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Are you planning a project that involves excavation? Call 811 to find out what’s underneath before you start

Damaging an underground utility line during excavation can result into thousands of dollars in repair costs

Corporate News

April 9, 2024 – San Francisco California. — With the warmer weather months approaching, homeowners may want to turn their attention to projects around the house that involve digging. Whether it’s repairing a fence or removing a fallen tree due to winter storm damage, or any other project that involves excavation, calling 811 before starting the project will help customers avoid damaging underground utility lines. and will avoid costly repair costs. April is recognized as National Safe Digging Month to raise awareness about the importance of calling 811 before any digging project, large or small.

Underground utility lines may be shallow, often just inches below the surface due to erosion, previous excavation or landscaping projects, shifting or settling of ground, and uneven surfaces. Customers should call 811 a minimum of two business days before beginning any excavation project, large or small, as damaging an underground utility line while digging is dangerous and can subject customers to liability for repair costs. which average $3,500.

“Making a free call to 811 two business days before starting your excavation project will help keep you, your family, and your neighbors safe and avoid inconvenient outages. Hitting an underground utility line during excavation can be dangerous and require expensive repairs; so remember to call 811, a toll-free call for all excavation projects, both large and small,” says Joe Forline, senior vice president of gas operations for PG&E.

In the warmer summer months there will be an increase in the number of excavation projects and, unfortunately, many of these projects are carried out without making a free call to 811 to flag utilities at the project sites. In fact, according to a recent national survey conducted by the Common Ground Alliance (CGA), 56% of homeowners plan to dig without first calling 811. However, not calling 811 before digging led to more than 1,300 incidents during 2023 in which underground utility lines were damaged due to excavation in the PG&E service area alone.

2023 in figures:

  • There were 1,335 incidents in Northern and Central California in which homeowners or contractors damaged underground gas or electric lines while digging.
  • In 63 percent of incidents in which an underground utility line was damaged due to excavation, there was no 811 call.
  • Specifically for homeowners, this percentage increases to 90 percent.
  • The average cost to repair a damaged utility line is $3,500.
  • The main causes of damage to underground utility lines when excavating are: building or repairing a fence, gardening and landscaping, planting a tree or removing a stump, drainage and irrigation work, and construction of a patio or terrace.

Calling 811 is fast and free:

  • Customers should call 811 at least two business days before beginning any project involving excavation, regardless of its magnitude. Customers can also visit 811express.com to have utility lines marked for their project site.
  • Professional workers from all utilities (gas, electric, water, sewer, and telecommunications) will be dispatched to mark the location of all underground utility lines at the project site, either by flagging, spray painting, or both.
  • The 811 USA North call center, serving central and northern California, is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and offers translation services into Spanish and other languages.

PG&E Tips for Safe Digging

 Mark the project area with white: Identify the excavation area by drawing a box around the area with white paint, white flags, white chalk, or even white flour.

 Call 811 or submit a request online at least two business days before digging: Have the general project address and location, project start date, and type of excavation activity available. PG&E and other utilities will identify underground facilities in the area for free. Applications can be submitted no later than 14 days before the project begins.

 Digging Safety: Use hand tools when digging within 24 inches of the outside edge of underground lines. Leave any flags, stakes or utility paint marks in place until the project is complete. Fill and compact the soil.

 Watch for signs of a natural gas leak: Watch for a “rotten egg” smell, listen for hissing, hissing or roaring sounds, and look for dirt thrown into the air, bubbles in a pond or stream, or dead vegetation. or dying in a humid area.

About CGA

The CGA is a member-driven association of nearly 4,200 damage prevention professionals spanning all facets of the underground utility industry. Established in 2000, CGA is committed to saving lives and preventing damage to North America’s underground infrastructure by promoting effective damage prevention practices. The CGA has established itself as the leading source of damage prevention data and information in an effort to reduce damage to underground facilities in North America through shared responsibility among all stakeholders. For more information, visit CGA on the Web at http://www.commongroundalliance.com.

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Are you planning a project that involves excavation? Call 811 to find out what’s underneath before you start

Damaging an underground utility line during excavation can result into thousands of dollars in repair costs

Corporate News

April 9, 2024 – San Francisco California. — With the warmer weather months approaching, homeowners may want to turn their attention to projects around the house that involve digging. Whether it’s repairing a fence or removing a fallen tree due to winter storm damage, or any other project that involves excavation, calling 811 before starting the project will help customers avoid damaging underground utility lines. and will avoid costly repair costs. April is recognized as National Safe Digging Month to raise awareness about the importance of calling 811 before any digging project, large or small.

Underground utility lines may be shallow, often just inches below the surface due to erosion, previous excavation or landscaping projects, shifting or settling of ground, and uneven surfaces. Customers should call 811 a minimum of two business days before beginning any excavation project, large or small, as damaging an underground utility line while digging is dangerous and can subject customers to liability for repair costs. which average $3,500.

“Making a free call to 811 two business days before starting your excavation project will help keep you, your family, and your neighbors safe and avoid inconvenient outages. Hitting an underground utility line during excavation can be dangerous and require expensive repairs; so remember to call 811, a toll-free call for all excavation projects, both large and small,” says Joe Forline, senior vice president of gas operations for PG&E.

In the warmer summer months there will be an increase in the number of excavation projects and, unfortunately, many of these projects are carried out without making a free call to 811 to flag utilities at the project sites. In fact, according to a recent national survey conducted by the Common Ground Alliance (CGA), 56% of homeowners plan to dig without first calling 811. However, not calling 811 before digging led to more than 1,300 incidents during 2023 in which underground utility lines were damaged due to excavation in the PG&E service area alone.

2023 in figures:

  • There were 1,335 incidents in Northern and Central California in which homeowners or contractors damaged underground gas or electric lines while digging.
  • In 63 percent of incidents in which an underground utility line was damaged due to excavation, there was no 811 call.
  • Specifically for homeowners, this percentage increases to 90 percent.
  • The average cost to repair a damaged utility line is $3,500.
  • The main causes of damage to underground utility lines when excavating are: building or repairing a fence, gardening and landscaping, planting a tree or removing a stump, drainage and irrigation work, and construction of a patio or terrace.

Calling 811 is fast and free:

  • Customers should call 811 at least two business days before beginning any project involving excavation, regardless of its magnitude. Customers can also visit 811express.com to have utility lines marked for their project site.
  • Professional workers from all utilities (gas, electric, water, sewer, and telecommunications) will be dispatched to mark the location of all underground utility lines at the project site, either by flagging, spray painting, or both.
  • The 811 USA North call center, serving central and northern California, is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and offers translation services into Spanish and other languages.

PG&E Tips for Safe Digging

 Mark the project area with white: Identify the excavation area by drawing a box around the area with white paint, white flags, white chalk, or even white flour.

 Call 811 or submit a request online at least two business days before digging: Have the general project address and location, project start date, and type of excavation activity available. PG&E and other utilities will identify underground facilities in the area for free. Applications can be submitted no later than 14 days before the project begins.

 Digging Safety: Use hand tools when digging within 24 inches of the outside edge of underground lines. Leave any flags, stakes or utility paint marks in place until the project is complete. Fill and compact the soil.

 Watch for signs of a natural gas leak: Watch for a “rotten egg” smell, listen for hissing, hissing or roaring sounds, and look for dirt thrown into the air, bubbles in a pond or stream, or dead vegetation. or dying in a humid area.

About CGA

The CGA is a member-driven association of nearly 4,200 damage prevention professionals spanning all facets of the underground utility industry. Established in 2000, CGA is committed to saving lives and preventing damage to North America’s underground infrastructure by promoting effective damage prevention practices. The CGA has established itself as the leading source of damage prevention data and information in an effort to reduce damage to underground facilities in North America through shared responsibility among all stakeholders. For more information, visit CGA on the Web at http://www.commongroundalliance.com.

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Easy, Safe, and for Everyone: The Essentials of Opening a Bank Account  

A mature female bank loan officer shows a female veteran a loan application. The veteran attentively listens to the banker

Sponsored by JPMorgan Chase

There are many reasons for opening a bank account. From depositing a check to making a transfer, working with a bank makes it seamless to manage your money in a safe way.

Opening up a bank account also makes it easier to pay bills on time, open a debit card, deposit and withdraw money from an ATM, and make transfers from an app, among many other things.

Whether you’re opening a bank account online or at a bank branch, it’s important to prepare and anticipate what information you will be asked for.

Personal Checking Account

If you’re opening up a personal checking account, you will need to fill out an application form and provide the following documents:

  1. Identification: You don’t need to be a U.S. citizen to open an account, but you need documents to verify your identity. These may vary slightly from bank to bank, but valid documents typically include:
    • A government-issued photo ID. It could be a driver’s license, for example, or a state ID.
    • Passport with photograph and birth certificate for minors.
    • Social Security card or ITIN (Individual Taxpayer Identification Number). The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issues this identification number for those who do not have a Social Security Number. Having a Social Security Number to open a bank account is not mandatory. Some banks and credit unions may accept documents, such as a consular identification card with a photograph to verify identity.
  1. Proof of address: An up-to-date and valid document showing the customer’s name and address. This information could be found in a utility or cable bill, for example—any payment document that provides both pieces of information—or even the rental agreement for the apartment where you reside.
  2. Money: When opening the account, you need to make an initial deposit, which can be the minimum required by the institution or more. You can deposit with cash, a check, or a transfer.

Business Bank Account

If you’re opening a bank account for your business, make sure you prepare and bring the following documents with you:

  1. Documents regarding the structure of your business detailing who is in charge of finances and how it operates. For corporations or LLCs, this may include articles of incorporation or articles of organization—anything about the company’s name, purpose, structure, and basic administration.
  2. Ownership agreement outlining the rights and responsibilities of each business owner.
  3. A certificate with the legal name of your business.
  4. A business license if it is necessary to operate legally.
  5. Personal identification of the business owner, similar to those required for individual accounts.
  6. Employer Identification Number issued by the IRS.
  7. Money for an initial deposit.

What questions should you ask the bank when opening an account?

Before walking into a bank branch, have a list of questions prepared to help you determine which account will work best for you and your financial needs. Some of those questions may be:

  1. What are your monthly maintenance fees, and how can I avoid those fees?
  2. Are there any fees associated with different services, including ATM fees within and outside the network, or overdraft fees, and how can they be reduced or eliminated?
  3. What is your process for accessing funds from abroad?
  4. Do you have any current offers or discounts with opening accounts or credit cards?
  5. What is your current interest rate for depositing into a savings account?
  6. For a business banking account, what are the monthly transaction limits? And what additional banking services would I have access to, including loans, credit cards and line of credit?

What if you want to save for a few years from now?

Whether it’s to prepare for retirement, or maximize the return on cash for a down payment on a house, many banks have financial experts who can recommend different strategies and investment products to grow your money over the years.

Choose to work with a financial advisor who you can create a strong relationship with and are comfortable expressing concerns and expectations. Keep in mind in some cases, financial advisors may receive a commission deducted from a percentage of the assets they manage for their client and/or charge transaction fees.

All banks offer online access, but not all banks have branches. While digital banking, whether online or with an app, makes managing your finances convenient, having access to a physical branch where you can sit down with someone to discuss your personal or business financing needs may make all the difference.

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Heron Arts presents A Language of Flowers

by Magdy Zara

Heron Arts is pleased to announce the new solo exhibition of renowned painter Jet Martínez, who presents A Language of Flowers, a series of works comprising 20 paintings with a wide variety of styles and gradations.

Jet Martínez is a mixed media painter and muralist originally from Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, who now resides in Oakland, California.

In relation to the exhibition, A Language of Flowers, refers to the artist’s inspiration in floriography, a method intended to communicate meaning with types of flowers and floral arrangements to convey feelings difficult to express with words.

With A Language of Flowers, the artist aims to present a variety of emotions using color theories that reveal a deeper level of the work. Martínez considers this series a reflection of sensibilities about the state of the planet, with his own personal hardships, victories and self-discoveries.

About the artist it can be added that he is a prolific muralist and studio painter who creates vibrant emblematic compositions with elements of nature, highlighted by an aesthetic deeply rooted in his Mexican heritage and his exposure to Mexican folk art.

Jet Martinez moved to San Francisco to study painting and printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1997, after studying Spanish Literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The Un Lenguaje de Flores exhibition has been open since April 9 and ends on May 11, at 6 p.m. Times and appointments vary depending on the exhibition and tickets are completely free.

Heron Arts is located at 7 Heron Street, San Francisco.

King Liz a work that you should not miss

The play King Liz, directed by El Teatro Campesino veteran Kinan Valdez, is about a sports agent who must work very hard to make his career and that of a talented and rebellious athlete shine.

King Liz is a work by Fernanda Coppel, in which she makes it clear that veteran sports agents know that they have to fight to stay at the top, but if you are a woman, it is doubly difficult.

With an elite client list and nearly unbeatable drive, Liz Rico is ready to take over the agency she helped build. She then faces high school basketball superstar Freddie Luna. With her turbulent past and a temperament as passionate as her talent, he could make her career and hers if she can keep things under control. But at what price?

The cast is made up of: Liz Rico (Damaris Divito); Gabby Fuentes (Alycia Adame); Mr. Candy (Ray Renati); Freddie Luna (Davied Morales); Coach Jones (Fred Pitts) and Barbara Flowers (Caitlin Papp).

Hours are Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. Ticket prices range from $28 to $67.

The work is exhibited from April 11 to May 3. For more information at cltc.org/king-liz

Tickets range in price from $38 to $60.

Location City Lights Theater Company 529 S. Second St., San José.

Bachata with grapes

Caty’s Vineyard has scheduled classes called Bachata a Lodi, which are a series of bachata classes with a beautiful view of the vineyards along with the impressive sunset of the Lodi valley.

There are four lessons and a social dance party to celebrate the completion of the series.

Classes start at 7:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., Bachata class and open practice afterwards.

The dance classes will be taught by Edna Ramírez and will be on April 5, 12 and 26. On May 3, the last class will be held and then a social dance party will begin from 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., with the participation of DJ TX209 with the best bachata, salsa, merengue and cumbia hits.

The complete course costs $50, for more information through the following link: https://bachatabythegrapes.eventbrite.com

Caty’s Vineyard is located at 11815 N Davis Rd Lodi.

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Claire Dunn and her sensory art: “I study the relationship between the body and the world”

The Argentine artist has lived in SF since 2021. Her childhood between Buenos Aires and Córdoba, the union between psychology and art, the trip to England – which changed her life – have been the factors to inject an innovative style into her art, and which allows you to develop contact with the City

by Jonathan Raed

Friday April 5, 2024

Claire Dunn was born in Buenos Aires 28 years ago in Pilar, a town located in the urban cordon that surrounds the Federal Capital, although it is part of the urban area, it is characterized by being far from the noisy dynamics of the capital, without a doubt it is an ideal place for a sensitive person looking to connect with themselves; and that is where she -Claire- lived during her first years, accompanied by her parents and her brother.

Claire mentions that her and her family’s names are not common in an Argentine family and it is because her grandfather Denis was of English origin and also because her grandmother Margaret was an artist, with whom she has spent a lot of time making art in Cordoba Argentina. She adds “My parents gave us names that they liked how they sounded with the last name” and when she was little she didn’t like having a different name, but over time she knew that it could help her be identified as a unique rhythm artist.

Silvia Fiori was his art teacher at school and also his professional mentor. She indicates that in addition to teaching him all the drawing and painting techniques, “she was an angel for me,” because he was going through an identity crisis and she accompanied him to self-study. discover yourself through art.

Claire studied psychology at the University of Salvador (BA) and thanks to that she obtained an exchange scholarship to England where she stayed for almost a year; place where she found part of the inspiration for her artistic practice, since at only 22 years old she was able to hitchhike, walk and by bus until she knew each other “intimately.”

That contact with the world was essential for her artistic expressions. As happened with psychology, she considers that both disciplines are closely related and that fascinates her, since she can study this connection. She did so in her psychology thesis, where she delved into that link by working with many artists to conclude that “art can be a way to mental health.”

In 2021, she arrived in the United States, in order to pursue a master’s degree in art in San Francisco. “I wanted to understand and connect with the place, the trees and the people who live here, so I did it by walking many hours around the city. Talking to many strangers along the way and asking questions. To this end, there is a quote by Rebecca Solnit that says: ‘Walking is the only way to compare the rhythm of the body with the rhythm of the earth.’

In that sense, she considers that each place has a constellation of conditions, which create and affect the experience of life, with the codes of the place being those that remain imprinted on the human being. It is even said that “climatic conditions influenced the beginning of different religions in the world.”

Claire’s art is unique, it does not have much background and the streets of San Francisco were key to its development. She narrates that on each walk she picked up tree bark and fallen leaves on the sidewalk that caught her attention. And when she returned to her studio, without a final goal, she sewed, embroidered and joined the barks that she had collected, creating different shapes, and at the same time “processing everything she experienced during the day.” This process became a “meditative” practice.

Over time, the barks became sculptures, to show “a dialogue between me and my surroundings.” Then, she began picking up discarded human-made objects; trash. Objects that inspired her. And so, her practice completely transformed to: “exploring the world of sculpture with found objects,” she indicated. However, Claire’s work is interdisciplinary, ranging from sculpture and painting to experimental photography, immersive installations and invented tools. She adds that in everything she seeks to “connect my body to my location, focusing on the unique qualities of each place” and thanks to sensory research she manages to study the relationship between the body and the world.

Dunn has exhibited her work in Argentina and the US, in venues such as the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Center, the Minnesota Street Project, the Palo Alto Art Center and the Argentine Embassy in Washington DC . Likewise, she has been a resident artist at La Flecha del Arte in Argentina, and has managed to win the Monson Arts Abbott Watts Residency Award in Maine and the Recology AIR in San Francisco.

Claire puts everything of herself into her works, even her own DNA: “These days I am working a lot on my photograms,” “combining my analog macro-photographic documentation of objects found in the forest with my own DNA (extracted from my hair and saliva); in addition to other elements such as broken mirrors that have my fingerprints, to create abstract and dynamic drawings with different tools such as sandpaper, and nails,” she explained.

With the warmth that characterizes her, Claire indicates that her art is about “molded skins from different trees; I lift them from the ground and I find that each bark has memory, “because she considers that each tree is a being with personality and its skins fall off without being noticed, and for that reason she lifts them and gives them life again.”

Dunn not only has her own style, but also her own tools. “When I paint, I do it with hand-carved tools that I created from sticks that I also picked up from the floor; generally, from the tree called Redwood. Each piece has the latitude and longitude where it was found, and the year carved. It’s a feeling of mapping how I move in space. “I also explore other ways of moving my hand and using tools,” she described.

Finally, she talked about her future. “I learned how to curate exhibitions. I love asking questions, opening dialogue with other artists and having them respond in her own way, with her art or perhaps adding more questions. That’s what it’s about because collaborating with people is also something that fascinates me. My dream is to be able to continue traveling, see the world and continue making art, meeting incredible people along the way,” she concluded.

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Claire Dunn and her sensory art: “I study the relationship between the body and the world.”

The Argentine artist has lived in SF since 2021. Her childhood between Buenos Aires and Córdoba, the union between psychology and art, the trip to England – which changed her life – have been the factors to inject an innovative style into her art, and which allows you to develop contact with the City

by Jonathan Raed

Claire Dunn was born in Buenos Aires 28 years ago in Pilar, a town located in the urban cordon that surrounds the Federal Capital, although it is part of the urban area, it is characterized by being far from the noisy dynamics of the capital, without a doubt it is an ideal place for a sensitive person looking to connect with themselves; and that is where she -Claire- lived during her first years, accompanied by her parents and her brother.

Claire mentions that her and her family’s names are not common in an Argentine family and it is because her grandfather Denis was of English origin and also because her grandmother Margaret was an artist, with whom she has spent a lot of time making art in Cordoba Argentina. She adds “My parents gave us names that they liked how they sounded with the last name” and when she was little she didn’t like having a different name, but over time she knew that it could help her be identified as a unique rhythm artist.

Silvia Fiori was his art teacher at school and also his professional mentor. She indicates that in addition to teaching him all the drawing and painting techniques, “she was an angel for me,” because he was going through an identity crisis and she accompanied him to self-study. discover yourself through art.

Claire studied psychology at the University of Salvador (BA) and thanks to that she obtained an exchange scholarship to England where she stayed for almost a year; place where she found part of the inspiration for her artistic practice, since at only 22 years old she was able to hitchhike, walk and by bus until she knew each other “intimately.”

That contact with the world was essential for her artistic expressions. As happened with psychology, she considers that both disciplines are closely related and that fascinates her, since she can study this connection. She did so in her psychology thesis, where she delved into that link by working with many artists to conclude that “art can be a way to mental health.”

In 2021, she arrived in the United States, in order to pursue a master’s degree in art in San Francisco. “I wanted to understand and connect with the place, the trees and the people who live here, so I did it by walking many hours around the city. Talking to many strangers along the way and asking questions. To this end, there is a quote by Rebecca Solnit that says: ‘Walking is the only way to compare the rhythm of the body with the rhythm of the earth.’

In that sense, she considers that each place has a constellation of conditions, which create and affect the experience of life, with the codes of the place being those that remain imprinted on the human being. It is even said that “climatic conditions influenced the beginning of different religions in the world.”

Claire’s art is unique, it does not have much background and the streets of San Francisco were key to its development. She narrates that on each walk she picked up tree bark and fallen leaves on the sidewalk that caught her attention. And when she returned to her studio, without a final goal, she sewed, embroidered and joined the barks that she had collected, creating different shapes, and at the same time “processing everything she experienced during the day.” This process became a “meditative” practice.

Over time, the barks became sculptures, to show “a dialogue between me and my surroundings.” Then, she began picking up discarded human-made objects; trash. Objects that inspired her. And so, her practice completely transformed to: “exploring the world of sculpture with found objects,” she indicated. However, Claire’s work is interdisciplinary, ranging from sculpture and painting to experimental photography, immersive installations and invented tools. She adds that in everything she seeks to “connect my body to my location, focusing on the unique qualities of each place” and thanks to sensory research she manages to study the relationship between the body and the world.

Dunn has exhibited her work in Argentina and the US, in venues such as the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Center, the Minnesota Street Project, the Palo Alto Art Center and the Argentine Embassy in Washington DC . Likewise, she has been a resident artist at La Flecha del Arte in Argentina, and has managed to win the Monson Arts Abbott Watts Residency Award in Maine and the Recology AIR in San Francisco.

Claire puts everything of herself into her works, even her own DNA: “These days I am working a lot on my photograms,” “combining my analog macro-photographic documentation of objects found in the forest with my own DNA (extracted from my hair and saliva); in addition to other elements such as broken mirrors that have my fingerprints, to create abstract and dynamic drawings with different tools such as sandpaper, and nails,” she explained.

With the warmth that characterizes her, Claire indicates that her art is about “molded skins from different trees; I lift them from the ground and I find that each bark has memory, “because she considers that each tree is a being with personality and its skins fall off without being noticed, and for that reason she lifts them and gives them life again.”

Dunn not only has her own style, but also her own tools. “When I paint, I do it with hand-carved tools that I created from sticks that I also picked up from the floor; generally, from the tree called Redwood. Each piece has the latitude and longitude where it was found, and the year carved. It’s a feeling of mapping how I move in space. “I also explore other ways of moving my hand and using tools,” she described.

Finally, she talked about her future. “I learned how to curate exhibitions. I love asking questions, opening dialogue with other artists and having them respond in her own way, with her art or perhaps adding more questions. That’s what it’s about because collaborating with people is also something that fascinates me. My dream is to be able to continue traveling, see the world and continue making art, meeting incredible people along the way,” she concluded.

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Peso ‘eclipses’ US dollar, trades at 16.30

by the El Reportero‘s wire service

The Mexican peso continued its hot streak on Monday, appreciating to its strongest level against the dollar in almost nine years.

After strengthening on Friday to close at 16.46 to the greenback, the peso appreciated around 1 percent to reach 16.30 to the dollar on Monday, its strongest position since August 2015.

The currency subsequently weakened slightly to close at 16.33, according to the Bank of Mexico.

Asserting that the Mexican peso had “eclipsed” the US dollar on a day on which the moon totally obscured the view of the sun from parts of North America, the El Financiero newspaper reported that the peso was the world’s best-performing emerging market currency in Monday trading.

Gabriela Siller, director of economic analysis at Mexican bank Banco Base, said on the X social media platform that the appreciation of the peso was due to three factors.

She cited the inflow to Mexico of foreign currencies from exports, remittances and direct foreign investment (FDI); the “expectation” that the wide gap between interest rates in Mexico and the United States “will attract capital to Mexico”; and the “expectation” that nearshoring “will attract waves of dollars” to Mexico due to an increase in FDI and exports.

The peso also got a boost from a general weakening of the dollar, as shown by a slight decline on the DXY index, which measures the value of the greenback against a basket of foreign currencies.

The peso has benefited for an extended period from the difference between the Bank of Mexico’s key interest rate — currently set at 11 percent after a 25-basis-point cut last month — and the 5.25 percent-5.5 percent rate of the United States Federal Reserve. The March 21 decision by the Bank of Mexico board to reduce rates hasn’t had an adverse impact on the peso despite a narrowing of that gap.

In fact, the peso has appreciated around 2.5 percent since the interest cut was made. Compared to the beginning of last year when one dollar was buying around 19.5 pesos, the gain for Mexico’s currency is almost 20 percent.

With inflation still above the Bank of Mexico’s 3 percent target, interest rates are expected to remain high in Mexico for some time. Inflation data for the entire month of March will be published later this week.

With reports from El Financiero, El Informador, El País and Aristegui Noticias

Crisis between Mexico and Ecuador debated by Celac foreign ministers

The regional organization chaired pro tempore by the Head of State of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, seeks to take action after the recent forced entry of Ecuadorian security forces into the facilities of the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest the former vice president. Jorge Glas.

Given the lack of respect for international conventions that stipulate the inviolability of diplomatic headquarters and recognize the right of asylum, Castro will call the Summit of Presidents scheduled for April 12.

The call includes requiring the government of Ecuador to rectify the events that occurred in flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention regarding diplomatic relations and the Caracas Convention on asylum, as well as redirecting the appropriate procedure of said regulations in the case. of the request made by former Vice President Glas.

On behalf of Mexico, Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena will formalize the establishment of a lawsuit before the International Court of The Hague and advocates for the support of her counterparts in the Celac countries, in addition to sending a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, to be presented to the UN, the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly.

In this sense, Celac will promote dialogue as a means of solution to restore diplomatic ties between Mexico and Ecuador and, if this is not possible, assume political positions whether jointly, bilaterally, or in multilateral organizations, for its entirety. compliance.

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Banning cellphones at school brings positive changes for students

by Mark Richardson

Separating high school students from their cellphones might be seen as a daunting task but one California school said having students stash them during the school day has brought some surprising results.

Administrators at High Tech High in San Diego said fostering a phone-free school environment led to positive change. Starting this school year, High Tech High required students to relinquish their phones at the beginning of the day.

Colleen Glass, compliance officer for the school, said tracking student perceptions and observing the impact of cellphones on the learning culture provides a compelling case study.

“Where before, they were sitting in those spaces and kind of ‘heads down’ into their technology, they’re now sitting in those spaces and having conversations,” Glass explained. “There’s a lot more engagement and conversation in class, because students are talking to each other and they’re not listening to their AirPods.”

Across the country, more than three-quarters of K-12 public schools prohibit nonacademic cellphone use, according to a report from the 2021-2022 school year. But only 43 percent of public high schools have such a rule and it is often not enforced.

Doug Keller, partnerships lead for the nonprofit Youth Truth, said it has been tracking students’ experiences over the past decade in such areas as engagement, relationships, culture, academic challenges and their overall sense of belonging. He noted once the phones were gone from classes, the majority of students showed improvement in several areas.

“When they implemented the policy, we saw a sharp jump upward,” Keller reported. “We saw growth, students feeling a stronger sense of belonging at their school because of this new policy, after seeing a decline that matched the decline that we have anecdotally seen elsewhere.”

Keller added Youth Truth surveyed students to measure the “intersection of student voice, school improvement and key indicators of the student experience.” It also includes areas like peer collaboration and relationships with their teachers. He emphasized they will continue the study in future years.

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The REAL Solution to the UN Madness

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:

The content of this article, authored by journalist James Corbett, does not reflect the view and opinion of El Reportero and its staff. It is published for entertainment and to explore diverse ideas. – Marvin Ramírez.

by Corbett |

Apr 7, 2024 – You’ll never guess what just happened. Politico published an article about a real solution!

Yes, an honest-to-goodness solution!

Shocking, isn’t it?

Even more shocking: it’s a solution that details how we can free ourselves from the clutches of the UN!

And the most shocking thing of all: this proposed solution isn’t a “don’t throw us in the briar patch” trick to get the public to back some alternative plan for global enslavement. It’s a solution that attacks the root of the problem and, by extension, threatens the globalist agenda itself.

Now, let’s not get carried away here. Naturally, the establishment lapdogs over at Politico have only reported on this solution in order to disparage the idea and those who are forwarding it. But still, to see an actual solution being discussed on a dinosaur media platform at all is itself an amazing development.

So, what on earth is going on here? Let’s put on our reading glasses and take a look.

If you exclusively follow mainstream news and establishment propaganda, you might have heard of the Paris Agreement, the accord adopted at the UN’s annual “Conference of the Parties” climate talks in Paris in 2015. And, if you do exclusively follow those sources of misinformation, then you’ll have some vague, woolly-headed idea that the Paris Agreement is a magical parchment that will—through some mystical process you can’t quite explain—placate the weather gods enough to limit future global temperature increases to 1.5°C (2.7°F).

If, however, you are a dedicated Corbett Reporteer, then you’ll know that:

But, like it or not, unless you happen to be a resident of Iran, Libya or Yemen—the only three nation-states on the planet that have not ratified this net zero death pledge—you are subject to this agreement.

Enter Trump. Back in 2017, Trump announced Washington’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. However, by a strange coincidence, the earliest date that the US could actually withdraw from the treaty was November 4, 2020, the day after the American presidential (s)election. And, as we all know, Sleepy Uncle Joe won the (s)election and promptly signed up the US to rejoin the agreement.

So, what lessons can we learn from this ordeal? Given the fact that this on-again, off-again withdrawal charade accomplished precisely nothing, how can we ensure that a subsequent withdrawal attempt actually works?

Well, we could choose to believe that the Orange Man is our MAGA saviour and, in order to end all climate nonsense forever, Americans will just have to vote even harder in 2024!

. . . But that is an aggressively stupid take, one which fundamentally misunderstands the reality of the situation and thus arrives at a “solution” that is no solution at all. Even if you believe Trump is actually against the globalists—which / is, needless / to / say, an / easily / demonstrable / lie—then the only thing that the US’ failed Paris withdrawal demonstrates is that what can be arbitrarily struck down by one president can be arbitrarily resurrected by another.

Imagine a universe in which the voting machines had declared Trump the winner in 2020 and the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement had stuck. Americans would be in the exact same boat today that they were then: hoping that Trump’s appointed successor wins the next (s)election in order to keep the US out of Paris.

No, leaving the United States’—or any other country’s—participation in the climate scam up to the caprice of a would-be ruler’s whims is no solution at all.

So, how can the US exit Paris for good?

Enter Político.

Earlier this month, the Washington propaganda rag published an article on “How Trump could exit Paris—and make it stick,” which purports to reveal a new idea cooked up by “prominent conservatives”:

The idea, included in a 920-page policy report, is to pull the United States out of the 1992 treaty that underpins the Paris deal, known as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. That would be a serious step beyond what Trump did during his first term, when he exited the Paris Agreement but continued sending delegations to the annual UN climate talks.

While a president can unilaterally reenter the Paris deal (as President Joe Biden did), rejoining the underlying convention could require a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate — a tall order.

That “could” in the last sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting, but for the time being let’s take the idea at face value: rejoining the UNFCCC after a withdrawal from that convention would require a (difficult to obtain) two-thirds majority Senate vote.

At first glance, proposing that the US withdraw from the UNFCCC seems like a refreshingly radical idea. (“Radical” as compared to the usual milquetoast platitudes and meaningless gestures that generally accompany American political campaigns, anyway.) No doubt, this suggestion is closer to being a solution to the problem of the growing UN climate tyranny than the withdrawal charade that Trump teased the public with during his administration.

But the devil, as always, is in the details. Upon further inspection, it turns out that this “withdrawal” is—exactly like Trump’s ineffectual action—part of a parlor game being played by the political establishment. This time, the globalists on the right are reading the anti-establishment mood of the average voter and are deciding to cosplay as crusading anti-globalist populists in order to win votes.

Specifically, this UNFCCC withdrawal strategy—first reported on by E&E News—sources back to “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” a “policy roadmap” put together by an organization called Project 2025.

Project 2025 describes itself as a “broad coalition of conservative organizations that have come together to ensure a successful administration begins in January 2025.” It is being spearheaded by The Heritage Foundation and bankrolled by the likes of Leonard Leo and Pierre Omidyar, among many others.

As an elitist group of Beltway insiders funded by questionable Deep State operatives, you might expect that they have embedded a booby trap in their policy roadmap . . . and you’d be correct. You see, Project 2025 isn’t actually advocating for the US to reject the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC and the entire climate hoax narrative. Instead, it’s merely complaining that the agreement is “inimical to the prosperity of the United States.”

No, Project 2025 doesn’t want to question the climate narrative itself and consign the entire $100 trillion house of cards that is the green swindle to the dustbin of history. They just want to negotiate a bigger slice of that $100 trillion pie for Uncle Sam.

Lest there be any doubt on this point, Project 2025 member Mandy Gunasekara recently explained to E&E News what the group wants to see happen with this climate deal in the future:

Let’s create a better agreement that’s focused more on tangible solutions and expanding the reach of innovative technology, instead of the current Paris climate accord and the UNFCCC that has China designated as a developing country permanently.

Ah, I see. No, let’s not reject the UNFCCC and the climate scam itself. Instead, let’s “create a better agreement” that will give the American corporatocracy a chance to reap greater profits from the scam!

This is of course exactly the way Trump framed the problem when he failed to withdraw from Paris the first time. Speaking about his decision to pull out of Paris in 2017, Trump stressed that the agreement “disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries.” That’s why he refused to rebuke the entire climate hoax and withdraw from the UNFCCC altogether.

In fact, he was eager to make clear that he was not seeking to end US participation in the climate hoax, but rather to “begin negotiations to reenter either the Paris Accord or a really entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers.”

So, just to be clear, neither Politico nor Project 2025 nor Trump nor any of the other lying, manipulative globalist insiders in the corrupt political system are going to save Americans (or anyone else) from the climate tyranny of the UNFCCC and its insidious Paris Agreement.

Having said that, the underlying idea that they are teasing the public with is a first step toward a real solution to this UN tyranny.

Yes, the US and every other country on the planet should withdraw from the UNFCCC. Not just because pulling out of the UNFCCC will automatically end the Paris Agreement, and not just because these agreements are economically disadvantageous to American workers, but because the UNFCCC is a blatant political power grab masquerading as concern for Mother Earth (that is, in fact, based on psuedoscientific woo-woo).

Considering the incredible power of this simple idea, the next logical question is . . .

Why Stop There?

Why stop with the UNFCCC? Why not withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), too? After all, as Corbett Reporteers are aware by now, the WHO is planning a political power grab of its own at the upcoming World Health Assembly in Geneva this May.

Specifically, the WHO technocrats are hoping to rubber stamp a raft of amendments to the International Health Regulations and a new Pandemic Agreement that may or may not include a slew of new tyrannical biosecurity measures (although no one can be sure, because they are still negotiating the details behind closed doors).

So, if member states can withdraw from the UNFCCC in order to bring down the Paris Agreement, can they also withdraw from the WHO in order to escape the clutches of the Pandemic Agreement? Of course they can.

For those who are concerned about the legalities and procedures involved with such a move: fret not! There are lawyers working on this very problem as we speak. Dr. Francis Boyle, for example—the man who drafted the US legislation implementing the Biological Warfare Convention and someone who has been calling out the scamdemic since day one—provides his own assessment of the legalities of member state withdrawal from the WHO in “Exiting The World Health Organization“:

A Withdrawal from the WHO Constitution can be accomplished by invoking the Doctrine of Fundamental Change of Circumstances under Article 62 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Article 62 codified the rule of customary international law then known and still known today as rebus sic stantibus. Therefore, all States should be able to invoke the Doctrine of Fundamental Change of Circumstances/rebus sic stantibus even if they are not parties to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. It was never known or contemplated or even suspected that at the time States became contracting parties to the WHO Constitution that the WHO would someday attempt to transform itself into a totalitarian worldwide medical police state by means of the proposed Amendments to the International Health Regulations and/or the proposed Pandemic Treaty.

What’s interesting about Dr. Boyle’s proposed approach is that it is not specific to the WHO itself and does not rely on appeal to any particular clause of the WHO Constitution or withdrawal procedure in the WHO playbook. Merely by making the point that the WHO has undergone a fundamental change of circumstances—a transformation into “a totalitarian worldwide medical police state by means of the proposed Amendments to the International Health Regulations and/or the proposed Pandemic Treaty,” as Dr. Boyle puts it—any state could enact a unilateral and immediate withdrawal from the organization.

Indeed, the legal mechanics of a withdrawal from the WHO are fascinating . . . but they seem to me to miss the point. In the final analysis, who cares what legal mumbo jumbo can or can’t be invoked to complete a withdrawal? Withdrawal from the WHO or from the UNFCCC isn’t the end result of a magical legal incantation, it’s a unilateral action. And—much like the phoney baloney paper money Ponzi scheme being run by the central banks of the world—the only thing keeping the UN’s whole house of cards from coming down is that every country plays along with the fiction that they are legally obligated to participate in these organizations.

After all, if the US or another major member simply pulled out of the WHO, what are they going to do? Send their lawyers? Oooh, scary.

So, once we’ve formed the widespread, grassroots movement that will be responsible for effecting our withdrawal from the UNFCCC and the WHO—because, needless to say, neither Project 2025 nor any other group of partisan Beltway insiders will actually accomplish any of this for us—why stop there? Why not press forward and withdraw from all the global treaties and organizations?

Given that both the UNFCCC and the WHO are merely organs of the United Nations beast, so why not cut off the head of the snake and withdraw from the UN altogether? And, once newly liberated from the UN, why not start extracting ourselves from all the other talons of the globalist bird of prey?

Bye-bye, World Trade Organization!

Arrivaderci, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development!

Sayonara, NATO!

Hasta la vista, European Union!

Smell ya later, International Parliamentary Union!

Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, Earth Federation! (What, you don’t know about the Constitution for the Federation of the Earth? You need to watch more Corbett Report!)

Of course, after we’ve uncorked this bottle and let the withdrawal genie out, we might as well take it all the way. In other words, once we’ve removed our federal governments from all these globalist agreements and organizations, we need to remove the next layer of involuntary, top-down control. We can get to work organizing the secession of the states from the USA, of the provinces from the dominion of Canada, of the prefectures from Japan, and of the countries from the UK. And then we can begin declaring sovereignty of counties. And then it’s time to devolve power down to the municipalities, and next to neighbourhoods, and finally . . .  to sovereign individuals?

Well, one can always dream.

But, until people wake up and reclaim their individual sovereignty, we can at least start withdrawing from the WHO and the UNFCCC and all the other globalist death pledges that we find ourselves bound to.

I say: “Enough with half-measures and tinkering around the edges of the globalist scam! It’s time to withdraw from all the international treaties and institutions!”

Who’s with me?

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The REAL Solution to the UN Madness

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:

The content of this article, authored by journalist James Corbett, does not reflect the view and opinion of El Reportero and its staff. It is published for entertainment and to explore diverse ideas. – Marvin Ramírez

by Corbett |

Apr 7, 2024 – You’ll never guess what just happened. Politico published an article about a real solution!

Yes, an honest-to-goodness solution!

Shocking, isn’t it?

Even more shocking: it’s a solution that details how we can free ourselves from the clutches of the UN!

And the most shocking thing of all: this proposed solution isn’t a “don’t throw us in the briar patch” trick to get the public to back some alternative plan for global enslavement. It’s a solution that attacks the root of the problem and, by extension, threatens the globalist agenda itself.

Now, let’s not get carried away here. Naturally, the establishment lapdogs over at Politico have only reported on this solution in order to disparage the idea and those who are forwarding it. But still, to see an actual solution being discussed on a dinosaur media platform at all is itself an amazing development.

So, what on earth is going on here? Let’s put on our reading glasses and take a look.

If you exclusively follow mainstream news and establishment propaganda, you might have heard of the Paris Agreement, the accord adopted at the UN’s annual “Conference of the Parties” climate talks in Paris in 2015. And, if you do exclusively follow those sources of misinformation, then you’ll have some vague, woolly-headed idea that the Paris Agreement is a magical parchment that will—through some mystical process you can’t quite explain—placate the weather gods enough to limit future global temperature increases to 1.5°C (2.7°F).

If, however, you are a dedicated Corbett Reporteer, then you’ll know that:

But, like it or not, unless you happen to be a resident of Iran, Libya or Yemen—the only three nation-states on the planet that have not ratified this net zero death pledge—you are subject to this agreement.

Enter Trump. Back in 2017, Trump announced Washington’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. However, by a strange coincidence, the earliest date that the US could actually withdraw from the treaty was November 4, 2020, the day after the American presidential (s)election. And, as we all know, Sleepy Uncle Joe won the (s)election and promptly signed up the US to rejoin the agreement.

So, what lessons can we learn from this ordeal? Given the fact that this on-again, off-again withdrawal charade accomplished precisely nothing, how can we ensure that a subsequent withdrawal attempt actually works?

Well, we could choose to believe that the Orange Man is our MAGA saviour and, in order to end all climate nonsense forever, Americans will just have to vote even harder in 2024!

. . . But that is an aggressively stupid take, one which fundamentally misunderstands the reality of the situation and thus arrives at a “solution” that is no solution at all. Even if you believe Trump is actually against the globalists—which / is, needless / to / say, an / easily / demonstrable / lie—then the only thing that the US’ failed Paris withdrawal demonstrates is that what can be arbitrarily struck down by one president can be arbitrarily resurrected by another.

Imagine a universe in which the voting machines had declared Trump the winner in 2020 and the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement had stuck. Americans would be in the exact same boat today that they were then: hoping that Trump’s appointed successor wins the next (s)election in order to keep the US out of Paris.

No, leaving the United States’—or any other country’s—participation in the climate scam up to the caprice of a would-be ruler’s whims is no solution at all.

So, how can the US exit Paris for good?

Enter Político.

Earlier this month, the Washington propaganda rag published an article on “How Trump could exit Paris—and make it stick,” which purports to reveal a new idea cooked up by “prominent conservatives”:

The idea, included in a 920-page policy report, is to pull the United States out of the 1992 treaty that underpins the Paris deal, known as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. That would be a serious step beyond what Trump did during his first term, when he exited the Paris Agreement but continued sending delegations to the annual UN climate talks.

While a president can unilaterally reenter the Paris deal (as President Joe Biden did), rejoining the underlying convention could require a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate — a tall order.

That “could” in the last sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting, but for the time being let’s take the idea at face value: rejoining the UNFCCC after a withdrawal from that convention would require a (difficult to obtain) two-thirds majority Senate vote.

At first glance, proposing that the US withdraw from the UNFCCC seems like a refreshingly radical idea. (“Radical” as compared to the usual milquetoast platitudes and meaningless gestures that generally accompany American political campaigns, anyway.) No doubt, this suggestion is closer to being a solution to the problem of the growing UN climate tyranny than the withdrawal charade that Trump teased the public with during his administration.

But the devil, as always, is in the details. Upon further inspection, it turns out that this “withdrawal” is—exactly like Trump’s ineffectual action—part of a parlor game being played by the political establishment. This time, the globalists on the right are reading the anti-establishment mood of the average voter and are deciding to cosplay as crusading anti-globalist populists in order to win votes.

Specifically, this UNFCCC withdrawal strategy—first reported on by E&E News—sources back to “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” a “policy roadmap” put together by an organization called Project 2025.

Project 2025 describes itself as a “broad coalition of conservative organizations that have come together to ensure a successful administration begins in January 2025.” It is being spearheaded by The Heritage Foundation and bankrolled by the likes of Leonard Leo and Pierre Omidyar, among many others.

As an elitist group of Beltway insiders funded by questionable Deep State operatives, you might expect that they have embedded a booby trap in their policy roadmap . . . and you’d be correct. You see, Project 2025 isn’t actually advocating for the US to reject the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC and the entire climate hoax narrative. Instead, it’s merely complaining that the agreement is “inimical to the prosperity of the United States.”

No, Project 2025 doesn’t want to question the climate narrative itself and consign the entire $100 trillion house of cards that is the green swindle to the dustbin of history. They just want to negotiate a bigger slice of that $100 trillion pie for Uncle Sam.

Lest there be any doubt on this point, Project 2025 member Mandy Gunasekara recently explained to E&E News what the group wants to see happen with this climate deal in the future:

Let’s create a better agreement that’s focused more on tangible solutions and expanding the reach of innovative technology, instead of the current Paris climate accord and the UNFCCC that has China designated as a developing country permanently.

Ah, I see. No, let’s not reject the UNFCCC and the climate scam itself. Instead, let’s “create a better agreement” that will give the American corporatocracy a chance to reap greater profits from the scam!

This is of course exactly the way Trump framed the problem when he failed to withdraw from Paris the first time. Speaking about his decision to pull out of Paris in 2017, Trump stressed that the agreement “disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries.” That’s why he refused to rebuke the entire climate hoax and withdraw from the UNFCCC altogether.

In fact, he was eager to make clear that he was not seeking to end US participation in the climate hoax, but rather to “begin negotiations to reenter either the Paris Accord or a really entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers.”

So, just to be clear, neither Politico nor Project 2025 nor Trump nor any of the other lying, manipulative globalist insiders in the corrupt political system are going to save Americans (or anyone else) from the climate tyranny of the UNFCCC and its insidious Paris Agreement.

Having said that, the underlying idea that they are teasing the public with is a first step toward a real solution to this UN tyranny.

Yes, the US and every other country on the planet should withdraw from the UNFCCC. Not just because pulling out of the UNFCCC will automatically end the Paris Agreement, and not just because these agreements are economically disadvantageous to American workers, but because the UNFCCC is a blatant political power grab masquerading as concern for Mother Earth (that is, in fact, based on psuedoscientific woo-woo).

Considering the incredible power of this simple idea, the next logical question is . . .

Why Stop There?

Why stop with the UNFCCC? Why not withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), too? After all, as Corbett Reporteers are aware by now, the WHO is planning a political power grab of its own at the upcoming World Health Assembly in Geneva this May.

Specifically, the WHO technocrats are hoping to rubber stamp a raft of amendments to the International Health Regulations and a new Pandemic Agreement that may or may not include a slew of new tyrannical biosecurity measures (although no one can be sure, because they are still negotiating the details behind closed doors).

So, if member states can withdraw from the UNFCCC in order to bring down the Paris Agreement, can they also withdraw from the WHO in order to escape the clutches of the Pandemic Agreement? Of course they can.

For those who are concerned about the legalities and procedures involved with such a move: fret not! There are lawyers working on this very problem as we speak. Dr. Francis Boyle, for example—the man who drafted the US legislation implementing the Biological Warfare Convention and someone who has been calling out the scamdemic since day one—provides his own assessment of the legalities of member state withdrawal from the WHO in “Exiting The World Health Organization“:

A Withdrawal from the WHO Constitution can be accomplished by invoking the Doctrine of Fundamental Change of Circumstances under Article 62 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Article 62 codified the rule of customary international law then known and still known today as rebus sic stantibus. Therefore, all States should be able to invoke the Doctrine of Fundamental Change of Circumstances/rebus sic stantibus even if they are not parties to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. It was never known or contemplated or even suspected that at the time States became contracting parties to the WHO Constitution that the WHO would someday attempt to transform itself into a totalitarian worldwide medical police state by means of the proposed Amendments to the International Health Regulations and/or the proposed Pandemic Treaty.

What’s interesting about Dr. Boyle’s proposed approach is that it is not specific to the WHO itself and does not rely on appeal to any particular clause of the WHO Constitution or withdrawal procedure in the WHO playbook. Merely by making the point that the WHO has undergone a fundamental change of circumstances—a transformation into “a totalitarian worldwide medical police state by means of the proposed Amendments to the International Health Regulations and/or the proposed Pandemic Treaty,” as Dr. Boyle puts it—any state could enact a unilateral and immediate withdrawal from the organization.

Indeed, the legal mechanics of a withdrawal from the WHO are fascinating . . . but they seem to me to miss the point. In the final analysis, who cares what legal mumbo jumbo can or can’t be invoked to complete a withdrawal? Withdrawal from the WHO or from the UNFCCC isn’t the end result of a magical legal incantation, it’s a unilateral action. And—much like the phoney baloney paper money Ponzi scheme being run by the central banks of the world—the only thing keeping the UN’s whole house of cards from coming down is that every country plays along with the fiction that they are legally obligated to participate in these organizations.

After all, if the US or another major member simply pulled out of the WHO, what are they going to do? Send their lawyers? Oooh, scary.

So, once we’ve formed the widespread, grassroots movement that will be responsible for effecting our withdrawal from the UNFCCC and the WHO—because, needless to say, neither Project 2025 nor any other group of partisan Beltway insiders will actually accomplish any of this for us—why stop there? Why not press forward and withdraw from all the global treaties and organizations?

Given that both the UNFCCC and the WHO are merely organs of the United Nations beast, so why not cut off the head of the snake and withdraw from the UN altogether? And, once newly liberated from the UN, why not start extracting ourselves from all the other talons of the globalist bird of prey?

Bye-bye, World Trade Organization!

Arrivaderci, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development!

Sayonara, NATO!

Hasta la vista, European Union!

Smell ya later, International Parliamentary Union!

Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, Earth Federation! (What, you don’t know about the Constitution for the Federation of the Earth? You need to watch more Corbett Report!)

Of course, after we’ve uncorked this bottle and let the withdrawal genie out, we might as well take it all the way. In other words, once we’ve removed our federal governments from all these globalist agreements and organizations, we need to remove the next layer of involuntary, top-down control. We can get to work organizing the secession of the states from the USA, of the provinces from the dominion of Canada, of the prefectures from Japan, and of the countries from the UK. And then we can begin declaring sovereignty of counties. And then it’s time to devolve power down to the municipalities, and next to neighbourhoods, and finally . . .  to sovereign individuals?

Well, one can always dream.

But, until people wake up and reclaim their individual sovereignty, we can at least start withdrawing from the WHO and the UNFCCC and all the other globalist death pledges that we find ourselves bound to.

I say: “Enough with half-measures and tinkering around the edges of the globalist scam! It’s time to withdraw from all the international treaties and institutions!”

Who’s with me?

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