Isn't 10 000 Dollars Each Day Enough...?

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The three of the most powerful people in the world and their amassed wealth...

I am not interested in their wealth... but I am reporting these just to ask a simple question...

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The Two most powerful people in the world...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has amassed a massive fortune, potentially the largest in the world. "After 14 years in power of Russia, and the amount of money that the country has made, and the amount of money that hasn't been spent on schools and roads and hospitals and so on, all that money is in property, bank--Swiss bank accounts--shares, hedge funds, managed for Putin and his cronies," he added. "I believe that it's $200 billion," Bill Browder, author and a former fund manager in Russia, told CNN. But Browder is not alone in thinking Putin is the world's richest, even richer than Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and philanthropist. Gates, officially at least, ranks No. 1, according to Forbes' latest list, with a net worth of $75 Billion. Former Kremlin insiders have backed Browder's assessment, but have shied away from specific estimates... Also: International Business Times pointed out on Wednesday, July 12, 2017 that Putin's fortune could be as much as $200 billion. Earlier Time Magazine reported similarly in January, citing estimates from $40 billion to $70 billion. Here Putin is seen with another fascist dictator... Turkey's Erdogan... Both are plundering their country and ruling as dictators...

Trump's $3.5 Billion Dollar Net Worth In Assets... President Trump may have faced a multitude of success, but it did not come with failure. Throughout his career, he has encountered four bankruptcies. Though he has faced financial turmoil throughout the years, the 45th president is currently sitting on a $3.5 billion net worth, according to Forbes.

Tayyip Erdagon... The Islamist Fascist Dictator of Turkey...  Tayyip Erdagon has got all the guts to be in the present year’s hottest lime light. He took first spot on the list of ‘People with Money’ as the highest paid politician of the world in 2016. The combined earnings that include upfront pay, endorsements, profit and salary and advertising activities make Erdagon have a net worth of $185 million. Erdogan is more and more acting like a one man rule dictator... imprisoning journalist/reporters and arresting civil liberties advocates and people who oppose his Islamist dictatorial rule... His regime oppresses the minories . kurds, Greeks, Alewites, Assyrians and Armenians... and denies the Genocides that successive Turkish regimes committed against Pontic Greeks, Assyrians and Armenians...

As I mentioned above, I am not interested in the wealth of these powerful rulers... But I would like to have a simple arithmetic with you...

Let us assume that a person needs to spend $10 000 U.S. dollars each day...

• So $10 000 in a 365 day year will be $3 650 000... That is three million and six hundred and fifty thousand U.S. dollars...
• If the person leaves for 90 years... then,                       $3 650 000 x 90 = $325 500 000 U.S. dollars... 
• So spending $10 000 every day for 90 years a person needs $325 500 000 U.S. dollars...                                                                                    NOT EVEN A BILLION...
• Erdogan is the "poorest" of the three above mentioned leaders... but since his worth only $185 million dollars... the above calculations do not apply to him... But since he is 63 years old... he has 27 tears to hit 90...                                                             So 27 years and 365 days in each year and 10 000 daily expenses will make  $98 550 000 ...                     So even poor Erdogan can gave $10 000 U.S. dollars per day...!

Now my question...

What will people do with all that greed...?

Isn't 10 000 enough for one day...?

Why they still exploit and repress the peoples of the world...?

It puzzles me...

Maybe this will be your weekend amusement... Think about it...

They have more than 10 000 a day and they are still shooting for more... oppressing people and declaring wars and devastating the world and ruining nature and poisoning the environment...

Greed leads to wars and wars never usher in peace... Wars just kill and maim and murder and subjugate peoples... 

War is not and never will be a solution... 

Isn't 10 000 dollars each day enough...?

People who Need People...

I enjoy walking and jogging in the mornings when the sun is rising and the city is waking up...



The rush of the people and the whizzing cars look funny and at times I stop and observe the rat race... looks stressful and mad... I always think people should find a more relaxed way to go to work... more enjoyable way at work... but changing habits is difficult... to unlearn the bad and relearn the good and the new is always based on the social mores... and conditioned on the norms accepted by the silent majority and imposed on us by the ruling 1%...

While walking, I think democracy is a sham... an idea devoid of meaning... It has as 
many meanings as there are people in the world... Both Russia and the West claim to be democratic... China insists on its democracy too... 

But the West accuses Russia of undemocratic practices based on oligarchic bureaucracy... Russia and China accuse the West as the dictatorship of the 1%... and the West accuses China as one party state...

I enjoy thinking while I walk... and I toy with different types of democracies... I find it funny... semantics instigates ALL the disputes... and the disputes are not because of democracy or lack of democratic norms... and the wars are not because on system is better than the other... Wars are essentially because the 1% of one country/system is not able to share the pie with the 1% of another country/system...

It is insanely ridiculous... the 1%'s cannot share the pie and then the people go to war and kill each other... 

How the Vietnam War help us...?
How the Iraqi War is helping us...?
... and how the Afghan War will help us...? 
All three wars have a common denominator... they kill people and they sell arms... and the sale of arms profits the 1% of one country or another...

War is insane... and it legalizes killing and murder...

Today, while walking, I encountered six, maybe seven homeless people... 

The first one was wrapped in big plastic bags and was sleeping... dirt and dust was all around him... and the leaves were teasing him... He was not bothered by the noise of the cars... He was not annoyed by the honking of the rushing person... He was just knocked out by the chilling breeze of the evening and now that it was warmer... he just wanted to sleep... 
I wondered whether he was dreaming too... I asked myself whether homeless people dream too... Do they...? I do not know...! Maybe they will have nightmares... are the nightmares considered dream... ? Maybe...

I met another one... sleeping on a metal bench provided by the city ( that is by the taxpayers like you and me...) at the bus stops... he sat down suddenly on the bench and looked around... He had four, maybe five bags full of things... those were his possessions... and that was ALL that he had... he checked the bags... all were there and closed his eyes again... He was grimy and the others waiting for the bus... stood away from him... he had a peculiar smell that you will comprehend when you have not showered for ages... and when you are living on the dust and sooth of the city...
People separated themselves from him... and waited for the bust few yards away from the homeless guy...

There was another one... with a shopping cart... He was on a side street and was reading a daily paper... The cart was all that he have in the world... "Do people rob them...?" I thought... 

Then there was this girl... relaxing at the sidewalk cafe... and she had her dog, a huge one lying besides her... and blocking the side walk... I changed my path, bypassed them... She yelled after me, "He will not bite you... He is very friendly..." 
What made her think that I wanted to be friends with her dog beats me...!

I love my morning walks... and I love observing the rush hour, the traffic, the honking and noisy people... but the homeless make me think... and I always ask, "How come a wealthy country in Western Europe or North America... has so many homeless...?"

Does the 1% care...? I don't think so... but then, maybe they do...

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People helping people made me happy...


Eighty beachgoers linked hands at Panama City beach in Florida to rescue a family that was sucked up by the waves into the ocean... 
The family was in danger... but the people on the beach came to their rescue...
I thought: "Who needs the fucked up 1%...?"

In a testament to the true human spirit, 80 beachgoers formed a human chain in Panama City Beach in Florida to help save a family pulled in to the water by strong tides...

People helping each other... it's wonderful...

Fuck the 1%... Who needs them... I wonder...!

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I am fascinated by Van Gogh since my early teens days... I read The Lust For Life... few times... and then the movie too...
Fascinating artist... Great human being... wonderful painter...

The sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh...

Declaring Victory Over the Ruins...

Mosul: 

They declare victory... They say the Islamic-Jihadists are defeated... 

They raise the flags... and shout slogans of victory... They congratulate each other... but then the reality is sad and once again the reality attests that wars kill... and create ruins... and displace people and create refugees...

   The guns are provided by Russia and China and the Western "liberal democracies..." The guns are provided by Europe-Russia-U.S. and China... and the people of the world fight each other... holes are created in the walls.. cities are devastated... ruined... and then one side or the other declare victory... and the victories stand on the ruins and brandish their arms and flags...  

Mosul... another city in ruins... All buildings have holes in them... and most of the population has fled... most of the people have become refugees...
They, the 1% and their governments, may have a victory... but we, the people, have paid the price... WE are murdered... WE are killed... and our cities devastated and our houses ruined...
They benefited and profited from the war... but WE the people suffered... and became refugees. 

  

Houses have collapsed... and have to be razed to the ground... they are not livable... they are not habitable... 
They sold the guns and ammunition... They sold the bombs... and profited... But the people have no place to live now...
Of course they claimed victory... but the people are left in the ruins... without food and home...

 
Ruins of a liberated city... The ruins of Mosul... and on the ruins of the city... surrounded by famished people... they declared victory...

But,

Liberation of Mosul does not end the crisis in the Middle East... It does not herald fraternity, equality and liberty...

Indeed one side overwhelmed the other, but the root causes of the turmoil in the Middle East and in the world still persist... 

People want equality, fraternity and liberty... but the Western Liberal Democracies essentially defend the greed of the 1% and exploit the rest of the world... devastate the natural resources and exploit the people... The 1% and their system want cheap labour... they want cheap resources... 

As long as the 1% wants the satisfy its insatiable greed and profit from the exploitation of the peoples of the Middle East and the rest of the world... then wars will be instigated... wars will be fought and the 1% will declare victories on the ruins of Mosul and other cities...

The Islamic Jihadists have exploited the misery of the people... and as long as miser,  hunger, exploitation and oppression continues... there will always be groups, like the Islamic Jihadist to take advantage of the situation...

The Islamic Jihadists may go away... but other Jihadists and other fascist groups will sprout and attempt to take advantage of the turmoil...

If the West persist on its course of greed and exploitation... If the West allies with fascist rulers like Erdogan of Turkey, Like Aliev of Azerbaijan... and defend the brutal monarchy of Saudi Arabia... then turmoil will persist...

We should stop manufacturing arms... after all if arms are manufactured, then for sure they will be used... and wars kill the youth of BOTH SIDES...

People Demand Justice and Fairness and Equity... and Freedom... and Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness...

There is a myth in ancient Armenian History-Mythology...
At the funeral of a beloved king... people begin to commit 
suicide by stab themselves... an ancient custom of honoured 
death... like Brutus falling on his sword in Greek History...
The prince, who  was going to succeed his father... laments... 
"Father, I do not want to rule the ruins... after your death...!"
And the myth says that the father raises his head from the
shroud cover and curses his son, the prince...

 

Hamburg, Germany after the G20 protests      and  Mosul, Iraq after the "victory" of U.S. led demonstrates the people's rage...                               Iraqi army over the ISIS-Islamic Jihadists...

The G20 and the U.S. led Iraqi army are declaring victory and 

what is left are just the ruins of cities...

In order to satisfy their egos... the rulers (from both sides) just 

engage in a game of ruins... 

Wars kill... wars ruin leave people to suffer... make people 

homeless... and of course create refugees... Refugees are the 

globalized form of homelessness...

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The March for Justice... reached Istanbul after 24 days... 

People demanding justice... walked for 24 days... from Ankara, the Turkish capital, to Istanbul demanding justice... and equity... and fairness... and freedom...

The march reached Istanbul after 24 days

People's demand... Adalet... but the ruler's... the G20 and the 1%... say... "let them eat cake..." like the times of the French Revolution... like the times of the American Revolution...Adalet means...justice... fairness... equity... reason... and the people want freedom...

The Turkish state is based in oppression of the minorities... It is based on the Armenian Genocide which killed over 1.5 million people and expelled the rest of the Armenians from their homeland and dispossessed them... It is based on the Genocide of Pontic Greeks and Assyrians... and it is based on the oppression of the Kurdish people...

More and more... Erdogan is evolving into an Islamic Dictator... similar to the Kings and Emirs of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates surrounding it...

And the Turkish people, Turks-Armenians-Kurds-Assyrians-Greeks- Alawites, are demanding justice and fairness and freedom...

More than 50,000 people have been arrested and 140,000 dismissed or suspended since last year's attempted military takeover... The military takeover which Swedish papers claimed that was initiated by Erdogan himself... just to consolidate his powers... as an Islamic dictator...

The detentions of human rights activists and leading journalists and opposition leaders have drawn international condemnation... by to no avail... 

People are fed up... and they are demanding "adalet"... 

Justice and fairness and equity and freedom...

But more and justice and coexistence of the peoples 

of Turkey is becoming an impossibility... and it must be 

divided into three separate entities... 

1. Ankara and its surrounding for the Turks who want 

Islamic rule, like Erdogan...

2. Istanbul and its surroundings for the Turks who want 

liberal, European style democracy...

3. The Eastern districts of Turkey and independent 

Kurdish-Armenian state...

If these are not achieved... Turkey will be 

in a perpetual state of turmoil and will 

destabilize the entire region...

Power to the People...

The Best of the Best...
The 1980s... The anti-Vietnam protesters were everywhere in the U.S. and in Europe... The Kent University was student protest center... where a student protester was a victim to state sponsored violence... The student was killed by a police bullet... The 1980's brought out into the streets the best of the best... The student-worker protests in Paris... The Czech Spring  in 1968... People were on the march from Berkeley to Los Angeles to New York and to Paris and to Prague...
The youth, the best of the best... were in the streets for freedom and for liberty from the unbridled greed of the ruling 1% in Western Liberal Democracies... and also from the ossified and rotting Soviet bureaucracies of the East...
The youth were out and it was time for hope and time for a new rainbow appearing on the horizon...
Decades have gone by... the system absorbed the grievances of the youth... and renewed itself... and now that renewal is in danger... The greed of the 1% and the fascistic tendencies of the rulers from Turkey to Saudi Arabia to Poland and Russia and to the liberal democracies of Europe and North America... is stifling all the hope for the future...
The environment is being polluted and the ruling 1% does not much care... People are loosing their homes and the ruling 1% does not even care... The refugees are invading Europe and the Americas... the only response from the ruling 1% is to come up with bans and barriers to prevent the refugees...
Today in my morning walk I counted five homeless people on the pavements... and I imagined the refugees... the globalized homeless of the globe...
The G20... is meeting in Hamburg... and the people in their tens of thousands have gathered to protest... the inhumanity of the 1% and their unbridled greed...
I sort of comprehend people working hard for their first million, but I always wonder what they will do with the five-six seven- millions... I always wondered why people want to have more and more in the banks...
I have told my students that the monies in the banks are just colourful paper... once those colourful papers come out of the bank vaults and are spread around... they will have a USE value... 
Money sitting in the bank is just coloured paper... but once the monies are  taken out of the banks and spread around... they will be meaningful and will make people happy...
Hamburg... was divided into two camps... the rulers and the representatives of the 1% and the rest... the people... the 99%... 

Here a young man has climbed on top of an armoured car... and the protectors of the 1% are attempting to bring him down...
Protests bring the best out of the youth and the people...

In order to usher in the new... people are shedding the illusions of the old... on the streets of Hamburg... People against the water canons of the 1%...

Pepper spray and water canons are directed against the protesters... The greed of the 1% needs the protection of the system to be successful...

The Greens and environmentalist the vanguard of the best...  the protectors of the green spaces and the oceans and the future are protesting against the greed of the 1% and against their polluted system... 

 

People fighting for teir rights and for the future...

Indeed "Power to the People..."

People's protest in Hamburg against the G20 and the 1% 
and the chant is still valid... "Power to the people..."

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The G20 has has all kinds of rulers... 

Bureaucratic-oligarchs like Putin... Putin's Russia has no room for dissent and freedom of though and speech... where all opposition leaders are dispensable...

Absolute monarchs like Saudi Arabia... where women are not "persons' and they have to take permission from their male "guardians"... Where Islamic-Sharia Law is supreme... and opposition is not tolerated... even bloggers are punished and lashed and whipped in the public square...

There are the Western Democrats... the guardians of the 1%... like Trump and May and Marcon and Merkel...

...and then there are authocratic tendencies like in Poland... where the rule of law is okay as long as it agrees with the government... 

Turkey is a special case... where the rulers want to take the country back decades and establish an Islamic society and Sharia Law... where minorities, like Kurds and Armenians,  have no rights... where the denial of the Armenian Genocide is a nationalist duty...

Here also people are resisting... like they are resisting in hamburg...

In Turkey... Tens of thousands of people have been arrested or dismissed from their jobs in the civil service, military, judiciary, academia and media, in a broad crackdown on people opposed to the regime and government of the Erdogan… who is trampling the rule of law and democracy and civil society… The islamist government wants to introduce Islamic law and religion… The purge has gone beyond the alleged perpetrators of a coup d’etat and encompasses dissidents of all stripes, including senior opposition lawmakers, judges and civil servants and reporters...

People in Turkey, Turks and Kurds and Armenians and other minorities... are demonstrating... There is a long march from Ankara to Istanbul... 
Tens of thousands are marching for freedom and liberty... they want to live in freedom and pursue happiness as they desire...
Those who want to abide by Islamic-Sharia law... let them do so... But those who want freedom of religion and live according to their beliefs... let them also do so...

Turks and Kurds and Armenians are marching from Ankara to Istanbul for freedom and for an open society... 

Power to the People... of Turkey... Turks and Kurds and Armenians...

Kill Dictatorship read the Art-banner in Hamburg...

Today is Friday and Happy Hour started early...
Today the Myth of Sisyphus was haunting me and the only way
to get rid of it was declaring Happy Hour... and so I did...
In Europe Trump has proclaimed that "Western civilization is in danger..."

President Trump said in Warsaw on Thursday that Western civilization was at risk of decline, and under threat from “radical Islamic terrorism” and “the creep of government bureaucracy.”

Indeed it is... but not from external enemies...

Radical Islam, the Jihadists, are just a catalyst for the decaying West... The government bureaucracies are there to serve and protect the 1%... Check the streets of Hamburg... The system is protecting the rulers of the world... The system is not distinguishing between "Western liberals" and "Western dictators..." They are protecting autocrats like Trukey's Erdogan and oligarchs like Putin... also they are protecting "democrats" like the Merkel-Macron axis...
Indeed,
Western civilization is threatened and is endangered because of the GREED of the 1%... 
Lies like "Weapons of Mass Destruction...," threats of Islamic-Jihadists and disruptions of Russian spying-hacking-trolling are just external stimulants speeding up the decay of "Western democracies..."
The main menace for the "Western Liberal Democracies" is the more and more unbridled, insatiable and rapacious greed of the 1% which is essentially based on the profit motive and exploitation of the people by the ruling 1% of each country...
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This is in Hamburg... Germany...

As the sign declares... Capitalist greed has become the religion of the 1%... The 1% and its staunch protectors... the G20 leaders... Of course some are more democratic that others... Of course... Erdogan's Trukey, Putin's Russia, and Saudi Arabia are oligarchic/monarchic dictatorships... and of course Trump is fascinated by their power... and of course global citizens are resisting... 

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Turkey protested officially to Germany on Tuesday that an artist had been allowed to set up an installation in central Berlin, apparently offering a car as a prize in exchange for killing dictatorship...

The installation was set up outside the offices of Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Monday, comprising a Mercedes C-class car and banners with pictures of Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi King Salman.

"Do you want this car? Kill dictatorship!" said the slogan.

The "art-banner" reads... "Do you want this car? Kill dictatorship!" said the slogan... Notice that the slogan did not invite people to kill people... BUT TO KILL DICTATORSHIP... in Turkey... in Saudi Arabia... in Russia... and topple the dictatorship of the 1%...

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Turkey... arrests human rights advocates...

Turkish police have arrested eight leading human rights activists including Amnesty International's Turkey director Idil Eser in Istanbul...

Idil Eser was among those detained during a raid at a hotel on the Turkish island of Buyukada...

Yes Western Civilization is in peril... but because of the Greed of the 1%...
Greed is the basis for the devastation of the African economies... Greed is the cause for the wars in the Middle East... and the civil war in Syria...
Greed is the reason for the pillage and plunder of Africa and the Middle East... and therefor the greed of the 1% is the reason of the world refugee crisis... 
The refugee crisis which has overwhelmed Europe and North America... is the globalization of the homelessness and is caused by the greed of the 1% ..........

The greed of the 1%... The cost of dictatorship...

Thou Shall Not Kill... The Commandment without ANY QUALIFIERS...

The Ten Commandments is not monument to decorate our lawns or to satisfy our egos... The Ten Commandments is not a supposed to be an initiation to hate or to exclude people from society...                                                                               The Ten Commandments must be a way of life... and smashing of the erected monument is exposing human hypocrisy and bureaucratic stupidity and ruling class (the 1%) dictatorship... 

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Ten Commandments Monument Lasted Less Than 24 Hours

The Ten Commandments have become 
political tools for Evangelical zealots and 
conservative politicians... Because of their 
majorities in the state parliaments... They 
are acting like fascist dictators...

Less than a day after a monument of the 
Ten Commandments was installed 
outside the Arkansas State Capitol in 
Little Rock, it was destroyed when a 
man smashed a car into the stone.

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An encouraging News...

Sweden’s Radical Weapons Plan

Sweden is poised to take a radical step: imposing a “legislative ban on selling weapons to undemocratic regimes,” writes Leonid Bershidsky for Bloomberg View. Other countries wishing to score some soft power points should follow its lead. “Big Western arms exporters…may feel it would be unwise to subscribe to the kind of self-restrictions that Sweden is imposing and leave a large chunk of the global arms market to competitors such as Russia and China, which have no qualms about supplying any buyers as long as they’re not hostile to these countries,” Bershidsky says. “One could argue that weapons from these competitors are just as deadly, so repressive regimes’ military power would be undiminished and Western nations would merely lose revenue and jobs. Long-standing alliances would also be soured. Moral arguments are especially unpopular with the Trump administration.” “On the other hand, as the global center of soft power and moral leadership shifts to Europe, the leading European Union nations might like to make a point of only arming fellow democracies.” ***************************************************************** Let me just remind all... The Ten Commandments is not a stylish table erected in parks... If law makers, leaders, clergy, politicians... Presidents and Popes and all the people... of the world... should make it a living and breathing practice... Take just one of the commandments... "Thou shall NOT kill..." Very simple and straight forward... There are not qualifiers with it... which means: Thou shall not kill in wars... Thou shall not execute people for their crime... The mediocrity in leaders is a very dangerous phenomenon... half-educated people are extremely hazardous to the political norms and they generate half-truths which undermine our social norms and dislocate... disrupt the social mores... Erecting the Ten Commandments is generating hate... and rejecting the rest of society... making the rest of society as the dispensable others... The news above includes the phrase..." Western nations would merely lose revenue and jobs..." The commandment insists... Thou shall not kill... Not for revenue and not for providing jobs... In the Field of Dreams it says; "Build it and they will come..." and indeed if you manufacture weapons... you will use it... and when you use it, YOU WILL KILL... There are no good weapons that provide revenue and jobs... The revenue is BLOOD MONEY... and the jobs are just people washing their hands of our murderous culture and our the killing responsibilities...                  Christ before Pilate, Mihály Munkácsy, 1881... and eventually Pontius Pilate washed his hands... **************************************************************************************** Recently there was an arms deal with Saudi Arabia for over 100 billion dollars...  Saudi Arabia is a brutal monarchy... where human freedoms are trampled every day... where women have no rights as individuals... where people are stoned and bloggers are persecuted...  Saudi Arabia its allies have initiated the most extreme interpretation of Islam and have provided terrorists and monies for the Jihadist cause... They have attacked the U.S. and other "Western democracies..." Being their ally and selling weapons to them is immoral and inhuman... Saudi Arabia is as vicious as Iran... Saudi Arabia and Iran and Turkey are the propagators of Jihadist Islam... and are unreliable regimes... where human rights... and women's rights... and minority rights... and LGBTQ rights are suppressed... and denied... REVENUE and JOBS should not be immoral... inhuman... Greed and Profits should not dictate policies...  Human rights and human dignity must prevail... and we should not hide behind the fig leaves of Ten Commandment monuments... ****************************************************************************************

  Check the News Title...

China’s Navy Unveils Shiny New Toy China launched the first of a new generation of destroyers on Wednesday, which Reuters reports is “the most advanced and largest warship in Asia, the latest addition to the country’s rapidly expanding navy,” according to China's military.

Since when a killing machine is a "shiny... toy...?"

The immorality of the news media equals the greed of the 1%...  and the so called "free press" of the Western Democracies... is a tool for the 1% to lull the people and make them feel good...

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Pope Francis angered by the name of the bomb America's 'mother of all bombs' name

Pope Francis has criticised the naming of the US military's largest non-nuclear explosive ever used in combat as "the mother of all bombs". "I was ashamed when I heard the name," the pontiff told an audience of students at the Vatican. "A mother gives life and this one gives death, and we call this device a mother. What is going on?" he asked. Last month the US dropped such a bomb, which weighs 21,600lb (9,800kg), on Islamic State militants in Afghanistan.

I will not defend the church... I believe that organised religion is evil... But the Pope has a point... naming the bomb as mother... is immoral... is inhuman...         Mothers do not kill... should not kill...        *********************************** Ban the wars... and instead of erecting monuments of the Ten Commandments... live by it... after all, Thou Shall Not Kill...