[Marxism] IPS: Country Welcomes Cuban Doctors

[Louis Proyect]

>The issue was the provision of medical care in the post- apartheid 
>South Africa. South Africa's government wasn't able to prevent those 
>doctors who decided to leave from doing so. But South Africa was 
>able and is able to bring Cuban doctors, and to send South African 
>doctors to Cuba for training. 400 from what MEDICC is reporting now. 
>But life was so much better under apartheid, wasn't it, according to 
>what the critics are ceaselessly saying? That's the logic of what is 
>being said by the critics with their endless assaults on the South 
>African government. Walter Lippmann

Walter, you are really turning into a tiresome troll. This latest 
round got started yesterday with this provocation from you yesterday:

(This is for all of those radicals who complain
about the South African government and all of
its supposed failures in providing services.

(Instead of complaining, they should be grateful
to the South African government for efforts like
this to provide much needed medical care where
other South Africans aren't willing to give it.)

For the past three or four years at least, you have tried to stir 
things up on this list with crapola like this. It is not as if we 
haven't debated the ANC in the past. A search on "Lippmann" and "ANC" 
turned up 96 posts. What are we supposed to learn that we haven't 
learned already from you? What are you shooting for? 1000 posts? Do 
you want us to go running off like the subject of Edvard Munch's "The Scream"?

My suggestion is that you begin to use your brain in a more 
productive manner. There is an article in the NY Times today about 
baby boomers worried about mental decline:

NY Times, May 3, 2008
Exercise Your Brain, or Else You'll ... Uh ...
By KATIE HAFNER

SAN FRANCISCO — When David Bunnell, a magazine publisher who lives in 
Berkeley, Calif., went to a FedEx store to send a package a few years 
ago, he suddenly drew a blank as he was filling out the forms.

"I couldn't remember my address," said Mr. Bunnell, 60, with a 
measure of horror in his voice. "I knew where I lived, and I knew how 
to get there, but I didn't know what the address was."

Mr. Bunnell is among tens of millions of baby boomers who are 
encountering the signs, by turns amusing and disconcerting, that 
accompany the decline of the brain's acuity: a good friend's name 
suddenly vanishing from memory; a frantic search for eyeglasses only 
to find them atop the head; milk taken from the refrigerator then put 
away in a cupboard.

"It's probably one of the most frightening aspects of the changes we 
undergo as we age," said Nancy Ceridwyn, director of educational 
initiatives at the American Society on Aging. "Our memories are who 
we are. And if we lose our memories we lose that groundedness of who we are."

At the same time, boomers are seizing on a mounting body of evidence 
that suggests that brains contain more plasticity than previously 
thought, and many people are taking matters into their own hands, 
doing brain fitness exercises with the same intensity with which they 
attack a treadmill.

Decaying brains, or the fear thereof, have inspired a mini-industry 
of brain health products — not just supplements like coenzyme Q10, 
ginseng and bacopa, but computer-based fitter-brain products as well.

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/technology/03brain.html

I don't think ginseng is what you need exactly, but I would recommend 
that you begin to open up new research areas since this trolling 
around Cuba, the ANC, Sinn Fein will surely lead to an early onset of 
Alzheimer's.