Orwellian Friday

[jackstraw45]

Some thoughts from George Orwell for this Friday:


"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."


"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."


"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."


"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."


"In accordance with the principles of double-think it does not matter
if the war is not real. For when it is, victory is not possible. The
war is not meant to be won, but it is meant to be continuous."

[Beelzebud]

1. K&R For the truth.

I wish my fellow Americans would WAKE UP.

WE ARE BEING LIED TO ABOUT EVERYTHING.

[frankieT]

2. smart reminder -eom-

[Union Thug]

3. "War against a foreign country only happens...

when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."

THAT is the most important concept for the people of this country to grasp.

Democracy? No.
Liberty? No.
Freedom? No.

Profit? YES!

[MorningGlow]

4. K&R & OMG

That first photo is going to give me nightmares! What a great big bucket o' evil.

[Zodiak]

6. Jesus, that first pic

makes the Corleone family photos look like pictures of fuzzy bunnies.

[ixion]

10. yeah, right?

talk about a bunch of ghouls. :grr:

[bdamomma]

20. even better than that

call them the BUSH CRIME FAMILY.

[Annces]

5. that first picture is gross

Those people may as well be in the Wax Museum for all the good they have done us.

[Mandate My Ass]

9. GMTA

Powell and Crashcart look like they think they're posing for GQ. Rummy has his usual psychotic stare and Bush looks typically clueless. The rest, :puke:

[jackstraw45]

16. GQ? Close...Vanity Fair actually...nt

nt

[corkhead]

18. the true axis of evildoers.

[pepperbear]

7. wow! where did you find that "sopranos"...

looking shot of the senior staff?

[jackstraw45]

11. Annie Leibovitz - January 2002

during the Corporate Media's "March to War"

Interesting interview with vanity Fair regarding photo shoot in January 2002

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/09/ltm.16.html


excerpt, again from JANUARY 2002:

"The White House, Karen Hughes especially, the White House communications chief, had remembered a story that Annie had done ten years ago, in 1991, on the heads of the Gulf War at the time, and had approved our request based on remembering that story."

[obreaslan]

13. Good call!. See post #12...

Great minds think alike. :)

[lectrobyte]

8. excellent photo essay, thanks for posting it.

[obreaslan]

12. Is that first picture for real, or Photoshopped? It looks like an ad for..

The Sopranos...

[jackstraw45]

14. See post #11

nt

[pepperbear]

15. OH SNAP! LOL! n/t

[Sydnie]

19. It made me think of this

:rofl:

[tinfoil tiaras]

17. it's like El Chimpo is using 1984 as his policy playbook

:scared:

[many a good man]

21. Kick! for the evening crowd