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Meet the secretive group that runs the world

NOTE  FROM THE EDITOR:

Dear readers, I found this great article, previously published by Zero Hedge, on one of the most secretive banks: the Bank of the International Settlements. This is the bank that is above all banks, top of the top of the world controllers. Higher than all world Central Banks. Super interesting! THIS IS PART ONE OF SERIES.

Nothing comes closer to the stereotypical, secretive group determining the fate of over 7 billion people, than the Bank of International Settlements

by zero hedge

Over the centuries there have been many stories, some based on loose facts, others based on hearsay, conjecture, speculation and outright lies, about groups of people who “control the world.” Some of these are partially accurate, others are wildly hyperbolic, but when it comes to the historic record, nothing comes closer to the stereotypical, secretive group determining the fate of over 7 billion people, than the Bank of International Settlements, which hides in such plain sight, that few have ever paid much attention.

The following is an excerpt from TOWER OF BASEL: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World by Adam LeBor.  Reprinted with permission from PublicAffairs.
The world’s most exclusive club has 18 members. They gather every other month on a Sunday evening at 7 p.m. in conference room E in a circular tower block whose tinted windows overlook the central Basel railway station. Their discussion lasts for one hour, perhaps an hour and a half. Some of those present bring a colleague with them, but the aides rarely speak during this most confidential of conclaves. The meeting closes, the aides leave, and those remaining retire for dinner in the dining room on the eighteenth floor, rightly confident that the food and the wine will be superb. The meal, which continues until 11 p.m. or midnight, is where the real work is done. The protocol and hospitality, honed for more than eight decades, are faultless. Anything said at the dining table, it is understood, is not to be repeated elsewhere.
Few, if any, of those enjoying their haute cuisine and grand cru wines— some of the best Switzerland can offer—would be recognized by passers-by, but they include a good number of the most powerful people in the world. These men—they are almost all men—are central bankers. They have come to Basel to attend the Economic Consultative Committee (ECC) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which is the bank for central banks. Its current members [ZH: as of 2013] include Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve; Sir Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England; Mario Draghi, of the European Central Bank; Zhou Xiaochuan of the Bank of China; and the central bank governors of Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Canada, India, and Brazil. Jaime Caruana, a former governor of the Bank of Spain, the BIS’s general manager, joins them.
In early 2013, when this book went to press, King, who is due to step down as governor of the Bank of England in June 2013, chaired the ECC. The ECC, which used to be known as the G-10 governors’ meeting, is the most influential of the BIS’s numerous gatherings, open only to a small, select group of central bankers from advanced economies. The ECC makes recommendations on the membership and organization of the three BIS committees that deal with the global financial system, payments systems, and international markets. The committee also prepares proposals for the Global Economy Meeting and guides its agenda.
That meeting starts at 9:30 a.m. on Monday morning, in room B and lasts for three hours. There King presides over the central bank governors of the thirty countries judged the most important to the global economy. In addition to those who were present at the Sunday evening dinner, Monday’s meeting will include representatives from, for example, Indonesia, Poland, South Africa, Spain, and Turkey. Governors from fifteen smaller countries, such as Hungary, Israel, and New Zealand are allowed to sit in as observers, but do not usually speak. Governors from the third tier of member banks, such as Macedonia and Slovakia, are not allowed to attend. Instead they must forage for scraps of information at coffee and meal breaks.
The governors of all sixty BIS member banks then enjoy a buffet lunch in the eighteenth-floor dining room. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the Swiss architectural firm which built the “Bird’s Nest” Stadium for the Beijing Olympics, the dining room has white walls, a black ceiling and spectacular views over three countries: Switzerland, France, and Germany. At 2 p.m. the central bankers and their aides return to room B for the governors’ meeting to discuss matters of interest, until the gathering ends at 5.
King takes a very different approach than his predecessor, Jean-Claude Trichet, the former president of the European Central Bank, in chairing the Global Economy Meeting. Trichet, according to one former central banker, was notably Gallic in his style: a stickler for protocol who called the central bankers to speak in order of importance, starting with the governors of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Bundesbank, and then progressing down the hierarchy. King, in contrast, adopts a more thematic and egalitarian approach: throwing open the meetings for discussion and inviting contributions from all present.

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Coconut flour: What is it and how to best use it

by Dr. David Jockers

Coconut has been traditionally cultivated for its raw coconut meat, oil, milk, water and most recently for its flour. The Philippines is now the largest coconut producing country and was the first to produce flour as a byproduct from its production of coconut milk (1, 2). The growing demand for the use of natural, non-toxic plants as medicinal aids to prevent and treat illness has highlighted the various health benefits of consuming coconut products.
Many researchers now recommend the addition of coconut flour to supplement any healthy diet because of its many benefits including its antibacterial and antifungal properties. Whether you are on a strict paleo diet, you’re seeking an allergy free flour source, or you simply desire to stimulate your digestive and immune system, coconut flour is an excellent addition to your meals and a pantry staple.
What is coconut flour?
Producers of coconut flour originally sold the nutritious coconut milk byproduct to farmers in the form of coconut meal. Farmers understood that coconut meal was an excellent source of organic fertilizer and an animal feed supplement. In the past few decades, as more research emerged supporting the numerous health benefits of coconut flour, human consumption of the valuable superfood also increased. (3)
Coconut flour is derived from grating the meat of fresh coconuts. The meat is then dehydrated and defatted which means the oil is extracted.

The result is a fine powder that looks and feels similar to wheat or grain flours. The most pure and organic form may even fool a seasoned foodie because of its lack of coconut flavor. (3, 4)
Coconut flour: A functional food
Coconut flour has different health benefits than other coconut products (such as the oil) and it offers a great alternative to conventional flour.
Considered a functional food, coconut flour exhibits properties that significantly benefit health and is a valuable source of nutrition (1). This functional food is a great source of dietary fiber, is high in protein, does not contain gluten, and has a low glycemic index (GI) (5).
Coconut flour is especially recommended for those with inflammatory issues that result when wheat or gluten is consumed. Coconut flour is safe for consumption by individuals with Celiac disease, gluten sensitivity, leaky gut syndrome, or diabetes.
Advice on how to use coconut flour
Despite the fact that coconut flour may look, feel and perhaps even smell like conventional refined flours, coconut flour can be frustrating and costly to cook with without some needed guidance. Don’t forget Dr. Fife’s description that coconut flour is like a sponge and cooking with such an absorbent food provides its own challenges to be overcome.
A few tips follow on how to achieve success in substituting 100 percent coconut flour in recipes for wheat flour:
• Due to the high absorbency, coconut flour is an excellent thickening agent for soups, stews and even smoothies. For this reason, it is also recommended to store coconut flour in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer to avoid moisture clumps.
• Experiment! In general, for every one-cup of traditional flour you only need approximately 1/4 cup to 1/3 a cup of coconut flour.
• Recipes commonly include an additional protein source such as extra eggs or hemp powder to make up for the binding properties that gluten normally would provide. Flax seed is an excellent binder and contributes its own health benefits.

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PEP-Comm: ¿A Wolf in sheep’s clothing?

by Reshma Shamasunder
New America Media

Editor’s Note: Obama announced last week that he is ending Secure Communities, the controversial program of cooperation between ICE and state and local police that claimed to focus on serious criminals but actually ended up deporting many people who had no criminal record. But the program the Obama administration wants to replace it with sounds suspiciously similar. In fact, many of the flaws that made Secure Communities so problematic are deeply embedded in the new program, writes California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC) Executive Director Reshma Shamasunder.
When the fight against the now-discredited “Secure” Communities or S-Comm deportations began, perhaps no word characterized the dismissive response from Washington, DC, better than:
“Impossible!”
According to the conventional wisdom inside the Beltway, it was “impossible” to challenge a program designed to deport immigrants who had come into contact with law enforcement.
Fast-forward almost five years, and the courage of undocumented leaders has now turned that conventional wisdom on its head.
Last week, as part of the Obama administration’s executive actions on immigration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson acknowledged in a memo that the program’s “very name has become a symbol for general hostility toward” deportation policy, and that “governors, mayors, and state and local law enforcement officials across the country” had signed laws or orders to prohibit collaboration with the program.
This is the fruit of the bravery of immigrants facing deportation who stood up and spoke out: domestic violence survivors like Norma and Isaura, tamale vendors like Juana Reyes, and youth leaders like Dean whose determination not to be defined by one mistake in the past brought even hardened skeptics to tears. (You can watch Dean’s testimony here at 1:42.41.)
These leaders illustrated up close and personal the harm the program caused to already sensitive relationships with local law enforcement, the waste of resources it entailed, and the families it threatened to split up. Their work made possible milestones like California’s TRUST Act, local policies which expanded TRUST’s protections, and now, DHS’s announcement that it will end S-Comm and replace it with a new program.
But what is the impact on the ground? Does the new “Prioritized Enforcement Program” (PEP) mark any true shift, or is it just more of the same?
The fact is, while there are interesting differences on paper, most of its predecessor’s fundamental flaws are embedded deeply in PEP’s DNA. So much so, that some activists have already dubbed the new deportation program “PEP-Comm.”
Just like S-Comm, “PEP-Comm” risks hurting community policing, civil rights, and family unity. We urge local elected officials and law enforcement to approach this program with extreme caution.
Especially in places that have passed TRUST Acts and Due Process ordinances, a measure of community trust has started to take root – but new entanglement with the nation’s deportation policies could trample that.
To understand our analysis, it’s useful to look at how the previous program, S-Comm, worked. It grabbed the fingerprints of every person arrested by police or sheriffs for any reason, without a shred of due process, and ran them against immigration databases. Then, whenever Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had even the slightest suspicion to believe they could deport someone, they would send a “hold” request to the local jail, asking the person be held for extra time, at local expense, just so that ICE could pick the person up for deportation. That alone led to hundreds of thousands of deportations over the last several years, with immigration holds (now deemed unconstitutional after several lawsuits) having an even broader reach.
PEP-Comm keeps the first step of this process exactly the same. ICE will still immediately get fingerprints of every human being arrested in the U.S., without a shred of due process.
However, according to what’s on paper, what happens next should be different.
But we’re profoundly skeptical because over the last several years, ICE issued a stream of memos claiming to “improve” S-Comm and strengthen its “priorities” – which agents in the field utterly ignored. That led to absurd results like the near-deportation of Bakersfield mom Ruth Montaño over her barking dogs, less than two weeks after a new memo.
But under PEP-Comm, instead of unconstitutional holds, ICE will now mostly ask local police and sheriffs to notify them when people who meet a (somewhat more limited, at least on paper) list of priorities are about to be released.
This still means that community members sentenced to as little as three months of jail time will be priorities for deportation. And if our local law enforcement agents call ICE, the feds are still essentially forcing them to act as immigration agents. That puts community confidence in law enforcement at risk.
Moreover, people who’ve been unjustly deported before and come back to be with their families after Jan. 1 of this year, are still at risk of being detained for extra time and deported. And people who’ve just arrived in the U.S. (often fleeing unspeakable violence) are also vulnerable to deportation.
What to do? First of all, we have to keep fighting. We need to embrace the full humanity of people with convictions, and embrace our values of redemption and second-chances, rather than fall into hurtful dichotomies of “felons, not families.” And we also need to keep pushing so that the President’s relief covers more people, including those fleeing violence and LGBTQ community members who were disproportionately excluded and now are at increased risk of deportation from programs like PEP-Comm.
Some might say that sounds “impossible.” But we’ve heard that before.
The fight for justice and inclusion continues.

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Pneumologists alert about risks of the e-cigaret

by the El Reportero’s news services

The Electronic Cigaret (CE) as a method to stop smoking has been, for already some years, a controversial issue on a global scale, point out Argentinian pneumologists who insist today on the risks of its use.
Its commercialization in this country is prohibited since 2011, but many patients keep on asking about its effectivity to substitute the conventional cigaret, underline a bulletin of the Argentine Association of Respiratory Medicine (AAMR).
‘It is an aerosol that is inhaled and produces warm steam, with substances very similar to the cigarett but in lower quantities or doses. But we do not know what happens when anybody consumes it in a long term’, alerts the pneumologist Cristina Borrajo.
The specialist insists that ‘there is no certainty if it is effective to stop smoking’.
In Argentina, the National government of Medicines, Food and Medical technology prohibited its publicity and sale, meanwhile there is not more reliable information. Nevertheless, they are easily obtained through the Internet or people buy them in other countries, the AAMR regrets.

Colombia, Mexico foreign ministers lead commissions meeting
The foreign ministers of Mexico, Jose Antonio Meade; and Colombia, Maria Angela Hogluín, are leading the fifth meeting of the Permanent Binational Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The ministers reviewed the bilateral agenda issues and will adjust the preparations for the state visit of the Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos to Mexico, scheduled for May.
According to a statement from the Foreign Ministry, the meeting this Thursday includes a balance of the main topics of interest to both nations and advances in the negotiation of a strategic partnership agreement.
Both top officials from will also review trade, immigration, consular, security and defense topics, according to a press release.
They will also address issues related to education and culture, technical and scientific cooperation and possible cooperation in new areas of common interest.
Both nations are part of the Pacific Alliance, which also integrate Peru and Chile.
Colombia is the thirteenth largest world trading partner of Mexico and second in Latin America and the Caribbean. While Colombia is the eighth investor in the Aztec nation.

Mexican Farmworkers strike against work condition
Hundreds of farmworkers went on strike in Baja California, Mexico, to protest for low wages and poor working conditions currently prevailing in companies exporting to the United States.
The strike began in San Quentin once more -the epicenter of demonstrations of farmworkers who marched to the seat of government in Ensenada, Baja California- demanding salary increases.
The movement also commemorated the 96th anniversary of the death of Emiliano Zapata, and urged to support the boycott targeting Driscoll’s, the world’s largest berry distributor, which they are accusing of benefiting from the exploitation of agricultural labor.

Alert in Mexico because of stolen radioactive material
Mexican authorities issued a pollution alert following the theft of a radioactive source in the town of Cardenas, Tabasco.
Luis Felipe Puente, National Coordinator of Civil Protection of the Interior Ministry said that the source is category 2, so it’s important for people to make a call if you see the material.
“As the equipment is consolidated within its box, could not represent any danger, but if a person finds it, and manipulates and tries to open it, is now exposed and can cause damage to his health or somebody else’s health,” he said.
He explained that in several cases where there have been thefts, criminals take the vehicle without knowing what it carries, and so, leaving the material.
Puente also requested that in the states of Tabasco, Chiapas, Campeche and Oaxaca, must be alert and if anyone has the material, to call at telephone number 088.
Puente noted that he has asked companies who handle this material to follow a protocol to take every precautions in how to transfer it.

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Who is behind the oil war, and how low will the price of crude go in 2015?

Who is to blame for the staggering collapse of the price of oil?

by Michael Snyder
Analysis
Who is to blame for the staggering collapse of the price of oil? Is it the Saudis? Is it the United States? Are Saudi Arabia and the U.S. government working together to hurt Russia? And if this oil war continues, how far will the price of oil end up falling in 2015?
As you will see below, some analysts believe that it could ultimately go below 20 dollars a barrel. If we see anything even close to that, the U.S. economy could lose millions of good paying jobs, billions of dollars of energy bonds could default and we could see trillions of dollars of derivatives related to the energy industry implode. The global financial system is already extremely vulnerable, and purposely causing the price of oil to crash is one of the most deflationary things that you could possibly do. Whoever is behind this oil war is playing with fire, and by the end of this coming year the entire planet could be dealing with the consequences.
Ever since the price of oil started falling, people have been pointing fingers at the Saudis. And without a doubt, the Saudis have manipulated the price of oil before in order to achieve geopolitical goals. The following is an excerpt from a recent article by Andrew Topf…
We don’t have to look too far back in history to see Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter and producer, using the oil price to achieve its foreign policy objectives. In 1973, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat convinced Saudi King Faisal to cut production and raise prices, then to go as far as embargoing oil exports, all with the goal of punishing the United States for supporting Israel against the Arab states. It worked. The “oil price shock” quadrupled prices.
It happened again in 1986, when Saudi Arabia-led OPEC allowed prices to drop precipitously, and then in 1990, when the Saudis sent prices plummeting as a way of taking out Russia, which was seen as a threat to their oil supremacy. In 1998, they succeeded. When the oil price was halved from $25 to $12, Russia defaulted on its debt.
The Saudis and other OPEC members have, of course, used the oil price for the obverse effect, that is, suppressing production to keep prices artificially high and member states swimming in “petrodollars”. In 2008, oil peaked at $147 a barrel.
Turning to the current price drop, the Saudis and OPEC have a vested interest in taking out higher-cost competitors, such as US shale oil producers, who will certainly be hurt by the lower price. Even before the price drop, the Saudis were selling their oil to China at a discount. OPEC’s refusal on Nov. 27 to cut production seemed like the baldest evidence yet that the oil price drop was really an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and the US.
If the Saudis wanted to stabilize the price of oil, they could do that immediately by announcing a production cutback.
The fact that they have chosen not to do this says volumes.
In addition to wanting to harm U.S. shale producers, some believe that the Saudis are determined to crush Iran. This next excerpt comes from a recent Daily Mail article…
Above all, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies see Iran — a bitter religious and political opponent — as their main regional adversary.
They know that Iran, dominated by the Shia Muslim sect, supports a resentful underclass of more than a million under-privileged and angry Shia people living in the gulf peninsula — a potential uprising waiting to happen against the Saudi regime.
The Saudis, who are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslims, also loathe the way Iran supports President Assad’s regime in Syria — with which the Iranians have a religious affiliation. They also know that Iran, its economy plagued by corruption and crippled by Western sanctions, desperately needs the oil price to rise. And they have no intention of helping out.
The fact is that the Saudis remain in a strong position because oil is cheap to produce there, and the country has such vast reserves. It can withstand a year — or three — of low oil prices.
There are others out there that are fully convinced that the Saudis and the U.S. are actually colluding to drive down the price of oil, and that their real goal is to destroy Russia.
In fact, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro openly promoted this theory during a recent speech on Venezuelan national television…
“Did you know there’s an oil war? And the war has an objective: to destroy Russia,” he said in a speech to state businessmen carried live on state TV.
“It’s a strategically planned war … also aimed at Venezuela, to try and destroy our revolution and cause an economic collapse,” he added, accusing the United States of trying to flood the market with shale oil.
Venezuela and Russia, which both have fractious ties with Washington, are widely considered the nations hardest hit by the global oil price fall.
And as I discussed just the other day, Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to agree with this theory…

One analyst recently told CNN that we could see the price of oil dip into the $30s next year…
Few saw the energy meltdown coming. Now that it’s here, industry analysts warn another move lower is possible as the momentum remains firmly to the downside.
“If this doesn’t hold, we could go back to price levels in late 2008 and early 2009 — down in the $30s. There’s no reason why it couldn’t happen,” said Darin Newsom, senior analyst at Telvent DTN.
Others are even more pessimistic. For instance, Jeremy Warner of the Sydney Morning Herald, who correctly predicted that the price of oil would fall below $80 this year, is now forecasting that the price of oil could fall all the way down to $20 next year…
But the truth is that none of those scenarios need to happen in order for this oil war to absolutely devastate the U.S. economy and the U.S. financial system.
There is a very strong correlation between the price of oil and the performance of energy stocks and energy bonds. But over the past couple of weeks this correlation has been broken. The following chart comes from Zero Hedge…

It is inevitable that at some point we will see energy stocks and energy bonds come back into line with the price of crude oil.
And it isn’t just energy stocks and bonds that we need to be concerned about. There is only one other time in all of history when the price of oil has crashed by more than 50 dollars in less than a year. That was in 2008 – just before the great financial crisis that erupted in the fall of that year. For much, much more on this, please see my previous article entitled “Guess What Happened The Last Time The Price Of Oil Crashed Like This?…”
Whether the price of oil crashed or not, we were already on the verge of massive financial troubles.
But the fact that the price of oil has collapsed makes all of our potential problems much, much worse.
As we enter 2015, keep an eye on energy stocks, energy bonds and listen for any mention of problems with derivatives. The next great financial crisis is right around the corner, but most people will never see it coming until they are blindsided by it.

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The psychological crossroad of an unhappy life

The psychological crossroad of an unhappy life

by Jon Rappoport
www.nomorefakenews.com

There is a point at which a life becomes unsatisfying. Regardless of the reasons, a person begins to place too much emphasis on: what already exists; and what he believes.
That may sound like a strange thing to say.
There is nothing automatically wrong with what exists or with what he believes, but the key term here is “too much emphasis.”
A person makes a castle and fortress out of what was once flowing, energetic, and alive.
This is one of those unfair facts of existence, because it would seem, on cursory examination, that to believe what is good, right, and true should be tethered down with the strongest possible ropes. It should be permanently imprinted in the mind, engraved deeply.
But then something happens. The beliefs lose their dynamism. They sit there. They turn into dead stars.
The person, from that point on, can speak and act from these beliefs, but his actions and words take on a mechanical hue. He becomes a one-trick pony. The people around him know how he is going to respond. They know what he’s going to say.
He himself knows what he’s going to say.
His life now resembles a machine.
To one degree or another, everyone can fall into this trap. The sap of life becomes sour.
“Whatever already exists,” rather than “what could possibly be” takes center stage.
And, another irony: what already exists could be the most cogent position in the world, yet it returns no psychological or spiritual dividends.
What happened? How did things come to this?
The classic case, because it is so visible, is the artist who winds up repeating the same themes again and again in his work, the force of them deadening as he grows more “mature.”
But we could be talking about anyone.
The person becomes bored with himself. And then, he thinks, he has nowhere to go. It’s time for old age.
That old age can come at 30, at 50, at 70. It doesn’t matter when. The door seems to close. The walls are permanently set.
Wisdom, intellectual prowess, success, insight, strength no longer seem to matter. Being correct and right about the most important things has worn out like old shoes.
A person can tout his own beliefs to the rooftops, but it has no effect, no salutary effect on himself.
The search for what is deeply true and what beliefs are most important has succeeded, but the result is ashes.
What I’m describing here is a central aspect of the Matrix, an aspect most people would rather not consider.
They would prefer to say, “Nothing’s wrong,” and simply turn up the decibel count on their all-too-familiar assertions, which by now have taken on the coloration of slogans.
And there are millions of so-called professionals who are ready to jump into the breach and analyze this existential situation as a collection of symptoms which refer to some pseudo-disorder.
Yet there is help. There has always been help. It waits on the sidelines, and if the call comes, everything transforms. The person mired in his own stagnant juices doesn’t have to consciously change a thing about his beliefs. He doesn’t have to try to manipulate his mind or reorganize its contents.
This help, which is waiting for the call to action, doesn’t function on the basis of what already exists. It never has. That’s why it has been rejected. It doesn’t seem to be practical. It doesn’t seem to be the drill that can bore a hole in the lock of the door and let the prisoner out of his cell.
This help isn’t “true” or “right” or “correct.” It isn’t “harmonious” or “perfect.”
It’s oceanic.
It is the imagination.
Consigned as a mere toy for children, a distraction, a useless appendage for adults, a minor preoccupation, it is actually the faculty that surpasses what already exists in any dimension.
It doesn’t rely on the past. It doesn’t operate as a system. It doesn’t make calculations in accounting books. It isn’t a pattern.
It’s free.
Imagination wakes up the psyche. It wakes up the cells of the body. It invents the space of an open future. It sweeps the deck clean of morbid boredom. It solves problems in unforeseen ways. It moves out ahead of problems and creates new avenues along which old conflicts dissolve.
Imagination can be deployed to express deep beliefs and make them impact the world. It brings those beliefs back to life. It develops ingenious strategies to forward plans that were dying on the vine.
Imagination changes what already exists for the better. It can leap ahead of reality and build futures that shatter moribund consensus.
Imagination awakens abilities beyond the five senses and beyond structured consciousness.
When a life turns sour, stolid, and old, imagination injects the fire of youth.
Imagination says, “It’s never too late.”
“Late” turns out to be a faulty proposition that was omitting the most powerful force in the individual.
Imagination resides in the individual, not the collective. A life and a world founded on the collective is actually a covert operation to induce amnesia about the imagination.
The individual can choose to move forward by embodying patterns of the past, or he can step on to an entirely different path.
The universe is waiting for imagination to revolutionize it down to its core.
(Jon Rappoport is the author of two explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed and Exit From The Matrix).

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Poetry & Jazz: A mashup concert at Berkeley Public Library

by the El Reportero’s staff

April is National Poetry Month and the Berkeley Library is going all out with our Poetry & Jazz @Central Concert.
We have a great lineup: Al Young  accompanied by John Wiitala on bass; with three more sets of notable poets and musicians as they present the words and music of poetry: Avotcja with Val Serrant on steel drums, Phavia Kujichagulia with Ron Williams on guitar, The Word-Music Continuum with poet Kirk Lumpkin and musicians: Paul Mills, Mark Wieder, and special guest, Q.R. Hand, Jr. For questions regarding this program, call 510-981-6150.
Al Young was named Poet Laureate of California in 2005. “Like jazz, Al Young is an original American voice.” Muriel Johnson, former Director of the California Arts Council is the award-winning author of several screenplays and more than 22 books of poetry and non-fiction. His work has appeared in Paris Review, Ploughshares, Essence, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone.
Avotcja is an award winning poet & multi-instrumentalist. Her writing is published in English and Spanish in the USA, Mexico and Europe.
This free program is sponsored by the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library http://www.berkeleylibraryfriends.orgwww.berkeleylibraryfriends.org
On Saturday, April 18, 2-4 p.m. at the Berkeley Public Library at 2090 Kittredge Street in the 3 floor, Community Meeting Room.

MCCLA presents two full hours of original and traditional music
The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) will host “Transcending Borders,” a two-hour concert by local musician Diana Gameros with her band, and special guest artist Edna Vázquez.
Both Gameros and Vázquez are Mexican singer/songwriters and guitarists with music that reflects influences from across the Americas with traditional songs and rhythms bringing the feeling of Mexico’s Folkloric music to their audience. Versatile and authentic with soaring vocals, both Edna and Diana captivate and inspire, uniting communities across borders.
Their talent and growing following has brought them each a steady stream of high profile gigs and appearances with such other artists including: Lila Downs, Gloria Trevi, and Latin Grammy-nominee Ximena Sariñana. The MCCLA invites community members interested in contemporary Mexican-inspired music and Latin Indie folk to join us for this festive event that transcends borders.
In 2014, Diana Gameros was featured in the MEX-I-AM Festival and was the recipient of the Emerging Leader Award from the Chicana Latina Foundation. Recently, Gameros’ Tiny Desk submission was featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered as the video who caught Alt. Latino’s Ear.

For more information visit: www.dianagameros.com.
Edna Vazquez has achieved international exposure by singing in television shows like Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento in Los Angeles and Sábado Gigante Internacional con Don Francisco, where she won first prize with her rendition of Cucurrucucú Paloma accompanied by Mariachi International in Miami, Florida.
More recently, Edna has performed across the country and for national radio audiences on Public Radio International’s Live Wire Radio with Luke Burbank. Edna is currently touring in support of her first full-length album, Ser Abstracto, which was released in November 2014. For more information visit: www.ednavazquez.com.
On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 7 p.m., Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco. Tickets $15 Advance, $20 on the day of the event.

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Ximena Sariñana will be the specal guest performing at Juanes’ “Loco de Amor” U.S. tour

by the El Reportero’s news services

Singer, songwriter and actress Ximena Sariñana will be the special guest for Juanes the Colombian superstar during his US tour Loco de Amor.
Ximena is currently promoting her latest album No Todo Lo Puedes Dar and its first single Sin Ti No Puede Estar Tan Mal topped the radio charts. Her current single “Ruptura” is rapidly becoming a hit.
Her debut album Mediocre was Grammy and Latin Grammy nominee as well as earning gold status in Mexico. Rolling Stone Mexico gave Mediocre four stars and praised her debut as “one of the strongest in 2008”. In 2012 Ximena released her self-titled English album, which also reached gold certification.

Roberto Carlos and Carlos Santana to be honored at Billboard Latin Music Awards
The Billboard Latin Music Awards will recognize the outstanding contributions of two giants at this year’s ceremony. Brazilian singer/songwriter Roberto Carlos will receive the Billboard Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding career, and iconic guitarist Carlos Santana will be given the Spirit of Hope Award for his philanthropic and humanitarian contributions beyond his musical work.
Both artists also will perform at the awards ceremony, the longest-running and most prestigious awards show in the Latin music world, produced and broadcast live on Telemundo Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT from BankUnited Center at the University of Miami in Florida.
Roberto Carlos, with a musical career that spans over 50 years and more than 120 million albums sold around the world, has certainly earned the distinction. As one of the top-selling Latin artists in the world, he continues to be relevant for his artistic and personal contributions.
In 2015, the Spirit of Hope Award will be granted to Carlos Santana for his lifelong devotion to social activism and humanitarian causes, and in particular for his work on behalf of children through his Milagro Foundation. Originally established by Carlos Santana and his family in 1998, the Milagro Foundation benefits underserved and vulnerable children around the world by making grants to community based tax-exempt organizations that work with children in the areas of education, health and the arts.

La Obra del Siglo, a filmic look at Cuba’’s nuclear project
La Obra del Siglo, Carlos Quintela’’s second film, opened in Havana this film marathon known as Muestra Joven, a melting pot of new generations of Cuban filmmakers.
The film was screened at the movies Chaplin as the centerpiece of the inauguration of the Film Festival, which recreated a vaccine clinic for physical and spiritual ills.
Three personal dramas are the pretext to reflect on dreams and destinies of what purported to be a nuclear city, in the Cuban southern town of Juraguá.
This community was part of the Soviet-Cuban project commissioned to build the first nuclear reactor in the Caribbean, an undertaken halted after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
“Muestra Joven has the aim to bring works which ignite the flames of discord and this film is one of them”, said the critic Dean Luis Reyes when presenting Quintela’s work.
Renowned actors like Mario Balmaseda, Mario Guerra, Manuel Porto and Jorge Molina, make up the cast of this award-winning movie in the Film Festivals of Toulouse and Rotterdam.
La Obra del Siglo marks Quintela’s return, following the success of La Piscina (2011), his debut feature awarded in various international events, including Marrakech International Film Festival.

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The psychological crossroads of an unhappy life

by Jon Rappoport
www.nomorefakenews.com

There is a point at which a life becomes unsatisfying. Regardless of the reasons, a person begins to place too much emphasis on: what already exists; and what he believes.
That may sound like a strange thing to say.
There is nothing automatically wrong with what exists or with what he believes, but the key term here is “too much emphasis.”
A person makes a castle and fortress out of what was once flowing, energetic, and alive.
This is one of those unfair facts of existence, because it would seem, on cursory examination, that to believe what is good, right, and true should be tethered down with the strongest possible ropes. It should be permanently imprinted in the mind, engraved deeply.
But then something happens. The beliefs lose their dynamism. They sit there. They turn into dead stars.
The person, from that point on, can speak and act from these beliefs, but his actions and words take on a mechanical hue. He becomes a one-trick pony. The people around him know how he is going to respond. They know what he’s going to say.
He himself knows what he’s going to say.
His life now resembles a machine.
To one degree or another, everyone can fall into this trap. The sap of life becomes sour.
“Whatever already exists,” rather than “what could possibly be” takes center stage.
And, another irony: what already exists could be the most cogent position in the world, yet it returns no psychological or spiritual dividends.
What happened? How did things come to this?
The classic case, because it is so visible, is the artist who winds up repeating the same themes again and again in his work, the force of them deadening as he grows more “mature.”
But we could be talking about anyone.
The person becomes bored with himself. And then, he thinks, he has nowhere to go. It’s time for old age.
That old age can come at 30, at 50, at 70. It doesn’t matter when. The door seems to close. The walls are permanently set.
Wisdom, intellectual prowess, success, insight, strength no longer seem to matter. Being correct and right about the most important things has worn out like old shoes.
A person can tout his own beliefs to the rooftops, but it has no effect, no salutary effect on himself.
The search for what is deeply true and what beliefs are most important has succeeded, but the result is ashes.
What I’m describing here is a central aspect of the Matrix, an aspect most people would rather not consider.
They would prefer to say, “Nothing’s wrong,” and simply turn up the decibel count on their all-too-familiar assertions, which by now have taken on the coloration of slogans.
And there are millions of so-called professionals who are ready to jump into the breach and analyze this existential situation as a collection of symptoms which refer to some pseudo-disorder.
Yet there is help. There has always been help. It waits on the sidelines, and if the call comes, everything transforms. The person mired in his own stagnant juices doesn’t have to consciously change a thing about his beliefs. He doesn’t have to try to manipulate his mind or reorganize its contents.
This help, which is waiting for the call to action, doesn’t function on the basis of what already exists. It never has. That’s why it has been rejected. It doesn’t seem to be practical. It doesn’t seem to be the drill that can bore a hole in the lock of the door and let the prisoner out of his cell.
This help isn’t “true” or “right” or “correct.” It isn’t “harmonious” or “perfect.”
It’s oceanic.
It is the imagination.
Consigned as a mere toy for children, a distraction, a useless appendage for adults, a minor preoccupation, it is actually the faculty that surpasses what already exists in any dimension.
It doesn’t rely on the past. It doesn’t operate as a system. It doesn’t make calculations in accounting books. It isn’t a pattern.
It’s free.
Imagination wakes up the psyche. It wakes up the cells of the body. It invents the space of an open future. It sweeps the deck clean of morbid boredom. It solves problems in unforeseen ways. It moves out ahead of problems and creates new avenues along which old conflicts dissolve.
Imagination can be deployed to express deep beliefs and make them impact the world. It brings those beliefs back to life. It develops ingenious strategies to forward plans that were dying on the vine.
Imagination changes what already exists for the better. It can leap ahead of reality and build futures that shatter moribund consensus.
Imagination awakens abilities beyond the five senses and beyond structured consciousness.
When a life turns sour, stolid, and old, imagination injects the fire of youth.
Imagination says, “It’s never too late.”
“Late” turns out to be a faulty proposition that was omitting the most powerful force in the individual.
Imagination resides in the individual, not the collective. A life and a world founded on the collective is actually a covert operation to induce amnesia about the imagination.
The individual can choose to move forward by embodying patterns of the past, or he can step on to an entirely different path.
The universe is waiting for imagination to revolutionize it down to its core.
(Jon Rappoport is the author of two explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed and Exit From The Matrix).

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Ginger root is a mirable cure for prostate cancer

by Craig Stellpflug

Prostate cancer is one of the most over-treated cancers out there. By 50 years of age, about 40 percent of all men already have prostate cancer and likely will never know it. But it will not kill them either – unless they are screened for it and then treated with Big Pharma protocols. Then things take an ugly turn as the benign and slow-growing cancer turns into the killer kind. The numbers for prostate cancer doubles to 80 percent of all men by the age of 80 years old. If you are in the business of selling cancer treatments, this is a financial boon and a cash-cow.
The male prostate gland naturally enlarges with age. The bigger it gets, the greater the chance that some of the cells in the prostate will turn cancerous. This is mainly due to our highly inflammatory diets full of gluten, cancer causing GMOs, sugars and chemical additives combined with our sedentary lifestyles and poor stool habits.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force this year found that PSA blood tests are too unreliable and give false positives 80 percent of the time with 1,000 men needing to be screened just to prevent a single prostate cancer death – but that’s not the worst of it. Many will succumb to impotence, incontinence, heart attacks and even death from treatment of tiny tumors that never would have killed them in the first place.
Ginger is the miracle cure
The British Journal of Nutrition published the results of an American study recently in which ginger extract (zingiber officinale) actually killed human prostate cancer cells while healthy prostate cells did not die. The results occurred at a daily dose of 100 mg of ginger extract per kg of body weight (based on a man weighing 150 pounds this equals about 550 mg extract per day). In eight weeks, the ginger extract slashed prostate tumor growth in half. The researchers have estimated that 100 grams of fresh ginger eaten daily will offer the same results.
As a cancer champion, ginger has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antiproliferative effects upon tumors making ginger a promising chemopreventive agent. Whole ginger extract holds significant growth-inhibitory and death-inductory effects in a spectrum of cancer cells by interrupting cancer cell-cycle progression, impairing cancer reproduction and modulating apoptosis. But most importantly, ginger does not have any toxicity in normal, rapidly dividing tissues such as gut and bone marrow.
Ginger taken orally can prevent or relieve nausea resulting from chemotherapy, motion sickness, pregnancy, and surgery.
Not only can ginger root cure cancer, but it is a natural remedy for travel sickness, nausea, indigestion, flatulence, colic, irritable bowel syndrome, loss of appetite, chills, poor circulation, menstrual cramps, dyspepsia, heartburn, indigestion and many other gastrointestinal problems. Ginger root is also a powerful anti-inflammatory for joint problems and is indicated for arthritis, fevers, headaches, toothaches, coughs, bronchitis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, tendonitis, high cholesterol and blood-pressure and can also prevent internal blood clots. Ginger is even anti-viral and makes a warming cold and flu remedy.
Prostate do’s and don’ts
There are studies showing that men consuming large amounts of synthetic folic acid and zinc oxide are more likely to develop prostate cancer.

Men also taking large amounts of high-dose multi-vitamins develop prostate cancer more frequently. On the other hand, other studies suggest that fish oil, magnesium, curcumin, broccoli and lycopene (found in tomato products) help protect men against cancer. Avoiding all GMO foods and processed foods along with their litany of chemical additives is a must for prostate health. Maintaining a low-carb diet is also known to reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer.
Oh, and don’t forget to take ginger root. Natural News.
About the author — Craig Stellpflug is a Cancer Nutrition Specialist, Lifestyle Coach and Neuro Development Consultant at Healing Pathways Medical Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ. http://www.healingpathwayscancerclinic.com/

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