Graphic: Corporate Democracy Eliminated
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Citizen-Centered, Corruption, Political
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Citizen-Centered, Corruption, Political
Prisoners of the USA – From School to Prison to Grave
07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement
Creating Lifelong Customers: The School-To-Prison Pipeline And The Private Prison Industry
As ifĀ the United StatesĀ did not have a bloated enough prison population ā which I think nearly every single American realizes is a painful truth ā our school systems are being transformed into yet another way to funnel people into the private prison system.
School systems around the country, but especially Texas, have begun criminalizing what would otherwise be normal childishĀ behavior.
One example given by the BritishĀ GuardianĀ in a recent fantastic article covering this issue, an overweight and unpopular girl was charged with a criminal misdemeanor after spraying perfume because children in the classroom were teasing her and saying she smelled bad.
Thatās right; a 12-year-old girl was arrested for ādisrupting classā simply for attempting to appease cruel students.
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Eagle: Indefinite detention – Instrument of tyranny
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Indefinite detention: Instrument of tyranny
By By ALLEN S. KELLER AND YANG-YANG ZHOU
McClatchy, 13 January 2012
When President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act on New Year's Eve, he codified policies of arbitrary and indefinite detention for terror suspects including possibly U.S. citizens. Alexander Hamilton referred to such policies as the “favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.” Based on our experience in evaluating and caring for victims of torture and human rights abuses from all over the world, Hamilton was right.
Regardless of the law's applicability to U.S. citizens, indefinite detention in a military facility without charge can be tantamount to torture, causing profound health consequences.
USA Comprehensive Annual Financial Statement (CAFR)
Budgets & Funding
OurĀ local government agencies may be whining about the budget and how they don't have enough money resulting in higher taxes, cutting services or both. They cite a budget shortfall and needĀ us to dig them out now! Next time this happens ask them to look at the cash account on the statement of net assets from the comprehensive annual financial report. Say what is a CAFR?
Every governmental agency produces this document by law yet the Federal version is a labyrinth compared to the State level on down. It's simply a statement to the wealth of the government, the sum total of everything we've entrusted them with. Would you say they're doing a lousy job? WhenĀ we don't have the money from a paycheckĀ we dip into savings and the government has done a great job of saving a giant pile of your money! In the past few years a few politicians have begun to question these savings demanding at least a discussion of them.Ā Here is a storyĀ from Oregon detailing one such discussion on how to use the funds.
Recently the most famous case has been CA with their deficits yet lets check theĀ 2010 CAFR, pg 46 they have $25 BILLION sitting in the cash account alone which is invested in federal treasuries and other short term investments. This is the total of decades of over collecting taxes, taking too much from us and yet some of the same people who know this come begging us to pay more taxes! They had over $11 BILLION in receivables; I wonder what the past due ratios are!?
The government isn't a for profit company is it? Wasn't this social contract a giant trust agreement anyway? There is money sitting in the coffers of these government accounts that are controlled by who? That's the real question as you dig deeper and deeper you start to look at pension funds and where that money gets invested and you sum total all the various lower levels on up and the big picture doesn't really surprise you. Time is short so I won't digress into that so lets focus on what we can do.
Look yours up! Google Ā “Comprehensive annual financial statement” (not “CAFR”) and the name of the government entity being researched (lottery, school district, water district, city, county, or state etc). Find the statement of net assets, look at the first line, this is cash! It might be held in short term government debts but its liquid like cash. Lets start forcing this question to be answered whenever we interact with them! Let's ask the hard questions!
There is a lengthy 3 hour documentary on the extent of this scam by Walter Burien who runs a websiteĀ CAFR1.comĀ detailing the extent of this duplicity. Time is short and the time to act is now so get a handle on the basic idea and just go with it. Look up as many as you can but Walter has most of them listed on his site to Ā save some time. For a great analogy check outĀ this article. Tell everyone who will listen but it is hard to accept, they programmed us well. Time to take the red pill folks.
Tip of the Hat to Patrick Ivy.
