FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk they think you need.

BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.

FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbours help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.

CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.

DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and
drafts you.

PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

To many people, friendship is having some one like them, their age mates and someone who also likes the things, places and people they like. A friend is someone who will always be nice to them. To others, friendship is a very nice relationship with another person either boy or girl, a person who will always want to play with you them and make them happy. To me, friendship is a very valuable relationship, that’s what my father always tells me. He encourages me to make good friends; he said friendship is caring about someone else not doing what you don’t like to such a person. Being happy for the person when he or she is happy and being sad when he or she is sad or in pain. It’s really true that a friend in need is a friend indeed.

The incessant problems in Sudan is now getting out of hands and according to the report thousands of lifes are likely to be lost again and again if care is not taken. Should we continue holding our jaws and let things go beyond control?

The issue abject poverty confronting the people of the poorest nations seems getting out of hands and our so-called world leaders seem holding their jaws. How can we explain the nations that produce cotton whose people can not get clothe to wear?

I think the capitalistic nature of the developed world policies is speedly aggravating the problem of poverty in the 3rd world. The reason is because many of these developed nations were only interested in tapping resources of the 3rd world for their own benefit under the pretext that they are helping to solve the problem of poverty.

* For economic or whatever reason, America spent billions of US dollars in an unjustifiable war in Iraq and consequently inflicted more poverty on the people of Iraq.

* We spend billions on space exploration whereas we spend nothing to make poorest people happy even once in their life time.

* They grow coffee in Chile not for their own consumption but for these selfish and greedy westerners who paid token for the services of these coffee farmers and in return make millions profit.

* They grow cotton in Burkina Faso but can they boast of good clothe? No; because they have got nothing to buy them!

* They have oil in Venezuela, Nigeria etc and yet people are queuing at the fuel stations whereas oil is more than enough where they naturally had none (they said it's their freedom and it has to be acquired by all means).

* We spend billions to make war implements but we failed to make a single peace...

* HIV, AIDS and other slight sickness are killing people from the poorest nations and we seem unconcerned (we've got the right medication) but we refused to give them out because we want to make a 'giant stride' profit.

As said above, can we in anyway justify our actions against our fellow human being just because we seem more powerful either militarily or economically? The problem of poverty today seems more prolonging and elongating because our so-called world leaders are not interested in building bridges that will link them with the poorest people of the world but instead they built wall purposely to segregate them from the poorest. Can they be forgiven? I guess no!

My prayer...

O God, pour out on us the water of life
that we may quench our thirst
and draw our strength from you.
Help us to stand alongside those
who struggle daily for clean water
so that all may be
refreshed and renewed by your love.
Amen.

Deliver us, O God,
from the pointless actions of evildoers.
Protect us from those who are violent,
and careless of who they hurt.
Redeem us from our anger,
comfort us in our loss,
and fill us with your peace.

For, I know that God maintains the cause of the needy,
and hears those who call out,
requires that we strengthen the weak,
and that we feed the hungry,
both now and always.
Amen

When I had a closer and critical look at the problems confronting the whole world I arrived at the point that the genesis of the tribulations befalling us is our politics of revenge. Flashing back to the brutal attack of 9/11 where up to 3,000 Americans were killed, and in retaliation America had killed more than ten times that number of people in Afghanistan and Iraq, and devastated the lives of probably a hundred times more people.

When a mob in Fallujah desecrated and burned the bodies of four Americans, American armies retaliated with overwhelming force, killing about 1,000 Iraqis, destroying the city by their bombardment, and sacrificing the lives of 100 American soldiers, who, in terms of economics, are mostly the poorest people in America.

The events between Israel and Palestine also had been flaming by retaliation and thousand of innocent lives had been lose in this process. How can we make our world peaceful with retaliation? This cycle of revenge can only be broken when we all stand up against the immorality of injustice, war and terrorism and struggle for the beauty of peace, justice, and freedom for all. Yes. One may call them a dream. But then, what is life if one cannot pursue his or her dreams?