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“What country could put 1 million religious dissidents in a gulag archipelago, destroy the semi-independence of Hong Kong, threaten any of its dissident neighbors with commercial destruction, embark on the largest imperialist and colonialist project in two centuries throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe, obliterate the culture of Tibet, militarize, with man-made atolls, the South China Sea, systematize internal surveillance known heretofore only in the pages of Nineteen Eighty-Four, nonchal...

(1) INTRODUCING BUTLER TO NEW READERS. Elizabeth Connor describes the work of “repackaging the Patternist Series for the Mother of Afrofuturism” in “How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves” at Literary Hub. …After some back and forth—and plenty of discussion with the editor acting as mediator—we determined that by elegant, they likely meant more stylized human forms in more sophisticated poses, as well as a textural or brushy quality to the art (as there had been on t...

Nothing happens before its time, as they say. And if there was ever a need for a video game adaptation of George Orwells Animal Farm, now is surely the moment. Orwells celebrated fiction is an allegory on the rise of dictators, and its examination of inequality, power and manipulation is frighteningly relevant today. This is something that creative director Imre Jele, and his indie development collective at The Dairymen and Nerial, are well aware of, and theyre determined to use the medium of v...

12/13/2020 A Pacific NW Magazine Story from 1984 Predicted what Life in Seattle Would be Like Now. It was not Completely Wrong Breaking News THE CONCEPT BEHIND Pacific NW’s “Seeing 2020” in the year 1984 was inventive: The magazine, noting the dawn of the year made famous by “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” George Orwell’s classic novel, worked from the obvious premise that Orwell’s dystopian vision had not (yet) been fully realized; this illustrated the folly of specific ti...

 ‘Collusion’ vs. Collusion One can lie about “collusion” with impunity. But to speak the truth about collusion is to be smeared as “xenophobic,” “racist,” and “nativist.” By Victor Davis Hanson ***** Posted By Ruth King on December 14th, 2020 Historians will dissect the origins and spread of the mass hysteria of Russian “collusion.” The farce infected the media. It discredited the Democratic Party. And it warped the popu...

WEDNESDAY December 2 – ‘Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning!’ Christmas had come early; our saviour was born, except that he had come to earth as a glass vial stored at -70°C. The high priests of our national religion, ‘our beloved NHS’, had ushered in a new dawn and, singing our songs of praise, we worshipped at the altar of medicine. This obsessive devotion seems to be the accepted norm in the UK, but its dangers and a concomitant unwillingness to deviate from the di...

George Orwell and the road to revolution Orwell wrote Animal Farm at a time of global crisis as a warning about oppressive state power. Its message is as relevant as ever, says the New Statesman editor in a new introduction to the seminal book. In December 1936, George Orwell arrived in Catalonia as a volunteer in the struggle to defend the Spanish republic against the violent insurgency led by General Francisco Franco and his nationalist allies. The Spanish Civil War, as with today’s lo...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/12/the-disgraceful-hunter-biden-cover-up/?itm_campaign=headline-testing-the-disgraceful-hunter-biden-cover-up&itm It was a ‘conspiracy’ theory shouted down and stifled by the media establishment. Until it wasn’t. I t’s now clear that the Hunter Biden story was real, with Hunter himself acknowledging a federal probe into his taxes — one that reportedly began in 2018. Really, it was always clear. Yet, when the New York Post broke the details, virtuall...

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Correspondent also in caracas thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world tens of thousands have rallied across serbia for the ninth week in a row to protest against pres president alexander of a church and a mounting free elections and an end to his stranglehold on the media the church has rejected opposition claims suggested that he might call an early election. in the us democrat governor has refused to resign from office northam says he was not one of the people ...