Archive for April 26th, 2022
‘Table Talk’ Helps You Quickly Analyze Any Task Force*, Council, Commission, etc. (*Here, New York’s Task Force for a COVID-19 DV Response): Add Columns for Entity/Non-Entity, Website, Legal Domicile, and (For Size/Operations), Even For Some EIN#s, to Find AND read Any Tax Returns [Publ. Apr. 26, 2022].
Note to Readers:
I’ve published without having fully filled out a table at the bottom identifying the categories of every member of this task force’s listed affiliation. Several not filled out are entities or individuals on whom I’ve already researched and/or posted.
On the blog’s right sidebar, I just added a long explanation under a DONATE button near the top, that I cannot be publishing or so active on (Twitter) for the next days or possibly weeks because I must move within the next three weeks and do not even have a new place secured yet. I’m not really even sure of which city (or state) I’ll move to — only of a gut sense that staying local/urban won’t work. Failure to move out on time is not an option; not having a new lease signed before then would complicate the move and increase expenses, so I have to shut down my urge to keep writing and reporting.
But, as that explanation on the sidebar says, I’m still vitally alarmed about current developments in the family court reform field. Based on the backgrounds of the movement and the wording of the recent legislation in that context, I see and say that the recent alleged progress/triumphs (VAWA-based, or about endowments to push this through, state by state) are real triumphs for those talking it up — not for the victims or the public. I don’t see others on-line developing and posting any coherent reasons why, but the leaps in logic and requirement to engage in quasi-fantasy are obvious. Yet who will listen to survivors who don’t play their assigned roles?
I have the background (from writing this blog and continuing to follow so many elements), and ability to make a forceful statement (formally), but not while “on the move” and not yet.
Housing/Location: Towards the end of my years in California I’d been forced onto long-term hotel living (fiduciary abuse: main reason I left California). The last week, I had to move to three different hotels in four days; negotiating room rates constantly, while others pulled various strings such that I couldn’t even fulfil the rates I’d bargained for, and prepping for an out-of-state trek based on ONE connection in a state I’d never been to before.
Systematic production of fugitives: As we speak, I’ve known and now have some phone contact with women whose fugitive situation is far worse than mine ever was. What we are being put through has been (all along) outrageous: so is the hypocrisy of those taking HIGH salaries (see some below) for private-agenda advocacy, USA. I sometimes wish the field of “domestic violence” had never been professionalized, and I assert it never should have been privatized either.
RE: my last major move: I still remember how great it felt to have signed a 12-month lease again, in a new place far from the individuals who’d been behind over a decade of aggression in the family court system yet who were still not satisfied it’d been destructive enough. With a sense of privacy came a huge relief and sense of safety too. As a decision, I rank it high — alongside a much earlier one to file for legal intervention and protection from abuse with kick-out order, with young children. I had never before made a major move telling so few people (less than four and not my own children, because of the potential leak to their elders) where I was going. It was costly in the short run, but staying would’ve been even more costly. I’m so glad I made it out!
I’m thinking this next move might be the same. I do not know what’s up next, but it will be a change, not a perpetuation of the same dynamics. I’m seeking to again halve monthly living expenses and avoid both slumlords and mega-developer landlords who perceive and treat residents as their personal, perpetual ATMs, not human beings with real rights. I’ve experienced both (FYI, at least two of the slumlords were also lawyers., whereas high-rise developments outsource so many services, when billing fraud happens, you’re often faced with 1. another research project and 2. denial, no matter the facts. The alternative is litigation both sides know you can’t afford. There has to be another way to live! I’m looking for a place closer to ground level, with an enclosed garage (not just parking spot) where I can work on some projects, and enough land (need not be a lot) on which to grow a few vegetables, i.e., counteract some of this food inflation. It’s many variables at once, and of course, logistics.
(In case you’re wondering, physically the current place is fully functional in a way I can’t remember in many years — all appliances work, no vermin, generally speaking warm enough, and no one so far has messed with a parked car underground. The place is full of key-fobs to go in and out. Even the mailroom is secure (that’s a big plus). …But, the over-billing/double-billing — large and small amounts/relentless attempts to add on fees (then subtract only some of them after complaint) is never corrected, it’s adding up, and I do think it’s RICO. FYI, for this size operations, the issue of database integrity (billing and payment platforms) is a major issue, as well as transitions between one platform (or site-manager) and another: frequent turnover, and data (such as, my payments!) often lost in transition.
Speaking of that DONATE button, by the way, to at least encourage or show appreciation, feel free to contribute any amount ($10 or over); just realize it’s not tax-deductible (yet). I’m not trying to live off the blog, but beginning to need better justification (to my self) for taking time from planning for personal (longer term) survival. I will remove these opening comments after a few days; they are (after all) really NOYB. I may also remove the top section (in this background color, which was a spontaneous, last-minute effort, if I feel it doesn’t communicate well.
I enjoyed learning and writing this post so far, and hope you enjoy reading (all of) it. Another one (already complete) will be posted tomorrow. ..Thanks in advance for your time/LGH.
“Table Talk” in quotes is a pun here. It has another more common meaning, but here, I’m referring to that I literally think in terms of Tables with Labels when faced with such lists, or even an unknown (website or reference by some quoted expert). One of those key fields, which I so often talk about is defining the presence or absence, in the given name or affiliation, of an “Entity.”
My “drill-down” and full list (with plenty of links) is at the bottom; this part is just a sample showing how (based in prior knowledge, or recent look-ups for what I didn’t already know) I would think about such a list. In between is an even more interesting history on it, relating to its Chair…
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