Sentences with phrase «than propaganda for»

British film critic, writer and TV producer David Cox says that all these stories, research, and the recent slue of films promoting the idea that animals and humans are alike is a lie — nothing more than propaganda for the conservation cause:

It is nothing more than propaganda for the most insipid curses on society humanity has ever known!

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While Miscavige and his organization have held up the media complex as a valuable tool for spreading the message of Scientology and recruiting new members to join, the new facilities have received criticism from opponents of the religion — including some former members — who claim the complex is nothing more than a propaganda machine and a ploy to attract donations.

Warmbier spent more than a year in detention after being sentenced for 15 years behind bars for allegedly trying to steal a propaganda poster from a hotel to take to his church.

In the use of the mass media of communication, reverence is manifest in the aim of creating a blessed community, bound together in the truth, through media of public education devoted to the common good rather than to propaganda and profit for the advancement of selfish interests.

He knew that the meeting was little more than a communist propaganda ploy, but he also sensed that the threat of a nuclear holocaust was so grave he had to take a stand for disarmament, despite resistance from the Reagan administration and steel - tipped invectives from the Religious Right.

FOX indeed has dominated the knucklehead and dingbat market quite thoroughly, and there are far more nincompoops and nutcases for them to broadcast their propaganda entertainment product (it isn't news) than there are intelligent people.

This formula is perhaps better suited to rhetorical use in public discourse than for rigorous intellectual analysis (where the battle to vindicate natural law should continue), but «the received moral wisdom of the American people» is far from being an expression of empty propaganda.

I was given tools and access to resources that had an unintended effect on me — I learned to read something other than the official company propaganda and learned to think for myself (although I've always kind of done that).

And that's not even to mention the media - saturated propaganda about how much more efficient the private sector is, how the profit motive means it gets more things done better for less money than the public sector.

The ban came about in the first place for political reasons more than a legitimate health concern, and the propaganda was pure fear mongering, leading people who have done research to see opponents as merely ignorantly reiterating the old lies on a pavlovian reflex upon hearing the label «drug» which is equally applicable to caffeine.

What's equally disgusting is that papers like the NY Post are serving as nothing more than a propaganda machine for REBNY and the RSA!

He advised the new governor to settle down for business of governance rather than engaging in «cheap propaganda».

It is not meant for election propaganda but to educate Nigerians on the need to stand up for good governance and new Nigeria where national resources will be used to practically transform the nation rather than transform political associates for selfish gains.

In response APS and other utility companies across the country have launched a propaganda war against an energy source that still accounts for less than one quarter of 1 percent of U.S. electricity.

Far more than simply a communication tool, the Web now serves these groups as a platform for e-jihad: planning, recruitment, fund - raising, training, indoctrination, and propaganda.

Also, don't fall for low - carb propaganda claiming that potatoes are only starch — they provide more potassium than bananas and are also high in vitamin C.

It begins with a propaganda - filled monologue from Erudite leader Jeanine (Kate Winslet), claiming our heroes, Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James), are the ones responsible for the Abnegation massacre rather than her own corrupt faction.

Everything American is good in the world of Behind Enemy Lines, and I can frankly think of no better time for a jingoistic bit of bombastic propaganda to hit the cineplexes than in the same week that American ground troops are deployed to Afghanistan.

To me, there seemed to be an agenda for getting kids to care about the environment, almost as if this film were meant more as propaganda rather than entertainment.

For me it's much more than that, it's about an immigrant story of finding oneself in a new land and about rising nationalism in Europe and trauma and the effects and trauma and media and journalism and this media war and propaganda war between RBSS and ISIS.

So I did know from the beginning that I wanted to make a movie that was a propaganda film for Superman; I wanted to make people love him, rather than deconstruct him and take him apart and be like, what is the why of Superman?

I included this more for fun than for offering too much actual information — but it could be a great kickstarter for a conversation about the meaning and purpose of propaganda!

Public school advocates, teachers and teacher unions across the nation condemned the judge's ruling as unfair, inappropriate and little more than a propaganda piece for the billionaires who are funding the corporate education reform industry's attack on public education in the United States.

It is more than an embarrassment that the «mass media» takes corporate education reform industry propaganda for truth.

It is a point of fact that I always sold more books on Barnes & Noble than I did on Amazon, by my own accounting, so for Amazon to claim success as a bookseller is a bagatelle and self - aggrandizing propaganda.

The 2 % rule is nothing more than propaganda spread by brokers to see you lose slowly, it helps you stay in the game longer... which is great for the broker because they collect more commissions and spreads.

This is not because of any of the propaganda issued for more than a century in support of aggressive catch - and - kill and poisoning campaigns that killed millions of dogs in futile efforts to stop rabies before the advent of neuter / return.

I trust that the differences between my creative drives, my ideals, and those of Aurélie Nemours, may be less important than is the case, for instance, for the Turner Prize as often playing a gross propaganda role for the United Kingdom.

[2] Observing this style of artwork proved to be eye opening to Kanevsky and he realized «that paintings could find the reason for their existence within themselves rather than being merely a decoration of a propaganda tool.»

I do not live in China, never have, never have even set foot in China, and never will as long as the communists rule that country like a USSR - style dictatorship (despite the fashionable Shanghai shop window displays and the excellent movies from Chinese directors there... but I do live in TAIWAN, an island nation 100 miles off the coast of communist China, ahd I have been studying the Chicoms (as they are called — Chinese communists) for more than 10 years and reading their English propaganda newspapers online, like the People's Daily (go look) and this is important for Americans to hear:

Once you see and dismiss the official climate establishments» «97 % consensus» as nothing more than propaganda, you can only conclude that climate science is either politically - motivated or it is the product of a personal problem — e.g., a problem that is similar to those who suffer from medical maladies they do not actually have, who waste their lives looking for remedies that do not exist.

That would make sense, given what I've learned about CFACT being little more than a propaganda machine for industry and enabled by a few rich free market fundamentalists like the Koch brothers.

Overdriving the «alarm» for more than a decade with an intensity and grit determination that has already presumed that propaganda is warranted super-heats the inflationary bubble enormously.

The simple fact is that the report is not credible; it was produced by the Republican party as propaganda: nothing more than a compilation, by lobbyists for the carbon - based energy industry, of out - of - context, out - of - date or misinformed quotes or, to be charitable, reasonable doubts that climatologists would have no problem with.

Although the faith has waned for some years, there is still no real alternative to the BBC propaganda, and this has probably happened through doom fatigue and financial crisis rather than much hard evidence.

a lot more fun than being drowned in agw propaganda and then being revived by smoke, for sure.

However, with the number of individual writers involved, not all are consistent in propaganda strategies, and / or the sentence may be left in (since few read more than the hyperpolitical Summary for Policymakers) as a butt - covering tactic, to be taken out of context in future decades to pretend they weren't vehemently trying to prevent spread of knowledge about the GCR - climate link.

This advisory forum is nothing more and nothing less than the creation of yet another platform for warmist scientists to spread their propaganda.

As for your desire for healthcare to be factored into the fossil fuel costs, that is more of guilt propaganda than logical argument.They certainly could not be used for subsidy arguments as the government doesn't pay for all those healthcare costs (we're not a single - payer socialist system in America).

I notice that you don't want to discuss the science, just to repeatedly «attack» Delingpole's journalistic «authority» status to report facts, which for my money is a million times higher than the status of Dr Nurse, Dr Phil «Hide the Decline» Jones, or Dr von Braun of NASA CO2 emission propaganda.

After all, it is a bit of a propaganda coup for the OPT to have got Attenborough — arguably the queen mother of British broadcasting, and much easier on the ears and eyes than the hectoring likes of Porrit, Tickell, and Erlich.

It is little more than a misinterpretation of Oreskes» 28th PowerPoint slide, in which she did not quote anything from the ICE memos, she instead was apparently using her own words to insinuate that industry officials were orchestrating a sinister swap of established facts for their own propaganda points.

It was nothing more than a propaganda piece, perfect for the marginally competent HP aficionados.

Sometimes an infographic is little more than a propaganda poster, in this case for a high fat diet that might kill you and the planet.

Still, the campaign, called «Green Transport and Health,» and set to become an annual affair, may not amount to much more than more propaganda and preparation for the Olympics.

1,) Should use a more reputable temperature series than altered GISS adjusted by Galvin Schmidt for propaganda purposes.

While I've no doubt the company can address superficial concerns as they happen (that Russian propaganda tool, for example), I'm reserving judgement until we hear something more concrete than a New Year's resolution.

Did you know for rolling out #Facebook's Secret Unit that created India's Troll Armies for digital propaganda to influence elections a meeting was arranged between Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook with none other than Ravi Shankar Prasad in Delhi?

With the invention of the internet and rise of social media, posting and sharing propaganda for a mass audience is easier than ever.