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Dalberg-Acton | February 24, 2020 | Dalberg-Acton

Posted on 02/24/2020 7:37:56 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton

Nineteen Eighty Four is the name of a book warning of the dangers of Soviet Communism and totalitarianism in general.
It was also the year the Communist Sandinista government of Nicaragua was bombing and shooting the indigenous Miskito Indians to steal their land.

Nineteen eighty four was also the year that Bernard Sanders, then Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, went to Nicaragua to show his support of the Communist dictator, Daniel Ortega. That was also the year Sanders made Burlington a sister city to the Nicaraguan port city of Puerto Caveza.



TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; nicaragua; ortega; sanders; sandinista; sandinistas

1 posted on 02/24/2020 7:37:56 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton

John Kerry and Tom Harkin were buddies of Ortega too.


2 posted on 02/24/2020 7:43:45 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

So was Majority Leader Jim Wright, of Fort Worth.


3 posted on 02/24/2020 7:48:10 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Sandinistas helped Palestinians hijack civilian airliners.


4 posted on 02/24/2020 8:12:15 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

Patricio José Argüello Ryan (March 30, 1943 – September 6, 1970), known as Patrick Argüello, was a Nicaraguan American, member of the Sandinistas who was shot and killed while attempting to hijack El Al Flight 219 in September 1970, as part of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ‘s Dawson’s Field hijackings.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Arguello


5 posted on 02/24/2020 8:13:27 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Oh boy...

https://nypost.com/2013/10/03/no-way-de-blasio-missed-sandinistas-anti-semitism/


6 posted on 02/24/2020 8:15:04 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

speaking of books...

24 Feb 2020: Tweet: Emerald Robinson, Newsmax
It’s weird how all the people who testified against Trump in the House impeachment hearings are getting “book deals” (payoffs).
And it’s really weird how they all have the same book agent: Javelin.
Link
reply Maryann - 13h ago
Interesting: Javelin Literary Agency is located in Alexandria, VA. Established in 2011.
“Why James Comey’s Book Agents Are One of DC’s Biggest Literary Business Stories”...

MVP - 12h ago
“Matt Latimer, Founder, served as deputy director of speechwriting to President George W. Bush and chief speechwriter to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.”...
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1231948948027445248

22 Feb: NY Post: Ex-Ukraine diplomat Marie Yovanovitch lands seven-figure book deal
By Jon Levine
The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who testified against President Trump at House impeachment hearings is getting seven figures from publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
The book, a memoir that remains untitled, is expected to be released in spring 2021...

Yovanovitch is represented by the Javelin literary agency, which has handled books for other #resistance icons such as ex-FBI director James Comey and former national security adviser John Bolton...
https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/ex-ukraine-diplomat-marie-yovanovitch-lands-seven-figure-book-deal/


7 posted on 02/24/2020 8:38:45 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: piasa

Debolshevik is an anti semite POS communist. Always has been. The day Linda Sarsour takes him out in a work accident should be memorialized as a national holiday.


8 posted on 02/24/2020 9:31:55 PM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Orwell was not writing about the dangers of Communism. His novel was neither prophecy or science fiction. “1984’’ was a warning. It was a warning about power. The pursuit of it, the use of it and maintaining of it.


9 posted on 02/24/2020 10:52:45 PM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: jmacusa

When he wrote the book, the Soviet Union was the prime example of a totalitarian state.


10 posted on 02/24/2020 10:59:19 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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