Duke the menace

[Duke of Buckingham]

The celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II will mark the beginning of a new world order. When at Putin's side will be the president of China, Xi Jinping; Iran, Ali Khamenei; Egypt, Sisi marshal; North Korea, Kim Jong-un; Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro; Turkey, Erdogan; and Tsipras from Greece among other leaders of countries like Belarus, which have always been on Moscow side in good and bad times. Obama, Merkel, Hollande, Cameron and many others will be left out, with NATO seing two of its members alongside Putin.

XXI Century Cold War will thus begin officially, although the relations between East and West have never been happier and much less friendly, so the world is not better and we must question whose fault is it before we have to go to war, even if is a cold one.

Moscow wants a new order in Europe, with new agreements on security and conventional weapons, and responds to Western offensive with strategic alliances that can quickly change the balance of power in the world. The most important is with Beijing. It's not just an energy partnership; is a military and political alliance in which the two countries are together in all international theaters. But if Moscow turned to Asia, also not forgotten the Middle East. In Iran and Syria, Russia has returned to Cairo a new old friend. The world is changing.

[Duke of Buckingham]

I have 3 rules in my life
1. never quit.
2. NEVER quit.
3. NEVER QUIT.

[Mumps]

You would obviously make a lousy gambler then. You need to know to quit while you're ahead sometimes.

[Duke of Buckingham]

You would obviously make a lousy gambler then. You need to know to quit while you're ahead sometimes.

I wouldnt know that Mumps, I never gamble at least for money. I have better (and more useful) things to spend my money.

I can understand that some games strategy is exactly to know when to give up.

My cards are always on the table, no hidding game for me or bluff, about game or life, that is how I am and like to be.

[Duke of Buckingham]

A smile from space

[Duke of Buckingham]

Dear friends,

The Syrian air force just dropped chlorine gas bombs on children. Their little bodies gasped for air on hospital stretchers as medics held back tears, and watched as they suffocated to death.

But today there is a chance to stop these barrel bomb murders with a targeted No Fly Zone.

The US, Turkey, UK, France and others are right now seriously considering a safe zone in Northern Syria. Advisers close to President Obama support it, but he is worried he won’t have public support. That’s where we come in.

Let’s tell him we don’t want a world that just watches as a dictator drops chemical weapons on families in the night. We want action.

One humanitarian worker said ‘I wish the world could see what I have seen with my eyes. It breaks your heart forever.’ Let's show that the world cares -- sign to support a life-saving No Fly Zone:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/syria_sa...PrgGcb&v=55481

[Duke of Buckingham]

[cineon_lut]

You took that pic? That's awesome. Glad you saw it. In the U.S. we will get that treat in August 2017.

[Duke of Buckingham]

You took that pic? That's awesome. Glad you saw it. In the U.S. we will get that treat in August 2017.

It was not my picture but for sure is good enough for us to see.

[Duke of Buckingham]

“I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises.
Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was,
I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat.
I was never convinced of what I believed in.
I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through.
Words were my only truth.
When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet


“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa