Re: Military IS funding social studies programs to counter civil unrest

[Monk (in hiding)]

THE UNITED STATES is a corporation.

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§ 3002. Definitions


As used in this chapter:

(1) “Counsel for the United States” means—  
(A) a United States attorney, an assistant United States attorney designated to act on behalf of the United States attorney, or an attorney with the United States Department of Justice or with a Federal agency who has litigation authority; and  

(B) any private attorney authorized by contract made in accordance with section 3718 of title 31 to conduct litigation for collection of debts on behalf of the United States.  

(2) “Court” means any court created by the Congress of the United States, excluding the United States Tax Court.  

(3) “Debt” means—  
(A) an amount that is owing to the United States on account of a direct loan, or loan insured or guaranteed, by the United States; or  

(B) an amount that is owing to the United States on account of a fee, duty, lease, rent, service, sale of real or personal property, overpayment, fine, assessment, penalty, restitution, damages, interest, tax, bail bond forfeiture, reimbursement, recovery of a cost incurred by the United States, or other source of indebtedness to the United States, but that is not owing under the terms of a contract originally entered into by only persons other than the United States;  

and includes any amount owing to the United States for the benefit of an Indian tribe or individual Indian, but excludes any amount to which the United States is entitled under section 3011 (a).

(4) “Debtor” means a person who is liable for a debt or against whom there is a claim for a debt.  

(5) “Disposable earnings” means that part of earnings remaining after all deductions required by law have been withheld.  

(6) “Earnings” means compensation paid or payable for personal services, whether denominated as wages, salary, commission, bonus, or otherwise, and includes periodic payments pursuant to a pension or retirement program.  

(7) “Garnishee” means a person (other than the debtor) who has, or is reasonably thought to have, possession, custody, or control of any property in which the debtor has a substantial nonexempt interest, including any obligation due the debtor or to become due the debtor, and against whom a garnishment under section 3104 or 3205 is issued by a court.  

( 8 ) “Judgment” means a judgment, order, or decree entered in favor of the United States in a court and arising from a civil or criminal proceeding regarding a debt.  

(9) “Nonexempt disposable earnings” means 25 percent of disposable earnings, subject to section 303 of the Consumer Credit Protection Act.  

(10) “Person” includes a natural person (including an individual Indian), a corporation, a partnership, an unincorporated association, a trust, or an estate, or any other public or private entity, including a State or local government or an Indian tribe.  

(11) “Prejudgment remedy” means the remedy of attachment, receivership, garnishment, or sequestration authorized by this chapter to be granted before judgment on the merits of a claim for a debt.  

(12) “Property” includes any present or future interest, whether legal or equitable, in real, personal (including choses in action), or mixed property, tangible or intangible, vested or contingent, wherever located and however held (including community property and property held in trust (including spendthrift and pension trusts)), but excludes—  
(A) property held in trust by the United States for the benefit of an Indian tribe or individual Indian; and  

(B) Indian lands subject to restrictions against alienation imposed by the United States.  

(13) “Security agreement” means an agreement that creates or provides for a lien.  

(14) “State” means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, or any territory or possession of the United States.  

(15) “United States” means—  
(A) a Federal corporation;  

(B) an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or  

(C) an instrumentality of the United States.  

(16) “United States marshal” means a United States marshal, a deputy marshal, or an official of the United States Marshals Service designated under section 564.


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[Monk (in hiding)]

The United States is a corporation

1788 Original               Constitution for the united states,      original organic, of the people government.

1871 Amended version    CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES,    US is a private corporation.



The UNITED STATES was formed in 1871, which controls only the District of Columbia and the territories it purchases or acquires; Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands.  Many think that income taxes, and some laws do not effect people in the sovereign states of the union as they are outside of the control / jurisdiction of the United States corporation.  The United States of America is different from the "United States" [corporation].



The terms UNITED STATES and/or United States of America and/ or United States Government are all a private corporation, even with registered trademark.



The US corporation (originally called the District of Columbia) does not effect or control the 50 sovereign states that are protected from the federal government by the US Constitution for the United States adopted in 1788.



There are 2 United States, one formed in 1787, the collection of the several sovereign states of the union, and another separate and different one formed in 1871, which only controls the District of Columbia and it’s territories.  Others may can give you specific references and explain this further.  Here is an outline of the concepts.

The date is February 21, 1871 and the Forty-First Congress is in session. I refer you to the "Acts of the Forty-First Congress," Section 34, Session III, chapters 61 and 62. On this date in the history of our nation, Congress passed an Act titled: "An Act To Provide A Government for the District of Columbia." This is also known as the "Act of 1871." What does this mean? Well, it means that Congress, under no constitutional authority to do so, created a separate form of government for the District of Columbia, which is a ten mile square parcel of land.


The Constitution for the United States of America was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in each U.S. state in the name of "The People".


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[Mordae]

Actually all we have are wartime economies. Hoarding of wealth when more fair distribution would result in a more robust economy and here is why, people who have the chance to buy things they desire do, our present inequality makes it so those people w/o the money or credits cannot do more than wish and dream of having the things they desire or would like to make life more comfy.

Social safety nets would be less likely as folks would already be on single payer health care, which several big corporations said would help their bottom line in the US.

the cheapest food for the poor to fill their bellies with also causes great harm loaded with cancer causing dyes, sugars or artificial sweeteners, several varieties of sodium loads of insane levels. Too many carbs than needed. I did a paper on the relations between low and high quality foods and the needs of the low quality food eaters on the medical system after living on the cheap crap foods.

But yes, a peace based economy would also mean other projects, all the money spent on the battle tanks alone could be used for resolving pollution issues, fresh water issues, alternate fuels. same with corporate welfare aka "subsidies" that the fossil fuel conglomerates get from our taxes.

cost cutting instead of food stamps and medicine, cut politicians paychecks to work able sizes, and reduce their insanely good medical, eliminate lobbying pay-offs(bribes), and make their terms limited and truly make them just civil servants, and not overpaid, executive wannabes.

Once we use the wealth to make all better off, not just a few hoarders, we can fix the planet a bit, and then worry about some space exploration and also how to be able to converse with our neighbors, the cetaceans here on Earth.

You sound like a real critical thinker since you are encompassing the whole planet, I am not sure everybody is going to like you.
Len, I think part of the problem lies in the fact that we have lost track of ourselves and have made our selves capitalized into something we no longer recognize. People are not the priority in the eyes of the material madness that is prevailing. How do you change the minds of a few when the power they hold is recognized by the masses. We need a shift but a massive one.

I agree with you on one thing for sure, we can fix the planet if we so desire.

I agree with both of you. The end synapsis is that the entire system is broken beyond repair and needs to be rebuilt from scratch, preferably into something a lot more equal and sustainable. Ideally it would be a shift from a competitive system to a cooperative one. The main stumbling block now is where do we start? The best place I can think of is in our own lives and let it spread out from there...but I'm open to suggestions ;D

[Stargate]

I think what VM is saying about America being a corporation is very important to the world and specifically the American people. If the people do not understand the basic policies and laws that governs the country then how can it be challenged. A lot of people do not understand that the country is functioning very well as a cooperation using maritime law as some say the law of the sea.

It is important that although America is said to be a strong democracy there are several obstacles that shows there are fundamental discrepancies hindering the free flow of information to and from the so called active participant in other words the masses. As I see it the system could be challenged even in terms of distribution of wealth.

Len, I see you point in shifting to a cooperative system but we have a culture of violence and war, can we shift without total breakdown? if greed was not so rampant we could try to change it using culture, but we do not use culture in a very positive way, but in a divisive way.  

[Mordae]

Len, I see you point in shifting to a cooperative system but we have a culture of violence and war, can we shift without total breakdown? if greed was not so rampant we could try to change it using culture, but we do not use culture in a very positive way, but in a divisive way.

IMHO, no. The current economic realities alone ensure that just about every country to do so would become insolvent overnight (if fact they probably are already, much like the banks, it's just that they accept debt as money).

[Rockhopper]

Incidentally, the US is NOT a Democracy at all. It's a Constitutional Republic, an entirely different political beast! That is why each person's vote doesn't really count, just the "Popularity" of the contender is important. Not a criticism, each country has the right to run things their own way.

The original concept by the US founding fathers was to try to stop the republic from ever becoming a dictatorship. Something that they had seen in France with Napoleon.

The problem is it leaves a door open to allow corporations to slowly take it over. Something we are starting to see happening now.

Tim.

[Mordae]

By "Popularity" I gather you mean "how much money assorted corporations can pump into my campaign"?

But yeah, the corps started getting serious about influencing government policy after the Powell memo went out in '71.
The Powell Memo

In 1971, Lewis Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memorandum was dated August 23, 1971, two months prior to Powell’s nomination by President Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Powell Memo did not become available to the public until long after his confirmation to the Court. It was leaked to Jack Anderson, a liberal syndicated columnist, who stirred interest in the document when he cited it as reason to doubt Powell’s legal objectivity. Anderson cautioned that Powell “might use his position on the Supreme Court to put his ideas into practice…in behalf of business interests.”

Though Powell’s memo was not the sole influence, the Chamber and corporate activists took his advice to heart and began building a powerful array of institutions designed to shift public attitudes and beliefs over the course of years and decades. The memo influenced or inspired the creation of the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, the Cato Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Accuracy in Academe, and other powerful organizations. Their long-term focus began paying off handsomely in the 1980s, in coordination with the Reagan Administration’s “hands-off business” philosophy.

Most notable about these institutions was their focus on education, shifting values, and movement-building — a focus we share, though often with sharply contrasting goals.* (See our endnote for more on this.)...

[Lenzabi]

Stargate, it is a big job as it will take a lot to change people away from the Greed culture that presently pre-dominates all the 1st and 2nd world nations.

[Rockhopper]

People are creatures of habit Len. Getting peeps. to change their habits is very hard to do.

If there is a world crash that brings down everything we hold dear, then they will change and look for a better option.

Tim.

[Lenzabi]

Humanity, one of the madly crazy races that has to learn from the school of hard knocks in the cosmos.   

[Monk (in hiding)]

Maybe we need to find our true origins?

[X]

Without war...we wouldn't be enjoying the good life we do.

[Monk (in hiding)]

Well, for your information whitty, the good life is rapidly ending here in the USA for most people.

One bag of good food is now costing me over $50.

A good healthy loaf of bread is now $6.

[Stargate]

Well, for your information whitty, the good life is rapidly ending here in the USA for most people.

One bag of good food is now costing me over $50.

A good healthy loaf of bread is now $6.

So VM, what we need is a healthy change, what can we agree on to change? We have tried almost everything. My question is, how can a poor people like the people of Mali, Gambia, whose economy is almost non existent when you compare it to America or Britton, have a murder rate of almost zero percent? how did they achieve this? how do they manage to keep the people so focused that they have no real poverty line, and no extra rich people?   

[Lenzabi]

Well, this article is close to my own views

http://www.humanitarianleft.com/humanitarian-left

[Stargate]

Well, this article is close to my own views

http://www.humanitarianleft.com/humanitarian-left

Len, I loved the article, but every time I read an article like that I wonder what has happened to humanity. How did we get so far from the center? What clouded our vision in such a way that we are almost helpless to ourselves?

[Lenzabi]

those of the greed ideal, spread their greed-fection, now we see what the global corporates are up to, and they are subborning the gov'ts to help them.

[Ken McClellan]

Sometimes escalation is the trigger. For example, agents caught a couple of Black Panthers buying up shells to turn the powder into pipe bombs. IF there had been a "peaceful" demonstration with hundreds of demonstrators holding up their hands and saying "Don't shoot" and then some moron in the back tossed forward a pipe bomb in which police and demonstrators got shrapnelled and then the police used that as an occasion to open fire ... suddenly there would have been thousands of thoroughly incited people seeking violence and revenge. As it was, there were plenty of violent people, but they weren't fueled by personally knowing dozens of "martyrs."

[Stargate]

Sometimes escalation is the trigger.  For example, agents caught a couple of Black Panthers buying up shells to turn the powder into pipe bombs.  IF there had been a "peaceful" demonstration with hundreds of demonstrators holding up their hands and saying "Don't shoot" and then some moron in the back tossed forward a pipe bomb in which police and demonstrators got shrapnelled and then the police used that as an occasion to open fire ... suddenly there would have been thousands of thoroughly incited people seeking violence and revenge.  As it was, there were plenty of violent people, but they weren't fueled by personally knowing dozens of "martyrs."

To be honest Ken, I don't know what to believe anymore, we are so lied to and so many cover ups, I think we are prone to speculations and conspiracy theories. That does not make democracy feasible.

[Ken McClellan]

Back in April there was a pretty good story on the subject: Princeton Concludes What Kind of Government America Really Has, and It's Not a Democracy

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