­by Margine Quintanilla R.

Hogar Siervas del Divino Rostro houses 200 girls and some young boys between a few months and 17 years of age.

You are invited to a reception in support of Gerardo Sandoval for Judge. Gerardo has a proven track record and will make a great Judge. Join us for a glass of wine & tapas and an opportunity to hear the candidate, understand why Gerardo’s running for Judge and why that it is important to the community.

Please join us in supporting Gerardo and together we can make a difference! Thurs, May 29th- 5: 30pm- 7:00pm, at Gold Key Realty, 1000 Valencia Street @ 21st Religious leaders join to protect the neediest More than 50 religious leaders of diverse tendencies, will join efforts to request to the Mayor of San Francisco to designate a part of the current San Francisco budget, for the homeless and low income people.

This event will take place on Thursday, June 5, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at San Francisco City Hall. These children at present are attended in “Zacarías Guerra Home Residence of Managua ” and “ Orfanatorio Siervas of the Divine Face! in El Crucero, Nicaragua.

The event will be accompanied by the group Los Ramblers, and the Martha Vaughan Show & Héctor Silva y su Sabor, and will be held at the State Room in So. San Francisco, 306 Barden Ave. Cover charge $50, which includes dinner.

For more info call at 415-259-1498.

Escapes of Alcatraz

Enjoy healthily being present at a unique sports event, with athletes from around the world who are going to try to conduct an escape from Alcatraz. They will have to experience difficult tests like swimming 1.5 miles in cold ocean waters, ride 18 miles of mountainous area in motorcycle.

Do not miss this phenomenal event that will be held on June 7, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. There will be free outdoor space for the public. For more info call 415-380-8390, or write to Meghan@spinpr.com.

Stars of jazz and music African Latin in the only presentation

Omar Sosa and John Santos will hold one only dual presentation, where they will share the most important elements that characterize their music. Sosa is recognized jazz artist, composer and musician, Santos Is four-time Grammy Award candidate, and is one of the main exponents of Afr0-Latin music in the world.

The event will take place Centro Cultural La Peña, at 3105 Shuttuck Ave., Berkeley, and is $15 cover charge. For more info call 510-849-2568.

by Justin M. Ruhge

Justin Ruhge

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Hispanic Link News Service regularly presents analyses and perspectives of Hispanic authorities and pro-immigrant activists on the issue of U.S. immigration. Today begins a two-part series by Justin M. Ruhge, a retired aerospace executive now living in Lompoc, Calif., whose countervailing views reflect those regularly expressed by some of our readers. Ruhge is an officer with I.N.C. — Initiatives for National Change).

The growing border encounters with more and more illegal aliens of up to a million a year is only the tip of the socio-economic problems in Mexico. Nearly 70 years of PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) dictatorship has resulted in a two-level caste system of very wealthy and very poor. The last revolution, which was to reduce the power of the patrón system and redistribute the wealth to the poor, has failed. The country is corrupt and degenerate.

The present retrograde system exists with a huge population explosion, the result of which is to force the Mexicans deeper into poverty and to force a “run for the border” by ever-growing numbers of Mexicans who cannot get jobs, food or education there. Any small gains in quality of life in the past 70 years have been wiped out by the population explosion and a general lack of new development for the majority in the country of Mexico.

The majority of Mexicans who come to the United States are uneducated and unskilled Indians. They are not the well-educated and well-dressed blondes that you see on Mexican TV every day. They do not know how to read or write Spanish, not to mention English. So why do we print the California ballot in Spanish?

Education in Mexico is just for the rich. Two-thirds of its people have no education above sixth grade. Most Mexican schools run two sessions a day instead of the one we have in the United States because they do not have the facilities or the teachers or the funds for more of both. Mexicans who go to school at all get only half the education.

Frequent visits to Mexico by this writer over the past 50 years show little improvement in the infrastructure throughout the country. It is equivalent to the United States in the 1930s. Yet here is the most advanced country in the world, the United States of America, aligned with Mexico on an equal basis through NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement — a horrible mistake.

Mexico has a poor civil rights record. Any citizen can be treated harshly by murder and imprisonment by judges and police appointed by the only party for 70 years, the PRI. Yet, this longest enduring dictatorship in the world and most backward banana republic is shored up by loan guarantees and business from the most democratic and advanced country in history, the United States. Why? The Mexicans love our money but they hate us for it!

The United States has spent billions to undo dictatorships like Russia, Germany, Japan and all the Eastern Bloc nations that were communist, but we do nothing to eliminate the Mexican dictatorship on our doorstep.

Why is that? Could it be that our leaders do not want to lose the great source of dope so close at hand to the American and Canadian markets? Is that why NAFTA was really pushed through Congress, to improve the supply lines? Hispanic Link.

Next week: Part II. The United States must act quickly and decisively. (Readers may contact the writer by email at jaruhge@hotmail.com).

by Archer Heart

A modern, unbacked with gold $20 bill

With foreclosures hitting an all time high and inflation moving steadily upward, one is forced to begin taking a hard look at the cause. President Jackson was the bane of the central bankers with comments like “You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God I will rout you out.” And “The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government … are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.”

Could it be that simple? Could the answers to our problems lie at the feet of a small group of unanswerable men who have managed to manipulate an entire nation and world to depend on them to its detriment? How many are aware of the concept of a “central bank”? Those who have gone before knew. Ask your grandparents if we have a central bank. Undoubtedly you will hear an emphatic NO! But listen to the talking heads that weave a web of deceit on the network television and radio stations and they bandy the term about as if it has always been that way, while at the same time they blame you for the fi nancial destruction the nation is facing. “This nation’s central bank” is a title that has been slowly inculcated over the past several years. The matrix of deceit has been used to manipulate people into thinking that they must use the system established by the international bankers. Mayer Amschel Bauer, who founded the Rothschild family had said, “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws” His son, Amschel Mayer Rothschild said, “Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.” Another son, Nathan Mayer Rothschild bragged, “I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.”

Without going into the detailed evidence that the UNITED STATES is still a Roman/British colony, since that is not the primary topic of this missive, understand that what the Rothschilds said still has a deep meaning today. Control of this nations “money” supply has been given over to private men who determine how much is issued, who it is issued to and how much is charged for the privilege of its use. The banker’s hidden tax on the use of their private script is known as infl ation. Infl ation is not mandatory, it is manipulated. One hundred years ago a loaf of bread cost a nickel. Today, depending on which part of the country one lives in, a loaf of bread costs upward of two. What has changed?

Does a loaf of bread cost more to produce today than it did a century ago? On the contrary, with the advances in mechanization and mass production available to the modern bakery today the individual manufacturing costs of a single loaf of bread is lower. INSET Black’s Law Dictionary, fourth edition 1953, the reference used in the courts, defi nes a “dollar” as “The unit employed in the United States in calculating money values. It is coined in both gold and silver, and is of the value of one hundred cents. Look in the current editions and you will fi nd the defi nition of dollar has been deleted. Just an oversight?

Automobile manufacturer Henry Ford said, “If the people of the nation understood our banking and monetary system, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Well, it looks like the revolution is coming. The full faith and credit of the U.S. is failing. Too many people are waking up and realizing that we are being lied to and misled. Subtle threats pervade this society. Questions like “You don’t want to lose your benefits, do you?” serve to trick people into submission. That kind of tactic is slowly loosing its ability to keep people in slavery.

The solution to the people’s problems could be just as simple as asking a few basic questions and then holding fi rm in their resolve until the questions are answered honestly. If the targets of the questions refuse to answer then it is our responsibility to hold their feet to the fi re until they do so. Those in a position of authority have a fiduciary duty to deal with us honestly. And if they effuse or fail to do so then it is up to us as “we the people” to do something about it.

As for some of those simple questions, try these on for size. What law, rule, regulation, code or contract provision requires me to use the private currency of a private Federal Reserve banking association to do business or pay a tax or child support or anything? Does the use of those private notes obligate me to any other requirements? When I signed the original promissory note to buy my house or get my credit card or my car, did I create the money?

The problem is that most bankers and attorneys are dishonest when it comes to these types of questions, creating a corrupt system. They cannot and therefore will not show you any law at all. When you ask for full disclosure in the form of the original bookkeeping entries for the transaction you will be met with a stone wall. They will say things like, I don’t know anything about that. Or I’ve never heard anything like that. Or it is very complicated. Or my favourite, I don’t have to.

The average man or woman really can’t be blamed for not comprehending these issues. From our earliest days in school we are programmed to do what we are told and don’t question “authority”. We are told “ignorance of the law is no excuse.” But in 12 plus years of public school not one law book is ever cracked open. When one of the smarter children think to ask any pointed question they are told that it is complicated. Too bad for the child, he just goes away with the question unanswered.

However, it doesn’t have to. If we could start teaching our children to ask questions, and then demand answers, within a generation, the corruption could be reduced drastically.

by Marvin J. Ramirez

Gerardo Sandoval

As June 3rd election approaches, there are a few items we must take into consideration when all we go to stamp our vote. And this is to remember our compromise with our community and those leaders who have worked so hard within the current corrupt legal and politacal system, to make a difference in the lives of Latinos and other disenfranchised minorities and low-income people.

Our current and only Latino in the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is leaving office at the end of his last term. California law allows him to serve only two terms in office.

However, as a veteran public servant, Gerardo Sandoval has demonstrated his commitment and wants to continue working for the people.

Sandoval wants to keep serving the community. So, he is running seriuosly to become a judge.

“The courts touch every aspect of our lives from health care to business opportunities to crime,” says Sandoval, who complains that there are 67 judges in San Francisco, but only two Hispanic judges.

Until a few years ago, there were four aHispanic judges in San Francisco, which means we have gone from 8 percent to 4 percent, even if the population of Hispanics in San Francisco is 15 percent (20 percent if you count the undocumented), according to a statement released by Sandoval’s office.

Sandoval told El Reportero that he is aware of the corruption that reigns in the court system.

He recognized that most judges lean in favor of corporations, and not for the ordinary people. He promised that this would not happen with him.

I believe Sandoval should be given the opportunity to make a Latino presence in such an exclusive club. We recommend that you vote for Sandoval for Judge.

We also recommend that you vote No on Prop. 98, which will allow landlords to expel senior citizens and low-income families from their rent-controlled houses and apartments in order to raise their rents. It will permit the eviction of thousands of Latinos, and give way to people with more money to move in those units.

And I heard from many in the community, that Prop. 99 will help offset the effects of Prop. 98, in case it wins. Please vote Yes on Prop. 99.

Even though I encourage to vote, and you should, just remember one thing: nothing is going to make our lives any better, unless we all pressure our politicians to ask for the abolition of the Federal Reserve Bank, which is the cause of our financial misery. The Federal Reserve Bank is a private corporation that prints our currency (the dollar bills), and then loans it to the government with interest. That’s why we have such a huge national debt. All the money that we pay to the IRS, goes to the Federal Reserve Bank, which then lends it back to our government with interest.

Why can’t we have our government printing our own money, instead of having a private bank printing it and so control our lives?

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