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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Restricting Access to Education: Why Do They (UC Regents) Do it If ...	Ray Pensador	11/18/2011	15	8	-	64
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The GOP Polling Wasn't Wrong... The Republican "Reality" Bubble The GOP polling data was purposely designed to confuse, to manipulate, and to create doubt about the accuracy of facts and data that pointed to a possible Obama win. People need to understand that ...	Ray Pensador	11/11/2012	15	6	-	-
The Violent Revolution That Saved The U.S. Democracy in 2012 There are many reasons behind the 2012 election results, but more than anything, what provided the real catalyst for the eventual win of the Democratic party was the Occupy Wall Street movement--a ...	Ray Pensador	11/17/2012	38	21	-	-
About To Explode! Tension. Entire cities in turmoil with bands of armed right wing fanatics intimidating people, and in many cases committing violent acts against those whom they perceive to be dangerous elements in ...	Ray Pensador	12/13/2012	20	13	-	-
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 Problem Is Not The "Gun Culture" But The "Knee-Jerk Reaction Culture" Two ways to approach the social dysfunction in the U.S. One is for each individual citizen to educate herself in trying to understand the nature of our corrupt and exploitative system. Among many ...	Ray Pensador	12/15/2012	15	5	-	-
How To Break Free Of U.S. Media Mental Shackles It gives me the creeps! The control the corporate-owned media has over the vast majorities of Americans almost falls into the domain of science fiction. I'm not going to venture into speculating ...	Ray Pensador	12/20/2012	20	15	-	-
A Clear And Present Danger: The NRA Calls For Creation of Private Army They've been working on this for decades; putting everything in place to activate an army of fascist NRA gun thugs using the veneer of "security" as an excuse, but make no mistake about it, what we ...	Ray Pensador	12/21/2012	35	12	-	-
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	-	-

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