Hailing from Costa Rica with Italian and Spanish roots, Enzo Anchietta began his musical journey at the tender age of five, displaying an extraordinary talent for music and composition.
His keen ear and versatility have led him to compose over 200 original songs and produce two albums, with his third, “101 North,” currently in the works. Enzo’s live performances have captivated audiences in Northern California, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Central America, ranging from intimate settings to large venues with thousands of spectators.
He will be in concert from Saturday, Jan. 20 to 27, at 101 North Santana Row, San Jose, California.
Start the year dancing at your first Mamajuana party
Esotérica Tropical.
You can’t miss the opportunity to enjoy a wonderful experience with Esotérica Tropical, who offers full spectrum healing with Caribbean music, electronic harp and Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms.
Esotérica Tropical was born in Puerto Rico, and is a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine and knows that music is a powerful force for full spectrum healing.
Immersed in the Afro-Puerto Rican tradition based on percussion known asbomba, she presents her new musical project that combines Caribbean and Latin American electronic landscapes withbomba and harp, creating lush and propulsive settings for songs that are prayers for both our ancestors and our future selves.
The presentation will be this Saturday, January 20, 2024, starting at 7:30 p.m. at 698 Folsom Street, San Francisco, tickets start at $25.
Start the year dancing at your first Mamajuana party
At this Mamajuana party you will have the opportunity to receive bachata lessons, and you will also be able to dance merengue, bolero and salsa with the best music from DJ Soto and DJ Rodchata.
This will be an incomparable night of intense social dancing, with music that will transport you directly to the tropics. The concept for this Dominican dance party is inspired by mamajuana, a traditional spicy alcoholic drink from the Dominican Republic, made with an infusion of a delicious blend of rum, red wine, honey, tree bark and herbs. As such, our party will feature a unique blend of bachata, bolero, merengue and salsa.
You will be able to live this experience as if you were truly in the DR, this January 20, 2024, at the Allegro Ballroom, located at 12012 San Pablo Avenue Richmond. Tickets are $15. The hours are from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Miguel Zenón Quartet in concert in San Francisco
Miguel Zenón is one of the most innovative and influential saxophonists and composers of his generation. He has been nominated several times for a Grammy and is a Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow. He represents a select group of musicians who has masterfully balanced and combined two often contradictory poles such as innovation. and tradition.
Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Zenón has released fifteen recordings as a leader, including his latest album Música De Las Américas and the Grammy-nominated El Arte Del Bolero. He will perform in concert with his quartet next Tuesday, January 23 at Yoshis, located at 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, doors will be open from 7:30 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. Ticket prices range from $29 – $69.
La Moderna Tradición Orchestra exhibits the best of Cuban music
The La Moderna Tradición Orchestra has captivated the public with the best of traditional and modern Cuban music, so we invite you to its first performance of the year, in which there will be everything from sensual danzones and vibrant cha-cha-chas to contemporary rhythms with timba. The Orchestra’s exceptional musicians inspire music lovers and dancers alike.
The appointment is this Friday, January 26 at 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, starting at 8 p.m.
Her first single “Mamá Inés” Was Reviewed And Recommended By Prominent Publications Such As Billboard And Rolling Stone Miami, Fl. January 17, 2024
by the El Reportero news services
The talented Cuban singer-songwriter and violinist, Yeisy Rojas, is pleased to present her first album, “A Mis Ancestros“, a dedication and tribute to all the African influence that came to Cuba. This project is the result of several years of hard work and dedication since Yeisy moved to Norway in 2016 to study jazz and popular music at Kristiansand University.
Nostalgia for Cuban rhythms in a foreign country inspired Yeisy to research the music and the history of the influence of African slaves on Cuban music. From there, she wrote her master’s thesis and the album “A Mis Ancestros” was born, which has the collaboration of musicians with renowned careers such as Gaston Joya and Rodney Barreto, who have had the privilege of joining the legendary Chucho Valdés’s band.
The first single from the album, titled “Mamá Inés“, has received notable mentions in Billboard in the ‘On The Radar’ section and was selected by Rolling Stone as one of the 15 artists to add to their playlist.
Its lyrics are based on the poem “Yesterday they told me black” by also Cuban Nicolás Guillén, in which he addresses the urgency of eradicating racism within the Afro community itself. She also captures it in her video, where she highlights the discrimination of many of her fellow students in Cuba by people of the same race as hers.
Sam Nazarian announces partnership with global music icon Marc Anthony
Sam Nazarian is a Persian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder, president and CEO of SBE Entertainment Group.
Sam Nazarianand Marc Anthony
His private group is an international hospitality and lifestyle leader, creators of some of the most famous hotels, restaurants and clubs in the world.
Nazarian announced an exclusive partnership with iconic singer, songwriter, actor and entrepreneur Marc Anthony and his company Magnus as new investment partners in SBE.
“It is an honor to join forces with my lifelong friend and international superstar Marc Anthony. “I have tremendous admiration for the career he has built and, more than this, for his entrepreneurial instincts,” Nazarian said.
“Not only has Marc been responsible for 105 #1 hits and over fifteen billion YouTube views, but he has also garnered the loyalty of a multi-generational Latinx and global community through his platforms and content.
Marc Anthony said: “Without a doubt, today is one of the most significant moments of all the endeavors I have undertaken in my life. Having the honor of joining forces with my great friend Sam and SBE is something we’ve talked about over the years, and the time has finally come.
Two boy kid lay down on floor and reading tale book in preschool library,Kindergarten school education concept.
by Suzanne Potter
California News Service
California’s children are doing well – the vast majority have health insurance and access to transitional kindergarten – but the state is far behind in many other metrics.
“There’s a lot of low grades that we’re seeing in the report card,” said Hardy, “and they highlight where the state has allowed racial and economic disparities to stagnate and in many cases to grow.”
The report gave California a D-minus because too few of its supports for people experiencing homelessness are tailored for unaccompanied youths.
The state also earned a D-minus in prevention of substance abuse – as efforts to curb abuse are seen as too reactive, primarily helping kids once they’ve become addicted rather than intervening early on.
California ranks 49th for its large class sizes, but Kelly noted that the state earns a B plus for its plan to give all four-year-olds access to free transitional kindergarten in public schools by the 2025-26 school year.
“This is one of the places where California is leading,” said Hardy. “And it’s really important that in places where the state is making investments, we see that those investments and that attention to the issue has resulted in success.”
The state faces a projected budget deficit this coming year – and advocates are hoping that children’s programs are spared any cuts.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is set to announce his budget priorities for the 2024-25 fiscal year by Wednesday.
CA farm animal cruelty law takes full effect
Pork sold in California will now have to comply with Proposition 12.
Sows lined up in crates. An undercover investigation conducted in the spring of 2012 by The Humane Society of the United States revealed egregious cruelty and filthy conditions at a Wyoming pig breeding facility owned by a pork supplier for Tyson Foods and Jimmy Dean. The undercover footage was taken at Wyoming Premium Farms, a pig factory farm in Wheatland, Wy., and shows workers kicking piglets like footballs, swinging sick piglets in circles by their legs, striking mother pigs with fists and hard objects and repeatedly and forcefully kicking them as they resisted leaving their piglets. The investigator also found pigs with untreated abscesses and rectal and uterine prolapses; mummified piglet corpses; and baby piglets who had fallen through floor slats to either hang to death or drown in manure pits. The graphic video also documents prolonged suffering of pigs used for breeding who are confined in gestation crates, cages so small the animals can’t even turn around, rendering them virtually immobilized for almost their entire lives. During the investigation, The HSUS investigator was told that Tyson Foods and Jimmy Dean buy pigs from Wyoming Premium Farms including “cull” sows – those too old or injured to breed again. The animals are shipped by truck for more than 25 hours to be slaughtered and processed at the Indiana Packers Corporation, a slaughter plant co-owned by Mitsubishi and Itoham Corporation. Itoham Corporation also owns Wyoming Premium Farms.
The law bans some types of extreme confinement of farm animals, specifically gestation crates — which are metal cages, often so small sows cannot turn around. Some provisions of the 2018 law have already gone into effect, concerning egg-laying hens and calves raised for veal.
Amber Canavan, manager of campaigns at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, applauds the law but said other forms of animal cruelty are still allowed.
“Pork producers are still able to confine the pigs to squalid, cramped and stressful conditions, forcefully impregnate them, steal their babies away, and slaughter them in terrifying and agonizing ways, including gas chambers, and captive bolt pistols,” Canavan asserted. “So, PETA’s stance is that no one needs to eat meat to live a long and happy life.”
The pork industry appealed Prop 12 to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld states’ right to regulate the meat industry. Opponents said the law has raised egg prices and caused shortages over the past six years. Several large pork producers, including Hormel, have said they will produce Prop 12-compliant meat.
Kate Brindle, program manager of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States, noted the fight has now moved to Congress, where lawmakers are currently considering the EATS Act, which would invalidate many states’ agriculture and food safety laws.
“The goal of this act is to undermine Prop 12,” Brindle pointed out. “A report published by Harvard Law School talked about over 1,000 state and local laws that could be negated if the EATS Act becomes law.”
In the Supreme Court case, public health groups stated extreme confinement of animals can suppress an animal’s immune system, making them more susceptible to disease, which can spread to humans.
Its author, James Corbett, is an investigative journalist who lives in Japan since 2004. What he writes is his opinion and does not necessarily El Reportero‘s – Vale, Marvin Ramírez.
THIS is How Global Government is Run (and What’s Coming Next…)
by James Corbett
Newsflash: contrary to the worries of conspiracy realists, global government is NOT a far-off, distant threat waiting for us in some potential dystopian future.
No, it’s not a future threat. The truth is that global government is already set up and functioning. Here. Now.
In fact, it’s not even happening in secret. It’s happening in the most visible way possible: a party.
Oops! Did I say “party”? I meant “Conference of the Parties,” of course, aka the mechanism by which individual nation-states have been willingly ceding their sovereignty to the globalist technocrats for decades now.
Never heard of “Conference of the Parties,” you protest? Of course you have. I talk about the COP of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP pretty much every year. In fact, I’ve been covering it since at least COP 15 in Copenhagen in 2009. Lest we forget, 2009 was the year EU President (and Bilderberg lackey) Herman von Rompuy declared to be “the first year of global government,” specifically citing the COP in Copenhagen as “another step towards the global management of our planet.”
Another step, indeed.
Fast forward to 2023. The globalists are fueling up their private jets and chauffered limosines for another wine-and-dine fest—this time COP 28 in Dubai. Yes, it’s just a matter of weeks until we get to bear witness to the annual ritual of these would-be global rulers jetting in to lecture us peons about how we’re not doing enough to save the planet.
But do you know what a COP really is? And did you know that the UNFCCC’s COP is not the only COP being run by the de facto global government? And did you know that the real point of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) so-called “pandemic treaty” is to establish yet another COP chamber in this increasingly bloated shadow government?
Get in, buckle up and hold on. You’re in for one of the most important lessons of your life.
On one level, the entire concept of a “Conference of the Parties”—or, in globalese, a “COP”—is as simple and straightforward as it is innocuous.
Just ask our <sarc>friends</sarc> over at Climate.gov, who provide this definition for COP in relation to the annual UNFCCC summit:
COP is an international climate meeting held each year by the United Nations. COP is short for “Conference of the Parties,” meaning those countries who joined—are “party to,” in legal terms—the international treaty called the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Parties to the treaty have committed to take voluntary actions to prevent “dangerous anthropogenic [human-caused] interference with the climate system.”
Note how the friendly folks over at Climate.gov (brought to you by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration!) are keen to stress that, under the terms of the UNFCCC, the “parties” are legally committed to take voluntary actions to prevent the sky dragons from torching the planet.
Relax, guys, it’s all voluntary*!
*You’re just legally obligated to do it.
In fact, you’ll note that this strange obligatory/voluntary tension pervades Climate.gov’s COP write-up and any number of similar COP explainers.
The parties agree to specific goals for limiting human emissions of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and halogen-containing gases like CFCs) to a specific amount by a given year in the future. Countries participating in the treaty develop their own voluntary pledges—known as Nationally Determined Contributions—to meet the agreed-on targets. Countries are free to develop a mixture of policies that is most economical or advantageous for them. They must report on their successes or failures to meet their voluntary targets at the annual COP meetings.
Hmmm. They “agree to specific goals” but “develop their own voluntary pledges” to meet those targets and they “must” report on their progress toward those “voluntary” targets.
Confused yet? Good. Then the globalists will be happy to hear they’re doing their job right.
You see, these technocratic schemers realize that no one is going to bother digging up (let alone actually reading) the Framework Convention on Climate Change itself.
They realize that average people have enough on their plate just working their 9-to-5 and making ends meet, so they’re not apt to discover the tyrannical rules their government has legally committed them to under Article 4 of the climate change convention.
And they realize that no one is going to bother to follow the threads and figure out the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change isn’t the only supranational, sovereignty-busting, globalist treaty signing entire nations on to the UN Agenda. There’s also the Chemical Weapons Convention and the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Stockholm Convention and a bewildering array of such similar international agreements.
And even if the average Joe and Jane did familiarize themselves with all of these various conventions and all of the things that these agreements obligate their nation to do, they wouldn’t take the trouble to read the Rules of Procedure dictating how these “Conferences of the Parties” are actually run.
Meetings of the Conference of the Parties shall be held in public, unless the Conference of the Parties decides otherwise.
Or Rule 32:
No one may speak at a meeting of the Conference of the Parties without having previously obtained the permission of the President.
Or Rule 42:
Decisions on matters of substance shall be taken by consensus, except that decisions on financial matters shall be taken by a two-thirds majority vote.
And if, by some minor miracle, they did bone up on the Rules of Procedure for the UNFCCC COP, they’d then find out that they haven’t even scratched the surface.
So you see, global government is already here. It is operating through a network of conventions and agreements, obligating governments to act in certain ways and committing them to reaching various targets in a wide variety of fields.
And guess what? As bad as all of this is, it’s about to get even worse.
THE WHO: NEW COP ON THE BLOCK
Remember that WHO document popularly referred to as the “pandemic treaty” that I’ve been ringing the alarm bell about over and over and over and over for the past two years?
Well, it’s not called the “pandemic treaty” anymore. It has now transitioned from its previous formal title of a “WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response” to the somewhat less unwieldy “WHO Pandemic Agreement.” The latest draft of that agreement was released three weeks ago. Have you read it yet?
If you did read that document, you would have noticed all manner of horrible things hidden deep in that forest of legalese—like, for example, the worryingly woolly language used to describe the “infodemic” problem and the accompanying internet censorship solution that both Tedros and UNESCO are now openly lusting after.
You will also no doubt have noticed something relevant to today’s subject buried on page 24:
Article of the Parties. Conference of the parties
Oh, of course.
Yes, this is a move straight out of the globalist playbook: distract everyone with the word “treaty” to make them think that this is a document that will require special ratification by their national parliament or congress, and then spring an “agreement” on them that will, in most cases, do a complete end run around the political process. And then, as the coup de grâce, insert an article establishing an entirely new bureaucracy, one that will serve as a de facto arm of global government—one that can then redraft and rewrite the global health rules at will at any time in the future.
It’s malevolent. It’s dictatorial. It’s a travesty. But you have to admit it’s brilliant.
Assuming this agreement (or something very much like it) gets the rubber stamp at the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva next May, most people won’t understand what just happened any more than they understood what happened when the UNFCCC established its COP or any of these other globalist institutions first established their respective COPs.
So, for those who can’t be bothered to read the WHO Pandemic Agreement (or even just Article 21 of that agreement), here are the lowlights:
A Conference of the Parties is hereby established. The Conference of the Parties shall be comprised of delegates representing the Parties to the WHO Pandemic Agreement. Only delegates representing Parties will participate in any of the decision-making of the Conference of the Parties. The Conference of the Parties shall establish the criteria for the participation of observers at its proceedings.
[. . .]
The first session of the Conference of the Parties shall be convened by the World Health Organization not later than one year after the entry into force of the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
Following the first session of the Conference of the Parties: (a) subsequent regular sessions of the Conference of the Parties shall be held annually.
[. . .]
The Conference of the Parties shall adopt by consensus its Rules of Procedure at its first session.
The Conference of the Parties shall by consensus adopt financial rules for itself as well as governing the funding of any subsidiary bodies of the Conference of the Parties that are or may be established, as well as financial provisions governing the functioning of the Secretariat. It shall also adopt a biennial budget.
The Conference of the Parties shall keep under regular review the implementation of the WHO Pandemic Agreement and take the decisions necessary to promote its effective implementation, and may adopt amendments, annexes and protocols to the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
[. . .]
The Conference of the Parties shall establish subsidiary bodies to carry out the work of the Conference of the Parties, as it deems necessary, on terms and modalities to be defined by the Conference of the Parties. Such subsidiary bodies may include, without limitation, an Implementation and Compliance Committee, a panel of experts to provide scientific advice and a WHO PABS System Expert Advisory Group.
There you go. The global government is about to assume jurisdiction over your health. It is in the process of setting up its governing body for drafting up the rules that will control your government’s response to the next declared scamdemic. And hardly anyone in the public even knows this is happening.
Any questions?
I thought not.
Of course, some might object: “Don’t worry! It says right there in black and white that the rules of procedure and the funding for this body have to be adopted by consensus! You can’t even get three of these technocrats to agree on what to eat for lunch, so nothing will ever get decided!”
But if you do raise that objection then it’s clear you’ve never seen what this type of “consensus agreement” looks like in the WHO process. (SPOILER: it involves a confused old man vaguely asking if the committee is ready to approve the draft, looking around the room of half-asleep bureaucrats for ten seconds, declaring that the draft has been approved and then having to repeat his declaration so that the assembled functionaries and gophers know it’s their cue to applaud.)
This is how your coming global governmental body will be brought into existence. This is how it will establish its Rules of Procedure (which can be composed of whatever phoney baloney rules they want). This is how it will establish its funding mechanism: in a transparent sham of a parody of the “democracy” that these rulers pretend to hold dear.
THIS IS HOW SOVEREIGNTY ENDS
“Shut up, conspiracy theorist!” say the professors and the politicians and the obedient establishment toadies in the lapdog press when confronted with the argument laid out in this editorial. “This COP business isn’t global government and it isn’t nefarious. After all, your governments have voluntarily committed themselves to these agreements and thus to be bound by whatever decisions the COPs make!”
Hard to argue with that, isn’t it?
Unless, of course, we understand that our governments’ arbitrary enactment of rules and restrictions without our consent is precisely the problem.
First, our (s)elected representatives sign us up to overarching, unaccountable, international bodies like the UN and the WHO. Then they appointed nameless/faceless bureaucrats to act as our unelected representatives at those bodies that sign us up to conventions and agreements that most of us don’t even know exist. These conventions and agreements then “obligate” our national governments to take certain actions or to refrain from certain other actions. Finally, those same governments pass legislation that makes these pledges and targets and restrictions the law of our land.
But all this is “voluntary,” you see? It’s all above board. There’s no global government—only global conventions that parties have agreed to abide by.
And to rub even more salt in the wound, those same fact checkers who would deny that this web of conventions and agreements in fact constitutes a de facto global government will also tell us that these agreements don’t go far enough in removing any pretense of national sovereignty from the international system.
Just ask Mostafa El-Harazi and Noor Irshaidat. They are the two Carey School of Law juris doctor students who penned an op-ed for the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy last year, in which they lamented: “What is notably missing [from the UNFCCC], however, is an ‘enforcement mechanism;’ a provision to explicitly deter state parties to the UNFCCC from noncompliance through fines or jurisdiction to an international court like the International Court of Justice.”
Or ask the boffins over at ScienceDirect, who, in their overview of the UNFCCC, bemoan its toothlessness: “[T]he UNFCCC contains few specific requirements and, notably, no enforceable requirement for signatories to reduce the emission of GHGs.”
Or ask boffins like Robert Keohane and David Victor, whose 2016 Nature article on “Cooperation and discord in global climate policy” asserts, “Effective mitigation of climate change will require deep international cooperation, which is much more difficult to organize than the shallow coordination observed so far.”
But, as I say, not one person in a thousand even knows about the Framework Convention on Climate Change or the Basel Convention or the proposed WHO COP, and not one person in a million knows what any of these bodies “voluntarily” obligate the member parties to do.
Would you prefer to watch the sportsball game or read a hundred-page document of complicated legal jargon? Would you rather go out for a night on the town with your friends or commit to studying the organizational chart of some obscure arm of the UN bureacuracy?
So, if we perish from lack of knowledge, then how do we thrive?
By learning more about these instruments of control, that’s how.
Specifically, we can counteract the globalist agenda by learning more about the treaties and agreements and conventions that are increasingly governing our lives. Then we can parlay our knowledge into a movement. We’ll know we’re making progress when the drive to exit the WHO (and exit the UN while we’re at it) become the only political issues that people are interested in talking about. And we’ll know we’ve really been successful when those same people start talking about individual sovereignty and our natural right to withdraw from every governmental system of control.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch “Glitch” McConnell spoke at the defense industry-funded CEPA Forum in Washington D.C. on Wednesday and made a very revealing comment about the state of the war in Ukraine.
“As a result of the weapons transfers that we’ve made to Ukraine, we are reindustrializing our base here in the United States,” McConnell added. “And we’re employing a significant number of Americans, in this country, building our industrial base again.”
The conversation gets even more bizarre and yet clarifying, with the host asking, “how does supporting Ukraine actually support U.S. jobs in the military industrial complex.”
Yes, she really said military industrial complex, a term coined by President Eisenhower to warn about the perverse incentive structures in the defense industry.
McConnell answers:
“As we ship weapons and ammunition to the Ukrainians, we rebuild those in many instances with more modern, cutting edge equipment.”
—Where to begin? Understand, this is a US Senator, the Senate Minority Leader, making these comments.
Representative government? Are you kidding?
Killing lots and lots of people in a foreign war is good for the US economy. It’s a big plus. That’s not news, but a Senator saying it with praise is definitely news.
Building our industrial base again? McConnell is saying the base is broken and NEEDS rebuilding. And war is how.
Well, well.
It’s a party, folks. Killing is our business.
And guess what? Presidential candidates who are wringing their hands over the collapse of the American middle class should realize: all these jobs in the killing business (defense industry) create middle class workers. Lots and lots of them. So don’t assume shrinking the defense budget will solve “the middle class problem.” The problem is much deeper.
But don’t worry, be happy. When the Ukraine War ends (maybe just in time for the election in 2024, a “triumph” for the Democrats), we can pave over the War with new positive economic reports and projections. “Forecasters paint bright outlook.”
Then everyone can go back to “peacetime production.” This is how FDR bailed the US out of the (engineered) Great Depression. Wartime factories humming, followed by the post-war “peacetime economic engine.” In other words, a fairy tale about The New Deal saving America.
When WAR is an absolute necessity for making the US economy work, there’s trouble. Big trouble. Systemic trouble.
Realizing this, you have to ask what kind of economy we really have. All the talk of centuries about America being “the most powerful nation on Earth,” “the greatest flowering of prosperity the world has ever seen”—based on the free market—who’s been telling that story?
The free market IS the greatest economic invention in all of history. It would be terrific to get back to it.
What we’ve had is the government-bankrolled American Empire economy.
And that economy has done much to (listen up, Robert Kennedy) create the American middle class. Which would be ripped apart if we suddenly axed the US defense budget.
Not only that. What’s the fastest growing sector of economy right now? The sector that may soon reach prime number 1 status?
The medical/healthcare industry.
How many middle class jobs do you think THAT sector is creating, as we speak?
Yet this sector is responsible for, recently, the COVID kill shots. As I’ve written about for more than decade, the US medical system KILLS, at minimum, 2.25 MILLION Americans per decade. (Dr. Barbara Starfield, JAMA, July 26, 2000, “Is US Health Really the Best in the World?”).
Is THAT the free market at work? No. It’s the US Corporate State at work. The “public-private” partnership of government and medical companies. Backed up by a blizzard of laws and regulations attempting to create a monopoly.
Disable that sector, drive a stake through its heart, and you smash the middle class people who work in it.
So let’s stop the shit-for-brains easy chatter about solving the ongoing tragedy of the middle class.
The trouble we have is much bigger and deeper.
There are answers and there are solutions. I’ve been writing about some of them for a long time. But the bottom line is: they take courage. They take businessmen who stand for FREEDOM and INNOVATION, and also have a sense of unshakable MORALITY. Where are these men?
Masturbating over transhumanism in Silicon Valley?
How about going to war IN THE GOOD SENSE, against the sloth and rot and Empire the US has become?
And I’m not talking about the next great cell phone that stands in for actual human friends, or some set of goggles that lead you to believe you’re on the brink of the greatest sex you’ve ever had.
There are giant industries waiting to happen. Desalination, which would provide all the water the drought-suffering Southwest needs. Water turbines, for rivers and ocean coastlines, which would provide extraordinary amounts of electricity to communities across America.
Ingenious men could create companies that sell basic food, clothing, and shelter at prices millions of economically borderline people can afford. At a profit.
The basic MINDSET for this kind of economic revolution would need visionaries who are also intensely practical. And decidedly anti-woke.
With enough free market power, the number of jobs created could surpass what we have now, in the predatory war and medical sectors.
It can be done.
But a new spirit has to be awakened.
With an energy that overcomes DOOM.
Perhaps someone reading this can SEE that future; and can start making it.
Because overcoming long odds is just the sort of challenge he is looking for.
I’m sick and tired of hearing about a great and positive revolution government is going to lead. It’ll never happen.
The idealists who believe it will are deranged.
The answer is in the free market. That’s where the revolution has to happen.
That’s where more than a hundred years of intense socialist propaganda has been focusing its flood of destructive messages.
SACRAMENTO — State Controller Malia M. Cohen today released her monthly Cash Report which tracks the state’s revenues, disbursements and actual cash balance, and issued the following statement on the state’s cash position:
“While December’s cash position fell short of Department of Finance Budget Act cash flow estimates for the month by $3 billion, the state still has a strong $88.5 billion in available borrowable resources. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, California still has ample cash in its coffers to pay its bills and meet its financial obligations through the end of the fiscal year.
“The Legislature and Governor have a difficult task ahead to bring revenues and spending into balance in the year ahead. However, their forethought in building rainy-day reserves in the Budget Stabilization Account has bolstered the state’s cash-on-hand and provided stability in the face of a budgetary deficit.”
December saw California’s total General Fund receipts fall $5.2 billion – or 21.4 percent – short of estimates for the month, while disbursements were $2.3 billion – or 10.1 percent lower than estimated.
The state is 22.2 percent behind forecasts for the fiscal year to date with General Fund receipts, $28.2 billion below estimates. Disbursements were $5.1 billion lower than expected, and 4.2 percent behind estimates for the first six months of the fiscal year.
As the chief fiscal officer of California, Controller Cohen is responsible for accountability and disbursement of the state’s financial resources. The Controller has independent auditing authority over government agencies that spend state funds. She is a member of numerous financing authorities, and fiscal and financial oversight entities including the Franchise Tax Board. She also serves on the boards for the nation’s two largest public pension funds. Follow the Controller on X at @CAController and on Facebook at California State Controller’s Office.
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With different activities, the city of San José will be celebrating Three Kings Day, as part of the Christmas festivities.
One of the events was organized by the Cultural Affairs grant of the City of San José, this will be a day to celebrate with family, share food, give gifts and prepare the Rosca de Reyes (sweet bread or King’s Cake).
The Feast of the Three Wise Men is a holiday widely recognized by many cultures around the world, and especially in many Spanish-speaking countries, the Feast of the Three Wise Men honors the Epiphany.
The invitation is not to miss the opportunity to make and decorate a crown, enjoy the lively and traditional youth mariachis and folk dances, the Three Wise Men will give gifts (chocolate coins) to those present.
The appointment is this Saturday, January 6, 2024, starting at 9:30 a.m. At 180 Woz Way in San Jose, CA.
You can also Sing with the Kings, this January 6, in an event organized by the Caravan of Agricultural Workers, who invite you to celebrate Three Kings Day.
The organizers of the event reported that there will be the presence of opera singer Omar Alejandro Rodríguez, who will lead the party with familiar Christmas melodies and songs from “The Golden Age”, which were made famous by classic artists such as Los Panchos, Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante.
Attendees can also join in with their voice or instrument or simply enjoy the festivities with Rosca de Reyes, atole and happy music.
The activity will be this January 6, 2024, starting at 2 p.m., at Trinity Presbyterian Church 3151 Union Avenue, San José. Entrance is free.
John Santos sextet in concert
John Santos, producer, multi-percussionist, historian, writer, teacher, composer and orchestra director, with more than 50 years of experience on stage, launches his new record production called Vieja Escuela, and to make it known he has prepared a masterful concert.
John Santos
Vieja Escuela, the new recording from the John Santos Sextet, brilliantly reflects the legacy of John and his cohorts, and is blessed by some of John’s most beloved mentors who represent the highest level of respect and excellence in Afro-Latin music: the Cuban royalty and the golden voice.
During the concert, honors will be given to Ernesto Oviedo (RIP), the extraordinary composer and rumbero; Cuban Raúl de la Caridad González Brito “Lali” (RIP), and Puerto Rican Latin jazz legend Jerry González (RIP), as well as his former collaborator/teacher and pioneering Cuban percussionist Orestes Vilató (alive).
The album also features several wonderful guests such as José Roberto Hernández, Fernanda Bustamante and Anthony Blea, who will also be present and
The venue chosen for this special concert is Freight & Salvage, located at 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, and will take place this Saturday, January 13, 2024, starting at 8 p.m., tickets are $30 and $35.
Oaxaca is considered the cultural heart of Mexico, acting as a muse for creatives and drawing artists from across the country and world, who adopt the colonial city as their home.
Some are attracted by the graphic art traditions of printmaker Francisco Toledo and painter Rufino Tamayo, but the city is also a hotbed of startling street art. Ethereal murals share wall space with mock advertisements offering great apartments to foreigners – back in their own countries – while crude graffiti advises gringos to shut up, go home or worse. Much of the city’s ever-evolving street art also references Oaxaca’s history of cultural rebellions, state violence, corrupt leadership and battles for Indigenous autonomy.
Harnessing all of this energy are collectives, galleries and artists curating spaces across the city to share diverse points of view in settings that range from gentrified to gritty.
Natalia Siu Munro is an indigo, or añil, textile artist with Nicaraguan-Chinese heritage from the UK who has lived in Oaxaca for four years.
“I was seeking a place where art lived and breathed, and Oaxaca was it. [Art] is ingrained in the culture and you can find it everywhere. For me, the scene accepts all and has no prejudices. It’s constantly shifting. There’s a new exhibition every other week – sometimes three openings on the same night. Generations of artists work and collaborate to evolve [Oaxaca] into a safe creative space for all,” she said.
Farid Cruz Vásquez, director of Cocijo Gallery, has noticed that the artistic culture of the city is always growing in sphere and influence. “So many cultures in one place, with different visions of life. Now all the world is coming to work and enjoy,” he said.
But it’s the abundant street art – from dreamscape-y murals to quickly-laid, expletive-laden stencils – that provides the city with an artistic vibrance that envelops you immediately – even if you never step inside a gallery.
Renowned painter Guillermo Olguín believes the city’s best art showcases are its avenues, lanes and alleys. “The art on the streets is sophisticated, well executed and not only political. There is poetry in it, there is very fine talent and the continuation and revival of the classic Mexican graphic school technique,” he said.
Within the city limits lies one of the country’s most admired graphics institutes, and continues to give birth to artists and galleries that take the tradition to the people. The Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO) was founded by Toledo, the celebrated creator of iconic Mexican intaglio prints lovingly called ‘el maestro’ and hero of many local tales.
Red Dot Art Gallery – Director Teresa Diaz sees Oaxaca as a place “recognized as a fountain of artists of all different techniques. Influences from abroad make it an inspirational destination and have diverted the long-holding trance of Mexican Magical Realism that once permeated the city’s art.”
She noted artists like Demian Flores, Mauricio Cervantes and Emilia Sandoval, who are creating micro and macro works that go beyond the personal to broach a global significance, while Zapotec printmaker Gabriela Morac and painter Alberto Mendiola use their mediums to ironically meld pre-Columbian imagery with ideas of branding, marketing and merchandising.
Though art can be enjoyed throughout the city – on its streets, in a number of museums and through a variety of groundbreaking collectives – these are the art galleries in Oaxaca that have stolen our hearts.
Espacio Zapata – A space as revolutionary as its namesake Emiliano Zapata, the gallery, tied to the Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca (ASARO), furthers Mexican graphic and political heritage alongside lithographs, woodblock prints and more. You’ll spot this place from the top of the street with its high-energy facade featuring ever-changing, eye-catching murals – currently it’s painted with dozens of Mexican art motifs in shades of gold and black. Inside, discover friendly and passionate artists showcasing work that extends from frames to walls – and from the art world into the community.
Red Dot Art Gallery – Focused on experimental and avant-garde visual arts, this large space favors unconventional points of view and always leaves visitors with new ideas to ponder. Exhibitions investigate issues of culture, gender, humanities and politics while a regular roster of public talks, music and events offer even more reasons to return to the bright and airy space.
Stellah Gallery – This small, intimate gallery holds a gorgeously curated selection of textiles, furnishings and paintings alongside Australian owner and curator Stellah De Ville’s own tactile ceramic vessels and sculptures. With a preference towards organic shapes, colors and materials, guests feel an immediate sense of calm wonder upon entering.
Av. José María Morelos 301, Oaxaca
La Santísima Gallery – Fans of dark, minimalist print work with a bent towards the macabre will gravitate to this grungy, authentic and frenetic space where the city’s creatives gather to drink canned beer on opening nights and view works by up-and-coming painters, textile makers and artists like graffiti muralist Dreka Ventura. Pick up unique gift items made by gallery artists in the adjoining shop.
Miguel Hidalgo 1019, Oaxaca
Siqueiros Gallery – A must-stop spot for fans of political street art, this multi-room gallery offers a large range of graffiti, paintings and prints alongside merch like tote bags, stickers and pins. Most pieces have a unique story related to some aspect of Oaxaca’s history. The multilingual staff are eager to share these tales and you may find yourself in deep contemplation and long conversations here.
Porfirio Díaz 510, Ruta Independencia, Oaxaca
Cocijo Gallery – Focused on weirdly wonderful paintings and woodcuts, including many that reflect on the region’s rich past and incorporate a full circle of influences. Discover works by emerging Mexican artists such as Indigenous lithograph artist Gilberto Delgado, J-Paw and Tupac Emiliano as well as occasional demonstrations and classes.
de Mariano Abasolo 107, Ruta Independencia, Oaxaca
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Five thousand students is the record of active students who will be entering the different classrooms at different levels of the City College on the Mission campus, and 1,700 new students for this next academic year 2024 as part of its academic offer in teaching English to students from different nationalities around the world who live in San Francisco.
For students who enroll at City College, English is the language of international communication, commerce and finance, it is a lingua franca in many corners of the planet and the official language of this country where you can express yourself, communicate, and understanding it is not a luxury, but a universal necessity.
Belkys Adellemo, supervisor of the City College Mission Center Admissions office, said that the team of counselors, teaching staff and admirers do their best to ensure that immigrant students once they enroll and become part of the family of this house of studies they are provided with all the available language learning tools.
“We not only provide support to each student when they register to study English, we provide and develop tools so that everyone, regardless of age, becomes familiar and feels comfortable practicing their pronunciation and grammar, we guide and advise our students “That they learn to develop in other disciplines, such as literature, North American culture and another technical career that allows them to prepare and be competitive in a better and broader world of work,” said Adellemo.
She also emphasized that there are help programs within the school such as a daycare center for those single mothers without financial resources to pay for a babysitter and who have the desire to learn the language. The school provides this service as well as food and easy access to the library with laptop computers so that the student can do their homework and work assigned by the teacher.
Frank Arias, originally from Cuba, is an active student at the school. In his country he dedicated himself to modeling and is a specialist in Cuban gastronomy. He has been living in San Francisco for a year and six months. He expressed that since he left his homeland he had already thought that the first thing he would do when he arrived in the United States would be to study English to be able to communicate.
“Immigrating to a country, where you don’t know anyone and don’t know the language, makes all things complicated. Thanks to the opportunities that school gives us, this barrier is not so difficult and allows us to make the path easier.” making it very easy for you; “I am very grateful for the support that our teachers and everyone who makes it possible for me to grow as a person have given us,” said Arias.
“That reminds me that every day I am there among countrymen and among Latin brothers, it is a pleasure to be there and the most beautiful thing is that it is free of charge, because that helps us take greater interest and responsibility, but above all a great personal commitment ”Arias expressed.
Currently, online and in-person registrations are still available for the new school period that begins on Jan. 16, 2024.
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