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Joan Manuel Serrat concludes shows in Mexico, DF

by the El Reportero’s news services

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Spanish singer songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat will give today in Mexico City the last of five concerts in the Palace of Fine Arts, where the artist will share with the audience new and old songs.

“Fasten up your garter and seat belts because we are going to travel in time and through nostalgia,” the Catalan musician warned during his first presentation, performed on Jan. 27.

On Sunday inhabitants of the capital had the possibility to enjoy Serrat’s last concert, who has been acclaimed in each of his previous presentations and forced to go back to stage and perform other memorable songs such as Fiesta y Lucia.

Yesterday, the concert of one of the most renowned songwriters of Spanish and Catalan music was broadcasted live on giant screens set in the terrace of the Museum of Fine Arts, and also in Guadalajara and Colima cities.

As part of his tour in Mexican territory, Serrat will also perform in 2014 in Veracruz, Tabasco, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Oaxaca, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Baja California, Sonora, and Chihuahua.

Argentina to have greater representation at Monologue Festival

Argentina will participate at the Second Latin American Monologue Festival that will take place next February 12th to the 15th in Cienfuegos, Cuba, as the best represented foreign country with six theater troupes, organizers said today.

Playwright Miguel Cañellas, director of the festival’s main venue Tomás Terry Theater, told Prensa Latina the contest coincides with the theater’s 124th anniversary, founded on February 12th, 1890.

The Argentinian representation, integrated by companies like Sin testigos, Chakarunas, Tan solo hazlo, Proxemia cero, La Espina and El Rito Prohibido-Teatro, is outnumbered only by the Cuban one, this time with seven companies: Teatro de la Luna, Mujeres fuentes de creación, Teatro Pálpito, Buendía-Alba, Mejunje, Teatro del Puerto and Teatro Rumbo.

In general, around 26 theater troupes from Brazil, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela will also compete.

The five-day festival 2014will include more than 60 performances in Cienfuegos only, but Havana, Matanzas and Villa Clara will also join the festival. Prensa Latina contributed to this report.

French Film Academy Nominates “Blancanieves,” “Gravity” for Best Foreign Film

Spanish director Pablo Berger’s “Blancanieves” and “Gravity” from Mexico’s Alfonso Cuaron will vie for the Cesar Award for best foreign film, the French film academy said Friday.

“Blancanieves” and “Gravity” will compete at the gala to be held Feb. 28 at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris against such movies as Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” and “Django Unchained” by Quentin Tarantino.

Also seeking the prize will be the Italian production “La Grande Bellezza” by Paolo Sorrentino, and the Belgian films “Dead Man Talking” by Patrick Ridermont and “Alabama Monroe” by Felix Van Froeningen.

At the last Cesar Awards, the prize for best foreign film went to “Argo” by Ben Affleck, which went on to take the Oscar in Hollywood for best picture.

Jennifer López Releases Music Video for “Same Girl” (VIDEO)

In a song that will have you remembering Jenny From the Block, Jennifer Lopez shoots the video in her old neighborhood, The Bronx.

The song, Same Girl, is the new single from J.Lo’s forthcoming eighth studio album.

It is obvious that the American Idol judge is trying to give off the message that she hasn’t changed when you listen to the lyrics.

“Why you tryna put the world up on my shoulders? … Too damn grown, I don’t owe nobody … Why you tryna put the world up on my shoulders? … Too damn grown, I don’t owe nobody … Cuz in the end I’m still the same girl.”

LA GENTE return to California for their first SF 2014 show

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

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After some time on the road in Miami and beautiful New Orleans, LA GENTE team up with our musical hermanos SOL TEVÉL and the one and only DJ KUSH ARORA! And they will be debuting some brand new material. As always this is a late night party that doesn’t stop till that last person drops!

This Saturday Feb. 8, at 9 p.m. Live @ The Boom Boom, 1601 Fillmore, SF. Cover is $10/$15.

And on the following week, GENTE brings you another night of joy at the Next of the Woods, at 406 Clemente Street, SF, featuring Whitney Myer at their 3rd Annual Arts and Tapas for Valentine’s Day with Visual Art artists Alexa Trevino and Iván López. On Friday Feb. 24. Admission includes live music, food, all you can eat and art exhibition! www.LaGenteMusicSf.com.

The EX POSTAL FACTO LECTURES

An afternoon of panel discussions related to correspondence art takes place at the San Francisco Public Library as part of the Ex Postal Facto conference. The lecture series is part of the closing events related to the three-day conference.

Hosted by the San Francisco Public Library’s Book Arts and Special Collections The Ex Postal Facto lectures feature luminaries of the West Coast correspondence art scene, in addition to contemporary artists working within the genre. The first panel of the day, “The History of West Coast Mail Art,” features speakers Lowell Darling (visual/conceptual artist), Leslie Caldera of Los Angeles (correspondence artist), Carl Chew of Seattle (artistamp maker) and Anna Banana of Canada (artistamp maker). The panel will be moderated by San Francisco writer and visual artist John Held, Jr.

A second lecture titled “Artistamps and Their Makers: Seeing the World in Miniature” features artists working in the field of faux philatelics, also known as “artistamps”. The work of James Cline (Founding Postmaster, Black Rock City Post Office), James Felter (Postes Mraur), Harley (Terra Candella), and Ginny Lloyd (Gina Lotta Artistamp Museum) will be highlighted. The discussion will be moderated by correspondence artist and Ex Postal Facto organizer Jennie Hinchcliff.

The lectures are the culminating event of the Ex Postal Facto conference — a celebration of correspondence art, letter writing, and faux philatelics. Held February 14 – 16 at various venues throughout San Francisco, Ex Postal Facto brings together “Networkers” from across North America – artists whose primary artistic medium is the postal system, and whose goal is to encourage open dialogue via the mail. For more information about the conference, please visit: www.expostalfacto.wordpress.com.

Schedule for Sunday,

Feb. 16, 2014: 1:00 p.m. – 200 p.m.: “The History of West Coast Mail Art”.

2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: “Artistamps and informació Their Makers: Seeing the World in Miniature”.

3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.: public reception in the Latino-Hispanic Community Meeting.

–During the reception, Ex Postal Facto passport stamping will be available. Information about obtaining a passport for the weekend can be found at the Ex Postal Facto website. (In order to receive a commemorative stamp, attendees must have an Ex Postal Facto passport).

At the Koret Auditorium, Main Library, San Francisco.

Boxing

The Sport of Gentlemen

Boxing” de Molina

Saturday, February 8 – TBD –

Junior flyweights: Adrian Hernandez (28-2-1, 17 KOs) vs. Janiel Rivera (10-1-2, 6 KOs).

Friday, February 14 – Buenos Aires, Argentina –

Flyweights: Juan Carlos Reveco (32-1, 17 KOs) vs. Manuel Vides (15-2, 9 KOs).

Saturday, February 15 – Los Angeles, California –

Featherweights: Jhonny Gonzalez (55-8, 47 KOs) vs. Abner Mares (26-1-1, 14 KOs).

Saturday, February 15 – Buenos Aires, Argentina –

Flyweights: Juan Carlos Reveco (32-1, 17 KOs) vs. Manuel Vides (15-2, 9 KOs).

Saturday, February 22 – Macao, China (HBO) –

Lightweights: Miguel Vazquez (33-3, 13 KOs) vs. Denis Shaflikov (33-0-1, 18 KOs).

For some campesinos, winter is farming season

Peasants work in the winter harvest in fields of California.

by David Bacon

By December in Santa Maria and the Santa Ynez Valley, on California’s central coast, the work season is coming to an end for most farm workers. Many campesino families, who travel north to Oregon and Washington for the strawberry and fruit harvests during the summer and fall, have returned. Hopefully they’ve saved enough money to last through the winter until work here starts again in the spring.

A lucky few manage to get work during the winter. The last strawberries are still being picked, although there’s not much fruit in the rows any longer. Pruning in the grapevines doesn’t begin until January.

Some crops in the valley last through the winter, though. This is planting season for broccoli, a beautiful and delicious flower originally brought to North America by Italian immigrants.

Like many crops, its cultivation has become very systematized. On most modern farms, no longer does anyone scatter seeds on the damp earth. Instead, the first broccoli seedlings are grown in nurseries. Then, when the plants are a few inches tall, they’re put into plastic flats and loaded onto trucks for the journey to the field.

There workers sit on a mechanical planter, pulled through the field by a tractor. As it moves, they drop seedlings into plastic tubes, which then guide the young plants into the mechanism that inserts them into the dirt. Behind the planter come other workers, who catch the places the mechanical harvester misses.

Still, on some ranches, the old system prevails. There seeds are planted along the rows, and when they sprout, they need to be thinned so that each plant has room to grow. Workers work their way down the rows, chopping away the excess plants.

And on some ranches, the tool passed out by ranch foremen to do this chopping is an old enemy of farm workers — the short handled hoe, or “el cortito”. Workers using a regular hoe can work standing up. But a short handled hoe makes them bend over almost double. Foremen believe that this makes workers space the plants more accurately, and makes them work faster.

Even a day at such labor produces a lot of pain, and years spent using this illegal tool can lead to degenerated disks and other spinal injuries. In 1972, Mo Jourdane, a lawyer for California Rural Legal Assistance, filed a demand with the state’s Division of Industrial Safety, to stop California growers from using this tool. In 1975, under pressure from the United Farm Workers, Governor Jerry Brown, then in his first term, forced state regulators to implement a ban.

Yet some growers still haven’t heard the news.

Perhaps they believe there’s no longer a movement to enforce the ban. And in fact, conditions for California farm workers may have improved in some ways in the last three decades, but in others they have fallen backwards.

Finally, the planters and thinners leave the fields. Then irrigators come last. They lay out and connect the pipes to the well pumps, bringing water into the field, and screw on the sprinkler heads. As they open the valves, dry sandy dirt turns dark brown under the spray, and the troughs between the rows fill with water and mud. Even in the winter in a coastal valley, California is still a semi-desert. Joseph DiGeorgio, the king of California agribusiness and its largest grower for decades, said the state’s produce was made up of water, labor, more labor, and freight to bring it to market. With no irrigation, and with no workers, there would
certainly be no broccoli.

In other related news in immigration and immigrants rights

Growing clash between immigrant rights activists and washington dc power brokers

This fall, when Congress couldn’t pass immigration reform bills — even ones deeply unpopular among many immigrants themselves — one of the most important responses came from Oaxaca. In the capital of this southern Mexico state a representative of a Silicon Valley union sat down with a state agency and an organization of indigenous migrants, and signed an agreement for mutual cooperation.

All three groups pledged to work to protect the rights of Oaxacans who have migrated to the U.S. — about 800,000 now live in California alone. “Our objective,” the agreementreads, “is the protection of the human and labor rights of Oaxacan workers and their families, in the food and commercial industries.”

It lists a number of shared commitments, including explaining to immigrant workers their labor rights in the U.S., helping them file claims when they’re hurt at work, and advocating for them when they face government agencies.

According to Gerardo Dominguez, a union leader, “we have a state government in Oaxaca that’s willing to do something beyond its borders to help its people who now live here. Our relationship can grow in ways that will help our union, and give these workers much more power over their own lives.” The agreement was signed also by Rufino Dominguez, director of the Oaxacan Institute for Attention to Migrants (IOAM), and Bernardo Ramirez, the binational coordinator of the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations (FIOB).

The need for an agreement like this was dramatized this year by the debate over the “comprehensive immigration reform” bills in Congress.

While one of them, passed by the Senate in June, S. 744, does contains some protections for immigrant workers trying to organize unions, it also contains vastly increased enforcement measures that would lead to the firing and deportation of thousands of undocumented people. Even harsher bills in the House of Representatives contain stricter enforcement terms with no worker protections at all. Labor unions have been a vocal critic of those measures, particularly the provision that would require all employers to use the government’s E-Verify system to identify, and then fire, workers without legal immigration status.

Abandoned Mexican hotel turned into shelter for deportees

by the El Reportero’s wire services

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Angeles sin Fronteras, a group formed to assist people deported from the United States, has created five shelters to help migrants, who often end up penniless on the streets of Mexican border cities.

The newest shelter was opened in Mexicali, the capital of the northwestern state of Baja California, where the group rented an abandoned hotel to serve as a refuge for the rising number of poor deportees in the area.

The 50-room building, known as “El Cinco” (Number Five), is being used by Angeles sin Fronteras to temporarily house 60 people.

One of those living at the shelter is Pablo Hernandez, a 26-year-old who lives in a room lit by a candle and furnished with a piece of cardboard and a blanket.

Hernandez, who lived in the United States from the age of 2 until he was deported a year ago, has found shelter at the building in Mexicali’s red light district.

“I don’t know how I ended up here, how I fell into drug use,” Hernandez, whose relatives live in Texas, told Efe. “I just want another chance to return to my familiy.”

Mexicali, like many other border cities in Mexico, has experienced a surge in the number of deportees who have arrived from the United States. Many of these people lived in the United States for most of their lives and end up on the streets in Mexico, often becoming depressed and using drugs to deal with the fact that they have nowhere to go.

El Cinco does not have electricity, running water or bathrooms, and the building’s residents live off money earned from washing cars or handouts.

“We have to help them so they can develop. They have great potential and we want to show that not all of them are criminals and they can contribute something to society,” Angeles sin Fronteras member Sergio Tamai told Efe.

Bolivian Telecom Company Connects with New Communications Satellite

Bolivian state-owned telecommunications company Entel has established contact with the Tupac Katari satellite, which the Andean nation put into orbit in December, President Evo Morales said.

The first contact with the satellite was made on Tuesday, Morales said during a military ceremony in the central region of Cochabamba.

“We have good news our Entel has had successful contact with our communications satellite, Tupac Katari. We are very happy, proud of our satellite,” Morales said Wednesday.

The satellite is expected to be fully operational in March, the president said.

The Tupac Katari satellite, or TKSat-1, named for the Indian leader who staged a rebellion against the Spanish Empire in the 18th century, was built by China Great Wall Industry Corporation, or CGWIC, an aerospace company that is a unit of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The TKSat-1 was manufactured under the terms of a cooperation agreement signed by Bolivia and China in 2009. The $302 million project was largely financed with a loan from the China Development Bank and the Tupac Katari was developed from the Chinesemade DFH-4 platform.

The satellite was launched on Dec. 20 from China’s Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province.

The TK Sat-1 entered geostationary orbit last weekend and China turned control of the satellite over to Bolivia.

The satellite will be operated by ground control stations in the Bolivian regions of La Paz and Santa Cruz staffed by civilian and military personnel trained in China. The TKSat-1 weighs 5, 200 kilos (11,453 pounds) and is expected to function for 15 years.

The satellite will improve telecommunications and Internet access in isolated rural areas of Bolivia. The TKSat-1 is also equipped to relay radio and television signals, and to provide service for neighboring countries in South America. Bolivia expects to save around $15 million as it will no longer need to lease capacity on foreign-owned satellites.

Thieves are using “mystery gadgets” to unlock cars and steal what is inside

by Michael Snyder
American Dream

All over America, criminals are using improvised electronic devices to electronically unlock vehicles and steal whatever they find inside. These “mystery gadgets” reportedly recreate the same signals that the key fobs that so many of us carry around send out.

As you will see below, footage is popping up nationwide of thieves using these “mystery gadgets” to remotely unlock car doors and disable alarm systems. Once a car has been unlocked, it takes these thieves just a few moments to take what they want before leaving without a trace. This is now happening all over the country, and authorities do not know any way to prevent it from happening. For now, the most common piece of advice that police are giving to people is to not leave any valuables inside your vehicle at all.

When reports of this sort of crime first came out, even car manufacturers were totally stumped. Nobody could figure out how this was happening, and CNN startled a lot of people when they started reporting on this.

Police across the country are stumped by a rash of car thefts. In surveillance video of the thefts, criminals appear to open locked cars with a mysterious handheld device.

Nobody, not even the car manufacturers, knows how it works.

In Long Beach, Calif. The man walked up to the car, and used a small box to open it. Right next to him another man, also using a box, opens that car.

The problem is they’re thieves without keys. Now they’ve swiped all valuables from the cars.

In Chicago, it was the exact same scenario. A man by a sedan unlocked it without a key. The alarm was disabled by some mystery device.

Did you know that this was happening?

I certainly didn’t.

But it has apparently been going on all over the country.

For example, similar reports of “high-tech wireless thievery” have also been reported in New Jersey…

Police in Galloway Township, New Jersey are looking for the thieves who’ve been breaking into cars.

It’s happened about 30 times throughout the township, and this isn’t a matter of a bandit busting a window. This is high-tech wireless thievery.

In those cases, police believe that a device similar to the ones that CNN was describing was being used…

“These thieves are using some sort of RF [radio frequency] device, which is sending an electronic signal toward the vehicles, unlocking the vehicle and disabling the alarm as well, allowing the thieves to enter the vehicle and remove valuables without being detected,” said Detective Ryan Goehringer.

And check out what happened up in Canada just a few days ago…

Vicky Mackie and her friend are both certain she locked the doors of her 2013 Volkswagen Tiguan before going to a friend’s apartment.

“She confirmed that she heard me lock my door; we actually heard the alarm beep to confirm that,” said the Vancouver woman.

They were only gone for a couple of hours, but when they returned Mackie discovered that her car had been broken into – her phone and sunglasses missing, the papers in the front glove compartment scattered on the floor – in spite of there being no signs of forced entry.

Once again, police believe that a high tech “gadget” was involved. In fact, there are some that believe that one of these gadgets can be purchased online for as little as 5 dollars…

All indications point to a new device in the growing high-tech arsenal of car thieves, one that mimics a car’s keyless entry system, illegally unlocking any door with the push of a button. The gadget can reportedly be purchased online for as little as $5.

And this could only just be the beginning of a major high tech crime wave.

Thanks to all of the “technology” that is in our vehicles these days, they are potentially more vulnerable to hackers than ever.

According to ABC News, researchers have found that hacking into on board computers and remotely controlling vehicle behavior is not that hard to do…

The possibility of this even stranger and more dangerous crime is lurking on the horizon. Most modern cars use computers to control everything from engine compression to cruise control, airbags and brakes. Those computers communicate with each other on open networks.

Using an $80,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), two researchers recently hacked the onboard computers of a Toyota Prius and a Ford Escape SUV. They made the Prius accelerate and brake, as well as jerk the wheel while traveling at high speeds.

They managed to turn the Ford’s steering wheel at low speeds and disable the brakes, which caused researcher Charlie Miller to drive the SUV into his garage and totally destroy his own lawnmower. This is the stuff of nightmares.

So could this kind of hacking have been involved in some of the very unusual “car accidents” that we have seen in recent years?

I am just asking the question.

Most people assume that all of this high technology that surrounds us these days is making us a lot safer. But that is not really the case at all.

As technology advances, so do the criminals. And if we are not aware of our vulnerabilities, we potentially become easy prey for those that would like to take advantage of us. Have you heard of these kinds of crimes happening in your own neck of the woods? Please feel free to share any stories that you may have by posting a comment below…

McDonald’s frantically shuts down website from employer

by Jonathan Benson

The world’s most well-known fast food corporation is in damage control mode after an internal resource that the company created for its employees embarrassingly advised them to stop eating its own food offerings. CNN reports that the McDonald’s corporation officially shut down its so-called “McResource Line” after an official nutrition guide posted on the site warned McDonald’s employees that eating a burger, fries and a Coke — the staple meal at McDonald’s — is an “unhealthy choice” when it comes to food.

Originally developed for the purpose of helping McDonald’s employees take ownership of their own health through communication and education, the McResource Line, which draws its content from various third-party sources, was apparently a little bit too honest when it came to providing McDonald’s employees with nutrition advice. A photo feature displaying a cheeseburger meal like the kind sold at McDonald’s, labeled the “unhealthy choice,” was contrasted with a submarine sandwich, salad and water, labeled the “healthier choice,” an image that was later pulled by the company.

“We are temporarily performing some maintenance in order to provide you with the best experience possible,” read a new landing page posted not longer after McDonald’s officials caught wind of the inconvenient photo. “Please excuse us while these upgrades are being made,” it added humorously.

McResource Line offers disastrously inappropriate advice about how to tip your pool cleaner

Earlier in the year, the McResource Line was publicly ridiculed for several other major gaffes, including a budget-planning guide that was completely inappropriate for the average McDonald’s employee.

Besides failing to account for major living costs like food and gasoline, the guide contained references advising McDonald’s employees about how to properly tip a pool cleaner, a housekeeper and even an au pair, all extravagant services that most hourlywage McDonald’s employees would likely not have.

“A combination of factors has led us to reevaluate and we’ve directed the vendor to take down the website,” explained an official statement released by McDonald’s not long after the most recent faux pas. “Between links to irrelevant or outdated information, along with outside groups taking elements out of context, this created unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary. None of this helps our Mc- Donald’s team members.”

Virtually nothing in a typical McDonald’s value meal is a ‘healthy choice’

Nice try, McDonald’s, but the McResource Line was right about this one. A processed beef patty derived from feedlot cows topped with cheese-like substance and brominated white bread is hardly a healthy choice, no matter how you want to spin it after the fact. The same holds true for acrylamide-laden fries dripping in genetically modified (GM) soybean oil and a high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)-sweetened soft drink to wash it all down. There is nothing “outdated” or “irrelevant” about the fact that each of these food offerings is detrimental to health.

“In general, people with high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease must be very careful about choosing fast food because of its high fat, salt, and sugar levels,” reads the now-deleted warning to McDonald’s employees about the dangers of eating most of what McDonald’s sells at its restaurants.

These same foods, it stated, “may put people at risk for becoming overweight.”

This is how you create jobs in the United States Part 3

by Marvin Ramirez

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NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: The following article is very meaningful in terms of protecting the United States from falling onto another totalitarian, Soviet-style dictatorship, and every American should know where our country is heading to. Americans, including Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, etc., have much to lose. This is the nation where most people came to grab the American dream, the right to have an education, own a place one can call home, have a job, and be happy. But all this is disappearing, because we have a government that doesn’t serve the interests of its own people, but rather those of foreign corporations’.

by Devvy Kidd
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“The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.” – Congressman Henry Clay, 1824.

In 2000, John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi killed our shot at getting out of the World Trade Organization. America has suffered greatly since and we will into the future if we don’t elect people to Congress who fully understand FREE TRADE DOES NOT WORK and get us out of all those “free” trade treaties. It has been killing us financially for almost 20 years. Outsourcing is the popular moniker for killing American jobs; you and I end up being raped in more taxes for this:

Job losses attributed to outsourcing

Feds give laid-off Boeing workers a big helping hand – August 1, 2013. “Local Boeing workers who’ve lost their jobs will receive substantial additional federal unemployment benefits after two unions at the company sought aid under a program for emdereployees laid off due to outsourcing and foreign trade. Thanks to a federal program lined up by their unions, local workers laid off during the current dip in employment at Boeing Commercial Airplanes will enjoy a financial cushion that’s much, much plumper than what the average unemployed state resident gets.

“Compared to what Joe Worker gets when they get laid off, our members have a pretty extensive safety net,” said Connie Kelliher, spokeswoman for the International Association of 1Machinists (IAM). The U.S. Department of Labor has approved Boeing workers — union or nonunion, production workers or engineers — laid off between April 2012 and June 2015 for a package of benefits that includes drawing unemployment pay for up to 2½ years, rather than the regular six months.”

Whores in the Outlaw Congress pass “free” trade treaties that kill American jobs then steal from you and me to give them extra financial perks without a scintilla of constitutional authority. I have nothing against Boeing workers. But, it is not my responsibility to pay your unemployment. That is a function of state legislatures under the Tenth Amendment. Congress destroys jobs then turns right around and unconstitutionally rapes us in more taxes to pay the very workers they caused to lose their jobs.

What does create good paying jobs for Americans? Not Congress and not a lawfully elected president. Consumer spending creates jobs and until the American people stop buying as much as possible junk from foreign countries, there will be no jobs except minimum wage or pushing paper for our mortal enemies like Communist China.

Go watch this short video (3:42 seconds): Million American Jobs Project – “By taking a fraction of our spending and buying US-made goods, we’ll create a economic tidal wave.”

Not “green” jobs which have unconstitutionally cost we the people hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from us and given to companies that had zero chance of making it. Yes, I am for conservation, but in a free market system, you don’t steal from we the people to give to individuals who make big political donations to presidential candidates or the whores in the Outlaw Congress. Want to create millions of jobs? Buy American made cars and SUVs, not Toyota, Nissan or other foreign brands. Purchasing from them continues to run up the trade deficit killing us. Please, understand how important that is to our economy. I own a Ford Escape Hybrid as does my daughter. We’ve both had two of that model. The best vehicle I’ve ever owned. Sadly, there will be no more.

That hybrid was discontinued Dec. 31st last year. Not enough Americans would invest in American jobs and a super fine product.

I get so sick of saying you can’t find Made in USA. Not true. In the Made in USA section on my web site you will find web site for thousands and thousands of products made right here. I keep adding as companies contact me. Those companies want your business. I buy from the list 90 percent of the time I need to purchase something. If I can’t find Made in America, I go without as I have done since 1994 when NAFTA was shoved down the throats of a disinterested nation. I am ever so pleased things are beginning to turn around:

‘Made in the USA’ Making a Come-back  (March 2013)

“A curious thing is happening among American shoppers. More people are taking a moment to flip over an item or fish for a label and ask, is it “Made in the USA?”

“Walmart (WMT), the nation’s largest retailer, earlier this year announced it will boost sourcing of U.S. products by $50 billion during the next 10 years. General Electric (GE) is investing $1 billion through 2014 to revitalize its U.S. appliances business and create more than 1,500 U.S. jobs.

“Mom-and-pops are also engineering entire business strategies devoted to locally made goods – everything from toys to housewares. And it’s not simply patriotism and desire for perceived safer products which are altering shopping habits.

“The recession, and still flat recovery for many Americans, have created a painful realization. All those cheap goods made in China and elsewhere come at a price — lost U.S. manufacturing jobs. A growing pocket of consumers, in fact, are connecting the economic dots between their shopping carts – brimming with foreign-made stuff — and America’s future.”

NEXT WEEK JOB LOSES ATTRIBUTED TO OUT SOURCES

Genetic weapons – can your DNA kill you?

by Janet C. Phelan
Activist Post

It is a scene out of a futuristic political thriller—the Secretary of State issues secret orders for embassy officials to collect the DNA of foreign heads of state while the President, speaking at a $1,000 a plate dinner, is surrounded by a contingent of Secret Service agents wiping clean his drinking glasses and picking up stray hair follicles. They are not just protecting the President—they are protecting the President’s DNA.

If this sounds like a script treatment for a Hollywood version of a Philip K. Dick novel, consider this: The Secretary of State’s name is Hillary Clinton and her directives to embassies were uncovered in a 2010 WikiLeaks cable release. The President in this scenario is Barack Obama and the Secret Service unit pledged to protect his DNA is a group of Navy stewards, as revealed in the 2009 book by Ronald Kessler, entitled In the President’s Secret Service.

Our government’s DNA obsession was again in the news on June 2013 as the Supreme Court handed down a decision, worthy of penning by George Orwell, that law enforcement collection of arrestees’ DNA is not an invasion of privacy. The decision likened DNA to fingerprints, neatly sidestepping the fact that a person’s complete genetic makeup is contained in those drops of blood that the police can now collect with impunity and without fear of a civil rights lawsuit.

Beyond the obvious concerns that this decision violates both the Fourth Amendment and the subsequent exclusionary rule, there are deeper concerns as to why our government is so keen on collecting our DNA.

The stated aim of furthering crime solution becomes tinny when one realizes that the government is also collecting the DNA of newborns. President Bush signed

The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, which formally codified the process that the federal government has been engaged in for years, screening the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S.

Since we are not yet threatened with the specter of toddlers robbing banks, one must look further to discern what is the big deal about our DNA.

Back in 1997, Dr. Wayne Nathanson warned a meeting of the Science and Ethics Department of the Medical Society of the United Kingdom that “gene therapy” might be turned to insidious uses and result in “gene weapons,” which could be used to target specific people containing a specific genetic structure. These weapons “could be delivered not only in the forms already seen in warfare such as gas and aerosol, but could also be added to water supplies, causing not only death but sterility and birth defects in targeted groups.”

Decades before this 3warning, the U.S. Government was already hard at work in scientific endeavors to find gene and ethnic specific weapons. In an article entitled “Ethnic Weapons,” published in the Military Review in 1970, the author, Dr. Carl A. Larson, was found rhapsodizing about the state of technology facilitating the targeting of ethnic groups with covert weapons. Wrote Larson: “Surrounded with clouds of secrecy, a systematic search for new incapacitating agents is going on in many laboratories.”

Changing his tone, he writes that “It is quite possible to use incapacitating agents over the entire range of offensive operations, from covert activities to mass destruction.”

Larson concludes with: “The enzymatic process for DNA production has been known for some years but now the factors have been revealed which regulate the initiation and specificity of enzyme production. Not only have the factors been found, but their inhibitors. Thus, the functions of life lie bare to attack.” (emphasis added)

Dr. Wouter Basson’s research for Project Coast, the biological and chemical warfare unit under the apartheid government in South Africa, was known to be focused on developing a “blacks only” bioweapon. Basson, who was tied to intelligence facilities and labs in both Great Britain and the U.S., has been reported to have been successful in his endeavors, which were taking place back in the seventies. His research would have entailed locating substances which would attach onto melanin, which is present in high degrees in darker colored skin.

Since Basson’s work on the melanin project, the rates of hypertension and diabetes have skyrocketed in people of color—specifically those of African descent and indigenous, brown skinned populations. In some communities, the incidence of these diseases is now reported as up to 50 percent. Consonant with the reports that this substance has been leaked into processed food, the spiking rates of the “silent killers,” hypertension and diabetes, are present in the developed world, where people eat more processed food. In rural Africa, for example, where the population eats food from natural sources, the rates of diabetes and hypertension have remained constant.

Geneticists have maintained that developing an ethnic weapon is actually far more difficult than creating a gene weapon to target a specific person. The differences between groups are apparently much smaller than the differences between individuals and therefore the creation of a genetic weapon to target, for example, a head of state or a President is far less challenging than creating such a weapon to target an entire race.

The FBI admits to a database of around 13 million offenders, many only arrested and never charged with a crime. According to Twila Brase, President of Citizens Council for Health

Brazilian balladeer Nelson Ned dies

by the El Reportero’s news services

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Brazilian religious and ballad singer Nelson Ned died Sunday in a hospital in Cotia, a city in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area, from a serious bout of pneumonia, health officials said. He was 66.

He died of “clinical complications” of the pneumonia and bladder problems, the Sao Paulo state Health Secretariat’s press office said.

The artist, who had been living in a nursing home in Cotia since Dec. 24, had been admitted on Saturday night to the city’s regional hospital.

“The Little Giant of Song” – so called because he was just 1.12 meters (3 feet 8 inches) tall – emerged in the 1960s as one of Brazil’s most famous romantic performers and his international success came with the recording of several albums in Spanish.

A musical idol in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia, among other nations, Ned had experienced health problems in recent years, but his situation worsened in 2003 when he suffered a stroke.

As a consequence of the stroke, the singer of “Todo pasara” became blind in his right eye and had to move around by wheelchair. He also suffered from diabetes, high blood pressure and early phase Alzheimer’s.

After a life of excess, in the 1990s Ned converted to evangelical Protestantism and thereafter made a career performing religious music in Portuguese and Spanish.

Ned, who sold 45 million albums worldwide, was the first Latin American artist to sell more than 1 million albums in the U.S. market, where he took the stage along with Julio Iglesias and Tony Bennett, and where he sang on three occasions to a sold-out Carnegie Hall in New York.

“Women in Film” to be Theme of 2014 Paraguay International Film Festival

The 2014 edition of the Paraguay International Film Festival will focus on the theme “Women in Film,” looking at the problems women face in different parts of the world, organizers said.

The festival, which will open for its 23rd edition in September, will host a series of talks and debates on the issues addressed by the films screened during the event, festival director and founder DaríoHugo Gamarra told Efe.

“The festival will draw attention and have a public debate on some of the serious problems faced by women in our country and other countries, such as domestic violence, discrimination (and) sexual exploitation, among others,” Gamarra said.

The festival, whose film screenings have not yet been determined, expects to work with the U.N. Women’s Program in Paraguay and government agencies, such as the Women’s Secretariat and the National Culture Secretariat, in developing its program, Gamarra said.

First prize at the festival will carry a cash award of $2,000 and publication of the screenplay, with the screenplays of the other finalists also receiving a publication guarantee.

The festival, organized by the Fundacion Cinemateca del Paraguay, has been sponsored by the City of Asuncion since 2013.

Innocents’ Day Joke Annoys Eva Longoria

Eva Longoria was obviously irritated by a joke that said the actress would play, among other roles, the mother of Cuban actor William Levy in a telenovela on Televisa.

Though the supposed news story turned out to be a joke, the actress apparently did not take it that way, judging by her indignant rebuttal on Twitter, in which she denied the report.

“Latin Post IS responsible for inaccuracies! U should check ur sources Melissa Castellanos before printing. And now REPRINTING! Idiots,” the actress wrote on her official Twitter account.

Longoria was talking about several local media outlets that published news stories echoing the original joke, which spoke of a contract for her to make several telenovelas in Spanish with Televisa, a company headed by Jose Baston, said by showbiz reporters to be her new boyfriend.

According to the gossip, Longoria would play the part of the wicked Maria Rubio in a new version of the telenovela “Cuna de Lobos.”

“How can people make stuff and print it? Not one word of this is true! Even has fake quotes from me!” complained the Texan actress, who won fame in the TV series “Desperate Housewives.”

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