Over the course of today, or last 24 hours, from 6:45pm EST time back, it appears an epicenter of turmoil is southern Lebanon. Multiple casualties and injuries. Perhaps a shift from simply a two sided dynamic of Pro and Anti, Palestine vs Israel, Muslims against Jews, overlay, convenient for media hype, regardless of the fringe amounts of portrayed accuracy- a shift more recently to Christians and churches being affected by the turmoil.

It is as though a game of cards is being played to 'get unrest back to the way it was in the early 1980s'.
September of 1982,there was an event known as the Sabra and Shatila, (spelling variations) turmoil for minimal words to encourage peace instead of remind.

As the shift occurs in May of 2026, there may be an amount of aloofness and anticipation, based on the trajectory of developments in the region over the past few months, that that might be where things are headed.

It is obvious that media photos of female victims and their injuries of different types of aerial weapons, is disgusting, in terms of the fact that they exist.
Is that why those women are created, to suffer in that manner? In the age group of 30s to 40s, markedly.
So a woman that is now missing a link , such as a leg, in 2036, at age 40, if she lives another 40 years, she has to marry with the burdens of those wounds for a duration the amount already lived. Over issues, that very likely could be resolved through peaceful means, that did not require those injuries.

Different media sources have differing amounts of intensity in coverage of turmoil stricken areas of the Middle East right through here. 
A number of popular US media has other news stories, such as the latest gala dress worn for hype awards ceremony, what amoral entertainer said what about another entertainers ditzy moment on the air, in the front seat while serious matters over Palestine, Israel, and nearby areas are taking a backseat.
Other media outlets are at the very latest edge of even potential developments.
Depending on how your computer search engine lands, what's seen on the screen may be a toss up.

News stories about battles and talk of different kinds of battle related possibilities are running amuck on the web now.

Whatever the latest pursuit behind the gluttony behind causing injury to fellow man under color of Middle East significance while actually a jokester, is almost irrelevant now.

So far, as the incident and it's aftermath is a developing story, standout aspects, in opinion, is that what unraveled at the WHCA dinner, was a combination of the strategies and techniques presented in movies about the Martin Luther King assassination, and the slaying of two interns just under a year ago in DC at the Capital Jewish Museum.

In the background, is the Lincoln assassination.
Why in the background and not the foreground? Because basically the group the suspect is reputed to be affiliated with, the Wide Awakes, was in support of Abraham Lincoln, a soon to be President, while the suspect in this case, same group, a Republican group historically, attacked a setting where the sitting White House leadership are Republican party. Perhaps an irony of some sort, perhaps the suspect was trying to make a statement that there was a disagreement among Republicans.

Further out in the background, an incident that is also reminiscent to the WHCA incident, was the event in Manhattan, New York, July of last year, where the suspect traveled from the far western area of the US to make a statement about football head injuries etc. This post will be continued with further details.

Meanwhile, the thread of where it's going is pretty clear. The suspect in his early 30s, like recent others in incidents similar, traveled from far off, in a highly refined calibrated and planned attack. 

See the notes compiled section below for added details as they become available and apparent.


Notes compiled:

At least one movie about the MLK assassination portray that the assassin stayed in a hotel near to where the incident occurred; very similar to the WHCA incident.

On a Monday, not a Sunday, mid July of last year, Shane Tamura after traveling from Las Vegas Nevada, a state contiguous to California where the suspect 'Cole Allen Thomas' reportedly had as his geographic spot of initial departure, Tamura brandishing a large firearm, headed toward the general geographic pinpoint area of his selected target, similar to Thomas last weekend.

Simply put, the simple 1-2-3, design an attack plot, probably with help from the Internet, travel in to DC with weapons from far off, book a hotel or motel near a selected region for the gun play, then roll out the hotel room several days later and attack, needs to be a thing of the past, now. The recurrence just being a recurrence, has gone too far, considering the vast amount of AI tools, prediction models, computers, and information sharing; the same snake has bitten several times in under a year's time.

Try, among numerous basic practices, if a hotel or motel guest is within a certain number of miles from critical infrastructure, in or not in combination of traveled a certain distance and staying in a place like a hotel for several days, check his baggage.

Knock knock, on hotel/motel door, 'Hi, I'm the 'XY' agency or security team, just doing a standard procedure check of the room, as this location is 3 miles from Capitol Hill and major landmarks, will take a 3 minute X-ray scan of the room and your items, thank you for your time.'

Is it against current privacy laws?, maybe, but there's room for the whole blueprint to get a shapeup for the better and safer.

Information is still making its way to the surface.
Thus far what is known is in the upper left hand corner of the state, or northwestern area near the state lines with Texas and Arkansas, an incident or incidents, or number of incidents altogether considered an incident occurred, that left eight children fatalities, two women shot, and the suspect is reported a fatality as well.

Caddo and adjacent Bossier Parishes appear to contain the incident set.

It appears the initial incidents started in Shreveport, where the children were affected, ages eight months to 14 years old, then crossed over Parish lines and into Bossier City, just a few miles away, where the suspect was affected by law enforcement, whereat the culminating development occurred in a residential single family houses with yards neighborhood.
The information as to whether all aspects of incidents were or are confined to Shreveport and Bossier City is up and coming.

So far, reports indicate that there were 2 homes involved, as sites of the shootings, a carjacking location in the sequence, and culminating development in Bossier City.

Of the two women injured, at least one is reported shot, and has life-threatening injuries.

Law enforcement, heavily involved.
This all started at about 6am local time which is CDT/CST/CT, central time, one hour behind EST time. At 6am CDT it was 7am EST. Visibility may have been on the bubble of dark to medium to visible, as the developments were unfolding.
Media videos hyping the story say law enforcement is saying they believe there was just one suspect shooter.
That shooter must have been a very 'good' shooter, to successfully shoot 10 individuals, 8 fatally, in at least 2 houses, which means entering and exiting 2 separate properties in sequence, and perform a carjacking.
There have been incidents like this in the past, perhaps also with arson connected, where depending on the angle of analysis, there was only one suspect, at a different angle two suspects, a different angle 3 suspects and so forth. Shadowy support etc.
The more time elapses, the further out possibilities can stretch out or be solved.

It is very unfortunate that an individual that served in Department of Homeland Security, has succumbed to assault.

In terms of delivering the news straight, the facts are the facts.

Reports for sure, are multiple attacks in the Atlanta area Monday.

Some say a string of attacks, which may have finalized with the attack on Bullis while walking her dog.

The suspect is reported to have had military service.

Even though there may be uproar about past Biden strategies respective to Trump administration efforts in the framework of immigration, there may be some counterbalancing in terms of holding responsibility for individuals who may have the proclivity for engaging in crime, and had immigration issues, when, they have gone through vetting and screening, for military service.

It may be there were aspects of premeditated assault. Said employee was walking dog in early hours, a time where she might have been more vulnerable compared to other times, such as at work in the middle of the day surrounded by armed colleagues.

Hence, question is asked, why then? And if there is a possibility of why then, the suspect probably became familiar with some of her ways, such as through prior observation, or information by someone that has the observations.

What may have immediately struck as in the same sort, was last week's or thereabout, situation, where a woman in Ft Myers Florida was attacked, (hammer, gas station), by a person with similar descriptions.

Issues of immigration may exist. There are other issues. A large one is mental health; there are immigrants on the bubble of dangerous and helpful, that are on the bubble of being allowed to stay in the US or have to leave, where they should receive a few more rounds of inquiry into their health. 

The US military and other securitizing methods, have used immigrants and those with other statuses in the past. It wasn't but a few years, maybe not even days, after WWII, that the US invited scientists that may have served in positions in conflict to the Allies, to help build up certain types of programs, like for outer space.

Just because their name may have been associated with Nazi, accountability for behavior on an individual by individual basis, is the bottom line. Label goes aside. Demonstrated behavior is what counts.

Cries occur when a negative event occurs. It's natural and understandable.

Another area of issues, very very softly, may be aspects of the US, especially Continental, that have received more or less attention from the White House, especially in terms of geographic locations, often which overlay certain socioeconomic conditions.

For example western breadbasket states where income might not be extremely broken, but it is in the zone less than average, towards but not yet mediocre. 
Their visits from the White House? Economic programs? How many visits, length, scope, breadth of issues discussed, etc ?

Who's woes are being heard is being paid attention to right through here, especially with detonative campaigns going on.

There may be, still, dirt roads and no to very little street lights, in certain areas that were slow to rebound from the Reconstruction era, on the borders with suburbs and less populated areas, perhaps Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, central areas of the states. The just asked question might also apply here.

This is not to say they haven't gotten visited, it's painting the general picture. Those folks day-to-day challenges are not national headlines very often.

Lastly, which it's hated to say, but in terms of bloodlines, demographics, ethnicity issues, genus omne, the two incidents mentioned here in, is not doing a service to individuals that meet that description. 

As laws for no discrimination and racial profiling keep rolling out, why stomp on one's own foot toward larger progress by engaging in activities that leave indelible marks?

Afterword (words that 'shouldn't be said')
Referent crimes are so egregious, that while reflections on times such as 1965 when George Wallace blocked students from entering University of Alabama are recalled as efforts to continue to make access to education available, it brings up the questions as to the rationale of the blocking, was it because of incidents like the referent two? At this point, there are many peaceful African Americans, Afro Caribbean, African descriptions, that might be more upset at what's going on, and vehemently opposed to laxity in measures to protect everyone else, than everyone else.

Solutions are needed now. Solutions now. Constructive, peaceful, effective solutions.

Good Saturday to everyone. Better to have this discussion now than later. It's about 3:30pm EST.
Two recent and very salient incidents have led to an unavoidable discussion.
It may be appropriate to ask, to have this discussion with your families, community centers and at leadership posts, schools, and senior centers.

Earlier today in New York City, in what was reported as started at the famed Grand Central Station, an individual that appeared as 'mentally unstable', whether momentarily or to what length aside, assaulted a reported 3 upper aged adults. Age ranges of the victims were from their 60s to 80s.

There may have been some degree of vulnerability. For illustration, an athlete that takes martial arts classes everyday at age 30 may have had a higher chance of effectively defending or eluding injury, than other extremes, such as toddler age children, or aged seniors that have not been in the dojo for a while.

The suspect assailant had or used a machete, which is a relatively large, conspicuous, very large and easily noticeable attack weapon.

The assailant recurrently shouted he was 'Lucifer', which as scholars know are modern day English renditions of what may for instance, started out as references to a king of Babylon, as shining, morning star, light bringer, whereas eventually translations became Lucifer, and given a context of rebellion, it was used to refer to 'Saran', and eventually became a term that pretty much is used for one in the same; something like that, not to go off on a tangent; the point is, had language and 'what is taught these days' such as in schools, folkways, households, and today's culture use in English speaking regions, the term may not have been there for the suspect in today's incident, to 'have in his head'.

This goes to show you that some unstableness, conditions, or illnesses, can be treatable; not all may be totally curable, but some can be lessened. Severity of situations can be lessened.

Several days ago, in Fort Myers, Florida, unfortunately a male welding a hammer like device, assaulted a female gas stations vehicle window with it, while the vehicle was parked outside the structure portion of a gas station, that has the cashier booth, snacks, etc.

From what footage of the incident seems to show, the noise on the vehicle being assaulted, grabbed the attention of the female station attendant inside, and drew her outside, making her vulnerable to attack, which, nearly defenseless, and perhaps somewhat unfamiliar with worst case scenario possibilities of assaults, was assaulted by the man.

Refer 'Haitian man assaults Bangladeshi woman with hammer' in Florida, April 2026.

Our HCN story here is not focusing on illegal immigration policy, whether lenient, prudent, advantageous under one philosophy or another. It isn't about the full run down of where the suspect and the victim were from, and status.

Altogether, when it seems like an incident involving bodily injury is starting to develop, it has to be caught, recognized sooner, and appropriate actions to preempt and prevent further damage has to be made sooner.

Notes:
In developing incidents like that in Fort Myers:
Do not run outside in the open and see what's the matter, unless very cautiously done; first steps are pick up your cell phone and call 911, text your spouse, hey I'm at work (at the gas station, or where ever), or hit the button located in the store for emergency help.
Keep your distance from danger.
It may be wiser to lock yourself in, or lock robbers out, depending on the situation. The car comes after your life in precedence. There will be other cars you can buy, life is only once.
Of course if you can, film, record aspects of the incident, even if for just a brief amount of time.

The idea is to prevent and preempt, or if developments have started, deescalate the incident as much possible.

In the case of the machete wielding person, as soon as a large weapon is seen being flashed in a place it doesn't belong, such as at airport, train station, mall, workplace, road intersection or stoplight, that's the time to call 911.

In the past several weeks or months, there have been at least several other high profile incidents involving machete wielding persons:

• Montgomery County, PA, near 4/8, 'ring camera caught...'; potential victim immediately called 911, and was safe from incident
• Harris County, TX, machete wielding man in road rage incident; fortunately no one injured
• Charles County, MD, near 2/11, suspect charged at cops with a machete

Better to call 911 when in doubt, and be safe, than not up and witness injury. It is known that assailants when they notice a 911 call has been placed, will try to act sly, and pretend they were not doing much, even suspend their attack, so it looks like a wasted effort.

Timing of actions can hold a key to successful safety.