The latest edition of my report is up on EyeTube now (no embed possible at the moment). It clocks in at 15:23. Some stuff the BBC covered badly, and some they haven’t covered at all. Sources are below, and my thanks to all those who took the time to listen to the previous editions.
Life In These United States – No. 3
SOURCES:
BBC report about slowing US jobs growth, “fewer than expected”
Civilian labor force at 30-year low
NY Times report about slow jobs growth and people dropping out of the workforce
Washington Post trying to defend the President on unemployment
Long-term unemployed make up 42.4% of the total people out of work
BBC report on new Keystone pipeline plan
President caves on part of Keystone after trying to put it off until after the election
Sierra Club criticizing new plan
Democrats voting for pipeline approval, too
Canada will just sell the oil to the Chinese
85% of tungsten supply is mined in China
China has 60% of tungsten market
China floods tungsten market to keep prices down and maintain their hold
US could be world leader in mineral supply
Obama Administration’s regulatory agenda hurting mining, energy production
Obama Adminstration still trying for more restrictive mining regulations
Government prosecution of student loan default rose 25.7%
Columbia University course on the Occupy Movement
Government screwing up student loan interest rates
$67 billion in student loan default
The President reads policy speech on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Yes, it’s a violation of campaign law
BBC Censorship: Occupiers Arrested In Plot To Blow Up Bridge Edition
Occupy violence in Seattle, LA, SF, NYC
Another instructive round-up of events Stateside, DP.
Re Cleveland – more evidence emerges linking the bomb plot to Occupy:
One of the five self-described anarchists arrested last week for attempting to blow up a local bridge signed the lease for a West Side warehouse where about a dozen members of the Occupy Cleveland group live…
“We have a person facing terrorism charges on the lease of our warehouse,” said one of the leaders. “If this gets into the media, it would be a disaster.”
If being the operative word. Local Cleveland news is one thing, but the drive-by MSM has already moved on.
Mardell posted about that senior citizen at a Tea Party getting into a fight with someone and biting a finger off, wondering aloud how the debate about health care reform got so heated.
Yet he and all 55 Beeboids in the US will continue to censor this connection to the Occupiers.
Defenders of the indefensible will similarly remain silent.
Did you see this about the SPLC, DP?
Yes, I’ve seen a bit about them on this. Just as lame as them claiming that there was an explosion of hate groups in the US after we elected a black President.
I see Saturday Night Live pussied out rather than broadcast a sketch which mocked Obama over his Osama B-L lap of honour. It’s all rather pathetic, and not a little troubling.
David, thanks. Interesting and informative. And, as you indicate, socialists/communists/fascists have one common thread in what they do (apart from lying and stealing of course) they are violent. The bbc, being part of the leftwing world view, will never explain that to its viewers and listeners. I’m afraid that I can’t see reasoned argument ever changing the minds of these people. The only way to neutralise them is to neutralise them. But then that’s me. I look forward to your next broadcast.
Heard the BBC 9am news yesterday morning mention the hideous murders of 23 people in Nuevo Laredo..9 left hanging from a road bridge and 14 severed heads left in ice boxes outside City Hall.
The story ust got the one line from the reader of the news…and absolutely no analysis forthcoming about this war right on the doorstep of the USA.
Wonder if we could persuade Russell Brand and his ilk to do us a programme from the Mexican border, and tell us why we worry about sweatshop labour and mortality rates for Primark(and lie about what was found)…but the cost in blood and treasure for feeding the drugs habits of Brand, Doherty and all manner of Beeboids seems never to trouble them.
About time we had some costs for indulging the medias druggies,,,Columbia, AfPak and of course your benighted US border neighbour.
At the very least, their drugs need a FairTrade label scheme to be made compulsory don`t they?
be interested in how the US reports on horrors like this-surely there`s more to it than Pat Buchanans book on this issue isn`t there?
The Beeboids and their fellow elite travelers don’t feel at all responsible for the death and destruction caused by their drug suppliers. They blame US gun sales for all of it.
It’s a bogus charge, but they do it anyway out of ideology.
thanks again David for yet another informative report. I have always had an interest in the news because I think it important and a duty to know what governments are doing. What you are highlighting is how much the UK state broadcaster hides from us in the UK and thankgoodness for the internet and reports like this one of yours.
Superb work!
Just an update on that student loan financial bubble I mentioned in my report:
Senate Republicans block vote on student loan interest rates
Briefly, the student loan interest rate is set to double from 3.4% to 7% on July 1 if no other deal is made by then. Everyone wants to keep it down in this election year in the hopes of appeasing the youth vote which turned out in record numbers for Hope & Change in 2008, but are in the doldrums this time around.
The money has to come from somewhere to make up for the lack of revenue, and the Dems want to pay for it by taxing the wealthy more on their Social Security and Medicare payments. The Republicans want to pay for it by cutting spending in one part of ObamaCare. So the measure was blocked not because the Republicans hate students, but because of a fundamental difference in how they want to cover the cost of keeping the interest rate artificially low.
An increase would affect everyone currently paying off their student loans if they haven’t done consolidation somewhere along the line, as well as anyone getting a new one in the fall. Keeping it artificially low will only make the student loan debt bubble even worse, but both Parties want to do it anyway to appease potential voters.
A pox on both their houses, really, but if the BBC ever decides to report this, you can bet it will be from the Democrat perspective.