December 30th Roundup of Major Stories
December 31, 2017
Finance Director of the southern California city of Imperial Beach, Doug Bradley, assaulted by persons armed with guns, the extent resulted in fatality, occurrence in Mexico within the past few days.
Protests have been taking place in Iran the past few days, intense enough to be a focus of international news.
Reports of 10 people dead in connection to a car accident in or near Acapulco, Mexico within recent hours.
Reports about the building fire in the Bronx area of New York within the past few days say the incident had primary contribution to getting started by a child playing with the stove.
Notes: Increase of social media presence or capacity has made stories about tragedies like this one more readily available to a larger audience faster; although logically evident, it might be set in contrast to the 'dispersment' [dispersing] of information about other fires in New York over the decades; the Bronx fire spoken of has become global news soon after it happened.
Borderline reads about oil deliveries of sorts to North Korea, it appears the severity is being pulled back, whereas generally if pull backs are being purposely done as a tactic to set a government up to be looked down on for foreign policy affirmations, the tactic is liked down on, other times it could be natural waxing and waning of societal shifts.
Notes: A framework has emerged in recent months comprised of some nations having discomfort over some of the activities that North Korea has engaged in, especially in the last year, such as missile tests, the larger rift in relations that has formed between North Korea and other nations drawing away from them has started to become a fulcrum point where level of closeness, for instance in alliance 'philosophy', is determined by how proximate or comfortable dealings with North Korea are; in simpler words, if you are on team A, in this case many US allied nations, warm relations are to be about minimal to stay on the team, or else you might be facing the prospect of a level of political ostracization from the team.
There have been a number of countries, even those geographically nearby the water surrounded Asian region, that have expressed discomfort with recent actions of North Korea. Severity being pulled back, can refer to and mean the level of how blatant an oil shipment was considering the political tensions framework, might not have been as much as it first appeared, or changes to how the portrayal is perceivable.
Protests have been taking place in Iran the past few days, intense enough to be a focus of international news.
Reports of 10 people dead in connection to a car accident in or near Acapulco, Mexico within recent hours.
Reports about the building fire in the Bronx area of New York within the past few days say the incident had primary contribution to getting started by a child playing with the stove.
Notes: Increase of social media presence or capacity has made stories about tragedies like this one more readily available to a larger audience faster; although logically evident, it might be set in contrast to the 'dispersment' [dispersing] of information about other fires in New York over the decades; the Bronx fire spoken of has become global news soon after it happened.
Borderline reads about oil deliveries of sorts to North Korea, it appears the severity is being pulled back, whereas generally if pull backs are being purposely done as a tactic to set a government up to be looked down on for foreign policy affirmations, the tactic is liked down on, other times it could be natural waxing and waning of societal shifts.
Notes: A framework has emerged in recent months comprised of some nations having discomfort over some of the activities that North Korea has engaged in, especially in the last year, such as missile tests, the larger rift in relations that has formed between North Korea and other nations drawing away from them has started to become a fulcrum point where level of closeness, for instance in alliance 'philosophy', is determined by how proximate or comfortable dealings with North Korea are; in simpler words, if you are on team A, in this case many US allied nations, warm relations are to be about minimal to stay on the team, or else you might be facing the prospect of a level of political ostracization from the team.
There have been a number of countries, even those geographically nearby the water surrounded Asian region, that have expressed discomfort with recent actions of North Korea. Severity being pulled back, can refer to and mean the level of how blatant an oil shipment was considering the political tensions framework, might not have been as much as it first appeared, or changes to how the portrayal is perceivable.
Posted by HCN.
