Posting History for Ray Pensador

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Syria: Once The Missiles Are Launched... I think we are entering a very dangerous phase in this country. We already know that the government in Washington basically came to a stand-still mainly due to Republicans' intransigence. Then ...	Ray Pensador	08/25/2013	381	71	-	-
Time To Unite Against NSA Abuses: A Proposal We are entering a very dangerous period in history. Our national security is now firmly in the hands of for-profit private corporations and their lackeys in government. They have built a veritable ...	Ray Pensador	08/11/2013	34	70	3	-
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	-
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	-
Reaching out to detractors... I'm crossing my fingers and hope this exercise will be productive. My intention for writing this diary is to get people from both extremes of the liberal/progressive political spectrum ( and ...	Ray Pensador	08/17/2013	172	58	1	-
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	-
A Comparison Between President Obama And The Republican Presidential Field I often write about my discontent with what I see as a one-party system with two factions: the Democrats, and the Republicans. And about how both parties are essentially under the control of ...	Ray Pensador	12/23/2011	53	53	1	359
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	-
The Reason The Police in The U.S. Routinely Kills, Tortures, and Lies With Impunity Yes, I understand; it's going to be hard for some people to wrap their heads around the title of of this diary, and around its content. Cognitively, I'm leapfrogging a bit over the vast gulf ...	Ray Pensador	05/12/2013	122	52	2	-
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	-	-
The GOP Is Manufacturing A Constitutional Crisis To Force A Coup This is going to be a short comment. In light of the GOP latest overt attempt to cause a general state of emergency by shutting down the government (	Ray Pensador	09/21/2011	103	51	1	584
"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	-
Ignore the Rec List to Get The Most Value Out of Daily Kos Don't get me wrong; I think we can all agree that as diarists or writers or bloggers, the main reason we ...	Ray Pensador	08/15/2011	79	49	1	367
Where Are The Activists? I'm Only Getting Petition-Signing Emails I'm still perplexed about this. In fact, I'm dumbfounded. I've written about it many times, over and over. And here I go again... I usually sign every petition-signing request I get, be it from ...	Ray Pensador	05/11/2013	86	49	1	-
The Reason Why Having a Reality-Based Understanding of The Problems We Face Matters People all across the country are finally waking up to the reality of our socioeconomic system; a reality based on the fact that our government institutions have been captured by the wealthy to ...	Ray Pensador	09/30/2013	38	49	2	-
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	-
Deconstructing American Fascism Have you ever watched one of the those excellent BBC documentaries about Nazi Germany? You will notice many scenes where people are going about their daily lives, at picnics, multitudes of people ...	Ray Pensador	02/14/2013	97	48	1	-
While We Are Subjected To Kabuki Theater The Country Continues March Towards Authoritarianism What terrifies me the most about the current state of affairs in the United States is not necessarily the fact that corporatist cartels and their billionaires' funders are working diligently to ...	Ray Pensador	10/15/2013	104	47	2	-
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	-
Turning The Tables On The Surveillance State And Corrupt Politicians On September 11th I wrote a diary where I argued that the American Surveillance State is basically a tool of oppression against the citizenry, at the behest of the ruling class. In that diary I ...	Ray Pensador	09/20/2013	42	45	-	-
Empathy Yesterday I was driving and noticed that a young man made a lane change a little too short from another car, and he had to step on the breaks hard as he stopped right behind me. I noticed this ...	Ray Pensador	09/19/2013	58	42	1	-
Stop Paying Credit Cards, Never Talk to a Debt Collector - Starting Over Well, let me first address the goody-two-shoes out there: Yes, if you took on debt, and you are staying afloat, have a job, and even if you find it difficult to pay your debts, mortgage, kids college,	Ray Pensador	11/09/2011	52	41	2	465
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	-
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	-
I'm "Afraid" We May Be Heading Into A REAL Revolution - I Don't See Any Other Outcome Many of us have been warning about this day for years. We knew that the "system" was becoming increasingly corrupt and oppressive, and that by giving the State unprecedented powers to curtail ...	Ray Pensador	10/12/2011	251	40	-	1140
Network: The Case For Organized Resistance (A Thought Experiment) There are a lot of social justice and civil rights organizations doing great work in the United States. From CREDO, MoveOn, and Bold Progressives, to Daily Kos, ColorOfChange, ACLU, Electronic ...	Ray Pensador	02/18/2013	72	40	2	-
The Wall Street Criminal Racketeering Cartel "Double-Tap" Looting of Pension Funds I'm using the "double-tap" metaphor to illustrate the level of depravity and rapacious greed the political-corporate ruling class has reached. And so, just like the (war crime) act of employing ...	Ray Pensador	09/27/2013	49	40	-	-
Why is Everybody Talking About The Republicans? This is a short commentary since I'm writing it with a Nook typing one letter at a time... Why is everybody talking about the Republican nut-jobs, teabaggers, and the assorted racist, white ...	Ray Pensador	10/13/2013	150	40	-	-
The One-Party System Use of Psychological "Gaslighting" To Manipulate The Electorate According to Wikipedia, "The term 'gaslighting' has been used colloquially since at least the late 1970s to describe efforts to manipulate someone's sense of reality." We are seeing this being ...	Ray Pensador	12/04/2011	45	39	1	390
PROPAGANDA There is an identifiable ruling elite in control of a massive media apparatus which is being used to manipulate, and to a very large extent, control the minds of the average U.S. citizen. This ...	Ray Pensador	12/30/2012	44	39	4	-
Additional Ideas For Justifying U.S. Government Assassination of American Citizens The movie J. Edgar [Hoover] starring Leonardo DiCaprio opens with a scene of a bombing at the house of then Attorney General Mitchell Palmer. Historically, this bombing was part of ...	Ray Pensador	02/05/2013	39	39	1	-
LAPD Goes on Shooting Rampage of Innocent People I'm glad the government knows what they're doing! The Huffington Post is reporting two separate incidents in the Los Angeles areas, where police in pursuit of a suspect, started shooting at ...	Ray Pensador	02/07/2013	185	39	-	-
C.I.A. May Be Indirectly Supporting al-Qaeda Insurgents in Syria Recently I published a diary where I made reference to a RAND report titled "Unfolding the Future of the Long War." The report was mentioned in a op-ed by Nafeez Ahmed for The Guardian , where he ...	Ray Pensador	09/04/2013	95	39	-	-
President Obama's Original Sin I've often written about the usefulness of being ruthless when the situation and the times demand it, and on occasion some readers have taken issue with that proposition, clinging to the notion that ...	Ray Pensador	10/06/2013	68	39	1	-
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	-	-
The Republicans Are Following Their Mandate: The Destruction of The American Government People should not gloat too much about the apparent implosion of the Republican party and speaker Bohner tonight; not without understanding that their mandate is for the crippling and destruction of ...	Ray Pensador	12/20/2012	17	38	1	-
Let Me Tell You How's Going To Be As decent people try to sift through all the revelations about the fast-rising for-profit, corporate-run, total-information-awareness surveillance police state, there seems to be a persistent ...	Ray Pensador	08/11/2013	75	38	1	-
Choose: Freedom or NSA Total Information Awareness Surveillance. It's Either One, or The Other In the final analysis, when you really boil this issue down to its essence, what we as citizens are facing is a situation wherein a corporate-government alliance has set up a total information ...	Ray Pensador	09/09/2013	111	38	-	-
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	-
I Figured it Out! Why Americans Haven't Revolted Yet This morning I was having a little breakfast with my wife at home. Some coffee, some fruit (strawberries, oranges, water melon), toast, and orange juice. Nothing fancy. As I do every morning, I ...	Ray Pensador	06/29/2011	52	37	5	482
We're On Our Own: The Future is in Our Hands Some people find that prospect scary, since it connotes a very deep sense of personal responsibility about the type of society we will live in, in the future. I welcome it, not because I don't ...	Ray Pensador	04/24/2012	25	37	1	195
Why FISA, Warrantless Surveillance And Stop-And-Frisk Are Signs of Police State As the plutonomy takes hold in our society, city governments have been slowly turning into white collar racketeering criminal enterprises, where highly organized business interests work very closely ...	Ray Pensador	12/28/2012	30	37	-	-
Political Bribery by The Numbers: The Root Causes Of a Broken System As the country continues its fast downward spiral into becoming a plutocratic Banana Republic, a large segment of the population continues to believe that the we still have a functional political ...	Ray Pensador	03/10/2013	16	37	1	-
Like A Cornered Animal... Tens of billions of dollars are at stake for the for profit corporate-controlled and run national security apparatus. Top functionaries move through a revolving door of corruption between ...	Ray Pensador	08/21/2013	29	37	-	-
Syria: Déjà Vu All Over Again Talk about history repeating itself! Folks we're being lied to. This whole thing now has reached a level of absurdity that it is really hard to match in history. It's ludicrous. I don't know ...	Ray Pensador	09/01/2013	65	37	-	-
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	-
This is what real freedom looks like... We hear the right wing fanatics talk about the importance of freedom, while at the same time they acquiesce to gross violations of privacy in the name of security, or misguided and fanatical views ...	Ray Pensador	03/31/2012	11	36	1	214
Do You Really Want to Help The Democratic Party? Here's How I'm a registered Democrat. I've been voting for over 25 years, and I have never missed a national, state, or local election, and I always vote for Democrats. I always encourage people to exercise ...	Ray Pensador	03/15/2013	39	36	2	-
The POWER Of Unity A couple of Saturdays ago (August 31st) my wife and I got up a little early and I started thinking about how to spend that beautiful late-summer day in the San Francisco Bay Area. She had asked me ...	Ray Pensador	09/09/2013	36	36	1	-
The Big Con I'm going to ask you to try to look at the last thirty-plus years in the U.S. through a purely empirical lens, if you could. Try to put political partisanship aside, just for a few minutes, and ...	Ray Pensador	09/20/2013	120	36	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	-
Understanding The Police State Brutal Crackdown On Peaceful Protesters To truly understand the current state of affairs in the United States, one good place to start is with what I speculate is the reaction by some reading the title of this essay. I know what you're ...	Ray Pensador	10/25/2011	29	35	2	280
The Lewis Powell Memo: The Intellectual Genesis of The American Corporatocracy After reading the entire text of the "confidential memo" written by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., in 1971, and addressed to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, I was left with a ...	Ray Pensador	12/09/2011	18	35	5	201
The Thing The Ruling Elite Fears The Most What the ruling elite fears the most is for a large enough segment of the population to suddenly become aware about the actual nature of the system: A corrupt oligarchy made up of super-wealthy ...	Ray Pensador	06/11/2013	22	35	1	-
I Knew This Day Would Come: The Corporate State Audacious Putsch Tonight I read a very good article in The New York Times about how a myriad of Koch brothers-funded front groups and think tanks have been planning on forcing a so-called budget crisis for months: " ...	Ray Pensador	10/07/2013	44	35	-	-
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	-	-
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	-
What's The Matter With The Left? For a very long time I've been obsessively trying to figure out why the Left doesn't seem to be able to coalesce into a cohesive movement in American politics, at a moment when it is needed the most.	Ray Pensador	04/25/2013	117	34	1	-
A Power-play of Global Proportions I have been following the situation regarding Syria for quite some time now, and based on what I've seen, what I've read, and after witnessing increasingly bizarre pronouncements from government ...	Ray Pensador	09/06/2013	104	34	1	-
On The Protection of Activists in The Age of The Surveillance Police State A sure way to know that a government will eventually round up social justice activists is when it builds lists of detailed dossiers of those activists. Following the same principle, a sure way to ...	Ray Pensador	09/14/2013	58	34	1	-
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	-
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	-	-
The Answer To Addressing The Country's Problems is Surprisingly Simple Before we entertain the notion that it is possible for average citizens to address the nation's problems, the most important step is to define the root causes of those problems. It took decades of ...	Ray Pensador	03/24/2013	23	33	-	-
Terror Alerts: The Most Effective Marketing Tool For the National Security Industry Profiteers I have little bit of experience with issues related to the handling of sensitive information and restricted access to secured environments. I served in the military years ago, and in the private ...	Ray Pensador	08/03/2013	105	33	1	-
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	-
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	-	-
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	-
It's Time For a Militant LEFT in The U.S. The survival of secular democracy based on the rule of law depends on whether ...	Ray Pensador	07/25/2011	76	32	1	385
Finally! Wall Street Meets Pissed-Off Main Street Here's the thing about the rule of law: Once those responsible for enforcing it fail to do ...	Ray Pensador	09/16/2011	47	32	3	304
Is it time to start sharpening up the pitchforks? In some of my previous diaries I've mentioned that if one lets his imagination on the loose, one could imagine hearing the swirling sounds of a gigantic machine coming together, as it assembles at a ...	Ray Pensador	12/14/2011	58	32	3	310
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	-
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	-
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	-
Understanding the upcoming worldwide stock market collapse Let me start with the conclusion in order to get straight to the point: Modern stock market crashes can be looked at as periods of "harvesting" by the plutocratic ruling class. In the aftermath of ...	Ray Pensador	08/07/2011	102	31	2	650
About My Meeting With Fellow Kossack AoT Last Night... After a couple of years of online interaction with follow Kossack AoT we finally met last night at Powderface Cafe near the Fruitvalte (Oakland) BART station. What a pleasure that was! It's ...	Ray Pensador	03/23/2013	26	31	-	-
Hippies Can't Lead A Revolution Alone - Thoughts On The Occupy Wall Street Protest I've been monitoring the "Occupy Wall Street" protest since it started last Saturday. I also stopped by the protest in San Francisco a couple of days ago. And just like at many other protests I've ...	Ray Pensador	09/23/2011	48	30	-	293
On The Brink: Big Banks Are Int'l Criminal Racketeering Cartels Aided by Government There is a full frontal attack on democracy by a junta of megalomaniacal billionaires and the myriad of groups they fund, but at the vanguard of this relentless attack is an international criminal ...	Ray Pensador	01/06/2013	6	30	2	-
The Power Elites: Understanding How They Control The Citizenry I've always been intrigued about the degree to which power elites control the population. I don't know exactly how or why, but just by simple observation about how society works, I've come to the ...	Ray Pensador	03/16/2013	26	30	2	-
This is What a Police State Looks Like Two brothers allegedly participated in a bombing at the Boston marathon, which resulted in three deaths and over 170 injured. It appears that the two suspects engaged in gun battle with police (...	Ray Pensador	04/19/2013	310	30	1	-
Capitalism, Global Warming, And Austerity A market economy focused on meeting people's needs is sustainable. A market economy based on capitalism's expectations of rampant consumerism and constant growth is not sustainable, globally. The ...	Ray Pensador	06/03/2013	34	30	-	-
Fiction Is Now Reality: George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" Wasn't a Novel; It Was a Prophesy Earlier today I was reviewing some stuff I wrote back over half a decade ago, and I was amazed at the accuracy of the predictions I made. Actually, they weren't predictions as in "mysticism," but ...	Ray Pensador	06/09/2013	49	30	1	-
Syria, Neocons, Moral Obscenities And False Dichotomies Anybody watching TV? If so, I'm so sorry. I stopped watching corporate conglomerate news a while back once I realized it is basically one of the most powerful and mind-numbing propaganda tools the ...	Ray Pensador	08/29/2013	24	30	1	-
How Dishonesty, Opportunism, And Lack of Ethics Perpetuates Political Dysfunction I had what may be considered by some an unusual upbringing. In my formative years, before I reached the age of 18, I was exposed to two very different environments: In one, poverty, violence, and ...	Ray Pensador	09/28/2013	32	30	-	-
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	-	-
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	-
Too Soon to Claim Victory - The Rope-a-Dope Revisited There is much discussion of president Obama's purported rope-a-dope strategy against the Republicans in the current national debt ceiling negotiations. Many on the left are rejoicing at seeing what ...	Ray Pensador	07/13/2011	55	29	1	276
Get Ready For an Imminent Cataclysmic Financial Collapse - The Revenge of The 1 Percent There is a new power paradigm. It did not come about overnight, of course, but it is here now. The international (Western) ruling elite has been developing this new economic paradigm for decades. ...	Ray Pensador	10/08/2011	53	29	3	417
How The Middle Class Enables Police Brutality And The Rise of Fascism It's impossible for a fascistic police state to consolidate power without the approval and acquiescence of a ...	Ray Pensador	11/17/2011	60	29	1	267
Occupy Movement Placed on Terrorist Watch List by London Police There are ominous signs everywhere that the new international fascist plutonomy is about to get on high gear with their repressive policies.	Ray Pensador	12/19/2011	24	29	1	216
Have The American People Accepted Corporate State Fascism? I ask this question in all honesty: Have the American people accepted the imposition of a fascist Corporate State? This morning someone sent me a message asking this question, so I decided to go ...	Ray Pensador	04/18/2013	42	29	2	-
"60 Minutes" Sham Report in Defense of Police State: "Counter-Insurgency Cops" People, we are being hoodwinked. I think these warning, at this point, are pretty much useless since the total-information-awareness surveillance police state has been fully entrenched in our ...	Ray Pensador	05/05/2013	31	29	-	-
Chris Hedges: On The Need For a Social Justice Movement That's Disciplined And Has a Clear Vision Throughout the years I've been writing, agitating, and blogging about the ascendancy of the increasingly oppressive and corrupt Corporate State, one recurring theme in my writing has been the ...	Ray Pensador	07/28/2013	17	29	2	-
The Real Reason People Tolerate Oppressive Conditions I was going to write a long diary in response to a recent call-out diary which not only calls me out by name, but I feel it mischaracterizes the intent of the following diary: The One Thing That ...	Ray Pensador	09/13/2013	146	29	1	-
"Speakout" with Barbara Lee & Nancy Pelosi - What a Disappointment! So I get there with my wife at around 5:30pm, to Acts Full Gospel Church of God in Oakland, CA. We immediately noticed two Tea Party guys standing at the entrance with protest signs. We parked, ...	Ray Pensador	08/16/2011	57	28	3	253
Why I Like Daily Kos Here at Daily Kos I read some of the most interesting, intelligent, informative, inspiring, and diverse ...	Ray Pensador	09/11/2011	34	28	-	229
A major, unprecedented crisis is upon us - How to get ready for it The only thing standing in the way of a total takeover by an international (and connected) ruling class is the remnants of representative democracy in the U.S. and Western Europe. You are ...	Ray Pensador	12/15/2011	26	28	2	354
Humanism: Reclaiming The Commons It's about 11:05 A.M. here in the San Francisco Bay Area as I write this. It's a beautiful day, with blue skies, and a cool 55° F. My wife and I just came back from one of our favorite places we ...	Ray Pensador	03/09/2013	12	28	2	-
Zealot One of the official definitions of the word "zealot" is: a fanatically committed person. I start this diary by pointing that out because I've come to the conclusion that nothing short of zealotry ...	Ray Pensador	07/28/2013	84	28	1	-
Gen. Wesley Clark On The Foreign Policy Coup Folks, I've been trying to get this point across: The illegal war of aggression we are about to engage in has very little to do with humanitarian reasons related to the chemical weapons attack in ...	Ray Pensador	08/28/2013	323	28	-	-
The One Thing That Terrifies The Rich And Their Lackeys in Government Also published at raypensador.com I'm sure many readers are familiar with the quote "In a Time of Universal Deceit — Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act." That has been the case ...	Ray Pensador	09/12/2013	105	28	1	-

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