Going into the weekend, a number of news stories have emerged between today and last couple of days that have written in them, 'retaliation' is planned against the U.S., coming from a list of countries, over a few subjects.  Every once in a while after spins of the global economy, awkward moments happen, and there could be more than one situation that evolves that makes another country uncomfortable; hence it happens sometimes; albeit, when it does happen, as standard, something should be said.

Here is a quick list of topics the word 'retaliate' was used in some recent news stories:
Country: China
Matter: U.S. tariffs and trade disputes

Country: Indonesia
Matter: Proposed plan to put tariffs on Indonesian imports

Country: Turkey
Matter: The prospect of U.S. sanctions over air defense systems purchases from Russia
Story Source: Reuters used aggressive sounding words in their story at https://www.rt.com/news/431881-turkey-retaliate-s400-sanctions/

Country: Russia
Matter: steel, aluminum, tariffs
News source: https://www.compuserve.com/news/story/0002/20180706/KBN1JW1SE_2

Country/Countries: general
Matter: auto tariffs; U.S. trading partners, $300 billion dollar potential repercussions
Who presented the information: EU; European Union
News story source: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/eu-warns-trump-auto-tariffs-lead-300b-retaliation-56312237

Country: Iran
Matter: oils sanctions, Strait of Hormuz

Firstly, condolences to all those that have been affected by recent airplane incidents.

On a mechanical level respective to safety, as time moves along and progress is made to mitigate and reduce potential failures both in the way of flight security and general minimization of mechanical failures, the areas that could be vulnerable are going to be left in the little things.

In the past several days, there has been an incident on a Southwest Airlines flight, and a Delta flight.

Delta flight was heading from Atlanta to London, and reportedly had an engine fire.  Occurrence yesterday evening just after 6:30pm EST.

Southwest flight Tuesday morning earlier this week, heading from New York to Dallas, may have had an engine related malfunction that had ramifications that caused other problems.

Abovesaid, direct references to U.S. planes.  However, there are other regions of the world that are troubled by older planes, and have had  incidents and crashes in the past few months of different ranges.  Learning from each other in areas like airplane and flight safety can benefit.

Can be key points:
Losing track of all the different back and forth fighting and casualties, as in who did what, can result in starting to lose the grapple-hold of what is going on in the region and what to expect, especially respective the 'revenge factor', where fighting or an attack could occur in the future for reasons not understood at the moment by 'outsiders' for word brevity or intervention forces that were not aware of their root causes.

The big authorities away from the field could in itself allow other developments to occur.
-Not an analogy, but so that you can 'see the science', a few rodents start to run rampant in an area unattended in the city, as long as there is fodder for them to continue, such as food sources available, after a while there will be an increased amount of the chaotic scene of rodents running around hither to thither

Unattendance is used, to distinct, not being present, from committing acts of violence

A short list of a few news developments in Syria gleaned in the past few days:

Two Turkish troops killed, military helicopter shot down

Russia has been performing bombing

Nation of Israel has been reported to have conducted the biggest bombing campaign on Syria 'since 1982'

Israel jet shot down; pilot and co-pilot managed to parachute out, albeit, Israeli heads vehement that they will not tolerate; Israeli jets were returning from a bombing campaign of targets that had to do with Iran

Iran evidently based on the news reports is, ipso facto, 'over there'

Japantimes online paper says about 200 persons killed in Syria after raids

What has not been seen, is a clear, for 100% certainty it is factual information, of who is doing what, and on what side, in Syria as it stands this moment.  For instance, what is Iran doing there?, who is Israel trying to bomb?, who else is present in Syria engaging in military action?, what groups comprise rebels and to what degree of sophistication are rebels actually functioning at?

This was written in very brief format and posted at HCN Google Plus page, viz a roundup of the little information possibly applicable to the region for today:

What happened?

As it stands now there are 2 male individuals that are in custody.

Law enforcement authorities had to actually ask people to not open up a 'viral' child porn video that seems to have made its way to Facebook.

In the St. Joseph, Missouri area, a mother of 5 children, known to the community as a nice person has been fatally stabbed in the neck.  Developments occurred to the female that worked at the sports bar after the suspect was being asked to leave, in process of being removed from the property, or some chain of events of that sort. 
Terra Welch-Reents.  She was reportedly age 38.

Other specifics: Legends Sports Bar, incident occurring last Friday night and, or carrying over into early Saturday morning; suspect last name Hernandez-Sabastian

Welch surname and family generally respected, for many years here in the USA.
The situation is bad moment; the suspect appears to be a Hispanic or Latino male in his mid 20s; this went on while efforts are in place to increase the stability of footing in equality access related issues for Hispanics and Latinos, here in the US.

One, what was so burning that a knife needed to be drawn on a human being?
Second, since when is it social conduct that a capable man of about 26 or 27 even reach for a knife in an argument with an unarmed woman?  It is not the social standard, and will not start moving to that low, a level down around demons and the rung of hellfire they hang out in.

That's what is meant by 'what happened here?'  What was the real reason for the event, what was going on in that man's mind?  The emotional and psychiatric health might foreseeably be brought into question.

Both suspects, adult males, like said, in custody.
A higher want is for the type of crimes involved to be in custody.  2018, knife, child porn, easy access to video making tools, night social scene taken advantage of, and combinations with elements like these; society did not always have these ingredients in the construct.  In the best interest of the future, these crimes need to be obsolete, fast.



Tuesday morning the 44 year old, that appeared to be African American in general disposition, turned himself in and was arrested in the Montgomery area of Alabama, not too far from Elmore County; the suspect is or was also wanted for child abuse related allegations in Detroit.

Other specifics: last name Moore; Elmore County jail; suspect reportedly victims' uncle

Similar threads alluded to regarding Hispanics and Latinos in the St. Joseph, MO case go on with efforts for African Americans to see fair trials and equal treatment when under scrutiny of police; it makes it harder when events like this occur.  Bluntly, how productive is the quest for 'racial profiling' to decrease when images like this are etched in police officers' minds, officers of every background?


Where are the priorities going with other dimensions of society, where a child being abused is so interesting that people need to be asked to cool off from watching it, nevermind the despicable shame that it even went close to viral in the first place, and that cases like the woman in St. Joseph goes comparably almost unnoticed outside the immediate area it happened?

There is a lot of work to do to get out of the abyss these 2 incidents have caused; nothing is impossible, however there is a long way up from where we are now.  Straightening one's own, and pulling together to straighten out the whole status, thoroughly, not just loosely constructed vague laws that address racial inequality, but case by case, location by location strategies, wide arch and pinpointed, to ride grievous crime out, and replace it with what is positive.



Historia traducida al español en http://www.headlinecrestnews.com/en-espanol/%C2%BFqu%C3%A9-videos-de-facebook-han-desaparecido-de-la-base-viral-asesinato-de-una-madre-de-5-comparado-con-la-pornograf%C3%ADa-infantil-

A few reminders:
The term, the concept, the use of it as a euphemism, 'government shutdown' is not something to take lightly.
It is not just another legislative routine, a fluke if averted, and [nor to be treated like] if it was not averted before the bell, no big deal.

There are probably more than a few of us that are keenly aware that a moment like the one last night was coming, evidently working on a 'deal' to preempt government shutdown, a situation which has been recurring at a disturbing regularity, this time all the way up to the edge just before the weekend sets in.

It can appear that the shutdown looms situation, is one where there is a countdown while a room full of well-dressed lawmakers hustle to come up with a solution; admiration goes out to those who are striving, to do right, and keep America in good condition.  Albeit, that the situation appeared as one where the outcome rested in the hands of a few, for a situation as dire as it is, is something that has to be, without a doubt evaluated, toward a mechanism with efficacy level in consideration.

'Guarantees'.  ?? .  The saying goes in regard to areas like the future of a country, only the Lord can really provide a guarantee.  A guarantee of survival.  A guarantee of recuperation.  A guarantee that coming out from underneath a government shutdown will materialize.

Bringing this up now instead of the closing, right now America is contending with an ugly equation of: (drugs (cocaine + opioid) + (new marijuana legality laws)) + (murder rates in large cities disproportionate to the rest of about 90% of the US land mass (including losses of children and very young teenagers)) + ('government shutdown')

Immigration and healthcare are reportedly at the pith of the issues contributing to this [Jan. 2018] 'shutdown' of current.  It is true these issues are important and a large dimension having to do with values America holds dear, however, these issues have been around long time, changes occur to them as needs and policy dynamics change.  Straightforward, if there is no government up and running, then who we invite or do not invite, might not even be a matter that exists anymore, the health of those within the borders transcends what controls and is innate in the assertion of the borders if and when no government, as people keep living even if government does not; all to emphasize the importance of staying above water.  Government remaining open, or any impasses cleared up as soon as possible, has wisdom.


Written and published January 20th, 2018 EST


Afterword
Whether or not to discuss and intwine [entwine] the topic of non-invitees to the US for a multinational party post US 'Jerusalem move' UN resolution fall-out is questioned, perhaps leaders with guidance of higher degree will see this and bring about betterment; remember the G-20 summit? as a general frame of reference-, what if help, assistance, or an act of kindness in generosity to the US would ordinarily be offered but there is ambivalence on the part of another government to do so simply and solely on the basis they were not invited to a forum of the kind they usually are, isolated from post-Jerusalem move?, when, as said recently before, there are far reaching dimensions about Jerusalem that have touched nations different ways for thousands of years which are not even brought up in the median of political debates America participates in today that nearly consume the world stage?