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18 Apr 2024, 11:39 am
" And sure enough, Alito led the way at the oral argument to push forward with Trump's gaslighting, saying that prosecuting violent insurrectionists will pave the way to prosecuting peaceful protesters -- just as Trump and his allies argue that the attack on Congress was "beautiful" and was just a bunch of patriots strolling through the Capitol.Politicians will always try to get away with degrading and twisting the meanings of words, as George Orwell explained… [read post]
2 Oct 2013, 12:48 am
And ‘Democracy Matters’, the leading group on the NO side, whose name is worthy of the doublethink of George Orwell’s 1984, suggests that a people’s free vote on the content of their Constitution is the equivalent of trampling on that document. [read post]
18 Dec 2016, 6:24 am
" Very worryingly, we may even see legislation in Germany and other parts of Europe aiming to impose fines on social networks for not playing their part in the political establisment's censorship efforts led by a future equivalent of what George Orwell already envisioned to be a "Ministry of Truth" in his novel "1984. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 8:39 am
- George Orwell It is an axiom of due process that the government bears the burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt every element of the charge and that that burden never shifts to the defendant. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 11:16 am
” -George Orwell, Animal Farm The Internet Copyright Wars are in their third decade, and despite the billions of dollars and trillions of phosphors spilled on its battlegrounds around the world, precious little progress has been made. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 11:55 am
Los que gozan de una tribuna en los medios son una suerte de "dioses sin aureola", pueden decir lo que les parezca y NO es posible debatir sus ideas; Bueno no soy de aquellos que se callan ante lo que a mi juicio es una arbitrariedad en la era de la información y velocidad.Trascribiré íntegramente la opinión de Ernesto Alvarez Miranda, Abogado y ex Magistrado del Tribunal Constitucional, muy leído, su estilo de escribir me recuerda mucho al de… [read post]
23 Jul 2024, 11:31 am
With a nod to George Orwell, it seems apt to call this a doubleplusdizzying month. [read post]
22 Nov 2009, 7:14 pm
As George Orwell noted, “language can…corrupt thought. [read post]
26 May 2017, 10:15 am
Suppose that President Truman, the second Baptist president, had taken to convening a daily Orthodox minyan in the Oval Office, pressing prayer shawls and yarmulkes on Clark Clifford, Secretary of State George C. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 12:16 pm
" represents my latest attempt to channel George Orwell. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 1:27 pm
What if everyone who “owned” a copy of A New Hope did so digitally, and George Lucas decided “Hey, I want to patch the film! [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 7:09 am
Presidents Clinton and George W. [read post]
27 Jun 2023, 3:25 pm
In this, Taibbi sees echoes of the speech controls that George Orwell portrayed in his book 1984, where all words are converted to serve a model of binary thought, merely by adding “un” to the primary word. [read post]
3 Oct 2011, 5:43 pm
Under the administration of George W. [read post]
31 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
They also do so to gain, consolidate, or exercise power.In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, protagonist Winston Smith grimly reflects on the Party slogan: “Who controls the past controls the future. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 11:31 pm
Orwell picture from Moe [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 9:19 am
This is a new kind of tyranny --- George Orwell's 1984 updated the 2024 technology.Another scary prospect is a anocracy, or failed states. [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 12:45 am
And Owen Jones’s “The establishment and how they get away with it” – again a ‘reach-for book’ for people with my leanings but I remain to be convinced of Mr Jones, who the book’s jacket describes as “Our generation’s George Orwell”, which is I think stretching it a bit. [read post]
18 Sep 2011, 9:32 pm
Esa tecnología, esa capacidad del Gran Hermano planteada en 1949 por George Orwell en su obra 1984, tiempo futuro muy lejano que por cierto ya quedó muy atrás, ahora existe y es una realidad. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 6:14 pm
It’s the absolute pinnacle of incompetence… something I’d expect in a novel by George Orwell, or Ray Bradbury… a people conditioned to be happy because at least their government managed to delay one suicide by spending a billion dollars… because the other untold billions they’ve spent or tried to spend, accomplished even less. [read post]
