https://padlet.com/6004397/r8scnbkif8gb Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2018-04-19 19:44:38 UTC 2025-11-19 15:08:17 UTC hello@padlet.com 6004397 https://padlet.com/6004397/r8scnbkif8gb/wish/253615427 The governments of north korea, syria and china are the same kind of governments as 1984's big brothe]]> 2018-04-19 19:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/6004397/r8scnbkif8gb/wish/253615427 6004397 https://padlet.com/6004397/r8scnbkif8gb/wish/254988782 http://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-executions-638836
"The North Korean regime cements control over its people by carrying out public executions for crimes as trivial as stealing and distributing media"
"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I’ll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!"]]> 2018-04-24 18:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/6004397/r8scnbkif8gb/wish/254988782 6004397 https://padlet.com/6004397/r8scnbkif8gb/wish/254988852 https://www.vox.com/world/2018/2/20/17032640/assad-syria-bombings
"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has launched one of the bloodiest bombing campaigns against anti-government rebels the country has seen in the past three years, killing nearly 200 people in just three days and it may be just the beginning."

"We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party, and that you are involved in it. We want to join it and work for it. We are enemies of the Party. We disbelieve in the principles of Ingsoc. We are thought-criminals. We are also adulterers. I tell you this because we want to put ourselves at your mercy. If you want us to incriminate ourselves in any other way, we are ready."

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"At the height of the Mao era, people displayed his image in their homes and wore it as a badge on their clothing. The ubiquity of the image in the most private spaces of Chinese life helped to give him a deified status"

"He thought of the telescreen with its never-sleeping ear. They could spy upon you night and day, but if you kept your head you could still outwit them"]]> 2018-04-24 18:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/6004397/r8scnbkif8gb/wish/254988901