Weekly Perspective

On the Occasion of Halloween here in the United States, we hereby present the following thoughts we are pleased to featured on all our platforms courtesy of Jonathan Lockwood Huie and his team as we say    Happy Halloween: Consciously adopt the mindset of a young child, to whom all of life is a grand adventure. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is! - Osho Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously. - Og Mandino

Our team has been on the prowl assessing the fire in our home State of California over the past number of days as we captured these scenes from Grid.   As we went to press, we were on the prowl as reports came down that the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley was threatened and staff was evacuated.      The Getty Museum in West Los Angeles was also on the fire Path as well.   We could not agree more with Lakers Star LeBron James when he noted how "crazy" he was--his family had to evacuate and he sponsored a Taco Truck for First Respondents. Beyond the challenging scenes here in California, there is the on-going calamity in Syria as Syrian State Media is reporting clashes with Turkish Forces.    A Russian-Backed meeting  has been going on in Geneva to come up with a new post-war Constitution for Syria.    This is as Iraq Protests are continuing and the Shitte Bloc has withdrawn its backing from the Iraqi Prime Minister after he refused to call for elections. Chal

As we went to press with this special Sunday edition of Notations, our team was monitoring the fires raging throughout California with CAL Maritime being threatened.       We commend Around the Capital for putting together this update as an estimated 2 Million People may be affected by the power outages to prevent fires--although we understand already faulty equipment may have been a contributing cause per an update from PG&E--we join Scott in noting for all to please stay safe: Many of you likely had sleepless nights, either kept up by the weather like we were here in Sacramento, worrying about friends and family, or your own life and property. Obviously, it's still dark and we won't have fire update reports for a couple of hours, but it hasn't been a good night in Sonoma County. The mandatory evacuation area now extends on the 101 form Geyserville to North Santa Rosa east into the hills and west to the Pacific Ocean from Stewarts Point to Bodega Bay. Highway 101 is cl

The United States bid farewell to Rep. Cummings over a two day period as he was honored at the US Capitol and thereafter at his Church.   President Obama and President Clinton spoke--For this edition of Notations, We are honored to feature the statements by President Obama and President Clinton along with Rep. Cummings as we pay tribute to the life and times of the Honorable Elijah Cummings, The Gentleman from Baltimore--It was great to see all from across the political spectrum including Congressman Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows along with Adam Schiff all come together--we join all in saying RIP @RepCummings--you made a difference and we agree you made America better:

On the Week that was, we hereby present a snapshot of our World over the past two weeks:  Remembering Elijah Cummings  The Financial Times Ingram Pinn Reflects Upon Syria  1. The End I told you we would get here eventually. When the Ukraine story first emerged, I promised you that we would be going through a predictable sequence of lines about Trump's actions: (1) This is all made up. Fake News. (2) There's a partial story here, but it's nothing important. The media is biased. (3) If there's anything bad or improper, the Dems do it worse. (4) Of course he did it and he was right to do it. Yesterday  Mick Mulvaney said —well, let me quote it for you, exactly: Q    But to be clear, what you just described is a quid pro quo.  It is: Funding will not flow unless the investigation into the Democratic server happens as well. MR. MULVANEY:  We do that all the time with foreign policy.  We were holding money at the same time for — what was it?  The Northern Triangle countries. 

As we gear up for a new week of deliberations throughout out platforms, our team chose this courtesy of the Fortune's Clay Chandler on China and the escalating US-China Trade War.    Our team will be continuing its' on-going assessment: OCTOBER 19, 2019 Variety  reports Quentin Tarantino  won’t re-cut his latest film , “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” to accommodate Chinese censors, all but assuring the production will never be shown (legally, at least) in the world’s second-largest movie market. The buddy pic, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt and pays homage to 1960s Hollywood, was expected to rake in hundreds of millions in China for Tarantino and financial backers including Sony Pictures and Beijing-based Bona Film Group. Instead, Tarantino appears to have joined the growing ranks of commercial casualties—among them the National Basketball Association,  Apple ,  Viacom , and Starbucks—caught in the crossfire of the escalating U.S.-China trade war. “Once Upon a Tim

As we went to press, the Turkish Army continued its' assault in Northern Syria.     President Trump imposed sanctions and noted that Vice President Pence and the National Security Advisor were slated to be dispatched to try and end the fighting.   Vice President Pence was adamant in stating that the United States did not give a green light to Turkey to invade.   There was a perception that the United States was trying to mitigate what was perceived as a Foreign Policy blunder.   As our team continued to assess the changing true realities on the ground, we captured the following which captures the profound seismic shift in the Middle East right now :