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1. Winston's Diary
2. Big Brother
3. Surveillance
4. Old World Destruction
5. Pyramidal New World Order
6. Super-States
7. Systems Of Thought
8. Classes Of People
9. Keeping Masses Down
10. The Rulers
11. Ministry Of Plenty
12. Ministry Of Peace
13. Weapons
14. Scientific Experimentation
15. Life In Oceania
16. Ministry Of Truth
17. Falsification Of Past
18. Newspeak
19. Goldstein Two Minutes Hate
20. Thought Police & Snitches
21. Crimestop
22. Doublethink
23. The Proles
24. The Lottery
25. Prolefeed
26. Julia & Rebellion
27. Goodthink
28. Reality Control
29. Risking Renting Room
30. Love Instinct and Family
31. Love Nest
32. Enemies Of The Party
33. Contact
34. Ministry Of Love
35. The Brotherhood
36. Hate Week Volunteerism
37. We Are The Dead
38. Cellars
39. Interrogation And Torture
40. Electric Shock Brainwashing
41. Big Brother Tells "How"
42. Big Brother Tells "Why"
43. Winston Talks In Sleep
44. Room 101
45. Chestnut Tree Cafe

Comparing the world George Orwell described in "1984"
with the world we are living in today, 2001/2/3/4/5/6/7 2008

~ created by Jackie Jura, an independent researcher ~

website: www.orwelltoday.com
email: orwelltoday@yahoo.ca

Today's Orwell

Giant public TV screens planned for UK
(broadcast around the clock in 60 towns)
Project sponsored by Orwell's Big Brother
(will make watching TV compulsory)
Times, Jul 24, 2008
1.Winston's Diary & 3.Surveillance

'Coming Up For Air' first time on UK stage
(new adaptation of 1939 Orwell classic)
The Edinburgh Film Festival 2008
COMING UP ON UK STAGE
& COMING UP FOR AIR

RUPTURE IN THE RAPTURE
(reader says hope is in the Holy Bible)
Email, Jul 24, 2008
THE SPIRIT OF MAN

What's eating up the world's rice supply?
(Green Revolution chemicals & monocultures

ravaging food crops with pests & disease)
GlobeMail, Jul 20, 2008
WEATHER-FOOD-WATER-AIR CONTROL

BIT BY ORWELL BUG
(reader no longer blissfully unaware)
Email, Jul 20, 2008
WHY ORWELL WROTE 1984

1984 A HOPELESS ENDING?
(reader is angry at George Orwell)
Email, Jul 16, 2008
45.Chestnut Tree Cafe

China is fuelling war in Darfur
(Chinese jets & Russian helicopter gunships;
truck-mounted anti-aircraft guns
fire straight into civilian houses)
China denies fuelling war in Darfur
(TV shows military equipment & training)
UN charges Sudan president with genocide
(9,000 UN/AU peacekeepers in Darfur)
BBC/AP, Jul 15, 2008
CHINA OILS SUDAN GENOCIDE &
12.MiniPax & 11.MiniPlenty & 7.Systems

Canada kills apple trees for wine grapes
(then imports apples from China)
Canada fruit & vegetable growers extinct
(import food from China, Mexico, USA)
Food crisis drought hits Australian wheat
(some farmers not even planting;
can't feed cattle or sheep)
AP, Jul 14, 2008
MADE-IN-CHINA FOOD?
& TAKE NOT OUR DAILY BREAD &
WEATHER-FOOD-WATER-AIR CONTROL

Genocidal Hutus help China help Mugabe
(need foreign help to kill Zimbabweans)
Rwandan Hutus terrorizing Zimbabweans
(fled there after committing Tutsi genocide)
ThisZim/Independent, Jul 14, 2008
QUEEN KNIGHTED TERRORIST MUGABE
& GOMA CAMP MAFIA HOTEL
& 10.Rulers

"Laser Dazzler" weapon blinds people
(& causes 2nd & 3rd degree burns)
Canada/USA laser weapon Afghans/Iraqis
(China uses for crowd control)
UK/USA vacuum bomb Afghans/Iraqis
(one of world's most brutal weapons;
Russia used Hellfire on Afghans/Chechnyans)
High-tech weapon gear heavy to carry
(each soldier needs 30 extra batteries)
Tech/CanCom/Islam, Jul 13, 2008
NATO KILLS FOR DRUG TRADE
& 7.Systems & 13.Weapons

ACTING OUT FOR ORWELL
(a musical play on stage)
Email, Jul 9, 2008
WHY ORWELL WROTE 1984

G8 leaders feast on 13 courses
(after discussing world food shortages)
Times, Jul 7, 2008

PIGS AT THE TROUGH
& 22.Doublethink & 8.Classes of People
& BIO-FUEL CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
& WORLD FOOD CONTROL

Alone in North Korea
(Big Brother is always watching)
North Korea no longer axis of evil
(USA removing sanctions from enemy
desperate for food & fuel)
Times, Jul 5, 2008
USA MAKES N-KOREA NUKES
& USA POWs FORGOTTEN IN KOREA
& USA SAYS POW DESERTED
& 3.Surveillance & 20.Thought Police
& 7.Systems & 35.The Brotherhood
& 2.Big Brother
& KOREA-VIETNAM-IRAQ WARS

Athletes in China fearing for health
(falling ill & cuts get infected
after sailing in world's worst pollution)
China coast covered in stinky green slime
(raw sewage-industrial-agricultural pollution)
China's blooming algae swamping Olympics
(creeping back into areas weeded)
China's Olympian green-slime clean-up
(for athletes in sailing events)
AFP/BBC/Mail, Jul 3-7, 2008
CHINA POLLUTION HITS AMERICA

Zimbabwe then and now
(Mugabe inherited a remarkable country)
Battered white farmers vow to battle Mugabe
(his seizure of their land illegal)
Mugabe rival Tsvangirai rejects unity talks
(ruling party militias on rampage)
Mugabe 'welcomes' unity dialogue
(pact drawn up by elite of 53 African leaders)
Tsvangirai must play tough with foxy Mugabe
(brutalises opponents then plays
magnanimous winner inviting to talks)
Queen strips 'Sir' Mugabe of his knighthood
(bestowed highest honour in 1994)
Tele/BBC/NewZim/Mail, Jul 2-4, 2008
QUEEN KNIGHTED TERRORIST MUGABE
& 10.Rulers & 7.Systems

Women who don't abort are heroes
(not abortionist with heroic bank account)
JFK'S JUDGE WAS PRO-LIFE
('mothers & doctors no constitutional right
to exterminate human life')
ORWELL AGAINST ABORTION
("one of those filthy doctors")
On Canada's Birthday gov't announces:
Abortionist to receive Order of Canada
(Polish Jew immigrated after WWII;
performed thousands of illegal abortions)
Abortionist Morgentaler a militant atheist
(professional killer of defenseless babies)
CBC/CNA, Jul 1, 2008
22.Doublethink & 27.Goodthink
& 30.Love Instinct & 35.Brotherhood
& WHERE HAVE ALL BABIES GONE?

'West can go hang' says Mugabe spokesman
(Zimbabwe farmers beaten up)
Chinese jets scream victory over Zimbabwe
(posters say 'final battle for total control')
Zimbabwe's Ian Smith was right
(post-colonial corrupt venal villains turned
beautiful continent & lovely people into a
wasteland inhabited by wretched of earth)
Ian Smith declared Rhodesia independent
(severed links with Britain in 1965)
BlogNews/Telegraph/BBC, Jun 30, 2008
ZIMBABWE'S MURDERER MUGABE
& 10.Rulers & 17.Falsification of Past
& ZIMBABWE SPADE RED CHINA

NATO troops killing Afghan civilians
(excessive force & dropping bombs;
UN failing to deliver food & aid)
GlobeMail, Jun 29, 2008
NATO KILLING FOR DRUG TRADE
& 28.Reality Control
& 12.MiniPeace & 11.MiniPlenty
& AFGHAN KIDS DIG SOVIET BOMBS
& AFGHANISTAN REMEMBERED

Mugabe sworn in after one-man election
(a joke for Guinness Book of Records)
Zimbabwe reporter Freedom Moyo silenced
(not heard since defied Mugabe on radio)
Vote Mugabe or your house destroyed
(finger dipped in red to prove;
thugs check ID number with ballot)
Zimbabwe election crisis unravels
(world seeing Mugabe for what he is -
undemocratic, senile and evil)
Aussie rhetoric on Mugabe needs action
(Zimbabwe's worst enemy is China)
Tele/Times/Age/Truth, Jun 26-29, 2008
ZIMBABWE SPADE RED CHINA
7.Systems & 10.Rulers & 34.MiniLuv
& ZIMBABWE'S MURDERER MUGABE

Fertility decline causing security crisis
(The Graying of the Great Powers)
LifeNews/email, Jun 27, 2008
BABY IN THE WOMB

WHERE HAVE ALL BABIES GONE?
& 30.Love Instinct & Family
& ORWELL LOVED UNBORN

Torture Porn movies Torture Horror
(directors getting off 'mentally'
from what they create & film)
Movie tortures 'The Girl Next Door'
(director wants to make you a voyeur)
BlogCritics/Email
TORTURE A GAME TO PLAY
25.Prolefeed & 42.Party Tells Why

HAPPY 105th BIRTHDAY GEORGE ORWELL
( born Eric Arthur Blair )
June 25, 1903 - 2008
SHRINE TO ORWELL
& VISITING ORWELL'S BIRTHPLACE

Important info on CFL light bulbs
(contain mercury, made in China)
USHouseRep/YouTube, Jun 24, 2008
LIGHTS OUT FOR AMERICA

GOOD IDEA, BAD IDEA
& 9.Keeping Masses Down

93% of refugees in Rwanda Congolese
(52,000 fled genocidaires in Congo)
NewTimes/email, Jun 24, 2008
FRANCE NO RSVP RWANDA
& 6.Disputed Territories

Opposition leader seeks embassy refuge
(Mugabe ZANU police raided MDC office)
Zimbabwe friends pander to China
(China got farmland stolen from whites;
support Mugabe in sadism to blacks)
Mugabe thugs surround white farmers
(black farmworkers must join punge,
torturous indoctrination sessions)
Africa's Mandela silent on Zimbabwe
(won't criticize tyrant Mugabe
or treatment of refugees in SA)
Mandela in UK for 90th birthday concert
(proceeds to AIDS charity 46664)
VOA/Tel/Times/Guard, Jun 23, 2008
10.The Rulers
& ZIMBABWE SMART GENOCIDE
& MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE MUGABE

Alzheimer PT109 survivor remembered JFK
('Well, hell, yeah. That's the skipper',
said Gerald Zisner when shown photo)
Illinois, Jun 21, 2008
JFK'S PT-109 CREW

JFK PT-109 WHO'S WHO
& THE STORY OF PT-109

Afghan overtaking Iraq in terror war
(takes more money & resources)
AFP, Jun 19, 2008
IRAQ AFGHANI PHONY WARS
& 28.Reality Control & 36.Hate Week
& 22.MiniPeace & 11.MiniPlenty

Bono/Geldof criticise wealthy countries
(demand $22-billion for Africa)
CBC, Jun 18, 2008
BONO ARCH ARCH-CAPITALIST
& HUMANITARIAN CONCERTS NOT
& 36.Hate Week Volunteerism

Fischer heiress to get estate share soon
(daugher Jinky Young in Phillipines)
Winning streak set Fischer apart
(won 20 grandmaster games in run-up
to winning world championship)
PhilInq/Dispatch/Email, Jun 18, 2008
FISCHER CLOCK STILL TICKING
& 32.Enemies of the Party

TRILBY BOOK, PLAY & HAT
(Svengali by Du Maurier)
Email, Jun 18, 2008
ORWELL REVIEWS TRILBY

666 AN ODD NUMBER
(reader sends new additions)
Email, Jun 18, 2008
BIG BROTHER SYMBOLISM

Reader wants to know:
WAS JFK REALLY GOOD?
(or is it hyperbole)
Email, Jun 12, 2008
JFK TRUTH & UNTRUTH

Canada delves into Foreign Affairs affair
(Minister left Top-Secret documents
in Mafia-linked girlfriend's bedroom)
Top-Secret documents found on UK train
(has familiar ring to Canada)
New Foreign Affairs Minister at conference
(UN/NATO/WB/IMF support Afghan war)
CanWestNews, Jun 13, 2008
FOREIGN AFFAIRS MUSICAL CHAIRS
& 5.Pyramidal New World Order

ORWELL STATUE & SONG
(what the world needs now)
Email, Jun 11, 2008
ORWELL'S PERSONA

World farmers worried about harvest
(food shortage from droughts & floods)
Drought closes Oz biggest cattle ranch
(destroying scrub & savannah too)
USA suffering floods & droughts
(states of emergency everywhere)
IHT/BBC/Tel, Jun 10, 2008
WEATHER & FOOD CONTROL

JFK's speech opposing secret societies
("a monolithic & ruthless conspiracy")
YouTube, Jun 10, 2008
GOLDSTEIN CONSPIRACY IN 1984
& 34.The Brotherhood

A methane pipe dream in Rwanda
(100-megawatt plant on Lake Kivu)
Rwanda looks to lake for energy fix
(gas equal to 40-million tonnes of oil)
Rwanda puts hopes in methane plant
(first of its kind in the world)
NatPost/BBC/LATimes, Jun 10, 2008
QUIET BLUE LAKE KIVU
& HARNESS LAKE KIVU POWER

PT boater who left impression on JFK dies
(helped JFK rescue marines in Solomons)
PhillyInquirer, Jun 9, 2008
JFK SAVED THE MARINES
& JFK'S PT-59 CREW

SAINT GEORGE ORWELL DAY
(59th anniversary of publication of "1984")
June 8, 1949 - 2008
THE MANUSCRIPT OF "1984"

ORWELL'S TYPEWRITER MY GRANDFATHER'S
& ORWELL'S PUBLISHING PROBLEMS

ORWELL THE FAMILY MAN
(tender passage about Winston & Julia)
Email, Jun 8, 2008
30.Instinct & Family & 31.Love Nest

ABRAHAM, MARTIN, JOHN & BOBBY
(didn't you love the things they stood for?
seems the good they die young;
I just looked around and they're gone)
Senator Robert Kennedy shot after victory
(Democratic candidate for president)
On-This-Day, BBC, Jun 5, 1968
Reporter taped RFK assassination audio
(fuels case of conspiracy theorists)
RFK shot 4 times from behind
(& 5 bystanders were shot)
2 guns used in RFK assassination
("Sirhan couldn't & didn't shoot RFK")
Kitchen busboy went to RFK's aid
(cradled his head in his hands)
CanCom/CNN/ABC YouTube, Jun 5, 2008
RFK GRABBED KILLER'S TIE
& 4.Old World Destruction

COPS GOING OVERBOARD
(warning to freedom-loving citizens)
Email, May 15, 2008

WHY ORWELL WROTE 1984

CHINESE FORTUNE-COOKIE
(reader questions China earthquake)
Burma exports rice as survivors starve
(revenue for gov't & its ally China)
Burma biofuel deepens food shortage
(gov't ordered farmers to destroy rice;
replant with poisonous plant jatropha)
Burma moved capital from coastal Rangoon
(to mountain desert with rat-hole tunnels;
followed advice of fortune tellers)
Guard/Times/BBC, May 13, 2008
WEATHER-FOOD CONTROL
& FINDING ORWELL IN BURMA

China buying farmland in Africa & America
(Chinese labourers to grow food crops)

Congo opposition blasts China deal
(giving China mineral & oil concessions)
Telegraph, May 13, 2008
CHINESE GULLIVER IN AMERICA
& CONGO RICHES CHINA NOW

Canada's pulp/paper/sawmills falling silent
(hundreds closing, thousands lose jobs;
raw logs being shipped to China)
Transforming land of Canada's failed mills
(into houses, golf courses, hotels, casinos)
National Post, May 12, 2008
9.Keeping Masses Down

Canada cops taser 82-yr-old patient
("corporal said to guys 'Ok, get him',
then bang, bang, bang 3 times")
Cops taser patient on oxygen tank

(spark could have blown sky-high)
Cops threw teen into padded cell
(hands & feet tied; leashed to door)
Stun-gun probe upsets victim's mom

('cops trying to discredit his reputation')
CBC, May 10, 2008
CANADA'S COPS UNLEASHED
& CANADA'S KILLER COPS
& CANADA'S HERO ROBERT DZIEKANSKI
& ANIMAL FARM DOGS &
34.MiniLuvTorture & 7.Systems

Taser parties a growing USA trend
(cops selling stun-guns to women)
BBC, May 10, 2008
SHOCKING STUN GUN CIVILIANS
& 40.Electric Shock Brainwashing

"Kill Tutsis wherever they are"
(Hutu mission of extermination)
Roots of war in Eastern Congo
(genocidal Hutus from Rwanda)
Oh, Congo
(mineral & oil concessions to China;
cancelled contracts with Europeans)
TravelVideo, May 8, 2008
OH, CONGO REGIME CRONIES
& NKUNDA FIGHTING FOR PEACE
6.Disputed Territories & 9.Masses Down
& NOT JUST RWANDANS FOR RWANDA

"Conquer English to Make China Stronger!"
(350-million learning Crazy English)
Athlete uniform more Asian than Canadian
(designed by Tu Ly)
Canada athletes look like a circus troupe
(uniforms combine red maple leaves
& Chinese symbols for the number 8)
NewYorker/OttawaCiz, May 5, 2008
CHINADA'S SOVIETIZATION
& CHINESE TAKE-OVER
Canada's Olympian clothes made in China
(own textile garment industry decimated
by manufacturing jobs going to China)
CHINA'S SLAVE WORKERS
& 7.Systems of Thought

Disaster tests China-backed Burma junta
(military did nothing for 12 hours)
Burma cyclone deaths top 10,000
(need shelter, food, water, medical...)
in pictures, Burmese cyclone
BBC/NYT, May 4-5, 2008
BURMESE DAYS &
FINDING ORWELL IN BURMA

HOLLYWOOD RWANDA TUTSI GENOCIDE
(new book explores movie's myths)
Hotel Rwanda movie sparks public feud
(heroism of Rusesabagina vs Kagame)
Genocide fugitive sighted in USA
(spearheaded Sainte Famille killings)
NatPost/NewTimes, May 3-4, 2008
16.MiniTrue & 17.Falsification of Past
& GENOCIDAL SAINT FAMILLE

Sniffer dogs government's best friend
("keep kids safe from drugs")
ToryParty, May 3, 2008
27.Goodthink
& POLICE DOGS IN ANIMAL FARM
& DRUG WAR IS PEACE

Chinese Canada mine takeover first of many
(nobody is raising the red flag)
TorStar/NatPost, May 1-2, 2008
CHINA DEVOURING CANADA'S METAL
& A NICKEL FOR YOUR KINGDOM
& CHINESE TAKE-OVER
& 7.Systems & 9.Masses Down

Did LSD change Britain?
(homosexuality-abortion-feminism-greens)
BBC, May 1, 2008
BABY BOOMERS KNOCKING SOCIETY
& 39.Love Instinct & Family
& LSD A CIA PROJECT
(replaced by ecstasy in 1980s)
& DRUG WAR IS PEACE

Police raid suspected meth house
(only find a fish tank)
Warrantless search upsets homeowner
(accused of grow-op over hydro bill)
Inventor of drug LSD dies at age 102
(1 gram enough for 20,000 people)
TVNews/VanSun/AP, Apr 30, 2008
DRUG COPS HOME INVASIONS &
20.Police Snitches & 37.We're Dead
& CANADA COPS UNLEASHED

Hotel Rwanda movie sparks public feud
(heroism of Rusesabagina vs Kagame)
National Post, Apr 29, 2008
HOTEL RWANDA HERO'S BOOK
& 16.MiniTrue (Lies) & 25.Prolefeed
& 17.Falsification of Past

Ethanol, food shortage, China & more
(topics that need to be discussed)
The food crisis begins to bite
(felt by people around the globe)
Bio-fuels adding to food shortages
(machines eating 1/3 of USA corn)
Canada can't afford food to feed pigs
(paying $50-million for farmers to kill)
Corporate food diseases - fake solutions
(vile treatment of animals; processing
plants-steroids-hormones-antibiotics)
Indepen/NewsNZ/AxLogic Apr 28, 2008
TAKE NOT OUR DAILY BREAD &
WEATHER-WATER-FOOD-AIR CONTROL
& 15.Life in Oceania & 22.Doublethink

Face scan machines at UK & EU airports
(to match biometric passport)
Guardian Apr 26, 2008
3.Surveillance & 20.Thought Police
(incorrect expression on face is facecrime)

Zimbabwe police raid opposition offices
(hundreds fleeing gov't violence)
Zim protesters held at Chinese embassy
(need ballots not Chinese bullets)
Angola allows Chinese arms ship to dock
(close ally of Zimbabwe's Mugabe)
VOA/Zam/BBC, Apr 26, 2008
ZIMBABWE'S MURDERING MUGABE
& MUGABE HAS YELLOW FEVER
& 7.Systems & 6.SuperStates
& USA GAVE CHINA PANAMA CANAL
& CHINA NUKES THRU PANAMA?

UK couple want to fix Orwell's Bihar house
(& develop it as a tourist attraction)
Bombay News, Apr 25, 2008
VISITING ORWELL'S BIRTHPLACE
& SHRINE TO ORWELL

GRANDFATHERLY ECONOMY ADVICE
(warns of threats to future)
Many USA states are in recession
(income gobbled up by food & fuel)
AP, Apr 25, 2008
MAJOR SPEECH IS ORWELL SPEAK &
MiniPlenty & Masses Down & Classes

Canada students honour Nelson Mandela
(gov't, teachers, school boards endorse)
Lionizing Mandela, a lifelong subversive
(President Mbeko his political clone)
Why "Cry The Beloved" wife fled S/Africa
("President Mandela said we're cowards;
but crime is rampaging through the land")
South Africa's Mandela silent on Mugabe
(neighbour Zimbabwe in hands of madman)
CNW/News247/Mirror Apr 22, 2008
10.Rulers