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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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Toxic airborne pollutants linger long after tobacco smoke clears

[Author]by Julie Chao[/Author]

 

Ever walked into a hotel room and smelled old cigarette smoke? While the last smoker may have left the room hours or even days ago, the lingering odors — resulting from noxious residue that clings to walls, carpets, furniture or dust particles — are thanks to thirdhand smoke.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who have made important findings on the dangers of thirdhand smoke and how it adsorbs strongly onto indoor surfaces, have published a new study assessing the health effects of thirdhand smoke constituents present in indoor air. Looking at levels of more than 50 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and airborne particles for 18 hours after smoking had taken place, they found that thirdhand smoke continues to have harmful health impacts for many hours after a cigarette has been extinguished.

“In the U.S., the home is now where nonsmokers are most exposed to second- and thirdhand smoke. The goal of our study is to provide information supporting effective protective measures in the home. The amount of harm is measurable even several hours after smoking ends,” said chemist Hugo Destaillats, lead author of the study. “Many smokers know secondhand smoke is harmful, so they don’t smoke when their kids are present. But if, for example, they stop smoking at 2 p.m. and the kids come home at 4 p.m., our work shows that up to 60 percent of the harm from inhaling thirdhand smoke remains.”

Their study, “Inhalable Constituents of Thirdhand Tobacco Smoke: Chemical Characterization and Health Impact Considerations,” has been published online in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Other co-authors were Berkeley Lab scientists Mohamad Sleiman, Jennifer Logue, and Lara Gundel, and Portland State University professor James F. Pankow and researcher Wentai Luo.

The Berkeley Lab team has done previous studies establishing the formation of harmful thirdhand smoke constituents by reaction of nicotine with indoor nitrous acid, showing that nicotine can react with ozone to form potentially harmful ultrafine particles, and finding that thirdhand smoke can cause genetic damage in human cells. These studies focused primarily on chemical contaminants adsorbed to indoor surfaces, entering the human body through dermal uptake or ingestion of dust. The new study focuses on a third type of exposure, inhalation. The study shows that this route of exposure, even after the smoke dissipates, is also significant.

The team collected data from two environments: one was a room-sized chamber at Berkeley Lab where six cigarettes were machine-smoked and levels of particulate matter and 58 VOCs were monitored during an aging period of 18 hours; the second was a smoker’s home, where field measurements were made 8 hours after the last cigarette was smoked. Logue led the health analysis, using an impact assessment approach that she has used for studying indoor air pollutants.

Health data was available for only about half of the measured chemicals. For those Logue used a metric called DALY, or disability-adjusted life year, to quantify the health impact. The DALY is commonly used by the World Health Organization (WHO) and others in the public health field as a way to combine loss of life with loss of quality of life in a single metric.

Looking at DALYs lost as a function of time, the study found that the total integrated harm rises sharply in the first five hours after a cigarette has been smoked, continues to rise for another five hours, and doesn’t start to level off until after 10 hours.

“We ranked the health damage due to each of the pollutants for which we had data,” Logue said. “We found that particulate matter, or PM2.5, accounted for 90 percent of the health damage.”

PM2.5, or particles that are less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, can be inhaled deeply into the lungs and cause serious health problems. The study identified also those tobacco VOCs with the highest health impacts, some of which exceeded concentrations considered harmful by the state of California over the entire 18-hour period.

The researchers caution that this was an initial scoping study, in which they had to rely on health data available for outdoor air particles. Common outdoor sources include vehicle exhaust, forest fires, and burning of fuels. “Tobacco particles have a different composition than outdoor air particles, but there are chemical similarities,” Gundel said. “This is a first-order approximation.”

Another purpose of the study was to better understand the transition between secondhand smoke and thirdhand smoke. Depending on the criteria used, the predicted health damage caused by thirdhand smoke could range from 5 percent to 60 percent of the total harm. “A lot of the harm attributed to secondhand smoke could be due to thirdhand smoke,” Gundel said. “Because there’s a gradual transition from one to the other, we don’t really know yet what the chronic effects of thirdhand smoke are.”

The study is part of a research agenda developed by the California Consortium on Thirdhand Smoke, which was established in 2011 largely as a result of work published in 2010 by Destaillats, Gundel, Sleiman, and others. The consortium, which includes researchers from Berkeley Lab, UC San Francisco, UC Riverside, the University of Southern California and San Diego State University, is funded by the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, managed by the University of California. Its goals are better understanding the health effects of thirdhand smoke, identifying the most effective control policies and practices to protect nonsmokers, and developing methods to remediate indoor environments contaminated with thirdhand smoke. UC Newsroom

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Gruber’s goober: Obamacare deception

by Jon Rappoport

NoMoreFakeNews.com

 

Everybody knows Jonathan Gruber now. He was a consultant who helped frame the Obamacare law.

He’s stated that that, yes, Obamacare has a tax in its provisions, and yes the public was deceived.

Gruber: “This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies… [I]f you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”

Tax? Penalty? Tax? Penalty?

Either way, Obamacare is an order, a command, from on high.

The whole debate hides the real fact: people are being coerced into a system that kill and maims at a staggeringly high level.

No one in Congress or the White House brought that up during the process of promoting and passing the bill. Too hot to handle. Much too hot.

If you have a system that is already killing a huge number of people, and you make that system bigger and bring millions more people under the same umbrella, the death toll will accelerate.

The key journal paper on medical destruction is: Dr. Barbara Starfield, Journal of the American Medical Association, July 26, 2000, “Is US Health Really the Best in the World?”

Every year in the US, the medical system kills 225,000 people. 106,000 die as a result of FDA-approved medical drugs. The other 119,000 die as a result of mistreatment in hospitals.

I use the Starfield report because it is right down the middle of mainstream medicine. Before her death, Starfield was a widely respected public health expert. For many years, she worked at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. The Journal of the American Medical Association is as mainstream and prestigious as you can get.

I’m fully aware that independent researchers have pegged the death toll from the US medical system at a much higher number. But I wanted to show that, even in “The Club,” the statistics are known to be horrendous.

Think about it. The US medical system kills 225,000 Americans per year. That adds up to 2.25 MILLION deaths per decade.

Not long before her death, I interviewed Dr. Starfield. I asked her whether anyone from the federal government had ever asked her to consult, to help fix the medical system. Her answer was a stark No.

I asked her whether she was aware of any significant government program directed at fixing the system. Again, she answered: No.

Try this fictional analogy. You work for the government in auto safety. You know two things. Every tenth car in America contains a fatal flaw that will cause a crash at speeds in excess of 40mph. And, as a result of new legislation lowering the driving age, millions more Americans will be on the road. What would you do?

US politics lives and thrives on PR, and PR makes its money from empty generalizations and promises. In the medical arena, it’s all about “better care for all,” “humane concern for everyone,” “breakthroughs coming soon,” “money for more research,” etc.

This has nothing to do with the actual effects of the system. It has nothing to do with reality.

Well, here is the reality. By the most conservative estimate, the US medical system kills 2,250,000 people per decade.

That’s the system that’s heading for massive expansion under Obamacare.

You have a choice. You can go with the empty PR, or you can face the facts and realize what’s going to happen.

“Well,” some people have told me, “the politicians in charge don’t really understand what the medical system is doing to people. It’s just ignorance. Their hearts are in the right place.”

And that matters? That argument has nothing to do with ongoing death stemming from standard medical practice.

The death statistics I’m citing in this article aren’t a state secret.

Doctors chopping off women’s breasts for no reason. Medical drugs putting people into the grave. Vaccines causing neurological damage. Psychiatric drugs blasting brains and pushing people over into suicide and murder…no problem. The politicians’ hearts are in the right place.

Walk through a cemetery and try that defense.

Tax? Penalty? Tax? Penalty?

I just did the math. The US medical system killed 25 people while I was writing this article.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX,

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Mole to Die for Contest

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

 

The history of the mole goes back to the pre-Columbian era and there are several versions of its origin as we know it today.

It is said that the Aztecs prepared for the great lords a complex dish called “mulli,” meaning porridge or mixture. Another story places the mole poblano in the Convent of Santa Rosa in Puebla (Mexico) when a nun grounded together various chilies and other seasonings in a metate. Another version says that Spaniards brought different condiments to the natives, who then used them to transform the fusion of the mole.

As you can see, there are many histories of the mole, but it is clear that the Mole is a special dish for the nobility, it represents one of the greatest gifts that indigenous people have contributed to the world, and symbolizes the interconnection between two cultures. Wednesday, Nov. 19 from 6:30 – 10:00 p.m. $7 / 2nd Floor Gallery.

 

A Weekend with Pablo Picasso, by Culture Clash’s Herbert Siguenza

Siguenza created the original play at San Diego Repertory (2011) and stars as Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist in modern history. Set in the 1957 artist’s studio in southern France, the artist paints and speaks directly to the audience. Siguenza takes on the persona of Picasso, even in his art. Based upon the writings of Picasso, Siguenza creates six masterpieces live on stage each night of the performance.

The Culture Clash artist, Siguenza’s one-man show, will amaze and promises a weekend you will never forget.

Herbert Siguenza’s one-man show, A Weekend with Pablo Picasso, will run at the San Jose Stage Company with previews Nov 12-14; opens Nov 15 – Dec 7 with two performances in Spanish on Sat. Nov 22 & Nov 29, 2pm.

 

Holiday mixer with the Hispanic Chambers of Commerce

You are invited to attend our holiday mixer with the members of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which will take place on Nov. 20 from 5 to 8 p.m., at Azucar Lounge, 299 – 9th Street, San Francisco. RSVP at 735-6120. There will be lots of food and fun.

 

Also with the Hispanic Chambers of Commerce:

 

Silicon Valley’s largest mobile internet conference!

Don’t miss GMIC SV 2014, the largest mobile Internet conference in the Silicon Valley’s three days of thought-provoking presentations on the industry’s hottest topics, exclusive networking opportunities and unforgettable parties.

Join the Hispanic Chambers of Commerce of San Francisco and 200+ of the most disruptive mobile-thought leaders and experts on the journey to Mobilizing the Next 5 Billion mobile users. Confirmed GMIC SV 2014 Tracks include: User Acquisition Summit, AppSpace, Grow Asia, Mobile Education, Global Games Summit, Robotics, Smarter Hardware, and Thought Leader.

HCCSF community receive 20 percent off passes. Promo code: GMICSV-HCCSF20G. On December 1-3, at Hilton Union Square, San Francisco.

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Marc Anthony marries model Shannon de Lima in Dominican Republic

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

 

Puerto Rican singer Marc Anthony married his girlfriend, Venezuelan model Shannon de Lima, on Tuesday in the Dominican Republic, sources close to the artist told Efe.

The ceremony was held at the home Anthony owns in Casa de Campo, in eastern La Romana province, according to the same sources.

Access routes to the area have been closed off and heavily monitored since Monday and entry into the zone is only being permitted for people with specific authorization by local residents.

Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra and Carlos Vives are scheduled to perform at the post-wedding party, the sources said.

Anthony and Guerra are currently making their joint “Gigante2” singing tour through Latin America, which will conclude on Dec. 4 in Costa Rica.

The former spouse of Jennifer Lopez tied the knot once again in the same province where on April 2 he inaugurated the Niños de Cristo orphanage, which was financed by the Maestro Cares Foundation he heads along with Colombian businessman and concert producer Henry Cardenas.

On that occasion, the singer was accompanied by his girlfriend, who stars in his latest music video, which tells a fictional story of love ending in marriage.

Filmed last August in different spots around La Romana, the video features the song Flor palida and tells a romantic country tale with the singer and De Lima portraying the two lovers.

 

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 Sánchez 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.

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The move to depopulate planet Earth

[Author]FROM THE EDITOR:

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 2 OF A SERIES.

 

by Stephanie R. Pasco[/Author]

 

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

 

Jacques Cousteau, Population: Opposing Viewpoints:

“If we want our precarious endeavor to succeed, we must convince all human beings to participate in our adventure, and we must urgently find solutions to curb the population explosion that has a direct influence on the impoverishment of the less-favoured communities. Otherwise, generalized resentment will beget hatred, and the ugliest genocide imaginable, involving billions of people, will become unavoidable.”

“Uncontrolled population growth and poverty must not be fought from inside, from Europe, from North America, or any nation or group of nations; it must be attacked from the outside – by international agencies helped in the formidable job by competent and totally non-governmental organizations.”

Bertrand Russell, The Impact Of Science On Society 1953

“I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing… War… has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full… The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s… There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority…”

Henry Kissinger, 1978:

“U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation”

David Rockefeller, 2000:

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”

David Rockefeller: Memoirs 2002 Founder of the CFR:

“We wield over American political and economical institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political structure, one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

David Rockefeller, Co-founder of the Trilateral Commission:

“We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine & other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promise of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plans for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. Thomas Ferguson, the Latin American Case Officer for the State Department’s Office of Population Affairs (OPA) (now the US State Dept. Office of Population Affairs, est. by Henry Kissinger in 1975): “There is a single theme behind all our work -we must reduce population levels,” said Thomas Ferguson, the Latin American case officer for the State Department’s Office of Population Affairs (OPA). “Either they [governments] do it our way, through nice clean methods or they will get the kind of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran, or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it. “The professionals,” said Ferguson, “aren’t interested in lowering population for humanitarian reasons. That sounds nice. We look at resources and environmental constraints. We look at our strategic needs, and we say that this country must lower its population -or else we will have trouble.

“So steps are taken. El Salvador is an example where our failure to lower population by simple means has created the basis for a national security crisis. The government of El Salvador failed to use our programs to lower their population. Now they get a civil war because of it…. There will be dislocation and food shortages. They still have too many people there.” (1981)

Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, April 28, 1997; Testimony before Congressional Committee:

“And advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.”

IT WILL CONTINUE NEXT WEEK WITH MORE STATEMENTS.

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Flu shot paralyzed healthy Florida girl

[Author]by Jonathan Benson[/Author]

 

Sure, vaccines are safe — except when they randomly trigger extreme brain inflammation that leads to vision loss, paralysis and an inability to speak. This is what happened to now-10-year-old Marysue Grivna of Tampa, Florida, just four days after she received a flu vaccine, which left her completely debilitated with a serious brain disease known as acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM.

It all began on November 22, 2013, when young Marysue was taken in to get a seasonal flu vaccine. Just days later, the child began to get sick and quickly developed symptoms of paralysis. Worried, her parents took her in for an evaluation and it was determined that she had succumbed to an immune disorder caused by inflammation of the brain.

Similar to multiple sclerosis, ADEM manifests as an autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks itself, in this case targeting the protective coverings surrounding nerve fibers. Known as myelin, these coverings are meant to protect nerves in the brain and spinal cord, for instance, from being harmed. In their absence, symptoms like loss of vision and paralysis can occur.

“Her father Steven and I are certain, due to all our research, that this was what caused Marysue’s condition,” stated the girl’s mother, Carla, during a recent interview with Fox & Friends. “The doctors won’t confirm it or deny it… [but] she was a happy, healthy, running, and playing nine-year-old. Then this happened.”

5 percent of ADEM cases emerge after vaccination, says NIH

Though the doctors involved were reluctant to admit that the flu shot was the cause, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) admits that as many as 5 percent of ADEM cases emerge immediately following vaccination. The disease can also emerge following certain surgical procedures, says Dr. Juan Dumois, director of All Children’s Hospital, where Marysue was admitted.

“It can just appear out of the blue or after maybe a surgical procedure,” he told CBS 10 News.

A similar case occurred in 2008 when a 75-year-old woman developed ADEM just two days after getting a flu shot. According to the Daily Mail, the woman began to suffer symptoms of numbness and paralysis, and later died — all from a vaccine that as we reported back in 2011 is almost completely ineffective at preventing the flu.

“Marysue is now nonverbal, confined to a wheelchair/hospital bed, is primarily eating via a g-tube though we are now able to start feeding her stage two baby food by mouth,” says the family on a GoFundMe page seeking financial assistance for the construction of a new room that will accommodate Marysue’s special needs.

“Our house is very small and her hospital bed is in our living room because the doors in our house are too narrow to accommodate her bed or wheelchair,” they say. “We are also trying to raise funds to purchase a wheelchair van. If we had this, we feel we could possibly get one of our neighbors to put her in her wheelchair… thus providing me and her grandmother the ability to take her [to the doctor] and relieving her father having to carry her.”

The Grivna family’s GoFundMe page, which contains further details of the girl’s demise following her flu shot, can be accessed here:

GoFundMe.com.

For more on the ineffectiveness and dangers of flu vaccines, be sure to check out this brief report by Dr. Kelly Brogan, M.D., published by the International Medical Council on Vaccination: VaccinationCouncil.org.

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New York Times urges the president to take executive action on immigration

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

 

The New York Times on Friday urged President Barack Obama to take executive action on immigration reform as soon as possible and to “make it big” – despite recent Republican warnings against taking such steps on his own.

In an editorial, the newspaper defended the need for the president to take action immediately and not cave in to calls from a part of Congress where the speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, has said that if Obama attempts to resolve the issue by executive action, it will destroy any chance of immigration reform in the future.

“But Republicans have had many, many opportunities to move on immigration, and never have,” The New York Times said, recalling how bipartisan reform bills introduced into Congress since 2006 have all been killed.

The New York daily considers that the president has strong arguments for using his executive power in order to protect millions of the undocumented from deportation and give them the chance to have legal employment.

Among them, the paper recalls that this will benefit the entire country because it will “boost the economy, undercut labor exploitation and ease the strain on law enforcement” so it can concentrate on fighting violent criminals, terrorists and other public-safety threats.

The New York Times also expresses concern that the measures planned by Obama might be “too cautious, small and narrow,” and encourages the president to at least offer protection to those immigrants who could have applied to have their status legalized under the law passed by the Senate in 2013 but blocked by the House of Representatives.

That legislation would have opened the door to legal residence in the country for millions of people if they accepted being fined and paid their overdue taxes.

“Mr. Obama strongly endorsed the bill. His executive action should be just as broad,” the daily said, adding that if undocumented immigrants have strong bonds to the United States and their deportation contributes nothing to the national interest, they should be given the chance to stay.

Obama promised last Wednesday after the midterm elections that he will undertake, before the end of the year, executive action to fix as much as possible the immigration system while neutralizing congressional obstruction, though he has not yet provided any details about the kind of measures being considered.

 

Protesters seeking answers on students disappearance set fire to National Palace

About 20 masked protesters broke through the security barriers around the National Palace in Mexico City and set fire to the historic building’s main door, an Efe reporter confirmed on the scene.

The incident occurred at the end of a huge march Saturday from the Attorney General’s Office to the Zocalo, the Mexican capital’s main plaza, to demand the return of 43 education students who disappeared on Sept. 26 in Iguala, a city in the southern state of Guerrero.

Thousands of demonstrations dropped to the ground in the plaza at the end of the march to simulate being murdered.

The names of the missing students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School were then read as protesters listened.

Organizers called on the marchers to disperse, but a group of protesters headed to the National Palace, pushed aside the security barriers and tried to enter the building.

The protesters threw different objects, including homemade bombs, at the building, which was constructed between 1522 and 1526.

Federal Police riot units and presidential security service personnel responded to the attack and forced the masked assailants to disperse.

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NYPD upset they may have to abide by U.S. Constitution

[Author]Cops irate over proposed bill which would force them to adhere to Fourth Amendment

 

by Adan Salazar[/Author]

 

Members of the New York Police Department are rejecting a new proposal which would require them to inform citizens of their rights to refuse searches prior to unwarranted searches being conducted.

The bill, introduced today, forces police to obtain consent from citizens before they search them, a rule which was already pretty much established by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures…”

“The bill covers cases when police don’t have a warrant, are not making an arrest, or don’t have probable cause,” reports CBS New York.

Under the proposed bill, police would also be forced to obtain proof of a suspect’s consent, either in writing or with a recording of their verbal agreement.

A police union representative calls the new bill, which aims to keep citizens’ rights intact, a score for the criminals.

“This is one more time that the City Council is trying to protect criminals rather than New York City police officers,” Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch told CBS New York.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is also apparently still on the fence about whether or not protecting his fellow citizen’s rights is a good thing.

“We obviously have to protect the rights of our people, but we also have to make sure we are not undermining in any way for law enforcement to do its job,” de Blasio stated.

Evidently, police had grown accustomed to the lawless stop-and-frisk policies of the Mayor Michael Bloomberg era, which granted police broad search powers and which civil liberties organizations argued unfairly targeted minorities.

Last year, a New York judge ruled provisions of the “stop-and-frisk” law to be unconstitutional. That decision was echoed a few months later by a 2nd US circuit court of appeals which also found that searches were being carried out in a discriminatory, unconstitutional manner.

“Good idea,” an informed New York resident said of the new proposal, “because it protects our right to privacy by the First, Fourth and 14th Amendment.”

Other residents felt cops being required to uphold Fourth Amendment protections might hinder police work.

“If they ask, the answer is certainly gonna be, ‘No.’ So I don’t know what the point is,” a New Jersey resident stated.

Ironically the same officers who have no problem prodding into the affairs of innocent passersby fear their own privacy being violated.

In a recent poll conducted by pro-cop website PoliceOne.com, for example, police respondents said their biggest concern with body cameras was “A lack of privacy for the officers wearing them,” illustrating how police lift their own interests above the public’s.

The right of citizens to go about their business without the fear of being accosted by authority figures is one of the reasons the Founding Fathers included privacy protections in the Bill of Rights, whose Fourth Amendment states in full:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

 

In other police related news:

 

Police claim minority report-style pre-crime program reduces crime rate

Officers struggle to shake dystopian sci-fi reputation surrounding crime software

 

by Mikael Thalen

 

Police in Modesto, California are attributing a recent crime drop to special software reminiscent of the Hollywood blockbuster “Minority Report.”

Predictive policing software, which utilizes mathematical algorithms often used in earthquake prediction, examines several years’ worth of crime and sociological data in order to predict where a crime will likely occur down to a 500-square-foot area.

According to Capt. Rick Armendariz, the software has brought crime down to a three-year low, despite less officers patrolling the streets due to budget cuts.

“It looks at our crime history the last 10 years using a mathematical equation and it gives us what we call a high probability of where the next crime is going to occur,” Armendariz told CBS Sacramento.

Armendariz believes the software is responsible for a drop in multiple crimes including burglaries, commercial theft and robberies.

Officers rely on a top 10 list produced by the software to give them insight into problem areas around the city.

“Telling our officers this is where you need to be at at those times,” Armendariz said.

While police hail the program as an effective crime fighting tool, local residents were not as quick to support the department’s findings.

“If you don’t take the reports, the crime stats go down,” one resident said on social media. “Try reporting a minor theft in Modesto and see what I mean.”

“Just like the one gentleman said, if it’s not reported of course crime will drop. No PDs do. So then less reports=less crime. Funny how they’re giving the PD credit when all they’re doing is less work…”

Others feel the software could begin targeting individuals, leading to false positives and potentially dangerous situations.

Just like Modesto, nearly every department in possession of such software was able to obtain it through federal grants.

Earlier this year, two departments in Washington state publicly announced their acquisition of the PredPol predictive policing software.

With big data collection becoming increasingly unpopular due to revelations surrounding the NSA, fewer and fewer Americans are trusting public servants to use the technology responsibly, especially including police given their illegal activities with Stingrays cell phone interceptors. Infowars.

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