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• in Music
  For the First Time Since 1984, Van Halen is Back
  Van Halen has officially released a new album with David Lee Roth called A Different Kind of Truth, and it's killer!
  by jbinc / on Feb 8, 2012
• in Politics
  Libyan Rebels Capture Parts of Tripoli
  The Libyan rebels take parts of Tripoli, so now the waverers can decide it was a "good war" after all.
  by anthonylock / on Aug 22, 2011
• in Technology
  David Cameron Wants to Monitor Social Media
  British prime minister David Cameron has come down very much on the side of social media being a disruptive source. In a speech to the House of Commons he called for government to have the power to both monitor social media and restrict access to those believed to be up to no good.
  by cmimanagers / on Aug 11, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “1984”

 

• Spy Games: 10 Memorable Surveillance Movies

  
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  From thrillers to comedies, Hollywood has tapped into our basic fear of being watched and listened to by strangers
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• Of Bases and Cases

  
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  The bases in question, if you have not guessed already, are the four nucleotide bases that make up the so-called "double helix" of DNA - DeoxyriboNucleic Acid - the complex molecule that carries within it the genetic makeup of an individual human being. The nucleotide bases, for the non-biological reader, are ...
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• Junkyard Find: 1984 Chrysler New Yorker

  
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  The New Yorker provides us with a nice history of Chrysler’s postwar luxury ambitions , and examples demonstrating various facets of this history are plentiful in self-service wrecking yards. We’ve seen this ’53 , this ’64 , this ’82 , this ’85 , this ’89 , this ’90 , and this ’92 so far, ...
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• Shetland Line remains in legal contention with Scottish Government on Northlink Ferries tender

  
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  Gareth Crichton of the Streamline Shipping Group has made it clear that Streamline’s subsidiary, Shetland Line [1984] Ltd, has not given up on its pursuit of the Scottish Government over matters surrounding the controversial award of the contract to operate the state subsidised ferry services for the Northern ...
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• A Little Light Summer Reading (Rated PG-13) Strong Language

  
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  "Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? OBrien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? OBrien: You do no exist." ~George Orwell, 1984 Given recent events I thought it was about time I read 1984. I had a chance to do so, when I was in high school, but didnt. It was in a list of books we ...
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• The Future Seen from the Past: Visions of Orwell, Huxley & Zamyatin

  
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  Writers are throwing the name Orwell around more than usual just now. Theres an example at HuffPo this week: Orwell 2013 by Jeff Danziger. Ive mentioned and featured George Orwell in posts a few times over the years myself - best example, with some astrology and several interesting comments is from April 2011, ...
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• 1984 book sales

  
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  1984 book sales – George Orwell’s classic 1984 is an often quoted and referenced piece, a book that everyone knows roughly about and everyone has seen and heavily influenced movies and publications. Every time a government does something related to knowing more about us, expanding secret operations or things that ...
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• It’s Supposed To Be Liberty First In The USA

  
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  Many national players have declared their allegiance to fascism this week. Some are surprising, given their positions in the past. Some are not so surprising, like Peter King, Republican Congressman of New York. King hates Muslims, almost as much as he hates the First Amendment (which protects Muslims from King). ...
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• Germans are terrorists... ALL OF THEM!!!!

  
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• The Sheep Look Up

  
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  The nightmare of political modernism.
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• 1984 Ideal Toys Robo Force Catalog

  
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    Robo Force was a nicely designed series of Robot Action Figures that seemed to be largely influenced by Star Wars. The line, despite an animated special was not a commercial success, this may have been due to Hasbros Transformers launching the same year, really making Maxx Steele and his "Daleky" ...
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• George Orwell’s 1984

  
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  Related Entries June 13, 2013 The NSA June 13, 2013 Turkey Riots
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• A Sudden New Interest in George Orwell’s “1984″

  
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  Since the exposure last week of the vast scope of the United States’ government’s domestic surveillance operations, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. which was published sixty-four years ago has enjoyed a massive spike in sales. Amazon sales of the book shot up 7,000% just this week. Is Obama Big Brother? ...
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• NSA, CIA, FBI, Everyone — A Timeline of Surveillance in the Movies

  
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  It’s easy to be upset about the news that the NSA is monitoring phone calls and other communications — the whole thing is a case of many of our worst, movie-fed fears finally becoming reality. Over the years, depictions of surveillance have been one of cinema’s go-to methods for creating ... ...
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• The Next Step in Equality: Genderless Bathrooms

  
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  Transgender people face discrimination every time they go to restrooms marked men or women; as the NSA destroys our sense of privacy, perhaps rather than looking to Orwell’s “1984,” we should brush up on our Kafka; meanwhile, journalist Phyllis Richman responds decades later to a misogynistic letter from a ...
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• 1984 by George Orwell – Must Own Resource

  
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  If you haven’t read 1984 by George Orwell, you are missing out on one of the most important books in history. Some people call it prophetic, some people believe its nothing more than fiction, but either way, you should read it. Here is the description of the book if you’ve never heard of it: Written [...]
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• “Grande fratello” e “datagate”, boom di vendite per 1984 di Orwell

  
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  Un nuovo boom per 1984 il celebre romanzo di George Orwell che racconta di una società completamente manipolata da un “Grade Fratello” torna nelle classifiche dopo le rivelazioni sulle intercettazioni dell’intelligence degli Stati Uniti
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• Survey: Many Americans say ‘Big Brother’ is here

  
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  More than half of Americans polled in a survey released Thursday said they agreed with the statement "We are really in the era of Big Brother."
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• Australian Government up to its neck in PRISM surveillance

  
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  By scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au Revelations from within Australia’s intelligence agencies have confirmed the Government is actively complicit in the United States’ surveillance of Australian citizens. “The Australian Government has denied any knowledge of...
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• What the NSA can do with “big data”

  
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  By arstechnica.com One organization’s data centers hold the contents of much of the visible Internet—and much of it that isn’t visible just by clicking your way around. It has satellite imagery...
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