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
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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
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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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
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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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