Recovery recipe: know when you have enough

IN George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Ministry of Peace wages war.

Tue, 18 Aug, 2009 - 01:00
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The Ministry of Truth falsifies records, the Ministry of Love uses fear to control people and the Ministry of Plenty rations food, money and medicines.

Such euphemistic spins are always less than half the truth. Spin is the modern method of propaganda.

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