Weekly Perspective

Communities throughout the United States marched to protest the family separation policy.  In our Community of Orange County, marches were held in a number of communities including Laguna Beach  and Irvine.   Our team produced this from the Irvine March at Portola High School in the City of Irvine:

In the aftermath of the decision by the US Supreme Court on the Travel Ban, our team thought this discourse during the Civil Rights Struggle was worth revisiting--a very powerful 29 minutes as we also saw that The US Department of State has been only approving 2% of the waivers per this courtesy of US Senator Chris Van Hollen :

Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy of the US Supreme Court announced his retirement from the United States Supreme Court Yesterday.    Although there has been reporting on how he was the "Swing" vote, he has in fact been solidly conservative--and he himself noted at one time:  The Cases Swing, I don't!!!   It will give President Trump another shot at an appointment and the US Senate Majority Leader has promised a confirmation by the Fall--although he himself blocked a nomination as it was an election year.   As such, it will be an interesting political discourse to be witness though over the course of the Summer. The New York Times' Deal Book put together this brief snapshot this morning that underscores how the Court will continue to act as it did, for instance, with Unions and Arbitration during this past term:   Justice Anthony Kennedy    Eric Thayer/Getty Images North America Corporate America is getting the Supreme Court it wants Justice Anthony Kennedy announced

As the debate over Immigrants continued, some very interesting insights were picked up by our Team over Twitter over the past 48 hours.   This is as our team also was assessing the latest out of the Middle East as President Trump's Envoys were touring Arab Capitals to entice Arab Governments to be on board on the proposed Peace Plan--and as we will keep an eye on Mexico as it gets ready to go to the Polls--and across the World, Turkey just gave Erdogran a new mandate. This is as the team from the Economist released its' daily dispatch in the aftermath of the Supreme Court Decision Yesterday--as the President continued attacks on Democrats and BMW (even though BMW has its' largest plant in South Carolina):      After months of legal wrangling over Donald Trump’s trio of executive orders banning travel from a number of Muslim-majority countries, the Supreme Court today voted 5-4 in favour of upholding the ban. Chief Justice Roberts wrote that it was promulgated “to protect na

We have the pleasure to feature SkyNews as one of our Live Broadcast Pods.    This latest episode produced by Skynews Featuring some of the leading Foreign Correspondents of the World about Nigeria, El Salvador and  Syria.    We found the whole 44 Minutes to be extremely tough to watch--As we hope whomever ends up with SkyNews is able to sustain the great work being done.

New Yorker Magazine:  July 2, 2018  LA Times  The debate over Immigration has ensued exemplified by this cover of the New Yorker and what the LA Times depicted about the continued reality.   As the debate over Family separation  continued, Congress has been trying to come up with a solution as President Trump doubled down on it--and it has stalled in the House with the Speaker of the House being scolded by the Chair of the House Freedom Caucus.  This is as he blamed the Democrats and Barack Obama.    Our team selected the takes from Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah on it as President Trump's eldest Son, Donald Trump Jr., pulled out of a fundraiser for George P Bush citing the Bush Family's criticism of the Immigration policy epitomized by the statement by Former First Lady Laura Bush:  The First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, flew down to Texas to visit a shelter and wore a Zara Jacket that had a curious message as Trevor Noah noted--even though the First Lady's Of

Over the weekend, a Sufi Preacher in Iran was executed despite pleas from his lawyer.   The true realities were discussed at a program sponsored by Iran Farda and as there was a 20 Minute Conversation with the Son of the Late Shah of Iran as the opposition to the Islamic Republic gathers further steam--The conversations are in Farsi however it underscores the profound level of discontent and lies by the current Government in charge in Iran and the true realities: : 

As a new week is before us, our team chose this courtesy of the team at TED to provide an interesting and different perspective on our World-a very powerful Six Minutes: 

We salute all the Fathers as we hope all the Tributes we have released in all our properties is a reflection of our respect as we say Happy Fathers' Day and Best Wishes to all the Fathers:

It has been a whirlwind of a week as President Trump said Manaford had nothing to do with the Campaign, praised Kim Jung Un, attacked the Press, mis-characterized the Inspector General Report  , blamed the Democrats for the zero-tolerance policy, said that War Games cost a lot of money--and blamed President Obama for Ukraine losing Crimea as He said, "...President Obama Gave up Crimea".   Please Enjoy these Digital "Random Thoughts" concluding with President Trump's Press "gaggle" yesterday: 

The G7 Concludes:  One View  As we went to Press, President Trump continued its' attacks on the Prime Minister of Canada and concluded his Summit with the North Korean Leader in Singapore.   The Summit Just concluded with a Statement and the World has been debating it ever since epitomized by the following our team complied from the reaction over the Social Grid:  The Economist of London released this that underscores the Worldwide sentiments on policies pursued by the Trump Administration: Our cover this week looks at  America’s foreign policy  under President Donald Trump. He may chalk up a success at next week’s summit with North Korea and his tough tactics on trade could well yield concessions. Yet, in the longer term, his bullying, transactional approach to allies and enemies will not serve America or the world well    Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief This is also as we captured some of the sentiments in the aftermath of the debacle that was the G7 while the SCOSummit 201

As we went to press, SkyNews is featuring live coverage of the Top North Korean Leader as he landed in Singapore on an Air China Plane and as his convoy drove away through the streets Singapore as the Summit is slated to begin Tuesday--Donald Trump is also slated to arrive in Singapore later on today as well.    Our team found it quite interesting how China lent the North Korean Leader a 747 to make it "on par" with the President of the United States.

Our team was out throughout South Orange County during the Elections that concluded on Tuesday.   This is the latest courtesy of the Registrar of Voters here in Orange County as the team there will be working through it continuing the counting process:  Making Progress on Ballot Counting We had record volume of ballots dropped off at polling places on Election Day. In fact, when compared with 2014, we had a 217% increase in ballots left after Election Day (dropped off, provisionals, etc.). We will continue counting through the weekend. Neal Kelley Registrar of Voters Public Notice of Random Draw for Statewide Primary Election Read more Ballot Processing Per Day  We are working to process 20,000+ ballots per day. This process has multiple steps to ensure every ballot has been examined correctly and is prepared for scanning.  Here is a good primer on the process of counting ballots and how long it takes. Sorting Provisional Ballots We had about 45,000 provisional ballots cast on Election

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