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Mexican Nights in San Leandro

by the El Reportero’s staff

The Organizing Committee of the Cultural Exchange Mexico USA 2015 invites you to enjoy the traditional Mexican Nights.
The singer and interpreter Laura San Pablo, will be the invited artist of the night. The event will be full of entertainment and dinner, while the Folkloric Mexican Ballet of Carlos Moreno performs his best repertoire.
It will take place at the Puerto Bello Mexican Restaurant, 14680 Washington Ave. San Leandro, Calif. On Sunday, March 22, from 4 to 8 p.m. Mexican nights is an every-Sunday event.

Carnaval San Francisco to name new royals at Carnaval King & Queen competition
Sequined and feathered dancers will test their sassiest Latin and Caribbean moves against each other in hopes of being voted Carnaval San Francisco royalty at the annual Carnaval San Francisco King & Queen Competition, to be held Saturday, March 28 at 7 p.m. at the Brava Theater in San Francisco.  The winners will lead the 37th Annual Carnaval San Francisco Grand Parade on Sunday, May 24, 2015.
It is anticipated that more than 20 contestants will compete in the Carnaval King & Queen Competition, an exciting and tough competition judged by a 5-person panel of leaders and master artists from San Francisco’s dance community.  Contestants will be scored on their costume, dance technique, overall performance, audience response and Carnaval spirit. The winning pair will receive a cash prize of $500 each, and will have several opportunities to showcase their talent at upcoming Carnaval SF related events.  In addition, they will ride on the leading float in the Carnaval SF Grand Parade on Sunday, May 24, which will be broadcast live on KOFY TV.
The Brava Theater is located at 2781 24th Street in San Francisco; doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets to the competition, available at the door, are $17 each. Purchasing advance tickets online at www.carnavalsanfrancisco.org is recommended. Last year’s event sold out.
10thAnnual Bay Area Flamenco Festival
Festival Flamenco Gitano – The Bay Area Flamenco Festival will feature Spain’s top dancers and musicians for a week of special events this spring (March-22-29) in celebration of the Festival’s 10th Anniversary. Featured artists direct from Spain include dancers Concha Vargas, Pepe Torres and Gema Moneo and singers Esperanza Fernández and José Valencia.
Sunday, March 22, 7 p.m. at the Palace of Fine Arts, 3301 Lyon St., San Francisco.
Other Flemenco events:
Cante Jondo: Cante Gitano
Esperanza Fernández & Jose Valencia, on Friday, on March 27, 8 p.m., at the Brava Theater, 2781 24 St., St, San Francisco,
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1224405
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5TguxEE_N0
Exotic music of the old and new world
Marin Baroque Chamber Choir and period instrument Orchestra, with renowned early brass ensemble The Whole Noyse and Music Director Daniel Canosa, present Birds of Paradise: Exotic Music of the Old & New Worlds. Janequin, Flecha & Fernandez, and music of the Latin American missions.  Sixteen voices, percussion, vihuela, Baroque guitar, shawm, cornett, and early brass instruments are all featured.
On the program:
Le Chant des Oiseaux full of bird song by Clément Janequin; an ensalada, San Sabeya Gugurumbé, with a mixture of Castilian, Catalan, Portuguese, and African vernacular by Mateo Flecha; the plaintive Con Que La Lavare by Juan Vasquez, a popular poem and song in 16th-century Spain and a beautiful example of a villancico; and other music from the Latin American missions.
Sunday, March 29, 8 pm, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley
$5-$25. Tel. 415-497-6634, email marinbaroque@gmail.com. Tickets  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1228865 (Berkeley).

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A movie inspired in a time of life and death

by Jonathan Farrell

A film made in 11 days is unheard of in Hollywood. But for producer and actress Vicky Contreras it was something she was able to do with the help of many. Even more amazing is that the screenplay was conceived and written by a 57-year-old retired truck driver while he was undergoing cancer treatments.
“I never was an actor and I know nothing of film. The movie is based upon my life and what I want to express in my heart, said Mario Herrera.
Originally from Nicaragua, Herrera came to the United States over 35 years ago. He now lives in the SF East Bay, near Hercules.
In 2012 he was diagnosed with colon cancer. He told El Reportero “in the midst of a nightmare of radiation/chemo treatments, I had an idea for a story.”
Herrera mentioned that it came in segments, bits and pieces. He persisted amid difficulties due to treatments.
As a truck driver he has seen a lot of the United States driving back and forth. My wife and I wanted to live in a peaceful place that had no noise and was not crowded.”
The movie El Buen Parricida, which was scheduled to be release to he public on march 19, will be out in April. The film expresses the desire he always had to be able to live in a quite, peaceful, beautiful place with only him and his wife and their family. “El Buen Parricida, while based on my life, it has aspects that are fiction. Yet those (fictional) parts simply are there to be an expression of what I feel and believe.”
Herrera is very strong in his feelings and beliefs about marriage and family. He believes that marriage is a powerful union and the promises made between a couple and God is something not to be fooled around with.
El Buen Parricida was the opening film for The Broadway International Film Festival Ensenada, Mexico, this past Feb 27 to March 1.
Even more amazing for Herrera was the fact that “everything came together; Vicky was amazing,” he said. Herrera considers it all miraculous.
Initially approaching people, knocking on a lot of doors was not easy. Yet when one door opened another opened and behind it was Vicky Contreras. A native of Michoacán, México, Contreras has made the SF Bay Area her home. She is among the most prolific film producers in Spanish-speaking cinema today.
“At first Vicky was too busy,” he said. “But as I explained the story to her, she kept asking me to tell her a bit more.”
Even when El Reportero contacted the actress/producer, Contreras said she was in the midst of filming (another project). But that she was very happy to have completed the project for Herrera.
“All Vicky asked me to do was feed the actors and the crews, he said, and help with transportation.”
One of Herrera’s sons, Mario Herrera Jr. noted, “my dad had some difficult days as he was still going through chemo during filming. He was up early in the morning and made sure everyone in the cast crew got to where they needed to be and that everyone was fed.”
“I am very proud of my dad,” said Mario Jr. “It took about a month or two for my dad to write a draft. “Everything happened through Vicky and her many connections. Everyone she knew made it happen. They all rallied around the cause.”
Herrera is eager to carry on to see the film promoted further. “Hopefully in about a month or two a version of the film with English subtitles will be released,” he said. “I hope to continue because I have another script.”
While Mario Jr. will do what he can to help his father, he is realistic. “My dad is now at stage four of his cancer.” Herrera has ‘another round’ of treatments. “I hope and pray to be in remission again. I really want to complete this work. I hope Vicky will work with me on the next script I have. I want to work with her, he said because she opens doors. Vicky is amazing.”
Produced and promoted by Ella Films Productions, for more information about El Buen Parricida visit Vicky Contreras’ page on Facebook.
— Nota del editor: En especial reconocimiento a Emma Alfaro, directora del programa radial en San Francisco, Sol y Luna, quien fue el puente para que Mario Herrera lograra conocer a la productora de la película, Vicky Contreras, y que ella luego se interesara en producir la película.
– Note of the editor: Especially recognition to Emma Alfaro, director of the radio program in San Francisco, Sol y Luna, who was the bridge for Mario Herrera to meet the producer of the movie, Vicky Contreras, and that she then was interested in producing the movie.

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The group is all

by Jon Rappoport
NoMoreFakeNews.com

“A single thought simultaneously held by several people isn’t some miracle. The course of history is a process of liberation from that circumstance, and the emerging miracle was one individual thinking his own thoughts. That was the great change. And now people want to reverse it. They want to go back. They want to call it evolution.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

— More and more, education is entraining children to think of themselves as part of a group.
This is one basic way to cut off the consciousness of being an individual and what it really means.
The government, the State, has now become the beneficent leader of The Group, and if you need confirmation, just ask any politician. He’ll give you a sound bite or two.
People enmeshed in the current culture don’t realize that, as recently as 25 years ago, the promotion of America as One Group played like a faint tune in the far distance.
Now, it’s being urged by the State with wall-to-wall rhetoric straight out of some cheesy TV church; and the pastor-hustler is taking in contributions with one hand while doling out bribes with the other.
Only he’s got militarized police all over the land and an awesome surveillance apparatus to back him up.
But he loves you. He really cares.
And suckers from Maine to Chula Vista are buying in. Count on the brief appearance of some messianic figure in the Presidential Primaries who will try to out-Obama, Obama, if only as a keynote speaker at a convention.
Behind the freebies and the “we’re all in this together” lurks, however, the same monolithic State, obsessed with control. Domination.
The Individual is the target. The objective? Convincing people that conceiving of themselves as distinct from the herd is a delusional, outmoded, cruel, psychotic, hopeless act.
“You’re against The Group. You don’t care about humanity. You reject the force that is trying to bring aid to everyone everywhere: that force is government.”
This is part of the con. The hustler’s larger role involves strolling up to his mark and purring in his ear, making promises, offering sympathy.
It’s ancient.
It’s all about “we” and “us” and “everybody” and “humanity” and “the people.” It’s syrup poured on the innocent and the confused.
The Left argues that the mega-corporations are in charge. The Right argues it’s government. As Robert Anton Wilson once wrote: “They’re both right.”
The Corporate State, looked at from any angle, is in the business of reducing the individual to undifferentiated mush.
The technocratic wet dream of hooking 10 billion brains to a super-computer, and thus giving birth to “enlightened consciousness,” is the pseudoscientific version of a collective utopia. The “right answers” to all questions are fed back down a pipeline into every mind.
But it turns out there is the right to be wrong, which is to say, the individual has the freedom to dissent from any and all groups.
He can think, and act on what he thinks, without consulting a manual. He can perceive reality on his own terms. He can go further and invent realities.
He can oppose the mob and the machine.
If none of this ignites a spark in his mind, he can lie down and wait for the steamroller.
Somehow, the most diehard advocates of the State ignore American foreign policy: war, wholesale destruction. They studiously develop amnesia on that front. They don’t bother trying to probe the personality of a government that professes to solve the problems of 300 million people at home, when that government pursues perpetual war abroad.
“…when he [the independent individual] merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.” (Stanley Milgram, “Obedience to Authority,” 1974).
Yes, inside The Group, authority takes over, and its prescriptions replace ethics.
“We are not talking about mere instinctive conformity — it is, after all, a perennial failing of mankind. What we are talking about is a rationalized conformity — an open, articulate philosophy which holds that group values are not only expedient but right and good as well.” (William H Whyte, Jr.).
Replacing individual values with group values invokes a formula: “the greatest good for the greatest number of people.” This is magnetically attractive for the young on two counts. One, it seems to involve a simple rational calculation. And two, it spreads “the good” around like jam to “everyone.”
Of course, it’s a total con. Who decides what the greatest good is, in any given situation? And who enforces it with laws and guns and courts and prisons?
“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak…Instead—she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.” (George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945).
The Group does not move forward, it devolves. It reverts back to primitive impulses, while justifying its so-called principles as instruments of the highest order.
“One egg, one embryo, one adult—normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress… ‘Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!’ The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm. ‘You really know where you are. For the first time in history.’ He quoted the planetary motto. ‘Community, Identity, Stability.’ Grand words. ‘If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.’” (Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932).
Yes, the perfect Group. Humans made in hatcheries, according to plan. Group identity replacing individual identity. The All of the All.
Why bother with individual achievement? Why bother with “thoughts that separate one person from another?” Why-can’t-we-just-get-along becomes: why can’t we all think the same thoughts?
We can, with enough generations of programming. With synthetic production lines in birth-hatcheries.
Greatest good for the greatest number becomes a different kind of number.
For those who don’t want to take things that far, there are less radical versions of The Collective Glob in the propaganda mall. From the mystical to the political, there is a whole range of messages.
They all include the word “we”. For some reason, I never signed up for that “we.” Maybe you didn’t either. This article is for you.
Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, and Power Outside The Matrix.

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The top of the pyramid: The Rothschilds, the British Crown and the Vatican rule the world – Part 5 and Last

FROM THE EDITOR:

I found this interesting article that addresses some parts of the history that we never saw in the past or see in present history books, and how the United States and the Federal Government came to be. Due to its length, El Reportero will publish it in parts every week. Hope you enjoy it and help you to expand your perspective in the history of our political world.  It is also the story of why we pay income tax and to whom – MR. PART 5 and LAST of a series

by Before It’s News

http://humansarefree.com/2014/09/the-top-of-pyramid-rothschilds-british.html

“The Uniform Commercial Code was approved by the American Bar Association, which is a franchise, a subordinate branch of the British legal system and its hierarchy based in London’s Temple Bar (named after the Illuminati Knights Templar secret society).
As I have been writing for many years, the power that controls America is based in Britain and Europe because that is where the power is located that owns the United States Corporation. By the way, if you think it is strange that a court on dry land could be administered under Maritime Law, look at US Code, Title 18 B 7.
It says that Admiralty Jurisdiction is applicable in the following locations: (1) the high seas; (2) any American ship; (3) any lands reserved or acquired for the use of the United States, and under the exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction thereof, or any place purchased or otherwise acquired by the United States by consent of the legislature of the state.
In other words, mainland America. All this is founded on Roman law because the Illuminati have been playing this same game throughout the centuries wherever they have gone. The major politicians know that this is how things are and so do the government administrators, judges, lawyers and insider ‘journalists.’
Those who realize what is happening and ask the court for the name of the true creditor or recipients of the fines imposed by the ‘legal system’ are always refused this information by the judge.
The true creditors in such cases, and the ultimate recipient of the fines, are the bankers to which the corporation ‘country’ is bankrupt.” — David Icke – Tales from the Time Loop;
Lawyers, or “barristers,” have to take the Bar Association “bar” exam just as alcoholics go to the “bar,” sugar-junkies eat candy “bars,” and gamblers hope to get 3 “bars” on the slot machine. These all derive from the Templar’s turn of the 13th century “Temple Bar” in England.
Originally the Temple Bar was literally just a bar, or chain between two posts next to the Temple law courts.  This soon became a huge stone gate and there were eventually eight of these gates built so the elites could restrict/control trade within the city of London.
They were taken down during 19th century, but then each stone was numbered and kept in storage until 2004 when they just rebuilt the Temple Bar in London.
“The United States corporation was created behind the screen of a ‘Federal Government’ when, after the manufactured ‘victory’ in the American War of ‘Independence’, the British colonies exchanged overt dictatorship from London with the far more effective covert dictatorship that has been in place ever since.
In effect, the Virginia Company, the corporation headed by the British Crown that controlled the ‘former’ colonies, simply changed its name to the United States and other related pseudonyms.
These include the US, USA, United States of America, Washington DC, District of Columbia, Federal Government and ‘Feds’. The United States Corporation is based in the District of Columbia and the current president of the corporation is a man called George W. Bush.
He is not the president of the people or the country as they are led to believe, that’s just the smokescreen. This means that Bush launched a ‘war on terrorism’ on behalf of a private corporation to further the goals of that corporation.
It had nothing to do with’ America’ or ‘Americans’ because these are very different legal entities. It is the United States Corporation that owns the United States military and everything else that comes under the term ‘federal.’
This includes the Federal Reserve, the ‘central bank’ of the United States, which is, in reality, a private bank owned by controlling stockholders (and controllers of the US Corporation) that are not even American. This is the bank from which the United States Corporation borrows ‘money’.” — David Icke – Tales from the Time Loop;
The Shocking Truth About Your Birth Certificate
“If you notice on the bottom of your birth certificate it says Department of Commerce.  It is a property of the Department of Commerce because you are nothing more than a piece of commercial material. That’s why if you’re out of work you don’t go to the unemployment office, you go to the Office of Human Resources, because you’re just a human resource.” — Jordan Maxwell, 1990 Slideshow Presentation on Hidden Symbols;
The Judge sits on the bench for the bank.  Banks are on both sides of a river. A river bank directs the flow of the current/sea – the currency, the cash flow. The current-sea is “deposited” from bank to bank down the river.
We’re just “consumers” to advertise to, just “human resources” to be used up like batteries, and they are the “social engineers,” molding us “useless eaters” into wage slavery.
Read The Atlantean Conspiracy if you want to learn more.
References: Mark Owen, Truth Control, Virginia Company, The Atlantean Conspiracy; | Additions by Alexander Light, HumansAreFree.com;
– See more at: http://humansarefree.com/2014/09/the-top-of-pyramid-rothschilds-british.html#sthash.CHochvC8.dpuf

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Meteoric rise in modern diseases could be synergistic effect of glyphosate and vacine

by Jonathan Benson

Something sinister in the modern era is destroying the bodies and minds of today’s children at an accelerating rate — and no, it isn’t better diagnoses or other such lame excuses peddled by the media. People today, especially in the U.S., are increasingly overweight, chronically fatigued, perpetually brain “fogged,” and in a growing number of cases regressively unable to function normally or interact socially due to inexplicable mental problems and neurological disorders.
The autism rate, as a highly relevant example, has risen exponentially since the 1970s, jumping from about 1 in 5,000 children back then to more than 1 in 68 today — a more than 7,400 percent increase! Surely this dramatic surge isn’t solely due to improved diagnostic protocols that, because they supposedly didn’t exist 40 years ago, somehow allowed tens of thousands of autistic children to slip by undetected.
Believing such tripe is like believing in the tooth fairy, as common sense dictates that something other than just modern advancements in disease diagnosis is responsible for ever-escalating disease rates. If you pore closely through the data, you’ll find several common denominators that the mainstream media and health authorities try their best to ignore, but that also turn up in conjunction with disease: pesticides like Roundup and vaccines.
Roundup damages gut bacteria and greatly amplifies toxicity of other herbicides and toxins
Contrary to what Monsanto, its manufacturer, claims, Roundup (glyphosate plus “inert” ingredients that greatly increase its toxicity), the world’s most popular herbicide, is extremely toxic to humans. The complex microbiome in the human gut contains the infamous shikimate pathway that Roundup was designed to inhibit, which means that this necessary process to produce essential amino acids is barred from functioning properly when exposed to the herbicide.
Most of the conventional wheat grown in the U.S. today is doused with Roundup just prior to harvest, as are virtually all commercially approved genetically modified (GM) crops, the derivatives of which are commonly added to processed foods. Roundup is everywhere, in other words, and data on its use over the years reveals a direct correlation between increased exposure to the herbicide and increased disease rates.
Worse is the fact that Roundup has been shown to synergistically increase the toxicity of other herbicides and toxins, making them that much more destructive than they otherwise would be in isolation. MIT researcher Dr. Stephanie Seneff has covered this extensively, noting that Roundup greatly amplifies the toxicity of aluminum, for instance, which is found in many childhood vaccines.
Glyphosate prevents gut from absorbing nutrients, causes toxins to accumulate in blood and brain
Glyphosate, which is just one of the many toxic ingredients used in Roundup, also impairs the expression of cytochrome P450 enzymes, which the human body needs to chelate minerals and synthesize amino acids. When cytochrome P450 enzymes aren’t functioning as they should, virtually every system of the body suffers.
“Despite its reputation, Roundup was by far the most toxic among the herbicides and insecticides tested,” reads a 2014 study published in the journal BioMed Research International. “This inconsistency between scientific fact and industrial claim may be attributed to huge economic interests, which have been found to falsify health risk assessments and delay health policy decisions.”
The link between glyphosate exposure and autism is extensively documented in the scientific literature, as is the corresponding link between glyphosate, vaccines and autism. More on the synergistic toxicity of Roundup and vaccines can be found in the following report by MIT researcher Stephanie Seneff: People.CSAIL.MIT.edu. Natural News.

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A model for police reform

by Brett Murphy
Richmond Pulso

Editor Note: In the past decade, the police department in Richmond, Calif. has undergone a dramatic transformation.  As departments nationwide look for ways to improve community ties in the wake of police killings in Ferguson and New York, Richmond stands as a promising template.

RICHMOND, Calif. – Richmond’s police department is undergoing something of a renaissance these days, thanks in part to decades of reform that have moved the department from its longstanding enforcement-driven model to one that focuses more on building trust with the public.
Chris Magnus, Richmond’s police chief, is a nine-year tenure, marked with like gestures: an extended hand to residents, viewed as enlightened by some and controversial by others.
“But the biggest challenge,” Magnus says, “has been changing the perception black community members [have toward police], those who had experienced a legacy of mistrust.”
That fraught legacy goes back decades, to the rough and tumble 1980s when “the cowboys” – a notorious, roving squad of undercover narcotics agents – were regularly accused of brutality, and more recently to the early part of the 1990s, when the city saw record homicides.
More than two decades, and a handful of police chiefs later, crime still racked Richmond when Magnus came on board. In 2005, a year before Magnus took over, there were 40 homicides.
“When I got here we were dealing with an extraordinarily high murder rate, off the charts,” Magnus says. “Officers were just crisis managers, moving from one hot call to the next.”
Department shake-ups
Along with the high crime rate, inner-department crisis and dissent greeted the new chief. He took the reins after a series of stagnant interim chiefs, save the progressive, but short-lived tenure of Chief William Lansdowne in the 90s. Other people wanted change in the past, Magnus says, but the culture of distrust and aggressive policing was too divisive.
Early on, seven African-American officers accused him of racial harassment and discrimination in a civil lawsuit. Part of the allegation was that Magnus had blocked the promotions of black officers. The chief argued that he was dissolving the departmental “buddy system” that rewarded officers’ connections and seniority, instead of merit and performance. Magnus was acquitted in 2012.
Richmond Police Capt. Mark Gagan says these early shake-ups and “unflinching discipline” were not merely a show of force. Since he took over, Magnus has demoted and fired more officers than two decades of previous chiefs combined, while increasing the size of the force from 155 to more than 195 officers.
One of Magnus’ first steps was to decentralize the chain of command. Captains and other middle management positions were given more responsibility. Magnus says even if just one officer can break through and form a bond with a neighborhood, it’s a victory for the department.
That work appears to be paying off. In the past few years, following a crime, or suspicious activity, tips and witnesses come forward more so than ever, Magnus explains. There’s also been a significant drop in overall crime.
According to Richmond crime data, total crime has fallen from 8,168 in 2004 to 5,961 in 2013. While total arrests (adult and juvenile) have gone down from 3,532 in 2005 to 2,705 in 2014.
Richmond also saw a record-low of 11 homicides last year.
A new approach
Community policing, formerly a specialized tactic taught to a handful of officers, has become the mandated status quo in Richmond. Gagan says Richmond is one a few departments in the Bay Area to implement a “true geographic deployment.” Meaning, officers are assigned permanent beats and can’t choose new ones each year, as was the case in the past.
Beat cops attend neighborhood council meetings in their coverage areas. They get out of their cruisers to walk around and meet people, building two-way rapport. Sometimes they’ll even give out their cellphone numbers.
Sergio Ríos, Vice President of the 23rd Street Merchants Association, says prostitution along 23rd street’s busy business corridor dropped significantly when Officer Yesenia Rogers made herself regularly present and available to business owners two years ago. “I can just call her whenever I see something,” he said.
To gain trust in neighborhoods, RPD has also shifted from old-school force to preventative policing. “Verbal de-escalating” has made handcuffs, batons, and guns less and less necessary.
Bennie Lois Singleton, a volunteer with Ceasefire, says years ago she was afraid to even drive down Macdonald Avenue after witnessing shootouts in Nevin Park. Nowadays, she regularly walks the route without trepidation.
“This is all because the community started interacting with police, and vice versa,” says Singleton, a longtime Richmond resident.
“I’ve never been so comfortable with police,” she adds. “It’s like everything else, when you get to know a person, you look at them differently.”
The chief also introduced new technology to help with accountability. Body cameras, vehicle monitoring, and the “blue team” personal monitoring system have been key in holding officers accountable. These new, real-time strategies help watch commanders maintain everything, save a direct eye on beat officers. Interactions with residents, complaint histories, and even the cruiser speeds are closely monitored and digitally documented.
“Now there are real consequences for bad behavior, bad police,” Magnus says. Consequences can come in the form of special training, missed promotions, demotions and even terminations. More often though, the chief says he chooses positive reinforcement to “get people to do their jobs in a new and better way.”
Along with new technology, the department has implemented new rules for dealing with missteps. In-house investigations, like the one around last year’s officer-involved-shooting, a corruption-related firing, and a marijuana cache found in another officer’s house, are made public.
“We’re transparent and proactive in dealing with bad behavior,” the chief says. “People [in the department] don’t want to stand by and let the one percent break the public trust.”

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The workplace of 2040: Mind control, holograms and biohacking are the future of business

First published by frank.chung@news.com.au

WHAT will the workplace look like in 2040? Imagine remote working via hologram, commuting by jetpack, even controlling your office with your mind.
MYOB has released its ‘Future of Business: Australia 2040’ report, which examines the possible impact of emerging technologies on business and work over the next 25 years.
While all manner of business interactions will continue to be “formalized, automated and digitised”, the biggest effect will be on what we currently call ‘the workplace,’ according to MYOB chief technology officer Simon Raik-Allen.
Driven by the rising cost of energy and transport, the focus of 2040 will be the ‘suburban village.’ “You will live, work, eat and learn primarily within walking distance of your house,” he writes.
Communities will pool their resources, people will trade with neighbors and list skills on local notice boards, drones will deliver packages between communities or “even a coffee and a bagel to your current location.”
Forget the traditional office or even the remote workspace — localized centers based around suburbs or communities will emerge as the home of business as a response to the growing expense of traditional inner-city office buildings, Mr Raik-Allen says.
These giant warehouses, used by employees from many different companies spread around the globe, will be home to the technology that makes the interconnected workplace possible.
“Within each will be rooms filled with giant wall-sized screens allowing us to work in a fully virtual, telepresence model. Banks of 3D printers would be continually churning out products ordered by the local community.”
Here’s a little of what could be in store:
JETPACKS
Long a dream of science fiction, personal flight via jetpacks is getting closer to reality than ever. The Martin Aircraft Company in Christchurch has developed a jetpack capable of flying for more than 30 minutes at altitudes of up to 800 feet.
“For fans of science fiction from the ‘60s and ‘70s, a number of flying cars have also been developed recently, though few have reached further than the prototype stage,” he writes.
The Martin Aircraft version is currently designed as a first-responder or unmanned transport vehicle, so those eager to go jetting around the skies like Boba Fett may have to wait a few more years.
HOLOGRAMS
Mr Raik-Allen predicts that holographic projection technology will bring about the biggest change to the workplace since email. The seminars that became webinars in the ‘90s and noughties will soon become ‘holonars.’
“You will sit in virtual auditoriums, next to three-dimensional light-based images of your colleagues from around the globe watching a hologram on the stage of someone giving a talk. And you will do this just as easily as you gather in the office today.”
Launching a new business and hiring 500 people could be done in minutes, he argues. “Your company could be just you and a couple of project managers: the thinkers, controlling every aspect of the company through new digital interfaces.”
NEW MONEY
By 2040, we’ll also start to see the emergence of a broader, stronger set of internet-based currencies like today’s Bitcoin, governed by independent bodies that manage an international network of exchanges, he writes.
They will emerge as a way for businesses to work within their closed networks, with major corporations able to create and manage their own money, make internal payments such as payroll, and even trade with other companies.
“Any business will be able to make its own cryptographic currency — to buy and sell at values regulated by the market and at the perceived value of the company. As this trend develops, exchanges of currencies, much like we have today, will arise entirely independent of national economics.”
MIND CONTROL
Here’s where it gets really crazy. If you thought smartphones and wearables were the height of personal technology, wait until you have chips implanted under your skin and downloadable apps for your brain.
Nanobots will swim through your blood, diagnosing illness and clearing blood clots. Brain augmentations will heighten our senses or allow us to control technology with our minds.
For example, implants in the retina could farm off the raw data to miniature processors implanted in our bodies, analyzing the images to identify things that can’t be seen with the naked eye, and then feed that back ‘into the stream’, effectively giving us augmented vision.
“Imagine how that would add to virtual reality,” Mr Raik-Allen says. “100 million nodes [in the retina] is not that many. In 25 years, the processing power of a single phone will probably be condensed to the size of a single red blood cell.”
Already there are examples of rudimentary ‘bio-hacking’, both of the brain and body. One experiment allowed a man to wiggle a rat’s tail with his mind; another demonstrated brain-to-brain communication, allowing two subjects to control each other’s movements.
“These things are already being done invasively, with epilepsy patients for example. We’re just beginning to understand how to process brain information and feed it back in. Eventually you will have an app store for the brain where you can download plugins — maybe to monitor various organs, or sense infra-red.”
What about mind control in the other direction? Will employers be able to bend recalcitrant employees to their will?
“If you want to be sinister about it, that will certainly be possible,” he says.
“We could work out which brain pattern is associated with looking at Facebook, for example, and which is looking at a spreadsheet. The boss could have a dashboard to see who’s working and who’s not.”

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Mexico suffers the most horrible crime

by the El Reportero’s news services

Mexico suffers today the most horrible of the crimes of its history, affirmed Felipe Cruz, spokesman of the parents of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa missing since more than five months ago in the Mexican state of Guerrero.
On having intervened in the 19 International Seminar ‘The political parties and the new society’, that organizes the Party of the Work (PT), Cruz said that they will not give up the fight until they give them back their children.
They took them alive, we want them alive, he exclaimed before representatives of tens of parties and progressive political organizations and of left of four continents gathered in the Mexican capital.
It is the most horrible crime in the history of Mexico; they were murdered, tortured. One’s of them face was skinned, he assured.
We will fight so there are no elections as long as the political spectrum is not cleaned, warned Cruz, who made sure that from the bases there are builded structures of power opposite to the neoliberal and privatization precept.
In Mexico the struggle of the people is reborn, and it will not be the electoral way because we do not trust in the Mexican politics, he emphasized.
Seeing the experience of other peoples that have become independent from the neoliberalism give us the confidence that we can achieve it, underlined Cruz, who claimed of the presents to the political forum a support declaration to the cause of the parents of the Ayotzinapa 43.
PRI campaign leader investigated in Spain for illegal action
A head of the electoral campaign that led Enrique Peña Nieto to the presidency of Mexico is investigated in Spain for alleged illegal operations in the Banco Madrid, said today the newspaper El Mundo.
The newspaper cites unnamed sources from the Spanish police, according to which the defendant is Gabino Fraga, territorial coordinator of Peña Nieto’s campaign and member of the team that won general elections in 2012.
El Mundo said that Fraga is included in the report issued by the Executive Service for the Prevention of Money Laundering carried out on clients of the Spanish subsidiary of the Banco Privat d’Andorra (BPA), recently inspected under suspicion of money laundering.
According to the report, in this case a transfer of $445,000 euros is investigated for suspicion that it might be related to illegal funding of parties.
The newspaper indicates that Fraga was accused by main opposition candidate in Mexican elections Andres Lepez Obrador, of being involved in illegal financing actions.
According to the source, Peña Nieto denied the charge and accused Lopez Obrador of defamation, although the Executive Service for the Prevention of Money Laundering of Spain believes that Banco Madrid did not monitor Fraga in accordance with the law.

Former Uruguayan FM Luis Almagro elected OAS Secretary General
The Uruguayan former Foreign Minister Luis Almagro was chosen in this capital, by 33 votes in favor and one abstention, as the new Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS).
At an extraordinary meeting, the member countries of the multilateral agency gave the “yes” to Almagro, who was presented as the only candidate-to replace Chilean José Miguel Insulza (2005- 2015), the management officially expires on May 25.
Almagro, 51, is a lawyer and was Foreign Minister of Uruguay under President Jose Mujica, who delivered the presidence of Uruguay to Tabaré Vázquez.

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The Mexican Museum to showcase Maestros: 20th Century Mexican Masters

by the El Reportero’s news service

The Mexican Museum, the premier West Coast museum of Mexican, Mexican-American, Chicano, Latin American and Latino art, culture and heritage, announces a new spring 2015 exhibition entitled Maestros: 20th Century Mexican Masters, which will feature a dramatic selection of artworks from the Museum’s permanent collections.
The special exhibition will include the works of 30 internationally-renowned artists, beginning with the three most influential Mexican artists: Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco.
Maestros: 20th Century Mexican Masters will run from March 13 to June 28, 2015. The Mexican Museum is located at Fort Mason Center, Building D in San Francisco, and is open to visitors Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free. A special members’ preview reception will take place on Thursday, March 12 at The Mexican Museum from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Sin Visa premiere
Sin Visa is a powerful, relevant, and inspiring narrative about hope that could not have been released at a better time. Sin Visa explores the struggles and triumphs of an undocumented student (Marco) battling the oppressive systems he finds himself trapped within. Having faced abuse by people from his own community, Marco finds a support system in an unlikely couple.
Marco’s narrative, inspired by present day circumstances, sheds light on issues surrounding many communities. The 80-minute feature film addresses the intersections between systems of oppression and discrimination, bringing to light social justice and human rights issues, like family separation, the “Dream Act” and higher education, and the need for immigration reform.
Saturday April 4 at 6:30 p.m. at Roxie Theater in San Francisco.

Flamenco music & dance performance – Flamenco Sin Cheli
Esteban has studied the guitar intensely since childhood. He attended Mannes Conservatory of Music, then continued classical guitar study with Andres Segovia in Spain, as well as master classes with Julian Bream and Narciso Yepes. He has performed more than 400 solo concerts, including three at Carnegie Hall.
In between touring nationally and internationally as a classical guitarist, he served as guitar instructor on the faculties of Manhattan College of Music, Mannes College of Music, the New School for Social Research and the Jersey City State Teacher’s College.
Delving into the art of Flamenco, he has studied extensively with Jason Mc Guire “El Rubio” as well as with Pedro Cortes, Anzonini Del Puerto, Augustin Rios Jesus Montoya, Manuel Malena and Jose Cortes. He has released three CD’s: one of traditional Flamenco and two of romantic Boleros.
Other artists include: Paul Mousavi, Joelle Goncalves, Hilit Maniv, Holly Shaw,
On March 20 at the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. For more info call 510-472-3170. $10-$20 donation.

10thAnnual Bay Area Flamenco Festival
Festival Flamenco Gitano
The Bay Area Flamenco Festival will feature Spain’s top dancers and musicians for a week of special events this spring (March-22-29) in celebration of the Festival’s 10th Anniversary. Featured artists direct from Spain include dancers Concha Vargas, Pepe Torres and Gema Moneo and singers Esperanza Fernández and José Valencia.
Sunday, March 22, 7 p.m. at the Palace of Fine Arts, 3301 Lyon St., San Francisco
Other Flemenco events:
Cante Jondo: Cante Gitano
Esperanza Fernández & Jose Valencia, on Friday, on March 27, 8 p.m., at the Brava Theater, 2781 24 St., St, San Francisco,
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1224405
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5TguxEE_N0

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Lost and Found, new album by Buena Vista Social Club

by the El Reportero’s news services

Lost and Found, the new album of the Cuban musical project Buena Vista Social Club, with unreleased songs recorded by its precursors, is ready, The Guardian newspaper stated today.
The group of veteran musicians and singers, founded in 1997 by Juan de Marcos Gonzalez and launched by British Ry Cooder, announced last year its dissolution in 2015, but it continues working.
The disc will not only include songs from the precursor times, but also a selection of tracks recorded live and in studio, during the early successes of the band.
Nick Gold, of the World Circuit record company, said he knew of certain unpublished gems by Buena Vista Social Club, but so many new projects emerged that they did not have time to delve into the past.
“When we finally had time, we were astonished for so many wonderful music it had,” said Gold, who stated that the launch of “Lost and Found” will be on March 24.

Bolaño: Good writer, bad literary critic, says Padura
Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura stated today that Chilean Roberto Bolaño was a great writer, but ‘’the worst literary critic of recent years’’.
For Padura, perhaps the more-read Cuban author in Latin America, Bolaño is the most important writer of his generation, although his anger with everybody permeated this judgment as a critic.
“He was a great lair, as the great writer he was: if he had read all the books he said he read, he would not have been able to write not even one of his own”, joked the National Prize for Literature-2012.
The creator of the character Mario Conde defined as “a Chilean fighting fish”, whose fight against past and contemporary authors made him issue drastic and sometimes misguided judgments.
Even so, Padura considered that the novels Los Detectives Salvajes (Savage Detectives) and the posthumous 2666 are enough to establish Bolaño (1953-2003) as one of the greatest authors in Latin American literature.
Padura and Bolaño as both considered important authors, with both a tendency for the police novels, a genre each of them reinvented in their own context and time.

Experts discover a Rembrandt painting retouched after his death
The baroque painting Susanna and the Elders, painted in 1647 by one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art, the Dutch Rembrandt, was widely retouched a century after the death of the artist, it was reported here today.
The German gallery Gemldegalerie of Berlin discovered that the English artist Sir Joshua Reynolds repainted two thirds of the picture in the second half of the eighteenth century, while preparing an exhibition.
“It was a fairly radical intervention. Actually, only the characters correspond to the version finished by Rembrandt’, said Bernd Lindemann, director of the Berlin museum.
Apparently Reynolds, who was the owner of the canvas, felt that the painting needed a comprehensive improvement, speculated Lindemann.
‘Susanna and the Elders’ can be seen until May 31 in the capital’s museum along with previous studies of Rembrandt and drawings of his students on the topic.
The Dutch artist (1606-1669) painted three versions of the piece that were reconstructed thanks to modern technology.

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