August 3, 2026- Spokane area of Washington State- Wildfires destroy about 600 houses, and counting. About 60,000 evacuated thus far. At least 7700 acres reported burned. On the ground mayday.

August 2, 2026, within recent hours, a ferry, boat, Mutiara Santosa 2 caught fire in the waters off Madura Island, Indonesia, near Java. What the exact status is in terms of numbers of survivors, unclear at this second 1pm EST. Rescues obviously underway, but might be coming up short of 100% ideal, accountability. The ferry was carrying a reported 271 passengers. Active situation.

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Realities May be Reality of What's Pivotal to Get, Regarding the Middle East, Money, Oil, Military Activities, Relations

Posted by HCN on Monday, August 3, 2026,
Pivotal, or 'basicmost' if that's a standard word, in world of word choice to paint a picture.

Just what is, going on the Middle East?

For a while in the past year, a lot of what was happening, barely hit anyone's newspaper, if at all.

Iranian websites went down and almost become nonexistent.

Over 400 US troops have been injured 'over there' (in the Middle East) since 'Epic Fury' thereabout; where specifically, how?, before getting all the way up to 400, what happened to get to the first 20 injur...
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Refer Burma/Myanmar page for air strikes over the EOM February/2026 start of March 2026 time frame. Up for consideration is the be mindful of the whole pie concept. There may very well be a double team set of missile strikes going on on Iran, subject to differing views; however there are still a number of situations going on globally that are weighted, such as violence in different areas of where the Sahel and Northern Africa meet, situations of starvation in the eastern areas of the belt as well; and missile strikes in other regions.

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