A dystopian novel (written by George Orwell) set in an imaginary future world that is dominated by three perpetually warring totalitarian police states. The book’s hero, Winston Smith, is a minor party functionary in one of these states. His longing for truth and decency leads him to secretly rebel against the government. Smith has a love affair with a like-minded woman, but they are both arrested by the Thought Police. The ensuing imprisonment, torture, and reeducation of Smith are intended not merely to break him physically or make him submit but to root out his independent mental existence and his spiritual dignity. Orwell’s warning of the dangers of totalitarianism made a deep impression on his contemporaries and upon subsequent readers, and the book’s title and many of its coinages, such as NEWSPEAK, became bywords for modern political abuses. Read More…
Hillsdale College president Larry P Arnn gave an excellent speech comparing George Orwell’s prophetic novel “1984″ to what is happening to us in this country. Take time to read it later.
Chronological History of Events Related to the Book ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’
GoFundMe Blocks Islam Scholar Robert Spencer after ban by Mastercard, Patreon
Another “nonpartisan” online service banned prominent Islam scholar and jihad critic Robert Spencer, under similarly vague pretenses. LifeSiteNews reported last week that the fundraising service Patreon was removing his account, which he had just set up weeks before to finance a new video studio, claiming Mastercard had forced their hand. A subsequent Daily Beast report revealed that the credit card company had consulted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) about Spencer, and ...
Facebook, YouTube, Apple & Spotify Ban Infowars’ Alex Jones
In the latest clash between big tech companies and those who hold unpopular or controversial views, Facebook has permanently kicked “Infowars” off of its platform, saying the page was “unpublished for using hate speech.” Facebook’s banning of Alex Jones’ signature platform came just after Apple removed almost of all of his podcasts because “Apple does not tolerate hate speech.” “We believe in representing a wide range ...
Leaked Documents Reveal Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China
GOOGLE IS PLANNING to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The Intercept can reveal. The project – code-named Dragonfly – has been underway since spring of last year, and accelerated following a December 2017 meeting between Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai and a top Chinese government official, according to ...
Report: Facebook Eliminates 93% of Traffic to Top Conservative Sites — Stocks Plunge 24%
(Gateway Pundit) Facebook stock slid 24% after disappointing quarterly results. The controversial social media giant saw mostly new users leave the for-liberals-only platform. CNBC reported: The tech-heavy Nasdaq was set for a big down day Thursday after disappointing quarterly results from Facebook sent the social media giant hurtling toward its biggest share price decline ever and on track to lose more than $125 billion in market ...
The NSA Releases 100 Propaganda Posters from 60’s and 70’s
Plenty of bosses hang up motivational posters around the office. But it’s not just companies that do this kind of brainwashing by graphic design: the NSA does, too. A ream of internal propaganda posters that the NSA released in the 1950s and 1960s are now available online, thanks to a FOIA request from 2016. And they are a perfect mix of surreal imagery, pop culture references, and ...
First of Its Kind University Study Proves Without a Doubt that Your Phone is Spying On You
For years, conspiracy theories about smart phones listening to users without their permission to show them advertisements have abounded. While some researchers have shown this could happen, a first of its kind study just found something far more insidious. Academics at Northeastern University have just proven that your phone is recording your screen—as in taking video—and uploading it to third parties. For the last year, Elleen ...
Project Veritas Releases Undercover Video Exposing Twitter’s Deliberate Censorship, Silencing and Shadow Banning of Conservatives
In a bid to unveil the shadow ban tactic employed by Twitter, a group of people from Project Veritas recorded a slew of video testimonies from current and former twitter employees revealing Twitter "shadow banning" and creating algorithms that censor certain ideas. The first clip features a former Twitter software engineer who explains how/why Twitter "shadow bans" certain users: Abhinav Vadrevu: "One strategy is to shadow ban so you have ultimate control. The ...
President Putin Signs the Draconian “Yarovaya Law”
President Putin signed the draconian "Yarovaya Law," named after United Russia lawmaker Irina Yarovaya who drafted the Orwellian bill in the name of anti-terrorism, into law. On June 24, its very last day in session before the summer break and the September parliamentary election, the Russian Parliament rammed through a bill – without any meaningful debate or scrutiny – on a set of legislative amendments that ...
Orwellian Pokemon Go app released
Pokemon Go app released in most regions of the world by Niantic, an internal start-up of Google, the NSA-linked Big Brother company. Even now Google remains one of Niantic’s major backers. Niantic was founded by John Hanke, who also founded Keyhole, Inc., the mapping company which was created with seed money from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, and which was eventually rolled into Google Maps. In just the ...
The Ironically Named ‘Freedom Act’ Passes Congress by a Vote of 67-32
By a vote of 67-32 the Senate passed the USA FREEDOM Act, just days after the expiration of key elements of the USA PATRIOT Act. The FREEDOM Act is billed as a reform of the unconstitutional and recently-ruled illegal bulk collection of Americans’ telecommunications, but in fact it is a whole new level of attack on civil liberties. Here are just a couple of ways the ...
