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Dear reader, the following piece, published by The Free Thought Project, a website whose mission is to “foster the creation and expansion of liberty-minded solutions to modern day tyrannical oppression. It is a well-described article that details how our nation, the United States of America, has taken the wrong path in its mission to securing the real liberty dream that the Founding Fathers envisioned for this nation and its people, but greed and corruption sequestered that coveted American dream. THIS IS ONE Of A THREE-PART SERIES. 

 

5 examples showing America has become a state of undeclared martial law 

 

America has been turned into a state of undeclared martial law by an authoritarian federal government and their power hungry enforcers who see citizens as their enemies 

 

by The Free Thought Project 

 

“A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.”—John Salter 

 

Police in a small Georgia town tasered a 5-foot-2, 87-year-old woman who was using a kitchen knife to cut dandelions for use in a recipe. Police claim they had no choice but to taser the old woman, who does not speak English but was smiling at police to indicate she was friendly, because she failed to comply with orders to put down the knife. 

Police in California are being sued for using excessive force against a deaf 76-year-old woman who was allegedly jaywalking and failed to halt when police yelled at her. According to the lawsuit, police searched the woman and her grocery bags. She was then slammed to the ground, had a foot or knee placed behind her neck or back, handcuffed, arrested and cited for jaywalking and resisting arrest. 

In Alabama, police first tasered then shot and killed an unarmed man who refused to show his driver’s license after attempting to turn in a stray dog he’d found to the local dog shelter. The man’s girlfriend and their three children, all under the age of 10, witnessed the shooting. 

In New York, Customs and Border Protection officers have come under fire for subjecting female travelers (including minors) to random body searches that include strip searches while menstruating, genital probing, and forced pelvic exams, X-rays and intravenous drugs at area hospitals. 

At a California gas station, ICE agents surrounded a man who was taking his pregnant wife to the hospital to deliver their baby, demanding that he show identification. Having forgotten his documents at home in the rush to get to the hospital, the husband offered to go get them. Refusing to allow him to do so, ICE agents handcuffed and arrested the man for not having an ID with him, leaving his wife to find her way alone to the hospital. The father of five, including the newborn, has lived and worked in the U.S. for 12 years with his wife. 

These are not isolated incidents. 

These cases are legion. 

This is what a state of undeclared martial law looks like, when you can be arrested, tasered, shot, brutalized and in some cases killed merely for not complying with a government agent’s order or not complying fast enough. 

This isn’t just happening in crime-ridden inner cities. 

It’s happening all across the country. 

America has been locked down. 

This is what it’s like to be a citizen of the American police state. 

This is what it’s like to be an enemy combatant in your own country. 

This is what it feels like to be a conquered people. 

This is what it feels like to be an occupied nation. 

This is what it feels like to live in fear of armed men crashing through your door in the middle of the night, or to be accused of doing something you never even knew was a crime, or to be watched all the time, your movements tracked, your motives questioned. 

This is what it feels like to have your homeland transformed into a battlefield. 

Mind you, in a war zone, there are no police—only soldiers. Thus, there is no more Posse Comitatus prohibiting the government from using the military in a law enforcement capacity. Not when the local police have, for all intents and purposes, already become the military. 

In a war zone, the soldiers shoot to kill, as American police have now been trained to do. Whether the perceived “threat” is armed or unarmed no longer matters when police are authorized to shoot first and ask questions later. 

In a war zone, even the youngest members of the community learn at an early age to accept and fear the soldier in their midst. Thanks to funding from the government, more schools are hiring armed police officers—some equipped with semi-automatic AR-15 rifles—to “secure” their campuses. 

In a war zone, you have no rights. When you are staring down the end of a police rifle, there can be no free speech. When you’re being held at bay by a militarized, weaponized mine-resistant tank, there can be no freedom of assembly. When you’re being surveilled with thermal imaging devices, facial recognition software and full-body scanners and the like, there can be no privacy. When you’re charged with disorderly conduct simply for daring to question or photograph or document the injustices you see, with the blessing of the courts no less, there can be no freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. 

And when you’re a prisoner in your own town, unable to move freely, kept off the streets, issued a curfew at night, there can be no mistaking the prison walls closing in. 

This is happening and will happen anywhere and everywhere else in this country where law enforcement officials are given carte blanche to do what they like, when they like, how they like, with immunity from their superiors, the legislatures, and the courts. 

(PART 2 WILL CONTINUE  NEXT WEEK). 

Letter from Catholic priest to the New York Times

Dear brother and sister journalist:

I am a simple Catholic priest. I am happy and proud of my vocation. I have lived in Angola for 20 years as a missionary.

I see in many media, especially in your newspaper, the broadening of the subject in a morbid way, investigating in detail the life of a pedophile priest. This is how one of a city in the USA, from the 70s, another one in Australia in the 80s and that is how it looks, other recent cases … Certainly all condemnable! Some journalistic presentations are weighted and balanced, others amplified, full of preconceptions and even hatred.

It gives me great pain because of the profound evil that people, which should be signs of God’s love, be a dagger in the lives of innocents. There is no word that justifies such acts. There is no doubt that the Church can not be, but on the side of the weak, of the most defenseless. Therefore all measures taken for the protection, prevention of the dignity of children will always be an absolute priority.

But it is curious the little news and disinterest by thousands and thousands of priests who are consumed by millions of children, by adolescents and the most disadvantaged in the four corners of the world! I think that your information medium is not interested in the fact that I had to transport many undernourished children from Cangumbe to Lwena (Angola) by road in 2002, because neither the government was available nor the NGOs were authorized; that he had to bury dozens of small deaths among those displaced from war and those who have returned; that we have saved the lives of thousands of people in Mexico through the only medical post in 90,000 km2, as well as with the distribution of food and seeds. That we have given the opportunity of education in these 10 years and schools to more than 110,000 children…

It is not of interest that with other priests we have had to help the humanitarian crisis of about 15,000 people in the barracks of the guerrillas, after their surrender, because the food did not arrive from the Government and the UN.

It is not news that a priest of 75 years, Fr. Roberto, at night toured the city of Luanda curing the street children, taking them to a shelter, to detoxify gasoline, to alphabetize hundreds of prisoners that other priests, like P. Stefano, have houses of passage for the boys who are beaten, mistreated and even violated and seek refuge.

Nor that Fray Maiato with his 80 years, pass house by house comforting the sick and desperate.

It is not news that more than 60,000 of the 400,000 priests and religious have left their land and family to serve their brothers in a leper colony, in hospitals, refugee camps, orphanages for children accused of sorcerers or orphans of parents who died with AIDS, in schools for the poorest, in vocational training centers, in centers for attention to HIV-positive people … or above all, in parishes and missions, motivating people to live and love.

It is not news that my friend, Fr. Marcos Aurelio, to save some young people during the war in Angola, transported them from Kalulo to Dondo and returning to his mission was machine-gunned on the way; that Brother Francisco, with five catechist ladies, for going to help the remotest rural areas have died in an accident on the street; that dozens of missionaries in Angola have died for lack of sanitary help, for simple malaria; that others have jumped through the air, because of a mine, visiting their people. In the cemetery of Kalulo there are the tombs of the first priests who came to the region … None of them spend 40 years.

It is not news to accompany the life of a “normal” priest in his day to day, in his difficulties and joys, quietly consuming his life in favor of the community he serves.

The truth is that we do not try to be news, but simply to bring the Good News, that news that began without noise on Easter night. A falling tree makes more noise than a forest that grows.
I do not intend to make an apology for the Church and the priests. The priest is neither a hero nor a neurotic. He is a simple man, who with his humanity seeks to follow Jesus and serve his brothers. There are miseries, poverty and frailties as in every human being; and also beauty and goodness as in every creature…

Insisting in an obsessed and persecutory way on a subject losing the overall vision creates truly offensive cartoons of the Catholic priesthood in which I feel offended.

Journalist, look for the Truth, the Good and the Beauty. That will make him noble in his profession.

I only ask you friend

In Christ,

Father Martín Lasarte, sdb

“My past Lord, I entrust it to your Mercy, My present to your Love, My future to your Providence”

Teachers in training reject English in favor of indigenous languages

Students at 11 Oaxaca colleges say they will put up a fight

by Mexico News Daily

The school year isn’t three days old and teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico, are going on strike again, this time to protest a requirement that teachers in training must now study English.

The Oaxaca local of the CNTE teachers’ union — whose annual protests have been going on for years — and students in the state’s 11 teacher training colleges say English should not take precedence over teaching native languages.

It claims the latest stage of the new education model prioritizes English and technology.

The federal Public Education Secretariat (SEP) has been implementing the new education model in a staggered manner. Now, for the first time, English is a requirement at the colleges.

“We demand the immediate cancellation of the imposed education reform,” students told a press conference in Oaxaca city, declaring they would put up a fight.

Student Nayeli Juárez told the newspaper El Imparcial that her college would lose its soul by bypassing indigenous languages in favor of English.

The students declared that they were not protesting for the sake of protest, but speaking out after analyzing the consequences of losing subjects such as history and the arts.

Excluding them, they said, creates a chasm in the schools’ humanist focus.

As the students were protesting in Oaxaca, a group of Section 22 teachers traveled to Mexico City to take their rejection of the updated curriculum to officials there, where they hoped to meet with the nominee for education secretary in the new government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

They also intended to repeat their longstanding objection to the evaluation of teachers, another element of the reforms.

It is unclear how many Oaxaca teachers are participating in the strike and how many schools will be affected.

López Obrador repeated on Monday his intention to cancel those reforms and substitute them with a new proposal that takes into account the opinions of teachers and parents.

Source: El Imparcial (sp)

In other non related news:

White House: immigrant accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts ‘permanently separated’ family

White House uses killing of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts to stoke anti-immigrant fears, even as studies show lower crime rates

by Sabrina Siddiqui

Donald Trump’s White House has seized on the killing of a college student in the hopes of bolstering a sharply anti-immigrant agenda, even as studies show immigrants in the US are less likely to commit crimes than the native-born population.

Within a day of law enforcement being led to what they believe is the body of Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old student in Iowa who was missing for more than a month, Trump amplified as fact that the crime was perpetrated by an alleged undocumented immigrant. The White House continued to press on the matter on Wednesday, even as questions loomed over the immigration status of the suspect, the farm worker Cristhian Bahena Rivera.

The White House released a video on Twitter blaming “an illegal alien” for Tibbetts’s murder while stating: “The Tibbetts family has been permanently separated. They are not alone.”

The video featured several family members of victims of immigrant crime in an unmistakable attempt to capitalize on the death as evidence to support the anti-immigrant agenda that has been a centerpiece of Trump’s presidency.

Since taking office, Trump has cracked down on both illegal and legal immigration while often perpetuating stereotypes linking immigrants to crime – even as studies far from back up his claims.

Social science research has consistently found that immigrants are considerably less likely to commit crime than the native-born US population. The statistics have held true even as the immigrant population has risen, with analyses over the course of more than three decades showing immigrants were one-half to one-fifth as likely to be incarcerated compared with those born in America.

Trump has nonetheless repeatedly used his platform to highlight crimes committed by undocumented immigrants, a fear-mongering tactic that has helped persuade Republican primary voters there is a need for the US to adopt draconian immigration laws.

As a candidate, Trump similarly hammered on the 2015 murder of Kate Steinle, a California woman who was fatally shot by an undocumented immigrant in San Francisco. Trump subsequently featured the relatives of individuals killed by immigrants at the 2016 Republican National Convention and invited them, as president, to high-profile events including his State of the Union and Joint Address to Congress.

Some of Tibbetts’s family members have spoken out against the president’s attempts to politicize her death. “Evil comes in EVERY color”, Tibbetts’s aunt wrote on Facebook.

Trump also invoked Tibbetts at a rally in Charleston, West Virginia, on Tuesday, telling a crowd of supporters: “You heard about today with the illegal alien coming in very sadly from Mexico … And you saw what happened to that incredible beautiful young woman.”

Other Republicans, including the Iowa governor, Kim Reynolds, decried a “broken” immigration system.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, expressed sorrow for Tibbetts’ family. But she denounced the Trump administration’s policy of separating families at the border, telling CNN such drastic measures were not the appropriate course of action.

“One of the things we have to remember is that we need an immigration system that is effective, that focuses on where real problems are,” Warren said.
“I think we need immigration laws that focus on people who pose a real threat, and I don’t think mamas and babies are the place where we should be spending our resources.”

Frank Sharry, the executive director of the pro-immigration group America’s Voice, said: “An individual committed this crime, not a community.”

“It’s not supposed to be the American way to judge people based on their race, creed and background. Unfortunately, it’s Trump’s way.” (The Guardian).

Costa Rica continues to condemn xenophobic acts against Nicaraguans

by the El Reportero’s wire services 

 

The Costa Rican Union of Chambers and Associations of the Private Business Sector ( UCCAEP) has condemned today the xenophobic acts, hate speeches and insults of a group of people from Costa Rica against Nicaraguan migrants.  

 

The business sector will never be in favor of acts of xenophobia and hatred against Nicaraguans or any other person of different nationalities,’ said Gonzalo Delgado, president of UCCAEP, to the press. 

 

Some 500 xenophobic demonstrators, members of sports associations and neo-Nazi and anarchist groups, broke into La Merced Park – known as a meeting point for Nicaraguans – and other places in this capital with expressions against Nicaraguan migrants. 

 

The demonstration ended in clashes that left 44 detainees – 38 Costa Ricans and six Nicaraguans – and the seizure of eight Molotov cocktails and about 20 knives. 

 

Delgado said such events are detrimental to the human dignity of many Central American brothers and sisters and other nations who have had to leave their countries due to various internal situations. 

 

He recalled that his organization has reiterated that the issue of greater and better immigration control is about security, not only for Costa Ricans, but also for all migrants. 

 

They (the migrants) also have rights to be respected, so they should be able to have an adequate registration at the time of their entry into the country, which would make it easier for them to circulate normally in Costa Rican territory, the president of UCCAEP said. 

 

Besides, he indicated, it is impossible not to recognize the importance of migrants in the history of Costa Rica, since they have contributed to the economic growth of the country, accounting for 12 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. 

 

In the same way that the migrant population contributes to the growth of the GDP, it also does so with social security, which benefits the country as a whole, but those who enter in non-formal conditions cannot contribute in this way, which creates damage to them and to the system, Delgado explained. 

 

Stressing that Costa Rica is characterized by solidarity when required, the President of UCCAEP believes that such demonstrations will not be repeated, and calls for and incitement to violence and hatred against people of other nationalities will be wiped out from the country. 

 

 

Panama could become an oil producing country 

 

The likelihood of Panama becoming a petroleum producing country made headlines again, stimulated by the discovery of oil fields in Colombia, near the common border, issue to be assessed at an international convention next October.  

 

‘According to the Secretary of Energy (SEP), there are studies being carried out on oil exploration, after Ecopetrol of Colombia found three fields near our border with Colombia, what made us think that Panama could share such fields’, business woman Leonor Gomez told Prensa Latina. 

 

‘I wish we can find something similar, as those three fields representing over 25 billion dollars for Colombia’, said Gomez who heads an initiative by sponsoring companies of the bid to offer Panama as venue of a world conference on the topic. 

 

The first geological study in the last 30 years found traces of hydrocarbons in the Caribbean Sea of Panama, in a zone connected with three natural gas wells in Colombia, the SEP confirmed last January, after prospecting 9,000 square kilometers at 40,000 meters deep.  

Benefit for Meals on Wheels San Francisco, and AIDS Legal Referral Pane

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff 

 

 

HELP IS ON THE WAY 24 – Concert and Gala, celebrating music, legends & icons 

 

The concert benefits HIV/AIDS and hunger programs. It’s an elegant evening of wonderful music, delicious food and beverages tastings and, most of all, fun.  

 

“Help is on the Way” is Northern California’s largest annual benefit Leanne Borghesi, Eileen Bourgade, Carole Cook, Davis Gaines, Debby Holiday, Eric Krop, Kimberley Locke, Valarie Pettiford,
Jai Rodriguez, Paula West, Top Shelf Classics, Eric Rosenberg & Yelena Vayn And Mary Wilson. 

 

The 24th Annual Gala - Northern CA’s Largest Annual, Star-studded Concert & Gala, which start at 5 p.m. with the VIP Gala Reception and a silent auction, at 6 p.m. the Gala Reception, and at 7:30 – 9:45 p.m. main performance. 

 

On Sun., Aug. 19, 2018, AT THE Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave. in SF. 

 

 

You’re invited… Water 2.0: Developing tomorrow’s leaders 

 

California Water Service is opening its doors to San Jose Unified School District high school students for an exclusive look at the evolving water industry. Students interested in engineering, water quality, chemistry, environmental affairs, cybersecurity, and sustainability will learn how they can make their mark on the future of water. Join us and meet today’s water professionals and tomorrow’s leaders. 

 

Monday, August 20, 2018 • 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Cal Water Campus, 1720 North First St., San Jose, 

 

 

Legendary Brazilian musician Sergio Mendez back to life 

 

Sergio Mendes, producer, composer, keyboardist and vocalist, Sérgio Mendes is one of the most internationally successful Brazilian artists of all time. His hit single, “Mas Que Nada,” is the first Portuguese language song to ever hit Billboard’s U.S. Pop chart and Mendes’ signature mix of bossa nova and samba and distinctive pop instrumentation have ultimately come to define Brazilian music. 

 

With a career spanning five decades, his enduring influence on the music industry continues to evolve. A three-time Grammy® Award winner, with three additional Grammy nominations, he has recorded more than 35 albums, with numerous gold and platinum albums among them. In 2012, following year, Mendes received an Oscar® nomination for Best Original Song for “Real in Rio” from the animated film Rio.  

 

On Saturday Sept. 8. Doors open at 7 p.m., show at 7:30 pm  

 

The Adrian Areas Latin Jazz Ensemble will be performing live 

 

This is going to be a Fantastic event full of Good Music Good Food and Beverages and Good Vibrations. Music, Family, Community and Latin Jazz At its Best with The Adrian Areas Latin Jazz Ensemble 2018 line up.  

 

It’s a Potluck Food & Beverages will be Available. 

 

At the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center in Berkeley. On Saturday Sept. 8, 2018. Doors 6 p.m.. Show 7 p.m.-10 p.m. All Ages welcome. $15-$25 Donation fort the arts/musicians. 

 

 

La Patronal, Free Concert 

 

Hailing from the Peruvian capital of Lima, La Patronal is a singular brass band rooted in the tradition of fiestas populares (or town fairs) common in rural villages across Latin America. Direct descendants of rural musicians from Peru, the members of La Patronal combine their first-hand knowledge of folk culture with their formal music studies to celebrate their heritage.  

 

With contagious percussion, vibrant brass and winds, and the vivid visual aspects of fiestas populares, including masks and traditional dance, La Patronal’s lively performances encourage, nay demand, audience participation and dancing.  

 

PRE-CONCERT DANCE WORKSHOP. Starting at noon, an interactive dance workshop explores different dances of Peru: cumbia, marinera, morenada and toril. The workshop invites participants to learn basic movements and learn differences between the genres, and to learn the history the dances are rooted in. 

 

On Aug 30, at 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m., at Esplanade, Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission St. between 3rd & 4th Sts., San Francisco. 

 

Chile honors Lucho Gatica for his 90 years old

por los  servicios de noticias de El  Reportero 

 

Luis Enrique Gatica Silva acaba de cumplir 90 años y ese nombre dice poco, los amantes del bolero y la balada tienen este cantante chileno conocido como Lucho Gatica entre los mejores.  

 

“Mi padre es amado en Cuba, España, Brasil, México y en muchos otros países, pero por supuesto este es el otro mexicano y especial para él”, dijo su hija mexicana Juanita Gatica Cortés. 

 

Todo esto en ocasión de un homenaje al ganador del Latin Grammy Award for Excellence en 2007 en su Rancagua natal, en el centro de Chile, donde se inauguró una estatua de bronce en el Teatro Regional con su figura y la de su hermano, Arturo. 

 

Su Último disco,  Historia  de la ONU  Amor  ( Historia de un amor ), se Remonta un 2013. Se Hizo dúos con nada Menos Que el cantante italiana Laura Pausini, cantante portuguesa-canadiense Nelly Furtado y cantante y compositora canadiense Michael burbuja, Entre Otros . 

 

Pero Mucho Antes, Lucho Gatica se convirtio en Esencial para los románticos de los años 1950 y 1960 con Éxitos Como  Piel Canela  (Piel Canela),  Contigo  en la  distancia  ( Contigo en la distancia ),  Bésame  Mucho  ( Mucho bésame ),  El  reloj  ( El Reloj), No me  Platiques Más  (No me Hables  Más ), y La Canción Chilena yo vendo UNOS Ojos Negros  (Ojos oscuros para la venta).         

 

En enero de 2008, la cantante chilena recibió la estrella 2354a en el Paseo de la Fama de Hollywood. 

 

 

EE. UU .: Música y personalidad de Elvis Presley 

 

Después de 41 años de la muerte del Rey del Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, sus seguidores recuerdan su música y personalidad como una de las más influyentes en la historia de la música popular en el siglo XX.  

Considerada una de las grandes leyendas de la música contemporánea, Elvis Presley cantó por primera vez en público en 1945, y algún tiempo después recibió su primera guitarra, que le inspiró los peculiares movimientos pélvicos que realizó en sus actuaciones y una pasión locamente melódica. que no había sido experimentado antes. Con estos dos elementos, Presley conquistó el mundo. 

 

 

En 1948, la familia de Presley se mudó a Memphis, una ciudad situada en el suroeste del estado de Tennenssee, donde la gente nunca imaginó que la música del niño daría lugar a una revolución musical y cinematográfica durante décadas sucesivas. 

 

 

Con la misión de condensar todo el trabajo del intérprete en cinco clásicos, sus fanáticos y el mundo del rock and roll en particular recuerdan este jueves al llamado rey del género (1935-1977) y conmemoran el 41 aniversario de su muerte. . 

 

 

Temas como  My happiness ‘ (1953),  That’s all right (1954 ), Es ahora o nunca  (1960) y  Suspicious minds  (1969) se posicionan hoy en las redes sociales como un homenaje bien merecido a Presley. 

 

 

Reina del alma Aretha Franklin muere a los 76 años 

 

Aretha Franklin, la indiscutible ” Reina del Alma ” que cantó con estilo inigualable en clásicos como Think, ‘I Say a Little Prayer’ ‘y su canción’ ‘Respect’ ‘, y se mantuvo como un icono en todo el mundo, ha muerto a los 76 años de cáncer de páncreas.  

 

Murió el jueves por la mañana en su casa en Detroit, “uno de los momentos más oscuros de nuestras vidas”, dijo su familia en un comunicado. 

 

“Hemos sido profundamente conmovidos por la increíble efusión de amor y apoyo que hemos recibido de amigos cercanos, seguidores y fanáticos de todo el mundo”, dijo la familia, y agregó que los arreglos para el funeral se anunciarán en los próximos días. 

 

Franklin, que había luchado contra problemas de salud no divulgados en los últimos años, había anunciado su retiro de una gira el año pasado. 

 

Una cantante profesional y consumada pianista de finales de la adolescencia, una superestrella de alrededor de 20 años, Franklin ya había resuelto cualquier discusión sobre quién era la mejor vocalista popular de su época. 

 

Sus dones, naturales y adquiridos, eran una mezzo-soprano de varias octavas, pasión y entrenamiento evangélicos dignos de la hija de un predicador, un gusto sofisticado y excéntrico, y el coraje de canalizar el dolor privado hacia la canción liberadora. 

Powerful Mexican federal delegates to ensure state funding goes where it’s intended

El dinero irá directamente a la gente en lugar de a los bolsillos de los gobernadores  

 

 

por  Mexico News Daily 

 

 

Reemplazarán a una gran cantidad de funcionarios que cada secretaría federal emplea actualmente para distribuir fondos del gobierno y servir de enlace con las autoridades estatales. 

 

Los delegados serán coordinados por Gabriel García Hernández, un senador electo del partido Morena y confidente político durante mucho tiempo de López Obrador. 

 

Luego de reunirse con el presidente electo el sábado, algunos de los delegados designados le dijeron al periódico  Reforma  que el objetivo del plan es evitar que los fondos públicos ingresen en “los bolsillos de los gobernadores”. 

 

Varios gobernadores estatales han sido acusados ​​de malversación y otras prácticas corruptas en los últimos años, como Javier Duarte en Veracruz, César Duarte en Chihuahua y Roberto Borge en Quintana Roo. 

 

Los delegados tendrán una línea directa de comunicación con López Obrador y coordinarán con las secretarías del gobierno federal. 

 

“What the president asked for is that we hold meetings with the people so that the resources can be used in a participatory budget scheme in which no [state] deputy, mayor or governor can intervene to try to install a construction company [of their choice], determine the project and receive a kickback,” one of the proposed delegates said. 

 

Olga Sánchez Cordero, tapped by the president-elect to be secretary of the interior, said the delegates will manage resources that the federal government, through departments such as the Secretariat of Social Development (Sedesol), has always managed. 

 

However, she explained that the difference will be that “the resources will flow down through a single delegate.” 

 

The prospective officials have been instructed to avoid allowing state government executives to touch the money. 

 

“All the funds for federal projects are not going to be handed over to the states because they usually keep 10 percent or 20 percent of the money . . .” another prospective delegate told Reforma. 

 

“…We’re not plenipotentiary but the resources are going to go directly to the people,” an unidentified member of the future government said. 

 

López Obrador also directed the future delegates to coordinate with the military and other federal security forces and to review registries containing the names of the beneficiaries of different federal programs. 

 

Social program audits have previously found that federal money has been squandered because it went were it shouldn’t have gone, such as dead people. 

 

The Federal Auditor’s Office (ASF) found that Sedesol made support payments to more than 17,000 deceased people in 2016, costing taxpayers almost 66 million pesos, while the federal Agricultural Secretariat (Sagarpa) paid out millions of pesos in farm subsidies the same year to ineligible beneficiaries, including people who had died and civil servants. 

 

López Obrador, who won the July 1 presidential election in a landslide, campaigned heavily on the promise that he would stamp out endemic government corruption. 

 

The incoming government has also announced that it will implement a centralized purchasing system to avoid corruption, while there are also plans to slash the wages of politicians and government officials. 

 

López Obrador and his cabinet will be sworn in on Dec. 1. 

Source: Reforma (sp) 

 

 

In other news in Mexico: 

 

 

Judge orders investigators reopen case of Tlatlaya massacre 

 

Attorney General’s investigation was neither adequate nor effective  

 

A federal judge has ordered that the Attorney General’s office (PGR) reopen the case of the 2014 Tlatlaya massacre, ruling that the original investigation lacked due diligence. 

 

According to a statement issued by the human rights advocacy group Centro Prodh, Judge Erik Zabalgoitia Novales ruled on May 25 that the investigation carried out by PGR was not exhaustive, adequate or effective, and ordered a series of actions to clarify the case and establish responsibilities. 

 

It remains unclear why it took nearly three months for the order to be made public. 

 

There was evidence from the start of a cover-up in the June 2014 shooting in which soldiers gunned down 22 civilians in a warehouse in the municipality of Tlatlaya, México state. It was initially described as a clash with a group of armed criminals who allegedly opened fire on an army patrol. 

 

The details of what actually happened began to surface after the Associated Press found discrepancies at the crime scene. A witness later confirmed a reporter’s suspicion that the scene had been altered by army personnel. 

 

The National Human rights Commission (CNDH) later determined that between 12 and 15 of the victims did not die in a gunfight, as officials had stated, but were arbitrarily executed. 

 

“Debido a esta investigación defectuosa, hasta la fecha no hay una sola persona que haya sido responsabilizada, ya que [la PGR] no presentó suficiente evidencia para individualizar individualmente a los responsables”, dijo el documento emitido por el Centro Prodh. 

 

“Esta falta de debida diligencia es una de las muchas formas adoptadas por el encubrimiento inaceptable de graves violaciones de derechos humanos en México”, concluyó la declaración. 

 

Fuente:  Reforma  ( sp ) .  

What was the life of this guest worker worth?

por David Bacon 

 

Mientras que las agencias del estado de Washington reducen el salario de los trabajadores del campo y encuentran a los empleadores sin fallas por una muerte en el campo, Trump y los republicanos del Congreso respaldan las propuestas para convertir el trabajo agrícola en servidumbre permanente contratada. 

 

El domingo 5 de agosto, un grupo de 200 trabajadores agrícolas y simpatizantes comenzaron a caminar al amanecer a lo largo del hombro de Benson Road, en dirección norte desde Lynden, Washington, hacia Canadá. Cuando llegaron a O Road, los manifestantes giraron a la derecha para caminar a lo largo de la frontera. A diferencia de la frontera con México, con sus muros, reflectores y patrullas, el límite aquí no es una línea en absoluto: simplemente un camino a cada lado de una medianamente estrangulada. 

 

La procesión, cantando y sosteniendo pancartas, pasó una sucesión de campos de arándanos durante las siguientes 14 millas, y finalmente alcanzó el cruce fronterizo oficial en Sumas. Haciendo una pausa para una protesta frente al centro de detención de inmigrantes locales, continuó hasta que alcanzó su objetivo una milla más allá: la extensión de 1,500 acres de Sarbanand Farms. Allí, frente a las instalaciones de empaque y depósito del rancho, los participantes organizaron un tribunal. 

 

“Estamos aquí para asignar la responsabilidad por la muerte de Honesto Silva”, anunció Rosalinda Guillen, directora de Community2Community, uno de los principales organizadores de la marcha. Un año antes de la marcha, Silva, un trabajador invitado H-2A traído de México para cosechar los arándanos de la granja, colapsó y luego murió. 

 

Al pasar por los campos, uno de los compañeros de trabajo de Silva, Raymond Escobedo (su nombre ha sido cambiado para proteger su identidad), recuerda el día de su muerte. 

 

“Pude ver que no se sentía bien, y me pidió que dejara el trabajo. No le dieron permiso, pero de todos modos regresó al cuartel para descansar. Luego, el supervisor fue y lo sacó y lo obligó a volver a su trabajo. trabajo. Honesto continuó sintiéndose mal, y finalmente tuvo que pagarle a alguien para que lo llevara a la clínica. Cuando llegó a la clínica se sentía aún peor, y lo llevaron al hospital en Seattle. Y así murió “. 

 

Sarbanand negó toda responsabilidad por la muerte de Silva, y afirmó que era un gerente que había llamado a una ambulancia para llevarlo a la clínica local. 

 

Sin embargo, la muerte de Silva se sumó a la creciente ira entre los trabajadores por sus condiciones de vida y trabajo.  

 

“Desde el momento en que llegamos de México a California, tuvimos quejas”, dice Escobedo. “Nunca había suficiente para comer y, a menudo, la comida era mala. Parte de la comida en realidad se desechaba. Aun así, sacaron dinero de nuestros cheques para sacarla. También sacaron dinero para atención médica, pero nunca obtuvimos El lugar donde nos tenían que quedar era inseguro y hubo robos. Algunos trabajadores en California protestaron y la compañía los envió de regreso a México “. 

 

Sarbanand Farms pertenece a Munger Brothers, LLC, una compañía familiar con sede en Delano, California. Desde 2006, la compañía ha traído más de 600 trabajadores anualmente de México bajo el programa de visa H-2A, para cosechar 3.000 acres de arándanos en California y Washington. Munger se autodenomina el mayor productor de arándanos del mundo y es la fuerza motriz detrás de la cooperativa de productores que comercializa bajo la etiqueta Naturipe. El año pasado, trajo a Silva y los otros trabajadores de H-2A al otro lado de la frontera. Primero los llevó a Delano, y una vez que terminaron de cosechar arándanos allí, los transfirió a Sarbanand Farms en Washington. 

 

“We thought that when we got to Sumas, things would get better,” Escobedo recalls. “But it was the same. There still wasn’t enough to eat, and a lot of pressure on us to work faster, especially when we were working by the hour. They wouldn’t let us work on the piece rate [which would have paid more]. But what really pushed us to act was what happened to Honesto, when he got sick and there was no help for him.” 

 

Escobedo’s account is at odds with a statement Sarbanand Farms gave to Univision following Silva’s death. In it, the company claimed “it is always our goal to provide [the workers] with the best working and living conditions.” It called the barracks “state of the art facilities” and described the food as “catered meals at low cost.” Silva himself “received the best medical care and attention possible as soon as his distress came to our attention. Our management team responded immediately.” 

 

Lynne Dodson, secretary treasurer of the Washington State Labor Council, was one of the marchers earlier this month. As upset as she was to hear about Silva’s death, she says, she was even more outraged by what happened next. When they heard Silva had been taken to the hospital, 70 of his fellow H-2A workers refused to go into the fields, and instead demanded to talk with the company about the conditions. They were then fired. Because the H-2A regulations require workers to leave the country if they are terminated, firing them effectively meant deporting them. 

 

“Workers may not leave assigned areas without permission of the employer or person in charge, and insubordination is cause for dismissal,” the Sarbanand statement says. “H-2A regulations do not otherwise allow for workers engaging in such concerted activity.” 

 

Debido a la longitud de esta historia interesante y triste y la falta de espacio, no pudimos proporcionarle el artículo completo. Para leer el resto de la historia, visite: (https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2018/08/what-was-life-of-this-guest-worker-worth.html) 

A spirit fable: the moon, the mother, and the dog

por Jon Rappoport 

 

Hace unos días, me desperté con el pensamiento muy claro, como si hubiera sido plantado en mi cabeza, que todo lo que experimento es producto de mi propia imaginación. 

Esto, lo he aprendido desde entonces, es una enseñanza de la antigua Hermetic School of Philosophy. 

En cualquier caso, decidí llevar a cabo un experimento. Imaginé una segunda luna flotando sobre la Tierra, para ver si podía hacerlo tan real para mí, realmente la vería claramente, en noches consecutivas. 

Por supuesto, como saben, anoche una segunda luna apareció en el cielo. Gente de todo el mundo lo vio. Te lo aseguro, este no era mi intento. Simplemente estaba tratando de aclarar un problema para mí. 

Consideré hacer una confesión a las autoridades, pero ¿por qué molestarse cuando me considerarían un chiflado? Se me ocurrió que podía anunciar que había hecho la luna nueva y que, en un momento determinado, la habría deshecho. Pero supongamos que he fallado? De todos modos, asegurar la atención de un gran número de personas, cuando eres desconocido, es bastante difícil, no importa cuál sea tu tema. (No me gusta correr desnudo a la calle y lanzar un discurso.) 

Esta mañana, mientras me acercaba a la habitación de mi madre en el asilo para mi visita semanal, decidí que la iba a experimentar como si se hubiera recuperado de su enfermedad. Cuando entré en la habitación, estaba de pie junto a la ventana cantando una de las viejas canciones de mi infancia. Cuando se volvió hacia mí, tenía los ojos claros y estaba sonriendo. Ella dijo: “Estoy lista para ir a casa”. 

¿Me estaba engañando a mí mismo? ¿Estaba ella bajo mi propia proyección? Llamé a una enfermera. Entró en la habitación y miró a mi madre, que se suponía que estaba en una silla de ruedas. La enfermera comenzó a gritar y se detuvo. Mi madre no se había quedado sola en diez años. 

Un médico me dijo que tendría que someterse a una serie de pruebas. Aproveché la oportunidad para volver a mi apartamento y pensar en todo. 

Si tengo poderes formidables, debería considerar opciones. ¿No es así? ¿Tomarías, por ejemplo, un curso atrevido y pondrías fin a la guerra y la enfermedad? Si puedo lograr tal hazaña, creo que lo haría. Maldición las consecuencias. Dejaría a otros para resolverlos. 

Estoy extrañamente calmado. Es como si hubiera estado apuntando hacia este momento toda mi vida. 

Ya no siento que tengo necesidades. De alguna manera, esas cadenas han sido eliminadas. 

Érase una vez, estaba caminando en terreno incierto. Pero no ahora. 

Otros seguramente dirán que he llegado demasiado alto, y estoy a punto de caer. Busco una nota de advertencia en mi mente, pero no la encuentro. Mi mente es silenciosa. No tiene ningún consejo para mí. 

Esta nueva situación parece bastante natural. 

An hour ago, I tried a third experiment. My beloved terrier, Jack, who died after a long illness when I was in school, is now back lying on my couch. He’s looking at me. I go over and pet him and he licks my hand. He yawns, stretches out his front legs, jumps off the couch and trots across the living room to a small table, where I’ve kept a framed photo of us sitting in a field near my school. He looks up at the photo and barks. He turns to me and sits. 

Why wouldn’t things be this way? Why would they be any other way? 

I’m not looking for a response from you, dear reader. Suppose you, too, have these powers? I have the clear sense you would use them for good. 

Suppose what I’m reporting here is the superior reality, and the end of things we don’t want to end is the illusion? 

Perhaps I should have started with a smaller example of manifestation, to make it easier for you—but that is not the way it happened to me. That is not the way I chose to change What Is. 

What Is, is a brief flicker across a wide ocean. The ocean is all possibility. That’s what I see now. 

Am I offending your sense of propriety? If so, I apologize. This is not my intent. 

I see us as errant knights. Errant in the sense that we are departing from a prescribed course. We cross a threshold, and then the fabric of events alters. The “news” is different. Solid becomes liquid, liquid becomes vapor, and vapor becomes open space. The space is waiting for us to do something. The space has no plan. It is calm. The challenges we assumed were there are missing. Those challenges were the last meal we consumed on the last day of old time. Now we walk and look up at the night sky. We are satiated and satisfied. Now we can do something different. 

We really do not need perfumed nostalgia. Looking to the future, we feel an anticipation of dimensions. This more than supplants the past. 

You manifest what you will, and so will I, and in the process, you and I will use our powers for good. 

That is a very pleasant, even ecstatic prospect to contemplate. 

A few weeks ago, I had my first inkling of the change, when I was invited to speak at the funeral service of a cousin. As I stood there in the church looking out at the mourners, I wondered what they would do if, out of the blue, James strolled in the door and danced up the aisle. 

I couldn’t help wondering how the family and friends would feel if they saw him in that church, in the flesh. A few of them, I was sure, injected with shocks of lightning, interrupted from their proper grieving, would express outrage. How dare James return! 

There is a way events are programmed to proceed, and people prepare their responses. They are tuned like instruments. 

Given the choice, would you prefer to surrender to the occasion of a fallen friend, or suddenly find him back in your midst? 

Supongamos que el amigo, de alguna forma, está siempre contigo? ¿Es eso muy difícil de creer? 

Puedo decirte esto. Estaba menos vivo cuando comencé a escribir estas palabras que ahora. 

(Jon  Rappoport  es el autor de tres colecciones explosivas The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, y Power Outside The Matrix). 

Victory to protect immigrant children abused or neglected in home country

By the El Reportero’s wire services 

 

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Thursday helped secure a victory in the California Supreme Court in Bianka M. v. Superior Court.  The lawsuit involved the procedures that children who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected by a parent must go through to become eligible to apply for “Special Immigrant Juvenile” visas.  

This visa enables the children to apply for permanent residency in the United States. Today’s ruling removes a significant hurdle for many of those seeking to obtain that status. 

In April 2017, the Attorney General filed an amicus brief in the California Supreme Court in Bianka M., arguing that minors who are living with one parent in the United States should be allowed to seek an order in state family court necessary to obtain “Special Immigrant Juvenile” status without having to join the absent parent—who allegedly abused, abandoned, or neglected them—as a party to the proceeding. In June 2018, Attorney General Becerra’s team participated in oral arguments as a friend-of-the-court in this case. 

 

Daniel Ortega adepts put a price on the head of a journalist from Masaya 

NICARAGUA – PEN International denounced that the journalist Yilber Ideáquez, correspondent of Radio Corporación in Masaya, is being victim of digital harassment, where a “reward” of 5 thousand dollars is offered to whoever gives his whereabouts. 

“We stand in solidarity and urge the Government of Nicaragua to cease immediately the persecution of journalists and the media,” says the organization. 

 

Mexican pork purchases from the U.S. increase despite tariffs 

U.S. pork imports grew in spite of the tariffs imposed by the Mexican government on Washington”s decided levies on steel and aluminum produced in the United States.  

The Agricultural Market Advisory Group (GCMA) reported that the northern country’s pork purchases were maintained and even increased by 8.1 percent in July, compared to those reported in the same month in 2017. 

 

This is despite the fact that the Mexican government first imposed a 10 percent tariff on U.S. pork in June, and raised it to 20 in July, as part of import duties on various U.S. products. 

 

 

Bill to ban junk insurance in California approved by the Assembly 

 

Senate Bill 910, authored by Senator Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina), passed on Thursday 16 the Assembly Floor with bipartisan support. SB 910 will ban junk insurance, also known as “short-term” plans, in California. 

 

Earlier this month, the Trump Administration’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued final regulations to extend “short-term” plans from three months to up to three years. These short-term plans do not have to cover essential health benefits, like cancer treatment, substance use treatment, or maternity care. Additionally, these plans can deny coverage altogether for those with pre-existing conditions.  

 

 

Illinois manufacturer to lay off 153 workers, move to Mexico 

 

A storage safe manufacturer is closing two Chicago-area factories and moving operations to Mexico to counteract the effects of metal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration.  

 

The Chicago Tribune reports Stack-on Products will lay off about 153 people at its Wauconda and McHenry plants when they close Oct. 12. 

 

Stack-On makes products ranging from tool-boxes to gun vaults. Fletcher says the company has a plant in China and another in Mexico, and its only U.S. factories were the two in the Chicago area. 

 

 

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