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Reading Rainbow in the Park

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por el equipo de El Reportero

El Rey y la Reina de SF Carnaval Roberto and Ashlee fueron coronados el 22 de abril. Para más información sobre el gran evento,: el 26 y 27 de mayo, visite: www.sfcarnaval.org. (PHOTO BY DAVE GOLDEN)SF Carnaval King Roberto and Queen Ashlee were crowned at the Carnaval King and Queen competition on April 22. for more info on the May 26-27, visit: www.sfcarnaval.org. (PHOTO BY DAVE GOLDEN)

Stanford Alumni in partnership with Computers for Everyone present the Second Annual “Reading Rainbow in the Park”.

There will be reading activities, games, contests and entertainment throughout the day hosted by volunteers and community organizations as well as a mobile library to register attendees for free library cards. Free books will be given to all youth attending. Free prizes will be raffled off throughout the day including toys, gift certificates, mp3 players, and a desktop computer!

This year’s event will also feature a rhyme forming and spelling competition called “Bar Up and Spell It Out” hosted by local East Palo Alto student body leaders and supported by College Track and The Mural Music & Arts Project. The winners will take home a laptop computer. Food vendors will be on site, free refreshments, free snacks, and many giveaways. This event is free and open to the public; however pre-registration for your family or a group is strongly suggested at: http://readingrainbowinthepark2.eventbrite.com.

The event will take place on Saturday, May 12, 2012 from 10 a.m. -3 p.m. at César Chávez Academy at 2450 Ralmar Ave, East Palo Alto, California. This event will encourage families to join in the fun of reading with youth and teenagers of all ages.

Book launch & panel discussion

Art and Social Movements: Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlán.

Join us as we celebrate the release of “Art and Social Movements: Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlán” by San Francisco State professor Edward J. McCaughan.

This event will feature a roundtable discussion with: Tomas Almaguer, Professor of Latino/a Studies at SF State; Maris Bustamante, feminist performance artist from Mexico City; Lynn Stephen, Professor of Latin American and Latino S tudies at University of Oregon; and Patricia Rodriguez, Chicana artist/co-founder of Mujeres Muralistas. A light reception to follow with music provided by Peter Baird. Copies of “Art and Social Movements” will be for sale.

On Saturday, May 26, 2 p.m. at Galería de la Raza, 2857 24th St., San Francisco. Free & open to the public.­

La Peña Celebra sus 37: Immigrant Voices Festival

La Peña is celebrating its 37th Anniversary with a variety of programs that reflect and exemplify La Peña’s mission of promoting peace, social justice and cultural understanding through the arts, education, and social action. Since June 1975, La Peña has been a home to many artists and activists as well as a hub of activities where artists and community organizing intersect to be a catalyst for social change.

This month, La Peña brings you excitement in entertainment.

67 Sueños/La Peña Fundraiser. Unveiling of Immigrants Mural Featuring: Yosimar Reyes, HeadRush, Maria Leticia Gomez (Univision 14). 7 p.m. $10.

Persforming also will be Music without Borders, Paria B, Tru Bloo, Wanda Kruda and DJ Rumorosa. Global music to create bridges between immigrant and diasporic artist and their communities. 9 p.m.. $10 adv. $12 dr. On May 19. All events at La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley.

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Nicaragua’s Ernesto Cardenal wins poetry prize in Madrid

­by the El Reportero’s news services

Ernesto CardenalErnesto Cardenal

Nicaragua’s Ernesto Cardenal was announced in Madrid Thursday as the winner of the Queen Sofia Ibero American Poetry Prize, presented every year to a living author deemed to have made an important contribution to the cultural legacy of Spain and Latin America.

Established 21 years ago, the prestigious award that bears the name of Spain’s queen is accompanied by 42,100 euros ($55,700).

Besides his being a poet, the 87-year-old Cardenal is a Catholic priest who served as culture minister in the Sandinista regime that followed the ouster of the Somoza dictatorship.

His past literary honors include the Pablo Neruda Ibero American Poetry Prize.

The choice of Cardenal for this year’s Queen Sofia Prize breaks the institution’s unwritten rule that the award should alternate between Spanish and Latin American poets.

The 2011 prize went to Cuba’s Fina García Marruz.

“It was not just” that “someone so significant for 20th century poetry” as Cardenal should be excluded from consideration “for extra-literary reasons,” prize juror Luis Antonio de Villena said after Thursday’s announcement at the royal palace in Madrid.

Girl in Progress is the perfect movie for Mother’s Day

Grace (Eva Mendes) is a single mom, too preoccupied with “paying the bills” and herself to notice that her teenage daughter, Ansiedad (Cierra Ramírez) is in desperate need of her attention. When Ansiedad’s English teacher, Ms. Armstrong (Patricia Arquette), introduces her students to classic coming-of-age stories, Ansiedad decides to jump start her own coming of age and all the pain associated with it, as a shortcut to “adulthood” and more importantly a life without her mom.

As her misguided plan unravels, in some comedic yet poignant series of events, both Ansiedad and Grace must learn that sometimes growing-up means acting your own age.

Recently judged “Family-Approved” (ages 12+) by the prestigious International Dove Foundation, the film has already been attracting the attention and support of churches and organizations across the country including Life Teen and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC).

Mana Gets Panties Thrown at Them? Or Tapatio?

Maná, the popular rock band that originates from Mexico, were in Los Angeles to see the Coldplay concert when they were caught by a TMZ reporter.

The reporter didn’t hesitate in grabbing the groups attention with a racist question/joke, which wasn’t funny at all.

He asked the rock band whether they got “panties” or “Tapatio” thrown at them during their concerts. For those who don’t know, Tapatio is a popular Mexican hot sauce.

Like good sports, the members of Mana avoided the pun and said “of course, panties”.

Perhaps, some reporters should think twice before they make a bad joke. ­“Off the page” program brings to life true story of Oscar Grant

Under the auspices of the San Francisco Film Society’s Filmmaker360 program, the recently launched Off the Page series gave director/writer Ryan Coogler the invaluable opportunity to workshop his script for Fruitvale, the true story of Oscar Grant, with his lead actors Michael B. Jordan and Melonie Diaz, April 24 – 25 at the San Francisco Film Centre.

Fruitvale is the true story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family and strangers on the last day of 2008. In the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009 Grant was fatally shot by a BART policeman. Fruitvale is a finalist for the Spring 2012 SFF/KRF Filmmaking Grant.

(Hispanically Speaking News contributed to this report).

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“We are preparing for massive civil war,” says DHS informant

by Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul

Before It’s News

Riot police in San Diego, California advances to crash a protest.Riot police in San Diego, California advances to crash a protest.

In a riveting interview on TruNews Radio, Wednesday, private investigator Doug Hagmann said high-level, reliable sources told him the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is preparing for “massive civil war” in America.

“We have problems­ . . . The federal government is preparing for civil uprising,” he added, “so every time you hear about troop movements, every time you hear about movements of military equipment, the militarization of the police, the buying of the ammunition, all of this is . . . they (DHS) are preparing for a massive uprising.”

­Hagmann goes on to say that his sources tell him the concerns of the DHS stem from a collapse of the U.S. dollar and the hyperinflation a collapse in the value of the world’s primary reserve currency implies to a nation of 311 million Americans, who, for the significant portion of the population, is armed.

Uprisings in Greece is, indeed, a problem, but an uprising of armed Americans becomes a matter of serious national security, a point addressed in a recent report by the Pentagon and highlighted as a vulnerability and threat to the U.S. during war-game exercises at the Department of Defense last year, according to one of the DoD’s wargame participants, Jim Rickards, author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis.

Through his sources, Hagmann confirmed Rickards’ ongoing thesis of a fear of a U.S. dollar collapse at the hands of the Chinese (U.S. treasury bond holders of approximately $1 trillion) and, possibly, the Russians (threatening to launch a gold-backed ruble as an attractive alternative to the U.S. dollar) in retaliation for aggressive U.S. foreign policy initiatives against China’s and Russia’s strategic allies Iran and Syria. “The one source that we have I’ve known since 1979,” Hagmann continued.

“He started out as a patrol officer and currently he is now working for a federal agency under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security; he’s in a position to know what policies are being initiated, what policies are being planned at this point, and he’s telling us right now—look, what you’re seeing is just the tip of the iceberg. We are preparing, we, meaning the government, we are preparing for a massive civil war in this country.”

“There’s no hyperbole here,” he added, echoing Trends Research Institute’s Founder Gerald Celente’s forecast of last year. Celente expects a collapse of the U.S. dollar and riots in America some time this year. Since Celente’s ‘Civil War’ prediction of last year, executive orders NDAA and National Defense Resources Preparedness were signed into law by President Obama, which are both politically damaging actions taken by a sitting president.

And most recently, requests made by the DHS for the procurement of 450 million rounds of hollow-point ammunition only fuels speculation of an upcoming tragic event expected on American soil. These major events, as shocking to the American people as they are, have taken place during an election year.

Escalating preparatory activities by the executive branch and DHS       throughout the last decade—from the Patriot Act, to countless executive orders drafted to suspend (or strip) American civil liberties “are just the beginning” of the nightmare to come, Hagmann said.

­He added, “It’s going to get so much worse toward the election, and I’m not even sure we’re going to have an election in this country. It’s going to be that bad, and this, as well, is coming from my sources. But one source in particular said, ‘look, you don’t understand how bad it is.’ This stuff is real; these people, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), they are ready to fight the American people.”

TruNews‘ Wiles asked Hagmann: who does the DHS expect to fight, in particular? Another North versus South, the Yankees against the Confederates? Hagmann stated the situation is far worse than a struggle between any two factions within the U.S.; it’s an anticipated nationwide emergency event centered on the nation’s currency.

“What they [DHS] are expecting, and again, this is according to my sources, what they’re expecting is the un-sustainability of the American dollar,” Hagmann said. “And we know for a fact that we can no longer service our debt. There’s going to be a period of hyperinflation . . . the dollar will be worthless . . . The economic collapse will be so severe, people won’t be ready for this.”

 

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Women: Before getting pregnant, check your man’s diet

Irradiated women’s eggs

por Mike Adams
Natural News
Parte 2 of 3

CORRECTION: Last week we mistakenly said it was a two-part serie, actually it is three parts.

Because women are born with all the eggs they will ever have, any radiation they receive from medical imaging scans or medical treatments will obviously expose those eggs to radiation.

A single CT scan can expose a women to as much as 600 times the radiation of a full chest X-ray. Radiation treatments for cancer are even worse: They can expose a woman’s eggs to levels of radiation that can be thousands of times the exposure of a chest X-ray.

This radiation, not surprisingly, causes genetic mutations in a woman’s eggs, making them ticking genetic time bombs should they ever meet with a sperm cell and initiate conception.

So men who are seeking children and who know about this will increasingly want to choose female partners who have not been exposed to medical imaging scans or cancer radiotherapy treatments. Women who undergo a lot of medical imaging, it turns out, may not be such good reproductive partners from a purely genetic point of view. (Obviously there’s a lot more to being good parents than just the integrity of your genetic code, but no one can argue that genetic integrity isn’t important for the health of your children.) The ethics of genetics Now, I realize this whole discussion is extremely uncomfortable for many people.

It isn’t politically correct to talk about women’s eggs as being “damaged goods” even if they technically are. And it’s not polite to talk about how the sperm count of most men today is lower than that of a rat. Yet these are the stubborn scientific truths we must now begin to consider as a race that seeks to survive through multiple generations.

The future of human life on earth will, quite obviously, be inherited by those who can protect their genetic code. And that is going to be accomplished only by a relatively small number of couples who combine healthy sperm with healthy eggs while avoiding radiation and toxic chemicals. Essentially, the future of human life on our planet is going to belong to people who avoid pharmaceuticals and medical imaging, who avoid toxic chemicals in foods and who follow a largely organic lifestyle.

Families that expose themselves to medical imaging scans and toxic chemicals in foods and pharmaceuticals are committing genetic suicide that will play out over subsequent generations. In other ­words, these people aren’t dropping dead right now, but the DNA damage they pass on from one generation to the next will accumulate to the point where infertility ends the family line. So much for the Joneses. It turns out they killed off their family line by corrupting their own DNA so badly that their daughters can no longer conceive. So  what to do about that? Go get more medical imaging scans to find out what’s wrong, of course! (You can see how this gets worse…)

It’s worth pointing out that in this article, I’m not saying that women with damaged eggs or men with damaged sperm are bad people. This is not a statement about their morality or their fitness to be good parents. Rather, it’s solely about their genetic integrity and how the lack of healthy DNA has very real consequences in the real world. All this means that vegan men should be heading to the sperm banks to fill up the cryo canisters there. It is the sperm of our healthiest eaters that may hold the key to the future of the human race.

There might even be a science fiction novel to be found in this storyline, come to think of it: The year is 2065, the human race is dying out, nobody can reproduce, and a scientist sends soldiers through a time machine to 1984 so they can harvest someone’s sperm. It’s not exactly “Terminator.” More like “Sperminator,” but you get the point.

I find it fascinating that the human race is right now saving plant seeds in case of a global apocalypse, but nobody (that I know of, at least) is saving human sperm and eggs for long term disaster storage. Shouldn’t we be doing that? Shouldn’t we find the healthiest men and women who lead holistic, chemical-free lives and see if they’ll donate some of their own seeds for the future of humankind?

This is important because by the time mainstream scientists realize how corrupted human DNA has become, it may be far too late to do anything about it. If the chemical industry has anything to do with it, any evidence revealing such a trend would be buried under a mountain of denials anyway. Heck, the FDA still approved of aspartame in the food supply! CONTINUES NEXT WEEK: C H O O S I N G M AT E S .

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Mexico: Experts warn about danger of new global crisiscatalogados

by the El Reportero’s news service

Mexico City, May 7 The inability of the European Union to formulate policies for common economic growth may currently lead to a new global economic crisis, personalities of the political, academic and business world agreed on Monday in this capital.

Grouped in the so-called 21st Century Council, the experts assessed this weekend that, in addition to a possible crisis scenario, there is a lack of regulations to provide financial certainty to the Eurozone bloc of nations.

En route to the Group of 20 (G20) Summit, scheduled for June 18-19 in Los Cabos, South Baja California, the Council recommended a six-item document released on Sunday, which precisely makes emphasis on a coordinated global financial regulation.

­Europe faces a choice: disintegration and a weaker bond, or moves towards a fiscal and economic union, said such an organization, which includes former Presidents Felipe Gonzalez of Spain and Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, among others.

The Council met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, with whom it discussed issues related to trade protectionism, green growth support and the country’s leadership in works that will provide continuity to the results of the G-20 in coming years.

Bolivia calls for mass rally in support of Evo Morales

After hundreds of Indigenous Bolivians set off on a months-long March from Trinidad city to the president’s palance in La Paz to protest highway project in an Amazon reserve. http://www.newslook.com/world.

The Departmental Coordinator Agency for Change of Cochabamba today called for a massive rally on May 9 to express popular support for President Evo Morales and the process of change in the country.

The president of the coordinator agency, Leonilda Zurita, said that this activity will also aim to support the consultation in the communities of Indian Territory and Isiboro Secure National Park, which will decide whether or not to build a interdepartmental road trough the vast Amazon region.

Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plans to build a highway through the Amazon forest unleashed fierce anti-government protests in the country’s capital, La Paz, last September.

The controversial road was supposed to run through the indigenous territory, leveling an ancestral homeland inhabited by 50,000 native people from three different native groups. A police crackdown left 74 people injured, while 24 indigenous leaders are now under investigation for assault and kidnapping.

In Ecuador, projects to build open pit mines that would rip into the forest-covered hills of the lands of the Shuar Indians have spawned a protest movement as well. Some 194 indigenous leaders have been charged with terrorism and sabotage in recent years. The most recent round of protests was prompted by an agreement between Ecuador and China for industrial copper mining in the Amazon’s Ecuacorriente Zamora-Chinchipe region. (PL and wire services contributed to this report).

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Would mainstream media be interested if Assad set up re-education labor camps for political dissidents?

Corporate press blacklists chilling revelations

by Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com

A couple of months ago, the mainstream media got all excited about leaked emails from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and ‘bombshell’ revelations such as the fact that Assad’s wife likes to spend a lot of money on expensive furniture.

Would that same corporate press be interested if documents were leaked showing that Assad’s military forces had set up detention camps in which they planned to incarcerate political activists and subject them to re-education programs and slave labor?

Of course it would, the story would be all over CNN, ABC and Fox News. The documents would be heralded as chilling evidence that Assad is in charge of a dictatorial regime that plans to kidnap demonstrators and imprison them in North Korean-style gulags. The documents would be held up as solid justification for a swift NATO military action in the name of ‘humanitarian intervention’.

And yet last week we had the release of documents which prove the existence of re-education forced labor camps for political dissidents not only abroad but inside the United States itself! An even more shocking story you would imagine?

And the reaction from the mainstream media? You could hear a pin drop.

We have now exhaustively proven in a series of articles that the U.S. Army is training its personnel, through the policies outlined in a manual entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations (PDF), to “indoctrinate” “political activists” incarcerated in detention camps into developing an “understanding and appreciation of U.S. policies and actions.”

On page 281 of the manual we even see the use of the term itself when we learn that the role of camp personnel is focused around, “reorienting or reeducating the I/R facility population or setting the stage for acceptance of future operations.”

These camp prisoners are to include “civilian internees” detained “within U.S. territory” as part of “civil support operations” in the aftermath of “man-made disasters, accidents, terrorist attacks and incidents in the U.S. and its territories” involving FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security.

The manual also directs such prisoners to be used for slave labor “In work that is needed to construct, manage, perform administrative functions for, and maintain the internment facility,” in other words building and maintaining their own detention camp.

The manual also directs that political activists be confined to isolation and that prisoners be silenced using by “muffling them with a soft, clean cloth tied around their mouths and fastened at the backs of their heads.”

To reiterate – all of these policies outlined in the Army’s manual can be applied to U.S. citizens on American soil so long as the President passes an executive order to nullify Posse Comitatus, the law that forbids the U.S. military from engaging in domestic law enforcement.

If President Bashar al-Assad was directing his military forces to round-up political activists and use them for slave labor in re-education camps, the international outcry would be deafening, the media circus would be off the charts.

Yet all this is already in black and white, already on the books, ready and waiting to be used domestically in the aftermath of the next major terrorist attack or natural disaster – and the mainstream media has completely ignored it.

Re-education camp manual includes rules on isolating political prisoners

The manual also includes rules on forced labor and separating political prisoners by confining them in isolation.

Aside from detailing how PSYOP teams will use “indoctrination programs to reduce or remove antagonistic attitudes,” as well as targeting “political activists” with indoctrination programs to provide “understanding and appreciation of U.S. policies and actions,” the manual directs political prisoners to be separated from the rest of the camp population.

On page 284, the manual (PDF) describes how “Malcontents, rabble-rousers, trained agitators, and political officers who may attempt to organize resistance or create disturbances within the I/R facility,” are to be confined “in isolated enclosures to deny them access to the general population.”

The document also makes clear that the internment facility is not only a re-education camp but also a forced labor camp. Page 277 of the manual states, “Detainees constitute a significant labor force of skilled and unskilled individuals. These individuals should be employed to the fullest extent possible in work that is needed to construct, manage, perform administrative functions for, and maintain the internment facility.”

Page 69 of the manual notes in a section called ‘Detainee Processing Technique’ that prisoners should first have their weapons confiscated before “silence” is guaranteed by methods to, “Prevent detainees from communicating with one another or making audible  clamor….Silence uncooperative detainees by muffling them with a soft, clean cloth tied around their mouths and fastened at the backs of their heads.”

The manual details how prisoners will be identified by their “social security number,” another glaring confirmation that the rules apply to U.S. citizens. The document makes it clear that the rules apply to processing American detainees on U.S. soil so long as the President passes an executive order to nullify Posse Comitatus, the law that forbids the U.S. military from engaging in domestic law enforcement.

Although this story has gone viral amongst independent media outlets, the only mainstream news operations to cover it have been Russia Today and Digital Journal. Having studied all the documents, Digital Journal writer Anne Sewell confirms all the points of our original article – that the manual does describe how to re-educate political activists and that its policies do apply to U.S. citizens domestically. The story has been blacklisted .

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 regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News).

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Who really controls the world

The High Cabal exposed by JFK

Marvin J. RamirezMarvin J. Ramirez

FROM THE EDITOR: I found this historically fascinating article written by Dr. Mujahid Kamran, Who Really Controls the World, which in great detail takes close look into those faceless characters who we never see or hear about, but who are the real players in the game of world control. And if you did not know who are those people – if we can call then people – who control our lives and destiny, fasten your seat belts because we are taking off to learn just that.

by Prof. Dr. Mujahid Kamran
New Dawn Magazine

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

– Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (1856-1924)

So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

– Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister (1804-1881).

— It was in the dark days of World War II that Churchill referred to the existence of a “High Cabal” that had brought about unprecedented bloodshed in human history. Churchill is also said to have remarked about the Elite: “They have transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia…” (quoted by John Coleman in The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, Global Publications 2006). Who are ‘they’?

Consider the 1961 statement of US President John F. Kennedy (JFK) before media personnel:

The word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society, and we are as a people, inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, secret oaths and secret proceedings. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy, that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence. It depends on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published, its mistakes are buried, not headlined, and its dissenters are silenced, not praised, no expenditure is questioned, no secret revealed… I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people.”

Secret societies, secret oaths, secret proceedings, infiltration, subversion, intimidation – these are the words used by JFK!

On June 4, 1963, JFK ordered the printing of Treasury dollar bills instead of Federal Reserve notes (Executive Order 11110). He also ordered that once these had been printed, the Federal Reserve notes would be withdrawn, and the Treasury bills put into circulation. A few months later (November 22, 1963) he was killed in broad daylight in front of the whole world – his brains blown out. Upon assumption of power, his successor, President Lyndon Johnson, immediately reversed the order to switch to Treasury bills showing very clearly why JFK was murdered. Another order of JFK, to militarily disengage from the Far East by withdrawing US “advisors” from Vietnam, was also immediately reversed after his death. After the Cuban crisis JFK wanted peaceful non-confrontational coexistence with the Soviet Union and that meant no wars in the world. He knew the next war would be nuclear and there would be no winners.

The defence industry and the banks that make money from war belong to the Elite. The Elite subscribes to a dialectical Hegelian philosophy, as pointed out by Antony Sutton, under which they bring about ‘controlled conflict’.

The two world wars were ‘controlled conflicts’! Their arrogance, their ceaseless energy, their focus, their utter disregard for human life, their ability to plan decades in advance, to act on that planning, and their continual success are staggering and faith-shaking.

­Statements by men like Disraeli, Wilson, Churchill, JFK and others should not leave any doubt in the mind of the reader about who controls the world. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote in November 1933 to Col. Edward House: “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centres has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson.” It may be recalled that Andrew Jackson, US President from 1829-1837, was so enraged by the tactics of bankers (Rothschilds) that he said: “You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.”

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Marc Anthony, Chayanne, Marco Antonio Solís announce U.S. tour

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Compiled by El Reportero’s staff

Marco Antonio Solís, Marc Anthony y Chayenne.Marco Antonio Solís, Marc Anthony y Chayenne.

Three Latino singers with towering international reputations – Marc Anthony, Chayanne and Marco Antonio Solís – will share the spotlight this summer on a tour of 14 American cities.

The artists presented Monday in Miami plans for their Gigant3s tour and said how thrilled they were about presenting the show to U.S. audiences.

Anthony said he was “very happy” to be able to go on tour with his fellow artists and noted that this kind of show “is a formula that works” because “for the price of one ticket” you get three artists.

Anthony has shared billing in the past with Chayanne and Solís individually, but all three have never appeared together at the same time, same stage.

About the production, Anthony said that “this is not three separate concerts,” but rather a show combining performances by the three Latino artists.

Though the vocalists didn’t reveal a lot in the way of details, they hinted at some surprises onstage with the possibility that they will form duos and trios singing songs made famous by one or another of them.

The Gigant3s tour will take the artists to 14 U.S. cities, including Miami, Chicago, San Jose, Houston, Dallas, El Paso and Las Vegas.

Javier Bardem to Appear in Film Based on Brother Carlos Novel “Alacran Enamorado”

Javier Bardem will make his return to Spanish cinema when he plays a neo-Nazi ideologue in Alacrán enamorado (Scorpion in Love), a film based on a novel by his brother Carlos.

In remarks to Efe, Spanish director Santiago Zannou said the winner of a best-supporting-actor Oscar for his turn in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men will play a secondary character named Solis, a role distinct from the purely villainous one he has in the upcoming James Bond film.

“In my film (the char­acter) is more realistic, not a wicked villain who wants to destroy the world, but an ordinary person. Those are the ones who truly frighten me, for having a type of ideology that separates people, that engenders violence,” Zannou said.

This will mark the first time Bardem has worked with a Spanish director since he won four Goya awards for his performance in Alejandro Amenabar’s Mar adentro (The Sea Inside).

Alacrán enamorado tells the story of Alyssa, a seductive Latin American immigrant who had fallen victim to a prostitution ring and now makes a living cleaning houses, and Julian, alias “El Alacrán” (The Scorpion), a member of a neo-Nazi group.

Alex González and Judith Diakhate have the starring roles, while Carlos Bardem plays a boxing trainer and former boxer Rudo Hovic is the owner of the gym.

‘Noticias OK” in Puerto Rico to Report Only Good, Happy News

A radio program in Puerto Rico will report only good news starting May 1 as a way to try and minimize violence on the streets of the Caribbean island.

The host of “Noticias OK,” Yalitza Navedo Roman, said Wednesday in a communique that the initiative arose after a survey was conducted in June 2004 among 100 residents of lowincome communities, during which the participants asked the media to report positive news that was happening in their neighborhoods.

“These figures are the basis for the birth of ‘Noticias OK.’ That is, this media proposal was born in the heart of the people (who live in) public housing and special communities,” said Navedo Roman. She said that the project will serve to “minimize the culture of violence” and contribute to peace in Puerto Rico, which registered a record 1,136 homicides in 2011.

Latin America well represented in Cannes Film Festival

Paris, Apr 24 (Prensa Latina) Latin American will bring six films to participate in the Directors Fortnight, one of the sections of the Cannes Film Festival to be held from May 17 to 27, media reported Tuesday.

The news was announced on Tuesday by Waintrop Edouard, Director General of the Directors Fortnight, a section created in 1968 with the aim of promoting emerging filmmakers. This year, organizers chose 21 films to compete, including two documentaries, two animated films and 10 short films.

Among the films selected stand the film 3, by Uruguayan Pablo Stoll, La sirga by William Vega, which recently won the Under Construction Films award at the 17th Toulouse Film Festival, and Fogo by Mexican Yulene Olaizola, among other films from Argentina and Chile.

Waintrop said he was surprised by the dynamism of Latin American films in recent years, which is why in all the European festivals there is always a good representation of that region.

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Raíces Profundas debuts in SF

by the El Reportero’s staff

Raíces ProfundasRaíces Profundas

Raíces Profundas makes its US Debut with an incredible show that displays the talent and virtuosity of the group and its director / choreographer Juan de Dios Ramos Morejon. The engagement includes classes, workshops and five days of performances exclusively in San Francisco.

The concert follows the dynamic history of Cuba’s music and dance genres starting with the colorful Afro-Cuban traditions, including Palo Monte and the fiery Orisha dances of the Yoruba pantheon (Elegua, Oshun, Ogun, Chango and Yemaya).

Raíces Profundas is widely regarded as one of the world’s most authentic performing ensembles of the Afro-Cuban folkloric tradition. The dancers and musicians have intense dedication to their company, art and ritual customs.

Raíces Profundas comes to the 2012 SFIAF, co-presented by PlazaCUBA, with an incredible show that displays the talent and virtuosity of the group and its director/choreographer Juan de Dios Ramos Morejon. This performance marks the first time ever the group has performed in the USA, with five days of performances exclusively in San Francisco.

Raices Profundas was founded in 1970 and today is widely regarded as one of the world’s most authentic performing ensembles in the Afro-Cuban folkloric traditions. The dancers and musicians have intense dedication to their company, their art and their traditions. In addition to Mr. Ramos, the 17 member touring ensemble will feature 12 dancers and four musicians/vocalists. The ensemble members are all proficient teachers of music and dances of the Afro-Cuban traditions spanning Yoruba, Arará, Bantu and Carabalí, as well as Rumba and other modern Cuban styles such as Son, Chachacha and Mambo.

The show follows the dynamic history of Cuba’s music and dance genres, starting with the colorful Afro-Cuban traditions, including Palo Monte and the fiery Orisha dances of the Yoruba pantheon (like Elegua, Oshun, Ogun, Chango and Yemaya).

The second half of the show gives the audience a glimpse into Cuba’s popular music and dance styles, such as Chankletas, Son, Cha Cha ­Cha, and contemporary Cuban Salsa. The two parts of the show are tied together by the group’s interpretation of the sensual and provocative movements of the Rumba cycle (Yambu, Guaguanco and Columbia).

Wednesday, May 2 & Thursday May 6, 8:00 p.m., Friday May 4, 9 p.m., Saturday, May 5 9:30 p.m., Sunday May 6, at 4 p.m. Box office: www.sfiaf.org, 415-771-6900.

Poet, performance artist playwright

Paul S. Flores Paul S. Flores is a published poet, performance artist, playwright and well known spoken word artist. Flores’ new play, titled PLACAS will premiere in September 2012 at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. PLACAS will star Ric Salinas, be directed by Michael John Garces and is co-produced by Flores, SFIAF and the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN).

He wrote and now performs the solo show You’re Gonna Cry. Flores’ most recent play REPRESENTA! toured to 17 cities, including HERE! Art Space in New York. Flores’ past performance projects have taken him from HBO’s Def Poetry to Cuba, Mexico and El Salvador.

Flores will be performing as part of the International Arts Festival, at the International Festival Lounge, 540 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Saturday, May 12, 8 p.m.

 

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Boxing

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Vyacheslav Senchenko vs. Paulie Malignaggi, 12, for Senchenko’s WBA World welterweight title.

May 5 At Bangkok, Thailand (HBO)

Kompayak Porpramook vs. Jonathan Taconing, 12, for Porpramook’s WBC light flyweight title.

At Singapore

Chris John vs. Shoji Kimura, 12, for John’s WBA Super World featherweight title.

At MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas (PPV)

Miguel Cotto vs. Floyd Mayweather, 12, for Cotto’s WBA Super World super welterweight title;

Saul Alvarez vs. Shane Mosley, 12, for Alvarez’s WBC junior middleweight title.

May 13 A t Cebu, Philippines

John Riel Casimero vs. Sammy Guttierez, 12, for the interim IBF flyweight title.

May 18 At The Times Union Center, Albany, N.Y. (ESPN)

Karim Mayfield vs. Raymond Serrano, 10, for Mayfield’s NABO light welterweight title.

May 19 At Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas (HBO)

Lamont Peterson vs. Amir Khan, 10, for Peterson’s WBA Super World and IBF super lightweight title;

Lucas Matthysse vs. Humberto Soto, 10, junior welterweights.

May 26 At Nottinghamshire, England,

Lucian Bute vs. Carl Froch, 12, for Bute’s IBF super middlweight title.

June 9 At the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas (PPV)

Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley, Jr. 12, for Pacquiao’s WBO welterweight championship;

Mike Jones vs. Randall Bailey, 12, for the vacant IBF welterweight title.

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