De Lucía, 66, died suddenly of a heart attack while vacationing in Mexico with his family. He will be given state honors in his native Algeciras, Spain with a public wake and memorial. His long career started when he was just 11-years-old and took him all over the world including Carnegie Hall. The self-taught musician is credited with revolutionizing flamenco guitar music by infusing different influences, including salsa and bossa nova, into his music and taking it outside of Spain to the rest of the world. His song Between Two Waters (Entre dos Aguas) is one of the most recognized Spanish classical guitar pieces in the world. Others consider Friday Night in San Francisco with John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola his greatest recording.

De Lucía, who was born Francisco Sanchez Gomes, worked with some of the greatest flamenco guitarists including Jose Greco. De Lucía music can be found in the soundtracks of several Spanish movies including ‘Carmen.’ His talents and music served as a great influence on other musicians who remembered him kindly.

“The Maestro King of Gypsy Flamenco Music is in heaven NOW,” tweeted Carlos Santana. Alejandro Sanz noted, “A genius has left us “PacoLives.” Chick Corea praised de Lucía, “inspired me in the construction of my own musical world as much as Miles Davis and John Coltrane.” Julio Iglesias probably said it best, “One of the greatest emblems of Spanish art has left us.”

The Spanish legend was working on his 30th album before he died. That album ‘Canciones Andaluzas’ will be released in April. He received his first Latin Grammy in 2004 and another in 2012 for his En Vivo live recording.

Carlos Santana Shares Cover of New Album “Corazon”

Guitarist Carlos Santana presented the cover of “Corazon,” the first disc he ever recorded with over a dozen Latin artists, and announced that the album will go on sale May 6. Artists like Pitbull, Juanes, Romeo Santos and Gloria Estefan take part in this new collaborative recording, said a communique from the Sony Music label and the artist, who calls the album a return to his Spanish-speaking childhood, having been born in the Mexican town of Autlan de Navarro in Jalisco state.

The colorful cover showing the guitarist’s face with figures that appear to be Indians, was created by Boa Mistura, a Madrid-based artists’ collective that works principally on pieces of public art.

“Corazon,” produced by Lester Mendez, recalls the artist’s Hispanic roots and features the additional participation of the Fabulosos Cadillacs (Argentina), Ziggy Marley (Jamaica), Miguel (Estados Unidos), Niña Pastori (Spain), Samuel Rosa de Skank (Brazil), Chocquibtown (Colombia), Lila Downs (Mexico) and Diego Torres (Argentina), among others.

“All the artists, men and women, who have taken part bring their own light, their talent, their spirit, they want to work with me…I’ve surrounded myself with artists who see the invisible and do the impossible,” Santana told Efe in an interview in late 2013.

The disc includes numbers like “La Flaca” by Jarabe de Palo, sung by Juanes and the first single from the album to go on sale.

Leopoldo López:Venezuela’s dangerous man

March 13, 2014

by Alvaro Vargas Llosa

After several days in hiding, Leopoldo López, one of the leaders of Venezuela’s resistance movement, turned himself in at a massive protest rally and proclaimed: “If my imprisonment serves to wake up people…it will have been worth it.”

The Chavista dictatorship headed by Nicolás Maduro has charged him with acts of violence related to recent protests. Actually, as multiple testimonies and large amounts of graphic evidence demonstrate, the violence has been perpetrated by the paramilitary groups, known as “colectivos”, that the government has armed and eulogized as protectors of the Bolivarian revolution.

These militias are similar to the ones the Cuban government routinely employs against its critics. It shouldn’t come as a surprise. Cuba is closely involved with the Venezuelan regime and has played a key role in the design and operation of the security apparatus. Maduro’s ties to Havana go back to the 1980s, when he was trained at the infamous Escuela Superior del Partido Comunista, also known as “Ñico López.” Defectors from the intelligence services have stated that he has had close connections with Castro’s America Department, charged with spreading the revolution across Latin America.

Why is Leopoldo López so dangerous? For several reasons.

1. He is fearless. The world has recently discovered this, but Venezuelans have known it for quite some time.

2. Although his lineage goes back to Bolivar’s independence struggle, he has no connection to the four decades that anteceded Chavez´s coming to power—known as “puntofijismo” after the Punto Fijo Pact signed in 1958 by the mainstream political parties and associated in the minds of government supporters with corruption and a deep social chasm. The Chavez regime has built its revolutionary legitimacy on the demonization of the democratic period, the “ancient régime” that Venezuela was supposed to leave behind. But López, who is only 42, rose to prominence together with other young leaders, including Henrique Capriles—the man who led the opposition in last year’s rigged elections—as a member of Primer Justicia, a new political organization around the time when the late Chávez rose to power.

3. For several years, López was more popular than Chávez even though he was the mayor of a small Caracas municipality. Fearing him as a potential contender, the government barred him from holding political office. The vaccum in the opposition was eventually filled by Capriles. But López was Capriles before Capriles.

4. López is a survivor, a condition uncommon in a man of his social roots if you see the world through the lens of class warfare. Although the Chavista machinery was able to push the Harvard-trained opponent aside by taking away his rights, to Maduro’s astonishment López is still going, now turned into an icon of the resistance movement from his Ramo Verde military prison.

5. He has shown a sense of the epic, a political quality more usually associated with the left in Latin America. There is no successful resistance movement without an epic narrative. López is writing it.

6. He also has a sense of political aesthetics. Walter Benjamin spoke of the aestheticization of politics in a different context. The sequence that started with the protests of February 14 and ended with the moving images of López turning himself in will be the stuff of legend. Dressed in white, holding a flag and some flowers, the hero, a father of two little children, kissed his wife goodbye amid a sea of supporters and subsequently turned himself in to the National Guard thugs, who brutally shoved him into an armored vehicle.

For Venezuelan freedom lovers, those images will be the equivalent of the day, in 1992, when an unknown lieutenant colonel, Hugo Chávez, appeared on TV following his failed coup attempt against President Carlos Andrés Pérez and announced that his objectives has not been achieved “for the moment.”

7. López has understood that pressure in the streets, peaceful civil resistance, is indispensable in the struggle against tyranny. Which is why, together with Congresswoman María Corina Machado and the mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, he has embarked on what he calls “The Way Out” in order to force a transition to the rule of law. For Maduro and his Cuban backers this is a major problem. It threatens their strategy, designed to perpetuate the regime by taking all hope of change away from the millions of victims after fifteen long years of authoritarian populism. They want Venezuelan critics to become what Cuban dissidents are today—an immensely heroic but politically impotent group of people that the government has no trouble overwhelming when they make too much noise.

Maduro and the Cubans are right: López is a dangerous guy.

[For background on the political unrest in Venezuela, see the author’s award-winning book, Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression.]

What you wanted to know about the New World Order – Part 2 and last

March 13, 2014

by Marvin Ramirez

Marvin Ramirez

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Dear readers of El Reportero, I want share with you the following article, published by a website called, Spoon-Fed Truth, which contains just what I was looking for, information that would define in more detail what the meaning of The New World Order was. Many of you have heard it so many times by the Bushes, and even Obama. Well, I hope you will enjoy it and come up with your conclusions. Remember, this type of information – labeled as Conspiracy Theory, is never covered in the mainstream media, as they are believed to serve the agenda of The New World Order. El Reportero is reproducing it as it was written by its original author/s. This is Part 2 and last.

Published by The Spoon-Fed Truth

Those behind the New World Order are a synthesis of the survivors of empires, of super-merchant families, of barbarian kings, of banking families established in the middle-ages, and of the royal families of Europe, among others, which trace back to the old world. The group which orchestrates the entire agenda is often assumed to be the Illuminati, and can serve as a synonym for New World Order and just like the government, it is made up of “branches” which infiltrate and influence world banking, world politics, and religion and spirituality.

Unfortunately, in the United States, the Establishment’s goal of a One World Order is reaching fruition through complacent consent and subversive conquest.

America, a Constitutional Republic, is plunging into the satanical One World Order facilitated by the calculated placement of unscrupulous individuals deeply dedicated to the goals of the secret societies they belong to. America, formerly the home of the brave and the free, is currently the home of the people who merely think they are free. None are more enslaved and manipulated than those who mistakenly society themselves as free, therefore rendering them exceptionally vulnerable.

Consent, using mass population management can be achieved by using elements of Hegelian Dialectics. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), the political and social scientist and professor at the University of Berlin from 1817 until his death in 1831, clearly defined his philosophical/political concepts that came to be known as Hegelianism. His ideas are still taught and authors continue to elaborate on his philosophies, though inattentive Americans fail to acknowledge or even distinguish their application in our own society despite the obvious and devastating consequences.

What we think we see is often an illusion intentionally presented, like the view themselves as free, therefore rendering them exceptionally vulnerable.

What we think we see is often an illusion intentionally presented, like the 1conjuror who would have you to believe he holds an orange in his right hand, when it is actually in his left hand. Citizens of the world, whether their sympathies are left-wing or right-wing, monarchist or republican, have been used as pawns in their game of Hegelian psychology by the hidden hand that rules. In reality, the orange is in neither left nor right hand. The Hegelian dialectic process is the notion that conflict creates history.

From this axiom it follows that controlled conflict can create a predetermined history. For example when the Trilateral Commission discusses ‘managed conflict’, as it does extensively in its literature, it implies the managed use of conflict for long run predetermined ends – not for the mere random exercise of manipulative control to solve a problem. The dialectic takes this Trilateral ‘managed conflict’ process one step further. In Hegelian terms, an existing force (the thesis) generates a counterforce (the antithesis). Conflict between the two forces results in the forming of a synthesis. Then the process starts all over again: Thesis vs. antithesis results in synthesis.

It’s like two companies with undisclosed common stockholding submitting competitive tenders for a project on a site for which their stockholder has different plans altogether. Whatever the outcome, the stockholder is in beneficial control.

More On Hegelian Dialectics

Unfortunately, despite the government’s responsibility to protect citizen’s rights, it is blatantly obvious that the government is following an alternative, deliberately destructive agenda including: rural cleansing of the resource-producing population, economic destabilization, runaway inflation, unrestrained immigration, illegal surveillance, the NAU, deteriorating infrastructure, ethnic disparity, de-population through war, disease, toxicity, and chemtrails, selective response to “natural” disasters, destruction of the middle class, seizure of private property and obliteration of God-given liberties – all at the hands of an elite ruling class – crony monopoly capitalists and war profiteers, intent on stealing and controlling the earth’s resources, a contrived diminishing food supply and the surviving useless eaters, still obedient and moderately productive.

What happened to that illusive balance of power?

The sheer magnitude of the complex web of deceit surrounding the individuals and interlocking institutions involved in this conspiracy is mind boggling, especially for the average human being who has been indoctrinated to reject the existence of it, often laughing in the face of it. The global agenda is being orchestrated by these extremely powerful and influential groups, some of which are genetically-related individuals that have carried a bloodline with them through the ages, and it also include many of the world’s wealthiest people, top political leaders, and corporate elite. Using a pyramid hierarchy technique, and creating such an over abundance of organizations, clubs, societies and so-called “ABC groups”, a pyramid hierarchy built within each of them, the elite are able to keep their agenda hidden from the world. This is how they keep their presence and agenda so well hidden? It is all in the compartmentalization of organizations, and the secrecy that is precious to a pyramid structured hierarchy. The thirteen royal bloodlines sit at the top. A quote from author David Icke, who does a wonderful job at explaining the pyramid hierarchy.

“The structure can be symbolized as a web or as a pyramid in which the few at the top dictate to the many at the bottom. The many are kept in ignorance of what is really going on. The pyramid structure of secret societies is mirrored in government, banking, business and every other organization and institution … Only the few at the top of the pyramids know the real agenda and what the organization is trying to achieve. The further you go down the pyramid the more people are working for the organization but the less they know about its real agenda. They are only aware of the individual job they do every day. They don’t know how their contribution (apparently innocent in isolation) connects with those of other employees in other areas of the company government or whatever. They are ‘compartmentalized’ and the only people who know how it all fits together are the very few sitting at the top – the bloodline families and their lackeys. The smaller pyramids, like the local branch of a bank, fit into bigger and bigger pyramids, until eventually you have the pyramid that encompasses all of the banks. It is the same with the transnational corporations, political parties, secret societies, media empires and the military. If you go high enough in this structure all the translational corporations (like the oil cartel), major political parties, secret societies, media empires and the military (via NATO, for instance), are controlled by the same families who sit atop the biggest pyramids. In the end there is a global pyramid that includes all the others … At the capstone of this you will find the most elite of the Illuminati, the ‘purest’ of their bloodlines. In this way, they can coordinate through apparently unconnected, even ‘opposing’ areas of society, the same policies.” All roads lead eventually to them.” -David Icke, Tales from the Time Loop.

Strikes and civil desobedience protest firings and deportations

March 13, 2014

Silicon Valley immigrant rights activists, including labor organizers Fred Hirsch and Gerardo Dominguez, and Father Jon Pedigo, sit down with others in the middle of an intersection, in an act of civil disobedience.
For the last six months, community and labor activists-mostly young – have sat down in front of buses carrying people to detention centers for deportation. In Tucson, they obstructed and chained themselves to ICE vans. In San Francisco, a few days after blocking a bus carrying deportees to detention, “Dreamer” Ju Hong-a young immigrant whose deportation was deferred in the White House’s executive action two years ago-challenged President Obama during a local speech.

“You have the power to stop deportation,” the protester told him.

In response to these actions and others like them, the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco have passed resolutions demanding a moratorium on deportations; San Francisco is imposing a halt in immigration-related firings as well.

And the pressure is only intensifying. Last week, unions and community organizations closed down an intersection in front of a Silicon Valley supermarket chain where hundreds were fired after an inspection by ICE of company personnel records (an I-9 audit), intended to identify undocumented workers for termination. The next day, immigrant recycling workers in one San Leandro, Calif. trash facility walked out of work when their employer and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency threatened their jobs in a similar audit.

These protests are a direct response to the deportations and firing that have intensified as a result of the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement policies. Over the last five years, thousands of workers have been fired through immigration audits and the use of the E-Verify database. In the same period, about 400,000 people have been deported every year — almost two million in five years. Special Federal courts, called “Operation Streamline,” convene daily, passing quick judgment on migrants led into the courtroom in chains, and sending them to privately run “detention centers” for immigrants. More than 300,000 people each year spend some time in these immigration prisons.

Some organizations in Washington have continued to pressure Congress to take a vote on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bills (S 7444 and HR 15). But the actions in the streets hardly mention them. Some grassroots groups no longer support them at all, because they contain increased enforcement measures that would make firings and deportations even more widespread than they already are.

In fact, many community organizations and unions outside of Washington have largely abandoned the idea that Congress can or will pass any legislation that would end mass deportations and safeguard the jobs and labor rights of immigrant workers.

These grassroots protesters instead want the Obama administration to immediately use its executive authority to stop deportations and firings, without waiting for Congress. Even beltway groups like the National Council of La Raza, which until recently insisted that the CIR bills were the only way forward, have demanded an end to mass deportations.

In San Leandro, recycling striker Ampara Romo appealed to supporters, “I ask everyone to try to change the laws being used against us right now, because they are unjust and cause so much harm to families and our community in general.” When recycling workers went on strike to protest firings, they were calling for the right to live as equals, as full participants in society, and to work without fear.

The unions and groups supporting them-as well as those around the countryseek an immigration reform that rises from locally based actions and advances toward equality. They reject the reforms in Congress because they create a secondclass tier of people with fewer rights, subject to ferocious enforcement. These photographs show the determination and courage of immigrant workers, their families and supportersgoing on strike against the prospect of losing their jobs, sitting down in the street in civil disobedience, and demanding a radical change in immigration policy.

Jamie Herrera, a worker at a recycling facility in Oakland, where workers went on strike to protest bad wages, unsafe working conditions and ICE audits. Previously, Herrera had been a skilled union worker at a local foundry when he lost his job because of an earlier I-9 audit-in which the Department of Homeland Security accused him of lacking legal status and forced his employer to fire him. Workers at the recycling sorting facility of Alameda County Industries walk out to protest the company’s decision to fire workers accused of not having legal immigration status. They also blocked trucks hauling trash from entering the facility.

Workers say the company was paying $8.30 an hour; San Leandro’s living wage ordinance requires $14.17. After five employees filed a suit over the wage theft, they say, the company used the threat of immigration enforcement to retaliate.

Maria Granados, one of the suing workers, points out, “One month after we sued them they started calling people into the office to say there were problems with our documents.

Some of us have been there 14 years, so why now?”

Striking immigrant recycling workers are supported by community leaders from a dozen organizations and unions.

Although the employees had no union contract, they were assisted in the strike by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6 and ILWU organizer Agustin Ramirez. The fasters, who are leading a charge to demand a moratorium on deportations, spoke at the rally in support of the strikers about the importance of stopping the firings; in turn, the workers demanded a moratorium on deportations as well.

After rallying outside the recycling facility for two hours, the workers, followed by community supporters, march back to the plant gate to return to work. The temp agency that employs them threatened to fire anyone who participated in the strike, but the workers demanded the agency respect their right to strike.

After rallying outside the recycling facility for two hours, the workers, followed by community supporters, marched back to the plant gate to return to work. The temp agency that employs them threatened to fire anyone who participated in the strike, but the workers demanded the agency respect their right to strike.

by David Bacon

Mexican vigilantes agree to not enter urban cities

March 13, 2014

by the El Reportero’s wire services

Mexican vigilante groups in the western state of Michoacan have pledged not to enter more cities, municipal seats or other urban areas, authorities said.

They made those commitments in a meeting Friday in Apatzingan with the federally appointed commissioner for security and development in Michoacan, Alfredo Castillo, the Government Secretariat said in a statement.

These militias will only be present in designated checkpoints, always working jointly with federal forces, and must receive permission from authorities before making “any movements whatsoever,” the statement read.

The “self-defense groups” also agreed to meet every Thursday with regional security chiefs and to appoint three individuals – Hipolito Mora, Estanislao Beltran and Jose Manuel Mireles – as their exclusive spokespersons.

“Federal and state authorities and the citizens’ groups will work in a coordinated and transparent fashion to restore order and tranquility to Michoacan,” the statement added.

This agreement comes after the vigilante groups had said they planned to expand their presence beyond the 20 Michoacan municipalities where they currently provide community policing. Some members of the outfits even said they would move into Morelia, the state capital, although the federal government vehemently rejected the idea.

These groups of armed civilians began to emerge a year ago in the so-called Tierra Caliente region, which straddles the states of Michoacan, Guerrero and Mexico states, to protect their communities from Los Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar) drug cartel.

But the federal government has stepped up its presence in Michoacan in recent weeks, deploying thousands of police and soldiers to bolster security and appointing Castillo to coordinate those actions.

Besides aiming to crush the Templarios, the Federal Police and army troops have sought to bring the militias under the formal control of the military. Many of the Michoacan vigilantes have signed up for an army-controlled Rural Defense Corps.

Panama unveils first metro system in Central America

The consortium made up of Spanish construction group FCC and Brazilian engineering giant Odebrecht has delivered Line 1 of Panama City’s metro system, the first of its kind in Central America, wrapping up a project that took 41 months to complete and cost $2.01 billion. The new metro was unveiled in a ceremony Friday at the headquarters of Panama’s Metro Secretariat, officials told Efe.

The metro system’s Line 1 was initially intended to stretch for 13.7 kilometers (8.5 miles) and include 13 stations, both above and below ground, but a pair of kilometers and two stations were later added, raising the price by $211.6 million, officials confirmed Friday. Financing for the project has come from Citibank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Andean Development Corporation, known as the CAF, and the Panamanian Economy and Finance Ministry. Additional support has been provided by institutions such as French export credit agency Coface, Spain’s Cesce and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group.

The trains were built at French multinational Alstom’s plant in Barcelona.

The trains will consist of three cars initially, though they have a five-car capacity. Each has air conditioning, video monitoring equipment, passenger information systems and designated seating for the disabled.

Once it reaches full operating capacity between May and June, Line 1 will be able to transport up to 30,000 people an hour in both directions.

Ecuadorian President Does Not Rule Out Running for Reelection in 2017

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced Friday that he will review his decision not to run for reelection in the 2017 balloting, and said he will study the possibility of changing the constitutional restriction that prevents him, for now, from running for another term.

Correa said he is considering that possibility due to the progress made last Sunday by the right in local elections, when the opposition won five of the most populated municipalities in the country.

Azodicarbonamide yoga mat chemical confirmed in 500 + everyday foods and grocery items

March 13, 2014

by Mike Adam
First person

Including natural and ‘healthy’ products

Last week I warned the world that the global food supply was intentionaly designed to end human life, not nourish it. Popular foods have been “weaponized” and are deliberately engineered to deliver toxic, cancer-causing chemicals to everyday consumers. The effect of all this is the mass poisoning of the people; keeping them incoherent, dumbed-down, diseased and chained to the for-profit “sick care” system where disease equals profits. – See Paul Chek’s video lecture which explains this in more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFZiJeY_5uU.

Today, the Environmental Working Group published a hard-hitting report providing yet more evidence in support of exactly the point I’ve been making. EWG researchers confirmed the presence of azodicarbonamide, the “yoga mat chemical,” in hundreds of brand-name foods, including brands that promote themselves as “healthy” or “natural.”

Food brands found to contain the chemical include:

– Betty Crocker, Bimbo, Earthgrains, Fiber One, Gourmet, Healthy Life, Jimmy Dean, Debbie, Own, Pillsbury, Meal, Roundy’s, Sara Lee, Tyson. The complete list is published at the Environmental Working Group website. Natural News also confirmed the presence of the chemical in foods sold by McDonald’s, Chickfil- A, Arby’s, Carl’s Jr. and other restaurants.

Azodicarbonamide was deliberately chosen even though it is not needed

What this list shows is that all these companies are willing to deliberately feed azodicarbonamide to their customers, often while claiming their products are
“natural” or “healthy.”

Vani Hari, known as the Food Babe, is credited with spearheading the grassroots campaign on this particular chemical over the last two years. At first, the effort targeted Subway, which eventually bowed to public pressure and agreed to remove the chemical at some point in the future. But from there, news began to spread as azodicarbonamide was identified in the products of other fast food restaurants and now hundreds of grocery store items.

In every one of these cases, the chemical was deliberately engineered into the foods even though it is not needed! For thousands of years, breads have been made without the chemical, and even today this chemical is rarely used in many first-world nations. But in the U.S. food supply, it is deliberately added to the most popular foods which are consumed by the masses. Popular foods are laced with thousands of chemicals and toxic heavy metals Azodicarbonamide is just one of thousands of other chemicals deliberately used by grocery foods manufacturers, many of which have links to cancer and other serious diseases.

For example, processed meat companies routinely use sodium nitrite, a chemical which is no doubt thousands of times more toxic than anything ever substantiated with azodicarbonamide.

That’s why your grassroots support is so crucial in all this. Without your support of Natural News, Food Babe, the Environmental Working Group, Cornucopia and other important organizations, nobody would ever hear the truth about all the poisons they’re eating!

Also, have no doubts that grassroots activism is right now rocking and shocking the world of corporate food, where executives are running around in a total panic, realizing that every single one of the chemicals they currently use can be leveraged by grassroots activists into massive boycott campaigns organized via social media.

Truly, corporate food companies have lost control of the information monopolies they once held, and all their toxic secrets are going to come out one at a time.

How to address growing poverty? More confiscation by government

March 13, 2014

por Kurt Nimmo

CNN, la casa del Cuarto Grupo Militar de Operaciones Psicológicas, admite que la “guerra contra la pobreza” lanzada hace media centuria en este mes es un fracaso total y más estadunidenses que nunca están sumidos en la pobreza.

Cerca de 50 millones viven en la pobreza en los Estados Unidos –aproximadamente una de cada seis personas–, alcanzando o sobrepasando las más altas tasas de pobreza desde los años sesenta.

-CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 1, 2014

¿Cómo revertir esta tendencia de larga duración? Bien, si el problema es la “inequidad del ingreso”, la solución natural es gravar impuestos a los ricos, aunque CNN no dice esto directamente. En lugar de eso, cita a los analistas no partidistas del Congreso, quienes culpan a un gobierno “menos redistributivo” por el enorme abismo entre los ricos y los pobres.

En otras palabras, se requerirá más confiscación. No del 1% que relocaliza su liquidez e idea nuevas formas de evadir impuestos, sino de las víctimas indefensas en la clase millonaria y la clase media directamente debajo de ella.

¿Cómo lograr esto? Salir a votar… de nuevo.

“Las estadísticas muestran que las gentes de menores ingresos son menos propensas a votar. De acuerdo con encuestas de CNN de salida a las urnas, aquellos que ganan menos de $15,000 al año representaron el 6% de los votantes en 2008. Más del 13% de la población total cayó bajo la línea de la pobreza ese año”, reporta CNN.

Los liberales esperan que 2016 será diferente e impulsan a gentes como la senadora por Masachusetts Elizabeth Warren para contender por la presidencia. Política neófita, Warren es campeona en políticas económicas liberales.

Y los progresistas creen que la elección del demócrata Bill De Blasio como Alcalde de Nueva York, la capital financiera del mundo, es un signo prometedor de que la nación estará más lista para discutir las cuestiones pertenecientes a la gente pobre.

Un populista, De Blassio, destacó un cuento de un tema de “dos ciudades” que ilustraba la división entre ricos y pobres.

CNN dice que los republicanos del establishment están cortejando a la gente pobre. “Los demócratas tienden a apoyar políticas que implican más gobierno y distribución equitativa de la riqueza, mientras los republicanos tienden a un enfoque de “goteo” en el que las economías más fuertes de las clases alta y media beneficien a los pobres”, explica CNN.

“Goteo” es una palabra de moda que guía los bates liberales. Ellos prefieren la confiscación directa y nunca parecen notar que esto no hace nada para mejorar la suerte de los pobres.

“El poder del gobierno y del dinero no gotea”, escribe Jeoffrey Tucker. “Toma dinero y lo derrama en cada vez más burocracia y se lo da a las élites. Su poder crece y crece a expensas de la sociedad.”

Parece que una nueva guerra contra la pobreza va a ser lanzada por el establishment. Como la última, este nuevo despilfarro no reducirá el número de pobres, pero acrecentará el gobierno y creará una nueva clase de burócratas.

Por supuesto, en la medida en que la economía es el juego de los banqueros y su corte de la Reserva Federal, no va a cambiar nada significativo, excepto quizá la retórica y una marcha a las urnas donde se esperan máquinas manipuladas.

Federales consideran seguimiento de localización de vehículos en coches nuevos

La propuesta puede provocar más accidentes, impuestos por kilometraje y boletos por “violaciones de tráfico grabadas”.

por Kit Daniels

En pocas semanas, las autoridades federales van a requerir que los nuevos vehículos cuenten con GPS rastreable, dispositivos de “seguridad” que podrían ser hackeados y causar accidentes automovilísticos e incluso acompañarse de impuestos por kilometraje.

La Adiministración Nacional de Seguridad del Tránsito Carretero dedicará las próximas dos semanas a reflexionar su decisión de instalar comunicaciones vehículo-vehículo –conocidas por sus siglas como V2V– en los vehículos nuevos, que les podrían permitir “hablar” entre sí a través de información de GPS con el pretexto de “prevención de accidentes”, según ABC News.

Sin embargo, un funcionario involucrado en el estudio del gobierno acerca de los dispositivos admitió que los hackers pueden abusar del sistema y crear estragos en el tránsito masivo.

“¿Quién tiene acceso y cómo podemos asegurar la información?”, pregunta David Wise, de la Oficina de Responsabilidad del Gobierno.

Además, dijo que el V2V va a confiar en la información del GPS, que puede utilizarse para rastrear fácilmente un vehículo –y también a los que lo ocupan.

“La privacidad es un reto real”, señaló Wise.

Eso es honestidad refrescante por parte de un funcionario del gobierno.

El hecho de que el sistema V2V puede ser hackeado y provocar aumentos de velocidad muestra la mentira de los políticos de que estos dispositivos fueron diseñados para prevenir accidentes. En síntesis, los burócratas quieren instalar el V2V en los vehículos para rastrear a los norteamericanos como animales en una extensión enferma del espionaje doméstico promovido con avaricia por la NSA.

Asimismo, el rastreo de vehículos permite a los políticos del gobierno cumplir su objetivo de gravar con impuestos a los conductores por milla recorrida.

También los legisladores pueden utilizar este tipo de tecnología para aprobar leyes que permitan a los gobiernos locales enviar boletos a los conductores por “violaciones de tráfico grabadas”, como ya se está haciendo con las cámaras de luz roja.

Y para plantarse aún más entre los conductores, el costo de la tecnología del GPS va a ser grabado en el precio de los nuevos automóviles, forzando a los norteamericanos a pagar por su propia esclavitud.

Eche un vistazo a los siguientes artículos para ver usted mismo la agenda oculta tras la tecnología de V2V:

¿Una caja negra en su automóvil? Algunos ven una suerte de ingresos fiscales: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-roads-black-boxes-20131027,0,6090226.story#axzz2pBSR1aMk.

Richard Clarke: Hastings Accident “Consistent with a Car Cyber Attack http://www.infowars.com/richard-clarke-hastings-accident-consistent-with-a-car-cyber-attack/

GM’s OnStar now spyspying on your car for profit even after you unsubscribe? http://www.infowars.com/gms-onstar-now-spying-on-your-car-for-profit-even-after-you-unsubscribe/.

Brazilians will be forced to use RFID chips and GPS trackers in their cars http://www.infowars.com/brazilians-will-be-forced-to-use-rfid-chips-and-gps-trackers-in-their-cars/.

Exclusive: Govt Documents Reveal DHS Domestic Spy Takeover http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-snowden-level-documents-reveal-stealth-dhs-spy-grid/.

South Carolina Police Grab Innocent Cell User’s Data Through ‘Tower Dump’ http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-snowden-level-documents-reveal-stealth-dhs-spy-grid/.

(Infowars.com)

Boxing

March 13, 2014

The Sport of Gentlemen

Saturday, March 8 – Las Vegas, Nevada (SHOWTIME) –

Junior middleweights: Carlos Molina (22-5-2, 6 KOs) vs. Jermell Charlo (17-0, 13 KOs);

Lightweights: Omar Figueroa (22-0-1, 17 KOs) vs. Ricardo Alvarez (23-2-3, 14 KOs);

Junior featherweights: Leo Santa Cruz (26-0-1, 15 KOs) vs. Cristian Mijares (49-7-2, 24 KOs).

Saturday, March 8 – Berlin, Germany –

Cruiserweights: Yoan Pablo Hernandez (28-1, 14 KOs) vs. Pawel Kolodziej (33-0, 18 KOs).

Saturday, March 15 – Bayamon, Puerto Rico (SHOWTIME) –

Light welterweights: Danny Garcia (27-0, 16 KOs) vs. Mauricio Herrera (20-3, 7 KOs).

Wednesday, March 26 – Tokyo, Japan –

WBA super flyweight title: Denkaosan Kaowichit (62-3-1, 26 KOs) vs. Kohei Kono (29-8, 12 KOs).

Legendary Carlos Mejía Godoy and La Cuneta Son Machin to perform in SF

March 8, 2014

Compiled by El Reportero’s staff

Carlos Mejía Godoy

The Nicaraguan composer and singer Carlos Mejía Godoy is the special guest to open the year 2014 in San Francisco with a special presentation that will rock everyone emotions.

The author of the famous Misa Campesina Nicaragüense song that helped lead the people of Nicaragua into a revolutionary war that ousted Anastacio Somoza Debayle’s regime, is also the author of the albums El Son Nuestro De Cada Día, La Nueva Milpa, Grandes Éxitos, and A Dos Puyas, No Hay Toro Valiente.

Mejía Godoy comes accompanied with the group, La Cuneta Son Machine, whose new sound, include traditional folk and tropical music of Nicaragua played with a “Cumbia-Rock-Latin-Chinamo-Funk” flavor, making them a unique band of its kind in the country. To take effect at the legendary Cesar’s Latin Palace, 826 26th Street, San Francisco. For more info call 415-471-4613.

Voted L.A.’s ‘Best Latin Alternative Band,’ Las Cafeteras come to the Bay Area

After a successful 3-month Northwest and Midwest Tour this past fall that had them open for groups like Juanes, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Las Cafeteras hit the road again.

This time, Las Cafeteras are going to different parts of the country and will be engaging communities in the East Coast (Boston, New York, Philadelphia), Texas (Austin), Florida (Miami), and Northern California. Along with their performances, Las Cafeteras will also be having cultural exchanges with universities, museums, and immigrant rights organizations with the purpose of sharing stories from their respective cities.

Las Cafeteras’ musician David Flores says, “we believe that we are all the same because we are all different and we want to use our tour as a platform to inspire people across the country to share their story through poetry, storytelling and art.”

Two presentations at UC Berkeley: on March 13, at Hearst Field Annex, and on March 14 at the Memorial Glade, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

Month-long Performing Arts 2014 Festival Returns to SF Public Library

Come sing with the beloved bilingual recording artist, educator and children’s author José-Luis Orozco! Children and families will sing and dance to Jose-Luis’ Spanish and English music rooted in Latin American culture. His music combines rhymes, movements, and rhythm with information, such as the alphabet, vowels, numbers, and colors. These four concerts will be a delight for the entire family.

Acrobatics, juggling, balancing, contortion, and more will be performed by Wayne Huey of Red Panda Acrobats and by the kids and teens of Circus Center’s Youth Circus. The Youth Circus will thrill with aerial acts, clowns, face painting, and a chance to join the circus at the skills workshop following the performance.

And finally, by popular demand, five puppet troupes are returning to SFPL to amuse and amaze. Magical Moonshine Theatre performs traditional European-style hand-and-rod puppet theatre. Sean’s Shadows creates tales with light and shadow from around the world. The Fratello Marionettes both educate and delight with puppets and puppeteers in full view. Ventriloquist, Tony Borders, brings some crazy critters and a magical picnic with Muppet-style hand puppets.

On March 11, José Luis Orozco in Concert, from 9:30 a.m. – 12 noon at Parque Niños Unidos, on 23rd Street & Treat. On March 12, Cartooning Workshop for Teens with Morgan Taylor, from 4:30 – 6 p.m., at the Main Library, Children’s Creative Center, 2nd floor. For more info call For more information, call 415 557-4277.

Is the Soros-sponsored ‘Agenda 21’ a hidden plan for World Government?

March 8, 2014

Yes, only is not hidden

People carry signs during a mass protest against agribusiness giant Monsanto in Los Angeles last year.

by Mike Opelka

What is Agenda 21? If you do not know about it, you should.

Agenda 21 is a two-decade old, grand plan for global ’Sustainable Development,’ brought to you from the United Nations. George H.W. Bush (and 177 other world leaders) agreed to it back in 1992, and in 1995, Bill Clinton signed Executive Order #12858, creating a Presidential Council on ‘Sustainable Development.’ This effectively pushed the UN plan into America’s large, churning government machine without the need for any review or discussion by Congress or the American people.

‘Sustainable Development’ sounds like a nice idea, right? It sounds nice, until you scratch the surface and find that Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development are really cloaked plans to impose the tenets of Social Justice/Socialism on the world.

At risk from Agenda 21;

• Private Property ownership

• Single-Family homes

• Private car ownership and individual travel choices

• Privately owned farms

The Agenda 21 plan openly targets private property. For over thirty-five years the UN has made their stance very clear on the issue of individuals owning land;

Land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of society as a whole.

Source: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat I),Vancouver, BC, May 31 – June 11, 1976. Preamble to Agenda Item 10 of the Conference Report.

There are two more, very good reasons to be wary of Agenda 21 and the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) that supports it: George Soros and the United Nations. Soros money has been tracked to funding parts of ICLEI.

In 1997, George Soros’s Open Society gave ICLEI a $2,147,415 grant to support its Local Agenda 21 Project

As regards the UN, that organization’s problems with America’s appreciation of freedom and self-determination is one that needs no explanation.

Currently in California, Agenda 21 is working to implement plans to create plans for sustainable management of ‘open spaces.’ The definition of what is to be considered an ‘open space’ has sparked some heated exchanges between those directing the planning meetings and citizens who want private property rights to be respected and protected.

This type of global plan could not be implemented without a large and well-funded group pushing through its priorities. For that, Agenda 21 has the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). And ICLEI is deeply entrenched in America;

ICLEI USA was launched in 1995 and has grown from a handful of local governments participating in a pilot project to a solid network of more than 600 cities, towns and counties actively striving to achieve tangible reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and create more sustainable communities.

ICLEI USA is the domestic leader on climate protection and adaptation, and sustainable development at the local government level.

Over six hundred cities, towns and counties in America are members of ICLEI? Do you support your local government agreeing to rules and regulations set up by a UN-based organization that wants private property transferred to government control? If you would like to see if your community is a member of ICLEI, you can visit their website.

Austin, Texas is one city that seems to have fallen for the ICLEI/Agenda 21 and was heavily consuming the ‘Communitariasm’ Kool-aid. A local group called Texans For Accountable Government saw what was happening and attempted to stop the Austin City Council from adopting some Agenda 21-friendly initiatives. One of TAG’s members, John Bush, delivered a succinct presentation on ICLEI and Agenda 21 that was virtually ignored. Watch his short argument against the proposed local law immediately followed by the lopsided vote adopting the plan.

In the world of business Agenda 21 is not a free market friend, preferring PPPs or Private Public Partnerships where the government decides which companies will receive tax breaks and are allowed to stay in business.

In light of this realization, the cozy relationship between the current administration and GE (a company that paid no tax in 2010) should raise eyebrows. And the WH efforts to tell Boeing in which state they can operate seems to further bolster the belief that Agenda 21 ideals are already making headway in America.

The seeds for Agenda 21 were planted back in 1987 when the writings of Gro Harlem Brundtland (a woman who was first Vice-President of the Socialist International) caught the eye of the UN. Dr. Brundtland wrote a report for the UN called, ‘Our Common Future’ eventually got into the business of environmentalism as a tool to control all the people of the world and establish a global government. The growth of ICLEI and the framework being put in place by supporters of Agenda 21 appear to be bringing Dr. Brundtland’s ideas closer to reality In recent months, citizen groups across the country have organized and become involved in the removal of towns and cities from membership in ICLEI.

For a better understanding of Agenda 21 and ICLEI we suggest: The American Policy Center offers a onepage primer on Agenda 21.

1...430431432...718 Page 431 of 718

CAMBIO DE IDIOMA

English
Español

SELECTIONS

California climate credit helps lower PG&E customers’ summer bills

July 28, 2026

Community Calendar July – August

July 24, 2026

These California Republicans have one advantage in the race for Congress: Money

July 24, 2026

POPULAR TICKETS

California climate credit helps lower PG&E customers’ summer bills

July 28, 2026

Community Calendar July – August

July 24, 2026

These California Republicans have one advantage in the race for Congress: Money

July 24, 2026

ABOUT US

Welcome to our Marvin J. Ramirez website! We are an innovative newspaper located in the heart of San Francisco. With a relentless passion for telling powerful stories, we inform our community with truthful news, insightful analysis, and compelling reporting.

Contacto: lreportero@aol.com