Traumatic Developments Last Week of August 2017
Posted by HCN on Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Weather disasters
Flooding
News in South Africa region
U.S. News
Global news
Flooding
- Hurricane Harvey: hits the Gulf hard, the force and momentum was so strong and that the 'backends' from the eye of the storm is still causing damage and has the potential to keep causing damage at least for immediate future. Areas affected Texas, Louisiana. About 40,000 houses as of this moment are either destroyed or rendered useless.
- In the meantime, a concurrent situation in the southwest Florida region emerged with serious flooding, such as Fort Myers and Cape Coral.
- In Asia, India, Nepal, Bangladesh; numbers of fatalities catastrophic, up around or beyond a thousand since the situation began.
- In Africa, northern areas of Uganda, and 5 states in Sudan. Freetown, Sierra Leone devastated by heavy rains and mudslides.
News in South Africa region
- Still, cannibal cases in Africa.
- Kidnapping, of adults, an increasing concern
- Gun violence all over the country especially big cities
Global news
- ISIS/IS -- news sources indicative that there has been activity related all over the place, Philippines, Iraq
- Crime related to child porn, all over the place; it is clear it is not just restricted to a couple of big cities or a few little known outskirts where no one can catch them. Unfortunately, persons that have/had authoritative status that we should expect to clamp down on the activity are instead engaged in it.
- Armenia/Azerbaijan tensions, still going, the main theme seems not to have changed much since the past few years, perhaps the statistics of 'cease fire violations' have
- Palestine/Israel -- turbulence over the Masjid Al Quds, known also as Dome of the Rock. Some not let in to the site, some went in in what was perceived as intrusive or unfair. Various 'legislative' and 'restrictions' pertinent the site.
