ISRAELI PIRACY OK, SOMALI PIRACY BAD NPR

After reporting the Israeli version of the killings by the IDF all day NPR did allow a good story by a woman and German official with diplomatic immunity.  She was not arrested as most of the humanitarian passengers and crew were by IDF, taken hostage on the high sea.   Which would be a problem if only a Somali youth had taken them hostage.  Ho hum.  Israel good like America.  Somalis bad like the Goyim.


Yet her personal witness of three shot dead on a lower deck was quickly diluted with a repetition of IDF talking points.  Ain't it great to be an Israeli-American!  Soon NPR has implanted the expectation that the United States expects an Israeli investigation of the massacre!  This is ludicrous beyond words.  What a joke and the BS about "at least some international input" is pure crap.  Israel is the defendant.  You don't ask the defendant to act as investigator or prosecutor.  Or you do if you are
NPR and the Obama adminstration, trying to keep a low profile in a world of woe.

IRA PLAY DOUGH POINTS TO QUICK SOLUTION FOR GULF WELL LEAK

For some reason I have been distracted from the ongoing catastrophe in the Gulf so I have been frustrated that BP has refused to stop the oil leak with a little explosion to destroy the oil pipe's access to the surface.  Today. I am pleased to see that a guest on Ira Flatow's Science Friday suggests crimping the leaking oil pipe with explosives, duhhhhh!   I agree that explosive charges could stop this leak rather quickly and that this could be achieved within a few days.

This "no brainer" and obvious solution is not being pursued because it would cost BP and its stockholders, something Ira Playdough doesn't discuss. 


So Ira gets an A for seeing the obvious solution but he gets an F for not insisting on this environmentally friendly solution.  He also gets an F for not seeing that politics and economics control the technology and science used for this situation.  Ira Flatow has mainly, however, hosted a discussion about how technology can stop the oil by saving the BP investment, by saving the pipes they have installed. 


Just think about it.  The United States blows up everything every day for fun and profit, war and more thrills.  Why is the US suddenly unable to blow up a blow out?  Profits!  Profits of BP shareholders.  They are willing to sacrifice the fish, the worms, the plankton, the turtles and fish, everything for their unholy profit.


That is why capitalism really is no good and has to be replaced by a noncapitalist system of ownership and production that is friendly to our Common Mother, Earth.  We don't really need big oil if we switch to other forms of energy.  Big oil is trying to keep us dependent on oil and blocks alternative energy development.

NPR JUSTIFIES THE MASSACRE EXPOSED BY WIKILEAKS

     I turned on the radio today, April 12, 2010, to hear NPR running a program about the merciless gunning down of civilians and journalists in Iraq, recently revealed by Wiki leaks   I have tried to post that video to this blog but I have noticed these videos often don't seem to work anymore.  Anyone who looks at that video, and it is available if you look for it, is going to be shocked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0

Here is a link.  A true patriot released this video and it is something the United States wants to hide at all costs, the truth about the illegal occupation of Iraq.  This is the daily work of our supposedly wonderful soldiers, not an exception.


Unarmed civilians are viewed at a distance so the United States forces are completely out of range of even imaginary weapons.  So a casual dialogue unfolds as one glorious soldier talks to another even more wonderful dude and then they shoot unarmed civilians, again and again, and again.

    So these all American yahoos fire 30 caliber machine gun fire at pedestrians and then at a van trying to help the wounded.  The closed minded evil of the Americans is so clear.  This is evil and the justification of it is pure evil.  NPR is part of the military industrial media complex.  This is not a just war and any American who supports it is participating in evil as indeed I am, at least to some extent, for paying my taxes. 


   There is no justification for this massacre or the war.  For NPR to once again promote military gibberish about how this is all ok tells us what NPR is all about, justifying the rule of the few over the many whether the few are the citizens of one privileged nation like Israel or another privileged nation like the United States.  You have to massacre the many like they don't matter to achieve this and that is what NPR was justifying today.

The quotation by Orwell fits NPR to a tee, "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable..."  NPR
does that better than anyone on behalf of Liberal reaction.


    Crucially, the empty headed rhetoric about military service, military honor, and rules of engagement is at the heart of U. S. and in this particular case NPR's justification of massacres and mass murder.


     It is incredible.  One fool after another calls in and confesses their war crimes.  I dropped napalm on a village to save my men one dude with a peculiar accent asserts.  This caller is saying that all the rules of engagement that the guest is talking about really don't apply even though the guest just justified the massacre of civilians in Iraq.   I brought my people home says.  It doesn't matter that the invasion of foreign lands was not justified in any way.


     I am livid.  NPR, understanding supporter of the massacre of civilians and journalists.  Remember this next fund raiser.

      Now, longtime imperialist stooge, Clarence Paige is telling us we didn't invade Iraq because of WMD's.

  Perhaps with the economy tanking the NPR propagandists are vying with one another to keep their jobs.  To indicate their employability they must indicate their subservience to imperialist, Zionist, and capitalist ideology and power.  This is after a long dialogue with Neil Conan about how personable and "deep" the hard core racists in the United States are, also hiding behind the bull shit of military honor.

Liberal reaction. It sounds different than Conservative reaction but it serves the tiny and privileged elites making wars on the rest of us.  NPR.

NEIL CONAN AND HIS EXPERT ON IRANIAN BARBARIANS

Yesterday Neil Conan, the golden voiced lad at NPR, hosted some unremembered expert on the Iran who characterized the Iranians as something like barbarians.  I couldn't find the incriminating evidence as I looked for it today
on the NPR site but here is my criticism of the expert and Conan without any bibliography, eh?


The topic was the "terrible threat" of Iran, one of NPR's and the national security cult's favorite foci.  The terrible threat of Iran maybe having nuclear weapons was brought up again and again as a pretext for sanctions against Iran.  Yet there was obviously more than sanctions suggested by the discussion.  It was, in fact a disingenuous effort, as before with Iraq on NPR, to justify a chain of escalating attacks on Iran beginning with an intensification of the economic embargo the United States has tried to impose since it's favorite dictator was overthrown thirty years ago.  As with Iraq the end game is the destruction of another advanced nation with lots of oil in the ground.  NPR.


Of course there are defects in the Iranian ecclesiatical regime but that doesn't mean the United States has become a champion of human rights or of Iranian democracy.  Indeed, the so-called democracy in the United States is a complete mind numbing farce which has effectively left the American people even more impotent than the Iranian people who at least have the gumption to rebel against their government, something Americans will apparently never do in their own country!  Why are Americans such gutless wonders?  The two party farce is a great deal of the problem and NPR does its part to manipulate and control the population in close coordination with the VIP caste and National Security Coconspirators.


Conan went so far as to assert as a fact that Iran is a few years from developing a nuclear weapon.  This is the kind of thing NPR loyally reported when G. W. was spinning his lies about Iraqi WMDs with Tony Blair and Big Dick Cheney.  So much for objective fact based journalism.  NPR  


At one point a caller suggested that the two gentlemen discuss the Israeli nuclear threat and the caller noticed that only in America could the so-called imagined and not real Iranian nuclear threat could be discussed without any reference whatsoever to the Israeli strategic arsenal.  The guest expert said he would in fact address the issue.  Would that be the first time on NPR the issue of Israeli nukes has been discussed?


Yet the barbarian expert and Conan simply defended Israel and with an obvious devotion to the Israeli state that may reveal what NPR is largely about.  It turns out Israel the invader of Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and conqueror of Palestine is a swell responsible country.  The Iranians are not responsible like the Israelis even though they invaded no one.

So the guest portraying the Iranians as barbarians pointed out that Israel is a "responsible" nuclear weapons holder so it is ok.  End of discussion.

  Conan had to insert his own defense of the strategic nuclear power with the idea that Israel never signed a nuclear nonproliferation agreement as Iran had!  So, thinking like a damn lawyer, it is fine to go after Iran and ignore Israel.  Double standards everywhere, that is what lawyers and the defenders of elite privilege do best, justify and implement double standards.


So there never has been nor ever will be a program on NPR about the American or Israeli nuclear threat to others or even ourselves!  Yes, these are responsible nations and above scrutiny.  Iran on the other hand can be bashed, placed under siege and attacked for decades without so much as a smirk from Neil Conan or a slew of experts that love Israel even more than they love the United States.



So, according to NPR, it is ok to destroy the Iranian regime and maybe Iran as well for an imagined nuclear threat that doesn't even exist (or some other excuse) but the really existing strategic arsenal of Israel, at least three hundred nuclear weapons, is still not going to be discussed!  Thus we see the Israeli, United States and NPR consensus, Israeli nuclear weapons good,  US nuclear weapons good. Iranians nuclear program even without weapons bad!  I am surprised neither Conan nor his guest shouted out, "Ich liebe Israel!"  Double standards and the Israeli lobby all in one mellow package.


What percent of the NPR staff has Israeli citizenship in addition to their American citizenship?  How many are active in Zionist organizations?

GROSS TERRY AND HER NATIONAL SECURITY LAWYER EXPERT DECIDE TO LOCK DOWN THE INTERNET

   Today the behavior of Gross Terry was truly reprehensible.  She had this expert jackass on who slowly spun a story of how we must lock down the internet even going so far as to suggest a license for anyone who wants to get on the internet.  It was very, very clever.  Lawyers are now supposed to help everyone, what a joke!, by regulating the internet!  Who needs these lawyers anyway, no one I know!


    Lock down the internet so it can be just like cable tv, a stinking marketplace with nothing but deception, hustling and top down tyranny.  No wonder Gross Terry and the whole class of political parasites sucking on the neck of the empire love this idea!  Jobs for the fools that were on Wall Street.  Right Terri?

No passion for freedom in this country was noted in the NPR interview except the idiotic idea that we have a free country and don't need privacy!   Yes you need a degree in law or thirty years reporting lies and distortions to understand that one!  Only those foreign lands with terrible governments might need privacy the lawyerly jackass opined.  Terri couldn't agree quickly enough.


    (colonic emission sound)

SAME INTERVIEW WITH BRILLIANT IMPERIALIST BLUNDER EXPERT, TERRI GOES MILITARY ADVISOR

Geez, Louise, I think I'll sneeze!  Terri the Gross seems to be trying to be a coconspirator in the military planning in Afghanistan!  What about this?  What about that!

There are so many opportunities for Terri to ask a question that leads in a progressive direction, but she never takes that opportunity.  {insert colonic emission sound}

A MICROANALYSIS OF IMPERIAL BLUNDERS

On January 27th this year of the empire 2010

Terri Gross, {whom I affectionately refer to as Gross Terri, with a sound of emitting flatulence immediately following} is hosting a brilliant expert on the blunders of the stinking empire in Iraq. (insert emission sound here)


It is so enlightening to listen as this clear thinking expert reviews the catastrophes wrought by the imperialist intervention in Iraq.  Let us never forget that NPR shamelessly promoted this war and defends it to this day.



Also, what about  NPR doing a microanalysis of the scoundrels screwing up this country too?  NPR has never done anything like look at who is behind socially engineered catastrophes in America.  Shameless and blind!

NPR MOVES FROM DENYING US AND UK INTERVENTION IN IRAN TO PROMOTING IT

We are talking with the dude who wants to openly support regime change in Iraq the NPR host should say.  But what about BBC and NPR, the semiofficial organs of the Anglo-American empire have to say about previously denying such intervention.


What is the real motive of this guest.  Is it to BUILD public opinion about American interference in Iran since it has already been going on?  Very probably.

Of course, Robert Kagan is now discussing American interference in the internal affairs of other nations as an accepted norm!  This man is a true servant of the empire!  {Reward him with Top Security clearances!  Now he can tell us there is a secret we don't know that means we have to accept his stupid violent message, support and pay for something that is obviously wrong, stupid and evil! Oops!  There I go again!}



Then what about Kagan's  horrible concern that an Israeli attack would be be wrong only because it is unlikely to be a success! This guy is a partisan and a representative of imperialist and  the US Zionist polity. NPR promotes this kind of reactionary rubbish all the time.  It is the semi-official organ of US government-think and the US based Zionist consensus.


It is almost hilarious how the nuclear weapon issue weaves in and out of this sales pitch for imperialist intervention.  It obviously has little or nothing to do with it.

TIRED OF THE TEMPLE GRANDIN "EAT MEAT" CAMPAIGN

  Temple Grandin is an amazing person and she has a lot to teach us about whaever was and remains wrong with her, if anything.  Yet the whole thing ends up at the slaughterhouse and her life story ends up being a very sophisticated version of the phrase you see on billboards in farming country,
"BEEF. IT'S WHAT'S FOR DINNER".


I write this as one of the more beef dependent people on earth, at least until a few years ago.  

The billboards are usually not very high tech and the message is blunt, honest and straightforward.  Grandin, on the other hand, almost makes the slaughter of cattle into a sacred rite.

Why has NPR never asked her or any other guest what they are being paid per year and over decades by the industries and financial interests they represent?  Why, never?

Isn't it obvious.  NPR, the soft sell panderers to this or that industry but never the working people of the United States or any other nation unless... but that is for a later entry.

THE IPOD CASTE

Listening to NPR today I am both grateful and critical.  After all NPR is designed for the caste of Americans who are either somewhat educated or simply concerned about the real world.  Most of the other radio programs appeal more blatantly to commercial interest and any real news is rare.  Indeed the AM conservatives have established a parallel universe where facts seem to
be at a distinct disadvantage over rampaging delusions.

On the other hand APPLE is just another corporation trying to make a buck.  Why should that matter to NPR audiences?  Because they are the ipod people, the remnants of society who can afford to pay for everything, every song and if APPLE has its way you will be paying for that song until you die.

APPLE and others hope to charge you for reading in the future and they hope to make their new tablet device will not only burn a hole in your pocket but will capture your eyeballs for an endless onslaught of commercial messages.

Of course here is no discussion of the details about how  APPLE will take you to the laundry but if you are really a middle class person I guess you don't care if you spend a hundred bucks on tunes.


What about the rest of the United States and the world.  Whatever happened to the 100 dollar laptop, freeware and open source.  You don't hear about that on NPR which is just as much a captive of private wealth as the commercial stations.


How clueless is the ipod caste?  Are their spaced out kids going to have any understanding of anything are they just being 
"good kids", hoping they two can be middle class and clueless forever.


Yet that is the way NPR is, clueless about class, caste, oppressions or the struggles against them.  They're really good at quoting the captalists little bellweathers like the DOW and NASDAQ.  


Oh, wonderful, a middle class miracle, Temple Grandin.  They are channeling her now.  See ya!

THE UNITES STATES IS HELPING AMERICAN CITIZENS, NOT HAITIANS

   I keep on hearing about the gratitude to the undistributed aide that has been in Haiti for days but remains under American control, undistributed to the starving millions.  


   The real story is that the United States and all the first world "helpers" are helping the Haitian ruling class and evacuating first worlders as the millions remain unattended, and without any rights or even the necessities of life.  Business as usual in the capitalist hell of Haiti.

IRA PLAYDOUGH LIKES HIGH TECH, HISTORY AND GEE WHIZ SCIENCE

I want to express a partial gratitude to Ira Flatow and NPR for having any sort of science programming and, once again, you don't see this sort of programming on the radio anywhere else.

     I learn a lot from the program but I have noticed in focuses a lot on technology and often Ira seems to have a lack of interest in the actual science of the technology.  Fortunately he is not as much into "dumbing down" the science as he was a couple decades ago.  Like some other popularizers of
science he started out a little like a clownish buffoon and almost seemed apologetic for talking about science.  Now he is much better.



    Still, I notice in his discussion of lasers today he seemed to get bored with the actual discussion of some science when speaking to one of the creators of the laser.  I think they just confused two completely different phenomena with lasers and the way the light looks spotty.  Ira was probably talking about one thing and the scientist was talking about the floaters in the eye.  Am I wrong?  Ira was unable to tease this out even though he may be right about what he was saying, that only some cones are activated leaving the others somehow transmitting spots.  Of course it may have another explanation or not.


Ira could have gone into how a laser actually works, how atoms emit the light in quanta of different frequencies as electrons go from one energy state to a lower one.  He keeps it too simple and fails to explore even the basic science that he could otherwise address.


I was glad to hear from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists too.  I think Ira could have been a little more skeptical about moving the clock back sixty seconds.  That seems like wishful thinking.  His guest seemed to realize that Obama may be just talking about getting rid of nuclear weapons, if you don't have them yet!  Obama has never confronted any nuclear weapon holder with a demand for reduction, certainly Israel remains under his protection in terms of even recognizing they have nukes.

HOW NPR SERVES THE RULING CLASS AND PROMOTES CONSERVATISM

    I have not done much on this blog but that is not because it isn't important.  After all, NPR, like the BBC provides a steady supply of news, most of which is related to really existing events.  The mass media outside the realm public broadcasting is, on the other hand, focused on selling things, making money and of course the conservative press often manufactures big lies and conservative delusions which are reported as news.

    So, again, there are some new organizations that actually report a lot of the news but most of the so-called news is schlock and pandering to popular prejudices and defending the old cracker capitalist order.
I am something of an NPR addict but that doesn't mean they are above scrutiny or that
NPR is progressive in terms of any liberation
framework.


    NPR serves the ideological function of providing a LIBERAL perspective.  It is a liberalism that endorses and supports the power of the ruling elites and never questions their rule.  Socialism and communism have no
place on NPR.  Indeed, NPR, is one of the few organizations remaining that is capable of painting a more-or-less consistent mythology about free enterprise, American so-called democracy and so on and so forth.


    This LIBERALISM is not progressive and it is not liberating.  NPR LIBERALISM is obviously in the mainstream of imperialist and anti-working class ideology.  NPR expresses concerns about the starving survivors in Port au Prince finding something to eat in the rubble.  Why?  Private property!


     The stores are collapsed, the foodstuffs are in the rubble but NPR wants to keep the capitalist order rather than let the starving eat.  NPR also is very delicate in wondering why the thousands of tons of supplies in Port au Prince are not being distributed.

  NPR also sets the limits for what is regarded as legitimate "leftism" such as making Obama's almost insignificant tax on financial insititutions, almost a rounding error says Robert Reich, into a big deal.  NPR and Obama are really on the same frequency which explains why Obama is a conservative in everything but certain gender related issues.


  Yet a tiny chance like this that is really no change of substance is, for NPR, the far left of legitimate political debate and discussion.
    NPR has also done its best, since Obama's 
election, to restore the order of the confused
conservative camp.  As the Republicans and conservatives have fumbled, become disunited and disoriented NPR has again and again put their spokespeople forward, providing something of a basis for the reorganization of the more brutal and more ignorant followers of Conservatism and the Republicans.


   Indeed, MSNBC, has, for the time being, some commentators and programming that is significantly more LIBERAL than NPR.  NPR has never scrutinized or criticized right wingers in the Republican Party.  MSNBC has.


   The NPR reporting on Haiti has been better than most of the so-called news media.  Yet I just heard an atrocious discussion of Haiti during this earthquake crisis.  NPR misrepresented the recent and ancient history of Haiti-US relations.


    The NPR woman commentator claims the United States policy towards Haiti has been inconsistent and mentioned the "restoration" of Aristide by Clinton.  This is the first time I have heard the name Aristide in the American press since the earthquake.  Yet it is widely known that Clinton's manuever was more of an effort keep Aristide out of Haiti, allow him a very short portion of his term in office but with the provisio that he would not run for the Presidency again.


   Bush on the other hand was represented as not doing anything about the subsequent coup against Aristide.  But this is a complete falsification of history.  It was the Bush administration that kidnapped Aristide, and took him to Africa.  Aristide was not sidelined by the Clinton maneuver so Bush carried out the coup.  NPR paints a picture where the United States is on the sidelines rather than the executioner of the coup.

Bush should be prosecuted for overthrowing the democratically elected President of Haiti.  NPR would never express such a view or allow such a view in its programming.



NPR reports that on the third day after the quake that the United States is not distributing the supplies it has piled up in Port au Prince.  Why?  Is it US imperialism again?
Probably, but we will never hear about it from NPR.

NPR ENABLES DESTRUCTIVE CONSERVATIVE MYTHS

I am concerned because at a time when the conservative movement is in crisis and has few if any rational voices left, NPR seems to be trying to prop it up.  We have seen the far right of the party, perhaps forty percent of it, continue to bitch slap Libertarian and moderate Republicans into submission.  Moderate and libertarian Republicans have tried to get some traction but have rapidly been marginalized by their conservative taskmasters.

  As a result the Republican Party is dying a natural death.  So it annoys me to see NPR daily and weekly performing CPR on the moribund corpse of the so-called conservative movement.  Why is NPR doing this?


    NPR is still stuck in the myths of roaring nineties conservatism and can't let

go of conservative delusions that they happily reported as news and economic science for decades. Maybe they really are basically brainwashed by the conservative movement and like bought-and-sold Democrats really don't promote progressive ideas in a conceptually useful way.

   Even though the really existing conservatives have repeatedly tried to destroy public media and NPR in particular it seems that there is a persistent and inappropriate effort at NPR to submit and pander to them.  It seems a lot like sexual abuse and the way that the victim often becomes a perpetrator.  In this case it is the citizenry who suffers from this sick relationship.



Of course the nation and world have been held hostage to the mainstream conservative movement for the eight years before Obama.  It has been ruinous for their beloved capitalism and we are all reeling from the faith based catastrophes that conservatism has brought forth.  Maybe NPR has the Stockholm syndrome but I think NPR should break free of the financial oligarchy and ditch the conservative movement.  Its way past time to rebel but NPR doesn't seem to have that word in its vocabulary.


NPR has a choice, to stand with the workers, farmers and small businesses of the nation or to continue to pander to and serve billionaire, white supremacist ie. really existing conservative rule.


Today NPR is making Republican Party talking points the basis for their Talk of the Nation show!  This is pretty typical.  Conservatives create right wing talking points and NPR acts as the mouthpiece of these points.  The bona fide conservatives don't even have to show up! 

Recent elections won by Republicans are being referenced and it is suggested (twenty times maybe) that there is a conservative resurgence that will overturn Obama.  The conservative resurgence has been the big story since Obama won the election!  Of course the conservative resurgence isn't there but that is the story the Republicans want and the whole of the bourgeois media seems happy to act as their mouthpieces.  If they repeat the conservative resurgence stories enough times maybe the citizenry will start to believe it and of course the people of faith will believe just about anything as long as it smells of privilege through exploitation.


  Yes our political and economic and social ideas are to be fit into the Republican Party framework and every day they put out their talking points and every day NPR lines up to make that the skeleton of the body of their work.  It stinks, NPR promoting and reviving the really existing conservatives.

NPR's relationship to the Fox network has also come under criticism because they share Juan Williams as a commentator.


Juan Williams is the fellow who advocated nuking Riyadh after 9-11.  This is NPR's idea of a liberal and a journalist?  

Like kookie Coakie Roberts Juan Williams enables right wing nonsense and his genocidal statement reveals his real politics, "kill them all!".  Despite weekly news stories on the Jewish aspect of the Nazi led holocaust this advocacy of genocide on an even greater scale has not disturbed NPR.


I am frankly surprised  that NPR uses the Republican talking points to organize their news and talk shows.  It seems that many discussions on the radio are built around a framework that is entirely conservative. This means that listeners are taught to think of things within this conservative framework. 

Of course there is no corresponding liberal framework.  That is the magic of ruling class liberalism, no real principles beyond a sort of empty benevolence and "caring".

Really existing conservatism and the Republicans are in precipitous decline.  The endless repetition of  conservative mantras is not the same as political reporting.  It is simply working for these really existing conservatives, the ones that want to destroy you!

Snap out of it you idiots!