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10 George Orwell Quotes That Predicted Life In 2014 America

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Submitted by Justin King (of The Anti-Media) via The Burning Platform blog,

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George Orwell ranks among the most profound social critics of the modern era. Some of his quotations, more than a half a century old, show the depth of understanding an enlightened mind can have about the future.

 

1)  “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

Though many in the modern age have the will to bury their head in the sand when it comes to political matters, nobody can only concern themselves with the proverbial pebble in their shoe. If one is successful in avoiding politics, at some point the effects of the political decisions they abstained from participating in will reach their front door. More often than not, by that time the person has already whatever whisper of a voice the government has allowed them.

 

2)  “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”

Examining the nightly news in the run up to almost any military intervention will find scores of talking heads crying for blood to flow in the streets of some city the name of which they just learned to pronounce. Once the bullets start flying, those that clamored for war will still be safely on set bringing you up-to-the-minute coverage of the carnage while their stock in Raytheon climbs.

toldyouso

 

3)  “War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”

It’s pretty self-explanatory and while it may be hard to swallow, it’s certainly true. All it takes is a quick look at who benefited from the recent wars waged by the United States to see Orwell’s quip take life.

 

4)  “The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”

My most prized books are a collection of history books from around the world. I have an Iraqi book that recounts the glory of Saddam Hussein’s victory over the United States in 1991. I have books from three different nations claiming that one of their citizens was the first to fly. As some of the most powerful nations in the world agree to let certain facts be “forgotten,” the trend will only get worse. History is written by the victor, and the victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Huffington Post journalist detained by military police in Ferguson, Missouri

 

5)  “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Even without commentary, the reader is probably picturing Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning. The revolutions of the future will not be fought with bullets and explosives, but with little bits of data traveling around the world destroying the false narratives with which governments shackle their citizens.

 

6)  “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

Make no mistake about it; if an article does not anger someone, it is nothing more than a piece. Most of what passes for news today is little more than an official sounding advertisement for a product, service, or belief.

ryangrim

 

7)  “In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer…

In every conflict, it is not the side that can inflict the most damage, but the side that can sustain the most damage that ultimately prevails. History is full of situations in which a military “won the battles but lost the war.

 

8)  “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

Haditha. Panjwai. Maywand District. Mahmudiyah. These names probably don’t ring a bell, but it is almost a certainty that the reader is aware of the brutality that occurred in Benghazi. The main difference is that in the first four incidents, those committing the acts of brutality were wearing an American flag on their shoulder.

(Answer: D)

 

9)  “Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”

Everyday there is a new form of censorship or a new method of forcing people into self-censorship, and the people shrug it off because it only relates to a small minority. By the time the people realize their ability to express disapproval has been completely restricted, it may be too late. That brings us to Orwell’s most haunting quote.

bootface

 

10)  “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

Once the people are indoctrinated with nationalistic beliefs, and the infrastructure to protect them from some constantly-changing and ever-expanding definition of an enemy is in place, there is no ability for the people to regain liberty. By the time all of the pieces are in place, not only is opportunity to regain freedom, but the will to achieve freedom has also evaporated. The reader will truly love Big Brother.

 

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Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:58 | 5143160 Ginsengbull
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Axed what?

 

What queschun did they axe you?

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:52 | 5143137 John Wilmot
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When people walk around naked shitting in the street and people object, everything's fine. When people walk around naked shitting in the street and they get an MTV reality show, society is fucked.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 16:52 | 5142014 johanngalt
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Great subject for the article completely destroyed by the idiotic examples listed in support.  Chelsea Manning, really?

And Haditha, etc. as examples of U.S. "brutality" are laughable.  I'm surprised you didn't include Abu Gharaib, that site of profound "brutality". 

 

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 16:56 | 5142029 ebworthen
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Yes, Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley Manning.  Many of the "Men" in the Armed Forces apparently don't have the guts to expose hypocrisy. 

And yes, Edward Snowden, Patriot.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:50 | 5142237 TVP
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Edward Snowden, CIA intelligence asset, in a word - SPY.  

 

 

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:21 | 5143012 MontgomeryScott
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WOW!

TALK about DEFLECTION!

ORWELL. GEORGE ORWELL!

'10 GEORGE ORWELL QUOTES THAT PREDICTED LIFE IN 2014 AMERICA.'

 

Do I need to post the links that discuss the tactics used by paid government trolls on the internet in order to derail and change posted story conversations and sway public opinion AGAIN?

TVP: YOU fit the description (along with your partner).

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:43 | 5143094 Ginsengbull
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YEAH Keep it on topic.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:23 | 5142114 CH1
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Manning, by whatever first name, had the guts to let the world see the truth.

The big, tough guys - thousands of hard-asses - FAILED.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 20:14 | 5142753 btdt
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navy flyer? redcoat.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 03:11 | 5143850 Farqued Up
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Jockey with hands on the Joy Stick of a drone?0

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 16:55 | 5142026 petkovplamen
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I dunno. Orwell was right about lotto stuff but so was "Brave new world" also.  The 2 books are the diff sides of the same coin. In "Brave" people were controlled via pleasure and entertainment while in Orwell's world people are controlled via fear. I think it's more a conbination of the 2. 

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:11 | 5142071 Learn more and ...
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Good point, Orwell's distopian vision seems to be the more obvious playbook of the elites, due to the endless wars of terror and media double speak.

Huxley wins my vote overall for his Utopian vision, Island. The idylic Pala is a subtle comparison to Brave New World, where drug use for enlightenment and self-knowledge as opposed to drug use for pacification and self-medication.

 

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:22 | 5142108 crazzziecanuck
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The primary method of control was information, not fear.  Fear cleaned up the loose ends while most of the Outer party were willing participants and eager proponents of things like New Speak.  But most of the control was obtained by manipulation of information to ensure that people didn't hear any truth of what was around them.  

In both words, self-imposed conformity was key to control.  There are some differences between the two.  The first is that in Brave New World, those who didn't wish to conform had "reserves" available for them to flee to whereas Oceania didn't have reserves by MiniLove.  Another major difference was that in Brave New World, technology was able to provide for all wants whereas that was the problem for the Inner Party in 1984.  In BNW, from what I remember, technology brought about a classless society (impossibility given evolutionary desires) whereas in 1984 the classes had to be controlled and divisions stark.  That's why the Inner Party paid the most attention on controlling the Outer Party, so that disaffected and ambitious members would not be able to marshall the proles and take by force what they believe to be "their fair share."

The most realistic portrayal is clearly Orwell's 1984.  By far.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:59 | 5142275 TheReplacement
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Neither one would work alone.  If you have a stick the carrot works better.  If you have a carrot the stick works better.  It's all about freedom of choice and democracy.  You can have the carrot or the stick.  It really is up to you.  You are free to vote for whichever you want.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:40 | 5143078 Ginsengbull
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Free to vote?

 

You can have anything you want to drink.

 

Coke or Pepsi.

 

No root beer, no water, no pomegranate lemonade...

 

Anything you want. Coke or Pepsi.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 23:09 | 5143451 TheReplacement
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See, you do understand.  We will be great friends and have merry times watching the plebs roast.

Drink up for tomorrow they explode, explosives or soda, doesn't matter.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 16:58 | 5142031 p00k1e
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I like 8).

The pic especially pertains to the question ‘will you fire on U.S. Citizens…’ 

You’d be a dumb-fuc to think the answer is ‘No’.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:18 | 5142085 Gromit
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Why would it be OK in Islamabad, Baghdad or Aleppo?

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Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:30 | 5143041 MontgomeryScott
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The pic is named 'sniperq.jpg' It's a 'JPEG' image:

http://pontiactribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sniperq.jpg

The $100,000.00 question.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:37 | 5143073 Ginsengbull
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Not a sniper.

 

An actor.

 

A real sniper would have been 5 blocks away, in a dark nook or under a roof awning, with a Barret Light 50, or a bolt action weatherby magnum.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:04 | 5142048 Quinvarius
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Once people start going hungry, you can flush that Orwell dream down the toilet.  And the people running this show are too GD stupid to worry about feeding people in their craptopia.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:08 | 5142063 suteibu
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EBTs replaced the food lines from the Great Depression.  Without food lines that put a public face on the economy, the people running the show have no worries.  So far, so good for them.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:51 | 5142248 TVP
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If those lines existed today, they would form a line four people thick that zig-zags across the entire parking lot of every single Wal-Mart in the entire country.  Imagine that.

But hey, if you can't find a job, that's your fault.  You didn't built that, yet it's still your own damn fault.  

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:33 | 5143059 MontgomeryScott
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Working the room a little?

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:06 | 5142054 caustixoid
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"Know Your Rights (all three of them)" the Clash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lfInFVPkQs

"Know Your Rights"

This is a public service announcement - with guitars...

Know your rights all three of them

Number 1
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a CRIME!
Unless it was done by a
Policeman or aristocrat
Know your rights

And Number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you
Don't mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation

Know your rights
These are your rights
Wang

Know these rights

Number 3
You have the right to free
Speech as long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it.

Know your rights
These are your rights
All three of 'em
It has been suggested
In some quarters that this is not enough!
Well..............................

Get off the streets
Get off the streets
Run

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:32 | 5143053 Ginsengbull
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This isn't England, and here we only have the right to remain silent.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:13 | 5142074 Oldrepublic
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 In the book,"Politics and the English Language" Orwell says that political language  "is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable",

 

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:15 | 5142088 are we there yet
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When '1984' was written that year was in the distant future, and there was another alternate fear of the future in that eras book called 'Brave new world'. 'Brave new world' never had a chance since is was built on a form of Eugenics where the state genetically bread a classes of people to perform functions. Both of them though believed that the state would win over the individual. The exact opposite of what america was founded on, smaller government, and avoidance of foreign entangelments, and no central private banks.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 18:05 | 5142285 TheReplacement
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Old short people control the money.

Filthy lying people control the government and make sure the old short people stay in control of the money.

Honest people pay for it all.

Lazy and ignorant people make sure the filthy lying people stay in control so they get more free stuff.

The honest aliens mow the grass.

 

I think you are just not recognizing some of the patterns.

 

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:29 | 5143035 Ginsengbull
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India has classes of people to perform various functions.

 

It's the caste system.

 

They are born, marry, and die in the same caste.

 

Otherwise, they are considered out-castes, the lowest thing you can be there.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 22:00 | 5143175 John Wilmot
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It's an old dream

Only the technology has changed

A little alcohol in the surrgate (or genetic manipulation) is quicker than breeding

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:24 | 5142126 Sow-puncher
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Bullish!

 

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:23 | 5142127 debtandtaxes
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While I agree with everything Orwell said, I think the society described in "Brave New World" is closer to our truth.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:34 | 5142159 Oldwood
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I have no doubt that great evils have been perpetrated by people using nationalism, but they have done it using any concept, be it religion, race, sexual orientation or hair color. This does not mean that to have a sense of belonging to a larger group is evil or bad, anymore than ZH followers are naturally evil (though we know some are!). Its a matter of being used or manipulated by this group think that is dangerous. I want to be proud of being an American as much as anything else and I detest these fuckers who seek to drive us to disassociate ourselves from any group or organization, as while we need to be able to process rational thoughts, be able to reason and not just let others to think for us, if we are induced to stand alone we most definitely will fall. I think this is the drive for all of this crap. Destroy everything, create chaos so that none of us trust or believe in anything. Individually we are powerless against them. Then be disparaged in to accepting that nationalism, just as we were with protectionism, as bad, evil or whatever, we are left holding an empty bag.

The motivation in most wars is not to kill everyone else, it is to dispirit them, to make them lose confidence in their leadership so they will not fight for them and accept defeat. This is where i believe we now stand. We are waiting to wave our flag of defeat, for if we are no longer a nation, then what are we? Free? I don't think so. Does anyone here feel more free than say 10-15 years ago? Sure, reject stupid notions and yes use your brain to figure when we are being used. But don't allow them to take our country away from us, to allow them to induce us into surrender.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 22:19 | 5143260 boodles
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You're older and wiser. Comment on ...

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 02:53 | 5143833 Farqued Up
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They won, since my mental make up will never allow me to join their kind, it only leaves me one avenue to take, OUT!

I was discussing with a Brit the Scotland exit desires of many, and he and I disagree. I'm hopeful they break away, my reasons are to fracture the NWO cabal. He does not want to see it for sentimental reasons, plus, he's fearful of becoming irrelevant on the world stage.

My strong opinion is that the whole world benefits when all entities break apart into the smallest common denominator of cohesive value to that unit, the family. That can only occur if .gov is rejected and everyone pursues his own desires with respect for others.

Shoot the transgressors, no trial , no lawyers, no judges, if a psychopathic postal worker misbehaves give him a dirt nap, quickly.

Don't laugh, it beats what we have, .gov genocide with .gov authors slyly corrupting the language, e.g., ethnic cleansing, progressives, far right, fascists, terrorists, insertion, fair tax, fair share, all terms for the evil manifestation of raw, naked, force of the clique against the producers.

Vigilantism will be prone to mistakes until the masses accept it, and either band together in tribes for protection, if needed, or go it alone. Regardless, paying tribute for safety, security to a King William is like an appendix, may have been good for something back when but no longer. So, why do we allow the vestiges of King William to still lord over us? Get a job you psychopaths and produce a good or service that a willing buyer will voluntarily buy.

I get it, only 2 sure things, death and taxes, what a clever self serving term invented for slaves. How about...you can't fight city hall?

Fight or flee? I choose to flee. I'm fought out.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:31 | 5142160 q99x2
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What Orwell didn't  see in his version of the NWO was that the NWO is at war around the globe and that it was also losing that war at home and globally.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:33 | 5142165 Oldrepublic
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I just read a very interesting article in the(UK) Observer, entitled:

"The masterpiece that killed George Orwell"

He wrote the book in the winter on a bleak island in Scotland without electricity while he was suffering from TB

www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/10/1984-george-orwell

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:37 | 5142174 Rodders75
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One of the differences between Orwell's day and now is a thing called the internet. China's Orwellian hell has been undercut by Sina Weibo. Pollute uncontrollably? Poison milk? Build shitty railway track? Fuck up a rail crash aftermath? Forget it. Netizens will punish you. Yeah there's the Great Firewall etc, but citizens get their message across. Internet riot accountability working better than our "democracy". Also in the "West": appoint a lying bitch market manipulator to the FTC? Pretend MH17 wasn't a false flag? Claim that you were born in the US when you're lying? Find out which UK politicians are pedos? Discover what's really happening in Ferguson? Actually, we don't need the MSM presstitutes to tell us what to think or believe:
countless hashtags and blogs will give us the true picture. This is an emblem for the collapse of the MSM overall. We won't / don't get our news from these corrupt morons. I know the Murdoch press lies about most national security issues. I know the FT is in the pay of big banks and is absurdly pro European. So I don't read either. I do read ZH, Paul Craig Roberts, RT (selectively), & http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.co.uk instead. The PTB can only censor the internet so far. There's just too much of it out there for them to thwart it.

So actually I'm hopeful on this score. The MSM will come to be seen for what it is: totally unreliable and run by scum. Govts will more directly be held accountable, as in China now.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 17:39 | 5142183 Armed Resistance
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#11 

"Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future."

 

That's why you see common core 'altering" the presentations of the Bill of Rights.  They already have you, they want your kids!

 

 

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 07:48 | 5144101 ebear
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"Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future."

Ah yes, but Who controls the Tardis!

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 18:11 | 5142297 skippy9
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Ferguson, MO was a lesson for all the freedom lovers in America. Yes, the young punk got killed for throwing his weight around. But the message of Ferguson is that the only Americans with any balls are the blacks. Yes some of the "rabid animals" looted. But the majority took to the streets with weapons to demand change. They quit too soon. With a black President and a black Attorney General they might have prevailed. The rest of us sit idly by as the President and Attorney General break the laws they swore to defend. Hillary Clinton is directly responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands in the Middle East, barbaric hordes are crossing our border with Mexico unimpeded and the Executive branch has usurped the legislative branch of our Constitution. Yet the Congress and the general public sit idly by. We need to raise of voices in protest, first at the polls and then with our bodies and arms if the former fails.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 20:57 | 5142922 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Word on the street though not confirmed so take it as rumor at the moment is Holder did some outreach to local gang member leaders to organize the troops to loot and riot. That is word coming out of some of their mouths now.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:03 | 5142938 Oldwood
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Oh there are plenty of people with balls, just not all of them leaving them hanging out to get smacked. What they are doing is building armies, people of color and poverty, people of the working class (what we used to consider middle income), and the police/national guard, with the super rich owners of government who are moving pieces around like chess. What we see is the building of another civil war, just like we are doing in countries around the world. Its been about 75 years since WWII, not that long yet many think of it as prehistoric(it could never happen today, right?) The civil war was but 80 years prior to WWII, and that is even further from mind. But this shit is happening again. They are creating division, pitting every conceivable group against one another, all while preaching peace.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:19 | 5143005 Ginsengbull
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At least in a race war, you have some idea what side others are on.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 18:22 | 5142353 MrSteve
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Orwell's 1984 is a warning, not a prediction. If attention must be paid, pay it early and forward.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 19:35 | 5142619 Dapper Dan
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George Orwell (Eric Blair): 19 84 Chapter 2 Page 135

The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying
with real ordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, gestures, and tones
of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock therapy, hypnosis,
and physical torture; or he is chemist, physicist, or biologist concerned only with
such branches of his special subject as are relevant to the taking of life.

 In the vast laboratories of the Ministry of Peace, and in the experimental stations hidden in the Brazilian forests,
or in the Australian desert, or on lost islands of the Antarctic, the
teams of experts are indefatigably at work.

Some are concerned simply with
planning the logistics of future wars; others devise larger and larger rocket bombs,
more and more powerful explosives, and more and more impenetrable armour-
plating; others search for new and deadlier gases, or for soluble poisons capable of
being produced in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents,
or for breeds of disease germs immunized against all possible antibodies; others
strive to produce a vehicle that shall bore its way under the soil like a submarine
under the water, or an aeroplane as independent of its base as a sailing-ship; others
explore even remoter possibilities such asfocusing the sun's rays through lenses
suspended thousands of kilometres away in space, or producing artificial
earthquakes and tidal waves by tapping the heat at the earth's centre.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 18:43 | 5142439 limacon
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There has been successful rebellion against a total terror form of government : the Ming Revolt against the Mongols .

See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2013/10/ming-revolutionaries-or-rebels.html

But today the boot is by Prada . Fashionistas rule , OK ?

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 18:57 | 5142481 'argar the 'orrible
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Joe_in_Indiana

Someone looking for me,?

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 19:54 | 5142686 CheapBastard
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Can I choose a Timberland Boot, please? I want my face stomped in style.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 01:15 | 5143750 Dr. Bonzo
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I think you mean Doc Martens. The boot of the hipster.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 06:17 | 5143980 basho
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timberland is style? lol

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 20:14 | 5142754 VWAndy
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Kuster was a pussy.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:14 | 5142977 Dublinmick
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http://memoryholeblog.com/2014/08/24/ferguson-mo-another-manufactured-me...

Ferguson MO: Another Manufactured Media Crisis?

 

I first saw this mentioned on the tap.blogspot

You know this is a timely piece and something to consider. Was Michael Brown’s identity hijacked? The idea this whole scenario was staged is not beyond the realm of possibility. It could simply be a trial run to see just how Americans could be brought to embrace marshall law in a predominately white area.

If one thinks back to the Trayvon Martin shooting, think for a moment that Trayvon Martin’s father was a high ranking mason and Zimmerman’s father was a judge. I have always felt there was something fishy about this.

We have seen instances in the past where a black area with history of heavy unfair policing can be easily enraged when something like this happens. It seems a few plants can always be counted on to produce mobs who rampage and require a police presence. The thought of this is too horrifying for many Americans to consider. Just how many people would have to be involved to produce something like this? Well not many, as you do not need an entire police department to be privy to it. You only need a few designated parties. We have seen that one fairly beserk policeman was given time off due inflammatory statements such as I will kill all of you. This kind of thing only adds to the tension.

Far too many middle class whites simply accept the surface view and began pushing the line it was just another case of police brutality, which does occur in far too many cases. This is something to consider.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:34 | 5143063 FreedomGuy
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Who is left that really does not have a dystopian view of the future, the near future?

The question is "Why?".

I cannot fully answer it but I think there is a deep down instinct in the population, the part that cares to pay attention that something is wrong and getting wronger. We may disagree on the source and ultimate solutions, but we agree that is wrong. It is sort of like doctors looking at a set of symptoms and agreeing that something is wrong but coming up with different diagnoses.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:45 | 5143102 John Wilmot
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Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:52 | 5143138 Ginsengbull
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Orwell and Huxley were gay lovers who effed each other animal style.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 01:53 | 5143788 Wild Theories
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and you are a fuckwit who needs to go back to your bloomberg or yahoo news trolling.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 21:55 | 5143144 mark mchugh
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Good stuff, Justin.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 22:11 | 5143214 colddirt
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I've read 1984 three or four times - it's more profound each time I read it........ I guess I'm pretty stupid..........

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 22:17 | 5143252 colddirt
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I've read 1984 three or four times - it's more profound each time I read it........ I guess I'm pretty stupid..........

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 22:22 | 5143266 reader2010
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"The first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual."

— George Orwell, 1984

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 22:35 | 5143324 matrix2012
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"Ignorance is strength, War is peace, Slavery is freedom" (Laws of Igncoc in '1984') ~ George Orwell, English Novelist and Essayist, 1903-1950

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 22:52 | 5143392 p00k1e
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This might pucker your buttocks

CRAZY Metro Black Man Stabbing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-En8sxRzwLg

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 23:05 | 5143440 cape_royds
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Orwell did not write Nineteen Eighty-Four about the USSR. Orwell did write a book about the Soviet Union--that book is Animal Farm.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, on the other hand, is a satire of the English-speaking world, imagining what it might look like after a generation continuously at war.

Both Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four contain political analysis of universal application.

In a world without thermodynamics, Huxley's satire would be the better prediction. But since we live in a world with thermodynamics, my money is on Orwell.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 23:23 | 5143499 fibonacci's claus
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I remember watching CSPAN around two years ago.  It was Richard Armitage and his think tank discussing what Japan needed to do.  One of the bullets was how they needed to "get women into the work force."  Change the tax code.  Or do like they do in the U.S, make it so men can't get a fair trial in divorce court.   It's not even funny how people and cultures all over the world are being forced into destroying their own cultures so that they fit into the socialist view of the world. It's like these leftover burn out hippies from the sixtys just keep playing that stupid john lennon song over and over and over.  They preach diversity and then force everyone to conform to this socialist gray.  Its gross.  It makes me feel like throwning up in my mouth a little you know?  Hegelian dialectics and everything is so predetermined.  Yuck.  Get me out of here.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 23:32 | 5143529 Leraconteur
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If you want to feel real fear, live in Asia among a Confucian culture that never had an Enlightenment. Every word and concept of Orwell's is irrelevant in that context.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 23:35 | 5143535 palmereldritch
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Orwell's father was an administrative officer in Afghanistan in logistical charge of the British Empire's opium production.  This toxic addictive poison was then shipped to China to enslave and destroy an entire people for profit, social domination and death lust. (Sound familiar?)

He came from a family that were early operators for the NWO deathstar and born to that privilege and caste he was, as a propagandist with the BBC and most probably as an intelligence officer for the ruling class in his journalistic travels, very close to the demons that operated in the shadows.  It is because of that proximity and his brilliance that we have the clarity of his insights.

We are eternally grateful to him for revealing through parable, the natural extrapolation of what has been a centuries old psychopathic blueprint for domination and destruction. 

It is accurate because the plan is coming to fruition.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 01:00 | 5143721 matrix2012
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The History of Drugs

How come they don't teach this History in the schools or show it on the History channel??? ...

 

Hong Kong Founded as Sassoon Drug Center. Hong Kong and The Sassoon Opium Wars.

The 99 year British lease on Hong Kong expired in July [1997] allowing the Red Chinese to take over. Hundreds of newspaper stories and TV reports have covered this event but not one revealed how England first gained control of Hong Kong! The truth lies buried in the family line of David Sassoon, "The Rothschilds of The Far East," and their monopoly over the opium trade. Britain won Hong Kong by launching the opium Wars to give the Sassoon's exclusive rights to drug an entire nation!

David Sassoon was born in Baghdad, Iran in 1792. His father, Saleh Sassoon, was a wealthy banker and the treasurer to Ahmet Pasha, the governor of Baghdad. (Thus making him the "court Jew" - a highly influential position.) In 1829 Ahmet was overthrown due to corruption and the Sassoon family fled to Bombay, India. This was the strategic trade route to interior India and the gateway to the Far East. In a brief time the British government granted Sassoon "monopoly rights" to all manufacture of cotton goods, silk and most important of all - Opium - then the most addictive drug in the world!

The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1905, states that Sassoon expanded his opium trade into China and Japan. He placed his eight sons in charge of the various major opium exchanges in China. According to the 1944 Jewish Encyclopedia: "He employed only Jews in his business, and wherever he sent them he built synagogues and schools for them. He imported whole families of fellow Jews...and put them to work."

[...]

Read on here.

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 23:38 | 5143544 bid the soldier...
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Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me.

You can substitute for 'Julia' any ZH commenter you have a love-hate relationship with 

 

Mon, 08/25/2014 - 23:52 | 5143590 Barnaby
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Orwell Quote #11: "When the world's worst meal is the barometer of its success, the world is on its knees."

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 00:02 | 5143619 Creepy A. Cracker
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"I have books from three different nations claiming that one of their citizens was the first to fly"

Possibly a true claim - first to fly.  Of course they left out the part about "flying" being based on the person getting thrown off of the roof of a tall building (or pyrimid, depending).  "Ohhhhh... Look at him fly, flapping his arms and all!..."  THUD.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 00:30 | 5143631 matrix2012
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Foreword from

Amusing Ourselves to Death

by Neil Postman

 

We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions". In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.

 

Extract from Chapter 5, "The Peek-a-Boo World",

of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death

 

AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH by Stuart McMillen

ILLUSTRATED graphics

 

 

Amusing Ourselves to Death - Stuart McMillen comics blog

Long-time readers will remember a comic I posted in May 2009 called Amusing Ourselves to Death. It was an adaptation of the foreword to Neil Postman‘s Amusing Ourselves to Death, a book originally published in 1985. The passage compares the futuristic visions of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. It suggests that the greater danger to society is not the iron fist of government from Orwell’s vision, but the attention-sapping distractions of technology depicted by Huxley.

~ Stuart McMillen

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 01:08 | 5143728 Salsipuedes
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I agree. I fear rats a lot less than Woody Allen's "Orgasmatron" (the death of the human heart). Imagine looking at your wife and all she sees are dollar bills! The horror. The HORROR!

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 01:02 | 5143710 Salsipuedes
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He couldn't have fathomed this one: Only cops, firemen, your Mexican mechanic and gay people (yes, even some lesbians) will wear moustaches.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 00:58 | 5143724 ToNYC
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Ignore Alien Orders, works for me.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 02:12 | 5143802 robnume
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Orwell believed our totalarianism would come from "hard" power; Huxley opined it would result from "soft" power. Both were correct, as an earlier article here on ZH showed by comparing and contrasting the two novels. Great job.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 03:46 | 5143873 AnAnonymous
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None of them were correct.

Their obsession was to serve the 'american' middle class by shielding them from statements on 'americanism'.

If they had anything right, anything that did not serve the 'american' middle class, they would not have sold their shit. You do not grow rich, famous, popular in an 'american' society by providing statements on the 'american' middle class and their reality.

Both of them were obsessed with providing cover for the 'american' middle class.

Both of them wrote about dystopias that were not happened to comfort the 'american' middle class in their perception on how good 'americanism' is.

Those two stipended 'american' authors worked for the 'american' middle class peace of mind. Their writings have zero value outside an 'american' society, they only exist to provide that feel good feeling 'americans' are addicted to.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 02:42 | 5143824 juujuuuujj
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Huxley's dystopia didn't have wars and nationalist propaganda. Orwell's didn't have mindless entertainment (except for reading war newspapers). The real dystopia is somewhere in between.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 03:14 | 5143853 GeorgeSilver
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Freedom is inside your head... not outside it.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 03:40 | 5143867 AnAnonymous
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This article is the usual 'american' article. It is packed with the usual 'american' thing.

What is the merit of predicting the future when the future is only the replication of the past into the present?
'American' societies have no changed since their beginning. Some people are growing anxious about falling on the wrong side of those societies, that is all.

'American' societies have always been police state societies. The appreciation of this situation is somehow easy: taking a look at the number of police officers prosecuting for and convicted of murder in 'america' (the mecca of 'americanism' on Earth, the poster child for it) It ranks so low that the King had a better record.
Protection provided to agents of the police is the hallmark of a police state.

'American' societies have extended the range of politics so what?

Journalism is about writing things that someone does not want? But 'americans' do that all the time, and have been doing that all the time since the beginning.
Did this 'american' think that people who would be on the verge on being bombed as the free press kept printing lies about them would not be angered by that? It started with the Indians so it is a feature included from the start in the free press social function in an 'american' society.

'Americans' surf on controversy so once again, some people are angered enough etc

A boot on a human face? No, not a boot on an 'american' face. 'Americans' keep depicting their project as universal since the day they've hijacked humanity with their natural rights theory.

'Americanism' is a military boot on the face of certain human beings to favour the welfare of others. This is how it works.

Last but not least: the moneyed classes? No, the moneyed class. The 'american' middle class is the one that look for opportunities associated with wars. The upper class in an 'american' society grows richer by serving the 'american' middle class, they only look for wars when their master, WeThePeople aka the 'american' middle class wants one. As to the lower class, they exist in an 'american' middle class to be farmed and extorted to increase the welfare of the 'american' middle class.

'Americanism' is the rule of the 'american' middle class, for the 'american' middle class, by the 'american' middle class, it is a world where you use a humanitarian convoy to infiltrate military troops.

Welcome to an 'american' world, it is a cosy place to live in.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 07:04 | 5144053 TheFourthStooge-ing
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.

Welcome to an 'american' world, it is a cosy place to live in.

...you'll see.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 15:42 | 5146261 hoos bin pharteen
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Still waiting for permission from your local political officer to criticize something the PRC gov does?  Or were you brave enough to ask?

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 03:46 | 5143872 Baby Eating Dingo22
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Legislator wants review of military hardware sent to police in N.J.; officials say program in compliance  Middletown police MRAP and Humvee vehicles - 8.20.2014 Two Middletown Police Department Humvees, acquired last year through the government's military surplus 1033 program. (Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-Ledger) Ted Sherman | The Star-Ledger By Ted Sherman | The Star-Ledger
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on August 25, 2014 at 7:00 AM, updated August 25, 2014 at 11:03 AM

TRENTON — State Sen. Nia Gill (D-Essex) is seeking a review of the state’s involvement in a federal program that has transferred more than $32 million in surplus military hardware to New Jersey law enforcement agencies.

A federal examination of the program was ordered by President Obama on Saturday.

Gill said she is seeking clarification on how equipment transfers are approved, and the state’s role in the deployment of military weapons to civilian police departments.

“I recognize that some of the supplies provided under the program may be useful to local departments; however, the equipment transferred includes armored vehicles, a grenade launcher and military-style assault weapons,” she said in a letter to Acting Attorney General John Hoffman “This is equipment that appears suitable for war zones, not for our neighborhood streets.”

A spokesman for the Attorney General last week declined comment on the program.

The Star-Ledger, in a report on Sunday examining Department of Defense data, found that 529 M16 and 365 M14 fully automatic assault rifles went to dozens of police agencies across the state — from large cities like Jersey City, to towns in Morris County. Another 435 night vision goggles were transferred, along with three helicopters, dozens of Humvees, a grenade launcher and a mine-resistant, ambush-protected armored fighting vehicle that went to Middletown. Officials there said it was acquired to respond to natural disasters, like Hurricane Sandy.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 04:47 | 5143909 dreadnaught
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We no longer have a 'Department of Defence' lol it is now

 

The Ministry of Perpetual War

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 04:53 | 5143912 mrdenis
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Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.-- Ayn Rand


Wed, 08/27/2014 - 04:54 | 5148246 exomike
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Yes, deregulation has helped protect the 99% from the Wall Streeters. Also, Glass–Steagall Banking Act of 1933 which got rid of the prefered boom and bust needed to go. Now the Randian Utopia is about to reach it's climax... ;-) Buy Gold.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 05:24 | 5143943 no more banksters
Tue, 08/26/2014 - 05:57 | 5143964 viedoklis_lv
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Well, as much as Russian propoganda works. It can't hide sorrows of a mother whos son as a russian soldier has died in Ukraine:

https://twitter.com/euromaidan/status/504201540257980416

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 06:16 | 5143978 basho
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nor of the 10k Ukies that have died

nor of the uncountable Syrians, Palestinians, etc etc

what's your point?

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 06:18 | 5143981 Colonel
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As for #10 what's wrong with nationalism? It's the globalists wearing the boot.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 06:33 | 5144005 AnAnonymous
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'American' nationalists export their nationalism everywhere.

'American' nationalists are 'american' middle class: their nationalism must be working at their exclusive advantages, packed with double standards.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 06:30 | 5144001 AdvancingTime
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 Just over a year ago I stumbled upon a blog on WordPress .com written by Gerry Spence who was born and educated in the small towns of Wyoming where he has practiced law for almost fifty-five years. As a  nationally known figure in the legal system Spence  has spent his lifetime representing and protecting victims of the legal system from what he calls The New Slave Master: big corporations and big government. Below is a disturbing take on society put out there by Gerry Spence and the idea that we have become no more than slaves.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2012/02/we-are-all-slaves-interesting-tho...

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 06:35 | 5144007 esum
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dont give up the ship..... why such negativism

there are 21 million ex military in the ussa who are not going to go as easily as big bro thinks

too many have sacrificed too much to go quietly to the whims of an effeminate, commie, mulatoo, muslim manchurian candidate or his like.... 

why do you think DHS has classified them as "potential terrorists"..... 

perhaps the sheep will see that hope and change was hot air and wake the fuck up

NOV can turn things around .......

 

 

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 06:38 | 5144015 AdvancingTime
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 Americans have come to view Snowden as more  of a whistle-blower rather then as a traitor as the White House tried to paint him. Interestingly a gender gap emerges on how people see the government’s anti-terrorism programs with men being more inclined to think the government has gone to far, it also seems that younger voters, those in their twenties are appalled by the intrusions into our privacy.

Will terrorists kill innocent civilians in the years to come? Of course. They did so more than 100 years ago, when they were called anarchists—and a responsible nation-state must take reasonable measures to protect its citizens. But there is no way to completely eliminate terrorism.The challenge that confronts us is how we will live with that threat. We have created an economy of fear, an industry of fear, a national psychology of fear. Al Qaeda could never have achieved that on its own. We have inflicted it on ourselves. More on this subject in the article below.

 http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-terrorist-under-every-bed.html

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 06:41 | 5144016 Lea
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The fight against Orwellian thought starts with giving back things its proper names, as examplified by the quotes "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength" and “The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world."

Distort the meanings of words, and you divorce your perception from reality/truth. The phony reality bubble starts there.
Within that context, that would be Bradley Manning, not "Chelsea". The author himself falls into the very kind of word-trap Orwell warned against.
Manning is a man. Maybe he has been harmed by the inhuman treatment he endured in jail to the point of wanting to escape his identity, I don't know. Anyway, that does not mean everyone has to follow sheepishly and go along with this outcome. A man does not become a woman through mere denial and the magic of words. Believing otherwise is truly... Orwellian.  

And I DO hope he will soon be released. He should have never gone to jail in the first place.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 06:42 | 5144023 AnAnonymous
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The distortion of the meanings of words existed before both those 'american' authors were born. It is an essential part of 'americanism'.

When the founding fathers declared that freedom was an unalienable human right while keeping slaves by themselves and enforcing the slavery institution, they made the statement that freedom is slavery through a concrete way.

Once those two paid shills had the common obsession 'americans' are plagued with: doing anything possible to protect the 'american' middle class.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 06:38 | 5144017 AnAnonymous
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As usual about 'americans', it is all about submission. The 'american' ideal aka 'americanism' intends to break human individuality to be melted in a collective. For 'americans' the group is all.

This tendency is once examplified here by lining up statements that contradict each other.

Propaganda involves men non involved in combat. Right.
Few lines down, men at arms are unlikely to recognize their misdeeds. Does it mean they are involved in war propaganda?

'Americans' are not shy about inconsistencies because it allows them to part people and force people to pick a side.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 06:39 | 5144019 22winmag
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How about a whole book that predicted life in 2014. not 1984?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_zanzibar

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 08:40 | 5144258 Ban KKiller
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The sheep look up.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 06:52 | 5144038 Space Animatoltipap
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Many know the problems of material life but have no solution and therefore just become cynical many times. The simple solution is to become God conscious. Science and God consciouness go hand in hand since you come to understand time, ether and movement. These items are still big mysteries only for the dull headed worldy, wrong road, "scientists". Hare Krishna.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 07:29 | 5144077 viedoklis_lv
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1.) Putin regime controlled russian media brainwashes people with Nazis all around them when actually people in russia start to become fascist to other nationalities.

2.) Putin regime cries that it will "protect it's interests" and sends in "little green man" in Crimea in order to occupy that and than annexed it. Now Putin sends in over borders openley tanks that imidialtey attacks Ukranians and they fight back. In result we read how russian mothers sorrow for their dead russian soldiers that where send against their will to fight for Putin criminal regime.

3.) That is what Putin has brainwashed about Ukraine, taking away Crimea - Crim nash they say (Crimea is ours!).

4.) Putin regime controls all media in Russia, now it also controls internet and can and is shutting down any site it likes to shut down. It now asks to register and report all bloggers with more than 3000 daily visits. All this "ministry of truth" want to control all information circulation -  to get the right "truth" to people.

5.) If you tell a truth in Russia, you get killed, jailed - destroyed.

6.) Yes, Putin is in full control over printed press too. There is no press freedom when all is controlled by oligarchs that are under Putin regime hand.

7.) Russians lost Afganistan inavsion just as US oligarch regime.

8.) Look how Putin regime killed in Chechnya civilians - that what happens when criminal regime is in charge http://youtu.be/k_2medFkNhI

9.) As already described, Putin regie controls, major TV media, printed media, and now takes control over internet. Of course there are other putin regime assets as this site where is used "alternative media" to brainwash people mind. They are programmed in a way if A (US regime) is bad and B (Russia) is fighting A than B is angel in the sky and everyone who exposes that actually B is like A - same principles, than that man must be discredited in order to safeguard propoganda world where is no place for truth.

10.) As I described A = B and both are globalists, than of course globalists want to hold power over many nations and make them as single mass. So that is why both evils hate nationalism - it's against their agenda. Both putin regime and US regime and EU creators.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 08:09 | 5144143 p00k1e
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From the left speraker - “The economy is doing fine.”

From the right speaker –

More Than A Thousand Stood Under Heat & Sun For Free Food In Miami

August 22, 2014 5:54 PM

More than a thousand locals lined up Friday morning for several hours under the scorching sun and heat in Miami  for a box full of food.

The event located at the Central Shopping Plaza at 3825 NW 7th Street started at 9:00 a.m.

Participants got a box of free vegetables, meats and bread worth $100 until 12:00 p.m.–or until supplies lasted.

Those who didn’t want to stand in line could wait in their car for the drive-thru portion of the event.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 09:14 | 5144376 ToNYC
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Thinking for yourSelf is Winning!!

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 09:21 | 5144410 J J Pettigrew
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Lies pass into History?  Not new...just another way of saying the victors write the history books.

Just read about the War Between the States...

This is why CORE is a dangerous notion...and why the Dept of Education should be abolished..

it is none other that "control think" by the Federal monster.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 10:14 | 5144654 Salzburg1756
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Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four views the tribe as the victims of the government and make a tribesman the hero of those opposing the government. It therefore presents a very inaccurate view of what we see today. Maurice Bardèche's Nuremberg or the Promised Land presents a much more accurate view: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2013/07/maurice-bardeches-vision-of-the-future-part-1/

"In 1949, one year after the publication of Nuremberg or the Promised Land, another prophetic book was published, George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In it Orwell describes a scary future in which there is a single party dictatorship, living conditions are drab, food is scarce, people’s thoughts are openly controlled by Big Brother, their words and actions are monitored through “telescreens” which they cannot turn off, they are given no choice over what they view on these screens, there is only one channel on the “telescreens” and one film (always a war film) in the theatres, in one such film refugees trying to escape are shot to the delight of the audience, some of these refugees are Jewish, “the Enemy of the People” is a Jew, Emmanuel Goldstein, who is condemned for “advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought,” people are openly taught to hate him and his followers during “Two Minutes Hate” and “Hate Week,” sex is discouraged through a “Junior Anti-Sex League,” the Inner Party is called the “Inner Party,” thoughtcrime is called “thoughtcrime,” Thought Police are called “Thought Police,” the media propagate obvious, self-contradictory lies such as: “War Is Peace,” “Freedom Is Slavery,” “Ignorance Is Strength,” people are told that democracy is “impossible” (although the Party is said to be its “guardian”), capitalism is viewed as a barbarity that has “vanished.”

The world described in 1984 little resembles that in the Occident today. We live in multi-party democracies. Our mainstream media tell us not only that democracy is possible and a very good thing, but that its triumph everywhere is virtually inevitable, an inevitability which we should make every effort to encourage. Living conditions are generally good, food is abundant. Capitalism is alive and well and is promoted as an economic panacea. Our politicians advocate the same things as does Emmanuel Goldstein. Our media propagate obvious lies such as: “Diversity is our strength,” but they at least avoid flagrant self-contradictions (some kinds of diversity may indeed be a source of strength, although certainly not the radical ethnic diversity that our media promote). Refugees do not flee our societies, but rather risk their lives trying to get into them. We are not taught to hate, but to tolerate. Sex is not generally discouraged, even among the young. With our multi-channel televisions and the internet we are free to see, hear, read, and discuss almost anything, if not everywhere. Freedom reigns. Yet to some that freedom seems, if not illusory, useless. It is useless because people’s thoughts and actions are monitored and controlled not by anything outside themselves but by their own warped consciences, consciences deliberately warped by our mainstream media, consciences closely resembling Bardèche’s “universal conscience.”

Orwell’s and Bardèche’s books have had quite different careers in the Occident. Orwell’s, although formerly banned in the Soviet Union, has been widely read and praised; Bardèche’s is still banned in France and is generally unknown elsewhere. 1984 has served to warn us against the dangers of Communism, and for that deserves acclaim. But one cannot help but wonder if its general acclaim today is not also an index to its irrelevance. We have escaped the dreadful future envisioned by Orwell in 1984. We have not escaped the dreadful future envisioned by Bardèche in 1948."

 

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 10:17 | 5144668 Salzburg1756
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Bardèche’s book is a classic. It is of interest today primarily because of what it says about the future. Throughout the first three quarters of the book the discussion of the trial is interlaced with somber warnings and ominous admonitions to the reader: “One is proposing a future to us, one does so by condemning the past. It is into this future also that we want to see clearly. It is these principles that we would like to look at directly. For we already foresee that these new ethics refer to a strange universe, a universe with something sick about it, an elastic universe where our eyes no longer recognize things.”

Bardèche has examined the transcript of the Nuremberg Trial and now, like an ancient prophet after examining the entrails of a sacrifice, he has bad news to deliver and knows that others will not want to hear him. Indeed, very few have been willing to hear him. The last quarter of the book is devoted entirely to an exposition of what the future will bring. That anyone in 1948 could have foreseen so accurately our modern world is to me astounding. Bardèche recognized that the judicial travesty at Nuremberg was not simply an act of vengeance by victors against the vanquished and that what was on trial there was not just the particular German defendants, nor the German nation, nor even National Socialism, but rather nationalism itself: the idea that a people own the land that they have long lived in and have the right to live in it as they wish and to exclude others from living in it if they so wish. It is nationalism in any form which was condemned at Nuremberg.

With amazing prescience Bardèche foresaw in its condemnation the coming of an international system which is first and foremost economic, not political or governmental. Its purpose is to protect an international economic élite, not ordinary persons, or peoples or nations. It offers the latter lots of rights but no guarantees that these rights will be respected. Its laws are unclear (unlike those of a prince) and broadly unenforceable, but the system does not attempt to enforce them broadly but only selectively. For selected victims punishments are severe. Victims are selected not so much because they have broken laws but because they have offended the “universal conscience,” the conscience created and fostered in us all by the media (Bardèche’s “radio”). Bardèche clearly foresaw the system which we today call “globalism,” although he nowhere uses that term. He also foresaw at least implicitly many other aspects of our world: Third World immigration, the irrational glorification of democracy, loss of sovereignty, humanitarian wars and interference, hate crimes, affirmative action, racial miscegenation and replacement, etc.: “At the bottom of the sanctuary there sits a Negro god. You have all the rights, except to speak evil of the god.” “And, from one end of the world to the other, in perfectly similar cities . . . there will live under similar laws a bastard population, a race of indefinable and gloomy slaves, without genius, without instinct, without voice. . . But this will be the promised land.”

 

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 10:18 | 5144673 numapepi
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The Elite's prediliction to abuse power is as old as the Human race. To that end they have lied, murdered, stolen, enslaved and coerced others. Even a cursory look at the history of Mankind illlustrates this in living color. The only way to stop the Elite, the New Class today, from usurping power and stepping on the face of humanity with the jack boot of tyranny, is to force all the elite not only to follow every law and regulation they pass but to hold them to every letter of our Constitution, under penalty of prison. To save humanity from Orwell's vision is why I wrote my book, The Fourth Branch. Available here:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/277193

80% is free so why not look it over, all you have to loose is a jackboot on your face.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 10:46 | 5144815 Felix da Kat
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Free men make themselves free. So get to work.

Tue, 08/26/2014 - 13:09 | 5144979 VWAndy
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Felix da kat gets it.

 I dont think that much of Orwell or the others. They were pussies. Lots of give up its hopeless in them. You can tell from thier perspectives they were pussies.

 Yes another story from my youth.

 Back in the day in elementery school I was BMOC. It was an eye opener for sure. People are fd up and stupid. Case in point these three kids come up and ask me to do my superman thing on this other kid thats been beating up on them for fun. I knew him he was a dickhead for sure and he needed his ass kicked. But the thing was and is it dont work like that. Its not ever going to work that way either. Sure I coulda whipped him bfd. It would not have stopped him but just made him even more feral. Why? Because he will just catch them when I was not around and pound them even harder. It is what it is. So I told them the truth. The three of you pussies need to watch out for each other. Next time you see him messing with either of you guys. All three of you should whip his ass good. Or ya pussies could just swing first and surprise him with a punch in the face. The only reason he gets away with that is you let him.

Thats my issue with Orwell and the others. They are pussies. Thier views are based on never standing up for themselves.

 Superman aint fn commin. Its all about holding the dickheads accountable as often as we must. Sorry I know nobody wants to hear they are being pussies. But thats why they keep fucking with us.

 Thanks Felix. I was up pretty late last night waiting for someone to speak to this.

Wed, 08/27/2014 - 13:03 | 5149729 VWAndy
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