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USA Today reports Trump has Officially Begun to Withdraw the US From the World Health Organization as Pandemic Spikes:
The Trump administration has officially begun to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grip the globe and infections spike in many states across the U.S.
Congress received formal notification of the decision on Tuesday, more than a month after President Donald Trump announced his intention to end the U.S. relationship with the WHO and blasted the multilateral institution as a tool of China. The White House said the withdrawal would take effect on July 6, 2021.
[...] The formal withdrawal comes as the United States nears 3 million reported coronavirus cases and more than 130,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Globally, there have been 11.6 million cases and almost 540,000 deaths.
Additional Coverage:
Trump administration moves to formally withdraw US from WHO
Trump administration begins formal withdrawal from World Health Organization
Trump Begins Process Of U.S. Withdrawal From World Health Organization
Previously:
(2020-05-20) Trump Threatens to Take US Out of WHO Entirely and Stop All US Funding
(2020-04-15) Trump to Halt Funding to WHO
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Thursday July 09 2020, @07:35AM
any system with an equivalent of "social credit" (quoted as it's newspeak appropriation of a valid monetary system concept, that used to be called social credit), CANNOT be a RES PUBLICA, because it's the very opposite.
Res publica: sovereign people (sovereign as a matter of fact, optionally underlined by a religion, not because of an arbitrarily drafted piece of paper called the constitution that builds rights out of itself) congregate to rule over interpersonal and common use resources regulations.
Social Credit: a cabal seizes power to regulate any public and potentially private aspect of the people's life, people are subjects.
Now, this isn't to blast China in particular. Democracy and The Republic are a nice concept, we should try it one of these days.
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