Major newspapers have done a marvelous job of helping keep everyone's nerves soothed.
There's a time for that, directives may be in place from superiors, no one wants to be fired by being negative, however, somewhere in the bubble between being nice and being real, knowing reality can help invigorate the many different hands that pitch in and help move the mountain where it needs to be.
Today this far has been a little bit different than the 'business as usual', both literally and figuratively.
Food stores are almost empty, when they ordinarily would be overcrowded.
Why?, the reason is simple and plain to see. People either don't have as much money as they ordinarily do, or they still have some, but are being very careful about spending it.

As of the moment of this writing begin, somewhere between 12 noon and 12:15pm, government 'shutdown is still in effect.

Government, federal, and military jobs for a long time has provided staple income for numerous families; not just in the USA, or a town built near a military base, but for any nation anywhere anytime.

When Uncle Sam is not exchanging money, and employees aren't receiving it, there's a real obvious domino effect. One person doesn't get money, the next person doesn't get money, the next the next, and so on.
Employees don't get money, the grocery stores wind up with less goods sold, demand in a way goes down respective supply. Clothing stores, movie theaters, recreational facilities, places and businesses that provide goods and services for social activities are moved toward the bottom of the priority list. People that use these businesses as sources of income to feed their families essentially get some of the same brunts as government employees when their income is cut.

News in the Most Recent of the Added to the Union States

Alaska dealing with several different kinds of outages.
Outages from the Typhoon Halong, outages in Anchorage in connection to power load distribution, and IT outages at Alaska Airlines correlating to about $26 million in loss.

Somewhere around this time last year, there was some bull jive talk about Russia looking over the idea of trying to take Alaska 'back'.

Right now in Hawaii, there are indeed some challenges that need to be contended with, such as crime and road speeding, but crime is not at inordinate frequency and amount, to where there's an inordinately large problem.

Hegseth is or was over there recently, en route destinations in Asia.

He was in the forefront of headline news just before government shutdown when in an extreme rarity roughly 800 military generals, admirals, and high ranking officials were summoned.

You tell me if there wasn't something in the air that caused a premonition. I won't dare say there was.

There's a story going around right through here, especially in US online news sites, that China's Ministry of State Security announced through a social media platform that the US renown agency in NSA had cyber spied, and hence in a view 'cyber attacked', since there was a perceived target of the supposed spying, on China's National Time Service Center. A bunch of news story response, response to the response, news about the news, seems to be getting started too.

How fast did I actually see a boat driving down the highway? Heard a report of it, but common sense immediately turns a light on that it was probably a boat sitting on a trailer bed in the back of a black truck on a black night with the truck's lights turned off, seen from behind far off, speeding down a dimly lit highway. True, the boat designed to travel solely on water, was moving 90 in a 55. (But not in the way applicable.)

Here will a be a very, very brief at candidly opening up a few more pages of the tabloid magazine in order to make sense out of the 'tabloidic' story going on. The way it's done, is cull a few articles written in Chinese, and cull a few excerpts, translating them into English, and letting them tell us why the whole uproar really isn't worth an uproar. There are other things going on, lots of other things, that maybe aren't talked about everyday in the news, but at this point, as technology keeps moving up or around, and global information is shared in fractions of seconds, let's go ahead and unzip softly the bag that some of the cats are in. Nothing too heavy or mystical discussed here.

Selected from Chinese language article, and used for light talk set one,


Of course the warm suggestion, not to sow seeds of enmity, rather be as friendly as possible.

Picture at the link here:

There's a saying a picture is worth a thousand words.
I am only referring to two aspects.
One of course is the bloodshed.
The second may take more of an adult layer of eyes and assessment, however still very plain to all of any any age what the principle is. It's called inordinate oppression, or abuse, or as the Arabic language says, qahr.
Women in this photo are undergoing this referent sort of qahr, especially emotionally. That, no one has the right to do to anyone.

Is it necessary to pull up and quote today's translations of the Toreh? Or Quran?  Or Mr so and so's book on the manual of illegal abuse of human beings? Not necessary, to see what is evident.

No to scant rest, under nourished but still making it, prolonging agony, worrying every minute of a 24 hour day, and then, here comes another sickening set of scenes that indelibly mar the health of the mind, and claim the life or lives of near relatives, on top of previous waves of the same.

Stop.

Events of October 7th, a few seasons ago, already in consideration, so too moments of extremism upon descendants of different bloodlines, groupings and ancestries going back through the ages, from manna and quail being sent down, (bread to balance your diet, etc.), to oppression in Azerbaijan region in the late 1800s, on through the Holocaust.

Lebanon has been through taking brunts of a mission said to be an Israeli mission back around the 1980s as a reference time frame.

Summarily, all of the extreme oppression is off.  Not to ramble, 'you know what I'm talking about'.
The cult of sadistic violence getting started, revived, or perpetrated.


Afterwords 
The link to the above photo at the AP news story, is https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/66a8cbd/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6000x4000+0+0/resize/1198x798!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F1b%2Fa4%2F66cab4db79a3ab75e3d1fbef5e04%2Fbd33df54d5414f579410879c1958107c

It might be pushing plagiarism, however, this story is a discussion respective the content of what is in the photo.

I remember the Lebanese American poet and writer, Sam Hamoud, who used to hold back on publishing photos depicting gratuitous violence, out of respect for the health of humanity, (regardless of what their personal religion walk of life was). 40 years later, the types of incidents and acts of oppression, where viewers of the news better not see actual photos and footage that led up to the moments at the funeral afterwards, seem to be making their way into persisting.

Trying to stay as positive as possible, is an aim. Trying to stay as positive as possible given some of the advents and challenges going on right through here, is becoming increasingly difficult due to that presenting the sheer facts affects the flow. 
This outline is one of many; a number of news outlets have caught in to the trends, and major concerns.

The New York Post has a story out somewhere between today and yesterday citing an individual who is reported to have murdered a man that was reported to have already had charges on him having to do with his daughter, running for sheriff in Arkansas (which he may have the right to do), while the cease fire efforts (which the USA for some reason out of almost 300 other countries in the world is one of the most prominently publicly known involved player in the talks, plus the money spent) surrounding Ghaza seem to have gone to almost no avail in terms of keeping the peace. It may be the discussion has to do with microcosms of the situation. Lots of real folks are probably saying along the lines that a 67 year old suspect that already had charges has absolutely no business being seen with not to mention seen again with, a 14 year old, the same 14 year old, and hitting close to home, one's own daughter. The suspect was shot, he died. Perhaps had a sheriff seen the same scene unfolding, sheriff would have taken the same action. Self-defense laws definitely on the table here. 

The markedly lopsided human trafficking type stuff that's in the atmosphere these days, although it might not qualify as pedophilia per se based on everyone's definition, is way out of bounds, in existence and in prevalence.

Here is the HCN outline, with some major events that could serve as microcosms, as not all are going to be caught in put in one brief list. Some of the oxymorons, 'possible' conspiracies, conflicts of interests, retrogressive trends, going around in circles leading you back where you started, and 'hey, this behavior is getting you nowhere', is jotted below:

To start, that sentence above, might already be enough said, and too much said, pushing the envelope of respect. It might trigger others to take action. Positive and correct is needed and wanted to see. (Negative, out of control action is what is not an objective, and it can be ill-afforded).
It is understood that there are folks striving, to maintain a nice country, have the promises of the promised land, and keep making things better.

Which brings up a matter right there. Those hard working Americans striving, 'might' be getting at least some of their actions and efforts, taken advantage of.
Believers doing do. Fine. 
Let's be candid for a moment. The Americans that had to get up, fully ready with equipment and everything else, say around 6am, morning after morning, to do as their superior directed them to do, to get illegal immigrants off the street, which involves putting their lives on the line, and while stepping away from their families, if anything happened to them while on the job, it puts their families in danger, was a markedly salient undertaking over about the last 6 months. Maybe some protestors and politicians don't really understand that aspect and dimension. Even though there may have been complaints voiced, each individual involved in the effort to reduce illegal immigration had to put forth an effort and sacrifice. They are to be thanked for their service, regardless of the little mishaps here and there. 

Their service for the most part comes at cost. They are paid for work. A few days after the progress has been made benchmark was made clear, illegal immigration has been significantly reduced, here is government shutdown.

That statement aloof from the ingredients that are said to have brought about the shutdown, for example, 'disagreements over the Big Beautiful Bill'.

Look, 'government shutdown' is so freakin' dangerous it cannot be harped on enough. Reference guidance from Dr.; there are folks with doctorates, put nicely, in the economy and subjects like that, that know very, very well, the dangers and outright trajectories of failure, when a government shutdown is in place.

Halts in government funding can do or have already done, detriments like, government websites are not even on nor manned to report crimes, violent crimes, and other elements that foster unruliness; the very same unruliness that the men and women that were out there day after day suppressing illegal immigration in the effort to suppress violent crime, were just doing.
It is not just the payroll for individuals with a gun on their hip, a baseball hat, and a badge, that can be affected by funding lows; they might still be getting some funds out of the pockets, but there are many aspects in the larger picture that make the machine work; the phones that answer the calls, the technology for communications and the people that maintain that, the roads, the lighting and so forth.

In Baltimore City, the 395 bridge, a major artery into and out of the city, did not have most of the lights on, at night, during the rain. If a truck or your bus tall enough to topple over the side hits the blockades.. they are going to be plunging into the water. That's exactly the kind of stuff, in addition to protective forces not at maximum readiness, that's being talked about.

You can write down theories about the affects of government shutdown, write out math formulas, and say, this is how far we can go and won't go, but what happens on the practical working level, moment to moment, can be a little different, or a lot different, especially when that last weakest link in the chain, becomes the vulnerability that gets taken advantage of, and disaster happens.

From darkness to light, is a trusted adage. When you turn that around, and go from light to darkness, you can be setting yourself up for failure. Starting with the literal, no street lights, more crime.
No functioning communication systems, no crime report system manned, no one there to make a response to the reports, no response, emergency responder hero moments that won't even exist. Again, government shutdown is not wise.

Many woke up this morning to the news of several mass shootings.

Once again, mass shootings gaining a grip, chewing away at dignity

Think that the recent crackdowns you might have seen, heard about, or even witnessed in real life, especially amid tenacity against illegal aliens has been inordinate? Think again. What you have seen in the past 6 months might have ministered to about an estimated 5%, to be respectful, of the monster sized drug problem in the US. The number might be closer to 2% or lower in other opinions. A number of narcotics dismantling and seizures that appear to have gained huge amounts of attention in the media, seem to have the story focus mainly on popularly known drug names like fentanyl, meth, and cocaine, a segment of the drug problem. The US drug challenges is just a few dots in the heap of the global drug problem.