http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hoax/ en-us Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:12:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095610/posts ORLANDO, Fla. -- Climate change threatens to kill off up to a third of the planet's species by the end of the century if urgent action isn't taken to restore fragile ecosystems, protect endangered animals and manage growth, scientists warned Wednesday as a wildlife summit opened. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095610/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:12:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088975/posts A high level source in the Democratic party is saying that Joe Biden may drop out of the race on October 3rd citing health reasons. The source says they are intentionally choosing the day after the first VP debate to draw attention from a potential win for Palin. Several sources say Bill Clinton is looking for any situation to name Hillary as the VP. If Biden loses the debate, Bill and others will use that as justification to provide a more viable Palin contender. The high level source says the idea of replacing Biden is catching on with other Democratic... nationbuilder.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088975/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:28:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088891/posts SEPTEMBER 23--The California woman charged with orchestrating a cruel online hoax that led to the suicide of a teenage girl was once so pleased with her prank that she shared details of the ongoing scheme with her hairdresser and other acquaintances, according to prosecutors. During conversations with several individuals, Lori Drew explained how she and others were "playing a joke on" Megan Meier, a 13-year-girl who was a rival of Drew's daughter. That joke involved Drew's creation of a MySpace page for a "Josh Evans," a nonexistent boy who took an online liking to Meier, but then abruptly turned on... The Smoking Gun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088891/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:38:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087250/posts Internet users, as well as editors making edits on Wikinews and Wikipedia, have been the victims of a recent hoax that talk show host Oprah Winfrey has been found dead in her Chicago, Illinois home. The rumors are considered to be a hoax, connected with the online group known as Anonymous. Other reports say that the website 4chan.org is responsible for starting the rumor which began to spread quickly over the Internet. The rumors started after a statement Winfrey made on a recent show, defending a United States Senate bill against pedophiles and child rapists saying a pedophile group has... WikiNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087250/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:44:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076041/posts Sarah Palin questions global warming science and favors drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She also opposed a state initiative that would have banned metal mines in her state from discharging pollution into salmon streams, and dropped a lawsuit intended to prevent polar bears from being listed as a threatened species. Not that any of these things are surprising considering that she’s a Republican, but the party’s questionable pick for VP is governor of Alaska, where the ANWR is located, and the state that has already seen the most dramatic effects of global warming. From the Sydney... Earth First http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076041/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 15:02:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073248/posts Federal and local law enforcement agencies today issued a $20,000 reward for information about a 2005 anthrax hoax at Savannah River Site. The Atlanta Field Office of the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office jointly issued the reward to aid their investigation into discovering the identity and location of the person initiating the hoax against officials at SRS and the federal Department of Energy, according to an FBI press release. Augusta Chronicle. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073248/posts#comment Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:28:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071641/posts Then in 1999 an obscure young US physicist, Michael Mann, came up with a new graph like nothing seen before. Instead of the familiar rises and falls in temperature over the past 1,000 years, the line ran virtually flat, only curving up dramatically at the end in a hockey-stick shape to show recent decades as easily the hottest on record. This was just what the IPCC wanted, The Mediaeval Warming had simply been wiped from the record. When its next report came along in 2001, Mann's graph was given top billing, appearing right at the top of page one of... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071641/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:44:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068851/posts Police in the US say there is "insufficient evidence" to charge three men who were allegedly planning to assassinate Barack Obama. Sky News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068851/posts#comment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:25:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068649/posts For those that believe we are pulling a hoax, you're dead wrong. The real hoax is barack hussein obama and we are trying to make the world a better place by showing you how easy some people fall for what they want to believe. The United States of America, without the socialist, entitlement supporting, flip-flopping, lying, checkered past barack hussein obama as our leader, is better off, as is the world. AutoblogGreen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068649/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:06:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066119/posts The two Georgia men who found a Bigfoot carcass said it was a joke. Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer said the prank got out of hand. Matt Whitton was immediately fired from his job as a police officer in Georgia. The firing was over his role in the Bigfoot hoax. Rick Dyer said the whole episode was just a big joke. By: Sara Smith Aug 21, 2008 18:53 PM GMT The Bigfoot carcass that was found by two Georgia men raised a lot of excitement. However, we now find out that it was one cruel joke. Matt Whitton was immediately... NewsOXY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066119/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:42:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064670/posts http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou080819_mh_bigfoot_gorilla_suit.1366fb7e.html ATLANTA - Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice - handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it - was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit. The revelation comes just days after a much ballyhooed news conference was held in California to proclaim that the remains of the creature were found in the North Georgia mountains was the legendary man-ape. Steve Kulls, executive... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064670/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:30:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064671/posts THE website which claimed to have caught out the Barack Obama campaign in a gigantic blunder has admitted the story was most likely a hoax. Political rumourmonger site The Free Republic posted an item showing what appeared to be a story from CNN.com about the Obama campaign naming the candidate's vice-presidential pick early by mistake. The article claimed the Obama camp's plan to name the senator's running mate by sending an email and SMS to supporters had backfired when an aide preparing the announcement his "send" on a draft instead of "save". The article claimed the name of the running... The Voice of Tasmania http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064671/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:32:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064257/posts So it really was a rubber suit. The excitement over a supposed Bigfoot body that built all last week, culminating Friday in a circus-like press conference in Palo Alto, Calif., collapsed like a wet soufflé over the weekend as an independent investigator found out it was all fake. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064257/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:30:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063209/posts The Obama campaign was in full spin mode this week touting its decision to allow Hillary Clinton to have a roll call vote at the convention so her delegates can register their support of her. "It's an olive branch that we think will pay dividends in party unity," one Democratic congressman told me. I'm not so sure. Many Clinton supporters will be appreciative of the symbolic gesture, but others such as those who unofficially call themselves Pumas (Party Unity My Ass) may see it as an opportunity to make more trouble for Mr. Obama both on and off the convention... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063209/posts#comment Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:35:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2062639/posts Anybody watch the press conference? Reports I found with Google news search says it was pretty much a bomb, with more blurry pictures, sketchy DNA evidence, and promises of yet more experts reviewing the data in coming weeks. Sounds like they're lying out of there piehole and it is a fraud. Today was their chance to provide positive, absolute, undeniable evidence. And it doesn't seem to be there. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2062639/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:59:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062686/posts Bigfoot remains as elusive as ever. Results from tests on genetic material from alleged remains of one of the mythical half-ape and half-human creatures, made public at a news conference on Friday held after the claimed discovery swept the Internet, failed to prove its existence. Its spread was fueled by a photograph of a hairy heap, bearing a close resemblance to a shaggy full-body gorilla costume, stuffed into a container resembling a refrigerator. One of the two samples of DNA said to prove the existence of the Bigfoot came from a human and the other was 96 percent from an... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062686/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:25:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059844/posts After batting down the hype over startups and DIYers claiming they could run a car on water, PM's senior automotive editor installs a hand-built HHO kit—only to find he was right the first time. Can bad chemistry keep the myth of the water car alive? More heavy testing in the PM garage will tell. Water-powered cars continue to be the largest single topic taking over my in box—and the Comments section of this Web site. And it's not just my recent column on the truth about water-chugging prototypes. This trend has become an obsession with many backyard inventors, and some... popularmechanics.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059844/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:31:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2055799/posts People walking along the beach spotted this. Sorry don't know how to post pictures. It's all over the web though. If anyone can figure this one out FReepers can. It has been on Fox News, News Day, You Tube etc. Did a search here and found nothing. Have at it! Mahalo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2055799/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 17:31:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054301/posts http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/pelosi-drilling-in-protected-areas-a-hoax-2008-07-10.html Thursday, July 31, 2008 NANCY PELOSI'S FAVORITE WORD: 'HOAX' Nancy Pelosi can come up with no other argument against off shore drilling than to call it a "hoax." She has used this word many times in the past few months. This time she says, "The President has failed in his economic policy, and now he wants to say, 'but for drilling in protected areas offshore, our economy would be thriving and the price of gas would be lower.' That hoax is unworthy of the serious debate we must have to relieve the pain of consumers at the pump and... NEALZ NUZE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054301/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:26:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052282/posts Carbon credits' dirty secret Energy companies and speculators make windfall profits while consumers are hit hardAt the bottom of the house of sand on which the Kyoto accord and world carbon trading markets are built, there's a leaking foundation. Otherwise known as a carbon credit. A carbon credit is a permit or, alternatively, a unit of currency, allowing a country or corporation to emit one metric tonne of carbon dioxide, linked to man-made global warming. Carbon credits are the main mechanism by which Kyoto transfers wealth from developed nations like Canada to developing ones like China. They are also the... Toronto Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052282/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:13:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051119/posts This is from a friend ( so I do not know this brave Captain Jeff) but feel it absolutely necessary to pass this along........ This is a first hand account from the nephew of one of our friends. I don't know each of your personal political convictions, but I thought it was important enough to share. This is Jeff's first hand view of Senator Obama. Tiffany ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Hello everyone, As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram Afghanistan for about an hour on... Email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051119/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:16:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050272/posts NOAK48 PAFC 232101 CCB PNSAFC PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ANCHORAGE AK 1125 AM AKDT WED JUL 23 2008 ...SUMMER 2008 CLIMATE STATISTICS... THE SUMMER OF 2008 IS NOTABLE SO FAR FOR THE FOLLOWING CLIMATE STATISTICS THROUGH JULY 23: DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURES OF 60 DEGREES OR MORE 35 SO FAR IN...2008 ** 46 TOTAL IN....1971 59 TOTAL IN....1932 AND 1973 61 TOTAL IN....1966 62 TOTAL IN....1939 AVERAGE NUMBER OF DAYS OF 60 DEGREES OR GREATER IS 88 DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURES OF 65 DEGREES OR MORE 7 SO FAR IN...2008 ** 16 TOTAL IN....1970 19 TOTAL IN....1920 21 TOTAL IN....1982... National Weather Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050272/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:07:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049723/posts With his dashing chiselled features, swept back hair and perky bouffant the resemblance is unmistakable. But incredibly this carving of Elvis Presley was created around 1800 years before the King of Rock and Roll first warbled his first note. The amazing likeness has come to light as part of a sale of ancient antiques by the auction house Bonhams. Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049723/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:11:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048816/posts Further to his 100% hydrocarbon free electricity generation proposal, Al Gore has proposed a new government program, "Fart Recycling." Methane gas in the atmosphere has increased 150% since the mid 1700's. (During the same time period, Carbon dioxide increased only 30%.) Methane gas has more than 25 times the greenhouse gas impact per gram as compared to carbon dioxide. As many know, flatulence, "farts," are almost entirely methane gas. Therefore, Al Gore has developed a new program to combat this obviously increasing peril to our planet, and make a little money for himself at the same time. Everyone will be... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048816/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:48:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045727/posts Imagine a society where simply speaking out of turn or saying the "wrong thing" was openly discussed as a crime against humanity, and where sceptics or deniers of the truth were publicly labelled "criminals", hauled before the press and accused of endangering humanity with their grotesque untruths. Imagine a society where even some liberals demanded severe restrictions on freedom of movement; where people campaigned for travelling overseas to be made prohibitively expensive in order to force people to stay at home; and where immigration was frowned upon as "toxic" and "destructive". guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045727/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:23:33 GMT