A continuation of events surrounding the drug war and related social issues of Baja California and Mexico. Keeping an eye on Seig Heil Trump. We are still trying to restore all blogs from 2006 which were hacked by Linton Robinson and his team, famous for supporting the Baja Trump Towers on one of his real estate sites. Highlights of Paris-Simone's favorite music !!
In fact, it made me so sick I did not want to even look at anymore policiaca reports days afterwards (not to mention the 160+ murders/executions this last month in TIJ, but give us a break...an innocent doggie fuck that shit). In between subjects I have to jump up and tend to more projects which is difficult because of my knee, however taking the Schwartz Turmeric-Curcumin 2X a day really does help.
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Did you ever get the sense that nothing is really ever going to change in the USA? That feeling hit me all weekend after the death of John McCain, particularly with the barrage of pro McCain reports from the US corporate/MSM media. Even Zeta reported the news, but as with the other more radical-progressive news sources down here left out the most important aspects of the story. This is by far the best report, and don't confuse the issues presented as the reasons why Trump hated him so much:
Change of plans due to other pressing events: I will return to the aforementioned topics, let's just dedicate this one to John McCain. Here are just some reports related to John McCain, and I am uploading the comments sections which might interest you - plus many responders give additional links: From Consortium News: The Other Side of John McCain - 08/27/18 by, Max Blumenthal
In fact, it made me so sick I did not want to even look at anymore policiaca reports days afterwards (not to mention the 160+ murders/executions this last month in TIJ, but give us a break...an innocent doggie fuck that shit). In between subjects I have to jump up and tend to more projects which is difficult because of my knee, however taking the Schwartz Turmeric-Curcumin 2X a day really does help.
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Did you ever get the sense that nothing is really ever going to change in the USA? That feeling hit me all weekend after the death of John McCain, particularly with the barrage of pro McCain reports from the US corporate/MSM media. Even Zeta reported the news, but as with the other more radical-progressive news sources down here left out the most important aspects of the story. This is by far the best report, and don't confuse the issues presented as the reasons why Trump hated him so much:
Change of plans due to other pressing events: I will return to the aforementioned topics, let's just dedicate this one to John McCain. Here are just some reports related to John McCain, and I am uploading the comments sections which might interest you - plus many responders give additional links: From Consortium News: The Other Side of John McCain - 08/27/18 by, Max Blumenthal
It has been over a day now...but I'm still breaking into tears when I hear her.
One of my faves - a little background:
From Wiki: ""Mary Don't You Weep" (alternately titled "O Mary Don't You Weep", "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn", or variations thereof) is a Spiritual that originates from before the American Civil War[1] – thus it is what scholars call a "slave song," "a label that describes their origins among the enslaved," and it contains "coded messages of hope and resistance."[2]
It is one of the most important of Negro spirituals.[1] The song tells the Biblical story of Mary of Bethany and her distraught pleas to Jesus to raise her brother Lazarus from the dead.[1] Other narratives relate to The Exodus and the Passage of the Red Sea, with the chorus proclaiming Pharaoh's army got drown-ded!, and to God's rainbow covenant to Noah after the Great Flood.[1]
With liberation thus one of its themes, the song again become popular during the Civil Rights Movement.[1] Additionally, a song that explicitly chronicles the victories of the Civil Rights Movement, "If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus", written by Charles Neblett of The Freedom Singers, was sung to this tune and became one of the most well-known songs of that movement.[3]"
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Courtesy New York Times
Update/edit 08/18/18:
Here is a wow outstanding review which will make you smile and even jump of "Amazing Grace" and "Mary Don't You Weep" from Wesley Morris of the New York Times. Within the review is a link to the still not released film-documentary by Sydney Pollack of the event in Los Angeles - see if you can catch Mick Jagger getting down in the front row.
Update/edit 08/20: Many of you will remember back to 1969-1970 when the Board of Regents of the University of California fired/banned (twice !) Angela Davis under the thumb of Ronald Reagan. San Diego was never quite the same after that - it would never develop into another radical Berkeley or Santa Cruz town, it would just about always remain a conservative Military town, the right had a tight grip on everything San Diego, and the developers completely ruined it. Although Ms. Davis moved on and actually made several comebacks at UCSD much later, there's more to the story:
Here is Democracy Now's coverage of the Aretha-Angela Davis connection, full interviews and videos: (sorry I'm late on this)
Will return to the drug war events in our region shortly. Big power outage here at SADM Saturday night, it lasted for over nine hours - no other areas affected.
It has been over a day now...but I'm still breaking into tears when I hear her.
One of my faves - a little background:
From Wiki:
""Mary Don't You Weep" (alternately titled "O Mary Don't You Weep", "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn", or variations thereof) is a Spiritual that originates from before the American Civil War[1] – thus it is what scholars call a "slave song," "a label that describes their origins among the enslaved," and it contains "coded messages of hope and resistance."[2]
It is one of the most important of Negro spirituals.[1]
The song tells the Biblical story of Mary of Bethany and her distraught pleas to Jesus to raise her brother Lazarus from the dead.[1] Other narratives relate to The Exodus and the Passage of the Red Sea, with the chorus proclaiming Pharaoh's army got drown-ded!, and to God's rainbow covenant to Noah after the Great Flood.[1]
With liberation thus one of its themes, the song again become popular during the Civil Rights Movement.[1] Additionally, a song that explicitly chronicles the victories of the Civil Rights Movement, "If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus", written by Charles Neblett of The Freedom Singers, was sung to this tune and became one of the most well-known songs of that movement.[3]"
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Courtesy New York Times
Update/edit 08/18/18:
Here is a wow outstanding review which will make you smile and even jump of "Amazing Grace" and "Mary Don't You Weep" from Wesley Morris of the New York Times. Within the review is a link to the still not released film-documentary by Sydney Pollack of the event in Los Angeles - see if you can catch Mick Jagger getting down in the front row.
Update/edit 08/20: Many of you will remember back to 1969-1970 when the Board of Regents of the University of California fired/banned (twice !) Angela Davis under the thumb of Ronald Reagan. San Diego was never quite the same after that - it would never develop into another radical Berkeley or Santa Cruz town, it would just about always remain a conservative Military town, the right had a tight grip on everything San Diego, and the developers completely ruined it. Although Ms. Davis moved on and actually made several comebacks at UCSD much later, there's more to the story:
Here is Democracy Now's coverage of the Aretha-Angela Davis connection, full interviews and videos: (sorry I'm late on this)
Will return to the drug war events in our region shortly. Big power outage here at SADM Saturday night, it lasted for over nine hours - no other areas affected.
We are in close touch with this family and know that they are facing tens of thousands in legal fees, not to mention the mental health care needed after the trauma of family separation and sexual abuse. Any amount you can give will help:
If you can’t donate, please share this campaign on social media! Tell your friends and family about it. Thank you for standing up for immigrant families.
Families Belong Together // Familias Unidas, No Divididas
We are in close touch with this family and know that they are facing
tens of thousands in legal fees, not to mention the mental health care
needed after the trauma of family separation and sexual abuse. Any
amount you can give will help:
If you can’t donate, please share this campaign on social media! Tell your friends and family about it.
Thank you for standing up for immigrant families.
Families Belong Together // Familias Unidas, No Divididas
I was reluctant to re-report the murders/executions/intentional homicides in our region after Lunatic Trump's recent Nuremberg Rally where he foamed at the mouth and proclaimed the USA must construct a wall, that he must receive immediate funding with threats of shutting down the government if he didn't receive it and it better be fast because Mexico's violence was out of control.
To make matters worse, if you go to the Breitbart site, land of the idiots, you will see article after article taken from the Mexican press: "Tijuana: 14 dead in ten hours !", and more to the same degree. So, the ultra right has been focused on the carnage in our region, but not with good intentions or even hinting at the slightest suggestions that the drugs should be legalized, the United States needs to control the weapons flow into Mexico, or that drug treatment and education facilities desperately need to be established in the United States. Never will you hear them admit that the US reinforcement and support of the militarization in Mexico simply added fuel to the fire, it did not help at all - or, for that matter neither did the US support of the outrageous chopping off the heads of the hydra policy which only caused more violence and fragmentation.
After all, the United States is at least three quarters responsible for the mayhem in Mexico. Yet, their solution is to build a wall and I'm assuming, shoot all the drug addicts.
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Zeta summarizes the death toll under the reign of Pena, blasts the government at all levels and recaps this years totals for Tijuana, giving a YTD total for the city of 1,447 dead. Zeta states, "Tijuana...is now plunged into horror".
With more sordid details of the killings throughout the city due to the war between the CJNG, Sinaloa and what is left of the CAF; the killing of another police officer, the shoot out in Playas, the hanging corpse, the mutilations, the dirty cop and the July month end toll rising to 251 dead Zeta's investigative reporters states:
" Violence and crime in Tijuana have exceeded their own records and instilled terror in a society with overrun authorities and without leadership."
"Executions in commercial or luxury residential areas, a police riddled with weapons of high power, bodies hung from a bridge or mutilated left in busy avenues;children injured in crossfire, the murder of a baby and her mother in Playas de Tijuana, are just some stories that took over the last week of the most violent month in the history of the city" Zeta - 08/06/18
Adding this - I was down with and recovering from pneumonia when these reports from Zeta & Frontera broke, my knee popped then we both had food poisoning, it has been a shitty summer.
A report picked up by Small Wars Journal on the drone attack on 07/10/18 in Tecate with local references to Zeta, Angel F. Gonzalez of Frontera and El Mexicano:
Where do we go from here? Already in Tijuana this month of August we are well over thirty executions just in Tijuana and the dope is pushing through like a raging storm up through San Quintin, Ensenada, Rosarito and through Tecate and Mexicali - not just weed, but the big guns - heroin, cocaine,meth, precursors: all for the USA decades long well established market.
All eyes are on Presidente-elect AMLO.
Here are just a sample of editorials to give you a feel for the moment:
But the meeting takes out ampules for other reasons. Remember the pending, the unfinished, what remains to be done. The past is still present. Although Meade today is already cataloged as an "honorable" and "decent" man, the PRI regime for which he worked is still there, unpunished and untouched. Although Bartlett today has been redeemed for his defense of the energy sector in recent years, his role in the Buendia case and the 1988 fraud remains hidden, unexplored and indefensible. Both are examples of the impunity that the incoming government must fight if it really seeks to break with the past. It would have to face it, not ignore it. It would be necessary to investigate it, not to cover it. It is not about starting a witch hunt, but to show the abuses and corruption of the State to avoid its repetition. Reconciliation is not at odds with accountability; the Fourth Transformation should not mean forced amnesia. If instead of truth and justice, AMLO opts for forgiveness and forgetfulness, we will be condemned to repeat what we do not punish.
That State unpunished since 1968 and "El Halconazo" and the dirty war of the 70s and the "patriotic fraud" of 1986 in Chihuahua and the "fall of the system" in 1988. That rapacious state that -speed capitalism and unionism corporate-was eating the profits of Pemex, buying customers, financing privileges. That corrupt state that in the current administration was more than ever with the White House and Odebrecht and the Master Scam and OHL and the detours to Duarte and the governors under investigation and the ghost companies of Sedesol and the political use of Ramo 23, between so many more corruptions. That past that, as William Faulkner suggests, "He is never dead, he is not even past." He is still alive because the worst behaviors that characterize him have not been aired or sanctioned. And if AMLO offers a "clean slate", it will be impossible to build a democratic future on the foundations of a denied and forgotten past.
That would entail -among other changes- a reform to the constitutional Article 102 so that today's rotten PGR will be transformed into the #Surveillance Office of tomorrow. A professional, autonomous institution that investigates the present in real time and the past with no expiration date for the corrupt. And for those who say that dealing with the past does not belong to AMLO, while citing the Bible to justify the forgiveness of sins, one should remember the campaign promises, the hopes that were raised, the expectations generated. Those who voted for López Obrador deserve to know what happened so that it no longer happens. Yesterday he walks with us - wrote William Golding - and only by looking where we fall as a country will we avoid stumbling again."
Meanwhile, the heat. Sixty five people have died in Baja California from the heat, and it is terrible. How are ya'll adjusting to Global Warming? Around here as far as we know, Baja Malibu, Playa Blanca and SADM ocean waters are still contaminated. A suggestion: drive down to Playa Saldamando (K94) if you want to jump in the water. It's a tiny beach, but clean and wear booties because of the rocks and urchins. Go for it now because in the winter the water is very cold due to the currents. It is so beautiful, you may even completely forget you are living in a war zone and not want to leave. Oopsie, that's what we said more than 25 years ago.
I've been giving Paris cool Calily Life Organic Lavendar & Camomile bubble baths. Bob is fed up and just sprawls on his back.
Mike & Marjorie ,
