The Nation of USA, has become much gentler under their new President, Mr Joe Biden. He has welcomed the children arriving at the border by themselves rather than throwing them into the claws of the wolves on the other side in Mexico. Even those Venezuelans who called him names and made a mockery of his gentleness has been granted Temporary residence status in the USA.
Leaders can mislead its people. The gullible do not realize that they are being made even more gullible by demagogues. If you do not check the source of the news and check for its authenticity, very soon you would be spewing idiotic claims about Covid Vaccines and epithets of racial superiority and fill your mouth with vituperation.
Trump
Bolsanaro
Bangladesh is celebrating its 50th anniversary and its leader is becoming more and more autocratic, joining her neighbour, India.
Myanmar has become brutal, over 100 men and women and children were shot dead by the military today in just one city..
Why are the people leaving Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, undertake a perilous journey through Mexico to reach the USA border ?
Oppression in their own countries and lack of opportunities and government which are not responsible to the needs of the population.
My heart sink each time I hear about a ferry or a boat sinking in the Mediterranean carrying sub saharan refugees ..
Eritrea
Lebanon is slowly sinking into anarchy
they are fighting over a pound of powdered milk while Hezbollah boasts that it has hundreds of rockets aimed at its neighbour
Syria where 500 000 citizens have been killed by their own government and its allies
Iraq
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Egypt Libya Algeria ..Sudan.. the list is long
of course IRAN where a theocracy chokes the intelligent inhabitants of that ancient land
You cannot be proud of a country where they do not respect the women, do not allow them to study or advance. It is a fear of being over taken by women, in all fields of study and endeavour, that they resist so much.
It is becoming accepted that all around the world Girls are outperforming Boys in all subjects at the School and University!
Women are not chattels, they are not property, they are our partners, they are our sisters, our mothers, our daughters.
Who wants to be a refugee ?
We complain if our bath water is tepid, but what if you do not have water ?
While I have no connections to Lebanon, other than the memory of a teacher, Fouad Ashkar and some colleagues at the university, Gibran Houche, I am very fond of the music of that tiny nation full of so much artistic talent.
I had to trim the video a little bit to fit. it is Fairouz singing Li Beirut.
To my Lebanese Brothers and Sisters
To my Iranian brothers and Sisters
The collage of double image is by a Turkish digital artist from Istanbul, yet another capital yearning for freedom. Do not forget your history, do not forget Kemal Ataturk
thank you, MCA in Bauru. Your gift is ready.
