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The Agenda of the Illumination (Part 19th of a multi-series)

by Marvin Ramíre­z­

­Marvin  J. Ramírez­Ma­rv­in­ R­­am­­­í­r­­ez­­­­

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Given the important and historical information contained in this 31-page article on the history of the secret and evil society, The Illuminati, El Reportero is honored to provide our readers with the opportunity to read such a document by Myron C. Fagan, which mainstream media has labeled it a conspiracy theory. To better understand this series, we suggest to also read the previous articles published in our previous editorials.

This is the nineteenth part of the series.

The following is a transcript of a recording distributed in 1967 by Myron C. Fagan. He had hoped that if enough Americans had heard (or read) this summary, the Illuminati takeover agenda for America would have been aborted, just as Russia’s Alexander I had torpedoed the Illuminati’s plans for a One World, League of Nations at the Congress of Vienna from 1814-15. Fagan correctly describes those members of congress, the executive branch, and the judicial branch of that time as TRAITORS for their role in assisting to implement the downfall of America’s sovereignty. It’s understandable that most listeners of that period would have found it impossible to believe that the Kennedy’s, for instance, were (are) part of the Illuminati plot, but he did say that Jack had a spiritual rebirth and attempted to rescue the country from the Illuminati’s stranglehold by issuing U.S. silver certificates, which apparently greatly contributed to the Illuminati’s decision to assassinate him (his son, John Jr., was also murdered because he had intended to expose his father’s killers after he gained public office).

— Now just to cement that fact; I will mention the names of the United States Presidents who were members of the CFR: Franklin Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jack Kennedy [also, Nixon, and George Bush when they later became U.S. President..Ed ]. Others who were considered for the presidency are Thomas E. Dewey, Adlai Stevenson, and vice-president of a CFR subsidiary, Barry Goldwater.

Among the important cabinet members of the various administrations we have John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, Cordell Hull, John J. MacLeod, Robert Morganthau, Clarence Dillon, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and just to emphasize the “red color” of the “CFR;” we have as members such men as Alger Hess, Ralph Bunche, Pusvolsky, Haley Dexter White (real name Weiss), Owen Lattimore, Phillip Jaffey, etc., etc.. Simultaneously; they were flooding thousands of homosexuals and other black malleable characters ! into all the federal agencies from the White House on down.

Do you remember Johnson’s great friends; Jenkins and Bobby Baker?

Now there were many jobs the new CFR had to accomplish. They required much help. So their first job was to set up various “subsidiaries” to whom they assigned special objectives.

I can’t name all the subsidiaries in this recording; but the following are a few: the “Foreign Policy Association” (“FPA”), the “World Affairs Council” (“WAC”), the “Business Advisory Council” (“BAC”), the notorious “ADA” (“Americans for Democratic Action” virtually headed by Walter Ruther), the notorious “13-13” in Chicago; Barry Goldwater was, and no doubt still is a vicepresident of one of the CFR subsidiaries.

In addition; the CFR set up special committees in every state in the Union to whom they assigned the various state operations. Simultaneously; the Rothschilds set up similar CFR-like control groups in England, France, Germany, and other Nations esto control world conditions and cooperate with the CFR to bring about another world war. But the CFR’s fi rst and foremost job was to get complete control of our mass communications media.

The control of the press was assigned to Rockefeller.

Thus; Henry Luce, who recently died, was fi nanced to set up a number of national magazines, among them “Life,” “Time,” “Fortune,” and others, which publish “U.S.S.R.” in America. The Rockefellers also directly or indirectly financed the Coles Brothers’ “Look magazine” and a chain of newspapers. They also fi nanced a man named Sam Newhouseto buy up and build a chain of newspapers all over the country. And the late Eugene Myer, one of the founders of CFR,bought the “Washington Post,” “Newsweek,” the “Weekly magazine,” and other publications.

At the same time; the CFR began to develop and nurture a new breed of scurrilous columnists and editorials writers such as Walter Lippman, Drew Pearson, the Alsops, Herbert Matthews, Erwin Canham, and others of that ilk who called themselves “Liberals” who proclaimed that “Amercanism” is “isolationism;” that “isolationism” is “war mongerism;” that “anti-communism;” is “anti-semiticism” and “racism.”

­All that took time of course, but today our “weeklies,” published by patriotic organizations, is completely controlled by CFR stooges and thus they finally succeeded in breaking us up into a Nation of quarreling, wrangling, squabbling, hating factions. Now if you still wonder about this slanted news and outright lies you read in your newspaper; you now have the answer.

To the Lehmans, Goldman- Sachs, Kuhn-Loebs, and the Warburgs; the CFR assigned the job of getting control of the motion picture industry, Hollywood, radio, and television; and believe me they succeeded.

If you still wonder about the strange propaganda broadcast by the Ed Morrows and others of that ilk; you now have the answer.

If you wonder about all the smut, sex, pornography, and mixed marriage films you see in your movie theater and on your televison set (all of which is demoralizing our youth); you now have the answer. Now to refresh your memory, let’s go back for a moment. Wilson’s flop had torpedoed all chances of transforming that “League of Nations” into what the conspirators had hope for, a one-world government housing. So the Jacob Schiff plot had to be done all over again and they organized the CFR to do it. We also know how successfully the CFR did that job of brainwashing and destroying the unity of the American people.

But, as was the case with the Schiff plot; the climax and the creation of a new housing for their one world government required another world war. A war that would be even more horrible and more devastating than the first world war in order to get the people of the world to again clamor for peace and a means to end all wars. But the CFR realized that the aftermath of World War II would have to be more carefully planned so that there would be no escape from the new one-world trap – another “League of Nations” that would emerge from the new war. The trap we now know as the “United Nations” and they hit upon a perfect strategy to ensure that no one escaped. Here is how they did it. In 1943, in the midst of the war, they prepared the framework for the United Nations and it was handed over to Roosevelt and our State Department to be given birth by Alger Hess, Palvosky, Dalton, Trumbull, and other American traitors, thus making the whole scheme a United States’ baby.

Then to fix our parenthood; New York City was to become the nursery for the monstrosity. After that we could hardly walk out on our own baby now could we? Anyway; that’s how the conspirators figured it would work and so far it has. The liberal Rockefeller donated the land for the United Nations’ building.

IT WILL CONTINUE ON THE NEXT WEEKS EDITION.

 

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The migrant hotel – where deportees find shelter in Mexicali

­por David Bacon

New America Media

Sentado en la cama de su cuarto en el Hotel Migrante cerca de la frontera, Gerardo fue deportado días antes de los EE.UU.: (PHOTOS BY DAVID BACON)Gerardo, who was deported a few days earlier, sits on the bed in his room, at the Hotel Migrante next to the border.  (PHOTOS BY DAVID BACON)

­MEXICALI, México— Last year, almost 400,000 people were deported from the United States. That’s the largest wave of deportations in U.S. history, even larger than the notorious “Operation Wetback” of the 1950s, or the mass deportations during the Great Depression.

Often the Border Patrol empties buses of deportees at the border gates of cities like Mexicali in the middle of the night, pushing people through at a time when nothing is open, and no services are available to provide them with food or shelter. Most deportees are young people. They had no money in their pockets coming to the United States, and have nothing more as they get deported back to Mexico.

These are invisible people. In the wave of anti-immigrant hysteria gripping the United States, no one asks what happens to the deportees once they’re sent back to Mexico.

In Mexicali, a group of deportees and migrant rights activists have taken over an old, abandoned hotel, formerly the Hotel Centenario (the Hundred Year Hotel). They’ve renamed it the Hotel Migrante, or the Migrant Hotel. Just a block from the border crossing, it gives people deported from the United States a place to sleep and food to eat for a few days before they go home, or try to cross the border again.

The government gives it nothing. Border Angels, the U.S.-based immigrant rights group, provides what little support the hotel gets. A cooperative of deportees cooks the food and works on fixing the building.

During the winter, about 50-60 people live there at any given time, while ­five or six more knock on its doors every night. Last summer, at the peak of the season when people try to cross the border looking for work, the number of deportees seeking shelter at the hotel rose to over 300.

“A lot of people get hurt trying to walk through the mountains around Mexicali,” says Benjamin Campista, a cooperative member. “It’s very cold there now, and when they get caught and deported, many are just wearing a T-shirt and tennis shoes. Some get sick — those we take to the hospital. The rest stay here a few days until their family can send them money to get home, or until they decide to try to cross again.”

Border Angels and the hotel collective agreed to pay the landlord 11,000 pesos a month in rent (about $900 USD), but they’re already six months behind. Every day hotel residents go out to the long lines of people waiting to cross through the garita (the legal border crossing). They ask for money to support the hotel, and each person gets to keep half of what they’re given. The other half goes mostly for food for the evening meal. Deportees have plenty of time to explain their situation to people standing in line, since on a recent afternoon the wait to get through the garita was two hours. Every day Campista hears deportees tell their stories. “Three brothers stayed here last summer, before they tried to cross.

A month later one came back. I saw him on the roof, crying as he looked at the mountains where the other two had died from the heat. A woman came here with her twomonth-old baby. Her husband had died in the desert too.”

“We’re human beings!” Campista exclaims.

“We’re just going north to try to work. Why should we die for this? Our governments should end these violations of human rights.

Then our hotel wouldn’t even be necessary.

http: / /newamericamedia.org/2010/12/the-migrant-hotel—where-deporteesfind-shelter.php

 

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The truth about your weight gain

by David Zinczenko

Natural news

Two out of three people in America today are either overweight or obese. That means every time you sit down in an airplane or a packed movie theater, more likely than not you’re going to wind up as the lean center of a fat sandwich. But as you look right and left and see nothing but heft, you can’t help but think, What happened?

How did we all get so darn fat?

Well, the simple answer is that we eat more calories. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that American men eat 7 percent more calories than they did in 1971; American women eat a whopping 18 ­percent more—an additional 335 calories a day!

But the harder question is this: Why do we eat so many more calories? Are we suddenly more gluttonous? Do we have some kind of collective death wish? Is the entire country hellbent on qualifying for the next season of Biggest Loser? No. There’s an even crazier reason: It’s the food!

We’ve added extra calories to traditional foods, often in cheap, mass-producaed vehicles like high fructose corn syrup. These new freak foods are designed not by chefs, but by lab technicians packing every morsel with maximum calories at minimum cost—with little or no regard to dietary impact. Indeed, Eat This, Not That! 2011 has uncovered the truth about some of your favorite fast food and grocery store items and how they’re causing you to pack on unnecessary pounds. It’s enough to kill your appetite, which—in these cases, anyway—would be a good thing.

THE FAST-FOOD HAMBURGER

The great American staple. Don’t worry, burgers really do come from cows—but have you ever wondered how those giant chains process and distribute so much meat so cheaply? And . . . are you sure you want to know? The Truth: Most fastfood hamburger patties begin their voyage to your buns in the hands of a company called Beef Products.

The company specializes in taking slaughterhouse trimmings—heads and hooves and the like—that are traditionally used only in pet food and cooking oil, and turning them into patties. The challenge is getting this byproduct meat clean enough for human consumption, as both E. coli and salmonella like to concentrate themselves in the fatty deposits. The company has developed a process for killing beef-based pathogens by forcing the ground meat through pipes and exposing it to ammonia gas—the same chemical you might use to clean your bathroom.

Not only has the USDA approved the process, but it’s also allowed those who sell the beef to keep it hidden from their customers. At Beef Products’ behest, ammonia gas has been deemed a “processing agent” that need not be identified on nutrition labels. Never mind that if ammonia gets on your skin, it can cause severe burning, and if it gets in your eyes, it can blind you. Add to the gross-out factor the fact that after moving through this lengthy industrial process, a single beef patty can consist of cobbled-together pieces from different cows from all over the world—a practice that only increases the odds of contamination.

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Ortega reaps benefits of unneiborly dispute

­by the El Reportero’s news services

Daniel OrtegaDaniel Ortega

“Defense of national sovereignty”. This was Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s justification for three defense and security bills which the oppositionled congress passed earlier this week and which significantly tighten his grip on security and enhance the powers of the armed forces.

The approval of the laws, which critics claim have the sole domestic aim of incorporating the military (Nicaragua’s most trusted institution) into Ortega’s political project ahead of the November 2011 elections, suggests the success (and possible objective) of his decision to revive longstanding border tensions over the San Juan River with Costa Rica.

What does the Euro crisis mean for Latin America?

The crisis in the Eurozone has generated a certain amount of schadenfreude in South America. Only 20 years ago, European governments and the IMF were preaching to Latin-American governments

about the need to limit fiscal deficits and reform their banking sectors.

Is Peru’s stability at risk?

Peru’s long-term political stability is at risk as social and political pressures mount in the run up to the general election on 11 April 2011.

Macro-economically speaking, Peru goes from strength to strength: real annual GDP growth is set for around 8.6 percent in 2010.

However, the political hijacking of social conflict and protests, which often erupts into violence, may increase in the run-up to the elections.

It is not just the elections that act as a catalyst for political instability. The recently published findings of the Latin American Opinion Project (Lapop)’s regional citizens’ survey paint a grim (and worrying) picture for Peru.

One in which disillusionment and dissatisfaction with democracy, the current political system and its institutions are bubbling away below the surface ready to erupt at any time. Similar conclusions can be drawn from the latest Latinobarómetro survey published on 3 December.

­Peruvian FM for Strengthened Links with Bolivia, Chile

Lima, Dec 28 (Prensa Latina) Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde refused to discuss an alleged Chilean formula for a Bolivian outlet to the sea without sovereignty, and defended the development of trinational pro-integration poles.

Asked about the likely corridor through the northern tip of Chile, over which Peru has rights and requires its consent for a transfer, he said that if the proposal is made, Peru will examine it and he refused to make any comment until then.

On the version that Chile would offer a sea outlet to Bolivia through a corridor without sovereignty in the northern tip of Chile, Garcia said that in such a proposal was made it would be considered.

“They can be terms of rights, as those Peru has in Arica, but this will be discussed at the right moment.

I think that Chile is interested in a good relation with Bolivia and Peru is interested in that, too,” he said.

He also highlighted the need to strengthen relations among Peru, Bolivia and Chile in order to develop trinational pro-integration poles.

47 World Figures to Attend Rousseff Inauguration

A total of 47 world figures have confirmed their attendance at the inauguration of Brazilian President-elect Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first woman president.

More than 12 heads of state have announced their attendance at the investiture on Saturday, including the presidents of Venezuela, Bolivia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Paraguay, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said.

(Latin News and Prensa Latina contributed to this report.)

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North American intergration back on the front burner: Washington’s North American “security parameter”

by Dana Gabriel

In the last year, the bilateral process has been the primary means used to advance North American integration, which has drawn little attention. With the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) seemingly stalled after being exposed and discredited, the U.S. channeled trilateral negotiations to parallel bilateral discussions with both Canada and Mexico.

Recent reports of a tentative Canada-U.S. security and trade agreement has once again highlighted the wholeprocess of deep continental integration. The U.S. is formulating a strategy with the aim of implementing a North American security perimeter.

NAFTA has allowed the U.S. to further extend its political and economic influence over the continent.

Through the SPP, it has evolved to include more security issues. Based on the war on drugs and the war on terrorism, the U.S. is developing a North American security strategy with the goal being to push out its security perimeter.

The Merida Initiative conceived in 2007 and launched the following year by the Bush administration, signalled a new era of U.S.-Mexico security collaboration.

The plan has provided Mexico with millions in funding for law enforcement, military equipment and surveillance technology. Under the pretext of combating illegal drug-trafficking and fighting transnational organized crime, the U.S. has been able to exert more authority over Mexican security policies. President Obama has continued and expanded the Merida Initiative. The U.S. and Mexico have further broadened and deepened their cooperation.

A U.S. State Department fact sheet entitled United States-Mexico Security Partnership: Progress and Impact proclaimed how both, “governments have built on the foundations of the Merida Initiative to establish four strategic areas to guide our cooperation and institutionalize our partnership: disrupt organized criminal groups; strengthen institutions; create a 21 st century border; and build strong and resilient communities.”

A New Border Vision for the 21st century is, “based on the principles of joint border management, co-responsibility for crossborder crime, and shared commitment to the effi cient flow of legal commerce and travel.” A U.S.-Mexico declaration issued in May, further highlights key goals in strengthening border security. In order to better coordinate the implementation of joint initiatives, the Twenty-First Century Border Bilateral Executive Steering Committee (ESC) was also established. On December 15, the ESC’s inaugural meeting was held where a Bilateral Action Plan was adopted.

This included initiatives in areas of bi-national infrastructure coordination, risk management, pre-clearance, pre-screening and pre-inspection, along with greater law enforcement cooperation. The ESC also announced other cross-border and pilot projects. They agreed to expand trusted traveler and shipper programs in order to facilitate the fl ow of people and goods between the two countries.

The specific goals that were laid out set in motion a bilateral agenda for the next year. They represent a move towards a common perimeter approach to border management and security, which could later require harmonization of immigration and customs standards.

It is unclear whether the Obama administration will attempt to overhaul immigration laws in the coming year. The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 S. 3982 was introduced in September, but never came to a vote in the last Congress. In SEC 121. Annual Report on Improving North American Security Information Exchange, it refers to, “developing and implementing an immigration security strategy for North America that utilizes a common security perimeter by enhancing technical assistance for programsand systems to support advance automated reporting and risk targeting of international passengers.” Previous failed security and immigration bills have also contained similar language pertaining to a shared security perimeter around the continent.

There are fears that a leaked draft declaration between Canada and the U.S. entitled Beyond the Border: A Shared Vision for PerimeterSecurity and Competitiveness could concede more control to American interests. According to the draft proposal, the agreementwould work towards establishing a perimeter approach to security. This includes closer cooperation between law enforcement agencies, an integrated cargo strategy, as well as joint programs for port and border security and screening. The aim is to further facilitate travel and trade across the northern border.

After a one year hiatus, Canada is set to host the next edition of the North American Leaders Summit in 2011. The recent North American Foreign Ministers Meeting was used to build on the progress made since the last leaders summit which was held in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2009. It helped shape theagenda for the upcoming ­summit, where the whole trilateral process in regards to continental integration could be recast. As 2010 comes to a close, it appears as if North American integration is back on the front burner.

Dana Gabriel is an activist and independent researcher. He writes about trade, globalization, sovereignty, security, as well as other issues. Contact: beyo urownleader@hotmail.com.  Visit his blog at beyourown leader.blogspot.com.

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Boxing

Friday, Dec. 17 — at Miami, FL

  • IBF light heavyweight title:
    Tavoris Cloud vs. Fulgencio Zuniga.
  • Odlanier Solis vs. Ray Austin.
  • Darrel Madison vs. Michael
    Marrone.
  • Guillermo Jones vs. TBA

Saturday, Dec. 18 — at Quebec
City, Canada (Showtime)

  • WBC light heavyweight title: Jean Pascal vs. Bernard
    Hopkins.
  • Paul Malignaggi vs. TBA.

Saturday, Dec. 18 — at
Tijuana, Mexico (Showtime)

  • Erik Morales vs. Jorge Rodrigo
    Barrios.

Friday, Jan. 11, 2011 — at
TBA, USA (ESPN2)

  • Chris Arreola vs. Joey Abell­.

Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011 — at
TBA, USA (HBO)

  • WBC/WBO light welterweight titles: Devon Alexander vs.
    Timothy Bradley.
  • Ryan Coyne vs. TBA
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A history of San Francisco’s food obsession

compliled by Mark Carney

YaelisaYaelisa

San Francisco has long been noted for its culinary creativity, which has resulted from its many diverse ethnic groups. Beginning in December, 2010, and running through late March, 2011, the San Francisco Public Library will present San Francisco Eats, an exhibition dedicated to tracing the history of San Francisco’s gastronomic culture.

By means of menus, historic photos, ephemera and cookbooks, the exhibition will explore three themes: immigration, geography and tourism. For a complete listing of events, visit sfpl.org/sfeats. San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco. (415) 557-4282.

Weekend of Flamenco

On the third weekend of December, Caminos Flamencos, a northern California flamenco company, will perform Lo Clasico , a show of traditional Iberian dance and music. Yaelisa, an Emmy-award winner and the troupe’s Artistic director, describes this show as classic in that, “ (it) is something which never goes out of style, and which can bring one to a nostalgic place. Our show this year is all of these things, with a few surprises thrown in.”

The 2010 Season Premiere is a holiday concert for the entire family that pays tribute to all things classical – Spanish classical dances using the music

of Manuel de Falla, Ravel’s Bolero, and others, and the more traditional, fiery flamenco that the Company is recognized for. Yaelisa brings together 20 dancers and four musicians onstage for an evening of exploration into what makes something classical, whether it is the Ritual Fire Dance, a traditional Fandango, a Jérez-style Bulerias, Faure’s Pavane or Yaelisa’s signature Soleares, considered the mother of all flamenco.

Lo Clásico, is offered for three performances only on Friday & Saturday, Dec.17 & 18 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, December 19 at 3 p.m. at San Francisco’s Cowell Theatre (Fort Mason Center). Reserved Seating is $35; $25 students/seniors; $15 Children 12 and under). To purchase call (415) 345-7575 / www.fortmason.org/  boxoffice.

Boxing at Roccapulco

­Boxing, in its legal form, comes to the Mission on Sunday, Dec. 12. Weigh in begins at 1 p.m., and the fi ghts start at 5 p.m. Ticketscost only $20, and will help a worthy cause—the fight against cancer. At 3140 Mission St., San Francisco.

NYE at La Peña

This year New Year’s Eve will be on a Friday, so it’s sure to be an exciting weekend. What better way to begin 2011 than by dancing to Cuban music?

Orquestra La Moderna Tradicion has mastered the genre of danzon, a ballroom style of music originating in Cuba that combines Afro-Cuban rhythms with the sonorous harmonies of violins and fl utes. Besides danzon, the group also plays other genres of Cuban music, including sones, songos, cha-cha-cha and timba.

Tickets range from $25 to $28, depending on how long you procrastinate befor buying one, and Café Valparaiso will be preparing a special menu for the event. La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 shattuck Ave., Berkeley. For info call (510) 849-2568 or visit www.lepena.org.

NYE at Roccapulco will include both live music and all-star lineup of DJs. N’rumba will be joined by the singer Alexis, and will perform salsa, merengue, bachata and cumbia music. If you act soon, tickets cost a mere $25. Roccapulco, 3140 Mission St., San Francisco. Call (415) 821-3563 for details on the NYE party.

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Peruvian film director gathers fund to finish documentary about inmigration and her family

Mabel ValdiviezoMabel Valdiviezo

by Yáshenka Baca

Mabel Valdiviezo, Peruvian Film Director who produces and directs the documentary Prodigal Daughter, launched last week an internet based fundraising campaign to support the making of her film, which is being recorded in Peru, Canada, Japan, among others.

This first feature film proposal of Valdiviezo is based on the problems and effects a Peruvian family suffers due to the emigration of several family members to different parts of the world. This documentary expects to convey a message to thousands of illegal immigrants who lost contact with their families due to their precarious situation in countries of the first world as the United States.

In this film, which began its recording process back in May 2009, the film director mixed career and personal experience to give life to a documentary that according to Mabel seeks to “heal wounds”. The filmmaker hopes many immigrants feel identified with Prodigal Daughter and the film actually achieves a greater meaning by influencing local politicians regarding immigration laws. Valdiviezo, who is currently in San Francisco working on the edition of the film, spoke to The Reporter about the goals and development of it.

“This documentary must reach centers serving immigrants here in the United States, to be used as a document of discussion, as something therapeutic for those who don’t discuss their problematic situation easily” she noted.

Mabel, who also directed the short film Soledad is gone forever in 2006, explained on how to support the realization of the film, anyone wishing to contribute can do so by entering the pages: http://www.haikufilms.org/ support and http://www.indegogo.com/Prodigal-Daughter and make their donations.

The Reporter will be alert to the release of the film by the end of 2011.

Organizers announce Nominees for the Premio Lo Nuestro

In a Nominees Gala held in Miami, Florida last Thursday December 2nd, the organizers of Premios Lo Nuestro announced the Latin-American artists nominated to compete for the award in categories such as video of the year, group revelation, best solo, etc.

In this occasion Shakira was the female single with the greatest number of nominations, she achieved three of them. The Colombian will compete in categories like Best pop female artist, Song of the year (for Lo hecho, hecho está) and the Premio Lo Nuestro as Artist of the year.

The Costa Rican Debi Nova, who was one of the presenters at the Gala of ­Nominees, also received a nomination and is a strong candidate to take home the Premio Lo Nuestro as soloist revelation of the year.

Nova, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist currently promotes her hit Drummer Boy, part of her debut album New Moon. Jotdog, the Mexican group where Mary Barracuda and Jorge Chiquis Amaro show their musical talent, received the Video of the year nomination for its song Hasta contar a mil.

Lo Nuestro awards are awarded based on votes from fans on the Univision website, the votes will be received until December 24th and results will be made public during the twentysecond edition of Premio Lo Nuestro which will take place on February 17, 2011.

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Central Valley DJ Markanthony passes away

­recopilado por Mark Carney

­Markanthony Sanchez, 55, a well-known radio personality in Central California, passed away on December 6, in his home, from complications of diabetes. Beginning in 1981, Sanchez took over a radio show at KSJV in Fresno that was immensely popular not only with Chicanos, but also with many Anglos. His late-night show, “Oldies but Goodies”, played a hip mixture of Latin rock, Soul, and R&B. This mixture appealed particularly to the “low-riders” among Central Valley Chicanos, who, if arrested and sent to prison, often wrote and sent artwork to Sanchez. To be sure, Sanchez considered himself an advocate for ex-convicts and, according to his sister, Sylvia Clark, “He loved helping prisoners to improve their lives. Mark was the same wonderful person on and off the air.”

Mission Neighborhood Center Thanks AT&T

The Mission Neighborhood Center (MNC) thanks AT&T for their continued financial support of an important community resource. This funding has allowed MNC to expand the hours of their Capp Street Senior Center to Saturdays, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and to start a fee-based Child Development Program.

Avalos and Building Trades Urge Local Hiring

The San Francisco Building and Construction Trades is, not surprisingly, excited about San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos’ proposal that 25% of construction workers hired be local residents. In addition, of that number, half must be from low-income communities; each year, that number must increase by 5% until, by 2016, 50% of all workers hired be from low-income communities.

Tea Party Leader in favor of Restricting Voting

Judson Phillips, the President of “Tea Party Nation”, has spoken in favor of restricting voting to property-holding citizens, as was done in eighteenth-century America. On his weekly radio show, Phillips remarked,” The Founding Fathers…put certain restrictions on who got the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you automatically got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of them was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense because if you are a property owner, you actually have a vested stake in the community.” In response to these comments, Tenants Together, a renter’s advocacy group, noted that there were 14 million renters in California alone, and has demanded that Phillips apologize.

Campaign To Prevent Medicare Cuts

The California Medical Association and the AARP have launched a campaign to kill legislation that would cut Medicare payments to doctors by up to 25%. Many experts believe that this reduction would leave many Californians without access to medical care.

Transportation and Social Issues interest Young San Franciscans

The San Francisco Youth commission, together with the Student Advisory Council, held hearings on Wednesday, December 8, to consider crucial transportation and social issues affecting young San Franciscans. These two groups, which are empowered by the city charter to advise the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors, consists of young people aged 12 to 23. Because two-thirds of San Francisco public school students rely on public transportation, its availability and cost are of paramount importance. A second hearing will focus on prejudice shown towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQQ) youth in San Francisco.

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Telling the zrizzly truth

por José de la Isla

HOUSTON – Among the possessions I passed along to my nephew David following a recent move was a Royal standard typewriter, circa 1916, that came from my father’s typewriter shop. My father’s business adapted to the advances made in his time, from manual to electric, then to electronic. But he closed the store with the advent of digital business machines. In its day, the invention of the typewriter had been to personal communications as significant as Guttenberg’s press was to publishing.

When I passed the relic along to David, I said I wanted him to see what the first Internet had looked like. In its time it was a speedy way to move content to an intended receiver — by snail mail. Western Union telegrams were the Twitter of their day. Using comparisons such as this help explain the world to my nephew because his still-short life has not accumulated a lot of the context and connections that one gets over time. Indeed, the typewriters encouraged more people to become writers. They could edit better because they quickly saw what their thoughts looked like in a standardized form, not their idiosyncratic handwriting.

Thoughts and ideas were expressed efficiently, with words that got to the point fast.

The same pattern seems to be taking shape now when it comes to digital writing. Since personal expression is available virtually to anyone with a computer, long writing is going by the boards.

Too many people have too much to say, and readers have too little time to take it all in. Good writing (messages worth passing along) has become increasingly brief, and key words become defi nitional.

In the past, several words were used to explain what the speaker meant in a political context. For example, Richard Nixon’s vice president, Spiro Agnew, referred to “an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals” in reference to the wonks of his day before an appreciative bunch much like the Tea Partiers now.

Today, a more taunting “Man up” takes its place. Even Clint Eastwood’s “Make my day” sounds lame compared to “Man up,” which is not unlike the hiss by Neytiri, the Na’vi character in the movie Avatar. Another political expression, “Grizzly,”gained political currency and meaning during the midterm elections.

Sarah Palin, in the 2008 vice presidential campaign first used it to refer to “Momma Grizzlies.” The expression took on a political life of its own among the disaffected, gaining her some followers.

Newsweek writer Lisa Miller says it means, a “common-sense” conservative woman, someone who “rises up” to protect her children when she sees they ­might be endangered due to bad Washington policies. She is fearless in taking on any foe. Instead of fl ight, she will fi ght and tear the foe to shreds.

The imagery is that of a one-woman gang war. Simple words and expressions like those can carry a lot of content that resonate and suggest realms and realms of meaning. Otherwise, calling a woman grizzly or a bear is an insult. But, if the intention is to get beyond taunts, dares, and hisses, there’s a lesson to take into account from the progressive playbook: less is more.

It’s really humane values that make for good political rhetoric that will last over time. Those are the expressions that really matter. That’s done efficiently by saying less and meaning more. A few well placed metaphors are poetry to the political mind. Even an old typewriter can provide that kind of content, which could make the old machines sing again, even over the latest, showy computers. Hispanic Link.

[José de la Isla’s latest book, Day Night Life Death Hope, is distributed by The Ford Foundation. He writes a weekly commentary for Hispanic Link News Service and is author of The Rise of Hispanic Political Power (2003). E-mail him at joseisla3@yahoo.com.]

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