• P.C. BECOMES EVEN MORE INSANE. The latest “furthers population control by keeping kids ignorant and dependent, by twisting ‘math’ into a subjective thing versus objective truth.” Washington State Legislature now requires public schools to provide Ethnic Studies Materials & Resources for grades 7 – 12; Seattle’s ‘Framework’ includes issues like: “How can we change mathematics from individualistic to collectivist thinking? How important is it to be Right? Who gets to say if the answer is right? Why/how does data-driven processes prevent liberation? How is math manipulated to allow inequality to oppress and marginalize people & communities of color? Who does the oppression protect?  …Instead of teaching children a valuable skill, the public schools are using math as just one more gateway drug into the destructive addiction of victimization that is meant to ensure these kids all grow up frustrated, demoralized and stupid. But, of course, that is the goal.”  [BREITBART.COM – 10/1/19]

• “POLITICAL OUTLOOK IS FORMED AT AN EARLY AGE, shaped by major economic and political events.” In America today, “economic insecurity has pushed Millennials & Gen Zers (all born after 1980) to the Left on every economic & cultural policy issue. Young Americans want their country to be more ‘European,’ favoring tuition-free education, single payer health care, and an increased role for the state in the economy – versus older generations, who tend to be more attracted to a populist cocktail of immigration restriction, protectionism, and easy money… Younger generations are losing their belief in the American Dream, with its individualistic promise that destiny is in your own hands, and some surveys even put socialism ahead of capitalism.” But interestingly, younger Europeans who have those benefits are actually less progressive (or ‘woke’) –  only 20% are center left and 10% far left, “with most believing that the private sector is better at creating jobs than the state, that work contracts should become more flexible (e.g. non-union), and that competition is good.”  [THE ATLANTIC – 9/30/19]

• “THE WORLD HAS GONE FROM ‘FLAT’ TO ‘DEEP,’ with newfound abilities to hit targets in medicine or war, to identify leverage points in research, to find needles in haystacks of data, or to fake any face/voice/image with an accuracy and impact that was simply unimaginable a decade ago… and all with just one touch. Complexity has become fast, virtually free, easy and invisible… But this is now posing the biggest challenge to globalization, and particularly U.S.-China trade & technology relations, involving which country will control deep technologies – smartphones, artificial intelligence systems, 5G infrastructure, electric cars & robots & chat bots… America has the best governing system in the world, and China the worst. But China is getting 90% out of its bad system and America is getting 20% out of its good system, as both are underperforming… Overcoming their current ‘trust deficit’ is the most important issue on the planet today (other than Climate Change), to allow more healthy interdependency for the future pace and scope of globalization.”  [Thomas Friedman, NEW YORK TIMES, 10/1/19]  The real U.S./China trade war issue is about 5G technology. [ youtube.com/watch?v=iojQ153cai8&feature=youtu.be ]
• EFFECTS OF A STROKE CAN BE REVERSED if treated within three hours, according to some neurologists. So bystanders recognizing a stroke victim is critical. Key symptoms are inability to Smile, Stick out their tongue un-crooked, Talk a simple sentence, and Raise both arms – acronym SSTR. If trouble with any one of these tasks, a 911 emergency call is warranted.
• THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: “A smart person knows what to say; a wise person knows whether to say it or not… In life, it’s important to know when to stop arguing with people and simply let them be wrong.”