1962 – Birth of David Cobb, former Outreach Director of Move to Amend and Principal of the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD)Watch the debate
Cobb debated James Bopp in September, 2014 at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN on “Citizens Divided: Corporate Money, Speech, and Politics.” Bopp is General Counsel for the James Madison Center for Free Speech and was lead attorney for Citizens United, the group that argued their corporate 1st Amendment “speech rights were violated when prevented from airing a political program just prior to the election.”
The “debate” turned out to be one-sided – with Cobb presenting a much stronger case for why corporations should not be granted “personhood” rights and money should not be equated with “free speech” than Bopp arguing the reverse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijSsZdCatTM
I first heard Richard Grossman in 1996 - of http://poclad.org
In fact I talked with him as the two of us watched the streets of Chicago. This was very nice of him to do - or maybe he didn't want to try run away from me. haha.
So my dad was an attorney and my dad took me to attend legal meetings - specifically the very powerful corporate legal Federalist Society (currently picking the corporate legal judges).
So also my dad was buddies with a Federal Judge for the US District Court - and we had dinner before this judge wrote a decision against a state anti-corporate farm law (as being against the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution and also the legal personhood rights of the corporation).
At the time the nonprofit I worked at was an Amicus Curae to the case - on the opposite side - in favor of the Family Farm Law.
So I knew the judge had already made up his mind before officially hearing the case and then writing the administrative ruling the next day - as part of I think it was a three judge ruling for the Federal District covering many states in the Midwest.
So I gave my Corporate Personhood research from Phil Grove in Minnesota - I met with him a couple times and he gave me his research. He worked at the MN Attorney General office at one time. My dad wrote the "training manual" for the MN Attorney general office back when he was the "assistant" attorney general or "Chief Deputy Officer" of Minnesota. - So I GAVE that research to my immediate manager for our Get out the Vote campaign - Brian.
Brian was then hired to be the office manager of Keith Ellison after Ellison was elected. I had met Ellison as the friend - mutual friend of the nearby African restaurant owner. I lived at this Ghanian friend - in 2001 - as I moved nine times looking for a place to properly meditate in the city. I lived there for a month and my dad gave me $1000 to give to her for rent, etc. I think maybe he thought I had "gotten in trouble" with her. haha.
And she used that money to bring her husband from Africa to the U.S. I picked them up at the airport.
So THEN - Keith Ellison became attorney general and so I wrote him a letter about this past history that I speak of above.
I did the data entry work in full lotus for the Get Out the Vote database to get Keith Ellison elected.
I wish him luck and solidarity.
Personally I think this issue of Corporate Personhood goes all the way back to Plato. A good book on this is, "The Paper Economy" by David T. Bazelon.
https://www.math.wisc.edu/beck/Wages/Wages1.htm
7. The Brazen Law of Profits. Just as the Iron Law of Wages drives workers to compete in the level of income they will demand as the alternative to being jobless, so the transfer of income to the rich and the super-rich creates a kind of reverse effect. As the level of an individual’s income increases, there is decreasing reward for spending it on consumer products, especially necessities. More is on luxuries and increasingly, with ever higher incomes, on things that offer very little pleasure, Also more is spent on the search for status through conspicuous consumption. At the same time, a larger portion goes into what is described as “investment”, but does not create additional production, and does little to drive the creation of goods and services. These “investments” involve the purchase of the results of investments made years, decades, or even generations in the past. In examining this, we recommend The Paper Economy, by David T. Bazelon, published almost thirty years age. To the extent that the money is going into new factories or laboratories, these are in the developing world, where the principal attraction is not new and better methods of production but spectacularly lesser expenditure in wages. These “investments”, which hardly advance the productive capacity of the human race, are stimulated by a higher rate of profit and a greater shift of spending into what Bazelon identifies as certificates of entitlement. As these certificates are held by people, often the heirs of the founders of other businesses, who do not know how to spur creation beyond buying shares or certificates of deposit, the rate of profit would fall, as noted by Marx. However, these “investors” are not interested in the matter of how a business works. They are more accurately called “proprietors” or even rentiers, and often look only at the rate of return. They may shift from one holding to another according to a horizon often no longer than three months. The officers of the businesses in question are pressed, at their absolute peril, to maximize quarterly earnings and dividends. A great fraction of this effort is made in reducing wages. Often they jettison large numbers of employees who embody the corporate memory, with negative effect on the company’s future prospects. Genuine investment is also discouraged, resulting in such things as the eclipse of the automobile industries in North America and Europe in favor of innovative creation in places like Japan and South Korea.
So from Plato a system of eugenics was created the combined property rights with symmetric mathematics and technological patent law.
So this is a deep mind control Matrix system that goes back 2000 years. It was established into Europe in the 9th century - by John Scotus Erigena working for the Benedictine Monks - as Professor David F. Noble notes in his classic, "The Religion of Technology."
Wages, Hours and Years
An exploration of labor economics.
Anatole Beck
Ph.D., 1956, Yale University
Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin
- Madison (608)
262-3221
abeck@wisc.edu
Here is my latest book, "Wages, Hours, and Years"
So this math is from Plato - it's logarithmic/exponential mathematics.
The answer is noncommutative phase math logic that is nonwestern in origin and the secret of ancient alchemy.
Nestlé USA, Inc. v. John Doe I; Cargill, Inc. v. John Doe I
Oct 21, 2020 — In these cases, Petitioners Nestlé USA, Inc., and Cargill, Inc. allegedly aided ... in the perpetration of child slavery by cocoa farmers in the Ivory Coast. ... law is consistent with longstanding principles of corporate personhood.
So this is what Bertrand Russell called the logical error of types that Gregory Bateson discusses in his book, "Mind and Nature: A necessary unity"
The reason this logical error is used as an EXCUSE for corporate personhood to hide behind slavery is then going back to Plato as the error of how time is defined. As Bateson points out the error of Western logic is because it tries to stand outside of time and not include time in the language-based logic.
Aristotle was against this error of Plato as well - the error of "negative infinity" from symmetric "two-ness" as a concept before physical reality - a Platonic ideal of materialistic infinity defined by logic.
1907 – Death of John Chandler Bancroft Davis – whose unilateral action yielded first Supreme Court corporate “personhood” decision
Davis played a historical role in the corporate personhood debate. As the court reporter in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad (118 U.S. 394, 1886), his responsibility was to prepare ‘a summary-of-the-case commentary.’ He wrote in the headnote to the decision that Chief Justice Morrison Waite began his oral argument of the court’s opinion by stating, ‘The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does.”
Davis’ published reports and notes from 1885-1886 contained his views on the Santa Clara case: ‘The defendant Corporations are persons within the intent of the clause in section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Thom Hartmann and other journalists and authors have since charged Davis with a conflict of interest in his role in the Supreme Court ruling as he had previously been President of the Newburgh and New York Railway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancroft_Davis
So after my dad leaving his body then I discovered his college paper - or was it high school? It was published in his college newspaper I think - against the rural government electrification project as being socialist:
The Corps of Engineers of the U. S. Army, partly in response to the unemployment rampant in the Great Depression, built a series of dams that replaced the swamps with lakes, interrupted the life cycles of the mosquitoes, and served as the loci for hydro-electric stations that turned the Tennessee Valley into a showplace of Social Democracy, to the admiration of the whole world. The farms were electrified through the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) and the cost of power there was the lowest in the world. It was so cheap that the Aluminum Corporation of America (ALCOA) moved there to take advantage of the rates for the electrical refinement of their product. The proprietors of the inadequate power systems grumbled at being forced to compete with the greater economic muscle of the U. S. Government, but their complaints were stifled by being bought out at favorable terms. The rest of the proprietor class trembled at the prospect that this example of socialism without expropriation might serve to seduce the masses to support undertakings of the same nature. Indeed, there was some of this until the advent of U. S. participation in the Second World War.
So my grandfather had been hired as a minister for the Civilian Conservation Corps - as a Lieutenant Army chaplain - not sure why the CCC was part of the military?
Camps housing 200 men each were established in every state: 1,468 in September 1933, 2,635 in September 1935, and, because of the improving economy, down to 800 by January 1, 1942.
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/ccc/salmond/chap4.htm
The relationship between the Office of the Director of the CCC and the four co-operating federal departments could in some ways be likened to that between a holding company and its far larger components. Fechner's office was limited in size and in function. The technical services and the War Department were immediately responsible for work and administration; they hired and fired employees, and they implemented camp policy. The director's task, in this respect, was simply to co-ordinate their efforts. [1]
A military chaplain ministers to military personnel and, in most cases, their families and civilians working for the military. In some cases they will also work with local civilians within a military area of operations.
Although the term chaplain originally had Christian roots,[1] it is generally used today in military organizations to describe all professionals specially trained to serve any spiritual need, regardless of religious affiliation.
The cappellanus (chaplain) was a member of one institution -- a priest of the church serving in another institution -- the king's army.
So instead of the King being the Sovereign served by the Chaplain as the intermediary to God - the corporate Law is now the Chaplain to the Sovereign of the Corporation.
The concept actually dates back to ancient Rome. It is natural to think of an organization as having a collective identity distinct from that of any particular person who owns or belongs to it. The Romans formalized this, legally, with the notion of corporate personhood.
https://www.glynholton.com/blog/corporate-governance/abolishing-corporate-personhood-careful-ask/
The word corporation derives from the Latin word corpus for body, representing a body of people authorized to act as an individual. Corporate personhood, therefore, is not a property of corporations. It is the original Roman definition of corporations.
Cities were the first entities the Romans treated as corporations. Over time, the concept was extended to certain community organizations called collegia. These included artisan associations, religious societies and social clubs formed to provide funerals for members. Under the Emperors, charitable corporations were established to serve Rome’s growing indigent population. The emerging Catholic Church also employed the corporate form as a vehicle for joint ownership of property.
Roman law survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire to reemerge in aspects of the Church’s canon law and Europe’s secular bodies of law. During the Middle Ages, cities, guilds, monasteries and universities were all chartered as corporations.
Starting in the late 1500s, corporations that were essentially guilds of merchants evolved to become limited liability joint-stock corporations. Most famous among these were England’s and Holland’s respective East India Companies, which challenged Portugal’s domination of the spice trade.
So my argument is that this Logical Error of Types (a group as an individual) goes back to the Logical Error of irrational magnitude of logarithms with Plato defining Natural Law as an exponential distribution of wealth based on the eugenics of logarithms from the wrong music theory as social harmony.
Under corporate personhood, board members have a fiduciary duty to shareownrs. Under the nexus of contracts theory, their duty is merely contractual. They may legally exploit their position to benefit themselves, even if it harms shareowners. Whenever that happens, according to the theory, it is the shareowners’ own fault for not negotiating better “contracts”.
You won’t hear corporate lawyers advocating for the nexus of contracts theory on Good Morning America. They don’t lobby for legislation. They don’t propose a constitutional amendment. Theirs is a stealth strategy, and they pursue it in classrooms. They are teaching the nexus of contracts theory as fact in America’s law schools.
https://harvardlawreview.org/2019/05/corporate-personhood-v-corporate-statehood/
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/maths/2016/01/28/a-tribute-to-anatole-beck-1930-2014/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00029890.1986.11971936?journalCode=uamm20
So notice this proof ASSUMES that an exponential as a ratio is already symmetric - originated from the wrong music theory. When in fact the truth of reality is noncommutative time-frequency!!
Kind of amazing that there are NO OTHER interwebs links to his final book! Only on his math website!
I'm gonna read it now.
So it's 224 pages and the basic argument is that labor hours should be lowered for the same pay because mathematically, for example, a runner can not run twice the distance at the same speed as half the distance. Similarly a worker doing 3 weeks of 3 day work weeks is MORE efficient than two weeks of five day work weeks.
Yes it's a very good argument indeed that can be applied to meditation as well.
I call this the Slow and Steady argument towards work.
Take breaks.
But spread out the work over 3 weeks.
Instead of rushing to finish in two weeks.
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