Aaaah, the glory of freedom. Everyone’s free to to express themselves, have their own religion and wear whatever they want: Beit a veil, turban, heck, even a flowerpot, we don’t care.
Unfortunately, some people do. Adfreak pointed us to this recently released Egyptian ad encouraging women to wear veils. It’s been causing a real stir all [...]
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Last week Dutch companies have given into a Jordanian boycott. The companies Zwanenberg and Friesland Foods have placed advertisements in Jordan newspapers saying they oppose the film Fitna by politician Geert Wilders.
The Messenger of Allah Unites Us, which had already mounted a boycott of Danish products because of the fantastic Muhammad cartoons, also began a [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, Propaganda, Uncategorized
The European Football championships are nearing their end, and although all but one Dutchman are out, I have to say the grand finale still excites me. As I’m writing this, I’m watching Spain take on the Russians in the second semi-final.
Before the match started, I listened to both countries’ national anthem. National anthems are like [...]
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Filed under: Informative, Propaganda, Sport, Uncategorized
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Subscribers to Top Gear Magazine, that drove less than five kph to fast when they were caught by a Speed camera, can send their speeding tickets to the car magazine. They will pay the fine!
Their reason:
“Since last April the fine for traffic offences went up [...]
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Filed under: Cars, Controversial, Propaganda
PROMOpinion does not share the opinion of the next post, but we encourage anyone to speak out, therefore this interestingly different look on modern media and propaganda by Shane Lamotte.
Why have people unconsciously mutated into robots, living life as if they’re already dead? Why has the general public become slaves to their mind, blaming others [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, External, Informative, Propaganda
Ever since World War II the Dutch people - or most people in general, really - have held a grudge against the Germans. After all, they stole our bikes. If there’s one sure way to piss off a Dutchman it’s stealing his bike. When I was a child, my grandfather would used to teach us [...]
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According to a survey published yesterday, McDonald’s is Britain’s most hated brand. They topped a list of almost 300 well-known names, from cars to shops to charities.
Of course most brands prefer to be loved, but being hated doesn’t have to be bad. Regardless of whether a [...]
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Today it’s queen’s day. It’s one of the biggest feasts in the Netherlands. Therefore I’m not spending time on writing a long article. Every minute I’m writing is one beer less!
I found a decent explanation about what queen’s day is though, you can read it in the [...]
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Filed under: External, Informative, Propaganda
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Beijing’s loss of the 2000 Olympics Games to Sydney, Australia was attributed mainly to it’s poor human rights record. After sitting out the bidding for the 2004 Olympic events, China made a promise of improving it’s human rights record as the centerpiece of it’s successful bid for [...]
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Filed under: Asian, Controversial, External, Propaganda, Sport
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Gorillas, the largest of the living primates, are ground-dwelling herbivores that inhabit the forests of Africa (Rwanda, Uganda and Congo). The DNA of gorillas is 97%–98% identical to that of you and me and they are the next closest living relatives to humans after the chimpanzee and [...]
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Filed under: Africa, Brilliant, Informative, Propaganda
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According to officials from North Korea:
1. When Kim Jong-Il was born, a monster came out of the sea at Pyongyang and started to sing the national anthem.
2. When Kim Jong-Il was born, a double rainbow arose over the Baekdu Mountain , the highest mountain in North Korea
3. [...]
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Note: The original host of the movie decided to get it offline, click the video to see why. You can still see the movie here.
Over the last few months, not a day went by in my country (the Netherlands) in which it hasn’t been a point [...]
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With 133 days to go until the Olympic games in China, more and more commercials, advertisements and promotional campaigns will use the event for marketing purposes. It has been like that for a long time and will be like that forever. Not all Olympic games are the [...]
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Filed under: Asian, Celebrities, Controversial, Propaganda
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Religions are a hot subject at the moment. From Obama’s United Church of Christ to the coming movie about Islam from right wing politician Geert Wilders called Fitna and the monks in Tibet.
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a Protestant Christian denomination principally in the United [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, Propaganda, US presidential campaign
In times of election, every mistake can ruin a candidate. It looks like the Hilary Clinton promotion team made such a mistake. Recently they made a commercial of Hilary Clinton in the Whitehouse. The ad is called 3am. It suggest that Hilary is working 24/7 and is ready, willing and qualified. That message is [...]
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Filed under: Controversial, Propaganda, US presidential campaign
As you may have noticed, Russia elected a new president yesterday. Well, not that new really, since they couldn’t vote for Putin anymore they chose his straw man, Medvedev. Trading Vladimir for Dimitri won’t make much of a difference, but that aside. The news reader announcing the news told me advertising wasn’t allowed for Dimitri’s [...]
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We all know about the French Anti-Americanism. Whether it’s legitimate or not, I won’t give my opinion about it and what both countries do with those feelings doesn’t concern me. Until today! I stumbled across a hilarious ad, made by the French Advertising Agency : WAM/Publicis.
The French always had their own style and sense of [...]
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Filed under: Brilliant, Cars, Controversial, Funny, Propaganda
I heard on the news today Barack Obama now officially has a majority in the race for a democratic candidate in the US presidential campaign. Looking at the viral video top 10 on the internet today I can’t say that I’m surprised: I’ve never been as fascinated with this character as with any would be [...]
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Filed under: Beautiful, Propaganda, US presidential campaign
Yesterday, I was watching a movie called “Good bye Lenin” on television. It paints a nice picture of communist country East Germany (the former DDR) at the time the Berlin wall fell, including all those small details you never really think about.
In this movie, there are various scenes in which the main characters are watching [...]
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Filed under: Bad, Golden oldie, Informative, Propaganda
In the Netherlands we have a socialist party (SP) like every country does. They made a short protest movie about the Dutch homecare for the elderly. This blog is not about politics, so I won’t talk about the matter itself.
To communicate with videos like this to get your message seen/heard is a good thing. [...]
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Filed under: Commercial, Controversial, Propaganda, Weird
Like many of its European friends, the great country of Sweden is moving from a conscription-based to a voluntary military. Of course, this means volunteers will have to be recruited first.
But how do you lure young people into a harsh, disciplined life of relatively low pay and an ultimate chance of having to go to [...]
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Filed under: Beautiful, Brilliant, Propaganda
A daily reader of this blog told me about a very strange campaign. I checked it out and noticed that it was indeed very odd. On their website they state that everyone has to masturbate for peace…
Here is why they promote masturbation:
“There’s no greater antidote for war than love. Feelings of hatred and distrust form [...]
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Filed under: Funny, Propaganda, Uncategorized, Weird
Many virals, commercials, advertisements have passed already. I think it’s time to add a new theme: ‘Awareness and propaganda.’For outsiders, terms like propaganda, promotion, advertising, PR, marketing all look the same. Even for some insiders. I always look up a definition when I’m in doubt about a certain term. Therefore here’s the definition [...]
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Filed under: Picture, Propaganda, Uncategorized
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