terror

Terror is the emotion a person feels when they sense danger is around the corner. When experienced, terror can cause a "fight or flight response," which is our body's natural response that prepares us to "fight" or "flee" from an attack or perceived threat.

Terror is used in a lot of different ways in today's society. People with political objectives use terror to influence the masses, both by imposing it and protecting us from it. In 9-11, many believe the terrorists used terror in an attempt to topple our financial system. The response to 9-11 was a war on terror to protect us from it. Some religious groups rationalize that terror is justified to be used as a tool to right wrongs committed against their particular group.

In the modern media — bloggers, the press, television and the movies all use terror as a central theme in many of their productions. From the news headlines to Hollywood, terror is used to get a story across, whether it is to express a point of view or tell a fictional story. Given the state of the world today, there is little doubt terror will be used to achieve a lot of different goals in today's society.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “terror”

• in Film
  Where Is Dr. Blood’s Coffin?
  “There is horror in a small Cornish village when a disbarred [sic] doctor starts performing grafting experiments…” Maybe they meant “defrocked”…
  by missbobetier / on Nov 20, 2011
• in Film
  No Midnight Snacking When You Watch Deadtime Stories, Volume 2
  Now I lay me down to rest, but there's a goblin on my chest…
  by missbobetier / on Sep 20, 2011
• in Politics
  The Tragedy of 9/11/01 — in Perspective
  Let's tally up the dead and wonder why only SOME are memorialized.
  by parkypundit / on Sep 10, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “terror”

 

• Benghazi Bombshell: CIA Warned Of Impending Jihadist Attack

  
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  Bombshell In The Benghazi E-mails: The CIA Warned Of Impending Jihadist Attack – World Tribune The White House recently released more than 100 pages of e-mails between the CIA, State Department and the White House regarding the now infamous talking points. . President Barack Obama insists “there is no there, ...
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• Obama’s War on Terror is Endless, Permanent

  
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  Glenn Greenwald | Senior Obama officials tell the US Senate: the war, in limitless form, will continue for at least another decade -- or two.
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• Narco Terror: Wanton Destruction

  
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  Due out this summer is Narco Terror ; a sophisticated, action-packed twin-stick shooter that thematically harkens back to classic action movies from the 80’s. Today Deep Silver released a new trailer showcasing some wanton destruction led by Rick Quinn, dishing out justice… one grenade at a time.  
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• News Snatch: Narco Terror, Weird Tablets And Resident Evil 7?

  
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  The ’80s are back! Well, in videogames they are, I think we can do without poodle perms, shoulder pads and MC Hammer trousers. Following the release of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon comes the downloadable shooter  Narco Terror from Deep Silver. The twin stick shooter offers seamless drop in/drop out co-op and appears ...
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• Tales of Terror free game

  
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  Tales of Terror A group of hooded, shadowy figures abduct your brother right before your eyes in Tales of Terror: Crimson Dawn! Your search for him leads you to a remote mansion plagued by a sinister secret. Can you unravel the mystery and rescue your brother from eternal darkness? Find out in this thrilling Hidden ...
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• Malaysia court orders release of 3 terror suspects

  
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  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian court has ordered the release of an al-Qaida-linked former army captain and two other suspects charged with inciting terrorist acts. The verdict underlines the legal limits of a security law introduced last year to replace legislation that allowed indefinite detention ...
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• LAMB #1553 – Cinema Terror

  
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  Site name Cinema Terror Site URL http://www.cinematerror.com Twitter Handle @cinematerror Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/CinemaTerror Categories Reviews General News Horror Additional Categories (optional)  - Site Rating R What is the main focus of your site? Cinema Terror is ...
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• More bodies recovered in collapsed Indonesia mine

  
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  Rescuers recovered four more bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to 13, police said on Monday. Fifteen other workers were still missing and feared dead. The Big Gossan underground training facility at the PT Freeport ...
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• Going out in style: Piano-themed coffins among attractions at Hong Kong cemetery expo

  
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  Piano-themed coffins, paper caskets and pet urns were all on display at Wan Chai Exhibition Centre last week as more than 2,500 undertakers from around the world descended on Hong Kong to exhibit their wares at the Asia Funeral and Cemetry Expo. Organisers called it “practical ideas on global trends regarding the ...
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• Please proceed, Republicans

  
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  Shorter Question Everything When Republicans continue to live only in the bubble of their own media (or – getting high on your own supply) it makes them vulnerable to reality. It also makes for some delicious moments when reality comes up and smacks them in the nose. This may not be as beautiful as Mitt Romney ...
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• Babies Narrowly Escape Rock Attack - Inside Israel - News - Israel National News

  
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  Babies Narrowly Escape Rock Attack - Inside Israel - News - Israel National News : First Publish: 5/19/2013, 2:43 PM Babies Narrowly Escape Rock Attack צילום: איילת שליסל On Saturday night, one Israeli driver after another fell victim to an ambush near Wadi Harmiya, near Shilo in the ...
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• What’s happening at Guantanamo Bay is daily torture

  
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  Independent journalist Jason Leopold just visited Guantanamo Bay and sent this report and photos ( see this link ): Last week, thanks to the generous support of the Freedom of Press Foundation , I traveled to Guantanamo during the height of a mass hunger strike to tour the detention facility, along with four other ...
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• Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines

  
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  Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined. Now, unlikely heroes may be coming to the rescue to prevent similar tragedies: sugar-craving ...
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• China earmarks billions for internal security, ‘stability maintenance’

  
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  Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and “anti-terrorism technology” trade fair in Beijing. The ruling Communist Party spends vast sums on ensuring order – more even than on its military. View original post here: China earmarks billions for internal security, ‘stability ...
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• Syria’s Assad says peace talks are ‘unrealistic’, will not resign

  
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  Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and Russia have proposed could settle a deadly conflict that has convulsed the country for two years. Link: Syria’s Assad says peace talks are ‘unrealistic’, will not resign
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• Gates: Some Benghazi critics have “cartoonish” view of military capability

  
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  cbsnews.com | "I think my decisions would have been just as theirs were," said Gates.
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• Terror attacks, ECP mismanagement mar polling in Karachi

  
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  KARACHI, May 11: The landmark election in the city was marred by mismanagement, delays in arrival of election material, absence of polling staff, forcible takeover of polling stations by political party activists in some areas, bomb and gun attacks in a few neighbourhoods of district east and west besides allegations ...
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• Mother of Slain Benghazi Victim Sean Smith … “I Wish Hillary a Happy Mother’s Day. She’s Got Her Child. I Don’t Have Mine, Because of Her”

  
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  A Mother’s Day wish to Hillary Clinton, who screwed up, before, during and after the Benghazi attack, from the mom of murdered Sean Smith.  Last night on Huckabee, Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, who was murdered in Benghazi, Libya along with three other Americans, Ambassador Chris Steve, Glen Doherty ...
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• Will Obama Suffer the Second-Term Curse?

  
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  Well, jeez, lets hope so. At the Washington Post : Recent events suggest that the 44th president may not be immune to the phenomenon that historians call the “second-term curse.” Not four months after his ambitious inaugural address, President Obama finds himself struggling to move his legislative agenda ...
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• NOT QUITE HUMANS—Soul-Less American People Silently Accept the Wholesale Dehumanization of Palestinian People

  
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  [It should be setting-off loud alarm bells in vast spaces, far wider than just the inside of my own head, that neither English nor any other known language is capable of adequately describing the excesses to which the American people and Americanized people of the world have sunk.  I am not here referring to any […]
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