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The crack-up is coming

by Ron Paul

 

Some Federal Reserve officials are calling for tougher banking regulations in order to prevent the Fed’s low interest rate policy from leading investors to take “excessive” risks that will create asset bubbles. The Fed is understandably worried that these bubbles will burst leading to another market meltdown. However, the boom-and-bust cycle will not end because regulators stop investors from taking “excessive” risks. Almost every bubble and economic downturn America has experienced over the past 107 years was caused by the Federal Reserve’s manipulation of the money supply.

The Federal Reserve’s actions artificially lower interest rates, thus distorting the signals sent by the rates, which are the price of money. Artificially low interest rates cause investments to be made in projects that are not supported by the real underlying market conditions. This results in a boom, inevitably followed by a crash, then by a new round of money creation and government bailouts restarting the cycle.

Increased regulations will not just fail to head off the next crash, they will make the next recession worse. Federal regulators are not capable of determining what is “excessive” risk. Instead, that determination is best left to market participants. Regulators are subject to having the same Fed-induced distorted view of the marketplace as nearly everyone else. Thus, regulators may mistake a growing asset bubble as a thriving sector of the economy that will serve as a long-term source of growth. This is especially the case if, as with the housing bubble, government policies such as the Community Reinvestment Act encourage the malinvestments. Also, regulators may impede the growth of businesses that are actually responding to real economic conditions instead of Fed-created illusions.

Support among the people, if not among the financial and political elites, for auditing and even ending the Fed, as well as for cryptocurrencies and precious metals, suggests we may soon reach what Ludwig von Mises referred to as the “crack-up.” The crack-up occurs when enough people realize that continuous expanding of the money supply, and the accompanying decline in a currency’s purchasing power, is a feature of central banking. Therefore, they spend their money as soon as they get it, accelerating the rise of hyperinflation.

Concerns over the effects of the US government’s debt, the precarious American economic condition, and growing resentment of US foreign policy have led to a decline in the dollar’s international value. Eventually, these factors will lead to a rejection of the dollar’s world reserve currency status.

Rejection of the dollar’s reserve currency status abroad and the crack-up at home will cause an economic meltdown worse than the Great Depression. Among the problems this will lead to is increased violence as some Americans who believe they are entitled to live off the stolen property of others cut out the government middleman and start stealing from their fellow citizens.

The only way to avoid this fate is to spread the ideas of liberty among the people. A strong liberty movement that can pressure politicians to cut spending, audit and end the Fed, legalize competing currencies, and stop promoting divisive identity politics is the key to peacefully transitioning away from the Keynesian welfare-warfare state to a free society.

When false flags go virtual

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This week, James Corbett brings us to the world of false flags, which is when the government creates an scenario with all the components that will produce fear among the population in order to expand its control over the population.

The following article will take you on that world, which many don’t know how those false flags work The Corbett Report is an independent, listener-supported alternative news source.

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by James Corbett

 

November 29, 2020 – Imagine this: you wake up to the blaring of your alarm clock and immediately reach for your smartphone to scroll your Insta feed before getting out of bed. But instead of the usual delightful and informative Instagram posts, today you’re greeted by a “server not found” error.

Deciding that it’s too early in the morning to deal with this, you hop in the shower . . . but for some reason Alexa won’t play your Spotify playlist through your bathroom smart speakers. You have to shower in silence like a luddite.

Getting frustrated, you head downstairs for breakfast. You prop your iPad up next to you and go to check your email while stuffing your face with your morning bowl of Cheeri-GMOs (now with extra HFCS!) but you’re not getting any new messages. You turn on your smart TV and navigate to YouTube so you can catch up on all the latest news from MSNBC, but all you get is the never ending spiral of the spinning “loading” wheel.

Twitter? Down.

Facebook? No luck.

Reddit? Forget it!

Increasingly desperate, you try in vain to remember how to turn on your regular terrestrial TV. Then you recall you have something collecting dust in a closet somewhere: a radio. You turn it on, fumble with the dial, and find a station just in time to hear the announcement:

“. . . is claiming responsibility for the outage. Once again, widespread outages across a range of internet services is sweeping the globe this morning, as a shadowy new terror group emerges to take responsibility . . .”

Suddenly, your phone starts making a strange sound. You don’t know what it’s doing at first, until you realize it’s ringing. One of your friends is calling you. On the phone. Not texting, tweeting, messaging or snapchatting. Actually calling you.

“Hello?”

“Hey Norm! You hear about the big news? Internet’s down!”

“Yeah.”

“They say it’s some kind of new terror group. Cybeterrorists In Action. C.I.A. for short. Sounds pretty scary.”

. . . Oh, OK, I’ll stop teasing. Of course this doesn’t describe you or your daily routines, dear reader. I know you’re the clued-in, switched-on sort who peruses The Corbett Report and avoids normie internet sites like the plague (the real plague, not this ginned-up COVID cold).

But don’t scoff at the scenario. A scene like this one could play out one day for billions of Normie McNormesons around the world. And when it does, there will already be a plan in place for changing the internet as we know it.

As I know you know, the transition from the homeland security state to the biosecurity state that I documented in COVID-911 raises the specter of false flag bioterrorism. But there are other vectors for false flag attacks that could cause massive disruption to our lives, and, like every spectacular false flag event, increase the power and control of the deep state. In this case, I’m thinking of false flag cyberterrorism.

The idea of a “cyber 9/11” coming along to disrupt the internet has been around since the actual 9/11 occurred. Back in 2003, even as the Pentagon was feverishly drafting its plans to “fight the net” as if it were “an enemy weapons system,” Mike McConnell, the ex-director of the National Security Agency (NSA), was fearmongering over the possibility of a cyber attack “equivalent to the attack on the World Trade Center” if a new institution were not created to oversee cybersecurity. In the following years, report after report continued to use the horror of 9/11 as a way of fueling public hysteria over cyberterrorism until just such a US Cyber Command was created.

But the creation of CYBERCOM did not end the cyber threat anymore than the creation of the Department of Homeland Security ended the terror threat, and for precisely the same reason: the real terror threat doesn’t come from the cave-dwelling terrorists that the politicians tell us to be afraid of. No, the real terror threat comes from the very agencies that have been tasked with “saving” the public from the terrorist bogeymen.

Case in point: Stuxnet. As you might recall, Stuxnet was a military-grade cyberweapon co-developed by the United States and Israel that specifically targeted Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz. As we later learned, Stuxnet was only one part of a full-scale military cyberattack against Iran codenamed Nitro Zeus.

Keep in mind that the Richard Clarke who told Lessig about the iPatriot Act is the same Richard Clarke who came out after the death of Michael Hastings to note that intelligence agencies have ways to remotely hijack cars, steer people to their deaths and disguise their tracks well enough to “get away with it.” Also keep in mind that Joe Biden likes to brag about having written the [regular] Patriot Act in 1994.

So what kinds of things might be contained in such an iPatriot Act? Once again, we don’t have to speculate. Various government officials have talked about their wish list for an internet clampdown in recent years.

– In March of 2009, Senator Jay Rockefeller opined during a subcommittee hearing that the internet is proving to be such a threat to America’s national security that it would have been better if it had never existed.

– In June of 2010, Senator Joe Lieberman stated that he believed the US needed the same ability to shut down the internet as China currently has.

– Also in 2010, Microsoft Senior Advisor and Bilderberg attendee Craig Mundie called for the creation of a “World Health Organization for the internet” and suggested creating government-issued licenses to authorize internet usage.

– In 2011, Bill Clinton advocated the idea that the US government create an agency for “fact-checking” websites on the internet.

– In 2015, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (yes, that NIST) unveiled the “Trusted Identities Group,” part of a national strategy for standardizing online identification systems.

Given all of this, it is not hard to imagine how a cyberterror event may play out: A cataclysmic attack on the internet’s infrastructure massively disrupts people’s online lives for a period of days or weeks. Social media is inaccesible. Online banking and shopping is halted. All news and information during the internet blackout comes from the old, controlled dinosaur media. A shocked and distressed public learn that the Russians (or whatever bogeyman du jour is convenient) are being blamed for the attack. In order to prevent such a thing from reoccurring, emergency legislation is passed in the US (and, coincidentally, in all other Western nations) requiring proof of identity to use any and all internet services.

In one fell swoop, not only would the last vestiges of internet anonymity be eliminated, but a key part of the erection of the social credit control grid would be in place. Now, just like in China, all of your online activity would be tied directly to your social credit score. Lieberman must be wetting his pants in anticipation.

Of course, this is not to say that the internet as we’ve known it would be gone altogether if such a scenario were to play out. In a network that was literally designed to be accessible and usable in the wake of any cataclysm, even nuclear holocaust, there will always be alternative ways of getting online access. There will be pirate internet and mesh networks and dweb sites and peer-to-peer protocols like LBRY that will be accessible to anyone able and willing to put in the effort to learn about such technologies. But the Normie McNormieson we met in the imaginary tale at the beginning of this article would be forever cut off from the free and open internet of old. (Good thing we’re not Normie McNormieson, huh?)

As ever, it is important to know about these false flag possibilities so that when a spectacular cyberterror event takes place we are not railroaded into a phony solution that will serve only to increase the power and control of the real terrorists.  And, in the meantime, it is important to be researching and preparing ourselves for just such an event so that, regardless of whether it happens as predicted or not, we will be less dependent on the systems of control that are increasingly defining the normie internet.

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How to grow gorgeous garlic from a clove indoors and out

by Joanne Washburn

 

12/10/2020 – Garlic’s pungent nature elevates it as an aromatic staple in the kitchen. Its strong flavor mellows down once it hits the pan or pot, infusing foods with a mild sweetness like no other.

Considered a superfood, the powerful compounds behind garlic’s assertive flavor profile can also confer some impressive health benefits, from clearer skin to better protection against certain cancers.

The good news is that garlic is one of the easiest vegetables to grow, whether outdoors in an expansive garden or indoors in pots and containers on the kitchen windowsill.

 

Reasons to grow garlic

 

So what keeps gardeners planting garlic cloves whenever the temperature starts to drop? Here are a few good reasons:

– Garlic confers health benefits – Garlic is known for its wide range of health benefits, which it owes to powerful compounds. For one, garlic can help lower the risk of heart disease. It also has antibacterial and antiviral properties for better protection against infections.

– Homegrown garlic is clean – Homegrown food is guaranteed cleaner and safer than the ones you’d find in groceries. You know what went into the soil the food was grown in, as well as whether or not the food was treated with pesticides and other harmful substances used in conventional farming.

– Garlic is low-maintenance – You don’t have to do much until the harvest once the cloves have been planted. You’ll just need to water it often and control for weeds, which shouldn’t be a problem if you use containers or raised garden beds.

– Garlic thrives in the winter – Garlic is one of the few vegetables that survive in the garden through winter, which is often too harsh for most crops.

– Few pests attack garlic plants – Garlic has an easier time than most garden crops when it comes to pests and plant diseases. In fact, garlic can be planted next to other plants to ward off their pests.

– You can plant several cloves in one plot – Small garden plots make it difficult to grow significant amounts of vegetables. But that isn’t the case with garlic, which can be sown just six inches apart on all sides. This is a much smaller space requirement than that of most vegetables.

– Garlic can be stored for a long time – Some garlic varieties are ideal for long-term storage. If you want to have a steady supply of garlic year-round, just plant the right varieties.

– Garlic plants produce edible scapes – Garlic scapes are the long shoots that some garlic varieties put out in the spring. They can steal nutrients from the bulbs themselves, so it’s important to cut them when they appear. Young scapes are edible and make for a great addition to raw salads.

 

How to grow garlic

 

Here’s a simple 2-step guide to growing garlic:

  1. Choosing the right garlic

You can choose from either of the following main garlic varieties:

– Hardneck – Hardneck varieties have strong and complex flavors. The bulbs themselves are large but form few cloves. Hardneck varieties are ideal for regions with colder climates. Some examples of these varieties include purple stripe, porcelain and rocambole.

– Softneck – Softneck varieties are suited for regions with milder climates. These can store for a longer time than hardneck varieties. Examples of softneck varieties include California white and silver rose.

  1. Planting garlic

Each clove will turn into a full bulb in about six months. Garlic cloves prefer loose, fertile soil that has few or zero weeds. You can sow garlic in the fall for a spring harvest or in winter for a summer one.

To plant garlic, insert cloves root-side down in holes at least three inches deep. Keep them at least six inches apart from each other to avoid overcrowding. Once the cloves are in, cover them with soil. Water every three days or so. Take care not to pour water into the crowns of the plants. Remove any weeds that appear.

FTC’s “Operation Income Illusion” targets get-rich-quick scams 

by Mark Hedin

Ethnic Media Services

 

In the midst of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, criminals are brazenly floating “get-rich-quick” schemes to fleece unsuspecting people seeking financial security for themselves and their families. Speaking at a mid-December ethnic media conference call, the Federal Trade Commission issued urgent warnings that people need to be on their guard to avoid being robbed.

Kati Daffan and Rhonda Perkins, two lawyers in the FTC’s Division of Marketing Practices, spotlighted a variety of scams promoted in advertisements online or in TV, radio and newspapers and even within religious communities.

In a year’s time, Daffan said, there was a 70 percent increase in this kind of crime. “In the first nine months of 2020 alone,” she said, “people reported losing at least $50 million.”

And those victims are just the ones who came forward. Most people don’t, Daffan said, so “it’s a tiny fraction of what’s going on in the marketplace.”

To combat the scams, the FTC has launched “Operation Income Illusion.”

Both speakers urged everyone to contact the FTC with any suspicions. You can do so at www.ReportFraud.ftc.gov, or www.ReporteFraude.ftc.gov or by phone at (877) 382-4357.The FTC receives thousands of reports every week, Perkins said, making individual responses difficult to guarantee, but the reporting is a key driver of both domestic and international enforcement efforts. “It’s a real public service for people to let us know what they’re seeing,” she said.Besides alerting ethnic media directly, the FTC has posted examples of criminal schemes and tips about how to protect yourself from being victimized on its website in more than a dozen languages (www.ftc.gov/languages) including English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Amharic, Arabic, Dari, French, Russian, Haitian Creole, and Somali.

New in 2020 are COVID-related schemes. The FTC has seen phony cures, phony vaccinations, phony home test kits, and phony research schemes seeking people’s personal information. Now, with real vaccinations starting to become available, the FTC expects new scams (https://tinyurl.com/FTCvaccinescams) and is warning people not to pay out of pocket, put their names on lists, pay for early access, or provide a caller with Social Security or bank account numbers to get a vaccine.

Some scammers mimic traditions from specific communities. One type of ripoff Operation Income Illusion is fighting are savings clubs (https://tinyurl.com/FTCfakeclubs), modeled after West African and Caribbean “sou sous,” in which people who know each other will pool their money and take turns getting a payout. In the Filipino community, the name is “paluwagan.”

Another is phony coaching deals (https://tinyurl.com/FTCcoachingscams), where victims pay for things like real estate seminars, or help in making money on the stock market or online selling.

Investment scams (https://tinyurl.com/FTCinvestmentscams) have been the most-costly, but the most common are the work-from-home propositions (https://tinyurl.com/FTCsellingandpyramids), which sometimes include the victim getting a check in the mail. In these, the fraud is only revealed some time later, after the victim has sent a portion of that money back, or bought and distributed products or gift cards, only to find that the check to pay for them ultimately bounced.

“It’s incredibly important to watch out for any kind of money-making opportunity that involves putting money in and recruiting other people to join. Those people are likely to get hurt,” Daffan said.

Many scams are targeted to specific ethnic communities, such as Moda Latina, which advertised that you could make big money working from home selling jewelry and other luxury products. Victims were sometimes threatened that if they didn’t have a money order ready when a delivery driver showed up with the merchandise, they could be reported and face severe consequences.

But when the boxes were opened, the contents were far from luxurious: shoddy, not fit to be re-sold, not even worth the cost of the initial purchase.

Some con artists set their sights on specific groups, such as the “Raging Bull” investment scam that targeted seniors, or MOBE, a scam in 2018 that robbed students and veterans of $300 million before it was shut down.

Then there are “pyramid schemes” (https://tinyurl.com/FTCsellingandpyramids). The FTC has identified a few by name, such as: “The Circle Game,” “Blessing Loom” and “Money Board.”

The FTC works with numerous law enforcement agencies in pursuing scam thieves, both domestically and internationally. In some cases, it can recover some of the money victims have lost, but Rhonda Perkins advised that the better strategy is to avoid being scammed (https://tinyurl.com/FTCavoidandreport) in the first place.

If you’re concerned about the wisdom of making a deal someone is offering you, she said, do some research on the company, its reputation, a record of complaints against it.

“Do your research, check out that company’s reputation and talk to other people, people you trust in your community,” Perkins said.

Rail corridor between Mexico, Canada represents US $1.6bn investment in MX

Caxxor Group also plans projects in the south

 

by Mexico News Daily

 

A Mexican company that is planning to develop an ambitious North American trade corridor between the Pacific coast port city of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, and Winnipeg, Canada, is also preparing infrastructure projects in Mexico’s south.

Caxxor Group announced in October that it was aiming to raise US $3.3 billion in initial investment to build a new port and shipyard in Mazatlán, industrial parks in an undisclosed number of locations in Mexico, a Mexican exports logistics center in Winnipeg and 87 kilometers of railway tracks in Sinaloa that will connect with more than 7,000 kilometers of existing railroads in Mexico, the United States and Canada.

The project is called the USMCA corridor, named after the new trilateral North American trade agreement that took effect July 1. It is slated to run through industrial regions of Sinaloa, Durango and Monterrey, Nuevo León, before reaching the United States. In the U.S., it will run to Chicago, Illinois, via Dallas, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Caxxor CEO Carlos Ortiz told a press conference Monday that the investment in Mexico is expected to be about $1.6 billion. Between $650 million and $700 million will go to the rehabilitation of 167 kilometers of existing railroad and the construction of 180 kilometers of new tracks, he said.

Ortiz said the project will start with the construction of the $900-million port in Mazatlán, adding that its exact location will be announced at the end of January.

Route of the rail corridor between Mazatlán and Winnipeg.

He said that Caxxor and its investment partner, United States-based National Standard Finance, will seek environmental approval and other required permits later in 2021. Ortiz said the project is backed by 50 institutional investors in the U.S.

Ortiz said previously that after agricultural, automotive, manufacturing and energy sector goods leave the Mazatlán port and move along the Mexican section of the USMCA corridor they will be transformed at newly-built factories and plants that will add value to them.

The transformational nature of the trade corridor will be a point of difference with other logistics routes such as the Panama Canal, he said in October.

In a new interview with the newspaper Milenio, Ortiz said that Caxxor is also planning a $600-million USMCA “southern border” corridor in the south of Mexico, although it won’t include development of a rail network.

He said that projects planned for the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche and Quintana Roo will be on a smaller scale than those along the Sinaloa-Winnipeg route.

The largest project of the southern border corridor will be a $250-million multiple use maritime terminal in Puerto Chiapas, a port town on the Pacific coast about 30 kilometers southwest of Tapachula.

Caxxor’s Carlos Ortiz said a $600-million southern corridor is also being planned.

Expected to be completed in 2021, the terminal is to be used by auto sector companies that export to countries in Central and South America. Asian shipping companies will use it as a freight center, Ortiz said, and part of the facility will handle agricultural goods for export.

The Caxxor CEO said that smaller projects including industrial parks and port terminals are planned for the Gulf coast states of Tabasco and Campeche and Quintana Roo, which has an extensive Caribbean sea coastline.

He said that new port terminals in those states will be “very modest” and service ships traveling between Mexican ports.

“They will be joined to a logistics park, each one for different industrial sectors,” Ortiz said.

He said that Caxxor will act as the manager of the southern border project and will seek investors to support it. The investors will form a trust that will have responsibility for obtaining the required permits and licenses to execute the project, Ortiz said.

The different projects in the four states are expected to be built over the next 18 months, he said, adding that a master plan for Caxxor’s projects in Mexico will be presented next month.

Source: Milenio (sp), El Economista (sp) 

 

Pemex rescinds contracts awarded to president’s cousin

Contracts worth 365 million pesos were signed over the past two years

The state oil company Pemex has rescinded four contracts awarded to a company owned by President López Obrador’s first cousin.

Litoral Laboratorios Industriales (LLI), a company owned by Felipa Guadalupe Obrador Olán that provides chemical and microbiological testing of oil products, won four Pemex contracts last year. Three of them were awarded after Pemex became aware of Obrador Olán’s relationship to the president and ordered her to abstain from participating in its tendering processes.

The state oil company said Sunday that in addition to canceling the contracts it would carry out an exhaustive investigation into the tendering processes in which LLI participated.

The aim will be to determine who was responsible for awarding the contracts and decide the consequences for not following the company’s regulatory processes and López Obrador’s instructions not to do business with any of his relatives.

Source: El Universal (sp), Bloomberg (en)

Mexico today grants permission to use the Pfizer anticovid vaccine

by the El Reportero‘s wire services

 

MEXICO – The Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) will grant Pfizer today the registration of emergency use of its vaccine against Covid-19, making Mexico the sixth country to approve that formula.

The first to approve it were the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada and Saudi Arabia, and yesterday it was pre-authorized in the United States. The decision of the Cofepris will be given after the recommendation in the neighboring country.

 

Mexico, the US to keep the border closed for another month

MEXICO – Mexico and the United States renewed the deal to keep the common border closed for another month in non-essential steps of its over 2,000 kilometers of extension, unfolded the local Foreign Affairs Ministry on Friday.

On Twitter, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that, after reviewing the development of the spread of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and due to the fact that several entities are in the orange of the epidemiological traffic light, Mexico proposed to the United States the extension for another month of the restrictions to non-essential land transit on their common border. The measure will surely be of great commercial impact due to the Christmas season and once again causes discomfort for Mexican border citizens, because they assure that it applies mainly to them and not to those coming from the United States.

In its statement, the Secretariat reiterates that the restrictions will remain in the same terms as they have been since their implementation on March 21, 2020.

Both countries will coordinate health measures in the region, which will be in effect until 23:59 local time on Jan. 21, 2021.

 

Latin America analyzes sports panorama and elects its leaders

MEXICO, Dec 15 – The 58th General Assembly of the Pan American Sports Organization (Panam Sports) begins today its two-day virtual session, to analyze the activity of the last year and elect its leaders.

Based in Mexico, Panam Sports brings together representatives of the 41 National Olympic Committees of the Olympic Movement of the Americas, and members of numerous regional and international institutions.

The delegates will hear and debate more than twenty reports and accountability of commissions in a sports season marked by the continuous suspension and postponement of athletic jousts due to Covid-19.

Intense sessions are expected that, on this occasion, will be coordinated from the city of Miami, United States, by the president of the continental group, Chilean Neven Ilic, who, according to consultations, will maintain the position for which he has no candidate against.

After the message of the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, the marathon of reports will begin, including that of Ilic himself and those of the organizing committees of the Cali 2021 Youth Games, Santiago 2023 Pan American Games and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Cuba will be represented by Roberto León Richards, head of the island’s Olympic Committee (COC); Ruperto Herrera, Secretary General of the COC; María Caridad Colón, invited as a member of the IOC; and José Peláez, president of the Pan American Cycling Confederation.

It will be in tomorrow’s session when the elections for the positions of president and members of the Executive Committee are held.

The speakers will also provide updates on the progress made over the last year and throughout the term of the current leadership of Panam Sports.

The new Executive Committee, including its re-elected president, will carry out its functions in the 2020-2024 period starting Wednesday, Dec. 16.

 

 

 

New center to assist the community against covid-19 in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco

There will also be food assistance and help for the unemployed

by FT
Internet services

In a time when the covid-19 pandemic is raging, San Francisco city officials, Mission Neighborhood Centers (MNC) workers and city community leaders inaugurated a new social assistance center and medical facility in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood that will provide access to food, housing and health services and help the unemployed workforce during this coronavirus scourge.

A populous neighborhood that borders the bay to the southeast of the city, Bayview has a majority population of color with Latinos making up more than 20% of its inhabitants. The neighborhood is being hard hit by the pandemic. As of December 6, 2020, the Department of Public Health reported that for every 10,000 residents of Bayview there have been 531.6 cases of covid-19. Latinos represent 15% of the city’s population but, disproportionately, suffer from the highest rate of contagion than any other group: 45.5% of positive cases.

In a virtual press conference, leaders also denounced that communities of color are the most affected by the pandemic, which is why the new center will provide medical assistance and covid-19 tests. The initiative to create these centers in places where communities of color reside began after the successful creation of a similar center in the Barrio de La Misión.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the center was made possible in part because of $28.5 million the city allocated to grassroots organizations that work with the Latino community.

“This center will help community members to have access to food and other basic goods they need. It will be a trusted place for the community to turn to when they need help,” Breed said.

David Chiu, representative of District 17 (eastern part of the city) in the State Assembly, said that there is racism in the structures of society that worsens the situation. “Our communities of color, particularly the Latino community and the African American community have been attacked by this pandemic, by this recession, and quite frankly by the legacy of structural racism. Covid-19 has revealed and called our attention to all these social injustices,” he said.

Chiu added that a baby born in Bayview is twice as likely to be born prematurely than one born in another neighborhood of the city, like Russian Hill for example. These infants are “seven times more likely to be born into poverty and live 14 years less than a baby born six miles away… This is where the challenge of structural racism, poverty and the pandemic leads us,” he asserted.

The representative also warned of a possible wave of evictions that could hit the city and state hard. “We had a moratorium that has halted evictions in the city and in the state but if we don’t pass new laws by January 31…there are literally two million Californians, many of them members of our community, at risk of eviction,” he said. Chiu.

Santiago Ruiz, general director and founder of Centros Vecinales de La Misión (MNC) thanked the municipal officials and said that the city’s response was “affirmative, phenomenal and diligent”. Ruiz also reported that there are individuals in need who were applying for affordable housing in the city but are being “denied that opportunity because they don’t qualify because they don’t have a job due to the pandemic… It’s sad to think that those people we represent can’t apply because They are unemployed.” In a dramatic appeal, Ruiz asked the representatives to cancel this requirement “at least during the covid-19 period that is strangling our families, or at least to put them on a waiting list instead of being rejected from the process.” of application”.

Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Archive at Stanford

Exhibit opens for in-person and online viewing at Stanford Libraries

by the El Reportero‘s news services

 

Acquired by Stanford Libraries’ in late 2019, the David Bacon Archive is now one of the largest collections of documentary photography at the Libraries, offering scholars and students stunning perspectives of labor and social justice movements as well as societal impacts of globalization and war.

Stanford, CA—From the streets of Oakland and Los Angeles to farmlands and factories across the United States, Mexico, the Philippines and Iraq, the images of photojournalist David Bacon reveal powerful, and often personal, portraits of resilience and courage from communities habitually overlooked or pushed to the margins of society.

These stories are now featured in a new exhibition, Work & Social Justice: The David Bacon Archive at Stanford, on display through May 9, 2021 in the Cecil H. Green Library at Stanford. Access to campus libraries is currently limited to Stanford ID cardholders due to COVID-19; however, the online exhibition, which includes additional content not included in the physical show, is accessible to everyone, and is part of an accessible digital spotlight collection that includes significant images from his body of work.

 

Palo Alto’s Magical Bridge Playground to Re-Open on November 17

Learn more about the reopening including new safety requirements to be aware of before you visit and ways to volunteer

The City of Palo Alto and the Magical Bridge Foundation are partnering together to reopen the Magical Bridge Playground at Mitchell Park and creating a safe and welcoming place for the community to enjoy. This blog provides details about the reopening as the City and Magical Bridge Foundation welcomes the community back on November 17. Play safely and spread kindness in this magical all-inclusive playground.

 

Ways to Support Our Veterans This Veterans Day

Wednesday is Veterans Day and there are many ways to celebrate and honor our veterans even during the pandemic. We’ve gathered these resources to help you pay tribute, including attending virtual events, volunteering opportunities, and ways to donate to organizations helping our veterans. In addition to the resources we’re sharing, the U.S Department of Veteran’s Affairs has this listing of virtual events scheduled for the holiday. Also, see our Family Resources section below for more events.

 

San Francisco Symphony announces cancellation of all previously planned live concerts through June 30, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—The San Francisco Symphony today announces the cancellation of all concerts through June 30, 2021 due to COVID-19. “While it is deeply disappointing to have to cancel the remainder of the planned concerts in our 2020-21 Season, the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 make it clear that this is the best course of action for the Symphony at this time,” says San Francisco Symphony CEO Mark C. Hanson.

“By canceling these performances, we are able to turn our full attention to investing in the creation of compelling and timely digital content and experiences that both fit within required safety guidelines and take advantage of them as a catalyst for innovation.

As we look ahead to 2021, we will continue to take a flexible, collaborative approach to identifying areas of opportunity, and planning meaningful projects that serve our community and excite our audiences.” New digital programming for January–June 2021 will be announced at a later date. Should live concerts in Davies Symphony Hall become possible, the San Francisco Symphony will announce new performances accordingly.

 

Blessing Chukwu, the first Afro-Mexican to represent Nayarit in Miss Mexico

by El Reportero news services

 

For several years, the Miss World contest has been held in which several women from different countries seek to be crowned as the most beautiful woman in the world, not only physically but also for their different virtues.

In Mexico, each year the candidate to compete in the pageant is sought through Miss Mexico and this year, many are surprised by Blessing Chukwu, the first Afro-Mexican to participate.

Blessing Chukwu is an Afro-Mexican woman who represents the state of Nayarit in Miss Mexico and seeks to win in order to represent the country in Miss World.

The 23-year-old is the daughter of a Mexican woman and a man from Nigeria. The Miss Mexico contestant studied Marketing at the Autonomous University of Nayarit and today seeks to win the contest to proudly represent Mexico in one of the most important beauty certificates: Miss World. https://www.milenio.com/estilo/blessing-chukwu-representante-afromexicana-miss-mexico?fbclid=IwAR1he9BkFfrVEv4ApZU5GGcEA_ZRXZ0LP8_arrcFbeOV1eq4g3BK9b4nuT8

 

‘Roma’ star Yalitza Aparicio’s next big role? Hosting the Latin Grammys

A year after scoring a historic Oscar nomination for her breakout performance in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” Yalitza Aparicio is taking on another major awards show: the Latin Grammys.

The Mexican and Indigenous actress has been tapped to emcee Latin music’s biggest night after original co-host Roselyn Sánchez dropped out due to an injury. The Latin Recording Academy announced Wednesday that Aparicio would take over hosting duties alongside actress Ana Brenda Contreras and singer Carlos Rivera.

“Friends, with a heavy heart, I must inform you that I will no longer be participating in the Latin Grammys ceremony this year,” Sánchez wrote on Instagram last week in Spanish. “I suffered a fall, and my doctor put a boot on me. The doctor’s recommendation was to avoid standing for long periods of time or wearing heels. I’m going to miss you.”

 

Latin Grammy Awards recognize 80 years of successful career of the Orquesta Aragón

The label of La Aragón has reached imposing stages around the world such as Carnegie Hall, Olympia in Paris and Lincoln Center with the sound of its brass band. The discography of the group exceeds 100 plates and enjoys the privilege of belonging to the Hall of Fame of Latin Music in New York and Las Vegas.

After eight decades of recognized artistic career, the mother of Cuban brass bands La Orquesta Aragón, together with the record company Puntilla Music, celebrates its nomination for the Latin Grammy 2020 with the record production “Ícono” in the Best Traditional Tropical Album category, which represents the consolidation of a musical legacy that has been in force for more than three generations.

 

Calexico Teen’s Whim Lands Him a ‘Tengo Talento’ Bid

A lifelong passion for singing has turned into a fast-track opportunity for 17-year-old Calexico resident Yahir “Choco” Garduño to potentially obtain widespread success and stardom.

The Calexico High senior is among the 12 finalists on the 23rd season of the Spanish-language TV series, “Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento.”

His current standing is even more remarkable considering that he initially decided against completing the online application required to enter the popular televised talent contest in the vein of “American Idol” or “The Voice.”

 

Young influencer Adriana Murrieta found dead

Your case will be investigated with the femicide protocol. On Instagram she had more than 51 thousand followers.

Adriana Murrieta Treviño, 29, who disappeared on November 1 at night after arriving at the Guadalajara International Airport from Culiacán, Sinaloa, was found dead in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco.

Relatives of the influencer reported the news on their social media on November 3. They asked for respect and prudence for the Treviño family and asked to remember her as she was, unique and outgoing, with a good heart.

More plandemic foreknowledge

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

 

Dear readers:

 

Investigative journalist James Corbett brings us with the following article, perspectives from what he calls, the plandemia, which has hit us all almost like the third world war – only that this war seems to be the definitive war to control our minds, bodies and souls – without bullets. And James seems to send the message that his was all planned from while ago. Due to its length and lack of space in our print edition, the article will be shorten.

However, shortly after you will be able to read the full article and the images that go with each section, including the corresponding links, in the editorial section of our online edition of www.elreporteroSF.com. – Marvin Ramírez

by James Corbett

October 17, 2020 – You’ll recall that back in April of this year I examined the question of whether or not there was foreknowledge of the plandemic. Specifically, that episode of Questions or Corbett looked at:

and several other signs that those in positions of power knew that 2020 was going to be the year of COVID.

But April seems like an eternity ago and many more pieces of suspiciously predictive activities been dug up in the meantime.

So, in the interest of continuing this exploration, let’s examine 10 more signs of plandemic foreknowledge.

1) Crimson Contagion

In 2019 the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) held a pandemic exercise called Crimson Contagion, which, the mainstream press notes, was “eerily similar” to the current scamdemic. The exercise scenario envisioned a novel strain of pandemic influenza originating in China and being brought back to the US by international tourists.

So why did the exercise make it into the mainstream press at all? Because Orange Man Bad, of course. More specifically, because it provides the “Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US” cover story for this neo-9/11, subtly reinforcing the narrative by suggesting that COVID-19 is a real and existential threat to the US and that the valiant leadership of the HHS tried to warn the White House about PPE shortages and other preparedness shortcomings.

Extra points if you recognize this drill from my coverage of it in COVID-911: From Homeland Security to Biosecurity.

2) Canada’s Pandemic Warning System Shut Down Right Before COVID-19

Canada’s international alert system for disease outbreaks—the Global Public Health Intelligence Network, or GPHIN, which, The Globe and Mail helpfully informs us, is “highly regarded”—was “silenced” by the Canadian government in early 2019. And we all know what happened at the end of 2019.

This story once again serves to bolster the mainstream narrative by portraying the novel coronavirus as a real and existential threat that could have been prevented if only the government had plowed more money into its public health department and paid more attention to the epidemiologists (who, as we have seen this year, never get anything wrong).

3) “Simulation” of the Deliberate Release of a Lethal Respiratory Pathogen Planned for 2020

The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board is a body convened by the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO) that seeks to “ensure preparedness for global health crises.”  In their 2019 “Annual report on global preparedness for health emergencies” they warned, a propos of absolutely nothing, of the “very real threat of a rapidly moving, highly lethal pandemic of a respiratory pathogen killing 50 to 80 million people and wiping out nearly 5% of the world’s economy.”

They also set a number of goals for 2020, including:

The United Nations (including WHO) conducts at least two system-wide training and simulation exercises, including one for covering the deliberate release of a lethal respiratory pathogen.

But don’t worry, guys! That’s just a “simulation,” and we all know that drills never go live.

4) The WHO Warns of “New Normal” of Pandemic Outbreaks . . . in 2019

Last June, Dr. Michael Ryan—the executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies programme—told BBC News that “We are entering a very new phase of high impact epidemics and this isn’t just Ebola.” In case you didn’t get the warning, he added: “This is a new normal, I don’t expect the frequency of these events to reduce.”

Look out, folks, we’ve got a regular Nostradamus here.

Dr. Ryan, it should be noted, is the same WHO official who announced that the “new normal” of the COVID-19 era involves governments forcibly removing those suspected of infection from their homes and separating them from their families. Oddly, he forgot to mention that part when speaking to the BBC last year.

5) A Comic Book Published by the EU Envisioned A Global Pandemic Stopped by the EU

What you are looking at is a page from Infected, a comic book published by the EU Publications Office in 2012.

No, you read that right. A comic book published by the EU Publications Office.

And what’s the story of this comic book adventure?

During a tour of a P4 biosecurity lab in China, a time traveler from the year 2111 arrives to warn the assembled scientists that, in the future, a pandemic will ravage the planet. In order to prevent the calamity, the time traveler provides the scientists with a some vials of biological material that he says will be necessary to “nip any pandemic in the bud.”

Terrorists try to steal the material *blah blah blah* man scratched by a monkey *yadda yadda* global infectious outbreak *etc., etc.* and then . . . (you guessed it!) . . . the EU saves the day through an unprecedented global health campaign dubbed “The Way Forward.”

Yes, luckily for humanity, the EU-led “one health” approach saved us all from this “new era” of zoonotic pandemic outbreaks that we have just entered.

Personally, if I were a citizen of the EU I’d be upset that some portion of my taxes go toward paying for the production of propaganda schlock like this. After all, these are the same people who produced the dumbest propaganda video ever.

Oh, and just for the record, although the imaginary P4 lab in the comic is said to be in “Beijing,” China’s first (and only) P4 lab is in fact in Wuhan.

6) COVID-19 Test Kits Being Sold in 2017?

The World Bank runs a website called the World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) that tracks global trade data by product using their “Harmonized System” (HS) tracking codes. On September 4, 2020, they posted data on COVID-19 test kits that raised some eyebrows. You see, the website indicated that these COVID-19 test kits were being sold as far back as 2017!

Proof positive that the whole thing was planned years in advance, right?

Sigh.

A cursory glance at the data would give even the most credulous truther pause for thought about the significance of this “find.” If we were to take this posting at face value, then we have to believe that not only were 58 separate countries producing and exporting these COVID-19 test kits (meaning that tens of thousands of people would have been involved in their production, sale, shipping and storage), but that countries like Switzerland were producing over 2,000,000 kg worth of these kits (valued at a cool $23 billion) without a single person anywhere in this supply chain asking, “What’s COVID-19, anyway?” and not a single person coming out afterward to say, “You know, I thought it was odd that we were exporting billions of dollars worth of these COVID-19 test kits, but it was even weirder when COVID-19 was identified and named three years later.”

Or, you know, the test kits were general medical test kits that were relabeled for COVID-19 use in April of this year and retroactively relabeled in the WITS system. Because that’s exactly what the fact checkers are saying.

And you know what? I believe them. (“Oooooooh, I just knew James was a globalist shill!” jeers the crowd.)

The World Customs Organization even announced the reclassification in April of this year.

This is another example of how poorly researched information gets passed around online so that the fact checkers can arrive on their white horses and save the day by dispelling the obvious misinformation (Gates and the God gene vaccine at the CIA, anyone?).

So I don’t consider this one plandemic foreknowledge at all, but thought I would throw it in to put the debunking on record.

7) A White House Advisory Group Published a Report on How a Pandemic Would Ravage the Economy . . . Last September

In September 2019 the White House’s Council of Ecnomic Advisors published a report on “Mitigating the Impact of Pandemic Influenza through Vaccine Innovation.” The report warned of “the potentially large health and economic losses in the United States associated with influenza pandemics,” estimating that such a pandemic would cause “from $413 billion to $3.79 trillion” worth of damage to the economy. And, as the title suggests, it argues that “[n]ewer technologies, like cell-based or recombinant vaccines” could help drastically mitigate that damage.

Unsurprisingly, the usual MSM presstitutes used the story to reinforce the narrative that pandemic diseases are the new normal, that the US is woefully unprepared to fight the war on the invisible enemy, and that investment in novel vaccine technologies can help save the country from economic ruination.

8) Central Bank Gold Repatriation

You might remember back in 2013 when Germany’s Bundesbank issue a remarkable statement announcing that they would repatriate 674 tons of their gold holding from the New York Fed. You may even remember that they specifically set a 2020 deadline for that repatriation.

But did you know that Austria’s central bank followed suit in 2015 with an announcement that they, too, would repatriate the country’s gold by 2020? And did you know that the Polish central bank repatriated 100 tonnes of its gold from the Bank of England’s vaults in a series of secret airlifts ending in November 2019?

All of these pieces of evidence led analysts like Ronan Manly to predict that 2020 would be the year of the great “system reset,” a transformation of the world financial system that would ultimately be used to usher in a new international monetary order.

This has nothing to do with a pandemic, of course, but then again, neither does the financial crisis we’re living through. The truth is that the current financial meltdown has been gathering steam for years and was well underway for at least a year prior to any of this COVID-19 hysteria. “Following the money” to track down the real perpetrators of this crime seems as good advice for would-be scamdemic investigators as it is for 9/11 investigators.

Conclusion

As you can see, there were many different warnings that a pandemic emergency was set to take place this year. As you can also see, there is no “smoking gun” that proves anything specific about COVID-19. Even worse, many of these “warnings” actually serve to bolster the narrative that this scamdemic really is an emergency—one that we could have prevented if only we’d thrown more money at big pharma and given more power to the public health technocrats.

But such is the nature of these large-scale events. Amateur sleuthers get caught up searching for the single, undeniable “smoking gun” and lose sight of the bigger picture.

The bigger picture here is that—exactly as I have demonstrated in my work on Medical Martial Law and Medical Martial Law 2020 and COVID-911—the groundwork for the emergence of the biosecurity state has been carefully laid over the course of the past two decades (at least). From the passage of emergency health legislation to the creation of new pandemic preparedness offices to the signing of international health treaties, this medical martial law infrastructure has ensured that—regardless of whether it is real or fake, planned or unplanned—any public health crisis could be used as the trigger for the beginning of the biosecurity era.

By all means, keep looking for that smoking gun (and, if you happen to find it, let me know in the comments below). But unless we discuss What No One Is Saying About the Corona Crisis and address the root of this new biosecurity paradigm, the bioterrorists will get away with their scam.

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