This article was subsequently republished by the author at the Public Option Health Care Now blog.NowPublic participant Peter.Sande has pointed out in an article here today that one of the health bills moving through the US Congress would: "'enable the real-time (or near...
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"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."Francis BaconObviously the good people at Amazon.com follow the golden...
Orwell's 2009: How Privatisation Of Law Enforcement Threatens Our Civil Liberties
Imagine a day not in the far future when the police is legislated into a private corporation independent of the government. Its...
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Beginning next week, the personal diary of George Orwell is going online. The entries will be posted on the same date as they were written during the buildup and outbreak of WWII. Orwell remains one of...
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New Labour finally shows its true colour as the Red Brigade tightens its grip on freedom of expression. Learn how to protect yourself from the Police State....Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire...
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"It's the birthday of the novelist and essayist George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair in Bengal, India (1903). He came from a middle class family, but managed to win a scholarship to a distinguished boarding...
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Timothy Lynch, director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice, has written an article examining the use of double speak, and new vocabulary that has been created during the War on Terror.
"It’s the birthday of the man who wrote Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), George Orwell, born Eric Blair in a small village in Bengal, India (1903). He went to an English boarding school...
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The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to the taking of life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a...
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