http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/fearmongering/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 02:44:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419794/posts Some of you may find this to be a big surprise, but a Harvard study shows that the great swine flu pandemic was oversold. Shocking I know, as one doctor points out, “The H1N1 pandemic was a pandemic that never materialized.” Then I guess you could call the swine flu pandemic oversold, wouldn’t you think? The Harvard study uses the deaths from H1N1 back in the spring and projecting what they would have been in the fall suggests that the swine flu pandemic was indeed oversold by a government willing to allow its citizens to be in a constant state... Right Pundits http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419794/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 02:44:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409714/posts Check out this video of Obama lying and trying to scare people into voting in Obamacare... Karen Travers, ABC said this about the video- President Obama told ABC News’ Charles Gibson in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government “will go bankrupt.” The president laid out a dire scenario of what will happen if his health care reform effort fails. “If we don’t pass it, here’s the guarantee….your premiums will go up, your employers are going to load up more costs on you,” he said. “Potentially they’re going... Video http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409714/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:47:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385412/posts In light of a perceived swine flu outbreak, the World Health Organization raised its influenza pandemic alert to its second highest level in May – but evidence reveals the agency may have made it easier to classify the flu outbreak as a pandemic by changing its definition to omit "enormous numbers of deaths and illness" just prior to making its declaration. WHO, a specialized agency of the United Nations, issued its pandemic declaration – the first in 40 years – just as 74 countries had reported 144 deaths from the novel H1N1 infection. The world was gripped with fears of... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385412/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:24:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384241/posts ATLANTA – Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu — about four times the estimate they've been using. AP via YahooNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384241/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:15:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379376/posts The experiment goes something like this: A volunteer subject sits at a desk in a room, thinking he's there to answer some survey questions, but in reality, this is an experiment on human behavior and covert influence. A researcher sits on the other side of the desk, facing the subject. There is a glass jar on the desk, filled with cookies. The researcher casually asks the subject, "Would you like a cookie?" And some percentage of subjects say yes, but it's a small number, perhaps something like 15% - 20% (I don't remember the exact numbers, but that's not important... NaturalNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379376/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:44:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278371/posts Within minutes, six-year-old Rubjit Thindal went from happily chatting in the back seat of the car to collapsing and dying in her father's arms. "If we had known it was so serious, we would have called 911,'' Kuldip Thindal, Rubjit's distraught mother, said in Punjabi yesterday. "She just had a stomach ache -- she wasn't even crying.'' Rubjit was pronounced dead at hospital barely 24 hours after showing signs of a fever. Later, doctors told her parents she had the H1N1 influenza virus. She is believed to be the youngest person in Canada with the virus to have died. GuelphMercury.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278371/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:04:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371560/posts PARENTS have accused early childhood centres of "greenwashing" their children by burdening them with the responsibility of saving the world.Tots as young as three have sent letters to Kevin Rudd about their passion for green living and asked companies to reduce their packaging.Others are growing their own food, repairing toys and walking to preschool in an effort to reduce their toll on the environment.But experts have called for caution in teaching children about climate change because of the potential for fear, anxiety, frustration, anger and despair at catastrophic events.Mother Paula Driscoll, from Sydney, said environmental disaster was the new... News.com (Australia) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371560/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:25:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371501/posts 'In keeping with the administration's proactive approach" to swine flu, the White House has announced that President Obama has declared the disease "a national emergency." It's the second such declaration, with the first in late April. And in case you didn't know what "proactive" meant before, now you do: "hysterical." Just nine weeks ago, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued its report with a "plausible scenario" of 30,000 to 90,000 deaths peaking in "mid-October." It's now late October and past time for a reality check. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer release specific... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371501/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:11:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353028/posts A few days ago, I was sent a link to a screed by MSNBC's left-wing anchorman Ed Schultz, in which he explained opposition to the president's health-care reform. "The Republicans lie. They want to see you dead. ... They kind of like it when that woman has cancer and they don't have anything for us." Next, a link to the syndicated show of right-wing radio talker Alex Jones ... "They'd love to kill 10,000 Americans," and, "The republic is falling right now." This, increasingly, is the sound of our political conversation. It is not new to call this kind of... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353028/posts#comment Fri, 2 Oct 2009 01:43:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351453/posts It's just what the primetime cable news lineup needed - another hour-long program tilted toward left-of-center politics with character assassination on conservatives. CNN Headline News debuted its "The Joy Behar Show" on Sept. 29, which included appearances by lefty comedian Jeanane Garofalo, CNN's Jack Cafferty and actress Bette Midler. Garofalo doubled down on her low regard for conservative 9/12 and tea party protesters, labeling them as racists. Cafferty went after President Barack Obama for his disregard of the carbon footprint his lobbying efforts in Copenhagen for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. However, actress-turned-Vegas entertainer Bette Midler went straight... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351453/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:55:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351016/posts About a dozen retired generals and admirals, trying to add momentum to President Barack Obama’s effort to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, are accusing former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz of scaremongering about the dangers of closing it. “It’s up to all of us to say these arguments advanced by Cheney and his acolytes are nonsense and that really what they’re doing is undermining our national security by delaying the date at which Guantanamo is closed,” retired Brig. Gen. James Cullen, a former chief judge of the Army’s Court of Criminal Appeals, told POLITICO Tuesday. “Some... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351016/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:09:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349775/posts As contemptible as this is, I’ve got two good reasons to spare you a harangue about it. One: I’ve already written that harangue, and after the summer coup in Tehran and another year of cheat-and-retreat on their nuclear program, it’s truer now than it was then. And two: Thankfully, this old crank’s isolationist denialism is so fringe on the right that not even mainstreamers who are sympathetic to his broader agenda, like Glenn Beck, will go near it. It’s almost not worth bothering about. But suffice it to say, in the unlikely event that the three-percent rEVOLution ever commands the... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349775/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:14:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349634/posts A politically-skewed activist organization has warned law enforcement officials nationwide of the threat posed by the so-called “Patriot movement.” The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)'s Fall, 2009, issue of the “Intelligence Report” expands those designated as extremists, with alarmist language artificially combining a disparate group. The report said, “Militiamen, white supremacists, anti-Semites, nativists, tax protesters and a range of other activists of the radical right are cross-pollinating and may even be coalescing.” On the SPLC website, one report claims, "anti-government rhetoric spills into the Mainstream," listing conservative celebrities like Sean Hannity and Red State's Erick Erickson as purveyors of "white-hot... The US Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349634/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:31:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319602/posts Navy Chemist Trashes New York Times for 'Continuously regurgitating fear-mongering, anecdotal clap trap of global warming propagandists' 'Your coverage of the climate issues is a reflection of either extreme negligence or simply scientific illiteracy' Guest Essay By Dr. Martin Hertzberg, a retired U.S. Navy meteorologist with a PhD in physical chemistry. Hertzberg is featured on page 174 of the 2009 U.S. Senate Report of More Than 700 Dissenting Scientists on Global Warming. Dr. Hertzberg's August 19, 2009 Letter To The New York Times is Reprinted Below: Distortions and misrepresentations of your coverage of global warming/climate change I am a scientist... Climate Depot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319602/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:18:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320842/posts I'll give it to you in one word: Independents. If House Democrats want to avoid losing 20 seats in 2010, they know they will have to fight and hold on to as many Independents as possible, period. Lose them and they will lose the House, it's just that simple, and they know it. Thus the creation here of late in the mainstream press of the local militia and Nazi memes. It's an old political trick. Fanaticize the right with a bogus militia scare, throw in a couple of swastikas and watch the Independents stream back into the fold. So get... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320842/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:03:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316703/posts Conservative groups are rejecting as "anecdotal and exaggerated" a report out of the Southern Poverty Law Center that claims the election of a black president has fanned the flames of a resurgent anti-government "militia movement." The SPLC report cited a recent rash of ideologically driven violent crimes, rising gun sales, a reported rise in the number of militia groups and level of activity and stern warnings from law enforcement officials about the potential for violence in concluding that "there are unmistakable signs of a revival" since the 1990s. The assessment said Latino immigration, and particularly the election of President Obama,... foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316703/posts#comment Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:26:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316357/posts "Sometimes I think they want Obama to get shot. I do. I really think that there are conservative broadcasters in this country who would love to see Obama taken out." So said liberal talk radio host Ed Schultz Tuesday. I kid you not. What follows is a YouTubed audio of these absurd comments along with a partial transcript (h/t our friend Brian Maloney): Newbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316357/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:33:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312287/posts Child with possible meningitis was 'failed by system' say parentsThe parents of a two-year-old girl thought to have died from meningitis after they were told she was suffering from swine flu said yesterday that she had been "failed by the system". Georgia Keeling, from Norwich, died after being rushed to hospital on Tuesday. Her parents, Paul Sewell, 21, and Tasha Keeling, 22, said they contacted health services, including NHS Direct, the swine flu helpline and the emergency services, five times after their daughter first developed a temperature on Saturday. The couple said that by Tuesday she had also developed a... UK Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312287/posts#comment Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:24:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277309/posts Polar bears are not dying out and Turkey Twizzlers are fine, according to a new book from scientists wishing to challenge science "scare stories" Contrary to widely held belief, polar bear populations are rising, according to the scientists It is widely thought that the polar ice caps will melt, causing sea levels to rise, resulting in the loss of cities along the coast, as well as a the majority of polar bears. And if global warming does not kill us, then obesity or heart disease will thanks to an addiction to junk food and salt. But a new book, compiled... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277309/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:41:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272813/posts The FDA says consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products immediately. All the over-the-counter products contain zinc. Scientists say that ingredient may damage nerves in the nose needed for smell. AP/Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272813/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:48:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272259/posts President Obama pushed hard Monday for a health care overhaul, saying the system is "a ticking bomb" for the budget that could propel America down "the route of GM" without a legislative fix. Obama went before the American Medical Association in Chicago to declare anew that the existing system leaves too many uninsured and forces "excessive defensive medicine" by doctors worried about malpractice suits. He also declared once again that he does not favor socialized medicine and cautioned people to beware of "scare tactics and fear-mongering" by critics who make this claim. Obama did tell his audience of physicians and... CNBC Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272259/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:11:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247897/posts State's future at stake in May 19 vote John Wildermuth,Matthew Yi May 9, 2009 If California voters reject a package of budget measures in next week's special election, it will set off a fiscal free-for-all that could set the state's course for years to come. Defeat of the measures on the May 19 ballot would chop nearly $6 billion in expected revenue from next year's budget, on top of a projected $8 billion deficit left by shrinking tax collections. Proposals by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and others to close that gap are driving a wildfire of criticism across the state. Deep... SFChronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247897/posts#comment Sun, 10 May 2009 05:21:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225283/posts The WSJ's Siobhan Gorman has a tale today about deep penetration of America's power grid by foreign hackers that has several on the wingnut side of The Force hyperventilating. However, Gordon's story hangs mainly on the anonymous say so of "and former national-security officials". The nearest she gets to named sources confirming this alleged penetration is Dennis Blair saying "we have seen cyberattacks against critical infrastructures abroad, and many of our own infrastructures are as vulnerable as their foreign counterparts.", which doesn't actually pinpoint power companies at all. In fact, the best knows infrastructure cyber attack, in Australia, was aimed... Newshoggers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225283/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2009 01:20:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207605/posts Last Friday, Lawrence Summers, the White House Economics adviser, blamed a fearful public for dragging the economy down and said that there was an “excess of fear.” Summers is right that an “excess of fear” has really harmed the economy and that that the downturn has been much sharper than it had to be. Fear has scared consumers into changing their spending decisions. Businesses that would have gotten money from those consumers have had to change their plans and cut back on employment. The increase in unemployment is temporary as the money hasn’t disappeared, but simply gone to other places... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207605/posts#comment Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:35:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2191522/posts As I was snooping around the internet that Gore made, I ran across a web site that was practicing Fear Mongering. As has become common practice, I took a screen shot for future reference. As is the “norm” for the Leftinistra, posts such as this one vanish which then, any criticism of any particular issue can be seen as “hate speech”. Thus the screen shot. This plea for help for a faltering endeavor cannot be denied. Why are they pleading for help? If they have the heartbeat of America, shouldn’t they be rolling in cash? Doesn’t George Soros care about... American Daily Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2191522/posts#comment Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:17:35 GMT