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'''Deng Xiaoping''' ([[Simplified characters|Simplified]]: 等效平; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: Dèng Xiǎopíng; [[Wade-Giles]]: Teng Hsiao-p'ing) (1904-1997) was a [[Chinese Communist Party]] leader and [[China]]'s most powerful figure from the late 1970s until his death. Deng Xiaoping was a vice premier of the People's Republic and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Deng’s political reform introduced [[free trade]] encompassing all of China’s economy. Despite his communist leanings, he managed to rebuild China's economy by embracing this policy of free trade, and steering China away from its despotic path. Yet [[communism]] still exists in China.

Deng is also known for his brutal suppression of pro-democracy activists in the [[Tiananmen Square massacre|Tiananmen Square]] incident of 1989.`

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Cultural Revolution

2010-03-26T04:25:33Z

Wuhao1911:

[[Image:Cultrev.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A Cultural Revolution poster.]]
The '''"Cultural Revolution"''' was a disastrous attempt to reform the economics, education and politics of [[Communist China]], which led to the deaths of tens of millions of people.
The upheaval began in August of 1966 by Chinese Chairman [[Mao Zedong]].
His objective was to replace leaders with people who would think like him and be supportive of him as Chairmen, make the [[Chinese Communist Party]] function the way he wanted, give the Chinese youth a revolutionary experience, and make changes so that education, health care, and cultural systems would be for the entirety of China and not just for the elite.
Mao Zedong wanted the Cultural Revolution to affect everyone in China but it mostly affected those in urban places.

In August 1966, all schools were closed. During this time Mao told the [[Red Guards]] to question things that traditionally had great value and importance, and question the activities of government officials by slighting them in a way that was visible to all. This resulted in the harm and even death of many people. In the end, Mao Zedong achieved none of what he wanted. Like Solomon, the Lord said, "Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant."<ref>[http://scripturetext.com/1_kings/11-11.htm (I Kings 11:11)]</ref>

He began this revolution in his last ten years of power because he feared that [[China]] would become like the [[Soviet Union]] and that he might have a bad, if any, place in history.

Like [[Job]], he feared that "my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good."<ref>[http://scripturetext.com/job/7-7.htm (Job 7:7)]</ref>

Like [[Solomon]], Mao asked for "an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?"<ref>[http://scripturetext.com/1_kings/3-9.htm (I Kings 3:9)]</ref>

The end of the Cultural Revolution came about with death of Mao Zedong in 1977.
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:China]]
[[Category:Communism]]
[[Category:People's Republic of China]]

Cultural Revolution

2010-03-26T04:24:33Z

Wuhao1911:

Cultural Revolution

2010-03-26T04:23:43Z

Wuhao1911:

[[Image:Cultrev.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A Cultural Revolution poster.]]
The '''"Cultural Revolution"''' was a disastrous attempt to reform the economics, education and politics of Communist China, which led to the deaths of tens of millions of people.
The upheaval began in August of 1966 by Chinese Chairman [[Mao Zedong]].
His objective was to replace leaders with people who would think like him and be supportive of him as Chairmen, make the [[Chinese Communist Party]] function the way he wanted, give the Chinese youth a revolutionary experience, and make changes so that education, health care, and cultural systems would be for the entirety of China and not just for the elite.
Mao Zedong wanted the Cultural Revolution to affect everyone in China but it mostly affected those in urban places.

In August 1966, all schools were closed. During this time Mao told the Red Guards to question things that traditionally had great value and importance, and question the activities of government officials by slighting them in a way that was visible to all. This resulted in the harm and even death of many people. In the end, Mao Zedong achieved none of what he wanted. Like Solomon, the Lord said, "Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant."<ref>[http://scripturetext.com/1_kings/11-11.htm (I Kings 11:11)]</ref>

He began this revolution in his last ten years of power because he feared that [[China]] would become like the [[Soviet Union]] and that he might have a bad, if any, place in history.

Like [[Job]], he feared that "my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good."<ref>[http://scripturetext.com/job/7-7.htm (Job 7:7)]</ref>

Like [[Solomon]], Mao asked for "an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?"<ref>[http://scripturetext.com/1_kings/3-9.htm (I Kings 3:9)]</ref>

The end of the Cultural Revolution came about with death of Mao Zedong in 1977.
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:China]]
[[Category:Communism]]
[[Category:People's Republic of China]]

Mao Zedong

2010-03-26T04:19:36Z

Wuhao1911: Undo revision 765093 by Wuhao1911 (Talk)

[[Image:Ncvjgfu.jpg|right|thumb|Mao Zedong]]
'''Mao Zedong''' ([[Simplified Chinese|Simplified]]: 毛泽东; [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]: 毛澤東; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: Máo Zédōng; [[Wade-Giles]]: Mao Tse-tung) (1893-1976) was the leader of Chinese Communism and a ruthless [[atheist]] dictator after he came to power in 1949. While not the founder, he was an early member of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] in 1921. In 1935, Mao was elected to the Executive Committee of the [[Comintern]] in Moscow and remained on this committee until it was publicly disbanded in 1943. Mao is regarded as perhaps the biggest [[mass murder]]er in history. [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM]

==Soviet national liberation movement==

[[Edgar Snow]] introduced Mao and [[Zhou Enlai]] to American readers in 1937 in his book, ''Red Star Over China'', shortly after the [[Chinese Red Army]]’s rout by [[Chiang Kai-shek]] in 1934 and their year long retreat to [[Yenan]] known as the [[Long March]]. Snow wrote, "The political ideology, tactical line and theoretical leadership of the Chinese Communists have been under the close guidance, if not positive detailed direction, of the [[Communist International]], which during the last decade has become virtually a bureau of the Russian Communist Party." And he further declared that the [[CCP]] had to subordinate itself to the "strategic requirements of [[Soviet Russia]], under the leadership of [[Stalin]]."<ref>Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow, New York, 1937.</ref>

==Subversion==

Mao defeated [[Chiang Kai-shek]]'s Nationalists, taking control of the Chinese mainland and establishing the People's Republic of China.

==Three Years of Disasters==

As the leader of China, Mao initiated the [[Great Leap Forward]], an economic plan intended to rapidly industrialize China's then largely rural economy. In the end it proved a ruinous failure, preventing the peasants from producing needed food and causing massive famines; up to 38 million starved to death or were killed for opposing the economic plan.

==Cultural Revolution==
[[Image:Little red book.jpg|right|200px|thumb|During the [[Cultural Revolution]], it was required for every Chinese citizen to own, read, and carry at all times ''Quotations from Chairman Mao'', also known as "the little red book".]]
In 1966, Mao instigated the [[Cultural Revolution]], in which those disloyal to the Chairman were killed or humiliated in order to solidify Mao's control. [[Richard Nixon]] was the first United States president to meet with Mao, and thus the first to acknowledge the existence of the People's Republic of China, as opposed to [[Taiwan]]'s Republic of China.

==Mass murder==

Overall, historians believe that around 43 million people died under Mao's rule, due mostly to starvation from disastrous socialist economic policies such as the "[[Great Leap Forward]]" but now known in China as The Three Years of Disaters. This is 7 times the common figure given for the Holocaust but it is much less known.

==Little Red Book==

Mao is the author of ''[[Quotations from Chairman Mao]],'' published in 1966, informally known as "the little red book." During his lifetime, almost everyone in the [[People's Republic of China]] was expected to have a copy. One of his most well known statements was that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".

==Legacy==
In their book ''Mao: The Unknown Story'', authors Jung Chang and Jon Halliday state that in his first five years of power, 700,000 were claimed by Mao to be dead, but another 700,000 died in local excesses and 700,000 committed suicide out of fear of Mao. During the Great Leap Forward, Mao deliberately killed peasants by shipping food to the USSR and Eastern Europe in exchange for aid in building arms plants. As well, Mao's plans for peasants to make steel and build canals meant that in 1959-60 nobody grew any food. Thus, the worst famine in history occurred. Huge numbers were killed by puppets of Mao in the Cultural Revolution, which actually was launched to get rid of Mao's rivals in the Chinese Communist Party.

==Further reading==
* Chang, Jung and Jon Halliday. ''Mao: The Unknown Story,'' (2005), 814 pages, ISBN 0-679-42271-4
* Clark, Paul. ''The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History'' (2008), a favorable look at artistic production [http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Cultural-Revolution-History/dp/0521875153/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214281188&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Dietrich, Craig. ''People's China: A Brief History,'' 3d ed. (1997), 398pp [http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-China-History-Craig-Dietrich/dp/0195106288/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197238522&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
* Esherick, Joseph W.; Pickowicz, Paul G.; and Walder, Andrew G., eds. ''The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History.'' (2006). 382 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Revolution-Shorenstein-Asia-Pacific-Research/dp/0804753504/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197221379&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Fairbank, John King and Goldman, Merle. ''China: A New History.'' (2nd ed. 2006). 640 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/China-New-History-Second-Enlarged/dp/0674018281/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197346975&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Hsü, Immanuel Chung-yueh. ''The Rise of Modern China,'' 6th ed. (1999), highly detailed coverage of 1644-1999, in 1136pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Modern-China-Immanuel-Hsu/dp/0195125045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197238178&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Jian, Guo; Song, Yongyi; and Zhou, Yuan. ''Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.'' (2006). 433 pp.
* MacFarquhar, Roderick and Fairbank, John K., eds. ''The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 15: The People's Republic, Part 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982.'' (1992). 1108 pp.
* MacFarquhar, Roderick and Michael Schoenhals. ''Mao's Last Revolution.'' (2006).
* MacFarquhar, Roderick. ''The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Vol. 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966.'' (1998). 733 pp.
* Meisner, Maurice. ''Mao's China and After: A History of the People’s Republic,'' 3rd ed. (1999), dense book with theoretical and political science approach. [http://www.amazon.com/Maos-China-After-History-Republic/dp/0684856352/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197238473&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Schoppa, R. Keith. ''The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History.'' Columbia U. Press, 2000. 356 pp. [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-columbia-guide-to-modern-chinese-history-by-r-keith-schoppa.jsp online edition from [[Questia]]]
* Spence, Jonathan D. ''The Search for Modern China'' (1991), 876pp; well written survey from 1644 to 1980s [http://www.amazon.com/Search-Modern-China-Jonathan-Spence/dp/0393307808/ref=pd_sim_b_title_2 excerpt and text search]; [http://www.questia.com/read/98946348 complete edition online at [[Questia]]]
* Spence, Jonatham. ''Mao Zedong'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Mao-Zedong-Penguin-Life-Lives/dp/0670886696/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200477500&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Shuyun, Sun. ''The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth'' (2007)
* Taylor, Jay. ''The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China'' (2009), 722 pp. highly favorable scholarly biography of Mao's great enemy
* Wang, Ke-wen, ed. ''Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism.'' (1998). 442 pp.
* Xia, Yafeng. "The Study of Cold War International History in China: A Review of the Last Twenty Years," ''Journal of Cold War Studies''10#1 Winter 2008, pp. 81-115 in [[Project Muse]]
* Yan, Jiaqi and Gao, Gao. ''Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution.'' (1996). 736 pp.
* [http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/pgp/index.html Studies of Modern Chinese History: Reviews and Historiographical Essays]

==See also==
*[[National liberation movement]]
*[[Anna Louise Strong]]

==References==
<references/>

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[[Category:World War II]]
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[[Category:Mass Murderers]]
[[Category:Marxism]]

Mao Zedong

2010-03-26T04:19:08Z

Wuhao1911: /* Subversion */

[[Image:Ncvjgfu.jpg|right|thumb|Mao Zedong]]
'''Mao Zedong''' ([[Simplified Chinese|Simplified]]: 毛泽东; [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]: 毛澤東; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: Máo Zédōng; [[Wade-Giles]]: Mao Tse-tung) (1893-1976) was the leader of Chinese Communism and a ruthless [[atheist]] dictator after he came to power in 1949. While not the founder, he was an early member of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] in 1921. In 1935, Mao was elected to the Executive Committee of the [[Comintern]] in Moscow and remained on this committee until it was publicly disbanded in 1943. Mao is regarded as perhaps the biggest [[mass murder]]er in history. [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM]

==Soviet national liberation movement==

[[Edgar Snow]] introduced Mao and [[Zhou Enlai]] to American readers in 1937 in his book, ''Red Star Over China'', shortly after the [[Chinese Red Army]]’s rout by [[Chiang Kai-shek]] in 1934 and their year long retreat to [[Yenan]] known as the [[Long March]]. Snow wrote, "The political ideology, tactical line and theoretical leadership of the Chinese Communists have been under the close guidance, if not positive detailed direction, of the [[Communist International]], which during the last decade has become virtually a bureau of the Russian Communist Party." And he further declared that the [[CCP]] had to subordinate itself to the "strategic requirements of [[Soviet Russia]], under the leadership of [[Stalin]]."<ref>Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow, New York, 1937.</ref>

==Subversion==

Mao defeated [[Chiang Kai-shek]]'s [[Nationalists]], taking control of the Chinese mainland and establishing the People's Republic of China.

==Three Years of Disasters==

As the leader of China, Mao initiated the [[Great Leap Forward]], an economic plan intended to rapidly industrialize China's then largely rural economy. In the end it proved a ruinous failure, preventing the peasants from producing needed food and causing massive famines; up to 38 million starved to death or were killed for opposing the economic plan.

==Cultural Revolution==
[[Image:Little red book.jpg|right|200px|thumb|During the [[Cultural Revolution]], it was required for every Chinese citizen to own, read, and carry at all times ''Quotations from Chairman Mao'', also known as "the little red book".]]
In 1966, Mao instigated the [[Cultural Revolution]], in which those disloyal to the Chairman were killed or humiliated in order to solidify Mao's control. [[Richard Nixon]] was the first United States president to meet with Mao, and thus the first to acknowledge the existence of the People's Republic of China, as opposed to [[Taiwan]]'s Republic of China.

==Mass murder==

Overall, historians believe that around 43 million people died under Mao's rule, due mostly to starvation from disastrous socialist economic policies such as the "[[Great Leap Forward]]" but now known in China as The Three Years of Disaters. This is 7 times the common figure given for the Holocaust but it is much less known.

==Little Red Book==

Mao is the author of ''[[Quotations from Chairman Mao]],'' published in 1966, informally known as "the little red book." During his lifetime, almost everyone in the [[People's Republic of China]] was expected to have a copy. One of his most well known statements was that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".

==Legacy==
In their book ''Mao: The Unknown Story'', authors Jung Chang and Jon Halliday state that in his first five years of power, 700,000 were claimed by Mao to be dead, but another 700,000 died in local excesses and 700,000 committed suicide out of fear of Mao. During the Great Leap Forward, Mao deliberately killed peasants by shipping food to the USSR and Eastern Europe in exchange for aid in building arms plants. As well, Mao's plans for peasants to make steel and build canals meant that in 1959-60 nobody grew any food. Thus, the worst famine in history occurred. Huge numbers were killed by puppets of Mao in the Cultural Revolution, which actually was launched to get rid of Mao's rivals in the Chinese Communist Party.

==Further reading==
* Chang, Jung and Jon Halliday. ''Mao: The Unknown Story,'' (2005), 814 pages, ISBN 0-679-42271-4
* Clark, Paul. ''The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History'' (2008), a favorable look at artistic production [http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Cultural-Revolution-History/dp/0521875153/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214281188&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Dietrich, Craig. ''People's China: A Brief History,'' 3d ed. (1997), 398pp [http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-China-History-Craig-Dietrich/dp/0195106288/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197238522&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
* Esherick, Joseph W.; Pickowicz, Paul G.; and Walder, Andrew G., eds. ''The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History.'' (2006). 382 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Revolution-Shorenstein-Asia-Pacific-Research/dp/0804753504/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197221379&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Fairbank, John King and Goldman, Merle. ''China: A New History.'' (2nd ed. 2006). 640 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/China-New-History-Second-Enlarged/dp/0674018281/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197346975&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Hsü, Immanuel Chung-yueh. ''The Rise of Modern China,'' 6th ed. (1999), highly detailed coverage of 1644-1999, in 1136pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Modern-China-Immanuel-Hsu/dp/0195125045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197238178&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Jian, Guo; Song, Yongyi; and Zhou, Yuan. ''Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.'' (2006). 433 pp.
* MacFarquhar, Roderick and Fairbank, John K., eds. ''The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 15: The People's Republic, Part 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982.'' (1992). 1108 pp.
* MacFarquhar, Roderick and Michael Schoenhals. ''Mao's Last Revolution.'' (2006).
* MacFarquhar, Roderick. ''The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Vol. 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966.'' (1998). 733 pp.
* Meisner, Maurice. ''Mao's China and After: A History of the People’s Republic,'' 3rd ed. (1999), dense book with theoretical and political science approach. [http://www.amazon.com/Maos-China-After-History-Republic/dp/0684856352/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197238473&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Schoppa, R. Keith. ''The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History.'' Columbia U. Press, 2000. 356 pp. [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-columbia-guide-to-modern-chinese-history-by-r-keith-schoppa.jsp online edition from [[Questia]]]
* Spence, Jonathan D. ''The Search for Modern China'' (1991), 876pp; well written survey from 1644 to 1980s [http://www.amazon.com/Search-Modern-China-Jonathan-Spence/dp/0393307808/ref=pd_sim_b_title_2 excerpt and text search]; [http://www.questia.com/read/98946348 complete edition online at [[Questia]]]
* Spence, Jonatham. ''Mao Zedong'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Mao-Zedong-Penguin-Life-Lives/dp/0670886696/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200477500&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Shuyun, Sun. ''The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth'' (2007)
* Taylor, Jay. ''The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China'' (2009), 722 pp. highly favorable scholarly biography of Mao's great enemy
* Wang, Ke-wen, ed. ''Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism.'' (1998). 442 pp.
* Xia, Yafeng. "The Study of Cold War International History in China: A Review of the Last Twenty Years," ''Journal of Cold War Studies''10#1 Winter 2008, pp. 81-115 in [[Project Muse]]
* Yan, Jiaqi and Gao, Gao. ''Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution.'' (1996). 736 pp.
* [http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/pgp/index.html Studies of Modern Chinese History: Reviews and Historiographical Essays]

==See also==
*[[National liberation movement]]
*[[Anna Louise Strong]]

==References==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mao Zedong}}
[[Category:Atheists]]
[[Category:China]]
[[Category:People's Republic of China]]
[[Category:Heads of State]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:Communists]]
[[Category:Mass Murderers]]
[[Category:Marxism]]

2010-03-24T20:17:24Z

Wuhao1911: /* A Warning */

== Up for Discussion ==
Please present your points here. [[User:Avoge|A. Vogel]] 14:49, 3 November 2009 (EST)
Thanks for the support on my ban. I thought that "so called" was a little snarky. Thomas Paine was influenced by the Enlightenment.

Thanks for the support, my feelings exactly.

==A Warning==

Avoge, looking at your history it seems that you are very close to violating the 90/10 rule. I will not block you now, but you should take care to make more substantial edits in the future. [[User:Wuhao1911|Wuhao1911]] 16:13, 24 March 2010 (EDT)
:My apologies, I am unaware of what this rule is, can you please explain? [[User:Avoge|A. Vogel]] 16:16, 24 March 2010 (EDT)
::Most edits should be to mainspace articles. [[User:Wuhao1911|Wuhao1911]] 16:17, 24 March 2010 (EDT)

User talk:Avoge

2010-03-24T20:13:05Z

Wuhao1911:

Troll

2010-03-24T19:32:54Z

Wuhao1911: Undo revision 764796 by Eyedeetent (Talk)

== Online ==

A troll, in [[Internet]] parlance, is an entity or character that purposely disrupts a conversation via discussion [[forum]] or [[email]], a comment thread on a [[blog]], or another sort of website. For example, on [[Wiki | Wikis]], users who purposely make disruptive edits are considered trolls. Many people consider this type of activity to be merely childish, while others consider it symptomatic of deviant minds of opposition whereby infiltration by deceit is normal practice. Trolls pretend to be of common thinking, at the same time plotting anti-social crimes. The troll can otherwise be known as a [[frenemy]] or as a [[hoax plant]] lurking for an opportunity to create trouble.

The term originated in the early 1990's, an abbreviation of the term "trolling for suckers" (trolling being an angling technique to seek fish). An [[Internet]] troll will lock their target, bait the line and spread the net to catch their goal (unwitting victim).

== Folklore ==

A troll is a mythical creature, like a giant but mostly portrayed as a dwarf.

== External Links ==
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Abortion Betrayals

2010-03-24T02:11:19Z

Wuhao1911: cleaning up

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Date
!Name(s)
!Party
!Office
!Stated Position
!Betrayal
!Comments
|-
|March 21, 2010
|[[Bart Stupak]]
|Democrat
|Congressman (MI)
|
* Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record.
* Rated 100% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-life stance. <ref>http://www.ontheissues.org/MI/Bart_Stupak.htm</ref>
|Stupak abandoned his position and betrayed the trust of the American people by allowing the passage of [[Obamacare]], which pays for at-will abortions with Federal funds. <ref>http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/03/22/and-judas-said-unto-them-%E2%80%9Cwhat-will-you-give-me-if-i-betray%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D/</ref>
|Voted against the Pence Amendment to ban funding to Planned Parenthood in 2009. <ref>[http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll643.xml#Y%23Yv FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 643, House.gov, July 2, 2009]</ref>
|-
|May 21, 2003
|[[Dennis Kucinich]]
|Democrat
|Congressman (OH)
| Rated 95% Pro-life in his 1st three-terms as Congressman by the National Right to Life Committee in 2000.
| Kucinich abandoned his position when he decided to run for President. He would give a campaign speech, "as president, I would protect that right [to abortion], and I would also make sure that appointees to the Supreme Court protected that right."
| He never received more than 3% of the vote, ranked last.
|-
|1996
|[[Richard Durbin]]
|Democrat
|Senator (IL)
| As a Congressman he was the speaker at the annual right-to-life rally, "I believe we should end abortion on demand, and at every opportunity, I have translated this belief into votes in the House of Representatives," "I continue to believe the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade should be reversed." <ref>[http://www.crosswalk.com/1346344/ Constituent 'Violated' by Durbin Change on Abortion, Crosswalk.com]</ref>
| When running as a Senator he changed his position to pro-abortion saying, "And I finally came to the conclusion that we really have to try to honor the Roe vs. Wade thinking, that there are certain times in the life of a woman that she needs to make that decision with her doctor, with her family and with her conscience and that the government shouldn't be intruding."
| Votes for [[Obamacare]] whereby the government intrudes in everyones health issues. Rated 100% by [[NARAL]] in 2003
|-
|1992
|Richard S. Williamson
|Republican
|nominee for U.S. Senate for Illinois
|signed a pro-life pledge during the campaign
|disavowed his pledge once Carol Moseley Braun became his opponent, whom he hoped to defeat by becoming pro-choice
|lost in a landslide after his duplicity was exposed; Pro-life Peter Fitzgerald then defeated Moseley Braun the next time
|-
|July 6, 1990
|Buddy Roemer
|Democrat<ref>Later he switched parties.</ref>
|Louisiana Governor
|"we've had a betrayal by a governor who has been on the record as pro-life" <ref>Quoting Burke Balch, a state legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee. [http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-28/news/mn-559_1_u-s-abortion-bill] </ref>
|vetoed a pro-life bill passed by overwhelming majorities in the legislature
|the legislature overrode his veto; Roemer was defeated for reelection and could never win an election again
|}

== References ==

<references/>

Mozi

2010-03-21T20:08:08Z

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'''Mozi''' (末子) was a [[Chinese]] philosopher of the [[Confucian]] school. He is best known for his philosophies on war.

Mozi's exact birth date is unknown, but he is believed to have been a contemporary of [[Confucius]]. However, there is no record of him meeting Confucius or his students. Still, his ideas, which emphasize the importance of family ties, place him in the Confucian school. This may be a case of two people conceiving one idea independently. This idea is controversial among many historians, however.

Most of Mozi's work involved the connection between family and the military. He believed that the key to success in battle was extending [[filial piety]] to include one's superiors. His martial philosophy was in competition with the more widely favored [[Sunzi]].

[[Category:Chinese Philosophers]]

Jin Dynasty

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The '''Jìn Dynasty''' briefly reunified [[China]] in the 3rd century.

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