Greg Palast has his film about the election, with an introductory talk
explaining how the election was stolen in the swing states where Trump won
electoral college votes, on the web. He points out that he put the video up
in October, with the explanation of precisely how the votes would be stolen.
Actually, he did put it up then and he kept writing about the method, Cross
Check. So possibly, Trump's presidency is not a result of the choice of
voters at all.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump Education Nominee Betsy DeVos Lied to
the Senate
Miriam, Frank and All,
In my family, Simple Working Class Folk, we call much of what we are
witnessing between the Senate confirmation hearings and the Trump Nominees,
as Contempt.
Contempt toward not only the Senators, but toward all Americans represented
by these Senators.
We are watching a parade of nominees who are skilled in the infighting that
has enabled them to claw their way to the top of the Empire heap.
Of course their responses to the Senators are evasive and circumflex.
The fact is, the Republican majority in Congress will confirm them all, and
they know it. Exposing their lies and misbehavior is, "all in a days work"
to them.
Well folks, the American voters brought change into their lives.
Rather than the slow destruction of our once prosperous Working Class/Middle
Class that has gone on since the 80's, we have opened the Pandora's Box. To
learn what is coming our way, google Pandora's Box.
It's not going to be fun.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/21/17, M Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Scahill writes: "The idea that her own mother's foundation would
accidentally list her as a vice president for years as result of a
clerical error is just not believable. The Democrats should go to town
on this obvious attempt to mislead the Senate."
Betsy DeVos, Trump's pick to head the Department of Education. (photo:
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty)
Trump Education Nominee Betsy DeVos Lied to the Senate By Jeremy
Scahill, The Intercept
19 January 17
There are many reasons Betsy DeVos's nomination to serve as Donald
Trump's education secretary could be justifiably quashed by the U.S.
Senate. Her long public record indicates she is a religious Christian
zealot who does not believe in the actual separation of church and
state, wants public monies funneled into religious schools, and has
contributed through family foundations to bigoted groups with a
militant anti-gay agenda. During her confirmation hearing she gave
disturbing answers to questions about her views of the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act, standardized tests, and school
vouchers. She also suggested guns have a place in American schools,
though her claim that they were necessary to defend students from
grizzly bear attacks was not very compelling.
DeVos is married to Richard DeVos, the heir to the Amway Corporation
fortune. She is also the sister of Blackwater founder Erik Prince, who
is secretly advising the Trump team on intelligence matters, as The
Intercept reported Tuesday. The Prince and DeVos families' merger
through marriage was reminiscent of the monarchies of old Europe, and
since the 1980s they have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars
into Republican campaign coffers and the war chests of far-right
religious organizations, at least one of which - the Family Research
Council - has been designated an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern
Poverty Law Center.
As Mother Jones pointed out:
The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation gave $275,000 to Focus on
the Family from 1999 to 2001 but hasn't donated since; it gave an
additional $35,760 to the group's Michigan and D.C. affiliates from
2001 to 2010. The Prince Foundation donated $5.2 million to Focus on
the Family and $275,000 to its Michigan affiliate from 2001 to 2014.
(It also gave $6.1 million to the Family Research Council, which has
fought against same-sex marriage and anti-bullying programs - and is
listed as an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law
Center. The FRC used to be a division of Focus on the Family before it
became an independent nonprofit, with Dobson serving on its board, in
1992.) During Tuesday's hearing, the Democratic senators protested
Republican chair Lamar Alexander's unprecedented ruling that senators
would only be permitted one round of questioning. Nonetheless, several
senators pressed DeVos on the contributions made by her and other
family members through their foundations. DeVos, clearly prepared for
such questions, assured the committee that she has nothing to do with
the contributions made by her mother's foundation, the Prince
Foundation (formerly known as the Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation).
DeVos said that her immediate family - presumably meaning her husband
and children - had nothing to do with the financing of anti-gay causes
and groups and that she has never supported "conversion therapy" for
gay people.
Newly elected Democratic Sen. Margaret Hassan pressed DeVos on these
claims.
She asked DeVos directly if she was on the board of her mother's
foundation during the period in which large donations were made to
Focus on the Family.
DeVos said that she was not on the foundation's board.
When I heard that, I pulled up the 990 tax documents of the Prince
Foundation, which I investigated for my book "Blackwater." Betsy DeVos
was clearly listed as a vice president of the foundation's board,
along with her brother Erik, for many years, at least until 2014.
DeVos was a vice president during the precise period Hassan was
referring to. I then began a tweet storm about this lie:
At the very end of the hearing, Sen. Patty Murray, the ranking
Democrat on the committee, allocated the small time she had left to
Hassan, who proceeded to reference the 990 tax forms. DeVos then made
an astonishing claim. These government tax forms, filed by her own
mother's foundation, were incorrect. For years. Many years. "That was
a clerical error. I can assure you I have never made decisions on my
mother's behalf on her foundation's board."
The idea that her own mother's foundation would accidentally list her
as a vice president for years as result of a clerical error is just
not believable. The Democrats should go to town on this obvious
attempt to mislead the Senate. This alone should disqualify DeVos,
though there is a vast ocean of other reasons they could fish from.
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Betsy DeVos, Trump's pick to head the Department of Education. (photo:
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Trump Education Nominee Betsy DeVos Lied to the Senate By Jeremy
Scahill, The Intercept
19 January 17
here are many reasons Betsy DeVos's nomination to serve as Donald
Trump's education secretary could be justifiably quashed by the U.S.
Senate. Her long public record indicates she is a religious Christian
zealot who does not believe in the actual separation of church and
state, wants public monies funneled into religious schools, and has
contributed through family foundations to bigoted groups with a
militant anti-gay agenda. During her confirmation hearing she gave
disturbing answers to questions about her views of the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act, standardized tests, and school
vouchers. She also suggested guns have a place in American schools,
though her claim that they were necessary to defend students from
grizzly bear attacks was not very compelling.
DeVos is married to Richard DeVos, the heir to the Amway Corporation
fortune. She is also the sister of Blackwater founder Erik Prince, who
is secretly advising the Trump team on intelligence matters, as The
Intercept reported Tuesday. The Prince and DeVos families' merger
through marriage was reminiscent of the monarchies of old Europe, and
since the 1980s they have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars
into Republican campaign coffers and the war chests of far-right
religious organizations, at least one of which - the Family Research
Council - has been designated an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern
Poverty Law Center.
As Mother Jones pointed out:
The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation gave $275,000 to Focus on
the Family from 1999 to 2001 but hasn't donated since; it gave an
additional $35,760 to the group's Michigan and D.C. affiliates from
2001 to 2010. The Prince Foundation donated $5.2 million to Focus on
the Family and $275,000 to its Michigan affiliate from 2001 to 2014.
(It also gave $6.1 million to the Family Research Council, which has
fought against same-sex marriage and anti-bullying programs - and is
listed as an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law
Center. The FRC used to be a division of Focus on the Family before it
became an independent nonprofit, with Dobson serving on its board, in
1992.) During Tuesday's hearing, the Democratic senators protested
Republican chair Lamar Alexander's unprecedented ruling that senators
would only be permitted one round of questioning. Nonetheless, several
senators pressed DeVos on the contributions made by her and other
family members through their foundations. DeVos, clearly prepared for
such questions, assured the committee that she has nothing to do with
the contributions made by her mother's foundation, the Prince
Foundation (formerly known as the Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation).
DeVos said that her immediate family - presumably meaning her husband
and children - had nothing to do with the financing of anti-gay causes
and groups and that she has never supported "conversion therapy" for
gay people.
Newly elected Democratic Sen. Margaret Hassan pressed DeVos on these
claims.
She asked DeVos directly if she was on the board of her mother's
foundation during the period in which large donations were made to
Focus on the Family.
DeVos said that she was not on the foundation's board.
When I heard that, I pulled up the 990 tax documents of the Prince
Foundation, which I investigated for my book "Blackwater." Betsy DeVos
was clearly listed as a vice president of the foundation's board,
along with her brother Erik, for many years, at least until 2014.
DeVos was a vice president during the precise period Hassan was
referring to. I then began a tweet storm about this lie:
At the very end of the hearing, Sen. Patty Murray, the ranking
Democrat on the committee, allocated the small time she had left to
Hassan, who proceeded to reference the 990 tax forms. DeVos then made
an astonishing claim. These government tax forms, filed by her own
mother's foundation, were incorrect. For years. Many years. "That was
a clerical error. I can assure you I have never made decisions on my
mother's behalf on her foundation's board."
The idea that her own mother's foundation would accidentally list her
as a vice president for years as result of a clerical error is just
not believable. The Democrats should go to town on this obvious
attempt to mislead the Senate. This alone should disqualify DeVos,
though there is a vast ocean of other reasons they could fish from.
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