moseley braun's live video for your media project free media dog r t v dot com. today on r t another month gone another dismal jobs report out unemployment drops in the u.s. but not because more americans are being employed what are the numbers really tell us about the state of the u.s. economy it's really absurd i mean people get more angry about a word like let's say well then they do say a drone strike that kills thirty innocent people in afghanistan look like political looks like political correctness is truly in the eye of the beholder and the u.s. talks of war and killing our enemies isn't just allowed it's often encouraged talking about your sex life could end your career so chooses what's appropriate and what crosses the line we'll explore. and keeping the internet at bay the british courts are blocking the files sharing website the pirate bay from internet users is

the latest attack on cyber freedoms but we'll tell you why a ruling that thousands of miles away is hitting so close to home for many americans. it is friday may fourth four pm in washington d.c. my name is christine freeze out there watching our team. well let's begin today with a look at the economy jobs numbers are out and according to the bureau of labor statistics the unemployment rate fell slightly though to eight point one percent in the month of april that is the lowest since january of two thousand and nine the month that president obama first took office non-farm employers added one hundred fifteen thousand jobs to their payrolls last month still that is well below the one hundred seventy thousand jobs economies economists predicted would be added and as far as

that slowly declining unemployment rate experts say that was largely due to about three hundred forty two thousand people actually leaving the labor force altogether these numbers of course being spun in every which way today the obama administration pointing out hate this is the twenty six month in a row that this economy has seen private sector job growth conservative pundits reminding people there are about twelve and a half million people who are still unemployed and a record eighty eight point four million considered not in the labor force we want to talk more about all of this with peter schiff president at euro pacific capital hey there peter happy friday let me get your take first of all on the story behind these numbers. well you you pointed out already in your graphic three times as many people left the labor force as found jobs that's a disaster wired three hundred thousand americans taking themselves out of the labor force because there's no jobs available and so they'd rather go on disability

or you know early retirement whatever they're doing but we're not creating enough jobs and if you look at the jobs that we created we're still creating the wrong kinds of jobs it's still mainly service sector retail finance health care education we only created sixteen thousand manufacturing jobs that was a i think a five or six month low but we need to create one hundred sixty thousand manufacturing jobs every month for years we need to produce more things so we can rein in our trade deficit the jobs that we are creating are making us poorer not richer biggest are the wrong kinds of jobs because the government is interfering with the free markets ability to rebalance our economy well let me ask you a question and this is a question i'm repeating that i've heard over and over today especially from some of the conservative pundits from mitt romney the question where are the jobs the good kind of job. well they're in other countries i mean you know think about how expensive the u.s. government makes it to hire americans it's

a lot of businesses do whatever they can to avoid hiring americans because of all the rules and all the regulation and all the litigation is just too expensive that's the problem and another problem is we don't have enough capital if we don't have enough savings nobody's saving any money guess interest rates are at zero the only new money that comes into the economy is the at the fed and it distributes it through wall street and they're not get it invest in plant that equipment they're not going to build factories with that money they're just gambling with it so none of this is producing really can only grow here let's take a look at what's going on overseas. we know as we've been watching over the last several months what's been going on in greece where more than twenty percent unemployment is. well you know we probably have an unemployment rate close to that right now if you look at the use six which is a better measure that the government puts out which includes people who are working part time who would rather work full time you're looking at a number of about fifteen percent so you know we're not that much farther behind greece but remember greece is dealing with these problems right now they have much

higher interest rates our interest rates are still at rock bottom the last time we had a labor force participation rate this low in america was in december of one thousand nine hundred eighty one when paul volcker was pushed slamming on the brakes we had twenty percent interest rates now we've got the pedal to the metal we got zero percent of straits we got q.e. and we still don't have any jobs imagine what's going to happen when the fed has to put on the brakes well that's what i'm wondering i mean situation in the u.s. it will get to that in which you will get. protesting in the street. most likely i mean i think it's going to get pretty ugly here when i think we have even more people unemployed but we have escalating and maybe even is skyrocketing prices for things like food and energy and if the government makes the mistake of putting in price controls which you know i wouldn't put it past them and then we have shortages of energy and basic food products people are going to take to cali to do

that i mean they don't like austerity in greece americans are going to like it here either especially since i think we're going to get a bigger dose of it here i mean you seem to be pointing your finger at things like price controls at things like overregulation but there's gonna be sort of a middle ground here because obviously there needs to be certain things that are regulated certain everything from legal control to environmental can controls. places that actually make manufacture stuff where it does what does that middle ground look like well i mean the best regulation is the free market i mean that's what regulates because businesses want customers and they attract customers by providing them with good products at the lowest possible price and no the problem is most of the government regulation short circuits the free market regulation and we get all sorts of moral hazards we get companies doing things and taking risks and that they never would take in a free market if they had to be subjected to competitive forces so yes there is

a role for some sensible government regulation and in america most of that drug regulation should take place at the local level or maybe the state level not at the federal level but we've gone way past the realm of sense ability we have got regulations that are strangling this economy that are preventing free market forces from operating they're preventing the economy from growing they're forcing jobs and capital out of the country and we need to repeal these rules and regulations as quickly as we can i want to talk to us for a second about the politics of this the heritage foundation today. put out a memo saying the u.s. economy only added one hundred fifteen thousand jobs last month well below expectations and far far below what is necessary to drive the employment just to try the economy back to full employment full employment i mean is that really the new conservative tagline it is four years of president. didn't promise to get this

country to full employment but i don't even think that's possible i guess i'm just wondering sort of the political spin machine that's happening today it's not possible now given the current framework given the monetary and fiscal policy that we have you know we're going to have full unemployment maybe that we're going to get and you know think about what's happening to the economy as more and more people leave the labor force and they're no longer paying taxes they're not part of the tax base anymore they're not contributing they're drawing from society's resources and a lot of these people are just going on disability look at the claims for disability have skyrocketed through so security now you think these people are really disabled no i think what's happening is they're using the disability laws to take advantage of that because they can't find any jobs and now instead of paying taxes they're going to be drawing down benefits but i guess i'm just wondering you know as i said everything is political. you know even of the unemployment rate

we're at six percent it seems that those who oppose obama and oppose some of the practices you know out there right now they would say oh yeah well that's just because everyone's stopped looking and of course the way politics works but what would it take to for you know the more objective people to say yes the president has done a good job getting this economy back on track but he hasn't got a good job so i mean the only one who can say that is somebody who's spending it maybe people as part of his campaign team but the president has done a terrific job of saying that he he was dealt a good hand he was dealt a lousy hand but he played it. sadly and now the hand is even worse he promised to change the policies that created the problem instead he expanded on those very policies all we got is more of the same only in bigger doses and so he's he's inherited a bad situation and he's made a lot worse and unfortunately we are staring at a much greater economic crisis coming soon make probably the next few years then

two thousand i got a subject in my new book you know that comes out i think in two weeks the real crash america's coming bankruptcy that lays it out exactly what's going to happen to this country and why i also have a lot of solutions what we need to do to reform government so that the free market can solve the problems that government created but we don't have a lot of time to implement these solution right absolutely and. it seems these numbers and no matter how you look at it aren't as good as the majority of people hoped peter's as president you're a pacific capital well as saying that in this day and age of the internet social networking and raunchy reality t.v. there is very little that can be said or done to offend someone right well if you agree with that you might want to think again are to correspond. to reports on demand for political correctness gone wild and taking place right here in modern day america apologize my apologies. we apologize i'm going to apologize

political correctness gone mad in the u.s. for media pundits and giggle fasts a pussy willow branch. to advertising trying to spice up an old concept like oreos and milk to sports managers praising fidel castro i'm very very very sorry even political comedians mixing religion and the male body parts maybe women could protect their reproductive organs from on wanted medical intrusions with the china mangers. saying anything in public even when obviously joking has become a minefield you say something off color you tweet something off color all the sudden you've got fifteen people criticizing you for whatever has been an attempt to take you down a notch pushing an increasing number of people into endless apologies anderson

cooper should not have had to give a public apology for giggling at the word pussy willow i think that's adorable that's just a ten year old boy and him and burgeoning and scampering about in short pants it's really absurd i mean people get more angry about a word like let's see well oh then they do say a drone strike that kills thirty innocent people in afghanistan we apologize we really do meaningless political correctness has given rise to meaningless rituals of remorse and apology from rush limbaugh it's like going to church and going through all the motions but not really believing in god of gender discrimination in an overly to just culture cries of discrimination are often simply an excuse to sue ladies night discriminatory there was a lawyer here in new york that sued all of the bars in new york that had readings that because that was gender discrimination so it's become this sort of parity of politeness and parity of equity where in fact people are just going overboard it

starts from early on one school in america came up with rules on what a prom dress should and should not look like it's even more worrying because there's more and more authoritarianism in the schools there's police in the schools there are rules being. you know imposed on students the new york department of education recently attempted to ban fifty potentially offensive terms from school tests. words like dinosaur in case it offends those who deny evolution and divorce to not hurt the feelings of kids whose parents are no longer together even birthday because it's not celebrated by jehovah's witnesses the idea was publicly mocked and finally scrapped a victory for common sense many cheered but critics say more will follow despite the hypocrisy in the real world people drop f. bombs all the time in the real world people. all the time and to be like

oh my god it's people cheating you know i mean it's just kind of ridiculous as the list of words and deeds considered politically socially or morally unacceptable rose the united states of america a country that prides itself on freedom of speech could be well on its way to becoming the united states of i'm sorry but since you're going to artsy. it is shocking sometimes the lengths people will go to try not to offend anyone i personally subscribe to the south park model myself just offend everyone and no one can call you a racist or anti-catholic or anti muslim because really they're just funny they criticize everyone but it does warrant a closer look because this is our society and the schools our children will attend in the future and they look a whole lot different than they did when we were there or when our parents were there so i want to talk about this with today mccormack a radio host with l.a. talk radio dot com t.j. what is with this whole political correctness thing i mean do you think it's a little overblown. a little overblown i feel like that it's sane people like

us i think there's this massive massive massive majority of people who are sitting here and looking at one of they want to and what do they want to and we're the same ones the i don't think anybody wants this sort of scrubbed up site type of language and what's interesting is is that you know a conservative like me can come to a place like r.t. and i think we all agree on this one you know because there are factors from the left and the right i think you have you know you had a back in the day you had the ultra conservative right wing christians who didn't want you know kids dancing they didn't like elvis they didn't like the beatles with their devil new zick you know and insanity like that and then you know they wanted to ban dirty words and you know in an old t.v. shows that you never saw the couple sleeping in the same bed and then the left came

in with their sort of odd censorship with we're not going to say handicapped we're going to see handy capable we're going to say decide where i don't want to i see somebody walking down a street with a limp i don't know what actually true first of them as that limp person who used to be a cripple but now i don't know you know the other day i was in a debate on facebook as those things unfold and i referred to blah blah blah i refer to blacks and i was. saying blacks and as opposed to you know what twenty years ago were afro americans and now we're. going absolutely and i seem to constantly be changing and i went through the last of these fifty have words that the new york department of education wanted banned from the standardized test they did sort of backtrack on that but i want to go through a few how we can because it suggests pagan rituals crime junk food flavoring and rock n roll music to say why are they taking away our rock'n'roll from us. i think because they think they can i think i don't know these are people who are

just way too much time i hate to be to use a cliche like that but this is great you know what you know what i'll tell you what i am offended at standardized test i had to go to summer school for geometry so i'm offended at geometry so i think we should be banning all math tests ok i scored huge on my verbal but i tanked it on my math skills so you know what kids who whose feelings are hurt i say you know what actually this as i say this this actually starts to make kind of crazy backward sense how about the kids who fail miserably in certain sections of the testing what what about those kids who go home hurt or have trouble telling their parents i got a d. i got a sixty five i got a sixty five what are we going to start doing with those kids who don't do well in certain subjects are we going to start giving them a pass doesn't that actually happen in some cases now i mean and let's be serious for a second here i mean among the errors are on the tast poverty slavery i mean these

are kind of yes important things to learn about as an elementary school day own ends. they are and by the way i am being serious actually you know because when you think about it you know they you know they it's kind of like with taxes they say well where are we going to stop war with warning labels on food so again now in this in terms of the lexicon where do we stop and you write an inch interesting here too we're talking about the left and the right we're not we're not want to say dinosaurs because that might offend some extreme right wing christians who don't believe in evolution and at the same time we're not going to say poverty because the people on the left are afraid of offending people who might be you know living in urban squalor so interesting this is all coming full circle where both sides are getting kooky i honestly don't know how to other than you know what it's words my background is as as a stand up comic for twenty plus years and you know if you know people went to jail in america to say certain words a famous american comedian george carlin and lenny bruce another one they went to

jail and were prosecuted for saying certain words that today if i was to go back to doing stand up there in my clubs in los angeles for example where if one was to say and here's an example of this silliness it's almost to say the n. word in a kind of couple of comedy clubs in los angeles in particular they would be fined you will be fined now for saying certain words in a comedy club in los angeles and prop possibly in new york that seems like no one setting where sort of everything should still be allowed you know you'd think i got a fun fact for you t.j. tomorrow is the eighty seventh anniversary of the day a biology teacher in dayton tennessee named john thomas scopes was charged for teaching evolution in a public school his trial the state of tennessee versus scopes also known as the scopes monkey trial made history and the final decision of that trial made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state funded school. have we come far from that day or are things just sort of the same and really not i don't know who we are no

matter of fact i don't know if we can refer to a monkey in this set. can we refer to monkeys are we supposed to say primates or are we supposed to learn we suppose to have evolved from the. i don't know. lots of questions and i know that it must be difficult if you're a teacher in elementary school in high school to try to think about that and make sure you don't say the wrong thing or you know persuade. your kids or students in the wrong direction certainly tough stuff but it's a fun topic to talk about on a friday t.j. mccormick radio at l.a. talk radio dot com thanks so much of course all right let's turn now to the latest crack in the foundation when it comes to internet freedom this week brought yet another ruling this one in the u.k. where the file sharing website the pirate bay was blocked to millions of users in the u.k. a high court ruled that the leading i asked peas in the country must censor the pirate bay website saying both the site and its users were breaking major copyright

laws now this comes on the heels of course of the cyber intelligence sharing and protection act or sister passing here in the u.s. house just a week ago and also with many more rules and regulations regarding the internet in the works so we want to look deeper into this with david seaman a journalist also host of the d.l. so hello there david now let's talk first about this pirate bay ruling it's making waves in the u.s. in the u.k. but why should we care about this here in the u.s. . i think the fight against quote unquote piracy is global we have these powerful but dying and detainment corporations that are putting tremendous pressure on legislators and on law enforcement on our government to crack down on what they see as piracy but piracy is not the same thing is theft when you go out and you steal money from a bank or you steal somebodies car they no longer have that car it's gone it's now

yours when you distribute a piece of music or you know a comedy show or anything like that and other people see it it's not as if the original creator has lost anything and facts there's a lot of evidence that those artists who receive a lot of play over the so-called piracy networks. and it's doing quite well because they reach millions of people who would not have even known about them otherwise well i mean that we might be adding to the you know david i mean just you know their side of the story they say what they've lost out on is the you know x. amount of dollars we were talking earlier in our newsroom about you know the cost of a cd used to be you know six hundred ninety nine seventy ninety nine so when you pirate the whole album or you take the whole album you're not stealing it away from anybody but a lot of those artists would argue that they deserve the money from that i mean. imo i mean these huge media companies these huge media companies want to invent a time machine and go back to

a time where we would pay seven hundred ninety nine for a stupid cd or we would only have a handful of options when we turn on our t.v. at night in terms of what kind of news we can get and you know if a musician or an artist isn't on the today show or m.t.v. they have no chance of success and that's just not the way it is anymore they have these laws in place to attack piracy and i think ten years from now it's going to seem laughable and sad that our government went after pirates when there are legitimate digital crimes happening online there's identity theft there's credit card fraud there are very serious things happening there's online harassment all these things are happening and i think that's what our law enforcement agencies should be focused on i don't get much focused on taking down piracy sites i think that's a fair point that certainly things have changed and one of the another laughable kind of thing is the initial impact that this particular ruling had and that is that twelve million more visitors than the pirate bay has ever seen when to its site the site was giving tutorials on kind of how to circumvent some of these

imposed blocks this was of course the initial reaction but i'm wondering david what do you see as some of the longer term domino effects coming from this ruling in the u k. well it's the twelve million user surge you just mentioned is really interesting because that proves the point that you can't really stop you can't stop people's behaviors online information wants to be free and entertainment wants to be shared that's just the way it is back in the day you know when you finish this news listening to a cd you handed off to a friend and these networks do the digital equivalent. you know a way that i read that makes a lot of sense. if you want to crack down on hardcore like cocaine dealers you don't go after the company that makes their plastic bags and shut down the factory that makes those bags you go after the dealers and in the same way when they shut down one of these web sites if that is their goal to stop you know sharing of content without it being monetized in some fashion they're not going to be

successful because something else is just going to spring up overnight like a mushroom i think i mean you can't stop sharing it is an interesting analogy and i do want to say i mean we are dealing with something similar in this country with you know a long list of proposed privacy infringing regulations in the bill cispa and unlike what we saw with soap by the south island online piracy act not as many people are coming out quite so vocally against it but there have been a few including mozilla mozilla told forbes magazine that quote cisco has a broad and alarming rates that goes far beyond internet security the bill infringes on our privacy includes vague definitions of cybersecurity and grants immunities to the companies and governments that are too broad around information mrs i should also say the c.e.o. of cheeseburger put it simply in an interview with pro publica they simply said suspend is so close cousin who works for the cia but i'm wondering david why are more people not coming out against this but already passed like we said in the

house last week the senate is working on their version and we're not hearing quite as much criticism of it. well christine the big reason why you're not hearing more criticism is that most americans i talk to don't even know about this bill when you turn on the news at night i mean thankfully archie america is all over this and there are a handful of other networks that are covering it but the vast majority of news networks that americans turn to and even large news websites just are not mentioning system and unfortunately it's already passed the house and i was going to go to a senate vote and you can oppose something you don't know about let's just talk real quick we're almost out of time david bigger picture here with some of these changes these in these widespread feet freedoms that we've enjoyed for years. i mean. the only good thing happening here of all these you know rollbacks of our online freedoms is that we have the tools available to stop this stuff it only takes five minutes to call both of your senators and their numbers are publicly

listed on the senate web site on senate dot gov just give them a call be polite tell me you oppose this bill and anything like it you don't want them attacking the internet and go on twitter like i have a lot of followers on twitter who spend a long portion of their day just spreading the word and telling people that they need to oppose this but i think you're right until some of these major websites do sort of what they did with which is have an internet blackout to really put the information out but once again what we're seeing in other countries doesn't mean it won't affect us here that's why we wanted to take a look at it today david seaman journalist also host of the d.l. show in our miami florida studios and for us here in d.c. that's going to do it for now but for more of the stories we covered make sure to go to youtube dot com slash r t america and only check out our website r t dot com slash usa and you can of course find me on twitter i'm at christine thanks for watching we'll be back in about thirty minutes.

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