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Nearly 6,000 people died in Puerto Rico — 70 times official count

A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that nearly 6,000 people died in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

 

by Jessica Corbett

 

A study published Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that nearly 6,000 people died in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María, with a survey indicating the mortality rate is likely more than 70 times the highly contested official death toll of 64.

Researchers with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center surveyed thousands of survivors and initially estimated that at least 4,645 people died between when the storm struck the U.S. territory on September 20, 2017 and the end of the year.

However, considering that they could not survey people who lived alone and died due to the hurricane, researchers adjusted the estimate to 5,740. Citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the study says deaths can be attributed to the storm “if they are caused by forces related to the event, such as flying debris, or if they are caused by unsafe or unhealthy conditions resulting in injury, illness, or loss of necessary medical services.”

The findings bolster a series of damning independent reports that have disputed the official death toll. Pressure from those reports pushed Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló to recruit researchers from George Washington University to review the government’s process of accessing deaths tied to the hurricane and produce an analysis that is expected to be released in the coming weeks.

Pointing to that government-funded analysis, the Harvard study notes that its findings “will serve as an important independent comparison to official statistics from death-registry data, which are currently being reevaluated, and underscore the inattention of the U.S. government to the frail infrastructure of Puerto Rico.”

The hurricane decimated the island’s infrastructure, particularly its debt-riddenelectrical system. According to the National Hurricane Center (pdf), Maria caused an estimated $90 billion in damage, making it the third-costliest tropical storm since 1900, behind Katrina in 2005 and Harvey, which struck the Southern United States last year.

 

Two huge vaccine scandals the press is ignoring

by Jon Rappoport

Some lies are so big, many people can’t accept the fact that they’re lies. Their minds are boggled. “No,” they say, “that couldn’t be.” But yes, that could be, and is.

Two giant vaccine scandals are in progress at the moment.

The mainstream press is mentioning them, here and there, but without any intent to rise alarms, dig in, investigate, and get down to the core of the problem.
So I’ll get to the core.

The first scandal revolves around the flu vaccine for the current year. The CDC and other “experts” have admitted the vaccine has a very low effectiveness rate.
Why is it a dud?

Because the vaccine is produced using chicken eggs, and in that medium, the flu virus—which is intentionally placed in the eggs—mutates. Therefore, it isn’t the same virus which is causing flu this year. Therefore, no protection against the flu.

FiercePharma reports: “Based on data from Australia, which already had its flu season, scientists warn that this season’s flu shot might be only 10% effective. And the reason for such a low level of protection might lie in the method by which the majority of flu vaccines are made: in eggs.”

Ten percent effectiveness. Now that’s ridiculous. And it’s assuming you accept the whole model of how vaccines work—that they actually do protect (safely) against disease, rather than, at best, repressing the visible symptoms of the disease.

Amidst their spotty coverage of this scandal, here is what the press is failing to mention: the problem with the flu vaccine isn’t just a 2017-2018 flaw.

It would be the same problem ever since chicken eggs have been used to manufacture the vaccine.

Are you ready?

Healthline.com: “The majority of flu vaccines are grown in chicken eggs, a method of vaccine development that’s been used for 70 years.”
Hello? Anyone home?

Seventy years. The same problem.

The same “low effectiveness” problem.

That’s a page-one story with a giant headline. That’s the lead item on the nightly news. That’s a pounding investigative series about the lunatic promotion of a massively ineffective—but universally promoted—vaccine going back decades and decades.

But it isn’t a giant headline. It isn’t an investigation. It’s a here-today-gone-tomorrow piece. That’s all.

The second scandal keeps unfolding in the Philippines, where drug giant Sanofi’s Dengvaxia, given to prevent Dengue Fever, is facing enormous pushback from government officials, who stopped the national vaccination campaign, after thousands of children already received the shot.

The issue? Safety.

FiercePharma: “The Philippines stopped vaccinations shortly after the company warned that Dengvaxia can cause more serious infections in those who previously hadn’t had exposure to the virus. The country also kicked off a probe and plans legal action, according to health secretary Francisco Duque.”

Did you get that? The company (Sanofi) itself warned that vaccine might not be safe.

FiercePharma: “…the [Philippine] Department of Health didn’t heed warnings from an advisory group of doctors and pharmacologists, who concluded early last year that the vaccine’s safety and efficacy were unproven.”

My, my.

But let’s dig even deeper. Sanofi saying is saying the vaccine might be dangerous for those who haven’t been exposed to the Dengue virus before getting the shot.

What on Earth does that mean?

It means a child who had naturally come in contact with the virus would have developed his own antibodies to it. And later, those antibodies would protect him against the Dengue virus IN THE VACCINE. Otherwise, the virus in the vaccine could give him a case of Dengue or cause some other form of damage.

This is saying, “If a child is ALREADY immune to Dengue Fever, because his immune system has successfully dealt with the virus, then the vaccine won’t damage him.”

And THAT is saying, “If the child has naturally developed an immunity to Dengue, then the vaccine, WHICH HE DOESN’T NEED, won’t harm him.”

Of course, the press isn’t getting the picture. If any reporters are seeing the light, they’re keeping their mouths shut. The scandal is too big and too crazy.

Between the lines, a vaccine company is admitting their vaccine is only safe for children who don’t need it.

A tree just fell in the forest. Who heard it?

(Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, And Power Outside The Matrix).

San Francisco Carnival Grand Parade

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Watch a brilliant procession of contingents, most of which will feature beautifully adorned floats depicting rich multicultural themes and featuring performers who engage and entertain the crowds. Brazilian-style “escola” samba schools with up to 300 members dance through the streets in fantastic feathered headdresses or sweeping Bahia skirts, while Caribbean contingents perform the music and dance of the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad.

Other parade groups include Mexican Aztec performers, traditional African drummers, Polynesian dancers, Japanese drummers, giant puppets and folkloric groups representing Guatemala, Honduras and Bolivia.

Grand Parade kicks–off at the corner of 24th and Bryant Streets. On May 27 at 9:30 a.m.

Mission Branch Library renovation
Community meetings kick-off branch make-over

San Francisco Public Library and San Francisco Public Works are beginning the planning process to renovate the Mission Branch Library, which was last updated more than 20 years ago. This upgrade provides an opportunity to bring this historic branch into the 21st century.

 The public is invited to attend community meetings to meet the architects and share ideas for restoring and improving their neighborhood branch.

 Saturday, May 19, 1 p.m., Mission Branch Library, 300 Bartlett St.

 Wednesday, May 23, 6 p.m., Mission Branch Library, 300 Bartlett St.

 The Mayor’s proposed budget includes $19.8 million to fund the planning, design and construction of the Mission Branch Library renovation. The branch originally opened in 1915, one of seven Carnegie funded branches in San Francisco.

San Francisco Job Fair and career fair information for career seekers

The San Francisco Job Fair and Career Fair is on Thursday, May 31, 2018 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis for career seekers and candidates. Come meet with hiring managers from local, national, and Fortune 500 companies for free at our San Francisco Job Fair.

Thursday, May 31, 2018, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at San Francisco Marriott Marquis, 780 Mission Street, San Francisco.

Brighten up your Tuesdays with live latin music

Making Their Cha Cha Cha Debut!

The Cuband Quartet, an Alternative & Fusion Cuban music project, formed in 2015 by a group of Bay Area Cuban musicians. Rumba, Latin Jazz, Pop, Timba, Reggae, Son and Blues are among the musical influences the band displays. Backed up by the flavor of original compositions, instrumentalist performances, and a strong rhythm section. Featuring Ed Corzo, piano; Rafael Matos, sax; Yoel Mullen, voice and percussion; Carlos Ramírez, Voice and Bass.

Tuesday, May 22, 8pm to 10 p.m. 2327 Mission Street at 19th, San Francisco. Free Admission.
Cha Cha Cha salutes the 40th Anniversary of Carnaval on Sunday, May 27th.

Mexicans screen four films at Cannes

An opportunity for young filmmakers to screen their first or second feature or short film

by the El Reportero’s news services

Four short films from Mexico screened today as part of the Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week thanks to a partnership with the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM).

The films featured were Lo que no se dice bajo el sol (Under the Sun) directed by Eduardo Esquivel; Vuelve a mí (Back to Me) by Daniel Nájera; Aguas tranquilas, aguas profundas (In Deep Water) by Miguel Labastida; and the documentary Tierra de brujas, mar de sirenas (Land of witches, sea of mermaids) directed by Delia Luna Couturier.

The origin of the alliance between Cannes and Morelia goes back to 2003 when FICM organizers agreed to show Cannes Critics’ Week films during the annual film festival in the Michoacán state capital.

Two years later, Cannes organizers reciprocated by including Mexican films that had previously premiered in Morelia.

“We’re very well represented. It gives me great pleasure that it’s young people who are benefiting from this,” FICM director Daniela Michel told the news agency EFE.

The Cannes Critics’ Week, a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, was founded in 1962 to allow selected young filmmakers to screen their first or second feature or short film.

In previous editions, well-known Mexican directors Guillermo del Toro — who this year won the best picture and best director Oscars for The Shape of Water — and Alejandro González Iñárritu have shown their early work.

Michel said the Mexican shorts featured in this year’s selection are reflective of the good times that Mexican cinema is currently experiencing.

In his film Lo que no se dice bajo el sol, 25-year-old Guadalajara native Esquivel told EFE that he wanted to explore “the fractures that remain invisible in family relationships.” He described the film’s inclusion in the event as an “honor.”

Aguas tranquilas, aguas profundas, directed by 26-year-old Labastida, explores the fine line between sanctity and mental illness and the collision between religion and psychiatry in rural areas of Mexico.

Couturier’s documentary delves into the stories about legendary beings and characters who some people believe inhabit the canals of Xochimilco in southern Mexico City, while in Vuelve a mí Nájera, 29, examines the loss of innocence of two siblings who move together to Chihuahua to work but end up being driven apart.

Nájera said that young Mexican filmmakers don’t shy away from examining themes such as corruption and violence that they are confronted with in Mexico but they do so with a new and different perspective.

“It’s important to talk about violence because we’re living through it,” the 29-year-old Couturier explained.

Cinema can be “a weapon for change and a way to discover ourselves, culturally and historically,” she said.

The grand prize at this year’s Critics’ Week was won by a Franco-Brazilian-Portuguese comedy drama called Diamantino.

Source: EFE (sp)

Latino Film Festival 2018
See Independent Films from Latino Artists

Join in on the fun at this year’s Latino Film Festival. This spicy and colorful event features unique works from up-and-coming and well-known filmmakers. All are from the US, Latin America, Spain, and Portugal.

This year’s festival is September 14 – 30 in San Francisco as well as other Bay Area Cities including San Jose, Oakland, and Berkeley.

The San Francisco movies will be at a variety of venues around the city, including the Brava Theater Center, Opera Plaza Cinema, and Galeria de la Raza. Other venues include the Mission Cultural Center For Latino Arts, the Red Poppy Art House, and the Producer’s Lot.

Turmeric is an ideal drug alternative for treating Type 2

by Isabelle Z.

If you’re diabetic, you’ve probably had it hammered into your head already that you need to eat a low-glycemic diet and exercise regularly, but there is one very powerful tool that can help you in this fight that doesn’t get nearly as much attention: turmeric.

This root, which comes from the same plant family as ginger, is actually one of the most thoroughly researched anti-diabetic plants, and a new review in the International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism adds to the growing body of evidence that its active polyphenol curcumin can make a huge difference in managing and even preventing the illness.

The review looked at a variety of studies in cells, animals, and humans, and they all reached the same conclusion in favor of turmeric for diabetes. The studies show it can reduce problems associated with the disease, such as insulin resistance and elevated blood sugar. It does this in a variety of ways, including by reducing the production of liver glucose and glycogen, suppressing inflammation caused by hyperglycemia, improving the function of pancreatic cells, improving beta cell function, and improving the oxidation and utilization of fatty acids.

The news is certainly good for those suffering from diabetes, which can be tricky to manage and can lead to life-threatening complications over time. However, it’s also very useful knowledge for those who do not suffer from diabetes. Its prevalence is rising, with 1.5 million Americans being diagnosed with it every year due largely to an unhealthy modern Western diet that barely resembles actual food provided by nature.

One study in particular showed just how effective turmeric can be at preventing those with pre-diabetes from going on to develop full-blown type 2 diabetes. That study, which was published in the journal Diabetes Care, found that taking 1500 mg of curcumin every day for nine months was 100 percent effective at ensuring prediabetics don’t develop type 2 diabetes; the placebo group, on the other hand, saw 16.4 percent of subjects developing the deadly illness.

Best of all, it accomplishes this without dangerous side effects for most people. Contrast this with the standard diabetes treatment, oral anti-diabetic medications. The most popular option, metformin, is full of side effects. It might lower your blood sugar, but it will raise your risk of death at the same time – hardly a trade-off that most people would be willing to make if they were informed of all the risks. Taking insulin isn’t much better, with one recent study finding it actually accelerates type 2 diabetes progression while also causing type 1 diabetes!

Turmeric, ginger both excellent diabetes fighters

It’s the anti-inflammatory properties of turmeric that make it so useful in addressing diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is caused by systemic inflammation, which then affects the function and secretion of insulin; the curcumin in turmeric can keep this at bay.

Turmeric’s cousin, ginger, has also been shown to help fight diabetes. Taking just 1600 milligrams per day – roughly ¼ teaspoon – was found in studies to improve people’s fasting glucose, triglycerides, insulin, inflammation markers, and total cholesterol, along with glycated hemoglobin, which measures the damage caused by sugar to red blood cells.

While turmeric has tremendous anti-diabetic value, it’s important to keep things in perspective. If you start eating turmeric every day, that doesn’t mean you can binge on brownies and ice cream indiscriminately. Instead, it should be consumed as part of an overall healthy lifestyle approach to preventing or managing diabetes.

Eliminating sugar from your diet is still essential because it’s so destructive to your health, and the benefits gained by regular exercise are simply too great to be ignored. What turmeric can do for some people, however, is take the place of diabetic drugs, working in tandem with smart diet choices and mind-body approaches to help people maintain optimal health.

See PreventDiabetes.news for more coverage of preventing type-2 diabetes.

Sources for this article include:

GreenMedInfo.com
NaturalPedia.com
WakingTimes.com
Diabetes.org
NaturalNews.com.

NAFTA deal unlikely this week, says economy minister

‘It is not easy, we don’t think we will have it by Thursday’

by Mexico News Daily

Reaching an updated NAFTA deal before Thursday’s deadline is looking unlikely, Economy Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo said today.

United States House Speaker Paul Ryan set the cut-off date last Wednesday amid some optimism that Mexico, the U.S. and Canada could soon reach an agreement in principle as a result of meetings attended last week by the chief trade representatives in Washington.

However, ultimately no new deal was forthcoming and talks this week also look set to fall short of reaching a definitive outcome, which would allow the U.S. Congress a chance to approve it before the end of the year.

“It is not easy, we don’t think we will have it by Thursday,” Guajardo told broadcaster Televisa.

“We will keep negotiating, and in the moment that we have a good negotiation, we can close the deal . . . independent of which Congress [the current or new one] that will vote on it,” he said.

The United States will hold midterm elections in November and a new Congress will first sit in January. Under the U.S. “fast track” trade negotiation law, there are lengthy notification periods before Congress could start considering a new NAFTA, precipitating the establishment of this Thursday’s deadline.

Mexico’s presidential election is also now less than seven weeks away, further complicating talks.

The lingering uncertainty over the future of the 24-year-old trade pact, coupled with the upcoming election, has placed pressure on the Mexican peso, Guajardo said.

The currency fell to its lowest level in more than a year yesterday and some analysts believe that it will continue to decline in the lead-up to the election, which according to opinion polls, Andrés Manuel López Obrador is likely to win.

The economy secretary, who said last month that there was an 80% chance that a new agreement would be struck in the first week of May, now believes that there are “different moments to close the negotiation.”

“It could be before the Mexican election on July 1, it could be just after,” he said.

A push to conclude a deal by the end of the week came yesterday in the form of a telephone conversation between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and United States President Donald Trump.

A report in Canadian media said Trudeau make a direct appeal to Trump to keep momentum alive at the negotiating table.

Guajardo’s successor, should López Obrador become Mexico’s next president, said last month that an incoming AMLO administration would be willing to accept a new NAFTA deal that was struck before July 1.

However, if that doesn’t happen, Graciela Márquez said, it would be preferable to complete the negotiations after the new president is sworn in in December.

In the five-month period between election day and the swearing-in ceremony, Guajardo said, the next government’s team would need to be involved in any ongoing trilateral trade talks.

Guajardo said that negotiators were close to reaching agreement on rules of origin for the auto sector.

However, U.S. demands for a so-called sunset clause that would see NAFTA automatically expire if the agreement is not renegotiated every five years as well as the elimination of settlement panels for trade disputes remain sticking points.

The United States and Canada are also pushing Mexico to increase wages in its automotive sector.

Guajardo added that more flexibility was needed in order to reach a deal.

Kenneth Smith, the head of Mexico’s technical negotiating team, reiterated in a radio interview that from Mexico’s perspective there are no fixed deadlines it is working towards.

“Mexico’s position since the start of the negotiation has been that we’re not going to sacrifice the quality of the deal to conclude quickly,” he said, although he added that there is still time to reach a conclusion before the end of the year.

“There’s no question the possibility exists, we’re interested and I think the United States and Canada share this view,” he said.

Source: Reuters (en)

In other non-related news:

It’s no longer just about drugs: pipeline thieves move into Sinaloa
Pemex has detected an average of three new illegal taps per day

Violent crime in Sinaloa is not the exclusive domain of drug cartels: gangs of fuel thieves known as huachicoleros have taken their fight into the northern state.

This year, state oil company Pemex has detected on average three new illegal taps on its pipelines per day in Sinaloa, which is now one of eight Mexican states where 80% of the crime is concentrated.

Last month, turf wars between rival gangs over the control of the illicit fuel market in the state triggered a wave of violence, mainly in state capital Culiacán and the town of Mocorito, located about 120 kilometers to the north.

The Topolobampo-Culiacán pipeline runs through both municipalities and, according to Pemex data, there were 252 illegal taps on the duct in the first three months of the year, almost double the number detected in the first quarter of 2017.

In Culiacán and Mocorito, state security authorities have reported gun battles and cars being set alight in connection with the crime and schools have been closed due to the fear generated by the feuding, between heavily-armed groups.

On April 15, 10 people were kidnapped in Culiacancito, located just outside the capital, and the following day a shootout in El Limón de los Ramos — also in the municipality of Culiacán — left an innocent passerby wounded.

Authorities subsequently seized a burned-out car with several bullet holes from the scene of the confrontation.

Two days later on April 18, another car was set alight at a home in the community of El Tamarindo, Culiacán, leading to an air and ground-based police operation and the suspension of classes in the area.

The same day, state Public Security Secretary Genaro Robles attributed the incident to fuel thieves.

In response to the rising levels of fuel theft, the state Public Security Secretariat has launched a joint operation with the army and navy.

It has also called on residents not to buy stolen fuel in order to discourage its sale and in turn reduce the prevalence of the crime.

Pemex CEO Carlos Treviño said last month that fuel theft costs the state oil company 30 billion pesos (US $1.5 billion) a year.

Source: Reforma (sp)

AMLO’s win could be a landslide with congressional majority

A new poll gives AMLO’s party 41 percent support in the 500-seat lower-house contest

by Mexico News Daily

Presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is not only on track to become Mexico’s next president but the coalition he leads could also win a majority in Congress, according to global financial company UBS.

If the latter scenario unfolds — as polls suggest is within reach — it will make it easier for the Morena party leader, as president, to follow through with economic policy initiatives to which he has committed such as reviewing contracts awarded to private and foreign companies in the energy sector.

For several months, López Obrador has enjoyed a consistent and commanding lead over his rivals in most opinion polls, although four surveys published this month showed that second-placed candidate Ricardo Anaya has started to close the gap that separates him from the frontrunner.

Still, news agency Bloomberg’s latest poll tracker — a collation of poll results — shows that AMLO has 46 percent support and is 18 points ahead of Anaya with less than seven weeks to go before the July 1 election.

In a report published today, Bloomberg attributed that lead in part to López Obrador’s “pledges to boost social spending and review oil auctions to private and foreign companies.” But it also pointed to the leftist third-time presidential contender as the likely culprit if Mexico turns out to be “an emergent-market laggard this year.”

The peso, which at one point earlier this year was the best-performing currency in the world, has lost almost 9 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar since its 2018 high recorded last month.

It is currently trading at around 19.6 pesos to the dollar and many analysts believe that it will continue to lose value in the lead-up to the elections. Uncertainty surrounding the future of NAFTA has also taken a toll on the currency.

In addition, stocks on Mexico’s main index have dropped by almost 6 percent this year.

“The market might have incorporated the possibility of an AMLO win but we believe that it still needs to account for Morena dominance in several gubernatorial elections and in the federal Congress,” UBS’s chief Mexico investment officer, Esteban Polidura, told Bloomberg.

A poll published by the newspaper El Financiero yesterday showed that López Obrador had 46 percent voter support, an imposing 20 points ahead of Anaya and 26 points clear of ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate José Antonio Meade.

However, a large percentage of voters polled by El Financiero — 38 percent — were undecided and their responses were stripped out.

The figure is a much higher percentage than the respective 18 percent and 14 percent of respondents who said they hadn’t made up their minds in surveys conducted by the newspaper Reforma and polling company Parametría that were published earlier this month, suggesting that Anaya could still make up the wide gap between him and López Obrador.

The survey also showed that the leftist Morena party that AMLO leads had 41 percent support in the 500-seat lower-house congressional contest.
Once the 2 percent and 1 percent support garnered by alliance partners the Labor Party (PT) and the Social Encounter Party (PES) are added, the “Together We Will Make History” coalition reaches 44 percent backing, just 7 percent shy of an outright majority.

However, even if López Obrador’s coalition fails to win a majority of seats in its own right on July 1, a congressional majority is still possible, according to a New York-based risk analyst.

Daniel Kerner of political consultancy Eurasia Group told Bloomberg that if AMLO’s Morena party achieves a “victory of any kind,” candidates from the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) — one of two junior partners in Anaya’s right-left “For Mexico in Front” coalition — would likely jump ship to the Morena-led alliance.

Some lawmakers from the PRI may even do the same, Kerner said.

Some analysts say that if López Obrador achieves a working majority in Congress, he will be able to approve budget spending without needing to negotiate with opposition parties.

Among the proposals the candidate has put forward are implementing immediate tax cuts in border regions and shifting spending on social programs.
Along with his would-be finance secretary Carlos Urzúa, López Obrador has also pledged to reduce debt by getting rid of government corruption.

Another analyst described an election outcome that includes an AMLO-controlled Congress majority as the “main concern” for the Mexican economy.

“There are things that he can do with a majority that he obviously would not do if the congressional elections lead to a result that would keep a stricter check on him,” Shamaila Khan, director of emerging-market debt at AllianceBernstein, said.

Not all observers, however, are convinced that “Together We Will Make History” will get close to forming a working majority in Congress.

Luis Carlos Ugalde, a former chief electoral regulator, said that Morena will likely win the largest number of seats of any party but still fall short of a majority.

Even more improbable is that López Obrador’s coalition will win the two-thirds majority required to completely overturn constitutionally-enshrined laws, such as the 2014 energy reform.

However, if he manages to exceed 50 percent congressional support, “he can certainly have a weaker fiscal policy, he can certainly slow down energy reform,” Khan said.

Source: Bloomberg (sp), El Financiero (sp).

Lady of Chiquilistan, Jalisco, dies

by the El Reportero staff

The Mexican community in the Bay Area and Southern California were in mourning when heaven opened its doors to receive the soul of Mrs. María Navarro Carvajal on April 1, 2018. She was 89 years old.

Mrs. Navarro, who was originally from Chilistan, Jalisco, Mexico, was born on June 11, 1929.

After moving to San Francisco where she lived since 1983, she later moved with her other children in the city of Chula Vista, California, where she spent her last years and died.

She is survived by her three children “Ramon López, José Luis López, and Martin Palos; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

Her remains were created in Chula Vista and were scheduled to be taken to her native Chiquilistan.

Latino Caucus’ 17th Annual Latino Spirit Awards Honorees

by the El Reportero’s news services

The California Latino Legislative Caucus recognized on May 7, Latino trailblazers at its 17th Annual Latino Spirit Awards during an Assembly floor ceremony at the State Capitol in Sacramento

– Hector Barajas-Varela, (U.S. Army veteran) Achievement in Military Service & Advocacy
– Melinda M. Cuellar, (Domestic violence advocate) Achievement in Community Empowerment
– Faith Estella Florez, (Founder, Latina Legacy Foundation) 2018 Dynamic Youth Award
– F. Gaviña & Sons, Inc., (Gourmet coffee producers) Achievement in Business & Philanthropy
– Liz Hernandez, (Journalist, TV personality) Achievement in Media & Entertainment
– Lupita Lomeli, (Host, Arriba Valle Central) Achievement in Journalism & Media
– Cheech Marín, (Actor, director, musician, art collector) Achievement in Arts & Entertainment
Chauncey Veatch, (Army veteran, school teacher) Friend of the Latino Community
– Kat Von D, (Tattoo artist, author, entertainer, designer) Achievement in Business & Entertainment
Latino Caucus’ 17th Annual Latino Spirit Awards Honorees

The 2018 the California Latino Legislative Caucus will recognize Latino trailblazers at its 17th Annual Latino Spirit Awards during an Assembly floor ceremony at the State Capitol in Sacramento, California.

The California Latino Legislative Caucus bestows the Latino Spirit Award honor on prominent Latinos in fields such as technology; journalism & media; literature; health & science; business, education; human rights; arts; public service, entertainment and advocacy. Established in 2002, The Latino Spirit Awards take place each year at the State Capitol in Sacramento to coincide with the state’s celebration of Cinco de Mayo and to recognize inspirational figures in the Latino community.

2018 Literature Nobel Prize to be granted in 2019 due to scandal

The 2018 Literature Nobel Price will be granted along with next year”s, due to a sexual scandal that is shaking the Swedish Academy, the institution informed.

‘The 2018 Literature Nobel Prize will be designated and announced at the same time as the 2019 winner,’ according to a press release on the decision to alter the ceremony for the first time in nearly 70 years.

‘The active members of the Swedish Academy are aware that the current crisis of confidence represents an important challenge in a long term and demands solid reform work,’ the interim permanent president, Anders Olsson, noted.

‘We think that it is necessary to take time to recover public confidence in the Academy before the next winner can be announced,’ he pointed out.

The scandal that is shaking the world’s most important literary award started in November 2017, after a wave of revelations on sexual abuses committed by the French playwright and photographer Jean-Claude Arnault, who is very close to the institution, although he is not a member.
Arnault was also accused of leaking the name of the winner in advance at least three times.

The crisis began when the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter published the testimonies of 18 women who said that they had been raped, sexually assaulted or harassed by the 71-year-old writer.

The scandal led to the resignation of several members of the award committee, including the poet Katarina Frostenson, Arnauld’s wife, so the number of members was below the quorum necessary to choose the award winner.

Europe under the vaccination gun: an expanding tragedy

by Jon Rappoport

Storm clouds are gathering…

First the solution—leave the European Union. Do it soon. Don’t knuckle under.

Europe is moving closer to mandatory vaccination. The drive is spearheaded by a collaboration between the European Union (EU) and Big Pharma companies.

Many citizens of EU member countries aren’t even aware of what is happening. Key high-level meetings are being held in secret.

Those who are aware, and object to what is on the planning table, are being ignored.

Robert F Kennedy Jr. and the World Mercury Project have a report:

“European Union (EU) residents have less confidence in vaccine safety than people in any other region in the world. From the perspective of the powerful pharmaceutical industry and its bought politicians, this growing skepticism about vaccine orthodoxy cannot be permitted to gain further momentum.”

“Ignoring massive protests by citizens and municipal authorities, the governments of France, Italy and other EU nations (with the help of Big-Pharma lobbyists) have begun methodically and paternalistically proposing and/or enacting new vaccine laws. These laws aim to erase any remaining ability for citizens to weigh risk-benefit information and make vaccine decisions for themselves.”

“And now, the European Parliament (the EU’s law-making body) has thrown its considerable weight into the fray to promote EU-wide coordination of vaccination policies and programs. Not content to let vaccination policy remain ‘a competence of national authorities,’ the Parliament’s committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety adopted a resolution in March 2018 to promote stricter policies both ‘within and outside the EU.’ To carry out this aim, the European Commission (the EU’s executive arm) will present, in 2018, a Joint Action to increase vaccination coverage and address ‘vaccine hesitancy’.”

“According to a commentary on the resolution in The British Medical Journal (BMJ), European Parliament members are unwilling to brook any dissent, characterizing all licensed vaccines as safe and dismissing information to the contrary as ‘unreliable, misleading and unscientific.’ A query that one might legitimately pose in return, however, is whether massive lobbying by the pharmaceutical industry has rendered parliamentarians incapable of impartiality.”

The EU-Pharma claw is squeezing tighter. The citizens of Europe are in the grip. Freedom of choice is at stake. Health is at stake. The official iron-fisted stance on vaccines—“safe and effective beyond question or doubt”—is fascism personified.

The EU will not back down. Therefore, the answer is: exit the EU. Leave it in the dust.

The EU vision of a United Europe is the old Nazi plan in a new suit. First came the common market, which eventually morphed into a political framework of governance of European nations from above. That is now a reality.

As predicted by many analysts, this structure—friendly and encouraging on the surface—has enacted a tidal wave of rules and regulations to choke the population.

And now, injection of toxic substances (e.g., aluminum, formaldehyde) in the bodies of millions. Ordered. Mandated. If the EU has its way.
Line up. Take your shots.

“The science is settled.”

One of Europe’s most important 20th-century political analysts, Ivan Illich, wrote these explosive words in 1977: “The combined death rate from scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough and measles among children up to fifteen shows that nearly 90 percent of the total decline in mortality between 1860 and 1965 had occurred before the introduction of antibiotics and widespread immunization. In part, this recession may be attributed to improved housing and to a decrease in the virulence of micro-organisms, but by far the most important factor was a higher host-resistance due to better nutrition.” (Medical Nemesis, Bantam Books).

Illich is only one of the many critics of vaccination the EU has studiously chosen to ignore, in its pursuit of establishing a pharmaceutical empire.

The EU also chooses to trample on freedom without a second thought—on its own continent, where once a struggle of centuries birthed freedom in the West.

(Jon Rappoport is he author of three explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, and Power Outside The Matrix).

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