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The Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children will conduct a comprehensive study of supports for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 27, 2019
CONTACT: Carlyle Begay, asbwsnc@gmail.com
[Washington, D.C., November 2019] – The Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children, established by Congress, held its first official meeting from October 30-November 1, 2019. The bipartisan Commission is the vision of former U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who provided opening remarks along with Tara Sweeney, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Comprised of 11 individuals specializing in juvenile justice, social service programs, Indian education, and mental and physical health, the Commission will conduct a comprehensive study of the programs, grants, and supports available for Native children at government agencies and in Native communities. They will then have three years to issue a report containing recommendations to address the challenges currently facing Native children, with the goal of developing a sustainable system that delivers wraparound services to Native children.
Native children (including American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children) suffer from health and well-being challenges at a much higher rate than their non-Native peers, often experiencing trauma that impacts their ability to learn, thrive, and become resilient adults. Resources and supports for Native children are currently inappropriate, insufficient, or limited by bureaucracy so that they are ineffective. The Commission has a unique and historic opportunity to fundamentally change the trajectory of Native children for the better. In her opening remarks, Senator Murkowski said to the Commissioners, "The Commission can address education issues and childhood trauma in a more holistic way…Sometimes it doesn't take a lot of money to give a child support, love, and care." Former Senator Heitkamp added, "I want the Commission to give us hope that things can change and that we can do better. You are the 'Hope Commission'…Collect and rely on data and research, and lead with your heart; it will take you where you need to go."
The Commissioners are excited to take on this charge. Gloria O'Neill, Chair of the Commission and President/CEO of the Cook Inlet Tribal Council in Anchorage, Alaska, stated, "We are looking forward to moving the needle on positive outcomes for Native children. We have a great opportunity as there is great alignment in Congress and our partners in the federal government to get things done."
Over the next couple of years, the Commission will be holding hearings in and reviewing documentation from tribal communities throughout the country to hear from Native children, their families, tribal leaders, and community members. The Commission will also hear from respected researchers and experts as they consider their recommendations. The first public hearing of the Commission will be held in Arizona in March 2020.
The Commissioners of the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children are:
Gloria O'Neill (Chair)
President/CEO, Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.
Tami DeCoteau, Ph.D. (Co-Chair)
DeCoteau Trauma-Informed Care & Practice, PLLC
Carlyle Begay
Former State Senator
Dolores Subia BigFoot, Ph.D.
Director, Indian Country Child Trauma Center
Jesse Delmar
Director, Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety
Anita Fineday
Managing Director, Indian Child Welfare Program, Casey Family Programs
Don Atqaqsaq Gray
Board Member, Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation
Leander R. McDonald, Ph. D.
President, United Tribes Technical College
Elizabeth (Lisa) Morris
Administrator, Christian Alliance for Indian Child Welfare
Melody Staebner
Fargo/West Fargo Indian Education Coordinator
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By Elizabeth S. Morris
A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Helms School of Government in Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Arts in Public Policy
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/591
'Although the ICWA has some statutory safeguards to prevent misuse, numerous families continue to be hurt by the law.'
My husband and I began our lives together in a symbiotic alcoholic-enabler relationship in the late 70's. With our family on the edge of self-destruction in 1987, my husband, an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, born and raised on the Leech Lake reservation, had a transformational experience which changed his worldview and led him to take our family in a new direction.
Having watched many of his relatives suffer within the reservation system, he began to see reservation violence and crime as an outcome of current federal Indian policy more than it was about past policy. This led us to forming an advocacy in the late 90's for families hurt by federal Indian policy. We did our best to share hope and life, as inadequate as we were, by assisting extended family in our home, neighbors in our community, and strangers across the nation. We never did it for money; there was never any money. Everything we did came from passion for the lives of our children, nieces and nephews, and extended communities.
Unfortunately, reservation crime, corruption, drug abuse and violence have continued to increase over the years. My husband has since passed away and I am a widow, continuing the work we had begun in 1996.
This thesis compiles some of the documented history, philosophy, and consequences of federal Indian policy. It also includes a preliminary quantitative causal comparative survey with 1351 participants – 551 of whom identify tribal heritage – and explores the relationship between differences.
We serve a powerful God with whom all things are possible. Our job is to serve in the capacity He has given us, even if we do not understand why, and then enjoy watching what He does next.
This paper will examine the philosophical underpinnings of current federal Indian policy and its physical, emotional, and economic consequences on individuals and communities.
The U.S. Civil Rights Commission found in 1990 that "[T]he Government of the United States has failed to provide civil rights protection for Native Americans living on reservations" (W. B. Allen 1990, 2). As Regan (2014) observes, individuals have been denied full title to their property – and thus use of the property as leverage to improve their economic condition (Regan 2014). Tribal executive and judicial branches have been accused of illegal search and seizures, denial of right to counsel or jury, ex parte hearings and violations of due process and equal protection (W. B. Allen 1990, 3). Violence, criminal activity, child abuse and trafficking are rampant on many reservations (DOJ 2018). Largely because of crime and corruption, many have left the reservation system. The last two U.S. censuses' report 75% of tribal members do not live in Indian Country (US Census Bureau 2010).
Research suggests current federal Indian policy and the reservation system are built on philosophies destructive to the physical, emotional and economic health of individual tribal members. This paper contends that allowing property rights for individual tribal members, enforcing rule of law within reservation systems, supporting law enforcement, and upholding full constitutional rights and protections of all citizens would secure the lives, liberties and properties of affected individuals and families.
For almost 200 years the U.S. federal government has claimed wardship over members of federally recognized Indian tribes. Yet, despite the nineteenth century U.S. federal court rulings that propagated this view, disagreement continues as to whether tribes located within the United States are sovereign, whether Congress has plenary power over them, and whether individual tribal members have U.S. Constitutional rights:
Some say the nineteenth century U.S. Supreme Court cases known as the 'Marshall Trilogy' contradict tribal sovereignty. Others say they uphold it.
Some say treaties promise a permanent trust relationship. Others point out that most treaties have clearly specified final payments of federal funds and benefits and were written and signed with clear intent for gradual assimilation.
Some say the Constitution never gave Congress anything more than the power to regulate trade with tribes. Others claim the Constitution not only gave Congress total and exclusive plenary power to decide every aspect of life in Indian Country – but by unstated extension, gave the executive branch this power as well.
Some argue that the Constitution never had authority over tribes or tribal members. Others cite the Constitution when seeking judicial redress.
Some tribal officials argue that international law should not have been forced upon non-European cultures that had no say in it. Others point to natural law and international law – the grounds for treaties between nations – as basis for uninterrupted tribal sovereignty.
Inherent, retained tribal sovereignty was reality for tribal governments prior to the formation of the United States and in the immediate years following its birth, but is not reflected in case law from the 1800s and much of the 1900s. By the time of Andrew Jackson, the United States had taken a position of control. Further, over the last two centuries, the vast majority of tribal leaders accepted large payments for land, accepted federal trust benefits, and submitted to federal government's de facto power over them.
Throughout history and every heritage, various men have coveted power over others. Today, tribal governments, while accepting and playing into Congress' claim of plenary power, have themselves, also, claimed exclusive jurisdiction and authority over unwilling citizens. Tribal governments regularly lobby and petition both Congress and the White House to codify tribal jurisdiction over the lives, liberty and property of everyone within reservation boundaries as well as some outside reservation boundaries. While claiming exclusive jurisdiction, tribal governments have requested and given blessing for the federal government to manage children of tribal heritage – asking Congress to write the Indian Child Welfare Act and the executive branch to write federal rules governing the placement of every enrollable child in need of care. Some tribal governments and supportive entities have gone further – asking even governors and state legislators to expand on and strengthen control over children with heritage.
Often cited as justification for the ICWA is a 1998 pilot study by Carol Locust, a training director at the Native American Research and Training Center at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Locust's study is said to have shown that "every Indian child placed in a non-Indian home for either foster care or adoption is placed at great risk of long-term psychological damage as an adult" (Locust, Split Feather Study 1998). Referring to the condition as the "Split-feather Syndrome," Locust claims to have identified "unique factors of Indian children placed in non-Indian homes that created damaging effects" (Locust, Split Feather Study 1998). The Minnesota Department of Human Services noted "an astonishing 19 out of 20 Native adult adoptees showed signs of "Split-feather syndrome" during Locust's limited study (DHS 2005).
"Unfortunately," according to Bonnie Cleaveland, PhD ABPP, "the study was implemented so poorly that we cannot draw conclusions from it." Only twenty adoptees with tribal heritage – total – were interviewed. All were removed from their biological families and placed with non-native families. There were no control groups to address other variables. According to Cleaveland:
Locust asserts that out-of-culture removal causes substance abuse and psychiatric problems. However, she uses no control group. She doesn't acknowledge the high rates of trauma, psychiatric and substance abuse among AI/AN people who remain in their culture and among the population of foster children. These high rates of psychosocial problems could easily account for all of the symptoms Locust found in her subjects
(Cleaveland 2015).
Cleaveland concluded, "Sadly, because many judges and attorneys, and even some caseworkers and other professionals, are not familiar with the research, results that may be very wrong are leading to the wrong outcomes for children" (Cleaveland 2015). While supporters of ICWA cite "Split-feather Syndrome" as proof the ICWA is in the best interest of children, many children have been hurt by application of the law.
Questions that need more extensive study include whether children who were adopted into non-Indian families as children show greater problems with self-identity, self-esteem, and inter-personal relationships than do their peers. Are the ties between children who have tribal heritage and their birth families and culture stronger than that of their peers, no matter the age at adoption? Other considerations include whether all tribal members support federal policies that mandate their cases be heard only in tribal courts and whether a percentage of persons of tribal heritage believe federal Indian policy infringes on their life, liberty and property.
The central concern of this paper is how current federal Indian policy has affected the lives, liberty and property of those who have tribal heritage – most specifically the Indian Child Welfare Act. Through research of the historical foundations of federal Indian policy and a nation-wide comparative survey of family dynamics, this paper will attempt to answer these and other questions.
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By Wallace Henley, CP Exclusive – CP VOICES | Friday, October 11, 2019
Dear President Trump:
Along with millions of people of many faiths I thank you for the bold stand you have taken for religious freedom. The eloquent speech you gave at the United Nations was one of your finest moments—in fact, one of the finest of any president.
I have worked in the White House, and I have written about the presidency since the 1970s, but have never seen nor heard a president of the United States so powerfully defend the right of people to choose what they believe about God and to worship freely.
I also join my voice to the millions so grateful to you for your unrelenting defense of the fundamental right to life of the unborn. Your firm stance against the abortion movement that has escalated to shocking levels is crucial. It is unconscionable that there are those in the industry who are willing to take human life almost at the point of birth.
Christians of many denominations and movements, along with many in other religions are thankful for your leadership in these areas.
Nevertheless, many Christians remain troubled by your careless speech. I want to offer two examples.
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CBN News – 08-21-2019 Heather Sells
A top social scientist and now a Google whistleblower both say the tech giant could sway millions of undecided voters and ultimately the election in 2020. Their concern includes Google's search engine which they say skews results to favor a liberal agenda.
Former Google employee Zachary Vorhies told the investigative organization Project Veritas he has proof that Google actively shuts out conservative and Christian voices.
Vorhies says that while working at Google he found documents showing that it blacklists conservative websites, including Glenn Beck's and Rush Limbaugh's as well as Christian websites like the Christian Post and the Catholic News Agency. CBN News apparently was not blacklisted.
The blacklist restricts the websites from appearing on news feeds for an Android Google product.
Vorhies says the documents, as well as internal speeches made by Google executives during his 8 years there, show their motives. "They were intending to sculpt the information landscape so that they could create their own version of what was objectively true," he said.
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A bill recently submitted by Senator Tom Udall and Representative Ben Ray Lujan to the two Judiciary Committees makes it much easier for tribal governments to forge the absentee ballots of tribal members
S. 739 and H.R. 1694 – – ''Native American Voting Rights Act of 2019''
– appears to be in reality the "Tribal Gov't Right to Steal Votes of Tribal Members Act.''
[ You can find the contact information for your delegation at senate.gov and house.gov. ]
The Reality is, Abuse of Absentee Ballots has Been Occurring for Years. This new bill just makes it easier. The following is one highly documented case that happened as far back as the 1990's;
In the 1990's, tribal council's from White Earth and Leech Lake in Minnesota were convicted in federal court of ballot box stuffing and embezzlement. Using the absentee ballots of tribal members who no longer lived on the reservation…or, as one sister testified in federal court, were dead…members of these councils ensured they kept their seats.
Highlights from that federal trial, compiled by Feather Eaglerock (Leech Lake, Sat, 8, Jun 1996) from the June 7, 1996 issue of the Native American Press/Ojibwe News] include –
Excerpts of testimony in the White Earth corruption trial:
— White Earth Reservation officials used funds from a public assistance program with a $1.1 million annual budget to compensate Leech Lake and White Earth members who helped them obtain and certify fraudulent ballots in 1990 and 1994
–indicted White Earth election board chair Carley Jasken also directed the assistance program, but despite the federal charges, Jasken will be responsible for overseeing next Tuesday's balloting.
–Notary Eleanor Craven testied she and a friend, Connie McKenzie, set up an assembly line system to validate the fraudulent votes, with Craven signing as notary and McKenzie stamping the envelopes with Craven's notary seal. Together, Craven and Peter Pequette certified at least 168 fraudulent votes, according to White Earth election records
–a secretary to the WE tribal council testified that Carly Jasken and other White Earth election officials joined in shredding a list of voters and stuffing the paper into garbage bags in Sept. 1994. Terri Darco, secretary, said Jasken told her that she didn't care for Dave Barnes, a federal investigator who had obtained a subpoena to collect election records. "She said. . . when you see your friend Dave Barnes, tell him I have the information he wants, all bagged up."
–Friends and relatives who have examined available voter lists have identified at least 7 ballots cast in the names of deceased relatives, certified as valid by Pequette and Craven on the afternoon of May 25, 1994.
–other testimony revealed such election practices as obtaining signatures from the impoverished Minneapolis clientele at the Catholic Charities Franklin Avenue branch; votes cast for hospitalized and incapacitated members; and absentee ballots in the names of people who actually voted at the polls or had not voted at all
–as part of his agreement with the government, Pequette consented to plead guilty to state charges of misusing his notary seal. But the state has not taken him up on his offer and he remains a notary public.
–Terry LaDuke, Leech Lake employee, received two payments of $400 each from the White Earth general fund in 1994; testified that is was common practice at both Leech Lake and White Earth to gather ballots to be notarized, with or without the voter's presence.
–Tom Staples, Leech Lake employee, received checks totaling $2,000 in 1994 for among other things, delivering ballots notarized by Henry Harper to the White Earth Election Board in Mahnomen. Government records show another $600 check cashed at the Shooting Star Casino is his name, but Staples said the signature does not match his.
–in an election appeal in Sept 1994, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe appointed White Earth election board alternate Patricia Keogh and MCT executive director Gray Frazer to review the election, and, despite finding more than 300 invalid ballots, then-chief judge Tammy Stromstad upheld the results.
–questioning Gary Frazer, defense attorneys tried to establish that the BIA and the MCT's Tribal Executive Committee oversee the elections, "Isn't it true that the federal government ultimately approves every election of the White Earth Reservation?" Frazer took a long pause before answering that the Bureau does have the authority to intervene. In fact, however, the BIA does not examine election results or monitor the vote, despite more that a decade of complaints of fraud. Similarly, Frazer testified that the TEC does not enforce its election ordinance, leaving the RBCs total control over interpreting the MCT constitution and tribal law. Asked, "How often in your tenure have the members of the tribe been asked to votes on these interpretations?" Without hesitation the MCT administrator answered, 'none.'
–for six years, Sue Bellefeuille has told anyone who would listen that she personally forged 135 ballots for Rawley in the fall of 1990, at Jasken's request. Rawley lost a close election to Eugene McArthur, but RBC election judge Richard Tanner ordered a new vote in September. Bellefeuille, then bingo hall manager, testified that Rawley gave her and enrollment book to help verify addresses and birthdates for the votes she cast for relatives Bellefeuille told the Press that she also ran extra bingo games at night to generate unrecorded cash for Rawley's use
–Clark's attorney, Peter Mayrand, brought a response from Indian spectators when he asked prosecution witness Eugene McArthur, a White Earth candidate in this year's election, if he knew anything about the Anishinabe culture. McArthur had previously rebutted the defense argument that voting for relatives was an Anishinabe tradition they referred to as "clan voting"
–Clark's 82-year-old aunt Stella Oppegard's testimony brought the biggest reaction from the mostly emotionless councilman. He turned his head away and looked down as she spoke. Oppegard said she was asked by her nephew to be a public notary and later he brought absentee ballots for her to sign. Oppegard was shaking as she entered the witness stand. Sources at White earth say Clark had promised her some money to play bingo. Other notaries who testified say they were offered money in exchange for their services.
–additionally, Wadena and Rawley are accused of accepting bribes of gratuities of $428,682 and $21,500 respectively from Clark to assure that his drywall firm would land a contract to help build the tribe's Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen. In questions to witnesses, defense attorneys have suggested that the tribal officials deserved the money because they built a casino that employees about 1,000 people, most of them Indians, on a remote reservation in northwestern Minnesota. They say the officials were operating in the belief that treaties and federal statutes over the years gave the authority to do what they did. Defense lawyers have tried to convince the jury that over-zealous federal investigators singled out Wadena, Rawley and Clark for conduct common among Indian officials.
Complied and published by feather eaglerock, leech lake rez
A few years later, on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, Kicking Horse job corp students reported they were told to sign and hand their absentee ballots over to someone from the tribe to hold for them, not realizing the ballots would be filled out and used in the state and national general election.
Highlights of Senator Udall's 2019 bill, S 739:
(C) certifies that the Indian Tribe will ensure that each such polling place will be open and available to all eligible voters who reside in the …regardless of whether such eligible voters are members of the Indian Tribe or of any other Indian Tribe;
[NOTE: …or…regardless of whether the person is a non-tribal member???]
(D) requests that the State shall designate election officials and poll workers … or certifies that the Indian Tribe will designate election officials and poll workers to staff such polling places on every day that the polling places will be open.
(e) Mail-In balloting.—In States or political subdivisions that permit absentee or mail-in balloting, the following shall apply with respect to an election for Federal office:
(1) All postage shall be prepaid by the Federal Government and each ballot postmarked the day the ballot is received at a postal facility located on Indian lands.
(2) An Indian Tribe may designate a Tribal Government building as a ballot pickup and collection location at no cost to the Indian Tribe. The applicable State or political subdivision shall collect ballots from that location.
[NOTE… danger of ballots being intercepted and used.]
(3) The State or political subdivision shall provide mail-in and absentee ballots to each registered voter residing on Indian lands in the State or political subdivision without requiring a residential address, a mail-in or absentee ballot request, or an excuse for a mail-in or absentee ballot.
[I don't think I need to note the danger here.]
(4) The address of a designated Tribal Government building that is a ballot pickup and collection location under paragraph (2) may serve as the address and mailing address for voters living on Indian lands if the designated Tribal Government building is in the same precinct as that voter. If such designated Tribal Government building is not in the same precinct as the voter, the voter may use the designated Tribal Government building as a mailing address and may separately designate the voter's appropriate precinct through a description of the voter's address, as specified in section 9428.4(a)(2) of title 11, Code of Federal Regulations.
(3) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a State or political subdivision from providing additional polling places on Indian lands if no request was made by an Indian Tribe under this section.
[NOTE: So…if a tribe doesn't ask for all this… a helpful "progressive" state or county can set it up for them?]
SEC. 7. Tribal preclearance.
(a) Actions requiring preclearance.—No State or political subdivision may carry out any of the following activities unless the requirements of subsection (b) have been met:
(4) Eliminating in-person voting on the Indian lands of an Indian Tribe by designating an Indian reservation as a permanent absentee voting location, unless—
(A) the entire State is or becomes a permanent absentee voting State; or
(B) the Indian Tribe requests such a designation.
[NOTE: Tribal gov't can ask for total absentee ballots for their entire membership – and control over everyone's vote?]
SEC. 8. Tribal voter identification.
(a) Tribal government identification.—If a State or political subdivision requires an individual to present identification for the purposes of voting or registering to vote in an election for Federal office, an identification card issued by a federally recognized Tribal Government, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Health Service, or any other Tribal or Federal agency issuing identification cards to Indian voters shall be treated as a valid form of identification for such purposes.
[NOTE: The wording doesn't specify type of card. ie: A state can issue special ID cards for non-driver's; could a tribal govt issue cards specifically for voting?]
(c) Online registration.—If a State or political subdivision requires an identification card for an individual to register to vote online or to vote online, that State or political subdivision shall consider an identification card as described in subsection (a) to be a valid form of identification for the purpose of registering to vote online or voting online.
PLEASE SHARE THIS with people who will contact their Senators and Representatives. I will also begin informing people, but will not be able to do a tremendous amount because of several projects.
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EXCERPTS from the Ojibwe News/Native American Press
From the Native American Press: June 7, 1996
Defense overwhelmed by vote fraud evidence in week 4 of Chippygate
by Greg Blair
The enrollees came from all over the country, many of them full-blood Indians, while some had blonde hair and blue eyes. However, not one of them hesitated when asked by prosecutors if they were eligible to vote in the White Earth reservation's elections. "Yes," was the answer jurors heard from nearly one hundred witnesses who testified this week that they were denied the exercise of this right by the fraudulent practices of Darrell "Chip" Wadena's gang. Some of the witnesses reported that they had never lived on the reservation or voted in tribal elections. One of the witnesses was a doctor, another was a former Twin Cities radio personality, one was a minister and yet others were successful businessmen and women. Some were raising families, others were retired elders and some were also struggling in poverty.
Many said they had left White Earth as young children or older adults. Others said they had voted on the reservation, but not by absentee ballot. Yet others said they had voted once, but prosecutors showed them two sets of signed ballots for verification. Still others insisted that they had never voted in the reservation's 1994 general election, but that they had voted in other past White Earth elections.
By day's end, the federal courthouse in St. Paul, Minnesota was resembled a White Earth reunion more than a federal corruption trial. The get-together was even larger than during the reservation's founder's day Pow-Wow held in mid-June each year.
A common sentiment was expressed by one witness, who said after testifying, "That's the reason my parents left the reservation, there is too much corruption and I guess it's still going on."…..
Leech Lake members, residents played key role in White Earth vote conspiracy
By Jeff Armstrong
White Earth Reservation officials used funds from a public assistance program with a $1.1 million annual budget to compensate Leech Lake and White Earth members who helped them obtain and certify fraudulent ballots in 1990 and 1994, according to testimony in the federal conspiracy trial of White Earth's top officials.
Eleanor Craven testified that she and fellow Leech Lake member Leo Gotchie, then a district RBC candidate, were campaigning for absentee votes on May 25, 1994, when they stopped at Peter Peqette's south Minneapolis home. Craven said Gotchie suggested the stop in hopes of obtaining gas money for their return trip by using her notary seal to validate White Earth ballots.
Shortly after their arrival at Pequette's, Craven testified, Jerry Rawley showed up at the residence with an attache case full of "hundreds" of signed absentee ballots in sealed envelopes. Although the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe's election ordinance requires absentee voters to sign the "affidavit envelope" in the presence of a notary public – who must then verify that the voter actually cast the enclosed ballot – Craven said she and Pequette proceeded to notarize the invalid ballots.
….Craven said Rawley then collected the votes and handed Gotchie an apparent payment. "He gave something to Mr. Gotchie and he said, "here, take care of your notary,"
….Among the "votes" delivered on May 25, 1994 were those of Cheryl Boswell and her brother Neil. Ms. Boswell, like more than three dozen witnesses in a single day, testified that she never voted in the election and that the ballot envelope in her name was a forgery. Boswell also caused a subdued stir in the courtroom when she told the court that she knew her brother's vote was false because Neil Boswell had died six months prior to the election.
…An employee of Harper's at Leech Lake maintenance, Terry LaDuke, received two payments of $400 each from the White Earth general fund in 1994. LaDuke testified that it was a common practice at both Leech Lake and White Earth to gather ballots to be notarized, with or without the voter's presence.
Money is at the core of court queries
By Pat Doyle
The question drew a response that startled some in the courtroom: How much money do you make in a year?
When Darwin McArthur, executive director of the White Earth Band of Chippewa, replied that he made $59,000, a tribal member in the spectator section gasped.
By standards of the White Earth Indian Reservation, McArthur's salary is extraordinary – but not close to the income of his bosses.
……Jurors…listened to testimony of how council members tapped tribal accounts to buy themselves vehicles or to pay their taxes.
"If they tell you to issue a check, that's what you do?" a prosecutor asked McArthur.
"Yes." he replied.
In 1993 tribal funds provided $240,122 for Chairman Darrell (Chip) Wadena, $209,507 for council member Rick Clark and $187,237 for Secretary-Treasurer Jerry Rawley.
Prosecutors say those figures include tens of thousands of dollars that the officials embezzled from their tribe by creating gambling and fishing commissions that provided them with checks for work they didn't do. Additionally, Wadena and Rawley are accused of accepting bribes or gratuities if $428, 682 and $21,500 respectively from Clark to assure that his drywall firm would land a contract to help build the tribe's Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen.
….In their questions to witnesses, defense attorneys have suggested that tribal officials deserved the money because they built a casino that employs about 1000 people, most of them Indians, on a remote reservation in northwest Minnesota. Moreover, they say the officials were operating in the belief that treaties and federal statutes over the years gave them the authority to do what they did. And defense lawyers have tried to convince the jury that over-zealous federal investigators singled out Wadena, Rawley and Clark for conduct common among Indian officials.
Whatever its outcome, the trial exposes a tribal government operates without checks and balances, in which council members typically avoid scrutiny by their constituents or non-Indians. Council members made decisions about their pay at meetings they routinely held without notifying White Earth members. McArthur said they did so to avoid opposition.
Bill Lawrence was a Red Lake Band Ojibwe member who grew up in Bemidji. A military vet, attorney and journalist, Lawrence was a watchdog of Minnesota's tribal governments for more than two decades.
Lawrence founded the Ojibwe News in 1988 in response to tribal government corruption. His work helped federal prosecutors go after tribal leaders and other politicians. He had crusaded to open the books of Minnesota's 11 Indian casinos and his investigative reporting helped send several tribal leaders to prison in the 1990s. Lawrence passed away with cancer at the age of 70 in 2010.
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'In case you missed it' – Just some of the many headlines that that you might have missed if you were watching only CNN, NBC, or ABC…
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'We Can Look Away, But We Can't Say We Didn't Know': Cries of the Persecuted Church Find the Ear of Capitol Hill
Trump Admin Being Filled With Christians Who Are 'on Fire for Christ' — Pence Might Be the Reason
Secretary of State Pompeo is Returning from North Korea with 3 American Christian Detainees
Israeli Air Strike Thwarts Iranian Attack that coincided with President Trump's announcement
– Trump Withdraws from 'One-sided' Iran Deal to Prevent 'Brink of a Nuclear Breakout'
New Executive Order Aims to Protect Religious Liberty from Government Overreach
Trump Issues Statement on National Day of Prayer: 'Let Us Come Together to Thank God'
Pres. Trump Declares "Jewish American Heritage Month": Community is "A Light Unto the Nations"
Trump may deny Planned Parenthood $50M+ per year in Title X funding: report
Trump Tells Buhari: 'We Cannot Allow Christians to Be Murdered'
AP Admits President Trump Might be Right About Judge's Political Leanings Influencing Their Rulings
'The United States Is with Israel in This Fight': Pompeo Joins Netanyahu Against Iran
Trump to Meet Nigerian President; Will He Discuss Killing of Christians?
South Korea's Moon: Trump Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Senate Confirms Christian Mike Pompeo as New Secretary of State
A-List Rapper Defends Kanye West's Trump Love
The REAL Donald Trump: Top Aide for 26 Years Says There's a Public, Tough Side to Trump and a Different Private Side
Trump to Halt HHS Rule Forcing Christian Doctors, Hospitals to Perform Sex Change Surgeries
40 dignitaries to attend dedication of US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14
5 Faith Facts about Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State Nominee
US State Department Report Drops "Occupied" From References to Judea and Samaria
I Was at the Wheaton Meeting; It Wasn't 'Crazy Trump Bashing'
Black pro-Trump bloggers censored by Facebook to testify before Congress
Evangelical Leaders' Wheaton College Meeting Was Not Anti-Trump, Organizer Clarifies
Pompeo's Kansas Church Asks God to 'Give Him Strength' in Senate Confirmation Process
"The U.S. Has No Better Friends Anywhere" Than Israel: President Trump Congratulates Israel on Historic Independence Day
Trump Declaration, Second Chance Month for Ex-Cons, Based on Biblical Values
Pres. Trump Signs Exec. Order Pushing Work Requirement for Welfare: Promotes Marriage, Family
Trump signs bill cracking down on websites that help sex traffickers
Trump includes preborn in 'Child Abuse Prevention Month' declaration
In Case You Missed It: Pres. Trump's Easter and Passover Message: "God's Love Redeems the World"
Numbers Reveal Only 10 Percent of Anti-Gun 'March For Our Lives' in DC Was Made Up of Teen Students
"THEIR RELIGIOUS DEVOTION AND TENACIOUS IRISH SPIRIT": PRESIDENT TRUMP PROCLAIMS IRISH-AMERICA HERITAGE MONTH
'No Evidence of Collusion': House Panel Ends Russia Investigation
Religious liberty bill, unthinkable during Obama term, reborn in the age of Trump
A Defiant Netanyahu Opens UN Exhibit on Jerusalem: Thanks Nikki Haley for Being a "Tsunami of Fresh Air"
U.S. Hiring Surge: Employers Add 313K Jobs in February as Tax Cut Confidence Booms, Minority Unemployment at Historic Lows
Swedish Prime Minister Admits Trump was Right on Immigration & Gang Violence
U.S. Embassy Will Open in Jerusalem This May to Celebrate Israel's 70th Anniversary
Mueller: NO AMERICANS, but 13 Russians Interfered in Election – To No Affect
'In These Moments of Darkness, We Hold onto God's Word' Trump re: FL Shooting
President Trump Donates His 4th-Quarter Salary to Rebuilding the Country's Infrastructure
Israeli group mints Trump coin to honor Jerusalem recognition
Keeping Promises, President Trump Unveils a Pro-Life Budget; Here's What's in It
Trump's budget proposes defunding some abortion providers
Gov't report finds overwhelming acceptance of U.S. abortion funding restrictions
Trump's Envoy to Israel Tells Abbas, Palestinians, "Stop Denying Jewish History"
Trump at Prayer Breakfast Says US 'Strengthened by the Power of Prayer'
Trump's New Religious Freedom Amb. Praises Islamic Scholars in First Public Speech
Pro-Israel Group Targeted by IRS During Obama Administration is Finally Vindicated
5 Trump Cabinet Members and Their Christian Faith
Trump Administration Relentless in Fighting Mideast Terror: Designates Hamas Leader as "Global Terrorist"
CBS: Viewers Overwhelmingly Approve of President Trump's SOTU Speech
Top 10 Highlights From Trump's First State of the Union Speech
Pence: Trump Prays for Persecuted Christians, Says ISIS Will Be Destroyed
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America is fed up with Hillary's political manipulation and demeaning comments
Support for President Trump is growing now that people see his policies are working. He meant what he said on the campaign trail; it wasn't just the usual rhetoric we had become used to. But Hillary, apparently feeling angry and entitled, still doesn't get it. Almost a year and a half after the polls closed, this woman is still convinced that most Americans want her as president – but nefarious forces prevented them from electing her. In her most recent edict, she told an audience in India that most American women – the very group she claims to represent – are under control of men. According to Hillary, most American women will do what they are told when alone in a private voting booth.
While Hillary obviously won California by a landslide – (if all the votes in the LA area were legal) – she still only won 48% of the vote. Most states voted against her. With that LA vote factored in, Trump won 46%. The balance went to 3rd party candidates.
Even with LA factored in and assumed legal – it still means 52% of Americans did NOT vote for Clinton. Therefore, her "Popular Vote" doesn't make her much more "popular" than Trump. Both garnered votes from citizens who felt they were merely the lesser of two evils. However, with increasing evidence that the DNC, media and FBI manipulated the election, more Americans are relieved Hillary isn't president.
America is fed up with manipulation and demeaning comments from the DNC, media, and Hollywood as well.
But the distaste for Hillary doesn't stop with Hillary. Voters are realizing that Hillary Clinton exemplifies the persona of the DNC. She says the belittling things she says because that is the attitude she and her DNC peers have long had. She is the epitome of the upper-class elitism that pervades the Democratic Party, the east coast media, and Hollywood. They truly believe they are better than everyone else.
The coastal elite have been looking down on main street Americans of every heritage and treating them as chattel for years. Many Americans are finally realizing that the policies, values and mores of the left's upper class have been nurturing and exasperating racism all along. But while it has been rife with racism almost from inception, most of today's middle and lower-class Democrats never realized that this was what they had been supporting.
This is not my mother's Democratic Party. She and her friends were good people who supported policies they believed would benefit everyone. They did not support racism – nor 'classism,' nor identity politics of any kind. Further, the corruption that has grown in the DNC over the last thirty years is something most members were unaware of.
SHAME on ALL Democratic officials who continue to support the DNC with its deep corruption, elitist attitude, and destructive policies. Take a genuine stand and denounce all those who have been involved in the fraud – in every branch and agency.
To American voters: Considering all that has been learned over the last year – let your elected officials of both parties know how you honestly feel. Insist they don't leave a Town Hall without explaining how they will stop corruption in government and the election process.
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FEBRUARY FISA MEMO REBUTTALS –
Full House Intelligence Committee GOP rebuttal to Democrat 'FISA Memo' rebuttal
THIS is the link to the GOP's rebuttal – – to the Democrat's rebuttal – – TO the original GOP FISA memo released in early February concerning what happened in 2016 in FISA court …(5 pages, PDF)
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/democrat_memo_charge_and_response.pdf
As Told in Luke 2:1-20
Jesus came into the world, not to condemn it, but to save it – by sacrificing his life for ours. [John 3:17]
The Birth of Jesus:
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
The Shepherds and the Angels:
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."
When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."
So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
Luke 2: 1-20 (NIV)
Merry Christmas to All – and to All a Good Night!
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Posted by Admin on February 2, 2019	Tagged with: hypocrisy, Liberals
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Senator Heitkamp,
As a North Dakota constituent, I am very concerned by your silence during these Senate hearings concerning Judge Kavanaugh. I, along with many North Dakotans, am disturbed by the inappropriate disruptions by protestors and discourteous, insulting behavior of Democratic senators on the committee.
I am wondering how you would feel if you were in honorable Judge Kavanaugh's position, or how you would feel if the shoe were on the other foot as a committee member having to endure this level of rudeness.
I am wondering why you haven't made a statement calling for civility and respect. Do Democrats want the developing chasm between Americans to continue to widen? Or do you, Senator Heitkamp, value unity and respectful dialogue?
This is a very important question for me, personally. I will be attending hearings as a member of your Congressional Commission – the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children over the next couple years. Having attended contentious hearings in the past with my husband, I am very aware of the potential for angry, insulting behavior directed at me during these hearings – especially if I ask a question someone might not like. I remember an angry, packed, out-of-control hearing in Billings that frightened even my husband so much that he decided against openly testifying. He handed his written testimony to a staff person and we left. My husband was afraid of being physically hurt at that hearing – and that was in the late 90's or so when things were a lot more civil than they are today.
I am a human being. I get hurt, I bleed, just like everyone else. Courteous behavior in the public square used to be normal and anticipated. I want to know that manners and civility are not only expected but insisted upon at public hearings of any type, anywhere in this country. I want to know – I NEED to know – that I will be physically SAFE at the meetings I attend.
If you are refusing to stand up for civility and safety at a hearing inside a Congressional building in DC – at the hearing for a Supreme Court Justice no less – how can I expect you to stand up for my safety at hearings across the country? Will you stand up for my safety?
Despite your campaign claim that you value all voices and prioritize standing up "for North Dakotans and making sure that their voices are heard in the halls of Congress" and that you "make it a point to meet with, listen to, and fight for North Dakotans every day" – this is not how I have ever been received by your staff. Despite several attempts to schedule direct meetings with you over the years, I have yet to have even one meeting with you.
In late 2013, I actually felt ridiculed by your DC staff when attempting to meet with an aide.
Watching you sit silently now while Judge Kavanaugh's children are escorted out of the hearing for their safety – I have no confidence you will be a voice of protection for me, one of your constituents, at the hearings I will be attending as member of your commission.
Senator Heitkamp – please show your mettle and take a stand for what is right. Please show us that you value all voices as you say you do – and make a statement against the out-of-control behavior currently exhibited during the Kavanaugh hearings. Please make it clear that respectful, considerate behavior – including from members of the committees – is expected at any and all government hearings.
It is impossible for our nation to come together and reach any kind of consensus without it.
Elizabeth Sharon (Lisa) Morris
Christian Alliance for Indian Child Welfare (CAICW)
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Family Dynamics Study
To better understand current family worldviews and dynamics
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Our nation is undergoing many changes in family structure and dynamics. The question many of us are asking is: How have these changes affected children?
The purpose of this study is to better understand current family worldviews and dynamics as well as the experience of children who have encountered home life outside the traditional model. This is a non-judgmental, comparative study and needs the input of diverse adults, some of whom have experienced single parent homes, step-family homes, foster care or adoptive homes and some who have not.
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HEY, non-Christian liberals – give it a rest.
Do you STILL not get it? We KNEW Trump's history when we hired him. We KNEW he was an ungodly wreck most of his life…that was never a secret! He made billions off the vices of billions – sex, gambling, and alcohol – YES, everyone knew that!
We hired him anyway. Do you STILL not understand why?
We aren't the least bit disturbed that someone just gave Stormy a ton of money to change her story. You people have been throwing good money after bad, "…doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result…" for almost two years now.
We don't care about his former sex life.
Did you not see that despite all the faux outrage over that taped conversation with the Bush kid, Trump was elected anyway? Did you NOT notice that while the liberal elite went around the country, destroying the careers of their randy compatriots in vain effort to set a national standard that would oust Trump…much of America gave a collective yawn?
That was because of the utter hypocrisy of the media, political elite and Hollywood – the Madonna's, Miley's, and more who make their billions off everything from sexual innuendo, scripted wardrobe malfunctions, prostituting themselves on the casting couch, prancing around half-dressed or nude on the big screen – and for the last couple decades – even portraying their nudity and sexual violence on our home screens. These are the very same fools who are now telling us that we need to let men into women's bathrooms, shower rooms, school locker rooms, and even girl's bedrooms if the high school is on an overnight trip.
Now they are feigning piety and wanting us to play along with them.
While we are glad they took down thugs like Weinstein and that anchor from the Hamptons – can't remember his name – they also caught up several others who simply behaved immature. It was an ill-conceived scheme to somehow draw rage toward Trump, but pretty much only netted other liberal Hollywood, media and political elites.
One has to wonder why there were more liberals caught in that net than conservatives…
At any rate – now you are feigning shock over the potty mouth and the love life of a billionaire casino playboy and wanting us to be shocked as well.
Yeah… you people.
You know so little about your Christian neighbor, that you seriously think this kind of garbage is supposed to send us careening into the streets, smashing windows and demanding impeachment. You think that because we have taken issue with many sexually addicted politicians over the years, including Clinton when he was having sex with varied women on and under White House tables, we would naturally jump on this as well.
But in the situation with Clinton, you told us it didn't matter – that it was between him and his wife. NOW you want us to care about what Trump did years before he was even president?
Like we said – everyone already knows what he did most of his life. We hired him anyway.
But here is the most important thing you aren't understanding about Christians. Many of us believe Trump had a 'come to Jesus' moment – and is not the same man he was ten years ago.
We don't deny that Trump has sinned. We absolutely know he has.
This is what you don't get…you are trying to tell us something we already know.
We already know that "All have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God." That means you, me, our moms, our grandmas, our great aunts that drive 25 mph to church every Sunday, Obama, Trump, Clinton, Ben Carson, Billy Graham – all of us.
Nevertheless, we don't accept or rationalize sin. We don't ignore, dismiss, or defend rape. All crime needs to be reported to law enforcement and be dealt with judicially. But we will continue to work with the person if that is what the person sincerely wants us to do – to restore them and help them grow, even if from a prison cell.
We deal with it – because sin has affected all of us. We do what we can, as fallible human beings, to help each other grow away from it. Christians – those who are serious about being disciples of Christ – work to restore fallen brothers and sisters. We listen to each other's confessions, comfort each other, pray with each other, pick each other up, encourage each other to grow and learn – and all the while doing this, we remember where we ourselves came from. "There but for the Grace of God go I."
Trump is growing
What many of us know – because we share Christian news reports with each other and gab about it over the kitchen table and such – is that Trump has many strong Christians around him, mentoring him. We know there is frequent prayer in the oval office, weekly Bible studies at the White House, prayer with his cabinet before meetings, and millions of Christians around the country are holding him up to God on a daily basis. We know Vice President Pence and Secretary Ben Carson, among others, are gentlemen of God, who speak with wisdom and grace.
Knowing all this, we know there are good people talking to him prayerfully about sin – including his impulsive reactions.
Some say that Trump's behavior is a terrible reflection on Jesus Christ. That is true in the eyes of those unfamiliar with the myriad stumbling blocks that can mar a Christian's growth. It would be nice if President Trump could hurry his walk along a little faster.
Everyone has their own walk, with – or without – God
We hope to see President Trump begin to reflect the Fruits of the Spirit more often as months pass. Everyone is different and no one walks perfectly with the Spirit 100% of the time – in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. [Some versions translate a couple words differently, with 'meekness and temperance.'] But growth is evident over time in every true disciple of Jesus Christ.
Every single president and presidential candidate over the last few years – including President Obama and both Clintons – said they were Christians. Most people took that at face value. Some say, "well, it was easier to believe previous presidents were Christian, because they were much nicer than Trump. They not only played the role of elegant, articulate leaders – remaining quiet at all the right times – but were better reflections of the way a Christian 'should be."
However, as many Americans see it – Obama may have been out there saying all the seemingly right things, but was dishonest and manipulative behind closed doors. There is increasing evidence that he ignored Russian activity in America, advocated for the destruction of Israel, and gave money and relief to our enemies – even allowing five dangerous men to leave Gitmo under the faux excuse of rescuing a deserter.
He may have even purposely supported ISIS by not going after them as he should have. It took less than a year for Trump to route ISIS. Obama could have done that a lot easier and a lot earlier when ISIS was smaller. Yet…he didn't.
Further, as many Evangelicals see it, Obama may have been a smooth speaker, but was extremely unchristlike in the depth of his terrifying support for the murder of helpless infants as well as destruction of the very building blocks of our society. From common sense laws, community relationships and historical facts, to the core understanding of our souls – our heritage, our God…even causing our small children to question their gender (of all things) and to hate the 'race' they were born into. We were no longer allowed to hold firm the very nucleus of who we personally were.
Some of us call that 'evil.'
Trump is working to repair things Obama destroyed.
We stand with Trump now because he stands for policies that are the exact opposite of Obama's.
We do NOT believe the spin from NBC, CNN and others that Trump is racist, sexist, or whatever. On the contrary – from what we see, he is foul-mouthed, thin-skinned and quick tempered with those who criticize him – but warm and kind to the varied and diverse groups he meets with when out speaking to people.
Importantly, while the 'left' appears to want to apply laws – (meaning, those statutes and rules that have been voted on and added to the code by our democratically elected Congress and State legislators) – discriminately and at times even ignore them completely, President Trump is focused on applying all law justly.
We also understand the real reasons for the laws he wants passed – even if the media feigns not to understand. After all, he has been GETTING his ideas from us. He has been listening to us about the laws we need to have passed and why we want them passed, he understands our needs, and appreciates as people.
The media's attempts to twist and demonize what he is doing is ridiculous and just turns us off from them all the more. Someday, maybe the east coast news media will take time to speak directly to us, in a non-condescending manner, and discover what we know. They are more than welcome to learn from us as well.
President Trump is definitely struggling with old habits that aren't easy to turn around after 70 years and he doesn't have the smooth appearance people want him to have. But being a Christian isn't about showing up at a church well-scrubbed. It is about something happening deep in the heart. President Trump is doing genuine things to protect our freedom of worship, unborn life, family, community, American jobs, Economy – Life, Liberty, Property – the heroes in our military, law enforcement, and Israel.
We happen to like that.
So yeah – we are willing to be patient as he grows in Christ and intend to continue keeping our eyes on what is important. We have no intention of allowing the left to destroy our nation again – so we will NOT help you – or allow you – to take away the first really good president we've had in decades.
And after the Trump term is over, we will find another to take his place.
Stormy, who said a few weeks ago that she had no relationship with Trump and assured everyone that saying this had nothing to do with money – can take the money from whomever offered her more than Trump's lawyer did – and talk away. It won't change a thing.
Hopefully, she – and all those of you on the left who struggle with accepting today's reality – will connect with a real Christian at some point and have a 'come to Jesus' moment as well.
God be with you all, in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.
Stormy Daniels Offers to Pay Back 130g so She Can Talk
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We are not watching the 2018 Winter Olympics. There's been too much inane rhetoric from people like Lindsey Vonn, Adam Rippon and Shani Davis.
Too many on the US team are more interested in grandstanding…promoting and representing themselves…(or at best, just half of our citizens) – than they are in representing our nation.
America gifted them with a tremendous and rare opportunity. If they didn't want to represent the nation, they shouldn't have joined the team and accepted taxpayer's money – from every 'Identity Group' in the nation – to attend.
The 'Memo' – House Intelligence Committee Report On FISA Abuses
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House Intelligence Committee Report On FISA Abuses
Originally compiled on January 18, 2018
Released to the Public on February 2, 2018
TO READ the entire PDF of the memo – use this link – 370598711-House-Intelligence-Committee-Report-On-FISA-Abuses
Full doc: Clinton-DNC secret agreement dated August 26, 2015 (PDF)
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– http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/TODAY/z_Creative/DNCMemo%20(002).pdf
Clinton-DNC secret agreement dated August 26, 2015
From Glen Greenwald : "DNC and Clinton allies pointed to the fact that the agreement contained self-justifying lawyer language claiming that it is "focused exclusively on preparations for the General," but, as Fischer noted, that passage "is contradicted by the rest of the agreement." This would be like creating a contract to explicitly bribe an elected official ("A will pay Politician B to vote YES on Bill X"), then adding a throwaway paragraph with a legalistic disclaimer that "nothing in this agreement is intended to constitute a bribe," and then have journalists cite that paragraph to proclaim that no bribe happened even though the agreement on its face explicitly says the opposite." (https://theintercept.com/2017/11/05/four-viral-claims-spread-by-journalists-on-twitter-in-the-last-week-alone-that-are-false/ 11-5-2017)
Note references to control over communications concerning " a certain primary candidate," for example, as well as the letter gives control over funds and decisions beginning in Sept 2015 – although no primaries took place until 2016.
Far Left Protestors will NOT stop us.
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by Lisa Morris
I am an evangelical Christian and constitutional conservative who will continue to speak the truth, no matter what.
I will not attend rallies – which lately appear to be setting people up as sitting ducks.
But I WILL continue to speak, write, and vote my conscience – using information based on Biblical, historical, and documented truth – no matter what anyone says, and no matter what anyone calls me.
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for the intelligent, wise, and good men who founded our nation and wrote our Constitution. It was an amazing, unparalleled achievement.
To those who are confused by current inane rhetoric, many of our founding fathers did NOT believe slavery should be legal and openly spoke, wrote, and campaigned against it.
Less than 100 years after the founding of our nation, through the tireless work of many, slavery was finally made illegal in the United States.
But legal slavery remains today in many other nations – and ILLEGAL slavery and human trafficking are growing in the United States.
THAT is where rage needs to be focused – if one honestly cares about what slavery does to people. Save those who are enduring forced servitude in America and around the world TODAY.
God save and BLESS America. Make America Great Again.
Silence About Conditions at Pine Ridge Reservation
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by Thomas F. Sullivan
For generations, the residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation have lived with unemployment and poverty rates that have never been seen in the majority community even during the Great Depression.
According to an MSNBC Report on Pine Ridge on May 29, 2014, "Roughly four out of five residents are unemployed and well over half live in deep poverty…… Life expectancy is just 48 years old for men and 52 for women….. About 70 percent of the students will drop out of school before they graduate."
That last statistic is especially troubling and is inconsistent with the claim frequently stated by tribal leaders that "Our children are sacred".
According to that same MSNBC Report, "In a startling new draft report, issued in April 2014 by the Bureau of Indian Education which oversees 183 schools on 64 reservations in 23 states, focuses attention on BIE's inability to deliver a quality education to its students. BIE schools are chronically failing. BIE operates 'one of the lowest-performing set of schools in the country.' During the 2012 – 2013 school year, only one out of four BIE-funded schools met state-defined proficiency standards and one out of three were under restructuring due to chronic academic failure…. BIE students performed lower on national assessment tests than students in all but one other major urban school district."
Given these conditions which have persisted for generations as well as the almost total absence of any economic activity on the reservation, it is not surprising that there is a high level of dysfunction as well. This dysfunction is exemplified by the following health and social welfare measures:
* The infant mortality rate at Pine Ridge is one of the highest in the nation at 3 times the national average;
* The incidence of diabetes is 8 times the national average;
* Eight out of every ten people at Pine Ridge are alcoholics. Given this fact it is highly likely that most newborns on this reservation are born with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), a severe developmental delay. Care of children with FASD requires an extended time commitment, great patience and resilience, none of which is in abundant supply in most reservation homes:
* Drug use and abuse, both prescription and illegal, is rampant;
* The teenage suicide rate is 150 percent of the national average. In the first 8 months of 2015. There were 19 completions by youth between the ages of 9 and 24 and more than 100 attempts by children from the same age group. Within the last week, a 12-year-old girl hanged herself on a tree behind the Sue Anne Big Crow Youth Center. Shortly before a 14-year-old boy recently completed, he was being counseled by one of his teachers. She told him that Lakota tradition teaches that a spirit set free by suicide is doomed to wander the earth in lonely darkness. "You don't want that, do you?" His response was chilling, "Anything is better than here".
* The level of domestic violence is at epidemic levels. In CY 2014 the Tribal Department of Public Safety prosecuted 470 cases of domestic violence. During the same period one of the Tribe's domestic shelters reported they had responded to more than 1,300 cases of domestic violence:
* In CY 2016 there were 17 homicides on Pine Ridge, a rate 4 times the current homicide rate in the city of Chicago:
* For the last several years, the Pine Ridge reservation child protection staff has been investigating, relying on rigorous standards, every case of reported child sexual abuse and confirming, on average, 2 ½ cases per week for every week during each of those years. Considering that most estimates are that 10 percent or less of such abuse is ever reported, the seriousness of this level of child sexual abuse cannot be overstated.
* Research data are clear, children who are sexually abused are 2½ times more likely to attempt and/or complete suicide than children who have not been sexually abused.
On May 1, 2015, in the New York Times Ron Cornelius, the Great Plains Director of the Indian Health Service is quoted as saying, that "the recent suicides were an incredibly sad situation that IHS was committed to working with the tribe to address this heartbreaking problem." It is not clear to me from the public record available to me just what the IHS has done to fulfill this commitment. At that time I was the ACF Regional Administrator in Denver and heard from friends on and around Pine Ridge, "There are a lot of 'suits' traveling to Pine Ridge. They are not meeting with anyone from the Reservation. They spend all of their time in a conference room talking with each other. They seem to make it a point to avoid any tribal members."
However, former Pine Ridge Tribal Judge Saunie Wilson, in a power point presentation to a west coast conference on youth suicides in early 2017, described the 20 professionals sent to Pine Ridge by IHS to "solve" the reservation suicide epidemic in the following terms, "They had, No background checks, No licenses to work in South Dakota and No knowledge of reservation culture, mores or society." Unfortunately, this is the same inept approach IHS used when there was a comparable burst of youth suicides on Montana's Fort Peck Reservation several years earlier. I was invited by the Tribal Chair to sit in on the IHS meetings with Tribal staff as an impartial observer for the Tribe. As a result, I could observe what IHS was doing in response to the youth suicide burst on that Reservation. They were clearly not effective then. How could they believe they would be effective several years later?
On April 5, 2017, at a meeting of the Pine Ridge Tribal Law and Order Committee, the following statement was made by Richard Little Whiteman, a Council member and Chair of this Committee, "I haven't seen this level of violence since the 1970s". The Committee also heard reports that the number of law enforcement officers, once numbering more than 100 sworn officers, now was little more than 20, had the impossible task of policing a geographic area comparable in size to the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined 7 days a week, 24 hours every day.
What is especially puzzling is the deafening silence from both the media, those who by their titles and their government positions have direct responsibility to correct such problems and those who claim they are advocates working on behalf of the welfare of women and children.
For example, if either the city of Cambridge, MA or Berkeley, CA, each with a total population of approximately 100,000, had the same level of youth suicide completions as Pine Ridge, the following would be occurring:
1. There would be youth suicide completions just about daily in each of these communities.
2. There would not be enough curb space to park all of the media trucks providing a direct link to the community for their viewers. After all the media had ignored multiple detailed, factual reports about the dysfunction in these communities and predictions about what would follow from that dysfunction. Recognizing their prior error in not covering all of the dysfunction, media outlets were competing to provide the most offensive coverage. They characterized their coverage as "presenting the facts."
3. Members of Congress would be convening hearings in these communities in an attempt to elicit some hints as to the cause of such dysfunction even though they had never mentioned these communities until the funerals began to be held when the dysfunction in these communities could no longer be ignored. Based on past experience the best that the local congressional delegation will be able to do is to appoint a study committee charged with reporting back on the cause of all the suicides within three years. No action would have to be taken to assist these communities until the study report was produced.
4. Advocates would be elbowing their way to get in front of any operating TV camera to push their unique solutions to such dysfunction even though they had not only known about the extreme dysfunction in these communities but they had also been silent about it until the funerals began.
5. State, county, and local officials would point at each other, claiming they had little or no responsibility to correct these problems. It was the responsibility of that "other guy" (whoever that unidentified person was) until federal funds were made available. Then the competition would be cut-throat. Each would cite their "expertise" on matters of this kind even though each had just established an extensive written record claiming they knew nothing about such matters in their efforts to avoid any responsibility (political punishment for refusing to deal with the dysfunction in their communities until the funerals began) for what was happening in these communities.
6. Federal officials whose organizations had been widely praised for formally adopting mission statements claiming they were responsible for the well-being of every citizen in their service area would initially deny any responsibility for such dysfunction, pointing at state, county or local officials as the parties responsible for addressing and correcting such behavior. When and if Congress appropriates funds to address and correct these problems, these same federal officials will distribute those funds without first establishing performance measures to determine the effectiveness of how these funds are spent. If the past is any guide, it will be several years before performance measures will be put in place.
If this is the response to the massive dysfunction and resulting epidemic of youthful suicides in communities like Cambridge or Berkeley, can anything better be expected at Pine Ridge?
Pine Ridge is a small, Isolated, rural community with little political power. They have been ignored and will continue to be ignored.
The sexual abuse of American Indian children should have resulted in a high-level commitment to stop the abuse once it had been uncovered years ago.
During the last two Administrations, I brought the twin epidemics of child sexual abuse and child/youthful suicides in Indian Country to the attention of the political leadership of the Administration for Children and Families and the Department of Health and Human Services with multiple, detailed, factual, written presentations. These presentations detailed the pervasive extent of the abuse, the long-term impact on the abused individuals, their families and the community at large and the substantial public cost of such abuse. They had no effect. It was as if they had never been read.
Until one is prepared to focus on and widely and continuously publicize the hypocrisy of those who know the facts and who deny or ignore them, thereby allying themselves with those who abuse children, nothing will be done to correct this barbaric situation. Until those who have chosen silence in the face of widespread child sexual abuse are publicly identified and shamed in all major media outlets for their alliance with sexual predators, attempting to stop the barbarism is a fool's errand.
Thomas F. Sullivan is a former Regional Administrator for the Administration of Children and Families under the federal HHS. He was forced out of his job in May, 2016, after defying his DC superiors by repeatedly reporting on child abuse on several reservations.
From Elizabeth Morris, Chair of CAICW:
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Standing Rock Chair Archambault Gives Surprising Answers in Interview:
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"…Then I saw it just turn to where it's ugly, where people are fabricating lies and doing whatever they can, and they're driven by the wrong thing."
…"I don't want that pipeline to go through. I just don't …want any kids to get abused, I don't want any elders to get abused, I don't want any rapes to happen. They don't want any authority down there. What do you do then? Do I have to close it down with force?"
Q&A: David Archambault II, chairman of Standing Rock Reservation
by Christopher Trotchie"—From the Daily Emerald, January 5, 2017 at 1:54 pm
With the protest at Standing Rock entering its eighth month of resistance, a lot can be said about the resolve of the water protectors and their mission. They have gained international media attention, defied corporate interests and are now weathering a harsh winter. With the support of outsiders and each other, and as long as Dakota Access Pipeline construction lights shine down from the surrounding hills, water protectors believe they have a reason to be there. In this interview, I sat down with David Archambault II, the chairman of Standing Rock Indian Reservation, to discuss what his role is and how people in Eugene can support their cause.
Christopher Trotchie: What is the best way for people in Eugene to help?
Dave Archambault II: I get that question asked all the time, "What can I do?" and I don't think there is one answer. Whenever they come and they ask, there is so much that can be done. … What we try to do is just put the information on what the tribe is doing because there's so many different interest groups, and we have a website called Standwithstandingrock.net. And if it's something like divest from banks that are funding this, or if it's writing a letter to Congress, or writing a letter to the administration, or writing requests or asks to the company or whoever, we have some templates on there. When it comes to donations ⎼ the tribe didn't ask for funds ⎼ but people want to give to the tribe, and we're thankful for that. So we have a tab on the website where you can donate on there, or if you want to give to whoever, there's 5,500 different GoFundMe accounts. You could fund whatever you want. What I tell people is, it's up to you whatever you want to do; follow your heart. And that usually takes you in that direction that you need to go.
T: What do you think the general condition of the camp is right now?
DA: Well I haven't gone down there lately, because when the first storm came, I asked everybody to leave. And the second I made that statement somebody else from Standing Rock made the statement "don't leave." And then there's been a lot of criticism on me saying that I sold out, and that I have a house in Florida, and that I have another house in Bismarck, and that I received money. And none of that's true, but it's just how everybody has turned on me. So it makes me curious about [what people's intention are]. What are they here for? When we had the decision made by the Corps of Engineers not to give an easement, and to do an [Environmental Impact Statement] and to consider rerouting ⎼ those were the three things that we've been asking for the last two years. … So the purpose of the camp was fulfilled, and we got what we wanted. I understand that it's not over. This new administration can flip it, so what we're doing now is trying to do everything we can to make sure that that decision stays, but even then it's not guaranteed. Right now it's dangerous ⎼ tomorrow we're going to get 15 inches of snow, 55 mile an hour wind. It's not safe at the camp. And from what people are telling me, there's a lot of empty tents all over and a lot of trash, and if we don't clean up, when the flood waters rise all that stuff is going to be in the river. So we're going to, at some time, get down there and clean up.
T: What is the biggest misconception about you currently?
DA: Just the perception that I'm not here for the fight is false and it's wrong, and that's kind of disturbing to hear all the fabricated lies about me when people don't know me. People really don't know who I am. And when somebody says something, and it's believed and it's passed on, it's sad because we we're the ones who started this whole thing. This tribe is the one who stepped up and filed the suit when we knew that we didn't have a chance. We knew that the federal laws that are in place are stacked against us. They're in favor of projects like [the pipeline], but we had to do it.
T: What is the impact of the protest on the tribe as a whole?
DA: On Standing Rock, we have eight districts. We have 12 communities. We have highways. We have our schools. We have ambulance services. And now because people choose to stay at the camp, we have to make sure that they're out of harm's way. So when the storms happen, we're going to have a shelter here in Cannon Ball, and people are going to come. And they're going to expect food, and they're going to expect heat, and they're going to expect blankets. So we provide that because it's an emergency shelter. And then when the danger is gone, they stay there. They don't leave. And the community says, "We want our gymnasium back." … There's really nothing going on. There's no drilling going on. But they want to be there, and I think it's because there was a good feeling when it first started. When we came together, tribal nations came together, and we prayed together, and we shared our songs, we shared our ceremonies. And it was a good strong feeling, but nobody wants to let that go. Nobody wants to move on. Those things that we learned from that lesson are things that we can take home to our communities and apply. We come from communities that are dysfunctional. We fight our own family, we fight each other's families in the community, but what happened here was we were able to live without violence and without drugs or alcohol, without weapons. And we were able to do it with prayer and coming together. That lesson right there is something that we need to take back to our communities, but we don't want to now. There are people down there that don't want to leave. They think it is the greatest thing. But when you ask me 'what's the status,' the things that I hear if I go down there, I don't hear the good things anymore. I hear 'this person did this,' 'they took this,' and now I'm getting accused of doing that. So what we're doing is bringing that dysfunction into something that was beautiful, and we're letting the lessons slip through our hands. And we're not learning. We're hanging on to something that's not there anymore. And so, I know that there's a chance that this pipeline has to go through, but it's not the end. It's not the end of everything. We have to take the things that we learned, and accept it as a win. We have to take the processes, the policies, the regulations, the rules that are going to change because of what happened here, and take it as a win. Whether that pipeline goes through or not, I think we won.
T: How do you feel about the example that Standing Rock has set for other land struggles in the United States?
DA:This isn't the first pipeline that anyone's stood up to. This isn't the first infrastructure project anyone's stood up to, and I don't think it is going to be the last. But it is something that we have to be mindful about though: if we're going to take on the oil industry, it's not going to be at the pipelines. We have to change our behavior, and we have to demand alternatives, and we have to start doing things different, and we have to stop depending on the government. This country is so dependent on oil. The whole nation is dependent on oil. If we want to fight these things, it's not going to be where it's being transported. It's going to be at the source, and it's going to be with the government.
T: Who is responsible for the camps?
DA:There's never been anybody that was responsible. It was forever evolving from day one. The way it started was there were kids who said, 'We don't want this pipeline to go here.' We don't want oil in our water. So they ran from Wakpala to Mobridge over the Missouri River. They did it with prayer. Then the second thing that happened was a group of people got together in April and said we need to set up a spirit camp. So the first spirit camp was set up with prayer and then there was a ceremony, and in the ceremony individuals were identified to help with this. So when we had our first meeting, [there were] 200 people from Pine Ridge and 300 from Cheyenne River coming the next day. Where are they going to go? Where the spirit camp was set up was already bursting at the seams. … I brought the different groups together and I said, "We need to coordinate. We need to know what each other are doing." Then they said I was colonizing them, and that I was trying to control them, trying to dictate to them because I was IRA government. It seemed like every time the Standing Rock Sioux tribe tried to help, we got bit. So you ask me who is running the camp down there? It's whoever the people want to listen to and there is always someone who doesn't want to listen. That is the disfunction. The good thing about the tribal government is [even] if the people don't want to listen to me, it's a role that everyone accepts. Down there, if someone does not accept it, [the leadership] will change. That is how it has been going. It's been forever evolving from the first time we set up until today. Even now if I go down there, they're not going to want to have anything to do with me because I asked them to leave.
T: Do you genuinely want people to leave the camps?
DA: Yeah. There is no purpose for it. What's the purpose?
T: There seems to be some concerns for safety in the camps; how should these concerns be addressed?
DA: I don't want that pipeline to go through. I just don't want anyone to get hurt, I don't want anyone to die, I don't want any kids to get abused, I don't want any elders to get abused, I don't want any rapes to happen. They don't want any authority down there. What do you do then? Do I have to close it down with force?
T: I don't know… Do you?
DA: No, I'm not going to do that.
T: Why not?
DA: I don't want that. I don't want Wounded Knee. I don't want to fight my own people.
I tell you what, when I say stuff and when I do stuff, it feels like no one is behind me. And I feel like I'm the only one that thinks like this. I feel like I'm the only one that really understands, and it makes me question whether or not I'm Indian.
Am I Indian enough? How come I don't want to be there? And how come I don't want to put people's lives on the line? How come I don't want to think it's okay for them to die? I must not be Indian. I must not be Indian enough.
What I saw happen was something that was beautiful. Then I saw it just turn to where it's ugly, where people are fabricating lies and doing whatever they can, and they're driven by the wrong thing. What purpose does it have to have this camp down there? There are donations coming, so the purpose is the very same purpose for this pipeline; it's money. The things that we learn from this camp — the things that were good, that people are doing whatever they can to hold onto — are slipping through their hands at this moment. And I feel like no matter what I say or what I do now, because it flipped and it turned, I have to be really careful; because they will say that I'm trying to facilitate this pipeline. That's the last thing that I want and I've always said that. … We were offered money; I don't want money. We were offered that land; I don't want that land. I don't want anything. I just don't want that pipeline. It's symbolic if I can stay with that course. We are so close, but there is a chance that it could go through. If it goes through, I'll be the worst chairman ever, and if doesn't go through, I'm the worst chairman ever. So there is no win for me. I don't want a win; I don't want anything from this. What I see is something that is so symbolic it could change… We have a chance to change the outcome for once: the outcome of who we are as people. There is a real opportunity here, and that is what I want. That is what I'm hoping for, is that we take these lessons that we are learning and change the outcome of who we are and what we are about and the future of our people.
From www.dailyemerald.com/2017/01/05/2468239/
Our Note: Chairman Archambault: We understand the difficulty, angst, rejection, self-doubt and pain that can come with positions of higher office. Most leaders understand these feelings. Unfortunately, leaders are often required to make necessary decisions to lead people to the most beneficial and healthy outcome for the community. That is what the leader is there for. Leaders need to be men of strength and courage, who set aside the taunts of others and plow forward with wisdom and justice. SO – – If you KNOW it has gotten ugly, and you KNOW children, elders and the community in general are being hurt by the protesters – SEND THEM HOME.
Where Free-Market Economists Go Wrong
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By Sheldon Richman
Depressing as it is, politics usually trumps economics. There's nothing new in that, but free-market advocates ought to learn some lessons and adjust their strategy accordingly.
The politicians who run the government—and think they run the country—are afraid to appear as though they are doing nothing. We saw this when the recession hit. They were particularly worried about seeming to put party above the public good.
As the Wall Street Journal put it back then
The speed with which Washington hashed out the [stimulus] plan was driven mostly by the drumbeat of bad economic news. Behind the scenes, it was greased by other powerful motivations. Congressional Democrats needed to demonstrate they were capable of results after a year of gridlock. Republican lawmakers, up for re-election, wanted to show sensitivity to voters' economic woes. And the White House didn't want 'recession' added to its legacy.
Political interest was universally aligned against good economic sense. The politicians could get away with this because most of the public is economically illiterate. The "seen" overshadows the "unseen." Such is how we get economic policy. It's happening now.
As free-market economists point out, government cannot affirmatively stimulate what we misleadingly call "the economy." (It's not a machine; it's people using their property to engage in transactions.) All government can do is move money around. To make some people able to spend more it must make other people spend less. Politicians imply that they know who ought to have more and who ought to have less, but beside the obvious injustice of the matter, they simply can't know.
Economists Fall Short
I said the government can't affirmatively stimulate the economy, but it can encourage productive activity. How? By not discouraging it. Here is where some free-market economists fall short in shaping the public debate. Too much of what they say is along these lines: "The economy is fundamentally healthy. Recessions are a necessary correction of errors. So just let the economy work through its current problems. The government need do nothing."
That message should make advocates of individual liberty squirm because it implies that the market today is essentially as free as it needs to be. For example, a few years ago the news media proclaimed that gasoline prices were at historic highs. In fact, when adjusted for inflation they were not. But the economists pointing this out sounded a little too defensive, as though they were the defending the free market's honor against its critics. What should we say if next week gasoline does hit a historic high and the anti-market folks blame the free market? I know what I'd say: What free market? (With all the subsidies and regulations on the books, can there possibly be a free market?)
The same defensiveness can be seen whenever a left-statist charges that the gap between rich and nonrich has widened or income mobility has ceased. Whatever the truth of these charges, libertarians shouldn't react as though the free market's honor is being assaulted. The critics may think it's the free market they're attacking. But—I say again— we have no free market.
Similarly, if economic activity slows down, it can't be the free market's fault.
What we have—and have had for a long time—is corporatism, an interventionist system shot through with government-granted privileges mostly for the well-connected–who tend to be rich businesspeople. This system is maintained in a variety of ways: through taxes, subsidies, cartelizing regulations, intellectual "property" protections, trade restrictions, government-bank collusion, the military-industrial complex, land close-offs, zoning, building codes, restrictions on workers, and more. As a result, people can get rich at the expense of the government's victims. Even some who have prospered apparently by market means have actually done so through government intervention, such as transportation subsidies and eminent domain. Wealth can be transferred in many ways besides welfare and Medicaid, some of them quite subtle. Most transfers are upward.
Overlooked Facts
Free-market economists know this, but they often seem to forget it, such as when they indiscriminately defend firms (such as oil and pharmaceutical companies) in today's corporatist economy. These economists convey the message that since in a free market people get rich and companies get big only by serving consumers, anyone who is rich today and any company that is big today must have gotten that way by serving consumers. The flaw in the argument should be obvious.
Given the corporatist nature of the economy, it is a mistake—as well as strategically foolish—to say the government should do nothing when a recession might be coming on or when recovery is disappointingly sluggish. There's much it should do—or rather undo. Freedom's advocates must spell this out in detail, revealing how existing government privilege harms the mass of people who have no political connections. In contrast, when an economist who proclaims his support for the free market says the current economy will fix itself, he brands himself a defender of the statist quo and turns his back on the State's victims.
The freedom philosophy is a radical idea that looks ahead, rather than to some mythical golden era or Panglossian present. Every time we pass up an opportunity to make this point, we alienate potential allies who are concerned about those who are having a tough time of things. Yes, living standards have improved for decades and being poor in the United States is not what it used to be—thank goodness. That only shows that even a marketplace hampered by government privilege can produce astounding wealth. But to be satisfied with that is to be willing to trade freedom and justice for a mess of pottage.
F.A. Hayek never spoke more wisely than when he wrote, in "The Intellectuals and Socialism":
What we lack is a liberal Utopia, a programme which seems neither a mere defence of things as they are nor a diluted kind of socialism, but a truly liberal radicalism which does not spare the susceptibilities of the mighty (including the trade unions), which is not too severely practical and which does not confine itself to what appears today as politically possible. . . . Those who have concerned themselves exclusively with what seemed practicable in the existing state of opinion have constantly found that even this has rapidly become politically impossible as the result of changes in a public opinion which they have done nothing to guide. Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost. [Emphasis added.]
Hayek wrote that over 60 years ago. We haven't progressed as much as we like to think.
(A version of this article first appeared on February 1, 2008.)
Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.
This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article.
Org Digs up Proof that Buffet is Funding Anti-Pipeline Protests?
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Big Green campaigns kill jobs and enrich Buffett
Billionaire bankrolls anti-pipeline agenda and gets richer through secretive foundations
(THIS ARTICLE IS QUOTED FROM: http://www.cfactcampus.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/SandPiper_Resource_Sources.pdf)
"Opponents of the Sandpiper Pipeline Project across Minnesota have portrayed themselves as simply
being a home-spun coalition of family, student, hiker, and Native American grassroots activists.
It's a nice fable. But it's false.
In truth, according to new research conducted by CFACT policy analysts Ron Arnold and Paul Driessen, the anti-Sandpiper campaign is being funded and coordinated by a number of shadowy out-of-state
foundations and financiers – including the Tides Foundation and billionaire railroad tycoon Warren
Buffett. 1
Arnold and Driessen note that while some small local and state groups – such as Friends of the
Headwaters and Occupy Minnesota – are involved in this debate, these organizations have little money
or clout.
The true leader of the campaign against Sandpiper is in fact Honor the Earth, a Native American group
that wants "No more mines. No more pipelines."4 It's not incorporated and files no income tax reports of
its own.3 Instead, Honor the Earth is a "project" of the Tides Foundation 2, which also serves as its fiscal sponsor.
99% of Honor the Earth's money – nearly $1.5 million – was funneled to it by out-of-state donors. 5
Honor the Earth is also sponsored by the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), another Native
group. However, Minnesota corporate records show no incorporation entry for the anti-pipeline IEN.
And only $120,000 of the IEN's $2.2 million in tax-exempt foundation money came from inside
Minnesota. 6
In fact, behind these "grassroots" groups is a formidable $25 billion in foundation investment
portfolios.7
"That's the real power behind the scenes: Out-of-state donor puppeteers who pull the activists' strings,"
said Driessen.
The Tides Foundation is one of the biggest environmentalist donors. It is a massive, secretive San
Francisco operation created to hide the names of donors who want to block development.8
Our researchers also uncovered that Tides has given over $700,000 to Honor the Earth to oppose
development, particularly pipelines – first Keystone XL and now Enbridge's Sandpiper pipeline, both of
which are potential competitors for oil-by-rail companies.9
Tides also gave over $670,000 to the Indigenous Environmental Network to oppose pipelines. 10
Amazingly, the Tides Foundation's biggest donor is multi-billionaire Warren Buffett and his family.
Mr. Buffett is one of President Obama's most important friends, advisors, and major campaign
contributors. At Buffett's urging, and because of constant pressure from environmental and climate
activists, Obama vetoed the Keystone XL Pipeline and is blocking other pipelines.
Warren Buffett's interest in blocking pipelines like Sandpiper is likely financially motivated.
Most oil that isn't shipped by pipeline is shipped by rail cars – like the BNSF Railway and Union Tank Car
Company, both of which are owned by Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.
So it appears Minnesota's anti-pipeline activists are, perhaps unknowingly, helping Warren Buffett
maintain his railroad's oil transport operations, using their activism to help strangle competition from
Sandpiper and other pipelines.
"No wonder $30.5 million in Buffett money went to the Tides Foundation – which funds dozens of antipipeline
activist groups. His $30.5 million investment is generating billions in oil-by-rail revenues,"11
commented Arnold.
In an ironic twist, the Greens, by stopping the pipeline construction, may in fact be placing the
environment more at risk. This is because railroad tanker cars all too frequently have accidents, like the
horrible spill in Lac Magantic, Quebec, which caused huge fires that destroyed much of the town and
killed 54 people.12
These allegedly grassroots groups are actually part of a tightly orchestrated, generously funded antipipeline
campaign to help the vested interests of the oil-transporting BNSF Railway, its parent company
Berkshire Hathaway, and CEO billionaire Warren Buffett. It's the Attack of Buffett's Puppets.
"It may be a game for them, but they're playing with lives, livelihoods, and living standards,"
commented Driessen. "They're getting rich on the backs of poor and middle class families whose energy
costs are skyrocketing and whose families and communities are put at risk when companies are forced
to ship oil by less safe tanker trucks and rail tanker cars, instead of by modern pipelines," he added.
Journalists, citizens, and political leaders who care about honesty and transparency need to ask:
• Why did "No more pipelines" Honor the Earth get over $700,000 from a San Francisco money-funnel
for Warren Buffet's oil-by-rail fortune?
• Why are the anti-pipeline groups so secretive about their money and ties? What else are they
hiding?
• Why aren't Minnesota's news media, legislature, governor, and attorney general digging into this?
• Why aren't they investigating the dangers of truck and rail oil transport, compared to pipelines?
Protesters who are ranting about Sandpiper, Keystone, and other pipelines must be asked:
• Didn't anyone tell you you're actually campaigning on behalf of the interests of Warren Buffett and
the Tides Foundation?
• Do you know who is really bankrolling and calling the shots in this anti-Sandpiper campaign?
• Are you happy to be working for pennies for oil-by-rail billionaires, helping them get even richer?
• Did you know you might be endangering American lives along these oil-by-rail lines through cities?
Ron Arnold and Paul Driessen; Cracking Big Green: Saving the world from the Save-the-Earth money
machine. Washington, DC: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (2014).
William Walter Kay, "The American Environmental Movement – The American Counter-Movement
Perspective," April 2015, http://ecofascism.com/review38.html
Cory Morningstar, "Keystone XL: The art of NGO discourse – Buffet acquires the Non-Profit Industrial
Complex," [Part IV of The Keystone XL: Art of NGO Discourse series. See also Part l, Part ll, Part lll],
http://theartofannihilation.com/keystone-xl-the-art-of-ngo-discourse-part-1v-buffett-acquires-the-nonprofit-industrial-complex/
and http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/12/keystone-xl-the-art-of-ngodiscourse-3/
Original research by Ron Arnold, Paul Driessen and the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow.
1 Warren Buffett funds Tides and its foundation and center and other entities through his family's Novo
Foundation, of which he is the sole donor.
2 http://www.tides.org/impact/stories/show/story/single/title/honor-the-earth/.
3 Page 5 of a 12-page document titled "Tides Fiscal Sponsorship Services" explains the relationship
between Honor the Earth and Tides. http://www.tides.org/fileadmin/user/pdf/Tides-Fiscal-SponsorshipServices.pdf
4 http://www.honorearth.org/ 5 The proprietary database Foundation Search shows the following, which includes only the top 4 donors
(full list of 17 foundations and amounts available on request):
Search Criteria: Recipient name matches "HONOR THE EARTH"
Grant Total: $1,423,568 # Grants: 55 # Foundations : 17
TIDES FOUNDATION SAN FRANCISCO California 24 $716,068
THE POSS FAMILY
FOUNDATION BROOKLINE Massachusetts 4 $230,000
THE FRANCES FUND INC NORTHAMPTON Massachusetts 4 $122,000
SURDNA FOUNDATION
INC NEW YORK New York 2 $100,000
Two grants totaling $20,000 came from Minnesota donors.
6 The proprietary database Foundation Search shows the following, which includes only the top 5 donors
Search Criteria: Recipient name matches "Indigenous Environmental Network "
TRUE NORTH FOUNDATION GRASS VALLEY California 2 $363,000
JESSIE SMITH NOYES FOUNDATION INC NEW YORK New York 8 $250,000
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION PRINCETON New Jersey 2 $182,950
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ST. PAUL Minnesota 3 $150,000
Three grants totaling $120,000 came from Minnesota donors.
7 ANTI-PIPELINE DONOR TOTAL ASSETS LIST.
BEN & JERRY'S FOUNDATION $4,926,500;
BRAINERD FOUNDATION $24,811,595;
CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC $23,825,791;
COMMON STREAM INC $27,254,779;
COMPTON FOUNDATION INC $63,939,751;
DOLPHIN FOUNDATION INC $296,136;
DRT FUND $1,353,499;
EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC $11,017,260;
FORD FOUNDATION $12,259,961,589;
HILL SNOWDON FOUNDATION $33,074,672;
JESSIE SMITH NOYES FOUNDATION INC $51,117,046;
KAPOR CENTER FOR SOCIAL IMPACT (MITCHELL KAPOR FOUNDATION) $39,930,915;
LANNAN FOUNDATION $223,074,452;
MARISLA FOUNDATION $49,580,734;
MAX & ANNA LEVINSON FOUNDATION $15,768,418;
NATHAN CUMMINGS FOUNDATION $444,987,710;
NEEDMOR FUND $26,800,943;
NORMAN FOUNDATION $26,290,573;
PANTA RHEA FOUNDATION INC $2,667,971;
PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION INC $488,153,146;
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION $10,173,403,442;
SCHERMAN FOUNDATION INC $121,038,255;
SILVER TIE FUND INC $1,518,649;
SURDNA FOUNDATION INC $929,596,379:
SWIFT FOUNDATION $58,156,067;
THE FRANCES FUND INC $18,166,203;
THE POSS FAMILY FOUNDATION $14,284,395;
THE SUSAN A. & DONALD P. BABSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION $5,363,697;
TIDES FOUNDATION $150,545,700;
TITCOMB FOUNDATION $2,204,558.
TRUE NORTH FOUNDATION $2,981,527.
TURNER FOUNDATION INC $12,200,379.
Total $25,268,361,816
PROOF DOCUMENTS: IRS FORM 990 REPORTS ASSET PAGE GATHERED IN SEPARATE FILE.
8 Tides Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides_%28organization%29
9 The proprietary database Foundation Search shows the following for Honor the Earth:
Search Criteria: Foundation name matches "TIDES"
Grant Total: $716,068 # Grants: 24 # Foundations : 1
10 The proprietary database Foundation Search shows the following for Indigenous Environmental
11 The proprietary database Foundation Search shows the following for Tides:
Search Criteria: Foundation name matches "NOVO FOUNDATION"
Grant Total: $30,551,973 # Grants: 39 # Foundations : 1
NOVO FOUNDATION NEW YORK New York 39 $30,551,973
12 Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaster
Donald Trump's Contract With The American Voter
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By DONALD TRUMP
What follows is my 100-day action plan to Make America Great Again. It is a contract between myself and the American voter — and begins with restoring honesty, accountability and change to Washington
Therefore, on the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC:
* FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress;
* SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health);
* THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated;
* FOURTH, a 5 year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service;
* FIFTH, a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government;
* SIXTH, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
On the same day, I will begin taking the following 7 actions to protect American workers:
* FIRST, I will announce my intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205
* SECOND, I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
* THIRD, I will direct my Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator
* FOURTH, I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately
* FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars' worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.
* SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward
* SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America's water and environmental infrastructure
Additionally, on the first day, I will take the following five actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law:
* FIRST, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama
* SECOND, begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States
* THIRD, cancel all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities
* FOURTH, begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won't take them back
* FIFTH, suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting.
Next, I will work with Congress to introduce the following broader legislative measures and fight for their passage within the first 100 days of my Administration:
Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act. An economic plan designed to grow the economy 4% per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy. The largest tax reductions are for the middle class. A middle-class family with 2 children will get a 35% tax cut. The current number of brackets will be reduced from 7 to 3, and tax forms will likewise be greatly simplified. The business rate will be lowered from 35 to 15 percent, and the trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas can now be brought back at a 10 percent rate.
End The Offshoring Act. Establishes tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax-free.
American Energy & Infrastructure Act. Leverages public-private partnerships, and private investments through tax incentives, to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. It is revenue neutral.
School Choice And Education Opportunity Act. Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice. Ends common core, brings education supervision to local communities. It expands vocational and technical education, and make 2 and 4-year college more affordable.
Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act. Fully repeals Obamacare and replaces it with Health Savings Accounts, the ability to purchase health insurance across state lines, and lets states manage Medicaid funds. Reforms will also include cutting the red tape at the FDA: there are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval, and we especially want to speed the approval of life-saving medications.
Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act. Allows Americans to deduct childcare and elder care from their taxes, incentivizes employers to provide on-side childcare services, and creates tax-free Dependent Care Savings Accounts for both young and elderly dependents, with matching contributions for low-income families.
End Illegal Immigration Act Fully-funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5-year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.
Restoring Community Safety Act. Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars.
Restoring National Security Act. Rebuilds our military by eliminating the defense sequester and expanding military investment; provides Veterans with the ability to receive public VA treatment or attend the private doctor of their choice; protects our vital infrastructure from cyber-attack; establishes new screening procedures for immigration to ensure those who are admitted to our country support our people and our values
Clean up Corruption in Washington Act. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.
On November 8th, Americans will be voting for this 100-day plan to restore prosperity to our economy, security to our communities, and honesty to our government.
This is my pledge to you.
And if we follow these steps, we will once more have a government of, by and for the people.
https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/CONTRACT_FOR_THE_VOTER.pdf
Sick, liberal policies were being pushed down our throats. It's as simple as that.
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Today, I am angry. Thugs rioting in the streets over Trump's election? Seriously? I mean – what do these foolish protesters think WE went through for the last eight years?
Remember when Conservatives rioted in the streets after Obama was elected? No?
Don't assume we didn't feel like it. I had a friend contemplate suicide after Obama was elected the second time. But my friend got counseling rather than commit suicide – and we made our way through the years without throwing stones through the White House windows.
Do these big crybabies believe THEY are the only people in the nation who should ever have a say? Do they honestly believe things are always supposed to go their way? Apparently. Look at what the Universities have been coddling for the last couple years.
Most Conservatives are TREMENDOUSLY relieved by this election. We are people – U.S. citizens – who did everything by the book for this election. No stuffing ballots, rigging polls, or sending non-citizens to vote as the Democrats do.
In fact – knowing that they probably did all that and more – it is all the more amazing Trump pulled this off.
I am so sick and tired of the extreme left liberals in this nation. So ANGRY at the lot of them – see them ALL as corrupt, yucky, worst of the worst people. People who demand the right to murder full term babies – babies who, if given a few moments, could be born alive and free of their horrific mothers. There is NO – absolutely NO – medical condition that demands a baby be dead prior to delivery – and in fact, the mother would be rid of a full-term baby FASTER if the child is allowed to live, because holding it back in order to kill it takes time.
There is just skin and muscle between a full-term child and the outside world. LET THE CHILD LIVE.
There is no MEDICAL reason for murdering the baby. The ONLY incentive or benefit is for the sale of body parts. THAT IS A FACT. And it is fact which will be soon more widely understood, now that those who make money off of harvesting children are no longer in control. WATCH: April, 2016 – Congressman says probe DID show Planned Parenthood ran 'Amazon.com of baby body parts'
Aug. 19, 2016 – Aborted baby's heart was beating as we harvested his brains: worker in new Planned Parenthood video
This has become such a sick, sick society and I am so sick of extreme left liberals expecting us to just sit back and accept every idiotic, sick thing they suddenly decide they HAVE to have.
You WANT to understand Trump voters? Understand that.
Abortion and the Supreme Court were the two primary reasons many I know voted for Trump. But there are many, many reasons beyond those.
Plain and simple: Obama pushed his agenda too far. What did he and other liberals think would happen when just nine months ago – they demanded that we women put up with men in our bathrooms? You don't think that was a factor in us wanting to scream and rampage? It wasn't an issue that was talked about in the debates – there was WAY too much that needed to be talked about – but it was NEVER an issue far from our minds. That was the first thing many thought of when Hillary said she was going to continue HIS policies.
June 6, 2016 – School stops enforcing Obama's trans bathroom policy after parents pulled kids out
Poll: Two-thirds of Americans oppose government forcing transgender bathrooms
How could they possibly be SO dumb as to think they could push something like this – DURING THE ELECTION EVEN – and believe that we would just SIT AND TAKE IT?
July 2016 – Leaked Emails Show DNC Pushed Narrative Against NC's Transgender Bathroom Law
LOOK – they didn't even leave it with full-fledged trans – they said ANY man – whether he was dressed as a woman or not – whether he felt like a man yesterday but felt like a woman today – they said it is FLUID and we just have to accept whatever this poor person wanted to do – because we can't hurt his feelings. He can be dressed as a man, with no apparent reason for not using the men's room – but if he wants to use the women's room, that's his right – and ONE sick liberal official said our girls just have to accept seeing genitals in locker rooms! And high schools have to allow boys to sleep with the girls on high school trips! And it went on and on – getting sicker and sicker.
Under the Obama administration's federal guidance:
– School districts must allow biological males and females to spend the night together in the same hotel room on field trips;
– Colleges must let men who say they are transgender be roommates with one or more women; and
– School officials cannot even tell those young women or their parents in advance that their new roommate is a man, without risking a federal lawsuit.
Tucked away in the letter is a section requiring schools to provide transgender students proper "housing."
"A school must allow transgender students to access housing consistent with their gender identity," it states, "and may not require transgender students to stay in single-occupancy accommodations or to disclose personal information when not required of other students."
Many women do NOT feel safe with a man in the room – yet their feelings do not matter. Talk about misogyny – it is Obama, Clinton and their supporters who discount the feelings of women as being "overly dramatic" and "homophobic." January 2016 – Female Office Worker Encounters Man Urinating in Ladies' Room Exposed
Further – we feel our children are being preyed upon by the left with their agenda: June 2016 – Washington State to Teach Kindergartners about Transgenderism
ACLU DIRECTOR WHO RESIGNED BECAUSE OF BATHROOM BILL EXPOSES DANGERS OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Don't even try to tell us it hasn't hurt women or girls. Many men have been arrested for committing crimes against women and girls in rest rooms over the last nine months – and a LOT of it isn't getting reported in most papers.
May 4, 2016 – Young Girl in Women's Changing Room at Target sees man taking pictures over the wall with his cell phone….
"The man was in a female dressing room at the Target and was seen by the victim, over the wall with his cell phone, taking photos of the victim." "…the girl ran and told Target staff who told police."
Sept 30, 2016 – Target's Transgender Bathroom Policy Leads to 10 Crimes Targeting Girls Undressing, Says AFA
Hillary Clinton fully supported the murder of full-term children, as well as forcing women to accept men in their bathrooms (Something she wouldn't have to deal with, as it is doubtful she uses public bathrooms) – yet Clinton wanted us to believe she was the strongest supporter of women, children and families.
Give us a break.
Frankly – the liberals can take their sick agendas and shove it. How DARE they say they are offended by TRUMP – when they keep coming up with this sick crap. And then Clinton has the foulest entertainers on her stage – and talks about how much she loves them – while at the same time pretending to be offended by Trump. Meanwhile.. her husband flies the Lolita express.
WE are sick of it all. Trump made his millions off of encouraging vice. We KNOW that. But that's the point – we KNEW who he was, but he was telling us our world would be different now. She was LYING about who she was – and telling us things would not only stay the same, but get worse.
Couple all this with the left's constant bashing of the Christian Faith, the threat of terrorism, Clinton Cronyism, criminal corruption, Wikileaks, Benghazi, and more. There were so many reasons to vote against Clinton, they probably can't be all counted.
YOU REALLY want to pretend this was all about Clinton being a woman?? Please.
Very simply – it was about PROTECTING our children and ourselves from the woman who claimed to champion children and women. We wanted TRUE concern for children – not Clinton's faux show of concern – a claim she tried to make fly in the last few months of her campaign.
Safety and Children – Period. Those two words – Safety and Children – include more than just abortion and bathrooms. It includes all issues of immigration, obamacare, foreign policy, terrorism, law and economy.
Fools.
PRAISE GOD for the results of this election.
And YES – many of us want to see her in prison. We have made that clear. Don't you dare use the fact that Trump ran against her in the election as an excuse for her to get away with her crimes.
Don't even go there. We are already mad as heck at the establishment.
Bill Clinton's 1993 tax plan cut Trump's taxes.
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It was Bill Clinton's 1993 tax plan that allowed Donald Trump to claim his Altantic City losses and not pay taxes. Honesty would have Bill Clinton stepping up three months ago and owning the law.
From a DNC staffer's email –
"The Clinton proposal should be good for the real estate market with its easing of the passive loss rules, its easing of the rules that govern pension fund investment in commercial and debt-financed real estate, and its easing of the oversight regarding bank lending policies."
READ: – Courtesy of Wikileaks…
From:BrinsterJ@dnc.org
To: GrahamC@dnc.org, MillerL@dnc.org, DillonL@dnc.org, BauerN@dnc.org, robertske@dnc.org, SargeM@dnc.org
Subject: RE: WaPo: Trump's income tax returns once became public. They showed he didn't pay a cent.
I know very little about this, but from a quick sweep it looks like passive-loss relief was a core component of Bill Clinton's 1993 tax plan:
AP: Siegel says ripple effects will likely reach other investment markets as well. "The Clinton proposal should be good for the real estate market with its easing of the passive loss rules, its easing of the rules that govern pension fund investment in commercial and debt-financed real estate, and its easing of the oversight regarding bank lending policies." …
Chicago Sun-Times: Last year, Bentsen's Senate Finance Committee approved a change in the passive-loss system designed to provide partial tax-relief to property owners – and new buyers – who are "active participants" in real estate trades or businesses. Basically, the plan allowed such owners to escape the clutches of passive-loss treatment, and to write off losses from their real estate against net income derived from real estate. Guess what ended up in Bill Clinton's tax package? You got it: The very passive-loss relief plan that sailed through Bentsen's committee.
The Associated Press March 1, 1993, Monday, PM cycle Clinton Plan Has Something For Wall Street
BYLINE: By CHET CURRIER, AP Business Writer
SECTION: Business News
LENGTH: 594 words
DATELINE: NEW YORK
Though President Clinton's economic ideas have drawn a lot of fire from Wall Street, his plan could well be a boon to the business of banks, brokers and other financial-services industries. In the eyes of some of his critics on the Street, Clinton has presented himself as a Robin Hood intent on redistributing wealth according to a system of "fairness" that is open to dispute. At the same time, however, observers say there is a very real prospect that his proposals could lead to greater demand for a wide variety of Wall Street's merchandise, from municipal bonds to individual retirement accounts. "Everyone's got a bellyache about Clinton's proposal," observed Ethan Siegel, a Washington analyst at Prudential Securities.
"While the market mulls over the proposal and its likely impact on the economy, I'd point out that there are pluses in the package that cannot be ignored.
"The overall message remains that there is going to be less Washington money for high-income retirees – in both pension and health care benefits. As more and more people find it necessary to provide for their own retirements, this will be a plus for the mutual funds, the financial planners and the banks."
Analysts like Siegel raise these visions at a time when expectations for financial businesses are already on the rise. As of late last week, Standard & Poor's index of financial stocks sported a 23.31 percent gain over the past 12 months. That stood in sharp contrast to an advance of just 3.08 percent for S&P's index of industrial stocks, and a 6.88 percent rise overall for S&P's 500-stock composite index. The financial group's performance reflects the fact that financial firms of many types have been recovering from the early-1990s credit crunch, and reviving their profitability, with help from falling interest rates. As many analysts see it, these businesses also stand to benefit from demographic forces as the nation's population ages in the years ahead, dramatically increasing the size of the over-40 set. This is the group that has always provided many of Wall Street's best customers.
Richard Hoffman, chief investment strategist at Cowen & Co., cites as a primary market theme of the '90s "anything that 40-year-olds and above buy and use." Wall Street is already well into a prolonged marketing blitz seeking to woo this horde of potential clients as it faces the need to prepare in earnest for its retirement years.
Clinton's proposals already have touched off a boom in the tax-exempt municipal bond business, based on the likelihood of higher tax brackets for upper-income individuals and couples. By the same reasoning, people's appetites would stand to be whetted as well for annuities, life insurance, and retirement savings vehicles like IRAs, Keogh plans and employer-sponsored 401(k) plans – all of which offer some degree of shelter from taxes. Siegel says ripple effects will likely reach other investment markets as well.
Many Wall Streeters object to Clinton's expressed faith in government, rather than private industry and market forces, as a driving force behind change and progress. From another angle, however, says Rao Chalasani at Kemper Securities in Chicago, "the president called for turning to investment, away from consumption."
Chicago Sun-Times February 26, 1993,
FRIDAY , FINAL Clinton Economic Plan Gives Real Estate a Break
BYLINE: Kenneth R. Harney
SECTION: HOMELIFE; THE NATION'S HOUSING; Pg. 6;
N LENGTH: 711 words
Real estate owners, investors and brokers could emerge from the 1993 federal legislative sweepstakes with something they haven't seen since 1981: A tax bill that giveth rather than taketh away. Compared with other key sectors of the economy that were asked to share the pain of deficit-reduction, real estate came out as a net winner in the Clinton administration's economic recovery program unveiled last week. Not a big winner, to be sure; but not a loser by any stretch.
First, the Clinton administration posted a last-minute hands-off sign on two of the fattest, and most politically sensitive, potential sources of new tax revenue: deductions for home mortgage interest and local property-tax payments. Plans for limiting both were on the table until late in the budget-crafting process, according to administration sources. One official said key staff members favored at least modest cuts in the deductions for philosophical as well as revenue-raising reasons.
Second, the fingerprints of pro-real estate legislators like former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas), now secretary of the Treasury, are clear in the Clinton package. While chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Bentsen supported efforts to encourage pension funds to put more of their money into housing and real estate. The Clinton plan includes precisely such a plank. Bentsen also supported efforts to roll back features of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 that severely penalized new investment in commercial real estate. Those provisions hampered resales of office buildings, apartment complexes and other property financed by failed S & Ls, which were glutting the market in his home state.
Among the biggest impediments to real estate investment: the controversial "passive loss" system created by the 1986 reform act. That law defined all forms of rental real estate as "passive" activities, no matter how much time and effort owners spend on managing or operating their real estate. Under the law, losses generated by passive activities cannot be deducted against ordinary income from other, active sources. Instead they can only be written off against income generated by other passive activities. If there is no passive income available to a taxpayer, the 1986 reform law required the losses to be "carried forward" – put on ice until the property is sold or the taxpayer generates net passive income to offset the frozen passive losses.
Last year, Bentsen's Senate Finance Committee approved a change in the passive-loss system designed to provide partial tax-relief to property owners – and new buyers – who are "active participants" in real estate trades or businesses. Basically, the plan allowed such owners to escape the clutches of passive-loss treatment, and to write off losses from their real estate against net income derived from real estate.
Guess what ended up in Bill Clinton's tax package? You got it: The very passive-loss relief plan that sailed through Bentsen's committee. But that's just part of the new tax plan's lean toward real estate. Consider these other features: Permanent reauthorization of the two most important sources of financing for affordable housing. These are the low-income tax credit for subsidizing rental units, and the mortgage revenue bond program that provides cut-rate mortgage money for more than 100,000 modest-income first-time home buyers per year.
Both programs have expired periodically when Congress failed to approve annual or biannual tax bill reauthorizations. A rollback of the 1992 federal tax bill's proposed depreciation standards for commercial real estate. The Clinton plan calls for a 36-year depreciation schedule for non-residential property. While that's up from the 31.5-year schedule included in the current tax code, it's four years below the 40-year standard contained in the 1992 tax legislation, which was vetoed by President Bush.
Commercial real estate lobbyists would have preferred no change at all, but even last year they accepted the 40-year standard as a necessary revenue-raiser in exchange for passive-loss relief. The Clinton package turns out to be kinder and gentler to real estate, in other words, even when it passes the hat looking for more tax dollars.
From: Graham, Caroline
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 12:07 PM
To: Miller, Lindsey; Dillon, Lauren; Bauer, Nick; Roberts, Kelly; Sarge, Matthew Cc: Brinster, Jeremy; Dieter, Austin
Brinster – do we have any boomerang here?
These are the specifics on 78/79. As long as Brinster doesn't see a flag, then I'd like to round all of this up in a doc, but tighten up the frame a bit and make sure we're driving the "Trump's always in it for himself" narrative. That should help downplay his call for higher taxes on the wealthy (non-real estate) folks.
Trump Paid No Taxes Due to Losses on Rental Properties. A Division of Gaming Enforcement report from October 1981 stated: "The Division notes that in 1978 and 1979 Trump incurred no federal income tax liability. In 1979, the lack of such liability is primarily attributable to losses incurred by Trump in the operation of rental properties located at Third Avenue, Fifth Avenue, East 56th Street, East 57th Street, East 6lst Street and East 62nd Street, New York City, New York. The expenses for the operation of the aforesaid rental properties were actual cash disbursements as reflected in Trump's cash disbursements journal. The foregoing losses were also traced to interest due on amounts owed to Fred C. Trump and Chase Manhattan Bank during 1978 and 1979. Additionally, Trump incurred losses during 1978 and 1979 in the operations of the Park Briar Associates, Regency-Lexington Partners and 220 Prospect Street Company, partnerships in which Trump has an interest." [Division of Gaming Enforcement Report to the Casino Control Commission, 10/16/81]
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