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Per BBC: "Saudi authorities have permitted the use of lethal force to clear land for a futuristic desert city being built by dozens of Western companies, an ex-intelligence officer has told the BBC.
Col Rabih Alenezi says he was ordered to evict villagers from a tribe in the Gulf state to make way for The Line, part of the Neom eco-project.
One of them was subsequently shot and killed for protesting against eviction. " #dystopia #SaudiArabia
Neom: Saudi forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city
An ex-intelligence officer tells the BBC he was permitted to shoot dead those resisting eviction.By Merlyn Thomas & Lara El Gibaly (BBC News)
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
Read the first reviews of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
By Dan Sheehan via @LitHub
"For Mr Orwell, the most honest writer alive, hypocrisy is too dreadful for laughter: it feeds his despair."
https://lithub.com/read-the-first-reviews-of-george-orwells-nineteen-eighty-four/
Read the first reviews of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. George Orwell’s dystopian masterwork, Nineteen Eight-Four, was first published seventy-four years ago today. Set in a …Literary Hub
#dystopia
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Soylent Green Opening Titles
Headlines today discuss the growing possibility of energy and food problems that were first brought to world attention in the 1970's. Films like Soylent Gree...YouTube