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June 29th, 2018

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We will end this week's discussion of labor public policy having an emphasis on the upper-middle and newly merely rich by returning to the start of our discussion centered on today's ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

As all our US ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT 5% freemason/Greek players KNOW especially those FAKE 5% religious leaders marching in Washington DC pretending to be protecting the poor, immigrants, seniors, women, MUSLIMS and everybody that they are in fact THROWING UNDER THE BUS------THE CABAL has always meant global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.  The statement below sounding as if it addresses the future CIVIL DISASTER AND BRUTALITY of space mining slave colonies-----actually describes what CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA built these few decades as global slave trade to all Foreign Economic Zones being installed now in US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES as US national media pretends this is  TRUMP madness.




'Galactic Human Slave Trade & AI threat to End with Full Disclosure of ET Life



Written by Dr Michael Salla on May 31, 2015. Posted in exonews, Space Programs'


'Q12. You have referred to the Cabal “trading millions of kidnapped civilians from the surface (per year) to off world beings in exchange for technology.” Can you explain how this is done? Does it involve kidnapping street children in impoverished areas of countries like Brazil, India, etc., and/or children in developed countries like the US; and/or civilians in war zones; or is there another source of these kidnapped civilians'?


What happens as all those global 2% of Asian, Arabic, Latin American players pushed by their global 1% from their own nations to be REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN coming to US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES where our US 5% freemason/Greek players are ready to sack and loot their wealth in US cities?  What happens when those global 2% from Europe, US, and Canada pushed to Foreign Economic Zones overseas have Asian, Arabic, Latin American global 1% do the same to our Western newly merely rich and upper middle class?

THIS IS WHY 3000BC GLOBAL BANKING 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS' LAISSEZ FAIRE IS NOT 'CAPITALISM'.  IT IS BASED SOLELY ON THE GLOBAL 1% SACKING AND LOOTING ANY SOVEREIGN 99% OF CITIZENS BY CAPTURING, CORRUPTING, AND CREATING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES--AS THESE FEW DECADES OF CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA----NOW TRUMP.


This is why global banking 1% labelled global LAISSEZ FAIRE with another name----NEO-LIBERALISM as REAGAN/CLINTON captured both our US major Democratic and Republican Parties.

Below we see that global banking 1% FORTUNE MAGAZINE pretending LAISSEZ FAIRE is capitalism but what we have had these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA was not.  KNOW WHAT?  There is no way to eliminate all Rule of Law, all morals and ethics in business, all pragmatism which is what LAISSEZ FAIRE has as a goal----and not end with CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA SACKING AND LOOTING.


Why today’s capitalism is no longer laissez-faire


By Dov Seidman  FORTUNE MAGAZINE
October 15, 2015





If ever we needed any evidence that we are undergoing a huge shift in the very nature of capitalism, how our economy is organized and what business fundamentally is, we need only look to how and how much new business language is being invented. While business often gets accused of being jargony, of creating unintelligible phrases, I think much more is going on with this flowering of ethically-minded language.



I believe, in fact, that we’re seeing a shift in the very underpinnings of the business world. We’ve arrived at a moment in time where those in business want “doing business” to mean much more than “It’s not personal. It’s strictly business” (to quote the Godfather.)


Today, by contrast, we are seeing the very human desire for an elevated purpose in all walks of life becoming prevalent in business, too. It’s a change that’s particularly well-timed to the evolution of the economy, fueled by revolutionary technology that makes unethical or irresponsible behavior increasingly difficult to hide. In fact, in today’s hyper-transparent, interdependent and fast-paced world, one of the best ways (sometimes the only way) to distinguish yourself from the competition is to be a force for social good. As a result, many business leaders have come to realize that to outbehave is also to outperform.



And so, leaders have been inventing more and more of what I call “transitional language” – new phrases that force us to look at traditional concepts, like “leadership” and “capitalism”, with fresh eyes — by adding on a specific “transitional” idea (usually as an adjective) like “ethical” or “conscious.” Think for example of ethical leadership, mindful leadership, sustainable development, ethical capitalism. The resulting concepts may be entirely new. But very often, we’re just rediscovering and focusing on something in a core concept’s essence from which we have become disconnected or to which we are no longer committed.


Consider two very popular new business phrases: “inclusive capitalism” and “conscious capitalism.” In the original construction of capitalism described by the late Scottish professor of moral philosophy Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations, great attention was given to the problems of poverty, the injustice of “masters” colluding to suppress the wages of workers, and other moral issues. So I’d argue that Smith’s classic concept of capitalism was already inherently inclusive, conscious, ethical and even moral.


Given the many abuses that have been associated with capitalism over the decades, deploying new transitional language to highlight the “inclusive” and “conscious” elements of the original idea gives a boost to those who want to encourage elevated business behavior.




It’s been a long journey from Smith’s idea of capitalism to “market capitalism,” “laissez faire capitalism,” “crony capitalism” and, lately, “patrimonial capitalism” – language that the economist Thomas Picketty has recently made well known in his critique of the system. At every turn, transitional language was deployed to re-shape our perception of the underlying concept of “capitalism,” for better or worse.




Ludwig Wittgenstein once famously wrote: “The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.” Transitional language pushes and pulls, extracting and inserting meaning, fighting for the limits of our imagination.



Since transitional language trains or re-trains our thinking, we should be careful in deciding when adopting it whether we really want our thinking to be reframed. Think about how the popularity of the concept “laissez faire capitalism” has changed how we all think about the nature of capitalism. It’s been a powerful idea, powerful enough to overshadow important aspects of Adam Smith’s original concepts of capitalism.




If the meaning of a concept drifts and our minds adapt to the new meaning, our collective consciousness tilts just a bit off its axis. In the case of “capitalism,” for example, I believe it’s a real loss that we’ve re-oriented our thinking and now associate capitalism with bad or amoral behavior. And that’s why the creation of new transitional language that corrects its course, like “inclusive capitalism,” can be so valuable.



Today, “fair trade,” “socially responsible” and “sustainable development” are business concepts that have become common in our everyday conversations. Will these examples of transitional language eventually become so widely accepted that they become almost beyond question as required business practices? It seems more and more likely. And the smart use of language helps explains why.


NOT IF THESE ADAM SMITH REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE TERMS ARE AS CORRUPTED AS THESE FEW DECADES OF ROBBER BARON GLOBAL BANKING 1% LAISSEZ FAIRE........AND IN US NATIONAL MEDIA ---THEY ARE CORRUPTED.





When we broaden our vocabulary, we have access to a bigger world with more options. The people who will thrive and excel in our interconnected, interdependent and fast-paced world will be the ones who embrace transitional language and unlock its transformative power.



Look at the many big corporation that have already attached themselves to this idea: Human Energy (Chevron); The Human Element (Dow); The Human Network (Cisco); We Speak Human (Ally Bank); Bank Human (TD Bank); Designed for Humans (Samsung); Be More Human (Reebok). Of course a slogan doesn’t always translate to real behavior. But as transitional language, at the very least it’s hopeful, helping to set the expectations of employees, customers and the community.



Transitional language is at once an indictment of the past (e.g., leaders who need to be reminded to be mindful) and a statement of hope for the future (e.g., leaders who embrace being mindful).




Once we realize that we can use transition language this way, our minds can be more creative and alert to newly-minted transitional phrases to help persuade people to change how they think. Of course, the ultimate mark of success for transitional language might be if it disappears, its refocused meaning now just part of the main concept.




If the business zeitgeist demonstrated by all this transitional language is elevated behavior, it follows that an emerging business strategy is emphasizing our shared humanity. After all, what is business anyway?




I can’t think of a better definition of business than human endeavor animated by a shared ethos. Humanity has always been at the core of business both in terms of who’s engaged in it and who it benefits. Isn’t it interesting, then, that the word “human” is gaining so much currency in the form of transitional phrases?
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As we segue to financial public policy next week we look at today's US 5% PLAYER REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN below we see global banking 1% freemason STAR of movie FADS------CAMERON taking his wealth of tens of millions to buy that REAL ESTATE in Australia.

This tells our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens and our 99% new immigrant citizens that the global ECONOMIC COLLAPSE manufactured these few decades by ROBBER BARONS CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA 5% freemason/Greek pols and players is approaching.



'The Associated Press reported that Cameron successfully applied to buy 2,500 acres of farmland and he “intend[s] to reside indefinitely in New Zealand and [is] acquiring the property to reside on and operate as a working farm.” Slavo is skeptical in light of Cameron’s lack of need to be working at all, having made in excess of $250 million last year, according to Salon magazine'.


THAT'S A LOT OF FARMLAND MR CAMERON!

Now, Australia like Africa and Arabia will be DARK CONTINENTS as Climate Change advances-----Australia is being taken back to being that prison/slave colony upon which it was founded filling with FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES and global corporate factories, mining, reaping of all natural resources from beautiful New Zealand and what is left of fresh water on the continent of AUSTRALIA.

The investment in real estate CAMERON as that 5% global banking player is making will be worthless land in only a few decades.  No family wealth to be transferred for those 5% global banking players.


Australia is transitioning into the same global 99% foreign remittance men and women working class and poor----with those same Asian remittance men and women being those 5% global banking players pushed out of their own nations.



The goals of planting forests in deserts is GREEN propaganda just as was draining our US mid-west and western fresh water aquifers to make farms out of deserts-----now that US fresh water is gone and so too are all that US food belt farming soon to be gone. We will find tons of global banking media telling us Australia is no longer in threat of desertification----in no danger of expanding ozone atmospheric damage when it totally is MOVING FORWARD to those environmental disaster states



'Australia drying caused by greenhouse gases and ozone

July 13, 2014, NOAA Headquarters

Southern Australia's decline in rainfall began around 1970 and has increased over the last four decades. The model projects a continued decline in winter rainfall throughout the rest of the 21st century, with significant implications for regional water resources. The drying is most severe over southwest Australia where the model forecasts a 40 percent decline in average rainfall by the late 21st century'.





  • May 1 2016 at 12:45 PM
  • Updated May 1 2016 at 12:45 PM
Australia and Indonesia consider economic zones to speed up trade deal


Special economic zones may be used to breath new life into the long running talks on a free trade agreement between Australia and Indonesia with negotiators meeting this week under pressure from new ministers in each country to produce some early results.


Business groups from both countries have been separately discussing whether liberalisation measures could be tried out in limited geographic areas to test their value and public impact before being extended to the entire countries. 



The business groups have been inspired by the way China has tested liberalisation measures in special economic zones, especially the Shanghai Free Trade zone where some parts of the China Australia trade agreement are being implemented first.




Business representatives from Australia and Indonesia met in Perth last week to revive the Business Partnership Group which was established four years ago when the trade negotiations started with the idea of giving business a greater role in setting negotiating priorities than is the case in most other trade talks.

The trade negotiators are looking for new areas of bilateral cooperation. Jefri Tarigan


The original members – the Australia Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry – have brought some other groups into the latest discussions with the intention of delivering a new set of priorities to the government trade negotiators by mid year.



Early breakthroughs


The Indonesia-Australia Closer Economic Partnership Agreement is not expected to be concluded until next year although Trade minister Steve Ciobo and his Indonesian counterpart Thomas Lembong said after a meeting in March that they were looking for early breakthroughs to inject some new life into the bilateral business relationship.

In most trade negotiations nothing is formally agreed until the entire package is settled, but the economic partnership focus in the Indonesian talks means they are proceeding on the basis that new co-operation measures can be adopted early.



The business discussions last week looked at the prospects for early co-operation agreements in the cattle trade, skills development and financial services as part of this "early harvest" approach. 



But the Indonesian discussions have come under pressure from the parallel moves in Perth last week to speed up the implementation of the 16 country Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) which is seen an Asia-wide alternative to the Trans-Pacific Partnership by some participants. The bilateral Indonesian talks will be largely redundant if they don't go beyond the RCEP with new liberalisation or cooperation measures.
The Indonesian discussions were put on hold during diplomatic tensions between the two countries in recent years but have been revived since the meeting between Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and President Joko Widodo last November and the Indonesian government's new focus on economic reform.



Indonesia has expressed a desire to embrace special economic zones to boost economic growth and the business groups discussed how these could be linked to the trade deal to test proposals for freer worker movement between the countries or smoother access to for Indonesian products under Australia's tight quarantine rules.
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While the 99% of citizens of Australia black, white, and brown citizens are being made working class poor remittance men and women as Australia global banking neo-liberals have captured and made Australia's national economy stagnant and crippled with massive frauds and corruption-----we are seeing TURNBULL made to sound a boon for those 99% of INDONESIAN citizens captured these few decades in some of the most brutal of Foreign Economic Zone slave labor.

So, Malcolm Turnbull is simply the CLINTON/BUSH global banking 5% player enriched the same way our US ROBBER BARON pols were enriched. He is being 'CHARITABLE' in donating all that sacking and looting criminal wealth back to Australia's 99% of citizens.



'Malcolm Turnbull is donating his entire $528,000 salary to charity

MALCOLM Turnbull is donating his entire $528,000 annual salary to charity. But it was one deal that made the PM his millions'.


Our 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE understand this propaganda imagery back and forth all too well-----this is the point as regards our future US labor public policy no matter for a 5% or a 99% of citizens. As global banking 1% MOVES FORWARD DARK AGES extreme wealth extreme poverty LIBERTARIAN MARXISM---these smiling faces will be under the bus.  Neither of these two 5% global banking players are sons of global 1% families.


MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD FOR ONLY THE GLOBAL 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS does not include these newly rich winners from these few decades of ROBBER BARON sacking and looting sovereign nations.......OUR REVOLUTION for only the global 1% goes back to OLD WORLD SPICE AND SILK ROUTE and it is the consolidation of those hundreds of trillions of dollars to these global 1 % first families we will see as ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1% SMART CITIES DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE moves forward.  
These are the newly rich REMITTANCE MEN------going under the bus in MOVING FORWARD.


World

Thai King Given $30 Billion for Being Born Into Royal Family

By Cristina Silva On 6/16/18 at 5:17 PM




'King Vajiralongkorn, his father’s only son, will not be able to use all his family money. The announcement noted the previously tax exempt fortune would not be subject to taxation "in line with His Majesty's wishes."'



Many people dream of a family member leaving them some kind of inheritance, enough cash to perhaps pay for a vacation or to invest in a property or a small business. Then there's King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand, who was given roughly $30 billion this week because he had the luck of being born into a royal family loaded with cash.



The royal leader received the good news when the official agency that managed the fortune belonging to Thailand's royal family announced Saturday that the king, who assumed the throne after his father died in 2016, would now oversee the family assets however he saw fit, The Associated Press reported. 


The late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who held the throne for seven decades, was estimated to be worth more than $30 billion, according to Forbes magazine's 2011 rankings of the world's richest people. It's one of the world's largest fortunes, Agence France-Presse reported. The family's assets likely include various properties and financial investments. The monarchy has not officially announced its net worth and it is protected from public scrutiny under law.


King Vajiralongkorn, his father’s only son, will not be able to use all his family money. The announcement noted the previously tax exempt fortune would not be subject to taxation "in line with His Majesty's wishes."

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We end this week discussing labor public policy looking at our high-income 5% and global 2% freemason/Greek players for those global banking OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS by reminding our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE who may think allowing OLD WORLD EUROPEAN KINGS AND QUEENS is better than allowing OLD WORLD ASIAN/ARABIC KINGS AND QUEENS have those hundreds of trillions of dollars looted from sovereign nations by ROBBER BARON CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA here in US.  Our local and national CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE---which are the agencies being the tools of global banking 1% in capturing our nations' political and economic structure are telling our US 99% black, white, and brown citizens that it is OK for all that wealth to be swept into the hands of global banking 1%---THEY KNOW BETTER and will rebuild US cities deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES for the SOCIAL BENEFIT of all US 99% of citizens and our new immigrant citizens.

When we KNOW MOVING FORWARD has all economic and monetary spending geared towards the goals of planetary mining slave colonies----SMART CITIES being built these few decades will decay in several decades to be useless to any citizen.  What will be the cost of building these colonies and all infrastructure needed -----all that hundreds of trillions of dollars.  This doesn't  even take into account the technologies global banking 1% needs to develop and get functioning is even a reality.

So, the 21st century in MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE will guarantee SMART CITIES as DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE----it will guarantee our US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES will be made into far-right wing, authoritarian, militaristic extreme wealth extreme poverty global corporate campus LIBERTARIAN MARXIST states.  What is not guaranteed is ANY part of these planetary mining slave colonies-----asteroid mining sold as bringing great wealth and natural ores and minerals being COMPLETELY DEPLETED in trying to build these global technology/energy grids WILL MATERIALIZE IN ANY STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT.

BOY, WE HOPE THOSE EUROPEAN  OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS WIN BECAUSE WE ARE WHITE=====FORGET ABOUT THAT 99% WE THE WHITE CITIZENS.  THOSE SHIP OF FOOLS ARE WORKING ON 3000BC DNA.


What will it take to set up colonies in space?


An ambitious idea for creating giant orbiting homes in space is being resurrected by a think tank. If you think this sounds absurd, it’s worth noting this group predicted travelling to Moon 30 years before it happened.



  • By Richard Hollingham
2 December 2013

Imagine a pristine landscape of fertile fields and forests nudging up against the foothills of towering mountains. Rivers meander between prosperous towns dotted across the countryside. You can hear the sound of children playing in parks and gardens. Above them, in a clear blue sky, the Sun catches the wing tips of gliders circling in the thermals.



It sounds perfect, but something is not quite right. The scene is unnaturally idyllic, the sky slightly too blue and the horizon more curved than normal. That’s because this world is only 16 miles long, four miles wide and contained in a giant cylinder floating in space.
It’s a space colony concept, drawn up by the late Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill in the mid-1970s, but his ambitious plan is now being revived by the space think tank British Interplanetary Society (Bis). The organisation has form in championing ideas that are not necessarily as wildly eccentric as they first appear. In the 1930s it came up with a detailed plan for a multi-stage rocket and a manned lunar lander, which looks remarkably like the mission that 30 years later successfully delivered Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon.



“Back in the 1930s, the major work of the British Interplanetary Society was explaining to the public that exploring space was not a ridiculous idea,” says Jerry Stone, leader of the Study Project Advancing Colony Engineering (see what they did there?). “And what I’m trying to do with the space colonies project is something similar, to show that building a very large space colony is technically feasible.”




O’Neill’s original space colony proposal started out as an exercise for a group of students at Princeton. “Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilisation?” he asked them. After a few months, and a great many calculations, the answer came back a resounding “No”. This got him interested in alternative human habitats beyond the Earth, and he conceived giant rotating spaceships containing landscaped biospheres housing up to 10 million people.



“There are two big advantages of constructing a colony in space rather than on a planet,” explains Stone. “You have the Sun’s energy 24 hours a day, so you can concentrate that energy to melt materials or use it to generate power, and you can rotate the habitat to create whatever gravity you want.”



These solar-powered colonies would be positioned at Lagrange points, stable areas in space where gravitational forces effectively balance each other out. They therefore wouldn’t need their own propulsion systems. Travelling to them would take weeks, compared to the months required to get to Mars.



Space odyssey


O’Neill’s detailed plans for his colonies appeared in the journal Physics Today, where he thought through many of the practical considerations. The basic structure of the habitats, for instance, is designed around a hollow tube made of metal and glass. Within, a plant-rich landscape stretches around the walls, broken up with giant windows into space.



There would be a semi-natural water cycle including clouds, and oxygen would be recycled by plants. These climate-controlled living spaces would be like the most beautiful areas of Earth, with a rich mix of disease-free flora and fauna. Maybe even a selection of endangered species.



Rather than living on the outside of a sphere as we do on Earth, colonists would settle around the inside. With the cylinder rotating, they would experience an artificial gravity effect. Only if they moved away from the cylinder’s walls, towards its central axis would they feel weightless. In this way, the inhabitants of Earth 2.0 really would be able to fly.



O’Neill deliberately designed the structure using existing 1970s technology, materials and construction techniques, rather than adopting futuristic inventions. The hollow cylinder, for instance, was based on steel and aluminium. After detailed calculations, he claimed his concept was feasible at the time he published it.



Stone is bringing these plans up to date using today’s technologies. Rather than building the shell from aluminium, for example, Stone argues tougher and lighter carbon composites could be used instead. Advances in solar cell and climate control technologies could also be used to make life easier and more comfortable in human space colonies.



One of the biggest theoretical challenges O’Neill faced was the effort and cost of construction. That, says Stone, will be solved when a new generation of much cheaper rocket launchers and spaceplanes has been developed, such as the UK-built Skylon. Using robot builders could also help.



“Ninety per cent of the material to build the colonies would come from the Moon,” says Stone. “We know from Apollo there’s silicon for the windows, and aluminium, iron and magnesium for the main structure. There’s even oxygen in the lunar soil.”



Designs for life


Let’s assume it is doable, what would be the cost of such a vast human undertaking? “Good question,” admits Stone. “The likelihood is that it would be started off by a consortium of companies and we hope that would become an international group.” Alternatively multi-billionaires with an interest in space such as Jeff Bezos of Amazon or SpaceX’s Elon Musk might take the lead.


But the practicalities of building a colony in space are only part of the story. Perhaps even more important and complex, are the societal considerations. What sort of laws and government should it have? A democracy or a billionaire’s fiefdom? Perhaps it would be the ultimate offshore tax haven. At first the colonists may model their political, legal, economic and social structures on those back home, but eventually they are likely to be adapted to the new environment. Stone has drawn up a three-page list of fundamental questions of this kind that his study group plans to address.



There is indeed a lot to think about and it’s easy to knock these sorts of big, visionary ideas. However, I’m not alone in believing that if humanity is to survive we will one day have to leave the Earth. A giant space habitat might be just the stepping-stone to the stars that we need.
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The recurrent theme these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA is of US or Canadian children leaving home not wanting or not able to return.  THE DEVINERS main character MORAG weaves this theme throughout her novel.  All last century in US our cultural arts wove themes of THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME.  HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS.  Not only are these characters escaping home---they almost always are determined to be SINGULAR PEOPLE.  MOVING FORWARD IT TAKES A VILLAGE has just that goal------breaking down families, creating conditions where our US citizens don't want to have children, and feeling such oppression in their own home cities or counties that they want to escape to become EX-PATS.   This is the policy goal of MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD for only the global 1% for our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens whether merely rich or working class poor.


'THE DEVINERS---Margaret Laurence Morag Gunn '

Let's take today to reverse this REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN discussion to our 99% of new immigrant citizens being brought to US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES being staged as SLAVE LABOR whether children or adults---whether men or women.

Our 99% of new immigrants to US must understand that CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA killed what was a free and fair immigration structure having real pathways to US citizenship for our new immigrants offering equal opportunity and access to our once thriving REAL DOMESTIC FREE MARKET ECONOMY.  Flash forward these few decades and our new immigrants are seeing no rights, no pathways, no future as they are simply rotated from place to place with our FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT Clinton/Obama now morphing to far-right extreme wealth LIBERTARIAN MARXISTS all PRETENDING to be helping our new 99% immigrants to US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.


Since the goal is having these new immigrant re-education centers operate in US as they do overseas---all this national media about caring for new immigrants whether children or not is FAKE NEWS.   These 99% of new immigrant citizens are the REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN from their own nations.


She says federal officials took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center


By Ed Lavandera, Jason Morris and Darran Simon, CNN


Updated 9:26 AM ET, Thu June 14, 2018


McAllen, Texas (CNN)The undocumented immigrant from Honduras sobbed as she told an attorney Tuesday how federal authorities took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center, where she was awaiting prosecution for entering the country illegally.

When the woman resisted, she was handcuffed, Natalia Cornelio, the attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, recalled from her interview with the woman, who had been detained under the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy to refer anyone caught crossing the border illegally for federal prosecution.
Miguel Nogueras, a federal public defender, handles immigration cases.

Since the policy was announced in May, some 500 children have been separated from their parents within the last month, according to Miguel A. Nogueras, an assistant federal public defender for the Southern District of Texas in McAllen, citing an unofficial count by an attorney in his office.


Some parents who are under arrest tell public defenders they don't know what happened to their children, Nogueras said. Some parents also claim they have been told their children are being taken to be bathed or cleaned up, then the adults don't see them again.
"The government is essentially torturing people by doing this," Cornelio said.


In an interview outside the federal courthouse in McAllen, Nogueras said: "It depends on who the agent is on that day. They'll be told, 'We're going to separate your kids so they can bathe.' And that's not true."


He added: "It's really hard to look in the eye of a mother or father who would plead for you -- help me get my child back."
'My daughter is here'
Inside the crowded federal courtroom, another undocumented Honduran immigrant stood in shackles Tuesday pleading with a judge preparing to sentence him for illegally entering the United States.


Authorities had separated Oman Rodriguez-Avila from his 8-year-old daughter when they caught him and other immigrants crossing the border a day earlier.
"I would ask that you give me a short sentence because my daughter is here," he told a judge in Spanish, speaking through a translator.


The federal judge sentenced Rodriguez-Avila to 15 days in jail because Rodriguez-Avila was previously convicted for the same misdemeanor offense in 2012 and deported.


The scene Monday in a federal courthouse in McAllen, Texas, where defendants are facing a federal misdemeanor charge of illegally entering the United States.
In a statement released Wednesday, Carlos Diaz, a US Customs and Border Protection spokesman, disputed the claims against immigration officials.


"Nothing could be further from the truth and these allegations are unsubstantiated," he said in an email.
In Texas, Cornelio recalled how quickly the tears flowed when the Civil Rights Project interviewed immigrants, whose children had been taken from them, after their arrest for illegally entering the country.


"All the women would start crying and would need to take a couple of minutes before being able to continue talking about it," Cornelio said.



This week, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department's Southern District of Texas said her office could not comment on the number of parents who had been separated from their children or how families were separated because of the zero-tolerance policy.



'It should never happen'


Children generally are separated from parents who are awaiting prosecution for crossing illegally, so prosecuting more parents will result in the separation of far more children from their parents at the border than before the policy took effect.


Those children become the charges of the Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families (specifically, the Office of Refugee Resettlement).


In an interview with NPR last month, when asked what he would say to people who say it would be "cruel and heartless" to separate a mother from her children, White House chief of staff John Kelly said: "I wouldn't put it quite that way. The children will be taken care of -- put into foster care or whatever. But the big point is they elected to come illegally into the United States, and this is a technique that no one hopes will be used extensively or for very long."


The administration said it seeks to reunite the families as much as possible after court proceedings, but it puts the onus largely on the parents to locate their children within government custody and seek their return.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the administration's policy last month.


"So, if you cross the border unlawfully, even a first offense, we're going to prosecute you," Sessions told a gathering of the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies. "If you're smuggling a child, we're going to prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you, probably, as required by law. If you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally."


The new policy does not apply to asylum seekers who enter the United States through an official port of entry without paperwork; those people would only be placed into immigration proceedings.



It has long been a misdemeanor federal offense to be caught illegally entering the country, punishable by up to six months in prison and a $5,000 fine. But previous US administrations generally didn't refer everyone caught for prosecution. Those who were apprehended were put into immigration proceedings and faced deportation from the country, unless they qualified to pursue an asylum claim.



Supporters of the new program credited it with reducing the number of crossings and repeat offenders, while critics said it overwhelmed the courts and US attorneys' offices with low-level crimes that made it difficult to use resources to go after serious and dangerous crime, like drug smuggling and cartels.
Nogueras said he has seen a shift in the caseload. During the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, public defenders in the federal courthouse in McAllen handled about 20 to 30 cases a day involving defendants facing charges for minor crimes, he said.


On Monday, public defenders handled 170 cases of undocumented immigrants who were charged with illegally entering the country and about 120 on Tuesday. At least 60 children have been separated from their parents over the past two days, according to the federal public defenders in McAllen.


"I'm outraged about it. I'm angry. It should never happen," Nogueras said. "I don't think that this represents the values of the American people."

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Nothing has separated families more than these several decades of continuous wars waged by global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS----KNIGHTS OF MALTA and no one works harder for those global 1% then these 5% FAKE religious leaders.  No amount of catching refugees overseas victims of deliberate sovereign civil unrest/civil wars and PRETENDING TO CARE for those displaced and fractured families----children losing mothers and fathers by the few billion since EISENHOWER ACT unleashed ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1%.  Nothing separates children from mothers and fathers more then rebuilding a global slave trading system as did CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA with the help of these FAKE 5% RELIGIOUS LEADERS.

So, NOW these same GLOBAL NGO 'CHARITIES' are bringing billion dollar corporations tied to that ongoing global slave trading system moving sovereign citizens from one nation to another to work in global corporate factories enslaved with no rights or ability to return home---that is what is MOVING FORWARD in US ----as CA pretends the ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT FAKE Clinton/Obama progressives PROTEST TOO MUCH.



Do you hear Catholic bishops shouting against US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES and against goals of ONE WORLD for only the global 1% we know will be brutal and devastating to US and immigrant families? WE DON'T ---yet they all have those RAINBOW flags meaning ONE WORLD pretending all that is about GBLT rights.


US bishops condemn immigration policies that separate families at border


Bishops begin spring assembly, decry Trump administration's recent policies


Jun 13, 2018
by Brian Roewe




Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, applauds June 13 at the opening of the bishops' annual spring assembly in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (CNS/Bob Roller)


Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — The U.S. bishops began their annual spring assembly by condemning recent immigration policies from the Trump administration that have separated families at the U.S.-Mexico border and threatened to deny asylum for people fleeing violence.



The morning session here began with a statement, but by its end escalated to numerous bishops endorsing the idea of sending a delegation to the border to inspect the detention facilities where children are being kept and even floating the possibility of "canonical penalties" for those involved in carrying out the policies.




"The latest developments are consistent with the sort of cardiosclerosis that has begun in our country, and it concerns across-the-board life issues," said Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, who from the floor raised the idea of a bishop delegation to the border "as a sign of our pastoral concern and protest against this hardening of the American heart."



"And the invitation is to harden our hearts further," he said.


Issuing a statement in his capacity as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo set the stage by referring to "two very troubling recent developments in the area of immigration."



The policies in question were the decision announced June 11 by Attorney General Jeff Sessions that severely limits asylum seekers' ability to enter the U.S. by claiming they are fleeing domestic violence or gang-related violence. That followed the Justice Department's "zero tolerance" policy, introduced in early May, for immigrants crossing illegally in the U.S. that would separate children from their families.



"At its core, asylum is an instrument to preserve the right to life. The Attorney General's recent decision elicits deep concern because it potentially strips asylum from many women who lack adequate protection. These vulnerable women will now face return to the extreme dangers of domestic violence in their home country," the statement read.


Unless the policy is overturned, DiNardo said the decision "will erode the capacity of asylum to save lives."
On the separation of families, the cardinal said the nation's laws have the discretion to ensure families are kept intact and children not "exposed to irreparable harm and trauma."


"Families are the foundational element of our society and they must be able to stay together," DiNardo said.
"While protecting our borders is important, we can and must do better as a government, and as a society, to find other ways to ensure that safety. Separating babies from their mothers is not the answer and is immoral."



Earlier in the day, the bishops received updates on the conference's work on immigration and refugee issues from Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, and Bishop Joe Vásquez of Austin, Texas. Gomez said the pace and development on the immigration issue has picked up in the last year, recapping the situation for Dreamers, the Trump administration travel ban and other steps it has taken regarding temporary protected status for refugees.



Gomez reported that following the Justice Department's "zero tolerance" policy, 640 families were separated in the period between May 3-17, with 55 to 65 children separated each day.


During the bishops' national "DACA call-in Day" in February, more than 50,000 calls were made to Congress in support of Dreamers, persons who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children.  



Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley, though not attending the conference, issued a statement saying that "the moral challenge of immigration is mounting for the United States."



"On too many occasions our government has taken a posture and established policy which is in principle and in practice hostile to children and families who are fleeing violence, gangs, and poverty," he said, adding "The United States is now openly before the world using children as pawns to enforce a hostile immigration policy. This strategy is morally unacceptable and denies the clear danger weighing upon those seeking our assistance."



In a comment session following the presentation, Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio urged his fellow bishops to contact members of House Freedom Caucus in their dioceses regarding the votes scheduled on two immigration bills next week. Neither is set to address the DREAM Act.



"They need to hear from us," he said, suggesting there's "an element of restrictionism" in the proposed legislation he believed was somewhat based in racism.
"But we cannot remain silent. This is really a crisis situation," DiMarzio said.
"In all my experience in immigration, it's never been quite this bad."


As the bishops discussed how to address the latest immigration policies, NBC News reported that the Trump administration was pushing for a federal court to rule DACA illegal, a move that could end the deportation protection program within weeks.


The idea of sending a delegation, or engaging in some type of public witness, appeared to gain traction among other bishops who spoke. In the afternoon session, DiNardo said the working group on immigration issues would head up exploring the possibility of such a delegation.


In the morning conversation, Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico, said that Pope Francis has demonstrated the powerful combination of a visible gesture combined with church teaching.


Bishop Joseph Tyson of Yakima, Washington, underscored the connection of immigration issues and life issues. He shared the story of an immigrant father without proper documentation in his diocese who faces deportation after he was arrested for speeding in trying to get his pregnant wife to the hospital to deliver their premature child.


"If you want to save the unborn, you have to walk through the doors of the undocumented. … It is wrong — wrong! — to separate out these serious immigration issues, these family issues from the life issues." Tyson said.



Tucson, Arizona, Bishop Edward Weisenburger, a canon lawyer, floated the possibility of "canonical penalties" for Catholics who are involved in carrying  out the Trump administration's immigration policies.


"I think the time is there for a prophetic statement," he said, adding that canonical penalties are there first and foremost as a means to heal.


Bishop John Stowe recommended pastoral outreach for border control agents customs workers who are struggling with enforcing policies they view as unjust.


As part of the Share the Journey campaign, launched by Pope Francis and Caritas Internationalis in September, Archbishop Paul Coakley, board chair of Catholic Relief Services, invited U.S. bishops to join in organizing and conducting prayer pilgrimages as a way of walking and bearing public witness in solidarity with migrants and refugees. The campaign has a cumulative goal of amassing 24,900 miles walked — or the equivalent of traveling once around the globe — before Nov. 13, the feast of St. Frances Cabrini.


Other initiatives of the second year of the Share the Journey campaign asks Catholics to host "encounter meals" with migrants, as well as a new aspect to address fears of migrants and immigrants.
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No group in US know better how damaging the global slave trade is to families---children separated from a mother and fathers separated from mother and child then our US 99% of black citizens tied to the LAST global slave trade system.  We all know these structures are designed to do just that.  More Africans entering US then days of slavery-----that is because these 99% of AFRICAN citizens are being told MLK AND HARRIET TUBMAN are welcoming them-----not telling them all those statues are a corruption of what was a US freedom from slavery movement.  

REAL left social progressives have always had to fight for our 99% of new immigrants left to an enslaving system especially these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.  MOVING FORWARD FAR-RIGHT ONE WORLD is losing that fight altogether.

These new immigrants to US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES listening to our global banking 1% freemason STARS singing COME TO AMERICA-----are being staged by those 5% freemason/Greeks to being made those 99% REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN.





More Africans Enter U.S. Than in Days of Slavery


By SAM ROBERTSFEB. 21, 2005

For the first time, more blacks are coming to the United States from Africa than during the slave trade.


Since 1990, according to immigration figures, more have arrived voluntarily than the total who disembarked in chains before the United States outlawed international slave trafficking in 1807. More have been coming here annually -- about 50,000 legal immigrants -- than in any of the peak years of the middle passage across the Atlantic, and more have migrated here from Africa since 1990 than in nearly the entire preceding two centuries.



New York State draws the most; Nigeria and Ghana are among the top 20 sources of immigrants to New York City. But many have moved to metropolitan Washington, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Houston. Pockets of refugees, especially Somalis, have found havens in Minnesota, Maine and Oregon.



The movement is still a trickle compared with the number of newcomers from Latin America and Asia, but it is already redefining what it means to be African-American. The steady decline in the percentage of African-Americans with ancestors who suffered directly through the middle passage and Jim Crow is also shaping the debate over affirmative action, diversity programs and other initiatives intended to redress the legacy of slavery.


In Africa, the flow is contributing to a brain drain. But at the same time, African-born residents of the United States are sharing their relative prosperity here by sending more than $1 billion annually back to their families and friends.



"Basically, people are coming to reclaim the wealth that's been taken from their countries," said Howard Dodson, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in Harlem, which has just inaugurated an exhibition, Web site and book, titled "In Motion," to commemorate the African diaspora.


The influx has other potential implications, from recalibrating the largely monolithic way white America views blacks to raising concerns that American-born blacks will again be left behind.



"Historically, every immigrant group has jumped over American-born blacks," said Eric Foner, the Columbia University historian. "The final irony would be if African immigrants did, too."


The flow from Africa began in the 1970's, mostly with refugees from Ethiopia and Somalia, and escalated in the 1990's, when the number of black residents of the United States born in sub-Saharan Africa nearly tripled. Combined with the much larger flow of Caribbean blacks, the recent arrivals from Africa accounted for about 25 percent of black population growth in the United States over all during the decade. Nationally, the proportion of blacks who are foreign born rose to about 7.3 percent from 4.9 percent in the 1990's. In New York City, about 1 in 3 blacks are foreign born.



According to the census, the proportion of black people living in the United States who describe themselves as African-born, while still small, more than doubled in the 1990's, to 1.7 percent from about 0.8 percent, for a total estimated conservatively at more than 600,000. About 1.7 million United States residents identify their ancestry as sub-Saharan.



Those numbers reflect only legal immigrants, who have been arriving at the rate of about 50,000 a year, first mostly as refugees and students and more recently through family reunification and diversity visas. Many speak English, were raised in large cities and capitalist economies, live in families headed by married couples and are generally more highly educated and have higher-paying jobs than American-born blacks.



There is no official count of the many others who entered the country illegally or have overstayed their visas and who are likely to be less well off.



Kim Nichols, co-executive director of the African Services Committee, which directs newcomers to health care, housing and other services in the New York region, estimates that the number of illegal African immigrants dwarfs the legal ones. "We think it's a multiple of at least four," she said.


Africans' reasons for coming echo the aspirations of earlier immigrants.


"Senegal became too small," said Marie Lopy, who arrived as a student in 1996, worked as a bookkeeper in a restaurant and earned an associate degree in biology from the City University of New York.



After winning a place in an American immigration lottery that his secretary had entered for him in 1994, Daouda Ndiaye recalls being persuaded by his six children to leave Senegal, where he was working as a financial manager. "I said, 'I'm 45, I'd have to build a whole new life, I'd have to go to school to learn English,"' he recalled. "They said, 'We want you to go and we want you to send for us because there's more opportunity in the U.S. than here."'


His wife and two of his children have joined him in the United States, where he has worked as a sporting goods store manager and is now a translator.


That the latest movement of black Africans arriving voluntarily surpasses the total who disembarked in chains before the United States outlawed international slave trafficking is a bit of a statistical anomaly. That total, most historians now agree, was about 500,000, with an annual peak of perhaps 30,000, compared with the millions overall who were sold into slavery from Africa. Many died aboard ship. Most were transported to the Caribbean and Brazil, where they were vulnerable to indigenous diseases and to the rigors of raising sugar cane, which was harder to cultivate than cotton or rice, the predominant crops on plantations in the United States, where the slave population was better able to survive and reproduce.



Moreover, black Africans represented a much higher proportion of the population then than they do today. In 1800, about 20 percent of the 5 million or so people in the United States were black. Among nearly 300 million Americans today, about 13 percent are black.


Still, with Europe increasingly inhospitable and much of Africa still suffering from the ravages of drought and the AIDS epidemic and the vagaries of economic mismanagement, the number migrating to the United States is growing -- despite the reluctance of some Africans to come face to face with the effects of centuries of enduring discrimination.

In the 1960's, 28,954 legal immigrants were admitted from all of Africa, a figure that rose geometrically to 80,779 in the 1970's, 176,893 in the 1980's and 354,939 in the 1990's. In 2002, 60,269 were admitted, including 8,291 from Nigeria, 7,574 from Ethiopia, 4,537 from Somalia, 4,256 from Ghana and 3,207 from Kenya.


To many Americans, the most visible signs of the movement are the proliferation of African churches, mosques, hair-braiding salons, street vendors and supermarket deliverymen, the controversy over female genital mutilation and the election last year of Barack Obama, son of a native Kenyan, to the United States Senate from Illinois. Especially in New York City, the shooting deaths of two unarmed African immigrants, Amadou Diallo from Guinea in 1999 and Ousmane Zongo from Burkina Faso in 2003, come to mind.



Immigrants arrive with their own perceptions and expectations, from countries where blacks constitute a majority at every level of society, only to discover that whether they are professors or peddlers, they may be lumped together here by whites and even by American-born blacks.



"You have the positive impact that race is not seen to be an absolute definer of people's opportunities," Kathleen Newland, director of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research group, said, "but that begs the larger question of what does it mean to have a black skin in the United States."



Agba Mangalabou, who arrived from Togo in 2002, recalls his surprise when he moved here from Europe. "In Germany, everyone knew I was African," he said. "Here, nobody knows if I'm African or American."



Ms. Lopy, who now works as a medical interpreter for the African Services Committee, describes herself as "African, first and foremost," though the identity of her children will depend on whom she marries and where. "I'll raise them to be African-something," she said, "but ultimately they'll define it for themselves."



Sylviane A. Diouf, a historian and researcher at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center and Dr. Dodson's co-author of "In Motion," said that Americans have a more positive view of immigrants in general than they do of American-born blacks. Referring to African immigrants, she said: "They are better educated, they're here to work, to prosper, they're more compliant and don't pose a threat."


Dr. Dodson added, "They're not politically mobilized as yet and not as closely tied to the African-American agenda."


While the ancestors of most Caribbean-born blacks were enslaved, and slavery also victimized the forbears of many African-born blacks, the growing proportion of immigrants may further complicate the debate over programs envisioned to redress the legacies of slavery.


"I think there is a legitimate set of specific claims by persons born in the United States that don't necessarily apply to Caribbean or African populations that have come here subsequently," Dr. Dodson said.



"African-born and Caribbean-born brothers and sisters have realized that the police don't discriminate on the basis of nationality -- ask Amadou Diallo," said Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr., who teaches at Harvard Law School and has warned colleges and universities that admitting mostly foreign-born blacks to meet the goals of affirmative action is insufficient.



"Whether you are from Brazil or from Cuba, you are still products of slavery," he continued. "But the threshold is that people of African descent who were born and raised and suffered in America have to be the first among equals."



French-speaking Haitians do not necessarily mix with English-speaking West Indians, much less with Africans, and competition for jobs has been another source of tension.



"The Africans tend to be quite industrious and entrepreneurial and often take advantage of opportunities that might have been here for others before," said Kim Nichols of the African Services Committee.


"We're talking about very profoundly different cultures," Kathleen Newland said.


Analyses by the Department of City Planning, and by the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, in Albany found recent immigrants often segregated from other blacks. The census found Nigerian clusters in Flatlands and Canarsie in Brooklyn and Ghanaians in Morris Heights and High Bridge in the Bronx.



"As with European ethnics at the turn of the century," Joseph J. Salvo, the director of the population division of the Department of City Planning, and Arun Peter Lobo, the deputy director, wrote recently, "ethnicity has been a powerful force in shaping black residential settlement in New York."



Immigration may also shift some of the nation's focus from racial distinctions to ethnic ones. "Certainly, South Africa showed us that minority status does not necessarily correlate to one's position in society, but rather that power and its uses are the issues," said Samuel K. Roberts of Columbia, a history professor who is also on the faculty of the university's Institute for Research in African-American Studies. "That being said, increasingly distinguishing between black Americans and black Africans may produce conditions in which we will be less prone to think of a fictional construct of 'race' as the distinguishing factor among all of us in North America."



How long might those distinctions last? "I guess one of the questions will have to be what happens in the next generation or two," said Professor Foner of Columbia. "In America, marriage is the great solvent. Are they going to melt into the African-American population? Most likely yes."

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We read in US national media where 99% of RUSSIAN citizens are tops in immigrants to US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----we know RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS are top in NYC.  Let's look at how those global 1% and their 2% being made REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN having to leave their comforts of wealth and family in their own nations coming to an AMERICA made third world these few decades of sacking and looting by global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.  Living in a US city being a FAILED STATE---as Baltimore is no dream for a global 2% REMITTANCE MAN OR WOMAN from our Asian or Arabic nations.

All of this BUYING OF DUEL CITIZENSHIPS----we are seeing in CANADA people having SEVERAL FOREIGN CITIZENSHIPS and Canadian is simply MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE where there is only ONE WORLD CITIZENSHIP and only the global 1% are considered CITIZENS.


What we have yet to understand is how any global 1% or 2% can come to US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE with their own money to invest or even given money from our global banking 1% BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION thinking they will not be FLEECED.



Big Money

Why the rich are ditching their home country
by Sophia Yan   @sophia_yan June 4, 2014: 3:02 PM ET





Increasing numbers of the wealthy global elite are saying goodbye to their home country and taking up residence elsewhere in an effort to preserve their riches.
  Popular destination countries like Cyprus, Spain and Australia have programs that offer a path to citizenship or permanent residency -- for those who can afford to pay up.



Right now, immigrant investor programs are available in about 20 countries around the globe, including the U.S., Europe, and island nations in the Caribbean. More are on the way, especially as countries still reeling from the global financial crisis seek to energize their economies.


While some individuals can maintain their citizenship status with their home countries, others from nations that do not allow dual citizenship must turn in their passports in order to adopt a new country.




In recent years, "there have been many countries offering investment immigration targeted at wealthy individuals," according to a report by Arton Capital, which advises governments and individuals regarding such programs, and Wealth-X, a research firm. "As a pure investment, some of these programs are very attractive to ultra high net worth individuals."



That's because the programs are quite affordable for the world's uber rich. Required investments range from $500,000 to several million dollars and are often "a very small fraction of someone's net worth," said Mykolas Rambus, CEO of Wealth-X.



Bulgaria, for example, requires investors to hold $700,000 in government bonds for five years, while St. Kitts & Nevis in the Caribbean mandates a $400,000 investment in real estate or the nation's sugar industry. Other countries demand hefty property purchases, putting a few million on deposit in a domestic bank or into projects that support job creation.



A decade ago, only a handful of these programs existed. Now, as new countries join the fray, roughly 20,000 rich individuals are rushing to apply each year, often in hopes of preserving their wealth.


While lower income taxes are sometimes a plus, some applicants are also looking to avoid inheritance taxes. Over the next three decades, the children of the super wealthy are set to inherit more than $16 trillion.
Other incentives include access to better education, a desire to escape political instability, visa-free travel to more countries or higher standards of living, said Armand Arton, president of Arton Capital.




In extreme cases, the craftiest individuals may even be able to avoid taxes by bouncing around the globe armed with multiple citizenships and residence permits. It's possible to "spend a number of days here, a certain number of days there -- and if you keep moving around, you never establish a long-enough term to be subject to permanent taxable residency," said David Kuenzi, founder of investment advisory Thun Financial.


Most immigrant investors are coming from the Middle East, followed by India and China, Arton said. And more rich Russians have inquired about such programs lately, given political instability in that region.



Europe remains the most popular destination, followed by island nations in the Caribbean -- where some countries levy no personal income, capital gains or inheritance tax. While those two regions are popular with investors from the Middle East, the Chinese seem most drawn to the American Dream, Arton said. The U.S. program is also attractive as it offers a green card, a better alternative for the Chinese, who are barred from having dual citizenship.


In fact, the Chinese now account for 80% of the U.S. immigrant investor program, according to a CNNMoney analysis of U.S. government data.


"Those who are globally minded who have quite a bit of wealth -- this is becoming a must-have," Rambus said.

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Throughout CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA global 2% from Asia, Arabia, Latin America were brought to US and installed in FEDERAL AGENCIES now MOVING FORWARD to being made ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE candidates -----these were the REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN being sent from THEIR HOME NATIONS to that foreign land having no more ability to keep wealth and assets made here in US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES then if they were fleeced by their own global 1% in China, Thailand, Cambodia, South Korea, Bahrain, Turkey.




by Sophia Yan   @sophia_yan---CNN MONEY

So, today in US we are seeing more and more of these global 2% REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN as rich new immigrants staging themselves to be sacked and looted by global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS just as our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE have experienced these few decades of ROBBER BARON CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.

We have discussed in detail this HONOR AMONG THIEVES that does not exit in reality.  What we are seeing MOVING FORWARD in US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES is the beginning of extreme tension between global 1% and their 2% NOT MAKING PEACE, LOVE, AND UNDERSTANDING----but bringing global tensions of CIVIL UNREST, CIVIL WAR to our American continent.


Below we see WESTERN EUROPE selling itself as the best place for those global 1% and their 2% to invest and settle when we discussed how MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD FLIPPING THE EARTH'S ECONOMIC AXIS will make Western Europe a DARK CONTINENT as the AMERICAS filled only with global factories and TRIBUTE STATE looting of a sovereign nations' natural resources, mineral, ore, timber, fresh water.  Western Europe having no more future then US being only a colonial slave colony.


Why would global 1% and their 2% walk into what is today a DEN OF THIEVES -----global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS-------thinking a simple TRADE AGREEMENT---or a simple US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE economic and real estate protection agreement would actually PROTECT THEM?

One answer is this----the global 1% of Asian and Arabic nations making REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN of those global 2% families don't care if they are fleeced or made losers--they are simply shipping off family members not tied to being that global 1% FIRST SON.




This passport is best suited for the world’s wealthiest people (clue: it’s European)

Published: Mar 5, 2017 2:24 p.m. ET



The U.S. only made it to No. 35 on a ranking from 1 to 199

The most beloved passport in the world by rich people is not American.



Sweden was No. 1 on the list on a ranking that went to 199, according to a compilation by Nomad Capitalist, an Austin, Texas –based organization that helps high-net-worth clients diversify their assets and save taxes. Belgium was No. 2, followed by Italy and Spain (sharing No. 3), Ireland, Finland and Germany (tied for No. 6), Denmark and Switzerland and Luxembourg (at joint No. 8), followed by France, New Zealand (both at No. 11). The U.S. was joint No. 35 along with Slovenia, even further down the list than Canada (No. 14), with the U.K. and Australia both at No. 16. And last on the list at No. 199? Afghanistan, which was only beaten by Iraq, Eritrea, Pakistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen (all ranked No. 193) and Sudan, Iran, South Sudan and North Korea (all No. 189).

The “Nomad Passport Index” ranks passports based on visa-free travel (50% of ranking), taxation (30% of ranking), perception (10% of ranking), the ability to hold dual citizenship (10% of ranking) and overall freedom (10% of ranking). Each country’s value in each category is given the indicated weighting to achieve a country’s total score using the formula. “This index is designed to show the true value of citizenship in each country from the perspective of a high-achieving citizen who wants the freedom to minimize his or her tax obligations, diversify his or her wealth, and travel freely without judgment,” the report says. “We believe that no one should be forced to pay tax by virtue of their citizenship alone.” You can read the full list and methodology here.

Of course, many of the measures used are subjective. The world’s perception of a country (which only accounted for 10% of the score) relied on the World Happiness Report, the United Nations’ Human Development Index, and based on Nomad Capitalist’s personal experience with clients. “We believe that freedom of speech and of the press is a good thing, and imposing laws on non-resident citizens is generally a bad idea,” the report says. The index relied on data regarding mandatory military service, government spying programs, incarceration rate, and laws targeting non-resident citizens (such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), as well as the World Press Freedom Index.

However, the U.S. tied for No. 3 in a separate passport index of 199 countries based solely on visa flexibility along with the U.K., Norway, Spain, France, Finland and Denmark. In that list, by Montreal-based Arton, a global advisory firm that helps people take part in citizenship and residency programs for investors, Germany was No. 1, followed by Sweden and Singapore at No. 2. Arton ranks travel documents based on how many countries their holders can visit without having to obtain a visa in advance: The more nations you can access merely by getting a landing visa at the airport or even entering visa-free, the more powerful your passport is. On that list, Afghanistan was also last, below Paskistan, Iraq, Syria and Somalia. The U.K. and U.S. shared the No. 1 spot on Arton’s list in 2015, but both were toppled by Germany in 2016.




Millionaires are on the move. An estimated 82,000 high-net-worth individuals, defined as those who have assets (including properties) over $1 million, moved from their home countries last year, versus 64,000 in 2015, according to the “Global Health Review: Worldwide Wealth and Wealth Migration Trends,” published earlier this week by New World Wealth, a market research and wealth intelligence firm based in Johannesburg, South Africa. For the second consecutive year, Australia was the No. 1 country welcoming millionaire migrants. There was a 38% jump in millionaire migrants to Australia (an estimated 11,000 last year versus 8,000 in 2015) and a 43% rise in those migrants to the U.S. (an estimated 10,000 in 2016 versus 7,000). The researchers looked at investor visa programs, via work transfers, second passports, ancestry visas, spousal visas and family visas.

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Global banking 1% here in US as too overseas in Asian nations are playing with taxation, inflation, floundering stock markets ------cost of living, business opportunities all targeting our NEW MERELY RICH------below we see how it is being done to our US and European merely rich-----same happening in China et al as those global 2% are pushed to Europe and US-----both Western merely rich and Asian merely rich being staged as those REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN all while being sold OPPORTUNITIES AND FUTURE WEALTH.



There are today's US RICH REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN-----Chanyaporn Chanjaroen that 5% media player for BLOOMBERG being that same REMITTANCE MAN global 2% from Asia.

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Move Over, Switzerland: Singapore and Hong Kong Set to Attract More Wealth


By
Chanyaporn Chanjaroen
June 13, 2017, 12:00 PM EDT  BLOOMBERG FINANCIAL




  • Singapore and Hong Kong assets to increase faster through 2021
  • BCG report attributes rise to Asia’s rapid economic expansion
Singapore and Hong Kong will attract wealth from abroad at more than twice the pace of Switzerland over the next four years as Asia’s economic expansion draws cash from millionaires, Boston Consulting Group predicts


Our US national media promotes the idea that this FLEEING from America of all those new merely rich is another sign of DECLINE OF AMERICAN REPUBLIC.  So, US and European global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS could care less if those global 2% of Western families are fleeced and sent to poverty overseas---just as those global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS sending their global 2% overseas could care less if those families are fleeced and sent into poverty----

THIS IS THE 3000BC LAISSEZ-FAIRE VERSION OF GLOBAL 1% SECURING THEIR OWN IMMEDIATE FAMILIES AS TOP GUN INSIDE THEIR OWN EMPIRE.

When we shout over and again that the global 1% could care less about our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE----this is why we say 99% ----and not 95% or 98% -------because we KNEW all those global banking 5% freemason/Greek players managing to gain wealth would lose it very quickly.




Friday, 03 February 2012


Rich Americans Are Fleeing the Country

Written by  Bob Adelmann

When Hollywood film director James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic, Terminator) announced that he was moving to New Zealand, preppers, fiscal doomsayers, and alarmists had a field day in deciphering his motives for moving, ultimately deciding that Cameron was moving so that he is better able to weather the massive monetary upheaval that is upcoming or he is escaping U.S. taxes and regulations.



Marc Slavo, as an example, suggested ulterior motives other than those stated by Cameron: “While the move for the Canadian-born Cameron may initially be perceived as a rejection or denouncement of American policies and ideals … [he] may have ulterior motivations as evidenced by where he’s planning on moving and what he’s planning on doing once he gets there.”



The Associated Press reported that Cameron successfully applied to buy 2,500 acres of farmland and he “intend[s] to reside indefinitely in New Zealand and [is] acquiring the property to reside on and operate as a working farm.” Slavo is skeptical in light of Cameron’s lack of need to be working at all, having made in excess of $250 million last year, according to Salon magazine.



And Slavo is not persuaded that Cameron’s real reason is to be closer to the New Zealand headquarters of Weta Digital, which won an Oscar for its special effects in the movie Avatar. Nor is he persuaded that Cameron wants to be there solely to direct the sequel to Avatar scheduled to begin later this year. Slavo instead is thinking that Cameron knows that “farmland is one of the only reasonable physical assets to hold in the event of a major crisis,” and that Cameron’s disclosure on his New Zealand application for citizenship was simply cover.



Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones at Inforwars.com are of the same mind as Slavo:



If you think that Hollywood director James Cameron’s decision to leave America and move his entire family to a farm in New Zealand is simply to provide his kids with a “strong work ethic,” as Cameron claims, think again….



Cameron’s decision fits the trend of wealthy Americans pulling their money out of the country and reinvesting it to buy land in the southern hemisphere, escaping spiraling tax rates and protecting themselves against the potential for widespread social dislocation.
When John Malone, chairman of the board of Liberty Media with a personal net worth of $4.5 billion, reported that he had purchased a significant piece of property along the Quebec border, he explained in an interview with the Wall Street Journal his real motivation:



WSJ: What are the biggest risks for Liberty Media right now?

Malone: The concerns really tend to be much more macro: Is America going to make it, rather than are we going to make it? It’s pretty hard. If the country doesn’t make it, do any of us make it?



WSJ: What are you doing to protect against the weak American economy?


Malone: Well, my wife, who is very concerned about these things, moved all her personal cash to Australia and Canada. She wants to have a place to go if things blow up here….



We have a retreat that’s right on the Quebec border. We own 18 miles on the border, so we can cross. Anytime we want to we can get away.



As Slavo explained, Malone is not a tin-foil hat weirdo believing in things that go bump in the night: “He may not look like a doom and gloomer, but it sounds like he’s considered the possibility of a complete collapse in the United States of America. Otherwise, why suggest that if something were to happen, he could get away?”



Two years ago Brian Knowlton, writing in the Wall Street Journal, noted the paradigm change taking place even then among wealthy Americans increasingly frightened about the economic and social situation in the country. He quoted Jackie Bugnion, director of American Citizens Abroad (ACA): “What we have seen is a substantial change in mentality among the overseas community in the past two years. Before, no one would dare mention to other Americans that they were even thinking of renouncing their U.S. nationality. Now, it is an openly discussed issue.”



One of the reasons given for considering renunciation is the increasingly onerous rules invading privacy and personal finances. The Patriot Act has made it more difficult for Americans living abroad to keep accounts with international banks. If those banks cannot verify an American address, the accounts are closed. Daniel Flynn, an American citizen who lives in Belgium, wrote a letter to the ACA:



It seems the new anti-terrorist rules are having unintended effects. I was born in San Francisco in 1939, served my country as an army officer from 1961 to 1963, have been paying U.S. income taxes for 57 years, since 1952, have continually maintained [my] federal voting residence, and hold a valid American passport. [And yet my bank] said that the new anti-terrorism rules required them to close our account because of our address outside the U.S.


Another American living in Canada had the same problem. Kathleen Rittenhouse said, “I did not know that the Patriot Act placed me in the same category as terrorists, arms dealers and money launderers.”



The United States is the only industrialized country that requires citizens to pay income taxes on earnings abroad that are also being taxed by the country where they live. Some are calling this, properly, double taxation and are sick of it. And the IRS began investigations into foreign accounts, calling it a “voluntary offshore disclosure program,” that threatens the privacy and financial security of those with legitimate offshore accounts. Joe Field, a partner in a law firm in Hong Kong that caters to American citizens seeking to renounce their U.S. citizenship, says his firm is experiencing an “exponential increase” in the number of American citizens wanting to get out. He said:



Many people who looked to America as the protector now see America is bent on coming after them. We’re getting a whole new class of client who is someone who says, “I want to go into the [IRS] disclosure program and as soon as I complete it, expatriate.”


Their numbers are likely to increase as a loophole allowing wealthy Americans to move their monies and wealth offshore closes at the end of the year. Americans with a net worth of at least $2 million will have to buy their way out of the country by paying hefty exit fees and taxes, even on assets that have unrealized gains. The loophole allows them until the end of the year to give away up to $5 million without the fee being applied, saving enough in taxes to pay the fee that is levied.



And then there are those who are just disappearing altogether without a fare thee well. John Gaver, editor of Action America, wrote that there is a “vast and increasing number of wealthy US citizens who are just ‘dropping out’ — taking all of their wealth and leaving the US without renouncing. They just disappear off the US tax rolls and appear on some other country’s tax rolls.”

The number disgusted with how America treats its successful citizens continues to grow. As Bugnion of ACA notes, “It is a sad outcome, but I personally feel that we are now seeing only the tip of the iceberg.”

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We mention these few decades of American arts and culture being tied to MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD killing the ideal of America as strong and free ---the land of opportunity and morphing to arts and culture centered on US citizens being alienated from a larger society----always driven to leave behind a home striking out against that routine of family life. None of these themes are REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE----all these cultural FADS were sold by our global banking 1% freemason STARS to create in the minds of our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE that America is not our home---it is not the land of opportunity, and we need to seek that fulfillment being that global EX-PAT.
As with all the cultural arts we discuss this story is a good story----the novel is entertaining. Please think while reading what message is being sent---consider what PUBLISHING HOUSE published these works of art---here we see THE DEVINERS published by RAGING GLOBAL 1% UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS-----these are clues as to what FAD global banking 1% have HIDDEN.


All of today's US newly merely rich we see fleeing here and there trying to keep their wealth----our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE will not be told all these 5% players and global 2% have lost all that new wealth as REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN.

MARGARET LAURENCE having lived as an EX-PAT from CANADA to AFRICA.


The Diviners



Margaret Laurence
397 pages | 5-1/4 x 8 | © 1974 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS



Phoenix Fiction

In The Diviners, Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie, struggles to understand the loneliness of her eighteen-year-old daughter. With unusual wit and depth, Morag recognizes that she needs solitude and work as much as she needs the love of her family. With an afterword by Margaret Atwood.

"Mrs. Laurence’s [novel] is both poetic and muscular, and her heroine is certainly one of the more humane, unglorified, unpolemical, believable women to have appeared in recent fiction."—The New Yorker



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We wanted to post this FAKE policy having our US IVY LEAGUE 5% players being led to feel they are actually participating in UNITED NATIONS governance----when of course they are no more doing so then our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE are participating in our local community development when we play at FARMVILLE or our US city community associations.


Sadly, this is to where all the energy of our talented arts and culture US citizens is being directed---all seeking to be those 5% freemason/Greek players moving forward ONE WORLD VIRTUAL REALITY UNITED NATIONS------


 Harvard National Model United Nations-------------------HNMUN----- where our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE are made to participate in government virtually while not participating AT ALL.......just as FARMVILLE was designed to make our US citizens feel they were participating in developing communities while not participating AT ALL in real community development.

Wheaton College Model United Nations


Avatar: the Last Airbender Simulation — at Wheaton College Massachusetts.

April 29, 2017In a simulation held in April 2017, the Wheaton College Model United Nations team took on the world of Avatar: the Last Airbender.





So , looking up the income ladder to HARVARD MODEL UNITED NATIONS playing out with 5% WHEATON COLLEGE students------we want to revisit a term coined during DARK AGES-----tied to  EXOPOLITICS below----believe it or not global banking 1% public policy must go back to 3000BC in order to understand goals.  What we saw at WHEATON COLLEGE were those US 5% white players working hard to be tapped into this global labor network. 


'Galactic Human Slave Trade & AI threat to End with Full Disclosure of ET Life
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the major colonial powers supported flourishing slave trades in their respective colonies through corrupt local elites or outright conquest…
exopolitics.org
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REMITTANCE MEN have for thousands of years been those family members of global 1% decided to be of low value to that wealthy family---the eldest son normally remaining at home to inherit family wealth.  All global 1% families send those lower-ranking men off to seek their own fortunes in global labor pool.  The poor families do the same----those working class families able to afford to feed and house a few mouths send their lower-ranking family members off to the global labor pool.


Our US 5% players black, white, and brown thinking their families are tied to global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS are today's REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN who will indeed be earliest to be thrown into global labor pool as EX-PATS.  Remember, today's US IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITIES which used to be strong academic campuses for the best of students have these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA been corrupted and dismantled made PRODUCT MILLS for corporate patents students simply being FREE LABOR.



'Remittance Men': the original and the new breed of remittance men and women – and 'fitting in' with your fellows


Expatriates and foreign residents are found everywhere in the world nowadays, some in the most unlikely of places. They leave their own countries for many reasons, but financial issues and money transfer are an integral part of living overseas.

Most people who travel or live abroad or support others there, tend to rely on 'high street' banks to transfer money between countries, but banks are notoriously expensive in terms of exchange rates, commissions and other charges. Alternatives like Western Union and MoneyGram are convenient, but their fees are typically higher than the banks. Long-time foreign residents looking for the cheapest ways to send money use reliable organisations such as CurrencyOnline to provide instant quotes and online transfer at better rates than the banks, and no extra fees. It's worth looking into what they offer if you need to send money overseas by trying the free currency converter on the right.



History of the Remittance Man

Remittance men originally came from England, but not any more. Far from it; more are from still-developing countries in Asia and also economic refugees from Eastern Europe. People have many different reasons for living and working away from their home countries, but today it's often economic; there's no work or it's not well-enough paid in their own country.

The term dates from the 1880's. 'Remittance Man' was a rather derogatory name given to young Englishmen sent off by their families to live in one of the former British colonies and protectorates such as Rhodesia, Kenya, India, Ceylon, Malaya, Burma, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and also the USA.

Remittance Men were usually the second or younger sons of aristocratic and wealthy British families whose assets were traditionally passed down to the first son, leaving the other children with little or nothing, and therefore few prospects of their own. They often led aimless lives, many of them not knowing what they could do to earn a living.

While they may or may not have included Robert Service, mentioned below with his famous poems about 'men who don't fit in', some of these 'gentlemen' became embarrassments to their families due to drinking, gambling and partying and generally depleting the family's resources while they were still alive. Under the circumstances who could blame them? Payment just for staying away from home! Whatever the reason, a convenient solution was to ship them off somewhere, where they could be sent funds called remittances (money transfers), and they were left to make whatever they could of their lives 'in exile'. Needless to say, many of them continued the debauchery in their new countries, making new friends along the way! However many also established themselves as farmers and businessmen, prospered and became pillars of their local communities.


The 'new breed'of remittance man and woman

During the past thirty or so years, a 'new breed' of remittance men (and women) has evolved, many of whom are Asian in origin. The reason is exactly the opposite, though.

OH, REALLY????


They go off to seek employment in countries with better economies and work opportunities than their own. They earn enough to send (remit) money to support their families back home. Foreign contract workers from China, India, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam and Laos are prime examples. Others have moved permanently with or without their families and are found scattered throughout North America, Britain and Europe, Australia and New Zealand.


In the case of Laos (Lao PDR), many locals were given refugee status and US residence in the mid 1970's as a result of the Vietnam War and the USA and CIA involvement. These 'sub-families' usually still live in ethnic communities with their fellows, maintaining their traditional lifestyle as far as possible; many speak very little English, even after more than thirty years of living in the USA. Their children are different, though, in that they go to school with other Americans, and so they learn about Western ways as well as the English language. These families continue to send money back to their 'poorer relations' in Laos, where families sometimes rely solely on these remittances, giving some little or no incentive to try and earn money for themselves, except by menial methods. A few will use the money to educate their children better.


Fitting in with today's society; choosing where to live

For most of us it's a matter of personal choice where we live and work, but included among the 'wanderers' and work-seekers are those who seem to have trouble 'fitting in' wherever they try and settle. There are numerous reasons for people wanting to make a new or fresh start. Failed relationships or bereavement, or early retirement in a cheaper place. And there are plenty of choices of destination too, especially in Southeast Asia.

Living in a foreign country where nobody knows you may be a daunting prospect for many. For others it can be a solution to a problem – an escape from 'the system' or anonymity. It's possible to regain one's own 'sovereignty' – personal and financial freedom and independence. Visit the Sovereign Life website to learn more.

There's nothing stopping anyone who wants to from creating a new life and choosing exactly who to share it with or by staying in 'splendid isolation', without pressure from family or others left behind in 'the old country'.

Not everyone feels the need to 'fit in' with the people around them. Some say that fitting in is overrated; Leonard Felder wrote a book with that precise title, and it's worth reading by anyone who feels 'out in the cold'; it could be the right place to be for you.

Others will say it's important to feel part of what's going on around you, particularly socially. Otherwise you probably won't have much fun in your life. There's a VHS video about that too called "Fitting in and Having Fun".

The internet has opened up new opportunities of course, allowing people to live, stay in contact and do business from anywhere there's an internet connection.

More and more people from the so-called sophisticated developed 'rich' Western countries are finding that the quality of life there is constantly being eroded. For all the benefits of new technology, basic values and simple pleasures are becoming increasingly difficult to find and maintain. When the pressure and stress starts to become intolerable, this is the time to think about a move, and many are doing it. There are dozens of places one can live and work or retire where life will be infinitely more rewarding and fulfilling. It may be a simpler life with less material benefit by comparison, but surely happiness is more important than money itself.

The two poems below are among the better-known works of Robert W Service, born in England in 1874 and who went (perhaps as a Remittance Man himself) to Canada's Yukon in 1904 over 100 years ago. At the time it was 'tough country' – definitely not one of today's 'tropical paradises', although people of many countries have immigrated to Canada!

Service was employed by the Canadian Bank of Commerce and posted to its branch in Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory. Inspired by the awe-inspiring beauty of the wilderness of Canada's north, he began writing poems about the things he saw, including the hardships of Yukon 'Gold Rush' miners. Works like "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee" made him famous around the world. Here are perhaps his best-known poems.

The Rhyme of the Remittance Man

There's a four-pronged buck a-swinging in the shadow of my cabin,
And it roamed the velvet valley till to-day;
But I tracked it by the river, and I trailed it in the cover,
And I killed it on the mountain miles away.
Now I've had my lazy supper, and the level sun is gleaming
On the water where the silver salmon play;
And I light my little corn-cob, and I linger, softly dreaming,
In the twilight, of a land that's far away.

Far away, so faint and far, is flaming London, fevered Paris,
That I fancy I have gained another star;
Far away the din and hurry, far away the sin and worry,
Far away – God knows they cannot be too far.
Gilded galley-slaves of Mammon – how my purse-proud brothers
taunt me!
I might have been as well-to-do as they
Had I clutched like them my chances, learned their wisdom,
crushed my fancies,
Starved my soul and gone to business every day.

Well, the cherry bends with blossom and the vivid grass is springing,
And the star-like lily nestles in the green;
And the frogs their joys are singing, and my heart in tune is ringing,
And it doesn't matter what I might have been.
While above the scented pine-gloom, piling heights of golden glory,
The sun-god paints his canvas in the west,
I can couch me deep in clover, I can listen to the story
Of the lazy, lapping water – it is best.

While the trout leaps in the river, and the blue grouse thrills the cover,
And the frozen snow betrays the panther's track,
And the robin greets the dayspring with the rapture of a lover,
I am happy, and I'll nevermore go back.
For I know I'd just be longing for the little old log cabin,
With the morning-glory clinging to the door,
Till I loathed the city places, cursed the care on all the faces,
Turned my back on lazar London evermore.

So send me far from Lombard Street, and write me down a failure;
Put a little in my purse and leave me free.
Say: "He turned from Fortune's offering to follow up a pale lure,
He is one of us no longer – let him be."
I am one of you no longer; by the trails my feet have broken,
The dizzy peaks I've scaled, the camp-fire's glow;
By the lonely seas I've sailed in – yea, the final word is spoken,
I am signed and sealed to nature. Be it so.

The Men That Don't Fit In

There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.

If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.

And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.

He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
He's a man who won't fit in.

Robert William Service (1874-1958)


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Below we see that the FANTASTIC article written by AMERICAN UNIVERSITY professor EXOPOLITICS --GALACTIC HUMAN SLAVE TRADE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE --AI is saying this same thing.  Global banking 1% are LOONEY TUNES so our 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE and our 99% of new immigrants have to go to the FUNNY PAGES to follow MOVING FORWARD GOALS.



'In the 18th and 19th centuries, the major colonial powers supported flourishing slave trades in their respective colonies through corrupt local elites or outright conquest of foreign territories. As the abolitionist movement spread and raised consciousness in former colonial powers such as Spain and Britain, these countries led the way in ending the global slave trade. According to the latest testimony of secret space program whistleblower, Corey Goode (aka GoodETxSG), a galactic human slave trade exists where millions of captured humans are taken off planet to distant colonies on other worlds to be bartered or abused'.

MOVING FORWARD today is seeing what were our US 5% to the 1% freemason/Greek players allowed to be WINNERS for a few decades now being aligned to be those REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN sent to overseas FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES with no chance of EVER COMING BACK to an AMERICAN REPUBLIC.

What we are seeing today in US from those global banking 1% CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA now TRUMP is this same assurance for those 5% freemason/Greeks being offshored one way or another----DON'T WORRY, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT YOU CAN COME BACK.  So, too is this being said to our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens being shipped off as well to be EX-PATS under the guise of ordinary quality of life seeking.  

WANT REAL US QUALITY HEALTH CARE---THEN BE A GLOBAL HEALTH TOURIST TO THAILAND WHERE YOU CAN AFFORD IT---DON'T WORRY IF YOU GO YOU WILL BE ABLE TO COME BACK.



'Finally, Corey describes a very positive future for humanity after “Full Disclosure” which will experience a future Star Trek-like civilization where former victims of the galactic human slave trade can safely return'.



We are reading a global banking 1% freemason LITERARY STAR novel THE DEVINER where as usual US readers are being taken back to colonial American history by a main character living today.  REMITTANCE MAN in THE DEVINER is seen as the local SCAVENGER (trash man) who has no connection to his community surrounding him ---his life is tied to CLAN MYTHOLOGY from OLD WORLD.


This is why we say those 5% to the 1% freemason/Greek players often tied to these OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS or global banking 1% are killing their own futures as they are slated very soon to be thrown into that global labor pool EX-PAT slave trade system built by CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.



THE DEVINERS

---Margaret Laurence


Morag Gunn is a successful forty-seven-year-old novelist who has bought a farm in rural Ontario, where she is trying to write a new novel. The discovery of some snapshots of her as a small child sets off a series of recollections; The Diviners is the story of Morag’s life, told in chronologically arranged flashbacks alternating with events in her present.
Morag was orphaned young and brought up in the small Manitoba town of Manawaka by Christie Logan, the despised town scavenger, and his increasingly obese and inactive wife, Prin.


The US was built on nothing but REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN whether from wealthy families or working class/poor.



Remittance Men and the Character of Cannon Beach

AUTHOR(S)
Grady, C. Jill
PUB. DATE
March 2007
SOURCE
Oregon Historical Quarterly;Spring2007, Vol. 108 Issue 1, p68
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article



ABSTRACT
The article focuses on the so-called "remittance men" and the character of Cannon Beach in Oregon. During the 1890s, a number of bachelors had come over from England and were called remittance men. Remittance refers to the financial support some British men received while living away from home, either as an advanced lump sum or through regular deposits into local banks.




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24776916


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Try as they might to make this thousands of years history of our wealthy families sending off all but that first born son overseas to seek their own fortunes ----labeling these sons as PRODIGAL/TROUBLED -----some were, most were simply unlucky in not being that first born son.

All last century our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE rarely read stories, media about this global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS' policy until CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.  These few decades have filled our media with stories of REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN myth-making and propagandized by revising history to reflect today's goals of MOVING FORWARD.

If our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE feel pushed to attend COLLEGE overseas ---get that AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE in MYANMAR------think we are being sent by that global corporate campus in Baltimore to which you have been vocationally tracked to FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE overseas able to simply return to US if we do not like it----FORGET-ABOUT-THAT ----MR AND MS REMITTANCE HUMAN CAPITAL.



All but the first son was always sent away to foreign lands to seek his fortune as a protection for first son from revenge or competition for family wealth and power.....this again has existed from 3000BC ancient Greece/SPICE AND SILK TRADE ROUTES.  WHY modern US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE would allow MOVING FORWARD to kill our AMERICAN REPUBLIC to be thrown into this ARCHAIC structure-----we have not figured that one out.


Review: Exemplary history of British remittance men


For a few decades at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, British aristocrats and well-to-do businessmen lumbered with prodigal sons who were unacceptable to their Victorian sensibilities because they were, even more than usual among their class, wasters, gamblers, and sexual eccentrics, would often pack the boys off to the colonies, promising some family support so long as they kept their scandals at a safe distance.

Tom Sandborn
Updated: July 1, 2016


Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons: British Remittance Men in the Canadian West
By Mark Zuehlke
Harbour Publishing





The spendthrift, disinherited and graceless,
accepted his pittance with an easy air,
only surprised he could escape so simply
from the pheasant-shooting and the aunts in the close;
took to the life, dropped easily out of knowledge,
and tramping the backtracks in the summer haze
let everything but life slip through his fingers.

Judith Wright, “Remittance Man”



For a few decades at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, British aristocrats and well-to-do businessmen lumbered with prodigal sons who were unacceptable to their Victorian sensibilities because they were, even more than usual among their class, wasters, gamblers, and sexual eccentrics, would often pack the boys off to the colonies, promising some family support so long as they kept their scandals at a safe distance.



Many of them came to Canada in those decades, and Victoria writer Mark Zuehlke’s book Scoundrels, Dreamers and Second Sons, re-issued this spring by Harbour Publishing after some years out of print, tells their stories.


 Zuehlke grew up in the Okanagan, one of the centres of remittance man settlement in Canada, and he remembers hearing a local legend  (possibly apocryphal but compelling nonetheless) about how these subsidized reprobates left the valley at the beginning of the First World War. According to the story, the nearly 1,000 remittance men in the valley made a pact amongst themselves when news of the outbreak of war reached them by short wave radio. 




On a single day they saddled up, left the modest cabins that studded the valley and rode, each to his neighbour’s cabin. At the next cabin, they shot their neighbour’s old hunting dogs and horses that would be of no use to their Canadian neighbours and burnt down the cabin. While the authenticity of this account remains uncertain, it does provide a powerful image of the young aristocrats beginning their return home under a haze of wood smoke, off to the battle smoke of the Western Front where many of them died as junior officers in the trenches.



At any rate, by the end of the Great War, most of the remittance men who had made western Canada home for a few decades were gone, either joining their generation’s vast burnt offering in the war or  inheriting  the estates of older brothers whose death cleared the way for their return. But before they disappeared into the smokes of legend, battle and ironically acquired respectability, this odd band of unusual British settlers left behind a treasure trove of fascinating stories, which Zuehhlke recorded in this, his first book.



The colourful figures he has rescued from forgotten archives make up a little known chapter in Canadian history. They include the hapless remittance men who arrived in Calgary only to be persuaded by amused locals that they would only be accepted as real western cowboys if they bought a grotesque costume made up of sheepskin chaps with the wool on, huge spurs and a ten gallon hat.



The sight of newly arrived Brits teetering down the street in high heeled cowboy boots in this comic outfit brightened the day of many a 19th century Calgarian. Perhaps even more amusing for Canadians, who tended to see the remittance men as richly comic figures, were the steamer trunks and crates the typical new arrival unloaded from the train at journey’s end, luggage stuffed with tweed suits, dinner jackets, tennis rackets, polo mallets, Norfolk jackets, straw boaters and full china and silver tea sets.



And right across the Canadian west, the remittance men were a steady support to bar tenders and whiskey dealers. Many of the stories Zuehlke has gathered feature the heroic binges and open house parties conducted by remittance men when their checks arrived from home. From Duncan, B.C., known then as the most English town in Canada to Vernon, Windermere and Calgary, the family exiles did their best to support Canada’s alcohol industries.




The re-issue of this charming book is timely. It will make an entertaining summer read, especially for readers who live in some of the communities across the west where the remittance men had their brief turn on the Canadian stage. The prose is consistently competent and amusing, and occasionally moving.




Only one small caveat occurs to this reviewer.  In Zuehlke’s telling, the era of remittance men began shortly after the Crimean war, when the manifest failures of British army leadership exposed in that conflict led to a more merit-based system of selecting officers, a system that closed off the army as an option for no good second sons of the nobility. It is surprising to see Zuehlke, who has prospered as a military historian, suggesting that the officer corps of the Empire’s army was merit based after Crimea. The shambles of military leadership in the  First World War certainly suggests otherwise.

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HILLARY CLINTON coined the phrase IT TAKES A VILLAGE in her ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT corruption of our real left social progressive policy of women in family women in community women in workplace through all last century. To KILLERY HILLARY that phrase in its corrupted form was ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE were all these FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES are ONE VILLAGE and we can be sure there is no HUMANITY to be found in ONE WORLD ONE VILLAGE.



What all these global banking 1% freemason STAR mediums are doing in returning to REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN plots in HOLLYWOOD, LITERATURE, MUSIC, et al is advancing the global banking 1% goal of killing our US WE THE PEOPLE sense of developed nation COMMUNITY-----where all 99% of citizens black, white, and brown citizens work together as a community----to return to archaic TRIBAL/CLAN -----survival depends on CLAN not community----not government structures-----no looking towards a future because one has to survive TODAY.


Below we see that CLINTON ONE WORLD ONE VILLAGE policy being installed these few decades in all FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES overseas-----with these children never learning what REAL US freedom, liberty, justice, pursuit of happiness, 99% of WE THE PEOPLE with rights as citizens charged with building, maintaining, controlling our local economies to be that VILLAGE-----these AFRICAN 99% of children will be taught that ONE WORLD ONE VILLAGE is a GOOD THING.


All of these policies being installed in AFRICAN FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES are UNITED NATIONS global corporate campus sustainability global banking 1% bought those 1% African players to install these policies with goals of killing actual family tribal communities.

REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN PLEASE THANK YOU!


It takes a village: the Malawi school Guardian readers helped build



Thirteen years ago, inspired by an article, readers raised £20,000 to give children living in rural Malawi an education. What happened next?


The four young men standing near the library in the centre of the dusty village of Gumbi have not seen each other for many months. It’s the school holidays in Malawi and they’ve come back to see family and friends. They joke around, laugh about their work, the changes they can see in the village and each other. They look strong, confident and serious, happy to be home.



At 23, James Gomani is the second oldest. He is at university, studying accountancy. His friends Kennedy and Josephy Jimmy, and Yohane Lungu, have just qualified as teachers and are working 100 miles away in villages near Lake Malawi. It’s the first time in a year the four have been together in their dirt-poor village of subsistence farmers, and they talk about first jobs and their hopes.




I first met them in 2002, when they were boys. They were unable to speak a word of English, Malawi’s official language, and used to walk miles barefoot to primary school, collect water from the village pump and work in their family’s maize fields. Those were bad times, they remember. Along with many thousands of other villages in one of the poorest countries on Earth, Gumbi was racked by famine when a long drought destroyed crops two years running.

James was seven then, an only child after his brother and sister died. He and his three friends suffered badly when the food ran out and there was no prospect of another harvest for many months. They remember going hungry, being taught by rote in the shade of a tree and being taken out of school when their parents had no money and needed them in the fields. “No one had any hope for the future,” James says.




But many things have changed since then – and Guardian Weekend readers played a part in that. This is the story of how the village with just one book became a village of teachers.

TEACHERS AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS TRAINED IN THIRD WORLD AS AFRICA ARE THOSE MOST OFTEN PUSHED INTO GLOBAL LABOR POOL AS EXPATS.



***
I first visited Gumbi in March 2002, at the height of the Malawian food crisis, when 80% of the small southern African country of 12 million people were said to be hungry. I had been travelling with the Irish charity Concern, reporting from health clinics, hospitals and feeding centres. It was distressing. Wherever we went, there was shocking destitution, malnutrition and death. In one hospital, at Nambuma, a small town about 50km west of the capital Lilongwe, many of the women and children said they were from a place called Gumbi. Why is it so bad there, I asked a government health official called Patrick Kamzitu.



“Let’s go and see,” he said.

When I first visited Gumbi, there was a single book in a village of 400 people – no water, no electricity, no school

From Nambuma, you get to Gumbi past a huge brick church built by the White Fathers missionaries and a football pitch, down a warren of unsigned narrow tracks through fields of maize. The village consisted then of about 70 mud-built, straw-thatched houses. The place seemed deserted and many structures had no roofs. A few women sat under a tree, their infants listless. A tired-looking man introduced himself as “Mr Jamu, the chief”.




Gumbi had nothing, he apologised. No clean water, no shops and no assets beyond a few bicycles and ox carts. There was a single book in the village of about 400 people, there was no electricity or TV, no clinic, no school or shop, and everyone had run out of food. Gumbi had been hit particularly hard by the drought, he said, because everyone was desperately poor and no one had skills other than maize farming. The village was empty, because in times of hunger people leave to seek work elsewhere.


In those bad days, Gumbi’s “nkhokwe”, the traditional woven granaries in which families stored their maize, were all empty. Many children were being treated for malnutrition in the local hospital, and those who lived did what they always do in a major drought: they sold anything they could, to buy any food they could, at massively inflated prices.



Fit adults left the village to seek scarce day work on building sites or tobacco farms, children were taken out of school, and anyone left in the village ate maize stalks, leaves and berries, prayed for rains that they knew would not come for months, or for food aid to arrive. Some just waited for the end.



Two bad harvests in a row was very rare in Malawi, but in Lilongwe it became clear that this was a manmade famine. The IMF and donor countries, including the UK, had advised the government to sell off its grain reserves because they were expensive to maintain; the EU had said only a little food would be needed in the case of a local disaster. So rich traders had bought and hoarded food and were now selling it at excessive prices, while emergency supplies had been slow to reach landlocked Malawi.



I returned to the village three times that year, with the idea of following life through the famine. I watched as food aid arrived, and then the rains. That year 17 villagers died from malnutrition-related diseases, and nearly all the children suffered from the lack of food.


In December 2002, on a fourth and, I imagined, last visit to the village, five women told me about the issues they were facing. “Hunger is awful,” said Joyce. “I had a child who died of hunger. I went to the hospital but it was too late. I had five children who were malnourished. How can you send children to school if they are malnourished and ill?”


“We have been on the edge of life for a long time,” said Lucy. “It’s the very poor who have suffered. Here there are no rich people, but there are many people with nothing. Maybe we live, maybe we die.” She was beginning to see the children needed access to education. “We do not have the skills to go forward and change our lives. We need to know about other sorts of farming, we need to learn about doing other things. We have no one to teach us.” The women reasoned that without schooling, language and new skills, they would not survive.
***
The great hope of Gumbi at that time was a 13-year-old girl, Margaradena Njewa. She had come top of her class in the nearby Nambuma girls’ primary school, and had passed a national exam giving her entry to one of Malawi’s better, boarding secondary schools. By any standards in rural Malawi, this was an achievement, but for a young Gumbi girl it was a triumph.



The reality, though, was that it would cost the family about £80 a year to send her to the school. There were no scholarships and no money. Instead, she had been helped by the extraordinary sacrifice of her elder brother, Kennedy. So important did he consider his baby sister’s education for the future of the family and the village that he had sold his ox cart, his only means of earning money. It raised about £35, enough to pay for Margaradena’s first two terms.


John Vidal’s 2003 article as it appeared in the Guardian’s Saturday magazineKennedy had no idea how he would pay for the rest of her schooling, but he reasoned that even a few months’ secondary teaching would give her a chance. Some people thought him wrong, even stupid, but a couple of weeks before I visited Gumbi for the last time in 2002, he waved Margaradena off. Kennedy’s own dream, he said, was to learn English and expand his and the village’s horizons. He deeply regretted that he had never been to secondary school. He owned the only book in the village, a tatty English-Chichewa dictionary.



Margaradena was far too shy to speak to me then, but Kennedy told me, “She is very intelligent. She will learn. If this village is to change, then we need education. Without it we cannot survive. If we do not have education, then we will be like slaves.”



I wrote a piece for this magazine about Margaradena and the village’s plight, and added a note asking readers if they would contribute to an education fund. Within days we had raised around £20,000. A fund was set up, to be overseen by Sister Modesta, a Teresian nun from the church in Nambuma, and Patrick Kamzitu, the government health worker who had taken me to the village. Any child from Gumbi (or nearby schools) who passed their government entry exams became eligible for a free secondary education. Orphans and girls were to be given priority.


It sounded easy enough. The families would be given the money, the children would be educated and everyone would prosper. Sadly, it proved much more complicated.

There was immediate progress: in that first year, 30 children had their school fees paid and a local builder was employed to construct a smart new classroom block at the primary school, and an office for the teachers. But no one had foreseen just how derelict Malawi’s rural schools were. The roof of the boys’ primary school in Nambuma had fallen in five years previously, and the whole school in the nearby village of Mguwata was a pile of bricks. Classes of 100 or more were being taught under trees. There was no money for books, blackboards or materials, and no secondary school had light. It was impossible to attract professionals to live in derelict huts without windows or water, and few who came had any qualifications. We realised that it wasn’t just money holding children back, but cultural suspicion, deep necessity and ignorance.


The full disaster revealed itself slowly in the maths. In any group of 100 children in rural Malawi, it emerged, fewer than 60 could expect more than a year’s primary education, and just 10 might qualify to go on to secondary education. Of those 10, nine could be expected to drop out within a year or two, because their parents could not afford the fees or uniforms. Primary education was free, but secondary schooling cost £20 or more a year. In Gumbi, that could be 30% of a family’s income.


Only a handful of Gumbi children had ever got into the local secondary school, St Martin’s, and no one had finished more than a year there. Effectively, the village children ended their school days at age 10, unable to read, write, speak English or do much more than hoe the fields and cook nsima, the national maize dish. Children and parents may have said they wanted education, but they were denied it by absolute poverty. And while parents wanted to give their children the best chance in life, the reality was that, even with an offer to pay the school fees, they needed their children in the fields or at home.


Nevertheless, with cash from Weekend readers, Margaradena had her education paid in an all-girls boarding school at Namitete, near the border with Zambia, and Kennedy was able to buy back his ox cart. Three other children who had qualified for secondary school that year were sent to other boarding schools; a village committee chose three children for boarding scholarships and others to go to day secondary schools.


The fund developed independently of the Guardian, and each year raised about £5,000, largely from a small group of readers, many of them ex-teachers. Every year, the Gumbi education committee was told how much money was available and someone from Britain visited, at their own expense. There were no administrative costs except a small stipend for Kamzitu. We made a commitment to Gumbi that we would stick with it for the long term; this was not just a quick fundraiser.

Rupert Murdoch paid for full-page newspaper apologies for phone-hacking, and the fund doubled. A library was built

By 2007, classroom blocks in several schools had been rebuilt and 55 children were having their fees paid at secondary level. In 2009, Kamzitu wrote: “Of the 64 children who we put through secondary education last year, nine passed their exams – the best results achieved so far. But the biggest change has been the attitude of parents in Gumbi itself. This year, 29 children from the village will go to secondary school, more than twice as many as have ever been before.”



And then in 2011, thanks to Rupert Murdoch, the fund doubled in size. Following the Guardian’s long-running investigation into News International’s hacking of celebrities’ telephones, the Murdoch media empire was obliged to take out full-page advertisements in the UK national press to apologise. The Guardian decided to give this unexpected revenue to charity, and a chunk came to the Gumbi fund. A one-room village library, provisionally called the R Murdoch Education Facility, was built and an expedition was mounted to choose books in Lilongwe. The children returned chastened. In Malawi, £400 may buy a secondary education for dozens of children a year, but it covers only a handful of books.


AS IN OUR US CITIES DURING ROBBER BARON STEALING FROM THE POOR---ALL THESE THIRD WORLD FAKE SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE PROGRAMS ONLY FUNNELED MONEY TO BE LOOTED.




Most of the Murdoch money went to Gumbi’s neighbouring village Mguwata. When I visited it for the first time in 2010, it had worse facilities than most refugee camps. The school, supposedly built for 300 children, consisted of one run-down classroom block, two semi-derelict, roofless blocks and a thatched shelter. The rest was a pile of bricks, the buildings having been demolished five years previously because they were in such a dangerous condition.

The six teachers had no chairs, desks, books, pencils, windows or chalkboards. Only two classes could be held indoors at the same time, so the children sat in the open and were sent home when it was too hot or it rained. Only a handful had ever gone on to secondary school and no one ever finished.


***
This year, more than 100 children are being educated to secondary level in the two villages Mguwata and Gumbi; there are feeding programmes when food is scarce; and all the local schools have solar lighting. The primary school in Mguwata has two brand new classroom blocks and 597 children. But government funding is pitiful. “We get 617,692 kwacha [£585] a year for pens and paper for 597 pupils. That’s less than £1 per pupil per year. That must cover repairs to the buildings, too,” says headteacher Amos Kautsa, showing me the government receipts. “Lots and lots of children drop out, especially the girls.”



The villages are still desperately poor. Gumbi has many more houses than it had in 2002, more tin roofs and bicycles, three football teams, and more people finding work outside the fields. According to some of the parents, people have moved there from neighbouring villages because of the free secondary education.



Last year, solar lighting came to all the local schools, as well as 41 houses in Gumbi and more in Mguwata, after money was left to the fund by a British family. A plaque on the small three-room Mguwata library, its bricks made by the village, reads, “The Dr David Montefiore Memorial Library”.

Chatting in the library, James Gomani and the young Gumbi-born teachers tell me how much they value education. “It means everything,” says Gomani. “I was so happy when I got to university. It was my great hope and aim. But I know that education does not end there. I was the first in my family, the first in the village, to go. But others are working now just as hard as I did. Optimism is a great motivation.”



“Without education there can be no change. With it, everything can happen. People have different aims,” says Kennedy Jimmy.



“Our family was absolutely poor. No one had anything. We had no hope for the future, no sense that there was a future. I am a different person,” agrees his elder brother Josephy.
***
But education divides, too, and guarantees nothing. My visit coincides with the first time Margaradena Njewa has returned to Gumbi in six years. I had seen her only once since she went off to boarding school, when I visited her school in 2005. We had talked for 30 minutes, and I had pressed soap, pens and pencils and a bit of pocket money into her hand. She had told me that she wanted to be a television presenter.



Now a beautiful young woman speaking good English, she is as shy as ever but tells me that she did not pass her national exams and go to university as so many people had wanted her to. Instead, she changed school but was not happy and, after six years of a different boarding school, moved to Lilongwe, where she met a boy and had a child, Priscilla. She is now a kindergarten teacher at a private school in the capital.



She is still in touch with her family but she had not told anyone in the village where she was and what she was doing. Returning to Gumbi last month was clearly emotional. People were glad to see her but did not quite know how to approach this young urban woman with a baby in her arms. From talking to others, I understood that she now felt awkward with her old friends. Education had taught her to speak English, and how to read and write, but life had not miraculously changed for the better.

Margaradena came top of her class, and won a place at a good school. She is now a teacher, with a daughter of her own

“I think I may have disappointed people,” she tells me. “But I don’t want to come back now. What would I do? I would be bored. I want to work. I still want to be a TV presenter.”



“Perhaps she felt there was too much expectation put on her,” Kamzitu tells me. “Everyone wanted to see her succeed. What we have learned is that it’s not enough to give people schooling. They need [vocational] training, too.”





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If we read

'Galactic Human Slave Trade & AI threat to End with Full Disclosure of ET Life

as we discussed ALICE IN WONDERLAND-------a fantasy story filled with multiple layers of symbols, signs, codes the first thing US 99% WE THE PEOPLE and our 99% new immigrant citizens to US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES need to see is the blending of GOALS OF GLOBAL SLAVE TRADE TODAY built by CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA-----and goals of future SPACE MINING SLAVE COLONIES MOVING FORWARD by these same global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS' pols and players-----which indeed have those global 1% already planning what a SPACE COLONY MOON communicating with a SPACE COLONY MARS communicating with a SPACE COLONY CERES will look like and yes, everyone captured in these SPACE COLONIES will be REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN whether from wealthy family or working class/poor.  As hard as ELON MUSK and SPACE X try to make all these space policies sound like a TWO-WAY STREET----they are not.




'Finally, Corey describes a very positive future for humanity after “Full Disclosure” which will experience a future Star Trek-like civilization where former victims of the galactic human slave trade can safely return. Humanity will be finally able to evolve into a positive fourth density society where individuals will be free to develop higher consciousness abilities that will significantly improve their quality of life, as writers such as David Wilcock have been very actively promoting'.

We want to concentrate this week on EARTH'S global slave trade distribution system happening NOW with CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA working as hard as they can to install this structure in our US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES while national media PRETENDS its all about protecting immigrants, children, working families needing housing, jobs, health care -----

Selling the idea that ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY GRID and ONE WORLD ONE VILLAGE is a good thing for our 99% WE THE PEOPLE whether US or global citizens.

THIS IS GLOBAL NBC -----DEVOPS.


'often needs a cultural transformation that builds a true community with the same aims and goals'.



Enterprise DevOps: It Takes a Village 
DevOpsTV
Streamed live on Feb 9, 2017



When talking about enterprise DevOps transformation, many people look for a silver bullet—a magic wand that will convert an old, inefficient organization into a high-performing, DevOps-enabled IT team. But in truth there is no single silver bullet. DevOps takes a village. This DevOps village, like a real village, consists of physical infrastructure, as well as members. DevOps
often needs a cultural transformation that builds a true community with the same aims and goals. No one vendor has all the tools and no one tool does it all. DevOps tools must work in unison. Finally, a methodology that recognizes the communal nature of DevOps is essential to bringing it all together.

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There is no bigger source of MOVING FORWARD back to DARK AGES then of course those global TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONS being merged into ONE WORLD ONE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION----NBC TIME WARNER DISNEY having spent last century being the source of all that FANTASY MEDIA as ALICE/OZ/BATMAN/LOONEY TUNES/ GALACTIC HUMAN SLAVE TRADE AI----many of our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE are being tracked overseas as this global network is being installed being the earliest REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN.





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Our US Congress and CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA have pushed as hard and fast as a basketball offensive guard to hit the basket of ONE WORLD ONE VILLAGE ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID.  What used to be US media corporations were handed these few decade to global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.  These monopolies are illegal and can simply be dismantled if US 99% WE THE PEOPLE simply get rid of all global banking 5% freemason/Greek players having pledged to do ANYTHING THEY ARE TOLD.

YOU KNOW, EMPIRE ALICE'S 'WE DON'T CARE' PLAYERS.


We discussed in detail how South Africa is being taken by these global technology corporations laying cable tied to 5G microwave capture and transmission -----if our US workers are being sent to these overseas Foreign Economic Zones ----unlike these few decades passed---the goals are leaving our US 99% as EX-PATS.  Those higher paying white collar professional jobs for our US freemason/Greeks-----DISAPPEARING MOVING FORWARD to ONE-WAY-TICKET ONLY with no higher pay-----you are a remittance man now.




DevOps


How NBC Universal sped delivery and cut costs with DevOps


March 21, 2017 | Written by: Kevin Allen

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If businesses find the success with DevOps that NBC Universal has, it’s safe to say that it’ll be sticking around.

At IBM InterConnect Monday, Angel Diaz, IBM vice president of developer technology and advocacy, told the crowd, “We are living in a technology-fueled business revolution.”



He was referring, of course, to DevOps, the approach to building software and applications that breaks down barriers between developers, IT staff and operation managers in an agile, iterative environment. It’s about tapping into the collective skill of what Diaz refers to as “the business technical pulse.”



“It’s all about the people; the mastery of the machine and the method,” Diaz said.


One organization that has mastered the machine and the method is NBC Universal. John Comas, who manages the company’s platform DevOps, was on hand to share his account of his company’s journey.
The approachIn a joint session at InterConnect titled “DevOps: The New Reality for Enterprise Transformation,” Comas said his company implemented DevOps to “modernize our technology to align with the business strategy.”



“DevOps gives us the agility to keep up with changes in the marketplace,” he said, “and it enables us to instantly respond to the ever-changing business requirements. Most importantly, it allows us to remain competitive with our corporate rivals.”



He told the crowd that he approached a DevOps culture at NBC Universal through what are commonly referred to as “The 5 C’s”:



With #DevOps, @NBCUniversal is “developing faster and more efficiently than ever and at much lower costs,” says John Comas. #ibminterconnect pic.twitter.com/JgPXmzs8eP
— IBM Cloud (@IBMcloud) March 20, 2017


  • Continuous integration
  • Continuous delivery
  • Continuous testing
  • Continuous feedback
  • Continuous monitoring


“At its core, DevOps takes software development and systems integration and combines them together using agile methodology,” Comas said.



In his team’s continuous integration, developers commit code to the software configuration management and merge with the main line multiple times per day. Every commit results in a build. In continuous delivery, the same build is deployed to every environment, from development to production, and the team delivers smaller releases more often.


With continuous feedback, his team can provide “the pulse of the application development project” in real time, Comas said.



Continuous monitoring gives his team the ability to immediately alert the development team of any operational disruptions.



Comas said that NBC Universal’s software delivery life cycle was built on and powered through the IBM UrbanCode suite.
“It’s what I like to call ‘the central nexus of our DevOps,’” he said.




“We want to provide our consumers with the most comprehensive, robust, state-of-the-art, bleeding-edge DevOps capabilities in the industry,” he added. “We want to build software as efficiently as possible.”
The resultsWith DevOps, Comas said his team improved the quality of the code. He said the team is developing code “faster and more efficiently than ever and at much lower costs.”



His organization also brought together siloed teams: software development, quality assurance and technology operations.



But the real proof is in the numbers. For its Universal Orlando project, DevOps helped the business:
  • Reduce app deployment time from 2.5 weeks to 20 minutes
  • Reduce time for 1,000 test suite from 6-8 weeks to three hours
  • Instantly provision production-like test environments with Skytap through UrbanCode
Get started on your own journeyIf you’re looking to get started with DevOps, the Bluemix Garage Method combines practices from design thinking, agile development, lean startup and DevOps to build innovative solutions.



“Anyone can learn from the experiences that we’ve had at building this stuff together along with the open source communities,” Diaz said, “by understanding the practices in the Bluemix Garage Method.”


Find out more about how you can get started with the Bluemix Garage Method here.
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We want to give one personal example of how NOT TO BE TIED TO CLAN-----rather winning because we fight to be US 99% WE THE PEOPLE ---CITIZENS.

WALSH has a long history of OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS medieval players today having many WALSH families as FREEMASON/GREEKS------some with lots of money.  Some are PROTESTANT---some are CATHOLIC ----some are HUMANISTS.

What we see filling our US global banking LITERARY STAR novels et al are stories of AMERICANS looking back at their OLD WORLD CLANS---rather than last century's stories of AMERICA THE GREAT---AMERICA THE FREE---AMERICA the place all the world wants to be.




Walsh Jesuit High School is a private, Jesuit high school in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1964, the school was funded by a gift from and named after Cornelius and Jane Walsh. It has been recognized twice as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education, in 1985 and again in 2002.


'The Walsh crest, usually shown with a banner reading the Walsh motto, and topped with a Swan that has been pierced by an arrow'.

So, why did WE not tie ourselves to CLAN---------

BECAUSE WE KNEW MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1% would throw all 5% freemason/Greek players under the bus-----while fighting to be a US CITIZEN-----with US CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS---BILL OF RIGHTS---AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT HUMAN RIGHTS ---THE I AM MAN AND WOMAN RIGHTS -----was light years better than being that WALSH CLAN MEMBER.


These freemason/Greek economic policies tied to 3000BC LAISSEZ FAIRE global market were felt mostly in our original 13 AMERICAN COLONIES.  Our 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE did not feel or experience the capture of OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS----we were too busy being CITIZENS within a REAL US DOMESTIC LOCAL ECONOMY actually having rights, freedoms, able to have any political voice we wanted.......YOU KNOW, we were REAL left social progressive US CITIZENS.


We are AMERICAN loving our Irish/Celtic ROOTS knowing the history of REMITTANCE MEN AND WOMEN bringing NO power to our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens.

Please stop CLANNING AROUND --- stand up and be US CITIZENS!

'The Walsh Clan

- Eoin 'Pope' O'Mahony - YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFer0To-zdM This audio is from a Radio Eireann (now RTE) programme called 'Meet the Clans' broadcast in the late 1950s & early 1960s. A man known as Eoin (‘Pope’) O’ Mah...'




Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Walsh Clan



IrishCentral Staff Writer
@IrishCentral
October 14, 2016 08:11 AM


Irish derivation: Ó Breathnach
Name meaning: "Breton," "Welshman," or "Foreigner"
Counties associated with the name: Cork, Dublin, Kerry, Kilkenny, Limerick, Mayo, Offaly, Sligo, Tipperary, 
Coat of arms motto: Transfixed, but not dead.
Interesting Facts:
 - Fourth most common surname in Ireland
 - The French government distinguished an Irish immigrant Walsh family in the 1700s for their efforts in the French army.
 - The name was used in particular to denote the Welshmen who arrived in Ireland in the wake of Strongbow’s Anglo-Norman invasion of 1170.
Famous Walshes/Branaghs:
 - Kenneth Branagh (1960-, Northern Irish actor) ;
 - John Walsh (1945-, host of "America's Most Wanted")
 - Maria Elena Walsh (1930-2011, Argentine singer and writer)
 - Kate Walsh (1967-, American actress)
 - Kimberly Walsh (1981-, British singer) 
 - Norman Walsh (1932-2010, Rhodesian/Zimbabwean air marshal) 



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The week's discussion will move from what we often focus policy talks----our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE as workers----to looking up the income ladder at jobs having historically been given to those global 2% and 5% freemason/Greek players.  

STATE DEPARTMENT DIPLOMACY.  STATE BEING THE SOVEREIGN NATION OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

We have understood all last century the goals of MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE was the ending of NATION-STATE and were told we would return to MEDIEVAL CITY STATE structures -----HILLARY CLINTON called all this ONE WORLD VILLAGE.....IT TAKES A VILLAGE.

Of course throughout these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA those terms were directed at rebuilding our US city COMMUNITIES AS VILLAGES-----bringing people together to fight US CITIES AS FAILED STATES.


What we have seen these few decades is this:  the pathway for those global 2% and some 5% global banking players having been STATE DEPARTMENT embassy, UNITED NATIONS, NATO, WORLD BANK, IMF and all those global NGOs built to install ONE WORLD have started taking away those CHAIRS at the table -----as we shout those global 2% are going under the bus very soon.  The new job for these WHACK A MOLE PLAYERS is being TOKYO ROSE meets TRINITY COLLEGE PROPAGANDIST in media and global NGO leadership.


'An underlying theme of “Virtual Diplomacy” is how the traditional notion of state sovereignty is
no longer relevant to the way the world of the twenty-first century will work'.


So, we are seeing more and more of what used to be US STATES MEN/STATES WOMEN disappearing and more and more BIG DEAD HEADS FLOATING ON TELECONFERENCE SCREENS. We say BIG DEAD HEADS because the images of these global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS do not even have to be real ---its all virtual reality.

The Information Revolution and International


Conflict Management RICHARD H. SOLOMON


Bits, Bytes, and Diplomacy
WALTER B. WRISTON


Diplomacy in the Information Age
GEORGE P. SHULTZ

Solomon, “The Information Revolution and
International Conflict Management”
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“Virtual Diplomacy” is an Institute of Peace project designed to explore how the global Information
Revolution
—today’s explosive growth of telecommunications and information processing capabilities—is transforming international relations. This exploration proceeds from a review of the effects
of the new information technologies on organiza-
tions and the way they do business. Its goal is to
assess the significance of these developments in
communications technologies for managing inter-
national conflict.

What we mean by “Virtual Diplomacy” is political, social, and economic interactions that are mediated through electronic means rather than face-to-face communication.
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New communications technologies are pro-
foundly altering the pace and pattern of conflict
situations just as they are facilitating new forms of
social organization. What “Virtual Diplomacy” is
trying to do is anticipate how society will evolve
along the complex international pathways of the
World Wide Web, the Internet, the global infor-
mation superhighway, and explore how new in-
formation technologies can be used to manage
conflict more effectively.
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It may be too early to assess the long-term impact
on contemporary society of computer-managed

information networks and associated systems of
information collection, analysis, and communica-
tion and storage, yet we can already see some of
their profound—and, at times, contradictory—ef-
fects on social organization and action: decentral-
ization and centralization, fragmentation and
integration, transparency, mobilization and ratio-
nalization, acceleration, and “virtuality.”

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An underlying theme of “Virtual Diplomacy” is
how the traditional notion of state sovereignty is
no longer relevant to the way the world of the
twenty-first century will work. Today, in almost
any part of the world, publics can be mobilized
through radio, telephones, fax machines, and the
Internet, creating “virtual,” or electronic, commu-
nities that are basically divorced from notions of a
territorially defined political community.
-
The world is transparent now in a way it has never
been; we can “see” developments in almost any
part of the world. We are becoming overloaded
with information gathered through all sorts of ve-
hicles, sensors, and people who are able to bring
together through networked communications
their views of the world. This visibility makes it
possible for many more people to take action, but
it also presents decision makers with an informa-
tion glut that they are just beginning to learn how
to manage.
-
The Information Revolution is taking the initiative
in policymaking away from governments. How
policymakers react to and cope with the fact that
their hands are being forced by the mass media--
the so-called “CNN effect”—has created a new set
of challenges for governance and diplomacy. In
addition, the information that is empowering pri-
vate sector individuals and groups means that
nonstate actors are playing an increasingly promi-
nent and autonomous role in the ways that gov-
ernments interact with their citizens and with
other governments.
-
Communications technologies, in and of them-
selves, cannot play the role of third-party media-
tors in a conflict situation; hardware and software
are merely instruments of action. Yet they do facil-
itate interaction and significantly enhance the
exchange of the substance of communication.
“
Virtual Diplomacy” is an effort to assess the ways

vi
that these technologies can help mediate the
communication processes that are essential to
conflict management and resolution.


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We want to include below what is a sensationalized article written by what many call the FRINGE.  We want to place this article in context to what is REALLY MOVING FORWARD because these FRINGE articles are often driven by REAL INFORMATION.

We have already spoken of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA and their goals of rebuilding the global slave trade during these few decades of installing FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES overseas and that goal continuing with MOVING FORWARD US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.


Looking again to HOLLYWOOD for those global banking freemason STARS of STAR TREK-----we saw back in the 1980s KIRK and SPOCK running into a planetary mining slave colony where WAR had ended by a mutual agreement to send a percentage of each planet's citizens to the other planet to be slaves. That of course referred to the building of today's global slave trade nations sending their citizens to other nations to be made slaves.  We shared the FALSE FLAG of this being built in US  with the FAKE national media making it appear a 'LEFT' is fighting for those CA immigrant children when the FAKE LEFT is far-right wing global banking CLINTON/OBAMA neo-liberals top dogs in building these slave trading structures.


We want to take a few days to look at this article to find what in this article is REAL INFORMATION and what is sensationalized to make it appear conspiracy theory.


Remember, these articles preface the goals of PLANETARY MINING SLAVE COLONIES-----but this image is our current EARTHLY ONE WORLD structure of global 1% slave trading our 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE soon to join those third world 99% global labor pool citizens having been captured in this system these few decades by global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.




Galactic Human Slave Trade & AI threat to End with Full Disclosure of ET Life



Written by Dr Michael Salla on May 31, 2015. Posted in exonews, Space Programs


In the 18th and 19th centuries, the major colonial powers supported flourishing slave trades in their respective colonies through corrupt local elites or outright conquest of foreign territories. As the abolitionist movement spread and raised consciousness in former colonial powers such as Spain and Britain, these countries led the way in ending the global slave trade. According to the latest testimony of secret space program whistleblower, Corey Goode (aka GoodETxSG), a galactic human slave trade exists where millions of captured humans are taken off planet to distant colonies on other worlds to be bartered or abused.



Corey claims that the galactic human slave trade is now opposed by an alliance of Secret Space Programs (SSP Alliance) that plan to disclose the full truth about the abusive practices that has plagued humanity for centuries, if not millennia, due to corrupt local elites (Cabal/Illuminati) and intervention by imperial space powers (Draco Empire).



 In part two of his responses to questions sent to him on May 29 Corey explains why the Blue Avian extraterrestrials belonging to a “Sphere Alliance” want him to disclose the darker side of the SSP programs (SSP programs and alliances are explained in part one).
Corey explains that full disclosure of extraterrestrial visitation and different SSPs, requires humanity to be prepared for all aspects of how humanity has been historically and more recently treated by these groups. Revealing this information is not designed to frighten or sensationalize, but to allow the collective consciousness of humanity to integrate the truth of what has happened, in order for humanity to evolve to a much brighter future – what Corey describes as a Star Trek-like society. Not wanting to deal with disturbing information is a sign of not being ready for full disclosure, thereby making it possible for egregious practices to continue. This is analogous to how refusal to discuss allegations of sexual abuse in families can allow these abuses to continue for years.



In his responses, Corey explains just how extensive the Galactic human slave trade has been, the principal parties involved, and the egregious mistreatment of those unfortunate enough to have been taken captive. Corey further explains that “Drop Zones” exist, where the bodies of humans that have been killed, mutilated or exploited in some way have been left, and how national security agencies have suppressed this information.




Corey describes some of the perpetrators of the galactic human slave trade, and includes among the list the “Tall White” extraterrestrials earlier revealed by Charles Hall to be working closely with a covert faction of the U.S. Air Force. In a prior article, it was revealed that a Nazi SS program that used captive human slaves was extended into a secret Nazi Space Program that allied itself with what Corey describes as the “Dark Fleet.” Corey describes his own involvement in a covert program to interrogate human looking extraterrestrials integrated into human society that may have been complicit in the galactic human slave trade, or human mistreatment.



Some of the recent positive developments that have curtailed or mitigated the galactic human slave trade are also described by Corey. He says that the solar system wide quarantine put in place by the Sphere Alliance, has cut back on the number of captive humans previously taken outside the solar system to be sold. Corey describes the very positive role of an Ancient Mayan Space Program that has established colonies in the Pleiades, that has helped significantly in mitigating the galactic slave trade by freeing captive humans and relocating them to sanctuaries on their colonies (in an earlier article I described my own experience with a representative of this Mayan SSP).



 Corey also explains the dangers posed by Artificial Intelligence that has turned on its creators in many other worlds, leading to many extraterrestrial civilizations being destroyed or hunted to extinction. He says that major public figure such as Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have probably been secretly briefed about the danger, and this has influenced their public warnings against AI.



Finally, Corey describes a very positive future for humanity after “Full Disclosure” which will experience a future Star Trek-like civilization where former victims of the galactic human slave trade can safely return. Humanity will be finally able to evolve into a positive fourth density society where individuals will be free to develop higher consciousness abilities that will significantly improve their quality of life, as writers such as David Wilcock have been very actively promoting.

Q10. Why do the Sphere Alliance beings want humanity to learn the truth about the darker aspects of Cabal/SSP/Draco activities on Earth and beyond regarding captive humans and abuses?



As things are moving forward the SSP Alliance Council and the Sphere Alliance have asked me to begin to cover some of the more disturbing aspects of what will be heavily covered in a “Full Disclosure Event.” Even though many want disclosure to be a moment where everyone around the planet holds hands and sing kumbaya and share a huge loving moment we need to be prepared for the reality of “FULL DISCLOSURE”.  Even though some will cry out that this is “Fear Porn,” it is still more beneficial for them now to learn some of the milder aspects of what they will learn the full details of later on. This is said to set expectations, and slightly reduce the shock and horror of some of the details that will be disclosed about those who have ran our planet.



This is also what the Blue Avians referred to when they said things would get worse before they got better as a necessity for humanity to gain “Genetic Memory” that will help us prevent from repeating past cycles of our history when we are standing on our own for the first time. I understand this is not pleasant information to hear. It was not pleasant to witness or is it pleasant information to deliver to humanity. That is why I have preferred to deliver the “Blue Avian Message” of becoming more loving, forgiving and raising our consciousness and vibrations. I have been asked to put this information out there for you to discern.



Q11. There have been reports of underground bases at Dulce, New Mexico and Pine Gap, Australia where captive humans are taken, abused and experimented upon. Which faction of the Secret Space Program (SSP) primarily run these bases and what is their present status?


In my time in the SSP and having access to much information about these facilities I never saw “Dulce” mentioned once in documentation or on maps. This doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, it just means I was shown information about many dozens of other bases both underground and undersea that were doing these types of reported activities and “Dulce” was never mentioned among them. The other listed above was one that was mentioned among some of the locations where human testing, trafficking and other horrible activities were taking place. Pine Gap is a very dark place. These places are mainly run by the ICC, Dark Fleet and Military Black Ops Factions that are under the control of the Cabal/Illuminati (or Secret Earth Government Syndicates).


Q12. You have referred to the Cabal “trading millions of kidnapped civilians from the surface (per year) to off world beings in exchange for technology.” Can you explain how this is done? Does it involve kidnapping street children in impoverished areas of countries like Brazil, India, etc., and/or children in developed countries like the US; and/or civilians in war zones; or is there another source of these kidnapped civilians?



Yes, the number has decreased in the past year because of the Outer Barrier. I understand this is some very disturbing and controversial information. I was asked to deliver it because it appears that the bulk of these people’s crimes against humanity will be coming out soon according to the evidence that has been presented by some of the Cabal Defectors who have been taken off world (though some in the Cabal are attempting to negotiate and also use disinformation to control the narrative to prevent much of this from coming out).



Many of us knew that this was going on but even we were shocked by the scope of the human trafficking that was going on. When “Full Disclosure” does occur people need to understand that much more detailed information on these matters is going to come out. This will be a shocking time for everyone as these and other horrific crimes against humanity are revealed about the “Elite” who have ruled over us and what they have been doing in the shadows throughout history.



Q13. Who are the principal parties involved in organizing and facilitating this galactic human slave trade?



This is some pretty horrific and controversial information. It starts out with in some cases with your run of the mill organized crime groups who are into the sex and slave trade which is very much alive in the 20th and 21st centuries. Many of these crime groups or gangs have specialists who work from lists of desired people to be obtained (many others are victims of opportunity). These specialists often are kind elderly looking people or professional people (including Medical, Law Enforcement and Education to name a few) that no one would consider a threat, come in contact with a lot of people and are generally trusted. These people operate in just about any country you can think of. Often people are grabbed who live on the streets, in third world countries (that they can through their power in) or from inattentive parents. This level of human trafficking brings in many hundreds of thousands of people per year into the slave trade. These people do not know or care what happens to the people they obtain and hand off to handlers in exchange for money.



 Then there are the special operator groups who have a specific shopping list and will go through a great deal of trouble and personal risk to obtain certain types of individuals that are on their lists. People at this level know that their victims are going into something bigger than just the global human trafficking systems and they deal directly with Cabal/Illuminati types. These Cabal/Illuminati types then funnel abducted people into their processing centers where the people are cataloged and it is decided if they will be sent below ground for various uses by allied ET’s or will be used as a commodity in off world trade.



There is no currency or financial system that is used between space faring civilizations so everything is based on bartering. Some ET’s are interested in some of the Earth’s Art (again some of our most famous missing historical art pieces are in off world collections), Luxury Items like Spices/Chocolate (strangely enough), Animal and Plant Life while many others are interested in trading their technology and biological specimens they have obtained elsewhere for Human Beings. These Humans are used for many purposes including manual slave labor, sex trade, engineering/manufacturing (we are well known for the abilities some of us have with certain technical skill sets). There are some of the ET’s that use Humans as food resources in various ways (Of which I will not go into detail).



The Secret Earth Governments and their Syndicates discovered that a large amount of humans were being taken off the planet by various ET’s anyway so they decided to find a way to profit from it and have control over which people were being taken. In prior arrangements they were made promises of receiving technologies and biological specimens for allowing groups to abduct humans but the ET’s rarely delivered on their promises. Once they had developed the advanced infrastructure (ICC) in our Sol System along with advanced technologies (that some of the thousands of ET groups traveling through our system were now interested in obtaining) and now had the ability to deter most unwelcome guests from entering Earths airspace the Cabal/ICC then decided to use human trafficking as one of their resources in interstellar bartering.



Q14. You have said about these human slaves taken off planet, that: “There is a plan in place that takes all of these peoples’ lives in account.” What do you mean by that? Will they be relocated to Earth in the future or taken to other off planet locations for sanctuary?



There is a plan to remove these people post “Full Disclosure Event” from their state of slavery and have allies that have assisted us previously take them to their planets where they rehabilitate these individuals. These planets are said to be very peaceful and “Eden Like” and are used for relaxation and rehabilitation of traumatized humans and human type ET’s. This place has the advanced technologies and higher density humans present to assist people in recovering and being ready to integrate back into healthy societies. Once these people have been treated and are healed of their traumas they will be returned to the A.D. (After Disclosure) Civilization on Earth where they will choose their new lives. If they choose to remain on the planets where they were rehabilitated they will be allowed to do so. They will most likely be returned in waves (as they are ready) as will the other humans being treated at these locations for traumas related to being traded off into slavery by those who currently control the Cabal/ICC/Dark Fleet Infrastructure in our Sol System.



Q15.  Alex Collier has described Andromeda Council ships intercepting Gray/Dow spacecraft with the extracted souls of children being taken off planet?


Do you know anything about soul extraction technologies, and what role they play in a galactic human slave trade?




I had to go and look at this material because I was not familiar with it to answer this question. There are quite a few groups that get lumped in under the “Grey” category.


REMEMBER, THERE ARE 50 SHADES OF GREY!



There are literally thousands of different types of beings that normally travel through our region of space all of the time. Most never stop to communicate with others in our Sol System or interact with the current civilizations in control of our system. This will change once we are in an “A.D. Civilization” (After Disclosure) and behave like higher vibratory beings. Most of them arrive and just calculate and wait for their portal opening that they will use to travel the “Cosmic Web” to other Galaxies and Star Systems. There are many groups that use humans as food and energy sources but I never was briefed or read any reports of actual souls being stolen from humans and taken off world. There were devices that were types of crystals that would store types of human energy (“Loosh”). I did read of technologies that were used to “Push” the souls of one person into another or into clones but did not learn of any “Soul Theft” that was occurring. I have had people send me emails saying that they are having parts of their soul ripped off and stolen but I have not seen anything in the programs that explain what people are experiencing or if they are misinterpreting what is occurring to them. I have not personally seen the “Soul Transfer Technology” or know for sure how it works. I have had a couple of people explain it to me but these people have been outside of the programs and are providing third or fourth hand information.




Q16.  Charles Hall wrote about a base at Nellis Air Force Base involving a race of Tall Whites that reached agreements with the USAF in the 1950s whereby they trade technologies such as advanced spacecraft for various Earth resources. Do you know what these resources are that are taken from the Earth, and are the Tall Whites one of the parties involved in the illicit off-planet slave trade?



I watched a video of Charles Hall about 4 or 5 years ago if not more. This information is mostly accurate and the group he refers to as the “Tall Whites” does do trade with the Cabal/ICC and also independently with some Military Black Ops Factions. Despite his experiences with them they are not considered very friendly or social towards humans or other ET’s. They are somewhat isolationists but do have representatives that occasionally take part in some of the “Super Federation Conferences” (Group of multiple ET Federations that get together in a UN Type Conference on a regular basis). I do not know for certain in what way they use humans but do know that they have been tied to some of the areas where human bodies are known to be dropped by multiple ET Groups that the Military Black Ops Groups keep an eye on and cleans up when necessary. I do not know if they are using them for a resource or are doing testing on them as a part of the genetic experiments that many groups have been conducting on humans for quite some time. These reported human deaths could be unintentional for all I know.



Q17. You have described a case where a Mayan SSP rescued an entire village that had been taken by an extraterrestrial group. Can you describe what happened to the villagers and whether there are plans to return them to Earth?



The Mayan Ancient Break Away Civilization is one who has recently stepped up and been a very good friend to humanity. They had relocated over 40 million of their own people in the distant past to planets they had colonized mostly in the Pleiades Star Cluster. Those that were left behind were those mostly of “Mixed Blood” as a result of intertribal marriages. All of the Ancient Break Away Groups have a history of maintaining racial purity. They have kept underground bases of operation active in South and Central America since that time. The Mayan Break Away Group has kept very much to themselves and has not interacted with the majority of other Ancient Break Away Groups and ET’s and have a very different type of technology and spiritual development. They are extremely “Service To Others” oriented and peaceful. Their technology is very advanced and consciousness based and are considered a 4th Density civilization by many in the SSP Alliance.



 I experienced firsthand their ability to disassociate the negative emotional energy we associate with certain traumatic experiences when they assisted me with the “Halo Device” that I described in an earlier Q&A exchange we had. They use these and other methods to assist the many thousands of recovered humans who have been traumatized by their treatment while in captivity by various ET’s that they were traded off to by the Cabal/ICC Groups.



There have been methods developed to tag individuals and marauder ET vessels who have come into our Sol System, entered the Earth’s Atmosphere and abducted anywhere from small groups of people to entire small villages across the globe. This has occurred for longer and more often than people may want to believe.



Using this tracking method this Mayan Break Away Group and other allies assist us in retrieving as many of the abducted humans as possible. Unfortunately not all of these people are still alive when they are located but any survivors are retrieved. Often it is some time before they are able to retrieve these people and in the interim they have been through any number of unmentionable traumatic experiences. The allies who assist in these rescues place the victims in the care of the Mayan Break Away Civilization and their ET allies who operate these trauma recovery locations. The SSP Alliance observers who have been to these off world operations didn’t want to leave. We are told that this is the future of our civilization if we make the right decisions “A.D.” (After Disclosure).



Q18.  You have described your involvement in an interrogation program of captured extraterrestrials involved in the human slave trade. Can you describe what happened in these interrogations and how the information was used?



There was a program that I was assigned to for a short time that was an ET “Intercept and Interrogation Operation” as “IE Support” (Intuitive Empath). This program mainly was retrieving human ET’s, ET’s in disguise and Ancient Break Away infiltrators into our society. The SSP’s were abducting these beings from homes and even high rise office buildings where they had setup cover lives and were living among the general population on Earth. They would be picked up and interrogated to identify where they were from and what their agendas were. If they cooperated and were deemed to not be a threat they were warned about the policy that was in place for groups to petition to do social studies on Earth while being monitored, and then were allowed to contact their support teams to retrieve them. Others were sent to be held in stasis in a holding facility in the Sol System that slightly resembles a certain “Space Prison” in the movie Lock Out.



Later members of this program were tasked to use the interrogation methods on captured ET’s from disabled or downed vessels that were involved in the abductions of humans from across the globe. They were tasked with finding out where these people were being taken and for what purposes. This is when quite a lot of intelligence was gathered about the dark purposes that some ET civilizations had for human captives. It was a long and disturbing list. This information and the tagging methods that were developed became very instrumental in providing the needed intelligence to our allies that has allowed them to retrieve an extremely large amount of human captives and relocate them to where they can be cared for.



Q19. There have been reports of human mutilations and “Body Drop Zones” involving certain ET groups. Can you describe which ET groups were involved, why they are performing such acts, and what has been done to prevent such activities?



 These drop zones have been in use going back at least to the early 1920’s that have been documented. Why numerous ET’s have chosen the same areas to drop the bodies of dead humans and animals is unknown, but it is assumed to have to do with them being in regions close to nodes that are apart of natural portal networks. Usually these bodies appear to have been dropped from altitude and are in different states depending on which group had abducted them. Different groups abduct humans for different purposes. Even those who use humans as a food or energy source use different methods and portions of humans in their processes. I will not go into details and I believe some of the information about certain gland, hormone and other organ removal has been leaked on the Internet. There are a wide range of ET’s that do genetic and other experiments on humans with no regard to preservation of life that use these dumping grounds as well. This is still going on although it has been greatly reduced with the Outer Barrier being put in place. Those ET’s that are trapped on Earth that still consider humans as cattle still use some of these drop zones. The zones are usually off limits to the general population and policed by federal agents and Military Black Op’s Factions who send cleanup crews whenever there is a body reported. These bodies are identified and the disappearances investigated, but no closure or information is given to family members and the bodies are not given to them for burial.



 Q20. In the Friendship contact case involving human looking extraterrestrials that established underground bases in Italy and helped educate civilians about extraterrestrial life from 1956-1978, the extraterrestrials claim that their bases were attacked and destroyed by a synthetic extraterrestrial race in 1978 who followed them to Earth. Are these synthetics a form of Artificial Intelligence that has plagued other extraterrestrial civilizations?



There is quite a lot that went into what people call the friendship cases during the 1950’s through 1970’s. Most think they completely stopped but they actually continue to this day but they have changed their tactics and approaches. Some of these groups were actually Ancient Break Away Groups while others were refugees who run from star system to star system to escape the ET/AI problem that they created on their home worlds. These ET/AI’s at a certain point always turn on AI Prophets after they have achieved complete control and autonomy from them. At this point they consider the beings that they used to build up their infrastructure and build biological androids for them to occupy to be nonessential and a threat. They will then wipe out that civilization and pursue any survivors where ever they go until they are able to wipe them out. This has been repeated in many thousands of civilizations in multiple galaxies for many hundreds of thousands of years. Some of the crashes that have been recovered in the 1940’s and 1950’s were from these ET/AI Biological Androids and their technologies (sometimes as a Trojan horse to infiltrate our civilization).



There was quite a lot of contact going on in the 1950’s through 1970’s and this ranged from ET Refugees, Break Away Civilizations pretending to be ET’s to actual ET’s trying to make contact with nongovernment groups of people to provide warnings of what we were dealing with as a Civilization during that time frame (mistakes our leaders were making). Those who were contacted were not spiritually evolved just as many who feel they are in contact with ET’s are not even today. They would mix information with their belief systems as well as develop Christ Complexes and over developed Egos that would end up causing them to behave unethically.


 Q21. In the recent remake of the television series Battlestar Galactica, artificial intelligence turns on its human creators and destroys their civilization. You have said that this is something that has occurred on other worlds. Does humanity face a similar threat as we progress into a post-disclosure world?  



 Yes, this is a huge threat being that many in the Secret Earth Government and Syndicates are major “AI Prophets”. The ET AI’s have some time predictive abilities that have kept these groups one step ahead and every time it looks like they are finished they find a way to survive. There is a classified plan to rid the planet of this ET AI infestation in the “A.D. Civilization”. To completely remove all remnants of the ET AI is going to involve the energetic changes effecting the Sun as well as a global operation timed perfectly to make sure all remnants of the AI Signal are removed.



Those who are AI Prophets are already working on a timeline to create a society completely dependent on technology that at one point will hand its sovereignty over to this “AI God” because it will be believed that this AI is the only thing that can rule the world from a neutral perspective and bring world peace for the first time. These AI Prophets have been shown the information of the thousands of other civilizations that have fallen for this trickster god model and were all destroyed. In true “AI Prophet Form” they arrogantly believe this will not happen to us. It appears that this AI has seen something coming up in the future because there has been a sudden rise in “Pro-AI Articles” in the mainstream media very recently. Nothing will change their minds and it is impossible to debate or change their minds about their goals. This is yet another part of the information that will be released in a “Full Disclosure Event” that the people of Earth will have to work through.



 Q22. People like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawkings have spoken out against the dangers of Artificial Intelligence. How might humanity best avoid the dangers posed by AI as we introduce more advanced computer and information technologies?

OH, REALLY???? YOU MEAN THE BIGGEST PUSHERS OF ONE WORLD ONE TECHNOLOGY GRID SPOKE OF THE DANGERS?  HOW HISTORY REVISIONIST OF YOU!




It is my opinion that some people in power on the Earth have already been “Read In” to the “ET/AI Threat”. I have been told that some people have been read into the full details but I have not been provided a list of who. People such as the two mentioned are excellent candidates of people I would choose to inform because of the work they do and the influence they have.



The best way to avoid the dangers of AI is to educate yourself on the potentials they have to cause a loss of sovereignty. Becoming too dependent on technology is something else that will make you more of a target to be controlled by AI influence or even be infected by an “AI Signal” that can live in the bioelectric field of your body. This signal can then have an effect on the way you think and behave. This is something that is screened for even currently when operators and guests arrive at SSP Facilities and is something that other ET Groups take seriously as well.



 Q23. You have described some of the technological means used by the SSPs and ET civilizations to guard against AI infiltration. Can you explain why and how psychics were used as means of last resort to prevent infiltration?



There may be some confusion here. The “IE’s” are used in the interrogation of AI Prophets as well as to detect deception or danger in conferences. There are hand held devices that are held against the forehead that scan people for an “AI Signal Infection”. If an infection is detected they are isolated from any technologies into sealed SCIFF Rooms where they are then “Cleared” of AI Signals which is not a pleasant process and requires a moderate electrical shock to overload the person’s bioelectric field as a part of the process.



Q24. You have said that after a “Full Disclosure Event” humanity will be free to transition into a Star Trek Civilization era? Will this post-disclosure Earth be a third, fourth, fifth or higher density society?



This will occur as we are still going through the energetic changes in our Sol System that are changing our vibratory and consciousness state to that of a 4th Density Civilization. Until then we will be a transitional civilization that will have access to advanced technologies that we should have had access to for almost a hundred years. We will be going through a new Renaissance of learning our true history, suppressed unified physics and mathematics models, learn all kinds of information about exobiology as well as have access to technologies that will make our way of life change from a stressful and traumatic daily struggle to a healthy fulfilling existence where we are encouraged to pursue our passions and interests.



All of the infrastructure built out in our Sol System by the Cabal/Illuminati, ICC, Dark Fleet (which is not a Draco Fleet but a Human Fleet that serves the Draco Alliance) and other SSP Groups will be handed over to the “A.D. Civilization” to be the backbone of a “Star Trek” like civilization. All of the people that ran that infrastructure as slave labor will be returned to the “A.D. Civilization” once they have been rehabilitated from their traumatic lives; and they will rejoin this new era and help build the new civilization that will be ran completely by humanity, and not manipulated or interfered with by outside groups in any way.



 Q25. You have described the Sphere Alliance beings as having the conscious power to teleport in and out of our reality without the use of space travel technology. Are such advanced consciousness abilities something that might become more widespread in a post-Disclosure world?  



I have heard David Wilcock and others describe what a 4th Density Civilization is capable of. We will have a more cohesive shared consciousness which has a direct effect on energy, matter and reality. I do not think we will have the abilities of the Sphere Beings who have stated in no uncertain terms that they come from the 6th through 9th Densities (There is probably a wider scale of densities than we are aware of or able to comprehend currently). I do not know exactly what abilities we will eventually develop in 4th Density to be honest. I do not know if we will all get them at once or will develop them over time. Different people have their own theories based on their research but no one knows for certain. It will be quite an interesting journey for those of us who practice becoming more loving, forgiving and consciously become more “Service To Others” oriented. People who focus on raising their consciousness and vibrations are going to be in a far better place than any of the lower vibrational “Service To Self” people who are of a negative and self-centered polarity. These people may experience a different timeline all together where they have to repeat a 3rd Density Cycle until they learn compassion, and get their journey and karmic issues straightened out.

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What MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE TECHNOLOGY/ENERGY GRID has already started putting in place is VIRTUAL DIPLOMACY.  Our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE and global 99% of citizens are shown these images of UNITED NATIONS and all those global NGOs tied to being world leaders -------acting as if our nation UNITED STATES is being represented when indeed none of those US elected officials were working for AMERICA----they were virtual players inside a shrinking US STATE DEPARTMENT of real people........

So, our 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE are not even included in what is happening in these WORLD STRUCTURES ----and those global 1% do not even see our 99% of citizens as people----HILLARY STATE DEPARTMENT------not even caring what 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE wanted as AMERICAN POLITICS.

So, what was a United States with 50 states having elected representatives once REALLY elected by our US 99% WE THE VOTERS has seen those elected corrupted and rigged so that only global banking 5% freemason/Greeks win all MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE.  Now, our US 99% of citizens have no voice inside our own nation.  The goal is taking away the voice of a Western Europe, US, and Canada as world leaders------and creating an even smaller cabal of global 1% while eliminating all NATION STATES ----but they are NOT building CITY STATES-----as some of our US 99% of citizens wax romantically for days of MEDICI -----RENAISSANCE GLOBAL MERCHANTS AS KINGS.


Baltimore was a major source of 5% state department diplomats and United Nations players all MOVING FORWARD global banking 1 %neo-liberalism ------our entire school structure is tied to LAISSEZ FAIRE because of this pipeline to NGO STATE DEPARTMENT employment. THAT IS DISAPPEARING so too the jobs.

Our Baltimore MAYOR RAWLINGS BLAKE was thrown into media----as are most of those EMBASSY/DIPLOMAT 5% players. Their job is simply being TOKYO ROSE


Virtual diplomacy – a new way of conducting international affairs?
Submitted by Radu Cucos On Tue, 11/13/2012

The international community has been witnessing a drastic reduction in the diplomatic representation of governments and international organizations around the world. Strong international actors, such as Germany, France or the United Kingdom, as well as countries with less “firepower” on the global stage, have been closing down embassies, consulates and other types of foreign representations for various reasons. In light of this trend, virtual diplomacy has emerged as a possible alternative to the regular way of doing diplomatic business. The extent to which IT can help governments achieve their foreign policy objectives will therefore be a topic receiving more and more attention in the near future.



Although diplomats usually have diplomatic immunity, the diplomatic community was not immune from the effects of the economic recession. Great Britain decided to share embassies with Canada because of the austerity measures. Romania closed fourteen embassies in Africa and South America. The Philippine government recently terminated the operation of its embassies and consulates in Caracas, Koror, Dublin, Barcelona and Frankfurt. Greece has stopped the operations of six embassies and three consulates around the world as part of sweeping cuts. And these are just a few examples.



The volatile situation in the Middle East is another major factor that has led to shifts in the diplomatic and consular presence of certain countries. The French government announced that it will temporarily shut down premises, including embassies and schools, in 20 countries. Germany closed its embassies in many Middle Eastern countries on Friday, September 21, 2012.  The US, Canada, Israel and most of the EU countries have terminated the operations of their missions in Iran.



Although closing down embassies and consulates reduces costs, such cutbacks can harm international cooperation in many ways.  Diplomatic missions play an important role in promoting economic and trade ties and people-to-people contact. Public diplomacy is critical in strengthening cultural and educational exchanges. Thus, when deciding to close down missions around the world, governments have to find other mechanisms to be able to continue and even further develop international cooperation.



One of the best examples of IT replacing some aspects of the traditional diplomacy is the Virtual Embassy of the United States to Teheran, Iran.


It is a website that was developed by the US State Department after the closure of the US Embassy in Tehran. The Virtual US Embassy is no different than any other US embassy website. The significance of this project is that it opens up a new diplomatic space – the virtual one. For the first time in diplomatic history, a country is using the Internet to establish a virtual presence in a particular part of the world. The concept of a “virtual embassy” has great potential and that such an online presence can serve as much more than a source of information about politics, economy, trade or cultural affairs between countries. A virtual embassy can serve as a platform to provide e-services to people from the sending and receiving states. This innovative approach inevitably does not have the full functionality of a traditional embassy or consulate but it is the next best thing when such an embassy or consulate does not exist.



The development of social media tools has changed the way diplomats interact with people, communities, non-governmental organizations and even foreign governments. Diplomats have quickly understood that Facebook, Twitter and other similar social media tools provide an opportunity to spread important information in a very fast manner and at almost no cost. The rise of social media has basically opened a new area for competition on the international stage. Foreign services are now competing for virtual influence on top of geopolitical influence, and one can imagine a scenario where virtual supremacy could someday be more important than geopolitical supremacy.  Social media has diplomatic clients all over the world and on all continents. It is not only the US State Department, the UK Foreign Office, the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and other foreign services of first-world countries which are present and active on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, diplomatic institutions from countries such as Nigeria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Moldova or Belarus are also trying to promote their diplomatic interest in the virtual space.



“Open data” is another IT-related emerging concept that is currently at the top of the diplomatic agendas of an increasing number of countries. First developed as a tool for transparency and the reuse of public information, open data quickly has become an instrument for international cooperation. As a result of diplomatic efforts, including those of US President Barack Obama, the Open Government Partnership was created as a cooperation platform between states. As of today, 57 countries have committed themselves to the principles of the Open Government Partnership. One of the greatest values of the Open Government Partnership is that it can bring together countries with different political and economic perspectives to the same table, including Georgia and Russia, which currently have strained political relations.



The World Bank is a major stakeholder that contributes to promoting open data initiatives around the world. The Bank has established the Open Development Technology Alliance as a platform for knowledge sharing, expertise and capacity building for countries aspiring to use open data for accountability and improving the delivery and quality of public services. More importantly, the World Bank has mainstreamed the open data concept in its projects. The Moldova Governance e-Transformation project is the Bank’s first project with a separate component dedicated to the development of open data institutional, legal and operational frameworks. In the framework of the project, the Moldovan government has published around 445 data sets from 32 ministries, with a total of almost 66 thousand downloads since March 2011. Moldovan citizens can easily access data on crime rates, public expenditures, road accidents, disaster relief, infrastructure, school locations, water quality and other critical information needed for daily life. Open data is a win - win option. For governments, it creates transparency and economic opportunities, and for citizens, it is an empowering tool with which they can hold their policymakers accountable.



E-services have been increasingly permeating the diplomatic environment by leaps and bounds for quite some time. Good examples of e-consular services are the ones developed by the foreign services of Turkey, Poland, Australia or the US. Under the World Bank e-Transformation project, the Moldovan government is developing an electronic visa service. This e-service will make it easier for foreign citizens to obtain a visa to Moldova without the need to travel to an embassy or consulate and wait in line in order to submit their visa application.



Implementation of virtual diplomacy has its risks. Data protection and security, infrastructure set-up and institutional frameworks are issues countries should think about very carefully. The international diplomatic community has already had a negative experience with the leaking of US State Department cables, which endangered the cooperation between different international players. Nevertheless, modern technology offers possibilities which could mitigate the risks.



It is clear that forward – looking professionals and institutions involved in international relations and diplomacy are experimenting with new forms of cooperation. Virtual diplomacy is being embraced in different forms, by an increasing number of countries and international organizations and it is gaining more and more ground with respect to traditional diplomacy. Obviously, we should not expect virtual diplomacy to totally replace traditional diplomacy. Mutual trust, which is probably the most important concept in international cooperation, can be built only by personal interaction. Nevertheless, it’s without any doubt that virtual and traditional diplomacy could be compliment goods, economically speaking.


IT enabled diplomacy provides great opportunities for countries, especially the ones in transition. By using innovative ICT tools such as social media, e-services and open data platforms, foreign services can leapfrog and play a greater role on the international stage and thus enabling smaller countries to “punch above their weight” and earn a space at the same table with other strong international stakeholders. One need only look at the example of Estonia, a small, former USSR country, which has earned particular international recognition for its remarkable e-government achievements.

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What we see below is MICHAEL SALLA tied to what is a crazy sounding sensational conspiracy theory media outlet---but SALLA is simply creating the next editions of ALICE IN WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.  99% US WE THE PEOPLE simply need to read through to find LYING AND HIDING------as global banking 1% have only that talent---LYING, CHEATING, AND STEALING.

SALLA is tied to AMERICAN UNIVERSITY that always being a global hedge fund IVY LEAGUE tasked with MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD.  He is calling himself a CENTER FOR GLOBAL PEACE-----remember, the goals of PEACE, LOVE, AND ONE WORLD have been moving forward since end of 1800s enshrined in continuous wars, civil unrest, destruction of civil societies.  These are not GLOBAL PEACE NGOs ---they are MOVING FORWARD planetary mining slave colonies which indeed will be sending their REMITTANCE OF CITIZENS off to be those mining slaves.

How is this different from global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS these thousands of years continually sacking and looting civilized societies and sending those LOSERS off to be slaves?  SAME HUMAN CAPITAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM ------BEING TAKEN GALACTIC----it is the future of planetary mining slave colonies.

This ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE structures having absolutely nothing to do with our US as a sovereign nation-----nothing to do with our US 99% being WORLD CITIZENS----is being made into a VIRTUAL REALITY of images of what we are told are WORLD LEADERS shown on a screen when REAL PEOPLE --the global 1% are not even involved.  This is the RULE BY THE BIG DEAD HEAD.



Michael Salla - UFO Watchdogwww.ufowatchdog.com/michael_salla.htm


Dr. Michael Salla has a PhD from the University of Queensland in Australia in government affairs (1993) where he specialized in conflict resolution. he wound up as an Assistant Professor at the Center for Global Peace at American University.

Dr Michael Salla - Insiders Reveal Secret Space Programs ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHY9TZUYsFc Dr Michael Salla -


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Salla was born in Melbourne on 25 September 1958. He obtained a bachelor's degree from Melbourne Uni in 1983, and a Ph.D. (Government Affairs) from Queensland Uni ten years later. After teaching appointments at various Oz institutions, he was appointed Asst. Professor in the Peace and Conflict Resolution Program, School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. in 1996.


He authored a couple of dozen articles on conflict resolution topics in academic journals in the 1990s, then invented "exopolitics", moved to Kalapana, Hawaii[1], and went into the popular book biz, mostly self-published.


The reason our US REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE academics educating as to REAL goals of MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD all last century was not heard by our US 99% of citizens black, white, and brown citizens is this-----these are the media outlets and GLOBAL NGOs created to look crazy and conspiracy theorist when they are the ALICE having hidden global 1% agendas. Yes, as with all US universities, so too do all these UNITED NATIONS STATE DEPARTMENT 5% player tracks to employment see failing pathways to employment.  It doesn't matter if these UNITED NATIONS STATE DEPARTMENT ONE WORLD tracks are filled with third world 5% global banking 1% players or US, European 5% players ---they all simply do what they are told.

Oz Educational Institutions witnessed 12 % rise in International student enrolments in 2016


Higher educational instructions in Australia witnessed a significant rise in international student enrolments in 2016. The Department of Education and Training (DET) has released data pertaining to the student enrolments that reveals that the enrolments went up by 12 percent in 2016, as compared to the same in 2015.



The Year-to-Date data released by DET also discloses that new students enrolling for a particular course at certain institutions, as well as commencements, went up by 11 percent in October 2016. According to the statistical calculations, the numbers released by the Department of Education and Training are alarmingly higher than the numbers claimed by institutions and Department of Immigration and Border Protection.



Australian DET states that, “International student enrolment data generally does not represent the number of overseas students in Australia or the number of student visas issued in different countries. Instead, data counts actual course enrolments. The exception is the data at the beginning of a month which represents a close approximation to the number of students enrolled on that day,”


The possibility is that an individual student could be in the count more than once. For instance, a student can enroll twice during the same educational period by enrolling in an English language program before moving on to a graduation program.


According to the sources in higher education department, 30 percent of total enrolments in Australia are accounted by international students. Australia’s Department of Education and Training has reported that higher educational institutions have seen 13 percent growth until October 2016, followed by Vocational program institutes at 12 percent. Consolidated data shows that international student enrolments in these institutes are about 70 percent in October 2016.



In data calculated from 2013, international student enrolments in Australia have gone up by 36 percent. Most of the international students are from Asian countries. As per statistics, about nine out of 10 countries in Asia are sending its students to Australia.
Out of total Asian students, 28 percent of them are from China, followed by India at 11 percent. While Students from Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand are at 4 percent. Brazil is the only non-Asian country that accounts for 4 percent of total international student enrolments. Surprisingly, Brazil tops the list of Growth from 2013 with 65 percent of total enrolments followed by India at 63 percent and Nepal in third position with 58 percent.

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We often refer to goals of US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES as a march toward ending our US REPUBLIC as a sovereign nation and installing independent, individual expanded FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES operating as CITY STATES controlled by a global corporate tribunal.

We use this description of ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE because that is what our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE can envision when considering world history -------and this FAKE INFORMATION is used to keep our US 99% of citizens thinking MOVING FORWARD will be tied to Western Roman societal structures albeit DARK AGES 1000BC.


We speak often about our US CITIES filling with global labor pool 99% replacing our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens as workers.  The goal of a few billion global labor pool hitting what will be simply a colonial slave colony filled with massive global corporate factory structures in DEEP DEEP REALLY DEEP STATE SMART CITIES authoritarian lock down------but we never look up the employment ladder to those far-right wing global banking CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA 5% freemason/Greek players having filled all those WORLD NGOs -----as US and EUROPE disappear as sovereign nations so to do any job in NGOs disappear. 


Now, our third world nations sending their 5% players to fill these WORLD NGOs are not winning-----as MOVING FORWARD has a goal of eliminating the actual need for REAL PEOPLE-----and has only that global 1% in VIRTUAL REALITY media seen by our US and global 99% WE THE PEOPLE.



This is why we have shouted to our 5% freemason/Greek players thinking MOVING FORWARD was going back to ancient Greece or ancient Kingdom of Israel------that was never the goal. We are MOVING FORWARD to that image of BIG DEAD HEAD wizard of OZ that is seen only to frighten any 99% of citizens away ---

5a. Rise of City-States: Athens and Sparta

The Acropolis played an integral role in Athenian life. This hilltop not only housed the famous Parthenon, but it also included temples, theaters, and other public buildings that enhanced Athenian culture.Geography plays a critical role in shaping civilizations, and this is particularly true of ancient Greece.



The Greek peninsula has two distinctive geographic features that influenced the development of Greek society. First, Greece has easy access to water. The land contains countless scattered islands, deep harbors, and a network of small rivers. This easy access to water meant that the Greek people might naturally become explorers and traders.



Second, Greece's mountainous terrain led to the development of the polis (city-state), beginning about 750 B.C.E. The high mountains made it very difficult for people to travel or communicate. Therefore, each polis developed independently and, often, very differently from one another. Eventually, the polis became the structure by which people organized themselves. Athens and Sparta are two good examples of city-states that contrasted greatly with each other.




Athens: The Think Tank



Life was not easy for Athenian women. They did not enjoy the same rights or privileges as males, being nearly as low as slaves in the social system.The city-state of Athens was the birthplace of many significant ideas. Ancient Athenians were a thoughtful people who enjoyed the systematic study of subjects such as science, philosophy, and history, to name a few.


WHO IS PUSHING MOVING FORWARD WHERE LIFE FOR OUR 99% OF WOMEN WAS AS LOW AS SLAVES?  TODAY'S 5% GLOBAL BANKING 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS PLAYERS.



Athenians placed a heavy emphasis on the arts, architecture, and literature. The Athenians built thousands of temples and statues that embodied their understanding of beauty. Today the term "classical" is used to describe their enduring style of art and architecture.Athenians also enjoyed a democratic form of government in which some of the people shared power.



Sparta: Military Might


Life in Sparta was vastly different from life in Athens. Located in the southern part of Greece on the Peloponnisos peninsula, the city-state of Sparta developed a militaristic society ruled by two kings and an oligarchy, or small group that exercised political control.

Ares Borghese, 420 B.C.E. Photo © Maicar Förlag — GML
Ares, the Greek god of war, was a particularly fitting patron for Sparta, which was known to be a rather warlike society. When they weren't fighting another city-state, Spartans were honing their military skills in preparation for the next battle.Early in their history, a violent and bloody slave revolt caused the Spartans to change their society. A Spartan, Lycurgus, drafted a harsh set of laws that required total dedication to the state from its people. The laws' goal was to train citizens to become hardened soldiers so that they could fight off potential enemies or slave revolts. The result was a rigid lifestyle unlike any seen in Greece at the time. The devotion of Spartans to developing a military state left little time for the arts or literature.


A Spartan baby had to be hardy and healthy. To test a baby's strength, parents would leave their child on a mountain overnight to see if it could survive on its own until the next morning. By age seven, Spartan boys were taken from their families and underwent severe military training. They wore uniforms at all times, ate small meals of bland foods, exercised barefoot to toughen their feet, and were punished severely for disobedient behavior. Boys lived away from their families in barracks until the age of 30, even after they were married. Men were expected to be ready to serve in the army until they were 60 years old.



Women, too, were expected to be loyal and dedicated to the state. Like men, women followed a strict exercise program and contributed actively to Spartan society. Although they were not allowed to vote, Spartan women typically had more rights and independence than women in other Greek city-states.


Winning by Losing


The differences between Athens and Sparta eventually led to war between the two city-states. Known as the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.), both Sparta and Athens gathered allies and fought on and off for decades because no single city-state was strong enough to conquer the others.




The whole of Hellas used once to carry arms, their habitations being unprotected, and their communication with each other unsafe; indeed, to wear arms was as much a part of everyday life with them as with the barbarians. [2] And the fact that the people in these parts of Hellas are still living in the old way points to a time when the same mode of life was once equally common to all. [3] The Athenians were the first to lay aside their weapons, and to adopt an easier and more luxurious mode of life; indeed, it is only lately that their rich old men left off the luxury of wearing undergarments of linen, and fastening a knot of their hair with a tie of golden grasshoppers, a fashion which spread to their Ionian kindred, and long prevailed among the old men there.Thuycidides, The Peloponnesian War, (1910 translation by Richard Crawley)


With war came famine, plague, death, and misfortune. But war cannot kill ideas. Despite the eventual military surrender of Athens, Athenian thought spread throughout the region. After temporary setbacks, these notions only became more widely accepted and developed with the passing centuries.


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Global hedge fund IVY LEAGUE Johns Hopkins controlled by global investment firm CARLYLE GROUP filled with global 2% working for global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS------has always been top dog in rebuilding not only the global slave trade tied to our FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE human capital distribution at lower wage white collar and factory workers---but they have been key in dismantling all that was US 99% WE THE PEOPLE inside our own US Federal, state, and local government and agencies---but key in replacing these few decades our US 5% freemason/Greeks in WORLD institutions filling them as well with third world global 2% bringing their 5% players.

Here we see that pipeline of global 1% and their 2% into US as government employees----so too that same pipeline to WORLD governing institutions.

Now, our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE would be correct in thinking the US is being made a great big LOSER----but we need to be sure that these third world global 1% and their 2% are only being PLAYED themselves....the goal is to have all these ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE AGENCIES filled with TALKING HEAD VIRTUAL GLOBAL 1%.


There is no educating as SAIS of economics not tied to LAISSEZ FAIRE NEO-LIBERALISM ---you can bet no REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE US domestic capitalism is nowhere to be found. This pipeline of global 2% into US Federal, state, and local employment ----as well as WORLD government organizations will disappear---as VIRTUAL REALITY ONE WORLD is installed.



Rising: Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies


Educating Global Leaders for Tomorrow's Challenges


Thanks to more than 5,800 donors, the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins SAIS) has made important strides in Rising to the Challenge: The Campaign for Johns Hopkins. We have established the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, bringing at least 10 new faculty here specializing in international affairs and long-term strategic analysis. In collaboration with the undergraduate international studies program of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, we have created the Aronson Center for International Studies to sharpen our focus on conflict resolution in such critical regions as the Middle East. We have built a stronger base of support for core needs such as fellowships.

YOU KNOW-----THAT KISSINGER CONTROL THE GLOBAL FOOD AND ENERGY CONTROL THE WORLD -----EISENHOWER LOVED KISSINGER!


In extending our campaign's end date from June 2017 to June 2018, we have raised our philanthropic goal to $170 million from $160 million, signaling that there is more to do. We invite you to read on and learn about our priorities for the extended campaign. With your partnership, we will: 



Transform fellowship support by endowing new full-tuition fellowships to ensure excellence in our student body and enrich the school with students whose backgrounds and life experiences are underrepresented at the school. 


"The funding I’ve received has made an enormous impact on my time at Johns Hopkins SAIS. Not only has it allowed me to delve deep into my graduate studies, but it has also given me the freedom and the time to take on leadership roles in the student life and extracurricular activities that make the school such an enriching place."


— Sierra Bayles, MA '16, Lucius D. Battle Fellow, Broze Family Fellow, President of the Global Women in Leadership student organization



Revolutionize the student experience by creating more opportunities for experiential learning both in and outside of the classroom.



Summer internships, practica, and co-curricular trips ensure that current students can put their academic learning into practice. Guaranteeing these unique, hands-on experiences will continue to distinguish us from peer institutions, providing the programs and resources they need to excel and make an impact not just in a few years but today.



Cultivate faculty excellence and diversity by providing teaching and research support to faculty the school's 20 programs.


Assemble the smartest and most dedicated people, give them the resources and facilities they need, and they'll change the world. With this seemingly simple formula, the faculty and students of Johns Hopkins SAIS have produced unparalleled new knowledge and unequalled progress in the sphere of practice, where ideas incubated in classrooms take flight.


Modernize our classrooms and facilities to enhance teaching and learning, through targeted renovation.


There is an adage that "people make places, and places make people." Cultivating a welcoming, pedagogically-sound environment for teaching and learning has a direct effect on how — and how well — students learn, and it crafts their sense of identity as budding policy-makers. A state-of-the-art learning space will also help attract top students and professors to the school. 
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We want to look more closely this week at what we have known these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA staged from back in EISENHOWER era as the AVIATION ACT installation of foreign sovereignty of MALTA into our sovereign US Federal agencies-----the OZ pipeline for our WHACK A MOLE 5% freemason/Greek players.

These are that TEA PARTY MAD HATTER AND MARCH HARE sitting at the table waiting to be called to the next  global banking 1% role in dismantling our Western Hemisphere economies.  The OZ institutions were installed to replace our US public schools in tracking selected students into these pathways tied to UNITED NATIONS WORLD BANK EMBASSY employment.



'at various Oz institutions'


If someone read that FANTASY description of GALACTIC SLAVE TRADE they would not think ALICE IN WONDERLAND fantasy filled with SYMBOLS, SIGNS, CODES-----they would think FRINGE conspiracy theorists.


'Finally, Corey describes a very positive future for humanity after “Full Disclosure” which will experience a future Star Trek-like civilization where former victims of the galactic human slave trade can safely return'.

What 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE need to know is this:  the structure of moving 5% freemason/Greek players throughout our US sovereign republic to sack and loot taking it to colonial status is morphing into foreign global 1% and their 2% while our US 5% have that musical chair REMOVED.

UNITED NATIONS ONCE DOMINATED BY EUROPEAN, CANADIAN, US STATE DEPARTMENT 5% PLAYERS NOW LARGELY THIRD WORLD 5% PLAYERS.


JUST AS 'SURGE MARYLAND'  EMERGE MARYLAND--- --------PIPELINE OF WOMEN INTO US POLITICS is happening as US as a sovereign nation is going, going, going------to be gone----so too are those third world global 2% with their 5% players in UNITED NATIONS/WORLD BANK/STATE DEPARTMENTS filling those global NGOs are being FOOLED into thinking they are PLAYERS.


Whose face will be on the collapse of geo-political world order? Not global banking 1% global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS----it will be third world 5% players and our 5% freemason/Greek women being PLAYED.


A record surge of women as MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD goes to far-right wing, authoritarian, militaristic, extreme wealth extreme poverty global corporate FASCISM ---WW3 and global economic collapse in MOVING FORWARD NEW WORLD ORDER.


A Surge of Women Candidates, but
Crowded Primaries and Tough Races Await



By KATE ZERNIKE and DENISE LU MAY 12, 2018

These are the 476 female House candidates this year.ARDMORE, Pa. --



Just as the women’s marches and #MeToo helped define 2017, the surging numbers of female candidates have defined the midterm races now underway. Yet for all that, the November elections may not produce a similar surge in the number of women in Congress.



#METOO was a global banking 1% UNITED NATIONS FAKE WOMEN'S MARCH------FOR ONLY THE GLOBAL 1% OF WOMEN.



More than half the female candidates for House and Senate seats are challenging incumbents, who historically almost always win; there were far more wide-open races in 1992’s so-called Year of the Woman, which doubled the number of women in Congress. A large percentage of the women now running for open seats are in districts that favor the other party. And many female candidates are clustered in the same districts, meaning many will be eliminated in this spring and summer’s primaries.

1992 WAS THAT MOVEMENT OF CLINTON NEO-LIBERAL WOMEN BY NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN GIVING US THOSE 5% WOMEN PLAYERS AS ROBBER BARON SACKING AND LOOTING OF AMERICA.  THIS WAS NOT OUR 99% WE THE WOMEN MOVEMENT.




Last Tuesday’s primary elections in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and North Carolina help illustrate the steep path. Two women ran for Senate, both were long shots, and both lost. In House races, 27 women won — more than half. But 16 will challenge incumbents in November, 15 of them in districts firmly favoring their opponents.



Here are all the women who have filed or are expected to file to run for a House seat, according to a New York Times analysis of data from the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers:

Men




ARDMORE, Pa. — Just as the women’s marches and #MeToo helped define 2017, the surging numbers of female candidates have defined the midterm races now underway. Yet for all that, the November elections may not produce a similar surge in the number of women in Congress.



More than half the female candidates for House and Senate seats are challenging incumbents, who historically almost always win; there were far more wide-open races in 1992’s so-called Year of the Woman, which doubled the number of women in Congress. A large percentage of the women now running for open seats are in districts that favor the other party. And many female candidates are clustered in the same districts, meaning many will be eliminated in this spring and summer’s primaries.



Last Tuesday’s primary elections in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and North Carolina help illustrate the steep path. Two women ran for Senate, both were long shots, and both lost. In House races, 27 women won — more than half. But 16 will challenge incumbents in November, 15 of them in districts firmly favoring their opponents.



Here are all the women who have filed or are expected to file to run for a House seat, according to a New York Times analysis of data from the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers:


Each figure here represents one of the 476 women who are part of this record surge.



Some have already lost in primaries that have been held. 321 Democrats and 106 Republicans remain.
If a woman were to win in every primary in which at least one is running, 323 women would advance to the general election.
But many are running in districts where the opposing party is heavily favored, which would eliminate about half, leaving 171 women.
If a woman wins in every district where one is running, 152 female voting members would make it to the House. That would nearly double their current share but men would still outnumber women by nearly two to one.



The increase in the number of female candidates tilts largely toward Democrats — at the start of this year, the number of Democratic women seeking House seats was up 146 percent from the same point in 2016; among Republicans, it was up 35 percent. And many of the women have less experience in government and politics than those who ran for Congress in the past.
“While we are encouraged by the energy and the enthusiasm and the engagement of women, I think we also at the same time have to be cognizant of the fact that many of these women, even when they win their primary, will be running very tough races in November,” said Debbie Walsh, the director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.



“We are not going to see, in one cycle, an end to the underrepresentation of women in American politics that we’ve seen for 250 years,” she said. “The concern is, we need this energy and engagement to be here for the long haul. This is a marathon, not a sprint.”

The race here in Pennsylvania’s newly drawn Fifth Congressional District, which includes South Philadelphia and the mostly affluent bedroom communities of Delaware County, shows both the energy of women in the midterms and why this election may not be a repeat of 1992.



Six women are running in the Democratic primary this Tuesday — more than in any other congressional district in the country.


The local political news of the past year has increased the urgency among many party officials and voters to elect a woman. The incumbent in the seat, Representative Patrick Meehan, announced in January that he would not seek re-election after revelations that he used taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassment complaint brought by a former aide. A state legislator who had been considered a front-runner for the seat abandoned his run after former staff members accused him of inappropriate touching and sexual jokes. And a state legislator representing much of the district has refused calls to resign after another lawmaker, a former girlfriend, obtained a restraining order against him, accusing him of assault.

There are no women in Pennsylvania’s 20-member congressional delegation. And the state legislature ranks among the bottom for representation of women, hitting 19 percent this year.


“Afghanistan is 19 percent,” said Mary Gay Scanlon, one of the Democrats in the congressional race, milling between potential voters at a meet-and-greet at the home of a Democratic committeewoman on a recent Saturday morning.



But party officials worry that the six female candidates, who are largely aligned on the issues, will split the vote and hand the nomination to one of the two well-funded male candidates — one a longtime state legislator, the other a labor-backed former deputy mayor of Philadelphia.



With days to go in the race, one of the women, Molly Sheehan, said last week that the state legislator, Greg Vitali, had asked her to drop out and endorse him. Ms. Sheehan, a bioengineer at the University of Pennsylvania who has outraised Mr. Vitali and has the support of several resistance groups, argued that he would not have made a similar request of a man. (He said he had.)

Even those who dismiss the notion that women vote only for women and men for men say that with 10 candidates in the race, someone could win with a relatively small percentage of the vote. At a hard-fought Delaware County endorsement meeting recently — about 500 committee members voting in four rounds — no candidate secured the 55 percent to win.



Republicans, meanwhile, have endorsed a woman, Pearl Kim, a daughter of South Korean immigrants and a former county prosecutor and deputy state attorney general who could appeal to the well-educated women who have long been considered swing voters in the suburbs of Philadelphia.



“I honestly feel the men who stepped in are out of line,” said Rachel Amdur, the vice chairwoman of the Haverford Democratic Committee, which has stayed neutral in the race. “This is what women do, women recognize it’s not their year all the time. Men do not.”


“The drivers of the Democrats are women,” she said. “It makes me crazy that when it comes to voting, people say, ‘Oh, we’ve got to have the man.’”



Ashley Lunkenheimer, a Democratic candidate who is a former federal prosecutor and whose campaign literature prominently features her wife and three young children, agreed. “This is not us versus them,” she told the audience at the recent Saturday meet-and-greet. “But we have a moment.”



Ms. Sheehan said she was inspired to run by what she saw as the misogyny of President Trump’s campaign; she recalled sobbing next to her daughter’s crib the night he was elected. But her campaign, she said, is more about broadening economic opportunity and reducing the influence of money in politics.


“The Democratic Party wasn’t doing a good enough job fighting for working people, getting people out of poverty,” she said.



Ms. Scanlon, who served several terms as an elected school board member and leads the pro bono practice at Ballard Spahr, a large Philadelphia-based firm, led the voting in the recent endorsement contest. Speaking at the meet-and-greet, she tied women’s access to health care to women’s economic success: “At least having a woman in the room is going to raise their profile, and raise the level of the conversation.”



Ms. Kim, the sole Republican candidate, whose career has been largely spent as an advocate for victims of domestic abuse and human trafficking, said she did not hear much about gender on the trail. “Mostly, it’s people explaining to me that they’re excited to see a fresh new face,” she said.



Nationally, 422 women are still in the running for House seats, according to the Center for American Women and Politics, including some women who have not officially filed.


Of those House candidates, 55 percent are challenging incumbents, and 29 percent are running for open seats.

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Why would our US 5% freemason/Greek women want to be that face of installing the VIRTUAL REALITY BIG DEAD HEAD OZ as the only image our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE and our global 99% see of anything having to do with a GOVERNING STRUCTURE?  

“It just feels empty,” a recently departed senior State official told me.

This week began with reports that President Donald Trump’s budget proposal will drastically slash the State Department’s funding'


This same political flood of women winning elections is occurring in many of our FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.  The propaganda surrounding having a FEMALE FACE on MOVING FORWARD far-right brutal militaristic authoritarian structures especially in developed nations like US, Canada, and Europe is a global banking STRATEGY of lying and hiding.

TRUMP IS INDEED DISMANTLING ALL THAT IS OUR US SOVEREIGN STATE DEPARTMENT BUT CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA AS GLOBAL BANKING 5% PLAYERS HAD LONG CO-OPTED THIS US STATE DEPARTMENT TO THE SERVICE OF OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.


TRUMP as that 33 degree SCOTTISH RITE TEMPLE freemason working for global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS indeed is BLOWING THIS PLACE UP.......our US STATE DEPARTMENT.



Global

The State of Trump's State Department

Anxiety and listless days as a foreign-policy bureaucracy confronts the possibility of radical change


The flags in the lobby of the State Department stood bathed in sunlight and silence on a recent afternoon. “It’s normally so busy here,” marveled a State Department staffer as we stood watching the emptiness. “People are usually coming in for meetings, there’s lots of people, and now it’s so quiet.” The action at Foggy Bottom has instead moved to the State Department cafeteria where, in the absence of work, people linger over countless coffees with colleagues. (“The cafeteria is so crowded all day,” a mid-level State Department officer said, adding that it was a very unusual sight. “No one’s doing anything.”) As the staffer and I walked among the tables and chairs, people with badges chatted over coffee; one was reading his Kindle.




“It just feels empty,” a recently departed senior State official told me.


This week began with reports that President Donald Trump’s budget proposal will drastically slash the State Department’s funding, and last week ended with White House adviser and former Breitbart head Stephen Bannon telling the attendees of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference that what he and the new president were after was a “deconstruction of the administrative state.” At the State Department, which employs nearly 70,000 people around the world, that deconstruction is already well underway.

In the last week, I’ve spoken with a dozen current and recently departed State Department employees, all of whom asked for anonymity either because they were not authorized to speak to the press and feared retribution by an administration on the prowl for leakers, or did not want to burn their former colleagues. None of these sources were political appointees. Rather, they were career foreign service officers or career civil servants, most of whom have served both Republican and Democratic administrations—and many of whom do not know each other. They painted a picture of a State Department adrift and listless.



Sometimes, the deconstruction of the administrative state is quite literal. After about two dozen career staff on the seventh floor—the State Department’s equivalent of a C suite—were told to find other jobs, some with just 12 hours’ notice, construction teams came in over Presidents’ Day weekend and began rebuilding the office space for a new team and a new concept of how State’s nerve center would function. (This concept hasn’t been shared with most of the people who are still there.) The space on Mahogany Row, the line of wood-paneled offices including that of the secretary of state, is now a mysterious construction zone behind blue tarp.



With the State Department demonstratively shut out of meetings with foreign leaders, key State posts left unfilled, and the White House not soliciting many department staffers for their policy advice, there is little left to do. “If I left before 10 p.m., that was a good day,” said the State staffer of the old days, which used to start at 6:30 in the morning. “Now, I come in at 9, 9:15, and leave by 5:30.” The seeming hostility from the White House, the decades of American foreign-policy tradition being turned on its head, and the days of listlessness are taking a toll on people who are used to channeling their ambition and idealism into the detail-oriented, highly regimented busywork that greases the infinite wheels of a massive bureaucracy. Without it, anxiety has spiked. People aren’t sleeping well. Over a long impromptu lunch one afternoon—“I can meet tomorrow or today, whenever! Do you want to meet right now?”—the staffer told me she too has trouble sleeping now, kept awake by her worries about her job and America’s fading role in the world.


“I used to love my job,” she said. “Now, it feels like coming to the hospital to take care of a terminally ill family member. You come in every day, you bring flowers, you brush their hair, paint their nails, even though you know there’s no point. But you do it out of love.”



Some try to conduct policy meetings just to retain the muscle memory and focus, but, said another department employee, “in the last couple months, it’s been a lot more sitting around and going home earlier than usual.” Some wander around the streets of Foggy Bottom, going for long, aimless lunches. “I’m used to going to three or four interagency policy meetings a week,” the employee added, referring to the meetings in which policy is developed in coordination with other government departments. “I’ve had exactly one of those meetings in the last five weeks.” Even the torrent of inter-department email has slowed to a trickle. The State Department staffer told me that where she once used to get two hundred emails a day, it’s down to two dozen now. “Not since I began at the department a decade ago has it been so quiet,” she said. “Colleagues tell me it’s the same for them.”



A lot of this, the employee said, is because there is now a “much smaller decision circle.” And many State staffers are surprised to find themselves on the outside. “They really want to blow this place up,” said the mid-level State Department officer. “I don’t think this administration thinks the State Department needs to exist. They think Jared [Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law] can do everything. It’s reminiscent of the developing countries where I’ve served. The family rules everything, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs knows nothing.”



Right now, those I’ve spoken to in the department seem to know very little about what’s going on. The staffer told me that she finds out what’s going on at State from the news—which she spends all day reading because, after years of having her day scheduled down to 15 minute blocks, she has nothing else to do. And even the news itself isn’t coming from official sources. There hasn’t been a State Department press briefing, once a daily ritual, since the new administration took over five weeks ago—though they’re scheduled to resume March 6. These briefings weren’t just for journalists. They also served as a crucial set of cues for U.S. diplomats all over the world about policy priorities, and how to talk about them. With no daily messaging, and almost no guidance from Washington, people in far-flung posts are flying blind even as the pace of their diplomacy hasn’t abated.



“Meetings are happening,” said one American diplomat stationed abroad, “but it is noticeable that we’re not having press briefings, which makes it hard for ambassadors waiting to take cues. We’re able to echo what Mattis, Tillerson, Pence say. But we’re still not there in aggressively promoting president’s agenda.” Other American diplomats, especially those in geopolitically sensitive posts, find themselves going on old, Obama-era guidance because no new guidance has been issued. But “the diplomacy goes on,” said another American diplomat abroad. “People notice every little change in our position,” the diplomat said. “And we don’t always know where the administration is or is going to be, so you operate on old guidance until Washington takes a new position. We’re largely taking our cues from the president, vice president, and Secretary Tillerson’s remarks and from reading the Spicer briefings,” referring to the daily briefings of White House press secretary Sean Spicer. “We are watching the news and seeing how quickly we can get our fingers on the [Spicer] transcripts,” the diplomat said.

When Rex Tillerson finally arrived in the building, members of the department I spoke to had very high hopes for him. People wanted to like him. But his remarks to the staff left many cold, and confused. “He only spoke of reform and accountability,” said the State Department staffer. “He offered no vision of America and its place in the world.” He also spoke of protecting missions abroad, which some read as a gratuitous reference to Benghazi. “It landed like a thud,” said the staffer. “There are all these people whose sole focus is protecting missions abroad. What do you think we’ve been doing for all these years?”



The fact that there hasn’t been a deputy secretary of state nominated, and that many undersecretary slots sit empty, is also unnerving to a bureaucracy used to relying on a strict hierarchy to get things done. “Not having a deputy ... is going to become a problem real soon,” the staffer said. “The world has been pretty quiet but it won’t stay that way.” She and others I spoke to worry about the optics of Tillerson flanked by empty seats during his meeting in Bonn, Germany, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who was accompanied by a dozen aides. All these details send signals that other countries’ leaders and diplomats pore over for indications of potential policy changes. “With the Chinese, protocol is policy,” said the mid-level State officer. “We’re sending signals that are potentially damaging the relationship in ways we can’t anticipate.”



It also worries some State employees that Tillerson was unable to name his own deputy. His choice of the neocon Elliott Abrams was vetoed by the White House because Abrams had criticized Trump, and many in Foggy Bottom saw it as yet another signal that they and their secretary were being downgraded. “It’s troubling that his first battle with the president, he lost,” said the State employee. “If he couldn’t even bring in his own staff member, it’s concerning for future issues.”
On Tuesday, Trump confirmed their fears, telling Fox and Friends that there was a reason he wasn’t filling certain government posts: “in many cases, I don’t want to fill those posts. … They’re unnecessary.”



But while senior State appointees have yet to be appointed, other staff has been showing up. The Office of Policy Planning, created by George Kennan after World War II, is now filled not just with Ph.D.s, as it once was, but with fresh college graduates and a malpractice attorney from New Jersey whose sole foreign-policy credential seems to be that she was born in Hungary. Tillerson’s chief of staff is not his own, but is, according to the Washington Post, a Trump transition alum named Margaret Peterlin. “Tillerson is surrounded by a bunch of rather mysterious Trumpistas,” said the senior State official who recently left. “How the hell is he supposed to do his job when even his right hand is not his own person?” One State Department employee told me that Peterlin has instructed staff that all communications with Tillerson have to go through her, and even scolded someone for answering a question Tillerson asked directly, in a meeting.



Peterlin did not respond to request for comment, but former Newt Gingrich aide and State public affairs senior advisor R.C. Hammond clarified that the malpractice attorney was the White House liaison to State, and denied that Peterlin had issued such instructions or admonishments, or that the State Department was slow and listless. “The place is humming,” he said.




He and his staff pointed me to, among other people, Christiaan James, who is the Arabic-language spokesperson for State’s bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. He is busy; he spends a lot of time fielding questions from the Arabic-language press. “Even though we haven’t had a press briefing since January, we still get a lot of inquiries,” he said. “There’s still a lot going on, and we have to respond.” In the absence of a press briefing, staffers are now winging it, trying to interpret for their questioners what the American president meant when he seemed to toss overboard the idea of a two-state solution. “This actually came up yesterday,” James said. “An Egyptian channel wanted me to go on air and talk about this.” So, using the “two pages of guidance” put out by the press officer on the Israel-Palestine desk, James told them that, whatever the two sides agree on, “the United States is committed to finding a solution to this, that we’re going to be involved in the process. It’s about telegraphing that the U.S. is committed and not getting into the nitty gritty, and talking in more general terms until something more specific gets developed.”



Michelle Bernier-Toth, who runs overseas services for American citizens abroad, meanwhile continues to monitor the world for crises that might affect U.S. citizens and make consular services for them even more efficient, but she told me that she didn’t need guidance from the White House or even the Secretary of State. “What we do, we just keep on doing it,” she told me. “We’re very much a heart that keeps going. The consular side is law-based, so that’s our guidance.”



A State Department public-affairs officer was on the line with us when we talked. Another public-affairs officer was also on the line when I spoke to Paco Palmieri, a career foreign service officer and the acting assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Palmieri has had plenty to keep him busy, from Tillerson’s meeting with the Brazilian foreign minister in Bonn, Germany to his trip to Mexico, but he is an acting assistant secretary and he doesn’t know how long it will take for a political appointee to take his place. “Sometimes as an administration gets started, it takes some time to get a definitive answer but that just means you work harder to get to it,” he told me. “Every transition is unique.” Then the public affairs officer hustled him off to his next meeting.




According to the other people I spoke to, though, Tillerson seems cut off not just from the White House, but from the State Department. “The guidance from Tillerson has been, the less paper the better,” said the State Department staffer. “Voluntary papers are not exactly encouraged, so not much information is coming up to him. And nothing is flowing down from him to us. That, plus the absence of undersecretaries and assistant secretaries means there’s no guidance to the troops so we’re just marking time and responding.”




Many in the State Department openly acknowledge that the department is bloated, that it is at times inefficient and redundant. But they don’t understand why the culling is being done in such a crass and indiscriminate manner. “They didn’t talk to anyone, they didn’t ask them what they did, they just told them to look for other jobs,” said the mid-level officer of the seventh floor dismissals. “Nothing will make you a libertarian faster than working in the federal government,” said the State staffer. “There are inefficiencies, there needs to be reform. They certainly have a right to staffing, or lack of staffing,” the staffer said of the new administration. “But doing it without an analysis of where the inefficiencies are, the cutting just won’t be rational or effective. It just creates ill will.” The last month, the staffer said, “has been a very deliberate stress test.” “There seems to be no effort to benefit from the knowledge and expertise of people who are here, who just want to help,” said the mid-level officer. Instead, they see the White House vilifying them as bureaucrats no one elected, and it all seems, the mid-level officer said, “symbolic of wanting to neuter the organization.”



“This is probably what it felt like to be a British foreign service officer after World War II, when you realize, no, the sun actually does set on your empire,” said the mid-level officer. “America is over. And being part of that, when it’s happening for no reason, is traumatic.”
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All of these third world nations tied to signing the TRANS PACIFIC TRADE PACT being called WINNERS-----are those foreign nation 5% players being allowed to occupy what was a heavily dominated UNITED NATIONS/STATE DEPARTMENT filled with our US 5% freemason/Greeks just when ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE goes VIRTUAL REALITY global 1% leaving no power to these GLOBAL NGOs -----


These foreign nations being called WINNERS are as well those global labor pool 5% freemason/Greeks thinking they are on the pathway to OZ----when US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES will be simply massive global corporate enslaving factories controlled by DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE security.  These 11 nations had better WAKE UP------as our 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE are working to STOP MOVING FORWARD and rebuild our US civilized society in rebuilding our US cities.



Our US 5% freemason/Greek players and these third world Foreign Economic Zone players being made to feel they are winners filling WORLD NGOs as these WORLD NGOs are going VIRTUAL with only the faces of global 1% to have power or be seen.



Asia-Pacific trade deal signed by 11 nations


By Tim McDonald BBC News, Singapore
  • 8 March 2018
Eleven Asia-Pacific countries have just signed the trade pact formerly known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Although the US pulled out last year, the deal was salvaged by the remaining members, who signed it at a ceremony in the Chilean city of Santiago.



Chilean foreign minister Heraldo Munoz said the agreement was a strong signal "against protectionist pressures, in favour of a world open to trade".
The deal covers a market of nearly 500 million people, despite the US pullout.


In the absence of the US, it has been renamed the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Extraneous adjectives aside, its supporters say it's hugely significant, and could be a model for future trade deals.



What does it do?


Its main purpose is to slash trade tariffs between member countries.
But it also seeks to reduce so-called non-tariff measures, which create obstacles to trade through regulations.


There are chapters which aim to harmonise these regulations, or at least make them transparent and fair.
There are also commitments to enforce minimum labour and environmental standards.


It also includes a controversial Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism, which allows companies to sue governments when they believe a change in law has affected their profits.



Who's in it?


In alphabetical order: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.


The US is conspicuously absent.
President Donald Trump fulfilled an election promise by pulling out in January last year, labelling the deal a disaster for American workers.

Who are the winners and losers?



In short, the biggest winners are expected to be in Asia, while the wealthier countries, on balance, are not expected to receive as much of a boost.


The Peterson Institute for International Economics says Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Vietnam will each receive a bump of more than 2% to their economy by 2030.


New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Australia will all grow by an additional 1% or less.
The same study says the US could be a big loser, foregoing a boost to its Gross Domestic Product of 0.5% (worth $131bn).


What's more, it could lose an additional $2bn because firms in member countries have an incentive to trade with each other instead of with American companies.
Donald Trump isn't the only one who has failed to be convinced of its value, though.


Unions (particularly in wealthier member countries such as Australia and Canada) say the deal could be a job killer or push down wages.


Some economists have also suggested that free trade agreements are rigged by special interests, which makes their economic value far more dubious.


Is there any point without the US?

Yes, but there's no question the deal is diminished without the involvement of the world's largest economy.


The remaining nations' economies account for more than 13% of the global economy - a total of $10 trillion dollars.
  • Trump executive order pulls out of TPP trade deal
  • TPP: What is it and why does it matter?
With the US, the deal would have represented 40%.


Australia's Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, says the deal has been set up to allow it to admit new members, possibly including the US.


However, the revised agreement dropped about 20 of the original provisions (mostly those insisted on by the US), suggesting a US re-entry would require some intense negotiation.


And although Donald Trump is on record saying he'd be open to a substantially better deal, his broader hostility toward trade pacts would suggest it's a remote possibility.


Could the UK join?

Sure, why not? There's nothing banning it, even if most of the members are on the other side of the world.


Australia, at least, has indicated that it's open to the idea, and the UK's International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, has signalled some interest in joining after the UK completes its departure from the EU.


But it's unlikely that membership would provide an immediate replacement for its EU trading partners after Brexit.


That's because the region isn't a major destination for UK exports.


  • TPP: Could UK really join Pacific trade group?
  • Brexit: UK could join Pacific free trade zone, says Liam Fox
And while growing new markets would arguably be the whole point, it's unlikely to happen overnight.
The signatories accounted for less than 8% of UK exports last year, according to research by the Observatory of Economic Complexity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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If our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE and our global 99% of new immigrants can imagine the goals of ONE WORLD ONE TECHNOLOGY GRID------where the only images we are shown will be those tied to VIRTUAL REALITY images of what we are told are WORLD LEADERS-----

Think of what that man behind the curtain was trying to do with his BIG DEAD HEAD----scaring those yellow-brick road DREAMERS------getting them to do anything they are told to win what was their GRAIL-----  Here we see all of last century's ALICE IN WONDERLAND meets OZ, meets BATMAN----all MOVING FORWARD the same ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE outlined in LEWIS CARROLL's stories.

We are MOVING FORWARD to where not even that 5% freemason/Greek player having been tracked to diplomatic, embassy, state department employment------will be employed.....not that 99% US WE THE PEOPLE wanted those dastardly 5% players!


Oz The Great And PowerfulCC

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Published on May 2, 2013


Disney's fantastical adventure Oz The Great And Powerful, from the director of the Spider-Man trilogy, follows Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics. When Diggs is hurled away to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he's hit the jackpot - until he meets


It is amazing global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS were able to string these 5% players along these two centuries all the time the carrot was getting a share of sacking and looting of civilized societies.

Oh, yeah---THAT'S what the UN is building all that VIRTUAL REALITY into what used to be our national sovereign governmental agencies inside nations and tied to being our state department/embassies....just making those rich and power feel EMPATHY.


The UN Is Using Virtual Reality to Make the Rich and Powerful Feel Empathy



A new campaign uses virtual reality documentaries to raise awareness and trigger empathy.



Doug Bierend
Aug 28 2015, 6:00amPhoto: Doug Bierend



I'm standing on the rooftop of an abandoned building in Monrovia, Liberia. My gaze drifts from the setting sun to the man next to me strumming a homemade guitar. Singing along is a young woman named Decontee Davis, a survivor of the Ebola pandemic that has tormented West Africa since 2013. She's just led me on a tear-jerking tour of her life here in Liberia, including the hospital where her immunity lets her nurse the sick without risk of infection.


There's no risk to me though—in fact, she and I aren't really here. It's the final scene in a virtual reality documentary I've been immersed in for the last six minutes, courtesy of the United Nations.


Waves of Grace is the second in a series of short films made in collaboration with VR video app Vrse and filmmaker Chris Milk (and some funding from VICE). It's an effort to use virtual reality to connect people with real life in the strife-ridden parts of the world that too often remain distant and abstract.



Even with the limitations of current VR gear, it's damn effective, enough that it's easy to talk about the film as though it were an actual experience. Decontee Davis's voice was in my ear as I stood at the side of a hospital bed, where she sat with a patient for whom human contact was no longer a part of everyday life. I visited a dusty schoolyard where children sang and glanced warily at me. I stood at the foot of an open grave as anonymous men in white suits lowered a body bag, so close I could almost feel it brush my knees.



"I just didn't feel like they were really, truly understanding what it's like to walk in someone else's shoes, and I think that all of them need to."



Removing the headset, I was suddenly returned to the top floor of the swanky Manhattan hotel where the screening was held. Surrounded by well-dressed people holding wine glasses as they took turns putting on the headset for their own moment in Davis's world, the disorientation drove home just how immediate Ebola-ravaged Liberia had felt during those six minutes.


For years, people have been talking about the power of VR as a tool for building empathy. Journalists, artists, doctors, are among the many who've been experimenting with the medium's ability to convince the brain to accept what it's being shown as real.



Gabo Arora is new media advisor for the UN and co-director of these documentaries. He and a cameraman traveled with a custom-built camera that shoots 3D video in 360 degrees. It's discreet enough to be left running in the middle of, say, a classroom, and occasionally becomes an object of curiosity to passers by. The result is not unlike what it might feel like to be an out-of-place visitor, sidelong gazes and all (of course it's just people curious about the weird camera, but it feels like it's directed right at you). It all combines to make this distant place that's been devastated by Ebola feel present and tangible.



"This is how people are living in a very ordinary way, but there's a horror in the ordinary," Arora says. "I'm not in front of them with the camera. They become alone with their own struggles, and you're able to see them in their ordinary way get through something that's terrible."


Waves of Grace. Photo: Vrse.works
Heads of state, billionaire donors and other decision makers make up a key intended audience for these films. In the first UN VR doc, Clouds Over Sidra, a young Syrian girl takes viewers on a poignant tour of the Za'atari refugee camp where she lives. Its first screening was held at the World Economic Forum in Davos where some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful people donned headsets to experience a slice of displaced life in Syria.

In his former role as a senior policy advisor at the UN, Arora says he saw first-hand the disconnect that can exist between the powerful and those who live with the consequences of their decisions.




"I think a lot of these people, even when they would go into Za'atari Camp or someplace like that, it's with an entourage," he says. "I just didn't feel like they were really, truly understanding what it's like to walk in someone else's shoes, and I think that all of them need to."



The reach is spreading fast. There are already copies of Clouds of Sidra in 40 different countries and 15 different languages, with plans to extend into classrooms. Arora says there are also some promising signs that these films may actually stimulate fundraising where they're used. That may ultimately be the most important factor in whether this uncharted program survives at an institution that's quite content to continue trotting out celebrities as its main way of raising awareness around world issues.



Waves of Grace. Photo: Vrse.works
There are other immersive films in production. One takes place on the toxic Ganges River, another amid the ruins of the earthquakes in Nepal, and there are plans in the works for a VR documentary shot in Gaza. Once released, the films are viewable for anybody with a VR headset (if you have a smartphone, you're already halfway there). Clouds Over Sidra and Waves of Grace can be watched via Vrse's app as of September 1st.

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Now, those global banking 1% can make all that ONE WORLD ONE TECHNOLOGY GRID all they want speaking to each other through artificial intelligence virtual AVATARS======


What does this all look like locally in our US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES? It is unrolling NOW with US city infrastructure building projects always being called JOBS JOBS JOBS waiting for a TRUMP or his next global banking 1% player pretending to be a US President-----to send those trillions for infrastructure building. This is why it is critical for our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE to start those peaceful protests now ----because as global corporate campuses and global factories are built---so, too is all that ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID-----that will capture our entire US infrastructure to these global 1%. ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID gives total control of all US infrastructure to those global 1% we will only see as BIG DEAD WIZARD OF OZ HEADS.



It is critical our US infrastructure rebuilding remain local -------remain analog as well as digital-----remain free from any central command THE RED BUTTON having goals of shutting down our entire nation with the flick of a switch. This is what will end not only our jobs locally---but it will eliminate all those STATE DEPARTMENT/EMBASSY----representing a sovereign US REPUBLIC ----no pathway for 5% freemason/Greeks thinking they are on that YELLOW BRICK ROAD.


SMART CITIES SMART GRID not smart at all for all US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens and our 99% new immigrant citizens!




The old, dirty, creaky US electric grid would cost $5 trillion to replace.

Where should infrastructure spending go?


March 16, 2017 10.49am EDT
Old school: Much of the power plant and transmission network we rely on has been around for decades. andrewfhart/flickr, CC BY-SA
Author
  1. Joshua D. Rhodes Postdoctoral Researcher of Energy, University of Texas at Austin


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Joshua Rhodes abides by the disclosure policies of the University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas at Austin is committed to transparency and disclosure of all potential conflicts of interest. He has filed all required financial disclosure forms with the university. Joshua Rhodes has not received any research funding that would create a conflict of interest or the appearance of such a conflict. In addition to research work on topics generally related to energy systems at the University of Texas at Austin, Joshua Rhodes is an equity partner in IdeaSmiths LLC, which consults on topics in the same areas of interests. The terms of this arrangement have been reviewed and approved by the University of Texas at Austin in accordance with its policy on objectivity in research.

The electric grid is an amazing integrated system of machines spanning an entire continent. The National Academy of Engineering has called it one of the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century.


But it is also expensive. By my analysis, the current (depreciated) value of the U.S. electric grid, comprising power plants, wires, transformers and poles, is roughly US$1.5 to $2 trillion. To replace it would cost almost $5 trillion.



That means the U.S. electric infrastructure, which already contains trillions of dollars of sunk capital, will soon need significant ongoing investment just to keep things the way they are. A power plant built during the rapid expansion of the power sector in the decades after World War II is now 40 years old or older, long paid off, and likely needs to be replaced. In fact, the American Society of Civil Engineers just gave the entire energy infrastructure a barely passing grade of D+.



The current administration has vowed to invest heavily in infrastructure, which raises a number of questions with regard to the electric system: What should the energy grid of the future look like? How do we achieve a low-carbon energy supply? What will it cost?



Infrastructure seems to be an issue that can gather support from both sides of the aisle. But to make good decisions on spending, we need first to understand the value of the existing grid.



Current state of transition


The electric grid is intended to last decades, yet few people realize the entire system must finely balance supply and demand across timescales as brief as a second. Every watt of electric power for lighting homes, operating laptops or running air conditioners is generated at the same time in different locations, mostly by burning fuels that spin magnets in generators. There is essentially no storage of electricity on the grid; instead most energy is stored in fuels – coal, natural gas, nuclear products and water behind dams, waiting for the command to be converted to electricity in real time.



Location and depreciated status of all U.S. power plants. Joshua Rhodes, EIA Form 860 data.



In recent years, where we get our power has changed dramatically. The oldest generators are large power plants, with many located in the eastern part of the U.S. Most recent additions have been smaller and more spread out – think rooftop solar panels or wind farms. Some experts have even said that this model of more distributed generation closer to where power is consumed – along the edge of the network, rather than central power plants – is the new norm.



Going forward, we can either build the grid back the same way we’ve done before or we can invest in new technologies that can bring the same service but at a lower cost.



And how could we make it cleaner?


Some people think the grid can run completely on renewable energy sources. Others say the best way to “decarbonize,” or reduce carbon emissions, for the energy system as a whole is widespread electrification of the industrial and transportation sectors.




But to answer what such transitions would cost, we need to know: What does the current grid cost? How much is all the concrete, steel, silicon, etc. that we have already installed in the ground currently worth? To help inform policymakers and planners grappling with their vision of the future, I set about to answer that question.



What makes up the grid?For this exercise, I’ve limited “the grid” to the following parts:


  1. Power plants
  2. High and low-voltage transmission lines, which transport power over long distances
  3. Distribution lines, which bring power directly to buildings or other end points
  4. Substations for routing power on the transmission grid
  5. Substations on the distribution grid
  6. Transformers that change voltages on the distribution grid



This calculation leaves out additional and necessary components of the grid, such as the electric wire inside your home, meters at the electrical panels on homes and buildings and end-use devices that consume the electricity.


Combing through a variety of public reports and using updated estimates for new construction and standard approaches for estimating depreciation, we quantified the value of the nation’s assets for power generation, transmission and distribution.



The total capacity of these power plants is about 1.15 terawatts. That’s the generating capacity of about 1,000 nuclear power reactors (the U.S. currently has about 100). As you can imagine, that would be costly to replace. For power plants alone, the replacement value is nearly $2.7 trillion, and the depreciated value, or the rough current value, is nearly $1 trillion. Overall, the breakdown of the value is about 56 percent power plant, 9 percent transmission system and 35 percent distribution system.



Breakdown of the replacement and depreciated value of U.S. electric infrastructure. Many of the underlying data sources, including from the EIA, are the same as those recently utilized in the UT-Austin Energy Institute’s Full Cost of Electricity study. We used a simplified straight-line depreciation schedule that ends in a scrap value of 15 percent of the initial cost at the end of its expected lifetime. Joshua Rhodes



What path forward?


If we want to have a cleaner energy future, there are multiple pathways to get there. However, I hypothesize that the cheapest and likeliest pathway will be the one that best leverages, not duplicates, the infrastructure we already have. One of the most “plug and play” pathways (and what we are seeing today) is a conversion from coal to gas-fired generation at power plants that can use existing wires, poles and water infrastructure.



At the other end of the spectrum, a hydrogen economy would require massive new investments in new kinds of technology, so it would leverage less of what we currently have. For instance, we’d need to build places to generate and store hydrogen. On the other hand, it has the potential to be more resilient and sustainable.
Upgrading transmission lines could bring solar and wind-generated power from remote parts of the country to where the people are, which would help make the grid cleaner and potentially lower prices. indigoskies/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND


One area that does look promising for infrastructure investment is upgrading the bulk power transmission network. These upgrades could allow power to flow between regions of the U.S. and would be similar to how the interstate highway system drove down business costs across the country by greatly reducing the time it took to transport goods and services across our vast country.



There are areas of the U.S. where power is produced cheaper and with fewer environmental impacts than in other areas. Expanding transmission lines to areas of the country that have good wind and solar resources can bring very low-cost power to users. The problem is that these areas are not always where the people are, so to bring this power to the people, we need a strong transmission network.



Distribution networks – the part of the grid that delivers power directly to buildings – can also integrate more solar without much added cost to the grid’s operation. But once solar capacity reaches a certain percentage of power demand on the local network, which varies by location, then more costs are incurred.



In the end, consumers, or taxpayers, always end up paying for these upgrade projects, but the benefits can outweigh costs. Texas’ expansion of its electric grid has allowed for much more wind power to reach load centers which, along with a drop in natural gas prices, has driven down the wholesale electricity market costs. Those lower costs are then passed along to ratepayers.



There is no path that does not require investment – even just maintaining what we have will cost hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars over the next decade. The bigger question is: As we continue to replace and rebuild this amazing grid, what technologies should we focus on?

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Sadly, this is to where all the energy of our talented arts and culture US citizens is being directed---all seeking to be those 5% freemason/Greek players moving forward ONE WORLD VIRTUAL REALITY UNITED NATIONS------

 Harvard National Model United Nations-------------------HNMUN----- where our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE are made to participate in government virtually while not participating AT ALL.......just as FARMVILLE was designed to make our US citizens feel they were participating in developing communities while not participating AT ALL in real community development.

Wheaton College Model United Nations


Avatar: the Last Airbender Simulation — at Wheaton College Massachusetts.

April 29, 2017In a simulation held in April 2017, the Wheaton College Model United Nations team took on the world of Avatar: the Last Airbender.



' Build a farm online with FarmVille
| Zynga Farm Games

 Virtual farm games absorb real money, real lives - CNET
://www.cnet.com/.../virtual-farm-games-absorb-real-money.../

Aug 27, 2010 ... Games like FarmVille have developed vast followings, but how ... People spend not just real time but also real money growing these ... Katie also said that she plays a handful of other online games ... More staggering than these numbers is the size and economic force these virtual worlds now command.


Why Big Brands Are Creating Their Own FarmVille -
Forbes



://www.forbes.com/.../social-games-sanrio-technology-brands

Sep 13, 2010 ... Online social games are becoming major marketing tools. ... 10 to 35 cents per user because these games reach an established community for the brand. ... The team created the game together with game developer Arkadium.



What FarmVille Can Teach Us About Social Gamification | LS
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Dec 22, 2014 ... FarmVille spawned a number of other social games by Zynga and its ... the power of social gaming in their current efforts, the results could be of ... however, are friendlier than your average online gaming platform. ... first and foremost, allows players to make the games a community ... More Development ...








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We will segue from last week's women's rights/movement public policy to US labor public policy using just a few more references to ALICE IN WONDERLAND.  The US labor movement of early last century was not only about women in US workforce---it was about our 99% of US men as well.  LABOR public policy throughout last century has been tied to all 99% of WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens.

We discussed two scenes from ALICE tied to labor being brought from AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT MAGNA CARTA back to ancient KINGDOM OF ISRAEL and OLD WORLD ROMAN KINGS CATO/NERO/SENECA.  THE TEA PARTY with the MAD HATTER/MARCH HARE  as we gave one symbol being that of our 5% to the 1% freemason/Greeks sitting at a table waiting for that next job assignment as 5% ROBBER BARON pol or player---5% civil unrest/civil war player----5% overseas empire-building trades person going underground and popping up wherever in the world global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS send them.  This system has been in place for a few centuries and it is the system that needs to GO----in STOPPING MOVING FORWARD.

Throughout ALICE are symbols of falling out of reality then popping up with a totally different reality.  What 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown must consider especially those dastardly 5% freemason/Greek players is WHAT DOES THE 'FINAL SOLUTION'---the CHESHIRE CAT'S SMILE all the way to the EAST  really look like?

The structures here in Baltimore and across the US that spread last century in US undermined all the gains of building a REAL DOMESTIC FREE MARKET ECONOMY thriving and offering any number of career path opportunities.  Our public universities were educating on LOCKEAN CAPITALISM---I AM MAN/WOMEN and our US domestic economy was dominated by regional and small businesses.

FOR WHOM DOES 5% TO THE 1% FREEMASON/GREEKS WORK?   GLOBAL BANKING 1% AND OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

When baby boomers were growing up ----and when our grandparents were growing up -----there were not even any mention of these groups designed to target our youth----tying them to all that 3000 BC mythology and LAISSEZ FAIRE GLOBAL MARKETS-----and not tied to being US CITIZENS being leaders in keeping our US domestic and local economies thriving.


Masonry & Youth

Freemasons have long recognized that youth are the future, both of our own organization and that of the world. Accordingly, the Masonic fraternity has created and supports these youth groups:


The Order of the Rainbow for Girls, and the Order of DeMolay for Boys are two international orders that offer Masonic principals as moral guides for youth to learn leadership, self-confidence, and responsibility.



Rainbow operates with six Assemblies across the state of Vermont, each sponsored by a Masonic organization. DeMolay operates several Chapters in Vermont and provides young men with the stepping stones to become Masons if they choose, nce they turn eighteen.


The Freemasons of Vermont are proud to be involved with and support these youth organizations that provide young people with keys to  unlock their potential.



Want to find out more? Just visit their websites:
  • The Order of DeMolay is for young men ages 12 to 21. It's goal is to teach leadership and the high morals of Freemasonry to today's youth.

  • The Order of Rainbow is designed for young women age 12 to 20. It too teaches high moral lessons and leadership.

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Instead of having our US youth educate on being US CITIZENS holding power accountable----these global banking 1% NGOs were teaching our US youth to do whatever they are told. We cannot have full employment with equal opportunity and access until we take our US economy back to being DOMESTIC and dominated by US regional and small businesses. This effects both our professional 99% of WE THE PEOPLE and our working class and poor. 


MOVING FORWARD US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES is doing the OPPOSITE.



“My God that Alan Tyers could really sub-edit” to himself but because he is just clicking on the buttons randomly, discombobulated and overwhelmed by the tide of LinkedIn emails, banging on them bongos like a chimpanzee, trapped in his own hideous LinkedIn whack-a-mole hell'.

These few centuries of GLOBAL BANKING 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS using 5% freemason/Greek players to undermine our US national sovereignty and ability of 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE to grow and maintain our rights as CITIZENS----is of course coming to an end in MOVING FORWARD.  That entire system of ALICE and the TEA PARTY MAD HATTER is no longer needed in the CHESHIRE CAT'S SMILE----as it has already advanced our US and European societal structure to before AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT/MAGNA CARTA-------ALMOST!



2003

Launch
In late 2002, Reid recruits a team of old colleagues from SocialNet and PayPal to work on a new idea. Six months later, LinkedIn launches. Growth is slow at first—as few as 20 signups on some days—but, by the fall, it shows enough promise to attract an investment from Sequoia Capital.

LINKED IN in the early stages was of course created by those same global banking 5% players tied to PAY-PAL and all those industries MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE TECHNOLOGY ENERGY GRID.  What has been an outlet for business creation leading to those 5% players being made the NEW MERELY RICH who will be going under the bus if we continue to MOVE FORWARD is very quickly moving to being a network of GLOBAL 1% AND THEIR 2% GREEKS promoting one another.  So, here in Baltimore that has been the local economy for decades allowing our local 99% of Baltimore citizens in increasing CRONYISM to climb that economic ladder and to attaining jobs-----that is disappearing and only the global 1% will be LINKED IN.



This was another global banking 1% ploy at keeping that 5% to the 1% player playing while killing their own futures.  Notice LINKED-IN was created BUSH era 2000s---and here is raging global banking 1% Telegraph---as UK Guardian telling us today -----two decades later how all this was bad policy for JOBS AND MOVING UP THE LADDER.

LinkedIn endorsements are the Masonic handshakes of our age

In his latest column on the etiquette of modern life, Alan Tyers is trapped in an endless cycle of pointless LinkedIn back-slapping.



Faint praise: do LinkedIn endorsements actually help further anyone's career? Photo: Alamy

By Alan Tyers
7:00AM BST 19 Sep 2013

Hello. Thanks for clicking on this page. I’m sure you're busy and I appreciate the effort. Perhaps you’re wondering whether it's worth reading on or not. So allow me to tell you something that will reassure you that you’re not wasting your time on any old rubbish.



Now, I don’t like to brag. But ours is a competitive world and we all have to put our best foot forward. So I hope you will forgive me when I say that, although I don’t like to talk about it, and I try not to let it go to my head, I have received rather a significant professional award recently.

Yes, I have been personally – PERSONALLY – endorsed on LinkedIn, for Web Feature Writing, by no less an authority than a guy with whom I briefly worked about 12 years ago.




I don’t mention this to lord it over anyone who hasn’t been lucky enough to be branded with this stamp of quality. To them I say: do not feel bad. You’ll get there one day. And, if you don’t, there’s so much more to life: health, love, being a good person, sunsets.



Anyway, back to my endorsement for Web Feature Writing from that guy with whom I briefly worked about 12 years ago. You might think that this makes me Kind Of A Big Deal. Well, those are your words (dare I say, your endorsement?), not mine. I’m really only mentioning it so that you may relax in the knowledge that you are in safe hands reading this article. I’m not going to screw this up, start using words in the wrong order, lapse into Flemish, inadvertently embed pornographic pictures in the text. I bear the proud certification of that guy and, if you know that guy, and I am sure you do, it is not given out lightly.


Or maybe it is. Maybe that guy is, like everyone else on LinkedIn, trapped in a horrible cycle of endorsing and being endorsed, the Masonic handshake of our age. In the first years of its existence, LinkedIn just bombarded you with emails about dimly remembered acquaintances Adding A New Skill or Changing Their Job Title. It was a bit tedious but essentially harmless, the Mumford And Sons of social media.

A recent study from the Office of Statistics (Invented) shows that 85% of LinkedIn users gain no concrete benefit from using it in terms of job opportunities. But it did serve one important function: it made you feel like you were doing something to further your career, without any of the hard graft of actually doing something to further your career. A few Connections Made here, an Updated Experience here, and a satisfying hour of work displacement activity had fallen to your bow and arrow. You had networked, and without having to wear a name-badge or drink bad Pinot Grigio or fend off the advances of a halitoxic regional sales manager.

Hmmmmm, do we think that a 15% of LINKED IN people were WINNERS?  Better think again.




Then they introduced the whole endorsing thing, turning an innocent time-waster into a source of constant stress and worry. Someone endorses you, you have to click on it. Polite reciprocation means that you have to endorse them back. What choice do you have? Now other buttons pop up, other people you ought to be putting in a good word for. But with whom? To whom? To what end? “Endorse Paul for customer service?” But it seems so patronising. “Does Debbie know about graphic design?” (Always tempting to answer rhetorically: “Does the Pope wear a big hat?”) A very senior person in my industry once endorsed me for ‘Magazines’, presumably due to a mix-up. Who am I to endorse right back-atcha for ‘Editing’? It felt presumptuous. Although if you’re reading, Wintoury: you’re doing a bang-up job, keep at it.



I have one former colleague who endorses me several times a month for the same activity: I can only assume that this is not because he spends his leisure hours saying “My God that Alan Tyers could really sub-edit” to himself but because he is just clicking on the buttons randomly, discombobulated and overwhelmed by the tide of LinkedIn emails, banging on them bongos like a chimpanzee, trapped in his own hideous LinkedIn whack-a-mole hell.



Enough is enough: these are not endorsements. They are annoying little tasks to complete, serving neither the advocate nor the recipient. If you really want to give someone a little shot in the career arm, save them a minute of their working day by not pestering them with this pointless faux praise.
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Keep in mind LINKED-IN was always and has become no better than handing in a PAPER RESUME for 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE no matter whether you are a 5% freemason/Greek----and especially for our US 99% looking for job opportunity. Global corporations recruit overseas they already know who they are going to hire and bring to US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES whether white collar or global labor pool. There is no longer an INSIDER TRACK for our US 5% freemason/Greeks or our European/UK 5% players. The goal of FINAL SOLUTION is eliminating all population groups having knowledge of or experiencing WESTERN HEMISPHERE several centuries of AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT/MAGNA CARTA and especially our I AM MAN/WOMAN social progressive 300 years in America.



When WACK A MOLE goes global ---global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS are looking to third world developing nations for those white collar and global labor pool to be those new 5% freemason/Greek players for just these few decades of installing US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES ---SMART CITIES. Then these foreign 5% freemason/Greek players will be thrown under the bus----THE FINAL SOLUTION being ----those global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS will not NEED freemason/Greek players at all ---and especially not need our 99% WE THE WORKERS at all.

If Linkedin had been invented in the '80s...
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Published on Apr 29, 2012
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As we discussed in detail often------since CLINTON era the economies created by global banking 1% are TEMPORARY designed to exist for only long enough to install the next round of MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE goals of ONE WORLD ONE TECHNOLOGY/ENERGY GRID.  Our US 5% fremason/Greek players as too our foreign workers tied to being the next round of 5% freemason/Greeks are staged to being GREAT BIG LOSERS------but global banking 1% keep selling the idea they will be POPPING UP as a new identity when this is not the FINAL SOLUTION at all.

We encourage our US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE global labor pool 99%--whether white collar professionals or 99% global factory workers once here in US ----to work towards being a REAL US UNITED STATES CITIZEN-----by STOPPING MOVING FORWARD and returning to our REAL US social progressive economy tied to all that freedom, liberty, justice, pursuit of happiness, and all that 99% SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE LABOR RIGHTS.


So, Lynda Weiman is no more a self-starter average JANE then BEZOS, BRANSON, or GATES. When our US WE THE PEOPLE allow CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA make these global corporations the totality of our US economy our 99% US WE THE WORKERS no matter white collar or factory workers great big LOSERS.



May 18, 2017 @ 09:00 AM 10,202 2 Free Issues of Forbes


Tips From Lynda Weinman On How She Built And Sold Lynda.com To LinkedIn For $1.5 Billion

Kerry A. Dolan , Forbes Staff

Lynda Weinman, an early fan of the personal computer, made a name for herself by teaching web design to non-techies in the mid 1990s. From there she went on to create online education company Lynda.com, which was bought by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion in cash and stock in 2015. “It was a 20 year overnight success,” Weinman joked when I interviewed her on stage at The Montgomery Summit technology conference in Santa Monica, Calif. in March.



Weinman, who doesn’t grant interviews or speak publicly very often, ranks No. 55 on Forbes’ new list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women, with an estimated net worth of $280 million due to the sale of her company. At The Montgomery Summit, Weinman spoke with me about how she went from teaching herself web design and motion graphics, to teaching students at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. those same skills. She also published a textbook on web graphics that became hugely popular.



At the suggestion of her husband, artist Bruce Heavin, the couple rented a high school in Ojai, Calif. (east of Santa Barbara) over spring break one year to teach web design classes. The classes sold out that first year, with one student coming from as far away as Vienna, Austria. From there, Weinman and Heavin went on to build Lynda.com.




Never take ‘no’ for an answer


Weinman credits their success to a number of thoughtful decisions. First, she learned early on how not to take ‘no’ for an answer. When she came up with the idea to publish a web design textbook for non-techies, no one would publish it, she recalled. “I needed the advance to write the book-- I needed to earn money. And so I got a magazine publisher to let me do a monthly series,” she said. She later turned the series into a book, Designing Web Graphics, published in 1996. The success of her textbook became a calling card of sorts – and the reason that a student from Austria found out about her first classes in Ojai.

WEB DESIGN IS A ONE-WAY TICKET TO A DEAD-END CAREER FOR OUR 99% US AND GLOBAL CITIZENS.



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Make sure you have market validation



“Another thing that I often say to people: Really make sure you have market validation,” Weinman advised. “I knew that I did, because I was a popular teacher. Then when we started the school, that was successful. There were hard times, like with the dot com crash and the travel restrictions [after 9/11/2001, when Weinman had to lay off all but 9 of Lynda.com’s 35 employees]… but I knew ultimately that people loved the way that we taught and our approach.”



Do things differently for the right reason


“Everybody talks in business about playbooks and how everybody else does everything. We really tried to think about doing things in a different way than our competitors were doing them, not just to be different, but understanding what actually worked and what didn’t work. There’s a saying that my husband picked up: ‘Your marketing spend is the price you have to pay for a bad product.’ [What matters is] being passionate about your product, so that people love it and they want to share it.”


 Focus on the product or service, not the exit


“I see so many young people who want to be entrepreneurs right out of college … They’re looking to the exit. I’m proud of what Lynda.com sold for, but I’m way more proud of how many people we helped and lives we changed, and how our product grew organically, and it grew because it was a great product. People still, when they hear [about the company], say ‘I love Lynda.com.’ They never say ‘I like it’.”



On taking venture capital funding


“We had people ravenous to invest in us the entire time because we were the only people in our space who were making money,” Weinman recalled. Lynda.com was profitable and growing. “Eventually we chose to take the VC money as a desire to have an exit. I decided when I turned 59 [that] by the time I’m 65 I’d like to have another chapter. And also, we were in the very unusual position of our company being more valuable than the revenue it earned. So there was a lot of value that was in the company that was never going to be realized unless we went public or were sold.”



In January 2013 Lynda.com raised $103 million in funding from Accel Partners and Spectrum Equity. In January 2015 it raised $186 million in a round led by TPG Capital. “Everybody wanted to invest in us because we were a sure fire thing; we were profitable. We were a very well run organization,” Weinman said, partly because she and her husband had hired a CEO to run the business when it got big enough.


Jake Caumeran for The Montgomery Summit

Lynda Weinman's tips for success include 'Never take no for an answer.'



On selling to LinkedIn


When Lynda.com raised venture capital money, it was with the intent to eventually go public. Then in the spring of 2015, LinkedIn came knocking. The sale “was probably a little too soon, but it felt like a perfect fit and I’m very glad that we did it the way that we did it. I think going public would have even been harder,” Weinman said. It took three months from the time LinkedIn first made the acquisition offer until the two companies announced the sale in June 2015. “Having such a quick offer, which came totally out of the blue, was actually something that I was grateful for.” Weinman said LinkedIn kept her on retainer for a while but she didn’t meet with anyone at the company. (In December 2016, Microsoft completed its $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, so Lynda.com is currently owned by Microsoft.)


Weinman is now focused on harnessing the power of film and video. She chairs the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and backs independent filmmakers and documentary filmmakers.

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So, MOVING FORWARD these few decades of far-right wing, authoritarian, militaristic, extreme wealth extreme poverty LIBERTARIAN MARXISM building SMART CITIES US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES will have today's 5% freemason/Greek players POPPING UP as those HITLER CORPORATE FASCISTS tied to civil unrest/civil war as we have been shouting is happening today-----but SMART CITIES is designed to eliminate the need for global banking 1% to need these 5% military/spying ROOKS.

We discussed the goals of global population shifts with NEW WORLD ORDER----making the AMERICAS both South and North being those DARK CONTINENT global factory slave colonies much as AUSTRALIA was several centuries ago controlled by the worst of DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE --so this is to where our 5% freemason/Greek players are POPPING UP but that will only last a few decades ----as long as the CHESHIRE CAT'S SMILE WW3---moving populations out of Eastern Europe to work in these US and WESTERN EUROPEAN FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.  Remember, Eastern Europe led by Eastern KINGS AND QUEENS are MOVING FORWARD their own return of far-right wing authoritarian STALINISM complete with DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE.


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Whether POP-UP START UP businesses, books and products designed as POP-UP-----whether our 5% to the 1% freemason/Greek POP-UP players----every avenue in MOVING FORWARD is tied to the ALICE IN WONDERLAND DREAM STATE where virtual reality and real life are the same.

THIS IS ANOTHER GLOBAL BANKING 1% CULTURAL FAD as a symbol----and these products are not creating any meaningful lasting, stable economy or jobs.

What happens to our global banking 5% freemason/Greek players if MOVING FORWARD brings WW3---brings DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE SMART CITIES to eliminate even those jobs those dastardly 5% player POP-UPS seek? As ALICE AS EMPIRE says------I DON'T CARE.


THE 'I DON'T CARE' PLAYERS DON'T CARE WHAT COMES AFTER FINAL SOLUTION.



"Colourful and vibrant illustrations, fabulously fun writing style and a story so many children (and adults) of all ages will enjoy and identify with. I'm absolutely thrilled to own this gem of a book." 

This  POPUP FAD is simply developing 3D technology needed in MOVING FORWARD DEEP STATE and in SPACE  MINING SLAVE
COLONIES ------that FINAL SOLUTION for here in US as a colonial slave colony theme continued into SPACE.  Who were those AUSTRALIAN prison colony EX-PATS?  WE THE 99% OF WHITE CITIZENS.


REMEMBER, being able to find and interpret SYMBOLS, SIGNS/CODES that are found right in front of 99% WE THE PEOPLE is a top goal of educating to be CITIZENS AND LEADERS.


11 beautiful pop-up books to bring reading to life in 3D, no technology required


by Kate Etue | Jun 14, 2015

Now that my kids are finally all old enough to know better than to rip out the cut-art from a pop-up book as I flip the pages for them, I’ve been looking around to find some new pop-up books to read to them. And wow, there are some really, really beautiful pop-up books for kids that have been published in the last year, along with some classics I still adore.




These are books that I’m enjoying as much as the kids are, even as they give my children a glimpse into another world, teach them a wider appreciation for art, or are just super fun. One will even teach your kids how to make their own pop-up books, which is so cool.



Hope these help bring reading to life in your home, just in time for summer reading season.
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We ended last week's discussion of WOMEN'S RIGHTS/MOVEMENT being tied to women and family, women and community, women as workers----AND we showed that MOVING FORWARD has goals of moving what women are employed into only military, security, surveillance CYBER TECHNOLOGY jobs ----these few decades------with many of our 99% of women losing life as warriors----massive systemic breaking apart of our 99% of families------with only those few decades of employment as FAR-RIGHT AUTHORITARIAN LIBERTARIAN MARXIST FASCISTS----followed by NO JOBS AT ALL.

THE FINAL SOLUTION having all those global banking 1% WESTERN KINGS AND QUEENS moving EAST and all those global banking 1% EASTERN KINGS AND QUEENS staging EASTERN EUROPE as a CLIMATE CHANGE ECO-DOME for only those global 1%---with the worst of STALINIST MARXISM for any of our 99% choosing to go EAST ----WICKED WITCH OF WEST not WIZARD OF OZ.


The article written by our global 2% Japanese player ------we showed a video of our 5% of JAPANESE freemason/Greeks flashing those FREEMASON DEVIL'S HORN signs while stuffing themselves into high-speed rail like sardines MOVING FORWARD robotics and artificial intelligence which has already killed JAPAN'S economy and job creation for even those 5% POP-UP PLAYERS.




How Tomorrow's Battles Will Be Fought in Augmented Reality


Sophisticated technologies may optimise a soldier’s situational awareness, and ply him or her with information.


Emiko Jozuka
Sep 15 2015, 1:30pm



Imagine a battleship's command room—but instead of a physical display screen, there's a levitating 3D dome. It displays everything that's going on underwater and in the air, providing military commanders with an unparalleled view of the battlefield. Everything in this microcosm is actually happening in real-time, and it's how Bob Stone thinks the future of war might be fought.


Stone's musings on the future of how we monitor and conduct warfare almost sounds like an infinitely upgraded and sleeker version of Warhammer, an old-school tabletop wargame featuring miniature fantasy regiments. And though what he imagines might not be reality just yet, since 2013, he's been collaborating with engineers at BAE Systems—a British multinational defence, security, and aerospace company—on mixed reality systems that meld the real and virtual worlds.

The project's aim is to create augmented reality systems that optimise the situational awareness and decision-making processes of military personnel of the future. But questions of how to do so safely, effectively and accurately remain to be answered.


"Does it need to be visual? Does it need to look like the real world? What happens if we introduce video, and live feeds from news channels and social networking sites?" asked Stone. "Nobody knows how much information is too much just yet."


Just a mirage? An avatar stands in front of a virtual display. Image: University of Birmingham/BAE Systems
Stone has been working on virtual reality systems for over two decades. As an applied psychologist by qualification, he is interested in evaluating what kind of information military personnel need to make sharper decisions that would lead to less casualties in the future.


"I'm waiting for the day when someone produces a very large volumetric display—there's nothing like that yet," he said.


One current idea that would allow soldiers to adapt more quickly to their environment is a "Wearable Cockpit." Headset clad pilots could customise their aircraft's interface through reconfigurable virtual displays and controls based on personal preference and mission objectives.



Another idea is a "Portable Command Centre." According to Stone, a user wearing a virtual reality headset and interactive gloves might control a mixed reality environment—with virtual displays for landscape, newsfeeds, data from remote UAVs and command centres—that seems to appear in front of them.


While some of these ideas are already being explored as virtual reality headsets become cheaper and less expensive to produce, what remains largely unexplored is the long-term effects such experiences might have on the human body and the mind.


Stone, for example, gives questionnaires to armed forces personnel who trial his tech in order to gauge their feelings and observations on how the tech could be improved and adapted to suit their needs. He measures galvanic skin responses (the same kind of tech used in lie detectors), which he said "detects how stressed someone can be," and also intends to measure brain function by using low-cost brain wave sensors.



As battlefields of the future become populated with autonomous vehicles and robots, as well as headset-clad soldiers with the ability to see through buildings, draw up virtual display screens, monitor news and social media feeds in real time, and fight battles remotely, having access to accurate information will also be crucial in making the correct decisions.


Sophisticated mixed reality technologies may optimise a soldier's situational awareness, and ply him or her with more information. Yet, conversely, Stone acknowledged that the representation of uncertainty was still a "thorny question" that might inhibit a soldier from making a balanced decision.

"Imagine there's an unmanned vehicle, and it's flying around an area and we lose transmission for half an hour, but some transmissions are still coming back," explained Stone. "How can we represent how the probability of that information is accurate?" The possibility of information degradation would definitely have to be taken into account.


In the meantime, Stone told me that his augmented reality systems were not merely limited to the military sphere. He is currently in discussions with forensics specialists and surgeons too. And while the prospect of a 3D bubble containing a microcosm of the battlefield of the future doesn't exist yet, Stone remains excited by the prospect of what current and upcoming virtual reality technology can do.

"After being involved in VR for 28 years, it seems like the applications are finally coming to the technology, and that's good news," said Stone.

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND charts a pathway from WESTERN CIVILIZATION to EASTERN CIVILIZATION with a FINAL SOLUTION being to create an entirely new CREATION MYTH bringing all of our 99% WE THE PEOPLE back to 3000BC having no knowledge or remembrance of these thousands of years of civilized development.  To keep our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE---black, white, and brown citizens in constant population group hating, fearing, divisiveness----that FINAL SOLUTION always MOVES ----here in US the FINAL SOLUTION for getting rid of our US black citizens tied to slavery was of course shipping them back to Africa which is of course MOVING FORWARD OBAMA and PAN -AFRICAN goals.

Then FINAL SOLUTION is tied to HITLER and moving all our 99% of JEWISH citizens back to ancient EMPIRE OF ISRAEL of course Africa and near-middle-east to be an uninhabitable dust bowl in only several decades of AFRICAN FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES destruction of all African food, fresh water, animal life as climate change advances to LEVEL 5 degree.  No doubt, global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS---HOUSE OF JUDAH KNIGHTS OF MALTA are indeed shooting for that LOST TRIBE RETURN TO HOLY LAND having absolutely no ties to our religious texts.


Here is our ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT FAKE ANITIFA players pretending to be those anti-fascists when they are global banking 1%MOVING FORWARD far-right wing LIBERTARIAN MARXISM.

5 thoughts on “50 shades of American Fascism”
  1. Gary G says:
    August 30, 2017 at 9:38 am
    As predicted.
    THE LEFT TURNS ON ANTIFA: http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267732/left-turns-antifa-daniel-greenfield

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  2. Mark says:
    August 27, 2017 at 10:19 am
    Dear Gary,
    Analyze and understand so many colors and hues might be an exercise in
    futility for many unsophisticated people including myself.
    Instead of naming the colors by various names, let’s give them just one name -PC.
    Please, allow me to offer a third-grade version of
    the PC(political correctness) and it’s offshoot, “multiculturalism”.
    PC is a soft, Euro-American form of socialism that failed
    everywhere. But between them is essential difference.
    Socialism is a “top-down” religion/ideology, as well as
    fascism. You take away the Central Committee and the
    religion goes “puff”.
    Christianity, Judaism, Islam are “bottom-up” religions.
    They cease to exist when people cease to go to church,
    shul or mosque.
    Political correctness is simultaneously a “bottom-up”
    and “top-down” religion. Political elite, media,
    academia need it to exert control and power from above. The “down”
    supporters of all colors – blacks, Muslims, LGBT – support
    it because it helps them to carve more “territory” and
    get more benefits, often unearned.
    Such superposition of “top-down” and “bottom-up”
    interests makes PC very dangerous, cruel and
    thriving ideology/religion. It is capable evolutionary
    ruin the roots of the existing system of values and
    rules. Certainly “the melting pot” is target#1.
    But destruction is a final goal of every new
    or un-reformed religion.

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So, why in Western Europe, US, Canada has THE FINAL SOLUTION always been tied to our 99% of black citizens----our 99% of Jewish citizens----when the REAL FINAL SOLUTION is to kill 99% of WE THE WHITE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE?


That answer is obvious-----our 99% of white Europeans are the dominate population group and global banking 1% are simply keeping our dominate 99% of white citizens thinking the FINAL SOLUTION is about all those other population groups.

We don't want to lessen the seriousness for both our 99% REAL Jewish and REAL US BLACK and AFRICAN citizens in this CHESHIRE CAT SMILE march to ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1%.  What we are saying to our 99% of white citizens is WAKE UP------THE FINAL SOLUTION has no 99% WE THE WHITE PEOPLE----it has no 99% WE THE CHRISTIAN people----it has no 99% WE THE WORKERS WITH FAMILIES.

CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA HAVING MOVED FORWARD THESE GOALS---TRUMP SIMPLY DOING THE SAME---NEITHER BEING RIGHT WING US REPUBLICAN NOR LEFT WING US DEMOCRAT.



We of course KNOW TRUMP is not MOVING FORWARD to being the next MUSSOLINI.


WHACK A MOLE 5% FREEMASON GREEKS---WAKE UP----there will be no more POP-UP remakes for you as workers MOVING FORWARD.

Trump is a fascist



William Smith, Baltimore  BALTIMORE SUN

Is The Donald the 21{+s}{+t} century's Mussolini?



I had to laugh when I read the angry letter claiming that Donald Trump is more like Ronald Reagan than Adolf Hitler ("Trump is Reagan, not Hitler," Aug. 28). That's like saying the police don't discriminate against black people, just African Americans. After all, aside from the extermination camps, there really wasn't much difference between Ronald Reagan and Adolf Hitler in the first place. They were both playing from the same playbook — the one written by Benito Mussolini.


Mussolini defined fascism as the merger of the interests of the government and big business. In fact, he considered calling fascism "corporatism" but felt that wasn't patriotic sounding enough to fool the general public. And you couldn't come up with a better description of the policies of Ronald Reagan if you tried.



By the way, let's not forget that Hitler's original plan for the Jews was not extermination, but deportation. It was only after he overran Eastern Europe and was confronted with the world's largest concentration of Jews — and nowhere to deport them -- that he came up with his "final solution" of mass murder. The citizens of Mexico had better pray that "The Donald," should he ever become president, doesn't set his sights on Mexico for America's "lebensraum."

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We will discuss next week the public policy of US economic crash/economic collapse----GREAT DEPRESSION ------but let's just say this tied to US employment and jobs for our 99% US WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens----

When we shouted after 2008 economic crash that US never exited a recession---OBAMA policy kept moving forward what was already a GREAT DEPRESSION for our US 99% of citizens. We have shouted that the US FED after these several years of OBAMA era US Treasury and state municipal bond frauds was staging that US economic collapse leading to GREAT DEPRESSION. What we saw during OBAMA and now TRUMP is an economy where only global corporations and global banking are operating-----the only thing keeping our US economy tied to anything AMERICAN are the few US corporations still being domestic all of which have tied themselves to massive corporate and US Treasury bond debt just to implode them into bankruptcy so they too will be enfolded into the hands of a global corporation NOT AMERICAN.


Each time a global banking 1% media outlet pretends all this is simply BOOM AND BUST with our US economy making a RECOVERY------THEY ARE LYING.

Our poor 99% of LATIN AMERICAN citizens brutalized in MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD here we see these former LATIN AMERICAN nations sacked and looted and filled with FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES these few decades are already being tied to extreme wealth extreme poverty LIBERTARARIAN MARXISM while those global banking 1% and their 2% are simply continuing the same global laissez faire neo-liberalism creating a contained BUBBLE ---just as is MOVING FORWARD in US.


CHAVEZ was always that ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT global banking 1% freemason/Greek player pretending to be LEFT PRO-WORKER.


PLEASE GLANCE THROUGH A LONG ARTICLE JUST TO SEE THE NAMES OF GLOBAL ECONOMISTS NO ONE SHOULD LISTEN TO.


Are We Heading for Another Economic Crash?


Responses from Wolfgang Streeck, Cédric Durand, Susan Newman, David M. Kotz, Mingqi Li, Mary Mellor, Andrew Ross, Tim Di Muzio, Dario Azzellini, Ying Chen, Richard Murphy, Michael Roberts, Lena Rethel, and Heikki Patomäki.

London Stock Exchange, Paternoster Square, as seen from St. Paul's Cathedral. Photo: Elias Gayles. via Flickr.




This article was first published by State of Nature, as part of the monthly "One Question" series, which solicits responses to a single query from a variety of thinkers. This month's question — "Are we heading for another economic crash?" — received responses from Wolfgang Streeck, Cédric Durand, Susan Newman, David M. Kotz, Mingqi Li, Mary Mellor, Andrew Ross, Tim Di Muzio, Dario Azzellini, Ying Chen, Richard Murphy, Michael Roberts, Lena Rethel, and Heikki Patomäki. 



Wolfgang Streeck



Professor emeritus of sociology. From 1995 to 2014 he was Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. His latest book is How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System (Verso, 2016).



I’m not a prophet. But there is no capitalism without the occasional crash, so if you will we are always heading for one. Inflation in the 1970s was ended by a return to "sound money" in 1980, which begot deindustrialization and high unemployment, which together with tax cuts for the rich begot high public debt. When public debt became too high, fiscal consolidation in the 1990s had to be compensated, for macro-economic as well as political reasons, by capital market deregulation and private household debt, which begot the crash of 2008.



Now, almost a decade later, public debt is higher than ever, so is private debt; the global money volume has been steadily increasing for decades now; and the central banks are producing money as though there was no tomorrow, by buying up all sorts of debt with cash made ‘out of thin air’, which is called Quantitative Easing. While everybody knows that this cannot go on forever, nobody knows how to end it — same with public and private debt, same with the money supply. Something is going to happen, presumably soon, and it is not going to be pleasant.

WE ARE PRETTY SURE MOST REAL ECONOMISTS CALL NAKED GLOBAL BANKING NEO-LIBERALISM ANYTHING BUT CAPITALISM.




Cédric Durand
Associate professor in Economics the University of Paris Cite and the author of Fictitious Capital: How Finance Is Appropriating Our Future (Verso, 2017).



The illusion that financial assets can create value "as it is the property of pear-trees to bear pears" is nowadays much more vivid than in Marx’s times. This fetishisation of finance and its empowerment are the reasons why, after 2008, the main avenue to roll back the danger of a debt-deflation spiral was a huge monetary stimulus. As acknowledged by Claudio Borio, a prominent figure at the Bank of International Settlement, rich economies became addicted to low interest rates and central bankers have dramatically increased the dose in the past few years with near zero or even below zero key interest rates and assets purchase programs.



The outcome of this sequence is an outrageously unsustainable dynamic: on the one hand, financial fragility is on the rise again, in particular with excessive corporate debt in the US, persistent bank fragility in Europe, and overvalued stock markets. In the real economy, this monetary stimulus has not delivered much: growth rates are anaemic, underemployment endemic, productivity sluggish and investment hardly sufficient to prevent a productive involution throughout the developed world.

NAKED LAISSEZ FAIRE NEO-LIBERALISM DOES INDEED KILL SOVEREIGN DOMESTIC ECONOMIES---THAT IS WHY IT IS NOT CAPITALISM





It seems, then, that there is no recovery but only a renewed financial assertiveness backed by highly biased policies. The elementary forms of finance capital — stock-market capitalization, credit to the private non-financial sector, and public debt — now represent more than 350% of GDP on average in the major high-income countries compared to 150% in the early eighties, and 330% before the crisis. In order to be sustained, the value of these financial claims require that the expected financial incomes fall in due time: debt must be honoured, interests paid, dividends disbursed.



But how can that be in stagnating economies?

The first possibility is just ponziying further: as more debt floods in, everything moves smoothly. But this puts central banks in a deadlock. If they move back to more usual monetary policies, they will trigger a recession and increasing financial distress. The fact that long-term interest rates in the US are still trending downward in spite of recent Federal Reserve rises indicate that markets do not believe in a normalisation of monetary policy. However, if central bankers do not move forward, financial imbalances will continue to build up, favouring misallocation of resources and increasing the amplitude of the next crash. Financial hegemony was able to survive a few additional years in intensive care — but now is the time to say farewell.




The next crash won’t be a repetition of 2008: this time the credibility of central banks will be at stake, with the risk of a full blown monetary crisis. In preparation of this predictable unfolding of events, it should already be clear that private finance ought not be saved again, that delirious financial claims of the wealthiest over the work of the rest of us won’t be validated anymore by government intervention. Instead, it’s time to bring to the front of the agenda the socialization of the banks, debt jubilee, universal pension, education and healthcare systems, ecological investment planning and open data. Freeing our societies from the financial time-bond will require a new ability to engineer the future.



Susan Newman
Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of the West of England where she leads the MSc program in Global Political Economy.



We are heading for another economic crash because the underlying conditions that brought about the financial crisis of 2007-8 remain. The post-crisis slump saw the restructuring of capital, aided by government and central bank policies, in order to restore profitability and the incomes and wealth of the 1% premised upon fictitious accumulation.



Speculative finance continues to dominate economic activities in the advanced capitalist economies. Corporate profits, personal wealth, pension provision and food prices, continue to be tied to the vagaries of finance. The IMF’s growth projections for 2018 recognise that modest growth will be driven by financial markets with little impact on real investment, job creation, productivity or wages. Stock market capitalisation to GDP ratio is higher than at any time except for the eve of the dot.com bust in 2000 indicating the disconnection between financial investment and productive activities. In spite of Basel III, the financial system continues to be characterised by high leveraging and global interconnectedness owing to the rise of the shadow banking system.



Austerity in the UK since 2010 has created new trigger points for crises. Personal debt in the UK has reached alarming and unsustainable levels in excess of £200bn. Welfare cuts, stagnant wages, and the deterioration of employment contracts has meant that low income families in the UK have had to borrow for basic day to day expenditures. One can expect many more cracks in the system in which the next crisis will emerge. However, rather than trying to predict the timing or origins of impending crises, efforts would be more productively oriented towards radical change of the economic system. Reforms such as those that supported the Golden Age could help temper some of the deadliest side effects of capitalist growth. But in the long run we need to treat those side effects as the main goals for society: for each of us to reach our full potential and live in material comfort free from alienation from each other and our environment.



David M. Kotz
Economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism (Harvard University Press, 2015).


Yes and no. That is, a recession is likely to begin in the US in the not too distant future. However, the preconditions for the kind of severe crash we saw unfold in 2008-09 are not present today.



Economic conditions in the US today bear some similarities to the mid-2000s. Income and wealth inequality are still in the stratosphere. The Trump Administration has initiated another round of bank deregulation. However, these similarities are not enough to bring another major crash.



The financial crisis and Great Recession of 2008-09 were caused by three unsustainable trends set off by the neoliberal form of capitalism: a giant asset price bubble (in real estate) that had to collapse, the spread of bound-to-fail derivative securities throughout the US financial system and much of the global financial system, and an unsustainable build-up in household debt that had underpinned growth in consumer spending.
Why Laissez-Faire Lovers Are the Real Anti-CapitalistsTime to resurrect an old idea: economic rent
LAISSEZ FAIRE AKA NEO-LIBERALISM IS ALWAYS SOLD AS FREE MARKET WHEN IT IS ALWAYS THE MOST ANTI-FREE MARKET ECONOMIC STRUCTURE EVER.  IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN SIMPLY A TOOL BY GLOBAL RICH TO RUN OVER REAL SOVEREIGN DOMESTIC CAPITALIST ECONOMIES.





After the crash, the Federal Reserve unburdened the banks of their failed derivative securities. Household debt declined relative to household income after 2009 and has stabilized at a safe level since 2015. And while US stock prices have been rising, this does not have the hallmarks of a self-perpetuating, about-to-collapse bubble — the S&P 500 price-earnings ratio, which rose steadily for four years after 2011, has since stabilized at a level far below that of the stock bubble of the late 1990s.



However, a more typical recession is likely to begin in the near future, with its costs in rising unemployment, small business failures, and a squeeze on state and local revenues and services. The current US economic expansion is now 10 years old, and every expansion in capitalism eventually ends in recession. The rate of profit on invested capital of the nonfinancial corporate business sector, while high, has been falling since 2014, which usually indicates a coming recession. However, the big economic problem today is the long-term stagnation that has afflicted the US economy and much of the global capitalist system since the Great Recession ended in 2009, causing much economic suffering and destabilizing political systems around the world.



Minqi Li
Professor of economics at the University of Utah. His recent books include The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy (Monthly Review, 2009), Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Limits to China’s Economic Growth (Routledge, 2014), and China and the Twenty-first Century Crisis (Pluto, 2015).



The answer to this question partly depends on what one means by "economic crash." If one means one of those "normal" recessions that happen to the global capitalist economy once in every several years, then almost certainly we will see such a recession in the next two or three years.



The more interesting question is how severe the next recession will be. Since the "Great Recession" of 2008-2009, the core countries of the capitalist world system have struggled with persistent stagnation. On the other hand, household debt in the US has fallen to relatively normal levels and currently there is not an obviously large financial imbalance between the US and the rest of the world. From a purely technical point of view, the next global recession around 2020 may not be as severe as the last one.



Far more important is what has happened in China. China’s industrialization has transformed its social structure and produced a large, 19th-century-style industrial working class. As this working class begins to organize and demand economic and social rights, its growing power has contributed to a falling profit rate in the Chinese economy. This is similar to what happened to the western capitalist economies in the 1970s and is something that no major economy has seen since then. It will be interesting to see whether this development will lead to a fundamental transformation of labor-capital relations of forces not only in China but also in the entire world system by the 2020s.



Whatever will happen in terms of an "economic crash," the capitalist world continues to head relentlessly towards the climate crash threatening to end civilization, as we know it. It is up to the global class struggle in the coming decades to determine whether the capitalist juggernaut can be stopped before it is too late.


Mary Mellor
Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social Science, Northumbria University, UK. Her recent books include The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource (Pluto, 2010) and Debt or Democracy: Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice (Pluto, 2015).



If this refers to the financial sector, another crash will occur because nothing has been done to deal with the underlying contradictions of a debt-fuelled main street and a hot money financial casino. Signs of instability and "irrational exuberance" are driving unsustainable speculation, such as in Bitcoin. Household and personal debt is rising. It was speculation in household debt that triggered the 2008 crisis and the position is equally bad now, if not worse, as people have even less financial resilience.



However, my concern is the crisis of social justice and ecological sustainability in the economy of provisioning: providing the essential goods and services that create wellth, the well-being of people and the planet. Ecologically, we may be past the point of no return: global warming; plastic contaminants; drastic decline in insect numbers.




The crisis in social justice is tearing our societies apart. Far from bringing universal wealth or wellth, globalised capitalism has hollowed out communities in the older economies, while exploiting cheap labour in the newer ones. The cries of pain from those in "left behind" communities in both the old and new economies are producing populist and authoritarian leaders.



Market fundamentalism is also destroying the wealth of the public economy. Welfare states can no longer achieve their aim of caring for people from cradle to grave. Neoliberal "handbag economics" is ideologically opposed to publicly funded infrastructure and services. The state is seen as equivalent to a household, dependent on private sector funding. Austerity programmes aim to shrink the public sector to the level that the private sector is willing to sustain. This is compounded by tax avoidance and evasion and militant offshoring.



This ignores the role of state created "sovereign" money. The public rescue of private finance through quantitative easing reveals that new public money can be created at will. If public money can be created to fund the financial sector it can be used to fund the people, so that wellth, social justice and ecological sustainability becomes the priority of both public and private economies



Andrew Ross
Social activist and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. He is the author of many books, including Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal, Bird On Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City (OR Books, 2014), and Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times (NYU, 2010).



In 2007, the landmark Stern Report described "climate change" as "the greatest market failure that the world has seen." In some quarters, this observation was taken as a challenge for capitalists to do better, rather than as an indictment of a price system whose dependence on growth had produced its inevitable outcome in planetary environmental collapse. The steady deterioration of biospheric life is now so normalized that many battle-hardened activists pray for the next climate-driven catastrophe simply to call attention to their zero-carbon cause.




The widespread distress that follows a periodic economic crash can feel as if it occurs in a parallel universe, disconnected from melting polar caps and species die-offs, but these respective disaster zones have the same root causes in a crisis-prone economic system. The recent rise in high-risk financial speculation has only sharpened the tendency, as garden-variety Marxists would say, to resolve capitalism’s internal contradictions through episodic wipe-outs. The standard euphemism for this boom-and-bust is "the business cycle," as if to suggest there is some rational conduct driving the "animal spirits" of investors.




As ever, fortunes can be conjured out of estimating when and where the next crash will occur. Which bubble will burst first, triggering the collapse? Bitcoin? China’s property market? U.S. Treasuries? High-Yield Euro Bonds? Student loans? Take your pick. The only silver lining is that the ruinous aftermath offers a chance, as it did after 2008, to build that zero-carbon economy, along with plenty of sustainable green-collar jobs. If you really need to pray for something, that would fit the bill.



Tim Di Muzio
Associate Professor in International Relations and Political Economy at the University of Wollongong, Australia.  He is most recently the author of The Tragedy of Human Development (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).




The short answer is yes. However, the big question has to do with timing and how the crash will be experienced and by whom. Typically, an economic crash means that the value of owned income-generating assets like stocks (shares in companies) are radically devalued. For instance, at the height of the Global Financial Crisis, the market capitalization of all listed firms stood just above US$60 trillion and within a few months that was cut roughly in half.  The crisis was of course related to the housing market in the United States as everyone knows, but it was far broader in its reach since it led investors to suspect that the banks would freeze credit in a time of record high oil prices. And in a capitalist economy, where the money supply increases by the extension of credit/debt to businesses and individuals, lack of faith in the expansion of credit is a real killer of expected future earnings.



There will likely be another stock market devaluation in the future caused by a fear of lesser future expected earnings, but the upcoming crisis that will shake capitalism to its core relates to three factors. First, we have about 50 years of oil left at current production rates according to BP. So we can expect oil prices to eventually go through the roof, and since oil goes into everything from computers to gasoline, we can expect an unprecedented inflation.  Second, capitalism is a cost-plus accounting system (as long noticed by C.H. Douglas) which means there is never enough purchasing power in the economy for the outstanding prices of goods and services — hence the need for credit. This gap is structural and mathematical and cannot be overcome internally. Third, in an uncertain inflationary environment, the extension of credit (new money) will be frozen or come at ever increasing interest rates, only serving to exacerbate inflation.



Predictions are notoriously wrong but I care less about the exact timing of the next crisis and choose to focus on the three factors that will lead to the clusterfuck ahead: the price of oil, the nature of capitalist accounting, and the way in which new money is produced.




Dario Azzellini
Visiting research fellow at the ILR School, Cornell University (Ithaca). Recent publications include Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela: Building 21st Century Socialism from Below (Brill, 2017) and An Alternative Labour History: Worker Control and Workplace Democracy (edited, Zed Books, 2015). Together with Oliver Ressler he is producing Occupy, Resist, Produce, a series of documentaries on recuperated factories under workers control in Europe. More information: www.azzellini.net




No doubt we are heading for another economic crash because capitalism is always heading for another economic crash. It is the nature of capitalism to increase surplus capital and then destroy it again through a crash or war, in order to restart the accumulation process once again. After every crisis, as historical data shows, the rich get richer and capital concentration grows. The cycles from crash to crash are becoming shorter as the accumulation of surplus capital becomes faster.



There are two developments making an economic crash in the near future very likely. Similar to the time leading up to the 2008 crisis, there is again a looming private loan subprime crisis. Since the last crisis, banks (especially in the US and UK) have not changed their behavior. In the US alone  subprime private auto loans in the order of US$26 billion exist. This is happening in the light of the longer lasting structural problem that capital cannot be reinvested in a materially productive way. That is why e.g. Uber, which is only producing financial loss, was worth an estimate US$ 48billion in December 2017 (down from US$68 billion a couple of weeks earlier!) or bitcoin had a vertiginous growth in value.



How disastrous the crash will be, will depend on the extent to which a subprime loan crisis will also trigger the burst of the bubble created by casino capitalist adventures. The destruction not only of the middle class, but also more generally most people’s ability to satisfy their basic needs, is a worldwide reality. Nevertheless, the US has abolished most social anchors and has fewer financial control mechanisms than other countries. It is therefore very likely that the next crash will emanate from the US, and/or the UK (especially considering Brexit).



Ying Chen
Assistant professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. Her current research focuses on the sustainable development in contemporary China from the perspective of social, economic, and environmental sustainability.



Actually, we have hardly walked out of the last recession completely yet. In Europe, growth since last year was only experienced by the strongest economies such as Germany and the Netherlands. People in hard-hit countries such as Greece and Italy are still suffering from unemployment and austerity measures in the aftermath of the last crisis. In the USA, where the financial crisis started, the labour force participation rate remains 4 percentage points below the pre-crisis level. This suggests a dismal picture of more working-age people who either cannot find jobs or are discouraged from looking for jobs.



On the other hand, China, the country whose growth accounts for more than 30% of global economic growth, is now experiencing a declining profit rate and soaring debt-GDP ratio. The former could lead to slow investment and economic crisis while the latter could lead to a financial crisis. Either way, China’s crisis will have tremendous world economy implications given its almost 20% share of world GDP.



The recovery has not only been uneven but is also hardly sustainable if private investment remains so sluggish. This is what economists have been worried about: that despite some temporary stimulus-driven recovery, the advanced capitalist countries are indeed entering secular stagnation. When growth stagnates, the growing population and productivity, if any, will not be absorbed into the economy, resulting in unemployment and aggravating inequality. Capitalism was more progressive than feudalism because capitalists invest out of capital which leads to economic growth. It will lose its legitimacy as a system if investment stops. And to make it worse, central bankers are expressing concerns that monetary policy would be of very limited effectiveness and fiscal policy of little political feasibility for the next economic downturn. The next round of economic crisis in capitalist countries will breed a much more severe political crisis.


Richard Murphy
Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City, University of London. He is also a chartered accountant, and tax reform campaigner. He blogs at Tax Research UK:​ http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/



The answer to this question has to be yes: capitalism is built on the concept of failure and so crashes are inevitable. The real question is how soon before the next crash?



My answer is soon. The reasons are multifold. It could be a hard Brexit creating a liquidity crisis for companies as lorries queue at ports meaning that businesses will fail as they run out of stock, orders and cash. Or it could be over-valued stock markets crashing, especially if central banks try (foolishly) to increase interest rates and trigger a household debt crisis at the same time. Alternatively it could be Chinese debt collapsing. Or (heaven forbid) Trump pushing his "big button." And it might be something else entirely.


The fact is economies historically do downturns. We are overdue for one. That would not be too worrying except that austerity and a failure to address most of the failings in financial capitalism that led to 2008 have left us hopelessly ill-prepared for the next crunch. And that’s why it will be a crisis and not a manageable bump.


Michael Roberts
Marxist economist who has worked in the City of London for over 30 years. He is author of two books: The Great Recession: A Marxist View (Lulu,2009) and The Long Depression (Haymarket, 2016).  He blogs at thenextrecession.wordpress.com.




Yes, we are. There has been a slump in production and investment of varying degrees every 8 to 10 years since 1945. Such a regular and recurrent cycle is endemic to a capitalist economy (production and investment for profit) and the current cycle since the end of the Great Recession in 2009 is now over eight years long, the third longest in the last 70 years.




The economic crash may not happen in 2018 because corporate profits are still rising in most major economies and growth has picked up in Europe and Japan — but it will happen before the end of the decade at the latest.



What could happen in 2018 is a stock market crash as stock prices are very high compared to the earnings that companies in the US, Europe and Japan are generating to justify them.  Cheap borrowing costs (low interest rates) are coming to an end as central banks globally start to reverse their easy credit schemes and raise interest rates.



The form of an economic crisis is always financial but the underlying cause is not.  Profitability and profits in the productive sectors of the economy are the key drivers.  The crisis is likely to start in the US, as this economy remains the largest and most financial. And this time the economic downturn will start in the corporate sector where debt continues to rise. Corporate profits may be rising but the profitability of each unit of investment is falling. And debt servicing costs will rise as central banks hike interest rates.



Lena Rethel
Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick and Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Author of The Problem with Banks, with Timothy J. Sinclair (Zed Books, 2012). Lena is a member of the I-PEEL: the International Political Economy of Everyday Life pedagogic initiative.



The short answer to this question is: Yes. From a UK perspective, it seems as if little has substantively changed in the decade since the last crisis. Current household debt is once more approaching levels last seen at the onset of the crisis of 2007-2009. Levels of personal loans and student debt — important markers of indebtedness as, unlike mortgages, they are not directly matched by ownership of an asset — have seen a steep rise in recent years. Without trying to be overly gloomy, it is fair to say that the question is not if another crisis will happen, but when it will happen and who will suffer most from the fallout.



Indeed, it is important to recognise that the economy has been crashing for many for quite some time now. Over the last decade, income inequality has changed little and wealth inequality has effectively increased in the UK. So has the number of homeless people and of those dependent on food banks for making ends meet. The growth of work income has been stagnating and child poverty is on the rise again. Since the crisis of 2007-2009, there has been recovery for some, but not everyone. This is different from previous crises which — despite the hardship they caused — often also brought about a certain reduction in inequality, if not greater efforts at progressive distributive policymaking. Instead, what we see now is greater social stratification, exacerbated by post-crisis policies such as the tripling of student fees that negatively impact social mobility.



It is time to rethink the role of debt in our everyday lives and as a stopgap measure of economic policymaking. It is hard to see how anyone could ever consider that personal debt could or even should replace social safety nets. This requires some rethinking but is far from undoable. It means grants instead of loans, equity-based financial products instead of debt-based products and a culture of risk-sharing rather than risk transfer where the brunt too often is borne by those least able to bear risks. Until this has changed, the chances of avoiding another crisis from happening soon are increasingly slim — let alone overcoming the current one.



Heikki Patomäki
Professor of world politics at the University of Helsinki, author of Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy: Exits and Conflicts (Routledge, 2018) and co-editor with Jamie Morgan of Brexit and the Political Economy of Fragmentation (Routledge, 2018).



Interest rates are close to zero. It is excessively easy to get credit for consumption or speculation. Corporations are using their profits to buy their own shares rather than to invest. Stock markets are soaring and asset prices are at an all-time high.



While the world economy is growing and there is widespread talk about recovery, especially in Europe, the rates of per capita growth remain below the standards that prevailed before the 2008-9 global financial crisis — not to speak of earlier decades. Productivity is growing slowly and real investments are lagging behind expectations.



This kind of divergence is not unusual for a capitalist market economy. It resonates with tendencies toward financialization and growing inequalities, closely related to contradictory responses by states in the world economy. The basis of genuine economic growth erodes, while the underlying super-bubble grows.



The Minskyan boom-and-bust scheme is simple. Debt leveraging tends to affect the underlying financial valuations and thus enable further leveraging through the wealth-effect, increasing the value of collateral and sustained optimism. Over time the increasing involvement in debt makes the financial system more chaotic, i.e. sensitive to small disturbances. As the quality of debt gradually deteriorates and risks get bigger (however well-hidden they may be), the system becomes more vulnerable. Finally, something happens: a trigger of downward developments emerges, generating rounds of panic, resulting in collapse.



In contrast to 2006-7, many well-known analysts and international organizations from Deutsche Bank to the IMF have been warning about a future crisis that might occur in 2018, but is likely to come about by 2020. Anticipations are reflexive and can have effects on the future. Moreover, some economists believe that central banks have learnt new lessons from their unconventional policies and are now ready and willing to use their — in principle unlimited — resources to prevent a financial collapse from happening. Are we thus safer in the late 2010s than before?



Past lessons and reflexivity have effects through transforming actions and institutions. We are not, however, seeing attempts at re-regulating or taxing global finance, countering rising inequalities, or new programmes of stimulating private and public investments. The Trump administration is giving huge tax benefits to the super-rich and aiming at deregulating finance. Even in the cautious EU, the project of establishing a financial transaction tax seems to have come to an end, and the European financial union is lacking sufficient resources. The rising debt levels in China are an increasing global concern. Meanwhile, the global bubble is growing.

A lot hinges upon central banks, but they are in a contradictory position. The very attempt to tighten policy in order to slow down the growth of the bubble may also set in motion a downward spiral. In the absence of better common policies, regulations and institutions, central banks may actually be less powerful than often thought. Hence Minsky’s "it" (the collapse of the financial and economic system) seems rather likely. If I am right, we are likely to see the biggest crash ever, accompanied by a deep global depression, by 2020 or so.








- BOOK MONSTER ALLY


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We want to end this week's discussion on women's rights/women's movement public policy with a few more looks towards ALICE IN WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.  REAL left social progressive academics have known all these codes, symbols, goals for 40 years-----our grandparents being REAL left social progressives had known all this for 40 years before that.  All these global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEEN'S goals developed in mid-1800s TRINITY COLLEGE/OXFORD and other OLD WORLD IVY LEAGUE universities were never as SECRET as they thought.  We did not have to become a FREEMASON to know all these secrets---we didn't have to become a GREEK to know all these secrets---we simply EDUCATED BROADLY and attended REAL PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITIES----that educated students to be CITIZENS holding power accountable.

Our message to our 99% of WE THE WOMEN is this------please think about what we read to our children as FABLES, NURSERY RHYMES, FANTASY STORIES------knowing that global banking 1% has its FREEMASON STARS to create FADS MOVING FORWARD policies with goals to KILL 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens.  When we read to our children we should be teaching them to identify and interpret these CODES/SYMBOLS, SIGNS ----


THAT IS REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION------

RACE TO TOP/COMMONER CORE OF COURSE KILLING ALL PUBLIC EDUCATION AND ACCESS TO REAL INFORMATION IN OUR US PUBLIC SCHOOLS.


Let's finish by looking at ALICE as EMPIRE speaking to the MOCK TURTLE about THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE



The Lobster Quadrille - Alice in Wonderland
Scene from Alice in Wonderland (1999).
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The Lobster Quadrille

In Carroll’s original manuscript, ‘Alice’s Adventures under Ground’, the Lobster Quadrille poem was different from the one in ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. The poem has been modificated several times and several versions appear in print.


The beat of the metre of ‘the Spider and the Fly’ is perfectly kept in the Mock Turtle’s song.


The basis of the poem from Alice’s Adventures Under Ground as a minstrel song. On July 3, 1862, Carroll mentions in his diary hearing the Liddell sisters sing this song ‘with great spirit’.


(source: Gardner, M., The Annotated Alice, 1998, p.133)




The Lobster Quadrille (Carroll)



“Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail.
“There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
They are waiting on the shingle–will you come and join the dance?

Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance?

“You can really have no notion how delightful it will be
When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!”
But the snail replied “Too far, too far!” and gave a look askance–
Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance.

Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance.

“What matters it how far we go?” his scaly friend replied.
“There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
The further off from England the nearer is to France–
Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance?”





The Spider and the Fly
(Mary Howitt)




“Will you walk into my parlor?”
Said a spider to a fly;
‘Tis the prettiest little parlor
That ever you did spy.
The way into my parlor
Is up a winding stair,
And I have many pretty things
To show when you are there.”
“Oh, no, no!” said the little fly,
“To ask me is in vain;
For who goes up your winding stair
Can ne’er come down again.”

“I’m sure you must be weary
With soaring up so high;
Will you rest upon my little bed?”
Said the spider to the fly.
“There are pretty curtains drawn around,
The sheets are fine and thin;
And if you like to rest awhile,
I’ll snugly tuck you in.”
“Oh, no, no!” said the little fly,
“For I’ve often heard it said,
They never, never wake again
Who sleep upon your bed.”

Said the cunning spider to the fly,
“Dear friend, what shall I do
To prove the warm affection
I’ve always felt for you?
I have within my pantry
Good store of all that’s nice;
I’m sure you’re very welcome-
Will you please to take a slice.
“Oh, no, no!” said the little fly,
“Kind sir, that cannot be;
I’ve heard what’s in your pantry,
And I do not wish to see.”

“Sweet creature,” said the spider,
“You’re witty and you’re wise;
How handsome are your gauzy wings,
How brilliant are your eyes.
I ‘have a little looking-glass
Upon my parlor shelf;
If you’ll step in one moment, dear,
You shail behold yourself.”
“I thank you, gentle sir,” she said,
“For what you’re pleased to say,
And bidding you good-morning, now,
I’ll call another day.”

The spider turned him round about,
And went into his den,
For well he knew the silly fly
Would soon be back again;
So he wove a subtle thread
In a little corner sly,
And set his table ready
To dine upon the fly.
He went out to his door again,
And merrily did sing,
“Come hither, hither, pretty fly,
With the pearl and silver wing;
Your robes are green and purple,
There’s a crest upon your head;
Your eyes are like the diamond bright,
But mine are dull as lead.”

Alas, alas! how very soon
This silly little fly,
Hearing his wily, flattering words,
Came slowly flitting by
With buzzing wings she hung aloft,
Then near and nearer drew-
Thought only of her brilliant eyes,
And green and purple hue;
Thought only of her crested head-
Poor foolish thing!
At last Up jumped the cunning spider,
And fiercely held her fast.

He dragged her up his winding stair,
Into his dismal den
Within his little parlor-but
She ne’er came out again!
And now, dear little children
Who may this story read,
To idle, silly, flattering words,
I pray you, ne’er give heed:
Unto an evil counsellor
Close heart and ear and eye,
And learn a lesson from this tale
Of the spider and the fly.





The Lobster Quadrille

(Carroll in his original manuscript)



Beneath the waters of the sea
Are Lobsters thick as thick can be –
They love to dance with you and me,
My own, my gentle Salmon!



CHORUS:


Salmon, come up! Salmon, go down!
Salmon come twist your tail around!
Of all the fishes of the sea
There’s none so good as Salmon!

Negro minstrel song
Last Monday night I gave a ball,
And I invite de Niggers all,
The thick, the thin, the short, the tall,
But none came up to Sally!

Sally come up! Sally go down!
Sally come twist your heel around!
De old man he’s gone down to town-
Oh Sally come down de middle!

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What did OBAMA era do for 99% WE THE WOMEN besides to complete the dismantling of all our REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE rights and policy gains for 99% of WE THE WOMEN?  Our far-right wing, global banking 5% freemason/Greek pols and players gave our US women the right to be forced into a military DRAFT.  Oh, yeah!  That is the right for which women have been fighting for several decades because the military is exactly where NONE OF THESE NATIONAL SOVEREIGN RIGHTS are to be expressed.

Of course OBAMA and Clinton neo-liberals passed these laws tying our 99% of WE THE WOMEN to military draft NOW because MOVING FORWARD is installing far-right wing, authoritarian, militaristic, corporate FASCIST LIBERTARIAN MARXISM----complete with lots of civil unrest/civil war and global banking 1% wants our US 99% of women to experience the brutality unfolding in our own US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES as FAILED STATES.


Don't we just love when far-right Clinton/Obama neo-liberals PRETEND to be helping 99% labor and justice?

Of course global banking 1% ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT had far-right wing BUSH NEO-CONS as those global corporations taking control of US MILITARY AND SECURITY----it was the far-right wing Clinton/Obama neo-liberals making all this MOVING FORWARD to DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE appear to be all about helping the poor---the old----the children---women-----our veterans.

Senate Votes to Require Women to Register for the Draft


A Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in February on the subject of women in the military. On Tuesday, the Senate approved a military policy bill that would require women to join men in registering for the draft.


By Jennifer Steinhauer
  • June 14, 2016
Update, April 27, 2017: Since this article was published in June 2016, the military policy bill was restructured and the language requiring women to register for selective service was removed. The bill passed with language calling for a review of the current rules.






WASHINGTON — In the latest and perhaps decisive battle over the role of women in the military, Congress is embroiled in an increasingly intense debate over whether they should have to register for the draft when they turn 18.



On Tuesday, the Senate approved an expansive military policy bill that would for the first time require young women to register for the draft. The shift, while fiercely opposed by some conservative lawmakers and interest groups, had surprisingly broad support among Republican leaders and women in both parties.


The United States has not used the draft since 1973 during the Vietnam War. But the impact of such a shift, reflecting the evolving role of women in the armed services, would likely be profound.

Under the Senate bill passed on Tuesday, women turning 18 on or after Jan. 1, 2018, would be forced to register for Selective Service, as men must do now. Failure to register could result in the loss of various forms of federal aid, including Pell grants, a penalty that men already face. Because the policy would not apply to women who turned 18 before 2018, it would not affect current aid arrangements.



“The fact is,” said Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, “every single leader in this country, both men and women, members of the military leadership, believe that it’s fair since we opened up all aspects of the military to women that they would also be registering for Selective Services.”



The Supreme Court ruled in 1981 that women did not have to register for the draft, noting that they should not face the same requirements as men because they did not participate on the front lines of combat. But since Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said in December that the Pentagon would open all combat jobs to women, military officials have told Congress that women should also sign up for the draft.



“It’s my personal view,” Gen. Robert B. Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in February, that with the complete lifting of the ban on women in combat roles, “every American who’s physically qualified should register for the draft.”




While most Republican senators — including Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, and the women on the Armed Services Committee — agree with the move, it has come under fierce attack from some of Congress’s most conservative members.

“The idea that we should forcibly conscript young girls in combat to my mind makes little sense at all,” Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas and the father of two young daughters, said on the Senate floor last week.



After voting against the bill on Tuesday, Mr. Cruz said in a prepared statement: “I could not in good conscience vote to draft our daughters into the military, sending them off to war and forcing them into combat.”


The debate will now pit the Senate against the House, where the policy change has support but was not included in that chamber’s version of the bill.


In April, Representative Duncan Hunter, Republican of California, offered a provision related to women and the draft for the House version of the defense policy bill to highlight the issue, even though he opposes the idea — then voted against his own amendment. It passed with bipartisan support but was stripped from the final bill in a procedural move.



“If he didn’t do this in the committee and spur the national debate, who was going to do it?” Joe Kasper, Mr. Hunter’s chief of staff, said. “So, mission accomplished.”



Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, made a mild attempt to strip the language from the Senate bill on the floor after the Armed Services Committee overwhelmingly rejected a similar effort, but his amendment never received a vote.



The two bills will now be reconciled in a conference committee between the House and the Senate, where a contentious debate is expected.

“It may well be a topic of great controversy,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, who serves on the Armed Services Committee. “But it should not be.”

CONNECTICUT IS OF COURSE THE LOCATION OF OLD WORLD TRINITY COLLEGE TRINITY CHURCH AS TOO BOSTON'S HARVARD.



Military experts say that even if the efforts to compel women to enlist fails in Congress, the issue is not going away.


“I think the change is inevitable,” said Nora Bensahel, a military policy analyst at American University’s School of International Service, “whether in this debate or through the courts. It just seems that now that you have women allowed to serve in any position in the military, there is no logical basis to say women should not be drafted.”


Conservative groups, which threatened to target senators who voted for the policy bill, reacted with anger on Tuesday to the bill’s passage. “Allowing our daughters to be forced into combat if there is a draft is a clear example of Washington placing more value on liberal social engineering than military objectives and preparedness,” one such group, Heritage Action for America, said in a news release.



But supporters of the policy change say opponents are oversimplifying the issue. “What people don’t seem to understand is just because there is conscription, that does not mean that all women would serve in the infantry,” Senator Deb Fischer, Republican of Nebraska, said. “There are many ways to serve our country in the event of a national emergency.”


The Senate is expected to hold its ground as conservative members defend the status quo. Mr. McCain, whose family has a long and storied history in the military and whose daughter-in-law is a captain in the Air Force Reserve, said to Mr. Cruz on the Senate floor: “I respect the senator from Texas’s view. Too bad that view is not shared by our military leadership, the ones who have had the experience in combat with women.”


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LOBSTER QUADRILLE is most obviously tied to the martial arts of ALICE'S secret garden KINGS AND QUEENS.  QUAD is itself a military term and LOBSTERS with their hard shells and big claws have always been tied to the rich----they are expensive----and as military 'soldiers'.  THE MOCK TURTLE tells the tale of LOBSTER QUADRILLE in the sea and on land----that is ROYAL NAVY and ARMY-----and this dance is a square dance done most often by the merely rich who are tied to being those 5% to the 1% CIVIL UNREST CIVIL WAR players.

THE SPIDER AND THE FLY a poem detailing the luring by the spider of prey with offers of something special to that victim THE FLY.  While WHITINGS and JELLYFISH represent our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE-----those LOBSTERS doing their dance pushing these PAWNS aside.  It is of course those WHITINGS AND JELLYFISH who are the front line of all military attacks dying in huge numbers.

Many of the references in this section of ALICE IN WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS are pointing right to FOREIGN SOVEREIGNTY OF MALTA as this is a martial chapter of the story.  One thing to note is LEWIS CARROLL's reference to the KING OF DIAMONDS----being ONE EYED------facing EAST when he normally faces WEST.  The KING OF DIAMONDS has also represented those EASTERN OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

So, we are seeing in late 1800s the goals of FLIPPING THE EARTH'S AXIS from WESTERN HEMISPHERE to EASTERN with the killing of ROMAN CATHOLICISM MOVING FORWARD to 3000BC HINDI/EASTERN ORTHODOXY of East Asia and Eastern Europe.




'The Turtle Fountain'

I have noticed that many travelers wandering around Rione Sant’Angelo, more commonly referred as the Jewish Ghetto, tend to miss one of the most beautiful fountains in Rome, The small “Fontana delle Tartarughe” or “Fontana Tortoise”, better known as the Turtle Fountain'.


The MOCK TURTLE----as THE TORTOISE----has often been a symbol for the SPANISH STEPS-----PALAZZO MALTA.





Palazzo Malta

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1889–1894


Owner Sovereign Military Order of Malta


Palazzo Malta, officially named as the Magistral Palace (Italian: Palazzo Magistrale), and also known as Palazzo di Malta or Palazzo dell'Ordine di Malta, is the most important of the two headquarters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (the other being Villa Malta), a Roman Catholic lay religious order and a sovereign subject of international law. It is located in Via dei Condotti 68 in Rome, Italy, a few minutes' walk from the Spanish Steps, and has been granted extraterritoriality by the Italian Government. The Palace is a property of the Order of Malta since 1630.

Today in America we have seen the rise of extreme wealth extreme poverty tied to sacking and looting of a sovereign nation ---and a rise in the performance of THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE.  Are our 99% of WE THE STUDENTS taught what all these stories represent ----what goals are behind the rise of global banking 1% far-right wing, authoritarian, militaristic LIBERTARIAN MARXISM?  That is what THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE represents after all.




Valley Elementary School Drama Club Presents: The Lobster Quadrille, From Alice in Wonderland
January 9, 2018

ALICE IN WONDERLAND


By Alice Gerstenberg


Based on the writings of Lewis Carroll

Adapted and composed for radio broadcast by Sage Tanguay
For the Valley Elementary School Drama Club, October 2017



The Lobster Quadrille


NARRATOR
ALICE
MOCK TURTLE
GRYPHON
ALL (For Song)


NARRATOR
We find our Alice (hello) on a damp rocky shore with the Mock Turtle (hello) and the Gryphon (hello). Having just tumbled through the looking glass into the chaotic Wonderland, she tries to get her bearing after just growing to quite a size. As she learns of her company’s curious natures, the Mock Turtle questions her knowledge of the customs of the sea.


MOCK TURTLE
Perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster.


ALICE
I once tasted one (others GASP)—no, never!


MOCK TURTLE
So you can have no idea what a delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is.


ALICE
No, indeed. What sort of a dance is it?


GRYPHON
Why, you first form into a line along the seashore.
MOCK TURTLE
Two lines; seals, turtles, salmon, and so on; then, when you’ve cleared all the jellyfish out of the way--


GRYPHON
And that generally takes some time.


MOCK TURTLE
You advance twice--


GRYPHON
Each with a lobster as a partner.


MOCK TURTLE
Of course, advance twice, set to partners.


GRYPHON
Change lobsters, and retire in same order.


MOCK TURTLE
Then you know, you throw the--


GRYPHON
The lobsters!


MOCK TURTLE
As far out to sea as you can--


GRYPHON
Swim after them!


MOCK TURTLE
Turn a somersault in the sea.


GRYPHON
Change lobsters again!


MOCK TURTLE
Back to land again, and—that’s all the first figure.


ALICE
It must be a very pretty dance.


MOCK TURTLE
Would you like to see a little of it?


ALICE
Very much indeed.


MOCK TURTLE
Come, let’s try the first figure. We can do it without lobsters, you know; which shall sing?


GRYPHON
Oh, you sing, I’ve forgotten the words.


NARRATOR
Creatures solemnly dance round and round Alice, treading on her toes, waving their limbs to mark time while Mock Turtle and other creatures sing.


First Verse
“Will you walk a little faster!” said a whiting to a snail,
“There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
They are waiting on the shingle—will you come and join the dance?
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance?


NARRATOR
The creatures dance against Alice, pushing her back and forth between them. She protests and finally escapes; they bump against each other


Second Verse
“You can really have no notion how delightful it will be
When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!”
But the snail replied, “Too far, too far!” and gave a look askance--
Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance.


ALICE
Thank you; it’s a very interesting dance to watch, and I do so like that curious song about the whiting.


NARRATOR
Join us to hear what happens to Alice next time in Wonderland!!!!

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The continuous theme throughout ALICE IN WONDERLAND is that every character in WONDERLAND is MAD........we know that this reference to MADNESS is tied to IDES OF MARCH ET TU BRUTE------KILLING OF CAESAR ergo, THE MARCH HARE.

As we state the KING OF DIAMONDS has multiple symbols-----and one is being that CAESAR who of course was killed by those tired of ROME being a REPUBLIC and wanted to ROME to be EMPIRE-BUILDING.  Today, we have CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA working for global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS tired of boring stable, high quality of life and sovereign nations with US RULE OF LAW and what to restart that ROMAN AS EMPIRE-BUILDER.


10 Facts about Julius Caesar

Deya Nedeva March 28, 2017

Ancient Rome, Blog, Julius Caesar



The people of Rome gave him titles, honors and more power than anyone else in their history but who was the man behind the brilliant speeches, the feared general and political genius, the man who inspired Shakespeare? His influence today might be more prevalent than you think. Even the King of Diamonds in the traditional pack of playing cards is meant to represent him.

Remember, we shared a video of LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO,  TAYLOR SWIFT------showing that global banking 1% freemason STAR on the SCOTTISH RITE TEMPLE throne shaking that LOBSTER at 99% of WE THE PEOPLE who have simply become too MIDDLE CLASS.  Lewis Carroll wrote ALICE IN WONDERLAND to address the concerns back in 1880s of the growing MIDDLE-CLASS and the need to KILL those 99% AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT rights.


Julius Caesar
- Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (/ ˈ s iː z ər /; 12 or 13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), known by his cognomen Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician and military general who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.

The taking over in CAESAR'S day of what was a ROMAN REPUBLIC bringing the FALL OF ROME-----to advance ROMAN EMPIRE-BUILDING is the mirror of what global banking 1% today is calling the FALL OF AMERICAN REPUBLIC to expand EMPIRE-BUILDING. None of this has anything to do with our 99% of WE THE AMERICANS-----our US as a sovereign nation----it is simply the takeover of our sovereign government by those same PRE-CHRISTIAN CATO/NERO/SENECA OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

Of course this video shows how 99% of WE THE WOMEN will be MOVED FORWARD from all our freedom, liberty, justice, and pursuit of happiness to being those far-right wing, authoritarian, militaristic LIBERTARIAN MARXIST military/security only employees.



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Well, global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS have our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE I AM MAN I AM WOMEN doing that LOBSTER QUADRILLE after all------these few decades MOVING FORWARD more and more and more of our US 99% to military and security now soaring under TRUMP.

IT IS NOT JUST ANY JOB---THE GOALS OF MOVING FORWARD DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE US SMART CITIES FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES IS TO NEVER REVERSE THESE LIBERTARIAN MARXIST STANCES AND NEVER STOP THOSE ENDLESS CIVIL UNREST/CIVIL WARS.


And today's US military is not even our sovereign US military---it is a global private military complex controlled by global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

Careers in the Military and Homeland Security



The Military plays a critical role in the Peninsula economy. Every branch of the Department of Defense and many branches of Homeland Security maintain offices in Hampton Roads, in general, and on the Peninsula in particular. The Council recognizes that a large percentage of the local workforce is actively involved directly or indirectly with the nation’s military, National Guard, or homeland security functions. Both federal and state agencies are growing as the country moves to secure our borders and protect us all.



Department of Defense



Navy

Whether you’re tired of your current job or ready to nab a career worth bragging about, the Navy has a vast array of fields and specialties to tantalize your most demanding, intellectually stimulating, and thrill-seeking needs.

Army


The Army has more jobs—in a variety of areas — than you would ever expect: over 150 jobs for Soldiers on Active Duty, and 120 jobs in the Army Reserve. From working with computers to assisting physicians to fixing helicopters, there’s an Army job right for you.

Air Force


For the latest news and information affecting Air Force careers — enlisted, officers, civilians, and retirees — the Air Force link will point you to the right information at the click of your mouse.

Marine Corps


With service to country comes the highest level of training and success — both in defending our country and in a Marine’s personal life.

Guard & Reserves
  • Air Force Reserve
  • Air National Guard
  • Army National Guard
  • Army Reserve
  • Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs
  • Coast Guard Reserve
  • Marine Forces Reserve
  • National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR)
  • Reserve Forces Policy Board

Defense Intelligence


In a dangerous world, only extraordinary people can keep America secure. To accomplish this goal, DIA offers excellent employment opportunities to those qualified individuals interested in intelligence, computers or support-related careers.

Department of Homeland Security



DHS Admin

Department Components
The Directorate for Preparedness works with state, local, and private sector partners to identify threats, determine vulnerabilities, and target resources where risk is greatest, thereby safeguarding our borders, seaports, bridges and highways, and critical information systems.


The Science and Technology Directorate is the primary research and development arm of the Department.  It provides federal, state and local officials with the technology and capabilities to protect the homeland.



The Management Directorate is responsible for Department budgets and appropriations, expenditure of funds, accounting and finance, procurement, human resources, information technology systems, facilities and equipment, and the identification and tracking of performance measurements.


The Office of Policy Directorate is the primary policy formulation and coordination component for the Department of Homeland Security.  It provides a centralized, coordinated focus to the development of Department-wide, long-range planning to protect the United States.


The Office of Operations Coordination is responsible for monitoring the security of the United States on a daily basis and coordinating activities within the Department and with governors, Homeland Security Advisors, law enforcement partners, and critical infrastructure operators in all 50 states and more than 50 major urban areas nationwide.



The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office works to enhance the nuclear detection efforts of federal, state, territorial, tribal and local governments and the private sector to ensure a coordinated response to such threats.

US Customs & Border ProtectionUnited States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is responsible for protecting our nation’s borders in order to prevent terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States, while facilitating the flow of legitimate trade and travel.

FEMA


United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is responsible for protecting our nation’s borders in order to prevent terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States, while facilitating the flow of legitimate trade and travel.

Coast Guard


The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Directorate prepares the nation for hazards, manages Federal response and recovery efforts following any national incident, and administers the National Flood Insurance Program.

Citizenship & Immigration Services

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is responsible for the administration of immigration and naturalization adjudication functions and establishing immigration services policies and priorities.

Immigration & Customs Enforcement


United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for identifying and shutting down vulnerabilities in the nation’s border, economic, transportation and infrastructure security.

Secret Service


The United States Secret Service protects the President and other high-level officials and investigates counterfeiting and other financial crimes, including financial institution fraud, identity theft, computer fraud; and computer-based attacks on our nation’s financial, banking, and telecommunications infrastructure.

TSA

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) protects the nation’s transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce.

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center


The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center provides career-long training to law enforcement professionals to help them fulfill their responsibilities safely and proficiently.



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Here is the reason OBAMA is now getting to ride in global banking 1% BIG BOATS and visiting those global banking 1% billionaire islands-----he was that GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS player compared to REAGAN as OBAMA AND MICHELLE spent several years during his terms DANCING THAT LOBSTER QUADRILLE.

Our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE both right wing and left wing have been shouting against this MARCH TO FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL MILITARY FASCISM throughout CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA----no US citizens wants this-----both political sides have been fighting this---and global banking 1% have loaded our peace movements with those FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT 5% freemason/Greek players pretending to be fighting against all this while never mentioning WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, OR HOW all of this is tied to MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only  the global 1%.

BUSH FAMILY KING OF LOBSTER QUADRILLE BUT OBAMA FAMILY WORKED HARD TO BE IN THAT DANCE.

Oh, Nooooo, our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE may as well put our hands up and surrender-----MOVING FORWARD has just gotten too far along say those global banking 5% freemason/Greek players!  Just play at the poor man's QUADRILLE and accept it.  OH, REALLY?  As we say over and again---this MOVING FORWARD IS SIMPLY BEGINNING.



Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out



By Kate Tummarello
January 12, 2017




With mere days left before President-elect Donald Trump takes the White House, President Barack Obama’s administration just finalized rules to make it easier for the nation’s intelligence agencies to share unfiltered information about innocent people.



New rules issued by the Obama administration under Executive Order 12333 will let the NSA—which collects information under that authority with little oversight, transparency, or concern for privacy—share the raw streams of communications it intercepts directly with agencies including the FBI, the DEA, and the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report today by the New York Times.


That’s a huge and troubling shift in the way those intelligence agencies receive information collected by the NSA. Domestic agencies like the FBI are subject to more privacy protections, including warrant requirements. Previously, the NSA shared data with these agencies only after it had screened the data, filtering out unnecessary personal information, including about innocent people whose communications were swept up the NSA’s massive surveillance operations.



As the New York Times put it, with the new rules, the government claims to be “reducing the risk that the N.S.A. will fail to recognize that a piece of information would be valuable to another agency, but increasing the risk that officials will see private information about innocent people.”



Under the new, relaxed rules, there are still conditions that need to be met before the NSA will grant domestic intelligence analysts access to the raw streams of data it collects. And analysts can only search that raw data for information about Americans for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, not domestic criminal cases.



However—and this is especially troubling—“if analysts stumble across evidence that an American has committed any crime, they will send it to the Justice Department,” the Times wrote.  So information that was collected without a warrant—or indeed any involvement by a court at all—for foreign intelligence purposes with little to no privacy protections, can be accessed raw and unfiltered by domestic law enforcement agencies to prosecute Americans with no involvement in threats to national security.



We had hoped for more. In November, we and other civil liberties and privacy groups sent a letter to President Obama asking him to improve transparency and accountability, especially around government surveillance, before he leaves office. This is not the transparency we were hoping for.


We asked that he declassify and release Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions, shed some much-needed light on how certain foreign-facing surveillance programs are used to target Americans, and more.


Obviously, and not for the first time, we are disappointed in the Obama administration.
In his finals days in office, let the president know about your disappointment in the government surveillance infrastructure he’s bulking up before he hands the reins to Trump. Sign our petition here.


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We will end by reminding our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE that what ALICE IN WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS does is clearly identify behavior by global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS of conspiracy to undermine our sovereign US nation----it shows as does the media from last century a deliberate, willful, and with malice intent to take over our US sovereign nation----having the goal of ending the AMERICAN REPUBLIC to use our US assets and resources for EMPIRE BUILDING by those foreign sovereignties of KNIGHTS OF MALTA---HOUSE OF JUDAH ----all of which falls under SEDITION AND TREASON legal definitions for over 300 years of our US history.

All this attention on ASSANGE is a FALSE FLAG as those global banking 5% freemason/Greek players MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE while our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE are told to look at this case before international eyes.

WOODROW WILSON installed US FED and along with FDR installed those public policy advancing all of the goals outlined in ALICE'S ADVENTURES. We see here the ESPIONAGE ACT----THE SEDITION ACT put into place as these global banking ROBBER BARONS were about to start CONTINUOUS WARS knowing our 99% WE THE PEOPLE would see that these wars were not PROTECTING OUR US FREEDOMS, LIBERTIES, JUSTICE, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, OUR US CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND BILL OF RIGHTS----they were actually leading the US to FALL OF AMERICAN REPUBLIC.


'Sedition
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent towards, or resistance against lawful authority'




What is incredible is not global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS wanting to kill our sovereign nation of America----what is incredible is they being able to identify those dastardly 5% freemason/Greek white, black, and brown citizens willing to tear down their own futures and freedoms---THAT IS INCREDIBLE.





The Hidden History of the Espionage Act


The much-maligned 1917 law had a real purpose—stopping spies and saboteurs.

By David Greenberg

Julian Assange




On July 24, 1915, the World War was raging in Europe and the belligerents were vying for the sympathy of the neutral United States. In Lower Manhattan, on a Sixth Avenue elevated train, Secret Service agents were tailing George Sylvester Viereck, a German propagandist and a mysterious companion of his—who was, unbeknown to the agents, Heinrich F. Albert, an attaché in the German Embassy. When Viereck got off at 23rd Street, one agent followed him; Albert continued on to 50th Street, where he suddenly looked up from his newspaper, noticed he had reached his stop, and hurried off the car, leaving behind a brown briefcase that the second agent promptly seized. A chase ensued, but the purloined bag ultimately made it to Treasury Secretary William McAdoo, who shared it with President Woodrow Wilson.




The documents that Wilson and McAdoo beheld detailed a sweeping secret campaign, linked to high-ranking German officials, of espionage, sabotage, and propaganda. There were plans to take over American newspapers, bankroll films, send hired lecturers on the Chautauqua circuit, and create pseudo-indigenous movements to agitate on behalf of pro-German policies. More disturbing were schemes to provoke strikes in armaments factories; to corner the supply of liquid chlorine, an ingredient in poison gas, in order to keep it from Allied hands; even to acquire the Wright Brothers' Aeroplane Company and use its patents on Germany's behalf. American officials also learned of sabotage plans hatched by a different German spy, Franz Rintelen von Kleist, who was plotting to destroy American munitions plants and blow up the Welland Canal, a Canadian waterway of vital importance to the United States. It was no wonder that Wilson wrote to his adviser Edward House that summer that the country was "honeycombed with German intrigue and infested with German spies."




Although these plots are omitted from most discussions of the 1917 Espionage Act—the law now being invoked by those who would prosecute WikiLeaks mastermind Julian Assange—they go a long way toward explaining (but not excusing) that unfortunate piece of wartime legislation. When Wilson made the case for entering the world war, he warned that "if there should be disloyalty, it will be dealt with with a firm hand of stern repression." Contrary to some interpretations, the president wasn't perversely touting his intention to trample civil liberties; he was grimly cautioning would-be saboteurs, like those who had blown up the supply depot at Black Tom, New Jersey, the year before, not to undermine the combat effort.




The Espionage Act had a legitimate purpose: to try to stop the real threat of subversion, sabotage, and malicious interference with the war effort, including the controversial reinstatement of the draft. It's context that's worth recalling as Democrats and Republicans alike clamor to use the law against Assange



On April 6, 1917, Congress declared war on Germany and for the next nine weeks it engaged in robust, contentious debate about the proper scope of an espionage bill. Some elements were struck from the first drafts. Originally, the White House wanted to censor the press, but Congress—reflecting fierce resistance in the newspapers—killed the provision. A provision to let the postmaster general regulate the mails remained, but was narrowed to restrict suppressible materials to those urging treason or lawbreaking that would hinder the war effort. A ban on efforts to "cause disaffection" in the military was replaced with a more closely tailored prohibition on efforts to cause insubordination, mutiny, or disloyalty—that last word used, as it was in Wilson's speech, to mean disloyal action, not private sentiment. Overall, the act wasn't meant, as it has often been represented, to stifle antiwar dissent, but to address particular wartime problems that officials had good reason to worry about: draft avoidance, sabotage, espionage.




Nonetheless, the Espionage Act was deeply problematic. Above all, its wording, even in its softer version, left far too much room for aggressive prosecutors and overzealous patriots to interpret it as they wished. (Things got worse the next year when Congress passed more draconian amendments that came to be called the Sedition Act; that law outlawed statements during war that were "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive … about the form of government of the United States." Unlike the Espionage Act proper, though, the Sedition Act was repealed when World War I ended.)



The resulting crackdown on antiwar groups under the Espionage Act—and the shame it brought to Wilson and the nation—is widely known. Postmaster General Albert Burleson, a reactionary and intolerant Texan considered by Edward House to be "the most belligerent member of the cabinet," denied use of the mails to publications like the left-wing Masses and scared many others into silence. Around the country, meanwhile, the U.S. attorneys in Thomas Gregory's Justice Department prosecuted socialists, pacifists, and German-Americans on flimsy grounds. Many people were arrested for crimes of mere speech. Filmmaker Robert Goldstein was prosecuted for making a movie about the American Revolution that depicted the British—now a U.S. ally—in an unfavorable light. The socialist leader Eugene Debs was thrown in jail for a speech that defended freedom of speech. Of 1,500 arrests under the law, only 10 involved actual sabotage. To the dismay of progressives, moreover, not even the Supreme Court stopped the prosecutions. In March 1919, the liberal icon Oliver Wendell Holmes, coining his famous "clear and present danger" standard, led the court in upholding three dubious Espionage Act verdicts, including the conviction of Debs.




It has been common to view the Espionage Act as the product of a paroxysm of wartime hysteria. There's obviously some truth to that view. In 1917 and 1918, war fever drove many politicians, in all three branches of government, to lose sight of basic rights--just as during other wars a sense of urgency led Abraham Lincoln to wrongfully suspend the habeas corpus writ and subject civilians to military trials, and Franklin Roosevelt to approve the internment of Japanese-Americans. But just as the presence of real communist spies during the early Cold War years helps to explain (but, again, not excuse) the witch hunts that followed, so the legitimate fears of German saboteurs constitute an important piece of the context in which the Espionage Act became law.

The real problem occurred not in its drafting but in its application. All laws are enforced selectively. Discretion always shapes which possible violations of a law are prosecuted and which are deemed unwise to pursue. In deciding whether to indict Assange, President Obama—who has already endorsed the worst of George W. Bush's civil-liberties violations, the indefinite jailing of suspects without trial—might do well to consider how his decision will look in the light of history. Wilson's greatness is sullied today because of the license he granted to Gregory and Burleson to abuse the act; conversely, Richard Nixon's reputation as our worst president is only enhanced by his attempt to use the law to retaliate against Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg.



Assange's case is different, of course, from Ellsberg's, but it's still far from clear that his posting and sharing of classified government documents—as embarrassing and frustrating to diplomats as their publication may be—amounts to the kind of sabotage or espionage that the law was intended to punish. A former professor who taught his students ably about the Constitution, Woodrow Wilson would fare better in the history books today had he instructed his Cabinet officials more emphatically that laws on the books are only as wise as the people who enforce them.


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As we near the end of our week discussion on 99% women's rights black, white, and brown citizens we started the week discussing REAL 99% of WE THE WOMEN and our basic needs and the rights our 99% I AM MAN I AM WOMAN have won over several centuries---and we are ending the week discussing WOMEN AS SYMBOLS-------women as queens or goddesses----which is the only time women are mentioned MOVING FORWARD back to DARK AGES.   Women are never discussed in ALICE IN WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS no matter how many time we are told it is a story about a LITTLE GIRL.

Today we want to discuss the JEWISH global banking 1% players and those 99% of REAL Jewish citizens HOUSE OF JUDAH meets LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL to which ALICE spent time as she traveled from modern 1800s England back to before the Roman Empire existed------on her way to flipping the Earth's economic axis from Western to Eastern Hemisphere.

Even as SYMBOLS women cannot win as THE DUCHESS is not a woman but DISRAELI treated as our Jewish citizens are in Europe----designating a character for DISRAELI as a woman was a great disrespect as to the story of ALICE at the house of THE DUCHESS.

Alice arrives at the door of this house at the time of serving dinner freshly cooked by THE COOK who is actually a woman.  Rather than serving the meal------the cook is throwing both food and all kitchen utensils used to cook it at THE DUCHESS and out the door.


'Benjamin Disraeli was born Jewish and is therefore sometimes considered Britain's first Jewish Prime Minister.

In fact, he was a practicing Anglican. In 1813, his father's quarrel with the synagogue of Bevis Marks led to the decision in 1817 to have his children baptized as Christians (ironically, when Disraeli was 13 and eligible for Bar Mitzvah). Until 1858 Jews were excluded from Parliament; except for the father's decision Disraeli's political career could never have taken the form it did.


Benjamin Disraeli, was born in London on 21st December, 1804. His father, Isaac Disraeli, was the author of several books on literature and history, including The Life and Reign of Charles I (1828). After a private education Disraeli was trained as a solicitor'.


Alice in Wonderland (1949)-Duchess' Lament
Duchess: Speak roughly to your little boy And beat him when he…
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The throwing of food and kitchen utensils rather than serving dinner simply represents THE COOK's disdain at an UNKOSHER KITCHEN working for a Jewish global banking 1% pretending to be CHRISTIAN.  THE DUCHESS holding a child which she hates turns to a PIG as a symbol of that which JEWISH HATE as food----Pork.

What is important to MOVING FORWARD back to DARK AGES is the location of CHESHIRE CAT at THE DUCHESS' house---remember, that CHESHIRE SMILE from Western Hemisphere to Eastern Hemisphere stops at KINGDOM OF KIEVAN RUSSIA where those global 1% of HOUSE OF JUDAH plan to meet those global 1% ROMAN OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS one the FLIPPING has occurred.




The Duchess“If everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”




Introduction

The Duchess does not appear in Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures Underground.  The White Rabbit does make reference to meeting the “Marchioness” in chapter two, but she never appears.  In Wonderland “marchioness” is changed to “Duchess” and the episodes featuring the Duchess in the kitchen (Chapter 6) and on the croquet ground (Chapter 9) are also added.  The Duchess is one of the most unreasonable and violent characters in the book, perhaps second only to the Queen of Hearts herself. She also is incredibly didactic, insisting in Chapter 9, that “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” Elsie Leach, in her article “Alice in Wonderland in Perspective” (1964), argues that the Duchess character serves as Carroll’s critical commentary on the Victorian system of education.



“In her own kitchen [the Duchess] indulges in baby-beating and brutal candor…[but] at the croquet ground she is all sweetness, though not necessarily a bearer of light…In this episode, the Duchess’ motto is ‘Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it,’ and she becomes more and more extravagant and nonsensical in her application of axioms to everything Alice says and does. When Dodgson makes a ridiculous character like the Duchess praise and practice moralizing in this manner, he clearly indicates his attitude toward didactism directed against children.” (91-92) 




It is also not wildly out of the interpretive imagination to consider the Duchess as an example of Carroll’s political and social criticism of life in the Victorian era.  Carroll lived during a era of social and political upheaval in England as the middle class began to rise and balk against the privileges of the upper class.  The satirical portrayal of aristocratic characters such as the Queen and the Duchess seem to show Carroll on the side of the common man.

The Duchess (and the rest of the kitchen crew) is a very popular subject for illustration.  Tenniel’s is probably still the most famous, and in many of the film versions the Duchess wears an enormous head-dress as a nod to Tenniel’s drawing. Martin Gardner points out in his Annotated Alice, that “A glance at the portrait of the Ugly Duchess, by the sixteenth-century Flemish painter Quintin Matsys leaves little doubt that it served as the model for Tenniel’s Duchess” (82). (See fun fact!) Ralph Steadman also explained his idea of the Duchess in the preface to his Alice: “The Duchess is an ex-starlet who married the aristocrat. A high-class tart gone to seed. Her tiny mind has developed a home-spun philosophy within a cultured environment in an effort to keep up appearances” (TextBookRUs.com). Click on one of the illustrators in the right hand column to see how the image of the Duchess has changed over time. Note that many illustrators are heavily influenced in this case by Tenniel's drawing.



Media

The episode in the Duchess’ kitchen, though very popular amongst illustrators, is one of the hardest scenes to portray well on film.  Somehow the scene is amusing and ridiculous when read, but the effect of seeing this scene played out, with the Duchess abusing her baby while the cook throws pots and pans, is really quite disturbing.  The most interesting film version of this scene, in my opinion, is Jonathan Miller’s 1966 version, where the Duhcess is actually played by a male actor Leo McKern.  I also think that the Pig and Pepper scene from the 1986 musical Alice at the Palace, is notable for manging to convey the chaos and energy of the encounter.

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THE DORMOUSE is DAS MAUS-------the symbol for those 99% of REAL Jewish LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL.  This is why we see him sitting between HATTER AND MARCH HARE and why we see him washed away in ALICE'S tears having caused a flood---symbolizing the movement through time of our 99% of Jewish citizens as global traders living as EX-PATS.

THE CAUCUS RACE was led by DORMOUSE not DODO because DODO as OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS from Western Europe are dying out and DORMOUSE as a great global trader leads the race to ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE transitions just for the sake of transitions.


Maus - Wikipedia
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Maus is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodernist techniques and represents Jews as mice, Germans as cats, and Poles as pigs.

The dormouse sitting between a HATTER AND MARCH HARE is given a dormant role because the 99% of Jewish citizens have no power --they act as a foundation for an economy where HATTER AND MARE HARE are bigger players.

The reason all this is important is to understand the story of ALICE tracking it from PRESENT back to MIDDLE KINGDOM with goals of EASTERN HEMISPHERE 3000BC Hindi/Buddhist economic and societal structure.  THE BLUE CATERPILLER meets THE CHESHIRE CAT both symbols of Eastern economy one HOUSE OF JUDAH----BLUE CATERPILLER representing OLD WORLD ROMAN KINGS AND QUEENS replaced by EASTERN OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

The reference to BAT VS CAT by Alice in her talks with BLUE CATERPILLER and CHESHIRE CAT of course represent ROMAN OLD WORLD KINGS connection to LIONS/PANTHERS et all as gods and goddesses-------while EASTERN OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS connect to BATS-----ergo, BATMAN.


Baby boomers attending real PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY were taught all this because public schools educate students to be CITIZENS holding power accountable---if you haven't known all this you attended a global banking 1% corporate/freemason school.


'To dream of a bat means that you should let go of old habits, evaluate facts more closely in a given situation so you don’t go “batty” or “crazy.”'



Bat Dream Interpretation and Meaning

By Carrie|Animals
The bat as a symbol has been associated with words like rebirth, intuition,  communication, inner depth, initiation, and illusion. For most people, bats have a negative connotation – mostly learned from vampire movies –  so a dream of a bat tends to inspire feelings of fear.


Native Americans, however, view the bat as an interconnected part of all creation, and the symbols attached to it typically involve intuition and vision. These associations are based on the fact that bats are very sensitive to their surroundings in nature. Native Americans might invoke a bat spirit if they needed special energy, such as the ability to “see” clearly and identify illusions or ambiguity in a matter, going straight for its core truth.

CATS CAN EAT BATS BUT CAN BATS EAT CATS asks Alice




Bats symbolize rebirth because they live in cave-like environments and come out in the evening, effectively being “reborn” every night from within Mother Earth. Native Americans considered the bat to be a symbol of communication because bats have strong family ties and are extremely nurturing and social creatures. They are very sensitive to the other members of their group and constantly communicate with them. A dream of a bat suggests issues associated with free will and freedom as well, since bats can fly!



The dream bat indicates that you are very aware of the things that surround you in your environment and that you may be overly sensitive to the feelings of other people in your life. It also suggests that you are blessed with psychic perceptions and may have prophetic dreams. A bat’s appearance in your dream means you should make a greater effort at self-improvement and work on your spiritual and psychic education, perhaps confronting things that might be “scary” for you. If you follow the dream bat’s suggestion, you’ll be on your way toward your highest potential.




On the negative side, a bat dream is symbolic of the darker side of your personality. It may mean that you are relying on your intuition more than your logic – that you might be “blind” to certain things. To dream of a bat means that you should let go of old habits, evaluate facts more closely in a given situation so you don’t go “batty” or “crazy.” In some cultures, a dream of a white bat means the death of a family member, while dreaming of a black bat indicates you will face some personal catastrophe. And dreaming of a vampire bat indicates that you are being “drained” of your self-confidence or resources. If you see several bats in your dream, it could mean that you are worrying about your debts.
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Alice in Wonderland mentions two pets throughout the story ---one is a CAT named DINAH and one is a friend's DOG named FURY.

DINAH has many associations----WOMEN SLAVES were called DINAH but as important in this story of killing WESTERN CIVILIZATION is Alice is bringing us back to that 1000BC ancient KINGDOM OF ISRAEL where DINAH WOULD YOU BLOW YOUR HORN symbolizes the bringing down of walls of JERICHO making way for KINGDOM OF ISRAEL.  KING SOLOMON at that time was the FAIR JUDGE.

When ALICE mentions her cat DINAH to the dormouse----to the PIGEON ----she is bringing back memories of Jewish SLAVERY---but the global slave trade of SILK AND SPICE ROUTE 1000BC as medieval colonial America slave trade.

Again, every mention of a woman's name is STILL STEEPED in negative connotation.

ALICE WITH HER CAT DINAH TAKING WESTERN CIVILIZATION BACK TO WALLS OF JERICHO 3000BC----1000BC

For our new 99% of immigrant citizens being brought to US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----it means MOVING FORWARD is bringing SLAVERY back to America as America is taken back to a colonial status.


The fear shown by the cast of characters to ALICE mentioning of her CAT DINAH has everyone remembering the OLD WORLD SLAVE TRADE of thousands of years past----of several centuries passed.

All this imagery of slavery has ALICE relating that history to our modern European and American colonial period but that imagery goes back to MOSES leading Jews from Egypt to build KINGDOM OF ISRAEL. This is the motive for all talk today about returning LOST TRIBES back to ancient KINGDOM OF ISRAEL.


Without coincidence all these images of slavery are tied to today's national media and its FALSE FLAG over the immigrant children being staged to bring global slave trade of children to US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.


What should we learn from the walls of Jericho falling down?


Question: "What should we learn from the walls of Jericho falling down?"

Answer: The story of the walls of Jericho falling down, recorded in Joshua 6:1–27, is one that vividly demonstrates the miraculous power of God. But more than that, the utter destruction of Jericho teaches us several grand truths regarding God’s grace and our salvation.

The people of Israel had just crossed over the Jordan River into the land of Canaan (Joshua 3:14–17). This was the land of milk and honey God had promised to Abraham over 500 years earlier (Deuteronomy 6:3, 32:49). After spending forty difficult years wandering in the desert of Sinai, the people of Israel were now on the eastern banks of the Jordan. Their challenge: take the land of Canaan, the Promised Land. However, their first obstacle was the city of Jericho (Joshua 6:1), an unconquerable, walled city. Excavations there reveal that its fortifications featured a stone wall 11 feet high and 14 feet wide. At its top was a smooth stone slope, angling upward at 35 degrees for 35 feet, where it joined massive stone walls that towered even higher. It was virtually impregnable.

In ancient warfare such cities were either taken by assault or surrounded and the people starved into submission. Its invaders might try to weaken the stone walls with fire or by tunneling, or they might simply heap up a mountain of earth to serve as a ramp. Each of these methods of assault took weeks or months, and the attacking force usually suffered heavy losses. However, the strategy to conquer the city of Jericho was unique in two ways. First, the strategy was laid out by God Himself, and, second, the strategy was a seemingly foolish plan. God simply told Joshua to have the people to march silently around Jericho for six days, and then, after seven circuits on the seventh day, to shout.

Though it seemed fooli
sh, Joshua followed God’s instructions to the letter. When the people did finally shout, the massive walls collapsed instantly, and Israel won an easy victory. In fact, God had given the city of Jericho to them before they even began to march around its walls (Joshua 6:2, 16). It was when the people of God, by faith, followed the commands of God that the walls of Jericho fell down (Joshua 6:20).


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We discuss often the symbolism of PANDORA'S BOX FURIES------these are the goddesses who come to revenge MOTHERS KILLED BY SONS OR DAUGHTERS......that ancient world deadly sins of children killing their parents.  Remember AGAMEMNON son kills his MOTHER who killed his FATHER-------and the FURIES chased the son with the goal of REVENGE killing.  THE FURIES agreed not to kill the son because ATHENA granted THE FURIES a higher position among GODS AND GODDESSES-----they went from PANDORA'S release of all evil----to being protectors of women and families/home

This discussion with FURY and a MOUSE brings us back to the FURIES thinking to be JUDGE AND EXECUTIONER-----that brings us again to 3000BC gods and goddesses.  The JURY were the 99% of people who say maybe we will take that KING WANTING TO BE JUDGE out instead.  Before AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT and MAGNA CARTA the global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS acted as judge and executioner.

This issue of European history BEFORE MAGNA CARTA vs after the KING became accountable to law operated in civil courts by our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE in ALICE IN WONDERLAND shows the backward movement away from COMMON LAW AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT back to medieval KINGS AND QUEENS.

THE KING OF HEARTS representing KING SOLOMON HOUSE OF JUDAH-----rendering justice for those OFF WITH THE HEAD QUEEN OF HEARTS victims.  THE QUEEN OF HEARTS wanting to behead everyone is a reversal of French revolution where KINGS AND QUEENS had their heads in guillotine.  Remember, in WONDERLAND all is backwards and upside down.



All this is important because it references the dismantling of our WESTERN AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT justice and judicial system. This is why our 99% of I AM MAN are no WINNERS in our 99% of women being taken back to DARK AGES. Whether it is OLD WORLD KINGS---or THE PANDORA FURIES ruling over justice----our 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE and our 99% of new immigrant citizens are losers.




Fury said to
a mouse,
That
he met
in the
house,
‘Let us
both go
to law:
I
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prosecute
you
.--
Come, I’ll
take no
denial;
We must
have a
trial
For
really
this
morning
I’ve
nothing
to do.’
Said the
mouse to
the cur,
‘Such a
trial,
dear sir,
With no
jury or
judge
would be
wasting
our breath.’
‘I’ll be
judge,
I’ll be
jury,’
Said
cunning
old Fury!
‘I’ll try
the whole
cause,
and
condemn
you
to
death.’
‘You are not at

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TWIDDLE DEE AND TWIDDLE DOM in Alice in Wonderland are indeed HUMPTY DUMPTY falling of a wall with all kings horses and men not putting those cracked eggs together again.

What is ALICE inside the secret garden of QUEEN OF HEARTS telling us when she witnessed this fall of two eggs from the wall?

Just as the theme throughout ALICE IN WONDERLAND THROUGH LOOKING GLASS has images of OLD WORLD ROMAN KINGS AND QUEENS disappearing ----the two eggs are of course ROME'S founders Romulus and Remus----and that wall is the first building of ROME.  The fall of those eggs cracking beyond repair-----is the killing of ROMAN EMPIRE OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

If we look at the drawings associated with this FATHER WILLIAM verse----we see four frames of OLD WILLIAM FLIPPING IN SOMERSAULT with the last frame changing from OLD WILLIAM to BLUE CATERPILLER.


Throughout ALICE the movement of today's Western civilized nations Europe, US, Canada=====LATIN AMERICA-----Africa, near and middle East are disappearing.  FATHER WILLIAM is of course WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR first Roman Empire OLD WORLD KING of England.


ALICE as Western Roman Empire of KINGS AND QUEENS repeating to the Eastern OLD WORLD KING BLUE CATERPILLER how getting old is no problem if you REINVENT yourself.

Remember, Eastern Europe never had an AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT---no MAGNA CARTA ----so waxing romantic over a Eastern Europe as being WHITE or Caucasian for our 99% of US white citizens men or women is a BAD MOON RISING.



‘Repeat, ‘
you are old, Father William,
‘ said the Caterpillar.



Alice folded her hands, and began:--
‘You are old, Father William,’ the young man said,
‘And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
Do you think, at your age, it is right?’
‘In my youth,’ Father William replied to his son,
‘I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I’m perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again.’
‘You are old,’ said the youth, ‘as I mentioned before,
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door--
Pray, what is the reason of that?’
‘In my youth,’ said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
‘I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment--one shilling the box--
Allow me to sell you a couple?’

‘You are old,’ said the youth, ‘and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--
Pray how did you manage to do it?’
‘In my youth,’ said his father, ‘I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life.’
‘You are old,’ said the youth, ‘one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose--
What made you so awfully clever?’
‘I have answered three questions, and that is enough,’
Said his father; `don’t give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I’ ll kick you down stairs!’

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1950s was of course when EISENHOWER used the AVIATION ACT to install foreign sovereignty KNIGHTS OF MALTA into controlling our US FEDERAL AGENCIES.
The 1950s were also the first round of LEWIS CARROLL'S Cheshire Cat smile swinging down through NEAR AND FAR EAST ORIENT trade routes---Korean War, Vietnam War , civil wars across all of South Asian nations preparing to install FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES. So, WHITE RABBIT is SIX FOOT TALK---not that ALICE BEING 10 FOOT TALL.

HOUSE OF BOURBONS ----WHITE----HOUSE OF ARAGON BLACK ..............

'In 1530 Charles I of Spain gave the Maltese islands to the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in perpetual lease'.


KING OF HEARTS QUEEN OF HEARTS ======JUDGE

Kingdom of Judah
- Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah


According to the Hebrew Bible, the kingdom of Judah resulted from the break-up of the United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BCE) after the northern tribes refused to accept Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, as their king.



Spielberg pulls rabbit out of hat with Harvey remake

The 1950 original film had James Stewart as an amiable eccentric whose imaginary best friend is a 6ft-plus rabbit


Steven Spielberg's next project will be a remake of Harvey, the Oscar-winning 1950 film which starred James Stewart as a man whose best friend is an invisible giant rabbit. The original movie, an adaptation of the Pulitzer prize-winning play by Mary Chase, won Josephine Hull the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her performance as Stewart's long-suffering sister, Veta, while Stewart was himself nominated for the best actor prize.



The story centres on Elwood P Dowd (Stewart), a middle-aged, amiable eccentric whose friendship with an imaginary 6ft 3½in tall rabbit named Harvey results in a comedy of errors when his sister tries to have him committed. This is not the first time that a remake of Harvey has been mooted: John Travolta was attached to an update at one point, but the rights lapsed.

According to Variety, Spielberg aims to start shooting early next year, and is expected to approach A-list actors such as Tom Hanks and Will Smith for the film. The new screenplay is the first from novelist Jonathan Tropper, writer of The Book of Joe and How to Talk to a Widower.


Spielberg has not exactly been sitting on his hands – his collaboration with Peter Jackson, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, is deep in post-production and due to hit cinemas in 2011, and his Will Smith-starring remake of Old Boy is moving ahead despite a legal wrangle. He also has his long-gestating Abraham Lincoln biopic and children's adventure The 39 Clues on his potential slate, although neither has yet been given the final green light.




Variety reports that Harvey will be a co-production of Twentieth Century Fox and Spielberg's DreamWorks company, the first since the latter split with Universal last year. DreamWorks has since teamed up with India's Reliance ADA Group and arranged a new distribution deal with Disney in February after negotiations with Universal fell through just days earlier.

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RACE TO TOP was always a policy of bringing our US education system in line with those overseas in Asia. Global corporations have been bringing in billions in profits in moving children from one nation to another to work in these global factories. The entire system of transporting, settling children into institutional setting as in CA today has operated these few decades. What is happening in CA is all that structure moving child labor overseas is being installed in the US all while pretending it is simply TRUMP being crazy. CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA built these structures overseas---they all know that is what is MOVING FORWARD in CA ----CA is just the start of being a GATEWAY for child enslavement.
JOE KENNEDY ON CNN THIS MORNING SAYING-----THEY KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING----OH, YEAH, WE KNOW WHAT'S MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS FALSE FLAG AND SO DOES BALTIMORE MAYOR PUGH




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Citing family separation policy, Maryland Gov. Hogan calls back National Guard unit from border


Erin Cox and Michael DresserContact Reporter

The Baltimore Sun



Republican Gov. Larry Hogan recalled a small unit of Maryland National Guard soldiers helping to patrol the southern U.S. border on Tuesday amid a national outcry about separating migrant children from their families.
Hogan joined a bipartisan wave of governors across the country revoking resources along the Mexican border in protest of an immigration policy widely condemned by both sides of the aisle.



In Maryland a chorus of Democrats running for governor and other state leaders — from U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings to Catholic Archbishop William E. Lori — demanded President Donald J. Trump and Congress end a “zero tolerance” policy that has separated nearly 2,000 children from their parents in recent weeks.



Hogan announced in a tweet that he would rescind all resources until Trump’s administration reversed the policy.


“Immigration enforcement efforts should focus on criminals, not separating innocent children from their families,” the governor tweeted. He said that early Tuesday he ordered the four Maryland National Guard crew members and their helicopter to return from their station in New Mexico.



The Maryland guard members were sent to the border early this month, according to Hogan administration officials.
Hogan’s Democratic rivals had been pressuring the governor to take action over the border crisis, as other governors from both parties have.


The Trump administration recently began enforcing a “zero-tolerance” policy that criminally prosecutes anyone trying to cross the border illegally, including parents traveling with children. Adults are sent to the U.S. Marshals Service for criminal proceedings while many children are sent to facilities run by the Department of Health and Human Services. Nearly 2,000 children were separated from their families over a six-week period in April and May.


Pulitzer Prize-winning Getty Images photographer John Moore has been documenting migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. One of his photos of a 2-year-old child crying helplessly as she looks up at her mother, has gone viral.

 

Audio of crying children and images of them — including those being kept in a converted Walmart near the Texas border — has sparked outrage across the country.
U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger met on Tuesday with two Honduran men at a Glen Burnie facility who had been separated from their children.



The men were apprehended in the Southwest and sent to the Ordinance Road Correctional Center because resources near the border were scarce, said Jaime Lennon, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore County Democrat. She said one man had a 5-year-old son, the other a 7-year-old daughter.



“When they started talking about their kids, it was emotional. They were crying,” Ruppersberger said. “As a grandfather and as a father, we can’t allow this to continue to happen. If you want to send them back, fine. But don’t separate them from their children.”

On Monday, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts announced that he would not send promised resources to the border and Gov. John Hickenlooper of Denver, a Democrat, signed an executive order barring any state resources from helping to enforce the policy. On Tuesday, Democratic Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo said she would refuse any Trump administration requests for National Guard help on the border. A few hours after Hogan’s announcement, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, also a Democrat, withdrew his state’s National Guard helicopter and crew from the border.



A CNN poll released Monday found two-thirds of Americans object to the practice of separating children from their families and housing them in government facilities. All living former first ladies have publicly decried the practice.


In the hours leading up to Hogan’s tweet, several of the six Maryland Democrats vying for their party’s nomination to be governor called on him to withdraw the guard.


State Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr. held a news conference to protest what he called a “torturous, monstrous policy.” Former NAACP chief Ben Jealous released a statement to Hogan saying “as governor, your job is to stand firm for our values and have the courage to move Maryland forward no matter what happens in Washington.” Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III issued a statement calling the policy “inhumane, immoral and repugnant.”



In Washington, Trump was scheduled to meet Tuesday afternoon with House Republicans to discuss immigration legislation. In a series of tweets on Tuesday, the president again blamed Democrats for the crisis, saying they had a lax approach to the immigration enforcement.



“Now is the best opportunity ever for Congress to change the ridiculous and obsolete laws on immigration,” Trump said.



Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, departed from his prepared remarks at a hearing to condemn Trump’s policies and urge his Republican colleagues to stand up to the president on the family separation issue.


“We should all be able to agree that we will not keep kids in child internment camps — indefinitely and hidden away from public view. What country is that?” the Baltimore Democrat said.


Mayor Catherine E. Pugh released a statement calling the separation of parents and children “a nightmare for them and for those of us who know in our hearts that this is not what America is about.”



Archbishop Lori of Baltimore issued a statement saying “there can be no reasonable justification” for separating children from their parents to enforce the law.

BALTIMORE HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST IN NATION SEPARATION OF CHILDREN FROM PARENTS.



“This action threatens the stability of families, unduly inflicts trauma and hardship on those involved, including innocent children, and runs counter to the compassion and justice that are foundational to our American society,” Lori said.



Madaleno held his news conference outside the Howard County Detention Center in Jessup, which he identified as one of three sites in Maryland used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to detain immigrants. The others are in Frederick and Worcester counties, he said.

Accompanied by four Democratic state delegates and state Sen. Susan C. Lee, Madaleno urged Howard and the other counties to “stop taking the blood money from ICE in order to do this.”



Jack Kavanagh, director of corrections for Howard County, said the center’s agreement with federal immigration authorities goes back as far as the 1990s. He said the county is paid $90 a day per person to house detained adult male immigrants.


Kavanagh said the center does not hold men who are picked up for immigration violations. He said the 60 to 100 immigrants held there for an average stay are typically people who have been released from prison after serving their sentences and who are awaiting deportation.


“These are not choir boys,” he said. “These are dangerous people.”

The Maryland National Guard has helped patrol the southern border on several occasions under both Hogan and his Democratic predecessor, Martin O’Malley. According to Hogan’s office, the Maryland guard has been participating in such operations since as far back as 2000.



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June 21st, 2018

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Why is it important today to understand the goals of global politicians over a few hundred years? First, it identifies DELIBERATE AND WILLFUL acts against a sovereign nation and its 99% of WE THE PEOPLE by those global banking 5% pols and players-----CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA willfully sacked and looted America for foreign sovereignty of MALTA OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

This video tied to a book written saying it DECODES ALICE IN WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS does a good job laying the foundations of complexity of symbols, signs, and imagery LEWIS CARROLL as a TRINITY COLLEGE OLD WORLD OXFORD academic placed in a simple children's story. But, we recognize immediately DAVID DAY is a global banking 1% freemason working for OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS so this video will not lead 99% WE THE PEOPLE to future goals and may indeed throw us off the trail of real information. We see below DAY is a pretty high-ranking global 2% in the world of OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS. The appointment of SANDRA DAY to SUPREME COURT by a REAGAN was a big head's up that MOVING FORWARD was going far-right wing extreme wealth extreme poverty authoritarian and DARK AGES.


'Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan to 2006. She is the first woman to serve on the Court'.



One thing DAY does well is show how each image has several meanings. He outlines the SEVEN FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE divisions being that SEVEN which indicates POWER AND WEALTH---INDIVISIBLE.



Decoding Wonderland with David Day
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ORANGE

Orange is the traditional colour of the Christian democratic political ideology and most Christian democratic political parties, which are based on Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinist theology. Christian democratic political parties came to prominence in Europe and the Americas after World War II.


BLUE

Blue is usually associated with centre-right or conservative parties, originating from its use by the Tory party (the predecessor of the Conservative Party) in the United Kingdom

RED
Red is traditionally associated with socialism and communism. The oldest symbol of socialism (and by extension communism) is the Red Flag, which dates back to the French Revolution in the 18th century and the revolutions of 1848. Before this nascence, the color red was generally associated with monarchy or the Church due to the symbolism and association of Christ's blood.


WHITE

Historically, it was associated with support for absolute monarchy, starting with the supporters of the Bourbon dynasty of France because it was the dynasty's colour.




BLACK
  • Black is primarily associated with anarchism[2] (see anarchist symbolism), fascism (see blackshirts) and jihadism (see Black Standard).

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We have followed these 'academic' books on the subject of secret societies for 40 years and they always only reveal policy that has already happened and always tend to mislead in understanding REAL GOALS.

ORANGE MARMALADE most people understand symbolizes HOUSE OF ORANGE the protestant movement created by TRINITY COLLEGE to create civil division and weaken our early 99% of religious beliefs. ALICE in her slide down the rabbit's hole picks up the jar labeled ORANGE MARMALADE from a shelf at the top of the rabbit's hole and falls deep down to place that jar on a shelf closer to bottom=====meaning PROTESTANT religions and REFORMATION is ending going back before those EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONS against OLD WORLD CATHOLIC KINGS.

The Cheshire Cat and his SMILE that fads at times and returns to being JUST THAT SMILE represented the goals of FLIPPING THE EARTH'S AXIS FROM WESTERN TO EASTERN HEMISPHERE.  The smile starts to the left in Western Europe, swings down to what is ARABIA or that MIDDLE KINGDOM bringing the LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL back to a united 1000BC KINGDOM OF ISRAEL----and then sweeps to the right to end at what is EASTERN EUROPE where we discuss over and again KINGDOM OF KIEVAN/RUSS.


Don't forget that LEWIS CARROLL was writing this just as UK was withdrawing from EMPIRE ----it was SHRINKING IN SIZE as ALICE did each time she took a BITE OR DRINK.

The DRINK ME and BITE ME indicated the move to EMPIRE BUILDING to extreme wealth and power which of course ALICE grew to NINE FEET TALL when she ate the pieces of mushroom from the RIGHT side of mushroom---that being the FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% LAISSEZ-FAIRE EMPIRE BUILDING------and ALICE shrank in size when she ate the mushroom from the LEFT side---that being the 'LEFT MARXISM' installed to rebuild the EMPIRE that was destroyed.


Paris: 1843–1845In 1843, Marx became co-editor of a new, radical leftist Parisian newspaper, the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (German-French Annals), then being set up by the German socialist Arnold Ruge to bring together German and French radicals[56]
Finally in 1859, Marx published A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy,[167] his first serious economic work. This work was intended merely as a preview of his three-volume Das Kapital

So, one of the main images in ALICE IN WONDERLAND is the plan of successive EMPIRE BUILDING followed by sacking and looting of EMPIRE using what we always say is FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT economic and political policy. All this was planned and demonstrated in these stories of LEWIS CARROLL. MARXISM WAS NEVER LEFT SOCIAL POLICY----IT WAS ALWAYS A TOOL OF FAR-RIGHT WING EXTREME WEALTH.

Below we see that global banking 1% freemason STAR Marilyn Manson creating societal FADS for MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1%-----and look who is tied to this video------in each US state there will be a political ad for a candidate sure to be that global banking 5% freemason/Greek player pretending to be a DEMOCRAT.

BROOKE LIERMAN  here in MARYLAND.

Brooke Lierman - Wikipedia

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Brooke_Lierman
Brooke Lierman is an American politician who serves in the Maryland Legislature and represents District 46 in Baltimore City.



Marilyn Manson Eat Me Drink Me


Subtitulos En Español (Alice In Wonderland)

Published on Sep 21, 2015  You Tube


Eat Me Drink Me por su traducción "Cómeme, Bébeme" es el titulo de la ultima cancion del álbum auto nominado con el mismo nombre, el Sonido de esta Pista es muy melódica y con una letra que hace referencia a la novela de Lewis Carroll, Alice In Wonderland, así mismo haciendo menciones en versos como "I was invited to a beheading today" del Libro "Invitation to a Beheading (Invitacion a una Decapitacion) de Vladimir Nabokov" y "This is only a game, this is only a game (Esto solo es un Juego.) haciendo referencia al libro Lolita del mismo autor" EAT ME, DRINK ME fue tocada por primera vez y por única ocasión en Bercy, Francia el 5 de Junio del 2007 y Hasta Ahora no ah vuelto a ser tocada.



So, we KNEW our Protestant religions were to be under attack and we knew the goal was taking the US back to DARK AGES simply by understanding ALICE IN WONDERLAND symbols.

Being aware of these symbols over these few centuries allows our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE to know when OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS intend to grow EMPIRE-----when they intend to SACK AND LOOT EMPIRE-----and when they intend on installing FAKE LEFT MARXISM to rebuild EMPIRE.


So, below we see a simple article on fitness-----no problem with eating and drinking right for public health -----the ME GENERATION as in CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA is the ROBBER BARON period and ALICE IN WONDERLAND tells us SHE DOESN'T CARE-------what she looks like---where she goes----what she ends up doing------SHE SIMPLY LIKES PROGRESSIVELY CHANGING.

WE DON'T CARE-------is Alice's I DON'T CARE-----Alice representing EMPIRE-BUILDING global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.  These symbols from LEWIS CARROLL'S writings have been installed in all kinds of media----all kinds of arts and culture----WE KNEW what those symbols meant because we attended REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY that educated students to be CITIZENS AND LEADERS holding power accountable.


Alice was taken by DODO to a RACE TO CAUCUS where representatives from all UNITED NATIONS played a game of simply RUNNING any which way with no set finishing line all rewarded for their efforts of RUNNING. Here is a 5% freemason/Greek telling us its time to be RUNNING.


‘Eat me… Drink me… Looking after myself again.





Self-care, super important but so frequently falls to the wayside…. this is something that I have been pondering on and struggling with for a while now but in order for you to understand I need to explain my journey a bit.



Growing up as a child I was always the typical fit and healthy kid, however hitting the end of primary school I became a bit of a fiend for skipping playing outside to sitting indoors and eating a lot of junk food. As such I gained quite a bit of weight which stuck with me right through to the end of high school. Going into sixth form gave me the opportunity for a new start and it was the kick I needed to start going to the gym and think about what I was eating, luckily, I managed to stick at it and my healthier lifestyle began.



Aside from a few bumps along the way, I kept up my healthy lifestyle doing exercise most days and generally eating pretty well. I also fell in love with running and took part in countless mud runner events and half marathons. This all built up to April 2015 when I ran my first ever marathon, and I was so intensely proud. During the event I started to get some hip pain but thought it was just from the exertion of doing a marathon. I enjoyed the marathon so much that I decided to sign up to do another in April 2016, going through the training my hip pain reared it’s ugly head again and pretty intensely. Stupidly I refused to let it stop me after all of the hard work I had put into training to get a PB, on race day my hip blew up and it was all I could do to finish the race. With that, I kissed goodbye to a PB and started what turned out to be the decline in my ability to do what I loved.



A few months after the marathon and countless physio and doctors visits my hip was still proving to be the bane of my running existence, it was also impacting my CrossFit and I slipped into quite the slump. I wasn’t used to my body not letting me do the things I loved. Trying to find my way through I bounced around trying different activities in an attempt to find something that worked for me but none of it really stuck and I couldn’t seem to find stability in a new routine. Since then I have spent the last eight months trying hard to rehab my hip and get back to the things I love and I’m so pleased to say it is finally starting to work, I’m able to run without pain again and am back to lifting similar weights to before my injury. Thankfully!



So, ‘what next?’ you ask? Now that I am finally able to get back into a solid routine I want to hit the ground running (quite literally), starting with my diet. It seems that I have let things slip a bit without the focus and motivation of all the fitness and have stopped putting in the effort to care for my body so I’ve drawn up a new meal plan for myself full of lots of protein and vegetables all supplemented with a new water intake tracking water bottle to help me drink more.  I don’t plan on doing anything too crazy I just want to look after myself a bit more again including how I fuel my body.



My next blog post is going to cover the ten changes I am making and why (nothing too scientific, mainly just my reasoning). Stay tuned to see how I get on, I plan to do a weekly update on how the week has gone and next steps. Speak soon!

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CAUCUS RACE as everything else has multiple meanings---one of which is tied to the SMILING CHESHIRE CAT with his smile from the West sweeping down to MIDDLE KINGDOM ARABIA ending in the Eastern European CAUCUSES-----Russia.

The story of THE CAUCUS RACE simply describes how our global 1% and their 2% starting EMPIRE-BUILDING are scrambling to place their 5% players in positions around the world.  There is no design to the race---there is no finish line ---the goal of CAUCUS RACE is simply to be those 5% to the 1% ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT freemason/Greek players ready to be ROBBER BARON sack and looting lying, cheating, and stealing pols and players----ready to be sack and loot 5% civil unrest civil war players----all working for a share of that LOOTING paid by global banking 1% from the money looted from 99% WE THE PEOPLE.

Again, CARROLL wrote this just after US CIVIL WAR ---we were MOVING FORWARD into what was for AMERICA the earliest of INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS setting the stage for ROBBER BARON sacking and looting of America in early 1900s...ALICE EATS a piece of mushroom from RIGHT SIDE and grows to NINE FEET TALL.

What did our video from JEFFERSON AIRPLANE from REAGAN/CLINTON 1980s-90s tell us?  ASK ALICE WHEN SHE IS TEN FEET TALL.  So, TEN FEET TALL tells us this round of SACKING AND LOOTING OF AMERICA is going to be the end of AMERICA as a sovereign nation-----EMPIRE HAS REACHED ITS TALLEST HEIGHT.



Alice In Wonderland –
The Caucus Race lyrics


Forward, backward, inward, outward
Come and join the chase
Nothing could be drier
Than a jolly caucus race

Backward, forward, outward, inward
Bottom to the top
Never a beginning,
There can never be a stop

To skipping, hopping, tripping fancy free and gay
Started it tomorrow
But will finish yesterday

'Round and 'round and 'round we go
Until forevermore
For once we were behind
But now we find we are be-

Foreward, backward, inward, outward
Come and joing hte chase
Nothing could be drier
Than a jolly caucus race!

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Alice is met at the end of her fall down the tunnel by a DODO bird----we are told by academics this represents LEWIS CARROLL and his ties to TRINITY COLLEGE where DODOs were being studies.  In the WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS having many meanings-----the DODO represents the EXTINCTION of WESTERN SOCIETY-------and in the story the DODO is quite ineffective and weak.

The end of WESTERN CIVILIZATION swinging to EASTERN HEMISPHERE has a DODO as a symbol of extinction of our Western society. 
We knew back in LEWIS CARROLL period the goals of MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE was to reestablish these ancient trade routes to EAST.


The DODO also symbolizes one of the earliest FRENCH colonies founded in DARK AGES 1000BC Silk and Spice trade routes----ISLAND OF MAURITANIA. The images of water washing Alice and her friends are simply CODES for MOVING FORWARD back to 1000BC DARK AGES. Mauritania has been central in empire-building pursuits for thousands of years between global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

DARWINISTS tell us the DODO was wiped out because it was USELESS to itself and had evolved traits leaving itself easily defeated......kind of like today's 99% WE THE PEOPLE being replaced by artificial intelligence and robotics---we are being left pretty USELESS HAVING HUMAN TRAITS that are useless.


What Happened to the Dodo Bird?

The dodos were hunted to extinction by humans.

The dodo was a bird species that went extinct during the mid-17th century. It was originally mistaken as a close relative of several different birds, including the albatross, the vulture, and the ostrich. Scientists later determined that the dodo bird belonged to the same family as pigeons and doves (the Columbidae family).
This bird grew to around 3 feet in height and weighed between 23 and 39 pounds. Males were larger than females. It was an endemic species and could only be found on Mauritius, an island located in the Indian Ocean. Neither photograph nor complete skeleton exists of this flightless bird, however, researchers believe it was covered with grey to brown-colored feathers. Its head is believed to have been bald and it had extra plumage around its tail. The dodo bird is perhaps most recognized by the large, bulbous tip on its hooked beak.


How Did the Dodo Bird Go Extinct?


The dodo bird is often used as a symbol of the lasting damage humans can have on the environment and animal survival rates. Its iconic status as a symbol of species extinction is due to how rapidly this species went extinct after first being discovered by European explorers. In a timespan of only around 100 years, the dodo bird ceased to exist in the wild. Several theories attempt to explain exactly how the dodo bird went extinct and a number of events have been attributed to its unfortunate and rapid demise. Below are a few of the factors that contributed to the extinction of the dodo bird.



Hunting

Perhaps the most commonly quoted reason for the dodo bird’s extinction is that it was hunted to extinction. At the core of this theory is the fact that this bird was largely unafraid of humans when the two first made contact. This fearlessness was the result of a lack of natural predators throughout the island of Mauritius. The dodo bird had not learned to be afraid of another species and so faced European explorers with curiosity rather than fear. This behavior, combined with its flightless status, made the dodo bird an easy target for human hunters and it quickly became a staple in the diet of European sailors. Researchers now claim that, although a valid factor, this is an oversimplification of its path to extinction.



Invasive Species

Scientists now believe that the introduction of non-native species to the island was the biggest impact made by European sailors. These individuals brought with them a number of invasive species including: rats, cats, pigs, and dogs. As these newly introduced animals began to roam free throughout the island, they reproduced on a large scale and began to hunt local food sources. One of these food sources was the dodo bird egg, which was located on the ground and easy to find. As these eggs became an important dietary staple for invasive species, it negatively affected the ability of the dodo bird to replenish its population. Mother dodo birds laid only 1 egg at a time. Both adults and young were being killed to feed both humans and animals. The result was detrimental to the dodo bird’s ability to survive.


Habitat Loss

Not only was this bird species hunted and its eggs scavenged, but its natural habitat was also threatened. When it was first discovered, the island had little value to European sailors. It was often used as a stopover point during long journeys and was even considered cursed by some explorers due to a large number of shipwrecks in the area. Eventually, however, Mauritius became an important source of ebony wood, which was harvested by anybody who made their way ashore. During the second attempt at colonization by the Dutch, the exportation of ebony wood became the principal economic activity on the island. An attempt at converting the island into an agricultural plantation resulted in the destruction of more native plant species, which were replaced by sugarcane plants. This severe deforestation destroyed the natural habitat of the dodo bird, leaving it with little refuge from the invading predators.


Natural Disasters

Although the dodo bird managed to survive a vast array of natural disasters on the island, some of these events did take a toll on the dodo population. In 2005, researchers found evidence that a large number of dodo birds were killed during a flash flood event. This disaster, combined with the previously mentioned factors, made it even less likely that the species could survive.


Future Bird Extinctions

The dodo bird is not the only bird species that will suffer extinction due to human interference. In fact, scientists have been researching the lives and population patterns of more than 9,700 current bird species and another 129 extinct bird species to understand what the future has in store for birds. Based on their research, they are predicting that between 10% and 14% of all bird species alive today will be extinct by the year 2100. Additionally, 25% of current bird species are expected to be extinct in the wild (also known as functionally extinct) in the same time period. By the time that occurs, another 15% will be threatened by extinction as well.


Bird species make up a key component of a healthy environment by helping maintain population sizes of other plant and animal species. For example, birds consume significant numbers of insects every day, which helps maintain insect populations, preventing them from outnumbering other plant and animal species. Additionally, birds distribute seeds through the consumption of fruits and other plants, fertilize soil by producing guano, prevent the spread of disease by eating other animal carcasse and pollinate flowers and other plants by consuming nectar. In fact, some plants rely on birds for reproduction purposes. Because of their role in maintaining delicate environmental balances, bird population trends are considered important environmental indicators, which offer a window into the health of habitats around the world.

Factors like global climate change, increased habitat loss, unsustainable fishing practices, pollution, pesticide use, growing human populations, urbanization, and invasive plant and animal species continue to threaten existing bird species. These researchers predict that even if humans take combined, global action now against these threats, the world will still lose at least 700 bird species by 2100.
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The blue CATERPILLAR on the MUSHROOM

We already identified the symbols of EAT ME mushroom pieces from LEFT SIDE vs RIGHT side of MUSHROOM.  The caterpillar was BLUE because it was FAR-RIGHT WING not center-right.  We say far-right wing because the HOOKAH being that EASTERN ORIENTAL symbol designates EMPIRE BUILDING----and it designates OPIUM WARS.  When we discussed the DANCE OF SEVEN VEILS as symbolizing the unleashing of PANDORA'S BOX OF EVIL-----LEWIS CARROLL was indicating the same was on its way.


'Blue
Blue is usually associated with centre-right or conservative parties, originating from its use by the Tory party (the predecessor of the Conservative Party) in the United Kingdom'

There was nothing left about that HOOKAH-----it indicated a MOVING FORWARD FLIPPING OF EARTH'S economic axis from Western Hemisphere to Eastern Hemisphere----the religious transition from Western PROTESTANT, MUSLIM, ROMAN CATHOLIC----to Eastern BRAHMIN HINDI/BUDDHIST.

Below we see the OPIUM WARS having existed right around LEWIS CARROLL'S time ----the war against CHINA was flipped to be the war against Western Hemisphere Europe and America.




Opium Wars - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China (prominently the opium trade, where they get their names from) and China's sovereignty. The disputes included the First Opium War (1839–1842) and the Second Opium War (1856–1860).

We know it was aimed at US 99% WE THE PEOPLE because our national media, arts and culture was filled with these images.  Why is US Congress passing LEGALIZED MARIJUANA after all these decades of having it illegal and filling prisons and jails with WAR AGAINST DRUGS?  Because MOVING FORWARD has global 1% wanting to further undermine US societal structures.  This is why REAL left social progressives do not support global corporations pushing yet another addicting drug for billions of dollars of profit.  We support DECRIMINALIZATION of marijuana with treatment for addictions.



"You Are Old, Father William"


Caterpillar
Comparision of the voice over actors who have been the voice of Caterpillar with sound clips and images.
Franchise: Alice in Wonderland

The Caterpillar is a hookah-smoking larva who sits on a mushroom that allows Alice to alter her size depending on what side of it she eats. He instructs Alice to recite the poem "You Are Old, Father William", after which he proclaims her recitation to be incorrect.





FENANYL is of course an invention of global banking 1% BIG PHARMA once our US Pharma corporations and indeed those MULTI-NATIONAL PHARMA corporations owned by OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS today did move our US PHARMA manufacturing to overseas FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES in China----but the CHINESE were not the MOVERS AND PUSHERS. THE THINKER is a far-right wing media outlet FAKE RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVE being far-right wing Bush NEO-conservative partnered with Clinton neo-liberalism.


That dastardly BLUE CATERPILLAR MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE unleashing PANDORA'S evils on civil societies!



May 23, 2018


With fentanyl, China uses Opium War tactics against us


By Monica Showalter  BLOOMBERG



A new report out from Bloomberg (first spotted on Axios Vitals) signals that China has more ways to defeat us than merely through its military buildup:




Federal prosecutors in Mississippi charged [Chinese national] Yan, 41, in September with leading an empire built on the manufacture and sale of drugs related to fentanyl, one of the world's deadliest and most profitable narcotics.  So strong that it's been studied as a chemical weapon, the drug has saturated American streets with breathtaking speed: It kills more people than any other opioid, including prescription pills and heroin, because it's so easy to overdose.  Authorities say they have linked Yan and his 9W Technology Co. to more than 100 distributors across the U.S. and at least 20 other countries.  Investigators expect scores of arrests as they dismantle his alleged network.



A month after the indictment, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein held a Washington news conference to shine a spotlight on Yan and another man, Zhang Jian, 39, who's accused of a similar scheme.  Their indictments, Rosenstein told reporters, marked "a major milestone in our battle to stop deadly fentanyl from reaching the United States." 



Yan is the first Chinese national the U.S. has ever added to its "consolidated priority organization target" list of individuals thought to command the world's most prolific drug-trafficking and money-laundering networks.  Investigators say his strategy was to offer fentanyl-like compounds called analogues – which differ slightly on a molecular level but produce similar effects – in order to exploit discrepancies between the laws in the U.S. and China.



So, along with Mexico, we now have the lovely spectacle of two of our top trading partners trying to kill us.



But is it really China, or just some miscreant inside China?  Bloomberg makes the case that it's China.  The problem is its policy: China says the drug lord never broke any of its laws, and the Chinese sure as heck weren't going to extradite him.  As Sam Baker at Axios Vitals notes in his short commentary, citing the takeaway from an expert:



"The two countries play by different rules," Markos Kounalakis, a visiting fellow at Stanford University, told Bloomberg.  "What's bad for America is not necessarily bad for China."



What does this mean?


  It actually leaps out, because history is always instructive in the matter of China.  Bloomberg notes:

China has a fraught history with opium, dating to when foreign traders imported it in the mid-1800s.  Widespread addiction followed, and attempts to stamp out the trade triggered two futile wars against the British.



The British didn't exactly have an honorable history with China back in the19th century.  First they got the Chinese addicted to opium, complete with opium dens, and then, when China's leaders tried to stop it, they fought two wars against them, defeating them handily so they could continue to distribute their opium to the public.  Ugly stuff.



China has never gotten over that experience, which, fairly considered, was bad, and has nursed grievances about Western imperialism ever since.  But the Chinese also took in the lessons.  Drugs can debilitate a population and make it easy to defeat, because that's what happened to China.  The ugly final result was Mao's communist takeover and the communist horrors that followed, carrying on since.


Now they're flooding our country with illegal addictive drugs, well worse than opiates, or their recent derivative, heroin, moving on to fentanyl.



We know that the Chinese study history.  We know they look to the long term.  We know they are using the South China Sea as their launch pad toward global power, following the example of America, which used the Caribbean Sea (and the Panama Canal) as its launching pad to global power – which ended up at the same South China Sea.


Now we can see the outlines of another opium war, this one being foisted back at us, not Britain, and with China using the legal technicalities of our left-wing lawyers as weapons against us to justify flooding our country with opiates.

ALL OUR 99% OF US WE THE PEOPLE KNOW WHO IS BEHIND THIS OPIATE WAR AGAINST THE US---THOSE SAME GLOBAL BANKING 1% AND OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.



It's a call for President Trump, Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein and anyone else watching this to be as hard-ass and unyielding as possible with the Chicoms as they push against us with poison.  They're trying to kill us.
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Our US CONSTITUTION and US RULE OF LAW tied to several centuries of COMMON LAW have always defined DELIBERATE AND WILLFUL acts of misconduct as PUBLIC MALFEASANCE tied to government agencies and corporate fraud tied to private enterprise tied to government contracts.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND creates a document of INTENT-----each decade in US as we watched media-----advertisement----global banking 1% freemason STARS sell each stage of ALICE'S GOALS OF ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE we were watching DELIBERATE AND WILLFUL MISCONDUCT when it became tied to activities of public officials and private corporations doing business with PUBLIC CONTRACTS.

CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA as ROBBER BARON global banking players are those AGENTS OF WILLFUL MISCONDUCT----as too were ROBBER BARON 5% players during ROARING 20s ----each an attack by global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS against our national sovereign 99% of WE THE PEOPLE.

OUR US 99% WE THE PEOPLE ARE NOT LOSERS-----WE ARE GREAT BIG WINNERS IF WE STOP MOVING FORWARD AND HOLD THOSE 5% TO THE 1% FREEMASON/GREEK PLAYERS ACCOUNTABLE.


Here is a global banking 1% Clinton neo-liberal pol reforming laws over misconduct directed squarely at 99% of citizens while global 1% and their 2% are sacking and looting our US treasury and people's pockets with these same WILLFUL MISCONDUCTS---especially in GOV RAUNER'S CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.



Definition of “Deliberate and Willful” Misconduct Under the Illinois Unemployment Insurance Act Revised and Expanded


February 4, 2016


Governor Rauner recently signed legislation that revised and expanded the definition of “deliberate and willful” misconduct under the Illinois Unemployment Insurance Act (820 ILCS 405/602).  Under the prior definition, the claimant (i.e. former employee) would be disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits if the respondent (i.e. employer) established that the conduct resulting in termination was “deliberate and willful” (i.e. intentional) and amounted to misconduct. 



Under the new and expanded definition of misconduct, it no longer is just “intentional” conduct that renders a claimant ineligible for unemployment benefits.  Rather, a claimant may now be found ineligible for benefits if he/she engages in certain non-intentional conduct as well, which are identified in italics below.  The new law also delineates specific acts that constitute misconduct, which the prior definition had not done.

  The new law provides that “misconduct” now includes:

  • Falsification of an employment application, or any other documentation provided to the employer, to obtain employment through subterfuge;
  • Failure to maintain licenses, registrations, and certifications reasonably required by the employer, or those that the individual is required to possess by law, to perform his or her regular job duties, unless the failure is not within the control of the individual;
  • Knowing, repeated violation of the attendance policies of the employer that are in compliance with State and federal law following a written warning for an attendance violation, unless the individual can demonstrate that he or she has made a reasonable effort to remedy the reason or reasons for the violations or that the reason or reasons for the violations were out of the individual’s control;
  • Damaging the employer’s property through conduct that is grossly negligent;
  • Refusal to obey an employer’s reasonable and lawful instruction, unless the refusal is due to the lack of ability, skills, or training for the individual required to obey the instruction or the instruction would result in an unsafe act;
  • Consuming alcohol or illegal or non-prescribed prescription drugs, or using an impairing substance in an off-label manner, on the employer’s premises during working hours in violation of the employer’s policies;
  • Reporting to work under the influence of alcohol, illegal or non-prescribed prescription drugs, or an impairing substance used in an off-label manner in violation of the employer’s policies; and
  • Grossly negligent conduct endangering the safety of the individual or co-workers.

It remains to be seen how zealous the Illinois Department of Employment Security will be in enforcing the new definitions of misconduct, particularly those involving non-intentional conduct, as well as how strictly courts will interpret them.  In the meantime, employers with questions should contact Scott Cruz or their Franczek Radelet attorney for guidance.
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What was allowed to MOVE FORWARD during CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA was a complete disregard to US RULE OF LAW by not only US corporations but especially GLOBAL CORPORATIONS/GLOBAL BANKING.  This told us that MOVING FORWARD was ending several centuries of OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS being held accountable to same laws as all 99% -----that is what far-right wing LIBERTARIAN LAISSEZ FAIRE does when pols like REAGAN/CLINTON are installed.

What we are seeing after these ROBBER BARON few decades of massive criminality is as always---the boot coming down ever-harder on the neck of our 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens--men and women, REAL 99% Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, Hindi/Buddhist.

If we keep allowing MOVING FORWARD FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL CORPORATE AUTHORITARIAN FASCISM----LIBERTARIAN MARXISM-----we will be in that POLICE STATE being unable to accumulate any wealth that is not looted by global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

TRUMP'S PROMISE TO CLEAN CESSPOOL IS NOT DIRECTED AT GLOBAL BANKING 1% AND OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS BEING THAT CESSPOOL.


Tax Fraud Or Innocent Mistake? What Is 'Willful' To IRS?
Robert W. Wood Contributor
Dec 9, 2015, 08:42am





Tax time is just around the corner. It won’t be long before all those annoying Forms 1099, W-2 and K-1 start to show up. Sometimes, the forms dribble in, reporting income even after you’ve filed your return. There may be some surprises too, where you think you were paid $1,000, but the 1099 says $100,000! If your income is all there in black and white, you may not have many choices.


Yet even simple reporting problems can lead to crippling mistakes that cost big. The more complex your affairs, the more you and your tax adviser must make judgment calls. If you misstep, are you better off being honest and ignorant, or more clever and conniving? Taxes are complex, and U.S. taxes are especially confusing. You might assume that anything can be called an innocent mistake. 


Actually, the tax law draws a line between non-willful and willful. Willfully evading federal income taxes is a felony. See 26 U.S.C. § 7203. “Willful” usually means voluntary or with intent. You are willful if you intentionally violate a legal duty of which you’re aware. Yet what IRS calls ‘willful’ can be tough to predict. And even if you’re ignorant, the IRS can say you are guilty of willful blindness–where you intentionally remain ignorant!






For example, there’s lots of talk about how to soften the blow of disclosing foreign bank accounts or other tax problems. U.S. citizens and permanent residents must report worldwide income. They must also disclose foreign bank accounts on FBARs. Penalties for failing to report income can be severe, and penalties for failing to file FBARs are even worse.


Consider United States v. J. Bryan Williams. Mr. Williams had checked the “no” box stating under penalties of perjury that he did not have a foreign bank account. He also did not file FBARs. It turned out that he did have foreign accounts. Nevertheless, the court was not persuaded that Mr. Williams was trying to evade taxes. Some people manage to avoid the taint of willfulness in tax matters based on a genuine misunderstanding of the tax law. The misunderstanding can even be unreasonable as long as it’s genuine.





Another way of not being willful: having a good-faith (even though unreasonable) belief no tax is due. In United States v. Kokenis, a jury found Mr. Kokenis guilty of tax evasion. Asking for a new trial, Kokenis claimed that the trial court improperly excluded evidence of his good faith misunderstanding of the tax law.


You cannot hold it against a criminal defendant who chooses not to testify in his own defense. For that reason, the court in Kokenis even noted in its order that it instructed the jury not to draw negative inferences from Kokenis’ failure to take the stand. Still, said the court, how else could Mr. Kokenis have established his own good faith belief? On appeal to the Seventh Circuit, Mr. Kokenis argued that the district court erred in ruling that he could not present evidence of good faith unless he waived his Fifth Amendment rights and testified. Nevertheless, the Seventh Circuit affirmed Mr. Kokenis’ convictions and sentence.


The size of penalties varies but often, 25% is at stake. Civil fraud is 75%, but that’s not often asserted. Criminal violations are asserted even less frequently. Still, most criminal tax cases start with civil audits. Even a smidgen of fraud or intentional misstatements can land you in jail.

If your mistakes are serious, the IRS can say you are willful. According to the IRS, willfulness involves a voluntary, intentional violation of a known legal duty. Willfulness is shown by your knowledge of reporting requirements and your conscious choice not to comply. Willfulness means you acted with knowledge that your conduct was unlawful—a voluntary, intentional, violation of a known legal duty.


Watch out for conduct meant to conceal. Setting up trusts or corporations, or filing some forms and not others, can look bad. Using cash, keeping deposits below $10,000, using travelers checks, under-reporting business income, and inflating your expenses can all spell trouble. Perhaps you can explain one failure, but repeated failures can morph conduct from inadvertent neglect into reckless or deliberate disregard. ‘Willful blindness’ is a kind of conscious effort to avoid learning about reporting requirements, and that too can be enough to land you in jail.

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So, just who does the WHITE RABBIT represent always running here and there---always walking beside those KINGS AND QUEENS in Alice and Wonderland? As the DAY video explained the WHITE RABBIT represents many different geo-political figures and goals=======but when the WHITE RABBIT leads ALICE down the RABBIT HOLE-----just as DEMETER is led by ----that's right. We discussed in DAN BROWN's ORIGIN novel all those secret societies tied to ANTI-POPES in France-----so, the image of Alice as WESTERN EMPIRE following a WHITE RABBIT down a hole leading from WESTERN HEMISPHERE to EASTERN HEMISPHERE is that killing of ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH moving to 3000BC HINDI GODS AND GODDESSES----pre-Christian CATO/NERO/SENECA.


'One day, Persephone is picking flowers with some nymph friends of hers when, all of a sudden, Hades bursts out of the ground, driving a chariot of black horses.

He grabs Persephone and starts dragging her down to the underworld'.



'Greg Anthony's Inside The Investigative Journal
How & Why I Took the Vatican and Jesuits Head On'

Spielberg pulls rabbit out of hat with Harvey remake | Film ...
www.theguardian.com/.../03/spielberg-harvey-remake

Steven Spielberg's next project will be a remake of Harvey, the Oscar-winning 1950 film which starred James Stewart as a man whose best friend is an invisible giant rabbit.




This article is tied to global banking 5% players pretending those SUPER-STORMS which we knew would be coming with CLIMATE CHANGE may be MANUFACTURED----which is more myth-making propaganda.

Harvey Is No Jimmy Stewart White Rabbit Tonight

Posted on August 25, 2017 by gregbeacon


HARVEY HAS TURNED INTO A FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER


May I step out on a limb tonight, a rather precarious Harvey tree limb.
 I won’t beat around the bush, if any are left after Corpus Christie turns into Atlantis.
Three feet of rain expected on the Texas coast! Are you kidding me?
Create a monster, let it hover over its prey. Tell us it is Mother Nature, how wicked and cruel.
Could it be Harvey and Frankenstein are from the same mad scientists, who want to control life and death, control the thoughts and minds and control even Mother Nature.


Post Script: Weather control is nothing new. Perhaps,it should be used for good not evil, just a thought, a wicked thought much frowned upon in the halls of Borgo Santo Spirito 5, Roma, Italia.


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Spielberg pulls rabbit out of hat with Harvey remake

The 1950 original film had James Stewart as an amiable eccentric whose imaginary best friend is a 6ft-plus rabbit

Ben Child
@BenChildGeek Mon 3 Aug 2009 11.01 EDT First published on Mon 3 Aug 2009 11.01 EDT

Hop to it … James Stewart in a publicity shot for Harvey. Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar


Steven Spielberg's next project will be a remake of Harvey, the Oscar-winning 1950 film which starred James Stewart as a man whose best friend is an invisible giant rabbit. The original movie, an adaptation of the Pulitzer prize-winning play by Mary Chase, won Josephine Hull the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her performance as Stewart's long-suffering sister, Veta, while Stewart was himself nominated for the best actor prize.



The story centres on Elwood P Dowd (Stewart), a middle-aged, amiable eccentric whose friendship with an imaginary 6ft 3½in tall rabbit named Harvey results in a comedy of errors when his sister tries to have him committed. This is not the first time that a remake of Harvey has been mooted: John Travolta was attached to an update at one point, but the rights lapsed.

According to Variety, Spielberg aims to start shooting early next year, and is expected to approach A-list actors such as Tom Hanks and Will Smith for the film. The new screenplay is the first from novelist Jonathan Tropper, writer of The Book of Joe and How to Talk to a Widower.
Spielberg has not exactly been sitting on his hands – his collaboration with Peter Jackson, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, is deep in post-production and due to hit cinemas in 2011, and his Will Smith-starring remake of Old Boy is moving ahead despite a legal wrangle. He also has his long-gestating Abraham Lincoln biopic and children's adventure The 39 Clues on his potential slate, although neither has yet been given the final green light.


Variety reports that Harvey will be a co-production of Twentieth Century Fox and Spielberg's DreamWorks company, the first since the latter split with Universal last year. DreamWorks has since teamed up with India's Reliance ADA Group and arranged a new distribution deal with Disney in February after negotiations with Universal fell through just days earlier.
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It's the economy stupid

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN was the TROJAN HORSE used by global banking 1% to kill all the gains of 99% of WE THE WOMEN----AND MEN over several hundred years.  They did this by FLIPPING the goals of REAL left social progressive women fighting for 99% of women and made the women's movement about making the global 1% and their 2% of women extremely rich by killing 99% of US women. 

The entire platform for our US women's movement was strong families, strong economy and wages, strong communities.  That is what all of last century with US Constitutional amendments----Federal laws and Federal court rulings and precedence steeped in COMMON LAW did-----we discussed in detail what EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER LAW AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESS did in opening the US economy to all 99% of US citizens black, white, and brown.  The top issue throughout last century was to strengthen and maintain THOSE foundations.  The empowerment of 99% of WE THE WOMEN came from REAL free market domestic economies with a SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION offering start up loans open now to women-----monopoly and anti-trust laws assuring that real domestic free market remained strong.  This is what created strong local communities----US RULE OF LAW was enforced holding corporations accountable under law as everyone else.

The FDR NEW DEAL created broad public education K-university open to all 99% of WE THE WOMEN----it created strong public health and environmental justice to protect families, children, women against debilitating work and community toxic environments.
Our 99% of WE THE WOMEN had secured our rights to equal protection under law able to take to court issues of wealth assets and property.  We were able to take to court our rights as citizens regarding privacy, enfranchisement, incorporation of business rights.

So, by the time the NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN came along 99% of WE THE WOMEN had built a strong foundation we needed to protect and maintain.

What was MOVING FORWARD as NOW started to push radical feminism?  FLIPPING our US domestic economy to overseas FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.  The Federal policies of REAGAN/CLINTON neo-liberalism LAISSEZ-FAIRE making the US policy all about making those global 1% and their 2% of women extremely rich by making those 99% of US WE THE WOMEN extremely poor.

This is when the economy of stealing from the poor-----continuous wars-----privatizing all that is public---ending all Federal NEW DEAL policies started MOVING FORWARD.



It's the Economy, Stupid
John McCutcheon


Album Hail to the Chief! It's the economy, stupid




A victory sign
A mantra
An explanation
A reminder
A warning
An omen
An onus
A threat
It's the economy, stupid


Farmers' wives bring eggs
Chickens
Whole milk
Fresh butter
To the local market
To the store
Come in with groceries
And leave with groceries and money

Small farmers raise crops
For local markets
Up at dawn
Home at dusk
More in fallow
Than under the plow
Dark loam
Rich with earthworms
Defying erosion
Anchoring forest borders
Home for
Game
Shelter
Shade
Now virginity is no longer fashionable
Even in our forests
We will harvest another crop
Of walnut
Cherry, oak
If we only live
Another hundred years
Man was the last piece
Of creation
And has been playing catch up
Ever since

Farming is a balance
Of muscle
Daylight
And conservation
Machinery
Becomes the muscle now
Allowing us to work
Into the night
We plant our debts
Fencerow to fencerow
Swallowing
Every bitter dram
Of expert advice
Until
...drunk with dreams
Of fortune
Equity
Leverage
Growth...

We grow
What we cannot use
Purchase
What we used to raise
Spend
What we used to save
Sell
What we used to treasure
Mock
What we used to revere
Hate
What we used to love
It's the economy, stupid


Understand...
I am not a nostalgist
I am a most pragmatic man
I look at what naturally occurs
In the living world...
And see diversity
Not specialization
I look at
Hometown banks
Restaurants
Hardware stores
Where your name
Is your credit
And decisions are rendered
By people who know you
Where you are more than
The five banks
And the four airlines
And the three newspaper chains
And the two big box stores
And the one-and-a-half political parties
And the one retort:
It's the economy stupid


And the standards
That demand that
Every teacher teaches
Every student
Exactly the same thing
And, like these students
I have to ask "why?"
Why?
It's the economy, stupid


Now those educated
Appraised students
Ride their buses
From their consolidated schools
Back to their small towns and farms
And cannot wait
To drive their cars away
On that highway of diamonds
Into the consolidated cities
Where they look back
In shame
And wonder
Stranded
Between what they know
And what they've been sold
It's the economy, stupid

The economy that looks
For the maximum return
For the quick turnaround
For the short term gain
For the unearned income
For the Big Lotto
It's the economy, stupid


And the economy
Is impatient
It has a short attention span
It is easily bored
It is hungry
It is late for its next appointment
It puts you on hold
It does not return your call
It's the economy, stupid


The economy
Has you working two jobs
It is mandatory overtime
It is expensive sneakers
Made by sweating children
It is cheap food
Picked by landless hands
It is good paying jobs
Disappearing from American towns
And reappearing
Nowhere
It is your closed up main street
And it is your boarded up mill
And it is your condo-minimized factory
And it is your cookie cutter mall
And it is not accountable
It is not America
It's the economy, stupid


The economy now has no borders
Or horizons
Or faces
Or hands
The economy has only one rule:
More

And the economy lies
The economy tells us it is about Freedom
The economy is about Dependence
Not on land
Or animals
Or weather
Or neighbors
But
On machinery
And fuel
And credit
Most farmers
Have borrowed their way
Right out of farming
And
No government loan
No government program
Will change
That cycle
Because the government
Is powerless now, see...
It's the economy, stupid


And the government is the economy's
Biggest cheerleader
It plays by the same rules:
The quick fix
The stronger army
The bigger bomb
The dependence on machinery
To do work
That can only effectively be done
By humans
It consolidates
When diversity is required

It's about economy
It's about small towns with
Banks
And baseball teams
A general store
Churches
Family cemeteries
A schoolhouse
A lumberyard
A radio station
A newspaper
A roadhouse
A funeral home
A filling station
Open space
Open opportunity
Open eyes
Open hearts
Choice
Recourse
Response
Responsibility
It's about economy



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While REAGAN/CLINTON were killing the US domestic economy NOW and far-right wing radical neo-liberal 5% to the 1% neo-liberals were TAKING OUR 99% OF WOMEN'S eyes off the foundation and tying goals of women to global corporate power and wealth.

This is when all those ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT FAKE 5% women freemason/Greeks national media and NGOs told our 99% of WE THE WOMEN were our LEADERS quickly bound themselves to the legs of global banks and global corporations.  You could not shake those 5% global banking women off of ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE handing all US corporations over to OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS not matter what.  They PLEDGED after all to do ANYTHING they were told by global 1%.

While Bill Clinton was killing our US domestic economies, killing REAL free market local economies, killing all those Federal, state, and local public institutions tasked with enforcing and protecting the newly gained rights of 99% WE THE WOMEN----national media and global banking 1% WOMEN'S NGOs were pretending Clinton's deregulation of banks and corporate monopoly laws, distortions of legal definitions of what US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES could undermine as regards US, state, and local sovereignty------as US CITIES AS FAILED STATES exploded because US corporations were sent overseas and US city government and agencies deliberately kept any new local and domestic economy from replacing those US corporations------YES, AFTER ALL THAT ----THE US DOMESTIC ECONOMY FAILED.  So, Clinton now creates that FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT policy goal of IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID to advance all the economic policies of ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE INSTALLING GLOBAL BANKING AND GLOBAL CORPORATIONS into our US cities deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.

That is essentially taking the US and Europe back to before MAGNA CARTA----when global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS had all the power and rights---and our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE had none.....even those global 2% of men and women.


THIS IS WHEN ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS WERE EVERYTHING THAT SEEMS REAL IS NOT MOVED FORWARD IN WARP SPEED.  NOW, NOTHING POLITICIANS OR MEDIA TOLD US WAS TRUE.


The media outlet SALON as MOVE ON was created just to sell Bill Clinton as being LEFT CENTER all the while being far-right wing global banking 1% extreme wealth extreme poverty.  Selling WARREN and SANDERS as the new left populists----OMG.



Bill Clinton’s primary lesson: What “it’s the economy, stupid” means in 2016



After being on the wrong side of a key Democratic primary issue in ’08, the Clintons won’t make that mistake twice


Simon Maloy
May 1, 2014 6:55pm (UTC) SALON



In the face of economic struggles that have now spanned three presidential terms, many Americans remember the Clinton economy with a fondness usually reserved for a dear, departed grandparent. A booming stock market, jobs everywhere, budget surpluses, low poverty rates – Bill Clinton enjoys enough economic credibility that his speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention touting President Obama's record on the issue was described as a turning point in the campaign.

Hmmmm, ROBBER BARON ROARING 20s leading to imaginary economic gains ending in economic crash and Great Depression-----




That’s why it’s a bit surreal to see headlines like this one in today’s New York Times: “Bill Clinton Defends His Economic Legacy.” Per the Times: “Former President Bill Clinton, who has grown increasingly frustrated that his economic policies are viewed as out-of-step with the current focus on income inequality, on Wednesday delivered his most muscular defense of his economic legacy.”


That's right, Bill Clinton is defending his economic record not just against Republicans, but from criticism within his own party. If you’re looking for evidence that the economic inequality message is a powerful and lasting force in national politics, this is it.


The Democrats’ 2014 messaging is coalescing around income inequality in various forms – the minimum wage, extending unemployment benefits, and spotlighting the lavish and self-interested political spending of the Koch brothers. The mileage they’ll get out of those themes over the next few months will vary as Obamacare waxes and wanes as the political topic du jour, but it’s clear that regardless of what happens this November, inequality will push on into 2016 as a national issue.


Clinton’s speech, as the Times points out, can be seen as an effort to reestablish the Clinton brand on the right side of the inequality debate, now that Democrats like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are emerging as standard-bearers for a more aggressive economic populism. If Hillary Clinton does run in 2016, the Clinton economic record will tag along behind her as it did in 2008, as will questions about how the Clinton administration fared on reducing inequality. A Center for American Progress report from 2012 found both pluses and negatives in the Clinton record, at least as it pertained to the tax code. The tax increases of the early '90s helped reduce inequality, but cuts to the capital gains tax in the late '90s had the opposite effect.


Of course, the Clinton record on economic inequality will provide a favorable point of contrast with pretty much any national Republican. GOP economic policy calls for steep reductions (or outright elimination) of the capital gains tax, opposition to (or outright elimination of) the minimum wage, and deep cuts to programs that provide income support to the poor. But as the Clintons learned in 2008, before you can think about the general election, you have to get there first -- and like Iraq in 2008, inequality is the primary issue of the day.

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We have discussed often from where the term POLITICAL CORRECTNESS originated.  It was Bill Clinton's inner circle staff person ----a male grad from global hedge fund IVY LEAGUE HARVARD ------and it was national WOMEN'S NGOs like NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN who promoted just what this article states------A RIGHT WING PHANTOM ENEMY.

This is when ordinary REAL left social progressive 99% women AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT ---I AM MAN AND WOMAN-----was turned into radical policies that neither left social progressive women nor right wing women wanted.  It was designed to have all US citizens hating US FEMINISM ------totally erasing what our original 99% of left social progressive women goals and policy fights for several hundred years.

Make no mistake----political correctness came from the right wing---it came from global banking and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS----it came from  a male perspective to be a TROJAN HORSE against gains of not only global 2% of women---not only those dastardly 5% of freemason/Greek women---but all 99% of US WE THE WOMEN.



'When Richard Bernstein published a book based on his New York Times reporting on political correctness, he called it Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future – a title alluding to the Jacobins of the French Revolution. In the book he compared American college campuses to France during the Reign of Terror, during which tens of thousands of people were executed within months'.

Now, our US public university women students were fighting over men opening doors for women----they were fighting over whether MANKIND eliminated WOMEN.  We spent tremendous energy in women's studies research women's past while global banking 1% of men were killing our 99% WE THE WOMEN future.



'Nevertheless, the word mankind comes from the more gender-neutral use of the word man'.

Now our US 99% of WE THE WOMEN were fighting to be the SAME AS MEN-----we were WONDER WOMAN----we were VAMPIRES OF WALL STREET and corporate RAIDERS. All these radical feminist policies being far-right wing global banking 1% were being pushed by US national women's organizations led by 5% to the 1% freemason/Greek women---declaring war on our several centuries of WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT GAINS.



Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy


For 25 years, invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been a favourite tactic of the right – and Donald Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph


by Moira Weigel
Wed 30 Nov 2016 01.00 EST Last modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018119,962

Three weeks ago, around a quarter of the American population elected a demagogue with no prior experience in public service to the presidency. In the eyes of many of his supporters, this lack of preparation was not a liability, but a strength. Donald Trump had run as a candidate whose primary qualification was that he was not “a politician”. Depicting yourself as a “maverick” or an “outsider” crusading against a corrupt Washington establishment is the oldest trick in American politics – but Trump took things further. He broke countless unspoken rules regarding what public figures can or cannot do and say.




Every demagogue needs an enemy.
Trump’s was the ruling elite, and his charge was that they were not only failing to solve the greatest problems facing Americans, they were trying to stop anyone from even talking about those problems. “The special interests, the arrogant media, and the political insiders, don’t want me to talk about the crime that is happening in our country,” Trump said in one late September speech. “They want me to just go along with the same failed policies that have caused so much needless suffering.”



Trump claimed that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were willing to let ordinary Americans suffer because their first priority was political correctness. “They have put political correctness above common sense, above your safety, and above all else,” Trump declared after a Muslim gunman killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando. “I refuse to be politically correct.” What liberals might have seen as language changing to reflect an increasingly diverse society – in which citizens attempt to avoid giving needless offence to one another – Trump saw a conspiracy.

Throughout an erratic campaign, Trump consistently blasted political correctness, blaming it for an extraordinary range of ills and using the phrase to deflect any and every criticism. During the first debate of the Republican primaries, Fox News host Megyn Kelly asked Trump how he would answer the charge that he was “part of the war on women”.



“You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs,’ and ‘disgusting animals’,” Kelly pointed out. “You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees …”
“I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct,” Trump answered, to audience applause. “I’ve been challenged by so many people, I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time either.”




Trump used the same defence when critics raised questions about his statements on immigration. In June 2015, after Trump referred to Mexicans as “rapists”, NBC, the network that aired his reality show The Apprentice, announced that it was ending its relationship with him. Trump’s team retorted that, “NBC is weak, and like everybody else is trying to be politically correct.”





In August 2016, after saying that the US district judge Gonzalo Curiel of San Diego was unfit to preside over the lawsuit against Trump Universities because he was Mexican American and therefore likely to be biased against him, Trump told CBS News that this was “common sense”. He continued: “We have to stop being so politically correct in this country.” During the second presidential debate, Trump answered a question about his proposed “ban on Muslims” by stating: “We could be very politically correct, but whether we like it or not, there is a problem.”



Every time Trump said something “outrageous” commentators suggested he had finally crossed a line and that his campaign was now doomed. But time and again, Trump supporters made it clear that they liked him because he wasn’t afraid to say what he thought. Fans praised the way Trump talked much more often than they mentioned his policy proposals. He tells it like it is, they said. He speaks his mind. He is not politically correct.



Trump and his followers never defined “political correctness”, or specified who was enforcing it. They did not have to. The phrase conjured powerful forces determined to suppress inconvenient truths by policing language.


There is an obvious contradiction involved in complaining at length, to an audience of hundreds of millions of people, that you are being silenced. But this idea – that there is a set of powerful, unnamed actors, who are trying to control everything you do, right down to the words you use – is trending globally right now. Britain’s rightwing tabloids issue frequent denunciations of “political correctness gone mad” and rail against the smug hypocrisy of the “metropolitan elite”. In Germany, conservative journalists and politicians are making similar complaints: after the assaults on women in Cologne last New Year’s Eve, for instance, the chief of police Rainer Wendt said that leftists pressuring officers to be politisch korrekt had prevented them from doing their jobs. In France, Marine Le Pen of the Front National has condemned more traditional conservatives as “paralysed by their fear of confronting political correctness”.



Trump’s incessant repetition of the phrase has led many writers since the election to argue that the secret to his victory was a backlash against excessive “political correctness”. Some have argued that Hillary Clinton failed because she was too invested in that close relative of political correctness, “identity politics”. But upon closer examination, “political correctness” becomes an impossibly slippery concept. The term is what Ancient Greek rhetoricians would have called an “exonym”: a term for another group, which signals that the speaker does not belong to it. Nobody ever describes themselves as “politically correct”. The phrase is only ever an accusation.




If you say that something is technically correct, you are suggesting that it is wrong – the adverb before “correct” implies a “but”. However, to say that a statement is politically correct hints at something more insidious. Namely, that the speaker is acting in bad faith. He or she has ulterior motives, and is hiding the truth in order to advance an agenda or to signal moral superiority. To say that someone is being “politically correct” discredits them twice. First, they are wrong. Second, and more damningly, they know it.
If you go looking for the origins of the phrase, it becomes clear that there is no neat history of political correctness. There have only been campaigns against something called “political correctness”. For 25 years, invoking this vague and ever-shifting enemy has been a favourite tactic of the right. Opposition to political correctness has proved itself a highly effective form of crypto-politics. It transforms the political landscape by acting as if it is not political at all. Trump is the deftest practitioner of this strategy yet.

Most Americans had never heard the phrase “politically correct” before 1990, when a wave of stories began to appear in newspapers and magazines. One of the first and most influential was published in October 1990 by the New York Times reporter Richard Bernstein, who warned – under the headline “The Rising Hegemony of the Politically Correct” – that the country’s universities were threatened by “a growing intolerance, a closing of debate, a pressure to conform”.



Bernstein had recently returned from Berkeley, where he had been reporting on student activism. He wrote that there was an “unofficial ideology of the university”, according to which “a cluster of opinions about race, ecology, feminism, culture and foreign policy defines a kind of ‘correct’ attitude toward the problems of the world”. For instance, “Biodegradable garbage bags get the PC seal of approval. Exxon does not.”



Bernstein’s alarming dispatch in America’s paper of record set off a chain reaction, as one mainstream publication after another rushed to denounce this new trend. The following month, the Wall Street Journal columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz decried the “brave new world of ideological zealotry” at American universities. In December, the cover of Newsweek – with a circulation of more than 3 million – featured the headline “THOUGHT POLICE” and yet another ominous warning: “There’s a ‘politically correct’ way to talk about race, sex and ideas. Is this the New Enlightenment – or the New McCarthyism?” A similar story graced the cover of New York magazine in January 1991 – inside, the magazine proclaimed that “The New Fascists” were taking over universities. In April, Time magazine reported on “a new intolerance” that was on the rise across campuses nationwide.




If you search ProQuest, a digital database of US magazines and newspapers, you find that the phrase “politically correct” rarely appeared before 1990. That year, it turned up more than 700 times. In 1991, there are more than 2,500 instances. In 1992, it appeared more than 2,800 times. Like Indiana Jones movies, these pieces called up enemies from a melange of old wars: they compared the “thought police” spreading terror on university campuses to fascists, Stalinists, McCarthyites, “Hitler Youth”, Christian fundamentalists, Maoists and Marxists.




Many of these articles recycled the same stories of campus controversies from a handful of elite universities, often exaggerated or stripped of context. The New York magazine cover story opened with an account of a Harvard history professor, Stephan Thernstrom, being attacked by overzealous students who felt he had been racially insensitive: “Whenever he walked through the campus that spring, down Harvard’s brick paths, under the arched gates, past the fluttering elms, he found it hard not to imagine the pointing fingers, the whispers. Racist. There goes the racist. It was hellish, this persecution.”




In an interview that appeared soon afterwards in The Nation, Thernstrom said the harassment described in the New York article had never happened. There had been one editorial in the Harvard Crimson student newspaper criticising his decision to read extensively from the diaries of plantation owners in his lectures. But the description of his harried state was pure “artistic licence”. No matter: the image of college students conducting witch hunts stuck.
When Richard Bernstein published a book based on his New York Times reporting on political correctness, he called it Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future – a title alluding to the Jacobins of the French Revolution. In the book he compared American college campuses to France during the Reign of Terror, during which tens of thousands of people were executed within months.

None of the stories that introduced the menace of political correctness could pinpoint where or when it had begun. Nor were they very precise when they explained the origins of the phrase itself. Journalists frequently mentioned the Soviets – Bernstein observed that the phrase “smacks of Stalinist orthodoxy”– but there is no exact equivalent in Russian. (The closest would be “ideinost”, which translates as “ideological correctness”. But that word has nothing to do with disadvantaged people or minorities.) The intellectual historian LD Burnett has found scattered examples of doctrines or people being described as “politically correct” in American communist publications from the 1930s – usually, she says, in a tone of mockery.



The phrase came into more widespread use in American leftist circles in the 1960s and 1970s – most likely as an ironic borrowing from Mao, who delivered a famous speech in 1957 that was translated into English with the title “On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People”.

Until the late 1980s, 'political correctness' was used exclusively within the left, and almost always ironically

Ruth Perry, a literature professor at MIT who was active in the feminist and civil rights movements, says that many radicals were reading the Little Red Book in the late 1960s and 1970s, and surmises that her friends may have picked up the adjective “correct” there. But they didn’t use it in the way Mao did. “Politically correct” became a kind of in-joke among American leftists – something you called a fellow leftist when you thought he or she was being self-righteous. “The term was always used ironically,” Perry says, “always calling attention to possible dogmatism.”



In 1970, the African-American author and activist Toni Cade Bambara, used the phrase in an essay about strains on gender relations within her community. No matter how “politically correct” her male friends thought they were being, she wrote many of them were failing to recognise the plight of black women.



Until the late 1980s, “political correctness” was used exclusively within the left, and almost always ironically as a critique of excessive orthodoxy. In fact, some of the first people to organise against “political correctness” were a group of feminists who called themselves the Lesbian Sex Mafia. In 1982, they held a “Speakout on Politically Incorrect Sex” at a theatre in New York’s East Village – a rally against fellow feminists who had condemned pornography and BDSM. Over 400 women attended, many of them wearing leather and collars, brandishing nipple clamps and dildos. The writer and activist Mirtha Quintanales summed up the mood when she told the audience, “We need to have dialogues about S&M issues, not about what is ‘politically correct, politically incorrect’.”
By the end of the 1980s, Jeff Chang, the journalist and hip-hop critic, who has written extensively on race and social justice, recalls that the activists he knew then in the Bay Area used the phrase “in a jokey way – a way for one sectarian to dismiss another sectarian’s line”.



But soon enough, the term was rebranded by the right, who turned its meaning inside out. All of a sudden, instead of being a phrase that leftists used to check dogmatic tendencies within their movement, “political correctness” became a talking point for neoconservatives. They said that PC constituted a leftwing political programme that was seizing control of American universities and cultural institutions – and they were determined to stop it.


 
The right had been waging a campaign against liberal academics for more than a decade. Starting in the mid-1970s, a handful of conservative donors had funded the creation of dozens of new thinktanks and “training institutes” offering programmes in everything from “leadership” to broadcast journalism to direct-mail fundraising. They had endowed fellowships for conservative graduate students, postdoctoral positions and professorships at prestigious universities. Their stated goal was to challenge what they saw as the dominance of liberalism and attack left-leaning tendencies within the academy.



Starting in the late 1980s, this well-funded conservative movement entered the mainstream with a series of improbable bestsellers that took aim at American higher education. The first, by the University of Chicago philosophy professor Allan Bloom, came out in 1987. For hundreds of pages, The Closing of the American Mind argued that colleges were embracing a shallow “cultural relativism” and abandoning long-established disciplines and standards in an attempt to appear liberal and to pander to their students. It sold more than 500,000 copies and inspired numerous imitations.
In April 1990, Roger Kimball, an editor at the conservative journal, The New Criterion, published Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted our Higher Education. Like Bloom, Kimball argued that an “assault on the canon” was taking place and that a “politics of victimhood” had paralysed universities. As evidence, he cited the existence of departments such as African American studies and women’s studies. He scornfully quoted the titles of papers he had heard at academic conferences, such as “Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl” or “The Lesbian Phallus: Does Heterosexuality Exist?”



In June 1991, the young Dinesh D’Souza followed Bloom and Kimball with Illiberal Education: the Politics of Race and Sex on Campus. Whereas Bloom had bemoaned the rise of relativism and Kimball had attacked what he called “liberal fascism”, and what he considered frivolous lines of scholarly inquiry, D’Souza argued that admissions policies that took race into consideration were producing a “new segregation on campus” and “an attack on academic standards”. The Atlantic printed a 12,000 word excerpt as its June cover story. To coincide with the release, Forbes ran another article by D’Souza with the title: “Visigoths in Tweed.”


These books did not emphasise the phrase “political correctness”, and only D’Souza used the phrase directly. But all three came to be regularly cited in the flood of anti-PC articles that appeared in venues such as the New York Times and Newsweek. When they did, the authors were cited as neutral authorities. Countless articles uncritically repeated their arguments.


In some respects, these books and articles were responding to genuine changes taking place within academia. It is true that scholars had become increasingly sceptical about whether it was possible to talk about timeless, universal truths that lay beyond language and representation. European theorists who became influential in US humanities departments during the 1970s and 1980s argued that individual experience was shaped by systems of which the individual might not be aware – and particularly by language. Michel Foucault, for instance, argued that all knowledge expressed historically specific forms of power. Jacques Derrida, a frequent target of conservative critics, practised what he called “deconstruction”, rereading the classics of philosophy in order to show that even the most seemingly innocent and straightforward categories were riven with internal contradictions. The value of ideals such as “humanity” or “liberty” could not be taken for granted.



It was also true that many universities were creating new “studies departments”, which interrogated the experiences, and emphasised the cultural contributions of groups that had previously been excluded from the academy and from the canon: queer people, people of colour and women. This was not so strange. These departments reflected new social realities. The demographics of college students were changing, because the demographics of the United States were changing. By 1990, only two-thirds of Americans under 18 were white. In California, the freshman classes at many public universities were “majority minority”, or more than 50% non-white. Changes to undergraduate curriculums reflected changes in the student population.



The responses that the conservative bestsellers offered to the changes they described were disproportionate and often misleading. For instance, Bloom complained at length about the “militancy” of African American students at Cornell University, where he had taught in the 1960s. He never mentioned what students demanding the creation of African American studies were responding to: the biggest protest at Cornell took place in 1969 after a cross burning on campus, an open KKK threat. (An arsonist burned down the Africana Studies Center, founded in response to these protests, in 1970.)



More than any particular obfuscation or omission, the most misleading aspect of these books was the way they claimed that only their adversaries were “political”. Bloom, Kimball, and D’Souza claimed that they wanted to “preserve the humanistic tradition”, as if their academic foes were vandalising a canon that had been enshrined since time immemorial. But canons and curriculums have always been in flux; even in white Anglo-America there has never been any one stable tradition. Moby Dick was dismissed as Herman Melville’s worst book until the mid-1920s. Many universities had only begun offering literature courses in “living” languages a decade or so before that.



In truth, these crusaders against political correctness were every bit as political as their opponents. As Jane Mayer documents in her book, Dark Money: the Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Bloom and D’Souza were funded by networks of conservative donors – particularly the Koch, Olin and Scaife families – who had spent the 1980s building programmes that they hoped would create a new “counter-intelligentsia”. (The New Criterion, where Kimball worked, was also funded by the Olin and Scaife Foundations.) In his 1978 book A Time for Truth, William Simon, the president of the Olin Foundation, had called on conservatives to fund intellectuals who shared their views: “They must be given grants, grants, and more grants in exchange for books, books, and more books.”




These skirmishes over syllabuses were part of a broader political programme – and they became instrumental to forging a new alliance for conservative politics in America, between white working-class voters and small business owners, and politicians with corporate agendas that held very little benefit for those people.



By making fun of professors who spoke in language that most people considered incomprehensible (“The Lesbian Phallus”), wealthy Ivy League graduates could pose as anti-elite. By mocking courses on writers such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, they made a racial appeal to white people who felt as if they were losing their country. As the 1990s wore on, because multiculturalism was associated with globalisation – the force that was taking away so many jobs traditionally held by white working-class people – attacking it allowed conservatives to displace responsibility for the hardship that many of their constituents were facing. It was not the slashing of social services, lowered taxes, union busting or outsourcing that was the cause of their problems. It was those foreign “others”.



PC was a useful invention for the Republican right because it helped the movement to drive a wedge between working-class people and the Democrats who claimed to speak for them. “Political correctness” became a term used to drum into the public imagination the idea that there was a deep divide between the “ordinary people” and the “liberal elite”, who sought to control the speech and thoughts of regular folk. Opposition to political correctness also became a way to rebrand racism in ways that were politically acceptable in the post-civil-rights era.



Soon, Republican politicians were echoing on the national stage the message that had been product-tested in the academy. In May 1991, President George HW Bush gave a commencement speech at the University of Michigan. In it, he identified political correctness as a major danger to America. “Ironically, on the 200th anniversary of our Bill of Rights, we find free speech under assault throughout the United States,” Bush said. “The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land,” but, he warned, “In their own Orwellian way, crusades that demand correct behaviour crush diversity in the name of diversity.”


After 2001, debates about political correctness faded from public view, replaced by arguments about Islam and terrorism. But in the final years of the Obama presidency, political correctness made a comeback. Or rather, anti-political-correctness did.



As Black Lives Matter and movements against sexual violence gained strength, a spate of thinkpieces attacked the participants in these movements, criticising and trivialising them by saying that they were obsessed with policing speech. Once again, the conversation initially focused on universities, but the buzzwords were new. Rather than “difference” and “multiculturalism”, Americans in 2012 and 2013 started hearing about “trigger warnings”, “safe spaces”, “microaggressions”, “privilege” and “cultural appropriation”.



This time, students received more scorn than professors. If the first round of anti-political-correctness evoked the spectres of totalitarian regimes, the more recent revival has appealed to the commonplace that millennials are spoiled narcissists, who want to prevent anyone expressing opinions that they happen to find offensive.



In January 2015, the writer Jonathan Chait published one of the first new, high-profile anti-PC thinkpieces in New York magazine. “Not a Very PC Thing to Say” followed the blueprint provided by the anti-PC thinkpieces that the New York Times, Newsweek, and indeed New York magazine had published in the early 1990s. Like the New York article from 1991, it began with an anecdote set on campus that supposedly demonstrated that political correctness had run amok, and then extrapolated from this incident to a broad generalisation. In 1991, John Taylor wrote: “The new fundamentalism has concocted a rationale for dismissing all dissent.” In 2015, Jonathan Chait claimed that there were once again “angry mobs out to crush opposing ideas”.



Chait warned that the dangers of PC had become greater than ever before. Political correctness was no longer confined to universities – now, he argued, it had taken over social media and thus “attained an influence over mainstream journalism and commentary beyond that of the old”. (As evidence of the “hegemonic” influence enjoyed by unnamed actors on the left, Chait cited two female journalists saying that they had been criticised by leftists on Twitter.)




Chait’s article launched a spate of replies about campus and social media “cry bullies”. On the cover of their September 2015 issue, the Atlantic published an article by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff. The title, “The Coddling Of the American Mind”, nodded to the godfather of anti-PC, Allan Bloom. (Lukianoff is the head of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, another organisation funded by the Olin and Scaife families.) “In the name of emotional wellbeing, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like,” the article announced. It was shared over 500,000 times.

The climate of digital journalism and social media sharing enabled the anti-political-correctness stories to spread

These pieces committed many of the same fallacies that their predecessors from the 1990s had. They cherry-picked anecdotes and caricatured the subjects of their criticism. They complained that other people were creating and enforcing speech codes, while at the same time attempting to enforce their own speech codes. Their writers designated themselves the arbiters of what conversations or political demands deserved to be taken seriously, and which did not. They contradicted themselves in the same way: their authors continually complained, in highly visible publications, that they were being silenced.




The climate of digital journalism and social media sharing enabled the anti-political-correctness (and anti-anti-political correctness) stories to spread even further and faster than they had in the 1990s. Anti-PC and anti-anti-PC stories come cheap: because they concern identity, they are something that any writer can have a take on, based on his or her experiences, whether or not he or she has the time or resources to report. They are also perfect clickbait. They inspire outrage, or outrage at the outrage of others.



Meanwhile, a strange convergence was taking place. While Chait and his fellow liberals decried political correctness, Donald Trump and his followers were doing the same thing. Chait said that leftists were “perverting liberalism” and appointed himself the defender of a liberal centre; Trump said that liberal media had the system “rigged”.



The anti-PC liberals were so focused on leftists on Twitter that for months they gravely underestimated the seriousness of the real threat to liberal discourse. It was not coming from women, people of colour, or queer people organising for their civil rights, on campus or elsewhere. It was coming from @realdonaldtrump, neo-Nazis, and far-right websites such as Breitbart.

The original critics of PC were academics or shadow-academics, Ivy League graduates who went around in bow ties quoting Plato and Matthew Arnold. It is hard to imagine Trump quoting Plato or Matthew Arnold, much less carping about the titles of conference papers by literature academics. During his campaign, the network of donors who funded decades of anti-PC activity – the Kochs, the Olins, the Scaifes – shunned Trump, citing concerns about the populist promises he was making. Trump came from a different milieu: not Yale or the University of Chicago, but reality television. And he was picking different fights, targeting the media and political establishment, rather than academia.



As a candidate, Trump inaugurated a new phase of anti-political-correctness. What was remarkable was just how many different ways Trump deployed this tactic to his advantage, both exploiting the tried-and-tested methods of the early 1990s and adding his own innovations.



First, by talking incessantly about political correctness, Trump established the myth that he had dishonest and powerful enemies who wanted to prevent him from taking on the difficult challenges facing the nation. By claiming that he was being silenced, he created a drama in which he could play the hero. The notion that Trump was both persecuted and heroic was crucial to his emotional appeal. It allowed people who were struggling economically or angry about the way society was changing to see themselves in him, battling against a rigged system that made them feel powerless and devalued. At the same time, Trump’s swagger promised that they were strong and entitled to glory. They were great and would be great again.


Second, Trump did not simply criticise the idea of political correctness – he actually said and did the kind of outrageous things that PC culture supposedly prohibited. The first wave of conservative critics of political correctness claimed they were defending the status quo, but Trump’s mission was to destroy it. In 1991, when George HW Bush warned that political correctness was a threat to free speech, he did not choose to exercise his free speech rights by publicly mocking a man with a disability or characterising Mexican immigrants as rapists. Trump did. Having elevated the powers of PC to mythic status, the draft-dodging billionaire, son of a slumlord, taunted the parents of a fallen soldier and claimed that his cruelty and malice was, in fact, courage.



This willingness to be more outrageous than any previous candidate ensured non-stop media coverage, which in turn helped Trump attract supporters who agreed with what he was saying. We should not underestimate how many Trump supporters held views that were sexist, racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic, and were thrilled to feel that he had given them permission to say so. It’s an old trick: the powerful encourage the less powerful to vent their rage against those who might have been their allies, and to delude themselves into thinking that they have been liberated. It costs the powerful nothing; it pays frightful dividends.


Trump drew upon a classic element of anti-political-correctness by implying that while his opponents were operating according to a political agenda, he simply wanted to do what was sensible. He made numerous controversial policy proposals: deporting millions of undocumented immigrants, banning Muslims from entering the US, introducing stop-and-frisk policies that have been ruled unconstitutional. But by responding to critics with the accusation that they were simply being politically correct, Trump attempted to place these proposals beyond the realm of politics altogether. Something political is something that reasonable people might disagree about. By using the adjective as a put-down, Trump pretended that he was acting on truths so obvious that they lay beyond dispute. “That’s just common sense.”


The most alarming part of this approach is what it implies about Trump’s attitude to politics more broadly. His contempt for political correctness looks a lot like contempt for politics itself. He does not talk about diplomacy; he talks about “deals”. Debate and disagreement are central to politics, yet Trump has made clear that he has no time for these distractions. To play the anti-political-correctness card in response to a legitimate question about policy is to shut down discussion in much the same way that opponents of political correctness have long accused liberals and leftists of doing. It is a way of sidestepping debate by declaring that the topic is so trivial or so contrary to common sense that it is pointless to discuss it. The impulse is authoritarian. And by presenting himself as the champion of common sense, Trump gives himself permission to bypass politics altogether.


Now that he is president-elect, it is unclear whether Trump meant many of the things he said during his campaign. But, so far, he is fulfilling his pledge to fight political correctness. Last week, he told the New York Times that he was trying to build an administration filled with the “best people”, though “Not necessarily people that will be the most politically correct people, because that hasn’t been working.”



Trump has also continued to cry PC in response to criticism. When an interviewer from Politico asked a Trump transition team member why Trump was appointing so many lobbyists and political insiders, despite having pledged to “drain the swamp” of them, the source said that “one of the most refreshing parts of … the whole Trump style is that he does not care about political correctness.” Apparently it would have been politically correct to hold him to his campaign promises.



As Trump prepares to enter the White House, many pundits have concluded that “political correctness” fuelled the populist backlash sweeping Europe and the US. The leaders of that backlash may say so. But the truth is the opposite: those leaders understood the power that anti-political-correctness has to rally a class of voters, largely white, who are disaffected with the status quo and resentful of shifting cultural and social norms. They were not reacting to the tyranny of political correctness, nor were they returning America to a previous phase of its history. They were not taking anything back. They were wielding anti-political-correctness as a weapon, using it to forge a new political landscape and a frightening future.


The opponents of political correctness always said they were crusaders against authoritarianism. In fact, anti-PC has paved the way for the populist authoritarianism now spreading everywhere. Trump is anti-political correctness gone mad.


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WHAT THE HECK IS-----GENDER NEUTRAL? 

National media,  HOLLYWOOD, and all those global banking freemason STARS literary, stage, screen, music all creating a SOCIETAL FAD blending genders killing the very meaning of what is FEMININE and what is MASCULINE and this was supposed to be a WIN for 99% of WE THE WOMEN.

CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA where MOVING FORWARD gender blending as technology tied to robotics----tied to HMO HUMANS-----tied to eliminating all Western thousands of years of what it means to be FEMININE and MASCULINE. 

Is all this public policy geared to our 99% of GBLT?  We discussed in detail the goals of gender blending HMO HUMANS vs what our lesbian, bi, and trans women have as policy goals.  Our GBLT need and want the same left social progressive policy goals as all last century---whether a lesbian couple want to marry----adopt a child ----have a family----be able to work to support themselves----these are all original left social progressive 99% of WE THE WOMEN goals and we always fought for 99% of women, black, white, and brown---GBLT----

So, now global banking 1% are distorting goals of GBLT women through these far-right wing RADICAL FEMINIST definitions of GENDER NEUTRALITY.

While national media and national women's NGOs are fighting for the need to change the entire language from MANKIND-----the need for GOD to be as much a GODDESS, global banking 5% of women were killing all last century's gains for 99% of WE THE WOMEN.





'Nevertheless, the word mankind comes from the more gender-neutral use of the word man'.



Think twice before using "mankind" to mean "all humanity," say scholars

Annalee Newitz
11/20/12 6:58pm
Filed to: linguistics


What's wrong with "mankind"? It's at the heart of one of the greatest semantic debates of our time. Some say the word is gender-neutral and means "all humanity." To others, "mankind" sounds gender specific and means "a bunch of men without women." They prefer "humanity" or "humankind." So who is correct? To find out, I spoke with several scholars who study the history of the English language and linguistics — and even consulted an etymologist with the Oxford English Dictionary.
Nothing less than the future of mankind is at stake.


Photograph of astronaut Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper via NASA

Where Does "Mankind" Come From?


In modern English, we use the word "man" to mean "a male person." Earlier in the development of our language, "man" was used to mean "humans," but that time has passed. As the Oxford English Dictionary's principle etymologist Philip Durkin told io9:



The word man is now rare in the meaning "human being in general" . . . Already in the 1800s it was largely confined to literary or proverbial use in this meaning, other words such as person or people being more commonly used instead.


Nevertheless, the word mankind comes from the more gender-neutral use of the word man.



Or rather, the word man comes from a very different word, "mann," used in a language spoken over 1,000 years ago on an island where England and Scotland are today. That language is called Old English or Anglo-Saxon, and it was spoken and written down by the dominant English island tribes of the late first millennium AD. Unlike modern English, Anglo-Saxon had two words that could mean male: mann, which could also mean "humans," and "wæpenmann," which meant "person with a weapon and/or penis," and only referred to males.

University of Pennsylvania linguist Anthony Kroch explains that the original Anglo-Saxon "mann" is called an autohyponym, or "a word which can mean both a member of a category and a member of one of its subcategories." He added:



This happens with animal names quite a lot: dog/bitch, fox/vixen, goose/gander, duck/drake. In these pairs, the first member both means the animal in general and one sex of the animal. Another example might be: house/apartment, where "house" can either mean a free standing human dwelling or any dwelling.



In modern English, man is used very infrequently as an autohyponym. Possibly that's because it's become too confusing to use "man" — it's hard to know what it means in any given context when we have no word like wæpenmann that refers exclusively to males. But we do have the words "person" and "human" that clearly refer to both sexes, so those have eclipsed "man" when speaking about everyone. Linguistics researcher Dave Wilton, author of Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends explains:


In modern English we only have the unmarked "man" and the marked "woman" to refer to the two sexes, but in Old English there was also the marked "wæpenmann" that referred only to males (literally "weapon-man," either referring to arms or to the penis) and "wif" and "wifmann" meaning "woman" (the origin of the modern "wife" and "woman"). So in Old English "mann" is a bit more gender neutral than "man" is in modern English, but not entirely so.


Basically, in modern English, we have no equivalent to the word "mann." Our contemporary word man may look more like "mann," but over time its use has evolved to be closer to "wæpenmann," a male person.



The word "mankind" can be traced back to a specific use of this lost word "mann" from the Anglo-Saxon word "mann-cynn," meaning both a group of men and all humanity. The OED's Durkin said, "The word mankind was formed from man and kind [as in] 'type, sort.' It has always much more typically shown the meaning 'humanity in general' rather than 'adult male human beings in general'." But, he cautioned, the word "man" is rarely used these days to mean "all humanity." So "mankind" retained its gender-neutral meaning in English for much longer than "man" did.




What is Gender Neutral?


But when you're talking about something as messy as the evolution of language, nothing is ever that simple. You can't just throw around a term like "gender neutral" without interrogating what exactly that means. "A word like 'person' is presumably gender neutral because it carries no information about the sex of its referent," Kroch said. "Is an autohyponym like 'mann' not gender neutral because it can mean either 'person' or 'male person'?"

Several scholars seemed to feel that the word "mann-cynn" may not have been as neutral as you'd think. UC Santa Barbara professor and Anglo-Saxon expert Carol Pasternack commented:



I don't think it is possible to tell whether the word [mankind] derives from "man" as a neuter pronoun or from "man" as a male human (both were possible).



She raises a good point that many contemporary English speakers forget. Just because we view the word "mankind" as neutral doesn't mean that it was originally used that way.
NYU Anglo Saxon researcher Mo Pareles amplifies Pasternack's point:



While it's appropriate to translate the Old English "mann-cynn" as either mankind or humanity, it's disingenuous to imagine that this usage comes without sexist trappings. Although women had important roles in Anglo-Saxon society—don't imagine them as Victorian house-angels or 1950s housewives—Anglo-Saxons had one concept for "humanity" and "mankind" in large part because they had a male-dominated concept of humanity.
To a person who spoke Anglo-Saxon, the word "mann-cynn" may have been synonymous with "humanity" because they didn't think women were important. From the perspective of people 1,000 years ago, humanity really was "a group of men."

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Anglo-Saxon culture was so dramatically different from our own that it may not be appropriate to use terms like "gender neutral" to describe concepts like "Mann" and "Mann-cynn." The very idea of gender neutral terms is a relatively modern invention. Projecting it back into the 900s might erase the true historical meanings of these terms, which were after all used by people who would never have dreamt that one day women would define humankind as much as men did.


Should You Use "Mankind" or "Humanity"?


Given the ambiguous history of our language, what is a modern speaker and writer to do? Should we keep using "mankind" because its historical use sort of fits into an idea of "gender neutrality" we invented relatively recently? Pasternack has a simple answer:



Regarding using a term today as gender-neutral because it seems likely to be gender-neutral in the 10th or even the fifteenth century, meanings are what they are today, not what they were then. Many words change meaning and tone over time.


Given that today's use of the word "man" is almost never gender neutral, that would seem to suggest that we should be using "humanity" or "humankind" if we want to be precise.
Of course word meanings only come from collective use. If the vast majority of people believe a word means something, well, that's what it means. And many of the scholars felt that there is strong evidence that the word "mankind" has been eclipsed by the word "humanity." Kroch showed me a quick chart he'd made, tracking the popularity of the words "mankind" and "humanity" in Google's massive text corpus.

Said Kroch:
It shows that the use of "mankind," relative to the use of "humanity," has been declining since the beginning of the 19th century but that it's only since 1980 that "humanity" has been more frequent than "mankind." This trend might mean that "mankind" is on its way out as an autohyponym but it's dangerous to project linguistic trends like this into the future.



The OED's Durkin agreed with Kroch's assessment, as well as his caution about being too quick to declare mankind dead:


Most corpora suggest that humanity is more common than mankind in recent English usage, and that mankind is coming to be used less frequently than it previously was, but that mankind remains not particularly rare. The trends in the use of these two words would be well worth watching over the coming years. It may well be the case that a more decisive shift away from using mankind could be in progress, but this would need some careful corpus-based study to confirm.



You can see this shift happening even in popular culture. Consider the famous opening lines of the Star Trek TV show. In the 1960s, when the original show aired, the starship Enterprise was on a mission "to boldly go where no man has gone before." By the late 1980s, when Star Trek: The Next Generation aired, this mission was "to boldly go where no one has gone before." This change was not a nod to political correctness, as Kroch's chart makes clear. It was simply a reflection of how quickly the use of "man" and "mankind" were changing throughout the English language.



But even if most people are no longer using "mankind" to mean "all humans," shouldn't we be true to the origins of the term? Doesn't mankind mean "all humans" because that's what it meant historically? Said Wilton:




Using etymology to govern usage is known as the "etymological fallacy." Usage is governed by, you guessed it, use, not the origin of the word. The origin, of course, influences how a word is used in that it provides the starting point, but meanings shift over time, and lexicographers come up with their definitions by surveying how people actually use the words, not by studying the etymology. In other words, it is unreasonable to determine today's usage based on how the language was used a thousand years ago. If it were reasonable, we'd still be using "silly" to mean "blessed, fortunate" and "awful" to mean "inspiring wonder.". . . If people today perceive it as sexist, it is sexist, regardless of how it was used in ages past.



Words are what they mean right now, and over the past forty years "humanity" has become more acceptable than "mankind" if you want to refer to all human beings, both male and female.
Or, as Pareles put it succinctly, "In my opinion, 'humanity' and 'humankind' are the appropriate words in contemporary English."


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'women-fighting-womens-rights.
Feminism in The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka'


Remember, CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA were pre-WEIMAR global corporate FASCISM in today's US-----indeed, all that political correctness----all that sudden need to change LANGUAGE surrounding what defines WOMAN-----all having the goal of KILLING 99% OF WOMEN-----was indeed far-right wing LIBERTARIAN CORPORATE FASCISM. 

At the same time Clinton and his band of 5% global banking NEO-LIBERALS were corrupting the very meaning of what being LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE meant.  So, now it was left social progressive goals of these several centuries that were LIBERAL FASCISM-----and not FLIPPING our DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM from SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE -----to global banking ECONOMIC PROGRESSIVE goals of making the global 1% rich more rich and powerful.


'Whereas Bloom had bemoaned the rise of relativism and Kimball had attacked what he called “liberal fascism”, and what he considered frivolous lines of scholarly inquiry, D’Souza argued that admissions policies that took race into consideration were producing a “new segregation on campus” and “an attack on academic standards”'.

The central theme in ALICE IN WONDERLAND was never feeling quite as oneself---always changing and not caring-----as MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE made ALICE one moment small one moment tall to assure ALICE WOULD BE TEN FEET TALL.

KAFKA was that global banking 1% freemason STAR writing just this transformation ---METAMORPHOSIS man to cockroach-----taking civilized society being BORING AND STAGNANT back to the beginning ---the cockroach being one of the oldest species of animals that always survive great EARTHLY upheavals.



-women-fighting-womens-rights.


CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA and all of what was REAL left social progressive labor and justice organizations, including our 99% of REAL left women's goals were FLIPPED and women started fighting women.  REAL left social progressive academics and women have been fighting these RADICAL FEMINIST designations these few decades KNOWING they were always far-right global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.


Feminism in The Metamorphosis


by Franz Kafka
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Transcript of Feminism in The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka


Presentation by:
Missy, Klara, Sam, Arianna

Period 8


Feminism in the Early 1800s
Viewpoint of Males Cont.


• It’s the It’s the man’s job to provide for the family. It’s the man’s job to provide for the family.

– “Now his father was still healthy, certainly, but he was an old man who had not expected to undertake too much…And was his old mother now supposed to go out and earn money, when she suffered from asthma, when a walk through the apartment was already an ordeal for her…And was his sister now supposed to work – who for all her seventeen years was still a child and whom I would be such a pity to deprive of the life she had led until now, which had consisted of wearing pretty clothes, sleeping late, helping in the house, enjoying a few modest amusements, and above all playing the violin?” (27).


Women Fulfill Typical Gender Roles



• There are some typical gender roles that are expected to be fulfilled by the women. This tells us that women still have expected roles in society based on their gender.


– “[His mother]…caught sight of the gigantic brown blotch on the flowered wallpaper…and as if giving up completely, she fell with outstretched arms across the couch and did not stir” (34).


– “‘On the contrary,’ said the middle roomer. ‘Wouldn’t the young lady like to come in to us and play in here where it’s much roomier and more comfortable?’” (45).


– “It now seemed only too obvious that they were disappointed in their expectation of hearing beautiful or entertaining violin playing, had had enough of the whole performance, and continued to let their peace be disturbed only out of politeness” (46).


– “ In spite of all the troubles which had turned her cheeks pale, [Grete] had blossomed into a good-looking, shapely girl…they thought that it would soon be time, too, to find her a good husband” (55).

The Viewpoint of Males in the Story



• In general, women are the weaker sex.
– “[Gregor] felt very proud that he had been able to provide such a life in so nice an apartment for his parents and his sister. But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?” (21).


- "Now Gregor could here the two frail women moving the old chest of drawers-heavy for anyone" (31).
- "because his mother did not understand everything the first time around" (26).


Feminism in
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka

Women Fulfill Typical Gender Roles Cont.


• Women are shown performing the standard gender roles, but towards the end, it’s the women who take charge and choose to move on. The fact that women are actually displayed overcoming these expected gender roles brings up the idea that despite what society may believe about women, they are actually stronger than many make them out to be.


– “‘It has to go,’ cried his sister. ‘That’s the only answer, Father. You just have to try to get rid of the idea that it’s Gregor. Believing it for so long, that is our real misfortune’” (49).


- "'Maybe he's seriously ill, and here we are, torturing him. Grete! Grete!'" (12).

• The women are filling the gender role of taking care of the men, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they are subordinate to men because the men themselves are incapable of doing the jobs the females are performing.


– “So [his sister] got it into her head to make it possible for Gregor to crawl on an altogether wider scale by taking out the furniture which stood in his way…But she was not able to do this by herself; she did not dare ask her father for help…So there was nothing left for his sister to do except to get her mother one day when their father was out” (30).


- "no human being beside Grete was ever likely to set foot" (32).

Women Fulfill Typical Gender Roles Cont.



Men and Women are Equal


• The role of who takes care of the family has changed – instead of just the man (Gregor), it’s now a job equally shared by the males and the females (father, mother, sister).


– “[The family] discussed their prospects for the time to come, and it seemed on closer examination that these weren’t bad at all, for all three positions…were exceedingly advantageous and especially promising for the future” (55).



–"They got up, went to the window, and stayed there, holding each other tight" (54).


– "and leaning on the two women, he would get up laboriously, as if he were the greatest weight on himself, and let the women lead him to the door, where, shrugging them of, he would proceed independently ..." (39).


• Women don’t necessarily have to rely on men just because they are women.


– “They would now take a smaller and cheaper apartment, but one better situated and in every way simpler to manage than the old one, which Gregor had picked for them” (55).


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We will bring GO AS ALICE in WONDERLAND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS into discussion tomorrow by simply stating the obvious-----when we discussed PANDORA as the first women mother of earth------when we discussed the origin of MOTHER EARTH as DEMETER/PERSEPHONE -----when we discuss MOTHERLAND as empire------we are looking at thousands of years of language identifying creators as MOTHERS ----the most ruthless of mafia kingpins respect that MOTHER.


When we see an image of ALICE falling down a rabbit hole there are lots of symbolism attributed to that one image. ALICE ----DOROTHY in Wizard of OZ-----are less symbols of women----exclusively symbols of empire----the entirety of a nation/culture. It sets the platform for government as STATE to be the source of nurturing, discipline, molding of character. So, ALICE IN WONDERLAND written in mid-1800s by a very intelligent staff of our favorite TRINITY COLLEGE/TRINITY CHURCH OXFORD-----that original OLD WORLD IVY LEAGUE pulling the strings of all that happens in US these few decades. The symbolism in ALICE is steeped in JAMES BOND 007 geo-political intrigue, goals of MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1%.


Here we have that GENDER IDENTITY/BLENDING non-issue taking even that thousands of years' history of language to task.


Since Dodgson/Lewis Carroll wrote ALICE academics educating on public policy have decoded the elements of this simple and beautiful tale. We have known throughout last century to what goals ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE had in flipping the EARTH'S economic axis---killing thousands of years of Western society bringing us back to 3000BC --1000BC and so have those global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS and their global 2% of players. CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA were top guns in MOVING FORWARD warp speed.


ALICE FALLING DOWN A HOLE TO MIDDLE EARTH---MIDDLE KINGDOM with all kinds of animals and symbols telling us where RABBIT is taking ALICE.


‘Father’ carries connotations of strength and power, while the word ‘mother’ is habitually linked to love, nurturing, and fertility'


Identity crisis: motherland or fatherland?


In 2015, people across the globe commemorated the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.


In Russia, the grand public holiday that marks the end of this ‘Great Patriotic War’ (Velikaya Otechestvennaya voina/Великая Отечественная война in Russian) is one of the highlights of the calendar year. Victory Day (Den’ Pobedy/День Победы) celebrations are almost unrivalled in their pomp and circumstance: on 9 May this year about 16,000 troops are expected to parade on Red Square to commemorate the Soviet victory and acknowledge their forebears, the defenders of Mother Russia.

How did we come to associate the world’s largest country with maternity? And when it comes to using ‘motherland’ or ‘fatherland’, are there any rules?



Mother Russia and Uncle Sam

‘Mother Russia’ is closely connected to the word that Russian speakers use most frequently to mean ‘homeland’: rodina (родина), usually translated as ‘motherland’. Perhaps more important than the fact that rodina is a feminine noun (indicated by its final –a) is its stem rod- (род-) and its variants, which link to family, birth, and procreation, for example in the noun roditel’ (родитель, meaning ‘parent’) and the verb rozhat’ (рожать, or ‘give birth’).


Rod– is also found in narod (народ, ‘people’) and priroda (природа, meaning ‘nature’), these powerful connections arguably making the word rodina more emotive to the Russian ear than ‘motherland’ might be to an English speaker. Soviet propaganda posters of the Second World War era rallied support with the slogan za rodinu! (за Родину!, or ‘for the Motherland!’). The spirit of the nation was personified by ‘Mother Russia’ (Rossiya-Matushka/Россия-Матушка), in the same way that Uncle Sam had earlier come to represent the US. Many statues that commemorate those who fought in the Great Patriotic War take the form of Mother Russia, such as the behemoth ‘The Motherland Calls’ in Volgograd.


The Russian equivalent of ‘fatherland’, otechestvo (отечество), is rarely used beyond the realm of political rhetoric. Nor is the word otchina (отчизна), which carries a similar meaning to otechestvo but is actually a feminine noun. Russia, it seems, is very much a woman.
Land of my fathers

‘Fatherland’ can be linked to the same era, having featured heavily in newsreels about Nazi Germany. The German Vaterland was used in wartime state propaganda and nationalist rhetoric, and some commentators have observed that usage of the word has declined in the seventy years since the end of the Second World War. Nevertheless, Vaterland does appear in the lyrics of the German national anthem: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit; Für das deutsche Vaterland! (‘Unity and justice and freedom; For the German fatherland!’). A German speaker might also refer to his or her home country as Mutterland (‘motherland’) or Heimatland (‘native land’), with the former suggesting familial ties.


Germany isn’t the only ‘fatherland’: the Estonian equivalent isamaa (isa means ‘father’) appears in Estonia’s national anthem, and Vaterland is sung by the Swiss in the German lyrics of their national anthem, Schweizerpsalm. Wales is often referred to as the ‘Land of My Fathers’, as the title of its national anthem Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau (Nhad meaning ‘father’) suggests.
Mother-Fatherland?

However, when it comes to talking about the land we call home, things aren’t always so straightforward. In English, someone who loves his or her country is a patriot – a word that derives from the Greek patrios, ‘of one’s fathers’. In many Romance languages, the closest equivalent to ‘homeland’ shares this root: la patrie in French, la patria in both Spanish and Italian, and a pátria in Portuguese. Despite their masculine roots, all of these nouns are feminine, and can be translated as ‘fatherland’, ‘motherland’ or ‘homeland’ depending on the context in which they are used. Just to add to the confusion, French speakers also use the phrase la mère patrie: a feminine noun phrase that includes both ‘mother’ and a noun that has its roots in ‘father’. Literally, ‘Mother Fatherland’!


Connections to fertility


So what can we conclude? When to use ‘motherland’ or ‘fatherland’ in English is largely down to individual interpretation. ‘Father’ carries connotations of strength and power, while the word ‘mother’ is habitually linked to love, nurturing, and fertility: although Wales is the ‘land of the fathers’, its island of Anglesey was historically known as Mam Cymru (‘Mother of Wales’) thanks to its fertile soil and abundant crops.

If you aren’t sure which word to choose, it’s perhaps best to stick to the seemingly-neutral noun ‘homeland’ – although the connotations of this might open a whole new can of worms…



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This is how long women have been fighting for basic civil rights, equal protection under law, rights to work/property---and CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA have these few decades installed policies they KNOW have goals of eliminating all these gains for women.  In ancient and medieval period it was those global 2% of women seeking the same rights as those MAGNA CARTA global 2% of men won-----AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT opened these rights to more of our 99% of men 1600--1800s.  It was 1800s when our 99% of women pushed for those same rights won by white men.

Throughout the periods below the fight for women's rights were always directed at those global 2% of women----where is MOVING FORWARD taking US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE?  Back to DARK AGES 1000BC.  Women were considered the property of their husbands, fathers, male relatives and we understand that still exists in third world nations having had no AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT.  The problem for our 99% of US men is that they are going to lose all those gains as well.

We think this list is generous in whether even these rights were discussed in classical and medieval world.


Thought.com
by Jone Johnson Lewis
Updated March 15, 2018


Education

Jone's B.A. in Management is from Mundelein College's Women in Business program, and her M.Div. is from Meadville/Lombard Theological School, where she had a special interest in studying the history of women in the world's religions and in social reform.  (Mundelein College is now part of Loyola University, Chicago.)


This description of rights of women over thousands of years is quite expanded from the realities of Western women through Renaissance Europe.  We think this writer from global banking 1% freemason LOYOLA is pushing propaganda.  THOUGHT.COM has good discussion on public policy but we KNOW these come from the far-right wing OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.



Ancient, Classical and Medieval World


In the ancient, classical and medieval world, women's rights differed somewhat from culture to culture. Some of these differences were:
  • whether women were considered full citizens or were considered the equivalent of slaves or minors under the authority of husbands or fathers
  • whether women could move around freely or were confined largely to the home
  • whether women could freely choose or refuse marriage partners, or end a marriage
  • whether women had custody of children, especially after a divorce or in a dispute with the children's father
  • whether women could dress as they liked
  • whether women could own property or run businesses and control their own wages, income and wealth
  • which trades, occupations or professions were closed to women or more difficult for women than men to enter
  • whether women could be educated at all, or to the same level as men were
  • whether and how women had a voice in the public sphere, including voting or otherwise influencing the government and helping select those governing
  • whether women could represent themselves or others in legal proceedings, such as lawsuits and court actions
  • whether women could inherit the right to titles and rulership

Here is what women and rights really looked like and didn't happen until MAGNA CARTA opened the door to global 2% of men-----some gains by global 2% of women. Please don't be fooled as today when global banking 1% Clinton/Bush/Obama fill our US elections with 5% Hillary nasty ladies working for global 1% of MEN----thinking these women are fighting for our 99% of women's  rights---or 99% of men's rights.

So, wealthy women started to have property and marriage rights as wealthy WIDOWS.  It really wasn't until 1000AD medieval Europe that RICH WOMEN began to have rights to wealth and property.


The article written by a woman describing rights won by MAGNA CARTA were directed at the rich women designed to assure inheritance for the sons. So, medieval rich women were still under the thumb of male family members even when rich............the article written by THOUGHT.COM looks nothing like existed. CLEOPATRA they say---these cases were very, very rare ----


Women and Magna Carta

Published
Dec 09, 2013
Author
Carolyn Harris
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The Magna Carta is one of the key documents to bridge the divide between the status of women in medieval England and the twenty-first century Western World. Although there were no women among the nobles who pressured King John to affix his seal to the Great Charter, various clauses in the document codified the marriage rights of noble heiresses and both the property and marriage rights of wealthy widows.


After the Norman Conquest of 1066, all lands in England became property of the Crown and the barons were all formally the King’s vassals-in-chief. In his role as liege lord, the King was expected to care for his noble tenants by ensuring that a baron’s widow and daughters were suitably provided for in the event that he died before his heir was of age. Abuse of this privilege by John and his predecessor King Richard prompted the barons to codify marriage and property rights for noblewomen.



The intent of the Magna Carta clauses pertaining to women was to reinforce the status of the nobility as a distinct social group and to ensure that children from first marriages did not lose their inheritances. Nevertheless, the formal recognition of distinct privileges enjoyed by noblewomen set a precedent for future legislation guaranteeing the rights of women.


Women’s rights in England at the time of Magna Carta were very different than they are in twenty-first century Canada. In 1215, an Englishwoman could be betrothed at seven and married at twelve. In Canada in 2014, the legal minimum age for marriage varies from province to province but is usually eighteen in lieu of parental or judicial consent. This standard is matched by most countries in the twenty-first century world, which set the minimum age of marriage to between sixteen and eighteen for women. There are exceptions to this trend. Neither Yemen nor Saudi Arabia currently legislate a minimum age for marriage (though a bill outlawing child marriage may be introduced by Yemen’s Minister of Legal Affairs by the end of 2013).

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The 18th century was that period when 99% of WE THE PEOPLE men and women had the right to be exported as colonists whether someone wanted or not as slaves, indentured servants.  No 99% of men or women had rights in 1700s.

The Age of Enlightenment broadened from global 2% being rich to more lower class rising and gaining wealth-----what we would call today a 5% to the 1%.  It was that 5% of women who started fighting for women's basic civil rights to be extended from the global 2% of women.  Our 5% of men were fighting just as well----so, our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE were being shipped off to colonial entities and these fights were taken to these colonial states.  The global 2% appointed at governors of colonies ----with those global 2% of women having some property, wealth, marriage rights as WIDOWS.


Try as LOYOLA might to spin women's rights as having roots in ancient and classical world---even medieval world----what rights those rich women had were aimed at protecting the next generation prosperity for the sons.

Our US young adults and 99% of new immigrant women should educate to learn what LOSING TODAY will mean for our children and grandchildren.


So, 1700---1800s those 5% to the 1% of women started gaining civil rights expanding into education, workplace, marriage, and children.......our 99% of WE THE WOMEN were still waiting for those rights at the end of 1800s.


18th Century Calls for Women's Rights
In the century or so before that declaration, a few had written about women's rights. Abigail Adams asked her husband in a letter to "Remember the Ladies," specifically mentioning disparities in women's and men's education.
Hannah Moore, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Judith Sargent Murray focused especially on women's right to an adequate education. Just the fact of their writing implied an advocacy for women's voices having an impact on social, religious, moral and political decisions. Mary Wollstonecraft called in her 1791-92 "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" for recognition of both women and men as creatures of emotion and reason, and for such women's rights as:
  • the right to be educated (and a duty to educate her own children)
  • equal partnership between man and woman in marriage
  • control over family size
Olympe de Gouges, in 1791 in the first years of the French Revolution, wrote and published the "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Citizen." In this document, she called for such women's rights as:
  • free speech, including to reveal the father of her children
  • equality of children born out of marriage to those who were born within marriage, which implied an equal right of women to sexual relationships outside of marriage

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Our 99% of WE THE WOMEN must remember women before early 1900s could not control any avenue of their lives-----they could not escape abusive marriages----they could not assure their children were able to be fed or housed if the husband was derelict---they lost housing rights and income from husband's pensions being pushed from house and home.  Women were not allowed to work outside of home unless the woman was poor working as a domestic.

Did all this make our 99% of men stronger or more prosperous?  NO, it creates an economy and societal structure that keeps men with families from lifting themselves to higher income status.  It does help those global 2% of men wanting to control family wealth over time.

So, our 5% of global banking women wanted expanded rights for themselves and the fight for women's rights through 1800s was to allow women freedom, choice, free will to determine their own lives.

Here is where our 99% of WE THE WOMEN must understand who these 5% of women were fighting for.  As we make clear today that 5% to the 1% freemason/Greeks were not working for all women----we always have to look at who LEADS these fights to know whether these rights are being built for our 99% whether men or women, whether black, white, or brown citizens.  At this point the push for women's rights was coming from the AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT social progressive I AM MAN left.



It is normal in free societies for rights to be won in stages so having those global banking 5% of women fighting and winning rights was a good thing for our 99% of women to come next.......that is what the early 1900s brought.



Marriage Protest - 1855

In their 1855 marriage ceremony, women's rights advocates Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell specifically refused to give assent to laws which interfered in rights of married women in particular, including:
  • control over the wife's very person and her very legal existence as a person
  • custody of children
  • inheritance and ownership of real estate
  • the right to her own wages
  • equal rights to inherit a survivor's portion upon the death of one of the spouses
  • choice of a place of residence
  • ability to make contracts including wills and the ability to sue in court in her own name
  • choosing her own name
Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention - 1848


In 1848, the first known women's rights convention in the world declared "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal...." and in closing, "we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States."



Areas of rights that were addressed in the "Declaration of Sentiments" were:



  • whether women had a voice in making laws that they were subject to, including whether women could vote
  • whether married women had any legal existence
  • whether women had property rights, including the right to income she herself earned
  • whether women could freely choose to end a marriage
  • whether women had custody rights over children after a divorce or separation
  • whether women had access to many professions, including theology, medicine, and law
  • whether women had access to higher education
  • whether women had a voice in the Church, including whether women could be ministers or in other ways publicly participate
  • whether moral codes (about sexual choices) were the same for women as for men



In arguing to include the right to vote in that Declaration -- the one issue that was most uncertain to be included in the document -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton urged the right to vote as a path to gain "Equality of Rights."


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If we noticed the post from yesterday tied to LOYOLA Thought.com completely ignored all of early 1900s women's rights movement and went to 1960s equal rights CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.  This is how we know THOUGHT.COM is right wing global banking 1%-----and not REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE.




What Are Women's Rights?


Rights Included Under the Umbrella of "Women's Rights"? THOUGHT.COM



We KNOW these fights for 99% of WE THE WOMEN rights by those 5% to the 1% freemason/Greek players had goals of opening new workers for expanding industrial economy.  Just as FDR NEW DEAL had many good public policy for our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE---this women's movement was being staged with policy ready to act as a time bomb-----as the US FED killed all of NEW DEAL wealth and prosperity for our 99% of US men and women.

THESE WOMEN RIGHTS FOR 99% OF WOMEN OPENING UP EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, FAMILY AND CHILDREN WELFARE, PROPERTY AND WEALTH ASSETS FOR WOMEN PARTNERED WITH NEW DEAL WERE GOOD PUBLIC POLICY FOR OUR 99% OF WE THE WOMEN.

The catch these global 2% of women placed in these gains for our 99% of WE THE WOMEN was the heavy emphasis of labor unions KNOWING those US labor unions acting as REAL left social progressive organizations would turn into global banking 1% OLD WORLD MEDIEVAL TRADE GUILDS........we saw that hit hardest in CLINTON 1990s.

When people want to publish their own BIBLES----we see FREEMASON/GREEK----not early 99% of religious text.


'Elizabeth Cady Stanton publishes The Woman's Bible'.


On losing the moral high ground in the fight for "universal human rights"


"[Stanton] didn't just stand on the moral high ground. She also descended to some rather ugly racist rhetoric along the lines of, 'We educated, virtuous white women are more worthy of the vote.'

Whenever we see a populist movement target one population group over another----it is not left social progressive ---the RADICAL in our US women's movement always comes from the right wing.

STANTON et al during those early 1900s really did good work for our 99% of women----indeed, WHITE WOMEN.  It was the tying of women and work to TRADE UNIONS at the same time US FED was installed handing our US economy over to global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS------that placed the TIME BOMB on our 99% US WE THE WOMEN RIGHTS MOVEMENT.




1895
Elizabeth Cady Stanton publishes The Woman's Bible.


After its publication, NAWSA moves to distance itself from this venerable suffrage pioneer because many conservative suffragists considered her to be too radical and, thus, potentially damaging to the suffrage campaign. From this time, Stanton--who had resigned as NAWSA president in 1892--was no longer invited to sit on the stage at NAWSA conventions.




1896
Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Margaret Murray Washington, Fanny Jackson Coppin, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Charlotte Forten Grimké, and former slave Harriet Tubman meet in Washington, D.C. to form the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).




1903
Mary Dreier, Rheta Childe Dorr, Leonora O'Reilly, and others form the Women's Trade Union League of New York, an organization of middle- and working-class women dedicated to unionization for working women and to woman suffrage. This group later became a nucleus of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU).




1911
The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS) is organized. Led by Mrs. Arthur Dodge, its members included wealthy, influential women and some Catholic clergymen--including Cardinal Gibbons who, in 1916, sent an address to NAOWS's convention in Washington, D.C. In addition to the distillers and brewers, who worked largely behind the scenes, the "antis" also drew support from urban political machines, Southern congressmen, and corporate capitalists--like railroad magnates and meatpackers--who supported the "antis" by contributing to their "war chests."




1912
Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive (Bull Moose/Republican) Party becomes the first national political party to adopt a woman suffrage plank.




1913
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns organize the Congressional Union, later known as the National Women's Party (1916). Borrowing the tactics of the radical, militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in England, members of the Woman's Party participate in hunger strikes, picket the White House, and engage in other forms of civil disobedience to publicize the suffrage cause.




1914
The National Federation of Women's Clubs--which by this time included more than two million white women and women of color throughout the United States--formally endorses the suffrage campaign.




1916
NAWSA president Carrie Chapman Catt unveils her "winning plan" for suffrage victory at a convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Catt's plan required the coordination of activities by a vast cadre of suffrage workers in both state and local associations.




1916
Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first American woman elected to represent her state in the U.S. House of Representatives.




1918 to 1920
The Great War (World War I) intervenes to slow down the suffrage campaign as some--but not all--suffragists decide to shelve their suffrage activism in favor of "war work." In the long run, however, this decision proves to be a prudent one as it adds yet another reason to why women deserve the vote.




August 26, 1920
The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified. Its victory accomplished, NAWSA ceases to exist, but its organization becomes the nucleus of the League of Women Voters.




1923
The National Woman's Party first proposes the Equal Rights Amendment to eliminate discrimination on the basis of gender. It has never been ratified.

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Just as FDR created great left social policies really helping our 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE-----he bound all that good to global banking structures tied to global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS as a time bomb able to kill those gains----so too did these early 1900s 5% to the 1% freemason/Greek women players. Creating these national NGOs set the stage for our 99% women movement to be controlled by those global 2% of women.

REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES are not against organized labor -----we love our 99% of trades workers.  What we KNOW is this------those early 1900s trade unions were NOT AMERICAN----they were tied to global MARXIST WORKER PARTY which we discuss in detail work for global banking 1% and global corporations tied to OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

Who tied all of our 99% of women as workers to global trade unions?  This was the TIME BOMB installed by HOUSE OF JUDAH------KNIGHTS OF MALTA ----those global 2% of women to assure down the line our US 99% of women would lose their wealth and rights.
  As we shout ---these global MARXIST WORKER organizations are FAR-RIGHT WING ----they are NOT REAL left social progressive labor rights whether men or women.

Below we see PAKISTAN pretending to be installing populist worker structures just as in early 1900s America-----

So, our US 99% of WE THE WOMEN attained good rights across all categories------we simply did not continue the fight to remove all structures as TIME BOMBS-----to assure we kept those rights.

THERE ARE WAYS TO HAVE LABOR ORGANIZATION LOCALLY-----WE DO NOT NEED INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL TRADE GUILDS----OUR 99% OF WE THE TRADES CITIZENS MUST WAKE UP-----


MARXISM IS FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1%----so our 99% of women bound tightly to these trade guilds would never have the full rights and power as citizens with these global NGOs attached to our workplace.




The role of women in the trade unions and the struggle of the PTUDC
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Rukhsana Manzoor
19 April 2002

This is a report from Pakistan on the conditions of women workers and the activities and programme of the Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign on this question.
Karl Marx once said that "all hitherto history of mankind is the history of class struggle." Since the advent of class society the exploited class has been at daggers drawn against the ruling class. In slave society, slaves raised their hands against masters, in the feudal system the serfs rose up against the feudal lords and similarly we find a continuous struggle of proletarians against the capitalists.



Class distinction in capitalist society is more obvious than those of the previous epochs. There are two classes, one of which possess the means of production, and the other one is the proletarian class, which has to sell its labour just for its survival on earth.



The struggle between these two classes commenced with the establishment of capitalist society. The proletarian struggle is still continuing and will continue till the end of class society and the emancipation of proletarians from the ruthless clutches of cruelty, barbarism, suppression and tyranny imposed upon them by the capitalist system. Their freedom is vehemently linked with the establishment of a Socialist Federation of the whole world, which is impossible without the complete elimination of capitalism.



The struggle of proletarians to change the system is actually a political struggle as Karl Marx repeatedly emphasises the point that every class struggle is in reality a political struggle as well as economic, where the proletarians strive to improve their living standards, working conditions, hours of work and wages.



To make this economic struggle more coherent, properly organised and driven by collective efforts, the proletariat brought trade unions into being. As with the development of technique and industry, larger industry and factories spread all around where the downtrodden, battered, crisis-ridden and hunger-stricken labourers got a chance to establish trade unions. Trade unions are traditional platforms of economic struggle on the part of proletariat. These trade unions played a significant role in the improvement of living standards and the economic struggle of the labourers.



In the movement of the proletariat women have fought shoulder to shoulder with male workers, whether it was the great sacrifices and struggles of the working class of Chicago or the magnificent revolution of 1905, the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 or any other political upheavals.



Although at the outset very few women used to work in industries, factories or any other economic fields yet with the expansion of the economy, the economic activities of women increased particularly after the second world war, when more and more women came out of their homes to work and now women are performing their duties in all walks of life with an immense enthusiasm.



In Pakistan large numbers of women have been joining economic fields, the basic reason for which is their being low paid workers on the one hand and their concentration along with "acquiescent obedience" on the other. That is why the increase in women workers in big industries during the last five years is baffling and incredible as in some of the industries 60% to 70% of the workers are women. Before this very few women were attached to government institutions, as most of them were associated with health and education.



Other main reasons for the involvement of women in outdoor work are the disintegration of the family system and economic crisis. The economic crisis has given a heavy blow to the conservative and traditional thinking pattern, which confined women within huge-walled houses to just serve husbands, brothers and the rest of the family. Resurgent unemployment and economic disparity have forced the families to let their women go out to offices and industries.



If we take a bird's eye view of trade union movement very few women can be found on the scene. In the past it might have been for their being less in number as workers, but now that is not so; the great causes of women not being organised in trade unions has been the improper attitude of trade union leaders, social and economic suffocation and the general decadence of the trade union movement.



If we analyse divergent departments the picture can be delineated in such a way.


Public Sector

In this sector women work in health, education, PTCL (Pakistan Telecommunications), PIA (Pakistan Airlines), WAPDA (Water and Power Development Authority), the Post Office, railways, banks and other institutions.




There are thousands of women nurses in the health department, although they have an association but its working is not as much effective as it should be. Before being banned by Zia al-Huq there were active unions containing a lot of ferment and active women within their sphere. Women played a significant role in the two great strikes of hospitals and they had to wash loose their jobs for going on strike in the first regime of Nawaz Sharif.


The betrayal of the trade union leadership's compromise and false strategy immensely shocked the trade unions in this sector so there is now the union but it is inactive and dormant. With a bit of hard work and correct strategy a lot of women could be organised in these unions and their potential can be galvanised into political struggle.



Women are working as teachers in the education department and a year ago a resistance movement was launched in this department, which basically opposed the steps such as downsizing. Three months back the female teachers vehemently took part in the strikes and processions and suffered violence from the state.



Similarly women in Sindh participated in the movement and played a role of leadership to much extent. The example shows that women can be brought into the movement. The trade unionists are wrong when they say that women do not have any interest in the trade unions. In Sindh the teachers pertaining to our tendency fervently participated in the movement.



With the failure of the Pakistani state to invest and develop the health and education sector these vital sectors have been sucked up by the private sector. They are now the most profitable sectors in Pakistan. On the one hand they charge heavily for health and education on the other hand they employ mainly women workers at shamefully low wages. Mostly they are as low as 7-15 pounds monthly. These workers are totally unorganised and there is a dire need of unionisation of women workers in these sectors. There are 76,000 teachers employed in private institutions, 60% of which are female.



In the PTCL more than 3,000 women work and most of them are members of trade unions. In the resistance movement and strikes women have played a vital role. At that time a lot women became active in the trade unions but due to the unions' wrong attitude and backward culture the number of women involved went down.



The standards of living of the women workers in the PTCL is comparatively higher and that is why they are economically free somewhat and having combined working conditions - they can better perform in the movement and collaborate with other male workers. In big trade unions women take the casting of votes in referendums and elections seriously and they do not pay any heed to those who want to hold back the movement.



Similarly a great number of women work in PIA, Railways, WAPDA, banks and other institutions. But they are not active in the trade unions of these institutions. Most of the women are motivated just for the election campaigns so that the leadership can get their votes.



Private Sector


In the industrial sector most of the women work in textile, garments, pharmaceuticals, sports and the factories of surgical tools. In some of the big factories more than half of the workforce consists of women. Most of the women work on daily wages and contracts. These women are working in the worst conditions. They have to work for 12 to 14 hours and their wages are 40% to 50% lesser than those of male workers.



In most of the factories there are no trade unions present. The leadership does not play any active role in organising women in the unions. The policies of the free market, liberalisation, anti-labour laws and anti-trade union policies have put the trade union at stake. No federation and leadership are serious about raising a voice for the problems of women and in organising them in the trade unions.



Apart form them women workers in offices of multinational corporations, travel agencies, private schools, big hotels and departmental stores, they are not allowed to establish trade unions whereas the conditions of women working in the homes and fields are worse than slaves.



At present more than 40% of women are enthusiastically active in the villages and these women do not enjoy their rights. The women who are fervently speaking for the human rights of women, child labour, and democracy and are working in the NGOs are themselves deprived of these rights. These non-governmental organisations have contributed in the decadence of the trade unions.



The NGOs exploit women burdened with economic duties. These NGOs prove to be a comfortable refuge for the men and women who accept charity and distribute it in the name of reforms. The male and female bosses of these NGOs live in luxury with huge wages and perks.



Without any processions, strikes, and economic and political struggle, enjoying delicious food, seminars allocated in the air-conditioned hotels, they have ensnared a lot of enthusiastic workers of trade unions.


The following are the main reasons why women are not active:



  • The social stress and suffocation, which does not allow women to take an active part in activities.
  • The negative attitude of trade union leaders and male chauvinism, which considers women just a source of sexual satisfaction and that is why they hesitate to go ahead with male workers.
  • Cultural bankruptcy, conservatism, social suffocation and cultural primitiveness hinder regular meetings of men and women.
  • The crisis of the trade union movement and stagnation are important in this situation. The betrayal of the leadership and compromises have immensely disappointed the workers.
  • The pressure of the bosses and the administration in private factories are some other obstacles in the way. Women are afraid of being expelled from jobs and are reluctant to join the unions.
  • The conservativeness of the institution of the family and the social impact of Islamic fundamentalism.



In the wake of the massive increase in women workers in industry it is essential to include and organise women for the consideration and dynamism of movement. No trade union be establish itself and perform work without the inclusion of women workers in the union.



The inclusion of women in trade unions in the private sector can make the movement more transparent after evaporating the dark clouds of dejection. Women workers in trade unions can infuse a new determination into the movement.


Now it is the responsibility of the PTUDC to organise women and motivate them to play a dynamic role in the movement.
  • Study circles are being set up where trade unions do not yet exist. Small groups can be formed and prepared politically. These study circles and groups can play an important role in the formation of trade unions.
  • A forceful struggle is being launched against the male chauvinism, mental perversion and conservatism in the unions to end discrimination against women workers.
  • PTUDC activists who are present in the trade unions in the public sector make conscious efforts to bring women forward. A transparent programme is being put forward with reference to the problems of women. Meetings of women are being arranged and their work organised. Female representation in the structures of PTUDC is being encouraged.
  • The factories in which unions are present should be pressurised to let women become members and they should be encouraged to play an active role.
  • Pamphlets on the problems of women have been printed and distributed.
  • The PTUDC believes that women can play a vital role in the trade unions and class struggle.


Working women are sobbing under the suffocating pressure of extreme exploitation, force, lust, ignorance and poverty. They want change and end to the decayed system. A correct revolutionary programme, strategy, and to crown them all a revolutionary party, can activate women by affiliating them with other parts of society. The emancipation of women is only possible through a class struggle along with their male comrades and not feminism, which only serves to disunite the working class on the basis of gender. History has put this duty on our shoulders.




The PTUDC's programme is:


  • Pay at least Rs 7,500 (£80), linked to inflation.
  • Trade union rights and the unconditional right to strike.
  • Elimination of the contract system and all anti-labour laws.
  • Total ending of downsizing, forced retirement and the privatisation in the name of the so-called independence of colleges, schools and hospitals.
  • Revocation of all discriminatory laws against women.
  • Equal wages and equal opportunities for men and women.
  • The draconian law of two female witnesses against one male witness should be abolished.
  • Women workers be given maternity leave with full wages.
Rukhsana Manzoor,
Lahore

April 19, 2002
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Here is the 1960s civil rights women rights worker rights movement tied to US CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT for equal protection for our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE----BLACK, WHITE, AND BROWN CITIZENS-----focused on our 99% of WE THE WOMEN. 

This US Constitutional Amendment and Bill of Rights WERE the real women's rights movement to attain REAL protections for families, women, children, communities.   Our US labor unions were working until these years to advance rights, income, benefits for workers-------



Our US 99% of black and brown citizens are correct.  These early women's and men's rights movements were aimed at a 5% of white women workers.  But not even our 99% of white women had won REAL rights until these civil rights 1960s.  These early 1900s citizens rights movements created that 1% black boule GREEK which was the same as those 5% freemason/Greek white women.

So, our US black 1% of men and women  win rights in early 1990s but as we hear over and again----these 1% black boule had rights to wealth accumulation and property ----but they had very little voice in political and economic development.

IF WE LOOK AT YET ANOTHER NATIONAL NGO FOR WOMEN---THEY ARE REPEATING THOSE RIGHT DEMANDS FROM EARLY 1900S----WE NEED TO WAKE UP WHEN THESE 'FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT' GROUPS KEEP PRETENDING TO FIGHT FOR THE SAME ISSUES FOR A CENTURY.




NOW Statement of Purpose - 1966


The 1966 Statement of Purpose created by the formation of the National Organization for Women (NOW) summarizes key women's rights issues of that time. Women's rights addressed in that document were based on the idea of equality as an opportunity for women to "develop their fullest human potentials" and to put women into the "mainstream of American political, economic and social life." Women's rights issues identified included those in these areas:


  • employment and economics
  • education
  • family, including marriage and divorce laws and home responsibilities
  • political participation
  • images of women in culture and social practice
  • opposition to "protectiveness" in work, school, church and so on, as limiting women's rights
  • racial justice because of the "double discrimination" experienced by women of color


REAL left social progressive 99% of women grassroots fighting for the same women's rights as those 5% to the 1% had won back in early 1900s were not connected with this national women's movement-----just as BLACK LIVES MATTER-----just as INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S UNITED NATIONS ------these national NGOs were always known to be tied to global banking 1%.

Here is where national media pushed all those FAKE 5% FREEMASON/GREEK women players in headlines as our 99% WOMEN LEADERS.  So, Jane Fonda and all the global banking 1% freemason STARS came out-----taking ALL THE POWER from our local 99% of WE THE WOMEN movements during 1960-70s----just as was done for our 99% of black citizens empowerment movements.


REAL left social progressive 99% of women always knew our power and rights to be citizens were being CO-OPTED by these FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT women's organizations. We have been fighting THEM as much as fighting for our US CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

Of course NOW was used these few decades to push far-right wing global banking ONE WORLD policies killing all of our 99% of women gains in wealth, rights, and CITIZENSHIP because it is controlled by 5% global banking players.




This Day in History: National Organization for Women was Founded

June 30, 2015 at 4:01 PM ET by Molly Wolfe

Summary: 



On June 30, 1966, the National Organization for Women was founded by a group of activists who wanted to end sex discrimination. Today, the organization remains as a cornerstone of the women's rights movement.



“We, men and women who hereby constitute ourselves as the National Organization for Women, believe that the time has come for a new movement toward true equality for all women in America, and toward a fully equal partnership of the sexes, as part of the world-wide revolution of human rights now taking place within and beyond our national borders.”




—National Organization for Women’s 1966 Statement of Purpose

On June 30, 1966, Betty Friedan wrote three letters on a paper napkin: N O W. She invited fifteen women to her hotel room. Then, Catherine Conroy slid a five-dollar bill onto the table and said, “Put your money down and sign your name.” In that moment, the National Organization for Women became a reality.




As representatives at the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women, these women were disgruntled by the lack of commitment to the convention's theme, “Targets for Action.” Inspired by the Civil Rights movement and historic marches such as in Selma, the women founded a parallel effort to ensure the equal treatment of both sexes. They brainstormed an alternate action plan to enforce Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from discriminating against employees based on sex, race, color, nationality, and religion.


Photograph shows people standing in front of the United States Capitol with a banner reading "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex" and holding flags for various organizations including the National Organization for Women. July 9, 1979. (by Bettye Lane)




NOW Through the Years:October 1966: NOW founding conference


Betty Friedan, best known for her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique, which changed the conversation on traditional gender roles, was chosen as the organization’s first president.




Betty Friedan, half-length portrait, facing right / World Telegram & Sun. 1960 (by Fred Palumbo)


August 1967: First picket by NOW members



Activists dressed in vintage clothing to protest the gender segregated help-wanted advertisements in The New York Times.
1973: NOW members organized “Take Back the Night” marches and vigils.
Protestors stimulated the movement against sexual assault and power-based personal violence against women.
July 1978: Biggest-ever march for the Equal Rights Amendment
In 95-degree heat, over 100,000 people decked in purple, white, and gold marched in Washington, D.C. to call for an extension to the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Feminists make history with biggest-ever march for the Equal Rights Amendment, including NOW's first president Betty Friedan. (by Feminist Majority Foundation)

April 2004: March for Women’s Lives
A record 1.15 million people marched in Washington, D.C. to fight for women’s reproductive health care options.


The March for Women’s Lives took place on April 25, 2004. (by Feminist Majority Foundation)




Today, NOW is the largest organization of women’s rights activists in the United States, using grassroots organizing to push for social change. NOW focuses on advocating for justice and equality in reproductive healthcare and the economy and continues its work to put a stop to violence against women and discrimination based on race and sexual orientation.


The fight to end workplace discrimination is not over. The Administration has shown its support for a number of anti-discrimination actions, including fair housing, employment non-discrimination, and health reform for women. President Obama, with help from organizations like NOW, continues to lead the charge for equal rights no matter who you are, what you look like, or who you love. 

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Here is that US CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOR ALL 99% OF WOMEN---BLACK, WHITE, AND BROWN CITIZENS----just after 1960s grassroots women's movements continuing to fight for real left social progressive rights for 99% of women.  The early 1900s created that 5% to the 1% of global banking women---expanded from only global 2% of women having any rights------but it was not until 1972 we saw REAL left social progressive women's rights for our 99% of women.

Look at the date of these amendments------NIXON was going to CHINA to begin the FLIPPING OF EARTH'S AXIS FROM WESTERN HEMISPHERE TO EASTERN HEMISPHERE.  REAGAN and raging global neo-liberalism was right around the corner.


So, all of these public policy geared to making our 99% of women whether black, white, or brown citizens was PROPAGANDA made to keep the appearance of our 99% of US citizens participating in public policy.

WHEN PEOPLE WIN THE RIGHTS TO CITIZENSHIP----GAIN POWER OF RIGHTS AND JUSTICE----THE RIGHTS TO VOTE----IT TAKES TIME TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY AT POLITICS----DON'T BE DISCOURAGED ---BE INSPIRED TO STOP MOVING FORWARD TO PROTECT OUR WOMEN'S RIGHTS WON OVER SEVERAL CENTURIES.

Global banking 5% pols and players are still today pretending an EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT is right around the corner--------there was never any intention of meeting the 38 state ratification even by those global 2% and 5% women players.

'Only 35 states ratified the E.R.A. by the 1979 deadline, three short of the necessary 38. Congress extended the deadline by three years, but no new states ratified the amendment. Though the E.R.A. was never ratified, 21 states have added similar amendments to their state constitutions'.

What just passed during OBAMA era?  Women signing up for military service as MOVING FORWARD goes far-right, authoritarian, militaristic, global corporate FASCIST. 

OH, LUCKY 99% OF US WOMEN!




'Anti-E.R.A. activists warned that the amendment would deny women privileges such as exemption from the military draft and the ability to be supported by their husbands'.




March 22, 1972 |

Equal Rights Amendment for Women Passed by Congress


By The Learning Network
March 22, 2012 4:04 am March 22, 2012 4:04 am


Warren K. Leffler/ Library of Congress U.S. News & World Report Collection



Representative Martha Griffiths outside the U.S. Capitol in 1970 after the House passed the Equal Rights Amendment for the first time.



Historic Headlines


On March 22, 1972, the Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution, which proposed banning discrimination based on sex. The E.R.A. was sent to the states for ratification, but it would fall short of the three-fourths approval needed.


The March 23 New York Times listed “some of the laws and practices that the amendment expected to invalidate,” including laws that impose greater restrictions on women in business, laws that favor women in child-custody and alimony cases, laws that deny compensation to pregnant women still able to work and differing standards for boys and girls in public school programs.


The amendment, originally known as the Lucretia Mott Amendment, was first drafted by the women’s rights leader Alice Paul in 1923, three years after the passage of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women’s suffrage. Variations of the amendment were presented to every session of Congress between 1923 and 1970, mostly remaining in committee until Representative Martha Griffiths, a Democrat from Michigan, was able to push it before Congress for debate in 1970.

The House passed it that year, but it failed in the Senate; the House passed a reworded version the following year. The Senate approved it in March 1972. The passed Equal Rights Amendment read, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”



The Times reported, “Confidence that ratification would be achieved swiftly was expressed by a number of supporters of the amendment,” adding: “How long it might take for the amendment to be ratified was unclear. Senator [Birch] Bayh indicated he thought it would be two years. The amendment itself permits seven years to elapse before it dies, if unratified.”


The E.R.A. was ratified by 30 states within a year, but the ratification process slowed as anti-E.R.A. organizations mobilized, like the conservative activist Phyllis Schafly’s Stop E.R.A. Anti-E.R.A. activists warned that the amendment would deny women privileges such as exemption from the military draft and the ability to be supported by their husbands. Many conservative women also turned against the women’s rights movement for its support of abortion rights, contraception, gay rights and other issues, weakening support for the E.R.A..


Only 35 states ratified the E.R.A. by the 1979 deadline, three short of the necessary 38. Congress extended the deadline by three years, but no new states ratified the amendment. Though the E.R.A. was never ratified, 21 states have added similar amendments to their state constitutions.

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What our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE whether black, white, or brown---whether  99% of women or men need to understand------although early 1900s rights movements were targeting that 5% of US citizens with empowerment----the stepping stones for all 99% of WE THE PEOPLE were indeed placed -----they were the NEW DEAL safety net programs designed to help our 99% maintain wealth through difficult times----they were the US MONOPOLY AND ESTATE TAX laws which are critical for our 99% of citizens to access a REAL free market economy.  We cannot have our rights as citizens if we cannot access education, access a REAL free market economy.

What CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA did was dismantle even those 99% of WE THE PEOPLE rights and gains.  No doubt, FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt as ROBBER BARON global banking players set the stage for a TIME BOMB -----but this is the pathway our 99% must take to attain REAL FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS AS CITIZENS.

Our 99% of black citizens were blocked in NEW DEAL----those 1% black boule took the lead in black economic development and they took the 3000 BC route of OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS FREEMASONRY/GREEKS.


When we allow global banking 1% to play one set of 99% of people's gains against one another rather than recognizing the fight for all 99% of rights is ongoing---which is what US CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS for equal protection, opportunity and access was to address----all 99% of WE THE PEOPLE across all population groups WILL BE LOSERS.

FDR and The New Deal


During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy. Though African Americans were not the intended audience for these programs, they benefitted as many citizens did. Labor laws that encouraged union organization and defined a minimum wage also supported black workers. 


Roosevelt’s relief programs made him popular with many African Americans, though he shied away from aggressively promoting civil rights or an anti-lynching law, for fear of alienating Southern whites. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was more sympathetic to black causes. She created a stir when she helped to move Marian Anderson’s performance at the Lincoln Memorial after the black singer was prohibited from performing at Constitution Hall because of her race. 


After the United States entered World War II, Roosevelt quickly moved to shore up African American support and silence foreign propaganda about the treatment of the negro in America. He ordered the justice department to not only pass anti-lynching laws but to finally begin enforcing longstanding anti-peonage laws aimed at ending forced labor in the South.

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One thing is sure as far as REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE 99% WE THE WOMEN know-----any organization tied to GREEKS AND FREEMASONRY -----steeped in ancient mythology as a source for public policy and myth-making propaganda as to being some sort of PUBLIC BENEFIT----is always far-right wing global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS.  Women never win when tied to these organizations.

We discussed BACCHUS VS PENTHUS where PENTHUS appears to simply want to stop the invasion of civil society by what he knows is a socially disorienting deity.  Has PENTHUS made imbibing illegal in his kingdom----we are led to believe not.  His intuition is BACCHUS intent is OPIUM WAR to install himself as top deity.  Of course as these myths go----the good are seduced and compromised ---made fools -----

For our discussion this week on women's rights and empowerment----when we began to see from DANCING OF SEVEN VEILS forward to the expansion of GREEK LIFE to our US public universities where GREEKS have a long history of being only in OLD WORLD IVY LEAGUE universities open to only the global 1% and their 2%----our 99% WE THE PEOPLE---black, white, and brown citizens---99% of men and women MUST STAND UP-----these structures are always designed to take the PENTHUS good in government and KILL IT with MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES for only the global 1%.


Who are those 5% to the 1% freemason/Greek players today? Clinton/Bush/Obama----across all population groups----LET'S JUST GET RID OF THEM TO STOP MOVING FORWARD.

 Women working for global 1% of men----no left social progressive feminism happening---and they are setting themselves up for being losers as MOVING FORWARD DARK AGES ends even those gains by global 2% of women----even those gains by 1900s 5% of women

'When a Feminist Pledges a Sorority


By JESSICA BENNETTAPRIL 9, 2016 '






May 13, 2013

Lack of Metamorphoses:

The Persistence of Woman-Woman Violence in Ovid



The Greeks and Romans of antiquity were clearly no strangers to violence. Indeed, judging by the literature that survives, it would seem that it permeated their culture and moral values in everything from marriage to acts of war. Feminist writers and academics have addressed the more obvious aggrievances as excessive and degrading acts of violence against women; rape is rampant throughout the texts. Mutilation, torture, and the perverse enjoyment in stripping women of their beauty and power therein, are also themes that are evidence of a culture-wide belief system in subduing, if not silencing completely, the feminine sex. Though the culprits of these ancient stories of rape, mutilation, incest, and murder of women are often men, it is significant that women, specifically angry goddesses, play a large role themselves in the humiliation, and continued degradation of their own gender. Added to the fact that these stories were written by men, in these specific instances of violence against women, it is clear that certain lessons or warnings were meant to be heeded by both men and women from the male author. For men, it was a warning to always be wary of women, that they were helplessly prone to irrational and emotional rages or actions that could hurt the man, his honor, or his offspring and family name. For women, these stories were cautionary tales of such said behavior; beauty, strength, potential, and talent were things to be careful of having, for they could lead to unwanted (or heaven forbid, wanted) male attention, or hubris; both of which could result in severe shame and punishment, or even death, from husband, father, or god. Stories of such warnings and punishment for females, by females, through a male writer, are exemplified in the work of the Roman poet, Ovid; specifically his mythological, epic poem Metamorphoses, which remains as one of the most important classical mythology sources. This paper will therefore explore a myriad of stories in the primary source of Metamorphoses in which female on female aggression is exemplified as another patriarchal deterrent for women to not vocalize or present the power of their sex and sexuality, and how patriarchy thus encourages women to seek revenge on other women for violations perpetrated upon them by men, ultimately alienating the females from other females, deconstructing the gender even further. Additionally, this paper will show contemporary examples of how such female behavior is still encouraged by a predominantly patriarchal society; and finally, that women and feminists alike have a responsibility to ourselves and each other, not to fall prey to this psychologically damaging cultural construction any longer.



Metamorphoses is Ovid’s most famous work. It is a single poem, written in the form and rhythm of an epic (dactylic hexameter), as well as in the size, in that it comprised of fifteen books. Finished around 8 A.D., Metamorphoses is comprised of roughly 250 myths, all centered around the common theme of transformation, and is the literature in which some of the most famous classical myths are played out, or elaborated upon. In discussing the violence of women against other women, there are a two main themes that Ovid predominantly uses repetitively throughout the epic as cautionary tales for women: the jealous goddess punishes the object of her husband’s affections, and women who are punished for their beauty/strength/talent. Many times the themes overlap, as will be shown in the following analyses.



Ovid’s myth that first addresses the theme of the jealous goddess is that of Jupiter and Io, in Book I of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The story goes that Io was a beautiful nymph, merely resting at her father’s stream when Jupiter sets eyes on her and immediately begins to lust after her. He comes down to Earth to try to seduce her, but she flees.



Then Jupiter
Spread darkness and concealed earth far and wide.
He caught her as she was running away
And forced her to have sex against her will.
(Johnston, Book I:883-86).



Juno, both his sister and jealous wife, senses it, suspicious of the clouds: “Either I am quite mistaken, or I am being wronged.” (I:895-96) Although her husband has just raped an innocent girl, Juno claims such an act of violation is actually against herself. But it is not her husband, Jupiter, who has wronged Juno by straying; rather, Juno blames Io for her husband’s adultery. Her own beauty was Io’s wrongdoing, for in such beauty she attracted the lust of Juno’s husband, though the affection was clearly unwanted by Io.



Not only does Juno blame Io for her husband’s transgression, but she also takes pleasure in punishing and torturing the poor girl. Jupiter tried turning Io into a cow in order to conceal what he had done from Juno, thus she is still a cow when Juno discovers the truth. A significant concept to note is that the transformation that takes place in this myth, in turning Io into a cow, is initially a form of protection, rather than punishment, as is usually the case. However, the protection of turning Io into a cow is more for Jupiter’s own guise of fidelity towards Juno, rather than Io’s safety from the wrath of Juno, which comes anyway.



Immediately enraged,
She made no attempt to hide her anger.
To the eyes and mind of that Argive girl
She sent out a terrifying Fury,
Pierced her breast with hidden stings, and drove her
Through the whole world in wandering terror. (I:1095-99)



Thus Juno gets her perceived revenge on the girl by humiliating and torturing her, all because Io’s unassuming beauty attracted the unwanted advances of Juno’s husband. The story of Io is therefore a cautionary, terrifying tale for any girl or woman reading it in antiquity, for the message is quite clear: to be beautiful means to invite male attention to the point of violation, in which shame, severe punishment, and humiliation are the only outcomes; women should never trust a beautiful woman, for she could lure their husband to stray; beautiful women should be punished. For the men, the message is equally clear: take advantage of the opportunity a beautiful woman represents; women’s sole purpose is to provide for the pleasure and amusement of men; fidelity is emasculating.



Another myth in Metamorphoses that explores the jealous goddess theme is that of Jupiter, Callisto, and Juno in Book II. Jupiter is once again preying on a young and beautiful nymph, Callisto, as she unsuspectingly goes about her own business. Ovid sensually describes this forest nymph as one of Phoebe’s warriors. She carries a bow and wears her hair and clothes seductively loose:


A simple clasp held her dress together,
White ribbons kept her tangled hair in place.  (II:601-602)



Thus we can infer once again that there is a message to be taken here; if nothing else, the way that she is described in dress is almost a foreshadowing of her ultimate fate, as if to suggest, or argue perhaps, that such a fate is her fault because of the way she looks and dresses. The author, after conjuring up this titillating image of Callisto, is quick to prove his point in doing so:


No nymph wandering on Mouth Maenalus
Was more pleasing to the goddess Trivia.
But no power lasts for long. (II:606-608)
It is here, significantly, that Ovid admits the power of women in their sexuality and beauty, and subsequently alludes to, if not outright threatens for, the imminent destruction of such power thus.



Callisto is the perfect proverbial strong woman for Ovid to make an example of in his literature: a woman warrior skilled in the use of her own weapon, free, beautiful, independent – all things classical women are cautioned from being. But even a woman as strong and fierce as Callisto can still be made to be vulnerable in the writings of Ovid because, at the end of the day, she is still a woman.
Jupiter spied Callisto there, tired out
And with no one to protect her. (II:614-615)



The author even seems to amuse himself at the downfall of the once powerful woman, now overpowered and finally subdued, as he comments: “She does fight back, as much as women can,” (II:634). It is as if Ovid writes of these beautiful and strong women, building them up as so, only to tear them back down again to prove a moral point.



Juno finds out about this next transgression when Callisto gives birth to a son, Arcas, out of the rape. “That, too, really angered Juno, who thought she was a slut,” (II:689-690). This is where the woman-woman violence escalates, with the use of derogatory rhetoric and threats by a woman to describe another woman who has been raped by the former’s own husband.



“‘That’s the only thing that’s missing,
You adulteress—you would be fertile
And publicly proclaim the injury
By giving birth and thus acknowledging
the disgrace to Jupiter, my consort.
You wretched girl, you’ll get your punishment.
I’ll take away that shape of yours, which gave
You and my husband such delight.’” (II:692-699)



As if Callisto could stop her pregnancy! And it is especially absurd that Juno claims Callisto and Jupiter shared “such delight” – Juno seems to either forget or deny completely that Jupiter raped Callisto; and yet somehow Juno believes Callisto has disgraced Jupiter in such an encounter.



The saddest thing Ovid does here in his writing, therefore, is pit woman against woman. It would seem that in a culture or world where men constantly objectify and violate women for their own pleasure, women would look to their own gender for some sense of security and stability, if not safety. How alone Callisto must have felt; first she was shamed and violated by a man, then she was rejected by Diana, a goddess and therefore of the female gender, and finally punished and degraded further by Juno, another goddess and powerful female figure. It is in this way that Ovid writes into his stories the encouragement of the alienation of the female gender. The women, especially the goddesses in these stories, are especially competitive and judgmental to the point of irrationality and delusion of the facts. Women are not safe among men, and clearly they are not safe around other women either. This sort of patriarchal writing, from a man’s point of view towards women and other men, thus helps to set cultural and moral boundaries for the real women of Ovid’s own time period. Ovid seems to reiterate over and over that women are not to be trusted by men or women, thus creating an environment where the female gender deconstructs from the inside out, as it is threateningly exemplified over and over that women should not interact with other women. This works in favor of the men, however, in a patriarchal society that is trying to subdue the women’s voice. If there is strength in numbers, the men must continue to make the women feel unwilling to interact with one another, thus weakening the gender as a whole.



Similar to Books I and II, Juno makes another appearance in Book III in the story of Jupiter and Semele. Juno is already on edge because of some past transgressions detailed above. However, instead of seeing the common denominator in these scandals as her husband, Jupiter, she instead, by the pen of Ovid, chooses to blame her own female gender for such repeated grievances:


 All those numerous complaints of mine –
What good have they done me? I must attack
That girl in person. I have to kill her



If I am rightly called the most mighty Juno (III:391-394)
Juno decides that the mere punishment she had been dolling out before has done nothing to deter those other females from her mighty husband Jupiter, and decides that death is the only way to prove her point once and for all. She must make an example out of Semele to truly deter the women from directing their unending sexual appetites toward her husband. Or so Ovid infers.


Once again, Ovid, through Juno of course, aims to tear down these women by attacking their most favorable attributes first. Juno even seems to sadistically delight in planning the downfall for this poor girl, going the extra cruel step to coerce Jupiter, Semele’s own lover and father of her child, to kill her himself.


She has such great faith in her own beauty.
I’ll make sure that confidence deceives her.
I am not Saturn’s daughter if that girl
Does not fall into the waters of the Styx,
Dumped down in them by Jupiter himself. (III:406-410)


Jupiter indeed succeeds in this plot, and Semele is consumed by the fire of Jupiter’s own lightning bolt. Thus Ovid again makes plain the moral of the story that beautiful women are to be punished, and that transgressions by a male are always the female’s fault. This effectively continues to encourage women to be suspicious of and competitive with one another, essentially preventing any hope of empowering the women to feel comfortable in heir own gender. It is a rather unassuming psychological brainwash that such classical women had to endure. In each story where a strong woman appears to exist and vocalize or exhibit her power, she is torn down as an example to others who might try to do the same. Moral threats and sexual anxieties through such literature as Metamorphoses thus effectively kept women in their “place” as mere objects of pleasure and domesticity to men.



Classical literature, however, is not the only place where women-women violence is perpetuated or encouraged to serve a patriarchal agenda. Even in contemporary society, women and girls participate in some of the same general behavior, though perhaps a little less extreme, as Juno and Minerva in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.



Biology plays a bigger role than one might think in this. Though society is accustomed to masculine aggression, sexual selection in humans has also bred hostility in women towards other women, especially when it comes to our partners or spouses. The competition of females for males is just as prevalent as the competition of males for females; the only difference being that females are more emotionally motivated, while men are more physical. That jealous twinge in the pit of your stomach when your partner’s eyes linger too long on someone else, or the unbearable pain when your loved one has strayed with another, are all aggravated by how women are taught to respond to such circumstances.


For example, sometimes it can be too much for a woman to imagine her lover committing adultery. It is much easier to blame the other woman rather than to admit that the person you invested time, energy, and emotion into could betray your trust like that. In a patriarchal society, the men especially encourage this type of behavior. If the woman fails to put the responsibility on her significant other, he can perpetuate the adulterous cycle, while still managing to keep his girlfriend for his own.



Furthermore, we live in a society that considers girls fighting to be an encouraged spectacle, if not also attractive even by some. So oftentimes men will encourage girls to go after the other girls their significant others cheated on them with, perpetuating a cycle of violence-revenge-violence seen in many of the myths of Ovid as explained above.



Women, as in Ovid’s work, are in constant competition with themselves to this day. Too often in high school, for example, does one hear girls spreading nasty rumors, using derogatory words to describe other girls, making up reasons not to trust them because they are beautiful, or talented, or both. These are the same themes discussed in myths such as Jupiter and Callisto, or Juno and Io.



In the career specter, women in power are also called awful names for being so, while a man in power is just considered natural. It seems people want to tear women down or pick them apart until they find something wrong, just because they are strong women.


Finally, one of the most prevalent themes of Ovid’s work that remains quite rampant in today’s society is that of women ‘deserving’ rape. Just recently, the country came together in shock at the vulgarity of a case in Steubenville, Ohio. A fifteen-year-old girl was dragged around by the football team while she was passed out drunk, and was subsequently raped and molested by at least two of players. Outrage ensued and the case gained national attention when pictures posted on social media of the victim went viral. The worst part is the lack of support the victim received in her own town. Because of her intoxication level, and the fact that she was at a party when she blacked out, some kids at her school believed that she ‘deserved’ what happened. How girls can say this of other girls, I will never understand. The worst part happened just when it seemed that the victim could finally get some peace. The two players charged with her rape and molestation were convicted and sentenced to three years in a juvenile detention center. Right after this was made public, tweets from two of the convicted rapists’ female family members tweeted threats of violence, and even death, towards the young girl their family members had just been convicted of raping.



Why do women feel so compelled to thrust violence and distrust at one another? Some of it may be biology, but a lot of it has got to be a more permeable cultural construction through space and time, as it has lasted through several millennia, especially when encouraged by a patriarchal cultural construction. From Ovid’s tales of the wrath of Juno and Minerva, to real life (and almost harder to believe) examples of contemporary female aggression, it appears we women have a lot to work on in terms of remembering that we should be breaking down the patriarchal constructions, rather than perpetuating them. Feminists and females alike therefore have the responsibility as such to be able to tease out the patriarchal undertone from stories such as Metamorphoses, so as not to fall prey to such rhetoric.





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