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Best Freudian slip ever?
Then again, it may not be a slip. Maybe the guy is just ignorant.
In an alley behind a non-descript row of brick buildings on North Speer Boulevard, and on the other side of a large metal gate with armed guards standing in front, Republicans have set up a "war room" in Denver...
Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan said the team of nearly two dozen staffers at the opposition headquarters will be "fact-checking" statements made by the Obama campaign and by speakers during the convention.
"Just consider this the Ministry of Truth," quipped Dick Wadhams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party.
A) That may be the funniest name I've seen in months.
B) Someone needs to tell him that the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's book was the place where they crafted lies. Then again, it may not be a slip. Maybe the guy is just ignorant. ... more -
Animal Farm
George Orwell's allegorical masterpiece on Communism.
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Big brother gone mad: mother barred from taking own son to school
A mother from Wales has been banned from escorting her severely epileptic young son to school in a taxi provided by the local council until she has a CRB check, because "Any adult acting as an escort will, in the public gaze, be viewed as acting with the full acquiescence of the council and hence with its implied authority," according to the council, and they just can't let any parents go escorting their own children around the countryside without some kind of council stamp of approval first.
When did the local council's 'authority' over a child trump a parent's?
How has the world ended up this crazy and bureaucratic? A mother from Wales has been banned from escorting her severely epileptic young son to school in a taxi provided by the local council ... more -
A Poem for 21st Century Paranoics
by beedee
the camera is my lover
it's clarity is my vision
it haunts my dreams
it holds me back
the camera needs me
my constant attention
it scorns my affection
but never looks away
but for all its sway
the camera doesn't know
my heart
my mind
the truth
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This poem was inspired by David Brin's prescient book "The Transparent Society" and dedicated to all of the cameras I see in every grocery store and every building lobby. To those two luscious jugs that hang below the NYPD Security Boxes on every other street light on every major street.
Please feel free to comment below with your own love letters to the cameras that are springing up in your hometown. You know where they are, don't you? by beedee the camera is my lover it's clarity is my vision it haunts my dreams it holds me back the camera needs me ... more -
SAY NO TO Senator Bond's attack on civil liberties
In order to avoid this disastrous legislation, all the House has to do is stand strong on their February vote, and stick with the current version of FISA. Send a message to your representative today, and him or her to vote for the Constitution by voting against Senator Bond's catastrophic FISA "compromise" when it comes to the House. In order to avoid this disastrous legislation, all the House has to do is stand strong on their February vote, and stick with the curr... more
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Your favorite animal Literature?
Orwell managed to tackle such weighty issues as communism, anarchism and the class system without once resorting to such terms.
So why do writers feel the need to imbue animals with human characteristics? Orwell managed to tackle such weighty issues as communism, anarchism and the class system without once resorting to such terms. ... more -
Report pushes passage of thought crimes bill - There's a war on for your mind...
I am afraid this bill is going to limit conversation. Will we be afraid to speak when things happen that we feel are against our freedom? Will we still be able to utilize our Constitution to speak up against people who do not agree with certain portions of the Constitution? Will we be able to express our concerns, or will they silence our voices with bills enacted to instill fear? I fear many will be afraid to speak up, or support others who do. No one wants to be found guilty and declared a 'Homegrown Terrorist'.
by: Lee Rogers
The Internet is now becoming a new front in the phony terror war. Legislation like the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 that is in the forms of HR 1955 and S 1959 which seek to give the government powers to define thoughts and belief systems as homegrown terrorism, is on the brink of being pushed down our throats. HR 1955 was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 404-6 and now it appears as if the U.S. Senate is attempting to justify its future passage. The U.S. Senate homeland security committee lead by war mongering fascist Joesph Lieberman, investigated the so called growing threat of terrorists using the Internet for recruiting and training purposes. In their report, they paint the Internet as a dangerous tool for terrorists and conclude that new laws need to be passed “to prevent the spread of the ideology.” It is incredibly convenient that S 1959 provides the legislation that is called for in their report. The true purpose of this report is to push for the passage of S 1959 which will give the government powers similar to what the government of Oceania used in George Orwell’s book 1984.
The Hartford Courant ran an article on this Senate homeland security committee report. According to their article, the report hypes the threat of homegrown terrorism and how the Internet is playing a key role in spreading the message of so called terrorists. Below is a blurb taken from the article.
A Senate homeland security committee report set for release Thursday details a growing threat from terrorists’ use of the Internet as a recruiting and training tool. The report concludes that the U.S. government should consider its own outreach program as a counter to the Web strategies of groups such as al-Qaida.
This report paints Internet use by terrorists as having an unlimited reach, including into English-speaking communities in the United States. Al-Qaida, it says, runs a “a multi-tiered online media operation in which a number of production units associated with [al-Qaida] or allied violent Islamist organizations produce content consistent with the core terrorist enlistment message.”
The “thousands” of terrorist-operated websites have become “an effective distribution system for the core enlistment message and other content,” the report contends. There is no longer as much of a need, it suggests, for physical training camps. I am afraid this bill is going to limit conversation. Will we be afraid to speak when things happen that we feel are against our free... more -
Life imitating art
File under (delicious) irony ... Orwell Square under the shadow of the CCTV camera ... d
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shepard fairey goes all orwellian
Out on 3rd july in the UK, shepard's designed the new covers for 1984 and animal farm...2 essential reads just got even more essential to have on the bookshelf.
d Out on 3rd july in the UK, shepard's designed the new covers for 1984 and animal farm...2 essential reads just got even more esse... more -
Top US Lawman, Mukasey, Keeps Portrait of "1984" Writer George Orwell In...
On Friday, Michael Mukasey, the man who is in charge of the US "Justice" Department, admitted that he keeps a prtrait of George Orwell in his office. Yes he keeps a picture of the man who wrote "1984" on his wall. Holy S@#%...Please allow me a second for my head to stop ringing. The horrible irony of this story has left me in a coma-like state.
OK, I'm back... anyway, Big Mike says that his inspiration is not the Big Brother society that Orwell envisioned but his writing style. Later he said he enjoyed Playboy for the articles.... On Friday, Michael Mukasey, the man who is in charge of the US "Justice" Department, admitted that he keeps a prtrait of Geo... more -
Little Piggy - An Animation About Now
This is a really strange, but very well put together animation about the moral indifference of our money spending habits. Check it out and tell Current what you think! This is a really strange, but very well put together animation about the moral indifference of our money spending habits. Check it out... more
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