Newark NJ Mayor: $1,000 to turn in your gun owning neighbors. “We Will Give...
Today's Orwellian infomercial is brought to you by the "honorable" mayor of New Jersey, oh, and so there is no confusion, by honorable, I mean treasonous. But hey he is waving a THOUSAND dollars!! So...
View ArticleThe Orwellian Warfare State of Carnage and Doublethink
After the bombings that killed and maimed so horribly at the Boston Marathon, our country’s politics and mass media are awash in heartfelt compassion — and reflexive “doublethink,” which George Orwell...
View ArticleWhy We’re Not Living in 1984: “Orwell’s Oversight”
“Orwell’s oversight” Any instance where the establishment’s official line is contradicted by the communications revolution. Orwell suggested a society where citizens were constantly watched and...
View ArticleMaybe the Most Orwellian Text Message a Government’s Ever Sent
Great find over at Motherboard: “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.” That’s a text message that thousands of Ukrainian protesters spontaneously received on...
View ArticleAll the Creepy Ways Big Brother Is Watching You
John W. Whitehead Via Activist Post: “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement...
View ArticleWhat “Orwellian” Really Means: An Animated Lesson About the Use & Abuse of...
If you’ve watched the news or followed politics, chances are you’ve heard the term Orwellian thrown around in one context or another. But have you ever stopped to think about what it... The post What...
View Article7 Language Tricks Politicians Use to Deceive You and What to Do About it...
Via HighExistence: By concentrating on essays along with fiction, according to Hitchens, writing in Why Orwell Matters, Orwell was able to take on “the competing orthodoxies and despotisms of his day...
View ArticleA Polemic Regarding the Orwellian Left
Recently that orange media-circus Donald Trump was used as a propaganda piece in an Al-Shabaab recruitment video, and as is protocol with anything Trump, this was all the left-wing media needed to......
View ArticleThe Propaganda Games: Citizen Gamification
It seems China is employing an electronic system to quantify how patriotic (i.e. obedient) its citizens are to the state. It takes the form of a game, and is based on real world data. It measures the...
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