From RR

• Global Alzheimer’s cases expected to rise sharply. Why?
• US no longer insures money-market funds.
• Ron Paul: health-care reform is more corporate welfare.
• There is no free health care.
• Because the United States does not look like a militarized country, it’s hard for Americans to grasp that Washington is a war capital, that the United States is a war state, that it garrisons much of the planet, and that the norm for us is to be at war somewhere at any moment.
• How not to argue with libertarians.
• ‘If you don’t like it, move to Somalia!’ The argument “move to Somalia” is quite spurious since Somalia actually suffers from government just like other countries do — every time the Somalis start to rebuild, some country sends in a “peacekeeping force” to destroy everything that was built up and try to impose a government that the Somalis don’t recognize. Eventually the “peacekeeping force” leaves, the puppet government collapses, and the rebuilding resumes.

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