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Senate Rejects Drilling In Arctic Refuge
"I've learned a few lessons about national security as a soldier and a senator, but the mathematics I learned in elementary school prove that Arctic drilling won't make a difference for national security," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., a decorated Vietnam veteran.

Kerry said the United States has 3 percent of the world's oil and uses 25 percent of the supply. "The solution is not in the Arctic," he said.

If energy security was the issue, he said, Republicans should have supported his proposal, which was rejected earlier, to require increased automobile fuel efficiency.
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Genocide Factor: The Human Tragedy
Thursday, 18 April, 10:00pm CST, WTTY PBS channel 11 in Chicago
How China's Mao Tse Tung, Cambodia's Pol Pot, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Chile's Augusto Pinochet and Al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden rose to power
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America's Genocidal Origin
"They (American Indians) all have to be killed or maintained as a species of paupers."
General William T. Sherman, 1867

Best known as the author of the 1900 classic The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum was also a frontier journalist, writing in the Dakota Territory in the 1880s.

On learning of the assassination of Sitting Bull, December 15, 1890, Baum condemned all remaining "redskins" and called for their annihilation.

He wrote, "The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are. History would forget these latter despicable beings, and speak, in later ages of the glory of these grand Kings of forest and plain…"