Weekly Perspective

For all our fellow California Residents, please enjoy!!! Dear Friends and Colleagues, As Super Tuesday approaches, PBI is proud to announce our partnership with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on our Civic Quiz. With a shared passion for and commitment to civic engagement, PBI and Manatt invite you to test your knowledge of the hottest issues of the day by receiving the  PBI-Manatt Civic Quiz   every few weeks during this important election year. Enjoy! Cheers, Dive In  

It has been quite a week in Our World--Our team complied a snapshot of the discourse over the past number of days which we hereby present as our on-going assessments continues regarding the US Presidential Campaign, Corona, the Situation in the Middle East and continued on-going Environmental Challenges: Cornel West: Elites Underestimate the Power of the People Scholar and activist Dr. Cornel West says Bernie Sanders will take on corporate power and implement a just foreign policy, and that former Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a “neoliberal gangster.” US-Philippine Relations Worsen Despite Perceived Trump-Duterte Friendship The Philippines ended the Visiting Forces Agreement, which allows the US military to operate within the Philippines and grants access to the South China Sea. Is President Duterte doing the right thing for the wrong reasons? Tariq Ali Speaks Out on Assange’s Case and US Wars In this Feb. 4 speech at a public event for Julian Assange at the Royal National Hotel in London

Cyrus Cylinder Please enjoy the Following: COACH'S FAVORITE POETRY AND PROSE STICK IT OUT     When your world's about to fall, And your back's against the wall, When you're facing wild retreat and utter rout; When it seems that naught can stop it, All your pleas and plans can't prop it Get a grip on yourself and-- stick it out!   Any craven fool can quit, But a man with pluck and grit Will hold until the very final shout; In the snarling teeth of sorrow He will laugh and say; "Tomorrow The luck will change-- I guess I'll stick it out."   The luck does change; you know it, All the records prove and show it, And the men who win are men who strangled doubt, Who neither hesitate nor swerve, Who have grit and guts and nerve, And whose motto is; play hard and stick it out.   And you think you can't last long, Whenever things go wrong, That you've got to quit not wait the final bout; Smile, smile at your beholders, Clench your teeth and square your sh

As Iran gears towards parliamentary elections, we understand from reports that out of the 280 Members, 240 members have already been chosen based on the efforts by the Guardian Council.   Haaretz reported on the true realities of Iran : The response from the Streets of Tehran was noted below:  The True Parliament is in the Street: As we also went to press with the special edition of Notations, we also caught this courtesy of the team at Haar etz as it noted that it appears that Blue-White continues its' surge as Elections draw near in Israel:  It has also been forty days since the shooting  down of the  Ukraine International Plane  by Iran's Islamic  Revolutionary Guard Corp.  University Students held remembrance ceremonies in Tehran and Regime Functionaries tried to break them up.   We hereby remember them as we leave all with this grid of remembrance released by our Editor: Then, there is Afghanistan.    The incumbent President, Ashraf Ghani, was declared the President after

As a new week dawns, our team just a "bit of a different" way to "break the ice" on this President's Day.    We were out & about in our community as we captured the following images: Please enjoy as we wish all who have President's Day off here in the United States a restful President's Day:

It has been quite a week in Our World-Our Team captured a sense of the deliberative process throughout the Social Grid This Week that we hereby note below:  Our team was also on the road in the Community this week as we captured scenes from our Community visiting the Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos and the Orange County Registrar of Voters as election season is upon us:   At The JFTB-Los Alamitos California State Guard Building 3 Museum  At the Orange County Registrar of Voters in Santa Ana, California

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