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An Offering for black history month from “American Diversity Report”
Thursday, February 11th, 2021Guardianship is a Civil Rights issue and evil!
Wednesday, September 9th, 2020As we have moved along trying to understand all that happened with Rev. Dr. Robert Bennett, whose life was almost destroyed by Somerville Cambridge Elder and Protective Services and its hangers on, we have come to realize that RACISM – SEXISM – ANTI-SEMITISM – and more are where the targets are aimed in this new area, discovered by those who are determined to keep bigotry as a part of this United States.
Slavery gave way to Jim Crowism. Jim Crowism gave way to Structural Racism. Structural Racism is giving way to a really vile kind of bigotry in the Health Industry where Guardianship is one of the star performers destined to keep slavery, jim crow and structural racism around for an eternity.
It is within the Health Industry where a person can be picked up by the police for no reason and have their lives ruined because of a number of reasons none related to your health. The kind of police power given to the health industry with no safe-guards is astounding. It is an area rife for the arrival and take-over of that industry and its institutions by a strong mafia.
The way there are no guard rails around Guardianship is unbelievable. The end of many minorities lives has been made a living hell by those who see themselves able to benefit financially from pushing into the lives of strangers and wrecking havoc for a few dollars.
Dr. Rebecca Warner needs to have her license to practice psychiatry seriously investigated and probably revoked.
With no prior psychiatric problems of any kind, Rev. Dr. Robert Bennett found himself in Mass General Hospital being given things like anti-psychotic medications, hallucinatory drugs and a whole lot more on a daily basis. This to a man with no psychiatric problems. The attempt to turn a fairly health man into an incapacitated sub-human was done exquisitely by Dr. Warner.
Remember – Rev. Dr. Bennett was not there for health reasons. The police went to his house and picked him up to incarcerate him in the hospital on a Section 12 – with no reason – except for the paper signed by Dr. Rebecca Warner who made the disclaimer with her signature that she did not know Robert Bennet, had never met him, never examined him, never been to his house and yet she signed for the police to pick him up and force him into the hospital to be psychiatrically examined because under the Section 12 she deemed him a threat to society and/or to himself.
He was supposed to be forced into Mount Auburn Hospital, which is apparently very amenable to and – on information and belief – have been practitioners of this ‘Guardianship Game” for quite some time. Instead, his wife insisted he go to MGH where the Section 12 was lifted because he should not have been so forced into a hospitable on such charges in the first place. So he was sent home.
Two days later the police arrived again at his house, this time to incarcerate him in MGH with the claim that his wife was “medically abusive” to him. This was introduced to the court without telling the court about the discharge of Rev. Dr. Bennett from the hospital just two days prior. This group of criminal conspirators were not to be rejected. They had a pattern to put in place and follow and nothing would deter them. Lying – cheating – trying to steal a man’s life for the financial or career gains that would accrue to them – fair game.
At MGH Dr. Rebecca Warner arrived and did what she was supposed to do at Mount Auburn Hospital, but didn’t have the chance because Dr. Bennett went to MGH and had been discharged with “no medicines prescribed” and all vitals in the normal range including blood pressure.
At Mount Auburn Hospital, they were waiting for the arrival of Dr. Bennett under the Section 12 to consign him to their psychiatric wing. There would be no examination, nothing just send him off. They would not have “lifted” the Section 12 at Mount Auburn Hospital because that was the start of the road to “incapacitating” Dr. Bennett. To drain his assets he had to be incapacitated, sent to a nursing home for the rest of his life as unable to be assisted to live any kind of life except tied to a bed. The court papers all say – not even with the help of all of the new technology
Unfortunately, he is not the only African American who has experienced what he has been forced through over the past several months. There have been many and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts needs to investigate what is going on with its Protective Services people.
Blacks, Jews, Latina’s have all been so incarcerated.
What had Dr. Bennett done wrong? He lived in the wrong neighborhood in the wrong house. A house that had been “red-lined” and we believe still is.
In addition, he and his wife and some in their circle of friends, consultants, business associates have been and still are very outspoken and have consistently and for months published how they see Donald Trump running these United States into the ground.
They have lived in the Harvard Square neighborhood for some 37 years and have had to fight, all of those years, some of their neighbors who wanted that African American couple gone. Interestingly enough, almost no African Americans have moved into their neighborhood in all of that time. When they see someone dark of color they discover they are Harvard related and live in Shaler Lane or in another house owned by Harvard, thus assuring the neighbors they will not be permanent neighbors and will not be involved in whatever decisions and community that happens.
Acceptable as a place to live in the Harvard Square area is on the other side of Harvard Square – Definitely not the Brattle Street side.
They put their house on the market for sale. When they decided against selling and took the house off the market, some folks in their neighborhood went crazy. Finally, they thought, their neighborhood was going to ‘lighten’. Instead the ‘darkness’ stayed.
That is only one reason and one example for Guardianship being a Civil Rights issue. There are many more and unfortunately this is becoming true across the country.
Blacks you cannot touch because they are not criminals, not accused criminally can be brought into the criminal justice system and can be picked up and forced out of their homes by the police with just the signature of a willing psychiatrist and Dr. Rebecca Warner turned out to be such a person for the Donaldson/Bennett’s.
Jews are also targeted in this Guardianship scheme – which we consider a criminal conspiracy. The anti-semitism around Jews has to do with the propaganda that Jews actually rule the world – have all the money – and are constantly grabbing for more. That negative stereotype goes on, but I am sure you are completely aware of it.
Immigrants, especially are becoming targets of these schemes to gain Guardianship over and then deplete and draw down the assets of minorities so their next generation does not have the “push” from being left assets to begin to move ‘Up” financially and otherwise in this society.
The hard work of that first generation of immigrants is well known as the way to the American Dream tor their children, grandchildren and more down the generations. Stop that – with the Guardianship conspiracy which has overtaken and felled many immigrant families.
Las Vegas, Nevada seems to be the headquarters for such evil. But it can be found in many states and spreading fast.
In Massachusetts, the Courts – which we believe is the headquarters these days for the Irish Mafia – has been developing a very sophisticated system to strip families of their future inheritance by incarcerating their parents using “Guardianship”.
MA. Health is a supporter of this scheme and they do a fantastic job of ripping assets from families – are they a health insurer or are they a very vicious bill collector. Whatever, their structure totally supports this Guardianship criminal conspiracy.
And what will the state do about that? DENY? Investigate itself and find itself clean and not involved?
Don’t be ignorant – Don’t go along to get along – know what is happening in your neighborhood and to those you know and love. Take action and demand that those being so discriminated against be listened to and made whole – one day, that could be you.
Thank You for Your Support!
Monday, May 8th, 2017
A very big thank you
for all the support we received
as we went about managing
the Bettina Moving Sale
in Watertown, Massachusetts.
So many of you came out and looked and bought and ate cookies – horrible store-bought cookies made without the benefit of organic flour, organic cocoa, etc. I warned them not to do that, but, next time we will do better!!
We had a few ‘newcomers’ to Bettina Network, inc’s sales, who felt being ugly was the way to go and to get the price and item they wanted, but they ran into our buzz saw called ‘Marceline’ and that was that. To balance them off we made many new friends who we will look for at future sales.
You all met Frances, who was working her first Bettina Sale and who was a bit nervous at the beginning, but relaxed and by the end of the sale had joined in and did very well. If you or someone you know would like to work the Bettina Sales, please call and let’s have a conversation. Toll free at 1-800-347-9166 or 617 497 9166 or email us at bettina-network@comcast.net.
The children who came were the gems – the very young person who looked to be about 8 or 9 years old, and who was with her grandparents, very ably translating for them because they did not speak English. She did not hesitate to correct Frances when she made a $2 mistake in our favor, making sure her grandparents’ money was correctly handled. And then there was the pregnant mother with her baby in a sling over her shoulder – with such a presence that you knew the future was secure if there are many more young people building families like theirs. There were many realtors coming and going with their clients looking at the house. We loved the fact that a couple of the realtors just couldn’t resist and put their business aside to participate in ours. The outstanding buyer was the family who purchased a piece of furniture and found a one ounce gold bar stuck in the back of one of the drawers and brought it to us. Where else do you find that kind of honesty except at a Bettina Network Sale?
We are so grateful for your friendship, your business, your suggestions, your warmth and love and look forward to seeing you next time at a Bettina Sale.
We added several new members to Bettina Network’s Lifestyle Community and hope you use your password and join in as we move to grow this organization.
Thank you seems so inadequate, but it is truly and seriously and deeply meant and felt.
From,
All of us at Bettina’s
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Mountain Rose Herbs – Recycles 100%
Sunday, March 5th, 2017To read more about this story try https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/zero-waste-certified-blog
It is always exciting to find a company we can recommend without hesitation and this is one. I don’t know any other company which has reached the ability to recycle 100% of their trash – unused items – excess – you name it what you will – this is an awesome achievement.
We try, but have not reached that yet. We also encourage all of our homes to do the same. Hopefully, one day, sharing information, we will also be a company that has no trash, garbage, etc. to put out for pickup. We will either use or give away what we cannot use – 100%.
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One Response to Trump’s “Election”
Thursday, November 10th, 2016****************
https://www.change.org/p/department-of-justice-investigate-donald-trump-s-election-because-it-was-obtained-by-fraud-and-foreign-intervention?recruiter=168617629&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive
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I believe this election was carried on and won fraudulently. So we are asking you to sign the petition asking the Department of Justice to investigate. We are also asking that if you know anything that happened during this campaign, which is even a little bit spurious you contact us with that information. I have set up a system to collect all such information.
The petition is being done through www.change.org and can be previewed on my Facebook page.
Please send any information to:
Marceline Donaldson – P. O. Box 380585 – Cambridge, MA. 02238
For example – we received information suggesting that Assange, from Wiki Leaks, may have had an agreement to go after Hillary during the campaign (which his group did – ignoring everyone else) and if Trump won, he would have some kind of asylum in the U. S.
We are also asking that Comey – head of the FBI be investigated because he went out of his authority to announce that Hillary would be considered for re-investigation because of new emails he claimed to have found on someone else’s computer. We understand the Trump people knew about this several months before from Comey and were waiting for the announcement, which they constantly talked about coming just days before the election. They said a bombshell would be dropped just days before the election which would destroy Hillary’s chances for election. We are collecting any and all information which comes our way to put it together for an investigation which first – might put this election on hold, or may be used in some other way to stop this United States from moving more in the direction that Hitler took Germany after his election.
What is clear to us is that Hitler was by no means as far down the road to turning Germany into the Nazi heaven it became as Trump is as he starts claiming what he calls his victory and his ‘election’ as President of the United States.
Thank you for your help and support,
Marceline Donaldson
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Ghanaian and Columbian Skin Care
Wednesday, September 21st, 2016copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2016
We have not had enough time to test this out on several people over a long period of time, however, for a few days on about 3 people it has had stunning results.
A previous blog was about Pineapple Skins for Skin care – an old Ghanaian treatment. In conversation over breakfast about that blog we had a Columbian guest who made an addition to that recipe. So, of course, we had to try it and love the results.
In addition to the steam treatment with Pineapple Skins – add Papaya skins to the water before steaming and let the Papaya Skins and the Pineapple Skins simmer together until steam rises. Follow the same method – put a large towel over your head and your head over the steaming pot of water and skins and let the steam from all of the ingredients get into your skin for several minutes. You can do this however you are most comfortable – either over the stove with the water simmering or move the pot off the stove and put it on a nearby counter. If you want to continue and the steam dies down -put the pot back on the stove until the steam comes up again and continue. We chose five minutes because that was all we could handle standing over a steaming pot. Someone else was able to try 10 minutes. The results were spectacular. I would think once or twice a week – depending upon your age and the condition of your skin – would work beautifully. Once-a-week if you are young and your skin shows no damage from age or the over use of cosmetics. Twice a week if you are aging and your skin needs work.
Follow this facial steam bath with lots of splashes of cold water on your face and pat dry with a soft towel.
Then – if you are retiring for the night – use nothing. If you are getting ready for the day out and about, use a capsule of Vitamin A on your skin to add to the results from the Pineapple and Papaya Skin Steam treatment. Actually, I found it takes four capsules – clipped and used one at a time to cover my face. I use 25,000 IU’s. Whatever you use would be up to your judgment. I use this immediately upon rising in the morning and after at least 20 minutes with the Vitamin A on my face I rinse it again with cold splashes of water, pat dry and I am ready for work. If I am staying home, I let the Vitamin A stay until I remember to splash the cold water. Using the Vitamin A, including on my eyelids and under my eyes can cause a bit of a discomfort while it is on. I ignore it and keep going. The result seems to be an increase in my ability to see without the use of glasses. That might be genetic, but everyone before me had glasses by the time they were 55. I am way past that and only need glasses when I read a lot. During the day, I can refresh my face with more splashes of cold water when I go to the bathroom for other reasons. That is such a rejuvenation and a perk-me-up that my face instantly responds and looks as good as it looked with the first splash in the morning.
If you try this, we would appreciate your feedback as to how it worked for you.
We chose the Vitamin A after the facial steam bath because we read the Bettina Network Blog – a long time ago – about the Vitamin A – dry milk – Vitamin E treatment which is also fantastic so we only need to use the steam – probably once a week – maybe not even.
I don’t even use powder on my face anymore. If I have a grease spot or the weather has caused a particularly greasy face, I simply use powdered milk. It is super fantastic.
God bless Alicia Keyes. Hope others will join her in her dedication to no cosmetics. She simply appears the way God made her and she looks like a fresh flower in the middle of plastic replications. I hope she is ready for the attacks of jealousy which are definitely coming from this stance. So many people so very threatened.
Isn’t it great what sharing can do? The need to be better than has caused us to have to live with cancer, obesity, heart disease, diabetes and all the rest because we can’t give credit to possible cures and improvements that other societies use on a regular basis. We must be the continuing Colonials whose way is the only and the best way. I think this collaboration between Ghanaian and Columbian is what it is all about.
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CRAFTERS and others – A Way to Share!
Saturday, July 2nd, 2016Join Bettina Network, inc. and become a member of this great Lifestyle Community. Join with Musicians, Artists, Theologians, Designers, Nutritionists, Doctors, Lawyers, Business Executives, Philathropists, Nurses, Secretaries, Videographers and others to become one great educational institution – become one of the Bettina Network Hedge Schools (patent pending).
Use your homes to welcome guests who are interested in your art, your craft, your vocation, your lifestyle and who want to learn from you. Maybe, instead, you want to learn from them. Tired of being in a society where you are closed in to only those like you – racially, same political beliefs, in the same financial and social class – join us as we work towards a more open, diverse and giving society.
Our guests are in your area for other reasons, but also want to improve their skills; see what others are doing; learn from scratch; be a part of another’s lifestyle for a brief time or some may want to just hang-out to take lessons. Interested? Call us at 617 497 9166 or toll free within the U. S. at 1-800-347-9166. Email us at bettina-network@comcast.net.
P. S. Our homes also include those who are very wealthy and very poor. Are you one of the very privileged and want to know what its like to live in a ghetto? Well, this is your chance.
Share your designs; get ideas from others staying with you; talk your craft, your vocation, your involvements, your ideas, your philosophy over breakfast and expand your involvement in the world.
We are an educational institution without walls. Learn about the world’s religions from a theologian on the cutting edge or one who is very conservative; sit at the table with master thinkers; learn about technology from those moving the boundaries into unimaginable places.
As a guest in one of our homes – learn about what is coming to make digital communication obsolete. See exquisite stained glass and see how sculptors work. Find a piece of clay and try your hand at your own sculpture. Heard about hot glass? Stay in one of our homes with a kiln to see the entire process.
Share your craft. Embroidery? Clay Pottery? Silver jewelry? Knitting? There are endless possibilities you can share with others and earn what you need to move your craft even further.
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The ‘Sharing’ Community????
Friday, April 29th, 2016The first thing we note in that name – which has become attached to several kinds of businesses – is the fact that it is an extreme misnomer. There is nothing “sharing” about that group of businesses. Unless you call the lower to middle classes sharing their small assets and ideas in ways to make the upper entrepreneurial class extremely wealthy, a “Sharing Community.”
The business titans of the next generation will all come from this extremely wealthy group. They take into their rather exclusive club those they have identified as ‘like them’. And we all know our own.
A more accurate name would be the Greedy/ Grasping/ Exclusive and Excluding/ Racist and Sexist Community!
Wow! That sounds angry! – It is most definitely not a happy frame of mind.
Let’s take a look. Is it angry or is it accurate.
The ‘Sharing’ Community is the group of entrepreneurs who have taken a funnel; poured into the top all the assets they could not touch and do not own; taken the lions share of those assets – without buying them or putting upfront any kind of money in exchange for those assets; and have come out with multi-billions of dollars while the people who own the assets being used are given a dream that turns into a nightmare as they look at the fact that only a very few realize that dream. Those that realize the dream are the few used to disprove the rule.
The ‘Sharing Community’ is bringing in racism and classism like no other corporate structure has been able to create, maintain or enforce. They do it by painting pictures of this wonderful society – the beloved society – which will bring us all together in a very loving and sharing way.
Most of the folks, who have had this imitation stardust thrown into their eyes and who cannot see what is in front of them, but subscribe to the mythology, are the ones who will be hurt the most.
Take a look at the companies who have been most exposed by the media. The others won’t be far behind. Not totally exposed, however, because the media realize that while they must tell – at least part of the truth – their owners have to survive and they do that surviving through the advertising dollars of those new “Sharing Community” groups. It would be so easy if we all took on the responsibility of thinking – carefully thinking of what is presented to us so beautifully gift wrapped.
Take Amazon. There have been articles written, exposing the warehouse slavery which happens at Amazon – exposing how they treat their employees – not the ones at the top who are now multi-billionaires; nor the ones in the middle who are multi-millionaires; but the ones at the bottom making all of that possible for those top executives and investors.
Amazon has been talked and written about describing its racism and sexism, but we were too busy dreaming to listen. They have just recently shown clearly, not only their extreme racism but the very arrogant way they assume it is their right to act it out and expect the larger society to not notice and/or to approve. They don’t notice their own racism because it is totally ingrained in their structure and their corporate culture.
In Boston, they announced one day delivery to all except those who live in Roxbury. How is that racist? Roxbury is where most of the African Americans and other minorities live.
They were preceded almost a generation ago by the first company giving you access to the internet with your own personal account. If you were African American and/or other minorities deemed less than by this society you could not get such an internet account. It was set up so that you had to have a credit card to have an internet account and your credit card had to be rated above a certain level. We worked with many minorities who were denied access to the internet. Not until everything was running smoothly and the majority society was very skilled at the internet; saw its possibilities; started building companies to take advantage of the internet were those barriers relaxed – and other internet companies started to join in the picture. And at that point groups took on the job of trying to bring the ‘disadvantaged’ into the fold. Not as equals, but as those less than who didn’t know enough to join this revolution. Now, the rest of us would have to do our ‘nobles oblige’ and work to bring them up to speed, because they couldn’t do it themselves. Not totally up to speed, but just enough to maintain our superiority and show what looks like our compassion.
The story given out was that you had to have this kind of credit card because your monthly fee – which at the time was around $12/month – had to be taken out of your credit card each month. They had to know the money would be there when they automatically withdrew their fee – and other minor embroideries to attempt to justify this racist exclusion. One of the exclusions was – if you were divorced – and female – you had to be one year out of your divorce before you could get an internet account. How quickly we forget.
As we worked with people trying to get an internet account – they offered to pay their fees one year in advance to avoid the ‘guideline’ set up which excluded them – they had no credit card, couldn’t get a credit card, and the few that had credit cards did not have a high enough rating in their cards to qualify – our ‘forgetfulness’ also extends to the role of the credit cards in the continuing oppression structured into this society. That offer of cash or check in advance for one years fees was immediately declined by the company. So much for what the internet provider considered a necessary policy.
If you look closely at the policies and practices of Amazon you will find them riddled with racism and sexism. We are too far away from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s to think and parallel and see how grossly minorities are treated – and – we are too busy scrambling for something that we feel is important, to stop and take a serious look at what these companies are doing and how they are structuring into our present a more rigid racism and sexism for our children’s generation than that which we have had to face and fight.
Their control will be complete by the time what they are doing is recognized and addressed. Didn’t Amazon feel free enough to eliminate Roxbury from their one day delivery without expecting any blow back from such a policy and without even realizing the racism of the policy? Or did they put the policy in place knowing it would negatively affect African Americans and other minorities in the neighborhood and that was the reason for the policy in the first place, but it went into place anyway because their goal is to benefit their “own” and to eliminate anything they feel might be a ‘danger’ to the development of their business? And, is that ‘danger’ minorities and women?
A corporate structure reflects the times in which it was created and the people who did the creating of the structure. The racism and sexism of the original founders would be intricately incorporated into the structure they put into place. Their fears, their identity, their needs would be very much woven into the structure of what they found. I meant “found” because most of the ideas about which we are discussing were stolen from others without any need to do otherwise. That spirit would be all through their creation. They would take someone else’s idea and add their own racism, sexism, insecurities into what they created and continue to create.
And then there is Airbnb! Found to have racist policies by Harvard Business School Harvard Gazette Article they are still free to exercise them. HBS Article . By the time the rest of us catch up and understand what they have structured, they will have taken us back to the days when African Americans had their own b and b listing of places they could stay because they were closed out completely from the accommodations others could use. This time, the close-out will be complete because it will be hidden and not many will take on the deconstruction necessary to lay that bare.
Once upon a time during the Civil Rights Movement, colleges and universities used a discrete kind of racism and sexism. A way to discriminate without saying we have rejected your application because you are too dark; too non-American; too, etc.
One huge way they put in place to enforce that discrimination was to require a picture with your application.
Those minorities who did not have the tell-tale entries in their application – their name; their address; the schools they went to before applying; etc. would be caught in the net of the picture requirement and the schools could then – and they did – reject the applications based on the recognized basis of racism and sexism rather than allowing the application to go ahead and be considered on its merits. Some colleges and universities didn’t totally reject all minorities, but they had a quota. Once that quota was reached, all others were rejected and the picture requirement made that possible.
Airbnb started without a picture requirement unless you had an African American sounding name or your application to use their services was picked up with something being not quite right. What was that? A possible minority, you say?
To correct that, they have apparently started to require a picture from almost everyone. Does that sound familiar? A policy which does the same thing and allows the same kind of discrimination practiced by colleges and universities a generation ago.
Take a look at other companies which are a part of this ‘sharing community’. Basically, you are allowed to use assets you struggled to acquire for your family, etc. to ‘share’ with others. You use them sometimes and you rent them out to others at other times. What happens through this process? You generally rent them out at a lower rate than an established business offering the same services. The fact that the people in these other businesses have struggled for more than one generation to get their reimbursement up to a fairly decent amount and are still struggling for things like health insurance, etc. means nothing to those renting out their similar assets for less. They are thinking of how rich they are going to become and maybe even be able to buy more than one of the same kind of asset or something similar to expand the services offered and they and their friends are going to walk into the very rich sunset together.
Instead, they find they are increasingly pushed against the wall and deprived of much because the reason the other services cost more begins to push into their lives. The assets experiences wear and tear; they have expenses which were not included in their initial calculation of how much they were going to profit; they gradually start down that slippery slope and lose even that with which they started. What is also enmeshed into this corporate revolution is the all out hunt for and stealing of the ideas and businesses of others, who do not have access to the investors in this Sharing Community. I have met more people whose corporations are viable and struggling who have been swamped and destroyed by the greedy grabbing and stealing of their ideas and their decades of work developing a business which is then stolen and put in place as though it came full blown out of the minds and experiences of those claiming it as a part of the “Sharing Community.” That kind of theft is no less criminal than the kind against which this society has definite criminal laws.
Who is profiting from the use of their assets – the investors in the overarching business which has set itself up to allow this asset use. They are multi-billionaires in record time – like a few years, if that long. Where did all of that money come from? The backs and lives of those who see what is being offered as some pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and the marketing and advertising of the overarching businesses who are very good at painting that picture.
It is time to take a good look at what this society is becoming and how the masses are moving into an indentured servant class while their lives are being taken to make a greedy group wealthy beyond their wildest imaginings. And they are ‘sharing’ this wealth with who? Certainly not the people who made it possible. They are still struggling to just get back to where they were before they took their assets into this conglomeration.
It is time to tell the truth and give correct names to what is around us. “The Community Indulging in Massive Greed”: “The Community using the assets of the masses in the process of using the Masses to Acquire Billions of dollars without Sharing”. “The Community of the Greed which has discovered the way to maintain and grow its outsized Male Ego by insuring the survival of racism and sexism in a virulent form, masked from the society until that society is enmeshed and unable to extricate itself from the tentacles which enslave them and benefit the investors who created what they call “A Sharing Community.”
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Sandra Bland – Strange Fruit
Friday, July 24th, 2015Once upon a time, the “Strange Fruit, hanging from the trees” used to be from trees with green leaves, a trunk and branches growing up from the ground splattered with red.
Today, the “Strange Fruit, hanging from the trees” is hanging from man-made trees with blue reflected all around.
But look! Isn’t that the old white cloth under the blue?
And aren’t those tall pointy white hats pushing out from under the official issued uniform?
Really strange and awful fruit, rapidly spreading the disease of racism all across the country.
Being covered up by fear – that fear keeping those who could act from doing so.
Why! Oh God, Why!
This strange fruit is is Black and female –
the fear is that riots will invade those lovely, green, middle-class communities.
Rather let the strange fruit multiply and just hang there in silence. Much better than to act. The sacrifice of the few for the many.
But doesn’t that spread? isn’t it happening more rapidly?
Terrorism?
Not from the Middle East!
White – Male – Conservative – with strings into the groups of old
The Klan, the Citizens Council, the neoNazi …………………….why bother with a list, you know the names
This isn’t simply racism – this is Racism and Sexism.
Life is becoming ever more strange and silent.
The silent majority is back and in control!
Let the media slip in little bits and pieces to make it sound less awful; less threatening; let us not place blame where it belongs, but obfuscate.
Won’t that protect those of us who count?
Homicide, murder, reduced to a paid vacation, sometimes called Administrative leave – which happens before exoneration.
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Steel Sharpens Steel
Wednesday, December 10th, 2014Copyright 2014 Bettina Network, inc.
Friends and family! What good are they!!!!!
This discussion over breakfast started out with a guest in great emotional distress trying to keep the differences she was having with her mother out of sight, but her mother was at the table and had no interest in keeping anything out of sight. It was a scene that I am sure is played out many times by many different people, cultures, races.
Her mother’s comment really struck me. “My daughter doesn’t understand, but one day she will. By that time I will be dead. — Steel sharpens steel.”
No one at the table understood her comment. If they did, they certainly didn’t let on to anyone.
After looking at our blank and confused faces she went on and we appreciated her taking the time because it was a point of view and a look at friendship and family relationships we hadn’t considered, hadn’t dissected, hand’t even discussed. That usually leads to a great breakfast conversation and this one did not disappoint.
“Steel sharpens steel.” The mother – who I will call Mary – talked about how a child’s future is strongly set by their parental environment growing up. Once grown, that environment becomes set by friends. “Mary’ said she realized this when her daughter was about 3 years old. She wanted her daughter to be a very independent woman. She knew that somehow that was set during childhood, but she worried she would be one of those leading her daughter into the traditional female stereotype becoming the kind of person she had been – fulfilling every female stereotype – weak, overly emotional, a victim in all things.
Mary knew how hard it had been for her to overcome such home training and she did not want her daughter to have to go through the same heartbreaking rejection of her childhood and upbringing that she had been through. Mary said she has since recaptured some of her early life and now value much that she initially rejected, but it was such a painful ordeal she just wanted to spare her daughter that grief.
Mary’s daughter was very uncomfortable at the table at this point because she knew her mother was about to reveal family secrets that she wanted kept that way. And don’t we all!
Ed Note: The rest of the blog as sent to us has been redacted. Sorry folks, we know the good gossipy parts are what we all live to hear, but not this time!
The end of the conversation was quite moving. I realized my own relationship with my family was not what it could have been because I wanted a relationship which wrapped me up all warm and cozy, comforted me, worked out all of my most difficult problems for me and in actuality, kept me in chains. Instead, I had a relationship with my parents, as Mary had with her daughter, which strengthened all of us. The problem is, Mary’s daughter does not understand the gift her mother has given her by being the steel which has strengthened and sharpened. They are both now free to live as independent women because they had each other and maintained that most difficult relationship of all – one that was true, honest, full of mutual respect and which expected the other to be strong enough to withstand their back and forth as steel sharpened steel.
I saw that as an amazing breakfast because I didn’t recognize that gift from my parents either until that breakfast conversation.
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Food and Pharma Connected?
Sunday, June 1st, 2014copyright 2014 Bettina Network, inc.
We had another one of those breakfasts and we are all still reeling, having put different backgrounds, experience, education, parts of the world together we came up with a startling conclusion:
The discussion centered around Bettina Network’s attempt to keep Bettina Homes as organic as possible – in cleaning, food, and everything else. We don’t succeed 100%, but it is a constant effort and we think we do a pretty good job – considering all the outside negative influences that press in on us to go in a different direction.
One person brought up the chemicals – especially Potassium Nitrate – in most of the foods being processed and wanted to know more about it. Another person piped up with the fact that Potassium Nitrate, when he was a boy, was called ‘Salt Peter’ and some private schools used it in the food to keep the young men toned down a bit sexually. Well, that wasn’t new. It was something we all had heard from time to time and we all knew the affect “Salt Peter’ has on the body.
Another came up with the connection between the processed food industry and big pharma. The processed food industry was putting ‘salt peter’ into our food supply to give the foods they process a longer shelf life. In the meantime, that was dumbing down and destroying the sexual performance ability of many – especially males – since that is what salt peter is supposed to do.
Enter Big Pharma with their development of the block buster drug for men called ‘Viagra” and other names. Each company which produces it has its own name.
What a pass through. The food industry creates the dysfunction – big pharma develops and sells the drug to address the dysfunction. No wonder so much money is going out of the pocket of the middle class into the pockets of both the food industry and the pharmaceutical companies.
Our question was – what else has such a symbiotic relationship? Was this a deliberate collaboration or accidental? Some didn’t believe in accidents like this? Others weren’t so sure! Others felt we needed to step back and take a look to see how we could expose this early on before fortunes were made, peoples health negatively affected for profit, etc.
There wasn’t enough time over breakfast to solve the problem, but we certainly left with something to think about!
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An Intensely Religious Week
Thursday, April 17th, 2014copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2014
Intensely Religious – how do we turn that into – gloriously Spiritual! I hope it is not the intensely religious who have brought about so much bigotry in the world and the gloriously Spiritual who have given us so much freedom! Maybe my values are a bit screwed.
It is one of those years when the religious celebrations around Spring are shared in close date proximity by several Religious faiths. That doesn’t always happen. After the winter we had and after the destructive forces hitting at the economy and the terrorists hitting at all of us it is no surprise that this Spring season finds some of our religions practically intertwined date-wise.
Within all of this hectic ceremonial time – and there is now a lot of ceremony going on all over the place – with its requirement of watching our diets; scheduling around many religious services – there came that still small voice in the form of guests in one of the Bettina Homes. It was such a reprieve and a taking back to what we are all about and what is really important that we found ourselves being really grateful for the reminder.
A family came from England to America to witness to the life of a friend, and isn’t that what it is all about. To take time from very busy lives; to spend money traveling to another country for just a few days to say by your physical presence that this person mattered. He was important to us and our lives and we want to just stand with a group of his friends to give witness to his life. In that small act – which today isn’t so small when you consider that most of us would be worried that our lives would fall apart if we took time out to do such a thing and we could better spend the money on something for our family – these guests and friends, by their presence and the reason for their visit, gave me reassurances about the goodness of humans who can still sometimes come through with what is most important in life in still, small ways.
I am now ready for these Spring Religious Holidays. I can get through all of the trappings because I know there are people who still care and get it right. I am human and sometimes frail and one day I won’t be here anymore. Will anyone witness to my life? Did I reach out and live so that someone will stop and in the silence give thanks that I lived?
We are fast becoming a society where we don’t and won’t take that time away from the hectic busyness in which we constantly involve ourselves to keep from becoming conscious of the fact that we are slowly and sometimes at a faster pace marching to our own deaths. We go to great lengths to cover-up that fact so we are not conscious of our limits as humans. We walk across and away from those who have no home; those who are not so successful; those who are not interested in getting caught up in that busy, busy cycle of life. We can’t after all be around those who would remind us of our own humanness.
I give thanks today for the family that took just a couple days to acknowledge the importance of the life of another human being.
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A Beautiful Meditation and Song
Thursday, March 13th, 2014For a rare treat, click on the following YouTube recording.
Sometimes you hear a beautiful song with words which bring your life to a standstill and it fills you with beauty, strengthens your faith, and makes your day richer. This hymn created that for several of us. We shared it back and forth and then decided to share it with you.
Sit in a quiet space and listen carefully the first time you hear it. It is a prayer, meditation and the photography is breathtaking in how it matches the words.
As you listen to this you will find the events and actions and thoughts you engage in over the day change.
This Hymn with words by Gloria Gaither and music by Sibelius (Finlandia) is that rare musical match which takes place between people separated by a generation living very different lives, but coming together to create a soul stirring event.
If you would like to buy the video you can do so by going to the website www.gaither.com
May it reach into your soul and affect the way you live the rest of your life.
Once the video finishes you will have to click your ‘back’ button to come back to Bettina Network’s Blog. We would like to do better, but technologically we are not there yet.
To get the full effect of the video, when the youtube comes up, at the bottom right of the picture you will find symbols. Click on the one which looks like a square with spaces on the sides enclosed at the corners. It gives you a full screen of the video and it is awesome.
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Bettina Network, inc NEWS
Wednesday, February 26th, 2014copyright 2014 Bettina Network, inc.
Bettina Network, inc. NEWS is a new addition to the Bettina Network Blog. Appearing periodically, without timetable predictability, this is a way for you to keep up with all that we do – where you will find a Bettina person, event – some definitions and redefinitions of who we are and what we are doing – updates on past events, activities, and more.
MOST RECENTLY – we infiltrated Harvard Business School Women’s Conference “Let’s Go!”
One of our leaders was the second woman to be accepted into and attend one of Harvard Business School’s Executive Programs and the conference was a part of celebrating fifty years of women at Harvard Business School.
It was a great event with over 1,000 women and a very few very brave men who just couldn’t stay away. We met one man from Milwaukee, Wisconsin holding up his sex and his company. His company sounds as though they are doing much to help this world become a more equal place. We say “sounds as though” because long years of experience tells us not to give kudos for such without much investigation and that we have not done – thus a comment without man or company names.
It was a kind of shock to see the way of the world in large, fairly new companies which are there because of the advent of the internet. Their representatives talked about “teams”, “mentors”, “sponsors”. In large multi-national companies with world wide exposure through their life on the internet this, apparently, is needed to keep you, as one of their employees, from getting lost and becoming one of the minions instead of one of the management and on-your-way-up-people.
We tweeted, re-tweeted, favorited and more. It was great fun and much learning. Although the food wasn’t great. Not one organic anything from dinner the evening before for the conference speakers and panelists, through breakfast, lunch and by dinner the next evening we declined what was offered and went hunting for organic goats milk yogurt and kefir to make that food pass quickly through the system.
Yes, we did have a presence on a panel on hospitality and technology spreading the Bettina Gospel, during which we met some very impressive and very accomplished women from whom we hope to hear more. We have started to think on how to get them involved with Bettina Network, inc. – Interns, Partners, Consultants? If you have ideas, please let us know!
WE ARE GETTING FEEDBACK FROM YOU on the recent beginnings of sending out passwords and memberships in Bettina Network’s Lifestyle Community.
Mostly, your questions have been about the password allowing you access to Bettina’s Menu of Events and how much basic influence this gives you. It is wonderful getting the suggestions. We hope you will ADD EVENTS and use the Menu when you are looking for ELEGANT, GRACIOUS, WELL ORGANIZED EVENTS WITH SUBSTANTIAL Bettina-style content in which to take part.
We have had many requests for passwords from people who want to be a part of Bettina Network’s Lifestyle Community and how to sign up! We are sorry to have to tell you, but there is no ‘sign up’ page on our web site or anyplace else for that to happen. To become a member you have to use the services of Bettina Network, inc. and the people at the point where you use Bettina Network’s services must recommend you for membership. Act ugly and no amount of money spent will get you that password.
BETTINA HOMES
We have been in conversation over this for a long time. This Newspage announces that homes which belong to Bettina Network, inc. and those joining in the future are and will be Bettina Homes. Bed and Breakfast is quite inadequate to describe one of the services we offer. Bed & breakfast has become a term overused, misused, describing everything from a hostel to a five star hotel room and the name carries nothing to begin to describe what you can expect in terms of quality or anything else.
We acknowledge the history of from whence we have come, but moving through the present into the future, Bettina Homes is the creation from that history by Bettina Network, inc.
For us to be able to be more specific and so you will know the basic quality you can expect from just hearing the terms, we have adopted and will use Bettina Homes to describe the places, services offered, etc. We do stand out and it is time for the name of one of the very particular services we offer to reflect that stand-outness.
The necessary legal trappings to insure that only homes in the Bettina Network, inc. can carry that name -can call themselves a Bettina Home – have been applied for. While we do not go after people who use our blogs, even though we put a copyright on them, we will go after people who try to call themselves “Bettina Homes” because we do not want to see created the kind of confusion around Bettina Homes which exists today around bed & breakfast or Inns, or Guest Houses, or etc. When you make a reservation to stay in a Bettina Home we want to insure that you have a good basic idea as to what you can expect. All of our homes are not exact replicas of one another and they vary and will continue to vary by location, kind of services offered, physical architectural look of the place, price, etc. There are basics which they all share which is why we take one and not another home into Bettina Network, inc. and that quality is what we want you all to know and be able to expect.
So – until the next time we meet in Bettina Network, inc. NEWS, — keep safe, stay human and be responsible for yourself and others.
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U. S. President is Trump or Pence-Koch?
Tuesday, 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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