­by CT News

Actor Edward Olmos greets math professor Jaime Escalante during the CYC’s Highest Office: Citizen Award in 2005. Mr. Escalante died on March 30.

A Declaration of American Rights is making waves across the nation and apparently State and Federal Government is very concerned. Notices are being sent to all 50 Governors offices in America demanding that America be restored to its original intention or officials face removal from office.

The declaration also included a Dejure Grand Jury Warrant.

Conspiring Times –Triggering heightened security at government offices and investigations by law enforcement, the Restore America Declaration is aimed at taking back God-given unalienable rights declared in the American Declaration of Independence and other founding documents. The Guardians of the free Republic are comprised of police, military and other citizen activists that believe America should not be under corporate or admiralty law and should self-govern.

CNN and other mainstream media outlets have been actively demonizing the group as “extremists” as well as the American people with commentary from Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok who is known for lumping radical neo-Nazi and hate groups in with legitimate activist groups who do not espouse hate to further leftist political agendas.

· Restore and reinhabit the de jure institutions of lawful government.

· Terminate illicit corporations posing as legitimate governments, in particular the territorial jurisdiction United States Federal Corporation (corp. ref. 28 U.S.C. 3002) posing as the de jure United States of America.

· Terminate all presumed powers of attorney to such corporations.

· End the foreclosure nightmare (for borrowing against one’s own credit).

· End tax prosecutions for resisting the transfer of private wealth to foreign banking cartels such as I.R.S. (former Puerto Rico Bureau of Taxation).

· End street assaults against the sovereign People for failing to exhibit a State-issued confession of subject-class citizenship.

· End all prosecutions which lack an injured party.

· End admiralty prosecutions for kidnapping and other heinous crimes against mankind as “commercial crimes” against the corporate State under a contrived corporate color-of-law venue (corp. ref. 27 C.F.R. 72.11).

· Terminate the intrusion of corporations posing as the state into every aspect of the 5People’s lives.

· End the use of covert contracts such as Form 1040, car registrations, birth certificate applications, and bank signature cards which confess the signer to be a legal fiction subject of the United States Federal Corporation (“U.S. person”) that has waved his/her rights in favor of state-issued privileges.

· End the use of deeds which classify the People as “tenants” on their own land, thereby transferring control to incorporated County registrars and tax assessors.

· End the perversion of marriage into a commercial system of state-issued privileges through the so-called “marriage license” whereby incorporated “courts” presume the “right” to trespass on families and kidnap children.

· End the hijacking of automobile ownership through DMV registrations which covertly exchange the divine rights of travel and ownership for the state-issued “privileges” of “driving” and “title.”

· In place of all of the above, substitute sovereign identification, diplomatic immunity and sovereign passports to facilitate safe passage throughout the world free from corporate State molestation and terror.

To read the rest of the article, the document is able to be viewed and downloaded in the bottom of the article at: ­http://conspiringtimes.com/news/?p=3151.

by the University of Michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Discipline – whether it’s spanking, yelling or giving time-outs – may sometimes do little to reduce children’s behavior problems, a new study indicates.

The study – which involved researchers from six universities, including the University of Michigan – looked at practices and perceptions of discipline in six countries. Spanking led to more child aggression and anxiety, regardless of the country, said Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, U-M associate professor of social work.

So what should parents do to teach children right from wrong?

“It may be that the long-term investments that we make in children, like spending time with them, showing that we love them, and listening to them, have a more powerful positive effect on behavior than any form of discipline,” he said.

The study examined the associations of discipline techniques with children’s aggressive and anxious behaviors from mothers and children from in China, India, Italy, Kenya, Philippines and Thailand.

Unlike other studies, this project collected information from both mothers and their children. Participants included 292 mothers and their 8- to 12-year-old children.

Researchers used the sample to address two questions:

· When multiple discipline techniques are considered at the same time, which forms of discipline emerge as having the strongest associations with ­children’s aggressive and anxious behaviors?

· Are significant associations between discipline practices and child be1haviors moderated by the extent to which mothers and children perceive these practices to be normal in their communities?

The 11 discipline techniques analyzed were: teach about good and bad behavior; get child to apologize; give a time-out; take away privileges, spank; express disappointment; shame; yell/scold; withdraw love for misbehavior; threaten punishment or promise a treat/privilege.

Mothers and children were asked was about the frequency with which others in their communities used each discipline technique.

“When children perceive a discipline technique to be (normal) within their culture or community, they may be less likely to evaluate their parents’ use of it as aberrant or objectionable,” the study conjectured.

Grogan-Kaylor said the research showed that the relationship of some kinds of discipline with behavior problems varied according to how common use of that type of discipline was in the community. However, despite these small variations, there was a strong consistency in the results across countries.

The bottom line: giving a time-out, using corporal punishment, expressing disappointment and shaming were significantly related to greater child anxiety symptoms. Child aggression resulted from spanking, expressing disappointment and yelling, the study said.

Researchers include lead author Elizabeth Gershoff, University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer Lansford and Kenneth Dodge, Duke University; Arnaldo Zelli, Istituto Universitario di Scienze Motorie; Lei Chang, Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Kirby Deater-Deckard, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

The findings appear in the March/April issue of Child Development.

by the El Reportero’s news services

Alvaro Uribe

The results of the March 14 legislative elections demonstrated that Colombians want to see a continuation of President Alvaro Uribe’s conservative policies after he leaves office on Aug. 7 next. The vote also set the field for a hotly contested presidential election on May 30, not least because of administrative difficulties that marred the vote counting process.

While all the presidential candidates can now start their campaign in earnest, Colombians and international observers alike will be worried about the ability of the registrar’s office to perform its duties on May 30.

Commentary: Mexico’s drug-related violence isn’t widespread across the country

After the murder of two U.S. consulate workers in Mexico’s border city of Ciudad Juarez, many of you have written to me wondering whether it is safe to travel to Mexico. The answer is: If you are courageous enough to travel to Washington, D.C., you can safely visit most parts of Mexico.

Despite the escalation of drug-related violence in several Mexican cities, and the pictures of mutilated bodies dumped on the streets of Ciudad Juarez and other cities along the U.S. border, a dispassionate look at Mexico’s murder rates shows that some parts of the country are indeed dangerous, but the country as a whole is safer than what the latest headlines suggest.

Lugo and opposition prepare to square up in ParaguayPresident Fernando

Lugo appealed to congress last week to drop its incessant threats to impeach him and to engage in a dialogue process to address the deeper, more intractable, problems 1afflicting Paraguay.

Lugo’s remarks, part of a Holy Week message to the nation, came days after he participated in the launch of a new left-wing coalition movement, some of whose more radical members called for congress to be “swept away” if it sought to impeach Lugo. In the coming two months pro-Lugo parties and opposition parties are planning to stage large rallies to gauge their respective support. With campaigning for municipal elections in November also starting, any dialogue process is unlikely to get off the ground.

­Regional security attracts international concern

Guatemala’s President Alvaro Colom last month fired his fourth interior minister, his fourth police chief and two other top anti-drugs officials for alleged corruption and drug-trafficking, underlining once again the struggle in Central America to make progress in the fight against the illegal narcotics trade and its associated violence, in the face of the corrosive power of international criminal gangs.

The latest scandal, which comes on the heels of a series of reports highlighting the region’s increasing importance as drug trafficking hub, broke just days before the U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton visited Guatemala to discuss security with regional leaders.

According to Casas-Zamora’s figures, based on United Nations 2008 data, Mexico’s murder rate is nearly five times less than that of sunny Jamaica and about half that of Brazil, a country that was recently awarded the much-coveted 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.

by Adrian Rocha

(This article was written before Jaime Escalante’s death on march 30.)

At age 79, Jaime Escalante, the legendary East Los Angeles math teacher who inspired the classic 1988 motion picture Stand and Deliver is fighting for his life.

This time “ganas” — the Spanish word he used to indoctrinate thousands of Latino students with a fierce desire to learn, may not be enough to save him. A month ago, doctors gave the Bolivian native, now in late stages of gall bladder cancer, two months to live, actor Edward James Olmos, his longtime friend, tells Hispanic Link News Service.

Olmos, who earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Escalante, is on a mission to raise funds to help the teacher and his family in Sacramento, Calif., meet mounting medical bills. “It is not that we are trying to save his life,” Olmos says with resignation. “It’s that we want to make his days more comfortable.”

Olmos spent most of a year with Escalante prior to starting the film. “I was able to build a friendship with one of the greatest people on the planet,” he says, proclaiming that Escalante has the greatest depth of any character he has ever played.

Born in La Paz, Bolivia, Escalante taught physics and math for 14 years in his homeland before migrating to the United States in 1964. In California he confronted a new language and the need for U.S. teaching credentials.

On earning them, he obtained a job as a math teacher at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles.

After cajoling school administrators, some students and their parents to accept his challenge, he instituted Garfield’s first college- level calculus classes.

His greatest triumph — and shock — came in 1982 when he guided 18 of his students to pass the rigorous national Advanced Placement calculus exam, an accomplishment comparable to excelling in college competition.

The shock? Test administrators couldn’t believe Chicano students from East L.A. could be that smart. Suspecting they cheated, AP test officials demanded they take the examination over. The students complied and passed again, many scoring even higher than before.

The sour memory of how the media played the drama has remained with Olmos. “The press came after him,” as the cheating charges received far more attention than the achievements of Escalante and his students, Olmos recalls with lingering rancor.

The actor first met Escalante in the early ’80s when both were being honored by the NAACP — Olmos for his relent- less devotion to helping the community and Escalante for his classroom magic.

Escalante’s odyssey made its way to the big screen in 1988, showing the world that kids from disadvantaged backgrounds are just as capable as students from affluent ones. They possess the potential to “understand the highest form of mental use achieved by mathematics,” Olmos says. Stand and Deliver continues to be screened regularly in high schools and middle schools throughout the country. Olmos makes the claim it is “the world’s number 1 most influential movie.”

His big acting break came as El Pachuco in Zoot Suit. His roles over the years include Gaff in Blade Runner, Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, Montoya Santana in American Me, which he directed, and most recently, Admiral William Adama in Battlestar Galactica.

But today Escalante remains foremost in his thoughts. Three presidents — Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and William Clinton — have hosted the remarkable teacher at the White House in the past.

With Escalante unable to travel, Olmos says. “I’m praying that President Obama will find a way to see Jaime and thank him for all he’s done for our nation.” Hispanic Link.­

(Adrian Rocha is a reporter with Hispanic Link News Service in Washington, D.C. His email: Arocha41@gmail.com) To help the family of Jaime Escalante, contact: “Friends of Jaime” c/o FASE 236 West Mountain Street, Suite 105 Pasadena, CA 91103 Or call 626-793-5300).

­by the El Reportero’s staff

Flamenco dancer Lakshmi “La Chimi” will perform at la Peña on April 9. (For more info see below in the calendar.)

Come and enjoy a truly performing arts event with Balanced, a group of artists dedicated to the search of talent in the Bay Area. This events are organized to promote and show the community the beauty of the art by the different type of artistic expressions that exist.

The repertoire inlcudes poetry with Arturo “Arte” Delgado and Charles Castillo, in the visual arts with Alejandra Campos, Leicester “eLe” Huezo, Christo Oropeza and Javier Vallin, and in the performing arts,with The Alegre Sisters, Arturo “Arte” Delgado, Damaris E. Ortiz, Juliet Gómez and Theatrical Souls.

At the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Misison Street, San Francisco, April 3, at 7 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m.

Jazz In Focus – The Photography of Scott Chernis

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation month in April at the Berkeley Public Library. San Francisco photographer, Scott Chernis, exhibits black and white photographs from his series “Jazz in Focus” in Berkeley Public Library’s Central Catalog Lobby, 2090 Kittredge at Shattuck, downtown Berkeley, from April 5th through April 30th.

In this series Chernis focuses on details of jazz performances emphasizing the interplay of musicians and their instruments. Chernis’ photographs closely examine the inherent beauty of ephemeral moments in musical performance. Access to the exhibit is available during the library’s open hours: Mon. 12 – 8; Tues. 10- 8; Wed. – Sat. 10 – 6; Sun. 1 – 5.

For more information, call 510-981-6100 or connect www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org.

Tickets for birth of impressionism at the de Young

Tickets for Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay go on sale on Tuesday, April 6. This spectacular exhibition features nearly 100 paintings from the collection of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the repository of the world’s finest collection of Impressionist art, and opens to the public at the de Young Museum on Saturday, May 22.

Each ticket to Birth of Impressionism also includes complimentary, same-day admission to Impressionist Paris: City of Light, a companion exhibition at the Legion of Honor presenting 180 prints, photographs, drawings, illustrated books, posters and paintings that transport the visitor back to Paris during the time of the Impressionists. Impressionist Paris: City of Light opens to the public on June 5.

Golden Gate Park 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco, CA 94118. For info call 415.750.3600 or visit www.deyoungmuseum.org,

Gypsy Flamenco from Jérez, Spain

The Bay Area Flamenco Partnership in collaboration with La Peña Cultural Center presents Flamenco dancer Lakshmi “La Chimi” with guest artists from Jérez de la Frontera, Spain, José Galvez, Kina Méndez and Antonio de Jérez on Friday, April 9, at 8 p.m. at the Julia Morgan Theater, 2640 College Ave. in Berkeley,

The evening of music and dance promises a rare opportunity to see flamenco in a more intimate, less programmed and structured environment that is closer to its true nature. “It will be an intimate, ‘rancio’ (aged, like a fine cheese or wine) program, as opposed to a commercial show,” La Chimi says.

­On Friday, April 9, at 8 p.m., at the Julia Morgan Theater, 2640 College Ave. in Berkeley. For info call Nina Méndez, artistic director The Bay Area Flamenco Partnership. (510) 444-2820, nmenendez@sbcglobal.net.