Biometric ID Check on Scots Children As Young As Four
In training since at least 1999 Judith Duffy Daily and Sunday Express DOZENS of Scottish schools have introduced “intrusive” biometric systems, such as fingerprinting, to…
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Judge warns of ‘Orwellian state’ in warrantless GPS tracking case
Raw Story Police in Delaware may soon be unable to use global positioning systems (GPS) to keep tabs on a suspect unless they have a…
2011: A Brave New Dystopia
Flickr / Ludovic Bertron (CC-BY) Chris Hedges TruthDig The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New…
TSA and Big Sis Coming to a Mall Or Hotel Near You, 1984 is Here
The Intel Hub Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (Big Sis) announced today that security will be tightened at so called “soft targets” around…
You Are A Terrorist According to DHS
Being a “nice guy,” supporting Ron Paul and talking about the Constitution all signs of terror, according to fusion centers now overseeing massive surveillance program…
The government’s one-way mirror
Glenn Greenwald Salon One of the hallmarks of an authoritarian government is its fixation on hiding everything it does behind a wall of secrecy while…
Boycott Wal-Mart If You Want to Help Save America From Big Brother
John Galt Activist Post America is in trouble on so many fronts that it is sometimes difficult to know where to begin. The forces of…
Lies Across America
“Every single empire, in its official discourse, has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has…
RT Crew Arrested in US filming at ‘School of Assassins’
Editor’s Note: Interesting that many people compare the American police state to those in Third World countries. Where did those Third World countries get their…
Orwellian DoubleThink: Tyranny is Safety
Orwellian DoubleThink Series, Part 6 Activist Post One is never safe living under a tyrannical form of government. If we have learned anything from George…
Orwell’s Oceania: GPS and the Police State We Inhabit
John W. Whitehead Lew Rockwell Voicing his discontent with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in United States v. Pineda-Moreno, which declared the warrantless…
Orwellian DoubleThink: Collapse is Recovery
Orwellian DoubleThink Series, part 5 Activist Post When the National Bureau of Economic Research announced, after much deliberation apparently, that the economic recession ended in…
Is Monday Night Football Our Culture’s Soma?
Kyle Shamberg Huffington Post If you’ve been watching ESPN recently, you’ve undoubtedly seen the promos for its Monday Night Football program running ad nauseam. The…
Orwellian DoubleThink: War is Peace
Orwellian DoubleThink Series, part 3 Activist Post No need to modernize the phrasing of this most obviously relevant Orwellian slogan. Obama, our Nobel Prince of…