October 8, 2016
Authored October 7th 4pm to 8pm EST 2016
The hurricane named Matthew in progress right now has undisputed destructive levels and is making its way from south to north. As of 4pm E.S.T., (four in the evening the time eastern standard time) the Hurricane Matthew is upon Florida especially the coast. From south to north means Georgia and South Carolina could be regions that undergo affects very soon in the upcoming timeline. The hurricane active for the past several days has already done damage in the islands south of Florida such as Haiti and the Caribbean. The fatality number is already nearing 300 (three hundred). It is advised again, do not wait until the last second to prepare for the possibilities. Help might be needed from those that have the capacity from areas further off from the path of the storm.
As of 8pm EST, there are several fatalities reported in Florida, mostly older persons, and millions are without electrical power. Please follow emergency advisories.
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September 30, 2016
What are some of the same old issues?
Let's look at Libya. As of today September 29th 2016, there is a concern of citizens and foreigners being trapped amid violence in the Benghazi area and as a result they are cut off from food supply. The scene is persons severely deficient in food intake remindful of Somalia hunger 35 years ago, hunger victims in Bosnia in the early 1990s.
Back in 2011, there were starvation victims in the northern area of Libya near Tunisia.
Generally fighting is fierce off and on in Sirte, recently, past few months.
Feelings of intervention in conflicts on Libya soil by other nations with wealth sometimes seems to straddle the middleground of abandon them especially if there is nothing in it for us attitude, like sub-Saharan regions, and rush to keep oil related strongholds at maximum running par. Those times when Libya has not gotten much intervention often spell out sullen woes for those less fortunate, the referent starvation, and squalid conditions.
In Iran, the questions of nuclear capability keep coming up, such as within the last month, just like it has it seems every few months for the last however many decades.
In Egypt, within the past 2 days at the lengthiest, a car bomb exploded in Cairo. This is not the first time, and as those that keep up with news in Egypt over the past 20 years know, car bombs detonating in Cairo have appeared in news stories a proportional number of times that it is an occurrence known to surface in the region every so often.
In northern Africa, wherein are sub-groups engaging in political tension and ramifying turmoil, who to side with and when to intervene has been a tough decision in many cases for nations outside with the capacity to help. At what point is it their business and allow them to solve their problems, then the sliding over to, too much has occurred and if intervention does not occur, then other nations [the scenario of how they could be perceived] have been lax in stepping up and being leaders with a sense of responsibility.
Similar questions come up with respect to Afghanistan; including when to Intervene where there are groups within in tensions with each other. Recently there was another event involving use of violence that affected a set of Afghani troops of some classification, reference an attack in Kunduz about three days ago.
Another area of concern is when U.S. troops or another nation do attempt to intervene, and perform a strike on an intended target, sometimes civilians not intended become victim; it is a painful situation to all parties involved, and the agonizing puzzle that needs to be solved as to how to successfully thwart terrorist cells and keep clear of innocent civilians at the same time.
In Iraq, U.S. troops have gotten involved with region on a popular level since he Iraq-Kuwait border dispute which seems like it is still a new era, an era of fighting amongst Arabs and in nations heavily populated by Muslim, on a war international in severity level, now it has been over a quarter of a century. Today, September 2016, the more recent rationale for sending troops to Iraq is to combat ISIS/ISIL/IS. There keeps appearing a reason to be in Iraq, which naturally has those that want to take care of our, U.S. troops, ask voiced or not, are they somehow being baited by a intensely in-depth thought-out plan by a perpetrator of some sort lurking in the region of Iraq to bait and lure our soldiers?
This is not a historical outline of all the accounts of starvation in Libya, tensions in Egypt that turned deadly outside offices in Egypt, and so on, it is to daub at the totality of what looks like a cycle of recurring events. This is what is meant by resiliency; the events keep coming back to an extent, at least some of them as of now. Unfortunately, the events often result in the uglier side of humankind developments, the starvation from being boxed in for instance, which explains the word usage of resiliency a negative.
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September 13, 2016
Taking a moment this Eid, a holiday known for its accompanying festivities that ordinarily to those that participate in its recognition there is a reprieve from laborious work tasks, as in everyday employment, to hint at a growing concern. The concern is not necessarily in the Middle East, but to the west extremes and east of extremes of there.
No matter how much one studies about human and world political relations, there seems to be a phenomenon in the timeline of human history where interactions between parties of humans can get so broiled that the outcome includes events that are an awkward unideal, instead of a blissful continuum of a relative peace while just rhetoric is exchanged.
It can already be inferred why taking a moment to briefly discuss what might be disconcerting exchanges between the U.S. and North Korea is worth the while.
In summary, North Korea has been accused in the recent several years of not falling in line with the way most civilized countries administer justice especially loyalty breaches, and more recently escalations about nuclear capability. Talk concurrently exists of the U.S. performing shows of force in nearby regions. It appears that there has been back and forth shows of military might respective North Korea from a number of entities, recurring at an eye catching frequency.
In light of Eid being a day known globally as a day of peace, a day recognizing sacrifice referencing Ibrahim or known popularly spelled with an 'A' at the beginning perhaps intended to connote to certain letters, those that want peace, want peace.
The want for peace exists whether it be peace in an ancient land of Ur, or far to the east or west from there.
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August 30, 2016
Taking place this past week on through today, these are some events of note:
Brussels:
Someone rammed a gate to a forensics lab, and fire started
Libya:
Violence and clashes erupt in Sirte, which has been a recurrent situation the past year or so
Migrants rescued off the coast, near northernmost northwest area
U.S.:
Prospect of about 10,000 Syrians to be let in to the U.S. soon, as a part of a relief effort
Yemen:
In
Aden, blast results in over 4 dozen victims, 5 dozen injuries; whether
situation messy or not messy, in the region there happens to be
tensions, it is concurrently known, Houthi, Hadi, Popular Committees,
ISIS/and other acronyms, are reported to have members that can be found
in the area
Russia | Kyrgyzstan:
There was a fire that took place in a building or warehouse, about 3 days ago, north of Moscow, about a dozen migrants affected
Kyrgyzstan:
Receiving humanitarian aid, due to earthquakes it has undergone in past few years
Italy:
Evident,
central eastern region has undergone suffering resultant of wave of
seismic activities that started about 5 or 6 days ago
Greece:
Tens
of thousands of refugees trapped there, Chios one of the locations,
perhaps the result of migration regulatory efforts in the broader region
Norway:
A lightning strike killed over 300 reindeer, around the Hardangervidda region in the north
An illustration of how powerful lightning can be; reindeer a large, strong, and special being
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August 28, 2016
Around the end of this upcoming week, beginning of next week, depending on what you recognize as the start of the week, the G20 Summit is set to take place in Hangzhou, China.
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