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Archive for December 17th, 2011

Coming Soon: Salmon Fishing In The Yemen

Posted on December 17th, 2011
by in All News, Coming soon, Movie News
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I spend a fair amount of time talking to people connected with the movie world. They tend to be larger than life, and always entertaining. There seems to be little rhyme or reason as to how a movie comes into being, or what subject it might be about. Next March the poor unsuspecting world is [...]

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Orwell was Right – Big Brother Is Alive And Well

Posted on December 17th, 2011
by in Op-ed
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It was around the mid 60′s that that I had to face the right of passage for virtually every school kid, reading George Orwell’s 1984. It was a gloomy picture that Orwell painted. Personal freedom had been eroded, people were mere slaves to the will of the privileged few. Unfortunately Orwell did to an extent [...]

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De mortuis nil nisi bonum?

Posted on December 17th, 2011
by in All News
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I am afraid I am going to disregard that bit of Roman wisdom. The recently deceased Christopher Hitchens has been rather eulogized in the press and elsewhere so I think the other side needs to be put. His virulent outpouring of hate towards Christians deprives him of any right to respect in my view. If [...]

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