I just received my annual TCP-1 letter from LLNS and a summary of the LLNS Pension Plan. Looked in pretty good shape in 2013. About 35% overfunded (funding target attainment percentage = 134.92%). This was a decrease from 2012 where it was 51% overfunded (funding target attainment percentage = 151.59%). They did note that the 2012 change in the law on how liabilities are calculated using interest rates improved the plan's position. Without the change the funding target attainment percentages would have been 118% (2012) and 105% (2013). 2013 assets = $2,057,866,902 2013 liabilities = $1,525,162,784 vs 2012 assets = $1,844,924,947 2012 liabilities = $1,217,043,150 It was also noted that a slightly different calculation method ("fair market value") designed to show a clearer picture of the plan' status as December 31, 2013 had; Assets = $2,403,098,433 Liabilities = $2,068,984,256 Funding ratio = 116.15% Its a closed plan with 3,781 participants. Of that number, 3,151 wer...
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We have more than 80 million anti- government people, who want to destroy the United States, hate democracy and embrace extreme Fascisim. I am not worried about a professor in Minnesota who wants equality.
Then how do you interpret this statement?:
"And so, it's our responsibility as people who are within the United States to go as hard as possible to decolonization this place," she added. "Because that will reverberate all across the world. Because the U.S. is the greatest predator empire that has ever existed. So we want U.S. out of everywhere ... and the goal is to dismantle the settler project that is the United States."
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/philippines/
And Puerto Rico, Guam, and a few other places are currently territories I doubt this is a reference to that however.
We also fought Japan to resist their colonization and oppression and release their colonies in the Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere from bondage, and to the extent that Cuba was a Soviet colony we resisted that. We freed the Warsaw pact countries which were in some ways, Soviet colonies and puppet states, and so on, and Germany was reunified in October 1990.
And of course, Hitler's Reich was an effort to subjugate populations throughout Europe and create Lebensraum to resettle Germans, killing or enslaving natives, and appropriating resources -- in effect, a case of colonialism, which the US put an end to.
So it must be, she is talking more about rights for native americans, giving them more autonomy and respect, diversity initiatives and so on, and perhaps more land returned to them, along with money from natural resources, so they can have better lives.
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-iii/clauses/39
I'm not sure those statements reach these very narrow criteria, the statements might be reprehensible however, I am not sure what it even represents, or what she envisions as part of her agenda. It doesn't seem specific, there are no actions attached, and she has no real followers. This also isn't a focus of her beliefs at all, she is an advocate (or claims to be) for native americans and not some foreign government.
I'd admit you would get a better education by avoiding such teachings, maybe watch the History Channel, or find professors with a less ideological focus, someone better grounded in reality might also be better suited to advance the interest of the native americans I would expect. These kind of "radical ideas" and emotional appeals could be co-opted by people who wish to avoid addressing real problems after all, various elites or special interest groups who wish to exploit various issues to benefit themselves.
That is, while she seems to be an anti-establishment figure she is probably not, she became a professor for a reason despite her lack of evident qualifications, as she serves the establishment.
https://therednation.org/10-point-program/
Of course, native americans are US citizens, and also because of their special history and status, should deserve good treatment. Why is that controversial?