Do not be afraid to discuss and never stop to educate ...

Personal... Two cups of coffee
Every morning I start my day with two cups of coffee...
I prepare it when my wife is still sleeping and enjoy the first cup scanning and digesting the news of the day... most of it repetitious and most of it disgusting... pandering to the needs of Big brothers...
I scan the major news outlets... and categorize them under Greed of the 1%... Violence in society... wars...
Of course there are the international squabbles among Big Brothers... like the NATO-West calling Russians names and Russians retaliating... this is propaganda and not news... and also there are the national squabbles too... like the liberal side calling the conservatives names and the conservatives calling the liberal side cheaters and so on... In all countries the news is more or less the same... in all countries the news are almost identical... and in all countries the people pay for the nonsensical squabbles of the 1%...
But want to know what is happening and I hope there will be something new...
There never is... It's all the GREED, the violence within and the wars outside...

The second cup is more delicious than the first... I take my cup of coffee outside to the backyard... sit in the sun with my wife... and listen to the chirping of the birds and enjoy the morning sun and the beauty around... the trees, the scent of flowers, the singing of the birds and the tranquility of nature...
The cars spew and belch... they violate the peace of nature and pollute the air... But the trees and the birds and the sun and the flowers overcome the unwelcome intrusion of the humans and the cars...
I enjoy the second cup more than the first... 
The first brings in the stupidity of humans... the second brings me the love of mother nature... transcends me to lovely places where my imagination is the only limit... where hope for a better tomorrow flourishes... 
...and
I hope... for an even brighter and better tomorrow...

I love the morning two cups of coffee... it sets the tune for a good day... happy day... the better day that it will be... that I will make it to be...

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...And now the not so personal things...

America is attempting to make peace with Cuba... I am not sure that it will be easy... I am not sure that the U.S. will let the occupied parcels of Cuban soil and return them to Cubans... I hope they will relinquish the occupied lands and let Cubans be... but I am not sure...
On the other hand they will still squeeze Venezuela and they will make the life of Venezuelans bitter and bitter till they revolt against their government... the sole reason is that the Venezuelan government has slipped outside the U.S. hegemony... Of course we will brand them as "socialist" and "danger to world peace" and "undemocratic"...
But, 

• Since when being a socialist is a sin...? 
• There is NO peace the the world so as Venezuela can or may endanger...
• Why Venezuela is undemocratic and must be condemned and the likes of Saudi Arabia, the Emirates in the Middle East and Turkey should be praised... ? Simple... Venezuela is attempting an independent policy while Saudi Arabia and the Emirates and Turkey are following the NATO's and West's hegemony...

But of course,
The Venezuelan leaders are Big Brothers too... They may want to be independent of U.S. lead, but they also are part of the world 1% and they do not care much about the people... the difference between Venezuela's leadership and that of the "democratic" West leaders is just a difference of degree... The difference is just few shades of white... and white does not have many shades... 

Plaza de Altamira in Caracas... where the Big brothers conduct their business and live... whether they are socialist or conservative... it does not make much of a difference... they do occupy the same space...
They all belong the league of Big Brothers without borders...

A scene from the Caracas barrios...
These are the shantytowns where the people live... in squalid condition and are very poor...

While sipping the first cup of coffee, I came up with this abomination of a news item...

Shortages of basic products such as corn, milk and chicken have plagued Venezuela for years, creating long lines at supermarkets and pushing inflation well past the 60% mark just in the last year alone. More recently, shortages are affecting people in the South American country in a more personal way. Venezuelan consumers complain condoms and birth control pills are nowhere to be found. Shortages that first affected the dining table have now made their way into the bedroom.

There is indeed a point that struck me...
If there is shortage of necessities... who cares about the condoms and the birth control pills...?
The reported is an ass hole and is attempting to confuse the readers by lumping apples and oranges together...
I realize that the reporters of main news are part of the 1% brotherhood... I know that the reporters are part of the Big Brothers without Borders...

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Every year Sports Illustrated makes asses of its readers... and this year too...

I visited my sister today. In the conversation I mentioned the stupidity of Sports Illustrated... and my sister reminded me that I am expecting to find gold in the mud and garbage... 

She said Sports Illustrated panders to the lowest common denominator of male sexism... 
What this cover has to do with sports... beats me...! It is more like Sports Illustrated acting as a pimp to prostitute young people... 
It is indeed a GREEDY and also dirty business....

A professor at Cornell University has this to say... about the cover of the pimp-y magazine...

Peggy Drexler is the author of “Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers, and the Changing American family” and Raising Boys Wothout Men.” She is an assistant professor of psychology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and a former gender scholar at Stanford University. 

Check below what she writes...

This year, though, Sports Illustrated has gone too far. In the photo, Davis eager pulls down her bikini bottom and thrusts forward her pelvis in a way that's clearly meant to draw the eye to that very spot between her legs -- far more so than her eyes, or even her breasts. It's an invitation to picture her naked, and more. And in case there was any ambiguity of what the image is supposed to evoke, there's the clever cover line that begins: "Hannah Davis Goes Down South. ... " It is explicitly explicit, and as such impossible not to view it as intending to reduce women to billboards and sex objects. Claiming to portray Davis this way in the name of "celebrating the female form" is a lie balder than her nether region.

After all, if the point isn't to objectify women for the pleasure of the male gaze, why has no one created a counterpart magazine featuring a scantily dressed man? Why are men so rarely offered up as objects to behold? Men aren't the only ones who like to "appreciate the beauty" of the opposite sex.

If the point isn't to objectify women, and subvert them in some way, then why isn't there a similar model for men? Instead, most examples of men gracing magazine covers with their bodies on display are for men's magazines, with a male readership. Why is it normal to "celebrate the female form" but not the male one?

...And check this item... this ad...

The Lady is ironing the man's pants... the man with a beer and the lady naked...

What are they advertising... if not a pimp-y way of making a buck...or two...?

The women are smart and they should know better... but the men the power and the money and the GREED too...

It is indeed a pity that the lady's go with this GREEDY and dirty patriarchal trick... I have been in education all my life... and i believe that educating people will eventually make a difference... Not the wars, not the weapons, but education will make all the difference... and I will never stop trying...