From: Harold E. Doley, Jr.
To: President Donald J. Trump:
Vice President Michael R. Pence:
U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell:
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan:Congressman Cedric Richmond:
“Robert E. Lee stated that he would not be buried in his Confederate States of America (CSA) uniform because that act would be seditious. At Lee’s funeral in 1870, no former soldiers or participants marching in his funeral cortege were allowed to wear CSA uniforms.There is a simple remedy for our present state of affairs regarding monuments to former Confederate generals and the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, it is to go to the U.S. Constitution.Section 110 of Article III addresses treason and sedition. Treason and sedition are federal law/Constitution violations. To support the Confederacy and its symbols is to be a traitor of the United States in fact and in spirit.Section 110 of Article III states: “Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open Court. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason.” Thatpower of punishing the crime of treason is exclusive in Congress; and the trail of the offense belongs exclusively to the Federal tribunals.In 1790, the Congress of the United States enacted that: “If any person or persons, owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy war against them, or shall adhere to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States, or elsewhere, and shall be thereof convicted on confession in open Court, or on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act of treason…”Our history books have incorrectly labeled the war between the states as a Civil War, which is a misnomer. What occurred was a group of states succeeding from the Union and creating the Confederate States of America and attacking the United States of America. This was a war of secession. If it were a civil war, which is an attempt to change the government, that would have been a revolution.We laud Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans and we thank Wynton Marsalis for initiating the removal of the monuments in New Orleans. It is ironic that the erection of statues and the naming of boulevards and schools for Confederate soldiers and cabinet members of the CSA is a romantic notion. There was not one bullet fired or cannonball shot in New Orleans during the Civil War. In 1862, Admiral Farragut disembarked from the USS Hartford at the Port of New Orleans, walked to City Hall and told Mayor John T. Monroe of New Orleans, either you surrender or we will level the French Quarter. Confederate General Mansfield Lovell advised Mayor John Monroe that opposing the Union would be futile. New Orleans, the largest Confederate city, was captured without conflict. Therefore, the monuments and other namings in New Orleans do not have any historic relevance whatsoever. Again, just romanticization. Likewise, members of the white supremacy groups, Neo-Nazis and KKK, are overwhelmingly not descendants of those Southerners that fought in the army of the Confederate States of America. For those to state that they have a kindred spirit with the Confederacy is a fantasy. Those Americans aligned with these groups which are not based in historical connections should just be bold enough to state that they are racist, anti-Semites, and white supremacists, rather than attempt to distort that which motivates them.America’s history is complicated. My great-great-great Aunt Sarah Knox Taylor, was married to Jefferson Davis. As an American of African ancestry and a descendent of the Mayflower (even though I cannot become a member the Mayflower Society because I fail to have one or two documents that would complete the link) my DNA confirms that lineage. Last August, when David Duke was running for the U.S. Senate from the State of Louisiana, I challenged him publicly to take a DNA test to which he did respond on his web site. I do not think, after looking at David Duke’s history, that he is part African-American, but I do think that he may be part Jewish.We, as Americans and our elected officials, must embrace the Constitution of the United States that was penned by our Founding Fathers, who themselves were flawed just as is our Constitution. However, the document addresses the issues that are tearing us apart today and it gives us the solution.The President and Congress should focus on the economy, tax reform, the budget, foreign affairs, infrastructure, and running the government for the benefit of all Americans whom they were duly elected to serve.Harold E. Doley, Jr.U.S. Citizen”____________________________________[give_form id=”3763″]___________________________________Everything talked about in this blog and in any other blog in the Bettina Network, inc. is the opinion of the person who wrote the blog and does not necessarily represent the opinions of Bettina Network, inc. It is the property of Bettina Network, inc. and/or the person who wrote the original blog.Want to join us? Have a home that you want to open to become one of Bettina Network’s Hedge Schools? Call us and lets talk – or email us.Ed. 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A Letter from a Member
July 6th, 2017Dear Bettina people:
I love you folks. Thanks for the post on Trump needing to admit and go all the way with his transgender self.
Being called ‘crazy’ didn’t sit quite right with me, but your “oracle” hit the nail on the head.
Unfortunately, he is who we voted for and he is who he has been for decades. Knowing the man I have known about his secret for a very long time, but I didn’t dare bring it up. To cover, he has been stirring up everything and everybody so it has clearly been visible for anyone who pays attention.
May you all live long and prosper and continue writing – I love it. My blog will be along shortly. Hope you have the guts to publish it – although from what I have seen that is not a problem with you Bettina people.
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The Bettina Oracle Speaks
July 4th, 2017This has been an incredible time for everyone – especially since you have all been faced with what for many is not understandable and for those of you who do understand what is happening, you are not able to speak about it out of fear.
A man, surrounded by many who are there to take advantage of his pain, confusion and a lifetime of hiding, has become president of the United States.
In the process of this man’s entire life, creating havoc, upheaval, evil, unhappiness, fighting and more in his environment and among those who have tried to love him, be his friend, work with him, help him achieve his goals, has been the way he has coped with the havoc, unhappiness, desperation which he has carried around inside of him for his entire life. Well, actually from about age five.
He has been accused of being crazy – thoughtless – self-absorbed – not someone who is capable of thought = and more. And he has been all of those things.
What most need to know is why!
When you carry a secret all those years and need to distract yourself from dealing with that secret and being desperate not to be exposed, you create an environment all around you which is horrible for those with whom you interact – who depend upon you for many things – who try to befriend you – and especially for those who love you.
What is this secret that has set ablaze the United States in the worse way and is threatening the world?
This president is actually a woman in a man’s body and that has been the burden he has carried around for decades, shaping his life so the explosions around him camouflage this ‘problem.’.
When his hands were ridiculed it was an especially difficult time for him because he believed he was about to be “outed”. He has the small delicate hands which he uses the way a ballerina uses her hands.
When he plays golf or tennis you see another aspect of this because his rear end is exposed and you see the rear end of a plus-size mature and quite shapely woman.
Problematically, this becomes worse as he ages and hiding it becomes ever more difficult because the tell tale signs of his internal woman – who he will not let out – becomes clearer and more people are able to see and understand what this is all about.
Who hates gays more than a gay person in the closet. Who hates transgender people more than a woman in a man’s body. Who has the greater need to move away from those with whom one is identified especially if that group is oppressed by the larger society.
If he lets this secret out and holds it as a secret no more, there is no one with power over him – he would be free.
Given some of the talents he has shown this would be his opportunity to becomes a substantial, giving, loving, thoughtful and kind human being. The person everyone wants to know, be with, enjoy, etc. To continue to hold this secret means more and more people hold power over you and you have to continue in the ways of distracting, finding ways to upheaval entire societies so your secret is safe and more.
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The Fourth of July, 2017
July 2nd, 2017What a day we celebrate in a year during which our Republic is once again in jeopardy and we are in fear of all of the gains made by those who went before being trashed. And – we have only ourselves to blame.
To celebrate the Fourth of July with Donald Trump as president of these United States seems a sacrilege. He has worked very hard to trash everything this country’s founders put in place. And he has been way too successful!
Why? Because the United States of America elected and re-elected an African American as president – twice!!!! And that jeopardized his identity as better than and the identities of those who he has gathered around him as above all others.
All of the racist and sexist structures that Barack Obama took down during his presidency, or which influenced others to work to take down the racist/sexist infrastructure of these United States are being reconstructed by Donald Trump and his followers. In the name of white supremacy – white privilege – Trump and those who are working with and for him are doing everything they can to tear down and then reconstitute this country into a stronger model of the racist and sexist institution from which it has struggled to be free.
Adolph Hitler played god in Germany and the people suffered. Donald Trump is playing god in the United States of America and the people are suffering. Only God is God! To attempt to become a god and force others to acknowledge and honor and pay obeisance to you is one of the greatest sins and we have Donald Trump and his followers doing just that. Forgive them, O God. Show them the error of their ways before it is too late for their redemption. Many are in Church this Sunday praying to their god to give them the strength to continue the work started by Donald Trump. How bright is the light they are trying to subdue. How manifest to others are their sins. How blind to their own sins have they become that they can kneel at your altar and call on you to support their chosen god.
Last year, we published Frederick Douglas’ speech given on July 4th. We commend it to you https://www.bettina-network.com/blog/archives/2560
There are several paragraphs which can make you weep and take you into that place where no one should have to go –
“Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival….
400 years of slavery – 25 to 35 million Africans robbed of their freedom; taken from their country and put into slavery for 400 plus years – first by the Arabs and then by Europeans and Americans….
Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men, too-great enough to give frame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory….
They loved their country better than their own private interests; and, though this is not the highest form of human excellence, all will concede that it is a rare virtue, and that when it is exhibited it ought to command respect. He who will, intelligently, lay down his life for his country is a man whom it is not in human nature to despise. Your fathers staked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, on the cause of their country. In their admiration of liberty, they lost sight of all other interests….
They were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. With them, nothing was “settIed” that was not right. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were “final”; not slavery and oppression. You may well cherish the memory of such men. They were great in their day and generation. Their solid manhood stands out the more as we contrast it with these degenerate times….
“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.”……
May we always remember – may we always celebrate this holiday in truth and not in hypocrisy, trying to hide our history and our sins – may we be able to accept our humanity while attempting to right our wrongs – may we never accept the tyranny of those like Donald Trump, who refuses to accept his own humanity trying to force others to accept him as perfect in every aspect – god walking this earth – infallible – the only one who can achieve and accomplish what this country needs. Forgive him, O God, and walk with us as we travel through this very dark valley. There is light at the end of this journey, but we can’t see it, only you know its outcome and why. The forces of evil have gathered and are strong. They have taken over our new businesses and infused them with bigotry. We have worked hard to remove and replace the kind of bigotry they refuse to live without. Help us to identify each and everyone of them and help us work to bring good where they have and are sowing evil. Amen!
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AMERICA: your ethics are showing
June 29th, 2017From slavery – to Jim Crow – to the immense Black Civil Rights movement – to the painful Feminist movement – to the Peace Movement – to Americans for Respect of the Globe and the Universe – to Donald Trump?
The election and ‘service’ of Donald Trump has exposed the United States’ underbelly the way nothing else has and it is very difficult for all of us to see. Much better to continue to engage in denials.
Breakfast conversations in a Bettina Home are always inclusive of something about what Trump is doing; what he needs to do; how to stop him; what is Russia’s involvement; how are we going to continue with such a man as president; what happened – did we really elect Trump or did Russia do it. Are we missing something?
Among the forces in this country which have come together to elect Trump as president we have to include those forces which elected this Congress. Among those forces we also have to include the years spent before this election of gerrymandering to help make this election possible – all in the name of denying one person one vote, denying one person’s voice replacing it with the manipulators’ need for power. They also have to include our refusal to become a democracy by doing the work to eliminate the Electoral College. They also have to include our refusal to get rid of ‘White Privilege’ – the sick need many have to be better than even in a democratic/republic.
We have only ourselves to blame for Trump and we have only ourselves to correct this massive error by correcting the ills in this country which brought this about.
From where we stand and from what we have heard, Trump was elected with a solid base of the organized bigots, the mafia, many of those at the top of our corporate structures coming together in one of those perfect storms. And, what we need to acknowledge here is that those groups have always worked together – and – as per usual – we and they blamed the “Middle Class”, the “Working Class” for what others have wrought.
Corporations are very far from being a democracy. They are also not republics. They are dictatorships accustomed to doing things their own way, as ordered from the top, and accustomed to brutally moving obstacles out of their paths, greasing everything with lots of money and little bits of power. The same is true for the other groups whose reason for being is to spread bigotry, hatred, white supremacy. They are skilled at the lying, cheating, stealing, and all the other sins we can now see them committing as they come out from under their traditional cover.
What is clearer today than it has ever been is the collusion between Corporate America and the mafia. That is something we don’t like to admit, but Trump has forced the issue and the admission. For example, there is no way anyone who voted for Trump can today say they did not know of his mafia connections.
Trump’s ties to the mafia go back to at least his high school days when he met and was friends with John Gotti’s son. The son of the teflon don puts his schoolyard friend in the path to be taught to become the teflon president.
Things became much more intense and involved from that point on.
Enter Roy Cohn – which brings in another group tied into Trump’s base – gay men in the closet who enjoy a camraderie with the corporate, the political, the well-heeled sprinkling gold dust over those mixing and shifting relationships and hiding that collusion from the rest of society (as best they can).
The consensus from many breakfasts is that Trump’s hidden secret, which makes him subject to Russian demands is not about sexual orgies, golden streams, etc., it is about having found places in and around Russia to let out that gay side where he thought it wouldn’t reach the light of day. Many of our breakfast folks thought that such a place would be important to Trump who they saw as not only gay, but homophobic – so coming out of the closet would not be an option. And, so some breakfast conversations went into comments such as; coming out of the closet would not mean a solid, steady relationship based on love, but it would mean coming out of hidden orgies with whoever/wherever making the sexual needs not necessarily “gay” or same sex, but outrageous, out of control sex, orgy addicted, kinky to an extreme. Coming out of the closet would lessen his power with his close compatriots who helped him get where he is today. The closest he came to coming out of the closet – so these folks discuss – was accidental and through his relationship with Roy Cohn, which supposedly had a sexual closeness that many picked up on, but few publicized. That kind of sexual orientation and lifestyle was more prevalent during the days of Trump’s young adulthood, but still exists in small pockets in several places today.
That can lead, when such a person engages in moments of sober reflection, to an extreme insecurity and self-hatred, if one still has any shred of moral values left. Is that what we are seeing in Trump’s projection of all of his insecurities onto minorities of every color, class, sex, sexual orientation, etc? His projections have certainly been vicious enough to tear this country apart and begin the process of putting it back together in his own image.
Trump has also given us a clear and unusually open look at mafia culture through his lifestyle, mannerisms, speech, dress and expectations of obeisance from others to him and from him to (only a very small number) of others.
We are living in an America that will never be the same again. All of the gains we have made – moving away from and rejecting slavery; watching the gains of the Black Civil Rights Movement being stripped away daily with one or two Blacks being held up by Trump as the objects to disprove the rule of extreme racism in his administration as the new normal; from organizations becoming respected and respectable who had been fought and relegated to the back rooms of illegality; from the gains of the Feminist Movement also being stripped away as women are once again being portrayed as objects whose ‘pussy’ can be grabbed by anyone; with sexual abusers at top corporate levels being front and center and their corporations held in high esteem with the individuals so caught in such illegal activities given comfort and succor by the President of the United States?
How low are we going to sink, America? How many sins are we going to commit before this all comes to an end? Will there be absolution for those sins in the end of this nightmare or will the vestiges hang on to scare our children, our grandchildren and all of the next generations? Evil is far harder to eradicate than good. Evil is far simpler to incorporate into the structure of our country than good.
We were able to justify slavery – stealing millions of lives because some of us were too lazy to do our own work, but wanted the benefits from the work of others for free. We were able to justify maintaining racism against Africans because we needed to continue to deny what we did to them during slavery. We attempted to justify that by showing the movie on how Africans moved from sub-human to more cultured due to their association with us so now we can move forward incorporating them as more equal in our society, our schools, our neighborhoods. We were able to justify maintaining sexism against Women because we needed and still need them to do our dirty work and to support us in whatever we decide to do without recognition, agreement, compensation, and more. We are still able to justify maintaining all of the complicated bigotry against other human beings because it satisfies our need for macho power, money and the creature comforts all of that brings not the least of which is not having to do the hard work of creating an identity when white privilege gives us a strong foundational identity for which we don’t have to work – isn’t all of that what the Supreme Court has facilitated in a low keyed way with their recent decision? Isn’t that almost a parallel to their Plessy decision? And now we can move on to their 1954 decision after those involved have had a bit of time to appreciate the less than equal decision that will follow. It will feel like a breath of fresh air even if some of the less than restrictions are left in place? How to move backwards a little by moving backwards a lot.
Give him enough rope – he will hang himself, but in the meantime he will make sure that his contribution is to the continuation of White Northern European Privilege and Ascendancy over all others. Put him in jail to insure that much or our guilt is expiated, but the damage done will not be totally rectified. Make him a very negative example and make fun of him, call him crazy, hold him up as ‘not like the rest of us’, but underneath it all is that gratitude that comes from those who need the security of being ‘better than’ so they can continue to live ‘free’ after having called for that bowl of soap, water and a towel and used it to insure our eternal detriment, degradation and damnation. Eternal isn’t the issue – immediate is and isn’t that what our increasing technology is doing for us?
Take a look at where we were before Trump!
The Venture Capitalists planned our future with brash, uncouth, out of control, disrespectful young white men of Northern European descent being held up with multi-millions. Made to think they built huge empires when they and their brashness were actually used to front for what has developed and is developing around the multi-billions dollars companies that have sprung up overnight to put the older companies out of business and to move power into the hands of a small group who make Trump look like a joke.
The political ‘king’ makers, who are responsible for the rise of Trump and who have put the supporting structures in place which are needed to change this country and stop its movement towards a democracy where all are equal and where compassion and love reign supreme are today rejoicing in what they see as their success. It took years before the advent of Trump to put in place the structures which elected him. How much went into gerrymandering? How much went into the development of Breitbart- the NRA – the KKK – the White Nationalists – the neo-Nazi’s – bringing them all to the fore and pushing back on everything else.
“Make America Great Again” did not start with Trump. It is a slogan he stole from others who used it before he came along, when he was playing around with Roy Cohn and his boys. Bringing America into the circle of Russia, Northern Korean, Syria, and other such countries couldn’t have been done by Trump. It had to be a long developing power surge. Take credit, guys, for what you have done.
And now what? More of the same? Moving to a very different form of government – one which will never again be bothered having to fend off an African American president – or beat back a woman president who was advocating for the opposite to what we now have in power – never have to face the horror of the son or daughter of a refugee taking over as president?
It is up to you America.
From every Bettina breakfast or breakfast seminar there is no sign of anyone wanting more of what we have today – so how is this going to end? All of us shot dead when we step out of line and shine a light onto what’s wrong here? Jailing increasing when you protest with all of your assets taken away as they can now do in Arizona if you dare to be a part of the ‘wrong’ protest movement or demonstrations? Fear running through the streets as security guards from other countries are allowed to mutilate and harm Americans even in front of the cameras and without negative comments or protests from our leaders – a tacit show that it should continue and grow stronger.
Where is all this going America? Is your insecurity going to continue and make America White Again? Or are you going to find your guts and make America a wonderful, humane, democracy whose doors are actually and really opened fulfilling what is written on the Statue of Liberty. She is certainly in trouble today. I can see the stone masons chipping off those words and replacing them with “Enter at your own risk – leaving your need for equality, freedom, justice behind.”
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Corporate vs Democratic Structures
May 29th, 2017“It is great to have a business man as president”. “Maybe now things will get done in a corporate way.” etc. etc.
Do you really want the United States of America to be a Corporate entity – like USA Corp.? Or the General Motors of America? Or even Google – scratch that – Alphabet, inc.?
What does it mean to have a business person as president? Wasn’t that the real issue in this last campaign? Hillary Clinton – who has been in public life her entire life as opposed to Donald Trump who has been in business his entire life?
So what’s the difference?
I should say in the beginning that I am biased. Having worked for major corporations, I would not want these United States to be run like a corporation by a businessman or woman. What is the difference? All of our talk about changing the United States governmental structure into a fascist dictatorship is roughly equivalent to saying change the United States into a government which makes shoes led by a business person within the structure of Corporate America.
Corporations are not democratic institutions. They are dictatorships. The person at the top dictates just about everything. When a new person takes over at the top even the personality and character of the people under him or her changes. The corporate hiring and promotion begins to be of people like the corporate leader.
Corporations don’t take decisions from the bottom up and only on matters that don’t count would a vote be taken in anything. And when corporations do vote at their annual meetings where voting occurs – the results are fixed. Not by someone who goes about ‘manipulating’ the results for a certain outcome, but because shares in most corporations are held by a few large people or corporations with the results known before the papers about voting even go out. The few times someone has tried to change that they were pushed out unceremoniously and life went on at though they had never existed.
Democracies are far less efficient, but far more humane and concerned about making sure those who are among the ‘have nots’ are taken care of – not totally, but some basics are fought over to make sure the ‘have nots’ have a chance. The defense of those who are a part of the democracy is important and monies spent to make sure we are all ‘safe’.
In the United States, we are currently fighting over universal health care. Other countries already have such, but we have some kind of horror that we might be giving away health care to those who don’t deserve it. That is a very corporate mentality – since in most corporations – those that have get and those that don’t have stay at the bottom until they are fired for others who don’t have and who can be paid to do the same job for less money.
Corporations define the elements that go into reporting a ‘profit’. Very seldom does the profit of corporations actually equal out to what is used to add, subtract, divide to get to the bottom line. For example – corporations use much in this world for which they don’t pay. The democracy or other governmental entity in which they live pays for a lot that corporations use which does not get subtracted from their gross to get to their bottom line profit.
They contribute to pollution, but don’t pay to clean up their mess. They contribute to climate change, but don’t pay to reverse the negatives they create. No one disputes that and no one – well very few people – would fight to get that changed. Occasionally corporate profits are disputed and something is added which was not there before and that then makes up the corporate bottom line. What happened to cause that change? Normally government stepped in to demand the corporation make amends; change its policies; be more responsive; and that government entity will demand the corporate product or service be surveyed and kept ‘honest’.
In democracies, the people who make up that democracy determine what is done, how, when, by who and much concern and money is put into defense, social services, education, and more. There is a responsibility which each person in a democracy has in its continuance, growth and upkeep. There is a limit to the responsibility each person has in a corporate setting and your level of responsibility depends upon your job description, salary, etc.
Where a corporation can cause a problem which affects everybody – it is the governmental entity which generally has to address, change and make better whatever happened. The corporation can and some do, walk away from that kind of responsibility and the world will not stop spinning. The governmental entity cannot – especially the democratic governmental entity. It must step up to the plate and make a change.
In corporations, the CEO, CFO, Executive Committee are generally the people who set policy, and run the corporation. The underlings carry out the dictates of the upperlings. That is not true in a democracy.
I think you get my drift.
It is time for us to clearly outline and understand the difference between a corporation structure and what life is like under such an entity and a democracy knowing what life is like under that entity also.
The United States is a democracy/republic and those of us who are citizens of that democracy are also responsible for its good or ill. Voting is a heavy responsibility – we pay taxes to provide the services we have determined should go to others – we pay taxes to provide for the defense of all of us from negative outside forces – we pay taxes for…………..oh god, do we pay taxes!
In a corporation we do not have that responsibility and we do not pay taxes. We earn an income for doing what our job description says we were hired to do and we can be fired by the corporation, sometimes for no reason. We do not have the level of responsibility in a corporation that we have in a democracy.
A war between the corporate structure and the democratic/republic structure has been predicted for quite a long time – and it has now, with Clinton/Trump, arrived on our door step demanding attention.
The Trump/Clinton presidential campaigns reflected that difference more than most in the past few years. Their mind sets – what they are about are all very different and instead of outlining that difference and calling it what it is, we see evil and good – me included – because clearly a corporate structure for these United States would defeat everything we have worked for over a few hundred years. Our constitution is not a corporate document, but one that brought a democratic/republic into being. We have a Supreme Court and all the other trappings to try to keep us on that democratic path. What is going on in this country today is a strong move to drop the democracy and take on the corporate structure.
Most of the people pushing for such have no idea what they are asking. They are simply repeating what they’ve heard and someplace inside they seem to think this would be great – we all have those moments of running home to Mama to be taken care of, but adulthood is much more fulfilling, productive and humane. They talk about how more efficient that corporate structure would be, etc. etc. when efficiency is not the issue in a government. That would be a disaster and would result in our aligning ourselves with Russia and all the other dictatorships of the world where the individual counts for nothing and survives out of the largesse of the oligarchs and dictator – giving up everything in return including equality, freedom, justice, etc..
Maybe if we bring up in our minds these two opposing structures, which were developed for very different reasons we might be able to come to some accommodation. The United States of America was not founded to make shoes, after all. It was founded to bring about things like equality, justice etc. etc. etc. for all of us.
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How to Look 50 at 80 years old!
May 28th, 2017We took advantage of Bettina Network Hedge Schools and stayed at a house where we wanted to know the wife’s beauty secrets. We’ve seen her for years and thought she was at most 60 years old. When we discovered she was actually 79 we almost flipped out so we immediately made reservations and said in the process that we wanted to spend time talking with her about her lifestyle.
We didn’t say we were going to share it and didn’t intend to, but it was so ‘out there’ that we just couldn’t resist. And, sharing on Bettina’s Blog information about a Bettina family should not be forbidden.
- The first thing we discovered is that she uses no soap and thinks soap is what makes wrinkles. Well, we asked how do you stay clean? By showering or soaking in a tub of hot water. What else do you need? God created water to wash you clean. Man created soap to take away your money. Why would you follow that? There are side affects to what man makes – and the side affect of soap is wrinkles. Well, with that I knew this was going to be an incredible three days. What does she use when dirt won’t be washed away by plain water? Well, organic powdered milk, of course, and to my amazement it works beautifully. – And listen people, I discovered she does have “correct” language and when she says “man” she means “man”. That is not a sexist ‘men’ being a term which is inclusive of everyone on the planet. If she didn’t mean “man” she would have said “human” or some other word in that politically correct lexicon of hers.
2. OK! Recovering from that we wanted to know more so we rose early – something difficult for us – and discovered she’d been up for hours. Well, whatever affect that has we just left it alone because no beauty or youthful look is worth getting up at 3:30-4am. She doesn’t say “youthful looking” by the way. It is “looking healthy”. Ageism, you know.
3. The first thing she does is have a cup of one organic lemon with the juice squeezed into a cup of very warm water and drinks it down like medicine. I thought that was great and I could modify it a bit with the addition of sugar, but that was forbidden so I tried straight lemon juice. Not bad, but it takes a lot of getting used to.
4. Then things got a bit rough. No smoking – we don’t smoke so that’s alright. No alcohol of any kind. Well, what is wrong with alcohol, I protested. It causes wrinkles, she said. Well – this is not going to be the walk in the park I anticipated.
5. I searched the refrigerator and the food cabinets and found only organic foods. No nothing else – even the spices and coffees and teas were organic – everything was organic. Water was in a pitcher with a filter and she apologized because she didn’t know how to get purer water.
This is going to take time – especially since that means also – no prepared foods even if they say organic and no gluten free prepared foods – they are just as bad as everything else. So as I re-searched the refrigerator – looking at things on a different level, everything was food – real, unprocessed, food “the way it comes from its creator”.
Now that to me was impossible, there must be cheating someplace here, so I watched closely and they ate only those real foods. Milk, eggs, butter, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers (which were actually there for beauty reasons rather than food for eating) chicken, beef, lamb – all organic products. Oh, this is going to be hard. Her response was – this has to be a lifestyle that you feel is good, right and easy. Oh, and the bread – organic whole wheat flour and home baked – if they haven’t had time to bake bread, you get fresh out of the oven biscuits. One day we even had croissants. Those were several days in the making because she doesn’t have that much time to bake croissants straight through.
I was amazed – this was better eating than I’d done in years and watching a cake being made while breakfast was being prepared was amazing. The cake took maybe ten minutes total to be prepared to put in the oven. More time processing – for example – she put sugar (organic turbinado) in the mixer with organic butter and let it beat for what seemed like forever. She ignored it until she had time to add the rest of the ingredients with a little more beating and then into the prepared pans for baking. I am going to try this because it is 1-2-3-4 and even I can remember those ingredients. Even when I can’t remember what is one cup and what is three cups – common sense gets into the mix and I know one cup must be butter because we want butter to be the least of the ingredients and two cups must be sugar because we want medium sweet and three cups must be flour and four must be eggs.
6. Exercise is a part of her day. But – and this is a big but – I exercise daily, jog, etc. but that is not a part of this exercise regime. She exercises parts of the body I don’t even think need exercising – your eyes for example (and she wears no glasses at 79 years old), and your toes, and your fingers. No jogging, she’s never liked that and the incredible exercises I do she thinks is a waste of time and energy. She suggested I wash the walls, or shampoo the rug or do some gardening outside in the sun without sunscreen.
7. Make-up doesn’t exist. Vitamins are the skin care products – vitamin A, E, liquid C and for those aches and pains a good soaking in organic apple cider vinegar switched off with epsom salts.
I could go on because that is the tip of the ice berg. However, I should say, since I left I understand this is not hard at all. It takes re-doing your lifestyle and ignoring what the cosmetic and other marketeers have trained us to think is absolute, essential and all the money spent on such is going to result in results.’ I knew that last part wasn’t true – I spend about $200/ month on cosmetics and at 57 I look older than my host family looks spending money only on foods.
Her biggest health purifier comes from the fact that she hasn’t been to a doctor in over 50 years and doesn’t expect to see one any time soon. Right thinking – giving to others – being aware of the messages your body gives out – those are the things important in that Bettina Hedge School.
Totally the reverse of everything I was ever taught.
Thanks for the experience. It is one I will never forget.
Bettina Hedge Schools rock. I am not sure where I am going next, but I think living with a classical pianist for a few days while I go to meetings, etc. to give her time to do her thing without me hanging around, sounds like a good deal for both of us.
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Origami: Art or Algorithms
May 11th, 2017
by: Elise Miller
Member of the Bettina Network Lifestyle Community
Our son, Ravi, first became interested in origami at age three and a half-years-old, when we followed the instructions in Curious George for making a paper boat. In the book, George had made boats out of the newspapers that he was supposed to be delivering to people’s houses. I then found some old origami paper at home, and over the next two or three years, Ravi went from making cranes to complicated tessellations.
During that time, a friend suggested we watch the documentary “Between the Folds” (http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/between-the-folds/). My husband and I were utterly astonished to find that origami was not only a fine art, but a critical tool for physicists, mathematicians and engineers to develop crease patterns for everything from telescope lenses to heart stents. In fact, one of the people featured on “Between the Folds” is Robert Lang, PhD, a physicist and “paper-folder”, who used origami to create the design for the Hubble telescope (http://www.langorigami.com/article/eyeglass-telescope). Also featured was Erik Demaine, PhD, who became the youngest professor ever at MIT and has an office full of origami models (http://erikdemaine.org).
We were so inspired by this film that we all decided to attend the International Origami Convention held in New York City annually (https://origamiusa.org/conventions) to meet Dr. Lang and other leaders in the burgeoning field of origami engineering. The few hundred people who attended, many of whom were kids like Ravi, were remarkable for their creativity, intensity, intelligence and ability to make just about anything imaginable out of one piece of paper. We also learned that geometric algorithms (based on origami techniques) were starting to be used to develop self-folding robots (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYz7g-qLjs). In fact, just in the last couple years or so, new academic programs and departments have sprung up at major universities for origami engineering ( http://www.livescience.com/49121-origami-inspired-engineering-is-expanding.html). Little did we know that reading Curious George would ultimately lead us to the cutting edge of science and engineering!
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What is Trump’s “Fake News” about!
May 9th, 2017by: Marceline Donaldson
The retaliations have started and will probably get worse as time goes on. Anyone taking on Donald Trump is being put on notice by the firing of FBI Director James Comey. This comes after he fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates. What became clear in the hearings as Sally Yates gave a time table of her actions – she was not fired for refusing to go to court filing for a “Muslim ban”. She was fired because she raised up the problems with Flynn and was very clear, articulate and fact backed in what she brought to the White House – which probably also put Trump in the crosshairs because not only did she point out Flynn’s transgressions, but the door opened for us to see that our President is probably an underling working for Vladimir Putin.
National Security Director – Flynn – was fired, but only after the Washington Post came out with the truth about Flynn, almost three weeks after Yates pointed out the problems and Trump was forced to fire someone who was a close associate of Trump’s, was with him on the campaign trail for months and who seems clearly to have been colluding with the Russians, probably with the knowledge and blessings and collusion of Donald Trump. Why else would the three of them – Trump, Flynn, Putin – have talked together after Sally Yates presented her findings to the White House? After which Yates was fired.
For Trump to have had a meeting and telephone call in the White House with Flynn and Putin after Sally Yates brought the Flynn business front and center is beyond my ability to understand how this man was elected president. A meeting and telephone call about what – about what to do about Sally Yates to keep her from exposing all of them? But then I have to remember what my life has been like and the enormous amounts of racism and sexism I have experienced. That was at the hands of American citizens who are probably the people who voted in Donald Trump – afraid that their hegemony over all is being cut down to size where they have to accept mere equality.
But what about all of this business where every place you turn you hear “Fake News.” The term – put out in public by Donald Trump, that has been picked up by everyone else.
During the campaign, Trump treated the main stream media like crap – except for those representing the Fox Channel, who he singled out for praise and whatever positive comments he could throw their way.
What was that about? Was that Trump having watched and read all of the other media and found the Fox Channel and Fox News totally superior to everyone else? No! That does not even begin to describe what this man has been doing.
It is time to put out there what this is exactly about – and the context in which this is happening. Basically one which screams to all of us that Trump has yet to appoint someone to a substantial office who is not ethically challenged. That seems to be his number one criteria. Flynn is certainly an example of that.
What is “Fake News” about – this concept that Donald Trump keeps holding up in front of us?
It is about Donald Trump’s friendship with Rupert Murdoch. Trump is one of Murdoch’s close friends. It is claimed they talk daily. So what has one friend done for another? Trump has used his new power and exposure to market Fox News and the Fox Channel as being superior to all the others. He has put it out there that this is what he watches and everything else is “Fake News”.
The president of the United States helping to market one particular media outlet – making it possible for major increases in the income of his friend Murdoch and Murdoch’s family. Trump is promoting his friends’ business and dissing the rest of the media putting their representatives in “bull pens” – literal pens during his campaign stops and calling on the people at his rallies to join him in saying horrible things about all of the media – except, of course, Fox News and the Fox Channel. It is strong propaganda Trump has spread all over the rest of us until I feel as though we have been dirtied in a way we can’t come clean and wash all of this away. It is the Fouling of America and it is being done by a champ who has spent his life doing this to many, many others.
“Fake News” is actually what Sean Spicer, Donald Trump, Mike Pence and others in their group are constantly trying to force feed the public. Blaming the Flynn fiasco on Obama when they all knew that was not true. Spicer giving a long soliloquy on how Security Clearances come about when he knew very well what he was saying was a lie. Trump did not vet Flynn – yet claimed he didn’t have to because Obama had just given Flynn the Security Clearance he needed. In fact, however, Obama had fired Flynn – advised Trump personally not to hire him because of the problems now surfacing, and had not given Flynn any Security Clearance. In fact, Flynn was working as head of the NSC without the Security Clearance he needed because Trump allowed him to do that. Given Flynn’s background and activities he probably could not have gotten the necessary Security Clearance so this smoke screen is thrown up so the general public cannot see how this President Trump is flouting all the laws and procedures put into place to keep this country operating on a fairly high and safe level
The terrorist threat to these United States does not come from the Muslims – it comes from Donald Trump who is doing everything he can to ignore the Constitution of the United States – to destroy everything we hold dear as he tries to turn it all into gold for himself and his friends and who seems to be trying to establish himself as a sick and evil dictator.
What amazes me, but shouldn’t, is how all of the men around Trump – and all of the men at Fox are being knocked off one at a time as they are called out for their clear and ugly sexual abuse against women, among other vile mean spirited ways of being. All defended by Donald Trump, who himself should be in jail for his self-admitted sexual abuse of women.
“Fake News” is necessary as a campaign so actual news is either not printed or not believed by Trump supporters who don’t want to believe their idol has clay shoes. He is, after all, the one keeping them above the unwashed minorities of the world.
We have this president who is illegitimate – a pathological liar – a seeker after money, influence, power for himself and his friends – who is going to strip the United States of every shred of decency, good ethical base, make it the laughing stock of the world, and destroy its middle – class citizens as substantially as possible so that it will take decades for them to recover.
To look at the way Trump has constantly thrown around the concept of “Fake News” and used that to promote his friend – Rupert Murdoch’s business and to attempt to destroy all other media outlets is beyond belief.
One shock after another and each one on a lower plane than the last one. When you think Trump can’t go any lower he lets you know there is still space for him to go because with his clear lack of any kind of human decency there is no bottom for him to hit.
A step lower would be to replace Comey as Head of the FBI with Bannon or one of Jess Sessions friends. They do make a clearly compatible couple. As do their associates in the Republican Party. It is amazing to see the lack of an ethical base and just an inability to adhere to basic human decency in today’s Republican Party – once the Party of Lincoln and now the party of Trump – Nixon – Reagan – all who had to face serious criminal charges coming from how they were being President and what they were doing.
Why he is not being stopped is my question! I know he will never be assassinated because the people who do that are all in his camp.
Why we are allowing this man to ruin everything we have all worked so hard for is my ultimate question today. What are you doing to help restore this country to some semblance of a country where mafia ethics are not the rule of the day and people are not meeting behind closed doors to figure out how to turn this country away from its democratic/republic historical founding towards a vicious, mean-spirited, grasping, greedy, whore mongering group of white men run amuck turning their bigotry into the normal way of things in this country and at the same time establishing these United States as a totalitarian state run by a greedy, lying, abusive etc. etc. etc.
Am I angry? You better believe it. And you?
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Thank You for Your Support!
May 8th, 2017
A very big thank you
for all the support we received
as we went about managing
the Bettina Moving Sale
in Watertown, Massachusetts.
So many of you came out and looked and bought and ate cookies – horrible store-bought cookies made without the benefit of organic flour, organic cocoa, etc. I warned them not to do that, but, next time we will do better!!
We had a few ‘newcomers’ to Bettina Network, inc’s sales, who felt being ugly was the way to go and to get the price and item they wanted, but they ran into our buzz saw called ‘Marceline’ and that was that. To balance them off we made many new friends who we will look for at future sales.
You all met Frances, who was working her first Bettina Sale and who was a bit nervous at the beginning, but relaxed and by the end of the sale had joined in and did very well. If you or someone you know would like to work the Bettina Sales, please call and let’s have a conversation. Toll free at 1-800-347-9166 or 617 497 9166 or email us at bettina-network@comcast.net.
The children who came were the gems – the very young person who looked to be about 8 or 9 years old, and who was with her grandparents, very ably translating for them because they did not speak English. She did not hesitate to correct Frances when she made a $2 mistake in our favor, making sure her grandparents’ money was correctly handled. And then there was the pregnant mother with her baby in a sling over her shoulder – with such a presence that you knew the future was secure if there are many more young people building families like theirs. There were many realtors coming and going with their clients looking at the house. We loved the fact that a couple of the realtors just couldn’t resist and put their business aside to participate in ours. The outstanding buyer was the family who purchased a piece of furniture and found a one ounce gold bar stuck in the back of one of the drawers and brought it to us. Where else do you find that kind of honesty except at a Bettina Network Sale?
We are so grateful for your friendship, your business, your suggestions, your warmth and love and look forward to seeing you next time at a Bettina Sale.
We added several new members to Bettina Network’s Lifestyle Community and hope you use your password and join in as we move to grow this organization.
Thank you seems so inadequate, but it is truly and seriously and deeply meant and felt.
From,
All of us at Bettina’s
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A Bettina Network Moving Sale
May 5th, 2017A BETTINA MOVING
SALE
IN WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS
104 Coolidge Hill Road – Unit 6 (A Town House)
May 6th – 10am through 4pm
to
May 7th – 2pm through 6pm
You are invited for tea from 4-6pm on May 7th when all prices for the remaining items will be reduced by 50%
For pictures check out the following:
https://www.estatesales.net/MA/Watertown/02472/1515447
Bettina Network, inc. invites you to shop at a Bettina Moving Sale instead of going to the mall or retail stores. Spend $20 and you might wind up with $100 worth of merchandise and with some items you cannot currently find in stores – items which become treasures for your family to inherit years from now.
At a Bettina Moving Sale you can add great pieces to your wardrobe, discover that incredible piece of jewelry you can’t live without; find birthday presents – holiday items – the perfect items for yourself at a fraction of what you would spend otherwise. Necessary and ordinary items which one needs to keep a house running smoothly; elegant decorations to make your dining table go from nice to spectacular without breaking your pocket book; and amass a collection of the world’s most outstanding books, CDs, etc. At the prices you find at a Bettina Moving Sale you can afford hundreds of books in your library – and tools to keep your house repaired along with items you don’t need, would never buy if they weren’t at rock bottom prices and which you take home to put in your basement waiting for your moving sale to happen.
The Town House is also for sale!
Hope to see you there!
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U. S. President is Trump or Pence-Koch?
July 25th, 2017We had an interesting breakfast – one of many, but this one stood out given the current political climate so I am sending you this blog with a bit of a summary. The talk was mostly about untangling the politics currently on view. Things are never what they seem on the surface so what is percolating in the background!!??
A couple people agreed with Trump about the press. Not for the same reasons, nor did they call it or even consider the current reporting “Fake News”. They called it “Fall in Line behind the Leader News.” Basically, their impression of the press was that many reporters follow the lead of what is currently being reported by a few strong people and to go out on their own, especially if that differs from the current headlines, is not what many are able to do.
That’s a shame because that kind of independence is what is needed of a journalist and they should be ready to put down their jobs if they can’t report what they find – or if it is because of a lazy mind, they need another profession. None require the kind of sharpness of mind; independence of spirit; insatiable curiosity; need to find the truth- that is required of the press. It is a vocation rather than a job. At least those are my thoughts about it.
The rest of the conversation was around the question as to why with all that is coming out about the Trump Administration there is almost no talk about Pence. He is carefully being guarded in the background so he can come out as new, untainted, etc.?
What one person wanted to know was if the President of the United States – not the one with the title, but the one calling the shots – was actually Trump or Pence? This group felt it was Pence who was channeling the wishes of the Koch Brothers and Trump, until now was falling into line and following those wishes also. Although they saw signs of his beginning to wake up to understand the game. The game that was about Pence for Vice President because he would never be elected president and then for Pence to move into the presidency after Trump was destroyed and pushed out.
I hadn’t heard that before and it was a bit hard to understand, but as the history came out with the claim that Pence actually was the one who brought Trump to the Koch brothers (or maybe it was the Koch brothers who brought Pence to Trump with the promise of money and their backing) things began to make a bit of sense.
What also clicked for me was the discussion about the upheaval in this current administration. Starting almost from the beginning the question was asked if the Koch brothers and their minions were active in causing all of this current upheaval so their man could get in early and start working for them in earnest? A wild conspiracy theory, but a theory nevertheless which had some truth sounds in it for me. And the next questions – did Trump pick up on this early on, saw how he was deceived and how he had been cuckolded and developed enormous anger at having been so deceived? After all, that kind of thing was usually what Trump did to others, not what others did to Trump. Nothing of this has even been hinted at by the media I am reading and listening to and maybe they should take a look.
Needless to say, it was lively with lots of laughter and conjectures that were over the top. Hope we have another group like this for breakfast soon. It certainly starts the adrenaline rushing around. I got more done the rest of that day then I’ve gotten done in weeks.
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