The promise of spring swoops over a Moscow street.

This photo was taken a couple of weeks ago inside the spectacular ГУМ (Gum) department store in Moscow. It heralds spring after a long, hard Russian winter, and if it wasn't exactly that flowery outside,

The Baby Alfie debate has many layers. One of the most problematic is the Convention on the Rights of the Child that grants states rights that prevail over parents' rights . Parts do seek to protect children

Wow, if this is true we have an even more distubed and disturbing individual in the White House than I thought! Here is the link:

Rendez-vous le 1er mai à Paris, en marche pour le Frexit !

I am not sure how effective petitions are, but there may be some value in signing this one just to get our voices heard.  Here is the link to the petition: To read more about it: Senators Offer Up

This video is a year old and it is unfiltered and rough, but if you have doubts about who the White Helmets really are... For those who are not familiar with Pierre le Corf, he is a young French expatriate

How about Monsanto that is poisoning us slowly? Maybe that's the real enemy, and we should be waging war on them instead! But hey, they're subsidizing our so-called representatives in Washington and they

Sans commentaire...

It is official, the US, France and the UK have gone rogue!

How much more blood will have to be spilt? How much longer will lies justify the spilling of that blood? We are a vocal community here on Steemit, and maybe it is time to step out of this virtual space

My Office Carpet - Temporary Relief From Global Craziness

This is an article by Nour Samaha that was published in the Intercept at the beginning of the year. It is well worth reading, so I am pasting the link below. Wherever our respective countries may be located,

For years I have searched for answers to these questions, and I can't come up with anything. How can a plane that crashes into a building totally disappear inside that building without leaving any wreckage

Sometimes, you just gotta do it!

How can such a powerful and evil person such as Putin be so inept as to bungle the assassination of two people with a chemical compound claimed to be the deadliest nerve agents ever made? Please enlighten

Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King was assassinated. A year to the day before his death, he pronounced a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break The Silence.” In that speech he quotes a

Roman Summer

The Odd One Out

The top two pictures were taken with my SONY DSC-RX100M3, and I used my iPhone 4S for the peonies at the bottom. I normally use the auto settings on my camera and the generic Apple "Photos" editor