Notations On Our World (Special @POTUS watch Edition): A Snapshot of the "Resistance" On the Eve of the New Week

 
It has been quite a week as President Trump attended the Bastille Day Celebrations that President Macron hosted and returned to the United States to spend the weekend at his Golf Course in New Jersey.  The opposition to him is continuing as our team picked up the latest  courtesy of the team at the Guardian of London chronicling the so-called Resistance as the challenges in Washington Abound.    This is also as the CEO of JP Morgan Chase blasted the profound challenges in Washington noting, "...'It's almost an embarrassment being American ..."--This is from a man that turned down President Trump's offer to serve as Treasury Secretary: 

The Resistance Now: a healthy dose of reality

Republicans still can’t find enough votes for their healthcare bill as activists keep up pressure, while others target Trump Tower with the Impeach Trump! protest The Resistance Now on Facebook

Demonstrators from Arizona chant ‘kill the bill or lose your job’ while sitting on the floor outside the office of Senator Jeff Flake. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Adam Gabbatt  @adamgabbatt

We go again Senate Republicans have been sweating away over the latest version of their healthcare bill over the past week. Now they’ve come out and slapped it down on the table. Unluckily for the GOP… a) Activists are both energized and accustomed to thwarting ill-thought out healthcare legislation. b) It appears that some Republicans are unlikely to vote for it. On Monday, police arrested 80 people who were protesting the second Senate bill in Washington. There have been signs that protests, phone calls and letter-writing are having an impact.

Healthcare activists protest behind an angry police officer on Capitol Hill. Photograph: Yuri Gripas/Reuters

Susan Collins of Maine opposed the first bill and has already said she she will vote no on the second. Rob Portman of Ohio – a particular focus for activists – also appears to be wavering. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia isn’t keen either. A Huffington Post/YouGov survey released on Thursday found that healthcare is the issue most Americans are most concerned about right now: 47% of respondents said healthcare was one of the two issues they were worried about, with the economy at 37%. Just 12% of respondents put Russia in their top two. Battle for an open internet Tech giants joined forces with online activists and free speech groups on Wednesday for a day of protest against Trump administration plans to roll back net neutrality rules. Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and other tech giants all highlighted their opposition to the plans. Activist group Fight for the Future said the day of protest resulted in more than 3.45m emails being sent to Congress, while the Federal Communications Commission received more than 1.6m comments – a record for a single day. In May, the FCC voted 2-1 to start the formal process of dismantling rules that prevent ISPs from creating fast or slow lanes to favor one user over another and potentially allow them to choose winners and losers online.

PRESS RELEASE: Still in progress historic day of action for #NetNeutrality is breaking records, reaching millions: https://t.co/JNUwsFsy6H pic.twitter.com/I0jrWG9OH0 — Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) July 12, 2017

Impeach Trump?

Unimpeachable? Photograph: Yuri Gripas/Reuters

More than 3,000 people are expected to gather in New York City on Saturdayfor an Impeach Trump! national day of protest. Protesters will gather outside Trump Tower for the event, which is organized by Refuse Fascism. The rather optimistic title – the event was initially called the Trump Impeachment Party – came to be because it was created “with the mindset that Trump would be impeached within a matter of weeks since his election”, said organiser Mohammad Hamad, adding that he and others will try to turn the march into something broader in the coming months. “We’ll continue to fight the Trump-Pence regime because they’ve already made their agenda clear and it will have a generational impact on Americans (and the world) if they get away with it,” Hamad said. Progressivism can work everywhere Matt Yglesias has a fascinating piece at Vox on how a progressive message can appeal in affluent suburbs – such as in Atlanta’s sixth congressional district, where Jon Ossoff lost on a more centrist platform in June. It’s because the GOP’s proposed tax cuts will only benefit the fabled 1%, Yglesias says. “The reality is that even the richest GOP-held congressional district in the country, Virginia’s 10th, has a median household income of ‘only’ $110,000 – far too low for most voters to benefit from the GOP’s proposed top rate cut, or even from … repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s taxes, which fall on households earning more than $250,000 a year.”

Rich people. Photograph: David Davies/PA

Merde There were fewer anti-Trump protesters than expected in Paris, and those who did try to protest were kept “far from any of the locations Trump visited”, we reported. A few hardcore demonstrators persisted.

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Notations From the Grid (Special Edition): On the Eve of The Week-end

It has been quite a week in our World.  We begin by joining all in wishing President Carter a speedy recovery after he was hospitalized in Winnipeg, Manitoba while on a Habitat for Humanity Project building a house in Canada:

Statement from #HabitatforHumanity CEO Jonathan Reckford on Jimmy Carter from #HabitatCWP. pic.twitter.com/u0KxTtm3I3

— Habitat for Humanity (@Habitat_org) July 13, 2017

We join all and express our appreciation to Habitat for Humanity for this update over Twitter as we wish President Carter a speedy recovery--he's an inspiration as he continues onward with his commitment to service at the age of 93 with former First lady Rosalyn Carter. 

We hope all enjoy the periodic updates on our Twitter Channel throughout the weekend and our properties as we leave you all with this "Thought 4 the week"  that our editor released on his personal Twitter Feed earlier tonight which we are pleased to lend our support to: 

Remembering a Courageous Soul: Liu Xiaobo

While in jail, Liu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. An empty chair was left for him at the ceremony (Source: BBC News)

Admiral Hasley has a famous saying:  There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. .  One ordinary man was Liu Xiaobo who died of Liver Cancer today under Police Guard in China.    He was imprisoned in 2009 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his courage to stand up for human rights and the right of free expression.   We join many around the world in paying tribute to him as we remember him and as we present his Nobel Lecture that he was not able to accept in person:

lLiu Xiaobo - Statement: I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement

Notations On Our World (Special Edition): UN - Gaza could become uninhabitable in less than five years due to ongoing ‘de-development’– UN report

A man holds the hands of his granddaughters near the remnants of the residential towers where the girls used to live, in the city of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo: UNICEF/Eyad El Baba

As noted by the UN,  Gaza could become uninhabitable in less than five years due to ongoing ‘de-development’ 

Notations From the Grid (Special Edition): On the Forefront of Battle For the Net & #NetNeutrality

As we here at #Outsiders join in this call to preserve the open interent, we wanted to report on the leading lights on what they have done today to help preserve it thanks to the team at Politico:

By Li Zhou | 07/12/2017 10:00 AM EDT

With help from Steven Overly, Ashley Gold, Margaret Harding McGill and John Hendel

AND IT'S HERE - The net neutrality "day of action." Here's what some of the biggest internet names are doing early this morning:

- Google sent an email to its "Take Action" network and urged people to contact the FCC via a net neutrality website created by the Internet Association. That email, which was also posted to the company's public policy blog, said: "It's an important chapter in this debate, and we hope you'll make your voice heard."

- Twitter's public policy team tweeted a blog post to its 292,000 followers last night calling on the FCC to "abandon its misguided effort to obviate all the work that has been done on behalf of all Internet users." Twitter is now promoting hashtag #NetNeutrality and the blog post in its trending news column.

- A banner atop the Netflix homepage reads: "Protect Internet Freedom. Defend Net Neutrality" with a link to the Internet Association's advocacy website, where many of the group's members are expected to drive traffic today.

- Airbnb, on its homepage, tells users it is "protesting the FCC's plan to remove common-sense regulations" and provides a form for them to contact members of Congress. It's rival, HomeAway, features a "Save #NetNeutrality" banner with a link to the Internet Association site.

-A pop-up on Reddit says, "The internet's less fun when your favorite sites load slowly, isn't it?" and says internet service providers shouldn't determine what you view online. It's also driving users to the "Battle for the Net" website.

-Consumer Reports is also taking the pop-up ad approach with one covering its whole homepage, while Vimeo and comedy site Funny or Die created net neutrality-related videos that call out FCC Chairman Ajit Pai by name.

- Dropbox posted a blog of its own. Ebay added a banner to it's public policy website telling visitors that "the fate of net neutrality is being discussed in Washington" and encouraging them to learn more about the company's position. And Spotify greeted early-morning music listeners with a small banner.

- As Steven noted last night, the effort to marshal millions of internet users "mirrors the web 'blackout' deployed in early 2012 to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, which lawmakers dropped after receiving a flood of phone calls and emails." But he notes the strategy may carry less power in today's GOP-dominated Washington: "FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has vowed to roll back the rules requiring internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon to treat all web traffic equally, and he has the commission votes he needs, along with the support of congressional Republicans and Trump."

- Democrats plan to jump into the fray with a noon press conference on the Capitol lawn led by Sen. Ed Markey. He'll be joined by Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Ron Wyden and Al Franken and Reps. Frank Pallone, Anna Eshoo , Mike Doyle, Doris Matsui, Peter Welch and Jared Polis. Mozilla, Free Press, Public Knowledge, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future and many other groups will be there. Catch the livestream here and stay tuned for aFacebook Live led by Doyle at 2pm. Oh, and Sen. Brian Schatz will deliver a net neutrality speech on the floor and participate in a Facebook Live as well.

- What are Republicans saying? "We understand people have some passionate feelings on the issue, and we expect to hear those," said Rep. Marsha Blackburn. But she predicted the day of action will "only be another day of confusion for consumers and users" and criticized Democrats for refusing to engage on net neutrality legislation: "What I find interesting is that we have asked Democrats for years to come to the table on this issue, only for them to hide behind political excuses." Rep. Darrell Issa , for his part, welcomes the debate. "You can look at criticism as an opportunity to improve your own game or you can look at it as a nuisance," he said. Issa backs an antitrust approach to open internet protections relying on the FTC rather than the FCC.

- Will the FCC's website hold up under the expected deluge? The commission's IT staff "have taken additional measures to safeguard our comment filing system" and "will be on high alert over the next 48 hours," Pai said in aTuesday letter to Sens. Wyden and Schatz. He declined to disclose specific steps because it might undermine their effectiveness. The lawmakers had pressed Pai about the FCC's ability to accept a high volume of comments after the system sputtered earlier this year in what the agency later described as a "non-traditional" distributed denial-of-service attack.

Adding Our Voice To Net Neutrality Day of Action

Tomorrow  is a day to speak up for Net Neutrality.    We join in simply noting that it is high time that the First Amendment of the Internet should be protected and join the leading luminaries of the Tech Space including Facebook, Google and Amazon in this fight. It is a fight that matters and it will impact everything:

 We could not agree more as we join the leading lights to say loudly to the FCC:   

Thought For the Week: As a New Week Dawns....

Welcome to a New Week as we wanted to feature this Thought For the Week from the Founder of HomeBoy Industries, Father Gregory Boyle as he reminded us all "...Everybody's Equal,.  Everybody Matters.  Everybody Counts":

Notations On Our World (Special W-End Edition): On #Yazd, #Turkey & Our Launch On Google Play

As we look to a new week, we wanted to begin with some good news out of UNESCO as the historic City of Yazd was declared a World Heritage Site:

The UN had also spearheaded a conference in Iran on the Sand Storms that can be accessed by visiting the site here.  

We have also been on the Virtual Prowl as the March for Justice in Turkey just concluded. We found it amazing that the autocratic President of Turkey allowed it to continue, although we understand from reports that 15,000 Security Personnel were deployed in Istanbul:

We have also been tracking the case of the Chinese Noble Peace Prize Winner who was imprisoned and now has Terminal Liver Cancer.  We are seeing reports (courtesy of Al Jazeera) that he is able to get treatment abroad.     We also continue to assess the on-going bullying of Qatar by Saudi Arabia and others and the latest updates can be checked by visiting this link Courtesy of Al Jazeera.   This is also as Iraq prevailed over Daesh with significant help and support from the International coalition.   But Daesh (also known as ISIS in the west) is not dead by any means.   

The political discourse here in the United States will not be far from our mind as we continue our on-going assessment throughout the week.    The aftermath of the G20 continues to reverberate  throughout the World as this latest from the New York Times underscores how Vice President Pence continues to lay out a potential future indepedent of President Trump as investigations and controversies loom and as the Trump agenda continues to face headwinds.

As our team continues onward, we also pleased to report that we've released our Daily Outsider App on Google Play which will be available by clicking here :

It is hereby noted that as per Google Policy that, "....Google Play and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google Inc.".   

.    We just received the ratings which we are pleased to report on it for all:

Rating Certificate

App Title: The Daily Outsider  Certificate ID: 889b0355-17ce-4bdd-9c62-e9b6a5915d92 Storefront: Google Play Date Issued: Sunday, July 9, 2017 This rating may only be used on storefronts participating in IARC. It may not be used on physical products. Rating Authority Region Rating Category Content Descriptors ClassInd Brazil Classificação Livre ESRB The Americas Everyone PEGI Europe PEGI 3 USK Germany USK ab 0 Jahren Generic Other Regions

 It is indeed fascinating times to be witness to it all.

Notations From the Grid (W-End Edition): On Venezuela; Turkey; @realDonaldTrump & Other Thoughts

It has been quite a few days around our World.    There was some good news as Venezuelan Opposition Leader Leonardo Lopez was released from Prison to House Arrest and joyfully reunited with his children:





There was the March for Justice led by the key opposition leader in Turkey.   Some compared it to the Gandhi March to the Sea to Make Salt:

  

What the Turkish President does will be interesting in this regard. 

Our team was also continuing its' on-going assessment of the latest dispute between Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt as the dispute seems to continue for at least a while yet.  The Secretary of State is slated to visit the region Monday.   Saudi Arabia, a member of the G20, is slated to host the next G20 Summit as the  G20 in Hamburg  is now in the history books.  The United States, though, was isolated--although Trump Administration Officials were putting a positive spin on it from the President Onward.     One of the most devastating assessment was made by Australia Broadcasting:

What did we learn about @realDonaldTrump at this #G20? @CUhlmann explains. #Insiders pic.twitter.com/TGOXdiFWhB

— Insiders ABC (@InsidersABC) July 8, 2017

This is as there were reports of hacking of US Energy Infrastructure by Russians and as reports of another Russian meeting set up by Donald Trump Jr. emerged in the aftermath of the Meetings--and the Trump team blamed Democrats.  This is as the "stories of action and ideas" courtesy of the Guardian of London took center stage: 

The resistance now: it's recess week, but Republicans are hiding from constituents

Elected officials traditionally engage with constituents during their seven days off, but unhappiness with the healthcare bill has the GOP avoiding voters

Americans have not been happy with the Republican healthcare plan. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Adam Gabbatt  @adamgabbatt

Hide and seek... It’s Republicans’ least favourite time of the year: recess week. GOP senators have marked their seven days off – traditionally a time for elected officials to engage with constituents – by almost universally hiding from their constituents. It’s because of that Senate healthcare bill, you see. Not many people like it. As of Wednesday only four Republicans had either held or planned to hold public town hall events. And two of those events – step forward Texas’s Ted Cruz and Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey – were hardly public.

People protest as Pat Toomey holds an invite-only town hall. Photograph: Marc Levy/AP

Toomey appeared in a Harrisburg television studio with an audience that had been invited by ABC 27. The number of audience members? Eight. Cruz held an event in his safe space of a Koch brothers-backed Q&A. Still, protesters outside Toomey’s gig – and hecklers inside Cruz’s – served to let the pair know what they thought of the Better Care Reconciliation Act. ...but you can’t hide forever Meanwhile, more than 1,000 activists staged sit-ins at senators’ offices in 21 different states on Thursday – demanding that they vote no on the Senate bill. The demonstrations were organized by Our Revolution, Democracy Spring, Ultraviolet and more, and targeted senators including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell – the brains behind the healthcare bill – as well as Rob Portman in Ohio, and Bill Cassidy in Louisiana. Just as a reminder: that Senate bill would see 22m additional people lose healthcare, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Healthcare activists in New York City. Photograph: Erik McGregor/Pacific/Barcroft

WTF? Two Silicon Valley billionaires – specifically Mark Pincus of Zynga and Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn – launched a new online platform called Win the Future(hence WTF) this week. It’s intended to form as a platform for crowdsourcing ideas to move the Democratic party in a different direction. So far, so good. Except the direction they appear to want to move the Democratic party – hardly a bastion of liberalism as is – further to the right. Pincus told Recode the party was “already moving too far to the left” and that he would like to make it more “pro-business”. According to the Huffington Post, the tech moguls have “sunk $500,000” into Win the Future. The idea is not picking up much traction with progressives.

To the right, to the right: Mark Pincus of Zynga. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images

No dogs allowed A group of animal rights activists “were taken into police custody” at the infamous Nathan’s Fourth of July hot dog eating contest this week, according to the Washington Post. Five people had attempted to unveil an anti-meat banner. They were released without charge. Joey Chestnut won the contest by eating 72 hot dogs and buns. It was his 10th victory.

Hot dog-eating champ Joey Chestnut is on the right. Photograph: ACE Pictures/REX/Shutterstock

What we’re reading “Rural progressives” is not an oxymoron, writes Anthony Flaccovento at Blue Virginia. Flaccovento ran for congress in 2012, and says his message that “attacked inequality and trickle-down economics” appealed to people in the rural areas of his state. So why isn’t the left doing better in the red parts of states like Virginia? Because “the Democratic party and the progressive movement both have, for the most part, written off rural America”.

View of the Week (Special Friday Edition): ON the #G20

We received the following courtesy of the team at Mauldin Economics which we are pleased to feature for this special Friday edition of View of the Week as the meetings in Hamburg begin of the 20 Largest Economies in the World:

Hostages to History at the G-20 Summit

By George Friedman

July 5, 2017

Leaders overstate how much their relationships define national agendas.

Anyone who has ever been to a meeting knows that meetings are often confounding, frustrating affairs. Most of them are designed simply to be held. The people who attend them are unlikely to agree on anything except maybe the date the next one will convene, and the possibility that they accomplish something gets smaller as the meeting itself gets larger. The G-20 summit, which will be held July 7, is no exception. But that’s only because the people who attend it, the leaders of the countries with the world’s 20 largest economies, think of themselves as decision-makers when really they are hostages to history.

In fact, the dynamics involved at a meeting such as the G-20 are indifferent to the people who attend it. Personalities are interesting but ultimately indecisive in power politics. World leaders may not like Donald Trump – in fact, many do not – but since they cannot avoid dealing with the United States, still the world’s only superpower, they cannot avoid dealing with its president.

The United States is inextricably linked to three major issues that will be addressed but probably not resolved at the G-20 summit. The first is the progression of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, an issue the United States and China simply cannot ignore or fully resolve without at least talking to each other. On July 4, Pyongyang tested a missile it claims was an intercontinental ballistic missile. The North Koreans may be exaggerating, of course. The missile still needs guidance systems and a configured payload, but as U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said, the United States can’t wait for North Korea to have a functional ICBM.

Here again, personalities matter less than imperatives. The Trump administration had planned for an economic confrontation with China, at least if statements from the campaign were to be believed. The reckoning has been postponed now that Washington needs Beijing to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program. So far the talks have been futile, and it’s unclear if China even wants them to succeed. If the United States attacks North Korea, China could get what it wants – North Korea without a nuclear weapon – without lifting a finger, superbly positioned thereafter to play the role of peacekeeper against the belligerent United States. In the meantime, Chinese President Xi Jinping will promise to try harder to disarm North Korea because it strengthens his case if the U.S. attacks while he is “negotiating.” Washington probably sees the trap China is trying to set but can’t really get around it; it will simply remember this later, after the North Korea issue has been resolved one way or the other, when it turns its attention back to Beijing. After all, the U.S. can damage the Chinese economy far more than China can harm the American.

The second issue is Russian interference in the domestic affairs of other countries – a hot-button issue that elides some obvious facts: Nations interfere with other nations all the time, and the Russians have a long history of agitation and propaganda. Moscow has, in no uncertain terms, interfered in the domestic affairs of other countries, particularly former Soviet states that lay west of Russia. The government claims, albeit quietly, they are justifiable responses to meddling in the “color revolutions” of Eastern Europe in the 2000s, funded as they were by U.S. nongovernmental organizations. Whatever may or may not have happened in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is beside the point. The bigger issue for Russia is that its oil is cheap, and that cheap oil will continue to hurt the Russian economy. Nothing from the meeting will change that.

The third issue is U.S.-German relations. The party of Chancellor Angela Merkel no longer uses the word “friend” to describe the United States in its platform. But in fact, Merkel has blamed Trump for a rupture he has little to do with. At issue are the national interests of both countries. Germany needs for the European Union to be economically healthy enough to buy the exports on which its economy depends, but the United States, which has little leverage or stake in the European Union, sees its disintegration as a European problem. And so Washington has been working with countries like the United Kingdom and Eastern Europe states on a bilateral basis to contain Russia rather than going through Brussels. Germany, moreover, wants to be in NATO and the EU, but both organizations have a hard time instituting policies that benefit all its members because none of its members have identical national interests. And then there is Russia. The last thing Germany wants to do, in light of its other problems, is confront Russia, but blocking Russia is central to U.S policy, and it needs Europe united in that regard. The divergence between the United States and Germany has been growing since 2008, and there is little Trump could have done to change things.

World leaders take their relationships with other world leaders very seriously. To them, their relationships with their peers define their national interest. Though this line of thinking is misguided, it has its advantages, given Trump’s apparent unpopularity. Xi will blame Trump for disrupting a nearly successful peace process in North Korea. Putin, in an effort to dispel rumors of collusion, will blame Trump for conspiracies against Russia. Merkel will blame him for disrupting U.S.-German relations. Trump’s personality, however, will no more define what happens at the G-20 summit than his healthcare views will define what emerges from Congress

Notations On Our World (Special Mid-Week Edition): On Press Freedom and a Salute to Al Jazeera

Our team just concluded listening to live broadcast from Cairo on the aftermath of the meetings regarding the Qatar Blockade.    As we feature Sky News of the UK in our "Broadcast Pod", we wanted to headline Al Jazeera with a tribute to an organization that over the last 20 years has done more to transform the landscape of knowledge around the Middle East:

Thought For the Week (Special #July4 Edition)

It is July 4 where we in America celebrate America's Independence, families get together and then go out and enjoy the fireworks that would light up the skies throughout America. As we continue our strategic review, we hope all enjoy these compilation of thoughts:

The end does NOT justify the means.
Freedom cannot be gained by sacrificing the freedom of others.
Free speech cannot be gained by limiting the free speech of others.
Human rights cannot be secured by trampling the human rights of others.
Viciousness in others cannot be fought by becoming vicious oneself.
Neither individual nor nation can long survive by meeting hatred with hatred,
injustice with injustice, prejudice with prejudice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- Emma Lazarus - written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson [Declaration of Independence, and inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial]

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands
is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
- Jimmy Carter

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

On the Eve of #4thofJuly: A Powerful Tribute to Immigrants....

As 4th of July is at hand here in the United States, we wanted to share this as we wish all a great and joyous 4th of July: 

As We Gear Up For Our 3rd Quarter of Service.....

   

  

It is the eve of Canada Day on July 1 and Independence Day here in the United States.   We will be going dark for the next two weeks to gear up for the new Quarter.   Our Twitter Channel will be updated daily with our Nuzzel and Paper_Li Updates which is a compilation of updates as we look forward to being of service.   

Happy Canada Day to all Canadians.    We also wanted to take this opportunity to wish all a fabulous Independence Day Week-End and a fabulous July as we leave you all with this Thoughts: 

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination. - Diane Sawyer Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living In better conditions. - Hafiz

Notations From the Grid (Special Mid-Week Edition): On the Effects of Climate Change

It is the eve of the July 4 Holiday Weekend here in the United States.    We wanted  to feature our team curated late last night California time on the effects of Climate Change that underscores the gravity of what we are facing with.   There are profound voices around the World that understand that including the current Governor of California, Jerry Brown and the Former Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger along with President Macron of France who has reminded us all that as far Earth is concerned--there is no Planet B--this is as the US Secretary of Energy touted how they are again going after fossil fuel exploration white touting what he viewed as a "balance"--while bashing the Paris Agreement:  

10 incredible effects of climate change https://t.co/MLE5Nm2oyX @中国日报 pic.twitter.com/ZnVtGPatIU

— DailyOutsider (@ordinaryfaces) June 28, 2017