What about the 1% one pool is donating to the development?
Pays hired coders and cryptographers (rfree, tewinget, mikezackles, surae, sarang, etc etc), not the core team.
What about other donations?
See above.
What about the herding of the Altcoin forum into your gains on the coins you bought cheap and or mined cheap?
I haven't sold any of my XMR, so obviously I have a lot to lose if something were to go wrong.