This blog falls into the pure speculation category. Of course the inner workings of a multi billion dollar company like BP and their political connections are unknown.

Where is the Federal Response? Politics or Incompetence?

What we do know is the Obama team was either asleep or didn’t care about the oil spill for days? It took eight days for the Obama regime to dispatch a cabinet level official and it wasn’t until April 30 that cabinet officials were fully deployed. Would the Obama team have reacted the same if it was Shell or Exxon polluting the Gulf of Mexico?

Stupid question. We all know the answer. Rahm Emanuel would be cranking up the blitz against Exxon in a New York minute. The left loves demonizing Exxon, Shell, Mobil and the rest. BP was politically connected with the left through political donations and ideology. The Obama regime clearly ignored it at first and only later grasped the seriousness of the situation. Like they had advanced warning?

Incompetent Affirmative Action President likes to party a lot and point fingers

Its clear BP had the B or C team on API Well No. 60-817-44169. Reading an account of the rookie mistakes, poor design and disregard for safety testing and procedures its clear BP was acting like a 1950’s contractor back in the days when nobody cared. The last time I saw a construction site run like this drilling operation where there was a complete disregard for life was 1987. Contractors are so safety cognizant in construction these days it makes me wish for the old days. Generally the safety apparatchik in a modern construction company beats you into submission one way or another. It simply blows me away BP and Transocean would be so careless.

Procedures, test and design all compromised. Faulty under designed equipment, inadequate safety testing or testing simply not performed. A false sense of security with the approval of the federal government to utilize poor procedures and designs. Just an incredible 1950’s mentality with no regard for human life. Clearly the federal government engineers approving these designs had no clue what they were doing or are complicate in this disaster. Clearly BP was gambling and knew they would save a lot of money or have a drilling accident. What company would have a poor design and then put the not ready for prime time players in charge? Maybe a company that kind of sort of wanted a drilling disaster but on a much smaller scale?

Why?

A five or ten day drilling leak would get the attention of the press and bring out the environmentalist to scold the “drill baby drill” crowd. Obama could say “see no more drilling.” There are a lot of political points to be scored from a limited deep water well leak. As long as it doesn’t last 10 months like the 1979 Bay of Campeche disaster. Certainly BP felt confident in its ability to cap a well leak in 2010. Certainly it would be a containable controlled disaster? Well maybe not.

What’s in it for BP? Are you serious? Lots of money. A billion or two is chump change to BP if you can drive the price of oil back to $80 or $100 a barrel. The more dead pelicans on television the better for BP. Moving the price of oil from $72 a barrel to $90 a barrel would make the blunder pay for itself ten times over. Limiting or eliminating drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would be a huge financial windfall for the oil companies. Plenty of incentive for the BP top management to botch a well or two. Every COO’s dream. Making money and gaining political friends who hate your competitors. What could be better?

If this dime store novel conspiracy theory is correct congress and the White House will go easy on BP in congressional testimony. They will still grill them and make a show of it. Much like the show they put on with Goldman Sacks where they humiliate them then, fine them chump change, then line them up for the next billion dollar deal with cap and trade. Trash your friend in public and give them a big prize in private. A big prize like a moratorium on off shore drilling. BP would take that deal any day.

This is a must view for ALL!

“The federal government does not create the American dream, although the federal government can surely destroy the American dream.” from Carly at a San Jose special Tea Party rally on April 15.

Carly Fiorina had a liberal-arts degree from Stanford University that didn’t qualify her for anything in particular; an abandoned stab at law school; secretarial work; and then, thanks to a late-blooming focus and a lot of ferocious effort, a dizzying climb up the corporate ladder, culminating in more than five years as the chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, by far the most prominent American company that a woman had — or, to this day, has — ever run.

Fiorina, in a phrase, made history.

She is bold, hardline and fiery.
That is essentially what got her in trouble at HP. She ramrodded Compaq down the throats of HP executives who opposed the acquisition.

Tom Perkins, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who was on the H.P. board when Fiorina led the company and who pushed for her ouster. Had this to say about her recently: “Now, in politics, she can prove she was right all along. He says that it was necessary at the time, but that on balance and in retrospect, she deserves credit for revivifying a logy leviathan. If she can go into a similar situation in Washington and bring order and make progress,” he says, “it’s another opportunity for her to prove that she’s got what it takes.”

Dick Morris Author and political strategist announced his endorsement of U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina. “It is my pleasure to endorse Carly Fiorina in the Republican Senate primary on June 8. While I have a high regard for Carly’s record and position on issues, my endorsement is based mainly on the fact that I believe she would be the best candidate to achieve victory for Republicans in November over Senator Boxer.”

That is what is important to many of us here in California.

Booting Barbara Boxer out of office!

I am daily astounded at our government spending as if there will be no tomorrow when reckless and responsibility meet THE BRICK WALL!

Clearly those in the government DO NOT CARE because they are not going to be the ones who pay. The debt is riding on the backs of the every day JOE/JANE who fortunately has a job that can at least sustain a family.

It does not take rocket science to figure out the ponzi schemes foisted on the public by our Presidents and Congresses of the past are not sustainable.

Make no mistake the US economy DEPENDS ON OIL.
THAT IS AN INESCAPABLE FACT!
OIL WAS AND STILL IS BLACK GOLD!
Yet politicians have CHOKED OFF DOMESTIC SOURCES.

Now we have an oil spill that is going to choke off even more of a supply.

Common logic tells ANYONE with more than a gnat sized brain a spill would be better contained on dry land over what is going on under the gulf today.

I am a FORMER ENVIRONMENTALIST!
WHY FORMER!
Because I saw the environmentalists jump ship for control rather than common sense (FIX IT).
The Government today is ham strung by environmental BULLSHIT.

Trust me AT LEAST 95% of what the environmentalists are trying to do is plain old BULLSHIT!
They pray on the ignorant who do not know better ESPECIALLY CHILDREN.
They talk green with an agenda.

Is there a middle ground?
Indeed but you are not likely to see either the environmentalists, big government or big business take it.
WHY?
That requires ETHICS and most of those in these agencies HAVE NONE!

REMEMBER THE USA IS NOT TO BIG TO FAIL.

With the unsustainable debt that has been foisted out way by our RENEGADE government over the past years? Clearly the economy is in trouble.

Our dollar worth is falling and here in the bottom or middle we already can see that prices on average home goods is rising.

Common sense tells me that big manufacturing companies must charge more to close the gap in profit loss when consumers can not pay. So prices are jacked for those WHO CAN/WILL still pay to close the gap. In the end what happens? Manufacturers go broke and out of business.

It is a vicious circle.
Couple that with corrupt government, more small business restrictions/taxes and we are all in for a very bumpy ride.
I would like to think we can AGAIN RIDE THIS ONE OUT!
However I am not sure we can UNLESS the people stay involved and take back control and demand the government WORK FOR US AS A WHOLE!

After years of propaganda some in the main steam blogger sphere are starting to tell the truth of what led up to WWII and the Jewish Holocaust. The reality is an American Senate subcommittee investigation into the Russian Revolution heard evidence, put on congressional record, that “(I)n December 1919, under the presidency of a man named Apfelbaum (Zinovieff) . . . out of the 388 members of the Bolshevik central government, only 16 happened to be real Russians, and all the rest (with the exception of a Negro from the U.S.) were Jews” (U.S. Senate Document 62, 1919). The first report, sent from Omsk on 1 March 1919, contains the following paragraph:

“it is probably unwise to say this loudly in the United States but the Bolshevik movement is and has been since its beginning, guided and controlled by Russian Jews of the greasiest type…”

The second report, dated 9 June 1919, and sent from Vladivostok, said that of the

“384 commissars there were 2 Negroes, 13 Russians, 15 Chinamen, 22 Armenians and more than 300 Jews. Of the latter number 264 had come to Russia from the United States since the downfall of the Imperial Government.

Making up 1.7% of Russia the Jews financed and took over the nation committing atrocities against the gentiles that are now finally being disseminated in America. Long past overdue.

Looking at America today we have — Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Carl Levin (D-MI), Al Franken (D-MN), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Charles Schumer (D-NY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Arlen Specter (D-PA), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Herb Kohl (D-WI), Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), Howard Berman (D-CA), Susan Davis (D-CA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Jane Harman (D-CA), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Henry Waxman (D-CA), (Q) Jared Polis (D-CO), Alan Grayson (D-FL), Ron Klein (D-FL), Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL), Robert Wexler (D-FL), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), John Yarmuth (D-KY), Barney Frank (D-MA), Sander M. Levin (D-MI), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Paul W. Hodes (D-NH), John Adler (D-NJ), Steven R. Rothman (D-NJ), Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Steve Israel (D-NY), Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Allyson Y. Schwartz (D-PA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Steve Kagen (D-WI). Only Cantor is a Republican.

Combined with the members of the Congrssional Black Caucus, Sanford Bishop-Democratic, Corrine Brown Democratic Florida, G. K. Butterfield-Democratic, Andre Carson-Democratic, Donna Christian-Christensen-Democratic, Yvette Clarke-Democratic, William Lacy Clay, Jr.-Democratic, Emanuel Cleaver-Democratic, Jim Clyburn-Democratic, John Conyers, Jr.-Democratic, Elijah Cummings, Democratic, Artur Davis-Democratic, Danny K. Davis-Democratic, Donna Edwards-Democratic, Keith Ellison-Democratic, Chaka Fattah Democratic, Marcia Fudge-Democratic, Al Green-Democratic, Alcee Hastings-Democratic, Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.-Democratic, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Democratic, Hank Johnson-Democratic, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick-Democratic Michigan, Barbara Lee-Democratic, Sheila Jackson Lee-Democratic, John Lewis-Democratic, Kendrick Meek-Democratic, Gregory Meeks-Democratic, Gwen Moore-Democratic, Eleanor Holmes Norton Democratic, Donald M. Payne Democratic, Charles B. Rangel-Democratic, Laura Richardson-Democratic-Bobby Rush-Democratic, Bobby Scott-Democratic, David Scott-Democratic, Bennie Thompson-Democratic, Edolphus Towns-Democratic, Maxine Waters Democratic, Diane Watson-Democratic and Mel Watt-Democratic.

With the exception of Cantor these are all hard left socialist. The time for political correctness is fading fast. If we cannot recognize our enemies for whom they are we are doomed to failure. This is the problem America faces with Obama in the White House it’s only worse. Fricking wake up and realize these Jews in Russia killed at least 10 million and probably twice that number of their own countrymen.

Chuck Schumer doesn’t hide his disdain for the first amendment. What Barney Frank did with Fannie and Freddie is criminal beyond belief. These people are extremely dangerous and should be treated as such by civilized society. 78% of Jews love Obama and 95% of blacks. Is Chuck Schumer any different that Friedrich Engels? Chuck Schumer doesn’t like free speech and we are suppose to believe he believes in American principals of freedom and liberty?

We can see the hatred and religious bigotry of Jews in the ACLU, SPLC and hundreds of left wing Jew financed operations designed to legally intimidate and humiliate Christians in America. These bastards can go f— themselves.

Mises Daily: Friday, June 04, 2010 by Ralph Raico

[First published as "The Taboo Against Truth: Holocausts and the Historians," Liberty, September 1989.]
Auschwitz

“Speaking truth to power” is not easy when you support that power. Perhaps this is the reason why so few Western historians are willing to tell the whole truth about state crimes during this century.

Auschwitz

Then in March, a Soviet commission finally conceded that the mass graves at Bykovnia, outside of Kiev, were the result not of the Nazis’ work, as formerly was maintained, but of the industry of Stalin’s secret police. Some 200–300,000 persons were killed at Bykovnia, according to unofficial estimates.[3]

These graves represent a small fraction of the human sacrifice that an elite of revolutionary Marxists offered up to their ideological fetish. How many died under Stalin alone, from the shootings, the terror famine, and the forced-labor camps, is uncertain. Writing in a Moscow journal, Roy Medvedev, the dissident Soviet Marxist, put the number at around 20 million, a figure the sovietologist Stephen F. Cohen views as conservative.[4] Robert Conquest’s estimate is between 20 million and 30 million, or more,[5] while Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko suggests 41 million deaths between 1930 and 1941.[6]

By everyone’s account, most of the victims were killed before the United States and Britain welcomed the Soviet Union as their ally, in June 1941. Yet by then, the evidence concerning at least very widespread Communist killings was available to anyone willing to listen.

If glasnost proceeds and if the whole truth about the Lenin and Stalin eras comes to light, educated opinion in the West will be forced to reassess some of its most deeply cherished views. On a minor note, Stalinist sympathizers like Lillian Hellman, Frieda Kirchwey, and Owen Lattimore will perhaps not be lionized quite as much as before. More important, there will have to be a reevaluation of what it meant for the British and American governments to have befriended Soviet Russia in the Second World War and heaped fulsome praise on its leader. That war will inevitably lose some of its glory as the pristinely pure crusade led by the larger-than-life heroes Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Inevitably, too, comparisons with what is commonly known as the Holocaust will emerge.
The “Dispute of Historians”

Such comparisons have been at the center of the raging controversy in the Federal Republic of Germany that has been labeled the Historikerstreit, or dispute of historians, and has now become an international cause célèbre. It erupted primarily because of the work of Ernst Nolte, of the Free University of Berlin, author of the highly acclaimed Three Faces of Fascism, published in the United States in 1966. In several important essays, in a large book published in 1987, The European Civil War, 1917–1945, and in a volume of responses to his critics,[7] Nolte declined to treat the Nazi massacre of the Jews in the conventional fashion.
“These graves represent a small fraction of the human sacrifice that an elite of revolutionary Marxists offered up to their ideological fetish.”

He refused, that is, to deal with it metaphysically, as a unique object of evil, existing there in a small segment of history, in a nearly perfect vacuum, with at most merely ideological links to racist and Social Darwinist thought of the preceding century. Instead, without denying the importance of ideology, he attempted to set the Holocaust in the context of the history of Europe in the first decades of the 20th century. His aim was in no way to excuse the mass murder of the Jews, or to diminish the guilt of the Nazis for this crime dreadful beyond words. But he insisted that this mass murder must not lead us to forget others, particularly those that might stand in a causal relationship to it.

Briefly, Nolte’s thesis is that it was the Communists who introduced into modern Europe the awful fact and terrifying threat of the killing of civilians on a vast scale, implying the extermination of whole categories of persons. (One Old Bolshevik, Zinoviev, spoke openly as early as 1918 of the need to eliminate 10,000,000 of the people of Russia.) In the years and decades following the Russian Revolution, middle-class, upper-class, Catholic, and other Europeans were well aware of this fact, and for them especially the threat was a very real one. This helps to account for the violent hatred shown to their own domestic Communists in the various European countries by Catholics, conservatives, fascists, and even Social Democrats.

Nolte’s thesis continues: those who became the Nazi elite were well-informed regarding events in Russia, via White Russian and Baltic German émigrés (who even exaggerated the extent of the first, Leninist atrocities). In their minds, as in those of right-wingers generally, the Bolshevik acts were transformed, irrationally, into Jewish acts, a transformation helped along by the existence of a high proportion of Jews among the early Bolshevik leaders. (Inclined to anti-Semitism from the start, the rightists ignored the fact that, as Nolte points out, the proportion among the Mensheviks was higher, and, of course, the great majority of the European Jews were never Communists.) A similar, ideologically mandated displacement, however, occurred among the Communists themselves: after the assassination of Uritsky and the attempted assassination of Lenin by Social Revolutionaries, for instance, hundreds of “bourgeois” hostages were executed.

The Communists never ceased proclaiming that all of their enemies were tools of a single conspiracy of the “world bourgeoisie.”

The facts regarding the Ukrainian terror famine of the early 1930s and the Stalinist gulag were also known in broad outline in European right-wing circles. When all is said and done, Nolte concludes, “the Gulag came before Auschwitz.” If it had not been for what happened in Soviet Russia, European fascism, especially Nazism and the Nazi massacre of the Jews,[8] would most probably not have been what they were.
The Onslaught on Nolte

Nolte’s previous work on the history of socialism could hardly have made him persona grata with leftist intellectuals in his own country. Among other things, he had emphasized the archaic, reactionary character of Marxism and the anti-Semitism of many of the early socialists, and had referred to “liberal capitalism” or “economic freedom,” rather than socialism, as “the real and modernizing revolution.”
“The comparison between Nazi and Soviet atrocities has often been drawn by respected scholars.”

The attack on Nolte was launched by the leftist philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who took issue not with Nolte’s historiography — his essays showed that Habermas was in no position to judge this — but with what he viewed as its ideological implications. Habermas also targeted a couple of other German historians, and added other points, like the plan to establish museums of German history in West Berlin and in Bonn, to the indictment. But Nolte and his thesis have continued to be at the center of the Historikerstreit. He was accused of “historicizing” and “relativizing” the Holocaust and chided for questioning its “uniqueness.”

Several of the biggest names among academic historians in the Federal Republic, and then in Britain and America as well, joined in the hunt, gleefully seizing upon some of Nolte’s less felicitous expressions and weaker minor points. In Berlin, radicals set fire to his car; at Oxford, Wolfson College withdrew an invitation to deliver a lecture, after pressure was applied, just as a major German organization dispensing research grants rescinded a commitment to Nolte under Israeli pressure. In the American press, ignorant editors, who couldn’t care less anyway, now routinely permit Nolte to be represented as an apologist for Nazism.

It cannot be said that Nolte has demonstrated the truth of his thesis — his achievement is rather to have pointed out important themes that call for further research — and his presentation is in some respects flawed. Still, one might well wonder what there is in his basic account to justify such a frenzy. The comparison between Nazi and Soviet atrocities has often been drawn by respected scholars. Robert Conquest, for instance, states,

For Russians — and it is surely right that this should become true for the world as a whole — Kolyma [one part of the Gulag] is a word of horror wholly comparable to Auschwitz … it did indeed kill some three million people, a figure well in the range of that of the victims of the Final Solution.[9]

Others have gone on to assert a causal connection. Paul Johnson maintains that important elements of the Soviet forced-labor camps system were copied by the Nazis, and posits a link between the Ukrainian famine and the Holocaust:

The camps system was imported by the Nazis from Russia.… Just as the Roehm atrocities goaded Stalin into imitation, so in turn the scale of his mass atrocities encouraged Hitler in his wartime schemes to change the entire demography of Eastern Europe … Hitler’s “final solution” for the Jews had its origins not only in his own fevered mind but in the collectivization of the Soviet peasantry.[10]

Nick Eberstadt, an expert on Soviet demography, concludes that “the Soviet Union is not only the original killer state, but the model one.”[11] As for the tendency among European rightists after 1917 to identify the Bolshevik regime with the Jews, there is no end of evidence.[12] Indeed, it was an immensely tragic error to which even many outside of right-wing circles were liable. In 1920, after a visit to Russia, Bertrand Russell wrote to Lady Ottoline Morell:

Bolshevism is a closed tyrannical bureaucracy, with a spy system more elaborate and terrible than the Tsar’s, and an aristocracy as insolent and unfeeling, composed of Americanised Jews.[13]

But, despite the existence of a supporting scholarly context for Nolte’s position, he remains beleaguered in his native land, with only isolated individuals, like Joachim Fest, coming to his defense. If recent English-language publications are a reliable indication, his situation will not improve as the controversy spreads to other countries.
Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

The recent work by Arno J. Mayer, of Princeton, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?[14] is in some respects informative;[15] above all, however, it is a perfect illustration of why Nolte’s work was so badly needed.
“The great crime that is today virtually forgotten was the expulsion of the Germans from their centuries-old homelands in East Prussia, Pomerania, and elsewhere. About 16 persons were displaced, with about 2 million of them dying in the process.”

We can leave aside Mayer’s approach to the origins of the “Judeocide” (as he calls it), which is “functionalist” rather than “intentionalist,” in the current jargon, and which provoked a savage review.[16] What is pertinent here is his presentation of the killing of the European Jews as an outgrowth of the fierce hatred of “Judeobolshevism” that allegedly permeated all of German and European ”bourgeois” society after 1917, reaching its culmination in the Nazi movement and government. This approach lends support to Nolte’s thesis.

The problem, however, is that Mayer offers no real grounds for the bitter hatred that so many harbored for Bolshevism, aside from the threat that Bolshevism abstractly posed to their narrow and retrograde “class interests.” Virtually the only major Soviet atrocity even alluded to in the 449 pages of text (there are, oddly and inexcusably, no notes)[17] is the deportation of some 400,000 Jews from the territories annexed after the Hitler-Stalin pact. Even here, however, Mayer hastens to reassure us that the policy was “not specifically anti-Semitic and did not preclude assimilated and secularized Jews from continuing to secure important positions in civil and political society … a disproportionate number of Jews came to hold posts in the secret police and to serve as political commissars in the armed service.” Well, mazel tov.

The fear and loathing of Communism that Poles, Hungarians, and Romanians, for instance, felt in the interwar period, strongly endorsed by their national churches, is qualified by Mayer as an “obsession.” With Mayer, fear of Communism is always “obsessional” and limited to the “ruling classes,” prey to an anti-Bolshevik “demonology.” But the recourse to clinical and theological terms is no substitute for historical understanding, and Mayer’s account — Soviet Communism with the murders left out — precludes such understanding.

Consider the case of Clemens August Count von Galen, Archbishop of Munster.

As Mayer notes, Galen led the Catholic bishops of Germany in 1941 in publicly protesting the Nazi policy of murdering mental patients. The protest was shrewdly crafted and proved successful: Hitler suspended the killings. Yet, as Mayer further notes, Archbishop Galen (deplorably) “consecrated” the war against Soviet Russia. Why?

To cite another example: Admiral Horthy, the Regent of Hungary, was an opponent of murdering the Jews and attempted, within his limited means, to save the Jews of Budapest. Yet he continued to have his troops fight against the Soviet and alongside the Germans long after the coming defeat was obvious. Why? Could it possibly be that, in both cases, the previous bloody history of Soviet Communism had something to do their attitude? in Mayer’s retelling, Crusader murders in Jerusalem in the year 1096 are an important part of the story, but not Bolshevik murders in the 1920s and ’30s.

Allegations of Soviet crimes do appear in Mayer’s book. But they are put in the mouths of Hitler and Goebbels, with no comment from Mayer, thereby signaling their “fanatical” and “obsessional” character, e. g., “the führer ranted about bolshevism wading deeper in blood than tsarism” (actually, Hitler’s claim here is hardly controversial).

In fact, it seems likely that Mayer simply does not believe that there were anything approaching tens of millions of victims of the Soviet regime. He writes, for instance, of “an iron nexus between absolute war and large-scale political murder in eastern Europe.” But most of the large-scale Stalinist political murders occurred when the Soviet Union was at peace. The massive upheavals, with their accompanying terror and mass killings, that characterized Soviet history in the 1920s and 30s, Mayer refers to in almost unbelievably anodyne terms as “the general transformation of political and civil society.” In other words, Mayer gives every evidence of being a Ukrainian famine, Great Terror, and gulag “revisionist.” This is an aspect of Mayer’s book that the reviewers in the mainstream press had an obligation to point out but omitted to do so.

Mayer has no patience with any suggestion that great crimes may have been committed against Germans in the Second World War and its aftermath. Here he joins the vast majority of his contemporaries, professional and lay alike, as well as the Nuremberg Tribunal itself.
Taboo War Crimes — the Allies’

If Soviet mass atrocities provide a historical context for Nazi crimes, so does a set of crimes that few, inside or outside the Federal Republic, seem willing to bring into the debate: the ones perpetrated, planned, or conspired to by the Western Allies.
“All mass murderers — all of the state terrorists on a grand scale, whatever their ethnicity or that of their victims — must be arraigned before the court of history.”

There was, first of all, the policy of terror bombing of the cities of Germany, begun by the British in 1942. The Principal Assistant Secretary of the Air Ministry later boasted of the British initiative in the wholesale massacring of civilians from the air.[18] Altogether, the RAF and US Army Air Corps killed around 600,000 German civilians,[19] whose deaths were aptly characterized by the British military historian and Major-General J.F.C. Fuller as “appalling slaughterings, which would have disgraced Attila.”[20] A recent British military historian has concluded: “The cost of the bomber offensive in life, treasure, and moral superiority over the enemy tragically outstripped the results that it achieved.”[21]

The planned, but aborted, Allied atrocity was the Morgenthau Plan, concocted by the US Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, and initialed by Roosevelt and Churchill at the Second Quebec Conference, in September 1944. The Plan aimed to transform postwar Germany into an agricultural and pastoral country, incapable of waging war because it would have no industry. Even the coal mines of the Ruhr were to be flooded. Of course, in the process tens of millions of Germans would have died. The inherent insanity of the plan very quickly led Roosevelt’s other advisors to press him into abandoning it, but not before it had become public (as its abandonment did not).

Following upon the policy of “unconditional surrender” announced in early 1943, the Morgenthau Plan stoked the Nazi rage. “Goebbels and the controlled Nazi press had a field day … ‘Roosevelt and Churchill agree at Quebec to the Jewish Murder Plan,’ and ‘Details of the Devilish Plan of Destruction: Morgenthau the Spokesman of World Judaism.’”[22]

There are two further massive crimes involving the Allied governments that deserve mention (limiting ourselves to the European theater). Today it is fairly well-known that, when the war was over, British and American political and military leaders directed the forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Soviet subjects (and the surrender of some, like the Cossacks, who had never been subjects of the Soviet state). Many were executed, most were channeled into the gulag. Solzhenitsyn had bitter words for the Western leaders who handed over to Stalin the remnants of Vlasov’s Russian Army of Liberation:

In their own country, Roosevelt and Churchill are honored as embodiments of statesmanlike wisdom. To us, in our Russian prison conversations, their consistent shortsightedness and stupidity stood out as astonishingly obvious … what was the military or political sense in their surrendering to destruction at Stalin’s hands hundreds of thousands of armed Soviet citizens determined not to surrender.[23]

Of Winston Churchill, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote:

He turned over to the Soviet command the Cossack corps of 90,000 men. Along with them he also handed over many wagonloads of old people, women, and children.… This great hero, monuments to whom will in time cover all England, ordered that they, too, be surrendered to their deaths.[24]

The great crime that is today virtually forgotten was the expulsion starting in 1945 of the Germans from their centuries-old homelands in East Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, Sudetenland, and elsewhere. About 16 million persons were displaced, with about 2 million of them dying in the process.[25] This is a fact, which, as the American legal scholar Alfred de Zayas dryly notes, “has somehow escaped the attention it deserves.”[26] While those directly guilty were principally the Soviets, Poles, and Czechs (the last led by the celebrated democrat and humanist, Eduard Benes), British and American leaders early on authorized the principle of expulsion of the Germans and thus set the stage for what occurred at the war’s end. Anne O’Hare McCormick, the New York Times correspondent who witnessed the exodus of the Germans, reported in 1946:

The scale of this resettlement and the conditions in which it takes place are without precedent in history. No one seeing its horrors firsthand can doubt that it is a crime against humanity for which history will exact a terrible retribution.

McCormick added: “We share responsibility for horrors only comparable to Nazi cruelties.”[27]
Bringing All State Terrorists to Account

In the Federal Republic today, to mention any of these Allied — or even Soviet — crimes in the same breath with the Nazis is to invite the devastating charge of attempting an Aufrechnen — an offsetting, or balancing against. The implication is that one is somehow seeking to diminish the Nazis’ undying guilt for the Holocaust by pointing to the guilt of other governments for other crimes. This seems to me to be a thoroughly warped perspective.
“In fact, all great states in the 20th century have been killer states, to a greater or lesser degree.”

All mass murderers — all of the state terrorists on a grand scale, whatever their ethnicity or that of their victims — must be arraigned before the court of history. It is impermissible to let some of them off the hook, even if the acts of others may be characterized as unique in their brazen embrace of evil and their sickening horror. As Lord Acton said, the historian should be a hanging judge, for the muse of history is not Clio, but Rhadamanthus, the avenger of innocent blood.

There was a time in America when well-known writers felt an obligation to remind their fellow citizens of the criminal misdeeds of their government, even against Germans. Thus, the courageous radical Dwight Macdonald indicted the air war against German civilians during the war itself.[28] On the other side of the spectrum, the respected conservative journalist William Henry Chamberlin, in a book published by Henry Regnery, assailed the genocidal Morgenthau Plan and labeled the expulsion of the eastern Germans “one of the most barbarous actions in European history.”[29]

Nowadays the only publication that seems to care about these old wrongs is the Spectator (the real one, of course), which happens also to be the best-edited political magazine in English. The Spectator has published articles by British writers honorably admitting the shame they felt upon viewing what remains of the great cities of Germany, once famed in the annals of science and art. Other contributors have pointed out the meaning of the loss of the old German populations of the area that is today again being fashionably referred to as Mitteleuropa. A Hungarian writer, G.M. Tamas, recently wrote,

The Jews were murdered and mourned.… But who has mourned the Germans? Who feels any guilt for the millions expelled from Silesia and Moravia and the Volga region, slaughtered during their long trek, starved, put into camps, raped, frightened, humiliated?… Who dares to remember that the expulsion of the Germans made the communist parties quite popular in the 1940s? Who is revolted because the few Germans left behind, whose ancestors built our cathedrals, monasteries, universities, and railway stations, today cannot have a primary school in their own language? The world expects Germany and Austria to “come to terms” with their past. But no one will admonish us, Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians, to do the same. Eastern Europe’s dark secret remains a secret. A universe of culture was destroyed.[30]

More remarkably still, Auberon Waugh drew attention to the fervid support given by British leaders to the Nigerian generals during the Civil War (1967–70), at a time “when the International Red Cross assured us that 10,000 Biafrans a day were dying of starvation,” victims of a conscious, calculated policy.[31] His observation was a propos of the massacre in Tiananmen Square and the nearly universal execration of the Chinese leaders; it was a telling one.
The Wider Context

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Introduction by Ralph Raico

In fact, both the Soviet and Nazi mass murders must be placed in a wider context. Just as it is unlikely that Nazi racist ideology of itself can account for the murder of the Jews — and so many others — so Leninist amoralism is probably not enough to account for Bolshevik crimes. The crucial intervening historical fact may well be the mass killings of the First World War — of millions of soldiers, but also of thousands of civilians on the high seas by German submarines and of hundreds of thousands of civilians in central Europe by the British hunger blockade.[32] Arno Mayer makes the important point in regard to World War I that “this immense bloodletting … contributed to inuring Europe to the mass killings of the future.” He means this in connection with the Nazis, but it probably also holds for the Communists themselves, witnesses to the results of a war brought about by “capitalist imperialism.” None of this, of course, excuses any of the subsequent state criminals.

In fact, all great states in this century have been killer states, to a greater or lesser degree. Naturally, the “degree” matters — sometimes very much. But it makes no sense to isolate one mass atrocity, historically and morally, and then to concentrate on it to the virtual exclusion of all others. The result of such a perverted moralism can only be to elevate to the status of hero leaders who badly wanted hanging, and to bolster the sham rectitude of states that will be all the more prone to murder since history “proves” that they are the “good” states.

Ralph Raico is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute. He is professor of European history at Buffalo State College and a specialist on the history of liberty, the liberal tradition in Europe, and the relationship between war and the rise of the state. You can study the history of civilization under his guidance here: MP3-CD and Audio Tape. Send him mail. See Ralph Raico’s article archives.

From the Economic Crisis Summit VIP Attendee website:

If you have not read or signed the “Americas Ultimatum” you have until the 11th to do it … HERE

The previous bogus government number that became infamous was the 3% inflation reports from the US Department of Labor. This federal department has the dubious distinction of reporting 1% to 4.5% inflation numbers during the biggest housing bubble the world has ever seen. Where were they when housing was increasing 80% in value overnight? Who knows but it will go down in economic history as bogus federal numbers example one.

Now we have the affirmative action Marxist bragging about how unemployment is improving. To bad for the bloviating presidential clown we have the Internet these days. Just a few clicks and we can see the real reason behind the false sense of optimism. Why golly gee Mr. President it looks like the government is really adding workers! Was that 489,000 in the last few months?

Government workers are really enjoying boom times these days

Triple counting census workers? Nothing is above our dolt in chief. Mr. President why don’t you either just admit you could care less about economic growth and explain the communism plan for us stupid folks at the bottom. It would be refreshing to see you for once tell the truth. Stop the lying we know your are a communist stooge. We get it. You’re not bright enough to learn anything new from your college days and you don’t want to. Fine be honest about it and just announce to the world you are a Harvard/Columbia brainwashed fool and you can’t get the indoctrination out of your head.

UPDATE: June 17th 2010

I attended the Economic Crisis Summit this morning. (I am in CA and it started at 10AM) Bill OReilly was the first to be interviewed. He was endorsing NOTHING but was candid in issuing his personal viewpoint about what is going on economically in our country today.

All of the facts were interesting.
The purpose?
To SELL a program to pad your wealth or hedge your financial future.

I had already been warned by a friend that Christopher Ruddy CEO and Editor In Chief
Newsmax and Moneynews sells a membership to investments for around $5000 a year as I recall. This friend sprung for the membership and within the 60 days asked for a refund.

Apparently this program or one like it was being offered. Called “Hot Commodities Insider” a limited membership was being offered on a first come first serve basis for $1495.

All in all not a total waste of my time since hearing OReilly speak candidly was worth the time … the rest was simply ANOTHER GROUP padding their own nest with someone else s money (RISK FREE).

Perhaps this webinar is still available HERE … for how long it will be available I do not know.

You can watch (previously recorded) … you be the judge

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As a citizen are you tired of not being heard?
Are you worried about:

• 1.) The $13 trillion deficit?
• 2.) The prospects of devastating inflation?
• 3.) Whether you’ll become a victim of over-taxation?
• 4.) The fragility of our dollar?
• 5.) How to find investments that will not only protect your wealth but allow it to prosper?
• 6.) A combination of many of the above issues or maybe something we haven’t mentioned yet?

On June 17th Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and Dick Morris along with famed investor, Jim Rogers, Newsmax Financial Brain Trust member Dennis May, and Christopher Ruddy will convene to help American citizens stand up to protect their hard-earned wealth and investments.

I was sent (along with many others) an invitation to attend a VIP Summit> Of coarse I was interested so jumped at the opportunity.

At this Internet Economic Crisis Summit, we are going to get the real story on America’s dire financial situation and how it can drastically hurt our wealth. I will keep you all posted.

The $13 trillion deficit will threaten not only your right to financial prosperity, but also that of future generations.

Have you heard of or signed the America’s Ultimatum yet? If not check it out HERE.

If you have already signed then pass the information on to everyone you know so they can sign also.
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Interesting video on our economic situation with Jim Rogers and Greg Brown:

Americans are watching the biggest environmental disaster in the last 50 years. Generations of environmental protection is swept away in less than 44 days. Marshes, fisheries, vacation spots, recreational beaches, wetlands, hatcheries and sanctuaries are falling prey to this massive oil spill.

What do we get from our comander and chief?
Hand wringing and blaming EVERYONE ELSE.
Hey buster I hate to break it to you but you signed on to this job and told the public how competent you were to handle it ALL.

Well now WE SEE YOU CAN’T!
We can now add uninformed and incompetent to your resume.

Yesterday I happened to catch Pa. Gov. Ed Rendell on the Hannity show. According to Rendell “the people of PA do not care” about what went on in the Sustak scandal. As usual EVERYONE trying to defend this scandalous behavior relys on the excuse “everyone does it”.

Clearly with Andrew Romanoff telling his story at least this is common practice for the Obama administration with Rahm Emanuel leading the charge.

As much as they try and shield him … personally I find it hard to believe that the egocentric, arrogant Obama was left out of the loop.

I happen to think “we the people” DO CARE that our government is CORRUPT TO THE CORE.
It does not matter who is doing it! They need to be booted out of office, tried and jailed for wrong doing.

IF THIS IS BUSINESS AS USUAL … ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!