This was written several months ago, but that doesn't lessen its impact-in fact, in light of Frump's recent statements, it's truer than ever...
Anne Frank's stepsister who survived Auschwitz has strong words for Donald Trump
By Leslie Salzillo
Friday Jan 29, 2016 · 1:05 PM PDT
Eva Schloss, now 86, became stepsister to Anne Frank when Eva’s mother married Anne’s father after World War II. Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who documented her personal experiences in a diary while under the World War II rule of Adolf Hitler. Her personal account become one of the most compelling journals ever written. Anne and Eva were friends before the war. Both were young girls when they were taken to Auschwitz, but only Eva Schloss survived.
Now living in London, Schloss is very aware of the racist rhetoric Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spreads throughout world. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Schloss has had no problem likening Donald Trump to one of the most horrific war criminals and mass-murderers in known history. In an Newsweek open letter :
Eva Schloss in 1989
Trump has been compared to Hitler many times by people from all walks of life, including veterans, members of his own political party—he doesn’t seem to care.
Many are grateful to Eva Schloss for speaking out against hate speech and for the plight and human rights of Syrian refugees. Donald Trump has not responded, and if he has even a spec of decency, reverence, or respect, for the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, he will keep his bombastic comments to himself.
Anne Frank's stepsister who survived Auschwitz has strong words for Donald Trump
By Leslie Salzillo
Friday Jan 29, 2016 · 1:05 PM PDT
Eva Schloss, now 86, became stepsister to Anne Frank when Eva’s mother married Anne’s father after World War II. Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who documented her personal experiences in a diary while under the World War II rule of Adolf Hitler. Her personal account become one of the most compelling journals ever written. Anne and Eva were friends before the war. Both were young girls when they were taken to Auschwitz, but only Eva Schloss survived.
Now living in London, Schloss is very aware of the racist rhetoric Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spreads throughout world. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Schloss has had no problem likening Donald Trump to one of the most horrific war criminals and mass-murderers in known history. In an Newsweek open letter :
"If Donald Trump becomes the next president of the U.S. it would be a complete disaster. I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism."
Eva Schloss calls Trump’s proposed “huge” wall to keep immigrants out of America “absurd” and believes his proposed ban on all Muslims and Syrian refugees entering the U.S. would cause many deaths. Schloss believes we “haven't really learnt anything” and points out poignant similarities between Syrian refugees and Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. believes fewer people would have died in the Holocaust if the world had accepted more Jewish refugees.
I travelled to America last year to speak at screenings of the documentary film, No Asylum, which reveals an unknown chapter of Anne Frank’s life, and details how her father, Otto, struggled to obtain visas to the U.S. in 1940. He tried everything to save his family from the Holocaust. He knew someone who worked in Roosevelt’s administration and begged him to do anything possible, but in the end his request was rejected. America didn’t want to take any more refugees in the 1940s.
Trump has been compared to Hitler many times by people from all walks of life, including veterans, members of his own political party—he doesn’t seem to care.
Many are grateful to Eva Schloss for speaking out against hate speech and for the plight and human rights of Syrian refugees. Donald Trump has not responded, and if he has even a spec of decency, reverence, or respect, for the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, he will keep his bombastic comments to himself.
Why Trump University is even worse than you thought
By bcaterino
Thursday Jun 09, 2016 · 7:33 PM PDT
Donald Trump is a smart man, just ask him. He will tell you he went to the best schools and has the best education around. He knows what you don't. You would think he would be concerned about the quality of education at the least to make sure that smart people like himself get exposed to the best idea around and get the education they need to activate all those smarty genes they have. Maybe he would even show a little interest in the education of those with less privilege and opportunity than himself.
You would be wrong. In the event he gets elected Trump would never be called an education president. Trump uses the same cavalier attitude toward education that he has toward almost every important problem in America. Just take a look at the functioning of Trump "University" that has been in the news of late. The attorney general of New York called Trump U "a fraud from beginning to end" and a bait and switch scheme. While Trump supporters tend to minimize these charges as either politically motivated and a simple private matter even a brief consideration of the facts shows that it is a much bigger problem.
The first thing to keep in mind is that Trump University isn't a University. It is not accredited it does not offer any degree nor is it accredited as an institution of higher education. It doesn't have a faculty trained in the area or qualified to teach courses. You don't get a college credit you could transfer from another university or college. To advertise this as a university is a fraud. When Trump U opened in 2005 it received a letter from the New York Attorney general's office that it was operating without an NYSED license. The individual who thinks that thinks they are getting the world class education that Trump seems to offer would be sadly disappointed. Would you go the Trump dental clinic if you knew that is was actually staffed by a bunch of a barbers or the Trump pharmacy if it is was run by the local drug dealer? You can't simply advertise yourself as a professional institution without some accreditation. It's a bit like the claims of the old medicine men of the 19th century. They have the remedy to cure all your ills. It's a fraud
What Trump actually offered under the guise of a university is really set of seminars. Now there is no law against running a seminar where people can brush up on skills or learn new ones. If Trump would have advertised his "university" as a training session it might have been okay, However, even here Trump U turns out to be a fraud. Trump U advertised the courses/seminars as offering a free real estate seminar that provided a chance to learn Trumps real estate strategies from his staff of hand-picked instructors, In fact, the content of Trump seminars were written by a third party company that creates materials for motivational speakers and sales men, In short it was a prewritten sales pitch, Trump instructors often seemed to have little connection to the area in which they were supposed to give instruction, While promising that the seminars would allow the average person to make a fortune o real estate, the seminar's main purpose was to get attendees into paying programs, Attendees were promised the best real estate education that money could buy
To the extent that Trump's University followed any model of education it most closely follows th4e for profit model. Education is not primarily something that is helps people to understand their own lives but a commodity to be exchanged. The aim of the for-profit school is to make a surplus for its owners. Like any business the desire for profit is more important than any social or educational benefit. In many cases for profit universities have been found guilty of using high pressure tactics to get students to enroll, and to take out large students’ loans to cover tuition with no attention paid to the qualifications of the students to undertake college level education. Since they were accredited institutions which largely ran online, the for-profit colleges qualify for Pell grants as well as student loans. The colleges got Pell grants and loan money and students often got the shaft. Graduation rates were very low the course work often inferior and most students ended up with huge student loans and no degrees.
Trump U took the predatory strategies of the for profit colleges and took them a step further using bait and switch tactics. At the frees seminar attendees were urged to enroll in the three-day seminar for $1495. The free seminars contained little information or access to Trump secrets. Rather they were largely testimonials and inspirational stories of the pitchman's business success. Enrolling in the seminar was the step to getting access to the keys to success.
But the $1495 three-day seminar proved to be little more than another pitch to enroll in a much more expensive program. TO learn the true secrets of Trump real estate success the attendee would have to enroll in additional mentoring workshops. these could cost up to 35,000
Students were urged at the three-day seminar to call their credit companies to request an increase in their credit lines. These were ostensibly so that attendees would have money to invest in real estate but in fact it was mostly to cover the cost of the expensive workshops. Think about it: the average person is not going to be able to get much more credit than 25 to 35 thousand dollars. At the high rates credit card companies charge, the payments would be onerous. Where would the new real estate mogul get the additional capital to invest in real estate after the course.
One attendee who only had 25,000 in credit reported that his "instruction" consisted or a 2-day trip to Philadelphia where he and his mentor did walk throughs of 20 properties. He received no classroom instruction of any kind.
Sales playbooks and documents released as part of court cases illustrate how trump seminar leaders and salesman were encouraged to pressure attendees into taking expensive courses. The playbooks instruct the salesmen to always be on the offensive and to lead attendees into a position where they want to accept, and never to be put on the defensive or answering questions. Salesman were instructed on how to handle reluctant spouses who did not want their significant others to sink that kind of money in Trump seminars. It also instructs them not to take lack of money as a barrier to taking courses. Most of these playbooks are concerned with selling and little with the quality of the instruction.
Several former employees have testified to their dissatisfaction with the high power sales tactics One sales manager claimed that he was reprimanded for not trying to sell a $35,000 package to a couple in financial difficulties. He came to fell that Trump U preyed on the vulnerable older and the uneducated in a manner similar to the tactics of for profit universities. The playbooks counselled salesman to take advantage of people's anxieties. Let them know one book stated that we have the answer to their problems. Another former employee called it a total lie.
It is really hard to fathom what benefit people really got out of these expensive seminars. Perhaps they felt a kind of confidence that comes from identifying with a powerful figure. Based on the testimony and accounts presented in public accounts, it doesn't seem like much knowledge was imparted and certainly not anything that represents Trump's "secrets"
By bcaterino
Thursday Jun 09, 2016 · 7:33 PM PDT
Donald Trump is a smart man, just ask him. He will tell you he went to the best schools and has the best education around. He knows what you don't. You would think he would be concerned about the quality of education at the least to make sure that smart people like himself get exposed to the best idea around and get the education they need to activate all those smarty genes they have. Maybe he would even show a little interest in the education of those with less privilege and opportunity than himself.
You would be wrong. In the event he gets elected Trump would never be called an education president. Trump uses the same cavalier attitude toward education that he has toward almost every important problem in America. Just take a look at the functioning of Trump "University" that has been in the news of late. The attorney general of New York called Trump U "a fraud from beginning to end" and a bait and switch scheme. While Trump supporters tend to minimize these charges as either politically motivated and a simple private matter even a brief consideration of the facts shows that it is a much bigger problem.
The first thing to keep in mind is that Trump University isn't a University. It is not accredited it does not offer any degree nor is it accredited as an institution of higher education. It doesn't have a faculty trained in the area or qualified to teach courses. You don't get a college credit you could transfer from another university or college. To advertise this as a university is a fraud. When Trump U opened in 2005 it received a letter from the New York Attorney general's office that it was operating without an NYSED license. The individual who thinks that thinks they are getting the world class education that Trump seems to offer would be sadly disappointed. Would you go the Trump dental clinic if you knew that is was actually staffed by a bunch of a barbers or the Trump pharmacy if it is was run by the local drug dealer? You can't simply advertise yourself as a professional institution without some accreditation. It's a bit like the claims of the old medicine men of the 19th century. They have the remedy to cure all your ills. It's a fraud
What Trump actually offered under the guise of a university is really set of seminars. Now there is no law against running a seminar where people can brush up on skills or learn new ones. If Trump would have advertised his "university" as a training session it might have been okay, However, even here Trump U turns out to be a fraud. Trump U advertised the courses/seminars as offering a free real estate seminar that provided a chance to learn Trumps real estate strategies from his staff of hand-picked instructors, In fact, the content of Trump seminars were written by a third party company that creates materials for motivational speakers and sales men, In short it was a prewritten sales pitch, Trump instructors often seemed to have little connection to the area in which they were supposed to give instruction, While promising that the seminars would allow the average person to make a fortune o real estate, the seminar's main purpose was to get attendees into paying programs, Attendees were promised the best real estate education that money could buy
To the extent that Trump's University followed any model of education it most closely follows th4e for profit model. Education is not primarily something that is helps people to understand their own lives but a commodity to be exchanged. The aim of the for-profit school is to make a surplus for its owners. Like any business the desire for profit is more important than any social or educational benefit. In many cases for profit universities have been found guilty of using high pressure tactics to get students to enroll, and to take out large students’ loans to cover tuition with no attention paid to the qualifications of the students to undertake college level education. Since they were accredited institutions which largely ran online, the for-profit colleges qualify for Pell grants as well as student loans. The colleges got Pell grants and loan money and students often got the shaft. Graduation rates were very low the course work often inferior and most students ended up with huge student loans and no degrees.
Trump U took the predatory strategies of the for profit colleges and took them a step further using bait and switch tactics. At the frees seminar attendees were urged to enroll in the three-day seminar for $1495. The free seminars contained little information or access to Trump secrets. Rather they were largely testimonials and inspirational stories of the pitchman's business success. Enrolling in the seminar was the step to getting access to the keys to success.
But the $1495 three-day seminar proved to be little more than another pitch to enroll in a much more expensive program. TO learn the true secrets of Trump real estate success the attendee would have to enroll in additional mentoring workshops. these could cost up to 35,000
Students were urged at the three-day seminar to call their credit companies to request an increase in their credit lines. These were ostensibly so that attendees would have money to invest in real estate but in fact it was mostly to cover the cost of the expensive workshops. Think about it: the average person is not going to be able to get much more credit than 25 to 35 thousand dollars. At the high rates credit card companies charge, the payments would be onerous. Where would the new real estate mogul get the additional capital to invest in real estate after the course.
One attendee who only had 25,000 in credit reported that his "instruction" consisted or a 2-day trip to Philadelphia where he and his mentor did walk throughs of 20 properties. He received no classroom instruction of any kind.
Sales playbooks and documents released as part of court cases illustrate how trump seminar leaders and salesman were encouraged to pressure attendees into taking expensive courses. The playbooks instruct the salesmen to always be on the offensive and to lead attendees into a position where they want to accept, and never to be put on the defensive or answering questions. Salesman were instructed on how to handle reluctant spouses who did not want their significant others to sink that kind of money in Trump seminars. It also instructs them not to take lack of money as a barrier to taking courses. Most of these playbooks are concerned with selling and little with the quality of the instruction.
Several former employees have testified to their dissatisfaction with the high power sales tactics One sales manager claimed that he was reprimanded for not trying to sell a $35,000 package to a couple in financial difficulties. He came to fell that Trump U preyed on the vulnerable older and the uneducated in a manner similar to the tactics of for profit universities. The playbooks counselled salesman to take advantage of people's anxieties. Let them know one book stated that we have the answer to their problems. Another former employee called it a total lie.
It is really hard to fathom what benefit people really got out of these expensive seminars. Perhaps they felt a kind of confidence that comes from identifying with a powerful figure. Based on the testimony and accounts presented in public accounts, it doesn't seem like much knowledge was imparted and certainly not anything that represents Trump's "secrets"
The Guesser 03-10-2016, 07:15 AM
Anne Frank's stepsister: Trump 'acting like another Hitler'
By Rebecca Savransky
"I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism," wrote Eva Schloss, 86, in a piece published in Newsweek on Wednesday — Holocaust Memorial Day.
Schloss is an Auschwitz survivor. Frank and Schloss were Jewish refugees in Amsterdam and played together as children before their families went into hiding. Frank died in a concentration camp. Her father, who survived, married Schloss's mother after the war.
Schloss wrote in Newsweek about the Syrian refugee crisis, noting the theme of this year's Holocaust Memorial Day is "Don't stand by."She said if Trump becomes the next president, it would be a "complete disaster."
Trump has called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States and wants to put some mosques under surveillance following the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. Some of the Paris attackers reportedly posed as refugees to enter Europe. Earlier this month, he also kicked a Muslim woman, who stood up in silent protest, out of a rally.
"We haven't really learnt anything — I’m depressed by the current situation. The experience of the Syrian refugees is similar to what we went through," Schloss said in Newsweek.
She said it's upsetting that so many countries are closing their borders to refugees. If countries like the U.S. and Canada would take in more people "then we would get much closer to a solution," she said.
"Fewer people would have died in the Holocaust if the world had accepted more Jewish refugees," she added.
Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father, tried to get visas to the U.S. in 1940 to save his family from the Holocaust but got denied, Schloss wrote. At the time, America didn't want to take any more refugees.
"The situation today is worse than it was under Hitler because at that time all the Allies—the U.S., Russia and Britain—worked together to combat the terrible threat of Nazisim. If we don't work together, the world will never be able to resolve the threats it faces today," she wrote.
"I remember how upset the world was when the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 and now everybody is building walls again to keep people out. It’s absurd."
Anne Frank's stepsister: Trump 'acting like another Hitler'
By Rebecca Savransky
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Anne Frank's stepsister says Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is "acting like another Hitler.""I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism," wrote Eva Schloss, 86, in a piece published in Newsweek on Wednesday — Holocaust Memorial Day.
Schloss is an Auschwitz survivor. Frank and Schloss were Jewish refugees in Amsterdam and played together as children before their families went into hiding. Frank died in a concentration camp. Her father, who survived, married Schloss's mother after the war.
Schloss wrote in Newsweek about the Syrian refugee crisis, noting the theme of this year's Holocaust Memorial Day is "Don't stand by."She said if Trump becomes the next president, it would be a "complete disaster."
Trump has called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States and wants to put some mosques under surveillance following the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. Some of the Paris attackers reportedly posed as refugees to enter Europe. Earlier this month, he also kicked a Muslim woman, who stood up in silent protest, out of a rally.
"We haven't really learnt anything — I’m depressed by the current situation. The experience of the Syrian refugees is similar to what we went through," Schloss said in Newsweek.
She said it's upsetting that so many countries are closing their borders to refugees. If countries like the U.S. and Canada would take in more people "then we would get much closer to a solution," she said.
"Fewer people would have died in the Holocaust if the world had accepted more Jewish refugees," she added.
Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father, tried to get visas to the U.S. in 1940 to save his family from the Holocaust but got denied, Schloss wrote. At the time, America didn't want to take any more refugees.
"The situation today is worse than it was under Hitler because at that time all the Allies—the U.S., Russia and Britain—worked together to combat the terrible threat of Nazisim. If we don't work together, the world will never be able to resolve the threats it faces today," she wrote.
"I remember how upset the world was when the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 and now everybody is building walls again to keep people out. It’s absurd."
Yeah, I'm cool with it. Total non issue. I don't care. According to her, she was always told growing up that there was Native American blood in the family. So she thinks she is. She might be, she might not be. It's not a big deal at all. What is disgusting is racist idiots calling her racist Indian names. What do you think about that?
“Professor Warren claimed she was a Native American, a person of color -- and as you can see, she is not,”
Warren acknowledged listing herself as a minority in a directory of law professors. The directory included her on a list of minority professors from 1985 to 1996, the Boston Globe reported. Warren said she listed herself as a minority because she wanted to connect with “people for whom native American is part of their heritage and part of their hearts.”
Warren acknowledged that at some point after she was hired by Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, she informed the schools of her Native American heritage.
The revelation spurred a new round of questions, since Warren never brought up the fact a month earlier, instead saying she didn’t know why Harvard listed her as Native American.
Earlier a report pointed outthat she listed herself as “white” at the University of Texas Law School, prompting questions about consistency.
Warren acknowledged listing herself as a minority in a directory of law professors. The directory included her on a list of minority professors from 1985 to 1996, the Boston Globe reported. Warren said she listed herself as a minority because she wanted to connect with “people for whom native American is part of their heritage and part of their hearts.”
Warren acknowledged that at some point after she was hired by Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, she informed the schools of her Native American heritage.
The revelation spurred a new round of questions, since Warren never brought up the fact a month earlier, instead saying she didn’t know why Harvard listed her as Native American.
Earlier a report pointed outthat she listed herself as “white” at the University of Texas Law School, prompting questions about consistency.
Warren struggled to get past the story. Her responses to questions about why she identified as Native American were convoluted.
Warren used her claim to Native American heritage to her professional advantage.
Warren stopped listing herself as a minority in the faculty directory in 1995 -- the year she received tenure at Harvard.
Warren was asked to release personnel records to prove she never received professional advantage. She has declined to do so.
Warren used her claim to Native American heritage to her professional advantage.
Warren stopped listing herself as a minority in the faculty directory in 1995 -- the year she received tenure at Harvard.
Warren was asked to release personnel records to prove she never received professional advantage. She has declined to do so.
[h=2]Clinton huddles for an hour with Elizabeth Warren as Washington buzzes about far-left senator as Hillary's potential running mate[/h]
Donald Trump is already smelling blood, tweeting insults at Warren and referring to her as 'Pocahontas' for pretending to be 1/32 Cherokee on job applications.
Look, how the notion that Warren is VP material ever became an idea is beyond me!
If Mrs. Clinton wants a pretender for VP there's another out there. How about this
Rachel Dolezal for VP pretending to be black to become an NAACP president while
Warren lied about being a Native American in order to rise in Academia.
Two peas in the same pod. Two losers as Trump would say!
If Mrs. Clinton wants a pretender for VP there's another out there. How about this
Rachel Dolezal for VP pretending to be black to become an NAACP president while
Warren lied about being a Native American in order to rise in Academia.
Two peas in the same pod. Two losers as Trump would say!
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