Someone Needs to Forward This to the White House... Mao Murdered 45 Million

Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in four years'
Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, an expert who had unprecedented access to official Communist Party archives said yesterday. Speaking at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival, Frank Diktter, a Hong Kong-based historian, said he found that during the time that Mao was enforcing the Great Leap Forward in 1958, in an effort to catch up with The Economy of the Western world, he was responsible for...

45 million killed in 4 years, "digits"
Communism is a murderous blight on mankind. Here is more evidence: Mao’s Great Leap Forward ‘killed 45 million in four years’ Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, an expert who had unprecedented access to official Communist Party archives said yesterday. Speaking at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival, Frank Diktter, a Hong Kong-based historian, said he found that during the time...

New Research Says Mao's "Great Leap Forward" Killed 45 Million In 4 Years
Dear God. Speaking at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival, Frank Diktter, a Hong Kong-based historian, said he found that during the time that Mao was enforcing the Great Leap Forward in 1958, in an effort to catch up with The Economy of the Western world, he was responsible for overseeing "one of the worst catastrophes the world has ever known". Mr Diktter, who has been studying Chinese rural history from 1958 to 1962, when the nation was facing a famine, compared the systematic...

Starved by Mao, Cannibal China Ate Earth, Robbed Graves: Books
When Julie Nixon Eisenhower met Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in 1976, she wore a Mao badge -- and thought it fun. More recently, the Archbishop of Canterbury lamented the loss of a China that, under the chairman, had guaranteed everyones welfare.

Security, rain dampen China protests against Japan
By Chris Buckley and Maxim Duncan Beijing/Shanghai | Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:43am EDT Beijing/Shanghai (Reuters) - About a hundred Chinese Protesters on Saturday demanded Japan free a Chinese boat captain, but tight security and rain deterred a bigger show of anger over an issue that has ratcheted up territorial tensions between the Asian powers. Under a steady downpour, the Protesters, mostly in their 20s gathered in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing and held placards and yelled slogans...

Chinese hold anti-Japan protests over boat incident on sensitive political anniversary
Beijing -   Beijing (AP) — Protesters in several cities across China marked a politically sensitive anniversary Saturday with anti-Japan chants and banners, as authorities tried to stop anger over a diplomatic spat between the Asian giants from getting out of control. As some chanted "Wipe out the Japanese devils!" and stamped on Japanese flags, China's Foreign Ministry called for calm. Ever-present anti-Japanese sentiment in China has been inflamed in recent weeks by Japan's...

Jon Stewart to Return to ‘The O’Reilly Factor’
Jon Stewart appearing on “The O’Reilly Factor” last February. Set your digital video recorders: Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart are returning to each other’s television shows. Mr. Stewart, the comedian and media critic who attacks Fox News on a regular basis, will show up on that network’s “The O’Reilly Factor” on Sept. 22, The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. The generally interview-shy Mr. Stewart is on a book tour for “Earth...

Chinese protest against Japan is small but heated
Reporting from Beijing — Dozens of Chinese demonstrators rallied outside the Japanese Embassy, then marched through the rain-slicked streets to the Foreign Ministry on Saturday, belting out the National Anthem and hollering nationalistic slogans against "foreigners" and the Japanese to Protest the detention of a Chinese fishing crew. A demonstration of any kind is rare in this tightly controlled nation, and Saturday's Protest was a deliberately understated affair. The marchers were...

Just a Little Genocide
I asked, "well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" and the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say "eliminate," I mean "kill." Twenty-five million people. I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and...

White House: Hey, Our Stimulus Kicked Ass, Didn't it? Public: Are You Out of Your Effin Minds?...
Ironic on the day the White House touts the awesomeness of the Stimulus bill a new ABC News/WaPo poll shows 92% think The Economy is a mess and not getting any better (24% are apparently smoking crack and think it’s improving). Bonus : For the first time more Americans say Obama has hurt The Economy instead of helping it… (ABC News) Even before the first shovel went into the ground on a project funded by the Obama Administration’s $814 Billion Stimulus plan, the...

White House defends stimulus, highlights projects
Washington -Rehabilitating New York's Staten Island Ferry Terminal. Cutting a new highway through Nelsonville, Ohio. Building a trio of battery factories in Michigan. In a report being released Friday by Vice President Joe Biden, the White House pushes back against criticism of its $814 Billion Stimulus program and highlights 100 projects that it says are creating Jobs and growing The Economy. Republicans cite a nearly 10 percent Unemployment Rate in arguing that the Stimulus has been a costly...

U.N.-Backed Tribunal Indicts Four of Khmer Rouge in Genocide
Thirty-one years after the darkest era in Cambodian history, the surviving leaders of the Communist Khmer Rouge movement were indicted on Thursday, Sept. 16, for the deaths of nearly 2 million people. In an order signed at midnight, judges at a tribunal specially convened to investigate and try the Crimes of the Democratic Kampuchea government, which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, ordered that four aging suspects stand trial for what the court deemed was "an attack on the entire...

Corporate America - The Enemy Within
During World War II (1941-1942) President Franklin D. Roosevelt (by either Executive Order, or an wink and a nod) approved 99 American pilots to be discharged from the U.S. armed services to volunteer as "Mercenaries" to fight for the Chinese. America provided these fighter pilots with Curtiss P-40 fighter airplanes and the squad (AVG) was known as the "Flying Tigers." The Aircraft were painted with a large shark face on the front. This group of volunteers had been created to help defend China...

A Great Leap Forward
Speaking at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival, Frank Dikötter, a Hong Kong-based historian, said he found that during the time that Mao was enforcing the Great Leap Forward in 1958, in an effort to catch up with The Economy of the Western world, he was responsible for overseeing “one of the worst catastrophes the world has ever known”. Mr Dikötter, who has been studying Chinese rural history from 1958 to 1962, when the nation was facing a famine, compared the...

Lack of insane attacks on Obama shows WH “learned its lesson”
Around this time last year, President Obama sent a message to America’s schoolchildren: Stay in school. Work hard. Learn. Because the Right-wing media is full of crazy people, deeply dishonest frauds who would do anything to destroy Democrats, and those who are both crazy and dishonest, Obama’s innocuous message was greeted with an avalanche of looney-tunes claims that Obama was emulating Chairman Mao .  This year, President Obama delivered another back-to-school address to...

White House Fights Back on Stimulus Spending
The White House fought back against criticisms of the $814 Billion Stimulus plan, with a new report that highlights job-creating projects including bridges, roads and Cancer research. Vice President Joe Biden is releasing a report Friday called "100 Recovery Act Projects That Are Changing America," The Associated Press reported . The report points to projects it says are creating employment and boosting Economic Growth. Sponsored Links Republicans have fiercely criticized the Stimulus,...

Warren Settles in at White House
Elizabeth Warren has a post up at the White House website: Over the past several weeks, the President and I have had extensive conversations about the vital importance of Consumer financial protection. The President asked me, and I enthusiastically agreed, to serve as an Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He has also asked me to take on the job to get the new CFPB startedright now. The President and I...

White House Expects Successful Afghan Vote Despite Problems
Related Articles White House officials say they expect Afghanistan's parliamentary Elections to be successful, despite violence and threats of more violence by the Taliban before the vote. Officials say Afghanistan has made progress in dealing with violence and election Fraud. The Taliban is blamed for Kidnapping at least 19 people the day before Saturday's election. A Candidate and several election workers were among those taken captive, and the Taliban is threatening nationwide attacks....

White House Builds Up Sarah Palin: "The Most Formidable Force" in the GOP 'Dipping Her Toe in the Water'
From Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller : With former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Des Moines, Iowa today to speak at the annual Ronald Reagan Fundraising dinner for the Iowa Republican Party, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs faced questions about whether President Obama views her as a political threat. I don't think the president has up till this point or does currently spend a lot of time thinking about the political season of 2012, Gibbs said at the briefing. We're in the...

Internal White House debate: Is it time to start attacking Palin?
I know, I know. Supposedly they already decided to do this , right? Well, yes and no. David Plouffe took a few shots at her the other day and Gibbs called her “the most formidable force in the Republican Party” at today’s White House presser, but no one’s thrown any roundhouses yet. The question: Is it time? There is, in fact, a much better avatar of the Tea Party movement [than Boehner, Beck, or DeMint], someone whose very name provokes disgust among Democrats,...

Surprise: White House Unhappy with Dinesh D’Souza
But while most detractors focus on the author-and Newt Gingrich, who embraced the critique-the White House is aiming its ammunition at the business magazine. “It’s a stunning thing, to see a publication you would see in a dentist’s office, so lacking in truth and fact,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says in an interview. “I think it represents a new low.” Gibbs is meeting with Thursday afternoon with Forbes’s Washington bureau...

The World According to Castro
In recent interviews with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, the titular leader of Cuba’s Communist Party appears not only to have all his wits about him but to be intent on teaching political lessons to various national leaders. Among Castro’s intended pupils are his brother Raul Castro, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. The aged revolutionary seems to be admonishing this select audience of autocrats that they need to change...

The ACLU Never Forgets Its Pro-Communist Roots
Just as a leopard cannot change its spots, nor a zebra its stripes, an organization whose founder admired the ideals of the hammer and sickle can never really abandon those destructive beginnings. More than a quarter-century after his death, the legacy of American Civil Liberties Union founder Roger Baldwin a self-professed fan of Soviet Communism and of Joseph Stalin is still going strong. With the collapse of the Soviet empire, current ACLU leaders have thrown more of their...

George Lopez Cracks Sarah Palin is 'Evil Egomaniac That Might Destroy the World'
On Thursdays Lopez Tonight on TBS, during a segment featuring photographs of public figures wearing similar clothing called "Who Wore it Better?" comedian George Lopez cracked that Sarah Palin was "an evil egomaniac that might destroy the world" as an image of her was shown next to a picture of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. Guest and fashion guru Tim Gunn took part in the segment as the two poked fun at Palins outfit supposedly resembling that of the Communist...

Top Iraqiya Official: Govt Deal Will Have Abdulmahdi as PM
Over six months after the initial election, the clearest indications yet have come that the Iraqi Government is about to be formed, as top Iraqiya member Aliya Nusseif has claimed an “initial agreement” which for the first time ever has two major blocs agreeing on leadership Candidates. The deal would have the Government formed by Iraqiya, the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), and the Kurdistan Alliance. T he Prime Minisitership would go to current Vice President Adel Abdulmahdi, a...