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“If people are to get along and there is to be civility in relationships, one must be prepared to accept differences of viewpoint, even with those to whom one is closest. We must agree to disagree.”
Well, that is very interesting comment. Not sure just who you believe we should get along with or agree with or disagree with. How empty. Unable to draw a line in the sand and stand for anything.
Enver Pasha:
Turkey
The death toll from 1.1 to 2.5 million
Years in power: 5 (1913-1918)
The most heinous crime: genocide of Armenians
Type of treatment: military
Cause of death: killed in action (in the opinion of the majority)
Kim Il Sung:
North Korea
The death toll: 1.6 million
Years in power: 46 (1948-1994)
The most heinous crime: the war in Korea
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: heart attack
Ho Chi Minh:
Northern Vietnam
The death toll: 1.7 million
Years in power: 24 (1945-1969)
The most heinous crime: the Vietnam War
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: heart failure
Pol Pot:
Cambodia
The death toll from 1.7 to 2.4 million people
Years in power: 4 (1975-1979)
The most heinous crime: genocide in Cambodia
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: officially unknown
Saddam Hussein:
Iraq
The number of deaths: 2 million
Years in power: 34 (1969-2003)
The most heinous crime: genocide of Kurds
Regime type: authoritarian
Cause of death: death by hanging
Yahya Khan:
Pakistan
The death toll from 2 to 12 million people
Years in power: 2 (1969-1971)
The most heinous crime: genocide in Bangladesh
Type of treatment: military
Cause of death: unknown
Hideki Tojo:
Japan
The number of dead: 4 million
Years in power: 3 (1941-1944)
The most heinous crime: the killing of civilians during World War II
Type of treatment: military
Cause of death: death by hanging
Vladimir Lenin:
USSR
The number of dead: 4 million
Years in power: 7 (1917-1924)
The most heinous crime: Civil War in Russia
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: cerebral hemorrhage
Hirohito:
Japan
The death toll: 6 million
Years in power: 62 (1926-1989)
The most terrible crimes: the massacre in Nanjing
Type of regime: monarchy
Cause of death: cancer
Chiang Kai-shekChina:
The death toll: 10 million
Years in power: 18 (1928-1949)
The most heinous crime: Incident 228 (Massacre in Taiwan in 1947)
Type of treatment: military
Cause of death: kidney failure
Adolf Hitler:
Germany
The death toll from 17 to 20 million people
Years in power: 11 (1934-1945)
The most heinous crime: the Holocaust
Type of regime: fascist
Cause of death: suicide
Joseph Stalin:
USSR
The death toll from 40 to 62 million people
Years in power: 12 (1941-1953)
The most heinous crime: the Gulag
Type of regime: communist
Cause of death: heart attack
Mao Zedong:
China
The death toll from 45 to 75 million
Years in power: 34 (1943-1976)
The most heinous crime: the great famine in China
Cause of death: heart attack

The Senate Committee has posted an Archived Webcast of the hearing:
http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_id=cfe32378-96a4-81ed-9d0e-2618e6ddff46&CFID=74583917&CFTOKEN=51049197

Onlooker (@OnlookerfrTroy) says: “The major problem hereafter (actually dating from years ago) is that a whole sector of the scientific world (i.e. climatologists, etc.) have so damaged their credibility that those who have taken any notice of that will never be able to trust them. That’s certainly my position, as one who has only relatively recently paid full attention to this.
They could say that the grass is green and the sky is blue and I’d look at it skeptically, wondering where they are bending the truth, at best.”
I agree; The reputation of science is the big loser. Why were there so few whistle-blowers and people of integrity? These proponents, fake scientists and biased editors, who have spent decades twisting truth for political ends should have been outed by those around them years ago. Where were the scientists of integrity whilst all this was going on?
I know that on this blog (and others) there are many scientists and whistleblowers with the guts to use their real names – well done – you are stars. But how about people who have found themselves working alongside, or under these buffoons, why have none of them collected evbidence against their bosses? The Climategate whistleblower being an exception.

Julian in Wales says: @ur momisugly July 19, 2013 at 1:47 am
I agree; The reputation of science is the big loser. Why were there so few whistle-blowers and people of integrity? ….
But how about people who have found themselves working alongside, or under these buffoons, why have none of them collected evidence against their bosses?
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The reason you hear nothing is because the evidence is ignored and buried and then the innocent are punished. If you persist you get fired then blackballed. “Whistle-blower protection” is only for those like PETA or others of the in-crowd.
The Rule of Law is completely dead as Heartland’s attempts to have the prosecuting attorney’s office press criminal charges against Peter Gleick shows. There are now so many laws and regulations that the criminal justice system gets to pick and choose who they go after. The scandal of the IRS being used to ‘punish’ those who do not support the current Admin. is just the latest.
FOR EXAMPLE:
Several years ago (Bush admin.) a friend whose brother works for the EPA was told to leave the big boys alone and go after the Mom & Pop companies. A truck driver I know had his load from Mexico delayed as the shipment was unloaded and repackaged as ‘grown in the USA’ He reported it to the USDA and the DOT threatened to revoke his CDL if he did not shut up. A neighbor down the street is a forester and found a large ‘hemp plantation’ on my street. When he reported it nothing was done except to have the police lie in wait and give him a ticket when ever he left his driveway. Another friend (different county) worked for the local pound. She was late leaving and over heard some of the county elected officials discussing drug running. When she got home her window was shot-up and her son’s life threatened if she talked. (She also lost her job.) Those are just a few examples I have run into.
Whistle-blowers are alive and well but they are only one person trying to work within a very corrupt system so they lose.

First National Bank of Montgomery vs. Daly (1969)
….In his court memorandum, Justice Mahoney stated:

Plaintiff admitted that it, in combination with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, . . . did create the entire $14,000.00 in money and credit upon its own books by bookkeeping entry. That this was the consideration used to support the Note dated May 8, 1964 and the Mortgage of the same date. The money and credit first came into existence when they created it. Mr. Morgan admitted that no United States Law or Statute existed which gave him the right to do this. A lawful consideration must exist and be tendered to support the Note.

….To Daly, the implications were enormous…. He wrote in a local news article:

This decision, which is legally sound, has the effect of declaring all private mortgages on real and personal property, and all U.S. and State bonds held by the Federal Reserve, National and State banks to be null and void. This amounts to an emancipation of this Nation from personal, national and state debt purportedly owed to this banking system. Every American owes it to himself . . . to study this decision very carefully . . . for upon it hangs the question of freedom or slavery.

Justice Mahoney, who was not dependent on campaign financing or hamstrung by precedent, went so far as to threaten to prosecute and expose the bank. He died less than six months after the trial, in a mysterious accident that appeared to involve poisoning.4 Since that time, a number of defendants have attempted to avoid loan defaults using the defense Daly raised; but they have met with only limited success. As one judge said off the record:

If I let you do that – you and everyone else – it would bring the whole system down. . . . I cannot let you go behind the bar of the bank. . . . We are not going behind that curtain!

We spend twenty years of our working life working for the government (taxes) and then spend up to another ~30% of our working life working for the banks. The total debt-to-income, or back-end, ratio, shows how much of your gross income would go toward all of your debt obligations, including mortgage, car loans, child support and alimony, credit card bills, student loans and condominium fees. In general, your total monthly debt obligation should not exceed 36 percent of your gross income.
The rivers of wealth extracted from the working class is then used to buy power to further enslave us. The ‘Carbon Tax’ is just the latest insult.
SEE: America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution

highflight56433 [July 18, 2013 at 9:44 pm] says:

Just a nitpick … Saddam was during Carter … 1979