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Hic et ubique
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Jerry has used the line, "What Nature doesn't do to us is being done by our fellow man." Some may not recognize his reference to a song that the Kingston Trio recorded at least 40 years ago.
    1 They're rioting in Africa,
    2 They're starving in Spain.
    3 There's hurricanes in Florida,
    4 And Texas needs rain
    5 The whole world is festering
    6 With unhappy souls.
    7 The French hate the Germans,
    8 The Germans hate the Poles;
    9 Italians hate Yugoslavs,
    10 South Africans hate the Dutch,
    11 And I don't like anybody very much!

    12 But we can be tranquil, and thankful and proud,
    13 For man's been endowed vith a mushroom-shaped cloud.
    14 And we know for certain that some lovely day
    15 Someone will set the spark off,
    16 And we will all be blown away!

    17 They're rioting in Africa,
    18 There's strife in Iran.
    19 What nature doesn't do to us
    20 Will be done by our fellow man!
When checking for the lyrics, I found a 1998 version that updated it by footnoting to items in the current news. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

No doubt we could update it to today. I've numbered the lines, so that each of us can add notes and links to current news and indicate where each would fit.

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Line 10: South Africans hate the Dutch

BBC, Sept. 5, 2004: "A new exhibition in the South African city of Cape Town is causing controversy amongst art-goers after the curator decided to display the paintings the wrong way round. The paintings of 17th century Dutch old masters from the Michaelis Collection have been hung facing the wall and not the visitors."
 
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3 There's hurricanes in Florida,
10 Deaths Blamed on Hurricane Frances, Frances Bedevils Georgia After Leaving Behind Flooding and Long Lines in Florida.

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18 There's strife in Iran.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - About 500 hardline vigilantes have taken to the streets of Tehran, demanding authorities crack down on women who wear colourful headscarves and figure-hugging coats which they denounce as "prostitution".


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And Texas needs rain


Here's a look at major Texas droughts since the early 1900s: KLTV.

Last entry was 2003...


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1 They're rioting in Africa
17 They're rioting in Africa
AllAfrica.com


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5 The whole world is festering
6 With unhappy souls.
Mr. Bush's critics will say it sidesteps the problems of deeply festering resentments of American power around the world. (New York Times, Sept. 1, 2004)

Terrorism did not start on September 11, 2001. It ... had been festering for many years. (Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, addressing the Republican National Convention, Aug. 30, 2004)

Osama Bin Laden is hiding out among the have-nots, with all of the other potential Osama Bin Ladens that the world is now festering with. (H. de Soto, interviewed on ABC News, Sept. 16, 2003)

Sports, athletics, even festivals are irremediably political. And it will take international human endeavour and cultural imagination - homonoia - to do anything towards clearing out the festering piles of hatred, aggression and vengefulness from the world that is celebrating the Athens 2004 Olympics. (Book review by Oliver Taplin, The Guardian, Aug. 14, 2004)

Just out of curiousity, had anyone ever heard of 'homonoia'?
 
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