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DEATH BY GOVERNMENT: GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER

DEATH BY GOVERNMENT: GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER
All told, governments killed more than 262 million people in the 20th century outside of wars, according to University of Hawaii political science professor R.J. Rummel. Just to give perspective on this incredible murder by government, if all these bodies were laid head to toe, with the average height being 5', then they would circle the earth ten times. Also, this democide murdered 6 times more people than died in combat in all the foreign and internal wars of the century. Finally, given popular estimates of the dead in a major nuclear war, this total democide is as though such a war did occur, but with its dead spread over a century

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"The White House and the rest of the Democrats who run Washington are terrified about the political impact of gas prices, because many of their policies — like the national energy tax — are explicitly designed to raise energy prices,” said Michael Steel, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner.

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U.S. flags fly over an Arco station with gasoline in the $4.00 range in Fullerton, Calif., Wednesday, April 20, 2011. | AP Photo
Despite the economic reality of gas prices, both parties will try to use the issue to score points. | AP Photo Close
Republicans are getting ready to capitalize on record prices at the pump with a May focus on oil and gasoline.
The government shutdown battle put the issue on the back burner even though prices at the pump have been rising steadily since February. Now, with President Barack Obama already on the defensive, the GOP is ready to pounce.

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House Republicans are planning bill introductions, hearings, markups and floor votes on legislation aimed at expanding domestic oil production in response to high gasoline prices.
The plain truth that there is realistically nothing Congress can do in the short- or mid-term to affect gas prices that won’t get in the way of both parties trying to score political points by complaining the other is not addressing the problem.
"The White House and the rest of the Democrats who run Washington are terrified about the political impact of gas prices, because many of their policies — like the national energy tax — are explicitly designed to raise energy prices,” said Michael Steel, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner.
Obama on Thursday pointed to high gasoline prices for his sagging poll numbers. "My poll numbers go up and down depending on the latest crisis, and right now gas prices are weighing heavily on people," he said at a Los Angeles fundraiser.
The latest Gallup tracking poll gives the president a 43 percent approval rating and a 49 percent disapproval rating. A divided Congress fares far worse — a 17 percent approval rating that is identical to right after last November’s midterm election.
The average price for a gallon of unleaded is $3.85, up 98 cents from a year ago and more than 30 cents higher than it was in early April 2008 before prices averaged a record of $4.11 a gallon in July that year.
Prices are already higher in some areas of the country. AAA reports that California, Illinois and New York have average prices of more than $4, and White House pool reporters have noted Obama’s motorcade passed Los Angeles gas stations with prices of $4.35 per gallon.
In 2008, $4 gasoline led to House Republicans resorting to floor theatrics to draw attention to their calls for new oil exploration, followed by the famed “drill, baby, drill” chants at the Republican National Convention that September. Now, the GOP controls the floor agenda and plans to use it when they get back from the two-week spring recess.
“I can promise that we are going to be very active,” said a House majority aide.
In March, House Republicans unveiled their “American Energy Initiative,” a broad pledge to “stop government policies that are driving up gas prices; expand American energy production to lower costs and create more jobs; and promote an ‘all of the above’ strategy to increase all forms of American energy.”
As part of that strategy, House Natural Resources Committee Republicans last week passed three bills aimed at expanding and expediting offshore oil and gas drilling. A spokesman for Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) said he expects at least one of those bills to be on the floor the first week back from recess.
That first bill is likely to be one that gives the Interior Department 30 days to make a decision on offshore drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico, allowing for two 15-day extensions of permits that were not already approved before the Obama administration’s drilling moratorium installed after the BP oil spill last year.
The bill gives Republicans — and some Democrats — a structured debate in which to hit back at the Obama administration’s official five-month deepwater drilling ban last year and what critics labeled a de facto ban for months afterward.
Rep. Lou Barletta, a Republican freshman from eastern Pennsylvania, said he’s heard about the issue constantly during the congressional recess, while no action is taken in Washington.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53595.html#ixzz1KO808Lz6

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