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Chaingang -> Ingsoc Newspeak (11/28/2006 11:13:13 AM)
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"Olbermann: 'Civil War' naming is Iraq's Walter Cronkite moment" [VIDEO]
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/44841/
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"Daily Show on calling Iraq a 'Civil War'"
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/44840/
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"Some Americans Lack Food, but USDA Won't Call Them Hungry"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/15/AR2006111501621.html
The U.S. government has vowed that Americans will never be hungry again. But they may experience "very low food security."
Every year, the Agriculture Department issues a report that measures Americans' access to food, and it has consistently used the word "hunger" to describe those who can least afford to put food on the table. But not this year.
Mark Nord, the lead author of the report, said "hungry" is "not a scientifically accurate term for the specific phenomenon being measured in the food security survey." Nord, a USDA sociologist, said, "We don't have a measure of that condition."
The USDA said that 12 percent of Americans -- 35 million people -- could not put food on the table at least part of last year. Eleven million of them reported going hungry at times. Beginning this year, the USDA has determined "very low food security" to be a more scientifically palatable description for that group.
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By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like "freedom is slavery" when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. - George Orwell, "1984"
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Title: Nineteen eighty-four
Author: George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair) (1903-1950)
* A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook *
eBook No.: 0100021.txt
Language: English
Date first posted: August 2001
WARNING: Nineteen Eighty-Four will NOT enter the public domain in the United States of America until 2044 and in the European Union until 2020, although it is public domain in countries such as Canada, Russia, and Australia.
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt
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