1 January 2007
Written by Rainer
Top-10 Orwellian moments of 2006 in US
- WFMU-blog listed top-10 Orwellian moments of 2006
- Fox News airs an infomercial for torture
- Federal semantics eliminates the hunger problem also seen elsewhere in the Corner Blog
- Defending the First Amendment by proposing that we scrap it.
- Halliburton contracts to build large detention camps in the US
- The Inexorable Worldwide Rollout of RFID Chips
- Stay What? Apparently US has never “stayed in course”
- Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Carrying Cash is a Crime
- The Automated Targeting System.
- NSA Warrantless Surveillance and Crypto-City.
- Readers tell WFMU which Orwellian moments they forgot
A potential candidate here might be the now legendarily hilarious attempt by the CEI (the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think tank funded by Exxon, Texaco and other petroleum companies) to counter the debate about global warning by releasing two adverts (here) where they made following classic finish: “Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution, we call it life”.
Brilliant stuff!