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Walking in Memphis Put on my blue suede shoes And I boarded the plane Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues In the middle of the pouring rain W.C. Handy -- won't you look down over me Yeah I got a first class ticket But I'm as blue as a boy can be Then I'm walking in Memphis Walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale Walking in Memphis But do I really feel the way I feel Saw the ghost of Elvis On Union Avenue Followed him up to the gates of Graceland Then I watched him walk right through Now security they did not see him They just hovered 'round his tomb But there's a pretty little thing Waiting for the King Down in the Jungle Room (Chorus) They've got catfish on the table They've got gospel in the air And Reverend Green be glad to see you When you haven't got a prayer But boy you've got a prayer in Memphis Now Muriel plays piano Every Friday at the Hollywood And they brought me down to see her And they asked me if I would -- Do a little number...

I have been through these streets before The streets of misery, pain and woe It is Fate, says my brother Joe Controlled by the Gods we know Gods have been gone for long Leaving us with the right and wrong Some of us play the God's role Life on earth they try to control To stop the rain and make it shine To control your very life and mine Justice is the right of the might Holds true every day and night A child abandoned, woman raped They are weak and that's their fate Fate, destiny or what so ever The women always deserve better A daughter, a sister, a mother How anyone sane could hurt her? Why do we fail to react and respond? When a crime goes unpunished… Morality, Ethics and Principles Vanished with all the Values This street is much too familiar There is the woman at the corner Waiting for the rich customer We made a whore out of a daughter When born, she was a daughter Life has been too cruel to her She sells, to feed her daughter Though a whore, she is a mother The shameles...

I am filled with sorrow so profound That no tears could ever release it Li'll one, all I can give you is my emotions My tears, trust, friendship and love I do feel guilty, for I am a man And this world is run by brute strength Baby, I am tainted by that ghastly act Guilty I am, ‘cause I failed to save This world and you from being raped The price we pay for chasing success As we forget what fulfillment is all about I know you never asked to be raped You think that you lost what you held so dear Baby, forgive this world, for Jesus did The pain I feel in my soul and in every bone And no words can ever explain the shame My dear friend, you are the victim of a culture That has no roots and hence cultureless In a world where chicken is just dead meat And never a living thing that died for us to eat Where freedom is an expression of the might Those three monsters were free to rape And Gods stood paralysed, mute and helpless 'Women' to many are a 'holesome' pleasure Not a ...

Home is where my love is Tired legs will take me home My shadow grows ever long As the sun goes slowly down Night falls and I lose my shadow I realize that I am all alone The light of love is in my soul It keeps me warm and guides me home Can't even touch my own destiny Destiny, is too far away from me Civilization, culture and governments Faith, free market and establishment First world and the third world We all live and die in a forlorn world Spirituality in the "land of the free" Is a pathetic apology for material greed Guns and cancer-sticks at the school Vengeance and Salvation through religion I spare a thought for the fallen leaves That crumbles underneath my feet I have to walk through the mine fields And swim across the bloody rivers My tired legs will take me home For there waits my true love

We live and die Behind walls Big and small Low and high Weak and strong Short and long. Border Boundary Country Family Company Religion Culture Race Ours and yours I You Us Them A wall in between Mistrust Suspicion Treason Envy Deceit Hatred Behind the wall Walls divide Makes us blind Makes us kill Love and Respect Honor and Trust Always trapped Behind the wall What is mine? What is yours? It is life Mine and yours We the Living One World Mother Nature To hold on to No Wall No War No Killing People Living No Nukes No Guns No defence deals No Mines Everything fine No Famine No Profit No Loss No Rich No Poor Just Happiness all around Pure Bliss Freedom Liberty Mobility Equality Free to live Free from Walls We know it all The Berlin Wall Symbol of the Cold War With its Fall We all smiled Still there are Too many Walls Seen and Unseen Invisible in our hearts Time and Tide Waits for None Why do we wait… For it to be done History of Agony Present not an Ideal Gift Future in Our Hands Gods ar...

I saw them burning, homes and dreams No one heard the Balkan's scream. Kosovo burned, Belgrade bombed, They made a mock of the Balkan soul. They gave a damn to the human soul, They wanted their own faith to win. Their faith of God, made them kill, In the name of God, the world still burns. There is no God or any Devil, It is the 'holy word,' that kills. There is no hell or heaven, If you reckon, eight follows seven. They still sell you an American dream, A world where you are always free. Free to sell and free to buy, A dream, only the rich can buy. The human soul is never free, When money and power is all you seek. A price for love, a price for life, You fail to hear the human's cry. The topless blonde on the billboard smiles That's "Human Liberty", American style. Kids are free to carry guns to school, They kill each other, and say "it’s cool". They always fight, black or white, I see them die, I see them cry. No one cares to see the 'wicke...

By Arundhati Roy 25 September, 2007 Outlook India Scandals can be fun. Especially those that knock preachers from their pulpits and flick halos off saintly heads. But some scandals can be corrosive and more damaging for the scandalised than the scandalee. Right now we're in the midst of one such. At its epicentre is Y.K. Sabharwal, former Chief Justice of India, who until recently headed the most powerful institution in this country—the Supreme Court. When there's a scandal about a former chief justice and his tenure in office, it's a little difficult to surgically excise the man and spare the institution. But then commenting adversely on the institution can lead you straight to a prison cell as some of us have learned to our cost. It's like having to take the wolf and the chicken and the sack of grain across the river, one by one. The river's high and the boat's leaking. Wish me luck. The higher judiciary, the Supreme Court in particular, doesn't just uphol...

Greg Palast writes Bush’s Fake Sheik Whacked Did you see George all choked up? In his surreal TV talk on Thursday, he got all emotional over the killing by Al Qaeda of Sheik Abu Risha, the leader of the new Sunni alliance with the US against the insurgents in Anbar Province, Iraq. Bush shook Abu Risha’s hand two weeks ago for the cameras. Bush can shake his hand again, but not the rest of him: Abu Risha was blown away just hours before Bush was to go on the air to praise his new friend. Here’s what you need to know that NPR won’t tell you. 1. Sheik Abu Risha wasn’t a sheik. 2. He wasn’t killed by Al Qaeda. 3. The new alliance with former insurgents in Anbar is as fake as the sheik - and a murderous deceit. ... Just in case you think I’ve lost my mind and put my butt in insane danger to get this footage, don’t worry. I was safe and dry in Budapest. It was my brilliant new cameraman, Rick Rowley , who went to Iraq to get the story on his own. Watch the videos Part-I Part-II

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Greg Palast writes: Newly unearthed records reveal that, in 2004, when Americans were in the midst of a brutal electoral battle over whether to reelect a president posing as a war hero, a commanding US reporter, Dan Rather, went AWOL. Just three months before the election, Rather had a story that might have changed the outcome of that razor-close race. We now know that Dan cut a back-room deal to shut his mouth, grab his ankles, and let his network retract a story he knew to be absolutely true. In September 2004 when Rather cowered, Bush was riding high in the polls. Now, with Bush’s approval ratings are below smallpox, Rather has come out of hiding to shoot at the lame duck. Thanks, Dan. It began on September 8, 2004, when Rather, on CBS, ran a story that Daddy Bush Senior had, in 1968, put in the fix to get his baby George out of the Vietnam War and into the Texas Air National Guard. Little George then rode out the war defending Houston from Viet Cong attack. The story is stone-cold ...

This is from the round-table interview held on May 31. "I'd love to talk about Cuba. I believe Cuba ought to be free. And I believe that when there is a transition to new leadership, the world ought to work for freedom, not stability, that the leading edge of our agenda ought to be to say to whomever takes over that government, we expect there to be elections and free press, free prisoners." 1. A free world, not a stable one. (Free for private enterprises to do whatever they want to do, including manufacturing war to kill people) 2. Free Prisoners (How about freeing prisoners in Cuba - who are in American captivity?)

Hillary and Obama are fighting it out in the US of A. When it comes to India, quite a few names are springing up these days. Amitab 'Big B' Bhachan's name has been doing the rounds for a while now. If Ronald 'Cowboy' Reagan can do it, why not our 'angry young man of 70s and 80s'? Another name that has sprung up is that man from Bengalooru, Narayana Murthy (Infosys fame!) Churumuri.wordpress.com quotes Capitalism is about providing equal opportunities for people, giving them the incentive to perform and creating the competitive conditions. I believe in compassionate capitalism where there is capitalism in the mind, socialism in the heart, and corporations which make profits will have to live in harmony with the society around them. Beware! Narayana Murthy is a Shylock. Not just that, the Infosys slave master also has very strong views about India's National Anthem Deccan Herald reports: National anthem could make foreigners at Infy uneasy: NRN "W...

WebMD Medical News reports that Dark Chocolate and other cocoa-rich foods may lower blood pressure better than tea. A new study suggests that dark chocolate and other cocoa-rich products may be better at lowering blood pressure than tea. Researchers compared the blood pressure-lowering effects of cocoa and tea in previously published studies and found eating cocoa-rich foods was associated with an average 4.7-point lower systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading) and 2.8-point lower diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number). But no such effect was found among any of the studies on black or green tea. Cocoa and tea are both rich in a class of antioxidants known as polyphenols. But researchers say they contain different types of polyphenols, and those in cocoa may be more effective at lowering blood pressure. Polyphenols Help Blood Pressure Current guidelines call for people with high blood pressure to eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, which are als...

Or is it Munnabhai's India? The victims of Operation Leech: With the help of the Calcutta intelligentsia and human-rights activists, can Burmese victimised by an Indian armed operation in the Andamans find justice? by | Soe Myint On 11 February 1998 in New Delhi, the Ministry of Defence announced in a press conference that on 8 February, a joint operation of the three wings of the Indian armed forces had successfully intercepted “an international gang of armed smugglers” and seized arms and weapons worth of USD 1 million in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The operation had been code-named “Operation Leech-111”. The security forces claimed to have arrested 73 foreign nationals. Six “gun-runners” were said to have been killed in the encounter. The media soon brought to light glaring gaps in the government’s story. The newspaper Andamans Today exposed the fact that those arrested and killed in the operation belonged to the National United Party of Arakan (NUPA) and the Karen National...

As the Smoke Kills... The burning of incense releases high levels of some chemicals associated with lung cancer, findings over the past five years indicate. Incense, used primarily for religious, medicinal and meditative purposes, was found to create air quality environments hazardous to human health, according to reports by New Scientist magazine. A set of chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are of primary concern. While organic and often aromatic, PAH include carcinogenic chemicals such as the components of benzene and the chemical used in mothballs. A 2001 study by the National Cheng Kung University of Taiwan surveyed the air quality inside a poorly-ventilated temple and found benzopyrene levels that are 40 times greater than what is found inside of the homes of people who smoke cigarettes. The air quality in the temple was almost as bad as standing next to a busy intersection filled with car exhaust. Another report says: Benzene and methyl chloride was the most abun...

Elephants shouldn't be made slaves, chained and paraded in religious festivals. Yesterday, during a muslim festivity in Kerala, a tusker went wild - killing the mahout and injuring another elephant. It took almost three hours for the angry tusker to be tranquilised.

To understand the 'circumcised Aids prevention strategy', one has to understand the politics behind it. This American government wouldn't pay for Africa's condoms. Using Condoms goes against the principles of sex laid out in the holy scriptures. http://www.searchforacure.org/editorials/bushwhacked.html Bush stopped efforts by the Senate and House to increase funding for AIDS in Africa. When he talks big about AIDS in Africa he doesn't tell you he made sure one third of the money must be used for abstinence-only programs -- a complete waste of 300 million dollars. And none will go to any agencies offering family planning. And because Bush does not trust the Global AIDS Fund he wants the money to be given out by his State Department -- which knows absolutely nothing about HIV and chose 14 African countries for funds based on politics not their ability to use the money. Countries that have spent years planning and developing treatment programs that are left out of Bush...

Soon after Cronjegate, Woolmer wanted to put the rotten apple back in the basket. I mean he wanted to help Cronje make a comeback into the game - in some form or the other. That Woolmer was silent through the Cronjegate period - and remained silent for a long time... There are rumours that he was about to end his silence on Match-fixing/Betting... His biographer, Ivo Tennant, wrote in The Times newspaper: "Rumours Bob Woolmer was murdered because he was harbouring information on match-fixing or an association with corrupt bookmakers can be dismissed unequivocally." "As the co-author of his autobiography and its planned sequel, for which a publisher had still to be found, I can state that he had no intention of writing or publicising any such detail in either this or his book on coaching and sports science, which will be published in June." "He had no knowledge of Cronje's involvement in match-fixing during his time as coach of South Africa. If there there h...

If there is one essay that changed the way I saw life, it is this. Lawro, take a bow! Why the Novel Matters by DH Lawrence WE have curious ideas of ourselves. We think of ourselves as a body with a spirit in it, or a body with a soul in it, or a body with a mind in it. Mens sana in corpore sano . The years drink up the wine, and at last throw the bottle away, the body, of course, being the bottle. It is a funny sort of superstition. Why should I look at my hand, as it so cleverly writes these words, and decide that it is a mere nothing compared to the mind that directs it? Is there really any huge difference between my hand and my brain? Or my mind? My hand is alive, it flickers with a life of its own. It meets all the strange universe in touch, and learns a vast number of things, and knows a vast number of things. My hand, as it writes these words, slips gaily along, jumps like a grasshopper to dot an i , feels the...

The presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was rocked by revelations Wednesday night that one of its contracted employees was the creator of a scathing YouTube video against his opponent Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., despite Obama's insistance that he had nothing to do with it. Phil de Vellis, until Wednesday an employee of the company that handles Obama's Web site, boasted in a posting on the Huffington Post that he made the ad, though he claimed neither the Obama campaign nor his former employer, Blue State Digital — which does software development and hosting for Obama's campaign — was aware that he had. -- ABC News Like it or not, close to Two MILLION views! Go Youtube!

Former Irish Cricket Union president Robert Kerr died of a suspected heart attack on Wednesday (21st March), the second fatality in four days at the World Cup. Bob Woolmer died in hospital on Sunday (18th March) after being found unconscious in his hotel room in Kingston. In the meanwhile, there are reports that Soctland Yard will investigate the death of Bob Woolmer. The Daily Telegraph (AUS) report goes on to say: Woolmer, 58, had been found in a pool of blood with vomit and faeces in his bathroom in room 375 on the 12th floor of the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. First pictures of the deceased coach appear to show cuts to his ear and eyebrow. Cricketworldcuplatest.com reports: With Jamaican police terming Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer’s death as suspicious, several Pakistani bookies who have gone to the West Indies for the World Cup are likely to come under investigators’ scrutiny. The bookies have been involved in match-fixing in the past. According to cricket circles in Pakistan, the mo...

Jamaican Police on Wednesday confirmed that poison traces have been found in Woolmer’s hotel room. The information lends credence to the apprehensions that the Pakistan coach was murdered. Woolmer`s preliminary post-mortem report on Tuesday had proved inconclusive. Toxicology and other forensic tests were carried out by the medial and police teams. ...[ more ]

Bob Woolmer was the coach of South Africa when Hansie fixer Cronje gambled and shamed the game we love so much. I have always wondered how much did Woolmer know about it all. Now Zee News reports: Fixing angle under scanner, Pak team to stay back for investigation New Delhi, March 20: Speculation is rife about foul play being involved in Bob Woolmer`s death. Reports indicate that some current senior Pakistan team members might have fixed both matches, against West Indies and Ireland. It is being debated in cricketing circles that he could have been killed to cover up match-fixing by the Pakistani team. The Pakistan team would not be allowed to fly back home till the investigations are over. The Pakistan Cricket Board, however, insists that team coach Robert Woolmer died of a massive heart attack. A report in a leading daily quotes former Pakistani fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz saying that certain top players in the team we...

India beat Bermuda by 257 runs, re-igniting their World Cup hopes. Sehwag smashed a brilliant hundred. Ganguly scored his second fifty in as many games this world cup. Yuvraj Singh reminded the world and himself what he is really capable of (He should watch videos of Michael Hussey's batting more often). Tendulkar, having lost his favourite opening slot, played a key role that fits his stature and expertise. Dravid, the skipper, was brave enough to walk in with a couple of balls to be bowled, and finished the innings in grand style with a massive six! Chappell's dreams came true. Dhoni's magic is not working anymore. Let's face it, bowlers know where to bowl to him. Dhoni has to come up with something new at the crease. There is an interesting story though, which many of the TV channels wouldn't talk about. Neither would Sidhu on NDTV nor the idiots in STAR NEWS channel. Sandeep Patil has to realise one thing, he may have taken Kenyan cricket to new levels... he is ...

Unbelievable - Bangladesh beat India. Unthinkable - Ireland knocked out Pakistan. 17 March 2007 was a bad a day for Indian cricket, a horror day for Pakistan. Even a military intervention would not have stopped Pakistan from losing the game to Ireland; they played poor cricket. Maybe this is some sort of a justice; Pakistan should have been fined/banned for not taking action against two of their players - drug cheats. That Pakistan considered playing the cheats at the World Cup, only to pull 'em out in the last minute (thanks to some miraculous injuries), is a good enough reason why they have been knocked out of the world cup. Cheating has no place in cricket. India's pathetic performance against Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) must have cheered up the Pakistani fans. If India can manufacture a loss against Bermuda or Sri Lanka - this will be a new chapter in cricket diplomacy between the two nuke nations in the Sub-Continent. That no one (other than Aussies) want Ponting...