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We have received many requests from followers of Bettina Network Blog and from those who know Marceline and Robert asking us to outline exactly what happened when their business was invaded by Brian Chesky, Joe Grebbia and others who stole their entire business and claimed the ideas and work as their own.

We found the requests particularly timely because  Marceline and Robert have worked over the past years since then to put in place a third iteration of their business to try to move away from the extreme damage caused by Airb&b. 

Somehow, the exact ideas they came up with and put into practice are now being touted by the same group that stole the Bettina Network’s work and called it Airb&b.

We have done a lot of research around what happened, but we were not going to make it public until we heard Brian Chesky on television outlining the new ways Airb&b was now moving and they were an exact replication of what Bettina Network has been putting into place.

This is not the only company we have so documented.  Have you heard of “My Chart”.  Did you know the original idea for such a company came from 10 Nigerians who worked for several years – when there was nothing even close to what they were doing.  They did the work – taking their idea, doing the research, computer coding, trying their finished product out in a small hospital and were moving on when they heard from Silicon Valley venture capitalists who were interested in investing in what they were doing.  The result of that contact was disaster for the Nigerians and a great windfall for a few White Males who are now in a very substantial position financially.  Not very different from what happened to Marceline and Robert and others we have and are researching. 

Please notice one thing Bettina Network and the 10 Nigerians have in common is their African and African American roots.  What we discovered is there were people running all around the country looking for such companies; taking their ideas; and putting therm out of business.  We made that discovery one afternoon just sitting at MIT enjoying the company of friends and coffee.  We were joined by a couple white guys who talked about what they were doing and asked who and what we knew.  They were willing to pay us for any leads we gave them – especially companies being developed at MIT.

We followed through after that as to who would be behind this – it takes quite a bit of money to do what was and probably still is being done and we did come up with who was funding this – starting a few decades ago. The Bettina Network discovered what was happening to them starting in about 2010 when they had a series of ugliness with which they had to contend; many attempts to destroy them financially; and so did the others we discovered.  

If you know of any such stories of this happening to other companies, please let us know.  We are now working very hard on putting all of this together and we do need your help.  We have discovered four more such stories and are looking for more.  We will do the research to determine if what you send us fits the pattern of what we have discovered.

                             Let us start from the beginning of this intrusion at Bettina Network, inc.:

1) Brian Chesky and two friends came to Boston and attended a session of The Capital Network.- the venture capital arm of the City of Cambridge.  They said they were in town looking for new ideas to start a business.

2). They were looking for business ideas to take with them as they traveled across the country from New York to California.  What we didn’t know until later is that there were several people like them all across the city, especially focused on MIT looking, especially for minority-owned businesses.  Not as companies to help or in which they wanted to invest, but companies which really should not exist.    Even when we discovered this, we didn’t know what was behind this until fairly recently.  This kind of research is a long, difficult process and in the end depends to a great extent on meeting the right people at a time when they are willing to talk.

3). Chesky and his two friends, when they arrived at the Thursday afternoon session of the Capital Network,  were pointed to Bettina Network, iInc. – one of the few to only black owned businesses involved with The Capital Network.  One had to register to attend these sessions and Marceline had duly registered Bettina Network, inc. and attended these Thursday afternoon sessions which were supposed to help one with your search for venture capital funds and to help you evaluate if your company qualifies for what venture capitalists were looking for. Not only was Chesky and his friends pointed in their direction and told about Bettina Networik inc. and its African American founders, but reservations were made, by the Capital Network,  for them to stay at one of the homes in the Network to get more detailed info. The people in the Capital Network insistence was that they stay at the home of Marceline Donaldson, president of Bettina Network.

4). Marceline was not present on that Thursday and knew nothing about this ‘referral’.The Chesky group had contacts within The Capital Network – particularly a young man  who was at all of the sessions – always with a white apron tied around his waist making his way tthrough and around, ingratiating himself with everyone except Marceline and clearly was a part of the Capital Network’s organization.  He seemed to be involved in making sure he answered questions people had; that folks knew about snacks, etc. and just generally talked with just about everyone.

5)  We don’t know who made the reservations under the name of the Capital Network, but from the Bettina Network records Brian Chesky called in addition to the Capital Networks call making sure he would be able to get reservations, gave his credit card number, gave the name for the reservation as Brian Chesky and made it for three people.

6). The group arrived and from Marceline’s recollection they were very talkative and wanted to know all about what she was doing – how, why, from the beginning, etc.  they gave the Capital Network name as who referred them.

7). They stayed three nights. – which we have documented.During their stay, Brian Chesky said to Marceline over breakfast that he was amazed at what he was experiencing because he had no idea one could put private homes together in a network, especially the way Marceline and Robert had done this within the Bettina Network.  He expressed his amazement to Marceline several times during his stay.

8). The next week when Marceline appeared at the Thursday afternoon session of the Capital Network there was a procedure you went through when checking in.The Capital Network kept the names of those attending in their computer and you looked up and checked off your name.When you did that your company name appeared in the large reception area where most people congregated and everyone could see who was there and who was arriving.

9). Normally, that check in was done by Marceline with no problems.This time – one week after the Chesky group had been through – Bettina Network’s name was no longer in the computer and Marceline was being denied entrance after having been a part of this group for several weeks.

10). One person, who worked for the Capital Network, was called when all of this happened.  He arrived at the front desk, was told the problem and suggested Marceline re-register because of course she could come into the session.  No one knew admitted to knowing who or why her company name was erased.

11). When she checked in and the company name was once again on the screen announcing the arrival of Bettina Network into the session, Marceline asked many questions about why she had been removed, why Bettina Network’s name was no longer among the participants, etc. No one could give her any answers.  She was encouraged to forget the incident, her company name was back with the others and she should just join the group.

12). When she went into the room, the young white male who was one of those working in the room with his white apron was unbelievably hostile to Marceline and suggested she leave.She ignored him, pushed past and for the rest of the evening had a very difficult time because this guy stuck close to her and made the evening very ugly. She was able to identify him  because during Brian Chesky and his friends’ stay, they mentioned this guy.

13) A couple months later the telephone calls started coming into Bettina Network, inc. with people asking different questions about Bettina Network and some of the every day ways it functioned.  Alll the questions were very particular about something in the business and how it was done.  The people calling claimed to want to do business with Bettia Network, but nothing ever came of their questions except more telephone calls and more and different questions

14). One call was from a couple who wanted to put their home into Bettina Network and asked how that could happen.  Marceline made an appointment to go out to see their home bringing business materials.  

15). The couple identified themselves as – the husband a professional chef and the wife the treasurer of Bose.

16). Marceline told them the normal things.If they wanted to put their home into the Network someone from Bettina’s would spend the night in the room they wanted to use and be treated by them the way they expected to treat guests.

17). The couple was particularly interested in the Bettina Network’s business plan and wanted to see it. Marceline gave them a copy of the business plan; told them they could not keep it, but could read it while she was there..Once finished she would take the business plan back because it was not publicly circulated.They were all sitting around the dining room table.

18). The husband took the business plan to read and excused himself from the table because he had to go to the bathroom – so he said.

19). Back from the bathroom he said he had emailed the business plan to friends of his in Colorado and California and they thought it was unbelievably great. He complimented Marceline on her business plan and Marceline was not pleased. She told him she specifically said he could read it while she was there, but the business plan was not for public consumption and she had told him that and did not want it circulated, especially the way he did by emailing it without her knowledge or permission.With that, Marceline left and did not give the couple a go ahead to put their house into Bettina Network because of that incident and because they really did not have a room to use.They said they were investigating this for the future when they were ready to do more.When Marceline asked why did they lead her to believe this was something they wanted to do right then, they had no answer and made no attempt to find one.

20)_. As it turn out, the business plan was emailed to Chesky and his group along with whoever else they emailed it to in Colorado.

21 )After a few more months passed, we heard from Marceline who asked us to look into what was happening to them. The telephone calls continued even after she asked the people calling not to call again, They apparently were trying to get someone else on the phone other than Marceline who would answer their questions.  She didn’t know what she was going to do with whatever we found, but she wanted to know why all of this was happening to them and did it have anything to do with other problems that were being dropped on them.

22). We started looking elsewhere because this was not the first time we heard about this kind of problem and always with a minority – especially African American owned company striking out in new ways and being very successful in the process.  

23). We are continuing this research and going public now with all of this in great detail because we see the same thing happening within the United States government and there is a connection.

24) As we saw what was happening, we began to draw our own conclusions as to where it was coming from, but we wanted to make sure so we started trying to get close to some of the young white males who were into all of this..We discovered there were rewards and punishments for what was happening.  If you successfully found such a company and it was something of interest to you, you could move aside, begin to develop it, investor money would come your way and you would be in a substantial position in life.

25) You would also have to be loyal to the few people making this possible who seemed to have a particular hatred of blacks and did not see women as worth much along with other minorities all of whom needed to stay in their places because they were not seen as those who could bring such great ideas and businesses to fruition.

26). Among the people we discovered willing to talk they were beginning to be concerned because of what else they were being asked to do.

What is most amazing to us is that we are dealing with people who want the world to be White Northern European and anti everything else.

.We see them as trying to re-create the world as South Africa was pre-Mandela and they are today moving along taking large leaps and bounds in that direction.  

Obviously there is much more.  We wanted to make sure this got out with our experience and findings so you could look around and add your findings to the above.

To contact us, please go through Bettina Network, inc. and ask to leave a message for Samuel.

P. O. Box 380585

Cambridge, MA. 02238  

email: bettinanetwork@comcast.net

telephone: 617 497 9166

Trumps’ signature should be – Make a Mess and then force a benefit!

Trmp is retaliating against those he feels have “wronged him.

After the grand mess he made and all the money and grief he caused others when he set up and ripped off many under the guise of Trump University, he should have been stopped then. Instead, he didn’t even pay the amount of money he was to pay from the court settlement. Someone else, apparently, paid that for him.

Now, he is pushing around Universities, just because he can as president of these United States.

I used to wonder why racism, sexism and all the rest have lasted so long and been so intricately tied up in the structure of these United States. With this Trump saga it is spelled out in everything he does.

Trump has accused Harvard of being anti-semitic and on that platform he has been able to do a lot of damage and waste a lot of time, money, effort of others which could and should have been spent on productive efforts rather than on shoring up Trump’s ego, his money fortune, taking his time which he doesn’t seem to know how to spend on anything except the most negative of projects.

When the stark attacks against Harvard started the university had elected an African American woman as president. Trump and his people acted against her in a way to force her resignation. They also forced the resignation of several white women who had just been appointed president of large, substantial universities – including Columbia.

After the resignation of Harvard’s black female president, the next person appointed president of Harvard University was a Jew.

Trump University sits as the smiling recipient of these actions against the Universities Trump has targeted. I haven’t heard any voices raised to point out that fact. We are so demurring in our responses to such outlandishness.

In all of Trump’s actions he has shown himself to be RACIST, ANTI-Semitic, anti-FEMINIST, anti-GAY and a few other anti’s. He has collected the vilest section of the citizens of these United States to back him with their votes for president. Maybe in the long run what he is doing will move out those who have worked underground to maintain structural racism in these United States and replace them with those who prefer equality.

Trump, a convicted felon, was elected president of these United States. How did that happen? What does that say about the United States voting citizens. Trump, accused of abusing many women and who himself articulated his support of such abuse of women, especially vocalized in a van broadcast to many, was elected president of these United States. Trump, who was supported and moved from Queens to Manhattan and put on a path to being able to set up the Trump Hotel and other movements which moved his fortune along and his fame with it and this was done with the help of a small group of gay jews, who he then turned against and left to flounder as they ran into problems after spending years helping Trump in ways without which his ascent would not have been possible. Along the way many brought up and outlined their thoughts that Trump was actually gay with much reporting on his other abnormal sexual activities including one which Putin observed and is supposedly holding over Trump’s head controlling him. That was something like Trump standing over women in bed while a sexual orgy was going on and peeing on them.

I remember a time in these United States when even the whiff of any of the above allegations would have ruined the persons political, business and personal life. It seems to have put Trump on the road to ultimate success. That speaks volumes for the road the United States has been traveling when such a person is elected president of these United States.

Oh – and let me not forget Trump’s immigrant relations. A man is throwing people out of these United States and making the life of others difficult to impossible because they have come from other countries seeking asylum, education, a new life after having been abused by the country they have come from. When you look at Trump’s marriage history, three wives – two of whom were immigrants. One made her way being a nude model. Would he have thrown her out of the country? Or put her on a pedestal because she fit his lifestyle?

When you look at his family – he comes from a family of immigrants who have made their way through what is claimed to be illegal ways. His grandfather apparently came from Germany with some Hitler involvement and made his way in these United States by using women as prostitutes. Is this where Trump’s proclivity to abuse women comes from? Trump seems to have an attraction to men who abuse and misuse women. His grandfather was so successful at it that he wound up with a hotel – which was a bordello. His father was quite racist in the way he carried out his career refusing to allow blacks into any of the buildings he built, adding substantial impetus to the racism existing in housing in these United States. And Trump did not object to what his father was doing, he was a strong part of moving his father’s racism along by institutionalizing and practicing and walking along the path his father set out for him. It was not the father accused of racism in the buildings he built – it was the father and the son.

It is time for Donald Trump to sit down and shut up. But then, maybe he is showing us where others are coming from as he interacts with them and they treat him as an equal. Are they complicit in similar activities such that they see nothiing wrong with Trump, his background and his current vicious activites against substantial people and institutions in these United States?

Who does Donald Trump bring along as his closest adviser? A man who comes from a wealthy white south african family and whose racism makes Donald Trump look saintly.

Everytime we think we have seen this current presidency sink as low as it is possible to sink, Donald Trump shows us he can go even lower.

Recently, as we all known, a picture of Donald Trump appeared with the current president of these United States dressed as pope.

Donald Trump, who is charging Harvard with anti-semitism and fighting that University and others claiming they are bigoted reached the depths of anti-Catholic bigotry and apparently thinks that is just fine and elevates him in the eyes of his supporters.

“President” Trump has given bigots in these United States a green light to express and act on their extreme prejudices in every way possible and this latest – celebrating Pope Francis’ death with pictures of himself established as pope is beyond anything we have seen in recent times.

Where do you stand?

Did you think it was funny – laughed and found yourself amused for sometime after you saw and/or heard about this continuing extreme prejudice practiced by the President of the United States? – check off yourself as anti-Catholic.

Do you remember how anti-Catholic we were and still are in these United States? – Jews, African Americans, Latina peoples, women, LGBTQ peoples, Catholics, other religions outside of the traditional Protestant denominations, and on and on we go. With the bigotry/prejudices/abuse against those who are not ‘white’, not northern european ancestry peoples, not male now have to deal with those actively practicing their bigotry with impunity and those bigots find themselves led in their bigoted practices by the current president of the United States – Donald J. Trump.

We are seeing a man leading a pact of bigots into acts which are constantly slammed against those we consider “minorities”. The “others” Those whose blood sweat and tears actually built this country. Isn’t that why “President” Donald Trump and his supporters are rampaging through and negating – getting rid of – and threatening those peoples and institutions who keep such guidelines and laws alive which strive to make this a better, more equal country? –

The Affirmative Action/Diversity/Voter guidelines put in place to make this a better more equal country are constantly being torn down by “President” Trump and his followers. Those guidelines and laws for which many – including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – gave their lives so the rest of us could begin to experience a more equal business, educational, personal life and so thereby we all could thrive?

All of that history, all of those sacrifices so we could elect a president who thinks it is alright to dress up as the pope and mock Catholicism while his followers laugh?

I used to wonder how racism, sexism and all the rest could still be around after so many decades and so many lives were sacrificed to destroy it. When Donald Trump was elected president after he had shown himself to be an abuser of women; financially irresponsible with many bankruptcies; a person who contracted for work, materials and labor refusing to pay; abused the educational institutional structure to steal from those trying to get an education to move ahead in this country; who becomes president and tries to take down legitimate positively functioning universities because he could not make a fortune illegally within the “university” he constructed to rip off those who registered within his so called university; and who has done so much more with impunity, I finally have begun to understand and so do the rest of you.

My life has been spent fighting for a better world – a more equal world – a kind and caring world – and I have received extreme retaliation in return. It is clear to me today that all of that happens because a little over half the voters in these United States lack the moral values to cast their votes for goodness, kindness, graciousness, caring, reaching out to those in need, constructing constantly a country which recognizes and responds positively to religious values instead of setting up a few religions they can hide behind, negating and doing evil without accepting any responsibility or need to do good – as long as material wealth and the promise to continue their need to be “better than” comes from those running for office.

My religion tells me to say at this point – God forgive! However, I can actually only ask – my God how can you forgive?