Thanks for the George Orwell quote from "Looking back on the Spanish War (1943). Saw this and wanted to keep the 1984 vibe going.
“Centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of value,” Winston Smith discovers in George Orwell’s 1984. “One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Streets, inscriptions memorial stones, the names of streets – anything that might throw light on the past had been systematically altered.” In other words, “history has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” For all but the willfully blind, the parallels are apparent on every hand.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4221325/posts?page=1
WHEN GEORGE MET JOEY
powerlineblog.com ^ | 3/1/2024 | LLOYD BILLINGSLEY
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-10.php
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
I understood from the Star Tribune headline over the AP story yesterday that the IDF had massacred some 100 Gazans seeking food and water. As of this morning, the AP is sticking with the story with a Rafah dateline. It leads with this observation: “Israeli troops fired on a crowd of Palestinians racing to pull food off an aid convoy in Gaza City on Thursday, witnesses said.”