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A Nation at Risk
National Commission on Excellence in Education (1983). This seminal study is still relevant today. It summarized the sad state of U.S. education saying: “Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. . . . [T]he educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has...
read moreMANIPULATION MATRIX
We are living the Matrix. We are manipulated at a most basic level – the reality we perceive. In the movie, computers are electronically connected into people’s spinal cords to feed fake nerve signals with an alternative reality to the brain. We aren’t quite cyborgs with electronics embedded in our brains, but the way we are always looking at our smartphones and responding to notifications, we are similarly manipulated. The Russia investigation is the tip of the propaganda iceberg – home grown special interests with lots of money give each of...
read moreToo big to fail, too big to exist
The Internet is robust because if one computer fails, communications get re-routed. It is a distributed system. The same model could be applied to our banking system. The antitrust laws should have a “too big” provision – no one should be allowed to accumulate the power to bring down our whole economic system by their bad decisions. Although there are efficiencies to size, we now see that they come with increased risk. Just as high return stocks come with high risk. America needs a more conservative portfolio with its banks....
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