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  • The Heart Rippers Killed Children for the Rain God

    10/10/2007 4:58:20 AM PDT · by Renfield · 19 replies · 384+ views
    Softipedia News ^ | Stefan Anitei
    Aztecs, Mayas and their preceding civilizations in Central America are famous for their appetite for blood. The cruel and megalomaniac sacrifice rites produce stupor amongst modern people and these people knew very well how to use it against their enemies. Would you have opposed them when you were risking to be sacrificed by ripping off your heart from your chest while still alive? A new discovery adds another gruesome aspect to the picture. Archaeologists have found the remains of 24 children who must have been sacrificed in the honor of the rain god a millennium ago. "The bones of the...
  • Corruption Hits Cities in L.A.'s Shadows

    12/02/2006 11:46:30 AM PST · by kiriath_jearim · 19 replies · 814+ views
    AP & Newsday ^ | MICHAEL R. BLOOD
    LOS ANGELES -- A string of gritty suburbs in the shadow of Los Angeles has produced a growing parade of public officials jailed for corruption, and prosecutors say illegal schemes on a scale more commonly associated with big Eastern cities have devoured tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. The latest to be led away in handcuffs is the former treasurer of South Gate, sentenced this past week to 10 years in prison. Already known for clotted freeways and fading neighborhoods, the area south of Los Angeles now is drawing additional notoriety for thieving, bribe-grabbing public officials. With little civic involvement...
  • Boiled bones show Aztecs butchered, ate invaders

    08/23/2006 3:46:48 PM PDT · by WmShirerAdmirer · 109 replies · 2,220+ views
    Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | August 23, 2006 | Catherine Bremer
    CALPULALPAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Skeletons found at an unearthed site in Mexico show Aztecs captured, ritually sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling with invading Spanish forces in 1520. Skulls and bones from the Tecuaque archaeological site near Mexico City show about 550 victims had their hearts ripped out by Aztec priests in ritual offerings, and were dismembered or had their bones boiled or scraped clean, experts say. The findings support accounts of Aztecs capturing and killing a caravan of Spanish conquistadors and local men, women and children traveling with them in revenge for the murder of Cacamatzin, king...
  • Latino congress could convene in Los Angeles

    06/11/2006 9:19:16 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 48 replies · 932+ views
    Daily Bulletin ^ | 6/11/06 | Rachel Uranga and Maria Hsin
    Inspired by the millions of immigrants who took to the streets to demand legal residency, Latino advocacy groups and politicians have called for a national Latino congress to keep the issue in the political spotlight. Organizers are inviting leaders from across the political spectrum to Los Angeles -- the country's Latino epicenter -- to draft an agenda to strengthen immigrant rights, health care and education. "These mobilizations have shown that the immigrant community and the Latino community have political potential in impacting public policy,'' said Angela Sanbrano, president of the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities. "But we...
  • Marcos Aguilar is the founder and principal of La Academia Semillas del Pueblo (pic)

    06/08/2006 9:13:06 PM PDT · by Ladycalif · 41 replies · 994+ views
    Marcos Aguilar is the founder and principal of La Academia Semillas del Pueblo, a charter school in El Sereno. Maribel Santiago, a UCLA undergraduate, interviewed him for TCLA. TCLA: Where did you grow up and go to school? MA: I was born in Mexicali, Baja California Norte in Mexico and I attended schools on the border in Calexico, a farm worker community. There was the Mexican town and the White town was like 10 miles away and another one 20 miles away. We grew up with the knowledge that in Arizona, in Yuma, Arizona, everything was Black and White. The...
  • May 1 strike offers chance to win minds

    04/25/2006 7:37:44 AM PDT · by Millee · 61 replies · 1,173+ views
    The Denver Post ^ | 4/25/06 | Cindy Rodriguez
    The May 1 national strike - dubbed "The Great American Boycott" - is less than a week away. Organizers are urging Latinos, immigrant workers and their supporters to skip work and not spend money that day. The stakes are high. What happens that day could alter public opinion for better or worse. It has the potential to raise awareness of immigrants' collective contribution to the national economy and persuade Congress to offer a path to citizenship. Or it could go another way: It could anger the owners of businesses that already support these workers, and turn off people who might...
  • ABC to Offer Primetime Shows in Spanish

    09/08/2005 11:34:18 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 37 replies · 2,376+ views
    Associated Press ^ | September 8, 2005
    ABC announced Thursday it will make all of its primetime entertainment programs, including hits "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives," available in Spanish starting this season, and it is hoping to gain something big in the translation. The move is an acknowledgment of the expanding U.S. Hispanic population and its potential as a source of viewers. Previously, "George Lopez" was the only ABC series that aired in both English- and Spanish-language versions. "We wanted to move beyond toe-dipping and really dive in," ABC entertainment chief Stephen McPherson said in a statement. "Almost half of the 41 million Hispanics in this country watch...
  • CA: A Monumental War of Words~"Save Our State" says remove- "it was better before they came"

    06/25/2005 10:50:10 AM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 11 replies · 523+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | June 25, 2005 | David Pierson and Wendy Lee, Times Staff Writers
    A Ventura County group's vow to force Baldwin Park to remove an inscription at a Metrolink station is based on an error, artist says. Set at the junction of two freeways and along a major railroad route, the working-class town of Baldwin Park likes to call itself "the Hub of the San Gabriel Valley." But the city, about 15 miles east of downtown Los Angeles and nearly 80% Latino, today finds itself the hub of an increasingly bitter fight over illegal immigration. For nearly two months, Save Our State, a Ventura County-based group opposed to illegal immigration, has been demanding...
  • NEWSWEEK COVER: Latino Power

    05/22/2005 8:13:47 AM PDT · by Brian Mosely · 59 replies · 1,417+ views
    Prnewswire ^ | Sunday May 22, 10:59 am ET
    NEW YORK, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles Mayor-Elect Antonio Villaraigosa accomplished what Democrats dream of doing nationwide: he energized Latino voters to turn out for him at historic levels and stitched together the sort of multiracial coalition that has often eluded less-gifted politicians, Newsweek reports. In the May 30 Newsweek cover "Latino Power" (on newsstands Monday, May 23), Miami Bureau Chief Arian Campo-Flores and Chief Political Correspondent Howard Fineman assess the impact of Villaraigosa's election on national politics and the Latino vote. Though they won the Hispanic vote last November, Democrats lost ground to Republicans for the second straight...
  • Under Siege in Arizona

    03/10/2005 6:41:21 AM PST · by HadEnough · 154 replies · 3,413+ views
    Tucson Weekly ^ | March 10, 2005 | LEO W. BANKS
    PUBLISHED ON MARCH 10, 2005: Under Siege As illegal immigrants surge across Southern Arizona, life for ranchers living near the border has become a living hell By LEO W. BANKS This is what it's like on the border now. Illegal immigrants bust gates open on ranches, creating expensive problems for ranchers. Rancher Fred Davis found several of his horses dying of dehydration after illegal immigrants locked them in a pasture away from their water supply. "We're tired of people who live in another country thumbing their noses at our laws, our culture and our customs, and threatening what we've spent...
  • What's 'vote' in Spanish?

    03/04/2005 3:57:19 PM PST · by LouAvul · 29 replies · 536+ views
    sacbee ^ | 3-4-05
    GOP Assembly members take language classes in effort to reach out to Latinos ...snip... Thursday's hourlong session in a Capitol hearing room was part of an eight-lesson program meant to help GOP lawmakers communicate with Latino voters who speak no English. Assembly Republican leader Kevin McCarthy - labeled "jefe," or chief - took a good-natured stab after class at the Spanish phrase for a state budget deficit projected at $8 billion when the year began. "Ocho biliano?" he guessed. Not quite, but close. "Ocho billón." The middle-aged class of GOP "asambleistas" - Assembly members - focused on the simplest of...
  • Cornhusker State Lawmakers Coping with 'White Flight' from Schools

    02/24/2005 4:18:24 PM PST · by Conservative Firster · 50 replies · 1,896+ views
    AgapePress ^ | February 24, 2005 | By Jim Brown
    Lawmakers in Nebraska are discussing how to deal with a mass exodus of white families from public schools heavily attended by non-English-speaking Hispanics. Small towns like Lexington and Schuyler have experienced a large influx of Hispanics seeking employment at meat-packing plants. The immigration, often illegal, has prompted white families to enroll their children in small elementary schools outside those towns. Lawmakers in the Nebraska Legislature have been debating a measure than would force a merger of elementary-only "Class 1" districts with traditional K-12 districts across the state. State Senator Adrian Smith has concerns about shutting down high-quality, rural schools. "Right...
  • Undocumented Immigrants Buying Homes With Fake IDs- Taxpayer Loans Going To Those With Phony SS No.

    02/24/2005 10:39:46 AM PST · by ETERNAL WARMING · 33 replies · 1,239+ views
    Denver Channel ^ | February 23, 2005 | staff
    Undocumented Immigrants Buying Homes With Fake IDs Government-Backed Loans Going To Those With Phony Social Security No. POSTED: 11:04 am MST February 23, 2005 UPDATED: 12:42 pm MST February 23, 2005 More Americans are homeowners than ever before thanks in part to government-backed loans that help young homeowners get into their first house. But with a government system so focused on homes sales, is any agency checking to make sure that undocumented immigrants are prevented from getting such loans? Who is verifying identification? Video 7NEWS Investigation: Illegal Immigrants Getting Government Home Loans How is it that an undocumented immigrant can...
  • Headless Bodies Found at Mysterious Mexico Pyramid

    12/02/2004 5:58:20 PM PST · by Betis70 · 119 replies · 3,477+ views
    Yahoo Reuters ^ | 12/2/2004 | Brian Winter
    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The discovery of a tomb filled with decapitated bodies suggests Mexico's 2,000 year-old "Pyramid of the Moon" may have been the site of horrifically gory sacrifices, archeologists said on Thursday. The tomb at Teotihuacan, the first major city built in the Americas, whose origins are one of history's great mysteries, also held the bound carcasses of eagles, dogs and other animals. "It is hard to believe that the ritual consisted of clean, symbolic performances -- it is most likely that the ceremony created a horrible scene of bloodshed with sacrificed people and animals," said Saburo Sugiyama,...
  • How Many Illegal Aliens are Registered to Vote in North Carolina?

    09/15/2004 5:23:06 PM PDT · by MegaSilver · 19 replies · 664+ views
    If 400,000 North Carolina Driver's Licenses Were Issued without Social Security Numbers, How Many Voters are Illegally Registered? FAIR Makes Formal Demand on North Carolina Election Board(Raleigh, NC—September 16, 2004) The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles has issued as many as 400,000 driver's licenses to individuals without Social Security numbers (SSNs) by simply entering "999-99-9999" on the application. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is calling upon the state's Board of Elections to conduct a county by county review of voter rolls because most of these individuals must be assumed to be illegal aliens. Although the DMV began...
  • Illiteracy shockingly high in L.A (53% can't read English)

    09/09/2004 10:09:38 AM PDT · by BurbankKarl · 62 replies · 1,034+ views
    Daily News ^ | 9/9/04 | Rachel Uranga
    Continued immigration and a stubborn high school dropout rate have stymied efforts to improve literacy in Los Angeles County, where more than half the working-age population can't read a simple form, a report released Wednesday found. Alarmingly, only one in every 10 workers deemed functionally illiterate is enrolled in literacy classes and half of them drop out within three weeks, said the study by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles. "It's an emergency situation," said Mayor James Hahn, adding that poor literacy rates could jeopardize the region's economy by driving out high-tech businesses and other industries that pay well....
  • Racial Profiling Not Racism: Malkin Protested at UCB

    09/08/2004 11:20:50 PM PDT · by risk · 23 replies · 958+ views
    dailycal.org ^ | Tuesday, September 7, 2004 | ETHAN LUTSKE
    OpinionRacial Profiling Not RacismProfiling Can Be Intelligent Way to Prevent Future Terrorism BY Ethan LutskeTuesday, September 7, 2004 Political conversations are supposed to be dispassionate. Ideally, we should be able to bandy about ideas freely, in a place where all notions and suggestions are given due consideration, deconstructed through logic, unencumbered by the weighing anchor of fragile emotion. But it rarely happens. A controversial idea will be inevitably blindsided by the accusation of intolerance toward some group. Racist. Sexist. Homophobe. Bigot. Coming to campus tomorrow is a very controversial speaker, one who no doubt will be tagged with an aforementioned...
  • I-80 aliens now lower priority (Pennsylvania)

    09/06/2004 11:28:28 PM PDT · by smokinleroy · 27 replies · 621+ views
    Butler Eagle ^ | 9/6/04 | Sandy Marwick
    MERCER COUNTY - State police have stopped hundreds of illegal aliens along Interstate 80 this year, but only one in four is taken into custody. The reason for the low arrest rate is that immigration officials have put a lower priority on such cases. "In Pennsylvania, we prioritize your airports and national security interests, electric facilities, dams, power plants . . . we also prioritize criminal aliens that present public safety risks, such as drug dealers, child sex predators, murders and perpetrators of sexual assault," said Russ Knocke, director of public affairs for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office...
  • Valley teacher wears two hats/Fresno State professor to become Mexican legislator

    08/02/2004 2:05:50 PM PDT · by 4.1O dana super trac pak · 1 replies · 288+ views
    Fresno Bee ^ | 8/2/2004 | Jim Steinberg
    Fresno State can soon boast having a professor who is also a Mexican state legislator on its faculty.Professor Jesus Martinez-Saldana, 43, of the Chicano and Latin American Studies Department says he will soon become legislator Martinez-Saldana in the state of Michoacan in west central Mexico.Martinez-Saldana says he was offered a legislative seat by the Party of the Democratic Revolution, which he says will make him the first voice for migrants in a Mexican legislature.In fact, Martinez-Saldana says he is a migrant himself, one with a doctorate in ethnic studies from the University of California at Berkely.
  • S.F. OKs ballot measure allowing non-citizens the right to vote

    07/21/2004 11:14:44 AM PDT · by Smogger · 114 replies · 3,383+ views
    SAN JOSE, Calif. - (KRT) - The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to place a controversial ballot measure on the November ballot that could make the city the first in California to allow non-citizens to vote in local school board elections. Under the proposed charter amendment change, parents or guardians of children in San Francisco schools - including undocumented immigrants - would be allowed to vote. "I believe this is important because it further democratizes our society," said board president Matt Gonzalez, author of the initiative. The board voted 9-2 to place the measure on the ballot...