s not really that China is bad and America is good; China is the creditor and America is the debtor, and this broken system creates the illusion of wealth.
Capitalism was destroyed long ago. There is no free market. And where there is no free market, there is already socialism. Perhaps the world bank is foreclosing, or getting ready to do so. The debt is massive and can never be repaid.
The Debt does Not exist because it is Based on an Illusion. Fake Money. China cannot “Own America” based on that. They know that & they are Not looking to resolve this through War. You are correct about “Free Markets do Not exist” this is the case since the making of ‘The Federal Reserve’ that was the creation of the Monopoly $$.
Yes. This is true. We need to seek wisdom and knowledge to take America back.
Thank you for this. Very informative and scary (I might add).
My father was in WWII (toward the end), and his biggest fear was being captured. Til my dads dying breath, he hated the Asians. Our own military, here in the US, did a little brainwashing themselves. If he was asleep, you could never walk over to him and jostle him awake. If you did, you probably would have gotten hit in the process. Our soldiers were absolutely scared to death of being captured. He told me that captured soldiers were INDEED physically abused and tortured. Maybe that’s what the officers were telling the soldiers to keep them alert, I’m really not sure.
My father too was in the Military, but not until 1956. I grew up knowing that it was Franklin Roosevelt’s administration that Planned the attack on ‘Pearl Harbor’ by provoking Japan in Their Waterways & Airways. It gave Roosevelt an excuse to look forward to Declaring War. The Target was really Germany. Japan & Germany were Allies!
Thank you, Alexandra, for the text component of your posts.
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The book “Brainwashing” is on amazon.com in a $2.99 kindle version as well as print versions. Everyone needs to familiarize themselves by reading about this in detail. If we wonder about the chaos in our world, it will all be explained there and summarized in this post by our beloved Alexandra.Just to share my personal experience. Since I started with TSW2, I can't persuade myself going back to TS2020 again, although there are still much to improve on TSW2, and TS2020 is already a quite mature product. I don't have the same feeling on TSW1 but only on TSW2, mostly because the improvement done on graphics and longer travel distance of the route. It is a pity that I still have a lot unplayed content in TS2020, I just can't go back. Anyone has the same experience?When “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” makes it world premiere on July 22, 2017, at the Santa Fe Opera, there will be two musicians in the pit of varying operatic experience.
On one hand will be composer Mason Bates, known for a wide-range of symphonic works. He will be showcasing his electronic orchestral colors in his very first opera.
On the other will be Michael Christie, a conductor who has no less than five World Premieres under his belt and experience as a conductor from his high school days when he conducted “La Forza del Destino” overture under the guidance of a school teacher. He has also performed and led such organizations as the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the DSO Berlin, the Czech Philharmonic, the Sydney Symphony and the Netherlands Radio Symphony, among many others.
While this will be the first opera that Bates and Christie collaborate on, it won’t be their first experience as a team.
In fact, Christie, while honing his craft as the Music Director of the Phoenix Symphony and Brooklyn Philharmonic, worked with Bates and when they talked about the potential of doing a piece regarding the great Apple creator, Christie was immediately hooked, as he told OperaWire in an interview.
“Mason is a great guy to work with and we’ve been in each other’s orbits for quite some time. So for me, this collaboration has been rewarding,” Christie noted.
Taking on a world premiere is no easy feat for any conductor, but with such works as “The Shining,” “Silent Night,” and “The Manchurian Candidate (all by “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” scribe Mark Campbell), among others, under his belt, Christie has learned to embrace the great responsibility that comes with this experience.
He noted that part of that creation of tradition remains after the initial run of performances. The team will return to the work and talk about what worked and what didn’t. The aim? To make sure that what they leave behind allows the freedom for the next set of interpreters to take and run with.
“There have been a lot of changes for this production. I know what a scribble means in terms of switching around an instrument. But for another conductor, we need it to be clear so they can have the interpretative freedom” he noted.
Interpretative freedom is the key word and one that Christie thinks many conductors overlook when doing a world premiere.
“I think a lot of times, people try to be too loyal to what is written on the page. They go into this very narrow reading of what’s on the page and sticking to that,” he explained.” But this doesn’t happen with a traditional opera like ‘Madame Butterfly.’ The world insists that you have an interpretative view. They want to know what your ‘Butterfly’ or ‘Faust’ sounds like. What I’ve taken from the traditional repertory is to question everything on every page. Does the music drive the drama? And if it doesn’t, then what is it that I need to do? And I try to do the same for new works. I try to be interpretative from the start instead of regurgitating what’s on the page.
That interpretative spirit was passed down to Christie from his experiences with Franz Welser-Möst, when he worked under the great maestro as an assistant conductor at the Zürich Opera. Welser-Möst was particularly adamant about the need to emphasize story.
And speaking of that story and drama, Christie assures people that “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs will pack quite the dramatic punch.
But back to that pit for one second where audiences will get the unusual experience of seeing the conductor and composer making music together live. What will make this collaboration unique is precisely how they will work together.
Bates will be set up with his own station from which he will produce synthetic sounds, many of them already pre-recorded. At times he will be working with the acoustic forces of the orchestra while at others they will be apart.
Thanks for the confirmation, no pun intended! My father was a regular visitor as the local Sergeant as well as being a fellow football fan.
Spelt 'altar' wrong.
I can remember going to a game with my dad and the good Father. We lived on Fox Lane at Frecheville so I didn't see much of him, Fr McDonagh that is!
When I was a kid in Hackenthorpe in the 1950s we played in what we knew as Cotliegh House, on the corner of Main Street and Cotliegh Crescent. I think the main gate was on Main Street.
I remember one Whitsuntide going home covered in muck and blood after falling through the roof.
The Hoggs was my local when Harry was landlord. Friends I remember from the Hoggs were Billy Standitch and his wife, Big Frank Gregg and Melvin who lived across Birley Spa Lane on the top house on Delves Avenue.
Pigs Lane brings back so many memories it is funny to think as a young child we could walk up and down there with no fear, oh how times have changed.
I think when Ranbow Forge was replaced with houses Pigs Lane was lost.
I remember the lane well but did not remember its name, it was a great shortcut for us to Cotliegh House.
Favourite pastimes included, scrumping (on a grand scale), bird nesting, conkers - I once had a conk(qu)er 57 (we used to soak them in vinegar and then put them in a dark cupboard to harden over several months), throwing arrows, catapulting, pea shooting and bulrushing. Much of this happened down Brook Lane, Bluebell Wood, past the house with the cannon on the wall up to the Riding School at Mos'boro Top, Ridgeway, Ford, Hackenthorpe Village School, a church on the left on Sheffield Road towards Occupation Lane, and a slag heap down the fields at the back of Carr Forge Road and Rainbow Avenue.
In these fields was a house where a family lived and I believe they didn't have gas or electricity. Does anyone have any info about this?
Pigs Lane was mentioned in an earlier post by Lo Strider, I spent many hours in that vacinity and I too used to run downthe embankment from Rainbow Forge playing field to the other side of Pigs Lane up the bank, turned and ran back in the same tilt, wish I had a quid for every time I did that (might try it again soon). When I was at Rainbow Forge Infants we had one day an inter-schools sports day