­por Yashenka Baca

A protest was held in front of the Mexican Consulate against the construction of a dam, which would affect several communities in Mexico.

To the sound of “The eyes of the world are on Temaca”, more than 20 protestors and activists, standing outside of the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco this past Wednesday Nov. 10, demanded that construction on the Zapotillo Dam, in the Jalisco state of Mexico, be stopped.

The protest, organized in the U.S. by International Rivers, was just one of dozens held around the world to mark the International Day of Action to stop the Zapotillo Dam. Similar actions took place in Argentina, Chile, Australia, Kenya and Canada, among others. All had the same objective: To inform the world about the conflict between the Mexican government and the more than 1,000 residents of Temacapulin (Temaca), Acasico and Palmarejo who will be directly affected.

The Zapotillo Dam, in which the government would invest 8 million pesos, would not only force the resettlement of 1,000 residents in the three closest communities, but also affect another 15,000 residents who live in the surrounding areas. It would flood approximately 4,816 hectares of fertile soil which has been the livelihood of farmers in this area for years.

Jose Merced Aramburo, one of the protestors who spoke with El Reportero outside the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco, said that the Mexican government, “never called the town to consult with them about the construction of the dam, they simply arrived to say: You are going to be moved.” Like Aramburo, more than 1,000 residents of Jalisco would loose property which has been in their family for years. In constructing the dam, the Verde River, which crosses Jalisco, would accumulate until 500 cubic meters of water was collected.

­This would be principally sent to the industrial city of Leon, Guanajuato, which according to environmental impact studies wastes more than 40 percent of its drinking water due to leaks in the storage system.

However, the communities’ stance against the construction of the dam go far beyond the loss of their land. In 2005 when the then president Vicente Fox announced the future construction of the dam, the farmers and wage earners of Temaca could not avoid thinking that the principal beneficiaries of the water coming from this zone would be the ranches, the businesses and the industries that the Fox family own in Leon.

In spite of five years of harassment from the government and the pressure that Temaca, Acasico and Palmarejo experience daily, none of the community members have backed down. The protests, the signs and the resistance continue in the face of a government that is deaf to the voices of the people. The people of Temaca say that they will stay where they are, to see if the government dare to drown them.

Representative from the Mexican consulate in San Francisco did not return the calls from El Reportero to respond to questions about their version of the facts.

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“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” Albert Schweitzer

Provided by It’s Healthy New Age

That is a pretty shocking quote, but when you study the impacts and choices the public and corporations in the U.S. are making regarding the production and farming of food along with the pollution and additives deposited into our water you’ll begin to get the point.

The causes of water contamination are numerous and range from agricultural runoff to improper use of household chemicals and everything in between.

While the standard use in our society of over 75,000 ­different chemical compounds has offered added convenience and productivity in our lives, it has also come at a tremendous price.

Drastic increase in degenerative diseases. In the early 1900s, before chlorine, pesticides, herbicides and the tens of thousands of other chemicals that we are exposed to, the average person had a 1 in 50 chance of getting cancer, today 1 in 3 can expect to get cancer in their lifetime, one out of every 2 men.

If you doubt this, you might want to watch the documentary, “The Future of Food.” A real eye opener and illustrates a lack of understanding of the implications of the use of pesticides and the desire to manipulate mother nature.

Water Treatment Facilities are Not Enough

Our municipal water treatment facilities are not designed or effective for removing these synthetic chemicals and typically only consist of sand bed filtration and disinfection, much like a standard swimming pool filter.

For the most part today’s water treatment facilities are much the same as they were at the turn of the century. “Drinking water plants are old and out of date, and water supplies are increasingly threatened by and contaminated by chemicals and microorganisms.” Natural Resources Defense Council. “The way we guarantee safe drinking water is broken and needs to be fi xed.” Carol Browner, U.S. EPA.

Man Made Chemicals and Contaminants in Our Water

Our use of man made chemicals has become so extreme that we can now fi nd traces of these low level toxins in virtually every public water supply in the world. A recent report by the Ralph Nader Study Group, after reviewing over 10,000 documents acquired through the Freedom Of Information Act, stated that “U.S. drinking water contains more than 2100 toxic chemicals that can cause cancer.”

The Federal Council On Environmental Quality reports that “Up to two thirds of all cancers may be attributed to these low level toxins.” and that “once contaminated our ground water will remain so for tens of thousands of years. if not geologic time!”

The majority of the contaminants found in our drinking water can be traced back to improper or excessive use of ordinary compounds like lawn chemicals, gasoline, cleaning products and ever prescription drugs.

­Once we realize that everything that goes down the drain, on our lawns, on our agricultural fields or into the environment by any means eventually winds up in the water we drink, we begin to see just how fragile our water supplies really are.

Authorities on Water Contamination Reports on Risk of Disease and Children

One of America’s leading authorities on water contamination, Dr. David Ozonoff of the Boston University Of Public Health warns that, “the risk of disease associated with public drinking water has passed from the theoretical to the real.” Many illnesses that in the past could not be linked to a probable cause, can now be directly linked to toxins in our drinking water.

The use of pesticides and herbicides has become so excessive that they are now commonly found in household tap water with alarming frequency.

A 1994 study of 29 major U.S. cities by the Environmental Working Group found that all 29 cities had traces of at least one weed killer in the drinking water. The report titled “Tap Water Blues” went on to say that “Millions of Americans are routinely exposed to one or more pesticides in a single glass of tap water.”

by the El Reportero’s news services

Alan García

­NEW YORK– Costa Rica stepped up pressure on international mediators to engage in its territory dispute with Nicaragua, after Google Maps was cited in an incident that saw the neighboring countries dispatch forces to their joint border.

The Internet search giant joined the fray after a Nicaraguan commander cited Google’s version of the border map in an interview with Costa Rican newspaper La Nacion to justify a raid on a disputed border area.

The area is hotly disputed by the two neighbors, and Costa Rica has asked the Organization of American States (OAS) to investigate the alleged violations of its territory. OAS Secretary General Jose Manuel Insulza is touring both countries in a bid to mediate the dispute.

Alan García relaunches his scheme for a Pacific seaboard alliance

Peruvian president Alan García has launched a new, slimmed-down but more ambitious version of the ‘Pacific Arc’ initiative he championed four years ago. He is proposing what he describes as an ‘in-depth integration agreement’ ­with Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Panama and an alternative to the ‘doomed’ existing integration mechanisms.

As with his previous initiative, García is seeking partners among the governments that are closest to the US. Brazil, meanwhile has signalled that it intends to press ahead with Mercosur (and with other ‘variable geometry’ initiatives).

Brazil sabre-rattles over weak dollar

Throughout the past month, Brazil’s minister of finance, Guido Mantega, has made increasingly fierce criticisms of U.S. economic policy and the developing ‘global currency war’. After the US Federal Reserve Board’s decision to print another US$600bn of cash, commentators fear that there will be a showdown between the U.S. and the world’s emerging economies, led by Brazil and China, at the forthcoming G-20 meeting in Seoul, South Korea, on Nov. 11-12.

Santos against “the nucleus of illegality”

On 4 November, General Oscar Naranjo, the head of the Colombian national police, confirmed that records held by the Dirección Nacional de Estupefacientes (DNE, the national drugs directorate) had been tampered with. The revelation of irregularities in top institutions had been expected since President Juan Manuel Santos announced (on 30 October) that the executive would take measures against what he called “the nucleus of illegality”. On Nov. 2 the executive placed the DNE under administration pending an investigation into “administrative corruption”.

The move underlines the high risk of penetration of Colombia’s public institutions by narco-trafficking groups. But it also allows the new Santos administration to demonstrate its stated commitment to confronting criminal interests head on.

Dilma takes Lula’s crown

On Oct. 31, Dilma Rousseff, 62, of the ruling left-wing Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), was elected Brazil’s first female president with a resounding 56 percentof the second round run-off vote, compared to 44 percent for her rival José Serra of the opposition Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB). Her election signals close policy continuity with the immensely popular outgoing administration led by President Lula da Silva, which has been in power since January 2003.

‘Dilma’, as she’s locally known, becomes the 12th female president in Latin America & the Caribbean and joins three incumbents in the region – Argentina’s Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (elected in 2007), Costa Rica’s Laura Chinchilla (2010) and Trinidad & Tobago’s Kamla Persad-Bissessar (2010). Globally, she joins a small club of just 17 female leaders. (EFE and Latin News contributed to this report.)

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por Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Infowars.com

TSA abuse in airports is completely out of control with more and more cases of security workers groping women, fondling children, abusing naked body scanners, and interrogating passengers emerging every week, and yet the government’s answer to the epidemic of oppression is to hand TSA thugs more power with which to harass American citizens.

The story of Infowars employee Michelle, who along with her child was sexually assaulted by TSA staff after refusing to go through a naked body scanner, has gone viral on the Internet after it was picked up by the Drudge Report, a website leading the charge in the backlash against airport oppression at the hands of the TSA that has now led to the world’s largest pilot’s association boycotting the use of naked body scanners. Michelle’s traumatic experience represents just the tip of the iceberg.

The launch of naked body scanners, which were hastily installed in the wake of the Christmas Day bombing attempt despite the fact that they would not have stopped the attack, has only worsened the levels of abuse dished out to passengers. The body scanners were vigorously promoted by people like former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff and others who stood to reap a financial windfall from their implementation, despite the fact that scientists at Columbia University and the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety, along with other scientific bodies, have all warned that the devices increase the risk of developing cancer. Stories about TSA officials abusing the use of the scanners have become commonplace.

44-year-old Rolando Negrin beat his supervisor with a police baton after he had cracked jokes about Negrin’s small manhood when he walked through a naked scanner as part of a training exercise at Miami International Airport. The story underscored the fact that authorities had been lying all along about the claim that the scanners did not show sensitive details of genitalia.

The aggressive campaign on behalf of governments and the media to sell the public on invasive body scanners has been accompanied by the reassurance that the devices do not show details of genitals, an obvious attempt to counter the fact that the machines represent a virtual strip search as well as violating laws against child pornography.

Despite assurances from the TSA that the scanners do not show the shape of genitalia, sample images from their own website clearly display the outline of the penis. In addition, after nearly a year of authorities lying in claiming that the technology used in airports did not allow the naked images to be saved or transmitted, it emerged that police agencies, including the U.S. Marshals Service, who were using the same systems, were storing naked body scanner images. The TSA’s own documents also confi rmed that the machines must “allow exporting of image data in real time” and provide a mechanism for “high-speed transfer of image data over the network.”

­Indian film star Shahrukh Khan told a BBC talk show that naked images of his body from the scanner were printed out and circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London. Heathrow denied the claim but Khan himself never retracted the story, and had no apparent motive for making it up.

Heathrow authorities were unable to deny a later example of the scanners being abused, when it emerged that a Heathrow worker had perved over a naked image of a female colleague after she passed through one of the devices, before commenting, “I love those gigantic tits”. Jo Margetson, 29, reported John Laker, 25, to the police after she had entered the x-ray machine by mistake and Laker took the image before making lewd comments.

Airport security staff workers are among the least trustworthy people to operate these machines. These individuals are routinely caught abusing their authority for their own ego trip or sexual perversion. their power in treating theAs the video below illustrates, the fact that naked body scanner machines in the U.S. are manned  by TSA thugs who are routinely caught abusing public like prison inmates only heightens the danger posed by the use of the new devices. The systems are being manned by people like a TSA agent who fl ipped out and began screaming, “I am god, I’m in charge,” shortly after he got off duty at LAX earlier this year.

With innumerable reports over the past ten years of TSA agents completely abusing their authority and going on petty power trips with little other motivation than to humiliate and degrade old people, pregnant women, and the physically disabled, while proclaiming themselves to be “Gods,” the fact that these people are now feeling up our children is revolting.

Indeed, we’ve spoken to airport workers who were asked by their employers if they support the naked body scanners. Workers who indicate that they oppose the scanners have quickly been demoted or even fi red. The TSA is now openly pursuing a policy of hiring thugs who enjoy using the scanners to fulfi ll their sick sexual kicks or little-Hitler mentality. We need to halt the epidemic of TSA abuse not only because it interferes with our freedom of mobility but because everything being rolled out in the airports is eventually designed to hit the streets.

Today the airports and tomorrow the world – sniffer dogs, checkpoints and pat downs are now taking place at bus depots. Americans are being radiated by scanners at vehicle checkpoints. Mobile body scanners are set to be used on crowds at public events. We have documented numerous examples over the years of TSA workers abusing their power and behaving like thugs.

At the start of the year we highlighted the case of war reporter Michael Yon, who was interrogated without reason by TSA goons who demanded he give them his private email passwords. We also wrote about another case where Steve Bierfeldt, a Ron Paul Campaign For Liberty treasurer, was hounded and harassed by TSA agents for the crime of carrying cash and Ron Paul campaign material.

Incidents of TSA agents behaving like secret political police and embarking on petty power trips to harass innocent people have exploded way out of control and it has to stop now. Even overlooking the primary issues of gross violations of rights and privacy, the fact is that a large number of people have simply refused to travel to America anymore because entering the country is like trying to get into the old East Germany. This is killing the tourism industry and costing hundreds of millions of dollars each year. A 2006 investigation by the Discover America Partnership found that tourism to America had sunk due to “a climate of fear and frustration that is turning away foreign business and leisure travelers from visiting the United States and damaging America’s image abroad.”

No less than a third of tourists vowed never to return to America after experiencing the treatment of Homeland Security officials at ports of entry. By early 2007, the U.S. had lost around 60 million visitors as a result of the stifl ing and intrusive security measures implemented since 9/11, which were proven to be completely fl awed in light of the underwear bomber incident on Christmas Day. America has not only lost its crown as a beacon of freedom and hospitality, turning instead into a feared police state shunned by tourists, but it has also sacrifi ced almost a third of its tourist industry as a result of TSA and Homeland Security thugs being given the power to treat everyone who enters the country as a potential terrorist who is guilty until proven innocent. In the meantime, a cadre of minimum wage goons are being trained to run nationwide checkpoints.

The Stanford prison experiment taught us that people will obey orders no matter who brutal and inhumane, to the point of torture and even death. A whole legion of such individuals has been turned loose on the American people and soon they will hit the streets.

The national security police state has been advancing for years but now that the true takeover of American society is in full swing, Americans are fi nally beginning to understand that everything supposedly aimed at terrorists is in fact directed towards them.

If Americans continue to blithely accept their abuse at the hands of TSA thugs, it sends a clear message to the authorities that they are quite prepared to suffer any indignity whatsoever, which will inevitably lead to a feeding frenzy unless Americans begin to stand up for themselves against airport oppression in greater numbers.

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listenedto late night talk show.