When browsing the news this morning, I came across “the” big story of the day – Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. My first thought – is this some kind of joke?? Not until I found the announcement on the official Nobel website could I actually believe...
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...
An unusual present from the Queen. Felipe Calderon was presented with a first edition during his visit to Buckinham Palace a few days ago. " A Palace spokeswoman said: "Apparently the president really admires...
created by Pat Garcia | 2 years ago 153 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
According to a recent survey, two out of three Britons have lied about what books they have read, with George Orwell's '1984' topping the 'literary fib list'. Organizers of the World Book Day conducted this survey...
created by Amy Judd | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 860 views | 38 recommendations | 24 comments
GOTT IST TOT, -FRIEDRICH NIETSCHE- ”THE GAY SCIENCE”Gott ist tot, or "God is dead" is a quote from the world-known philosopher Friedrich Nietsche. The quote was never meant as a insult of Gods pure physically...
opinion by slimmey | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 218 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind" - George Orwell WAR IS PEACE Oceania (commonly called the US...
opinion by White Noise | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 8578 views | 32 recommendations | 14 comments
"The Department of Homeland Security is moving towards implementing a provision of the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 otherwise known as the thought crimes bill. This is despite the fact that the legislation has not been signed into...
opinion by Erik Larson | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 272 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
This 'research' tells us that right wing people are nicer than liberal or left wing people despite their political views around gun control, abortion, the death penalty and corporal punishment etc. Right wingers...
created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 474 views | 15 recommendations | 9 comments
I would like tonight to call for a removal, an immediate removal, of all US troops from CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, CNN, NBC, all of them. - MICHAEL MOORE SHOCKING UPDATEPentagon Pundit Scandal Broke the Lawby Diane...
created by White Noise | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1452 views | 15 recommendations | 21 comments
first i want to explain why i am against wikipedia.i also want to let people know that i am not alone.recently wikipedia was called "the largest distributed bureaucracy in the world".i am against them,...
created by nike6 | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 730 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments
When BART/MUNI Stations (and other public locations and thoroughfares) were first designed and 'sold' to us we were promised ample space for local ads, public service announcements, etc. and some corporate advertising. A reflection of widespread...
You can kiss your privacy goodbye buba !BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY 2 (VIDEO)Double Cheese with Fearhttp://www.gregpalast.com/armedmadhouse/Excerpts/DoubleCheeseWithFear.pdf IT'S NOT EVEN A FIG LEAVE; IT'S A JOKE....
created by White Noise | 4 years ago | updated 3 years ago 750 views | 0 recommendations | 7 comments
As evidence that the demonization of the left is nothing new, the release of government documents to the British public shows that author George Orwell was suspected of being a communist supporter despite his...
created by angryindian | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 903 views | 7 recommendations | 2 comments
If you own a Vista
Operating System, you are being monitored.
Is anyone really surprised
by this?? Readers of my Aboriginal Newsblog read about it in a blog
posting from 11.1.07 in which...
created by angryindian | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 685 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Nobody does irony better than the Brits, as this map of George Orwell's old neighborhood shows. I used to think of Islington as home of the Hope 'n' Anchor Pub, where one can catch all kinds of awesome music. Now I'll have to be ready for my close-up next time I return. The...