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  Date / Time: 1/30/2009 9:31 AM UTC

  Global unemployment heads towards 50 million

  From The Times

  January 29, 2009
  

  Global unemployment heads towards 50 million

  Carl Mortished, International Business Editor

  Unemployment is mounting around the world as big international companies, including Boeing, Starbucks, ConocoPhillips, GKN, in Britain, and SAP, of Germany, rush to cut costs.

  The jobs scythe, which could put 50 million people out of work worldwide, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), is reaching beyond the financial sector and into every corner of the global economy.

  The employment attrition, which began last September with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the investment bank, is bearing down on blue-collar and managerial staff in the aerospace, motor, energy, retailing and electronics industries.

  The rapidity of the downturn and the speed at which the corporate sector is responding with job cuts is creating alarm. Oil company bosses, who months ago were complaining of skill shortages, are now slashing jobs after a precipitous fall in oil prices.

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  ConocoPhillips, which yesterday revealed a fourth-quarter loss of $32 billion (£22.3 billion), said that it would cut 1,300 jobs. The message is expected to be repeated today by Royal Dutch Shell and by BP next week when the two companies announce their 2008 results.

  Rising unemployment could lead to social unrest, the ILO predicted yesterday as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast a deep global recession with a severe contraction in the UK economy. The ILO report says that unemployment could rise by between 18 million and 30 million this year, and as much as 50 million if the world economy continues to deteriorate. In its worst-case scenario, global unemployment, which stood at 179 million in 2007, could rise to 230 million.

  Juan Somavia, the ILO director-general, said that the world was facing a global jobs crisis. A job cull that in Britain began in London’s Canary Wharf financial centre is spreading rapidly across the country, with news that Shop Direct, formerly known as Littlewoods Home Shopping, will close a Liverpool call centre, ending employment for 1,150 people. GKN, the engineering group is to lose 1,400 jobs worldwide.

  In America, Boeing revealed a surprise fourth-quarter loss of $56 million and news that it would lay off a further 5,500 workers, adding to an earlier warning that it would cut its headcount by 4,500. The software and electronics industries are not being spared: SAP, the German group that is the world’s biggest business software company, is to shed 3,000 staff. It said that its business had been disrupted “by the worst economic and financial crisis the world has witnessed in decades”. STMicroelectronics, the Franco-Italian semicondutor maker, said that it would lay off 4,500 staff.

  In Britain, the stock market shrugged off an IMF prediction that the British economy would shrink by 2.8 per cent this year. The FTSE 100 index rose 2.4 per cent, with steep rises in shares in the troubled banks as fears of nationalisation eased.

  A glimmer of hope came last night with reports that Corus was close to a deal to sell a 75 per cent stake in a steel mill on Teeside for about $450 million, securing as many as 2,000 jobs.

  The agreement is with a partnership of Marcegaglia of Italy and Dongkuk of South Korea. Asda and BSkyB also said yesterday they would be creating 8,000 jobs between them.

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  Boeing 10,000

  Starbucks 6,700

  STMicroelectronics 4,500

  SAP 3,000

  GKN 1,400

  ConocoPhillips 1,300

  Shop Direct 1,150

  Thames Water 300

  Nissan 110

  Johnson Matthey 100

  Yesterday’s total 28,860

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• Date / Time: 1/30/2009 9:23 AM UTC

  Life after the apocalypse

  What if the doomsayers are right ... what if society, as we know it, really is about to collapse? Do you have what it takes to make it in a world without electricity and running water? Tanya Gold offers an essential survival guide

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    • The Guardian, Thursday 29 January 2009

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  I am standing in a wood with a tall man and a dead pheasant. There is blood everywhere: on my shoes, my hands, my face. Why am I here? Because the man - his name is Leon Durbin - is preparing me for the apocalypse, now.

  What would happen if you awoke one morning and everyone was dead? Or if, less melodramatically, the world as we know it - and our teetering financial systems - ceased to function? What if you awoke to find your bubble-wrapped, gilded life was over, and for good? Could you survive? Could I?

  I am an urban girl. I have no skills except whingeing and bingeing. I can barely open a packet of Hobnobs without an explosive device. But, unlike you, doomed and dying reader, I have decided to prepare for The End, and I am prepared to share the life-saving knowledge I will accrue. This is your cut-out-and-keep guide to the apocalypse. Put it in a drawer. One day you may need it.

  So you wake up; everyone is dead. For the purpose of this exercise, imagine it's like Survivors, the cheap BBC rendition of the apocalypse, where a plague wipes out humanity and then everyone is mildly annoyed that the trains are delayed. We could imagine total financial or ecological collapse leading to the failure of social structures, but let's say it's a plague. So, how long can you stay in your house?

  The answer is: not long. According to the people at the National Grid, the electricity will stop. So will the water. These systems have buttons. Buttons need fingers. Fingers need people who are alive. You have a day, maybe two, of electricity. Then you will be in darkness, with no way of washing your face.

  What should you do? You can steal food from supermarkets but the rotting corpses on the floor of Sainsbury's will be fetid fonts of infection. And if you try to sit out the plague in your home, you could burn or drown. After a lightning strike, fires will begin and they will not stop. And if you live in London, the Thames barrier will fail without electricity and the low-lying areas of the city will flood.

  So you have to leave. But where do you go? The apocalyptic norm - see 28 Days Later and Survivors - is for survivors to sit in desirable country mansions, eat tinned tomatoes, develop post-traumatic psychosis and shoot each other. Never in any apocalyptic scenario in any movie I have seen - and I have seen them all - does anyone try to live off the land. They prefer to feed on the crumbs of the lost civilisation. It never works. How can you rebuild civilisation with tinned tomatoes? You need to grow your own food.

  But where? I choose Devon. It is warm and wet and fertile, and I have been happy there. There are cows. This is where I would live off the land, but I need to learn how. This thinking has led me to Durbin and the dead bird.

  Durbin is tall and tweedy. He is the sort of man who keeps firewood kindling in his pocket, just in case. He owns Wildwood Bushcraft, a company that explains how to survive if you are dropped into the wilderness with no supplies, no warning and no clue.

  Durbin leads me through the spindly, sleeping trees, pointing out different kinds of branch and bush, and their uses. According to him, the wood is a shop that will give you everything you need. "Willow bark can be boiled to relieve a headache," he says. "Yew is for making long bows. Oak is for shelters. Ash is for tool handles. Have you ever had a beech-leaf sandwich?" I don't bother replying.

  To be competent in bushcraft, you have to be well equipped: before you leave the city, stop for a saw, chisel, spade, axe and hunting knife. Durbin has them all. They poke out of his rucksack in a manly fashion.

  We arrive at a clearing and Durbin demonstrates how to light a fire. He places a small block of wood on the ground and puts a wooden stake on it, point down. He takes a bow, made of wood and string, places it round the stake and, when he moves the bow in a sideways motion, the stake rotates very fast. Its friction with the block of wood magically creates a pile of super-hot matter. It can ignite dry hay or bark. This creates a conflagration that can light a fire.

  How will I get water? Durbin runs bushcraft weekends for angry executives here, so he knows where it is. "Water," I cry, lunging at a small stream. "Careful," says Durbin. "We have to filter the water with a sock full of sand. Then we have to bring it to a rolling boil." Why a sock? He ignores me.

  Food is harder. It is winter and the countryside is closed for repairs. My two main vegetarian foods, Durbin explains, will be burdock root and hazelnut. Both are high-energy. You can make chips out of burdock and you can boil, mash and dry hazelnut to produce a repulsive kind of biscuit. Durbin picks up a spade and starts digging for burdock. He finds some, but it's rotten. "Winter," he sighs. "Hmmm."

  So, with a fiendish flourish, I produce a dead pheasant from my handbag. I had spent the day before negotiating with the Guardian as to the legal and moral implications of murdering a rabbit for the purposes of this article. Finally we had compromised, and I had gone to a posh butcher's in Mayfair and bought this beautiful pheasant for £3.50. Durbin looks impressed. "You have to pull off its head," he says. "Just twist it."

  I close my eyes and twist. The head comes off easily; it feels like wringing out a slightly damp scarf. Then Durbin makes a hole in the pheasant's bottom and I stick my hand up and clutch everything inside. Out comes a squelchy mass of once-living flesh. Durbin grabs the heart and cuts it open. "Very nutritious," he says. I am slightly sick in my mouth. I pluck, and soon I have a pile of bloodstained feathers - and a nude bird. Durbin sticks it on a spit over the fire. When it is cooked, we eat it. It tastes slightly of excrement but I still feel strangely empowered. It was much easier than I thought it would be, to rip this bird apart.

  I now have bloodlust. I ask Durbin how to trap animals. I could theoretically shoot them, but trapping is more suitable for the lazy or incompetent survivor. He looks slightly nervous. "It's illegal," he says slowly. But I prod and he tells me about different types of trap. I could try the pit trap, he says, where you dig a hole in the forest floor, line it with sharpened stakes and camouflage it. It is for large animals - deer, wild boar, parents, other journalists. There is also the deadfall trap, which is for small animals. They saunter over a trigger mechanism, and a lump of wood falls on their head. Bon appetit and ha ha.

  But what would I eat if I couldn't trap? "Bugs," says Durbin happily. "Worms." There are 40 calories in a worm, apparently; this is the equivalent of two Maltesers. "Or snails," he adds. "But quarantine the snail for three days before you eat it. It may have eaten poisonous plants, and you will have to wait until it expels them."

  Now you need shelter. If I had the choice, I would probably look for a small stone cottage - hardy and easy to maintain - but if I am foraging, I have to go to where the food is. So Durbin shows me how to make a survival shelter. He hurls logs up against a tree trunk, and covers them with a foot of leaves and bracken and mud. "It is waterproof," he says. I climb in and lie down. It is a hole that only a troll could love. But there they are, the four pillars of survival: food, water, fire and shelter.

  The next day, I go to Pullabrook Wood in Devon to practise my skills. It was easy to survive yesterday, with Durbin standing by. Can I cope alone? Pullabrook is a lovely wood, administered by the Woodland Trust. It is full of happy Tories and happy Labradors. But now I have my own mini-apocalypse. I fail at bow drilling. I find a stream, but a happy Tory says the water is poisonous, even if filtered by sock. Why? "Because sheep droppings have contaminated it," he says. Death by Sheep is only slightly behind Death by Snail in the encyclopaedia of embarrassing ways to die.

  The first shelter I build is too small for me to enter. My second shelter collapses. I decide to abandon bushcraft. I will try my hand at farming. Woman cannot live on worm alone.

  So, a few days later, I am standing inside an Iron Age roundhouse at Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire. Butser is a project that re-enacts Iron Age life. The roundhouse is huge and round and dim. I feel a bit as if I am standing inside a giant breast. Steve Dyer is the archaeological director. He is tall and red-faced, with a frizzy white beard.

  "Roundhouses are easy to make," he says, waving his arms. He points out two animal skulls, tied to the entrance posts. Is that a cow's skull? Dyer grimaces politely. "It's a horse," he says, before proceeding to tell me how to make a roundhouse.

  The ingredients are: 27 large oak trees, 60 small oak trees, 100 hazel trees, 100 ash trees, wheat straw for thatching, and animal hair, clay, manure, soil and water for the walls.

  You will also need animals. Dyer escorts me to his pigpen to meet two nameless pigs. To domesticate animals, he says, you just have to enclose them in smaller and smaller areas. Provide them with what they need - food, water and attention - and they will obey you. You can then eat them, and peel them, and tan their hides for soft furnishings. But beware of sheep, he says, waving a bright red finger. "I know this guy called Si," he says. "He approached a frisky ram. It jumped up and broke his nose." I am back at Death by Sheep.

  I telephone the psychologist Cecelia De Felice. I want to know if I will go insane in my new one-woman world, especially when faced with tasks such as chopping down 27 large oaks. "You will be in a state of trauma," she agrees. "You will quickly become lonely and paranoid. It is possible you will have a breakdown." And if I meet other survivors? Be cautious, she advises. "They too will be lonely and paranoid. Of course you are stronger in a group. But you do not know whether they will help you or just steal your resources. Trust no one."

  I am (vaguely) confident I will not starve. But there is one other thing I am sweating over: nuclear power stations. Professor Alan Weisman wrote The World Without Us, a description of what he believes would happen to Earth if we all vanished. I call him. He says I am right to worry. Why? Because most nuclear plants are water-cooled. Water, he explains, in a dry, calm voice, needs to circulate around the reactors, or they will explode. If there were no humans to operate it, the plant would shut down automatically, and the water would be cooled with diesel fuel. For about a week. Then the heat from the reactor would evaporate and expose the core. "It will either melt down or burst into very radioactive flames," he says. So what would you do, Professor Weisman? "I would probably go to Canada," he says. "There aren't many nuclear power stations in Canada."

  So, it comes to this. No matter how hard you try, Britain will probably become a nuclear wasteland. The snails that are your lunch will either die, or look very weird. So, again, what to do? My considered advice is this. You, Guardian reader, need to begin building a boat - a sailing ship, actually - to take you to - yes, Canada. Before you leave the city you should pause at a library and steal the entire boat-making and maintenance shelf. Canada may be your only hope of salvation. And that is as fitting an obituary for our civilisation as I can type. In The End, it turns out you don't just have to be the heroine of Survivors. You need to bloody well be Noah too.

  Happy apocalypse.

  It's not all bad: Fun things you could do after the apocalypse

  • Pop into the National Gallery and take Jan Van Eyck's Portrait of a Man off the wall. (If you have no taste, take a Renoir.) The Van Eyck is hanging in the Sainsbury Wing. If you want to preserve it properly, Thomas Almeroth-Williams of the National Gallery suggests you store it in a slate mine, where the temperature and humidity levels are perfect for its conservation.

  • Go to the British Library and help yourself to one of its two copies of Shakespeare's First Folio. One is in a box in a strong room under the library floor; the other is in a glass case in the Treasure Room. If you want to preserve it properly, Helen Shenton of the British Library suggests you store it in a cool, dark place, and watch it carefully for infestations by animals or fungi. Dust regularly.

  • Steal the crown jewels. If you can. "There are contingency plans in place in event of a power failure," says a Royal Palaces spokesperson, "so the crown jewels should remain safe." Really? To preserve them properly, do nothing. A diamond is for ever.

  • Invade the News of the World - it's in Wapping - and read all its secret files. Then break into M15. It's on Millbank. Read all its secret files too. Oh, no! She was murdered! I knew it!

  • Go and stand on the stage at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Skip over the bodies of the dead actors. Re-enact the whole of Oliver!

  The vital skills you will need

  How to make bread

  I type this in full because I want bread at The End, and I want you to have it too (should you survive). So, clear the land, turn the soil over to create furrows, take seed from any wheat growing wild, sow it 20cm apart and kick the soil over. Make sure that the birds don't eat the seed.

  Stop browsing animals by hedging the field off and root out weeds. When the corn is ripe, thresh it by hitting it with a stick and mill it by rubbing it between large stones. Add the flour to water to make dough. Stick it in a pan on the fire. Result? Wholemeal flatbread!

  How to make sanitary products and toilet paper

  Find some sphagnum moss and use that. It is very spongy and it contains iodine, so it is slightly antiseptic.

  How to eat snails

  Always, always quarantine snails before eating them. Take the snail and put it where there is nothing for it to eat. Ignore its cries of hunger, leave for three days and then consume.

  How to purify water

  Collect the water from the purest source available, ideally a spring, minimising sediment and avoiding chemical contamination. Filter it through a sock full of sand. Sterilise the water by bringing it to a rolling boil for a few seconds.

  How to clay bake a fish

  Wrap the fish in large leaves, tying up the parcel with nettle stalk. Dig for clay in the earth. After combining the clay with water, cover the fish with a centimetre of clay, leaving no cracks. Scrape a shallow pit in the centre of the fire and lay the fish in it. Cover the fish with embers. After an hour, remove the fish and crack the outer shell open. The fish should be perfectly cooked.

  How to remove the skin from a cow

  You can kill a cow by strangulation apparently, although I have never met anyone who has done it. Or you can cut its throat, or spear it through the heart. Split the cow along its belly from the groin to the throat. Remove the internal organs. Hang the cow up by its hooves for several days to let the blood run out. Cows are heavy, so do not attempt to do this alone. To take the skin off, slide a blade or a sharp stone between the skin and the flesh. Once you have inserted the tool a little way, you can just peel the skin off.

  How to shoot a deer with a bow and arrow

  Deer are sensitive to human noise and smell. If you stomp through the wood with a bow and arrow you will never find one. Find out where the deer are going to be - they often walk the same way to the same place. Camouflage your scent, be quiet and do not move. When you see a deer, shoot it from 20m away. You ideally need a kill shot, eg in a lung. You don't want to hit it in the bottom, because it will run off and you won't get your dinner. TG

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• Date / Time: 1/30/2009 9:18 AM UTC

  Republican claims stimulus would aid illegal immigrants

  WASHINGTON: Illegal immigrants who lack Social Security numbers could not get tax credits under the $800 billion-plus economic stimulus package making its way through Congress.

  Two senior GOP congressional officials expressed concern Thursday that the bill could steer government checks to undocumented workers, but in fact the measure indicates that Social Security numbers are needed to claim tax credits of $500 per worker and $1,000 per couple. It also expressly disqualifies nonresident aliens.

  The Republicans spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. But Democrats were quick to reject the notion.

  "This legislation is directed toward people who are legal in our country. It is about time the Republicans got a different piece of reading material and get off this illegal immigrant stuff," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "This bill has nothing to do with anything illegal as far as immigration. It creates jobs for people who are lawfully in this country."

  A revolt among GOP conservatives to provisions of last year's economic stimulus bill, which sent rebate checks to most wage earners, forced Democratic congressional leaders to add stricter eligibility requirements. That legislation, enacted in February 2008, required that people have valid Social Security numbers in order to get checks.

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  The current plan doesn't contain that requirement, but it imposes the same qualifications for the tax credit as are in place for the earned income tax credit, a program for low-income workers that is limited to people with Social Security numbers.

  Douglas Rivlin, a spokesman for the National Immigration Forum, called the GOP criticism "a ploy to undermine the president's stimulus package."

  "The boogieman of the week is the undocumented immigrant taxpayer and they're using it to delay or derail legislation to help the economy," Rivlin said.

  Republicans have already criticized the economic recovery package for including what they contend is wasteful spending and omitting tax cuts for wealthier people and businesses they say are needed to jump-start the anemic economy.

  Not a single Republican voted for an $819 billion version of the plan when it passed the House on Wednesday.

  GOP senators voiced their concerns at a midday news conference.

  Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., criticized the tax credit — which would go to millions of Americans who don't make enough money to pay federal income taxes — as insufficient to stimulate the economy.

  "Calling a rebate to people who don't pay income taxes a tax cut doesn't make it a tax cut," Kyl said.

  The House-passed economic recovery measure also requires that businesses that win contracts for projects funded by the plan use a federal Internet-enabled system to ensure they do not hire illegal immigrants.

  The so-called E-Verify program, a cornerstone of the Bush administration's immigration policy, is currently voluntary. As of Jan. 24, 106,516 employers had agreed to use the database to confirm that new hires have valid Social Security numbers and are eligible for employment.

  It has sparked controversy by business groups who say it's burdensome ,and civil libertarians who say it will lead to discrimination and job losses by U.S. citizens misidentified as illegal workers.

  Last year, the Bush administration called for federal contractors to use E-Verify, a decision that business groups are challenging. The Obama administration has put the requirement for federal contractors on hold until May while it reviews the program.

  The National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy organization, said Thursday it was concerned about the E-Verify provision.

  "Given E-Verify's track record of discriminating against Latino workers — immigrant and U.S. citizen alike — this costly measure threatens to drive up Latino unemployment rates even further," the group said in a statement.

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• Date / Time: 1/30/2009 9:14 AM UTC

  Unemployment Benefits at Record Level

  WASHINGTON (Jan. 29) - The number of people receiving unemployment benefits has reached an all-time record, the government said Thursday, and more layoffs are spreading throughout the economy.

  As a proportion of the work force, the tally of unemployment benefit recipients is the highest since August 1983, a department analyst said.

  The total released by the department doesn't include about 1.7 million people receiving benefits under an extended unemployment compensation program authorized by Congress last summer. That means the total number of recipients is actually closer to 6.5 million people.

  Businesses continued to hemorrhage jobs Thursday. Ford Motor Co. reported a fourth-quarter loss of $5.9 billion and said its credit arm would cut 20 percent of its work force, or 1,200 jobs. Eastman Kodak Co. said it's cutting 3,500 to 4,500 jobs, or 14 to 18 percent of its work force, as it posted a $137 million quarterly loss on plunging sales of photography products.

  In another sign of the deepening recession, the Commerce Department said Thursday that new orders for durable goods dropped by 2.6 percent last month, even worse than the 2 percent decline economists expected. Orders fell 5.7 percent for the year, the second biggest drop on government records, exceeded only by a 10.7 percent plunge in 2001.

  The tally of Americans filing new jobless benefit claims rose slightly to a seasonally adjusted 588,000 last week, from a downwardly revised figure of 585,000 the previous week. That also was worse than analysts' forecast of 575,000 new claims.

  The number of initial claims is close to the 26-year high of 589,000 reached in late December, though the work force has grown by about half since then.

  The four-week average of initial claims, which smooths out fluctuations, rose to 542,500, from 518,250, according to the government report.

  The record number of ongoing benefit claims is an indication that laid-off workers are having a difficult time finding new jobs.

  The crush of new and continuing claims has overwhelmed many states' ability to process them all. Electronic filing systems crashed in three states earlier this month, and last week Michigan said it would hire 276 workers and open a fourth call center to handle increased phone traffic.

  President Barack Obama's $819 billion economic stimulus package, approved by the House Wednesday and now on its way to the Senate, would provide $500 million to the states to upgrade their unemployment insurance systems. The measure also continues the extended unemployment compensation program, which adds up to 33 weeks of benefits, until the end of the year.

  Companies have announced a huge number of layoffs this week as they prepare for an extended period of economic weakness. Economists expect the current recession, which began in December 2007, to be the longest since World War II.

  Starbucks Corp. on Wednesday said it would cut 6,700 jobs. The coffee company also said it would close 300 underperforming stores, on top of 600 it already planned to shut down.

  Time Warner Inc.'s AOL division is cutting up to 700 jobs, or about 10 percent of the online unit's work force. And IBM Corp. has cut thousands of jobs in its sales, software and hardware divisions in the past week, without announcing specific numbers.

  Boeing Co., Pfizer Inc., Home Depot Inc. and other U.S. corporate titans also have announced tens of thousands of job cuts this week alone.

  Companies have announced about 130,000 layoffs in January, according to an Associated Press.
  
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  UPDATE ON COURT CASE REGARDING JAMIELSHAW II MURDER

  COURT CASE JAN 28 2009, DISTRICT ATTORNEY WILL DECIDE IF THEY ARE GOING TO ASK FOR DEATH PENALTY OR LIFE WITHOUT POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE FOR THE ACCUSED MURDERER.PLEASE CALL US AND ASK QUESTIONS 13478849191
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• Date / Time: 1/29/2009 10:14 AM UTC

  BBC accused of fakery over Barack Obama inauguration speech

  BBC accused of fakery over Barack Obama inauguration speech

  The BBC has been accused of fakery again after it admitted splicing together sections of Barack Obama's inauguration speech in the wrong order.

   

  By Aislinn Simpson
  Last Updated: 10:44AM GMT 28 Jan 2009

  

  President Barack Obama waves, following his inaugural address Photo: DEREK BLAIR

  A report, by Newsnight's science editor Susan Watts, examined the environmental agenda the new US president might pursue but cut together phrases from paragraphs that Obama said several minutes apart.

  The result generated complaints from Newsnight viewers and furious comments on the BBC website.

  It follows the "Crowngate" row in 2007 which saw the BBC forced to apologise for manipulating a trailer for a documentary about the Queen to make it appear as though she had stormed out of a photo session with photographer Annie Leibovitz.

  In her broadcast, Miss Watts said scientists calculated that Obama "has four years to fix climate change" and cited his assurance that he would "restore science to its rightful place" following George Bush's scepticism about global warming.

  At the start of the report, the following audio recording of Obama's inauguration speech was played: "We will restore science to its rightful place, roll back the spectre of a warming planet. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories."

  However, the phrase "roll back the spectre of a warming planet" came from a different paragraph several minutes earlier and was inserted into a passage replacing the words "wield technology's wonders to raise healthcare's quality and lower its cost".

  There followed a series of complaints on Miss Watts' Newsnight blog. Fjpcikett, who spotted the inaccuracy, wrote: "Performing 'dodgy dossier' antics worthy of Alistair Campbell on a speech heard by a third of the world is pretty stupid, as well as undermining the integrity of the BBC. A complete and very rapid apology is needed..."

  Peter Rippon, the Newsnight editor wrote on the blog, admitting the speech had been edited to reflect all the elements that referred to science.

  He said: "The aim was to give people an impression or montage of what Obama said about science in his inauguration speech. This was signposted to audiences with fades between each point. It in no way altered the meaning or misrepresented what the president was saying."

  But his comments did little to appease viewers, many of whom said they had formally complained.

  One wrote: "What absolute twaddle. You have misrepresented a historical speech to suit your own ends. This is totally unacceptable and hopefully a full public apology and explanation of what you did will be aired on Newsnight."

  Another wrote: "I've listened to the adjusted version of Obama's speech several times now, and I think what has been described as fades between each segment could equally be construed as natural pauses to draw breath.

  "I suspect that many people who are unaware of this controversy and who haven't read the full official transcript, will have gone away believing that this is the way he actually said what he said. Which means, basically, that they would have gone away believing a falsehood."

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  The Ugly Truth: America's Economy is Not Coming Back

  President Barack Obama and his economic team are being careful to couch all their talk about economic stimulus programs and bank bailout programs in warnings that the economic downturn is serious and that it will take considerable time to bounce back.

  I’m reminded of an experience I had with Chinese medicine when I was living in Shanghai back in 1992. I had come down with a nasty case of the flu while teaching journalism at Fudan University on a Fulbright Scholar program.

  
  

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  Wake Up Obama: Afghanistan is No Threat to America

  Mon, 01/26/2009 - 15:31 — dlindorff

  American foreign policy is moving from the absurd to the ludicrous.

  Back in 2002, President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney managed to snooker the people of the United States, or at least a large number of us, into believing that Iraq, a pathetic Third World country ruled by a corrupt tin-pot dictator, was a grave danger to America, akin to Hitler and Nazi Germany in 1940. We learned how absurd that claim was when two hundred thousand American troops backed by the mightiest air force the world has ever seen, slammed into the country in March, 2003, and the Iraqi military simply folded up, and the Saddam regime along with it.

  
  

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  The Way Forward on Holding the Bush/Cheney Administration Accountable

  Fri, 01/23/2009 - 19:17 — dlindorff

  As someone who has spent nearly three frustrating years actively advocating the impeachment of President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for their many crimes and abuses of power, I have to admit that not only did it not happen, but that the likelihood of their being indicted and brought to trial now that they have left office is exceedingly slim.

  
  

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  Yes! The Inauguration Crowd on the Mall Did Sing "Hey Hey, Goodbye" as Bush's Chopper Took Him Away for Good

  Tue, 01/20/2009 - 23:07 — dlindorff

  Here's a clip of the crowd on the Mall chanting "Sha na, na na na na, Hey, Hey! Goodbye" as Bush, no longer the president, took his last ride out of Washington.

  What a wonderful send-off!

  Notice too how the "reporters" narrating the scene completely ignore the public display of disaffection for the departing "Decider". Journalism at its best (the NY Times did have a one-line mention of the incident in its multipage coverage of the inauguration."

  
  

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  This Land Really IS Made for You and Me

  Tue, 01/20/2009 - 14:37 — dlindorff

  Maybe symbolism is just symbolism, but the optimist in me says that Barack Obama's invitation to former Communist and life-long political activist Pete Seeger (along with Bruce Springstein and 89-year-old Pete's full-throated grandson Tao) to sing Woody Guthrie's anthem This Land is Your Land, and the fact that the once blacklisted folk legend chose to do not just the feel-good, approved-for-public-school-music-class-use verses, but all the verses, including Woody's long-censored "commie" verses, and that Obama was right there singing those v

  
  

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  Obama and Congress Must Act to Restore the Constitution

  Fri, 01/16/2009 - 17:33 — dlindorff

  The calls for a reckoning for the criminals of the Bush/Cheney administration are growing by the day, as the final few days of the Bush presidency tick down, and as new evidence of their crimes keep pouring out of the deflating gas bag that was the Bush White House.

  
  

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  Only Rats Get Fat as Misdirected Bailout and Stimulus Funds go Down the Rat Hole

  Wed, 01/14/2009 - 15:22 — dlindorff

  Congress should do now what it should have done back in the fall: kill the Wall Street bailout program.

  After wasting $350 billion on a program that was misrepresented from the outset, and investing hundreds of billions of dollars in failing financial institutions that it could have bought outright for less than it was investing in them (AIG was worth only a few billion dollars in total at the time that the government bailed the company out with an initial investment of $85 billion and Citicorp today is worth less than the $45 billion the government has invested in that failing firm), the Treasury Department, now acting at the direction not of the Bush administration and outgoing Treasurer Hank Paulson, but the Obama administration, is asking for the other half of the Troubled Assets Relief Fund (TARP).

  
  

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  Get the Other Side of the Gaza Story

  Mon, 01/12/2009 - 20:10 — dlindorff

  If you want to really know what's going on in Gaza, you cannot rely on the US Media, which, along with the rest of the world's media, have been barred from the battle zone by the Israeli government.

  The only international reporters in Gaza now who can show what is actually happening there are the ones from Al Jazeera.

  Under pressure from the Bush administration, the major cable providers in the US have not offered Al Jazeera in the US. The number of communities that have it in their available cable offerings can be counted on one or at most two hands.

  
  

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  Israel's Gaza Atrocities Recall America's Atrocities in Vietnam

  Sun, 01/11/2009 - 22:44 — dlindorff

  As we hear the horrifying and sickening reports of the atrocities in Gaza by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), and as ardent Israel backers predictably justify each one or contest the facts, it’s worth reading a new book (The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about US War Crimes), by a former Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington bureau investigative reporter of the LA Times named Deborah Nelson.

  
  

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  Time for Obama and Us to Face the Economic and Political Music

  Thu, 01/08/2009 - 20:07 — dlindorff

  The real cost of the Bush Administration’s trillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street is becoming painfully apparent as the incoming Obama administration attempts desperately to make a case for its own $800-billion economic stimulus package, while warning about “trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see.”

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