Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc. d.b.a. SECO Energy

Jim Duncan - Sumter Electric Co-op's Million Dollar Man

Jim Duncan - SECO's CEO

SECO'S MILLION DOLLAR MAN

James P. Duncan was paid $968,494 in reportable compensation for 2014, plus $90,136 in other compensation, for a total of $1,058,630 as CEO of Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc., d.b.a. SECO Energy, according to the 2014 IRS Form 990 Return of Tax Exempt Organization for Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc., see page 7, Part VII, Compensation of Officers, Trustees, Key Employees, Highest Compensated Employees, and Independent Contractors.

2014 IRS Form 990 Sumter Electric Cooperative Return of Tax Exempt Organization
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2013 IRS Form 990 Sumter Electric Cooperative Return of Tax Exempt Organization
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2012 IRS Form 990 Sumter Electric Cooperative Return of Tax Exempt Organization
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990 Finder - Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax. (except private foundations)

Under section 501(c), 527, or 4947(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code

Foundation Center-Find Funders-990 Finder (IRS 990 Form)

http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/990finder/

Sumter Electric Coop_ByLaws Mar-29-2003
Sumter Electric Coop_ByLaws Mar-29-2003.[...]
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SECO Board Policy 207 - Terms and Conditions of Service; Capital Credits
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Sumter Electric Coop_Decemeber 2013 - 2015
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Sumter Electric Coop_Loan List - 2010-2014
Sumter Electric Coop_Loan List - 2010-20[...]
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Sunbiz offers free online searches for all of the filing systems listed...

SUMTER ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC. Florida Not For Profit Corporation
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2016 Florida Not For Profit Corporation Annual Report, Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc.
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Mark White

Purvis, Gray and Company, LLP

Mark White, Audit Partner (left)
Laurel Ridge Professional Center
2347 SE 17th Street, Ocala, FL 34471

Dear Mr. White:

I understand from video of the Annual Meeting March 19, 2016 that you are the auditor for Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc., d.b.a. SECO Energy. I am contacting you in that capacity. Read more here and in the PDF below. (no response)

Letter to Mark White, Purvis, Gray re SECO Energy
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Civil Rights Movement

Justice Network Link

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Research and Education Insstitute

You may donate to Justice Network on PayPal or Zelle at neil4justice@mail.com. Thank you for your support. Neil Gillespie

Equal Justice Initiative website

Equal Justice Initiative YouTube

Equal Justice Initiative Facebook

The End of Lynching in Marion County Florida, Chapter 5 Lethal Punishment, Margaret Vandiver

Slavery at Brown University

Slavery Georgetown University

Slavery at University of Virginia

Slavery at Harvard University

Slavery at Ivy League Schools

The Problem of Whiteness

BlackPast.org Website

ABA & NAACP: Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System

BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Philadelphia Lawyer Wayne Bennett

Creation myth, white Supremacy
SOA Watch, Elizabeth Martinez

Every nation has a creation myth, or origin myth, which is the story people are taught of how the nation came into being. Ours says the United States began with Columbus's so-called "discovery" of America, continued with settlement by brave Pilgrims, won its independence from England with the American Revolution, and then expanded westward until it became the enormous, rich country you see today.

That is the origin myth. It omits three key facts about the birth and growth of the United States as a nation. Those facts demonstrate that White Supremacy is fundamental to the existence of this country. Read

Creation myth
what-is-white-supremacy.pdf
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Police Captain Ray Lewis (Ret.) fighting corruption. OCCUPY!

Banks destroying America

Transcript & Letters - Scribd

NYT: Lobbyists, Bearing Gifts, Pursue Attorneys General. Pam Bondi center

form of political corruption, Wikipedia

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - CFPB

The White House fights for the CFPB

Three Key Fights to Protect

The President’s Consumer

Protection Agenda

The White House: We need the CFPB

Dodd-Frank The White House

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CFPB Wikipedia

Dodd-Frank Act Wikipedia

Dodd-Frank 12 U.S.C. Chapter 53

Dodd-Frank Act LLI Cornell Law

Dodd-Frank Act Title X CFPB

Dodd-Frank Act GPO

CFPB Strategic Plan 2012-2017

HECM Reverse Mortgage information

Consumers and Reverse Mortgages

For the Reverse Mortgage Industry

CFPB Report Highlights Consumer Frustration Around Reverse Mortgages

CFPB February 2015

Snapshot of reverse mortgage complaints (PDF here)
Dec. 2011 - Dec. 2014
Office for Older Americans

CFPB advisory: Don’t be misled by reverse mortgage advertising

CFPB Monitor is a blog focused on important goings-on at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the independent consumer financial regulatory and enforcement agency created by the Dodd-Frank Act. Blog by Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group.

New Bankruptcy Forms Affect Residential Mortgage Lenders...

Update on disparate impact lawsuit against HUD

SCOTUS: No Vindication of Rights Exception to Concepcion

FTC brief: Challenge Arbitration

Will CFPB adopt rules to rein in mandatory arbitration clauses?

Small Debts Matter To Black Lives

Summary of the Dodd-Frank Act

Dodd-Frank implementation SEC

Dodd-Frank Act FDIC

Dodd-Frank - CFTC Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Dodd-Frank - H.R. 4173 (484p)

CFPB: Right to request credit reports

The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System

Professor Benjamin H. Barton author of The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System, writes that virtually all American judges are former lawyers, a shared background that results in the lawyer-judge bias. Barton argues that these lawyer-judges instinctively favor the legal profession in their decisions and that this bias has far-reaching and deleterious effects on American law. Overlawyered, Larry Ribstein, Glenn Reynolds, and Cato’s Dan Mitchell. Barton submitted a brief with Darryl Brown, Turner v Rogers. Docket.

The Secret Life of Judges, NYT.

75 Fordham L. Rev. 2855 (2007), by the Hon. Dennis Jacobs, kindly Nominate this for a Nobel Prize.

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Hercules And The Umpire blog

Hercules And The Umpire, blog by U.S. Judge Richard G. Kopf. Above The Law, Wikipedia.

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Obergefell v. Hodges SCOTUS Blog

Offical US Court Information website

American Bar Assn. Magna Carta link

OAS, YouTube Channel

OAS, Wikipedia

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Special Rapporteur website

Resolution 64/292 right to safe drinking water and sanitation.

U.N. press release on Detroit

Marion Co. Fla. Municode

UN Water For Life Decade

Right to Water and Sanitation

Catarina de Albuquerque video Water for Life. Water and Sanitation as a Human Right

WHO World Health Organization

U.S. Mission to the U.N.

The United States Mission to the U.N.

About the U.S. Mission to U.N.

UN reform - U.S. Mission, D.O.S.

UN Oversight and Transparency

Hotline: Waste, Fraud and Abuse

Has the United Nations Failed?

Aljazeera Report & Video

....Ms. Zinnah Begum, Bangladesh

Unanswerd letter to UN Sec-Gen Jan Eliasson; Special Rapporteur

Article 25...health...and medical care

Medicare for All, H.R. 676 Summary

Medicare for All Is a Realistic Goal

H.R. 676: Medicare For All Act

Medicare For All Act will save $Billions

Medicare For All is Necessary and Proper for America's health and success; and U.S. International Commerce in competition with countries who provide workers universal health care. Article 25 of the UDHR says medical care is an international human right.

The U.S. National Health Care Act (Medicare for all) Wikipedia

FRONTLINE PBS Program

The biggest hurdle for lawyers with disabilities: preconceptions

ABA Journal, June 1, 2015

William D. Goren Disability Blog

Social Security Disability Law Blog by Jonathan Ginsberg, Disability Attorney, Atlanta, GA
YouTube Social Security Disability

Florida Bar Disability Links

US Depatment of Justice

DOJ disability briefs ADA

Cynthia Says Portal

Cryptzone Inc. ICDRI and the Internet Society Disability and Special Needs Chapter

For Persons With Invisible Disabilities

...........benefit to leadership..........

Brain Injury Association of Florida

Development, human rights for all

Human Rights and disabilities

National Counsel on Disability

Conventionon the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

American Bar Association CRPD

ex-Sen Santorum against CRPD

ABA article, Legal Profession Attracts Psychopaths

ABA article, The Legal Field Attracts Psychopaths

.....Click to Google 'Jury Nullification'

Law prof. confesses: I am a sociopath, ABA Law News Now

Law prof confesses: I am a sociopath, ABA Law News

C-SPAN2, America & The Courts

Interview with author David Marston, Malice Aforethought.

David W. Marston, a Philadelphia lawyer, former United States Attorney, Harvard Law grad, and Author of Malice Aforethought.

ABA: Dear MisConduct

Fla. Bar Rule 4-8.3 Reporting Professional Misconduct

ABA Model Rule 8.3 Reporting Professional Misconduct

FRONTLINE - PBS - Justice for Sale

Dr. Mario Jimenez, Miami, Florida

Here come the judges....DUI

Here Comes the Judge, in Cuffs, NYT

U.S. Chief Judge Cebull sent racist email about President Obama. Cebull has retired

Retired Judge Richard F. Cebull

Where judges are judged

Rates judicial performance of judges

....encyclopedia of courts and judges

Norcross woman's condo sold over $95 tax bill she never received. ABA Journal Law News

Bennie Coleman, retired Marine

lost home over $134 tax bill

The Washington Post

On the day Bennie Coleman lost his house, the day armed U.S. marshals came to his door and ordered him off the property, he slumped in a folding chair across the street and watched the vestiges of his 76 years hauled to the curb...because he didn’t pay a $134 property tax bill.

"The whole system of justice

in America is broken"
ABA Law News Now

Law Prof. Laurence Tribe

Wanda Dunn, Pasadena woman, foreclosure suicide

Wells Fargo - Foreclosure Suicide

Two Philadelphia Homeowners Choose Death Over Foreclosure

.......Syrian Civil War, Wikipedia.......

......Al Jazeera International News.....

Justice in Syria:

If not the ICC, then What?

International Criminal Court

When national systems totally fail, the Treaty of Rome applies.

International criminal law

mirage or justice?

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Nuremberg principles, Wikipedia

The Robert H. Jackson Center

Nuremberg - Benjamin B. Ferencz

Ben Ferencz - Facebook

Religion News Service

The 'Broken' 2-Party System

NYT: The age of Obama has fallen tragically short... we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle. Read more in the New York Times

Cornel West Website

Carl Hiaasen, 60 Minutes

Florida: Paradise Of Scandals

60 Minutes' Steve Kroft Talks To Carl Hiaasen In a little less than a century, the state of Florida has been transformed from a largely uninhabited swamp to the fourth-largest state in the union. And no one has written about that transformation more successfully than Carl Hiaasen.

Carl Hiaasen on Florida:

"The Sunshine State is a paradise of scandals teeming with drifters, deadbeats, and misfits drawn here by some dark primordial calling like demented trout. And you'd be surprised how many of them decide to run for public office."

LawyerRatingz.com

Avvo.com

....Disbar The Florida Bar website.....

Common Good website

Says remove lawyers from elective office outside the judicial branch

Scott and Helen Nearing

Radical Wharton Professor

Nearing influenced generations over his century-long life by advocating what he believed to be a back-to-nature lifestyle of economic and social purity.

"If I am rich and you are poor," Nearing wrote, "both of us are corrupted by inequality."

The politics, economy, and technology today provides a new foundation for his message.

Scott Nearing, Wharton School

Scott and Helen Nearing, The Good Life, Justice Network Link

Object to the "normalization of violence" accepted to put dinner on the table. See, The human cost of animal suffering, Mark Bittman, NYT, March 13, 2012

Paul McCartney - Glass Walls

C-Span Video Library, Senator Sanders Filibuster Dec. 10, 2010

Full Congressional Record, Transcript of Sanders Filibuster

U.S. Dept. of Labor website

Teamsters Union, Package Division

Fair wages, safe, clean work, respect

1. Factory Defies Sweatshop Label, but Can It Thrive?

The New York Times

2. Reflections on Paying Living Wages in a Global Economy

3. How Many Slaves Work For You today in the year 2014?

4. Slavery Footprint today 2014

5. Progressive Garment Factory, or Charity? Business Ethics Blog

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America is one of the largest building trades union in the United States, created in 1881 by a convention of carpenters' unions led by Peter J. McGuire, and helped establishing the eight hour day. Wikipedia

United Steelworkers - Wikipedia

Pres. Teddy Roosevelt Digital Library

Big Stick ideology
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far"

Anthracite Coal Strike

In 1902, 140,000 miners went on strike, wanting higher pay, shorter work hours, and better housing.....Roosevelt...use[d] the military to run the mines in the "public interest". The mining companies...accepted the demands of the UMW...more

Presidential Library and Museum

Pro labor: Labor is prior to, and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much higher consideration. Abraham Lincoln pro labor quote

.....Charles Hugh Smith

"Why play by the rules when you know the game is rigged? To do so is to condone your enslavement." Read this and more on the website Of Two Minds by Charles Hugh Smith in his post "Our Participation Fuels Financial Tyranny". Zero Hedge

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John Brown, 1860 portrait

A John Brown for Today?

John Brown, the abolitionist of Harpers Ferry fame, sought to free slaves bound by chains and involuntary servitude. Brown’s raid in October 1859 with 22 men played a major role in starting the American Civil War. David S. Reynolds hails him as the man who "killed slavery, sparked the civil war, and seeded civil rights." That was 155 years ago. The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed slaves, and in December 1865 the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.

Economic Slavery Today

Today economic slavery has many people in debt chains. Economic or debt slavery is more efficient for its masters than the slavery of the Old South. Debt slaves must feed, house and clothe themselves. The debt slave masters, the banks, credit card companies, and even student loan providers, all rely upon the courts and justice system for enforcement of debt. When economic slaves can’t pay back their debt, they are told to get a second job. Or a third job.

Meanwhile, when the well-connected masters of economic slaves get in a financial bind, and bring our economy to the brink of collapse, they call on politicians in Washington, DC for bailouts. Bankers don’t get second or third jobs, they get million-dollar bonuses.

The economic slave masters have access to the best lawyers, sympathetic judges, and sheriff’s deputies ready to haul the debt slave to court, or throw him and his family out of their home and into the street. Does anyone see a problem with this scenario? Where is the John Brown for today’s debt slaves?

Justice by Luca Giordano

Justice Wikipedia

Justice is the concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, fairness, or equity, along with the punishment of the breach of said ethics.

According to most theories of justice, it is overwhelmingly important: John Rawls claims that "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought."

Rule of Law Index 2016

Amnesty International

online grassroots response to failed Democratic Party values

......Nonviolent conflict resolution

Witness, Human Rights Organization

Justice: An Impossible Dream? Dr. Margaret Koch-Nabialczyk

Human rights law reform London

Final Indignities, Jeff Good

Forgotten Victims

Jeffrey Good, Final Indignities:

An Editorial Investigation

of lawyer theft from clients

St. Petersburg Times,

September 11, 1994

Ayn Rand, NPR enigma page

Peace Corps, Wikipedia

WikiLeaks is an international organization that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of otherwise unavailable documents while preserving the anonymity of sources.

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New York Times: WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Trailed by Notoriety, By JOHN F. BURNS and RAVI SOMAIYA, October 23, 2010

Julian Assange, Wikipedia

July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike

P. J. Crowley Resigned

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley resigns
Los Angeles Times
By Paul Richter
March 14, 2011

The State Department's top spokesman resigned Sunday, three days after criticizing the Pentagon for its treatment of [Manning]...P.J. Crowley, the assistant secretary of State for public affairs, told a group at [MIT]...that the Pentagon's treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning was "ridiculous and stupid and counterproductive." His comments were made public by a blogger who attended the session. More here, and Politico, and The Washington Post

The Whistle-Blowers Act of 1777
The New York Times
by STEPHEN M. KOHN
June 12, 2011

FORTY years ago today, The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a seminal moment not only for freedom of the press but also for the role of whistle-blowers — like Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the papers to expose the mishandling of the war in Vietnam — in defending our democracy. Read more

Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis

Truthdigger of the Week
Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis

Senior ranking US military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the US Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable. Read more

The Way We Treat Our Troops, NYT

NATIONAL CENTER for PTSD

Beyond PTSD to "Moral Injury"

"I really don't like the term 'PTSD,’” Department of Veterans Affairs psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan Shay told PBS' "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" in 2010. "He says the diagnostic definition of "post-traumatic stress disorder" is a fine description of certain instinctual survival skills that persist into everyday life after a person has been in mortal danger — but the definition doesn't address the entirety of a person's injury after the trauma of war. "I view the persistence into civilian life after battle," he says, "... as the simple or primary injury." Dr. Shay on YouTube

Dr. Shay has his own name for the thing the clinical definition of PTSD leaves out. He calls it "moral injury" — and the term is catching on with both the VA and the Department of Defense.

Moral injury, Dr. Shay says, can happen when "there is a betrayal of what's right by someone who holds legitimate authority in a high-stakes situation." read more

Pentagon says it is lifting ban on women in combat - New York Times

Marines Moving Women Toward the Front Lines
The New York Times
By JAMES DAO
April 24, 2012

The Marine Corps, the most male of the armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units, starting with its infantry officer school at Quantico, Va., and ground combat battalions that had once been closed to women.

Stars and Stripes exists to provide independent news and information to the U.S. military community, comprised of active-duty, DoD civilians, contractors, and their families. Unique among the many Department of Defense authorized news outlets, only Stars and Stripes is guaranteed First Amendment privileges that are subject to Congressional oversight. Go to the website

Aid and Attendant Benefits

veteranaid.org

Military Corruption.com

Our motto: "FIGHTING FOR THE TRUTH. . .EXPOSING THE CORRUPT" is our battle cry! We go after, not only pompous brasshats and as COL. David Hackworth so ably put it - the "perfumed princes" like Gen. Wesley Clark - but Gestapo-like MP's, CID, NIS, OIS and other alphabet agency "bully boys" who ignore the Constitution of the United States and the right to Due Process.

9/11 Attacks - New Information

Lloyd's Sues Saudi Arabia over 9/11

Law Professor Paul Campos, The Daily Beast: Why Bin Laden Was Not Taken Alive

Link to 9/11 commission and report

Former Sen Bob Graham Urges Obama to Reopen Investigation into Saudi Role in 9/11 Attacks

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....Major Heather Penney, 9/11 Pilot

C-Span interview with Major Heather Penney, 9/11 DC Air National Guard Pilot

Major Heather Penney recounts the drama in the skies after District of Columbia Air National Guard pilots scrambled to intercept incoming hostile planes. She describes why F-16’s initially took off from Andrews Air Force Base unarmed – and what she was prepared to do to bring down a plane piloted by terrorists. And she recounts how later that day she helped escort President Bush and Air Force One back to Andrews Air Force Base. C-Span Interview

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FBI probe of Sarasota home link to 9/11 hijackers not reported to Congress, commission

911 Truth Movement, Wikipedia

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14 Year Anniversary - YouSue.org to NoSue.org

Fourteen years ago I started the Justice Network with the domain name YouSue.org. This name was chosen in the spirit of YouTube, the video-sharing website that empowered ordinary people to produce and share video.

Through this website I have met folks from all over the country. Some of their stories are profiled here. Many have reached the conclusion that America’s justice system is broken.

The official Justice Network Internet address is now NoSue.org. This reflects the sad truth that for most Americans the justice system is broken, just a parody of justice. Reform American courts or avoid them. Your life, health and wealth is at risk. But don’t just take my word, listen to the experts on this site.

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