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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (119440)	12/8/2011 10:18:11 PM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

..."Frontman Jonathan Davis says: “I feel like Obama’s an Illuminati puppet. He’s basically dragged this country down into the worst it’s ever been. Like I say about the White House, ‘You’ve built this house of shame.’ Everybody looked up at the White House and America and now I think it’s like a house of shame. I miss the old days when people were proud to be American.”.... Korn: Obama's an Illuminati puppet By PATRICK GAVIN \| 12/8/11 politico.com President Barack Obama is loved by a lot of actors and musicians, but one band won’t be performing at any of his campaign rallies: Korn. The metal band, which rose to fame in the 1990s when its “Follow the Leader” album, spoke with Billboard.com to promote their new album, “The Path of Totality,” and explained the meaning behind some of their songs, including “Illuminati.” Frontman Jonathan Davis says: “I feel like Obama’s an Illuminati puppet. He’s basically dragged this country down into the worst it’s ever been. Like I say about the White House, ‘You’ve built this house of shame.’ Everybody looked up at the White House and America and now I think it’s like a house of shame. I miss the old days when people were proud to be American.” It’s a rare expression of politics by Davis, who told MTV in 2006 that he wrote the song “Politics” because “It’s just about how I don’t like to talk about politics…Korn has never been a real political band.”

To: Wayners who wrote (119440)	12/9/2011 8:09:10 AM
From: lorne	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

Wayners...looks like some of hussein obama's private army may be refusing orders? Occupy hopes to shut West Coast ports Monday; union balks By Michael Winter, USA TODAY Dec 08, 2011 content.usatoday.com The Occupy movement hopes to shut down ports along the West Coast on Monday, but its show of solidarity against "Wall Street on the waterfront" is facing a formidable opponent -- the dock workers' union. Occupy blockades are planned in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, Portland, Ore., Tacoma, Wash., Seattle, Anchorage and Vancouver, B.C., the Associated Press says. Why bring them to a halt? The ports play a pivotal role in the flow and growth of capital for the 1% in this country and internationally. For that reason alone it is the ideal place to disrupt their profit machine. The workers on these ports have always understood that; they have consistently staged shutdowns for political reasons, honored community picket lines, and led the labor movement. A general disruption of commerce, in protest of the nationally coordinated attacks on Occupy movements alone is warranted, but additionally, the specifically targeted attacks on workers at these ports by the 1% further necessitate this call to action. But the International Longshore and Warehouse Union is not aboard the sympathy shutdown. "Support is one thing, organization from outside groups attempting to co-opt our struggle in order to advance a broader agenda is quite another," Robert McEllrath wrote in a Dec. 6 letter to ILWU locals. "Any actions organized by outside groups, including the proposed Dec. 12 shutdown of various terminals on the West Coast, have not been vetted by our union's democratically led process. Any decisions made by groups outside of the union's democratic process do not hold water, regardless of the intent," the ILWU also said, a San Francisco Chronicle business columnist adds. (He then takes a swipe at Occupy, saying the "movements that make a fetish of applying direct democracy and near absolute consensus to its own decision making might want to take note of that.") Dock workers have been locked in a long-running dispute with grain exporter EGT at the Port of Longview, Wash., along the Columbia River, while port truck drivers have battled outsourcing of union jobs at a terminal owned partially by Goldman Sachs. But the Longview local is saying "no" to Occupy Portland's call for the waterfront strike, Willamette Week reports. "If I wanted to shut down the port, I could do it without Occupy. I don't need 'em," says Jeff Smith, president of ILWU's Columbia River District Council. "This is a question for the Occupy movement: Why would I want to send my people home? Why would I take a job away from somebody? "I don't get what they're thinking. It's my job to put people to work. I've got jobs for 'em, so I'm going to put 'em to work. And I'm going to take some of Wall Street's money." The union's contract forbids West Coast longshoremen from walking out in sympathy, but workers can exercise their First Amendment rights by not showing up Monday at the hiring hall, AP notes.