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• Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist

  
  Not My Tribe — Authority: 145
  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: 116
  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 ...
  14 hours ago

• How Your Beliefs Create Your Reality part 2

  
  Advanced Life Skills — Authority: 456
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Top 25 Favorite Writers

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 129
  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: 103
  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: 443
  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: 442
  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: 592
  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 ...
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• Prefab Participation

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 464
  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 ...
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• Alex Jones: Insane

  
  Jumping in Pools — Authority: 551
  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: 595
  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: 590
  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: 461
  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

• Aldous HUXLEY VS George ORWELL

  
  RaNDoM aCCeSS MeMoRy — Authority: 141
  Aldous HUXLEY VS George ORWELL
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• Swine Flu Vaccine, It’s Just a Little Pinprick

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 132
  H1N1 Swine Flu, The Global Pandemic to rival the 1918 Outbreak has so far not mutated into a catastrophic event, unless of course you are one of the 1000 dead in the U.S.   http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091023/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu  . Worldwide, more than 5,000 people have reportedly died from swine flu since ...
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• In the Shadow of Leviathan: Americas’ Arising Fear-Based Society

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 551
  In the Shadow of Leviathan: Americas’ Arising Fear-Based Society “ Thought crime was not a thing that could be concealed forever.  You might dodge successfully for awhile…but sooner or later they were bound to get you .”  George Orwell, 1984 “ The fact is we are witnessing an all-out drive to ...
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• Nineteen Eighty Four. h/t Sean Collins.

  
  Conserva tive Radical — Authority: 141
  Nineteen Eighty Four. h/t Sean Collins .
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