Many people remember reading George Orwell’s ‘‘Animal Farm’’ in high school or college, with its chilling finale in which the farm animals looked back and forth at the tyrannical pigs and the exploitative human farmers but found it ‘‘impossible to say which was which.’’
That ending was altered in the 1955 animated version, which removed the humans, leaving only the nasty pigs. Another example of Hollywood butchering great literature? Yes, but in this case the film’s secret producer was the Central Intelligence Agency.
The C.I.A., it seems, was worried that the public might be too influenced by Orwell’s pox-on-both-their-houses critique of the capitalist humans and Communist pigs. So after his death in 1950, agents were dispatched (by none other than E. Howard Hunt, later of Watergate fame) to buy the film rights to ‘‘Animal Farm’’ from his widow to make its message more overtly anti-Communist.
As one who feels he will be the Horse, I love Animal Farm and weave it into as many technical documents as possible.
I have probably over used the “Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others” when discussing escalation paths.
https://twitter.com/voicehaver/status/966642718842736641
These are rewriting history to fit a narative:
- Date Zetalaya forced out: 28 June, 2009
- Date of the next election: 29 November, 2009
- Honduras only allows single term presidencies.
- Lobo only lost in 2005 by 3% of the vote, and the country was deeply partisan since before then.
Anyone journalist that writes “new” next to elections in the 2009 election is going so far beyond stretching the truth that I would consider it a lie. The elections were held at their normally scheduled time that was outlined in the Honduran Constitution - on the normal day, at the normal time, at the normally scheduled period for elections. Even if the US did the impossible and restore Zetaya to power, it would have had to be fast enough for him to finish rewriting the term limits for president before the election without legal challenge (and it was the supreme court that allowed for the coup). The only alternative is the United States forcibly putting Zetaya in place and rewriting the Honduran constitution for him instead.
These Hillary Clinton articles are laughable panic leading up to the 2016 election that was typical of many reporters that apparently thought it wasn’t enough to criticize the very real problems with her tenure as Secretary of State and the disasters in Lybia and wanted to make up some extra ones for good measure.
https://twitter.com/played_straight/status/967325513072152576
https://twitter.com/played_straight/status/967326303765573633
Isn’t Rev. Magdalene the church of the subgenius priest who had some very public custody issues not too long ago? Seems like this is the same person.