WHAT DOES BBC'S MARKI MARDELL KNOW THAT WE HAVEN'T HEARD?

It seems that foreign reporters are permitted more objectivity and freedom of speech than those owned by their papers or stations here in the US.  I'm always surprised at the paucity of full coverage as to what is actually happening to us, American citizens..  As a citizen I would like to know where the money is behind some of the strange directions our politicians seem to take.  For example, what could possibly have frightened the politician who apologized the the CEO of BP because our president demanded some restitution to the people whose jobs and incomes were devastated by the spill.

Another mystery is how the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court could possibly change a legal decision that stood for a hundred years to allow corporations to be viewed as a single person and permitted to donate to American political campaigns from outside this country.  Non-Americans are now finally able to influence American elections.  How could Justice Alito be allowed to be main speaker at an RNC fund raising dinner where plates went from $250 to $25,000?  This, by Alito,  was ignored while Keith Olbermann, availed himself of his privilege as a citizen to donate to the party of his choice and was suspended.  Double standard once referred to what was acceptable for men and not for women.  Like a pregnant woman's derriere, the definition .has expanded to far greater proportion.  Read more here.

Mark Wardell of BBC warns of imminent likelihood of an American Civil War.  This is fascinating as I try to think of the clear difference between the North and the South in the last Civil War.  Would this be between Democrats and Republicans?  How would the enemy be recognized?  During the Revolutionary war (everyone had a chimney) the black stripe painted on one's chimney identified their political leanings.  How would we do it now?  What will happen to Independents?  I can't quite visualize the Civil War, though a Revolutionary war attacks directly against the government and military, would seem more what the rumbles have suggested.  What a lovely tactic to keep American people on the defensive and terrified.

Withe Representatives to the House and Senators spending disproportionately between the task of working for the voters who sent them there or assuring themselves of re=election, I fear it suggests the job is too good for them to give up and they can act like the no-show relatives and friends in Massachusetts, appointed by the nepotism of those who finally made it to the State House.