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Michalusmichalus 1 point ago +1 / -0

The close minded don't get to challenge other to be open minded. You made a conclusion on material you haven't reviewed, and refused. Why are you wasting my time?!

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Michalusmichalus 1 point ago +1 / -0

You insult yourself. You made an conclusion without reviewing the material. I even gave you a quicker method of podcast interviews on YouTube. And, the book says nothing about Jesus being a homosexual. It says he was married, and had children. Tuck that ignorant rage baiting in.

Ralph Ellis is heavily cited by Michael Tsarion, and heavily cites both original manuscripts, and Lawrence Gardner.

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Michalusmichalus 2 points ago +2 / -0

George Orwell’s slim little novel, Animal Farm, has been a staple of American schools and culture since it was published.

Animal Farm, a political allegory by George Orwell,1 remains one of the most widely read and influential books in our culture, in part because it is a staple of the high-school English class. Animal Farm was written for a specific time and place: expressly as an allegory for the formation of the Soviet Union. And yet, the novel has captured our cultural imagination far beyond that pocket of history. References to Animal Farm can be found across decades and mediums of art, from comics to Pink Floyd. It has become a cultural touchstone around which misinformation has dominated. The novel has grown far past its original context to take on new meanings and interpretations. Beginning in the classroom, many students are given flawed information about the novel and the author’s intention. This narrative around Animal Farm has extended to its use in the political arena. Parallels have been drawn, for example, between the novel and an eclectic collection of issues, from Obamacare to the 1%. These disparate connections demonstrate the novel’s peculiar vulnerability to appropriation. The social context in which any book is read changes the reader’s perception of its meaning, but Animal Farm seems more flexible than other works. It has been misused by many political movements, but I will examine three of particular interest: western propagandists from the Cold-War era, neoconservatives from the 1960s who were opposed to communist ideals, and the modern left who support elements of democratic socialism. Finally, after examining these three movements in relationship to Animal Farm, I will posit that Animal Farm is vulnerable to this kind of appropriation because it is an allegory, a form that is predisposed to misinterpretation, and because it only provides negative political commentary. By this I mean that it does not offer any solutions or constructive insight. This is a peculiarity of the book, not necessarily a flaw.

In the decades since Animal Farm’s publication, many political groups, often with conflicting ideologies, have latched onto it. In his essay, “The Dual Purpose of Animal Farm” Paul Kirschner examines a timeline of abuse that exemplifies the variety of interpretations this novel has gone through:

Sure enough, English communists attacked Animal Farm as anti-Soviet, while a conservative chided Orwell for forgetting that private property is a prerequisite for personal freedom. Western propagandists hijacked the book after Orwell’s death, but twenty years later George Woodcock found it showed the identity of governing-class interests everywhere, by 1980 Bernard Crick had to caution against reading it as a case for revolution. In 1998 critics were still debating whether Animal Farm implied ‘that revolution always ends badly for the underdog, hence to hell with it and hail the status quo.’ The confusion…came not only from the readers’ prejudices, but also from the story itself. (Kirschner 760)

Kirschner goes into interpretations even beyond the limitations of this article that illustrate the many confusions surrounding the book. As Kirschner discusses, Animal Farm has been read as both advocating for and cautioning against revolution. There is a case for both it being specific to the Soviet Union and it condemning all governing classes. Animal Farm exists in a cloud of contradiction and ambiguity, but I will explore which form of government and economy these different political groups have read Animal Farm as supporting. The first political group to make a positive reading of Animal Farm as advocating for a particular form of government are the western propagandists Kirschner mentions, who projected onto Animal Farm their own capitalist agendas.

Cold War era propagandists and British and American intelligence agencies were the first to co-opt this book, turning Orwell’s politically dissident parable into capitalist propaganda. In 1950, around the beginning of the Cold War, George Orwell died of tuberculosis, and almost immediately after, intelligence agencies became interested in the novel because of its seemingly anti-communist stance. CIA operative Everette Howard Hunt obtained the film rights to the book. Using copies of the book and a film adaption that simplified and intensified the anti-communist message, western intelligence agencies turned Orwell’s story into a kind of war propaganda and disseminated it both in the west and abroad (Menand). In his article for The Journal of Comparative Poetics, Andrew Rubin discusses the distribution of Animal Farm as propaganda. According to Rubin, the CIA smuggled the novel into the Soviet Union and provided funding to translate the book into a host of languages including Farsi, Telugu, Malaysian, Greek, Vietnamese, and Arabic (82). These translations were meant to target “at-risk” areas like India and Vietnam, and were considered to have “excellent propaganda value and wide popular appeal in the middle east” (Rubin 82). It is difficult to assess the success of the dissemination of Animal Farm abroad, but it was an effective rallying point for anti-communist sentiment in the west. On a similar note, in his New Yorker article, “Honest, Decent, Wrong.” Louis Menand claims that “the great enemy of propaganda was subjected, after his death, to the deceptions and evasions of propaganda—and by the very people, American Cold Warriors, who would canonize him as the great enemy of propaganda.” Menand is explaining the irony of the Cold War perspective on Animal Farm. During this period, the American government and anti-communist political thinkers held up this book as a bastion of free speech while at the same time distributing it as capitalist propaganda. The still prominent perception of Animal Farm as wholly anti-communist was consciously manufactured by Cold War propagandists.

https://pitjournal.unc.edu/2023/01/05/some-interpretations-are-more-equal-than-others-misinterpreting-george-orwells-animal-farm/

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Michalusmichalus 1 point ago +1 / -0

I look around, and think people were taught wrong on purpose. Here's another opinion :

When considering how certain elements of children’s books affect a child’s reaction to a serious topic, critics often focus on character framing and the author’s choice to feature either a protagonist or antagonist. However, this approach fails to capture the entire story. With COVID-19 and more authors highlighting the virus itself as a main character, it is imperative that they consider whether they are using a gain or loss-framed message, as certain pairings could have disastrous results for spreading the message of safety. This paper will focus on the implications of each form of message framing for picture books surrounding COVID-19, specifically highlighting the differences between Hello by Manuela Molina Cruz and The Virus-Stopping Champion by Hilary Rogers. It will compare the portrayal of the virus as a friendly figure in Hello with the choice to center around a child in The Virus-Stopping Champion, as well as how the use of a gain-framed approach played into each. The paper will conclude by explaining how, despite using drastically different approaches, both authors were able to successfully convey their points while walking a fine line between scaring children too much or making them overly interested in the virus and not taking the proper safety precautions.

https://pitjournal.unc.edu/2022/12/16/character-framing-in-covid-19-storybooks-training-the-next-generation-of-superheroes/

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Michalusmichalus 1 point ago +1 / -0

This was a comment I made in the thread :

Sometimes I'm not sure if the groupings of theories together isn't done on purpose for exactly that reason! Dragon man was found in 1933 but just looked at recently. I wonder what else we have waiting to be discovered.

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/is-dragon-man-a-missing-link-in-human-evolution/

by DrLeaks
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Michalusmichalus 1 point ago +1 / -0

I Google mapped it, and got the opposite. If you live there, and that's what it is I will go by you.

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Michalusmichalus 2 points ago +2 / -0

To be precise Telluric Currents, also known as Atmospheric Aether energy is what Tesla was working on. I always think of this theory when Global Warming is up for discussion.

6 Outline of a general telluric flow pattern Let us suppose, as a starting point, that this obstacle cannot be crossed. The Earth is then seen as a combination of three circuits, coupled magnetically in the same way as the windings of a short-circuited transformer. The outermost is an active circuit comprising the combination of ionospheric and magnetospheric sources which produce the external magnetic field He, varying in direction and with time. The variations in He result in two independent current systems within the Earth. The deepest flow in a thick circuit. The total induced intensity depends only on the amplitude of He and not on the distribution of resistivity within the conducting layer. If it were possible to make measurements on the surface of this layer, they could be interpreted in terms of local induction. However, in practice, the only measurements possible are on the surface of the uppermost layer. This layer, for very low-frequency phenomena, is certainly not like a thick conductor. Let us suppose, for example, that its average resistivity is around 10Qm. The frequency corresponding to p=lOkm and p=lOQm is 25~1O-~Hz (T=40s). For variations with periods greater than one or two minutes, the current must flow as if in a thin circuit. The induced current intensity depends on the resistance and self-inductance of the whole near-surface circuit and it is no longer possible to consider the electric field E as representing a limited region in the immediate vicinity of the point of measurements. In addition, as the crust is vertically and horizontally heterogeneous, the current will take the path of least resistance, flowing around resistant obstacles and concentrating in conducting zones such as oceans and sedimentary basins. The pattern of current flow will be complicated and, moreover, variable in time with the orientation of the inducing magnetic field. A complete analysis of the effects therefore becomes impossible because we would have to know the source characteristics and, at the same time, the resistivity distribution throughout the crust.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266971680_Earth_electricity_A_review_of_mechanisms_which_cause_telluric_currents_in_the_lithosphere

Producing electricitySeveral models depict electricity-generationprocesses. Four of these are useful in conjunction withthe study of telluric currents. These are listed in Table 3,with a brief explanation for each.Charged particles, if they change location, transfercharge. Charged particles, such as electrons or ions, aretermed charge carriers. The motions of ions or electronsare examples of the direct transfer of electric charge.A deeper treatment of the ideas in the following de-scription may be found in Jonassen [2002]. Electrostaticinduction is a special case of charged particle transfer.An external charge elicits an electrical response from asecond material containing mobile charge carriers. Thecharge carriers move to neutralize the applied field. Ifthe external charge is positive, for example, then nega-tive charge carriers will migrate within the second ma-terial to the site of the external charge. This model istermed electrostatic induction because the charge trans-fer is induced within one of the materials, but no chargeis transferred between them.A more thorough treatment of the ideas in the fol-lowing description may be found in Schieber [1986].Electromagnetic induction occurs in any electrical con-ductor where a change in a magnetic field occurs, sothat the magnetic flux lines pass through the conduc-tor. The combination of mobile charge carriers andmagnetic flux creates an electromotive force. This is theprinciple behind electrical power generation, for exam-ple. A coil of wire moves through a magnetic field, andthe motion creates electric current in the wire. Elec-tricity is generated.If the charge carriers in a material are not mobile,electricity can be generated by deformation of the ma-terial, or some other process that changes the config-uration of the domains carrying electric charge. Therearrangement of electrical domains can generateelectricity

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266971680_Earth_electricity_A_review_of_mechanisms_which_cause_telluric_currents_in_the_lithosphere

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Michalusmichalus 1 point ago +1 / -0

In the thick of its crisis, Welspun sought out a company named Oritain. Founded in 2008, in the town of Dunedin in New Zealand, Oritain is a kind of forensic detective agency – a supply-chain CSI. Its work, which takes us into the heart of modern commerce, depends upon a basic truth about our planet. The Earth is so geologically diverse that, in a location’s soil or water, the precise concentrations of elements often turns out to be unique to that region. That singular mix of elements works its way into the crops from the region as well, so that cotton grown in the south of the US has a different combination of elements compared to cotton from Egypt – each combination distinct, like a signature.*

Prof Russell Frew, the geochemist who co-founded Oritain, had been studying element analysis at the University of Otago when he recognised how his research could address a major commercial problem. Fraudulent products sit on shop shelves everywhere. When they’re detected, they trigger fierce controversies, like the time in 2013, when British and Irish authorities found horse meat liberally mixed into “beef” patties. But for every headline-grabbing deception, there are countless unnoticed ones. Sugar syrup is blended into organic honey. “New Zealand lamb chops” come from Chinese feedlot animals; extra virgin olive oil is cut with cheap, inferior oil; T-shirts are stitched out of cotton grown on forced-labour farms. Labels often lie. The counterfeit food game alone is worth $49bn a year.*

The central stem of a cotton stem seen under a light micrograph. The central stem of a cotton stem seen under a light micrograph. Photograph: Steve Gschmeissner/Getty/Science Photo Library RF These deceits, Frew realised, could be sniffed out by element analysis: hence Oritain. The company’s clients include well known brands such as Primark, but also industry bodies such as Cotton USA and Meat Promotion Wales. All of them are keen to avoid nasty surprises of the kind that Welspun experienced, the kind that can burn up the bottom line or sink a range of products – the low-quality supermarket steak masquerading as prime Welsh beef, say, or the pair of socks that turns out to be made with cotton from Xinjiang, in China, where factories are suspected of using captive labour.*

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/16/food-fraud-counterfeit-cotton-detectives-untangling-global-supply-chain

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Michalusmichalus 1 point ago +1 / -0

If you can't review the material, you're a fool to evaluate it. Don't be a fool.

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Michalusmichalus 2 points ago +2 / -0

I've been a dork, and been serious. But, I don't want my data to be their data. I can not abide by spez blaming the Apollo app deb for proving spec lied about blackmail. I honestly have been hoping someone corrupts the whole site making them start from scratch.

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Michalusmichalus 1 point ago +1 / -0

No. Read Ralph Ellis, or your opinion of his work is invalid.

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Michalusmichalus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Not a truck stop exit. The exit goes downtown. I just explained that it's a shortcut THROUGH THE CITY off the highway. Read it again. It's the stop with Walmart, and fast food before you drive through Hagerstown to get back on 70.

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Michalusmichalus 1 point ago +1 / -0

That too.

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Michalusmichalus 1 point ago +1 / -0

They're always on the list, but you don't buy them labeled that way. At least not in Maryland.

by DrLeaks
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Michalusmichalus 1 point ago +1 / -0

81 goes N/S through Hagerstown. PA to the N, WV to the S. It's basically a short cut. Sometimes I get off 70 because of traffic onto 81, drive through Hagerstown after a few stops, and get back on 70 on the other side going towards Baltimore ( DC make aright at Frederick)

Halfway blvd is the Walmart exit. That's an exit that could have taken this truck straight through town back to 70.

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Michalusmichalus 1 point ago +1 / -0

She travels a whole lot.

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Michalusmichalus 2 points ago +2 / -0

Trauma is important for these rituals.

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Michalusmichalus 3 points ago +3 / -0

Liquid vitamins are more easily absorbed. They're all expensive as all hell though.

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