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[29 Oct 2004|02:38am] |
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Sadly, Too many people fall for these tactics.....
ENVIRONMENTALISTS LOSING THE WAR OF WORDS, SAYS BERKELEY
LINGUIST
Political and social change often comes down to a war of words.
And according to a prominent cognitive linguist from California,
anti-environmental forces have been winning that war because
progressives don't know how to talk about issues.
In his new book Don't Think of an Elephant, University of
California at Berkeley professor George Lakoff shows how people
think in terms of frames and metaphors, which guide their
thinking on issues.
One example is talking about tax cuts. Conservatives talk about
"tax relief" instead of "tax cuts," reinforcing the idea that
heroic conservatives are rescuing people from the affliction of
taxes.
Another example came in the State of the Union speech last
January, when President Bush said, "We do not need a permission
slip to defend America." The language suggests an underage
America asking permission of an adult teacher to leave the room.
Another example: how conservatives shifted the language from
"estate taxes" to "death taxes."
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[29 Oct 2004|02:41am] |
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Caught in another lie? And I bet no one will even care.....
Way to go Ch. 5 Eyewitness News.....
ADMINISTRATION MISLEADS ON MISSING EXPLOSIVES
The Bush administration is pushing the theory that the 380 tons of explosives were missing from the Al Qaqaa storage facility before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Administration spokesman Dan Senor said on CNN that "there's a very high probability that those weapons weren't even there before the war."[1]
For days, this theory has been in direct conflict with a Pentagon official, who told the Associate Press on Monday, "US-led coalition troops had searched Al Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, which had been under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact."[2]
Now, video shot in Iraq by a Minneapolis news team provides further proof that the administration's theory is bogus. After the invasion - on April 18, 2003 - the Minneapolis ABC news crew was stationed just south of the Al Qaqaa facility.[]3 That day, they drove 2 to 3 miles north with the 101st Airborne Division. There, "members of the 101st Airborne Division showed the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS news crew bunker after bunker of material labeled 'explosives.'"[4] Some of the boxes were marked "Al Qaqaa."[5] One soldier told the crew: "we can stick [detonation cords] in those and make some good bombs."[6] Watch the video:
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1258622&l=65509.
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[29 Oct 2004|03:54am] |
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Just wanted to send a shout out to  wildflower1964. I have missed you. Tried to email you a couple of times and it keeps getting sent back.
I hope all is well with you.
Hugs.....
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