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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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The Bettina Oracle Speaks

Monday, February 5th, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First the Congress:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And then there is the Presidency:

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

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

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

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

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Many Responses to Trump Article!

Sunday, January 21st, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Editors Note:

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

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A Member of Bettina Network’s Lifestyle Community Writes…..

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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My Response! – No Names Please!

Friday, December 22nd, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The American Tax Cut

Thursday, December 21st, 2017

by: Marceline Donaldson

If ever I have seen a group of people who should not be in government, it was those folks standing on the steps of the Capital – built by slaves – awaiting the arrival of their “leader”.

It was like a Greek play!

Along comes four White MEN!

My first thought was that the earth was going to open in front of them and – oops! – there they go!

but that didn’t happen. They arrived in front of all those people who gave them such an ovation you would have thought they did something great. But then we traditionally also applaud and give awe to evil!

I’ve never felt more justified in something I did; some action I have taken then at that moment when I thought back and realized I left the Republican Party, I was not one of them. Today, I don’t understand why I stayed so long. Trying to get people to change – to recognize where they were going. I no longer had to hold up to them constantly their incredible history and from whence they had come. That was futile and energy I spent doing that could have been better placed. I put behind me the black man who headed the Republican Party in Louisiana – that is history and he would have changed parties along with me, if he were still alive. I wondered, if when Strom Thurmond changed parties to become a Republican this was his vision? No – couldn’t have been because his reality was two families, one black and one white with his black wife having produced a black child with whom he had a relationship and who he educated. However, with this display he, Nixon, Regan and all those others who helped bring us to this moment must be in great pain as this result from their life on earth turns up the heat they are experiencing in hell!

The applause was bad enough, but what came after was like watching a satire deserving of Saturday Night fame.

I watched White Men make total fun of their leader as they took the microphone, one after the other, and started out with such exaggerated, extravagant praise. I wondered how they were able to deliver their acolades without falling down laughing right on the steps. From watching them they were clearly poking the bear and enjoying their “secret joke” at his expense. And ‘the bear’ probably was totally unaware of where they were really coming from.

When one called Trump the best president who ever existed as head of these United States I knew, without a doubt, that this was a group of people making fun of their leader. My eyes widened and it became especially the height of satire when a woman took the microphone to do the same thing. I wondered if she had ever been sexually assaulted! And was she now holding up on a pedestal one of her assaulters in front of whom she was still fearful! But her eyes danced so she must be one of the satirists.

such an incredible few minutes.

Like watching a bad movie! But this was real life and these were real people! These are people others elected to be their ‘leaders’. Hope that changes. We really need to take a closer look at those for whom we cast our votes. We need to take our votes more seriously because those elected can and have done much damage. We need to look pass the manipulations, the lies, the greed, – and yes, the word we don’t think applies to politicians – the evil created when we elect people who lie, cheat, steal, obfuscate. and do whatever to benefit personally from the post to which they are elected. These folks are SAD! Tragic! Self-absorbed! Turned into themselves to work for their own destruction! etc. etc. etc.

No wonder so many in this society are on drugs. One probably has to be to take this. Now where did I put my doctor prescribed pills…………….

MUELLER – WHAT IS TAKING YOU SO LONG!

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Rummagings About Morality

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Trump – Peter Thiel – Russia – anymore?

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017

I read all of your articles.

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

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

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

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

What are Peter Thiel’s Russian connections?

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

Is there a common thread here?

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

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Response to “Edmund Petus Bridge”

Sunday, November 19th, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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Back to the Edmund Petus Bridge

Saturday, November 18th, 2017

by Marceline Donaldson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you sow the wind – you reap the whirlwind.

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

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

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

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

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Another Response to Trump

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

Wow! I was glad to see the article by “A Paranoid Reader”. You can call the reader paranoid, but when I heard about the truck killing all of those people in New York, my first thought is that it was Trump behind that tragedy.

Call it what you may, but I believe that truck incident was done by Trump – his followers – or others in the Trump camp and that thought had popped into my head before I read you article by “A Paranoid Reader” and I am not prone to conspiracy theories. It certainly distracted from some serious stuff.

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From a Paranoid Reader

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Trump and Kelly – Resign!

Friday, October 20th, 2017

The Manchurian candidate has become the Manchurian president.

Trump has spent his presidency causing chaos, confusion and more. Isn’t that what Russia would have wanted in exchange for helping Trump gain the presidency? Donald Trump, now President Trump has not missed a time of sowing the wind so we could reap the whirlwind. Does he do this in the expectation that when his tenure as president is over Russia and its friends will reward him with a Trump Tower in Moscow, to be the largest such complex in the world? Isn’ that the kind of goal Trump would relish and fight to achieve? With an ethical standard that has no traditional right or wrong, his sense and practice of ethics is relative to what is happening immediately in front of him with right replaced with what benefits Donald Trump and wrong replaced with that from which Donald Trump does not stand to gain, Spending time as President of these United States – doing Putin’s bidding – or the bidding of whoever is his ‘handler’ is the place where Trump will spend his time and energy. He is doing an incredible job fulfilling his role as ruiner of America – the Manchurian President. A side job he has probably decided on for himself is the job of lining his pockets with as much as he can before he is out as president.

General John Kelly, or rather Mr. John Kelly (since he is today a civilian and not a General) – the Chief of Staff – whose unvarnished bigotry was on full display during his appearance in the briefing room – you need to resign before your very soul is destroyed. Your hypocrisy and bigotry is flying all over the world for all to see.

It was clear during Mr. John Kelly’s appearance yesterday, in the briefing room, to defend his boss, that he and his boss have a lot in common. Kelly clearly supported his boss – voted for him? – is very much like him when he isn’t hiding behind the veneer that the training he received during his tenure in the armed forces allowed him to learn about and use. John Kelly is definitely not the adult in the day care center, but a bigot working amongst other bigots. In such a circumstance it is very easy to lose your ethical center and, if he ever had one, it is now clearly missing.

Many things were uncovered during Kelly’s appearance in the White House Briefing Room and many things have been confirmed. When Donald Trump took office as president, ‘GENERAL’ John Kelly was named head of Homeland Security. That department rolled out the first Muslim Travel Ban in record time. It was brutal and caused incredible grief, suffering and casually vicious evil for tens of thousands of people. That was the work of Mr. John Kelly. The armed forces gave him the tools he needed and he used them to act out and attempt to put into the United States system of government a travel ban which was bigoted and a part of Donald Trump’s plan – which Kelly agreed with – to “Make America White and Christian Again”. What Kelly does not realize is that once his ability to contribute is over, and he has done what he could to help Trump and others re-establish bigotry in these United States, he will clearly be shown that the group discriminated against includes Catholics.

It was an incredible experience to watch this former United States General stand in the briefing room and make a fool of himself because his bigotry led him to that place and time. Kelly outlined his bigotry for all of us without even being conscious of how he was exposing himself. He outlined for all of us his bigotry and the incredibly flawed and romanticized view he holds of the United States. His description is a romanticized version of the bigotry which existed in these United States as he was growing up and in many places still does.

This view is palatable if one takes John Kelly’s description and ignores the reality of a country that was racist, sexist, violent against minorities – especially in the Brighton/Greater Boston area during that time, gave great privilege to white males with Northern European ancestry and – especially during the time John Kelly describes – was particularly bigoted against the Irish. Irish from Brighton, MA. would have experienced that bigotry and apparently John Kelly escaped the reality of his life growing up and taking on the identify society tried to give him by putting in place this “better than” picture and now describes to us, with all the rhetoric of the White Supremacist with whom he clearly identifies. a world that did not exist except in the corner of his mind which he uses to justify himself and identify himself as better than and more equal than….

John Kelly took his place on the platform with his tikki torch just as others did in Charlottesville, VA. when they were out marching around and doing damage to others imitating Hitler and Nazi Germany’s Krystallnacht.

Kelly talked about how wonderful this country used to be. Woman were honored; churches were filled; etc. etc. Kelly had no consciousness that he was spouting the worst kind of racism and sexism. From Trump, women are sluts and objects for sexual abuse and misuse. For Kelly they are honored on pedestals way away from the real world and there they should stay. In that vein, as we turn the armed forces into a “sacred space”, we need to remember that sexual abuse, rape, and all the rest which Trump brags about doing, was very prevalent in the armed forces. The fight to reduce what was wide spread and so accepted that a woman’s career in the armed forces was just about over if she brought formal charges against anyone after she was sexually abused or raped or… is something that happened during Kelly’s active tenure in the armed forces. I don’t see John Kelly’s name amongst any of those who fought against those practices.

While Kelly tried to be the “General” during his time in the White House Briefing Room, misusing his title in the service of someone whose bigotry got him into the non-sacred space he was now occupying, Kelly’s common ground with Donald Trump kept slipping out. Calling Congresswoman Wilson an “Empty Barrel”, among other epithets, was clearly in the mould of his boss. Kelly was arrogant enough to attempt to reduce a Black Woman, whose life shows her care and work for others and the struggle that she has been through because of how Kelly’s racism and sexism contributed to making her life significantly harder, he tried to reduce her the exact same way his boss would have, with the epithet of “Empty Barrel” and a string of lies. Kelly’s mental illness was on full display. The kind where he can do and say and the person he is doing and saying about has no ability to respond. His is the word that will stand – OR – does Trump have something on Kelly that forced him into that position? It seems to me that is the case with several people – in Congress, on his staff, etc.

Kelly showed his inability to see or participate in any kind of equality when he claimed to be “stunned” that Congresswoman Wilson was listening in on such a sacred conversation. The fact that the conversation was taking place in an automobile and the conversation was clearly on speaker phone to which anyone in the car would hear and could listen, didn’t come into his calculations. Neither did the fact that he and others were listening in on such a “sacred conversation” as well. They were doing the right thing that they were qualified and should be doing. With the exact same actions Congresswoman Wilson was somehow violating some code of privacy – the White’s listening were the privileged deified to do so by White Supremacy and the Black Congresswoman and others in the car not allowed to violate that “sacred space.”

Most Blacks can understand that assumption since a part of racism is cornering a Black into a space where no one else exists and oppressing them in such a way that their psychic responds to the hurt so inflicted and ‘puts them in their place’, but they cannot object nor bring that oppression public with any credibility. A strange satisfaction racists have gotten for generations. A racist act Donald Trump performs on a daily basis in almost all of his acts and conversations and now we have seen that his Chief of Staff does also.

President Trump is accustomed to demeaning minorities. He arrogates that right to himself and has apparently done so throughout his life. It was his birthright given to him by his father, who was involved enough with the Ku Klux Klan to have been arrested as one of them at one of their rallies. His birthright from the way his father trained him to insure that the buildings they built were not to be lived in by Black families. We know that from the civil rights law suits filed against them by the federal government probably because they accomplished this discrimination and bigotry using federal funds and violating United States laws. Habits instilled from childhood, which Donald Trump to this day apparently still follows as normal and the way things should be if America is to be great again. If America’s greatness is to be defined as the racism, sexism, violence against women and others, etc. etc. that are a part of America’s history, we are sadly going into the dustbin of history not into greatness. We will be there in good company with Putin in the adjoining dustbin.

Clearly, from General Kelly’s presentation, not only the Bannonites carry tikki torches for this president, but so do his ‘generals’ The way this administration is mirroring Nazi Germany is incredible and moving very fast down the road as they take into the Trump administration the equivalent kind of who helped Germany become the country of extreme bigotry under Hitler’s leadership.

In the United States, we have never had so many “General’s” in an administration before. We have gone against what we have outlined as not permissible in a democracy to bring in Trump’s generals. To have supported the election of Trump for president the first requirement these generals would have needed was for Trump and his people to see the familiar bigotry in their lives and belief systems. Kelly has clearly outlined and shown the rest of us why he qualified to be Chief of Staff.

After that display in the White House Briefing Room and his rolling out a program (the Muslim Travel Ban) which violated the Constitution of the United States and many other such slights and crossing the road from democracy to the Russianization of the United States that Trump seems dedicated to bringing in, Kelly has shown himself qualified to work for Trump.

It is time for’ General’ John Kelly to resign as Chief of Staff and remove himself to a retirement community of all White, all Catholic Christians where he will be most comfortable.

Having lived a long life and having seen what it was like to have your ancestral roots in Ireland, it is amazing that General John Kelly could say the things he said in that WH Briefing Room. I grew up where Irish, Africans and Native Americans lived, worked, married, raised children together. They did that because they were this country’s outcast. “No Irish Need Apply.” That is also John Kelly’s world before he replaced his past history with this clearly unreal and very racist storyline.

Where General John Kelly was raised, Irish were the servants because no other jobs were available. They scrubbed floors, cleaned toilets, demeaned themselves for the WASPS for whom they worked to be able to put food on the table.

Mt great-great grandfather was Irish and his family came to this country settling on a farm in Ohio and then moving to Illinois before he moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. My great-great grandfather Adams married my great-great grandmother – a Choctaw Indian who was on the Trail of Tears, forced to walk from Alabama to the middle of the country with no food, no clothes to protect from the weather, no place to sleep except wherever the group being pushed along by the U. S. Federal army – ordered by their generals to keep these people moving along so White Christian ‘Americans’ could have the land on which they lived and worked for generations. John Kelly’s ancestors were not a straight line down from those Generals, they were a straight line down from the Irish, Africans and Native Americans who tried to support one another during that time frame because the bigotry was so strong and their lives were considered less than nothing, except when needed to do someone else’s dirty work.

General Kelly needs to remember his history and the history of those who went before. Having been raised in Brighton, MA. – now owned by Harvard University – was not the best of upbringings. One ‘out’ he had in this country was to join the armed forces, which he apparently took. But he also developed a “better than” attitude adding that to his identity. “General” wasn’t enough. The ability to oppress via “White Supremacy” had to be added to his belief system as the ground under John Kelly to make him feel adequate to his life.

Donald Trump needs to resign along with John Kelly, especially when it will be discovered that the two of them caused the death of the four special forces men who gave their lives for what the men thought was a good cause – defending their country. Trump and Kelly caused their death by doing their best to demean their country and turn it into a bigoted space in this world – sending the likes of those four who died into harms’ way to justify and bring about Kelly and Trump’s need to be better than – their need to be a part of a system of government for which your skin color, hair and religion determine your place in that system of government. They are working hard to make sure democracy is stopped and along with Vladimir Putin is replaced with a system of government which oppresses its people and forces them to work while the governmental people at the top reap the benefits of their toil.

The movement today is to keep America White and Christian. But “white” is relative. Only in America are people classified as “white”. In Europe they are French, English, Scandinavian, etc. “Race” is an ungodly invention, which happened in America to justify slavery so Christians could go to Church on Sundays. Color goes only skin deep and probably doesn’t go all the way through the skin. Instead of classifying people by their hair, color, etc. try classifying them by their character, achievements on behalf of others, etc. Our entire U. S. government would have to change if that were to happen. Our current governmental leaders lie, cheat, steal, sexually abuse, etc. etc.

Weinstein is being excoriated for his alleged sexual abuse. Trump was elected president in spite of all that was alleged against him and in spite of his admitting to and bragging about sexual abuse, but he was rewarded by being elected president.

Trump whipped up the crowds at his rallies into a bloodlust group of people screaming for Hillary Clinton to be jailed – about having her killed – about doing violence to others for which he, Trump, would pay the legal fees for those taking such actions. A large group against one woman who Trump felt was becoming too powerful and certainly not reflecting her female stereotype. Trump and his campaign brought violence against women out from behind the private places where it usually happens into the bright sunlight with people owning and bragging about their bigotry. He brought the KKK out from behind their white robes and pointy hats. He made being and admitting to Nazism an OK thing to do. He is responsible for bringing all of the symbols and institutions of Nazism into public view in this country. He has made it acceptable.

Donald Trump and the way he is ‘governing’ looks as though his strongest goal is to fill his coffers with the United States gold and to add to it as much of the world’s gold as he can manage to pilfer.

John Kelly looks like the assistant who is going to destroy the last bits of his character and end his life as the person who most ably assisted Donald Trump in that mission. How he is characterized today by those having to live and work around him is not how he will be characterized when the history of his life is written by others once he has passed out of power and can no longer negatively affect those who speak truth.

Some stray questions!

Congresswoman Wilson was threatened after she spoke out about Trump’s telephone call to the point where her office felt its security threatened and reported the threats. At the same time, Trump says he refused to answer reporters questions about the incident until Congresswoman Wilson repeated what she said about him and the telephone call. From watching him and hearing his comments, it was clear to me that he expected her to recant what she said. That sounds to me like a definite threat someone would make who knew about and could make happen the violence threatened against the Congresswoman.

Trump and Kelly – RESIGN!

Trump has established temporary Concentration Camps – using disasters which create extreme pain and suffering to create these CCamps through his and his staff’s refusal to act in any kind of a timely fashion. Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are two examples. He has to finally come around to acting somewhat positively, but he does not do so until much damage has been done and the “brown people” involved have been pushed decades behind everyone else. Inviting the Governor of Puerto Rico to Washington, D. C. and trash talking about the corruption happening in Puerto Rico around the help they are receiving from the United States, while at the same time praising the hard work and honesty of the people in Texas is beyond one’s ability to imagine that a President of these United States would so engage in that kind of talk and actions.

Trump and Kelly are using disasters and travel bans as one way to attempt to get rid of the fact that most of the people in these United States, today, are minorities and their numbers are growing. Another way is the various Muslim ban’s Trump and Kelly have brought into being. Be particularly aggressive in throwing non-white, non-Christians out of these United States to attempt to continue the supremacy of White Christians so this country can remain bigoted against minorities and women. It was effective during Katrina.

New Orleans was reduced from over 70% Black to some 50% Black and from overwhelmingly Democratic to Republicans taking over. What an example for Trump to follow! And, in the process, Trump is becoming more outwardly and publicly bigoted in everything he does and says. When the story of what happened in Niger is finally revealed – even if that means we have to wait for another regime to tell the truth – will it show that Trump and Kelly caused the deaths of those four young people through their bigotry having added Chad to the list of countries whose people are not allowed into these United States – among other things they have done, some even more direct to the cause of those deaths?

Trump and Kelly – RESIGN! You are a disgrace to this country.

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Puerto Rico – CCamp 2017 style

Friday, September 29th, 2017

The story of the Trump Administration and Donald Trump continues to unfold and as it does, the fascism and the many ways black, brown, yellow, red, purple people are negatively affected by this administration continues non-stop. Trump has not missed one way of doing everything he could do to diminish, degrade, take away the rights of U. S. Citizens under the Constitution, respond only to those who are white – northern european – and hiding that fact only loosely under specious rhetoric.

The NFL debacle – was that to distract and take people’s attention away from what the administration was going to do and was in the process of doing to American citizens in Puerto Rico – the Brown people?

We have a president who actively pushes and demands that American citizens, especially those ‘in charge’ – violate the U. S. Constitution in the way they live, conduct business and interact with those “under” them. He did it with the Muslim ban – with the NFL – and now with Puerto Rico in the way he has handled the response to the tragedy under which they are living. As much as he could use his office to make the lives of minorities horrifically worse he has not missed.

With the NFL the president has done much tweeting and in other ways making demands that the ‘owners’ of the team – the owners of the franchises – refuse their people their constitutional rights and if they demand and move ahead as though they are full citizens of this country living under the U. S. Constitution with their rights under that Constitution fully respected then the U. S. President wants them fired and their personhood diminished in the process.

The president of the United States has done almost no tweeting – especially when compared to what he does regarding other issues – about the situation in Puerto Rico. The tweeting he has done about Puerto Rico has clearly uncovered his goal – which is to do as little as possible and to lead the American people into a space of doing very little for those others.

There are many ways to get the results you need from Concentration Camps and in this case the storms have produced an incredible time and way for the Trump administration to horribly oppress a group of brown people who the Nazi’s w0uld have sent to Concentration Camps. Only Trump’s CCamps are 2017 style. You can’t, in 2017, get rid of minorities the way Hitler did – one has to be imaginative about it and Donald Trump has been unbelievably visionary about how to recreate CCamps doing as much damage to minorities as possible while living to do the same for another day. Do the deed and don’t just deny, but talk about what a fantastic job you are doing for the brown people. Talk about how much aid you are giving them. And then throw in quietly, you can’t do much because they don’t have the money to pay for their aid – and even more quietly engage in foot dragging to make sure the lives of the brown people in and around Puerto Rico takes the largest toll possible so the diminishment and elimination of the minorities of this world takes place in Trump time with Trump’s denial, but continuation of his actions as he moves on to the next event which will allow him to so eliminate minorities.

With General Kelly at his right hand it is not possible for Donald Trump to give any credible reason for waiting over 8 days to waive the Jones Act and on and on and on it goes. Either General Kelly is complicit in this 2017 time of using what’s at hand to attempt to destroy – or at the very least – substantially handicap, oppress, keep in as bad conditions as possible so as many die as possible or if he is not complicit, he is continuing as Trump’s Chief of Staff and not giving Trump the benefit of his knowledge and experience from his military training and wisdom; his time spent as head of Homeland Security when he very efficiently brought in the Muslim ban or ?

What more is there to be said? Keep foreign governments from coming to the aid of Puerto Rico by keeping the Jones Act in place. Keep the Puerto Ricans in painful, disease inducing, death inducing, and in a place where they are starving with very little to no health helping possibilities and on and on goes the list.

Playing to his base again? Fading into the woodwork are the Fascists, the KKK, the White Supremacist, the Mafia – all who are now clear believers in the fact that Donald Trump is on their side, doing what they would do and making sure he puts a good face on what he is doing so he can continue onto the next tragedy, catastrophe, demonstration and more that he can use to push the goals of his base – their racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-semitic and more goals to change this country and move on to work with his friends around the globe to indeed change the world.

Change this world how? Make the the rulers of this world and those who benefit from the life of others white again.

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Walls – like the one around the Polish Ghetto!

Friday, September 22nd, 2017

A reader responds:

“As I read the blog on “Trump – an aspiring American Oligarch”, my mind went back in history to the time of Hitler when a wall was built around the Jewish Ghetto in Poland. Before that, Jews were welcomed in Poland and things like Jewish cuisine and culture and Polish cuisine and culture melded. And then along came Nazism and broke that up – it was too much and might lead to some kind of equality across Europe. That could not be allowed to happen.

What is there about walls and despots? They love to “wall” people in and then destroy them – either wholesale as Hitler did or a few at a time the way it happened between East and West Germany.

Walls must equal power, control and total oppression – or a distraction to what else the totalitarians are doing. And how does this fit with America and democracy?”

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Trump – an aspiring American Oligarch

Friday, September 15th, 2017

WE EITHER LEARN FROM HISTORY OR WE ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT –

One example in progress –

Ronald Reagan – American President – Republican

Went to Germany and gave a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany in 1987 in which he said “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” The wall was built by the Communists in August, 1961. It was a twelve foot concrete wall which surrounded West Berlin symbolizing Russia and the United States’ fight for dominance. The pain, injustice and agony that thousands of people suffered because this wall was built and all that happened subsequent to its construction ruined human lives and resulted in many human deaths – some unbelievably vicious – all this was gathered up into that speech by President Reagan.

Two years later East Germans issued a decree for the gate to be opened, allowing people to travel freely. By the end of 1990, when Communism in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union collapsed, the wall was torn down altogether.

Donald J. Trump – American President – Republican

Friend of Putin, who was a KGB person during that period of time, Mr. Trump has declared “We shall build a wall separating Mexico from the United States and Mexico is going to pay for the wall.” In other words he was going to force Mexico to pay for something which would be a reflection and re-enactment of what happened historically in Germany from 1961 on. The cost the Soviet Union exacted from those in Germany, on both sides of the wall, will parallel and is the pattern for the cost to Mexico and the United States if and when Donald Trump is able to build his much beloved wall.

What would Donald J. Trump get out of such an act? It seems to us it would move him along in his apparent quest to become like the Russian Oligarchs. His natural character – which is to abuse, insult, malign and generally take advantage of those under him, especially those oppressed – gives him the ability to see how he could benefit from such a construction project. We only see that dimly, Trump sees such clearer and has goals set in that direction.

The building of the wall would be Trump’s gift to his followers, – the KKK, the White Nationalists, the Neo-Nazi’s and all of the other White Supremacist groups, many of whom voted for him because they saw in this offering the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for them. They would be on their way to replicating in the United States what the Nazi’s created in Germany – the ovens, the concentration camps, etc. – the dream possibility that has periodically popped up in these United States over the decades and the generations. Trump’s followers, those who voted for him in public or in secret, would be relieved of their nightmare that these United States would/could soon become a country with a majority of ‘brown people’ and then where would they be. And, let’s make no mistake about the fact that bigotry characterizes each and every one of Trump’s voters and supporters.

It also seems to us that Donald J. Trump was born in the wrong country. He has been a public figure who has called out many is this country who are really American Nazi’s, but who have been living under a different flag and putting forth publicly a different image, a different persona. With Trump as president they are now able to drop the pretense and show who they really are and the life they would prefer to lead and that certainly is not one under a democratic form of government.

We see Donald Trump moving to form the American Nazi Party. It may be established under a different name, but that is what it will be. In all the demonstrations they originated and in which they participated the KKK has dropped the white uniform and they have stopped covering their faces. That alone says they see a changed world – one in which they no longer have to hide – and they owe that to this new American President.

Trump would like to lead us into a totalitarian world where he is in complete control. To quote Ronald Reagan – “The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.”

To further quote Reagan “In this age of redoubled economic growth, of information and innovation, the Soviet Union faces a choice: It must make fundamental changes, or it will become obsolete.”

Clearly, to all of us, the Soviet Union has made the choice to become obsolete and in making and carrying out that choice it moved from being the Soviet Union to becoming just Russia. It has brought Donald Trump into its sphere of largesse and influence to make sure the United States goes along with its choice and also becomes obsolete. The Soviet Union/Russia, even though it is the smaller country with the dramatically smaller economy – has impressed this new United States president with its power and influence and has brought him into a place where he seems to be more interested in learning from Putin instead of from United States mentors and therefore he seems more interested in seeing that the United States becomes a society ruled by Russian-type Oligarchs, a few individuals who have endless amounts of money and power.

The United States has its American Oligarchs, who have enormous amounts of money and wield substantial power, until now have been in the shadows. With the arrival of Trump on the political stage, they can come out and move along unbridling their quest for and accumulation of wealth and power.

The Soviet Union, which tasted a bit of freedom with the tearing down of the wall; with the ascendancy of Gorbachev; with the opening of the country to a freer way to live; was recaptured by Putin and brought smaller, lower and with much less power as it moved into a more controlled and less democratic place. Its Oligarch’s, however, have thrived and become wealthy beyond the comprehension of most of us and with enough power to bring about changes in their country and economy which continues to benefit them at the expense of their citizenry.

To keep it under such control, it seems to us that Putin has set himself the task of eliminating democracy world-wide so it does not threaten his control and putting in its place world-wide the kind of controlled country he has set about creating in Russia. As the Soviet Union moved to become Russia – and not to its liking – so the United States, following the path of that country will move to become less democratic, more abusive and totally undermining of its own citizens. That small group – called Oligarch’s, American Oligarchs, will continue to grow in wealth, prosperity and control.

As American Oligarchs gain even more assets, more money, more power, we will notice in these United States that the homeless population will continue to grow at a much more rapid pace than it has in the recent past.

That is how the system works

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From a Bettina Oracle Reader

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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An Open Letter to Our Leaders!

Sunday, August 20th, 2017

From: Harold E. Doley, Jr.

To: President Donald J. Trump:

Vice President Michael R. Pence:

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell:

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan:

Congressman Cedric Richmond:

“Robert E. Lee stated that he would not be buried in his Confederate States of America (CSA) uniform because that act would be seditious. At Lee’s funeral in 1870, no former soldiers or participants marching in his funeral cortege were allowed to wear CSA uniforms.

There is a simple remedy for our present state of affairs regarding monuments to former Confederate generals and the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, it is to go to the U.S. Constitution.

Section 110 of Article III addresses treason and sedition. Treason and sedition are federal law/Constitution violations. To support the Confederacy and its symbols is to be a traitor of the United States in fact and in spirit.

Section 110 of Article III states: “Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open Court. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason.” Thatpower of punishing the crime of treason is exclusive in Congress; and the trail of the offense belongs exclusively to the Federal tribunals.

In 1790, the Congress of the United States enacted that: “If any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy war against them, or shall adhere to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States, or elsewhere, and shall be thereof convicted on confession in open Court, or on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act of treason…”

Our history books have incorrectly labeled the war between the states as a Civil War, which is a misnomer. What occurred was a group of states succeeding from the Union and creating the Confederate States of America and attacking the United States of America. This was a war of secession. If it were a civil war, which is an attempt to change the government, that would have been a revolution.

We laud Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans and we thank Wynton Marsalis for initiating the removal of the monuments in New Orleans. It is ironic that the erection of statues and the naming of boulevards and schools for Confederate soldiers and cabinet members of the CSA is a romantic notion. There was not one bullet fired or cannonball shot in New Orleans during the Civil War. In 1862, Admiral Farragut disembarked from the USS Hartford at the Port of New Orleans, walked to City Hall and told Mayor John T. Monroe of New Orleans, either you surrender or we will level the French Quarter. Confederate General Mansfield Lovell advised Mayor John Monroe that opposing the Union would be futile. New Orleans, the largest Confederate city, was captured without conflict. Therefore, the monuments and other namings in New Orleans do not have any historic relevance whatsoever. Again, just romanticization. Likewise, members of the white supremacy groups, Neo-Nazis and KKK, are overwhelmingly not descendants of those Southerners that fought in the army of the Confederate States of America. For those to state that they have a kindred spirit with the Confederacy is a fantasy. Those Americans aligned with these groups which are not based in historical connections should just be bold enough to state that they are racist, anti-Semites, and white supremacists, rather than attempt to distort that which motivates them.

America’s history is complicated. My great-great-great Aunt Sarah Knox Taylor, was married to Jefferson Davis. As an American of African ancestry and a descendent of the Mayflower (even though I cannot become a member the Mayflower Society because I fail to have one or two documents that would complete the link) my DNA confirms that lineage. Last August, when David Duke was running for the U.S. Senate from the State of Louisiana, I challenged him publicly to take a DNA test to which he did respond on his web site. I do not think, after looking at David Duke’s history, that he is part African-American, but I do think that he may be part Jewish.

We, as Americans and our elected officials, must embrace the Constitution of the United States that was penned by our Founding Fathers, who themselves were flawed just as is our Constitution. However, the document addresses the issues that are tearing us apart today and it gives us the solution.

The President and Congress should focus on the economy, tax reform, the budget, foreign affairs, infrastructure, and running the government for the benefit of all Americans whom they were duly elected to serve.

Harold E. Doley, Jr.

U.S. Citizen”

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Donald Trump = U. S. Terrorist

Sunday, August 13th, 2017

It is now conclusively proven – Trump is a terrorist. This weekend broadcast that for the world to see. He is the Hitler of this ‘Alt-Right’ movement.

We now also know where the Nazi’s went when they were thrown out of Germany. Their heirs and progeny are carrying on their mission in the United States.

What an optic for the young people in this country. When those from about 15 years of age and under see what is happening day to day what is it they see? What lessons are our children learning? Well – for starters – when they were born and came to even a small awareness of being a part of these United States, they saw the country with a president who was African American and he governed with elegance, style and caring.

And then came an election when Barack Obama could no longer run for president, having served two terms, a new president was elected and this time he is white. Our children see and are learning that maybe a white man for president of these United States is not such a good thing. He is crude – limited in intelligence – substitutes an evil shrewdness for that lack – brings to power with him in his administration the neo-Nazi’s, the racists, the white nationalists, etc. And they destroy the country that has been built with the blood sweat and tears of many. Mostly, he is a man walking in Roy Cohn’s shoes and finding that even the shoes of his mentor are too big for him.

The terror, the Crystal Nacht re-enactment, the Nazi’s reborn and demonstrating their furiousness at the justice, equality, caring that has come into these United States since they last tried to rule the world rejoice about one thing – they celebrate their father- Donald Trump – who has given them new life and the space to cultivate and spread their evil across the United States and eventually across the world. Is that why his Congress has only a 15% approval rating? Because they are his choir – closest to his throne and bent on keeping him in power so they can benefit from the crumbs thrown their way?

This father of the reborn Nazi’s, White Nationalists, KKK and others of the same ilk is in his death throes knowing his time in power is very limited and knowing very well that he will unceremoniously be removed for his prior sins in a very short time, is leaving office with as much “fire and fury” as he and his can muster. He is leaving office with a massive coming together of those who supported his election to the presidency as he and his underlings could muster. He is treating the rest of us to a bit of theatre such as the world has never seen before.

In other places around the world, his cousins, who tried to stage such a Nazi comeback, have been rebuffed by their citizens. In these United States, however, that has not been true. We have welcomed and lifted up the neo-Nazi’s in the name of the Republic. We have been very slow to reject and move out someone with his followers who have been and are still threatening the power and justice of these United States. Somehow, many seem to believe their white privilege will be maintained by this group and if they just keep quiet they will also benefit and live to take over as the saner side.

The slogans being thrown around this weekend in Charlottesville are interesting and probably quite true. The identifier slogan _Blood and Soil_ hanging out there to make sure you recognize who they are and from whence they have come – their history and ancestors.

Another which rang quite true – “No Jew will replace” – with variations on that slogan was one we heard chanted frequently. Also quite true. They have totally closed the door to make sure Jesus, a Jew, would not be able to come anyplace near where they are standing and holding ground. Even Donald Trump has dropped the act of pretending to be a follower of Jesus.

It has become quite clear that while the KKK tried to imitate and thereby gain entrance into parts of a believing and faith filled group such as Christians when they started with their mis-use and abuse of the symbol of the cross, this time around they have apparently thrown out the cross and come out into the sunshine and fresh air with their filth. They apparently don’t realize that fresh air and sunshine is exactly what will destroy them and their followers. “No Jews..” is a very accurate statement for them to make. Jesus was many things, but by birth and life and his teachings he was most definitely a Jew.

This has been a week-end that will go down in history. With the interpretation of historians 20 years from now we can only guess how the United States will fare under their pen.

What led to this?

One striking thing is the reason the Nazi group and its followers gave for organizing this week-end. To prevent the removal of a Confederate Memorial Statue.

Take a look at Germany after the war and how it conducted itself trying to restore its country and its people back to some kind of normalcy – which means respect for others – equality – justice.

One thing they did not do was to allow statues, memorials, and other remembrances of the Holocaust to happen. You will not find bronze statues of Hitler and his Lieutenants anyplace in Germany. You also could not find copies of “Mein Kampf”. They did everything they could to wipe the slate and start down another path. The memorials you will find, the ceremonies of which you could be a part are for the victims, not the perpetrators of that Holocaust. Our memorials, statues and ceremonies are for the perpetrators of slavery, for those who benefitted. If you are in the African American community you will find memorials to the victims, but in very few other places will you find such.

What did the United States do after the ‘Holocaust’ of slavery – which went on a lot longer and destroyed and killed many millions more people. We have statues and memorials and ceremonies and Confederate flags and everything we could find to keep alive the feelings and story and everything else of those who benefitted from slavery and brought so many to their deaths. By those statues we constantly glorify the fight and stance taken by those who attempted to maintain slavery in these United States. We want to keep a story alive about their valiant efforts, their life giving for this cause of maintaining the enslavement of other human beings.

Whenever, today, we threaten to remove one of those statues and/or memorials or take down one of those flags from our Capital Buildings and/or grounds the earth moves and shakes and becomes a horrendous place to be within a radius of whatever statue is so threatened. We want to remember and celebrate that time in United States history. We do not want to wipe it out – we want to bring it back. “Make America Great Again” – goes one of our most recent slogans. Make America a slaveholding country again. Make America a country which uses and abuses others to gain wealth, privilege and strength so we can move more decisively against more and more people to bring them into our fold to use and abuse.

Isn’t that where the immigration controversy comes from? The Trump’s have their products made in another country. Why? Because they, like others who do the same, can make slaves of and abuse those who are destitute making them work for a living at slave wages. Isn’t that a real life example of what the demonstration by the “Alt-Right” this weekend is really all about? The threat that America may lose the ability to pay $1 for a product and selling it for $100. Keep the world under our thumb and we can abuse its people and use them to create the billions of dollars of wealth that is being accumulated by a few – almost exclusively all white, all male and all northern europeans – well, except for those being used to disprove the rule.

And at the same time immigrants we are keeping out of this country and those we are throwing out are all – really? – brown. And brown people now make up over 40% of our citizenry. What happens if we don’t stop immigration – we will be a country ‘flipped’. And then what?

May God forgive us all. Those who act – those who allow themselves to be acted upon – those who watch and keep themselves clean and away from the fray so they can live to benefit from it all.

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U. S. President is Trump or Pence-Koch?

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

We had an interesting breakfast – one of many, but this one stood out given the current political climate so I am sending you this blog with a bit of a summary. The talk was mostly about untangling the politics currently on view. Things are never what they seem on the surface so what is percolating in the background!!??

A couple people agreed with Trump about the press. Not for the same reasons, nor did they call it or even consider the current reporting “Fake News”. They called it “Fall in Line behind the Leader News.” Basically, their impression of the press was that many reporters follow the lead of what is currently being reported by a few strong people and to go out on their own, especially if that differs from the current headlines, is not what many are able to do.

That’s a shame because that kind of independence is what is needed of a journalist and they should be ready to put down their jobs if they can’t report what they find – or if it is because of a lazy mind, they need another profession. None require the kind of sharpness of mind; independence of spirit; insatiable curiosity; need to find the truth- that is required of the press. It is a vocation rather than a job. At least those are my thoughts about it.

The rest of the conversation was around the question as to why with all that is coming out about the Trump Administration there is almost no talk about Pence. He is carefully being guarded in the background so he can come out as new, untainted, etc.?

What one person wanted to know was if the President of the United States – not the one with the title, but the one calling the shots – was actually Trump or Pence? This group felt it was Pence who was channeling the wishes of the Koch Brothers and Trump, until now was falling into line and following those wishes also. Although they saw signs of his beginning to wake up to understand the game. The game that was about Pence for Vice President because he would never be elected president and then for Pence to move into the presidency after Trump was destroyed and pushed out.

I hadn’t heard that before and it was a bit hard to understand, but as the history came out with the claim that Pence actually was the one who brought Trump to the Koch brothers (or maybe it was the Koch brothers who brought Pence to Trump with the promise of money and their backing) things began to make a bit of sense.

What also clicked for me was the discussion about the upheaval in this current administration. Starting almost from the beginning the question was asked if the Koch brothers and their minions were active in causing all of this current upheaval so their man could get in early and start working for them in earnest? A wild conspiracy theory, but a theory nevertheless which had some truth sounds in it for me. And the next questions – did Trump pick up on this early on, saw how he was deceived and how he had been cuckolded and developed enormous anger at having been so deceived? After all, that kind of thing was usually what Trump did to others, not what others did to Trump. Nothing of this has even been hinted at by the media I am reading and listening to and maybe they should take a look.

Needless to say, it was lively with lots of laughter and conjectures that were over the top. Hope we have another group like this for breakfast soon. It certainly starts the adrenaline rushing around. I got more done the rest of that day then I’ve gotten done in weeks.

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