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Oscar winning actor Javier Bardem gets Best-Supporting Acto Nod from BAFTA

by Hispanically Speaking News

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Spain’s Javier Bardem has been nominated for a Bafta award, the British film industry’s top prize, for his role in the James Bond film “Skyfall.”

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts on Wednesday announced the list of nominees for these prestigious awards, which also included actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, and Emmanuelle Riva.

“Lincoln,” a historical drama about U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s efforts in January 1865 to have a constitutional amendment passed to outlaw slavery, led all films with 10 nominations, followed by “Les Miserables” and “Life of Pi” with nine each.

Besides Bardem, selected for his portrayal of cyber-terrorist Raoul Silva in the latest installment of the Bond saga, the other best-supporting actor nominees are Alan Arkin (“Argo”), Christopher Waltz (“Django Unchained”), Philip Seymour Hoffman (“The Master”) and Tommy Lee Jones (“Lincoln”).

In addition to “Lincoln” and “Les Miserables,” the other films nominated this year for a best-picture Bafta are “Argo,” “Life of Pi” and “Zero Dark Thirty.”

Christian and Son By Four promotes new single

The Puerto Rican Christian music group Son By Four, known internationally for the number “A Puro Dolor” (Purest of Pain), is promoting their new single, “Si Los Ves Llorar” (If You See Them Cry).

The message of the song, adapted to Spanish from the tune “When the Children Cry,” is that adults should offer faith and hope to youngsters to protect them from the evils of the world, vocalist Jorge Montes told Efe.

“The lyrics are a positive criticism about what kind of world we are going to leave our children, and about how parents, the grown-ups, should behave in front of them to set the world aright,” he said.

Son by Four struck it rich in 2000 with the number “A Puro Dolor,” which topped Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks chart for five months and became a global hit.

Nonetheless, after the group enjoyed “the fame, the money, the red carpets and trips in private planes,” Son By Four broke up in 2003, re-forming four years later as a band devoted to Christian music.

Victims of Jenni Rivera crash sue her estate and plane’s owners

The families of victims of the airplane crash that took the life of Jenni Rivera are now suing the singer’s company, Jenni Rivera Enterprises, and the airplane owners for negligence.

The private plane carrying popular Mexican-American singer Rivera and several companions experienced an “abrupt descent” before crashing in northern Mexico, killing everyone aboard on December 9, 2012. Days later the wreckage of the completely destroyed plane were found on a ranch in the remote mountainous state of Nuevo Leon.

The famed banda singer was traveling with her publicist, Arturo Rivera, her makeup artist Jorge Sanchez Vasquez and her attorney Mario Macias Pacheco.

The private plane left Monterrey, after Rivera finished performing at The Arena around 3:30 a.m. and lost contact with air control 15 minutes later.

The victim’s families describe, in a suit filed in Los Angeles, the 53 yearold Lear’ jet as a “bucket of bolts” that was owned by Starwood Management.

A plane they felt should never of been in the air.

The families also question Rivera’s judgment in choosing that plane and that hour of departure.

Ibarra brothers, Los Ramblers, lose one brother

by Marvin J. Ramirez

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Mr. Andrubal Ibarra died in Managua, Nicaragua on January 1st, after a long battle with a rare disease that was slowly paralyzing his body until he completely lost all movement, although he was conscious and listened.

During his life he was a photographer and a fireman, and he was noted for being an excellent judoka, reaching black belt in Judo and representing Nicaragua at the Pan American and Caribbean Games in the 70s.

Born in the city of Leon on March 11th to Fanor Ibarra Rojas (RIP) and his wife, Herminia Ibarra Gonzalez (RIP), Mr. Ibarra was one of the older brothers of the Ibarras, members of the band The Ramblers and owners of the popular Ibarra Printing, based in SF.

Mr. Ibarra stayed in Nicaragua when his brothers immigrated to the US in 1983.

He is survived by his wife Mrs. Martha Quiroz de Ibarra and six children: Nola, Herminia, George, Evelyn, Dorothy and Asdrubal, and ten siblins: Nola, Atilio Anibal, Fanor, Arturo, Denis, José María, Rosalpina and Armando.

His remains were buried in the cemetery of Managua Memorial Gardens.

El Reportero and its staff extend their sincere condolences to the Ibarras, a beloved family in San Francisco, California and the rest of the family in Managua.

Boxing

Saturday, January 19 – New York, New York (HBO) –

Featherweights: Orlando Salido (39-11-2, 27 KOs) vs. Miguel Angel Garcia (30-0, 26 KOs);

Junior lightweights: Roman Martinez (26-1-1, 16 KOs) vs. Juan Carlos Burgos (30-1, 20 KOs);

Middleweights: Gennady Golovkin (24-0, 21 KOs) vs. Gabriel Rosado (21-5, 13 KOs).

Saturday, January 19 – Los Angeles, California (SHOWTIME) –

Welterweights: Devon Alexander (24-1, 13 KOs) vs. Kell Brook (29-0, 19 KOs).

DHS purchase 200,000 more round of ammunition

Federal government continues to arm itself to the teeth while Obama administration pushes gun control

by Paul Joseph Watson

While the Obama administration sets out to eviscerate the gun rights of American citizens in the aftermath of Sandy Hook, earlier this week it was announced that the Department of Homeland Security has awarded a company a contract worth over $45,000 dollars to provide the DHS with 200,000 more rounds of bullets.
This new purchase adds to the staggering figure of 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition already secured by the DHS over the last 9 months alone.
A solicitation originally posted on the FedBizOpps.gov website on December 17 on behalf of the DHS Federal Law Enforcement Training Center advertised the need for 200 cases of 13–40 Cal, 180 Grain, Jacketed Hollow Point bullets, with each case containing 1000 rounds, to be delivered almost immediately as soon as the contract is awarded.

The bullets are to be delivered to a training site in North Charleston, South Carolina, which “specializes in Maritime Law Enforcement and Port Security Training. Basic and advanced training programs are conducted in concert with the U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Law Enforcement Academy, the U.S. Courts Probation and Pretrial Services Training Academy, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Training Academy, the Customs and Border Protection Field Operations Academy, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.”

The winner of the contract to provide the DHS with the ammunition, announced on January 2, was Evian Group Inc., an organization that was formed just five days before the announcement of the solicitation.

As James Smith documents, Evian Group seems to be little more than a front organization and doesn’t appear to have any real business assets, a genuine physical address, a website, or even a phone number.

Back in August, the Department of Homeland Security censored information relating to the amount of bullets purchased by the DHS on behalf of Immigration & Customs Enforcement, citing an “unusual and compelling urgency” to acquire the bullets, noting that there is a shortage of bullets which is threatening a situation that could cause “substantial safety issues for the government” should law enforcement officials not be adequately armed.

The information was blacked out despite the fact that documents are only supposed to be redacted if authorized by Congress or for national security reasons.

The contradiction of the Obama administration preaching gun control while simultaneously the federal government arms itself to the teeth with an arsenal that would be enough to wage a full scale 7 year ground war is jaw-dropping.

As Mike Adams highlights, “A citizen is considered to be a stockpiling “terrorist” prepper if they own just 1,000 rounds of ammo. The government, however, can purchase billions and the mainstream media doesn’t even question it.”

“Where is all this ammunition going? It’s being stockpiled by the federal government, awaiting some future event during which it will apparently be “activated.” Why else would you stockpile something if you don’t anticipate needing to use it someday?”

“During all this, Obama and his cohorts in Washington are loudly insisting that American citizens have no right to purchase firearms or ammunition, and that new laws will soon be enacted to make sure you cannot do what the government does: stockpile weapons and ammo.”

Indeed, the double standard is staggering and while Americans are being raided for stockpiling “arsenals” of weapons that subsequently turn out to be no more than a few guns, the federal government is simultaneously building a very real and substantial arsenal while the mainstream media turns a blind eye.

(Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.)

In other related news:

America’s Biggest Killers: The Chart Anti-Gunners Don’t Want You To See

by Mac Slavo
SHTFPlan.com

What we are hearing from bloviating gun control advocates in America is nothing short of emotionally driven irrationality.

According to statistics assembled from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Center for Disease Control and the Federal Government, firearms related homicides are minuscule in comparison to other the other “big killers” in the United States.

If we look at homicide statistics in the United States it’s clear that more murders are committed with knives, bats, hammers and poisons than with firearms. As Kurt Nimmo recently noted, “ the number of murders committed annually with hammers and clubs far outpaces the number of murders committed with a rifle.”

The facts, not the drivel being spewed by the anti-gun propaganda machine, leave us wondering why some State and Federal lawmakers are so adamant about restricting the sale and ownership of handguns and rifles, especially since the majority of gun owners – close to 99 percent – have never committed a violent crime in their lives, let alone used a gun to do so.

Here is the chart they never want you to see:

The chart above proves that politicians and those who would disarm Americans by going so far as to call for a repeal of the 2nd Amendment have ulterior motives – or they’re completely ignorant of the facts.

Perhaps their goal is to trigger a revolution in an effort to implement a total police state over the American people.

It wouldn’t be the first time that a government has tried something like this.

 

Top 20 airports where TSA thugs are most likely to steal your stuff

by David Gutiérrez
Natural News

A Freedom of Information Act request by ABC News has revealed the 20 U.S. airports where the most Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees have been fired for stealing from travelers.

Overall, nearly 400 TSA employees were fired for theft between the years 2002 and 2011. Of the airports ranked among the top 20 in firings, 16 were also among the 20 busiest in the country – although their rank in terms of passenger traffic did not always correspond to their rank in terms of TSA theft. Miami International Airport fired the most employees, even though it is only the 12th busiest airport in the country. And Salt Lake City International, Washington Dulles, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International and San Diego International all ranked among the top 20 in terms of firings, but are not among the country’s 20 busiest airports at all.

The top 20 airports in terms of firings for TSA employee theft were: Miami International Airport with 29, JFK International Airport with 27, Los Angeles International Airport with 24, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport with 17, Las Vegas-McCarren International Airport with 15, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with 14, New York-Laguardia Airport with 14, Newark Liberty Airport with 12, Philadelphia International Airport with 12, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport with 12, Orlando International Airport with 11, Houston-George Bush Intercontinental Airport with 10, Salt Lake City International Airport with 10, Washington Dulles International Airport with nine, Detroit Metro Airport with seven, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport with seven, Boston-Logan International Airport with six, Denver International Airport with six, San Diego International Airport with six, and Chicago O’Hare International Airport with five.

Between them, these 20 airports accounted for more than 63 percent of TSA theft-related firings nationwide.

“Honest” and “hard-working?”

ABC revealed the information on airport firings after conducting a test in which iPads were left behind at the security checkpoints of various major airports. Although the majority of the iPads were eventually returned, the one left behind at Orlando International Airport simply vanished. Two weeks later, ABC News employees used a tracking app to locate the stolen iPad at the home of one of the airport’s TSA employees.

Writing on Infowars.com, Adan Salazar said, “The agency told ABC that a majority of its workers are honest, hard-working individuals, but we are constantly bombarded with unbelievable stories regarding their sub-human treatment of passengers.”

“This month alone, we’ve been subjected to a deluge of TSA horror stories, such as a dying woman being forced to remove her bandages and having her IV bag full of saline solution broken in full public view, a TSA worker caught stealing $500 from travelers as retaliation for complaining, TSA confiscating cameras and deleting footage, an FBI employee coming forward with a TSA molestation claim, a frequent flyer recounting how the TSA smacked his testicles and more.”

Salazar also referenced the practice of TSA personnel at the Columbus, Ohio airport walking around and demanding to test passengers’ drinks that had been purchased beyond the security checkpoint, as well as a case where TSA employees “tested” passengers by spontaneously shouting, “Freeze!” at them.

In the case where a TSA employee was caught after stealing more than $500 in cash from a traveler, he admitted that he had done so to punish the passenger for insisting on a pat-down and objecting to having the procedure performed in a private room.

“While the TSA defends their workers as ‘honest, hard-working individuals,’ the fact remains that screeners often take it upon themselves to steal, lie, and dish out punishment and retribution for passengers who attempt to stand up for their rights,” Salazar wrote.

Nicaraguan sales of products to Venezuela grow

by the El Reportero’s wire services

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MANAGUA – With sales of almost 438 million USD, Venezuela concluded 2012 as the second most important destination for Nicaraguan goods, reported on Monday in Managua the Center for Exports (Cetrex).

Through electronic report, the entity specified that from January 1 to December 30, the South American country obtained a wide range of products, including beef, green coffee, oils and fats, sugar cane, milk, cattle and beans.

The total amounts to 437.69 million dollars and also includes chemicals mixture, dairy products, machinery and equipment, noted the group, quantifying customs exports, excluding trade zones through duty-free zone.

According Cetrex, total revenues totalized two 2,748 million dollars, so sales to the Venezuelan market are equivalent to 15.93 percent, preceded only by the United States, whose participation represented 27.98 percent.

Estimates of the Executive and the National Assembly (unicameral parliament) show that trade with Venezuela will continue to increase, with the advantage of using the Regional Clearance Unitary System (SUCRE).

Created by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), the Sucre works as a virtual currency for reciprocal trade transactions with other members State of the bloc.

The national cattle industry is one of the most benefit from these transactions, in fact Venezuela, one of the founders of the ALBA, is the main buyer of the Nicaraguan beef.

According to Cetrex, the income for this concept reached to more than 198 million dollars.

Paraguayan government’s plan to trade land for votes rejected

ASUNCION – The main peasant organizations in Paraguay indignantly rejected today a government plan proposing giving land to peasants in return for political support in the elections next April.

We will never negotiate landless peasants’ rights in exchange for support to a government that, in addition, is illegitimate, raised the National Peasant Federation, the Coordinating Board of Peasant Organizations and the Organization of Struggle for the Land, at the end of a joint assembly.
Media recently reported details of meetings of Congress members and officials in the Authentic Radical Liberal Party, to which President Federico Franco belongs, in which they agreed the proposal made to groups of landless peasants.

The government would undertake, according to the project, to call for bids in February or March for the acquisition of land for subsequent delivery to certain groups of peasants, in exchange for supporting Liberal candidates in the upcoming elections.

Through this offer made to some of the peasant leaders, the plan also aims to neutralize land occupations by those who live with their families in tents, who would have to vote for Franco’s party.

Peasantry historical organizations said the state has an obligation to assist the poorest, according to the Constitution, and those who accept conditions for that stray from the historical principles of Paraguayan peasant movement.

A downward trend in homicides in El Salvador

Homicides continue their downward trend in El Salvador and 2012 closed with 2,571 murders, a 41-percent fall against 2011, the National Civil Police reported today.

This is the second lowest figure registered in the past ten years, only outnumbered in 2003, when there were 2,195 murders, according to police.

(Prensa Latina contributed to this news report).

What you didn’t know about Coca Cola

by an unknown author

Red wine has a lot of medicinal properties.

A glass of red wine a day offers great medicinal benefit … according to research by the University of Washington, a glass of wine controls hunger in almost 100 percent of the cases under a slimming diet.

Other well documented studies show that drinking a glass of red wine a day could significantly ease back and joint pain in 80 percent of people suffering from these conditions.

Drinking one glass of red wine a day reduces by 45 percent the risk of colon cancer, by 79 percent, of breast cancer, and by 50 percent, the risk of bladder cancer.Are you drinking the right amount of red wine daily or have you replaced it by sodas?

In many U.S. states, highway patrol always carries about 10 liters of Coca Cola to remove the blood left on the tracks after an accident…

If you put a steak in a bowl with Coca Cola, the steak will disintegrate in 48 hours…

In order to remove the spots of the toilet, just empty the content of a can of Coca Cola and let it stand for 30 minutes, then run the water (the citric acid found in Coca Cola removes the stains in porcelain)…

To remove the rust on chrome surfaces, just rub them with a piece of crumpled aluminum foil dipped in Coca Cola and the stains will disappear…

To clean the battery terminals of your car, pour on them a bit of Coca Cola and the bubbles will remove corrosion…

To loosen a rusted bolt, apply a cloth soaked in Coca Cola for a few minutes and the screw will be ready to go…

To remove the rust from your tools, perform the previous step and the rust will disappear…

To peel stickers, paper and even rubber or silicone adhered to any glass surface perform the same above operation…

It also cleans the windshield of your car when it gets dirty on the road.

The active ingredient in Coca Cola is PHOSPHORIC ACID, with pH 2.8, sufficient to dissolve a nail in four days. Phosphoric acid is highly damaging to bone calcium and is a major contributor to the increase in osteoporosis.

Your body causes demineralization, this means that it does not allow for adequate absorption of calcium in the body, weakening of bones and therefore it increases the likelihood of fractures. Coca Cola also contains carbon dioxide, which according to AMEDEC, is an ingredient that causes “psychological addiction.”

It contains “potentially addictive,” caffeine, which if ingested in large amounts (400-600 mg.) it can cause insomnia, tachycardia, headaches and even anxiety attacks. A can of Coca Cola contains about 50 mgs. of caffeine.

It also contains an additive called E-150, which has been associated with vitamin B6 deficiency, which is important for the metabolism of proteins and blood health. A deficiency in vitamin B6 can cause anemia, depression, confusion, and other symptoms, plus it can generate hyperactivity and low levels of glucose in the blood.

Moreover, the sugars that the body doesn´t digest become fat, leading to potential overweight and even obesity problems.

To make matters worse, the sugars present in the sodas gradually dissolve tooth enamel, causing tooth decay and weakening.

Before, diabetes was associated only to adult patients, but there has recently been an increase in cases of this disease in overweight children and teenagers. Diabetes is a disease that mainly affects the eyes, the kidneys, the feet and the heart.

And for those who believe that the problem is solved by drinking “Diet Coke”, we have news for you: there are studies that show that consuming sugar substitutes or synthetic sugar in large quantities, cause brain damage, memory loss and mental confusion (according to AMEDEC). The substance that causes these conditions is called aspartame and it could contribute to the development of Alzheimer. Research also noted that the chemical components of “aspartame” have other serious consequences to excessive drinking, such as retina and nervous system damage.

Now the question is: Do you prefer wine or Coca Cola?

EDITOR’S NOTE: Drinking too much wine may lead to alcoholism.

10 methods of mind control

by Nicholas West
Activist Post

The more one researches mind control, the more one will come to the conclusion that there is a coordinated script that has been in place for a very long time with the goal to turn the human race into non-thinking automatons. For as long as man has pursued power over the masses, mind control has been orchestrated by those who study human behavior in order to bend large populations to the will of a small “elite” group. Today, we have entered a perilous phase where mind control has taken on a physical, scientific dimension that threatens to become a permanent state if we do not become aware of the tools at the disposal of the technocratic dictatorship unfolding on a worldwide scale.

Modern mind control is both technological and psychological. Tests show that simply by exposing the methods of mind control, the effects can be reduced or eliminated, at least for mind control advertising and propaganda. More difficult to counter are the physical intrusions, which the military-industrial complex continues to develop and improve upon.

1. Education — This is the most obvious, yet still remains the most insidious. It has always been a would-be dictator’s ultimate fantasy to “educate” naturally impressionable children, thus it has been a central component to Communist and Fascist tyrannies throughout history. No one has been more instrumental in exposing the agenda of modern education than Charlotte Iserbyt — one can begin research into this area by downloading a free PDF of her book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, which lays bare the role of Globalist foundations in shaping a future intended to produce seravile drones lorded over by a fully educated, aware elite class.

2. Advertising and Propaganda – Edward Bernays has been cited as the inventor of the consumerist culture that was designed primarily to target people’s self-image (or lack thereof) in order to turn a want into a need. This was initially envisioned for products such as cigarettes, for example. However, Bernays also noted in his 1928 book, Propaganda, that “propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.” This can be seen most clearly in the modern police state and the growing citizen snitch culture, wrapped up in the pseudo-patriotic War on Terror. The increasing consolidation of media has enabled the entire corporate structure to merge with government, which now utilizes the concept of propaganda placement. Media; print, movies, television, and cable news can now work seamlessly to integrate an overall message which seems to have the ring of truth because it comes from so many sources, simultaneously. When one becomes attuned to identifying the main “message,” one will see this imprinting everywhere. And this is not even to mention subliminal messaging.

3. Predictive Programming – Many still deny that predictive programming is real. I would invite anyone to examine the range of documentation put together by Alan Watt and come to any other conclusion. Predictive programming has its origins in predominately elitist Hollywood, where the big screen can offer a big vision of where society is headed. Just look back at the books and movies which you thought were far-fetched, or “science fiction” and take a close look around at society today. For a detailed breakdown of specific examples, Vigilant Citizen is a great resource that will probably make you look at “entertainment” in a completely different light.

4. Sports, Politics, Religion – Some might take offense at seeing religion, or even politics, put alongside sports as a method of mind control. The central theme is the same throughout: divide and conquer. The techniques are quite simple: short circuit the natural tendency of people to cooperate for their survival, and teach them to form teams bent on domination and winning. Sports has always had a role as a key distraction that corrals tribal tendencies into a non-important event, which in modern America has reached ridiculous proportions where protests will break out over a sport celebrity leaving their city, but essential human issues such as liberty are giggled away as inconsequential. Political discourse is strictly in a left-right paradigm of easily controlled opposition, while religion is the backdrop of nearly every war throughout history.

5. Food, Water, and Air – Additives, toxins, and other food poisons literally alter brain chemistry to create docility and apathy. Fluoride in drinking water has been proven to lower IQ; Aspartame and MSG are excitotoxins which excite brain cells until they die; and easy access to the fast food that contains these poisons generally has created a population that lacks focus and motivation for any type of active lifestyle. Most of the modern world is perfectly groomed for passive receptiveness — and acceptance — of the dictatorial elite. And if you choose to diligently watch your diet, they are fully prepared to spray the population from the above.

6. Drugs — This can be any addictive substance, but the mission of mind controllers is to be sure you are addicted to something. One major arm of the modern mind control agenda is psychiatry, which aims to define all people by their disorders, as opposed to their human potential. This was foreshadowed in books such as Brave New World. Today, it has been taken to even further extremes as a medical tyranny has taken hold where nearly everyone has some sort of disorder — particularly those who question authority. The use of nerve drugs in the military has led to record numbers of suicides. Worst of all, the modern drug state now has over 25 percent of U.S. children on mind-numbing medication.

7. Military testing — The military has a long history as the testing ground for mind control. The military mind is perhaps the most malleable, as those who pursue life in the military generally resonate to the structures of hierarchy, control, and the need for unchallenged obedience to a mission. For the increasing number of military personal questioning their indoctrination, a recent story highlighted DARPA’s plans for transcranial mind control helmets that will keep them focused.

8. Electromagnetic spectrum — An electromagnetic soup envelops us all, charged by modern devices of convenience which have been shown to have a direct impact on brain function. In a tacit admission of what is possible, one researcher has been working with a “god helmet” to induce visions by altering the electromagnetic field of the brain. Our modern soup has us passively bathed by potentially mind-altering waves, while a wide range of possibilities such as cell phone towers is now available to the would-be mind controller for more direct intervention.

9. Television, Computer, and “flicker rate”– It’s bad enough that what is “programmed” on your TV (accessed via remote “control”) is engineered; it is all made easier by literally lulling you to sleep, making it a psycho-social weapon. Flicker rate tests show that alpha brain waves are altered, producing a type of hypnosis — which doesn’t portend well for the latest revelation that lights can transmit coded Internet data by “flickering faster than the eye can see.” The computer’s flicker rate is less, but through video games, social networks, and a basic structure which overloads the brain with information, the rapid pace of modern communication induces an ADHD state. A study of video games revealed that extended play can result in lower blood flow to the brain, sapping emotional control.

Furthermore, role-playing games of lifelike war and police state scenarios serve to desensitize a connection to reality. One look at the WikiLeaks video Collateral Murder should be familiar to anyone who has seen a game like Call of Duty.

10. Nanobots – From science fiction horror, directly to the modern brain; the nanobots are on the way. Direct brain modification already has been packaged as “neuroengineering.” A Wired article from early 2009 highlighted that direct brain manipulation via fiber optics is a bit messy, but once installed “it could make someone happy with the press of a button.”

Nanobots take the process to an automated level, rewiring the brain molecule by molecule. Worse, these mini droids can self-replicate, forcing one to wonder how this genie would ever get back in the bottle once unleashed. Expected date of arrival? Early 2020s.

A concerted effort is underway to manage and predict human behavior so that the social scientists and the dictatorial elite can control the masses and protect themselves from the fallout of a fully awake free humanity. Only by waking up to their attempts to put us to sleep do we stand a chance of preserving our free will.

Ron Paul’s farewell to the United States: Embrace liberty or face self-destruction – Part 6

by Marvin J. Ramirez

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NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Dear readers: I am introducing to you, a memorable speech, which I consider the speech of the century. It is by a man who I believe has the biggest conviction on liberty than any one I have ever known. This man is Congressman Ron Paul, who is leaving Congress after 36 years. Mike Adams, editor of Natural News, took the time to transcribe it. Because the text came out too long, El Reportero will publish it in parts for several weeks. I hope you will enjoy it, and see for yourself, how this man’s vision brings out the raw corruption of our political system, with the hope that we all can help stop on time, the destruction of our Republic. PART 6

Ron Paul’s farewell message to America: Embrace liberty or face self-destruction

by Mike Adams

Ron Paul’s recent farewell speech is arguable the single most important speech in American history. Dr. Paul lays out the fatal problems facing America while pulling no punches. This speech is a must-read piece by anyone who seeks to understand the real reasons why America remains in a downward spiral of social and economic failure under the endless growth of Big Government and runaway debt.

Here’s another part of the full text:

A Culture of Violence

American now suffers from a culture of violence. It’s easy to reject the initiation of violence against one’s neighbor but it’s ironic that the people arbitrarily and freely anoint government officials with monopoly power to initiate violence against the American people — practically at will.

Because it’s the government that initiates force, most people accept it as being legitimate. Those who exert the force have no sense of guilt. It is believed by too many that governments are morally justified in initiating force supposedly to “do good.” They incorrectly believe that this authority has come from the “consent of the people.” The minority, or victims of government violence never consented to suffer the abuse of government mandates, even when dictated by the majority. Victims of TSA excesses never consented to this abuse.

This attitude has given us a policy of initiating war to “do good,” as well. It is claimed that war, to prevent war for noble purposes, is justified. This is similar to what we were once told that: “destroying a village to save a village” was justified. It 2was said by a US Secretary of State that the loss of 500,000 Iraqis, mostly children, in the 1990s, as a result of American bombs and sanctions, was “worth it” to achieve the “good” we brought to the Iraqi people. And look at the mess that Iraq is in today.

Government use of force to mold social and economic behavior at home and abroad has justified individuals using force on their own terms. The fact that violence by government is seen as morally justified, is the reason why violence will increase when the big financial crisis hits and becomes a political crisis as well.

First, we recognize that individuals shouldn’t initiate violence, then we give the authority to government. Eventually, the immoral use of government violence, when things goes badly, will be used to justify an individual’s “right” to do the same thing. Neither the government nor individuals have the moral right to initiate violence against another yet we are moving toward the day when both will claim this authority. If this cycle is not reversed society will break down.

When needs are pressing, conditions deteriorate and rights become relative to the demands and the whims of the majority. It’s then not a great leap for individuals to take it upon themselves to use violence to get what they claim is theirs. As the economy deteriorates and the wealth discrepancies increase — as are already occurring — violence increases as those in need take it in their own hands to get what they believe is theirs. They will not wait for a government rescue program.

When government officials wield power over others to bail out the special interests, even with disastrous results to the average citizen, they feel no guilt for the harm they do. Those who take us into undeclared wars with many casualties resulting, never lose sleep over the death and destruction their bad decisions caused. They are convinced that what they do is morally justified, and the fact that many suffer just can’t be helped.

When the street criminals do the same thing, they too have no remorse, believing they are only taking what is rightfully theirs. All moral standards become relative. Whether it’s bailouts, privileges, government subsidies or benefits for some from inflating a currency, it’s all part of a process justified by a philosophy of forced redistribution of wealth. Violence, or a threat of such, is the instrument required and unfortunately is of little concern of most members of Congress.

Some argue it’s only a matter of “fairness” that those in need are cared for. There are two problems with this. First, the principle is used to provide a greater amount of benefits to the rich than the poor. Second, no one seems to be concerned about whether or not it’s fair to those who end up paying for the benefits. The costs are usually placed on the backs of the middle class and are hidden from the public eye. Too many people believe government handouts are free, like printing money out of thin air, and there is no cost. That deception is coming to an end. The bills are coming due and that’s what the economic slowdown is all about.

Sadly, we have become accustomed to living with the illegitimate use of force by government. It is the tool for telling the people how to live, what to eat and drink, what to read and how to spend their money.

To develop a truly free society, the issue of initiating force must be understood and rejected. Granting to government even a small amount of force is a dangerous concession.

9th annual Voices of Latin Rock autism awareness benefit

by the El Reportero’s staff

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It takes place on two big nights in 2013: at Bimbo’s 365 Club on Thursday January 24th and at The Fox Theatre RWC on Friday January 25th. The headlining act for both nights will be Tierra, who are celebrating their 40th anniversary with hit songs such as Together. Gonna Find Her, Barrio Suite, and Margarita.

January 24th at Bimbos SF also features Generation Esmeralda, well known for their versions of “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” and “House of the Rising Sun”, along with the Border rock sounds of Puro Bandido, and the Filipino influenced Dakila. Along with Tierra, Friday January 25th at the Fox Theatre will also showcase Richard Bean and Sapo, celebrating 40 years of Suavecito, with Ruckatan’s fusion of Latin, Reggae and World Music.

A Taste of Viña del Mar

Viña del Mar Sister Cities Committee is well underway in getting organized to welcome a very special delegation from Chile on April 2013.

We are hosting 7 women entrepreneurs from Viña del Mar for 7 days!

Save-the-date: January 26 to attend Seven Wines, Seven Women, Seven Dreams at the “Pines.” It’s going to be lots of fun, and please take note on the many ways that you can help us welcome seven women entrepreneurs to California, next Spring.

You will meet Chilean business leaders, artists and special guests; live music, DJ, live auction, Chilean folk dance, and much more!

Saturday, January 26, 2013, at 7 p.m. $57 per person, at The Pines” – a private, historic mansion, 33 Miller Street, Sausalito. Parking & shuttle service
Cocktail attire. Donate @ http://www.gofundme.com/SSC-Vina-2012.

Two trips to Nicaragua photo exhibit

Natasha Robinson works of Fantasy, Surreal and Sci- fi. Harold Adler “Two Trips to Nicaragua”2005 & 2012 and Victor Owens Art House 2011.” Opened on Jan. 6 and on exhibition now through March 2013.

Pot luck yum! Live music by Mugg Muggles and SPECIAL Surprise Guests!

Admission FREE. Donations welcome!

Kids of all ages, young at Heart and Old Souls! Wheelchair Accessible It’s all flat!

At Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley Calif. For more info call 510-472-3170.