George Orwell

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• Olympic Mural Rises Again

  
  raincoaster — Authority: 118
  Have you seen this mural? Not recently, you haven’t, because it was destroyed on the orders of Vancouver City Hall , which is apparently in the business of making sure the Olympic Committee don’t get their feelings hurt, rather than in the business of defending the rights of Canadians to the free expression ...
  16 hours ago

• Sketch for an essay on History and Tradition which I will probably never write but which contains some wonderful quotes.

  
  boredom is always counter-revolutionary — Authority: 112
  ‘It will… become evident that the world has long dreamed of possessing something of which it has only to be conscious in order to possess it in reality.’ Karl Marx, 1843 The project of their new journal, Marx wrote to his friend Arnold Ruge in 1843, should be to rediscover the unrealised ambitions of the past: ...
  2 days ago

• 2009 Nobel Peace Prize given to Commander in Chief and military industrial complex stooge- Barack Hussein Obama

  
  Opinione — Authority: 114
  The recent speech by President Barack Obama would have made George Orwell proud. Speaking before an international audience, with a straight face and the demeanor of a dishonest cars salesman, President Barack Obama had the audacity to declare to the world “the instruments of war do have a role to play in ...
  2 days ago

• ACORN, Judge Nina Gershon, US Constitution, Idiot judges, US Congress, ACORN funding, Open thread, December 13, 2009

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 546
  We must give Congress an enema in 2010. Vote out jackasses, vote in statesmen who adher to the US Constitution. With the assistance of a new congress, we must next remove the illegal usurper Barack Obama. Then we must remove incompetent, biased judges, state officials and then fix our schools. Many of you are aware ...
  2 days ago

• The Paradise of Suicide Bombers

  
  CrossRoads... — Authority: 118
  Yesterday the Peshawar-based journalists were flown in the military helicopters to Nawaz Kot area in South Waziristan; where the Taliban had established a fake paradise . According to the journalists who took the round of the place, the walls of the rooms were painted with the rivers overflowing with milk and honey, ...
  3 days ago

• Yes Virginia

  
  Business and Technology — Authority: 133
  Yes Virginia Yes Virginia - : Yes, Virginia is an odd duck mdash a half-hour animated special that stretches a two-minute story well beyond its means but still delivers a moving spirit-of-Christmas payoff in its final moments. Oddly designed, it sorely lacks the sort Adoring Jennifer // Your Newest Source For ...
  3 days ago

• 1984: BAC, review

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Mark Downs 1984 is a weird, feel-good delight. Rating: * * * *
  4 days ago

• Facebook Declares War On Your Privacy With New Settings

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 786
  And now playing the role of Big Brother: Facebook. With a lot of help from you. On the off chance you may have missed the news in the last few days, Facebook has rolled out new, controversial privacy settings that appear to be aimed at getting users to make as much information about themselves available to as ...
  4 days ago

• Christmas pudding a la Orwell

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  If you like Christmas pudding why stop at one? George Orwell didnt. Do you have any pudding tips, ancient or modern? I havent made a Christmas pudding this year because I made it last year (is this the smuggest statement in Christmas cookery?). People say they make puddings a year in advance because, supposedly, they ...
  4 days ago

• Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 142
  By Takarinda Gomo TO say President Robert Mugabe is the grandmaster of Zimbabwean politics is putting it mildly. The man has this habit of using time and space in order to mesmerize even his worst critics. Mugabe is good at calculating. He calculated that if he takes his time and allows the firebrands in the two MDC ...
  5 days ago

• 1984 | Theatre review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  BAC, London Everyones a puppet in Blind Summits fiendishly clever version of Orwells nightmarish novel, dancing to the tune of Big Brother in the totalitarian state of Oceania where the past is constantly rewritten to suit the ruling party. But not state workers Winston and Julia, who, in embarking on a secret love ...
  6 days ago

• Standing Room Only as 150 Pack out Latest Leicestershire BNP Meeting

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 599
  More than 150 people packed out the latest British National Party meeting in Leicestershire to hear an outstanding array of speakers including Andrew Brons MEP, reports our regional correspondent. Geoff Dickens, East Midlands regional organiser, opened the meeting and welcomed the attendees, especially the large ...
  1 week ago

• The Befuddlement of Architects

  
  Fire In The Bones — Authority: 114
  Those of us who occasionally work as editors are well aware of just how terrible some writers’ sentences can be ( for example, Dan Brown’s or Stephenie Meyer ’s.) Those of us who deal with academics also know a bit about long sentences, the sort that use a lot of big words without really saying anything at ...
  1 week ago

• Obama birth certificate, Lou Dobbs, Palin says fair question, Proof positive, Obama not eligible, Billboard, Barack Obama not natural born citizen, US Constitution, Father Kenyan British, No birth certificate, Obama spends millions to avoid

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 546
  INTERNET BILLBOARD   Article II, Sec. 1, cl. 5 of the US Constitution “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President. . .” From the 20th Amendment to the US Constitution. “or if ...
  1 week ago

• "Notes on Nationalism" George Orwell

  
  John's Labour blog — Authority: 474
  There is a Facebook group that I am a “Fan” of called George Orwell . The group yesterday posted a link to his essay “ Notes On Nationalism ” which I don’t think I have ever read but found fasinating and would recommend. These are the first 3 paragraphs. “Somewhere or other Byron makes use of the French ...
  1 week ago

• My State Fair Lady; Lemons to lemonaid, malaise to marmalade: Sarah

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." — George Orwell LIBERALS ARE BLOWN AWAY BY FOOTNOTES AND BIG WORDS (even though they dont ...
  1 week ago

• American citizens, Citizen Wells challenge, December 5, 2009, Palin says fair question, Obama not eligible, Billboard, Barack Obama not natural born citizen, US Constitution, Father Kenyan British, No birth certificate, Obama spends millions to avoid

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 546
  INTERNET BILLBOARD   Article II, Sec. 1, cl. 5 of the US Constitution “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President. . .” From the 20th Amendment to the US Constitution. “or if ...
  1 week ago

• Huffington Post, Sarah Palin, Birther, Orwellian Lies, Pay to Play Politics, Obama birth certificate, Obama payments to Huffingtonpost.com

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 546
  “Winston dialed “back numbers” on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of the Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes’ delay.  The messages he had received referred to articles or news items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, as ...
  1 week ago

• Orwell and The Lefts Ever Changing Dictionary

  
  Wolf Howling — Authority: 583
  We see the attempts by the Left to redefine words all of the time. Our current batch of little Orwellians in office play this game constantly. For example, only a few weeks ago, the Left took to labeling Dede Scozafaza as a "moderate" for the purpose of attacking the "far right wing" - i.e., people who believe in ...
  1 week ago

• Navy Seals Prosecution – Rep. Duncan Hunter Standing Up for Seals – Gov. Palin Puts Toe in Water Regarding “Natural Born Citizen” Issue – Atlas Shrugs, Hot Air, CitizenWells – The BOPAC Report

  
  "The BOPAC Report" & Larry Sinclair's Allegations - ZachJonesIsHome — Authority: 123
  The BOPAC Report: Unjust Navy Seals Prosecution – Tomb of Unknow Soldiers! WTF is the Obama Administration Doing Prosecuting Our Navy Seals? Oh yeah I forgot - selling out CIA - terror trial in NYC - I guess it makes sense for Obama.     It’s great to see some Members of Congress stepping up to ...
  1 week ago

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