Weekly Perspective

It has been quite a year at The Daily Outsider as we celebrated a year of achievement and milestones.  We purposefully decided to headline it as "The Year in Hope" that we captured from the Obama Foundation simply to underscore a sense of hope that we had about our initiatives and our roadmap for the future.     As we reflected upon the year, we hope all enjoyed our selection of one of our favorite artists, Cold Play in line with a tradition we had to periodically feature our "Artist of the Week".   2019 saw us go through a first phase of a rebranding & transformation process that saw us launch the Perspectives, Education and Visions Initiative as the Ordinary Faces initiative went through a facelift.  We also worked on laying out a transformation of our platforms.    Being named as a Google News Initiative and continuing the close collaboration with SuiteBriar and Google was among some of the achievements that we look forward to building on the 6321 published p

As we went to press, we were seeing reports of #COP25 achieving no breakthrough in Spain: The UN Secretary General Tweeted his disappointment --and Our team could not help but be taken aback by how @Kaltoons depicted the challenging times we are faced with in this regard: This is as our team has been busy assessing the aftermath of the UK Elections, assessing the Citizenship Law in India (with upheavels in the State of Assam,  New Delhi & Hyderbabad)  , the situation in Iran (and our team is finalizing a Year-End Notation on it ), the upcoming expected impeachment trial in the US Senate of President Trump and other profound challenges. We look forward to sharing a Platform-Wide Year End Notation later on this week as we prepare to go dark for the year throughout our platforms although our team will be curating our Twitter Handle (Ordinary Faces) and as our live broadcast POD will continue to be available featuring SkyNews as we leave all with this from Mahatma Gandhi:

As the Week-End Looms, please enjoy the scenes from our team's walkabout in Community this week from the Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos & the Evening in our Hometown, Laguna Niguel:  Add caption Evening In Laguna Niguel  We close with this alternative view of the US Economy as 2020 looms: 

As we went to press,  Exit Polls reflected a convincing win for the UK Conservatives led by Boris Johnson--and a devastating loss by the Labor Party and also the Democratic Unionist Party.   The Scottish National Party is set to sweep 55 out of 59 Seats in Scotland. The Pound Sterling has risen as a result and the Prime Minister noted it in a Tweet: Thank you to everyone across our great country who voted, who volunteered, who stood as candidates. We live in the greatest democracy in the world. The Financial Times reported on relief by the European Union--although challenges will remain: myFT Instant Alert Politics Relief in Brussels as Tories head for convincing win EU welcomes certainty but warns new trade deal will still be difficult DECEMBER 13, 2019   by Sam Fleming and Jim Brunsden in Brussels The most important challenge--The Future of the UK itself: myFT Instant Alert World Brexit will now happen but Johnson’s win puts future of the UK in doubt The next government will be defin