details emerge over the state department's failures in reviewing the environmental consequences bill mckibben is going to join us for that discussion where you have all that and more if you deny putting it to us of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to me. all right so it's a jobs numbers came out for the month of october and although there was a little bit of good news the official unemployment rate went down and i percent the you six unemployment rate also went down to sixteen point two percent it's still not enough to keep up and once again it was all worse than economists had expected. for the first time in four months the unemployment rate has finally moved lower jobless rate down slightly the u.s. labor department says employers added eighty thousand jobs that's enough to bring the national jobless rate down to an even nine percent but the number of new jobs was less than analysts predicted the u.s. economy jobs last month but not nearly as many as analysts had hoped that slightly less than economists projected. you know i think it's big zach

the state department and the president came into industry pressure or discuss this with me is bill mckibben writer activists and founder of tar sands action and three fifty dot org his latest book is earth making a life on a tough new planet helping you so much for being here and they are good. to be here so the last time that people came out to protest this case from the white house and went on for a matter of two weeks over a thousand people were arrested so tell me how that's going to differ from the actions after the yes that was the largest civil disobedience action in about thirty five years in this country sunday very peaceful it will be the first time people have attempted to ring milk white house human beings we'll see if we can get enough protesters and i think we can there seem to be buses converging on washington from all around the country this is becoming the biggest environmental flashpoint in decades and it's very exciting to see it happen. one of the things that they have to prove here in order for this pipeline to be afraid of is that it's in our national interest that can

now on last friday's show we spoke with environmental activist bill mckibben anticipation of a massive protest against the keystone x.l. pipeline sets take place at the white house this past weekend so yesterday about twelve thousand people showed up for the protest carrying signs and linking to form a chain and circling sixteen hundred pennsylvania avenue. i. mean climate environmental activists were joined by religious leaders i know bill peace prize winner since how the obama administration that they shouldn't go forward with a seven billion dollar trans canada oil project now as of now no decision has been made there are still a lot of questions about the state department's possibly an ethical review of the seven hundred mile pipeline over think progress report today at the state department's office of inspector general is now conducting its own investigation of that review process after several congressmen filed a request so in the meantime those in favor of the pipeline including several major labor unions are all gearing up their advertising blitz promising that it will create t

opposition to the project a lot of people think of it still plays well for obama come election time as bill mckibben explains the president's promise to keep greenhouse gas emissions under consideration appeases the environmental crowd who is at the breaking point with him and despite the fact that trans canada is making concessions to make the pipeline happen soon the state department says a new review of the ruby required we might not see those results until two thousand and thirteen so in the meantime president obama can campaign on being green friendly and still win the support of both sides of the issue come next november sixth mr president we'll see if it actually works for you. now republicans have been reeling ever since president obama announced that all u.s. troops would be leaving iraq at the end of this year and the deal that could have them stay was not reached so today they got their chance to grill militarily military leaders and new secretary of defense leon panetta but exactly what happened despite panetta reminders of the administration had no other choice and this is about what th

one that requires not one silver bullet that what activists and -- bill mckibben is called silver buckshot. today we will be joined by some of the brightest young people leading this charge, creating innovative participatory and sudden solutions to our most pressing problems. together we will discuss what we see as the evolution of the sustainability and governments role in ensuring a just and more sustainable future for every american and for the global community. i will start off with a brief introduction from each panel member and then we will do a question and answer session to conclude with remarks from each panel member. i would like to start by introducing to you chiara camponeschi. [applause] i will introduce each panel member and have them sit down and then we will actually do opening comments. if we could be joined by also phillipe cousteau. [applause] and ashok kamal. [applause] will byrne. [applause] and tarak shah. [applause] chiara briefly tell us about the work you are doing and explain to us how your organization defined and advances sustainability. >> i run a project which