Posted on 03/22/2024 6:18:43 PM PDT by simpson96
I wonder what lies will be fabricated by the defense for this trial?
“Didn’t the BiXiden Crime have their own Cancer Foundation scam?”
Yes. Beau Biden Cancer Initiative
Beau started it.. much info has disappeared about it. Joe and Jill took it over when Beau died. Not one cent went to a patient or research..... when scrutinized the Bidens said it was more of a clearing house for information....
It was filled with high salaries of people now in his administration.
So they spent $15 mil to raise $18 mil....that’s where the real scam is. Who’s running the fundraisers?
Anything local where you know the people running the charity personally.
These large national or international charities all give me a case of the creeps.
We have no way to know if they are not funding woke kookiness on the side.
I refuse to fund people who may hate me.
Exactly. The federal government now has 23,000,000 employes—larger the the population of every state except California and Texas.
Many freepers may recall the ABT from its previous names, most recently the Civil War Trust. The latest name change is relatively recent and came about because the NPS, which is an important partner on Civil War preservation, asked for the Trust to help with Revolutionary War and War of 1812 sites as well. Most of what the Trust does is still Civil war, but the name change reflects the broader scope.
The ABT is a land preservation organization. It raises money to buy dirt to save battlefields. In recent years, it has gotten a bit more involved with education -- its website is terrific and much used by the saving remnant of teachers who still teach real U.S. history -- mainly because the schools have so completely defaulted on history, with military history almost entirely erased.
The Trust is lean & mean and highly focused. It is always top ranked on Charity Navigator. Including its predecessor organizations (there was a merger of two earlier groups 20-plus years ago), the Trust to date has saved over 55,000 acres, almost all of it Civil War related, in 25 or so years. To put that into context, the fedgov -- some very early acquisitions by the War Department and since then mostly the National Park Service -- has saved about 85,000 acres in 120 years.
The Trust does not want to hold and manage land, so it usually looks for a permanent partner -- the NPS or a state, county or local private organization -- and sells or deeds the land over. There are quite a few Civil War battlefield parks that you can visit today, walking over ground that was mostly acquired by the Trust (often working with other, local private preservation groups). Even on some of the biggest battlefields, where the NPS got there first, a long time ago, there are important private inholdings that remain to be acquired.
Antietam may be the most familiar example. For a hundred years, the NPS interpreted the fighting in the Miller Cornfield and around the Dunker Church mainly from a stop along Cornfield Avenue (a non-historic park road). Why? Because the large triangle of land to the south of the Cornfield, bounded by Cornfield Avenue, the Smoketown Road, and the Hagerstown Pike, was privately owned, actively farmed, and off limits. The Trust was able to buy that seven or so years ago, clear some inappropriate postwar structures, and deed it over to the park. If you've not been to Antietam in recent years, go again when you get the chance. You will be amazed at how much has been opened up.
There are many more such examples. Check out the maps on the Trust's webpage; they will show you who acquired what. (Many of these battlefields are works in progress; keep chipping away, one willing seller at a time, and in 20 years, some amazing sites have been pieced back together.) American Battlefield Trust maps
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