Friday, November 18, 2011

THE START OF THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT


While violent or pacific confrontations have been taken place in New York and in many other cities of the U.S. between the Occupy Movement and Police, the roots of the unrests are based on political and social discontent mostly from those who are unemployed, vagrants, and Communists who always intervene in chaotic situations.


Members of the Occupy Movement refer to it as an international protest, which is primarily directed against economic and social inequality.

The Movement started in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, on July 30, 2011, with Occupy Dataran, followed by New York City and San Francisco on September 17, 2011. Wall Street and San Francisco were occupied, and the Movement expanded to 95 cities across 82 countries and over 600 communities in the U.S.  But since 20 years ago, Vancouver Magazine has been encouraging rebellion and sabotage against Black Friday and setting the stage for the Occupy Movement.  The name Evan Samuel Heimlich has been single out as one of the main leaders of the Movement, but without confirmation.

By November 17, 2011, close to 2,600 towns and cities were "occupied." Vancouver is in the province British Columbia, Canada.

The movement was initiated by the Canadian group Adbuster (from the magazine with the same name)  and partly inspired by the Arab Spring in Cairo's Tahrir Square and Spanish "Indignants." They used the slogan 99% symbolizing the victims of the present situation.

One of the inspirations for the movement was the Democratic Village set up in 2010, outside the British Parliament in London. They received additional attention when the Internet group Anonymous encouraged its followers to take part in the protests, calling them to set up kitchens in lower Manhattan. Kallen Lasn, long time editor of Adbuster---considered the Carl Marx of the Occupy Movement---has long believed that "Wall Street and vast corporate wealth have sent the US into what he calls, 'terminal decline.'''

As stated, this is a Movement that cannot be ignored because the great amount of followers, some of them becoming very violent. Sooner or later people are going to die, protesters or police members, and we'll be involved in a very serious social unrest, which will make the economy worse, as it is already happening because the revolts, which are costing billions of dollars.


Since the start of civilization there have been always those who have and those who don't have, plus those in the middle. The American Revolution had its origin because the English economic strangulation on Americans. The Russian Revolution was the result of the Czars abuses against the people. So, the French Revolution and so many more. Recently, Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.

The Communist thesis of  "equality" is a joke. Not even God made us equal. Some bigger than others, people with different skin colors, some more intelligent than others, some good workers and others lazies. The word equality is just that, a word.

But this doesn't mean we cannot find a way to make life more fair for humanity. We have touched this subject before and have proposed many times the legal mandate of PROFIT SHARING. Then corporation and proprietors could avoid the sinking of the world society. Why some big corporations don't have their fair share to pay taxes?

It would be unjust to blame President Obama for the present crisis, taking power with two wars going on and the debacle allowed by ex President Bush, who, even being advised of the coming financial storms many times, he didn't impose regulation in the housing industry, favoring Walls Street and his billionaires friends.

Let's be just and truthful. Yes, this world is hungry for Social Justice. But we regret violence. There are other ways to achieve it. Mahatma Gandhi did it in India.

It is legal, Constitutional, to protest, but peacefully. Liberty has limitations by laws, and laws have to be respected and obeyed.

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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

THE MARVELS CREATED BY GOD

These beautiful photos taken during the Autumn season,
that started in September 23,
  were sent to The Truth Publication Online by
Riverside Council lady Nancy Hart. The one above is
in Holland, the other in Scotland. Who cannot

believe in God looking at these pictures?

Let's humans understand that there is a Great Creator, that the lives of each one of us have a purpose while we are in this planet. Sooner or later, we all are going to get together somewhere; so, why don't we try
to do justice in this world and get along?  A better distribution of the earth' resources would be a good start. The great gap between those who have and those who don't is increasing every year. This has to be stopped, or we all are going together to lose everything. The way we are going now, the middle class is on the way to disappear. Then, "Adios Lola."

Inflation and financial abuses are destroying America. The Truth Publication is a firm believer in Profit Sharing, which should be a law. Corporations and all profitable business should share some of the revenues that were impossible to make without the sweat of the workers. There won't peace and justice on earth while people are dying of hunger in Somalia and poker gamblers bet $500,000 in one hand. There is something very wrong there. Remember the Titanic: Rich, Middle, and poor sank.



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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

In Spanish and English: When Love Arrives


Believe it or not, The Truth enjoys many bilingual readers. Today, we would like to please both Spanish and English friends, especially those who love poetry in the Cervantes language.


This poem was the inspiration of our publisher, after a very pleasant experience.

Créalo o no, The Truth se enorgullece en contar con muchos lectores de habla hispana. Hoy, quisiéramos dedicarle a éllos este poema que fue inspirado por nuestro director después de haber experimentado una muy agradable experiencia.


Llegaste a mí en la oscuridad de la noche
para iluminar mi alma yerta en el desierto.
Fue así todo, de repente.
Saltó mi corazón del pecho
como un río que desborda su corriente.
¿Estaría yo soñando? ¿Estaría yo despierto?
¿Qué siento? No puedo contarlo al viento.
Es un misterio.
Es que pienso que te quiero.
No me preguntes, perdón, te ruego.
Será tu voz, será tu pelo,
Será el glamor de tu sonrisa
que acaricia mi alma con su brisa.
No comprendo. Sólo siento.
¡Es que siento que te quiero!

___________________


More or less says in English:

You came to me in the darkness of the night,
to illuminate my dead soul in the desert.
It was so sudden, so fast,
my heart broke off from my chest
as the current of a river overflows.
Was I dreaming? Was I awaken?
What do I feel?  I cannot tell it to the winds.
It is a mystery.
I think it is because I love you.
Don't ask me, I beg you.
It could be your voice, you hair
It could be the glamor your smile
cherishing my soul with its breeze.
I don't understand it. I only feel it.
It is that I feel I love you! 

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Thursday, September 1, 2011

CITY HALL OPENS MORE DOORS




Isn't freedom of speech abused a
little bit at the Riverside City
Council meetings?

The new communication facility provided by the Riverside City government has been a great success. eComment has been implemented by the City Clerk's office and allows residents to share views on City Council agenda items. It is an easy, electronic way to participate in local decisions from the comfort of home.

Visit RiversideCA.gov and select City Council Agenda or City Council Meetings. Then, simply click on eComment and fill the form. It will be available every Friday for the following Tuesday's Council meeting.

Under the leadership of Mayor Ron Loveridge, Riverside is one of the most democratic local governments in the nation. Communication is "numero uno": Televised Public Speaking at City Council meetings, e-mails, 311, Channels 3, 21, and 99, Internet, magazines, brochures, and now eComment.

At the Riverside City Council meetings citizens can express their opinions freely. But it is not uncommon to see some speakers going over the board, some times even insulting members of the dais. Still, some people complain of  "lack of freedom."


Gosh!

 

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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Castro Let Tamayo to Die of Thirst


 HONORING A CUBAN MARTYR



 On August 21, 2011, Sunday, Cuban exiles honored the memory of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, 43, who died in Castro's prison by thirst on February 23, 2010.

Orlando Zapata Tamayo was
let to die by thirst.
The Cuban Patriotic Junta organized the event, which took place at Stevenson Stake House, 5332 Stevens Place, City of Commerce. Orlando's mother, Reyna Luisa Tamayo, coming from Miami, attended the emotive occasion. 

Reyna Luisa was leader of "Damas de Blanco" in Cuba, who bravely and pacifically protest the Cuban tyranny on the streets. Her son Orlando was also an opponent to the Castro's regime and was arrested for "contempt" and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Being there, he denounced torture and deplorable conditions and went on a hunger strike. Then, the Castros ordered to cut off the supply of water to him, dying of thirst.

He was murdered!
 

How cruel these Communist beast are!

(See in this edition Fidel Castro admitting the fiasco of the Communist regime and his criminal background. Also, analysis of planning economic changes in Cuba.)

Saturday, July 9, 2011

FOR ALL YOUR PRINTING NEEDS...


Call Santana Graphic Designs at (951) 536-6437. Free pick up and delivery. 22 years in the trade.


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Tuesday, June 14, 2011


CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS ON TV AND WEB


  Riverside public meetings starts at 6:30 PM on Tuesdays, and they are broadcast by Charter Channel 3, AT  & T Channel 99, and Verizon FIOS Channel 21. Rebroadcast Wednesdays at 4 p.m. and Saturdays at 9 a.m. For live Webcast 24/7 visit http://www.riversideca.gov/citycouncil video/, or www.riversideca.gov

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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Where Did the Money Go?


We're still waiting for a disclosure of the money obtained from the Goeske Foundation "Dancing With the Stars" event at the Fox on April 16. In what they announced it was a "full house," tickets were sold for $15-$75. The purpose, they said, was to help seniors. The Truth is demanding a report of how the money was distributed.

Sunday, May 1, 2011


How al Qaeda Was Born

History of the Organization

The US Warns of Reprisals

Osama Muhammed bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In a 1998 interview on Al Jazeera T.V. Station, he gave his birth date as March 10, 1957. Accordingly, he was 54 years old.  His father, the late Muhamed Awad bin Laden, was a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi family.

Bin Laden was married 22 times, although to no more than four women at a time per Sharia Law. Osama was born the son of Muhammed bin Laden's tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas, who was a native of Syria.

Until now, not even the most sophisticated intelligence organizations in the world, as the London Lafayette, the Interpol and CIA were able to find out the whereabouts of Muhammed. Now, all is history.

Osama bin Laden and Muhammad Atef founded al Qaeda (The Base) in 1989. Its goals were to drive the United Stated armed forces out of Saudi Arabia and Somalia, and defend the cause of the Palestinian people.

Al Qaeda structure included a “majlis al shura” (consultation council) and it had ties to other organizations, including the al Jihad based in Egypt.

In 1991, al Qaeda established a headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan, and a series of businesses, including two investment companies, an agricultural corporation, a construction business and a transportation enterprise. All of them were operated to provide financial support to the organization for the procurement of explosives, weapons and chemicals, and for the travel of the operatives. Al Qaeda established another base in Afghanistan, protected by the Taliban regime.

In October 3, 1993, al Qaeda attacked U.S. Military bases in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 18 Army personnel. On August 7, 1998, the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed. At least 252 people died, including 13 U.S. Citizens. More than 5,000 were injured.

Al Qaeda was responsible for the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993, the attacks in Riyadh and Dhahran in the years 1995 and 1996, the assassination attempt on Egyptian President Mubarak in Ethiopia on June 1995, the bombing of the U.S. Cole in Yemen on November 2000, and the attacks to New York and Washington on September 11, 2001.

The second member in rank within the al Qaeda organization is the Egyptian surgeon Ayman al-Zawahiri. He has been single out as the brain organizing and executing the main al Qaeda's operations. They both were seen on TV laughing after the September 11, 2001, attack on the U.S.

Despite the millions of dollars offered by the Bush Administration for information leading to the arrest or execution of bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader managed for 10 years to evade his foes. During Bill Clinton's government, bin Laden could escape in Tora Bora in the intricate Afghanistan mountains. It was now President Barack Obama who finally put an end to the hunting of the most wanted subject by the U.S.

For Occident Osama bin Laden was a terrorist who killed many innocent people in the U.S. and around the earth. But for a great part of the Arabian world, he was a hero who could live a lavish life but chose to sacrifice it for a cause.

The US and the free world is on alert because reprisals are expected. Travel warnings have been issued. According with the Arabian custom, the dead is buried within 24 hours. It has been informed that bin Laden's body was deposit in the ocean, respecting Islamic tradition.


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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

A WAR AGAINST SMOKERS-KILLERS


The Rights of Non-Smokers

You smoke, you kill others


As promised, our publisher delivered a speech at the City Council meeting of April 5, trying to persuade members of the dais to introduce and approve a motion banning smoking from apartment buildings.                                         


Briefly and emotionally, Salvador Santana said, "I know for a fact that all members of the dais agree that smoking kills, that second hand smoking kills. It killed my father, it killed my younger brother.

"It didn't kill me because I quit 20 years ago. I also know this Council sympathize with our campaign to save lives, but there is some reluctance so far to extend the city ban smoking to the private sector.

"I do admire our city leaders for their feelings about ownership privileges in our free society, in our democracy. But sometimes we have to put in a balance those private privileges on one side, and the lives of people on the other side.

"Several cities, as New York, Sebastopol and Belmont, have taken courageous actions against smoking in apartment buildings. In Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California, Council member Kathleen Shaffer fought really hard to ban smoking in multi-unit dwellings. Her critics were saying, "Oh, that's Big Brother Talking, that ban will take our rights."

"Councilwoman Shaffer responded, "Not so, this is about giving rights to our children, to the elderly, to all people. Her motion was approved by the whole Council.

"Dear Riverside Council members, think about the rights of your constitutes, about their health, about the children, about all Riverside human beings. Think about the lives you could save.

"Thank you!"

_________________________


JOIN US IN THIS NOBLE CAUSE!
___________________



City Council meetings take place on Tuesdays at the City Hall, Art Pick chamber. They are televised by Channels 3, 21, and 99 at different times in the afternoons, and at 6:30 in the evenings. Reruns: Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m., and Saturdays at 9:00 a.m. 24/7 in the Internet: City of Riverside CA (link) Council Meetings on the Web.



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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

SPANISH POPULATION IN THE US


The last US census shows that 50,000,000 Spanish people live in the country, a 16.3% of the total population. In the City of Riverside, California, 47% of the 310,000 residents are Spanish: 50,530. Illegal cohabitants are not counted. While Caucasian families have an average of two children, Spanish ones, predominantly Mexicans, have five or more. This means that in the future the Spanish population in the US will be way above the other races, and they will take over the country politically. 


Saturday, March 19, 2011

Radioactive Elements that Kill



The following three radioactive elements can be released in a nuclear accident:

Cesium-137.
Iodine-131.
Strontium-90.

Cesium-137 mimics potassium in the body and can cause cancer, blood diseases and birth defects. It has a 30-year half-life, the time it takes for half the atoms to disintegrate.

Iodine-131 an be inhaled or ingested. It concentrates in the thyroid, leading to thyroid cancer. It has a half-life of eight days. Taking iodine pills prevents the thyroid from absorbing iodine.

Strontium-90 spreads in dust. It accumulates in bones and teeth, causing bone cancer and leukemia. It has a half-life of 29 years.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

PHOTO OF THE YEAR


Look this: A 4-month old girl rescued unscratched from tons of rubbles in Ishimaki, Japan. A soldier from the Self Defense Force smiles while holding the innocent princess. She should be named Milagros, or Mikado in Japanese.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Kudos to RPD Officers Dillon and Sturdavant


The Truth Publication is congratulating RPD Officers M. Dillon and J. Sturdavant, for cleaning the streets of Riverside of a very dangerous sex offender. David Ray McReynolds was arrested in the area of William and Mountain streets. He was wanted for parole violations. Officers Dillon and Sturdavant have been doing a terrific police job for a long time, and they deserve a promotion. Chief Sergio Diaz should take note.

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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

CITY ORDINANCE ABOUT SMOKING


This story is closely related to the one below, and it is the result of a research made by this publication regarding regulations for smoking in the City of Riverside.


After receiving conflicting reports from the City about if there were or not any ordinances about smoking, we have got from Councilman Mike Gardner a copy of the City Administrative Manual dated July, 2006, and reviewed July 2009.

The Administrative Manual states that City Smoking Policy is limited to the requirements of the Labor Code 6404.5 prohibiting the smoking of tobacco products in all enclosed places of employment, defining workplaces but not limited to offices spaces, libraries, museums, maintenance facilities, warehouses, fire stations, and City-owned vehicles and heavy equipment.

Then, the A.M. refers to the California Law Section 9.08.140, which prohibits smoking "in any area of any park or open space managed by the Park and Recreation Department and specifically designated by sign as a prohibited smoking areas by the Park and Recreation Department." 

As we have verified, Riverside City's Smoking Policy is limited to protect workers/employees and, obviously, employees and visitors attending Park and Recreation areas.


But that's about it. The City's Smoking Policy ignores Riverside residents, personnel and visitors of private-owned buildings, leaving to their owners/managers  the implementation of non-smoking restrictions, which past and present experiences reveal incompetence, privileges, and lack of fairness.


It is the editorial position of The Truth Publication Online that the present Riverside City Policy, although recognizable, doesn't have in consideration thousands of residents/voters who are exposed to the emissions of  deadly smoke. 


It is the responsibility of our government to protect the health of all citizens, no matter classifications of discriminatory places. The law cannot be administered by private individuals because, in plain language, they don't give a damn.


(We would like to thank Councilmen Mike Gardner, Chris MacArthur, Paul Davis, William Bailey, and City Attorney Greg Priamos for their responses and cooperation with this story.)

A JOKE ABOUT SMOKING:

Two old ladies were outside their nursing home, having a smoke when it started to rain. One of the ladies pulled out a condom, cut off the end, put it over her cigarette and continued smoking.

Lady 1: "What's that?"
Lady 2: "A condom. This way my cigarette doesn't get wet."
 "Where did you get it?"
 "You can get them at any drugstore."

The next day  Lady 1 hobbles herself into the local drugstore and announces to the pharmacist that she wants a box of condoms. The guy looks at her kind of strangely (she is, after all, over 80 years of age), but politely asks what brand she prefers.

She replies: "It doesn't matter as long as it fits a Camel."


"Say what?" 
 

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Riverside Council Seems Reluctant to Enforce Smoking Ordinance in Private Buildings


After our publisher delivered a speech at the evening Riverside City Council meeting of March 8, 2011, appealing to the legislative body to write and enforce an ordinance to ban smoking in all areas and buildings of the city, some members of the dais gave the impression that government should not get involved in the private sector.


In other words, people who are victims of secondhand smoking in private buildings are at the mercy of owners and managers.


The following is a textual reproduction of the speech:

"Among many recognitions for the cause of a clean environment, Riverside received a 'Silver LivCom" award. Many trees and solar panels have been installed in the city, saving energy and keeping us green.

"Right in the seventh floor of the City Hall building, we proudly exhibit the Grier Pavilion that was intensively promoted by Mayor Loveridge. No wonder, among many names in the past, Riverside has been called The Green City.

"But there are no flowers without thorns. It has been a shock for us to learn that our city lacks a smoking ordinance. One of the main causes of cancer, smoking, has not been legally framed into the city's by-laws. Although, conflicting reports have been made about this subject.

"The fight against this sneaky killer has been left to the private sector, but without the weight of the law. Smoking killed Council member Nancy Hart's husband. Smoking killed my younger brother Alfredo past July.

"Half a million people died each year in the U.S. because smoking, 5.4 million world wide. Smoking is a pleasure that kills the smokers and those around them. The U.S. Surgeon General has classified that inhaling secondhand smoke causes lung cancer  in no non-smoking adults.

"Approximately three thousand lung cancer deaths occur each year among adult non-smokers as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke may increase the risk of breast and lung cancer, nasal sinus, cavity cancer, and naso-pharyngeal cancer in adults, and the risk of leukemia, lymphoma, and brain tumors in children.


"This is why I'm appealing to the members of this legislative body to write and pass a City Ordinance banning smoking for good in all public places, including parks, buildings, and apartment complexes.

"You will save lots of lives!"

Right after our publisher speech, Roberto Morales, M.D. used the podium to describe how it wouldn't make any difference if secondhand smoke affects people in open areas or inside buildings. He stated that every year more women are victims of smoking and secondhand smoke because the increasing number of them falling to the bad habit. "In 48 years of practice, I have seen patients dying in my arms because smoking had destroyed their respiratory system."

The Truth Publication will continue a research about this important subject where the lives of millions of people are at stake. The Truth rejects the argument that government should not intervene in the private sector, even when people are dying.




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City Council Meetings on TV and Internet


On Tuesdays, Riverside City Council meetings start at 6:30 PM. Free attendance to City Hall. They are televised by Channels 3, 21, and 99. Reruns: Wed. at 4:00 pm., Sat. at 9:00 am. Available 24/7 in the Internet.


Saturday, January 8, 2011

X-RAY OF COMMUNISM


A friend asked me why did I leave my country and came to the United States. She also inquired about what Communism really is.

The following were my answers to my dear friend:

Communism is the antithesis of freedom. Individuals under a Communist system cannot make decisions by themselves, the controlled state make it for them.

Freedom of the press, assembly, traveling don't exist. You cannot change jobs or even move from one house to another without the government consent. It is the state that controls everything, including the private lives of the people. Your children are taken away from you, to be indoctrinated in the Marxist doctrine. You're a number, not a person. Without future, without any hope.

It was a huge mistake of many Americans, including ex President Bill Clinton and Janet Reno, when they supported the taking by force from his Florida family the child Elian Gonzalez and be returned to Cuba. Parents have no control of their children in a Communist society. Elian's mother gave her life to save her son from slavery, but it was ignored in the U.S. Precisely by ignorance.

Communism is oppression, misery, incarceration, death. Members of families are separated. Children are taught to denounce their parents, if they express discontent with the tyranny. Firing squads constantly kill dissidents. Prisons are chambers of torture.

People try desperate to leave a Communist country. In the past, they were shot jumping the Berlin Wall. Now they are devoured by sharks in the Florida Stretch.

There is no heart in Communism, no paternity. It is brutal, inhumane. It was Joseph Stalin. It is Kim Jon il. It is Castro. They are the law.

Salvador Santana.


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