Posted on 07/31/2012 7:17:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
On Monday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Stephanie Gosk promoted the Occupy-Wall-Street-stye rhetoric of left-wing British Member of Parliament Oona King: "King believes economic inequality was a driving force behind London's riots last year....The physical recovery from the riots has been slow....But the effort to improve lives is even more difficult."
Gosk interviewed King as they walked through London's East End, near the Olympic Village: "This is not the London that tourists typically get to see. Here the double-dip recession has hit hard. Unemployment is over 14%." King lamented: "Huge, vast repositories of wealth. And yet, that wealth doesn't trickle down anywhere, you know?" Gosk helpfully added: "So, they can see it....but they can't get there."
In honor of Barack Obama's reelection campaign, King recently re-posted her glowing review of the President's memoir, Dreams of My Father, on her website. She showered praise on the book: "Whatever else people expect from a politician, it's not usually a beautifully written personal memoir steeped in honesty. Barack Obama has produced one, possibly because he wrote it when he was 33, long before realizing any political ambitions."
Here is a full transcript of the July 30 report:
7:14PM ETBRIAN WILLIAMS: As the world gathers here in London, a lot of first-timers to this city may be expecting the London of Mary Poppins. And depending on where they go and what they see, they'll experience something awfully close. But out here in the East End, where the Olympic Village is, decidedly off the beaten path, it's a different London, as NBC's Stephanie Gosk shows us tonight.
STEPHANIE GOSK: Just down the road from the Olympic park, the students at Kingsmead Primary are holding their own olympiad, with hand-made torches held high. These are the faces of a changing London. Families from 46 different countries, speaking 40 different languages.
UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: My parents are from Ireland and Malaysia.
UNIDENTIFIED GIRL B: My parents are from Ethiopia.
UNIDENTIFIED BOY: My parents are from Poland.
GOSK: Oona King lives in the shadow of the Olympic park too.
OONA KING: And when I was growing up, I was the only mixed-race child in my class.
GOSK: She is the second black woman ever to be elected to Parliament.
KING: You know, when we bid for the Olympic games, we said if London wins, then the world wins, you know? Because London has basically the whole world here.
GOSK: There are the Jamaicans of Brixston, the Indians of Brick Lane, Africans, Asians, Europeans, Muslims, Hindus, Christians. This is not the London that tourists typically get to see. Here the double-dip recession has hit hard. Unemployment is over 14%.
KING: Huge, vast repositories of wealth. And yet, that wealth doesn't trickle down anywhere, you know?
GOSK: So, they can see it...
KING: They can see it.
GOSK: ...but they can't get there.
KING: But they can't get it.
GOSK: King believes economic inequality was a driving force behind London's riots last year. For five days angry young people battled police, looted, and destroyed their own neighborhoods. The physical recovery from the riots has been slow. This pub still bears the scars. But the effort to improve lives is even more difficult. Some hope the investment in the Olympics will help create new opportunities. The Olympic park will be turned into five new neighborhoods, with affordable housing and gardens. The nearby mall has already added 10,000 new jobs.
KING: In the long term, though, it's about the legacy, isn't it? It's about the affordable homes, it's about jobs, and it's about giving a generation that inspiration. I mean, that's the strapline, isn't it, for London 2012? Inspire a generation.
GOSK: Already, the children at Kingsmead Primary seem to be getting the Olympic message to excel, a truly inspired performance. Stephanie Gosk, NBC News, London.
Given the current demographic and political trends, we will all have stories like yours someday and sooner rather then later, I imagine. On the positive side suffering has a tendency to breed character, or used to, to those in the American Experience. We can hope that this situation is cyclical as a result.
I just wonder how much of our living standard has to erode and how great the elites cupidity grows before we, as a people, take action.
The problem is, many very wealthy people these corrupt days are far from brain surgeons and produce less actual value than a burger flipper.
Wealth these days is most often made through exploiting corrupt government contracts, insider trading and skimming of investors. It's who you know much more than what you do.
Becoming wealthy through such means is also damaging to the soul. Deep down, such people know they didn't really earn it and they try to correct it through more bleeding heart socialism. You can constantly see this in Obama.
I'm a pretty well-off NYer that made it without family connections. It was through my own ideas that saved people real resources and time - this is generation of real wealth. Unfortunately, I don't meet too many people like that these days.
The funny part is Big government and socialism IS the cause of most of this false wealth...
“How many ‘african-americans’ have converted to islam?”
A small, vocal number; I’m seeing a lot more backlash against Obama from Black Christian ministers.
I work with a number of urban blacks, and there is not a single Muslim among them.
http://www.answering-islam.org/ReachOut/emergence.html
Islam is attempting to convert our indigenous people, I imagine islam is having more success with African-Americans.
I think Americans of all sorts find Islam a bit restrictive; it won’t make much headway here with our own population. The imported “replacement Americans”, on the other hand...
Did you look at the link I provided:
Emergence of Islam in the African-American Community
By Adam Edgerly and Carl Ellis
Muslims make up about 6% of the population in the United States. The majority of conversions to this growing religion is occurring within the African-American community (a little over 11% of America’s population).
The British Socialist Labour Government of the 1997 to 2010? encouraged mass immigration from Africa and elsewhere. It is an uncomfortable fact that sub Saharan Africans in general have a lot lower IQ; 70 or 80 or lower in some countries.
What we have in the UK is an intellectually inferior, genetically separate underclass who are not able to contribute economically and are not welcome by the rest of the population generally. Race relations laws were introduced in the 60’s to force their acceptance by the indigenous population.
They live on state benefits and rob and steal to get their luxury goods.
It will all end in tears, and has been deliberately engineered by Communists or their fellow travellers and other useful idiots to try to break the unity of English society.
In the US that unity has also been broken, first by the liberation and emancipation of Negro slaves, then by the relaxation of their immigration laws to let in Southern European Catholics and lately by the mass influx of Mexicans.
This is a widespread problem, but mainly a tool to destroy the social fabric of the Anglo Saxon Capitalist Democracies.
I did; it simply doesn’t describe the situation “on the ground” as you’re seeing it. Making up the “majority of conversions” doesn’t mean much in a religion that draws few Westerners (of any color), who find real Christianity too burdensome.
The Koran is not allowed to be interpreted into languages other than Arabic; when I see African-Americans speaking Arabic fluently I’ll concede they are a growing group. Until then, it is political “anti-whiteness” - nothing more. Even Malcolm X had an epiphany when he traveled to Mecca; he never knew there were white Muslims, and he came back losing his anti-white zeal.
“In the US that unity has also been broken, first by the liberation and emancipation of Negro slaves, then by the relaxation of their immigration laws to let in Southern European Catholics and lately by the mass influx of Mexicans.”
These incidents would have had a negligible effect if the WASPs had continued breeding; their refusal to do so is the reason for the current state of affairs.
“These incidents would have had a negligible effect if the WASPs had continued breeding; their refusal to do so is the reason for the current state of affairs.”
There is a war, military, economic, political, and most insidious, genetic.
The Nordics are being deliberately out reproduced by the others. The Communists win by creating ever larger minoriy groups with a grievance, and Catholicism and Islam are in a race to have the most adherents. Large families with inherited religion are the easiest and most certain way.
“The Communists win by creating ever larger minoriy groups with a grievance, and Catholicism and Islam are in a race to have the most adherents. Large families with inherited religion are the easiest and most certain way.”
AS a Catholic I wish this was true; the fact is that Catholic birthrates have been falling for the same reason WASPs’ have: people don’t want to sacrifice material comfort to deal with raising children. The European countries with the lowest birth rates are nominally “Catholic” (Italy & Spain).
Here in the US I end up voting for WASP Republicans who are more “Catholic” than their Catholic opposition.
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