A FULL-BLOWN WAR is not an unimaginablescenario in the United States-Israel military attack on Iran for two months now. The two-week ceasefire which required Iran’s re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz to oil-transporting ships had ceased just after a couple of days when Israel bombed Lebanon riling Iran to close the strait again. As I write this, the 21-hour negotiation meeting of the warring countries in Tehran mediated by Pakistan just collapsed with no peace deal reached.
‘Politics at home is neither cool, besides … Despite exposition of extra-judicial crimes, massive corruption, alleged plunder by high officials, and rubbish statements from politicians voters chose, fanatics stay with unworthy personalities regardless.’
POLITICAL HEAT
Of course, the egoistic President Donald Trumpwill still be fuming mad – nostrils and neck veins eschewing invectives that can also “kill” the enemy’s either patriotic courage or just-as-strong lust for power.
The rest of the world, however, cannot just sit by to follow a political drama and wish for a happy ending. Oil prices at pumping stations still go up after skyrocketing already in the early days of tension. Oil may have to be sourced outside Middle East, and maybe at higher cost. As a result, other commodities and services, are challenging many people’s purchasing power. Life has gotten harder and harder, really. And government as well as whole of nation just have to step up with solutions.
Politics at home is neither cool, besides. There are fierce and ugly conflicts in government affairs that dominate social media. Despite exposition of extra-judicial crimes, massive corruption, alleged plunder by high officials, and rubbish statements from politicians voters chose, fanatics stay with unworthy personalities regardless.
EL NINO YEAR?
Whatever’s happening in the world, El Niño is flaring up. Climate scientists believe that a rare, strong El Niño typically known as “Super El Niño” could form in the coming months this year. This phenomenon occurs when Pacific Ocean temperatures increase at least 2 degrees Celsius above average, which is very rare. This new one could even be the strongest in at least a decade (the last was in 2015-2016), coupled with rising temperatures due to climate change, causing punishing drought in some regions and severe storms in others.
The Philippines, we know, is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean in the east. And the devastation by El Niño in the past decades, is not lost in the memory of Filipinos, directly the farmers and fishermen. The rest had to suffer the heat that could burn the skin, choke the air passages, and sap energy for work and life’s other routines.
Amid the political and temperature heat, “Keep your cool” may not be a sensitive and sound advice.
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