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Human flesh, say those who have eaten it, tastes like pork, therefore "Long Pig" - the cannibal's name for human flesh. Humanity is devouring the world - cooking it on the flames of global warming. Soon Northern Europe will resemble the Tropics.
 

Charles Manson called his plan to kill the rich of California after a song by the Beatles; 'Helter Skelter', because he thought the lyrics fitted his theory. Manson, a petty criminal, attracted a group of followers, many of whom were very young women with troubled emotional lives who were rebelling against their parents and society in general. He battered down their inhibitions and questioned the validity of their notions of good and evil with the use of drugs. The core of his 'philosophy' was a kind of Armageddon. He preached that the black man was going to rise up and start killing the whites and turn the cities in to an inferno of racial revenge. The black man would win this war, but wouldn't be able to hang onto the power he seized because of innate inferiority. Charlie the Prophet had already forecast that the murders would start in the summer of 1969, but as the summer went on, it looked as though the "prophet" was wrong. And for no other reason Manson and his followers killed a group of celebrities, including Sharon Tate, in cold blood.

Everywhere gurus are trying to rob people of their money and sense.
 

The Sandinistas try to make sense out of the destruction of their government by the USA.

The tune came out of meeting and playing with the Bhundu Boys, from Zimbabwe, but the lyrics were drawn from that same visit to Nicaragua in 1990. Tomas in the song is Tomas Borge, one of the leaders of the Sandinistas. The following year I visited a friend who was working in El Salvador for the United Nations, and had the opportunity to go into the guerrilla occupied territory. We arrived in this very small village which was riddled with bullet holes and mortar craters. We went into the only little shop and lo and behold! on the wall: a ninja turtle poster. American culture even here. The song is about the relation between the 1st and 3rd worlds. Steve Skaith
 

A look at the death of a protest singer of the 1960's and of that which died with him.

Phil Ochs was a talented singer-songwriter of the 1960s who addressed all manner of anti-war, civil rights, labour, and social justice issues in America. To Ochs, music was a means to carry a message and with unending optimism claimed young men and women could change the world for the better if only they were willing. By the late 60s, increasing weariness and disenchantment with idealism began to seep into both his compositions and his singing. Phil Ochs took his own life in 1976.
 

In a world that's defined by the struggle to survive, every single person is striving to leave behind a permanent impression, good or bad.
 

What happens to all the beautiful people, whose faces fill our magazines, after they've had to make way for the younger and fresher ones?
 

In their search for work the young are drawn to the big cities. The hostile and uncaring city swallows up the careless.
 

The Aids virus steals our friends from us. While the innocent suffer, the powerful use their power to pin the blame on them - for what?
 

Even if the church could manage to rediscover the truth of all-encompassing love, who these days would even notice?
 

None of the old philosophies seem in a position to explain the world, let alone to change it.
 

History was so violent that it is a miracle that we made it this far.
 

While the guardians of a religion want to kill the author Salman Rushdie, their own people are becoming victims of racism in the western world.