It seems that democracy is restored after the United States on meharbaan is happening now in Pakistan and their camps in any way it wants to because it is now the world's trouble there is terrorism, not the Indians up by the food crisis due to over-eating is showing . It may be that the people of India and Pakistan come closer to the U.S. is not tolerated and indirectly from the people of Pakistan to the message being that the Indian people try to escape and account for more You will eat the grain.

America's position now is wobbly because the Iraq and Afghanistan proved to be a big headache. India, like the U.S. is expected to be completed were not here because of the internal situation is no less challenging. mr. bush's statement as a result of stress because they seem to have their presidential elections before it was also aware that India is not in what direction. His Foreign Minister Rice कोंडला and then she comes to India are moved. India's diversity and the characteristics of the doubt to address them. His statement only after his statement in support of the mr. bush come.

The statement of the mr. bush We do not blame anyone involved must be viewed as a rich nation, the head. This mentality is that the rich of the poor they eat, drink and sleep like the rest is not - because they are naseeb from the things they do when the money is coming. If not my thing, you know wellknown poet Rahim, who have been saying that the rich concoction of low power. Now it is known that the whole body of the sport depends on the strength of digestion of food. If he is not and will not sleep well because of the stress will continue. American Indian spiritual people, why are so many giggles? India's why there has been promoting yoga? For pleasure in the U.S. - facilities because of physical labor practice is becoming less. This condition is the hypocrisy and sanctimonious Baba there running his disciples by making their work is. This means that the Indians have been eating on his comments a similar result seems to stress that at this time in their minds.
There were several times in this country view that the road to get on their trucks and tralee summer afternoon in the bottom of the workers are afraid to eat the rich to take a sleep in the AC, it does not naseeb.

The rich do not get to the point that he has the pleasure of property, prosperity and reputation is that they are faced with the suffering of the poor how to live without him? So how do the rest, while they sleep for it to take pills. We ask what George Bush his country's rich people think and what the different state now, such a statement came here to be very rich class and now here is the perception of poor eating on the convulsions. Which is good that it is now working hard to influence appetite seems to be the best man will eat and eat it too hard. Hunger and honestly feel good to income earned in each person's fate is not.

U.S. economic course were recommended by the country goes on is still working hard on the farmers of the country's economy alive. The industry seems to glow in the cities, is the only artificial, it is the truth, then one can see. Raj, the rich have the disease and its treatment is also money for the poor to have his body except for what it is and if she did not save where it will be. The industrial and technological development are talking about it non-technical workers and employees do not look for a place in the struggle and a man who can earn their bread if it has been run so long that not even the pain in his heart One has to be heard - it's his sweat drops out of the country. Such convulsions are also rich in many of the poor are poor because there are more account of the Bush Sahib also say if he has no need to be more troubling.

ऐसा लगता है कि लोकतंत्र बहाल होने के बाद अमेरिका अब पाकिस्तान पर मेहरबान हो रहा है और उसे किसी तरह अपने कैंप में रखना चाहता है इसलिये उसे अब विश्व का संकट वहां पनप रहा आतंकवाद नहीं बल्कि भारतीयों द्वारा अधिक खाने के कारण खाद्यान्न संकट  दिख रहा है। ऐसा भी हो सकता है कि भारत और पाकिस्तान के लोगों का  करीब आना अमेरिका को सहन नहीं हो रहा है और परोक्ष रूप से पाकिस्तान के लोगों को यह संदेश दिया जा रहा हो कि इन भारत के लोगों से बचने का प्रयास करें क्योंकि अधिक खाते हैं और तुम्हारा अनाज भी खा जायेंगे।

अमेरिका की स्थिति अब डांवाडोल होती जा रही है क्योंकि इराक और अफगानिस्तान उसका बहुत बड़ा सिरदर्द साबित होने वाले हैं। अमेरिका भारत से जैसी  अपेक्षा कर रहा है वह पूरी नहीं हो रहीं हैं क्योंकि यहां की आंतरिक स्थिति भी कम चुनौतीपूर्ण नहीं है। जार्जबुश का यह बयान किसी ऐसे ही तनाव  का  परिणाम प्रतीत  होती  है क्योंकि उनको अपने राष्ट्रपति  चुनाव से पहले यह भी पता नहीं था कि भारत है किस दिशा में। उनकी विदेशमंत्री कोंडला राइस भारत आती रहतीं है और फिर चली जातीं हैं। भारत की विविधताओं और विशेषताओं का उनको पता हो इस पर संदेह है। उनके बयान के बाद ही उसके समर्थन में जार्जबुश का यह कथन सामने आया है।

जार्जबुश के इस कथन में हमें इसमे कोई दोष नहीं देखना चाहिए क्योंकि वह एक अमीर राष्ट्र के प्रधान हैं। अमीरों की यह मनोवृत्ति होती है कि उनको गरीब का खाना, पीना और चैन से सोना  पसंद नहीं है-क्योंकि उनके नसीब से  यह चीजें चलीं जातीं हैं जब धन उनके पास आता है। मेरी नहीं तो कविवर रहीम के बात तो आप मानेंगे ही जो कह गये हैं कि अमीरों की पाचन शक्ति कम होती है। अब यह तो सब जानते हैं कि इस देह का सारा खेल भोजन की पाचन शक्ति पर निर्भर करता है। अगर वह नहीं है तो नींद अच्छी नहीं आयेगी और उसकी वजह से तनाव रहेगा।  अमेरिका के लोग भारतीय अध्यात्म इतने फिदा क्यों हैं? भारत के योग का प्रचार वहां क्यों बढ़ा है? क्योंकि अमेरिका में सुख-सुविधाओं के चलते शारीरिक परिश्रम का प्रचलन कम होता जा रहा है। हालत यह है के ढोंगी और पाखंडी बाबा भी वहां अपने चेले बनाकर अपना काम चला रहे हैंं।  मतलब यह कि भारतीयों के खाने पर यह की गयी टिप्पणी उनके ऐसे ही किसी तनाव का परिणाम लगती है जो इस समय उनके दिमाग में है।
इस देश में कई बार ऐसे भी दृश्य देखने को मिल जाते हैं कि सड़क पर लोग अपने ट्रकों और ट्रालियो के नीचे गर्मियों की दोपहर में मजदूर लोग खाना खाकर ऐसी नींद लेते हैं कि अमीरों को एसी में भी वह नसीब नहीं होती।

अमीरों को इस बात से सुख नहीं मिलता कि उनके पास संपत्ति, वैभव और प्रतिष्ठा है उनको यह दुःख सताता है कि उनके सामने रहने वाले गरीब उसके बिना कैसे जिंदा है? वह इतने आराम की नींद कैसे लेते है जबकि उनको इसके लिये गोलियां लेनी पड़ती है। हम जार्ज बुश का क्या कहें अपने देश के अमीर लोग भी क्या इससे अलग सोचते हैं और अब तो ऐसे राष्ट्राध्यक्ष का बयान आया है जिसको यहां का धनवान वर्ग बहुत मानता है और अब यहां गरीबों के खाने पर आक्षेप होंगे। अब यह भला कौन समझाए कि मेहनत करने से भूख अच्छी लगती है तो खाना भी आदमी खाएगा और खाएगा तो मेहनत भी करेगा। अच्छी भूख लगना और ईमानदारी से आय अर्जित करना  प्रत्येक व्यक्ति के भाग्य में नहीं होता। 

अमेरिका द्वारा सुझाये गये आर्थिक मार्ग पर यह देश चलता जा रहा है पर अभी भी किसानों की मेहनत पर ही इस देश की अर्थव्यवस्था जिंदा है। उद्योग की चमक जो शहरों में दिख रही है वह केवल कृत्रिम है यह सत्य तो कोई भी देख सकता है। अमीरों के पास राज है तो रोग भी हैं और उसके इलाज के लिये धन भी है पर गरीब के पास सिवाय अपनी देह के और क्या होता है और वह अगर उसे भी न बचाने तो जाये कहां। जिस औद्योगिक और तकनीकी विकास की बात कर रहे हैं उसमें गैर तकनीकी श्रमिकों और कर्मचारियों के लिये कोई जगह दिखती भी नहीं है और ऐसे संघर्ष में जो आदमी अगर रोटी कमा कर अपना चला रहा है उसके पास इतना समय भी नहीं होता कि अपने मन का दर्द किसी को सुना सके-वह तो उसके पसीने की बूंदों के साथ बाहर निकल जाता है। ऐसे में कई अमीर भी आक्षेप करते हैं कि गरीब अधिक खाते हैं इसलिये गरीब हैं ऐसे में अगर बुश साहब ने भी यह कह दिया तो उस पर अधिक परेशान होने की जरूरत नहीं है।

Round 2 will be very interesting, indeed.

Update:  Indy doesn't man up enough, and worse, covers the line.

Still, they're obviously on the same plane as the Pats, which is more than I can say for any other NFL team.

You would think that the end of the Cold War would usher in the beginning of peace and prosperity for the vast majority of the people in this land once ruled, according to their ideological enemies, by godless tyrants. Well, think again because it did not. And guess what, they now have 60 billionaires when they did not even have a single millionaire fifteen years ago. And in a land where the average pension is US$120 a month, a quarter of the economy is owned by 36 men.

Perestroika, the capitalist alternative, as it turns out, is not really a path to paradise as claimed. And before I get corrected and lectured lengthily, let me state that the revisionism really started since Khrushchev took power and Soviet social imperialism heralded its eventual fall. But that would require a different posting.

Well, what did they say, be careful of what you wish for because you might get it.

Nothing could be farther from this than the soviet experience.

[Art by Gustave Doré.  Taken from Creationism.org]

"G8 Leaders Feast on 8 courses After Discussing World Food Shortages"

When I read this headline, the first thing that popped to my mind was this: Luke's Gospel, Chapter 16, Verses 19-31.

I've copied the text from the New American version of the Bible, but it should read the same regardless of the version you have access to.  Please read the excerpt, then click on any part of it to be taken to the story about the great feast.

Peace and Much Love.

jw

<Click on any text below to be taken to the story.>

"There was a rich man  who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.

And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores.

When the poor man died, he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.

And he cried out, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering torment in these flames.'

Abraham replied, 'My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented.

Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is established to prevent anyone from crossing who might wish to go from our side to yours or from your side to ours.'

He said, 'Then I beg you, father, send him to my father's house, for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they too come to this place of torment.'

But Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.'

He said, 'Oh no, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent

Then Abraham said, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead.'"

*Story [http://preview.tinyurl.com/TimesOnline] courtesy the Times Online.

*Find out more about the G8 Conference here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/G8-Summit

Peace and Much Love.

jw

My daughter returned, I started to drive off,  slowly past the man, thinking he would get his money out and be okay. But suddenly he just gave up trying and looked down. I stopped the car, jumped out to help him get his money back, feeling that he probably needed every penny he had. As I handed him his coin, about to make a dash back to the car, I looked up to smile at him but my smile soon faded as I noticed tears streaming from his eyes and running down his face. "Thank you..." he said earnestly. I felt stupid because I had done nothing, really.

I asked him where he was going, and he said he lived a few miles away in the mountains. I asked how he was getting there - somehow knowing he had no lift. He looked so dejected as he lifted his teary face to reply, "I don't know...I just don't know..." he shook his head. "I thought the buses ran today, but forgot it was Sunday. All the days are the same to me, and I just forgot."
"Right," I said, "I'm taking you home." I'll not easily forget the look on the poor man's face, in fact he just stood there for a few seconds in disbelief. "I come from Denver, Colorado," he said, "...and no-one there would ever have done what you just did." I had done this before, but never to such a dejected person.
 
I still felt that I hadn't even begun to do enough for the poor of this world, but hustled him and his bags into the car anyway, ignored the dreadful smell of the poor thing - angry with the world because of the futile waste of human life and the lack of care we take of each other and sometimes ourselves. He looked like an old man, but in truth was only in his early fifties. His wife had left him (probably because of his alcoholism etc) and was raising their daughter a few mins up the road. He mentioned how he missed his old mother in Denver, and started to cry very quietly. I didn't speak, because I didn't know what to say, and everything I thought about saying, sounded insincere.

After some time, he said, "Do you know, just before you came, I realised that not only couldn't I get my money out of the trolley, but I didn't how on earth I was going to carry those bags with my broken fingers, let alone somehow get home, and in this pouring rain. I just thought, what I am I going to do? And then, God sent me an angel."
 
I was a bit choked up, thinking how sad, and lonely some people are - even though sometimes people help to create their situation, but how we take for granted the richness in our own lives. I put my hand on his knee and squeezed it, then he put his dirty, lesion-filled hand over mine and we said nothing for a minute or two. In that time, I vainly hoped I could give him some little strength and some sort of comfort with which to carry on in his empty life. Sometimes a thing as simple as a smile can lift a person's spirits enough to brighten their day - if only for a little while.
 
Before he died, my father told me that we should pray for opportunities to be put in our way. God forgive me for the times I've driven past someone who needs me because I can't see what's right there in front of me.