For a historical perspective see this link; Roe vs. Wade brief discussion and decision: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/70-18 –

Roe leans heavily on the “Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment” which provides for “a fundamental right to privacy” that ostensibly protects a pregnant woman’s choice whether to have an abortion. However, this right has to be balanced against the government’s interests in protecting women’s health and protecting “the potentiality of human life.” Interestingly the liberal extremists do not believe in privacy concerning “vaccine status”, which is a shameful breach of HIPAA law too.

With respect to the Constitution, rights not explicitly delegated to the federal government are supposed to revert to our states individually (States’ Rights). “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

With that in mind, it makes sense to strike down Roe vs. Wade, and let each state decide on its own how to proceed. In some cases, new state laws will be more lenient than current federal law, and in other cases it will be stricter. There are many variations in how these laws can be codified, which tends to correspond to the majority will (voters) in each state.
Among issues to be legislated and decided at the state level are: the age of the fetus; whether incest or rape are at issue; issues concerning the health of the fetus and its viability.

On one extreme side people believe there should never be any abortions in any cases, and on the other extreme they believe in even “partial birth abortion.” The best choice is a matter of personal perspective and opinion in this dilemma, best left to each state to decide on its own, in this author’s opinion.

Some people believe in Roe vs. Wade (federal government control); assuming they have read and understand it, and related laws, and the Constitution. Irrespective of whether the federal government should be involved, it is still a double-edged sword, because if the other side takes power in Washington they could outlaw abortion entirely in the United States, claiming the Constitution expresses a right to human life, and that life begins once a heartbeat in a fetus can be detected.

The extremists (currently, shamefully protesting in front of Supreme Court justice’s homes) who claim abortion will not be available at all are incorrect. One could always go to another state if their state restricts it. Or move to state’s that lean more towards their political philosophies in the first place. One lady was complaining on TV that she was being forced to take a day off work; in such an extreme situation, that is hardly a burden, and should not be considered a material argument in this solemn matter. Another lady, in a video linked below, said people shouldn’t be forced to have babies they don’t want. This shows a disregard for human life, and is a false narrative, because she could practice abstinence, use birth control, have an abortion legally in her state, or go to one of the other dozens of states that provide safe abortion services. Nobody is being forced to have babies in the United States.

https://www.facebook.com/WashingtonExaminer/videos/492793902584176 Listen to the details how sick these people are, who are harassing one of the country’s top appointed judges.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10794731/Im-killing-babies-Pro-choice-protester-screams-dangles-doll-outside-NYC-churches.html

Janet Yellen is massively incompetent in her job, including very disgracefully claiming that more abortions are good for the economy. Another woke extremist commie puppet of the administration, driving the nation in the ground. How horrific.

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-Sense of urgency makes your team more efficient and competitive every day irrespective of whether there really is an emergency.

-Everyone should be on a team that communicates according to plans. No orphans working solo or practically isolated who are not following proper communications protocol.

-Measuring services offered on modern dynamic web, blog and social sites, with extensive content and apps; with A/B testing, R&D, trial and error, using a “quick success/fail” methodology.

-Creating explicit business/charity plans

-Tailored presentations for prospects, partners, and investors; along with comprehensive, up to date, completed web sites, social sites, and apps.

-Focus on a greater volume of leads each day, and a higher closing percentage each day at the same time, using highly tuned presentations, leveraging sales and marketing best practices.

-Having every person and task and hour fit in with this plan, and their explicit brand’s business plan and budget; each as specific measurable profit centers; to be trained, delegated, documented and measured accordingly, with a clear hierarchy, in a uniform manner, forever. No orphans, of web sites, staff, to do items, accountability, blogs, apps, domains. etc. Yes to teams crossing among departments and brands when needed, always working together on same long term business plan with clear communications and commitment to evolution.

-Discovering additional leadership to create, follow, share, and delegate all plans, documents and other content closely; always benefitting from the best of Accountability, Communications & Leadership (ACL).

-To go viral (grow your corporation or charity quickly) you need followers, believers, cheerleaders. Just a few can start the whole chain, but they are hard to attract. Behaviors need to be molded over time with powerful truthful messaging in a variety of marketing media outlets and formats. Use Case Studies.

http://MakeMillions.com/

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Short Bitcoin. I could be wrong but I am an expert on digital assets and investing. BTC is not a currency and will likely never become one; it is less stable and more inflationary that the worst third world government backed currency; it is merely a decentralized freeware cloud app (like Venmo?), that helps people wire money anonymously via credits (that are equal to dollars at any moment, but fluctuate dramatically by the minute in the opaque market of scammers).

The current “share” price is based on the narrative that it will become legal tender in the future, and replace the dollar to some degree; but right now, there is no evidence whatsoever. Due to the dramatic people hyping it and the pace of its rise, I think the opposite.

In fact, the world’s biggest proponents won’t accept it as payment; you cannot buy a Tesla with Bitcoin, which makes sense because they don’t want to be arrested for money laundering, nor does anyone else. And they don’t want to be caught holding the ball when it drops. Stripe and others used to accept it and settle it, but they stopped; in other words, it has become less liquid as it has been hyped upwards.

You have to assume that Bitcoin holders will get disproportionately audited also, and any misdeeds uncovered, further tainting the hackable app that has no leadership, and has a hundred governments and banks capable of offering a more competitive service quickly, that will pass government scrutiny and gain broader global public acceptance, endlessly diluting BTC’s theoretical value; because those new apps are not being used by criminals and are backed by permanent safe brands and governments.

Usually, the first mover doesn’t make it; ever heard of MySpace, Netscape, Palm, Betamax?

The Bitcoin growth narrative is riding an enormous wave of hype, called “irrational exuberance” in financial markets, like we have seen dozens of times with other random assets in the economy (gTLDs, tulips, Enron, gold), similar to a game on Wall Street (like GameStop?), but with a lot of cool and unique features in the app; which does not make it a currency. Ask The Fed.

Also keep in mind “Past performance is no indicator of future results” for any asset, especially those that have risen precipitously.

We know how financial games end, when they become rationalized.

People are lining up to use Bitcoin and to “invest” in it. But can you actually safely invest in something without stock, a board of directors, a business plan, an accountant, a lawyer, and government oversight?

The current spot price to get credits is based on the idea that those credits will become even more usable, liquid, and valuable, and gain broad acceptance as a reserve currency, presumably due to first mover advantage; but there are no sustainable advantages other than a powerful brand, great code and ideas, waiting to leap to the high level its “investors” are fantasizing about. If a bitcoin loses value you can’t do anything with it, including wire it. However, great domain names can be used to bring in customers forever, and generally go up in value every year. Gold can be used for jewelry and sold in the gold market.

Is BTC usage just a realm for international thieves, and therefore will be done growing as an investment once they are done climbing on board, and everyone safe is off?

Invest safely unless you think you have “mad money” and don’t mind taking the risk of it disappearing. If BTC actually does become a legitimate government backed phenomenon in the future I would reconsider, but that is highly unlikely in the foreseeable future.

Also, if Amazon and the other tech oligarchs did accept it as payment, that would be equivalent to a government and would create massive liquidity and upticks, but it will still have the other problems to contend with; the big boys accepting it is a fantasy at the moment.

Good luck in your adventures. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.

2017

“Could be a bubble ….similar to tech bubble from 90s. Totally irrational. Goes through development process. Will be around in 10 years, and more useful but who knows what the price will be.” Nick Colas/ Datatrek

“problem with cryptocurrencies is they’re not currencies..no demand, cant pay taxes”

Paul Donovan UBS

“If you have no electricity and you have no wifi you have no currency” -Dwane

“Scam for criminals around the world; has no credibility” -Neil Dwane/Allianz

“The only value of bitcoin is what the other guy will pay for it” -Dimon

“Don’t care how trades, if stupid enough to buy it you will pay price one day.” Dimon

“Could trade at $100K before it goes to Zero” Dimon

“Tulip bulbs once traded for $75,000.” -Jamie Dimon/MS

“Bitcoin is an index for money laundering” -Larry Fink

Other bitcoin notes:

April 18, 2022

Bitcoin is slipping a little recently; and much lower than its highest point; but criminals can still launder mega-millions with it as long as it maintains some stability. However, that will eventually lapse as confused speculators learn more about the history of economics; and simultaneously many people are prosecuted for tax evasion and other crimes with it; which will create significant bad press, and all groups running for the exit at once. The price has no basis in reality; will eventually revert to its fundamental value of almost nothing; a collectors’ item. No math, no proforma, no leadership, no backing. All hype and racketeering and confusion. Get out while you can.

March 2, 2022

Bitcoin is a way of wiring money anonymously when there are no good traditional options, mostly illegally; it makes no sense to leave the money in the wire; which has no intrinsic value unless you convert it to cash; however, it is possible people could believe it has value for a long time, and be fooled in to keeping the price propped up accordingly; keeping in mind that no good alternatives have been created by any government banks. Most likely it will just crash though. Short.

April 12 2022

The entire price rise and support of Bitcoin is because it is unregulated and anonymous; therefore, insider owners of it (including media people who own it) made up crazy stories, causing ever more speculators or mistaken believers to keep propping it up higher. Won’t last. No fundamental value.

Jan 10, 2022

Bitcoin has always just been a huge unregulated fraud and ponzi scheme. The tech is OK, but obsolete and irrelevant. It’s a sad commentary that Bloomberg and other reporters (and real investors/gross profiteers); plus Musk, Saylor, Wood, Draper, own(ed) some, and lie about it incessantly with no consequences. Sell it all before you lose it all.

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Today the most powerful method to expand is leveraging Internet technologies, namely social media. Of course, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and others have a lot of low-cost potential viral activity at hand for you; and they are pretty easy to use. TikTok is associated with Chinese Communism/spying; so, although it may be a powerful viral medium in many respects, we would still not recommend it for anyone. And frankly Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are associated with left wing extremist activism; they have defrauded hundreds of millions of users by hiding truthful news and information postings and highlighting harmful and fake ones. They ultimately even changed the results of the presidential and other elections in a fraudulent manner, which has had devastating consequences to the economy, and has indirectly caused a huge crime wave. (This author would never consider voting for either of the main candidates due to their extensive histories of criminal, dumb, selfish and negative activities. Regardless, the people had the right to study the unaltered truth in advance.) Those companies are private so technically they have the right to edit the news on their sites and to highlight or suppress what they want; but it is actually illegal fraud because they lied to the public and government by pretending everyone was being treated equally and fairly, which is definitely not the case. Regardless, of all this, if you want to go viral you will still need to use those apps and try to overcome their biased algorithms and employees to make sure your messages are heard.

But we digress, back to the main point of the article…………….

Here are some of the best ideas to build teams in order to better accomplish your goals. We will discuss more about building followers later in this article. All of these ideas taken together and built upon is your path to success in spreading your important messages broadly, whatever they happen to be.

The right people must be involved. Define their roles in advance. Recruit competent team members. A team shares responsibility. Your team should have a unified commitment and each member should be empowered to contribute their unique skills and experience. Use the advantages of having a diversity of backgrounds and ideas on your team.

A team needs a strong focused leader to guide and coalesce the group. She should be qualified and principled. She should set a good example and encourage constructive feedback. A leader listening to team members, taking them seriously, and responding appropriately is as important as talking to and delegating to them. There is always lots more to learn, and apply to your mission, for everyone.

As the team leader, make sure you have a vision of the ‘big picture’ and have communicated it through the team; and they take individual ‘ownership’ for their role, plus mutual ownership for group goals. In this respect people should be accountable individually and collectively.

Identify, agree and plan for the right resources to achieve your goals, including whatever external support or consultants will be necessary. Set ground rules and expectations that are understood by all involved. The recommended actions and deadlines must be practical and appropriate. Manage team priorities. Manage time and energy.

Create a collaborative climate with mutual respect. Be open and truthful within the entire group. The foundation of any lasting relationship is trust. Express your feelings. Respect the ideas being presented, and your team members as individuals. But, be decisive and efficient; don’t waste valuable team resources, time and energy. Set up your team for success; to get the required results relatively quickly. ‘Results driven.’

Clear, effective communication is the most important part of teamwork. Build relationships. Understand others on your team. Create a culture that encourages feedback. Always keep your team fully informed of updated project goals. Hold regular 1-on-1 sessions with each team member. Motivate with positivity not negativity. Use feedback as a positive path towards further improvement.

Teamwork is non-competitive; a quest to make meaning. Teamwork is not a debate; it has no winners and losers. Be adaptable. Lead your team through change. ‘Change management.‘  Address and fix conflict.

Try to avoid information hoarding, ‘organizational silos’, or internal competitiveness.

Provide needed support for the requests of other team members. Look for ways to reward good work and offer recognition.

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Leveraging top Google rankings and high click through rates for your own website, by doing extensive “search engine optimization” (SEO), is just as important as social media utilizing the sites of those leaders. (Mann coincidentally owns the SEO.com consulting corporation with top SEO experts).

Your best bet is to hire experts to constantly help you improve your own in-house efforts, and learn together how to maximize your SEO opportunities, studying data and other results based on all your attempts.

In general, here are some of the basic top tips from experts:

Buy a great .com domain name. (Mann coincidentally owns a top domain selling corporation called DomainMarket.com)

Use a good web host.

Conduct thorough keyword research.

Create a logical site structure.

Use a logical URL structure.

Leverage ‘metadata’.

Have a link-worthy site. Get quality backlinks.

Use alt tags.

Optimize for on-page SEO.

Optimize for off-page SEO.

Optimize the website for mobile.

Speed up the pages.

Analyze all of your website data and adjust according to expert advice.

Install good SEO plugins.

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Some of the top apps to leverage for better Google results include:

Rank Math Plugin.

Yoast SEO Plugin

Google Trends

Ahrefs Keyword Generator

Ubersuggest

Google Search Console

Bing Webmaster Tools

Google Analytics

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Social media best practices:

Lots of followers and views on social media can lead to increased reach, engagement, and exposure for your messaging.

Plan to put in the time and energy necessary to do it all right; your mission and message are important to the world. So, create successful campaigns and a positive user experience by studying and practicing the ideas below, and doing your best.

Start by creating and optimizing your profile (Search Google for tips and examples). Include a professional catchy bio. Your profile page is like your business card to introduce yourself to the digital world.

Try to understand your audience and know what they want to see. Study their pages and popular ones they follow for insight. Stay up-to-date on overall social media trends.

Follow other social media users and stars with similar interests; as many as possible. Participate in conversations on other pages. Respond to comments on your own page.

Work with top social media ‘influencers’ and bloggers in your space. Reach out to them; cooperate with them; learn from them; and hire them when appropriate to create content or offer consulting advice, to help you out with your mission.    

Write engaging, shareable captions on trending topics. Then publish extensive relevant, outstanding, interesting, authoritative content. “Visuals are high-performers on social media, so be sure to include an eye-catching, colorful image or graphic with each post.”

Make it collaborative when possible; for example, with questions and surveys and the likes. Tell stories when appropriate. Don’t be afraid to show your unique personality. Get the conversation started one way or another, and keep it moving with yourself at the center of the action. Keep your audience constantly engaged; interact with them personally.

Benefit from the content of your most successful ‘competitors’. Reshare their content if it’s great, or create similar on your own. Make sure your content shareable by using the right settings.

Post beautiful, interesting photos. Follow photography and editing best practices. Utilize branded graphics, product photos and infographics when appropriate.

“Video is the most engaging content type on every social media platform, so if you can, it’s a good idea to create at least some form of video content to maximize engagement.” “Be sure to upload your video directly to your platform of choice, rather than posting a link to an outside website (like YouTube). This way, your video will autoplay as people land on it while scrolling through their feeds, grabbing more attention.”

Use hashtags; there are thousands of choices for each post; find ones that are relevant to your audience and your specific content to perfect your strategy. Use popular apps to help with hashtags, and to get more followers.

Promote your social media accounts in real life by showcasing them everywhere.

Stats:

The optimal volume is one post per day or it is possible your post will be buried in the social media feeds. The best time to post is between 1pm – 3pm during the week and Saturdays. Other studies expand the window from 9 am–3 pm. The best day to post on Facebook is Wednesday, apparently between 11am – 1pm.

“Not only do photo posts get more engagement than links, videos, or text-based updates, they actually account for 93% of the most engaging posts on Facebook. According to Kissmetrics, photos get 53% more likes, 104% more comments and 84% more click-throughs on links than text-based posts.”

“Statistics show that social media posts containing video get nearly 50% more views than non-video posts, and video posts on Facebook see roughly 65% more engagement than posts without video”.

“Content with relevant images rack up 94% more views than content without images.”

Compared to other types of content, “visual content is more than 40x more likely to get shared on social media.”

“Photos showing faces get 38% more likes than photos without faces.”

Best of luck to you in growing your audience and spreading your message as widely as possible.

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One of the principal objects of Fearless Leaders is to encourage others to undertake a life of meaningful charitable activities, and bring even more associates along with them. Charity is about easing human suffering; of other people who are ultimately not much different than you and your own family; since all people are fundamentally the same and deserve the same opportunities of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is not the case that you are responsible for the suffering of others. And you have no obligation whatsoever to serve others. And moreover, you have nothing to feel bad about or guilty about. Those are not the issues. The core issue is that you can make yourself feel better and actually be better by leveraging your opportunities and skills to serve, and to encourage and assist others in doing the same. If you serve, how you serve, who you serve, and how it changes and evolves over time is entirely a personal experience for you. We hope to be a small catalyst in moving you more in the right direction. You could even avoid it and skip it if you feel that is necessary, but that is contrary to our goals at Fearless Leaders. So, we will try our best encourage everyone to serve society for good reason; to ease the obvious pains we can see in our own communities and throughout the world, for the millions of sick and poor that need some help. Outside of serving your own family we can not identify anything more meaningful than a commitment to charitable works.

Charity has a variety of meanings to different people but the best description is an organization or activity that helps and supports people who are sick or poor; the sicker or poorer they are ostensibly the more they need assistance. There are plenty of other types nonprofit organizations that help people in a variety of ways, and provide tax benefits, like for the arts and for religious purposes. As good and useful as those usually are they are still not really charity by our definition.

Each person has a unique perspective on what charity means to themselves and the world. We will touch on some popular narratives and then focus on what we feel are the best courses of action to help the most people in need and make the world a better place.

Perspectives on charity include:

-I don’t think about it or care about it at all; or have anything to offer anyone.

-I am too busy and poor to deal with it regardless of its benefit.

-My taxes are too high and they should support sick and poor people instead of me personally.

-I give through my religious affiliations, not other outside groups.

-I help homeless and sick people I meet in the streets with money and food.

-I just do it when there is something in it for me or my business, like good press, socializing with certain people, or attending charity events.

-I try to donate what little time and money I have to support select causes.

-I sacrifice to donate a good portion of my time and money to support select causes.

-My life is dedicated to charitable works and donations, and I feel satisfaction sacrificing for others who are less fortunate.

If you are a loving caring individual or want to be, you should be concerned about charitable works and what you can do to assist; which includes convincing others at your business or in your life to help out too. Training future leaders to serve charity directly or indirectly is one of the primary purposes of our Fearless Leaders organization.

Under Section501(c)(3) of the IRS code there are different kinds of organizations that can qualify as a charitable organization.

-Private family foundations.

-Publicly supported entities (financed by donors).

-Charities supported by gifts, dues and fees.

-Supporting charitable organizations (that assists other charities).

There are several ways to fund your favorite charities:

-Donating cash is the easiest and most common way; and if you are a social entrepreneur, you can tie that in to your business success and programs conceptually. [See Mann’s book Make Millions and Make Change (www.MakeMillions.com; free download and viewing) for more information about social entrepreneurism.]

-Donating valuable assets including stocks, bonds, mutual funds and other regulated securities; plus, automobiles, real estate, art, etc.

-Planned giving and charitable trusts.

-Volunteering your time to help organizations thrive is just as important as financial support.

We encourage you to research charitable organizations in your area and around the world, speak with other interested parties, and start planning and executing your own life of service.

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Communist Chinese have massively infiltrated our culture and economy and intend to usurp it.

There is no world where Xi, Putin, Kim, Taliban, ISIS, or the Iranian regime/Hezbollah (or Hamas) are acceptable political participants, or protectors of civil rights. Our only positive relations should be helping transition their countries and people to fair democracies. There is no reason to conduct business with them or speak to them; just to defend ourselves and help their people, for charitable purposes.

Billionaires, big companies and the most famous politicians are still selling out the US to China. Eventually they will control everything together and make us like Commie low lifes, unless people effectively fight back

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3461869-fbi-chief-says-espionage-threat-posed-by-china-unprecedented-in-history/

90 year old religious leader arrested for helping democracy take root https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251201/report-former-hong-kong-bishop-cardinal-zen-arrested

US leaders have longstanding dangerous relationships with China, and therefore their military and other strategic interests, explicitly against the interests of the United States. Google and read about China’s relations with:

Mitch McConnell

Dianne Feinstein

Nancy Pelosi

Biden Family

Henry Kissinger

Patton Boggs

Larry Fink (BlackRock)

Steven Schwarzman (Blackstone)

Ray Dalio

Goldman Sachs

Henry “Hank” Paulson

Bill Gates

Mark Zuckerberg

Google

Jack Dorsey

Akin Gump, Jones Day, Hogan & Hartson, Perkins Coie

WPP affiliated firms —Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates, Hill & Knowlton, Inc., Burson-Marsteller, BKSH & Associates

Garvey Schubert Barer

Public Policy Impact Strategies

“Gates was hailed as “the Chinese people’s old friend” by the ruling Chinese Communist Party in 2018, a title that the Party occasionally uses for foreigners it recognizes as having a deep friendship with.”

The above is further proof of a one party system in the US; each are equally on the take liars. For example, there is hardly a difference in practices, votes, and rackets between Democrat leader Pelosi and Republican leader McConnell.

As Lenin said: “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”

We know China spread the world’s worst virus to us, and like always they lie and bully and bribe, to create a false narrative, with everything, including the origin and spread of this virus. In this case they spent a huge amount of energy and PR placing the origin as poor people at a market, eating bats and rats (when they weren’t blaming it on the US military and others); while completely shutting down any talk of it coming from their lab, or allowing any facts or truthful accounts to come from the lab or it’s scientists. Any Chinese people who tried to speak out with truthful accounts were jailed or disappeared, like in all cases of dissent in evil Communist China.

And we know China did a completely phony review with The World Health lying Organization (W.H.O.) which they secretly control. So, the only logical conclusion is that the virus did in fact originate in a Chinese Communist lab and not the ‘wet market’. Anyone who trusts or believes the Chinese Communist Party about anything is a fool. (Seemingly endless US politicians and billionaires take their money and lie with them about a broad variety of topics. Make sure you read Red Handed by Peter Schweizer.)

China is buying prominent US institutions and their people quickly; and so, the deal is the Americans on the dole can never say anything bad about China (“They’re good folks, folks.” -Biden, who took millions.) So, we become obedient Commies, ruining our own country, piece by piece. Given the disgraceful dangerous suppression of the important truth (that social media and fake news helps), it behooves us to speak out ten times stronger and louder with the real facts; and get your friends and media involved; save your kids and country before it’s too late.

It’s absurd and horrific all the corporations, people, and governments who turn their backs on the evil human rights abuses of China in order to make a profit. Get a grip. Take a back seat to the good loving people of Earth.

The US economy was incredibly vibrant before China brought on the virus, and then liberals encouraged arsoning and looting.

There is extensive factual evidence connecting Hunter and James Biden, and therefore Joe, to massive treason, by taking millions of dollars from Communist China and others; it is absolutely horrific, and just as bad to have the US media and social media always burying the truth, and promoting unrelated falsehoods. If you are not upset and fighting back, check yourself and your education. Protect your family and country.

https://www.ascf.us/news/redhanded-23-former-us-senators-and-congressmen-who-lobby-for-chinese-military-or-chinese-intelligencelinked-companies/

“Rounding out his book, Schweizer concludes Red Handed by proffering several much-needed suggestions for lawmakers to consider. These include passing laws on the following:

Banning lobbying on behalf of Chinese military- and intelligence-linked companies;

Banning Chinese military- and intelligence-linked companies from appearing on the American stock exchanges; and

Banning joint research by American universities, investors, and corporations with Chinese military and intelligence projects.

Schweizer also provides some much-needed solutions for corporate America and the media to consider:

Journalists need to openly ask questions about links to China;

Media companies need to insist on truth and transparency when it comes to their experts;

Wall Street firms need to consistently apply Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards to Chinese companies (*cough* Larry Fink); and Use shareholder activism to hold corporate executives to account.”

China bans Spiderman movie because the producers are unwilling to delete the Statue of Liberty.

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“When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.”

“In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.”

“Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy’s army without battle … . They conquer by strategy.”

“Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.”

“In war, numbers alone confer no advantage.”

“To … not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.”

“What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.”

“The general must be first in the toils and fatigues of the army. In the heat of summer he does not spread his parasol, nor in the cold of winter don thick clothing … . He waits until the army’s wells have been dug and only then drinks; until the army’s food is cooked before he eats; until the army’s fortifications have been completed, to shelter himself.”

“A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results.”

“If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy’s position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy’s position weak.”

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When you start a new business or charitable venture, or have another broad goal, maintaining your contacts is one of the first and most important things you absolutely must do thoroughly, correctly, and perpetually—and it is probably one of the easiest and least expensive projects ahead of you relative to the value it will bring. Thankfully, the days of awkward and overpriced contact management software have come to an end.

It is surprising to see that a large portion of the business and charity community takes no interest in proper contact management, since technology makes it so easy to keep your information in systems such as SalesForce.com, SugarCRM, Zoho, and HubSpot, among other smaller competitors.

Systems like these can store all of your contact names, addresses, and phone numbers, while integrating the data with your business calendar, phone services, PDA, Word documents, fax software, e-mail, web links, and an extensive variety of apps and data.

In your contact manager, you should import, key-in, save, and update detailed information on all possible leads or contacts including calendar items, dated notes, callback dates, their current service providers, their industries, quality rankings, size rankings, income rankings, links to press accounts and industry reports, and even their birthdays, partners’ names, and kids’ names.

With this consolidated data set, you can easily query the contact records when required, and pull up only the records that meet your select criteria, such as everyone who has a birthday this month, or every client organization with more than one million dollars of annual revenue, or every person with whom you went to college.

You must assertively build your data set year after year with all potentially relevant sales, charity or commerce contacts, and ensure your follow-ups are well-timed and organized, so you can contact just the right people at just the right times to create the most long term cash flow.

If you have organized your contact management system properly, then having huge amounts of data will not be clutter; instead, it will be power at your fingertips.

The key is to have as much data as possible about each lead stored in the right fields, and to make sure every lead has a calendar date for when they are to be reviewed or contacted again. If you have determined they are a critical lead and a likely deal, then the calendar date is tomorrow. If you decide the lead is unlikely to ever close, then you can make it five years from now or delete it. In each case, your data set will be clean and meet a logical, simple business flow.

The most important source of data for you to gather and input is your personal network of contacts (often uploaded from your social media contact lists) which includes the people you have met or solicited within your immediate business community. But this is a relatively low volume of contacts to work with compared to the broader community of those who you have yet to meet.

Vast additional raw data to upload and cull through are sold in electronic form and can be easily imported to your contact management system (generally comma-delimited ASCII text files are the easiest to move around). Try data sources like Adapt.io, Hunter.io, Clearbit, Snov.io, D&B Hoovers, YP.com, Sales.com, and others.

One of your first tasks as a prospective business owner is to do your research for the best sources of information in your chosen industry, for your specific plan, while taking in to account your target service area. Also, ask any of your colleagues or friends who might have insight into your industry and get referrals to additional data sources.

Decide what geographical area you want to market in (your target geographical market), and what types of customers, partners or donors you are trying to attract (your target consumer), and then make sure you have all the available data on every one of them.

From there, the data has to be heavily manipulated in order to allow you to extract the most pertinent information at just the right time. Again, a hard follow-up calendar date and complete data for each record are keys to your sales and marketing success, allowing you to efficiently generate good leads (leadgen) and scale your volume.

The contact management system is not just for sales. It includes sections with employees and your personal friends if you want, along with sections for vendors and competitors, among any other data you choose to add.

For security purposes, these programs easily allow any group, individual record, or part of a record to become private by its creator.

For one source of data, you can get electronic versions of the “yellow pages” (YP.com) and similar directories covering your target geographic markets, and then upload records from select zip codes and industries that you want to work within.

You can then see what information is available on the Internet about each company or person, and you can purchase filtered lists, cleaned of extraneous data, to merge with all your original data. The web social network, LinkedIn, is a fantastic source for potential sales prospects and related information.

Often, Chambers of Commerce and government commerce agencies have extensive lists of business information available electronically. You need to get all of the data you can from all relevant sources and filter through the information repeatedly.

Ultimately, you will be able to personalize large volumes of e-mail, faxes, form mails, presentations, brochures, phone calls, etc. all while efficiently scheduling, documenting, and sharing large amounts of data. You will be able to communicate a multitude of tailored messages better, faster, and easier than your competitors.

The bottom line is that if you don’t optimize your contact management, you will be in the same marginal class as all the folks who are not at the top of their respective business categories. Assertive contact management cannot be overlooked since this process involves inexpensive leads that should result in large returns.

One good example of the power of contact management relates to keeping track of your competitors. If you maintain a field in your contact manager program called “current service provider” (denoting the competitor of yours who your prospect is currently giving their money to), and you have been updating this field across thousands of sales prospects for years, you can target your competitors for extinction one at a time as they expose their own shortcomings.

You can instantly identify all of the potential customers in your database who work with any given competitor, as long as you have marked them over time in the ordinary course of business and in the correct field in your contact management system.

If you know of a particular weakness of a competitor at any set time, you can exploit it by instantly identifying and contacting his customers with a targeted sales promotion, which may allow you to take away those customers. Again, all this works in charity too and for any other purposes you may need.

The most important—and time-consuming—part of contact management is cleaning out the raw data files. Right from the start, you should focus on filling in the field that lists the proper person who will be in the position to purchase your product or donate to your charity, and that is within your predetermined market niche or geography, even if that’s the whole world. So, to the extent you lack this information, you or an associate need to call each of your target businesses, e-mail them, “Google” them, or go visit them in an attempt to uncover the data.

In addition, you should search each organization’s website to collect further information. You should be able to copy and paste the most relevant information off the websites to the notes field in the contact manager; or use apps that ‘scrape’ and organize web data for you. On the web, you can find articles that include information on your prospects, too. In Google, for example, you would enter +“Acme Corporation” +president +email to uncover the e-mail address and name of the president of your target prospect from a press release, a conference he attended, or even his own website or blog.

Alternatively, you can try to find the common syntax used at their company with other employees by discovering their domain and typing into Google “@acmecorporation.com”, including the quote marks. This might find the record for Mary Jones to be mjones@acmecorporation.com, and Tom Williams to be twilliams@acmecorporation.com, so then if you know the president is John Smith you can assume he utilizes the same syntax in his e-mail and try to contact him at jsmith@acmecorporation.com. If that doesn’t work, don’t give up: try js@acmecorporation.com, john@acmecorporation.com, and so on. Or call the secretary and pretend you know something and are important, and ask for the president of the company or his e-mail address. In any event, persistence truly pays. (Again, there are many apps and services that can help you automate this pursuit if necessary.)

Bingo! You just bypassed a bunch of bureaucracy and got to the boss. Even though you may ultimately be ignored or rejected, statistically speaking, it’s another “notch on your belt,” and having it over with means you will be one step closer to the ones who won’t ignore you. The faster you get through all the “no’s” the sooner you get to the “yeses”.

As you continuously collect additional information on your prospects, you will find that you are able to understand them better. As a result, you will be capable of offering solutions that are ever more tailored to their specific needs, while relating to them in ways that you could not have predicted without that research.

Moreover, you can easily share leads, information, and notes with your own team and your business partners if you have a reliable CRM with trained users and tight security policies.

Most notably, you will realize that you have common associates from the business community who can potentially provide you with a pyramid of referrals, thereby hastening opening and closing deals.

Understanding the targets will help you focus your service offerings and sales approach to increase the percentage of deals you close. In turn, this will save you time and make you more money—yet again. Whatever you can do to reach an ever-expanding number of prospects will provide you with exponential financial benefit.

Keep in mind that you can’t waste time on prospects if there is a low likelihood of closing. You need to get as many relevant prospects as possible in your contact management system and sort through them by natural selection. That means you will be left with a bunch of unqualified records—a low percentage of the total but a large number nonetheless—which can be kept in the database and calendar with a callback or review date far in the future. These records should not represent any problems; instead, they will only represent potential opportunity as the best prospects naturally rise to the top of the calendar.

As you sift through and re-sort large numbers of prospects, you will be left with many unsuccessful attempts in order to get to the successful closes. The goal is to constantly expand your deal closing success rate while simultaneously increasing the daily number of new prospects being reviewed. The review itself should be as automated as possible and delegated to lower-level co-workers when possible. This saves you precious deal-closing time for good quality prospects.

Use Data Wisely

In every line of business and charity, you can leverage data to extract extra value. In fact, data manipulation could possibly become one of your most fundamental business processes.

For example, if you were to become a real estate investor, you could study market trends with help from computer database queries. When you have collected all available data on the properties sold in your target region, you could easily import that information into a variety of databases, and then merge it with the standard Multiple Listing Service (MLS) data set, which is the most fundamental and up-to-date data that real estate brokers and agents rely on to conduct commerce.

Next, you could assign various field names (like neighborhood, average income, growth rate of community, recent sale prices in neighborhood, school quality, distance to subway, highway and shopping, and so forth) to classifications of data and thereby effectively store and manage the characteristics of each record.

Then you can browse and run queries on the data to start discovering market trends and inefficiencies that haven’t been fully exploited by your entrenched competitors. If you’ve discovered statistical anomalies in your market that others have overlooked, or failed to leverage appropriately, your business will have an advantage to exploit these opportunities.

It could be of benefit if the category of data you require doesn’t exist currently in the marketplace. You could have an extra strategic advantage by developing and controlling the data set and being a “first mover” in the market niche that you have been studying. If the data already exists where you can easily find areas of low hanging fruit to exploit, you need to start using it in a faster, more effective way than the competition.

Understanding information about your clients and prospective clients is critical. So document and study the data on their spending habits, demographic and business information, subjective notes, and so on over a long period to gain valuable insight and act accordingly.

Keeping in mind how essential data is to your business, the ways that you store data are equally important. Nowadays, a filing cabinet will not suffice for all your documents since most of them are probably electronic, or will be as technologies develop.

You’ll need a very simple, flexible, and scalable system with secure access for your authorized staff. If possible, you should try to have all documents stored electronically and make sure new documents and data are “backed up” daily in a separate, secure location.

It’s important that you can instantly find all of the documents that you use to manage your business which includes any contracts and Best Practices documents. Furthermore, your paper and electronic documents should all be named in the same type of syntax or manner, and possibly alphanumerically coded if you produce a particularly high volume.

Giving your documents long names with applicable keywords will likely make them easier to find when sought on-line or in print. Cryptic document naming would make it hard to find what you are seeking. Thus, naming should be done using plain words. Likewise, subject lines in e-mails and memos should include the topic and project at issue, so your system is organized and information is easy to store, sort, and find for future use.

Another effective medium of distributing documentation is through Adobe PDF where you can practically create an exact copy of any document, fax, graphic representation, and the like. This can then be easily e-mailed around and printed in its original form.

Telecommunications technologies incorporating Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) into a virtual office, which stores all of your messages and other telecom related information, may be helpful.

Yet another important strategy in gathering data is to keep notepads and small digital recorders handy in your car, bedroom, or anywhere else you may be so you can document any ideas, Best Practices, or to-do items that you think of when you are not near your computer.

You should keep all of your ideas and information documented and at hand for further review. At the fast pace you will be working, you can’t attempt to memorize everything that crosses your plate. So find a way to get it in text, audio, video, database, CRM, and so forth before it slips your mind.

See more sales and marketing advice at Mann’s book’s web site MakeMillions.com https://makemillions.com/the-book/militant-sales-and-marketing/

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Jan 3 2020 South China Morning Post “China pneumonia outbreak raises spectre of Sars as number infected jumps to 44”

Jan 4 South China Morning Post “An unknown strain of pneumonia has been making people ill in Wuhan, China. Many of the patients worked at a market that traded in live animals.“  Where is Dr. Fauci?

Jan 12 Alex Azar tells Trump it’s a coming emergency (This was the first chance to be serious, but was missed ultimately, by accident, trying to save the economy, rose colored glasses, not a doctor just plays one on tv, listened to WHO, who was wrong) (Azar was merely ignored but his contemporary in Communist China was jailed and died, similarly attempting to sound an alarm and buy us time.) Communism is definitely the cause of the entire crisis.

Jan 14 The World Health Organization (WHO) “cited Chinese health officials who claimed there had been no human transmissions of the novel coronavirus within the country”. Commies. Liars. Killing hundreds of thousands of additional people as a result.

Jan 21 Dr. Fauci said “not a major threat to people of the US” HUGE ERROR from top doctor and therefore Trump admin. (how could you believe that at all, especially from China, how come you can’t verify before it’s too late)…….

Jan 22 Davos. Was Trump worried? “No. Not at all. We have it totally under control… It’s one person coming in from China… It’s going to be fine.”

Jan 23 Fauci said “no chance shutting down US”

Jan 24 MSNBC “first mention of the novel virus on Morning Joe was in an interview with the show’s medical contributor who said Americans should be much more worried about the seasonal flu.”

Jan 27, “Joe Grogan, the head of the White House Domestic Policy Council, warned insiders it could cost Trump his re-election.”

“economic adviser Peter Navarro warned White House that COVID-19 could take more than half a million American lives and cause nearly $6 trillion in economic damage.”

At this point there is an argument that Trump and admin elevated estimated numbers, that others had also done, so they could claim a greater victory when the totals come out lower.

Jan 29 Ny Times “Beware the Pandemic Panic. So far, the Wuhan coronavirus is not much more frightening than the outbreaks of other recent coronaviruses”

Jan 30 “Azar warned Trump that the virus could become a pandemic and that China should be criticized for its lack of transparency, Trump dismissed Azar as alarmist and rejected the idea of criticizing China.”

Jan 31 Trump closed off flights to China. Great move. Ahead of the others and newscasters despite weeks of mistakes. But a day late and a dollar short. Too little, too late.

This is the moment where all warring sides had to collectively take severe measures, like now, but missed it. But the idiot parade started, taking their eye off the important stuff like usual.

Jan 31 Biden said that Trump had a “record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering.”

CNN ran a story warning that “the US coronavirus travel ban could backfire” and have the effect of “stigmatizing countries and ethnicities.”

“The Chinese Communist Party’s official mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, called the ban “racist.”

“WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned it would increase “fear and stigma, with little public health benefit.”

Jan. 30, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global health emergency.

Feb 1 Washington Post “Get a grippe, America. The flu is a much bigger threat than the coronavirus, for now,”

CNN “Relax! Coronavirus is less dangerous than the flu, says epidemic expert”

Feb 5 “Senators urged the administration in a briefing to take the virus more seriously and asked if additional funds were necessary. The administration made no requests at the time for emergency funding.” Rep. Chris Murphy “Just left the Administration briefing on Coronavirus. Bottom line: they aren’t taking this seriously enough. Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff etc. And they need it now.”

Feb 7 Scarborough MSNBC “Dr. Vanessa Kerry of non-profit Seed Global Health, who warned that the U.S. was not prepared for a pandemic and that the country should worry about its trading supply-chain from China.”

Feb 8 “New York Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot tweeted a message for people to go about their lives, and not change any plans due to misinformation spreading about coronavirus.”

Feb 14 “Health officials and NSC recommended the targeted use of quarantine and isolation measures. Officials planned to present Trump with the memo when he returned from India on Feb. 25, but the meeting was canceled.” Why?

Feb 17 Dr. Fauci “Miniscule risk”

Feb 21 “White House coronavirus task force conducted a mock exercise of the pandemic. The group concluded that the U.S. would need to implement aggressive social distancing, even if it caused mass disruption” 

Feb 23 “Navarro doubled down on his warnings in another memo, this time addressed to the president, stating that up to 2 million Americans could die of the virus.”

Feb 24- “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi toured San Francisco’s Chinatown Monday to send a message. She said there’s no reason tourists or locals should be staying… … “Come because precautions have been taken. … Factory to lunch at a dim sum restaurant, she hugged friends and waved to onlookers.”

Feb 25 CDC finally says a big deal is coming, may miss work and stay home, scary times ahead – but still took Trump took 3 weeks later to get in to it, despite his own departments claims.

Nancy Messonnier “we need to be preparing for significant disruption in our lives. ….fully anticipate seeing community spread of the virus within U.S. borders. It’s not so much a question of if this will happen anymore, she said, but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness.”

“Trump reportedly called Azar fuming that Messonnier had scared people unnecessarily and caused the stock market to plummet”

Trump to public “I don’t think it’s inevitable”

Here is where things really fell apart because Trump’s government figured it out finally but he was still in denial with his inner circle and failed to take decisive actions. Even though the Democrats and press had no idea what was going on, it was Trump’s baby not theirs. Can’t take credit without taking blame.

Feb 26 Trump says “15 cases, soon down to 0” “rapidly developing a vaccine” “will essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner.”– same day Pence appointed to lead an effort

Larry Kudlow “We have contained this” and “It’s pretty close to airtight.”

“The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said a vaccine at best won’t be ready for “a year to a year-and-a-half” and won’t be available for the current epidemic.”

“After being asked about the CDC’s recommendation for schools and other institutions to dust off their preparedness plans, Trump again suggested that the case total was in decline.”

Feb 27 “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said to expect more cases and has warned that it is highly unlikely that the virus will not spread to some degree within the U.S. The first case of community spread may have already occurred.” Anne Schuchat, the CDC’s principal deputy director “we do expect more cases, and this is a good time to prepare.”

Trump “Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low.”

Mike Bloomberg said “We don’t have the experts in place to deal with the coronavirus Trump “has left us very exposed.” “president doesn’t seem to believe in science””

Mulvaney said. “The media was too focused on impeachment at the time and did not report sufficiently on travel restrictions and other steps the administration had taken to mitigate the virus, which he stressed was not as bad as the flu or Ebola . He said, The reason you’re seeing so much attention to it today is that they think this is going to be the thing that brings down the president.“

Feb 28 Campaign rally in South Carolina, Trump said “this is their new hoax.” Them being the democrats. He never said the virus was a hoax, but the media and liberals wasted tons of energy pretending he did. His point was they were creating a hoax that Trump caused the virus to spread, whether true or not.

Feb 29 FDA lifted regulations on testing

Second coronavirus death reported in the United States and first case confirmed in New York

March 2 HHS secretary: “From day one this is what we predicted”

Mar 3 Jesse Waters on Fox News “the power of positive thinking” to beat coronavirus

“I’m not afraid of the coronavirus and no one else should be that afraid either.”

Mar 9 Another major mistake and split here, Trump trying to save the economy so Fauci tells one story on one show with Trump and a different story on the same day to another show when Trump’s not there.

Fauci says if you are healthy you can go on a cruise ship, but on the next show he said nobody should go on a cruise ship. (But they were still operating. Offering special deals. My friends were going not scared.)

Hannity on Fox said “it might be true that the deep state is using the pandemic to hurt the economy and push mandated medicines.” Oy veh.

March 16, I sold SocialDistance.com, as a “buy now” domain, by mistake

Mar 17 St Pat’s Day, My last appointment outside the house, cancelled all successive. So this is the first time the press convinced me enough. They should have convinced me prior. Everyone out partying still for holiday. Some in social distance mode. I just walk alone if I leave house.

Sanjay Gupta CNN “I still really get the impression people in many places aren’t taking this seriously”

Mar 24 Cuomo expresses frustration in US government while exaggerating the need for ventilators. More drama, poor focus.

Mar 25 Trump said his administration was helping Cuomo, and Cuomo “shouldn’t be talking about us, he’s supposed to be buying his own ventilators.” More fighting and bad info, politicization

Mar 26 LA Times “Trump brags about his China travel ban. Health experts say it’s had little effect “.

LA Times “experts” are wrong.

“Chris Beyer, a professor of epidemiology and international health at Johns Hopkins University, said Trump issued his travel ban too late.”

Dr. Fauci, said China ban “wasn’t enough to halt the tsunami of infections.”

Jeffrey Levi “To the degree that it bought us time, we did not take advantage of that time”

April 1 Joe Scarborough ‘Everybody Saw This Coming in Early January’ “The first mention on Morning Joe was Jan. 24th, when an expert said Americans should worry about the flu, not the Coronavirus”

April 4, desperation divergence paybacks and payoffs, not cash

“Trump tells Americans to take unproven malaria drug to prevent Covid-19” I can’t figure out who he is trying to payback or payoff here. Unlikely he is directly profiting. But don’t listen to him.

“President’s own public health advisers have warned against taking hydroxychloroquine”

Don Lemon CNN “Every single day Trump is berating people, lying. How much more — How many people have to die?”

April 12 Dr. Fauci said “more lives obviously could have been saved if the U.S. made earlier efforts to contain the virus.” “the federal government could have acted sooner to limit the spread of coronavirus.” “Lives could have been saved if social distancing, physical distancing, stay-at-home measures had started in the third week of February, instead of mid-March. There was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then. No one is going to deny that more lives could have been saved if the Trump administration had implemented social distancing guidelines earlier on.”

Bingo, Trump lost a month being optimistic and trying to save the economy, nothing malicious. But that mistake allowed it to spread throughout the US much worse than it would have. He is no doctor but should have listened to doctors.

April 13 Beijing tightens grip over coronavirus research today……Evil communists that caused the entire thing and will keep doing so unless we stop them.

Major Dem liberal governors, who ostensibly don’t like Trump, admit he has done a great job on coronavirus

Trump retweets call to fire Fauci but then says he isn’t going to.

April 17th, I sold AntibodyTesting.com

In conclusion. There is plenty of blame to go around; the fog of politics, and idiots ill-prepared and worried about politics instead of science. However, the main issue is fundamental structural problems; namely allowing Communist dictator tyrants to exist; trusting them on time sensitive medical information without verifying. Allowing their cruel dangerous markets to exist.

Everything bad that has happened was all mistakes by all sides, except from Communist China which was purposeful– jailed doctors and reporters who wanted to warn us; lied, waited, had sickening markets; had historic starvation forcing people to eat rancid creatures; poor sick people; no regulations. Communism is the source of the problem for positive; ending it is the solution. Communism is evil; people do dangerous viral things; the governments jail reporters and scientists, and lie to the world. The world is too interconnected to allow this evil, since it puts everyone else at serious imminent risk, and ruined our economy already. Do we want to keep relearning the same lesson?

WHO is stupid and evil and in China’s back pocket, our resources were poorly used there.

Congress was wasting time on impeachment and endless BS, instead of very real viral issues.

US is stupid and believed China. Fauci, and therefore Trump, believed there was no human to human spread .

Wasting time calling Trump racist, looking for ways to tear him down, Ukraine, etc, fake news, lost their eye on the ball.

Biden hysterical and hypocritical, would have been much worse if he were president, of course Trump was hesitant and still is, since it’s confusing and he is just one person.

Obsessed with tearing down Trump wastes time, energy and money and misses all the critical things on this issue and in the world, harming America.

Always trapped in BS minutiae trying to trap Trump but missing the truth; and their candidate will always be worse, Biden, etc. would have left open flights from China…

Most of the press and congress who we depend on is obsessed with a protrump or antitrump narrative agenda; they miss the truth on this and whatever else important is happening in the world.

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5/27/2022 Mike Mann

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz said it “formed a new $4.5 billion fund that will invest in cryptocurrency and Web 3 companies.”

Their founder, Marc Andreesen, is one of the smartest people in Silicon Valley ostensibly, having invented the web browser when he was in college; then investing in some of the best technology companies and profiting handsomely.

But Marc has advisors and partners, notably in this case “the a16z crypto team”, and it is possible if not probable that taken in whole their egos, greed and self-confidence have led their minds and investments out of the mainstream of the conservative investment community, now making undue, absurd bets by mistake (as opposed to consciously making rational, traditional investments.)

For example, investing in ‘crypto’ is nuts, where they have lost about 50% in the last year, despite the earlier hype cycle having taken them and their investors upwards, mostly in their ‘Coinbase’ investment. I wonder if they have any of their personal funds on the line, or it is 100% investors’ risk, with AH getting fees no matter what, and sharing in any potential upside.

Here is what the world’s smartest financial people think about investing client funds in crypto: https://qz.com/1089740/what-the-worlds-financial-bigwigs-think-about-bitcoin/

Ostensibly ‘crypto’ actually stands for ‘cryptography’ which is merely a small growing subset of the overall software programming marketspace, which itself is suffering with the rest of the extremely broken Biden economy, and is unlikely to advance in the near future.

They have around $7 billion of investor money on the line at this point. So even if the crypto marketspace were legitimate, which it is not; and even if the economy was good, which it is not; and even if they were great stock pickers, which they no longer are, then it would still be an incredibly risky investment, and highly unlikely to pay out in the long run.

In the short term it could be anyone’s guess what happens with these spaces. AH doesn’t even proclaim they are investing in cryptography per se; it is actually even much more cryptic. In their press release the investments are stated as “cryptocurrency” and ‘Web3”. The latter has some chance if they are super careful in their selections, but not the former in my estimation. (Check back here in a couple years to find me being correct again.) These investments include the incredibly risky and hurting areas of “blockchain gaming, decentralized finance (DeFi), decentralized social media and non-fungible tokens (NFT).”

The flip side of this equation is that venture capitalists often make out big time on a few of their overall investments, making their many losses appear inconsequential. I guess this is possible, but still too unlikely and risky to bet on it. Short.

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