October 31, 2010
October 30, 2010
Tales From The Crypt
Just got thru watching Young Frankenstein. Now Im watching Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, CineMax on demand! Its Halloween HORROR movie marathon weekend... Bwahahahahahaha!!!!
Did I mention that Halloween is my favorite time of year?! I get a thrill watching scary movies lol They sure don't make them like they use to... Well, there are a few that pass muster these days. ;)
Mel Brooks Presents ~ Young Frankenstein
I'm enjoying movie FRIGHT night on the eve before Halloween! It's time for me to get the popcorn ready, order my pizza and turn off the lights. I always have to set the stage for a goose bump hair-raising night of HORROR movies! Nevertheless, this Mel Brooks classic has always been a permanent fixture on my Halloween movie list. I always have to throw in a little bit of humor. ♥
"T'WAS HALLOWEEN NIGHT "
T'was Halloween night and all through the house
Creatures were stirring, bugs, cats, and a mouse
The pumpkins were carved into faces with care
In hopes that a candle would soon be placed there
With ma in her apron fixing platters of sweets
We'd settled our brains for a long night of treats
When out on the lawn there arose such a roar
I sprang to my feet and ran to the door
And what to my wandering eyes should appear
But a red deviled monster with a big yellow spear
Like a bat from a cave I ran - still he came
I thought I'd escaped but he called out my name
Mr. Thorn - Mr. Thorn - please don't be afraid
It's me, little Jimmy in this masquerade
The moon on the lawn glowed a bright orange cast
And I thought I saw witches on brooms flying past
White sheet like things floated, they looked just like ghosts
But the skeleton with bones clacking, it scared me the most
Someone looked like a vampire his face a ghastly pale hue
I finally realized it was Harry all covered with glue
That kid like a spider so lively and quick
I knew in a moment it was my neighbor's son Nick
One sweet little princess, so lovely was she -
Whatever was she doing in this strange company?
When all of the goblins pulled mask from there head
I knew that this night there was nothing to dread
Then this strange purple monster greeted me
and I said, "Who are you?"
He gave me no answer just hollered Boooooooooo….
And putting a finger aside one large eye
He got in his space ship and flew to the sky
I knew I had never seen anything like that before
I watched him in wonder quickly shutting my door
But I heard him exclaim ere he flew out of sight
Happy Halloween to all - and have a real spooky night!
Creatures were stirring, bugs, cats, and a mouse
The pumpkins were carved into faces with care
In hopes that a candle would soon be placed there
With ma in her apron fixing platters of sweets
We'd settled our brains for a long night of treats
When out on the lawn there arose such a roar
I sprang to my feet and ran to the door
And what to my wandering eyes should appear
But a red deviled monster with a big yellow spear
Like a bat from a cave I ran - still he came
I thought I'd escaped but he called out my name
Mr. Thorn - Mr. Thorn - please don't be afraid
It's me, little Jimmy in this masquerade
The moon on the lawn glowed a bright orange cast
And I thought I saw witches on brooms flying past
White sheet like things floated, they looked just like ghosts
But the skeleton with bones clacking, it scared me the most
Someone looked like a vampire his face a ghastly pale hue
I finally realized it was Harry all covered with glue
That kid like a spider so lively and quick
I knew in a moment it was my neighbor's son Nick
One sweet little princess, so lovely was she -
Whatever was she doing in this strange company?
When all of the goblins pulled mask from there head
I knew that this night there was nothing to dread
Then this strange purple monster greeted me
and I said, "Who are you?"
He gave me no answer just hollered Boooooooooo….
And putting a finger aside one large eye
He got in his space ship and flew to the sky
I knew I had never seen anything like that before
I watched him in wonder quickly shutting my door
But I heard him exclaim ere he flew out of sight
Happy Halloween to all - and have a real spooky night!
The Hellbound Train
The Hellbound Train
poem written by Anonymous
A Texas cowboy lay down on a barroom floor,
Having drunk so much he could drink no more;
So he fell asleep with a troubled brain
To dream that he rode on a hell-bound train.
The engine with murderous blood was damp
And was brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp;
An imp, for fuel, was shoveling bones,
While the furnace rang with a thousand groans.
The boiler was filled with lager beer
And the devil himself was the engineer;
The passengers were a most motley crew-
Church member, atheist, Gentile, and Jew,
Rich men in broad cloth, beggars in rags,
Handsome young ladies, and withered old hags,
Yellow and black men, red, brown, and white,
All chained together-O God, what a sight!
While the train rushed on at an awful pace-
The sulphurous fumes scorched their hands and face;
Wider and wider the country grew,
As faster and faster the engine flew.
Louder and louder the thunder crashed
And brighter and brighter the lightning flashed;
Hotter and hotter the air became
Till the clothes were burned from each quivering frame.
And out of the distance there arose a yell,
"Ha, ha," said the devil, "we're nearing hell"
Then oh, how the passengers all shrieked with pain
And begged the devil to stop the train.
But he capered about and danced for glee,
And laughed and joked at their misery.
"My faithful friends, you have done the work
And the devil never can a payday shirk.
"You've bullied the weak, you've robbed the poor,
The starving brother you've turned from the door;
You've laid up gold where the canker rust,
And have given free vent to your beastly lust.
"You've justice scorned, and corruption sown,
And trampled the laws of nature down.
You have drunk, rioted, cheated, plundered, and lied,
And mocked at God in your hell-born pride.
"You have paid full fare, so I'll carry you through,
For it's only right you should have your due.
Why, the laborer always expects his hire,
So I'll land you safe in the lake of fire,
"Where your flesh will waste in the flames that roar,
And my imps torment you forevermore."
Then the cowboy awoke with an anguished cry,
His clothes wet with sweat and his hair standing high.
Then he prayed as he never had prayed till that hour
To be saved from his sin and the demon's power;
And his prayers and his vows were not in vain,
For he never rode the hell-bound train.
Cute Halloween Jokes ;)
Q. What do you call a witch who lives at the beach?
A. A sand-witch.
Q. Where does a ghost go on Saturday night?
A. Anywhere where he can boo-gie.
Q. What did the skeleton say to the vampire?
A. You suck.
Q. Why did the ghost go into the bar?
A. For the Boos.
Q. What happens when a ghost gets lost in the fog?
A. He is mist.
Q. Why did the Vampire read the Wall Street Journal?
Q. He heard it had great circulation.
Q. What are ghosts' favorite kind of streets?
A. Dead ends.
Q. What kind of makeup do ghosts wear?
A. Mas-scare-a.
Q. What happens when two vampires meet?
A. It was love at first bite!
Q. Why did the skeleton go disco dancing?
A. To see the boogy man.
Q: Why didn't the skeleton cross the road?
A: He had no guts.
Q. How did the ghost say goodbye to the vampire?
A. So long sucker!
Q. Where do vampires keep their money?
A: The blood bank!!!
Q. Why does a cemetery have to keep a fence around it?
A. Because people are dying to get in.
Q. Where do vampires keep their money?
A: The blood bank!!!
Q. Why does a cemetery have to keep a fence around it?
A. Because people are dying to get in.
Do Not Whisper To The Wind ~ by Rayne Avalotus
Do Not Whisper To The Wind
by Rayne Avalotus
by Rayne Avalotus
Do not whisper to the wind,
For wind winds far and deep,
Deep down into the shadow land
Where evil creatures sleep.
The echo of thy uttered word
Can wake them, make them creep!
Do not whisper to the wind,
For seething monsters hear;
The winds will carry monologues
To meet their careful ears,
And they will rise up from their tombs
To plague the world with fear.
Do not whisper to the wind
For demons know, they say,
Where rests thy sleepy, pretty head
When darkness swallows day,
And in the night they’ll come on thee
And steal thy soul away!
Do not whisper to the wind,
For evil’s waiting there
With anxious claws and open ears
Just listening to the air.
And waiting for a foolish child
To whisper unaware.
Do not whisper to the wind,
For beasts come leather skinned
With eyes aglow in sickly hue
And figures tall and thinned.
Thou may not, shall not, cannot
Ever whisper to the wind!
For wind winds far and deep,
Deep down into the shadow land
Where evil creatures sleep.
The echo of thy uttered word
Can wake them, make them creep!
Do not whisper to the wind,
For seething monsters hear;
The winds will carry monologues
To meet their careful ears,
And they will rise up from their tombs
To plague the world with fear.
Do not whisper to the wind
For demons know, they say,
Where rests thy sleepy, pretty head
When darkness swallows day,
And in the night they’ll come on thee
And steal thy soul away!
Do not whisper to the wind,
For evil’s waiting there
With anxious claws and open ears
Just listening to the air.
And waiting for a foolish child
To whisper unaware.
Do not whisper to the wind,
For beasts come leather skinned
With eyes aglow in sickly hue
And figures tall and thinned.
Thou may not, shall not, cannot
Ever whisper to the wind!
October 29, 2010
Big Lion Hugs And Kisses His Rescuer! Amazing!!! Now That's Genuine LOVE... ♥
This story is sure to put a great BIG SMILE on your face! I found the original news reported at the time this video was taken. This truly is an amazing story. Thanks to my friend Russ for sharing this video with me.
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Click Orlando WKMG Local 8
written by Staff
Thursday, January 11, 2007
People in Cali, Colombia, are shocked to see the bond between a large African lion and a woman who saved it from abuse, involving long, affectionate kisses and hugs between the pair.
Ana Julia Torres, who runs the Villa Lorena animal shelter in Cali, fed and nursed Jupiter the African lion back to health years ago after it was found abused and emaciated in a traveling circus.
"It is amazing to see an animal like that be so sweet and affectionate," said Torres. "This hug is the most sincere one that I have received in my life."
Torres, 47, said her work rehabilitating animals began more than a decade ago when a friend gave her an owl that had been kept as a pet.
Later, when she asked her students to bring their pets to school, she realized many families illegally kept wild fauna from Colombia's biologically diverse jungles in their homes.
The number of animals under her care grew, and now Jupiter is among 800 recovering creatures at Villa Lorena, where Torres looks after, among others, burned peacocks, limbless flamengos, blind monkeys and mutilated elephants.
Most of the animals are caged, though some, like iguanas, roam freely around the grounds of the shelter, which are enclosed by a 13-foot wall.
Torres said she relies on donations and her modest teacher's salary to run the shelter.
"We dedicate our lives to the care of these animals without one single peso from the state," Torres said.
Torres said many of the animals were rejected as infants by their parents in the wild or found abandoned on the streets of Cali.
Torres said because she opposes exhibiting animals in circuses, she decided to keep her shelter closed from the public.
♥♥♥ I Believe In Lღ√Ƹ Lღ√Ƹ Lღ√Ƹ ♥♥♥
HAPPY FRIDAY everybody!!! This song should help get you pumped up for the weekend!!! It's working for me lol ;)
I Believe In Love by Barbra Streisand
(Feeling love is feeling good, I believe in love)
Yeah
(Feeling love is feeling good, I believe in love)
Yeah
Feeling love, that's all
That's enough for me
Yet I see, I see faces
Covered up and empty eyed
Empty spaces
Where there used to be a soul inside
Nothing and no one ever gets to you
Seems the wind could blow right through you
Believin' in gods that never knew you
I believe in love
I believe in love
I believe in feelin' good
And that's feelin' love
Now worry
Climbin' up your money tree
You've got to hurry
Monkey do what monkey see
You're on a one-way street and you're speeding
Missin' the signs you ought to be readin'
Passin' things you'll later be needin'
I believe in love, what?
I believe it nobody sold me
Always knew it, nobody told me
I believe in someone to hold me
I believe in love
I believe in love, I do
Yes, I believe in feelin' good
And that's feelin' love, yeah
(Feeling love is feeling good)
Feeling love, that's all
That's enough for me
I won't be, don't wanna be lonely
Sleeping in an empty bed
Shouldn't be only
A place to rest my head
But I don't want to find myself one day
Waking up and looking at Monday
With some what's his name left from Sunday
I believe in love, what?
I believe it nobody sold me
Always knew it, nobody told me
I believe in someone to hold me
I believe in love
I believe in love
I believe in feelin' good
Now everybody should
They believe in feelin' good
Believin' in, believin' in love, LOVE!
10 Inspirational Quotes From Leo Buscaglia!
Felice Leonardo "Leo" Buscaglia, Ph.D. (31 March 1924 – 11 June 1998) was an author and motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California. He was a graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School (Los Angeles). Leo Buscaglia authored a number of New York Times bestselling inspirational books on love and human reticence on the subject, including The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, Bus 9 to Paradise, Living Loving and Learning, Love, and My Father. In lectures he often protested, in outrage at the comparative absence of writings on the subject, "I got the copyright for love!!!" [source: wikipedia]
10 Inspirational Quotes From Leo Buscaglia
- Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
- Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
- We all need each other.
- Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
- What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
- Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
- The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
- Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
- It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
- The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
BONUS
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Indonesia tsunami death toll tops 400. At least 33 people have died since Mount Merapi erupted on Tues.
CBC News
written by Staff
Friday, October 29, 2010
Rescue crews are struggling to reach some of the remote Indonesian islands that were hit by a tsunami that left more than 400 people dead and hundreds missing.
Monday's tsunami was triggered by an earthquake off the coast of Western Sumatra. The wall of water swept through several villages, destroying hundreds of homes and forcing thousands to flee to the hills.
Rough seas, bad weather and a shortage of boats slowed the response to the disaster, officials said.
"We are scrambling, along with other organizations and agencies to get what we can as quickly as possible to the area," said Phillip Charlesworth, a representative of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Indonesia.
He said that even crews that have made it to the islands are struggling to move between areas because of damage to the "very basic" infrastructure in the area.
The World Health Organization said in a report that some government aid workers were delivering aid on foot because cars couldn't travel between the affected communities.
SurfAid International, a relief group that works in the area, has been using a surf charter boat to distribute food, water and shelter supplies, but the team was forced to pause their deliveries Thursday because of bad weather.
The death toll rose to 408 on Friday as officials found more bodies, and 303 people were still missing, said Agus Prayitno, of the West Sumatra provincial disaster management centre.
Rescue teams "believe many, many of the bodies were swept to sea," said Harmensyah, the disaster centre's chief.
At the hospital on Pagai Utara, one of the four main islands in the Mentawai chain, 35-year-old Sarifinus cradled his child as medical staff tended to his broken arm.
The man described how, when the towering wall of water came, he grabbed his two other young sons and ran toward the mountain. The wave tore both from his arms and sucked them away.
Sarifinus and his wife, Martina, who sat staring blankly in a corner of the hospital, found their five-year-old son alive after the waters receded.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono flew to the Mentawai islands Thursday to visit affected areas and survey the damage.
Volcano erupts again
Meanwhile, a volatile volcano on the main island of Java erupted again early Friday, spewing out clouds of smoke and ash.
The activity appeared to be easing pressure behind a lava dome that has formed in the crater, said Safari Dwiyono, a scientist who has been monitoring Merapi for 15 years.
"If the energy continues to release little by little like this, it reduces the chances of having a bigger, powerful eruption," he said.
At least 33 people have died since Mount Merapi started erupting Tuesday, officials say. No new casualties were reported Friday.
October 28, 2010
The Soviet Union UGLY History
The Soviet Union History
[source: Mark Humphrys]
The Soviet state was a steady killer of millions for decades - through executions, gulags and state-caused famine.
The 1917 revolution - A disaster. A tragedy for Russia and the world that the Reds won. An appalling step backwards into tyranny. An appalling crime to replace the Tsar with Lenin's murderous tyranny, a thousand times more murderous than the Tsar's regime.
The Lenin / Trotsky period, 1917-24
Some people think Lenin and Trotsky were "not as bad" as Stalin, that the 1917 revolution was not criminal from the start, but only became criminal later. This is one of the greatest lies in history. Lenin and Trotsky killed 4 million people - men, women and children - by mass executions, death camps, and state-caused famine. See [The Black Book of Communism] for a good introduction to their genocide, which started as soon as they got into power in 1917.
The resistance
All across the Russian countryside in 1917-22, there were riots and uprisings as heroic peasants tried desperately to hold on to their freedom. They were well aware of the nature of the scum that had taken over their country. These forgotten heroes were killed by the million. Their families - men, women and children - were executed or sent to death camps. Their villages were burnt, and even bombed with chemical weapons by the monsters Lenin and Trotsky.
Russian White Guard and Anti-Communism movement
The Tambov rebellion of 1920
It is true that the anti-communist resistance came in many forms, from liberal democrats to socialist anarchists to Jew-hating nationalists. The latter carried out hundreds of pogroms of Jews. In some areas, the Russian civil war was a conflict between communism and democracy. In other areas, it was a conflict between communism and fascism. But no crimes by (some of) their enemies can justify the crimes of Lenin and Trotsky.
The famine
The Bolsheviks destroyed Russia's economy. By 1920 the ruble had lost 96 percent of its value.
Lenin and Trotsky's oppression became ferocious as the cities ran out of food due to the collapse of the economy, caused by themselves and their stupid Marxist ideas. Innocent rural Russia was robbed of its food and butchered and starved by the parasitical (literally) urban communists.
The Bolsheviks started a massive program of confiscating the food of the countryside, and starved them into submission. The monsters Lenin and Trotsky deliberately started a famine as a political weapon. They caused the massive famine of 1921-2, deliberately killing 2.5 million men, women and little children, according to [Rudolph J. Rummel], or 5 million, according to [The Black Book of Communism].
The genocide of the Cossacks in 1919
The Red Terror in Russia, Sergei Melgunov, 1925 - about the early Bolshevik atrocities, under Lenin.
The Stalin period, 1924-53
[The Black Book of Communism, Ch.7] shows that even in 1930 there was still heroic peasant resistance to collectivization. Brave peasants even managed to kill hundreds of Soviet officials. But the Soviet state slaughtered 6 million of them.
The Ukrainian Famine
In 1932-3, Stalin and his butchers deliberately starved to death around 7 million utterly innocent men, women and little children, mainly in the Ukraine. Their food was stolen by the government, and every measure was taken to prevent them obtaining any food.
In World War Two, the west was allied with this sick genocidal monster - the worst case of realpolitik in the history of the free world.
The Stalin terror
The Great Terror, Robert Conquest, 1968 - estimates that 5 million people were murdered in 1935-8 alone.
Rudolph J. Rummel estimates 4 million people murdered, with a possible high of 11 million people (see here and here), in 1935-8 alone.
Gendercide: The staggering cruelty of the monster Stalin
World War Two
Not so well known, and hard to believe, is that even in World War Two, the Soviet state was still the no.1 killer of Soviet citizens, with the Nazis no.2. Even in wartime, Stalin's regime was killing more of its own people than even an invading barbaric army could.
In general, totalitarian government is more murderous than all-out war.
It is also often forgotten that the Soviet Union was allied with the Nazis for the first 2 years of the war.
The Soviet famine of 1946-7 (1 to 1.5 million dead) was again caused by the Soviet government.
War and Genocide and Disaster Victims: Arthur Hu's Index of Diversity! I Came Across This AWESOME Website Today That I Want To Share With You! KNOWLEDGE is POWER! What You Don't Know Can Hurt You.
War and Genocide and Disaster Victims
Arthur Hu's Index of Diversity
[source: Arthur Hu]
With apologies to those who find the topic grisly, I've always wondered how all the great mass killings and wars rank compared against each other. This is one of the most complete collection of mass death statistics on the internet. Dedicated to the hope that people will one day stop using the name of economic justice to kill their fellow man and woman, and finally realize that Karl Marx, not free market capitalism, is the most evil system of thought, and biggest source of death and poverty in human history. Feel free to send comments or new information.
Karl Marx Wins The Award for Most Deaths In History Due to One Man.
And the award for the most mass killings credited to one man goes to ... (ta dah...) Karl Marx! Congratulations! It exceeds all war deaths in the 20th century, and even the wildest inflation of deaths due to slavery. More than Hitler. More than the Japanese Empire. Way more than Uncle Sam. Remember the motto.. No Justice No Peace. Just kill your fellow man until human equality has been achieved. Let this be a warning to those who want to raise hell for justice.
Genocide Spectrum: Largest mass killings in History
720M Modern deaths if at primitive society rates H Bloom
**************** ALL TIME CHAMPION *************
258M 20th century by govt. "Death by Government"
180M Evil deaths caused by govt or religion in 20th century
120M Partial Total Karl Marx inspired killings
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105M 20th century war deaths
100M Communist deaths (Book of Communist Crimes, Courtois)
100M African Slaves Middle Passage (Lori Robison, absurd)
60-80M Mao 1994 estimate (#1 person)
45M WWII total (World Almanac)
40M Gengis Khan
40M Influenza of 1918, Worldwide [1]
30M Asians WWII
30M Taiping Rebellion (Chris Fitch)
30M Stalin Purge / Famines
30M Mao Tse Tung Famines
30M Mongol rule of China
25M African Slaves Middle Passage (intermediate)
20M Spanish Flu epidemic 1918 ST 2/24/99
20M-30M Chinese killled by Japanese Rape of Nanking
20M-30M Spanish Decline of Incas -History Mexico
20M Non-Japanese Asians WWII
20M Russian WWII (Cris A Fitch)
20M War dead 19th century
20M Black Death Europe 1348-49
15M WWII soldier SciAm Ju2000
11M African slaves brought to New World (CD-ROM, Gregory)
10M Stalin Famine and Executions
10M Chinese civilians WWII
9M Russian Civil Polish Sci Am Ju2000
9M WWI Military SciAm Ju 2000
6.5M Ethnic Poles and Polish Jews, 20% of pop
6M War dead 18th century, 17th century
6M Chinese Civilians (Japanese War Crimes)
6M Jewish Holocaust (TM, standard figure disputed by
revisionists)
3-6M Died on African slave ships (Black Voyage)
5M Korean War civ+mil (Aviation Week)
3M German soldiers WWII(A. Beyer)
3-10M Congo Free State 1886-1808 (Matthew White)
3M German prisoners / Russia (Foot Soldier)
********** TOP ALLIED ***********************************
3M Japanese WWII
3M Bangladesh Hindu 1971
2.7M French-Am Vietnam SciAm Hu2000
2.5M Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815 SciAm Ju2000
2M 1945 Treaty "Relocations"
2M Vietnam war 1960-75 all sides
2M Vietnam civilians Vietnam Govt est.
2M Chinese WWII
2M Cambodia Killing Fields (TM) Pol Pot ('96)
1.5-2M WWII bombing by all sides "War to be Won, Murray & Millett"
1.5M 20th century earthquakes (savage earth pbs)
1.5M War dead 16th century
1.5M SovAfganistan SciAm Jun2000
1.5M Rwanda / Burundi
1.5M Afghanistan war deaths 1981-2001
1.5M Armenian Genocide (TM)
1.2M Tibet by Chinese since 1950 (Matthew White)
1.1M Azeris by Armenians
1.1M All US War Casualties
1M Muslims in 1952-1962 Algerian War
1M Chin Great Wall construction
1M Bangladesh by Pakistan
1M Irish famine deaths to starvation / disease
1M German soldiers (A. Beyer, revisionist)
1M WWII conventional bombing (PBS Oppenheimer)
1M Chinese Korean War (Cris A Fitch)
750K Vietnam refugees who successfully fled in late 1970s
700K Thought to be killed in Roman Coliseum for public entertainment
650k Slaves brought to US (gregory)
610K Total US-Japan B-29 raids
600K Khmer Health est 1969 Cambodia bombings ???
600K high estimate of allied bombing of Germany
600K US Civil War #1 US
500K Australian aborigines
500K Cambodians by US bombing (Naom Chomsky)
500K Spanish Flu United States 1918-19
500K Idi Amin 1971-79
400K North Korean political prisons US News 2003
400K Vietnam civilian deaths due to communist shelling, rocket, attacks [3]
400K Type A flu epidemics USA since emergence
400K US AIDS deaths to 1998
350K Nuclar bomb deaths
300K Japan forced labor
300K Jews and others in German prison camps (revisionist, boo, hiss)
300K Germans killed by allied bombing WWII
300K Iran/Iraq Gulf War
290K US WWII deaths #2 US
260K Japan conventional bombing deaths
250K High Japan Retaliation for Doolittle Raid (air magazine)
235K Battle of Okinawa, all sides
225K ARVN S. Vietnam combat (Chomsky)
200K Philippines rebellion incl starvation
200K Guatemala generals (Cockburn)
200K Rape of Nanjing(TM)
200K Children sacrificed in Carthage over 200 years.
161K Indonesia volcanos, total
150K 1908 Messina Earthquake
150K Common estimate of Iraqi troops Gulf War
150K Yugoslavia breakup
116K US World War I #4 US
100K Japanese withdrawal from Manila
100K US share of slaves died in transport
80K US WWII allied aircrew losses
80K French in 1952-1962 Algerian War
70K Asian Flu 1957-58 United States
70K Nagasaki
70K Dresden Fire Bombing
60K Japanese POW in Russia
58K Vietnam War US military #4 US
57k US seamen WWII
54K US Korean War #5 US
51K German bombings of UK
50-100K Died in boats fleeing Vietnam communists [3]
50K Claims of US Vietnam civilian bombing deaths [3]
47K Bataan death march / battle
42K London Blitz WWII
36417 Krakatoa tsunami 1883 (Kra..the day)
30K US airmen Europe WWII
30K Mid estimate of Iraq Gulf War
30K Low Japan Retaliation for Doolittle Raid (History Channel)
26k US annual intentional shootings / suicide
28K St Pierre Martinique volcano may 1902
25K German U Boat crew WWII
25K 1973 Arab Israeli war
25K 1967 Arab Israeli war
23k 1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano mud flow
22K Boer concentration camps under 16
20K V-2 slave labor force deaths
20K Zimbabwe 1982 Nbedeles by Shona tribe
18K Taiwan 1947 riot suppression
18K Cholera Plague Paris 1932 water
17K WWI Aircrew (Wings)
16K 1841 British withdrawal from Kabul 1 survivor
14K Ferries 1980-2000
12K POWS "River Kawai" railway
3-12k low est. Iraqi troops, ground 1991 based
10-100K 1950s Vietnam communist executions in land reforms [3]
10k USA annual accidental injury / death shootings
10k Gloucester fisherman lost at sea
9,345 Wilhelm Gustoff sinking 1945
8,000 Galveston 1900 Hurricane #1 US Nat Disaster
5k-7k 5,534 to 7,207 Iraq Body Count 2003 War
7,000 Chernobyl explosion 1986
6,800 US Merchant Marine WWII
6,500 German V-1 buzz bombs
6,000 US Revolutionary War
5,000 9/11/2001 airliner attacks in DC/WTC
5,000 Kobe earthquake
5,000 Philipines ferry worst ship ever
3,200 Northern Ireland Violence
4,000 Sultana civil war ship explosion
3,000 2003 France heat wave, lack of a/c
3,000 US Helicopter Vietnam crews, 2nd only to infantry
2,403 Pearl Harbor Attack (US)
2,278 US Desert Storm, Iraqi Civilans
2,048 Italy 1963 landslide into dam
1,522 Titanic sinking
1,426 1990 Mecca pedestrian tunnel
1,100 1979 Sverdlosk Russia anthrax outbreak
1,000 Hanoi civilians 1972 Christmas B-52 bombings
913+Jonestown mass suicide / murder
756 Killed seeking north pole before Peary
500 AP Afghanistan civilians 2001
500 Actual Iraqi bodies recovered by Allies 1991
500 Somalia 1993 US raid, civilians and armed
460 Spanish American war US WSJ 7/2/03
425 NY Times survey of rampage killings since 1949
400 Iraqi claims of bomb shelter hit, 1991
400 Hi estimate of My Lai massacre
320 Port Chicago blast (202 black)
300 Queen Mary burns protestants at the stake 1555
266 Battleship Maine explosion
240 Desert Storm Coalition Casualties
200 WWII US Women casualties
1-200 Paris massacre October 17, 1961 100-200 Algerians killed and dumped in the Seine).
100s Killed in Vietnam by old bombs annually
100 US Firemen killed annually
146 US Desert Storm Casualties
120 Mountain Meadows Massacre 1857, Mormons
45 1927 school bombing
39 DC Race Riot of 1919
38 Los Angeles Rodney King Riot 1992
34 Los Angeles Watts Riot 1965
31 US Berlin Airlift 189,963 sorties
18 US Battle of Mogadishu Somalia
8 Vietnam US Nurses
3 Bellingham WA gasoline pipeline explosion 1999
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Seizes Local Unit Of US Glass Company That Has Operated There For 52 years!
Yep!!! This is what happens under a Socialist TYRANTS rule. In simple terms Socialism is defined as "A political theory advocating state ownership of industry and an economic system based on state ownership of capital." Is this what you really want? Where the government controls everything and everyone? Where the government can tell you how much you can earn and how much you can eat and how your supposed to live? By moving in this direction, you are willfully giving up your individual right to "think" and "do" for yourself and thus become a slave, yes a slave to the government. How can that be you ask? Well because you will then be at the government's mercy and their agents. Just take a good hard look at Huge Chavez and his humongous EGO! He doesn't give a damn about the Venezuelan people ONLY his need for more POWER and CONTROL. History has shown us that monsters like this are dangerous.
Do yourself a favor and research Karl Marx twisted ideology that caused 120+ million to be murdered, Mao tse-tung (China) who murdered 60-80 million, Joseph Stalin (USSR) who murdered 40+ million, Adolf Hitler (Germany) who murdered 17+ million, Japanese Empire Democide against ethnically cleansed Chinese murdered 23+ million, Vladimir Lenin (USSR) murdered 5 million, Ottoman Empire (Turkey) murdered 1+ million Armenians, Omar al-Bashir (Sudan) murdered 1+ million African native Darfurians. You should also research Benito Mussolini and Napoleon Bonaparte.
Please click HERE to read a source list and detailed death tolls for the Twentieth Century Hemoclysm. The person who created this list did an amazing job putting this info together for us. The website "defined the Hemoclysm as that string of interconnected barbarities which have made the Twentieth Century so fascinating for historians and so miserable for real people."
Please click HERE to read another awesome detailed list I found. "War and Genocide and Disaster Victims: Arthur Hu's Index of Diversity. With apologies to those who find the topic grisly, I've always wondered how all the great mass killings and wars rank compared against each other. This is one of the most complete collection of mass death statistics on the internet. Dedicated to the hope that people will one day stop using the name of economic justice to kill their fellow man and woman, and finally realize that Karl Marx, not free market capitalism, is the most evil system of thought, and biggest source of death and poverty in human history. Feel free to send comments or new information.
And the award for the most mass killings credited to one man goes to ... (ta dah...) Karl Marx! Congratulations! It exceeds all war deaths in the 20th century, and even the wildest inflation of deaths due to slavery. More than Hitler. More than the Japanese Empire. Way more than Uncle Sam. Remember the motto.. No Justice No Peace. Just kill your fellow man until human equality has been achieved. Let this be a warning to those who want to raise hell for justice."
Do yourself a favor and research Karl Marx twisted ideology that caused 120+ million to be murdered, Mao tse-tung (China) who murdered 60-80 million, Joseph Stalin (USSR) who murdered 40+ million, Adolf Hitler (Germany) who murdered 17+ million, Japanese Empire Democide against ethnically cleansed Chinese murdered 23+ million, Vladimir Lenin (USSR) murdered 5 million, Ottoman Empire (Turkey) murdered 1+ million Armenians, Omar al-Bashir (Sudan) murdered 1+ million African native Darfurians. You should also research Benito Mussolini and Napoleon Bonaparte.
Please click HERE to read a source list and detailed death tolls for the Twentieth Century Hemoclysm. The person who created this list did an amazing job putting this info together for us. The website "defined the Hemoclysm as that string of interconnected barbarities which have made the Twentieth Century so fascinating for historians and so miserable for real people."
Please click HERE to read another awesome detailed list I found. "War and Genocide and Disaster Victims: Arthur Hu's Index of Diversity. With apologies to those who find the topic grisly, I've always wondered how all the great mass killings and wars rank compared against each other. This is one of the most complete collection of mass death statistics on the internet. Dedicated to the hope that people will one day stop using the name of economic justice to kill their fellow man and woman, and finally realize that Karl Marx, not free market capitalism, is the most evil system of thought, and biggest source of death and poverty in human history. Feel free to send comments or new information.
And the award for the most mass killings credited to one man goes to ... (ta dah...) Karl Marx! Congratulations! It exceeds all war deaths in the 20th century, and even the wildest inflation of deaths due to slavery. More than Hitler. More than the Japanese Empire. Way more than Uncle Sam. Remember the motto.. No Justice No Peace. Just kill your fellow man until human equality has been achieved. Let this be a warning to those who want to raise hell for justice."
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AFP
written by Staff
Monday October 25, 2010
CARACAS — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the expropriation of the local affiliate of the US-based glassmaker Owens Illinois, accusing it of causing environmental damage and exploiting its workers.
The company "has had years exploiting the workers, destroying the environment" in the western state of Trujillo, "and taking away the money of Venezuelans," Chavez said during a government event broadcast on radio and television.
Chavez added that his government has "a list with more names" of companies that will be expropriated, but gave no further details.
Owens Illinois Inc. is a leader world glass bottle maker with some 22,000 workers in 21 countries.
The US company has operated in Venezuela for 52 years, and has two plants that make bottles and containers for beer, drinks, food and liquor.
In South America, aside from Venezuela it also has operations in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, and focuses on manufacturing glass containers, according to the company website.
Since 2007, the Chavez administration has expropriated more than 347 companies in areas including electricity, banking, cement, steel, oil and food.
And since 1999, when Chavez took office, the government has taken over some three million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land, in line with his so-called Bolivarian Revolution in which the firebrand leftist has aggressively sought to consolidate private assets under state control.
Later in the speech Chavez threatened to nationalize privately-owned banks, but gave no names.
Private banks "that do not want to collaborate in the national development should be taken over by the state with no kind of delay," Chavez said. "There is no turning back."
Chavez said that banks needed to ease credit to build homes, of which there is a shortage in Venezuela.
Since November 2009 the Venezuelan government either nationalized or dissolved about a dozen small and mid-sized banks.
Chavez, just back from an international tour that took him to Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Syria, Iran, Libya and Portugal, also said that he had signed no new arms deals during his 11-day tour.
"It is the first trip to Russia in which we talked about everything except armaments," he said.
Between 2005 and 2007 Venezuela signed agreements with Moscow worth more than four billion dollars to buy Sukhoi jets, combat helicopters and automatic rifles.
Bolstered by a previous 2.2 billion dollar Russian loan, Venezuela is buying T-72 tanks and an undetermined number of S-300 anti-aircraft missile defense systems.
Campaign's Big Spender: Public-Employees Union Now Leads All Groups in Independent Election Outlays!!!
Hmmm... I wonder why. They're scared as heck about losing those nice CUSHY PRIVATIZED PENSION PLANS that we all pay for and they're scared as heck if the American public raises a big enough stink that causes legislators to FORCE THEM to pay into the Social Security system and Medicare system like the rest of Americans!!! Remember I told you last week that ALL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES are EXEMPTED from having to pay into both Social Security and Medicare. Yep, that is why they are investing so much money into campaigns to hold on to their treasure trove at the taxpayers expense!
Oh and Tsk Tsk Mr. President, DNC, MSNBC and other Obama mouthpieces for continuing to be dishonest with the American public. You've been telling Americans that the republicans have secret donors that are buying the election. Well TRUTH BE TOLD, the TOP 3 donors are reported to be UNIONS that support (drum roll please) yep you guessed right ==> THE DEMOCRATS!
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Wall Street Journal
written by Brody Mullins and John D. McKinnon
Friday October 22, 2010
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is now the biggest outside spender of the 2010 elections, thanks to an 11th-hour effort to boost Democrats that has vaulted the public-sector union ahead of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and a flock of new Republican groups in campaign spending.
The 1.6 million-member AFSCME is spending a total of $87.5 million on the elections after tapping into a $16 million emergency account to help fortify the Democrats' hold on Congress. Last week, AFSCME dug deeper, taking out a $2 million loan to fund its push. The group is spending money on television advertisements, phone calls, campaign mailings and other political efforts, helped by a Supreme Court decision that loosened restrictions on campaign spending.
"We're the big dog," said Larry Scanlon, the head of AFSCME's political operations. "But we don't like to brag."
The 2010 election could be pivotal for public-sector unions, whose clout helped shield members from the worst of the economic downturn. In the 2009 stimulus and other legislation, Democratic lawmakers sent more than $160 billion in federal cash to states, aimed in large part at preventing public-sector layoffs. If Republicans running under the banner of limited government win in November, they aren't likely to support extending such aid to states.
Newly elected conservatives will also likely push to clip the political power of public-sector unions. For years, conservatives have argued such unions have an outsize influence in picking the elected officials who are, in effect, their bosses, putting them in a strong position to push for more jobs, and thus more political clout.
Some critics say public-sector unions are funded by what is essentially taxpayer cash, since member salaries, and therefore union dues, come directly from state budgets.
"Public-sector unions have a guaranteed source of revenue—you and me as taxpayers," said Glenn Spencer, executive director of the Workforce Freedom Initiative at the Chamber of Commerce.
Gregory King, a spokesman for AFSCME, said conservatives make too much of the issue, especially the link to taxpayers. Based on their logic, "the government is funding the movie industry every time AFSCME members go out to the movies," he said.
The union is spending heavily this year because "a lot of people are attacking public-sector workers as the problem," said AFSCME President Gerald McEntee. "We're spending big. And we're damn happy it's big. And our members are damn happy it's big—it's their money," he said.
Spending totals are still in flux, and another group could overtake AFSCME in the race's remaining days.
Campaign spending by outside groups is increasing rapidly but is still smaller than spending by the Democratic and Republican parties, which combined have already doled out nearly $1 billion in this election cycle, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
AFSCME's campaign push accounts for an estimated 30% of what pro-Democratic groups, including unions, plan to spend on independent campaigns to elect Democrats. It was made possible in part by a 2010 Supreme Court decision that permitted companies and unions to use their own funds to pay for certain political ads. That unleashed a flood of contributions and spawned an array of new outside political organizations, most of which were set up to help elect Republicans.
The political debate over spending by outside groups has focused largely on advertising buys by those Republican-oriented groups. Unions have mostly escaped attention in that debate, in part because they traditionally have spent much of their cash on other kinds of political activities, including get-out-the-vote efforts.
Previously, most labor-sponsored campaign ads had to be funded by volunteer donations. Now, however, AFSCME can pay for ads using annual dues from members, which amount to about $390 per person. AFSCME said it will tap membership dues to pay for $17 million of ads backing Democrats this election.
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The National Debt Has Increased $5 TRILLION Since Speaker Pelosi Vowed, ‘No New Deficit Spending’ When She Took Over The House In 2007!
CNS News
written by Terence P. Jeffrey
Monday October 25, 2010
(CNSNews.com) - When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave her inaugural address as speaker of the House in 2007, she vowed there would be “no new deficit spending.” Since that day, the national debt has increased by $5 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
"After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go, no new deficit spending,” Pelosi said in her speech from the speaker’s podium. “Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt."
Pelosi has served as speaker in the 110th and 111th Congresses.
At the close of business on Jan. 4, 2007, Pelosi’s first day as speaker, the national debt was $8,670,596,242,973.04 (8.67 trillion), according to the Bureau of the Public Debt, a division of the U.S. Treasury Department. At the close of business on Oct. 22, it stood at $13,667,983,325,978.31 (13.67 trillion), an increase of 4,997,387,083,005.27 (or approximately $5 TRILLION).
Pelosi, the 60th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has added more to the national debt than the first 57 House speakers combined.
Under the U.S. Constitution, the federal government cannot spend any money that has not been approved by congressional appropriations; and, by congressional precedent, appropriations bills originate in the House.
"No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law," says Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution.
“By precedent, appropriations originate in the House, with the Senate following suit,” says the House Rules Committee in an explanation of the appropriations process.
Annual federal expenditures have increased by about $730 billion in the Pelosi era, while annual deficits have increased almost 8 fold. In fiscal 2007, when Pelosi became speaker, the federal government spent $2.73 trillion and ran an annual deficit of $162.8 billion, according to the Treasury Department. In fiscal 2009, the federal government spent $3.52 trillion and ran an annual deficit of $1.4157 trillion. In fiscal 2010, the federal government spent $3.46 trillion and ran an annual deficit of $1.2941 trillion.
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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Said Enrollment Rules Must Be The Same For Healthy, Sick Children! That's What Happens When YOU DON'T READ THE BILL! Unintended Consequences
McClatchy News
written by Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
WASHINGTON — Health insurers can't have different rules for selling individual policies for children with medical problems and for healthy children, the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday.
Some insurers want to allow healthy children to enroll year-round but only have a limited enrollment window for those with pre-existing conditions. Not so fast, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Such an approach is legally questionable and "inconsistent with the language and intent" of the health care law, Sebelius wrote. [<=== How the heck would you know Nurse Ratched?!?! (emphasis mine)]
For policies that begin after Sept. 23, the new health law bars insurers from denying coverage to children up to 19 with pre-existing medical conditions. While HHS had previously said that insurers and states could have a limited enrollment period, today's letter offered additional guidance: Insurers can't have a window of enrollment for some children and not others.
Parents of sick children may still find other challenges, however, including the availability and cost of the coverage. Some states place no limits on how much could be charged for that coverage.
Insurers reacted to the letter, claiming that HHS "has created a powerful incentive for parents to defer purchasing coverage until after their children need it — which could significantly raise costs and cause disruptions for families whose children are currently covered by child-only policies," said Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group representing insurers.
Some insurers, worried about an influx of sick children who'd be expensive to cover, have dropped out of the child-only individual market entirely.
In a conference call Wednesday with reporters, Jay Angoff, the director of the HHS Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, said that HHS could establish a uniform open-enrollment period for child-only policies. "And if that would result in companies who stopped writing child-only business starting again to write child-only business, that's something that makes a lot of sense."
States, however, can often move faster, Angoff said. Beth Sammis, Maryland's acting insurance commissioner, told reporters that after she established a uniform open enrollment period — which the Maryland legislature must approve — two insurers said they'd continue to sell child-only insurance policies in the state.
Consumer advocates praised the guidance. In a written statement, Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families said that "While only a small number of families are in need of individual insurance coverage for their children, they are a particularly vulnerable group" who often make too much to qualify for Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Child-only policies make up about 8 percent to 10 percent of the individual insurance market.
For years, insurers — principally those in the individual insurance market — have denied coverage to children, as well as adults, with medical conditions. In some cases, they have accepted them but refused to cover their pre-existing conditions for a set period.
HHS has estimated that 31,000 to 72,000 uninsured children with pre-existing conditions will gain coverage under the provision through 2013. About 90,000 insured children will get coverage for pre-existing conditions that have been excluded from coverage, the department estimates. In 2014, no one can be denied coverage due to a medical condition, and people will be required to buy insurance or pay a fine.
Some states, including Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Vermont, already prohibit insurers from excluding coverage of pre-existing medical conditions and about a dozen states allow families to purchase coverage through the Children's Health Insurance Program. Uninsured children may also be able to obtain coverage through another program in the health law created to help people with pre-existing medical conditions who have been denied coverage, Angoff said.
October 27, 2010
Mexican Drug Gangs Gain Foothold In Guatemalan Jungle! This Is A Great Piece!
McClatchy News
written by Tim Johnson
Wednesday October 27, 2010
EL REMATE, Guatemala — The Peten jungle, once known for its jaguars and Mayan ruins, has fallen prey to a notorious Mexican drug gang that operates from remote jungle ranches and has begun openly challenging Guatemalan security forces for control of the roads.
The struggle that's under way in this remote region could help determine the fate of Guatemala, a fragile democracy south of Mexico that's already under enormous pressure from narcotics gangs. It's certain to affect Mexico, which is struggling to maintain order against powerful armed gangs on its northern borders.
In a fierce clash that began south of the famous Tikal ruins, the drug gang known as Los Zetas, based in Mexico's northeastern border area and the Yucatan Peninsula, was able to outgun local police by deploying armored vehicles, bigger guns and far more ammunition. Then it fought a large army patrol to a draw, losing vehicles and taking wounded but apparently getting away with a stash of cocaine.
The transformation of the once-pristine jungle into a no man's land is the latest calamity to befall Guatemala, which has had a history of military domination, a 36-year civil war and a genocide conducted by the Guatemalan army against Mayan Indians some three decades ago. Although the CIA helped overthrow a government in 1952, Guatemala's newest drama is getting little high-level attention in Washington.
The recent confrontation between Los Zetas and the authorities began with a shouted warning from a bullhorn and a wrong turn.
Around midday on Oct. 5, when police stopped a convoy of 16 or so big double-cabin pickups and other vehicles a short drive south of the Tikal National Park, an amplified voice from one vehicle barked a warning:
"We are Los Zetas! Let us pass. We don't want problems."
To make their point, several men carrying assault rifles got out of the vehicles and fired hundreds of rounds into the air in a deafening display of firepower.
To describe the police as alarmed is an understatement.
"If you have an M16 rifle, and all I have is a 9 mm pistol, and you have 10 other guys behind you, I won't mess with you," said local police Sub-Inspector Oscar Bertruin, who was at the scene.
The police let the convoy pass, then called for help from the army, according to the accounts of several officers, nearly all of whom declined to give their names for fear of retaliation.
Los Zetas, a mercenary group founded by Mexican former special forces troops who broke off early this year from the Gulf Cartel in northeast Mexico, is at the top of the criminal heap. As the two groups wage a turf war in their home region, the Zetas have continued pushing into the eastern side of Central America, strengthening a cocaine pipeline from Colombia.
A larger rival Mexican cartel, the Sinaloa Federation, reportedly focuses on a corridor along Central America's Pacific coast.
The State Department's international narcotics and law enforcement chief, David T. Johnson, said in a speech Oct. 5 that 275 tons of cocaine transited Guatemala each year, nearly all of it destined for the United States.
Mexico is wary of the growing trouble on its southern frontier.
"If Guatemala goes down the drink, then Mexico is dealing with its northern and its southern borders. A major failure of democracy in Guatemala is going to directly impact Mexico City — resources, political capital, time, energy, human resources, everything — and that negatively affects the United States," said Samuel Logan, the regional manager for the Americas at iJet Intelligent Risk Systems, a consultancy on risk management based in Annapolis, Md.
From a stronghold in the Guatemalan city of Coban, the mountain capital of Alto Verapaz a little to the south, the Zetas have been pushing into the Peten, appearing sometimes in sizable numbers, maneuvering at ease and with military discipline.
"They circulate with numerous forces and carry the latest weaponry. When they use violence, no authority exists here that can control them," said Hector Rosada-Granados, a sociologist who helped negotiate the end to a 36-year guerrilla war in Guatemala in the 1990s.
The Zetas, striking up alliances with local drug clans, use a string of "narco-ranches" scattered deep in the Peten that are home to hundreds of dirt landing strips. In the remote Laguna del Tigre region, U.S. drug agents have spotted a "cemetery" where narcos abandon and torch aircraft after unloading cocaine from the Andes.
Sometimes rival gangs battle for the cocaine or underlings steal from their bosses. A 43-year-old ranch owner, Giovanni Espana, reportedly stung the Zetas that way back in June. A commando squad executed him June 26, but the missing shipment never turned up.
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WOW!!! The Entire Police Force In Los Ramones, Mexico Quits After Gunmen Attack Headquarters!!!
New York Daily News
written by Philip Caulfield
Wednesday October 27th 2010
The entire police force in a small Mexican town abruptly resigned Tuesday after its new headquarters was viciously attacked by suspected drug cartel gunmen.
All 14 police officers in Los Ramones, a rural town in northern Mexico, fled the force in terror after gunmen fired more than 1,000 bullets and flung six grenades at their headquarters on Monday night.
No one was injured in the attack. Mayor Santos Salinas Garza told local media that the officers resigned because of the incident.
The gunmen’s 20-minute shooting spree destroyed six police vehicles and left the white and orange police station pocked with bullet holes, the Financial Times reported.
The station had been inaugurated just three days earlier.
The attack was the second in less than a week against police forces in Nuevo Leon. Last week, thugs threw two grenades at police in Sabinas Hidalgo, according to newspaper Noroeste.
Los Ramones is in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, which has been a war zone of turf violence between two of the country’s fiercest drug gangs, the Zetas and the Gulf cartel.
Police have blamed members of both cartels for attacks on several police stations throughout the area. Several mayors in the region have been assassinated.
Mexico’s municipal police forces often quit out of fear after being attacked by cartels.
About 90% of forces have less than 100 officers, and 61% of cops earn less than $322 a month, according to the Finanical Times.
Mexico’s intelligence chief said this summer that nearly 30,000 people have died in drug related crimes since 2006.
13 People Killed In Mexico Car Wash Massacre!!!
Telegraph UK
written by Nick Allen
October 28, 2010
Gunmen drove up and opened fire at the car wash in the coastal city of Tepic, in the state of Nayarit in the west of the country.
A local official said between 13 and 15 people were killed. It was the third massacre in Mexico in less than a week.
On Friday an attack on a birthday party killed 14 young people in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. In another shooting at a drug rehabilitation centre in Tijuana 13 recovering addicts were murdered.
The motive for the car wash shootings was not immediately clear but the three attacks did not appear to be related.
A spokesman for the Nayarit state attorney general's office said: "The workers were all men; they were washing cars when the gunmen, probably members of organised crime, drove up in SUVs and started opening fire. We have reports of 13 to 15 dead, including a bystander."
Nayarit, a coastal state with expensive beach resorts catering to US tourists, has remained a quiet corner of Mexico since President Felipe Calderón launched his drug war in December 2006.
The shootings underscore how killings have spread from the notoriously violent border region across the country.
Almost 30,000 people have died in drug-related killings across Mexico over the past four years and more than 90 per cent of the murders go unsolved, according to human rights groups.
Mr Calderón called for a minute of silence for the latest victims.
October 26, 2010
10 Amazing Quotes by René Descartes
René Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (Latinized form), was a French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy", and much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which continue to be studied closely to this day. In particular, his Meditations on First Philosophy continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. Descartes' influence in mathematics is also apparent, the Cartesian coordinate system allowing geometric shapes to be expressed in algebraic equations being named for him. He is credited as the father of analytical geometry. Descartes was also one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation. [source: wikipedia]
10 Amazing Quotes by René Descartes
- A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
- Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
- In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
- The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
- Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
- Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
- You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
BONUS
I doubt therefore I think; I think therefore I am.
(transalated to latin: Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum)
BONUS BONUS
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
I doubt therefore I think; I think therefore I am.
(transalated to latin: Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum)
BONUS BONUS
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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