http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/orwell/ en-us Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:51:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3030380/posts (FULL TITLE: "'I'm neither a traitor nor a hero... I'm an American': NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden finally breaks cover - and vows to expose MORE secrets") Newspaper said he has exposed more details about surveillance targets He said he will remain in Hong Kong and fight any extradition bidSnowden's whereabouts in Hong Kong are still unknown Edward Snowden, the former CIA analyst behind one of the most significant government leaks in U.S. history, has vowed to expose further surveillance secrets as he speaks out again. The 29-year-old whistleblower remained defiant in an interview with the South China Morning Post on... Daily Mail UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3030380/posts#comment Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:51:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3030141/posts Former Justice Department prosecutor Larry Klayman amended an existing lawsuit against Verizon and a slew of Obama administration officials Monday to make it the first class-action lawsuit in response to the publication of a secret court order instructing Verizon to hand over the phone records of millions of American customers on an "ongoing, daily basis." Klayman told U.S. News he will file a second class-action lawsuit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia targeting government officials and each of the nine companies listed in a leaked National Security Agency slideshow as participants in the government's PRISM... US News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3030141/posts#comment Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:08:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3030005/posts LINKThe statistics are updated hourly, so this number will change shortly.5. -- 4,556% Sales rank: 164 (was 7,636) Amazon.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3030005/posts#comment Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:26:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3029888/posts National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney explains how the secretive agency runs its pervasive domestic spying apparatus in a new piece by Laura Poitras in The New York Times. Binney—one of the best mathematicians and code breakers in NSA history—worked for the Defense Department's foreign signals intelligence agency for 32 years before resigning in late 2001 because he "could not stay after the NSA began purposefully violating the Constitution." In a short video called "The Program," Binney explains how the agency took part of one of the programs he built and started using it to spy on virtually every U.S.... businessinsider.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3029888/posts#comment Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:59:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3029644/posts Sales of George OrwellÂ’s Â’1984′ are up 69 percent on Amazon, according to a list on the website.The bookÂ’s 60th anniversary was on June 6th, amidst a flurry of real-world news stories on secret government surveillance. ... Update: As of 3:22 p.m. EST, sales of Orwell's '1984' are up 91 percent on the Amazon "Movers and Shakers list." Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3029644/posts#comment Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:48:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020439/posts Scandal In Libya: A new email dump shows that the White House, contrary to public statements, was heavily involved in editing the Benghazi talking points to remove all references to it being a terrorist attack. The limited, heavily redacted package of emails released by the administration Wednesday is noteworthy for what the emails don't say and reflect a concerted effort by the White House and State Department not to get at the truth but to put something together to help President Obama in an election two months out. The email package begins some 67 hours after the Sept. 11, 2012,... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020439/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 23:51:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2998555/posts <p>New Jersey police and Dept. of Children and Families officials raided the home of a firearms instructor and demanded to see his guns after he posted a Facebook photo of his 11-year-old son holding a rifle.</p> <p>“Someone called family services about the photo,” said Evan Nappen, an attorney representing Shawn Moore. “It led to an incredible, heavy-handed raid on his house. They wanted to see his gun safe, his guns and search his house. They even threatened to take his kids.” Moore was not arrested or charged.</p> Fox Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2998555/posts#comment Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:01:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2991401/posts In an interview with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts aired this morning, First Lady Michelle Obama recalled the tragic death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton who was shot and killed in Chicago after performing during the President’s Inauguration celebration in Washington D.C. “She was caught in the line of fire because some kids had some automatic weapons they didn’t need,” the First Lady explained. “I just don’t want to keep disappointing our kids in this country. I want them to know that we put them first.” * * * It is extremely unlikely that the murder weapon was an automatic handgun,... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2991401/posts#comment Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:36:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2989353/posts In the 1940’s and 50’s, famed Author George Orwell surmised that both the English language and civilized society were in decline. After a press conference held last week by Emeryville, California Police Chief Ken James, it’s easy to see a decline in both language and critical thinking skills in our country. And as Orwell thought, indeed civilized society may very well be in jeopardy. It happened on February 14th. Taking to the microphones and cameras in his suburban San Francisco community, Chief James stood at a podium with the requisite group of serious-looking, professionally dressed, pouty-faced people standing behind... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2989353/posts#comment Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:28:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2986276/posts “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.” Aldous Huxley, Berkeley, March 20, 1962 Given the current debate over whether our world lists more towards... Michelle Obama's Mirror http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2986276/posts#comment Thu, 7 Feb 2013 17:56:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2973046/posts Americans are living in an Orwellian state argue Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, as they sit down with RT to discuss US foreign policy and the Obama administration’s disregard for the rule of law. ­Both argue that Obama is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and that people have forgiven him a lot because of the “nightmare of the Bush presidency that preceded him.” “He has taken all the Bush changes he basically put them into the establishment, he has codified them,” Stone told RT. “It is an Orwellian state. It might not be oppressive on the... rt http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2973046/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:17:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2967738/posts All of Ronald Reagan's formative years, from birth until he landed his first job across the Mississippi 21 years later, were lived in rural northwestern Illinois except for about ten months in Chicago. In all but one case, his rural boyhood homes have been preserved. His birthplace in Tampico looks as it did when he was born and is open to the public. So is his teen years home in Dixon. The house the Reagans lived in for two years in Galesburg has been lovingly restored by its private owner. Their house in Monmouth is the only home that is... American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2967738/posts#comment Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:38:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963766/posts First the Associated Press announced that it would continue using “Illegal Alien” instead of “Undocumented American”, “Accidental Border Crosser” or “Beautiful Dreamer” on the grounds that it was well… technically accurate. Now the AP is throwing out Homophobia and Islamophobia on the grounds that they are inaccurate and conflate prejudice with mental illness. And that has led to outrage hysteria from the usual organs of the left who like sticking to their politicized words once they’ve made enough people aware of them. “Ethnic cleansing is a euphemism for pretty violent activities, a phobia is a psychiatric or medical term for... Frontpagemag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963766/posts#comment Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:35:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961155/posts “The intelligence community had it right, and they had it right early,” said chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Mich.). The CIA “talking points” on Benghazi initially identified the attackers as al Qaeda or al Qaeda-linked terrorists but senior administration officials removed the reference, Rogers said on NBCÂ’s Meet the Press.Meanwhile, White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters traveling with the president on Saturday that the White House made only minor changes in the first comments by a White House official on the Benghazi security scandal.“We were provided with points... Washington Free Beacon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2961155/posts#comment Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:08:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2958276/posts I come to you today hat in hand. I owe you all an apology. As you may recall, my election prognostication was something that looked just like 1984: 1984 bitmap from by hard drive; this is the one I intended to reflect: So, I’m sorry, okay? I feel my inaccurate prognostication may be partially responsible for some of the PEDS (post election depressive syndrome) that we’ve all been experiencing. So today, in order to assist you in throwing off the lingering effects(snip) (snip) For one thing, the images on my hard drive both shared the identical title, “1984.” As you... Michelle Obama's Mirror http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2958276/posts#comment Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:01:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2941191/posts In yet another mass email to its supporters, the Obama campaign is again demanding money. However, the wording reveals a rather Orwellian secret: the campaign knows if you have donated or not based solely on the email address they are tracking. The email, from campaign manager Jim Messina, starts average enough. Messina touts the President and the money they've raised. For example, "more than 1.8 million Americans -- 567,044 of whom were first-time donors -- giving an average donation of just $53. And 98% of the donations were $250 and under." But things turn south very quickly. The email quickly... Pundit Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2941191/posts#comment Sat, 6 Oct 2012 18:08:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/2939077/posts War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength Published during the Soviet Union's rise as a global superpower, George Orwell's 1984 offers a prescient window into the soul of the propaganda apparatus of a utopia dictatorship. While Barack Obama has yet to transform the United States from a constitutional republic, his effort to redesign Old Glory notwithstanding, enough similarities have arisen during his presidency and his campaign for re-election that it is worth taking notice. When reality is refracted through the prism of the state propaganda machine, we lose sight of who we are as a society. Inhabitants of... Freedom Works Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/2939077/posts#comment Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:12:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2938585/posts Suppose there were a worldwide movement which openly proclaimed its goal of taking over in your country and every country with the purpose of imposing its system on every human beings on earth. Also suppose that this movement had carried out murders and terrorist attacks in your own country, that members of this group promoted violence while gaining political influence. Suppose also that is was highly unfashionable and politically incorrect to speak out against them. I am not speaking of Islam here, but of Communism. The current wave of censorship and denial toward Islam is not a new development. It... Sultan Knish http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2938585/posts#comment Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:50:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2912559/posts Today the ACLU is launching a nationwide effort to find out more about automatic license plate readers (ALPR). By snapping photographs of each license plate they encounter—up to three thousand per minute—and retaining records of who was where when, license plate readers are fundamentally threatening our freedom on the open road. You may have seen the recent New York Times op-ed that admonished us to start referring to our mobile devices as “trackers” instead of “phones.” Perhaps as ALPR technology spreads we should start saying “tracker” in place of “car,” too. We need statutory protections to limit the collection, retention,... ACLU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2912559/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:26:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2906468/posts I hadn't heard of him since I last debunked him some years back but he is still at the same old stall selling the same old secondhand ideas. He has issued a book called "The Little Blue Book: Quotations from Chairman Lakoff" Lakoff's central "insight" is that you must use distorted Leftist language to have any hope of promoting Leftist ideas. But telling that to people who already call racism "affirmative action" and abortion "choice" must be one of the most unoriginal ideas ever proposed. George Orwell beat him to that idea by half a century. I suppose that telling... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2906468/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:46:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2895719/posts Sloppy George Orwell, Photo: WikipediaSloppy language works for cheats and charlatans. In the search for the truth only accurate language will do. Orwell understood the power of language to change the way we think, indeed to fence off some possible options completely.Roger Pielke Snr put out a call today asking for precise definitions and protesting about the misuse of the term “climate change”. But when did this nonsensical term start? Where else, but with the UN. All the way back on May 9th 1992, UN defined “climate change” as man-made. See The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, (paragraph 6):“Climate... JoNova http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2895719/posts#comment Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:05:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2887751/posts Political writing tends to be bad writing, noted George Orwell in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language.” Too often it's a tool for deception and obfuscation rather than clear communication. Orwell criticizes particularly those who rely on political catch phrases devised by others, throwing their minds open and “letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in.” It's an easy way of avoiding the hard work good writing demands, says Orwell. Catch phrases “will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service... Aberdeen American News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2887751/posts#comment Fri, 25 May 2012 02:38:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2877683/posts Margie Omero [above] is a Democratic pollster and president of Momentum Analysis. She’s well-up on the dark art of creating a poll that delivers the results her client seeks. And Marge is pissed off that her competitors keep publishing poll results which show that most Americans don’t support gun control. So the Big O has written an open letter for the Huffington Post exhorting her colleagues to go all George Orwell and literally change the “terms” of the “gun control debate.” It’s a clever piece of writing that educates by example; ceding the right to keep (but not bear) arms... The Truth About Guns http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2877683/posts#comment Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:25:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2867114/posts The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon. Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access to communications on demand, in real time. BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2867114/posts#comment Mon, 2 Apr 2012 18:56:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2866291/posts Making houses and cars smokefree is the only way to protect children from second-hand smoke, according to a new government campaign in England. The TV and radio adverts show how pervasive invisible second-hand smoke can be. Breathing it in can damage lungs and cause cancers, research has shown. Snip The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said it wanted to see smoking in cars made illegal, when children are present. "I have no doubt an outright ban on smoking in cars would have the same positive results [as banning drink-driving]” - Prof Terence Stephenson Royal College of Paediatrics &... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2866291/posts#comment Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:50:13 GMT