http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hoax/ en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:19:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416718/posts The more I think about it, the more I wonder whether it was just a coincidence that the august New York Times, for whom I’m proud to have written (including eight cover stories for the New York Times Magazine), published an an almost full-page Valentine to the gossip site TMZ this morning. On the very morning TMZ published what they seemed to think was the scandal scoop of the century (”The JFK Photos That Could Have Changed History”). This was an allegedly long hidden or lost photo supposedly taken on a yacht in 1956, supposedly showing JFK sunbathing while nude... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416718/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:19:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416437/posts Photo that "could have changed history" actually from a Playboy shoot...see don't trust TMZ, they may have gotten Michael Jackson announced death first but they are trash just like all other media is trash!! DECEMBER 28--In a colossal screw-up, the gossip web site TMZ.com today published a photo purporting to show John F. Kennedy frolicking on a yacht with a harem of naked women--except that the image actually appeared as part of a November 1967 Playboy photo spread, The Smoking Gun has learned. The TMZ hoax was billed as an "exclusive" featuring a photo that "could have altered world events."... SmokingGun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416437/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:25:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415903/posts Since my Saturday column described how Wikipedia editors have been feverishly rewriting climate history over much of the decade, fair-minded Wikipedians have been doing their best to correct the record. No sooner than they remove gross distortions, however, than the distortions are replaced. William Connolley, a Climategate member and Wikipedia’s chief climate change propagandist, remains as active as ever. How does Wikipedia work and how does Connolley and his co-conspirators exercise control? Take Wikipedia’s page for Medieval Warm Period, as an example. In the three days following my column’s appearance, this page alone was changed some 50 times in battles... Financial Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415903/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:26:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415539/posts According to these reports, Obama’s fears of rebellion are due to the economic health of California (the United States largest State) after the 3rd largest US State, New York, declared a ‘fiscal emergency’ and refused to release to its cities and towns over $750 Million due them this past week with the Governor of New York, David Paterson, declaring “I can't say this enough: The state has run out of money.”Kremlin position papers presented to Prime Minister Putin today on his upcoming meeting with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen state that the European-US military alliance has authorized an ‘emergency... Before It's News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415539/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:48:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414739/posts Climate Change: A peer-reviewed study by a respected Canadian physicist blames the interplay of cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons for 20th-century warming. The CFCs are now gone, and so is warming — perhaps for the next 50 years. Much of the nation got a white Christmas this year, some in unprecedented quantities. A record-breaking storm deposited 12 to 30 inches of snow in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Many places set records for the most snow in a single December day as more than 50% of the U.S. was covered by the white stuff. Scientists (and here we use the word... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414739/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:44:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414417/posts Plants and critters will have to move an average of a quarter-mile every year to keep up with global warming this century, meaning less mobile creatures will have to adapt or die, a new study revealed Wednesday. "Adapt, move or go extinct. Those are the three options," said Healy Hamilton-Hoax, a conservation biologist at San Francisco's Academy of Sciences and a co-author of the paper. On average, species would have to move 0.42 kilometer, or about a quarter-mile a year, to keep up, the study found. Nearly a third of the planet's habitats will change faster than plants are capable... SF Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414417/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:54:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414178/posts The parents who pulled the balloon boy hoax in hopes of landing a reality TV show were sentenced to jail Wednesday — 90 days for him, 20 days for her — and barred from profiting from their newfound celebrity status for the next four years. Choking back tears, Richard Heene apologized in court for the frenzy he caused when he claimed his 6-year-old son Falcon had floated away in a giant helium balloon shaped like a flying saucer. "I'm very, very sorry. And I want to apologize to all the rescue workers out there, and the people that got involved... AP Via Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414178/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:34:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413825/posts CO Judge sentences the father of 6 year old Falcon Heene, who was part of the "balloon" hoax earlier this year to four (4) years of probation..... Fox news Alert (Live) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413825/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:01:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413436/posts Albert the Green Nosed Reindeer, had a growing bank account And if you ever saw it, you would even wonder how All of the other watermelons, used to scheme in smoke filled rooms But now because of Albert, they will gain control of you Then one smoky kwanzaa eve, Barack came to say Albert with your friends on high, won't you skew the truth tonight Then all the watermelons loved him, as they shouted out with glee Albert the green nosed reindeer, you'll go down in infamy! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413436/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:25:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413380/posts It may not be a very merry Christmas for Balloon Boy parents Richard and Mayumi Heene this year - they've just been hit with a $42,000 bill. The bill is from local, state and federal agencies for the Heenes' October stunt when they claimed their six-year-old son had crawled into a hot air balloon in their back yard and been whisked away into the skies. Radar Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413380/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:58:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412014/posts John Coleman founder of the Weather Channel shreds the AGW theory. Enjoy! Video at the link. http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-7715-Portland-Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2009m12d20-John-Coleman--The-global-warming-hoax-debunked http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.html?video=pop&t=a Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412014/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:53:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411643/posts Not billions, but trillions of dollars will change hands. Government control like you’ve never even dreamed of will come to pass. Taxes will flow into incompetent government hands like never before. Energy will “necessarily skyrocket.” Of course, the real story is all of the money that will be made trading “carbon credits.” Al Gore, the Bernie Madoff of the climate change movement, has made hundreds of millions of dollars already off this scam, and stands to make billions. TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411643/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:37:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411388/posts Copenhagen was a cold town last week for the global-warming crowd. The expected reorganization of the world economy to fit the green template vanished amid blizzard conditions in a country that has had just seven white Christmases in the past century. God certainly has a sense of humor. The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411388/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:31:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411232/posts In a Washington Post op ed, Penn State University Professor Michael Mann insisted that “Palin and other global warming deniers have distorted the content” of the e-mails from the British University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. “Ms. Palin and her ilk are pulling words out of context to create the impression that global warming is a hoax,” Mann said. “She is merely broadcasting her ignorance of scientific terminology in pursuit of a political agenda bent on preventing governments from exercising the necessary control to avert climate catastrophe.” Among the “scientific terms” Governor Palin is said to have misconstrued are... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411232/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:54:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411020/posts Why some environmentalists believe the president has the power to sidestep the Senate and commit the US to a global pact. In 1997, in the Japanese city of Kyoto, the Clinton administration agreed to a groundbreaking treaty to combat global warming. And that's when the trouble started. The Senate had unanimously refused to approve the Kyoto Protocol, and in the end the Clinton administration didn't even submit it for a vote in the upper chamber. This made the US both the world's biggest polluter and, ultimately, the only industrialized nation to reject the accord. Now, as world leaders attempt to... motherjones.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411020/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:07:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410835/posts Global Warming: Russian analysts accuse Britain's Meteorological Office of cherry-picking Russian temperature data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures. Is Copenhagen rooted in a single tree in Siberia? Michael Mann, a Penn State meteorologist, wrote in Friday's Washington Post that "stolen" e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit still don't alter the evidence for climate change. Mann, a creator of the discredited hockey-stick graph used in reports from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to show man-made warming, attacks climate skeptics, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, saying they "confuse the public." Chutzpah has been... Investors Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410835/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:32:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410705/posts Send a comment to the Commies! http://en.cop15.dk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410705/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:53:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410494/posts MONTEREY BAY NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY, Calif. – Far from Copenhagen's turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of this protected marine area stand to gain from any global deal to cut greenhouse gases. These foragers of the sanctuary's frigid waters, flipping in and out of sight of California's coastal kayakers, may not seem like obvious beneficiaries of a climate treaty crafted in the Danish capital. But reducing carbon emissions worldwide also would help mend a lesser-known environmental problem: ocean acidification. "We're having a change in water chemistry, so 20... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410494/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:00:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410479/posts COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Friday saw the biggest security operation ever staged in Denmark, with 115 heads of state and government, including U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, packed in one building. Danish, U.N. and other national security forces were deployed in unprecedented numbers to Copenhagen and specifically to the Bella Center, where the two-week climate talks were due to end Friday. Among the leaders to be secured were such controversial figures as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Zimbabwe's leader Robert Mugabe. Nearly all of the 30,000 non-government organization and observer representatives were locked out... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410479/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:36:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410306/posts Twas just days before Christmas when all through the land, the people were angered and taking things in hand. Obama and his cronies in DC were in charge, and spending us bankrupt with deficits too large. Pelosi with health care and Reid’s Cap and Trade, making the ground work for socialism’s path quickly laid. Unemployment so high that it makes one’s head spin, yet Obama and clan look to tax again and again. When what began stirring in our land of the free, but conservatism proclaimed so the people could see. Sarah Palin goes rogue in her book by the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410306/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:42:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410189/posts Bolivian President Evo Morales on Thursday proposed a world referendum on climate change during his speech at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that is underway in Copenhagen, Denmark. Speaking to the plenary of the summit, Morales said that discussing the effects of global warming and not the causes is hypocritical. Prensa Latina news agency reports that the new initiative of the Bolivian leader includes five questions that all citizens of the world should answer to determine the steps that governments should take. The questions suggested by Evo Morales are the... ACN-The Cuban News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410189/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:51:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410048/posts In a related development, secret documents were leaked today indicating that the United Nations has been plotting to form an international environmental governing body which almost certainly would infringe on U.S. sovereignty. theFinancialSkinny http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410048/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:35:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410013/posts SAN FRANCISCO — When the sun is relatively inactive — as it has been in recent years — the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere cools dramatically, new observations find. space.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410013/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:00:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409790/posts COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - China said on Thursday a U.S. pledge to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate funds was a "good step," and signaled Beijing was seeking compromise with Washington on its demand for checks on Chinese emissions curbs. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409790/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:29:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409749/posts A private Canadian company says it will plant 1,176 trees to offset the carbon emitted by Air Force One when it carries President Barack Obama to Copenhagen for the international climate conference. President Obama will travel 3,979 miles to Denmark on Friday, Dec. 18, and Air Force One will emit an estimated 196 tons of carbon on that trip, said LimeGreen Earth, Inc., in a news release. "By offsetting President Obama's carbon emission, we are setting a precedent for the global community," said the company’s president, Andrew Thomas. "It is up to every individual to do their part to eliminate... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409749/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:29:10 GMT