NPR Paints Smiley Face on Looming Global Warming Catastrophe

The U.S. government and corporate propaganda radio network NPR put a happy face on global warming (“climate change” as they put it, creating a layer of euphemism)

A new UN report is being released. I learned from Democracy Now! That a recommendation in the draft version that called for richer nations to kick in $100 billion a year to help the poorer ones was deleted from the report. (Naturally the various “all news” radio stations, and TV “news,” which is where the mass of the ignorant American populations gets its information from, ignored this.)

The recommendation was mysteriously deleted on orders from above. We can reliably assume one of those giving the order was the U.S.

So coincidentally, after the news was on Democracy Now! (democracynow.org, Headlines for 3/31/14), NPR broadcast a story on the report. I was curious to see if NPR would mention the aforementioned censored recommendation, so I listened very carefully. Well, my crystal ball was spot on. Sure enough, there was no mention of the recommendation or of its removal from the report. Instead we got an upbeat report on how Bangladesh was coping. The thrust was Think Positive. Because Bangladesh had suffered so much from weather disasters, they were taking steps to protect themselves. (The details of these allegedly protective steps were sketchy, and given that Bangladesh is low-lying territory, the fact is that much of the country could be underwater in coming decades- a fact omitted by the young dweeb NPR-oid “reporting” the story and his masters at NPR.) We can learn from Bangladesh, the NPR reporter tells us. We get a Bangladeshi official putting an upbeat spin on things there.

I'll just quote the last two sentences of this happy-face propaganda to give you the flavor of it:

“We'll all have to deal with a warming world. This new report emphasizes that it will go a lot better if we all work together. Geoff Brumfiel, NPR News.”

So NPR protects its U.S. government masters from unwanted exposure of yet another nefarious act. (One could argue about whether or not the richer nations should make donations to poorer- unless the question is suppressed before it can even be discussed. That's of a piece with Obama regime behavior on most matters- suppress suppress suppress. Of course Obama didn't invent suppress. That's a standard U.S. government procedure going back a long time. Which doesn't make it any less despicable. And they call this power system “democracy.” Keep people in the dark and powerless. That's a 1984-style definition of the word.)

NPR “Morning Edition,” 3/31/14.

Annals of Newspeak

In George Orwell's famous classic of totalitarianism, 1984, the ruling dictatorship had its own vocabulary, called Newspeak, which basically meant inverting words to mean the opposite of their previous meanings. For example, Slavery is Freedom.

Barack Obama and his minions have shown themselves to be assiduous disciples of the principle of Newspeak; to invert the meanings of words. Examples are legion: here are two recent ones I happened to notice.

In Ukraine, a violent mob overthrew the elected government, and the U.S. installed replacement “leaders.” These people Obama refers to as “democratic leaders.” Unelected, yet somehow “democratic.” Capitalists better no longer sneer at Bolshevik misuse of the word “democratic.” [1]

Another recent example is Obama's secret police henchman John Brennan. Obama wanted Brennan to replace Democratic Party apparatchik Leon Panetta as CIA head a few years back, but Brennan's involvement in CIA torture programs scuttled that back then. So Brennan was brought to Obama's side to run Obama's drone assassination program for him. So beloved by Obama is Brennan, that Obama last year once again moved to install Brennan at the top of the CIA, and this time he succeeded.

Brennan, as you'd expect of a career secret police type like him, can barely open his mouth without lying. But he has a habitual phrase whenever he utters a real howler. It's “Nothing could be further from the truth.” So during his Senate confirmation hearings for CIA Director, in denying that the drone death program ever harmed a hair on an innocent person's head, he used the phrase. [2]

Now that he was caught spying on Senate Intelligence Committee staffers and stealing documents off their CIA-provided computers, he once again denies what is proven fact with the phrase “Nothing could be further from the truth.

You can be guaranteed that if John Brennan says of something that “Nothing could be further from the truth,” it's true. It's like a tell in a poker player, a dead giveaway.

1] See “Obama Dictates Terms to Russia To Keep Its Naval Base in Crimea.”

2] See “Jeremy Scahill: Assassinations of U.S. Citizens Largely Ignored at Brennan CIA Hearing,” democracynow.org, February 8^th, 2013.

Guide To Ukraine “Crisis” Vocabulary

First, “crisis.” That means, the U.S. isn't getting its way 100%.

“Ukraine.” Can mean the actual country. Often it means the satraps the U.S. installed in power in Kiev. As in “Ukraine asked for Western help against the Russian invasion [sic],” or, “the American government supports Ukraine.”

“International law.” The rules the U.S. insists on imposing, which boil down to, the U.S. does whatever it wants, and other nations do what the U.S. wants. If the U.S. does it, it's legal. So arranging the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian government by a neo-Nazi led mob and installing people in power handpicked by the U.S. State Department is perfectly legal, whereas Russia protecting its naval base in the Crimea and letting people vote in a referendum to choose to secede from western Ukraine or not is “a violation of international law.” And of the Ukrainian Constitution, too, which apparently has a provision allowing for neo-Nazi hoodlums to overthrow the government and its replacement by U.S.-approved puppets.

“The international community.” All the lackey and stooge nations that line up behind the U.S.

“The rights of all the Ukrainian people.” The U.S. decrees there shall be no partition and the entirely of Ukraine shall henceforth be in the U.S. domain. Self-determination for the populace of eastern Ukraine is not allowed. Controlled elections next year will ratify U.S. and neo-Nazi dominance of Ukraine.

“The territorial integrity of Ukraine.” No self-determination by the people of eastern Ukraine shall be allowed. A secession referendum is intolerable to the U.S. bloc, aka “the West.”

“Legitimate government.” The government of the U.S' choosing. See Obama statement of March 6th.

“Democratic leaders.” See “legitimate government.”

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“Democracy.” A regime obedient to U.S. wishes. This is what that word always means.