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Buena Fe and Ricardo Arjona release song in social networks

by the El Reportero’s news services

Music lovers around the world access the social networks in order to listen to the acoustic version of the song Para bien o para mal, released today by the Guatemalan singer Ricardo Arjona and the Cuban duo Buena Fe.

The single released this Monday is included in Arjona’s new album Apague la luz y escuche, and features vocals from Israel Rojas and Yoel Martínez.

Buena Fe recently offered three concerts in Havana. This weekend the duo started to promote their album Soy in the United States.

These concerts in the United States are part of their first tour under Metamorfosis record label. Buena Fe signed in 2015 a contract with this record label, founded by Arjona.

Buena Fe was formed in Guantanamo in 1999 and its repertoire includes different musical genres, such as trova, pop and rock.

Colombian artists welcome accord for end of the conflict with FARC-E

Singer songwriters Shakira, Santiago Cruz and Juanes welcomed the agreement between the Colombian Government and the rebel (FARC-EP) to guarantee the end of the conflict between both sides, the main newspapers in the country published.

A chapter concludes and another one begins in the history of our country. It is not the time for keeping sitting there doing nothing, but for working for lasting peace that goes beyond the documents and promises. We must fight together for equal opportunities, the singer from Barraquilla, Shakira, insisted on social networks.

According to the writer of the song Estoy Aqui, offering a quality education to all children is essential to change the country.

My tears are falling, seating at an airport restaurant, heading for Colombia and I am moved after reading that the end of the conflict is closer than ever, Santiago Cruz said on a Twitter post.

It is the beginning… no more war to focus on health, education… well, on dignity, he added.
Government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) spokespeople announced yesterday the agreement for the bilateral ceasefire and laying down arms, a document that includes the terms and the road map that will allow implementing both stages, as well as the characteristics of its verification.

According to the agreement, supervision will be carried out by a tripartite mechanism composed of spokespeople for the Executive, the guerrilla movement and a political commission coordinated and financed by the United Nations (UN).

The UN delegation will be composed of observers from Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Latin American Poetry Festival opens in Buenos Aires

The 8th Latin American Poetry Festival will take place in Argentina, with the participation of poets from eight countries.

The event was inaugurated last night at the Solidarity Hall of the Cultural Center for Cooperation (CCC) with the presentation of eight foreign participants -Roberto Amézquita and Mario Bojórquez from Mexico, Arturo Desimone (Aruba), Mario Eraso Belalcázar (Colombia), Sarah Holland-Batt (Australia), Rosabetty Muñoz (Chile), Omar Pérez (Cuba) and Augusto Rodríguez (Ecuador) – who recited their works.

A total of 24 poets, including the locals, participate in the festival, discussing topics like Thought Poetry and the role of poetry in theater history.

Government documents link global warming to military climate modification

by Disclosed TV

This set of documents from 1966 reveals a network of government agencies in perpetual and secret collaboration with each other and the military to Modify the Global Climate.

Created by the elitist National Academy of Sciences – decades of an inter-agency culture of secrecy explains why the issue of covert aerosol Geo-engineering is a taboo topic to be degraded to the status of “conspiracy theory” by a matrix of complicit bureaucrats at every opportunity. This is why your local TV “meteorologist” will rarely make a helpful comment about an unusual sky filled with persistent jet trails. TITLE: “The Evolution of a Weather Modification R&D program Into a Military Weapons System”. A 1986 Critique of the 1966 initiative.
http://www.fas.org/man/eprint/leitenberg/weather.pdf

This document appears as an anonymous draft intended as a critique of the US Weather Modification Program that the author characterizes as hijacked into a military weapons system. Jules Verne wrote about geo-engineering the earth’s climate in 1889 in a sequel to “From the Earth to the Moon” called “The Purchase Of The North Pole.”

Verne writes that the Baltimore Gun Club purchased large tracts of the Arctic then used the famous canon from the earth-to-the-moon to tilt the Earth’s axis. The goal was to establish a tropical paradise as a profitable tourist attraction at the North Pole while “improving” the entire global climate.

If Verne correctly predicted that man would travel from the earth to the moon, it should be no surprise that he also predicted that a small group of influential men would consider warming the climate for profit.

Verne could have been inspired by Harvard geologist Nathaniel Shaler who proposed diverting warm Atlantic water into the Arctic back in 1877 – a dozen years before Verne’s “fantastic” story was published. Warming the Arctic with large-scale Geo-engineering projects has been the vision of industrialists for 100 years – and still is.

Remember when Scientists Thought Arctic Warming was a Good Idea? 1962 Harry Wexler (March 15, 1911- 1962) was an MIT graduate and PhD in meteorology. Wexler had been researching the link connecting chlorine and bromine compounds to the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layers, but died of a heart attack while on vacation in Woods Hole, Mass. Wexler had already accepted an invitation to deliver a lecture entitled “The Climate of Earth and Its Modifications” at the University of Maryland Space Research and Technology Institute. (Source) Wexler’s was last in a long line of ambitious proposals to warm the Arctic.

Coincidently, his proposals were made at the same time the National Academy of Sciences was working to create a national weather modification program – a direction in which the military had already embarked in 1958.

“Global Warming” initiatives proposed by Wexler: – To increase the global temperature of the Earth by 1.7°C, “by injecting a cloud of ice crystals into the polar atmosphere by detonating 10 H-bombs in the Arctic Ocean – the subject of his 1958 article in Science magazine” (Wexler H., 1958, “Modifying Weather on a Large Scale,” Science, n.s. 128 (Oct. 31, 1958): 1059-1063). – To diminish the global temperature by 1.2°C could be doable, “by launching a ring of dust particles into equatorial orbit, a modification of an earlier Russian proposal to warm the Arctic”. – To destroy the ozone layer and hence increase abruptly the surface temperature of the Earth, by spraying “several hundred thousand tons of chlorine or bromine” with a stratospheric airplane. Fleming, 2007(a), pp. 56-57; Fleming, 2007(b), “note n° viii” p. 9 & p. 5 (source).

The decision to reverse direction from warming the arctic to cooling the arctic was announced in 1963 – the year following Wexler’s death when the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Atmospheric Sciences recommended appointment of a Panel on Weather & Climate Modification. Wexler’s proposals to warm the planet were never mentioned again but remained quietly popular with stakeholders in the oil and energy markets who had always seen vast opportunities for new shipping lanes and drilling as soon as the ice melted a bit.

In view of NASA’s position that man-made persistent contrails are exacerbating global warming – what are we to think? If these man-made clouds are normal water vapor we have a problem that accelerates global warming. But If the problem can be fixed, and no government authority has yet thought it was important enough to take immediate action, we can reasonably assume that warming the climate with persistent contrails is a tolerable or even desired outcome. And if man-made clouds are revealed to be chemical aerosols deliberately sprayed into the atmosphere we can reasonably assume that heating the atmosphere is a hidden agenda inside a covert aerosol operation that mimmicks the appearance of a geo-engineering plan to cool the planet.

In reality, the chemical aerosol operations provide plausible deniability to spectators that our benevolent government is secretly spraying the skies to test ways to mitigate global warming for the good of humanity.

This plausible deniability is taught to us through media coverage of geo-engineers like David Keith, who presents aerosol “cooling” strategies in frequent public appearances that are – in turn – presented as news in multiple media sources. So, the agenda to warm the planet is cleverly hidden in plain sight disguised as an undisclosed but benevolent government program to test aerosol spraying to cool the planet if we should ever decide it’s necessary.

Meanwhile, arctic ice continues to retreat despite decades of “testing”. Aerosols are not the sole requirement in advanced climate change technology. High energy ionospheric heaters, Tesla Arrays, and exotic electromagnetic devices are required to interact with chemical aerosols in ways that normal water vapor contrails never could.

The Fascism of Feminism that hasn’t been shown

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Dear readers;

As I was growing up, I observed how men have been cornered by society, little by little. The police, the courts, and other parts of the government have weakened men’s position of power. No longer are they treated with respect and have been taken out of the traditional role of the ‘man of the house, the breadwinner;’ they are losing court battles, and sometimes landing on the streets with almost nothing after a divorce, while the court chase him for not paying child support even when he had no job. They sometime are put in jail.
Sometimes this happens while the woman is employed and is making more than is necessary to live comfortably, and while is accompanied by a new man in her life.
The following article, which has no author, should be read by everyone in order to better understand the injustices committed against men by a brainwashed society that has been made to believe that men are the evil ones, while for whom no one raises a hand on his behalf. FIRST OF A SERIES OF TWO.

The Fascism that hasn’t been shown

— This essay examines some of the issues closely related to feminist campaigning, providing gender balance on subjects such as domestic violence, dispelling feminist myths, while analyzing the behavior of women in 21st century Britain.

by anonymous author

There are many forms of fascism, people seeking to impose their will on others, some are obvious, while some masquerade as something far less sinister. Feminism belongs to the latter.

Who can argue with the pursuit of equality and justice for all in society? Their cause appears worthy at first glance, but scratch beneath the surface and their true agenda reveals itself to be something more sinister and hateful. The perpetrators of this form of fascism have suffered no repression in their lifetime yet seek revenge on modern men for past oppression, to consign men to their status as second-class citizens.

Equality is the last thing these feminists want. Like all fascists, they want ultimate control over mankind, literally. Their objective is to unconditionally support women, and to attack and vilify men at any given opportunity. Their ultimate goal is to repress and undermine masculinity, to feminize boys and men.

There is no rationale underpinning their philosophy. This form of fascism like all others is built on scapegoating, fear, subjugation, and control. Men are demonized and persecuted by feminists, their culture is not merely pro-women but anti-men. Men are their scapegoats, portrayed as cruel, aggressive, war mongers, wife beaters, pedophiles and sex-obsessed neanderthals, while they are the innocent victims in a cruel, aggressive, destructive society created by men.

The reality of course is very different. They seek to create a society where women have the freedom to say and do as they please, while men are restricted and controlled in their behavior. One rule for them, and one for us. This is manifesting itself right now, in the law courts, in employment, in domestic situations, in the media, and in society as a whole. Anyone who disagrees with the irrational, biased rhetoric propagated by feminists is met with derision and spite, and is obstinately dismissed as a misogynist.

There is no freedom of speech or expression in a fascist society and there isn’t with feminists. These women are committing hate crimes, propagating their own brand of dictatorial ideology.

It is vital that men stand up to the tyranny of feminist fascism, to prevent it entering mainstream culture any more than it has, otherwise the future is looking very bleak for men. This essay examines some of the issues closely related to feminist campaigning, providing gender balance on subjects such as domestic violence, dispelling feminist myths, while analyzing the behavior of women in 21st century Britain.

Feminist Organizations/Websites
There are a growing number of feminist/women’s organizations and ‘charities’ in the UK, all with varying degrees of hostility and bigotry. This form of fascism is growing at an unprecedented rate due mainly to the rise of the internet, and their influence is growing strong. Anti-male rhetoric is reaching out to a wider audience, brainwashing young impressionable, often vulnerable women like never before.

Cult feminist leaders, often with a heterophobic agenda, are grooming naive young women into viewing men as their enemy in society, a symbol of their fears, failures and perceived repression, disseminating fear and anti-male propaganda in the process. The rhetoric on these pages is similar in nature to racism, religious extremism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism, yet this form of stealth fascism appears acceptable to the authorities, even though the impact on society and on men is equally harmful.

Misguided feminist campaigners immerse themselves in this self-centered, narrow world of campaigning, seeking out cases of perceived sexism and injustice towards women, while their grip on reality becomes ever more tenuous. They’re not interested in asking men what they think; they just want revenge on innocent men targeted simply because of their gender. There are no principles or ethics underlying their objectives, it’s a case of unconditionally supporting women, while attacking the behavior of men, demonstrating an appalling level of arrogance in the process.

These women show no remorse or guilt for their actions, as they are too self-absorbed to understand the hypocrisy they display. The accessibility of the internet has allowed men an insight into the minds of these feminists, and very shocking and disturbing it is too. It is not healthy for a man to view these sites, and it’s certainly not healthy for a woman to immerse herself in the narrow-minded world of feminist campaigning. It will impact on their relationships at home and in the workplace.

These pages are negative enough to drain anyone’s soul, and can steal a young woman’s life and harm their social perception. Equality and gender politics is a subject, which can only be studied synchronically. References to history can only harm the process of attaining equality and will only cause injustice towards male contemporaries. Historical examination will only cloud people’s judgment.

The fact that women couldn’t vote a hundred years ago is irrelevant to new generations of men and women, and references to this past oppression will give rise to hostility and revenge. Most oppression throughout history has in fact related to class, not gender, and the vast majority of men have been treated far worse than women, and had been afforded less protection than many women higher in status.
Industrialization is built on the exploitation of working class men, and many couldn’t vote because they were considered illiterate and uneducated. Britain’s wealth, which women take for granted is built on the exploitation of men, NOT women.

It is important to consider the psychology of the modern feminist campaigner. Many members of feminist groups and women’s organizations suffer from delusions of persecution. Many have emotional problems, suffering from anxiety, stress, depression and they want someone to blame, yet they fail to look within themselves for the source of their problems and failures. Paranoia is rife. They seek scapegoats for their personal failings and emotional problems like any fascists, racists or homophobics do. The mindset of the feminist fascist is much the same.

WILL CONTINUE ON NEXT WEEK EDITION

The surprising health benefits of eating celery everyday!

Published by Sun Gazing

Celery is by far one of the most underrated vegetables. Many people assume that the crunchy green stalks are just full of water and mostly void of any real or substantial nutritional benefit. However, such an assumption couldn’t be further from the truth because celery is packed full of nutrients, vitamins, antioxidants, and all sorts of good stuff that our bodies need to stay healthy.

By simply eating more celery you can bring about many positive changes in your body. For example, studies have shown that by eating celery everyday it can help to protect and strengthen your eyesight and even brighten your eyes, making them appear whiter and more clear. In effect, this also makes you look fresh faced and younger looking. Plus, the better your vision, the less you have to strain your eyes and squint.

Below is a list of the top health benefits that celery has to offer us.

Anti-Inflammatory- Celery contains particular non-starch types of polysaccharides which are believed to give it anti-inflammatory benefits. It also contains antioxidants which fight against free radical damage, which is a major contributing factor to inflammation and chronic diseases like cancer and arthritis. Furthermore, those who have ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, or other issues with inflammation in their digestive tracts can benefit greatly from eating celery because the antioxidants in it have been shown, and used, to effectively treat those conditions.

Protects and Repairs Damage at the Cellular Level- Celery contains over a dozen different types of antioxidants including flavonoids, vitamin K, and lunularin. These antioxidant nutrients help to naturally relieve oxidative stress and aid our bodies in removing damage causing free radicals, thus providing protection for our cells, blood vessels, and organs against them.

Regulates Body Temperature- Celery’s high water content and naturally present electrolytes help to regulate your body temperature by both hydrating and cooling your body down on a really hot day.

Helps Prevent Ulcers- Celery can help prevent ulcers, those tiny painful sores in the stomach or small intestine, from forming because it contains a certain type of ethanol extract that protects the digestive system lining. Studies have shown that celery greatly increases amounts of gastric mucus in the stomach lining which is vital in the protection against ulcers, rips and tears. This is especially true for people who suffer from low or insufficient levels of gastric mucus to begin with.

Helps Prevent Urinary Tract Infections- Celery is like cranberries in this respect because it stimulates urine production while also helping to reduce uric acid levels. This makes it an excellent aid for helping to prevent and fight against UTIs and other bacterial infections in the reproductive and/or digestive tracts.

Helps You Lose Weight- At only 10 calories per stick it’s extremely low calorie, all-natural, and yet still full of vitamins and nutrients. It also helps regulate metabolism and fills you up, thereby reducing your urge to snack afterwards on less healthy options.

In addition, celery has been proven to help lower cholesterol, prevent high blood pressure, and protect our livers against fat build up. It may even help to protect us from certain types of cancers but the research in that area is on-going and more studies in that area are needed.

Why are Mexican teachers being jailed for protesting the education reform?

dnb08mexicocity48.jpg MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - 14NOVEMBER08 - Mexico City police face teachers who have arrived in the capital from all over the country to demonstrate against the government's proposed education reforms. Copyright David Bacon

by David Bacon

LATEST BULLETIN:  On Sunday, June 19, Federal armed forces in Oaxaca fired on teachers and supporters in the Mixteca town of Nochixtlan, and at press time, it had killed at least a dozen people and wounded several dozens more.

On Sunday night, June 12, as Ruben Núñez, head of Oaxaca’s teachers union, was leaving a meeting in Mexico City, his car was overtaken and stopped by several large king-cab pickup trucks. Heavily armed men in civilian clothes exited and pulled him, another teacher, and a taxi driver from their cab, and then drove them at high speed to the airport. Núñez was immediately flown over a thousand miles north to Hermosillo, Sonora, and dumped into a high-security federal lockup.

Just hours earlier, unidentified armed agents did the same thing in Oaxaca itself, taking prisoner Francisco Villalobos, the union’s second-highest officer, and flying him to the Hermosillo prison as well. Villalobos was charged with having stolen textbooks a year ago. Núñez’s charges are still unknown.

Both joined Aciel Sibaja, who’s been sitting in the same penitentiary since April 14. Sibaja’s crime? Accepting dues given voluntarily by teachers across Oaxaca. Sección 22, the state teachers union, has had to collect dues in cash since last July, when state authorities froze not only the union’s bank accounts but even the personal ones of its officers. Sibaja was responsible for keeping track of the money teachers paid voluntarily, which the government called “funds from illicit sources.”

The three are not the only leaders of Oaxaca’s union in jail. Four others have been imprisoned since last October. “The leaders of Sección 22 are hostages of the federal government,” says Luis Hernández Navarro, a former teacher and now opinion editor for the Mexico City daily La Jornada. “Their detention is simultaneously a warning of what can happen to other teachers who continue to reject the [federal government’s] ‘education reform,’ and a payback to force the movement to demobilize.”

The arrests are just one effort the Mexican government has made in recent months to stop protests. On May 19, Education Secretary Aurelio Nuño Mayer announced that he was firing 3,000 teachers from Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Michoacán for not having worked for three days.

All three states are strongholds of the independent teachers movement within the National Union of Education Workers-the National Coordination of Education Workers (the CNTE, or “Coordinadora”). CNTE teachers have been striking schools since earlier this spring to stop implementation of the government’s education reform program. While strikes in Mexico are hotly contested, there is no precedent for firing teachers in such massive numbers just for striking.

The night of the firings, federal police attacked and removed the encampment that teachers had organized outside Mexico City’s education secretariat. On June 11, the police in Oaxaca City moved to dismantle a similar encampment in front of the state’s education office. When 500 heavily armed police advanced shooting tear gas, confrontations spilled into the surrounding streets, reminiscent of the way a similar strike in 2006 was attacked, and then mushroomed into an insurrection that lasted for months.

One controversial provision of the federal government’s education reform requires teachers to take tests to evaluate their qualifications. Those not making good marks are subject to firing. This year, when the government tried to begin testing, teachers struck in protest.

In March, when Nuño tried to give awards to “distinguished and excellent teachers,” one of them, Lucero Navarette, a primary-school teacher in Chihuahua, told him, “The results can depend on many factors and the personal circumstances each one of us live through…many don’t get the result they deserve, because the job they actually do at school is very different from what comes out in the test.” Journalist Hernández Navarro says educators have a tradition of egalitarianism and mutual support, and believe that “there are no first- or second- or third-class teachers. Only teachers.”

On March 22 Nuño also announced a measure that would spell the end to Mexico’s national system of teacher training schools, called the “normals.” Instead of having to graduate from a normal, he said, anyone with a college degree in any subject could be hired to teach. Since the Mexican Revolution and before, the normals have been the vehicle for children from poor families in the countryside, and from the families of teachers themselves, to become trained educators. Returning to rural and working-class communities, teachers then often play an important role in developing movements for social justice.
The normal schools themselves have historically been hotbeds of social protest and movements challenging the government.

Guerrero’s normal school in Ayotzinapa was the target two years ago of an attack that led to the disappearance and possible murder of 43 students, which has since galvanized Mexico. Recently a commission of international experts criticized the Mexican government for refusing to cooperate in efforts to identify the fate of the students, and pointed to the possible involvement of officials at very high levels in their disappearance.

Firing teachers and disbanding the normals is a not-so-hidden goal of the federal education reform. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has called for abolishing the normal schools, and urged President Enrique Peña Nieto to fire teachers who get bad test results and exclude them from teaching. Similar measures have been advocated by a Washington think tank, the Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas, a project of the Inter-American Dialogue with funding from USAID.

Both organizations work in cooperation with the corporate Mexican education reform lobby, Mexicanos Primero, headed Claudio González Guajardo, a member of one of the country’s wealthiest families. González instructed Peña Nieto that “Mexicans elected you, not the [teachers] union,” and told him to “end the power of the union over hiring, promotion, pay, and benefits for teachers.”

Oaxaca has become a target because Sección 22 proposed its own alternative education reform over six years ago, which concentrated on respecting indigenous culture and forging alliances between teachers, students, parents, and their communities (for more on the alternative reform proposals and the corporate sector’s attacks on teachers, see “US-Style School Reform Goes South”). After the insurrection of 2006, the union became the backbone of the left’s effort to defeat the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and in 2010 Oaxacans for the first time elected a non-PRI governor, Gabino Cué. Owing his election to the teachers, Cué agreed to begin implementing their reform instead of the federal one.

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The government of Mars is already being planned: a glimpse at Martian law

by James Holbrooks
UndergroundReporter.org

As NASA, tech billionaires, and other nonprofit organizations all vie to colonize the stars — with a particular eye on Mars as humanity’s next home — researchers in Seattle have recently offered a glimpse of what government on the Red Planet could look like.

As far back as 2010 — outlined in the U.S. National Space Policy and then given the budgetary green light by the NASA Authorization Act — the United States has advanced the idea that Americans could be living on Mars by the 2030s. A major milestone toward this end would be streamlining the ability to land human beings on an asteroid, which the space agency hopes to accomplish by 2025.

This is around the same time that Mars One, the Netherlands-based nonprofit research group whose stated goal is to establish a human colony on Mars by 2027, is slated to start rocketing the hardware needed to construct and maintain said colony in the Red Planet’s direction.

“A habitable settlement will await the first crew before they depart Earth,” Mars One says in its mission statement. “The hardware needed will be sent to Mars in the years ahead of the humans. This unmanned mission is currently scheduled for 2024.”

Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire CEO of Tesla Motors and private aerospace manufacturer SpaceX — and the man whose timetable for putting humans on Mars beats even that of Mars One — has long seen the colonization of the Red Planet as a means to save the species.

“I think there is a strong humanitarian argument for making life multi-planetary,” Musk told Aeon magazine when asked why we should focus on Mars when there are so many problems facing people here on Earth, “in order to safeguard the existence of humanity in the event that something catastrophic were to happen, in which case being poor or having a disease would be irrelevant, because humanity would be extinct.”

Even Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, whose private aerospace company Blue Origin is focused primarily on moving heavy industry from Earth to outer space, says we absolutely should and will colonize Mars, “because it’s cool.”

But as more and more time, energy and capital are devoted to establishing a human presence on Mars, many are asking how the body governing such a colony will function.

One research group in Seattle, the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, has recently penned a report addressing that very question.

The report, titled “A Pragmatic Approach to Sovereignty on Mars” and published in Space Policy, borrows from three already established treaties — the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), the Outer Space Treaty (OST), and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Using 1967’s Outer Space Treaty as a foundation, the researchers targeted the potential problems that could arise as citizens from different countries begin to cohabitate on a new planet — namely, how much power should a central governing structure possess, how to handle the inevitable disputes that will arise, and how resource rights should be allocated and protected.

The governing body proposed by the Blue Marble Institute is called the Mars Secretariat. As the name implies, this body would be a weak central authority whose purview would primarily be administrative — record maintenance, secretarial duties, and the like. Martian inhabitants themselves would wield significant local power.

Legally, however, this power would be derived from inhabitants’ host nations, “with conflicts to be resolved diplomatically or through a temporary tribunal system composed of representatives of other Mars colonies.”

As for resources, the report proposes — for the early days of colonization, anyway — that claims be limited to around 100 km parcels of land. Colonists within that zone would have all economic rights to the resources in that parcel, though they would have no authority to prevent others from landing, or even building habitats, within that border.

“The right of peaceful passage through exclusive economic zones is…patterned after UNCLOS,” the report states, “which also restricts the degree of control that a colony can exert over the zone in which it operates.”

The OST states that “the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind.” To this end, the report further proposes the establishment of “planetary parks” and a “Mars tax.”

The parks would be preserved tracts of unclaimed land set aside for scientific and cultural use by all nations. The tax would be applied for the right to extract Mars’ resources, with the revenue being distributed to countries back home on Earth.

But eventually — assuming everything goes to plan — the stage will be reached in the future whereby inhabitants of the Red Planet will begin thinking of themselves as Martians, as opposed to colonists from Earth. And at that point, how much of any cobbled-together governing structure can those folks be expected to live by?

None, says political scientist Michael Byers from the University of British Columbia.

“In short,” he wrote in a January article for the Washington Post, “a Mars colony would be entitled to independence if the majority of colonists made this desire clear through a referendum.”

Citing the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which established self-determination as a basic human right, Byers concluded that:
Human rights are universal; they apply to every human being, on this planet and elsewhere.

Amnesty International: surviving death

Police and military torture of women in Mexico

by the El Reportero’s wire services

Torture is widespread in Mexico’s “war on drugs”, but the impact on women has been largely ignored or downplayed.

This report analyses the stories of 100 women who have reported torture and other forms of violence during arrest and interrogation by police and armed forces.

Of those women interviewed by Amnesty International, 72 reported being sexually tortured and 97 had been physically abused. Rape was reported at all levels of the government, though the highest incidents came from the navy.

Severe beatings; threats of rape against women and their families; near-asphyxiation, electric shocks to the genitals; groping of breasts and pinching of nipples; rape with objects, fingers, firearms and the penis – these are just some of the forms of violence inflicted on women, in many cases with the intention of getting them to “confess” to serious crimes.

In April, a video was leaked showing police and military officials suffocating a woman with a plastic bag during an interrogation. That prompted an official apology from Mexico’s Minister of Defense and National Security Commissioner.

Venezuela’s bid to silence political prisoners’ appeal for amnesty is shot down by UNHRC chair

Venezuela was overruled by the chair of the UN human rights council today when its delegate interrupted a UN speech in a failed bid to stop the reading of an appeal for council members to release political prisoners on the occasion of the council’s 10th anniversary.

The appeal, signed by family members of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, Venezuela, Vietnam and Cuba, was read out today in the plenary of the council by Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights group.

Venezuela’s delegate interrupted as soon as Neuer mentioned the name of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo López. “We do not think it is appropriate to raise specific countries,” he said, even though most of the previous 15 NGO speeches in the session had done exactly that.

However, Venezuela’s objection was shot down with uncommon firmness by the session chair, who strongly defended UN Watch’s right to speak. Many diplomats who chair UN sessions are leery of siding with activists when it could upset country delegates. (UN Watch).

Beaches of Puerto Rico are sold to US billionaires…by Puerto Rican government traitors

On Friday June 24, with only one “No” vote, the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico overwhelmingly approved PC 2853: a bill which transfers beaches in huge coastal areas – including Vieques, Culebra, Condado, Isla Verde, Isabela, Lajas, Cabo Rojo, Guánica and Rincón – into “private” ownership.

If this bill becomes law, all “private” beaches in these areas will be closed to the Puerto Rican public. “But the deepest significance of this bill, is that the politicians of Puerto Rico are knowingly…intentionally…doing the dirty work of the Financial Control Board, before they even arrive on the island,” sources said.

The POLITICS of this bill are important to understand. Please note the following:
• It was introduced in the very last days of the legislative session. This allowed little time for public review, debate or amendment. Probably, many legislators did not even read it.

• The near-unanimity was striking: both parties approved it, with only one of the 51 representatives (José Luis Báez Rivera) voting against it. This is especially shocking, since it involves the controversial selling of public beaches…which should belong to everyone.

• Yet here, the politicians transferred dozens of them in a great hurry…with no floor debate and a near-unanimous vote.

The author of the bill, who also introduced it, was Angel Matos García…the PPD representative from Carolina.

Carolina is where Tito Kayak, Playas P’al Pueblo and hundreds of environmental activists have demonstrated against the Marriott Hotel take-over of their public beach…the Balneario de Carolina…for over a decade.

Puro Bandido with its original Latin rock taste

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

One of the groups that has persevered time and the stone age, is Puro Bandido, which will performing nearby the Mission as a tribute to Diamond John, Life Celebration. Come everyone to Slim’s, at 333 11th Street, San Francisco. Doors open at 7 p.m. and show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at Slims 415-255-0333.

Yahir Durán brings his trova to San Francisco

Yahir Duran (1973) Singer-Songwriter, is one of the most notable representatives of the new Mexican trova. As a writer of narrative, has a literary work in the form of stories and chronicles in which recounts his childhood and family roots in autobiographical tone, his memories and the magical surroundings of his native Topolobampo, Sinaloa in a book called Amar adentro.
At the Community Music Center, on Saturday, July 16 at 7 – 9 p.m., 544 Capp St, San Francisco, California 94110

John Leguizamo Returns to the Bay Area with John Leguizamo: Latin History of Morons

The outrageous, multifaceted performer attempts to teach his son (and the rest of us) about the marginalization of Latinos in U.S. history and the vital roles they played in building this country. From a satirical recap of Aztec and Incan history to stories of Latin patriots in the Revolutionary and Civil War and beyond, Leguizamo breaks down 3,000 years into 90 irreverent and uncensored minutes in his trademark comedic style.

History was never so mind-blowing…or hysterical! Latin History for Morons plays July 1-August 14 at Berkeley Rep. Discounts for under 30. Bring a group: Buy 10, save $10 (each ticket!). Visit BerkeleyRep.org for tickets. 

“My Brother’s Keeper? Expressions of Our World Today” art exhibition

Are we our brother’s keeper? When it comes to the earth, equality, and the harmony of our fellow humans, do we bear a responsibility, regardless of who or where we may be? Back To The Picture presents six artists and their vision of our world today through powerful depictions on our present state.

Join us in July for a commentary, sometimes raw and intense, sometimes playful. What at first may seem light on the surface, soon pulls a deeper truth from within.

On display works of Art Hazlewood, Jessie Aquire, Kathy Aoki, Consuelo Jiménez-Underwood, Mark Harris, Robyn Kralique. July 3 – 31, 2016 Curated by Derek Hargrove.

Opening reception with the artists Saturday, July 9, 2016 7-10 p.m.

La Gente extends its marathon of live music at American Music Hall

LA GENTE will be headlining in the most historic music Venue in San Francisco: The Great American Music Hall! We will be teaming up with our brethren from across the bay: the infectious, funk-madness of PLANET BOOTY! And San Francisco’s newest up and coming soul group: The Histville Soul Sisters! We also will be featuring a slew of specials guests from all the top bands of the Bay Area. This is going to be a historic night for the Bay Area Music Scene! Get your tickets today!!! 
Saturday July 16, 850 O’Farrall, San Francisco, at 8 p.m., $16 cover.

Los Van Van bring Cuban music to the United States

by the El Reportero’s news services

The orchestra Los Van Van monopolizes the attention of all Cuban music lovers during its US tour in June, when performing in more than 10 cities in addition to Puerto Rico. They played in San Francisco on June 10 at the Herbst Theater.

The media, particularly the specialized music magazine Billboard, praised the presentation of the legendary group, which has retained its popularity since its founding over 40 years ago.

According to reports from that publication, Los Van Van are one of the essential groups in Cuban musical history, an icon in the soundscape of the island.

The group also performs this month in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Then, it will travel to New York, New Jersey and Washington; and will end the tour at the amphitheater Tito Puentes, of Puerto Rico, on July 9.

This is the second time Los Van Van made a US tour, after the death of its creator, Juan Formell. Its concert in Miami last year is still remembered when it performed before an audience of more than 5.000 spectators.

Mexico receives software for preserving cultural heritage

The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico will preserve and restore the cultural heritage of the country with a software donated by the German company Fokus GmbH.

Upon receiving two licenses of the program called Metigo MAP, the institute can make digital graphic records, and create and modify images processed (rectified), in situ or in the office, movable and immovable property.

It was developed in Germany by engineer Gunnar Siedler, in 2000.

This places these entities as the first public institutions in Latin America with this computer program, said Saturday in a statement INAH.

This software also provides specialized tools for drawing graphic record of projects, such as deterioration of the object and interventions, among other processes.

With this platform, said Gunnar Siedler, we worked on over 400 projects and one of them is the conservation and restoration of the murals of the church of St Ludwig in Munich, Germany, built between 1829 and 1844 paintings.

For the first time he offers a course in Latin America and said the company Fokus GMbH is interested in the preparation of future restorers, why two licenses donated to INAH.


Mexico hosts 1st International Crime Novel Festival

The 1st International Novel Festival Huella del Crimen (Traces of the Crime) started today in Mexico City with a round table for the analysis of William Shakespeare’s works, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death.
The analysis session, titled “Shakespeare and Crime”, will host British authors Val McDermid and Mari Hannah, as well as French Bernard Minier.

Participants will discuss the presence of essential components of the crime genre in Shakespeare’s classic tragedies, like crime, intrigue and mystery.

Other participants include forensic anthropologist Sarah Hainsworth, Head of the Center for Advanced Microscopy at the University of Leicester, UK.

The play Richard III, whose original title is “The Life and Death of King Richard III”, is another of the tragedies written by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), and the last one of his tetralogy about England’s history, a statement by the Ministry of Culture said.

The Festival will take place from Jun 17th to 19th at the San Luis Potosí’s Arts Center, and it will include conferences, talks, workshops and film screenings, among other activities.

Boggling flu hoax: not for prime-time news

by Jon Rappoport

“Repeat a lie often enough and people believe it. We all know that. But there are millions of people out there who think a public-health agency like the CDC, a scientific body, would never engage in such tactics. Those millions of people would be wrong. There is a rule: the most holy, sacred, revered, uncontestable organization hides the biggest secrets. It’s a good rule to keep in mind. Major media don’t apply it. But you can.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

There are many propaganda operations surrounding the flu. Here I just want to boil down a few boggling facts.
Dr. Peter Doshi, writing in the online BMJ (British Medical Journal), reveals one monstrosity.

As Doshi states, every year, hundreds of thousands of respiratory samples are taken from flu patients in the US and tested in labs. Here is the kicker: only a small percentage of these samples show the presence of a flu virus.
This means: most of the people in America who are diagnosed by doctors with the flu have no flu virus in their bodies.

So they don’t have the flu.

Therefore, even if you assume the flu vaccine is useful and safe, it couldn’t possibly prevent all those “flu cases” that aren’t flu cases.

The vaccine couldn’t possibly work.

The vaccine isn’t designed to prevent fake flu, unless pigs can fly.

Here’s the exact quote from Peter Doshi’s BMJ review, “Influenza: marketing vaccines by marketing disease” (BMJ):
“…even the ideal influenza vaccine, matched perfectly to circulating strains of wild influenza and capable of stopping all influenza viruses, can only deal with a small part of the ‘flu’ problem because most ‘flu’ appears to have nothing to do with influenza. Every year, hundreds of thousands of respiratory specimens are tested across the US. Of those tested, on average 16 percent are found to be influenza positive.

“…It’s no wonder so many people feel that ‘flu shots’ don’t work: for most flus, they can’t.”
Because most diagnosed cases of the flu aren’t the flu.

So even if you’re a true believer in mainstream vaccine theory, you’re on the short end of the stick here. They’re conning your socks off.

In December of 2005, the British Medical Journal (online) published another shocking Peter Doshi report, which created tremors through the halls of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), where “the experts” used to tell the press that 36,000 people in the US die every year from the flu.

Here is a quote from Doshi’s report, “Are US flu death figures more PR than science?” (BMJ):

“[According to CDC statistics], ‘influenza and pneumonia’ took 62,034 lives in 2001—61,777 of which were attributable to pneumonia and 257 to flu, and in only 18 cases was the flu virus positively identified.”
Boom.

You see, the CDC has created one overall category that combines both flu and pneumonia deaths. Why do they do this? Because they disingenuously assume that the pneumonia deaths are complications stemming from the flu.
This is an absurd assumption. Pneumonia has a number of causes.

But even worse, in all the flu and pneumonia deaths, only 18 revealed the presence of an influenza virus.
Therefore, the CDC could not say, with assurance, that more than 18 people died of influenza in 2001. Not 36,000 deaths. 18 deaths.

Doshi continued his assessment of published CDC flu-death statistics: “Between 1979 and 2001, [CDC] data show an average of 1348 [flu] deaths per year (range 257 to 3006).” These figures refer to flu separated out from pneumonia.

This death toll is obviously far lower than the parroted 36,000 figure.
However, when you add the sensible condition that lab tests have to actually find the flu virus in patients, the numbers of flu deaths plummet even further.

In other words, it’s all promotion and hype.

“Well, uh, we say that 36,000 people die from the flu every year in the US. But actually, it’s closer to 20.
However, we can’t admit that, because if we did, we’d be exposing our gigantic psyop. The whole campaign to scare people into getting a flu shot would have about the same effect as warning people to carry iron umbrellas, in case toasters fall out of upper-story windows…and, by the way, we’d be put in prison for fraud.”

False realities bloom from the intentional planting of false seeds. Bit by bit, garden by garden, pasture by pasture, the reality spreads, until it is considered unimpeachable. This is how the game works.

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