{"id":285349,"date":"2025-01-20T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=285349"},"modified":"2025-01-17T06:13:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T06:13:46","slug":"happy-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/01\/happy-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 1984!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_285350\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/george_orwell.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285350\" class=\"wp-image-285350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/george_orwell.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-285350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Orwell<br \/>Source: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creative_CommonsCreative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Jan 2025 &#8211;<\/em> In his master-piece, <em>1984<\/em>, George Orwell amazingly predicted how today\u2019s world would be, and how the current reality is not expected to get any better, rather\u2026<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This way, war is now called peace; the killing of unarmed civilians for the purpose of invading and dominating is called an act of self-defence; all products are now marketed as \u2018100% natural\u2019 as if all whatever has been elaborated had never used natural resources\u2026<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair is his real name) wrote 1984 in 1949, that\u2019s four years after publishing his yet another masterpiece: <em>Animal Farm<\/em>, through which he also predicted how popular uprisings and \u2018revolutions\u2019 have ended up in apparent \u2018regime changes\u2019 that quite too often led to restoring the old ones.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Done!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, today\u2019s world is visibly dominated by the addiction to war and the destruction of Nature, through more and more voracity and greed. This is called \u2018development.\u2019<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Just a Short List of All the \u201cDones\u2019:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>The revenues from sales of arms and military services<\/strong> by the 100 largest companies in the industry reached $632 billion in 2023 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sipri.org\/media\/press-release\/2024\/worlds-top-arms-producers-see-revenues-rise-back-wars-and-regional-tensions\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SIPRI<\/a>). Call it \u2018security.\u2019 Done!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>The recruitment and use of children for armed conflict purposes is on steady rise<\/strong>, from Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the Lake Chad basin, Mozambique, the Sahel, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Haiti. Tell that these are \u2018internal\u2019 conflicts. Done!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">2024 has been one of the worst years on record for children living in conflict zones in UNICEF\u2019s history. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/press-releases\/not-new-normal-2024-one-worst-years-unicefs-history-children-conflict\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>More than one in six children globally<\/strong><\/a> now live in areas affected by conflict, forced to face unthinkable violations. Say \u2018sorry to hear that.\u2019 Done!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>Every 10 minutes a girl or a woman is killed<\/strong>. Just talk about the Talibans and it is done!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>Tens of thousands of elderly people, pregnant girls and women and new-borns are buried alive under the bombs<\/strong>. Say that they are \u2018terrorists\u2019. Done!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>Taxpayers subsidise giant fossil fuels corporations with 7 trillion USD\u2026 a year<\/strong>. Just tell them that this is good as it leads to a more accessible price of oil and gas. Done!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>Destroy the Planet\u2019s natural resources<\/strong> and just name it \u2018progress.\u2019 Also done!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>Exploit migrants and refugees<\/strong> from the world\u2019s impoverished countries, use them as \u2018disposables\u2019 and then dump them somewhere else.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">All you need to do is shout that all those humans want to \u2018invade us,\u2019 \u2018destroy our civilisations and our democracy,\u2019 \u2018rape our girls,\u2019 and \u2018steal our properties.\u2019 If you wish, just add that they are <strong>\u2018Muslims,\u2019 or \u2018Islamists\u2019 and thus \u2018terrorists.<\/strong>\u2019 Done!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, use poor nations as a cheap dumping sites for all kinds of waste, including electronics and other highly toxic materials, and carry on saying that this is done as part of the \u2018Free Trade Agreements.\u2019<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Also meanwhile, keep on claiming that \u2018business\u2019 competitors are \u2018enemies\u2019 to fight against, like China for instance.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">By the way, don\u2019t forget about updating the list of \u201cAxis of Evil\u2019 which for now includes Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and whichever population you deem as \u2018sanctionable.\u2019 Say it is just about promoting human rights. Also Done!<\/p>\n<p><b>Security?<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As importantly: continue calling the world\u2019s largest military powers as members of the United Nations Security Council.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The list of all the \u2018dones\u2019 is too lengthy to be summarised in just one report.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Perhaps it would be enough to follow the \u2018news\u2019 with a different approach.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Please remember to behave yourself and always be \u2018politically correct.\u2019 Big Brother is watching you\u2026 to protect you, of course.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Happy 1984!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><i>_____________________________________________<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/baher-kamal-e1508574091525.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-100598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/baher-kamal-e1508574091525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a> Baher Kamal, <\/i><em>a member of the <\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><\/span><em>, <\/em><i>is an Egyptian-born, Spanish national, secular journalist, with over 45 years of professional experience \u2014 from reporter to special envoy to chief editor of national dailies and an international news agency. Baher is former <\/i><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/author\/baher-kamal\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Senior Advisor<\/i><\/a><\/span><i> <\/i><i>to the Director General of the international news agency <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">IPS (Inter Press Service<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><i>)<\/i><\/span><\/a><i> and he also contributed to prestigious magazines such as <\/i><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/\" >TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a><\/span>,<i> <\/i>GEO, Muy Interesante, <i>and<\/i> Natura, <i>Spain<\/i>. <i>He is also publisher and editor of<\/i> Human Wrongs Watch.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/human-wrongs-watch.net\/2025\/01\/16\/happy-1981\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; human-wrongs-watch.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 2025 &#8211; In his master-piece, 1984, George Orwell amazingly predicted how today\u2019s world would be: war is now called peace; the killing of unarmed civilians is called an act of self-defense\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":285350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1235,855,642,1426,75],"class_list":["post-285349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-1235","tag-george-orwell","tag-literature","tag-predictions","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285351,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285349\/revisions\/285351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}