Tag Archives: George Orwell

Orwell’s Vision Marches On – Be Careful With What You Say In Front Of Your Smart TV

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird is principally credited, among others, with the invention of television in 1926.  In 1949 George Orwell published his world-changing novel about a coming super-surveillance state, Nineteen Eighty-Four.  How far have we come toward surrendering all … Continue reading

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Orwell’s World Of 1949 Becomes Today’s Reality – Welcome To Prison

As a police officer in Colorado I watched as other cops went through some extremely uncomfortable and destructive internal affairs investigations.  Some involved allegations of use of excessive force, which is a career-ending accusation if it is sustained.  Others involved … Continue reading

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McConnell Calls For History Rewrite – Send Jefferson Davis Statue Down The Orwell Memory Hole

In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, protagonist Winston Smith’s job was to re-write history, sending the prior versions of newspaper items, etc., down a Memory Hole – and replacing them in the records with his re-writes.

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What Are Paul Ryan And The Repubs Really Up To?

If Paul Ryan is really concerned with the public and the Congress being able to see everything in a future trade agreement, why is there such secrecy about what is in this new Obama-Trade bill which has recently become the … Continue reading

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England Lowers Her Flags To Grieve The Death Of A Muslim Tyrant

(Photo AFP via Yahoo) Things just keep deteriorating.  The UK is flying flags at half staff in a show of respect, mourning, or in memoriam, for Saudi Arabia’s recently departed King Abdullah.  I can’t help wondering what George Orwell would … Continue reading

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Abject Journalistic Villainy: The Guardian UK Draws A Parallel Between EDL, Tommy Robinson And Norwegian Killer Breivik

In an abominably shameful piece of poisonous slanted journalism, the Guardian UK has placed the English Defense League and Tommy Robinson alongside Norway’s mass murderer Anders Breivik in the same paragraph.  It is small wonder that the UK is rapidly … Continue reading

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Obama Has His Way Again With Congress On Libya – Sends Whining Media Bitches Cowering Over War Powers Act

Barack Obama says that the War Powers Act doesn’t apply in Libya, even though he initially cited it as justification for the “kinetic” dropping of Orwellian New-Speak non-war bombs and launching of non-war humanitarian missiles into Tripoli for the first … Continue reading

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Wide-Eyed NYT Takes A Look At Egypt’s New Democracy – Which Votes For Shariah Law

With thanks to Michael Savage for the link, here’s a New York Times piece, finally, where a big media player begins to publicly acknowledge that the revolts which have recently spread across the Middle East may not in fact be … Continue reading

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Obama Joins Forces With al-Qaida – Proving That George Orwell Was Right On The Target

George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four introduced and defined Newspeak, a mind-bending lexicon that includes a term worth mulling over today, as the armed forces of the United States wage war in partnership with al Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood against … Continue reading

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Muslim Radicalization Hearings: Will Congressman King Dare Open The Koran To Sura 9?

When, or if, the big pie figuratively hits New York Congressman Peter King (R) and his colleagues in their faces, are they going to finally acknowledge the existence of the pie, or will they look the other away and act … Continue reading

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