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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Monks Hear me out... We live in an absurd world. In a world where high crimes are committed by the wealthy and well-connected, with impunity, without fear of retribution or accountability. In a world ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/30/2012 | 20 | 5 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Turning The Middle Class Into Activist Force The more I read about the history of social justice activism, the more I realize that the holy grail of success for any activist movement is gaining the support of the middle class. In every era ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/27/2013 | 23 | 6 | 1 | - |
| 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 Power of People Armed With The Truth - #Calle13Assange When artists address social justice struggles in times of deception and oppression, is that a sign that a tipping point is near? When activists stand up against injustice, form coalitions, and ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/15/2013 | 27 | 6 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| Shutting Down The Government: A Modern-Day Coup D'Etat Folks, the upcoming government shutdown and constitutional crisis are not the same as previous ones. This is just another step in a carefully-designed agenda, much of it paid for by an increasingly ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/14/2013 | 24 | 7 | - | - |
| American Dystopia: Why Are Billionaires Funding The Gun-Nuts? Before people jump all over me, let me acknowledge that what I'm about to posit is a highly-speculative theory. I understand that reasonable people may (and probably will) disagree with this ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/24/2013 | 22 | 7 | 1 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| SPARK! - Time For Action - I'm Occupying SF Union Square This Wednesday (06/12/13) First, I salute and extend my most sincere thanks to all social justice activists around the country, and around the world. I pay homage to good-hearted, decent people who advocate for the poor, ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/09/2013 | 17 | 7 | - | - |
| Is posting cached links to unpublished/deleted diaries acceptable behavior at Daily Kos? I hope those who clicked on to this diary know by now that this is the quintessential meta diary, although I'm posting it because I think the issue is important enough to sort out in this online ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/07/2013 | 292 | 7 | - | - |
| Meet Me at The Public Square on April 15th It was one of those indelible moments. It was early evening on October 25th. I was sitting at the Oscar Grant Plaza's amphitheater , kicking back, my eyes closed, enjoying the moment, listening to ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/19/2013 | 32 | 7 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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'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 |
| How Wall Street And The IMF Manipulate The World Economy The current international financial sector ... |
Ray Pensador | 09/22/2011 | 36 | 8 | 1 | 242 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Advice to Criminals, Would-be Criminals, Suspects, Accused Criminals, and Those Caught in The Middle Let me state right off the bat that this advise does not apply to the most dangerous criminals in our society, since they have bought immunity for themselves. Wall Street banksters looting the ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/21/2013 | 37 | 8 | 1 | - |
| Strength Lies in Organization: Building a Nationwide Network of Activists More and more people are becoming painfully aware about the root causes of the corruption that has engulfed the country, and the social and political dysfunction it has caused. By now many of us ... |
Ray Pensador | 05/20/2013 | 18 | 8 | - | - |
| Peaceful Uprising 2.0 - How To Depose an Oppressive Regime Once people understand the true power of information technology when it comes to helping social justice activists depose tyrannical regimes, and/or corporatist/business oligarchies, the global ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/17/2013 | 26 | 8 | - | - |
| What We Can Learn From The Ongoing Revolution in Brazil Earlier tonight the title of a New York Times article caught my attention: " Brazil’s Leftist Ruling Party, Born of Protests, Is Perplexed by Revolt ." The reason it did, is because it reminded ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/20/2013 | 78 | 8 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Right Wing Extremists And The Debt Ceiling Debate | Ray Pensador | 07/22/2011 | 9 | 9 | - | 138 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Seeking To Connect With Other Dangerous Zealots Let me get the definitions out of the way: If you are scary-smart and have awakened to the realization that the United States of America today is a modern total-information awareness Police State ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/12/2013 | 26 | 9 | - | - |
| Obama's Press Conference: Missed Opportunity If in the face of lunacy, thuggery, unreasonableness, gross injustice, and corruption, as a president, if you fail to use the bully pulpit to simply speak the truth, then you are either complicit, ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/14/2013 | 21 | 9 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Understanding The Link Between Austerity, Assassinations by Drones And Stand-Your-Ground Laws I'm doing some serious research based on the work by Stefania Vitali and Stefano Battiston, " The Community Structure of the Global Corporate Network ," published by the Swiss Federal Institute of ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/06/2013 | 23 | 9 | 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Government Malfeasance & Corruption Database As part of my social justice and anti-corruption activism, I often use bold language in many of my diaries, stating that our government institutions are corrupt to the core, which to me is a self-... |
Ray Pensador | 03/14/2013 | 14 | 9 | 1 | - |
| What's Wrong With These Pictures? [UPDATED] This is an experiment related to the media. I'm going to write the content in two parts. In the first part I'll just add the photos and the headlines related to the photos. In the second part (... |
Ray Pensador | 03/14/2013 | 17 | 9 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| The Revolution Has Been Postponed During the last couple of weeks I've been working 12+ hour days on a couple of projects since like anybody else, I have to work to make a living. As I gave RP a break from organizing the (peaceful) ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/04/2013 | 21 | 9 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| San Francisco Bay Area Stand-Down I read in the San Francisco Chronicle today that not only Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) employees were likely going to strike on Monday, but that there were several other unions that were also ... |
Ray Pensador | 07/01/2013 | 27 | 9 | - | - |
| Fictitious Organization: A Powerful And Effective Anti-Corruption And Social Justice Movement One of the first things I would do is I would contact people like OPOL, Words in Action, LaFeminista, MOT (among many other great minds here at Daily Kos) and hire them full-time with a minimum ... |
Ray Pensador | 07/29/2013 | 23 | 9 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |