CREATIVE RETIREMENT including
Great Decisions and Friday Roundtable
        Jim's Notes  

2021


Resumed by ZOOM - March 12, 2021.
4 . Modern Slavery and Human Trafficing
5 . U.S. Relations with the Northern Triangle of Central America
6 . China's Road into Latin America
7 . The Philippines and the U.S.
8 . Artificial Intelligence and Data

2020

1 . Climate Change and the Global Order -- Intro to Global Warming
2 . India and Pakistan
3 . Red Sea Secuity
Suspended Pandemic - March 20, 2020
4 . Modern Slavery and Human Trafficing
5 . U.S. Relations with the Northern Triangle of Central America
6 . China's Road into Latin America
7 . The Philippines and the U.S.
8 . Artificial Intelligence and Data

2019

1 . Refugees and Global Migration
2 . The Middle East: Regional Disorder
3 . Nuclear Negotiations: Back to the Future?
4 . The Rise of Populism in Europe Nuclear Negotiations: Back to the Future?
5 . Decoding U.S.- China Trade
6 . Cyber Conflict and Geopolitics
7 . The United State and Mexico: Partnership Tested
8 . State of the State Department and Diplomacy

2018

1 . Waning Pax Americana?
2 . Russia's Foreign Policy
3 . China and America
4 . Media and Foreign Policy
5 . Turkey in Crisis
6 . U.S. Global Engagement
7 . South Africa's Fragil
8 . Global Health

2017

1 . European Union
2 . Trade Policy
3 . South China Sea
4 . Saudi Arabia
5 . Geopolitics of Energy
6 . Latin America
7 . Afghanistan/Pakistan
8 . Nuclear Security

2016

1 . Middle East Alliances
2 . Islamic State
3 . The Kurds
4 . Migration
5 . The Koreas
6 . United Nations
7 . Climate Change
8 . Cuba and the U.S.

2015 -- click to activate links

Great Decisions -- Foreign Policy Association series
1 . Russia and the Near Abroad -- Feb 06
2 . Privacy in the Digital Age -- Feb 20
3 . Sectarianism in the Middle East -- Mar 06
4 . India Changes Course -- Mar 13 -- college closed 3/20
5 . U.S. Policy Toward Africa -- Apr 03
6 . Syria's Refugee Crisis -- Apr 17
7 . Human Trafficking in the 21st Century -- May 01
8 . Brazil's Metamorphosis -- May 15

Friday Roundtable
Choices in Retirement -- Jan 16, 2015
GLOBAL Priorities - Copenhage Consensus -- Jan 30, 2015
Marshalltown Cop Shop -- Feb 13, 2015 by Pat Gourley
InEquality -- Feb 27 by Kent Guthery
Global Warming Hoax -- March 27
Volcanos -- April 10
God and Government -- April 24
A-bomb 1 -- May 08
- - - end point - - -
BioGarden,Apes -- May 13
Peace Corp -- May 29   <-- new
Sustainable Agriculture -- June 12
Care for Aging Parents -- June 26   a change

Smarter Than Us -- planned for about August
New Culture Coming -- presentation, .doc
Miscellaneous
O'Reilly on America's Race Problem -- 5 min
• The world by population
• Singularity updates

2014

Great Decisions -- Foreign Policy Association series
1 . Defense Technology
2 . Israel and the U.S.
3 . Turkey's challenges
4 . Islamic awakening
5 . Energy Independence
6 . Food and Climate
7 . China's Foreign Policy
8 . U.S. trade policy

Friday Roundtable
Dependent Adult Abuse Program
Jan 03 . Population - Jan 3 (out of town)
Jan 17 . ALICE
Feb 21 . Freedom (actually pro-life)
Apr 04 . Marshalltown High School
Apr 17 . Islam
May 02 . InEquality
May 16 . YM/WCA elder programs
May 21 . Zoo Trip
May 30 . Jazz
June 16. Medicare Fraud
June 20. Art Alliance
July 21. Current Issues
July 29. Iraq
Aug 01 . Headlines
Aug 15 . Funerals
Aug 29 . SINGULARITY
Sept 12. American Exceptionalism
Sept 26. Home Front, WWII.   Relocation
Sept 26. Happiness
Oct 10 . The Universe
Oct 24 . World Culture and Trade
Nov 6,13World War I, causes and consequences
Nov 07 . A Place At The Table -- Hunger
Nov 21 . The Righteous Mind : Why People are Conservative and Liberal
Dec 05 . Favorite Christmas Stories
Dec 19 . Christmas Potluck Brunch

Future Topics
Choices in Retirement -- Jan 16, 2015
GLOBAL Priorities - Copenhage Consensus -- Jan 30, 2015
InEquality -- Feb 13?, 2015
Misc Pics

2013

Great Decisions
1. Future of the Euro
Country's budget to GDP
Eurozone Notes
2. Egypt
Egypt notes
3. NATO
Nato Notes
4. Myanmar
5. Intervention
6. Iran
7. China in Africa
8. Threat Assessment
Pre-meeting notes and more
After-Video Summary
Added notes
Handouts
Fiscal Crisis
IQ Decline
Cyber War - PDF
Waging Domestic War

Friday Roundtable
Jan 18. Gun Control
Apr 12. Tour of Italy
Apr 26. Hubris
May 24. Climate Change
June 21. Alient Energy
June 28. Remembering Vietnam War
July 05. Defense of Marriage Act
July 19. Health Care and Age
July 19. Scientology
Aug 02 Marshalltown crime and poverty
Aug 15. [MCHM] POW in Iowa - Camp Algona
Aug 16. Lincoln in Springfield
Sep 06. Privacy. Mike Grubber.
Sep 20. ObamaCare -- Changes at hospital
Oct 04. Palestine/Israel
Oct 18. Senior Living
Nov 01. Middle East Oil and Islam -- origins
Nov 15. Supreme Court Decisions
Dec 06. Christmas Brunch

2012

Great Decision
1 . Middle East Realignment
2 . Promoting Democracy
3 . Mexico
4 . Cybersecurity
5 . Exit for Afghanistan & Iraq
6 . State of the Oceans
7 . Indonesia
8 . Energy Geopolitics

Friday Rountable.

Mormon -- doc file
Earth Snapshot
Doggerland
Oxymoron
S.S. Ammo

2011
Great Decisions

1. Rebuilding Haiti
2. National Security
3. Horn of Africa
4. Financial Crisis
5. Germany Ascendant
6. Nonproliferation
7. Caucasus
8. Multilateralism

2010
Great Decisions

1. Special Envoys
2. Kenya/Responsibility to Protect
3. Global Crime
4. China
5. Global Financial Crisis
6. Russia and its neighbors
7. Persian Gulf
8. Peacebuilding

2009
Great Decisions

1. US and Rising Powers -- meeting notes.
2. Afghanistan and Pakistan -- meeting notes.
3. Energy -- pre-meeting notes.
4. Arctic -- my presentation.
Script
Fear Cold -- handout the week before as tickler
Ice Ages -- ref. Note cycles.
EEZ -- Exclusive Economic Zone
Ice Melting
Pictures
TimeScale of Mankind - go to page 2 starting 10,000 years ago.
Old Business - Kyoto II ; Carbon Trading ; Why do we think ...?
New Old Business -- smoke for cooling ; documentaries.
5. Egypt
6. Global Food Crisis -- Everybody had thoughts on this topic
7. Cuba -- Class notes
8. Human Rights

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Great Decisions, Too . Friday Round Table Topic Menu   ←

• 1 . Palestinian Issues
• 2 . Future of Food
• 3 . Future of Mankind
• 4 . Myth ,Legend, Fact
• 5 . Medical Bill
• 6 . First Gulf War
• 7 . Capitalism
• 8 . Water Wars
• 9 . Voter Owned Iowa Clean Elections
• 10. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• 11. Immigration
• 12. Afghanistan
• 13. Poverty

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2008
Great Decisions

1 . Iraq
2 . European Integration
3 . Enemies :
• Handout
• Muslim Populations
4 . Russia
5 . Defense Policy : - April 11, 2008
• Color Pictures   ←
• Class Text
• WW on Terror
• Navy Today
6 . Latin America
7 . U.S.- China
8. Foreign Aid

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Astronomy -- Oct-Nov 2008
• Time Scale     or as a Word.doc
  Questions about Man
• Global Warming
  Discussion
  Temp Variation
  Proof of Warming
  Essay on Global Warming

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  2007

  1 . Middle East
  2 . Climate Change
  • Proof
  • Headlines
  • Kyoto
  • Children
  • Immigrants
  3 . U.S. - Mexico
  4 . Migration
  5 . South Africa
  6 . International Justice
  7 . Central Asia
  8 . Children' Rights

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  Astronomy -- Oct-Nov 2007
  Garret Lisi - Talk.
  • Theory of Everything

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  2006

  I gave the coordinator a year off. Too outspoken.

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  2005

  Islam
  • Koran Quotes
  • Mohammed
  
  3. Outsourcing
  • Out Sourcing
  • Averaging or with 2014 update
  Darfur
  Global Poverty

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  2004

  4 . Europe
  • Notes
  • Europe
  • North Atlantic Treaty
  • Preamble
  8 . Public diplomacy and U.S. Foreign policy -- May 28, 2004
  • Notes
  • Basic English.

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  Educational Resources
• TED Talks
• Great Courses mb#hm mb01
• Big Think
• Yale
• Harvard

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