Twitter Revolutions

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Technology — posted by 3wire on 4/8/2009 @ 5:31 pm

From: Danger Room

Aided by social networking tools like Twitter, LiveJournal and Facebook, demonstrators in the former-Soviet republic of Moldova are gearing for another round of protests. Just yesterday, activists seized the president’s office and the country’s parliament — only to have the government take the buildings back. More crowds, however, are converging on the main square. And they are Tweeting, posting, and uploading.

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Can You Speak Newspeak?

Filed under:War on Terror — posted by Q Ball on @ 12:11 am

We are no longer fighting a war on terror against state-less terrorists or enemy combatants and there will not be any more terror attacks. This is all due to our new president and his use of Newspeak in the United States in the year 2009. The war on terror will now be known as the “overseas contingency operation”; “man caused disasters” will replace terrorist attacks and enemy combatants or terrorists will be known as…well they haven’t figured that one out just yet, but I can guess it will be something similar to: “the people who are double-plus ungood and who attempt acts of a similar nature”. I am sure everything is much clearer now to everyone and there will no longer be any confusion about the fruit salad.