The Pacific Bridge Companies

Monrovians - Unite! Know your local businesses and employers.  Cross-border financial services anyone?


Pacific Bridge Investment Services, Inc.
Pacific Bridge Wealth Resources, Inc.
825 S. Primrose Ave., Suite C
Monrovia, CA 91016
Tel:; 626-303-5890
Fax: 626-303-3591

Stephen L. Kagawa, LUTCF, FSS

President & Chief Executive Officer

The Pacific Bridge Companies, Inc.

Hozumi Honada, LUCTF

Vice-President and Chief of Staff

The Pacific Bridge Companies, Inc.

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President, Pacific Bridge Wealth Resources, Inc.

Jerome E. Paul, CLU, ChFC

Vice-President and Chief Marketing Officer,

The Pacific Bridge Companies, Inc.

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President, Pacific Bridge Insurance Services, Inc.

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President, Pacific Bridge Asia, Ltd.

Pacific Bridge provides cross-border financial planning solutions for business professionals, high net-worth individuals, and companies throughout the Pacific Rim.


Pacific Bridge works with your financial advisors to develop and implement a broad-based financial plan that leverages tax-based insurance and investment solutions to address your wealth accumulation, preservation, and transfer goals.

Your financial advisor(s) works with your own Pacific Bridge Ohana Development Team, a dedicated group of professionals, to coordinate and implement your financial plan, which is monitored, reviewed, and updated on a regular basis.

Pacific Bridge also maintains a global network of Ohana Members, specialized financial services consultants and companies, to assist with your financial planning. They include:

• Banking Advisors
• Tax Advisors and Accountants
• Global Investment Firms and Advisors
• Venture Capital Firms
• Real Estate Firms
• Insurance Companies, Agencies, and Advisors
• Risk Management Professionals
• Attorneys 
  

Kicks on Route 66 - Transforming Seminarian blog

Monrovians - Unite!

Transformingseminarian.blogspot.com is a blog by Mark Baker-Wright, who was an Assistant to the Faculty and Dean's Office at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California (the views expressed on that blog do not necessarily represent the views of the seminary).  Mark received his Master of Divinity degree several years ago.

His wife, Michelle, also an MDiv graduate, is a professionally trained flutist and aspiring theologian, working on a PhD in Worship and Culture.

After posting for ten years (10 years!) on the blog, Mark decided to stop. He learned a lot about blogging, especially comments, and about social media, which he shares in his last post after ten years of blogging.

Check out Mark's post about the reasons he stopped blogging here.

Monrovia Public Library Blog

Monrovians - Unite!    Our Monrovia Public Library

321 S. Myrtle Avenue (between Lime and Palm Avenue)
Phone # 626 256-8274

 

 has an anonymous blog about the library,

 Monrovia Public Library Computer Classes, 
(Monrovia Library offers computer classes for adult learners who are having trouble crossing the digital divide or are afraid of getting started. The staff teaches computer basics... starting with how to use a mouse. Registration is required for the limited seating. The Monrovia Public Library provide the laptops, and you provide the willingness to learn.)

Monrovians - Unite! How English sounds to Italians who don't speak English - not bad, eh?

Hayek - The "Inevitability" of [Central] Planning

Monrovians - Unite! Hayek asserts that the most frequently heard argument employed to demonstrate the "inevitability" of central planning is that due to technological changes that have made true competition impossible in an increasing number of fields, the only choice left to us is between control of production by private monopolies and direction by the government. This primarily derives from Marxist thought, but it has been repeated so often that people often have no idea of its origin.

The alleged technological cause of the growth of monopoly is the superiority of the large firm over the small, owing to greater efficiency of mass production.

 Various economic studies have concluded otherwise. Monopoly is, rather, attained through collusive agreements and promoted by public policies. When these agreements and policies are reversed, competitive conditions can be restored. Big businesses at every turn seek to obtain favorable treatment from government.

 The big idea behind the believe that large and complex problems require a central government solution is that it is difficult to obtain a coherent picture of the complete economic process, hence only government can obtain the information necessary to properly plan and direct the economic activity of each person.

"This argument is based on a complete misapprehension of the working of competition." It is because of the complexity of the division of labor under modern conditions which makes competition the only method by which such coordination can be adequately brought about.

 It is only as the factors which have to be taken into account become so numerous that it is impossible to gain an overall view of them that decentralization becomes imperative, writes Hayek. The problem of coordination requires that separate agents be free to adjust their activities to the facts which only they can know, and yet brings about a mutual adjustment of their respective plans.

 If instead of central control we have a system by which each agent obtained the information he must possess in order effectively to adjust his decisions to those of others, with constantly changing conditions of supply and demand, we would have the perfect system.

 It happens that the price system does this under competition, and no other system can possibly hope to do so. By watching just a few prices, an entrepreneur can adjust his or her activities to those of their fellows. "The more complicated the whole, the more dependent we become on that division of knowledge between individuals whose separate efforts are coordinated by the impersonal mechanism for transmitting the relevant information known by us as the price system."

 When there is a strong and urgent demand for copper in one part of the world, we do not have to know the details, but only that the price of copper has suddenly increased, causing us to adjust our use of it. Whether we use less of it, or are willing to pay more for it, or stop using it altogether, we affect the price (and the supply and demand) and further transmit important information to all others who might use copper.

 By comparison, a system of central planning is incredibly clumsy, slow, inflexible - and ultimately disastrous.

 One need only survey our world to realize that it is not the product of a central planner but instead rose up of its own accord.

 Then there is always the problem of the identity of the planners - who decides? The very people who are so sure that they have the only true answers and that their preferences are entitled to priority over those of everyone else would be motivated to become the ones with the power, yet they would be the ones most likely to terrorize everyone else if they ever had true power. So, do we really need central planning? Would a politician have come up with the i-phone?

The Distressing Disguise of the poor - a great place to meet Jesus!

Monrovians - Unite! Mother Theresa has been such an inspiration to so many. Perhaps she will inspire you.

40 Days for Life in Monrovia - five years of non-stop prayer on Fifth Avenue!

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Did you know that a small group of Monrovians have been praying on Fifth Avenue just north of Huntington Drive for five years?  Every weekday morning, around 10 AM these days I believe, a small group gathers to pray.

For whom do they pray?  The unborn children, the abortionist whose offices are on Fifth Avenue, police officers, clergy, the media, and oh so many more.  These pro-lifers celebrate every life, even those with whom they disagree.

How often do we see such long-suffering actions taken in the name of love?  Lets celebrate the power of love, of God's grace.

Think twice about that Che t_shirt

The Truth About Che Guevara:

Crossing the Rubicon - where did it come from?

Monrovians - Unite!  Know your history and learn from it.  Much of it is free on-line.


If two thousand years of popularity among serious readers can make a book a classic, Livy's "History of Rome from Its Foundations" is a classic.  It was Livy's purpose "to preserve the memory of the noble deeds of the Roman people and to point out conspicuous examples of good and evil acts."

Livy was born in Padua, in 59 B.C., ten years before Caesar crossed the Rubicon and the beginning of the struggle which brought an end to republican Rome.  It was at this point, camped with his army beside the Rubicon in 49 B.C. where Caesar decided that, “the die has been cast,” and that it was time to take action. So he marshaled his forces and brought them with him across the Rubicon as a sign of rebellion, then proceeded to lead them on an invasion of Italy and lead Rome into a great civil war. After claiming victory, Caesar was named “Dictator for Life,” and the Roman Empire (as history will always remember it) was born. It was the crossing of the Rubicon which opened the doors for Rome to expand and take over most of the known world within the next few centuries.

Read more: http://roman-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/julius_caesar_crosses_the_rubicon#ixzz0Xwoo9IIp

Right to Bear and Use Arms in Self-Defense

Monrovians - Unite!  Know your Constitutional rights and the duties they impose on you.

"Arms in the hands of individual citizens may be used at individual discretion...in private self-defense."
John Adams. Second President of the United States, A Defense of the Constitutions, volume III, paragraph  (1787-88).

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
Samuel Adams, during Massachusetts' U.S. Constitution Ratification Convention (1788). 

According to Reading Revolutions, A cooperative project of the University of Maine at Farmington and the Remnant Trust:

John Adams was in London serving as a diplomat for his young country in 1787.  He wrote and published A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America in three volumes.  The American edition was published the same year in New York and Philadelphia. 

Earlier, in 1776, John Adams had been on the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence and was an early proponent of separation from England.  He describes the Declaration and his work with Jefferson in a letter to Thomas Pickering in 1888.  He gives Jefferson full credit for the draft of the Declaration and notes that the original draft contained language to abolish slavery.  Adams supported that language and regretted that Congress as a whole struck it from the document.

His strong belief in the individual rights of man was also displayed by his support for the inclusion of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution.  He had helped write the constitution for the State of Massachusetts and authored much of the Declaration of Rights for Massachusetts.  It included provisions against unreasonable search and seizure, guaranteeing freedom of religion and the press, and providing for trial by jury.  The Declaration of Rights for Massachusetts comes before the body of the Constitution of Massachusetts.  During 1787 he not only published Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America but also corresponded extensively with those who were writing the Constitution.  It must have been frustrating for him to be in England during that period.  Nonetheless, the power of his writing and the wealth of ideas explored in the “Defence” influenced the development of the Constitution. 

His letters and writings show that he thought the Bill of Rights for the United States should have preceded the Constitution, and that the principles of the Constitution should have been based on them.  After he returned from England, he made extensive contributions to what we call our "Bill of Rights", the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. 

40 says for life campaign in Monrovia

A 40 Days for Life prayer campaign started today in Monrovia at 51 N. Fifth Avenue.

Just North of Huntington Boulevard on the border of Arcadia and Monrovia near the 210 Freeway offramp at Huntington, a prayer group will be praying every weekday from 9:30 to 10:30 every weekday morning and Thursdays at 7 pm. All those who would like to pray to end abortion in our city are welcome.