:27:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396418/posts Sixty years following its first publication and twenty-five since the fateful year, George Orwell’s 1984 remains a mystery to the experts. They convene often in exotic places to agree that Orwell wrote a dystopia on the communist take-over of Britain and America. They concur how he reversed the final two digits of the year he wrote the book — 1948 — to arrive at the title 1984. They write that Orwell was not a prophet and few predictions fill his volume. These consensus beliefs on 1984 by the experts still shape the views of tens of millions of citizens who... The New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396418/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:38:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381156/posts We are in fact entering a "Brave New World". The 'Battlefield of Ideas' has moved into Cyberspace, and is embroiled in Ideology and Rhetoric the way Talk Radio and Television were before us. The question is: Can Conservatives hold this ground, too? See the full article at the Liberty Tree Revolution Liberty Tree Revolution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381156/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:49:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2371295/posts One world government marching along as scheduled. no Compromise When You're Right! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2371295/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:08:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2369456/posts “Thought crime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for awhile…but sooner or later they were bound to get you.” George Orwell, 1984 “The fact is we are witnessing an all-out drive to impose thought control that seeks to ban the ability—the right—to think or speak for one’s self. Thinking is becoming a crime.” (Globally Acceptable Truth and the Crime of Thinking, Tom DeWeese, Address to the 10th Annual Freedom 21 Conference, 10/16/09) In an article entitled “Dems Undermine Free Speech in Hate Crimes Ploy,” the Washington Examiner exposes the insidious machinations of House... The Woodward Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2369456/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:32:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367245/posts A new online "game" called Internet Eyes is about to be launched in the UK. The game allows the "players" to connect to CCTV cameras in the UK to monitor for criminal activity. If a resident witnesses a crime, they can then report it for a reward of up to £1000. Unspun America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367245/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:01:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366593/posts Anita Dunn: How We Created Obama's Cult of Personality By Candance Moore Created 2009-10-20 10:45 For months NewsBusters has been reporting [0] how the media aided and abetted the creation of Barack Obama's Cult of Personality leading to his eventual election as the 44th President of the United States. Eight days before his inauguration, Obama's Fox News-hating [0] communications director Anita Dunn and his digital strategist Ben Self, while at a conference in the Dominican Republic hosted by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development, confirmed the allegation in a tutorial they gave to President Leonel Fernandez and other government... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366593/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:00:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365747/posts Discerning television viewers may notice a recurrent theme on their favorite shows this week. The doctors on ABC's "Private Practice" give homeless teenagers free check-ups. On NBC's "30 Rock," page Kenneth Parcell tries to adopt all the dogs at an animal shelter. And two characters on CBS' "Numb3rs" talk about joining Big Brothers/Big Sisters. The outpouring of volunteerism is no coincidence. The storylines were developed for iParticipate, an industry-wide initiative aimed at urging viewers to give back to their communities. Spearheaded by the Entertainment Industry Foundation, one of Hollywood's major charitable organizations and the force behind last year's Stand Up... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365747/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:22:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362949/posts On September 10th of this year the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) posted a press release informing the world that “from October 19-25, more than 60 network TV shows [will] spotlight the power and personal benefits of service,” and that this “unprecedented block of TV programming is the first wave of a multi-year ‘I Participate’ campaign.” Big Hollywood/Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362949/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:14:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358401/posts New York - On the heels of breaking up an alleged bomb terror plot, New York is planning to place high-tech security cameras, license plate readers, and "weapons sensors" in midtown Manhattan. Office workers and tourists – and possible terrorists – will have cameras watching their every move as they visit Macy's, shop for diamonds at Tiffany & Co., or gawk in Times Square. The apparatus, paid for by some $24 million in Department of Homeland Security funding, will expand a similar effort already underway in lower Manhattan where cameras focus on the Federal Reserve, the New York Stock Exchange,... The Christian Science Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358401/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:24:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2356930/posts If you didn't already have reason enough to avoid Keith Olbermann's left-wing screeching on Countdown, here's another one: Tonight (Wednesday), for the first time, he will devote his entire MSNBC hour, sans relief for commercials, to a “Special Comment” -- the kind of high-handed pontificating, laced with mean-spirited and cheap insults toward conservatives, so far confined to the last 8 to 11 minutes of the 8 PM EDT/5 PM PDT program re-run at 10 PM EDT/7 PM PDT. “Special Comment Hour” topic: “Health Care Reform: The Fight Against Death.” Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2356930/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:28:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2352041/posts Researchers from Georgia Tech have devised methods to take real-time, real-world information and layer it onto Google Earth, adding dynamic information to the previously sterile Googlescape. They use live video feeds (sometimes from many angles) to find the position and motion of various objects, which they then combine with behavioral simulations to produce real-time animations for Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth. They use motion capture data to help their animated humans move realistically, and were able to extrapolate cars' motion throughout an entire stretch of road from just a few spotty camera angles. From their video of an augmented... Popular Science http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2352041/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 00:06:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344778/posts ‘HELP!’ by Victoria Jackson I remember three images from September 11, 2001: 1) People jumping from burning buildings. 2) Congress standing outside, humbly bowing their heads, and praying. This was a shocking sight. 3) The pews of my church completely full of people…and for several months after. congress praying[1] It’s human nature to remember God when we’re in big trouble. Even agnostics offered up a prayer that day. We needed super human help from a higher power to defeat the Enemy Without. God answered our prayers, and along with the excellent leadership of Bush, Cheney, our fantastic military, and superb... Breitbart's Big Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344778/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:57:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339856/posts Parents who give lifts to other children from sports and social clubs face prosecution if they fail to register with the Government’s new anti-paedophile database. telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339856/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:44:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2337865/posts In May, I wrote:Yet another Obama speech. Sigh ... In "1984", the TVs were always on, and always tuned to Big Brother's latest speech. While no one today is forced to turn on the tube or listen, in some ways things are not so different: In most households, the TV is always on, and every program is about Obama.This is now more true than ever. The new motto for CNN should be "CNN: All Obama, All the Time". Indeed, the only story about American politics that I have seen on CNN lately that was not about Obama was a story... The Tree of Mamre http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2337865/posts#comment Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:20:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2337011/posts <p>Though we live in an era when all undesirable facts are often blindly labeled "conspiracy theories" by political operatives with an agenda at risk, a very real conspiracy unfolds every now and then.</p> <p>While it is indeed true that not all theories are actual conspiracies, like when Hillary Clinton developed an imaginary "right-wing conspiracy" out to get her husband, when in fact, the semen stained dress provided all the necessary (but unfriendly) facts and a perfectly logical explanation for all of those nasty rumors - it is also true that some conspiracies are much more than just crackpot theory.</p> Right Side News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2337011/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:53:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333320/posts Parents are talking about keeping their kids home from school this week. Some so-called leaders are expressing grave concern "for the children" in fear of an impending disaster. And the provocateurs who commandeer broadcast microphones on a daily basis continue to warn of a serious contagion that the nation must fight "by any means necessary." I could understand it if these folk were worried about the H1N1 ("swine flu") virus, but that’s not their concern. The infection they are afraid of is the president of the United States and his possible influence on America’s children. In an age when schools... Star-Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333320/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2009 13:13:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324395/posts A 24-year-old arrested this morning on suspicion of smashing 11 windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters tried to conceal his identity while allegedly committing the crime, according to police descriptions. Maurice Schwenkler wore a shirt over his face, a hooded sweat shirt and latex gloves before he and another man fled the scene on bicycles, police said. Schwenkler was apprehended after a short chase. The other suspect remains at large. While Schwenkler does not appear in the state's voter registration database, a person by that name in November 2008 received $500 from a political 527 committee called Colorado Citizens Coalition... Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324395/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:15:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321026/posts [Federal Register Volume 74, Number 160 (Thursday, August 20, 2009)] [Notices] = [Pages 42077-42079] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: E9-20021] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection project: ``2010-2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Insurance Component.'' In... Federal Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321026/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:26:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319489/posts <p>A Florida teenager could face felony vandalism charges for allegedly gluing posters depicting President Obama as the Joker onto public property, FOXNews.com has learned.</p> <p>Clermont, Fla., Police Capt. Eric Jensen said the state attorney will review evidence to determine whether to charge the unidentified teenager with gluing "dozens" of the posters last week to the city's light poles, public and private buildings, bridge overpasses, road signs and a mailbox.</p> Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319489/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:07:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319449/posts PATERSON, N.J. — Curfews might not be just for kids anymore in one northern New Jersey city. Seeking to curb violence after a spate of deadly summer shootings, Paterson officials are considering an unusual ordinance that would prevent people of all ages from gathering outside in public late at night. The measure could be the nation's first citywide, non-emergency curfew to include adults, several experts said..... http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iOGJmr5Dp-redxBbiPI2iyEZ7ZpAD9A5IUEG0 Google News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319449/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:02:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2318791/posts Internet denizens and urban dwellers alike need to recognize that an era of anonymity is ending. The population of the world stands at about 7 billion. So it takes only 10 digits to label each human being on the planet uniquely. This simple arithmetic observation offers powerful insight into the limits of privacy. It dictates something we might call the 10-Digit Rule: just 10 digits or so of distinctive personal information are enough to identify you uniquely. They're enough to strip away your anonymity on the Internet or call out your name as you walk down the street. The 10-Digit... CNet News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2318791/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:13:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318374/posts After insisting no one was receiving unsolicited e-mails from the White House, officials reversed their story Monday night and blamed outside political groups for the unwanted messages from the tech-savvy operation. White House online director Macon Phillips said in a blog posting that independent groups — he didn't name them — had signed-up their members to receive regular updates about Obama's projects, priorities and speeches. The White House had consistently denied that anyone who hadn't sought the e-mails had received them. "It has come to our attention that some people may have been subscribed to our e-mail lists without their... ap http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318374/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:01:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2318036/posts A little less than two weeks ago, the Obama administration announced a program asking American's to spy on their neighbors. The call for an army of spies was announced in a White House’s internet site blog: There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see... White House/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2318036/posts#comment Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:48:36 GMT