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26 Apr 2020, 9:10 pm
George Orwell’s classic novel came of age, with its four Ministries of Peace, Love, Plenty, and Truth that brilliantly described their opposites. [read post]
18 Jul 2019, 5:23 pm
Socialism hasn’t been as popular as it is today since the late 19th and early 20thcentury, when the Wobblies were a force to be reckoned with and public figures such as George Orwell, W.E.B. [read post]
18 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
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3 Jun 2015, 5:55 pm
Hemos leído sobre ello en 1984 de George Orwell, lo hemos escuchado de regímenes opresivos, y ahora lo estamos presenciando en países democráticos como Paraguay. [read post]
7 Nov 2015, 5:47 am
Ben shared the audio and video from the joint CIA-George Washington University conference on "The Ethos and Profession of Intelligence” in which he participated. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 12:15 pm
Syrian rebel and jihadist forces have captured a major town along the main highway connecting Aleppo and Hama. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 9:14 am
" Late Monday, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou promised to cut his country's budget deficit from nearly 13% of gross domestic product this year to under 3% - the euro zone's cap - in four years. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 3:13 pm
” The non-answers and double-speak would have fit right into a George Orwell novel. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 11:07 pm
" We could easily see an updated, high-tech version of George Orwell's 1984 – 2024? [read post]
9 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm
Perhaps because we have passed 1984 unscathed, we often ignore the significance of George Orwell’s “Newspeak”. [read post]
12 May 2017, 3:07 am
The scene evokes George Orwell’s famous warning about telescreens, the omnipresent surveillance devices in Big Brother’s Oceania, by which the Thought Police could secretly watch anyone at any time. [read post]
29 Sep 2013, 2:24 pm
It makes me think of George Orwell's 1984, as depicted in the movie with John Hurt and Richard Burton --a population that has taught itself not to think with home-schooling and religious indoctrination, reinforced by political demogogues who retain power and perks by figuratively beating the proletarian to a nonthinking mass that resents any attempt to act collectively for the greater good of the people. [read post]
9 May 2011, 4:00 am
But Judge Alex Kosinski, in the dissenting opinion, called the use of GPS trackers without a court order “straight out of George Orwell’s novel 1984” and said they give government “the power to track the movements of every one of us, every day of our lives. [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 8:41 am
George Orwell had it right at the end of Animal Farm: Four legs good, two legs – bad? [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 4:30 pm
The world of George Orwell’s 1984 is here when it comes to sex. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 8:40 am
(Indeed, just eighteen years after Chesterton spoke, we would have George Orwell's 1984, which spelled out the same consequences in vivid detail.) [read post]
27 Jul 2009, 3:00 am
Thus, for example, if you own a Kindle and want to sue Amazon for deleting George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from your electronic reading device, the Kindle's End User License Agreement ("EULA") requires that you instead commence arbitration against Amazon in Seattle, Washington. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 3:23 pm
" There were six different references during the questioning to George Orwell's novel 1984, including notably Justice Kennedy.Justice Ginsburg asked what the difference between having a GPS attached to your car and living in London where virtually everywhere you go on the public streets you're under the watchful eye of CCTV? [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 7:27 am
– George Orwell Bad enough it is, as we saw in preceding parts, that the Chelsea Housing Authority as controlled by the deceitful and now-fired Michael McLaughlin used its power of selective enforcement to cow residents into silence, but as reported in the Boston Globe (December 31, 2011), if that were not enough, it also rewarded staff for their efforts in doing so: Now we come to the capstone, the most damning case of all: Francine Dorrance would be… [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 9:45 am
” Or as understood in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, “all animals are created equal but some are more equal than others”. [1] Barquis v. [read post]
