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Hair Color – Organic/Beautiful/Changeable!

Sunday, June 24th, 2018

Many breakfast table conversations move into the areas of health and beauty. We have heard just about everything people do to enhance their natural looks and we have tried everything talked about. We don’t put everything out for you to try or know about because we want to make sure someone in the Network has tried it and thinks it is marvelous.

As you get older your hair ages just as your skin, your bones and everything else. So trying to “fix it”, “stop it”, “shape it up”, “strengthen it” and in this case “keep my beautiful locks” can become a constant pre-occupation. A fun pre-occupation, but time consuming – so, expecting great results goes along with the staying beautiful and always at my peak of perfection. My grandmother used to say “when you step out of that front door you should look as though you just stepped out of a band box.” During those years I knew what she meant. Today, I often wonder just what is a “band box”?

Entering into this discussion comes “Henna” – a hundreds of years old solution to all kinds of hair problems. One not so popular today because it is simply a plant which has been mashed and ground to a powder.

Several of us have been using Henna in different ways for several years and it has turned out to be fantastic. It has taken all those years to learn how to get the best results but it was worth the trial and error and the gnashing of teeth. My hair has never been so beautiful and we are 20 times (4) years old, or maybe its is 20 times (2) years old or maybe it is something else?

The Henna we found most usable is the kind which is pure organically grown Henna. No chemicals of any kind added; no preservatives; no anything else – just the crushed leaves of the Henna plant. If you are going to try Henna, make sure it is real and not a part of a mixture of other things.

Now to – how to use Henna for your hair:

First: Wash your hair with a good shampoo. The Henna we settled on advises that you wash your hair with a shampoo without essential oils. I use an organic shampoo with lavender essential oil and it seems to do fine although it is possible that the Henna would last longer if I listened to the experts.

Second: Decide with what you want to mix your Henna. We’ve tried eggs, organic apple cider vinegar, tea, coffee, yogurt and much more. I found eggs and organic apple cider vinegar works best in my hair which is naturally curly and can look unruly if it gets dry – which can be often.

Don’t try eggs and organic apple cider vinegar at the same time. Try one and next time try the other. Inbetween applying Henna I now use a raw egg in my hair after I shampoo. Crack the egg, beat it to mix yolk and white, cover your hair with the raw egg and make sure your all hair is covered while you sit with your hair and head wrapped in something like Saranwrap or a shower cap and wrapping a towel around my head for 1/2 hour or more depending upon what else I have to do. This is the same process I use for the Henna. If I mixed Henna with organic apple cider vinegar. then when I wash my hair in-between Henna applications I go back to using the egg as a conditioner.

I was totally amazed at what the raw egg did for my hair. At first I thought it was the Henna, but after many tries I realized it was the raw egg. My hair comes out softly curled in spite of my doing nothing to it after the egg application except drying the hair with a towel and putting on a bit of organic Avocado Oil to keep it from drying out. I know the effect has not come from the Avocado Oil because I used that before I started with Henna and eggs and after a day or two my hair dried out and looked as though it was breaking off and out of control. With the egg and Avocado Oil my hair lasts looking great for about a week before it needs to be re-washed.

I don’t use organic apple cider vinegar in-between Henna-ing my hair because I didn’t see what good it did. When I use it combined with the Henna the color seems brighter and shinier.

Third: Ready to apply Henna to freshly washed hair – mix the Henna powder (which is ONLY Henna leaves pounded into a powder) with one or two raw eggs which you have whipped before adding and then add enough water to this mixture to end up with something the consistency of a thick, wonderful yogurt – which, by the way, is something you can also add to Henna.(Instead of the egg or apple cider vinegar).

Those who used tea and coffee didn’t see any observable results. Their hair didn’t change in any way neither for the good nor the bad. It didn’t seem to affect the color nor did it seem to contribute to how long the Henna results lasted.

My results last for about two months. After that it is time to try again. It lasts two months not because the color changes or leaves the hair, but because the grey grows back in and I have that color line between the new growth which is grey and the Henna’d hair. What I really like is the new growth once I put in Henna, comes out a bit lighter than the old hair and it sort of mimics the grey and dark brown of my original hair. The lighter color around my face has a softening effect.

I also like the fact that my hair looks as though I have had it streaked as the grey throughout comes out lighter than the hair which is still dark brown and that is also an effect I love.

You have to experiment to finally get the results you like and if you enjoy variety you won’t stop there, but keep on going so each time you step out you have a new look. Not a drastic new look, but one of which you are aware. Friends notice how nice you look. It isn’t dramatic enough to notice and be able to see what the changes really have been.

Fourth: Once you have the Henna mixed the way you would like – making sure the water you add is very hot – apply Henna to your scalp and hair until you have used it all up and have a thick coating with every hair strand covered well down to the scalp and root.

Fifth: Wrap your head and hair with something like Saran Wrap or other material which will hold heat. If you have a salon type hair dryer – where you put your head in the bubble and turn on the heat; or a hand held dryer with the cap attached to the hose that is great. Go ahead with either of them.

If you use the Saran Wrap or a plastic shower cap – the ones you used to get from the airlines when you travel are great for this – after you have covered your hair completely then wrap a towel around your head to keep in the heat. If you have the salon dryer or cap style dryer turn them on for at least 1/2 hour. The darker your hair the longer you need to keep the Henna covered and heated.

Sixth: Once the time has passed – I keep Henna on my hair for one hour for best results for me (you have to decide your best time through trying different times) – rinse your hair thoroughly with very warm water until the Henna has all washed out. Be very thorough in this wash.

Seventh: After rinsing the Henna out of your hair completely, shampoo as usual, towel dry your hair, and add a bit of organic Avocado oil.

Eighth: After all of the above go about life as normal. If you set your hair on huge rollers, do that. If you shake your head, do nothing and go about your business do that also. If you comb and arrange your hair the way you would like it to look when dry and then put on a netting to keep your hair in place while it dries – do that also.

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Children Weaponized while Satan Quotes Scripture!

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

by Marceline Donaldson

It is unbelievable what is happening in these United States. Trump’s bigotry and actions to “Make America White Again” is totally out of control.

We have many questions:

In the Internment/Concentration/Death Camps for children why are reporters being kept out? What is going on in those camps which has to be kept secret from the American Citizenry and from the rest of the world? The same thing was true in Hitlers’ Germany. The citizens of Germany stood by while Hitler set up his Death Camps, his Concentration Camps, his Internment Camps and the rest of the world knew about this before German citizens did. Is the same thing now true in the United States?

You question my use of the term “Death Camps”? Are children dying in those camps? And if they were do you think you would know about it? Do you remember how profusely Donald Trump praised Kim Jong Un – how quickly he returned the salute of the North Korean general? One thing Kim Jong Un is reported to have done is to have killed many of North Korean citizens in the equivalent of death camps. Isn’t that what Donald Trump was praising? How does he then come along and change to a human being who is anything other than a sociopathic president or worse?

People coming to the United States for asylum with their children are having their children separated from them and put into places where children are weaponized for Trump’s political purposes. Some of those people are being deported – sent home without their children. Where are the children of those being deported? Why are they being sent home without their children? Why are there no questions being asked or answered about the whereabouts of those children? Do we care a little, but not enough to walk out on that ledge to demand answers – because if you are going to oppose this administration you better be ready for horrendous dictatorship responses. There is Trump, but the evil comes from the fact that Trump has supporters and they are willing to do whatever is necessary to keep Trump in office. They do appreciate the kind of things he is doing to maintain them as “better than” as “superior” to as “White Supremacy reigning supreme and he has been obliging all along.

Puerto Rico – where he threw paper towels into a crowd of people who had just gone through horrendous suffering and are still going through it with the resources they need being parceled out in such a way to maintain that suffering. So far, the deaths of over 4,000 people are attributed to what happened in Puerto Rico. Our government claims some 64 deaths so attributed. Now take another look at those Children’s Internment Camps and try to not call them death camps.

Take a look at Charlottesville, VA. where a re-enactment of Crystal Nacht took place! Trump was forgiven by the American citizenry for that display of bigotry. Why? Do you not understand what Charlottesville was about? “There are good people on both sides”! What a beautiful sight was the procession with tiki torches down the mountain by the KKK, the Neo-Nazis, the White Supremacist quoting and chanting anti-Jewish slogans and changing to chants about the rest of the ‘minority’ peoples of the world. Have you justified that?

Also take a look at how our justice system is being ridiculed and used against all of us. When have you ever heard of children 3 and 4 years old being put on trial and made to defend themselves with no lawyers or other people representing them but the children themselves being forced to represent themselves and to be bound by the decision of the judges, which from what we can determine is always against the children? Trump has appointed a large number of judges who can change this country into a place which makes Nazi Germany look like a walk in the park quickly. Aren’t they now showing a film to these 3 and 4 year olds about the justice system and defending their rights and then declaring them able and responsible and knowledgeable enough to be able to appear in court on their own behalf. What is that? Where are all of you sleepwalkers? Waiting for your children to be put in the same position – because that is coming as Trump’s grasp for power moves further out of control. Look at his actions with only one trip to North Korean. And – North Korea needs to take note – Trump has no boundaries. When his ego and power needs reaches the current limits you are not in the clear and you will not be the glorified country you expect to be after Trump’s visit. You will be somehow weaponized in the future.

What a field day for the petophile? A field day created by the United States government under Donald Trump, an illegitimate president turning this country into a copy of all the horrendous dictatorships around the world and quickly moving beyond them. Do you now understand why Trump was so profuse in his praise of Kim Jong Un?

And then there is “Satan”. Attorney General Sessions – an ET.Evangelical Christian quoting scripture to back up and legitimize what Trump is doing. If Sessions knows enough about the Bible to quote from it, he also knows and someplace in his distant past learned that satan quoted scripture to Jesus to legitimize Jesus breaking with God in the 40 day fast to go along with what satan wanted Jesus to do – and wasn’t that basically to rule the world in satan’s name doing satan’s bidding? Is that how Sessions justifies what he is doing for Trump? Is that who you listen to and follow as your Attorney General? If Trump is an illegitimate president does that make his appointment of Sessions illegitimate? Is Sessions an illegitimate Attorney General and do all of these people get arrested for their impersonation of who was duly elected as president of these United States? Do they get arrested for using their positions in the United States Government to abuse, kidnap and kill children?

Don’t you think it is time for you to get involved in other than being shocked, grieved and more by what your government is doing? Or are you one of the Trump supporters who quietly or otherwise want to see him succeed in removing the brown and black people from this country so they make up only a small percentage and these United States goes back to being white again?

How much are you going to take before you take action. How long are you going to stand in the shadows and allow this to happen? Do you think you are immune? Do you think Trump is going to stop at weaponized the children of those coming into this country for asylum? Don’t you know the appetite of power? Once unleashed as Trump’s has been – the limits of power knows no bounds – it may be the children of asylum seekers today but it is going to be your children tomorrow. Especially since he sees how easy it is to weaponize children to get the populace to do what he demands.

Watch Congress – are they going to acquiesce to his demands and give him your tax payer money – your hard earned dollars to build a wall which will be expensive, ineffective and simply serve the purpose of making Trump a larger more dangerous dictator than he was before.

Congress could have acted on the little things along the way. They kept silent. Now they have much more dangerous things to try to push against.

I ask again – ARE THE CHILDREN OF ASYLUM SEEKERS DYING? You think not? How would your children fare in a desolate dessert in a ten which experiences 105 degrees outside and who knows how many degrees inside? When your children do not know what is happening to them or why and are trying to make sense out of being ripped away from their family without their parents or other family even been able to say good-bye to them? How are those young people making sense out of their present condition? Add their grief to the heat and the conditions under which they are living – about which you know nothing and are being kept from knowing anything – how would your children survive?

ARE THE CHILDREN DYING AND ARE THERE CHILDREN WHO HAVE ALREADY DIED? Otherwise – why are asylum seekers being deported without their children?

The media has given the benefit of the doubt to Trump and his supporters – confusion, bad organization, etc. REALLY? Is that it? Or is the look of confusion really covering up children having died while in United States custody! Why is there no one in court yet asking for proof of those children’s continued existence on this earth?

If you know history you know how long German Death Camps were operating before German citizens even knew they existed. Nielsen, the current head of Homeland Security didn’t know the answer to where are all the children? She has no idea what is going on in those camps and admitted to such in a press conference in the White House.

And you think Trump is any better than Hitler? He looks a lot worse to me! He is certainly moving much faster than Hitler did after his election in Germany and instead of setting up Death, Concentration, Internment Camps for adults Trump has weaponized your children – yes, your children, this is not about them and theirs this is about us and ours. You are no different to Trump than those asylum seekers. You are simply the means to more power like Kim Jong Un and others around the world exercise and Trump is fast earning his stripes.

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AG Sessions Quoting Scripture? – Try Psalm 52!

Sunday, June 17th, 2018

by Francis Maloney

Since you are deep into scripture Attorney General Sessions – try reading Psalm 52. You might also read it to Donald J. Trump. It certainly fits both of you.

52 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

²The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

³Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

⁴Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

⁵God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

⁶The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

⁷Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

⁸But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

⁹I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

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Spending Time at a Bettina Network Hedge School

Friday, June 15th, 2018

I recently stayed at a Bettina Network Hedge School and enjoyed every minute, but came home exhausted.

Every home is different and offers a wide range of experiences so I decided to take three days – combine this trip with my vacation – and see what this is all about.

Once you’ve stayed in a Bettina home you become a member of Bettina Network Lifestyle Community. I love that part because I now have a password and can access parts of their web site. I can add events to Bettina’s Menu of Events or I can generate a calendar of events for the city where I am staying. Their events are not the kind you find in the entertainment section of newspapers or other kinds of media. Many are known only to the locals and in the right city that is a great find.

I wanted to learn about upholstering a room in my house. This was something I read about years ago in a beautifully written novel and never forgot the description of the house.

I traveled to another one of the Bettina homes a couple years ago and heard about this house which helps you look at different ways to make your house, not airtight, but as economical in using heat as possible and the one thing I heard was this house was upholstering its walls.

I know cold comes through windows and sometimes I realized how cold the inside of the outside walls of my house can become so I thought that would be great. So, knowing very little about what I was getting into off I went on a real journey of discovery.

My first day was spent sightseeing around town. That was great, but my attention span for those kind of things gets lost quickly. I need to do something “real” to keep going , so the second and third days I stayed at the house instead of roaming around. A woman, who was a guest at breakfast talked about what upholstering walls was all about. She was there to help with a bedroom and talk us through the process. The family had done this before and will finally have all of their rooms upholstered, I was glad to be around for the second and not the first try.

I saw the padding that would be used and the beautiful brocade material that would be put over the padding. I was over the moon. This was going to be really special.

We started by measuring and cutting the padding to fit all the different walls and over doors and small cubbies in the room. I realized right away this was going to dramatically reduce my heating bill. It would be really difficult for the cold to penetrate into that room. It would take a couple days or longer, if at all.

Stapling the padding to the walls took the rest of the day and I was kind of tired, but very proud of my work.

We had tea in the late afternoon and talked about the history of this wall upholstery – it was the precursor of wallpaper. Most of the very upper class homes had upholstered walls. The poorer folks – like myself – had to paper their walls, which really gives no benefit beyond aesthetic. This wall upholstery gives aesthetic as well as insulation.

the next morning – my third day – my host family suggested I might like to hangout, tour a bit, do nothing, but I was ready to go and wanted to see this through to the end as quickly as possible. They cautioned that I might get tired since I really was not accustomed to such work. I didn’t want to hear any of that so after breakfast and a visit with an Interior Designer who the family knows and works with we were ready to go.

I could not believe how beautiful the material.

We had the measurements from the day before when we put up the padding, so we moved along pretty quickly cutting and stapling the material to the walls. The staple gun we used has a pot belly contraption which hooked into the upholstery staple gun which was made especially for doing upholstery work. The pot belly thing seemed to be for the purpose of giving more power to force the staples into the wall.

As we talked to the Interior Designer she described other ways to do this wall upholstery. One was to put framing around the walls and staple the material to this framing. The family, however, wanted to do this by stapling directly to the wall. Their walls were plaster and built before 1900. It was a time when, in some buildings, plaster was mixed with marble dust and it made for a very strong plaster wall. If they had wall board as walls they would not have been able to do the stapling directly onto the walls – and – we were stapling close to the doors and windows so that also provided a substantial surface on which to attach the material.

This is very brief from what I learned at that house. I have a notebook full of information which I will keep close because I am going to upholster all of my walls and hopefully my next winters heating bill will drop by half.

When we finished putting the material onto the walls we used a beautiful braid and that was our finishing look for this project. The braid blended with the material and gave everything a very professional look.

All in all it was three days well spent. I stayed in a beautiful room – great breakfast – met a couple of people who did this wall upholstery as their vocation – and I was ready to go to work. Only when I got home I realized I was completely exhausted. I spent a couple days recovering because we did some hard work. It was fun – we joked quite a bit – talked a lot – I felt as though I had known this family for years by the time I left for home – and I got over my tired in a couple days. The same kind of tired I would have experienced from a vacation, but on this “vacation” I came home with some real learning, new friends and an understanding of what some people do for a living. I didn’t think anyone did this, but whatever you are looking for there is someone someplace who is an expert.

I hope Bettina Network Hedge Schools grows into a huge, magnificent Network so I can try many of their homes. What I love most about Bettina’s is that it is a corporation that is greed-free. They will contribute to this world as well as take what they need to survive and grow.

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BN Lifestyle Member Responds

Thursday, June 14th, 2018

by: Lani Stacks

It is unfortunate that many, and of course, Trump’s followers and fans, think he is the greatest man of all history. I saw right through it as you did. Even the young North Korean dictator was mesmerized by this self-impressed American thug. Kim Jong Un appeared/behaved very child-like as grade or middle school children do actually meeting a film star celebrity in-person. And of course, Trump took advantage of his own size and height being larger, with the North Korean being shorter. That, you know is one of the first bully tactics. No wonder Un’s comment about this meeting being like a science fiction movie. Trump maneuvered Un’s childish mind to affect “awe” as the outcome to Un’s mind and being impressed to actually meeting Donald Trump in person. Yes, Trump set his stage for further control of the audience of puppets.

While being on this email reply, I want to add how disgusting Trump was to disrespect the Canadians and their prime minister. Having lived at the Canadian border and dear Canadian friends over the decades, what came out of Trumps mouth was as horrible had I, after the grand friendship/sisterhood we two have had since the 1970s, for me to denounce you and even go to the extent of spitting on your face. That was disgraceful beyond belief of Trump’s behavior toward Trudeau. This shows Trump for what he actually is: Slim of the Earth. It is embarrassing to have him as the U.S. president representing hundreds of millions of individuals of many cultures.

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How to Unstop Your Sinks!

Wednesday, June 13th, 2018

We had a guest who came into the kitchen asking for baking soda and vinegar. We didn’t know what to make of the request and asked if we could help with something? She said no, she had everything under control, but we only had apple cider vinegar and organic at that. She said she had never used the apple cider vinegar before but it would have to do.

When she came back to the kitchen about 5 minutes later to return the unused baking soda and apple cider vinegar she had this big smile on her face and said she was delighted to know that apple cider vinegar worked just as well as white vinegar because she preferred the natural kind, but had not used it before.

What was she doing? The bath tub in her bathroom had water running out rather slowly and in her own home she put baking soda and white vinegar down the drains once a month. She put that combination down every drain in the house on the first of every month.

So, of course, I took the baking soda – bought more from the store – went around the house and put baking soda and apple cider vinegar in every drain – showers, sinks, bath tubs, etc. and voila a small miracle – the drains run out quickly and just fine. I was worried that I would have to call a plumber to have my drain pipes flushed out because I had noticed the slow draining water, but didn’t want to spend the money so I put it off.

Now I am glad I did.

Hope this helps someone.

P. S. – she was not the first person to tell us about baking soda and vinegar. A couple from Hawaii, who we love dearly, left about a month ago and told us about the baking soda and vinegar, but like most of us I procrastinated and didn’t have either the drain pipes flushed out nor did I take their advice on the baking soda and vinegar.

I love this business. Look at the information, wisdom and friendship that comes along with it.

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Comments from Several Bettina Members

Friday, June 1st, 2018

ed. note: The articles which are published in Bettina Network’s Blog are written by members of Bettina Network Lifestyle Community. They could be the results of their research, recipes, stories, history, telling us what they are doing and need our support, restaurant reviews, interesting places to shop they know about, etc. Sometimes they send a full article and sometimes are moved to send a comment. What follows are several comments by different members of BNLC.

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1.) Everything I see about the U. S. Congress under Donald Trump’s presidency makes me think of J. Edgar Hoover. He was in power a very long time and folks were afraid to make a move which he did not approve. He kept files on Congress people as well as others he felt were important and who he might need to reach and those files, from what I knew of them, were tantamount to ‘blackmail’. I wonder if that is why we are seeing such a cowed response from Congress where they will not go against Donald Trump. This can’t be explained simply by congressional people needing money to run their next campaign and are afraid of alienating Trump and his buddies who are all throughout the Republican Party – especially at the top of the financial area. Or were at the top of the financial area – wasn’t that Michael Cohen and Broika?

2.). Treasonous Trump was notified by the FBI early in his presidential campaign as to the possibility of his campaign being targeted and infiltrated by Russia. He is now lying to what – cover himself? It is amazing that he is still president. Russia chose well to destroy the United States. Wonder what his reward will be!

3.). United States history is being replayed on a different level, but you can see the pattern. During the time of African slavery babies and small children were taken from their parents by whatever means necessary and mostly sold into slavery. Native American children were taken from their parents under the guise of ‘acculturating’ them properly? Those were horrendous and extremely painful times. Now today, the children of immigrants are being taken from their parents for no good reason except for the evil currently in the American system. How long will this be repeated? Don’t we see and learn these horrific lessons?

4.) Everything Treasonous Trump does seems to be something which promotes and pushes forward Vladimir Putin’s agenda. He seems to be intentionally weakening the country and doing a very effective job. Hope I am around to see the clash when Treasonous Trump realizes Putin’s Russia has a gross national product roughly equal to that of the state of California and he is president of much more. Will he then grab for Putin’s power and expand his mafia world wide? Will he have Putin arrested because Putin will not be magnanimous about giving up power? Or worse? Are there others he will go after to make sure they acknowledge his greater power and control of the universe?

5.). When I see Rudi Giuliani defending and speaking for Trump I think of the very similar way they treated their wives. Rudi announcing his divorce on the steps of Gracie Mansion with his wife inside, totally unaware that a divorce is on the horizon and his girl friend outside in front of the press at Rudi’s side. When you have that picture in your head and Trump on the slopes years ago with his wife discovering he brought his girl friend on their family vacation and installed her in an expensive condo practically around the corner and the three of them made a scene on the slopes when they met. And then we put these men up to do the work of the country and expect their ethics and values and character to be anything but crap?

6.) We have acknowledged and reported extensively on Bill Cosby and Weinstein. A name that must be added to that lineup is Donald Trump. The action of those men should be grouped together because they were very similar.

7.). I think Trump used fraud to keep from serving his country when called. Now he is serving himself at the United States’ banquet table where all the wealth, business and gold of his country are laid out and he is feasting on it. Feasting with greed like I’ve never seen before. Doubling the membership fees at Mar-a-Lago adding $100,000 per member to his pocketbook the day after he is elected president along with myriad other money and wealth grabs – it is unbelievable. I didn’t think I would ever see such money grab from the president of these United States. And at the same time his talk about patriotism and dumping on and calling others unpatriotic and “throw the **** out” just makes me want to gag. It is chilling and we have done nothing about this.

8.). His push to aggrandize U. S. businesses at the expense of the middle class and others is horrendous. Is he getting some kind of kickback from the businesses and industries he so ‘helps’ when he leaves office?

9.) What is happening in Puerto Rico just breaks my heart. I don’t know what to do and I feel strongly as though I should do something. Over 4,000 people died because of Donald Trump’s racism. How many more are we going to see meet a horrible fate because of his need to be better than. He has already cultivated many whites into stepping out into the sunlight with their White Supremacy. His father apparently marched in a white sheet and pointed hat down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D. C. as a part of the KKK – he is making what his father raised him to do and believe small. He has taken that filth to heights the father never dreamed.

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Bettina Oracle Speaks – AGAIN?

Monday, May 28th, 2018

We couldn’t pass up the Royal Wedding and all that means without sharing a little bit of what has transpired and its meaning and what is to come..

Lets take a look at the future as we watch the Royal Wedding re-runs.

The wedding of Meghan and Harry tells you one very important thing. Pack your bags Donald Trump, your reality show is over – don’t drag the ending out too long because that stage of a reality show is like fresh fish left on a counter for days.

The Royal Wedding also tells you in which direction the world is moving. – It is moving quickly and in a straight line towards diversity – democracy and away from the autocrats, dictators, the uglies, the ‘for white patrons only’ people.

Clearly, England and the monarchy sees its future in a world of diversity. A grouping of people calling themselves the English monarchy made a decision that they would no longer be identified nor would they identity themselves as all white all the time, but they would embrace diversity in everything they do. That was a clear and unequivocal statement. Charles may have put his head down to cover his flushed face when Presiding Bishop Michael Curry started his sermon, but in the end he was holding hands with Doria Ragland and making sure she was supported. For someone who reportedly does not brush his own teeth, that was quite a statement – you go Charles, we are all behind you.

Following Charles’ example, even though they were giggling and snickering through parts of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s sermon will be most of the royals. At least there will be those who count following their 1st in line heir to the throne of England.

Taking a very definite turn towards the Commonwealth with its 53 countries several of which are African and the darker colors of humanity, England has made a statement and a choice.

AND – the Cambridge Analytica’s of the world with their wealthy associates who have put their wealth into a pot of evil doings – every penny of your wealth will burn in hell and be delivered along with your ashes, in the not too distant future, to the people you tried very hard to turn back into slaves. You folks may have been one of the many forces behind Brexit, and behind the ascendancy of Trump to the U. S. Presidency, but there is a statement, very forcefully made in one religions scripture (Genesis 50:20) and in different ways in the scripture of all religions – ‘you, (mankind) meant it for evil, but to you (humanity) God means it for good….

How else to break England away from its all white partners, turning it completely towards a growing group of diverse humanity striving to work together for the good of all? The Commonwealth may not today be a gathering as particularly linked together as was the EU, but given a bit of time it will decisively move in that direction.

That leaves the countries of the EU which currently identify as white, with very difficult times including any others, having a decision to make. Turn towards Russia – an all white nation to include within your grouping? Or get with this program of diversity and stop holding hands with the devils amongst you.

Kate and William will do well when they inherit the throne of England, but Charles won’t do too badly when he shortly ascends the throne. He is showing his humanity and his ability to move into a very diverse community as one amongst equals. The equals have to be elevated to his level, but when they are, he is apparently totally accepting and will have them hold his hand or take his arm as he carefully and quietly guides them into a place of comfort amongst the equals surrounding them.

Brexit – Trump’s trump card and his genesis – has done its job. Meant as a tool of evil, it is doing good. England can stand strong and let Brexit continue to have its sway, moving England out of the European Union and more solidly into the Commonwealth Countries without divided loyalties, bringing those countries closer together as they continue working through how they will live, work and love together without needing a “better than” crutch to divide and feel whole. The Commonwealth Countries are not currently strongly united in the economic and political realm but in my realm we can see that coming.

Who are these countries? – 53 in total – and more to come!

Bangladesh	Republic
Botswana	Republic
Cyprus	Republic
Cameroon	Republic
Dominica	Republic
Fiji	Republic
Ghana	Republic
Guyana	Republic
India	Republic
Kenya	Republic
Kiribati	Republic
Mawli	Republic
Maldvies	Republic
Malta	Republic
Mauritius	Republic
Mozambique	Republic
Namibia	Republic
Nauru	Republic
Nigeria	Republic
Pakistan	Republic
Rwanda	Republic
Samoa	Republic
Seychelles	Republic
Sierra Leone	Republic
Singapore	Republic
South Africa	Republic
Sri Lanka	Republic
Tanzania	Republic
Trinidad and Tobago	Republic
Uganda	Republic
Vanuatu	Republic
Zambia	Republic
Brunei	Monarchy
Lesotho	Monarchy
Malaysia	Monarchy
Swaziland	Monarchy
Tongo	Monarchy
Antigua and Barbuda	Commonwealth Realm
Australia	Commonwealth Realm
The Bahamas	Commonwealth Realm
Barbados	Commonwealth Realm
Belize	Commonwealth Realm
Canada	Commonwealth Realm
Grenada	Commonwealth Realm
Jamaica	Commonwealth Realm
New Zealand	Commonwealth Realm
Papua New Guinea	Commonwealth Realm
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Commonwealth Realm
Saint Lucia	Commonwealth Realm
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Commonwealth Realm
Solomon Islands	Commonwealth Realm
Tuvalu	Commonwealth Realm
The United Kingdom	Commonwealth Realm

The immigrant question has been settled. It now only requires a bit of time to work through to a place where our humanity is snatched back from the filthy hands of those who would use such categories of division to cause pain, destruction and damage to other human beings so a small few can feel “better than”, “Supreme-Great-Glorious”. They will soon understand: – to everything there is a time and place and the time and place for their kind of civilization, habits, culture is gone. It is being replaced by something more in line with God’s bidding to this world. The continuing and continuous breaking in to this world of God’s kingdom – in spite of the evil made visible by Treasonous Trump and his supporters and promoters.

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A Great Snack – Elvis Style!

Saturday, May 26th, 2018

I was sitting in my kitchen enjoying a cup of tea and a guest comes along with a snack she brought with her.

My tea was accompanied by one of my favorite snacks from my days living in Mississippi. A sandwich made up of organic or home baked raisin bread with peanut butter – oops! organic peanut butter – and sliced bananas.

This was also one of Elvis Presley’s favorites. It was fairly common for children where I grew up. We didn’t have peanut butter and jelly.

She brought peanut butter and apples and wheat crackers. She put peanut butter on the crackers and topped each cracker with a very thin slice of apple.

It was nothing short of sensational. Quick to make. Elegant to serve and I enjoyed every one of her crackers.

When I repeat this for myself, however, the peanut butter will definitely be organic – her peanut butter was out of a jar with lots of ugly stuff processed in and her apples were not organic. In spite of those transgressions, it was a delicious snack.

My peanut butter will be the kind I grind at the store myself or grind at home of organic peanuts – apple crisp organic apples – and organic wheat crackers.

I highly recommend this! It makes a great lunch or afternoon snack. It is also quite healthy – what more could one ask!

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A Bettina Network Lifestyle Member Responds

Thursday, May 24th, 2018

Amazing!

Donald Trump is a liar

Donald Trump is a pathological liar

It seems clear that his campaign worked with Russia and other such countries who helped to get him elected

It seems clear that criminals are at the top of his campaign

Is Putin setting the strategy to help Trump out as he now clearly will have to pay the piper. It is true that what goes around comes around Mr. Trump.

Putin owes him that since Trump has carried out Putin’s wish list for the United States. Every one of Putin’s goals for the United States is being pursued by Donald Trump and most times it has been successfully pursued by Donald Trump.

This North Korea thing is nothing more than theatre staged by Donald Trump. Now he’s going -now maybe he’s going – now Kim Jong Un is blowing up a nuclear site that North Korea announced a couple months ago couldn’t be used anymore so they would have to move their testing to another site. So their current site spends its last days being used as the back drop – the stage setting for this Trump production as he moves along to make an agreement which will again, no doubt, be harmful to the United States, but will totally gratify Russia and all the others in Trump’s lineup of foreign supporters.

Keep posting, I love to read your blog. Had a bit of trouble accessing it over the past few days – is everything alright over there?

Folks don’t like what you are saying and are retaliating, but don’t stop and don’t slow down. I am sure if you are running into problems you have a lot of supporters who will come to your defense and aid.

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Trump’s American Oligarchs and Giuliani

Friday, April 27th, 2018

It has been amazing to see how Trump has gone about destroying America and bringing it down to size so Putin could benefit and control the world. Who will manage to gain world control first – Putin or Bezos? Very different play books; lifestyles, goals and objectives.

First: Giuliani.

Why was he brought in? What is his goal? What are his marching orders?

One can only hope he has more care and concern for the United States than he does for Trump. Sometimes, however, that has not been so clear. His morality and values have been showing for quite some time and they don’t look as though he wears a “white hat”.

We think Giuliani’s two week deadline is dead serious. Not that Mueller’s investigation will be wrapped up by that time – this coming Thursday – but it didn’t sound to us as though those two weeks were about Mueller finishing his investigation. He can’t be allowed to do that because Trump isn’t coming out looking good. In fact, Trump is looking like crap with morals and values that make Giuliani’s look like Jesus’.

What has been clear to us is that by this coming Thursday, Giuliani will be present at Trump’s side as he fires Mueller. Hasn’t Giuliani surfaced to be present at the ‘execution’ – so to speak. To help pick up the pieces and be one of Trump’s people helping so Trump won’t be alone as he manages the fallout from that act. And, possibly so Giuliani comes out ‘top dog’ in a way he could never be otherwise.

If you have any doubts, listen to the Fox interview with ‘President’ Trump and what most call the ‘rant’, but which actually sounds as though it is something coming from someone who can’t control the power he thinks will soon be in his hands.

Second: Putin’s Americanized Playbook!

Now that Trump has done his best to cause as much disruption in the American Government as possible, especially by putting into government people who are diametrically opposed to the cabinet position to which they have been appointed to wreck all of those areas with upheaval causing distractions as a bonus, the next step – so thinks Putin, Trump and company – should be a breeze.

All of the upheaval Trump has put down – after having given himself a mental out, if things take a turn in the wrong direction – now makes it easier to establish American Oligarch’s in the Putin/Russian style.

When the Soviet Union became Russia there was a lot of publicly owned utilities, monopolies and more such huge structures hanging out waiting for the next step. That next step was to ‘privatize’ – Russian style – all or most of those structures making a handful of Russians unimaginably wealthy. They then built a human shield around Putin so his taking over would be complete – the creation of the ‘super wealthy’ class – the Russian Oligarchs.

That Russian playbook, we think, has been translated American style and that is what Trump is following. How? Privatize as much of America as possible and put the largest structures, now publicly owned into the hands of the select few who would be the American counterparts to the Russian Oligarchs by having them form the human shield around Trump. We’ve seen the attempt and plan to privatize the armed forces, – the VA, eliminate the Education Dept, kill the Energy Dept. and on and on it goes.

That is being played out with the Veterans Affairs structure. The number 7, 8 or 9, if it were on the largest 100 corporations in America, being privatized would be a very large step on the way to achieving that goal.

Trump, having fired the head of the VA when he took office was an early step. It has been complicated by the American spirit which tends to be generationally republic on its way to a democracy. That is a very different mind set than was in Russia when Putin took it over. A mindset we don’t believe Putin or Trump could begin to understand.

Having fired McDonald – who had been head of Proctor and Gamble – probably, we think, because he was not into privatization of the VA of which Obama set him up to head, finding someone else who would be open to do the Russian Oligarch thing in America has not been an easy task. That could not be someone with experience. It would ideally be someone with not even the beginnings of experience on that level. Someone who could be manipulated without knowing it; who was willing to go ahead with the privatization plan or at the very least who would not know the privatization plan was in play, moving ahead under his inability to watch over such a large organization. Someone whose ego would carry him away as head of such prestige who wouldn’t really care what was happening on his watch as long as it didn’t affect him. Someone like Pruitt at the EPA – so busy lining his own pockets he could care less what was happening and the best way to distract from what he is doing is to cause upheavals and take resources to deal with his mess.

Now what! How does the playbook continue in play with Trump losing it because he is actually, experience wise, in the position Ronnie Jackson was in when he was elected president. That is quite a parallel. Trump had about an equivalent amount of experience when he took over the American government as president and Putin was clearly aware of that fact.

What was really wrong with Hillary Clinton, as far as this Russian plan was concerned? She was totally experienced and ready to be a totally functioning president. It would not be possible to put over on her the kinds of things Putin and Company have put over on Trump. Some say Putin favored Trump because of his dislike of Hillary. We think that is ridiculous given what is at stake. Likes and dislikes don’t come into play when one is shooting for the high stakes in this game.

Trump has probably worn out his welcome with Russia and Putin, so now what! Clearly, his usefulness has come to an end. So have his dreams of Trump Tower Moscow. The “privatization” of huge public companies is going no place so the creation of the equivalent in America to Russian Oligarchs has come to an end. Do they have an alternative game plan to bring in in case of failure of this one?

The part of the playbook we were most amazed at was the willingness of Putin and Trump to throw as many “mafia” types into top positions in the United States as needed hoping enough would stick to get the game way down the road to success. Failures would just be dropped into the sewer. The penalty the failures would receive would be their name, reputation and future smashed.

Trumps’ problem and what slowed him down to a stop even though he tried very hard was not being able to get rid of the media with his calls of “Fake News” and other such tactics so what was happening would not be noticed. The United States media is roughly akin to the Putin concept of how to take down America – throw as many “news hounds” as possible against the wall. Some will stick and climb to the top, others will fall by the way side, but there will be no end to those begging to be thrown against the wall even if it means serious injury to health, life, wealth and family. And so the U. S. media, in the end, will help the U. S. citizenry win the game they don’t even know they are playing and don’t have a clue it is being played against them.

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A Current Example of Bullying – Trump and Macron!

Thursday, April 26th, 2018

Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron are back in France and have left the American public with lots to talk about and even more to think through.

President Trump has a way of bullying those who arrive as “important guests” both domestic and foreign from the moment he holds out his hand to shake theirs. The only person on whom he did not use this bullying handshake was Vladimir Putin. Trump has a bullying handshake where he makes the person on the other side wince as he pulls their arm and then the rest of their body towards him with one of the most bullying handshakes I have ever seen.

Emmanuel Macron was no exception. Macron, however, has made it his mission not be bullied by this handshake nor to be passive in an attitude of acceptance with a “this too shall pass” sub-text. He has taken on Trump’s handshake and given back which, during this visit, resulted in an amazing display.

The media and many others took it as a “bromance”. To say they missed the point is to say they exist in a society which accepts and does its best to ignore and deny sexual abuse in its many forms. That is exactly what we saw Emmanuel Macron put through during his trip to these United States.

President Macron, however, gave the country an exquisite example of how to handle such a bullying. Bullying of all kind will be with us forever if we don’t start calling it what it is when we see someone being bullied instead of finding other ways to describe what we know is an act of unashamed bullying. That could have been an example of a woman being abused and I think the media would have talked about a budding romance instead of stepping in to stop the atrocity – which is what we saw acted out before the world.

Trump’s initial handshake was returned in kind and Trump’s bullying was on high display as he responded to the need to push Macron down to puff himself up – in front of the world. I hope others have the guts and insight to come forward to condemn the display President Trump put on as his ego kept pushing him to uglier heights. Not even children would have participated in that dandruff act.

Not to be deterred by how ugly he was appearing to all, Mr. Trump continued trying to oppress and subjugate President Macron and Macron’s response should be in a book on bullying as one person’s way of brilliantly handling an extremely distressful and continuous almost non-stop display of oppression and bullying. Instead of seeing and commenting on what was actually happening, the media continued to claim – “they must like each other.”

Beginning with the handshake, Trump practically bowled Macron over as he tried to pull him towards himself. Macron responded by maintaining and giving back to Trump what he got from the handshake and responding and making it about the ‘French Kiss” by putting his arm around Trump and kissing him on both cheeks. Since it seems possible that Trump goes both ways, President Macron’s attempts didn’t land the way he intended.

and on and on it went.

Clearly, Macron’s response – his coup de grace – was put forward during his speech to the American Congress during which Macron laid out his policies and ideas including almost all of Trump’s policy stances and the beliefs Trump has made a part of his ‘reign’ as president. President Emmanuel Macron’s stances were totally opposite to Donald Trump’s. In giving that speech, President Macron did not wince, pull back, chance his beliefs, etc. He was forthright, forthcoming and clear and he had the American Congress with him – showing where they really stood when any possible attempts at blackmail, bullying, pushing were removed and one could respond as one felt.

Clearly, Melanie Trump showed she was truly the wife and soul mate of Donald Trump when she appeared in the white suit with hat which at one point moved Brigitte Macron out of the picture. When she appeared with “the Don” it was clear the arrogance and posturing of one was totally acceptable and generated pride in the other. They appeared in a strong statement which looked totally out of place for the company, the situation, the reflection of herself as hostess. She was clearly uncaring about Brigitte Macron and was only out to outshine and put forth her worth – which she apparently holds as her body and what she puts on it. The sexist male – the misogynist male has a female counterpart whose chief value is invested in how she looks. It was an outsized look and had a very hard edge which did not show as the hostess, but as the guest attempting to outshine all the other guests.

In his speech to Congress, President Macron came across as human, compassionate and seriously working to make this a better world for the least of these. His wife, Brigitte, looked like a caring, compassionate and serious person who was working with her husband and while her dress was quite elegant, it was also very human. She was not trying to outshine, outdo, send out an image to puff herself up or any of that. She was dressed in a lovely “human’ way. The contrast was astounding.

As I looked at all of that my mind brought me back to Barbara Bush’s funeral and life. Her funeral, for me, was a brief moment of public respite. At the end, she gave us a time to reflect, to think, to move away from the upheaval – panic – intensity of nothingness – the passionate hiding of something unsavory. There was no name calling; no trying to upstage and outshine; no arrogance; no posturing; just people coming to witness to the life of someone they knew either as a close friend or in her capacity as mother, wife, First Lady, volunteer, helper to those in need, etc. Somehow, I could not see Melanie Trump ever being such a lovely, humble person who knew who she was and presented herself not as an artificial model using her body to sell whatever it was she was selling. The hat ruined the suit and showed a person with a very hard edge who was anything but a warm, caring human being. I have yet to see any of those qualities in either Melanie or Donald Trump and that white hat and suit emphasized the arrogance, artificiality and lying image of the couple. What is a ‘lying image”? Presenting oneself as an image projecting not who you are but projecting that which one needs to show to make public one’s concept of power and control and that ‘better than’ attitude so constantly projected by the Kushner/Trump family.

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Rudi Giuliani and Donald Trump

Friday, April 20th, 2018

by: Marceline Donaldson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday, April 14th, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, March 25th, 2018

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Tuesday, March 20th, 2018

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

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,

and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;

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

and a child shall lead them.”

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The Meeting – Trump and those who experienced a killing field!

Thursday, February 22nd, 2018

by Marceline Donaldson

Trump, yesterday and today, with his followers and close friends and supporters are laughing their asses off as they talk about and listened to the young people and others in the White House who were there to make suggestions for change and to talk about ways to stop the killing of children by children.

Why would Trump be laughing at the people he seemed to so seriously engage with on yesterday? – Why would he be laughing his ass off? Probably because he, no doubt, shared with his buddies at the NRA the suggestions he was going to make, had made and would continue to make amongst other horrifying suggestions. Geared to stopping and solving the problem or geared to taking advantage of a disaster and turning it into a marketing opportunity for the gun lobby.

This particular suggestion made in a seemingly concerned way and in the midst of other people, both young and older, pouring their hearts out about the loss they suffered from the shooting. was one that, we think made Trump and Associates have some hilarious moments when recalling the conversation and Trump’s part in it.

People came to seriously engage with Trump – president of these United States – with their experiences, thoughts, suggestions for change etc. and poured out their pain.

Trump’s addition to the conversation was to suggest change he wanted to see happen which would – in reality – increase the numbers and groups of people owning and using guns. Trump’s suggestion was to arm some 20% of the teachers in the schools who would be the blockade to stop such shootings. That is what Trump and friends were having such hilarious conversation about after everyone had left for the day.

To establish Trump’s suggestion means there would be shoot-outs in elementary schools and high schools; the teachers, trying to work with students to start them on a good life would also be the ones to shoot those self-same students if the circumstances seemed to warrant – and if the situation didn’t warranty and the teachers had made a mistake and jumped to the wrong conclusion, but people still died from their gun shots, that would have ruined teachers’ lives; teachers lives as well as the lives of many students who could never turn from the fact that friends might be dead because of a beloved teacher – how many would be added to the death toll – dead from a teacher/shooting mistake; and on and on goes the scenario.

That isn’t the way Trump phrased it. But he did use that session to open an avenue to sell more guns. He opened a way to increase the exposure of people to guns who would then probably have to join groups like the NRA looking for information, target practice etc. It was really a genius idea. At least genius to the people around Trump who want to see this disaster turned into continuing and increasing the money flow into the Trump coffers from the NRA and related organizations.

And so, as their concerns that such a session might be the beginning of the end to the power they exercise through organizations like the NRA, in fact, they were assured that Trump was still their boy – still looking out for their interests – and still able, with a straight face to promote their organization at times when the organization was in some of its deepest troubles. Not only could he promote their interests at such times he could do it while seeming to commiserate with those who had been seriously wounded with friends and family mortally wounded.

Trump’s solution – increase the numbers of guns in circulation’ increase the groups of people who carry and use such weapons of war; increase the violence in this society exponentially and directed like a laser onto our children.

HAIL PUTIN!!!

Have you checked lately to see where the money support for the NRA is coming from? Have you noticed how NRA assets have doubled and within one year? Have you noticed the large amounts of money – well into the tens of millions of dollars to Congress people and some $30 million plus to Trump, that can be traced? Is that coming from Russia into the United States to further push along their agenda for U.S.?

HAIL PUTIN!!

Do you remember the dinner, off on the side at an NRA meeting where the Russian Ambassador met with Donald Trump, Jr. and they had dinner together? Off, away from the prying eyes of the public? And of the media? but somehow it got out! Wonder what that was about?

HAIL PUTIN!!

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Immeasurable Suffering!

Friday, February 16th, 2018

by: Marceline Donaldson

There is no pain like the pain of losing a child – even a temporary loss, let alone a permanent loss by death. The parents and families of the young people killed in Parklands and the families of the teachers, coaches and staff are all constantly in our prayers.

Our children are precious to us no matter how great or handicapped we are at showing it. They are the means by which we achieve eternity and whether we do it consciously or not we give to them all of who we are and what we have.

To know that your child’s last minutes on earth were spent being terrorized, we are never the same. Where does the ‘peace that passes all understanding’ ever come from in our lives after that – even for a few blessed seconds.

To know that it was a child killing children makes the deed no less painful nor does it make it one we will ever forget or ever be able to remember without the pain surrounding the memory also coming back to terrorize us bringing the grief back fresh and new.

To know that the child killing our children was taken up in a time of his greatest need by a group of paramilitary white supremacist bigots and put into training so he could learn to use the guns he used to kill our children and his peers makes our shock and confusion even greater.

Instead of killing those he was being trained to hate and revile and look on as less than and needing such termination, he turned on his own and became a part of the many white on white crime sprees that have been happening around these United States.

Why did he turn to white supremacists in his time of greatest need and why, in the end, did he turn on them and against them by turning their theories – their politics – their religion against them!

We know very little about the details of this young man’s life – this 19 year old, not yet out of his teen years with his mind not quite developed into the adult mind he would have in years to come. We do know he was without a father for many years and his mother died in November of 2017 and we know he was alone. Others may have stepped in to temporarily bridge that gap, but there are few people who know the depths of that kind of aloneness in a society of plenty where being “better than” on so many levels is that to which most of us aspire. One of the greatest in the one upsmanship that we practice is who are or were our parents. We learn to hide our parents if we achieve beyond their class and so they become an embarrassment or their existence amongst our friends and peers “outs” us for being less than we pretend to be. To have no parents and no family puts us on that slippery road to homelessness in the future if we are not really ‘exceptional’ and just ordinary like most of us. When we slip there is no one there to catch us or prevent us from sliding into the muck.

Parklands, Florida is a place – or was a place – that felt “better than” as a community because it was what – all white with very few exceptions? mostly upper economic families? parents raising their own children without many one parent homes, especially the kind with women alone raising children struggling just to keep food on the table let alone keeping a table? without the stigma of having “bad children”; “those ghetto types of thugs roaming the neighborhoods”; – I could go on but you know the stereotype without even having it outlined for you.

In Parklands, as we read in the media, when children questioned their parents and were afraid to go to school – one report tells of a child who wanted to be home schooled because of her fear – the answer was “you don’t have to be afraid, we don’t live in that kind of neighborhood – we live in a good neighborhood.” And the child questioning and everyone reading that account knows what that meant. That is a part of what we have constructed as the reality of our lives. That is what this shooting destroyed for Parklands.

As we go back over these school shootings and the school violence we have been experiencing, we see that it has happened in mostly white, mostly upper-class neighborhoods. We have been experiencing white on white crime with great regularity.

Why!

Is it because when truth and the reality of who they really are hits, young minds can’t contain or deal with that explosion of those truths and their anger leads them to using the weapons of war to let out their anger – against their own who deceived them!

This young man faced a life which looked hopeless! With the death of his mother he was one of those society discards and blames for being in the position he sees himself facing over the years. When the reality – the truth of who he actually was in this society hit and the lies told to keep people like him under control for the rest of society – when that reality hit him, was the only power he had over his life the one he had been taught by his white paramilitary friends? Kill them all before they kill you? Except his explosion was in the truth of who “they” were to him! His peers! The innocents who didn’t create his life as it was rolling out – the innocents who were as trapped in their existence as he was in his – those young innocent children living the same myth which upheaveled his life.

Hardest to hear throughout all of this, for me, has been the teachers, parents, bystanders who described the other children going to school in Parklands who were achieving such great things. Those children who wanted to be doctors, lawyers, who had done projects so outstanding – and on and on many of them went – apparently trying to patch and heal their community by patching and healing the mythology under which they lived their lives and from which they took their identity. Parklands is really a safe community and full of these really great people raising children who would live on to become leaders of society. This is just an aberration caused by someone who didn’t ‘belong’.

Amazingly, that is the pattern of what happened in other communities. Colorado comes to mind with the two young boys who were so outside of what was the norm in their community and so rejected by their peers and others that their explosion when the myth was exploded instead of them and their reality exposed to them – it was more than their young minds could contain and we had yet another school shooting and massacre.

I am sure this is not what those in such extreme pain want to hear. Nor those who are trying to make sense of this want to put in their minds and hearts to help them through a really difficult time. But, sometimes, the best place to start to heal is with truth. Truth replaces grief and moves us to do great things.

For the truth of life in Parklands and the rest of America to take hold and spread is the best thing that could happen to all of us.

When one of our own human community loses father and mother they become our children and our responsibility. The truth is that does not happen. Except for a very few they become weights on the society for whom our Congress people and president forever try to speak in ways to convince the rest of us that those so orphaned are responsible for their own plight and probably the cause of the situation in which they find themselves.

For truth and love to break into a society what an incredible gift.

Would that begin to happen in Parklands, Florida what a gift to their parents the life and death of their children would be. How meaningful would the lives of those young martyrs be if what happens out of their life and death is their opening a door wide to the truth and love that we so sorely need and so strongly fight to keep out and keep away from. Grief can break down barriers because in it we begin to question our lives and how we have made the choices which brought us to this place of grief.

To see the people around us as fully human and truly divine is such a gift. Can’t we accept it – live through it – give it to others.

There are not many times in life when such is possible. This is one and it was given to us by our children. Don’t throw it away. Don’t reason it out of existence. Use it to live less in the mythology that is our life and more into the reality of who we all really are.

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Thank you for the forum.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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52 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

2 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

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²The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

³Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

⁴Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

⁵God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

⁶The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

⁷Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

⁸But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

⁹I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.