pipwilson Interesting piece in today's Guardian -

"families in crisis need love,
not distant professionals"

http://bit.ly/hCsmwB


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'U2 Duals' - The Tracklisting

Here's the news you've been waiting for: confirmed tracks and artists on 'U2 Duals', the limited-edition CD of U2 collaborations performed and recorded over three decades.

From the Soweto Gospel Choir to Allan Ginsberg, Willie Nelson to Mary J Blige and Mick Jagger to Green Day, the band have curated a collection of 'duals' which highlight the remarkable range of artists they've worked with.

A few of the fifteen tracks have featured on studio albums, but many have had only limited previous availability and some are released here for the first time.

We think it's a pretty special collection and with the finished CD now in production, we'll be emailing qualifying subscribers with details of delivery times as soon as we have them.

U2 Duals - Tracklisting

1. WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
U2 and Soweto Gospel Choir

2. THE WANDERER
U2 and Johnny Cash

3. FALLING AT YOUR FEET
Bono and Danny Lanois

4. MISS SARAJEVO
Passengers and Luciano Pavarotti

5. SLOW DANCING
U2 and Willie Nelson

6. THE SAINTS ARE COMING
U2 and Green Day

7. SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY (Live from Auckland)
U2 and Jay-Z

8. ONE
U2 and Mary J Blige

9. WHEN LOVE COMES TO TOWN
U2 and BB King

10. STUCK IN A MOMENT YOU CAN’T GET OUT OF (Live at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
U2 and Mick Jagger

11. THE BALLAD OF RONNIE DREW
U2, The Dubliners, Kíla, A Band of Bowsies

12. I’M NOT YOUR BABY
U2 and Sinead O’Connor

13. STRANDED (HAITI MON AMOUR) – Hybrid Mix
Jay-Z, Bono, The Edge, Rihanna

14. DRUNK CHICKEN / AMERICA
U2 and Allen Ginsberg

15. AMAZING GRACE
U2 and Soweto Gospel Choir

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And this government?
It has learned the lesson
that Thatcher never grasped.

In David Cameron

we have a leader

whose job is to

quietly legitimise a

semi-criminal,

money-laundering economy.

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THE BOOK

Treasure Islands,

all about the rich hitting the poorest

Fantastic article here ........ well out of my league of understanding

but I know enough to feel really angry about it all.

"I have realised that injustice of the kind described in this column is no perversion of the system; it is the system. Tony Blair came to power after assuring the City of his benign intentions. He then deregulated it and cut its taxes. Cameron didn't have to assure it of anything: his party exists to turn its demands into public policy. Our ministers are not public servants. They work for the people who fund their parties, run the banks and own the newspapers, shielding them from their obligations to society, insulating them from democratic challenge.

Our political system protects and enriches a fantastically wealthy elite, much of whose money is, as a result of their interesting tax and transfer arrangements, in effect stolen from poorer countries, and poorer citizens of their own countries. Ours is a semi-criminal money-laundering economy, legitimised by the pomp of the lord mayor's show and multiple layers of defence in government. Politically irrelevant, economically invisible, the rest of us inhabit the margins of the system. Governments ensure that we are thrown enough scraps to keep us quiet, while the ultra-rich get on with the serious business of looting the global economy and crushing attempts to hold them to account."

read the full article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/07/tax-city-heist-of-century?mobile-redirect=false

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"Seek the Shalom of the city
where I have sent you
because in it's shalom,
you will find your own shalom"
...Jeremiah methinx
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....... so we say together ......................
"..... through him we offer you our souls
and bodies to be
a living sacrifice.
Send us out
in your spirit
to live and work ...... "

Here It is all about;
offering
my soul ....... that is the heart of me - all my interior life
my body ...... all the exterior life .......... putting my body on the line
as a
living ........ not a dead sacrifice but ALIVE-!!
sacrifice ........... that is all about giving until it hurts ...
.... I don't do comfortable ....

It spurred me on ......

"only those who risk going too far
can possibly find out how far one can go'

ts eliot

The wireless stream was on consistently,

my connection intermittent,

the problem was the receiver -

me this morning in church.

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I have just cleaned my teeth
in more water
than some babies drank today.

And yesterday I rode my bike
more miles with more thigh
than some poor kids will hobble lamely
from the beginning of their existence.



And before I rode my bike
I had for breakfast more milk
than some mothers have in their breasts
to feed those babies who
had less water to drink than
I just cleaned my teeth in,
the very same who will hobble lamely
less of a distance than
I cycled after I drank that milk.





More than enough.