Written/begun September 29th, 2024
For flood outline click here, previous main page post https://www.hcrestnews.com/index/world-flooding-brief-hard-hit-areas-as-of-september-29-2024

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Airstrikes reported to be Israel responsible, continue.
News stories are circulating about 7 individuals deceased through the airstrikes that were either leaders or potential leaders of certain posts in Hezbollah, preponderant location of the strikes appear to be in Lebanon.
For example:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/29/hezbollah-lebanon-nasrallah-israel/59d7fd10-7ea1-11ef-90f2-d1fc6303655d_story.html

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/hassan-nasrallah-to-nabil-kaouk-7-hezbollah-commanders-killed-in-israeli-strikes-in-7-days/articleshow/113798649.cms

Bios within those stories rarely take up more than a sentence or two. The common thread is that they were folks that joined Hezbollah in about the early 1980s. In order for the basic facts in chronology to occur, if they were about 60 when deceased, they were about 20 when joining.

Are there any issues? Perhaps. One is the back-in-time question (in legalese, 'retroactive'...), of judging someone in the 1980s, pertinent but not limited to, when fighting in a region such as Lebanon was rife, Shia leadership in nearby Iran had just come in, post Shah, and news circulation is not like it is today, where cell phones and Wi-Fi can make many in many corners of the globe aware of situations such as an explosion of any sort, accidental, a farm, a factory, war, a circus stunt, within seconds or real time of it happening. Moreover, what might be described as the heat of belief, in terms of individuals intentions behind certain actions, may have been different then than it is now, where today has a lot of media and political dominated climate. Availability and options to survive, back in the 1980s, also perhaps different, especially for youth that may have seen joining the nearest available group, as one of 2 or 3 groups to either survive or perish, option limited to joining one group, or the other group perceived as the enemy or opposing side, or not of the same reigion or faith, plus that family members had been lost, and they in some ways were still 'kids'; to a 20 year old then, what else were they going to do?, often becomes a subject matter human rights entities look into. This historical phenomenon may hold true for numerous regions where strife and tensions took place, such as overthrows of tyrannical corrupt governments by communist groups, whereas communism is not currently perceived as aligned with democratic ideals of the United States and many, especially European, nations; west of the Atlantic, is included. That all briefly unraveled, discerning the line or lines in the sand, of when someone joined a group as an older kid, ('kid' means compared to an elder, -not to detract from their development but for illustrative purposes,-) and then, either continuing terror consistently since, commencing to engage in leftist terrorism, made it clear he or she was seizing the opportune moment to join a group to start their career as terrorists for greedy aims, or branching off into their own 'thing', engaging in activities such as illegal drug trafficking, using both sides of war and their groups as shields to cultivate gangs that engage in deviant practices. Obviously there are going to be cases where individuals got out when they could get out, changed their ways, cleaned up, etc. The discussion of accountability. Is a 20 year old that 'joined', but did no damage, then unboarded, still accountable 40 years later in a different climate, are they actually being a viable danger or threat? If there are, then so be the case, if they are not, then over aggression towards them might be case of imbalanced action.

It may be that there is a general belief, such as including in the current air emotions, that after the October 7th incident last year, about a week from the 1 year mark past, that Israeli forces are adamant about eradicating any all possible threats to them; whereas that may be the rationale for a series of attacks on whom they believe might be dangers or threats.

There are differing views and opinions, as well as differing levels of depths of information by those holding those views and opinions, as to what extent who or what was targeted, and level of severity of attacks on those targets, are fair, or gone too far, or should not have been.


News reports in recent hours indicate there are targets in Yemen by Israeli forces.


Total number of persons injured, killed, and displaced due to Israeli airstrikes, is becoming a policy stance issue taken on by numerous nations globally

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A small plane crashed over the weekend, Wright Brothers Airport in North Carolina, lives lost

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Massachusetts dealing with police cadet lost in defense tactics training incident. He was about 25.

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In road world bicycling championships, Zurich area, a cyclist died, post crash, rain slicked roads, head injury, over the past week, Swiss, female, age 18.

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North Korea took up issue with aspects of how the Ukraine-Russia tension is being addressed, including in the dimension of accusations that they, North Korea, are supplying weapons or supportive somehow thereunto weapons.

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West Sumatra, Indonesian province, had the site of a gold mining operation that collapsed, rescue operation, some rescued, some lost, over the weekend.
There are reports of similar incidents elsewhere in the Indonesia region recently.

Meanwhile, tiger traps have been set out subsequent reports of tigers showing up in Sumatra villages.

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The decline in sociological conditions in South Africa -- to quickly come to a point, the decline is very steep.The frequency of mass shootings is beyond crisis in some areas.
Although South Africa might have made headlines for decades as the home of apartheid, and splendor in other ways, that the austerity of and and stability, will remain as though permanent, so it seemed, sometimes reality just happens. 
-Intervention in different methods may be necessary as a matter of human concern

Updated September 29, '24; major natural disasters being contended with or to be contended with at this time:
-Hurricane Helene made its way from the Central America region on up to and through Florida several days ago. It is/was a fierce spiral that does not appear, it will soften before arrival. Evacuation orders in place. Those evacuation orders best taken very seriously. As of September 29th, 2024, about 100 persons have been reported as dead. Path of the storm generally went from south to north. Exact path and points of destruction, either in the path, or in the outward ripple effects and other phenomena that occur outward from the path, might be less predictable, loosely determined where it will occur, whereas safest precaution is all areas east and west of the general path, and of course north, should brace for the possibilites. The western part of North Carolina, a case in point, had areas devastated. Parts of western Virginia as well. Perhaps the alert more accurate is actually more of a widespread blanket, and says all areas at least east of the Mississippi [River] are in the realm of possibility of being affected somehow. That said, as to safe side of when storm Helene is over, might be to take precautions for at least several more days. Areas like, but not limited to, West Virginia, west Pennsylvania, might be in a zone of some kind of severe storm occurrence within the next few days; some areas within these may have or have been already been affected. This considering wax and wane of storm conditions, aside from whether Helene per se or not.
Dissapation process of Helene and associated storm system might encompass almost the entire continental United States and parts of Canada, where some levels of storm conditions may exist within it before it is finally over.

-Flooding in the southern region of Poland

-Nepal, especially Kathmandu valley area; flooding; reports of about 150 deaths

-Mexico, especially Guerrero area, southwest of Mexico City; impacts from storm John

-Bangladesh flooding, especially the aftermath and survival concerns

Begun evening of August 9, 2024. This is a start and outline of the main points, which may be filled in with more details as they are available.

Regardless of whether a crime against humanity, or a challenge presented to humanity, can be defined on a piece of paper written in a few words, terms such as legal or illegal, authorities determine this or that a status, there are still responsibilities to attain and maintain certain standards, peace chief among these. Sobriety among these.

Either going on right now, or dealing with the aftermath of what recently occurred is going on:

A markedly tragic airplane crash in Brazil that left about 61 person's deceased.
Footage indicated the plane plunged while still in the level flight position, then nosedive, the flip upside down, moments before crashing, into a populated area.
How could that be? Firsthand information may be extremely hard to acquire from passengers and witnesses aboard the flight. Perhaps black box or similar might help. Perhaps zoomed in footage of the plane's last moments peering into the windows for any kind of hints of anomaly activity might help.

Within the past several days, 89 or about bodies were 'returned' to Gaza, whereat they were subsequently buried in a mass grave.
If I'm not mistaken, humbly, because of changed times over the centuries, if I'm not mistaken, certain permissibilities exist for certain types of incidents, referring to leaving room for autopsies after decomposition. (According to some information I received about 40 years ago from a top scholar of Islamic Studies then, perhaps still now), when bodies have already been decomposed for a length of time, one more day, to extract for instance dna from each corpse, or medical photos, for purposes such as identification and applicable justice, may be permissible, according to Islam.
There is an assumption that the gamut of the bodies are probably individuals that assert they are Muslim, in terms of today's popular use of the word. Hence, ministering to the bodies may have been done at least to some degree by Muslim  individuals also. Whereat, sharia, or Islam law, might come into the picture, in figuring as much out as possible.
There might be room to exhume or partial, as doable, bodies, for instance for purpose of autopsies, examination.
Here is what it is, everyone in world has the right to know whether or not internal organs were improperly acquired, and heaven forbid, sold in a place like 'the black market'.

So, the undefined, can indeed be defined.

In other places of the world, Japan has just undergone a megaquake warning for earthquake, reference post recent 7.1. If an earthquake like that were to happen, regions from all over the world would unavoidably have to pitch in and help out, immediately or eventually. Overly distracted by a bunch of hate, rants, and politics of different sorts, while innocent suffer, is not what should be on the table, but unfortunately, many times people put the wrong artificially made principles in priority over normal accepted and acceptable principles of man.

Perhaps the juncture of, on the way to the possibility but the earthquake hasn't or won't happen, might make it harder to encircle and define the challenge, at least so far.

Protests in Kenya, the killing of 3 girls in the UK, subsequent unrest in the UK, and the whirlwinds of discontent about it all, is a happening.

The matter of an August 15th peace and hostage deal respective Palestine and Israel -- there really shouldn't be a wait on peace. Attaining peace should be constant, and done by everyone, by the citizen, the resident, the immigrant, the removed, escaped, the king, the Head of State.

In the timeline of Middle East affairs, have been developments such as Operation Magic Carpet, and societal upward mobility challenges of individuals that appeared (blunty/briefly for time sake), more dark African, curlier hair, than the more fairer European attributes counterparts. Accounts or reports of 'Ethiopian Jews starving in  the streets', cannot be denied by anyone.

Similar patterns have occurred in other places and times in world history.

As you may have heard, within about the past year, there have been news stories being intermittently posted about the Republic of Srpska, or known as Republika Srpska, whereat Milorad Dodik has been perceived as making moves indicative of possible threats of seceding and aligning with Russia, this while there is consideration of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Basically Srpska, or 'RS' for short, is the area of the region in the region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that is perceived as the Serb influenced run section.

So, what are the issues?

Well one, is there may be feelings by places like the US, that Russia may be getting added power, or augment to them, while they are in a tension with Ukraine, (if RS does indeed follow through with that move).

There are news reports that the potentiality of seceding might have some degree of being hinged on potentialities of the 2024 US Presidential election.

The EU, European Union has voiced discomfort with RS following through with the move, and there are those that have voiced it could affect Bosnia and Herzegovina's entrance into the EU.

Speaking of which, the matter of 'LG...T', in short, what in Arabic language is referred to, transliterated, as fassad, the behaviors that Prophet Lut warned against, is also an issue that the EU is taking up with the RS, whereat the RS is looking at clamping down on the propagation of 'fassad' behavior.

Russia, in 2022, thereabout, reference ~478 et al., is reported to have passed some laws to reduce levels of 'fassad', for instance, banning propagation of named activities. (There have been earlier laws such as about 2013, ~135 et al.)

What is the alignment issue?, is again asked, while the alignment that looks like it is taking shape, with Russia, North Korea, and RS on one side, while Ukraine is taking a brunt of military activity, where such alignment is remindful of alignments in the Cold War era, with old-fashioned communism on one side, a reference to the older pre-Gorbachev and North Korea system of government.

Remember that in WWII (for historical notes for easy brief grasp, before the Cold War), where the 80th celebration of D-Day invasions were celebrated or remembered in France in recent weeks, Russia was somewhat at certain times during the war aligned with the US; Russia was not invited to that June 2024 event held in France.

Furthermore, Russia leader Putin has within the past few days visited North Korea. Footage seems to show signs of warmth between the two leaders of Russia and North Korea. Online newspapers as we speak, are theorizing what the basis for strengthened ties between the two, North Korea and Russia, is. Perhaps trade, and security relations.

A gleaning of the words Serb when in the same sentence of oppression, given the current Russia-Ukraine situation, almost automatically reminds many of the oppressive events, especially portrayed on media, that unfolded in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and that region, back in the 1990s; whereon, when the idea of RS, basically Serb influenced, remotely looks like it is heading in the direction of a aligning with a geographic size giant with respect to Ukraine, where many feel that there have been those that have oppressed, ideas of Serb oppression may spark in minds again. That is a concern, and issue.

Meanwhile, in other nations, 'fassad' has started to take root in government to the extent that it is almost the mainsail that determines the directions policy are going.

'Fassad' is not what makes many of the Nations that are currently exercising 'LG..T' policy inclusive efforts. For example, Prophet Nuh directing the Ark, directed his high chiefs to lay the first establishments, or stone, in certain regions, for example, in Ukraine, in Italy. The whole idea of the Ark, whether a literal ark, such as a boat the 'good' folks embarked on, or figurative, or both, it was that Nuh disengaged from activities such as fassad. Hence, the sequence of what was established in his effort, was not an effort to propagate fassad.

As is well known Prophets Muhammad (s.), Isa/Jesus, Lut as said, and Shu'ayb, -a Prophet is a Prophet, and the expectations were that they were cleansed from fassad activities-, these, especially in a close to verbatim translation of how Isa/Jesus dealt with it, 'washed his hands' of unbelief which encompassed fassad.

The USA is another place, that was not established in it's beginnings with pro-LG..T in mind, as a matter of fact, there was discomfort in the days leading up to the Revolutionary War, of certain belligerent individuals that not only engaged in what was felt as unnecessary taxation, but also the fassad behaviors, which made the Revolutionists uncomfortable. There has been long-standing adherences to the teachings of Isa/Jesus throughout the USA for hundreds of years; whereat, in the many serious situations that have arisen throughout the globe in the past roughly 250 years, the US has been the recipient of the call, and answered the call, to intervene, because, they deserved to be the ones to do that. Other nations may have had the capacity, but it was the US that carried out, interventions and emergency rescue missions for others, repeatedly.

Circling back to the alignment, so what is the alignment, or non-alignment, alignment that occurs, and so forth, here in the middle of 2024, really about?, or is it that the occurrences of multiple matters is coincidental?

Moving on to broader reaches, the conflict in Palestine-Israel occurring, some analysts seem to feel that Russia is moving in a direction that has less emphasis on strong ties with Israel.

Where much of what is now called Palestine is often considered Muslim, and that what is Muslim includes guidance not to engage in fassad, it may start to appear that those that are currently enforcing policies to maintain a distinction as separate from fassad, or the same ones that have a policy that may seem to side with sides not sharply aligned with Israel.

And there is the Iran matter with respect to the top current issues. Most consider Iran today to be a 'Muslim Country.' Iran and Russia have had different kinds of relations over the past 50 or so years. Iran also has stretched out recently in its position of discomfort with some of the impacts the tensions in the region now known as Palestine and Israel has had.

But with all this said, the world has been a witness to wavering policies with Russia over the past decades post Gorbachev. A witness to occurrences in Chechnya, where many Muslim reside, incidents in Ingushetia, where many Muslim resides, and as a matter of fact there are Muslim individuals in Ukraine, and Russia. The referent incidents in Chechnya [1994] and Ingushetia [roughly 2007-2010] were before the Russia laws in 2022, while adherences to guidance contrary to fassad were generally in place (in Chechnya and Ingushetia by those that adhered to them).

Did fassad get out of hand in some regions of Russia, say after year 2000?
There may be some contrasts that could be drawn up, to help illustrate the issue, such as history of Islam in Russia marked with the Golden Horde. 500 years later, or 6 or 7 generations later, in the very same areas where the pith of Islam presence occurred is where the eye of the fassad storm seemed to be coming from.

From times when the Shah was last in power, to the transition of Khomeini, late 1970s, to tensions with Iraq shortly after, then on to today, Iran now in 2024, presents as a balanced place, back to perceptions as a paradise-like place in earlier times called Persia.

Albeit, Iran in recent years has been reported to be holding one of the highest rates in the 'Middle East', of surgery having to do with 'transvestism', where transvestism ('evil'/fassad intended attempts at changing appearance of someone's initial state of either man or woman through dress to more intensified activities such as medical procedures) is included in the activities encompassed as fassad. Although the exact statistics may not be delved into in this write-up, nor other laws or lack of laws thereunto 're-assignment of biology identity surgery', the start-up of the process when viewed through the lens of abstention from fassad, may make a statement that sometimes moves are made more on a political basis, and not necessarily 'purely' a move of Islam or pure conscience.

The issue of drone production, and where those drones get sent to, sold to, and used, is in the mix of the discussion. It may be considered ironic, that a nation like Iran would allow weapons they produce to be used on those weaker, for reasons that many around the world are extremely uncomfortable with, maybe they simply have not; what exactly are the facts on a drone by drone case, may paint a story that says no sloppy linking through assumption turned logic is allowed.

Even if alignment had to do with movements considered fassad, such as LG..T, and others, whereas there are different nations existent that are now including more than two genders, some of them almost a dozen or more,- such an alignment, may not be but so deep, nor but so viable.

Some countries in Europe, two of which are in the EU, are now recognizing a Palestinian State, amid the current crisis in Palestine-Israel region, namely Norway, Spain, and Ireland, May 2024. More of that type of statement may be slated from other European nations.

The line-up, of on one side, is Russia, some of its neighbors, North Korea, possibly Iran, and potentially down the line, the RS, and 'pro-Palestine', while on the alignment on the other side, is everyone else, never-the-communist and pro-Israel, may not be an oversimplified reality that actually stands past 2D paper standing up, a label on the outside of a house, but no structure behind it.

At the end of the day, what is seen on TV, or young children that have almost to no or no idea about all that fuss, as the victims. One loss of life in the rubble in the Palestine-Israel region after another.

Which brings us back to the question, what are these perceived alignments about? Is it about an revival of communism?, revival of an 'old league' that used to be comprised of communist nations?, access to oil considering geographic positioning?, a sense of safety for a nation or republic, that aligning with a bigger stronger neighbor in a time of conflict might be wise?, a shift away from the EU?, a shift to the EU?, Palestine alignment?, Israel alignment?, it is not clear.