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Beinghuman
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This piece by Orwell is still very current, as is most of his writing. The nationalistic fervor that Orwell... http://bit.ly/57TPGn
 
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ABBIAMO PAZIENTATO 150 ANNI: ORA BASTA! ADERISCI AL POPOLO DELLA SCHIAVITU'!
ABBIAMO PAZIENTATO 150 ANNI: ORA BASTA! ADERISCI AL POPOLO DELLA SCHIAVITU'!"Se vogliamo che tutto cambi, bisogna che tutto rimanga com'è"F.to: Il Presidente, l'Unico.Diffidate delle Basse Imitazioni.
 
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ABBIAMO PAZIENTATO 150 ANNI: ORA BASTA! ADERISCI AL POPOLO DELLA SCHIAVITU'!
ABBIAMO PAZIENTATO 150 ANNI: ORA BASTA! ADERISCI AL POPOLO DELLA SCHIAVITU'!"Se vogliamo che tutto cambi, bisogna che...
 
wonkotsane
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@DavidWrightMP You know Orwell was warning against the type of socialism your lot stand for? He was a Labour activist back in the day, he...
 
J.D.
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Orwell's 1984 is too depressing. I'm going to write a happier ending. Short version: Then everyone got bored with Big Brother and killed it.
 
Laura Deisley
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@ChristianLong We had Orwell's 1984 as part of our 8th grade civics curriculum. Let me see where it "sits" right now. It may have shifted.
 
Valmir
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Orwell versus Huxley em cartoon
Criada pelo cartunista americano Stuart McMillen e  adaptada para o português por Marcelo Del Debbio, uma interessante...
 
Filip Spagnoli
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The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (14): Arrested for Excessively Noisy Sex
(source)Via Reason.com:The bizarre and terrifying situation where a woman has been arrested for having sex too loudly. In...
 
Dean
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AMC's The Prisoner is sort of a modern version of Orwell's 1984. A tale of the beast within us knowing & forcing security utopia on the rest
 
MzOpal
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Odd Apple patent for embedded OS ads
Apple recently applied for a patent which describes a method by which the manufacturer of an operating system could disable...
20 days ago Blorge | Topics: Apple, OS X, news, 1984
 
Mark
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Safe Mac Computing on an Unsafe Web
We first saw the Apple Macintosh at the 1984 Super Bowl. At the time, IBM and Microsoft gave us only text-based computing. The...
23 days ago Techclack | Topics: General, apple, bowl, computer
 
Online Business Cookbook
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Orwell’s 6 writing tips: An engaging debate is going on over at Daily Blog Tips.The question is about wr.. http://bit.ly/15EIW8
 
feusurlequartiergénéral
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Frachon, réveille-toi, ils sont devenus fous!
Les Verts sont décidément le meilleur allié de la droite. Ils en arriveraient même à faire mieux que le NPA qui joue dans...
 
Placida_Signora
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Placide Segnalazio’
Visto che il cimurro non molla, anzi, e in questi giorni stesa a letto non riesco a parlare/scrivere/pensare ma solo a leggere,...
 
Marguerite
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What The Hell Are We Fighting For? The Tragedy of Fort Hood
And it’s one, two, three, fourWhat are we fighting for?Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn,Next stop is...
 
Scott Nielsen
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#Healthcare Reform discussions remind me of Orwell's Animal Farm - Boxer didn't get to enjoy retirement!
 
Nater Kane
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hanging with @plethra — at Café Orwell http://gowal.la/s/nr7
 
Nat C
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Revising Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty Four, is a dismal and brutal dystopian novel about a future in which protagonist Winston Smith attempts to...
 
hanifalhusayn
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The 4 most bizarre Orwellian police state news stories from the U.K. this year (so far)
It has been estimated that public spaces in the U.K. are being watched by between 1.5 million and 4.2 million CCTV cameras. It...
 
<em>laurieinsimi</em>
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ObamaCare will bring the 2-way TV of Orwell's 1984: Drop that burger! Exercise harder, or else! http://tinyurl.com/yjl6e29
 
feusurlequartiergénéral
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En meute
"Dans un moment de lucidité, Winston se vit criant avec les autres et frappant violemment du talon contre les barreaux de sa...
 
David
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Media
My wife says that media... as we know it through the Mainstream Newspapers, radio and commercial Television is nothing more...
59 days ago Through Balanda Eyes | Topics: 1984, Orwell, Media
 
parkernow
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‘Internet Eyes’ put gamers on police patrol
A couple of months ago I wrote about a $2-million citizen surveillance system installed along the Tex-Mex border which allowed...
 
Stormgrass
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Amazon Kindle for the rest of the world but not for me
So Amazon has announced the availability of their e-book reader Kindle for, among other countries, Germany and Austria. The...
61 days ago tech.stormgrass | Topics: Books, amazon, kindle, orwell
 
Nat C
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Politics and the English Language
Politics and the English Language (1946) is an essay by George Orwell criticising “ugly and inaccurate”...
 
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Tyranny and twitter pacifism
there is reason to think that Gandhi, who after all was born in 1869, did not understand the nature of totalitarianism and saw everything in terms of his own struggle against the British government. …It is difficult to see how Gandhi’s methods could...
 
Iarfhlaith
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Back from a spin with the Orwell Wheelers. Nice and easy 65km around Blessington, Rathcoole and Saggart. Loved being in a group of riders.
 
Mob L
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Countdown: AT&T Whistleblower Speaks Out
the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell’s 1984. Appearing on MSNBC’s Countdown program,...