Why is the media so obsessed with Obama, when we have our very own election to worry about? Yes, the Glenrothes bi-election is today, which possibly will signal the end of the Brown premiership and bring about a general election, yet the Torygraph has a dozen “comment” articles about Obama yet only one (very short) article on Glenrothes.

With literally hundreds of BBC reporters in the USA, and I am sure Brown was aware of this many weeks ago, the bias in coverage is easily explained. What were the beeb thinking of? I even saw one interview with the great grand daughter of the first self made black American millionaire. Like she had actually done anything in her life that was interesting, or more importantly, had anything to contribute to the debate.

And as I said above - Brown must of known what aunty beeb (and others) were up to. And that is why he chose to have the election 2 days after the USA election. This debacle is yet another example of how Brown is perfectly willing to abuse his powers for party political gain. The sooner we have fixed term parliaments and the decision of when to hold bi-elections made by the Electoral Commission the better. The primary concern about when to hold elections should be to ensure the playing field is as level as possible with respect to external events.

But this attempt at a media blackout may backfire on Brown. It means the campaign agenda is no longer set by the national media, but by what happens on the ground. And the SNP are excellent at these kind of campaigns. Let’s not forget, if Brown looses that election, the media focus will have done a full circle and have its sights firmly aimed back at Brown.

I am listening to Brown talking about the financial crisis on the Andrew Marr Show this morning. Apparently, Brown was right all along but no one would listen. If only those pesky Americans had listened, he could have steered the world away from the current financial crisis. Apparently, it’s all America’s fault and it is a global problem. Oh, and it was much worse when the Tory last ran the country.

But isn’t it strange that this is the first time that he has mentioned the American’s not listening.

But more importantly, strange that he did not try to stem the levels of debt, both public and private, in the good years. Strange that he increased stealth taxes over his 10 years of tenure in no 11 by the equivalent of an increase in income tax of 10p in the pound. Strange that he was more than happy to ride on the “end of boom and bust” mantra, that it was “the longest period of expansion in the 20th century” or the longest period “on a quarterly basis” for 100 years, and then for “250 years” (even though that these claims are not true) . Strange that if the situation is so perilous, after all that increase in taxes and borrowing, he can commit us to a £1bn scheme to fund nursery places for all 2 year olds (when the current commitments for all 3 year olds cannot be met). All of these things, and more, he does and did have direct control over.

This current line of America not listening: what utter crap.

Brown you are a liar, a coward and a fraudster. You deserve everything you get.

Goodness me, but can this be true? 

A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each. These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran and SeaMeWe-4, also near Alexandria.

If so, then there can only be one explanation: someone is doing it on purpose. Quite why, I do not know. But I wonder, no reputable news source is picking this up. Either they have been told not to report it (unlikely, considering the diversity in the world-wide media), they are not interested/aware (also unlikely, imho) or we have ourselves some fabrication.

Since my last posting on this subject, a 4th communications cable has been “damaged” in the Middle East. This time it is in Qtar. And, despite the recent speculation that the first two cables were cut by a ship’s anchor, it transpires there weren’t any ships there at the time of the cuts! So what are the USA up to? Four cables down in 1 week, all in the Middle East? Something is afoot I tells you.