Tag: orwell
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november clearinghouse
teachers, teens immerse selves in mock danger of ‘1984’* mayor claims he was abducted by satanists* video: rabbi weiss, outside annapolis peace confab, rips zionism* teens go on homeland security scavenger hunt* paul believes in threat of north american superhighway* ron paul smear attempts reflect ‘frightened’ & ‘insecure’ establishment* military families support ron paul’s platform…
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whistleblower: nsa monitors all web traffic
from raw story: A former technician at AT&T, who alleges that the telecom forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a “secret room” to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell’s 1984. Appearing on MSNBC’s Countdown program, whistleblower Mark Klein told Keith Olbermann that a copy of…
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news on the march
macho mistakes at ground zerofrom new york times: As more and more workers who inhaled the dust at ground zero fall ill, it has become increasingly clear that much of the problem can be traced to the Giuliani administration’s failure to insist that all emergency personnel and construction workers at the site wear respirators… uk…
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orwell’s house surrounded by cctv cameras
from bunch of nerds/this is london: A depressing reminder of Orwell’s classic novel, ‘1984’, a recent study into CCTV camera usage for surveillance in Britain has came out with some startling results. Britain has over 4.2 million CCTV cameras on it’s streets, one for every 14 people in the country, and accounting for over 20%…
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the future has caught up with us
from paul craig roberts: John Derbyshire is the sole remaining adult writing for National Review. In a recent issue he noted that Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, first published in 1932, now reads like contemporary news. Huxley’s fearsome predictions of a 26th century world have all come true six centuries early – in vitro…