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POPSThe case of the angry (or phony?) colonel From the article: "During the past couple of days, variations on these questions have rattled through blogs on the left and the right. The buzz began on Sunday, when Glenn Greenwald, a political blogger here at Salon, received a long, invective-fraught e-mail that bore Boylan's return e-mail address, steven.boylan@iraq.centcom.mil. Boylan serves as chief spokesman for Gen. David Petraeus, who heads all coalition forces in Iraq. Among other things, the e-mail labels Greenwald a "propagandist" who's "too lazy to do the research on the topics to gain the facts." Greenwald posted the letter."
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POPSIf Fox 'News' was around to Report History
Yeah it would have been HisStory! ;-) Just like it is today! :-0 ! "Fair and balanced" if one equates reading lies off a teleprompter as 'informative and equitable' ... Who loves lies? Who cherishes lies? Who finds lies comforting & pleasing? Who is the father of lies anyway? So who do liars serve? And what about those who serve up or devour lies, thereby supporting, spreading deciets like a virus ... in the traffic of lies, does it matter if one originates the deception? If they promulgate false witness, support harm of those who have been falsely accused, is that not complicity? And how can one serve God, objectively, if they love lies, spread lies, support liars... ??? I think those who play with themselves and others are unwitting dupes who decieve themselves BEFORE they decieve anyone else. Just my opinion. And they serve evil, just like every liar before them. Personally I cannot stand lies. Or liars. MSM or otherwise. Thou shalt NOT is clear... lies, false witn
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POPS Baloney Detection Kit * Ad hominem - attacking the arguer and not the argument. * Argument from "authority". * Argument from adverse consequences (putting pressure on the decision maker by pointing out dire consequences of an "unfavourable" decision). * Appeal to ignorance (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence). * Special pleading (typically referring to god's will). * Begging the question (assuming an answer in the way the question is phrased). * Observational selection (counting the hits and forgetting the misses). * Statistics of small numbers (such as drawing conclusions from inadequate sample sizes). * Misunderstanding the nature of statistics (President Eisenhower expressing astonishment and alarm on discovering that fully half of all Americans have below average intelligence!) * Inconsistency (e.g. military expenditures based on worst case scenarios but scientific projections on environmental dangers thriftily ignored because they are not "pr
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POPSDissecting Mainstream Media Spin Why do you think they call it 'PROGRAMMING' anyway? Worth scrutiny of original link and site. the only freedom we have left is OBJECTIVE PERCEPTION. Scrutinize and question everything. Truth withstands the test of time. TRUTH ,FACT, AND EVIDENCE ARE NOT 'THEORIES'
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POPSVista Don't have Vista myself,but don't think I want it with what I have read about it!
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POPSStanding Up to Conservative Bullying
Here's a bit more to explain the brinkmanship and absolutism: "Brinkmanship is being used to force the federal government to write a blank cheque for the pipeline, and indemnify Exxon against ecological disasters and further cost increases..." "Absolutism (Bush-style "you're either with us or you're with the terrorists" framing) is being used to bully Canada into committing to keep our troops in the midst of the anarchy and civil war in Afghanistan. The PR from the military is increasingly using the term 'enemy' to describe anyone in Afghanistan who opposes the continued presence of foreign troops in their country. The ideologically rabid Harper Conservative minority government routinely uses the "if you don't support our war, you don't support our troops" line to disparage anti-war groups. And today a military spokesman lambasted the Canadian media for daring to publicize opinion polls showing Canadians' strong opposition to the war, saying it was "demoralizing our troops".
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POPSMedia bias and Israeli spin-doctoring Israel has a elaborate media filter structure to cast the country and it's "occupation" in a favorable light around the world. These filters include Owners of media outlets(who conform to the political elite), the political elite, a PR ministry dedicated primarily to western influence(plus allied with the most influencial American PR firms, and finally and last line of media filtering are watchdog groups such as CAMERA. Israel will always be cast as "defenders" or "retaliating" on US airwaves although they are OCCUPYING foreign land. Also, the influx of Jewish "settlements" on occupied territory will alway be mentioned as "neighborhoods." I'm not Jewish or Arab, I just beleive the truth be told w/o spin. I loathe misinformation on our public airwaves.
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POPSBlood Diamond Movie Freaks Out Industry I haven't seen the movie yet, but I have learned alot about the conflict of trading weapons and power and blood for diamonds. Is De Beers justified in their campaign to overcome this theory? Opinions welcome!
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