1984

[Belly Bob]

George Orwell's book. It was published in this month, June, 71 years ago. It's a good read.  

It talks about how the Party erased "unpersons" from history and used "Newspeak," their artificial language, to control thought. 

[DarterBlue]

22 minutes ago, Belly Bob said:

George Orwell's book. It was published in this month, June, 71 years ago. It's a good read.  

It talks about how the Party erased "unpersons" from history and used "Newspeak," their artificial language, to control thought. 

Orwell was a master story teller with prophetic skills. I greatly admired the man and though he was honest and courageous. Though best known for Animal Farm, a thinly veiled condemnation of of Soviet Communism, particularly under Stalin, he was no friend of capitalism either. Rather, he was, in my view, an idealist who saw the world for what it was, and was deeply troubled by it. 

His extended essay on the use of language should have been a must read for any student intending to obtain an undergraduate degree. He resonates as well today, as at the time he wrote 1984.

[Troll]

11 hours ago, Belly Bob said:

George Orwell's book. It was published in this month, June, 71 years ago. It's a good read.  

It talks about how the Party erased "unpersons" from history and used "Newspeak," their artificial language, to control thought. 

Looks like you were a day ahead of the news cycle propaganda  🤣

From the conspiracy side (some claims I had not heard LOL)....

I give you this definition of what a self-reinforcing delusion is, because without out it you couldn’t even begin to understand Eric Author Blair—who was born into a lineage of British upper middle class civil servants in the early 20^th Century—was a journalist and committed socialist, fought against fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War, during World War II was a member of the Home Guard, that he envisioned as becoming a socialist revolutionary People's Militia—but who, on 17 August 1945, just days after World War II ended, published his novella Animal Farm using the pen name George Orwell—the same pen name he used a few years later when, on 8 June 1949, he published his most famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four—both of which to this day remain the most searing indictments ever written against socialist-communist ideology.

As to why the committed socialist George Orwell become this evil ideologies main historical accuser, you have to know about one of his British journalist peers named Gareth Jones—who was not a socialist, but was one of the greatest young reporters of his generation—with one of his main journalistic coups happening on 23 February 1933 when he became one of the first Western journalists to interview the new leader of Germany, Adolph Hitler.

Mr. Jones knew that with Hitler leading Germany war was soon to follow—which led to him to travel to the Soviet Union the following month, in March-1933, in an attempt to interview its leader Joseph Stalin—the most fateful decision of Mr. Jones life, as instead of his interviewing Stalin, he followed some troubling information that led him to break Soviet law and illegal travel to the closed region of their country known as Ukraine—whereupon entering, Mr. Jones became the first Western witness to one of the greatest crimes in human history known as the Holodomor—which was the forced starvation by the Soviet Union of Ukraine in a genocide that killed up to 12-million innocent human beings.

On 29 March 1933, Mr. Jones reached Berlin-Germany and sent out press alerts to the entire world warning about the forced starvation of Ukraine by the Soviet Union—a warning countered two days later, on 31 March 1933, by the New York Times and its reporter in the Soviet Union named Walter Duranty—a New York Times that published that day Duranty’s special cable titled “STARVING; Deaths From Diseases Due to Malnutrition High, Yet the Soviet Is Entrenched. LARGER CITIES HAVE FOOD Ukraine, North Caucasus and Lower Volga Regions Suffer From Shortages. KREMLIN'S 'DOOM' DENIED Russians and Foreign Observers In Country See No Ground for Predictions of Disaster”.

At stake between Mr. Jones, the New York Times and Mr. Duranty as it regarded the deliberate starvation of tens-of-millions of Ukrainians, who by 1933 were eating their own dead, was if the United States was going to recognize the Soviet Union as being the legitimate government of Russia—a recognition the American people would have never allowed if the truth of this genocide was known to them—but because the New York Times said it wasn’t true, and the rest of the US mainstream media fell in line behind him, the truthful crying for justice voice of Mr. Jones was drowned out—and on 16 November 1933, the United States indeed recognized the genocidal Soviet Union as being a legitimate government.

Mr. Jones, of course, could never go back to the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany—so he traveled to Asia to cover the movements being made for global war being made there—and where, on 17 August 1935, his lifeless body was found with three bullet holes shot into him by Soviet secret police forces in revenge for his telling the world the truth—while on the other hand, Walter Duranty was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his Soviet Union lies---lies the New York Times got away with telling, which embolden them to then cover up the Nazi German mass extermination of millions of Jewish innocents in the Holocaust—all of which led George Orwell to examine his own self-reinforcing delusions about socialism, as he regarded the Ukrainian famine of 1933 as a central example of a black truth that artists of language had covered with bright colors—and caused him to write Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four as a warning to what happened to him so it would never happen again to anyone else.  

 

 

Gareth Jones got three bullets in his body for telling the truth—the New York Times made sure Walter Duranty got the Pulitzer Prize for telling lies.

 

 

For those few of us left knowing the truth of what happened to Gareth Jones because of Walter Duranty and the blood-soaked New York Times, you can image the despair and heartache we experienced when the 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in National Reporting was awarded to the New York Times and Washington Post: “For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration”—but whose true reality of came a few days ago when Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked this question to US Attorney General William Barr: “A source said to me a couple of years ago, speaking of the Russia collusion story, that this was the closest the United States ever came to a coup to take down a president since the assassination of Lincoln. Is that an appropriate statement?”—and US Attorney General Barr answered by saying: “In this sense, I think it is the closest we have come to an organized effort to push a president out of office”.

 

 

 

Now exactly as what occurred in 1933, today you are confronted with two competing realities, only one of which can be true—the first being exampled by the New York Times and the lies they tell—and the second being the truths you hear from us, and those few left remaining independent news sources like us—and to decide which reality to believe, means one must first examine themselves to discover if they’re living in a world of self-reinforcing delusions—which in the branches of psychology and cognitive science, is best known as “confirmation bias”—that is a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions, leading to statistical errors.

What’s vitally crucial for you to understand should you begin an examination of yourself, though, is that mainstream media news outlets like the New York Times aren’t going to help you—because their entire business model is built on pumping out “confirmation bias” stories needed daily by their readers/viewers, not unlike a drug addict needs their daily fix

[BUFORDGAWOLVES]

3 hours ago, Troll said:

Looks like you were a day ahead of the news cycle propaganda  🤣

From the conspiracy side (some claims I had not heard LOL)....

I give you this definition of what a self-reinforcing delusion is, because without out it you couldn’t even begin to understand Eric Author Blair—who was born into a lineage of British upper middle class civil servants in the early 20^th Century—was a journalist and committed socialist, fought against fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War, during World War II was a member of the Home Guard, that he envisioned as becoming a socialist revolutionary People's Militia—but who, on 17 August 1945, just days after World War II ended, published his novella Animal Farm using the pen name George Orwell—the same pen name he used a few years later when, on 8 June 1949, he published his most famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four—both of which to this day remain the most searing indictments ever written against socialist-communist ideology.

As to why the committed socialist George Orwell become this evil ideologies main historical accuser, you have to know about one of his British journalist peers named Gareth Jones—who was not a socialist, but was one of the greatest young reporters of his generation—with one of his main journalistic coups happening on 23 February 1933 when he became one of the first Western journalists to interview the new leader of Germany, Adolph Hitler.

Mr. Jones knew that with Hitler leading Germany war was soon to follow—which led to him to travel to the Soviet Union the following month, in March-1933, in an attempt to interview its leader Joseph Stalin—the most fateful decision of Mr. Jones life, as instead of his interviewing Stalin, he followed some troubling information that led him to break Soviet law and illegal travel to the closed region of their country known as Ukraine—whereupon entering, Mr. Jones became the first Western witness to one of the greatest crimes in human history known as the Holodomor—which was the forced starvation by the Soviet Union of Ukraine in a genocide that killed up to 12-million innocent human beings.

On 29 March 1933, Mr. Jones reached Berlin-Germany and sent out press alerts to the entire world warning about the forced starvation of Ukraine by the Soviet Union—a warning countered two days later, on 31 March 1933, by the New York Times and its reporter in the Soviet Union named Walter Duranty—a New York Times that published that day Duranty’s special cable titled “STARVING; Deaths From Diseases Due to Malnutrition High, Yet the Soviet Is Entrenched. LARGER CITIES HAVE FOOD Ukraine, North Caucasus and Lower Volga Regions Suffer From Shortages. KREMLIN'S 'DOOM' DENIED Russians and Foreign Observers In Country See No Ground for Predictions of Disaster”.

At stake between Mr. Jones, the New York Times and Mr. Duranty as it regarded the deliberate starvation of tens-of-millions of Ukrainians, who by 1933 were eating their own dead, was if the United States was going to recognize the Soviet Union as being the legitimate government of Russia—a recognition the American people would have never allowed if the truth of this genocide was known to them—but because the New York Times said it wasn’t true, and the rest of the US mainstream media fell in line behind him, the truthful crying for justice voice of Mr. Jones was drowned out—and on 16 November 1933, the United States indeed recognized the genocidal Soviet Union as being a legitimate government.

Mr. Jones, of course, could never go back to the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany—so he traveled to Asia to cover the movements being made for global war being made there—and where, on 17 August 1935, his lifeless body was found with three bullet holes shot into him by Soviet secret police forces in revenge for his telling the world the truth—while on the other hand, Walter Duranty was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his Soviet Union lies---lies the New York Times got away with telling, which embolden them to then cover up the Nazi German mass extermination of millions of Jewish innocents in the Holocaust—all of which led George Orwell to examine his own self-reinforcing delusions about socialism, as he regarded the Ukrainian famine of 1933 as a central example of a black truth that artists of language had covered with bright colors—and caused him to write Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four as a warning to what happened to him so it would never happen again to anyone else.  

 

 

Gareth Jones got three bullets in his body for telling the truth—the New York Times made sure Walter Duranty got the Pulitzer Prize for telling lies.

 

 

For those few of us left knowing the truth of what happened to Gareth Jones because of Walter Duranty and the blood-soaked New York Times, you can image the despair and heartache we experienced when the 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in National Reporting was awarded to the New York Times and Washington Post: “For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration”—but whose true reality of came a few days ago when Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked this question to US Attorney General William Barr: “A source said to me a couple of years ago, speaking of the Russia collusion story, that this was the closest the United States ever came to a coup to take down a president since the assassination of Lincoln. Is that an appropriate statement?”—and US Attorney General Barr answered by saying: “In this sense, I think it is the closest we have come to an organized effort to push a president out of office”.

 

 

 

Now exactly as what occurred in 1933, today you are confronted with two competing realities, only one of which can be true—the first being exampled by the New York Times and the lies they tell—and the second being the truths you hear from us, and those few left remaining independent news sources like us—and to decide which reality to believe, means one must first examine themselves to discover if they’re living in a world of self-reinforcing delusions—which in the branches of psychology and cognitive science, is best known as “confirmation bias”—that is a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions, leading to statistical errors.

What’s vitally crucial for you to understand should you begin an examination of yourself, though, is that mainstream media news outlets like the New York Times aren’t going to help you—because their entire business model is built on pumping out “confirmation bias” stories needed daily by their readers/viewers, not unlike a drug addict needs their daily fix

Well.... safe to say, any piece of news needs to be evaluated. 
 

Confirmation bias is certainly strong here and everywhere. 
 

Wouldn’t you agree the public’s mistrust of the media is pretty high. 
 

Except for you know who and that Aussie news channel. 😜

bgw

[Troll]

4 hours ago, BUFORDGAWOLVES said:

Well.... safe to say, any piece of news needs to be evaluated. 
 

Confirmation bias is certainly strong here and everywhere. 
 

Wouldn’t you agree the public’s mistrust of the media is pretty high. 
 

Except for you know who and that Aussie news channel. 😜

bgw

That aussie stuff is boring....even at double speed ....🤷‍♂️

only time to use something like that is when you just rather be 12 hrs. ahead (conspiracy links and all LOL)

instead of 12 hours behind

on the propaganda cycle world time clock ...😄

 

 

[BUFORDGAWOLVES]

15 minutes ago, Troll said:

That aussie stuff is boring....even at double speed ....🤷‍♂️

only time to use something like that is when you just rather be 12 hrs. ahead (conspiracy links and all LOL)

instead of 12 hours behind

on the propaganda cycle world time clock ...😄

 

 

Ok, I get your drift... so where do you “get” your news?

🧐🧐🧐

bgw

[Bormio]

20 hours ago, Belly Bob said:

George Orwell's book. It was published in this month, June, 71 years ago. It's a good read.  

It talks about how the Party erased "unpersons" from history and used "Newspeak," their artificial language, to control thought. 

This stuff has unnerved Belly Bob.  Me too.  Our country is facing an existential challenge 

[Troll]

6 minutes ago, BUFORDGAWOLVES said:

Ok, I get your drift... so where do you “get” your news?

🧐🧐🧐

bgw

 I'll buzz thru alot of different stuff....but I still think this guy is fairly entertaining with the latest news hype (aka the 'propaganda stupidity debates') with all inclusive quickly boiled summaries ...

just easy fun.

 

now if you wanted to kick it up a notch...You could check out THIS dude...He's been sticking up for my weatherman lately...Now THIS is how someone SHREDS and stomps the competition (otherwise known as peer review)   ....

I think the best comment was...

Science: Nobody can prove that the big bang didn't happen or that black holes don't exist.  Pierre-Marie Robitaille: Hold my Beer.🤣

 

PS: Double speed playback a must for the slow professors....but I wouldn't try it with that Viva Frei Guy 😆  

 

 

 

[BUFORDGAWOLVES]

20 minutes ago, Troll said:

 I'll buzz thru alot of different stuff....but I still think this guy is fairly entertaining with the latest news hype (aka the 'propaganda stupidity debates') with all inclusive quickly boiled summaries ...

just easy fun.

 

now if you wanted to kick it up a notch...You could check out THIS dude...He's been sticking up for my weatherman lately...Now THIS is how someone SHREDS and stomps the competition (otherwise known as peer review)   ....

I think the best comment was...

Science: Nobody can prove that the big bang didn't happen or that black holes don't exist.  Pierre-Marie Robitaille: Hold my Beer.🤣

 

PS: Double speed playback a must for the slow professors....but I wouldn't try it with that Viva Frei Guy 😆  

 

 

 

😎😎😎

bgw