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Las Bomberas de la Bahía en fiesta de beneficiencia

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por el equipo deEl Reportero

Las bomberas de la BahíaLas bomberas de la Bahía

Únase a Galería y Las Bomberas de la Bahía (Las Bomberas) para una noche de música y baile.

Las Bomberas, fundada en noviembre de 2007 bajo la dirección de Denise Solis y Sarazeta Ragazzi, realizó su primera presentación en Galería, haciendo de esta especial presentación nocturna del Día de los Muertos una tradición y celebración de cinco años de excelencia musical.

Las Bomberas es uno de un puñado de conjuntos de Bomba sólo de mujeres que existe a nivel internacional. El conjunto está formado por artistas, educadoras, y activistas del Área de la Bahía. Su trabajo, dedicado a expandir la tradición de Bomba al destacar las formas culturales vivas y su legado de Resistencia que surgió en las plantaciones de caña de azúcar de Puerto Rico por esclavos, también destaca simultáneamente el importante papel que juegan las mujeres para apoyar nuestras comunidades.

Las Bomberas han tocado internacionalmente para instituciones educativas, centros culturales, festivales culturales y en dos trabajos originales comisionados; ¡no se pierda este exclusivo compromiso! De las 7 p.m.-10 p.m. el 2 de noviembre, 2857- Calle 24, San Francisco. Entrada: entre $10 y $15.

La Serpiente y las Cuatro Estaciones (teatro)

Este evento multimedia realizado por estudiantes para el Día de los Muertos incluye danza, teatro y música original en vivo, con un guión que celebra la continuidad de la vida-muerte-vida, como lo demuestra un asombroso telón de fondo que muestra una serpiente que se muerde la cola. Las cuatro estaciones se refieren a los diferentes momentos en la vida humana, desde el nacimiento hasta la muerte.

Producido por el Teatro Rainbow del Departamento de Teatro y Artes de la Universidad San Francisco State. Escrita y dirigida por el profesor Carlos Barón, “La Serpiente y las Cuatro Estaciones” cuenta con la coreografía de Adriana Sánchez, la música compuesta e interpretada por el maestro Miguel Martínez y la presencia de la actriz / cantante Saday Osorio Córdova.

Los otros artistas son estudiantes del Taller de Teatro Latino en SF State, con los servicios técnicos y otras necesidades de producción suministrados por los estudiantes del Departamento de Artes Teatrales de Comunicación Audiovisual y Comunicación Electrónica de SF State.

El viernes 2 de noviembre, 8 pm, en el noreste de la plaza de la calle 24. Estación Misión del BART, esquina de las calles 24 y Misión, en San Francisco. Entrada: Gratuita.

El Instituto de Estudios Integrales de California se complace en presentar: Filosofía Caribeña: Música como Identidad y Resistencia

Serie de charlas con John Santos sobre música afro-latina. Emana del Caribe como una poderosa manifestación de la autodeterminación y educación dentro de las comunidades de la clase trabajadora. La serie está basada en la música de las Antillas españolas, música que documenta y personifica la saga americana tan bien como cualquiera.

Todas las charlas se realizan en:Edificio Principal de CIIS, 1453 Calle Misión, entre la 9 y la 10 en San Francisco, CA 94103

Lunes, Nov. 5, 7:00 P.M.-9:00 p.m.: La Música de John Santos

Lunes, Nov. 12, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.: Música Tradicional Cubana

Sábado, Nov. 17, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.: Salsa, Jazz, Expresión Contemporánea

Lunes, Nov. 19, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.: Música Tradicional Puertorriqueña.

Para inscribirse: 415.575.6100, o vaya online a:

­http://www.ciis.edu/News_and_Events/Event_Calendar/Santos_FA12_(wk).html.

Poncho Sánchez y su banda de jazz latino

Si la música se tratara de imágenes, la música del percusionista Poncho Sanchez sería descrita como un giro caleidoscópico de algunos de los colores más cálidos y luces brillantes que emergen de ambos lados de la frontera. En cualquier evento dado, en cualquier registro dado, fragmentos de jazz latino, swing, bebop, salsa y otros ritmos pegajosos se juntan y se mezclan en un ardiente giro, con resultados sorprendentes.

Juves– 8 p.m. Sábado, 8 – 10 de noviembre @ Yoshis SF. www.ponchosanchez.com.

Harvest of Empire, like its protagonists, follows a winding road

by Luis Carlos López
Hispanic Link News Service

Un inmigrante marcha como visto en el documental de Peter Getzels y Eduardo López Cosecha de Imperio.: (ARLINGTON WEST, PETER DUDAR AND SALLY MARR)An immigrant march as seen in the Peter Getzels and Eduardo López documentary Harvest of Empire. (ARLINGTON WEST, PETER DUDAR AND SALLY MARR)

Neither Rome nor Hollywood was built in a day.

With this rationale and a prayer, Eduardo López continues to promote his documentary Harvest of Empire.

Completed this year after nearly a decade in the making, it was denied entrance to such major film festivals as Sundance and Tribeca. “We’ve overcome a great deal to get to this point and now we have some good news,” López says. “In spite of so many obstacles, this film is being embraced by critics and the public.”

The documentary takes a decades-long trip through a roiled Latin America compacted into 90 rollercoaster minutes. It is based loosely on New York Daily News columnist Juan González’s book of the same name. López co-directed it with Peter Getzels. Through historical footage and bridging narratives by González, Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, acclaimed Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz and others, it helps explain how in the approaching mid-21st century, half of the U.S. population will trace its origin not to Europe but to Latin America.

Without fanfare, Harvest of Empire had captured enough attention to yield extended showings in both the Laemmle Playhouse in Los Angeles and the Quad Theater in New York as it makes the case that the mass migration is a direct result of U.S. foreign policy.

U.S. -backed despots and dictators and their heavy-handed rule have led to what Hispanic Link columnist José de la Isla refers to “migrations and unavoidable personal epics…This is not about chauvinism, fake patriotism or ideology, but about understanding the underlying plot,” he says. Harvest of Empire bares the circumstances that drove millions out of Central America, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and our own commonwealth of Puerto Rico. “The documentary is history, sociology and foreign policy combined. It is reality.”

Filmland chronicle Hollywood Reporter mentions the Iran-Contra scandal and credits Harvest for dissecting the roles “played by U.S. military and economic interests” in half a dozen countries.

The Los Angeles Times labels the production as “built for clarity rather than cinematic excitement” and “a valuable resource, a good starting point for a fuller perspective on this nation of immigrants.”

The New York Daily News offers, “In an era of anti-immigrant fervor, this sobering and much-needed look at Latino migration is built on an undeniably optimistic premise that once Americans have accurate facts, they rarely allow injustices to stand.”

Add to all those words the New York Times review. It praises the documentary as having a “journalistic pedigree and a punch that comes from political advocacy.”

Now López says he has the ammunition to make his second round of courting studios for wide distribution.

Co-producer Wendy Thompson-Márquez claims, “Now we have a fighting chance to take the film to other cities,” as López adds the spin, “In today’s market, selfdistribution is not secondbest. It’s a different alternative. For us, the most important response has been from the public.”

Counting the millions of families Uncle Sam uprooted and drove here, he concludes in gross understatement, “Latino audiences in particular have a very emotional reaction.”

(At age 8, Hispanic Link News Service columnist Luis Carlos López immigrated to the United States from Nicaragua after his parents sought political asylum here. Now based in Phoenix, he viewed an advance screening of the documentary at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Reach him at ­lclopez4@gmail.com.)

Boxing

­Oct. 27 At Tokyo

Takahiro Ao vs. Gamaliel Diaz, 12, for Ao’s WBC super featherweight title.

At Moscow

Denis Lebedev, vs. Guillermo Jones vs. 12, for Lebedev’s WBA World cruiserweight title.

Nov. 3 At Sendai, Japan,

Shinsuke Yamanaka vs. Tomas Rojas, 12, for Yamanaka’s WBC bantamweight title;

Toshiyuki Igarashi vs. Nestor Narvaes, 12, for Igarashi’s WBC flyweight title.

At Montreal

Lucian Bute vs. Denis Grachev, 12, for Bute’s NABF light heavyweight title;

Pier-Olivier Cote vs. Ali Chebah, 12, for Cote’s IBF Inter-Continental junior welterweight title.

Nov. 10 At O2 World Arena, Hamburg, Germany,

Wladimir Klitschko vs. Mariusz Wach, 12, for Klitschko’s WBA-WBOIBF heavyweight titles.

National Guard whistleblower: doomsday preppers will be treated as terrorists

­by Melissa Melton

Infowars.com

El Huracán Isaac trae a miles de tropas de la Guardia Nacianal a la región afectada en agosto de 2012.Hurricane Isaac Brings Thousands of National Guard troops to the affected region in August 2012.

“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…”

So begins the Oath of Enlistment for the U.S. military, but in an explosive interview with a National Guard whistle blower shown below, soldiers are now being advised they will be ordered to break that oath should civil unrest erupt across the country.

Referred to only as “Soldier X” under promise of anonymity, an Army National Guardsman spoke via phone with Infowars Nightly News Producer Rob Dew regarding a recent briefing his unit underwent on actions the military would take in the event that an Obama election loss sparked rioting in America’s streets.

Citing not only recent widespread threats to riot if Mitt Romney were to become the next U.S. president, but threats to actually assassinate him should he win, Soldier X’s superiors dispensed plans of how the National Guard would be responsible for “taking over” and quelling such unrest.

The soldiers were reportedly told “Doomsday preppers will be treated as terrorists.”

In addition, guns will be confiscated.

“They have a list compiled of all these doomsday preppers that have gone public and they plan to go after them first,” Soldier X said. He claimed those in charge are acting under the belief that preppers will be “the worst part” of any potential civil unrest.

Soldier X was also told that any soldiers in the ranks who are known as preppers will be deemed “defects.” He explained the label meant these soldiers would be treated as traitors. “If you don’t conform, they will get rid of you,” he added.

Unit members also warned not to associate with any fellow soldiers who are preppers.

Not only does the military reportedly plan to target preppers should mass chaos break out, but Soldier X also voiced his concerns regarding civilian gun confiscation.

Soldier X admitted, “Our worry is that Obama’s gonna do what he said he’s gonna do and he’s gonna outlaw all weapons altogether and anybody’s name who is on a weapon, they’re gonna come to your house and try to take them.”

It would not be the first time the National Guard has been used to unconstitutionally disarm law-abiding citizens, robbing them of their Second Amendment right to bear arms. In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, police and military took to the streets disarming lawful gun owners, including those who were on dry land and had plenty of stored food and water.

Fast forward to this past summer when a leaked Army manual dated 2006 entitled, “Civil Disturbance Operations” surfaced outlining plans not only to confiscate firearms domestically during mass unrest, but to actually detain and even kill American citizens who refuse to hand over their guns. This manual works in conjunction with “FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations,” another Army manual leaked this year, which instructs troops on how to properly detain and intern Americans into re-education camps, including ways that so-called “psy-op officers” will “indoctrinate” incarcerated “political activists” into developing an “understanding and appreciation of U.S. policies and actions.”

Add these manuals to the plethora of Executive Orders Obama has signed during his term which have dismantled our Constitution piece by piece, including the martial law implementing National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order which gives the president the power to confiscate citizens’ private property in the event of any national emergency, including economic.

Add it all to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in which Obama granted powers to disappear and indefinitely detain American citizens without any due process, and it is easy to see the tyrannical big picture our government has painted.

When asked if he would go along with gun confiscation, Soldier X replied he and his fellow like-minded guardsmen planned to stand down — not answer the phone or show up to post.

“I’m sorry but I don’t believe in suicide,” he said.

Preppers are becoming regular government targets these days, most recently when a Missisippi prepper group member with a clean record was suddenly taken off his flight halfway to Japan and informed he was on the nofly list, an FBI terrorist watchlist, stranding him in Hawaii. Other preppers have been denied their Second Amendment rights without legitimate cause.

It is beyond glaringly obvious at this point the U.S. government is gearing up for mass civil unrest. Not only has the DHS sparked controversy by purchasing billions of rounds of ammo, but the department even went so far as to begin classifying further purchases, blacking out bullet figures it is using taxpayer money to buy.

In addition, while FEMA can procure a billion dollars in bulk food supplies, the FBI’s Communities Against Terrorism project released a flier instructing military surplus storeowners to report any customers who “make bulk purchases of items” including “meals ready to eat”.

­Should society as we know it collapse following the election, it would seem the ultimate prepper and the ultimate terrorist is, indeed, the U.S. government.

 

Why and how microwave cooking caused cancer

by Mike Adams

The big winter flu shot vaccine push is on! You are about to be bombarded with endless messages to “get vaccinated!” They’re even starting to lay a guilt trip on those who refuse vaccinations, illogically claiming that your lack of a vaccine somehow causes other people who are already vaccinated to catch the flu. Yeah, I know, it makes no sense, but then again the entire vaccine industry is based on the same fantasy logic as unicorns, fairies, leprechauns and garden gnomes.

And, for the record, all the healthiest people walking around who don’t catch the flu are the ones who refuse flu shots while taking care of their immune system. It’s the vaccinated people who always seem to be sick for one reason or another, have you noticed?

In any case, it’s important to find ways to boost your immune system and shield yourself from colds and the flu without resorting to jabbing yourself in the arm with a cocktail of mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum and MSG. Oh yes, all those things are found in vaccines, according to the CDC.

In fact, if you really like shooting up with brain-damaging mercury and essentially giving yourself a chemical lobotomy, just take more vaccines! It’s the only legal way to inject these chemicals into your body where they will quickly enter your bloodstream and be delivered right to your brain!

So to avoid all that, here’s my list of the top 20 ways to boost your immune system without resorting to deadly vaccines and all the toxic additives they contain.

The top 20 ways to boost your immunity to colds and flu without using a vaccine

1) Take a vitamin D supplement every day. Check our Vitamin D guide for details about choosing the proper dosage.

2) Get as much sunlight as you can for as late into the year as you can manage. Even getting sunlight on just your face helps produce more vitamin D in your body.

3) Drink immune-boost beverages like organic Cocoa Mojo, which contains a blend of 4 medicinal mushrooms.

4) Use a high-quality air filter in your home to filter out bacteria and mold spores that may be circulating inside your home.

5) Get regular exercise to boost your circulation and immune strength. This exercise should be frequent and moderate. Do not overstress yourself at the gym, or your immune system will be temporarily compromised.

6) Take supplements especially designed to protect your respiratory tract. These include Lomatium, Osha, Elderberry and more.

7) Take measures to minimize your exposure to immune-damaging chemicals such as those you’ll find in laundry products, cosmetics, personal care products and fragrance products. The artificial fragrance chemicals found in most of these products are carcinogenic and cause liver damage.

8) Get off all medications that you can safely eliminate! Work with a naturo ­path to accomplish this, of course, as quitting medications cold turkey can also be dangerous. Most medications suppress your immune system, liver function, kidney function and even your reproductive function.

9) Eat more meals that are rich in pungent spices. Eat more curry, which is rich in turmeric. Eat more ginger. Eat more cilantro, rosemary, thyme and other rich spices. This includes cloves and nutmeg, two spices you’ll typically find in eggnog drinks.

10) Clean up your diet. If you’re eating cheese and drinking processed milk, those substances are to be avoided during the winter influenza season, especially. In many people, cheese and dairy products tend to cause sinus stuffiness, which is really a lack of sinus circulation. This can make you more susceptible to physically catching and harboring a virus floating around.

11) Boost your trace minerals intake, especially zinc. Both zinc and selenium are hugely important for immune function. Zinc is especially well known for functioning as a shield support against many viral attacks. One of the best ways to boost your trace minerals intake is to switch to a natural sea salt or a high-mineral salt.

Castro rolls out much-trumpeted migration reform

­by the El Reportero’s wire services

­Raúl CastroRaúl Castro

The Cuban government threw the gauntlet down to the U.S. this week by announcing significant changes to its migration policy. The timing of the announcement of the reform, which will lift strict travel restrictions for most Cubans, was carefully chosen. It coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, and could be interpreted as a symbolic challenge to the US, just weeks before presidential elections, to move beyond its Cold War policy towards Cuba by relaxing its own stringent restrictions. Reported by Latin News.

Colombian peace talks get underway

The top two representatives of the State and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc), former Vice-President Humberto de la Calle Lombana (1994-1996) and ‘Iván Márquez’ (Luciano Marin Arango) respectively, addressed on Oct. 18 the Colombian people in separate messages from Oslo, Norway, formally establishing the peace negotiations that aim to end Colombia’s half-century-old internal conflict. Reported by Latin News.

Nicaragua maintains economic growth despite structural challenges

Nicaragua will end 2012 with a 5-percent growth of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to estimates by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), while some structural backwardness must be still overcome.

ECLAC thinks that 2012 prospects’ main support lies in the increase in exports and investments, showing better dynamism in job generation.

From January to September 2012, the FOB value of exportations increased 16.3 percent in contrast to the same period in 2011, since incomes reached 2,74,100,000 USD, according to official statistics.

The private secretary for National Policies in the Daniel Ortega administration, Paul Oquist, considers that Nicaragua is undergoing a process marked by job generation, and the reduction of poverty and inequality.

From 2007 to 2011, the country doubled exports and tripled investments, while the number of employed people went from 2.89 million in 2006 to 2,934,000 in 2011.

Compared to other Central American countries, Nicaragua shows the greatest structural backwardness in its economy, particularly in the agricultural sector, which guarantees the main income from export.

­Mothers of missing immigrants visit Tamaulipas, Mexico

Mothers of missing immigrants from Central American are continuing their tour of Tamaulipas state, in northern Mexico, to demand a search for their children.

The mothers were welcomed by local authorities and civil organizations in Reynosa city, and attended a mass in memory of immigrants who have died traveling to the United States.

The 60 members of the caravan, coming from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, are carrying out a tour of 14 Mexican states.

During their stay in the country, they will address the Senate, to express their demands.

Many immigrants are victims of robberies, extortion, kidnapping, and even homicides by criminal groups and corrupt local authorities as they make their way through Mexican territory to the United States.

Side effects of GMOs – Ask your doctor if CANCER is right for you

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by S. D. Wells
Natural News

If I sprayed your salad with some “RAID” roach killer right now, just a little bit right on the lettuce and maybe a little more on the tomatoes, would you still eat it all, and just assume your body will simply filter out those “small amounts” of toxins? Better yet, what if I paid for it, a nice big, tasty, “bug killer” salad that you could even take outside and no bugs would bother you at all, would you eat it? How about this: If I sprayed a quick shot of some Raid ant killer into your orange juice or your apple juice right in front of you, would you drink it, especially if you’d save 25 cents on every drink you drank from now on? What if most vegetables, fruits, and fruit juice drinks were sold that way, and cheaper than the “Non-Raid” food, would you still buy them? Wouldn’t that pay off for you in the long run? I guess not, because you’re not stupid, are you?

What if the NUMBER ONE SIDE EFFECT of your medication was CANCER, would you still take it, just to temporarily make that headache go away, or maybe to make a little muscle ache disappear for a few hours? GMO means food and medicine are genetically modified, with bacteria and sometimes with viruses, or with weed killer, worm killer, bug killer and people killer. “Pesticide food” is well planned out and has been for decades. Let’s look at history for proof.

Pesticide food timeline 1920 – German chemical companies are hired by Adolf Hitler to create mustard gas, pesticides, and insecticides to be used to gas enemy soldiers at the front lines and in the trenches of WWI.

1940 – Hitler uses odorless gas created by the pharmaceutical conglomerate I.G. Farben (Monsanto, Hoescht, BASF and Bayer) to gas to death millions of Jews in WWII atrocity at Auschwitz and other concentration camps. (http://www.naturalnews.com).

1950s – Hitler’s scientists and “deadly gas” creators are sentenced for their war crimes of enslavement and murder. The scientists somehow only get put in prison for four to seven years for mass murder, and when they get out of jail, the U.S. government and major pharmaceutical firms hire them to work on food chemicals and pesticides for American farmlands (The “birth” of GMO). (http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/trials3.html).

1960s – United States uses Agent Orange (created by Monsanto and Dow Chemical) to burn down the thick forestry of Vietnam, but millions of Vietnamese families get cancer from it, and tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers come home with cancer, most to die from it in less than a decade. (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monsanto).

1980 – Aspartame, a genetically modified sugar substitute, banned for decades, was pushed through the system/legislation by Donald Rumsfeld and Ronald Reagan, who fired the head of the FDA and put in place their own partner in crime, right from the first day Reagan took office (http://rense.com/general33/legal.htm). This toxification of millions of innocent Americans auspiciously timed for the “weight loss” craze phase of the 1980s. Rumsfeld just happened to be the CEO of Searle Pharmaceutical, and Searle profited in the billions. So much for “insider trading” laws and “conflicts of interest.” The U.S. government was blatantly breeding cancer and selling it as food.

1990s – Reign of the biotech “Big Agriculture” and pharmaceutical giants: Monsanto, Dow, Dupont, Hoescht, BASF, and Bayer (German mass murdering scientists and their disciples) continue intense work on the real GMO “frankenfoods” that are most popular in the United States: cancer-causing corn and cancer-causing soy, both resistant to the pesticide ingredients used in Vietnam.(http://www.naturalnews.com/036484_Bayer_Nazi_war_crimes.html).

2001 – George W. Bush and his conspiring vice President, Dick Cheney, under advisement from Donald Rumsfeld, subsidize CORN AND SOY in the U.S., helping Monsanto Corporation basically enslave U.S. farmers with seed, equipment, and pesticide “deals” where they are legally bound to use toxic RoundUp pesticide on RoundUp Ready crops, the ones that contain pesticide in the seeds.

1940-2012 – No U.S. legislation restricting pesticides in food. The most evil biotech companies are allowed to “police themselves.” The government sets no limits on the amount of RoundUp contained in corn and soy, nor how much can be sprayed on them as well. No FDA regulations for GMO infant food, including GM pesticide in infant formulas. “Biotech” becomes the fancy umbrella name for PESTICIDE FOOD MANUFACTURERS (http://www.naturalnews.com/033926_infant_formula_corn_syrup.html), (http://www.naturalnews.com/029863_Similac_infant_formula.html).

September, 2012 – French scientists conclude FIRST EVER long-term study of GMO on rats; extensive research PROVING GMO CORN causes horrific tumors in rats, killing 70 percent of females early, long before their average two-year life expectancy.

(http://www.naturalnews.com/037424_Monsanto_GM_corn_French_study.html), (http://www.naturalnews.com)

October, 2012 – Europe-wide ban on Monsanto GM corn imminent in wake of French study linking it to cancer. Russia also bans all GM corn imports. (http://www.naturalnews.com/037328_Russia_GMO_Monsanto.html).

October 2012 – Monsanto, Dow Chemical, Dupont, Bayer, Dean Foods (the dairy giant), General Mills, Kellogg’s and Smucker a­re fighting to keep GMO foods UNLABELED 2so cancer can be perpetuated! Insurance companies invest in FAST FOOD industry, thus banking on more people getting cancer. (http://abcnews.go.com)

To make matters worse, several “organic” food companies sell out to the GM owned corporate elite. (http://www.naturalnews.com/036834_Kashi_Larabar_boycott.html).

2013 and beyond: No end in sight: Most VACCINES AND FLU SHOTS contain GMO ingredients. Chemotherapy (AKA “agent orange”) is pushed on the masses as a viable treatment for people who have been steadily consuming pesticide, fluoride, bleach, aspartame, MSG and GMO. (http://www.gmasw.com/ao_terms.htm), (http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Maurice_Hilleman_SV40.html), (http://www.naturalnews.com)

Side effects of GMO for ALL ANIMALS

Attention all humans, you are animals also, remember? Human beings have over 90 percent the same genetic make-up (DNA) as monkeys, dogs, cats, and rats. (http://news.nationalgeographic.com)

When you consume GMO corn chips, cereals, wheat products, soy “milk,” and the like, you are heading off a HEALTH CLIFF. Turn around now! Stop eating GMO, and that includes meat and milk which comes from animals shot up with GM hormones, steroids, and the “corporate” animals which eat GM feed like corn and alfalfa. (http://www.consortiumjournal.com/2012/32)

Find out exactly how to quit eating GMO food right now. Find out how to help get all GM food labeled! (http://justlabelit.org/) Side effects of long-term GM food consumption include liver cancer, kidney cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer (for men too), thyroid tumors, Parkinson’s disease, infertility, birth defects, autism and brain tumors.

The dreaded diagnosis of cancer has been linked in over 260 studies worldwide to agrochemicals. (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_26429.cfm), (http://www.nationofchange.org)

The three-tier cure for cancer:

1. Drink spring water: If you don’t trust it in plastic bottles due to bisphenol/BPA, just find natural springs near where you live. (http://www.findaspring.com/).

2. Eat only “Certified Organic” food or grow your own. (http://www.raw-wisdom.com/organic).

3. Eat superfoods. (http://www.raw-wisdom.com/organic).

Remember, knowledge is power, and no person or organization can ever take it away fro­m you. Remember that the body is the temple of the soul, so treat it that way. Otherwise, if you’re still considering a GMO food diet or regimen, be sure and ask your doctor if CANCER is right for you.

Vote for those candidates who are pro-liberty – dump those who are not

Marvin J. RamirezMarvin J. Ramirez

FROM THE EDITOR: Dear readers: As we approach the end of the line to deposit the vote on this Nov. 6, election, it is imperative – if you’re going to vote – that you understand what is really at stake here. Regardless that we have a one-party, two-faction system, disguised as the Democratic and Republican parties, and that they work for the same master, the codes and statutes that will be created out of those ‘bills’ that will be in the ballot, will enslave you Americans more than what you already now.

I just received the letter below from Campaign for Liberty, which highlights important questions that were asked to those democrat and republican officials running for office. In the link, you will see who responded and how they responded.

Remember, if they are not for protecting your liberty don’t vote for them, regardless what mainstream media or community organizations in your area recommend you to vote for.

Are you tired of the antics of our legislators in Sacramento?

Have you had enough of politicians who verbally claim fidelity to limited government and personal liberty while campaigning but then do the polar opposite after they win the election?

Many of our elected officials on the federal level seem to blatantly ignore our Constitution and Bill of Rights. And many state officials carry that Big Government philosophy over right into our own backyards.

Every year, new laws are passed limiting our rights and giving unelected bureaucrats new authority to interfere in our lives.

It is imperative we work to repeal the laws that legislators and bureaucrats are using to trample our rights and instead pass common-sense laws that protect our liberty.

That is why California Campaign for Liberty is working on a Candidate Survey Program. Each candidate for state legislature received a survey of seven important questions — questions that officially put candidates on record on liberty issues.

Candidates were asked where they stand on:

• Real ID (also known as Dangerous ID)

• Red light cameras

• Constitutional Carry

• Nullifying ObamaCare

• No-knock warrants

• TSA pat-downs

• State health care exchanges

Click here to learn where your candidates stand on these important issues. http://www.campaignforliberty.org/surveys/california-state-legislative-candidates/.

As we work toward liberty, it is critical to have current and potential legislators on record concerning constitutional issues. Therefore, it is vital we receive responses from as many candidates as possible.

Some candidates don’t want to go on the record – they are using evasive maneuvers to avoid responding to our questions.

Their silence betrays them. If they can’t be trusted to answer basic liberty questions, they certainly can’t be trusted to vote correctly if elected.

If your candidates have not yet answered our questions, please take a moment to contact them and ask them to complete and return their Campaign for Liberty survey right away.In Liberty, Deborah Wells Senior Director of State Operations Campaign for Liberty

P.S. Click here to view current survey results.

P.P.S. Campaign for Liberty does not support or endorse candidates for office. The goal of the Campaign for Liberty survey is only for keeping candidates true to their word should they be elected. It should not be construed as an endorsement of any candidate.

You are encouraged to research each of your candidates to make an informed decision on their positions.

Below is the questionnaire sent to the candidates to the House and the Senate.

California State Legislative Candidates

Dear Supporter,

Campaign for Liberty gave candidates for State House and Senate an opportunity to provide a straight answer to the following questions. The candida­tes’ answers can be seen below the list of questions.

QUESTIONS

• Will you oppose efforts to cooperate with a national ID card system and vote to block all state funding for and cooperation with any national ID scheme including Real ID and Pass ID programs?

• Do you oppose the use of unmanned devices being used for law enforcement and used in order to fine citizens?

• Will you support a “Constitutional Carry” bill that would allow any law-abiding citizen to carry a firearm concealed without a permit?

• Will you support legislation to nullify ObamaCare and authorize state and local law enforcement to arrest federal officials attempting to implement the unconstitutional health care scheme known as ObamaCare?

• Will you support legislation to end the use of “no knock” warrants?

• Will you support legislation that would allow TSA agents to be charged with sexual assault if they use invasive “pat-down” procedures?

Do you oppose taking federal money to create a state health insurance exchange?

Obama and Ronmey: War no matter who wins election

by Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com

Once again emphasizing there is no fundamental difference between Obama and Romney when it comes to attacking Iran, the American Jewish Committee has published the answers to a questionnaire sent to the candidates.

From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency website: “I am prepared to use all elements of American power” to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, Obama said in the questionnaires released Oct. 18 by the AJC, “including a political effort to further isolate Iran, a diplomatic effort to sustain our coalition, an economic effort that has imposed crippling sanctions, and a military effort to be prepared for any contingency.”

Romney’s response was nearly identical: “I will press for ever tightening sanctions on the regime, acting multilaterally where we can and unilaterally where we must, and leave no doubt in the mind of the regime’s leaders that the military option remains on the table.”

Romney tried to make political points by sucking up to Israel and the Israeli lobby in the United States: “Unlike President Obama, I understand that distancing the U.S. from Israel doesn’t earn us credibility in the Arab world or bring peace closer,” he said.

“Instead, it encourages Palestinians to hold out and wait for Washington to deliver more Israeli concessions.”

Romney said he plans to create “regional directors” who “will possess unified budgetary and policy authority.”

The JTA’s response to this development: “With such powers concentrated in an individual, pro-Israel groups would likely closely watch and want to influence whomever a Romney administration would name to the Middle East post.”

In fact, pro-Israel neocons already dictate Romney’s Middle East foreign policy. Fifteen of the 22 members of Romney’s foreign policy team were policy advisers under Bush, and six of them are former members of PNAC, Joseph Sarkisian points out.

Neocons from the American Enterprise Institute, the BrookingsInstitute, and the Hudson Institute dominate Romney’s advisors. “The American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) thinks highly of these policy advisers, who are all ardent supporters of the Israeli desire to end Iran’s nuclear program with force if necessary,” writes Sarkisian.

“Just like in Iraq, there is no verifiable proof of WMD in Iran, yet once again the same group of people want to use the same methods to start a similar war for the interests of the few, with no regard for the consequences,” he concludes.

Poll results are, of course, highly misleading, but if we are to believe the latest results Romney and Obama are locked in a dead heat sixteen days out from the election.

Establishment fount Forbes predicts that if Obama gets re-elected, Israel will attack Iran in January, a move that will undoubtedly be supported by the United States.

Despite Romney’s coterie of neocons, Democrat Chuck Schumer believes Obama is more likely to attack Iran than his opponent. “I’ll tell you this on Iran, and I’ve said this to a couple of Romney supporters who agree, that if the sanctions fail, and military action is warranted, a re-elected President Obama is far more likely to launch that kind of military action, probably in concert with Israel, than would Mitt Romney,” Schumer told CNN in September.

Following Obama’s lackadaisical performance during the first debate, his administration “leaked” a plan for striking Iran’s nuclear facilities. CFR member and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, David Rothkopf, wrote in Foreign Policy earlier this month that the White House and Israeli officials “assert that the two sides behind the scenes have come closer together in their views [regarding Iran] in recent days.”

Rothkopf quoted a “source close to the discussions” as saying that a surgical strike aimed at Iran’s enrichment facilities “might take only ‘a couple of hours’” at best and would be conducted by air using bombers and drones.

­Despite the outcome of the election, a strike on Iran – limited, surgical or otherwise – will occur within the next few months, if not weeks.

Caravanserai15th Anniversary party with Ruckatan

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by the El Reportero’s staff

La estrella de Jazz Bill Ortiz (Santana) meció la noche con el grupo Jeroglífico en ‘Biscuits and Jazz’ club: el 19 de octubre, donde se le unieron los miembros de Santana, el cantante Tony Linds y trombonista Marty Wehner. (PHOTO BY WILL GAMARRA)(Santana) Jazz star Bill Ortiz rocked the night with Hieroglyphics at ‘Biscuits and Blues’ club on Oct. 19, where he was joined by Santana members singer Tony Linds and trombone player Marty Wehner. ­(PHOTO BY WILL GAMARRA)

This is a Santana Band tribute that will take place at Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St. Redwood City, California.

Now in it’s 15th year, Caravanserai has established itself as the most widely known Santana Tribute band in the country. This is the group the San Jose Metro declared “The Top Santana Tribute” and the San Francisco Examiner called “The Country’s Pre-eminent Santana Tribute Band”.

Originally a replication of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Santana’s legendary early days, Caravanserai has grown to include material from all eras of Santana’s 30-year history. Painstaking care has been taken in the recreation of early and new music performed by this band of journeymen from the San Francisco Bay Area.

All the instrumentation used by Santana over the years are here, with some of the best musicians in the Bay Area.

Ruckatan Latin Tribe is composed of seven players who have all contributed to the local Latin Rock scene in the Bay Area and internationally with various Latin, Reggae and Rock acts. Ruckatan is a fusion of Latin and Reggae.

On Saturday Nov. 3, at 8 p.m. Tickets: $12 adv. / $15 door. For info call at 650.369.7770 or Latin Rock Inc.

Hive PopUp digital media workshops for teens

Free digital media workshops including: 3D printing (faces and action heroes); claymation studio; DJ turntable skills; environmental poetry and issues; filming and digital flipbooks; lego building; mobile citizen journalism video-making; multi-plane animation; motion gaming technology and 3D avatars; recording and radio broadcasting; PopCorn and Thimble toolkits.

Two days of digital media literacy and fun for middle and high school youth (ages 11-18). Media and arts organizations will offer free tools and workshops for youth to play with the web, remix, remake, and recreate to save the earth.

Oct. 26 & 27, Ortega Branch Library, 3223 Ortega St., San Francisco.

­In The Beginning Was Fox & Cinnamon,” a solo exhibition

A solo exhibition by artist Mercedes Dorame, opening this weekend. As a member of the Gabrielino Tongva Indians of California – a tribe not federally recognized, and therefore has no reservation land – Dorame brings her large-scale photographic works to Galería in search and exploration of her roots and historical background.

Members’ preview 6:30pm. Opening Sat. Oct 27. Artist reception 7:30pm Free & open to the public.

Annual “Día de los Muertos Festival”FREE!

Arts, crafts, food, music, altars honoring those who’ve left before us & more. (Fruitvale Transit Village Oakland). Three stages with live entertainment!

Avoid traffic hassles, parking and take BART to Fruitvale Bart Exit and it’s right there. Sunday, Oct. 28th, 2012., 10:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. at 3340 East 12th Street, Oakland, California.

Presented in part by “Unity Council”. A non-profit community event.