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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A majority of Californians back Governor Jerry Brown's plan to ask them to extend tax increases to help close a $25.4 billion state budget gap, poll results released on Wednesday showed. Brown, a Democrat sworn in to a third term earlier this month as leader of America's most populous state, wants lawmakers to help him put a measure to voters in June that would propose extending tax increases that expire this year to raise money for California's cash-strapped government. Revenue from tax extensions, $12.5 billion in spending cuts and other moves would balance the state's books...

By these days Ukrainians are remembering the deliberate extermination decided by J.STALIN of millions of ukrainians(about 6 millions...)by hunger. By those DANGEROUS times where PUTIN ,still grabing the power in Russia and praising STALIN legacy,is threatening UKRAINE i am wondering if OBA-MAO knows something about that history and widely about general History. As thIS POTUS, who pretends to change USA and ...the world ,seems to consider todays Russia as a friendly and reliable country UKRAINE still considers RUSSIA as a threat

"Over the past fifty years, something on the order of a half-million Americans have been killed by liberal policies." That line appears to have gotten to people, as it should. Among the many welcome comments on my piece on Christopher Buckley, a number both on AT and elsewhere referred to that statement -- my contention that liberalism is not only a failed ideology, but a deadly one, an ideology that kills, and kills in large numbers. Many of the comments called it "incredible", "unbelievable" and "shocking". That's in no way difficult to understand. Achieving awareness of the lethal nature...

President Clinton has been touting his wife's commitment to Africa on the campaign trail by telling interested voters that "Hillary was the first U.S. Senator to call Darfur genocide." He used that exact line with voters in Aiken, S.C., yesterday, and it has been pointed out more than once over the course of this campaign. The usually shy Chelsea also touted her mother's record on Darfur, telling a group at Stanford University earlier this month that she was "really proud that my mom was the first Democratic senator to call it genocide in May of 2004 and put a lot...

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine held solemn commemorations Saturday to mark the 73rd anniversary of a man-made Soviet-era famine that killed one-third of the country’s population, a tragedy that Ukraine’s president wants recognized as an act of genocide. At the height of the 1932-33 famine, 33,000 people died of hunger every day, devastating entire villages. Cases of cannibalism were widespread as desperation deepened. Black ribbons were hung Saturday on the blue and yellow national flag, and in cities across the country, officials laid flowers at monuments to the estimated 10 million victims. President Viktor Yushchenko and Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Moroz unveiled...

Don't Miss: Springtime for the Dear Leader March 15, 2006 · Okay, you've just escaped North Korea. You were held there for years in the gulag of prison camps. Your only crime? Listening to South Korean radio about the death of Kim Il Sung. But you're out now. You've made it to freedom. What do you do? Why, put on a musical, of course. Director Jung Sung San's musical, Yodok Story just opened in Seoul. It deals with rape, beatings, murder... great family fare, no?

A Letter from Prof. Rudy Rummel Many scholars and commentators have referenced my total of 174,000,000 for the democide (genocide and mass murder) of the last century. I’m now trying to get word out that I’ve had to make a major revision in my total due to two books. One is Wild Swans: Two Daughters of China by Jung Chang, and the other is Mao: the Unknown Story that she wrote with her husband, Jon Halliday. I’m now convinced that that Stalin exceeded Hitler in monstrous evil, and Mao beat out Stalin.From the time I wrote my book on...

San Francisco's pointless handgun ban CHICAGO — It’s not easy to do, but gun control advocates in San Francisco have come up with an anti-firearms measure that embarrasses even some gun control advocates. The red-faced ones may realize this one is not likely to work even if it is upheld in court, which it almost certainly will not be. But the pointlessness of the initiative didn’t stop San Franciscans from approving it by a hefty majority. Proposition H outlaws the sale, manufacture, transfer and ownership of handguns and ammunition in the city. Unlike other cities that enacted bans but allowed...

CS Song - Come, give us Your Guns, Sung to "The old Villiage Doctor or Come, Take Your Medicine!" (For the 170,000,000 people who have been killed by their OWN GOVERNMENTS enabled by "reasonable" gun control laws) Original song by Henry Clay Work (1879) Update Parody by Coral Snake (2005) Midi - The Old Villiage Doctor or Come Take Your Medicine: at: www.pdmusic.org/work Look under 1879 (Musical Introduction) (1.) In a Turkish villiage warry, Some Armenians did terry; When new gun control laws on their nation fell. How they propaganda fed them, And then killed, tortured and bled them, There...

For those of you who are wondering why a former "Clown" with a bad reputation for bashing FReepers would want to come back here with his original screen name, I largely came back to FreeRepublic because of exposure to three websites together with the passage of the recent San Francisco handgun ban. These websites are: www.jpfo.orgwww.jpfo.netinnocentsbetrayed.com/index2.htm If any FReeper has any friends who are even remotely on the "gun grabber" side of the Gun Rights issue he or she should be exposed to these websites. They are a goldmine of information about the DEADLY side of "Gun Control". One hundred...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A new Cambodian cafe is offering diners a slice of life under the Khmer Rouge, with a menu featuring rice-water and leaves, and waitresses dressed in the black fatigues worn by Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist guerrillas. Newly opened across the road from Phnom Penh's notorious Tuol Sleng "S-21" Khmer Rouge interrogation and torture center, the cafe is meant to remind Cambodians of the 1975-1979 genocide in which an estimated 1.7 million people died. But the set "theme menu" of salted rice-water, followed by corn mixed with water and leaves, and dove eggs and tea at $6 a...

R.J. Rummel after the many years of research argues that freedom is the best solution to some of the most serious humanity's problems. His research is well known and open for thorough examination. The Bush Administration's Forward Strategy of Freedom is based on these very principals of promoting freedom.R.J. Rummel just published a book Never Again: Ending War, Democide, & Famine Through Democratic Freedom  and discusses it at his website: http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/2005/07/ending-war-democide-famine-through.html [excerpt from the book] Executive Summary To promote freedom for everyone is to promote human security for all.Human SecurityHumanity now has a practical cure for foreign and civil war,...

From the introduction to R.J. Rummel's new blog site; We have learned much about international relations and politics that provides new insight into old problems. We have learned that: • Democratic freedom is an engine of economic and human development, and scientific and technological advancement.• Freedom ameliorates the problem of mass poverty.• Free people do not suffer from and never have had famines. • Free people have the least internal violence, turmoil, and political instability.• Free people commit virtually no democide (government genocide and mass murder). Freedom is therefore a solution to democide; the only practical means of making sure...

The EU said yesterday there was widespread violence in the Darfur region of Sudan but the killings were not genocidal, a potentially crucial distinction which underlined its reluctance to intervene. "We are not in the situation of genocide there," Pieter Feith, an adviser to the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, said in Brussels after returning from a fact-finding visit to Sudan. "But it is clear there is widespread, silent and slow killing and village burning of a fairly large scale. There are considerable doubts as to the willingness of Sudan's government to assume its duty to protect its civilian...

As shown on this web site (e.g., see Table 1.2 of Death By Government), from 1900 through 1987 governments murdered near 170,000,000 people. With respect to this figure I am often asked how much of this occurred since the end of World War II in 1945. With the conclusion of that war and the discovery of the breadth and depth of the Holocaust, many demanded "Never Again." But our history since has rather been: "Again, again, again, and again." From 1945 and up to 1987, about 76,000,000 people have been murdered in cold blood by one regime or another, around...

We have all heard the argument regarding Iraq, Afghanistan, the war on terror, and interventions in such civil war and democides as those in Liberia, Congo, Angola, Sudan, or Somalia, that they should be a matter of the United Nations, or the international community. Indeed, the refrain that the international community and its surrogate the United Nations should be involved or consulted, is a common mantra concerning such conflicts The word "international" is one of those mental blockers that bypass thought. It is a word suffused with vibrant feeling and moral equalitarianism. It involves a negative--nationalism and a self-centered focus...

Government Is Not Compassion, Part 1 by Glen Allport Indeed, a hellish artifice was invented there, a horse of death, clattering in the finery of divine honors. Indeed, a dying for many was invented there, which praises itself as life: verily, a great service to all preachers of death! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, on the state1 The single most damaging error of the modern age is the misperception of government as an agency of compassion. As a replacement for the "divine right of kings," this misperception has, for those in power, been an astonishing success. For the rest of mankind, it...

Killers Without Conscience Ward Dorrity - 2002   It's difficult to imagine how anyone could remain unmoved by an unflinching look at the history of the previous century. Small-minded, bitter people are easily seduced by the offer of a little money and unlimited power. The power to harm - without consequences - is irresistible to many. There are those in government - in your government who want you dead. They would kill you if they could get away with it. They would take everything you have if they felt that they could do so without being held accountable. They would use the...