While many big news sites are relishing in the sick chaos of what they perceive as gains in perversive freedom, and maybe the money they earned while doing so too, the question automatically comes around, what about the important stories that did not get put where the headlines go?
The Arab tradition in this time of year on the lunar calendar, is that evils are locked away, while in the eye of some of the storms of news dissemination, referent evils are about as non-holded-by-bars as it can get, again according to them. -Let us be mindful.

In Syria, there are reports of 'rebels attacking the airport'.  The article does not say though, who the rebels are, in terms of a name of a group.
Refer to: https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/militants-attack-hama-airport-in-retaliation-for-russian-syrian-strikes-video/

What is going on in Venezuela?  Barely anything seen on big news stories today.  However, if something 'snaps', and America is plunged into pouring finances in to help the situation, news giants paying attention to what is going on might make a drastic increase.

The reality is, in the last half day thereabout, almost 2 dozen people have killed in clash at a prison in the Acarigua area, (reports BBC). Armed resistance supporting Maduro has reports saying they are paramilitary, and based off the photos, they look like they have no reservations about engaging in gang-like beatdown violence.

In the historically holy site of Falestine, Palestine, land of the long-running family comprised of many Prophets from ancient times, and many other names well known to scholars, but almost never before said in political spheres out in public in recent decades, pertinent the region, there has been a story that has come out in recent hours about the POTUS and a 'severance package' of some sort.

Najran Airport in Saudi Arabia, evidently attacked by Houthis within about the last day.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-saudi-drone/yemens-houthis-say-they-attacked-saudis-najran-airport-by-drone-idUSKCN1ST1HJ

Meanwhile, the standing rule of taking care of our own backyard here in the USA, central areas of the US have been ravaged by tornadoes.  Oklahoma, Missouri, among them.

Ravaging, ravishing, and relishing, 3 words to round-out this workweek, what appears ravishing can be made to appear so, remember that what is made to appear ravishing might not actually be so, before relishing in it; areas that have been ravaged, such as by tornadoes, in the purview order of priority, is among the real priorities.


Written and published the late night of May 24, 2019

There has been a spate, a sudden surge, of attacks, at, near, in, or around religious sites, many or possibly all of which involved the use of firearms.

This past weekend was marked by violence on the East and West Coasts of the USA.


In Baltimore, western area, near the City portion of a road that turns or runs into Baltimore National Pike, also known as Route 40, reports say a gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd at gathering for at least one cookout near where a few churches are located.  One person was killed, at least seven were injured.

In the region around San Diego, California, Poway, a gunman using an 'AR' type assault rifle, inherent is the acronym, fired shots at a synagogue.  One person was killed, several injured.

In some ways the above two incidents mirror each other.

In other ways, they could be seen as worlds apart.  The incident at the synagogue perhaps targeted those of the Jewish or Yehudi religion.  The incident in Baltimore took place in an area where the residents are predominantly described as African American, whereat however, ancestral routes in a few lines may have others besides that.

Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka, an exchange of gunfire, from the church killing within the past few weeks, to the attacker being killed, may have been another in a series of attacks that goes back beyond decades.

Baltimore, Maryland in the past few weeks has been in heightened difficulty in the area of shootings especially affecting African American neighborhoods.

In regard the synagogue shooting, there are immediate reflections on the synagogue shooting that occurred in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania about a half a year ago.

At this time, as readers and viewers of the news are able to assess the totality, they can see the contrast where synagogue shootings are receiving comparably more empathy than the incidents in the African American areas of Baltimore, and a few other cities, especially on a National level, such as in the amount of news stories discussing the events.  This while, the violence among African Americans, in both victims and perpetrators, far exceeds what is in the synagogues.

The reason why might be almost self explanatory; the African American perpetrators of violence do not cease despite being asked, the situation is hackneyed to the extent it may be a story of boy crying wolf too much. However, one family at a time.  Each family of each victim does not feel they are a number in the statistics of cry of wolf.

Situation needs to be addressed.

Very importantly, in cases like this, where religious sites are being targeted, there needs to be an awareness that the targets may be religious sites in general and not a particular religion.
Update 2:25pm EST, "The man accused of killing one person and wounding three more with an assault rifle at a synagogue near San Diego also may have set fire to a nearby mosque." Confer https://abcnews.go.com/US/start-here-synagogue-attacked-san-diego-nra-investigated-york/story?id=62652153

There is a New Mexico militia group that allegedly was plotting to assassinate President Obama, and First Lady Clinton, whom preceded the current term
Key terms:

• Larry Mitchell Hopkins a.k.a. or alias, Johnny Horton Jr.; the latter of which may be involved in the plotting methodology; United Constitutional Patriots
• militia group
• Flora Vista

Confer: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/leader-militia-detaining-migrants-allegedly-said-group-trained-assassinate-soros-n997176

Notes: Keep in mind that it was about a year ago that threats were made via suspicious packages to a number of officials including Vice President Biden, previous administration, and an actor for reference, De Niro, mid October 2018.
Key note: potentiality for recurrence of behavior potentially a concern

Right now, in Libya, somewhere as a rough estimate between 250 and 300 fatalities are reported to have occurred amidst clashes.  Events over past several days.  It appears the clashes are primarily between the UN backed government and Haftar loyals, or simpler put GNU vs LNA.
Key terms:

• Khalifa Haftar
• loyal forces; LNA a.k.a. Libyan National Army
• refugees, detainees
• 1,000 injuries estimated
• south of Tripoli.  Ain Zara, Al Sawani or As-Sawani, Wadi Rabie, reported as specific
• UN backed government
• PM Serra
• GNU
• It appears AK47s are in active use based off videos of the situation
• Clarity of what side the US is supporting, what side is UN supporting, consistencies, inconsistencies?; often in situations where there are inconsistencies, it may become an issue of debate in policy analyst leadership circles.  Historically, when a development like this becomes earthly, or telluric, it does not take long by the least bit, for an it begs the question [of/and] emergement, what side or sides are US taxpayers' dollars going to, inclusive of direct, indirect?

Sri Lanka
Church attacks
Some news sources are pointing to ISIS, either theory, or investigating whether they are responsible, while other sources say ISIS claimed responsibility


Thousands are protesting in Rabat, the Capital of Morocco.
Reports say the protesting is for release of prisoners detained for corruption.
Key terms: Rif Movement aka Hirak Rif

In other news, gleanings indicate a new settlement in Israel is either going to be, planned, or prospectively named after Trump

Oil prices are going up, at least in some places; California seeing prices up around $4 a gallon
Suggested reading https://ktla.com/2019/04/17/california-gas-prices-hit-average-of-4-highest-in-the-state-since-2014/
and https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/22/trump-oil-prices-opec-legislation-1273467, subtopics wherein, 'blend switchovers', and NOPEC respectively

How far will the situation that seems to be exponentially mushrooming in Venezuela go before it becomes a catastrophe on an international scale?  Mass exodus. Mass drug deals.

Kim and Putin, look like they are meeting tomorrow, according to global reports.  A major meeting among world leaders.  In Russia.

Stories existing about Trump organization to sue Elijah Cummings on the matter of constitutionality of subpoenas.
HCN comments, much of which are readily available in legal texts, tort law, jurisdiction rights, and so forth, are immediately evident with those introduced to the basics of law practice, -the bulk of HCN comments, are being withheld from public forum at least at this time; however, it will be said that there is a protuberant matter of 'time spent of talents'.  In illustrating, considering all of the events above and numerous others going on in the USA and the world, why should two of the Nation's most talented leaders spend time at odds?

So now a terrorist has performed something that new textbooks being produced globally, can start out by saying, 'on March 15th in New Zealand, terrorists reputed to be 'White Supremacists' attacked at least two 'mosques' [masajid, transliteration for the plural form of masjid, a Muslim place of worship].  Friday is the day Muslims perform their weekly congregational prayer, mandatory for healthy men'.

It may be this is what the terrorists want, a brief claim to fame.  A tiny drop of permanent history, so that readers and video watchers around the world, in the course of general care for the human race, and assessing their behavior, can look at these terrorists.

Perhaps textbook publishers should hold-off on placing a segment about the attacks in their selections on terrorism, until a few years later, in a mitigation effort, making such acts of terrorism less glorious in the minds of terrorists.

Terrorists got one of their wishes today, newspapers all over the world are stopping everything else they are doing, and devoting headlines to them.  We will do the same here, however, for reasons other than, they caused and therefore dictated.

The strange event happened in an area named Christchurch; there is also place name of Linwood where over a half dozen of the victims are reported to have been.  Keep in mind that christ has a meaning and an etymology, and so does church; furthermore, the history of that area of land plausibly has names that go back long before the currently spoken English language of 26 letters was readied to spell out the name it is known today.

Islam and Muslim individuals ardently preserve that Isa or spelled Jesus was a special individual, mentioned many times in the Book Muhammad (both 'praised') was revealed, as well as the Injeel, some call Gospels, or refer to as the Bible; basics reiterated, once again in the aftermath of a terror event; many of us have hoped that the amount of times these historic facts have presented, that by now, it would not be necessary to try to drive home, apparently, some individuals have stubborn blocks on their hearts and spirits and see almost no light, and still have not grasped one of the most rudimentary concepts of life on earth.

The question 'why?' in regard to the brazen acts of terror, can probably be asked dozens of times covering different aspects of the global community and sub-communities.

Granted New Zealand had settlers and colonial occupation, similar to United States history, Canada, and regions of Central and South America, aptly, nearby Australia as well.  However, in some eyes, New Zealand is still known for its indigenous natives, which might not necessarily be popularly pictured as 'from European stock'.

The European stock dimension, it appears, has taken a hold a certain individuals, not everyone, but an unfortunate few in the timeline of world history, to where they have taken too little too far.

What right has an individual to raise himself as superior to others, then take advantage of the advent of the firearm or explosives, in whatever cause he feels connects in his or her own mind as having something to do with it all?  -Especially in this day and age almost 20 years into the 21st century.

Compounding, the suspect terrorist decided to live-stream the event.  The use of camera and live-streaming tools, social media accounts, mixing in terrorism, needs to be addressed, on top of what done to address the constantly developing source of anguish.

Why did the terrorist event that occurred Friday March 15, 2019 in New Zealand, claiming the lives of almost 50 individuals, take place in New Zealand?

Why on Friday?

-Maybe because a terrorist has figured out that they can target as many persons possible per unit space on the congregation prayer window; which by the way, is an act of cowardice.

Full investigation must be done.  Studies on accomplices, how many persons assisted directly and indirectly in the terror attack even if it be zero, how the terrorist obtained the weapon or weapons, mental condition, voluntariness to carry out an act, involution conditions, mental conditions, where the information came from to tempt him or them to plan and carry the acts out, are all aspects to consider having full knowledge of, to name a few.  Sources say the primary suspect was less than 30 years old, which already suggests, that like other mass murder incidents in the last 20 years, that when coupled with the act of terror itself, he had a limited amount of information which led to the reasoning in his mind to carry out the event, and may have had impressions made on him that moved him into the acts.

Wrapping up this brief writing for now, of course our sincerest condolences are given to the victims of the tragedy; and further, there is no logical connection between 'White Supremacy' and targeting individuals at a masjid, nor Muslim individuals. One reason, is that the knowledge of how some forms of the human race were imbued with the paleness sometimes expressed as whiteness, is far beyond what narrow-minded 'White Supremacists' understand, or even allowed to, referring to the permission to attain those ranks of understanding.  Secondly, there is no guarantee that everyone in a masjid for a set moment, are Muslim, or not of European stock or descent. Third, the obvious, throughout history there have been multitudes of Muslim or follow through with Islam, that are European, descended of European, have fair skin and from Europe, ancestry from the region, descendants of European colonial settlers, and so on.

The shooting that occurred in New Zealand earlier today makes no logical sense, and did not accomplish anything other than terrorize, stir up a pot of confusion, it did not intimidate anyone, it did not cause fear to believers that worship whom they worship, it did not represent the views of all fair complexioned Europeans, it in in short, was nothing more than an act of terror.

This concept of a 'hit' was made at certain Islam worship centers, in New Zealand in the last 48 hours, is a bunch of rubbish; the reason why it is rubbish is because, there is no professional man-made apparatus social construct that was dubbed Islam and hence formed a group, which gave rise to group against group strife, nor is there genuine further asserting and rationalizing of the strife, as there was no rationale and foundation for it to exist in the first place, because there was no truth for a mindset of hate to rest upon.  What the confused and hate-filled attitudes could do though, is eventually after tensions continue, lead to more attacks on Islam sites where worshipping is performed. On the contrary to unsubstantiated terror filled attitudes, Islam is one of the top several most popularly performed ways of life, a way of life which goes back to the beginnings of mankind. Historically, there have been battles, wars, and tensions between Muslim individuals and those that are opponents to Islam. What is discussed here is, Islam and sites of worship Muslim individuals attend, is not based off a mob movie filmed in the 1970s, where there is some newly formed group called Muslims on one side, and everybody else on the planet are the good guys on the other side, and where there is a false notion that if an act of violence is done to a Muslim place of worship, maybe it will make the economy better for a certain set of individuals.

What precisely was the motive of the act of terror? Many await to hear the words spoken, many might have no need for selection of words to be placed together and spoken.

This write-up might be edited and have details added over the next few days

Written and published 2/26/2019 EST

USA

Tennessee Officer down after welfare-check shooting

https://www.foxnews.com/us/tennessee-officer-wounded-in-welfare-check-shootout-dies?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fnational%20%28Internal%20-%20US%20Latest%20-%20Text%29

 

Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent honored, as female slain in line of duty overseas

 

Warnings about ‘Momo’ challenge.

https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Kansas-parents-concerned-by-Momo-challenge-506412061.html

HCN comments:

Suicides have followed. Essentially, ‘Momo’ is a ‘fictitious’ character, that presents in a manner that can absorb a child’s mind, children are naturally drawn to the character, in different words, the character is appealing to kids, however, the character conveys destructive messages.  Children’s minds can be absorbed by destructive thoughts more so than adults, per unit area, briefly explaining, and although it may appear preposterous that the ‘subliminal, covert, or even outright ‘orders’ to engage in destructive or self-destructive activities could actually be carried out in real life, there could be moments, when children mishandle the information, overwhelmed by the heat of the messages by the character, and other workings of mental and emotional states.

It is needless to say, very advisable, to keep children, especially under the age of 16, away, from be able to view the 'Momo', character, and ones like him.  
There are laws that could hold parents and guardians, babysitters, teachers, adults taking care of youth, and so on, liable and held responsible for conducting a criminal offense, for allowing kids to watch the referent programs.

Indonesia

Land slide at gold mine leaves about 5 dozen missing

https://www.foxnews.com/world/landslide-at-unlicensed-indonesia-gold-mine-leaves-as-many-as-60-people-buried-official?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fworld%20%28Internal%20-%20World%20Latest%20-%20Text%29

 

India/Pakistan

India airstrikes hit Pakistan

There have been other events in recent weeks causing mortality, including involving Kashmir, perceived, real, or unreal, militant bases, suicide bombing

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistan-indian-aircraft-bomb-territory-61316024

 

Nigeria

New President: Muhammadu Buhari

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/muhammadu-buhari-reelected-as-nigerias-president-after-a-vote-marked-by-delays-and-clashes/2019/02/26/75b91f22-2d8b-11e9-8781-763619f12cb4_story.html?utm_term=.e087829e5025

 

Haiti

Calls for Moise heating up, literally and figuratively.

https://www.twincities.com/2019/02/26/minnesotans-on-goodwill-missions-tell-harrowing-stories-about-escaping-unrest-in-haiti-we-literally-drove-through-fire/

 

USA /Haiti:

Travel advisory to US citizens considering traveling to Haiti: DO NOT GO THERE RIGHT NOW