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The Royal Wedding

Sunday, May 20th, 2018

by Marceline Donaldson

I know those who know me knew this was coming. And I am sure you knew I would gloat! Finally – a mixed race person at the top where we should be. That said, and you see that I can be as bigoted as anyone else – lets get serious!

Watching the coverage of the royal wedding at 3am in the morning and watching it until 10am was like over gouging on chocolate cake.

It was a breath of fresh air in a world sorely in need of such.

I saw England moving away from a “blue blood” state, becoming a part of the creation of a very diverse world which recognizes its differences and holds them “in love” – as Bishop Curry would say. I can say that even after watching the jaws drop and the bemused look on some of England’s “royalty” as Bishop Curry’s sermon and his style took hold of those present and those watching via television.

After seeing and feeling Meghan Markle and Henry Windsor’s coming together produce a really remarkable outpouring of love and produce a new thing – accepted at the highest levels of the English government through its English royalty – the feelings I had stayed with me long after the formal part of the wedding ended. To know this is who would be the “Royals” at the top of the Commonwealth made me want to be a part of that group, that environment, that world.

From what I know and have experienced as a mixed race person and having met many such people over time, the one thing we share is the fact that we don’t have or belong to a “group”. The kind of “group” basic to this world. Are you black? white? Asian? NO? Then who is your group? What is your identity and how do you get that feeling of belonging!

I remembered back to when I was excused from jury duty because I refused to fill out a form following what society dictated I should say and filled it out with the truth of who I am. The form was about race. Supposed to be an illegal thing, but to be filled out during those days and probably still today under the guise of being “research” to make sure jurors were representative – of what? Certainly not the human race – but they wanted to know who you were under the false construct we have devised to create this “better than” or “less than” existence.

The form said something like – White, African American, Asian, Native American, etc. I filled in “other” and then listed the fictional “races” which supposedly contributed to my genetic makeup. The judge asked me to refill in a form and offered a blank form for me to re-fill it “correctly” and I said I had already done that and after a few minutes I was excused.

That was only one small example. Try a lifetime of such and then have children who are also mixed race and watch what they go through, which turns out to be worse, and then watch this “Royal Wedding.”

Meghan Markle has done an extraordinary job of walking across the water finding the submerged boulders to step across on so she could cross the ocean without drowning. And along with Prince Harry has found a place and a way to now share that experience. Her wedding was neither White nor Black; English nor American; and on and on you could go. It held up the culture and religious practices and symbols of all beautifully.

And then I had to come back to earth and deal with the reality of my American life currently under President Donald Trump.

The “Royal Wedding” showed us what could be – Trump shows us what is and in Trump’s world the lies, distortions, bigotry via the nazi influence and all the rest was all over television following the Royal Wedding doing its worse. It was almost as if his “spirits”, his “evil spirits” were working hard to blot out what we had just seen to keep us within their grasp.

It is time for Americans to deal with the truth. We live in a country which is and has been in a constant struggle against its own history and with this Donald Trump episode we are losing that struggle.

I came back to reality with the shooting – yet another school shooting, this time in Texas. A shooting in which the media covered everything except the fact that we need to look at this history and see the acceleration of such and lay the blame at the feet of our current president as the latest incarnation of those who would keep America in such a state for their own reasons – which are generally greed; self-aggrandizement; money; power and control.

Why do I lay the blame for the school shootings at Trump’s feet?

This has been a long time coming. For some seven plus years Donald J. Trump has been the center of tearing down these United States – big time. He generated one lie after another and the biggest was all the time and energy he spent spewing garbage – which he continues to do. His biggest load was to spend those seven years tearing down the United States by combining with its filthiest elements and proclaiming to the world his claim that Barack Obama was not a legitimate president and therefore everything he does is illegitimate because he was lying about having been born in these United States. According to Trump, Obama was actually born in Africa. And along with that were the pictures of Barack and Michelle Obama in various dress and forms – a gorilla; exaggerated African dress and attributes and more. Trump keeps those images and those lies in front of the American people by moving ahead strongly with his campaign to remove everything the Obamas have done so he can wipe out any and all acts of the government of an African American President of these United States. Those lies and that kind of way of acting and being have been a consistency in the Trump administration and in Trump’s life from its beginnings – yes, from his birth. Trump’s bigotry is not new. His lies and attempts to bring in a Nazi regime is not new. He has been laying the ground work for this for decades. We have just refused to take that evil seriously. We have passed it off as “posturing” and with other excuses because some of us need a Trump in this country to maintain its bigotry so we can keep our hands clean and still maintain the “better than” benefits we get from such evil. We can maintain the white males privileges at the expense of everyone else without having to roll up our sleeves to accomplish such. We can maintain we are not bigots like Trump and quietly support his efforts under the cover of many things.

We know the history and bigotry practiced in these United States. It is impossible not to know as we look around at our currently segregated schools; our neighborhoods which many realtors and others keep segregated; our social, golf, and other clubs places we can go and not have to deal with those “less than” – where we can deal with”our own kind”. And we know and have known about Trump and his extreme bigotry because he made sure his vile and racist rants were as public as possible.

And what happened to him? He was elected President of these United States! And now he is being given the benefit of the rule of law in these United States which he is currently and massively trying to deny to others who don’t fit into his scheme of a Nazi like takeover with Trump as Adolph only his emphasis is on money and becoming the wealthiest and most powerful man in the country.

It is time to turn that rule of law with a huge spotlight onto Donald J. Trump. He has committed many crimes – the latest being his call for the DOJ and others to “investigate”. All over the front pages of this mornings papers. What is the truth? His son – Donald Trump, Jr. is being called into question because of meetings he had which look as though he was selling the United States Presidency to foreign countries. Bringing them in to help get his father elected president. The timing of this call to investigate by Donald Trump, Sr. – making headlines and a serious call to a very serious investigation via a “tweet” demand every citizen, every group of lawmakers and law enforcers, every citizen of this country, especially when such a “tweet” is taken seriously enough to make the front page of the leading newspapers and much less coverage given to the real issue – what was Donald Trump, Jr. doing in the meetings he called during his father’s campaign which look clearly as though they are to manipulate the campaign to turn in results other than those the voters chose. An illegitimate president should be the headlines. This man and all of his appointed administration need to be removed immediately.

The increase in the school shootings can be directly laid at this incarnation of Donald J. Trump’s feet. And at the feet of his immediate family – who all together are trying to bring about the same result. Lying about bring jobs back to America when their companies outsource their jobs to other countries because they can get the citizens of those countries to work for slave wages instead of paying the kind of living wages they would have to pay if, for example, Ivanka Trump’s company had to bring its jobs on shore from Bangladesh and other countries struggling to get a foot hold in this world’s economy.

From the Royal Wedding with its dream of a wonderfully diverse world to America and Donald Trump with his dream of bringing about a world where the rule of law is destroyed in favor of the rule of Trump and his Associates – with families forcibly destroyed; people jailed without cause; lies told to the American public constantly and vicious lies at that; monies taken from other countries to fatten the pocket book of the Trumps; tearing down “immigrants’ but getting your message of extreme bigotry at all costs out into the public by appearing with an immigrant wife and not the first immigrant wife who is ‘different’. And of what is that difference composed – the color of her skin and the country from which she comes? Messages sent and received. Not all “immigrants” are bad – judge them by the color of their skin not the content of their character.

How are the law enforcers in this country responding to the visage of Rudi Giuliani? Once held up as their hero? What do you think of your hero today – with his character, honor, values exposed for all to see – out from under the cover of pretense?

We need to go back over the history of these United States and how did we get here. Maybe that will help give us a map for getting out of this mess and moving into a world where diversity is accepted, equality is the rule and we see each other as human beings.

Let’s start with today and move back into our history!

We have the reincarnation of a group headed by Donald Trump and finally supported in the extreme with his entire future on the line by Rudi Giuliani. Donald Trump equals Senator Joe McCarthy. Rudi Giuliani equals Attorney Roy Cohn. Does that group’s history and from whence it has come begin to materialize? They almost destroyed this country. They did destroy the lives of many of its citizens with the Congressional hearings seeking, at that time in history, “Communists”. It is interesting to look at who they considered and really went after.

Lets move back in time. There are so many places to stop and relook and relearn.

Lets go back to who built the railroads in these United States. Maybe the Chinese government wants to forget – but the people who were attacked and who lived horribly oppressed lives in these United States were the Chinese Americans and the Chinese immigrants. Remember that time?

And lets take a look at the Japanese. Remember what we did to American citizens because they were of Japanese descent? We gathered them up into concentration camps and took away their property and all of what they and their families had acquired of the “American Dream”. Recently, we passed laws in Congress for “reparations” to the Japanese, but we also had the parallel quiet program of foot dragging so much of the money would not be dispersed, but would be kept because we needed to foot drag until the Japanese who qualified for these reparations were dead and we could keep the money and continue those kind of actions.

Lets go back to another time, which directly involved Donald Trump and his family. To the time when the KKK was rampant – lynchings were happening across the country and remember when the KKK marched in all of its white robes and pointy hats down Pennsylvania Avenue some tens of thousands of them – apparently also including Donald Trump’s father who was arrested during that demonstration. In the 1930’s was it?

So Trump and his Nazi – racist – bigotry – was acquired naturally. It was passed on through time through his family history. His immigrant family history of just a generation – back to his grandfather who immigrated to this country with no money, no education and no ability to speak the language. And what did he do? Eventually built a hotel which was rumored to be a brothel! The beginnings of the Trump family fortune and its foundational history. Is that why he has so many women accusing his of sexual abuse; assault and so much more. Just to look at his administration it is clear his core life is about sexual discrimination – women have but one use and it is not to be a part of the Trump Administration in any other than a symbolic appearance.

Lets keep that history up front and high up so we can be reminded of where our present administration comes from and understand from that history where they are going.

Lets go back even further – when this country, finally after a few hundred years “freed” its African slaves. There was slavery in the world before that, but it was the United States during the time of establishing this African slavery that turned slaves into a group based on the color of their skin.

“Reconstruction” came after slavery and Reconstruction was killed by this same group which is now on this earth in the form of Donald Trump and his followers. I had ancestors elected to public office in the Deep South during Reconstruction – put on the railroad tracks after being tarred and feathered and forced to walk away.

Reconstruction was killed and turned into “Jim Crow” to maintain a “less than” and ” better than” group. Kill the inclination to any form of equality taking hold in these United States. And it was a very effective killing which ruined many lives. Tactics others would not try nor emulate because of things like honor, character, truth, love, God. God of love not the god of the evangelical christians who have combined with Trump to bring about hell on earth.

And, I don’t need to go back into the years of African slavery – but if you look at that history you will find Donald Trump’s spirit all through it.

And then there is the movement to free women. Africans in this country were enslaved using the marriage laws and that was very effective. It is just tragic that when those marriage laws were failing and were losing their strength that the gay community came along to fight to keep such laws by demanding they be included in that enslavement which women suffered under so many generations.

And let us not forget things like the “Trail of Tears” and other such horrors inflicted on the Native Americans – those who, in many cases, welcomed and helped the Northern Europeans seeking refuge in this country from the horrible ways they had been treated in their old countries from which they were fleeing. In those treatment you will also find Donald Trump’s spirit and it is still flying around that community as you look at the current Donald Trump’s stances and actions against that Native American community.

Todays Donald Trump has shown what he thinks of women and what their place should be. His administration is an example of the America we have all fought very hard to change. It is an administration of white males and white male top corporate people who are bleeding America dry for their own self-aggrandizement and to accumulate wealth beyond their needs and beyond their legal rights. Trump has been busy working with them to expand those “legal” rights so they can take away from others to put into their own pockets whether earned or not billions that we see clearly are far from earned. We are now in the position for creating billionaires and at the same time and for the same reasons ever increasing numbers of homeless peoples because of that greed – which today starts at the top. GREED is what most characterizes this Trump administration. Women are simply a distraction to be used when the sick male ego needs shoring up – as Trump’s has and Bill Cosby’s has and Weinstein’s has and many even before all of them..

As you read this – hold it up against truth; hold it up against your life and where you stand in all of this; hold it up against God’s love following Michael Curry’s iteration of that; and hold it up against your family. How do you come out? Are you holding your head down and hiding in the hopes that this too shall pass and you will be none the worse for it having erupted at this time in your life? Are you actively promoting and helping all of this garbage to succeed, multiply and be spewn across the boulevards, streets, roads and corners of America because you hope to one day be one of these obscene people? Are you actively working to bring about the America we have promised each other for generations? Let truth rumble around your heart and mind as you consider these things and then act accordingly.

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American Business Structure and Function – Great or Morally Corrupt

Saturday, May 12th, 2018

by Marceline Donaldson

If we live by truth and not by image, lies, pretense, manipulation and more, we will tell the truth about our American Corporate/Business Structure and Function.

We have Donald J. Trump as president because he is who we elected and who we think we need to bring the world back to where it was at its height of ugliness, viciousness, ‘better than people’, separate and unequal and eventually back to slavery including women as sex slaves or sex objects and so much more – the ugly offshoots of those morals and values.

We have a bully for president – surrounded by the kind of people with whom a bully surrounds himself. Take a look at Kelly what’s her name who made such a vicious comment from which many of us are still reeling. Is this how low we have sunk? You bet! That is normal life in these United States today. Those are the values we are showing to our children as what they need to live by. The Kelly Stadlers and Trumps of the world have risen to the top. Pathological lying has been normalized and our ethical base lowered to accommodate those, including the U. S. President, who demand the right to lie to us and force us to accept such as truth.

My entire life has been about business. Whatever else I’ve tried, business has been at its core and my growing-up family life was all business all the time for several generations.

How could that be? This ‘colored girl child’. That isn’t the way the world works. And you would be shocked at the fact that I am not the only one – there are many, many like me. with similar histories. ‘Creole colored girl child’ should be deep into debutante life; clothes; make-up; frilly anything; studying nothing except to be better for some man? Oh, that is angry? And so I am, – furious. And it is about time. I’ve certainly spent enough time trying to be ‘nice’ in this life. What was most amazing to me is that once I became an adult and my anger surfaced for whatever reason and that was with great frequency, I was put down. I was told that it wasn’t ‘nice’ to be angry. It wasn’t ‘nice’ to explode. It wasn’t ‘nice’ to speak the reality of life in this racist, sexist, misogynist world. That would turn people off and then where would I be. Yes, we all know of the bigotry, but we pretended and one was not supposed to call anyone ‘racist’ or ‘sexist’ or acknowledge that you knew what was happening was out of the very deep seated bigotry of the country in which you were born. And before you try to throw me or my family out as recent immigrants who don’t understand the ways of this fantastic United States – in which at least six generations of my family were born – take a look around? I was born into a family which was considered outside the norm. Most had substantial credentials when it wasn’t thought possible that such credentials existed in my ‘community’. Doctorate degrees; ordained priests; journalists; lawyers, entrepreneurs, and on and on and on.

What has come out of all that? A person with no ‘racial’ identity’ and no ‘group’ to identify with and so a person with the ability to see straight through this society’s pretenses and lies. And, since just about every ‘race’ of person went through our house as family and all with some kind of business they were working to establish, I saw that from a small child.

What didn’t I learn? How to lie the way Trump seems to be able to do with no effort. Call it like it is was one of my family’s values and that happened all the time.

Once I became an adult I began to hear other things – especially when I moved north. Friends would constantly say to me – “yes, we know that is racist but you can’t say so out loud outside of a small group of friends because that will just make it harder for the rest of us. No, you can’t call that sexist because that is just what women are like and so men have learned to respond and on and on and on. Stay away from them they are ‘foreigners’ they don’t even speak English, they will turn on you and hurt you one day.’ And we dare to say we really were caught by surprise when Trump surfaced. We had no idea the racism, sexism, etc. etc. were so entrenched and deep into American society. We had no idea because we didn’t want to know – we wanted the comfort of the ‘better than’ feelings without the responsibility of what our taking that meant to someone else’s life and the times in which we live.

Recently, in Somerville, Massachusetts, I saw the slaughter of one group by another and it was economically, financially, and every other way disreputable – a huge cheat, rewarded by society because it looked financially viable and made money for others. That is the story of Somerville Lumber and Home Depot.

We walk into Home Depot and up and down the aisles without a thought as to the human cost, the degradation, the lies and manipulations, the unethical and immoral history that made it possible for us to walk up and down those aisles. What we don’t think about when we shop in the Home Depot’s of the world is the limit Home Depot has put onto the kind and quality of materials we now purchase and accept as what we need. We are spending more and getting less. Quality is certainly missing in that store and all of its siblings. What we buy lasts a brief second compared to what other merchandise in the past was like. Cheaper, cheapest, falling apart before it leaves the store is what we have become accustomed to as normal and what we support financially and otherwise.

What happened in Somerville, MA happened around the country at the same time? People who owned businesses and those they employed now out of work, some out of money and worse. A small handful benefitted to the tune of billions of dollars helping to create and increase the class of American Oligarch’s. And yes, in the style of the Russian Oligarch’s.

I used to purchase hardware and other items at Somerville Lumber and sometimes at other smaller hardware stores – which were thriving and which had (compared to todays choice) some amazingly strong, sturdy and long lasting products. It was human sized and when one went into the store it was peopled by humans both in front of the counters and walking the aisles.

Along comes Home Depot – just a couple blocks away. Stolen from Somerville Lumber and other stores like it across the country was its life and future. The pattern – the business pattern and structure they developed stolen and copied with the assumption that this is what you do in this society. This is how you set up a successful business. Look around and copy what someone else developed by the sweat of their brow. Let someone else do the hard work of trying this pattern to see if it works and when they have successfully created something new – in swoops the American Oligarch’s to copy, steal and destroy.

Very quickly after Home Depot opened in that Somerville, MA. location, Somerville Lumber was drained of its customers, its life’s blood and it closed. Very quickly after Home Depot stores opened in several locations not far from that one – other similar smaller stores started to close and people who had put their lives into operating, owning, growing their stores were bereft of everything they had spent their lives growing and developing. There was no working with – no approach to those who were the creators of the idea – no conversation about anything – no compensation for what they contributed – just the stealth, the cheat, the ugly of using what others built to benefit those doing the stealing and destroying of those who did the building.

Where did the idea for Home Depot come from? The idea and business of Home Depot stolen from stores like Somerville Lumber. But in todays world that is not called stealing, that is normal and happens constantly over many areas geographical and otherwise. One group of very wealthy people saw an opportunity to make billions and took it at the expense of the rest of society and so our growth into an obscene country – spreading moral filth around the world. The fast growing class of American Oligarch’s.

Look around you. Get an idea for a business? If it begins to be successful and you are not a part of that billionaire crowd your idea will be stolen; financed by others who will enjoy the benefit of your hardwork and life’s blood and you will be left with very little as the reward for being the pattern and having developed the worth of the idea for someone else’s success – stolen success, immoral success.

Try to fight back and you will find those in that billionaire crowd have friends who will make sure you can’t fight back by doing what they can to contribute to your demise so their money will be able to return much more without any competition from you and your kind. Be a minority of any kind and you will find that push back against you vicious. What else will you find as a minority? You will find young white – mostly Northern European ancestry men – running around the country today in minority communities looking for ideas they can steal, have funded and if you were on your way to any kind of a great business you will find it stolen, across the street and draining your business while all the time ignoring the creators of the original ideas. Copying – stealing – replicating – using the vision of others – to produce something that is bereft at its core of any kind of morals we respect and were taught to live by.

That structure and those values have produced Donald Trump and all of those who surround him.

The same morality and value system explains why are we having such a hard time with Congress? They are foaming at the mouth to benefit financially from Trump and his connections and are ready to do anything to be a part of that to reap what they see as the goodies they see falling all around in this Trumpian world. Try putting that pattern up against the Nunes’ of the world and see how closely it fits.

Our world is being divided into the haves and the have nots with a gap between them creating almost an eternity of space. Never has there been as many homeless as we now see on our streets. Never have so many been so hungry for so long while others discard, waste and live as though the rest of the world is there to serve their needs. Never has there been such a judgment on those who have not by those who have – the immoral, unethical, gross people of the world passing judgment on those trying to survive in a world which is becoming more and more bereft of empathy, love, caring for one another. Instead we are becoming a nation of rapists.

As I look around the people I see concerned about those in need are disappearing or finding themselves in trouble and on the verge of moving into that group of homelessness; poor; indigent.

Take a look at businesses – the top business executives in this country. Take a look at their ethics. Take a look at what they are willing to do to stay on top – and way on top – not just doing well and making sure everyone else is doing well around them, but taking away from others as much as possible making sure they are among the super rich even if that means increasing those not doing well and pushing them into extreme poverty and oblivion until they are needed to serve the needs of this super rich group.

One of the largest companies in the world today is Amazon. Getting wealthier by the minute. What is their concern for those underwater? None! They are so busy grasping for more and more wealth and world control they don’t even see what they are doing. If you are management at Amazon you are doing well. If you work in the warehouses and are a part of the near-slave-employee-group you are working extremely hard for extremely little and limiting your life span to be able to eat today. Tomorrow isn’t promised to you at Amazon if you are a part of the lower salaried class of people. Benefits? Forget that! Advancement – hardly! etc. etc. etc. How many businesses and people who have worked in those businesses for a lifetime are being destroyed by Amazon. How many of us are doing our little bit to insure that continues to happen because we think we see our benefit in patronizing such horrific inhumane values and such a business structure with its future projections which are totally destructive of humanity?

WAKE UP! BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

Many of you guilty of supporting such a structure are into things like climate change, etc. You are working for those things in this society which don’t take you out of your way to that brass ring you think you are going to get when the time is right. Supporting those progressive objective won’t help you and won’t change anything. The structures you are supporting will take you down in a heart beat and see that your children don’t have a chance. Is that what you are working for? Did you not notice when the gold ring was replaced with brass and that brass ring is now about to be replaced with a gold painted plastic replica?

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Rudi Giuliani and Donald Trump

Friday, April 20th, 2018

by: Marceline Donaldson

It should not have been amazing to hear that Rudi Giuliani has again taken center stage in the Donald Trump story.

It should also not be amazing to see that men, who treat women like crap, profoundly disrespect women and see them as objects for their use, to be discarded when a newer model comes along, should find each other. In that, Giuliani and Trump are brothers and it makes sense that one such piece of scum would come to the aid of another piece of scum. (Sorry for the crudeness, but I am living in a country where crude is being modeled at the top as the way one speaks of others and we all know that way of being and talking is like a contagious disease which spreads like wild fire and so it is spreading. I wonder how our children, now in their teens, will talk about others as they move into their twenties and beyond and they become the politicians).

I remember – maybe a decade plus ago – reading about a press conference that took place on the steps of the Mayor’s house, on the steps and porch of Gracie Mansion, in New York City, when Giuliani was still mayor. It was then Mayor Rudi Giuliani flanked by his girl friend who was the reason for calling this press conference.

Inside the Gracie Mansion was Giuliani’s wife, preparing a meal for the family completely oblivious to what was happening in front of her house. Giuliani called the press conference to announce that he was divorcing his wife and was going to marry his girl friend. He had not yet made that announcement to his wife, with whom he was still living, who was inside with their young son preparing food for them to eat – I believe it was breakfast.

She learned that morning, from the press, when they called her for a comment, that her husband was leaving her for another woman – with whom he had been involved for some time. She learned that her husband was going to divorce her and marry this other woman. People divorce and remarry all the time. The circumstances of the Giuliani divorce and his re-marriage would fit into a narrative about the ethics and morals and lifestyle of Donald Trump.

I can’t imagine how Giuliani’s then wife felt, but I am pretty sure it was not great. She learned of all this from the press.

The rest of us forget that little detail about Giuliani’s values and ethics. His sexism, extreme I would say, is put in the past and not even deserving of a foot note as the press now talks about his current position on the political stage. In fact, that act by Giuliani was almost never mentioned as he moved into other things and was involved in life as it unfolded around him and his political and other ambitions. Was that a part of what has made Donald Trump possible? Our moral values are eroded a little at a time. If we ignore what Giuliani did to be so disrespectful and crude with his then wife and we ignore that and treat him as though he is an honorable man then the door opens a little wider for someone like Trump to be elected in spite of the way he has treated so many women and in spite of all the rumors of “golden showers” and other such stories. And now two such men are again combining to support one another in their ambitions to be a big deal in life and in this United States culture and society. Is this how our culture is evolving and the path we are blazing for our children to see and to follow?

This is the man Trump called on during his campaign and who he has now called on to shore up and help him with the Mueller investigation and other matters. We are seeing the coming together of a new nation with new moral values, new ethics, new ways of being and doing, and an unbelievably destructive way of relating to and dealing with woman on all levels of all kinds of all races, religions and marital status.

How long will we all accept people who treat women in such a disgraceful way and move ahead with them, quietly ignoring their history with women. Those things need at least a foot note. Ignoring Trump’s history with women and his treatment of them – isn’t that one reason why so many were able to vote for him? Because women don’t count and can be treated however – isn’t that what allows the white evangelicals to support, comfort and raise up someone like Trump? I suspect if you look into the lifestyle of many of the white male evangelicals you would find similar circumstances – girl friends, mistresses, one night stands all carefully hidden from their congregations as they go about attempting to hold up Jesus as an example to the world as someone the world should follow and to whom this world should give allegiance, love and faith. And as they hold up themselves as an example of who you should be as Christians holding up to all of us what looks like the wonderful white male family hoping you don’t remove the covers and look inside? Where is the real voice of the women inside these families? Are they so afraid for their own existence and survival and lifestyle that they are willing to oppress themselves to hold up their men knowing their transgressions and the lies they are living? How long are we going to hold up Donald Trump as president of these United States? A man mired in filth, corruption, and who – by his own admission – sees women as only of value for their p#### which he can grab and do with whatever he and by extension other men choose?

It does not take geniuses to know what to do! It takes men and women of courage to step out and be counted here! Is your identity as white – male – Northern European ancestry – so important to you that you will give up eternity for these few minutes on earth during which you are ethically, morally and in every other way destroying yourselves and others? And to the women who support these men – what ever happened to your self-respect? The more support you give to them the less you have of yourselves. You can’t but dwindle in your own eyes when these are your standards.

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The Bettina Oracle takes us back to the future with Donald Trump!

Saturday, April 14th, 2018

It is beyond belief that we in the United States are so enmeshed in evil. Are we really so totally corrupt and from the head?

There has always been an evil side or evil group in these United States. As you trace our history you find even from the beginning when those who first arrived, who were welcomed by the ‘natives’ – the peoples living in these United States – our history shows we responded to that welcome with evil which finally led to the Trail of Tears. That kind of evil is still practiced against that original group living in this country. It is still going on today. With that unrelieved history we know there is something very wrong.

When a group, too lazy to do their own work, starts roaming the earth and brings back human beings from Africa bound into slavery and tied for generations to do the work of this evil group under the conditions of slavery and against their will the evil continues.

When so much death and destruction happens even after that and continues into today something is very wrong.

There were massacres all during slavery as many tried to escape. After slavery there were massacres as groups of Africans, supposedly freed slaves, were bound and kept in slavery and slaughtered if they refused. Communities – such as in Oklahoma – were massacred.

Skipping a lot because it begins to sound like “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” – an unrelieved book documenting the suffering of American Indians – and coming into today we have almost daily shootings to kill people at random. Shootings that our laws uneffective against the guns do not stop and which brought our young people, our teenagers and younger into the conflict for the second time in modern history. I was a part of the first bringing in of such young people to try to mitigate the unrelieved suffering inflicted upon Americans by evil groups of people and which was temporarily successful until this new age started.

We now have billionaires persecuting and oppressing others with the consequent growth of homelessness at disgraceful levels and the attempts of the few to stem and stop that growth not showing results. We are fighting each other because the rich want to be richer; the not so rich want to be really rich and supports those they want to be like hurting themselves and their families in the process. It is a crazy environment. Speaking of which we have even disrupted and are destroying our own environment in which we have to live and breathe and can’t survive if climate change continues on the road we have set for it. AND in that process we still have that evil group denying and trying to destroy those working to stop climate change – denying climate change because it means their march towards the riches they want projected by their greed will be disrupted if we work to stop or even slow down climate change.

And today – at the head of this we have #evilTrump – a president with the story following him of “golden showers”. A president who, it is claimed, had prostitutes pee on one another to foul the bed the African American president and his wife slept in when they visited Russia. Try to depict that as anything other than extreme viciousness and evil. And he is the one leading this nation. He is the one the White Evangelicals have chosen as their political leader. He is the one they raise up when they call on Jesus in their Churches to protect them and him from who – from those actually living out the Gospel? And that ‘golden showers’ story is one of his lesser deeds, which he denies and claims he is a “germaphobe” and couldn’t be involved in such. However, the claim isn’t that the pee touched him, but that he was the one who had the prostitutes do the peeing on each other while he got his jollies from watching. Isn’t that ultimate evil? Nothing was claimed that they peed on him or even sprayed him with their pee. And the white evangelicals will continue to hold him up and give reasons as to why they feel he is doing gods work! In that context god must be spelled with the small ‘g’ because it is idolatrous and worship by infidels who have put up their god to gain the ascendency over the God they claim to worship. It is foul – evil – sin – the work of who they call Satan. Satan – walking freely around the evangelical churches; taking shelter in their meetings; dictating what is said and acceptable in their conferences and gatherings; holding up other men just like this head of the United States who have covered their sins so they can hold up and claim him.

It is not to be believed. And yet, he was elected president. Is this God’s justice from all that has happened in the past? Does this president have the 666 – the mark of the beast on him as restitution for all we have brought about in these United States when the ground was given to all of us to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God?

Something is very wrong here and I don’t see us stopping, changing, or making this better. I see “President” Trump appointing Cambridge Analytica’s successor to Steve Bannon in the form of John Bolton – isn’t that how evil continues? When one person becomes too toxic replace him with another of the same ilk supported by the same group with both totally involved with Cambridge Analytica. Not even hidden, but so sure of themselves that exchange is totally out in the open.

I see all of the evil forces coming out stronger doing their best to swamp those trying to right these wrongs and I see a totally foul president still in power and still moving to cause as much upheaval as he can. And I hear him still being led by and managed by Russia as an asset of Vladimir Putin. What is wrong with you America? Are you so scared that the increase and almost majority of brown people in this world scared you to the point of needing to go crazy in an evil way to prevent this? Are you afraid when the majority of people in this world are those who were the minority that they will take vengeance against you? Or are you so stuck in being “better than”. With your claimed superiority threatened you will do anything to prevent becoming equal too all other human beings? Have you noticed the “Russia” to which Trump seems to be promised – it is a white nation! Immigration the way Trump is dealing with it has as its goal to make America White Again as an ally and cousin to this white nation. And then what will they unleash as they combine with other such white nations? They won’t be allied with France or England or other such becoming “brown” or already “brown” nations.

I guess you don’t realize that all of these “brown” people are your children? Black and White coming together produces Brown!

I don’t know what to make of this – except that it is evil personified! And roaming America freely! Like everybody else outside of the circle of evil, we have so much to say, so much to share, so much to give and instead this ugly stifles everything good and it is spreading not shrinking. What are you going to do about all of this America? Sit by and hope it goes away? Claim we are the world’s greatest nation and sit back and watch it all go up in fire and smoke with our president disproving that on an hourly basis?

It is time to choose – Good or Evil! To sit back and do nothing is not acceptable. Either you totally accept the evil that is Donald Trump or you reject it and move it aside – there is no alternative. Those who do nothing are as doomed as those who do evil!

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A Readers Response

Saturday, March 17th, 2018

Thank you for what you have written in the Manchurian Administration.

What amazes me is that Jared Kushner let the cat out of the bag early on that there was and would be “collusion” with Russia and Putin when he wanted to set up a “back door” communications channel for Trump and Putin to communicate. And, when he wanted that back door to be immune to U. S. Intelligence Agencies listening and spying on what they had to say or what transpired between Putin and Trump, that just seemed to be Kushner trying to protect Trump from what he had to know would be a price to pay if those Intelligence Agencies could listen to the connection and conversation of those two people.

It seems very far fetched that Kushner would come up with something like that and present his idea to the Russian Ambassador unsolicited or with no reason except coming only from Kushner’s mind.

That is one of the most telling pieces of this saga for me. That had to come to Kushner from trying to carry out his and Trump’s part of this agreement with Russia and Putin so Trump could become president and stay on the good side of Putin. Clearly, to be on Putin’s bad side carries lots of danger.

I have followed this and it seems so clear to me that apparently, the Trump followers and supporters prefer their White Supremacy in all and any of its forms to a democracy. That is a tough trade off but when it is your identity we are talking about people will give their lives to maintain their identity. That is rock bottom who you are and that is not easily changed. Our basic nature endowed identity is the group from which we come. Add to that the next step humans most often take – to declare their group better than any other group and you have all these machinations, killings, spyings, and more to maintain themselves as better than at all cost.

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The Manchurian U. S. Administration (cont’d)

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

President Trump has made it clear, on a daily basis, for all of us to see and learn from – one can live in a bigoted society and get feel goods from puffing yourself up to believe you are better than or you can live in a democracy – your choice. You cannot, however, have both.

My guess is that Donald Trump has made a deal with Putin and Russia – he becomes U. S. President and helps Putin carry out his goals for these United States; Putin gets behind his candidacy and does everything possible to make that happen; and in return the “Don” gets his Trump Tower in Moscow at the end of his term(s) as president.

What does the “Don” have to do? Take down U. S. sanctions against Russia; promote Putin as this wonderful leader and one we should befriend; carry out whatever side actions Putin lets the “Don” know are in Putin’s best interest and which he needs the U. S. to do immediately; and say nothing untoward – negative – or demeaning against Putin or Russia.

From where I sit, Trump is doing an incredible job of following through with his part of this apparent deal with Putin and is doing everything he can to turn the United States into a very autocratic, authoritarian, mean-spirited country. He is following in the foot steps of the worse autocrats in history. He is at the beginnings of that process, but he is moving quite fast and has accomplished much.

He has just moved a woman into the position of head of the Central Intelligence Agency. Isn’t it wonderful that for the first time a woman has headed that agency. However, on the other hand she is the one who headed turning a part of the Intelligence Agency into a very murderous, torture chamber for no good reason since it has been known for some time that torture does not get the results expected.

All of the laws which guaranteed a democracy are either being reversed or other laws are being added which make this a very ugly, fascist country. The worst of our history is being replayed in the immigrant area. We have been through refusing entry into this country of Chinese. After the Chinese sweat blood and gave their lives to build at great cost to themselves and their families – our railway system and other low level, dangerous jobs they were forced to take to survive. The Irish went through a horrible time complete with “No Irish need Apply”, amongst other denigrations and demeaning and horrifying times, some of which still exist today. And on and on and on until you come to slavery of Africans. I have to add Africans here because we do still engage in enslaving women in this country.

The ethics and moral values which so many families try so hard to pass along to their children have been short circuited by Mr. Trump and his administrations’ examples. One can see the hand of one of Mr. Trump’s mentors – Roy Cohen – who in spite of being dead, still lives. Lessons the “Don” learned include the biggy – don’t ever admit failure. If you have tried something and it fails, claim it as a great success, speak about your successes loudly so that people hearing will be swayed to actually think of where you failed as being a place where you actually were great. I think Mr. Trump has forgotten as he lives out these lessons learned at Mr. Cohen’s knee that Roy Cohen died broke, friendless and living in squalid circumstances.

Mr. Trump seems to revel in his being president as the return of the “Alpha Male” – who is always at the top of society along with a few males not quite as great but walking with him as they make changes to the society in which they increasingly control everything. As he moves along in his presidency along with his administration and the criminal enterprise we call the RNC, it is clear that they share some common beliefs: 1) the world’s rules, which must be obeyed, are those which keep men – white, Northern European ancestry men – firmly in control. 2) the women you select be careful to insure that they have been brain washed and are trying to and need to be better than when in actuality they serve the purpose of screwing men for the man’s enjoyment and are painfully screwed by the men for the man’s advancement. 3) Maintain the male god who is the keeper of this culture and of the rules by which we all live – rules which are there to keep men firmly in control. The rules of the world have clearly developed to insure the total control of white, Northern European ancestry men over all. 4) Keep a watchful eye to make sure the developments and perceived advancements of science, religion, business, art are all led by and attributed to those same men. Where it looks as though that is slipping, keep the young and the greedy roaming around to steal the advancements, ideas, vision of those non-white peoples. Even some who look like friends – Al Gore claiming he was responsible for the internet when in fact that was a woman; Madam C. J. Walker who invented an incredibly profitable marketing system which she used to market hair products for African women and that marketing system’s invention and development were credited to men; and on and on it goes.

Where is the hope in all of this? Is there any light breaking into this world as it seems to be spiraling down into the depths of hell? Especially since Donald Trump could not have done all of this alone. There was a lot of history which preceded his presidency and a lot of people tuned into what he is doing and wants to do in the future. Some of those people are ones who would be demeaned and destroyed if what they were working towards were to succeed and become a part of the structure of this world – these people seem totally oblivious to the fact that the success of their efforts will fall hardest onto them.

All is not yet lost, however. We see light breaking in with the children – During the Galilean ministry, Jesus’ disciples came saying ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And Jesus called a child and set the child in the midst of them and said, “Verily I say unto you, except you be converted and become as children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore humbles themselves as this child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And who shall receive one such child in my name receives me. But who shall offend one of these it is better that millstones hang around their necks and drowns them in the depth of the sea.

However, that light is being mitigated by the darkness we see spreading as the rich become richer and the poor become desperate. Especially as the rich see the poor as being poor because of some kind of moral deficiency when the moral deficiency is that of the billionaires whose greed keeps them from seeing clearly. We move further apart as the riches of the world become more unevenly distributed, especially since it is not possible for one person to legitimately be worth billions while others live on the street. That is happening to our world and it is reflected in our politics. We want to insure that this trend continues because many of the poor are joining with the rich in bringing this about because they expect one day to be rich themselves and they want the kind of world that will shore them up and be prejudiced in their favor when their ship of gold comes in.

The work of the world is to take seriously Isaiah and all the other scripture writings that say in essence –

“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,

and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;

and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;

and a child shall lead them.”

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Sex Trafficking, Airbnb and more!

Sunday, February 25th, 2018

An article from the Thomas Reuters Foundation

http://news.trust.org/item/20180219000115-hggd9/

As Airbnb established itself Harvard Business School was the first to discover racism within its corporate structure and in the services it offers to others. Other magazines and research groups followed and verified that finding.

Second, the destruction and trashing of many homes where the people rented to individuals for the night through Airbnb and not for a party; and now this. – a home for those engaging in sex trafficking. It is an incredible way to avoid the law and public exposure.

Some Bettina Network, inc. history with Airbnb – like, where did their idea to establish such a company first came from:

When you come to a black woman’s home, where she has structured a successful business which is growing and on the verge of taking off into the stratosphere, apparently sent by people from the local venture capitalist company, to steal her business ideas because they are working and successful and have shown that private homes can be put together in a network for the benefit of all = and the purpose of your visit is to see what is working, how and to steal what is there – there is a price to pay. Saying nothing to her as to your purpose but putting your feet under her dining room table and eating her food while you steal everything you could and continued to have people call for ideas, explanations and finally to have a friend steal her business plan – the universe definitely does not like that and the ethics so displayed get wrapped up in the business you stole.

First because it isn’t your original idea so all kinds of wrong doings and wrong things are in your corporate structure because you didn’t know the industry into which you and your investors put yourselves.

Second, you didn’t have the decency to say anything to the person whose idea and business you stole and third because apparently within your own souls there is an evil which allowed you to do all of the above and put screwed up ethics into the business structure you created.

It is unbelievable that you have turned bed and breakfast into the kind of sordid industry you have managed to structure. Adding sex trafficking to out of control parties at peoples homes who did not give you permission to hold parties at their home and whose homes were and are trashed and destroyed after your guests leave, many homes to the point of having the industry beginning to be heavily regulated because of the negativity you created.

An industry which for several hundred years has been a way for many small individuals to survive with only good results given to the society in which those homes existed – you have turned that into a way for the greedy to have a public platform where they could practice their evil under your watchful and protective eye and structure. Overtime I thought you had stooped as low as you could go, but something always happens to show that you still have a long ways to slide.

And here you vow to tackle the sex trafficking you have used your corporate structure to house so they could practice their horribleness outside the watchful eye of the law. = You should have structured your business so that sex trafficking would not be able to use Airbnb in the first place, but it was not your original vision so you clearly don’t know how. Just as you structured racism into your business because your greed wanted to insure you got as many and as much money as possible and not structuring racism into what you are doing, in your eyes, probably seemed to limit your possibilities. The universe isn’t through with you yet. The way you are corrupting the societies in which you function are legion and ugly and evil.

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Bettina Community Members Respond!

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Thank you for the forum.

I note how the dregs of society are coming together to take control. Casino operator Trump and his friend casino operator Wynn have been having a grand time with the power acquired from Trump becoming president. The power of Las Vegas was behind Trump. Wynn was not just a small time hood, the is the one who very powerful in the creation of Las Vegas becoming what it is today. His sexual appetite seems to be parallel to Trump’s. And this is who you want as president with all of his friends. Russia made a good choice in seeing Trump as someone who could destroy everything good about these United States. We have had many break-outs which were really awful. It is time for that to stop and U. S. Citizens to get real and lean more on the side of goodness instead of on the side of greed.

2. Isn’t it amazing how our parents had some wisdom. Mine used to caution me many times growing up “birds of a feather”. And now we are beginning to see some of those wrecking havoc in these United States. Bad enough Wynn’s work was to develop Las Vegas. Too bad he could not have used his God-given talents to a more perfect end. Just think what he could have accomplished. Something great – long lived – and beneficial to humanity. Instead he has helped keep us mired in sin, ugliness, greed and the degradation of our fellow humans. SAD!!!!

3. Loved your analysis. It is one of the more sane pieces I have read as an explanation to what is happening. It won’t garner media headlines because it is not reporting the filth we are experiencing. I have never felt so unclean as I do realizing my United States citizens, people I talk to every day are the one who elected filth to the presidency. And he has extricated from the armed forces the worst kind of filth. So many fantastic generals and people who have sacrificed much for this country. Who does he pick and elevate – John Kelly? Yuk. Who else does he have within his administration in terms of four star generals and more who are on Kelly’s level?

4. WOW! I could have written that article. Keep it up, we need such analysis. Maybe it will change our voting system. We are responsible for who we put in office. We need to carefully think through those running for office and get to know who they are and what they really stand for and maybe we will separate the good from the bad. Get out and really do a bit of research on anyone running for office. Their histories, what they believe, how they have lived their lives and more is out there – we need to find it, share it and stop trying to lie and promote someone because we see something in it for us instead of something in it for all of humanity in a good way, not in a way to promote the ugly. And, we really do have ugly at the top in Washington – President, Vice President and many in Congress. People rated Paul Ryan because of his being Mitt Romney’s pick for Vice President. That should not have happened. Look at Ryan for himself and he looks more like someone infected with greed and more only better able to put a smooth cover over it than most – but if you look close you will see the raggedy edges showing.

5. Wish you posted more often. Turn this into a newsletter or a newspaper or a media center. Your voice needs to be heard by many more people. Maybe it can help bring about change.

6. Who are you people! I used your services once and now I am in the middle of an incredible “community”. Love it, but I didn’t know you even existed before a friend paid for my stay at one of Bettina’s Hedge Schools. You must be the best kept secret around. Not even a small newspaper article which is not an advertisement. You must be quite a threat. You need more exposure. I’ve done a little research on your company and it really needs to expand greatly. Don’t know of another company anyplace doing what you are doing. This is how corporations need to be in this world. Bet you are always mired in one blockade after another. Kick them out of the way and move on.

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The Bettina Oracle Speaks

Monday, February 5th, 2018

You keep calling me out to tell you more – this time no small answers lets take a broad brush across all of what is happening in the United States and why!

I told you some time ago there would be a continued upswing in their stock market from Barack Obama’s economic policies until Trump’s policies began to take hold and then the stock market would tank.

That happened last week. Take a close look at the numbers. Friday the stock market went down 666 points after a week of going down substantially. What does that mean? The market is screaming for you to hear its underlying movement – take a look at the Bible. For those of you who don’t believe in such – humor me and take a look anyway.

Pick up your Sunday School lessons. For those of you who did not study scripture pick up a bible and open it to Revelations Chapter 13.

What does the number 666 mean? Try reading the Book of Revelations – Chapter 13. The number of the “beast” – the antiChrist – the devil. And that is where the stock market ended on Friday. It gave you as good an opinion of Trump and his policies and presidency as was possible for an institution which speaks in numbers, a different language from all of you. You are accustomed to looking at the stock market for indications of the health and lack of it of individual businesses and as a whole for where the economy is going six months down the road. Now, take a look at it as an institution which reflects where multi-millions of souls exercise some kind of opinion and judgment daily. In the United States Stock Market there are no secrets. Someone knows – and the movement of the market tells all of your secrets. And on Friday, after leading up to it all week, the stock market spoke as loudly as it could to reach you about this President of the United States. That was a collective comment.

Where has all of this upheaval come from – what underlies this?

The United States Congress and the President of the United States:

First the Congress:

It cost immense amounts of money to run for Congress these days. Most of a Congress persons time is spent raising money, most of which is spent on polls. Why polls? So Congress people don’t have to risk telling their truth – standing for anything – so they can have positions they espouse and on which they run and base their Congressional careers. These Congress people take a poll and whatever the poll says has the largest number of voting people in back of it, that is what they espouse. They redress the polls as though that is their opinion, their program, their – ‘je ne sais quoi’. That is one thing creating all of this ugliness. It comes down to lies, pretense and more and for what? To be elected to Congress.

To get into Congress one has to raise incredible amounts of money and it looks at though that is what has happened to the United States Congress. People are looking to side with those who can promise large sums of money for their next campaign to renew their Congressional Seat. For example, wasn’t it Paul Ryan – third in line for the presidency behind Michael Spence – who pushed for a tax cut and immediately thereafter received a $500,000 contribution towards his next Congressional Campaign? Or his next whatever he decides to do campaign? To have to raise such huge amounts of money puts the power as to what this country will be like into the hands of the billionaires who can easily buy an election. Or should I say, who have already bought several Congressional seats and some Congress people and those who want to be are falling all over themselves to show how obsequious and servile they can be if their Congressional campaign is backed with money from the few.

The phenomena of Donald Trump has brought that into clear view. And then there are the connections that people who win the presidency have and use. Some connections during the campaign, many many more after the election.

Trump’s very wealthy friend – Steve Wynn was finance chair of the RNC. That means those running for Congress could be shut out of RNC monies if they didn’t toe the line and do what Mr. Wynn – who is Mr. Trump’s very close friend – says and tells them to do. And – the president usually dictates the character, morality, values of those with money who come close to him – they usually have commonalities of character, morals, value systems and more. Didn’t I hear a rumor that Steve Wynn and Donald Trump are claimed to have sexually assaulted many? And aren’t they rumored to have other similar proclivities in common?

Didn’t you notice the bowing and scrapping that has been going on amongst Congress people. Could that money possibility for his coming campaigns be what has been motivating Devin Nunes? Bowing, scraping, foot shuffling, running around making a fool of himself for his future in the government. And everyone says they are mystified as to why he has been doing this. There is nothing mystical about it. What it is about is human greed and grab for Power and Control. For some, just the warm fuzzy feelings they get from being close to and being seen as close to and representing power.

And — you see Congress people lining up to make sure their obeisance is in tact and that it is duly noted so their campaigns will be generously funded. And you see Donald Trump’s power extended and strengthened as he lines up with people who have the money to finance Congressional and presidential campaigns. He becomes a power, just because he is president, because those wealthy and super wealthy individuals need to control the politicians so their prurient and business and personal needs and wants are satisfied and not handicapped politically and by politicians.

There are two political parties in the United States. One party takes charge and pushes the agenda of the wealthy through and the reaction against it moves and helps to grow the other party in the direction of taking over some of its people. That goes on until the parties change positions, beliefs, and things they work for and stand for. A third party has never been able to develop beyond a very small group because the two dominant parties will not allow that to happen. Until it does, and a strong third party forms, the United States will go through these charades.

I remember when the Democratic Party was the Party of slavery, of racism, sexism and more. They were the ones keeping Africans from voting and were behind the KKK and other such groups. Then, along came a handful of people who moved their followers out of the Democratic Party into the Republican Party because it looked as though there was a vacuum and into that vacuum they could put their followers and achieve the goals they were used to achieving through the Democratic Party. In addition, the Democratic Party recruits its adherents through movements. The KKK, White Supremacists, White Citizens Councils were dying out and the Black Civil Rights Movement was becoming strong. The Democratic Party started recruiting from these groups and from the feminist organizations. as the Feminist Movement became stronger with more people joining and working to achieve its goals.

And then there is the Presidency:

For decades the office of the president of the United States has been accruing more power on a gradual ongoing basis. If the inhabitant of that office is a moral person then the office and its powers are safe. If not, and the office holder has the morals, character and soul of a Donald Trump then everything, everyone and the institution itself along with the Congress, the Legislative branch and the very Constitution of these United States are all threatened and the citizens are threatened with a move away from the Republic, which is the current government structure – not towards a democracy but towards a fascist state where moral corruption can abide and hide from public view. Lies, theft, self-aggrandizement, scape goats. All these thrive under such structures. People regress from responsible adults working so all can thrive to dependent and irresponsible children supplying the powers in the system with their needs, wants, frivolities, debaucheries and more at the expense and sacrifices of the many.

The office of the president must be changed with far fewer powers so it is in line with the other branches of government. It needs constraints – a fail safe – to make sure it doesn’t become the monster it is becoming under this current president. Clearly, we lack the ethics, morals and character to be able to trust our ‘elected leaders’ to move us in the right direction, to respect and follow the constitution, and to not bring foreign – particularly hostile foreign governments into these United States simply to increase the power, money and control of the government over which the current occupier of the office can exercise power.

Well, that’s it for now. Pay attention – stay involved – guard your soul against corruption and everyone will be fine. Don’t be afraid to speak up and speak out. When things get rough and one or the other side gets out of hand take to the streets to bring things back into some kind of equilibrium while the forces of the universe try to bring enough strength into your system for the creation of a third party.

There are so many good people in the United States. It is worth saving – so hold tight, work hard and don’t give up. Also, step up to speak truth and act out of your beliefs. In such a circumstance you die once. Shrivel, give in, give up, throw away what could be because you want a soft, smooth, effortless life – you will die a million times.

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From Hitler to Trump!

Wednesday, January 31st, 2018

Not much to say today because everything about this has already been said. The question is, are we listening!

We are moving this society from Trump back to Hitler in a straight line and moving very quickly.

When a president of the United States can be blackmailed by a porn star, all United Sates defenses are down. We are open to some of the most agregious acts possible because we have a president who will apparently do whatever his most base physical urgings are and who feels he can do anything and he will still be supported by many. His actions take him into places where he is left open to this kind of thing and our support of him acknowledges he is like the “Teflon Don”. What does that mean for the safety and security of United States citizens – it certainly does not look as though that enhances that safety and security but opens the door wide for those who would walk right in with the U. S. President who they have compromised, possibly for doing less than he did with Ms. Stormy Daniels.

He is now trying to “cleanse” the FBI. That kind of “cleansing” needs to start with our leader, who seriously and quickly needs to be “cleansed” out of the United States government. An FBI agent with his history and actions and lifestyle would have been dismissed summarily months ago. Does the “cleansing” language sound familiar to those who were around during and shortly after Hitler? One of Hitler’s main goals was to “cleanse” Germany of Jews. And there are a few other times during Hitlers reign when the term “cleanse” was used. Interesting that Trump is using this word in his current comments and those of his workers and supporters.

So, someone who could not qualify for the FBI because of his personal leanings and evil history is going to set himself up as someone who can be the person to do and orchestrate this FBI “cleanse”? Or have it done for him by those supporting him and his lifestyle and morals and very low character? With the help of John Kelly and others? Who have shown themselves to be as prurient as their leader? And as racist? And as sexist? Believability is stretched here. Trump followed Cohn and McCarthy and learned from them. You can see in the way Trump acts through his presidency that he is channeling Roy Cohn almost exactly. Cohn was a Jew who was anti-semitic; he was also very gay and homophobic. That does something to your soul. I wonder if that is why the Evangelical Christians have given Trump a “mulligan” – because they see similarities to their own tendencies and lifestyles. It is clear Trump’s racism is right out there and huge – what is not so clear, except to those who were around at the time when Trump and Cohn were best buddies. Where you saw one you saw the other and where there were parties they usually showed up together and there were rumors and speculation about Trump’s sexual orientation. That would certainly compromise Trump – wonder if that is what Putin knows about, with video and pictures!

To outline a quick movement along that straight line we are traveling moving back in history from Trump to Hitler and the kind of society Nazism produced and Trump is apparently trying to duplicate today:

from Roy Cohn – who was Trump’s mentor and who showed him the ropes moving him from Brooklyn to Manhattan and giving him the ethics and character he has shown readily acceptable to incorporating into his character. With a caution – Roy Cohn died sick with AIDS and broke in spite of the fact that he wielded a lot of power and money before the end.

2. From the wall erected in Germany to separate East from West and the suffering it caused; the human deaths; the separation of families and on and on we go. That wall was taken down, but it is a tool preferred by Russia and others in its sphere and now brought into the United States by Donald Trump who is causing much pain and suffering among many people. Deaths; separation of families and human suffering will only increase.

3. from Roy Cohn to Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism – a time during which many Americans suffered extremely because of the life and actions of those two men and in the background was Donald J. Trump who has picked up the line from Cohn and McCarthy and is incorporating it in the present and taking it into the future. The human suffering caused by those three is immeasurable. Add that to the wall suffering and add that to what Trump has created on his own and you have immense human misery caused by this United States president, his Chief of Staff and all of those Congress people supporting him either because of blackmail or their own convictions which they were not able to bring into play and into the public eye until they had the support of Donald Trump and on and on and on.

4. From McCarthy to Hitler – a short time line, but one directly traceable. Look at the number of Nazi’s surrounding Trump. Look at his history with bigotry. Look at what he has said he would do, not the least of which has to do with S### Hole Countries and so much more.

United States history, along such a suffering line, goes back even further when you look at the suffering and death in the establishment of labor unions; the suffragette movement, the massacre of African Americans in the 20th Century and when you add in American Indians the pictures turns even more violent.

I won’t go back further. You know or you should know that history. Just remember ” Strange Fruit” – a song composed to memorialize Africans Americans who dared to vote and were hung for the attempt and think of voter nullification and all the other ways the vote is being controlled, reflecting another stage of evil; the American Carnage during Reconstruction; the forced relocation of American Indians because “White Americanized Northern Europeans” wanted the territory on which they had lived for generations with that forced relocation happening by forcing American Indians to walk for days, weeks, months through all kinds of weather with no food, water, clothes except what thy were able to garner in the course of the Trail of Tears March – many forcibly moved from the South East to the Oklahoma territory.

And today, the threat of an America that is becoming majority brown and black being the impetus behind those supporting Donald Trump in any lie he wants to tell; any act he wants to take; any woman he wants to sexually assault; any sexual deviancy he wants to practice – for which Evangelical Christians give him a “mulligan”. Is this how low we have fallen? Have our morals and character as Americans become so irretrievably compromised that we can constantly give such an incredibly immoral, foul character as Donald Trump someone we have elected as President – our leader – that we will continue to support him and not see the evil he and his supporters have pulled out of all of us? We not only see evil – we are complicit.

#evilTrump is clearly an accurate descriptor. Hopefully, the rest of us have some modicum of self-respect that we want to act in such a way that our tomorrows are better than our yesterdays and we are still able to act out the rest of our lives with higher morals and higher character than we have displayed so far.

God forgive us! We have truly sunk far into the morass of evil which is being served to us with the promise of money, power and supremacy over those not like us on whom we can dump our sins expecting ‘mulligans’ from those we look to for moral guidance, where we have caused human suffering and death. Amen – and Amen!

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Many Responses to Trump Article!

Sunday, January 21st, 2018

Since we had several responses to the same blog – we thought we would combine them as best we can to let you know what members of Bettina Network’s Lifestyle Community are thinking about and responding to. These are not direct quotes as we have tried to condense some, which were very long, and write the essence of others. We do think we have kept a faithful reporting of the comments we received. The emotion against Trump is amazingly strong. We think, at some point, something has to give before this society explodes.

Overtime as I read or hear about Donald Trump and his machinations, I think KARMA and how it acts in the universe. I also think about and am appreciative of your making the strong statement that mental illness and evil are not the same. How many people claim Hitler was mentally ill? Stalin? and all the rest? There is a difference. And, since the world is moving away from religions of all kind, no one wants to admit that evil exists. We have seen it in human nature and it comes out, no matter how hard we work to suppress it. You have to name something before you can conquer and move it out. I am going to be one of those joining the #evilTrump group and put that hashtag on my postings that I feel show Trump’s evil.

2. It is interesting to me that once upon a time I used to love reading about the social goings on in Washington, D. C., particularly those around the president and his cabinet. None of that seems to exist today. I have yet to read about Trump and his wife going to social events in Washington. I also don’t see anything about the “Washington establishment” having social events and inviting the president and his family. Have I missed something or does Washington society see in this family the same thing the rest of us sees and doesn’t want to spend an evening mired in Bull Crap.

3. Closing down the United States’ financial arm of the government by refusing to fund it on the anniversary of Trump’s inauguration. What a way to mark that day. We have decided to wear black arm bands until Trump is removed from office. We can’t walk around in pink hats, but we can keep our hats in our pocket books for times when we can put them on. I think the import of those arm bands say clearly the kind of grief we are experiencing with this man as president.

4. When I heard the president prevaricating on which the day the government would be shut down and. which day he would announce his “Fake News Awards” – I was not surprised that he threatened a lot, but didn’t deliver until 1/20/2018. That is the day of his big celebration planned at Mar a Lago. I wondered when I first heard of the celebration who would attend. At $250,000 per couple that is more money to join the disappeared and unaccounted for and unreported disposition of money from the Trump inauguration. People must now have a clue as to where their money is going. My thought when the shut down loomed imminent was whether Trump would attend, because of the possibly low numbers of people who subscribed and would be attending? There has been almost no coverage of the event and the press has been very carefully kept away. That event shrouded in silence given what is happening all around and given what attendance or lack of it means to what is happening elsewhere it is quite suspicious that it was almost totally not covered by the press.

Everyone seems mystified as to why Trump has acted so unbelievably wild given this huge event on the horizon. One would think his normal way of being would be to do what he could to attend and bask in the glow of people idolizing him. If that was not to happen and it began to be clear as the day came nearer – how to get over what would be a very revealing lack of support by his big contributors and save face was an issue. Doing what he could to not fund the government was one way to glossing over this possible lack of participation by his big supporters.

I can’t believe people who are careful about their money would have made reservations to pay that kind of money to attend this “celebration” given the history of money disappearing and not being accounted for by the Trump group. That seems to me to be what is behind this government shut-down. A cover-up for a possibly failed “event”? It would certainly have been majorly covered by the press if Trump were in attendance, but given that he was not there it seems that press coverage was elsewhere so we have next to no information as to what happened. Have to get on the telephone to friends to see who knows about this – I am sure someone will talk about Saturday at the Trumps’

5. I have taken a flying leap into wishful thinking as to why I think Trump worked so hard to see that the Government was shut down on Saturday 1/20/2018. Mueller was ready to indict and arrest – Trump, Pence, Kelly and all the rest, but shutting down the government meant those about to be indicted would not be arrested during this event? maybe that will happen next week. Just a thought. I also thought the “Fake News” awards were meant to cover-up something. Especially since the date of release of that “award” kept changing. Wonder if those changes had to do with the Mueller investigation? One can only hope. Especially strange that Pence was not at the Mar a Lago party – they sent him out of the country during the party. Hope another book is coming out to explain all of these things. Can’t wait to read the reality so I can stop guessing.

6. Oh, the news leaking out about Russia infiltrating the Conservative movement. Do you think “Karma”, which lots of people are beginning to talk about, had anything to do with it? My dream is that those “Russian” and others infiltrating the Conservative movement would actually be converted in the process. Anything is possible, right? I wondered why there were these pictures around of so many of the loudest Conservatives and Evangelicals turning up in Russia! Whatever being a Conservative used to mean, today it seems to mean you are cavorting with those who want to take down the United States Government and their way of contributing to that is by being an undercover part of the Conservative – especially Evangelical group. How things change. There was a day when Russia was the “evil empire” and we were taking down the wall – Ronald Reagan famously went to Germany to say “Mr. President, take down this wall.” One would think that experience would make us very wary of building walls, especially for such evil reasons.

The Conservatives and Evangelicals are intransigent in their support of Trump, no matter what he does, and I can’t believe true Evangelicals would take that position. When I hear people like Franklin Graham supporting a man who is an adultery, sexual pervert, pathological liar, sexual abuser, see no reason to ask for forgiveness because he has done nothing wrong etc. etc. and sees him as a role model for our children, I wonder how much money Russia and its allies have contributed to Franklin’s group. Hearing about the infiltration of the NRA, a group I used to wonder how they became so powerful and with so much money so quickly, it certainly makes one think that others must have followed suit.

Editors Note:

That ends our trying to put out what we received from several people. We combined two or three comments into one and did our best to accurately give to you what was given to us. When someone like Donald Trump is doing his best to undermine and destroy all of us so we become too exhausted to fight back and he can just move along swiftly with his program with diminishing push back, one good way of fighting back is to openly and publicly vent to let all of that ugly out of our systems.

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A Trump Brothel! Arguments against allowing Immigration into the United States!

Friday, January 12th, 2018

by: Marceline Donaldson

When one looks at minority groups, the most mystifying problem turns into a question. Why are so many women against feminism and equal rights for women? Why are so many African Americans against other African Americans putting the entire group down? Why are so many LGBT people against their own making the loudest, ugliest and longest “jokes”. Maybe, just maybe Donald Trump has given us the answer.

Trump has been anti-immigrant for a very long time. He ran for office on an anti-immigrant platform.

BUT, Trump comes from an immigrant family and not one that has deep ties into the United States. Trump’s immigrant family recently came to this country. His current wife – Melania arrives only after she became an adult and from an Eastern European country. She is first generation immigrant. Trump’s grandfather came when he was about 16 years old, no education, no money, no family – just here to make his fortune where it was believed that the streets were paved with gold.

And so, it becomes rather obvious that the Trump family has seen through the lens of their own family what happens when you let people immigrate to the United States. Given their extreme racism, it is clear the conclusions this family would draw. They are conclusions that say – if our family made contributions to these United States which have brought this country down low instead of raising it up high then goodness, what will “they” – those others do if allowed into these United States.

What have the immigrants in the Trump family contributed since they immigrated to the United States:

Let’s start with the earliest Trump into these United States. Grandfather Trump.

He started the rest of the males in the family on the construction/hotel/mafiaconnected/casino road they have taken. He built and ran a hotel. And so the rest of the generations of his family followed suit. His hotel was rumored to also be a brothel. A rumor so strong it still exists to this day. So the Trump family of immigrants started their fortune probably tied in some way to whatever mafia existed in those days in Grandfather Trump’s location.

And then comes the father of Donald Trump, who continues in the family business by continuing the construction work. Question is, did he also continue the shady side to be able to fund his construction? Did the money invested have mafia ties – maybe conditioned upon the other side of the Trump family business like Grandfather Trump’s is rumored to be?

We know the father of Donald Trump contributed to the continuation of the racism in this country which others were working mightily to eliminate because, among other things and of all people – Richard Nixon and his administration sued the Trump’s for racism because they would not allow African Americans and probably other minorities to rent in their buildings. Barely out of the old country – lying about which country they came from because of the negative connotation their German ancestry would have brought onto them at that point in history – they claimed to be from Switzerland. So they were very conscious of what they were doing; how they were violating the laws and constitution of these United States, but continued and did their best to cast themselves in the best light possible, given their ‘immigrant’ background. And the child Donald Trump learned his lying at his father’s knee.

Why did they move away from their German background? That was the time of Hitler’s Germany, after all. The man who Trump seems to be most copying as he moves about his presidency. In its early stages he clearly is moving in the direction Hitler moved in after he became head of Germany. Quickly changing the judiciary so it grovels in front of him instead of doing the job of following the Constitution of the United States and that will worsen as he continues very quickly to make those changes – and Trump, the son, is very aware of that.

Instead of getting rid of the Jews,a la Hitler, who were succeeding and moving out of the Jewish Ghettos to which they had been consigned for quite a long time – Trump, the son, is doing his best to get rid of non-whites and non-‘Christians’ as he moves about his purge of these United States and sees the gains minorities have made in this country. However, he has not gotten over the family’s anti-Semitism because we see it peeping out and becoming a deluge as Trump shows his partiality to Zionism and is clearly trying to bring Israel into being as a Christian country. A dream of the KKK, White Supremacist and especially the ‘Christian’ evangelists. By the time he finishes with his divisiveness in Israel – well, I really don’t need to spell that out.

the father of Donald Trump saw a like mind and belief with groups in this country like the KKK and that is where he gravitated. When the huge march on Washington, down the Washington Mall of the klan in their white sheets and pointy hats happened way back when, the father of Donald Trump was one of the group he was one arrested, but he apparently not before he had his moment of glory expressing his beliefs publicly.

Donald Trump showed how closely he held those beliefs when he had his followers re-enact “Krystal Nacht” in Charlottesville in the not so distant past and came out publicly to make sure everyone knew this was not being done against him, but with his blessings. His father would have been proud.

The Trump’s under Father Trump must have been violating the Constitution big time when it is Nixon who hauls them into court for violating the anti-racism housing laws.

And then comes the “Don”. Donald Trump, who has been accused of everything from being a mafia ‘don’ or at the very least a part of and blessed by the mafia (although at this point one would think that at least the Italian mafia would be a bit too American to have anything to do with the “Don”, but nevertheless…) to treason to being a pathological liar, to being one who assaults women and brags about it, to being someone who launders for the mafia – or is it for the Oligarch’s who seem to have made the traditional mafia second class citizens in their reach …and on and on goes the list.

This is the president of the United States. This is someone from a recent immigrant family. But this is a white immigrant family. Maybe Donald Trump has it wrong. His own involvement has probably clouded his judgment, he should be closing the borders to those from “white” countries who seem to be doing most damage to these United States. Hmmmm! Maybe I should scratch that out – is that racist? Or can such a statement be called racist.

And lets not forget his current wife, Melanie who has left a permanent image for young girls and women to follow of posing nude in nothing but handcuffs hooked to bed posts and high heel shoes along with being practically nude in many outfits on an airplane to posing next to an airplane, which we assume is a Trump plane in black boots and very little else. Being the First Lady has never had such ugly images connected to the job and they will all be left for posterity. The young girls in these United States now have a First Lady role model to imitate to follow who has shown them how to go from immigrant with very little money to millionaires in her own right, married to a claimed billionaire, and being lauded as First Lady of these United States with a wardrobe which includes a $54,000 coat while others starve and suffer from no shelter in below zero cold on the street

With that kind of family I am not surprised that Donald Trump is so anti-immigrant. If this is what his immigrant family has ‘achieved’ since it arrived on these shores goodness knows what others will do to continue to drag down these United States. He can’t let that happen – he must act.

No United States President has ever been rejected as a state visitor to England – what used to be a close ally. Trump has changed all of that and had to cancel his state visit to England – we assume because he was advised that he was not welcome there.

So hopefully, you now understand why Trump is so anti-immigrant. I am sure he is only trying to protect these United States from those he thinks will bring the kind of harm he and his family have brought to these United States and wants to do whatever he can do to prevent such from happening. I am sure you also know why he has zeroed in on non-white immigrants. If white Immigrants can bring down the worst judgments on other immigrants, no matter which country they have come from what will the non-white immigrants do. Trump can’t let that stand or take that chance. He has, after all, this first hand experience.

And now you have the answer to all of it – most specifically, why would a fairly recent immigrant to these United States be so anti-immigrant in his policies when he gets the chance to make some.

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My Response! – No Names Please!

Friday, December 22nd, 2017

Don’t want to lose my job. But if this keeps on the way it has I will be out there on the front lines – dam the job – I will join the homeless if that is necessary to bring about change.

I noticed a couple of Marceline’s Facebook posts. One included something – in answer to a ‘friend’ about black teachers. She was too nice to say many black teachers stepped away from the Black Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s because they saw that as the road to losing their jobs to white teachers and didn’t want that to happen. They were a part of the Black Bourgeoisie and enjoyed a position in black society they did not want to lose. I don’t know the person she was answering and commenting in her Facebook page so I didn’t add my say so – it seemed intrusive. Everything goes on this blog so I am answering here.

That said – I really need to respond to your post on Trump and the very ugly picture of the Republicans assembled on the steps of the White House in celebration of their vote on the tax cut.

I lived through Nixon and I didn’t expect to have to live through another such carnage. And carnage is what this is. An American President elected – or rather put into office by Russia and the fascists, and I really believe that. Not from the media or anything else, but from my life experience in the world. Trump makes Nixon look like a saint. Nixon covered up a breaking, but Trump is well into treason.

I loved your little comment on the White House built by slaves.

I believe many of the Republican Congress people are being blackmailed. We have a president who is a bully – ugly and evil bully – who has bullied all of his life and is now president and bullying on a world wide stage.

Why have we tolerated such? Why hasn’t he been removed? Why has his sexual assault not been addressed? Why isn’t he in jail?

He clearly has surrounded himself with people who are as much able to bully as he – like Nikki Haley. I had great hopes for her and was wondering if she was someone I could support. After the way she bullied at the U. N. she clearly was chosen by Trump to be a part of his government because he saw this in her and that is what he wants in his administration. Either bully or grovel. Push people and governments around in Trump’s name or grovel to show what seems to be Trump support, but in reality the most dangerous people one can have in your circle are those you have blackmailed and forced to do and react in ways they would not otherwise.

Hopefully, they have been blackmailed. If this is who they have been all these years – I am thinking particularly of Orrin Hatch – then we have been very short sighted to have re-elected them. It is time for all of them to go. There must be a way to immediately remove Trump and his administration. I am sure you folks will think of something – but make it quick.

My response will be following Marceline out of the Republican Party. I stayed too long, but better late than never. I remember her when she was precinct chair in Wayzata, Minnesota. Wondered then how she could be precinct chair in the Republican Party and on the National Board of the National Organization of Women – or is that ‘for’ women? She stood strong for what she believed. I didn’t like her much then – thought she was too “pushy”. I did respect her, however. I watched her being trashed in some really crude ways, but she didn’t step down, didn’t step away and I don’t think she even blinked. Having a family to raise that took a lot of guts and she must have been through a lot of pain in the process.

Not been involved in civil rights and these other activities very long, but I am all in now. And whether that is good or bad we have Donald Trump to thank or blame for my conversion. From a sort of racist and sexist to somehow trying to walk a different path and make up for a life not always well led or behaved. Hope you all forgive me. I was busy trying to make lots of money – but that’s all over. Getting old changes your values and priorities.

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Rummagings About Morality

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017

Isn’t it amazing what it takes for the experiences of your life to come together.

What is it you have wanted more than anything else in life?

For me – since I was little – it was wisdom and understanding.

Funny thing about that – it is exactly what I have received from life. Not money – success – fame – all of that started to break in at different points along the way, but just as quickly as that breaking in started, all of those things – money, success, fame – were killed. How and by who I will probably never know. But wherever there were lessons to be learned I was there and the world seemed to open up to give me its ultimate secrets. The biggest and most guarded secret is the one which showed me if the world defined money, success, fame had broken in, the wisdom and understanding would have stopped and that which had already broken in would be gone in a very short period of time.

Things that seemed obvious to me were a blank to many of my friends. If that is not true, they were magnificent in hiding what they saw and understood. And what I understood was what one fears and that which keeps one from stepping out on faith is really who you are. The fear is of losing those things the world has provided and putting you in a position of want – that seems to be our greatest fear.

So many things come to us for learning and almost all of them we ignore as we look and walk in the opposite direction. We live on assumptions. The assumptions we have put into our minds and hearts because that is what we want to believe about life and that is what we want to believe about those around us and that is what we want to believe about the world in which we live.

One grand truth, being presented on a world-wide stage these days is the moral structure needed for the world to maintain its racism, sexism and all the rest. That moral structure is deep within our souls today and we live by that structure without ever thinking about what that has done to us spiritually. The sacrifices we have made as human beings over the generations to satisfy our most base needs are horrifying when looked at on a world-wide scale.

How many lies do you have to tell yourself to believe and act and create your world around the incredible belief that you and those like you are “better than” everyone else. What lies have Alabamians had to tell themselves to support and vote for Roy Moore. We are living out a morality play each day and it is stark. There is nothing romanticizing what is being played out on the U. S. Government’s stage. It is and has drowned out and is quickly removing every good thing we have ever been about – and that is no exaggeration. How did the ovens in Germany come about? They were created by those who were born, raised, lived and died in a society which was full of normal human beings trying to survive but gradually taking that need to survive and that fear of failure to incredible heights. They were not evil people, they were just like us. They became evil as they became more and more entrenched in the opportunities to achieve untold wealth, great fame, etc. etc.

As human beings we seem to have been born with the need to group together with like minded, like looking, like acting human beings. We have had our tribes which insured our continued existence. There is nothing wrong with tribalism, until the day comes when that tribalism slides into “my tribe is better than your tribe and your tribe must serve my tribe so my tribe can have more of what it wants in this life at the expense of your life and times.”

What do these rummaging have to do with today? It brings to mind and heart all of the huge sacrifices we have made to create a country in which some are better than others; to have created that country on the backs of slaves who were demeaned and considered less than human; to have used the marriage laws to enslave others; and to have used women in various states to satisfy the most prurient needs of humans – which once satisfied become progressively more enslaving and violent and demeaning.

What price have we paid for that to have happened? We live in and have created a society in which we have split the human race into sub-races, all described with some inhuman traits and all claimed as less than. The price for that has been our honor – our integrity – our beauty – our grace – our loveliness – our ability to love one another “as I have loved you.”

These times with Donald Trump have been times which have surfaced and brought front and center the sacrifices these United States have made to maintain as “better than”. We have built what we call a “great country.” We have built a country we consider better than all others and have never seen the sins we have put into that country’s structure. We have built a country on a huge flaw and that flaw is today creating a huge earthquake. What remains when the shaking and spewing up of stuff from the center of the earth stops is anybody’s guess. We have built a country by condemning Jesus to death and then calling for a bowl of soap and water and a towel with which to wash our hands of the carnage that followed. We have build a country and then divorced ourselves from its history. We have built a country and taken no responsibility for the price we demanded others pay for its creation, its wealth, and its continuation in the same vein which caused many generations to take on a system of moral values which they practice and deny at the same time thinking that others can’t see the lie!

Slavery – the Trail of Tears – the opening our doors to immigrants from all countries and then labelling them as “less than” by those deemed on top of the heap – all have prices to pay and today we are paying those prices.

Our value system was shown as bereft when we killed African slaves who ran away, when we lynched Africans who dared to vote. It didn’t matter whether they were 100% or 5% African, they were not on the same high level as others who were redesigned as – not human and a part of the human race – but “White” and better than those who were not white. The north ignored the lynchings and claimed the moral high ground. They had psychic ways to deal with such people. It was a slow painful death they put out. The south engaged in incredible violence and so Billie Holiday sang “Strange Fruit” and everyone knew what that meant the lynchings were so wide spread.

For years the “flowers of the South”, the “Southern Ladies”, had a stereotype and pictures which showed them as “beautifully” adorned and having their place on top of the pedestal, that very high mythical column. They were blinded by the compliments, the supposed lifting them up above ordinary humans, the opening the doors for them by others so their gloved hands didn’t have to touch that which many mortals touched before them. And so much more. We bought our own horribleness because it flattered our egos and built up our vanity. The truth of the degradation, demeaning, violence against were all denied by even – or should I say especially by – the women against whom it was thrown.

Today that has been exposed and is continuing to be exposed on all of its levels. It has been like peeling the onion. We are almost down to the core so the fighting and brutalizing has become blinding in its attempt to maintain what has been and move it even further by making it function in spite of the fact that the cover has been removed and we can see all of this in its stark truth. We have become that corrupt?

Alabama is symbolic of these United States and its historic degradation of those in power. Drunk with its own strength against others “not like them” it is almost as if retribution is at its door step.

We thought the bottom was reached with the carnage on the Petus Bridge, but that was just a way station on the way to greater evil.

To have seen yourself involved in that kind of sin and to move on to ever greater sin and to then claim god on your side, behind what you do, pushing you to ever larger acts of evil – it is mind-blowing how anyone can see you and not recoil from the evil coming from your very pores.

Today, it is not about African Americans on the Petus bridge – it is about the right of males to brutalize, sexually abuse, tear down, misuse and lots of other adjectives – women. What will it be about tomorrow. The same souls are calling the future.

Women in corporations were brought in to serve the men and that happened because the women had been trained to acquiesce and to demean themselves. It becomes understandable how that could have happened when you own a small corporation where you do a lot of the work and see how you can get behind because you become overwhelmed with only 24 hours of the day. And you then see how easy it would be to bring in people who have been labeled “less than”, “not as bright as”, not meant for the higher things in life – especially the exercise of power,” to have them do all of the grunt work and most of the real work while you prance around like a terminally ill peacock taking credit, money, power, success.

The campaign of Roy Moore is a Calling. It is Roy Moore set up as the bait to call folks to maintain a society which allows women to be used as sex objects and then discarded. He is bait to call folks to lie, cheat, steal, and yes – murder – because women have been murdered in the name of preserving and passing down to our children a society which has institutionalized and wants to continue in the way it has been going for hundreds of years. He is bait to have some folks turn away and try to set up the same structure, but less transparent. For these United States to be racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and all the rest means these United States has transgressed in gross ways against its citizens and against others around the world needed to maintain a “better than” society where the hard and dirty work is done by those scraping and scratching 24/7 just to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. It is a society with trap doors for those who go too far and are not among the group designated as “better than”. Why else would a man become Secretary of the Treasury who has had tens of thousands of people thrown out of their homes onto the street and who lives in a mansion which could house many more than just himself and his wife? Why else would we have laws to prevent any other than those selected by that society to succeed with enormous road blocks to trip, fell and kill those who are able to get around those road blocks? but we have standards which are necessary to continue the denial – we have those few to disprove the rule and maintain them vigorously. Even the KKK had to have a few blacks to maintain their superiority and proclaim their high morality because they accepted those few – the others were not worthy, not human, not equal to.

Amazingly, my life has escaped the anger that should come from living in such a place, but it has. Why? Because that anger is generated in those who share the moral values of those doing the bigotry. To see how far we have gone off the road is to understand the story of Adam and Eve on a level most ignore and just quote the Bible as a very literal book. To demand the you read and understand the Christian and Jewish Scriptures literally is to totally miss what it is saying. The story of Adam and Eve is the story of what could have been. Where we started from and how far into sin, degradation and evil we have fallen. Adam and Eve turned their naked bodies into horrible sinfulness and ugliness they had to hide. Evil crept into their lives, which they cultivated and still today cultivate.

Many of us hoped and thought the horribleness in Alabama would give way to something more beautiful. After witnessing that period of American history in Alabama and in other places around these United States – that example should have brought many to their knees asking forgiveness. Instead it seems to have generated a hard hearted response – a determination to continue on the path of violence towards women as not only justified but able to give one entry into the hallowed halls of government.

So much more could be said – however – the one relevant thing is “How long, O Lord, how long!”

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Trump – Peter Thiel – Russia – anymore?

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017

I read all of your articles.

My response to your latest and all of the others follows:

The largest and I think earliest investor in Facebook was Peter Thiel. – the Facebook which is in the news for being very much involved with the Russian interference in this last presidential election. The same Facebook which had those FAKE NEWS articles all over and you know the story.

One of a very small number of people who made large contributions to the Trump campaign – and early on – was Peter Thiel.

The person who organized and used his influence, friendship and business connections to put on that meeting of top IT people in this country right after Trump was inaugurated which showcased Trump – all of the Google, Facebook, etc. top executives together around Trump’s table and also showcased Trump’s children as professionals involved with his governance – was Peter Thiel.

What are Peter Thiel’s Russian connections?

Isn’t Peter Thiel the person most responsible for keeping Blacks and Women, who were working hard to bring about their new ideas, out of the business community as they were scooped – and not accidentally scooped, but had their ideas brazenly stolen – by other white males with Northern European ancestry who turn up with the ideas, business plans and much more of those same Blacks and Women with the money to bring them to fruition and with a great deal of that money put in place by Peter Thiel and lets not ignore or leave out his friends?

Is there a common thread here?

Especially since the racist and sexist structures of these newly stolen businesses would put this last generation of business entrepreneurs to shame in the way they have totally excluded minorities and women – as customers of these new businesses as well as owners, etc. except, well, the one or two included to disprove the rule are always included. This next generation of business entrepreneurs makes the hearts of the KKK, the white supremacists, the Neo-Nazi’s and others palpitate with excitement as they see this helping to make real their hateful world view.

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Response to “Edmund Petus Bridge”

Sunday, November 19th, 2017

You’ve done it again. I did not make the connection between what is happening today in Alabama with what happened all those years ago in Alabama against African Americans. This is sick!

I saw the people at the press conference of evangelicals raving and screaming in favor of Roy Moore. What struck me during that time was how low Roy Moore brought his wife by having her out front defending him against his sexual abuse against other women. It was incredible psychic sexual abuse against his own wife. She must know the truth of his penchant for teenage girls – too many others know it for her to be in ignorance. How that must hurt to be the one on that stage.

It also struck me as to how scared the men were who were talking – raving actually – about god and Roy Moore. I wondered if they were so fearful because they have to put the women down as brutally as possible who are telling their stories about Roy Moore’s sexual abuse because women will be out there telling their stories about the men raving on that stage.

I also noticed color doesn’t make a bit of difference – the men were white, black, brown. All united trying to keep their claimed ‘superiority’, which would be taken away from them if they don’t destroy the women speaking out. But the curtains have been raised and we can all see what this is about and guess what is still hidden.

Thanks for this article. It was quite eye opening. Keep telling these truths – we are listening. How about more comments from “Bettina Network’s Oracle”? The last one was right on and you folks were the first to make the connection between Trump – the mafia and what is looking like treason by the president of these United States. That is all just now being unveiled for the rest of us to see. Would like to know where we are going next.

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Back to the Edmund Petus Bridge

Saturday, November 18th, 2017

by Marceline Donaldson

Something is oddly familiar in this “stand-off: now going on amongst our government officials, politicians, hopefuls and a very oppressed group which Alabama and others are trying desperately to contain and keep in their oppressed state. Even the current Governor of Alabama has come public and done a modernized version of Governor George Wallace’s stand to keep African Americans from voting and therefore from their civil rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution.

When I heard Governor Kay Ivey on television taking her incredibly historical stance, I could not see her face for the imposition of George Wallace’s face over her face and figure on television.

Nothing hurts more than one of your own, standing up in the most self-righteous and arrogant way, selling you into slavery and she did that beautifully. She did not lose her very southern lady-like composure in the process of spouting and spewing evil. Clearly, the Republican Party has maintained its position as “Keepers of the Bigotry” which has long characterized Alabama. Have you thought about or read the story of what happened on the Edmund Petus Bridge? Do you see the parallels? We’ve had the slaughter of the women. It should now be time for the healing oil and who will do the pouring of that oil to heal our sins?

True – other states and areas do the same, but somehow the theatrics in Alabama and its connecting its maintenance of bigotry to a religion with its own theology is unique. We know well this heretical religion. The one which has been developing since slavery and which was used to justify and maintain slavery. We have lived with it in many places across these United States and still are living with its remnants. You know the religion. The one where you went into one of its churches and found you could only sit in the back pews, if you were African American – or you could only sit in the balcony – or you were taken out of the church by the ushers if you were African American because you were not allowed into those particular churches.

They still exist today and you can tell them almost upon entering into their ‘holy’ places. You look on their altar and you see those officiating are almost uniformly white. Maybe a child of color or two, but the adults of color are missing. You hear their sermons and they lack that something you hear in other churches. Their ‘leaders’ are ‘leading’ to gain a foot up in their jobs or chosen vocations. They are doing everything they can to help those like them maintain their facade of being ‘better than’. Those more enlightened heretical churches are doing some of the most foolish things you can imagine, but as you watch, they call those things their ‘holy rituals.’ And it becomes clear after a short time that they are keeping the bigotry and maintaining the image of superiority of the white males of Northern European ancestry – those in their midst and the others spread around the globe. You have to leave that space because what you also see and experience is their meanness when pushed to see and remove the bigotry and heresy they practice. It is time, however, for them and us to do just that!

The blanket has been ripped off. The psychic violence and physical and emotional destructive confrontation on the Edmund Petus Bridge has happened as the current Governor has let the rest of us see and hear her ‘religious’ beliefs, which are indicative of the many in Alabama who she represents – male, female of all stripes and colors. She has made a very clear statement that she prefers her political party with all of its shame and sin to anything else because she knows they will continue in the ways of the vile past and they will continue holding her and others like her up in their belief that they are ‘better than’ everyone in the world not like them. Her very words, however, show clearly that she is not free and equal, she is the governor, but she clearly neither respects her gender nor others around her who are neither white nor of Northern European ancestry.

Governor Ivey today – as did Governor Wallace in yesteryear – has given the green light to the worst kind of evil. She has called her state to shame themselves. She has declared her bigotry and the fact that she is conscious of her bigotry and will continue to practice it because that is what she sees her position as governor calling her to do. She has called her state to let the world know that the citizens of Alabama prefer their bigotry and will maintain it defending themselves against positive change even while exposing their children to the sin of pedophilia, psychic and physical sexual abuse, lying, cheating, which she has depicted as just fine and good and righteous choices if made defending their ‘white is better than’ status and their declared right to dishonor – disrespect – and so much more – those with whom they share this earth if those people are neither ‘white’ nor ‘male with Northern European ancestry’. What lessons those children are learning from their parents.

We are back on the Edmund Petus Bridge. Because of the lessons this current generation learned, while children watching their parents as they cheered for George Wallace and his friends on the bridge using it as their bully pulpit. They watched as some of their adult neighbors brutalized, beat and tried to slaughter African Americans and those supporting them on that Edmund Petus Bridge.

The children were present and silently watching that entire drama and so today we have that generation, all grown up, doing their best to follow in the footsteps of their parents, their friends, their government figures, their politicians. They are going where this evil is leading and, in the end, they will pay the price.

Many of those children have adopted the religion of their parents – who themselves adopted and adapted the religion of the slaveholders and slave owners before them. They have seen their parents and grandparents erect memorials to those who did their best to keep human beings enslaved because they wanted ‘free’ labor and wanted that ‘better than’, ‘white is superior’, white supremacy identity. They saw the KKK in their white sheets and pointy caps circling those lit crosses. They saw African Americans turned away at their city halls in brutal ways when they tried to vote; these children knew the U. S. Constitution was being violated in the process; and they were present in the home where their mothers and aunts and female cousins were treated as second class citizens; they were present in the rest of society to see those same relatives, all dressed up and play acting to avoid their reality as they were treated as the household servants. They understood who they were and the positions they would take before they reached voting age and they are now taking those positions.

When you sow the wind – you reap the whirlwind.

Alabama is and has been reaping the beginnings of that whirlwind when you look closely and you see it is one of the poorest states in the Union; when you see jobs scarce; when you see children going without; when you see the low level of education throughout the state; when you see the priorities of the politicians and government officials who are absorbed in maintaining their ‘better than’ status at a very high cost to everyone in the state; when you see the corruption overlooked because the ‘official’ is guarding your ‘better than’ identity; when you see all that has been wrought against Alabamians through their keeping their slaveowners religion above all else and crafting a political party which does the actual work the theology of that religion leads them to do.

It is one of the great tragedies of these United States. AND – not to be overlooked is the fact that our current president – Donald J. Trump – is very popular in this state which condones and gives him positive feedback on all of his evil deeds. When you see this state raising up politicians who follow his footsteps as he has followed in the footsteps of Roy Cohn, Joseph McCarthy, Adolph Hitler, Stalin and today Vladimir Putin, as well as the leaders of the mafia organizations around the world.

Sieg Heil Kay Ivey! There were also Jews who sold out other Jews in Nazi Germany and even today there are African Americans selling out other African Americans for what they think will raise them up to the status of ‘almost, but not quite equal to’ – ‘at least not like them’ – ‘different from those others’ – etc.

“Man’s inhumanity to man” – needs a political correctness overlay “We all die and move on out of this earthly sphere – yet we act as though some are better than and their human bodies will not rot. The color of their skin and the kind of genitals they have will preserve them”. Folly of follies are these humans, especially when they try to be ‘better than’. – At that point, the evil starts pouring out of them and their actions conform and are uniformly sinful no matter their money, status, history, education…….

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Sexual Abuse/Hillary/Trump

Thursday, November 16th, 2017

We are calling for the world to condemn the sexual abuse going on against women in this world, currently being acted out in the most vicious way against women in the United States. We have been totally self-righteous and have claimed for generations that we are better than the rest of the world. That better than is the theme of today’s governmental figures. If you don’t quote the rhetoric you don’t get the job in government.

We also ask that you acknowledge that sexual abuse is not just physical. It is psychic as well and that which has kept women down for centuries. It is enough!

Want to see real fear? Take a look at the men trying to stomp on Hillary Clinton. The fear shines through them as their fear that their wives, mothers and children will follow her example and be independent people contributing from their own lives, their own souls, their own character to this world in which they live.

The religion which masquerades as Christianity, which I call christianity, is a farce – a heresy – and needs to be exposed for what it is – the biggest lie ever told.

Christianity in places like Alabama has been reduced to having its capital “C” traded in for a small “c”. It is the religions of the KKK, the Neo-Nazi’s the White Supremacists and more like them. It is a religion which puts itself and its adherents on a level with God. It is a religion in which the people can lie, cheat, steal and destroy one another in the name of being better than. It is the religion which partnered with the slaveholders in the United States as well as in other parts of the world. It is the left hand of the Confederate memorials which many can’t live without because it reflects and gives them some kind of “truth” to their claim of superiority. If Germany kept such memorials to Hitler and his war the world would rise up in horror. What happens in places like Alabama and the rest of the country is the exact same thing. Memorials to slavery – to the Confederate war which as about the maintenance of slavery and a harkening back to romanticizing that time in our history. All of that is necessary to keep that time alive and something for its adherents to struggle to get back to. Isn’t that what “Make America Great Again” means? Bring back those times when we put out the lie that Africans were inferior and meant to serve the whites of the world? Isn’t that the history Trump and his followers want to get back to? Isn’t that why Roy Moore has supporters and why people voted for Trump? They didn’t care about ethics, character, truth, love, caring, grace – they cared about having someone in control calling the shots who recognized and would fight to maintain white better than everything else.

If you support them and voted for people like Trump that was your motivation whether you admit it or not. All of your excuses are crap and lies to justify your claimed superiority so you can live without contributing but taking from others.

christianity – with a small “c” – is the religion which created white as a superior race in violation of everything we know to the contrary. To join this religion and this race you must give up your identity and take on the identity of white. Did your ancestors come to the United States from France? They are white in the United States. Did they come from England? They are white in the United States. All you had to do was to take on that white identity and acknowledge that you and yours believe you are better than, prettier than, more educated than, more everything than those others. It is the religion Roy Moore has espoused for decades. It is the religion of the evangelicals who have given up Evangelism because they prefer to be better than . To simply be one of God’s children is not enough. They must worship god; they must devalue – depose – get rid of God, Jesus, Christ. They must take the Scriptures and rearrange them so the message fits their heresy.

Especially, it is time for all of us to call out and condemn the sexual abuse Donald Trump has visited against Hillary Clinton from his campaign time – calling for her to be “locked up” through today when he calls up Hillary to visit this sexual abuse against because he needs a shield and has decided she will be that shield.

These calls for a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton is nothing more than another segway of the sexual abuse he has carried out from calling for her to be “locked up” for being what – a better candidate? A better person? A better president? one who has lived her life giving to others? Hillary Clinton’s very existence is a threat to Donald Trump because he can only abide women who he can reduce to being less than Donald Trump and every other man. So to keep the rest of us in his cloud of denial and abuse he pulls in Hillary’s name for more abuse each time he needs a distraction. Where are the many, many voice loudly condemning him? Where are the many many voices removing this turd from office? Where are the many many voices sending Donald Trump back under the rock from which he crawled to be blinded by the sun. Does fear stop you? Take a look inside to make sure it is fear you have to remove and not the remnants of Donald Trump’s character that you share!

These United States have been racist, sexist, homophobic, and more almost from its beginnings. It was founded on the backs of slaves. It was founded on the backs of women. It has not acknowledged and repaid either debt it has only becomes increasingly more sophisticated in using the rest of the world to continue its claimed superiority. It is time for this to stop.

If these paragraphs sound angry – they are. WAKE UP AMERICA! WAKE UP WORLD! THIS MAN IS VILE – EVIL – AND SPREADING HIS EVIL TRYING TO INFECT EVERYONE WHO SEES HIM AND/OR HEARS HIS VOICE.

We call for Donald Trump to stop this sexual abuse for which he has set an example for the rest of the world to follow. He has some 17 plus accusations of physical sexual abuse against women. He has law suits against him by women who claim he sexually abused them. Every other word out of his mouth is bullying – abusive against women – or self-aggrandizement. IT IS ENOUGH!

Trump chose Pence for his Vice President as an act of genius. He knew he needed someone to keep him in office and just as he predicted Pence keeps him in office because we are afraid of exchanging the devil for the devil’s right hand. It is time to step out and correct this. Trump has simply made it right for all of the sexual abusers to carry on, ignoring the wrong of what they are doing and continuing to step on women.

He has emboldened people like Roy Moore who needs to crawl back under that rock with Trump. All across this country Trump has brought men who should be shamed by what they do every day and have done for most of their adult lives into the light and dusted them off sending them out to wreck havoc on the world. Every single God loving and God fearing person should be standing up, calling him out and also calling out all of those like him to clear away the trash that is cluttering the United States government as well as the rest of the world.

Change your lifestyle. Comfort at someone else’s expense is not an option. Where you do not take responsibility for your life as an independent, loving, caring person you are throwing a burden on someone else.

Take a look at the billionaires of the world. Not one has acquired their billions without lying, cheating and stealing from someone else. It is no accident that homelessness and our billionaire group arose at the same time. One is totally connected to the other. STOP. THIS. INSANITY and this EVIL!

Do you love Hitler and the evil he brought and nurtured? Do you want to see the dictators of this world continue to survive at the expense of and on the backs of the rest of us? Are you so in love with one man that you want him to be god over you and you this mangod’s servant? Are you so foolish to think that this man will do anything except destroy you and everything you hold dear? What is wrong with you Trump followers? Are you so anxiety ridden, so weak in your identity, so needy that you will accept this happening before your very eyes because it is preferable to rocking the boat? Don’t you realize your children are watching? Wake up before it is too late. All of these dictators need to be removed, but none so urgently as Donald J. Trump.

We have revolutions happening all over this world. All led by someone like Trump and his crowd. If they win this world changes and not for the better. Your encouraging Trump and keeping him in control emboldens the ugliness all around the world. It helps to justify their existence and finally moves them to come together for world control. It is time to move out of this hole we are digging for ourselves. Wake UP and ACT!

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From a Paranoid Reader

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

Thank you for the article on “The Personification of Evil”. It was powerful and awesome – especially because of the references you included both on Melania Trump and Joseph McCarthy. I hadn’t thought about McCarthyism as the genesis of this Trump era, but it makes a lot of sense and clears up much for me. I knew about Roy Cohn, but this is like weaving – gradually you come up with a beautiful product.

Maybe because I was reading that article when I also noticed news about the truck killing all of those people in New York City that my paranoia started coming out of its closet, but what a distraction away from the Mueller convictions. It gave Trump a bit of a distraction that he may have hoped would continue and wipe the Mueller headlines out of the media reporting.

My first thought was – Trump’s direct attempts at distractions didn’t do the job so he got help and his ‘help’ was far more successful. The New York tragedy certainly wiped Trump off the front pages for a brief time. Instead of wiping out an immigration program that has had one problem in over 1 million immigrants coming into this country through that program, maybe we need to start a program which sends Trump followers to another country where they can be retrained with exams to pass before they are allowed back into these United States. Move the prisoners someplace else and take over Rikers Island for that purpose?

Trump set the pattern as he has constantly provided distractions from things happening around his problems so reporters and your average citizen would be distracted – and he has been very good at doing that – which is probably what started my thinking that maybe he was behind this tragedy. You can’t feel empathy for people if you caused the problem with intent to destroy.

There had to be something very strong to take attention away from the indictments and the Papadopoulos pleading guilty – the truck killings certainly provided that distraction.

Like I said – I am probably very paranoid from all of this Trump business. I never would have begun to have such thoughts before Trump’s appearance as a presidential candidate and then president. His ‘reign’ has caused me to think differently about what I read and how I put things together.

Before Trump became president and before his campaign showed itself to be so ugly this is not something I would have thought about nor connections I would have made.

You probably won’t publish this, but I needed to get it said and out of me because it really seems like a serious possibility.

It might not come up to the level of Trump’s “birtherism”, but it is a start. Maybe I can become a celebrity through such conjectures.

Have we all been made a bit “off” by this president?

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The Personification of Evil

Tuesday, October 31st, 2017

BY: Marceline Donaldson

I heard a sermon a few weeks ago preached by a person who could be called a politician. He tried to recast these current political events as purely political and not evil. I should have been amazed, but I simply wondered why I had chosen that church on that particular day to hear such a message. It was christianity being preached with a small “c”. The kind most of us practice, which allows us to keep silent when we need to speak the truth. to no longer even know what is truth and to obfuscate when we need to speak and act out of the clarity of our convictions. To go along to get along because our sense of moral outrage and correctness has been numbed by our need for that which will not satisfy who we really are……

My biggest disappointments in life have been those times when a clear lack of a clear and sure moral compass, when it was most needed, has been displayed by the society in which I live; those times when I have been taken back to a parallel time – like now – to the times of McCarthyism – which shows we have learned negative lessons from history. We interpret what we see “through a glass darkly”and think we are seeing the new heaven. We seem to need to be “important”; to be “accepted”; to not be pushed out of our position in life that we have achieved by our “striving” and for which we have paid a heavy price. We will sacrifice the very ground on which we stand for those goals.

Remember Joseph McCarthy – remember the Rosenberg’s – remember all of the people whose lives were sacrificed at the same altar that those historical times are now bringing back to us via those who inherited the tools of evil that existed then and are using them today.

I have not been surrounded, most of my life by those society calls murderers, thieves, rapists, liars. I have been surrounded by “strivers”. And now, with Donald Trump as president, it is clear this country is full of such “strivers”. How few have come out to speak truth. How even fewer have called out the evil being constantly pumped into this society. How many could withstand the onslaught that comes from being cut loose from your moorings because you took that one brave moment and spoke truth, -yet some still do. Why would speaking truth cut you off and cause a huge upheaval in your life? Why would it not bring you the status of hero? What it does bring to those with that strong moral compass is very indicative of the moral health of the society in which we live.

When and if you do take a stand in this current society, those who connect to you, who take some of their identity from being your friend, who see you as a part of their group and therefore as a part of them become threatened by you and can only recoup by trying to sink you to show how unlike you they are and how unchanged they are and how they are still willing to lie, cheat, steal, oppress in the name of whoever is in power – and that can even includes members of your family.

Now – today – you have the chance to reform. It is time to come out and condemn bullying – lying – cheating – stealing – oppressing others for your own advantage – in other words, you have a chance today to speak the truth about these United States and about the world in which we live. If you don’t, that world will be changed and not for the better.

We elected a man as president of these United States who is a bully. A man who lies, cheats, steals, and who will use whatever he can to be the most powerful person in the world. And when I say “we” – Russia may have manipulated for him to gain more votes and put their strength behind helping him become president of these United States, but millions of plain, ordinary Americans voted for him. And why? Because he promised he would single you out and make you and your kind “better than”? That he would maintain and increase the racism, sexism, homophobia, and all the rest that has existed in these United States for generations? And in return you would turn a blind eye to his robbing you blind because you need that “better than” status more than you need a fair and equitable country in which to live? Because you need to know that the brown-skinned person across the street is less than you? Because you can brag about living in a country which excludes and diminishes those whose religion is different from yours? And on and on and on because that is the only thing Trump has promised you and the only thing he has delivered to you and will continue to deliver to you as long as he is president. He has promised to deliver evil! He has promised to accept you and your contribution to his administration if you engage in evil for his sake! He has made all kinds of promises which all come down to increasing the wealth of the wealthy; increasing the power of the powerful; …………………..(.add your own comments to finish this sentence.)

I was totally appalled at the progress of a part of his entourage. There was the ‘First Lady’, Melania, at a school talking to young impressionable children about “bullying”. And what were they doing? Looking in their laps at pictures of this First Lady – nude and half nude – https://www.bettina-network.com/blog/archives/2572 – prancing around airplanes in practically nothing – lounging on beds in pictures that some sex magazines would not print without blurred spots? I am sure you know the scenario. If you don’t, take a look at the pictures in the above link which were out in public view long before Trump ran for president and which circulated the country during his campaign. And still you voted to bring this family into the White House as role models for your children and mine.

She went into the schools talking about bullying. With what credibility? Was she bringing the issue up before our children so they would understand and avoid such tactics or was she teaching them hypocrisy and how to do one thing – live one kind of life – and come out in the light of day talking another. A woman who lives daily with a bully and has supported him with her words and actions. This is who you wanted talking to your children about the evils of “bullying”? One who used a bully to move herself up to billionaire status and has arrived as First Lady of these United States by marrying and tolerating and promoting a bully while doing whatever she needs to do to keep herself sane? This is your role model who you parade through your schools for your children to see and listen to while they ogle her half-nude pictures?

How the mighty have fallen.

Who was Donald Trump’s mentor – besides his father who clearly was a bigot and was arrested at a KKK demonstration – try reading this New York Times article – https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/donald-trump-roy-cohn.html

Mentored by Roy Cohn – a notorious and feared New York attorney who was Joseph McCarthy’s right hand man. Who helped to bring much pain and suffering to many in these United States who the McCarthy hearings accused of being “Communist”.- Mr. Trump has now taken one of his mentors tactics and has shown he has no loyalties nor anything approaching a substantial set of foundational ethics by now moving completely to the other side with those same “Communists” apparently having been used to get him elected president of these United States.

It is not accidental that Gorka brought up the Rosenberg’s in his attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton. Destroying the Rosenberg’s and sending them to the electric chair was a part of the tactic that promoted Cohn and his crowd and is the inheritance of Trump and his crowd. If at once you succeed you don’t have to try again you only have to push ahead and move the world into the image that most lets you live like Vladimir Putin, only without the downside Putin now faces. And now comes a reliving of that time, only this time with Trump as saint paul, Cohn in the jesus seat and Gorka and his crowd working to bring in a 2017 form of McCarthyism to project and increase their money and power and the American people allowing all of it to happen as long as their jobs, assets, status as “better than” are safe.

It is time to wake up America and live out your claimed beliefs. Live out your Constitution. Put the quality of life – the equality of all – ability to provide for everyone without having a billionaire crowd growing at the expense of the homeless and others on the margins about to become homeless.

All of the moneys being spent on the foolishness we are now seeing acted out in front of us by White Male Northern European ancestry Americans needs to stop. Oops, not quite. We do have some hangers-on from other groups to disprove that rule – let’s not forget the African American Ben Carson, and others like him. Strivers all!

It is time for the windows and doors of this country to be thrown open and the fresh air of humanity, compassion, equality, love, grace, and all the rest be let in and not be closed off and only allowed to a small and smaller group. The thugs and criminals who keep this country in chains are not who you want in charge.

We need an America whose soil does not grow and support and strengthen such people. I don’t know what happened to them that they pursue such a way of life, but that really does not matter. What matters is their choices in life were evil. The lifestyle that they chose is evil. Their ability to corrupt others is evil. They need to be called out on all of it and removed. The hate they are spewing – the choices they are making ——

It is the personification of evil and different from the sermon I heard a few Sundays ago about labeling this “politics” and not “evil”. It was certainly not a Christian sermon – it was a sermon from the soul of a religion spreading very quickly and calling itself “christianity”. It is the call to follow this god they are promoting as “christ” and ignoring the evil intrinsic to this kind of “politics.” The small letters are not typos – they are intentional.

Stand up and be counted here America. This is your country and you need to take it back and put it in the light. Take it out of the darkness settling on all things American and with that darkness spreading fast. The same group which promoted and supported Jos McCarthy and his brand of anti-communism is around Trump. Their heirs are alive and well and trying to take this country down the same road.

You don’t have much time because one defense Trump has is to start World War III and I have no doubt he is capable and would rather see that happen than to traverse the road he set for himself, which will be hard, painful, a total embarrassment and payment for his past sins in the public and corporate arenas.

We will be in the middle of nuclear warfare without even knowing what happened. You will be standing in the street with your skin turning to mush and your eyes destroyed and your entire body in excruciating pain because when you had the chance to stand in the street for justice – for equality – to be passionate about a political experiment called the American Way you were among the missing. You went about your day as normal, you did not want to be involved. You wanted others to stand up and take the pain of working hard and sacrificing their lives so you could live in peace, harmony and without extreme environmental changes and so your children could grow up and replace the Trumpians and McCarthyism.

How is that not spreading and being a part of the same evil you are seeing played out in the news everyday? Everyone has a part. Choose yours wisely because your day of reckoning is coming also. Remember the story in scripture about the sheep and the goats? Each day you choose which one you are becoming and each day you take on more of the characteristics of your choice. – and at some point it is too late to change and make another choice – you and yours simply will have to live with the choice you make today, no matter how small.

This is not political – this is evil!!!!

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