Posting History for Ray Pensador
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| Moving on... I have to admit that it bothered me to see the leadership of this blog trying to talk out of both sides of their mouth by claiming that they were both a site dedicated to electing more and better ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/14/2014 | 1127 | 178 | 6 | - |
| Free to Speak One's Mind Let me acknowledge right off the bat that the attitude and world view I'm about to share with the readers are not things every person is able to embrace, for many (obvious) reasons, the main one ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/12/2014 | 85 | 25 | 1 | - |
| C.I.A. Spies on Congress, Engages in Smear Campaign Against Senate Staff
"I'd vote for Condi!" That was Facebook's COO, Sheryl Sandberg's response in a Parade magazine interview (March 9, 2014, page 10) by Lynn Sherr, when they were discussing the possibility of a ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/11/2014 | 50 | 32 | 1 | - |
| What is Our Platform? There is much talk about the Democratic party being a big tent capable of accepting people with diverse views, and that's a good thing. Nevertheless, I've always been under the impression that what ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/10/2014 | 83 | 33 | 1 | - |
| Ukraine: The Elephant (or Should We Say Bear?) in The Room Yesterday I wrote a diary expressing my opinion about the conflict in Ukraine. My main point in that diary was to call attention to the fact that there were (and are) multiple factors that ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/08/2014 | 232 | 33 | - | - |
| The Guardian: Western Expansion Aims Helped Put Fascists And Neo-Nazis in Power in Ukraine Recently I've engaged in debates with some folks about the ongoing situation in Ukraine. During those debates some people have implied that in order to have a clear understanding about the ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/05/2014 | 654 | 161 | 4 | - |
| Debating Online I've been participating in online forums since the mid-90s when I subscribed to the Delphi online service . Since then I've experienced different environments, from highly moderated forums where you' |
Ray Pensador | 03/03/2014 | 161 | 39 | - | - |
| With Friends Like This... Let me stipulate right off the bat that this commentary has nothing to do with defending Russia's actions in Ukraine, nor condoning Putin's stand. Also, it has nothing to do with taking sides when ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/03/2014 | 288 | 27 | - | - |
| Learning Geography Through War Propaganda I've written many times that I only watch the U.S. corporate propaganda channels (MSNBC, FoxNews, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS) when I'm doing research on the subject of public opinion manipulation through ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/02/2014 | 82 | 22 | - | - |
| Ukraine And Venezuela I think it would be reasonable to admit that no country is perfect, that no government system is beyond reproach. Every country faces challenges; those challenges could be related to ethnic strife, ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/28/2014 | 235 | 25 | 1 | - |
| A Direct Debate Challenge Dear Markos,
Yesterday your wrote a diary which given your power and status in this site, it would be reasonable to argue that its content (and the frenzied bullying and pile on that resulted from ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/27/2014 | 1002 | 20 | 4 | - |
| History Will Judge Complicit Enablers Harshly I just read an impassioned (angry, filled with righteous outrage) comment posted in a recent diary which prompted me to write this commentary. The comment was precipitated by the effects of ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/27/2014 | 286 | 52 | - | - |
| My Answer I'd rather write about important issues, but since there is a little bit of what we colloquially call a pie fight prompted by a rec list diary I wrote, I'd like to take this opportunity to share ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/25/2014 | 765 | 214 | 3 | - |
| The Reason They Lie I'm going to be writing a diary about the latest article by Glenn Greenwald, " How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations ," but in the meantime, I'd ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/24/2014 | 464 | 176 | 6 | - |
| Online Survival Guide For Progressive Bloggers Progressive bloggers, the first thing you have to understand is that you are a target, and not just any target, but one of the principal targets of the corporate state. And the reason for that is ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/23/2014 | 605 | 88 | 5 | - |
| Venezuela: A Serious Threat to The Int'l Neo-Liberal Cartel Hegemony There is a reason why the socialist government of Venezuela is (and has been) in the crosshairs of the international neo-liberal cartel. What Chavismo has been able to accomplish in Venezuela if ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/22/2014 | 385 | 176 | 3 | - |
| Share Your Thoughts About The Wall Street Criminal Racketeering Cartel The Wall Street criminal racketeering cartel is doubling down. After a massive crime spree that resulted in the outright looting of trillions of dollars and in the economic dislocation (and ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/21/2014 | 11 | 10 | - | - |
| Taking Action Against The Rogue State It never fails to amaze me. As I watch now, in real time, how the U.S. in engaged in government destabilization campaigns in Venezuela , Ukraine , Syria (The C.I.A. has been involved in that ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/20/2014 | 115 | 33 | 3 | - |
| Full-Spectrum Political Activism One thing you can be sure of is the trajectory we're on; a trajectory that because of its very nature is bringing about constant change. But not the type of change we would want or need.
The ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/18/2014 | 37 | 14 | - | - |
| Here's Why The NSA Illegal And Unconstitutional Spying Should Worry You
THE DAY WE FIGHT BACK
Let's stipulate that one important function of the massive military industrial complex and national security apparatus (security state) in the United States is the ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/07/2014 | 70 | 38 | 1 | - |
| 71 % of Obama's Judicial Nominees Are Corporate Attorneys - Sen. Elizabeth Warren is Not Happy
Every day we learn about the multiple ways large corporations are destroying democracy in this country (or whatever is left of it). They are bribing politicians, poisoning our air and water, ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/06/2014 | 388 | 306 | 6 | - |
| Keystone XL Protest Rally at The SF Federal Building - Video And Photos What an amazing experience it was to attend the protest rally against the Keystone XL in San Francisco this morning! Here's a video and photos of the event. |
Ray Pensador | 02/05/2014 | 14 | 27 | - | - |
| The Solution is Surprisingly Simple
Much of the angst many people are feeling is the result of experiencing and witnessing the decline of democracy on the one hand, while being exposed to an overwhelming level of false ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/05/2014 | 73 | 63 | 2 | - |
| My Weekend of Protest Rallies in San Francisco He was perfectly situated sitting quietly on a chair resting against a parking meter, the pieces of clothing he was selling, neatly folded on a small table, or on hangers hooked to metal bars at the ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/03/2014 | 11 | 18 | - | - |
| A Systematic Approach to Activism: Going on The Offensive
I had a wonderful weekend! I attended three protest rallies in San Francisco, and as it's always the case when I find myself around other people who make the effort to join in unity and ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/02/2014 | 12 | 23 | 1 | - |
| NYT: State Dpt. Eases Way to Keystone Pipeline Approval - Oil Lobbyists Happy! I and many other people have been arguing for quite some time now that the Keystone Pipeline will be approved. The reason for that is simple: follow the money. Oil industry companies and lobbyists ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/31/2014 | 14 | 21 | 1 | - |
| Today! Day of (Direct) Action Against The Trans-Pacific Partnership Corporate-Controlled Trade Deal
Photo credit: PopularResistance.org
Today is the international day of action against the democracy-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement being negotiated in secret by regional ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/31/2014 | 26 | 22 | - | - |
| Be The Change You Want to See: Five Easy Ways to Join The Nonviolent Revolution The Corporate State failed. The needs of citizens and the protection our natural environment, which we need to sustain our lives, cannot be met by the current system based on unbridled crony ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/30/2014 | 31 | 46 | 4 | - |
| The Current State of Affairs as Reductio Ad Absurdum
Of course the police are killing more innocent people nationwide, and committing other abuses, including sexual assaults, and physical assaults. That's what happens when anti-democratic forces ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/29/2014 | 61 | 13 | - | - |
| Is That The Military in Our Streets?
I only watch the mainstream (cable) news-networks when I'm doing research on propaganda, and so I'm writing this after subjecting myself to about an hour and a half of (torturous) propaganda ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/25/2014 | 175 | 49 | 4 | - |
| Truth-telling Quotes: On Cowardice, Plutocracy, Plunder, And Political Theater Moyers & Company : Mark Leibovich on Glitz and Greed in Washington
[E]verything about the Congressional system, whether it's leadership, whether it's how money is raised, is going to reward ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/24/2014 | 35 | 35 | 3 | - |
| Truth-telling Quotes: Historical Amnesia Edition Chris Hedges : The Last Gasp of American Democracy
We, like those in all emergent totalitarian states, have been mentally damaged by a carefully orchestrated historical amnesia, a state-induced ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/23/2014 | 65 | 23 | 3 | - |
| More Bad News For The New SF Bay Bridge Due to CALTRANS Rampant Corruption Not that it would be a fun experience under any circumstances, but I really, really would not like to be on the new San Francisco Bay Bridge during the next major earthquake.
As the predatory ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/23/2014 | 86 | 28 | 1 | - |
| Organizing For Real Action I'm going to ask you a few questions: Can you imagine a situation where hundreds or potentially thousands of financial criminals from the Wall Street racketeering cartel are properly investigated, ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/23/2014 | 113 | 15 | 3 | - |
| And Then They Came For Me: The New Face of Fascism The temperature was perfect, I'd say about 68 degrees or so. I was parked, with the passenger window opened half way, looking at a beautiful waterway just a few feet away; there was this fountain ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/20/2014 | 698 | 252 | 13 | - |
| 100 Weeks to Democracy I spent some time this evening interacting with Catherine Valenzuela , an activist in Portland, Oregon. We connected about a week or so ago after she read my diary " An Open Letter to The Occupy ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/18/2014 | 77 | 23 | - | - |
| NYT: Organized Protests by Grassroots Groups Raise The Ire of Business
Photo: Occupy Olympia
Yesterday I was at the Emeryville Public Market having lunch with an associate, and when we were done, one of the workers that has been cleaning nearby ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/17/2014 | 12 | 26 | 2 | - |
| 100 Weeks of Direct Action Against The Corporate State
Photo: Occupy Wall Street Facebook page
As corporatist control over the levers of power--including our political system--consolidates, the level of ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/16/2014 | 136 | 23 | 3 | - |
| It Will Spread Like Wildfire: The Tipping Point is Near During the last thirty-plus years powerful supra-national business and financial interests have embarked in the systematic dismantling of our democratic institutions, of the proper functioning of ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/14/2014 | 365 | 262 | 18 | - |
| Distracted and divided we... This will be a short diary since I'm working on another one where I try to address these issues in a more substantive manner... Think about trends on a few areas concerning the well-being of the ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/11/2014 | 96 | 23 | - | - |
| UPDATED: The Cause: Justice And Democracy Recently I wrote about " The Urgency of a Middle Class Revolt ." In that diary I wrote that "[t]he ruling elite [has] institute[d] a regime based on Neoliberal policies; policies designed to ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/09/2014 | 61 | 13 | - | - |
| Occupy Movement Call to Action: The Time is Now Today I had a lunch meeting in Berkeley with an Occupy Oakland activist for whom I have a lot of respect. I know him to be someone truly committed to addressing and combating injustices and abuses ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/08/2014 | 312 | 103 | 2 | - |
| "Prosecutorial Gaps": The People Vs. The Justice Department In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis caused by the Wall Street criminal racketeering cartel, average American people lost over a quarter of their net worth. According to WikiPedia , "[t]... |
Ray Pensador | 01/06/2014 | 240 | 27 | 1 | - |
| Open Letter to Senator Bernie Sanders Regarding The NSA Illegal Spying Dear Senator :
As a concerned citizen I'd like to express my sincere gratitude for you having taken the important step of sending a formal letter to the director of the National Security Agency ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/04/2014 | 188 | 143 | 3 | - |
| An Open Letter to The Occupy Wall Street Movement: You Were Right All Along
Photo: Occupy Wall Street Facebook page
There is a vast total-information-awareness surveillance network made up of global corporations and ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/03/2014 | 160 | 61 | 1 | - |
| Stratfor Leaked Documents: Divide-And-Conquer Strategies Against Activists Sockpuppets Series
One of the research areas I'm focusing on as part of a book project I'm working on is state- and corporate-sponsored propaganda and how it affects the population at large, and ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/01/2014 | 327 | 89 | 3 | - |
| Gartner (Top Research Firm) Predicts Big Occupy Wall Street Resurgence in 2014 Sometimes I try different types of meditation. I have quite a few books about it, including one by the Dalai Lama himself, "How to Practice - The Way to a Meaningful Life." Those who practice ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/30/2013 | 354 | 123 | 4 | - |
| The Urgency of a Middle Class Revolt Throughout the years I have attended countless protest rallies in different cities, targeting all kinds of abuses by those in power; protests against wars, against environmental destruction, ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/27/2013 | 423 | 139 | 12 | - |
| Building a Social Justice Movement in The Age of Total Information Awareness Surveillance It should be clear by now that as the dark forces (dark money, ALEC, Third Way, etc.) behind the Neoliberal (international finance) corporate state consolidate their wholesale takeover of our ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/26/2013 | 91 | 16 | 3 | - |
| My Favorite Kind of Christmas Tree We were both standing still, quiet, listening. She was about 20 feet behind me. As we approached the end of the tree-covered part of our walk everything was very quiet; there was no wind blowing. ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/24/2013 | 18 | 27 | - | - |
| As The Int'l Corporate State Fails, A New And Promising Society Rises Up The international corporate state has failed. It was bound to fail from the beginning because it was based on the type of value system and ethos that engenders tyranny. It functions on the spread ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/24/2013 | 77 | 32 | 1 | - |
| Hedge Funds Buy 200,000 Houses on The Cheap - Who Said Market Crashes Are Bad? Market crashes have always been good for the oligarchs, without fail. Thank God they don't have the incentive nor the mechanisms to orchestrate them ! Back in 06', 07', and 08' I was a small ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/22/2013 | 45 | 22 | 2 | - |
| The Fed Has Created The Biggest Financial Bubble in History! Is it About to Burst? Before the 2008 financial crises caused by the Wall Street criminal racketeering cartel, the US Federal Reserve held approximately $800 billion of Treasury notes on its balance sheet. Since then, ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/22/2013 | 384 | 73 | 5 | - |
| The NSA Caught Spying on Aid Agencies Edward Snowden and his people have to be the most savvy whistle-blowers in history! Every time the government comes out with more lies, half-truths, and obfuscation, Bam! a new set of revelations ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/20/2013 | 122 | 103 | - | - |
| Meet Me at The Public Square on April 15th It was one of those indelible moments. It was early evening on October 25th. I was sitting at the Oscar Grant Plaza's amphitheater , kicking back, my eyes closed, enjoying the moment, listening to ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/19/2013 | 32 | 7 | - | - |
| And We Thought We Were Free I often find myself in very exclusive neighborhoods here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of the homes may be valued at $2 million-plus, the streets are immaculate, with leafy trees, birds ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/17/2013 | 542 | 195 | 11 | - |
| Worse Than The Stasi: How The Corporate State is Turning Citizens Into Spies Some critics of the total information awareness police state have mentioned that the fast-spreading corporate state spy network is beginning to look like the old East Germany Ministry for State ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/17/2013 | 300 | 32 | 1 | - |
| The Third Way And The Center For American Progress: Astroturfing From The Left Field Remember Occupy Wall Street? If so, what do you remember the most about it? I know that many things may come to mind, but one that should jump at you is the movement's "we are the 99 percent" ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/17/2013 | 47 | 35 | - | - |
| Now It's Official: 60 Minutes NSA Propaganda Piece Confirms We're a Banana Republic Those familiar with my views would know that I long ago determined that the U.S. corporate media conglomerate is the most powerful, mind-numbing propaganda machine the world has ever known--by far. ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/15/2013 | 263 | 261 | 8 | - |
| Persona Management, Misinformation Artists, And Propaganda in 2013 Not long ago I read about a social study experiment related to Groupthink . The object of the experiment was to ascertain the level to which people could be influenced by the apparent consensus on ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/14/2013 | 225 | 41 | 1 | - |
| MSNBC Hosts: Profiles in Courage? Nobody had to tell me... Long ago I determined that MSNBC was basically an insidious tool of the corporate media conglomerate, and therefore, I don't watch them anymore (unless I'm doing research on ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/13/2013 | 40 | 15 | 1 | - |
| Study Findings Show That Austerity Leads to Riots - But Why Riot? It's Better to ORGANIZE My wife is so patient! Believe me; I understand the frustration some people express about some of my prescriptions to deal with the rise of the corporate state. Case in point... Yesterday we were ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/12/2013 | 17 | 13 | - | - |
| NYC Police Commissioner, Bill Bratton: From Top Cop to The Corporate Boardroom... And Back Again I believe that in the final analysis, this story is about the "banality of evil." You see, in recent months the terms "police state" and "surveillance state" have been used with increased frequency, |
Ray Pensador | 12/11/2013 | 18 | 22 | 1 | - |
| Washington: The Capital of Illusion Under the yoke of the corporate state all aspects of our lives are being systematically undermined. That includes economic security, education, the environment, our humanity. The State has been ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/11/2013 | 104 | 23 | - | - |
| How I Got Rid Of Trolls! Well, let me acknowledge that because of the nature of online blogging, one can't get rid of trolls one hundred percent of the time, but there is definitely a fireproof way to ameliorate their ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/10/2013 | 632 | 34 | - | - |
| Deconstructing The International Neoliberal Kleptocracy I'll ask you to put into perspective the circumstances which brought about the 2008 Great Recession. Think about the role the Wall Street criminal racketeering cartel played. To get a glimpse of ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/09/2013 | 18 | 24 | 2 | - |
| Countdown: Induced Poverty
Photos: The 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress
This morning I was in what could be considered an affluent community in the San Francisco East Bay. I was walking across a local ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/08/2013 | 37 | 58 | 1 | - |
| I Went to McDonald's Yesterday - What I Wanted Wasn't in The Menu Yet
What I really want to see in McDonald's menu is a super-size wage increase for the woefully underpaid hardworking people it employees. I stopped by yesterday at the McDonald's in downtown ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/06/2013 | 30 | 23 | - | - |
| Countdown: We Need to Stop The Madmen Before They Destroy Us All
Sometimes it's hard to try to get across the point that unless we somehow are able to stop the madmen now piloting the locomotive (as it were), we will be heading towards assured destruction--... |
Ray Pensador | 12/06/2013 | 27 | 37 | 1 | - |
| Countdown To Revolution
I think it is fair to say that most people reading this have a general understanding about the reasons behind the Occupy Wall Street movement uprising. We became familiar with the concept of ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/04/2013 | 67 | 30 | 2 | - |
| Overcoming The Disruptive Effects of Corporate/Gov't Spying And Infiltration of Activist Groups Early this morning I was driving near my home in the San Francisco East Bay. I remember getting in the car and noticing the beautiful blue skies as I started driving, but then when I looked in the ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/03/2013 | 117 | 18 | - | - |
| Is it true? About Cenk Uygur, Glenn Greenwald, David Sirota, Greg Palast? Who Else? From time to time I've seen people here mentioning that these high-profile writers and journalists ran afoul of Daily Kos standards , and that some of them may have been run off the site by ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/01/2013 | 847 | 104 | 4 | - |
| The Corporate State And The Global Revolution That Will Bring it Down When future history books are written, people like Edward Snowden, Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill, Julian Assange, Chris Hedges, Bill Moyers, and other ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/30/2013 | 163 | 173 | 9 | - |
| "Thank You Edward Snowden!" Ad Campaign Hits Washington, D.C. I'll start this diary letting readers know that I'm extremely overjoyed with what I'm about to report... For years I've been arguing that when it comes to the control the corporate state has over us ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/27/2013 | 216 | 215 | 3 | - |
| Report: U.S. Gov. And Corporate Security Companies Collude to Bring Down Social Justice Groups Much has been said about the NSA illegal spying activities revealed by Edward Snowden. And in light of those revelations, most of the criticism or concerns have been related to the government; is ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/27/2013 | 216 | 208 | 9 | - |
| American Horror Story: Zombie Edition People familiar with my writing will know by now that I tend to focus on what I consider to be four root causes of dysfunction responsible for the ascendancy of the increasingly oppressive and ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/25/2013 | 32 | 41 | 2 | - |
| Open Letter to Sockpuppets And Trolls Have you heard the saying "thou doth protest too much?" Here's the actual urban dictionary definition: Overly insistent about something, to the point where the opposite is most likely true.
I ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/24/2013 | 157 | 36 | 1 | - |
| Kick-starting The Rebellion: Innovative Ways of Supporting The Movement at The Grass-roots Level I'm sure you've read about how right wing propaganda outfits set up and supported by people like the billionaire Koch brothers spend hundreds of millions of dollars to move their agenda forward... ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/22/2013 | 113 | 26 | - | - |
| I'm Spending The Biggest Shopping Day of The Year at Walmart!
I'm really looking forward to Black Friday! You see, this year I feel that both, Thanksgiving Thursday, and what has come to be known as "Black Friday," are going to be days of sharing, of ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/20/2013 | 96 | 139 | 3 | - |
| Taking Action: The Meaning of Activism If we start with the proposition that because of the current challenges we face as a nation, when it comes to the symptoms of an unresponsive government due to widespread influence-peddling ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/20/2013 | 7 | 10 | - | - |
| Open Letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren: Please HELP Us
Dear Senator Warren,
Please consider this letter an urgent call for help. Our nation is in distress, and when it comes to political leadership, there doesn't seem to be any. At least not at ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/19/2013 | 73 | 34 | 2 | - |
| The Abuses Will Not Only Continue, But Get Worse Until We Finally Stand Up
The other day I was driving and when I got to my destination and parked, the radio host of a KPFA (SF Bay Area) program I was listening to put on a speech by Malcom X. Once I heard the first ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/18/2013 | 22 | 27 | - | - |
| Why is Thom Hartmann Saying That There Will Be A Crash in 2016? I've made the prediction of an impending post-2008 Great Recession secondary (and much more consequential) market crash, which I though would have happened by now, but that was before I did ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/15/2013 | 261 | 167 | 7 | - |
| The Power of People Armed With The Truth - #Calle13Assange When artists address social justice struggles in times of deception and oppression, is that a sign that a tipping point is near? When activists stand up against injustice, form coalitions, and ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/15/2013 | 27 | 6 | - | - |
| Tipping Point What's the name of that guy, this grotesque bankster who looks like he spends ten hours a day at a tanning salon? Anyways, my fantasy is that something dramatic happened, and somehow (for some ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/14/2013 | 127 | 128 | 2 | - |
| Craven, Dishonest, Corrupt Politician: A Definition For a secularist there is no higher duty than that of a public servant . If one where to try to find an apt analogy, public service to a secularist would be what the priesthood is to the religious. |
Ray Pensador | 11/13/2013 | 78 | 16 | - | - |
| Elizabeth Warren's Potential Run: A Nightmare For Hillary Clinton And Her Wall Street Backers
I think I heard that Hillary Clinton has been collecting payments from Wall Street bankers for speeches. Meanwhile, some are asking if we are "Ready for Hillary?" Given the mood of the ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/12/2013 | 816 | 219 | 3 | - |
| Unequal Distribution of Criminality Theory I'll ask you to imagine this graphic: a simple drawing depicting a person/individual inside a perfect circle. That's your "space" when it comes to the concept of individual freedom . The freer you ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/11/2013 | 44 | 10 | - | - |
| Another Troll is Outed
Photo: Wikipedia / California Dpt. of Transportation
San Francisco Chronicle : Bay Bridge's mysterious protector out of hiding
He spent 24 years working in dark, dank ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/09/2013 | 44 | 134 | 1 | - |
| Why Are You Here? On a few occasions during different debates here I've read statements that pretty much claimed that Daily Kos was kind of like a friendly neighborhood sports bar where people talk about this and that, |
Ray Pensador | 11/09/2013 | 142 | 53 | 2 | - |
| Is posting cached links to unpublished/deleted diaries acceptable behavior at Daily Kos? I hope those who clicked on to this diary know by now that this is the quintessential meta diary, although I'm posting it because I think the issue is important enough to sort out in this online ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/07/2013 | 292 | 7 | - | - |
| The Grassroots: Out of The Blue The title is kind of a wordplay... I just had some breakfast and coffee; it's a beautiful morning here in the San Francisco Bay Area with blue skies; so before I start my work day (hustling for ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/05/2013 | 2 | 10 | - | - |
| Truth Suppression: Political Hacks, Opportunists, Infiltrators, And Sock-Puppets In America today, the most important condition the tiny ruling elite running things depend on is a deceived and propagandized population incapable of figuring out how they are being manipulated, ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/01/2013 | 83 | 30 | - | - |
| Misplaced Adulation of The Police is The Reason They Are Killing Us How much value you put on your dignity, on freedom, on human and constitutional rights? Do you agree with this statement: There can't be a greater offense against a human being than someone putting ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/01/2013 | 283 | 77 | 2 | - |
| The Rich Are The Enemy: Here's Why They Must Be Confronted I had a meeting yesterday with a customer in San Francisco in the mid afternoon. I decided to take BART in order to avoid rush hour traffic (after my meeting). When I was on my way to the City, a ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/30/2013 | 580 | 193 | 7 | - |
| The NSA, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Psy-Ops on U.S. Officials, And The Sale of Post Offices on The Cheap I understand this topic is very sensitive, and because of it I'm going to do my level best to present as many confirmed facts as possible as supporting evidence of my conclusion: There is some sort ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/29/2013 | 94 | 96 | 2 | - |
| "Rise Up, Shut it Down, Oakland is The People's Town"
Lately there has been a lot of talk about the " Russell Brand vs. Jeremy Paxman " Newsnight interview where Russell talks about the massive economic exploitation by the Corporate State which has ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/28/2013 | 21 | 50 | 1 | - |
| Why Cult of Personality is Always Dangerous I'm writing this assuming that no one reading it would disagree with the following proposition: People in leadership positions in the political arena should be expected to always act in accordance ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/25/2013 | 405 | 107 | 2 | - |
| The Drums of Rebellion - A Photo/Video Journal
I've attended/participated in dozens of protest rallies, and marches throughout the years. The issues have been varied; against war; against banksters; against income inequality, evictions, and ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/23/2013 | 5 | 20 | - | - |
| An Orgy of Greed And Corruption From Sea To Shining Sea It's not as if I've completely given up on TV watching altogether. I do like to watch some HBO shows, documentaries, and when it comes to news, I'm finding that Moyers & Company , Democracy Now! , ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/21/2013 | 92 | 135 | 4 | - |