NATIONAL: United States of America

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories, or insular areas, scattered around the Caribbean and Pacific.

At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with more than 300 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and third largest by land area and by population. The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of US$14.3 trillion (23% of the world total based on nominal GDP and almost 21% at purchasing power parity).

The nation was founded by thirteen colonies of Great Britain located along the Atlantic seaboard. On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and their formation of a cooperative union. The rebellious states defeated Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of independence. A federal convention adopted the current United States Constitution on September 17, 1787; its ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic with a strong central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising ten constitutional amendments guaranteeing many fundamental civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791.

In the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes between the agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the American Civil War of the 1860s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led to the end of legal slavery in the United States. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the nation's status as a military power. In 1945, the United States emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and a founding member of NATO. The end of the Cold War left the United States as the sole superpower. The country accounts for approximately 50% of global military spending and is a leading economic, political, and cultural force in the world. Source: Wikipedia

Regional Resource Centers:

• Pacific Northwest USA - Cascadian Resource Center
• Hawai'ian Islands - Pending Organizer
• Alaska - Available
• Southwest USA - Available
• Southwest USA - Available
• Southwest USA - Available
• Midwest USA - Available
• Northeast USA - Available
• Southeast USA - Available

Local / State Resource Centers:

• Arizona Resource Center
  • Phoenix • Sedona • Tucson
• California Resource Center
  • Arcata • Encinitas • Grass Valley / Nevada City • Marin County • Mt. Shasta • Ojai • San Francisco • Sebastopol
• Colorado Resource Center
  • Boulder • Crestone • Denver
• Hawai'ian Islands Resource Center
  • Big Island (Hawai'i) • Kahoʻolawe • Kauaʻi • Lānaʻi • Maui • Molokaʻi • Niʻihau • Oʻahu
• Idaho Resource Center
  • Sandpoint
• Indiana Resource Center
  • Indianapolis • Muncie
• Illinois Resource Center
  • Chicago
• Iowa Resource Center
  • Fairfield • Iowa City
• Michigan Resource Center - Pending Organizer
  • Ann Arbor • Birmingham Area • Detroit • Kalamazoo • Lapeer Area • Traverse City Area - Pending Organizers
• Nevada Resource Center
  • Reno
• Oregon Resource Center - Pending Organizer
  • Ashland • Bend • Eugene • Portland • Salem
• Texas Resource Center
  • Austin
• Washington Resource Center
  • Bellingham • Olympia • Seattle • Spokane
• Wyoming Resource Center
  • Laramie

 

ESTABLISHING A USA RESOURCE CENTER:

For the last three years we've built a powerful "Resource Center 3.0" platform and business model to support local and regional development of resource centers for communications and networking, interdependence and economic self–reliance, and I'd like to offer this opportunity to the entire Hawaiian community.

This platform is more advanced than Facebook and focused on building and strengthening community locally. But our company doesn't have the market capitalization of Facebook so we'll require our partners, advertisers and sponsors to make a financial commitment to be able to support this development. There is no time more critical than right now!

So we're looking for the first twelve "Associate" partners ($48/month), the first 24 "Business" partners ($24/month) and the first 100 "Community" partners ($12/month) to make this feasible ASAP.

If we can get enough financial commitments we'll come back in three months and facilitate the USA Resource Center regional resource center development and turn it over to a local ORGANIZING TEAM to operate.

• Associate
• Business
• Community

That's our current vision and proposal for building and deploying these worldwide.
Become a partner today!

 

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