After the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (“mad cow”) that decimated massively the cattles in Great-Britain primarily, the H5N1 bird flu virus that proliferated in Hong-Kong, a less perceptible enemy is diminishing the population of bees.

If it doesn’t have any direct incidence on our well-being on the short term, its long term effect is questionnable giving that the survival of our specie is intrinsically tributory to this little symbol of technology of the Apoideas, the Apis Melifera.

Knowing that 3/4 of the worldwide plants, 1/3 of the human food supply, six million people depend viscerally on this uncommon plant-animal relationship, who could have imagined that such little insect performed a vitale role in our societies? Who could have imagined that it had such impact on our economies, our fates? Who could have imagined the magnitude of the damages awaiting us?

Five million of domesticated bees vanished in less than 48 hours without a trace from the surface of Earth : that is without ambiguity the problem the bee-keepers and the scientists are facing, have to solve, to defuse. The CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) is the explanation to their brutal hives disaffection. As the scientific community delves into finding the cause, they keep on banging their heads against the walls.

Whatever searches demonstrate : presence of white pockets in their abdomens asserting of their non digestion, growth of fungi in their tissues, existence of forty different chemicals in the analysis of their pollen, malnutrition linked to single crop diets (due to human forced pollination)… They all concord and conclude to the weaknessing of their immune system.

Pesticides are undoubtedly the key suspect in the investigations. French researchers support the theory by confirming that bees thrive in cities (where trees and flowers are not showered with pesticides). If it is so, how can we explain the desertion of hives in organic hives, too?

Many questions are in suspense, eager to be elucidated. Why do bees fail to return to their hives?  As an organizational structure maybe going back to the hive means imprisonment? Why humans be the only ones to aspire to freedom? Freedom of gathering pollen and nectar from all type of flowers opposed to exclusively one? Couldn’t they have this intelligence? Maybe it’s a natural order? Is their ability to learn affected or do they leave to avoid to infect the whole colony? Maybe their death is a conjecture! What if it was the end of their domestication? Why only adults die? Is it from a chemical or nutritional origin? Is it a virus or a neurotoxin? What if, it was simply a natural extinction of the specie? How many other species die without our awareness? And as I said precedently what if they were not dying? What if wild life has more temptation than the domesticated one?

The haze obviously still floats over the scientists’ orbit. I understand their frustration while challenging the probability of a problem impossible to thwart.

The stakes are high, the world depends on bees.

Six million people cover the seven continents. With the constant increase of the demand, production had to adapt responding by pressuring agriculture to augment extensively the superficie of arable exploitations, to develop intensive methods of output.

Rented by farmers, hives of bees travel by trucks to Florida (for oranges), to Maine (for bilberries), to California (for its almonds) to transfer pollen from the anther of a flower to the stigma of the same or another flower. The process is called pollination. In this harmless (at first sight) exchange, the bee participates as the active element for fecondation. As a fair retribution, the plants reward them by a sugary liquid called nectar.

Thousands of hectares of lands rely on bees to perform a natural role for an unatural scale. Californian almonds, for instance, reperesenting 80% of the international market require 1,2 million colonies to do the job! Imagine yourself only eating pizzas or broccoli! Can’t human forced pollination be one the  major sources of bees decline? We, late, understood that their dance was their mean of communication. So therefore bees have no more secrets to reveal us? I wish Nature was that simple!  As a certainty, our ecosystem is fragile!

With the reduction of bees, economic sectors directly involve in bees activity experience already losses in pollination contracts, in honey productions. Other industries like the ice-cream feels already the repercussions.

Unless scientists find the harm, farmers, at the example of the southern Sichuan (China), will resort, as they did for their pear flowers to blossom, to hand pollination. Nature, now, needs a helping hand! What is feasable for a local production would be an Herculean task for a higher scale!

At a yearly rhythm of 30% of death rate, within 3 to 4 years bee-keepers will disappear (it may not be a bad future!). If bees don’t make the headlines now, believe me in 2035, date of their total extinction, they will make it!

On another hand, the death of domesticated bees doesn’t signify their extinction, does it?

Here in California two recent stories have found a near-permanent loop on the lower-third ticker tape.  The first is that of the fate of Los Angeles Schools Supt. David Brewer agreeing to have his contract bought out by the state, effectively removing him from his position.  LA County schools have most certainly had their share of hardships — steadily increasing class sizes, a gross lack of funding, and declining test scores over the past ten years — but LA County schools have also begun to turn around in more recent years.  However, Supt. David Brewer’s lack of such intangibles as being able to deal with the media, the beauracracy, or instill hope for the schools in the public has placed him in a position to be removed from his post.  This quote from the Los Angeles Times explains that Brewer does not want to turn this into a racially driven argument:

“As an African American, I’ve experienced my share of discrimination,” he told reporters, school board members and district employees Monday. “I know what it looks like, smells like, and the consequences.”

“Although this debate is disconcerting and troubling, it must not become an ethnic issue. When adults fight, it can manifest itself in our children,” said Brewer, the district’s second African American superintendent. “This must not become an ethnic or racial battle that infests our schools, our campuses, our playgrounds. This is not about settling an old score; this must be about what is best for every LAUSD student.”

However, many civil rights activists are crying foul, saying Brewer is being used as a scapegoat, that a decade’s worth of problems can not be expected to be solved overnight, that one’s race can not be overlooked.  I suppose it really is one step forward, two steps back.

A more tragic story occured Monday when a disabled F/A-18D fighter jet crashed and exploded in a residential area in San Diego.  After losing power to one engine and then losing power completely, the pilot ejected safely from the spiraling plane.  Upon impact with the ground, the jet ignited into a massive fireball, destroying two homes and killing a grandmother, mother, and young child.  Another child is still missing.  The Marine Corps. has yet to comment on further details of the malfunction.

OJ Simpson became plastered on the news once again, thirteen years to the day since his heavily-debated acquittal.  This time, Simpson was tried and found guilty on 12 charges, conspiracy to commit a crime, robbery, assault and kidnapping with a deadly weapon stemming from a September 13, 2007, incident at Las Vegas’ Palace Station hotel and casino garnering him a sentence of up to 33 years in prison and the possibility of parole after 9.  Although the Honorable Judge Jackie Glass stated that the circus of thirteen years ago played no part in either her or the jury’s conviction, it’s hard to imagine something as ingrained in the public consciousness could not play some part.  Simpson’s apology was heartfelt and laden with emotion, but it was brushed aside by Judge Glass who simply stated the sentence without much regard for the emotion.  Of course, protestors and denouncers alike gathered outside the Nevada courthouse, and for some Simpson got what had been thirteen years coming, for others, well, he’s still just a victim.  However, it turns out that the evidence did fit this time around.

The appalling acts of terrorism seen in Mumbai from November 26th to the 29th are still being sorted out.  Although many signs are pointing to Pakistan as the terrorists’ country of origin, the evidence remains far less than concrete.  This trajedy continues to unfold its gloom, an attack killing at least 188 people and injuring at least another 290.

And most recently in the wave of WTF inducing events is the arrest of Gov. Rod Blagojevich of the state of Illinois.  This morning, at around 6:30 AM Blagojevich was taken into FBI custody after wire taps in his home and campaign office led to enough evidence for corruption charges.  Most horrific of the alleged corruption charges involves the selling of the Senate seat vacated by President-Elect Barack Obama.  Illinois has long been said to be the most corrupt state in the U.S., and it’s stories like this that continue to solidify its position as such.  Perhaps the look and feel of Chicago came in second when Christopher Nolan, director of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, chose to use the city as the location of the notoriously corrupt (and fictional) city of Gotham.  Perhaps it was the very real political seediness that made the decision a no-brainer.

And all the while the economy continues to be volatile, bail-outs are being proposed and given and denied, even the Screen Actors Guild is on the verge of strike in Hollywood.  Is there any good news?  Well, at least the rapper Common feels that Barack Obama will help to change the face of hip-hop — a face showing a more positive outlook with more hopeful themes.  That’s good news, right?  How about the gas prices?  They’re approaching a five-year low!  Good news?  Good news is hard to find when so much of the 24 hour news cycle is dominated by WTF inducing stories.  My suggestion: turn it off for a while, enjoy the holidays, enjoy your family, friends, fellow humans.  Make your own good news, because the world at large sure isn’t going to without all of us pitching in.  Happy holidays, all.

By suppressing the existence of its main competitor, Whole Foods will install itself in the comfortable seat of a monopolistic status. With this significative position on the market, it will ensure the company of a sufficient control on a product or service and thus be the only one determining its accessibility. In this economic concentration of power, Whole Foods will capture the lion’s share of a booming market (the organic market makes up nearly 3% of the overall food market). In the lack of competition linked to a monopoly, the price tends to naturally inflate and the democratic face of a liberal economy to tarnish, to smear.

The US competition laws, also called antitrust laws, on the matter are clear. Gates in 2006 in Microsoft v. Commission, paid a consequential price for violating them, conformably to the Sherman and Clayton Acts that regulate any form of abuse.

Roughly summarized, the laws prohibit agreements that restrict free trading and competition, ban abusive behavior by a firm dominating a market (through the pricing tool). The motto “No person shall acquire… to lessen competition, or to create monopoly” is expressed through the RFC’s voice asserting that the consumer welfare and the entrepreneurs’ freedom are at stake in that precise case.

In this punitive intervention, the RFC’s role as a shield against any harmful anti-competitive business practices is to promote consumer protection. So far, by opposing the Whole Foods’ attempt to monopolize the natural foods sector, the FTC guarantees the consumer of its independence and also comfort the consumer with its omnipresence on the market, by monitoring the illegal activities of the economy, as for the actual merger.

When it comes to communicate with its potential customers, Whole Foods encourages the dialogue through twitter. When it comes to give a feedback to a relevant question. Silent is kept. Is it part of the communication strategy to deny information to curious consumers?

When confronted to reality, the company hides behind a wall of silence, pulls the ties of the influence sphere… Doesn’t it say long about the identity of the company? Who would associate themselves to such irresponsible behavior?

A precedence was made with Microsoft, Apple and to their example, Whole Foods will bite the dust and feel the pain of contrevening competition laws.

Since age 6, Jonathan Goodwin discovered that disassembling and reassembling pieces, parts of a mechanism could be informative and fun before it led to be a passion. Put into practice to the real world and its gravitating problems, as a result cars have no secret for the magician.

To the question, which car is faster between a Lamborghini and a 1965 Impala, all the bookmakers will unanimously bet their crocodile-made shoes on the Lamborghini. And they would loose since Goodwin’s magic green hands transform any vehicle to the last fuel efficient technology.

What is the catch? None since nothing is sacrificed. Usually to go green implies a diminution of the car performance (pressing on the accelerator affected the guilt area of our brain, for pollution or consumption reasons) therefore deterrent for whoever identifies himself to the performances of a vehicle. Goodwin proved by competing a Lamborghini versus a 1965 Impala, that his green conversion was a positive and challenging addition to the little changes required by the global warming specter.

What is his secret then? Undoubtedly sharp knowledge on mechanics and savoir-faire. To eliminate the gas drawbacks, engines and transmissions are extirpated. The key to the open surgery is the Duramax engines peered with the Allison transmissions. Contrary to the common thinking, diesel engines augment the torque (the power output of an engine is expressed as torque multiplied by rotational speed). From a level of 600 foot-pounds in a gas engine, it pulses to an average of 850 for a diesel! Set your seat belt for the amateurs of speed.

If you love your Hummer and you desire to leave a clean footprint on earth, why not considering a little retrofitting. So far, 160 Hummers went under Goodwin’s scalpel successfully! Isnt’ it the opportunity to reconcile your love for performances and fuel efficiency?

With Goodwin, Good wins!

What comes to mind when we see present time pictures of Venice is who could have guessed that the city of water would one day emulate the mythic Atlantis in its tragic fate?

Far from being a tale originated from the Greek mythology, Venetians are witnessing powerless the wrath of Poseidon or more rationally the consequence of the annunciated global warming.

Now and then, we are informed of the disappearance of animal species, of the meltdown of glacial regions somewhere in the world but it’s so far from our lives that it is almost unrealistic!

But this time, only eleven hours separate us from the premises of the catastrophe, from the fantasy, the fear of the reality. For the people who need to see to believe, open your eyes, the images are eloquent about the Venetian tragedy. Contrary to the Poles, Venice is accessible to whom disposes of an airplane ticket for a pseudo-romantic trip.

Venice, to my regret, is sinking.  Subjected to flood tides from Autumn to Spring, it incresases its odds to sinking.

Stoic facing the events, Venetians adapt their everyday lives to their city whims and rhythm. Armed with boots and umbrellas the climatic adversity doesn’t scare them anymore! Fatality or fortitude what wouldn’t they do for the love of their city?

Saint Mark’s square, the core of Venice that my feet once stepped upon, is already under water! No more pigeons, no more tourists enjoying a cappuccino or a gelato at the terrace of the cafes, no more pigeon-man surrounded by the flashes of voyeur-like cameras. All those nostalgic images will sink into forgetfulness or be part of the past.

Not so fast… Experts say that the best way to save Venice is to lift the city above sea level by pumping water into the soil underneath the city!

Who is next? The Netherlands?

The anger started in Bolivia where the people felt stripped out of their “material inheritance and natural resources”, and will definitely soon inflame the world. It’s official now Europe is preparing to a massive attack on individual tap water consumption. Great Britain launched the offensive in proposing to tax the tap water upon the volume consumed. Demonstrations already unwelcomed the uncongruous project.

As the result of the discrepancy between the high consumption and the depletion of the resource, the commodious response of the government is unsurprisingly the increase of the price of the commodity. When will it reach the American continent?

The overexploitation of water sources from the corporatocracy (Dasani in 50 Indian villages), the greenhouse gas, the climatic changes, consequences of the human footprint, are the significant symtoms of a coming shortage. When global warming peers up with human recklessness, the eradication of the vital commodity is not too far. Nationalized, privatized (soon?), speculated the water issue is so dramatic that scientists found the way to turn our urine into water! That’s where we are! Cogitating for the humanity not to end that soon! What a pityful acknowledgement of our impotence!

Since the USA is the biggest consumer what is the future of the commodity? When Europe surrended to its energetic dependency in the 1973 oil shock, they reformed radically and consequently their consumptions. Water in France, because of its price is regarded as a rarity. Not here, is its price a determining factor as well for their waste behavior? What I know for certain is that from now on, responsibility will have its price!

When governments, to the image of England put the blame on domestic consumption in order to inflate their profits to persuade the public to responsible behaviours (effective weapon in France), they found an easy target to the visible part of an iceberg. If you analyze who among all the actors of an economy leaves the biggest footprint, domestic consumption represents the smallest portion of the water consumption. To understand the concept, to define water footprint is inevitable.

The water footprint for the novice is the extent of water use in relation to consumption of people and logically for any given country, the volume of water needed for the production of the goods and services. The data is relevant since the accused, the domestic consumption appears like David facing Goliath that would be in the circumstance, the agricultural sector.

According to Hoekstra and Chapagain’s study, a correlation has to be established between the water footprint and the consumption of food and agricultural products. America, being the biggest producer of agricultural goods logically its water footprint should be the highest worldwide : it actually reached 2480 cubic meters per capita and per year. As explained, because of its consumption pattern, America with its 120 kilos of meat per year and per capita, three times the world average, as the biggest consumer, therefore the biggest producer becomes the biggest water footprinter. Not yet, but definitely among the first since other factors more prevalent come into the equation. Given that 16000 liters are necessary to produce one kilo (2 pounds) of beef, 1000 liters for a liter of milk, we are not surprised by the figures reported by the World Bank concerning the 120.9 billion cubic meters of water consumed by the agriculture, on its own.

In the country of the hamburger and the cotton t-shirt, they ulitize respectively 2400 liters and 2000 l, simply do the math to understand the magnitude of the damages on the water supply.

To give you figures that speak on the agricultural cost over the global water footprint on a worldwide scale, rice consumes 21% of the total volume of water used for crop production, wheat 12%… Agriculture acts like a sponge when it comes to consumption, 73% of the water pie! The domestic share is only 5%! To the examination of those figures should not governments shift their targets and aim at the real problem?

The agricultural sector as the black sheep, should be reformed. New solutions appeared on the market to replace technics that consume too much water. Rainforest and supplementary irrigation technics are the new methods for manageable and sustainable agricultural policies. For obtuse minds pricing should be the last resort to raise awareness.

Unlike the precipitated measures taken against the oil depletion (biofuel, the source of the inflation on the corn, of the reduction on the share of the commodity dedicated to human consumption, of the upheavals and riots in agriculture-based economies), let’s develop rational and adequate solutions proper to any given economy.

The Chinese hegemony already spread its wings. Among the collection of items that “cohabits” in our houses, just quantify the ones that have the denomination “made in China” to understand the extent of the economic invasion. From the trifle to the technological device the conquest is complete. Which product doesn’t have the sinological seal? Based upon fallacious or veridical allegations concerning the factor quality of their products, no one will disown nonetheless their supremacy.

When Europe then the U.S. experienced unexpectedly their industrialization and later as a result their economic development, the key words were production that became mass production and productivity. Following the Occidentals’ models, China accelerated frantically its rhythm of industrialization, its production and therefore its productivity. Like its sisters, China has big bulky eyes envisioning big projects for the grandeur of the country, coveting Tibetan natural richness and worldwide natural resources as its predecessors not so long ago, hunting on the African continent.

No more Maoist little red book imposing agrarian reforms privileging 90% of the territory to agriculture. Now Chinese dream of mass consumption, brands, liberalism and soon freedom!

With the industrialization comes mass production (for local or/and international markets!), with mass production mass pollution, with mass pollution to evolve now mass recycling… Not even mass implemented in the Occident yet! And the cherry on the cake, the mass COST of our outrageous irresponsibility!

With the industrialization comes fierce urbanization, with urbanization mass expropriation, mass migration, with mass migration mass occidentalized consumption, with mass occidentalized consumption mass energy production, with mass energy production (construction of gigantic dams destroying the ecosystem, nuclear plants) mass pollution… It’s a vicious circle!

With the industrialization comes the energy dependency that ends up, refer to the USA, England…, to wage wars.

This could perfectly be a plausible scenario however the time given to our planet and to China shortens daily and opposes each others. The global warming and the depletion of the natural resources may shift China’s ambitions. Is it the reason why China who just become the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide is asking for the richest countries in the world to abandon their unsustainable lifestyle to fight the climate change? In this call, does China acknowledge its pertaining to the decried countries’ circle  “the polluters and the richest” ? If yes, will China, as it proposed, be paying taxes as the detainer of the record of pollution?

With the bailout, protestations rose on its beneficial effects. Steven Fraser, senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania voiced up on the Wall Street debacle.

Evolving in its comfortable financial sector, engine of its economy, America reposed nonchalantly for too long on the stability of its paper investments. Fortunately, October 2008 crash made America aware of its dependence on the hazards implicated to being subjected to the financial market, and its vulnerability. By opening their eyes, American minds, through Fraser’s allegations, realized the unbalance resulting from the preponderance of speculations over productive means. The unbalance between the financial and productive sectors.

According to Fraser, America doesn’t produce anymore. The crash revealed the weaknesses of the American system, of its economy. Against what he, himself calls the “paper wealth” that is to say the speculative wealth, he brings to the fore the necessity to re-industrialize the economy stressing the high technology and the environmental consciousness as determining factors to the equilibium, to the relegation of the financial sector to an inferior position. The industry culminates as the motor, and the finances only being a cog of the economic mechanism.

The notion of free market proper to the liberal ideology also was the fertile and propitiatory ground for the current crisis. On one hand, when it comes to deal with huge transactions, everybody has the freedom to invest massively at whatever cost. The “whatever cost” is an important element since in case of a vertiginous fall, the fearless investor will bounce on a protective net, the taxpayer fund called the bailout. In one word, everybody finances high spheres’ ambitions and misjudgments. And, on the other hand, at a lower scale, A, B or C are enabled to pay the coming mortgage for the same mistakes, who will bail them out? In a free market, one takes its own risks and supports the consequences!

When Fraser endorses the development of the high technology and the environmental products, he only aligns himself on existing favorable niches, doesn’t he? High technology has always been incentive to progress and a stimulus for the volume of sales as for eco-friendly concepts will draw the attention (trend or concern) of richer economies.

In 1975, an employee of the Pentagon revealed to the American Public the historical facts of the Vietnam war. The document, the United-States-Vietnam relations, 1945-1967 : A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense, denounced the falsifications of the U.S. politico-military involvement in the Vietnam war.

Ellsberg, the leak of the affair was at the time in charge of writing factually whether the Vietnam war was humanly and budget wise viable.

When the affair exploded the president in power was Nixon.

What originally titillated my criticism was the presence in the equation of a man tormented in delivering the truth because the documents he possessed had the seal of classified “top secret”. An American citizen torn apart between being a patriot (to his nation, to the people) and being a betrayer to the eyes of the highest authority of the nation, the government. As he chooses his side, the truth, he will use the NY Times to be the medium of communication of his message, to divulge the truth.

In its article 1, section 6, the U.S. constitution brags (in its first amendment) “For any Speech or Debate in either house, [a Senator or Representative] shall not be questioned in other place”. Consequently, Ellsberg sees in senators his legitimate voice to outcry publicly the truth that would be gagged by a treason trial by the government if exposed!

The opportunity of introducing the papers as congressional records would give the Senate omnipotence over the government.

It is interesting and revealing to know that none of the senators he encountered was willing to oppose the government in the name of the truth, at the light of the controversial content, and the classified “top secret” nature of the document! Which fear was undermining the senators at the moment? Wasn’t America a democracy?

Allegedly constitutional chambers, because of their multipartism are the organs that constitutionally oppose the executive from any outburst, abuse, that carries the legal power to counter-weigh absolutism.

Aware of Ellsberg’s move (to the NY Times), the government tried unsuccessfully to cease the publication by a federal court injunction, that escalated to the Supreme Court in a challenging trial “NY Times v. United-States”.

By the failure of the government to demonstrate the “burden of proof”, by proving the unconstitutional behaviors of successive presidencies and their violation of their oaths, Ellsberg was absolved and gained the U.S. public support.

In an authoritarian society, the first move implemented by the dictatorial regime is to shut down the freedom of press, so as to be adequate to the highest sphere thinking. By suppressing one fundamental right instituted by the constitution, the government alters and redefines the constitutionality and the constituency of the former democracy.

Installed by a democratic majority “by the people” to represent its interests, the executive branch definitely disconnects itself from its constituents “for the people” while striving against the right of information.

By suing the NY Times, the U.S. government dissociated itself as an individual entity to the rest of the nation. In standing in the way of any constituent by illegitimating his belonging to the same group of people, by denying his identity (as an American) by identifying him as a “treater”, the government rejects the ability of any being to think individually, to exert one’s freedom of speech.

According to the NY Times, the Pentagon Papers were “historical” documents stating by this allegation as being part of the American history, heritage, culture, therefore a part of you, the people.

By hiding national documents, by not allowing the people to access “Top Secret” documents in formatting them as archives sleeping for at least a quarter of a century, the government assesses itself as an independent cell. As a result, why wouldn’t Ellsberg, X, Y, Z when truth matters be others independent cells living and evolving in the same environment (same nation)?

The time has come where the “territorial” government and the people unit as one! The move belongs to the government!

Let’s not be so pessimistic, some we have to admit participate by donating time and money to caritative organizations who consecrate their activity to voice westerners’ acknowledgment of others’ suffering. Those “others”, who share our lives virtually, are Iraqis, Afghans, Tibetans… Let’s say people pertaining to war zones or potential unstable worldwide platforms.

But, since the formation and the development of online communities, people interact with each other with more realism, objectivity, with what makes human beings so magic, their human touch.

For instance Iraqis’ versions of the war are more individualized and not only seen under one and only one reductive scope, the media eye : FOX’s, CNN’s, CBS’…

To illustrate the power of people, the power of community, what they can do as one, when they are willing to gather to break all the molds, let me just refer to the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse project to mark the sisterhood, between Boulder (Colorado) and Dushanbe (Tajikistan). To honor their special bond the Mayor of Dushanbe Maksud Ikramov outsourced 40 Tadjik artisans to redecorate the Boulder Teahouse (the place where friends meet to talk or play chess in Central Asia). What could be associated to online community sites, couldn’t they?

To reciprocate Boulder financed a Cyber cafe in Dushanbe. The Cyber cafe will symbolize an open window to the world, a tool for communication, a structure for information, knowledge, a foundation for both cultures.

Based upon their original idea of antinomic cultures reciprocity, partnership, Don Philabaum gave birth to his “Adopt a War Affected Person or Family”. Roughly the concept consists in adopting an Iraqi or Afghan family through the Internet. His goal is to establish a partnership between all social categories, from lawyers to bakers, and the war casualties, and the collateral casualties by creating a bank, a web of responsible, caring people to be involved in sponsoring, educating Iraqi and Afghan citizens. In his innovative and audacious program, actions isn’t it the right way to express the difference between the Americans and the American government?