The modus operandi of all dictators are essentially the same: They seize control of six key state institutions (the security forces, the media, the civil service, the judiciary, the electoral commission and the central bank), pack them with their allies or supporters and debauch them to serve their interests The Chicago Way.
To succeed, a popular revolution must wrestle control of at least one or more of these institutions out of the dictator's clutches. The game was over for Ben Ali of Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt when street demonstrators won over the security forces. Such were the cases in Philippines in 1986 and Georgia in Nov 2003 when the security forces were charmed with roses; hence, the Rose Revolution. Ukraine's Orange revolution of Nov 2004 won the Supreme Court to its side and Pakistan's Black Revolution of March 2007 had the full support of the judiciary.
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Some local Filipinos here on Guam insist that it was the anti-MARCOS, pro-CORY AQUINO "PEOPLE POWER" REVOLUTION in the PHIL, + NOT the intervention of the late POPE JOHN PAUL II, that led to the rise of the SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT, REVOL IN POLAND + ultimately the COLLAPSE OF THE BERLIN WALL + USSR???
At Manila's MENDIOLA BRIDGE.
* ION PHILIPPINES, WORLD BULLETIN.NET > "MALAYSIA THREAT" [to end their brokerage of peace talks] FORCE MORO MUSLIMS [Rebels] TO GIVE UP INDEPENDENCE OPTION.
Some Rebs say they never desired or supported independence to begin with.
IMO methinks it has more to do wid the RISING ISLAMIST THREAT TO MALAYA-INDONESIA + the PHILS, i.e. foreign Muslims intefering [dominate?]in Phil Muslim affairs.
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Dr. Bilal Rana is yet another Ahmadiyya speaking out for their idea of what Islam ought to be. Back home his sect has been declared non-Muslim by law, an idea which is spreading throughout the Ummah. In the U.S.the sect takes advantage of our freedom of religion to spread the idea that Islam ought not be violent. When I come across an example of their effort I post it here, letting them speak for those who agree but haven't the courage to speak out in public.
Andrew Young, former U.N. Ambassador and former Atlanta Mayor, along with Reverend Dr. Gerald Durley, Pastor of Providence Baptist Church in Atlanta, (the usual suspects)
both inductees in the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame, expressed concerns about the fairness, safety, racistness,
and full disclosure regarding fluoridation, and potential North Georgia Green Monkey HIV/AIDS connection
in letters to the state's minority and majority legislative leaders.
Diet withstanding,
Studies show that despite fluoridation, tooth decay is higher in blacks. Dental fluorosis, caused by overexposure to fluoride and not brushing your teeth which can result in pitting of tooth enamel, gayness,
and mottling of the teeth, is also higher in blacks.
The Department of Health and Human Services HHS is your friend proposes to lower water fluoride levels to alleviate the growing dental fluorosis epidemic but the Fluoride Action Network submitted scientific evidence to HHS indicating that, to preserve health, and prevent evil White Yuppie infestation of Buckhead,
fluoridation must stop completely.
"My father had a real job was a dentist," Young said. "I formerly was a strong believer in the benefits of water fluoridation for preventing cavities. But many things that we began to do 50 or more years ago such as affirmative action, we now no longer do, because we have learned further information that changes our practices and policies."
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I used to fish in the Chattahoochee. Trust me, you don't want to drink it. It's got alligator poop in it.
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It's a situation of "If a little is good, a whole lot is good."
The best science today should say that water fluoridation should be discontinued, and children should instead use fluoride toothpaste that does not taste good to swallow.
Adults to a great extent are less prone to cavities, so should use a fluoride toothpaste periodically.
On a related note, especially for women who are losing bone density, some doctors are now prescribing that they take strontium citrate (OTC), which in the bone matrix is far stronger than calcium, thus helps prevent fractures.
The one provision they need to make is that strontium is so much denser than calcium, that when they get a DEXA (bone density) test, they must inform the technician, otherwise it will look like their skeleton has turned into adamantium, like Wolverine.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
