Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Keywords: AudioBook Nineteen Eighty George Orwell 1984 by George Orwell read by Richard Brown Get Other George Orwell AudioBook CD click here Get Other Classic AudioBook CD click here 1984 – Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell – Audio Book CD Brand New : (unabridged) 9 CDs – 11.5 hours Ministry of Truth bureaucrat Winston Smith is the protagonist; although unitary the story...
What Really happened (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Nobel Peace Prize was given to a man who, like a character in a George Orwell novel, kills in the name of peace. And as much as his doublespeak would like to drown out the cries of the victims of the sinister cadre of human rights abusers and war criminals that he supports, anyone with an elementary knowledge of current events knows that Obama’s hands are muddied by the muck his allies have...
Reading matters (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you hadn't already twigged, this time last week I was in Edinburgh to celebrate my Other Half's birthday and our 10th anniversary. We had a brilliant time, helped in part by a rather unexpected hotel upgrade (three nights in a five-star hotel is wonderful; it's even better when they swap your double room for a swanky suite) and gorgeous summer-like weather on the Saturday. However, come Sunday,...
Madam Miaow says ... (Free subscription) | yesterday
Holy ai caramba! First Gordon Brown and now China. My late communist Dad must be spinning at the news that UK Chinese ambassador Madam Fu Ying has declared herself a fan of The X Factor . Never mind China and human rights, what about Simon Cowell's crimes against humanity? According to The Independent report: 'She praised twins John and Edward's "determination and spirit in the face of a lot of...
Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | yesterday
Microsoft inverses truths, calling itself the opposite of what it really is as it tries to cast proprietary software as "open"
White Collar Fraud (Free subscription) | yesterday
Message to any Democrat, Republican, or Independent lawmaker who is thinking of abolishing or weakening the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. As a convicted felon, who committed his crimes in cold blood and with callous disregard for my victims, I will publicly endorse each and every one of you as a champion of the white collar criminal class that are a cancer on our great capitalist economic system. According...
Newshoggers (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Commentary By Ron Beasley Yesterday we reported that we have the best government money can buy. We have yet another example today. Goodbye to Reforms of 2002 It took just five weeks after the WorldCom accounting scandal erupted in 2002 for Congress to pass, and President George W. Bush to sign, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. That law required public companies to...
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Here’s another one of those stories that will make your blood pressure boil: Instead of moving forward with broad regulatory protections of economics system, we are undoing effective regulations that protect investors. Floyd Norris has the details. Under the guise of helping small businesses, the accounting requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley are being watered down to near nothing. So [...]
Riordan's Desk (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
As everyone knows .... most people know? ... Okay, the few who voted know, last Tuesday was local election day around the country, and as part of their coverage of the Iowa City elections, the Iowa City Press-Citizen ran a profile on election official Tom Slockett titled " What I'm Into ." To quote from the section dealing with Slockett's book preferences: "I like a variety. I don't...
ecomyths (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
One of my favourite TV correspondents is John Stossel. I find his reporting is consistently forthright, provocative, challenging to axiomatic ideas and both well presented and well researched. In short, what good journalism ought to be. Stossel has recently changed networks, switching from the politically accepted ABC to the unfashionable (read right of center) Fox. Here is his take on the situation....
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Here are the answers: Charles Dodgson [ Lewis Carroll] Alexsei Peshkov [Maxim Gorki] Publius Ovidius Nas [Ovid] Thomas Kennerly, Jr. [Tom Wolfe] Francois Marie Arouet [Voltaire] Marian Cross [George Eliot] Theodore Geisel [Dr. Seuss] Isabella Van Wagener [...]
Vidiot Speak (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
for me to care any less . For the first time since 2000 and the 27th time in franchise history, the New York Yankees are the World Champions of baseball. However, The New Orleans Saints , now THAT'S a team I can care about!
buffy holt (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner [...]
Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Keywords: CD George Farm Unabridged Orwell Animal Farm by George Orwell read by Ralph Cosham Get Other George Orwell AudioBook CD click here Get Other Classic AudioBook CD click here Animal Farm – George Orwell – Audio Book CD Brand New : (unabridged) 3 CDs – 3 hours Old Major a prize-winning boar gathers the animals of the Manor Farm for a meeting in the big barn. He tells them of...
The Self Improvement Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
By Trevor Johnson Subliminal perception was used in the 1920s on British radio stations. Radio was a new concept and many people took it as being sinister, so BBC started putting subliminal messages in its jingles. Even the book 1984, by George Orwell, mentions the use of subliminal ideas. Stores put messages in their music being piped through the building, to discourage theft. Cartoons also supply...
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Nadia Marques de Carvalho | 26/09/2009
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell After 30 years of a harsh, totalitarian and dogmatic Islamic theocracy, the June 12 th elections in Iran have provided a platform for people, for the first time, to voice their opinion on not only the vacuum of democracy but also criticise how Islam is being used as a veneer for this abusive, austere and autocratic...
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Fascinating contention, Nadia! I very much enjoyed it! And I agree: false binary between moderates and extremists. On a different, more provocative...
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