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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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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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Friday, January 19th, 2018
So much and so awful. Your last blog was brilliant. I know how you prefer to just do and have those acts ignored so you maintain your privacy, but I can’t help but say – kudos. That breaking down and paralleling as to why Trump is so anti-immigrant was a master stroke.
Moving on – some things need to be added. Trump has moved casinos out of their past category into one which he has been trying to parallel. Top hotels and luxury condominiums and co-ops with that mafia tinge – slightly legal, slightly illegal. Imagine the Waldorf Astoria as a Trump casino. There you have the image towards which, I think, Trump has been striving to attain for his Oligarch friends. Trump Towers seem to be the same kind of complex his grandfather, newly immigrated to these United States, developed. A hotel – luxury condo – gambling casino – grandfather’s rumored brothel model within its apartments and probably other variations included, like the kind of place being used for and known as safe for money laundering. Why safe? It belongs to the president of the United States of America.
It has taken time for the regular press to publicize the “Drumpf Model” but it is beginning to take over the reporting and the news. With that so public and with Trump still in tight with his base, other Oligarch’s can now safely include the United States in their plans for expansion.
Rumors have circulated for some time now that Trump is mafia connected. We have all wondered why the NRA was so powerful given its base in these United States was not such powerful, moneyed people – well now we know as the Russian mafia connection is being rolled out and the people we least like – i.e. the Sheriff in Arizona and others all running for election or re-election – are pictured as a part of the U.S. NRA visiting Russia and the money connections. We have been played and that is a continuing theme. Trump is running a reality show and we are tuned in almost 24/7.
Problem with that reality show – most Americans are law abiding, know and can see character flaws and turn away from those who would break the laws of this country, even though we may have been taken in by them for a moment. We just can’t believe that our country would have been taken over by Russian mafia, but there it is rolling out for all to see.
May God bless you always! Keep writing and keep putting out in this blog the writings of other members of the Bettina Network Lifestyle Community. You give us cover and for that I am much appreciative. Hopefully, the day will come soon when our fear abates and we won’t need the cover – we will come out into the open to say and do what good people all over this world say and do!
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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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Thursday, December 28th, 2017
I just read the article about spending Christmas with a Christian family. It was great! My experience in a Bettina Home/Hedge School was different, but still great!
I wanted to spend Christmas with another culture – another group – I wanted to know what it was like spending Christmas in the “ghetto”. Although today I use that word because the rest of you need that descriptor.
I spent Christmas in a neighborhood in D. C. I would have been afraid to wander into alone. Not because there was any real trouble, but because my conditioning made me really scared to wander into a mostly black neighborhood. My thoughts were I would have been taking my life into my hands and better to stay out than to be sorry. That sounds bad, but I know those thoughts are shared by many of – at least my friends.
It was great.
I hope you forgive any racism you find in this article. Attribute it to my upbringing and current friends.
When I arrived at the home it was with fear and I wondered as I rang the bell if I was sane or had lost my marbles trying this.
A woman opened the door. She was expecting me, but maybe not someone so white. My skin is very white – as is my hair. I didn’t feel white until I walked into their living room, which was full of people. As I looked around they were all colors. None as white as my Scandinavian self, but they were not who I expected. Somehow, I expected a black family to be black – dark of skin. These folks varied from very dark to light tan. There was a lovely Christmas tree and the house smelled of food cooking. I was just in time for dinner.
The food for dinner was Italian. Why? Because it was prepared by a couple of the light tan people in the room. I realized in another context I would have seen them as white, but in this living room I saw them as not white, but light skinned blacks. They were Italian. One was an in-law, the other a cousin. I was too shy at that point to ask more questions.
Dinner was great! There was much laughter, many jokes told at someone else’s expense and I was on the hot seat to talk about why I wanted this “voyeur” experience. At that moment, all my reasons evaporated and I felt really weird. After a very feeble attempt at an answer that didn’t sound either racist or ridiculous someone changed the topic and we went back to having a great time.
The table was blessed with an incredibly beautiful poem which I wanted to take home. Instead I was given a book which contained the poem.
We opened presents, talked half the night and went to bed.
This was not the home of a wealthy person – or even someone who could be called “middle class”. These folks were struggling financially just to survive from one day to the next. I slept on the sofa in a small room off the living room. It was not private, but I knew that before I arrived and privacy in the middle America sense seemed out of place here. People crossed boundaries I was accustomed to – constantly.
Breakfast the next morning was more of the same. We had a breakfast I loved, but would never have made. Eggs, bacon, unbelievable biscuits, and grits! I didn’t want to leave the table. My breakfast is normally fresh fruit, yogurt and an organic piece of bread. Since I brought the coffee I got to make it and it was the center of attention and many jokes. Organic, French roast coffee was great, but not the coffee and chicory the family normally had for breakfast and sometimes all during the day.
Christmas Day was unbelievable! People came and went all day long bringing gifts, food, talk and although I expected to be ‘odd man on the side’, I was just one of the family. I was clearly expected to be a “host” taking care of people as they arrived, making sure everyone was comfortable, all the things one does when company arrives. I loved every minute.
All colors of people came and went and families that showed up together were also all colors. As the day wound down I realized maybe racism was a white thing because the whites and many shades of blacks who shared this Christmas were just a normal part of life with this family. I remember hearing and making comments with friends that maybe blacks would be uncomfortable in one or another situation with whites. What I saw was blacks having whites in their families and nobody being uncomfortable about any of it. I was uncomfortable when I arrived being what I thought was the only white person in the room until I saw the whites in the family and those arriving with other so called “black” families of which they were a part.
We went for a walk in the afternoon, all around the neighborhood and I wondered as we walked and talked what it was that struck fear into my heart and kept me from walking alone through this neighborhood! As we passed people coming and going from their homes there was always a few words exchanged, if not an entire conversation. No one passed us during our walk who we didn’t acknowledge with a smile or even a bit of conversation. To say we were a loud group taking this walk would be an understatement, but we didn’t even notice we were caught up in the back and forth with each other.
The day after Christmas they had a surprise for me. Someone had gotten a keyboard for Christmas which was standing next to the tree. A couple musicians arrived with their instruments and we had an incredible session of singing for about an hour, after which the musicians had to leave and I was exhausted. They were accustomed to having lots of people around all the time. I was accustomed to having people around who called, made an appointment or a date to get together and mostly other times I was alone.
What struck me with this family – blacks are known to be very religious so I expected to spend all day on Christmas in Church. We had prayer before eating, but that was it. We didn’t go to Church. Our Christmas was spent together with family, friends and those who came along with family and friends. Some were complete strangers who came with a friend or family member and all were instantly incorporated into this family as though they had known each other for years.
At the end of my time in this home I realize I’ve made new friends and took home a new attitude. And, I spent an unusual and really fantastic Christmas.
Back home, my friends who seemed close and a part of my extended family I realized were really not close to me at all and I didn’t have an extended family. I have a few people I can call on occasion but who I really can’t just show up to visit with on holidays. or any other time. If I am not invited I stay away. It would be awkward for everyone if I just invited myself to a holiday or any time or celebration. Mostly, I spend those alone because my family is in another state and I don’t make the effort to travel there for holidays. This Christmas has changed all of that and I am looking at changing my life. I thought it was great. At this moment I think it is cold and isolated and I don’t know how that happened or why I made the choices that produced that kind of lifestyle. I do now have friends in another part of the city which looks very warm and friendly to me and I will probably visit again – if not the family with whom I stayed I will certainly walk around the neighborhood and shop there from time to time, maybe my shell and shelter will change. My beautiful bedroom with king sized bed is not nearly as comfortable as that sofa on which I spent Christmas.
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2017
Hello Everybody,
I am brand new to this Community and so far, I love it.
So far, I have not taken advantage of much, but I thought I would write a blog, especially since I am just now beginning to understand what Bettina Network Hedge Schools and being a part of the Bettina Network Lifestyle Community means. I wasn’t sure when I first discovered all of you, but having stayed at a Hedge School, the concept and its execution are really fantastic.
First, I have to tell you that I am Jewish.
Why is that important for you to know?
Because I have always wanted to know what it was like being a part of a “Christian” Christmas and I think that is true of many of us. I was not looking to convert or anything else, just to satisfy my curiosity.
From the time I was a very small child, the trees, the toys in the decorated stores and all the rest made me wish to be a part of that – and so this year I took the plunge. As a start, I called Bettina Network to see what they offered – fully expecting them to hang-up on my request, but instead we made reservations. I’ve had three days of magic and I am leaving for home this morning with all of my questions answered and a new way of looking at life understanding others, but especially understanding how rich and full a word like “diversity” means and what it has to offer all of us. I don’t know how this sounds to many of you, but it is where I am at the moment and the reason for my writing this blog.
When I arrived at my Bettina Network Hedge School, I slept in a room with my own Christmas tree; celebrated around the tree in the family’s living room; went to Church with them on Christmas morning and to dinner as a part of the family on Christmas afternoon and into the late evening.
One of their traditions was to open one present around the tree on Christmas Eve before going to “midnight mass”. Not really midnight because it was more like 9:30pm. There was indeed one present for everyone around that tree. We had bubbly apple cider or champagne – your choice. I thought I would be the observer on the sidelines for this celebration and I was prepared to play that role because this was after all, not about my conversion nor inclusion, but to satisfy my curiosity. Imagine my surprise when my name was called and there was my present. What I especially liked, nothing was expensive – everything was made by someone in the family and mine was a mixture of real food as a lotion for my hands. I loved it.
We went to midnight mass and that was beautiful. I have heard and sung Christmas Carols over past years, but this was the first time I sang them in the context for which they were composed.
By the time we reached breakfast on the day after Christmas I faced the shock of separation I was so fully incorporated into this family and its Christmas celebration.
On Christmas morning – all the presents were opened. I didn’t get one because none of the adults exchanged gifts, the presents and opening of the presents was for those under 20 years old. I guess the older teenagers were included to help them gradually move from child to adult.
Christmas dinner was fantastic. Nothing really different, just lots of food with a beautifully decorated table. The big attraction was the community the dinner produced. It included a couple people who were homeless and had been picked up for the celebration. I don’t know how the family knew them or where they came from, but here we were and you couldn’t tell the difference between us. That huge economic gap didn’t show. That for me was the most amazing part of this Christmas celebration. Once in bed for the night, for reasons I don’t quite understand my thoughts went back to the homeless and I cried myself to sleep.
Having to go home has put me into grief. Not because I wanted to stay. Nor because I thought their life and religion and holiday celebration were better than mine, but because I realized how much we have all lost in the way we separate ourselves from one another on all levels. We have taken away from this world what is best about it and we only seem to be able to move further and further away from one another defining ourselves in such a way that we have to move away to maintain ourselves as ‘different from’, ‘better than’ and all those other descriptors that mean so much to this world and those of us who live in it.
I hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas. I certainly did and I am very grateful to Bettina Network Hedge Schools for being there so I could have the experience of a lifetime. I am delighted to be a member of your lifestyle community and look forward to my next foray into what you offer. No resorts – No running around to all the events I could afford – No pressing my nose against the glass wondering what its like on the other side – just a real experience with real people and I will never forget it.
Thanks folks! And may you all have a wonderful holiday, whatever it is you celebrate!
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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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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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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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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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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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Friday, September 22nd, 2017
Lessons learned at an estate sale:
It is time to take this health care debate beyond the claim that the Republicans are pushing this health care bill because it is actually a tax cut and was promised to their wealthier constituents. Or to Trump’s involvement with the claim that he is interested only because he wants to take down everything Obama has ever done.
Put that aside and let’s take a look at what really is at stake.
The Health Industry in America is one of the biggest rip-offs around. It is the quickest way to level the economic playing field and to force the middle-class American public to continue pushing that ball uphill to the place where the rich get richer and the poor just have a harder battle to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads.
That is a big claim, so let me give you an example of what happens today with health care where it is currently in these United States.
As many of you know, we manage estate sales. In the process, we interact with people who are in a change space – their lives are transitioning from one lifestyle to another. That can be a good or a bad change space.
What about the ones in a bad place?????
How does that happen.
We just did an estate sale for a family where the mother died after a several year bout with Alzheimers. The family did not institutionalize her, she stayed in her home and the family took turns taking care of her with the help of health care workers. Every once in a while, but not often there was the trip to the hospital and once a short stay in a nursing home.
Because she lived longer than expected and the insurance ran out to underwrite some of the costs for the health care workers – the family had to sign their mother’s home over to the state to pay for her health care. The family was forced to sell the home so the lien could be satisfied. The state collected on the lien they placed on the home when the mother died. It was not a large, very expensive home, but it is where this woman raised her children.
She was a woman who worked to maintain her home – who paid her mortgage – who thought she was leaving her children a small nest egg to help them through their old age and possible illnesses as they age. None of that happened because of the cost of health care and the inadequacy of the current state of our health insurance. She worked hard her entire life and at her death she left the state richer – not her children – by the confiscation of her home with its mortgage paid in full. Her health insurance ran out because she lived well into her 90’s.
I thought of those people who died in their 50’s having used very little of their health insurance benefits. What happened to the reason for insurance – which is to average out those two people so things work out in the end. Under our current system the state benefitted from both people – the one who died young left the state well off from having died, after having paid into health benefits without use and from the older woman who died after a very long life and a miserable disease to lose her home and its contents and everything else she had to the state.
Apparently, theis does work out, but not for John Q. Public.
The rabidness of the wealthier class and the strong push to get a health care bill passed which doesn’t cover a third of the population looks to me like pure greed. I couldn’t quite put my finger on why, I just know the look and feel of greed.
This is simply another way to control. oppress, keep poor a society whose people will need to work hard just to keep their heads above water – with endless benefits to the wealthy..
After the experience of that estate sale, I understood more fully what is at stake when we talk about universal health care. Or even trying to get rid of the little relief people received from the limited coverage of the Affordable Health Care Act. I didn’t understand when all of that lobbying for the ADA was going on why the strong fight and what was at stake that made so many try so desperately to make sure the Obama bill failed.
What was tragic about that sale – it is not the only one nor is it one of just a few – nor did it happen because of some unusual circumstances – it is a common occurrence under our present health care system. And that sale was one of the more civilized way we strip people of their life’s work. Many are losing everything through bankruptcy because of illnesses and bills that have to be paid to maintain a sick relative or yourself. Those instances are not as civilized as the estate sale. To work with a family facing bankruptcy and still not able to provide the kind of health care their family member needs is beyond tragic.
I lived through Hillary Clinton’s attempt at dealing with health care when she was First Lady. She said a lot – most of which was called lying. And she and her husband were shot down as harshly as possible over any and everything. I wondered then what was at stake – it was clearly huge.
After her effort failed we all got to see why she felt so strongly about health care. She was not lying. She was right on target when she predicted that our health care premiums were going to start sky rocketing – and sure enough, monthly health care bills for many of us doubled and tripled very quickly after that. It there became crystal clear what was so urgent about getting better health care for everyone.
Sometimes, all we need is a little actual experience to understand the dynamics and what is beneath the surface when something like this health care argument is going on.
You, wealthy American, may be fine and what you are doing may seem to be to your financial benefit. Let me give you a word of caution. Your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren are going to grow up in the society you create. While this benefits you, it just might give them a horrid life that they will owe to your greed, selfishness and inability to see beyond your own gold-plated nose.
And joining the frey is Bernie Sanders. The man who put out all kind of horrible images and names for Hillary Clinton. Some say he laid the ground work and fertilized the land so Trump could reap a great crop. Whether his actions were intentional or not, the end result was the same.
And so it continues.
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2017
Thank you for that analysis on Trump’s Presidency.
I have long thought that the American Public is being robbed of great treasures because our tax money has to be spent controlling a greedy, fascist and out of control corporate boardrooms.
If there were ethics in our business schools and ethics demanded of our business management people and our business leaders we would be way ahead and this country would be stellar amongst its peers.
When you add up the tax dollars spent on all the regulatory bodies we have to support it is obscene.
Trump wants to get rid of regulation, but he wants to get rid of it so the business/corporate people can have a broad avenue down which they can run with their greed and rob our citizens of everything they have ever had and ever will have.
Banks charging almost 30% interest on credit cards whether your credit is stellar or not, but just because after a period of time they have decreed that is what will happen is pure unadulterated greed.
Corporations ruining the environment is because of greed.
Discharging chemicals into our water supply – hiring the least qualified white male before the most qualified minority has been our history and when we put blockers to that in place the rhetoric became opposite to the reality.
Building luxury apartments using money of the least of our citizens and not allowing them to live in those apartments – and creating a “poor” door for them to enter when the ‘government’ decrees builders will have to put aside a percentage for those who can’t afford the obscene rents being charged, well what can be said about that.
The profits being made from those buildings is also beyond obscene and should be classified as criminal.
Using prisons to establish the new slavery in these United States and maintaining statues and memorials to honor the losers of the war waged to abolish slavery with those statues being paid for with tax payers money just to put and keep fear in the hearts of the least of these whose ancestors experienced the horror that the statues seeks to memorialize so they will be forever bound is to worship god – the small “g” god about which you write.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for having the courage to be a for profit business outlining to us the reality of what you see and we all experience. I will certainly patronize your business and I hope others will also. I realize some will not, but hopefully there are enough of us who know the truth of what you are saying to keep you going.
I was a customer of Bettina Network and I benefitted from the vast knowledge you folks have. I was able to side step a disaster because you were next to me. Those trying to take my small accumulated fortune were confounded. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
by Marceline Donaldson
We are once again in the cross hairs.
Donald Trump announced he would give an opinion on DACA on Tuesday (today). And, as of last night what has been given to the media is the announcement that he will end DACA with a six month time frame for folks to get ready for it – which means to get ready to be moved or to move out of the U. S. A.
When Trump announced he was thinking of ending this program from Obama’s time as president, it was clear his decision would end the program and it would be done in such a way as to attempt to obscure the facts of what he was announcing and give those who engage in denial of bigotry the opportunity to keep others from seeing what was actually about to happen until it was upon them. That fits with Trump’s history of such announcements and of his trying to wipe Obama’s presidency off the record and to continue and give another chapter to the “Birther Movement” which Trump carried on, funded and promoted for some eight plus years.
To know more about this lie and others Donald Trump has carried on see https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html?mcubz=1&_r=0
In addition to the “Birther” lies Donald Trump claimed ISIS was founded under Obama when in fact it was formed in 2004 – Obama was elected president in 2008. And the list goes on………..most recently the FBI came out with the findings from its latest investigation into Trump’s lies. Trump claimed Obama had his wires tapped in Trump Tower during, what Trump called, “the very sacred election process”. The FBI on Friday came out to say there was no evidence to back that up after their extensive investigation into what Trump claimed was a felony that Obama committed. And the list goes on…..
Most people are asking “why”? Those who have to ask such a question are some of the people who have internalized bigotry and have a response to and justification of bigotry, which is denial – white, black, green, yellow, pink people. Denial is one of the strongest tools which got Trump elected. How else does this United States elect a man who promoted the “birther lie” for so many years and which everyone knew he promoted – yet still voted for him.
We have had a long history of bigotry in the United States, which we deny. In fact, we have gone overseas and lectured to other countries about their violation of the human rights of their citizens when the record in the United States could equal if not top some of the human rights offenses found in the countries to whom we were lecturing and demanding that they change their ways of treating their minority groups.
Our record in these United States is so bad that we – in 2017 – have elected a KuKluxKlan Legatee as president of these United States. Donald J. Trump the son of Frank Trump who was arrested at a KKK rally – was he marching, clothed in white? He clearly had an ugly civil rights record as shown from the law suit filed against both Donald and Frank Trump for not allowing black families to live in their apartment buildings.
And now we have DACA – entering this KKK Legatee’s history as a part of the anti-immigration stances and decisions made by Donald Trump.
What is wrong with DACA? All the rationalizations put out by Trump and all of the counter rationalizations put out by others to attempt to show that the young people in DACA are gainfully employed and contributing members of this society – they all need to be put aside because the reason Trump wants to end DACA lies in the reason he does everything else as president. There are 1.7% whites in DACA. The rest are minorities – the “brown” people. Given that fact, there is no way those backing Trump and Trump himself are going to allow the DACA program to continue. Their goal, showing clearly from their actions, is to make these United States a whites only country. That is the base from which they come. Throw out as many “browns” as they can using immigration laws to move that goal to fruition and then move on to other ways to eliminate the rest.
Trump didn’t come lately to the bigotry he now displays. He has been a bigot generationally. He comes by his foulness legitimately from his father and probably way beyond that. Why else would he hide his German roots calling himself and his family Swedish? Well, today all of those lies are gone and they have been replaced by the Nazi flags; the recreation of Kristallnacht in Virginia and much more. Don’t know about Kristallnacht you can read about it here – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht and much more. Kristallnacht was the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust in Germany.
That was a clear message that night in Charlottesville, – the White Nationalists message that this was the beginning of their Final Solution and the beginning of the holocaust for the minorities in these United States, but no one seems to have either made the connection or had the guts to report on the two as parallel events. Maybe the real message of Charlottesville was blurred by the ridiculousness of making such a statement with one of the props being the “tiki torches”.
And after the “Tiki Torch” parade anouncing the beginnings of the United States version of the holocaust comes the announcement by Trump about DACA. Cancel DACA and you get rid of lots of “brown peoples” in one fell swoop.
The anti-Semitism is now showing increasingly. It seems to have become public when one of Trump’s supporters loudly asked why he “gave” his daughter to a Jew. From then on we are seeing an increasing amount of anti-Semitism around Trump.
General Kelly – the Chief of Staff – over whom many are raving about how he has ‘cleaned out’ the White House and what great things he can do – was head of Homeland Security. What did he do as Head? He quickly and very efficiently brought in the Muslim travel ban which the courts in this country closed down and stopped him and his boss Trump from removing tens of thousands of people and from denying those who could enter these United States from doing so – almost 100% “brown peoples”. He quickly and efficiently rounded up tens of thousands already in this country and had them ready to be deported until, once again, Kelly and his boss Trump were stopped by the courts.
Another lie being told is that Trump has accomplished nothing during his seven months in office.
Trump is right when he says he has accomplished an enormous amount. Not the traditional accomplishments through Congress, but he has changed this country in ways that show we are probably no longer a democracy or republic, but he and his White Supremacist his KKK his neo-Nazi’s are putting in place, structuring and institutionalizing, a fascist government which can be controlled and moved along to become a whites only country where the minorities are slaughtered – deported – generally destroyed. Those left over whites who are still fighting the Confederate war against the United States also join this group. Those whose ancestors, real and/or spiritual, used tax payer money to build statues and memorials to their heroes – “heroes” guilty of major treason against the United States, but for the pardon they received at the end of the war.
Robert E. Lee is the one they seem to most revere. He was also found guilty of treason against the United States. That is who they want to honor with all of those statues, even changing the name of an Episcopal Church, among others to remember the events and honor what took place during that war. Continuing the fight and continually looking for ways to destroy, demean, turn the “brown peoples” into a modern day replica of slaves – all of that has been going on in this country for decades. It has finally reached and is using the power of the Office of the president of the United States. That is success. After some 50 plus years as a Republican, I am no longer a part of this political group. I resigned when Trump as elected President. It was clear that there was no hope for change; that the history of Republicanism which helped free the slaves and which fought the Democrats when they were deep into the KKK and lyncings, and etc. was now the Political Party composed of those KKK, neo-Nazi’s, White Supremacists and more like them reaching into the office of the president to achieve their goals. I moved to declare myself an Independent hoping that, as my grandmother would say – this too shall pass.
It was said that President’s Trump’s decree against transgender people in these United States was just to deflect attention away from negatives about him in the press. He did nothing to back up his decree – until weeks later when he ordered the armed forces to investigate ways and to bring about the elimination of transgender people in the armed forces. Trump deflected ugly headlines away from himself with the announcement – as he has done continuously. Others deflected by claiming he was crazy and made such announcements with nothing in back of them. We get to see that both are working together to bring this country back to a time Germany has rejected and so have others in their countries. We are moving incredibly quickly to establish such an institutionalization of extreme bigotry in these United States. Our country today – after only seven months – is barely recognizable as “free”, working to move in the direction of equality and justice, etc.
What are you doing? Who was it that said “Evil survives because good people do nothing!” That is still just as true today. This is a time when you are either out there risking or sitting in your home tending your home fires until the knock comes on your door and you are ushered out into the middle of that holocaust being planned for all of us by the White Supremacists, the KKK, the neo-Nazi’s and all of their supporters either vocal or silently.
May God have mercy on all our souls!
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
By: Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. 
August 23, 2017
“It is through our struggles that we gain victories”
Stay Woke are words to remember from my best friend–the one and only Dick Gregory. Who in Black America (or America for that matter) hasn’t heard of Dick Gregory? I certainly had known him for years before he left us a few days ago. I didn’t meet him in person until 1986 when Congressman Mervyn Dymally invited him to come to my home state in Louisiana while I was a candidate for the U.S. Congress in the old Gillis Long district. Mr. Gregory spoke for a fundraising event for my campaign, and he didn’t ask for a dime–not even his airline ticket. That was impressive because others required all kinds of things, including what they wanted in their hotel rooms to drink while there!
After the campaign was over, I moved to Washington, DC, and one day out of the clear blue, he was stranded in Baltimore and needed to get back to DC that night. I guess my reputation for helping anybody I could was out there already and he had heard about it! He called me and asked if I would travel to Baltimore to get him; I did. We became friends on the ride back to DC, and that has never changed. He began bringing over veggie burgers and cooking them while inviting friends by to see how great they tasted. I met so many wonderful people through him.
He soon became known as my best friend and running buddy. We attended many events together, but the term running buddy came from the fact that we’d run on every track we could find, run through Rock Creek Park or get up at 2 am to test new health equipment about which somebody had told us. I wasn’t crazy about getting up that early in the morning, so I wound up buying a lot of the strange equipment so that we could use it anytime! Consequently, my home became filled with all kinds of exercise and health gadgets. He introduced me to just about every vitamin ever made. At that time, I had a health products business so it fit right in with what he was advocating.
He saw the thousands of books at my place, so he decided to add to my collection! Aside from introducing me to his huge required newspaper and magazine reading, he began buying two of every book he thought was worthy of reading. That was a lot! The reason for buying the second copy was for me to read to him–sometimes for hours where I literally had to prop my eyes open to finish books late at night.
The second reason was his frequent travels, and since I had every book he had, he could call me to jog his memory on certain information. Since he had no concept of time, he often called from other time zones in other states and countries so that I could get out of bed, go downstairs and find what he needed. He also wanted to see every movie of significance, so it was nothing for me to be picked up to hang out with him for two or three movies in a single night. I had my first arrest for a good cause with him. We were joined by George Clooney, Martin King, III, Ben Jealous and others. As a lawyer, I was called on frequently not to go to jail, but to bail him out of jail for protesting about various wrongs, so my arrest record for picketing is not nearly as long as his.
Ultimately, we began participating in so many marches and protests that we made signs for numerous causes and kept them in the trunk of my car so that we could stop and participate with others as we were passing by.
I will fast forward to 2011 where we witnessed the British Petroleum Gulf Oil Spill in Louisiana. Many under-served people were not getting paid for their losses, but big companies were. A group led by Dr. Arthur Rocker, met at my home and we discussed what we would do about it. situation. Immediately Dick and I agreed to join the cause. We made several trips to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas advising people of their rights to be made whole. We picketed BP. We went to London, England to try to seek relief for the under-served. We picketed the BP offices there while not even knowing the laws related to picketing.
We returned to the U.S., met with and picketed more BP offices in the U.S. At the time Dick left us on Saturday, BP has yet to pay poor and marginalized people. Despite the fact that it is impossible to fill his shoes, my last words to him were promises to carry on his legacy of service to our people and finish the projects we’d started together. Dr. Rocker and I will be returning to that Gulf Coast battlefield in a few days and we’ll carry Dick’s spirit with us.
In honor of all Dick Gregory has done for us, let us honor his memory by practicing some of the things he taught us. He wanted us to Stay Woke and not believe everything we see! He wanted us to know that all things are not what they appear to be. He wanted us to rid ourselves of anger, fear, hatred and jealousy. He wanted us to know that love is much more powerful than hate. I had the last word with him on last Saturday night after Lil and his family said their goodbyes. I could never fill his shoes because they are much too big, but I had a talk with him and promised to do my best to do the things I know he would do if he were here. That is how I will honor my friend, the one and only, Richard Claxton Gregory from whom I learned so much.
E. Faye Williams, MPA, PhD, D.Min, Esq.
President/CEO, National Congress of Black Women, Inc.
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017
by: Marceline Donaldson
I watched the president present himself in front of our military and other dignitaries last night and it was horrifying. Having just recovered from the thought of our military being replaced by a for profit civilian army headed by Eric Prince and paid billions of tax payers dollars to eventually move against those same American tax payers was revolting.
Donald Trump is playing this country and we are going along with the act.
Why did this come up so quickly? Why did Vice President Pence have to interrupt a foreign trip to come back to the U. S. to participate in this hastily put together act? What was this all about?
Trump scheduled a rally in Arizona for tonight. The response to that was electric and ugly. No one wanted him to come. The Governor of Arizona and other dignitaries asked him to stay home. The Governor announced he would not be in attendance. The rally, after all, was called to attempt to clean up the last mess which left Trump’s reputation in the gutter. Got to Arizona – strut around on stage – insult lots of people – glory in the cheers and support – and come home to create new ugliness. But one ugly mess is following too closely on another. Now Charlottesville has to be cleaned up so Trump can continue to crap on everyone as he attempts to glorify himself.
So what did he do? Facing another disgrace, he would never cancel the rally. Instead, he called Pence home from his trip abroad representing the U. S.; Called together the military brass for a hasty meeting to begin the made for television pseudo reality show; and presented himself in as grand a way as possible all within the space of about three days. Something to help him recover and gain some semblance of a facade back
So now he goes to Arizona wrapped in the American flag with Charlottesville behind him and with the military in front of and around him and now what does Arizona do. Trump is now free to pardon Sheriff Arbaio – whatever his name – and do whatever else he wants to do riding temporarily on the cloud of this military spectacle.
And America – you have been used badly.
Evil wraps itself in evil and then parades out to take credit for having had the last laugh. But, just a minute – the last act is God’s not Trump’s and it is going to be brutal for him. God has used Trump – before throwing him into that eternal fire? but don’t worry, he will have lots of company. Second going down behind him are those who claim to be ordained of God and followers of Trump. Just as their life and power seem to be unfolding in their favor and direction it will just as suddenly change course. Amen?
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Sunday, August 20th, 2017
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Thursday, July 6th, 2017
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Thursday, July 6th, 2017
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I love you folks. Thanks for the post on Trump needing to admit and go all the way with his transgender self.
Being called ‘crazy’ didn’t sit quite right with me, but your “oracle” hit the nail on the head.
Unfortunately, he is who we voted for and he is who he has been for decades. Knowing the man I have known about his secret for a very long time, but I didn’t dare bring it up. To cover, he has been stirring up everything and everybody so it has clearly been visible for anyone who pays attention.
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Thursday, February 8th, 2018Thank you for the forum.
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.
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