Posting History for Ray Pensador
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| Network: Harnessing Crowd Intelligence (From Thought to Action) Intelligent human beings have an internal moral compass that operates based on instincts. It is true that culture, nurturing, education and socialization have a great impact on our behavior and ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/18/2013 | 1 | 7 | - | - |
| Message to The U.S. Media - Your Input is Requested The U.S. media corporate conglomerate is one of the most damaging institutions in society. It is used by the greedy, sadistic, and sociopathic corporatists who own it to distribute falsehoods, ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/19/2013 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| The Projection of Power: A Counter-Propaganda Art Project By now a large-enough segment of the population is becoming aware of what's going on: Corporatist cartels ( like ALEC ), billionaires, and their front groups have a stranglehold on our democracy. ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/24/2013 | 3 | 5 | - | - |
| Let's Get Together: A Nationwide Network of Activists I've been reaching out to people of good will, asking them to join a nationwide network of activists for the last few months. So far about 310 people have signed up ( see the map ).
If I try to ... |
Ray Pensador | 05/12/2013 | 3 | 12 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Democracy in America: Outspent And Outgunned by The Koch Brothers and The NRA ProPublica released an article today about how "dark money" was used to "control redistricting in many states."
In the November election, a million more Americans voted for Democrats seeking ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/21/2012 | 4 | 9 | - | - |
| Enough! The Time For Action is Now! What does it take to inspire people? To reach deep down into their hearts to help spark the strongest emotions born out of every person's desire to be free and to live in dignity? Of course, that'... |
Ray Pensador | 02/21/2013 | 4 | 14 | - | - |
| RootStrikers And a Nationwide Coalition of Activists Last Friday (April 19th) I went to bed a little earlier than I usually do. I was planning on attending the RootStrikers Conference to Restore The Republic at San Francisco State University on ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/23/2013 | 4 | 13 | - | - |
| Tearing Down The Corporate State: A Step by Step Approach To a Better Future It's time to come up with a systematic and strategic approach to tearing down the Corporate State which has encroached itself into the daily lives of the citizenry, resulting in predation and social ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/29/2013 | 4 | 21 | 2 | - |
| Slow Down And Open Your Eyes I see it coming. I feel it. It's inevitable. There are really dark, nefarious forces working behind the scenes 24/7, trying to do everything they can ... |
Ray Pensador | 05/02/2013 | 4 | 14 | - | - |
| You Keep Asking For Solutions: Here They Are First, let me start by acknowledging that the title of this diary is very ambitious, and because of it, I will start the discussion by making a statement which I hope we can all agree with, in order ... |
Ray Pensador | 07/03/2013 | 4 | 17 | 1 | - |
| 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 |
| A Society Cannot Let Itself Be Intimidated By Violent Rhetoric Recently, I watched the first two episodes of the PBS American Experience documentary, The Abolitionists . It is incredibly humbling to learn that in the history of this country there has always ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/20/2013 | 5 | 8 | - | - |
| Three Easy Ways to Prove You Have The Power To Take on Gov. Corruption As a social justice and anti-corruption activist I have three main goals in mind: to prove it is possible to organize an overwhelmingly powerful coalition of progressives into an extremely organized , |
Ray Pensador | 03/17/2013 | 5 | 6 | 1 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Best Deficit Reduction Program Right now, as you read this, billions and billions and billions of dollars are being transferred from the hardworking middle class (and the poor) directly into the pockets of an increasingly ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/02/2013 | 6 | 8 | - | - |
| 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 Revolutionary Tactics Corporations Don't Want You to Know Right now, the Corporatocracy in the U.S. is firmly entrenched, bonded by shared interests between oligopolistic corporations, the seat of state and national government, and much of the judiciary.
... |
Ray Pensador | 01/29/2013 | 6 | 27 | 3 | - |
| Virtual Ad Agency / Art Project: The Projection of POWER This is an interesting situation. There seems to be great imbalance of power between the population and a tiny group of corrupt individuals who make up the power elite , even though in theory, in ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/25/2013 | 6 | 9 | 1 | - |
| Moral Monday: A Template For Nationwide Action One theme I'm always focusing on in my writing and activism is that unless there is a concerted effort to bring together disparate progressive-minded groups and people into a nationwide coalition ... |
Ray Pensador | 08/06/2013 | 6 | 14 | 1 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| A Challenge to Daily Kos: 24 Hours Free Of Writing About Republican Miscreants I look down on them; I really don't care what they have to say, what their beliefs are, how they feel about any particular issue, how their neck and head veins pop out when they spew hateful ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/14/2012 | 7 | 6 | - | - |
| The Secret to Social Success: Finding a Solution to All Your Problems I'm just playing around with title ideas for a much-needed seminar. Lot's of good titles are taken, like "Think And Grow Rich," or "The Secret." Have you ever attended a business seminar? About a ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/03/2013 | 7 | 5 | - | - |
| On The Proper Handling Of Republicans, Conservatives, Teabaggers And Other Rightwing Miscreants The promise of this nation, the United States of America, is that her people will continue to endeavor in the never-ending task of helping bring about a more perfect union. If today there is any ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/15/2013 | 7 | 9 | - | - |
| Tough Times For Agitators Times are tough for agitators. Have you been to New Orleans' French Quarter on Friday nights? I've been there a few times (years ago) and remember seeing this old guy walking around with an ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/15/2013 | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| New Activists Network: You Have The Power to Make a Real Difference I believe we have the answers to address the biggest challenges in society. But the power structure is preventing us from taking a common sense approach to basic issues, including economic activity, |
Ray Pensador | 02/22/2013 | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| Taking on Joe Arpaio: Time to Unite And Flex Some Muscle I've been sharing this idea I'm about to describe below and although many people agree with it in theory, I think we now have an opportunity to test it in practice by starting with a very worthy ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/18/2013 | 7 | 9 | - | - |
| ROOTSTRIKERS: Could This Be The Revolution I've Been Waiting For? For years now I've been making the same points: the government and the levers of power have been taken over by Wall Street and corporatists cartels; and that only a well-organized movement capable ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/10/2013 | 7 | 18 | - | - |
| How To Deal With a Rigged System: Create Your Own We all know that the system is rigged. Because of corruption caused by cartels made up of moneyed individuals (Koch brothers, etc.), corporatist organizations (ALEC, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, NRA, ... |
Ray Pensador | 05/08/2013 | 7 | 22 | 2 | - |
| Memorial Day Weekend Disconnect It has been a nice couple of days. I'm self-employed; a "consultant." If I want to get pay, I have to be constantly prospecting, cold-calling, research, marketing, setting up appointments, ... |
Ray Pensador | 05/26/2013 | 7 | 14 | - | - |
| The Truth Will Set You Free: We're In The Middle of a Global Awakening In what may appear to be counter-intuitive, given the latest revelations about how the U.S. government and powerful corporations have partnered up to set up a massive and intrusive total-information-... |
Ray Pensador | 06/21/2013 | 7 | 21 | 2 | - |
| Global Uprising: A Selection of Images & Photos Some people argue that there is no such a thing as an ongoing global uprising. I guess it must be truth because the media is not reporting such a thing.
Maybe people can come up with a proper ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/24/2013 | 7 | 10 | - | - |
| Reclaiming Our Humanity In my writing I often complain about what I perceive to be a lack of solidarity, cohesiveness and strategic organization within the progressive movement. In the face of the rapid ascension of the ... |
Ray Pensador | 07/31/2013 | 7 | 9 | 1 | - |
| The SF Mission District: Standing Up Against Gentrification And Evictions
Photo by Ray Pensador - Sat., Oct. 12, 2013 - Mission & 24th St.
It was about 1:20 P.M. on Saturday, October 12th, a mere 5 minutes after I've boarded BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) on my way to ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/13/2013 | 7 | 19 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Taking On The American Corporatocracy When I interact with people and touch on the issue of the nascent corporate-funded neo-fascist state, I often notice very similar reactions: either apathy born out of a sense of impotence against an ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/17/2013 | 8 | 11 | 2 | - |
| Banana Republic: Stealing Poor Kids Lunch Money, Rickety Nuclear Plants, Assassinations Edition You have to understand the psychology of the leisure class . As explained by Thorstein Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class , it has to do with "conspicuous consumption, as a function of social- |
Ray Pensador | 02/07/2013 | 8 | 9 | - | - |
| Confessions of a Propagandist I have a confession to make: I'm a propagandist. I don't necessarily write to inform, or to set the record straight, or to put an argument forward. I write, first and foremost, to influence, to ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/27/2013 | 8 | 15 | 1 | - |
| Messaging And Narrative: They Are Exponentially More Important Than Facts I marvel at the messaging discipline and efficiency of the American right wing, including the Republican political establishment. No matter what the issue is or how many different ways you ask them ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/11/2013 | 8 | 13 | - | - |
| Nothing will change until people unite in solidarity... Among my interests in social justice and anti-corruption activism, I'm coming to the realization that perhaps the most important battle we must engage in is the one on counter-propaganda.
I'm ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/24/2013 | 8 | 9 | - | - |
| Bay Area Rapid Transit: Union Busting, Trips to Disneyland, Alcohol Drinking, And Parties
Today I finally made the sacrifice to buy a new laptop since I've had my old one for over 8 years now, which makes it almost obsolete. The nice thing is that in the last few years technology ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/18/2013 | 8 | 19 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Right Wing Extremists And The Debt Ceiling Debate | Ray Pensador | 07/22/2011 | 9 | 9 | - | 138 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Why Social Justice Movements Stall: What To Do About It I spent some time going through different Occupy Wall Street websites and reading about their recent events, protests, workshops, etc. Although I've reached my conclusions about why social justice ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/26/2012 | 9 | 12 | 1 | - |
| POLISCENTRO - A Strategic Front Against Corporatist Oppression Polis means "city" in Greek. "Centro" refers to a downtown area. In this prototype social activist "movement," the members would be called "Poliscentristas." And it all refers to a prototype of a ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/18/2013 | 9 | 4 | - | - |
| Lessons From The Cyprus Banking Crisis: Shock Doctrine Disaster Capitalism For a very long time now I've been arguing that the international banking system is basically a quasi-criminal racketeering organization. I would ask the reader to consider the vast amount of ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/19/2013 | 9 | 23 | 3 | - |
| Market For The People: Removing Corporatist Control Over Our Lives There is a group of wealthy individuals and corporatist organizations exerting undue influence on our system of government, and on society in general. Because of the power and money at their ... |
Ray Pensador | 05/06/2013 | 9 | 14 | 2 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Powerful Beyond Measure There is something profoundly wrong in our society and you know it, you feel it, you see the results all around you, and deep down inside you know you have the power to fix it--but you have been led ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/07/2013 | 10 | 15 | - | - |
| Ruthlessness as a necessary virtue Currently, there is a brutal and relentless war against regular folks, against the citizenry at large, against the middle class. This war is driven by unquenchable greed, sadistic pleasure by the ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/13/2013 | 10 | 16 | 1 | - |
| Green Bay Packers, Employee-Owned Companies, And Sustainable Economics Are you sick and tired of government corruption, and of corporations cheating, stealing, and committing all manner of crimes with total impunity? There is a solution! The corruption is fueled by ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/29/2013 | 10 | 11 | 2 | - |
| Taking On Billionaires-Funded Groups Head On The billionaires-funded groups , including the NRA, ALEC, corporate media conglomerates, think tanks, and astroturf "grassroots" organizations are destroying he fabric of the country. The effects ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/02/2013 | 10 | 12 | 1 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| God told me to write this... There is so much potential for good in the world, for brotherly love, for peace and harmony. All the elements are there, here, with us, now, at this very moment.
In order to realize that potential ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/28/2012 | 11 | 14 | 2 | - |
| Psychological Operations As Protest Tactics For many years now I've been pointing out that unless the Left becomes extremely cohesive and strategic in confronting the rising corporate state we will end up living in a dystopian corporate-... |
Ray Pensador | 02/17/2013 | 11 | 9 | - | - |
| Nationwide Network: Organized Resistance to Corporate State If you've read my previous diaries by now you must know that I am concerned about the fact that there doesn't seem to be a highly organized nationwide network of progressive activists from multiple ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/21/2013 | 11 | 13 | - | - |
| Walk with me...
Every day I try to take a 3-mile walk. I often walk by a lake with a beautiful scenery. There are all kinds of birds chirping; a nice breeze. The trees sway with the wind. It's so peaceful.
I ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/01/2013 | 11 | 20 | - | - |
| Hitting Back: Launching PsyOps Against Regulatory Agencies on The Take We all continue to get outraged about the increasingly bold examples of influence-peddling corruption that have infected every single federal regulatory agency in the country. Now they don't even ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/12/2013 | 11 | 25 | - | - |
| Progressive Think Tanks: Jobs, Housing, Food, Energy, Clean Government, Activism As part of my involvement in social justice and anti-corruption activism, I'm joining forces with other activists in order to identify best practices and solutions to address the terrible ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/14/2013 | 11 | 11 | 2 | - |
| Drones of Another Kind Regarding the current state of affairs in this country, what should be the number one priority of the citizenry? Ending the the control over our government by a tiny group of billionaires and ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/24/2013 | 11 | 15 | - | - |
| Beautiful Day To Start a Peaceful Revolution - Join Me! Well, at least join me in spirit, if you can't be at San Francisco Union Square at 1:00pm today to engage in direct action democracy!
Flash mobs have recently become a powerful tactic for political ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/12/2013 | 11 | 17 | 1 | - |
| Civic Duty, Intellectual Honesty, And Integrity For the purpose of this argument, I'm going to make a couple of baseline assumptions about the readers: You are intelligent, fair-minded, honest, and ethical. From there, I will try to define what ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/21/2013 | 11 | 15 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Wanted: Progressive Warriors Let's cut through the haze, and the lies, and the propaganda, and let's define the situation right now in the United States: The American plutonomy is in charge, to the detriment of the citizens. ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/23/2012 | 12 | 5 | - | - |
| A Full Page Ad in The New York Times Every Sunday I'm an observant of the effect the corporate media conglomerate has on the population. I've come to see it as a low-level, generalized, and tenuous type of brainwashing, or mind-control. It's ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/18/2013 | 12 | 12 | 1 | - |
| 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 | - |
| How The Corporate-Controlled For Profit NSA Endangers The American People Don't get me wrong, I'm fully aware that when it comes down to national security, any government would be remiss if highly secret and clandestine operations were not part of the mix when it comes to ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/24/2013 | 12 | 22 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |