User:Critical Chris

Contributions

Articles I've created:

• Broadway Auto Row, Oakland, California A private car dealership and automotive services district currently being planned for mixed-use (housing and neighborhood retail) redevelopment.
• Civic Center, Oakland, California A public building district near Downtown Oakland
• East Bay Bicycle Coalition - I've been waiting for years to ride the Alex Zuckerman bikeway over the Bay Bridge.
• Ignacio De La Fuente City Councilor for Oakland's District 5
• Passive electioneering A set of esoteric and obscure electoral laws which were seen as a threat to Civil Rights during the 2008 Presidential election cycle.

Articles I've helped develop:

• Barack Obama I have so many mixed opinions about him, but he was actually --elected-- president.
• Bill Wattenburg Former Livermore National Weapons Lab scientist and KGO radio weekend late night host that has advocated the use of US troops to "go house-to-house" to remove weapons."
• Bay Area Rapid Transit - As per it's name, the Bay Area's rapid metro transit
• 2009 Fruitvale BART Police Shooting - "Tony, I thought he was going for a gun."
• B-2 Spirit The 2.13 billion dollar per plane stealth bomber that the Joint Chiefs of Staff recognized as a threat to US strategic preparedness.
• Chauncey Bailey - A respected reporter who was assassinated in Downtown Oakland for his investigative journalism.
• Critical Mass - The monthly bicycle-centered social movement coming soon to a small town near you.
• Duncan Hunter - A career congressman from San Diego area that wants to deport the children born on US soil if their parents immigrated here unlawfully.
• Forest Laboratories - A crafty big pharma firm that evades US corporate income taxes on profits from it's US sales by moving them offshore to its "Bermuda subsidiary" using a currently legal practice known as transfer pricing. The "subsidiary" reportedly consists of a tiny office with a secretary in a country with no corporate income taxes.
• Jack Abramoff - "Con man" par excellence.
• Jerry Brown - Former California Governor, two term mayor of Oakland, and current California Attorney General. This guy, and his "10k" doctrine, need no introduction.
• KPFA, a listener-supported Pacifica network radio station with a powerful transmitter signal that reaches most of Northern California.
• Lakeside Apartments District, Oakland, California - A residential neighborhood near Downtown Oakland
• Max Baucus - Current chair of our US Senate Finance Committee and gatekeeper to health care reform for our citizens. Fought for a tax on union "cadillac plans" to finance health care reform instead of the house plan to tax upper incomes.
• Nancy Nadel - A City Councilor here in the Town, who was recently re-elected to her fourth consecutive term in office in a race with two other candidates who had access to the ballot.
• North American Free Trade Agreement The de-industrializing globalization treaty brought to us by the plutocratic duopoly in Washington.
• Oakland, California - A charming west coast big city currently being rediscovered by folks with lotsa' money, and they all have their own idea of how to make it better for it's longtime residents.
• Oakland Unified School District The Chief of it's police force labeled a political march a "moving crime scene" and arrested a videojournalist with an official press pass!
• Quentin L. Kopp This former SF supe, former State Senator, and former San Mateo County Judge is a former chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority. As chair, quietly moved to de-fund California Voters' intent to bring high speed rail to Downtown San Francisco's Transbay Terminal.
• Rafael Correa the American-educated economist President of Ecuador who repudiated Ecuador's National Debt, vowing to fight creditors in International courts over "immoral debts" contracted by despotic former regimes.
• Ron Dellums A United States Marine and the first openly socialist Congressman since WWII from Northern California's progressive 9th Congressional district, and the current Mayor of Oakland, California.
• Tort reform You gotta love mandatory binding arbitration clauses buried in 4 point mice type font contracts!
• Willie Brown (politician) (born 1934), Mayor of San Francisco, 1996–2004, Speaker of the California State Assembly, 1980–1995. Once called San Francisco Critical Mass riders a bunch of "little weenies" and "sic-ed" Fred Lau and the SFPD on them.
• 3rd Infantry Division (United States Army) - It's 1st brigade has recently been quietly deployed as a standing army onto US soil for full combat duty as a part of the "Global War on Terror" (GWOT), in which the entire world is a battlefield. When the GWOT bills arrive they may just ask me to quarter one of these guys/gals in my home.

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raw	This user is a raw foodist.

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	This user opposes the Genetic Modification of plants and animals.

	This user does not consume GM foods.

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JKD	This user walks on the pathless path.

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NET	This user listens to radio over the Internet.

	This user supports public transit.

	This user likes transit buses made by Gillig.

Dems	This user knows both major US parties have been hijacked by special interests, can no longer identify with either one, and has no hope that the situation will ever improve.	Pubs

	This user supports instant-runoff voting.

This user does not trust electronic voting machines.

	This user votes via Absentee ballot.

	This user supports Jury Nullification.‡

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	This user knows that the mainstream media is just a brainwashing tool.

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	This user knows totalitarians love Gun control.

	This user has a Police radio.

This user believes that the world would be a better place if everyone had access to a quality, free education.

According to the Political Compass this user is: Economic Left (-9.25) and Social Libertarian (-6.82)

	This user, through Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy, will sap and impurify all of your precious bodily fluids.

This user believes that secret societies should be left in the schoolyard.

The eye is watching this user.

	Editing Wikipedia is something this user does as a hobby.