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Continue reading …The media said there was “good” but “not great” news on the unemployment front in September with 103,000 jobs added, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate remained 9.1 percent. But even with that growth, Obama's jobs promises have fallen far short . His economic policies were supposed to create 4 million jobs by the end of 2010. Now, ten months later the economy is still dealing with net job losses of 2,229,000 since February 2009. Adding to that the 4 million promised jobs and Obama's administration is 10 months late and 6,229,000 jobs shy of meeting its job creation claims. With slightly over a year left in his term, America would have to average about 390,000 new jobs every month for Obama to see that many jobs created. Tom Blumer of BizzyBlog noticed that even with the uptick in job growth in September, when seasonally adjusted, jobs are trending downward . Unemployment is a huge concern for Americans right now. In September, Gallup found that it overtook “the economy” as “the most important problem facing this country today.” The president has been campaigning to spend another $447 billion to fix the jobs problem, after his first $787 billion stimulus failed to solve the unemployment crisis. In September, the 9.1 percent unemployment rate was rarely mentioned in 'jobs' stories on the network news. The Business & Media Institute analyzed 79 stories on the broadcast evening news programs that mentioned “job” or “jobs” between Sept. 1 and Sept. 26 and found only 18 ( 23 percent ) of them actually mentioned the 9.1 percent rate or said that unemployment was above 9 percent. Stories about “job” approval, people doing their “job” and other non-economic references were not counted. Just as the networks have downplayed the high unemployment and looked for hopeful signs on jobs during much of the Obama presidency, reporters continued to find “good news” about unemployment to talk about last month. CBS “Evening News” anchor Scott Pelley shared ” a little bit of good news on jobs ” on Sept. 7, 2011. He led into a report about Obama's proposed jobs plan by optimistically reporting that in July there were 3.2 million job openings posted by employers. “That's the most in nearly three years,” Pelley said without noting the huge shortfall between available jobs and the roughly 14 million who were unemployed in August.
Continue reading …News about Toshiba’s ultra-thin AT200 tablet has been patience-testingly slow since we went hands-on at IFA a month ago. We did recently hear that a Japanese variant of the Regza-branded ten-incher — confusingly called the AT700 — is on schedule for release there in December and we’re hoping that the US version will arrive in time for Christmas too. Encouraging, then, to see that it’s passed unscathed through the FCC’s electromagnetic rendition of Wipeout with WiFi and Bluetooth in tow. The submitted paperwork also reveals a little extra detail: the tablet is at least partly manufactured by Quanta, the same OEM guys behind the Kindle Fire and the BlackBerry PlayBook . With the tablet wars looking brutal as ever, it’s nice to know that somebody always wins. Toshiba AT200 tablet squeezes through 7.7mm gap at the FCC originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Nigel Farage recounted deportation tale, almost word for word, to rail enthusiasts back in July, recording suggests The home secretary Theresa May’s claim that a Bolivian student was saved from deportation by the existence of a pet cat appears to have been lifted almost word for word from the leader of the UK Independence party. In her speech to the Tory conference May said the courts, citing the Human Rights Act, had declared the man should not be deported because he would be separated from his cat. Her remarks led to a spat with the justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, who accused her of giving a “laughable, childlike” example to criticise the act. Behind the row is a deeper political dispute over whether Britain should ditch the act. In July, Ukip’s leader, Nigel Farage, told a 200-strong audience at the Eastleigh Railway Institute in Hampshire how a court had decided that the man “should not be deported because – and I really am not making this up – he had a pet cat”. A tape recording of his remarks is on the website of the Eastleigh News. In Manchester this week May matched Farage not just in her phrasing but in her timing when talking about the same immigrant, who she said “cannot be deported because – and I am not making this up – he had a pet cat”. Farage told the Guardian: “I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic. They don’t mean it. We are one of those parties that still believe in holding public meetings, and asking questions from the public. The SWP [Socialist Workers party] turn up, so obviously does Theresa May’s speech writers. “Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?” One government member said: “Not only has Ms May been caught out making up stories about the Human Rights Act for cheap laughs, she has been plagiarising her clap lines from the UK Independence party.” The immigrant had avoided deportation after it was ruled that it would breach his right to a family life. In Eastleigh, Farage claimed the incident had occurred a few weeks ago and that the man in question was Peruvian – when he was in fact Bolivian. He also claimed inaccurately that the man had a conviction for manslaughter. Apart from overstaying his visa, he was a law-abiding citizen. Both politicians inaccurately claimed the man had been granted leave to stay under the Human Rights Act when it was because the tribunal had previously failed to treat his partner as a spouse, which would accord a right of residence. David Cameron in 2006 earned the ire of Ukip by describing them as “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists, mostly”. Farage may not have spotted his role as May’s speech writer since he has been obsessing about the state of the euro, and the way in which George Osborne, the “British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It’s appalling.” Theresa May UK Independence party (Ukip) Conservative conference 2011 Conservative conference Conservatives Immigration and asylum Human Rights Act Human rights Nigel Farage Patrick Wintour guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …The Afghan war is now ten years old, and insurgents continue battling despite a massive rush of manpower and firepower from American and NATO forces. (Oct. 6)
Continue reading …The Afghan war is now ten years old, and insurgents continue battling despite a massive rush of manpower and firepower from American and NATO forces. (Oct. 6)
Continue reading …The Afghan war is now ten years old, and insurgents continue battling despite a massive rush of manpower and firepower from American and NATO forces. (Oct. 6)
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