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Date: 13 October 2007 12:06:48
When Jesus gave His Sermon on the Mount I'm sure that the world in which He lived was as ravaged by conflict as ours is today. Ok, so the Roman Empire had brought a certain amount of peace to much of the "known" world but there were still uprisings and the danger of war with Parthia or some Germanic tribes. So peace, and agents for it, were needed as much as they are today.
However who would have believed that a 1970's manufactured pop group could become an agent for peace in a strife torn region on the Euro-Asian borders. Yet that is what is happening.
The country of Georgia, no not the state in the US, in the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union has been plagued by unrest in the South Ossetia region of the country. The South Ossetians have been fighting for autonomy for some time now. However the Georgians have hit upon a novel method of achieving peace in the conflict.
This weekend they are holding a concert in the village of Tamarasheni, a village of 500 people. The venue has been chosen because it is a short walk from the rebel capital of Tskhinvali. The area is patrolled by Georgian ands Ossetian troops and Russian peacekeepers. It has been in a constant state of unrest since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
So who are the chosen supergroup to form this extraordinary task? U2? REM? The reformed Beatles? Maybe The Who or The Rolling Stones? Maybe this is why Led Zeppelin are reuniting.
No, the chosen medium for reconciliation are those people who brought us Rasputin (Lover of The Russian Queen); Brown Girl In The Ring; Daddy Cool and Ma Baker. Yes, its those titans of manufactured 70's German pop - Boney M. Well whoever it is that is touring under that name now.
Yes, the people who didn't sing a note on their records. Those people who sang about The Rivers of Babylon and Mary's Boy Child are the medium for love peace and unity. You see they had a large following in the former Soviet Union - mainly because they were one of the few Western Imperialist Lapdog Capitalist Repressors that were approved for consumption by the Soviet authorities.
I think that there will either be a spontaneous outbreak of peace or the Ossetians will organise a immediate counter offensive using their own secret weapon. The rumour is that they have managed to obtain Milli Vanilli recordings to use in response.....