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Native History: Geronimo is last warrior to surrender

by Alysa Landry

On Sept. 4, 1886, the great Apache warrior Geronimo surrendered in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona, after fighting for his homeland for almost 30 years. He was the last American Indian warrior to formally surrender to the United States.
Born in June 1829 near the Gila River in Arizona, Geronimo was a mild-mannered youth, said Mark Megehee, museum specialist at the Fort Sill Museum in Oklahoma. His birth name was Goyalkla or “One Who Yawns.”
At age 17, Geronimo married Alope, with whom he had three children. His life changed in 1858 when a company of Mexican soldiers led by Colonel Jose Maria Carrasco attacked the Apaches and murdered Geronimo’s wife, mother and children.
“Carrasco said he struck and meant to rub out every man, woman and child of the Apaches, but the warriors by and large escaped while their families were the ones that were slaughtered,” said Megehee, a member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma. “That changed the personality of Geronimo. His friends noticed he was no longer mild and pleasant to deal with. He was unexpectedly violent and had a temper. He became very grieving, but he was going to settle the score.”
In his own words, translated in 1909 and published in the 1996 book Geronimo: His Own Story, Geronimo described the incident.
“I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain,” he said. “There were no lights in camp, so without being noticed I silently turned away and stood by the river. How long I stood there I do not know, but when I saw the warriors arranging for a council I took my place.”
Only 80 warriors remained, so the chief directed survivors to return home to Arizona, Geronimo said. He had “no purpose left” because he “had lost all.”
“I was never again contented in our quiet home,” he wrote. “I had vowed vengeance upon the Mexican troopers who had wronged me, and whenever I came near (my father’s) grave or saw anything to remind me of former happy days my heart would ache for revenge upon Mexico.”
Geronimo went on to lead a band of Apache warriors throughout southern Arizona and New Mexico, successfully keeping white settlers off Apache lands for decades and becoming a “symbol of the untamed freedom of the American West.”
“He was not just a tough guy, but he had leadership abilities,” Megehee said. “He looked out for men, women and children in a way that all their needs were met. Geronimo did more with less. In today’s vocabulary, he multiplied his force by stealth, by firepower and by mobility.”
By 1886, however, Geronimo was tired. After leading 39 Apaches across the Southwest, running as much as 80 miles per day to stay ahead of 5,000 white soldiers, Geronimo surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles on September 4.
Miles, in his memoirs, described Geronimo as “one of the brightest, most resolute, determined-looking men I have ever encountered.”
After his trial, Geronimo was put to work as a prisoner of war, doing heavy labor for the South Pacific Railroad. This was in violation of the agreement he made with the U.S. when he surrendered.
He spent the rest of his life as a prisoner of war and a scout for the U.S. Army, though he gained popularity as an attraction at the St. Louis World’s Fair and Wild West shows. He also was one of six Indians to march in the 1905 inaugural parade for President Theodore Roosevelt.
He died at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1909, still on the federal payroll as a scout.
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/04/native-history-geronimo-last-native-warrior-surrender-151136

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DARK SCIENCE: Abortion organ harvesting rooted in the philosophy of scientific materialism – Part 2

FROM THE EDITOR:

Dear readers,
This article deals with one of the most controversial subjects in modern society: abortion as profit-making, and the human value in the baby still in the mother’s womb. I believe that this article brings an interesting perspective to the issue that is being ignored by the mainstream media, and that people in our communities should read. Due to its length, it will be published in two parts.  — Marvin Ramirez. THIS IS PART 2 AND LAST.

DARK SCIENCE: Abortion organ harvesting rooted in the philosophy of scientific materialism (and the refusal to recognize consciousness)

by Mike Adams

Mass murder in the name of “science” will continue until the day consciousness is universally recognized

As long as science is unable to embrace the reality of nonmaterial consciousness, it will continue to devalue life and cause untold pain and suffering across the populations of the world. Until medical science embraces the reality of human consciousness and free will, it will be unable to honor the simple idea of universal medical choice.
The artifacts of scientific materialism are observable all around us. They include the frequent reports of medical kidnapping: the phenomenon of hospitals kidnapping children and senior citizens to force treatments upon them against the wishes of those individuals or their parents. Medical kidnapping is, of course, rooted in the philosophy of scientific materialism, believing that free will and free choice are nothing more than illusions of a biological brain, and therefore they don’t count. Under the tyranny of scientific materialism, the state asserts its power to dictate medical interventions upon people who individually choose to reject them. The justification for totalitarian medical interventions that override individual medical choice is that “science” demands it… and more specifically, that “science” is only understood by “scientists” while everyday people are too stupid to understand it (and therefore too stupid to be “allowed” to make their own decisions).
What’s crucial to understand here is that this death-worshiping philosophy allows the state and even the medical establishment to justify absolutely anything — including the mass murder of human babies — in order to achieve its scientific agenda. Think about it: if Planned Parenthood can literally murder babies and chop them into pieces to be sold off for scientific research, there is almost nothing they cannot similarly justify… including mass executions or even genocide.
Scientific tyranny in America today resembles the Third Reich in more ways than one
I’m reminded of the science-based propaganda of the Nazi regime in the 1930s and 40s. Then, the value of a human being was quantified solely by that person’s ability to contribute to a stronger government regime. Individuals who are no longer contributing to society — such as the physically handicapped, mentally handicapped, or elderly — were conveniently rounded up and murdered by the state. Propaganda posters reminded the citizens that financially supporting less-than-productive individuals who were not contributing to the nation was weakening the country as a whole and burdening the German people.
Thus, scientific materialism demanded that individuals be executed by the state for “the good of society”. This is the exact same thinking under which vaccine mandates are now pushed today across California and other states. While vaccine proponents will, if they are truly honest about it, admit that vaccines do cause brain damage and even kill some children, their excuse is that it’s worth it for “the good of society.”
Not surprisingly, this is the same argument that Planned Parenthood is now putting forth in the harvesting of organs from once-living human babies. They say the harvesting of these tissues is being done “for the good of society” because such tissues are sold off for scientific research. Similarly, the NIH also funded criminal medical experiments on prisoners in Guatemala.
These are the justifications of scientists who worship materialism. And these are scientists who are a grave threat to all of humanity and its children.

Any society that refuses to recognize the value of consciousness is a danger to all conscious beings. And the fact that today in America, over 3500 babies are aborted and killed every single day, reveals just how little value is placed on human lives in a society dominated by scientific materialism.
The recognition of non-physical consciousness is the key solution
What’s the answer to all this? The answer is the universal recognition of consciousness. This is the next step in human understanding and human progress. It is a step that will render much of today’s so-called scientific “facts” obsolete, in much the same way that the discovery of quantum mechanics rendered Newtonian physics obsolete in the realms of atomic physics.
Consciousness is the next great realm of discovery for humanity, and it is a realm that cannot be fully explored or understood through the limited reductionism of materialistic science. Consciousness is more than material; it is mind, it is self-awareness, it is spirit and soul interacting with the biological brain, creating what might be called cognitive computational holography.
This is why we must all be wary of anything being pushed upon us in the name of “science.” It’s not just that much of today’s science is really nothing more than corporate-funded junk science with a profit agenda; it’s also the fact that nearly all modern scientists reject the idea of consciousness, the soul, and anything originating in the realm of spirit or the divine. And because of that, these scientists do not value life… not any life… and certainly not your life either. They will destroy your life, or take your life, in an instant if it means gaining power or profits in the name of “science.”
Above all, recognize that scientific materialism is really a 17th-century concept that has persisted into the modern day only because of the suppression of real science by those who worship materialism. Science today has become the Church of Scientism, complete with its own suppression of knowledge, its “Bible” of faith-based assumptions, and its domineering stance of intellectual bullying and real-world tyranny against those who do not follow the faith. Led by empty-minded, soulless bullies and denialists like Richard Dawkins, today’s Church of Scientism remains a grave danger to all conscious life everywhere… not just on planet Earth but other planets across the galaxy which may harbor advanced biological life forms that will one day be callously “harvested” for “tissue” by Earth scientists in exactly the same way Planned Parenthood runs human baby chop shops on Earth today.
It is my belief, however, that intelligent life in our universe will not tolerate the extra-terrestrial colonization of other planets by a species steeped in such an idiotic scientific delusion. Earth scientists ridiculously believe they have unraveled the greatest mysteries of the cosmos while, at the same time, they still haven’t grasped the reality of arguably the most self-evidence truth of all: that we are all conscious, self-aware beings and not deterministic biological robots.
Until this simple, self-evident realization is grasped, consciousness-denying people like Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins and even Stephen Hawking are little more than masters of self-delusion exhibiting unrivaled cosmic stupidity. Even an average Buddhist monk understands more about the universe than the most celebrated scientific materialists of the western world… people who are so self-deluded, they’re still searching for the “God particle!”

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Overuse of antibiotics is making kids fat and hindering child development

by Jennifer Lilley

Typically, the first thing that happens when people get an infection is their receipt of a quick scrawl on a doctor’s prescription pad for an antibiotic. However, rather than improving health, antibiotics are destroying it; a new study conducted by experts at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, New York has shown that they’re seriously jeopardizing children’s health.
Commonly-used antibiotics given to children such as amoxicillin and tylosin (popular in pediatrics) were found to be linked to not one, but several health disruptions. Weight gain, stunted growth and detrimental bacterial changes in the gut were noted by the researchers in tests that mimicked antibiotic use by children; amoxicillin was primarily associated with slowed bone growth while tylosin had the biggest effect on weight gain. Both antibiotics played a role in changing gut bacteria from its normal environment to one that wreaks havoc on the intestinal tract.
Children’s health compromised, antibiotics’ cumulative effect said to play role
Overall, the experts concluded that when children are exposed to such drugs at an early age, cumulative health damage results. Problems such as obesity, alterations to gut microbiomes and physical growth challenges are all consequences of these antibiotics.
“We have been using antibiotics as if there was no biological cost,” says Dr. Martin Blaser, who was involved in the study. Blaser explains that in the United States, the average child receives 10 courses of these drugs by the time they are 10 years old. This demonstrates that children are heavily exposed to health problems caused by false promises in a bottle at a time when their development is critical. Furthermore, the study reinforces the importance of paying attention to future outcomes rather than just immediate ones, showing that the effects of certain medications can be cumulative.
Of this cumulative effect, lead coauthor Laura M. Cox, PhD, and adjunct instructor in the Department of Medicine at NYU School of Medicine says that it’s of particular concern. She explains that the number of courses of antibiotics matters, adding, “We get a little interruption of the maturation process [of the microbiome] after the second course of antibiotics, and then we have even more interruption after three courses.”
Short and long-term consequences of antibiotic use a real issue
The findings were published in the journal, Nature Communications in an article titled, “Metabolic and metagenomic outcomes from early-life pulsed antibiotic treatment.” It noted how use of some antibiotics can remain in the system for up to four months after exposure, compromising normal functioning on both a short and long-term basis as a result. The study notes that “…these findings illustrate the potential functional consequences of early-life antibiotic-induced microbial perturbations and highlight the need to re-examine antibiotic guidelines in the human population.”
Additionally, it states:
Because the antibiotics used represent the classes most widely prescribed to children, and that our findings were consistent with effects of early life sub-therapeutic antibiotic exposures, this new model extends hypotheses that early-life antibiotic exposures could have long-term developmental metabolic effects, as supported by animal models and human epidemiological studies.
This finding also reinforces that health in a bottle is beyond questionable.
Antibiotic resistance, possibility of death from such drugs
Not only are many people becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, but in some cases, they’ve proven to be fatal in children. For example, scientists have found that some infections can develop AFTER a round of antibiotics are given, actually worsening their situation.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pediatric Clostridium difficile infections that arise after receiving antibiotics could lead to cases of diarrhea so severe that death could result. At the very least, it’s been reported that loss of beneficial bacteria due to taking antibiotics “… allows C. difficile to grow out of control and release toxins that attack and inflame the lining of the gut, causing colitis.” (Natural News).

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These things have to change in the world of farmworkers

BURLINGTON, WA - 25JULY13 - Migrant farm workers on strike against Sakuma Farms, a large berry grower in northern Washington State, in the labor camp where they live during the picking season. Most are indigenous Mixtec and Triqui migrants from Oaxaca and southern Mexico, but who now live in the U.. They went on strike to raise the piece rate for picking, and to try to stop the grower from bringing in contract guest workers from Mexico to do the work they usually do every year. Copyright David Bacon

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:
Due to the lack of space, we are publishing this article without the second part – an interview to Rosario Ventura, from Oaxaca, Mexico, who in her own words describes her personal history that led her to migrate yearly from California to Washington, and then become a striker.

by David Bacon
Dollars and Sense

In 2013, Rosario Ventura and her husband Isidro Silva were strikers at Sakuma Brothers Farms in Burlington, Wash. In the course of three months over 250 workers walked out of the fields several times, as their anger grew over the wages and the conditions in the labor camp where they lived.
Every year the company hires 7-800 people to pick strawberries, blueberries and blackberries. During World War II the Sakumas were interned because of their Japanese ancestry, and would have lost their land, as many Japanese farmers did, had it not been held in trust for them by another local rancher until the war ended. Today the business has grown far beyond its immigrant roots, and is one of the largest berry growers in Washington, where berries are big business. It has annual sales of $6.1 million, and big corporate customers like Haagen Dazs ice cream. It owns a retail outlet, a freezer and processing plant, and a chain of nurseries in California that grow rootstock.
By contrast, Sakuma workers have very few resources. Some are local workers, but over half are migrants from California, like Ventura and her family. Both the local workers and the California migrants are immigrants, coming from indigenous towns in Oaxaca and southern Mexico where people speak languages like Mixteco and Triqui. While all farm workers in the U.S. are poorly paid, these new indigenous arrivals are at the bottom. One recent study in California found that tens of thousands of indigenous farm workers received less than minimum wage.
In 2013 Ventura and other angry workers formed an independent union, Familias Unidas por la Justicia-Families United for Justice. In fitful negotiations with the company, they discovered that Sakuma Farms had been certified to bring in 160 H-2A guest workers. The H2A program was established in 1986 to allow U.S. agricultural employers to hire workers in other countries, and bring them to the U.S. In this program, the company first must certify that it has tried to hire workers locally. If it can’t find workers at the wage set by the state employment department, and the department agrees that the company has offered the jobs, the grower can then hire workers outside the country.
The U.S. government provides visas that allow them to work only for this employer, and only for a set period of time, less than a year. Afterwards, they must return to their home country. If they’re fired or lose their job before the contract is over, they must leave right away. Growers must apply for the program each year. On hearing about the application, the striking workers felt that the company was trying to find a new workforce to replace them.
When the company was questioned about why it needed guest workers, it said it couldn’t find enough workers to pick its berries. But the farm was also unwilling to raise wages to attract more pickers. “If we [do], it unscales it for the other farmers,” said owner Ryan Sakuma in an interview. “We’re just robbing from the total [number of workers available]. And we couldn’t attract them without raising the price hugely to price other growers out. That would just create a price war.” He pegged his farm’s wages to the H-2A program: “Everyone at the company will get the H-2A wage for this work.”
“The H-2A program limits what’s possible for all workers,” says Rosalinda Guillén, director of Community2Community, an organization that helped the strikers. Community2Community, based in Bellingham, advocates for farm worker rights, especially those of women, in a sustainable food system. The following year Sakuma Farms applied for H-2A work visas for 438 workers, saying that the strikers weren’t available to work because they had all been fired. Under worker and community pressure, Sakuma withdrew the application when it seemed probable that the U.S. Department of Labor (USDoL) would not approve it. Sakuma has still not recognized the union, and many workers feel their jobs are still in danger.
A decade ago there were hardly any H-2A workers in Washington State. In 2013, the USDoL certified applications for 6,251 workers, a number that had doubled just since 2011. The irony is that one group of immigrant workers, recruited as guest workers, is being pitted against another group-the migrants who have been coming to work at the company for many years.

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Everyone has to pay Obamacare tax

by Richard Pollock
Daily Caller

All Americans who bought health insurance policies this year – not just those enrolled in Obamacare – face a 41 percent increase in excise taxes because of hidden fees contained in an obscure section of the Affordable Care Act, according to an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Virtually everyone who pays for health care insurance this year will be affected by the tax. The little-known tax was imposed on all consumers regardless of whether they obtained their insurance through Obamacare or through their employer or as individuals in the private market.
This year the tax will cost individuals more than $500 in extra premiums according to one actuarial estimate. Families who purchased insurance will see their premiums go up by more than $700.
The new tax also hits senior citizens who rely on Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage. It will land on the nation’s poor who depend upon Medicaid-managed care programs.
The 41 percent sticker shock increase doesn’t stop in 2015, however. Over the next four years, the statutorily mandated Obamacare fees are expected to double again.
Over the next decade, consumers will pay more than $145 billion for the tax, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The levy will continue to go up each and every year into the future.
The tax was buried by congressional authors in section 9010 of the law and was envisioned as a way to raise future funds to pay for Obamacare.
The Obamacare fees were designed by the program’s authors to be delayed, kicking in only in 2014 at $8 billion and mushrooming into a $14.3 billion annual price tag on insurance policies by 2018.
Republican Sen. John Barrasso, who favors repeal of section 9010, said the tax “is another example of how the president’s health care law was designed so the most painful parts of the law kick in years later.”
CBO reported the fee was a “statutorily fixed” amount that must be collected each year from consumers, as opposed to a percentage rate.
The statute describes the levy is an “annual fee” but health-care economists say it has been commonly referred to as an excise tax.
The Joint Committee on Taxation said the Obamacare tax was “similar to an excise tax based on the sales price of health insurance contracts.”
The panel predicted the fee on insurance policies would be borne by consumers. The panel also told then-Sen. Jon Kyl in a June 2011 letter that, “an excise tax generally is borne by consumers in the form of higher prices.”
An actuarial review of the Section 9010 by the management firm Oliver Wyman for the health insurance industry predicted that individual policyholders will pay $514 more this year due to the Obamacare tax.
Those who use small group policies will see a rise of $688, while family coverage would rise by $719, the firm stated.
Ironically, the elderly and the poor — those who were supposed to benefit most from Obamacare — will be adversely affected by the new tax, as will financially hard-pressed state governments.
Section 9010 mandates that taxes must be paid for seniors who rely on Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D.
Oliver Wyman estimated Medicare Advantage would cost seniors $360 more this year. Medicaid managed-care enrollees will be expected to face increases of $152, according to the firm.
Milliman, the national health actuarial firm, reported in 2014 that states will lose 52 cents for every dollar they receive from Medicaid because of the fee.
“The result is a transfer of $0.52 from state government to the federal government for every $1.00 of ACA health insurer fee,” the accounting firm said.
Milliman further said the Obamacare tax will cost states 1.8 percent to 2.8 percent more for Medicaid managed care, which is a low-cost way to offer medical services to the poor. Half of the nation’s Medicaid recipients are signed up by the states under Medicaid managed care, according to Milliman.
This fee, while seemingly low, can put many Medicare-managed care companies at great financial risk or perhaps out of business.
“Given Medicaid managed care profit margins were less than 2 percent in CY 2012, increases of this magnitude are meaningful,” Milliman said.
The actuarial firm estimated the Obamacare tax will cause the states that use Medicaid-managed care losses of up to $13.9 billion.
For years the health insurance industry has battled but failed to persuade Congress or the president to repeal the tax.
Earlier this year, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch and Barrasso introduced legislation to repeal the excise tax. It has 38 Republican co-sponsors. No Democrats have backed the bill to date.
Hatch described the tax as “yet another hidden health care tax arbitrarily created to pay for Obamacare.”
Republican Rep. Charles W. Boustany introduced legislation in the House to repeal Section 9010. He has claimed bipartisan support among the 218 co-sponsors, a majority of the House.
The only group exempted from the tax are people who work in large corporations that “self-insure” their  workforce. In a self-insurance system, no insurance company is used, only the company assets.
USA Families, a non-profit group that vigorously supports Obamacare, did not respond to a TheDCNF request for comment on the tax.
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Indigenous unity blocks roads in Panama

by the El Reportero’s wire services

The union of various native ethnic groups in the fight against Barro Blanco (White Mud) Hydroelectric Project (HBBP) creates a new scenario, which opens today with the blocking of the Americas Bridge over the Interoceanic Canal, by indigenous.
The action was announced Sunday by Clementina Pérez, the NgÃñbe Bugle local deputy chief and guide of the Mama Tatda church, who told reporters that she was tired of the “government mockery and said that’s enough and went to the street to demand the final cancellation and its dismantling.
Meanwhile, The State Communication Secretary, Manuel Dominguez, noted that the measures for the roads closure are unnecessary and only affect citizens; the Government has given large signs of wanting to reach a negotiated solution, “according to the newspaper La Prensa.
‘Such measures of force are taken by a minority that rejects dialogue and seeks to create scenarios of violence and confrontation in which the government will not fall’ she assured.
This first act of rejection and nonviolent resistance will be accompanied by prayers to their deities, which action will be repeated in the InterAmerican way, in the vicinity of HBBP, explained Clementina.
‘Nagare Barro Blanco’ (not to Barro Blanco,in NgÃñbere language) was the cry of war of the leader, who called all indigenous peoples and farmers of America, to support the fight to rescue what they consider ancestral heritage they want to snatch, like the Spanish conquerors 500 years ago.

Unions warn of privatization in the Panama Canal
Leaders of five unions that bring together workers of the Panama Canal denounced today what they call the start of the privatization of the waterway facilities, owned by the state since 1999.
At a press conference, union leaders claimed that on July 29th, the Panama Canal Authority (PCA) signed the privatization of ambulance services provided by the state agency in the Atlantic sector, located in the city of Colon.
When announcing on Thursday a demonstration of workers in front of the administrative building of the PCA, the institution reported that the contract with Serviambulancias SA was canceled, and it reactivated the trade that usually provides such functions.
Walt Oneill, president of the Union of Firefighters of Panama, said that this happened “without warning or proper notification to the exclusive representative of the negotating unit of the firefighters.”
The action violates the Constitution, the Panamanian law, and the collective agreement of the workers and the administration of the area, said a statement signed by five unions of the Canal.
The firefighters of the inter-oceanic route have specialized training in maritime and structural fires, rescue at heights and in confined spaces, and hazardous materials, said the text.
In the document, the unions warn that this action ‘marks the beginning of privatization process of the Panama Canal’ and directly accuse PCA administrator, Jorge Quijano, of leading the trend.
‘The generational struggle that resulted in the recovery of what is today is the most important asset of all Panamanians, does not deserve becoming the vehicle that will allow a few to keep the national heritage through privatizations,’ the text concluded.

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Jazz Latino: Multi-dimensional artistic expression in the Americas

Photo journalist Carlos Espada

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD), and SFJAZZ presents a six-week lecture series by John Santos. Machito and the Afro Cubans (c.1946)  L-R: Graciela (claves), Carlos Vidal (conga), René Hernandez (piano), Jose Mangual (bongos in front), Ubaldo Nieto (timbales), Bobby Rodriguez (bass), Machito (maracas).
Wednesday evenings 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Aug. 5 through Sept. 9, 2015, at MOAD 685 Mission St. San Francisco. (415) 358-7200. (Aug 19 only) at the California Historical Society, 678 Mission St. San Francisco. (415) 357-1848.
YBGF/MOAD/SFJAZZ Members: $15/class or $75/full series. Public: $20/class or $100/full series. One Free class when you purchase the series!

It’s the Psychotronix Film Festival!
Weird, Wild & Wacky Short Subjects: Monster Movie Trailers, Drive-in Snack Bar Ads, Old School Films, Retro TV Commercials, Forgotten Cartoons, Scopitone Music Films and Much More! All on 16mm film, the Vinyl of Visuals.
Friday, Aug. 7, 2015 at Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, (510) 472-3170. Doors: 7 p.m. Show: 8 p.m. Donation: $5 – $10. All Ages & Wheelchair Accessible.

Summer Nights Outdoor Concert Series
At the Osher Marin JCC Kanbar Center, ‘Plena Libre Celebrate Puerto Rico,’ on Saturday Aug. 8, 6:15 p.m. doors open, 6:40 dance lesson, 7 p.m. show.
Tickets and more info at: http://www.marinjcc.org/events/2015/08/08/performing-arts/plena-libre-summer-nights-outdoor-concert/55886/
$20 members / $23 public / $28 Day of (members & public), ages 17 and under FREE!

SFJAZZ presents a tribute honoring Puerto Rican icon and photojournalist Frank Espada
An unforgettable concert experience commemorating the life work of activist and master photographer Frank Espada (1930-2014).
Featuring The John Santos Sextet, with extra special guests, wordsmith Rico Pabon, guitarists/vocalists Jose Roberto Hernandez & Manuel Constancio, Afro-Puerto Rican dance master Shefali Shah, vocalist/poet Sandra Garcia Rivera corista Sarita Shah.
Images of Frank Espada’s profound work will be shown throughout this concert.
This will be the largest public showing of his iconic photography to date!
(Some seats have obstructed views of the large screen above the stage – inquire with SFJAZZ)
Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, 2 p.m. at the gorgeous new SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin at Fell St., San Francisco. http://www.sfjazz.org, (866)920-5299.

Unveiling of mural and performance of spoken word piece
67 Sueños, Oakland chapter, will unveil a mural in East Oakland to celebrate and honor past victories of migrant communities. The mural aims to shed light on the struggles, risk, but also the hope that many undocumented communities, and their allies, endured while fighting against draconian anti-immigrant bills and advocating for bills such as AB- 241, the California Bill of Rights. The mural is inspired by interviews conducted by 67 Sueños youth with parents and community activist who migrated to the U.S. with aspirations to improve their conditions. Youth, children of immigrants, painted the mural.
At 23 percent, undocumented immigrants constitute a large majority of the California population, yet their stories are often overlooked. Making up roughly 5.1 percent of the labor force in the nation, undocumented immigrants are vital to the U.S. economy. Despite this, executive actions to provide protection from deportation such as DAPA have come to halt; little aid is reaching to the broader 11.1 M undocumented immigrants in this country. On Sunday, Aug. 9, at 1390 66th Ave, Oakland.

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Mexican giant sculptures will decorate London’s streets

by the El Reportero’s news services

Mexican sculptures Yvonne Domenge, José Rivelino, Paloma Torres and Jorge Yazpik will bring their art to London’s streets through the exhibition of giant sculptures, exhibition organizers reported today.
The pieces are already in the UK and will be exhibited from September to December this year along the avenue leading to the Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square.
The sculptures, made of bronze, stone and resin, will form part of the first large format collective exhibition of Mexican sculpture in London.
The exhibition will also be part of the New Yearâ’s celebrations in the United Kingdom and represents the work of four generations of worldwide known sculptures.

Mayor announces Claudia Castro Luna as Seattle’s First Civic Poet
Mayor Ed Murray announced Aug. 3 Seattle’s first Civic Poet, Claudia Castro Luna.
The new Civic Poet post serves as an ambassador for Seattle’s rich literary landscape and represents the city’s diverse cultural community.
“Claudia brings a fresh perspective and a deep commitment to engaging the community through her poetry,” said Mayor Murray. “We are a literary city and we’re excited to have an accomplished poet that will celebrate and inspire us through her creativity.”
Castro Luna will perform at the 2015 and 2016 Mayor’s Art Awards, in addition to five community performances and workshops throughout the city. She will serve a two-year term from August 2015 to August 2017, receiving a $10,000 stipend. The Civic Poet program is administered by the city’s Office of Arts & Culture.
Castro Luna was born in El Salvador and came to the U.S. as a young teenager fleeing civil war. Since then she has completed a Master of Arts in Urban Planning, a teaching degree, and a Master of Fine Arts in poetry.
Castro Luna is a K-12 certified teacher with a passion for arts education and teaching immigrants. Her poems have appeared in Milvia Street, The Womanist, Riverbabble, and forthcoming in the Taos Journal of Poetry and Art. She writes and teaches in Seattle, where she gardens and raises chickens with her husband and their three children

Bard music festival to pay tribute to work by Mexican Carlos Chávez
The organizers of the Bard Music Festival announced today that the prestigious event this year will give tribute to the work of Carlos Chávez, a prominent Mexican composer.
During the weekend from Aug. 7 to 9 and 14 to Aug. 16, the festival will tour the repertoire of the outstanding musician from his relationship with the modernism.
Titled “Carlos Chávez and His World Prestige” the event will also present musical works by Argentine Alberto Ginesterra and Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos.
The event, organized by the Bard College in New York, it includes concerts of the American Symphony Orchestra, performances of chamber and choral music, as well as debates and conferences.
Parallel to the event which this year celebrates its 26th edition, Princeton University published a volume of essays related to Chavez and his work.
The Bard Music Festival is one of the most acclaimed quotes classic sound in America.

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Companies begin planting microships under employees’s skin

by Daniel Barker

The technology has been around for some years now, but the use of RFID (radio-frequency identification) chips and other beneath-the-skin implants has only recently become more widespread.
A high-tech office complex in Sweden is now offering tenants’ staff the option of having a small RFID chip implanted in one’s wrist that allows certain functions in the building to be performed with a wave of the hand, such as opening doors and operating photocopiers.
Epicenter office block developers are in support of the implanting program, which is being made available through a Swedish bio-hacking group. The group promotes the use of bio-enhancement technology and predicts a future in which sophisticated implant systems will closely monitor a range of inputs from body sensors while interacting with the “internet of things.”
In other words, we will soon have the option of being physically connected to the Internet as well as to an increasingly widespread network of smart devices.
For many, the idea of having an implant containing personal information inserted under the skin is not a welcome option. Not only is there maybe something creepy about the whole idea to begin with, but the fact is that a lot of us feel our privacy and autonomy has been compromised enough already, without voluntarily becoming walking transmitters of our personal data.
Some predict that one day it won’t be a matter of choice, or that the use of implants and other types of bio-enhancement and connectivity will become so commonplace as to be expected, if not required. The fear is that we will lose our freedom and privacy in the process.
Others welcome the prospect of becoming physically connected to the internet of things, such as the bio-hacking group responsible for the office block’s RFID program.
A BBC News feature profiled Hannes Sjoblad, a bio-hacker who organizes “implant parties” where volunteers are implanted:
He is starting small, aiming to get 100 volunteers signed up in the coming few months, with 50 people already implanted. But his vision is much bigger.
Then will be a 1,000, then 10,000. I am convinced that this technology is here to stay and we will think it nothing strange to have an implant in their hand.
Although the RFID chips being used now are capable of little more than opening doors and operating copiers, the potential is far greater. RFID chips will likely evolve into ever-more sophisticated devices, capable of a wide range of interactions.
Already companies are developing technologies that will go a step beyond the already-familiar “wearable” gadgets — examples include a digital tattoo that can be stamped onto skin and can monitor body functions.
It’s certainly easy to imagine that within a few years there will be dramatic advances regarding what this type of technology can do. And since various types of bodily enhancement — bionic limbs, pacemakers and cosmetic surgery — are already commonplace, it stands to reason that many people will have few if any qualms about implants and other bio-hacking tech.
On the other hand, the idea of a central authority having the advantage of direct connections and access to an individual’s physical body with the potential of monitoring GPS position, heart rate, perhaps even brain waves, is frightening to contemplate.
Most of us have embraced the revolutionary technological advances of the past few decades. We’re more connected than ever before, and even if we don’t all agree that this is necessarily a good thing, very few of us would willingly give up our smartphones at this point.
But perhaps we should be extremely careful about making the leap to cyborg status. Is this truly an inevitable and potentially useful tech advancement or is it a step too far?
The time for debate is now, because the technology is already entering the mainstream. And as with most technological revolutions, once it has happened there is little hope of turning back. Natural News.

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DARK SCIENCE: Abortion organ harvesting rooted in the philosophy of scientific materialism

FROM THE EDITOR:

Dear readers,
This article deals with one of the most controversial subjects in modern society: abortion as profit-making, and the human value of the baby still in the mother’s womb.  I believe that this article brings an interesting perspective to the issue that is being ignored by the mainstream media, and that people in our communities should read. Due to its length, it will be published in two parts.  — Marvin Ramirez.

by Mike Adams

Over the last few weeks, the United States has experienced shock at the revelation that human babies are being harvested for their organs during live abortion procedures. This is all being carried out by Planned Parenthood in the name of “science.”
But what kind of science underlies such seemingly evil activities? What sort of philosophy must be infecting the minds of individuals who can look at a human baby and see it only as a collection of biological parts to be harvested and sold for profit?
The answer is found in scientific materialism.
The false paradigm of materialism
Scientific materialism is the default philosophy underpinning virtually all-modern science: medical science, agricultural science, technology, economics and more. It is based on the false assumption that everything in our universe is made of material stuff. This belief excludes any idea of consciousness, free will, the non-physical mind and the value of any conscious being which possesses such qualities.
Scientific materialism is essentially a philosophy of death… A philosophy that places no value in life whatsoever, believing that life itself is nothing more than a purposeless accident that just happened to take place on our planet, without any meaning, design, or end goal.
Virtually all scientists in the Western world today operate from a cult-like belief in scientific materialism. By definition, then, they do not believe in the existence of consciousness, free will, or the mind. Thus, when they see an infant that is alive and being delivered from the womb of a mother, they do not see a conscious being that can experience pain, retain memories, or one day make decisions of its own. All they see is a collection of tissue: heart, liver, genitals, a brain, legs and arms and so on.
The value of a conscious being is far more than the sum of its biological parts
The philosophical delusions of scientific materialism literally block the mind of a scientist from being able to recognize that this human being is worth more than the collection of its parts. And what is this new-born human being really worth? According 0to Planned Parenthood it’s worth about $100 per organ. But you and I know that the value of a human being cannot be expressed as a financial figure.

The value of a conscious being goes far beyond the realm of scientific materialism or economic materialism. That value can only be understood in the context of embracing the value of creativity, free choice, divine inspiration, and innovation stemming from free will.
To look at a human being and see it only as being worth the collection of its parts is much like looking at a grand piano and seeing its value is nothing more than firewood rather than an instrument through which great composers can express some of the most sacred emotions in the human experience. Sit someone like Mozart in front of a piano and you’ll discover that the instrument (and the man) is worth far more than the collection of its parts. Similarly, if you nurture a human child and give it inspiration and the freedom to express ideas and creativity, then you will give rise to a conscious being of unlimited value which may make unfathomable contributions to the future of human civilization.
But because modern science does not believe in the nonmaterial realm of existence, it cannot grasp the very concept of any being having a value beyond its parts. Planned Parenthood refers to a human baby as merely “tissue” to be “harvested” for science.
As a result of this twisted mythology that infects the belief systems of nearly all modern scientists, the dangers of scientific totalitarianism in our modern society are very real. Because there is no separation of science and state in our modern society, scientists have become the new high priests, dictating all matters of importance to the government, covering medicine, agriculture, technology and even parenting.
For example the recently passed mandatory vaccination law in California known as SB 277 establishes the precedent that scientific totalitarianism should override parental rights. This law rejects the idea that individuals in society should be allowed to make choices regarding the health of their own children. It even denies the right to a public education to all children who have not been injected with whatever deadly chemicals the pharmaceutical industry is pushing this year, confirming yet again that science believes children have no value to society whatsoever unless they are wholly obedient to the agenda of the high priests of scientific totalitarianism.
Science believes bodies only exist to generate profits, not to serve as vessels for consciousness
Is this same philosophy of scientific materialism that believes, for example, that cancer patients only exist to enrich the financial profits of oncology centers and pharmaceutical companies. The actual quality of life for a cancer patient is of no concern whatsoever to those who operate in the cancer industry. That’s why their treatments — such as chemotherapy — are literally derived from chemical weapons that were originally developed for warfare. These chemical weapons, when dripped into the veins of cancer patients, cause tremendous suffering and permanent organ damage, destroying the quality of life of the cancer patient and more often than not literally killing the patient before the cancer kills them.
Yet this is known as “science.” It is a science that recognizes no value in the human experience of the patient being treated. There is no consideration whatsoever for the suffering, the pain, the fear and the consciousness of the patient. Instead, patients are seen as biological tools to be exploited for profit, in exactly the same way that Planned Parenthood sees unborn human infants as biological specimens to be chopped up and sold for profit. IT WILL CONTINUE NEXT WEEK.

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