SUNDAY 7/27/14

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears on the Sunday morning US political talk shows defending Israel’s move into Gaza. The UN Security Council calls for an immediate and unconditional cease-fire for humanitarian purposes. Over 900 are dead in Gaza in day 20 of the conflict and day 10 of the Gaza incursion. Over 165K people are displaced in Gaza; three times the number that were displaced in the war eight years ago.

ISIS radicals continue to purge Christians from Iraq. ISIS is searching for American and European Christians in Iraq holding them and demanding ransoms. Iraq is in chaos.

Merkel is trying to unify the 28 EU countries on sanctions but the task is like herding kittens. The only common ground between nearly all nations is targeting defense contracts that supply Russian military weaponry, ships and equipment, however, France is not agreeable to these sanctions since they are delivering a large war ship to Russia this Fall and another next year accounting for nearly two billion dollars. Evidence is mounting that Russia is firing directly into Ukraine. Russia imposes travel bans on 15 US and European officials continuing the tit-for-tat sanction war. About 200 bodies are recovered from the MH 17 airplane crash site in Ukraine but recovery efforts are hampered by the ongoing civil war. Disgracefully, dozens of crash victim bodies remain rotting in the sun.






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The largest fires in Washington State’s history continue. Hundreds of animals perish and thousands of people are without electricity. Fires rip through sections of California displacing hundreds of people. In the Midwest and eastern US, severe rain, hail and wind storms affect about 90 million people; over one-fourth of the US population.

The WSJ editorial page throws support around the legalization of marijuana. Most Americans realize pot is far less dangerous and detrimental than alcohol. As the interest in golf decreases, DICK fires 560 PGA golf pro professionals from the Dick’s Sporting Goods store chain. The talented now jobless golfers had better find a way to enter and win golf tournaments; otherwise, they will be selling used cars to earn a living. Despite the ivory tower economists and strategists professing a robust economy, the common middle class and poor folks do not have the money to spend on a round of golf anymore. The expense, long play times and the deteriorating reign of Tiger Woods are blamed for the decreased interest in golf.

The ebola virus outbreak in West Africa spreads far away to eastern Africa to Lagos, Nigeria. Authorities and health workers try desperately to contain the virus but are losing the battle. An American doctor is now infected with ebola and under quarantine; he has a 50% survival chance. The ebola virus in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone has claimed 660 deaths thus far and is no longer contained. Complicating the outbreak, the local people are distrustful of the government and health care providers believing that the ebola virus is better treated at home. The locals are resisting testing and treatment and thousands of protestors are marching on hospitals demanding that patients be released.

Deaths rise in Libya as the regional factions fight for warlord-style control of land and infrastructure. North Korea fires a missile into the sea near South Korea in an effort to gain attention. The US southern border debacle continues with gangs now actively recruiting teenage boys. There are an estimated over 70K gang members in Central America mainly dealing in drugs heading north to the US. With all this world conflict, turmoil, war and chaos, President Obama goes golfing. Detractors wanting to see leadership instead of detachment mock the president as the Celebrity-In-Chief.