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What blood pressure is and how to control it yourself

by Ben Fuchs
Critical Health News

The body is always talking to us. We may not listen, but it’s always reporting back about what’s going on with it, how it’s responding to our actions and what we’re doing wrong and right. If you have a problem dairy, your intestine will signal its distress with cramping, bloating and other digestive symptoms. These symptoms can be correlated to eating things like cheese, gluten, strawberries eggs and any other foods that initiate intolerance or allergies. Drink too much alcohol, the next day’s hangover can be a communication so clear and impactful you may never imbibe again. On the other hand, sometimes a burst of happiness or a hit of energy or just some plain old peace of mind, can let you know that you’re on the right track, doing something your body really needs, wants and likes. For instance soaking in hot tubs, a brisk workout or playing with babies and puppies come to mind.

While digestion, immunity, skin and respiration are all exquisitely sensitive to their environments, no part of the body is more responsive than the heart and circulatory system. Considering something on order of one out of every two or three Americans have some sort of circulatory health challenges, that’s good news. That’s because, once we recognize our complicity in our vascular health challenges, we’ll be able to address them for real. This can be done without doctors, devices, diagnostics or drugs and their associated side effects.

One of the more significant manifestations of cardiovascular disease is hypertension, and it’s a serious problem. According to an infographic published in the January 12, 2013 edition of New Scientist Magazine, hypertension is the leading contributor the global burden of all disease. Yet nothing exemplifies our participation in our own health and our health challenges more than high blood pressure. Which is the source of endless fodder for comedian’s jokes and is universally acknowledged for its association with stressful situations. Yet while seemingly everyone knows that stress and hypertension go hand in hand, most hypertensives think nothing about accepting the standard diagnosis of “essential” hypertension (i.e. hypertension caused by meaning caused by “unknown” factor) and pharmacological anti-hypertensives that are among the most toxic of all prescription medication.

Hypertension is about stress. To the body there is no more important stress factor than a shortage of oxygen in the blood, a condition called “hypoxia”. Once a critical hypoxic threshold is reached, changes immediately take place in the blood vessels, causing a rerouting of blood. These modifications, that are the result of the intelligent shunting and strategic opening and closing of vessels, lead to an increase in blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force with which the sanguineous fluid moves through the circulatory system and represents the body’s attempt to get more blood (and oxygen) to the brain, heart, lungs, musculature and other vital parts of the body.

Hypertension isn’t the only cardiovascular effect of hypoxia. Oxygen acts as a buffer, separating red blood cells, helping keep them freely floating in easy and smooth fashion throughout the 50,000 mile long river of blood in the circulatory system. Under conditions of low blood oxygen, blood cells will tend to clump up. This clumping can create clots and further impede the delivery of oxygen to tissues, inducing even more hypertension. That’s not all. Hypoxia can disrupt electrical conductivity in the heart, leading to various heart arrhythmia, including the dreaded A-fib. Not coincidentally, among the most prescribed drugs in America are the anti-coagulants, medication that pharmacologically compels blood to thin. These drugs include beta blockers to chemically ablate (destroy) the heart, to prevent electrical malfunctioning and anti-hypertensives, that lower blood pressure by poisoning vessel valves, forcing them to open like a dam in a tsunami.

BAD NEWS: Circulatory diseases are serious business. They’re collectively by far the leading cause of death and illness in the United States not to mention spent dollars and wasted time. If you participate in the medical model’s impotent strategy of drugging, electrocuting and sticking in stents, you’re not going to be getting better.

GOOD NEWS: If you are dealing with any cardiovascular health issue, by applying simple lifestyle strategies, like slow deep breathing, nutritional supplementation, dietary modification and plain old relaxation, you can dramatically reduce your blood pressure, with zero toxicity and no side effects on your own. These tools are available to you without doctors, pharmacists, insurance companies or any other pharmaco- medical intervention.

Community rallies to stop the return of the Beast on Bryant Street

by Josh Wolf

A developer who attempted to placate the Mission community by dedicating land for affordable housing instead of building a smattering of affordable units has once again found himself at odds with housing and neighborhood activists.

On Wednesday, March 16, the Nick Podell Company hosted a community meeting to present a new version of a proposed development that he plans to build on Bryant between 18th and 19th Streets in the Mission. Employees of the company handed out brightly-colored copies of a flyer promoting the project to the dozens of people who crowded the room to learn about Podell’s latest attempt to build a massive new development deep in the Mission.

As Podell clicked through a series of slides to show off the new project, his presentation was punctuated by outbursts from the community. Despite the fact that the audience was clearly opposed to his proposal, Podell and his team soldiered on through the performance before taking questions.

Questioner after questioner pummeled Podell and his plan. When Podell claimed that the project would be the least profitable one in his whole career, the crowd erupted in shock and disbelief.

Lisa Vincenti, a community activist, asked Podell to disclose how much money he stood to make on the development, and his response of 5.8 percent triggered a repeating chorus demanding he open up his books to back up that claim.

I asked Podell, if he would be willing to make his financial data available to help ease the growing distrust of the community.

“No,” he said. “Because I’ve heard no understanding of how production works. The answer is no. We’re not opening the books.”
“I personally believe in supply and demand, and I think that the problem is a lack of supply,” said Podell.

In March 2013, The Nick Podell Company purchased a large industrial building, which had become an arts colony in 1996 under the name CELLspace. Podell then partnered with Junius Real Estate Partners, a division of J.P. Morgan that made headlines last year when it announced a development in Bel-Air with homes starting at $115 million, to build nearly 300 apartments on the land.

Podell submitted a proposal in December 2013 to build 227 luxury apartments along with 47 units set aside for residents who could not afford market rate housing. In preparation to demolish the building he pushed out dozens of artists, an auto repair shop, the locally-owned Tortilla Flats Cafe, and other businesses on the site.

As the tech boom accelerated, the demand for housing in San Francisco — particularly in the Mission District — grew louder. Simultaneously, thousands of Latino and other long-time Mission residents found themselves forced out to make way for newcomers who were willing to pay top dollar. With no other way to stay in the city, the need for affordable housing grew even more dire, and the community started organizing against the numerous luxury developments that threatened to further aggravate the crisis.

Community members organized to demand more affordable housing and worked to stop luxury condos and apartments from moving forward. Podell’s proposal became known as the Beast on Bryant. Meanwhile, the project slowly wormed its way through the planning department, but he decided to pull it at the last minute last August when it became clear it lacked enough votes on the Planning Commission to move forward. Now Podell is scheduled to return to the Commission in May, but based on the community’s reaction at his own meeting, he faces a steep uphill battle to get it approved.

Under the new proposal Podell wouldn’t build any below market-rate housing, but he would donate a third of the land to the city to build affordable housing. Altogether, when — and if — both buildings were completed there would be 129 units of affordable housing and 186 units available at market rate prices.

The project would also include 11,000 sq. ft. of what’s known as PDR space, which stands for production, distribution, and repair. About two-thirds of that space, would be in the affordable housing building, with the remaining third in the other.
Historically, the neighborhood surrounding the property was a center for light-industrial manufacturing; later on, as industry left the city, it was this PDR-zoned property that became a viable home for the arts due to its comparatively-low costs to lease. The current building has about 50,000 sq. ft. of PDR space, so the proposal represents a loss of about 40,00 sq. ft.

That loss is of grave concern to some people in the community. The Cultural Action Network first formed around stopping the Beast on Bryant, but the organization has become involved in other fights to protect arts space around the city. That organization, which I have been working with for the past several months, has a policy to fight for every foot of PDR space lost to development to be replaced in all new projects. The city has also prioritized protecting PDR space, but its constant battle to juggle priorities has allowed developers to carve away much of it to make way for housing.

Since February, a group of community members brought together by the Cultural Action Network have been meeting to discuss the latest proposal and to plan their response. Podell’s decision to donate a third of the land for affordable housing, may have quelled some of the opposition but it’s clear that many people still see the project as the Beast on Bryant and are working to stop the project once again.

In addition to examining where the development could be vulnerable to members of the Planning Commission, the community is also working to develop their own model for what they would like to see on the site. I’ve been actively involved in facilitating that project and so far it appears that there is strong support for keeping the entire floor dedicated to serving the arts and local community, and a greater percentage of affordable housing.

The plan is that by presenting a viable community-driven alternative to the site, while organizing against the existing proposal, that the Planning Commission will yield to the community and empower the people of San Francisco to have a voice that actually resonates in planning the future of the city.

City had to stop arresting actual criminals because they filled up jail with non-violent offenders

by Justin Gardner

Greene County, MO – The epidemic of mass incarceration is coming back to bite authorities in one American city. Because the Greene County jail is completely full, Springfield (pop. 165,000) is unable to arrest more than 12,000 people accused of crimes such as traffic infractions and misdemeanor assaults.

Missouri’s third-largest city has lost almost half a million dollars in less than a year from unpaid fines and fees. These lost extortion fees are likely the biggest concern to city officials.

“Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams said offenders are thumbing their noses at police.

“They’re tearing tickets up in front of people,” Williams said. “Officers are frustrated because they can’t arrest anyone, judges are frustrated that they can’t see people, prosecutors are frustrated. It has just kind of spun out of control.”

Springfield’s citizens are taking advantage of the problem. One judge said that 82 people were supposed to appear in court under a docket of cases, but only eight bothered to show up.

There has been no significant difference in crime rate beyond normal fluctuation, and the city acknowledges that it can’t tell if the lack of arrests has any effect.

The situation is causing quite the kerfuffle between Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott and city officials. Last April, Arnott said he would not take any more municipal prisoners, even though the city says there was an agreement that the jail, which opened in 2001, would take them.

However, Arnott is taking federal inmates despite the full capacity. The county gets paid $61 per day for each federal inmate, while the city does not pay anything to the county for housing inmates.

It seems that the nature of the American for-profit prison-industrial complex is at the heart of this dispute. The sheriff is fine with taking prisoners when he makes a profit, but turns them away if there is no money involved. It’s not really about right and wrong, but about feeding the profits of the jail system.

The city of Springfield and Sheriff Arnott have filed lawsuits against each other. It has gotten so bad that Springfield Mayor Bob Stevens on Tuesday blamed the sheriff for an incident where a man with outstanding warrants hit a police officer and dragged him 150 yards.

While it is entertaining to see law enforcement authorities casting fallacies at each other, the issue in Springfield is a symptom of the malady of mass incarceration. Law enforcement is hungry to lock up people for victimless crimes such as traffic violations and “offenses” under the War on Drugs.

This demand for prisoners feeds a system where profits are reaped off the backs of mostly poor- to middle-class citizens, extorting money at every turn, from going to jail to getting out on bail to being monitored on probation. It creates an incentive for cops to intrude on the lives of more and more people, so they can justify an ever-expanding quest for more equipment and training to carry out more oppression.

Instead of fighting each other to make way for more prisoners, Springfield and every other city should consider that making people into criminals for victimless crimes is not the answer.

A simple and instant solution to end the over crowding of prisons is this — End the War on Drugs.

Even cops know ending the war on drugs will not only fix the prison overpopulation problem, but it would dramatically reduce crime.

One of the leading groups of law enforcers working to end the drug war is LEAP, or Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.  LEAP lists some particularly startling facts on their website:

There is a drug arrest every 19 seconds in the U.S. Of the more than 1.6 million drug arrests in 2009, 82 percent were for possession alone. (1)

The U.S. government estimates that more than 118 million Americans above the age of 12 (47 percent of the population) admit to using illegal drugs. (2)

One out of every 100 American adults is behind bars in jail or prison, (3) and the U.S. houses nearly 25 percent of the world’s prisoners (4) despite having less than five percent of the world’s total population. (5)

In four years, more than 35,000 people have been killed in violence related to Mexico’s war against the cartels that control the illegal drug market. (6)

The Department of Justice says that the illegal drug market in the U.S. is dominated by 900,000 criminally active gang members affiliated with 20,000 street gangs in more than 2,500 cities, (7) and that Mexican drug cartels now directly control illegal drug markets in at least 230 American cities. (8)

One of the co-founding members of LEAP is former police Captain, Peter Christ. Christ travels around the country blowing the lid off of America’s corrupt and immoral war. His argument is based on facts and grounded in reality. The War on Drugs promotes violence, ruins lives, and costs taxpayers billions of dollars a year.

Below is quite possibly one of the most damning 15 minutes presented against the drug war. Please share this article to raise awareness to the horrid reality that is the war on drugs.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/county-jail-full-cops-fighting-city-lost-500k-11-months/#h7LIOpJqesb3ECKS.99

First flight for direct Postal Service with EE.UU. arrives in Cuba

Edwardo Clark, a Cuban-American, holds an American flag and a Cuban flag as he celebrates outside the new Cuban embassy in Washington, Monday, July 20, 2015. The United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations Monday after more than five decades of frosty relations rooted in the Cold War. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

by the El Reportero’s wire services

The direct postal service between the United States and Cuba was resumed today with the arrival to the Island of the first flight from US territory.

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations Director General for US Affairs, Josefina Vidal, reported on her Twitter account @JosefinaVidalF that this was the first such trip between the two countries in nearly 50 years.

According to the Cuban News Agency (ANC), a little after 10:00 local time, a IBC Airways SAAB 340 arrived with postal cargo at the Jose Marti International Airport, Havana.

US Postal Security inspector, Carlos Rodriguez, symbolically gave President of Correos de Cuba, Carlos Asencio, a letter that reinstated the postal exchange between the two countries and a sample of the postmark designed for the occasion, which he described as history in the making.

First Vice President of Correos de Cuba, Zoraya Bravo, told ACN that the flights will come to Cuba from Miami, Florida, three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, as of March 25.

This will make possible the receipt and sending of mail, parcels and courier and express packages through post offices in both countries.

In other news about Cuba:

The US announce partial changes of sanctions against Cuba

The US departments of Treasury and Commerce announced on March 15, new regulations that modify some aspects of the sanctions against Cuba, while maintaining the main body of the economic, commercial and financial blockade.

The measures, which will come into force tomorrow, will allow American individuals to visit the island through people-to-people educational exchange programs, and partially lifts the restrictions on the use of the US dollar in Cuban transactions with banks in the US.

The current US laws allows US citizens to make trips to Cuba, but from tomorrow they will be able to do so as a individual, although tourism is still prohibited by the embargo, which only Congress can lift.

The Secretary of the Treasury, Jacob J. Lew, said today that the new provisions were to continue the steps taken in the last 15 months to break down barriers between the two countries and to empower the Cuban people.

The restrictions on Cuban international financial transactions is one of the main obstacles to the development of trade links between the two countries.

Contingency phase one due to high pollution in Mexico’s capital

Vehicle restrictions have been activated, reported the Environmental Commission of Megalopolis (CAME) in the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico, which includes the capital.

This is due to high levels of ozone concentration in the area, the highest in 11 years.

The first phase of an environmental contingency has been implemented after almost two days of pre-alert and poor air quality.
There have been 50 environmental contingencies since 1988. The most recent was in January 2005 when the index reached 167 Imeca points for suspended particles (PM10), that is, solid or liquid particles of dust, ash, soot, metal , cement or pollen, whose diameter is less than 10 thousandths of a millimeter.

The Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa) reported that they are carrying out a tour of inspection of industry under federal jurisdiction, so as to check the reduction of productive activities which involve combustion processes.
In the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico there are over 3,400 companies under federal jurisdiction that may be emitting pollutants to the air.

Elimination of the First Amendment is a precondition to genocide – Part 2 of 3

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:

Very little is written in the mainstream media about the Constitution, which is the column from where liberty sustains itself. This following article, written by Dave Hodges, is a good piece everyone should read, if not, follow this writer. Because of its length, we have divided it into three parts. THIS IS PART 2 of 3.

by Dave Hodges

U.S. Army Techniques Publication 3-39.33: Civil Disturbances

Eighteen months ago, I previously reported on the Army’s, August 15, 2014, of how they plan to deal with dissidents and protesters who date to exercise their First Amendment Rights.

The relatively new Army manual, known as ATP 3-39.33, provides discussion and techniques about civil disturbances and crowd control operations that occur in the continental United States (CONUS) and outside the continental United States (OCONUS).

The following are diagrams lifted from  ATP 3-39.33 which instructs soldiers how to kill and disable American citizens who are engaged in civil protests (i.e. protected First Amendment activities).

ATP 3-39.33 speaks to the Army strategy of deploying snipers at public events and protests and “eliminating” the leadership of any such activity who would date to express their First Amendment right to free speech.

This document not only marks the death of the leaders of any civil disobedience, but it marks the death of the First Amendment to the Constitution as it eliminates any right of the people to “peaceably assemble” and to allow the people the full expression of the right “to express grievances” against the government.

On Feb. 22, 2014, I revealed the existence of a classified Army document which has been leaked online, is entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations. The document was originally to be kept secret, but everyone in the military command structure, as we know, is not on board with the encroaching tyranny sweeping across this country.

Clearly, the leadership of any resistance effort will be targeted with extreme prejudice.
This marks the end of the First Amendment as know it in which speaking out can be met with deadly force.
Who is going to be ‘rounded up in the name of eliminating the First Amendment?

If you’re an anti-abortion activist, or if you display political paraphernalia (e.g. bumper stickers) supporting a third-party candidate (e.g. Ron Paul supporter), if you possess subversive literature (e.g. articles supporting the United States Constitution), if you are a Second Amendment supporter (e.g. gun owner, NRA of GOA member) you very well might be a member of a domestic paramilitary group and the 2009 MIAC report has been used to train law enforcement, nationwide, that people like you are a threat to domestic tranquility.

When the nation first learned of the MIAC report, there was a push back by many Americans. What most Americans did not realize is that this was only the tip of the iceberg for the government in determining who has been naughty or nice. MIAC is one of 58 so-called ‘fusion centers’ nationwide that were created by the Department of Homeland Security, in part, to collect local intelligence so that authorities can use to combat terrorism and related criminal activities.

The fusion centers are only the tip of the iceberg with regard to the data mining as they pale in comparison to the what the NSA is doing. And what are they data mining for? They are looking for people for daring to speak out (i.e. exercising their First Amendment rights) against a tyrannical, anti-Constitutional administration headed by President Obama.

Every American has a threat matrix score
The American population is assigned a threat matrix score which is compiled by the NSA. It is common knowledge that all forms of communication between and among Americans is monitored by the NSA and entered into a database. The incoming transactional data is analyzed against a continually evolving threat matrix and is assigned an ever-evolving action code. This action code will provide the decision making data on who goes on what kind of terrorist watch list. Things, such as, who flies and who can leave the country, are arbitrarily decided behind closed doors away from public scrutiny. IT WILL CONTINUE NEXT WEEK.

Activist claims that Berta Caceres’s murderers are free in Honduras

by the El Reportero’s wire service

Mexican environmentalist Gustavo Castro Soto, key witness in the murder of Honduran leader Berta Caceres, reported today that the hitmen who killed social activist remain at large.

The indigenous and environmental leader Caceres was killed at close rang three days ago at her home, in the southwestern department of Intibuca.

Through an open letter to his friends and colleagues Castro Soto warned that the crime scene was altered and that he fears for his life in Honduras.

He insisted that the government intends to present to the public that the murder of Berta is due to conflicts in her environment, when it should focus on those who threatened to kill her.

The government seeks with its actions to undermine the memory of Berta, the honor and the magnificent fight that COPINH has carried out for many years in the defense of life, territories and human rights, he said.

China and Ecuador agree on visa exemption

The decision to remove the requirement for tourist visa to Chinese citizens who wish to enter Ecuador is based on the excellent bilateral relations, assured the ambassador of the South American nation here, Jose Maria Borja.

In exclusive statements in an interview, the diplomat acknowledged that the measure, which comes into effect on March 1, is also applied by developed countries to attract the Chinese market since the Asian giant has become the country that sends more tourists to different parts of the world.

Ecuador’s decision is directed on the constitutional principles of human mobility and established in the ministerial decree 027 dated on February 24, he explained.

In that sense, he explained that Ecuador will exempt the requirement for entry visas to Chinese citizens for entry, exits or passage through the South American territory for a stay of 90 days maximum, during each period of one year, counted from the date of first entry until their final departure.

However, he clarified that this legislation is related only to activities of the so-called smokeless industry or tourism or nonprofitable purposes, while for those seeking a source of jobs or work permit or to set up any type of business the visa requirement in advance is still maintained.

Taller de percusión japonesa Taiko para principiantes

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 5SEPTEMBER17 - Two thousand people demonstrate in front of San Francisco's Federal Building, block intersections, and march through the streets to protest the announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions that the Trump administration will repeal the DACA order protecting young undocumented immigrants from deportation.Copyright David Bacon

Taller de percusión japonesa Taiko para principiantes

Copilado por el equipo de El Reportero

Aprenda el antiguo arte japonés de percusiones Taiko con Sensei Bruce ‘Mui’ Ghent. La clase introductoria de Taiko cubrirá las capacidades básicas fundamentales y la historia, que prepararán a los estudiantes para avanzar al siguiente nivel de clases.
Edad de Principiantes: 12 años-adulto, con poca o ninguna experiencia musical, son bienvenidos. Las percusionesTaiko son una actividad física rigurosa. Traiga agua y use ropa para ejercicio y sudor. La clase se enseña con la etiqueta y la disciplina de las  artes marciales tradicionales como se señala en el manual complementario del estudiante.
Para más información, contacte a Bruce “Mui” Ghent en bruceghent@gmail.com o visite www.maikazedaiko.com.
Marzo 6-Abril 10: Domingos, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m., en el Teatro Dance Mission. Para registrarse llame al 415-826-4441 o e dancemissiontheater@yahoo.com.

La víctima de
Pinochet en Chile
Carmen Gloria Quintana visitará el Área de la Bahía
Carmen Gloria Quintana estará presente en el desempeño del encore de la cantata La Vida Vence a la Muerte/Vida riunfa sobre la muerte, el sábado 19 de marzo, en el Centro Cultural La Peña de Berkeley. Ella estará en el Área de la Bahía los días 18, 19 y 20 de marzo.
En la mañana del 2 de julio de 1986, durante una huelga nacional de dos días y protestas contra el régimen militar del General Augusto Pinochet, dos adolescentes, Rodrigo Rojas de Negri de 19 años de edad y Carmen Gloria Quintana de 18, fueron arrinconados por una patrulla military, brutalmente golpeados, rociados con gasolina y prendidos en fuego. La patrulla luego los lanzó en una zanja junto a una carretera desierta en las afueras de la capital de Chile, Santiago.

Rodrigo, un fotógrafo que vivía en Washington, DC, con su familia chilena exiliada, murió cuatro días después debido a sus lesiones. Carmen Gloria, gravemente desfigurada por quemaduras en más del 62 por ciento de su cuerpo, sobrevivió para convertirse en un símbolo de la lucha por la democracia en Chile. El caso fue uno de los más notorios abusos de derechos humanos comprometidos por el régimen de Pinochet tras el golpe militar del 11 de septiembre de 1973 apoyado por EE.UU.

En julio de 2015 – 29 años después de este evento – el caso fue revisado cuando un juez chileno ordenó la detención de los siete oficiales implicados. Uno de los autores, Fernando Guzmán, dijo el juez Mario Carroza que el Teniente Julio Castañer, comandante de la patrulla, dio la orden mortal.

El 19 de marzo, a las 8 p.m., en el Centro Cultural de La Peña, 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, California. Para más información póngase en contacto con Aaron Lorenz al 510-849-2568 o por correo electrónico lapenachorus.org.

¿“Cuál es el
Escándalo? – el grito
ignorado de un Inmigrante”
Eliana es una actriz venezolana que llegó a San Francisco después de caerse enamorada de un político en proceo de levantar vuelo en San Francisco. Ella deja su país y carrera, y tan su nuevo hijo nace su nueva familia se hace su única prioridad. sin embargo, las diferencias culturales, la barrera del idioma, su miedo de perder a su hijo por su estado de inmigración, la tendencia racial y el caso muy publicitado el escándalo político romperá su familia hasta que ella casi la pierde.

Basado en una historia verdadera, esta obra ha sido vista para por más de 2,000 personas en Nueva York y San Francisco, y la historia ha sido la apertura de ojo para unos y catártico para otros. Después de 34 interpretaciones de esta comedia dramática y mucha reacción, 3 Producciones López tomaron el tiempo para trabajar en la evolución de la obra reescribiendo varias escenas a fin de explorar los efectos de criminalización, lazos familiares en una transformación de un modo más íntimo y personal.

Realizado por Eliana López, dirigido por Alfonso López y Producido por Carolina Agudelo Ivette. En el Centro Cultural de la Misión para las Artes Latinas, el 25 de marzo, de 8 hasta las 9:30 p.m. Para más información llamar al 415-770-5543, por el correo electrónico: whatistheescandal@gmail.com. Ver el trailer: www.elianalopez.net

Japanese Taiko percussion for beginners workshop

Japanese Taiko percussion for beginners workshop

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Learn the ancient art of Japanese Taiko drumming with Sensei Bruce ‘Mui’ Ghent. The Introductory taiko class will cover basic fundamental skills and history which will prepare students to advance to the next level of classes.
Beginners ages 12-adult, with little or no music experience are welcome. Taiko drumming is a rigorous physical activity. Bring water and wear clothes to exercise. Class is taught with traditional martial arts etiquette and discipline as outlined in the student handbook supplied.

For more information, contact Bruce “Mui” Ghent at bruceghent@gmail.com or visit www.maikazedaiko.com.
March 6-April 10: Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m., at the Dance Mission Theater. To register call 415-826-4441 or email dancemissiontheater@yahoo.com.

Chilean Pinochet victim Carmen Gloria Quintana to visit the Bay Area
Carmen Gloria Quintana will attend the encore performance of the cantata La Vida Vence a la Muerte / Life Triumphs Over Death, on Saturday, March 19, at Berkeley’s La Peña Cultural Center. She will be in the Bay Area, March 18, 19, and 20.
On the morning of July 2, 1986, during a two-day national strike and protests against the military rule of General Augusto Pinochet, two teenagers, Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, 19 year-old, and Carmen Gloria Quintana, 18, were cornered by a military patrol brutally beaten, doused with petrol and set them on fire. The patrol then dumped them in a ditch alongside a deserted road on the outskirts of Chile’s capital city, Santiago.

Rodrigo, a photographer who lived in Washington, DC, with his exiled Chilean family, died four days later from his injuries. Carmen Gloria, severely disfigured by burns on over 62 percent of her body, survived to became a symbol of the struggle for democracy in Chile. The case was one of the most notorious human rights abuses committed by the Pinochet regime following the U.S.-backed military coup of September 11, 1973.

On July of 2015 – 29 years after this event – the case was revisited when a Chilean judge ordered the arrest of the seven officers involved. One of the perpetrators, Fernando Guzmán, told Judge Mario Carroza that Lieutenant Julio Castañer, the patrol’s commanding officer, gave the deadly order.

On March 19, at 8 p.m., at La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, California. For more information contact La Peña Cultural Center lapenachorus.org or call Aaron Lorenz 510-849-2568.

Following rave reviews and a successful sell-out run in New York and San Francisco, 3 Lopez Productions brings a new version of the one woman play:

“What is the Scandal? – The ignored cry of an Immigrant”
Eliana is a Venezuelan actress who arrived to San Francisco after falling in love with a raising politician from San Francisco. She leaves behind her country and career, so when their new son is born her new family becomes her only priority. However cultural differences, language barrier, her fear to lose her son because her immigration status, racial bias and a highly publicize political scandal will break her family until she almost loses it.

Based on a true story, this play have been seen for over 2000 people in NY and San Francisco, and the story has been eye-opening for some and cathartic for others. After 34 performances of this dramatic comedy and plenty of feedback, 3 Lopez Productions took the time to work in the evolution of the play rewriting several scenes in order to explore the effects of criminalization, family bonds and self transformation in a more intimate and personal way.

Performed by Eliana López, directed by Alfonso López and Produced by Ivette Carolina Agudelo. At the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, on March 25, from 8 to 9:30 p.m. For more info call 415- 70-5543, by email: whatistheescandal. To see the trailer: www.elianalopez.net

Germany premiers film about Colonia Dignidad

Germany premiers film about Colonia Dignidad

by the El Reportero’s news services

A new film about the activities of the German sect Colonia Dignidad in southern Chile today revives the debate in Germany on how to deal with this chapter of German history.
In the film of 110 minutes that from today on is shown in German cinemas, the director Florian Gallenberger tells the story of the colony and its leader, Paul Schaefer, played by Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist.
The horror that happened in the Colonia Dignidad is introduced within a fictional story, which recounts a romance between Lena stewardess, played by Emma Watson, and German activist Daniel, played by German-Spanish actor Daniel Bruehl.
Both fall after the coup of September 11, 1973 in the hands of the dictatorship and the German sect.
The film also mentions the role of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),its diplomats and intelligence services, an very important issue also at the political level in Germany.
For several years, victims of Colonia Dignidad fight for redress and compensation in this European nation.
At the same time,several criminals surrounding the Chief of this Sect, came to Germany to avoid criminal prosecution in Chile.
One of them was the doctor of the sect, Hartmut Hopp, who fled Chile in 2011 after receiving a five-year sentence for taking part of the sexual abuse of minors.
Nowadays he lives in the city of Krefeld, protected by German law.
The film’s director, Florian Gallenberger has these stories, and the role of the FRG embassy, that was collaborating with Colonia Dignidad and the Pinochet dictatorship.
The actor Daniel Bruehl also stressed that ‘when I asked around me who knew the Colonia Dignidad, I realized that almost nobody knew what happened’.
I think-he continued-that the work is just the beginning, because many of the perpetrators of the crimes committed in Colonia Dignidad are still alive.

Colombian Film Festival pays tribute to Susan Sarandon
The 56th Cartagena Film Festival (FICCI, in Spanish) pays tribute to the American actress and producer Susan Sarandon.
Lina Rodriguez, general director of the Cartagena Film Festival, will present the award, the Golden India Catalina, to the actress. FICCI bestows this award to Susan Sarandon as a recognition for her impeccable career and also for her social commitment to her current role as Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF.
Sarandon will have two meetings with the public: the first one will take place tonight at the Adolfo Mejia theater, while a retrospective of the films in which she has worked on will be screened.
Also participate on Saturdayon Saturday, prior to the closing ceremony on Sunday, in a tribute by the Training Centre for Spanish Cooperation of the historic center of this city.
Lina Rodriguez said to the national radio that the American actress is an honor guest, and recalled her memorable performance in Thelma and Louise.
Other special guests are the filmmakers Brillante Mendoza (Philippines), Sharunas Bartas (Lithuania), Viktor Kossakovsky (Russia) and Ciro Guerra (Colombia), who have lectured on the seventh art during the Festival.

Trump: why the elite media were completely wrong about his chances

Trump: why the elite media were completely wrong about his chances

by Jon Rappoport

Because they live in a bubble of their own making. That’s why.
And in that bubble, everything about America is manageable. Things can get worse, but then they get better. Money is tight, then it’s loose. Employment figures drop, then they rebound. Wars start, and then they end.

Looking at the country and the population through the wrong end of the telescope, these media creatures feel themselves positioned high above the madding crowd. To them, phrases like “street smart” and “savvy” are the closest they get to anything real.
Occasionally, they remark that people are restless “out there” and looking for a change—as if Obama, with his massive slogans, somehow supplied that need for eight years and solved the whole problem for a while. As if the problem was simply a psychological kink that needed to be worked out.

So naturally, these down-their-nose puffed-up media morons didn’t notice that “things” were actually getting worse, the employment figures were being cooked, month after month, the Globalists with their trade treaties were stealing the whole economy, and had been for decades. Naturally, they didn’t notice that a normal political “correction” wasn’t going to fix America. They didn’t notice that, in a nation where, at minimum, 40 million immigrants already live, people were getting tired of being told they had to be more generous and let the southern border of the US swing open and stay open, or be labeled outright racists. The media puffballs didn’t appear to notice that the political Left was becoming more comfortable with the idea that all private property (except their own) was some sort of crime and ordinary straight-ahead non-crony capitalism was another crime, and earning a living on one’s own was yet another crime, because entrepreneurs and small-business owners “didn’t build that.”

They didn’t notice, in other words, that the Left was nudging political discourse and public opinion and “morality” in the direction of funneling more and more of the population into the arms of the central government, as a permanently dependent class. Or if they did notice, they assented to it, because it was trendy and “humane.” They didn’t notice that huge swaths of America were sick and tired of overwhelming federal authority.

They didn’t notice that the overwhelming majority of gun owners weren’t shooting people, and resented being lumped in with killers, and objected to efforts to squeeze their 2nd Amendment. Nor did the media morons notice that large elements of the population weren’t buying into psychiatric mental disorders or pop psychology as a way of life in a kinder gentler (drugged) society, but instead were determined to live their own lives with forward-looking energy. The media morons failed to notice that the attack of political-correctness creatures was being sloughed off and laughed off by increasing numbers of people who had no intention of censoring themselves.
Therefore, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that Donald Trump, whom the media created as a cartoon of final judgment (“You’re fired!”—The Apprentice), would start firing all sorts of people in real life, with success.
But it did come as a surprise.

Because the media puffballs couldn’t imagine that a loose-talking devil-may-care-character would emerge on the scene and speak to the needs and frustrations of so many Americans—and bypass them, the media kings.
It was unthinkable.

Even worse, some Americans who didn’t agree with Trump and didn’t believe he was for real were still liking him, simply because he was cutting across the grain, he was talking back to media and telling them where to get off.
He was violating secrets of the media temple, matter-of-factly saying vaccines could cause autism, and promising to pin the blame for 9/11 on the real killers. He was refusing to go along with the gun-control crowd. He was blowing up the acceptable garble called political discourse. He was talking dismissive smack at his Republican opponents and at Hillary. He was saying the Globalist trade treaties were national sabotage and economic suicide.

He was his own media outlet.
And his ratings were soaring.
After Super Tuesday, he hit the top of the charts.
“But we’re the town criers. We announce the news to the townspeople. We take our orders from the princes and kings and spread their messages. We’re the eyes and ears and mouths of the public. We set the boundaries. We determine priorities and proprieties. We’re the civilized ones. We maintain order. We re-invent language. We decide what can be debated. We choose the representatives of each side. We own the space of The Discussion.”
Not today.

Trump—fake or real—has given the people a clue.
It doesn’t have to be the way it was.
A cowboy can parachute out of the top of his own tower, and as he descends past his financed and re-financed and formerly bankrupt suites—talking, always talking—as he floats past the mafia-controlled concrete of his structure—talking, always talking—he can broadcast a code to the frustrations of millions of unknown people; and they will respond, because the very media that has been hating them all these years is, somehow, wriggling and moaning at the end of the cowboy’s whip.
The media should have known this was coming, but the media never knows. Pale and dead, it imitates a world of its own making.
Exposed, that’s all it has.
Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, the Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, and Power Outside The Matrix.

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