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CONFIRMED: A quercetin-tocotrienols combination combats cancer

by Lance D Johnson

The battle against cancer is heading into new territory, as scientists explore the healing ability of substances that support the body’s cells, instead of killing them off. Researchers from the Italian National Institute of Health and Science on Aging (INRCA) have made a breakthrough discovery for preventing the spread of malignant tumors. A natural plant-based combination, including quercetin and tocotrienols, effectively targets aging cells that cause chronic inflammation and cancer. This dynamic, anti-cancer duo causes stubborn cancer cells to die off and simultaneously promotes the growth of normal cells.

This dynamic duo heals the body at the cellular level by triggering a die-off sequence within aging and malignant cells. If old, decrepit cells become inefficient at performing cellular division, new cells cannot be created. If these senile cells refuse to die off, a condition called cellular senescence sets in. This causes an accumulation of aged cells that emit pro-inflammatory chemicals into the body. This process promotes aging in the body and increases cancer risk. Quercetin and tocotrienols help to remove aging cells so healthy cells have space to flourish.

Moreover, quercetin and tocotrienols identify malignant cancer cells and speed up their cellular senescence. This dynamic duo effectively target unwanted cancer cells and speed up their death, preventing cancer cell replication. The two natural substances remove inflammatory, aging cells and stop malignant cells from growing. This combination is a highly intelligent form of medicine that deciphers dangerous cells and manipulates cellular senescence so that the body can heal itself. The combination can be employed as an adjunct therapy for cancers of many origins. This combination can be used to prevent cancer from taking hold and stop early cancers in their tracks.

Anti-cancer intelligence of tocotrienols

Tocotrienols are an anti-inflammatory type of vitamin E that can be found in wheat germ, barley, oat, rye, cranberries, blueberries, kiwi, plum, coconut, and some nuts. It is also isolated in supplement form. Research confirms that this form of vitamin E can reverse cell cycle arrest and reduce DNA damage, especially for treatment of breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, and melanoma.
However, assimilation of tocotrienols in the human intestine is poor because they are lipophilic in nature (they dissolve in lipids and fats). Researchers must find ways to increase the bio-availability of tocotrienols to increase this vitamin’s therapeutic effects. Intestinal absorption depends upon the secretion of bile and transporters such as ?-tocopherol transfer protein (?-TTP); therefore, assimilation of tocotrienols occurs more readily with food. Nutritionists recommend a daily dose of 150 mg of tocotrienols. One should expect to see therapeutic benefits with supplementation after ninety days.

The healing nature of quercetin

Quercetin is a plant-based flavonoid and antioxidant that helps plants defend against disease. When quercetin is combined with tocotrienols, synergy is created; together these natural substances slow the aging process, prolong the life of healthy cells, and induce apoptosis of malignant cancer cells. Because of its anti-inflammatory properties, quercetin can benefit seasonal allergies, asthma, bronchitis, and congestion. Quercetin is commonly found in apples, tea, onions, nuts, berries, cauliflower and cabbage and can be isolated and consumed in the form of a supplement. To rid the body of aging cells, nutritionists recommend a daily dose of quercetin (500 to 800 mg) for up to three consecutive months, followed by a maintenance dose of 150 mg a day. It is best to consult a healthcare professional, as many medications can adversely interact with the body when healing substances are introduced. (Natural News).

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Announcing the Paloma de la Paz Tour of the Moscow Ballet in Cupertino

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Peace Tour Dove! Experience the Moscow Dove of Peace Ballet Tour, extending goodwill in more than 100 cities in North America this holiday season, and featuring world-class interpreters.

Russian folk legends Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, backdrops hand-painted by Russian masters; and a Dove of Peace with a wingspan of 20 feet: the Great Russian Nutcracker makes the Christmas spirit come alive for all ages.

On Dec. 18. Tickets are for sale in Cupertino. Visit www.nutcracker.com/your-city to get the best seats. Sunday, December 16, 2018 – 3:00 p.m. and 7 p.m. shows.

Do not miss this spectacular art exhibition

Anthony Holdsworth will be exhibiting a variety of paintings created in Oakland, San Francisco, Italy and Mexico as well as garden paintings.

Holiday Exhibition

The works posted here are a few examples of the scores of paintings, large and small, available for purchase in my studio. Many also exist as archival prints on paper or canvas – at much lower prices.

Most of these works were created on location. They convey the experience, over many hours or days, of a particular place. They need to be viewed in the original not on a screen, to be fully enjoyed.

Refreshments and cappuccinos will be served. On Sat – Sun   Nov 24 – 25, from 1 – 6 p.m.

John Santos w/ Kenny Washington and José Roberto Hernández

John Santos, a Multi Grammy-nominated percussionist, bandleader, 2012 San Francisco Latino Heritage Arts Award winner, SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director (2013 & 2014) and US Artists Fontanals Fellow, is one of the foremost exponents of Afro-Latin music in the world today.

He’s known for his innovative use of traditional forms and instruments in combination with contemporary music. He has earned much respect and recognition as a prolific performer, educator, composer, writer, radio programmer, and record/event producer whose career has spanned over 40 years.

Fri Sept 30, doors: 7:30 p.m. Show: 8 p.m. At Yoshi’s, 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland.

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Death doesn’t equal someone’s opinion about death

by Jon Rappoport

“I saw people die of HIV.”

No. You saw people die. Doctors said they had HIV.

“I saw people die from Ebola.”

No you didn’t. You saw people die. You yourself have no idea what killed them. You can pretend you know, but you don’t.

“The doctors know what kills people.”

You win a gold star for your faith. You’re now a fully-fledged member of the Church of Biological Mysticism.

People who see other people die often assume they know why it happened. Certainly, when it comes to viruses, they don’t have a clue. They’re sure they know. That doesn’t make them right.

A parent’s healthy son returns from the doctor’s office, saying he just found out he’s HIV-positive. He tells his mother the doctor has put him on AZT. Three weeks later, the boy folds up, can’t get out of bed. He’s so weak he can hardly move. The doctor says, “HIV has spiraled out of control. It’s full-blown AIDS. He must continue taking his AZT.” Three months later, the boy is dead.
The mother says, “My son died of HIV.”

Does she know that AZT, a failed chemotherapy drug, was taken off the shelf for AIDS patients, and that it mercilessly attack all cells of the body, including the immune-system cells?
Of course not.

As I’ve repeatedly pointed out over the past 30 years (starting with my first book, “AIDS Inc., Scandal of the Century”), covert medical ops will use death and dying to construct a false picture of the cause of death and dying.

They know this strategy works, because people, seeing death, will accept what the authorities tell them caused it.

I’ve often cited the groundbreaking review, “Is US health really the best in the world?” Author, Dr. Barbara Starfield, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Publisher: The Journal of the American Medical Association, July 26, 2000.

Starfield concluded that, every year in the US, the medical system directly kills 225,000 people. 106,000 die as a result of medicines the FDA has approved as safe. The other 119,000 die as a result of treatment in hospitals.

Add it up. That’s 2.25 million deaths per decade caused by the US medical system.

Now for the question: how many of those deaths… do you think doctors…voluntarily admit…to families of the dead patients…are medically caused?

I’ll tell you.

None.

In every case, a lie was cooked up. “I’m sorry, but the disease suddenly accelerated…”

That’s 2.25 million lies per decade about the actual cause of death.

But people continue to worship at the feet of doctors and medical experts.

If a doctor says a patient died of virus VCX-2QK-89tf, a supposed thing the mother of the patient will never see and never have a chance of seeing…and if the doctor says he knows the patient had the virus because a diagnostic test was run on the patient…the mother will believe the doctor…even though she has absolutely no idea what kind of diagnostic test was run or whether it is accurate or even relevant.

“I saw my son die of the virus.”

She didn’t. But she’ll believe it. We can understand why she believes it.

But that doesn’t affect our judgment when we look into a virus and investigate whether it is real, whether it actually causes disease, and whether the diagnostic tests for the virus tell a true story.

When you have hundreds of millions of people who assert that Ebola is killing people, you’re looking at faith.

Blind faith in authorities who don’t deserve it.

You’re looking at the construction of reality, which is then sold.

Take this example—a farming village in Liberia, one of the so-called epicenters of Ebola. The families manage to produce enough to get by. They live downstream from a giant Firestone rubber plantation.

For years, to no avail, the people of the village have been protesting the runoff of noxious elements into their water supply. Fish are dying. Crops are failing. That means malnutrition, hunger.
That means chemical assault on their immune systems.

People are developing sores, lesions, fevers, respiratory problems, digestive problems, including diarrhea.

How easy is it to call this Ebola, in light of the current hysteria?

“Everyone knows” it’s Ebola. But it isn’t.

People are obsessed by the idea that a whole population, in far-off nation, under the gun, must all be suffering from One Thing—in this case, a virus.

Splitting this apart into a number of different causes in different regions—contaminated water, open sewage, severe malnutrition, decimating wars, toxic vaccine campaigns, the vast overuse of antibiotics, industrial pollution—this doesn’t have the compelling ring of: “It’s a virus.”

So people say, “Forget about all that. We don’t want to know about it. We know it’s a virus.”

No they don’t.

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

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Local victories power California tenant movement, despite Prop. 10 loss

by the El Reportero’s wire services

Proposition 10, the proposed initiative to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, was stymied at the state ballot Tuesday thanks to an unprecedented $74 million in real estate industry opposition money, but there were also victories for rent control at local ballots across California.

In Oakland, voters approved Measure Y to close eviction loopholes, a significant expansion of Oakland’s local eviction protections to cover thousands of smaller buildings that were previously exempt. Nearby in Alameda, renters defeated Measure K, a real-estate industry measure to preempt rent control efforts, despite heavy spending in favor. Measure K was a trial balloon by the real estate industry of a recent strategy to gut local momentum for rent control and its failure has statewide significance.

In 2018, ten California municipalities gathered signatures, most for the first time, to put rent control on the ballot. With rent control maintaining broad popularity across the California electorate, more campaigns plan to launch for local rent control expansions, including the Sacramento rent control ballot measure already confirmed to appear on the November 2020 ballot. Los Angeles County is poised to adopt rent increase limits at a meeting next week, one of the most extensive expansions of renter protections in recent history. Meanwhile, a recent Los Angeles Times poll showed that “lack of rent control” was cited by Californians as the primary reason why housing in California remains unaffordable.

“Since the first new local rent control ordinances in over 30 years passed in Richmond and Mountain View, we’ve seen an incredible wave of interest in rent control to stabilize communities,” said Dean Preston, executive director of Tenants Together. “The more the real estate industry attempts to enforce a broken status quo at the expense of working-class renters, the harder California renters will fight for protections from unfair rent hikes and evictions. These local fights are the heart of this movement.”

Migrant minors and adolescents assisted in Mexico

The National System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF) informed that 106 unaccompanied children and 45 teenage migrants who are now housed in the Palillo Martinez Stadium in this capital have been counseled.
The DIF also attended to 85 families from the first migrant caravan, mostly Hondurans, who remain in the sports facility of Iztacalco.

The institution said that it had restored the rights to six children traveling alone to begin the process of obtaining refugee status, and had assisted others to return to their countries.

The DIF added that it has provided immediate attention to the seven precautionary measures issued by the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), which involve inter-institutional coordination, always aiming at the protection and restoration of the rights of children and adolescents. It said in a statement that it maintains coordinated work with the CNDH and agreed on actions with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The DIF explained that it has been providing assistance to minors in the caravan since October 24, in the state of Chiapas, and now in the capital of the country.

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Led Zeppelin continues battle for Stairway to Heaven’s rights

by the El Reportero’s news services

The members of the legendary British rock band Led Zeppelin are fighting in court for the copyright of the iconic song Stairway to Heaven, specialized media reported on Thursday.

The lawsuit over Stairway to Heaven was filed two years ago, when it was claimed in court that Led Zeppelin had copied the beginning of the song Taurus, by the US band Spirit.

The group that made history in the genre from the late 1960s to the 1980s has maintained the claim at the Ninth Circuit Justice of San Francisco to reverse an October ruling that revived a lawsuit about the introduction of the famous song.

According to the claim, the ruling may cause ‘widespread confusion’ and alter the ‘delicate balance’ between copyright protection and public domain, so the musicians of the highly-acclaimed British band asked the court to reconsider the annulment of a jury order in 2016 that assures that there is no violation.

US Ballet dancers perform at Festival Gala in Cuba

Dancers from several American companies will perform Monday in Cuba during the 26th Alicia Alonso International Ballet Festival in Havana.

The festival, opened on Sunday, takes place in Havana until November 6 with the participation of ballet dancers from more than a dozen countries.

Under the title ‘Stars of American Ballet’, representatives of the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and other relevant American companies will carry out a gala at Mella Theater on Monday and Tuesday.

Among the announced dancers are Daniel Ulbricht, Teresa Reichlen, Ask la Cour, Sterling Hyltin, Adrian Danchig-Waring, Indiana Woodward and Gonzalo García, of the NYCB.

Joseph Gatti and Danielle Diniz; as well as Ukrainian ballroom dancers Antonina Skobina and Denys Drozdyuk, now living in the United States, will join to the gala.

Drozdyuk is a three-time world champion in ballroom, two-time U.S. national champion and has several awards in this dance modality; while Diniz has a vast experience in musical theater works in her country.

Much of the choreographies in the program belongs to renowned creators such as George Balanchine (the pas de deux of ‘Tarantella’, ‘Apollo’ and ‘Diamond’), Christopher Wheeldon (Liturgy) and Alexei Ratmansky (Pictures at an Exhibition Pas).

Skobina and Drozdyuk will dance one piece of the acclaimed ‘King of Pop’ Michael Jackson; while Gatti and Ulbricht will show virtuosity to the rhythm of ‘The Animals’ in the superb version of ‘The House of the Rising Sun’, with choreography by Brazilian Marcelo Gomes.

Pharrell Williams demands Trump to stop using his song Happy

U.S. singer and producer Pharrell Williams is among the artists who have demanded that President Donald Trump stop using his songs in campaign-style rallies led by him.

The Los Angeles Times reported that on Monday a lawyer for the rapper sent a letter of cease and desist to the ruler for putting the song Happy during a political rally last Saturday, shortly after the mass shooting in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The day of the mass murder of 11 human beings at the hands of a mad ‘nationalist,’ you played the song Happy to a crowd at a political event in Indiana, lawyer Howard E. King wrote in the letter.

There was nothing happy about the tragedy inflicted on our country on Saturday and no permission was granted for the use of this song for that purpose, he added.

King noted that the singer is the owner of the rights of that work, and stressed that Williams has not granted the President, nor will he grant him permission to play or publicly broadcast his music in any way. ‘The use of Happy without permission constitutes a copyright infringement,’ he said.

Other figures in the world of music who have banned the head of the White House from using their themes for political rallies are the British singer Adele, the Canadian singer Neil Young, and the Rolling Stones and Queen bands.

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Vanity Fair magazine recognizes Salma Hayek

The Mexican actress was named Personality of the Year by the magazine’s Spanish edition

by the El Reportero‘s staff

Mexican actress Salma Hayek has been named Personality of the Year by the magazine Vanity Fair Spain.

A gala hosted by the Teatro Real opera house of Madrid was the setting for Hayek’s acknowledgement, a ceremony that also celebrated Vanity FairSpain’s 10th anniversary.

“Thank you very much, I am honored by this acknowledgement and by sharing this night with all of you,” she told the audience as she stood on the stage with friend and Spanish actress Penélope Cruz, who presented the award.

“Penélope and I had a different type of ambition, we both wanted to be good actresses, and it was important for both of us to also be good people. It was important to not lose our roots, our values, on the way,” said Hayek, 52, adding that in Cruz she found a companion with whom she “navigated the turbid waters of Hollywood.”

“It is very special for me to receive this award from someone who has been a pillar in my life,” she continued.

A prominent voice in the international #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault, Hayek emphasized the importance of empowering women, something she considers “important for the well-being of humanity.”

“It is tragic, unfair and stupid to strip us of the right to be respected as human beings. We are human beings and should at least be respected as one. And in many places and in many ways, we are not given even that minimal respect,” she said.

Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, in 1966. Her career started in 1988 and has led her to conquer Mexican TV screens and the international silver screen.

Latin American Music Awards 2018: Ozuna and J Balvin Lead Nominations

Colombian singer J Balvin and Puerto Rican Ozuna are leading the list of nominees for the 2018 Latin American Music Awards, with nine nominations each.

The artists are competing in the main categories of the lauros, including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Favorite Artist.

The fourth edition of the awards also features Nicky Jam (eight nominations), Daddy Yankee (six), and Bad Bunny, Sergio Lizarraga’s MS Band and Christian Nodal (five).

Other nominees are Luis Fonsi, Maluma, Romeo Santos, Shakira, Wisin, and the Cuban duo Gente de Zona, the latest in the Tropical Favorite Artist category.

The awards ceremony will take place on October 25 at the Dolby Theater in L.A, and according to its organizers, Cardi B, Christian Nodal, the CNCO group, Ludacris, Prince Royce, and Becky G, among others, will participate.

Nominations for the Latin American Music Awards, now in its fourth year, are based on record sales of digital albums and songs, radio broadcasts and streaming.

These awards recognize the best of Latin music, and the winners are chosen by the vote of the audience.

Receives the Latin Grammy nomination in the category Best Rock Album

The Uruguayan band No Te Va Gustar (NTVG) was pleasantly surprised to receive the Latin Grammy nomination in the Best Rock Album category for their most recent production and one of the group’s most praised albums, “Suenan Las Alarmas” (Popart).

This is the eighth nomination the Montevideo-based group receives from the Latin Recording Academy throughout their career. Para Cuando Me Muera the single that anticipated the album, also received a nomination for Best Alternative Song last year.

With this album the group embraces the solidity and elegance that the band has built for over more than two decades of trajectory between songs, albums, collaborations, concerts and restless tours in Latin America, the United States and Spain.

The group is currently in Los Angeles on their U.S. tour for Suenan Las Alarmas, where they will perform tonight at the Üateke Rock Fest and on Saturday, Sept. 22 at the same festival in San Diego, California.

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The State weaponizes education to create ignorance

Independent Education: the crisis and the crossroad

by Jon Rappoport

A hundred fifty years ago, at least some Americans recognized that all serious discourse depended on the use of the faculty called Reason.

Formal debate, science, and law all flowed from that source.

A common bond existed in some schools of the day. The student was expected to learn how Reason operates, and for that he was taught the only subject which could lay out, as on a long table, the visible principles: Logic.

This was accepted.

But now, this bond is gone.

The independence engendered by the disciplined study of logic is no longer a desired quality in students.

The classroom, at best, has taken on the appearance of a fact-memorization factory; and we should express grave doubts about the relevance and truth of many of those facts.

A society filled with people who float in the drift of non-logic is a society that declines.

Ideologies that deny individual freedom and independence are welcomed with open arms.

When education becomes so degraded that young students are no longer taught to reason clearly, private citizens have the obligation to rebuild that system so the great contribution to Western civilization—logic—is reinstated in its rightful place.

Logic, the key by which true political discourse, science, and law were, in fact, originally developed, must be unearthed.

Logic and reasoning, the capacity to think, the ability to analyze ideas—an ability which has been forgotten, which has been a surpassing virtue in every free civilization—must be restored.

Once a vital thing has been misplaced, buried, and covered over by mindless substitutions, people cannot immediately recognize the original thing has any importance, meaning, or existence.

To declare its importance makes no sense to “the crowd.” They look bewildered and shake their heads. They search their memories and find nothing.

They prefer to adhere to rumor, gossip, accusation, wild speculation, and fear mongering as the primary means of public discourse and assessment of truth.

These habits light their paths. These reflexes give them some degree of pleasure. These idols become their little gods.

To win out over such attachments and superstitions is a job for the long term.

But if our labors yield rewards, we can once again bring import to education, and to the idea of authentic freedom that once cut a wide swathe through darkness.

A string of direct and distracting abuses has saddled our schools. Among them:

* Teachers believe they need to entertain children, in order to capture their attention;

* School systems have substituted the need for public funds in the place of actually supplying a sound education;

* Under the banner of political correctness, school texts have been sanitized to the point of sterility, in order to avoid the possibility of offending, to the slightest degree, any group;

* Students rarely confront information in the form in which it is delivered to people all over the world—they confront substitutes;

* Students have, in this respect, been coddled;

* Subjects such as sex education, which belong in the family, have been delivered into the hands of schools and teachers;

* Indeed, in certain key respects, schools are asked to substitute and stand in for parents;

* Masked as “learning opportunities,” various political agendas have been inserted in school curricula;

* The basis on which every historic document establishing some degree of freedom was debated and drafted—logical thought—has been eliminated from the curriculum as a serious discipline;

* Students are permitted and even encouraged to drift and grasp at superficially attractive ideas and fads of the moment;

* In this respect, freedom has been reinterpreted to mean “mental incapacity and wandering thought”;

* The vast contributions of the ancient Greek civilization, where logic as a crucial subject was born, have been obliterated, minimized or summarized in sterile fashion;

* Logic, the connective tissue which binds together the progression of ideas in rational argument, has been kept away from students;

* The result is the production of shallow minds that cannot see the architecture of reasoning;

* Students, at sea, begin to invent wholly insufficient standards for accepting or rejecting various points of view and supposed authorities;

* Students lose their true independence without ever having gained it;

* The low level of overall literacy in our schools is matched only by the non-comprehension of rational thought;

In the presence of these and other deficiencies and abuses, students are pushed through, from grade to grade, graduation to graduation, as a bureaucratic function, regardless of their ability.

Therefore, citizens of good intent must offload this system. They must assume responsibility for teaching children the missing key to education.

Logic; the capacity to reason, to think lucidly; to separate sense from chatter; to discover deception and avoid being influenced by it; to remain free and independent from the shifting opinions of “the herd”; to maintain personal liberty in the face of every spurious enticement to abandon it; to come to grips with competitive sets of First Principles which will lead to freedom or slavery; these are the stakes in our time.

This is the crossroad.

Choose the path that can bring us the fulfillment of a worthy goal.

Choose reason over vacuous mindlessness.

We, who still know the power of the mind, and who understand how that power can be harnessed to shape independence and liberty, can bring, out of the dust of recent history, an education that truly trains the intellect.

Logic is the foundation of such an education.

If schools, which have become madhouses and factories and toxic medical dispensaries, will not teach it, we can teach it.

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

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Multi Grammy Awardee trumpet great Arturo Sandoval to visit SF

by the El Reportero’s news service

One of the world’s most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a renowned classical artist, pianist and composer, Arturo Sandoval, will be SF in November.

Sandoval is one of the most dynamic and vivacious live performers of our time, and has been seen by millions at the Oscars, at the Grammy Awards, and the Billboard Awards

Sandoval has been awarded 10 Grammy Awards, and nominated 19 times; he has also received 6 Billboard Awards and an Emmy Award. The latter for his composing work on the entire underscore of the HBO movie based on his life, “For Love or Country” that starred Andy Garcia as Arturo. His two latest Grammy award winning albums, “Dear Diz “Everyday I think of you” and Tango “Como Yo Te Siento” are now available worldwide. Arturo Sandoval’s newest CD, Eternamente Manzanero.

Performing the music of revered Mexican romantic pianist/singer/songwriter, Armando Manzanero, this is a true labor of love. Performing Senor Manzanero’s music with co-headliner Jorge Calandrelli, the album is a fresh, modern and pleasant take on his beautiful bolero music.

Cuban Alberto Lescay prepares tour through Mexico, Europe, US.

The young Cuban jazz musician Alberto Lescay is preparing an international tour that will take him to Mexico, Europe and the United States.

Lescay will present its new album Escape, licensed by the label of the Company of Recordings and Musical Editions, winner in the last edition of the Cubadisco award in the category of First Work

In conversation with Prensa Latina, the instrumentalist commented on the recording process of the album in which luxury guests participated, among them, the maestro Cesar Lopez (saxophone), Miguel Núñez (piano), Sule Guerra (voice) and César Hechavarría known as The Slow (three).

As he explained, the phonogram tries to follow the concepts of afro-new-jazz and tell a story through the relationship between image and sound, a trend he maintains in his artistic creation due to the influence of his father, the renowned artist Alberto Lescay.

According to the musician, the album is an odd experience and a leap to a higher stage in his career that needed a lot of influence, the roots of his land (Santiago de Cuba) and the electrifying experience of the conga.

World’s tallest statue inaugurated in India

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the world’s tallest statue, a controversial mass that is 182 meters tall in the state of Gujarat and that could cause environmental damage.

Designed to pay tribute to the independence hero and the symbol of Hindu nationalists, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, on his 143rd birthday, this monument surpasses the record of the Buddha of the Spring Temple, which is 128 meters tall, and doubles the size of the famous Statue of Liberty, in the United States.

The new structure, called the Statue of Unity, stands on a dam in the Narmada district of Gujarat, where it is expected to become a representation and an inspiration for Unity, Integrity and Peace around the world, although local tribal communities demand compensation for project’s damage to the environment.

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If the migrant caravan is an ‘invasion’ What’s the term for what the US is doing in Syria, Iraq, etc?

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Dear readers:

Much has been written in the media about the caravan of people – mainly from Honduras and other neighbor nations – who have left their Central American countries and seen walking on highways – in pursuit for a new beginning in their lives, as their own homelands have not been able to provide them with the security one needs to live as a human being.

They lack what we in the US have, the means for Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” which is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the “unalienable rights” which the Declaration says have been given to all human beings by their creator, and which governments are created to protect.

But those rights are absent there. Instead, you’ll find: criminal gangs, government violence, poverty, lack of jobs and opportunities. This has pushed many to leave their homes and are now heading to the US, even if it means risking their own lives.

Although it is suspected that there is a hidden agenda behind the caravan that has been called an invasion, and that George Soros is responsible for promoting and channeling the funds to pay for many of the expenses associated with the travesty in order to destroy Donald Trump’s goverment, the truth is, the US has a big responsibility for those countries’ failures and plights for supporting corrupt military governments that have abused their power for decades, while they ransacked the coffers of their nations.

Written by Matt Agorist, from the Free Though Project, the following article gives us a deep analytical point of view of who is right and who’s wrong in the debate of the caravan that is slowly travelling north of Mexico toward the border of the US, to request for political asylum. – Marvin Ramírez.

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No, the 5,000 people fleeing violence—created by the United States—is not an invasion, but US tanks rolling through the streets of Syria certainly is

by Matt Agorist

Depending on which side of the TV you get your information from, you’re either waiting for thousands of migrant women and children seeking their part of the American dream to show up in Arizona, or, you are waiting for armed terrorists sent here by George Soros on an invasion mission ready to kill you and take your job. The reality, however, is neither of these.

On Monday, President Donald Trump tweeted out that the “migrant caravan” is “an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!” This rhetoric is not only dangerous, but it’s entirely inaccurate.

It is a verifiable fact that roughly 5,000 men, women, and children are making a northward trek by foot, bus, and any other means, through Mexico. The reason for their trip, however, is not to “invade” the United States but rather to seek asylum from an assault originating in Washington DC that has long been perpetuated against the people of Central and South America by both parties.

The reality is that these folks are not “moving” or “migrating,” rather they are fleeing the violence in their homeland that is a direct result of American policy in that region. While the United States does not have a migrant crisis, we most assuredly have a refugee crisis—and it’s our fault.

Starting under Ronald Reagan, the US has been funding extremist military regimes who’ve carried out mass murder, kidnappings and tortures in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.

US-backed military coups, exploitation of resources, and America’s history of spreading economic neoliberalism in El Salvador have sent the entire region into chaos—just like what happens in all the countries who’ve been unfortunate enough to receive some “freedom” from the US. What’s more, it’s effectively created a climate where paramilitary-aligned drug cartels can and do thrive.

People fleeing conflict in their country—that is a direct result of bipartisan American policy—does nothing for either of the parties’ platforms. However, when you can spin what’s happening to make “the other guys” look bad by lying to Americans about why there are thousands of people walking through Mexico, then you have the makings of a political campaign.

To call this an “invasion” is not only entirely inaccurate, but it’s insanely hypocritical. Even if the majority of this caravan does make it to the US border, there is absolutely no way that they would or could invade us—even without the US military that Trump is sending that way. To be entirely clear on that notion, here is the definition of “invasion”:

NOUN

1. an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army. (They have no army)
2. the entrance or advent of anything troublesome or harmful, as disease. (They are human beings, not a disease)
3. entrance as if to take possession or overrun: (5,000 people could never take possession or overrun anything in such a well armed country)

Fleeing to another country because your children are being kidnapped, murdered and tortured as a direct result of foreign governments meddling in your country is not an invasion.

On the contrary, however, flying tanks, bombs, jets, and troops overseas and stationing yourself inside the borders of a sovereign nation—without being invited—is an invasion.

Democrats and Republicans are all for invasions when it’s the US who is carrying them out. One need only look at the nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries across the planet that the US maintains to prove this point.

Moreover, one need only look at list of countries the United States has entered without permission over the last two decades—like Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, to name a few—and laid waste to their infrastructure, populations, and environments.

US tanks rolling down the streets of southern Syria in At Tanf is what an “invasion” looks like—not men, women, and children feeling US-created violence.

Drones flying overhead, dropping hellfire missiles on hospitals, blowing up dozens of innocent children is what an invasion looks like.

Troops raiding homes in the middle of the night, holding entire families at gunpoint while searching the house for non-existent evidence of ties to Al-Qeada is what an invasion looks like.

Currently, the only country raiding homes in America and holding entire families at gunpoint, spying on them with unethical technology, and killing innocent people is the United States. Until that changes, any talk of an actual invasion is merely that, talk.

In 2009, Ron Paul summed up American foreign policy and the direct impact it has on creating terrorism, fostering refugees, and stoking hatred toward the US. Although the speech below is over nine years old, it still holds true today. If you really want to know what creates problems around the world, like refugees and terrorism, you need to imagine what it feels like if it actually happened to you.

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Caravan No. 1 waits in Juchitán hoping for transportation to Mexico City

Migrants want help getting to the capital where they wish to meet with lawmakers

by Mexico News Daily

Around 4,000 Central American migrants will remain in Juchitán, Oaxaca today as they attempt to organize mass transportation to Mexico City.

At a meeting last night, members of the first and largest of the three migrant caravans now in Mexico formed a committee to negotiate with authorities to try to secure buses to take the weary migrants to the capital.

The mainly Honduran migrants, including many women and children, are currently camped out at a disused bus station in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec city that last year was ravaged by a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake.

Around 4,000 Central American migrants will remain in Juchitán, Oaxaca as they attempt to organize mass transportation to Mexico City.

At a meeting last night, members of the first and largest of the three migrant caravans now in Mexico formed a committee to negotiate with authorities to try to secure buses to take the weary migrants to the capital.

The mainly Honduran migrants, including many women and children, are currently camped out at a disused bus station in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec city that last year was ravaged by a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake.

Water tanks were set up at the site to allow the travelers to bathe and a giant screen projected soccer matches, children’s shows and the movie Coco.

Most members of the caravan slept on the ground on blankets or cardboard with tarps tied to foliage providing only rudimentary protection.

“We are waiting to see if they are going to help us out with buses to continue the trip,” 27-year-old Honduran farmer Omar López told the Associated Press.

Red Cross personnel today bandaged López’s feet, left badly-swollen after walking on highways through Guatemala and Mexico every day for the past two weeks and sleeping exposed to the elements with nothing more than a thin sheet of plastic for cover.

If Mexican authorities do provide transportation — as yet they have provided no indication that they will — caravan representatives said they will travel to Mexico City to meet with federal lawmakers.

Most migrants intend to continue their journey towards the United States border after stopping in the capital despite threats from U.S. President Trump that they won’t be welcome when they arrive.

Trump continued his hardline rhetoric against the Central American migrants today, writing on Twitter:

“Our military is being mobilized at the Southern Border. Many more troops coming. We will NOT let these caravans, which are also made up of some very bad thugs and gang members, into the U.S. Our Border is sacred, must come in legally.

Mexican authorities are treading a fine line between trying to avoid upsetting the United States government and treating the migrants in accordance with international humanitarian obligations.

During the caravan’s first week in Mexico, Federal Police sometimes forced migrants off paid minibuses, citing insurance regulations, and stopped trucks from giving the Central Americans rides.

However, in recent days officials have helped organize transportation for straggling women and children and police have stood by as migrants clambered onto passing trucks.
The Secretariat of the Interior (Segob) said in a statement yesterday that two Honduran men who requested entry to Mexico were found to have arrest warrants against them in their country of origin, one for suspected homicide, the other for drug offenses.

The two, who were arrested in Chiapas, were deported to Honduras. Segob said the men were part of the migrant caravan but didn’t specify which.

A second caravan of as many as 2,000 migrants is still in Chiapas after entering Mexico Monday while a third contingent of Salvadoran migrants legally crossed into the country yesterday.

Despite Trump’s repeated claims that criminals are part of the migrant caravans, reporters traveling with the Central Americans and migrant advocates have denied that to be the case.

Asked about the U.S. president’s hardline stance on immigration, Honduran migrant Levin Guillén said “according to what they say, we are not going to be very welcome at the border” before adding “but we are going to try.”

The 23-year-old farmer from Corinto, Honduras, said that he had received threats in his homeland from the same people who killed his father 18 years ago.

Guillén hopes to find an aunt who lives in Los Angeles, where he hopes he will have the opportunity to live and work in peace.

“We just want a way to get to our final goal, which is the border,” he said.

Carlos Enrique Carcamo, a 50-year-old boat mechanic who is part of the second migrant caravan, echoed that sentiment although he added that if it doesn’t work out, there is also a Plan B.

“Continue on to the United States, that is the first objective,” he said. “But if that’s not possible, well, permission here in Mexico to work or stay here.”

Source: Associated Press (sp)

In other Mexico news:

Jalisco installing logistical hub in Honduras for Latin American exports

Small and medium-sized companies look to take some market share away from US

A group of exporters from Jalisco plan to establish a logistical hub in Honduras to help drive expansion into the Central American and South American markets.

The hub will be installed at Puerto Cortés, a port city on the Caribbean coast located 50 kilometers north of San Pedro Sula.

“We changed [the location of] the hub because Panama, where it was initially going to be set up, is renovating the Puerto Colón Free Trade Zone and Puerto Cortés offered us what we needed,” said Miguel Ángel Landeros, president of the western branch of the Mexican Foreign Trade Council (Comce).

“It’s a very modern port that’s practically in the middle of Central America. That’s where we’ll start operating,” he added.

Landeros said there are currently 19 Jalisco companies involved in the Comce-backed hub project who are seeking to tap into the southern markets.

The logistical hub will mainly benefit small and medium-sized Jalisco companies, giving them a warehouse that will allow them to ship their products more quickly and efficiently to different parts of the region.

According to Comce statistics, the seven Central American countries import products from the United States with a value of US $50 million per year.
By having a logistical hub in Honduras, the Jalisco companies hope to take some of that market for themselves.

Mexico currently lags well behind the U.S. in terms of exports to Central America.

For example, Honduras buys US $9 billion worth of products from the latter annually compared to just $US600 million from Mexico.

As part of their expansion into Central America, some of the Jalisco companies are also interested in setting up new production plants there.

The companies are planning to carry out trade missions to several Central American countries next year to strengthen their relations in the region and ensure that the hub project is a success.

Landeros said that in the first eight months of 2018, the value of all Jalisco’s exports was just under US $35.5 billion and the expectation is that the year will end with similar figures to last year when exports totaled US $48.4 billion.

For comparison, that figure puts it on a par with the states of Florida or Ohio, whose exports are worth only slightly more than those of Jalisco.

The Central American expansion is expected to help grow Jalisco’s export economy, which is made up of companies in 19 different sectors including agriculture, food and beverages, technology, auto parts, furniture and jewelry.

“Expectations for next year are very good because we will continue to broaden our [trade] links with other international markets,” Landeros said.

Source: El Economista (sp)

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