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President-elect Barack Obama warned of dire and long-lasting consequences if Congress doesn't pump unprecedented dollars into the national economy, making an urgent pitch Thursday for his mammoth spending proposal in his first speech since the election.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95J4DV00&show_article=1


I think in this case Obama is a fear supplier, which is somewhat contrary to his original "hope" election platform. It would be interesting to consider politicians and the public as players in an emotion supply-demand market.
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The first example is a network of books on politics, compiled by V. Krebs (unpublished, but see www.orgnet.com). In this network the vertices represent 105 recent books on American politics bought from the on-line bookseller Amazon.com, and edges join pairs of books that are frequently purchased by the same buyer. Books were divided (by the present author) according to their stated or apparent political alignment—liberal or conservative—except for a small number of books that were explicitly bipartisan or centrist, or had no clear affiliation.

For our second example, we consider a network of political commentary web sites, also called “weblogs” or “blogs,” compiled from on-line directories by Adamic and Glance [32], who also assigned a political alignment, conservative or liberal, to each blog based on content. ... the network divides cleanly into conservative and liberal communities and, remarkably, the optimal modularity found is for a division into just two communities. One community has 638 vertices of which 620 (97%) represent conservative blogs. The other has 587 vertices of which 548 (93%) represent liberal blogs.
M. E. J. Newman. 2006. Modularity and community structure in networks.


It seems like political blogging is the ultimate propaganda machine. It doesn't even attempt to convince the other side. Rather, its only purpose in life is mobilization of believers. Barak Obama will be the first US President who leveraged this new media.. Very similar to JFK's ability to use TV in 1960.
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Вот ссылка на почти идеальный пример текста, выстроенного для убеждения людей желающих обмануться. Автор некая Марина Юденич, "российская писательница, юрист, психолог, политтехнолог. Окончила МГЮА и парижский университет Сорбонна."

http://www.vz.ru/columns/2007/9/14/108463.html
http://vanda-va.livejournal.com/141768.html

В статье сюжет развивается как в Острове Сокровищ или Графе Монтекристо. В необычном месте, при странных обстоятельствах, Герой истории встречает Необыкновенного Человека, обладающего великой Тайной. Убедившись в прекрасных душевных качествах Героя, владелец Тайны рассказывает ему секрет и вскоре умирает. Герой оказывается единственным человеком способным воспользоваться этим чудесным Знанием. Через некоторое время он попадает в ситуацию, где Секрет позволяет ему добиться ошеломляющего морального или материального успеха: разоблачить врагов, найти клад, осчастливить все человечество.Read more... )
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Democratic-Leaning Companies
UBS: 72.7 percent to Democrats
Citigroup: 66.6 percent to Democrats
Goldman Sachs: 63.4 percent to Democrats
Lehman Brothers: 63 percent to Democrats
Morgan Stanley: 54 percent to Democrats

Republican-Leaning Companies
Bear Sterns: 87.6 percent to Republicans
Merrill Lynch: 66.7 percent to Republicans
Deutsche Bank: 62.2 percent to Republicans
Credit Suisse: 57.5 percent to Republicans

The 10th company — Bank of America — was statistically bipartisan, with 50.2 percent of employees donating to the leading Democrats.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/MarketTalk/Story?id=3399837


It would be interesting to correlate the numbers with company or stock performance.
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Профессионально составленный тест на мракобесие. via [profile] dimkin 

Сегодня патриотические энергии или распыляются, или имеют отрицательный вектор, потому что нет понятной непротиворечивой идеи, хотя бы теоретически позиционированной как ценность, за которую умереть не жалко.

http://www.projectrussia.ru/text/


update: В ваххабизме есть такая идея, за которую умереть не жалко -  " Своей основной задачей ваххабиты считают борьбу за очищение ислама от различных чуждых ему примесей."
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Neocons now blame Bush, his administration, and his entourage for the failure in Iraq.
Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute freedom scholar: "Ask yourself who the most powerful people in the White House are. They are women who are in love with the president: Laura [Bush], Condi, Harriet Miers, and Karen Hughes."

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