"Democracy cannot be imposed from above

Soviet Style Snitch Poster Being Used On Trains
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/100605snitchposter.htm

North American Empire

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/09/ldt.01.html

Thirty-five of the women became pregnant during the study and 17 miscarried again. When the scientists examined the miscarried foetuses, they found that four had the wrong number of chromosomes. Research in 2003 showed exposure to BPA triggered similar abnormalities in mice.
http://www.rense.com/general66/miscar.htm

The number of deaths from Alzheimer,s Disease has increased by more than 9000% in North America since 1979. In 1979 only 653 people died from Alzheimer,s Disease. By 2004, that number jumped to 60,000. About 5 million North Americans currently have Alzheimer's Disease.
http://www.rense.com/general66/amdm.htm

Record numbers of non-Mexican migrants are being caught illegally trying to enter the United States, raising national security concerns, overwhelming federal agencies, and leaving legislators and law enforcement authorities grappling with how to handle the situation.
 
So far this fiscal year, the Border Patrol has apprehended almost 100,000 undocumented migrants from countries other than Mexico - commonly called OTMs. The majority were caught along the southern border. That number is projected to reach about 150,000 by the end of this fiscal year, which is a 200 percent increase compared to fiscal 2004, according to the Border Patrol.
http://www.rense.com/general66/cross.htm

At the insistence of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Hartz Mountain Corp. has agreed to cancel uses of several flea and tick products that may be associated with a range of adverse reactions, including hair loss, salivation, tremors and numerous deaths in cats and kittens.
http://www.rense.com/general66/hartztophaseoutfleaand.htm

For the first time in two decades, the CIA and the FBI reached on Sunday a new agreement that includes new ways to coordinate their intelligence activities in a post-Sept. 11 world, high ranking officials said.
 
A new classified memorandum of understanding, which was jointly negotiated several weeks ago and expected to be submitted for approval to the new director of national intelligence, John Negroponte, is currently under review by senior officials at the Bush administration.
http://www.rense.com/general66/CIAandFBImakenew.htm

A leading Arab American civil rights organization has asked Merriam-Webster Inc. to publicly repudiate what the group calls a "false and damaging" definition of anti-Semitism in the unabridged version of Webster's Third New International Dictionary.
 
That dictionary lists, as one of the meanings of anti-Semitism, "opposition to Zionism: sympathy with opponents of the state of Israel.
http://www.rense.com/general66/ISdD.htm

At the conclusion of World War I in 1918, the medical bureau of Japanese army set out to study biological warfare and assigned Major Terunobu Hasebe to head the research team, who was soon succeeded by Dr. Ito with a team of 40 scientists. This lasted a few years. However, the real beginning of Japan's biological warfare came only with the rise of Ishii Shiro. Ishii was graduated from the medical department of Kyoto University in 1920, and immediately joined the army. In 1924, he returned to Kyoto University for graduate studies, during which he married the daughter of President Torasaburo Akira of the University. He was awarded with Ph.D. in 1927. He rejoined the army and began to propagate biological warfare.
http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/germwar/731rev.htm

A growing number of senior American military officers in Iraq have concluded that there is no long-term military solution to an insurgency that has killed thousands of Iraqis and more than 1,300 U.S. troops during the past two years
http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_2798774

[Funny how the Anglo-phone world is suddenly on this pro-nuclear tear, all unrelated events I’m sure.]

A truly profound debate about American safety and security is flying far below the public radar.

At issue is whether the United States should change its decades-old nuclear policy and pursue a new class of "small nuclear weapons" that could be the size of Blackberries
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/01/nuclear.blackberry/

[Shame on the medical professions. If you read these transcripts you read like “ a medic checked him out and said he was ok” and then they proceed to torture him some more. When he can’t take it, the medics fix him up so he can go back for another round of torture. For shame.]

A one point, when the detainee refused to drink water, an IV tube was inserted into his arm, he was pumped with three and a half bags of fluid and told that a bathroom visit will be allowed only in exchange for information.
http://www.spacewar.com/2005/050613005659.7cvmpn1e.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1071284,00.html

Solzhenitsyn agreed with his interlocutor that Russia has freedom of expression, but these are only "signs." "One sign does not mean democracy." Western accusations that Russia is "backsliding" into authoritarianism – a staple of the neoconservatives these days – have to be put in context:

"'It is often said that democracy is being taken away from us and that there is a threat to our democracy. What democracy is threatened? Power of the people? We don't have it,' he told Rossiya, the state-run channel. 'We have nothing that resembles democracy. We are trying to build democracy without self-governance. Before anything, we must begin to build a system so that the people can manage their own destinies.'"

Local government is the key to understanding how the liberalization of Russian society is going to proceed, he averred:

"Democracy cannot be imposed from above, by clever laws or wise politicians. It must not be forced [on people] like a cap. Democracy can only grow upwards, like a plant. Democracy must begin at the local level, within the local self-government.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6301