From our Bureau of Sustainable Hypocrisy with some assistance from our Bureau of Ultra-Cheeky Orwellian Newspeak and our Bureau of Unsustainable Insane Asylums
Hang on to your dentures, Mildred, this roller coaster ride is about to get more intense!
Yes, the Orwellian newspeak roller coaster at the United Nations is being refurbished, with the aim of reaching new heights in epistemological chicanery, new lows in hypocrisy, and scarier turns and flips in effrontery to common sense and human decency.
As George Taylor, Charlton Heston’s character in Planet of the Apes would say, “It’s a madhouse . . . a madhouse!”
Lord have mercy. Miserere nobis, Domine, Cubani sumus.
From 14yMedio via Translating Cuba
Starting Tuesday, the main lobby of the United Nations headquarters in New York is hosting an exhibition with a disturbing title: “Cuba, a sustained commitment to human rights for all.” Paintings by the Cuban visual artist Yosvany Martínez alternate with works by other photographers from the Island in an exhibition organized to promote the re-election of Cuba as a member of the Human Rights Council, a mandate that expires on December 31.
“The Cuban people own their own destiny, exercise full power and control over the life of their country, and actively participate in an effective system of socialist democracy and social justice that they support and endorse,” reads the text of the exhibit’s presentation, signed by the Deputy Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba and Permanent Representative to the UN, Gerardo Peñalver Portal.
The document aims to highlight the importance of “the protection of human rights and international cooperation” for Cuba’s policies. “With humility, but with an important track record of performance in this sphere, with tangible results enjoyed by our people and internationally recognized,” the message continues, which mentions, as expected, that everything has been achieved “despite a hard blockade of more than 60 years.”
The text continues to gloss over those things that once functioned as promotional pillars of the regime but have now visibly deteriorated; namely, health, education, sports and science.
To illustrate this, the exhibition contains photographs of Cuban doctors on international missions at a time when the discredit is total and has been denounced by different organizations, including the one that hosts the exhibition, for the exploitation of professionals, who receive only 15% of the salaries that the host countries pay to the Cuban government for them.
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Don’t blame the Castronoids. This is simply what they do, and they are only this brazen because they know from experience that it will be tolerated and accepted as legitimate, if not praised outright. It is irrational to expect people like them not to take as much advantage as possible of the complicity of others.
Asombra:
“Don’t blame the Castronoids. This is simply what they do, and they are only this brazen because they know from experience that it will be tolerated and accepted as legitimate, if not praised outright. It is irrational to expect people like them not to take as much advantage as possible of the complicity of others.”
BRILLIANTLY SAID! NOTHING TO ADD.