Worst genocides of the 20th Century, data compiled by Pierro Scaruffi

The worst genocides of the 20th Century
(click here to see Pierro Scaruffi’s original post)

Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50)
49-78,000,000

Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39)
23,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine’s famine)

Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945)
12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians WWII)

Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44)
5,000,000 (civilians in WWII)

Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20)
1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 [...]

$150,000 Wardrobe for Palin May Alter Tailor-Made Image

New York Times’ PATRICK HEALY and MICHAEL LUO reported on Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin and the $150,000 wardrobe the Republican Party purchased for her in September:
“Sarah Palin’s wardrobe joined the ranks of symbolic political excess on Wednesday, alongside John McCain’s multiple houses and John Edwards’s $400 haircut, as Republicans expressed fear that [...]

October 2008: More cute baby pics of the boy!

Sitting Tennessee Governor, Democrat Phil Bredesen visited our little town of Medina last week…

A sitting governor of Tennessee visited our tiny hamlet of Medina, TN, For the first time ever this past Friday.  The governor was in town to present a check to Medina City mayor, Vance Coleman:
The Jackson Sun described the event, here (click to read whole article) is an excerpt:
“MEDINA – The city of Medina could [...]

I like this synopsys of Ecclesiastes, my favorite book of the Bible.

Ecclesiastes is my favorite book from the Old Testament, I like this explanation of Ecclesiastes from Wikipedia:(see whole article here.)
“…The work consists of personal or autobiographic matter, at times expressed in aphorisms and maxims illuminated in terse paragraphs with reflections on the meaning of life and the best way of life. The work emphatically proclaims [...]

Read this Susan Jacoby article: “The Worst Angels of our nature: Rage and Racism on the Campaign Trail

Susan Jacoby wrote the article below, published at http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/susan_jacoby/2008/10/the_worst_angels_of_our_nature.html:  (Definately worth a read…..)
“The Worst Angels Of Our Nature: Rage And Racism On The Campaign Trail

Like everyone else, I am worried about the economy and the financial panic I sense around me. But I am absolutely terrified–I tremble for my country–by the rage that has been [...]

Christians in India facing violent persecution, “convert or flee” demolition of homes by Hindu majority.

The following is an excerp from an interesting article in today’s New York Times: (click here to read whole, original article.)

BOREPANGA, India — The family of Solomon Digal was summoned by neighbors to what serves as a public square in front of the village tea shop.
They were ordered to get on their knees and bow [...]

Big Pharma, Eli Lilly Old Z-magazine Online article, great read about reality in America: “Lilly, Zyprexa, & the Bush Family The diseasing of our malaise.”

The following was originally published in Z magazine Online, May 2004 Volume 17 Number 5:
“Big Pharma
Eli Lilly, Zyprexa, & the Bush Family
The [...]

“…The True Joy in Life….” A little wisdom from George Bernard Shaw.

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will [...]

Absentee ballots read “Barack Osama,” “simple mistake?” Pathetic.

The New York Times Editorial Board reported the following today: (see original, click here.)
Voters who wanted absentee ballots in an upstate New York County were surprised to see the name of the Democratic Presidential candidate. On the ballot, it read “Barack Osama.”
Major oops or dirty trick?
After the Albany Times-Union newspaper revealed the problem ballots on [...]