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John F. Kennedy vs. the Federal Reserve – Part One of a Series

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:

My research on controversial topics continue to pay off. I found this excellent and interesting article, which, due to its length, it will be published in parts. In this piece you will learn about how is that President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s Executive Order 11110, gave the Treasury Department Constitutional power to again create and issue currency -money – without going through the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank, that is what is currently done now. It suggests that JFK was kill for that reason. FIRST PART OF A SERIES.

by John-F-Kennedy.net

On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. The Christian Law Fellowship has exhaustively researched this matter through the Federal Register and Library of Congress. We can now safely conclude that this Executive Order has never been repealed, amended, or superceded by any subsequent Executive Order. In simple terms, it is still valid.

When President John Fitzgerald Kennedy – the author of Profiles in Courage -signed this Order, it returned to the federal government, specifically the Treasury Department, the Constitutional power to create and issue currency -money – without going through the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. President Kennedy’s Executive Order 11110 [the full text is displayed further below] gave the Treasury Department the explicit authority: “to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury.” This means that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury’s vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation based on the silver bullion physically held there. As a result, more than $4 billion in United States Notes were brought into circulation in $2 and $5 denominations. $10 and $20 United States Notes were never circulated but were being printed by the Treasury Department when Kennedy was assassinated. It appears obvious that President Kennedy knew the Federal Reserve Notes being used as the purported legal currency were contrary to the Constitution of the United States of America.

“United States Notes” were issued as an interest-free and debt-free currency backed by silver reserves in the U.S. Treasury. We compared a “Federal Reserve Note” issued from the private central bank of the United States (the Federal Reserve Bank a/k/a Federal Reserve System), with a “United States Note” from the U.S. Treasury issued by President Kennedy’s Executive Order. They almost look alike, except one says “Federal Reserve Note” on the top while the other says “United States Note”. Also, the Federal Reserve Note has a green seal and serial number while the United States Note has a red seal and serial number.

President Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963 and the United States Notes he had issued were immediately taken out of circulation. Federal Reserve Notes continued to serve as the legal currency of the nation. According to the United States Secret Service, 99 percent of all U.S. paper “currency” circulating in 1999 are Federal Reserve Notes.

Kennedy knew that if the silver-backed United States Notes were widely circulated, they would have eliminated the demand for Federal Reserve Notes. This is a very simple matter of economics. The USN was backed by silver and the FRN was not backed by anything of intrinsic value. Executive Order 11110 should have prevented the national debt from reaching its current level (virtually all of the nearly $9 trillion in federal debt has been created since 1963) if LBJ or any subsequent President were to enforce it. It would have almost immediately given the U.S. Government the ability to repay its debt without going to the private Federal Reserve Banks and being charged interest to create new “money”. Executive Order 11110 gave the U.S.A. the ability to, once again, create its own money backed by silver and realm value worth something.

Again, according to our own research, just five months after Kennedy was assassinated, no more of the Series 1958 “Silver Certificates” were issued either, and they were subsequently removed from circulation. Perhaps the assassination of JFK was a warning to all future presidents not to interfere with the private Federal Reserve’s control over the creation of money. It seems very apparent that President Kennedy challenged the “powers that exist behind U.S. and world finance”. With true patriotic courage, JFK boldly faced the two most successful vehicles that have ever been used to drive up debt:

1) war (Viet Nam); and,
2) the creation of money by a privately owned central bank. His efforts to have all U.S. troops out of Vietnam by 1965 combined with Executive Order 11110 would have destroyed the profits and control of the private Federal Reserve Bank.
IT WILL CONTINUE ON THE NEXT WEEK EDITION.

Grow your own superfoods in your home garden this year

by Jon E. Dougherty
Homesteading.news

When most people think of the term “superfood,” they think of exotic fruits or imported vegetables from places with foreign names and distant locales. In reality, many of the foods you likely eat and even grow in your own garden are superfoods.

The common definition of a superfood is any food (fruit, vegetable, etc.) that you can consume that has a high concentration of nutrients and anti-oxidants. Many of these are probably foods that your mother told you that you had to eat if you wanted to leave the dinner table or to grow up to be big and strong.

Here is a list of superfoods that will grow in just about any location in the northern hemisphere with a growing season of 3 months or more. If you start from seeds, you will likely need to start them indoors before the spring thaw to maximize your growing time outdoors.

Broccoli – is probably the best-known and most often cited superfood that is commonly grown in home garden plots. Broccoli has several benefits including being a great source of antioxidants.

1. Carrots – are likely the other most well-known of superfoods that are commonly grown and eaten in the U.S. Carrots are thick with phytonutrients, antioxidants, and nearly every vitamin you can name.

2. Garlic – a favorite spice for cooking, this stuff is loaded with nearly everything good for you that you can imagine. It’s a known cardiovascular booster, an anti-microbial, and more.

3. Green Beans – have to be one of the easiest things to grow and are grown both in garden plots and potted indoors to vine up walls or along racks. Beans are good for kidney stones, arthritis, and are packed with minerals.

4. Spinach – isn’t just for Popeye, Olive. It’s a very easy plant to grow, gives edible leaves throughout the season, and has some of the highest concentrations of vitamins A and C and folic acid you can get.

5. Squash – of nearly any type is great for you. Acorn, Butternut, Pumpkins, and many others are packed with fiber, vitamin C, manganese, vitamin B6, potassium, and much more.

6. Tomatoes – are everyone’s favorite garden vegetable (fruit, actually) to grow and the subject of intense scrutiny and competition. Tomatoes are also full of antioxidants, vitamin C, and light acids that aid digestion.

7. These are just a few of the many superfoods you can grow in your own garden this year to promote better health. Gardening can not only be a fun, healthy way to spend your spare time this summer, but it can also lower your food bills, raise your health and nutritional levels, and bring your family closer together!

Start gardening and grow your own superfoods this spring!

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee ignores calls for meeting with hunger strikers #frisco5

by Josh Wolf

After spending two weeks without food, the bodies of the five people camped outside of the Mission Police Station are growing weak, but their commitment to seeing San Francisco’s police chief step down remains strong.

They are known as the #frisco5 and have been on a hunger strike since April 21, and they are calling for Mayor Ed Lee to fire Police Chief Greg Suhr or for him to resign on his own. So far, both the mayor and the chief have refused to consider their demand.

The most recent person killed by the San Francisco Police Department was Jose Luis Gongora-Pat, who was shot on April 7.

Gongora-Pat had been living in a tent on the 400 block of Shotwell Street when the police were called regarding a man with a knife. Although multiple witnesses have said that Gongora-Pat was neither holding the knife nor posed any threat to the responding officers, he was shot repeatedly within 30-seconds after the police arrived.

Gongora-Pat’s death follows that of Mario Woods who was killed by the SFPD in December of last year, and Amilcar Pérez-López who was killed in February of that same year. Last month, a civil jury ruled that the police department wouldn’t be held responsible for the killing of Alex Nieto who was shot by police on March 21, 2014.

These numerous deaths under the command of Chief Suhr have ignited a broad community coalition that have been advocating for the chief to step down for months.

On April 15, at a celebration in Dolores Park to commemorate 4/15 day — the area code for San Francisco — Ilyich Sato, who is more widely known as the rapper Equipto, announced that he would be starting a hunger strike with his mother Maria Cristina Gutiérrez. The two pledged to refuse food until Chief Suhr stepped down or was fired by the mayor.

By the time that they began fasting, three additional activists agreed to join the hunger strike and the #Frisco5 was born. The additional strikers include Edwin Lindo, a lawyer and community activist who is a candidate for Supervisor in District 9; Averi Selassie Blackwell, a rapper, community activist and father to a young child who he has said helped catalyze his decision to take part in the hunger strike, and Ike Ali Pinkston who runs the Companeros Del Barrio Preschool with Gutiérrez.

On Tuesday, May 3, hundreds of people filled the block of Valencia street between 17th and 18th street to show their support for the hunger strikers. The large contingent planned to march to City Hall to meet with the Mayor, but it remained uncertain if the mayor would agree to meet with them.

Without any advanced notice, Mayor Lee had stopped by to visit the hunger strikers the day before their planned rally, but they said they were frustrated and angry by the mayor’s approach. They said they already had plans to meet with the mayor the following day and would only participate in a conversation if he was willing to fire the chief. After thirty minutes, the mayor quietly exited through a side door to the police station, the same way that he had arrived earlier in the day.

Severely weakened from nearly two weeks without food, the hunger strikers were helped into wheel chairs for the mile-long march and by volunteers from UCSF who pushed them along as they led the march to City Hall.

When the crowd arrived at City Hall, supporters flanked both sides along Civic Center Plaza and ushered the #frisco5 up the wheelchair ramp and into the building. As they entered the building and headed to the Mayor’s Office the crowd rallied outside and waited for updates.

“It took a hunger strike to make me feel alive in a city that feels dead,” said poet Tony Robles during the rally. “It took a hunger strike to clear my veins of all that digital cholesterol. It took a hunger strike to show that we could be tender without legal tender.”

Meanwhile, according the mayor’s twitter feed, the mayor was meeting with “merchants on 3rd St in the Bayview to discuss how City can support small business.”

About an hour later, Lee posted that he was “Touring Pier 80 shelter as #SF receives $4.5m from @HUDgov to house & support our homeless residents.”

“The Mayor’s a coward,” said Yayne Abeba, the media liaison for the #Frisco5. “He won’t even come back to City Hall.”

With the mayor absent from his office in room 200, the contingent of folks inside City Hall moved into the chamber for the Board of Supervisors during their regular weekly meeting.

During that meeting, supporters and participants in the strike spoke out and addressed the supervisors, but the city broadcaster SFGovTV cut off the broadcast and instead broadcast a static graphic that said, “Please stand by, this meeting is in recess.”

About two hours after they entered city hall, the #frisco5 came out to address their supporters.
“Now we’re powerful because we have shown the world that we were trying to reach out to those who said that they are representing our people in there and they did not respond. So there will be no more negotiations. There will be no more talking to any of these people,” said Gutiérrez, one of the #frisco5. “There will be only a constant struggle, not only by us that are not going to eat, but each one of you that are going to follow the mayor everywhere that he is, and you tell him that he has to save our life and that he has to fire the chief of police.”

Obama prepares to send troops into Syria

Meanwhile the US is already planning their next major coup

by Claire Bernish

A nonviolent coup to depose a democratically-elected president and install some of the most corrupt politicians — who, not coincidentally happen to be favored by the U.S. political establishment — is currently underway in Brazil. As the public’s attention zeroes on the readying of troops for deployment to Syria, the U.S. government has been able to quietly lend its approval to the crooked and baseless move to oust Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

Indeed, though the controversy over quintupling U.S. ground troops in Syria — despite vows by the Obama administration at least 16 times there would be ‘no boots on the ground’ — constitutes a valid and pertinent debate, it can’t be allowed to obfuscate what’s taking place in Brazil.

To understand the importance of the ongoing tumult, you need only look at who matters to both the Brazilian and U.S. political elite — and it clearly isn’t the 54 million people who re-elected Brazil’s first female president just 18 months ago.

In fact, the U.S. State Department has all but publicly asserted its support for the usurpation of power by Brazil’s center-right Social Democracy Party (PDSB) — perhaps because, as has been suggested by many, U.S. fingerprints are all over the coup. What better way to thwart Brazil’s successful dealings with Russia and China, as part of the BRICS economic alliance, than to insert an oligarchical leader whose party heavily favors U.S. interests.

First, it’s necessary to revisit the mechanics of the coup as well as the controversy surrounding those involved.

Brazil’s lower house of Congress voted to impeach Rousseff on April 17 on the premise of her alleged complicity in albeit relatively minor corruption. But the true impetus for Rousseff’s removal, contrary to the narrative championed by Brazil’s corporate media, is transparently evidenced in those calling for it — and in whom they wish to replace her with.

Bruno Araújo, a congressman who has been implicated as possibly receiving funds from a construction giant embroiled in a corruption scandal, helped tip the vote for impeachment earlier this month. Araújo, as the Intercept reported, belongs to the same PDSB party that lost four elections in a row to Rousseff’s Worker’s Party (PT).

“[T]he most important means for understanding the truly anti-democratic nature of what’s taking place,” the Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald explained, “is to look at the person whom Brazilian oligarchs and their media organs are trying to install as president: the corruption-tainted, deeply unpopular, oligarch-serving Vice President Michael Temer.”

For all the negative attention trained on Rousseff, Temer’s unpopular image and duplicitous dealings are worse, and could be worthy of his own impeachment proceedings. And he isn’t alone.

“Altogether, 60 percent of the 594 members of Brazil’s Congress face serious charges like bribery, electoral fraud, illegal deforestation, kidnapping and homicide,” as The New York Times cited corruption watchdog, Transparency Brazil.

But PDSB seeks to bypass that not-at-all minor detail through Rouseff’s impeachment — which, if successful, would automatically bring Temer to power — much to the satisfaction of the United States government.

To wit, another major figure pushing for the removal of Rousseff, Senator Aloysio Nunes, traveled to Washington, D.C., the day after the impeachment vote to consult with the third most powerful State Department official, Thomas Shannon, in a closed-door meeting.

As co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Mark Weisbrot, explained in an article for the Huffington Post, Shannon had no obligatory duty to meet with Nunes — but his doing so sent a clear message of at least tacit acceptance of the impeachment proceedings by the White House.

U.S. support of the current coup echoes that of the previous Brazilian coup in 1964 — a violent usurpation of power by U.S.-friendly dictator, during which Dilma Rousseff, herself, became a victim of physical torture.

But perhaps the most telling indication of U.S. support for deposing Rousseff can be found in a detail of Nunes recent Washington trip. As the Intercept’s Andrew Fishman explained in an interview with Democracy Now, Nunes was a guest at a private luncheon thrown by the Albright Stonebridge Group — a firm cofounded by the former CEO of Kellogg and Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state under Bill Clinton.

“[O]ne of the senior advisers affiliated with the Albright Stonebridge Group,” Fishman, who is located in Brazil, noted, “is the leader of an organization down here that’s very involved in the push against the Dilma government.”

He added that “while the U.S. government hasn’t made any official stance” on Rousseff’s impending impeachment, “it seems pretty obvious as to what their stance is and which side they’re supporting or would support.”

Honduras president asks for support to fight extorsion

by the El Reportero’s wire services

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández on Sunday asked people to support the police operations aimed at disarming a complex network of extortion in the country.

“We need more information,” underlined the head of Government when he called on the victims of that crime to report their cases to help authorities to fight what he considered one of the biggest challenges being faced in Honduras.

He also admitted the courage of people whose testimonies allowed capturing criminals during mass raids carried out by authorities as part of the so-called Operation Tornado.

According to a military spokesperson, the members of the Army and the National Anti-extortion Force has arrested 1,123 criminals so far.

In addition to capturing gang members who collected the so-called “war tax” in public transportation, a few days ago, the agents arrested 21 police officers and two army officers who were linked to that criminal network.

Considered one of the worst scourges in Honduras, extortion has forced more than 40,000 commercial establishments to close over the past decade and 130,000 jobs have been lost.

Sinaloa cartel has the biggest air fleet in Mexico

The Sinaloa Cartel might be considered the biggest airline in Mexico, stated a local newspaper Tuesday, taking into account that the number of confiscated airplanes from that criminal organization in the last 10 years.

Mexican newspaper El Universal said that military authorities confiscated 599 airplanes from the Sinaloa Cartel, in which they were able to move cocaine and marijuana all over Latin America in the last 10 years.
The air fleet by the Sinaloa Cartel is superior to the one by Aeromexico, the biggest commercial airline in the nation, with 127 airplanes.

The newspaper said that if the Cartel were a legal organization, it would compete with Aeromexico and every other airline in the country.

Information from the Mexican National Defense Ministry estimated the Sinaloa Cartel operates 4,000 clandestine airline tracks of between 500 and 1,000 meters long, located in the mountains in the north of Mexico.

Cases of Zika, dengue and Chikungunya increase to 35.000 in Honduras

The number of people affected by Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya increased to more than 35.000, the Ministry of Health of Honduras reported today.

The Vice Minister of Health Francis Contreras said that the country already registered more than 19.000 patients with Zika, and 76 with Guillain Barre Syndrome associated with the virus.

“It is not common the occurrence of so many cases of Guillain Barre syndrome. If the situation continues, by the end of the year the number of cases could reach the 300″, Contreras warned.

He also noted that 238 pregnant women remain under medical surveillance for suspected infection, mostly in the departments of Cortés, Francisco Morazán, Yoro and Choluteca.

A special concert celebrating Oscar de la Renta

Oscar de la Renta at his fashion show at Neiman Marcus- Chevy Chase, MD

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

The John Santos Sextet plus special guests

The name Oscar de la Renta is synonymous with grace and magnificence in design and taste. He rose through international ranks to earn historical immortality over a sixty year period in which he became a household name.

Born in the Dominican Republic of a Dominican mother and Puerto Rican father, he was acutely aware and proud of his Caribbean roots. In honor of those roots and his international journeys and pedigree, The John Santos Sextet has prepared a musical program reflecting the deep and wide-ranging influences of de la Renta’s spirit: an eclectic blend of traditional Antillean music from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Cuba, classical and period as well as avante-gard jazz.

For the occasion, John has enlisted the participation of two special guests in addition to the stellar line up of his Sextet, José Roberto Hernández – vocals, guitar Melquís Naveo – percusión dominicana.

Friday, April 29th, 2016, at 6:30 p.m., at The De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park San Francisco. FREE!
http://deyoung.famsf.org/calendar/live-music-john-santos-sextet-and-special-guests

Two Latin Rock Giants come Together in SF

Tierra rolls into San Francisco to share the stage with San Francisco’s own Richard Bean & Sapo.

Southern California’s Latin Rock legends Tierra, led by Rudy Salas, will perform at our inaugural show at The Goldenvoice venue, The Social Hall. Located around the corner from the Regency on Van Ness, the Social Hall has been bringing some very original shows and has now invited the Latin Rock crowd to come and be a part of the Goldenvoice Music family.

Sharing the stage with Tierra and bringing their hot sounds will be original “Suavecito” writer and singer Richard Bean and his group Sapo. After leaving Malo, Richard Bean continued his songwriting prowess with songs for his newly formed group Sapo, which had as one of its original members, Raul Rekow. We can only imagine that he will be there in spirit to join his former band on stage as they perform on a big stage in San Francisco like back in the day.

Opening the show will be Santana Tribute band from Sacramento, Sacred Fire. Latin Rock is alive and kicking again in the City where it started. Buy tickets here or by calling LRI at 415-285-7719 or writing DrBgMalo@AOL.com

On Friday April 29, at the SOCIAL HALL SF, 1270 Sutter Street, San Francisco. For info call 415-777-1715.

A 91-year-old man translated Don Quijote de la Mancha

by the El Reportero’s news services

It’s been more than 10 years in the making, but Quechua speakers will now be able to read El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha thanks to the efforts of 91-year-old Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui. The Peruvian professor and journalist just completed his translation of the second part of the Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra book from the original Spanish to the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

As anyone who’s tried translating from Spanish to English can confirm, it’s no easy task to preserve the meaning or concepts words hold across languages. “Cervantes uses some words in Spanish that are hard to translate into Quechua,”the Peruvian journalist said. “One example is the term hidalgo, which in Spanish means son of a nobleman. But the closest word to that in Quechua is a term for a person who has authority in society, and there are occasions where it’s better to respect the original word.”

And the work is still not done. Yupanqui wants to give Yachay sapa wiraqucha dun Qvixote Manchamantan an extra Andean touch. He wants artists from Sarhua – a district in the Víctor Fajardo province in Peru – to draw illustrations for the book. The first part of book is filled with colorful images.

It is this attention to detail that made Miguel De la Quadra-Salcedo, a Spanish reporter, tap Yupanqui for the project in the first place.
“One day Miguel arrived and, with his Basque accent, told me that he was coming to ask me to translate Don Quijote because in various parts of Argentina and Cuzco they told him that I was the person who could best translate it,” he said. “He surprised me, but I told him that I would do it with the dedication that the work deserved.”

In case you can’t appreciate how much work really went into this feat, then consider that the book is 928 pages in English. (by Yara Simón).

More news about Don Quijote:

Mexican writer Fernando del Paso awarded Cervantes Prize

Mexican writer Fernando del Paso today received the Cervantes Prize 2015 from Spanish King Felipe VI, in the 400th anniversary of the death of the playwright who gives name to the award.

The solemn award ceremony, the most important of Hispanic literature, took place in the auditorium of the Madrid University of Alcala de Henares, attended also by Queen Letizia and acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

The monarch stressed that Del Paso, is the sixth Mexican receiving the Cervantes, honored ‘in the best way our language with the expertise of a goldsmith able to get the best shine from precious metals’.

Paraphrasing the author, Felipe VI distinguished his work entitled Travel around the Quixote (2004), as a book that was born from ‘a curiosity that became love and then turned into an obsession.’

Retired UCR professor looks forward to continuing an “inspiration tsunami”

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, professor of poetry emeritus at the University of California, Riverside, has been appointed to a second term as the nation’s top poet, an honor he said will enable him to continue sharing the “inspiration tsunami” he experienced in the last year.

Herrera, who retired from UC Riverside in 2015, is one of several multiyear laureates, a group that includes UCR alumnus Billy Collins (2001-2003). His second term begins Sept. 1.

Herrera served as California poet laureate from 2012 to 2015. He is the first Hispanic to serve as poet laureate for both the state and the nation.

A 91-year-old man translated Don Quijote de la Mancha

by the El Reportero’s news services

It’s been more than 10 years in the making, but Quechua speakers will now be able to read El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha thanks to the efforts of 91-year-old Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui. The Peruvian professor and journalist just completed his translation of the second part of the Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra book from the original Spanish to the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

As anyone who’s tried translating from Spanish to English can confirm, it’s no easy task to preserve the meaning or concepts words hold across languages. “Cervantes uses some words in Spanish that are hard to translate into Quechua,”the Peruvian journalist said. “One example is the term hidalgo, which in Spanish means son of a nobleman. But the closest word to that in Quechua is a term for a person who has authority in society, and there are occasions where it’s better to respect the original word.”

And the work is still not done. Yupanqui wants to give Yachay sapa wiraqucha dun Qvixote Manchamantan an extra Andean touch. He wants artists from Sarhua – a district in the Víctor Fajardo province in Peru – to draw illustrations for the book. The first part of book is filled with colorful images.

It is this attention to detail that made Miguel De la Quadra-Salcedo, a Spanish reporter, tap Yupanqui for the project in the first place.

“One day Miguel arrived and, with his Basque accent, told me that he was coming to ask me to translate Don Quijote because in various parts of Argentina and Cuzco they told him that I was the person who could best translate it,” he said. “He surprised me, but I told him that I would do it with the dedication that the work deserved.”

In case you can’t appreciate how much work really went into this feat, then consider that the book is 928 pages in English. (by Yara Simón).

More news about Don Quijote:

Mexican writer Fernando del Paso awarded Cervantes Prize

Mexican writer Fernando del Paso today received the Cervantes Prize 2015 from Spanish King Felipe VI, in the 400th anniversary of the death of the playwright who gives name to the award.

The solemn award ceremony, the most important of Hispanic literature, took place in the auditorium of the Madrid University of Alcala de Henares, attended also by Queen Letizia and acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

The monarch stressed that Del Paso, is the sixth Mexican receiving the Cervantes, honored ‘in the best way our language with the expertise of a goldsmith able to get the best shine from precious metals’.

Paraphrasing the author, Felipe VI distinguished his work entitled Travel around the Quixote (2004), as a book that was born from ‘a curiosity that became love and then turned into an obsession.’

Retired UCR professor looks forward to continuing an “inspiration tsunami”

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, professor of poetry emeritus at the University of California, Riverside, has been appointed to a second term as the nation’s top poet, an honor he said will enable him to continue sharing the “inspiration tsunami” he experienced in the last year.

Herrera, who retired from UC Riverside in 2015, is one of several multiyear laureates, a group that includes UCR alumnus Billy Collins (2001-2003). His second term begins Sept. 1.
Herrera served as California poet laureate from 2012 to 2015. He is the first Hispanic to serve as poet laureate for both the state and the nation.

16 AGs begin inquisition against ‘climate change disbelievers’

by Hans von Spakovsky

Beginning in 1478, the Spanish Inquisition systematically silenced any citizen who held views that did not align with the king’s. Using the powerful arm of the government, the grand inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada, and his henchmen sought out all those who held religious, scientific, or moral views that conflicted with the monarch’s, punishing the “heretics” with jail sentences; property confiscation; fines; and in severe cases, torture and execution.

One of the lasting results of the Spanish Inquisition was a stifling of speech, thought, and scientific debate throughout Spain. By treating one set of scientific views as absolute, infallible, and above critique, Spain silenced many brilliant individuals and stopped the development of new ideas and technological innovations. Spain became a scientific backwater.

As an old adage says, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. So we now have a new inquisition underway in America in the 21st century—something that would have seemed unimaginable not too long ago.

Treating climate change as an absolute, unassailable fact, instead of what it is—an unproven, controversial scientific theory—a group of state attorneys general have announced that they will be targeting any companies that challenge the catastrophic climate change religion.

Speaking at a press conference on March 29, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said, “The bottom line is simple: Climate change is real.” He went on to say that if companies are committing fraud by “lying” about the dangers of climate change, they will “pursue them to the fullest extent of the law.”

The coalition of 17 inquisitors are calling themselves “AGs United for Clean Power.” The coalition consists of 15 state attorneys general (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington State), as well as the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. Sixteen of the seventeen members are Democrats, while the attorney general for the Virgin Islands, Claude Walker, is an independent.

The inquisitors are threatening legal action and huge fines against anyone who declines to believe in an unproven scientific theory.

Schneiderman and Kamala Harris, representing New York and California, respectively, have already launched investigations into ExxonMobil for allegedly funding research that questioned climate change. Exxon emphatically denounced the accusations as false, pointing out that the investigation that “uncovered” this research was funded by advocacy foundations that publicly support climate change activism.

Standing next to Schneiderman throughout the press conference was the grand inquisitor himself, former Vice President Al Gore, who has stepped into the role of Tomas de Torquemada.

Gore, who narrated a climate change propaganda film in 2006 entitled An Inconvenient Truth, praised the coalition, stating that “what these attorneys general are doing is exceptionally important.” Neither Gore nor the “AGs United for Clean Power” has any concern over the First Amendment or the stifling of scientific debate.

When pressed on the effect such investigations and prosecutions will have on free speech, General Schneiderman claimed that climate change dissenters are committing “fraud” and are not protected by the First Amendment.

This comes on top of U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitting that the Justice Department is discussing the possibility of pursing civil actions against climate change deniers, and that she has already “referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for which” federal law enforcement could take action.

As we have said before, “[l]evel-headed, objective prosecutors should not be interested in investigating or prosecuting anyone over a scientific theory that is the subject of great debate.” And yet that is exactly what the AGs United for “Political” Power are going to do.

Fortunately, there are other state attorneys general who understand the importance of the rule of law as opposed to what they say is an “ambition to use the law to silence voices with which we disagree.” Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said they would not be joining this coalition:

Reasonable minds can disagree about the science behind global warming, and disagree they do. This scientific and political debate is healthy and should be encouraged. It should not be silenced with threats of criminal prosecution by those who believe that their position is the only correct one and that all dissenting voices must therefore be intimidated and coerced into silence. It is inappropriate for State Attorneys General to use the power of their office to attempt to silence core political speech on one of the major policy debates of our time.

Although the Spanish Inquisition ended almost 200 years ago, the American Climate Change Inquisition appears to be just getting started. By threatening legal action and huge fines against anyone who declines to believe their climate theories, the attorneys general in this coalition are trying to end the debate over climate change, declaring any dissent to be blasphemy regardless of what many scientists believe.

This strikes a serious blow against the free flow of ideas and the vigorous debate over scientific issues that is a hallmark of an advanced, technological society like ours.

(Hans von Spakovsky @HvonSpakovsky.Senior Legal Fellow, Heritage Foundation.Former FEC Commissioner, DOJ lawyer.New book: Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Dept. 1st generation American).

A special report on the National Emergency in the United States of America – Part 2 of two

Senate Report 93-549: War and Emergency Powers Acts, Executive Orders and the New World Order – PART 2 OF TWO

From data available on the web

The Introduction to Senate Report 93-549 (93rd Congress, 1st Session, 1973) summarizes the situation that we face today – except it is far worse today than it was in 1973!
“A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years [now 66 years], freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national emergency. The problem of how a constitutional democracy reacts to great crises, however, far antedates the Great Depression. As a philosophical issue, its origins reach back to the Greek city-states and the Roman Republic. And, in the United States, actions taken by the Government in times of great crises have – from, at least, the Civil War – in important ways, shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency.”

The Forward to the Report states in part:

Martial rule was kept secret and has never ended, the nation has been ruled under Military Law by the Commander of Chief of that military; the President, under his assumed executive powers and according to his executive orders. Constitutional law under the original Constitution is enforced only as a matter of keeping the public peace under the provisions of General Orders No. 100 under martial rule. Under Martial Law, title is a mere fiction, since all property belongs to the military except for that property which the Commander-in-Chief may, in his benevolence, exempt from taxation and seizure and upon which he allows the enemy to reside.

President Lincoln was assassinated before he could complete plans for reestablishing constitutional government in the Southern States and end the martial rule by executive order, and the 14th Article in Amendment to the Constitution created a new citizenship status for the new expanded jurisdiction. New laws for the District of Columbia were established and passed by Congress in 1871, supplanting those established Feb. 27, 1801 and May 3, 1802. The District of Columbia was re-incorporated in 1872, and all states in the Union were reformed as Franchisees of the Federal Corporation so that a new Union of the United States could be created. The key to when the states became Federal Franchisees is related to the date when such states enacted the Field Code in law. The Field Code was a codification of the common law that was adopted first by New York and then by California in 1872, and shortly afterwards the Lieber Code was used to bring the United States into the 1874 Brussels Conference and into the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.

In 1917, the Trading with the Enemy Act (Public Law 65-91, 65th Congress, Session I, Chapters 105, 106, October 6, 1917) was passed and which defined, regulated and punished trading with enemies, who were then required by that act to be licensed by the government to do business. The National Banking System Act (Public Law 73-1, 73rd Congress, Session I, Chapter 1, March 9, 1933), Executive Proclamation 2038 (March 6, 1933), Executive Proclamation 2039 (March 9, 1933), and Executive Orders 6073, 6102, 6111 and 6260 prove that in 1933, the United States Government formed under the executive privilege of the original martial rule went bankrupt, and a new state of national emergency was declared under which United States citizens were named as the enemy to the government and the banking system as per the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Act. The legal system provided for in the Constitution was formally changed in 1938 through the Supreme Court decision in the case of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 US 64, 82 L.Ed. 1188.

On April 25, 1938, the Supreme Court overturned the standing precedents of the prior 150 years concerning “COMMON LAW” in the federal government.
There is no federal common law, and congress has no power to declare substantive rules of common law applicable in a state, whether they be local or general in their nature, be they commercial law or a part of law of torts.” (See: ERIE RAILROAD CO. vs. THOMPKINS, 304 U.S. 64, 82 L. Ed. 1188)
The significance is that since the Erie Decision, no cases are allowed to be cited that are prior to 1938. There can be no mixing of the old law with the new law. The Common Law is the fountain source of Substantive and Remedial Rights, if not our very Liberties. (See also: Who is Running America?)
In 1945 the United States gave up any remaining national sovereignty when it signed the United Nations Treaty, making all American citizens subject to United Nations jurisdiction. The “constitution” of the United Nations may be compared to that of the old Soviet Union.

Documentation –
Executive Order 1 – http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/proc-1.htm;
General Orders No. 100 (April 24, 1863) “Lieber Code” –
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/110?OpenDocument.]
Senate Report 93-549 (93rd Congress, 1st Session, 1973) –
http://www.barefootsworld.net/war_ep1.html;
The Trading with the Enemy Act (Public Law 65-91, 65th Congress, Session I, Chapters 105, 106, October 6, 1917);
National Banking System Act (Public Law 73-1, 73rd Congress, Session I, Chapter 1, March 9, 1933);
Executive Proclamation 2038 (March 6, 1933); Executive Proclamation 2039 (March 9, 1933);
Executive Orders 6073, 6102, 6111 and 6260;
Title 12 USC, Section 95a – http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/12/95.html;
Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 US 64, 82 L.Ed. 1188;
and the United Nations Treaty.

All documentation is available through your local government document repository library branch or at the Library of Congress.

Observations – Arguments which suggest that the Treaty of Paris of 1783 was not a lawful or legal treaty of peace between warring nations and that the American Colonies never really attained or obtained lawful or legal sovereignty, must also presume, by their own argument, that the Constitution for the united States of America and the Bill of Rights were never organic documents of true lawful or legal standing.

Conclusion – The Constitution for the united States of America and the Bill of Rights are no longer in effect in their original form or where they conflict with the United Nations Treaty and other international agreements. Citizens of the several States of the Union who were formerly sovereigns protected by the common law are now United States citizens and are thus subjects to International Admiralty jurisdiction.