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Obama's Political Reality vs. Facts By now, the current state of affairs in the United States (and much of the developed world) is not difficult to describe. A criminal cabal of powerful individuals has colluded to act as a "giant ...	Ray Pensador	06/06/2011	10	4	-	183
It's Official: A Corporatist Police State What pains me the most is to see how many people of good will are still holding on to the notion that the Democratic party could still be a viable instrument to help bring about a sane and just ...	Ray Pensador	06/08/2011	65	24	4	392
Diversionary tactics used to dilute your POWER If you knew how powerful you really are you'll be shocked! That's the main issue. "They" know how much (potential) power you have and that's why they have put in place the most sophisticated ...	Ray Pensador	06/10/2011	43	6	-	167
Don't Get Mad, Get Even - Thoughts on Organized Resistance The operative word is "organized". I'm aware that many individuals, groups and organizations are engaging in activities to resist the corporatist takeover of the country, but sometimes I wonder if ...	Ray Pensador	06/11/2011	15	7	1	107
2012 Will Mark The Final Collapse of Democracy in The U.S. Not that it was ever a true democracy, but for most of our history, the U.S. has at least kept a semblance of a functioning democratic republic. That's about to change in a big (and permanent way).	Ray Pensador	06/12/2011	35	16	1	345
Chronicles of The Nascent American Plutocracy - Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 Remember Ross Perot's "Giant Sucking Sound" allusion to NAFTA during the 1992 presidential debate? Well, try this... Stop what you're doing for a few seconds, be silent, close your eyes, and you ...	Ray Pensador	06/14/2011	4	5	2	78
Is it fear? What explains the apathy? Help me understand.. I am truly perplexed! Readers, please help me understand. There has to be some sort of explanation. I'd like to think that the average Daily Kos member is smart, progressive, and open-minded, and ...	Ray Pensador	06/16/2011	44	14	-	227
The Canary in the Coal Mine - Take Action,The Danger is Imminent Folks I'm going to make this short and to the point. Fascism has arrived to the United States (again, and in a new an "improved" form). Well, it could be called Neo Fascism. But it has arrived. ...	Ray Pensador	06/17/2011	29	11	5	214
How About a T-shirt? Email from Obama Campaign - Here's My Response I received an email from Juliana Smoot from the Obama for America 2012 campaign this morning. The email starts like this: "We just launched our full 2012 campaign online store, where you can pick ...	Ray Pensador	06/22/2011	31	18	2	221
Forget About 2012 - Get Ready For The Next Shock At this point I find most of the debates about the 2012 elections to be quaint. I also feel sorry to see how many people want to believe that things are normal and that even though we are going ...	Ray Pensador	06/23/2011	62	10	1	405
Unions, MoveOn, DailyKos, Bold Progressives - Here's What Needs to Happen First and foremost, please let's stop the complaining and focusing on pointing out how thuggish, and mean, and greedy, and corrupt, the Republicans are (along with their corporate overlords). The ...	Ray Pensador	06/24/2011	21	11	1	151
Is The U.S. On The Verge of Financial Collapse And Armed Conflict? By now is becoming clear to more and more people that Wall Street bankers, the corporations they represent, and their enablers in government perpetrated a scam on the American people (and the world) ...	Ray Pensador	06/25/2011	76	11	2	544
Don't Be a Sitting Duck - Unite And Prepare For Upcoming Economic Collapse In previous diaries I've written about my theory that there is an impending economic collapse that will take place before the 2012 election.	Ray Pensador	06/27/2011	34	11	-	347
Here's How Michele Bachmann Wins The Presidency in 2012 Remember George W. Bush? A mediocre buffoon who plunged the country into illegal wars, presided over the dismantling of U.S. constitutional protections, and the use of torture, and the day-light ...	Ray Pensador	06/28/2011	80	23	3	465
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
It's Time For a Resistance Movement I've commented about how I'm looking around for leaders to follow in these ...	Ray Pensador	06/30/2011	37	12	-	306
Need Your Input - What Explains The Apathy? I'm perplexed. Millions and millions of Americans have been plunged into despair, economic uncertainty, and actual harm by the actions of a very small group of people. Trillions of dollars stolen ...	Ray Pensador	07/01/2011	75	14	2	199
You Want To Be Taken Seriously? Here's What it Takes I'm not a violent man. "Thank God" I've been lucky enough not to have been involved in any kind of physical or violent altercation in all of my adult life. But growing up, it was a little different,	Ray Pensador	07/02/2011	34	19	-	232
The "Rainmakers" - Conservatives Advantage in Selling Their Agenda I've had the opportunity to work in corporate environments where I was able to experience what I consider to be corporate "micro-cultures" in the form of different departments within a company. ...	Ray Pensador	07/03/2011	17	6	-	96
Why Progressives May be Doomed - The Pathology of Weakness If I was a hard-right wing ideologue the first thing I would do every morning would be to log on to Daily Kos and read the multiple diaries that report on the latest evil chicaneries perpetrated by ...	Ray Pensador	07/05/2011	57	21	2	294
Do You Hear the People Sing... The Song of Angry Men I think that one of the things that creates more stress, anger, and disappointment in people is when their trust is betrayed. When they wholeheartedly believe in something or somebody, and then it ...	Ray Pensador	07/07/2011	7	7	-	98
Understanding President Obama's Choices Let me start with some facts that are generally accepted as accurate, in order to set the stage for my theory. According to ...	Ray Pensador	07/07/2011	13	13	-	160
Survival Guide For The Upcoming Depression I've written about this in the past, but let me set the stage for the topic of this diary. I think it is very likely that we are heading into an actual economic depression, similar to the one in ...	Ray Pensador	07/09/2011	59	18	3	326
Bamboozled or Razzle Dazzled - "Debt Ceiling" Edition I'm sure the smart reader knows that this whole debate about the so-called debt ceiling is a ruse; a sham. Also, by now people should be aware about how the mainstream media is used to manipulate (...	Ray Pensador	07/11/2011	20	2	-	133
President Obama: "I Have Bent Over Backwards" Not a pretty image of a president; but there you have it. Then (in today's remarks and press conference) he goes on to recite what until now has been extreme right-wing talking points: "Medicare ...	Ray Pensador	07/11/2011	67	12	1	424
How The Upcoming Catastrophic Financial Collapse Will Benefit The Rich Let me start by acknowledging that the theory I'm about to present is very ambitious, and thus I recognize that many readers may not agree with it. However, I'll start with the proposition that ...	Ray Pensador	07/12/2011	63	17	-	235
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
A Coup d'état in The U.S.? It May be Happening When people think about golpes , what they imagine is some sort of mutiny within the ranks of the military, which results in some renegade general (or generals) bursting into the ...	Ray Pensador	07/14/2011	78	5	1	557
Echoes of 2008 - Obama's Shock Doctrine Approach to Cutting SS and Medicare I watched president Obama's press conference this morning (in its entirety). By the end, I started thinking... "This is weird. I have a funny feeling that I've felt exactly like I'm feeling right ...	Ray Pensador	07/15/2011	9	14	1	133
The Oldest Trick - Using Fear (of The Default) to Manipulate You It's 2008 all over again. A made-up crisis is used to frighten the public on behalf of a tiny plutocratic group of sociopaths, so they can grab even more power; more money; more influence. So they ...	Ray Pensador	07/16/2011	32	9	-	126
The Republicans Are Not Crazy - They Take Advantage of Our Naïveté ¡ Pobrecitos ! I take a look at my Liberal brethren with pity. Yes, I'm aware that that "sounds" arrogant, but it's not meant to be. It's genuine concern about how the essence of what it ...	Ray Pensador	07/17/2011	38	18	1	199
Wrapped in The Flag, Carrying a Bible and a Tea Bag; FASCISM Has Arrived Back in the early 2000's (and especially after 9/11), I remember debating with right-wingers about how a fascist infrastructure was being put in place using "national security" as a subterfuge (one ...	Ray Pensador	07/18/2011	40	12	1	302
Politics is Irrational - Progressives Achilles Heel In the current political environment in the U.S. facts do not matter. Politics, to a certain extent, is irrational. Therein lies the main disadvantage of the progressive movement, such as it is. ...	Ray Pensador	07/19/2011	24	3	-	61
The Gang of Six Portends New Era: The Arrival of The Corporate State In previous writings I've used the word "fascism" and "neo-fascism" to describe where we heading in America, and I've noticed that the use of those words tends to divert attention from my main ...	Ray Pensador	07/20/2011	28	21	1	273
Right Wing Extremists And The Debt Ceiling Debate	Ray Pensador	07/22/2011	9	9	-	138
Scams, Fraud And Corruption Now Legal In California Grifters, scammers, banksters and thieves, listen up: It is about to be open season for the ...	Ray Pensador	07/23/2011	19	10	-	196
The Real Danger of Armed Conflict in The U.S. There is a constant struggle that takes place in every culture. It's a struggle between ideologies ...	Ray Pensador	07/24/2011	29	9	-	194
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
Not quite a coup d'état but similar... Have you ever seen one of those movies that starts with a pretty normal-looking scene, where a nice-looking couple is driving along in a bright sunny day; the radio is on to NPR "All Things ...	Ray Pensador	07/26/2011	28	8	-	202
Progressives Should be Thankful to President Obama President Obama and the Democratic party may have done the biggest favor to the progressive movement by finally showing their true colors. Not that the signs (and actions) have not been there all ...	Ray Pensador	07/31/2011	13	10	-	183
Obama is Preparing The Nation for New Role There is a nation-less plutocratic ruling class: The heads of multinational corporations, and their minions, including hedge fund managers, and top Wall Street executives, and the assorted ...	Ray Pensador	08/01/2011	6	7	-	121
The looting continues - 2008 and S&P downgrade are more of the same The events that led to the 2008 financial sector crisis were caused by a level of criminality unprecedented in American history. The fraud was done at a massive scale, and pretty much in broad ...	Ray Pensador	08/05/2011	7	8	-	135
The Second U.S. Economic DEPRESSION Starts Next Week We've come a long way from the days of the first Great Depression. Even the Robber Barons were not as sophisticated as today's class of vampire squids-like banksters. After decades of carefully ...	Ray Pensador	08/06/2011	132	9	3	552
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
"I will burn this motherf*&!er down!" Angst is spreading across the country. Every day you hear an increasing number of reports of shooting rampages. The number of victims is increasing. People are at their wits' end. People's ...	Ray Pensador	08/08/2011	46	20	-	392
Dear Tea Party: Thank You! The Tea Party may have done us a huge favor. Maybe now Democrats, Liberals, and Progressives will begin to understand that when it comes to power struggles in the political arena, the most ...	Ray Pensador	08/08/2011	27	9	-	155
Understanding the upcoming violent riots in the U.S. The orgy of corruption and criminality by the ruling class in the U.S. has reached a crescendo. The looting is now being done almost in broad daylight. As the social safety net is taken down with ...	Ray Pensador	08/13/2011	70	18	2	448
A direct challenge to DHS, the FBI, and the Justice Department Sorry readers, this essay is meant to be read by law enforcement personnel, or any of the countless goody-two-shoes members of spy-on-citizens organizations ...	Ray Pensador	08/13/2011	12	11	-	215
Bachmann, Perry and Seven Mountain Apostles - They May Take the Presidency You haven't seen nothing yet! There is very likely to be an overwhelming confluence of very ...	Ray Pensador	08/13/2011	45	11	2	234
It's time to stop the machine... The following content is meant to be fictitious. It's just writing. It's not meant to be an active call or incitement of any kind. It's a fictional fantasy of how the people of a corrupt country ...	Ray Pensador	08/15/2011	4	5	-	83
"Hackers attack BART site" - Due to breakdown in justice system By allowing the rich and powerful to commit crimes with impunity, what those in charge of the power structure in the United States are doing is relinquishing the right of the State to impose order. ...	Ray Pensador	08/15/2011	31	6	-	158
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
Any gun-owning, tough guy, no-nonsense progressives out there? During more times that I care to mention, I've been exposed to very violent situations, especially ...	Ray Pensador	08/16/2011	83	13	-	299
"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
Understanding Anarchists Actions in The U.S. To tell you the truth, I've never fully understood the concept and/or advocacy of anarchy. ...	Ray Pensador	08/17/2011	47	6	-	127
What is the role of government? To understand what government is supposed to be in the United States, the best place to start is ...	Ray Pensador	08/17/2011	8	4	-	87
Fascism is Here: Private Jails, SEC Coverups, Wall Street Thievery It's amazing how these things happen in history. Many people wonder how entire societies in the past allowed for the establishment of horrid fascist and tyrannical systems. Were they complicit? ...	Ray Pensador	08/18/2011	20	20	-	166
A Militant Left - You Have to BELIEVE in Something I feel nothing but disdain for the extreme Right. There is no hesitation or equivocation in my mind about the fact that I am one hundred percent right, and the Astroturf-financed Orc-like Right is ...	Ray Pensador	08/19/2011	21	10	-	122
The System Failed - How to Deal with The Current Economic Depression By now I think that even the biggest skeptics may be considering the possibility that perhaps the capitalist system in its current form has failed. The skepticism about the reality of the failure ...	Ray Pensador	08/20/2011	26	14	1	160
Why is The Obama Administration Pressuring NY Atty General to Cover Up Financial Crimes? Has it come to this? Is the corruption in this country so widespread that our last hope that there will ever be accountability for the massive crimes committed by Wall Street and financial ...	Ray Pensador	08/21/2011	457	356	12	1924
Pressure Grows on NY Atty General Eric Schneiderman To Accept Financial Crimes Cover-up I'm really having a hard time understanding what is so difficult about the concept that when there is sufficient evidence of the commission of crimes, that those alleged crimes should be fully ...	Ray Pensador	08/23/2011	33	15	1	129
NYPD's And CIA Illegal Domestic Spying Program Everything seems to be going "as planned" when it comes to the implementation of a police State in the United States of America. The sickening thing about it is that as criminals of the higher ...	Ray Pensador	08/24/2011	18	14	1	92
Serfdom Now an Official White House "Jobs" Policy It was just a matter of time. After the massive looting of the country's treasury by the parasitic ruling elite and their bag-men in Wall Street, having caused an economic collapse that weakened ...	Ray Pensador	08/24/2011	74	21	2	314
A Complete Destruction of The Right Wing Talking Points After decades of an increased level of influence and control over the mass communications media in the United States, a wealthy elite has been able to inculcate into the populace's psyche a ...	Ray Pensador	08/24/2011	26	23	6	278
It's Time For BOLD Action - Taking on The Corrupt System Head-on The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing you that you are powerless . You are beaten down every day with all kinds of pressures from an evil system that's hell-bent on ...	Ray Pensador	08/25/2011	34	9	1	128
Advice For Those Leading the Uprising in The U.S. This Fall These are truly historic times. Periods that come along once in a generation, if at all. The Arab Spring led to the European Summer, and we are about to enter the American Autumn. I won't spent ...	Ray Pensador	08/25/2011	46	13	1	285
I Figured It Out! Creeping Fascism In The U.S., And How It Happens Ignorance. Fear. Greed. Selfishness. In that order, those are the reasons that explain the phenomena of creeping fascism. And this of course applies to the nascent fascism in the United States ...	Ray Pensador	08/26/2011	23	10	-	163
The Biggest Challenge of Our Time Although it has been in the works for decades, and during that time there has been people sounding the alarm, it seems that finally a consensus is building around the notion that a small ruling ...	Ray Pensador	08/27/2011	7	14	2	85
Irene, The U.S. Media And "The Truman Show" I wish I could find the right words to describe the state of the U.S. news media. The easiest ...	Ray Pensador	08/28/2011	13	7	-	103
Updated: Comparing Bush vs. Obama on How They Delivered on Their Promises When Bush was installed by a corrupt Supreme Court in the year 2000 landmark case,	Ray Pensador	08/29/2011	125	8	2	346
What Does It Mean To Be A True Progressive? True progressives stand for social justice, separation between Church and State, protection of the environment, participatory democracy, education, efficiency in government operations, prevention of ...	Ray Pensador	08/29/2011	27	19	-	156
Why Rick Perry is Likely To Win The Presidency in 2012 There are many reasons why Rick Perry is likely to win the presidency in 2012, but the main ...	Ray Pensador	08/30/2011	90	6	-	419
How To Prepare For When The Right Wing Fascists Come After You Fascism is creeping in. Slowly, but surely, as it typically does in every country and in every era when it has taken hold. And in very similar fashion. This time it's being driven by the ...	Ray Pensador	08/31/2011	71	14	-	335
Why Be Upset About President Obama Rescheduling His Speech? What's the matter with you people? Why are you so upset with president Obama for rescheduling his speech? Are you guys immature, or something? Don't you know that the proven way of dealing with ...	Ray Pensador	09/01/2011	62	19	-	426
This May Explain Obama's Reluctance To Investigate Banks Criminal Activivty Let me acknowledge at the outset that I recognize that the topic I'm about to take on is extremely complicated, and that there is the possibility (or likelihood) that I may be missing many pieces of ...	Ray Pensador	09/01/2011	371	154	5	1809
It May Be Too Late - 2012 Could Mark The Final Takeover We didn't get to this point by happenstance. It has been a twenty-four-seven decades-old effort; very single-minded, and brutally effective. And we have finally arrived. The 2012 elections have ...	Ray Pensador	09/03/2011	40	16	3	348
Israel - 1 Million People - Spain Hundreds of Thousands - Chile Tens of Thousands - U.S. ? The problem is the same: A tiny global elite of sociopaths trying to manipulate and subjugate people. Having bought off the political class,	Ray Pensador	09/03/2011	24	16	1	143
The Real POWER Of The Worker It comes down to whether you value yourself as a person. In the final analysis, you have the power . Whether you choose to exercise that power or not, it's up to you. If you think ...	Ray Pensador	09/04/2011	32	13	1	173
Unshackle Your Mind And Join The Movement... This is an homage to those who are willing to break through the mental shackles imposed by the current brutal and oppressive corporatist regime trying to consolidate power. You are right. You ...	Ray Pensador	09/05/2011	11	6	-	87
The World Financial System Is About To Collapse - What Next? The world financial system has been taken over by a criminal syndicate. These folks are a very tiny elite, and they are connected in different ways. It took several decades, and several attempts ...	Ray Pensador	09/06/2011	12	9	1	230
Reality check... Are we on the same page? I'm trying to understand something from the readers here... Are we all on the same page? Is there any doubt about the situation we face in this country? I'm starting to wonder, because I see so ...	Ray Pensador	09/08/2011	24	14	-	184
Why "High-Functioning" Psychopaths Rule The World In general, most people are very complex and can exhibit different personality traits at different times. But one can also say that there tends to be two distinct groupings in societies' power ...	Ray Pensador	09/10/2011	238	126	6	1202
Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither The saying "no justice, no peace" probably represents the most profound explanation about the causes of violence. And perhaps, it may be possible to track a very large proportion of violent acts to ...	Ray Pensador	09/10/2011	16	4	-	82
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
Understanding The Current Great Depression We know what's coming next. At some point in the future the government statistics people will come out with a "revision" and show that instead of zero grow in employment, or anemic growth in the ...	Ray Pensador	09/13/2011	3	12	1	103
What Do Elizabeth Warren, Paul Krugman, And Alan Grayson Have in Common? Elizabeth Warren, Paul Krugman, and Alan Grayson are despised and hated by the fascistic Right in the U.S. (i.e., the current Republican party and their corporatist owners). Why? Because they are ...	Ray Pensador	09/15/2011	9	12	-	156
As Banks Plunder The World's Coffers, The Economic Depression Takes Hold You can't just steal tens of trillions of dollars overnight. Even for the most sophisticated class of high-finance criminals in history, it takes quite some time to empty the world's treasury--and ...	Ray Pensador	09/15/2011	57	15	1	162
Wall Street Occupation Protest Starts This Saturday, Sept. 17th Pardon me, but I'm going to indulge a little in daydreaming. And I know it is so, because at this point, I really don't know what it would take for the good people of this country to say "enough is ...	Ray Pensador	09/16/2011	12	17	-	137
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
This diary is for my TEABAGGER readers... I've achieved one of my fondest desires when it comes to writing. Not only is it truly a great ...	Ray Pensador	09/16/2011	263	332	7	2131
Occupy Wall Street Protest - The "Phalanx Formation" I've been an avid "student" of protest movements for years. I've attended many protests and I've noticed that there are a few things people do that tend to diminish their potential effect. I'm not ...	Ray Pensador	09/18/2011	49	21	2	391
Paul Ryan Likes Obama's Program To Let Workers Work For Free We finally have an area of agreement between Paul Ryan and president Obama. As much of the middle class continues its inexorable march towards serfdom (without really putting up too much resistance),	Ray Pensador	09/18/2011	39	9	-	194
What's that light at the end of the tunnel? Sometimes I wish I could take off my "thinking cap" so I could be a little more euphoric and happy ...	Ray Pensador	09/19/2011	16	8	-	108
Here's how to deal with the Republican party... You don't. The Republican party and its ancillary minions, including the teabaggers, the neo-nazis,	Ray Pensador	09/20/2011	18	10	-	110
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
How Wall Street And The IMF Manipulate The World Economy The current international financial sector ...	Ray Pensador	09/22/2011	36	8	1	242
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
Devastating Portrayal of "Occupy Wall Street" By The New York Times As the initial day of the "Occupy Wall Street" protest approached, I was waiting with anticipation, hoping that this time, because of several weeks of planning before the September 17th start of the ...	Ray Pensador	09/24/2011	29	14	-	374
Seize The Moment Or It Will Be Too Late - The Inevitable Financial System Collapse Folks, the financial system is going to collapse catastrophically. And it will happen, not because of the reasons most would think. It has to happen, and it will happen, because it is the most ...	Ray Pensador	09/28/2011	47	26	-	262
Striking Similarities Between Oceania And The United States The similarities are truly amazing! As in Oceania, in the United States today, the society is ruled by an oligarchical one-party system. And just like in Oceania, we are now in a perpetual state ...	Ray Pensador	09/29/2011	21	10	-	142

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