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Lyrics:
Wake Up Everybody
-- Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Wake up everybody no more sleepin' in bed
No more backward thinkin' time for thinkin' ahead
The world has changed so very much from what it used to be
There's so much hatred war and poverty
Wake up all the teachers time to teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen to whatcha have to say
'Cause they're the ones who's coming up and the world is in their hands
When you teach the children teach 'em the very best you can
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be
The world won't get no better
We gotta change it yeah, just you and me
Wake up all the doctors make the old people well
They're the ones who suffer and who catch all the hell
But they don't have so very long before the judgment day
So won'tcha make them happy before they pass away?
Wake up all the builders time to build a new land
I know we could do it if we all lend a hand
The only thing we have to do is put it in our minds
Surely things will work out they do it every time
The world won't get no better
If we just let it be
The world won't get no better
We gotta change it yeah, just you and me
Change it yeah, just you and me
Change it yeah, can't do it alone, need some help y'all
Can't do it alone yeah
Wake up everybody, wake up everybody
Need a little help y'all, need a little help
Need some y'all to change the world from what it used to be
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Flowers by the Sea
By William Carlos Williams
When over the flowery, sharp pasture’s
edge, unseen, the salt ocean
lifts its form—chicory and daisies
tied, released, seem hardly flowers alone
but color and the movement—or the shape
perhaps—of relentlessness, whereas
the sea is circled and sways
peacefully upon its plantlike stem
News
Want to reduce your heating, cooling bills by 90 percent?
CLEVELAND — Everyone needs a home, but not every home, it seems, needs a furnace — even in Cleveland.
A house built for a new museum exhibit shows how walls more than a foot thick, big triple-pane windows, doors like bank vaults and clever engineering can cut heating and cooling costs — and pollution — by 90 percent. The house keeps a comfortable temperature year-round. No need for heavy sweaters, no drafts, no noise.
Obama Seeks to Win Back Wall St. Cash
The president’s top financial industry supporters say they are confident that the support Mr. Obama needs will ultimately be there, despite the financial industry’s unhappiness over his efforts to tighten regulation of their businesses. But it is clear that those supporters will have to work much harder to win over the financial services industry than they did in 2008, before Wall Street’s bust, the subsequent clashes over policy and the sometimes bitter personal differences that lingered afterward.
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And as Mr. Obama seeks to rebuild, Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, is using his background as a venture capital executive and his policy proposals to woo financial-industry donors.
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Members of the president’s economic team and his chief of staff, William M. Daley, a former banking executive, have been more active in reaching out to Wall Street executives about policy issues, donors said, along with Mr. Messina and Patrick Gaspard, the D.N.C.’s executive director.
F.B.I. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy
WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention.
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Some of the most notable changes apply to the lowest category of investigations, called an “assessment.” The category, created in December 2008, allows agents to look into people and organizations “proactively” and without firm evidence for suspecting criminal or terrorist activity.
Under current rules, agents must open such an inquiry before they can search for information about a person in a commercial or law enforcement database. Under the new rules, agents will be allowed to search such databases without making a record about their decision.
U.S. homeless total holds steady in 2010, but ranks grow outside cities
While once a predominantly urban problem largely of individuals without families, homelessness, like poverty, has increasingly migrated to suburban and rural areas where more non-Hispanic white families are being impacted. In fact, the number of homeless people in households with at least one adult and one child has increased 20 percent since 2007, and families make up a larger share of those in emergency housing than ever before.
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Since the recession first hit in December 2007, the number of chronically homeless Americans has fallen 11 percent to 109,920 in 2010. Meanwhile, the number of long-term housing beds to accommodate them has increased 34 percent over the same period.
WikiLeaks cables show that it was all about the oil
The communication, part of the cache of State Department cables that WikiLeaks passed to McClatchy and other news organizations, is just one indication of how the U.S. government over the years has maneuvered to influence the world's oil and natural gas markets.
With oil trading near $100 a barrel and gasoline near $4 a gallon at the pump, Americans can take solace in knowing that securing sources of oil has been a chief focus of U.S. embassies across the globe for years.
CIA to operate drones over Yemen
Because it operates under different legal authorities than the military, the CIA may have greater latitude to carry out strikes if the political climate shifts in Yemen and cooperation with American forces is diminished or cut off.
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The new tasking for the agency marks a major escalation of the clandestine American war in Yemen, as well as a substantial expansion of the CIA’s drone war.
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At a hearing before a Senate committee Thursday, CIA Director Leon Panetta confirmed that the agency had expanded its counter-terrorism programs in Yemen, Somalia and North Africa.
NATO War Planners Underestimate Gaddafi Support
“I think there is some naivete among the war planners” at NATO regarding Moammar Gaddafi’s support among the Libyan public, says Vijay Prashad, professor of International Studies at Connecticut’s Trinity College. “There are going to be very large sectors in Libya that will stand with Gaddafi” against the foreign-backed rebels. “There will be a big fightback, especially if there are European troops in Libya.”
Lyrics:
It's Different for Girls
-- Joe Jackson
What the Hell is wrong with you tonight?
I can't seem to say or do the right thing
Wanted to be sure you're feeling right
Wanted to be sure we want the same thing
She said, "I can't believe it
You can't, possibly mean it
Don't we, all want the same thing
Don't we, well, who said anything about love?"
"No, not love", she said
"Don't you know that it's different for girls?"
(Don't give me love)
"No, not love", she said
"Don't you know that it's different for girls?"
You're all the same
Mama always told me, "Save yourself
Take a little time and find the right girl
Then again don't end up on the shelf
Logical advice gets you in a whirl"
I know, a lot of things that you don't
You wanna hear some?
She said, "Just give me something
Anything, well, give me all you got but not love"
"No, not love", she said
"Don't you know that it's different for girls?"
(Don't give me love)
"No, not love", she said
"Don't you know that it's different for girls?"
You're all the same
You're all the same
You're all the same
Who said anything about love?
"No, not love", she said
"Don't you know that it's different for girls?"
(Don't give me love)
"No, not love", she said
"Don't you know that it's different for girls?"
(Don't give me love)
"No, no, no, no, not love", she said
"Don't you know that it's different for girls?"
(Don't give me love)
"No, no, no, no, no, not love", she said
"Don't you know that it's different for girls?"
You're all the same
You're all the same
You're all the same
You're all the same