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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

A Man Detachedly Rich Pledges No Allegiance


A Man with his Reach Needs No Ordinary American

The Name Reigns  

TRUMP 




T
owers - Hotels - Resorts – Golf Courses - Plazas – Squares - Entertainment - Other businesses national and international
a
Trump Towers (current)
Trump Tower, New York City
Trump Towers Istanbul, Turkey
Trump Towers, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
Trump Tower at City Center, White Plains, New York
Trump Towers Pune, India
Trump Tower Kolkata, Kolkata, India
Trump Tower Manila (Philippines)

Trump Towers (in development)
Trump Tower Mumbai, India
Trump Tower Punta del Este, Uruguay

Trump Towers (Cancelled/never completed)
Trump Towers Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trump Tower, Tampa, Florida
Trump Tower Moscow,[6] Moscow, Russia

Trump International Hotels (current)
Trump International Hotel – Las Vegas
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Honolulu)
Trump International Hotel and Tower (New York City)
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Vancouver)
Trump International Hotel Las Vegas
Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., also known as Old Post Office Building

Trump Plazas
Trump Plaza (New York City)
Trump Plaza (New Rochelle)
Trump Plaza (Jersey City)
Trump Plaza (West Palm Beach)

Trump Entertainment Resorts (casino arm of the Trump Organization, all bankrupted or divested)
Trump Taj Mahal (casino/hotel Atlantic City boardwalk, closed in 2016)
Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino (Atlantic City, closed September 16, 2014)
Trump World’s Fair at Trump Plaza (Atlantic City, closed 1999, demolished 2000)
Trump’s Castle (Atlantic City, renamed Trump Marina 1997, sold to 2011)
Trump 29 Casino (Coachella, California, now Spotlight 29 Casino; Trump exit 2006)
Trump Casino (Gary, Indiana now the Majestic Star II)

(Current)
Trump Bay Street (Jersey City, New Jersey)
Trump World Tower (New York City)
The Trump Building (New York City)
Trump Parc and Trump Parc East (Manhattan)
Trump Parc (Stamford, Stamford, Connecticut)
Trump Park Avenue (Manhattan)
Trump Park Residences (Yorktown, New York)
Trump Hollywood (41-story condo tower, Hollywood, Florida)
Daewoo Trump World (apartment brand in South Korea)

Golf courses (United States)
The 18th hole at Trump National Doral
Trump International Golf Club (West Palm Beach)
Trump National Doral Miami
Trump National Golf Club (Bedminster, New Jersey)
Trump National Golf Club (Colts Neck, New Jersey)
Trump National Golf Club (Jupiter, Florida)
Trump National Golf Club (Los Angeles)
Trump National Golf Club (Philadelphia)
Trump National Golf Club (Washington, D.C.)
Trump National Golf Club Westchester
Trump National Golf Club Hudson Valley (Hopewell Junction, New York)
Trump National Golf Club (Charlotte, North Carolina)
Trump Golf Links (Ferry Point, New York)

Golf courses (International)
Trump International Golf Club (Dubai)
Trump World Golf Club (Dubai)
Trump International Golf Links, Scotland
Trump International Golf Links and Hotel Ireland

Other
Trump’s Israel or Israel’s Trump
Donald Trump Square (Petah Tikva, Israel) and United States Square (aka Donald Trump Square, town square in Jerusalem surrounding the new U.S. embassy repayment for Trump’s declaration of “Jerusalem as Israel’s capital”) and Trump Heights (planned settlement in Golan Heights in repayment of Trump’s declaration of “Golan Heights as part of Israel” [and proposed “Trump Station” near “Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem”]
Donald J. Trump State Park (New York State)
Trump Name Reach: USA, Other Nations  

Trump Drive (Kalispell, Montana)
Donald J Trump Boulevard (Kamëz, Albania)
Trump Avenue (Central Park, Ottawa, Canada)

Food and drink (Current)
Trump Winery (vineyard in Virginia)
Trump Natural Spring Water (water distribution company opened as Trump Ice in 2004, “water served at Trump properties”
Trump Fish (restaurant in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan, opened December 2016
Trump Turnberry (Scotland)

Former ventures
Donald J. Trump Foundation (charitable foundation facing legal issues shut down in 2018)
Donald J. Trump Signature Collection (menswear launched at Macy’s, 2004, facing lawsuit and trial; and after Trump comments about Mexicans discontinued in 2015
Donald Trump (the Fragrance)
GoTrumpdotcom (travel booking website)
Tour de Trump (bicycle race 1989 and 1990)
Trump Home (upscale furniture line)
Trump Model Management (modeling agency)
Trump Mortgage (venture)
The Trump Network (multi-level marketing selling vitamins)
Trump Office (executive office chairs launched 2007 for Staples Inc
Trump Productions (radio, media company)
Trump Shuttle (an airline)
Trump (for-profit) University 2010 renamed The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative)



Center for Responsive Politics (Open Secrets)
N
o modern president has jumped so directly from the world of business to the presidency as has Donald John Trump.
In so doing, Trump has refused to do as his predecessors have done:
Sever ties to the companies or financial interests that may pose or present the appearance of a conflict of interest.
By keeping his assets in a family-managed trust, which he can revoke at any time, (President) Trump and his family are in the unique position to profit directly from his public service.

Special interests in Washington have caught on.
Those seeking to curry favor with (the U.S. President) Trump are not only donating to his reelection campaign but are holding fundraisers and galas at his resorts, private clubs and hotels – the proceeds of which benefit Donald John Trump and his family.
2008-2020
Total payments to Trump properties:
$18,740,694
From Trump-related committees:
$15,255,778
From the Republican Party:
$1,895,777
From Republican candidates, elected officials, leadership PACs:
$906,183
From Democrats:
$46,347

P
erhaps the White House will be renamed the Trump House.




Wikipedia
List of Things Named after Donald John Trump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Donald_Trump
Assets owner by the Trump Organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Assets_owned_by_the_Trump_Organization

Center for Responsive Politics
Numbers based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on June 10, 2019. https://www.opensecrets.org/trump/trump-properties


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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Obstruction of Good Governance


Why U.S. Governance, Leadership, Oversight, Regulation are ineffective, flawed, corrupt, nonexistent

Public Officials owned by Private Interests

Top Recipients of Boeing Money

 

 

Recipient
Total
From Indivs
From Orgs
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/usearch/img/o.gif Senate Leadership Fund
$250,000
$0
$250,000
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/usearch/img/o.gif Citizens for a Strong America
$240,000
$240,000
$0
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/usearch/img/y.gif National Republican Senatorial Cmte
$172,693
$51,693
$121,000
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/usearch/img/y.gif Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte
$129,314
$54,314
$75,000
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/usearch/img/y.gif National Republican Congressional Cmte
$125,417
$50,417
$75,000
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/usearch/img/y.gif Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte
$115,350
$40,320
$75,030
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/usearch/img/y.gif Republican National Cmte
$84,630
$54,630
$30,000
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/orgs/img/cands.gif Cantwell, Maria
$54,065
$54,065
$0
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/orgs/img/cands.gif McCaskill, Claire
$48,416
$48,416
$0
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets2.opensecrets.org/orgs/img/cands.gif Casey, Bob
$38,366
$38,366
$0
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oeing is not only the world “top manufacturer of commercial airplanes,” the company is also “a leading military supplier—making fighter-bombers, transport planes and the Apache helicopter.”
2018 Election Cycle: CONTRIBUTIONS: $4,551,078 ● LOBBYING: $15,120,000 (2018) - 16,740,000 (2017) ● MEMBERS INVESTED: 21
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Boeing’s 737 series of jet airliners accidents reach from 1970s – March 2019: 
  • July 19, 1970 (737-200 damaged beyond repair on aborted takeoff); 
  • FIRST FATAL ACCIDENT December 8, 1972 (United Airlines Flight 553 crashed attempting to land – fatalities: 45 - 43 onboard, 2 on ground); 
  • October 29, 2018 largest loss of life (737 MAX 8, Lion Air Flight 610, Jakarta, Indonesia, to Pangkal Pinang, Indonesia, crashes into Java Sea 13 minutes after takeoff) - fatalities 189: 181 passengers (178 adults, three children), six cabin crew, two pilots. 
  • March 10, 2019 (737 MAX 8, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Nairobi, Kenya, crashes 6 minutes after takeoff – fatalities: 157: 149 passengers, 8 crew members [FAA claimed “no basis” for grounding the Boeing aircraft.]
Boeing 737 List (selection, excerpt) from other years

7
37-100/200 AIRCRAFT:
● November 22, 2015: a Boeing 737-300, Avia Traffic Company Flight 768 hard touchdown, aircraft skids off runway, left engine torn from mounting, all landing gear ripped off (Osh Airport) – eight injured
● August 5, 2016: Boeing 737-400, ASL Airlines Hungary flight QY-7332, overruns runway, breaks through airport perimeter fence, a parking lot, a guardrail and stops on a road 520 meters past the end of the runway; substantial aircraft damage, both engines, all landing gear legs lost; crew caption injured.
● March 28, 2017: Boeing 737-300, Peruvian Airlines Flight 112 Jorge Chávez International to Francisco Carle Airport, Jauja, undercarriage fails, forcing landing, aircraft catches fire and is declared total loss; 138 passengers and crew evacuated; 39 to hospital.

B
oeing 737 Next Generation (737-600/-700/-800/-900) aircraft:
  • July 22, 2013: Boeing 737-700 Southwest Airlines Flight 345 while landing aircraft’s nose gear collapses “upward into fuselage, causing severe damage to the electronics bay; 15.5 million-dollar aircraft written off; 9 people injured during evacuation;
  • March 19, 2016: Boeing 737-800 Flydubai Flight 981, Dubai, UAE to Rostov-on-Don, Russia, crashes on the final approach – fatalities: 62.
  • April 4, 2016: Boeing 737-800 Batik Air Flight 7703, Halim Perdanakusuma Airport, Jakarta, Indonesia during takeoff left wing tip strikes vertical tail and left wing of another craft, left wing tank ruptures open and both aircraft catch fire; slides used to evacuate passengers.
  • September 1, 2018: Boeing 737-800 Utair Flight 579 from Vnukovo International Airport to Sochi International Airport, while landing aircraft overruns runway, catches fire; injured: 18.
  • September 28, 2018: Boeing 737-800 Air Niugini Flight 73, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, aircraft overshoots runway, lands and sinks in a lagoon; not rescued: one passenger.
Others (not only these)
  • April 17, 2018: Boeing 737-700 Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, in-flight engine failure, emergency landing Philadelphia International Airport
  • April 29, 2018: Boeing 737-800 Lion Air Flight 892 nose gear collapses on landing
  • August 16, 2018: Boeing 737-800 Xiamen Airlines Flight 8667 crash landing at Manila’s (Philippines) Ninoy Aquino International Airport, skids off end of runway, causing collapse of left engine and main gear.
C
urrent reporting
One of many news reports March 11, 2019 (updated March 13) and following days: “Another deadly Boeing plane crash has many questioning aircraft’s safety”—WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (WWLP) — “For the second time in the last year, a Boeing passenger jet crashed, killing everyone aboard.”    WWLP Massachusetts https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/another-boeing-737-max-8-deadly-crash-has-many-people-questioning-the-aircraft-s-safety/1843251837

B
oeing’s Puppets seated in the House and Senate of the United States
Recipients of Boeing Co Money 2018
Candidates receiving money from this organization 2017-2018: Money came not from the organization directly but from the organization’s PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals’ immediate families. Organization totals may include subsidiaries and affiliates. ● METHODOLOGY: Numbers on page based on contributions from PACs and individuals giving $200 or more. All donations were made during the 2018 election cycle and were released by the Federal Election Commission. Figures for the current election cycle are based on data released on February 1, 2019. ● Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics.
10,000 and above

Name
Office
Total Contributions
Cantwell, Maria (D-WA)
Senate
$54,065
McCaskill, Claire (D-MO)
Senate
$48,416
Casey, Bob (D-PA)
Senate
$38,366
Hatch, Orrin G (R-UT)
Senate
$32,250
Nelson, Bill (D-FL)
Senate
$31,962
Smith, Adam (D-WA)
House
$31,250
Schrier, Kim (D-WA)
House
$27,690
Sessions, Pete (R-TX)
House
$27,200
Heitkamp, Heidi (D-ND)
Senate
$22,229
Kaine, Tim (D-VA)
Senate
$21,899
Heller, Dean (R-NV)
Senate
$20,300
Jones, Doug (D-AL)
Senate
$18,119
Rossi, Dino (R-WA)
House
$17,905
Dingell, Debbie (D-MI)
House
$17,900
Sinema, Kyrsten (D-AZ)
House
$17,739
Wagner, Ann L (R-MO)
House
$17,025
O'Rourke, Beto (D-TX)
House
$16,845
Manchin, Joe (D-WV)
Senate
$15,543
Roby, Martha (R-AL)
House
$15,500
Curbelo, Carlos (R-FL)
House
$15,400
Hartzler, Vicky (R-MO)
House
$15,400
Katko, John (R-NY)
House
$15,400
Luetkemeyer, Blaine (R-MO)
House
$15,400
Estes, Ron (R-KS)
House
$15,000
Strange, Luther (R-AL)
Senate
$15,000
Gottheimer, Josh (D-NJ)
House
$14,900
McSally, Martha (R-AZ)
House
$14,630
Visclosky, Pete (D-IN)
House
$14,000
Hawley, Josh (R-MO)
Senate
$13,785
Culberson, John (R-TX)
House
$13,750
Moolenaar, John (R-MI)
House
$13,500
Smith, Jason (R-MO)
House
$13,400
Heck, Dennis (D-WA)
House
$13,200
Nunes, Devin (R-CA)
House
$13,180
Connolly, Gerry (D-VA)
House
$13,095
Reed, Tom (R-NY)
House
$12,900
Joyce, David P (R-OH)
House
$12,700
Pope, Tommy (R-SC)
House
$12,700
Upton, Fred (R-MI)
House
$12,700
Slotkin, Elissa (D-MI)
House
$12,507
Biggs, Andy (R-AZ)
House
$12,500
Cartwright, Matt (D-PA)
House
$12,500
Scalise, Steve (R-LA)
House
$12,235
Hurd, Will (R-TX)
House
$12,000
Kilmer, Derek (D-WA)
House
$11,910
Pelosi, Nancy (D-CA)
House
$11,704
Rodgers, Cathy McMorris (R-WA)
House
$11,690
Donnelly, Joe (D-IN)
Senate
$11,569
Womack, Steve (R-AR)
House
$11,500
Moulton, Seth (D-MA)
House
$11,300
Panetta, Jimmy (D-CA)
House
$11,200
Wexton, Jennifer (D-VA)
House
$11,107
Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA)
Senate
$11,010
Banks, Jim (R-IN)
House
$11,000
Comstock, Barbara (R-VA)
House
$11,000
Russell, Steven (R-OK)
House
$11,000
Rutherford, John (R-FL)
House
$11,000
Stefanik, Elise (R-NY)
House
$11,000
Turner, Michael R (R-OH)
House
$11,000
Valadao, David (R-CA)
House
$11,000
Hugin, Bob (R-NJ)
Senate
$10,800
DelBene, Suzan (D-WA)
House
$10,688
Casten, Sean (D-IL)
House
$10,550
Trump, Donald (R)
Pres
$10,535
Heinrich, Martin (D-NM)
Senate
$10,510
Babin, Brian (R-TX)
House
$10,500
Davis, Rodney (R-IL)
House
$10,500
Hoyer, Steny H (D-MD)
House
$10,500
King, Angus (I-ME)
Senate
$10,500
Wilson, Joe (R-SC)
House
$10,500
Coffman, Mike (R-CO)
House
$10,450
Romney, Mitt (R-UT)
Senate
$10,400
Cruz, Ted (R-TX)
Senate
$10,380
Vanostran, Cort (D-MO)
House
$10,288
Hutchison, Susan (R-WA)
Senate
$10,280
Bustos, Cheri (D-IL)
House
$10,250
Walters, Mimi (R-CA)
House
$10,250
Schiff, Adam (D-CA)
House
$10,208
Bacon, Donald John (R-NE)
House
$10,200
Aguilar, Pete (D-CA)
House
$10,165
Beutler, Jaime Herrera (R-WA)
House
$10,150
Brown, Lisa (D-WA)
House
$10,126
Ryan, Tim (D-OH)
House
$10,048
Cardin, Ben (D-MD)
Senate
$10,025
Abraham, Ralph (R-LA)
House
$10,000
Aderholt, Robert B (R-AL)
House
$10,000
Amodei, Mark (R-NV)
House
$10,000
Barrasso, John A (R-WY)
Senate
$10,000
Beyer, Don (D-VA)
House
$10,000
Bishop, Mike (R-MI)
House
$10,000
Bishop, Sanford (D-GA)
House
$10,000
Blumenauer, Earl (D-OR)
House
$10,000
Bonamici, Suzanne (D-OR)
House
$10,000
Bost, Mike (R-IL)
House
$10,000
Byrne, Bradley (R-AL)
House
$10,000
Calvert, Ken (R-CA)
House
$10,000
Carson, Andre (D-IN)
House
$10,000
Carter, John (R-TX)
House
$10,000
Clark, Katherine (D-MA)
House
$10,000
Clay, William L Jr (D-MO)
House
$10,000

 
Sources
Open Secrets, Center for Responsive Politics
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000100&cycle=2018
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?cycle=2018&id=d000000100
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000100&cycle=2018&state=&party=&chamber=&sort=A&page=2
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000100&cycle=2018&state=&party=&chamber=&sort=A&page=3
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000100&cycle=2018&state=&party=&chamber=&sort=A&page=4
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000100&cycle=2018&state=&party=&chamber=&sort=A&page=5
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000100&cycle=2018&state=&party=&chamber=&sort=A&page=6
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000100&cycle=2018&state=&party=&chamber=&sort=A&page=7

News
WWLP Massachusetts “Another deadly Boeing plane crash has many questioning aircraft’s safety” https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/another-boeing-737-max-8-deadly-crash-has-many-people-questioning-the-aircraft-s-safety/1843251837

Wikipedia
“List of accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 737” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Boeing_737

Collection, Editing

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Long Way from Madison—Time to Rethink, Revise

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