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by Louis Nevae

New America Media

Mexico Elections: Mexico prepares for new elections and a new form of media.

MERIDA, México – Mexico’s presidential elections are less than six weeks away, and for now it appears that opposition candidate Enrique Peña Nieto remains the clear favorite. His party’s reliance on traditional media, however, has ignited a firestorm within the country’s “Facebook Generation.”

Younger Mexicans expected this to be the first presidential election cycle in which social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn would transform the political landscape. Instead, they’ve found, Old Media is striking back.

At last check, Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) held a 20-point lead over his rival Josefina Vázquez, from the ruling National Action Party (PAN).

­Vázquez, a Social Media sensation, got millions ­of women Tweeting, and enlisted millions of youth as “Friends” on Facebook. But her campaign has run up against a PRI advertising blitzkrieg that has blanketed the country’s newspapers, billboards and airwaves.

Concepción May is a PRI member. For the past few months she has been hard at work organizing neighborhoods – handing out T-shirts, making sure voters have transportation to polling places and delivering campaign posters people can hang on doors and windows. “This is a campaign and the winner will be chosen by people who get away from their computers and go vote,” she says.

That’s a far cry from her sister, who supports the PAN candidate but spends her time on the sofa with her Facebook friends. “She might as well be playing video games,” May says. “I doubt she even knows where to vote.”

The PRI, which expects to win the presidency after 12 years of PAN presidents (Vicente Fox and the incumbent Felipe Calderon), appears to share that skepticism in social media.

In an unprecedented display, the PRI has blanketed Mexico with posters, billboards and fliers displaying the party’s candidates. Television and radio advertisements are running nonstop, as are full-page ads in newspapers and magazines. Millions of T-shirts, banners and stickers, meanwhile, along with full-size advertisements on buses and billboards have become common place, as was customary before social media.

It is the audacity of the PRI – which has spent an untold fortune on traditional advertising – that has enraged Mexico’s youth.

In a series of “strikes,” “protests” and “rallies,” the so-called Facebook generation has taken to the streets in the hundreds of thousands, directing their anger at the opposition and at traditional media – newspapers and television broadcasters – who, they say, have sold out to the relentless advertising of the PRI.

More intriguing still are the demographics behind these mounting protests: 24 million Mexicans (out of a population of 105 million) are aged 29 and under. Of these, 14 million are expected to vote for the first time in presidential elections (in 2006, they were too young to vote).

Most are too young to remember the heavy handed tactics of the PRI, and how it governed when it ruled Mexico. Instead, they denounce what university organizers call “a Soap Opera Democracy.”

Their movement , moreover, is emboldened by video clips on YouTube, some showing the parents of protestors – identified by name – holding signs in support of their children. One video that went viral soon after it emerged shows Peña Nieto being jeered off stage during an election campaign rally. Students are heard shouting “Fuera!” – “Out!”

– as organizers were forced to cancel the event, which ultimately descended into chaos. Seen more than 600,000 times, the clip has fueled further protests.

The PRI’s subsequent statements — that the incident was the result of 131 malcontent students – triggered an improvised “I am #132” YouTube campaign, in which university students denounce the PRI and the media they see as capitulating to the financial incentives of massive advertising.

The largest rally to date occurred May 20 and was centered on Mexico City’s Monument to the Angel, on the city’s Paseo de la Reforma. Drawing more than 40,000 protesters, it paralyzed city traffic.

Political commentators and observers see this social media backlash against the PRI’s campaign as the beginning of a “student movement” that stands to upend the presidential race in the last month of the campaign.

While the latest polls show Peña Nieto with a comfortable lead, they do not reflect the student insurgence that began two weeks earlier. Whether it will be enough to upend the PRI and their Old Media allies is another question.

— Also read article on page 2. Yo Soy 132/I am 132.

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: <It reads like something out of a Stephen King horror novel–elitists, corporate agents, and government operatives secretly implementing fertility-control methods, decimating populations of people in a nefarious program that would make Margaret Sanger, a leader of the eugenics movement and founder of Planned Parenthood, proud.

Forget environmental concerns and glow-in-thedark babies. In fact, forget babies altogether. You don’t have to worry about passing along any mutations to your kids because your chances of having them have been compromised. In fact, that’s the goal– to reduce your numbers.

How you ask? Would you believe me if I said… corn? And not just any corn. GMO corn.

According to F.W. Engdahl, an American-German freelance journalist, historian, and economic researcher, one long-standing project of the U.S. government has been to perfect a genetically-modified strand of corn. This variety of corn was field-tested over ten years ago, and according to the president of the small bio-tech firm in charge of that project…

“We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make antispermantibodies.”>

by David Wetzel

Taking antibodies from women with a rare condition known as “immune infertility” and isolating the genes that regulated the manufacture of those antibodies, they inserted them into the corn plants, creating, in essence, a biological weapon for population control.

And who was helping to finance this endeavor? The Gates’ Foundation (which includes the Buffet Foundation) and the Rockefeller Foundation, through a project called The Alliance for a Green Revolution, headed by none other than former U.N. Chief, Kofi Annan. Major GMO agri-businesses are reported to be at the heart of AGRA, using it to spread their GMO technology throughout the Third World. According to Engdahl, “Gates and Buffet are major funders of global population reduction programs.” Included in this unholy alliance is Ted Turner, who thinks that a 95% reduction in global population to around 300 million would be “ideal.”

And remember, the Rockefeller Foundation has been involved in eugenics and genocide since it began funding the eugenics research in Germany in the 1920s and well into the Third Reich. (Seeds of Destruction, F.W. Engdahl.) The Rockefellers backed the forced sterilizations and racial purity ideology of Hitler’s Germany.

But how does a Third World program affect us in western civilization? More specifically, how does it affect us here, in the United States?

Shortly after the introduction of GMO corn into the U.S. in 1996, birth rates began falling. Since 1999, birth rates have plummeted even faster – just three years after GMO corn was introduced into the food supply.

GMOs, according to scientists interviewed for the film Science Under Attack, have been known to cause smaller brain size, lowered immunity, organ damage, and infertility in animals fed biotech food.

Does this correspond to the 20% rate of infertility occurring in our population today? That’s a good question. Unfortunately, agrigiants and our government are suppressing the answers.

Since 2008, the U.S. government has opposed a national effort to label GMO foods. They upped the ante by trying to suppress GMO labeling anywhere in the world, by using Codex, the U.N. arm that seeks to regulate every food, mineral, and herb in the world used for ­consumption. However, this effort has stalled because Codex doesn’t look at GMO created products as “food.”

However, Codex does place these products into a special category that can be utilized in alternative applications. (Like birth control, maybe?) Genetically engineered corn, soy, cottonseed oil, and canola oil are the most processed foods in the United States. These foods have NEVER been tested for safety in human consumption… even though animal studies show severe organ damage, spontaneous abortions, and sterility when consumed.

Take control of your fertility… your health… your life… by taking control of your own food supply.

Grow your own vegetables – nutrient dense, bursting with flavor, and naturally resistant to many of the diseases and parasites that plague genetically-modified crops today. But the benefits of gardening and growing your own food go far beyond the physical advantages of health and nutrition. Growing your own food and providing for your family’s needs reconnects you to life’s natural ebb and flow, the way that God intended.

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by wire services

A certain tension prevails here today following two consecutive days of police repression against two student demonstrations, one carried out by prospective teachers and the other by university students.

Prospective teachers were removed by force on Tuesday as they blocked a busy Guatemala City thoroughfare to protest changes proposed by the Ministry of Education in teacher training.

The students point out that the new plan, which will increase the teacher training period from two to five years, will affect their economy and career advancement.

Given the traffic blockage in the thoroughfare and the authorities’ inability to force the students to abandon their stance, riot forces broke up the demonstration with tear gas and pepper spray.

The students’ parents issued a formal complaint to the District Attorney’s Office for Human Rights, denouncing the police aggression and demanding a solution to the problem.

However, authorities are reluctant to allow the holding of demonstrations that impede the free movement of citizens, and promised to continue to respond forcefully if dialogue is unsuccessful.

Peru helicopter with foreign tourists missing

A helicopter with foreign tourists on board has gone missing in southern Peru. Police said on Thursday that 12 South Koreans and two Austrians may be on board, together with two Peruvian pilots. The helicopter reportedly left the Amazon region of Madre de Dios on Wednesday evening bound for Cusco. Media reports say the flight may have been hampered by cloudy weather.

Also in Perú:

There is more money in illegal gold mining than in cocaine

Cocaine is not the number one illegal profitable industry any- more in Perú anymore.

According a May 24, Latin News report, informal gold mining in Peru is not only being targeted as a threat to the environment and a source of fiscal evasion but also as a major illegal industry that generates more revenues than cocaine.

At a recent symposium in Lima a proposal, reports Latin News, was floated to create a special body, similar to the anti-drugs commission Devida, to coordinate the efforts to ‘formalize’ that activity, currently dispersed among several government agencies.

“Moreover, if domestic consumption of gold is taken into account, countrywide one out of every five ounces is illegal, and in the south eastern region of Madre de Dios, one out of every three. Exports of illegally mined gold, Cuba calculates, reach $1.8bn, more than the estimated $1.2bn generated by cocaine exports. He reckons that the profits from illegal gold mining amount to $1bn, which means that the public purse is deprived of some $305m,” the report added.

­Bolivian Maritime Issue is of Hemispheric Interest, Says Morales

President Evo Morales reaffirmed today tha his country’s maritime claim to Chile is an issue of continental interest, though he made clear that the dialogue to solve it is bilateral.

“The maritime issue has always been of hemispheric interest; otherwise, the Foreign ministers would not be involved. I understand that nine or 10 Foreign ministries took part in the meeting of Lima, backing and seeking a solution to the maritime issue, and in this meeting more than 50 percent of the Foreign ministers have taken part, demanding a solution,” he said.

The dialogue will be bilateral, but taking into account that some 20 Foreign ministers are taking part, it becomes of hemispheric interest, Morales told local journalists in Cochabamba.

In the 42nd Assembly of the Organization of American States, held recently in Tiquipaya municipality, in Cochabamba, 19 nations urged to solve the maritime dispute between Bolivia and Chile through fruitful dialogue and with prompt, concrete, useful, feasible solutions. (Latin Briefs and Prensa Latina contributed to this report).

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by rt.com

Ron Paul fever is spreading across the country, but it faces furious opposition from the Republican Party establishment as Election Day nears.

Following this week’s primary victory in Texas, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is all but guaranteed the GOP nomination for president at the upcoming Republican National Convention, slated for later this summer in Tampa, Florida. In the meantime, however, Congressman Ron  Paul (R-Texas) has refused to withdraw his name from the race and is continuing to vie for the GOP nod.

Romney is reported by the mainstream media as being the hands down Republican Party nominee — but in locales such as Nevada, where Ron Paul supporters run rampant, state GOP offices are being controlled almost entirely by lively backers of the libertarian legend and not the presumptive nominee. As Ron Paul support spreads, fans of the long-time congressman are quickly rising through the ranks of local and state GOP offices, securing positions that will put them at the forefront of the nomination process at the RNC.

The result, although viewed as a success by supports crossing their fingers for a President Paul administration, may make or break the November election. Without a doubt, however, it shows that Republicans rallying for the cause of liberty are making their demands known. As one might expect, however, that doesn’t set well with the right-wing establishment.

The Huffington Post reports that the latest NBC/ Marist poll puts Nevada voters practically split down the middle between Romney and Obama, the Democratic nominee and presidential incumbent. As the election season starts to wrap up and the initial hype over the GOP circus begins to be centered on only Romney and Paul though, pundits are saying that neither of the mainstream candidates this year — Romney nor Obama — are all that different.

If Ron Paul’s success continues to soar and Americans go on to give him their vote instead of casting it towards arguably identical ­opponents on the left and right, Election Day could be much closer than even that latest polls suggest. It also concludes that Rep. Paul still has a fighting chance.

In Nevada, Paul’s support has taken over the local GOP with such strength that almost all Romney supporters working for the state Republican Party office have resigned. On May 15, Paul supporters in the state’s biggest district, Clark County, passed a resolution that led to RNC chairman Reince Priebus stepping down and with it ended RNC support of the state office. Since the vote, other Romney backers have walked away and Team Nevada, as they call themselves, is now almost entirely staffed by Paul supporters.

During the state convention, Paul’s delegates secured 22 of the 28 spots set aside for the RNC in Tampa. Across the country, though, the establishment is threatening to step in to ensure that the Paul campaign cannot stage a coup, even a legal one. Earlier this month, GOP National Chairman Michael McDonald told NPR, “The State Party had lost focus and suffered from a distinct lack of execution for some time now.”

“It’s contributed to the vacuum that was created and filled by a host of people that have personal and political agendas and have contributed nothing to getting Republicans elected.”

Other Romney supporters running scared also say that Paul’s campaign isn’t trying to get their candidate elected but merely upset the establishment. By starting small in Nevada, they might be doing just that — whether they want to or not.

On Friday, Republicans in the state of Washington will decide on delegates to send to the RNC in Tampa, and the Seattle Times reports that very morning that support for the Texas congressman continues to raise problems for the Romney campaign.

“ [ T ] a k e a l o o k around,” Matt Dublin, a Paul organizer, told an audience in Tacoma during Friday morning’s convention. Pointing out his fellow supporters of Rep. Paul, Dublin said, “They are the future of our party and they are not going to go away.”

Addressing the Republican Party’s reluctance to throw its entire weight behind Romney after a tough campaign thus far, Dublin asked, “Do you want to send a delegation to Tampa that will give the nominee a blank slate… or hold his feet to the fire?”

The News Tribune also quoted Dublin on Friday as the organizer told reporters that the grassroots support for Paul that had turned huge will only mean that the establishment will soon have no choice but to appeal to the congressman’s supporters.

“We are the new activist branch of the Republican Party,” Dubin said, “and soon, very soon, all GOP candidates will be forced to seek our support if they want any chance of success.”

­Over the weekend, voters in both Washington and Missouri will select delegates to send to Tampa. No matter how many are picked to head to Florida, however, Ron Paul is expected to make a splash there nonetheless; the US News & World Report predicts that upwards of 100,000 supporters of the congressman look to go to the Sunshine State to take party in an eventcoinciding with the RNC being dubbed Ron Paul Festival.

“Hopefully, the festival is where they’ll get all of the yelling and screaming out,” festival organizer Bryan Siemon tells Business Insider.

See more: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/Ken-Walshs-Washington/2012/06/06/ron-paul-suporters-run-into-gop-roadblock.