george orwell. >> guest: well, now, of course, there's a pun there. he was writing about the insect, and i've used this to introduce a book about the ethnic group. but the reason i picked that is just what i was saying. i think there has been a loss of nerve among wasps and that it has had bad effects on their way of life and bad effects on this country. i think it goes back for decades in many cases. i think one of the great problems has been a schism in the protestant churches in america, which i think has been going on for a hundred years. another very bad symptom was the career of woodrow wilson who, i think, was very influential in changing the way americans think about politics and what politics should be about, and he changed it for the worse. we suffer today from the effects from both those events. c-span: i don't know how far we can get with this, but i'd like to try it. on the acknowledgements page, you list a lot of people and you just give their names. if you could give me a quick read on who they are. you say, "many people agreed to sit d

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george orwel said in a time of disseat, telling truth is the revolutionary act and i want to exempt two members of this commission from the following statement. mr. gavel to gavel each meeting is a time of deceit, question why the department head in the city should be held accountable for the actions or in actions of those under his direction and control is without logical basis. and when a department head accepts a position, takes an oath and accepts a salary, they have a responsibility to the citizens of san francisco. do you believe that mr. ginsburg was not informed regarding this matter? do you believe that he did not purposefully avoid attending the hearing, as the sunshine task force and here? now, to say that he was unaware of this matter is something only a complete idiot would say. and again, we have a case where john st. croix will use a missing punctuation mark to thwart the will of san franciscans, i served in the military for 12 years and if you were the commanding officer of any command and someone in your command did something and the answer to the board of inquiry was t

unfortunately, it was george orwell and it brought up these dystopian ideas of censorship and that sortgs. google has also removed malware. there is a real safety component to a kill switch because it allows you to remove bad things from the device. mobile companies have control over their devices in ways that pc makers don't. and a lot of ways that makes the devices more secure, but they can be misused as well. >> all right, jordan, thank you so much. the chinese microblogging site weibo will set its share price tonight ahead of its ipo tomorrow. the company is seeking a valuation of $3.9 billion, planning to offer shares at $17 and $19 apiece. as of december 2013, weibo had 129 million active users. joining me now is shaun ryan, managing director of china market research, joining us via skype from shanghai. shaun, i will start with you. is the valuation fair? >> the valuation seems quite high to me. there are a number of reasons. the first, if you look, weibo lost $47.4 million in q1 of this year, a bigger loss than last year. also importantly, their revenue in q1 of this year is 5% l

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i've been saying george orwell is probably very jealous, turning in his grave, because all the landmarks that putin has been using, nationalism, fascism, world war ii is a very, very big story in russia, once you say somebody is a fascist, whether you have proof or not, it's becoming a very important message to the russians. there has been almost no evidence that russians were abused when vladimir putin started with that message a few months ago, yet that has been a very, very, very big push. and the war is always very important because you feel like your national identity is threatened, your nationalism is threatened, your borders are threatened. and the russian media has been driving that message all along, even with the english language channel russia today, which was absolutely stunning in really presenting sound bites and party lines that you almost -- you make an argument to them and they immediately have a note of if you say "a," they would respond with "b." it's quite remarkable how concerted that message is. it's almost stalinesque. it's one ideology driving every ounce that rus

of aung san suu kyi some have been restored, like the strand hotel, where rudyard kipling and george orwell stayed. and the rowe and co. building the city's first department store, soon to open as a bank headquarters. but many others, like the balthazar, have stood in a state of neglect for decades. >> so you have this kind of dystopian world here. >> brown: oh wow. and today serve as home to squatters who live among rats and squalor. >> dozens of families, this is really a building that people shouldn't be living in. >> brown: hundreds of buildings have already been torn down to make way for new ones, and thant myint u and his colleagues are working to preserve what they can. what started with the plight of a handful of buildings has become a larger quest for smart growth. >> the last thing i would want to see is a sort of sanitized tourist zone that's good for just tourists and some rich burmese, with five star hotels and very expensive restaurants. so i think we're trying to get the economics of conservation right, seeing how we cannot just preserve the buildings, but really try to keep

library for aal book by george orwell entitled, "1984."rones are another tool for big brother to watch us and control us. satellites ando attract us through our phones and cable tvs. they track us through our computers. please, viewers -- the title of the book is "1984" by george orwell. host: we read you a few headlines about campaign issues -- here's a story related to republicans. this from the new york times. votere discovers a useful outreach tool. a gun sweepstakes. the online gun sweepstakes has become one of the most useful campaign camping ou outreach. the concept -- take a group of supporterssible highly motivated around an issue and pique their interest with good marketing. want to have their zack moffett said this is just a more aggressive version of wings that campaigns are already doing. discovers useful voter outreach begun. the story in the "new york times." that is about all the time we have this morning.

this whole new level of surveillance that was never dreamed of even by george orwell .he internet has penetrated to a report of society. it is in your house, it is in your phone with you walk around with everyday. it is in your car. every day they are expanding places where the internet can access, and the nsa can penetrate all the places and is scooping up all that information and collecting it and storing it in huge data warehouses. we hear from snowden that they tapped into the transatlantic aber-optic cables which cover major portion of the world communications. anytime the government was so look up someone, it is all there. they can find all your associates, what you have talked to people about, what your financial transactions are, what kind of pictures and video you look at. your whole life is out there on the internet. >> throughout american history, intelligence has helped secure our country and our freedoms. u.s. intelligence agencies were anchored any system of checks and balances with oversight from elected leaders and protections for ordinary citizens. >> g

better served to be put on soft tissue paper on a roll, they're really touting bragging rights and george orwellning form of fiction. i was born with a birth defect. i don't have a right ear. didn't have one. deaf on that side. i came from a rather dysfunctional family and i think that the more we can connect ourselves with the public, the more they realize that we're not that different. so maybe the word inspirational is what comes up with the book. >> that is what i had heard. what's interesting, sex and drugs and rock'n'roll, it's all in there, as you would expect. but just the fact that you're such a big star and you have struggled like so many of the rest of us, that gives people, you know, that inspiration you're talking about. >> yeah. i think it's important for people to realize that the people that they look up to aren't very different than they are. everybody who read the book seems to -- regardless of whether they liked kiss or not, you find a certain commonnallity. i think that's terrific. i wrote a book for my children 'cause as they get older, i want thome realize what i went throu

the joke is george orwell was right towards peace freedom a straight to freedom slavery going to strange the alternative universe in which archie lives in is not shared by anyone anywhere in the world everyone in the world knows that russia is invading ukraine those are russian special forces those are russians that murdered the ukrainian paul where is the evidence where is the evidence no archive besides c.n.n. new york the new york times and the new york times had become clear over your cadging either the prose as he throws its head these pictures were something that they are not as they had to say no we're not exactly sure that's it you know mark you have no evidence all you have to. be and the same you have opinions what about we thought let me ask you one question here what do you think of the regime and here it was your what do you think of the regime in camp no if you suit your this is i'm in have a are you support it or go ahead it's gone because markets or not it was a point go ahead just asha's i go ahead scott i do not i don't peter i hear you no no no you had your chance aren

difficult that day bloomberg might be the day when we finally concluded tony blair went berserk george orwell in his novel and it was a novel not a blueprint not a manual one nine hundred eighty four. of course member of lee said the navajo at a time when you were easy was always war with east asia and it's mr blair's manichean view of the world does the west will always be war with the east and the. grotesque patter d. of democracy that he was talking about is shown by the fact that he's backing the military in egypt overthrew the elected government and calling for all of us to get behind saudi arabia the least free and least democratic country on the op and his elastic definition of extremism is demonstrated by the fact that he wants us all to get behind. in syria whilst being up permanent war with the mindset that everywhere else or almost everywhere else in the world this was the age of insanity from tony blair but it dominated the british news agenda and even reached jew in the united states for forty forty eight hours as if the article had descended on mongst us with tablets of stone to