Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Notations From the Grid (Weekly Edition): Out & About.....

China just celebrated 70 years of Communist Rule.   Austria has a new Chancellor.   Israel may well be faced with a new Election.  France bid farewell to a President.   Meanwhile, here  In the United States, Impeachment is gathering steam and history is being made.   Our team chose a sampling of the Impeachment discourse over Twitter:










Friday, September 27, 2019

Notations On Our World (Special Quarter End Edition): On the Eve of Q4 Here in The Daily Outsider

On Social Progress (Courtesy Financial Times) 

On the Wealth Gap (Courtesy Vice Citing the US Census Bureau) 

As we went to press with this final quarter-end edition of Notations, we were analyzing an interview done by NBC News with an Ukrainian Prosecutor regarding the Bidens-and the central role Rudy Giuliani played in this whole affair supported by the Special Representative for Ukraine.     226 Members of the US House of Representatives are on the record supporting an impeachment inquiry--even Tulsi Galbard who was a holdout.    

Beyond the impeachment inquiry, we have also been assessing a major development as we chose the headlines courtesy Vice  & The Financial Times on the widening wealth gap.  It will be a focus of ours throughout the 4th Quarter here in our Properties.    This is as our team will also have a focus on Climate Change and the continued challenges in Brazil,  the challenges in India along with China as it celebrates 70 Years of Communist Rule on October 1.   There is also the continued drama of Brexit in the UK and the aftermath of the UK Supreme Court Decision--and the decision by the Scottish National Party Leader Nicola Sturgeon to back a Jeremy Corbyn Government.    

As we go dark thru the end of the Quarter, we hereby present the following snapshot courtesy of the team at the Real News Network as we look forward to the opportunity to serve--our Twitter Channel and Live Broadcast Pod will be available in the meantime for all:  


Ryan Cooper, National Correspondent for The Week, joins us to look at today’s testimony, the president’s petulance, and what all this means for the presidential campaign.

Aerial view of the Pentagon
The Nation’s Elie Mystal and By The People’s Alexandra Flores-Quilty look at the political struggle around impeachment as a battle for the soul and future of the nation.

Brazilian student protesters 
Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has proposed privatization and immediate slashing of the public education budget. Students worried about the future of education in Brazil are beginning to mobilize with a strike at one of the county’s main universities. Mike Fox reports from Brazil

Concern is growing in India’s northeastern state of Assam that people excluded from a new citizens’ registry could be sent to detention camps under construction across the state. The government says it created the registry to root out undocumented migrants, but almost 2 million people, many of whom have spent their entire lives in India,…

Cover of the September 24, 2019 IPCC report summary
The IPCC report concludes that unfettered climate change will cause glaciers to melt, destroy oceanic ecosystems, accelerate sea level rise, and wreak havoc on the earth. Despite all this, our guests say there still is hope.

Computers
Sahar Francis, leader of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights, talks about Israeli soldiers raiding her office at 2:00 a.m., causing extensive damage and seizing computers, valuable documents, and materials.

City Council rebuffed opposition to the measure by the Department of Public Works, who introduced 14 pages of amendments just prior to the hearing. 







Onward....

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Notations From the Grid (@POTUS Special Edition): On #Impeachment Deliberations

US Senate Democratic Leader Earlier Today in the US Capitol 

The Bulwark Reports On The Realities of Ukraine 




It has been a breathtaking day as we went to press with this special late breaking edition of Notations. 

President Trump had a news conference today as he tried to change the narrative on the gathering storm over impeachment due to the conversations he had with the President of Ukraine.    President Trump's network of supporters in the US Congress and the Conservative Media pushed the talking points as President Trump also cited Vice President Pence, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce as well--as Rudy Giuliani, the President's Personal Lawyer made the rounds in terms of what he did including supposed conversations Mr. Giuliani had with Officials at the State Department:     

The House GOP Leader, Kevin McCarthy, went after Speaker Pelosi hard noting that she should resign--although this reporting from the Washington Examiner was also of note:

BREAKING NEWS ALERT




Democratic lawmakers who have seen the intelligence community whistleblower complaint said they were disturbed by its still-secret contents.
Released to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees in the mid-afternoon, Republicans and Democrats viewed the complaint, which touches on a phone call President Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July.

The Trump Campaign raised 5 Million dollars and the Democratic Act Blue Platform raised the similiar amount as the battle lines were drawn as this late breaking update from the New York Times noted with minimal investigation by The Justice Department:

The New York Times
   

September 25, 2019

 
 

BREAKING NEWS
Record-handling, witnesses, potential misconduct: Here's what we know about the whistle-blower complaint and the person who made it.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:27 PM EST

The intelligence officer who filed the complaint about President Trump’s interactions with the leader of Ukraine raised alarms not only about what the two men said in a phone call, but also about how the White House handled records of the conversation, according to two people briefed on the complaint.
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