Saturday, March 30, 2024

George Orwell--also read Shooting an Elephant

Wow--found it again--George Orwell--The Hanging--
A Hanging | The Orwell Foundation
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/a-hanging/
A Hanging | The Orwell Foundation
"It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man."
If you want to read of (botched) hangings--see Joseph E Persico--Nuremberg--also a movie.
A
new one is also being made.

Blackwater Eric Prince looking to get into Ukraine drone sector--I don't think Ukraine will sell.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/07/erik-prince-blackwater-ukraine