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In U.S. undocumented people can donate but not receive organs

[Author]by Viji Sundaram

New America Media[/Author]

 

SAN PABLO, Calif. – Without treatment to replace her failing kidneys, Olga knows she will die.

The 37-year-old single mother is desperate to get a transplant so she can get well enough to nurture and provide for her three children again – something she hasn’t been able to do for the last couple of years.

But her undocumented status disqualifies her from getting on the organ transplant list, endangering her life.

Olga’s frail health forced her to stop working as a house cleaning woman and attendant at a Bay Area car wash, something she did seven days a week to supplement the $800 monthly checks her children’s father sends her. Those were jobs she could do without revealing her unauthorized status. In 2010, she was abruptly forced to quit her job loading boxes at a UPS facility, when her employer one day asked her for her Social Security number.

Olga, who asked that her last name not be used, stopped working completely two years ago after her legs began to swell and she suffered persistent headaches. Her trips to the emergency room only gave her temporary relief. She tried going on disability with the help of an immigration attorney provided by a charitable organization, but was told she didn’t qualify.

The Mexico-born woman was diagnosed with kidney disease in 2001. In 2012, doctors told her she would require dialysis for the rest of her life unless she could get a kidney transplant. But to get on the transplant list, they told her, she would need to have legal status. Until then, she could receive dialysis on an outpatient basis three times a week. California currently has 50,057 dialysis patients.

Though not very health literate, Olga appreciates the irony of her situation. She knows it would be cheaper for her to get a kidney transplant for about $100,000 than it is to receive a lifetime of dialysis, which costs around $80,000 a year in the San Francisco Bay Area.

On average, transplantation doubles the life expectancy of a patient compared to dialysis. But even if she were given a transplant, Olga’s medical treatment would be far from over because she would need anti-rejection drugs costing about $10,000 a year for the rest of her life. Many transplant centers say an undocumented person’s status could compromise his or her ability to continue paying for follow-up care.

“Essentially, all transplant centers require that all transplant candidates have medical insurance, be it public or private, so that the patients will have coverage following transplantation to cover the cost of the immunosuppressive drugs, which are expensive,” said Dr. John Scandling, medical director of the kidney transplant center at Stanford University, where some undocumented patients living in Santa Clara County have received transplants.

But he asserted: “My personal opinion is that undocumented patients should not be kept off the organ waiting list. We don’t turn down organs donated by undocumented people, but we are not willing to provide organs to them.”

An oddity in the U.S. health care system requires that federal Medicare cover all patients with end-stage renal disease, regardless of their age, for dialysis and organ transplantation. The exception is undocumented immigrants. But low-income undocumented patients can receive emergency care for which hospitals are reimbursed by the federal-state funded insurance program for low-income people called Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California). Olga is lucky that California, like New York and North Carolina, defines the outpatient dialysis she receives as “emergency care.”

Last year, following protests by 14 undocumented patients in critical need of organ transplants, two Chicago-area hospitals agreed to put undocumented patients in need of organ transplants on the wait list.

Even if Olga could get on the kidney transplant list, she would likely have to wait six to 10 years to get a transplant in the San Francisco Bay Area because there is a greater demand for kidneys here than there are donors, Scandling said. In the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest, by contrast, the wait time is between one and three years.

Olga’s father, who had lived in the United States illegally since he, his wife and Olga immigrated here from their native Mexico 15 years ago, moved back home in 2012 to seek treatment for his diabetes.

Olga, too, could go back to Mexico, where a kidney transplant costs around $40,000, but she would have to sneak back in through the desert to reunite with her three U.S.-born children. That, she said, would be too dangerous.

Laura López, executive director of Street Level Health Project, an Oakland-based non-profit that helps immigrants get access to health care and other services, believes that California should provide health care for all of its residents. She supports democratic Sen. Ricardo Lara’s Health Care For All bill.

“People shouldn’t have to go back to their homeland to die because they can’t get health care in the U.S.,” López asserted.

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Can a Police Commission really police the police?

[Author]by Michael Lozano

New America Media[/Author]

 

Editor’s Note: This week, strong emotions and riots ensued after the police officer who shot and killed Ferguson, Mo. teenager Michael Brown was not charged by a federal grand jury. People all over the nation, including Pres. Obama, called for widespread change in law enforcement practices and advocated against police brutality, especially within the black community. In the wake of this nationwide uproar, Long Beach VoiceWaves took a look at a local police oversight agency to ask what can be done to hold police accountable.

The Long Beach Police Department recently told Pamela Fields, a local resident, that she could not pick up her late son’s cellphone, but she could “collect his bloody clothes” if she wanted to.

Her son was Donte Lamont Jordan. He was 39 years old when Long Beach police gunned him down late last year. Police accounts allege that Jordan fired a weapon at a dark-colored vehicle. Fields said her legal team’s findings change that narrative: he was carrying a cellphone, not a gun, when police shot him.

“He was on his cellphone at the time of his assassination with his back turned,” she said witnesses reported. “It doesn’t justify you shooting a man in his back.”

Jordan, an African American, was just one of the 22 officer-involved shooting victims in 2013, with six occurring this year so far.

This year of police shootings in Long Beach comes at time when the nation is calling into question police community relations with the killing of unarmed Missouri youth Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer this summer.

An era of oversight has begun, with some departments requiring officers to wear mini-cameras to record their interactions with citizens, and others beginning to compile police interaction data into public databases, determining if racial bias exists.

Locally, the Citizen’s Police Complaint Commission (CPCC) has served as Long Beach’s oversight body reviewing police misconduct allegations since 1990. But what powers does the CPCC really have?

According to CPCC Chairman Jeffrey Price, the commission can subpoena witnesses, but not officers.

“The officer has an officer’s bill of rights which protects them,” he said.

In 2012, the commission received 654 total allegations, 86 percent of which were closed with a “No Further Action” finding, according to its annual report posted on the city’s website. About a third of the remaining allegations were found as “Not Sustained”, meaning evidence was insufficient to prove allegations of misconduct.

Even if allegations are sustained, the commission’s charter does not give it the authority to discipline officers. “We only recommend to the city manager what our findings are. It’s up to the city manager to take that back to internal affairs and decide what, if anything, the punishment will be,” Price said.

According to CPCC executive director Anitra Dempsey, while the meetings are public, the commission is limited to providing confidential recommendations on individual cases to the city manager.

“We never comment on stats. We are complaint-driven,” said Dempsey. “There are incidences that may make the news that this body may not see if complaints are not filed.”

In fact, Fields, whose son was killed by LBPD officers last year, has never filed a complaint with the CPCC because she has never heard about them.

That’s also the case for Jessica Loarca whose 21-year-old son, Jesse Delgadillo, was killed by the Long Beach Police Department on April 28, 2013.

“When we hear there are people not aware of us, we recognize that,” Dempsey said. “We take advantage of every reasonable and ethical opportunity to share information about what this body does.” (The commission can be reached at 562-570-6891, with public meetings occurring the second Thursday of every month at city hall).

Dempsey added, “The commissioners are individuals who represent the community and take their job very seriously,” she said. “We hope that you don’t need us, but if you do, we are here, and we handle every case as if it was our own.”

The CPCC came under scrutiny in past years for being biased towards police, an allegation made by the CPCC’s own former investigator.

Complainant demographics are also concerning. The 2012 CPCC Annual Report states that African-Americans make up about 43 percent of complainants, though only 13 percent of the city’s population according to the 2010 census. Latinos tend to file complaints less often. They make up 19 percent of complainants but about 41 percent of the population.

On Nov. 13, only one person attended the commission’s public meeting at city hall.

According to Long Beach activist Michael Brown, residents don’t attend commission meetings because city leaders don’t promote the meetings and because residents ‘know they don’t work’.

Brown asserts that the commission remains a ‘rubber stamp institution’.

“They don’t have any teeth,” he said. “(There are) individual police officers who people in certain neighborhoods know are bad… There’s no mechanism in place to remove that problem police officer.”

As for solutions, Brown says that community control has to be a starting point, with local communities deciding themselves how they want to be policed. “The community should have direct control, they should have subpoena power, they should have the power to remove a police officer from the street and everything will flow from there.”

The mothers of those killed by local officers also have some ideas.

“If there’s a police-involved shooting we need an outside agency like the federal government to investigate instead of a local agency,” Fields said. “The way they did my son was just wrong… I think there needs to be a federal investigation.”

Actually all the police shootings in Long Beach are reviewed by the L.A. County District Attorney and LBPD Internal Affairs, but none of the officers involved in any of the 2013 shootings have been charged, according to the district attorney’s office.

The Long Beach Police Department did not respond to email inquiries on their use of force.

Last year former LBPD Chief Jim McDonnell announced the establishment of the Use of Force Advisory Board in response to the unusually high number of police shootings in the city.

McDonnell said earlier this year that “in almost all of these incidents, the suspect shot at or used a weapon either directed at an officer or at a third party victim.” Information on armed statuses of targets is not readily available for many local cases.

Dignity and Power Now organizer Mark-Anthony Johnson said local statistics on excessive force charges is precisely what’s needed.

“There’s no local reporting of data or patterns of who is most affected by excessive force by race, gender, or mental health condition,” he said. “We [only] see these national trends that define a crisis that needs to be shifted.”

Nationally, black youth are 21 times more likely to be killed by police than white youth, according to a ProPublica analysis of federal data.

Advisory board member Sandy Cajas,said that while reviewing statistics is one of the functions of the board, “that’s about it.”

“We are there just to know what the City of Long Beach is doing to communicate with the community,” she said.

As the focus on police use of excessive force narrows in on racism, some community residents argue race is not the only factor behind being a target of an officer-involved shooting.

“Rich people do not get killed by cops,” Brown said. “Kelly Thomas was homeless,” he said, mentioning the 2011 case of a white homeless man killed by Fullerton cops. In 2010, Long Beach police shot and killed Doug Zerby, a working class white man, Brown said.

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Salvadoran lady dies in San Francisco

[Author]by the El Reportero’s staff[/Author]

 

Mrs. María Cármen Jiménez died on Nov. 4 in the city of San Francisco. She was 77 years old.

Mrs. Jiménez, born on July 14, 1937 in El Salvador, was employed for many years at the janitors’ union in San Francisco.

Her remains, which were escorted by the San Francisco Police Motorcycle Unit, were transported and buried in the Cemetery of Cypress, in Colma, after having been blessed at the St. Dominic Catholic Church, to which she belonged for many decades.

She is survived by her only son, Víctor Cruz and his wife,Evelyn Martínez, and seven grandchildren who loved her very much.

The staff of El Reportero newspaper and especially its editor, Marvin Ramírez, extend their most sincere condolences to the family in this time of grieve.

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The Latinoamericanizacion of the United States politics

[Author]by Roberto Lovato[/Author]

 

There’s a sea change taking place in poltics today, and it’s being led by Latinos, according to Roberto Lovato, a writer and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for Latino Policy Research. He spoke with New America Media editor Elena Shore.

Where did Latino voters make a difference in Tuesday’s election?

It’s important to say the difference that Latino voters could have made.

Ex-governors and ex-senators in Colorado, in Florida, could-have-been in Virginia and other states would probably have had the votes they needed to win, had we had a different policy on immigration.

Like it or not, the King Kong of issues for Latinos, bar none, is still immigration. And when you have President Barack Obama giving people a lot of reasons not to go out and vote – there’s 2 million deported reasons, there’s 400,000 jailed reasons, there’s thousands of children terrorized reasons why Latinos were completely dispirited and discouraged.

There was a lot of talk about what Obama’s delay in taking executive action on immigration would have on the election.

I don’t think it’s just the delay. I think it’s those 2 million deportations, and the 400,000 jailings, and all the terror and destruction of immigrant lives that Obama has caused in a community where 56 percent of us that voted in exit polls have a friend or relative who’s an undocumented immigrant.

So what we’re dealing with is a debate that has degenerated to a point where people are reporting on the unicorn vs. La Siguanaba, non-existent fictional entities that are constructed by the media.

What do you think they’re missing?

What’s missing is real deep, serious reporting. When you cover immigration solely within the border of the United States, when you start there, it unleashes a dynamic that defines immigration as primarily an electoral issue – when there are economic, political, foreign policy, Drug War and other issues at play.

Today’s Latino Decisions poll found that if Obama were to act before the end of the year, Latino voters’ enthusiasm for Democrats would go way up, and if Republicans were to block it, they would be much more anti-Republican.

I think that’s one of the foundations for the next way that the Latino political game is going to be played. It’s going to be played around the axes of executive action favorable for Latinos vs. Republican blocking, which is unfavorable.

It’s a false frame for the issue. You have to look at who in the Latino community is responsible for the fact that nobody said anything about the 2 million deportations. How did we get to 2 million deportations and not have any of the major advocates … say anything for almost six years? How did the media not report on all this suffering and destruction that’s at the heart of the Democrats’ electoral law? That’s the story.

So what effect has that had on potential voters?

Right now, most Latino voters know that they don’t like what the Democrats are doing, but they don’t know why Obama is worse on deportation than all presidents in U.S. history combined. So they don’t know what to think and do in the face of it.

There’s a way that reality is curated for us so that we don’t ask real, deep questions about deportations, about Border Patrol killings of innocent people, immigrants, jailing 400,000 mostly non-criminal people a year.

There is no doubt about that. But at the physical level of an actual immigrant body, Barack Obama and the Democrats have been worse than the worst Tea Partier.

What are some of the most interesting races you have been tracking?

I think one of the most interesting things happening right now is in Arizona. Largely unreported is what I would call the beginning of the end of SB 1070 and SB 1062, the racial profiling law and the ethnic studies ban.

You have no better instance than the case of David García, a largely unknown PhD Army vet who ran his campaign [for Superintendent of Public Instruction] against a Tea Party candidate. The most telling thing is… he got the endorsement of the Chamber of Commerce. That’s the same Chamber of Commerce that was being boycotted by Latinos in Arizona and throughout the U.S.

So what does that mean? It means that those forces are now on the retreat. It means that the boycotts, the protests, the Move the Game campaign [launched by Roberto Lovato and Presente.org], to get the Major League game out of Arizona, all those campaigns, all those efforts on the ground worked.

Can you describe what the latinoamericanización of American politics might look like?

It’s a style of politics where street action, continued organizing in different communities and different sectors, and bold actions and campaigns are intimately linked to electoral processes.

Which is very different from the way “politics” is defined in the U.S. The U.S. is bordered off from Latin America, so our ideas about politics are bordered off in the imagination: Politics mean elections. Punto.

Well, if you have the Arizona Chamber of Commerce endorsing a pro-immigrant candidate, and calling on the Republican Party to tone down and change course, which they’re doing — regardless of who won these elections in Arizona, because you still have about 150,00 votes that are not counted as of right now – that’s a sea change in politics, and a sea change that’s being led by Latinos.

Why do you use the term latinoamericanización of U.S. politics?

People in the U.S. only get political when it’s elections time. In Latin America, that’s not how politics are thought of, conceived of or practiced. It’s more organic and from the ground up, and opens up possibilities that we absolutely have to have now here in the U.S.

In the face of such a dictatorship of corporations, we have really no choice at this point but to fight and organize outside of the two-party system that’s controlled by those corporations.

We have before us a dictatorship. So if we have a dictatorship – it’s not just military, but corporations that are in cahoots with the military, and that profit from military funding – then we have to go to those who know about how to fight military dictatorship, like the ones that the U.S. created in Latin America. We have to go to Latin American-style politics, from below.

Roberto Lovato is a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for Latino Policy Research. He was a founding member of Presente.org and longtime contributor with New America Media. Prior to becoming a writer, he was the executive director of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN). You can follow Roberto on Twitter @robvato.

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The John Santos Sextet with special guess in Latin Jazz special evening

[Author]Compiled by the

El Reportero’s staf[/Author]

 

John Santos and his Sextet will be performing with special guests: Bay Area legend Roger Glenn (Mongo Santamaria, Cal Tjader) – vibes and Grammy winner Mads Tolling (Stanley Clarke, Turtle Island) – violin in concert! A unique cross-cultural collaboration!

Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, at 8 and 10 p.m. shows, at Yoshi’s, 510 Embarcadero W., Oakland, For info call 510-238-9200 or visit www.yoshis.com.

 

Fifth annual essential SF, honoring local cinematic luminaries

Intimate Celebration Will Induct a New Group into Film Society’s Ongoing Compendium of Essential Figures in the Local Film Community.

The San Francisco Film Society will present its fifth annual Essential SF event, . Essential SF is the Film Society’s ongoing compendium of the Bay Area film community’s most vital figures and institutions, and each fall a new group of local cinematic luminaries is added to the growing list of diverse talent.

At a brief ceremony, this year’s inductees – actress and filmmaker Joan Chen, arts journalist Cheryl Eddy, film curator Liz Keim, author and film professor B. Ruby Rich, production company and distributor ro*co films and sound designer Kent Sparling – will be feted by special guest presenters and Film Society staff. This event is free and open to the public. Essential S.F. 2014 is made possible by the generous support of the San Francisco Film Commission.

On Sunday Dec. 7, at 4 p.m. at the Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street.

 

Children and families a chance to read and play during school break with bingo

In December, the library will distribute cards for its new “Winter Bingo” game, encouraging children in grades K-5, and parents of younger children and babies, to do activities that stimulate literacy and learning. Any child or parent may return a bingo card with five activities marked in a row to any Oakland Public Library between Dec. 18, 2014, and Jan. 31, 2015, to select a free paperback book to keep, as a prize.

Activities include direct reading activities such as “Listen to a story” or “Read about your favorite thing” as well as social activities such as “Make someone laugh,” or “Bring a friend to the library,” and active play such as “Dance” or “Play outside.” Activities for parents to do with babies and preschoolers include “Use a recipe to make a snack,” and “Ask your child to turn the page.” Bingo cards will be available at all library locations and distributed to partner organizations, and are available in Spanish, Chinese, and English.

For more information, please visit www.oaklandlibrary.org or contact Nina Lindsay, Supervising Librarian for Children’s Services, at nlindsay@oaklandlibrary.org, or 510-238-6706.

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Argentina judge orders Justin Bieber to appear on assault charges

[Author]by the El Reportero’s news services[/Author]

 

An Argentine judge summoned pop singer Justin Bieber for questioning over an alleged incident at a discotheque in this capital last year, when the Canadian performer was on tour here, court officials said.

Judge Facundo Cubas issued an order to the Interpol department within the Argentine Federal Police to locate the artist and one of his bodyguards and notify them that they must appear in court to give statements.

According to court sources cited by the official Telam news agency, the judge warned that if Bieber does not show up to testify within 60 days after being notified, he will order his arrest.

Bieber, 20, and one of his bodyguards were cited in incidents at the Ink disco in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo on Nov. 9, 2013, where the singer and his friends were partying.

Among other things, the pair are accused of allegedly attacking a photographer and stealing his camera and then leaving the disco without paying their tab.

Argentine photographer Diego Pesoa claims Bieber’s bodyguards chased him and beat him up outside the nightspot.

Bieber could spend up to a year in prison if convicted of causing minor injuries to the man.

According to the summons, the singer had ordered his bodyguards to prevent him from being photographed when he left the establishment.

The judge’s ruling asks Interpol to locate the artist and his bodyguard at their homes, at the site of a scheduled event or anywhere else and present the summons to them.

 

Sandra Bullock in Puerto Rico Filming “Our Brand is Crisis”

Sandra Bullock is in Puerto Rico to shoot scenes for “Our Brand is Crisis,” a political comedy-drama co-produced by George Clooney.

Hollywood’s highest-paid actress arrived over the weekend at San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport, Puerto Rican media outlets said.

David Gordon Green is directing the film, which is based on a 2005 documentary of the same name about the role of prominent U.S. political consultants, including James Carville, in the re-election campaign of Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.

Besides Bullock, the cast includes Scoot McNairy, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie and Ann Dowd.

The film began shooting Sept. 29 in New Orleans and the crew is expected to spend around two weeks in Puerto Rico filming the scenes set in Bolivia.

The Puerto Rican government offers generous incentives to film studios.

 

Molotov returns to The U.S. for “Agua Maldita Navidad Tour”

Latin Grammy Award winning Mexican rock band Molotov will be returning to the U.S. in December for their “Agua Maldita Navidad Tour.” Celebrating Christmas with their signature Latin rock flair, Molotov will kick off the tour in Los Angeles on Dec. 3 and will wrap it up in Dallas on Dec. 21. Tickets are on sale now!

After nearly two decades on stage, eight albums, a documentary, four Latin Grammys and over 3 million+ records sold, legendary Mexican rock band Molotov has returned in 2014 with an incendiary new record, Agua Maldita. The band’s latest effort was produced by Jason Perry at East West Studios in Hollywood, and features 10 tracks, including the singles Lagunas Metales and La Raza featuring DMC from iconic hip-hop group RUN-DMC.

Molotov continues to push the boundaries of their music with lyrics exploring social and political topics on one of their best records to date.

Catch the band on their “Agua Maldita Navidad Tour” in the U.S.A. this December.

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The move to depopulate planet Earth

Much has been said about a so-called ‘conspiracy theory’ about the depopulation of the planet. In this article, Stephanie R. Pasco, follows the trails of statements – going back decades -made by world leaders confirming that in fact exists a plan to depopulate the planet Earth. You be the judge, readers. Due to the length of the article, El Reportero will publish in several parts, extending to several weeks. THIS IS PART 3 OF A SERIES.

 

by Stephanie R. Pasco

 

It is my intention to give you clips from documents, many from the United Nations that prove there is a plan to depopulate this planet. I will also provide quotes from various people and organizations that further show this agenda is afoot. I pray the guidance of the Lord God Almighty will be with me in this pursuit to warn others of this dark plot against humanity.

Everything written in this paper is easily verifiable. It may take some time and effort, but I took great pains to make this paper as accurate as I possibly could.

The depopulation agenda is based on nature worship, or Gaia worship. In Genesis, God clearly told Adam and Eve, and then Noah and his family to go forth and multiply to fill the earth. Nowhere in the Bible does God rescind that clearly spoken commandment. Therefore man is attempting to supersede the command of the Lord God in heaven: The Creator! I ask you, who knows more about the state of the earth, the created, or the Creator?

The basis for the depopulation agenda is a standard all elitist’s hold dear. This standard is called:

 

The Hegelian Dialectic:

Problem – Reaction-Solution

 

Sir Julian Huxley, UNESCO: its purpose and its philosophy:

“Political unification in some sort of world government will be required… Even though… any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.” In the early 1950s, former Communist Joseph Z. Kornfeder expressed the opinion that UNESCO was comparable to a Communist Party agitation and propaganda department. He stated that such a party apparatus ‘handles the strategy and method of getting at the public mind, young and old.’ Huxley would lard the agency with a motley collection of Communists and fellow travelers.

President Richard Nixon believed abortion was necessary as a form of eugenics to prevent interracial breeding

Theodore Roosevelt to Charles B. Davenport, January 3, 1913, Charles B. Davenport Papers, Department of Genetics, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.:

“I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feebleminded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them…The emphasis should be laid on getting desirable people to breed…”

Theodore Roosevelt:

“Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind…. Any group of farmers, who permitted their best stock not to breed, and let all the increase come from the worst stock, would be treated as fit inmates for an asylum…. Some day we will realize that the prime duty, the inescapable duty of the good citizens of the right type is to leave his or her blood behind him in the world; and that we have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type. The great problem of civilization is to secure a relative increase of the valuable as compared with the less valuable or noxious elements in the population… The problem cannot be met unless we give full consideration to the immense influence of heredity…” “I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feebleminded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them… The emphasis should be laid on getting desirable people to breed…”

By Carl Teichrib:

“The Georgia Guidestones, a massive granite edifice planted in the Georgia countryside, contains a list of ten new commandments for Earth’s citizens. The first commandment, and the one which concerns this article, simply states; “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.”

Robert Walker, former chair of PepsiCo and Proctor & Gamble on water:

Water is a gift of nature. Its delivery is not. It must be priced to insure it is used sustainably.

Ted Turner makes the radical statement that, “A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95 percent decline from present levels, would be ideal,”

Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood, funded by the Rockefellers) said in her proposed “The American Baby Code”, intended to become law:

“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”

This is the woman (Margaret Sanger) whom Hillary Clinton publicly declared she looked up to, during the 2008 presidential debates.

Here is a short list of some advocates of eugenics; Alexander Graham Bell, George Bernard Shaw H. G. Wells, Sidney Webb, William Beveridge, John Maynard Keynes, Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Winston Churchill, Linus Pauling, Sidney Webb, Sir Francis Galton, Charles B. Davenport Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard (who wanted to create a Dept. of Peace):

“Out of the full spectrum of human personality, one-fourth is electing to transcend…One-fourth is ready to so choose, given the example of one other…One-fourth is resistant to election. They are unattracted by life ever evolving. One-fourth is destructive. They are born angry with God…They are defective seeds…There have always been defective seeds. In the past they were permitted to die a ‘natural death’…we, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow…Now, as we approach the quantum shift from creature-human to co-creative human—the human who is an inheritor of god-like powers—the destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body. We have no choice, dearly beloveds. Fortunately you, dearly beloveds, are not responsible for this act. We are. We are in charge of God’s selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death. We come to bring death to those who are unable to know God…the riders of the pale horse are about to pass among you. Grim reapers, they will separate the wheat from the chaff. This is the most painful period in the history of humanity…”

IT WILL CONTINUE NEXT WEEK WITH MORE STATEMENTS.

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Minors from Central America can now apply for political asylum in U.S.

by the El Reportero’s wire services

 

The U.S. government will now allow minors in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras who have a relative living legally in the United States to apply for asylum or a residency permit at offices in their own country, Vice President Joe Biden said Friday.

The program, which begins in December, “will provide a safe, legal, and orderly alternative to the dangerous journey that some children make – and some children don’t ever arrive, don’t ever make,” the vice president said at a conference attended by the presidents of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador in Washington.

Parents in the United States will kick off the process by filling out an application form for their child – who must be younger than age 21 and unmarried – requesting that he or she be granted an interview at a U.S. office in El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras, the State Department said.

The State Department stressed that the applications will be studied case by case.

Nonetheless, children who do not comply with the requisites for refugee status, but are in danger of being harmed if they stay where they are, will be considered for a special residency permit on humanitarian grounds.

The permit for humanitarian asylum allows a temporary entry into the United States for urgent humanitarian reasons but does not grant long-term immigration benefits.

In addition, if the spouse of a person living legally in the United States continues to dwell in their country of origin, “under certain circumstances” they can be included in the minor’s application for refugee status.

Once the family member fills out the form in the United States, the minors will be interviewed in their country of origin to make sure they comply with security regulations, have an up-to-date medical report, and must undergo DNA tests to verify that children and parents are related.

The United States “provides those seeking asylum a right way to come to our country, as opposed to crossing the border illegally,” Vice President Biden said.

 

Former Mayor of Iguala to Face Kidnapping & Murder Charges for 43 Missing Students

Former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca Velazquez, who has been linked to the disappearance of 43 education students in September, will remain in custody and face a criminal trial, Mexican judicial officials said.

A federal criminal court in Toluca, a city in Mexico state, will try Abarca on organized crime, kidnapping and murder charges, the Federal Judiciary Council, or CJF, said.

The court issued the order as part of proceedings initiated by a court in Matamoros, a border city in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.

Abarca is being held at the Altiplano federal penitentiary in Mexico state, which surrounds the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area.

Abarca served as mayor of Iguala, a city in the southern state of Guerrero.

The politician and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, were arrested by the Federal Police on Nov. 4 in Mexico City.

Pineda is being held in preventive detention so prosecutors can gather more evidence in the case.

Six people died, 25 were wounded and 43 students disappeared in the incident.

The 43 students, the majority of them ages 18 to 21, were detained by police and handed over to the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel, which killed them and burned the bodies to eliminate all traces of the victims, officials said, citing statements by suspects in the case.

The students’ disappearance has sparked protests across Mexico.

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Olive oil protects heart from air polution, lowers blood

[Author]by Ethan A. Huff

Natural News[/Author]

 

The Mediterranean Diet has received plenty of praise in recent years for its role in protecting against disease. And two new studies provide further clarity as to why this is the case, having found that the olive oil component of the popular diet helps to not only protect against the damaging effects of environmental pollution but also lower blood pressure in folks who consume it alongside nitrate-rich vegetables.

Researchers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), presenting their findings at the recent American Thoracic Society International Conference, tested the effects of olive oil in mitigating harm caused by air pollution on 42 healthy adults. Each of the adults was given 3 grams of either olive oil or fish oil daily, or neither, for four weeks, followed by exposure to both clean and polluted air.

After a month of supplementation with either one of the oils or a placebo, participants were exposed to two hours of filtered air to get baseline readings. The next day, they were exposed to two hours of polluted air. Using an ultrasound, scientists evaluated the participants’ blood vessels for any blood vessel narrowing both immediately after and 20 hours after each exposure.

They noticed that folks taking the olive oil supplement did not experience any significant narrowing of their blood vessels, which typically occurs as a result of exposure to microscopic particles like the kind emitted from diesel engines. Such hardening can lead to increased blood pressure, a heightened risk of blood clots and other health problems.

Those taking the fish oil or placebo, on the other hand, experienced typical blood vessel narrowing, suggesting that olive oil possesses a unique protective benefit. If these results are affirmed through further research, scientists say regular supplementation with olive oil could be a beneficial public health recommendation.

“Our study suggests that use of olive oil supplements may protect against the adverse vascular effects of exposure to air pollution particles,” stated Dr. Haiyan Tong, as quoted by the U.K.’s Telegraph. “If these results are replicated in further studies, use of these supplements might offer a safe, low cost, and effective means of counteracting some of the health consequences of exposure to air pollution.”

Unsaturated fats combine with vegetable-based nitrates to form beneficial ‘nitro fatty acids’

In a related study, researchers from King’s College London noted beneficial effects from consuming olive oil alongside lettuce and other vegetables rich in naturally occurring nitrates. Publishing their findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the research observed that the unsaturated fats in olive oil combine with nitrates to form an entirely new compound that helps regulate blood pressure.

Based on the research, consuming olive oil daily with foods like spinach, celery and carrots results in the formation of nitro fatty acids that experts say can help lower blood pressure and prevent blood clots. In the long term, regular consumption of these foods in conjunction with one another can help reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events.

“The findings of our study help to explain why previous research has shown that a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts can reduce the incidence of cardiovascular problems like stroke, heart failure and heart attacks,” stated Professor Philip Eaton, a professor of cardiovascular biochemistry at King’s and one of the authors of the study.

The study was supported by the British Heart Foundation and is among the first to demonstrate how olive oil specifically inhibits an enzyme known as soluble epoxide hydrolase that is responsible for regulating blood pressure.

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In border disaster, advocates seek names of the

When an undocumented migrant dies trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, the clock begins ticking. If the body is found before it has decomposed or been eaten by animals, investigators can determine the person’s weight and find scars or tattoos that might aid in identification. There’s also a better chance that clothing and personal items will be found.

Reineke collected data from consulates – including paper records – and took reports from families.

Colibrí, a nonprofit that grew out of this work, receives as many as 60 reports from families each week and also collects missing-person reports from consulates, nonprofits, journalists and BORSTAR, the Border Patrol’s search-and-rescue unit.

In 2008, the body of a young woman was brought in to the Pima County ME’s office. Found with the body was an ID card, and the face of the woman matched the photo on the ID, which also had a name. Despite all this, Reineke was unable to locate the woman’s family.

Family members may not file a missing-person report because they are estranged from the relative, involved in the drug trade or too scared, because of their own undocumented status, to make a report.

“A Mass Disaster”

Kate Spradley knows all too well the challenges of unidentified remains. A forensic anthropologist at Texas State University, she is conducting an analysis of the remains of 65 unidentified border crossers exhumed from Brooks County’s Sacred Heart cemetery.

The project, she said, is “a mass disaster that was dropped off at our lab.”

Texas state law requires DNA sampling of all unidentified remains, but the law, Spradley said, is rarely enforced.

Texas has 254 counties, only 13 of which have medical examiners, and those examiners serve only their own counties, Spradley said. There are three medical examiners in the border area. An autopsy of unidentified remains costs about $1,500, plus another $1,500 for transport.

As a result, no one knows for sure how many unidentified border crossers are buried in Texas cemeteries.

(Amy Roe is the reporter for Equal Voice News. Maria Rigou, the social media marketing manager for Equal Voice News and the Marguerite Casey Foundation, contributed reporting).

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