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­Saturday, June 26 — at San Antonio, TX

Interim WBO bantamweight title: Eric Morel vs. Jorge Arce

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. John Duddy

Saturday, July 10 — at Hato Rey, Puerto Rico (Showtime)

WBO featherweight title: Juan Manuel Lopez vs. Bernabe Concepcion

Saturday, July 10 — at Las Vegas, NV

WBA/WBO lightweight titles: Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Juan Diaz

Saturday, July 24 — at TBA, Mexico

Erik Morales vs. TBA

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Latin American artists present excellent work

by the El Reportero’s staff

Claudia GómezClaudia Gómez

Home after dark is the great work of a new generation of latin American artists, an exposition where is presented the work in many disciplines of these artists in expansion, since the animation to the photography.

Those artists expose their elaborate work s in a gallery for the first time. The exhibition is being exposed from now to 17 of September in Galería de la Raza | Studio 24 – 2857 24th St @ Bryant. The exhibition opens its doors Tuesdays from 1 to 7 in the afternoon and from Wednesday to Saturday from 12 to 6 in the afternoon.

La peña supports flamenco in the Crossr o a d s f i n a l s e r i e s .

An exhibition will take place of two genres mixed of flamenco, LoCura, Califax Mestizo music with great tradition in the Bay of San Francisco and that combines flamenco, reggae and cumbia with Ska through rhythms and contagious languages, and the flametal, that mixes formulate traditional of the flamenco with the metal.

Will also take place a flamenco techniques exhibition with guitar on the part of the master one Benjamin Woods that will last around hour and a half and that will be open to questions. At ­the same time, there will be a discussion about flamenco with the own one Ben Woods, Bob Sanders and Chuky Varela. The exhibition will take place the next 16 of July and will cost from twelve to fifteen euro in function that the assistance be partial or total.

The guitar exhition will be at 3.30 p.m. on 16th, the discussion about flamenco at 8 o’clock pm and the concert at 9 p.m. all they in The Cultural Rock Center in the 3105 of Shattuck Avenue, in Berkeley. More information about the event in: http://www.lapena.org/event/1813.

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Castro’s Daughter penned by Bobby Moresco y Nilo Cruz gets director

­por Latin Heat

Ryan Piers and América FerreraRyan Piers and América Ferrera

British filmmaker, Michael Radford has attached himself to direct Mankind Entertainment’s upcoming, true-life historical  drama, Castro’s Daughter.

Radford will bring his masterful vision to the film, which follows the amazing, true life story of Alina Fernandez—the exiled daughter of Cuba’s former communist leader, Fidel Castro. After years of disagreements with Castro, Fernandez courageously escaped her homeland of Cuba disguised as a Spanish tourist; she later wrote her international bestselling memoir, Castro’s Daughter: An Exile’s Memoir of Cuba. Fernandez, now a global icon, holds lectures at colleges in the U.S, and worldwide; and commentates for cable news shows, Fox and CNN routinely.

The screenplay was written by Bobby Moresco, who won an Oscar and BAFTA for co-writing Crash in 2005; and Cuban playwright: Nilo Cruz (‘Anna in the Tropics’), who won the Pulitzer Prize and Steinberg awards in 2003. Daughter is being produced by Mankind’s John Torres Martinez, and Joe Lamy.

Radford, a classical favorite, reached acclaim with his film adaptation of George Orwell’s novel, 1984. He later went on to direct his most famous work, Il Postino; a world renowned, Italian-set love story which garnered him two Oscar nominations for Best Directing and Best Screenplay, two BAFTA wins for Directing and Best Film (non English), and a David di Donatello nomination for Best European Film. His film took an Oscar for Best Music, two BAFTA’s for Best Film (non-English) and Best Music.

C a r l o s L e o n S t a r s in “Immigration Tango

Carlos Leon, who used to be known as the baby daddy to Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, film by film and a series of TV guest appearance in shows like Law in Order: Criminal Intent, CSI: NY and Ugly Betty have finally put the focus on his acting career. His latest film Immigration Tango hist the street on June 28, 2011 on DVD.

Love and marriage are in the air this June as Lionsgate debuts the romantic comedy Immigration Tango on DVD, Digital Download and On Demand. Four friends. One big problem. Two-time winner at both the Boston International Film Festival and the Monaco International Film Festival, the film explores what two couples will do for love, friendship and green cards. Packed with laughs, the film stars Carlos Leon (The Big Lebowski), McCaleb Burnett (The Men Who Stare at Goats), Elika Portnoy (upcoming Sofia) and Ashley Wolfe (Casino Jack). Immigration Tango, featuring an audio commentary with the filmmakers, dances its way to DVD on June 28th, for the suggested retail price of $27.98.

Bella bride: America Ferrera weds longtime beau A m e ri ca F er rer a and her longtime boyfriend Ryan Piers Williams tied the knot this week in a star-packed bash.

The 27-year Ugly Betty star and Ryan were married in an elegant and intimate setting amongst close friends and family. The bride and groom exchanged vows at the stunning Chappaqua, New York home of her Ugly Betty costar Vanessa Williams. Also in attendance included Hollywood stars: Blake Lively and Amber Tambln (her Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants costars) plus such Ugly Betty cohorts as Rebecca Romlin (with hubby Jerry O’Connell), Mark Indelicato ­and Judith Light who officiated the ceremony! America looked radiant in a stunning dress by Amsale’s “Chrisos” label and accessorized with Fred Leighton Jewelry.

Williams proposed to the 27-year-old actress in June 2010 with a 4-carat round cut diamond worth about $70,000. Ferrara won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her portrayal of Betty Suarez on ABC’s Ugly Betty.

¡Que Viva La Novia!

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Organic company inaugurates store and offers jobs in SF

compiled by El Reportero’s staff

The Mayor of San Francisco Ed Reads inaugurated the first store of Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, which is known for the natural elaboration of organic products, that include from products without colors and artificial flavors or trans fat, to items free of sugar, gluten, and meats and chickens that haven’t been frozen, and milk obtained from cows that were not treated with the hormone rBST, and all this at lower prices than the market.

This is the first branch of the store in San Francisco, which is located in the District of Richmond in the 32nd Avenue and Clement Street. The company also accepts job applications through its website www. freshandeasy.com/joinus for the store located in 3rd Street and Carroll Avenue, which is scheduled to open on August 24th.

The proposed salary for new employees is $10 an hour and they are also offered quarterly gratifications, as well as the possibility to participate in the plan 401(k). The company offers its employees the opportunity to work a minimum of 20 hours a week, which entitles them to medical cover, and dentist and ophthalmological services, including medicines that are sold with prescription.

A m e r i c a n G a m e s G u a d a l a j a r a 2 0 1 1

The Mexican Consulate was pleased to announce that this year the City of Guadalajara will be honored to host the XVI Pan-American Games, on October 14-30, 2011. This will be the largest multi-sport event ever held in Mexico outside the capital city, and the second most significant after the FIFA World Cup in 1986, and will gather thousands of athletes from around the continent in 46 different disciplines.

The Consulate General of Mexico invited the press to a lunch to launch the 100 days countdown for the Pan-American torch to light the inaugural fire that will spark off the games euphoria. Key sports figures participated in this event.

­Hundreds of Domestic workers, supporters head to Sacramento to support bill of rights

Hundreds of nannies, house cleaners, and care givers traveled to Sacramento on Wednesday to urge the Senate’s Labor Committee to approve the California Domestic Worker Bill of Rights which the Committee was scheduled to hear Wednesday morning. The bill would stabilize the vital domestic work industry and improve the quality of care for families, children, and seniors by expanding the necessary labor protections for household workers and creating clear standards for employers.

The gathering took place on Wednesday, July 6th in Capitol Building, Sacramento CA. Hundreds of supporters of the Bill AB889 attended- like employers, disability rights activists and seniors, domestic workers, religious leaders and students.

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How should Americans respond when our leaders are war criminales?

by Luke Hiken

The news has recently described an astonishing number of war crimes being committed by the U.S. throughout the world:

1) The use of unmanned drones on civilian populations in Pakistan, Yemen, and Afghanistan.

2) The ongoing murder of civilians in Iraq.

3) Support for U.S.-installed dictators in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain, as well as torture and renditions in Saudi Arabia.

4 ) I n d i s c r i m i n a t e bombing in Libya designed to kill one of the few dictators we don’t embrace in the Middle East.

5) Declaring Iran Air Lines to be a “terrorist group” and threatening to prosecute anyone who flies on that airline for “Patriot Act” violations.

6) Support for Israel’s illegal blockade and opposition to a peace flotilla to the concentration camp known as Gaza.

7) U.S. complicity with the Mexican government in its murder of over 25,000 supposed drug dealers and their supporters — all to prevent North Americans from feeding their addictions.

8) Destabilization programs throughout South and Central America, designed to overthrow governments that won’t comply with U.S. demands to give us their natural resources and financial support.

9) The use of the CIA, FBI and their affiliates in international clandestine operations, including assassinations and disappearances.

The list goes on and on, and only gets worse as each week passes. The tally of our savagery throughout the world numbers in the hundreds of thousands each year, and yet the only casualties we read about refer to “American lives lost” – and, even those number in the thousands. All the government has to do is characterize its victims as terrorists, or anti-U.S., and the public sits back and condones the killing.

As “loyal” Americans, are we to applaud these unconscionable actions, support them with our taxes and remain committed to Pentagon- style “democracy?” Do we advocate obedience to the U.S. leadership and the oligarchs that finance them or do we root for our “enemies” – or neither?

Speaking out, marching, signing petitions and screaming “We’re not going to take it anymore” has never stopped any despot, and it is certainly not going to stop the billionaire CEOs who profit and benefit from the use of Homeland Security to silence dissent and opposition at home and abroad.

Given the virtual police state Americans live under, it is obvious that picking up guns or responding violently to these atrocities is suicidal, at best. Civil disobedience barely rises to the level of symbolic opposition given the certain imprisonment imposed on activists by our right-wing judiciary.

­Do we plead for mercy from these killers? Do we pray (now there is something the Republicans can get behind) for relief from this relentless slaughter?

Most Americans read the news and shake their heads in disbelief that we could have sunk so low as a nation. Then we resume going about our business, leaving the wars to those who hold the monopoly of power and wealth in this country.

Silence in the face these crimes is unacceptable. Resistance is the only honorable response. But how and what will stop this juggernaut of senseless wars and mayhem remains to be seen. In the meantime, we are like the good Germans of the 30’s and 40’s, who stood by while their government destroyed everything of value that it touched. Throughout history, oppressed people have been overwhelmed and immobilized by the seeming indestructibility of the military establishment in power. Whether it be a Hitler, an Attila, or the powerful Ozymandias of old, the mighty call upon the weak to “look on my works … and despair.”

But whether these tyrants are defeated by their enemies, or, like an uncontrolled forest fire that burns itself out as a result of its own self-destructing flames, all such empires fade and fall. The hubris and inhumanity of our leaders and owners result in their own annihilation – the only question is how many will have died while they wreaked their havoc on the people and resources of the planet.

L u k e H i k e n i s a n attorney who has engaged in the practice of criminal, military, immigration, and appellate law. The Progressive Avenues website, www.progressiveavenues.org, is updated regularly in the “What’s Added, What’s New” link on the Home page, a t h t t p : / / w w w . p r ogressiveasvenues.org/Whats_New_Added.html

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Another scandal that could take Obama down

by Joseph Farah
Between the Lines
World Daily News

Sometimes the news seems stranger than fiction.

Who could dream up a plot line like this?

Several law enforcement agencies of the federal government, including the FBI, Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, got together to hatch a plan to sell guns to Mexican drug cartel members – at least one of which was later used to murder a Border Patrol agent.

C a n ’ t b e , r i g h t ?

Wait a minute. It gets worse. It now appears the money used by the known criminals in Mexico was federal “stimulus” money. I know. It’s a nightmare.

It’s government gone wild. Yet that is exactly what the aptly named “Project Gunrunner” seems to have been all about – with a scandal and ensuing cover-up big enough to bring down Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.

Members of Congress have been trying to investigate, but are getting no cooperation from Holder and the Justice Department.

Apparently, the plan of the Obama administration was for the acting director of the ATF to take the fall. His name is Kenneth Melson – but he has other ideas.

Melson says he first found out about “Project Gunrunner” – also called “Operation Fast and Furious” – after the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, killed with a gun sold to the Mexican gangs by U.S. law enforcement personnel.

But after checking through the files on the program, Melson said he

got “sick to his stomach” by what he found – the direct involvement of the FBI, DEA, Homeland Security, etc. While Melson is talking to congressional investigators, Obama’s buddy Holder is in full stonewalling mode. He won’t give Rep. Darrel Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the time of day.

The Obama administration appears to have put together a sophisticated, inter-agency conspiracy to provide money to Mexican gangsters to purchase guns from the U.S. to kill federal agents, but it is not at all happy about explaining itself to the American people, the press or Congress.

Initially, Holder tried to dismiss the operation as a botched sting run by ATF to track and stop cross-border arms-trafficking. But that story is a dead letter after secret testimony provided by Melson on July 4 to congressional investigators.

Melson wanted to testify earlier, but Holder stopped him. Holder pressured Melson to quit his job and go away. But he’s not having any part of that. He may have become Obama’s worst nightmare after Jerome Corsi.

Try to picture this: Holder, the FBI, Homeland Security, DEA and ATF all get together to run a sting operation at least partly in a foreign country. Is it even conceivable that Obama would not have to be informed of such a plan? Not likely. This was an operation with international consequences. If Obama didn’t know, whose fault is that. And then we get into the question of what really might have motivated such an elaborate plot. Is the explanation we’ve received really plausible?

Or is it more likely that the ideologically driven Obama administration, which detests the constitutionally protected right of every American to own and bear firearms, was actively participating in a diabolical political program to put U.S. guns into the hands of Mexican gangsters as part of a false flag operation that would be used to seize the guns of U.S. civilians?

The old line is that the cover-up is worse than the crime. Maybe not in this case. What could Holder be so afraid of revealing that he would lie to Congress (a crime in itself) to conceal? Chances are it’s pretty bad – probably worse than my scenario.

Just so you don’t think I’m making this up, here’s ­what ATF investigators told members of Congress last month – that they wanted to “intervene and interdict” large numbers of guns at the border, but were ordered to step aside and let them fall into the hands of the drug cartel.

“Allowing loads of weapons that we knew to be destined for criminals – this was the plan,” John Dodson, an ATF agent, told the panel. “It was so mandated.”

Agent Olindo James Casa said that “on several occasions I personally requested to interdict or seize firearms, but I was always ordered to stand down and not to seize the firearms.”

Do you see why I say this is another scandal that could bring Obama down?

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The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Familes (Part Two of a series)

­by Marvin Ramíre­z­

­­­Marvin  J. Ramírez­Ma­r­v­in­ R­­­­a­­m­­­­í­r­­­­e­z­­­­

If you want to read series from the beggining (https://elreporterosf.com/editions/?q=node/5547)

 

N O T E F R O M T H E E D I T O R : Dear readers, I just ran into this super detailed article about the intricacies and composition of what is called the Federal Reserve Bank (FRB). The FRB is the Central Bank of the United States, a privately-owned banking cartel, owned by the International Monetary Fund, which in turn is owned by a handful of corrupt families, whose only goal is to enslave the world under a global economy, a global heaLth organization (World Health Organization), a global judicial system (The Hague), private armies such as NATO, OAS – and under a new world government (United Nations,), which combined comprise what is now commonly known as The New World Order– disguised as ‘Globalism.’

By monopolizing the learning institutions in the U.S. and in most parts of the world, this banking elite has been able to implement and manage the current monetary system – an art piece of their own creation that controls practically all life – and death over the Earth.

They pay billions of dollars to universities to teach the arts of economics – through Masters and PhD degrees – to teach their own economic system, and a legal system that makes sure that no one understands – only lawyers – and most people are taught to obey, obey blindly, and with this, govern and impose their will through out the courts and the banking system. The whole article was divided in four parts by the author. However, due that the first part of the series is 3,500 words, it will take El Reportero several weeks or months to publish a portion of it every week.

El Reportero suggest anyone who finds any inaccuracy on this report to please email us with youR comments.

by Dean Henderson

I n f o w a r s . c o m – G l o b a l R e s e a r c h (Part two of a series)

The House of Morgan

The Federal Reserve Bank was born in 1913, the same year US banking scion J. Pierpont Morgan died and the Rockefeller Foundation  was formed. The House of Morgan presided over American fi nance from the corner of Wall Street and Broad, acting as quasi-US central bank since 1838, when George Peabody founded it in London. Peabody was a business associate of the Rothschilds.

In 1952 Fed researcher Eustace Mullins put forth the supposition that the Morgans were nothing more than Rothschild agents. Mullins wrote that the Rothschilds, “…preferred to operate anonymously in the US behind the facade of J.P. Morgan & Company”. [5]

Author Gabriel Kolko stated, “Morgan’s activities in 1895-1896 in selling US gold bonds in Europe were based on an alliance with the House of Rothschild.” [6]

The Morgan financial octopus wrapped its tentacles quickly around the globe. Morgan Grenfell operated in London. Morgan et Ce ruled Paris. The Rothschild’s Lambert cousins set up Drexel & Company in Philadelphia.

The House of Morgan catered to the Astors, DuPonts, Guggenheims, Vanderbilts and Rockefellers. It fi nanced the launch of AT&T, General Motors, General Electric and DuPont. Like the London-based Rothschild and Barings banks, Morgan became part of the power structure in many countries.

By 1890 the House of Morgan was lending to Egypt’s central bank, financing Russian railroads, floating Brazilian provincial government bonds and funding Argentine public works projects. A recession in 1893 enhanced Morgan’s power. That year Morgan saved the US government from a bank panic, forming a syndicate to prop up government reserves with a shipment of $62 million worth of Rothschild gold. [7]

Morgan was the driving force behind Western expansion in the US, financing and controlling West-bound railroads through voting trusts. In 1879 Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Morgan-fi nanced New York Central Railroad gave preferential shipping rates to John D. Rockefeller’s bud­ding Standard Oil monopoly, cementing the Rockefeller/ Morgan relationship. The House of Morgan now fell under Rothschild and Rockefeller family control.

A New York Herald headline read, “Railroad Kings Form Gigantic Trust”. J. Pierpont Morgan, who once stated, “Competition is a sin”, now opined gleefully, “Think of it. All competing railroad traffi c west of St. Louis placed in the control of about thirty men.”[8]

Morgan and Edward Harriman’s banker Kuhn Loeb held a monopoly over the railroads, while banking dynasties Lehman, Goldman Sachs and Lazard joined the Rockefellers in controlling the U.S. industrial base. [9]

In 1903 Banker’s Trust was set up by the Eight Families. Benjamin Strong of Banker’s Trust was the fi rst Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

The 1913 creation of the Fed fused the power of the Eight Families to the military and diplomatic might of the US government. If their overseas loans went unpaid, the oligarchs could now deploy US Marines to collect the debts. Morgan, Chase and Citibank formed an international lending syndicate. IT WILL CONTINUE NEXT WEEK.

For reading third part of a series (https://elreporterosf.com/editions/?q=node/5598)

 

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Distinguished Nicaraguan lawyer Noel Estrada passes away in SF

por Víctor Franco Alonzo

El Dr. Noel Estrada Martínez en la ciudad de Sur San Francisco meses antes de muerte: (PHOTO BY HAZEL GUTIÉRREZ)El Dr. Noel Estrada Martínez en la ciudad de Sur San Francisco meses antes de muerte (PHOTO BY HAZEL GUTIÉRREZ)

Nicaragua is mourning. Dr. Noel Ernesto Estrada Martínez passed away in San Francisco, California, on July 4 at the age of 85. Born in Managua, Nicaragua, on Sept. 23, 1925, Dr. Estrada-Martínez studied at the Colegio Bautista de Managua, where he got his high school diploma, and then transferred to the National University of León city, where he got his Doctorate in Jurisprudence.

Dr. Estrada Martínez wanted to specialize in medicine; however, his father urged him to study law and, although this wasn’t his vocation, he specialized on it, until he became one of the most important lawyers in Nicaragua. He exercised his career from 1959 to 1979, when a change of government forced him and his family to exile in the city of San Francisco, California.

Nevertheless, “even though he physically lived in the U.S., his spirit continued to be trapped in a paradise called Nicaragua, which was going to remain forever in his memory, just the way he knew it before his departure”, said his daughter Glenda Gutiérrez in an interview with El Reportero. A loyal friend of his accurately named him man-homeland, a characteristic that is reflected in most part of his heartfelt writings, which in occasions led him to tears.

He was a person who read a lot and thus, he was very cultured, who felt that every book he held in his hands provided him with a new lesson. Moreover, he loved his family and was proud of it. He was born rich for two reasons: firstly, due to a significant inheritance; secondly, due to the most important reason: he never paid attention to material stuff and gave away all the things he owned to his loved ones. He was a humble person; he settled for not too much.

His hobbies were photography, hunting and horse-riding, as his affinity for writing and his works can be considered more of a vocation than a hobby. Through these he rested and connected with his beloved Nature, to which he has been united forever, leaving an inheritance of permanent love everywhere he passed by.

“He was a very good man”, said sadly Ivania Palacios, owner of the Restaurant El Trebol, where Dr. Estrada used to eat Nicaraguan food since approximately three decades.

“A picture of me he took with his camera during the 15th birthday party of his granddaughter Hazel Gutiérrez, and which surprisingly he brought to me as a gift to the office at the newspaper, is a very sweet memory that I will always keep and be very fond of”, said Marvin Ramírez, editor of El Reportero. “Don Noel Estrada was a soul of God, a gentleman full of virtue, love and peace.”

It was that same heart, through which he always delivered happiness and goodness among the people around him that failed at 3 a.m. on U.S. Independence Day. In heaven, where his beloved wife, Mary Estrada, deceased a few years ago, was waiting for him, together with his parents Ernesto Estrada and María Estrada.

He is survived by his siblings Robert J. Padilla and Yolanda Robert; his daughters Glenda Ninoschka Gutierrez, married to Sergio Gutiérrez and Grace Ninnete Alfaro, married to Raúl Alfaro; his son Noel Ernesto Estrada Jr, married to Marina Estrada; just as Linda Griffith, his son’s ex wife and considered a daughter to him; and eight grandchildren, among them Ernesto Ignacio Estrada, Frarinz Guiselle Alfaro-Shkurkin, Ninnete Elizabeth Alfaro, Christina Griffith, Hazel Montserrat Gutiérrez, Alyeska Gutiérrez, Ian Raúl Alfaro and Sheyla Janel; and a great grandson, Dominic Shkurkin.

His remains will be watched on Sunday, July 10 from 3- 9 p.m. and a rosary at 7 p.m. at the funeticsnerary Driscoll’s Valencia Mortuary. Monday, before his burial, at 11 a.m., there will be a mass in lying state in the historic Dolores Basilica, located in Dolores Street with 16th, and then after carry his body for burial at Cyprest ­Law Cemetery in the city of Colma at 10:30 a.m.

The staff of El Reportero and especially its editor, Marvin Ramírez extend their most sincere condolences to the mourning family and accompanies join them in their grief.

 

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The world’s food crisis can be solved without using GM crops or fertilizers

by Matthew Silverstone

(NaturalNews) We have all been sold a lie, yet again. We are constantly being told that the only solution to solving the world’s food shortages is to use enormous amounts of fertilisers or genetically modified seeds that produce “super” crops. What we are not being told is that we do not need either of these two options to solve the worldwide crisis in food production, all we need to do is give seeds a little magnetic tickle.

That is right, that is all we need to do. No nitrates, no genetics, no toxic chemicals, no damage to our health or to the natural balance of nature. Just a simple tickle of tiny amounts of magnetism.

One of the authors of a study into crop growth through magnetic stimulation, Angel De Souza, wrote to me after reading the research in my book, Blinded by Science (www.blindedbyscience.co.uk)  which proved that magnetism was the long term solution. He wanted to share his disbelief as to why seed companies showed no interest in his research.

“ We d e v e l o p e d a technology of magnetic treatment to improve the vigour of tomato, lettuce and onion seeds, rate and germination uniformity, growth, emergency and seedling vigour under field conditions as well as crop yields and quality of harvest… Also, this technology increases protection against the stress of heat and pathogens.

In further correspondence he went on to say that he published a paper in an offi cial seed journal to promote his research in 2010, proving it was possible to increase seed germination and growth of yield of tomatoes. This piece of research fell on deaf ears. No seed company was interested.

This is almost an act of crime against humanity! So start asking yourself this question, what is the motive behind all of this.

It can only be one thing, profits. What can we do about it? Start a media campaign and spread the word, let everyone know what is being done and put pressure on supermarkets, retail outlets and specifically seed companies to let them know that we don’t want to eat food grown with chemicals of plants that are genetically modified in any way. We want natural.

If this means that they don’t make enormous profi ts then so be it as humanity will be the big benefactor, not only for you, but for your ­children and your children’s children.

De Souza A, Garcia D, Sueiro L, Gilart F, Porras E, Licea L (2006) Pre-sowing magnetic treatments of tomato seeds increase the growth and yield of plants. Bioelectromagnetics, 27, pp. 247-257. De Souza A, Sueiro L, Gonzalez L, Licea L, Porras E, Gilart F (2008) Improvement of the growth and yield of lettuce plants by the non-uniform magnetic fields. Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, 27, pp. 173-184.

“Extremely low frequency non-uniform magnetic fi elds improve tomato seed germination and early seedling growth” Seed Science and Technology 2010.

About the author: Matthew Silverstone is the author of Blinded by science, www.blindedbyscience.co.uk a book that will completely change your attitude to your health. Blinded by Science offers a theory which when applied to factors like water, plants, the Sun and the Moon all seems to make perfect sense. As simple as it sounds, it is the theory that everything vibrates.

The book explains that everything vibrates from the nucleus of an atom to the molecules of our blood, our brain, sound, plants, animals, all the way into outer space. Once this basic principle is understood, everything suddenly becomes clear. Once you apply this theory to the world around you, you will be astounded by what you learn.

Find out more at www.blindedbyscience.co.uk

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A new Perú- Bolivian Confederation?

­por Isaac Bigio

Ollanta HumalaOllanta Humala

Before officially taking office, Peru’s elected president was in La Paz, where he claimed that he would like to revive the Peru-Bolivian Confederation of 1836-39.

This statement, just as others related to foreign policy, was absent in the debate during the presidential campaign. Nevertheless, if it is successful in going beyond being just a wish and starts to seek implementation, it will entail the emergence of a unionist tendency, opposed to that of the current world.

To date, the dynamics of Hispanic-America have not been related to the reunification of diverse republics, but towards an increasing fragmentation. Since the 1821 post-colonial Mexico, the Central-American federation broke away, and afterwards it was divided into 5 new republics. Later, Texas demanded its independence, in order to be annexed to the US, and so was later the north of Mexico. In 1830 the Great Colombia was divided into Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia (from this latter  Panama split in 1903).

The attempts of keeping integrated the old Vice-royalty of la Plata have failed, just as any possibility to unify the old Spanish colonies of the Caribbean. The Spanish island is currently divided between the Dominican and Haitian republics. The Spanish Antilles were captured by the US in the 1898 war, allowing Cuba to obtain independence, although one of its zones (Guantanamo) and Puerto Rico remain under Washington’s administration.

The tendency towards division has been enhanced in the rest of the Antilles. The Federation of the Western Indies of 1958-62 gave rise to 14 countries (most of them under the rule of Elizabeth II, although only 4 were semi-autonomous dependencies). The Dutch West Indies have ­advanced towards fragmentation as most of the 6 islands that comprise them have voted for its separation.

At an international level there is, on one hand, a tendency to form regional blocs, but on the other hand, there is a tendency towards the fragmentation of the states. Until half a century ago, most of the 54 countries of Africa were united under the administration of France or Great Britain.

I n w e s t A s i a , a t least 8 new countries emerged from decolonization. The old British India is today divided into 5 republics and the French Indochina, into 3. Since 2 decades ago, the 3 “socialist” federations from Eastern Europe have split, giving rise to 23 new members of the United Nations, while others are also demanding to become members.

Countries that could claim a national common past (such as Austria and Germany or several in Arabia) are still separated. Libya’s, Egypt’s or Syria’s attempts of integrating among them or with other neighbors have failed. Countries such as Gambia, Swaziland, Monaco, San Marino or the Vatican, despite being entrenched within a bigger nation, have insisted in maintaining their independence.

Three exceptions to that rule are the reunifications of Vietnam, Germany and Yemen, even though these 3 cases include historical nations that were temporarily divided due to the fact that parts of their territories chose different socio-economic models during the Cold War.

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