You mention great health care in other nations. How much of this was developed exclusive of American reasearch and american companies, fueled no doubt by the lucrative incentives of the rather brutal american style of capitalism? Im not saying all advances in health care are american, only that the rest of the world doesnt mind reaping the benefits of it.

How long would New Zealand keep its wonderful lifestyle and remain free without its american friends? Same with Europe. Think small nations dont need protection? Try contrasting Poland 1939 with Europe today. Poland failed to align with Germany or Russia and paid the price. Europe at least in some part is able to provide such a high standard of living due to American friendship allowing them to not spend all their GNP on defence. Someone has to be the muscle. I’d personally prefer it was not the US, but the fact remains historically speaking, the strong swallow up the weak in geopolitics.

It has not failed to occur to me that the wirlwind advance in technology over the last 75 years or so, maybe just maybe, would not have thrived so well outside of a world without a country like the USA. Its unique combination of freedoms and its economic system was at the time, the right environment for
unprecidented surge in technological advancement. Technology that has allowed the world population to surge while maintaining a higher standard of living. Now I happen to think that America no longer holds any particular edge over many other parts of the world, and that the particular American form of capitalism that led to its acendency no longer remains. What exists now is sold to the public as the same but is really just a corrupt crony capitalism, easily recognizable to anyone familiar with post WWII Bannana republics. And time will produce the same results with it in America that those nations had. Poverty, violence, and crime.

I am frankly ashamed at times of what the US has become. But I’m also not blind to the fact that sometimes its a lot easier for a smaller country to bask in the advantages of its larger friend, without having to get its hands dirty. The world is so dynamic and complex, I try to remember that its rarely as simple as our minds want to make it.

Keep up the good work,

Brian

In a true capitalist system, inividual rights are defended by the state, in all of the others, individual rights are sacrificed to the purposes of the state. To show anarchism as a system on the upper left of your triangle shows it as closer to capitalism than another other ism. First, anarchism is not a system, it is a denial of system, and second, it is mob, range of the moment rule on the premise that might makes right. Objective capitalism is the long-range rule of law in protection of individual rights. If you insist on preserving the triangle, then anarchism must be outside the triangle and below all of the isms, as a sort of sea of chaos.

It is NOT what you eat in most cases, anyway. Your liver produces most of the cholesterol in the body.

While i believe Dr. Pauling is correct, simply supplementing without ELIMINATING THE DIETARY FACTORS that cause cholesterol issues is not a solution. First eliminate the cause of the problem (diet), then supplement.

INGREDIENTS: Water, Saponified Organic Coconut*, Organic Palm* and Organic Olive* Oils (w/Retained Glycerin), Organic Hemp Oil, Organic Jojoba Oil, Essential Oils**, Citric Acid, Vitamin E

I’ve tried them for brushing, strong taste but very refreshing. I use Bronners soap to wash my hair, laundry, dishes, wash dogs…..everything.