Leave the People alone... to be free and live in harmony...

I would like to begin the week with positive energy... and positive outlook...

Check the beautiful canvas below... I like the colours and I love the concept... glorifying nature through art and reminding us that this is the ONLY world we have... !!!

Excellent way to celebrate the future...

John Wolseley: 

Tony Ellwood, director of the National Gallery of Victoria  is quoted saying: “Wolseley’s work is not only of great beauty, but also demonstrates how depicting the landscape has become an important form of activism.”

Nature is very important to waste... Some Big Brothers still insist that global warming is from the fictitious imagination of the "liberals"... "left wing charlatans..." and to exploit the world and pollute it with chemicals is okay... 

What I suggest is that we confiscate their monies and send them to live in polluted swamps... Maybe they will change their minds... You never know... Maybe they will not... One can never tell... until we try it...

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The Middle East is the cradle of our civilization and the birth place of our three major religions...

It's very depressing and sad that one religion is attempting to dominate the Middle East... and expelling and massacring the Christian minorities and of course, if possible, to drive the Jews into the sea...

I am sure Jesus and Mohammad and Moses... will be able to live with each other... after all, their teaching can be reconciled...and they can live in peace and harmony...

The Islamic-Jihadists should be more tolerant and open to new ideas and norms... They should not act like people who are possessed with evil... and pursue a policy of "Either my way or the highway" and kick the ass of all who do not share their view...

Islamic-Jihadists and Islamic-fascists are becoming a hazard to the peaceful co-existence and development of the Middle East... 

Check the Turkish Islamic-fascist regime...                         

Two cartoonists for the popular satirical weekly Penguen have been jailed to 11 months in prison, over a satirical piece on free speech in which they were convicted of including a hidden gesture “insulting” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Cartoonists Bahadır Baruter and Özer Aydoğan were sued for the Aug. 21, 2014, cover of the magazine, which satirized Erdoğan’s election as Turkey’s president. In the drawing, Erdoğan is seen asking whether officials at the new presidential palace in Ankara have prepared “any journalists to slaughter,” referring to ritual sacrifice in Islam, to mark his inauguration.

In Paris,
The Islamist-Jihadists assassinated the reporters to silence Charlie Hebdo... In Turkey they have an easier way... They just imprison them...
In Turkey,
They organized the Genocide of the Armenians...and the Pontic Greeks and the Assyrians... Because they were Christian... ...And now they are imprisoning open minded Muslims for just their WORD and for satire...
Talking the truth in Islamist-fascist Turkey is an offence... Writing in Turkey is a freely is dangerous... and thinking with an open mind is hazardous to ones health...
Free speech is non-existent and very dangerous in religiously fascist Turkey...

Cartoonists Özer Aydoğan (L) and Bahadır Baruter (R)

This is not the first time Erdoğan has sued Penguen. He previously demanded 40,000 Turkish Liras in compensation from the magazine after they published a cover depicting the then-prime minister as various animals.

The magazine published that cover to support cartoonists from daily Cumhuriyet and daily Evrensel, who were earlier condemned to pay non-pecuniary damages to Erdoğan. A court in Ankara ruled to dismiss that case in 2006.

More than 70 people in Turkey have been prosecuted for “insulting” Erdoğan since he was elected president in August 2014. Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar testified in Istanbul on Feb. 26 over allegations that he insulted the head of state in an interview with a prosecutor who had been investigating corruption, describing the process as a “kind of deterrence policy.”

Soon after the publication, a Turkish citizen named Cem Safcıer filed a complaint to the Prime Ministry, arguing that the “ball-shaped” hand gesture of the official welcoming Erdoğan in the cartoon is used to imply that the person being addressed is homosexual.

President Erdogan is acting like the sultans before him... Like the chauvinist-fascist Kemal Ataturk, the founder of "modern" Turkey...

Banning FREE SPEECH and sentencing journalist to prison is NOT MODERN... and is not DEMOCRATIC too...

And the Question...                                           
Why the NATO-West is allied with this 

Turkish Islamist-fascists...? And why the 

oligarchs of Russia want to please 

them...?

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Another demonstration of NATO-West 

"democracy"

This Lina Khatib is a western intellectual...  but intelllectual must have an intellectual honesty...

But the NATO-West expects intellectual honesty from their adversaries and not from themselves... They can twist anything just to fit their game of GREED and their thrust of Profit...

So Does this Lina lady...

She is an Stanford scholar... but she is as deceptive as her tiles are glamorous...
She writes and talks about democracy... But democracy for her is the same as her NATO-West bosses... they pay her... so she is allowed to follow their diktat...

Lina Khatib is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. Previously, she was the co-founding head of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. 


Check her idea of the rule of law and democracy...

Before 2011, what the West most valued in the Middle East was stability rather than democracy. Arab dictatorships were tolerated for decades despite their cruelty because they served Western economic, political, and security interests. The Saudis and the West ignored the simmering sectarian tensions between the Zaidi Houthis and the Sunni tribes of Yemen, not to mention the popular anger at U.S.-led drone attacks that sometimes killed civilians. They also ignored Iran's rising ambitions; why would the Houthis -- Iran's allies -- limit themselves to northern Yemen if they could also expand southwards and rule the whole country? Dictators may keep a country secure, but they do that at the expense of their own people. They may support the West's interests, but they will turn against them whenever their own interests are threatened.

Two questions...

• The dictators that she is pointing out were all people who the NATO-West took care off... They first deposed them and then assassinated them...
• But the dictators list does not include any of the monarchs...the kings and the sheikhs... Those who are living in 15th century darkness... That is the Dark Ages...
• Why the dictators do not include the kings and the sheikhs...?   Answer: They are allies of the NATO-West... and by the very definition... the allies of the NATO-West are "democratic"...

This intellectual lady is wasting her time and wasting the time of her readers... she is just performing intellectual masturbation for all to see... and pay her too...

"Writers" and "Thinkers" who are engaged in intellectual dishonesty... intellectual masturbation... and intellectual prostitution... are not worth the paper that they write on... 

Lila Khatib is just paying her masters for their generous pay...

I am sure that Lila Khatib realizes that Saudis and the sheikhs are not democratic at all... 

I despise the Big Brothers... I despise intellectual prostitution more... The Saudis and the allies of the NATO-West... Turkey and the Sheikhs and Saudi Arabia and Jordan... are not democracies too... They are he docile form of the Islamist-Jihadist...

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I love Ukraine... 

I had many Ukrainian students and they were/are fantastic...

I want Ukraine to be free... 
I want Kiev to be centre of beautiful art again...

                  Kiev ... My Kind of city... My kind of culture...

The Ukrainians deserve better....

Russian oligarchs and NATO-West "democrats" should leave Ukraine to its people...

Ukrainians know better...

I want Ukraine to create and to dance and to sing and develop in FREEDOM and LIBERTY...
But,
The coalition that is "governing" Ukraine at present is neither democratic nor "free"... A big part of the coalition are fascists and ultra-nationalist chauvinist and outright oligarchs ... 
These oligarchs are allied with the NATO-West... so just like Turkey and the Kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Jordan and Morocco... they are "democratic' according to the definition of their masters....
I have repeated many times...
I hate oligarchs... be they Russian, like Putin, or Ukrainian like the ones that are ruling now...
The Ukrainians deserve better than the NATO-West and better that the Russian oligarchs...
Bot the West and the East and the North and the South should live Ukraine in peace... In peace Ukraine will develop and sing and dance and recreate the wonderful culture that they have created before...
Big Brothers of the West and the East... Should live Ukraine to its people... Let Ukrainians be free and live in harmony with their neighbours... of the West and of the East...

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I want the week to begin with positive energy and positive outlook...

So the Russian oligarchs and the NATO-West charlatans and Big Brothers... should leave "We the People..." alone... 

Colourful Springs...

Colourful Revolutions... Arab Springs and Putin for 16 years...

Maybe you are in the mood to think... It's the weekend, after all...!
Pour a glass of your drink... turn on the music... and think... It will definitely relax you... brighten the future... Thinking will show you... your way out...OUR WAY OUT... Maybe be a Don Quixote... and dream...

Spain finds Don Quixote writer Cervantes' tomb in Madrid

The Don Quixote author was buried in 1616 but his coffin was later lost.

When the convent where he was buried was rebuilt late in the 17th Century, his remains were moved into the new building and it has taken centuries to rediscover the tomb of the man known as Spain's "Prince of Letters".

"His end was that of a poor man. A war veteran with his battle wounds," said Pedro Corral, head of art, sport and tourism at Madrid city council.

I am enchanted by this song... It opens up a daring "fools" way out... But I am not a fool...!

It is the weekend... and you are allowed some accesses... to think and to dream of a better world where people live in peace and in harmony...

Sing with the Spanish... and dream ... and reach for and grab the unreachable star...

To dream the impossible dream

To fight the unbeatable foe

To bear with unbearable sorrow

To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong

To love pure and chaste from afar

To try when your arms are too weary

To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest

To follow that star

No matter how hopeless

No matter how far

To fight for the right

Without question or pause

To be willing to march into Hell

For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true

To this glorious quest

That my heart will lie peaceful and calm

When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this

That one man, scorned and covered with scars

Still strove with his last ounce of courage

To reach the unreachable star

It is the weekend and imagine the beauty of the world...

Caminito del Rey in Spain...

Dare to Dream... Dare to sing with Don Quixote...Dare to cross Caminito del Rey... It will be wonderfully exhilarating... 

                 Brooklyn Bridge in the twilight...New York...

...And bridge the gap... and bring humans together... After all, it's just a Global Village that we have... It is a good place and it's our duty to make it a better place...

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16 Years of Putin...
There soon will be a new biography of the him...
Let me be clear... I do not like oligarchs... I do not like Big Brothers and apparatchiks... I do not like people who are sycophants and oppressing "We the People"... I want individuals to be free... I want people to be free... I want the Global Village to be free..
Why the NATO-West... interested in this guy...? Why they are Challenging him... ?
They write books about him... a new bio is going to be published... soon... 
Check what they write in it...

Putin still smiling...

"I think it's the key to understanding Putin," says his German biographer, Boris Reitschuster. "We would have another Putin and another Russia without his time in East Germany."

It is 5 December 1989 in Dresden, a few weeks after the Berlin Wall has fallen. East German communism is dying on its feet, people power seems irresistible.

Then a small group of demonstrators decides to head across the road, to a large house that is the local headquarters of the Soviet secret service, the KGB.

"The guard on the gate immediately rushed back into the house," recalls one of the group, Siegfried Dannath. But shortly afterwards "an officer emerged - quite small, agitated".

"He said to our group, 'Don't try to force your way into this property. My comrades are armed, and they're authorized to use their weapons in an emergency.'"

That persuaded the group to withdraw.

But the KGB officer knew how dangerous the situation remained. He described later how he rang the headquarters of a Red Army tank unit to ask for protection.

The answer he received was a devastating, life-changing shock.

"We cannot do anything without orders from Moscow," the voice at the other end replied. "And Moscow is silent."

So the Berlin Wall collapsed... but while tumbling down it shaped Putin...

Above all, it left him with a huge anxiety about the frailty of political elites, and how easily they can be overthrown by the people.

But the NATO-West... would be antagonistic to any Putin... to any Russian oligarch... when that Putin or that oligarch refuses to follow their hegemony... 
The NATO-West wants a uni-polar world where they reign supreme and where their GREED is not challenged and where their profits are not threatened...
Putin... the oligarchs want a share of the bounty that the NATO-West squeezes out of "We the People..." 
The NATO-West is reluctant... to share...
So a huge conflict is created...
The NATO-West "invented" their favorite game... The game of "Democracy in Ukraine..." and the other government the Putin crowd and sympathizers were pushed out... The new Ukrainian crowd was not interested in democracy... They were not interested to usher in PEACE and HARMONY... After all, a large part of the NEW crowd was/is more a nationalist-fascist -chauvinist... crowd and a crowed like that cannot be peace loving and democratic...
That's the Big lie of the Big Brothers of NATO-West...
The truth of the matter is the NATO-West wants absolute hegemony and does not want to share the booty... with the oligarchs of Russia-East...
And of course Ukrainians are killed and "We the People..." pay for their GREED... and Big Brother profits-without-borders...

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Last week the Islamic-Jihadists attached a museum in Tunis... where the so called "Arab Spring" began...

Today here are reports that the Jihadists ...not the ones that the NATO-West is fighting, but the Jihadists supported by NATO-West allies... have captured more territory in Syria...

The NATO-West is allied with the reactionary monarchies of the Arabian peninsula... and with the smaller sheikhdoms...

These crowd has petro-dollars and the NATO-West wants a cut out of it... So they do not care whether they are "democratic" or not... in this case money talks... and the NATO-West comprehends the language of money-profit very well... After all, they invented it...

Check what the "Arab Spring" ushered in...

• The Arab Spring began in Tunisia with the ouster of its longtime   leader... and now the Islamic-Jihadists are attempting to create turmoil there...
• The rest of the "Springs" in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria.....    
• In Egypt it started with good promise, but then the Islamists came to power and they wanted their kind of "democracy" in which Christians did not have anything...                              
• Libya was never successful...                                                         and                                                                                                  
• the narrative in Yemen is still unfolding and there is brutal civil war... where the NATO-West supported Saudi monarchy... is bombing the hell out of Yemen...                                                
• ... and of course Syria... the brutality there is horrendous...
• ...and Algeria... where the conservative Islamists are ruling...

Check the "Arab Spring" map below... courtesy of CNN leading Big Brother news outlet...

All the five "Springs" happened in countries where the rulers were dictators, but not kings like Saudi Arabia or Morocco or the smaller sheikhoms...

The kings and the sheikhs are already allies to the NATO-West and hence by the very definition "democratic"... So they do not need an injection of "Spring" and "democracy"...

They attacked Iraq and Afghanistan... and initiated the other "Springs" where the NATO-West hegemony was in doubt or shaky... 

So the "Springs" got rid of the unreliable regimes... in the hope of establishing NATO-West hegemony... But what they did not plan came to hatch... The brutal Islamist-Jihadists emerged and now they are the headache of the world...

The NATO-West and the "Arab Springs" are the official parents of the Islamist-Jihadist... where Christians are beings massacred... where the Armenian Genocide was perpetrated... where the Islamist-Fascist in Turkey and Azerbaijan want to establish an Islamic caliphate just like the Islamist-Jihadists...

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The NATO-West had Colour Revolutions in Europe...but then it was railed off in Ukraine...and the civil war is heartbreaking ...

The NATO-West initiated the "Springs" in the Middle East... and it was derailed and the Islamist-Jihadists were born... and the result is painful... and murderous... and brutal...

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The Big Brothers... The NATO-West... is exporting "democracy" to the world... Before it was the "White Man's  Burden"... to civilize the Global Village... that's why the West colonized the world... now it is NATO-West-democracy... 

What has changed...? 

Just the semantics... Just a new set of "definitions" for the centuries old Big Brother GREED... 

What will "We the People" do... ?

May be a Don Quixotic DARING... 

Dare to THINK... Dare to IMAGINE... Dare to cross the bridge to the other side of war... dare to imagine 

PEACE and HARMONY and SHARING and HUMANITY... 

"We the People..." 

It is our right our duty...

Be inspired... Dare and get involved... 

and 

MAKE A DIFFERENCE...

WAR IS NOT A GAME OF GREED and PROFIT... WARS KILL TOO...

Wonderful Thursday...
Today I am in a good space... The sun is warm and shining brightly... The birds are chirping...they are happy... The radio is playing Brahms... enchanting music... and I am relaxed... with a glass of Bourbon... the ice cubes are floating in the orange whisky... I am happy, like the birds... and calm and relaxed...
Brahms takes me to my youth... and I meet again my friends... and the rebellion in us is erupting... We were young and even the sky was not the limit... After all, life is as good as you make it to be... and we soared and we tried... We tried hard... because can succeed ONLY if you try... and if you do not try, then you become a loser... sucker... an stinky bugger... in the gutter...

France is enchanting... I have good friends their... I had good times their... and France always try... the they try more...

Check the attempt below... interesting... enigmatic... and intriguing... when art captures you imagination you mutate and metamorphose into a higher state of being... existence...

An ephemeral creation of Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi above the statue of French General Mellinet...

To draw attention to an art festival in Nantes, France... which will open soon...

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Ridiculously Blasphemous... What the f--- !!!!!
I love football... when I watch it it relaxes me.. there is beauty in it... the passing... the team as a single group... it's a team effort... GREAT!
But,
Damn it... no one is worth that much money... Make the tickets cheaper... and pay the players less... 
There is Ebola in Africa... there is hunger in the world... there is slave labour... Child labour... and child soldiers...
Spare us this blasphemy...
Check below... the salaries... If you add the three together it will be more than some third world country budgets... 
This is a sin... and not human...
The GREED of Big Brothers who own these players and the football clubs... is beyond imagination...
Check the salaries...

Lionel Messi's total income for 2014—including his wages at Barcelona and numerous sponsorship deals—stood at a whopping £47.8 million ($71.3 million), making him the world's highest-paid footballer ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo andNeymar.

Messi's basic salary of £26 million is "almost doubled" when his commercial earnings are factored in. Ronaldo is the second-highest-paid player with £39.7 million ($59.2 million) finding its way into his bank, while Neymar is third with a "measly" £26.8 million ($40 million).

These players are good... but things must be placed in GLOBAL perspective...of wars and hunger and morality...
These players... with this much money... should have moral standards... but most of the time they don't...
Check the box below...

Messi has sponsorship deals with sportswear company Adidas, can be seen on the front of EA Sports' FIFA 15 and appears alongside other global stars—such as Chelsea's Didier Drogba and Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant—in adverts for Turkish Airlines.

Turkey is a Islamist-fascist regime... why these very well paid guys support these fascists...?

The players should have moral norms and must be responsible citizens of the world and not support regimes who suppress and oppress their citizens...

Also...

The owners of these clubs... 

They should be responsible beings and not just lower their pants to whomever pays them more...

Azerbaijan is a Islamist-fascist state that has imprisoned many of its reporters and writers 

Why a world class club support a fascist and oppressive and corrupt regime...?

Stop the GREED and be moral citizens of the Global Village... But maybe it is too much to ask from Big Brothers without Borders... !!!!!!

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Roxanne Jones, a founding editor of ESPN Magazine writes...

Slut, ho, hussy, heifer, bitch -- long before I ever heard those words flow in a rap song, I heard them first in my own home, my own neighborhood. And too many times, they were directed toward me or one of my grade-school girlfriends.

Mo'ne Davis is a Little League Pitcher...and she is good at it... So Disney has plans to produce a movie on her life titled: "Throw like Mo"...

A Bloomsburg University ball player Joey Casselberry... hears about the Disney project and tweets... "WHAT A JOKE. That slut got rocked by Nevada."

This player... Joey is as ignorant and stupid as he first came to university...  Unfortunately the U.S. universities have become Big Business too... They have their "sports" teams which generate both money and prestige... At present we are in the midst of "March Madness"... and basketball teams are competing... and generating money and prestige to universities...But most players will "graduate" with a diploma... and not know anything... many would not even attend classes... and thy will graduate... and later becomes JUST BUMS... As the Joey-WHAT A JOKE guy attests...

The sports culture is doing a HUGE disservice to the African American community... and the players... They are making them toil like the gladiators in ancient Roman arenas... and once they have completed their usefulness... they graduate with a paper worth nothing... because they learned NOTHING... Even U.S. presidents participate in this stupid and GREEDY charade of Big Business universities...

The non-athletes learn and  graduate and find good jobs... The athletes learn nothing and graduate and they become just street bums... The African American leadership should take this into consideration too... and give real meaning to "African Lives Matter" slogan...

There is no reason to call a 13 year old a slut... There is no reason to be like Joey - WHAT A JOKE...!!

A a wonderful talent... and people like Joey should respect her instead of calling her a slot...

Athletes like Joey are being wasted and they grow up to be jealous of others and a public nuisance...

Maybe the universities should overhaul their athletic programs and emphasize education and not GREED without borders...

May be presidents should not encourage March Madness craziness...

Athletics should be for health and not for money...

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Whatever they can do we can do better... or

How long will life on earth last...?

Well, ask the Biggest of them all... Big Brothers...

Check them above... they are betting... gambling and the "whole world is a stage" for them...

Big Brothers unable to share the booty-profit squeezed from "We the People" are at each other again... and guess who will pay the price...

U.S. Army is sending armored convoy 1,100 miles through Europe... Just as a show of force and a warning to whomever...

The U.S. Army is sending armored Stryker vehicles through six European countries to show solidarity with allies in the wake of recent Russian actions in the Ukraine and Crimea.

Putin invades... Putin annexes... and Obama plays the game as well as his counterpart... making the world even more dangerous than it is...

American army parading in Europe... American army invading Iraq... American army staying longer in Afghanistan...

Obama says whatever Putin can do... I can do better... he bombs...then I bomb better... he profits... then I profit more... he is greedy... Then I will be greedier...

After all he says... I have the arms and I can bomb the hell out of anything... anywhere in the world...

"A can do Putin, better than Putin..." , Obama declares...

And while the Presidents... Putin and Obama flex their arms... and threaten the world...
Lady Obama shows kids how to dance... and stay healthy...
What a disconnect... it is...!!!!!  

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Azerbaijani Defense Minister Instructs his soldiers...

Azerbaijani servicemen "must not miss a single chance day or night to kill an Armenian and Armenians must constantly live in an atmosphere of fear." In the Photo... Azeri Defense Minister meets head of Turkish gandarmerie... Athletico Madrid... is promoting ass h---s like these... who are threatening a whole nation...  When the master pays... the piper pretend that he is stupid and plays the tune...! An entire race was annihilated... It is the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide... The Azeri-Turk Islamic-fascist regime is still threatening an entire race... and the Madrid football club is still dancing to the tune of their fascist masters... Check below for the Artists... and their rejection the genocidal policies of the Azeri-Turkish fascist alliance...

The artists with the her painting... Project 1915...

The 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman troops and later by Kemalist Turkish fascists left up to an estimated 1.5 million people dead (which accounts to nearly 50% of the Armenian population... much larger percentage than the Jewish victims of the Holocaust...)  and forced the exile of millions more, threatening a 3,000-year-old culture rich in architecture, literature, music and dance. 

Seeking to promote awareness of the culture and the tragedy, Chicago-based artist Jackie Kazarian embarked on a painting of enormous scale, called Project 1915, to be displayed for the first time in Chicago’s Mana Contemporary from April 17 to May 29.

It is widely seen as the 20th century’s first genocide.

Project 1915 is a semi-abstract landscape splashed with bold images and text from ancient Armenian maps and church architecture, united by a pattern of needle lace by Kazarian’s Armenian-born grandmother and with colors and symbols from illuminated manuscripts.

Kazarian, who has Armenian roots, drew on Pablo Picasso’s epic painting Guernica, which depicts the horror of a northern Spanish village’s bombing during Spain’s civil war, for her painting.

It is the exact same size as Guernica at 11.5 feet by 26 feet.

Picasso's disgust with the fascists and war...

Steve Kaufman's... "Homage to Picasso - Guernica... "

Humanity should learn from history... and stop the Big Brother game of "Putin-Obama" race ... Maybe we can divert the funds for arms and feed the hungry... and stop the wars...

Maybe we can have golbal peace and live in harmony...  

Maybe... Just maybe... !!! 

Where there is life, there must be hope too...