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Tuesday, September 12th, 2017
Thank you for that analysis on Trump’s Presidency.
I have long thought that the American Public is being robbed of great treasures because our tax money has to be spent controlling a greedy, fascist and out of control corporate boardrooms.
If there were ethics in our business schools and ethics demanded of our business management people and our business leaders we would be way ahead and this country would be stellar amongst its peers.
When you add up the tax dollars spent on all the regulatory bodies we have to support it is obscene.
Trump wants to get rid of regulation, but he wants to get rid of it so the business/corporate people can have a broad avenue down which they can run with their greed and rob our citizens of everything they have ever had and ever will have.
Banks charging almost 30% interest on credit cards whether your credit is stellar or not, but just because after a period of time they have decreed that is what will happen is pure unadulterated greed.
Corporations ruining the environment is because of greed.
Discharging chemicals into our water supply – hiring the least qualified white male before the most qualified minority has been our history and when we put blockers to that in place the rhetoric became opposite to the reality.
Building luxury apartments using money of the least of our citizens and not allowing them to live in those apartments – and creating a “poor” door for them to enter when the ‘government’ decrees builders will have to put aside a percentage for those who can’t afford the obscene rents being charged, well what can be said about that.
The profits being made from those buildings is also beyond obscene and should be classified as criminal.
Using prisons to establish the new slavery in these United States and maintaining statues and memorials to honor the losers of the war waged to abolish slavery with those statues being paid for with tax payers money just to put and keep fear in the hearts of the least of these whose ancestors experienced the horror that the statues seeks to memorialize so they will be forever bound is to worship god – the small “g” god about which you write.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for having the courage to be a for profit business outlining to us the reality of what you see and we all experience. I will certainly patronize your business and I hope others will also. I realize some will not, but hopefully there are enough of us who know the truth of what you are saying to keep you going.
I was a customer of Bettina Network and I benefitted from the vast knowledge you folks have. I was able to side step a disaster because you were next to me. Those trying to take my small accumulated fortune were confounded. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Monday, September 11th, 2017
Now that we are over Trump having been elected president of these United States, what’s next?
Many people have extolled his election and claim it was an act and the will of God. I too believe it was an act and the will of god – and the small “g” is no typo. And who is this god? Us – the collective us without God! Doing our own thing, on our own terms, running our own lives and pushing God out of the picture because god is such a comfortable deity. That god we control!
We are all aware that the major thing Trump has done is to rip the cover so many in these United States have put on what we do and have done to create this fantastic country. He has taken our carefully crafted and traditional narrative about our identity, history, culture and exposed its bones. He has exposed all of us to the reality of who we are and if you look closely he has also called out the institutions we have and are creating.
The first thing that really is disturbing in this is all of the generals in his administration. Violating our long in place traditions. Why? Because of all of those non-thinking and non-caring news people who are singing the praises of these generals and describing how they are going to rise above Trump, do their work as substitute under-cover presidents, while controlling Trump and save us all from his racism-sexism-xenophobia so we can again start walking into the sunset together. All of this done by our generals? Our saviors? Like Russia did and does and like Germany did under Hitler? Wasn’t Hitlers’ elevating the ‘right’ generals what accelerated and helped fuel, protect and grow his power and administration?
Ignore the recent history of these generals – we have already pointed out that his Chief of Staff General was head of Homeland Security when it was doing all of the massive rounding up; trying to deport huge numbers of people until stopped by the Courts; and very efficiently and quickly put in place Trump’s campaign to ‘throw the Muslims out and don’t let anymore Muslims in” campaign. A campaign strong and viable enough to make a mess of our transportation system and the lives of tens of thousands of people – even reaching to some who were in the air at the time his campaign went into effect and before the court’s stopped it. We won’t waste space talking about the rest of the generals, but they could all be so grouped. Isn’t that slightly reminiscent of how Hitler Captured Germany and with his loyal generals turned it into a fascist, horriblist state complete with ovens etc.? Isn’t that why we have not had so many generals in an American presidential administration before? So there would be no yielding to temptation?
Let us drop the major talk about racism and sexism, which is all out and well known in every corner of the globe – let’s talk about what else we are trying hard to ignore.
Trump is/was the answer to a lot of peoples’ prayers. Specifically, those wanting a businessman as president. That would show the world how great we are and how we mean business. He would re-organize this country and move it to the top of the heap again. We needed the efficiency and all else that a businessman would bring to the presidency.
Well now we have a businessman and thank God he is Donald Trump.
Let’s look at the legacy of some other businessmen!
When you take a look – close look – at American businesses and those management people who have reached the top – notice anything very much like Trump and the administration he is trying to establish? They are all White – Male – with similar Character. Although I am sure the ones we would want as president, after seeing the mess Trump is making, would be the button down collar, silk suit, understated, quiet, never in the news kind of person, who nevertheless does much cleaner and untraceably and unstoppably what Trump is doing with great unwanted fanfare. My God sent us a businessman who shows and incorporates into himself the character traits of them all, but with those character traits not covered, but public. You are living through and are a part of an old fashioned morality play.
Take a look at how Trump is functioning and you will understand why it was necessary to create an EPA. Why? Because of the horribly unethical way top corporate people in these United States carried out what they perceived as their jobs – deliver the most assets possible to themselves and make sure a little was left over to quiet their stockholders. Take all and leave little to nothing. Look closer and you will see why we need an HUD. Look even closer and you will see why this government has been forced by its citizens to form all of these departments – draining money from other things that need to get done, but departments we can’t survive without because the business men in charge were draining the citizens of this country – were making all of us ill without any thought to the fact that those illnesses would also affect them.
Take a look at the saga of the tobacco companies. How hard did and do those ‘businessmen’ fight to keep marketing and selling cigarettes even after health research showed the damage cigarettes were doing to the general population – those who smoked and those who didn’t but inhaled that second hand smoke.
Many of them died of lung cancer. Did they really think they could continue on the path they were going and not be infected with the evil they were spewing out to the rest of us?
Trump – such a good businessman – pulled us out of all of the climate change groups and told us there was no problem; it was all public hysteria; the money could be better spent on him and his friends – and then along came God and said “Thou shalt not…”. Looking at the last few days, I don’t know about Trump, but I am quaking in my shoes and I didn’t do the things he did against climate change. I tried to work for climate change, but I noticed in Sodom and Gomorrha the entire society paid. In this society that would include me.
Wherever you look, the only difference between Trump and the rest of our business institutional management teams is those others have acquired a smooth exterior; an ability to hide what they are doing; a way to show the public through marketing and advertising that they need garbage, disease and all the other gook being pedaled to them and a strong and constant denial supported by many of us that they are certainly doing everything they can for homelessness, to eliminate racism and sexism and they certainly don’t want xenophobia to exist – they love everybody, are working for the good of everybody, let’s not look at the multi-billions going to continue the ugly and that they are raking off for themselves.
Drop down to the bottom line and Trump is simply doing everything he can to keep up with those he considers his “brothers”. It is probably of great pain and hurt to him that they are rejecting him and casting him in as negative a light as possible and will or have already dumped him – not because of what he has done, which parallels what they are doing. Not because of the wreck he is making of this country because they are doing the same thing. Not because of the racism and sexism he has shown the world the United States has and is still continuing to practice ruining millions of lives in the process, but because the way he has gone about doing all of this.
Its not that they dislike him – they are embarrassed by his process. The very public and uncovered and raw way he has and is going about bringing in the KKK, the White Nationalists – following the WN’s program and putting it in place as quickly as he can, knocking over everything that is sacred in the process. They, the corporate community, has been doing that for generations and were good at it, although quietly with a strong togetherness that was difficult to break to bring about change. They are unhappy with him and dislike him because he is ruining what has been a good thing for them. Trump doesn’t know how to do what he is doing under cover so he can’t be blamed or maligned for his actions and they will be the stronger for being so covered up and un touchable. Trump, instead, has managed to awaken that sleeping giant – the American Middle Class – and we are not happy campers.
How could so few people have gathered for themselves the billions of dollars and the tools of capitalism leaving next to nothing for the rest of us. Leaving only enough so that we can fight amongst each other, spreading blame where there is no blame and letting the real guilty culprits continue on their greedy paths.
Is there an answer? The one thing we are not, is honest. And the one thing we do not do is love one another. We love our own. We deny and lie about everything else. We have created a society which oppresses the rest of the world and we were very proud of that achievement. We elected Trump for that to continue and grow.
Trump carps on bringing jobs back to America. Trump and his family have not moved to bring jobs from their companies back to America so this huge marketing program, which has been the Trump for President campaign was really held to blind the rest of us – and it has been successful. Why would the top business people bring jobs back to America where they have to pay American wages when they can continue to allow those jobs to be done by “foreigners” in other countries where the wages are so low people cannot survive. Why can’t they survive? Because they have given up their own cultural values to follow those of America and they need an American lifestyle to do that. Those business people hold up that American lifestyle as though it is the holy grail and most of us follow it expecting to find its end and life happily ever after. We have enslaved most of the rest of the world – except those who can be called white – so a few can live a life with more money and assets than thousands could spend in a thousand lifetimes. Allowing those “foreigners” into the U. S. would jeopardize all of that. Keeping them in their own countries provides the people power to continue that kind of oppression upon which our lifestyle depends.
Our response to that tragedy, which has been created by and for us, was to elect a Donald Trump expecting him to do the same for the rest of us that was done for him and his ‘peers’. Taking his supporters for rides in his helicopter during the campaign – parking his private jet and having his rallies with that jet in the background, etc. helped to blind many to the reality and truth of who he is and how he achieved his goals.
Trump is doing, crudely and quickly, what his business peers have been trying to do incrementally for generations. In that he is succeeding beyond his or their wildest dreams.
They will allow him the slack to achieve those goals – or as much of those goals as possible – and because they can’t have that stain on their reputations and careers, they will take him down crudely.
And there ends today’s session with the Bettina Oracle. Until next time!
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
by Marceline Donaldson
We are once again in the cross hairs.
Donald Trump announced he would give an opinion on DACA on Tuesday (today). And, as of last night what has been given to the media is the announcement that he will end DACA with a six month time frame for folks to get ready for it – which means to get ready to be moved or to move out of the U. S. A.
When Trump announced he was thinking of ending this program from Obama’s time as president, it was clear his decision would end the program and it would be done in such a way as to attempt to obscure the facts of what he was announcing and give those who engage in denial of bigotry the opportunity to keep others from seeing what was actually about to happen until it was upon them. That fits with Trump’s history of such announcements and of his trying to wipe Obama’s presidency off the record and to continue and give another chapter to the “Birther Movement” which Trump carried on, funded and promoted for some eight plus years.
To know more about this lie and others Donald Trump has carried on see https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html?mcubz=1&_r=0
In addition to the “Birther” lies Donald Trump claimed ISIS was founded under Obama when in fact it was formed in 2004 – Obama was elected president in 2008. And the list goes on………..most recently the FBI came out with the findings from its latest investigation into Trump’s lies. Trump claimed Obama had his wires tapped in Trump Tower during, what Trump called, “the very sacred election process”. The FBI on Friday came out to say there was no evidence to back that up after their extensive investigation into what Trump claimed was a felony that Obama committed. And the list goes on…..
Most people are asking “why”? Those who have to ask such a question are some of the people who have internalized bigotry and have a response to and justification of bigotry, which is denial – white, black, green, yellow, pink people. Denial is one of the strongest tools which got Trump elected. How else does this United States elect a man who promoted the “birther lie” for so many years and which everyone knew he promoted – yet still voted for him.
We have had a long history of bigotry in the United States, which we deny. In fact, we have gone overseas and lectured to other countries about their violation of the human rights of their citizens when the record in the United States could equal if not top some of the human rights offenses found in the countries to whom we were lecturing and demanding that they change their ways of treating their minority groups.
Our record in these United States is so bad that we – in 2017 – have elected a KuKluxKlan Legatee as president of these United States. Donald J. Trump the son of Frank Trump who was arrested at a KKK rally – was he marching, clothed in white? He clearly had an ugly civil rights record as shown from the law suit filed against both Donald and Frank Trump for not allowing black families to live in their apartment buildings.
And now we have DACA – entering this KKK Legatee’s history as a part of the anti-immigration stances and decisions made by Donald Trump.
What is wrong with DACA? All the rationalizations put out by Trump and all of the counter rationalizations put out by others to attempt to show that the young people in DACA are gainfully employed and contributing members of this society – they all need to be put aside because the reason Trump wants to end DACA lies in the reason he does everything else as president. There are 1.7% whites in DACA. The rest are minorities – the “brown” people. Given that fact, there is no way those backing Trump and Trump himself are going to allow the DACA program to continue. Their goal, showing clearly from their actions, is to make these United States a whites only country. That is the base from which they come. Throw out as many “browns” as they can using immigration laws to move that goal to fruition and then move on to other ways to eliminate the rest.
Trump didn’t come lately to the bigotry he now displays. He has been a bigot generationally. He comes by his foulness legitimately from his father and probably way beyond that. Why else would he hide his German roots calling himself and his family Swedish? Well, today all of those lies are gone and they have been replaced by the Nazi flags; the recreation of Kristallnacht in Virginia and much more. Don’t know about Kristallnacht you can read about it here – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht and much more. Kristallnacht was the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust in Germany.
That was a clear message that night in Charlottesville, – the White Nationalists message that this was the beginning of their Final Solution and the beginning of the holocaust for the minorities in these United States, but no one seems to have either made the connection or had the guts to report on the two as parallel events. Maybe the real message of Charlottesville was blurred by the ridiculousness of making such a statement with one of the props being the “tiki torches”.
And after the “Tiki Torch” parade anouncing the beginnings of the United States version of the holocaust comes the announcement by Trump about DACA. Cancel DACA and you get rid of lots of “brown peoples” in one fell swoop.
The anti-Semitism is now showing increasingly. It seems to have become public when one of Trump’s supporters loudly asked why he “gave” his daughter to a Jew. From then on we are seeing an increasing amount of anti-Semitism around Trump.
General Kelly – the Chief of Staff – over whom many are raving about how he has ‘cleaned out’ the White House and what great things he can do – was head of Homeland Security. What did he do as Head? He quickly and very efficiently brought in the Muslim travel ban which the courts in this country closed down and stopped him and his boss Trump from removing tens of thousands of people and from denying those who could enter these United States from doing so – almost 100% “brown peoples”. He quickly and efficiently rounded up tens of thousands already in this country and had them ready to be deported until, once again, Kelly and his boss Trump were stopped by the courts.
Another lie being told is that Trump has accomplished nothing during his seven months in office.
Trump is right when he says he has accomplished an enormous amount. Not the traditional accomplishments through Congress, but he has changed this country in ways that show we are probably no longer a democracy or republic, but he and his White Supremacist his KKK his neo-Nazi’s are putting in place, structuring and institutionalizing, a fascist government which can be controlled and moved along to become a whites only country where the minorities are slaughtered – deported – generally destroyed. Those left over whites who are still fighting the Confederate war against the United States also join this group. Those whose ancestors, real and/or spiritual, used tax payer money to build statues and memorials to their heroes – “heroes” guilty of major treason against the United States, but for the pardon they received at the end of the war.
Robert E. Lee is the one they seem to most revere. He was also found guilty of treason against the United States. That is who they want to honor with all of those statues, even changing the name of an Episcopal Church, among others to remember the events and honor what took place during that war. Continuing the fight and continually looking for ways to destroy, demean, turn the “brown peoples” into a modern day replica of slaves – all of that has been going on in this country for decades. It has finally reached and is using the power of the Office of the president of the United States. That is success. After some 50 plus years as a Republican, I am no longer a part of this political group. I resigned when Trump as elected President. It was clear that there was no hope for change; that the history of Republicanism which helped free the slaves and which fought the Democrats when they were deep into the KKK and lyncings, and etc. was now the Political Party composed of those KKK, neo-Nazi’s, White Supremacists and more like them reaching into the office of the president to achieve their goals. I moved to declare myself an Independent hoping that, as my grandmother would say – this too shall pass.
It was said that President’s Trump’s decree against transgender people in these United States was just to deflect attention away from negatives about him in the press. He did nothing to back up his decree – until weeks later when he ordered the armed forces to investigate ways and to bring about the elimination of transgender people in the armed forces. Trump deflected ugly headlines away from himself with the announcement – as he has done continuously. Others deflected by claiming he was crazy and made such announcements with nothing in back of them. We get to see that both are working together to bring this country back to a time Germany has rejected and so have others in their countries. We are moving incredibly quickly to establish such an institutionalization of extreme bigotry in these United States. Our country today – after only seven months – is barely recognizable as “free”, working to move in the direction of equality and justice, etc.
What are you doing? Who was it that said “Evil survives because good people do nothing!” That is still just as true today. This is a time when you are either out there risking or sitting in your home tending your home fires until the knock comes on your door and you are ushered out into the middle of that holocaust being planned for all of us by the White Supremacists, the KKK, the neo-Nazi’s and all of their supporters either vocal or silently.
May God have mercy on all our souls!
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
By: Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. 
August 23, 2017
“It is through our struggles that we gain victories”
Stay Woke are words to remember from my best friend–the one and only Dick Gregory. Who in Black America (or America for that matter) hasn’t heard of Dick Gregory? I certainly had known him for years before he left us a few days ago. I didn’t meet him in person until 1986 when Congressman Mervyn Dymally invited him to come to my home state in Louisiana while I was a candidate for the U.S. Congress in the old Gillis Long district. Mr. Gregory spoke for a fundraising event for my campaign, and he didn’t ask for a dime–not even his airline ticket. That was impressive because others required all kinds of things, including what they wanted in their hotel rooms to drink while there!
After the campaign was over, I moved to Washington, DC, and one day out of the clear blue, he was stranded in Baltimore and needed to get back to DC that night. I guess my reputation for helping anybody I could was out there already and he had heard about it! He called me and asked if I would travel to Baltimore to get him; I did. We became friends on the ride back to DC, and that has never changed. He began bringing over veggie burgers and cooking them while inviting friends by to see how great they tasted. I met so many wonderful people through him.
He soon became known as my best friend and running buddy. We attended many events together, but the term running buddy came from the fact that we’d run on every track we could find, run through Rock Creek Park or get up at 2 am to test new health equipment about which somebody had told us. I wasn’t crazy about getting up that early in the morning, so I wound up buying a lot of the strange equipment so that we could use it anytime! Consequently, my home became filled with all kinds of exercise and health gadgets. He introduced me to just about every vitamin ever made. At that time, I had a health products business so it fit right in with what he was advocating.
He saw the thousands of books at my place, so he decided to add to my collection! Aside from introducing me to his huge required newspaper and magazine reading, he began buying two of every book he thought was worthy of reading. That was a lot! The reason for buying the second copy was for me to read to him–sometimes for hours where I literally had to prop my eyes open to finish books late at night.
The second reason was his frequent travels, and since I had every book he had, he could call me to jog his memory on certain information. Since he had no concept of time, he often called from other time zones in other states and countries so that I could get out of bed, go downstairs and find what he needed. He also wanted to see every movie of significance, so it was nothing for me to be picked up to hang out with him for two or three movies in a single night. I had my first arrest for a good cause with him. We were joined by George Clooney, Martin King, III, Ben Jealous and others. As a lawyer, I was called on frequently not to go to jail, but to bail him out of jail for protesting about various wrongs, so my arrest record for picketing is not nearly as long as his.
Ultimately, we began participating in so many marches and protests that we made signs for numerous causes and kept them in the trunk of my car so that we could stop and participate with others as we were passing by.
I will fast forward to 2011 where we witnessed the British Petroleum Gulf Oil Spill in Louisiana. Many under-served people were not getting paid for their losses, but big companies were. A group led by Dr. Arthur Rocker, met at my home and we discussed what we would do about it. situation. Immediately Dick and I agreed to join the cause. We made several trips to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas advising people of their rights to be made whole. We picketed BP. We went to London, England to try to seek relief for the under-served. We picketed the BP offices there while not even knowing the laws related to picketing.
We returned to the U.S., met with and picketed more BP offices in the U.S. At the time Dick left us on Saturday, BP has yet to pay poor and marginalized people. Despite the fact that it is impossible to fill his shoes, my last words to him were promises to carry on his legacy of service to our people and finish the projects we’d started together. Dr. Rocker and I will be returning to that Gulf Coast battlefield in a few days and we’ll carry Dick’s spirit with us.
In honor of all Dick Gregory has done for us, let us honor his memory by practicing some of the things he taught us. He wanted us to Stay Woke and not believe everything we see! He wanted us to know that all things are not what they appear to be. He wanted us to rid ourselves of anger, fear, hatred and jealousy. He wanted us to know that love is much more powerful than hate. I had the last word with him on last Saturday night after Lil and his family said their goodbyes. I could never fill his shoes because they are much too big, but I had a talk with him and promised to do my best to do the things I know he would do if he were here. That is how I will honor my friend, the one and only, Richard Claxton Gregory from whom I learned so much.
E. Faye Williams, MPA, PhD, D.Min, Esq.
President/CEO, National Congress of Black Women, Inc.
1250 4th Street, SW, Suite WG-1, Washington, DC 20024
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
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Sunday, August 20th, 2017
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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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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
by: Marceline Donaldson
We need to take a look at a parallel time in history for these United States. The time of Reconstruction was followed by the dismantling of what the time of Reconstruction wrought. What we are experiencing under Donald J. Trump is that time after Reconstruction of horror, evil, misery under which so many suffered.
It comes under that old adage – if we don’t know and understand history, we will be forced to repeat it. And surely enough that is what we are doing. President Obama brought in an era very much like that time of Reconstruction. He continued the process of eliminating our equivalent of the “black codes” which began to be dismantled under Martin Luther King, Jr’s Civil Rights Movement – only instead of concentrating on African Americans, Obama addressed bigotry across this country amongst far more than just African Americans. His time in office highlighted just how venomous bigotry was in these United States and we all thought it was coming to an end.
After the Obama presidency, we elected a man we knew to be a liar, cheat, etc. etc. Today, we are appalled at what he is doing. Since he was a very public and visible person and since it was very difficult not to have known Donald Trump and his reputation, it is amazing to me that we, the citizens of these United States who elected him president could be surprised, dismayed, etc. etc. about the actions of this man who was so thoroughly known. Who you elect is what you get. There is no miraculous change that occurs. Many in the media talked extensively about the “pivot” that they expected to happen. Where did they get such an idea? Was it from the history that rolled out before them showing that the person elected to office said what he had to say to get elected and once elected he became and started to institute policies far different from those he/she ran on?
We were appalled that President Trump rolled out policies, etc. that he ran on. He let everybody know who he was and what he was going to do.
He also threw in the politicians lies to some folks, claiming he was going to do great things for them – which totally violated his image; what he was saying most of the time; the people around him, those total racists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis and other such folks supporting his candidacy who he clearly embraced and preferred in his rallies which were horrid places to be if you were non-white and non-northern european.
Many believed he would “pivot” and be someone very different when he took office. Only, I wonder if we really believed that or deep down we actually hoped and voted for him because we didn’t want a country where everyone was marching into that nirvana of equality, justice, compassion and Donald Trump looked like the candidate who would make sure that things were put aright which this Obama guy had turned in another direction. Trump promised to undo everything Obama had done as president and he has actively and hurriedly taken that seriously and that part of his campaign promise he is daily implementing.
Instead of a mirror image of Reconstruction, he has brought about the period of time that followed Reconstruction when work went on to bring back the “black codes” and other laws and principles which would bring the country back as close to slavery as possible. In the process we have helped to bring this country into a time of great destruction of many of our fellow citizens. During that time after Reconstruction, justice, equality, compassion were destroyed. Evil, hatred, bigotry, infliction of pain was the order of the day and for the next hundred years we lived under what that period after the Reconstruction brought.
We celebrated the “first” African American elected to Congress after 1960 ignoring the fact that during Reconstruction over 100 African Americans, just out of slavery, were elected to federal, state, county legislatures and served their fellow citizens well.
Trump’s presidency looks a lot like that of Rutherford Hayes, whose term of office started with a disputed election and during which the Chinese were today’s Muslims. The Chinese worked hard to build the railroads, but were treated very poorly and were those selected to keep out of the United States the way Trump has worked to keep Muslims from coming to the United States.
The condition of people was horrid and the gains from Reconstruction which the Radical Republicans gained, particularly for African Americans, were destroyed – mostly by the Democrats.
During all of this time I had family living in Mexico who had everything taken away from them and were treated extremely abusively by United States soldiers when the lines were drawn and a part of Mexico became America: I had family – Choctaw Indians, who were put on the Trail of tears and suffered much: I had family – African Americans who were active in their small town in Alabama – elected to public office there – and finally, as the political climate changed, were stripped of everything and tarred and feathered, put on the railroad track forced to walk to Texas in that condition by the Democrats: I had family who were English, Irish, Italian, Swiss and more who gave up their “white privilege” to marry minorities who had experienced those things.
And today, I am living through the modern version of that terrible time because of the Republicans and Donald Trump and his supporters who are moving very quickly to bring us back to that time after our own modern day Reconstruction.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Trump, the United States president, who gained office by lying.
Two of his big lies are currently clearly on view:
He promised Iraqi Christians that he would support and protect them and they supported him in large blocks. When he gained office he started deporting them by the hundreds. They have not yet been hauled out of this country because the courts stopped Trump’s deportation of so many. They would have faced a horrible and dangerous life if they had been deported and they still might be.
He promised to support the LGBTQ Community and just recently showed clearly that his ethics are in the gutter and his sense of values none existent to the point of not merely being “political” to gain office, but evil to gain eternal damnation.
And those are just a few of his broken promises which will cause thousands horrendous, broken, desperate lives of which he will know nothing and of which he wants to know nothing. His life is privileged and its continuance as such is his only concern. More power. More money. More glorifying of Donald Trump.
And for this we live, work, worship and die in this country. When will it all change? What are you doing to bring about that change? Or are you doing nothing to help continue things as they are because you see yourselves as benefitting? Life changes in the blink of an eye – your time is coming and soon.
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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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Saturday, July 8th, 2017
It was interesting to see Putin and Trump meet. This was touted as their ‘first face to face meeting’. We would respectfully disagree. What we saw was two men who were quite familiar with each other and had a strong friendship going which to us looked as though it had developed over several years.
From the very familiar way they greeted and were with each other this was not a first time meeting. The handshake was not a traditional Trump handshake. He was not trying to gain the superior position.
Grabbing Putin’s arm in addition to the handshake is not something one normally does upon a first meet.
Reaching his arm behind Putin to put on his back is a very intimate gesture one makes with a friend not a brand new stranger person.
Putin’s response was the same. He clearly was face to face familiar with Donald Trump before this meeting and probably in intimate get togethers – familial, friendship or both.
The “optics” as they say, spoke volumes about their daily life and choices – everyone in the room for this meet and greet was white and male – and that included the interpreters. A very different visual from that of others shown at the G20 – women were in attendance, participation and as interpreters. The old boys club was on full display, in more ways than one.
And, Trump continued to diss Obama. His white privilege and superiority is much shattered by the elegance and success of Obama’s presidency – kind of a symbol for what is going on with the rest of Trump’s base. Trump needs to constantly reassure himself of his superiority over African Americans, at least, by attempting to tear down Obama and his presidency. Sad! And, isn’t that what his travel ban is all about? Very sad!
We could be wrong, but………………
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Thursday, July 6th, 2017
Dear Bettina people:
I love you folks. Thanks for the post on Trump needing to admit and go all the way with his transgender self.
Being called ‘crazy’ didn’t sit quite right with me, but your “oracle” hit the nail on the head.
Unfortunately, he is who we voted for and he is who he has been for decades. Knowing the man I have known about his secret for a very long time, but I didn’t dare bring it up. To cover, he has been stirring up everything and everybody so it has clearly been visible for anyone who pays attention.
May you all live long and prosper and continue writing – I love it. My blog will be along shortly. Hope you have the guts to publish it – although from what I have seen that is not a problem with you Bettina people.
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2017
This has been an incredible time for everyone – especially since you have all been faced with what for many is not understandable and for those of you who do understand what is happening, you are not able to speak about it out of fear.
A man, surrounded by many who are there to take advantage of his pain, confusion and a lifetime of hiding, has become president of the United States.
In the process of this man’s entire life, creating havoc, upheaval, evil, unhappiness, fighting and more in his environment and among those who have tried to love him, be his friend, work with him, help him achieve his goals, has been the way he has coped with the havoc, unhappiness, desperation which he has carried around inside of him for his entire life. Well, actually from about age five.
He has been accused of being crazy – thoughtless – self-absorbed – not someone who is capable of thought = and more. And he has been all of those things.
What most need to know is why!
When you carry a secret all those years and need to distract yourself from dealing with that secret and being desperate not to be exposed, you create an environment all around you which is horrible for those with whom you interact – who depend upon you for many things – who try to befriend you – and especially for those who love you.
What is this secret that has set ablaze the United States in the worse way and is threatening the world?
This president is actually a woman in a man’s body and that has been the burden he has carried around for decades, shaping his life so the explosions around him camouflage this ‘problem.’.
When his hands were ridiculed it was an especially difficult time for him because he believed he was about to be “outed”. He has the small delicate hands which he uses the way a ballerina uses her hands.
When he plays golf or tennis you see another aspect of this because his rear end is exposed and you see the rear end of a plus-size mature and quite shapely woman.
Problematically, this becomes worse as he ages and hiding it becomes ever more difficult because the tell tale signs of his internal woman – who he will not let out – becomes clearer and more people are able to see and understand what this is all about.
Who hates gays more than a gay person in the closet. Who hates transgender people more than a woman in a man’s body. Who has the greater need to move away from those with whom one is identified especially if that group is oppressed by the larger society.
If he lets this secret out and holds it as a secret no more, there is no one with power over him – he would be free.
Given some of the talents he has shown this would be his opportunity to becomes a substantial, giving, loving, thoughtful and kind human being. The person everyone wants to know, be with, enjoy, etc. To continue to hold this secret means more and more people hold power over you and you have to continue in the ways of distracting, finding ways to upheaval entire societies so your secret is safe and more.
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2017
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Thursday, June 29th, 2017
From slavery – to Jim Crow – to the immense Black Civil Rights movement – to the painful Feminist movement – to the Peace Movement – to Americans for Respect of the Globe and the Universe – to Donald Trump?
The election and ‘service’ of Donald Trump has exposed the United States’ underbelly the way nothing else has and it is very difficult for all of us to see. Much better to continue to engage in denials.
Breakfast conversations in a Bettina Home are always inclusive of something about what Trump is doing; what he needs to do; how to stop him; what is Russia’s involvement; how are we going to continue with such a man as president; what happened – did we really elect Trump or did Russia do it. Are we missing something?
Among the forces in this country which have come together to elect Trump as president we have to include those forces which elected this Congress. Among those forces we also have to include the years spent before this election of gerrymandering to help make this election possible – all in the name of denying one person one vote, denying one person’s voice replacing it with the manipulators’ need for power. They also have to include our refusal to become a democracy by doing the work to eliminate the Electoral College. They also have to include our refusal to get rid of ‘White Privilege’ – the sick need many have to be better than even in a democratic/republic.
We have only ourselves to blame for Trump and we have only ourselves to correct this massive error by correcting the ills in this country which brought this about.
From where we stand and from what we have heard, Trump was elected with a solid base of the organized bigots, the mafia, many of those at the top of our corporate structures coming together in one of those perfect storms. And, what we need to acknowledge here is that those groups have always worked together – and – as per usual – we and they blamed the “Middle Class”, the “Working Class” for what others have wrought.
Corporations are very far from being a democracy. They are also not republics. They are dictatorships accustomed to doing things their own way, as ordered from the top, and accustomed to brutally moving obstacles out of their paths, greasing everything with lots of money and little bits of power. The same is true for the other groups whose reason for being is to spread bigotry, hatred, white supremacy. They are skilled at the lying, cheating, stealing, and all the other sins we can now see them committing as they come out from under their traditional cover.
What is clearer today than it has ever been is the collusion between Corporate America and the mafia. That is something we don’t like to admit, but Trump has forced the issue and the admission. For example, there is no way anyone who voted for Trump can today say they did not know of his mafia connections.
Trump’s ties to the mafia go back to at least his high school days when he met and was friends with John Gotti’s son. The son of the teflon don puts his schoolyard friend in the path to be taught to become the teflon president.
Things became much more intense and involved from that point on.
Enter Roy Cohn – which brings in another group tied into Trump’s base – gay men in the closet who enjoy a camraderie with the corporate, the political, the well-heeled sprinkling gold dust over those mixing and shifting relationships and hiding that collusion from the rest of society (as best they can).
The consensus from many breakfasts is that Trump’s hidden secret, which makes him subject to Russian demands is not about sexual orgies, golden streams, etc., it is about having found places in and around Russia to let out that gay side where he thought it wouldn’t reach the light of day. Many of our breakfast folks thought that such a place would be important to Trump who they saw as not only gay, but homophobic – so coming out of the closet would not be an option. And, so some breakfast conversations went into comments such as; coming out of the closet would not mean a solid, steady relationship based on love, but it would mean coming out of hidden orgies with whoever/wherever making the sexual needs not necessarily “gay” or same sex, but outrageous, out of control sex, orgy addicted, kinky to an extreme. Coming out of the closet would lessen his power with his close compatriots who helped him get where he is today. The closest he came to coming out of the closet – so these folks discuss – was accidental and through his relationship with Roy Cohn, which supposedly had a sexual closeness that many picked up on, but few publicized. That kind of sexual orientation and lifestyle was more prevalent during the days of Trump’s young adulthood, but still exists in small pockets in several places today.
That can lead, when such a person engages in moments of sober reflection, to an extreme insecurity and self-hatred, if one still has any shred of moral values left. Is that what we are seeing in Trump’s projection of all of his insecurities onto minorities of every color, class, sex, sexual orientation, etc? His projections have certainly been vicious enough to tear this country apart and begin the process of putting it back together in his own image.
Trump has also given us a clear and unusually open look at mafia culture through his lifestyle, mannerisms, speech, dress and expectations of obeisance from others to him and from him to (only a very small number) of others.
We are living in an America that will never be the same again. All of the gains we have made – moving away from and rejecting slavery; watching the gains of the Black Civil Rights Movement being stripped away daily with one or two Blacks being held up by Trump as the objects to disprove the rule of extreme racism in his administration as the new normal; from organizations becoming respected and respectable who had been fought and relegated to the back rooms of illegality; from the gains of the Feminist Movement also being stripped away as women are once again being portrayed as objects whose ‘pussy’ can be grabbed by anyone; with sexual abusers at top corporate levels being front and center and their corporations held in high esteem with the individuals so caught in such illegal activities given comfort and succor by the President of the United States?
How low are we going to sink, America? How many sins are we going to commit before this all comes to an end? Will there be absolution for those sins in the end of this nightmare or will the vestiges hang on to scare our children, our grandchildren and all of the next generations? Evil is far harder to eradicate than good. Evil is far simpler to incorporate into the structure of our country than good.
We were able to justify slavery – stealing millions of lives because some of us were too lazy to do our own work, but wanted the benefits from the work of others for free. We were able to justify maintaining racism against Africans because we needed to continue to deny what we did to them during slavery. We attempted to justify that by showing the movie on how Africans moved from sub-human to more cultured due to their association with us so now we can move forward incorporating them as more equal in our society, our schools, our neighborhoods. We were able to justify maintaining sexism against Women because we needed and still need them to do our dirty work and to support us in whatever we decide to do without recognition, agreement, compensation, and more. We are still able to justify maintaining all of the complicated bigotry against other human beings because it satisfies our need for macho power, money and the creature comforts all of that brings not the least of which is not having to do the hard work of creating an identity when white privilege gives us a strong foundational identity for which we don’t have to work – isn’t all of that what the Supreme Court has facilitated in a low keyed way with their recent decision? Isn’t that almost a parallel to their Plessy decision? And now we can move on to their 1954 decision after those involved have had a bit of time to appreciate the less than equal decision that will follow. It will feel like a breath of fresh air even if some of the less than restrictions are left in place? How to move backwards a little by moving backwards a lot.
Give him enough rope – he will hang himself, but in the meantime he will make sure that his contribution is to the continuation of White Northern European Privilege and Ascendancy over all others. Put him in jail to insure that much or our guilt is expiated, but the damage done will not be totally rectified. Make him a very negative example and make fun of him, call him crazy, hold him up as ‘not like the rest of us’, but underneath it all is that gratitude that comes from those who need the security of being ‘better than’ so they can continue to live ‘free’ after having called for that bowl of soap, water and a towel and used it to insure our eternal detriment, degradation and damnation. Eternal isn’t the issue – immediate is and isn’t that what our increasing technology is doing for us?
Take a look at where we were before Trump!
The Venture Capitalists planned our future with brash, uncouth, out of control, disrespectful young white men of Northern European descent being held up with multi-millions. Made to think they built huge empires when they and their brashness were actually used to front for what has developed and is developing around the multi-billions dollars companies that have sprung up overnight to put the older companies out of business and to move power into the hands of a small group who make Trump look like a joke.
The political ‘king’ makers, who are responsible for the rise of Trump and who have put the supporting structures in place which are needed to change this country and stop its movement towards a democracy where all are equal and where compassion and love reign supreme are today rejoicing in what they see as their success. It took years before the advent of Trump to put in place the structures which elected him. How much went into gerrymandering? How much went into the development of Breitbart- the NRA – the KKK – the White Nationalists – the neo-Nazi’s – bringing them all to the fore and pushing back on everything else.
“Make America Great Again” did not start with Trump. It is a slogan he stole from others who used it before he came along, when he was playing around with Roy Cohn and his boys. Bringing America into the circle of Russia, Northern Korean, Syria, and other such countries couldn’t have been done by Trump. It had to be a long developing power surge. Take credit, guys, for what you have done.
And now what? More of the same? Moving to a very different form of government – one which will never again be bothered having to fend off an African American president – or beat back a woman president who was advocating for the opposite to what we now have in power – never have to face the horror of the son or daughter of a refugee taking over as president?
It is up to you America.
From every Bettina breakfast or breakfast seminar there is no sign of anyone wanting more of what we have today – so how is this going to end? All of us shot dead when we step out of line and shine a light onto what’s wrong here? Jailing increasing when you protest with all of your assets taken away as they can now do in Arizona if you dare to be a part of the ‘wrong’ protest movement or demonstrations? Fear running through the streets as security guards from other countries are allowed to mutilate and harm Americans even in front of the cameras and without negative comments or protests from our leaders – a tacit show that it should continue and grow stronger.
Where is all this going America? Is your insecurity going to continue and make America White Again? Or are you going to find your guts and make America a wonderful, humane, democracy whose doors are actually and really opened fulfilling what is written on the Statue of Liberty. She is certainly in trouble today. I can see the stone masons chipping off those words and replacing them with “Enter at your own risk – leaving your need for equality, freedom, justice behind.”
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Friday, June 16th, 2017
by: Marceline Donaldson and Harold E. Doley, Jr.
Drew Gilpin Faust, the 28th president of Harvard University has resigned her position effective June 30, 2018.
A historian and former head of Radcliff Institute, Ms. Faust did an excellent job of continuing to move this private Ivy League institution, founded in 1636 in “New Town” – later to become Cambridge, MA., to educate Congregational Ministers to be able to better serve their churches.
Until Ms. Faust’s tenure, Harvard was led by white males and only white males. She broke a ‘glass ceiling’ which held until 11 years ago.
Today, that mandate has changed and Harvard University has educated and continues to educate those who have been – who are – and who will be some of this country’s greatest leaders. Its resources are an endowment of more than $34 billion and a world-wide academic reputation. Coming to Harvard to study is a plum for most, no matter their country of origin.
Now, Harvard must look for a president who can continue its legacy and move it even higher – and we just might have the solution.
Harvard, of course needs to be led by a Nobel Laureate. And it would be great to have an alumnus of Harvard be that new president. Someone known around the world – using his or her Harvard education, which is widely acknowledged as having been one of the tools used to create that person’s legacy to the world. To also have that person with a beginning – at birth beginning – reflect the world in all of its diversity would be quite special. America has traditionally divided itself into many separatist camps while claiming to be a “melting pot”. Well, it is time for Harvard to help that image of America by selecting a president whose birth, upbringing and career choices reflect that “melting pot”.
Whose life better reflects what Harvard is about and what Harvard aspires for its students, researchers and others than President Barack Obama?
His mother was born on an Army base in Wichita, Kansas – the heartland of these United States. She was born on an Army base because her father enlisted in the military and moved across Europe in General George Patton’s Army. Obama’s grandfather studied using the G.I. Bill – owned a house using the Veterans Administration mortgage program – they helped raise Obama when his mother needed that help – and his grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line, moving herself up to Vice President of a bank.
From his parental legacy at birth even until today, Obama has been a product and symbol of the American Dream.
The other side of Barack Hussein Obama is his Kenyan father, who was born in Nyanza Province. Obama’s father grew up herding goats in Kenya and left there to accept a scholarship to study at the University of Hawaii. There he met Ann Dunham, Obama’s mother, a woman of white middle-American ancestry. They married and produced a son at a time during which such intermarriages were not looked upon proudly or even accepted as legal in some parts of the United States.
Obama’s father attended Harvard University working towards a Ph.D. So, a part of President Barack Obama’s Harvard application would have included his standing as a legacy matriculant. It is an understatement to say Barack made good use of his Harvard education and is an incredible example for others to follow.
Having lived in Jakarta, Indonesia after his parents divorce and his mother’s re-marriage, Obama learned to function in multi-cultural settings from an early age.
He returned to the United States at age 10 to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents who sent him to Punahou Academy where he was forced to come to grips with himself as someone oppressed by the society in which he lived.
His educational experiences included Hawaii – Occidental College in Los Angeles – Columbia University in New York City and Harvard University School of Law where he ended his schooling as editor of the Law Review. He graduated Harvard Law magna cum laude.
To digress just a bit, I have a daughter who graduated Stanford School of Law as editor of the law review (sorry, a mother has to brag).
He has since practiced civil rights law with Miner, Barnhill & Galland; was a community organizer; taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School; and more.
Barack is a best-selling author and Grammy Award winner. If you have not read his book, “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, you should. The book is literally poetry. It has been printed in more than 25 languages. The audio-book version is narrated by President Obama.
Obama ran for and won a seat in the Illinois State Senate and worked with both Democrats and Republicans on legislation which included health care services, ethics and early childhood education programs.
He moved from the Illinois Senate to the U. S. Senate and from there to the presidency of the United States.
As president, he showed himself quite skilled at management, having come into office at a time when he had to immediately deal with a global economic crisis and ongoing foreign wars.
He is one of the few American presidents who was not involved in a scandal of any kind and presented and continues to present an image of which all of us can be proud. He is also one of the Americans who is greeted with accolades when he travels the world. His reception parallels, if it does not, in fact, exceed that of rock stars.
Harvard could not find a better president. We only hope President Obama sees things the same way.
WE ARE: Native New Orleanians.
Harold Doley is a former U. S Ambassador in the Reagan Administration, a 1990 graduate of Harvard Business School’s OPM Executive Education Program, among many other accomplishments.
Marceline Donaldson is a 1971 graduate of the Harvard Business School’s PMD Executive Education Program; former National Board Member of NOW, and of the Minneapolis Urban Coalition; founder of Bettina Network, inc.; author and contributor to books such as Elizabeth Fiorenza’s book (a Harvard Professor) as honoris causa, among many other accomplishments.
Proof reading this blog is the Rev. Dr. Robert A. Bennett, native to Baltimore, Maryland, who holds a PhD degree from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Oriental Languages and Literature with a concentration in Hebrew, Hebrew Scripture, Archaeology, an ordained Episcopal priest who served his church as chair of its National Liturgical Commission, professor at Episcopal Divinity School for 35 years, chaired the National Council of Churches Inclusive Language Lectionary Committee, among many other accomplishments.
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Monday, May 29th, 2017
“It is great to have a business man as president”. “Maybe now things will get done in a corporate way.” etc. etc.
Do you really want the United States of America to be a Corporate entity – like USA Corp.? Or the General Motors of America? Or even Google – scratch that – Alphabet, inc.?
What does it mean to have a business person as president? Wasn’t that the real issue in this last campaign? Hillary Clinton – who has been in public life her entire life as opposed to Donald Trump who has been in business his entire life?
So what’s the difference?
I should say in the beginning that I am biased. Having worked for major corporations, I would not want these United States to be run like a corporation by a businessman or woman. What is the difference? All of our talk about changing the United States governmental structure into a fascist dictatorship is roughly equivalent to saying change the United States into a government which makes shoes led by a business person within the structure of Corporate America.
Corporations are not democratic institutions. They are dictatorships. The person at the top dictates just about everything. When a new person takes over at the top even the personality and character of the people under him or her changes. The corporate hiring and promotion begins to be of people like the corporate leader.
Corporations don’t take decisions from the bottom up and only on matters that don’t count would a vote be taken in anything. And when corporations do vote at their annual meetings where voting occurs – the results are fixed. Not by someone who goes about ‘manipulating’ the results for a certain outcome, but because shares in most corporations are held by a few large people or corporations with the results known before the papers about voting even go out. The few times someone has tried to change that they were pushed out unceremoniously and life went on at though they had never existed.
Democracies are far less efficient, but far more humane and concerned about making sure those who are among the ‘have nots’ are taken care of – not totally, but some basics are fought over to make sure the ‘have nots’ have a chance. The defense of those who are a part of the democracy is important and monies spent to make sure we are all ‘safe’.
In the United States, we are currently fighting over universal health care. Other countries already have such, but we have some kind of horror that we might be giving away health care to those who don’t deserve it. That is a very corporate mentality – since in most corporations – those that have get and those that don’t have stay at the bottom until they are fired for others who don’t have and who can be paid to do the same job for less money.
Corporations define the elements that go into reporting a ‘profit’. Very seldom does the profit of corporations actually equal out to what is used to add, subtract, divide to get to the bottom line. For example – corporations use much in this world for which they don’t pay. The democracy or other governmental entity in which they live pays for a lot that corporations use which does not get subtracted from their gross to get to their bottom line profit.
They contribute to pollution, but don’t pay to clean up their mess. They contribute to climate change, but don’t pay to reverse the negatives they create. No one disputes that and no one – well very few people – would fight to get that changed. Occasionally corporate profits are disputed and something is added which was not there before and that then makes up the corporate bottom line. What happened to cause that change? Normally government stepped in to demand the corporation make amends; change its policies; be more responsive; and that government entity will demand the corporate product or service be surveyed and kept ‘honest’.
In democracies, the people who make up that democracy determine what is done, how, when, by who and much concern and money is put into defense, social services, education, and more. There is a responsibility which each person in a democracy has in its continuance, growth and upkeep. There is a limit to the responsibility each person has in a corporate setting and your level of responsibility depends upon your job description, salary, etc.
Where a corporation can cause a problem which affects everybody – it is the governmental entity which generally has to address, change and make better whatever happened. The corporation can and some do, walk away from that kind of responsibility and the world will not stop spinning. The governmental entity cannot – especially the democratic governmental entity. It must step up to the plate and make a change.
In corporations, the CEO, CFO, Executive Committee are generally the people who set policy, and run the corporation. The underlings carry out the dictates of the upperlings. That is not true in a democracy.
I think you get my drift.
It is time for us to clearly outline and understand the difference between a corporation structure and what life is like under such an entity and a democracy knowing what life is like under that entity also.
The United States is a democracy/republic and those of us who are citizens of that democracy are also responsible for its good or ill. Voting is a heavy responsibility – we pay taxes to provide the services we have determined should go to others – we pay taxes to provide for the defense of all of us from negative outside forces – we pay taxes for…………..oh god, do we pay taxes!
In a corporation we do not have that responsibility and we do not pay taxes. We earn an income for doing what our job description says we were hired to do and we can be fired by the corporation, sometimes for no reason. We do not have the level of responsibility in a corporation that we have in a democracy.
A war between the corporate structure and the democratic/republic structure has been predicted for quite a long time – and it has now, with Clinton/Trump, arrived on our door step demanding attention.
The Trump/Clinton presidential campaigns reflected that difference more than most in the past few years. Their mind sets – what they are about are all very different and instead of outlining that difference and calling it what it is, we see evil and good – me included – because clearly a corporate structure for these United States would defeat everything we have worked for over a few hundred years. Our constitution is not a corporate document, but one that brought a democratic/republic into being. We have a Supreme Court and all the other trappings to try to keep us on that democratic path. What is going on in this country today is a strong move to drop the democracy and take on the corporate structure.
Most of the people pushing for such have no idea what they are asking. They are simply repeating what they’ve heard and someplace inside they seem to think this would be great – we all have those moments of running home to Mama to be taken care of, but adulthood is much more fulfilling, productive and humane. They talk about how more efficient that corporate structure would be, etc. etc. when efficiency is not the issue in a government. That would be a disaster and would result in our aligning ourselves with Russia and all the other dictatorships of the world where the individual counts for nothing and survives out of the largesse of the oligarchs and dictator – giving up everything in return including equality, freedom, justice, etc..
Maybe if we bring up in our minds these two opposing structures, which were developed for very different reasons we might be able to come to some accommodation. The United States of America was not founded to make shoes, after all. It was founded to bring about things like equality, justice etc. etc. etc. for all of us.
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Sunday, May 28th, 2017
We took advantage of Bettina Network Hedge Schools and stayed at a house where we wanted to know the wife’s beauty secrets. We’ve seen her for years and thought she was at most 60 years old. When we discovered she was actually 79 we almost flipped out so we immediately made reservations and said in the process that we wanted to spend time talking with her about her lifestyle.
We didn’t say we were going to share it and didn’t intend to, but it was so ‘out there’ that we just couldn’t resist. And, sharing on Bettina’s Blog information about a Bettina family should not be forbidden.
- The first thing we discovered is that she uses no soap and thinks soap is what makes wrinkles. Well, we asked how do you stay clean? By showering or soaking in a tub of hot water. What else do you need? God created water to wash you clean. Man created soap to take away your money. Why would you follow that? There are side affects to what man makes – and the side affect of soap is wrinkles. Well, with that I knew this was going to be an incredible three days. What does she use when dirt won’t be washed away by plain water? Well, organic powdered milk, of course, and to my amazement it works beautifully. – And listen people, I discovered she does have “correct” language and when she says “man” she means “man”. That is not a sexist ‘men’ being a term which is inclusive of everyone on the planet. If she didn’t mean “man” she would have said “human” or some other word in that politically correct lexicon of hers.
2. OK! Recovering from that we wanted to know more so we rose early – something difficult for us – and discovered she’d been up for hours. Well, whatever affect that has we just left it alone because no beauty or youthful look is worth getting up at 3:30-4am. She doesn’t say “youthful looking” by the way. It is “looking healthy”. Ageism, you know.
3. The first thing she does is have a cup of one organic lemon with the juice squeezed into a cup of very warm water and drinks it down like medicine. I thought that was great and I could modify it a bit with the addition of sugar, but that was forbidden so I tried straight lemon juice. Not bad, but it takes a lot of getting used to.
4. Then things got a bit rough. No smoking – we don’t smoke so that’s alright. No alcohol of any kind. Well, what is wrong with alcohol, I protested. It causes wrinkles, she said. Well – this is not going to be the walk in the park I anticipated.
5. I searched the refrigerator and the food cabinets and found only organic foods. No nothing else – even the spices and coffees and teas were organic – everything was organic. Water was in a pitcher with a filter and she apologized because she didn’t know how to get purer water.
This is going to take time – especially since that means also – no prepared foods even if they say organic and no gluten free prepared foods – they are just as bad as everything else. So as I re-searched the refrigerator – looking at things on a different level, everything was food – real, unprocessed, food “the way it comes from its creator”.
Now that to me was impossible, there must be cheating someplace here, so I watched closely and they ate only those real foods. Milk, eggs, butter, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers (which were actually there for beauty reasons rather than food for eating) chicken, beef, lamb – all organic products. Oh, this is going to be hard. Her response was – this has to be a lifestyle that you feel is good, right and easy. Oh, and the bread – organic whole wheat flour and home baked – if they haven’t had time to bake bread, you get fresh out of the oven biscuits. One day we even had croissants. Those were several days in the making because she doesn’t have that much time to bake croissants straight through.
I was amazed – this was better eating than I’d done in years and watching a cake being made while breakfast was being prepared was amazing. The cake took maybe ten minutes total to be prepared to put in the oven. More time processing – for example – she put sugar (organic turbinado) in the mixer with organic butter and let it beat for what seemed like forever. She ignored it until she had time to add the rest of the ingredients with a little more beating and then into the prepared pans for baking. I am going to try this because it is 1-2-3-4 and even I can remember those ingredients. Even when I can’t remember what is one cup and what is three cups – common sense gets into the mix and I know one cup must be butter because we want butter to be the least of the ingredients and two cups must be sugar because we want medium sweet and three cups must be flour and four must be eggs.
6. Exercise is a part of her day. But – and this is a big but – I exercise daily, jog, etc. but that is not a part of this exercise regime. She exercises parts of the body I don’t even think need exercising – your eyes for example (and she wears no glasses at 79 years old), and your toes, and your fingers. No jogging, she’s never liked that and the incredible exercises I do she thinks is a waste of time and energy. She suggested I wash the walls, or shampoo the rug or do some gardening outside in the sun without sunscreen.
7. Make-up doesn’t exist. Vitamins are the skin care products – vitamin A, E, liquid C and for those aches and pains a good soaking in organic apple cider vinegar switched off with epsom salts.
I could go on because that is the tip of the ice berg. However, I should say, since I left I understand this is not hard at all. It takes re-doing your lifestyle and ignoring what the cosmetic and other marketeers have trained us to think is absolute, essential and all the money spent on such is going to result in results.’ I knew that last part wasn’t true – I spend about $200/ month on cosmetics and at 57 I look older than my host family looks spending money only on foods.
Her biggest health purifier comes from the fact that she hasn’t been to a doctor in over 50 years and doesn’t expect to see one any time soon. Right thinking – giving to others – being aware of the messages your body gives out – those are the things important in that Bettina Hedge School.
Totally the reverse of everything I was ever taught.
Thanks for the experience. It is one I will never forget.
Bettina Hedge Schools rock. I am not sure where I am going next, but I think living with a classical pianist for a few days while I go to meetings, etc. to give her time to do her thing without me hanging around, sounds like a good deal for both of us.
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Friday, May 19th, 2017
We just couldn’t resist. With everyone chiming in about all of this we thought it was time for our oracle to speak:
“What a grand mess! Developed from human greed and the need for power to bring about a world in which one can wallow instead of being industrious about and responsible for the welfare of others. This is all coming from a need to feel better than other humans instead of working hard to follow the laws of love. In other words, laziness of the soul is what has produced this mess.
Where to begin! Amazingly there is no static surrounding this so it is coming in clear! It is a rare time to see the future with such clarity and beauty.
I shall begin with – of course – Donald Trump, the great man, currently being used by so many forces of evil. How did he become so powerful!
Remember when Donald Trump was so viciously pursuing Barack Obama with his campaign of lies about Obama not being a citizen of the United States and so he was not a legitimate president? Too bad Trump could not use his genius in the service of good, but put it at the disposal of the forces of evil. He pursued Barack Obama relentlessly all throughout Obama’s campaign for the presidency and throughout his years as president. That was a ‘dog whistle’. Trump was calling together those who were weak in their identity; who had problems with their inner being and needed something to be able to feel good about themselves. He called together those who chose to slide by in this world not doing their work, but putting bigotry at the center of their being. The very hard work of building their identity on the solid rock foundation of love for all humans is what makes one pursue love instead of tyranny and evil. Trump unveiled for those so insecure the beginnings of how they could get rid of this threat building – an African American man as president threatening to take down what generations of evil had built – this threat to all like him who were insecure in their personhood. And when a woman threatened to follow this African American man, the last bits and pieces of this evil were being threatened with being reduced to nothing. It was too much – the last straw – this was not something evil in the world would or could tolerate and so these negative, ugly, fascist forces were called into action as Donald Trump’s “army”..
Donald J. Trump put together those who responded to his ‘dog whistle’ with those who chose the path of ‘power over others’ to create a campaign to make himself President of the United States. He wanted to be the most powerful person in the world and was willing to sacrifice the small bits of goodness he still had inside of himself for the position.
One can gain that position by going the route of working to build a better world for all or one can gain that position by taking the route of calling together all of the evil in the world to create you as this human who is above all other humans and that is what appealed to Trump. Trump saw the path of evil as a much clearer path – one far more suited to his souls laziness and he saw the same laziness in others – so he joined with those establishing and who had already established fascist dictatorships around the world and promised his fealty as one of them and to be their chief supporter- and what they have not yet realized – their leader.
So, Donald J. Trump had the building blocks for his presidency – the combination of the bigots with the fascists. A fairly traditional partnership known to and comfortable in this world. Mostly these were one and the same, but sometimes he had to meld the two to get the support he needed. Chief among his supporters was VP.
At the same time Trump knew he could constantly refresh his position and he put aside many ‘dog whistles’ which he could use when one began to get old and the dogs stopped responding. The latest one was his statement about Barack Obama having him surveyed with listening devices in his beloved Trump Tower. It was plausible to many because of many of the people living in Trump Tower. One could make a case for any one of them being “surveilled.”
With this as his base, Trump has accomplished much for his side. Human weakness has played into his plans and given him the kind of support he never expected to have. Those who wanted the same things, but were not clear enough in their pursuit of evil to make the kind of sacrifices Trump was willing to make and, in fact, has made. These were chief among his supporters – those who wanted power in their own small piece of the world; those who wanted to be close to power serving its needs were in the mix; those who wanted money to be able to do things they hadn’t been able to do before they promised fealty to evil – and so many more.
We can see the result. Especially this past week with the violence in the streets of Washington, D. C., apparently caused by the evil emanating from Turkey to let the world know that such thuggery, such destruction of the human spirit by physical means, was clearly now acceptable in the United States and would be rewarded. Those objecting and trying to stop such displays and horribleness would be put down and pushed aside in Trump’s world.
This was a week of Trump parading his fascist-style dictator friends in and through the White House – that beacon of democracy – and across the pages of the media to show the world what he expected to be his grand entrance into world domination, giving out the images to the world that America has left its democracy behind and is entering into Trump and his friend’s fascist state. No more democratic-republic. Let those following the law of love shutter – Trump appears to have won! His hand shakes and smiles and friendly bantering with the fascist-dictators of the world and those who hope to be fascist-dictators as opposed to his coldness and ugly attitude toward those who came to visit during previous times who are working to build a more democratic world. All very telling.
Well, not so fast. Apparently, there are still vestiges in the United States of some form of goodness. The rule of law, which we shouldn’t really espouse, but which shows up in times of need when we seem to be failing in other ways, has shown its head and is beginning the take down of Trump. Well, maybe the rule of law will suffice until the rule of love can become totally entrenched.
Now those who were choosing evil have to stop and breathe. What now! It seemed clear that their path to importance – to moving up another step on the ladder of financial worldly success has been changed. Maybe it is time to wait to see what will happen. Will evil continue to succeed via Trump? Or has something else entered the picture.
Certainly Pence – Trump’s major ally in this drama – is not the answer. He has shown himself able to lie as easily as Trump. His way to the top, however, is a little different. He is moving ahead with his inner soul trappings as one of the pharisees (a person distinguished by strict observance of the traditional and written law, and commonly held to have pretensions to superior sanctity. a self-righteous person; a hypocrite) only beginning to show, but being exposed ever so slightly is as good as being totally stripped and laid bare.
In all of this. good eventually triumphs’ How fast or how slowly this happens depends upon where you are in your life and in how much or how little of yourself you are contributing to either promoting Trump or working for and promoting the goodness in life. But even so there is a ways to go. Follow Trump’s trip abroad very closely – it holds the answers to the questions you have and will expose many for who they actually are in this drama – both those at home and those abroad.
We don’t need this drama to see that all of you, in everything you do, clearly give out hints and behaviors that expose your inner soul.
And now to more practical matters: How do you become a seer and an oracle? you only have to pray constantly for wisdom and knowledge and you will also become a seer and an oracle. To obtain, get to know and follow the rule of love? That is a totally different story. That is the hardest path to follow and the one which puts on your shoulder the largest and heaviest of crosses.
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Thursday, May 11th, 2017
by: Elise Miller
Member of the Bettina Network Lifestyle Community
Our son, Ravi, first became interested in origami at age three and a half-years-old, when we followed the instructions in Curious George for making a paper boat. In the book, George had made boats out of the newspapers that he was supposed to be delivering to people’s houses. I then found some old origami paper at home, and over the next two or three years, Ravi went from making cranes to complicated tessellations.
During that time, a friend suggested we watch the documentary “Between the Folds” (
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/between-the-folds/). My husband and I were utterly astonished to find that origami was not only a fine art, but a critical tool for physicists, mathematicians and engineers to develop crease patterns for everything from telescope lenses to heart stents. In fact, one of the people featured on “Between the Folds” is Robert Lang, PhD, a physicist and “paper-folder”, who used origami to create the design for the Hubble telescope (
http://www.langorigami.com/article/eyeglass-telescope). Also featured was Erik Demaine, PhD, who became the youngest professor ever at MIT and has an office full of origami models (
http://erikdemaine.org).
We were so inspired by this film that we all decided to attend the International Origami Convention held in New York City annually (
https://origamiusa.org/conventions) to meet Dr. Lang and other leaders in the burgeoning field of origami engineering. The few hundred people who attended, many of whom were kids like Ravi, were remarkable for their creativity, intensity, intelligence and ability to make just about anything imaginable out of one piece of paper. We also learned that geometric algorithms (based on origami techniques) were starting to be used to develop self-folding robots (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYz7g-qLjs). In fact, just in the last couple years or so, new academic programs and departments have sprung up at major universities for origami engineering (
http://www.livescience.com/49121-origami-inspired-engineering-is-expanding.html). Little did we know that reading
Curious George would ultimately lead us to the cutting edge of science and engineering!
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Monday, May 8th, 2017
A very big thank you
for all the support we received
as we went about managing
the Bettina Moving Sale
in Watertown, Massachusetts.
So many of you came out and looked and bought and ate cookies – horrible store-bought cookies made without the benefit of organic flour, organic cocoa, etc. I warned them not to do that, but, next time we will do better!!
We had a few ‘newcomers’ to Bettina Network, inc’s sales, who felt being ugly was the way to go and to get the price and item they wanted, but they ran into our buzz saw called ‘Marceline’ and that was that. To balance them off we made many new friends who we will look for at future sales.
You all met Frances, who was working her first Bettina Sale and who was a bit nervous at the beginning, but relaxed and by the end of the sale had joined in and did very well. If you or someone you know would like to work the Bettina Sales, please call and let’s have a conversation. Toll free at 1-800-347-9166 or 617 497 9166 or email us at bettina-network@comcast.net.
The children who came were the gems – the very young person who looked to be about 8 or 9 years old, and who was with her grandparents, very ably translating for them because they did not speak English. She did not hesitate to correct Frances when she made a $2 mistake in our favor, making sure her grandparents’ money was correctly handled. And then there was the pregnant mother with her baby in a sling over her shoulder – with such a presence that you knew the future was secure if there are many more young people building families like theirs. There were many realtors coming and going with their clients looking at the house. We loved the fact that a couple of the realtors just couldn’t resist and put their business aside to participate in ours. The outstanding buyer was the family who purchased a piece of furniture and found a one ounce gold bar stuck in the back of one of the drawers and brought it to us. Where else do you find that kind of honesty except at a Bettina Network Sale?
We are so grateful for your friendship, your business, your suggestions, your warmth and love and look forward to seeing you next time at a Bettina Sale.
We added several new members to Bettina Network’s Lifestyle Community and hope you use your password and join in as we move to grow this organization.
Thank you seems so inadequate, but it is truly and seriously and deeply meant and felt.
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All of us at Bettina’s
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From a Bettina Oracle Reader
Tuesday, September 12th, 2017Thank 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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