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The plan for the end of Europe: the new USSR

by Jon Rappoport

“If you controlled the meaning of The Good, and you had unlimited propaganda resources and access to the press, and if you also had control over the Armed Forces and the police, you could build a new society in short order. You could wreck centuries of tradition in a few decades. And if you had the education system in your back pocket, you could wipe out the memory of what formerly existed. No one would remember. No one would care. This is happening now, in Europe. Ignorance is enlightenment.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

— One of the basic principles of elite Globalism is: the end of borders, the end of separate nations.
The European Union was built for this purpose, step by step, out of the ashes of World War 2: a super-bureaucracy and political management system for the whole continent.
But that was not enough. There had to be a way to wipe out separate and sovereign nations at ground level, to irrevocably change the landscape.
It is open borders; floods of immigrants; “replacement populations”; an influx of people who have no intention of accepting the customs and way of life in their new homes.
The end result? A de facto reconfiguring of national populations, so that, when you look at the makeup of Europe 20 years from now, you will say:
“Why do we think of Germany or France or England? They don’t really exist. All of Europe is a vast mix of immigrants. Europe is really one country now. So let’s erase all those old artificial borders.”
Eventually, even uttering words like “Swedes, Norwegians, Germans, French, Dutch…” will be considered micro (or macro) aggressions against the “people of Europe.”
Of course, in reaching this point, there will be a certain amount of chaos and violence. The EU is banking on its ability to control it, to put it down where necessary, and to maintain its hold as the one and only governing force in Europe.
On a cultural level, names like Locke, Shakespeare, Goethe, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Lorca, Goya, Cezanne, Monet, Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Dante, Galileo, Faraday, and even “modern” names like Bartok, Stravinsky, Rimbaud, Orwell, and Camus will be vague dusty ghosts that provoke uncomprehending stares. “The past is dead.”
“Oh, but don’t worry about that. The important thing is, every person living in Europe is a citizen of Europe, and is entitled to benefits. This is humane, this is The Good, this is the triumph of the benevolent State. Nothing else matters.”
All European languages will eventually be reduced. Who has the right to speak words that the majority of people can’t understand?
What I’m sketching in here is the grid that will be laid over Europe.
And of course, as automation comes on with a rush, many “citizen-workers of Europe” will become unnecessary. Even great corporations will fall, because they won’t be able to sell their products to an impoverished population. They’ll hope against hope that the billions of people in the East, China and India, will give them new markets.
Against this background, the individual human being will be looked at, from the top, as a cipher, a unit in “models and algorithms.”
The question is, how many individuals will take the bait and regard themselves as mere “parts” in the overall system?
How many will give in and consider their future a function of how much they can obtain from The State, free of charge?
How many will come to believe that their power, as individuals, is inconsequential—or even a delusion?
Why do I bother bringing this up? Because, regardless of the prevailing collectivist mindset—propagandized and promoted and exploited from an elite level—State repression, in all its forms, falls on each individual.
If the very concept of the individual is wiped out, what is left?
In 1859, John Stuart Mill wrote: “If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being…there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.”
Conversely, when the free development of individuality is of no concern, liberty will die.
Boris Pasternak, the Russian novelist and poet, who knew a thing or two about political repression, wrote (1960): “They [the Soviet bureaucrats] don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.”
This reversal is being imposed now, in Europe.
Defectors from the old USSR would recognize it in an instant, having lived through it themselves. The European version seems softer and gentler, but that is just a matter of strategy. The culture is being cooked more slowly.
But just because secret police aren’t knocking on doors in the middle of the night and making mass arrests, that isn’t a sign that individual freedom reigns.
A number of European political leaders are telling their constituencies, “You have no right to oppose the flood of immigration on any grounds. To do so, to utter such public statements, is an offense.”
Does that sound familiar?
The wet dream of every collectivist is coming true. All power at the top; all conformity (called “unity”) everywhere else. The new USSR.
In the old days, the East German police kept records on every citizen and blanketed the population with snitches and spies. The modern Surveillance State has replaced that, searching for “nodes of discontent.”
Collectivists may pay lip service to the dangers of State surveillance, but when it is used to root out people who can’t envision a better world based on, among other features, open borders, well, this is just an enforcement of The Good upon those who can’t discover it for themselves.
If The Humanitarian Way needs a nudge and boost, why not?
For dyed-in-the-wool collectivists, freedom isn’t just a roadblock; it’s an irrelevant illusion. It never existed. All humans are operating according to programs, and have been since birth. Therefore, install a better program, by any means necessary and available. Produce “kinder people.”
This is both a political and a technological imperative.
Open borders and unlimited immigration is a good test case. For people who feel imposed upon, who feel their communities are being torn apart, who feel personally threatened, who feel this is, indeed, a covert operation to transform Europe into a new USSR, there is a need for re-education at the deepest level possible. Because, surely, such people are suffering from profound disorders. Their circuits are crossed. Their brains are defective. They can’t see the larger picture.
They would never be able to see, for example, the wisdom of the words of Zbigniew Brzezinski, David Rockerfeller’s alter ego, who wrote, in 1969:
“The nation state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.”
Here is the Globalist tactician at work, a man who seems to hate the old USSR, but is seeking to install a version of the same collectivism, through other means.
If Lenin were alive today, he would look out over Europe and agree that his agenda is alive and well. He might object to the relatively slow pace. He might want more violence. But he would grudgingly acknowledge that his descendants have discovered a few new tricks.
He would have to approve of the “humanitarian altruism,” and the way it is being modeled and manipulated, so that the edifice of The Good appears as a shining beacon in the darkness.
Nice movie. Excellent production design. Tears of sympathy rolling down the cheeks of the audience.
Minds reduced to one constant: we must care for the less fortunate.
Trillions and trillions of dollars devoted to elicit that sentiment, regardless of the circumstances, or the true malignant outcome, or the actual sinister intent of the elite artists of reality.
(Jon Rappoport is he author of three explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, and Power Outside The Matrix).

Four of the most elite secret societies in history

FROM THE EDITOR:

Dear readers: I’ve been interested in reading about some of the so many secret societies that have existed through out history. The more interesting part of them and which give credence to their stories is their direct association with known political individual in government and high profile organizations. Many people consider them just conspiracy theories, but I have arrived to the conclusion that most of them are real. But this is just my opinion. I’ve seen videos by investigators who have infiltrated their ritual, showing important political figures – like a former US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, participating in Satanic rituals. – MR

by Robert Anthony
Elite Today

Genuine secret societies have existed for centuries, conducting their business in darkened back rooms and, more often than not, exerting a mysterious influence upon our culture. Through history there have been many secret societies and conspiracy theories about those societies.
From political organizations to college frats, these groups require their members to conceal their activities, and sometimes their identities, from the public. Go behind closed doors as we examine the 10 most Elite secret societies in history.

1. The Illuminati – A movement of freethinkers that were the most radical offshoot of The Enlightenment — whose followers were given the name Illuminati (but who called themselves “Perfectibilists”) — was founded on May 1, 1776 in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt. This group is now known as the Bavarian Illuminati. While it was not legally allowed to operate, many influential intellectuals and progressive politicians counted themselves as members. Even though there were some known Freemasons in the membership, it was not considered to be endorsed by Masonry. The fact that the Illuminati did not require a belief in a supreme being made them particularly popular amongst atheists. This, and the fact that most members were humanists, is the reason for the widespread belief that the Illuminati wants to overthrow organized religion. Internal panic over the succession of a new leader, and government attempts to outlaw the group saw to it collapsing entirely in the late 1700s. Despite this, conspiracy theorists such as David Icke and Was Penre, have argued that the Bavarian Illuminati survived, possibly to this day, though very little reliable evidence can be found to support the idea that Weishaupt’s group survived into the 19th century. It has even been suggested that the Skull and Bones club is an American branch of the Illuminati. Many people believe that the Illuminati is still operating and managing the main actions of the governments of the world. It is believed that they wish to create a One World Government based on humanist and atheist principles

2. FreemasonsLast week El Reportero published a more in-depth article about this logia
The Grand Masonic Lodge was created in 1717 when four small groups of lodges joined together. Membership levels were initially first and second degree, but in the 1750s this was expanded to create the third degree, which caused a split in the group. When a person reaches the third degree, they are called a Master Mason. Masons conduct their regular meetings in a ritualized style. This includes many references to architectural symbols such as the compass and square. They refer to God as “The Great Architect of the Universe”. The three degrees of Masonry are: 1: Entered Apprentice, this makes you a basic member of the group. 2: Fellow Craft, this is an intermediate degree in which you are meant to develop further knowledge of Masonry. 3: Master Mason, this degree is necessary for participating in most masonic activities. Some rites (such as the Scottish rite) list up to 33 degrees of membership. Masons use signs and handshakes to gain admission to their meetings, as well as to identify themselves to other people who may be Masons. The signs and handshakes often differ from one jurisdiction to another and are often changed or updated. This protects the group from people finding out how to gain admission under false pretenses. Masons also wear stylized clothing based upon the clothing worn by stone masons from the middle ages. The most well-known of these is the apron. In order to become a Mason, you must generally be recommended by a current mason. In some cases you must be recommended three times before you can join. You have to be at least 18 years old and of sound mind. Many religions frown upon membership of the Masons, and the Roman Catholic Church forbids Catholics to join under pain of excommunication.

3. The Order of the Skull and Bones – The Order of Skull and Bones, a Yale University society, was originally known as the Brotherhood of Death. It is one of the oldest student secret societies in the United States. It was founded in 1832 and membership is open to an elite few. The society uses masonic inspired rituals to this day. Members meet every Thursday and Sunday of each week in a building they call the “Tomb”. According to Judy Schiff, Chief Archivist at the Yale University Library, the names of the members were not kept secret until the 1970s, but the rituals always have been. Both of the Bush presidents were members of the society while studying at Yale, and a number of other members have gone on to great fame and fortune. The society is surrounded by conspiracy theories; the most popular of which is probably the idea that the CIA was built on members from the group. The CIA released a statement in 2007 (coinciding with the popularity of the film The Good Shepherd) in which it denied that the group was an incubator for the CIA. You can read that document here.
4. The Knights of the Golden Circle – The Knights of the Golden Circle was a secret society that flourished in the U.S. during the American Civil War. In the beginning, the group sought to encourage the annexation of Mexico and the West Indies, which they believed would help the waning slave trade to once again flourish. But once the Civil War started, the group switched its focus from colonialism to fervent support of the newly established Confederate government. The Knights soon had thousands of followers, many of whom formed guerilla armies and began raiding Union strongholds in the West. In the Northern states, the mysterious order had an even bigger impact. Many newspapers and public figures engaged in witch-hunts where they accused supposed Southern sympathizers, including President Franklin Pierce, of being members of the Knights of the Golden Circle. Unlike most secret societies, the Golden Circle didn’t just concern itself with clandestine meetings and mysterious plans. Instead, the group often formed renegade armies and bands of bushwhackers in order to forward their agenda by force. In 1860, a group of the Knights made a failed attempt to invade Mexico. During the war, they robbed stagecoaches and attempted a blockade of the harbor in San Francisco, and a group of them even managed to briefly take control of southern New Mexico.

Swine flu vaccine far more dangerous than swine flu itself

by Ethan A. Huff

A closer look at the overall infection and death rate from confirmed cases of H1N1 influenza during the 2009–2010 “pandemic,” as declared by the World Health Organization (WHO), has revealed that the widely administered vaccine for swine flu is far more deadly than the disease itself. As it turns out, far more people were injured with permanent brain damage, narcolepsy or even death from the vaccine compared to the number of injuries and deaths directly attributed to H1N1.
One out of every 16,000 people who received the Pandemrix vaccine (manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline) for swine flu, according to the International Business Times, developed narcolepsy or cataplexy, a condition that results in a person not being able to sleep for more than 90 minutes at a time, and falling unexpectedly unconscious throughout the day with no warning. The condition is a marker of brain damage, in fact, which is why the UK government agreed to pay out 60 million pounds, or about $92 million, to victims.
Roughly 60 million people received the Pandemrix vaccine for swine flu during the declared pandemic, which means that nearly 4,000 people likely now suffer from narcolepsy or cataplexy as a result. Meanwhile, the actual death rate from confirmed cases of swine flu was minimal, with only 71 confirmed deaths in the UK between April 2009 and February 2010. In the U.S., the reported number was a bit higher, but it has since been revealed that the official numbers were inflated.
As it turns out, most of the supposed cases of swine flu in the U.S. as reported in the media were not actually swine flu at all, nor were they any type of flu! Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson recently confirmed this after consulting with the top federal agency that deals with such matters, which refused to provide her with the actual laboratory results to back its official death numbers.
“I exclusively obtained lab test results from 50 states when the Centers for Disease Control refused to produce them,” reported Attkisson. “The results showed that most of the supposed cases of swine flu were not swine flu at all [emphasis added]. In fact, they weren’t any type of flu.”
Taxpayers, not GSK, ended up footing the bill for brain damage caused by swine flu vaccine
This suggests that most of the alleged 15,000 deaths that occurred in the U.S. from swine flu were actually deaths from other causes, and that H1N1 was not really as big of a deal as health authorities claimed it was. But this fact doesn’t help the thousands of injured or dead children that met an early fate due to GSK’s poisons.
While a total of 60 individuals in the UK are reportedly being compensated by the government for injuries resulting from Pandemrix, there are many more people out there, including many children, who are now seriously ill or dead from the vaccine without recompense. And to add insult to injury, it is the taxpayers that are compensating these injured folks, not GSK.
“Why are taxpayers footing the bill instead of the maker of the vaccine, GlaxoSmithKline?” asked Attkisson. “Under a similar arrangement that vaccine makers have in the U.S., GlaxoSmithKline would only agree to supply the vaccine if it was indemnified against any claim for any resulting injuries.”
Sadly, many of those injured by the Pandemrix vaccine, either compensated or not, are now permanently harmed. Some of them will require lifelong care for their vaccine-induced diseases, which never would have come about if these folks had just avoided the jab. How many more people need to lose their lives and livelihoods before the vaccine racket is taken down and eliminated? Natural News.

“People-Powered” coalition to replace Mayor Ed Lee

Coalition name: “Vote 1-2-3 to Replace Ed Lee”

by Christopher D. Cook
People Power Media

You wouldn’t know it from the local media’s electoral coverage, but there are in fact 21 San Franciscans challenging Mayor Ed Lee, whose incumbency and tech-funded war chest have scared away more established contenders. Three self-declared “people powered” candidates – Francisco Herrera, Amy Farah Weiss, and Stuart Schuffman (aka “Broke-Ass Stuart”) – have formed a unique electoral coalition, “Vote 1-2-3 to Replace Ed Lee,” which appears to be capturing public interest as the campaign enters its final month.
Earlier this October, at the one and only debate to evaluate who should hold San Francisco’s top political office for the next four years, before an overflowing audience in a stuffy hot auditorium, “alternative” candidates for mayor repeatedly elicited vigorous applause, while incumbent Ed Lee inspired frequent jeers and hisses. Hosted by the League of Women Voters in Genentech Hall, the debate offered the diverse crowd a unique chance to see mayoral candidates on an even playing field – a democratic forum that has been starkly absent in an election where media of all stripes reject the mere existence of a “mayor’s race.”
For once, Mayor Lee was on the same horizontal stage as his opponents, who criticized him roundly for presiding over an era of rising inequality, rampant evictions and displacement, and skyrocketing housing prices. Lee defended his record of drawing tech sector and other employment, and supporting affordable housing measures such as the housing bond on this November’s ballot.
After months of slogging in underfunded obscurity, three alternative candidates and their intriguing ranked-choice voting gambit have garnered an array of endorsements, from prominent labor unions and numerous local political clubs. They face an incumbent backed by media, money, and the Democratic Party establishment. As the Chronicle reported in August, Lee has raked in more than $1.4 million, including hefty donations from tech company CEOs and staff. Media have repeatedly declared Lee the “unopposed” incumbent headed to a slamdunk reelection.
But – what if voters knew they have a choice, and that they have the opportunity to consider other options on the ballot? This is one of those “imagine” moments: what if this year’s mayoral election were about ideas, positions and platforms, rather than money, name recognition, and pundits’ prognostications?
To assess this, People Power Media interviewed these three “alternatives” about their visions and priorities for San Francisco, and about what it means to be a “viable” or “serious” candidate. What emerges are three thoughtful, dedicated, and passionate candidates who are raising more issues than money. Here are selected outtakes from our interviews.
What is your campaign fundamentally about?
Weiss: I really believe in co-creating solutions through the participatory democratic process. My goal is to tackle the key issues and challenges facing San Francisco right now, and come up with solutions in a strategic collaborative way. When we feel that the leadership is not being accountable to the greater good, and to neighborhoods, and justice, then we need to become those leaders.
Herrera: It’s really about developing a peace economy. This war economy is destroying us. It’s just a swindle where the rich get richer and the rest of us foot the bill. It really destroys local economies. In this case, our Mayor Ed Lee has opened the door to rich investors. They call themselves developers, but what they really are is investors. They are here to do one thing, make money at our expense. I don’t see what they have done for the people of San Francisco, other than make some people very rich while displacing a large sector of working people – by that I mean the 99%. For Latinos and African-Americans, it has actually meant death. Our goal is to ignite a people’s movement across party lines, across sectors, across ethnic and religious lines. We want a San Francisco that is a community of communities, that is friendly to working-class people, a working family-friendly city.
Schuffman: I’m about people power. People-first initiatives, people over profit, people using their voices to speak truth to power. We are using social media to get people involved. I’m interested in building affordable housing that is actually affordable, being a public advocate to fight corruption in City Hall, and getting poop off the streets. I didn’t feel that any of the major players were going to run, and I have a large, loud voice in the city and I want to use it for good and get people involved and fight this crazy machine. Three top issues: homelessness, affordable housing, mismanagement/ corruption of government, and getting corporate money out of politics.
What makes a candidate serious, or viable?
Schuffman: Having been a politician in San Francisco should actually preclude you from being mayor of San Francisco. Everything is so crooked and corrupt. I don’t think [holding prior office] should matter, I mean look at Al Franken. I would say I am running a very serious circus. I’m serious that I care about the city; I mean everything that I say, I believe in the issues and have thought them through, but I’m also using humor to get people to pay attention. I don’t think you need to be a finger-wagging politician to be serious.
Herrera: Honest media makes a candidate viable. It’s no hassle for the media to be a little bit honest and responsible…It’s the duty of the media, to say, “there is a millionaire running who is an incumbent, but there are five other candidates who have made the sacrifice, made the time, actually organized campaigns, let’s look at each of these candidates, run a segment on each one.” Instead of this high school mentality that, oh, this person is viable – it’s completely lackadaisical.
Weiss: Somebody who is willing to go beyond preaching, and strategically, collaboratively create solutions. Somebody who has knowledge about the City and County of San Francisco in a thorough, interdisciplinary, multi-factor way, which I do. Someone who has devoted a significant portion of their life to the betterment of San Francisco. Someone who has the ability to lead. People ask me all the time, why are you running for mayor instead of supervisor, and I tell them, it was necessary. That’s what I do in life, I see what’s necessary and I step up to it.
How is your campaign engaging people?
Herrera: Our platform was developed in conversation with over 200 people from different sectors (eight point plan for the 99%), based on affordability, health, education, culture, arts, living wage, local hire. We’ve had a flow of about at least a couple hundred volunteers that have come through and worked on one thing or another.
Weiss: Our [“1-2-3 to replace Ed Lee”] coalition has gotten people’s attention, because it’s new, it’s something people haven’t heard of before. We identified and framed 13 issues, including taxis/TNC’s, Black Lives Matter, displacement, neighborhood safety, Clean Power SF.  We created a survey to engage the public, and find out what issues people want to discuss. My idea was there should be at least three debates, one each on the three key issues identified by the public. [She sent the survey to local Democratic clubs, community groups, and media, but fewer than 300 replied, she says. Of those, “over 80% said they would not vote for someone who did not participate in all three debates.”]
Schuffman: By using a lot of social media, we’ve put forth a lot of ideas, just not in the normal way. We have a core group of seven people, and around 150-200 volunteers…I think you’ll be surprised how many people will turn out to vote. The Chronicle and polling only reach a certain demographic, and that demographic is aging. Younger people are plugging in much more through social media.
Why has there been so little coverage of this campaign? How can we change notions of “electability”?
Herrera: The circus of politics wants to dumb down the population. Ed Lee wants to kill this election by having no forums, no media coverage.
Weiss:  I’m shining a light on hypocrisy within the system, whether it be the DCCC, or the progressive media, which have chosen not to support a really amazing effort that is revolutionizing San Francisco politics, by showing that people can collaborate with each other using ranked choice voting, instead of fighting against each other.
Schuffman: Because they’re all part of the establishment, including the progressive establishment. [We can change that] by shocking them, with a huge percentage of the vote.
This article appeared originally at: http://www.peoplepowermedia.net/independent-media-arts/%E2%80%9Cpeople-powered%E2%80%9D-coalition-to-replace-mayor-lee

Soda industry dying as Americans seek healthy beverages that don’t cause diabetes, obesity

by Daniel Barker

Americans are finally waking up to the fact that drinking soda is an unhealthy practice. Sales of sugary, carbonated drinks have fallen dramatically in recent years, sending the soda industry into a panic.
It may be bad news for Big Soda, but it’s good news for the rest of the populace. Sodas have long been one of the main contributors to obesity among Americans and to diseases related to unhealthy diets, such as diabetes.
A recent piece in The New York Times by Margot Sanger-Katz details the decline in soda sales and the efforts that led to it.
Sanger-Katz wrote:
“The drop in soda consumption represents the single largest change in the American diet in the last decade and is responsible for a substantial reduction in the number of daily calories consumed by the average American child.

From 2004 to 2012, children consumed 79 fewer sugar-sweetened beverage calories a day, according to a large government survey, representing a 4 percent cut in calories over all. As total calorie intake has declined, obesity rates among school-age children appear to have leveled off.”
Sales of full-calorie soda have dropped by more than 25 percent over the last two decades, and the reason appears to be the increasing health awareness among Americans due to the efforts of anti-obesity campaigners.
Initiatives to introduce “soda taxes” in various cities and states have largely been unsuccessful due to fierce opposition from soda manufacturers. However, anti-obesity campaigns have at least managed to capture the attention of the public, it seems, and the average American is now made more aware of the health risks associated with consuming sodas on a regular basis.
An example of the push towards levying a soda tax — one which subsequently failed due to resistance from Big Soda — was the campaign Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter mounted five years ago:
“Soda lobbyists made campaign contributions to local politicians and staged rallies, with help from allies like the Teamsters union and local bottling companies. To burnish its image, the industry donated $10 million to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
It worked: The soda tax proposal never got out of a City Council committee.”
But Mayor Nutter’s efforts to educate the citizens of Philadelphia had an effect. The debate that was raised on the subject, along with changes in city policies, led to a 24 percent drop in daily soda consumption among Philadelphia teens from 2007 to 2013. The city’s Department of Health recently reported a “sustained decline in childhood obesity” among Philadelphia residents.
Bottled water sales soon to surpass soda sales
But the changes in Americans’ beverage-buying habits are not limited to cities such as Philadelphia where such campaigns have taken place. Throughout the country, people are beginning to replace their Coca-Colas and Mountain Dews with healthier drinks, and many are opting for bottled water to accompany their meals.
One industry specialist predicts that water will overtake soda in overall sales by 2017 and become the “largest beverage category in the United States.”
Much of America’s obesity and other health issues can be directly traced to fast food companies, soda manufacturers, tobacco companies and the like. Of course, once people develop health problems due to their consumption of these poisons, Big Pharma steps in with their supposed “cures” for these ailments — and often, the cure proves to be worse than the disease.
It’s encouraging to see that people are beginning to see the vicious circle created by unhealthy eating habits and the unhealthy methods of treating the resulting maladies caused by such habits.
Consuming http://natural.news/is clearly the right approach to maintaining health; fortunately, more and more people are finally becoming aware of that fact, despite the efforts of those who would rather feed our addictions and then peddle pills to us when we end up getting sick from them.

Near the end of race of presidency of Guatemala

by the El Reportero’s wire services

GUATEMALA CITY – The marathon for the Presidency of Guatemala enters today in its last but one day with the prospect of the victory of the novel candidate of the National Convergence Front (FCN-Nación, in Spanish), Jimmy Morales, on the balloting made on Oct. 25.
Both the comedian as his counterpart of the National Unity of Hope (UNE, in Spanish), Sandra Torres, should conclude on Friday their campaigns in order to win the sympathy of voters for next Sunday, although recent polls and analysts almost take the first candidate mentioned as the winner.
Morales, the surprise in the Guatemalan electoral process of this year, accumulated 67.9 percent of voting intentions against the 32.1 percent obtained by the former first lady during the government of Álvaro Colom (2008-2012), according to the results of a survey developed by the company ProDatos.
The research, conducted from Oct. 9 to 14, confirmed a 35 percentage points advantage in favor of the one linked to the questioned Military Veterans Association of Guatemala (Avemilgua, in Spanish).
If what this study reflects is correct, the comedian, known for his character Neto would be the fourth president with more electoral support in this country since the end of the armed conflict (1979-1985).
According to analysts, the variables that can influence the decision of registered Guatemalans are the ideological stance of the candidates, their ability to attract the votes of other parties, the antivote and the dichotomy between experience and inexperience between Morales and Torres.

Mexican Chamber of Deputies for end of blockade against Cuba
MEXICO – The Chamber of Deputies approved an agreement requesting the permanent representative of Mexico before the United Nations to vote for the lifting of the US blockade against Cuba, it was known today.
The agreement was presented by the Board of Political Coordination (Jucopo) and backed in the plenary session.
In a regular session the Mexican representative to the UN was asked to use his powers, in line with Mexico’s foreign policy principles, to demand the end of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade on Cuba.
“It is unnecessary to say that this measure threatens the sovereignty of nations and has been an atrocious practice against a neighbor country, which has caused damages for ovr 50 years,” said deputy of Movimiento Ciudadano, Jose Clemente Castaneda

More than 30 people involved in Chapo’s escape in Mexico
MEXICO – At least 34 people, including former officials took part in the escape of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, informed today a senior of the Mexican security cabinet.
Gustavo Salas, Deputy Attorney of the Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (Seido) stated at a press interview that 29 of those involved were consigned to judge.
There are former public officers who participated inside the prison and outside. He acknowledged that many of them have not been arrested yet.
Salas described as willful omission the actions of the prison authorities to allow unauthorized movements to the Sinaloa cartel chief, who escaped on July 11 from the high-security prison of Altiplano.
If any of them had performed their work as they should to activate the Red Code, the inmate would not have been able to escape, he said.
Salas explained that according to the testimonies, the noises were of knowledge of the then General Coordinator of the Federal Prison System, Celina Oseguera and the prison director, Valentin Cardenas, who far from investigating where they came from, allowed waterproofing works to be done on the ceiling of the area where El Chapo was to disguise the hammering from the tunnel.

Alcatraz Island is home to a special exhibit, Prisoners of Age

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

The National Park Service is pleased to announce the return of the award-winning “PRISONERS OF AGE” exhibition from photographer Ron Levine and designers Michael Wou and Russel Volckmann to Alcatraz Island now through December 2015. This exhibit marks the next in a series on Alcatraz that focuses on aspects of crime and punishment, incarceration, freedom and social justice.
“PRISONERS OF AGE” is an evocative series of photographs and chronicles of elderly men and women, taken over a period of 18 years, at prisons and prison-wards for geriatric offenders in the United States and Canada. Prisoners of age comprise the fastest growing age group in the United States. One-in-ten inmates is 55 or older.
A decade ago, that was one-in-twenty. Existing prison space is in serious decline and medical costs are soaring. Incarcerating geriatric men and women in prison is becoming prohibitively expensive- up to 9 times the cost of a younger inmate.
As Federal and State prisons begin to look more like high security nursing homes, the people who manage North America’s prison system worry about how to handle the imminent explosion in the geriatric population. Through photography and interviews, “PRISONERS OF AGE” offers a microcosmic glimpse of what lies ahead in this new millennium.
The exhibition features 60 larger than life photographs and revealing narratives from conversations with the inmates, guards and prison officials. The exhibition is designed by Michael Wou and Russell Volckmann.
The exhibit is displayed in the New Industries Building through December 2015 and will be open to the public visiting Alcatraz Island during daytime hours for no extra charge.  Exhibit hours are 10:00am to 2:00pm.  For additional information, please call NPS Alcatraz at 415-561-4900.

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.

Cuban group Buena Vista Social Club to perform at the White House

by the El Reportero’s news services

Cuban group Buena Vista Social Club will perform today at the White House during the reception that President Barack Obama will offer on occasion of the Hispanic Heritage Month, announced the U.S. executive.
Government sources said that ‘Buena Vista Social Club is the first Cuba-based group to perform at the White House in more than 50 years’.
The musical project rescued and brought together in the 90s of last century great figures of Cuban music, thanks to the efforts of the guitar player from the United States Ry Cooder. For two decades, the group, which took its name from a social and musical Havana Club has performed in countless venues around the world.
During the celebration, Obama will deliver a speech on the occasion of Hispanic Heritage Month, which is celebrated since 1968 and runs from September 15 until this Thursday-and for the first quarter century of the White House Initiative for Educational Excellence for Hispanics.
This summer, the United States and Cuba reestablished diplomatic ties as part of a process of normalization of bilateral relations announced last Dec. 17.

Festival Photo Mexico to bring together 500 photographers
The First International Festival Photo Mexico 2015 will bring together 500 photographers from 33 cities, with 130 exhibitions in 122 venues and the participation of 31 museums and 21 Mexican states.
About this initiative, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, president of the National Council for Culture and Arts (Conaculta), said Photo Mexico represents an opportunity to disseminate photography.
He described the event as fundamental to understand the richness of photography in the contemporary cultural offer.
Meanwhile, Elena Navarro, director of the festival, explained that the event opens with exhibitions ranging reflection and analysis of art image from the daguerreotype to the latest digital techniques.
Photo Mexico 2015 International Festival will open with the exhibition La Cámara de las Maravillas (The chamber of wonders).
This event invited several of the most important public and private collections in Mexico and abroad to participate in its program of exhibitions.

Film Desert shines in Cinema International Sample in the UK
The film Desert directed by the Mexican filmmaker Jonas Cuarón, captured the attention of moviegoers gathered at the International Film Festival of London, scheduled until Sunday in this capital.
In the film by Cuarón, immigration is a recurring theme in Latin American cinema, complemented by various human virtues, including heroism and hope.
Starring Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, the film won the FIPRESCI prize in the Special presentations category of the 40th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada.
Considered the most important film event in the UK, the London Film Festival will present a film called Chronicle, directed by Michel Franco, who won the award for best screenplay in Cannes, France.
The film illustrates the life of David (Tim Roth), a nurse who has strong links with terminal patients, but in his personal life, he is reserved and distant.
Meanwhile, the film Las Elegidas (The Chosen) by film director David Pablos; A Thousand-Headed Monster, by filmmaker Rodrigo Pla; and Lucifer, by the director Gust Van den Berghe, are other attractions of the British appointment.

Energy wars: ‘massive’ oil discovery in Israel

by Jon Rappoport

For decades, Israel has been searching for oil in its own lands, with the hope of gaining energy independence.
Recent reports from Genie, a US oil-exploration company, suggest oil has been found in Israel. Lots of it.
Cautionary statements from experts have followed: there is a difference between oil in the ground and oil that can be brought to the surface cost-effectively.
And as long as OPEC oil-exporting nations are setting a very low price per barrel, bringing Israeli oil to the surface would be more difficult, financially speaking.
The oil is actually in the Golan Heights, which was taken by Israel, from Syria, in the 1967 war. The ownership of the area is still contested. (Haaretz: “Genie Confirms Report of Possible Big Golan Oil Find,” Oct 11, 2015).
However, given the current war in Syria and the massive chaos there, Syria would certainly be less likely to challenge Israel’s oil claim with meaningful force. Is the Syrian-war escalation in part an effort to pave the way for Israeli oil?
If the initial celebratory announcements about how much oil is under the ground, in Golan, are correct, Israel could be looking at a long-sought, massive upswing in its domestic energy capability.
That’s not all. Genie, the US company that is doing the drilling-exploration in Golan, has some very interesting characters on its strategic advisory board—men who can exert influence on all sorts of geo-political operations.
For example, Rupert Murdoch; and Jacob Rothschild, the chairman of the Rothschild Foundation and the J Rothschild group of companies.
For example, ex-CIA director James Woolsey.
And Dick Cheney.
And Lawrence Summers, former president of Harvard University, former Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, director of the National Economic Council under Obama. (Will we see the involvement of the Harvard Endowment Fund in this Israeli oil operation?)
And Bill Richardson, former Secretary of Energy under Bill Clinton.
Who would obtain a license to bring up all this oil? Afek Israel Oil and Gas, which is a subsidiary of Genie, for whom the above-mentioned men serve as advisors. In fact, we have this from Genie’s website:
“Afek is characterizing a potentially significant oil and gas resource in Northern Israel pursuant to an exclusive, 3 year petroleum exploration license issued by the government of Israel.”
Mint Press News reports, in “Israel Takes Advantage Of Syrian Civil War To Expand Illegal Golan Heights Settlements,” Oct 13, 2015:
“Israel is taking advantage of the chaos in Syria to expand its illegal settlements in the Golan Heights, just as new oil reserves were discovered in the contested region… Now, Israel hopes to quintuple the size of its settlements over the next five years by adding an additional 100,000 settlers to the region. The plan was proposed by Naftali Bennett, a senior Israeli minister and member of the right-wing Jewish Home party, and, according to a report from The New York Times last week, Bennett is just one of ‘many Israeli leaders and thinkers seizing on the chaos in Syria to solidify Israel’s hold on the Golan.”
Seizing on the chaos, after the fact? Or promoting and instigating the chaos in the first place, in order to clamp down on the Golan, with oil as the ultimate prize?
Exactly how long ago did the Genie people actually know there was oil under the Golan? Did they delay their announcement, to make it seem as if the Syrian escalation was just an unrelated coincidence?
Depending on the size of the oil find under the Golan, the whole configuration of oil-control in the Middle East could be affected. Who has it, who owns it, who sells it, who buys it, and who sets the price.
Israel’s apparent long-term plan to weaken and disable nations in the Middle East, including Syria, could certainly raise the price of oil from that region, making it cost-effective to bring up all the oil under Golan—however many barrels that turns out to be.
Putin’s recent attacks on Syria also involve an effort to jack up oil prices by “increasing uncertainty” in the region. Long term, Putin wants to extend his influence in the Middle East (e.g., Iran and Iraq), hopefully allowing him to keep oil prices at a level that would bring rescue to the Russian economy, which, as an oil exporter, has been languishing under low-cost oil.
Everybody and his brother wants a piece of the pie. As usual, war is a strategy for getting it, while the war-makers suppress actual (not fake) energy alternatives.
These psychopaths always favor destruction to solutions that can bring tranquility and abundance.
(Jon Rappoport is he author of three explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, and Power Outside The Matrix).

Freemansons, the oldest and largest fraternal organization in the world

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Dear readers, during my research for unusual and controversial subjects, I found this great, historical article published by Spoonfed, about the Freemasons, so, sit down comfortably and get ready to learn about this intriguing organization that has existed for several centuries, and which has included among its members monarchs, presidents, good and evil leaders in the history of the world. – Marvin Ramírez

by the Spoonfed Truth

Who are the Freemasons? They belong to the oldest and largest fraternal organization of the world. Fraternities, or brotherhoods go as far back as Ancient Rome and Greece
The development of fraternities in the modern day can be trace from trade unions or guilds that emerged in England. Among guilds that became prosperous are the Freemasons, Odd Fellows and Foresters. Most people have never heard of the other two. It is interesting to note that many former U.S Presidents are Freemasons.
Freemasonry arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around six million, including approximately 150,000 under the jurisdictions of the Grand Lodge of Scotland and Grand Lodge of Ireland, over a quarter of a million under the jurisdiction of the United Grand Lodge of England and just under two million in the United States. While Freemasonry has often been called a “secret society,
Freemasons themselves argue that it is more correct to say that it is an esoteric society, in that certain aspects are private.

Membership is voted upon by the members, thus it is not open to the public. They are obligated and swear to abide by the rules of the fraternity and to keep the “secrets of Freemasonry”. This secret is closely guarded. The pyramid hierarchy is very prominent to the Freemasons who ascend to levels they call degrees, which basically represent how much they are allowed to know
With the general population of freemasons below a certain degree, most people believe 33rd is the highest degree. Publicly the Freemasons seem just like another other club. As a front, those at the bottom of the Freemason social pyramid often do charitable work, and work on giving the Freemasons an ordinary outward appearance.
hroughout history some members of the fraternity have made no secret of their involvement, while others have not made their membership public. In some cases, membership can only be proven by searching through the fraternity’s records. Such records are most often kept at the individual Lodge level, and may be lost due to fire, flood, deterioration, or simple carelessness. Grand Lodge governance may have shifted or reorganized, resulting in further loss of records on the member or the name, number, location or even existence of the Lodge in question. In areas of the world where Masonry has been suppressed by governments, records of entire Grand Lodges have been destroyed. Because of this, masonic membership can sometimes be difficult to verify.
Some of the known notable Freemasons include U.S Presidents: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, James Monroe, Andrew Johnson, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, Franklin D Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, James Muchanan, James Polk, Lyndon B. Johnson and Gerald R. Ford. Then of course political leaders world wide such as Winston Churchhill, Cecil Rhodes, Benjamin Franklin, Bob Dole, Prince Philip, Jesse Jackson, Al Gore, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Kissinger, to name a few. Not to mention prime ministers, governors, presidents, politicians from many different countries, writers, senators, actors, astronauts, adventurers such as Lewis and Clarke and Charles A. Lindbergh, philosophers, lawyers, judges, religious leaders, and heads of all kinds of organizations.”
The Scottish Rite Third-Degree Master Mason oath is as follows – “I do promise and swear upon the Holy Bible never to reveal where I have received this degree…. and in failure of this I consent to have my body opened perpendicularly and to be exposed for eight hours in the open air, so that the venomous flies may eat my entrails, my head to be cut off and put on the highest pinnacle of the world, and I will always be ready to inflict the same punishment on those who shall disclose this degree and break this obligation.”
In Humanum Genus” Pope Leo XIII does an excellent job explaining how the Freemasons work:
“In consequence, the sect of Freemasons grew with rapidity beyond conception in the course of a century and a half, until it came to be able, by means of fraud or of audacity, to gain such entrance into every rank of the State as to seem to be almost its ruling power
There are several organized bodies which, though differing in name, in ceremonial, in form and origin, are nevertheless so bound together by community of purpose and by the similarity of their main opinions, as to make in fact one thing with the sect of the Freemasons, which is a kind of centre whence they all go forth, and whither they all return. Now, these no longer show a desire to remain concealed; for they hold their meetings in the daylight and before the public eye, and publish their own newspaper organs; and yet, when thoroughly understood, they are found still to retain the nature and the habits of secret societies.
There are many things like mysteries which it is the fixed rule to hide with extreme care, not only from strangers, but from very many members, also; such as their secret and final designs, the names of the chief leaders, and certain secret and inner meetings, as well as their decisions, and the ways and means of carrying them out. This is, no doubt, the object of the manifold difference among the members as to right, office, and privilege, of the received distinction of orders and grades, and of that severe discipline which is maintained.
Candidates are generally commanded to promise – nay, with a special oath, to swear – that they will never, to any person, at any time or in any way, make known the members, the passes, or the subjects discussed.
Thus, with a fraudulent external appearance, and with a style of simulation which is always the same, the Freemasons, like the Manichees of old, strive, as far as possible, to conceal themselves, and to admit no witnesses but their own members. As a convenient manner of concealment, they assume the character of literary men and scholars associated for purposes of learning. They speak of their zeal for a more cultured refinement and of their love for the poor; and they declare their one wish to be the amelioration of the condition of the masses, and to share with the largest possible number all the benefits of civil life.
Were these purposes aimed at in real truth, they are by no means the whole of their object. Moreover, to be enrolled, it is necessary that the candidates promise and undertake to be thenceforward strictly obedient to their leaders and masters with the utmost submission and fidelity, and to be in readiness to do their bidding upon the slightest expression of their will; or, if disobedient, to submit to the direst penalties and death itself. As a fact, if any are judged to have betrayed the doings of the sect, or to have resisted commands given, punishment is inflicted on them not infrequently, and with so much audacity and dexterity that the assassin very often escapes the detection and penalty of his crime