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What would George Orwell have thought about the success of 2011 novel, "Fifty Shades of Grey" ? Next movie sequel due, Valentines Day 2018.
He did include the production of porn, in his book, "1984." Produced by the Ministry of Truth, Fiction Department (Ficdep), Pornography section – for Prole consumption only (Pornosec). Julia, the catalyst of Winston Smith's downfall, operates the machines that produce printed porn.
(Technology was not meant for Proles in the book, but 2017 America has porn, nearly everywhere.
Ted Cruz’s Twitter Account ‘Liked’ A Hardcore Porn Video
The senator said Tuesday that a staffer “inadvertently hit the like button
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-porn-like_us_59b76b91e4b031cc65cc1be4
George Orwell's books had enough significance, to be examined and discussed in classrooms.
What slant the viewpoint was given, depended on the institution, the teacher, the location.
https://www.theatlantic.com/enterta...e-orwell-on-an-authors-4-main-motives/258955/
*looks at cartoon of Trump at Oval Office desk, holding a newspaper. The headline and top story take up most of the front page with 'George Orwell's "1984" Sales Zoom.'The speech balloon caption reads- "I want a list of everyone that buys a copy."
What would George Orwell think about America's Donald Trump ?
12 September 2017
Hillary Clinton uses her new memoir to draw parallels between Donald Trump’s “war on truth” and the Soviet Union and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
She argues that Trump has taken “the war on truth” to a whole new level. “If he stood up tomorrow and declared that the Earth is flat, his counselor Kellyanne Conway might just go on Fox News and defend it as an ‘alternative fact,’ and too many people would believe it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...linton-what-happened-memoir-donald-trump-1984
June 6, 2016
A look at some of the ways George Orwell’s ‘1984’ has come true
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ways-george-orwell-1984-true-article-1.2662813
The National Enquirer’s Fervor for Trump
The tabloid is defined by its predatory spirit.
Why has it embraced the President with such sycophantic zeal ?
June 3, 2017
“We used to go after newsmakers no matter what side they were on,” a former Enquirer staffer told me. “And Trump is a guy who is running for President with a closet full of baggage. He’s the ultimate target-rich environment. The Enquirer had a golden opportunity, and they completely looked the other way.”
The publication trashed Trump’s rivals, running a dubious cover story on Ted Cruz that described him as a philanderer and another highly questionable piece that linked Cruz’s father to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
According to “The Godfather of Tabloid,” by Jack Vitek, Pope breezed through M.I.T. and did a brief stint in the C.I.A., then in its infancy, before returning, in 1952, to New York, where he struck out on his own, buying a moribund Hearst weekly and rechristening it the National Enquirer.
Pope died in 1988, when the Enquirer’s circulation was about four million, and the company fell into limbo. The Enquirer tabloids were eventually sold to Evercore, as a part of the A.M.I. deal, in 1999, and David Pecker became the C.E.O.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/the-national-enquirers-fervor-for-trump
Branch of White House becomes Ministry of Truth
Liar meets Publication of Lies
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/10/trumps-alliance-with-the-national-enquirer.html
Liar's Handmaiden
Move over, Sarah Huckabee Sanders ?
Hope Hicks has officially become the third person to hold the title of communications director in Donald Trump’s White House
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...unications-director-white-house-a7942981.html
Hope Hicks Will Officially Become Trump’s New Communications Director
September 12, 2017
https://www.thecut.com/2017/09/hope-hicks-trump-communications-director.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/white-house-names-hope-hicks-communications-director/
Hicks joined the team at Trump Tower in October 2014, without any idea her new boss intended to become president. Or that she had just signed on to his campaign.
Hicks was told she couldn't work for both the political and corporate branches of the Trump team.
Hicks told Lewandowski he'd have to find a new press secretary.
“She made a choice to work for the most fascist candidate in recent American history,”
https://www.gq.com/story/hope-hicks-mystifying-triumph-donald-trump
http://www.newsweek.com/hope-hicks-trumps-new-communications-director-651294
Back ground facts on Orwell
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/10/1984-george-orwell
He did include the production of porn, in his book, "1984." Produced by the Ministry of Truth, Fiction Department (Ficdep), Pornography section – for Prole consumption only (Pornosec). Julia, the catalyst of Winston Smith's downfall, operates the machines that produce printed porn.
(Technology was not meant for Proles in the book, but 2017 America has porn, nearly everywhere.
Ted Cruz’s Twitter Account ‘Liked’ A Hardcore Porn Video
The senator said Tuesday that a staffer “inadvertently hit the like button
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-porn-like_us_59b76b91e4b031cc65cc1be4
George Orwell's books had enough significance, to be examined and discussed in classrooms.
What slant the viewpoint was given, depended on the institution, the teacher, the location.
https://www.theatlantic.com/enterta...e-orwell-on-an-authors-4-main-motives/258955/
*looks at cartoon of Trump at Oval Office desk, holding a newspaper. The headline and top story take up most of the front page with 'George Orwell's "1984" Sales Zoom.'The speech balloon caption reads- "I want a list of everyone that buys a copy."
What would George Orwell think about America's Donald Trump ?
12 September 2017
Hillary Clinton uses her new memoir to draw parallels between Donald Trump’s “war on truth” and the Soviet Union and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
She argues that Trump has taken “the war on truth” to a whole new level. “If he stood up tomorrow and declared that the Earth is flat, his counselor Kellyanne Conway might just go on Fox News and defend it as an ‘alternative fact,’ and too many people would believe it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...linton-what-happened-memoir-donald-trump-1984
June 6, 2016
A look at some of the ways George Orwell’s ‘1984’ has come true
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ways-george-orwell-1984-true-article-1.2662813
The National Enquirer’s Fervor for Trump
The tabloid is defined by its predatory spirit.
Why has it embraced the President with such sycophantic zeal ?
June 3, 2017
“We used to go after newsmakers no matter what side they were on,” a former Enquirer staffer told me. “And Trump is a guy who is running for President with a closet full of baggage. He’s the ultimate target-rich environment. The Enquirer had a golden opportunity, and they completely looked the other way.”
The publication trashed Trump’s rivals, running a dubious cover story on Ted Cruz that described him as a philanderer and another highly questionable piece that linked Cruz’s father to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
According to “The Godfather of Tabloid,” by Jack Vitek, Pope breezed through M.I.T. and did a brief stint in the C.I.A., then in its infancy, before returning, in 1952, to New York, where he struck out on his own, buying a moribund Hearst weekly and rechristening it the National Enquirer.
Pope died in 1988, when the Enquirer’s circulation was about four million, and the company fell into limbo. The Enquirer tabloids were eventually sold to Evercore, as a part of the A.M.I. deal, in 1999, and David Pecker became the C.E.O.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/the-national-enquirers-fervor-for-trump
Branch of White House becomes Ministry of Truth
Liar meets Publication of Lies
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/10/trumps-alliance-with-the-national-enquirer.html
Liar's Handmaiden
Move over, Sarah Huckabee Sanders ?
Hope Hicks has officially become the third person to hold the title of communications director in Donald Trump’s White House
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...unications-director-white-house-a7942981.html
Hope Hicks Will Officially Become Trump’s New Communications Director
September 12, 2017
https://www.thecut.com/2017/09/hope-hicks-trump-communications-director.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/white-house-names-hope-hicks-communications-director/
Hicks joined the team at Trump Tower in October 2014, without any idea her new boss intended to become president. Or that she had just signed on to his campaign.
Hicks was told she couldn't work for both the political and corporate branches of the Trump team.
Hicks told Lewandowski he'd have to find a new press secretary.
“She made a choice to work for the most fascist candidate in recent American history,”
https://www.gq.com/story/hope-hicks-mystifying-triumph-donald-trump
http://www.newsweek.com/hope-hicks-trumps-new-communications-director-651294
Back ground facts on Orwell
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/10/1984-george-orwell