Black Male Worker `Not Seasonally Adjusted' Jobless Rate Jumps To 18 Percent Under Obama & GOP House of Representatives

Between February and March 2011, the official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for Black male workers over 20 years-of-age in the United States increased from 17.5 to 18 percent under the Democratic Obama Administration and the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives; while the “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Black female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 12.5 percent in March 2011, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for Black youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age also increased from 37.2 to 39.3 percent between February and March 2011. In addition, the number of unemployed Black male workers over 20 years-of-age in the United States increased by 52,000--from 1,406,000 to 1,458,000--between February and March 2011, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.

In March 2011, the official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for all Latino or Hispanic workers in the United States was still 11.9 percent; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Latino or Hispanic youths between 16 and 19 years-of age increased from 30.6 to 31.9 percent between February and March 2011..

The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for white male workers over 20 years-of-age was still 8.7 percent in March 2011; while the “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for all U.S. male workers over 16 years-of-age was still 10.2 percent in March 2011. For all U.S. workers (male and female) over 16 years-of-age, the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate was still 9.2 percent in March 2011; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for all young workers between the ages of 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 23.6 percent in March 2011.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ April 1, 4 2011 press release:

“…The number of job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, at 8.2 million, was little changed in March…The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was 6.1 million in March; their share of the unemployed increased from 43.9 to 45.5 percent over the month…

“The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) was little changed in March, at 8.4 million. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job…

“In March, 2.4 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, up slightly from a year earlier…These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey…

“Among the marginally attached, there were 921,000 discouraged workers in March…Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them….

“Employment in local government continued to trend down over the month. Local government has lost 416,000 jobs since an employment peak in September 2008…”

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Libya's Pre-1996 History Revisited: Part 12

A Wall Street Journal editorial recently proposed that the Democratic Obama-Clinton Administration consider the option of some kind of “humanitarian military intervention” in Libya in 2011 in response to the recent deadly attacks on demonstrators inside Libya by the current Libyan regime’s security forces. Yet most people in the United States know very little about the hidden history of Libya. Guy Arnold’s 1996 book, The Maverick State: Gaddafi and the New World Order, for example, observed:

“…The United States gave notice on 26 March [1986] that it planned to conduct exercises from 23 March to 1 April in an area of the Mediterranean which included the Gulf of Sidra…Americans fired a number of missiles at Libyan radar installations on land on the grounds that they were a threat to US planes while US planes and ships attacked Libyan missile-armed ships `that were deemed to threaten the U.S. fleet’ and two of the Libyan ships were sunk. On 27 March the Pentagon announced that the exercise was to be concluded. The US ships remained in the central Mediterranean…

“…On 14-15 April [1986], US military planes from bases in Britain and the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean bombed Tripoli and Benghazi in a raid that was in retaliation for Libya’s alleged responsibility for terrorist activities in Europe. Casualties amounted to 130 including Gaddafi’s adopted daughter…

“…The United States claimed that the bombing had been precise, on military targets; in fact it was imprecise and killed civilians…

“…The story of the US raid on Libya, both before when it had to be justified and afterwards when it had to be explained, is a sorry tale of lies, half-truths, misinformation and dishonesty in pursuit of a vendetta more suitable to a Sicilian bandit than an American President…”

Libya's Pre-1996 History Revisited: Part 11

A Wall Street Journal editorial recently proposed that the Democratic Obama-Clinton Administration consider the option of some kind of “humanitarian military intervention” in Libya in 2011 in response to the recent deadly attacks on demonstrators inside Libya by the current Libyan regime’s security forces. Yet most people in the United States know very little about the hidden history of Libya. Guy Arnold’s 1996 book, The Maverick State: Gaddafi and the New World Order, for example, observed:

“Military confrontation between the United States and Libya was to occur in August 1981 when US Navy planes operating from carriers of the US Sixth Fleet on naval exercises in the Mediterranean flew deliberately close to the Libyan coast and then shot down two Libyan jets which had challenged the US presence in the Gulf of Sidra. The air fight took place about 60 miles off the coast of Libya but whereas Libya claims the normal twelve-mile coastal limit it makes an exception of the Gulf of Sidra where it has drawn a baseline across the mouth of the Gulf of Sidra and extended its limit twelve miles to the north of this…

“…In March 1982…President Reagan decided to ban the import of Libyan oil and prevent certain listed items from being exported to Libya…

“Perhaps, above all, it was the extension of Libyan activities into Latin America, even more than Gaddafi’s hard line on the United States’ ally Israel, which infuriated Washington. He focused his support upon Nicaragua and El Salvador although also making arms, funds and training available to leftist groups throughout the region. In 1981, according to the State Department, Gaddafi provided $100 m to Nicaragua; from May 1982 several deliveries of Libyan arms were made to the Sandinistas and the Salvadoran guerrillas…As Gaddafi said in his speech of 1 September 1983 (the fourteenth anniversary of his coup), `When we ally ourselves with revolution in Latin America, and particularly Central America, we are defending ourselves…’…

“…Between 1975 and 1983 Libyan forces were expanded from 22,000 in the former year to 85,000 in the latter…By 1983, of $28bn worth of arms purchases about $20bn had come from the USSR or East Europe…

“…During the year [1985]…the Nation of Islam, headed by Louis Farrakhan…received a $5m loan from Gaddafi for use in providing economic assistance to American blacks…

“…The President [Reagan]…went on to impose sanctions on virtually all economic activities between the United States and Libya, the measures to take effect no later than 1 February [1986]…A second executive order blocked Libyan government property in the United States. The sum total of the US measures amounted to some of the most comprehensive sanctions ever mounted by the Washington administration…

“…In March 1986…reports suggested that Gaddafi had secretly given $400m to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua…”

Libya's Pre-1996 History Revisited: Part 10

A Wall Street Journal editorial recently proposed that the Democratic Obama-Clinton Administration consider the option of some kind of “humanitarian military intervention” in Libya in 2011 in response to the recent deadly attacks on demonstrators inside Libya by the current Libyan regime’s security forces. Yet most people in the United States know very little about the hidden history of Libya. Guy Arnold’s 1996 book, The Maverick State: Gaddafi and the New World Order, for example, observed:

“The extent of enmity towards Gaddafi in the West was highlighted in 1989 when Gaddafi claimed that Western security agencies had tried to destroy him in 1980. An Italian inquiry revealed that the shooting down of an Italian domestic flight, IH870, from Bologna to Palermo on 27 June 1980, had been in mistake for the airplane carrying Gaddafi on the same flight path on his way to Warsaw. The Libyan jet turned sharply eastwards just north of Sicily; then the Italian jet was hit by a missile and all 81 passengers were killed. The evidence at this time came from the confession of an Italian military radar technician. The story resurfaced at the beginning of 1996 when documents seized from the retired head of the Italian counter-espionage service, Demetrio Cogliando, revealed that the Italian DC-9 was `caught in the wrong place during an attempt by NATO fighters to blast Colonel Muammar Gaddafi out of the skies with a missile’. According to the story French and US jets launched an operation to kill the Libyan leader but panicked when attacked by escorting MiGs; then, when the civilian airliner came in range, a French Mirage fighter fired without checking the plane’s identity. General Cogliandro’s papers describe how one MiG was shot down and how subsequently five US P-3 Orions searched the rugged Calabrian countryside, in vain, to find the fuselage. When the plane was eventually found pressure was applied to the doctors who examined the body not to reveal the cause of death. General Cogliandro also blames the then Italian Prime Minister, Francesco Cossiaga, for the cover-up that followed. Not many leaders of Third World countries have been targeted in such a fashion by the West…

“Tiny Rowland, the controversial British business entrepreneur, agreed in the Observer of June 1992 that the West (the United States and Britain) had acted in relation to Libya against the UN Charter and International Law…

“…As irritating as Gaddafi may seem to the West, in general its pressures upon him are out of proportion to his offenses and this is surely true if compared with Western reactions to other regimes that defy Western influence…”