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Retired academic from UCLA Anderson Grad School of Management; Outdoor interests: skiing, hiking, fishing, star gazing Indoor interests: Choir singer ,poet for 40 years; song writer, 4 albums on Spotify, perform as Robert Stefans ; Sally's Tower Studios
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usually when something very large falls, ( 911 Towers crash) people at first watch with fascination, then as the fall becomes more serious, they act, seeking escape and shelter. So as we watch the U.S. institutional framework begin to totter, there is no place to escape to or hide from, is there!😗😲

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History facts: Political assassinations of progressive leadership in the last 80 years is 3. JFK, Bobby Kennedy, MLK, and a few others of lesser renown. Political assassinations of conservative leadership is 0. Is this correct? If so, how does this happen? Does it matter?

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Trump Style: Transactional of course. But his world view has always be from a real estate/property point of view. The Greenland Gambit, the Panama Canal Gambit, invasion of Mexico,all are not just fantasies...He likes to drop hints of possible ventures but leaves then vague and amorphous in nature.

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Post disaster think there will be a boom in real estate as properties change hands. New materials, tech and designs to protect against fire and earthquakes will come about. New financing via a local LA redevelopment financing institution will allow citizens to invest their savings in rebuilding LA.

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Post Fire Recovery Fund : Banks + Gov. create the LA Fire Recovery Fund (LAFRF), a mortgage type fund available for rebuilding LA. Local folk offered option move their $$ from CDs savings to this fund to help rebuild and earn better interest rates. LA real estate = good collateral. Community gains

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Hitler's "lebensraum" policy is not dead. With Putin reclaiming Empire in Ukraine, Xi claiming the S. China Sea, Taiwan and some bits of Russian Siberia, and now Trump claiming Greenland, is this a land-grab game among BIG country leaders? Need for scale size claims to be a power? Ego rage?

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Trump wants to keep out all immigrants, including those with higher education and talent. This might be a good thing if it forces talent will to go elsewhere, not US. Thus there is a spreading of talent to other countries, industries and cities and rise to new centers of entrepreneurship. Debate

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2025 is coming up. What is one promise/commitment you are willing to make to change something in your life for the better? Just one thing and a one year commitment! Mine is to lose enough weight so as to reduce the effects of diabetes. Could be up to 30 pounds!

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

OK, So there's Jimmy Carter!....Any other political figure with such integrity and kindness?....

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Dr. Fauci turned 84, RAND warns about the chicken flu spreading to humans and Donald Trump is about to enter the Presidency! Lightning is not supposed to strike the same place twice and history seldom repeats in the exact same way. So what should our bet be when this flu starts to spread in March?

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Any bets on how Syria will turn out 1 year from now?

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Crimea Solution?: Since Crimea is major block to peace, why not make Crimea an independent "city state", become the dynamic "Singapore of Black Sea" region...No claims from Russia or Ukraine for special rights, free port etc. Make it a magnet for investment and Immigration of talent from everywhere

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The Pardon Gambit: Biden power of the pardon. What to do? Been suggested that he pardon Trump. Maybe..what's the gain. what if Biden pardoned some of the January 6 rioters now? For one thing this would steal Trump's thunder and lower Trump pardon' political gains. Angry Dems will forget, move on.

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Re Biden's Pardon: It is hard to understand how Dems can be so concerned about Joe Biden's pardon of his son...When the Trump pardons are compared, there appears to be a double-standard here: Dem's need to always take the moral hi ground, be the goody goody of politics, never go back on a promise!?

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