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How to stop police brutality

Why aren’t we holding cops to a higher standard?

by Eric Peters |
EricPetersAutos.com

That we have a cop problem is obvious, but how to fix it, not so much.
The problem – a chunk of it, at any rate – derives from an overweening postmodern concern for the “safety” of cops to the detriment of those they (ahem) serve. Plus what’s known in the lawyer game as qualified or (worse) sovereign immunity. It means they get away with doing things that would ruin ordinary people who did exactly the same things.
It’s a crazy idea.
If, that is, you don’t want to end up with a Cop Problem.
Take any group of people and make it known that even when they do something criminal, they will be held less responsible for the doing of it – and what do you suppose is likely to happen?
Bingo.
And, duh.
How about holding them – if they’re cops – more responsible?
Applying unto them a higher standard?
There is something ludicrous about the current dynamic – which (as an example) places exacting legal obligations – and repercussions – on the shoulders of ordinary citizens who possess a permit to carry a gun. If such a person so much as reveals the gun in a threatening manner it is brandishing – a felony and as serious as cancer. If an ordinary citizen fires that gun he had better be able to adduce compelling evidence that he did so under the most extreme duress, his own life in clear and present danger.
Or, how about striking another person – including minor children? A parent who smacks a kid on the rump to discipline him opens himself up to child abuse prosecution. What happens when a cop body slams a minor child? It’s accepted. Or at least, tolerated.
It shouldn’t be.
Is there any sane reason why a lesser standard should be applied to cops? Who are after all trained and supposedly more able than ordinary folks to exercise judgment as well as restraint?
Does anyone, upon reflection, doubt that the chief reason (or one of them, at any rate) why we have a Cop Problem is precisely because less is demanded of cops than of ordinary folks when it comes to the exercise of judgment and restraint?
In economics, there are these things called incentives. You want more of something, you encourage it by incentivizing its manufacture and consumption. To get less, you discourage it – typically, by making whatever it is cost more.
It ought to cost cops more when they fail to exercise at least the judgment and restraint we expect of ordinary people; but most especially when they resort to violence unnecessarily or excessively.
We’d then get less unnecessary and excessive violence.
So, not just the normal criminal (and civil) consequences that an ordinary Joe would face in the event, say, of a reckless discharge of a firearm that ended up with some other person injured or dead. A more severe standard for those who enforce the laws.
For exactly that reason.
Cops are given the literal power of life and death over us; its exercise had better be justified beyond any shadow of a doubt. We have a Cop Problem because hardly a week (often, hardly a day) goes by without a video or some such cropping up that clearly shows unjustified exercise of this power. It is infuriating. More so, when the follow-up news story reveals – as it often does – that the offending officers were not placed in handcuffs and frog-marched to a cage, as any of us would have been given identical actions. This is social dynamite – and if an explosion is not wanted, someone had better throw water on the cordite.
Twenty years for the cop – when an ordinary citizens would get ten for the same offense. This would be a step in the right direction.
It would require amending the law, so that different (more severe) penalties would apply to those empowered by the law to use violence for other than purely defensive purposes. But sometimes, it is necessary to adjust the laws. (It is already the case that if a trained/professional fighter hits you, he opens himself to more serious consequences than a regular Joe who threw a punch would face.)
Personal liability would be another valuable reform.
If an ordinary person, as an example, drives his car in a reckless manner and ends up killing an innocent person who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, his family can sue the pants off the guilty party, leaving him destitute. But when a cop does such a thing, he may never have to pay out a dime – although the county or city he worked for ends up paying out millions. Which of course is a malaprop, since counties and cities have no monies except for such as they mulct from the ordinary people who pay the taxes that finance the operation. Thus, the affront is doubled. The person responsible is not held responsible while the people who weren’t responsible are held responsible.
More social dynamite.
You might as well give your teenaged son a bottle of Jack Daniels, the keys to your Corvette – and let him know you’ll buy him a new one if he wrecks it.
Some professions require the individual to be insured; contractors, for example. Why not apply the principle to cops? If they behave prudently – responsibly – they have nothing to fear. But if not…
Which is as it ought to be.
These two measures alone, if enacted, would probably tamp down at least two-thirds of the current Cop Problem and restore a degree of sanity to the situation now sorely lacking.
Which, probably, is why it will never happen.

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Five of the mos elite secret society in history – Part 2

FROM THE EDITOR:

Dear readers: I’ve been fascinated reading about some of the so many secret societies that have existed through out history. The more interesting part of them and which gives credence to these stories is their direct association with known political figures in government and high profile organizations and clubs. Many consider them just conspiracy theories, but I have arrived to the personal conclusion that most of them are real. I’ve seen videos by investigators who have infiltrated their rituals, showing important political figures – like a former US Secretary of State, participating in Satanic practices. – These MR
(Note: We previously published – on Oct. 21, the first four items of these 10 secret societies).

by Robert Anthony
Elite Today

Genuine secret societies have existed for centuries, conducting their business in darkened back rooms and, more often than not, exerting a mysterious influence upon our culture. Through history there have been many secret societies and conspiracy theories about those societies.
From political organisations to college frats, these groups require their members to conceal their activities, and sometimes their identities, from the public. Go behind closed doors as we examine the 10 most Elite secret societies in history.
5. The Hashshashin
The Hashshashin, or Nizari, were a mysterious band of Muslim assassins that operated in the Middle East during the 13th century. The group was made up of Shia Muslims who broke off from a bigger sect and banded together in order to establish a utopian Shi’ite state. Because their number was small, the group used guerilla tactics in their battle against their enemies, including espionage, sabotage, and, most famously, political assassination. The Hashshashin would plant highly trained moles inside enemy strongholds, with instructions to only attack when the time was right. They were known for their extreme discretion in minimizing civilian casualties, as well as their penchant for using stealth to intimidate their targets. As the story goes, enemy leaders would often wake in the morning to find a Hashshashin dagger lying on their pillow, along with a note saying “you are in our grip.” Their legend soon grew, and before the Mongols finally destroyed the group, they became well known contract killers, supposedly performing jobs for the likes of King Richard the Lionheart. Around the time of their downfall, the library that contained all Nizari records was destroyed, so much of what is known about them today has taken on the status of myth. The most controversial legend centers of the group’s use of drugs and other intoxicants– “Hashshashin” translates roughly as “Hashish user”–which some have said were employed by the members in battle. This has been widely discredited, but the term “Hashshashin” as it refers to the Nizari is believed to be the origin of the modern word “assassin.”
6. The Black Hand
The Black Hand was a secret society of anti-imperialist political revolutionaries that was started in Serbia in 1912. It formed as an offshoot from Narodna Adbrona, a group that sought to unite all of the Slavic people of Europe under one country. This required the separation of Serbia from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary, which had annexed the country some years before. With this in mind, the group began disseminating anti-Austrian propaganda and training saboteurs and assassins to disrupt political rule within the province. Their plan was to incite a war between Serbia and Austria, which would give them a chance to free their country and unite the different Slavic nations as one. Black Hand would be all but forgotten today if not for their unlikely involvement in one of the biggest events of the twentieth century. In 1914, the group engineered the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The job was badly botched, and was only completed when a low-level hood named Gavrilo Princip stumbled upon the Archduke’s car and shot him to death at close range (see photo). Still, the results of the assassination were catastrophic. Within days, Austria-Hungary had declared war on Serbia, and after the allies of both countries joined the fray, the small dispute managed to escalate into WWI. The aftermath of WWI eventually led to WWII, and this led to the Cold War, which makes the Black Hand one of the most strangely influential forces of the twentieth century.
7. The order of the Golden Dawn
The order of the Golden Dawn was created by Dr. William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott, and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers. All three were Freemasons and members of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (an organization with ties to Masonry). It is considered by many to be a forerunner of the Ordo Templi Orientis and a majority of modern Occult groups. The belief system of the Golden Dawn is largely taken from Christian mysticism, Qabalah, Hermeticism, the religion of Ancient Egypt, Freemasonry, Alchemy, Theosophy, Magic, and Renaissance writings. William Yeats, and Aleister Crowly are two of the more famous members of the group. The fundamental documents of the order are known as the Cipher Documents. These were translated into English using a cipher attributed to Johannes Trithemius. The documents are a series of 60 folios containing magic rituals. The basic structure of many of these rituals appear to originate with Rosicrucianism. There is a great deal of controversy surrounding the origins of these documents.

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Sugar causes more health damage than you’re being told

by David Gutiérrez

Sugar causes even more health damage than has been previously believed, suggests a study conducted by researchers from Touro University and the University of California-San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital that was published in the journal Obesity.
The researchers found that when they replaced the sugar in obese children’s diets with an equal number of calories from starchy food – including junk food such as potato chips – the children’s symptoms of metabolic syndrome began to reverse in less than ten days.
The study suggests that the harm caused by dietary sugar cannot be fully explained by its contribution to weight gain and obesity.
Shocking improvements in less than two weeks
The study was conducted on 43 children between the ages of 9 and 18 who had been referred to the children’s hospital due to obesity-related health problems. The children were asked about their typical home diets, and then they had all of their food prepared for them by the hospital for the next nine days. The researchers reduced the sugar in the children’s diets from an average of 28 percent of daily calories to 10 percent, and further reduced fructose specifically from 12 percent of calories to 4 percent of calories. The sugar was replaced with starchy foods (complex carbohydrates) containing the same number of calories as those that were removed. The starchy foods were not necessarily considered healthy, however, and included hot dogs, chips and pizza.
The children were instructed to weigh themselves daily. If they appeared to be losing weight, indicating a drop in daily caloric intake, the researchers increased the amount of food they were eating until they regained their initial weight. All diets were designed to keep the same fat-protein-carbohydrate proportions as the children’s initial diets.
After just nine days, the researchers saw improvements in the children’s levels of diastolic blood pressure, LDL (“bad”) cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting blood glucose, insulin and liver function.
The scale of many of the changes was remarkable. Insulin levels decreased by 50 percent, while fasting glucose and diastolic blood pressure each fell by five points.
“In other words we reversed their metabolic disease in just 10 days, even while eating processed food, by just removing the added sugar and substituting starch, and without changing calories or weight,” wrote lead researcher Robert Lustig in the Guardian.
Lustig is a pediatric endocrinologist and the author of the book Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar.
The toxic effects of poor diet
Lustig says that the study supports his assertion that “a calorie is not [just] a calorie,” and that calories from different sources can make different contributions to metabolic disease.
“While this study does not prove that sugar is the sole cause of metabolic disease, it clearly demonstrates it is a modifiable one,” he writes.
An increasing number of public health advocates are focusing on reducing sugar consumption as a relatively direct way to improve health worldwide. A recent study by researchers from Tufts University published in the journal Circulation, for example, used prior estimates of how sugar consumption contributes to chronic disease to estimate that sugary soft drink consumption alone kills 200,000 people per year.
Another study found that for every 150 calories worth of sugar in a country’s food supply, the rates of type 2 diabetes increase by 11 times.
In a recent editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, a group of health researchers emphasized the scientific consensus that it is impossible to reverse the effects of a poor diet – including excess sugar consumption – with exercise alone. The writers accused the fast food industry of borrowing from Big Tobacco’s playbook by attempting to play up the significance of exercise and obscure the toxic effects of a poor diet. Natural News.

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Radical feminism is destroying young men

The Sexodus: Guys are checking out of society & relationships

by Paul Joseph Watson

Why are more and more young men giving up on women and checking out of society?
They’re calling it The Sexodus – an entire generation of boys abandoning female company, relinquishing relationships and retreating into a virtual reality world of pornography, video games, lad culture and chemical addictions.
Anecdotally, the flip side of the equation also seems to be true. How often do you hear women who have resisted the brainwashing of radical feminism bemoaning the fact that they can no longer find “real men”? Men who are actually confident enough to know how to act around women without being constantly terrified that every word they utter, every behavior they express, every opinion they espouse, may be taken as offensive, sexist or predatory.
In part one of a series of articles on The Sexodus, Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos notes that an entire generation of young people are being left behind in the wreckage of the social engineering project that is third wave feminism.
Yiannopoulos spoke to Jack Rivlin, editor of over 30 student newspapers, who told him of the increasingly troubling trend of young men on campus being completely clueless and scared when it comes to how to engage with women.
What’s to blame for this breakdown? The hysterical propaganda surrounding so-called rape culture, exemplified by the recent Rolling Stone/University of Virginia scandal, plays a major role. As does its consequences, mandatory “consent” classes and California’s onerous and confusing “yes means yes” law, where students, in whatever state of inebriation, need to secure a kind of arbitrary verbal contract with each other before they can engage in any kind of sexual activity.
The deadening of young boys’ naturally rambunctious behavior via ADHD drugs like Ritalin, as well as their educational abandonment, is also creating a generation of dysfunctional and reclusive adolescents devoid of all self esteem, miserable, and unable to relate to the opposite sex.
The discrepancy between what women say they want and what they actually want also serves to confuse young men further.
“Men are constantly told they should be delicate, sensitive fellow travelers on the feminist path,” writes Yiannopoulos. “But the same women who say they want a nice, unthreatening boyfriend go home and swoon over simple-minded, giant-chested, testosterone-saturated hunks in Game of Thrones. Men know this, and, for some, this giant inconsistency makes the whole game look too much like hard work. Why bother trying to work out what a woman wants, when you can play sports, masturbate or just play video games from the comfort of your bedroom?”
The divorce process is also set up to grossly favor women over men, leaving many men frightened to get married for fear of losing everything. Women are also becoming less and less interested in monogamy, claiming the ‘player’ mantle so often ascribed to men for themselves as some twisted form of sexual equality.
Are western men in increasing numbers at risk of turning into Japan’s herbivores, men who shun sex and prefer to go on long walks rather than flirt with girls? Is it any surprise that many men are turning to infamous pick up artists like Julien Blanc in a desperate last ditch effort to reclaim their confidence around women?
Traditionally male characteristics, qualities and traits have also been ridiculed by third wave feminism and contemporary culture. There are virtually no true positive male role models left at all. Men have been brainwashed that “white knight” behavior is the only recourse left to get them laid, when of course, that doesn’t work either.
The response to part one of Yiannopoulos’s article was overwhelming, with over 500 men responding to say how much they resonated with its message.
24-year-old Mark wrote, “Everyone I know feels the same. Your article spoke directly to us. We’re not all losers and nerds, we’re just normal guys who are either scared of being accused of terrible stuff by harpies or simply can’t be bothered any more. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I just can’t deal with hassle of women any more.”
“I’m an athlete. My parents have a lot of money. I have plenty of friends and a good social life. I don’t hang out with women any more, wrote 28-year-old Francis. “Occasionally I’ll have one night stands, but mostly I fill my time with other things. I got accused of molesting a girl at college and since then I’ve just thought, whatever. I play sports instead.”
This is the Sexodus – young men giving up on women entirely as a result of the destruction wrought by social engineering and radical feminism, a process which then punishes women by leaving them with a choice between the simpering, pathetic white knight or the emotionally or physically abusive thug.
Once again, the train wreck of radical feminism and the contrived gender war – promoted at every turn by the political class and establishment media – is driving a wedge between men and women, it’s derailing the cohesiveness of western society. This is the most ominous form of social engineering. This is divide and conquer on the biggest scale imaginable.
Are you a young man who has given up on women and because part of the Sexodus? Are you a young woman who has abandoned all hope of finding a real man? Infowars.

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Panama celebrates First Cry of Independence

by the El Reportero’s wire services

The festivities for the 194th anniversary of the First Cry of Independence in Panama started today with a 21-gun salute and the traditional exclamation of freedom, marking the events that took place in the central village of Los Santos, this day in 1821.
Afterwards, more developments in several other parts of the country like Parita, Las Tablas, Penonomé, Ocú, Natá de los Caballeros, San Francisco de Veraguas y Alanje, in Chiriquí, led to Panama’s Independence from the Spanish crown on Nov. 28, 1821.
The constant abuse by the authorities, the serious economic situation, and especially the fragility of the colonial government, among other elements, led to the independence quest led by Segundo Villarreal, historians say.
History states that when Liberator Simon Bolivar learned about Panama’s first emancipating act, he called Villa de los Santos a heroic city, thus the name by which the city is known today: ‘La Heroica Villa de Los Santos’.

 

Elected officials dissatisfied with possible budget in Guatemala
Elected officials from Guatemala will stop participating from today in the legislative debate on the budget for 2016 because they are dissatisfied with the increase of some costs provisions for unnecessary spending.
According to what was stated in a letter by the chosen President Jimmy Morales, the determination of his team to leave that analysis in Congress responds to disagreements with certain unjustified increases in certain areas and the neglect towards their proposals.
Morales, who must assume the leadership of the Government on Jan. 14, 2016, thanked the space given to his party -National Convergence Front (FCN-Nación, in Spanish) – to submit a spending plan in line with the deep analysis made to each budgetary program.
The proposal submitted by the FCN-Nación shows a significant reduction in the budget ceiling of the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing, for it is betting on public works through an eventual Law on Alliances for the Development of Economic Infrastructure.
The legal body being planned, of which the elected president declined to give details, will rule activities in that order and would allow to redirect the reduced budget of that ministry to the Judiciary and the Public Ministry.
The strengthening of both entities, to fight corruption, was part of the political program presented by the actor and evangelical producer looking to attract the citizen vote in the general election this year.

 

More than 6,000 Missing Children in Mexico
Executive Director of the Network for Children’’s Rights Juan Martin Perez affirmed that more than 6,000 children and teenagers were missing in Mexico.
Out of the 26,000 missing people in the country, 6,676 are children under the age of 18, he said.
Seven out of 10 missing youths aged 15 to 17 years are women, which is an increasing trend, he stated.
Martin Perez underlined that such figures have confirmed several complaints made by civilian and human rights organizations concerning presence and actions by criminal groups devoted to female slavery.
His statements came during the presentation of the report 2015 Kids Count in Mexico, that took place before UN and government members and municipal employees.
We may add poverty, sexual abuse, early marriage, school dropout, femicide, and disappearance to the list of things that affect minors in the country.

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A high-energy fusion of cumbia, hip-hop, reggae & rock

by the El Reportero’s news services

An early evening high-power music by local group La Gente.
A high energy fusion of Cumbia, Hip-Hop, Reggae & Rock featuring live music by La Gente (Check it out : www.lagentemusicsf.com)
La Gente is a group of musicians who incorporate a high energy fusion of totally different genres. A short power point presentation by Professor Rudy “El Professor” Ramírez and Raffael Sarria on the origins of these genres will be discussed.
Music is the universal language of the world. It crosses all boundaries, cultures and ethnicities and communicates between them all like nothing else can.
An event organized by San Mateo Community College Ethnic Studies. There will be dancers and refreshments there as well. On Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 7:15 p.m. Location: CSM Theatre Building #3, FREE parking at Bethoven lot #2 $. 5 suggested donation.

Celebration of Life for Raul Rekow
Donations for Rekow Family may be made at the Great American Music Hall on the night of the event or online at http://www.gofundme.com/raulrekow, where a statement from the family can also be found.
Donations for Rekow Family may be made at the Great American Music Hall on the night of the event or online at http://www.gofundme.com/raulrekow, where a statement from the family can also be found.
Please join us for the “Celebration of Life for Raul Rekow.” Raul was an integral part of the Santana Band for almost 4 decades (from 1976 to 2013).
Coming from the Mission District of San Francisco (the heart of Latin Rock) he worked his way up playing for Dakila, Malo and Sapo prior to joining Santana. Not only an impassioned performer, Raul was also a clinician of Latin music and drumming.
Over the years Raul has lent his talents to recording and performing with artists including Aretha Franklin, Patti Labelle, Whitney Houston, Tremaine Hawkins and Herbie Hancock.  When off the stage with Santana, Raul also loved to perform with local groups in the Bay Area (his home), which included many of his musician fans, friends and family.  He never forgot the musicians that he began with under the Golden Gate Bridge at Aquatic Park.
The Rekow Family asks you to join them for a musical celebration of Raul’s life Just as Raul would want it. At the Great American Music Hall, 859 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015, 4-8 p.m. There will be live music, sharing of fond memories and smiles all around.

Ytaelena Open Studio this weekend!
Artist has been working in a new series called Rapture, using resin as paint and working with an abstract version of her figurative lines. It is a beautiful series that aim to achieve catharsis of our shared anxieties.
You can check other piecopportunity to check examples of this kind of work.
1890 Bryant St. #317, Friday, Nov. 6,  6-10 p,m., Saturday Nov. 7,  11-6 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 8,  11-6 p.m.

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Colombia will celebrate Serrat in his 50 years of artistic career

CICLO VALLADOLID VIVE LA MUSICA.- JOAN MANUEL SERRAT.- CONCIERTOS.- MUSICA.- VALLADOLID

by the El Reportero’s news services

Seventy-one-year-old Spanish singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat will celebrate fifty years of artistic career with concerts in four Colombian cities, where he will perform songs from his latest album titled “Antología desordenada”, organizers said today.
The album compiles a total of 50 songs by the writer of pieces like “Mediterráneo” and “Palabras de amor”, which have been recorded by around 30 singers.
The performance that takes place on Thursday night at Bogota’s Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater will be the first of a series of performances in the country.
After three days of performances in Bogota, Serrat will then travel to Manizales, Cali and Medellín.
“I still don’t know if this is my destiny, I don’t know what I will do for the rest of my life,” said the artist to Semana magazine.
Serrat holds nine doctorates honoris causa for his contributions to the Spanish music and literature, as well as the 2014 Latin Grammy for Person of the Year, among other awards.

Buena Vista Social Club at The Beacon Theatre in New York
The Buena Vista Social Club, one of the most prestigious Cuban groups worldwide, will perform today at The Beacon Theatre in New York, as part of its Adios Tour through the United States.
We are here, New York. Two nights with all sold out. Candela, Chan Chan, Dos Gardenias and much more we will be singing tonight, commented the band on social networks.
Last month, the orchestra and its lead singer Omara Portuondo, added another great event to their privileged acting career at the White House, the first Cuban band to appear there in the last half century.
In addition, the band gave concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, the Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, the Denver Botanic Gardens and Rialto Center for the Arts, among others.
Mostly comprised by veteran musicians from the Caribbean island, defenders of son, bolero, danzon and salsa; the project brings together since 1996 prestigious exponents of Cuban traditional music, especially that of the 1930s to 1950.
Under the leadership of guitarist and producer Ry Cooder, they recorded an album that won a Grammy and an Oscar-nominated documentary in 2000.

International Children and Youth Book Fair In Mexico announced
The 35th International Fair of Children and Youth Books will take place November 6 to 16 at the National Center of Arts of the Mexican capital, with France as guest of honor. According to organizers, it will have five spaces destined to readers of all ages, a cabin to record podcast and a Reading Center.
The Hall of Interactive Reading will have as main scenario the space called On this Earth, in tribute to deceased Mexican writer Eraclio Zepeda.
Panamanian writer Mariela Sagel said the country could be rescued trough culture, thus the need for a dynamic Ministry, which is able to be in touch and interact with artists.
The author of “Fuga” (2015), an edition that compiles 80 articles about the country’s cultural work, gave details about the activities like handicrafts, painting, reading, among others, which are successfully being implemented at penitentiary centers. “Even writers go there to talk about their books”.
While assessing the performance of the sector in the country, Sagel said that theater is the most developed artistic expression, as she lamented that culture is in no government’s agenda.

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Official science: the grand illusion for all robots

by Jon Rappoport

“Government science exists because it is a fine weapon to use, in order to force an agenda of control over the population. We aren’t talking about knowledge here. Knowledge is irrelevant. What counts is: ‘How can we fabricate something that looks like the truth?’ I keep pointing this out: we’re dealing with reality builders. In this case, they make their roads and fences out of data, and they massage and invent the data out of thin air to suit their purposes. After all, they also invent money out of thin air.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
Introduction: Since 1987, one of my goals as a reporter has been to educate the public about false science.
Between then and now, I have found that, with remarkably few exceptions, mainstream reporters are studiously indifferent to false science.
They shy away from it. They pretend “it couldn’t be.” They refuse to consider facts. They and their editors parrot “the experts.”
Official science has a stranglehold on major media. It has the force of a State religion. When you stop and think about it, official science is, in a significant sense, a holy church. Therefore, it is no surprise that the church’s spokespeople would wield power over major information outlets.
These prelates invent, guard, and dispense “what is known.” That was precisely the role of the Roman Church in times past. And those professionals within the modern Church of Science are severely punished when they leave the fold and accuse their former masters of lies and crimes. They are blackballed, discredited, and stripped of their licenses. At the very least.
Totalitarian science lets you know you’re living in a totalitarian society.
The government, the press, the mega-corporations, the prestigious foundations, the academic institutions, the “humanitarian” organizations say:
“This is the disease. This is its name. This is what causes it. This is the drug that treats it. This is the vaccine that prevents it.”
“This is how accurate diagnosis is done. These are the tests. These are the possible results and what they mean.”
“Here are the genes. This is what they do. This is how they can be changed and substituted and manipulated. These are the outcomes.”
“These are the data and the statistics. They are correct. There can be no argument about them.”
“This is life. These are the components of life. All change and improvement result from our management of the components.”
“This is the path. It is governed by truth which our science reveals. Walk the path. We will inform you when you stray. We will report new improvements.”
“This is the end. You can go no farther. You must give up the ghost. We will remember you.”
We are now witnessing the acceleration of Official Science. Of course, that term is an internal contradiction. But the State shrugs and moves forward.
The notion that the State can put its seal on favored science, enforce it, and punish its competitors, is anathema to a free society.
For example: declaring that psychiatrists can appear in court as expert witnesses, when none of the so-called mental disorders listed in the psychiatric literature are diagnosed by laboratory tests.
For example: stating that vaccination is mandatory, in order to protect the vaccinated (who are supposed to be immune) from the unvaccinated. An absurdity on its face.
For example: announcing that the science of climate change is “settled,” when there are, in fact, huge numbers of researchers who disagree. —And then, drafting legislation and issuing executive orders based on the decidedly unsettled science.
For example: officially approving the release and sale of medical drugs (“safe and effective”) which go on to kill, at a conservative estimate, 100,000 Americans every year. And then refusing to investigate or punish the purveyors of these drug approvals (the FDA).
For example: permitting the widespread use of genetically modified food crops, based on no long-term studies of their impact on human health. And then, arbitrarily announcing that the herbicide, Roundup, for which many of these crops are specifically designed, is non-toxic.
For example: declaring and promoting the existence of various epidemics, when the viruses purportedly causing them are not proven to exist and/or not proven to cause human illness (Ebola, SARS, West Nile, Swine Flu, etc.).
A few of you reading this have been with me since 1988, when I published my first book, AIDS INC., Scandal of the Century. Among other conclusions, I pointed out that HIV had never been shown to cause human illness; the front-line drug given to AIDS patients, AZT, was overwhelmingly toxic; and what was being called AIDS was actually a diverse number immune-suppressing conditions.
Others of you have found my work more recently. I always return to the subject of false science, because it is the most powerful long-term instrument for repression, political control, and destruction of human life.
As I’ve stated on many occasions, medical science is ideal for mounting and launching covert ops aimed at populations—because it appears to be politically neutral, without any allegiance to State interests.
Unfortunately, medical science, on many fronts, has been hijacked and taken over. The profit motive is one objective, but beyond that, there is a more embracing goal:
Totalitarian control.
On the issue of vaccines, I’ve written much about their dangers and ineffectiveness. But also consider this: the push for mandatory vaccination goes a long way toward creating a herd effect—which is really a social construction.
In other words, parents are propagandized to think of themselves a kind of synthetic artificial “community.”
“Here we are. We are the fathers and mothers. We must all protect our children against the outliers, the rebels, the defectors, the crazy ones who refuse to vaccinate their own children. We are all in this together. They are the threat. The enemy. We are good. We know the truth. They are evil.”
This “community of the willing” are dedicated to what the government tells them. They are crusaders imbued with group-think. They run around promoting “safety and protection.” This group consciousness is entirely an artifact, propelled by “official science.”
The crusaders are, in effect, agents of the State.
They are created by the State.
Androids.
They live in an absurd Twilight Zone where fear of germs (the tiny invisible terrorists) demands coercive action against the individuals who see through the whole illusion.
This is what official science can achieve. This is how it can enlist obedient foot soldiers and spies who don’t have the faintest idea about how they’re being used.
This is a variant on Orwell’s 1984. The citizens are owned by the all-embracing State, but they aren’t even aware of it.
That’s quite a trick.
(Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, and Power Outside The Matrix).

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This elección has left me with a bitter taste

I am not a mainstream newspapers reader or TV viewer for many years, but even though I don’t trust them, to know more about the election, I went and read their stuff in an effort to learn some of the latest on the upcoming and then post election. I noticed that each of our daily newspapers and TV networks’ election coverage were far from being honest and fair.
Way before the election started, local mainstream media kept on spreading that Mayor Ed Lee had no opponents, while continuously belittling the five opposing candidates as no threat to the incumbent, when in fact Lee had a significant opposition, which included several candidates with more deep vision for the City and its residents than the Mayor’s!
But, then, if the dominant media is getting paid with significant advertising dollars to bang the name of Ed Lee day and night in the media (that most people watch and believe), then we know why Lee ‘had no opposition.’ No opposition in their media of course. The media decide who will be more visible.
Apart from purposely ignoring or not mentioning them enough (except their paid clients), they ignored big time the presence and the mayor’s opposition in the campaign for the Mayor’s throne.
A mayoral debate forum organized by the League of Women Voter, which was the only one out of three scheduled debates that Lee attended, seemed like the questions submitted by the attendees for the mayoral candidates were carefully picked as not to allow controversial issues to be asked that would embarrass the Mayor, like media mentions that the mayor was possibly involved in illegalities related to the mafia and gun running. This was now mentioned in the media in post election. Why now and not before the election?
This election was the most significant one in the latest history of the San Francisco’s Mission District, especially for Latinos.
An Oct. 28 report indicates that in 10 years, the Latino population in the Mission will drop from 48 percent to 31 percent.
The Save the Mission website states that for the last 70 years, the Mission has served as the epicenter of Latino life and culture in San Francisco. It is well documented in the press and in academic studies that this historically working-class neighborhood is being overrun by rampant gentrification. Since 2000, over 8,000 Latinos have been displaced and no longer make up the majority of residents in the neighborhood.
Most of the Latino-owned bars and restaurants in the Mission are no more, and with the recent advent of new market-value, luxury condos, which the current City administration has contributed to happen, rents have exorbitantly gone up as never before. Rents that only those making over $200k a years can afford. And the lack of building enough affordable housing has also contributed to this massive displacement Latinos and no Latinos.
This election had a historically voter turnout, according to housing advocates, and had some wins for affordable housing. Proposition A passed allocating $310 million bond for affordable housing. This is an important win for building more housing for low-income and middle-class individuals and families. However, nothing is free, with this, the powers to be just put more financial weight (taxes or confiscation of wealth) on the back of the working-class and the slowly-dying middle class. More debt for the people who can’t barely pay their current rents and support their families.
Proposition K, another cushion for the housing crisis, passed, making affordable homes the first priority for the re-use of public land. This is a significant win for using public resources to serve the needs of marginalized communities.
In other propositions in the ballot that would have helped minimized the housing crisis were rejected by the voters.
Proposition F failed. Voters rejected to limit and regulate Airbnb’s practices. While many housing activists organized to expose how Airbnb’s practices exacerbate the displacement crisis, Airbnb responded by spending over $8 million in its campaign against Prop F. Neighborhood and tenant groups now hope to bring the enforcement and regulation of short-term rentals to the Board of Supervisors.
Proposition I failed. Voters rejected to pause luxury-housing construction in the Mission District for 18 months and require the city to work to work with the community to create a Neighborhood Stabilization Plan. Neighborhood residents and activists will continue to fight against rampant real estate speculation to preserve and sustain their community.
There were other winnings for the people vs. housing speculators. Mayoral candidate Francisco Herrera voting numbers were so significant, that he’s been suggested that a run for a Supervisorial seat would be a solid win in the next supervisor election either in the Mission or the Excelsior District. Maybe Herrera for Excelsior and Roberto Hernández in the Mission.
However, because at press time there was still a significant number of votes not counted yet, Herrera still has hopes that the equation could change and go to a run-off against the incumbent mayor.
With this said, my best suggestion is that all tenants in SF organized and hit the polls next time, because only the people united can make the change needed.

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Turmeric produces ‘remarkable’ recovery in alzheimer’s patients

by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com

Alzheimer’s Disease: A Disturbingly Common Modern Rite of Passage
A diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), sadly, has become a rite of passage in so-called developed countries.  AD is considered the most common form of dementia, which is defined as a serious loss of cognitive function in previously unimpaired persons, beyond what is expected from normal aging.
A 2006 study estimated that 26 million people throughout the world suffer from this condition, and that by 2050, the prevalence will quadruple, by which time 1 in 85 persons worldwide will be afflicted with the disease.
Given the global extent of the problem, interest in safe and effective preventive and therapeutic interventions within the conventional medical and alternative professions alike are growing.
Unfortunately, conventional drug-based approaches amount to declaring chemical war upon the problem, a mistake which we have documented elsewhere, and which can result in serious neurological harm, as evidenced by the fact that this drug class carries an alarmingly high risk for seizures, according to World Health Organization post-marketing surveillance statistics.
What the general public is therefore growing most responsive to is using time-tested, safe, natural and otherwise more effective therapies that rely on foods, spices and familiar culinary ingredients.
Remarkable Recoveries Reported after Administration of Turmeric
Late last year, a remarkable study was published in the journal Ayu titled “Effects of turmeric on Alzheimer’s disease with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.” [ii]  Researchers described three patients with Alzheimer’s disease whose behavioral symptoms were “improved remarkably” as a result of consuming 764 milligram of turmeric (curcumin 100 mg/day) for 12 weeks.

According to the study:
“All three patients exhibited irritability, agitation, anxiety, and apathy, two patients suffer from urinary incontinence and wonderings. They were prescribed turmeric powder capsules and started recovering from these symptoms without any adverse reaction in the clinical symptom and laboratory data.”
After only 3 months of treatment, both the patients’ symptoms and the burden on their caregivers were significantly decreased.
The report describes the improvements thusly:
“In one case, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score was up five points, from 12/30 to 17/30. In the other two cases, no significant change was seen in the MMSE; however, they came to recognize their family within one year treatment. All cases have been taking turmeric for more than 1 year, re-exacerbation of BPSD was not seen.”
This study illustrates just how powerful a simple natural intervention using a time-tested culinary herb can be.  Given that turmeric has been used medicinally and as a culinary ingredient for over 5,000 years in Indian culture, even attaining the status of a ‘Golden Goddess,’ we should not be surprised at this result. Indeed, epidemiological studies of Indian populations reveal that they have a remarkably lower prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease relative to Western nations,  and this is true for both rural and more “Westernized” urban areas of India.[4]
Could turmeric be a major reason for this?
Turmeric’s Anti-Alzheimer’s Properties.
The GreenMedInfo.com database now contains a broad range of published studies on the value of turmeric, and its primary polyphenol curcumin (which gives it its golden hue), for Alzheimer’s disease prevention and treatment.
While there are 114 studies on our Turmeric research page indicating turmeric has a neuroprotective set of physiological actions, [5] 30 of these studies are directly connected to turmeric’s anti-Alzheimer’s disease properties.
Two of these studies are particularly promising, as they reveal that curcumin is capable of enhancing the clearance of the pathological amyloid–beta plaque in Alzheimer’s disease patients,[6] and that in combination with vitamin D3 the neurorestorative process is further enhanced.[7] Additional preclinical research indicates curcumin (and its analogs) has inhibitory and protective effects against Alzheimer’s disease associated β-amyloid proteins.

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