10/19/2015

Notations On Our World: #Canada Votes.....(With Updated Comments on Results)

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We have been assessing the results out of Canada and this was the immediate results as  we went to press courtesy of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.     It is the general consesus of all Canadian broadcasters that The Liberal Party of Justin Trudeau will form the next Canadian Government.

It is quite stunning how the Liberal Party led by Justin Tredeau has swept Canada and will form the Next Canadian Government denying Stephen Harper a 4th consecutive mandate.    Justin Trudeau has pledged to pull back Canada's involvement in the Anti-Isis coailitoin and recommit to climate change--which will bode ill for the Keystone Cheering Squad in the United States.

It is quite a night for Canada as "Trudeaumania" has swept the entire country.   It began with Atlantic Canada as two Harper Cabinet Ministers went down to defeat and it continued.      This is as The Prime Minister-Elect and his Wife and his young son watched the results:

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It is such a stunner how the NDP's status dissipated in such a dramatic way as it did.    The Guardian just published this on The Canadian Prime Minister elect which is quite a read and available here for reference.    The final two  sentence of the article is telling of his eulogy of his father, former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, as he noted, "...“We knew we were the luckiest kids in the world. And we had done nothing to actually deserve it.“It was instead something that we would have to spend the rest of our lives to work very hard to live up to.”    From our standpoint, it is clear that he has as he works to take on the leadership of Canada.....

(Update:   The New Count for the number of seats by the Liberals is 184.   The win is nationwide as Liberals have made headway in the West--including British Columbia.   Stephen Harper will be resigning as the Leader of the Conservatives, but NDP leader Tom Muclair has decided to stay on despite having presided over a collapse on NDP support...)

Notations On Our World: As The Iran Deal Goes Into Effect......







Today is a milestone for the Iran Deal.   The deal has entered the implementation phase as we noted in our Daily Twitter Curation earlier as President Obama ordered the lifting of sanctions.   The next key milestone is the reporting by the +International Atomic Energy Agency On Iran's compliance.


Although Iran is expecting a tourism Tsunamin, there are travel advisories that are in effect from the UK, The United States, France, Australia and Switerzland on Travels to Iran.  They are cautioning against Travel to the Border areas with Pakistan and Afghanistan.   Afghanistan is especially troublesome as the resurrent Taliban has begun a concerted campaign to take back cities. 




The United Kingdom has also not limited its' travel advisories to Iran as outlined above.   There is of course Turkey as it continues to Battle the PKK and deal with the Syrian Refugees as noted in this map below:


قسمت ایرات سایت وزارت امور خارجه استرالیا به شهروندانش توصیه می کند که به مرز ایران با افغانستان، پاکستان و عراق در هیچ صورت سفر نکنند و و برای سفر به باقی مناطق ایران تجدیدنظر کنند.


This was the latest From Australia as it noted that even Istanbul and Anakara may be subject to attack and the advisory has been to avoid the red areas and use extreme caution when traveling in the Orange areas:
 


It is ever so challenging as the Middle East burns.

10/18/2015

Notations on Our World (W-End Special Edition): On Our World & A Prayer For Peace

Our team has been on the "Social Grid" doing the Daily Twitter Curation on the watch hashtags.  We have been especially horrified at the reports out of Israel.  on the continued attacks and the newest reports on rape from India.  This as we have continued to assess the aftermath of the disturbing remarks by Indian Politicans on the subject of Beef--and how in Kashmir a truck driver was killed on Beef rumors.    This is as the Syrian Inferno continues to burn ever more based on the latest reports on deaths.

We have also been on the prowl on the situation in Afghanistan and have been assessing the State of the US Elections especially as Hillary Rodham Clinton is gearing up for her testimony before the Benghazi Committee.   The exchange between two members of the Committee on NBC's Meet The Press was interesting in that the Republican and Democratic Member talked past each other as the paralysis in Washington as the GOP is yet to be able to agree on a Speaker.    The +Haaretz הארץ 's  Chami Shalev  underscored the predicament ever so eloqently:

Barack Obama needs an Israeli-Palestinian flare-up like a hole in the head. Trapped in Afghanistan, mired in Syria, stumped by Putin, confounded by Iran, worried about Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and what not, the last thing the U.S. president needs right now is a war over the Temple Mount 
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As our team launches the new week here in #Outsiders and continue on-going work on Daily Outsider 2.x,  this compilation of thoughts from +Jonathan Huie underscores our wish and what we hope the #Outsider platform will hope to underscore in our on-going developement as we hope to do our part to live up to such admonitions: 

 
 
The Christian gospel is a summons to peace,
calling for justice beyond anger,
mercy beyond justice,
forgiveness beyond mercy,
love beyond forgiveness.
- Wendell Berry 

It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt