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       Books and Audio Books that may interest you 🧐
       By: AGelbert Date: November 18, 2014, 5:55 pm
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       If you want to get a lot of good laughs, don't miss this 42
       minute audiobook about Sam, Rosie and the time talker that made
       Sam's fortune (the rocket ship graphic has nothing to do with
       this 1950's time period, Midwestern USA location laugh a minute
       Sci Fi story).
       [center][font=georgia]Sam, this is YOU[/font][/center]
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       #Post#: 11585--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Books and Audio Books that may interest you 🧐
       By: AGelbert Date: January 28, 2019, 7:42 pm
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       [center][img
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       [center]FOREWORD[/center]
       Between the far away past history of the world, and that which
       lies near to us; in the time when the wisdom of the ancient
       times was dead and had passed away, and our own days of light
       had not yet come, there lay a great black gulf in human history,
       a gulf of ignorance, of superstition, of cruelty, and of
       wickedness.
       That time we call the dark or middle ages.
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       Few records remain to us of that dreadful period in our world’s
       history, and we only know of it through broken and disjointed
       fragments that have been handed down to us through the
       generations.
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       width=640]
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       Yet, though the world’s life then was so wicked and black, there
       yet remained a few good men and women here and there (mostly in
       peaceful and quiet monasteries, far from the thunder and the
       glare of the worlds bloody battle), who knew the right and the
       truth and lived according to what they knew; who preserved and
       tenderly cared for the truths that the dear Christ taught, and
       lived and died for in Palestine so long ago.
       This tale that I am about to tell is of a little boy who lived
       and suffered in those dark middle ages; of how he saw both the
       good and the bad of men, and of how, by gentleness and love and
       not by strife and hatred, he came at last to stand above other
       men and to be looked up to by all. And should you follow the
       story to the end, I hope you may find it a pleasure, as I have
       done, to ramble through those dark ancient castles, to lie with
       little Otto and Brother John in the high belfry-tower, or to sit
       with them in the peaceful quiet of the sunny old monastery
       garden, for, of all the story, I love best those early peaceful
       years that little Otto spent in the dear old White Cross on the
       Hill.
       Poor little Otto’s life was a stony and a thorny pathway, and it
       is well for all of us nowadays that we walk it in fancy and not
       in truth.
       Full book:
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       [center][font=times new roman]OTTO OF THE SILVER HAND[/font]
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       #Post#: 13673--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Books and Audio Books that may interest you 🧐
       By: Surly1 Date: September 20, 2019, 10:32 am
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       A description of a book hat I'll bet few of us have ever read,
       let alone heard of. For those of us who virulently distrust
       corporate media, it's good to know that one of the pillars of
       the muckraking era exposed out all a century ago and despite
       being on elf the literary lions of the era, had his book
       constructively buried and erased from history.
       The Brass Check
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check
       [html]<p><i><b>The Brass Check</b></i> is a <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker"<br
       />title="Muckraker">muckraking</a> <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expos%C3%A9_(journalism)"<br
       />class="mw-redirect" title="Expos&eacute;
       (journalism)">expos&eacute;</a> of American journalism by <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair"
       title="Upton
       Sinclair">Upton Sinclair</a> published in 1919. It focuses
       mainly on newspapers and the <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press"<br
       />title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_agency"
       title="News
       agency">wire service</a>, along with a few magazines. Other
       critiques of the press had appeared, but Sinclair reached a
       wider audience with his personal fame and lively, provocative
       writing style.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#cite_note-1">&#91;1&#93;</a></sup><br
       />Among those critiqued was <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst"<br
       />title="William Randolph Hearst">William Randolph Hearst</a>, w
       ho
       made routine use of <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism"<br
       />title="Yellow journalism">yellow journalism</a> in his
       widespread newspaper and magazine business.</p>&#13;<p>Sinclair
       called <i>The Brass Check</i> "the most important and most
       dangerous book I have ever written."<sup id="cite_ref-2"
       class="reference"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#cite_note-2">&#91;2&#93;</a></sup><br
       />The University of Illinois Press released a new edition of the
       book in 2003, which contains a preface by <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._McChesney"<br
       />title="Robert W. McChesney">Robert W. McChesney</a> and <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Scott_(policy_advisor)"<br
       />title="Ben Scott (policy advisor)">Ben Scott</a>. The text is
       also freely available on the Internet, as Sinclair opted not to
       copyright the text in an effort to maximize its
       readership.</p>&#13;<p>For much of Sinclair's career he was
       known as a "two book author": for writing <i><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle"
       title="The
       Jungle">The Jungle</a></i> and <i>The Brass Check.</i><sup
       id="cite_ref-McChesney_&_Scott_3-0" class="reference"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#cite_note-McChesney_&_Scott-3">&#91;3&#93;</a></sup><br
       />Sinclair organized ten printings of <i>The Brass Check</i> in
       its first decade and sold over 150,000 copies.</p>&#13;<div
       id="toc" class="toc">&#13;<div class="toctitle" lang="en"
       dir="ltr">&#13;<h2>Contents</h2>&#13;<span
       class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel"
       for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div>&#13;<ul>&#13;<li
       class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#Overview"><span<br
       />class="tocnumber">1</span><span
       class="toctext">Overview</span></a></li>&#13;<li
       class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#Detailed_synopsis"><span<br
       />class="tocnumber">2</span><span class="toctext">Detailed
       synopsis</span></a></li>&#13;<li class="toclevel-1
       tocsection-3"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#Remedies_proposed"><span<br
       />class="tocnumber">3</span><span class="toctext">Remedies
       proposed</span></a></li>&#13;<li class="toclevel-1
       tocsection-4"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#Political_reception"><span<br
       />class="tocnumber">4</span><span class="toctext">Political
       reception</span></a></li>&#13;<li class="toclevel-1
       tocsection-5"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#Critical_reception"><span<br
       />class="tocnumber">5</span><span class="toctext">Critical
       reception</span></a></li>&#13;<li class="toclevel-1
       tocsection-6"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#Editions"><span<br
       />class="tocnumber">6</span><span
       class="toctext">Editions</span></a></li>&#13;<li
       class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#References"><span<br
       />class="tocnumber">7</span><span
       class="toctext">References</span></a></li>&#13;<li
       class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#External_links"><span<br
       />class="tocnumber">8</span><span class="toctext">External
       links</span></a></li>&#13;</ul>&#13;</div>&#13;<h2><span
       class="mw-headline" id="Overview"></span><span
       class="mw-editsection"><span
       class="mw-editsection-bracket"></span><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Brass_Check&action=edit&section=1"<br
       />title="Edit section: Overview"></a><span
       class="mw-editsection-bracket"></span></span></h2>&#13;<p>The
       book is one of the "Dead Hand" series: six books Sinclair wrote
       on American <a href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institution"<br
       />title="Institution">institutions</a>. The series also includes
       <i><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Profits_of_Religion"<br
       />title="The Profits of Religion">The Profits of Religion</a></i
       >,
       <i><a href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose-step_(book)"<br
       />class="mw-redirect" title="The Goose-step (book)">The
       Goose-step</a></i> (higher education), <i>The Goslings</i>
       (elementary and high school education), <i><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammonart"<br
       />title="Mammonart">Mammonart</a></i> (great literature, art and
       music) and <i>Money Writes!</i> (literature). The term "Dead
       Hand" criticizes <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith"
       title="Adam
       Smith">Adam Smith&rsquo;s</a> concept that allowing an "<a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand"<br
       />title="Invisible hand">invisible hand</a>" of capitalist greed
       to shape economic relations provides the best result for society
       as a whole.</p>&#13;<p>A brass check was the token purchased by
       a customer in a <a href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothel"<br
       />title="Brothel">brothel</a> and given to the woman of his
       choice. Sinclair implies that, in a similar fashion, the owners
       of the mass media purchase journalists' services in supporting
       the owners' political and financial interests.</p>&#13;<h2><span
       class="mw-headline" id="Detailed_synopsis"></span><span
       class="mw-editsection"><span
       class="mw-editsection-bracket"></span><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Brass_Check&action=edit&section=2"<br
       />title="Edit section: Detailed synopsis"></a><span
       class="mw-editsection-bracket"></span></span></h2>&#13;<p><i>The
       Brass Check</i> has three sections: documented cases of
       newspapers' refusal to publicize <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism"<br
       />title="Socialism">Socialist</a> causes and Sinclair's
       investigations of business corruption, cases where he was not
       personally involved, and proposed remedies. Sinclair
       incorporates other people's reactions to his cause into his
       nonfiction works, fostering objectivity.</p>&#13;<p>Sinclair
       criticizes newspapers as ultra-conservative and supporting the
       political and economic powers that be, or as sensational <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid_(newspaper_format)"<br
       />title="Tabloid (newspaper format)">tabloids</a> practicing <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism"<br
       />title="Yellow journalism">yellow journalism</a>, such as
       newspapers run by <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst"<br
       />title="William Randolph Hearst">William Randolph Hearst</a>. I
       n
       both cases, their purpose is to promote the business interests
       of the paper's owners, the owner's bankers, and/or the paper's
       advertisers. This is accomplished in several ways; among them:
       The <a href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publisher"<br
       />class="mw-redirect" title="Publisher">publishers</a> tell the 
       <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing"<br
       />title="Editing">editors</a> what can and cannot be printed.
       Journalists routinely invent stories. To stimulate circulation,
       newspapers sensationalize trivial stories and destroy lives and
       reputations. Errors and slanders are never retracted, or the
       retraction is buried in the paper months later.</p>&#13;<p>The
       editors and journalists of the <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press"<br
       />title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> (AP) wire servic
       e
       fail to serve the public interest in the same way as employees
       of the individual papers. Controlled by 41 large newspaper
       corporations, the AP acts in their interests.<sup
       id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#cite_note-4">&#91;4&#93;</a></sup></p>&#13;<p>Sinclair<br
       />quotes a letter from the editor of the weekly <i>San Francisco
       Star</i>, James H.
       Barry:</p>&#13;<blockquote>&#13;<p></p>&#13;</blockquote>&#13;<p
       >Among
       the recent events whose media coverage he discusses are the <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Creek-Cabin_Creek_strike_of_1912"<br
       />class="mw-redirect" title="Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of
       1912">Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of 1912</a> in West
       Virginia, the <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_massacre"<br
       />class="mw-redirect" title="Ludlow massacre">Ludlow massacre</a
       >
       in Colorado in 1914, <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World"<br
       />title="Industrial Workers of the World">Industrial Workers of
       the World</a> meetings, and the <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Red_Scare"<br
       />title="First Red Scare">Red Scare</a>whipped up by the
       newspapers. As a tireless <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigative_journalism"<br
       />title="Investigative journalism">investigative reporter</a>,
       Sinclair offered the results of his investigations to the
       newspapers for publication, but was almost entirely
       ignored.</p>&#13;<p>The <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda"<br
       />title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> tactics practiced by U.S.
       government and corporations during World War I were continued
       after the war against political dissenters. Sinclair writes,
       "&#91;T&#93;oday all the energies which were directed against
       the <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_II,_German_Emperor"<br
       />class="mw-redirect" title="William II, German
       Emperor">Kaiser</a> have been turned against the radicals."<sup
       id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#cite_note-5">&#91;5&#93;</a></sup></p>&#13;<h2><span<br
       />class="mw-headline" id="Remedies_proposed"></span><span
       class="mw-editsection"><span
       class="mw-editsection-bracket"></span><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Brass_Check&action=edit&section=3"<br
       />title="Edit section: Remedies proposed"></a><span
       class="mw-editsection-bracket"></span></span></h2>&#13;<p>Sincla
       ir
       recognized that a grass-roots response (mass meetings,
       demonstrations, circulating pamphlets, etc.) was not adequate
       when the mass media spread misinformation or ignored the truth.
       His main proposed remedies were:</p>&#13;<ul>&#13;<li>a law that
       any newspaper which prints a false statement shall be required
       to give equal prominence to a correction, on penalty of a
       substantial fine.</li>&#13;<li>the AP's monopoly, which he saw
       as a "public utility", should be challenged by other wire
       services.</li>&#13;<li>a law forbidding any newspaper to fake
       telegraph or cable dispatches.</li>&#13;<li>reporters must
       unionize so they have the power to fix their wage-scale and
       their ethical code.</li>&#13;<li>an <a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_endowment"<br
       />title="Financial endowment">endowed</a> weekly chronicle of
       news, without advertisements or editorials, cheaply printed and
       widely available.</li>&#13;</ul>&#13;<h2><span
       class="mw-headline" id="Political_reception"></span><span
       class="mw-editsection"><span
       class="mw-editsection-bracket"></span><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Brass_Check&action=edit&section=4"<br
       />title="Edit section: Political reception"></a><span
       class="mw-editsection-bracket"></span></span></h2>&#13;<p>The
       first code of ethics for journalists was created in 1923.<sup
       id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#cite_note-6">&#91;6&#93;</a></sup></p>&#13;<p>By<br
       />1923, the <a href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI"<br
       />class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> had a report on <i>The
       Brass Check</i> in its files, and a memorandum in the file noted
       that the directing manager of the Associated Press "has in his
       possession a confidential report on the book, <i>The Brass
       Check</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#cite_note-7">&#91;7&#93;</a></sup></p>&#13;<p>Sinclair<br
       />challenged those who charged him with inaccuracy to review his
       published facts and to sue him for libel if they found he had
       been wrong. None did. But because Sinclair was denied access to
       the mainstream media to refute those charges, they assumed the
       aura of truth and gave the book a reputation for inaccuracy that
       caused it to be almost forgotten by midcentury.<sup
       id="cite_ref-McChesney_&_Scott_3-1" class="reference"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#cite_note-McChesney_&_Scott-3">&#91;3&#93;</a></sup></p>&#13;<h2><span<br
       />class="mw-headline" id="Critical_reception"></span><span
       class="mw-editsection"><span
       class="mw-editsection-bracket"></span><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Brass_Check&action=edit&section=5"<br
       />title="Edit section: Critical reception"></a><span
       class="mw-editsection-bracket"></span></span></h2>&#13;<p>Press
       watchdogs at the time of publication and recently find <i>The
       Brass Check'</i>s analysis of the media accurate and valuable.
       It is "muckraking at its best"<sup id="cite_ref-8"
       class="reference"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#cite_note-8">&#91;8&#93;</a></sup><br
       />and "astonishingly prescient in its critique of the coziness o
       f
       big media and other corporate interests."<sup id="cite_ref-9"
       class="reference"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#cite_note-9">&#91;9&#93;</a></sup></p>&#13;<p>However,<br
       />on its publication "&#91;m&#93;ost newspapers refused to revie
       w
       the book, and those very few that did were almost always
       unsympathetic. Many newspapers, like the <i>New York Times</i>,
       even refused to run paid advertisements for the book."<sup
       id="cite_ref-McChesney_&_Scott_3-2" class="reference"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#cite_note-McChesney_&_Scott-3">&#91;3&#93;</a></sup><br
       />And "those historians who bother to mention The Brass Check
       dismiss it as ephemeral, explaining that the problems it depicts
       have been solved."<sup id="cite_ref-McChesney_&_Scott_3-3"
       class="reference"><a
       href="
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check#cite_note-McChesney_&_Scott-3">&#91;3&#93;</a></sup></p>[/html]
       #Post#: 13678--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Books and Audio Books that may interest you &#129488;
       By: AGelbert Date: September 20, 2019, 12:58 pm
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       [quote author=Surly1 link=topic=274.msg13673#msg13673
       date=1568993521]
       A description of a book that I'll bet few of us have ever read,
       let alone heard of. For those of us who virulently distrust
       corporate media, it's good to know that one of the pillars of
       the muckraking era exposed out all a century ago and despite
       being on elf the literary lions of the era, had his book
       constructively buried and erased from history.
       The Brass Check
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Check
       A brass check was the token purchased by a customer in a and
       given to the woman of his choice. Sinclair implies that, in a
       similar fashion, the owners of the mass media purchase
       journalists' services in supporting the owners' political and
       financial interests.[/quote]
       Excellent book suggestion! &#128077;&#128077;&#128077;
       I didn't know what a Brass Check was, but I now see the
       connection to bought and paid for legerdemain.
       As a student of American History, I feel sorrow over all the
       great men and women who have pointed to corruption in our
       society and ways to correct it, only to have those fostering
       said malice aforethought corruption double down on the
       corruption. [img
       width=40]
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       It is no secret that the CIA has, since its inception (and to
       this day), with the aid of [img
       width=20]
  HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-250817135149.gif[/img]<br
       />Henry Luce (&#129421; American Century proponent) and other
       American NAZIs, recruited talented journalists right out of
       college. These co-opted mouthpieces were (and still ARE) steered
       to mainstream media (propaganda) outlet well paying jobs with
       lots of invented out of whole cloth "recommendations", along the
       way, to cement their names as "reputable journalists" in the
       minds of the American public. These [img
       width=20]
  HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-311013201314.png[/img]<br
       />unethical wordsmith evil bastards get TWO regular paychecks (t
       he
       CIA paycheck HAS TO BE TAX FREE  [img
       width=30]
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       />because of "national security" concerns that the said journali
       st
       would be exposed as a government &#128053; TOOL.) throughout
       their USA corrupting lives. [img
       width=30]
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       [move]And now a word from the [img
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       />New York Times, the [img
       width=60]
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       />Washington Post, etc., you get the [img
       width=30]
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       />idea:[/move]
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       #Post#: 14801--------------------------------------------------
       If Jesus Christ had incarnated in the late 19th century, instead
        of 2,000 years ago:
       By: AGelbert Date: December 12, 2019, 11:24 am
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       Agelbert NOTE: This is a fictional narrative. It describes the
       reaction of those in the civil and religious power structure to
       Jesus Christ being incarnated in the late 19th century, instead
       of 2,000 years ago. It is every bit as applicable today, if not
       more so, as it was in the late 19th century. The description of
       Herod fits our current excuse for a POTUS to a "&#129408; T".
       The author's narration of religious leaders' rationale, even
       after they did all they could to get Christ removed from the
       planet because of His interference with their business model,
       provides wry, subtle humor.
       There is a lesson for all of us in this excellent, truth filled
       audiobook. [img
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       />
       Download free &#128144; and listen, chapter by chapter, on your
       computer's media player at the link below:
       [center]&#128266; Rejected Of Men; A Story Of Today by Howard
       Pyle &#10024; (1853 - 1911)
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       1984 by George Orwell: Crash Course Literature 401
       By: AGelbert Date: December 13, 2019, 8:12 pm
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       Agelbert NOTE: This prophetic book has become an instruction
       manual that modern Fascist Oligarchs are using to bring
       dystopian tyranny
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       />to humanity. [img
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       For your own good, and that of your loved ones, it behooves you
       to understand what the message, not just in general, but in
       detail, this book has for everyone that wants to prevent said
       dystopian tyranny.
       [center]1984 by George Orwell, Part 1: Crash Course Literature
       401[/center]
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       1984 by George Orwell, Part 1: Crash Course Literature 401
       1,211,869 views•Nov 7, 2017
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       In which John Green returns for a dystopian new season of Crash
       Course Literature! We're starting with George Orwell's classic
       look at the totalitarian state that could be in post-war
       England. Winston Smith is under the eye of Big Brother, and
       making us think about surveillance, the role of government, and
       how language can play a huge part in repressive regimes.
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       Agelbert RANT: So, the [img
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       />Fascists &#9760;&#65039; won in "jolly old England", eh? [img
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       Well, it looks like that movie we all watched several decades
       ago (made from the "fictional" dystopia that Orwell portrayed in
       his book "1984") was quite prophetic. The year in the title was
       36 years early, but there is no need to quibble over details.
       Here's the trailer from the 2008 remake:
       [center]1984 George Orwell Movie Trailer (1984)[/center]
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       [quote]Luis E. 3 years ago
       It was supposed to be a novel, not a manual[/quote]
       Here's the original movie in full:
       [center]Orwell's 1984 (1956) The best one[/center]
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       George Orwell's 1984, Part 2: Crash Course Literature #402
       By: AGelbert Date: December 13, 2019, 9:10 pm
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       [center]George Orwell's 1984, Part 2: Crash Course Literature
       #402[/center]
       546,354 views•Nov 21, 2017
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       In which John Green continues discussing George Orwell's 1984.
       Today we're talking about what the novel 1984 has to say about
       what some have called today's surveillance society. We'll also
       look at the idea that language can be used as a means to control
       people's thoughts. Can something like Newspeak prevent a person
       from having certain thoughts? I wish I had the words to express
       how I feel about that. Luckily, John does have the words.
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       Weeks, Tim Curwick, Jessica Wode, Cami Wilson, Eric Prestemon,
       Evren Türkmeno&#287;lu, Alexander  Tamas, Justin Zingsheim, D.A.
       Noe, Shawn Arnold, Tom Trval, mark austin, Ruth Perez, Malcolm
       Callis, Kathrin Janßen, Ken Penttinen, Advait Shinde, Cody
       Carpenter, Annamaria Herrera, Nathan Taylor, William McGraw,
       Bader AlGhamdi, Vaso, Melissa Briski, Joey Quek, Andrei
       Krishkevich, Rachel Bright, Alex S, Mayumi Maeda, Kathy & Tim
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       #Post#: 14844--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 1984 by George Orwell: Crash Course Literature 401
       By: AGelbert Date: December 14, 2019, 2:41 pm
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       [quote author=Surly1 link=topic=308.msg14840#msg14840
       date=1576324789]
       [quote author=AGelbert link=topic=308.msg14833#msg14833
       date=1576282131]
       War Donkey: And yet, here we are (by Jonathan V. Last  December
       10, 2019 5:30 AM)
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       />with &#128024; Hurd claiming that he will vote against
       impeachment even though he thinks what &#129408; Trump did hurt
       America’s interests and even though he tacitly admits that the
       [img
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       />administration has prevented the House from obtaining all of t
       he
       relevant information.
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       [/quote]
       Will Hurd and the others like him are craven lickspittles and
       have clearly abrogated their sworn oaths to defend the
       Constitution. The fact that he's not running for re-election
       must mean that he doesn't want a vote in favor of impeachment to
       impinge on his upcoming lobbyist income.
       The Republican Party is now solely the party of White Rage. They
       want a King, and they'll raise one. In 18th months this Forum
       will be a Crime Against the State.[/quote]
       Yep.
       [center]Logic is the enemy and truth is a menace.[/center]
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       Since videos like the above, that voice thought crimes against
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       />the state, will be disappeared soon after &#129408; Trump is
       re-(s)elected, I have taken the treasonous (to American Fascist
       Oligarchs) liberty of making a screenshot (saved on my computer
       and other media for quick duplication in case it gets hacked) of
       all of Rod Serling's wise and timeless words in said video.
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       Another day, another thought crime by Agelbert. See ya in the
       Big House, bro.
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       Re: 1984 by George Orwell: Crash Course Literature 401
       By: AGelbert Date: December 14, 2019, 10:22 pm
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       #Post#: 14996--------------------------------------------------
       Nathan J. Robinson: Why YOU &#129488; Should Be A Socialist 
       By: AGelbert Date: December 27, 2019, 10:30 pm
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       [center]Nathan J. Robinson: Why YOU &#129488; Should Be A
       Socialist[/center]
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