On the 4th of May 1970, nine unarmed Kent State University students were wounded and four were killed by the Ohio National Guard, at a peace rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by the USA military. They were also protesting about the National Guard presence on campus. The first video …
When I saw the picture of Patsy Stevenson being arrested, when she was attending a candlelit vigil for Sarah Everard at Clapham Common, it reminded me of the quotation from George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” …
“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer.” George Orwell
“Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.” George Orwell
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” George Orwell
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that if his party wins May’s General Election, he will revive a Bill that keeps track of your online activity and phone calls. The Communications Data Bill – nicknamed the Snoopers’ Charter. If passed in its present form, it will force internet providers, social networks, and telecommunication …
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.” George Orwell
“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.” George Orwell
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