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10,000 march to protest elections in Mexico

Demonstrators call for rerun of Coahuila governor’s vote

by the El Reportero’s wire services

The winner of the governor’s election in Coahuila has been declared but opposition candidates and their supporters continue to press for a rerun of the June 4 vote.

On Sunday, an estimated 10,000 people demonstrated in the streets of Torreón, marching from Alameda Zaragoza park to the Plaza Mayor and municipal headquarters, undeterred by temperatures that were close to 40 C.

Placards denounced and repudiated the state government led by Rubén Moreira Valdez of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), its candidate, Miguel Ángel Riquelme Solís, and the Coahuila Electoral Institute (IEC).
The opposition has united as the Front for the Dignity of Coahuila, demanding the annulment of the elections on the grounds that there were serious irregularities.

National Action Party (PAN) candidate Guillermo Anaya Llamas was joined by the party’s national leader, Ricardo Anaya Cortés, and a 2018 presidential hopeful, Margarita Zavala.

Candidates denounced the fraud of what they believe was a “stolen election” and protested the IEC’s performance. Anaya Llamas said the fight would be a long one but pointed out that his party has all the “elements and experience” to protest the election.

The experience stems from an election in the state of Colima two years ago, which a court invalidated after several claims of irregular electoral processes were proven.
Zavala said the PRI had “committed a fraud like we hadn’t seen in 30 years . . . they altered [electoral] packets and certificates,” she charged.

Anaya Llamas said there would be more marches to come. The public must see that Coahuila is going backwards by 30 years, he said.

Perú to sign free trade agreement with Australia and India

Perú adjusts its views ahead of the start of negotiations to sign a Free Trade Agreement with Australia and India in the near future, officials announced today.

Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Edgar Vásquez expressed confidence in the trade negotiations for months to come, which will benefit the local export sector and contribute to the creation of new jobs.

With Australia, the first round of negotiations will take place in July, and with India in August, the top minister said during his participation in the Industrial Forum organized by the National Society of Industries (SNI), the site Perú21 informed.

Two dead and damages due to 6.6 earthquake in Guatemala

Damages in homes, power cuts, and two people dead are the preliminary balance of a 6.6-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale that shook Guatemala City early this morning.
According to the National Institute of Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology (INSIVUMEH), the earthquake occurred at 1:29 hours, and its epicenter was located 156.3 kilometers west-northwest of the department of San Marcos, bordering Mexico.

Nicaragua Opts for New Irrigation System, Given Climate Change

Given the difficulties caused by the climate change, farmers from the Nicaraguan province of Rivas use the trickle irrigation system, through which they expect to diversify the production of the growing.

The system is new for the local producers, so they are trained by the Ministry of Family Economy.

So far, there are seven farms in the community of San Bernardino, in San Juan del Sur, in which the system has been already set up.

The system is highly known around the world for its benefits in dry areas because it offers the best use of water and fertilizers, according to experts.

Specialists also indicate that this system is the best innovation in agriculture since sprinklers were created in 1930.

The grand day is here at the MCCLA: it’s mural restauration celebration

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Join the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) and the San Francisco Arts Commission for the dedication of the newly restored mural, Spirit of the Arts by Carlos Loarca, Betsie Miller-Kusz, and Manuel Villamor.

Originally painted in 1982, the mural was inspired by Incan, Mayan, and Aztec symbolism and was intended to celebrate the many arts presented within the Center, which has been a vital cultural resource for the community for generations. With generous support from the community and from the City and County of San Francisco, the mural’s original beauty has been lovingly restored. Come and celebrate with us as we honor the artists and thank those who made this project possible. Thursday, June 22, 2017 from 5:00-8:30 p.m.

5 p.m. – Celebration Dance: Mixcoatl Aztec Dancers.

5:30 – Opening remarks: District 9 Supervisor, Hillary Ronen, David Campos, Director of Cultural Affairs, Tom DeCaigny, MCCLA Director, Jennie Rodríguez, Kilroy Real State, Mike Grisso, Guess Artists, Alejandro Murguía and Jorge Molina;
Mural Artists, Carlos Loarca, Betsie Miller-Kusz, Manuel Villamor (absent), Carlos “Kookie” González, Suaro Cervantes, Paul Kensinger, Aureliano Rivera.

6:30 – Spirit of the Arts Video: By MCCLA Multimedia Dept. Professor Carlos Cordova.

7 p.m. – Reception: Music by Salsa Caliente Band.

Mural Restoration Committee: Susan Cervantes, Geneva Griswold, Tomasita Medal, Alistair Monroe, Ernie Rivera, Jennie E. Rodríguez, Eva Royale.

SFMOMA presents The Global Debut of Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces the global debut of the exhibition Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed. Featuring approximately 45 paintings produced between the 1880s and the 1940s, with seven on view in the United States for the first time, this exhibition uses the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s last significant self-portrait as a starting point to reassess his entire career.

Organized by SFMOMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Munch Museum, Oslo, Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed brings together Munch’s most profoundly human and technically daring compositions of love, despair, desire and death, as well as more than a dozen of his self-portraits to reveal a singular modern artist, one who is largely unknown to American audiences, and increasingly recognized as one of the foremost innovators of figurative painting in the 20th century.

“Munch really presents an alternative to the traditional school-of-Paris-driven history of modernism that has long been dominant, but tells an incomplete account of the art of the past century,” added Caitlin Haskell, associate curator of painting and sculpture at SFMOMA.

Seven works in the exhibition make their United States debut including Lady in Black (1891), Puberty (1894), Jealousy (1907), Death Struggle (1915), Man with Bronchitis (1920), Self-Portrait with Hands in Pockets (1925–26) and Ashes (1925). The exhibition will also include an extraordinary presentation of Sick Mood at Sunset. Despair (1892), the earliest depiction and compositional genesis of The Scream, which is being shown outside of Europe for only the second time in its history.

On view June 24 through Oct. 9, 2017, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., San Francisco.

Paulina: A travel to an indigenous community of extreme poverty in S.A.

by the El Reportero’s news services

Paulina (Dolores Fonzi, Plata Quemada), the daughter of an eminent left-wing judge, suspends her legal education and the prospects of a promising political career to travel to an indigenous community of extreme poverty on Argentina’s border with Paraguay and Brazil. 
She is determined to nurture ‘from the inside’ a project of civil rights education, but her Guarani-speaking high-school students resist her civics lessons – and she quickly learns that gaining their trust won’t be an easy task. 

These subtly illuminating encounters reverberate in the aftermath of the central event of the film – a harrowing sexual assault by a group of young men. Paulina’s unfathomable actions, and the limits of social justice, are examined unflinchingly in this ‘social thriller’ of will and sacrifice.

Steven Spielberg’s Pentagon Papers movie fills out its cast

He signed on in March and the movie comes out this December. It tells the true story of the controversial publication of classified documents known as the Pentagon Papers in the early 1970s.

Spielberg had already managed to snag Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep to star, but now he’s assembled a spectacular supporting cast to join his heavy hitters, including actors from Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Arrested Development, Fargo, and more.

Variety reports that the cast list now features Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Pat Healy, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew Rhys, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bradley Whitford, and Zach Woods. That is probably one of the most exciting casts in recent memory.

The film, set in 1971, centers on The Washington Post’s editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) and its publisher Kay Graham (Streep) as they face off against the U.S. government over the publication of the Pentagon Papers, a series of classified military documents leaked to the press by a military analyst.

The report revealed how President Johnson’s administration had lied to Congress and the North American people about key details of the Vietnam War, and when Nixon administration attempted to suppress the report, they stood up and fought for the right to share that information with the North American public.

The film will be released in January 2018, with a private view in December so as it could compete for an award.

Puerto Rican filmmaker arrested by federal agents

Renowned Puerto Rican filmmaker Tito Román Rivera was arrested by federal agents after participating yesterday in a protest outside the main building of the United States in San Juan.

The director of the documentary Ayotzinapa en mi (2016), about the disappearance of 43 teaching students in September 2014 in Guerrero state in Mexico, participated in a demonstration in front of the building of the United States District Court in the capital sector of Hato Rey, in protest of the release of art teacher, Nina Droz Franco, who was also a student at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in Bayamon.

Roman Rivera was captured by federal agents after noon, when he was about to board a vehicle to leave.

The arrest of the Puerto Rican filmmaker seems to respond to his failure to appear at a hearing in the U.S. federal court.

According to reports, he was arrested in January on the spot during an act of civil disobedience, to demand the release of Óscar López Rivera, 74, who spent 35 years in prisons in the northern nation.

In addition to Román Rivera, two other participants in the demonstration in solidarity with Droz Franco were arrested, including student Nina Figueroa, who expressed her indignation for the oppression and slavery Washington has imposed on the Puerto Rican people.

Exposed: the Nazi roots of the European Union

World War II continued by other means

by Jon Rappoport

This is an intelligence briefing. Here I present the bare bones of what has been happening before our eyes…if we would see it.
Once upon a time, there was an industrial combine in Nazi Germany called IG Farben. It was the largest chemical/pharmaceutical octopus in the world. It owned companies, and it had favorable business agreements with companies from England to Central America to Japan.

The author of The Devil’s Chemists, Josiah DuBois, traveled to Guatemala, on a fact-finding mission, in the early days of World War 2, and returned with the comment that, as far as he could tell, Guatemala was “a wholly owned subsidiary of Farben.”

The pharmaceutical empire was and is one of the major forces behind the European Union (EU). It is no accident that these drug corporations wield such power. They aren’t only involved in controlling the medical cartel; they are political planners.

This is how and why Big Pharma fits so closely with what is loosely referred to as the New World Order. The aim of enrolling every human in a cradle-to-grave system of disease diagnosis and toxic drug treatment has a larger purpose: to debilitate, to weaken populations.

This is a political goal. It facilitates control.

IG Farben’s main component companies, at the outbreak of World War 2, were Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst. They were chemical and drug companies. Farben put Hitler over the top in Germany as head of State, and the war was designed to lead to a united Europe that would be dominated by the Farben nexus.

The loss of the war didn’t derail that plan. It was shifted into an economic blueprint, which became, eventually, the European Union.
The European Commission’s first president was Walter Hallstein, the Nazi lawyer who, during the war, had been in charge of post-war legal planning for the new Europe.

As the Rath Foundation reports: In 1939, on the brink of the war, Hallstein had stated, “The creation of the New Law [of the Nazis] is ONLY the task of the law-makers!”

In 1957, with his reputation sanitized, Hallstein spoke the words in this manner: “The European Commission has full and unlimited power for all decisions related to the architecture of this European community.”

Post-war, IG Farben was broken up into separate companies, but those companies (Bayer, Hoechst, and BASF) came roaring back, attaining new profit highs.

I refer you to the explosive book, The Nazi Roots of the Brussels EU, by Paul Anthony Taylor, Aleksandra Niedzwiecki, Dr. Matthias Rath, and August Kowalczyk. You can also read it at relay-of-life.com. It is a dagger in the heart of the EU.

At the Rath Foundation, you can also read Joseph Borkin’s classic, “The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben.”

In 1992, I was deeply engaged in researching the specific devastating effects of medical drugs. Eventually, I concluded that, at the highest levels of power, these drugs weren’t destructive by accident. They were intended to cause harm. This was covert chemical warfare against the population of the planet. The Rockefeller-Standard Oil-Farben connection was a primary piece of the puzzle.

It was, of course, Rockefeller (and Carnegie) power that had forced the birth of pharmaceutical medicine in America, with the publication of the 1910 Flexner Report. The Report was used to excoriate and marginalize Chiropractic, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, and other forms of traditional natural practice, in favor of what would become the modern juggernaut of drug-based treatment.

In an article about the FDA, “Medical Murder in the Matrix,” I point out the fact that this federal agency has permitted at least 100,000 deaths of Americans, per year, from the direct effects of drugs it, the FDA, has certified as safe. (See, for example, JAMA, July 26, 2000, ‘Is US Health Really the Best in the World,’ Dr. Barbara Starfield.)

The FDA knows these death figures. “Unintended” and “accidental” can no longer be applied to this ongoing holocaust.

The pharmaceutical industry itself also knows those death figures.

To understand the dimensions and history of the ongoing chemical warfare against the population, in the form of medical drugs (and of course pesticides), one must factor in the original octopus, IG Farben.

World War 2 never ended. It simply shifted its strategies.

In any fascist system, the bulk of the people working inside the system, including scientists, refuse to believe the evidence of what is happening before their own eyes. They insist they are doing good. They believe they are on the right side. They see greater top-down control as necessary and correct. They adduce “reasonable” explanations for inflicted harm and death.

World War 2 is still underway. The battleground has been changed, and the means are far cleverer.

Sun Tzu wrote: “Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting… The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities…It is best to win without fighting.”

This is what has been happening: invisible warfare.

The republic has fallen: the deep state plot to take over America has succeeded – Part 2 of two

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Dear Readers:

As John W. Whitehead narrates in his article below, the United States is not the democracy – much less the republic created by the Founding Fathers, but rather a country that has been taken over by private corporate forces for self benefit and not for the people’s. Wow, these are heavy words. Because of its length, it will be published in two parts. I hope you enjoy. THIS IS PART TWO OF 2.

The republic has fallen: the deep state’s plot to take over America has succeeded

by John W. Whitehead

“You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country…why in the name of God don’t you have any faith in the system of government you’re so hell-bent to protect? You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don’t steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned.”—Seven Days in May (1964)

If America has been at war more than we’ve been at peace over the past half century, it’s because the country is in the clutches of a greedy military empire with a gargantuan, profit-driven appetite for war. Indeed, the U.S. has been involved in an average of at least one significant military action per year, “ranging from significant fighting in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan to lesser incursions in such far-flung countries as Kuwait, Bosnia, Pakistan, Libya, Grenada, Haiti and Panama… That total does not count more limited U.S. actions, such as drone strikes.”

War is big business.

In order to maintain a profit margin when there are no more wars to be fought abroad, one would either have to find new enemies abroad or focus on fighting a war at home, against the American people, and that’s exactly what we’re dealing with today.

• Wars waged abroad to the tune of trillions of dollars since 9/11.

• Military equipment sold to foreign enemies.

• Local police transformed into a standing army in the American homeland through millions of dollars’ worth of grants to local police agencies for military weapons, vehicles, training and assistance.

• The public acclimated to the sights and sounds of martial law through urban training exercises wherein military troops rappel from Black Hawk helicopters in cities across the country, from Miami and Chicago to Minneapolis, to domestic military training drills timed and formulated to coincide with or portend actual crises.

• The citizenry taught to fear and distrust each other and to welcome the metal detectors and pat downs in their schools, bag searches in their train stations, tanks and military weaponry used by their small town police forces, surveillance cameras in their traffic lights, police strip searches on their public roads, unwarranted blood draws at drunk driving checkpoints, whole body scanners in their airports, and government agents monitoring their communications.

Had the government tried to ram such a state of affairs down our throats suddenly, it might have had a rebellion on its hands.
Instead, the American people have been given the boiling frog treatment, immersed in water that slowly is heated up—degree by degree—so that they’ve fail to notice that they’re being trapped and cooked and killed.

“We the people” are in hot water now.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the Constitution doesn’t stand a chance against a federalized, globalized standing army protected by legislative, judicial and executive branches that are all on the same side, no matter what political views they subscribe to: suffice it to say, they are not on our side or the side of freedom.

From Clinton to Bush, then Obama and now Trump, it’s as if we’ve been caught in a time loop, forced to re-live the same thing over and over again: the same assaults on our freedoms, the same disregard for the rule of law, the same subservience to the Deep State, and the same corrupt, self-serving government that exists only to amass power, enrich its shareholders and ensure its continued domination.
The republic has fallen to fascism with a smile.

As Bertram Gross wrote in what may have been his most prescient warning:

In 1935 Sinclair Lewis wrote a popular novel in which a racist, anti-Semitic, flag-waving, army-backed demagogue wins the 1936 presidential election and proceeds to establish an Americanized version of Nazi Germany. The title, It Can’t Happen Here, was a tongue-in-cheek warning that it might. But the “it” Lewis referred to is unlikely to happen again any place… Anyone looking for black shirts, mass parties, or men on horseback will miss the telltale clues of creeping fascism. In any First World country of advanced capitalism, the new fascism will be colored by national and cultural heritage, ethnic and religious composition, formal political structure, and geopolitical environment… In America, it would be supermodern and multi-ethnic-as American as Madison Avenue, executive luncheons, credit cards, and apple pie. It would be fascism with a smile. As a warning against its cosmetic facade, subtle manipulation, and velvet gloves, I call it friendly fascism. What scares me most is its subtle appeal.

I am worried by those who fail to remember-or have never learned -that Big Business-Big Government partnerships, backed up by other elements, were the central facts behind the power structures of old fascism in the days of Mussolini, Hitler, and the Japanese empire builders. I am worried by those who quibble about labels… I am upset with those who prefer to remain spectators until it may be too late… I am appalled by those who stiffly maintain that nothing can be done until things get worse or the system has been changed. I am afraid of inaction. I am afraid of those who will heed no warnings and who wait for some revelation, research, or technology to offer a perfect solution. I am afraid of those who do not see that some of the best in America has been the product of promises and that the promises of the past are not enough for the future. I am dismayed by those who will not hope, who will not commit themselves to something larger than themselves, of those who are afraid of true democracy or even its pursuit.

Elections will not save us.

Learn the treacherous lessons of 2008 and 2016: presidential elections have made a mockery of our constitutional system of government, suggesting that our votes can make a difference when, in fact, they merely serve to maintain the status quo.
Don’t delay.

Start now—in your own communities, in your schools, at your city council meetings, in newspaper editorials, at protests—by pushing back against laws that are unjust, police departments that overreach, politicians that don’t listen to their constituents, and a system of government that grows more tyrannical by the day.

If you wait until 2020 to rescue our republic from the clutches of the Deep State, it will be too late.

Reprinted with permission from the Rutherford Institute.

Tips to mellow down that burning heartburn pain

by Dr. Serge Gregoire

Heartburn is described as a burning sensation that can be felt in the chest specifically at the lower sternum. Such pain is caused by a reflux of digestive acid that shoots up and enters the lower esophagus thus resulting in a burning sensation and acute pain.

This condition is also called as acid reflux, cardialgia, pyrosis, and GERD.

Statistically, 60 million of Americans suffer from this heartburn condition and needless to say it’s never pleasant when it occurs. That’s why this article is written. To help you alleviate the pain and ultimately achieve heartburn cure. But because of the limitations of the length of this article. I’ll be just covering some general heartburn cure.

Enough of that and let’s get to the meat.

Its already know that some substances can cause heartburn. So, by simply avoiding this “triggers” you can achieve heartburn cure before it even started. Pretty neat huh!

But what substance that usually causes heartburn? Well here’s the top 5 (1, 2). Drum roll please….

1. Caffeine – The top spot goes to caffeine and its derivatives, like colas, chocolates, and some teas. This substance can cause the esophagus sphincter muscle to relax, thus resulting in backward flow of digestive acids.

2. Fatty Foods and Oily Foods – These substances slow down digestion because they need special enzymes that can digest them. The problem with longer digestion, foods begin to pile up in the stomach increasing pressure to the sphincter of the esophagus and eventually give way. There goes the digestive acids again, burning the esophagus.

3. Tomatoes – Tomatoes and tomato-based products also cause heartburn. This kind of foods also relaxes the sphincter of the esophagus muscles.

4. Smoking – The chemicals from puffing a stick of cigarette causes to weaken the sphincter muscle of the lower esophagus.

5. Alcohol – Has relaxing effects on the sphincter muscle of the esophagus.

Now that you know what kind of foods to avoid. Let’s add some tips on how to actually achieve heartburn cure.

You should try to eat high fiber diets. Also, you can try some herbal supplements like ginger tea or ginger ale, which by the way is gaining popularity recently. Drinking lots of water also provides heartburn cure. Swallowing saliva. Saliva reduces acidity by 50%. Also, it is best done with chewing gums, coz it will stimulate to produce more saliva.

But still, these are recommendations. It’s best to ask your physician before trying anything.

Heartburn Cures Handbook: Easy & Fast Acid Reflux Relief Using Natural Remedies and Treatments, Aug 28, 2013 by Patricia Gardner
Heartburn: Acid Reflux Cure: Get Heartburn, Acid Reflux Cured Naturally in 3 Week Step by Step Program (Heartburn, Heartburn No More, Heartburn Cured, … Reflux Cure, Acid Reflux Help, Digestion), Jun 17, 2015 by Floyd Anderson

(Dr. Serge is a clinical nutritionist. He owns a doctorate degree in nutrition from McGill University in Canada. In addition, he completed a 7-year postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts where he studied the impact of fat as it relates to heart disease.

He has authored a book on this topic that is awaiting publication with Edition Berger publishers in Canada. He holds an advance certification in Nutrition Response Testing (SM) from Ulan Nutritional Systems in Florida and he is a certified herbalist through the Australian College of Phytotherapy.

His personalized nutritional programs allow to help individuals with a wide variety of health concerns such as hormonal imbalance, digestive issues, heart-related conditions, detoxes/cleanses, weight loss, fatigue, migraines, allergies, among others).

War on drugs killed more people than Vietnam

Los Angeles Police officers assist Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA agents serving a federal warrant to shut down a Marijuana dispensary operating in the Chinatown area of Los Angeles Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. Prosecutors filed three lawsuits Tuesday against properties that house pot shops. They also sent 68 warning letters to other clinics, ordering them to close or face possible criminal charges. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

by Jack Burns
Analysis

For the first time in US history, more Americans have died of drug overdoses in a single year than all those killed in the Vietnam War. The drug war has been exposed as a deadly and violent failure and the federal government shows no signs of backing down.

Last year’s death toll in the War on Drugs was 59,000 killed, while during the entire Vietnam War, 1955 to 1975, 58,220 American service members’ lives were lost. And, thanks to the immoral and futile police approach to the drug problem, there appears to be no hope in sight for the tide to change.

As The Free Thought Project had previously reported, drug overdose deaths outnumber the number of Americans killed in automobile accidents each year. Answering the question of who is responsible for so many overdose deaths requires a careful examination of the crisis which has now reached epidemic proportions.

The principal players appear to be pharmaceutical companies, who knowingly manufacture dangerous opioids — essentially synthetic heroin — which, alone, kills tens of thousands. Big Pharma has been caught time and again pushing the pills onto the nation’s physicians who prescribe the dangerously powerful painkillers en masse — even to children.

Then, there are the abusers, those who are addicted to opiates. Getting hooked on opiates is easy, according to the CDC, who recently recommended the powerful class of drugs be taken for no more than 14 days. According to the Washington Post:

Noting that “long-term opioid abuse often begins with treatment of acute pain,” the CDC said that “three or fewer days” of opioid treatment “usually will be sufficient for most non-traumatic pain not related to major surgery.”

Street pushers provide the missing source for the drugs when doctors will no longer prescribe the pills to patients who have demonstrated a pattern of abuse. Yet, thanks to the war on drugs pushing the sale of these drugs into dark alleys and the like, the quality of street drugs is questionable with every dose sold. Some opiates have even been laced with the powerful drug Fentanyl, a drug so dangerous even casual contact with it can prove fatal.

As the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP, US Treasury) reported, Insys Pharmaceuticals, the maker of Fentanyl, donated half-a-million dollars to keep marijuana from becoming legal in one U.S. state. One-third of the overdose deaths in Ohio were linked to Fentanyl, yet instead of creating a safer drug, the company was more concerned with combatting cannabis legalization.

Last, but certainly not least, is the government’s own Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The DEA’s only purpose is propping up Big Pharma while raining hell down on Americans for their choice of substances. The DEA even admitted, early this year, it has been trafficking large quantities of controlled substances into the country.

Any decision to ban opiates or remove them from the market, would likely further drive the drugs underground, increase crime, criminalize abusers, lead to growth in the prison industrial complex, and result in many more overdoses. In fact, that is exactly what’s happening. The war on drugs is creating a de facto prison state.

Some U.S. States are taking matters into their own hands. As TFTP reported recently, Ohio is now suing drug manufacturers for their role in the crisis, stating their desire to increase their bottom line profit margins have crossed ethical lines and led to the deaths of countless Ohioans.

Other states and police departments are also taking radical measures to fix the problem instead of prolonging and expanding it through the use of police violence.

As the Boston Globe reports:

“As Gloucester police chief, Leonard Campanello pledged in 2015 that drug users could walk into the police station, hand over heroin, and walk out into treatment within hours — without arrest or charges. The concept of help rather than handcuffs became a national sensation.”

Campanello is no longer police chief there, but the program is continuing in Gloucester. The concept of helping addicts instead of criminalizing them is such a success, it’s been adopted by 200 police agencies in 28 states. This encouraging phenomenon shows that it’s possible for law enforcement to listen to reason when it comes to drug abuse and actually helping communities.

“It puts police in the lifesaving business instead of the spin-drying business of arresting and releasing,” said John Rosenthal, a Boston resident fighting the opioid epidemic. “We estimate that approximately 10,000 people have been placed into treatment.”

In Gloucester, records show that 530 people have sought help at the police station since June 2015. Steve Lesnikoski was the first person to get help under the program, and now, after 18 months of being clean, he says without the Angel Program, “I’d probably be in jail or dead.”

Fatal overdoses and drug arrests have decreased in Gloucester. A study by Boston University and Boston Medical Center provided compelling evidence for the Angel Program’s efficacy.

“In 417 cases where a person who visited the Gloucester police station was eligible for treatment, police data showed that 94.5 percent were offered direct placement and 89.7 percent enrolled in detox or other recovery services, according to Dr. Davida Schiff, a BMC pediatrician who was lead researcher in the study.

Those numbers, reported in December by the New England Journal of Medicine, compared with less than 60 percent of direct referrals from hospital-based programs, which recruit patients who visit emergency rooms with substance-abuse disorders, Schiff said.”

Doing the opposite of the war on drugs is what truly helps people

It is also important to mention that the opiate addiction, overdose, and accidental death problems might simply be avoided if, ironically enough, marijuana is made legal nationwide. A little over half of the United States have legalized cannabis in some form, leaving nearly half of the remaining states and their residents with no access to legal weed.

As TFTP has documented on several occasions, cannabis holds the promise of helping opiate addicts kick their addiction by substituting their cravings for opiates with the non-addictive pain killing properties of marijuana. And it’s not folklore. Doctors have experimented with cannabis as a substitute for opiates with high degrees of success.

For now, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the direction of Attorney Jeff Sessions and his staff, has threatened to roll back the progress cannabis activists have made in the last eight and a half years. Joining the DOJ is the DEA which refuses to reclassify cannabis, and remove its current status as a Schedule I narcotic, alongside cocaine, lsd, and heroin.

All of these moves and potential moves by the DOJ and DEA will only make the problem worse unless states like Ohio take measures into their own hands. Now that many in Congress have addicted family members, children, siblings, and friends, the matter has been taken much more seriously.

WATCH: Putin hints JFK was murdered by the “Deep State”, says it’s now targeting Russia

In an interview Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested not only the US Deep State murdered JFK, but the shadowy cadre has now set its sites on Russia

by Claire Bernish

Former FOX News host, Megyn Kelly, debuted with rival NBC for “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly,” in a much-hyped interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who then flabbergasted the United States’ viewing audience by intimating the shadowy Deep State had indeed been responsible for JFK’s murder — and has now turned its sights on Russia.

“There is a theory that Kennedy’s assassination was arranged by the United States intelligence services,” Putin needled the host, as reported by Reuters, blithely referring to the Deep State. “So if this theory is correct, and that can’t be ruled out, then what could be easier in this day and age than using all the technical means at the disposal of the intelligence services and using those means to organize some attacks, and then pointing the finger at Russia.”

Largely contained to analysis and conjecture among right-leaning and independent media organizations, and posited by reputable former members of the U.S. Intelligence Community, that a covert, soft coup intending to oust Trump indeed appears to have been underway since the election cycle.

Corporate outlets with ties to the Democrat establishment — or both that and the CIA, in the case of the Washington Post — amplified America’s perpetual Russophobia once leaks fatal to the campaign Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, John Podesta, and the Party starred in several massive publishings by Wikileaks.

As if a thunderclap from the blue, mainstream outlets abruptly parroted petulant Democratic officials, who shirked accountability for the contents of the leaks by, instead, preaching the ‘Russia did it!’ gospel in a singular chorus — it, being everything from ‘Russians hacked the election’ to ‘Russians compromised the electrical grid of Vermont,’ to every imaginable hyperbole in between.

Don’t grimace … but, maybe, just maybe, the Russian president is onto something.

First emphasizing there had been no contact between himself and former private citizen, Donald Trump, during the latter’s multiple business trips to Russia, Putin repeatedly rebuffed any suggestion Trump’s campaign or current administration officials had effected secretive communication via back or covert channels.

Putin, like Trump, has maintained the two never met face-to-face, and that any contact between officials in the new administration or former campaign and Russian officials would have been ordinary for business dealings — certainly not deserving of alarm or attention, as has been championed in the corporate press.

Nothing the one-hundred or so American business people present in Russia right now, Putin made a tongue-in-cheek jab at needlessly alarmist reactions to that connection, asking Kelly rhetorically:

“Do you think we’re gathering compromising information on all of them right now or something?” And, to U.S. officials and an implied, broad audience watching his interview from inside the U.S., Putin added, “Have you all lost your senses?”

Asked to discuss still unproven accusations proffered by intelligence officials as steel truth Moscow meddled in the U.S. election through propaganda and by hacking the emails of a cadre of Democrat officials to ensure the installation of Trump, the Russian president again balked.

Unsurprisingly, Putin excoriated the widely-criticized report emanating only in broken unison from the seventeen agencies comprising the Intelligence Community, saying the experts in espionage are lying.

“They have been misled,” Putin asserted of officials harpooning Russia as fully culpable for Clinton’s inglorious loss, “and they aren’t analyzing the information in its entirety. I haven’t seen, even once, any direct proof of Russian interference in the presidential election.”

Although putative digital fingerprints characteristic of Russia have ostensibly been found after several intelligence agencies investigated insinuations of interference, independent experts and analysts vary considerably in characterizing the data as proof of meddling.

“What fingerprints or hoof-prints or horn-prints — what are you talking about?” Putin scoffed.

Although powerful nation-states tend only to admit to influencing others’ elections on a superficial basis — which would indeed abide self-interest and logic — instances of blatant interference could not be deemed rare.

In fact, twenty-one years ago, TIME Magazine featured an exclusive detailing direct actions undertaken to ensure Russian President Boris Yeltsin would win re-election — an effort coordinated covertly by none other than … the United States.

Mudslinging and snarkiness lobbed between Washington and Moscow this time around — while perhaps the most groan-inducing international political theater in years — belies the umbral Deep State squabble otherwise apparent in headlines continually lambasting the Trump administration’s prior business contact list as unassailable evidence of treasonous guilt.

Spanning the gamut in plausibility, innumerable theories swear to shred the official account of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, but similarities existent in the vilification of JFK’s and the current administration’s by establishment die-hards verily beg to be examined by the American masses and press — both, tragically somnambulating vacuous accusations plucked from the stale landscape of regurgitated modern Red Scare McCarthyism.

Whether or not the Trump presidency will ultimately prove to be the Deep State’s perilous exercise in planned obsolescence remains to be seen, but President Putin’s now joins a mellifluous ensemble of ordinarily disparate voices — including Libertarian icon and former presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul — warning the handiwork of a clandestine operation is on display for anyone willing to look.

American Deep State or not, the laughably-unproven Russians Did It meme persists in gracing corporate media headlines as often as the lips of U.S. officials — despite the expiration date on believability having long since passed.

Mexico: PRI lost almost half of the votes vs. 2011 election

Morena took 1,786.000 – 56 percent from PRI

by the El Reportero’s wire services

Governor elections in the State of Mexico, Coahuila and Nayarit meant a decrease in the number of votes obtained by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), according to results at hand today.

When comparing the number of votes and the percentages of votes obtained by the PRI candidates in 2011 with those of Sunday, it is confirmed that although they are first in the state of Mexico and Coahuila (there are challenges in this regard), the preferences of the so-called tricolor party were almost halved.

According to the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP), Alfredo del Mazo obtained one million 955 thousand 347 votes in the election of Governor of the State of Mexico, that is to say, 33.72 percent of the total and 2.9 percent more than the candidate of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Delfina Gómez.

In 2011 the current Mexican leader, Eruviel Ávila, won with 3 million 18 thousand 588 votes, 64.97 percent, which represented a difference of 41.01 points with respect to the Party of the Democratic Revolution and 49.69 of the National Action Party (PAN).

In the case of Coahuila, the PREP gives an advantage to PRI candidate Miguel Riquelme of 13,253 votes over Guillermo Anaya, who competed for the second time.

Rubén Moreira won the governorship with 688,796 votes (58.71 of the total cast), but Riquelme now has 337,682 (38.31 percent).
A similar phenomenon occurred in Nayarit, where the PRI suffered a setback in the vote. In 2011 Roberto Sandoval obtained 220 thousand 508 votes, 45.74 percent, now Manuel Cota, when losing the election, only received 123 thousand 572, 26.82 percent.

Salvadoran government to protect emigrants threatened in USA

The government of El Salvador ratified today that it will support the 190,000 compatriots who emigrated to the United States and could lose the benefits of the Temporary Protection Status (TPS).

The Salvadoran Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that it will maintain a dialogue at the highest level with its counterparts in the United States to defend a community it defined as laborious and respectful of the law.

The note points out that the Salvadoran diaspora, in addition to creating a home, contributes to the economy, wealth and cultural diversity of the northern nation, so the struggle for stability and respect for human rights will continue.

Foreign Minister Hugo Martínez stated the government is exploring alternatives to the TPS, which expires in March 2018 and its renewal is in doubt, as President Donald Trump questioned its indefinite status.

“We will redouble efforts so that the TPS will be considered in a particular way with a grant of extension or other measure, and we will highlight the reduction of migratory flows towards the United States,” said the minister.

But even if Washington suspends the immigration benefits, the Salvadoran state will appeal to the last legal recourse to avoid a massive deportation.

Mexico asks Panama to extradite former Mexican governor

The Panamanian Attorney General’s Office has confirmed today the request for extradition of former governor of the southeastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo, Roberto Borge, detained at the National Directorate of Investigation.

In a statement issued today, the Attorney General’s Office reported that the Mexican embassy in Panama filed a request for provisional arrest for international extradition against Roberto Borge, who is required by a federal judge in Mexico State, for allegedly crime of illicit operations.

Likewise, the Mexican embassy promised to enforce the formal request for international extradition within a maximum period of 60 days.

Looking for some music activities this Memorial Day weekend?

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

There will be an Open House Party for community. With the Habana Breeze​ Trio, which include Marcus López, Ruben Salcido and Steve McQuarry.

Then from 9 p.m. to Midnight on Saturday at the Iron Gate Belmont with Mambo St.

with Steve McQuarry and Tribu, at Chalacas, 438 3er St., Oakland. Then from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Latin Jazz/ Havana Soul at its best.

Sunday at S.F. Carnaval with the Muni Float; then at from 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m., with Mambo St at the main stage, at 17 & Harrison Sts.

Starting Friday 5/26 from 5 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. at Hair Glamour by Tiffany, party at 310 17th St., Oakland. On Monday BBQ all day. Dig Rest , Relax.

Former PR political prisoner Óscar López Rivera coming to the SF Bay Area

Former Puerto Rican political prisoner Óscar López Rivera, whose sentence was commuted by President Obama is coming to the Bay Area on Wednesday, May 31st.
He  will  be welcomed at a public event at the First Presbyterian Church, at 2407 Dana Ave. (@Haste) in Berkeley.

There will be a reception at 5:30 p.m., followed by the program at 7 p.m. The program includes music from jazz musician John Santos and his quartet, hip hop artist Rico Pabón and the youth bomba group, Quenepas.  

Tickets to the event can be purchased through brownpapertickets.com but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Attendees are urged to purchase their tickets online before May 31.

López Rivera has been called the Nelson Mandela of Latin America by members of the Organization of American States and is considered a national hero in Puerto Rico. His release was supported by Nobel laureates, the Puerto Rican congressional delegation, the governor of Puerto Rico and countless others, including many in the SF/Bay area.

Mr. Lopez Rivera spent 35 years in Federal prison for seditious conspiracy, a political charge used extensively against the Puerto Rican Nationalist movement. Twelve of those years were spent in solitary confinement. He was the longest held political prisoner in Puerto Rican history.

President Barack Obama commuted Lopez Rivera’s 75 year sentence shortly before he left office in January. Upon Oscar’s release on May 17, he was greeted by thousands, first in San Juan, Puerto Rico and then the next day in Chicago, Illinois. This will be his first visit to the Bay Area since his release.

Judith Mirkinson, Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild, SF Bay Area Chapter, said, “we are so excited to welcome Oscar to the Bay Area, we have worked on his release for many years, it’s time he came home.”

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