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“The Family Court Franchise System” (Blogspot.com, 2012 only, 40 posts and 7 Pages) Is Now Grafted into FamilyCourtMatters.org here (WordPress.com) as of April 7, 2019 [Updated (shortened) July 2-5, 2019].
THIS POST IS: “The Family Court Franchise System” (Blogspot.com, 2012 only, 40 posts and 7 Pages) Is Now Grafted into FamilyCourtMatters.org here (WordPress.com) as of April 7, 2019. (shortlink ends “-9Aj”)
… [2021 update: I never merged the blogs; the other one still seems functional, so links provided here should work… It’s still good to know about…//LGH]
2020 FORMAT UPDATE: THIS POST EXISTS TO PUBLISH A TABLE OF CONTENTS REPRESENTING THE MERGING OF ANOTHER OF MY non-WordPress BLOGS into this one to preserve its contents. I assigned short-links to the posts in anticipation of publishing them here, on my main (major) blog. However, as of July 28, 2020 (this update) most of them aren’t yet published (Life’s been busy…), and they may, or may not still be available in on prior blog. At the time, I had some messages that domain was going down and so moved quickly to preserve content by moving it here.. Here’s a partial image of that table. There’s a lot of explanation matter up front, for example, of why each title appears twice. (links to old blog also preserved here).
The visuals will be clearer than shown on this image from the post below//LGH
A snapshot of the table on my sticky post with short-link ending “-9Aj” published April, 2019…
[END, July 28, 2020 Update, to add this image].
This post may not be the best one to jump in on for a general blog overview. It’s actually an overview of a blog I merged into this one in 2019, having written it several years earlier, while the material is still relevant because the practices (and organizations pushing them, such as the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts or similar entities) are still pushing similar programming, and the same federal agencies (U.S.) continue also to fund programs, and have expanded scope and quantity, it seems affecting family court (and “human development”) outcomes.
A historic look from a different perspective (which mine still is!) is always helpful. If the concepts are new, the index below still shows post titles as a kind of overview, but I have not written this post for the purpose of re-summarizing everything (or this blog). I wrote it, as the title says, to merge two blogs and retain the record of post titles separately from my normal tables of contents.
This post is sticky because it serves a specific purpose for which I didn’t want it buried among all posts, however it’s only on [now, “near”//LGH July 28, 2020] the top (if it still is when you’re reading this) because it was published last. If you need less complicated visuals, or more plain text and fewer section titles, I recommend start at the top right sidebar, or just continue scrolling further down on this page to browse tables of contents, or current post titles. In mid-2019 I’ve been working on re-organizing and some streamlining of the blog, while continuing to write, and still many people just do not speak ‘economic’ when it comes to this subject matter, or in general, so explaining it gets a bit cumbersome….
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Featuring Five Vital Posts on …. Our Assigned Places in the Tax Continuum Pecking Order (from ABA, APA post update) [Publ. July 12, 2017]
Featuring Five Vital Posts on …. Our Assigned Places in the Tax Continuum Pecking Order (from ABA, APA post update) case-sensitive short-link ending “-7bR”
I(Oct 2014 updated July 2017, Pt. 3B, i.e., taken from “Do You Know Your…ABA, APA (Founders, History, and via their Forms 990/O or Financial Statements, As Nonprofits?), Or How the ABA from its start maneuvered around existing suffrage for “men of color” long after women also got the vote? If Not, Then You Also May Not Yet Know Your [the Public’s] Assigned Place in the Tax Continuum Pecking Order.”
WITHIN that post, I extracted a section about conversations we need to have: To Identify and UNDERstand is to know Why (and How) to WITHstand. (Public’s Assigned Place on the Tax Continuum Pecking Order, [from “Do You Know Your ABA, APA…?” Oct. 2014 Post Update] (case-sensitive shortlink this time ends “-7dX”). That brief post ends with a shortlink to this one (although without the fancy title).
That (short) post reminded readers of my Five Related Posts from the Vital Links menu whose themes continue to prove relevant year after year, no matter which topic I seem to be researching or reporting on. It also reminded and showed readers an interesting (and so far, typical) response to the relevance of the CAFR (Consolidated Annual Financial Reports) Mass Media Coverups when it’s brought to light.
THIS ONE was first started for technical (length, easier revision) purposes 7-7-2017. All paragraph breaks had been wiped out…
There were also at least two length issues here. One is me running my mouth in quasi-PTSD mode back in 2014 (a time of major household stress and transition as I had just outed relative probate/fiduciary abuse in the context of same relative’s prior involvement in undoing my work life via post-domestic violence separation’s family court litigation — on the opposing side, etc.) Another length issue was technical blogging ability — at the time I hadn’t discovered how to use (smaller) screenprints, instead of quotes, and or begun using condensed fonts inside quotes, or lines to set them off from basic text inside boxes. I hope to correct both without negating or erasing important content. But some post “surgery” may be required here….
BUT, I WILL STILL CONVEY THE PRIMARY MESSAGES:
CAFRs as a system of reporting for government entities regulated by a tax-exempt nonprofit set up by the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) only began, at least as regulated by this tax-exempt nonprofit, in the 1970s, by which time post World War II government surpluses were really starting to accumulate (as well as personal fortunes made in wartime).
Key to CAFR coverup is accounting practices which separate “BUDGET” from many other funds, handle “General Fund” as though it was the main source of government receipts (it most certainly isn’t at the federal, state, and most other levels). Being blissfully (??) ignorant of how to assess, see, or conceptualize just how many assets and in what forms, and under what funds, all levels of (USA – federal) (States — all 50 and territories) governments, plural, exist and where they are pooled, or where held separately, “the people” are easily fooled into accepting the constant talk of DEFICIT without regard to NET ASSETS or even GROSS ASSETS (and taking a look at how liabilities are accounted for).
The problem with showing this information is the “snooze” factor. It’s not colorful, juicy, doesn’t have major photography involved; it requires actual dealing with numeric and categorization concepts (somewhat abstract) even though they really do apply to concrete situations — like how to make a city go bankrupt needlessly by changing accounting rules.
It also isn’t typically grasped with just 15 minutes of exposure, or maybe even a few days. Constant absorption of current events and news does NOT typically equip or condition a person to absorbing this type of information if one doesn’t already know how to. Its impact is also so significant, there is a natural desire to go back to the “pristine” innocent belief that the problem wasn’t so fundamental.
The post “To Identify and UNDERstand is to know Why (and How) to WITHstand. (Public’s Assigned Place on the Tax Continuum Pecking Order, [from “Do You Know Your ABA, APA…?” Oct. 2014 Post Update]“(case-sensitive shortlink this time ends “-7dX”,) talks about conversations we (the public) should be having as part of normal basic, understanding of life in this country. These conversations ideally should be with each other in places where we can view the same visuals, charts, and discuss them ideally face to face and ongoing, and with our own families or partners, or friends. BUT, we have been conditioned NOT to talk about these things, and become focused and engrossed on other things instead.
Business owners who operated in this manner would go under, or get taken over because they are not paying attention to their bottom lines, or the current marketplace and climate — or finding and listening to others who can tell the truth about it.
This information IS “the bottom line” for people living here and subject to taxation, policies, conditions created by various entities, and propaganda, where it may be propaganda, about the where IS that bottom line, really — as a basis for setting future policy.
These more people should be having with each other are talks about money which take into account how the government sector interacts with the public (through taxation and tax-exemption), what’s done with tax receipts (how it’s shown in reports versus portrayed on the media), and how government entities differ from business entities organized under the same governments (guess which one is really on top?). These conversations cannot occur without at least some basic vocabulary and a bit of “practice.” That “practice” has to include some financial statements and tax return reading.
I have some very smart, articulate, well-educated friends, who I continue to respect. Some may say they are no good with numbers, their minds don’t work that way. How much of this is nature or nurture (or lack of nurture when it come to basic math) isn’t my business.
I realize some people are visual learners, but I refuse to believe there are not more people who are capable of thinking conceptually AND capable of comprehending consequences of having had significant information about how our own governments operate using their financial statements being withheld from the average person, and from open, and frequent discussion on-line and in social media.
Carl Herman, “Nonpartisan examiner” 7/3/2011, leading quotes (after link to a video) in “Debt-damned economics: Learn monetary reform or kiss your assets goodbye (Pt. 1 of 2)”. Accessible also from his article on the $600B fund that can’t fund $27B pension obligations, (below).
I wonder what is the psychological block to facing some of these facts, or understanding that they refer to things which often make headlines in the major media anyhow — for example, constant talk of underfunded pensions, pension liabilities making or breaking some major metropolitan city. Again — Carl Herman (cited enough on this blog, probably on the post leading to this one) said it clearly enough and he’s not alone. I just think he expressed it well — why hold over $600B assets (speaking of I believe CalPERS) when it doesn’t adequately fund pension contributions anyhow? Here’s a paragraph from my lead-in post (with a little extra color for emphasis):
For an antidote, go read some Walter Burien (May 10, 2010, “Is our Government Bankrupt?…. Analogies are Fun to Use: Is the Columbian Cartel short of cocaine?“, Clint Richardson (July 20, 2013, “Detroit: The Latest Bankruptcy Lie” (hover-cursor for abstract, and read the top part, too)), or Carl Herman, who asks such questions as, “CAFR summary: if $600B ‘fund’ can’t fund $27B pension, $16B budget deficit, why have it?? (from his 2012 article) and, like the others, can also walk people through it, and has:
- Interview: Game-changing CAFR trillions explained (Feb. 14, 2014)….These astounding funds are disclosed in official Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs). Government and media “leaders” claiming no options but austerity while failing to honestly communicate surplus trillions is OBVIOUS criminal financial fraud . .
So, this post starts with a slight overlap (naming the five posts and reminding us to go check out the FMS Treasury.gov website (and/or its redirect) to view some reports.
Expanding on that commentary from Burien (2010) above, he gives an analogy (other than the rhetorical response — “Is the Columbian cartel short of cocaine?” which seems a good analogy for the situation! I added a screenprint, then a quote:
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My Challenge: Talk Sense, or become an OxyMORON (and Someone Else’s Dinner)
This post was drafted March 2014, and is posted June, 2014. Although it has some oddball illustrations — like the duckbilled platypus– and it references distraction techniques of cults (which, FYI, you’re in it), below all that are some references you might want to bookmark re: FMS.Treasury.Gov (excerpt in 2nd box yellow with teal-green border. This shows combined US government receipts & outlays, by source, in numbers and in a pie-chart, which is easier to remember.
Show your friends reading the morning newspapers about how broke we are. We who?
This is also 7,000 words, and has multiple formats. [Insert Standard Copyeditor’s/Proofreaders’ Nightmare Disclaimer for anyone who’s expecting a proofread, copyedited vision of perfection.]
I am one person struggling with a free wordpress blog platform. I compose what I’ve personally investigated and written up, including quotations and evidence from many different sources, and commentary on these, in a triple-view format; sometimes in “Text” (html) mode, others in “Visual” (the post editor). Neither “Text” nor “Visual” mode bears ANY true resemblance to “Published” (or Preview) mode, either to paragraphing, or even to fonts (typestyles).
However, I do consistently deliver other goods that I know have helped some people not go “bonkers” (nuts) during their custody cases, get them out of trauma mode by giving some objective information (not standard predigested rhetoric) on these operations.
Anyone who doesn’t like this blog, or its format, can go find this information elsewhere [good luck with that…], or if he or she wants this information in a more polished format, hit the Donate button (on the sidebar) to help me overcome the technical (computer) issues through upgraded website, or, if that’s not within your ability range (or wish), consider signing the petition I’ve included on this post so I may do this myself, with my own resources, which the straightforward petition explains. It can be signed anonymously, although city and state will display.
(Now would be a great time to sign or donate)
Or be patient and understand the purpose of this blog. It’s not my attempt at an academic dissertation. I have my degrees already. It’s about laying out some information as a NOTICE that this type of information exists. And that people who have been badly traumatized can at least reduce their own confusion on cause-and-effect by becoming aware of this information; including WHO designed the family courts, and the programs to be run through them; and how.
Sometimes you just need other information to get your bearings. What’s more, it’s interesting and relevant to all of us where our taxes are being spent, and who’s running our courts.
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Accounting Literacy Matters. Cause-based Literacy Doesn’t. (Spring 2010, Ellen H. Brown tangles with Walter Burien’s info, or at least tries to.) [First Published 5-3-2014].
It’s July 2017, I’m about to reference this post again, so I’m cleaning up some formats, changing its basic font, and adding post title with short-links to its contents as is now my habit. Part of this habit is also from adjustment to the blog upgrade, which has a sort of sickly-looking background color, unless changed at the top of each post, I discovered after the upgrade…(!) The post title was also incorporated into the Blog Motto on upgrade, and it gets mentioned on my top “sticky” post and related page — so I guess over time I have considered the points it’s making still vital! They show in part a lawyer’s response who became involved in pushing the “public banking” model to someone knowledgeable of the significance of CAFRs and their presentation of collective revenues and assets of government entities, etc.
On the update, re-checked the IRS and found it unusual timing that just two weeks after this “never-registered”(as a charity) Public Banking Institute based in California was first published (May 3, 2014) the IRS revoked its status (May 15, 2014), shown below. For status to be revoked requires three years of non-filing (tax returns) let alone the requirements to file as a 501©3 within the state of California. This sends an overall message that “rules,” and laws, are for someone else, not the reform-minded…So, I posted that information too, along with the EIN# which hadn’t been shown before, I believe.
Anyhow, enjoy! //LGH on 7-7-2017.
This blog has been sitting in draft since January. I cleaned it up, fleshed it out and am publishing. Meanwhile, I’ll be over at Cracking the Cult of the Constitution by Clint Richardson, and tell you why when I get back. Particularly on the topic “Corporations Sole.” (3 part series from August 2013).
Look for these two colors in a side-by-side column format to see the conversation that inspired this post. I’ve added material to a middle section one day after publishing this post (added Sun. 5/4/2014) because I think it’s relevant. Alternating color scheme (dark green/light-beige with red fonts) section is more about the particular institute set up AFTER the conversations of 2010.
Some months ago, I also got entangled with the “Web of Debt” conversation; not because of CAFRs, in particular, but because I also live in California and wanted a few answers I wasn’t seeing on the site.
The strange response to a single comment on a blog (from someone I was a complete stranger to) led to my further inquiries about “Inquiring Systems, Inc.” and some of the issues below. What I see is someone trying to sound more intelligent than he or she is (see below), and trying to seem more concerned about the disenfranchised 99% (us poor slobs) than the associations and behaviors would indicate.
Which one was the attorney, well keep reading.
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New Here? A Roadmap with some Chronology, Links, Issues (Sidebar-Plus) originally published Feb 24, 2014
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Get Real(itybloger)! — Call In, Read the Links on CAFRs, Review Regularly. (First posted Jan. 24, 2014)
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The “CAFR” topic is a governmental accounting and reporting practice which affects all people (and particularly in this situation, all US Citizens) because of its impact on the economy and our understanding of the size and scope of government operations. It is an over-arching and underlying issue, but it has been a hidden issue.
For example, as Carl Herman (Harvard Economics grad) put this in 2012, a very good question in my opinion. Once certain evidence IS posted, it requires an review of reasoning built on “the big picture” (not including that evidence), and that “big picture” includes the hot topic of “DEFICIT.”
This is a “README” article! // Let’s Get Honest
CAFR summary: if $600B ‘fund’ can’t fund $27B pension, $16B budget deficit, why have it?(Posted on June 18, 2012 by Carl Herman in ‘Washington’s Blog”),
. . . Governor Brown is silent about the $600 billion in surplus cash and investments, claiming the $16 billion budget deficit can only be addressed by austerity – massive funding cuts to our essential infrastructure. A 2.8% divestment of the fund would cover the $16 billion deficit.
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Ten Posts, Plus One, of nearly 600 published, Covering Basic Issues (+ abstracts)
[I’m “unsticking” ten posts formerly held near the top of blog, a.k.a., redecorating..for functionality ..and out of boredom looking at the same thing every day..This post is “sticky” and stays on top. New posts are beneath the ones marked “This post is sticky.” Also note, I often revise or expand (alas) after (at times long after) publishing. WYSIWYG..] First, the “Plus One.” Regarding biotech, pharmaceutical, and gene-tinkering disruptive technology corporations — don’t mistakenly think they have nothing to do with the family courts, or kids in foster care and other vulnerable populations. SOMEbody has to fund studies, and someone has to become the subject matter of them; we are all interrelated — in our various assigned sectors. Read the rest of this entry »
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More “Fun with Funds” from California State Manual (see Media/Uploads post) [Publ. 11/14/2013
More “Fun with Funds” from California State Manual (see Media/Uploads post) [Publ. 11/14/2013]. (short-link ends: “-24q”) This title and short-link (and border/font-change) added July 11, 2019) Wordcount, about 20,000: note: I see it contains some tables, i.e., see Title).
SHOW AND TELL RE: FUNDS AND FUNDING. AND, THE SIGNS OF THESE TIMES. WHO WILL BECOME the “TRACKERs, observers, teachers” of these things?
This is another in a series of Show and Tell Posts providing more language (concepts) and tools (links) to “Shine the Light” (some readers will recognize where that phrase comes from) on exactly what my blog motto talks about. Including the money. Others include:
- My Media Uploads/Retrospective — But First, the Context (published 11/11/2013)
- Look and See, Show and Tell (Selected Media/Library Exhibits to this Blog (published 11/11/2013, just now…)
- Who Owns, Operates and Leases the Real Estate [and buildings] in Which Justice is Dispensed? [[make that “from which” justice is dispensed…]]
- There is in the State Treasury a Family Law Trust Fund (published 1/27/2013, about a year ago).
INCIDENTALLY, Blogging and Quoting Protocol:
WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get)! This is packed with information and insight, not to mention exhortation, demonstration, and all that. Originally I just wanted people to see the visual for the listing of those funds..
(By the way– this IS my effort and writing, and if you quote segments of it elsewhere, please include a link and reference “FamilyCourtMatters.wordpress.com” and or (See Gravatar) “investigative blogger “Let’s Get Honest.” Also be aware than when you do so, a lot of formatting codes are going to come along and possibly make it look visually (even) worse, a situation that makes posting neat and clean stuff (including those quotations and the occasional graphic) a real difficulty.
Anything not credited to someone else with quote or link, IS co. me, co. 2013 and for the readers, that’s “Let’s Get Honest,” owner of this blog, til further notice. I do not sign my name for reasons of safety/outstanding legal issues of the underlying court case. Were it not just me, I’d possibly have “ditched it” earlier, but as a parent, I cannot.
Did you come up with this information and put it in context and chronological setting?
So, if you quote — be sure to LINK and CITE (and let me know)!(Thanks!)
The longer ANYONE holds money (before distributing) in either interest-bearing or investment (ROI-producing) accounts before distributing it — depending on their relationship to the tax code — the more profits they have, and the less whoever gave it to them did, UNLESS those who gave also needed write-offs. The people who LEAST need to be giving the MOST upfront and hoping that stewardship is good and services (to handle your distressed neighbors, or self included) are good and timely — are individual workers, not having formed of joined corporations to protect and consolidate their assets. And that’s MOST of America, from what I can tell.
Economically “Out of sight out of mind” is not good balance of power. Unchecked power (and to properly check power, ONE Group of organized people have to have some economic sufficiency AND the time and heart to put into the matter!)
In general I may not say it beautifully, but I know these are the right questions to ask, and things to consider. A journalist who is going to unearth the amount of evidence in individual custody cases that this woman Anne Stevenson has, or about Courthouse Corporations and “The Training” rackets that THIS one has Marv Bryer, is rare. There are many, though not enough, more where they came from (including yours truly) particularly concerned with the courts.
However, ALL people can and should put in some basic, minimal time and learn to EDUCATE THEMSELVES how to look up fund balances, and identify where the money flowing through these family and conciliation courts is coming from, and going to! Their collateral damages affect neighborhoods and present, future and past generation, and there is a clear pattern of goods in motion FROM one sector TOWARDS other sectors. Only looking at the financials, and that movement, will properly identify the sectors. Moreover, it’s a good education of a neglected (except by those in it) field.
IT’S (BEYOND) TIME TO CATCH THE DRIFT, AND DIG FOR THE DETAILS, AND DETERMINE THE DIRECTION IT IS GOING, AND WHETHER THIS IS THE ONE WE (‘the People’) WANT. THIS PROCESS WILL ALSO HELP BETTER DEFINE WHETHER THERE EVEN IF A “the People of these United States” ANY MORE, AND IF SO, WHO THAT REFERS TO.
I hope that in my lifetime more people catch on, strategize a resistance, publicize this information and themselves get organized to disseminate the basics. I’m working on it too, but it’s definitely not a one-woman job, and after this gauntlet lasting years (it was never closed, resolved, or put right. The legal and factual matters remained OFF the table and there has been no consensus. People simply continue to get older IN the abusive relationships and as these things to, the longer you’re in it, the harder it is to get free. Anyone is welcome to help — there’s a Donate Button on the right sidebar. Looks like this:
CALIFORNIA MANUAL OF STATE FUNDS:
- A November 2013 printout of a listing labeled “October 2013″ (Column 2 anyhow) from the California Manual of State Funds; accessed at this site (Col.2) http://www.dof.ca.gov/accounting/uniform_codes_manual/funds/documents/20fundnum.pdf and a related one, for Column1, which (click and see) gives concise, one-page forms explaining which legislation started the fund, where it’s revenues come for and more information.
- Anyone can click on ANY fund# and find out valuable information about where it came from, how it’s allocated, who gets it, which bright idea it was (AB or SB #, i.e., who proposed the legislation to start with, before it became law) and if it’s still valid. If it’s been abolished, that’s listed, and where the balances were going to go IF it (as funds do) got abolished or replaced by some other fund.
- So looking at these lists is a “get-acquainted” process at a minimum, and get a better picture of what’s actually going on, economically and in an organized fashion — with public money.
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My Media/Library Uploads Retrospective– but First, The Context! (Published 11/11/2013).
As I tend to combine “reflect and investigate,” this process helped me distill basic language and themes, which are being parsed out to different posts. I also aim to shorten posts to 5,000-6,000 words (including quotes). As I was a novice blogger (starting pretty much with this one!) the earlier ones, with so much cut and paste, font-changes and just too much to say (essentially I was learning and posting notes on the entire field, at once) can be hard to handle!
But Summary, First!
I have a lot to say, it has some complexity, and after spending several days on this post (not sure if that meant improving it!) including consistent formatting code issues and revisions, I’m just splitting it in two. This section’s “show and tell” segments on the economic matters really sets the context for the other links, which are subsidiary. Each segment is probably about 5,500 words.
However this post still outlines, from better teachers than myself, how anyone can see, and prove from understanding those “Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports”, the accumulated-wealth of our federal AND state governments, the practice of crying “broke” when they aren’t, which then highlights that we have been massively deluded, redirected, and deceived into the process have been believing major lies about the nature, and with this the purpose, of our own government, for decades. With the exception of those who have been diligently exposing it, which hardly attracts major funding and approval from the engines of commerce that depend on those lies.
Every government (or religion) is going to use propaganda to consolidate and unify people under its umbrella and for its cause. However some are worse than others, and this one needs to be recognized, and spat out.
ALSO, Unlike many who report, in general on the CAFRs and accumulated wealth factor, I’m also a woman, a mother, an individual — who was dragged with children, then without children, through the court system that’s the subject of this blog.
So I am seeking, and finding, how to apply that knowledge to THIS problem of the courts. Knowledge of government financing (and how to understand it) is valuable. It is also leverage with legislators and taxpayers, with policymakers (who set budgets) regarding the courts, and adds credibility to any discussion — even if the person speaking doesn’t work in the academic elite dedicated to these matters.
In investigating these courts, for a change with some better signals and clues (than the DV agencies or “Mothers of Lost Children” “No Way Out But One” and/or Lundy Bancroft [The Batterer as Parent”] and friends crowd was providing) it was immediately obvious the elephant in the family law system was the conciliation courts, who with the related nonprofits, were focused on the were federal incentives, and demands, to states driving the welfare system. Finding this material also sheds lights on how come, if I could (and reported), these individuals didn’t (or didn’t report).
This factor, and the slush fund factors HAS been reported right along — but not well enough publicized or explained enough; apparently the understanding didn’t catch fire and start some appropriate fires to burn up the falsehoods coming from groups who want a piece of the training pie. One reason it didn’t “catch fire” is so much distracting, less relevant and intentionally de-railing publicity DID catch fire took its place, with a different focus and intent — a focus on the precisely those things which sell causes and get coverage; the story line; the human tragedies, and the victims. And that’s not the type of reporting that leads to focused understanding of the situation — it’s situational, it’s personal, and it’s transient.
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Why Governments (Corporations) Whine so much, What They Aren’t Telling Us, and How to Look It Up . . . .
“Individuals believe that “the budget” and “governments” are one. This is false“*“How does one tell the American people that governments are stealing from them? They will not believe it. They believe the government and the elected officials. Only a nut would attempt to demonstrate that politicians are not completely honest. Well, I am that nut and I have the qualifications to prove that governments are stealing from them.” *
Do you have any idea what it’s like to have been on welfare, got off, then listen to the talking heads on TV? [Expired Link, see “2016 updates” some paragraphs, in fact an entire discussion, below]
[[2016 comment: I believe that this Tavis Smiley Interview with Peter Edelman, “The anti-poverty advocate discusses his text, So Rich, So Poor.” 24:40 |Episode]. I do not have a transcript]] may have been one of the interviews I was referring to. Several links to his promotion of the book exist on-line. I started to update with replacement info and links, but this turned into a new page, or post. Will (hopefully) link to that here if it’s published — or it’ll be on the updated table of contents!]]
(Both of whose corporations and agenda I’ve looked at: Robert Rector of Heritage, and Peter Edelman, Professor of Law at Georgetown ) playing Us versus Them on TV, over welfare reform? (While Mr. Edelman is also selling his book).
This deserves a separate post — but FYI, Welfare reform was targeted against single black mothers (too fertile, and needed a kick in the behind to get to work, plus the fathers needed carrots and sticks also) — and so who are the authorities for or against it?
Two esteemed white men...( with all due respect for — not Mr. Rector, but Mr. Edelman — see this blog, and get real!) — knowing that HHS is full of slush funds, HUD probably IS being run as a criminal organization (People better qualified than I have explained it QUITE well and I’ll continue linking to it) and we — actually — are by contract with USA, Inc. — collateral for its debt?
Both are up in arms about the poor aren’t WORKING enough, the lazy bums (Rector) OR, they aren’t paid enough (Edelman) — when in fact in this post and others, I keep documenting people whose “work” is forming fake corporations and getting the courts to do their fishing for business, plus the corporation franchise set up by the federal government, and so forth. Or taking money from the taxpayers in a state to meet secretly with a top honcho on how to promote marriage (steer marriage-promoting grants to cronies) — for example.
It’s a corporation and apparently what’s really going on over here is that when those HUGE corporate debts come due (about every 70 years), there’s a restructuring. I just read this site through — it’s only a few pages — but if blended with thought (thinking) about its significance, SOME things won’t be the same again.
For example, the words “New Deal.” — — Here you go: Start with “The District of Columbia Act of 1871” At the bottom of each (not too long) page is a link to the next, as in “Myth #22,” etc. There is no short cut for going through this — and because it is focusing on DEFINITIONS, and in Sequence — this is a MUST-READ
ALSO NOTE:
“A large portion of the information flying around the patriot and tax protest communities is false, baseless or worse. Don’t believe anybody, just because they sound good. …”
I have no idea who “Team Law” is — but this is who the site says they are, or rather, what they’re into. Also check out their chronological and short (but it packs a punch) “History of Our Nation.”
What is Team Law?
Team Law is a self-help educational organization founded to help people:
- Learn how to learn the law;
- So they can learn how to apply the law;
- So they can save our country and even the world.
Regardless of who you are, you are required to know the law. Yet in today’s society most people know very little about the law and or about our actual history; instead, they simply rely on others to tell them what to do. Thus, regardless of their actual rights and or nature they remain subjects to those that they rely upon for that guidance. Thus, because the people are generally ignorant of the law they are easily controlled and manipulated by others. If the people were to learn the law and its history they could:
- Recognize mankind’s sovereign nature;
- Secure our original Constitutional Republic form of government;
- Preserve our Constitution and Laws;
- Assure that our children learn and know the Law;
- Preserve our actual history;
- Inspire industry; and, develop wealth that continues to grow and be controlled by the people in their own hands.
THAT SAID — the entire rest of this post is transplanted from just a few over at Scranton PT – which wouldn’t fit. COMMENTS ON “CAFR” and an example of one from Pennsylvania, dated August 10, 2012, same gravatar as here:
Could anyone LOCATE SOME OF THAT MISSING FUNDING. GO GET THE CAFRs — as it explains (bottom link) — GOVERNMENTS LIKE US TO “FORGET” ABOUT SURPLUSES WHEN THEY SHOW BUDGETS.
HOW SOMEONE FOUND $54 million excess in California, where to look “Advance Liability Funds”
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Los Angeles Times | July 20, 2012 | 0:22 PM California’s state parks system secretly stashed away $54 million even as it was cutting services and threatening to close parks, officials announced today. The department’s director, Ruth Coleman, resigned, and her second in command was fired as the hidden surplus was revealed. The state attorney general’s office is conducting an investigation. The announcement means the department has plenty of cash, even though it has been soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations in what was thought to be a desperate scramble to keep parks open. ~ Officials from the agency that oversees the parks department said the department has under-reported tens of millions of dollars for the last 12 years. |
For the full story and latest information go to http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-state-parks-20120721,0,3462998.story
This site (a blog, 7/2012) talks about how pension funds (PSERS, or CALPERS) are used to fund corporations — but who knows what those corps are doing?
As a taxpayer, you should know that many 100′s of billions of dollars are ripped out of the tax-base each year and force fed into the nation-wide pension system (including Social Security) in the form of ”on-behalf” taxpayer “contributions” for federal, state, local, and district pension employees. This world-wide phenomenon has created an international pension investment system that, in January 2008, Morgan Stanley estimated held over US $20 trillion in assets, and are collectively the largest investment platform in the world. Others with a less personal and unbiased interest in these pension funds make this estimate to be many trillions higher.
They are getting profits on these investments, overall — not losses. Governments are corporations and it is their business to get profits. Hence, showing lowest possible budgets (to the public) is good for getting more money from (the public). There are a number of tricks to it, like — not reporting their holdings as well as their cash flow, as these blogs explain..
Calpers, for example (2011) invests in these other currencies: (that’s their “CAFR” link 2011): (see PSERS, last comment). ..
AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR BRAZILIAN REAL CANADIAN DOLLAR CHILEAN PESO COLOMBIAN PESO CZECH KORUNA DANISH KRONE EGYPTIAN POUND EURO CURRENCY HONG KONG DOLLAR HUNGARIAN FORINT INDIAN RUPEE INDONESIAN RUPIAH ISRAELI SHEKEL JAPANESE YEN MALAYSIAN RINGGIT MEXICAN PESO (NEW) MOROCCAN DIRHAM NEW TAIWAN DOLLAR NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR NORWEGIAN KRONE PAKISTAN RUPEE PERUVIAN NOUVEAU SOL PHILIPPINE PESO
THAILAND BAHT TURKISH LIRA UAE DIRHAM
POLISH ZLOTY POUND STERLING SINGAPORE DOLLAR SOUTH AFRICAN RAND SOUTH KOREAN WON SRI LANKA RUPEE SWEDISH KRONA SWISS FRANC
in a kazillion “corporate” (securities, I DNK), domestic cash (like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac,etc.),and in these SOVEREIGN (other nations) BONDS:
BRITISH COLUMBIA PROV FED REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL FED REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL FED REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL FED REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL FED REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL FED REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL FED REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL HYDRO QUEBEC HYDRO QUEBEC HYDRO QUEBEC HYDRO QUEBEC KFW (huh?), KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN NOVA SCOTIA PROVINCE ONTARIO (PROVINCE OF) PROVINCE OF QUEBEC PROVINCE OF QUEBEC REPUBLIC OF CHILE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY REPUBLIC OF ITALY REPUBLIC OF ITALY REPUBLIC OF KOREA REPUBLIC OF KOREA REPUBLIC OF PANAMA REPUBLIC OF PANAMA REPUBLIC OF PERU REPUBLIC OF POLAND REPUBLIC OF POLAND REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA RUSSIA FOREIGN BOND STATE OF ISRAEL STATE OF QATAR STATE OF QATAR SWEDISH EXPORT CREDIT UNITED MEXICAN STATES UNITED MEXICAN STATES UNITED MEXICAN STATES UNITED MEXICAN STATES UNITED MEXICAN STATES UNITED MEXICAN STATES
AND IN US GOVERNMENT STUFF, INCLUDING H.U.D.: FANNIE MAE FANNIE MAE FANNIE MAE FANNIE MAE FANNIE MAE FARMER MAC GTD TR 07 1 FREDDIE MAC, FREDDIE MAC GOVT TRUST CERT TUNISIA HOUSING URBAN DEVELOPMNT TENN VALLEY AUTHORITY TENN VALLEY AUTHORITY TENN VALLEY AUTHORITY TENN VALLEY AUTHORITY TSY INFL … US TREASURY N/B (A TON OF US TREASURY). . book value, $18 billion, Market Value, $22 billion
IT ALSO IS INVESTED IN PAGES & PAGES OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES (can you spell, real estate debt?), DEBT OF OTHER SOVEREIGN STATES (Germany, Canada, Belgium, France, Japan, Austria, Poland, Chile, Scotland, Sweden, Wales, Singapore, Finland) — it’s definitely an international “Player” and investor.
but they are raising tuition for their students . . .
Resource from retired USAF colonel, very clear teaching and forms to find, review and report on these CAFRs — the man died in 2004. But before then — for example, in NJ, when they found out about this resource, some people began reading it aloud — over the airwaves; they got people organized to look up the CAFrs in their counties, etc. And then (naturally) came under attack for a while.
This “CAFRman.com” site says in 2003, Pennsylvania had $21 BILLION surpluses. The key is — to know that the BUDGET for governments does NOT include money not spent the previous year — or all its holdings.
1. The budget only covers a small portion of the State’s financial condition. There are a group of funds not part of the budget process.
- The CAFR covers, he says, four kinds of funds: 1.Government, 2. Proprietary, 3. Fiduciary and 4. Component Units (of gov’t). The budget — what they squawk loudly about — is only from #1 of 4.
The complete list of funds and budgetary requirements are found in the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). This report depicts thecomplete financial status of the State. The budget only covers a portion of the financial resources of the government.
2. Next year’s budget consists only of next year’s estimated revenues and next year’s estimated expenditures. Previous years’ revenues not used (spent) are normally not considered in the next year’s budget, but should be. In other words, the previous years’ revenues (as shown in the CAFR) are not recycled back to the budget process.
Historically, a budget consists of three parts: 1) Funds brought forward (funds not previously spent); 2) Next year’s estimated revenues; and 3) Next year’s estimated expenditures.
But somewhere along the way the funds brought forward category was lost. In accounting,the previous years’ revenues are no longer called revenue but have been converted to Cash and Investments. Since they no longer called Revenues governments have forgotten about them to the public. They are there but not considered in the budget process, but should be.
**sounds like the public should start reminding the government about these — after locating them!
Very good site to help look for that stuff that’s NOT being talked about. It also tells people how to go for it…need not be a computer geek.. “there are approximately 83,000 governments and government-like entities in the U.S. We can only start you at the State, county, township, and/or city level. From there you will have to do some digging and ask questions.”
Finding a CAFR // Review Process “very simple — only 2 schedules — just need the CAFR, a pencil, a calculator & two forms: Find the funds/subfunds & totals with surpluses add’em up, divide by population for “per capita.” (also often in “Exhibit A”). (this is very methodical and laid out here….)
(from the conclusion of this straightforward site, put up by Gerald R. Klatt Lieutenant Colonel, USAF (Ret.)Former: Auditor/Commander, Air Force Audit Agency Federal Accountant [[Friend of Walter Burien, apparently]]
The Wealth Gap and Communism
10% Own 73.2% of U.S. Wealth
When Does Communism Exist, 73.2%, 90%, or 100%?
Remember, communism is a concept or system of society in which the major resources and means of production are owned by the community (governments and a few individuals who control governments) rather than by individuals. In theory, such societies provide for equal sharing of all work, according to ability, and all benefits, according to need. Some conceptions of communist societies assume that, ultimately, coercive government would be unnecessary and therefore that such a society would be without rulers. Until the ultimate stages are reached, however,communism involves the abolition of private property by a revolutionary movement; responsibility for meeting public needs is then vested in the state.
The special elite decide on how the wealth will be distributed among the people. All life styles, standard of living, actions, thoughts, and even life itself is decided by the state because the state owns and controls everything. Is it possible that communism could be created within a capitalistic society without a revolution? Have we already reached that point?
(Fundamental Tenet of Reform)
Let's Get Honest! Absolutely Uncommon Analysis of Family & Conciliation Courts' Operations, Practices, & History 