1984

The CIA and Hollywood episode 1 George Orwell

In this opening episode of the new series Pearse and Tom look into the CIA’s adaptations of George Orwell’s two most famous novels – Animal Farm and 1984.  We focus primarily on Animal Farm, a revolutionary animated film in several senses of the word, produced by Louis De Rochemont – a man who had worked with several other government agencies prior to making Animal Farm with the CIA.  The animation was does by British firm Halas and Bachelor, and we also discuss their background.  This episode also examines the paper trail, looking in Orwell’s FBI file an

LIONEL PODCAST: The United States of Surveillance

How cool is this, right? Samsung blues. (Apologies for the bad Neil Diamond pun.) Thanks again to the thorough research and journalism of Paul Joseph Watson. It seems a story of inconceivable importance has been issued yet it seems that all we apparently care about are trifling miscellany. As I’ve said before: beware of anything called Smart or Green. Why?

Orwell Updated-- In An Infiniti Q50 TV Ad?

Or maybe it was Aldous Huxley's 1931 dystopian novel, Brave New World that the creators of Infinity's new television ad for the Q50 ("Factory of Life") based the new ad on. The blue chip advertising company, TBWA\CHIAT\DAY (part of the edgy and "disruptive" Omnicom marketing group) was also responsible for Apple's classic "1984" campaign for the newly introduced Macintosh (below) thirty years ago!

Edward Snowden exposes the Orwellian state

The big news is that, in the words of George Orwell “Big Brother is Watching You” – indeed everyone’s online communications are being constantly monitored and stored by the US Security Services. The man behind exposing the creation of this “architecture of oppression” is Edward Snowden, an ex-employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) and […]