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The Bulletin: June 5-11, 2025
The Bulletin: June 5-11, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. In the Sightlines of Empire: The Gift and Curse of Thermal Optics The Superfood That Replaces Every Toxic Oil in Your Kitchen Why Analysts Misjudge Oil’s Future | Art Berman CO2 […]
Saudis Use Orwellian App to Identify Dissidents, Imprisoning Some for Decades
Saudis Use Orwellian App to Identify Dissidents, Imprisoning Some for Decades FILE PHOTOS. (Credit: Facebook / @kamnapp; Saudi Media Ministry) Saudi Arabians are using a mobile app sold by both Apple and Google to snitch on their fellow citizens for dissenting against government authorities. As a result, activists and others are going to prison for […]
‘We live in an Orwellian hell-scape’: Facebook fact-checks top economist for stating America IS in a recession after Biden refused to admit it
‘We live in an Orwellian hell-scape’: Facebook fact-checks top economist for stating America IS in a recession after Biden refused to admit it Phillip Magness, the research and education director at the American Institute for Economic Research, believes the U.S. is in a recession Economists usually say it is a recession when two successive quarters […]
Delta variant throws the world back into Orwellian autocracy
Delta variant throws the world back into Orwellian autocracy Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Doctors could lose medical licenses if they spread vaccine “misinformation” […]
“A Truly Orwellian Culture” – Amazon Removes COVID Skeptic’s Book For Violating Content Guidelines
“A Truly Orwellian Culture” – Amazon Removes COVID Skeptic’s Book For Violating Content Guidelines Around the time Twitter purged New York Post’s bombshell stories about Hunter Biden from its platform, late last week, Amazon was busy censoring any criticism against the “official” COVID-19 narrative, with the banning of at least one book from its Amazon Books store. […]
Spirits in the Material World
SPIRITS IN THE MATERIAL WORLD There is no political solutionTo our troubled evolutionHave no faith in constitutionThere is no bloody revolution The Police – Spirits in the Material World As I was driving home from work last week, an almost forty-year-old song began emanating from my radio. I’ve always appreciated the music of The Police, […]
Roger Waters Stunned At Assange’s Plight: “Orwell & Huxley Were Both Right”
Roger Waters Stunned At Assange’s Plight: “Orwell & Huxley Were Both Right” Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has been an outspoken advocate for Julian Assange, but the most recent sight of the reporter’s physical and mental health, at his recent court appearance, has Waters stepping up his criticism of the establishment’s slow-assassination of the exposer of US […]
Forget 1984, We’re Facing a Brave New World
Forget 1984, We’re Facing a Brave New World I see quite frequently, people warning that the US is becoming an ‘Orwellian nightmare,’ or that we’re living in a country that’s fast becoming a new 1984. I think they’re wrong. It’s worse. We here in the US look at what China’s doing as if they’re on […]
The Day America Died
The Day America Died 47 years ago in American Pie, Don McLean talked about The Day The Music Died. Or of course the music didn’t really die, but at the same time it did. “The three mean I admired most, the father, son and the holy ghost, they caught the last train for the coast, the […]
Orwellian Hate Crime Database to Be Set Up For Thought Criminals in Michigan
Orwellian Hate Crime Database to Be Set Up For Thought Criminals in Michigan Only in a world where the novel 1984 has become the evening news can we get a state’s Attorney General working with the Department of Civil Rights to create a database for people committing “hate and bias incidents that don’t rise to the level […]
Screw the Pooch
Screw the Pooch I first asked Dr. D. a few years ago if I could turn one one his comments at the Automatic Earth into an essay. The following illustrates why I asked. Not sure he understands why some of his rants stand out while others do not, but they certainly do. Go to the […]
Amazon Goes Full Orwellian
Amazon Goes Full Orwellian Bezos poised to become knower of all things, with strategic moves to collect info on individuals inside and out. “We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it,” came a warning from George Orwell’s novel, 1984, that is rapidly, wickedly, becoming prophecy with new Amazon eye-in-the- […]
You Are Well Inside the Matrix
You Are Well Inside the Matrix Berthe Morisot The old track to Auvers 1863 Our politicians and media are not going to allow us to see Russia, and any incidents the country can be linked to, in any other way than black and white, in which we are the good party and they are the black, evil and […]
What Will Europe’s Internet Look Like After Passage Of Orwellian Directive?
What Will Europe’s Internet Look Like After Passage Of Orwellian Directive? Last month, members of the EU Parliament voted to advance a controversial copyright directive that contains provisions forcing tech giants to install content filters, while also setting in place a potential tax on hyperlinking. The bill, known as Article 13, would filter everything anyone […]
Empire of Lies: Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
Empire of Lies: 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” and it […]
