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China's staid cultural commissars are turning to the likes of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, hoping that an injection of star power into a state-funded movie about the Communist revolution will attract young Chinese normally turned off by government propaganda.
Some 100,000 performers flipped and twirled in perfect synchronicity as North Korea's most lavish spectacle, the "Mass Games," opened in Pyongyang, footage from television news agency APTN showed.
North Korean state TV has aired South Korean footage edited to highlight social and economic problems in the far richer South in a rare move apparently aimed at quashing rumors among the North's impoverished people that the rival country is better off.
A nerdy American entomologist hunting for a rare butterfly is the central character of a new film offering the Kremlin's version of the August war with Georgia.
The Taliban has long exaggerated its military successes, but its figures for 2008 may be the militia's most startling claims yet.
The North Korean trembled when he spotted the leaflet that had fluttered down from a balloon dispatched from the South. He snatched it, stuffed it into his pocket and ran to the bathroom to read it.
Past efforts by the government to try to sway American voters on military operations:
Quotes from Defense Department documents on its military analyst program:
Congressional Democrats want to ban Pentagon propaganda on the Iraq war, but they are likely to find that enforcement is easier said than done.
A group of North Korean defectors sent helium balloons carrying some 60,000 leaflets condemning North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to their homeland from a South Korean island on Saturday.
Chinese President Hu Jintao has told officials to breathe new life into propaganda efforts, putting renewed emphasis on a key pillar of Communist rule ahead of this summer's Beijing Olympic Games.
In perhaps the boldest and most sophisticated attack in four years of warfare, gunmen speaking English, wearing U.S. military uniforms and carrying American weapons abducted four U.S. soldiers last week at the provincial headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala and then shot them to death.
Hassan al-Harakeh answered his phone one evening to hear a deep voice asking: "How long will you go on supporting the gang of Hassan Nasrallah?" It was Israel calling, with a message denouncing Hezbollah and its leader.
Obama Administration Launches Deceptive Swine Flu Propaganda Blitz President Obama and his top health officials are engaging in a major public relations effort to divert attention away from whether its swine flu vaccine is effective and safe – to whether there is enough of it to go around. And the media, as always, is cooperating fully.
Police Report Filed by Acorn Exposes False Claims in Gotcha Vidsin a newly released video, ACORN Housing Corp.'s Katherine Conway Russell directly rebuts recent claims about the organization.
Scientologists 'targeting' schoolchildrenThe New South Wales Government says the Church of Scientology is targeting year-six students using "marketing" material that claims to promote human rights.
Internet Under SiegeAn interesting piece that demonstrates how governments at home and abroad are subtly crafting public opinion and information flow through use of the internet. Particularly relevant as we see several examples of this type of information manipulation here on NV.
Fake Job Numbers Vital to Stimulus PropagandaSince President Obama took office, the American people have been subjected to an aggressive propaganda campaign designed to convince them that the $787 billion stimulus bill is working.
Fox News's Faux NewsIt must be stated over and over again: the Fox News Channel is not a news channel. It's a Republican party propaganda channel. As such, its first amendment right to say whatever it likes ought to be protected, but not its "right" to call itself "news".
Swastikas and Tinsel: How the Nazis Stole ChristmasMore than 30 years after Rita Breuer first began collecting Christmas knickknacks, selected objects from the family collection have gone on show at the National Socialism Documentation Center in Cologne.
Burt's Eye View: Hollywood Elitists Through the AgesA lot of people seemed shocked to discover that the folks at the National Endowment of the Arts were so ready, even anxious, to devote their talents to propagandizing on behalf of Obama and his administration. That merely proves that a lot of people haven't been paying attent …
It's easy and fast and important. For more information about the transgression in question, see Killfile's seed. I filed my complaint already, inspired by this comment on another article on another site.
Beck claims Frank Rich and "Obama minions" at NY Times "act as the propaganda arm" of the White HouseI laughed my ass off at this. This guy is an imbecile. Why do they give money to an imbecile??
Hannity Tries to Pass off 9-12 Footage As Bachmann Rally Footage To Inflate Attendance; Jon Stewart Nails Him To The WallLink goes to the video at Media Matters.
This morning (11-10-09) on CNN, the conservative talking point of the day became clear: We have the best health care in the world and the liberals want to destroy it.
A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist has written an article that does no credit to him or to the prize that he was once awarded.
What with all of the commercials on TV about products you need because you're old, I'm beginning to feel very old. The abundance of information, health aids, nutritional supplements and how to get it up have gone over the line.
The "Government Run" MythThe claim that the House bill would amount to "government-run health care" suffered a blow last week, when the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the so-called "public plan" in the revised bill wouldn't offer much in the way of competition to private insurers.
"A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth" --- Joseph Goebbels, Reichsminister of Propaganda, 1933- 1945 Goebbels was just articulating a concept put forth years earlier in chaper 10 of Mein Kampf:
Well, the GOP propaganda machine is in full swing today.. trying to tug at the heartstrings of those folks who think the 2000 page bill is way too big..
Elementary Epidemic: School Children Performing Praises to ObamaBig Hollywood has already posted a couple , but when Eleven more disturbing videos of young school children singing/speaking praises to President Obama are producing quite a shock. What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern.
Gun Possession and Assault With a Firearm: Risky Stuff-- Wesley Elsberry Dissects Recent 'Study' by BranasFor myself, I'd have expected that a dataset to do what was reported would have included assaults with a firearm that either resulted in a shooting of the victim or did not result in the shooting of the victim, and do whatever "adjusting" magic was needed to control for dif …
Most of us saw these videos. Some dismissed them as an anomaly, of no consequence.
ABC's V: Joseph Goebbels Would Be ProudI just finished watching the first episode of the re-make of the 80's mini-series V. My jaw was gaping in awe for the past hour and here I sit, dry mouthed and still in a state of shock over what I just saw.
IBM Internal Document Outlines Knowledge of Planned Pandemic With 100% Certainty"Services & Global Procurement pan IOT Europe, Pandemic Plan Overview,"an official inter-departmental document was distributed to upper-level management of IBM, France in 2006.
A Republican Call for Patient-Centered WellnessThroughout the health care debate, the majority of Americans have expressed their opposition and frustration with the president and his Democratic Congress' radical proposals.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Final round for UN climate talksThe week's session is the final chance for negotiators to hammer out a text before December's Copenhagen summit In recent weeks, UN officials have declared there is no chance of agreeing all elements of a new legally-binding UN treaty before the end of the year.
Writing Jews out of Jerusalem's historyAside from the agitation is the disturbing notion that Jews seeking to visit, or even pray at, their holiest place of worship (the Temple Mount and not merely the Western Wall) should be seen as provocation, desecration or in any other way unacceptable.
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