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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Latino contributions to City of Berkeley


Latinos, particularly Mexican Americans or Chicanos, have played a vital role in shaping the City of Berkeley’s social political and cultural landscape.

Join an unforgettable afternoon celebrating over a century of history, culture, and political activism.

Experience powerful stories through photographs, oral histories, and community art that honor the legacy and contributions of Latinos in Berkeley.

This exhibit explores the dynamic 125-year history of the Latino community in Berkeley from 1900 to 2025, highlighting resilience, activism, and cultural contributions. From early migrant laborers and railroad workers to student organizers, artists, educators, and community leaders.

Through photographs, oral histories, archival documents, and community artifacts, the exhibit honors the struggles and triumphs that define this history.

It invites visitors to reflect on the legacy of pride, resistance, and belonging that continues to inspire new generations of Berkeley’s Latino community: Berkeley Historical Society and Museum - Sunday, September 21, 2025, 2 – 5 PM: Exhibit Opening Reception
  • OPENING RECEPTION
  • Admission: FREE
  • Sept. 21, 2025 | 2:00–5:00 pm
  • 1931 Center St., Berkeley, CA
  • CC Liu, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Pocho Hour of Power (KPFK.org)

Saturday, September 14, 2024

Pope tells Americans how they'll vote

I tell you what God wants, and you do what you're told, get it? Or you go to hell.
He's onto us, Don. I can't go against him. - Calm down, Rudy. He hates abortion more.
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Pope launches scathing attack on Donald AND Kamala in shock US election intervention
Attention! Pope salutes his foot soldiers in the Church of the Holy Roman Empire, Inc.
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I'm the pope, so "who am I to judge?"
Pope Francis has made a shock intervention in the US election as he launched a scathing attack on both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Speaking on a flight from Singapore to Rome, the current pope blasted Harris's pro-abortion stance and Trump's immigration policies.

He called abortion an "assassination" and labelled Trump's deportation plans a "grave" sin.

Questioning Pope's standing in the Church?
The pontiff then urged American Catholics to [choose evil but to] "choose the lesser evil" at the polls in November. [Third party good? Don't even dream about it.]

Without naming names, the Pope referred to the candidates' policies and genders [but not their ages or colors, Orange and Black]. "Not voting is ugly. It is not good. You must vote," he said.

"You must choose the lesser evil. Who is the lesser evil? That lady, or that gentleman? [Hmm, wait, who is he talking about?] I don't know [he admitted]."
The US it too gay. Tone it down like Rome does.
He added: "Whether it is the one who is chasing away migrants [the Orange one] or the one who that kills children [the Black one]. Both are against life."

The comments came after a 12-day tour of [Buddhist] Southeast Asia and Oceania [a region of the world made famous in 1984].

The original VIP target in his Pope Mobile
VP Harris has vowed to restore national abortion protections, while XP Trump plans to deport millions of immigrants.

American Catholics, numbering 52 million, are a crucial voter group in battleground states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

I need to go kiss him on the head... - No, Joe!
Il Papa
 rarely weighs in on elections but has previously criticized Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric, once saying Trump was "not Christian." [Goodness knows what he's said about a woman in the White House or a pro-abortionist who love gays, Zionist Jews, and American proxy-wars in Israel/Middle East and Ukraine/Russia.]

So I'm in, right? I'm for the Jews and reproductive rights and don't have kids. I'm a shoo in.
COMMENTARY
Have you Americans even read this Book? This Book has all the answers on how to vote.
Maria, how will we vote? - You heard him, Chuy, he left us no choice. We must vote evil.
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I'm the Enforcer here to browbeat.
[In conclusion, all Catholics who disobey must say so in confession, and the parish priest will prepare a report to be sent to Rome and the Holy See marked "urgent, for Pope's eyes only!" who will then review it and tell God the names of those who disobeyed, and the Heavenly Father will take care of doling out penances, punishments, and perdition requests. At the very least, expect some limbo time. And don't try asking Mother Mary for intercession on this one. God's not going to fall for it this time.]

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

US Moon Lander fails as Japan succeeds

Team Comedy (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism); Dick Speed (The Register)
NASA’s new moon lander is turning into a disaster (Futurism/msn.com)
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Stars suddenly visible? That pale blue dot is BS.
Once upon a time a group of American scientists went to an international tech conference in Tokyo, bragging about how great capitalism is for scientific advances.
CGI or artist's rendition of Japan's SLIM
But then they saw what the Japanese had built with government support to land on the moon and rove around. They were abashed, so they bragged about future plans for their next project after conquering the Moon.

"What's that?" the Japanese scientists asked the Americans, curious about getting to the next celestial body. "Mars, Venus?"

 "The Sun!" the Americans boasted.

The Japanese were dumbfounded at America's great boldness.

"But how," one Japanese engineer inquired, "will you overcome the heat?"

The American team scoffed, "Ha, that's easy! We'll be landing at night."


The Japanese team giggled behind the American team's back, "We'll concentrate on the Moon."

"Whatever," the U.S. team dismissed the other science teams, "we've already conquered the Moon! We can do it again easy. We have Elon Musk!"

"Oh thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate,
Too soon dejected, and too soon elate!
Sudden, these honours shall be snatch'd away,
And curs'd for ever this victorious day.
For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crown'd,
The [walkies] crackle, and the mill turns round.
On shining altars of JAPAN they raise
The silver lamp; the [SLIM lander doth] blaze."
-Alexander Pope, "The Rape of the Lock"
Look, you can even see the curvature of our moon
The private capitalist company Intuitive Machines -- backed by NASA technology, boosted by Elon Musk's private SpaceX Corporation launcher -- has failed miserably in its propaganda campaign of pretending to land on the moon a second time 52 years after putting the USSR to shame with fake footage of a first landing. What can we do? I know! Let's throw more money at the problem. That fixes everything. Who cares that everyone is trying to claim the lunar surface or that the Earth's satellite is hollow, watery, and full of enslaved beings! We're cleared to take the surface, if we can get to it. And Eric Dubay says we can't, even if it's actually very close and smaller than we've been told.
  • LANDER BLUES: NASA's new Moon lander may have touched down in one piece, but the story keeps getting more embarrassing and underwhelming for the space agency. Intuitive Machines, the company that built the Odysseus lander, said in a series of updates posted on its website and on X (Twitter) that although the craft is online and beaming images back to Earth, its operators believe it won't be able to keep up communications for much longer [as the battery dies and fails to get charged by solar panels].
  • Machine breaks through digging HS2’s longest tunnel
  • American Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after [tipping over] (Dick Speed, The Register, 2/27/24) Controllers estimate 10-20 hours remain for Intuitive Machines lander. Intuitive Machines' Odysseus Lunar Lander is facing another countdown. This time the question is how much longer it can continue to operate until it exhausts what remains of the battery life.… On Monday, flight controllers reckoned they had until Tuesday morning before communication with the lander [died and] ceased [until Japan's SLIM can come by and give it a nudge, lift, or something]. At the time of writing, controllers hoped there might be as much as 10-20 hours of battery life remaining. While the landing has been called a success, surviving a few days on the lunar surface is far from the original plan of seven days or more before the lunar night arrived and Odysseus ceased operations. The question now is exactly how much work the stricken lander can actually do on the Moon, considering it is on its side -- or "on the wonk," as one space agency insider memorably told us to put it more nicely -- with its battery life fast depleting. According to Intuitive Machines, the lander has "efficiently sent payload science data and imagery in furtherance of the Company's mission objectives." More

Saturday, October 7, 2023

Christopher Columbus: Misunderstood Jew or Genocidal Maniac? (10/8)

Christopher Nyerges (School of Self-Reliance) WTI; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress: Howard Zinn (The World Turned Upside Down)

Bloody guilty crimes against humanity by European invaders (newyorkupstate.com)
"510 years resistance" vandalism on Christopher Columbus monument
Let's stop celebrating the genocide of An Inglorious Columbus (Edward P. Vining)

Our old roots are under your new land. Maybe you should go back to your cannibalistic, disease ridded continent, and we each stay on our side of the sea?
Kill them ALL, men, and let's let our God figure it out. They're not human or saved like us.


There's a reason CC is maligned today
It's time to learn the truth about Cristobal Columbus, a Portuguese-Italian Converso Jew expelled from his country and motivated by debt to go to Asia by a new passage.

Would he be able to find it? Would he rape and enslave those standing in his way? Would he burn his own crew? Would he be able to get his investors to live up to the contract he squeezed out of them? Find.

Columbus landed in India (actually the Carribean) where he met "Indians," whom he found docile and naive, welcoming and cordial, exchanging trinket gifts with them until he laid down the boom: rape, rampant disease, chattel slavery, forced labor, kidnapping specimen to send them back to Europe like creatures destined for a zoo and indefinite servitude.

Columbus didn't "discover" anything. His fame arose because he went BACK to Europe. Other white men had arrived but stayed and blended in. Columbus had more greed than that. He was here to take it all for the Catholic Church and the highest bidder.

But maybe he wasn't all bad. Sure, he shortchanged his men -- not paying them what he promised -- until they were more indebted and more willing to do anything (think crimes against humanity) for their freedom.

Did he really convert to Catholicism, or was it a cynical bid to be a Crypto-Jew, working for the crown to bring Spain riches and encouraging other Europeans to go, exploit, rape, pillage, conquer, commit genocide, kill off, colonize, and convert the locals to the "right" religion?

Author Christopher Nyerges (an American of Eastern European extraction, born and raised in Los Angeles) presents a report of his findings on the real Columbus. Not Everything can be laid at the feat of this "monster." He may have opened the door and gotten the ball rolling, but the Conquistadores did most of the damage and killing. Conclusion: What day to celebrate, CCD (along with Catholic CCD) or Indigenous People's Day? Both? Neither?

We look forward to Mr. Nyerges' findings, which certainly differ from those of Wisdom Quarterly. Q&A follows. Refreshments. Free/by donation:

Christopher Nyerges (School of Self-Reliance)
Sunday, October 8, 2023, join in a 9:45 am
presentation by author Christopher Nyerges under the banyan tree in the yard at 5835 Burwood Ave., Highland Park. This week's topic is "Columbus," part of a larger week that includes Indigenous Peoples' Day at the non-profit. Donations accepted. No one is turned away. Questions? Call Prudence (323) 620-4720.
Why did US lie to us about this mass murderer?
The presentation was also on Zoom, though the speaker did not mention that would be the case ahead of time and went for two hours of gory details and many different sources. There is no way to defend Columbus for what he did (and he did it more than once).

CONCLUSION: The US should abolish any honor or worship of this madman Columbus. Columbus Day had a good motive, to make Italian-Americans feel good about themselves and their contributions to this great land. Columbus wasn't even actually Italian! He referred to himself as Portuguese. He may have visited Italy or learned something there or played acted being a modern Roman for Rome and the Holy Roman Empire of the Catholic Church. But we do not see the Portuguese or Brazilian American community getting up in arms for their mascot and maniac as he is deposed, dethroned, and tossed onto the heap of failed humanity, the star hypocrite, claiming to be motivated by God and religion and saving the savage heathens.

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Teacher of year molests student, rearrested

Jayne Yutig, CBS 8, 3/9/23; Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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Meet me afterschool? - A male teacher? No way!
Is it just us or are Asians -- the reputed "model minority" who work so hard to curry the favor of whites -- really coming into their own in America? Mass murdering, child molesting, thieving, drug dealing, mafia activity, Academy Award winning, best actressing, everything. Pres. Biden is in the San Gabriel Valley (Los Angeles, California) at this very moment clogging up traffic in the Pineapple Express downpour and the flooding it's causing because he wants to use recent tragedies at a dance studio, where an old Asian man shot up a dance studio and became a notorious mass murderer. Joe is going to use the bad news to promote anti-gun bills to deprive citizens of their weapons while loading police and criminals up with more and more powerful firearms. An Asian teacher child molester? Why is it when men do it, we're horrified, but when women do, it's a marvel? "Man bites dog" headline? Jacquie Ma's case was featured in the True Crime Tuesday segment of GAS (Gary and Shannon | iHeart).


Teacher of the year "loves" kids
Child molester Ma's in love with 12-year-old?
NATIONAL CITY, California — Just two days after bailing out of jail [after being arrested for suspicion of child molestation of her 12 then 13-year-old student], San Diego County 2022 "Teacher of the Year" Jacqueline Ma, 34, from Lincoln Acres Elementary was again arrested by the National City Police Department [who had kept her under surveillance when they released her the first time].
Ma doesn't represent us! (M. Yeoh)
Teacher of the Year Ma was first arrested on Tuesday [3/7/23] on several charges of sexual misconduct with a child under 14-years-old. National City Police detectives said their investigation into the sex case continued, and they developed probable cause to re-arrest Ma on additional felony charges.

According to records from the San Diego Sheriff's Department, Ma was booked on 14 new felony charges including:
  • two counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14-years old
  • seven counts of possession of obscene [pornographic] matter depicting a minor engaging in sexual conduct
  • four counts of knowingly developing, duplicating, printing, or exchanging child pornography
  • one count of intimidating a witness or victim.
CT: Sexual assault on 14-year-old boy
"Detectives conducted a surveillance operation and arrested Ma in the 3300 block of National Avenue in the City of San Diego," the police department said. Ma was re-booked into Las Colinas Women's Detention Facility. More + VIDEO and Ma's bio

Monday, September 12, 2016

US Latin population growth slips behind Asians


Russell Contreras (twitter.com/russcontreras/BigStory.ap.org/The Associated Press (via mail.com); Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - The growth of the U.S. Latino (Latina, Latinx) population -- once the nation's fastest growing -- slowed considerably over the past seven years and slipped behind that of Asian Americans amid declining "Hispanic" immigration and birth rates, a study released [September 8th, 2016] found.

Update: I hate social media.
The Pew Research Center study, which analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data, found that the U.S. Hispanic population grew annually on average by 2.8 percent between 2007 and 2014. That's down from the 4.4 percent annual growth from 2000 to 2007, before the Great Recession [which was a new Depression].
 
By comparison, the Asian American population grew around 3.4 percent on average annually during the same period. William H. Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, the slower growth is largely a factor of the economy. A slower economy is influencing families to hold off on having more children, and it's discouraging migration amid stronger border enforcement, he said.
 
Kenneth M. Johnson, a senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire's Carsey School of Public Policy, said U.S. Hispanic women between the ages of 20 to 24 have seen a 36 percent decline in birth rates.
 
"That's by far the largest decline of any other group," Johnson said. Despite slowing population growth, Latinos still accounted for 54 percent of the nation's population growth between 2000 and 2014, according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.
 
KFI AM's roving reporter Jo Kwon at the L.A. County Fair in Pomona with zebra (KFI).
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Regional growth patterns also have changed some following the economic downturn of 2007 reflecting the changing economies of states, the study found. Counties in the South continued to account for the largest share of the nation's Hispanic population growth -- 43 percent between 2007 and 2014.

Among the other fastest-growing counties for Latinos were Luzerne County in Pennsylvania, Beadle County in South Dakota, Duchesne County in Utah, and Burleigh County in North Dakota.


"Latinos are coming to Utah because the government here is doing a lot to create jobs," said Rogelio Franco of Entre Latinos, a Salt Lake City, Utah advocacy group that works to integrate Hispanics into the state. Entre Latinos was not affiliated with the study.
 
Franco said he thinks the declining birth rate is a result of Latino millennials holding off on having children while pursuing their education. "They are planning more," Franco said. "They are focusing on other things."

I'm white, you're Latina, and we're best friends. Should we go to Hawaii again? - No.
 
The growth in North Dakota's statewide Latino population nearly doubled to 18,000, making it the state with the highest Hispanic growth rate over seven years. Though small in numbers compared to states like California and Texas, the rise in Latino residents has put pressures on local governments and nonprofits to accommodate the new residents.
 
For example, in 2014 Catholic nuns from Mexico were sent to North Dakota to help serve new Hispanic parishioners in that state. North Dakota had experienced an oil boom until recently, attracting workers from around the country. It remains one of the least diverse states in the country. 
I'm Asian, you're Jewish, should we run FB?
"Latino population growth has become less concentrated in counties with historically large Latino populations and whose Latino population grew by at least 10,000," the study's authors wrote. Though the growth has slowed in the last seven years, the Latino population in the South has exploded when examined over 14 years.

We're not a model.
From 2000 to 2014, Latino populations in Tennessee and South Carolina, for example, nearly tripled. North Carolina also saw its population spike 136 percent since 2000, the report said. Mauricio Castro, an organizer with the North Carolina Congress of Latino Organizations, said Latino immigrants coming to the region tend to work in the construction or service industry.

Still, between 2007 and 2014, nearly 40 counties experienced declines in the percentage of Latinos. Most of those counties were in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas -- states with traditionally large Hispanic populations.
 
Frey said once the U.S. economy starts picking up, he expects to see a return of higher rates of immigration and increase births. "This is not the end of Latino growth in the United States by any means," Frey said. Source