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Panama celebrates First Cry of Independence

by the El Reportero’s wire services

The festivities for the 194th anniversary of the First Cry of Independence in Panama started today with a 21-gun salute and the traditional exclamation of freedom, marking the events that took place in the central village of Los Santos, this day in 1821.
Afterwards, more developments in several other parts of the country like Parita, Las Tablas, Penonomé, Ocú, Natá de los Caballeros, San Francisco de Veraguas y Alanje, in Chiriquí, led to Panama’s Independence from the Spanish crown on Nov. 28, 1821.
The constant abuse by the authorities, the serious economic situation, and especially the fragility of the colonial government, among other elements, led to the independence quest led by Segundo Villarreal, historians say.
History states that when Liberator Simon Bolivar learned about Panama’s first emancipating act, he called Villa de los Santos a heroic city, thus the name by which the city is known today: ‘La Heroica Villa de Los Santos’.

 

Elected officials dissatisfied with possible budget in Guatemala
Elected officials from Guatemala will stop participating from today in the legislative debate on the budget for 2016 because they are dissatisfied with the increase of some costs provisions for unnecessary spending.
According to what was stated in a letter by the chosen President Jimmy Morales, the determination of his team to leave that analysis in Congress responds to disagreements with certain unjustified increases in certain areas and the neglect towards their proposals.
Morales, who must assume the leadership of the Government on Jan. 14, 2016, thanked the space given to his party -National Convergence Front (FCN-Nación, in Spanish) – to submit a spending plan in line with the deep analysis made to each budgetary program.
The proposal submitted by the FCN-Nación shows a significant reduction in the budget ceiling of the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing, for it is betting on public works through an eventual Law on Alliances for the Development of Economic Infrastructure.
The legal body being planned, of which the elected president declined to give details, will rule activities in that order and would allow to redirect the reduced budget of that ministry to the Judiciary and the Public Ministry.
The strengthening of both entities, to fight corruption, was part of the political program presented by the actor and evangelical producer looking to attract the citizen vote in the general election this year.

 

More than 6,000 Missing Children in Mexico
Executive Director of the Network for Children’’s Rights Juan Martin Perez affirmed that more than 6,000 children and teenagers were missing in Mexico.
Out of the 26,000 missing people in the country, 6,676 are children under the age of 18, he said.
Seven out of 10 missing youths aged 15 to 17 years are women, which is an increasing trend, he stated.
Martin Perez underlined that such figures have confirmed several complaints made by civilian and human rights organizations concerning presence and actions by criminal groups devoted to female slavery.
His statements came during the presentation of the report 2015 Kids Count in Mexico, that took place before UN and government members and municipal employees.
We may add poverty, sexual abuse, early marriage, school dropout, femicide, and disappearance to the list of things that affect minors in the country.

A high-energy fusion of cumbia, hip-hop, reggae & rock

by the El Reportero’s news services

An early evening high-power music by local group La Gente.
A high energy fusion of Cumbia, Hip-Hop, Reggae & Rock featuring live music by La Gente (Check it out : www.lagentemusicsf.com)
La Gente is a group of musicians who incorporate a high energy fusion of totally different genres. A short power point presentation by Professor Rudy “El Professor” Ramírez and Raffael Sarria on the origins of these genres will be discussed.
Music is the universal language of the world. It crosses all boundaries, cultures and ethnicities and communicates between them all like nothing else can.
An event organized by San Mateo Community College Ethnic Studies. There will be dancers and refreshments there as well. On Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 7:15 p.m. Location: CSM Theatre Building #3, FREE parking at Bethoven lot #2 $. 5 suggested donation.

Celebration of Life for Raul Rekow
Donations for Rekow Family may be made at the Great American Music Hall on the night of the event or online at http://www.gofundme.com/raulrekow, where a statement from the family can also be found.
Donations for Rekow Family may be made at the Great American Music Hall on the night of the event or online at http://www.gofundme.com/raulrekow, where a statement from the family can also be found.
Please join us for the “Celebration of Life for Raul Rekow.” Raul was an integral part of the Santana Band for almost 4 decades (from 1976 to 2013).
Coming from the Mission District of San Francisco (the heart of Latin Rock) he worked his way up playing for Dakila, Malo and Sapo prior to joining Santana. Not only an impassioned performer, Raul was also a clinician of Latin music and drumming.
Over the years Raul has lent his talents to recording and performing with artists including Aretha Franklin, Patti Labelle, Whitney Houston, Tremaine Hawkins and Herbie Hancock.  When off the stage with Santana, Raul also loved to perform with local groups in the Bay Area (his home), which included many of his musician fans, friends and family.  He never forgot the musicians that he began with under the Golden Gate Bridge at Aquatic Park.
The Rekow Family asks you to join them for a musical celebration of Raul’s life Just as Raul would want it. At the Great American Music Hall, 859 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015, 4-8 p.m. There will be live music, sharing of fond memories and smiles all around.

Ytaelena Open Studio this weekend!
Artist has been working in a new series called Rapture, using resin as paint and working with an abstract version of her figurative lines. It is a beautiful series that aim to achieve catharsis of our shared anxieties.
You can check other piecopportunity to check examples of this kind of work.
1890 Bryant St. #317, Friday, Nov. 6,  6-10 p,m., Saturday Nov. 7,  11-6 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 8,  11-6 p.m.

Colombia will celebrate Serrat in his 50 years of artistic career

CICLO VALLADOLID VIVE LA MUSICA.- JOAN MANUEL SERRAT.- CONCIERTOS.- MUSICA.- VALLADOLID

by the El Reportero’s news services

Seventy-one-year-old Spanish singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat will celebrate fifty years of artistic career with concerts in four Colombian cities, where he will perform songs from his latest album titled “Antología desordenada”, organizers said today.
The album compiles a total of 50 songs by the writer of pieces like “Mediterráneo” and “Palabras de amor”, which have been recorded by around 30 singers.
The performance that takes place on Thursday night at Bogota’s Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater will be the first of a series of performances in the country.
After three days of performances in Bogota, Serrat will then travel to Manizales, Cali and Medellín.
“I still don’t know if this is my destiny, I don’t know what I will do for the rest of my life,” said the artist to Semana magazine.
Serrat holds nine doctorates honoris causa for his contributions to the Spanish music and literature, as well as the 2014 Latin Grammy for Person of the Year, among other awards.

Buena Vista Social Club at The Beacon Theatre in New York
The Buena Vista Social Club, one of the most prestigious Cuban groups worldwide, will perform today at The Beacon Theatre in New York, as part of its Adios Tour through the United States.
We are here, New York. Two nights with all sold out. Candela, Chan Chan, Dos Gardenias and much more we will be singing tonight, commented the band on social networks.
Last month, the orchestra and its lead singer Omara Portuondo, added another great event to their privileged acting career at the White House, the first Cuban band to appear there in the last half century.
In addition, the band gave concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, the Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, the Denver Botanic Gardens and Rialto Center for the Arts, among others.
Mostly comprised by veteran musicians from the Caribbean island, defenders of son, bolero, danzon and salsa; the project brings together since 1996 prestigious exponents of Cuban traditional music, especially that of the 1930s to 1950.
Under the leadership of guitarist and producer Ry Cooder, they recorded an album that won a Grammy and an Oscar-nominated documentary in 2000.

International Children and Youth Book Fair In Mexico announced
The 35th International Fair of Children and Youth Books will take place November 6 to 16 at the National Center of Arts of the Mexican capital, with France as guest of honor. According to organizers, it will have five spaces destined to readers of all ages, a cabin to record podcast and a Reading Center.
The Hall of Interactive Reading will have as main scenario the space called On this Earth, in tribute to deceased Mexican writer Eraclio Zepeda.
Panamanian writer Mariela Sagel said the country could be rescued trough culture, thus the need for a dynamic Ministry, which is able to be in touch and interact with artists.
The author of “Fuga” (2015), an edition that compiles 80 articles about the country’s cultural work, gave details about the activities like handicrafts, painting, reading, among others, which are successfully being implemented at penitentiary centers. “Even writers go there to talk about their books”.
While assessing the performance of the sector in the country, Sagel said that theater is the most developed artistic expression, as she lamented that culture is in no government’s agenda.

Official science: the grand illusion for all robots

by Jon Rappoport

“Government science exists because it is a fine weapon to use, in order to force an agenda of control over the population. We aren’t talking about knowledge here. Knowledge is irrelevant. What counts is: ‘How can we fabricate something that looks like the truth?’ I keep pointing this out: we’re dealing with reality builders. In this case, they make their roads and fences out of data, and they massage and invent the data out of thin air to suit their purposes. After all, they also invent money out of thin air.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
Introduction: Since 1987, one of my goals as a reporter has been to educate the public about false science.
Between then and now, I have found that, with remarkably few exceptions, mainstream reporters are studiously indifferent to false science.
They shy away from it. They pretend “it couldn’t be.” They refuse to consider facts. They and their editors parrot “the experts.”
Official science has a stranglehold on major media. It has the force of a State religion. When you stop and think about it, official science is, in a significant sense, a holy church. Therefore, it is no surprise that the church’s spokespeople would wield power over major information outlets.
These prelates invent, guard, and dispense “what is known.” That was precisely the role of the Roman Church in times past. And those professionals within the modern Church of Science are severely punished when they leave the fold and accuse their former masters of lies and crimes. They are blackballed, discredited, and stripped of their licenses. At the very least.
Totalitarian science lets you know you’re living in a totalitarian society.
The government, the press, the mega-corporations, the prestigious foundations, the academic institutions, the “humanitarian” organizations say:
“This is the disease. This is its name. This is what causes it. This is the drug that treats it. This is the vaccine that prevents it.”
“This is how accurate diagnosis is done. These are the tests. These are the possible results and what they mean.”
“Here are the genes. This is what they do. This is how they can be changed and substituted and manipulated. These are the outcomes.”
“These are the data and the statistics. They are correct. There can be no argument about them.”
“This is life. These are the components of life. All change and improvement result from our management of the components.”
“This is the path. It is governed by truth which our science reveals. Walk the path. We will inform you when you stray. We will report new improvements.”
“This is the end. You can go no farther. You must give up the ghost. We will remember you.”
We are now witnessing the acceleration of Official Science. Of course, that term is an internal contradiction. But the State shrugs and moves forward.
The notion that the State can put its seal on favored science, enforce it, and punish its competitors, is anathema to a free society.
For example: declaring that psychiatrists can appear in court as expert witnesses, when none of the so-called mental disorders listed in the psychiatric literature are diagnosed by laboratory tests.
For example: stating that vaccination is mandatory, in order to protect the vaccinated (who are supposed to be immune) from the unvaccinated. An absurdity on its face.
For example: announcing that the science of climate change is “settled,” when there are, in fact, huge numbers of researchers who disagree. —And then, drafting legislation and issuing executive orders based on the decidedly unsettled science.
For example: officially approving the release and sale of medical drugs (“safe and effective”) which go on to kill, at a conservative estimate, 100,000 Americans every year. And then refusing to investigate or punish the purveyors of these drug approvals (the FDA).
For example: permitting the widespread use of genetically modified food crops, based on no long-term studies of their impact on human health. And then, arbitrarily announcing that the herbicide, Roundup, for which many of these crops are specifically designed, is non-toxic.
For example: declaring and promoting the existence of various epidemics, when the viruses purportedly causing them are not proven to exist and/or not proven to cause human illness (Ebola, SARS, West Nile, Swine Flu, etc.).
A few of you reading this have been with me since 1988, when I published my first book, AIDS INC., Scandal of the Century. Among other conclusions, I pointed out that HIV had never been shown to cause human illness; the front-line drug given to AIDS patients, AZT, was overwhelmingly toxic; and what was being called AIDS was actually a diverse number immune-suppressing conditions.
Others of you have found my work more recently. I always return to the subject of false science, because it is the most powerful long-term instrument for repression, political control, and destruction of human life.
As I’ve stated on many occasions, medical science is ideal for mounting and launching covert ops aimed at populations—because it appears to be politically neutral, without any allegiance to State interests.
Unfortunately, medical science, on many fronts, has been hijacked and taken over. The profit motive is one objective, but beyond that, there is a more embracing goal:
Totalitarian control.
On the issue of vaccines, I’ve written much about their dangers and ineffectiveness. But also consider this: the push for mandatory vaccination goes a long way toward creating a herd effect—which is really a social construction.
In other words, parents are propagandized to think of themselves a kind of synthetic artificial “community.”
“Here we are. We are the fathers and mothers. We must all protect our children against the outliers, the rebels, the defectors, the crazy ones who refuse to vaccinate their own children. We are all in this together. They are the threat. The enemy. We are good. We know the truth. They are evil.”
This “community of the willing” are dedicated to what the government tells them. They are crusaders imbued with group-think. They run around promoting “safety and protection.” This group consciousness is entirely an artifact, propelled by “official science.”
The crusaders are, in effect, agents of the State.
They are created by the State.
Androids.
They live in an absurd Twilight Zone where fear of germs (the tiny invisible terrorists) demands coercive action against the individuals who see through the whole illusion.
This is what official science can achieve. This is how it can enlist obedient foot soldiers and spies who don’t have the faintest idea about how they’re being used.
This is a variant on Orwell’s 1984. The citizens are owned by the all-embracing State, but they aren’t even aware of it.
That’s quite a trick.
(Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, and Power Outside The Matrix).

This elección has left me with a bitter taste

I am not a mainstream newspapers reader or TV viewer for many years, but even though I don’t trust them, to know more about the election, I went and read their stuff in an effort to learn some of the latest on the upcoming and then post election. I noticed that each of our daily newspapers and TV networks’ election coverage were far from being honest and fair.
Way before the election started, local mainstream media kept on spreading that Mayor Ed Lee had no opponents, while continuously belittling the five opposing candidates as no threat to the incumbent, when in fact Lee had a significant opposition, which included several candidates with more deep vision for the City and its residents than the Mayor’s!
But, then, if the dominant media is getting paid with significant advertising dollars to bang the name of Ed Lee day and night in the media (that most people watch and believe), then we know why Lee ‘had no opposition.’ No opposition in their media of course. The media decide who will be more visible.
Apart from purposely ignoring or not mentioning them enough (except their paid clients), they ignored big time the presence and the mayor’s opposition in the campaign for the Mayor’s throne.
A mayoral debate forum organized by the League of Women Voter, which was the only one out of three scheduled debates that Lee attended, seemed like the questions submitted by the attendees for the mayoral candidates were carefully picked as not to allow controversial issues to be asked that would embarrass the Mayor, like media mentions that the mayor was possibly involved in illegalities related to the mafia and gun running. This was now mentioned in the media in post election. Why now and not before the election?
This election was the most significant one in the latest history of the San Francisco’s Mission District, especially for Latinos.
An Oct. 28 report indicates that in 10 years, the Latino population in the Mission will drop from 48 percent to 31 percent.
The Save the Mission website states that for the last 70 years, the Mission has served as the epicenter of Latino life and culture in San Francisco. It is well documented in the press and in academic studies that this historically working-class neighborhood is being overrun by rampant gentrification. Since 2000, over 8,000 Latinos have been displaced and no longer make up the majority of residents in the neighborhood.
Most of the Latino-owned bars and restaurants in the Mission are no more, and with the recent advent of new market-value, luxury condos, which the current City administration has contributed to happen, rents have exorbitantly gone up as never before. Rents that only those making over $200k a years can afford. And the lack of building enough affordable housing has also contributed to this massive displacement Latinos and no Latinos.
This election had a historically voter turnout, according to housing advocates, and had some wins for affordable housing. Proposition A passed allocating $310 million bond for affordable housing. This is an important win for building more housing for low-income and middle-class individuals and families. However, nothing is free, with this, the powers to be just put more financial weight (taxes or confiscation of wealth) on the back of the working-class and the slowly-dying middle class. More debt for the people who can’t barely pay their current rents and support their families.
Proposition K, another cushion for the housing crisis, passed, making affordable homes the first priority for the re-use of public land. This is a significant win for using public resources to serve the needs of marginalized communities.
In other propositions in the ballot that would have helped minimized the housing crisis were rejected by the voters.
Proposition F failed. Voters rejected to limit and regulate Airbnb’s practices. While many housing activists organized to expose how Airbnb’s practices exacerbate the displacement crisis, Airbnb responded by spending over $8 million in its campaign against Prop F. Neighborhood and tenant groups now hope to bring the enforcement and regulation of short-term rentals to the Board of Supervisors.
Proposition I failed. Voters rejected to pause luxury-housing construction in the Mission District for 18 months and require the city to work to work with the community to create a Neighborhood Stabilization Plan. Neighborhood residents and activists will continue to fight against rampant real estate speculation to preserve and sustain their community.
There were other winnings for the people vs. housing speculators. Mayoral candidate Francisco Herrera voting numbers were so significant, that he’s been suggested that a run for a Supervisorial seat would be a solid win in the next supervisor election either in the Mission or the Excelsior District. Maybe Herrera for Excelsior and Roberto Hernández in the Mission.
However, because at press time there was still a significant number of votes not counted yet, Herrera still has hopes that the equation could change and go to a run-off against the incumbent mayor.
With this said, my best suggestion is that all tenants in SF organized and hit the polls next time, because only the people united can make the change needed.

Turmeric produces ‘remarkable’ recovery in alzheimer’s patients

by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com

Alzheimer’s Disease: A Disturbingly Common Modern Rite of Passage
A diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), sadly, has become a rite of passage in so-called developed countries.  AD is considered the most common form of dementia, which is defined as a serious loss of cognitive function in previously unimpaired persons, beyond what is expected from normal aging.
A 2006 study estimated that 26 million people throughout the world suffer from this condition, and that by 2050, the prevalence will quadruple, by which time 1 in 85 persons worldwide will be afflicted with the disease.
Given the global extent of the problem, interest in safe and effective preventive and therapeutic interventions within the conventional medical and alternative professions alike are growing.
Unfortunately, conventional drug-based approaches amount to declaring chemical war upon the problem, a mistake which we have documented elsewhere, and which can result in serious neurological harm, as evidenced by the fact that this drug class carries an alarmingly high risk for seizures, according to World Health Organization post-marketing surveillance statistics.
What the general public is therefore growing most responsive to is using time-tested, safe, natural and otherwise more effective therapies that rely on foods, spices and familiar culinary ingredients.
Remarkable Recoveries Reported after Administration of Turmeric
Late last year, a remarkable study was published in the journal Ayu titled “Effects of turmeric on Alzheimer’s disease with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.” [ii]  Researchers described three patients with Alzheimer’s disease whose behavioral symptoms were “improved remarkably” as a result of consuming 764 milligram of turmeric (curcumin 100 mg/day) for 12 weeks.

According to the study:
“All three patients exhibited irritability, agitation, anxiety, and apathy, two patients suffer from urinary incontinence and wonderings. They were prescribed turmeric powder capsules and started recovering from these symptoms without any adverse reaction in the clinical symptom and laboratory data.”
After only 3 months of treatment, both the patients’ symptoms and the burden on their caregivers were significantly decreased.
The report describes the improvements thusly:
“In one case, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score was up five points, from 12/30 to 17/30. In the other two cases, no significant change was seen in the MMSE; however, they came to recognize their family within one year treatment. All cases have been taking turmeric for more than 1 year, re-exacerbation of BPSD was not seen.”
This study illustrates just how powerful a simple natural intervention using a time-tested culinary herb can be.  Given that turmeric has been used medicinally and as a culinary ingredient for over 5,000 years in Indian culture, even attaining the status of a ‘Golden Goddess,’ we should not be surprised at this result. Indeed, epidemiological studies of Indian populations reveal that they have a remarkably lower prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease relative to Western nations,  and this is true for both rural and more “Westernized” urban areas of India.[4]
Could turmeric be a major reason for this?
Turmeric’s Anti-Alzheimer’s Properties.
The GreenMedInfo.com database now contains a broad range of published studies on the value of turmeric, and its primary polyphenol curcumin (which gives it its golden hue), for Alzheimer’s disease prevention and treatment.
While there are 114 studies on our Turmeric research page indicating turmeric has a neuroprotective set of physiological actions, [5] 30 of these studies are directly connected to turmeric’s anti-Alzheimer’s disease properties.
Two of these studies are particularly promising, as they reveal that curcumin is capable of enhancing the clearance of the pathological amyloid–beta plaque in Alzheimer’s disease patients,[6] and that in combination with vitamin D3 the neurorestorative process is further enhanced.[7] Additional preclinical research indicates curcumin (and its analogs) has inhibitory and protective effects against Alzheimer’s disease associated β-amyloid proteins.

Journalism practice in Mexico is dangerous, says report

by the El Reportero’s wire services

Mexico is the most dangerous country for journalists in America today, says a report of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
The document released by the Mexican daily La Jornada, says that one out of three murders documented since 2010 to date was committed in this country.
During the last five years, 150 journalists and media workers were deprived of life in the Americas, which means that in the region a journalist is killed every 14 days.
The increased risk and the high number of attacks against Mexican journalists, results in self-censorship and the forced displacement and exile of journalists, says the Rapporteur.
Other countries reporting significant numbers of media workers killed are: Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and Paraguay.
According to the study, violence is exacerbated in areas or territories with a strong presence of organized crime.

Salvador: Charges against ex President Flores confirmed
The Attorney General’s Office confirmed the charges of embezzlement and disobedience pressed against ex president Francisco Flores, and a now he faces legal action for money laundering.
In a preliminary hearing in courts in this capital, the Attorney General’s Office also requested that ex president Flores (1999-2004) remains under house arrest despite all evidence presented, which has generated desatisfaction among the plaintiffs.
In the opinion of Ramon Villalta, from Social Initiative for Democracy, it is deplorable that the Attorney General’s Office, after evidence proves clear commission of crimes, has failed to include money laundering in its petition.
“All the evidence presented clearly proves that the crime of money laundering was committed,” Villalta told Prensa Latina.
He added that much more regrettable is “the deplorable role of the Attorney General’s Office” in requesting to keep the accused under the preventive measure of house arrest.
If the perpetration of acts of corruption was in fact proven, “I don’t see a reason why a person that has committed crimes of this nature is being given privileges, specially when we have all witnessed that the money donated by Taiwan was supposed to go to projects to improve the quality of life of poor people and deal with damages caused by quakes in 2001,” he stressed.
How come that with the social effects this causes, and this can only be related to crimes against humanity, the Attorney General’s Office is considering Flores remaining under a preventive measure of house arrest, so that he continues getting benefits,” he wondered.
The hearing is likely to run until tomorrow, when it will be decided if the ex president is brought to trial, accused of money laundering, and taken to prison.

Nicaragua: Venue of the Duty-Free Zones Conference of the Americas
The 19th Conference of Duty-Free Zones of the Americas starts today in Nicaragua with the participation of some 150 industrialists, investors, exporters and experts of several countries and the objective of strengthening that regime in the area. Under the slogan The Americas, the continent of new opportunities, the meeting includes panel discussions on the latest trends and developments of that industry, will look to promote investment possibilities offered by the region in that modality.
Among the issues to discuss, there is how to innovate productivity and logistics; how to invest in Nicaragua and the region to boost this sphere; the policies of duty-free zones and the regional chain of added value, point organizers.
The executive director of Duty-Free Zones of the Americas, Camila Moreno, said in statements to news media that among the objectives of the venue stands out the promotion of business meetings and business alliances.

One of the most important scientists in the world: “Most cancer research is largely a fraud”

by Arjun Walia

“Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.”
The above quote comes from Linus Pauling, Ph.D, and two time Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (1901-1994). He is considered one of the most important scientists in history. He is one of the founders of quantum chemistry and molecular biology, who was also a well known peace activist. He was invited to be in charge of the Chemistry division of the Manhattan Project, but refused. He has also done a lot of work on military applications, and has pretty much done and seen it all when it comes to the world of science. A quick Google search will suffice if you’d like to learn more about him.
This man has been around the block, and obviously knows a thing or two about this subject. And he’s not the only expert from around the world expressing similar beliefs and voicing his opinion.
Here is another great example of a hard hitting quote when it comes to scientific fraud and manipulation. It comes from Dr. Marcia Angell, a physician and long time Editor in Chief of the New England Medical Journal (NEMJ), which is considered to be one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. I apologize if you have seen it before in my articles, but it is quite the statement.
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.”
The list goes on and on. Dr. John Bailer, who spent 20 years on the staff of the National Cancer Institute and is also a former editor of its journal, publicly stated in a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that:
“My overall assessment is that the national cancer program must be judged a qualified failure. Our whole cancer research in the past 20 years has been a total failure.”
He also alluded to the fact that cancer treatment, in general, has been a complete failure.
Another interesting point is the fact that most of the money donated to cancer research is spent on animal research, which has been considered completely useless by many. For example, in 1981 Dr. Irwin Bross, the former director of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Institute (largest cancer research institute in the world), said that:
“The uselessness of most of the animal model studies is less well known. For example, the discovery of chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of human cancer is widely-heralded as a triumph due to use of animal model systems. However, here again, these exaggerated claims are coming from or are endorsed by the same people who get the federal dollars for animal research. There is little, if any, factual evidence that would support these claims. Practically all of the chemotherapeutic agents which are of value in the treatment of human cancer were found in a clinical context rather than in animal studies.”
Today, treating illness and disease has a corporate side. It is an enormously profitable industry, but only when geared towards treatment, not preventative measures or cures, and that’s an important point to consider.
Another quote that relates to my point above was made by Dr. Dean Burk, an American biochemist and a senior chemist for the National Cancer Institute. His paper, “The Determination of Enzyme Dissociation Constants ,” published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1934, is one of the most frequently cited papers in the history of biochemistry.
“When you have power you don’t have to tell the truth. That’s a rule that’s been working in this world for generations. And there are a great many people who don’t tell the truth when they are in power in administrative positions.”
He also stated that:
“Fluoride causes more human cancer deaths than any other chemical. It is some of the most conclusive scientific and biological evidence that I have come across in my 50 years in the field of cancer research.”
In the April 15th, 2015 edition of Lancet, the UK’s leading medical journal, editor in chief Richard Horton stated:
“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Science has taken a turn toward darkness.”
In 2005 Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis, currently a professor in disease prevention at Stanford University, published the most widely accessed article in the history of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) entitled Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. In the report, he stated:
“There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false.”
In 2009, the University of Michigan’s comprehensive cancer center published an analysis that revealed popular cancer studies are false, and that there were fabricated results arising due to conflicts of interest. They suggested that the fabricated results were a result of what would work best for drug companies. After all, a large portion of cancer research is funded directly by them.
There is so much information out there, and so much of it is coming from people who have been directly involved in these proceedings. There is really no shortage of credible sources willing to state that we live in a world of scientific fraud and manipulation.
All of this can be attributed to the “corporatocracy” we live in today, where giant corporations owned by a select group of “elite” people have basically taken control over the planet and all of its resources.
This is precisely why so many people are flocking towards alternative treatment, as well as focusing on cancer prevention. Much of what we surround ourselves with on a daily basis has been linked to cancer. Everything from pesticides, GMOs, multiple cosmetic products, certain “foods,” smoking, and much much more. This is something that is never really emphasized, we always seem to just assume that donating money to charities will make the problem go away, despite the fact that their business practices are highly questionable.
That being said, so many people have had success with alternative treatments like cannabis oil – combined with a raw diet or even incorporated into their chemotherapy regimen – that we should not feel as though there is no hope for the future.
The official stance on cannabis is a great example of the very practice of misinformation that I’m talking about. Its anti-tumoral properties have been demonstrated for decades, yet no clinical trials are taking place.
I am going to leave you with this video, as I have done in previous articles. It provides a little food for thought. Ignorance is not the answer, although this information can be scary to consider, it’s nothing to turn a blind eye towards.

“Right now we need to hear the voice of the families”

NOTA DEL EDITOR: Elections in November of 2015 for mayor of San Francisco and the ‘Proposition I’ were the hottest issues, according to leading human rights and residents of the Mission District of San Francisco, since winning the Latino candidate Francisco Herrera and approving the ‘proposition I, it would have been the hope of the Latino and the community at large who are tenants, to stop the constant evictions that families are suffering.
If he was elected Mayor, Francisco Herrera had already committed to stop luxury and market-rate housing constructions, govern for the people and not serve as an instrument of the real estate industry as it has been the case with Mayor Ed Lee.
At press time, the total count of the votes had not been done, but the votes so far counted were showing Lee with a significant lead over Herrrera and ‘Prop. I’ failing.
At the end, however, the chess pieces moved to the side where it will hinder the work of the Mayor in favor of his rich allies. – Marvin Ramírez.

por Fernando A. Torres
Especial para El Reportero.

– The triumph of Aaron Peskin over Supervisor Lee Julie Christensen (52.4 per cent against 43.6 per cent) in District 3, was not only listed as the most important victory for the opposition in the past elections on Tuesday, Nov. 3, but also a severe defeat to Mayor Ed Lee, and put again on the table of local politics the growing discontent with the performance of the Mayor.
Peskin is now the sixth vote among supervisors in opposition to the policies of the Mayor, a shift in the political balance. Now the opposition at the Board of Supervisors has a majority of the votes, which will force the Mayor to listen to them more carefully.
Thus expressed the Latino leaders who, despite the defeat of proposition F and I, the loss of the Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and the re-election of Lee, were optimistic.  “Despite of losing I, we earned much and the most important was that we now have the infrastructure to start another campaign,” said via telephone Roberto Hernández, a face most recognized in the movement to halt the evictions and displacements in the popular Mission District.
“We will now join with Asian residents, with African-Americans, with the people of North Beach, the residents of Sunset, Richmond, Excelsior. Now we will give the city a deadline of 90 days, and if they don’t do what we need, we will propose new measures for elections in the months of June and November of next year,” said Hernández, who runs the organization Our Mission no to Evictions.
Francisco Herrera, the only Latino candidate in the race, received the higher number of votes than the rest of the other opposition candidates. According to the latest figures supplied by the San Francisco County Department of Elections as of Nov. 5 (4 p.m.), Herrera had 21,534 votes, 14.6 percent, and Mayor Lee had 83,453, 56.8 percent. A total of 155,675 votes had been counted, which means 34.8 percent of all registered voters went to the polls.
Local media and political analysts agreed that Lee’s victory was not as strong as expected. The sum of the votes of the five candidates gives a total of 62.989 votes and those received by the Mayor added to 83.453.
Herrera was pleased but cautious. He said that resolving the housing crisis “will take a lot of work, we have many challenges to make (the municipality) understand the wishes of the people and not the those of the investors. They are nothing more a part of the mix. Right now we need to hear the voices of families,” Herrera said.
With the 32.9 percent of the votes, the defeat of Sheriff Mirkarimi, was strongly against Vicky Hennessy, who got 61.1 percent of the vote.
Proposition I, a temporal stop to the construction of luxury homes in the Mission, lost 57.5 per cent against 42.4 per cent; however, Prop. A, the financing for the construction of affordable housing, won easily with a 73.8 percent.
Hernández said that it is important to consider the next year, because it will be the presidential election. “We will win this time because (on this election) there was a low turnout at the polls, but next year we know that this will increase because they are presidential elections.”
Hernández added that there are also talks about a campaign to impeach the Mayor. “Many people are speaking about that, if the Mayor does not do a good job between now and the next elections in June,’ he said.
Reflecting about what was his campaign, Herrera said that it has “very strongly demonstrated that the housing crisis is a serious issue and that 40,000 jobs that (Lee) has created, are for people not living in the city. I am very happy because we have made it very clear that people in San Francisco want a city for working people and set the foundations for a broad civic alliance. I loved the level of participation of the Latino community. The community participated and it was felt,” he said.

Art to to classroom through Unique Parnership

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

As part of its educational programming to bring art to local schools, The Mexican Museum has partnered with Esperanza Academy in Oakland to support its Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) program for students in grades K-5. The program allows students to explore world art with an emphasis on Mexican and Latino art.
Guadalupe Rivera y Marín, Ph.D. will be giving a talk to Esperanza Academy students. The daughter of famed Mexican artist Diego Rivera, Guadalupe is a long-time supporter of the Mexican Museum and serves as Honorary Trustee and Co-Chairs the Arts & Letters Council.
“The presentation will be especially meaningful as the students just finished studying Diego Rivera’s art,” said Sandra Brod, Esperanza Academy facilitator for the Visual Thinking Strategies program.  “Students are engaged in observing and practicing art at least twice per month in each classroom. Rivera y Marín will do a reading from her book Mi papá Diego y yo (My dad Diego and I) which details the culture of México, her dad’s art and traditions that she remembers as a young girl in Mexico.”
Ms. Rivera y Marín’s talk will be on Monday, Nov. 2 at 10 a.m., in the auditorium at Esperanza Elementary a K-5, a dual language public school, located at 10315 E. Street in Oakland (X street103), part of the Oakland Unified School District.

Caltrain to hold public hearing on proposed fare changes
Caltrain will host a public hearing next week to gather feedback on proposed changes to fare rates and daily parking charges. The hearing will take place during the Caltrain Board of Directors meeting on Thursday, Nov. 5.
As part of the proposed changes, Caltrain would increase its adult base fare by 50 cents. That would also mean increases for the Day Pass, 8-ride tickets and Monthly passes. Eligible discount fares would remain at 50 percent of adult ticket prices, and Clipper card holders would continue to get an approximate 15 percent discount. More information on the proposed fare chart is available here.
Along with the fare change proposal, Caltrain is considering increasing the daily parking fee at station lots from $5 to $5.50, and raising the monthly parking permit fee from $50 to $55.
Caltrain convened four community meetings earlier this month to collect input on the proposed changes. The agency will continue to gather feedback from the public until the public hearing.
The public hearing on the proposals will be held at the following place and time, on Nov. 5, 2015, 10 a.m., Second Floor Auditorium Caltrain Administrative Headquarters, at 1250 San Carlos Ave, San Carlos.
Comments may be sent by mail, e-mail or phone to Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, JPB Secretary P.O. Box 3006, San Carlos, CA 94070-1306, by email changes@caltrain.com , by phone 1.800.660.4287.

StudioSoad present its fall SF Open Studios 2015
Lots art for sale. Don’t let your wall be empty or with crap. We have the finest art by the finest artist in the city. Friday, Oct. 30, 6-9 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 31, Sunday, Nov. 1, at 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. At Arc Studios & Gallery, Beyond the Gallery Wall,  StudioSoad Arc Studio #101, at 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, between 8th & 9th Streets SOMA.

Salsa around the Bay

Come burn energy while learning Salsa dancing
At El Valenciano Club and Restaurant. Class on Thursday, at 8:30 p.m. with Salsa Holic Ron and party until 2 a.m. to the music of ELDJX spinning the best in salsa, bachata, merengue, and cha cha! Discount flyers at salsaholicthursdays.com. At 1153 Valencia Street, SF.

Salsa, Bachata in the Bay Area
At Dance Milano – Live concerts every Saturday with some of the best local and International bands. Cover $15 Includes Salsa & Bachata dance lessons. Huge floating wood dance floor, plenty of safe free parking. Doors open at 8 p.m. and beginner salsa, bachata dance classes by world champions every week at 8:30 sharp, no partner or experience necessary.

At 394 South Second Street, San Jose, Calif. Dress to Impress.

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