The Silent Majority is Accomplice to the death of the 7 Year old girl from Guatemala...

This is Jakelin Ameí Rosmery Caal Maquin, the 7 year old girl who died in Border Patrol custody... at the Mexico-U.S. border...

A seven year old and her father had crossed the Mexico-U.S. border... but she never realized her dream of a better life... She was terrorized by the U.S. patrol and died from dehydration... Just 90 minutes after crossing the border... 

    Migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border say they are fleeing persecution, poverty     and violence in their countries...
   But the U.S. executive of the 1% does not want them...A seven-year-old girl who US officials say tried to cross the Mexico-US border illegally with her family has died hours after being taken into custody. The Guatemalan girl, who authorities there have named as Jackeline Caal, died of dehydration and shock, the Washington Post reports.

It is our collective shame that these things are happening at the Mexico-US border... Children ripped off their parents... people tear gassed... those who escape the tear gas are taken into custody... and a 7 year old died of dehydration...

It is our collective shame... and the silent majority should wake up...
Human compassion is essential for survival... not only for them... but without that basic compassion we cannot survive as human beings...

Stand up and speak out... keeping your silence makes you an accomplice to the brutality of the U.S. executive of the 1%...

Do not be a part of the problem... by keeping silence...
Maybe in this holiday season... you can stand up and be counted...
Speak up... 
Big business... has penetrated all Central American countries... the banana plantations and coffee and the rest... exploit the people of central America...
The U.S. government for decades has helped the brutal military dictatorships in Central America...  They U.S. government has supported death squads...
And now some people are asking for refuge...
Speak up... and let people come in...
Human beings help each other... 
... A 7 year old died in U.S. custody... from dehydration...

Speak out... keeping silence is to be an accomplice to brutality...

Arms kill... Be it American...Russian or Chinese... Arms indeed kill...

Arms are manufactured to kill... and arms do kill...
Arms do not have nationality... American arms kill and so does Russian... Chinese arms kill and so does Indian or Pakistani...
Turkey intends to invade Syria and destroy Kurdish fighters, peshmergas..., allied with the U.S.  In essence, the government in Syria has Russian arms... and the opposition has U.S., American and European arms...Russian and American arms have killed thousands in Syria... maimed thousands more... and created thousands of refugees...

• The U.S. and European and Russian arms have created a refugee crisis in the Middle East and Africa... 

But now,

• Americans and many European countries refuse to accept refugees... going against international conventions and norms...

Saudi Arabia, armed by the U.S., is in war in Yemen...

Saudi Arabia is fighting in Yemen... with U.S. supplied arms... The ruling 1% in America and Europe proclaims that if they do not sell arms to the Saudi dictatorship, then Russia or may be China will sell them arms... So why not Americans benefit from the Saudi petrodollars...
American arms for Saudi petrodollars... and Yemeni war... and Yemeni victims... 
Essentially the Americans, and the Europeans and also  Russians... benefit from the Saudi oil and Saudi dollars and Yemeni war...
They are the merchants of death... and blood...

 39,773... 

That’s how many people were killed by guns last year in the U.S. according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — raising the rate of gun deaths to its highest level in more than 20 years amid an increase in suicides...
Guns kill all nationalities... American guns kill Americans too... Putin's regime kills the Russian opposition with Russian arms... and the Chinese suppress the Uighurs, its Muslim minority, by Chinese arms...

The bullet does not recognize the nationality of the victims... 
Arms and ammunition are manufactured to kill... everyone... anyone... regardless of nationality or wealth or...

The Yemeni war... conducted by U.S. arms and Saudi butchers and assassins... assisted by their allies... This young girl is starving to death... because Saudis have blockaded the ports  of Yemen and humanitarian aid cannot be delivered...

... and this girl is maimed by U.S. arms by Saudi actors..., "soldiers..."

The rest of her life she is going to carry the memories of the U.S. arms...

The global 1%  manufactures arms for profit... and arms kill and the 1% becomes the assassins of  the world...
They are the traders in blood... for blood...

Russian and American weapons create globalized misery... killing fields... just like global warming...just like the opioids... 

Drugs kill...

and 

So do arms....

As a result of the Saudi-led war in the country, millions of Yemenis are at the risk of starvation... U.S. arms in the hands of the Saudis are starving thousands of Yemenis and massacring thousands...

They have no where to go... they have nothing to do... A nation of homeless... That's what the U.S. arms in the hands of the Saudis is doing... and all of us are complicit in it... 

We the people should demand a halt to arms sales to all... We should not be the global merchants of death...

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The West once flooded China with opium. China is returning the favour... and China’s pledge to curb fentanyl production may not change much

Fentanyl Is Now America's Deadliest Drug

The powerful pain medication causes more overdoses than heroin, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Deaths involving the synthetic opioid, which can be 100 times stronger than morphine, doubled each year between 2013 and 2016. Fentanyl was connected to 1,600 deaths in 2012, but that number had jumped to 18,000 by 2016. Last year it was involved in nearly 30,000 of the estimated 70,000 U.S. overdoses. Another report earlier this year suggested opioid-related deaths have been underreported by as much as 35 percent.

Will "the wall" stop the drugs...?

      
Bethlehem's Christmas Tree... and the   menorah which stands today in Jerusalem's old city Jewish Quarter, overlooking the Temple Mount...

Yesterday was a day of candles and light for people of faith around the globe... and it was candles and lights for a week now for the businesses...
Christians light the first of four Advent candles, representing prayer, penance, rejoicing and sacrifice in preparation for Christmas... but will prayers and penance cover up the sex scandals of the priests and the bishops... and will prayer and penance be enough for the Evangelicals who have steadfastly supported the executive of the 1%... even when that executive was grabbing the kids from their parents... even when that executive is bombing the hell out of the Yemeni people - men,  women and children alike...   
At sunset, Jewish people turn to the menorah to mark the start of Hanukkah. The eight-day festival commemorates an ancient miracle, when one day’s-worth of consecrated oil lasted for eight during the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem... maybe the Jewish people will contemplate about the Palestinians while the first light is turned on... maybe the Jewish people will think about the Palestinian men, women and children... during the eight days of Hanukkah...

... and maybe all of us will think about the verse “For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:”                                                     Matthew 25:25 in King James Version of the Bible... 

I am not a believer and I do not appreciate the fanatic dogmatism of some preachers... but there is good philosophy in the Bible... and I read it often... not for salvation, but rather to embrace global values and ALL of humanity... and of course I will celebrate Christmas... in fact three times...
On the December 25... with everyone... and on January 6 with my Armenian friends... and on January 7 with my Ukrainian friends...
I love to celebrate... and during the eight days of Hanukkah I love to meet my Jewish friends... they are fun... and they are good people to hang around...

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...of Chameleons and the rest...

Will "The Wall" stop the drugs and will political chameleons succeed to camouflage the arrogance and greed of the 1%...? Will the executive of the 1% succeed to lull the people again...?
The "wall" will have no effect on smugglers but will harass people.

Check the news...

Drug overdoses killed more than 70,000 Americans in 2017, a record. The deaths contributed to a reduction in American life expectancy over the last three years, a pattern unprecedented since World War II.

The new numbers from health officials depict an addiction crisis more deadly than car crashes or gun violence... and non of them are good...  Cars kill and pollute... guns massacre and create wars... and drugs make us sick and helpless... These are the gifts of the 1% to the "WE THE PEOPLE..." ...and the U.N. report on climate... What will be our legacy to the next generation... coal and dust... ashes and fires... maybe flooded streets and Miami under water...  I always joked while teaching that eventually people will start roaming around with bottled water on their one hand and bottled air on the other... Maybe that's for next Christmas and Hanukkah...! Maybe... the Hanukkah lights will come from coal mines... or maybe from oil wells...  and Maybe Christmas trees will miraculously survive the wild fires... Maybe... after all the executives of the 1% gathered in Buenos Aires... over the weekend and acted as chameleons laughing at the people and deciding how to divide the globe... ... and till when "WE THE PEOPLE..." will tolerate...? Today is the second day of Advent... the glitter of gifts weighs heavy on the Christmas tree... Today light the second candle... and maybe people will see the starving people in Yemen... and notice the refugees in Syria... and maybe the tear-gassed children in Tijuana... Maybe... after all it is the season of miracles...

"We the people..." must decide...!