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Historic New Harpers Article Exposes Who Controls America
Historic New Harpers Article Exposes Who Controls America There can be little doubt now: America’s decades-long catastrophic failures to make significant progress in eliminating even a single one of the numerous jihadist groups around the world is due to the American government’s secret under-the-table crucial ongoing assistance to those groups, and this American-government support has […]
US War Theories Target Dissenters
US War Theories Target Dissenters Exclusive: In the Orwellian world of Official Washington, the U.S. government is now wedded to the theory of “information warfare,” meaning that Americans who challenge national security policy may be treated as “unprivileged belligerents” under the new Law of War doctrine, retired JAG Major Todd E. Pierce writes. When the U.S. Department of […]
New UN Privacy Chief Proclaims – UK Digital Surveillance is “Worse than Orwell”
New UN Privacy Chief Proclaims – UK Digital Surveillance is “Worse than Orwell” Cannataci says we are dealing with a world even worse that anything Orwell could have foreseen. “It’s worse,” he said. “Because if you look at CCTV alone, at least Winston was able to go out in the countryside and go under a […]
FBI says that citizens should have no secrets that the government can’t access: the Orwellian cyber police state has arrived
FBI says that citizens should have no secrets that the government can’t access: the Orwellian cyber police state has arrived The police and surveillance state predicted in the forward-looking 1940s classic “1984” by George Orwell, has slowly, but steadily, come to fruition. However, like a frog sitting idly in a pan of steadily-warming water, too […]
Stephen Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence
Stephen Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence An omnibus of sins, topping 50. Tell us ones we’ve missed, we’ll add to the PM’s rap sheet. Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have racked up dozens of serious abuses of power since forming government in 2006. From scams to smears, monkey-wrenching opponents to intimidating public servants […]
The End of Freedom of Speech in Spain
The End of Freedom of Speech in Spain Spain has shown that it is fully on board with the Brussels authoritarian direction of ending democracy. Those in power have simply convinced themselves that the people do not understand what is good for them so they must impose their will upon the people but raw force. […]
The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech
The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and […]
Orwell’s Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance
Orwell’s Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance When government agencies and private companies access and synthesize our data, they take on the power to novelize our lives. Their profiles of our behavior are semi-fictional stories, pieced together from the digital traces we leave as we go about our days. No matter how many […]
Orwell, Huxley and America’s Plunge into Authoritarianism
Orwell, Huxley and America’s Plunge into Authoritarianism Legitimizing State Violence In spite of their differing perceptions of the architecture of the totalitarian superstate and how it exercised power and control over its residents, George Orwell and Aldus Huxley shared a fundamental conviction. They both argued that the established democracies of the West were moving quickly […]
Orwellian Language – the Slide toward “Velvet Glove” Fascism Continues
Orwellian Language – the Slide toward “Velvet Glove” Fascism Continues Sometimes we get the feeling the ruling elites are investing the laws they enact with a kind of impertinent, slap-in-your-face black humor. How else to explain the Orwellian names given to the liberty-crushing laws that have been put in place since the “war on terror” […]
Orwell and Kafka Do America: How the Government Steals Your Money–“Legally,” Of Course
Orwell and Kafka Do America: How the Government Steals Your Money–“Legally,” Of Course Due process and rule of law have been replaced with “legalized” looting by government in America. Did you know that the government of Iran steals your cash if they find more than loose change in your car? They don’t arrest you for any […]
ClubOrlov: Defeat is Victory
ClubOrlov: Defeat is Victory. On the wall of George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth from his novel1984 there were three slogans: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH It occurred to me that these apply just a little bit too well to the way the Washington, DC establishment operates. War certainly is peace: just look […]
Forget Orwell and Rand, We’ve Gone to Full On Plato | First Rebuttal
Forget Orwell and Rand, We’ve Gone to Full On Plato | First Rebuttal. Lately, we hear a lot about Orwell’s “1984″ and Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” but perhaps the best crystal ball to our current state of affairs is Plato’s Republic. You see both Rand and Orwell were describing a world outside of themselves. A world they couldn’t understand […]
The Rutherford Institute :: Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
The Rutherford Institute :: Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?. Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of building a communist utopia. The phrase was “useful idiots” […]
