In 1949, George Orwell received a snarky letter from his former high school French teacher.
Nineteen Eighty-Four had just been published to great acclaim, but this former French teacher felt differently.
His name was Aldous Huxley.
After LBJ's landslide in 1964, the Democratic consensus, according to Hunter S. Thompson in Songs of the Doomed, was that "The GOP was doomed, like the Whigs, to a cheap and meaningless fate."
On the night of July 9, 1943, the first of 160,000 allied troops began landing on the southwest beaches of Sicily. After nearly a full week of fighting that yielded the city of Syracuse and not much more, General George S. Patton was given the task of advancing towards the city of Palermo.
"The Russian people are not ready for democracy."
- Putin's chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin
“The war should be a tremendous opportunity for America.”
—J.P. Morgan, personal letter to President Woodrow Wilson, September 4, 1914
We all know the GOP is the party of Big Business.
This one party has pushed through almost all the largest and most significant deregulation and dereform bills of the last few decades.
Just look at how they bent over backwards for Big Business.
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"You know, people are poor in America, Steve, not because they lack money; they're poor because they lack values, morals, and ethics. And if government can't teach and instill that, we're wasting our time simply giving poor people money."
- Bill Cunningham, October 28, 2008
In May 1933, J.P. Morgan Jr. was about to testify before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency to explain how Wall Street had engineered the economic collapse of the nation.
I recently posted an essay about how and why you should protect yourself from the NSA with encryption.
What people often forget is that the NSA is not the only entity you need to protect yourself from.
"It's likely that everyone has already been hacked."
- Michael Wolf
