Boycott Chiquita Bananas - The August 2018 Stats Tijuana: Frontera Reports 221 Intentional Homicides YTD TIJ = 1,657 Dead - Zeta Reports On The Wounded In Our Region - Baja Malibu, Playa Blanca & SADM Beaches Still Officially Shut Down Due to Contamination

 

 Before we get started here, a news flash...so,  who and what else does Chiquita finance?  We always buy the organic bananas but they are just marked "organic" and I'm not sure where they are from.  Anyway, boycott Chiquita everyone.....didn't Chiquita do the very same thing at least twice before?

From Telesur: 09/01/18

Colombia: Chiquita Brands Charged With Financing, Supporting Paramilitaries


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  - There have been two different reports on the number of executions/murders in Tijuana for the month of August - so it is likely in a few days we will do a revision of these totals:

Zeta reported that August closed with 212 intentional homicides:

Zeta - Daily News

Agosto Cierra con 212 Homicidios Dolosos
Por Manuel Ayala
09/01/18 - 4:07pm

Frontera reports a higher number of 221 violent deaths in Tijuana to give the city a YTD total of 1,657 dead:

Frontera - Policiaca

Aumenta a 221 Homicidios al Cierre de Mes
Por, Angel F. Gonzalez
09/01/18 - 8:17am


 - The Wounded

A long report from Zeta covering the numbers of wounded or injured people left behind in the drug war this year in Tijuana who are also referred to as the "walking dead" by the authorities because sooner or later since they are marked, they will probably be dead too, and compares these figures to 2017.  So, clearly the violence is not clean, it is messy.

Some highlights pasted for you:

"With 731 victims, the number of people injured by firearms increased by 30 percent compared to last year; between 70 and 80% of these crimes are related to the sale of drugs at retail. According to the version of the police, it is usual that these injured are victims of subsequent attacks until they are killed. The only case with sentence in 2018 had a penalty of three years for shooting a policeman"

"Comparing the number of injured by firearms from 2017 to 2018, in January the number grew from 47 to 94; February, from 41 to 64; March, from 51 to 71; in April it dropped from 89 to 83; in May, it again rose from 89 to 92; in June, from 87 to 116; in July, from 91 to 127. It is expected the closing of August, which in 22 days of elapsed, added 84 injured."

Lesionados: "Hombres Muertos Caminado"
Por, Rosaririo Mosso Castro




 - The Official Numbers:


For reference to the official numbers (August not included yet) go to this link, scroll to and click Incidencia Delictiva then scroll and click Estadistica Estatal y Municipal:

seguridadbc.gob.mxseguridad.gob.mx



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The increase in drug related violence in our neighborhood and Rosarito Beach has raised a few eyebrows and left neighbors wondering if the fuse igniting more bloodshed in Rosarito Beach has been lit and what we should be preparing ourselves for or if these occurrences in the past few days are just another blip on the radar.

Most recently:

 -  09/01/18:

Zeta reports:

"Tres horas más tarde, a las 10:33 horas, fue encontrado el cuerpo de un hombre con disparos de arma de fuego y envuelto en una cobija, sobre el kilómetro 16+100, de la carretera Tijuana-San Miguel, bajo el puente de acceso a Baja Malibu."

The problem here is that it is unclear if the author meant to say the Scenic Highway, and there is no bridge access to Baja Malibu just south of us, the access is from the Scenic Highway. Unless the encobijado was found in the old tunnel under the Highway which connects lower BM to Middle BM ? Still, there it is and as you can see, we are rolling into September at a high clip:

Reportan Once Homicidios En Las Ultimas Horas en Tijuana
Por, Julieta Aragon

 - In colonia Ampliacion Rosarito Beach, one man kidnapped and his vehicle stolen by armed men, and a taxi cab driver shot and wounded in Primo Tapia, Rosarito Beach:

Frontera
 Hombre Fue Privado de la Libertad y Otro Lesionado en Distintos Hechos en Rosarito
Por, Carmen Guiterrez 

 - August 31:

 - Frontera reports an armed attack inside of the seafood restaurant "Mahajua" in colonia Plan Libertador of Rosarito Beach by gunmen leaving two men injured, one of them seriously:

Ataque Armado al Interior de Restaurante de Mariscos en Rosarito
Por, Carmen Guiterrez 

  - Frontera reports in colonia Constitucion of Rosarito Beach, a shoot out (according to witnesses) between gunmen in two vehicles leaves one man shot dead in the head in a vacant lot.  Next, the General Hospital in Rosarito reports the arrival of one man shot three times in chest area; he had been dropped off by a yellow pick up truck which matches the description of one of the vehicles involved in the shoot out on the street.

Matan a Hombre en Terreno Baldio de Rosarito
Por, Carmen Gutierrez


 - Frontera reports across the road from us, the body of a man located inside of a blue pick up truck at Real Del Mar off of Blvd. Real del Mar, shot to death. Reuban reports he was outside working on his house when he heard the gunshots.

Encuentran a Hombre Sin Vida Dentro de Pickup en Real Del Mar

So, within about an eight mile radius of us there has been a lot activity. 


 - The Beach Contamination: 

The beaches of Baja Malibu, Playa Blanca & SADM are still officially closed due to contamination.
So, don't go in the water.  This report will give you a link from the PFEA of the health conditions of the beaches ; and I wanted to add that we are grateful for Frontera providing this information to the public:

Frontera

Revisa el Nivel de Contaminacion de las Playas de Tijuana
Por, Esther Hernandez



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Next up hopefully, a look at Mexican opinions on the Military in the streets.

Boycott Chiquita Bananas - The August 2018 Stats Tijuana: Frontera Reports 221 Intentional Homicides YTD TIJ = 1,657 Dead - Zeta Reports On The Wounded In Our Region - Baja Malibu, Playa Blanca & SADM Beaches Still Officially Shut Down Due to Contamination

 

 Before we get started here, a news flash...so,  who and what else does Chiquita finance?  We always buy the organic bananas but they are just marked "organic" and I'm not sure where they are from.  Anyway, boycott Chiquita everyone.....didn't Chiquita do the very same thing at least twice before?

From Telesur: 09/01/18

Colombia: Chiquita Brands Charged With Financing, Supporting Paramilitaries


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  - There have been two different reports on the number of executions/murders in Tijuana for the month of August - so it is likely in a few days we will do a revision of these totals:

Zeta reported that August closed with 212 intentional homicides:

Zeta - Daily News

Agosto Cierra con 212 Homicidios Dolosos
Por Manuel Ayala
09/01/18 - 4:07pm

Frontera reports a higher number of 221 violent deaths in Tijuana to give the city a YTD total of 1,657 dead:

Frontera - Policiaca

Aumenta a 221 Homicidios al Cierre de Mes
Por, Angel F. Gonzalez
09/01/18 - 8:17am


 - The Wounded

A long report from Zeta covering the numbers of wounded or injured people left behind in the drug war this year in Tijuana who are also referred to as the "walking dead" by the authorities because sooner or later since they are marked, they will probably be dead too, and compares these figures to 2017.  So, clearly the violence is not clean, it is messy.

Some highlights pasted for you:

"With 731 victims, the number of people injured by firearms increased by 30 percent compared to last year; between 70 and 80% of these crimes are related to the sale of drugs at retail. According to the version of the police, it is usual that these injured are victims of subsequent attacks until they are killed. The only case with sentence in 2018 had a penalty of three years for shooting a policeman"

"Comparing the number of injured by firearms from 2017 to 2018, in January the number grew from 47 to 94; February, from 41 to 64; March, from 51 to 71; in April it dropped from 89 to 83; in May, it again rose from 89 to 92; in June, from 87 to 116; in July, from 91 to 127. It is expected the closing of August, which in 22 days of elapsed, added 84 injured."

Lesionados: "Hombres Muertos Caminado"
Por, Rosaririo Mosso Castro




 - The Official Numbers:


For reference to the official numbers (August not included yet) go to this link, scroll to and click Incidencia Delictiva then scroll and click Estadistica Estatal y Municipal:

seguridadbc.gob.mxseguridad.gob.mx



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The increase in drug related violence in our neighborhood and Rosarito Beach has raised a few eyebrows and left neighbors wondering if the fuse igniting more bloodshed in Rosarito Beach has been lit and what we should be preparing ourselves for or if these occurrences in the past few days are just another blip on the radar.

Most recently:

 -  09/01/18:

Zeta reports:

"Tres horas más tarde, a las 10:33 horas, fue encontrado el cuerpo de un hombre con disparos de arma de fuego y envuelto en una cobija, sobre el kilómetro 16+100, de la carretera Tijuana-San Miguel, bajo el puente de acceso a Baja Malibu."

The problem here is that it is unclear if the author meant to say the Scenic Highway, and there is no bridge access to Baja Malibu just south of us, the access is from the Scenic Highway. Unless the encobijado was found in the old tunnel under the Highway which connects lower BM to Middle BM ? Still, there it is and as you can see, we are rolling into September at a high clip:

Reportan Once Homicidios En Las Ultimas Horas en Tijuana
Por, Julieta Aragon

 - In colonia Ampliacion Rosarito Beach, one man kidnapped and his vehicle stolen by armed men, and a taxi cab driver shot and wounded in Primo Tapia, Rosarito Beach:

Frontera
 Hombre Fue Privado de la Libertad y Otro Lesionado en Distintos Hechos en Rosarito
Por, Carmen Guiterrez 

 - August 31:

 - Frontera reports an armed attack inside of the seafood restaurant "Mahajua" in colonia Plan Libertador of Rosarito Beach by gunmen leaving two men injured, one of them seriously:

Ataque Armado al Interior de Restaurante de Mariscos en Rosarito
Por, Carmen Guiterrez 

  - Frontera reports in colonia Constitucion of Rosarito Beach, a shoot out (according to witnesses) between gunmen in two vehicles leaves one man shot dead in the head in a vacant lot.  Next, the General Hospital in Rosarito reports the arrival of one man shot three times in chest area; he had been dropped off by a yellow pick up truck which matches the description of one of the vehicles involved in the shoot out on the street.

Matan a Hombre en Terreno Baldio de Rosarito
Por, Carmen Gutierrez


 - Frontera reports across the road from us, the body of a man located inside of a blue pick up truck at Real Del Mar off of Blvd. Real del Mar, shot to death. Reuban reports he was outside working on his house when he heard the gunshots.

Encuentran a Hombre Sin Vida Dentro de Pickup en Real Del Mar

So, within about an eight mile radius of us there has been a lot activity. 


 - The Beach Contamination: 

The beaches of Baja Malibu, Playa Blanca & SADM are still officially closed due to contamination.
So, don't go in the water.  This report will give you a link from the PFEA of the health conditions of the beaches ; and I wanted to add that we are grateful for Frontera providing this information to the public:

Frontera

Revisa el Nivel de Contaminacion de las Playas de Tijuana
Por, Esther Hernandez



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Next up hopefully, a look at Mexican opinions on the Military in the streets.

The Meandering Blog: John McCain

For the next couple of days I'm going to try to catch up - with spurts of topics from John McCain, NAFTA (which is still an unknown as far as human & environmental rights and Canada as a participant), AMLO's renege on his campaign promise to pull the Military off the streets and problems convincing the victims and the families of victims of the drug war that they need to turn the other cheek, present contamination @ SADM, Playa Blanca & Baja Malibu, immigration, and of course the recent drug war stats & outrageous violence in our region - which now includes the body of a  beheaded dog left behind in the middle of the  public street in the Zona Centro of Tijuana blood running down the pavement with a narco message  next to which was placed his/her bloody decapitated head in a cooler a top a bridge which made me physically ill.


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:



From Democracy Now ! - 08/27/18

Obit Omit: What the Media Leaves Out of John McCain's Record of Militarism and Misogyny 




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Update/edit 08/28/18:

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

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From The Intercept:  (More on McCain by Jon Schwartz at the end of this report)

A Little Known Story About John McCain and His Fantasies of Benevolent U.S. Foreign Policy
By, Jon Schwartz - 08/27/18


Hold the Plaudits, John McCain's 2008 Campaign Paved the Way For Donald Trump
By, Mehdi Hasan - 08/27/18 


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I'll be back.

The Meandering Blog: John McCain

For the next couple of days I'm going to try to catch up - with spurts of topics from John McCain, NAFTA (which is still an unknown as far as human & environmental rights and Canada as a participant), AMLO's renege on his campaign promise to pull the Military off the streets and problems convincing the victims and the families of victims of the drug war that they need to turn the other cheek, present contamination @ SADM, Playa Blanca & Baja Malibu, immigration, and of course the recent drug war stats & outrageous violence in our region - which now includes the body of a  beheaded dog left behind in the middle of the  public street in the Zona Centro of Tijuana blood running down the pavement with a narco message  next to which was placed his/her bloody decapitated head in a cooler a top a bridge which made me physically ill.


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.


**********

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:



From Democracy Now ! - 08/27/18

Obit Omit: What the Media Leaves Out of John McCain's Record of Militarism and Misogyny 




********** 

Update/edit 08/28/18:

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

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From The Intercept:  (More on McCain by Jon Schwartz at the end of this report)

A Little Known Story About John McCain and His Fantasies of Benevolent U.S. Foreign Policy
By, Jon Schwartz - 08/27/18


Hold the Plaudits, John McCain's 2008 Campaign Paved the Way For Donald Trump
By, Mehdi Hasan - 08/27/18 


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I'll be back.

Aretha - Oh Mary Don't You Weep - Update 08/18: A Wow Review From Wesley Morris of The New York Times Includes Link To Sydney Pollack's Unreleased 1972 Documentary, "Amazing Grace" - Update 08/20: Democracy Now! Covers Aretha & Angela Davis!!!

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.

From: The New York Times

"Amazing Grace': How Aretha Franklin Took Us All To Church
By, Wesley Morris


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Courtesy Democracy Now! Angela & Aretha

 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)


From Democracy Now !

 Angela Davis: Aretha Franklin Offered to Post Bail for Me, Saying "Black People Will Be Free." -08/17/18


Angela Davis: Aretha Franklin "Will Forever Animate Our Collective Sense of Desire for Change"  - 08/17/18


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.


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Aretha - Oh Mary Don't You Weep - Update 08/18: A Wow Review From Wesley Morris of The New York Times Includes Link To Sydney Pollack's Unreleased 1972 Documentary, "Amazing Grace" - Update 08/20: Democracy Now! Covers Aretha & Angela Davis!!!

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.

From: The New York Times

"Amazing Grace': How Aretha Franklin Took Us All To Church
By, Wesley Morris


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Courtesy Democracy Now! Angela & Aretha

 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)


From Democracy Now !

 Angela Davis: Aretha Franklin Offered to Post Bail for Me, Saying "Black People Will Be Free." -08/17/18


Angela Davis: Aretha Franklin "Will Forever Animate Our Collective Sense of Desire for Change"  - 08/17/18


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.


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A Request From Familias Unidas No Divididas - Families Belong Together - Good News ! Judge Orders Plane Carrying Deported Mother & Child Turned Around and Blocks More Removals

Passing this along, received as an email and thought you might be interested in helping out:

"A family needs your help.

 

The Team at Families Belong Together via ActionNetwork.org <info@familiesbelong.org>

Mon 8/6, 6:53 AMYou

Mike & Marjorie ,

After experiencing sexual abuse in a Southwest Key detention facility, a young girl known as D.L. has been reunited with her family.

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:

Donate today

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

familiesbelong.org | facebook | twitter"


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god damned fucking Trump.

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Courtesy NBC News

Update/edit:  This just in: (and I'm leaving what I said about Trump early this morning up because he is evil and a prick)

From MSN -  08/09/18

NBC News:

Judge Orders Plane Carrying Deported Mother and Child Turned Around, Blocks More Removals
by, Suzanne Gamboa


More Coverage on Zero Tolerance :

From The Intercept

The War On Immigrants


From Democracy Now !  (Don't miss headlines and coverage of CA fires/climate change)

Immigration

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