{"id":2478,"date":"2014-12-05T07:17:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T12:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2014-12-05T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T12:18:00","slug":"ukraine-goes-full-orwell-unleashes-ministry-of-truth-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2478","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Goes Full Orwell, Unleashes &#8220;Ministry Of Truth&#8221; | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2014-12-04\/ukraine-goes-full-orwell-unleashes-ministry-truth\">Ukraine Goes Full Orwell, Unleashes &#8220;Ministry Of Truth&#8221; | Zero Hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\"><strong>Officially called &#8220;The Ministry of Information Policy,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/12\/02\/ukraine-ministry-of-truth\/\">Mashable reports<\/a>\u00a0the Ukraine government has established a department that critics are calling the &#8216;Ministry of Truth&#8217; in a dystopian reference to George Orwell&#8217;s 1984 (apparent instruction manual). Run by a close ally of President Poroshenko&#8217;s close ally, while its main objective appears to be confronting Russia\u2019s formidable propaganda machine,\u00a0<strong>the Ministry is likely to also restrict free speech and inhibit journalists&#8217; work &#8211; particularly in war-torn eastern Ukraine<\/strong>, according to observers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2014\/12\/20141203_ukr.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: 470px; width: 556px; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2014\/12\/20141203_ukr.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/12\/02\/ukraine-ministry-of-truth\/\"><em>As Mashable reports,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine Goes Full Orwell, Unleashes &#8220;Ministry Of Truth&#8221; | Zero Hedge. Officially called &#8220;The Ministry of Information Policy,&#8221;\u00a0Mashable reports\u00a0the Ukraine government has established a department that critics are calling the &#8216;Ministry of Truth&#8217; in a dystopian reference to George Orwell&#8217;s 1984 (apparent instruction manual). Run by a close ally of President Poroshenko&#8217;s close ally, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1212,483,1656,1655,821],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-1212","tag-liberty-2","tag-ministry-of-information-policy","tag-ministry-of-truth","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}