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Leon Trotsky

2007-10-12T18:49:26Z

Osteothis: Removing anecdote cited to an *online comic strip*

[[Image:Trockiy2.jpg|right|thumb|Leon Trotsky]]

'''Leon Trotsky''', born '''Leon Davidovich Bronstein''' (1879-1940) was a participant with [[V. I. Lenin]] in the [[communist revolution]] in [[Russia]] in 1917. However, he had previously been a member of the [[Mensheviks]], a communist party that had once been aligned with the [[Bolsheviks]]. They did not believe in actively pursuing revolution, that it would happen when the people were ready, unlike the Bolsheviks who believed that the people needed to be led. From 1904 until 1917 Trotsky had a stormy relationship with Lenin, with him accusing Lenin of wanting to become a dictator. But the two of them resolved their differences in 1917, and after that point arguably Trotsky was totally loyal to Lenin.

Trotsky was the most powerful orator in the Bolshevik party, and due to his numerous spells in jail and his active role in the failed 1905 revolution he was much more famous than Lenin was to ordinary Russians. He was the actual organizer behind the [[October Revolution]], as Lenin was still in exile and so unable to participate.

Trotsky also helped build the [[Red Army]] that defeated the White Russian Army in the subsequent Civil War in Russia, despite having no military experience of any kind.

When Lenin died in 1924, a lengthy power struggle began between Trotsky and [[Stalin]]. Trotsky took the view that socialism in the Soviet Union must await a revolution in western Europe and even worldwide. Stalin wanted power immediately and offered a rival ideology, ''Socialism in one country''. To fend off accusations of becoming the new 'Napoleon', he gave up his command of the Red Army. However Stalin expelled Trotsky from the Bolshevik party in 1927 and exiled him from Russia in 1929.

Trotsky eventually settled in [[Mexico]] in 1937. He was hunted down and murdered at his house, in [[Mexico City]] by an assassin, [[Ramon Mercador]], sent by Stalin in 1940. He was murdered with an ice pick.

One of Trotsky's famous quotes (which also sums up the Atheism in the Communist Movement) was : "Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government."

== See also ==

*[[Karl Marx]]
*[[Vladimir Ilyich Lenin]]
*[[Communist Party]]
*[[neoconservatism]]
*[[Diego Rivera]]
*[[Anna Colloms]]
*[[Elizabeth Zarubina]]
*[[Zalmond Franklin]]
*[[Natalia Sedova]]
*[[Floyd Miller]]
*[[Jacob Epstein (spy)]]
*[[Pavel Sudaplatov]]
*[[Gregory Rabinovich]]
*[[Sylvia Callen]] (4,899 bytes)
*[[Jack Soble]] (2,734 bytes)
*[[Ruth Wilson]]
*[[Lydia Altschuler]]
*[[Altschuler group]]
*[[Sante Fe Drugstore]]

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Al Gore

2007-10-12T11:11:33Z

Osteothis: won the nobel prize

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'''Albert "Al" A. Gore, Jr.''' was the 45th [[Vice President]] of the [[United States]] (1993-2001) succeeding [[Dan Quayle]] and succeeded by [[Dick Cheney]], following service in the [[House of Representatives]] and the [[Senate]], spanning 1977-85 and 1985-93, respectively.

He was the [[Democrat]] Party's candidate for President in the 2000 national election, running on a ticket with then Vice Presidential candidate [[Joseph Lieberman]].

In his early life, Al Gore attended [[Harvard University]] and (briefly) Vanderbilt University.
He also served in the [[United States Army]], and worked as a war correspondant during the [[Vietnam War]]. <ref>William V. Kennedy, ''The Military and the Media: Why the Press Cannot Be Trusted to Cover a War''. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1993. [http://com.hilbert.edu/students/papers/carolina-1999/1999vietnam.html]</ref>

He is married to activist [[Tipper Gore]].

In his Senate career, he proposed bills to fund the Internet and chaired panels on environmental issues.

Gore is the author of ''[[Assault on Reason]]''. [[Militant]] [[leftist]] [[activist]] [[Ted Kazinski]] is said to be the inspiration of Gore's [[environmental]] manifesto, ''[[Earth in the Balance]]''.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n1_v13/ai_19007864 Conservatives claim Gore too weird for presidency - Vice-Pres. Al Gore - includes related article on Gore's book 'Earth in the Balance'], by John Elvin, Insight on the News, Jan 6, 1997.</ref>

He also starred in the 2006 documentary about [[global warming]] entitled, ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]],'' which won an [[Oscar]] despite its blatant scientific inaccuracies. In 2007, British Court warned schools which show the film to school children that:
#The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument.
#If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of ... the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political [[indoctrination]].
#Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/09/court-identifies-eleven-inaccuracies-al-gore-s-inconvenient-truth]

In 2007, his efforts regarding global warming won a [[Nobel Peace Prize]] shared with the [[IPCC]].<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/</ref>

==Vice Presidency==
The [[Democratic Party]] selected him for Vice President on the 1992 ticket. The Democrats were victorious and he was sworn in on January 20, 1993.
==Campaign for the Presidency==
As is customary with Vice Presidents, he was nominated to the [[Democratic]] ticket for the 2000 Presidential election. Gore lost to [[George W. Bush]] in the [[Electoral College]] after a close vote, in which Gore received more popular votes than Bush, but fewer electoral votes. Gore contested the results in Florida. On December 13, 2000, after an extensive court battle ([[Bush v. Gore]]), Gore accepted Bush's election to the Presidency.<ref>[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2000 2000 Presidential Election Results]</ref>.

[[Image:041109 al gore vsml 6a vsmall.jpg|left|thumb|150 px|Al Gore, 2004]]
In the spring of 2000 Gore told the International Press Institute in [[Boston]],

:"For all of my career, I have believed that America has a responsibility to lead in the world. ...we must also recognize that there is ...a set of threats that affect us all and that transcend political borders....we need a foreign policy that addresses the classic security threats -- and understands the new ones as well....We need to pursue a policy of "forward engagement" -- addressing problems early in their development before they become crises; addressing them as close to the source of the problem as possible" <ref>[http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itps/0900/ijpe/pj52gore.htm ''A New Security Agenda for the Global Age''], Al Gore, Speech to the International Press Institute, Boston MA, April 30, 2000. Retrieved from U.S. Department of State, International Information Programs.</ref>

Gore contemplates a dark horse bid for the [[2008_Presidential_Election|2008 Democratic Presidential]] nomination, he appears to have been downgraded from an [[Alpha male]] to a [[Beta male]] by ''Newsweek'' magazine. <ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18881794/site/newsweek/page/0/ Betas Rule], By Jennie Yabroff, ''Newsweek'', June 4, 2007.</ref>

==Post politics==
Gore has started an investment firm to invest in environmentally sustainable technology and industries, a cable channel (Current TV), and is an adviser to [[Google]]. Al Gore is also mentioned as a possible 2008 presidential candidate. His famous sentence: "I used to be the next president of United States of America."

== Criticism ==
[[Image:Al and GW.png|thumb|400px|Cartoon by Greg Sheffield]]

[[Ann Coulter]] claims Gore exaggerated his military service record.
*Al Gore endlessly bragged to the media about his service in Vietnam. "I took my turn regularly on the perimeter in these little firebases out in the boonies. Something would move, we'd fire first and ask questions later," he told Vanity Fair. And then we found out Gore had a personal bodyguard in Vietnam, the most dangerous weapon he carried was a typewriter, and he left after three months. [http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi]

Al Gore has recently received criticism for his environmental issues. When it was discovered that Gore's electric utility bill is 20 times higher than the average American's<ref>[http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2007/02/26/al-gore-hypocrite/ Al Gore - Electric consumption bill]</ref> many of his detractors accused him of not living up to his own standards. Gore's defenders claim that the majority of that power came from 'green', or environmentally friendly, power sources such as solar and wind power. These power sources are much more expensive than traditional power sources such as coal and nuclear power. {{Fact}}

From The Tennessean:

<blockquote>
"Gore purchased 108 blocks of "green power" for each of the past three months, according to a summary of the bills.

That's a total of $432 a month Gore paid extra for solar or other renewable energy sources.

The green power Gore purchased in those three months is equivalent to recycling 2.48 million aluminum cans or 286,092 pounds of newspaper, according to comparison figures on NES' Web site."<ref>[http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070227/NEWS01/702270382 Error: Invalid story]</ref>
</blockquote>

Also, some conservatives have pointed to Gore's use of a private jet while spreading the message about the dangers of [[global warming]].<ref>[http://www.gnn.tv/articles/2332/More_Inconvenient_Truths_About_Al_Gore More Inconvenient Truths About Al Gore]</ref>

Attention has also been called to Gore's profits from mining royalties. Specifically, the mining of zinc adjacent to his property he leased in Tennessee, which has released millions of pounds of potentially toxic substances into the environment.<ref>[http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770316074 Tennessee Mine Enriched Gore, Scarred Land]</ref> The mine has been closed since 2003. The new owner Strategic Resource Acquisition is planning to re-open the mine. From The Tennessean (3/12/07):

<blockquote>
'Last week, Gore sent a letter asking the company to work with Earthworks, a national [[Environmentalist|environmental group]], to make sure the operation doesn’t damage the environment.

“We would like for you to engage with us in a process to ensure that the mine becomes a global example of environmental best practices,” Gore wrote.'
</blockquote>

However, this was after he had already made $500,000 from the mining operations.<ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/3/17/93301.shtml?s=ic</ref>

==See Also==
[[Previous Breaking News/Al Gore|Articles about '''Al Gore''' from previous "Breaking News"]]

==External Links==
*[http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=276476942822261 Al Gore, Ignoble Laureate], ''Investor's Business Daily'', October 5, 2007

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List of bodily organs

2007-09-27T19:42:01Z

Osteothis: not an organ

*[[Adrenal gland]]
*[[Bladder]]
*[[Brain]]
*[[Ear]]
*[[Esophagus]]
*[[Eye]]
*[[Gall bladder]]
*[[Heart]]
*[[Kidney]]
*[[Large intestine]]
*[[Liver]]
*[[Lung]]
*[[Mouth]]
*[[Muscle]]
*[[Nose]]
*[[Pancreas]]
*[[Pituitary gland]]
*[[Radius]]
*[[Human reproduction|Reproductive organs]]
*[[Skin]]
*[[Small intestine]]
*[[Spleen]]
*[[Stomach]]
*[[Thymus]]
*[[Thyroid gland]]
*[[Trachea]]
*[[Uterus]]
*[[Vermiform appendix]]

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List of bodily organs

2007-09-27T19:41:46Z

Osteothis:

*[[Adrenal gland]]
*[[Bladder]]
*[[Brain]]
*[[Ear]]
*[[Esophagus]]
*[[Eye]]
*[[Gall bladder]]
*[[Heart]]
*[[Kidney]]
*[[Large intestine]]
*[[Liver]]
*[[Lung]]
*[[Mouth]]
*[[Muscle]]
*[[Nose]]
*[[Pancreas]]
*[[Pituitary gland]]
*[[Radius]]
*[[Human reproduction|Reproductive organs]]
*[[Skeleton]]
*[[Skin]]
*[[Small intestine]]
*[[Spleen]]
*[[Stomach]]
*[[Thymus]]
*[[Thyroid gland]]
*[[Trachea]]
*[[Uterus]]
*[[Vermiform appendix]]

[[category:homeschool curriculum]]
[[category:anatomy]]

List of bodily organs

2007-09-17T22:33:31Z

Osteothis: These are technically organs....

*[[Adrenal gland]]
*[[Bladder]]
*[[Brain]]
*[[Ear]]
*[[Esophagus]]
*[[Eye]]
*[[Gall bladder]]
*[[Heart]]
*[[Kidney]]
*[[Large intestine]]
*[[Liver]]
*[[Lung]]
*[[Mouth]]
*[[Muscle]]
*[[Nose]]
*[[Pancreas]]
*[[Penis]]
*[[Pituitary gland]]
*[[Radius]]
*[[Skeleton]]
*[[Skin]]
*[[Small intestine]]
*[[Spleen]]
*[[Stomach]]
*[[Thymus]]
*[[Thyroid gland]]
*[[Trachea]]
*[[Uterus]]
*[[Vagina]]
*[[Vermiform appendix]]

[[category:homeschool curriculum]]
[[category:anatomy]]