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March 4, 2015

Ancient City Found in Honduras, Neighbor of Mayan Civilization



The ruins of an ancient civilisation who were neighbours to the Maya 
Photo: Dave Yoder/National Geographic.

[From article]
A team of American and Honduran archaeologists, aided by the bushcraft and survival skills of former British SAS soldiers, has just emerged from one of the most remote locations on Earth with news of their stunning discovery.
The expedition was seeking the site of the legendary "White City", also known as the "City of the Monkey God", a goal for Western explorers since the days of the Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century.
The city, believed to be one of many lost in the Mosquitia jungle, was home to an unknown people that thrived a thousand years ago but then vanished without trace – until now.
Unlike the Maya, so little is known of this pre-Columbian culture that it does not even have a name.
The discovery was revealed by the National Geographic, which sent a writer and photographer to accompany the expedition to the riverside site in a crater-shaped valley, encircled by imposing mountains.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/honduras/11448065/Ancient-lost-city-home-to-a-vanished-civilisation-found-deep-in-jungles-of-Honduras.html

Ancient 'lost city' home to a vanished civilisation found deep in jungles of Honduras
Expedition of archaeologists accompanied by ex-SAS survival experts makes stunning discovery of fabled "White City" where locals may have once worshipped a monkey god

By Philip Sherwell, New York
7:36PM GMT 03 Mar 2015

December 8, 2014

Gangs Control Schools in Honduras



Associated Press/Esteban Felix - In this photo Nov. 28, 2014 photo, a member of Hondura's Military Police, stands guard at the entrance of a school, during the last day of class, in the Canaan neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Street gangs control most schools in Tegucigalpa, where a lot of the students are gangsters, along with their parents.
AP Photo/Esteban Felix

Who is imitating who? In The United States it appears that gangs control the U.S. government, not just schools. 

[From article]
What can be said is that, just as they control most of the neighborhoods of Tegucigalpa, street gangs rule over most public schools in the capital. Gangsters are students and students are gangsters, as are some of their parents. The gangs lay claim to buildings with graffiti, and monitor the movements of police who are trying to monitor them. When the government sends in the military to retake a neighborhood and its schools, the ruling gang may lay low for a time, but they can't stay quiet for long or competitors will move in, setting off a wave of violence.
"The schools are a base of organization for the gangs, and the point through which all children in the neighborhood pass," said Lt. Col. Santos Nolasco, spokesman for the joint military and police force in charge of security in the country of 8.2 million people.
Gangs rely on kids to do much of their illegal grunt work, knowing that even if they get caught, they won't face long jail sentences.
[. . .]
In many schools, the power of the gangs is omnipresent and once a gang takes control of a school, Ruiz said, the teacher has no choice but to get along with the gangsters, or ask to be moved. If a gang grabs a child from a classroom, most teachers know to keep quiet, even if the student is never heard from again.
[. . .]
Only about a third of Honduran school children live with two parents, according to administrators. Many of their parents have headed north to look for work in the United States, while others have been killed or simply left the household. Many students don't have enough to eat, or work for several hours before and after school to help support their families. They are surrounded by violence in a country with the world's highest homicide rate.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/honduran-schools-gangs-control-153640141.html

In Honduran schools, gangs are in control
By ALBERTO ARCE
Associated Press
Yahoo News
December 8, 2014

August 4, 2014

Not Just Central Americans Invade U.S. Through Southern Border




[From article]
Texas Governor Rick Perry said a record number of illegal immigrants from Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan have been apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border.
On Sunday's State of the Union on CNN, Perry said the "historic record highs" of individuals from "countries that have substantial terrorist ties" threaten America's national security.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/03/Rick-Perry-Record-Number-of-Illegals-from-Syria-Pakistan-Afghanistan-Being-Caught-at-Border

RICK PERRY: RECORD NUMBER OF ILLEGALS FROM SYRIA, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN BEING CAUGHT AT BORDER
by TONY LEE
3 Aug 2014

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[From article]
The report reveals the apprehension numbers ranging from 2010 through July 2014. It shows that most of the human smuggling from Syria and Albania into the U.S. comes through Central America. The report also indicates the routes individuals from North Africa and the Middle East take into the European Union, either to illegally migrate there or as a possible stop in their journey to the United States. The data are broken down further into the specific U.S. border sectors where the apprehensions and contact occurred.
Among the significant revelations are that individuals from nations currently suffering from the world’s largest Ebola outbreak have been caught attempting to sneak across the porous U.S. border into the interior of the United States. At least 71 individuals from the three nations affected by the current Ebola outbreak have either turned themselves in or been caught attempting to illegally enter the U.S. by U.S. authorities between January 2014 and July 2014.
As of July 20, 2014, 1,443 individuals from China were caught sneaking across the porous U.S. border this year alone,
[. . .]
Twenty-eight individuals from Pakistan were caught attempting to sneak into the U.S. this year alone, with another 211 individuals either turning themselves in or being caught at official ports of entry.
Thirteen Egyptians were caught trying to sneak into the U.S. this year alone, with another 168 either turning themselves in or being caught at official ports of entry.
Four individuals from Yemen were caught attempting to sneak into the U.S. by Border Patrol agents in 2014 alone,

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/08/03/Leaked-CBP-Report-Shows-Entire-World-Exploiting-Open-US-Border

LEAKED CBP REPORT SHOWS ENTIRE WORLD EXPLOITING OPEN US BORDER
by BRANDON DARBY
3 Aug 2014

July 7, 2014

Philadelphia Sanctuary City Rapist Was Deported, Re-Entered Country


[From article]
Living and working in sanctuary, Mr. Garcia last month, according to police, approached a 26-year-old Philadelphia doctor who was walking to her home in the city’s fashionable Rittenhouse Square neighborhood after a night out with friends. He is accused of forcing the woman into her apartment and raping her repeatedly.


Milton Mateo Garcia, a South Philly man, was charged with Rittenhouse Square rape.

Police said Mr. Garcia then stole the victim’s cellphone and rode away on his bicycle. In perhaps not the smartest of moves, Mr. Garcia kept the victim’s smartphone in his possession. Police said they found him, in part, by calling the phone and locating its signal.
[. . .]
When he was arrested for the rape, Mr. Garcia was working at Tashan, an Indian restaurant in Philadelphia. The management said in a statement that Mr. Garcia had presented all required documents before he was hired as a part-time employee.
It’s unclear when Mr. Garcia returned to the U.S. after his deportation in June 2013, but apparently he came back quickly. Relatives told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he had been living in the city for about a year when he was arrested for the rape.
Conservative radio host Dom Giordano of Philadelphia wrote in the paper last week that the Obama and Nutter administrations share in the blame for the situation.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/6/illegal-immigrant-charged-with-rape-while-in-sanct/

Two-time illegal immigrant charged with rape in Philly’s sanctuary city
City cops won’t work with feds unless Honduran immigrant convicted
By Dave Boyer
The Washington Times
Sunday, July 6, 2014

June 25, 2014

Chelsea MA Sees Increased Immigrants From Central America


[From article]
Tens of thousands of children have come across the border on their own in the past year. Many of them are now finding their way to communities around Boston.
Chelsea is ground zero for this wave of children, many undocumented immigrants, coming from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
[. . .]
Bourque has had to hire extra teachers as well as expand tutoring and mental health programs. They are running low on space in school buildings.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/06/24/chelsea-schools-overwhelmed-with-sudden-influx-of-illegal-immigrants/

Chelsea Schools Overwhelmed By Sudden Influx Of Immigrant Students

By Lauren Leamanczyk, WBZ-TV



June 24, 2014 6:12 PM

June 18, 2014

Central American Media Encourages Youth To Migrate to U.S.




[From article]
Instead of discouraging the wave of illegal child immigrants headed toward the U.S. border, major media outlets in Central America are encouraging the phenomenon in recent news coverage

http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/craig-bannister/central-american-media-promote-illegal-child-immigrant-tsunami-give-tips

Central American Media Promote Illegal Child Immigrant Tsunami, Give Tips
June 18, 2014 - 10:24 AM

By Craig Bannister

June 14, 2014

Central American Propaganda Promotes Immigration To U.S.


[From article]
Lawmakers in Washington have argued in recent weeks over what’s causing the surge in child migration. Republicans say the deferred action program, which allows young undocumented immigrants to live and work in the U.S., is tempting more people to cross illegally. Democrats say it’s crushing poverty and violence in Latin America.
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, for his part, recognized both factors. He pleaded for U.S. authorities to recognize the plight of migrants.

http://fusion.net/justice/story/honduran-president-kids-us-misinformation-774719

Honduran President: Kids Come to the U.S. Because of ‘Misinformation’

by TED HESSON @tedhesson
Posted 06/13/2014, 05:14PM
Updated 06/13/2014, 05:19PM

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[From article]
But the newspapers and television stations throughout Central America are falsely reporting that amnesty will be theirs if they can just make it through the Mexican obstacle course — and that the time to do it is now.
It doesn't matter that these children are likely to succumb to desert heat, be snatched by vicious human traffickers, forced into prostitution, slavery or the drug trade, or simply murdered as has already happened to thousands, as the white crosses at the border can attest.
Not since the radio broadcasts that triggered Rwanda's Tutsi massacres in 1994 has such false information been spread unchecked by authorities who might be able with just their words to make a difference.
[. . .]
the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers, after 50,000 apprehensions of border crossers in south Texas, declared this week that "certainly we are not gullible enough to believe that thousands of unaccompanied minor Central American children came to America without the encouragement, aid and assistance of the United States government."
[. . .]
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a foe of illegal immigration, stated that based on evidence he'd seen and conversations he had with lawmen, there appeared to be an ongoing political campaign to destroy law enforcement at the border — something the former border agents called an effort to create "a failed state" on the border. If so, it's a page straight out of the Cloward-Piven theory President Obama was so influenced by as a community organizer and at Columbia.

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/061314-704725-texas-border-immigration-wave-may-well-be-orchestrated.htm?ref=mp

An Orchestrated Immigration Wave At The Texas Border? Not So Paranoid To Think So
Editorial
Posted 06/13/2014 06:47 PM ET

October 31, 2009

In Honduras Zelaya Complains of Microwave Attacks



"It was just past 2am when the music blasted us from our sleep. Honduran soldiers had placed high-powered speakers just outside the embassy compound for a night-long, deafening serenade."

"One song in particular, Two-legged Rat, was repeated again, and again, and again. The lyrics are not subtle: "Filthy rat/crawling animal/scum of life/ill-made monstrosity/subhuman/mirror image of hell/damned louse/how much damage you've done to me."

"In the first weeks, Zelaya was sleeping in the much larger office of ambassador, but then he thought the room was too vulnerable. He claims he is being subjected to an "electron bombardment with microwaves" which produces 'headache and organic destabilisation.'"

"To try to protect from these alleged attacks, all windows of the office where Zelaya spends much of his time with his closest aides or on the phone were covered with aluminium foil, creating a sort of low-budget sci-fi movie set."

"Besides the microwave bombardment, Zelaya also complains about the devices blocking mobile phone signals. On Saturday, he was forced to climb the small hill in the yard of the embassy, the only place where the connection is not cut off after a few seconds."

"The worst days were between 16 and 21 October 16, when army troops and police officers broke the silence in the night with loud noises. In addition to music, they used horns and imitated the screaming of animals, including cats, dogs, horses and cockerels, waking up almost everybody inside."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/25/honduras-manuel-zelaya-embassy-siege
Manuel Zelaya undergoes strange siege inside Brazilian embassy
A journalist holed up with the ousted Honduran president describes life on the inside of a surreal political standoff
By Fabiano Maisonnave
guardian.co.uk
Sunday 25 October 2009 21.07 GMTory

October 30, 2009

Double Standards in Honduras


The deal [to restore Manuel Zelaya to power], a diplomatic victory for U.S. President Barack Obama, leaves it up to the Honduran Congress to decide whether Zelaya can be restored to serve the last few months of his term -- the question that caused earlier talks to stumble.
A Congress vote is expected in the next few days, after the Supreme Court gives a non-binding opinion on the matter."

The US homosexual lobby uses the courts to thwart democracy preventing a vote by the people on same sex marriage. But in Honduras the Obama hypocrites want their Congress to decide whether the court correctly removed Zelaya. This is second guessing the highest court by an outside imperial power. The double standards pervasive in the Obama administration extends to foreign policy. It is evidence of the extreme abuses of power that Obama is willing to go in order to impose his politics on the US and others.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091030/ts_nm/us_honduras

Honduran rivals clinch deal to end crisis
Reuters
By Sean Mattson Sean Mattson – 55 mins ago
Yahoo News
October 30, 2009

October 15, 2009

Agreement to Restore Honduras' Zelaya to Office?


http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/honduras-to-restore-ousted-president-20091015-gxtg.html

Honduras to restore ousted president
October 15, 2009 - 8:09AM
AFP
TheAge.com.au

October 13, 2009

Only US Supports Unconstitutional Return in Honduras


http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/10/10/the-honduras-article-sen-kerry-d-ma-didnt-want-you-to-see/

The Honduras article Sen. Kerry (D, MA) didn’t want you to see.
RedState.com
Posted by Moe Lane (Profile)
Saturday, October 10th 2009 at 1:30PM EDT

October 5, 2009

News Editor Blames Jews in Honduras


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574451341698592458.html

OPINION: THE AMERICAS
OCTOBER 4, 2009, 10:48 P.M. ET
Wall Street Journal
Revolutionary Anti-Semitism
Chávez imports Ahmadinejad's ideology to Latin America.
By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
Hugo Chavez, Ousted Honduras President Accuse Jews

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/ap/jewish-civil-rights-group-condemns-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theories-voiced-on-honduras-crisis-63485482.html

Jewish civil rights group condemns anti-Semitic conspiracy theories voiced on Honduras crisis
By: BEN FOX
Associated Press
Washington Examiner
10/04/09 8:15 PM EDT

October 3, 2009

Sen. Kerry Blocks Fact Finding Mission to Honduras


http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/61247-kerry-blocks-demint-delegation-to-honduras

Kerry blocks DeMint trip to Honduras
By Jordan Fabian
October 1, 2009 05:55 PM ET

July 1, 2009

Ousted Honduran President Accused of Drug Link


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_drug_allegations

or

http://tinyurl.com/nvfu74

Zelaya accused of drug ties
AP
By FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:11

June 26, 2009

Constitutional Crisis in Honduras


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090626/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_constitution

or

http://tinyurl.com/mh7ffq


Honduras heads toward crisis over referendum
AP
Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya walks with supporters in Tegucigalpa, AP – Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya walks with supporters in Tegucigalpa, Thursday, June 25, 2009. President …
By FREDDY CUEVAS
Associated Press Writer Freddy Cuevas, Associated Press Writer
Yahoo News
June 26, 2009 1 hr 9 mins ago