http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/propaganda/ en-us Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:14:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103773/posts   Dear Friend, You're not going to believe this. In the same week that the No on 8 campaign launched an ad that labeled as "lies" claims that same-sex marriage would be taught in schools to young children, a first grade class took a school-sponsored trip to a gay wedding. Eighteen first graders traveled to San Francisco City Hall Friday for the wedding of their teacher and her lesbian partner, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The school sponsored the trip for the students, ages 5 and 6, taking them away from their studies for the same-sex wedding. The wedding... http://www.protectmarriage.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103773/posts#comment Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:14:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102908/posts Virtually every eyeball in China was on the launch of Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou VII, just as the Chinese regime wanted. But among those eyeballs were many observant ones—maybe too observant for the Chinese Communist Party’s liking.Chinese state-run media called the Shenzhou VII mission “a historic moment.” However, online bloggers have pointed out physics-defying phenomena in the news footage of its space walk that suggest the whole operation was filmed not in space, but under water. As soon as China Central Television (CCTV) broadcast “live” footage of astronauts conducting operations aboard Shenzhou VII on Sept.27, the broadcast was met with skepticism... The Epoch Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102908/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:05:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102533/posts During Tuesday night's presidential debate, Sen. Barack Obama was talking about health care, and most of 25 undecided voters in Columbus, Ohio, liked what they heard. They turned knobs on small, wireless dials in their hands -- and a graph representing their immediate reaction was aired live to about 9.2 million people watching CNN. CNN has aired these squiggly lines live on the bottom of the screen for all of the debates held since September. Some have called the readout addictive, others find it distracting. But live feedback graphics may have another effect. Recent psychological experiments suggest they can influence... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102533/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:24:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102325/posts Chinese state-run media called the Shenzhou VII mission “a historic moment.” However, online bloggers have pointed out physics-defying phenomena in the news footage of its space walk that suggest the whole operation was filmed not in space, but under water. As soon as China Central Television (CCTV) broadcast “live” footage of astronauts conducting operations aboard Shenzhou VII on Sept.27, the broadcast was met with skepticism and ridicule among many in the online community in China. Two seconds into the video from CCTV, bubble-like objects rose from the hatch as it sprung open. At 5 min 49 second, a bubble attached... The Epoch Times - Taiwan http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102325/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:40:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101670/posts MOSCOW (AP) — The financial crisis has irreparably damaged the image of the U.S. as the leader of the free world and the global economy, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday. Putin's remarks during a Communist Party meeting were the latest Russian attack singling out the U.S. as the chief culprit in the global financial turmoil. "Trust in the United States as the leader of the free world and the free economy, and confidence in Wall Street as the center of that trust, has been damaged, I believe, forever," Putin said. "There will be no return to the previous... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101670/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:49:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100160/posts ABC News' Teddy Davis and Arnab Datta Report: Part way through Tuesday's debate, Obama press secretary Bill Burton emailed reporters asking: "Did John McCain just refer to Obama as 'that one'?" "Folks are going to remember that," Burton told ABC News in a separate email. Showing the power of a well-timed email, McCain's reference to Obama as "that one" became a topic of discussion in the spin room following the debate. Obama strategist David Axelrod called it "odd." "Senator Obama has a name," said Axelrod. "You'd expect your opponent to use that name." Asked about the Obama campaign's effort to... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100160/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 03:55:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100071/posts John McCain lost the election Sept. 24 and Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States. Nothing that is likely to happen between now and Nov. 4 can change this outcome. Since Sept. 24, polls have increasingly pointed toward a Democratic landslide. Obama not only has an outside-the-margin advantage in nearly every national poll, but leads strongly in enough battleground states that if the election were held today, the Electoral College vote would be 353 for the Democrat, 185 for the Republican. Even Karl Rove's electoral map now shows Obama winning. Two weeks ago, after polls first... The American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100071/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 01:40:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099265/posts China's economy is strong enough to withstand the impact of the global financial crisis and may even help the world by maintaining fast growth, Premier Wen Jiabao was quoted as saying Sunday. "Our economic fundamentals haven't changed, and the economy is moving in the direction we expected," Wen was quoted as saying by the state-controlled Xinhua news agency. "The strength of our financial institutions has generally increased, and their ability to make money and withstand risk has risen. Market liquidity is ample and the financial system is stable and safe," he said. "This will help us withstand any negative external... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099265/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 03:10:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098463/posts NEW YORK, Oct 05, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Hillary Clinton would beat Sarah Palin head-to-head by a 2-to-1 margin if the 2012 presidential election were held today, according to women voters. A national telephone survey of 600 registered women voters was conducted by Blum & Weprin from September 25 through October 3, 2008. The poll, commissioned by SheZoom.com, a new women's internet media company, is titled 'Palin vs. Clinton - You Decide.' The survey (with a margin of error of +/- 4 percentage points) queried women in all 50 states on their personal and political preferences pertaining to the... marketwatch.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098463/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 05:30:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097111/posts At a tumultuous meeting of anti-Vietnam War militants at the Chicago Coliseum in 1969, Bill Ayers helped found the radical Weathermen, launching a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and United States Capitol. Twenty-six years later, at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper, Obama met Mr. Ayers, by then an education professor. Their paths have crossed sporadically since then, at a coffee Ayers hosted for Obama’s first run for office, on the schools project and a charitable board, and in casual encounters as Hyde Park neighbors. Their relationship has become a touchstone for Obama’s... nyt http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097111/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 00:46:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096359/posts UPDATED CBS News and Knowledge Networks have conducted a nationally representative poll of 473 uncommitted voters to get their immediate reaction to tonight's vice presidential debate. After the first presidential debate, a similar survey showed that more uncommitted voters identified Barack Obama as the winner Final numbers from tonight's poll have yet to come in, but we do have some early results. (These numbers may change as more respondents complete the survey.) They suggest that once again more voters have responded favorably to the Democratic candidate. Forty-six percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed say Democrat Joe Biden won the debate,... CBS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096359/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 04:04:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096283/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD2Hyiitpys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD2Hyiitpys http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096283/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 02:29:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096161/posts Carl Cameron of Fox News reported a few minutes ago during Special Report with Brit Hume that Reuters asked the organizers of tonight's vice presidential debate if the two candidates would be checked to see if they were wearing earpieces that would feed them answers and coaching during the debate.Cameron said Reuters asked if the candidates' ear canals would be looked at before the debate.At the end of Cameron's report, Hume started singing the Twilight Zone theme song, "Doo-do, doo-do. Doo-do, doo-do."Liberal bloggers made up a conspiracy theory that President Bush wore a wire during his debates in 2004 with... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096161/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:31:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2095944/posts The real purpose of the film - or any of Michael Moore's flicks - becomes apparent whenever he is pressed on the accuracy of the information that floods his work. You've never seen a fat man move so quickly, backpedalling from the 'documentary' label when questioned..... The Moderate Separatist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2095944/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:00:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095888/posts Here's a really insidious example of liberal brainwashing directed at kids. This weekly magazine is distributed weekly in NY schools, public, private and Catholic. Obvious pro-Obama writers attempting to influence the youth. Below is a small example, but you need to go to the site...especially interesting are the remarks about Homeland Security. "Five years ago, the U.S. invaded Iraq. The goal: to find and destroy dangerous, illegal weapons and remove from power Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein. No illegal weapons were found. But Hussein was captured and tried for crimes against his people. Since then, the Iraqis have voted in free... Time for Kids http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095888/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:04:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095519/posts CAVEAT: don't even go there. I am not comparing Obama to Hitler. But his cult of personality and how children were used in his little propaganda video is really disturbing. You want change? Be careful for what you wish. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Kathy Sawada, teacher at the exclusive Colburn School is a master pianist. And master propagandist. She is the brains behind the OBAMA INDOCTRINATION SONG that has lit up the internet and brought to mind little indoctrinated children singing to Kim Jong Il, Chairman Mao, and Hitler. (barf alert) Sing for Change chronicles a recent Sunday afternoon, when 22 children, ages... Colburn School and other sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095519/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 03:58:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094558/posts I got bored and thought I'd photoshop a few mods of a classic WW2 poster. Enjoy and/or feel free to use elsewhere if you like'em. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094558/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 03:10:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092765/posts In London's historic "Inns of Court", barristers practise law in the shadow of the distinctive medieval Temple Church. But does English law really owe a debt to Muslim law? For some scholars, a historical connection to Islam is a "missing link" that explains why English common law is so different from classical Roman legal systems that hold sway across much of the rest of Europe. It's a controversial idea. Common law has inspired legal systems across the world. What's more, calls for the UK to accommodate Islamic Sharia law have caused public outcry. The BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092765/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:46:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091251/posts WATCH THIS FRIGHTENING VIDEO FROM KMOV This video should shake you to your core. Obama supporters in Missouri are blatantly announcing that law enforcement will be used to prosecute you if you are part of campaign ads that tell, in their opinion, "lies" about Barack Obama. And we thought the Clinton machine was bad? This is frightening. When will the lies be prosecuted about Palin, McCain, and Limbaugh? The answer is, they won't. This is how a free republic is taken down. When will freerepublic be taken down? kmov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091251/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:23:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090579/posts OP-ED: The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight out propagandists for the Obama campaign. While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08 for the first time, the major media are consciously covering for one candidate for president and consciously knifing the other. This is no longer journalism — it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Volkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.) And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly and even half way... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090579/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:52:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2090623/posts "...the old fighter jock may be frightened that he's about to ditch another plane" - Joe Klein, Time-blog. On Oct. 26, 1967, John McCain was flying his 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam, when his A-4E Skyhawk dive bomber was shot down and he was forced to bail out. Badly injured, he was subsequently captured as a prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese. He was held in horrific conditions from 1967 to 1973, experiencing episodes of torture and refusing an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer; his war wounds would leave him with lifelong physical limitations. Or, perhaps you'd prefer this... Radarsite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2090623/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:56:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089435/posts WAZIRISTAN- NY Times editor Bill Keller, and CEO Arthur "Artie" "Little Pinch" Sulzberger have been honored with enshrinement in the International Criminal Gang of Bastards. "We are proud to enshrine our newest members into our organization." reported ICGOB President and Founder Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf. He added there were, "no drones in the Waziristan area, and Bin Laden is alive and well," in apparent delusional rant accompanying the announcement today. "Our newest members earned this honor, by leaving no doubt they were leading a leftist propaganda movement. Propaganda is what we need to make the socialist, facist, marxist world revolution a... The Waziristan Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089435/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:22:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088821/posts Excerpt: Not simple loans, but complex investments created by pooling millions of mortgages together and then slicing them into pieces. These were the investments that Wall Street bought, sold and borrowed against in cooking up the money it poured into housing. ... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088821/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:09:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087534/posts DUBAI: The elusive al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s literary work will be published soon by an Oxford-educated academic expert in Arabic, according to media reports. Bin Laden's recitals at wedding banquets and other feasts during the 1990s were recorded on tapes recovered from his compound in Afghanistan in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks in the US. They were studied by Professor Flagg Miller, who teaches Arabic poetry at University of California, Davis, the report said. Bin Laden is a skilled poet with clever rhymes and metres, which was one reason why many people taped him and passed recordings around,... geo.tv http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087534/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:50:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086830/posts Will US physical entry in to Pakistan actually help in suppressing the resistance to occupation of Afghanistan and bring peace to the region? If yes, let's do it. However, it will only radicalize the population, leaving no other option with Washington but to declare Pakistan a 'rogue state'. The premise for US entry is that Pakistan Army is either incapable or unwilling to 'clean up the mess'. Then, does the US Army plan to do this in conjunction with Pakistan Army or in spite of it? It should now be abundantly clear that joint US-Pakistan ground operations in side our... nation.com.pk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086830/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:18:09 GMT