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May-June 2007
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the good and the bad...
General News
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Some of the Front and Center
CONN HALLINAN
Prelude to a Conflagration
Dark Plots in Byzatine Beirut
Nur abdur Rashid
In pursuit of ideals,
a portion of each generation hopes beyond hope:
The Merit of this age bequeaths to us the hope of the promise of our original design. All religions hold to some ideal, what Plato refers to the Idea of the Good. But we so often prefer the incomprehensible gulf between our mortal selves and the saints, sages, bodhisattvas, messiahs that we champion as the arbiters of our faiths...
Barack Obama
Addresses on War, Poverty
and "Quiet Riot" Among Blacks
Carl Bloice
Somalia:
The (Hidden) War for Oil
Soontorn Boonyatikam
Bangkok Bio-Solar House
JULIAN GEARING AND MARIA CHENG
Green Seeds
Asia's builders are not yet all that environmentally friendly. But a passionate, innovative group of architects is creating homes and offices that show off the benefits of eco-living
The Defining Moment
Married Priests Now!
Interview with Archbishop George Augustus Stallings, Jr., Founder of Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation of Washington, D.C.
The Defining Moment
The Second Coming of Christ
Interview with Archbishop George Augustus Stallings, Jr., Founder of Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation of Washington, D.C.
Some of the Good
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CNN-IBN
US student makes Pune poor smile
A freshman at Emory University in Atlanta four years ago, today Sholtys runs a home for street children.
Santideva
The Bodhicaryavatara (Oxford World's Classics)
The British Library
Sacred Stories
Sue Blaine
South Africa: Oprah's Academy
to Inspire Needy Girls
Grameen-info.org
Prof. Muhammad Yunus & Grameen Bank
Awarded The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006
Some of the Mid-lands
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Nikolas K Gvosdev
Putin's smart Gabala gambit
By proposing to base an anti-ballistic-missile system in Azerbaijan - and to have it be a joint operation between Russia and the West - Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to have caught the White House off guard. And the Russian leader, whose penchant for judo is well known, now appears ready to flip some of Washington's own arguments and statements to strengthen the case against the deployment of any such system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
MSN Money
Saving For College ?
Asiaweek
25 Young Wired and Rich
Arnaud de Borchgrave
Watching America
Some of the Bad
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William N. Grigg
Bad Company: Yet Another "Terrorist Plot" Orchestrated by the CIA?
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
Iraqi Kurds: Turkey Shells Across Border
Ann Jones
Drug war, Taliban,
poppies are all in full flower
Teresa Lake
Pushing Afghanistan's poppy potential
The Senlis Council
Poppy for Medicine in Afghanistan
A village-based counter-narcotics model
Wikipedia
The Senlis Council
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War(s) On Terror
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UPI
Iraqi Lawmakers Demand US Withdrawal
Patrick Seale
US is building bases in Iraq
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War(s) of Terror -- Africa Again?
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Afyare Abdi Elmi
No to occupation or warlordism.
Yes to a Somali-Owned Solution
BBC
Timeline: Ethiopia and Somalia
Ethiopia is backing the Somali interim government against Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts (UIC). The BBC News website logs the two countries' troubled relationship.
Rashid Abdi
Quick guide: Somalia's Islamists
The Union of Islamic Courts controlled most of southern Somalia for six months after winning a battle for the capital, Mogadishu, in June. The US say they are linked to terrorist groups but they deny that... Almost all Somalis are Muslim but some are wary of the hardline elements.
Rashid Abdi
Unveiling Somalia's Islamists
BBC
On Somalia: Who supports who?
The Islamist group that has controlled much of Somalia for the last six months has been defeated after an Ethiopian-backed government offensive. But there are fears that hostilities could still engulf the region in conflict. So where does each side get its money, weapons and moral support?
Riek Machar
Colonial Britain Hands Over
South Sudan to the North
Olivier Barlet
The modernity of genocide
A burning question remains : why the horror ?
. . . What is behind the genocides of the twentieth century if it is not the egocentrism and insecurity accompanying the affirmation of the individual's autonomy which characterizes modernity ? The temptation to project onto the other what is ours is strong. And a Rwandan proverb tells us : "Nta wiyanga nk'uwanga undi (Nobody hates himself more than he who hates others)".
In their quest to surpass, artists open themselves up to all influences and facilitate the removal of projections. They thus explore a fraternity in which the identities of each and everyone are no longer the centre of human identities : not a fraternity of blood, but a fraternity of sharing.
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What is Institutionalised Terror
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Source Watch
Proactive Preemptive Operations Group
William N. Grigg
Bad Company: Yet Another "Terrorist Plot" Orchestrated by the CIA?
Michel Chossudovsky
The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence (ISI)
in the September 11 Attacks
Le Nouvel Observateur
The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski,
President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser
Suzanne Goldenberg
Bush stance on al-Qaida suspects
is morally wrong, says Colin Powell
--- Geneva convention must be respected
--- Setback for White House military tribunals plan
Lindorff/Olshansky
The Case for Impeachment
Wikipedia
Shock and Awe is: Terror
Shock and awe is a military doctrine and a method of unconventional warfare that attempts to destroy an adversary's will to fight through spectacular displays of power. Its authors label it a subset of rapid dominance, a doctrine that advocates defeating an adversary by swift action against all aspects of their ability to resist, rather than by strictly military forces. It is a product of the National Defense University of the United States, and has been notably applied in the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
However, "shock" and "awe" are both synonyms of terror. To that extent, or from the perspective of the insurgent forces fighting conventional forces in military theatres such as the Middle East who frequently use terrorist doctrines or methods, or both, shock and awe is difficult to distinguish from terrorism because of the large number of indiscriminate civilian deaths. Mortality due to violence in Iraq since 2003, for example, has been due to coalition forces far more than insurgents.
Asian Times
CIA's 'black sites' breed more evil
Amnesty International
CASE SHEET 12 -- Ethiopian national/UK resident:
Benyam Mohammed al Habashi
Neil Mackay
One victim's story
Wikipedia
Johan Galtung's Notion of "Structural Violence"
Adam Curie
Structural Violence and
Making Peace: Building a new belief network
Peter Beaumont
Revealed: grim world of new Iraqi torture camps
Ashraf Fahim
The perils of colonial justice in Iraq
Andrew Buncombe and Kim Sengupta
Secret U.S. Jails Hold 10,000
Professor Manning Marable
9/11: Racism in a Time of Terror
I think that as Americans, we must also make a clear distinction between "guilt" and "responsibility." The Al Qaeda group is indeed guilty of committing mass murder. But the United States government is largely responsible for creating the conditions for reactionary Islamic fundamentalism to flourish. During Reagan's administration, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provided over three billion dollars to finance the mujahadeen's guerilla war against the Soviet Union's military presence in Afghanistan. The CIA used Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, or secret police, to equip and train tens of thousands of Islamic fundamentalists in the tactics of guerilla warfare. . . .
There is a clear link between 9/11 and the shameful political maneuvering committed by the U.S. at the United Nations World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa, only days before the terrorist attacks. There the U.S. government opposed the definition of slavery as "a crime against humanity." It refused to acknowledge the historic and contemporary effects of colonialism and racial segregation on the underdevelopment and oppression of the non-European world. The majority of dark humanity is saying to the United States that racism and militarism are not the solutions to the world's major problems. Transnational capitalism and the repressive neoliberal policies of structural adjustment represent a dead end for the developing world. We can only end the threat of terrorism by addressing constructively the routine violence of poverty, hunger, and exploitation that characterize the daily existence of several billion people on this planet. Racism is, in the final analysis, only another form of violence. . . .
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Historisists... Ain't that odd
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Warren Hedges
New Historicism Explained
Tanya Hernandez
Latino, African-American Violence On Rise Since Riots
Yohuru R. Williams
In the Name of the Law:
The 1967 Shooting of Huey Newton and
Law Enforcement's Permissive Environment
You Tube
The Murder of Fred Hampton pt. 1 of 4
You Tube
Malcolm X - The Cointelpro Connection
CNN
Former Black Panther freed (1997)
after 27 years in jail
Find Articles
Falsely Imprisoned Ex-Black Panther
`Geronimo' Pratt To Get $4.5 Mil.
In Settlement - Elmer 'Geronimo' Pratt
Max Hastings
The west's moral erosion has
undermined the war on terror
It is essential for the US and its allies to abide by the same rules they seek to impose on others. This principle is being flouted
Nation of Islam
The Murder of Malcolm X
The Effect on Black People
Multimedia Video Webcast by
the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
February 1990, Malcolm X College, Chicago, IL
The Memory Bank
Teaching Social Anthropology
Web's Biggest
The World's Top Anthropology Web Sites
Exposition of the Principle
The Foundation for the Messiah
... In conclusion, Jacob was victorious in taking responsibility for
the indemnity course to pay for Abraham's mistake. By using his wisdom
for the sake of God's Will, Jacob triumphed as an individual in his
struggle with Esau to win the birthright. He entered Haran and, as a
family, triumphed in a twenty-one-year struggle with his uncle Laban
to win the birthright. On his way back from Haran to Canaan, Jacob was
victorious in the fight with the angel. He was the first fallen man to
fulfill the indemnity condition to restore dominion over the angel.
Thereupon, he received the name "Israel,"75(Gen. 32:28)
signifying that he set the pattern and laid the groundwork upon which
the chosen people would be established. After returning to Canaan with
these victories, Jacob won Esau's heart, and together they fulfilled
the indemnity condition to remove the fallen nature.
Jacob thus victoriously completed the model course to bring Satan to
submission. Moses, Jesus, and even the people of Israel would walk
this course after the pattern set by Jacob. The history of Israel can
serve as a good historical source for understanding the course to
bring Satan to submission on the national level. For this reason, it
is central to the study of the providence of restoration.
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Israeli-Palestinian Re-unification...
George Bisharat
The mirage of the two-state solution
40th Anniversary of the Six-Day War. Solution on which all agree impossible to achieve
JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Rockets, Napalm, Torpedoes & Lie
Israel's Attack on the USS Liberty, Revisited
Sheldon L. Richman
"Ancient History": U.S. Conduct in the Middle East
Since World War II and the Folly Of Intervention
Jerusalem Post
Ahmadinejad: Bombs won't fix world
... The Iranian president also said he did not deny the Holocaust but that he merely "raised questions on it."
"I said that in World War Two sixty million people were killed. They were all humans with self-respect. Why (do we talk of) just six million? If it happened, it is a historic event, so why do they not allow for an independent investigation? Moreover, how are the Palestinians at fault? These questions need to be answered," said Ahmadinejad.
Homeostatic Truths
May we see in the enemy the face of our Father
Surah 41. Ha Mim Sajdah: Revelations Well Expounded
http://www.ishwar.com/islam/holy_quran_(pickthall)/sura041.html
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The good deed and the evil deed are not alike. Repel the evil deed
with one which is better, then lo! he, between whom and thee there was
enmity (will become) as though he was a bosom friend.
35
But none is granted it save those who are steadfast, and none is
granted it save the owner of great happiness.
Nur AbdurRashid
Impotence
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North and South Korean Re-unification...
Peter Prengaman
Korean Rappers Hip-Hop Fridays: Building Bridges With Blacks
IHT
A convenient truth
UPF
Rev. Sun-Myung Moon:
A Life for God and Humanity
Choe Sang-Hun
Tussle over a vanished kingdom
Wikipedia
Ban, Ki-moon
Ser Myo-ja
Japan archives support Korea's Dokdo claim
September 14, 2006 ㅡ A South Korean scholar said yesterday he has found a 19th-century map commissioned by the Japanese cabinet that excludes the contested islets called Dokdo from Japanese territory.
Sunwoo Young-jun, the head of the Metropolitan Air Quality Management Office, said yesterday that he found the map at the National Archives of Japan in Tokyo on Aug. 15. He released yesterday a drawing of the map reproduced from a photograph he took of it at the archives.
Mike Whitney
North Korea and the vanishing American Empire
Donald Kirk
N Korea's ace threatens US-Seoul alliance
All Empires dot Com
North Korea claims they have
dug up the mausoleum of Tang-gun,
and date it at 5067 year ago.
Moon Sun-Myung
North and South, East and West;
Proclaiming "God's Fatherland and
the Era of the Peace Kingdom" in 2004
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African Re-unification
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CNN
Taylor boycotts 'charade' trial
CNN
In land of war criminals, Liberia divided on Taylor trial
BBC
Charles Taylor - preacher, warlord and president
Manning Marable
Inheritance, Wealth And Race
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Completed Testament
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Good News / bad news
Frontlines / Spiritual-Physical Resurrection
...
Bo-Hi Pak
Liberated: Letter from Prison ...
Sun-Myung Moon
God's Model for Absoluteness, Peace, and the Original Ideal ...
AllAfrica.com
Zambia: I'm Still Catholic Archbishop - Milingo
Catholic Information Service for Africa (Nairobi) -- September 29, 2006
Posted to the web September 29, 2006 -- Emmanuel Milingo, the renegade former Catholic archbishop of Lusaka, remained defiant on Wednesday, scoffing at the Vatican announcement that he had been excommunicated.
Milingo told a news conference in Washington, USA, that he would continue his campaign to force the Church to accept married priests, Reuters reports.
"We do not accept this excommunication and lovingly return it to His Holiness, our beloved Pope Benedict XVI, to reconsider it and withdraw it and join us in recalling married priests to service once again," Milingo said.
"I'm not excommunicated. Who says? No, I'm not excommunicated. I'm in line with God."
Reverend Sun-Myung Moon
God's Ideal Family - the Model for World Peace:
Inaugural Convocation of
the Universal Peace Federation
Akbar Ahmed
Islam Under Siege
The Defining Moment
The Second Coming of Christ
Interview with Archbishop George Augustus Stallings, Jr., Founder of Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation of Washington, D.C.
Friends of Dr. Pak
Background of Bo Hi Pak's Trial
and Incarceration in Korea
For the past several years Dr. Pak has been working on some projects to raise a large endowment fund for the continued operation of the Korean Cultural Foundation, the Little Angels and the Universal Ballet. In addition he was trying to set up a new foundation called "The Korean Peoples Unification Foundation" in order to promote and realize the dream of the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula. He had many other ideas and programs that he wanted to realize for the spiritual and ethical revitalization of the Korean people. As anyone who is acquainted with Dr. Pak knows he is an irrepressible man of action to whom retirement or idleness is an impossibility.
For these reasons he was desperately pursuing some ill advised and ill-fated fundraising schemes introduced to him by some church members. To make a long story short Dr. Pak became a victim of international criminal scam artists who defrauded him of all of his money with the promise of huge financial support to the foundations.
Bo Hi Pak
Excerpt from "Messiah" -- On Reverend Moon's
Meeting with President Nixon,
Regarding Watergate
Rev. Michael Jenkins
Building Trust With Religious Leaders
in The Holy Land
American Clergy Leadership Conference
Exchanging the Cross for the Crown
Christian Leaders to Carry Cross,
Then Take It Down in Effort for
Peace and Reconciliation
Homeostatic Truths
My Favorite Sun-Myung Moon
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Frontlines / Sexual Identity ...
Sun-Myung Moon
Absolute Sex ...
Peter Akinola
Why I Object To Homosexuality And Same-Sex Unions ...
ReligionAndSpirituality.com
Episcopalian priest leaves over ideology
The denomination has seen a steady stream of defections since its decision to consecrate as a bishop an openly partnered homosexual. That decision was reaffirmed this summer at a national meeting of the denomination.
Douglas Brown
Porn epidemic?
THE INFUSION OF SEX INTO POPULAR CULTURE
HAS BEEN SO SEAMLESS THAT SOME CRITICS
ARE CALLING IT A PUBLIC-HEALTH CRISIS
Lorna Martin at Negril Beach
Sex, Sand and Sugar Mummies
in a Caribbean beach fantasy
A controversial new West End play will explore sex tourism in Jamaica, where lonely women flock for flings with young black men. But are these holiday romances sleazy or simply harmless?
The Associated Press
Philadelphia may evict Boy Scouts council
Neela Banerjee
Episcopal Church backs down on gay bishops
The New Yorker
Faith Matters:
Gay Bishops / Episcopal Church
SikhPal.com
Sikh Religion versus Gay Marriage
Sharon Hughes
A New Face for Gay Pride The Gay Culture II
In "The Overhauling of Straight America: Waging Peace Part Two" written in 1987, it outlines the recommended steps to be taken in order for America to accept homosexuality as normal... "To desensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion...if you can only get them to think that it is just another thing, with a shrug of their shoulders then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won..."
To bring a balance of resource sites I recommend visiting Changing Worldviews' Issues Library under Dr. Christopher Wolfe's and Dr. Warren Throckmorton's interviews with us for links such as People Can Change, and Is Homosexuality Genetic?
See:
changingworldviews.com/IssuesLibrary.htm#homosexuality
Changing World Views
Resources on the issue of Homosexuality
Dennis Prager
Judaism's Sexual Revolution:
Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality
Human sexuality, especially male sexuality, is polymorphous, or utterly wild (far more so than animal sexuality). Men have had sex with women and with men; with little girls and young boys; with a single partner and in large groups; with total strangers and immediate family members; and with a variety of domesticated animals. They have achieved orgasm with inanimate objects such as leather, shoes, and other pieces of clothing, through urinating and defecating on each other (interested readers can see a photograph of the former at select art museums exhibiting the works of the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe); by dressing in women's garments; by watching other human beings being tortured; by fondling children of either sex; by listening to a woman's disembodied voice (e.g., "phone sex"); and, of course, by looking at pictures of bodies or parts of bodies.
There is little, animate or inanimate, that has not excited some men to orgasm. Of course, not all of these practices have been condoned by societies -- parent-child incest and seducing another's man's wife have rarely been countenanced -- but many have, and all illustrate what the unchanneled, or in Freudian terms, the "un-sublimated," sex drive can lead to.
By and large, it is society, not the individual, that chooses whether homosexuality will be widely practiced. A society's values, much more than individual tendencies, determine the extent of homosexuality in that society. Thus, we can have great sympathy for the exclusively homosexual individual while strongly opposing social acceptance of homosexuality. In this way we retain both our hearts and our values...
Even if the majority of men became incapable of making love to women, it would still not be normal. Men are designed to make love to women, and vice versa. The eye provides an appropriate analogy: If the majority of the population became blind, blindness would still be abnormal. The eye was designed to see. That is why I choose the third response -- that homosexuality is unhealthy. This is said, however, with the understanding that in the psychological arena, "illness" can be a description of one's values rather than of objective science (which may simply not exist in this area)...
Henry Makow, PhD
Let's Reserve Sex for Marriage
... Gay or straight, we are all becoming homosexual because we cannot achieve the spiritual union or permanent intimacy that we really crave.
Sex is mistaken for love and replaces it, thereby assuming a deceptive importance. We are obsessed with it. Because it cannot satisfy our real need, we continue to up the ante and become kinkier.
We judge people strictly by their sex appeal and are cruelly indifferent to those who are not physically attractive. Women develop eating disorders. The aged naturally are treated with contempt.
We compensate for failure to find permanent love by making a public display of our promiscuity. This is supposed to affirm our freedom and identity. TV and movies testify to this perverse trend. In many cases homosexuals now are defining heterosexual norms. ("Sex and the City"; "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"; "Kinsey: Let's Talk About Sex")
We are in constant denial about our malaise and the forces that enslave us. . (See my "Is this Gay Behavior Sick? http://www.savethemales.ca/201101.html )
In contrast, heterosexuality is monogamous, exclusive and private. It is concerned with procreation, nurturing, and personal development.
Russell D. Moore
Homosexuality, Racism, and
the Eclipse of the Gospel
Carlton Johnson
Cultural diversity and Moral diversity are
two different constructs...
Steve Chin
Marriage is multicultural
BigEye.com
Sex Education
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Frontlines / Species-Race Identity
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Video Google
Boyd Graves interview on The Right Side with Armstrong Williams
Boyd Graves
The Smoking Gun of AIDS: In 1977,
a secret federal virus program produced
15,000 gallons of AIDS.
Kihura Nkuba
Polio vaccine genocide in Uganda
Youtopia
IMUSIL/TETRASIL
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Words of Wisdom -- Let it be
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Peace in Corporate Life
Nur abdur Rashid
Longings of the Soul
Peace in Family Life
Nur abdur Rashid
The Torque of Remembrance
Buddhist Perspectives
Filial Piety
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Humor / Cartoons
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Aaron McGruder
The Boondocks
Splitting Images
Celebrity Look-Alike Agency
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Music / The Arts
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You Tube
Gospel Videos of Note
Fusion Videos of Note
Jazz Videos of Note
InJin
Crimson Sketches
Culture Machine
Music has the power to form character
Cosmica
Learning How to Undraw the Line Between
Carnival
A Dream of a Goose... as sung by InSoon-I
Stevie Wonder
Hear 3 Songs from "A Time To Love"
Bandbuilder.Com
Listen to Seal's New Music (SEAL IV)
Seal.Com
Seals Official Home Site
Nur abdur Rashid
Spring Breeze
Play Lists @ GarageBand.Com / unsigned musicians
Instrumentals to study by
Sometimes we need some tunes that won't get our minds distracted into the deeper significance of the lyrics.
Classical, World, Jazz Aire
Concepts, by Pocket Dwellers
More music to study by: Sometimes you need to lead off with some classical aire
Tell Me Something Good
More Music with Lyrics that uplift and inspire
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