This film is about Room 101 - the room itself, Orwell's influences in creating it (his school days, his time at the BBC, Soviet Russia and communism), the psychology of fear used in Room 101, and its impact on popular culture since its creation.
Orwell based Room 101 in part on his experiences of the BBC and the political vetting that used to go on in its conference room on the first floor. There is also a theory that the headmaster's study, in his old school St Cyprians, was a model for Room 101.
Artist Rachel Whiteread is filmed making a plastercast of the original Room 101, based in Broadcasting House. The room is facing demolition as part of building development.
Contributors to the film include Rachel Whiteread, film director Michael Radford (who directed the 1984 film version of the book), Terry Waite (discussing the power of the interrogation used in Room 101), John Hurt (who starred as Winston in Radford's film), David Taylor (author of an exciting new biography of Orwell), Tony Benn and Margaret Atwood.
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THE REAL ROOM 101 - Part 3
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Operation Vendetta
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Inside Every Hater There's a Planehugging Truthling from Spokane
The attacks of September 11 were what?! You'd like to help them, but they watch too much TV. Everybody's gotta learn sometimes about the loose change that rattles around inside the terrorstorm.
Don't get albanezered, just help them rejoin humanity outside their little TV fantasy worlds.
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The Move "1984" by George Orwell
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George Orwell 1984 Trailer (Lectorsmith Hollywood Mix)
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OBEY (And be like OMG I'm so it )
i was studying walk cycle animation and i also was studying "extreme long shot" camera movements so you get a scene like in the 80's movie Brainstorm and people walking, and come to think of it its odd ! Christopher Walken was in that movie. get it? walking/Walken. "Ingsoc" is a reference to Orwell's 1984.
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Woke up this morning and lost my freedoms?
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Orwell Rolls in his Grave 4/4
Orwell Rolls in His Grave - The losing struggle against centralized media control in the US Congress. If 9/11 is such a big lie, why don't more newspapers and television stations 'break the story'? Well, a few do, but not many. Why not? One reason - Despite heroic efforts by many Congressmen and Senators to stop it, it now only requires the decision of a few key people to block stories from 99% of US newspaper and television. Do you know that 6 companies now control virtually all of the media, and that they regularly self-censor political investigations by their own reporters? An eye-opening documentary.
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Alex Jones - Martial Law 911 4/5
Martial Law Alex Jones brings his bulldog style to the 911 issue in a big way. This video covers 911 issues with tons of references, as well as proof of the new police state that it has allowed to take hold.
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Prisoners to be chipped Revelations comes true
Hi-tech 'satellite' tagging planned in order to create more space in jails
Civil rights groups and probation officers furious at 'degrading' scheme
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article3333852.ece
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Patriot
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Orwell Rolls in his Grave 3/4
Orwell Rolls in His Grave - The losing struggle against centralized media control in the US Congress. If 9/11 is such a big lie, why don't more newspapers and television stations 'break the story'? Well, a few do, but not many. Why not? One reason - Despite heroic efforts by many Congressmen and Senators to stop it, it now only requires the decision of a few key people to block stories from 99% of US newspaper and television. Do you know that 6 companies now control virtually all of the media, and that they regularly self-censor political investigations by their own reporters? An eye-opening documentary.
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Alex Jones - Martial Law 911 2/5
Martial Law Alex Jones brings his bulldog style to the 911 issue in a big way. This video covers 911 issues with tons of references, as well as proof of the new police state that it has allowed to take hold.
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Offgrid:OuterZone
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Alex Jones - Martial Law 911 1/5
Martial Law Alex Jones brings his bulldog style to the 911 issue in a big way. This video covers 911 issues with tons of references, as well as proof of the new police state that it has allowed to take hold.
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Suspect Nation - 20 Nov 2006
Since Tony Blair's New Labour government came to power in 1997, the UK civil liberties landscape has changed dramatically. ASBOs were introduced by Section 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and first used in 1999. The right to remain silent is no longer universal. Our right to privacy, free from interception of communications has been severely curtailed. The ability to travel without surveillance (or those details of our journeys being retained) has disappeared.
Indeed, as Henry Porter (the Observer journalist famous for his recent email clash with Tony Blair over the paring down of civil liberties) reveals in this unsettling film, our movements are being watched, and recorded, more than ever before.
There are already over four million CCTV cameras in Britain (the highest number in Europe) and they are becoming ever more sophisticated. It's explained that soon every journey in the UK could be monitored thanks to number plate recognition software.
Also, cameras will be able to identify "abnormal" behaviour. For instance, if someone is standing near a cash machine, but not using it, software can alert the CCTV operator. Which is fine until you stop to consider just what suspicious behaviour might entail.
"Perhaps," as Porter asks, "it's time for us to start practising our normal behaviour."
Meanwhile, the multi-billion pound introduction of national identity cards and biometric passports will make it ever harder for us to go anywhere, or buy anything, without leaving an electronic trail of information.
The argument in favour of all this increased surveillance and the reduction of our freedoms is that some sacrifices have to be made in order to protect our wider liberties. Tony Blair frequently states that the modern threats posed by terrorism require increasingly sophisticated techniques to catch those who would attack us.
Another argument, it is often pointed out, is if we aren't doing anything wrong, and we don't have anything to hide, we should have nothing to fear from all this legislation.
Porter demolishes this last argument by stating it's not a question of individuals doing "wrong", it's a question of how much we can trust future governments. There is immense potential for future authoritarian regimes to abuse anti-liberty legislation and the huge new supply of information it provides for them. What's more, as Porter shows, these abuses are already happening now.
The example he gives is in the USA where FBI 'no fly' lists, supposedly to stop terrorists getting in planes, were briefly (before the American Civil Liberties Union took the issue to court) extended to include those opposed to government policy. People stopped at airports because of this list included Senator Edward Kennedy, and the two ageing female editors of an anti-war magazine.
Porter also blasts the argument about terrorism. First, backed up by the former US Presidential candidate Al Gore, the film describes how counter-productive all this directionless information gathering can be. In making suspects of us all, our governments are actually making it harder for security forces to target the real trouble-makers.
"We're looking for needles in haystacks and the Bush Cheney administration keeps piling more hay on top of the stacks," explains Gore.
Secondly, in a triumphant piece of investigative reporting, Porter demonstrates that the new tools that are supposed to fight terrorism could actually make life easier for those that want to hide their true identity. He meets a security expert who demonstrates just how easy it is to crack into the signals given off from CCTV cameras and by downloading their footage could gain crucial security information from the people they follow (for instance the cameras can be used to work out security protocols inside buildings).
Meanwhile, the chips that will go into ID cards and into our passports contain information that can easily be obtained, and potentially duplicated, by
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Alex Jones - Martial Law 911 3/5
Martial Law Alex Jones brings his bulldog style to the 911 issue in a big way. This video covers 911 issues with tons of references, as well as proof of the new police state that it has allowed to take hold.
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Sensitivity Training as Brainwashing
G .Edward Griffin - Seduction of a Generation (Sensitivity Training as Brainwashing) How liberal bias is hijacked to further a totalitarian agenda.
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Offgrid:Outerzone - Clip
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Propaganda & Politics - 4/4
<strong>Link to part 1/4 below</strong>
In this special presentation aspects of our Orwellian state are examined that are all too important in this election year – the way politicians use the power of words and images to influence our thoughts and opinions. A powerful discussion between experts in the field of communication that took place recently in New York.
<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/Drachnid/9D2EB4710E7248B4AE6FF4ECFB8C6A51/propaganda-politics-1-4.aspx">Click here to view part 1/4</a>






