<div dir="ltr"><div><div><span><span><span><span><span>Vision2020 Post: <span class="gmail-m_7150806634314455654gmail-m_7272584660306685438gmail-m_-279399555980630466gmail-il">Ted</span> <span class="gmail-m_7150806634314455654gmail-m_7272584660306685438gmail-m_-279399555980630466gmail-il">Moffett</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span><span><div>***** Original material contained herein is <span class="gmail-m_7150806634314455654gmail-m_7272584660306685438gmail-il">Copyright</span> 2000 through life plus 70 years, <span class="gmail-m_7150806634314455654gmail-m_7272584660306685438gmail-m_-279399555980630466gmail-il">Ted</span> <span class="gmail-m_7150806634314455654gmail-m_7272584660306685438gmail-m_-279399555980630466gmail-il">Moffett</span>.  Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside the <a href="http://vision2020.moscow.com/" target="_blank">Vision2020.Moscow.com</a> </div><div>forum without the express written permission of the author.*****</div></span></span></div><div style="font-size:small">-------------------------------------<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Ron Force <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ronforce@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronforce@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<span></span></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Buried in a longer story, WSU invests in a Cayman Islands fund for oil and gas development:</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Not illegal, but why?</div><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><span><span><p>-------------------------------------------<br></p></span></span><div>The real God of the USA, that's why!  But of course you know this!</div><div><br></div><div>The following probably is not related to decisions at WSU quite directly, but I can't resist!</div><div><br></div><div>The dollar bill indicates "In God We Trust" and evangelicals in the USA given <font size="4">"prosperity theology"</font>  link spiritual legitimacy to monetary power.  This in part explains why 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump despite his apparent moral deficiencies.</div><div><font size="4">-------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/evangelicals-love-donald-trump-because-jesus-loves-rich-people">https://www.thedailybeast.com/evangelicals-love-donald-trump-because-jesus-loves-rich-people</a><span></span></font></div><div><font size="6">Evangelicals Love Donald Trump Because Jesus Loves Rich People</font></div><div><font size="4">by Jay Michaelson</font></div><font size="2"><div><h2 class="gmail-Dek"><p>A lot of coastal liberals have been shaking their heads at evangelicals these days. </p><p>How, they ask, could over 80 percent of white evangelical Christians have voted for a vulgar, boastful, sexual-abuse-bragging serial adulterer married to a former nude model? Let alone the race-baiting, the biblical ignorance (“Two Corinthians”), the fraud, the tax-dodging, the cheating of business partners, and the promise to bring back torture. <span></span></p></h2></div></font><div><div class="gmail-ArticleBody__authors"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Ron Force <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ronforce@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronforce@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Buried in a longer story, WSU invests in a Cayman Islands fund for oil and gas development:</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Not illegal, but why?</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><p class="gmail-m_-1061372256950219860gmail-story-body-text gmail-m_-1061372256950219860gmail-story-content" style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;width:570px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1.62rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1.06rem;max-width:none">While some schools have announced shifts away from controversial investments, others have pointed out that divesting from fossil fuels would probably lead to a significant drop in operating funds.</p><p class="gmail-m_-1061372256950219860gmail-story-body-text gmail-m_-1061372256950219860gmail-story-content" style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;width:570px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1.62rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:1.06rem;max-width:none">Underscoring endowments’ reliance on hydrocarbon holdings, 10 schools invested in a Cayman Islands partnership in 2012 known as EnCap Energy Capital Fund IX-C, part of EnCap Investments, a private equity firm known for the acquisition and development of North American oil and gas properties.</p><p class="gmail-m_-1061372256950219860gma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