George Orwell

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• The Losing Side

  
  The New Ledger Features — Authority: 603
  [tweetmeme] A short time before his sadly premature death, George Orwell said of his new novel, 1984, “I do not say that such a thing will happen. Only that it could happen…. The moral of this tale is: don’t let it happen. It’s up to you.” If there is anything we should be celebrating on the anniversary ...
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• Swastika Night: Nineteen Eighty-Fours lost twin

  
  Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 135
  While Orwells dystopia is embedded in our culture, an equally powerful novel exploring parallel themes is almost completely unknown This weeks Berlin Wall ceremonies marked a golden moment in the history of that most benighted of cities. They also reminded us of the incredibly enduring power of Nineteen Eighty-Four: ...
  12 hours ago

• Media Matters: ACORN Police Report Good, Gladney Police Report Bad

  
  Big Government — Authority: 805
  In true Orwellian fashion, our pals at Media Matters demonstrate today that not only are some hate crimes more equal than others, but so too, some police reports are more equal than others. After waiting a full 24-hours to react to yesterday’s release of the 24-page police report of the Kenneth Gladney incident ...
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• Chris Harman obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Writer, editor and leading light of the Socialist Workers party In 2005 Chris Harman was writing about how the 30-year project to publish the collected works of Marx and Engels was done. It is 50 volumes long and he was reviewing Vol 50, having read the previous 49 one by one as they had appeared. Of course, he had ...
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• Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist

  
  Not My Tribe — Authority: 486
  Even the most violent totalitarian system hasn’t enough weapons to outnumber the masses. For fascists to rule with an iron glove requires well deluded pacifist theologians to tamp the populace spirit. By example they can martyr themselves silly for all the overclass may care. The future of industrial man is a boot ...
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• Recent reads: Animal Farm - George Orwell, A Month in the Country - J. L. Carr, Through England on a Side-Saddle - Celia Fiennes

  
  thesvenhunter — Authority: 117
  Animal Farm - George Orwell Ive always admired Orwell but perhaps felt I was too old for this, it being one of a great number of books almost everyone read when they were 12 and I didnt. (See also Catch 22, Brave New World and, erm... Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas?) Something had always put me off it: the concept ...
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• How Your Beliefs Create Your Reality part 2

  
  Advanced Life Skills — Authority: 455
  Understanding that the mind is only creative can help us grasp the power of beliefs. George Orwell once said that “myths which are believed in tend to become true.” This is especially true on an individual basis. By now, most of us realize that our perception of reality is heavily influenced by our beliefs, but ...
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• “He’s called Dillan.” / “Not if I have anything to say about it!”

  
  But, Sir... — Authority: 136
  Allow a Registrar the right to reject baby names of (s)he considers the name to be inappropriate. by Colin M. Taylor We’ve all seen it on the news: a Media celebrity has a baby and then gives it a name that can, at best, be considered ‘unusual’. For example, the Beckhams calling their son Brooklyn or Katie ...
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• Top 25 Favorite Writers

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 128
  Much like for my favorite movies , here is a list of my Top 25 favorite writers. Vladimir Nabokov Ray Bradbury JRR Tolkien Kurt Vonnegut Douglas Adams Mark Twain The rest in alphabetical order by last name: Robert Benchley Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Albert Camus Raymond Chandler Umberto Eco ...
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• Involuntary medicine: “Thomas” would be disgusted.

  
  FreedomRide.us — Authority: 106
  Orwell, unsurprised . [IMG: http://www.FreedomRide.us/wp-content/images2/Involuntary-Medicine-560.jpg]
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• Orwell on Totalitarianism

  
  In General Counsel — Authority: 125
  Famed novelist George Orwell ( Animal Farm , 1984 ) initially considered himself a "Tory Anarchist" and then a socialist. He was, however, highly critical of various factions within the socialist movement, and especially assailed apologists for Stalin. Orwell had seen the deadly consequences of Stalinism up close ...
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• Obama’s Orwellian Health Care Vision

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 514
  Jim sent this in: President Barack Obama has promised a massive change to “modernize health care by making all health records standardized and electronic.” Part of his ambitious health care program will be the computerizing of medical records of all Americans in order to make the health care process more ...
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• George Orwells NUJ card

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 487
  This is a George Orwells NUJ card from the time he was working for The Tribune . It is part of the UCL Orwell archive than can be accessed here. Orwell was recruited to be Tribunes literary editor by Aneurin Bevan. He joined the NUJ in 1943 and remained a member until his death in 1950.
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• Where horror truly lies ...

  
  Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 135
  Stephen King didnt scare me when I first started reading adult horror fiction as a teenager – it was Orwells 1984 that really frightened me As October draws to a close, the days shorten, and Halloween again rears its pumpkin head, ones thoughts naturally take on a darker hue. For me, this involves a long and lonely ...
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• Yellow Cake

  
  Motionographer | Motion graphics, design, animation, filmmaking and visual effects — Authority: 590
  Yellow Cake is a new short film by Nick Cross , an Ottawa-based animator who has worked for everyone from Nickelodeon to Spumco over the course of his career. He calls Yellow Cake a “lamentable tragedy mixed full of pleasant mirth.” Animated in Flash, with digitally painted backgrounds, the fine-tuned muted color ...
  2 weeks ago

• Prefab Participation

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 463
  Whilst walking the dog this rainy evening, I happened upon an illuminated, inflatable lawn ornament of the Halloween variety. These decorations are an easy, relatively inexpensive way to acknowledge the holiday. They require little or no thought beyond which one to buy and where to buy it. The set-up is easy, so is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alex Jones: Insane

  
  Jumping in Pools — Authority: 581
  Alex Jones is certainly a talented performer. He has written extensively on conspiracy theories and rivals the Loose Change losers with stating that the world is going to end. (And Jones was an executive producer of that pile). And while the earth will explode tomorrow, you might as well buy my book! No one who ...
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• “Internet Freedom”: How Statists Corrupt Our Language

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 580
  WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH So declared the Party in George Orwell’s classic novel  1984 . The corruption of language with a constant theme of Orwell’s work, most notably his 1946 essay “ Politics and the English Language .” So Orwell would not have been surprised to ...
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• Obama Administration 1984 regime, George Orwell described Obama camp, Thought police, Anita Dunn, David Axelrod, Rahm Emmanuel, Revisionist history, Attacks, Fox News, Citizen Wells open thread, October 27, 2009

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 588
  This is the open thread for Tuesday, October 27, 2009. The theme is “1984″ by George Orwell and how the Obama camp and the Obama Administration resemble the totalitarian regime described by Orwell. Daily, in conversations with my friends, almost without fail, someone states that we are living “1984.” I am ...
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• Book about Book-Burning Burnished with 36 Books, and an Oft-Banned Book

  
  Caustic Cover Critic — Authority: 460
  A novel due out in February, set in Francos Spain, about book-burning, boxing and friendship, with a cover made up of 36 books: And from the same publisher, Harvill Secker, and due out two months later, yet another Orwell face-lift, this time for a hardcover edition of Animal Farm. Designers both ...
  2 weeks ago

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