Daily Archives: November 2, 2011

11/2/11

To Catch a Journalist: Jay Rosen says Clay Shirky has had “Consulting Gigs” for the New York Times

Hat Tip: BB

Latest O’Keefe Video Answers MSM Charges, Puts Ball Back In Their Court

Project Veritas:

ProjectVeritas.com investigation. Professor Jay Rosen says on hidden camera Clay Shirky has been a consultant with the NYT after media reports that Clay Shirky was not. Is Jay Rosen lying about Clay Shirky’s relationship with the NYT or is Clay Shirky and the NYT lying?

11/2/11

CNBC VIDEO – Dick Grasso With Joe Kernen On Occupy Wall Street: “I Understand The Anger, Banks Gave Capitalism A Bad Name”

Read more at The Daily Bail…

Comment from Mike Rivero:

We are not a capitalist society any more. We have degenerated into fascism. What Occupy America wants is a return to true capitalism where you keep the money you make and if you lose money that is your own tough luck.

A fascist economy is where corporations get to keep the profits they make but pass the losses onto the general population as “Bailouts”. Which is what the USA is doing right now.

11/2/11

Angela Davis, Occupy Wall St @ Washington Sq Park, Oct 30, 2011. General Strike November 2

O W S TRANSFORMING THE POLITICS OF THE UNIVERSE

Asked about the coming US election, Davis responded: “The two-party system has never worked; it does not work now, and we clearly need alternatives. Personally I believe we need a powerful, radical, third party. In the meantime, this movement, which is not a party, can accomplish much that political parties are unable to accomplish and so it would seem to me, that the best way to exert pressure on that corrupt two party system is to continue to build this movement and to demonstrate that it reaches not only across the country but across the ocean.”

More on the whackados from OWS…

11/2/11

Weekly Featured Profile – Bob King

KeyWiki

Bob King is a dedicated socialist who has steadily been climbing up the ranks at the United Auto Workers Union. From 1989-1998. he worked as the Union’s Director for most of Wayne, Monroe and Washtenaw Counties in Michigan. He then served three four-year terms as a Vice President until 2010. In 2010. he was elected as President of the union which represents about one million workers (390,000 active members and more than 600,000 retired members). Then on February 16, 2011, President Barack Obama appointed King to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Who is the man who leads this powerful union and has the ear of the President?

In May 1991, King, then director of UAW region 1A, met with the members of the first Cuban trade union delegation to be granted visas to the US since the 1959 revolution. The visit was co-organized by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. Bob King is also a life member of the NAACP and a member of the DSA-connected Coalition of Labor Union Women. On August 28th 2010, King worked with Operation PUSH founder and director Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. to organize a march down Washington Boulevard, Detroit, to demand “jobs, peace and justice.” (Operation PUSH is affiliated with United for Peace and Justice). In the Winter of 2001, along with fellow UAW leaders Stephen Yokich (President), Ruben Burks (Sec-Treasurer) and Vice-Presidents Elizabeth Bunn, Ron Gettelfinger, Nate Gooden and Richard Shoemaker, King placed an advertisement saluting the Democratic Socialists of America‘s publication, the Democratic Left. The advert stated, “The men and women of International Union, UAW salute Democratic Left – A strong voice for social and economic justice.”

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