Random Thought (W-End Edition): From the "Grid" On Our World....

It was quite a challenging week in our World.    Our team selected a brief sampling of Tweets from the Middle East along with the latest antics out of Washington.   This is as some very interesting events have been happening in Iran--including the detention of two key former aides to the former Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has been speaking out in the aftermath of the protests that we've provided guidance here over the ensuing weeks.

Compelling..... 

What We Know, and Don't Know, About the Firing of Andrew McCabe Lawfare – Mar 17, 7:51 AM Anyone who is confidently pronouncing on the merits of Andrew McCabe's firing Friday night is venturing well beyond the realm of known facts. We certainly understand the instinct to rally to McCabe's defense at a time when the president is issuing…

Thing is, when Israel goes after teenage activists and their parents, uni students leader @BZU and their colleagues, @BDSmovement, even mosques and churches, and other popular non violent forms of resistance to its occupation, it’s only encouraging other forms of resistance ... https://t.co/iShEk33Yu8

— Marwan Bishara (@marwanbishara) March 12, 2018 

Great short doc on Israel’s war against #AhedTamimi -the Palestinian girl who has been detained for 83 days for slapping a heavily armed soldier. She is facing a non-public trial before a discriminatory military court system designed to secure convictions. https://t.co/RM4RnjSYM6

— Jamil Dakwar (@jdakwar) March 12, 2018 

Here are all of Trump's false claims from last week about gun violence, motorcycle imports from India, car exports to Japan and tariffs on washing machine. https://t.co/05zICBcsHV

— TorontoStar (@TorontoStar) March 5, 2018

How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions New York Times – Matthew Rosenberg – Mar 17, 6:09 AM LONDON — As the upstart voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica prepared to wade into the 2014 American midterm elections, it had a problem. The firm had secured a $15 million investment from Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor… Shared by…

Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach The Guardian – Emma Graham-Harrison – Mar 17, 6:01 AM The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in the tech giant's biggest ever data breach, and used them to build a powerful software… Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook Facebook #SheMeansBusiness – Mar 16, 8:41 PM By Paul Grewal, VP & Deputy General Counsel We are suspending Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), including their political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, from Facebook. Given the public prominence of this organization, we want…