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TRUMP: One, Final, Egregious Trait.

Had enough of Donald Trump?  Well, I'll end with another egregious trait, his disdain for what should be good and supported.  For example, he kept making fun of global climate warming and  began the process of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement .  But those diplomats in the UN are not total idiots.  The departure process insured for a one year delay so that about the time the U.S. officially was to have departed, Trump lost to Biden.  Of course,  President Joe Biden scuttled the exodus,  and rescued America, and the World. He is  xenophobic and particularly despised NATO and the UN .  For example: Withdrew the U.S. from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in October of 2017.  Had something to do with bias of the UN against Israel.  Well, whatever, it was, President Joe Biden worked it out, for we are  rejoining UNESCO next month . Pulled out of the UN Human Rights Council, the first nation to ever do so, and became among only four nations not part

ONE OF MY BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE

If I tried to list the ten best days of my life, no doubt among them would be my birth, a few graduations, marriage, and assorted other great ones, including maybe even travel, where the  best could well have been that one day in Venice  when I first met my Blue-bar Pigeon, had lunch at Quadri of white truffles and several glasses of wine ( this is the dessert, and count the number of glasses ), topped off with a special concert of  Four Seasons , in the theater where Vivaldi partially composed them. Well, yesterday featured the TEDx program hosted by Blue Revolution Hawaii, that was beamed to the entire world.  Some day the TED organization will again present this effort by adding it to their system package.  You can go to the  BRH website  for other information.  Should you wish to watch my presentation, click on  THIS .  In this 18-minute talk, I only lightly touched on the  Pacific International Ocean Station , our proposed $150 million floating structure to initiate at-sea technol