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First, let’s dispose of this money laundering concern. “Money laundering” is what gangsters (as we used to call them) do with the money they make illegally so they can spend it.Since the non-profit Clinton Foundation “makes” money legally — people giving it money, as opposed to making it thru drug-dealing or prostitution — there is no need to engage in money laundering.Now let’s look at this thing called RICO .The federal Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act was passed to fight organized crime — Gambino and Gotti and Genovese Godfathers. Families in the Mob.The Godfathers made billions in the business of arson, kidnapping, gambling, prostitution, extortion, counterfeiting, murder, money laundering, fraud, witness tampering and other seedy, sleazy things nice people don’t do.These mobsters didn’t commit these crimes themselves. People did it for them. It was hard to indict the men who ran the Mob. It was even harder to convict them.RICO made it easier.With RICO, members of the Mob could be arrested if the wiseguys who worked for them committed just TWO (2) of the 35 crimes on the RICO List in the past 10 years.The RICO List is paragraph (1), Title 18, Part I, Chapter 96 § 1961.Although the Mob was its original target, RICO was also used to convict:A Florida police department — 837 F2d 1509 United States v. Casamayora Pennsylvania congressman — Rep. Fattah convicted in racketeering casea famous art gallery — Venerated Manhattan gallery on trial after ‘genius’ forgeries rake in $80 milliona union official — Carpenters Union Leader Pleads Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to Over a Decade of RacketeeringThe Clinton Foundation is a non-profit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity. Donations to a 501(c)(3) are tax-deductible. These organizations can lobby, but not too much. The IRS lets them spend 5%- 20% of their budget on lobbying, depending on how big they are.The Trump Foundation is also a non-profit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity.The Trump Foundation was formed in 1987 with profits from Trump’s book, The Art of the Deal. Donations to the Trump Foundation are tax-deductible. The Trump Foundation can lobby — like the Clinton Foundation — but lobbying must be less than 5%-20% of its budget.IRS Form 990 warns that all charities — the Clinton Foundation and the Trump Foundation included — “are ABSOLUTELY PROHIBITED from intervening in a political campaign for or against any candidate for an elective public office.”It also warns:If a charity does intervene in a political campaigning it will lose both its tax-exempt status and its eligibility to receive tax-deductible charitable contributions.Clearly, 501(c)(3)’s are NEVER allowed to endorse political candidates, donate money to campaigns, or fund personal causes.How to Lose Your 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Status (Without Really Trying)The Girl Scouts is a 501(c)(3). The ASPCA. The Salvation Army. Hofstra University.None of these 501(c)(3)’s is allowed to give money to a politician — the 501(c)(3) Clinton Foundation and the Trump Foundation included.501(c)(4)’s are different. These are private non-profit tax-exempt civic organizations and associations committed to “social welfare”. 50.1% or more of their budget must be spent on social welfare causes. The rest is up to them. Donations to a 501(c)(4) are not tax-deductible. It is LEGAL for a 501(c)(4) to donate money to Super PACs and political candidates.The NRA is a 501(c)(4). So is Planned Parenthood. The Sierra Club. The Miss America Organization. The League of Women Voters.What if the nonprofit Clinton Foundation gave money to Hillary Clinton’s political campaign?Can nonprofits finance elections?ProPublica says this happens all the time: How Nonprofits Spend Millions on Elections and Call it Public Welfare. But that’s 501(c)(4)’s.The Trump Foundation recently made headlines for violating 501(c)(3) rules: Trump pays IRS fine for foundation gift to Florida Attorney General Pam BondiDonald Trump paid the IRS a $2,500 penalty this year, an official at Trump's company said, after it was revealed that Trump's charitable foundation had violated tax laws by giving a political contribution to a campaign group connected to Florida's attorney general.The improper donation, a $25,000 gift from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, was made in 2013.Note that no one has suggested that the 501(c)(3) Trump Foundation’s $25K donation to a Florida politician is grounds to arrest Donald Trump on RICO charges.Likewise, IF the 501(c)(3) Clinton Foundation donated $25K to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Hillary would also not be arrested on RICO charges.Let’s go back to RICO.The Clinton Foundation is HUGE. It recorded $354 million in assets in 2014. It had $91 million in expenses. Nearly 500 people work there. The Clintons donated $4.6 million between 2007 and 2014. There is suspicion that Hillary Clinton gave donors, including certain foreign governments, special treatment when she was Secretary of State.AP: Many donors to Clinton Foundation met with Hillary Clinton at State DepartmentIf the Clinton Foundation was like the Mafia, and it committed 2 of the 35 illegal acts on the RICO list, with Hillary in charge, there might be grounds to indict Hillary on RICO charges.But those 2 illegal acts do not, so far, exist.It is NOT ILLEGAL for a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity to accept money from ANYONE.If it could be proved that Hillary Clinton did special favors as Secretary of State for a dictator IN RETURN for his $10 billion donation to a U.S. charity — THE WORST CASE SCENARIO—there would be NO RICO.And, actually, no crime.It just looks bad. Because the nonprofit here has her name on it, and it has tons of money.And that’s the whole truth.

The past few years I have been writing at Quora about a model of space-time called 935-Qkk or the Spiral of Life.The model was originally named Spiral 935 owing to the vertical alignment of intervals 9, 3 and 5 at the core of the model. Qkk was added later after discovering a license plate 935-Qkk close to Alamo 7 solar farm by Lake Stamford in North Texas.Googling ‘qkk meaning’ led me to page 42 of Andrew Gray’s book Absolute Measurements in Electricity and Magnetism where qkk is described as a unit of charge and in the following pages it is further revealed that it is closely related to the surface area integral of a sphere.The idea of measuring charge as a surface area integral has also born fruit in the study of black holes where it is the basis for the Holographic principle.The model itself suggests Time is the master key behind matter and life. In her regenerative capability life is able to mimic at a much larger scale what is happening at every moment at the quantum scale.One might assume the universe would therefore be teeming with life. However life has certain requirements. A good indication of a location where life might exist is a body with an abundance of water which can exist in all three states - liquid, solid, and gas; in other words, within a moderate temperature range.Our blue planet is a great place for life and the state of Texas, with its fair climate is one of the more hospitable places to live.She is home to the Rosetta Stone of World Peace, a gift from a Japanese professor to the Alamo, a stone monument bearing a poem written in a type of Kanji script not immediately decipherable by even today’s educated Japanese . The mystery behind it is that it alludes to Shiga’s father, whose gift in thought and Chinese writing style was passed on to Shigetaka. The poem itself celebrates the universal spirit of heroism and the brotherhood of man while the act of the gift and its unique script signify the importance of friendship and of passing its torch from one generation to the next. Our motto 'The Friendship State’ did not emerge formally until 1930 but it certainly received a boost in this trajectory with the successful dinner held in honor of the mysterious gift’s delivery on November 5th, 1914.In the aftermath of the brutal attacks in Texas and Ohio, there has been expressed a need for young men to develop coping mechanisms.It is obvious that at-risk young men are being triggered and quickly find themselves in mental quicksand beyond the reach of their friends and family. This has been going on for centuries and is the cause of many violent episodes. My father had a term for it, He called it "getting wrapped around the axle."My wife and I have discovered a solution. It's called 935-qkk. It's many things. It's a model of space and time; it's a model of gravity; it's a model of motion. The basic idea is that all matter, and from it life itself, is born from two basic paths - an ever-expanding path and orbital path. The juncture of these paths is where new waves and orbits are born. This comes about due to a high degree of balance and synchronicity between the expanding and orbital paths. Here's how it was discovered. My father went through severe child abuse not by his father but by the church "Father" and he coped with it through music, dancing and mathematics. He worked his way through a master's degree and while teaching college calculus he was picked up by NASA. He retired from the same many moons ago.His dancing inspired Patrick Swayze who saw him perform at the Houston Folk Festival. He had a professional relationship with Patrick's mother Patsy, also a dancer, for many years. My father was prone to outbursts but fortunately he had the presence of mind to know having a gun in the home (beyond a BB-gun) was not a good idea.Our mother was shot by a stray bullet coming from our neighbor's house that entered through the closed back door which entered the utility room. Builders used an interior door which offered little resistance. It hit her arm, not puncturing it but bruising it. It was probably the neighbor's kids playing with a rifle from their open gun rack which police immediately took a note of when the neighbors opened their back door entrance for the knocking police officer.My father was at NASA at the time of the shooting; she spoke to him right after it happened. No charges were ever filed. Police admitted there was a possibility without doing further tests that the bullet could have come from over the neighbor's house. Years later my cousin was shot and killed while putting balloons on his mailbox in preparation for his daughter's birthday. His neighbor killed him. The killer's wife had left him and he was growing angrier and angrier with no way to cope but to use a gun to take another's life.Numerous times I have had to come to the rescue of my father to calm him down. I became a lifeguard during my college years and saved swimmers from drowning. I moved to Japan and started a language school named Alamo with my wife after finding a very curious stone monument on a visit to the Texas shrine on our honeymoon. It was gifted from a Japanese writer in 1914 after he noticed parallels between the Alamo heroes and a hero of the siege of Nagashino castle in the 1500s.The captured folk hero is depicted in woodblock prints in his advancing age, less glamorous than one might assume and yet typical of Japan's wry acceptance of misfortune. Suneemon was unceremoniously crucified on a cross after trying to break through the siege to bring supplies to his brethren in the castle.The gift was well-received and a lavish dinner and party was held at the St Antony hotel where many toasts were offered to the visitor bearing the remarkable gift and recorded in the pages of the San Antonio Express News. Indeed the event was recorded in newspapers across the country and globe.The gift giver died in 1927 and his country took a spiritual nosedive in the ensuing years. By 1914 the gift giver had seen possible warning signs, cracks in the wall as it were, and this probably propelled him to make his gift. After all, Shiga was as much a practical man as well as being a man of letters. He was a counselor to his expatriate countrymen and often gave encouraging speeches to help them cope with life abroad.He was once famously urged his most promising student to reach to higher heights than Tatsuo Kumoi, the throw-back samurai who tried to overturn Japan's Meiji government and revert her back to feudal rule. Kumoi’s death-poem is probably the most famous of the samurai who wrote them. Shiga urged Japan to turn a new page. He urged his student to strive to leave a legacy lasting over 500 years in the English language. Years passed.In fact, his former student's career overseas had already come to a somewhat ignominious conclusion when Shiga must have decided that if indeed a 500-year legacy was to be left then he had better roll up his sleeves and do it himself. It seems his student, Yone Noguchi had become a darling to the literary circles of the big cities on the East and West Coasts but it owed itself less to literary prowess than to his release of his love letters to an American writer of the same sex.When Japan found herself isolated and Shiga long-since deceased, they nevertheless looked towards Noguchi's moderate successes and English ability to help Japan recover her international reputation damaged as it was by the atrocities of her Imperial Army in China. Noguchi appealed to Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali polymath, a Nobel prize winner as well a personal friend.His first mistake was publishing his first open letter in a newspaper before ever securing Tagore's agreement to an open debate. Tagore nevertheless accepted the challenge but Noguchi would find himself overwhelmed by Tagore's biting criticism which effectively ended their friendship and set Japan on a collision course with the West.Yone Noguchi was no Shiga Shigetaka and Japan was in a terrible predicament precisely because she had veered far away from the famous writer's conservative appeal for Japan to ally herself with England and America as she had done during the years of the Boxer Rebellion, in the run-up to WW I successfully.Shiga wrote soon after delivering the stone that his gift was as much a present to his own countrymen as it was to America inasmuch as he wanted to give the Japanese expatriates a reason and a way to assimilate and connect to their new country as he was able to do as a young man when he first heard the story of the Alamo heroes bravery. That sense of bravery could be harnessed into achieving great things in America, in keeping his compatriots from alcoholism, unemployment, prostitution, gambling, poverty, and all the other ills that befall isolated communities. This monument was struck possibly by bullets right after Pearl Harbor and survived the rest of the war with no further damage. It stands as a reminder both of the fragility of peace but also its accessibility, that' is, its forgotten path.Masako Gavin, an Japanese-Australian writer has recovered this lost history while writing a biography of Shiga Shigetaka subtitled, The Forgotten Enlightener.Shigetaka’s gift inspired much more than our school Alamo. It inspired our timely pleas to stop two major Islamist airline plots both prior to 9/11 and prior to the 2006 Trans-Atlantic plot, the latter of which was foiled.The first attempt resulted in a preliminary investigation of flight schools and to Moussaui's detainment. The plotters had first plotted their massive airline attacks in Asia and their first victim was Haruki Ikegami on Fight 434 en route to Tokyo.The Texas motto "The Friendship State" emerged soon after Shigetaka's gift and the lavish party held in his honor. I pleaded for one of the Presidential debates to be held in San Antonio prior to the national election given the significance of the issue of immigration to the state as well as the historical role that the stone's giver had helping her expatriates assimilate to become productive citizens loyal to the United States.There was a lot of anti-immigrant sentiment based on race affecting immigration policy in the 1910’s. Shigetaka’s goal was to help remove the issue of race by mentoring his compatriots and focusing on a path to good citizenship.In 2016, the rhetoric surrounded immigration was being used as a political wedge to paint President Trump as hopelessly racist and incapable of leading a diverse nation. A debate in San Antonio would have gone a long way to reduce the harm to race relations created by the election. I succeeded in having Hofstra University officials consider my proposal to relocate the debate to San Antonio and the reasons for it.Unfortunately, Hofstra made the decision to keep the debate in New York. More than ever, we need to give young people the tools they need to cope with the difficulties they will face. Texas, has a very unique role to play in this conversation through the story of the unusual gift at the Alamo and its role in my wife and I’s namesake school in Japan and our subsequent attempt to stop foreign attackers. The question then is to whom does this Rosetta Stone belong? The city of San Antonio? The State of Texas? The United States of America? In my vision, it was part of our shared national history and capable of pulling our nation together in her time of need.Unfortunately, what has become of Washington, D.C. is a national disgrace.The FBI has spent millions upon millions of dollars investigating Donald Trump over the issue of Russian election influence. A complete waste of time and money.How many millions were spent intervening to stop the threat Hillary posed to the country by painting Trump as a racist for his stricter stance on immigration? How did Hillary’s words pose a threat? Many impressionable young men believed Hilary and the left’s spin that Donald Trump is a racist.There are internet trolls out there who do nothing but spend countless hours luring young people into believing in race-motivated violence.My wife and I were subjected to race-motivated violence twice both in Japan and in America. Racism’s roots reach deep but they do not lead to the doorstep of President Donald Trump. We have a duty to our young people - a duty of care.We are failing that duty miserably. The party that claims to hold the moral high ground on issues of race, diversity, and tolerance has been thoroughly corrupted.The question is where to go next? Will Texas have to secede in order to end the incessant national cries of racism which only serve to disturb the immature minds of unemployed white youths into committing heinous acts of terror?Must we secede in order to provide the duty of care to our people which is their due and our responsibility?For the past several years I have championed a pathway in which secession is not at all necessary. But perhaps the thought of secession will give us the courage to remind ourselves of our rich history and the origin of our motto ‘The Friendship State”.We should not have accepted a hallow national debate on immigration at a university which once hosted Lynn Stewart’s for-credit lecture series, “Lawyering at the Edge”. The main attraction to the series was the salacious details of Ms Stewart’s defense of a blind Islamic terrorist for whom she was convicted of illegally passing private messages from him to his followers while he was in prison.Within the city of San Antonio we had all the ingredients necessary to a successful debate of immigration reform including the hallowed grounds of the shrine of Texas liberty on whose site rests the Rosetta Stone of Word Peace, the 1914 stone gift of Professor Shiga Shigetaka.

I’m not an expert on Donald Trump, but I did do a good bit of research on him for a quickie ebook I wrote about him when he was running to become the Republican presidential candidate. (The 160-page ebook, titled The Field Guide to Donald Trump, is still available on Amazon.)Donald Trump went to the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School) only for his last two years of undergraduate school. Previous to that, he spent two years as a day student at Fordham in New York. His high school years were spent at a military prep school near West Point (the school developed financial problems some years after Trump left and was purchased by Chinese businesspeople.)The real question is why did Trump not attend an Ivy League school right out of high school. There is evidence that Donald’s family wanted him to go to a prestigious Ivy, but instead Donald went to a college not far from the family’s home in Queens and commuted to school. Trump says that it was because he wanted to be close to home to learn the real estate business from his father, and there may be truth to that. It may also be that he was unable to get into an Ivy right out of prep school, despite his father’s wealth and connections, but we probably will never know if that is true or not.Trump’s siblings attended good but not the most elite schools. Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired state and federal judge, got her B.A. from Mount Holyoke, one of the “Seven Sisters” and a master’s from Columbia, an Ivy, before getting her law degree from Hofstra. Fred Jr., who later committed suicide, went to LeHigh. Elizabeth Trump Grau attended the obscure Southern Seminary College in Virginia. I’m not sure where Donald’s other brother, Robert, attended college. Neither of Donald’s parents went to college. Three of Donald Trump’s five children have gone to the University of Pennsylvania, possibly as “legacy” students. Donald’s current wife, Melania, claimed to have graduated from a university in Prague but actually dropped out in her first year.As to how Trump got into Penn, I think there are three likely answers:Although not a brilliant student either in high school or at Fordham, he made relatively good grades and likely had decent recommendations from teachers and others. He also was a good athlete in high school, although he did not any sports in college.Perhaps most importantly, his father was a wealthy and politically well-connected real estate developer in New York City, also with projects in Connecticut and elsewhere in the Northeast. While I have no knowledge of what role his father may have played in getting his son into an Ivy, his father’s money and connections did not hurt Donald’s chances for admission.Trump probably did well enough on standardized admission tests. (I assume he took the SAT, the most widely used standardized test in the 1960s and 70s). Although Trump is well known for having a very short attention span, and while his IQ is probably only moderately above average, with coaching and test prep paid for by his family, undoubtedly he could score high enough on the SAT, when combined with 1 and 2 above, to be accepted into Penn. At the time Trump attended Penn, the university, while well respected as one of the Ivy League schools, was not at the same level as, say, Harvard, Princeton or Yale.