There are two belligerent sides. They are in a future theater of war because one has gone there to make trouble or intimidate the other who lives there. Lollygagging about, acting tough, making oneself an easy target for aggression, when does a war begin?
Do Muslim children suffer for US actions?
This is the question. The answer is very easy in retrospect. In the midst of it, we always have a choice. It could never begin. That can be the choice. But since we want it and are only looking for a pretext and international approval (or at least not too much condemnation), it will begin when we claim there has been any act of aggression we deem as crossing the line and necessitating a military response.
Okay, we did Syria, Gaza, Egypt, Lebanon. Now who? - Iran, of course. - Of course.
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Take this, Lady Liberty
We are already there for military reason, another imperial venture in a largescale, long-term vision of global domination and full spectrum dominance. This is just a tiny piece of the puzzle. We always intended to make war with Iran, just as we did with Iraq. We look for reasons and, not finding them, we often manufacture them. Later historians prove they never happened or didn't happen as we said, but who cares by then.
Private corporations are all in.
Here now, today, after setting it all up with our partners the mostly European Ashkenazi Jews of the imperial West, having spearheaded the geopolitical Middle East and established a fort, a defensible position, a territorial holding, we are proceeding to expand it into an empire of many countries. Of course, the neighbors are first. The more they resist, the harder we oppress them or wipe them out, exterminate them. This is the path of genocide.
We just plan wars. Others fight them.
We tried legal and diplomatic means to extinguish them, but their bodies and children are in the way of our plans. Our CIA has groomed Chicagoan Benji Netanyahu, set him up as a great dictator and statesman, a fundraiser and an SOB but our SOB, so he's between a rock and a hard place. He wants war, we want war, but there's all this bureaucratic and legalistic "stuff" in the way. He breaks through. And we prompt him, fund him, encourage him, applaud him, threaten him. And he's a good boy. If one Israel is worth ten CIAs, as the CIA chief once admitted, and if Israel didn't exist, we would have to create it. we are just going along with the plans set long before we, the U.S., got into this game. Imperial Britain has been doing this for centuries, following in the footsteps of Imperial Rome.
Kamala's onboard for endless wars
Now here we are again, with about seven war fronts to juggle and looking for many more. The prize is at hand: Iran will be attacked, forced to counterattack, and then be blown back to the Stone Age just like our man Saddam Hussein's Iraq. It's all Mesopotamia to us, and we go God's bidding, not the Good God but the genocidal one of the Bible., which provides us all the justification and rationalizations we need.
We're the good guys, after all, and they're the bad guys. We wear white, and they have on some long, black burqas and turbans and terrorist stuff strapped to them. Onward Christian soldiers, to the new crusades.
What happened today? This is what the mainstream (support every war) media is reporting in the States:
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A Counterpoint of Tolerance: AH! Interactive Opera No-Opera
“Arouse the mind without resting it on anything”
- Diamond Sutra
REDCAT transforms its flexible performance space into an immersive visual and sonic environment for the world premiere of this inventive international collaboration. Composed and performed by creators from around the globe, this pioneering collective work draws inspiration from the classic Buddhist text, the Diamond Sutra.
With composer-performer David Rosenboom and award-winning poet MartineBellen, the creative team has developed AH! as a celebratory passage across musical cultures and times: a polyglot clarion call for understanding and unity in today’s globalized, ever-more interconnected world.
Spinning off a mandala of 13 extraordinary and ordinary modern-life stories, this spellbinding opera brings together an array of robotic and interactive musical technologies, ingenious stagecraft, and flights of phenomenal musicianship. In the theatrically heightened environment of AH!, everyday life is placed flush against esoteric and transcendent realities.
Performing live, Rosenboom and 10 composer-performers from across the Americas, Europe, and East Asia are joined by an additional cast of musicians, theatermakers, and interactive artists under the direction of Travis Preston, who stages this exceptional music event with production designer Christopher Barreca, choreographer Mira Kingsley, and video designer Jeremiah Thies.
Interact with and contribute to AH! via the Web at ah-opera.org
The audience is invited to engage with and contribute to AH! before, during and after performances, via the website http://www.ah-opera.org/, mobile media, and a magical multitouch screen at the theater. Arrive early and participate!
DETAILS
A Counterpoint of Tolerance is a project commissioned by the Transatlantic Arts Consortium (TAC). This production of AH! is made possible with generous support from TAC, The Evelyn Sharp Foundation, Judith O. and Robert E. Rubin, and Abby Sher. World premiere: A co-production of the The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts and the CalArts Center for New Performance, in cooperation with Idyllwild Arts.
Date & Time: September 16, 17, 18 at 8:30 PM. General Admission: $12-$25 TICKETS (online, or call REDCAT's box office at 213-237-2800).
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We're the good guys, after all, and they're the bad guys. We wear white, and they have on some long, black burqas and turbans and terrorist stuff strapped to them. Onward Christian soldiers, to the new crusades.
