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The Global Government is preparing a global tax regime  

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

 

Dear readers: If you haven’t heard of the New World Order or Global Government, or the global tax, this article will enlighten you on the subject. It’s a great educational reading written by one of my favorite independent media investigative reporters – without an agenda or political affiliation. – Marvin Ramírez.

 

by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
November 30, 2019

 

The New World Order’s global(ist) government has just proposed a new global taxation regime to solidify their control over the tax cattle on the human plantation we call planet Earth….

. . . But perhaps you missed that story when it ran in the controlled corporate media last month. Maybe that’s because the New York Times went with the headline “Tech Giants Shift Profits to Avoid Taxes. There’s a Plan to Stop Them.”

And maybe you missed it when the global government put out its press release announcing its intentions in October. Maybe that’s because the globalists are hiding behind the moniker “The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development” (OECD) and titled their document announcing the scheme “Secretariat Proposal for a ‘Unified Approach’ under Pillar One.”

In fact, you could be forgiven for missing this story given the way it has been non-announced and un-reported. “Secretariat Proposal for a ‘Unified Approach’ under Pillar One”? What does that hodgepodge of bureaucratic gobbledygook even mean?

If you’re like 99.9% of the public, those words, when presented without context, would mean absolutely nothing to you. And if you’re like 99.99% of the public you probably dozed off just reading that title. (And if you think that’s bad, just wait until you get to the action-packed, informative first sentence of the document’s introduction: “The tax challenges of the digitalisation of the economy were identified as one of the main areas of focus of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action Plan, leading to the 2015 BEPS Action 1 Report.”)

Yes, the most important and horrific pieces of legislation are presented to the public under false cover, either by naming it the opposite of what it is—USA FREEDOM Act, anyone?—or by giving it an incomprehensible and thoroughly uninteresting title and spelling it out in impenetrable legalese.

So what’s the real story here, and what does it mean for the future of free humanity? Let’s roll up our sleeves and find out, shall we?

First things first: Yes, Virginia, there is a global government. The trick is that the globalists don’t refer to it as “global government.” Instead, they have split it up into a number of disparate but interlocking organizations that cooperate and coordinate actions at a number of different levels in various economic, financial and political spheres.

There’s the World Trade Organization. The IMF and World Bank and the BIS and the FSB. The United Nations. The G7 and the G20. The BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. The World Economic Forum. Bilderberg and the CFR and the Royal Institute for International Affairs. The Council of the Americas. And seemingly a million other organizations, including the OECD.

In this case, the OECD has been handed the “global tax” football by the G20. Picture it this way: The G20 is quarterbacking and they want to get the ball to the OECD to run it up the field. Quarterback G20 hands it off to “The OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS,” which then passes it to the Task Force on the Digital Economy. Unless you’re watching closely, you won’t even know who has the ball. But you don’t have to watch very carefully to tell that all these organizations are just different players on the same team: Team Globalist. And the ball is about to be run into the end zone.

OK, enough metaphor. Here’s the point: the G20 and the OECD have been pushing to implement a global taxation regime under the guise of—as the venerable NYT puts it—”prevent[ing] large multinational companies like Apple, Facebook and Amazon from avoiding taxes by shifting profits between countries.”

It’s a classic Problem – Reaction – Solution set up that will lead us inevitably into the maw of the globalist beast.

Problem – Tech giants are shifting their profit sources to countries with lower tax rates.

Reaction – The public, already mad at Big Tech in particular and the corporate fat cats in general, clamor for someone to come along and enforce stricter rules to stop these multinational companies from acting multinationally.

Solution – The global government will save us all with a global tax net!

But as you might have guessed, this isn’t just about Big Tech and multinationals. The G20 and the OECD have been working for years now to get the ball rolling on building out the infrastructure for a total global taxation grid.

This process traces back to the US and its implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) back in 2010. At the time, FATCA was touted as a way for the IRS to sink its claws into all those pesky international tax evaders. As was pointed out at the time, FATCA essentially ended any pretense of bank secrecy, requiring all foreign financial institutions to disclose any information they had on holdings by US persons. It took a few years, but by 2013 a number of states had signed on to the deal (yes, even Switzerland) and began opening up their banks’ books to inspection by the IRS. This was followed up by the launch of an IRS-run “International Data Exchange” in 2015, making it easier than ever for subservient vassal states to spill the financial beans on anyone in Uncle Sam’s crosshairs.

When the G20 saw how well all this was working, they wanted in on the action. At the September 2013 G20 Summit in Russia they provided the mandate for the OECD to form its own body to look into a reciprocal data-sharing agreement between the 36 OECD signatories. In 2016, the OECD concluded negotiations on the predictably eye-wateringly boringly titled “Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting” which led to a mandate from the 2017 G20 Summit for a task force to issue an interim report on the digitalization of the economy that led to further rounds of meetings and negotiations that led to this latest “Public consultation document.”

Clear as mud? I thought so. And that’s the point.

The global government is not going to step out from behind the curtain and admit that there’s a global government in the process of slotting a global tax grid into place. No, you can rest assured that when they finally do pull back the curtain, the whole thing will be done. A fait accompli. And you won’t be able to complain because it all took place right there in plain sight. How on earth did you not see it?

Let’s be clear: This is not the end of the story. This story is still very much in the process of unfolding. And even when and if this OECD task force does manage to get some version of its proposed global minimum corporate tax rate in place, this will not be used to issue a global tax ID to everyone on the planet and get them on the grid the next day.

No, this process will take years to reach that end goal. But therein lies the danger. This is a war of attrition being waged in stealth from behind a smokescreen of bureaucracy and legalese. And not on person in a thousand even knows it’s happening.

 

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Cancer prevention: 6 ways nature helps you fight cancer

by Darnel Fernández

 

Cancer has been on the rise in recent years, with statistics from the American Cancer Society (ACS) estimating a grand total of more than 1.7 million new cancer cases in the US. Researchers from the ACS found that at least 42 percent of these newly diagnosed cancer cases – about 740,000 – are avoidable. This includes the 19 percent of cancers caused by smoking and the 18 percent caused by a combination of excess body weight, high alcohol intake, poor nutrition and lack of physical activity. Certain lifestyle changes help reduce the risk of cancer, but nature can also bring some surprising cancer-fighting benefits that will help you stay healthy and cancer-free.

Natural ways to prevent cancer

One way to reduce your risk of cancer is through your diet. In fact, maintaining an overall healthy diet is a good line of defense against many health problems, including obesity and cardiovascular disease. Here are some reasons why a healthy diet is a good way to curb cancer:

  1. Decreases inflammation. Recent studies have shown that there is a link between inflammation and cancer progression. According to a study in the journal Nature, many of these cancers can start from a point of infection, chronic irritation and inflammation. Cox -2, for instance, is an enzyme responsible for both increasing inflammation and promoting cancer. This calls for increased awareness of anti-inflammatory foods and supplements to reduce the harmful effects of such compounds. For example, curcumin, the active ingredient of the spice turmeric, is widely known for its potent anti-inflammatory effects used in traditional medicine for hundreds of years. You can also include fatty fish like salmon and tuna in your diet, which are chock-full of healthy omega-3 fatty acids that also possess anti-inflammatory properties.
  2. Prevents DNA damage. Many cancers begin with some sort of DNA damage that triggers the cells to become cancerous. One of the main suspects of DNA damage is oxidative stress caused by the accumulation of harmful molecules known as free radicals. Oxidative stress not only leaves you more vulnerable to cancer, but also increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes. You can prevent this by eating foods that are rich in antioxidants, compounds that can combat oxidative stress. These foods include blueberries, pecans and kale.
  3. Triggers apoptosis. When a healthy cell reaches the end of its existence, it undergoes a process called apoptosis or cell death. Cancer cells, however, work differently. They ignore the signals that trigger this process and keep replicating. Nutrients like curcumin and those found in cruciferous vegetables – namely DIM I3C – can destroy cancer cells and promote their self-destruction.
  4. Prevents metastasis. Cancers, like breast cancer, are often characterized by metastasis or the spread to nearby organs like the lungs, liver and even the brain. Certain nutrients like sulforaphane – found in cruciferous vegetables — can help inhibit the tumor’s ability to spread.
  5. Stops blood vessels from feeding tumors. Once a tumor develops, it needs a steady supply of blood to keep growing. To do so, the body develops new blood vessels. This process is called angiogenesis. There are anti-angiogenic foods that can help inhibit this process. Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), which is found in abundance in green tea, is especially effective against angiogenesis.
  6. Blocks abnormal estrogen production. Inhibitors can block the production of estrogen in the body and can lead to some serious side effects. Fortunately, there are plenty of natural ways to regulate your hormones. For example, lignans from flax seeds can bind excess aggressive estrogens present in the body and expel them. The hormone melatonin – found in cherries – can put breast cancer cells to “sleep.”

Stay cancer-free by adopting a healthy, balanced diet full of organic and fresh foods to help you live a much longer and healthier life. (Natural News).

 

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‘Close to slavery’ or legalization? The farmworkers’ hard choice

ROYAL CITY, WA- 4MAY17 - H2A guest workers string up wire supports for planting apple trees, in an field owned by Stemilt Growers. Jaime Solorio is an immigrant contract worker recruited in Mexico. They will work a few months, and then will have to return to Mexico. The company has trained them to do this skilled work. Copyright David Bacon

Article and photo by David Bacon

 

In Chicano and Mexican families, the grandfathers who came to the United States as braceros (and almost all braceros were men) are mostly gone now. These farmworkers were considered only temporary migrant laborers, yet despite being denied the right to settle in this country and raise families, thousands of them eventually did just that. Their perseverance created homes and communities throughout the Southwest. From the program’s inception in 1942 to its abolition in 1964, bracero labor produced enormous wealth for the growers who employed them.

That wealth had a price. Braceros were almost all young men, recruited into a program that held them in labor camps, often fenced behind barbed wire, separate from the population around them. When their contracts ended, they were summarily shipped back to Mexico. Growers used braceros to replace local farmworkers, themselves immigrants from Mexico and the Philippines, in order to keep wages low and often to break strikes. To bring their families here, braceros had to work many seasons for a grower who might finally help them get legal status. Others left the camps and lived without legal status for years.

In 1958, economist Henry Anderson charged in a report, (for which growers got the University of California to fire him) that, “Injustice is built into the present system, and no amount of patching and tinkering will make of it a just system … Foreign contract labor programs in general will, by their very nature, wreak harm upon the lives of the persons directly and indirectly involved, and upon the human rights our Constitution still holds to be self-evident and inalienable.”

Anderson’s call helped lead to the abolition of the bracero program, but his warning cannot be buried safely in the past. Today, contract labor in agriculture is mushrooming again, with workers brought mostly from Mexico, but also from Central America and the Caribbean. States are beginning to pass laws to deal with its impact, and a new bill in Congress does what Anderson cautioned against—expand the contract labor program for agricultural labor—in exchange for the promise of legal immigration status for some undocumented farmworkers.

Debate over today’s contract labor program unfolds in a virulently anti-immigrant atmosphere, much like that of the 1950s. Many supporters of proposals to benefit undocumented migrants believe that only major concessions can give such proposals a realistic chance of enactment. But the bracero program’s history, during a similar period of deportations and nativist hysteria, may provide an idea of what the future might look like if such compromises become law.

In the Cold War era of the 1950s and early 1960s, the U.S. government mounted huge immigration raids. Farm labor activists of that era charged they were intended to produce a shortage of workers in the fields. Fay Bennett, executive secretary of the National Sharecroppers Fund, reported that in 1954, “the domestic labor force had been driven out … In a four-month period, 300,000 Mexican illegals [sic] were arrested and deported, or frightened back across the border.”

All told, 1.1 million people were deported to Mexico that year, in the infamous “Operation Wetback.” The bracero program, begun in 1942, was already in place, organizing the recruitment of contract laborers in Mexico for U.S. farmers. As the raids drove undocumented workers back to Mexico, the government then relaxed federal requirements on housing, wages, and food for braceros.

In 1956 alone, 445,197 braceros were brought to work on U.S. farms, 153,000 just in California. They made up almost a quarter of the 2.07 million wage workers on U.S. farms that year, according to the Department of Agriculture. “The availability of braceros held down farm worker earnings,” says University of California, Davis agricultural economist Philip Martin. In the decade of the 1950s, median farm wages rose from 85 cents an hour to $1.20, while wages in the cities took a bigger jump, from $1.60 to $2.60.

By law, bracero wages were not supposed to undermine wages for resident workers, and growers were supposed to offer jobs to local workers before they were allowed to bring in braceros. But activists “accused certain large growers of offering wages lower than domestic migrants will accept, in order to create an artificial labor shortage and justify a request for Mexican nationals,” wrote H.B. Shaffer in a 1959 report. The bracero program “tends to displace those [resident] workers rather than meet real labor shortages.”

Bennett agreed: “The alleged domestic labor shortage in the [rural] area is artificially created by pay rates too low for decent living.” The activists of those years who protested included future leaders of the United Farm Workers Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong, as well as leading community organizers Bert Corona and Ernesto Galarza.

Today’s labor picture on U.S. farms has changed surprisingly little from that of the 1950s. Industrial agriculture in the Southwest and along the Pacific coast relies on Mexican labor, as it has for a century. About 2.4 million people presently work for wages in U.S. agriculture, a slight increase from 1956. Mexicans made up the majority of farmworkers then, and today are two-thirds of the workforce. U.S. immigration law and its enforcement have never eliminated Mexicans from the workforce, but indirectly control the conditions under which they live and work. Mexican academic Jorge Bustamante argues that a primary purpose of U.S. immigration law historically has been—and still is—to regulate the price of Mexican labor in the United States.

Depending on the period, farmworkers come across the border with visas or without them. Especially since the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994, the economic forces displacing people in Mexico, pushing them across the border, have made migration a necessity for survival for millions of families. During times of heavy enforcement, hundreds die on the border each year. In an earlier similar period, Woody Guthrie sang, “We died in your hills, we died in your deserts … Both sides of the river, we died just the same.”

Also, unlike the bracero era, when recruitment was jointly managed by the U.S. and Mexican governments, recruitment today is privatized. No one knows for sure who all the recruiters are, how they recruit people in Mexico, or their arrangements with U.S. growers. The largest recruiter may be a company called CSI, formerly Manpower of the Americas, which claimed to have recruited 30,000 Mexican workers in 2017 and is closely tied to WAFLA.

In the 1990s, Manpower of the Americas maintained a legal blacklist of workers who would be denied employment—including those who’d been involved in worker activism, who protested bad conditions, or who just worked too slowly. Today, the CSI website warns, “CSI shares candidate [worker] records with companies to select whomever they see fit.”

The Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 essentially ties legalization for undocumented farmworkers and guest worker programs together. This compromise bill guarantees growers a labor supply at a price they want to pay, while at the same time providing a pathway to legal residence for many undocumented farmworkers.

Last Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee approved the bill and sent it to the House floor.

In the end, the fate of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act may be overtaken by election politics. Since the original comprehensive immigration bills were introduced under President George W. Bush, common wisdom in Washington holds that passing an immigration bill is practically impossible during a presidential campaign.

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Abandoned train station is silent witness to enslavement of Yaqui Indians

Slave market and concentration camps in Jalisco

by John Pint

 

While paging through an archaeological guide to western Mexico, I came upon a cryptic reference to a long-abandoned train station near the small town of San Marcos, Jalisco, located 80 kilometers west of Guadalajara.

It said, “Yaquis were once sold here (as slaves) for 25 cents a head . . . Around the station were located concentration camps where hundreds of indigenous people died of hunger and disease.”

When I asked my Mexican friends whether they had ever heard of such a thing, they asked me if I had ever heard of a book called Barbarous Mexico by an American named John Kenneth Turner.

I found the book and because it had been published in 1911, I was able to read all of it online at Wikisource. Despite the title, I quickly learned that the book is not an attack upon the Mexican people, but an exposé of the atrocities committed against many of them by President Porfirio Díaz during 34 years of repeated “unopposed reelection.”

One of the worst schemes of the Díaz government, says Turner, was the provocation of the Yaqui Indians to rebellion in order to clear them out of Sonora so their land — rich for both mining and agriculture — could be sold to Americans.

The Yaquis were put on boats at Guaymas and shipped to San Blas, where they were forced to walk over 300 kilometers to San Marcos. Here were large concentration camps where families were broken up. Individuals were then sold inside the station and packed into train cars which took them to Veracruz. Another boat ride took them to Progreso in Yucatán, from which they were taken to the plantation which would be their tomb.

John Kenneth Turner, a reporter for the Los Angeles Express, first learned about this business in 1908 from several Mexicans locked up in the local county jail.

“What are you accused of?” he asked them.

“Invading a friendly country,” they replied.

“What country is that?” he asked.

“Mexico,” they answered.

Turner inquired as to why they would want to invade their own country.

“Because the constitution has been suspended and awful things are happening.”

When he asked for concrete examples, the jailed Mexicans told him that great numbers of people were being bought and sold like cattle and forced to work on sisal plantations until they dropped dead — even though Mexico had abolished slavery many years before.

Turner was determined to see for himself and traveled to Mérida where he passed himself off as a rich man anxious to invest in the lucrative henequen hemp business.

Here he discovered that the Yaquis were indeed slaves in the worst sense of the word, beaten bloody every morning at roll call, forced to work in the blazing sun from dawn to dusk on little food, locked up every night and beaten again if they failed to cut and trim at least 2,000 henequen leaves per day.

The Yaqui women, separated from their families, were forced to “marry” Chinamen and every baby born on the plantation was worth up to $1,000 cash to the owner. At least two-thirds of the Yaquis arriving in Yucatán were dead before the end of the first year of such treatment.

Turner was able to interview some of the slaves. One man with a baby on his arm said he was plowing in his field when the soldiers came. “They did not give me time to unhitch my oxen,” he said.

“Where is the mother of your baby?” inquired Turner. “Dead in San Marcos,” replied the young father. “That three weeks’ tramp over the mountains killed her.”

Indeed, Turner’s informants agreed that “the crudest part of the trail was between San Blas and San Marcos “where women with babies fell down on the roadside, never to get up again.”

It would first appear that those who must have grown rich from these atrocities were Porfirio Díaz, his relatives and cronies, but the book points out that more than half the sisal was shipped to the U.S.A. and Turner accuses wealthy families such as the Hearsts, the Rockefellers and the Guggenheims of having profited the most from the expropriated lands of the Yaquis and Mayas as well as the “Flaming Hell” of the henequen plantations.

The Yaqui people were famed for being hard-working and strong. Between 1904 and 1909, according to Turner, around 15,000 of them were rounded up, forced along the tortuous route to Yucatán and enslaved. Despite their extraordinary strength, most of them died within the first year on the plantations, raising questions of whether they were the victims of genocide.

After years of abandonment, the San Marcos train station was renovated and turned into a cultural center. In my opinion, the building ought to be a memorial to the Yaquis, but there is not even a plaque commemorating the pain and sorrow suffered there.

 

Today, few citizens of the area are aware of the atrocities which took place in the train station. Eighty-year-old Juan Díaz of San Marcos remembers stories of “false promises made by President Porfirio Díaz” in those times and recalls that those who took the bait “were rewarded by becoming slaves in the henequen plantations.”

Others say they remember rumors that Yaqui Indians had been sold in the place. Nevertheless, not one of the 10 histories of San Marcos found in the local library mentions a word about the mistreatment of Yaquis in the area.

Turner’s book raised eyebrows at the time of its publication and has even been called “the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of slavery in Mexico.” As it is filled with passion and indignation, it might not be considered objective. A more scholarly treatment of the same subject, however, was published by Duke University Press in 1974.

This is Development and Rural Rebellion: Pacification of the Yaquis in the Late Porfiriato by Evelyn Hu-Dehart, a professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.

Hu-Dehart confirms the great majority of Turner’s claims, with the notable exception of his assertion that the Yaquis were essentially peaceful. “The Díaz government did not provoke the Yaqui rebellion, but inherited it,” says Hu-Dehart, who points out that the Yaquis inevitably sided with anyone fighting the authorities and refused to accept any deal giving them less than the one thing they wanted: complete autonomy in their lush corner of Sonora.

Interestingly, Hu-Dehart’s unemotional paper provides hard evidence for what might seem Turner’s most controversial accusation: that the government of Porfirio Díaz deliberately attempted the genocide of the Yaqui Indians. She quotes the words of General Lorenzo Torres to the chief of the Yaquis in 1908: “The government is . . . disposed to exterminate all of you if you continue to rebel.”

If you are traveling along Highway 4 in the state of Jalisco, perhaps visiting the Great Stone Balls of Ahualulco, or the Guachimontones (Circular Pyramids) of Teuchitlán, you might want to stop at the San Marcos train station, which is just 420 meters off that road, to reflect on the barbarous events which took place there and perhaps wander in the beautiful eucalyptus grove next to the old building.

All traces of the Yaquis’ passing have been obliterated, but their decomposing bodies probably helped give life to those tall, proud trees and perhaps they are the best memorial of all to the many souls who were murdered at San Marcos.

To find the train station, patiently type “N20.77867W104.18994” into Google Maps. It’s a 75-minute drive from the west end of Guadalajara.

The writer has lived near Guadalajara, Jalisco, for more than 30 years and is the author of A Guide to West Mexico’s Guachimontones and Surrounding Area and co-author of Outdoors in Western Mexico. More of his writing can be found on his website.

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Massive march pro-life in Costa Rica asks that abortion not be legalized

by Harumi Suzuki

ACI Press

 

On Dec. 1, the “To Life I Say Yes” march took place in San José, capital of Costa Rica, where thousands of people went out to ask President Carlos Alvarado not to sign the technical norm that would legalize the unpunished abortion in the country, but open a dialogue table on the subject.

The representative of the Awake Costa Rica (DCR) movement, one of the groups that make up the National Front for Life, Mariano Murillo Cedeño, said to ACI Prensa that this march was carried out thanks to “the union of civil groups, churches and the congress people or politicians, all together for the defense of life in all its stages”.

“They filled at least 10 blocks full of people marching, we are talking about more than a kilometer,” he said.

During the march, Karla Chaves, representative of Doctors for Life, Deputy Shirley Díaz of the Christian Social Unity Party (PUSC), Elsa Naranjo of 40 days for life, Gerald Bogantes de Juristas por la Vida, Fr. Ronny Solano and Pastor Cynthia Bermúdez of the Abundant Life Church.

Mariano informed that the objective of the march was “to request the Government to open a dialogue table to have a voice and vote in everything that concerns the technical Standard”, because to date “it has been handled with a lot of secrecy, there is no access to the medical records of women who were allegedly violated by denying them abortion, nor the agreement reached between the country and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. ”

“The regulation has not been exposed to the public and different government authorities have said it should be opened to allow abortions in social or psychological cases,” he added.

Through a manifest manifesto at the start of the day, the National Front for Life highlighted the president’s duty to respect the Constitution and laws, especially those that protect unborn children.

In addition, it indicates that the Executive Power “does not have the power to regulate or the regular exercise of the rights and freedoms of individuals. The regulation of the exercise of fundamental rights is a matter reserved” to the Legislative Power.

“Costa Rica has been recognized worldwide for its social peace, based mainly on solidarity assistance to those who need it most and the defense of the most vulnerable,” they said. “The efforts of the Executive Power should focus on promoting public policies in favor of the life of the unborn and the protection of the mother in the state of risk, instead of telling woman that the only option granted by the State is the destruction of the baby in her womb, ”they added.

Finally, I will emphasize the technical norm “not only is it unnecessary, but its issuance would be completely unconstitutional, it would violate international human rights treaties.”

 

Panama will host the China-Latin America and the Caribbean Summit

According to the organizers, almost 2,000 businessmen and leaders from China, Latin America and the Caribbean will meet for the first time in Panama as part of the 13th China-LAC Summit 2019.

Speaking to the press, the president of the Organizing Committee of the event, Gabriel Barletta, highlighted the role of this mechanism in the last 13 years, mainly in those nations of the region with which the Asian giant maintains a formal relationship.

He noted that the political and economic stability of the Central American nation, which favors the business environment between entrepreneurs and investors, the geographical position and the multimodal logistics platform, influenced the decision to hold the event in this country.

Barletta said that, as a positive balance, the summit could facilitate access to new markets and consolidate Panama as the gateway for entrepreneurs from other latitudes to the Americas.

The China-LAC Summit, the most important commercial event that brings together Chinese, Latin American and Caribbean companies, will be held from December 9 to 12 in the capital of the Atlapa Convention Center.

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MEETING NOTICE IN THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO

MEETING NOTICE
NOTICE OF THE CHIEF OFFICIAL OF ELECTIONS ON THE TIME AND PLACE OF THE PUBLIC MEETING WITH VOTERS OF THE COUNTY
OF SAN MATEO ABOUT THE OPTION LAW FOR VOTERS OF CALIFORNIA

The San Mateo County Registration and Elections Division will conduct
a public meeting on Tuesday, December 10, 2019, at 3 p.m.

The purpose of the meeting is as follows:

• Provide a forum for the public opinion of County voters on the Law
of Options for California Voters and on an amended Election Administration Plan for the administration of elections between 2020 and 2024.
• Provide a forum for the public to give their opinion to the Registry Division and
Elections on access to the electoral process for voters.

The meeting will be held at the following place:
Board Chambers
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The amended Election Administration Plan is available at www.smcacre.org.
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Notifying the meeting in advance will allow the Registration Division and
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There is not much to celebrate for Native Americans on Thanksgiving

EDITOR’S NOTE

 

Dear readers

 

For updating purposes, this article will come out one day after Thanksgiving, so I say I hope you had a wonderful family reunion in the middle of a delicious dinner in peace and love. This article, written by David J. Silverman, describes what history has forgotten to emphasize about this holiday. I hope you enjoy it. – Marvin Ramírez.

 

The mythical harmony of the First Thanksgiving taught in school is the most obvious offense against history. After that, it just gets worse

 

by David J. Silverman

 

While I have been researching and writing a Wampanoag-centered history of Plymouth Colony and the Thanksgiving holiday, my conversations with Native people have opened my eyes to some profound lessons about their past and present. These teachings have particular resonance this Thanksgiving season as the United States continues to struggle with white nationalism, the importance of distinguishing between truth and lies in democratic debate, and the place of indigenous people in a pluralistic country with a colonial foundation.

Native people widely agree that the U.S. has yet to reckon with its history of white violence against their people. Instead, the country uses the myth of the First Thanksgiving to make it appear that Indians consented bloodlessly to colonialism.

That myth, reinforced over and over again through grade school Thanksgiving pageants, holiday decorations, and television specials, is the only cameo Indians make in the colonial history curriculum in many American schools. Unfortunately, it is terrible history and even worse civics.

The myth tells that supposedly friendly Indians (rarely identified by tribe) voluntarily gifted their country to the Pilgrims in order to lay the foundations for a white, Christian, democratic United States. As for why these Indians were so welcoming in the first place, this myth has nothing to say. It does not address the fact that the Wampanoags had already experienced years of slave raiding by European sailors before the appearance of the Mayflower, and that those contacts had introduced them to a devastating plague that more than halved their population and left them vulnerable to their inter-tribal enemies. Thus, when the Pilgrims arrived, the Wampanoags looked to them for a military alliance despite their wariness of English treachery.

The Thanksgiving Myth also evades the fact that the celebrated peace between the Wampanoags and Plymouth was rife with tensions from the start and ultimately degenerated into a bloody war. During the celebrated 50 years of peace following the First Thanksgiving, the Wampanoags complained endlessly about the English encroaching on their land, undermining their political systems, and asserting their jurisdiction over purely Indian affairs.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/11/151121-first-thanksgiving-pilgrims-native-americans-wampanoag-saints-and-strangers/

Not coincidentally, there were recurrent war scares during these years as Native leaders reached across tribal lines to make common cause against their common colonial threat. The tension finally broke in King Philip’s War of 1675-76, which led to the deaths of thousands of Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc, and other indigenous people, and the enslavement of thousands more. The Thanksgiving Myth ignores this consequence of the Pilgrim-Wampanoag alliance, though clashes of this sort were a basic feature of American colonial history.

Some American history courses might teach about King Philip’s War, but few have anything to say about how many Wampanoags and other Native New Englanders survived after their military subjugation. Over the following centuries, they endured white society’s reduction of them and their children to indentured servitude and the ongoing occupation of their lands. They also suffered white people denying they were Indians at all based on the intermarriages and cultural adjustments they had made to survive under white domination. In other words, Americans are rarely taught the incredible achievement that American Indians are still here, every bit as much a part of the modern world as everyone else.

Indigenous people also widely bemoan that Americans’ lack of historical understanding about the Native American contributes to a marked lack of recognition of their place in the country, a general lack of compassion for their historic struggles, and widespread unawareness about their ongoing fights for sovereignty and cultural self-determination. Indeed, many of them feel invisible to the general public.

Lest we diminish the impact of these messages, consider the experience of a young Wampanoag woman who told me that when she was in kindergarten, the lone Indian in her class, her teacher cast her as Chief Massasoit in a Thanksgiving pageant and had her sing with her classmates “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land.” Reflecting on the moment as an adult, the cruel irony was not lost on her. As a child, she only knew enough to be embarrassed about it.

Not least of all, the widespread belief that modern Indians cannot be authentic and have no legitimate historic rights has contributed to a recent decision by Trump’s Department of the Interior to revoke a 2007 federal ruling that restored reservation lands to the Mashpee Wampanoags of Cape Cod, descendants of the very people who welcomed the Pilgrims.

No wonder, then, that many Native people, including the Wampanoags, charge that their fellow Americans lack sufficient gratitude for what they’ve sacrificed for the country. This feeling of victimhood is especially poignant given that many Native communities still suffer extraordinarily high levels of poverty, with all of its associated ills, while living in the shadow of sometimes garish wealth. Wampanoag people in southeastern New England, for instance, are confronted daily with the sight of outsiders’ extravagant coastal estates, occupied for only six or eight weeks in summer, built atop places where the ancestors are buried and where some of them fished, hunted, and gathered within memory. The image sickens and depresses. And yet there is no escaping it or the sense that other Americans revel in it.

In Thanksgiving season, one cannot drive past neighbors’ lawns or go to the store without confronting happy Pilgrim and Indian decorations, or turn on the television, radio, or computer without being bombarded with Pilgrim and Indian themes. Some schools continue to have children, including Native children, perform Thanksgiving pageants. For these reasons and more, the United New England Indians have held a National Day of Mourning in Plymouth every Thanksgiving Day since 1970, which is attended by indigenous people from throughout the hemisphere. They do not see American colonialism as something to celebrate.

Part of what I’ve learned through my conversations with Wampanoag people is that achieving some measure of repair and signaling that Americans value their Native countrymen and women requires compassion, gratitude, and a willingness to confront uncomfortable history. Taking these steps might also help us, collectively, to restore basic dignity, intelligence, and humanity to our civic culture.

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Notice of Election in Foster City

THIS IS TO NOTIFY that an election will be held
by revocation of mandate in the City of Foster City on Tuesday 3 of
March 2020, for the following:

Should Herb Pérez be removed (removed) from office
of the City Councilor of Foster City? Yes or No

If the majority of the votes in a recall proposal are “Yes,” the
officer is removed and, if there is a candidate, the candidate who receives the greatest
number of votes is the successor of the remaining period of the dismissed officer.

All registered voters will be sent a ballot by
mail. Voting centers will be open throughout the County of
San Mateo from 29 days before the elections. The polls will be
open between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p. m. Election Day.

The nomination period for replacement candidates begins on
November 12 and ends at 5:00 p. m. from December 19.

Contact the city secretary at 650-286-3253 to get
more information.

Priscilla Schaus, secretary of the city

Date: November 5, 2019
Published: November 15, 2019 – El Reportero CNS3312565

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NOTICE OF THE ELECTORAL OFFICIAL OF THE ELECTIONS OF THE HOUR AND THE PLACE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION, SEATS, FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY AND DISTRICT SPECIAL, AND PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEES OF THE COUNTY FOR WHICH WILL BE APPOINTED TO QUALIFIED CANDIDATES

THROUGH THIS PRESENT, IT IS NOTIFIED that a Presidential Primary Election will be held on Tuesday, March 3, 2020.

THROUGH THE PRESENT ALL QUALIFIED PEOPLE  ARE NOTIFIED that elections will be held in San Mateo County, State of California, with the purpose of electing members to the Federal, State, County and Special District Seats indicated below:

Federal and State Seats:

President and Vice President: 4-year period beginning January 20, 2021

Representative of the United States in Congress, Districts 14 and 18: 2-year period beginning January 3, 2021

State Senate, Districts 11 and 13: 4-year period beginning December 7, 2020

State Assembly, Districts 19, 22 and 24: 2-year period beginning December 7, 2020

Nonpartisan County Seats:

Superior Court Judge: 10 seats available; 6-year period beginning January 4, 2021

Board of Supervisors, Districts 1, 4 and 5: 4-year period beginning January 4, 2021

Special Districts:

East Palo Alto Sanitary District: 3 seats; 4 year period

Central Partisan County Committees

Democrat, Green, Peace and Freedom, and Republican

Please call the San Mateo County Registration and Elections Division at (650) 312-5238 for more information on the number of seats available.

The qualifications for the positions of Member, Board of Directors as set forth in the district’s principal record require that the candidate be a registered voter of the district, who is not disqualified by the Constitution or laws of the state from occupying a civil office and all other specifications contained in the main district record.

Candidate statements and nomination documents for eligible candidates who wish to run for any of the elective offices can be obtained from the Registration and Elections Division, 40 Tower Road, San Mateo, 650.312.5222, effective November 11, 2019, and must be submitted before 5:00 pm from December 6, 2019. If an eligible office holder does not present the nomination documents before the established date and time, voters will have until 5:00 p.m. from December 11, 2019 to nominate candidates who are not the holder for such position.

Appointment for each elective office will be made by the supervisory authority as established by the Elections Code, Section 10515 in the event that there is no candidate or an insufficient number of candidates for such office and that a petition has not been filed for a election in the time established by law, which is 5:00 pm from November 11, 2019.

I ALSO PROMOTE that in such election the constitutional amendments, questions, proposals and proposed initiatives of law that the Constitution and the laws of this State require to be submitted shall be submitted to the vote of the electors.

FURTHER NOTIFY that in such election the polling places will be open between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Election Day

FURTHER NOTIFY that the Voting Ballots by Mail, Voting Ballots of Voting Centers and the Provisional Ballots marked for the Election held on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, will be counted at the place indicated at continuation:

San Mateo County Registration and Elections Division

40 Tower Road San Mateo, CA 94402

Dated: November 15, 2019

/ f / Mark Church

Chief Election Officer and County Assessor-Secretary-Registrar

CNS-3298518 #

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Board of Supervisors, Districts 1, 4 and 5: 4-year period beginning January 4, 2021

NOTICE OF THE CHOICE OFFICIAL OF THE ELECTIONS OF THE HOUR AND THE PLACE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION, SEATS

FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY AND DISTRICT

SPECIAL, AND PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEES OF THE COUNTY FOR WHICH WILL BE APPOINTED TO QUALIFIED CANDIDATES

 

THROUGH THIS PRESENT, it is NOTIFIED that a Presidential Primary Election will be held on Tuesday, March 3, 2020.

THROUGH THE PRESENT ALL PEOPLE ARE NOTIFIED

QUALIFIED that elections will be held in San Mateo County, State of California, with the purpose of electing members to the Federal, State, County and Special District Seats indicated below:

Federal and State Seats:

President and Vice President: 4-year period beginning January 20, 2021

Representative of the United States in Congress, Districts 14 and 18: 2-year period beginning January 3, 2021

State Senate, Districts 11 and 13: 4-year period beginning December 7, 2020

State Assembly, Districts 19, 22 and 24: 2-year period beginning December 7, 2020

Nonpartisan County Seats:

Superior Court Judge: 10 seats available; 6-year period beginning January 4, 2021

Special Districts:

East Palo Alto Sanitary District: 3 seats; 4 year period

Central Partisan County Committees

Democrat, Green, Peace and Freedom, and Republican

Please call the San Mateo County Registration and Elections Division at (650) 312-5238 for more information on the number of seats available.

The qualifications for the positions of Member, Board of Directors as set forth in the district’s principal record require that the candidate be a registered voter of the district, who is not disqualified by the Constitution or laws of the state from occupying a civil office and all other specifications contained in the main district record.

Candidate statements and nomination documents for eligible candidates who wish to run for any of the elective offices can be obtained from the Registration and Elections Division, 40 Tower Road, San Mateo, 650.312.5222, effective November 11, 2019, and must be submitted before 5:00 pm from December 6, 2019. If an eligible office holder does not present the nomination documents before the established date and time, voters will have until 5:00 p.m. from December 11, 2019 to nominate candidates who are not the holder for such position.

Appointment for each elective office will be made by the supervisory authority as established by the Elections Code, Section 10515 in the event that there is no candidate or an insufficient number of candidates for such office and that a petition has not been filed for a election in the time established by law, which is 5:00 pm from November 11, 2019.

I ALSO PROMOTE that in such election the constitutional amendments, questions, proposals and proposed initiatives of law that the Constitution and the laws of this State require to be submitted shall be submitted to the vote of the electors.

FURTHER NOTIFY that in such election the polling places will be open between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Election Day

FURTHER NOTIFY that the Voting Ballots by Mail, Voting Ballots of Voting Centers and the Provisional Ballots marked for the Election held on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, will be counted at the place indicated at continuation:

San Mateo County Registration and Elections Division

40 Tower Road San Mateo, CA 94402

Dated: November 15, 2019

/ f / Mark Church

Chief Election Officer and County Assessor-Secretary-Registrar

CNS-3298518 #

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