Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Showing posts with label Mennonites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mennonites. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Intensely political Mennonites should pay for their free speech

My goodness, how the truth can be spun into webs of nonsense. An absurd amount has been written lately about how the government is ostensibly trying to impose censorship on an obscure religious magazine because of that publication’s politics.

If only it were true and that hard-left publications did actually lose some of their generous public finding but, alas, that simply isn’t the case.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

What Can We Learn From Mennonites' Pee Samples?

For an industrial chemical released into the environment at more than 1 million pounds a year, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that bisphenol A also shows up in humans. Four years ago, researchers discovered that BPA, which is used in plastic manufacturing, was present in nearly 93 percent of the US population's urine.

So it's disturbing that a growing body of scientific literature suggests that BPA disrupts the body's hormones. Exposure to the chemical has been associated with risk for obesity, breast cancer, prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease, infertility, diabetes, thyroid dysfunction, and neurological problems.