"we pigs are brain workers" orwell writes.management and organization of this farm depend on us. it is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. sounds like orwell's pigs believed in trickle down. as new research shows that we already live a sort of oligarchy that the preferences of the masses literally do not matter and that the only thing that counts is the needs and desires of the elites, "animal farm" is a useful cautionary tale warning of the corruption of concentrated power. no matter in whose hands that power wrests. at the end of the book, the other farm animals look on with horror as they realize that their pig rulers have become exactly like the farmer who used to abuse and oppress them. or well writes "the creatures outside look from pig to man and man to pig and pig to man again but already it was impossible to say which was which." conservatives would do well to realize that tyranny can come from dictators, from an overreaching government or from corporations and wealthy individuals who run our c

and so think of the powerful modern writer is george orwell who creates a language of totalitarianism but he comes up with doublethink and even the word in 1984 at the phrase the title of this book sort of a metaphor for what would go wrong with the world in terms of totalitarianism. also in newspeak which is his language the suffix to say, that to use that as a way of introducing language that's his as well from that. the other dystopian. brave new world is a wonderful title and the concept and a phrase because it comes out of shakespeare and the inside joke is the first thing that the people in this totalitarian state in oxley's totalitarian state again in the words of shakespeare so there's a double hook there. james fenimore cooper, cooper was the first one to really write about the native american. he invents a whole language. some people say it's demeaning but it's his attempt to get at their culture. he creates words like war paint, firewater, happy hunting ground for the heaven or the life of the american indian. cooper has a marvelous sense of this and if you reread it. i rer

what we remember about orwell is not new speak, but orwellian. >> oh, orwellian, yes. >> which has becomee term for don quixote and quixotic. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> hi, paul. i wonder this about all your books, and that is how you possibly research all those authors and what words they may have come up with versus somebody else. i mean, what's the process that you actually use to research? >> there are a couple things. one is the oxford english dictionary and the other dictionaries which have been digitized. that gives great help. and the other thing is newspapers are now being digitized, and so are databases. there are proprietary databases which the library of congress, there's one called 19c which is a monster database of everything in the english from the 19th century. broadsides, magazines, books, pamphlets. and 19c, i think the first year cost $30,000, so you're not going to get it -- you're going to probably have to be in an ivy league college or somewhere like that. but these databases, so if somebody says to you the word something or either was not invented until 1920 and yo

it was a finalist for the orwell prize and the winner of the pen open award. he teaches here in new york. welcome to democracy now! talk about the significance of what will now be prime minister modi. who is he? >> thank you for inviting me here. one of the things that is being said is that this is the largest collection, the largest -- election, largest democracy voting, choosing a man to power. that has been true for a while. india has been the largest democracy for a long time. , ones also been diverse could argue, for centuries. this is not new. what is significant is that narendra modi, hard-line leader and the hard right hindu-right party, is the person who has been elected by a majority of indians to be their leader. not without significant backing from corporate influence in india. so he is not just a man who has been chosen by the masses, but a man who was anointed by the corporations, by the elite in india will before the election results came in. this is the result that the corporations in india wanted. mr.the reason for that is, modi, one of the th

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

i quote an authority named george orwell at the end of that and i say -- who is rather tough on writers he says all writers are vain and selfish and exhibitionists. >> you also quote, he will think you a trivial fellow board him in the right way and your reputation is assured -- bore him in the right way. >> isn't that a great quote? it's such a great quote. i say in the first sentence of the preface that i will cop to being a trivial fellow. i've never had any illusions about that. i can say with a straight face that my goal has never been to bore the reader. >> this follows the quote. this irksome quote weighed on me as i brought this collection together. i can say with a straight face that might goal has never been to bore the reader. maybe i've been going about this all wrong. i'm 61 now but it's a bit late in the game to be worrying about that. what else don't you worry about? how does christopher buckley see life at 61? what's good about that and not so good about that? not life but how you see it. >> despite the aches and pains, you see i'm heavily medicated right now. [laughter]

they have a prime corner spot, but the project is not a happy orwell coming experience for their customers. they cite dust and parking problems and will temporarily close their doors. and another store is closing at the end of the month. a few more say they will try to hold on until the end of summer but their business keeps taking a hit. >> this is a major shopping district on the peninsula. to have the traffic deteriorate, foot traffic dropped. >> the traffic is a challenge for businesses. we knew that going in. we took the vote together. land owners along with the city voted to do the project. frankly, it was long overdue. >> and the mayor of burlinggame says part of the reason it is taking so long is they have to rip out 80 year old wire to put in new lighting in the area. they did implement free parking on friday to help out with the process. live, christina rendon. >>> people living in alameda county may pay a hefty surcharge for their water. they are holding a special meeting to consider creating a drought surcharge that could affect 331,000 water customers in fremont, union city, a

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as we enter the post 1984, as in the title of george orwell's book world in which the government captureshing we say through our blackberries and i phones and uses them reco expectation of privacy goes down and the actual privacy protections that we have go down. and donald sterling have expected privacy in the bedroom of his own home? absolutely. should j z have expected privacy in an elevator? absolutely not. are those two expectations likely to change? we are in an era where the government wants to survey everybody. that gives everybody the opportunity to engage in their own surveillance in making the government. melissa: the show is called money. a lot of money involved, and when you go out and to attack other people's privacy it gets a little crazy. judge napolitano: j z can be very litigious. i don't think we heard the end of this. melissa: that so stream that is not popping with consumers. according to a new study by unruly, they are wasting money hiring big-name celebrities for commercials. here now marketing expert morris laura. we are looking at this big list of people, there ar

well, i quote an authority named george orwell at the end of that essay who is rather stuff on writers. i think he says all writers are vein and selfish and exhibitionists. >> rose: you also quote -- who said make everyone laugh but bore him in a right way and your reputation is assured. >> isn't that a great quote. it's just such a great quote. i say in the first sentence the preface i'll cop to being a trivial fellow. i never had any notions about that. but i can say with a straight face that my goal has never been to bore the reader. >> rose: this follows that quote. this irk some quote, i can say with a face that my goal has never been to bore the reader. he has a point. maybe i've been going at this all wrong but i'm 61 now so it's a bit late in the game to be worrying about that. so at 61, what else don't you worry about. and how does you -- >> what else don't i worry about. >> rose: how does christopher buckley see life at 61? 's good about that and what's not so good about that? not life but how do you see it. >> i actually, despite the aches and pains, you see i'm heavily medi

wikipedia in orwell behind it, i am not sure. so they will find that rhythm and meter. i do a lot of sonnets in the book and i would hope that the book would read and i urge people to read sections out loud or pieces of it, read the front end and baxley land dive in and out depending on if you want to laugh or cry, or think. much like looking at a picture you won't have to puzzle over the words. if you want to go down a level two on some of the sonnets, it is like looking at pictures and you have an instant gratification or not, but i do urge people to do it allowed. makes a big difference. >> host: i am fascinated by people's ability to survive extreme situations and what really fascinates me about your situation is it is different than if someone were put in prison for example and you know how long it is going to last. you had no idea how long this was going to last so how did you mentally cope with that a know? >> a lot of the was to stay mentally sane. each one of those sections of the book has some 1-liners and if you look at the first part it talks about optimists

coming up in 15 minutes, white house budget director sylvia orwell will be before the senate financeommittee as part of her confirmation to be the next health and human services secretary. that will be live at 215 eastern. looking now at the washington monument. it reopened yesterday after being closed almost three years due to damage from the earthquake in 2011. yesterday, a few blocks away, marco rubio spoke to were orders at the national rest club. he is a potential contender for the 2016 nomination and was asked about his view on a number of issues. here's a portion from that event. think social security benefits will still be offered when you reach retirement? >> that is a choice that we will have to make. wewe wanted to be offered, will hto

well, george orwell wrote a book called "1984" where he talked about how people could twist the ordinary understanding of the english language in a way that is very dangerous. but i would suggest that under no definition of filibuster is the fact that the majority leader has imposed his gag rule, shut us out of the legislative process, denied us the opportunity to do what the constitution guarantees, and he calls that a filibuster. give me a break. so he comes to the floor this morning and he talks about, well, if you're watching c-span or if you happen to be visiting the capitol and be in the gallery, you're going to, you're going to see quorum calls and you're going to hear nothing but crickets on the senate floor, because there's not going to be anything happening there. but the reason why that's true in large part is because he has shut down the process. he has denied us a voice. he's denied us an opportunity to participate in the legislative process that the constitution talks about in the provisions that i just read. so i guess i'm probably not going to persuade majority leader rei

some of the light reading, they're calling it light, includes orwell's "animal farm," "out of the furnacerk while you're on vacation. >> i want a new list! >> for sure. one more. small tweaks to your smile can help you land a big promotion. according to a body language expert, keeping your eyebrows level while you're smiling will make you look powerful. while lowering your head a little bit makes you look seductive. and if you raise i couldn't eyebrows while smiling, you will apparently look submissive. so i'm in trouble because i raise my eyebrows all the time. i've had botox. >> because you're reading the headlines. talking with your face. >> right. i do. >> that's how they teach. >> that's a good thing. >> the problem is with the smile, it comes from within. you can't manipulate a smile or it won't look authentic. >> they're talking about if you want to manipulate the image you're projecting, you got to manipulate your face. >> why do you want to manipulate? aren't we a nation based on honesty and truism? >> no. >> i didn't think so. >> bunch of fakeers, according to the folks at harva

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 nine hundred eighty four. of course member of set the novel at a time when you were is 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 prominent war with the al qaida mindset 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 distrib

particular incident around ten people we're being told were killed and more than fifty people were injured orwell hall are you are and the city that has been the target of a crackdown so what's the situation like there. well as i was waiting to come to you we heard some gunshots from the distance a short distance behind me what we are hearing is that fighting has broken out on the outskirts of the the town of that the fighting is happening at checkpoints but if these gunshots anything to go by it so he does seem as if it's coming a little bit closer the people of the town are waiting for ukraine to make good on its threat that it will continue with its military operation today it started this operation yesterday friday morning and kids says it will be ongoing at the same time all defense positions are roadblocks around the town and in the town itself have been fortified and reinforcements have been full forward on friday night there were ten people who were killed and around forty people who were injured in when clashes broke out in one of the suburbs where people try to form a human chain my col

in fact, it is so much so i think it would make george orwell blush that he didn't have the imagination for the kind of suppression, oppression and degradation that occurs in the north korean regime today. 200,000 north koreans are in gulags around the country. freedom of religion, freedom of political practice all repressed and the terrible, terrible suffering, preventing the reunification of korean families, even to visit, the complete lack of humanitarian regard by this brutal regime is something we, americans, cannot ignore and we hear in congress have an obligation to address. so i commend the house foreign affairs committee today for adopting unanimously this important piece of legislation and eagerly look forward to passing it when it comes to the floor. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, in light of my recent appointment to chair of the house select committee on the events surrounding the 2012 terrorist attacks in bengha

i do not think we have had certainly orwell have another attorney general who will acknowledge the rolethat prosecutors can play in dealing with the issue of overcharging, which these two over incarceration. his commitment to dealing with the issue of harsh penalties weeded out to not violent drug offenders sets him apart among attorney general as we have had in this country. his recent efforts around clemency, his willingness to use the bully pulpit of his office to educate america about the power prosecutors have been the ways in which the rapid and priest over incarceration in this country hurts all of us and imperils the vitality of our society shows him to be a courageous leader frankly in the traditions we revere and honor that the legal defense fund. so we are thrilled that he could take time out of his very, very busy schedule to join us, to make a few remarks and so i present to you the 82nd attorney general of the united states, mr. eric holder. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you. all right. well, thank you also much for that warm welcome. i'm going to talk about you i