Let's Get Honest! Absolutely Uncommon Analysis of Family & Conciliation Courts' Operations, Practices, & History

The moral of this story?   What’s my point in this post? 

Mix’ n Match Misleading Terms: QIC, Coordinating Councils, Collaboratives and Commissions | Which Organizations Use Them | Which Parts of Government Control and/or Fund Them…(June 16, 2019) (Short-link ending “-9ZS.”  About 15,000 words; about a third of them subject to “sudden post-publication re-allocation”).  (By definition, almost, any post this length needs about one-third, one-half or even two-thirds moved elsewhere!  We’ll see!  Tags to be added within 48 hours, I want to make sure tags naming nonprofits include any related EIN#s).

This post has been a long time in draft– in fact it stretched I see from Memorial Day in late May right up to Fathers’ Day mid-June, today.  Finding a stopping point on endlessly connected issues, some of them disturbing, new-to-me examples of the same theme, was a challenge.

I’m writing these first paragraphs just before publishing. They are my personal expression and reactions, not the main substance, the arguments and supporting exhibits/illustrations below.  I recommend just reading straight through them.  It was written in one sitting, copyedited and developed some, developed sections off-ramped for further detailing.

My  arguments begin with a Q&A “Think About It!” section in this color and after that, it’s showtime.

When you have read even further down and see these two images (together, my last ten posts from the sidebar), you are near to the starting point of this post…they will be on the right side.

Some of the showtime introduces in detail (texts, links, images) certain off-ramped material which has gripped my attention.  I am increasingly shocked by the blatant omission, misdirections, indications of new age terminology spun off more ancient forms of spirituality behind backers of “early childhood development,” some aspects of which definitely raise a few red-flag alerts on the touchy/feely healing-from-trauma involving children aspects.  (Somatic Meditation, Integrative Manual Therapy Meditating with the Body®

In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the body is considered the gateway to enlightenment—to discover the body is to discover awareness—to uncover the most direct and effective path to profound spiritual transformation.

This topic came up (this time) along with FrameWorks Institute and Harvard University’s new Center on the Developing Child only because the Hemera Foundation, among its top investors (ranked by cumulative amounts of donations) was an unknown to me.  Understandably — no website up, only formed in 2005, and registered outside the United States run by someone who’d spent much of her young and adult life also outside the U.S.

Even without that fascinating, and due to Caroline E. Pfohl’s (Wellesley, Wharton, London School of Economics) Hong-Kong connection, historically interesting aspect (relating to the Hemera Foundation incorporated 2007? in Bermuda (listed alpha, it’s Reg. # 40623, but you cannot view without log-in), but run by ‘Hemera Regnant, LLC’ in Boulder Colorado; Ms. Pfohl at one point (? per Philanthropy Impact) was the daughter in law in a very wealthy and well-known Hong Kong family (and philanthropists) line and involved with the Robert H.N. Ho family foundation, and was chairman of it until 2010 (See image nearby). but seems now married to “Dr. Reggie Ray”  Dharma Ocean institute director also in Boulder) ||  what about donations to fake entities (also discovered), ongoing involvements with public/private alliances (some even called that in their business names), all creating major spin?

Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation 2010 Press release (Appointing successor to Chairman Caroline Pfohl-Ho, gives a bit of foundation context. See also Hemera Fndtn (Bermuda-based, U.S. Registered agent via an LLC in Boulder, Colorado is Ms. Pfohl who seems now re-married. Hemera Foundation (previously unknown to me) listed as a top funder at Harvard University’s Center for the Developing Child, established in early 2000s.

**See pp. 27-28 of “Investing in  Bermuda, A Piece of Paradise | Opportunity for Foreign Investors” which specifically names Hemera Foundation along with Atlantic Philanthropies and others as among those helping start the Bermuda Community Foundation formed during the 2008 financial crisis, and the inset on the next page about how, conveniently, how some charities need not register in Bermuda. Or,  (2015) (“Zero to Three in Bermuda” (Hemera working through that Bermuda Community Foundation, with a BSMART1 Foundation: brain science, early neurodevelopment, etc.)) Hemera Foundation also contributing to Harvard University’s Center mentioned below.

“Hemera” is the name of a Greek goddess of the day, with her brother “Aether” god of the light, both of them sons of night and darkness. (Source: GreekLegendsandMyths.com) They are said to pre-date the gods of the Pantheon (Mt. Olympus, etc.).  Interesting choice for a foundation name.

Here’s a quote** from that “showtime” on off-ramped material section, below the first Q&A “Think About It!” blue section on this post and borrowing (bright-yellow highlit) a question from it.  Definitely one to keep an eye on, which is hard because of all the non-entities citing their famous donors, and at least one of their famous donors, primarily a grantmaking (front) based in Kansas with strong Buffet family flavoring (plus, as typical in the field, Annie E. Casey Foundation and others).

**When I say “here” I mean, after some text and images setting that up in effect adding about 1,500 words, after I just took out a similar amount earlier today.  After two days of that routine, I’m publishing it WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get):  I have other things to do!  These last additions/introductions I’ve marked with a different background color and a bit smaller font:

Written earlier, the quote I mentioned above, which occurs in normal font further below.

Of the next images from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child “Investment Partners,” I ‘d already looked up the background of (Canadian) Palix Foundation after seeing it mentioned by FrameWorks Institute, whose founder (Susan Nall Bales) is also involved in the Harvard Center, as a Senior Fellow, along with one other (Frameworks) Senior Fellow there.  Please notice on that website that THE LANGUAGE OF SALES & PROMOTIONS IS PRIORITIZED OVER BASIC SELF-IDENTIFICATION.  Readers are given no links or even labels to quickly locate any financial reports coming FROM listed at least foundation or government investors’ financials TO a specific Harvard EIN# (entity).  That’s typical of centers within universities, but even so, the page thanking investors doesn’t link any ways to view those foundation grants; it does not help connecting any dots, nor does it indicate where on the Harvard website this might be found.

In order to find and read any AUDITED financial statements, first you need to find them, which means by definition you need to know the name of the entity. ** Wouldn’t it also be great to know whether or not you’re actually reading about or hearing from a project name or program, not an entity (public or private)?  Projects don’t have to produce financial statements for public viewing — they may be a line-item expense on someone else’s, though. It’s their entity owners we should be most concerned with.  Until you start looking, how common practice it is to derail readers finding the filing entity, and the alleged supporters, and connecting the dots (on separate filings) from one, to the other. ** (Where it’s registered ought to be posted up front, but too often isn’t).

We want justice and fair play, right?  Better justice and fairer play is better, so we can go about our own lives with purpose (“in pursuit of happiness,” not just bare survival, barely) without excess regulations, burdens, debt; without being constantly messed with as we plan and undertake — adjusting and responding as needed —  to handle activities required for the basic life purposes.

~~~Further development of and content relating to this theme was written here, then removed to:

NO ONE NEEDS, AND NO ONE SHOULD VOLUNTARILY ENDORSE FORMS of GOVERNMENT LIKE THIS!  (June 16, 2019) (short-link ends -a8v)

Split Persona, Hidden Identities, Fake Nametags, Million-Dollar Grants to IRS-Status revoked EIN#s, i.e., NON-entities, all with major foundation backing and involving websites ending ‘Harvard.edu’ and street addresses associated with the same.

[As usual on a blog, any link to a post in draft only effective when it’s published.  The section as first written takes the reader through the reasoning process on the intended utopian, planned, womb-to-tomb world and its state/corporate-sponsored experts,  but in a brief illustration included an example which led to a need for further drill-down show-and-tell.  The example related to “Alliance for Early Success, Inc.”, the National Governor’s Association (to whose nonprofit actually named the National Governor’s Association Center for Best Practices it donated funds) and Harvard’s non-entity but at least one real and one apparent fake corporation with similar (but not identical) names has so far been discovered regarding it).  All three

The section as first written concluded with the next paragraph] 

…so we can go about our own lives without having our or our kids’, friends’, neighbors’, immediate relatives’ (prior generation, this generation, next generation), and associates’ and without even seeing so many strangers’ lives chronically filled with: ongoing violence or imminent/standing threats of it, homelessness or close to it, being forced to beg AT ALL, let alone for food, clothing and a place to sleep at night and wake up in the morning, and without collectively witnessing tragedies and waste, or repeated and implicit personal threats to life exercised arbitrarily, and for those who protest, or intervene for others’ sakes, any or all of the same exercised deliberately  — right?

I know I want  that. Well, what will it take?

As things are now, the public/private enterprise system actually punishes good behavior and rewards bad, and means to rewarding bad behavior and punishing/discouraging good is already streamlined, centrally controlled (though not obviously so), and set for rapid replication and distribution:  technical assistance and training… grooming … conditioning  all as to their respective places on the supply chain.

The INFRASTRUCTURE has been in place for decades.  NOMENCLATURE may give a sense of real change, but like any factory which takes a while to install and put in place, this infrastructure isn’t that new.  Names for it may be.

Planning anything requires having, or making, personal judgments, assessments and with that, choices. Making plans also shows initiative as does following through with them, or changing where it’s called for.

The quality, quantity (opportunities for choosing) and scope (categories of choice) with intent towards all generations are being increasingly artificially, from out-side in, encircled, enclosed and restricted, and I’m speaking especially of in my highly developed (sic) country, the United States of America. What we may call life and think of as just life, others without necessarily direct interface with us, are more interested in the ideal conditions for “human development,” including of our own offspring while they are still young, with or without our input.  It seems, too much independence for most is not a desirable quality.

I’ve been experiencing and fighting battles around many of these issues for decades now (individually and on behalf of people close to me, starting with my own children, elderly mother, and immediate work associates/colleagues/clients).  Not that I like it, but I’m used to it.

To investigate, research the systems involved which so negatively impacted us (far beyond garden-variety, routine failure to protect by local authorities) for me has been to see both the design and the designers. It’s far more disturbing. I know because through this blog I’m looking right at it that what I went and am going through personally** is nothing compared to what lies ahead, unless it is exposed, confronted, and changed.  

Systems-change away from what I just described above as “what we want” in terms of justice and fair play is beyond the planning stage and well into accelerated implementation in what I have to describe as the existing halls (literally) of power.  I will keep reporting… and you CAN understand this.
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