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| The 2011 American Revolution - I Knew it Would Happen The American people are about to show the world how to take on plutocratic sociopaths that have somehow taken over our government. Yes, the Arab Spring led to the U.S Autumn, or what could also be ... |
Ray Pensador | 09/29/2011 | 39 | 14 | - | 197 |
| If The OccupyTheNation Movement Spreads Expect a Crackdown There is a movement afoot. It's a rapidly-spreading resistance movement against an international criminal oligarchy that's hell-bent on subjugating and exploiting the citizens of the Western world ... |
Ray Pensador | 09/29/2011 | 36 | 26 | 3 | 335 |
| George Soros: Financial Markets Driving The World Towards a Great Depression I've written about this issue several times before, and my perspective about it comes from a cursory observation of the current state of affairs as it relates to the international financial markets. |
Ray Pensador | 09/30/2011 | 12 | 11 | - | 152 |
| The Extrajudicial Killings of American Citizens by The State Allowing the government to target people for assassination represents a grave and mortal danger, not only to the targeted individual, but to the viability of a free and democratic society, and to ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/01/2011 | 56 | 26 | - | 178 |
| The Private Detention Camps WERE BUILT In Anticipation of OccupyAmerica- UNIONS It's Time To Step Up Folks, I've written many diaries about this issue before, but in light of the mass illegal arrests of citizens in New York city today, for nothing more than exercising their constitutional rights of ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/01/2011 | 45 | 16 | - | 376 |
| Truly Revolting - 12 Year-old And 700 Citizens Arrested While Criminal Banksters Walk Free There is something truly revolting to see these New York City cops, with the smugness and, brashness, and arrogance lay their hands on peaceful demonstrators exercising their constitutional right of ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/02/2011 | 23 | 15 | 1 | 162 |
| Progressives Debate With a Tea Party Sympathizer And 1-Percenter Bellow is an exchange between two very different people. "Ray Pensador" (in his mid-40s) is a self-described Liberal Progressive, member of the rapidly eroding middle class. " |
Ray Pensador | 10/02/2011 | 124 | 14 | 1 | 325 |
| Hitting Wall Street's "Bulls-eye" - My Demands If I were to play "comandante" of the revolution, here's how I would roll... I would make four demands fully expecting for them to be met--or else. I would command the members of the nationwide ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/04/2011 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 111 |
| Treasury Department Helps Mortgage Companies Commit Foreclosure Fraud The reign of criminality continues to expand, engulfing the entire country in a wet blanket of filth, unquenchable greed, monstrous lies, and the sadistic crushing of people's dreams and aspirations. |
Ray Pensador | 10/04/2011 | 28 | 26 | 1 | 194 |
| Clear And Present Danger For The Occupy Wall Street Movement The Occupy Wall Street (Nation) movement is being infiltrated, spied on, and ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/05/2011 | 38 | 9 | 1 | 231 |
| 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 |
| Anatomy of the unfolding financial system collapse As the financial system continues its course towards an inevitable collapse, it's important to understand why is failing, and why it is very unlikely that there is nothing governments can do to ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/09/2011 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 161 |
| What does it mean to be in the "99%"? I've been to several protest marches now in different cities... Yesterday I was in San Diego. I do think that there is something very important happening. I'm encouraged by the fact that people ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/09/2011 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 101 |
| Without A Clear Narrative, The Truth Becomes Irrelevant When it comes to the cognitive understanding of the world around us, the most powerful influence is a clear (and generally-accepted) narrative. And often, a narrative that has either been widely ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/11/2011 | 24 | 14 | 1 | 157 |
| 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 |
| An Open Letter To Mayor Bloomberg And Commissioner Kelly Messrs. Bloomberg, and Kelly:
It is very likely that tomorrow Friday, October 14, 2011, you will be making history. I'm not making this statement because I feel I have some sort of prophetic vision, |
Ray Pensador | 10/13/2011 | 4 | 4 | - | 87 |
| Constitutional Protections Are Not Quaint - How To Deal With Police Brutality The First Amendment of the Constitution states that the authorities are prohibited from "interfering with the [people's] right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/14/2011 | 24 | 5 | - | 141 |
| The Government May Eventually Side With Wall Street - The Eventual Crackdown of OWS It's not fun writing this. I want to believe. I want to join in the hope and the excitement that's spreading across the country among the tens of thousands of people involved in the Occupy Wall ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/14/2011 | 37 | 10 | - | 274 |
| The Good Sociopath Let me start with my interpretation and definition of a sociopath: Unlike "normal" people, a sociopath is incapable of feeling real emotions, especially when it comes to how he relates to other ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/15/2011 | 35 | 6 | - | 153 |
| Five Goals By Which To Measure Occupy Wall Street's Success A very small group of (easily-identifiable) financial industry criminals committed fraud of unprecedented proportions in human history, plunging millions of people into unimaginable suffering, ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/16/2011 | 20 | 9 | - | 126 |
| We Are Winning! The Beatings, Massive Arrests, And Smack-Downs Prove It I've noticed an interesting pattern when it comes to the conflict between the criminal plutocracy in charge of the levers of power in this country (and its right-wing allies), and the Left: The right- |
Ray Pensador | 10/17/2011 | 17 | 5 | - | 170 |
| Time To Up The Ante - (Peaceful) Revolutionary Tactics I shudder every time I hear somebody say that the issues addressed by Occupy Wall Street are too hard for the authorities to handle, and that we may have to wait years before anybody does anything ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/17/2011 | 10 | 3 | - | 103 |
| The Stage Is Being Set For A Violent Crackdown On The OWS Movement Actually, it has already started. Have you seen the multiple videos of corporate goons (police protecting the interests of Wall Street) punching peaceful protesters in the face, or grabbing them in ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/18/2011 | 84 | 15 | 2 | 407 |
| The Police State - Now The Government Can See Through Your Walls If I use my imagination, and close my eyes trying to envision the rapidly-expanding Police State, I almost hear the swirling, and the clinks and clanks of the fascist infrastructure finally being ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/18/2011 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 206 |
| Very Dangerous Ideas... This morning as I was driving and stopped at an intersection, I noticed a middle-age woman in a car on the left-turn lane, next to me. The reason she caught my attention is because when I got to ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/19/2011 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 160 |
| It's Time For The LEFT To Go On The Offensive What does it mean to be a member of the Leftist political ideology? I'm aware it's hard to come up with an ironclad definition, but I would venture to say that by and large, most Leftists in the U.S. |
Ray Pensador | 10/20/2011 | 9 | 9 | - | 112 |
| Asymmetrical Pressure Tactics Against The Corrupt Plutocracy People are exercising their constitutional rights to assemble peacefully, and the corporatist goons continue to arrest them in a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Criminal banks continue ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/23/2011 | 7 | 6 | - | 106 |
| Zombie Banks Are About To Take Down The World's Economic System It's an open secret. Everybody seems to know by now: A massive fraud--sophisticated Ponzi scheme--caused the 2008 financial system panic and subsequent Great Recession, and the failure by ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/23/2011 | 37 | 25 | 2 | 366 |
| 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 Financial System is Insolvent Due to Fraud, and it Will Collapse This is going to be a very short diary since I've written at length about this issue in previous diaries. The European (Eurozone) and the U.S. financial systems will collapse because they are ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/01/2011 | 28 | 17 | - | 212 |
| The Democratic Party: Tasked With Delivering The Final Blow to Democracy My heart goes out to all the good people around the country who have risen in protest against what is clearly a criminal oligarchy. I know they are good, decent, hard-working, moral people (by and ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/04/2011 | 30 | 17 | - | 202 |
| The Upcoming Massive Worldwide Financial Collapse: A Sophisticated Power Grab and Scam Don't you find it almost insulting by now? Insulting to your intelligence? Every time the markets go up, all the news outlets, like parrots, repeat the same inane reasons for it. Every time the ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/09/2011 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 180 |
| 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 |
| Warning To Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, And Other U.S. City Mayors These guys are tone deaf. They talk about how the occupiers are disrupting business; about how it inconveniences neighbors; how the encampments damages city property. They complain about noise, ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/10/2011 | 27 | 8 | - | 101 |
| As Winter Arrives, Now It's Time To Escalate The Protest Movement There is only one acceptable outcome to the Occupy Movement: Victory. What is victory? Forcing the release of the brutal and oppressive choke-hold the moneyed and powerful elite has on our ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/12/2011 | 9 | 15 | - | 98 |
| Greece, Italy - Int'l Criminal Bankster Cartel Takes Over The World, One Country At a Time The other day I listened to a program on NPR where Terry Gross was interviewing someone who has written extensively about the Greek economy. From what he reported, the main points hat stuck with me ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/12/2011 | 37 | 23 | 1 | 169 |
| Loud TVs, Popcorn, Wine Glasses, iPhones and Crassness I went to see the movie J. Edgar Hoover with my wife this afternoon. We went to a really nice movie theater in Alameda. This middle-age couple comes in, and sits to our left, and then ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/12/2011 | 256 | 106 | 3 | 973 |
| Occupiers: Time To ESCALATE; Occupy Mainstreet Your cause is a just cause. There is no ambiguity; there is no lack of clarity. Everybody knows what's up: There is a brutal war on the middle class; Wall Street looted the country plunging tens ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/13/2011 | 10 | 16 | - | 166 |
| Congress Insider Trading - A Republican And Democratic Cesspool of Corruption I just watched a report on 60 Minutes about how U.S. Congress members are able to trade stocks using privilege information they get access to as part of their official duties. Even to me, ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/13/2011 | 104 | 149 | 9 | 721 |
| When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty - Time To Escalate I like that word: duty. It's calling on us. Rarely in history do confluence of events align in such a way as to create the conditions for iconic revolutionary movements. It's here now, and ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/15/2011 | 43 | 19 | 1 | 223 |
| Italy's coup d'état by bankers portends the birth of a multinational neofascist new world order The problem with these things is that every generation uses the past as prologue, in order to evaluate issues related to the rise of tyranny, fascism, and oppressive regimes. Yesterday I watched a ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/16/2011 | 98 | 23 | - | 323 |
| The Reasons Behind The November 17th Revolution There is a people. They get together and form a government based on the rule of law, unalienable ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/16/2011 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 163 |
| Next Steps in The Occupy Movement: Targeted, Distributed, Rapid Disruption First, brothers and sisters of the revolution, let me humbly congratulate you for your success. ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/17/2011 | 54 | 11 | - | 187 |
| 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 |
| Restricting Access to Education: Why Do They (UC Regents) Do it If ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/18/2011 | 15 | 8 | - | 64 |
| The United States of America is a Police State The process took decades, but we have finally arrived at a situation when one can confidently say ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/19/2011 | 441 | 405 | 14 | 2346 |
| "Take your hands off me" I've been arguing for some time now that the graphic reports of police brutality across the country, against peaceful protesters of the Occupy movement, is a double-edge sword. On the one hand (or ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/21/2011 | 121 | 153 | 4 | 1280 |
| Super-Committee, Super-Illusion: The Takedown of Democracy Most of what you hear every day in the news, especially when it comes to big news, like the markets, the economy, Wall Street, the national debt here and in Europe, are outright lies and fabrication. |
Ray Pensador | 11/21/2011 | 18 | 8 | - | 97 |
| I Am Thankful To Every Member of The Occupy Movement The truly patriotic, selfless, and brave actions of every member of the Occupy Movement, whether he ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/24/2011 | 33 | 97 | 1 | 267 |
| Addicted to Drugs: Profit Motives Leads Police Departments to Ignore Rapes and Other Violent Crimes By now, many people who would recoil at the assertion that the police have become the protection force of the ruling elite in this country, acting as corporate goons against peaceful protesters, may ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/25/2011 | 54 | 170 | 7 | 767 |
| Low Risk Distributed Massive Disruption Strategies By now we already know what's going on... The system is not legit. The precept "no justice, no peace" applies. Allowing it to proceed as is would be a travesty, as it would only become ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/26/2011 | 35 | 17 | - | 205 |
| The (UK) Telegraph: Prepare For Riots in Euro Collapse, Foreign Office Warns I've written several diaries about this impending financial system collapse, which to me, it has been obvious for quite some time now. Some people react with anger, disbelief, or derision to such ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/26/2011 | 38 | 17 | 1 | 269 |
| On Being Hit in The Face by a 2x4 The other day I was in downtown Palo Alto with my wife. We went to check out "Occupy Palo Alto," which that day consisted of about 10 people holding signs at a street corner in beautiful downtown. ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/27/2011 | 12 | 14 | - | 218 |
| The "Minority Report" World is Here: DHS Total Information Awareness Reality is stranger than fiction, as they say. What fiction writers have been writing about for decades is now reality. As you read this, there is a total information awareness police state ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/29/2011 | 12 | 23 | 2 | 162 |
| Liberals Aversion to POWER I support the Occupy Movement, and I think it has been very effective in changing the national dialogue thus far. My hope is that it grows to the point where it can actually effect change: Ending ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/01/2011 | 35 | 13 | - | 128 |
| My Faith in Humanity Has Been Restored Between family responsibilities, struggles, work, and the typical things average middle class people have to deal with on a daily basis, for the last ten years (at least) I've also been running ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/04/2011 | 9 | 19 | - | 191 |
| 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 |
| SF Community Ambassadors And Detroit's Appointed Manager: Case Studies on Creeping Fascism There is much talk about Grover Norquist's influence in the Republican party when it comes to their lockstep refusal to raise taxes on the rich. The talking points are repeated so often, that many ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/05/2011 | 5 | 8 | - | 68 |
| Centrists and Pragmatists, Repeat After Me... I see so-called (political) centrists and pragmatists as one of the biggest threats to any chance we may have to ever being able to restore the rule of law in the this country, and to unclench the ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/05/2011 | 144 | 25 | - | 333 |
| 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 |
| Cognitive Dissonance: Understanding America's Current State of Affairs One way of looking at the systemic incessant attacks on education and intellectual pursuits, by the corporatist power structures who have taken control of our entire system of government is that it ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/10/2011 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 137 |
| Keep Up The Pressure: Flash Mobs Coordinated Rapid Disruption Here's how the Powers That Be are planning to address your grievances: They will pass laws to allow ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/11/2011 | 14 | 16 | - | 150 |
| West Coast Ports Shutdown: Why I'll Be There | Ray Pensador | 12/11/2011 | 21 | 17 | 2 | 131 |
| The Financial Collapse Has Started: It Will Be Cataclysmic As I've written several times before, we are now witnessing the media frenzy as they provide endless "analysis" about the Eurozone, and the debt crisis, and negotiations among European countries to ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/12/2011 | 61 | 24 | 1 | 420 |
| The Police State: Predator Drones in ND / FBI Tracking Androids And iPhones Not long ago I watched a presentation by Naomi Klein where she talked about the " |
Ray Pensador | 12/13/2011 | 50 | 25 | - | 271 |
| The Real Power of The 99% It seems like the news media is on propaganda mode, full-throttle. The last few days I've read "hit pieces" on the 99% on the San Francisco Chronicle ; the tone of their writing is one of ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/14/2011 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 123 |
| 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 |
| Tired of police brutality against protesters? Try this... By now is beginning to dawn on people that perhaps their understanding of what this country was about may have been a little off base. Constitutional protections? Right to peacefully assemble? ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/15/2011 | 33 | 6 | - | 215 |
| 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 |
| Tactical Response Team: A Proposal for Occupy Wall Street The militarized police-cum-corporate goons are getting impatient, and are doing everything they can to goad members of the Occupy movement into violence, with an increasingly brutal crackdown on ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/17/2011 | 14 | 8 | - | 167 |
| My Plan to Take On The Oligarchy What an ambitious title, don't you think? I guess I have to try to deliver on it... I've been thinking about these things (in detail) for almost 15 years now. During that time I watched with ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/19/2011 | 16 | 9 | - | 117 |
| 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 |
| A Better World is Within Our Reach Out of this deep darkness of oppression at the hands of a corrupt and debased global ruling elite, we will soon start to see a glimmer of light in the horizon, as the sun slowly rises turning the ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/21/2011 | 13 | 8 | - | 85 |
| Deal on payroll tax holiday: A farce, and an insult to one's intelligence I've heard it said many times: that a true progressive Left in the U.S. does not exist, by and large. I keep trying to have faith, and believe otherwise, but when I see this type of transparent ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/22/2011 | 14 | 12 | - | 174 |
| 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 |
| To love and to be loved in return... What a simple day we had today; this Christmas eve. We had breakfast at home, read the paper, went ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/24/2011 | 9 | 19 | - | 111 |
| Why The Oligarchs Want to Ghettoize The Country It works like this... The most important assets for a free people are time and leisure. Once you have that, then you can develop the ability to think critically, to analyze facts, events, trends, ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/26/2011 | 210 | 332 | 14 | 2240 |
| Where is my religion? I'm awestruck at the concept of existence, and of being aware of it. I feel an almost overwhelming love for humanity in general, and for mother nature. The littlest things amaze me... I was ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/30/2011 | 15 | 19 | - | 154 |
| Reality is not what it seems Every important aspect of our lives is totally misrepresented by the system. Our perception of reality is warped by the effects of being exposed to a massive amount of misinformation, lies, and ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/02/2012 | 39 | 18 | 1 | 185 |
| Powerful Beyond Measure The poem "Our Deepest Fear" alludes to the proposition that in reality, we may be powerful beyond measure. " Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/02/2012 | 11 | 10 | - | 79 |
| My Obama Theory The disparity between my expectations of the Obama presidency and the reality of it is vast indeed. But I'm not going to focus here on explaining the multiple ways I'm disappointed. Instead, I'm ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/02/2012 | 27 | 26 | - | 286 |
| Flailing And Squirming: How The "Conservatives" Odious World View Will Be Finally Defeated You have to be clear about these things. It's not about different opinions, or philosophies; it's about the difference between true moral values and ignorance, debauchery, dogma, and fundamentalism. |
Ray Pensador | 01/04/2012 | 21 | 21 | 2 | 219 |
| How to win every argument with a so-called conservative One of my favorite pastimes for many years now is engaging in debate or argumentation with so-called conservatives. Usually, the most bat-shit crazy and extreme they are, the more I enjoy it. I've ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/08/2012 | 229 | 277 | 24 | 2778 |
| The Most Dangerous Type of Criminals Because of the relentless amount of propaganda we are all subjected to, there seems to be confusion about identifying the most dangerous types of criminals in society. I understand that this ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/08/2012 | 9 | 22 | 3 | 141 |
| The Surveillance State - Why Crime is Good For Society Crime and the ability to commit crimes by the average citizen in society plays an essential role as an indicator of deep structural problems within a social system. That role could be seen as that ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/12/2012 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 79 |
| Not An Empire in Decline, But A Barbaric Corporatocracy in Ascendency Much is written about how the U.S. compares to the Roman empire in decline. Not a chance. We are witnessing a brutal and barbaric system in ascendancy. For such system and the people who benefit ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/16/2012 | 26 | 27 | 1 | 201 |
| I Just Published My First Diary at REDSTATE I'm not sure how things work over there, but I'm looking forward to the comments of typical redstate visitors.
Here it is: |
Ray Pensador | 01/23/2012 | 114 | 27 | 1 | 677 |
| MSNBC - The GOP Network This is bizarre. Sometimes I wonder whether I'm living in some sort of alternate reality... So basically we are relegated to having a completely deranged group of people (Republicans, Tea Party, ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/15/2012 | 24 | 25 | 1 | 267 |
| Why Conservatives Outnumber Liberals 2 to 1 The more ignorant, and less educated a population, the more conservative it is. An ignorant population tends to be very susceptible to the type of propaganda, and misinformation that has ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/20/2012 | 61 | 19 | 1 | 354 |
| Two Tracks: Reality And Illusion - Why The Left Keeps Losing Ground The greatest accomplishment of the contemporary capitalistic ruling class has been its ability to manufacture an almost mystical demarcation between reality, and the perception of it. In many ways, ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/24/2012 | 28 | 20 | 1 | 184 |
| Story-telling, Messaging And Narrative Trump Truth-telling Every Single Time When it comes down to effective communication--the type that actually motivates people to take a certain course of action--truth by itself is almost irrelevant. Any type of "information," whether ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/25/2012 | 6 | 8 | - | 94 |
| 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 |
| SYG Laws - The Genesis of Right Wing Paramilitary Groups As it's the case in every generation, the general public has a tendency to miss the signs of the rise of fascistic threats until it's too late. We are now entering a new phase in that threat, and ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/01/2012 | 20 | 15 | 2 | 134 |
| Why I Stopped Watching MSNBC And Listening to Most Progressive Radio Shows I stopped watching MSNBC's Liberal-leaning evening shows (Sharpton, Ed, Rachel, Lawrence, etc.) a couple of months ago. I also cut down my listening of so-called progressive radio shows by what I ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/07/2012 | 455 | 256 | 5 | 2672 |
| Here's What a True Progressive Movement Would Look Like I often criticize some elements of the left and the progressives for obsessing about anything Republican. What animates that criticism is that I see the phenomena as the result of the effects of ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/10/2012 | 24 | 20 | - | 184 |
| Whereas Today I Officially Declare The U.S. To Be a Fascist Country But don't be too alarmed. In practical terms, in day-to-day living, it doesn't really mean that much. You'll be living your life pretty much the same way you have thus far, without any major ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/12/2012 | 57 | 16 | - | 386 |
| Understanding The Nature of The U.S. Corporatist Fascism A very cute hummingbird was just hovering outside my home office window as I started writing... I'm writing this as I take a break from working on some projects I got recently; the economy is ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/13/2012 | 31 | 24 | 4 | 195 |
| Article in The Atlantic Magazine Restores My Hope in The Progressive Movement I just read one of the most inspiring articles I've read in a very long time! It is inspiring not because of its great prose, or poetic beauty, but because it restores my "faith" in the possibility ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/15/2012 | 128 | 355 | 11 | 2147 |
| Taking On And Defeating The Tyrannical One Percent When I go to the gym (usually early in the morning), I've taken to scanning the multiple flat-screen TV sets hanging from the ceiling, conveniently installed in such a way as to make them easily ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/16/2012 | 49 | 77 | 3 | 414 |
| Occupy Street Cred vs. Political Establishment Co-option: A Definitive Answer Congratulations! Once again, historic events beckon the progressive movement, and even though it took a little too long for it to start showing signs of a spine to take on the contemporary ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/22/2012 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 123 |