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| Posted 4/6/2007 8:53 AM CDT DVT / “deep vein thrombosis”: People who work long hours seated in front of a computer are putting themselves at risk for the formation of clots in the blood of inactive legs. DVT is more commonly known as “economy class syndrome”. It’s a threat to anyone who sits for more than several hours without getting up and moving around. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000156.htm Laughing Yourself Healthy: New studies indicate that a good sense of humor really can extend your life. The mortality rate for those that score highest for humor are 35% better than those who score lowest. In one study, of the 2,015 people who had cancer at the beginning of the study, those with a humorous take on life were 70% more likely to survive than those who were less lighthearted. by USA Today “Manorexia”: Eating disorders in men are not taken seriously enough --- 25% of anorexics and bulimics are men in America….. also comprise 40% of binge eaters. Military men are among the groups most at risk, but because of their fear of being seen as ‘unmanly’ are less likely to seek help. by USA Today Deadly Procrastination: Putting things off now and then is normal, but 20% of workers suffer from ‘chronic procrastination’ that threatens their professional and personal lives. The only way to defeat procrastination is through organization….assess the work you need to do before getting bogged down in it & prioritize it / then schedule when to do all of the different things. The Orlando Sentinel Fake Identity: A fake identity can be purchased for as little as $14 from online hackers who assemble the identity from stolen information. Access to a stranger’s bank account costs $300. The Financial Times Increasing Retirement: In 1950, the average length of retirement for American men was 8.1 years --- the difference between retirement age (70) and life expectancy (78.1). But because people have been retiring earlier and living longer, the average reirement now lasts nearly 20 years. by SmartMoney “Oil Pulling” Cure For Allergies: Though “oil pulling” is beneficial in treating more than just allergies…. (Google it), it’s inexpensive and simple to do. Simply swish one teaspoon of either sesame or sunflower oil (organic preferred) around in your mouth for AT LEAST ten minutes before spitting it into the toilet (do not gargle it / do not swallow it)… it’ll have turned white. It’s best to do it on an empty stomach (at least four hours after your last food intake / one hour after last drink). So, as soon as you arise is the best time to do it… by constantly swishing it completely around in your mouth. Then brush your teeth. A possible apparent initial worsening of symptoms simply means it’s doing its job…. use commonsense to regulate the frequency of your oil pulling activity. http://www.oilpulling.com/ Heroin Use In Britain: The United Kingdom routinely prescribed heroin to addicts from the 1920s to the '60s, and its addict population remained stable at fewer than 2,000. When laws changed in 1971, the legal market gave way to an illegal one, and the addict population has grown to 300,000. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070318/26drugs.htm Ghirardelli Chocolate: This company saved $1 million last year by reducing packaging waste and increasing energy efficiency. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060104/ai_n15973397 Chocolate humor: http://www.frankandernest.com/cgi/view/display.pl?101-04-13 Fair Elections Now Act: Assistant Senate Majority Leader Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) have introduced the bipartisan “Fair Elections Now Act”. This bill addresses the fundamental problem of money and its influence in elections. It offers a fundamental solution: the public funding of congressional elections. http://action.citizen.org/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=503&t=CleanUpWashington2col.dwt Elections Humor: http://www.frankandernest.com/cgi/view/display.pl?106-09-14 |
| Posted 4/3/2007 5:10 PM CDT Dangerous Food: The food prepared in our own American kitchens is the most hazardous… because most of us do not follow the most basic sanitary standards. Over half of us do not wash our hands before handling the food. Almost as many do not clean the cutting boards between chopping up chicken and the salad --- an excellent way to transmit salmonella. 82% undercook chicken / 46% undercook meatloaf….. etcetera. New York Times Fat Men Happier: Obese men are 42% less likely to commit suicide than thin men. [Doesn’t apply to women.] The Los Angeles Times Raccoons Invade Fatherland: American raccoons (introduced into German fur farms in the 1930s) have no natural enemies there and have become terrible pests. Last year, hunters culled 30,000+…more than 3 times the number from just six years ago…still to no avail. By Der Spiegel China’s Farmers: For the first time, the right to own private property is guaranteed. This is a tremendous boon to their rising middle class (and especially to their farmers). Until now, farmers have had no legal title to land that they’ve been farming for generations…. which has been increasingly threatened by corrupt bureaucrats grabbing land for developments. This overturns their basic system of socialism. By South China Morning post Opium Trade: The number of Afghans involved in the opium trade jumped from 2 million to 3 million last year. 12% of Afghans now have a hand in its production or trafficking. by The Washington Times God’s Increasing Popularity: The number of Web pages dealing with God and religion is booming….and is nearly as popular an Internet topic as sex. A search for ‘sex’ returns 408 million hits; a search for ‘God’ yields 396 million. by The Washington Post 21% Americans Illiterate: More than 1/3rd of Washington D.C.’s residents are functionally illiterate, while the nation’s rate is 21%. by Associated Press Super-rich Hoarders: Not counting the “sainted” Warren Buffett who gave away $44 billion last year, the 60 leading American philanthropists donated $7 billion, out of their combined net worth of $584 billion. That’s a mere 1.2% of their vast fortunes. Multibillionaires are even tighter…giving less than 1%. [Hmmm? The “eye of the needle”….] The Los Angeles Times Identity Theft: Of the 9 million Americans that got hit for $56 billion is losses, only 1 in 700+ cases were prosecuted. So, get yourself a shredder, shop only at secure websites, check your credit rating each 4 months (for free), and never ‘give in’ to urgent or threatening communications wanting your financial information. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/ Americans’ High Anxiety: A second income in the USA family is a necessity, not a luxury. It costs $200,000+ to raise a child to age 18 for middle-income families (excludes college expenses). Tens of millions of Americans live in constant fear that a major health problems could reduce them to bankruptcy. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/061217/25edit.htm Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tx.), chair of Comm. On Energy & Commerce: Quoted saying- “Don’t hold your breath”… waiting for coal-fired power plants to be ordered to clean up their mercury emissions. [ When told that eating mercury-tainted fish could diminish intelligence, Barton scoffed. “Voters are plenty smart. They keep electing me, don’t they?”] Note: Fish in certain Texas lakes are officially too mercury laden for anyone to eat. How smart is that? http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200611/ways_and_means.asp More Ugly Americans Speak Up: When you follow the trail of congressionally funded “earmarks” through the culture of corruption, well known names stand out. The storied list of ethically challenged congressmen makes for entertaining reading. Click on: http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200609/losers2.asp http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200609/losers.asp Political Humor: http://www.frankandernest.com/cgi/view/display.pl?106-03-25 |
| Posted 3/31/2007 6:09 PM CDT On April 1, 1995, wildlife biologist April Pazzo (pazzo = fool, demented one) discovered the only mammal native to Antarctica --- the Hotheaded Mole Rat. There used to be plenty of other species of animal life millions of years ago on Antarctica before plate tectonic movements shifted this continent to its extreme southern latitude. But this unique creature is the only one to adapt and survive. It is, thus far, found only in a poorly explored area inland from the coast of the Ross Sea. Its appearance (and eusocial communal hierarchy) is similar to that of its relative, the Mole Rat of Africa (remember that Antarctica was once attached to Africa). However, it has a large bulbous protrusion on its forehead (with innumerable blood vessels that radiate tremendous amounts of heat which allows them to melt their tunnels in ice). It is this that allows them to hunt penguins (their favorite prey). In the winter when the Emperor Penguins are tightly clustered in small protected areas to protect their chicks, the Hotheaded Mole Rats sense their return. Slowly, they migrate under the ice into a location that’s directly under the middle of the penguin cluster. They then force themselves into one concerted ball with their foreheads pushing upwards. At some point, the weight of the penguins above collapses some of them into the cave of slush beneath that contains the waiting teeth of the voracious rats. This will be repeated after the penguins have moved to a different location --- but since the winter storms force them to remain in a specific locale to take advantage of the protection of very tall cliffs, it’s only a matter of time before the procedure is repeated. [Since the ice in Antarctica never melts, old tunnels remain open. The old cave-ins fill in with blowing snow & are indistinguishable after just a few years.] Have a good April Fools Day! http://www.udel.edu/pbl/iceborers.html |
| Posted 3/30/2007 12:54 PM CDT Old Age: No American has died of “old age” since 1951 (when the government eliminated that classification on death certificates). http://discovermagazine.com/2006/sep/20thingsdeath/ Lefty vs. Righty: Nearly 2,500 lefties are killed every year using products designed for right handed people. http://www.lifeinsure.com/information/19-things-about-death.asp Drug Money: $206 million / 2 tons of mostly one hundred dollar bills was confiscated by police in Mexico City recently in the upscale rent hideout of a “meth” gang with extensive ties to Asian suppliers. http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20070316-102944-3657r.htm Prayer: In USA medical schools, one of the fastest growing areas of study is the healing power of “prayer”. http://www.bottomlinesecrets.com/blpnet/article.html?article_id=30204 Melatonin Suppression: The use of a night light while you sleep can reduce the amount of melatonin your brain produces. http://v.mercola.com/ Texaco Chevron Sued: An Amazon tribe is suing Texaco (now part of Chevron) for $6 billion for their dumping 30 times the amount of crude that was spilled by the Exxon Valdez oilspill. http://www.texasnationalpress.com/texlog/article.php?story=20070327005414562 Omega-3 & Bone Density: A study about the role fatty acids play in building the bone mineral density of young men found that concentrations of omega-3 fats were associated with positive densities. http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/3/803 A House Divided Against Itself: A German mason took careful measurements of his house and then sawed it in half & then drove off with it on a forklift truck. He and his wife were in the throes of a divorce. http://wwwguilty-with-an-explanation.blogspot.com/2007/03/two-halves-make-hole.html Spam: The amount of unsolicited junk e-mail flooding inboxes has doubled from last year, as “marketers” have devised new methods for bypassing spam filters. With ‘image spam’, words in the advertising are part of a picture, so telltale phrases such as penis enlargement are not detected. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/technology/06spam.html?ex=1175227200&en=ab4bd8ea842e35f8&ei=5070 Beachcomber Nightmare: 100+ million cargo containers annually cross our oceans. Each year, 10,000+ are lost overboard …..resulting in millions of tons of floating debris. Some is washed ashore eventually, but much is caught in “gyres” (circular surface currents) that are up to 1800 miles across and can contain 3+ million tons worth of floatsam. In some gyres the debris is so thick that you cannot see the water. [ Note: Much of the debris is plastic (which is not biodegradable)…is photodegradable (which means that the sunlight slowly breaks it down into tiny poisnous bits that sink into the depths and enter the food chain).] by The Week Texas House Bill 3039: By Representative Patrick Rose, it will ban discharge of treated sewage in the contributing zone of the Barton Springs watershed. Sewage effluent is one of the top pollutant sources in Barton Springs. Developers in Hays County have applied for a permit to discharge treated sewage effluent into Bear Creek, and this bill would prevent any future attempts to directly pollute our streams and springs. This critical legislation needs a hearing….e-mail Robert.Puente@house.state.tx.us and ask him to “Please schedule a hearing for House Bill 3039.” And also please contact Representative Patrick Rose to express your support for his bill. He can be contacted at (512) 463-0647 or Patrick.Rose@house.state.tx.us. You can read the bill here. Humor: http://www.frankandernest.com/cgi/view/display.pl?104-06-10 |
| Posted 3/28/2007 4:06 PM CDT Successful Sex Education: Since 1956, sex education has been compulsory in Swedish schools….The message seems to work: the rates of teen pregnancy and STDs are among the world’s lowest. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/070318/ Public Education On The Cheap: If our educational standards were higher, as many as 20% of our student population would qualify for Sp Ed support services. This isn’t shocking if you realize that 5% of people are of borderline (or lower) IQ…and the other 15%+ are largely those with some form of attention deficit or learning disability. By Me One Dollar Pieces Worth $50: An unknown number of George Washington dollar coins that recently went into circulation are missing the phrases “E Pluribus Unum and “In God We trust”…and are much sought after by coin collectors. USA Today ‘Silver Fox’ Discount: A brothel in Germany announced a 50% discount to senior citizens. However, the discount is only good during afternoon hours. The Week Fatter Girls, Earlier Puberty: Young girls who are 22+ pounds overweight have 80%+ risk of both developing breasts and starting menstruation prematurely….. causing social adjustment problems for them. By CNN.COM Kim Jong II: Is the world’s leading buyer of Hennessy Cognac….spends up to $720,000 annually on it. By Newsday March 28, 1979 / 4:00 a.m.: The worst accident in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry begins when a pressure valve in the Unit-2 reactor at Three Mile Island fails to close. Cooling water, contaminated with radiation, drained from the open valve into adjoining buildings, and the core began to dangerously overheat. The History Channel Intermarriage Taboo: The long standing taboo against racial intermarriage is falling. About 7% of all marriages now involve partners of different races….in 2005, 440,000 marriages between blacks and whites / 1,750,000 between whites and Hispanics, and 755,000 between whites and Asians. By Chicago Tribune Americans Are Unhappiest People: The World Health Organization identifies 9.6% of Americans as suffering from depression….Lebanon with 6.6%….Mexico 4.8%…Italy 3.8%…Japan 3.1%. Nigeria, a land of desperate poverty, had the lowest rate of all with just 0.8%. How can this be? Perhaps in societies that find comfort and meaning in families and cultural traditions aren’t as susceptible to existential despair… especially when the struggle for physical necessities take up your time. By The Wall Street Journal Austin ISD: Connected Math (a discovery based methodology) is “out” now that the school board went against the recommendation of a textbook committee and top district administrators to switch to textbooks published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. [ My Comment: After a decade of rigidly forcing middle school math teachers to strictly adhere to the dictates of Connected Math, AISD is now going to go to the other extreme of a traditional curriculum. Once again, the students continue to lose. The answer is a balanced blending of the 2 extremes.] http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/03/28/28textbooks.html Math Humor: http://www.frankandernest.com/cgi/view/display.pl?107-02-16 |
| Posted 3/26/2007 6:46 PM CDT Ugly American Award: For more than 18 years, the victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill have waited for ExxonMobil to make their community "whole" again as Exxon promised within the first four days of that fateful and devastating oil spill. Since 1992, 6,000 people have died waiting for compensation from ExxonMobil. It wiped out an entire multi-million dollar herring fishing industry upon which so many lives – and the ecosystem - depended. Instead of paying what it owes, ExxonMobil has dragged more than 30,000 people through 13 years of litigation by appealing every guilty verdict it's been given since 1994! And this is in spite of record profits. Take quick action / click on: http://ga3.org/campaign/exxon_anniversary Increase of Mercury: On average, three times more mercury is falling from the sky today than before the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago. With China and other nations firing up at least one new coal powered electric plant each week, it’s no surprise that scientists worldwide warn us to be wary of eating fish (especially pregnant women and children). [My Comment: It might be the one thing that’ll save sealife from being extinguished by overfishing.] http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/03/07/mercury-health.html Frankenrice: The first GM food crop containing human genes will likely be approved for commercial production shortly. It is a strain of rice that produces some of the human proteins found in breast milk and saliva, which manufacturer Ventria Biosciences believes could be used to treat children with diarrhea. http://www.mercola.com/2007/mar/22/is-your-rice-contaminated-with-human-genes.htm Illegal Immigration: Control of our southern border will become a reality only when Hispanic-American citizens demand it. Too many people are making too much money off of immigrant labor for it to be otherwise. Only when our economy slackens to the point that job security becomes an issue will this occur. The Monitor Iraqis Approve Attacks: 2/3rds of Iraqis say they have no faith in American troops….more than half say it’s okay to attack them….yet, only 35% say they want the troops out now. [ Hmmm?! What about those saying it’s okay to shoot at us BUT don’t want us to leave.] http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1601829,00.html Skin Cancer: Aussies have the highest rate of skin cancer in the world…overexposure to the sun during childhood is a big factor. School children must bring sun screen just as they would pencils and paper. On the playground, it’s “No Hat, No Play”. Ozone depletion over the pole doesn’t help either. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070318/26sunscreen.htm?s_cid=rss:site1 American Housewife / Anti-terrorist: Shannen Rossmiller is a mother of 3 from rural Montana----and an anti-terrorist spy for the FBI. Since 2001, she has supplied the bureau with 214+ reports on terrorist suspects, including a US soldier supplying al Qaida witht military secrets. She does her spying unpaid and in her spare time online. One man offered to sell her Stinger missles / even providing with the stock numbers / she gave this ‘info’ to the FBI. The Week Global warming Humor: Click here http://frankandernest.com/cgi/view/display.pl?107-02-10 |
| Posted 3/24/2007 4:33 PM CDT Blackbeard’s Ship Found: Archaeologists exploring a shipwreck off the North Carolina coast found “Queen Anne’s Revenge” that ran aground in 1718….as per coins, cups, and artifacts. By The Week http://www.qaronline.org/history/historyintro.htm Walter Reed Fiasco: The 2 officials who presided over veterans’ care were an economist and a former insurance-industry executive, who tried to run the Army’s medical division like an HMO----cutting costs and reducing services. Somehow, despite 30,000+ being wounded in Iraq, the number of soldiers approved for permanent disability retirement decreased by more than 2/3rds between 2001 and 2005. Does that sound right? By SALON.COM [My Comment: With this increasing “Republican” privatization mode of thinking, the Democrats are given a plus…of course, their minus is their propensity towards “socialization” and tax increases. Hmmm? Again, nobody to vote for / only against ?] China: They have 4 times more people than we do --- 35% of them have cell phones whereas 73% of us do. We have 12 times the number of cars that they do, yet they have TWICE the total number of accidents that we do. http://preview.tinyurl.com/34pb67 Wit&Wisdom: “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” Unknown author Support Cleaner School Buses for Kids in Texas: My Comment --- Over the course of many years serving as a public school teacher, there were some districts I worked in that used school buses powered by diesel engines. As a teacher, I often had bus duty and got a daily dose of the exhausts no matter what the fuel being burned was. I never thought much about it; but nowadays, with more information available, I can’t help but wonder about the ‘fine particle pollution’ that large numbers of students are exposed to by older diesel powered buses. Recent studies show that pollutant levels inside these buses are often higher than ambient levels outside the bus dues to ‘selfpollution’ causes (information included below). The Texas legislature is being asked to help ‘clean up’ older buses with money “already collected” for purposes such as this. If this is something that you can ‘get on board with’, then send an e-mail by clicking on the link below: http://action.environmentaldefense.org/campaign/tx_schoolbuses/i567w841wxmnx7? Our Increasingly Motorized Society: In 2003, the number or registered passenger vehicles in the USA was 231 million with (196 million drivers in a country with 291 million people). US Dept. Transportation http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?ContentID=6083 5 WaysTo Hide Identity Online: 1)Bypass registration http://www.bugmenot.com/ 2)Fake an inbox http://mailinator.com/ 3)Use disposable credit card numbers http://preview.tinyurl.com/35xafn 4)Hide your IP @$30 http://anonymizer.com/ 5)Turn off “display HTML” in your e-mail ….by Popular Science Nov.2004 |
| Posted 3/22/2007 6:10 PM CDT Russians Protesting Putin: Thousands defied a police ban to rally against ‘police state’ tactics of Putin in St. Petersburg. 5,000 broke through a police cordon to stage a ‘march of dissenters’ in Putin’s hometown. The Week Least Popular Country In The World: The prize goes to Israel according to 28,000 people surveyed by BBC from 12 countries. Canada scored best…but USA had only 30% positive/51% negative; worse was Iran at 18/54; and worst was Israel itself with 17/56. The Week Overkill: After opponents of late President Milosevic dug up his corpse, they drove a stake through his heart, apparantly to minimize the odds of his returning from the dead. The Week Wit&Wisdom: “Poor people have poor ways….and with the rich, it depends on how they got there.” Me A Brave New World?: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has completed its review of food from animal clones and FDA regulators say that the agency will likely approve the sale of cloned foods this year. http://ga3.org/campaign/Cloning?rk=p1xWglE1F4DOE HPV Costs: Which is more expensive? Risking the health of your daughter or paying big bucks for the vaccine itself (a 3-stage process)? Considering that 2 of the 4 strains of human papillomavirus (that the vaccine immunizes against) cause 70% of the 11,000 annual cervical cancers in the USA & that the other 2 strains cause 90% of genital warts cases (which 10% of all Americans will contract / both genders), I’d opt for the vaccine…. especially considering that 40%+ of girls become infected with HPV within 2 years of becoming sexually active & that 25% of U.S. girls ages 14-19 are currently infected. Note that CDC indicates that side effects were minor and expected: Luckily, most insurers cover the costs, so you’ll only be out $25 for each of 3 office visits (the vaccine runs $120 per dose)….and if this is too expensive, the there’s always the federal Vaccines for Children program. http://www.cdc.gov/nip/vfc/ Thanks, Rich People: The Congressional Budget Office predicts that the deficit for this fiscal year will be less than half the $413 billion deficit of fiscal 2004. Even though federal expenditures have increased by 19%, the deficit is shrinking because tax receipts have been increasing because the rich have been getting richer…and their share of the tax burden has increased. For more explicit details, read: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1597548,00.html |
| Posted 3/18/2007 4:30 AM CDT Fertility in Women: Women who ate low-fat dairy every day had an 85% risk of a form of infertility caused by a failure to release eggs whereas women who ate a daily serving of high-fat dairy (cheese and ice cream) were 27% less likely to be infertile overall in a Harvard study of 18,000+ women in the 1990s. Scientific American Nonviolent Drug Offenders: In 1980, there were 50,000 people in jail for nonviolent drug offenses; today there are almost 500,000….the vast majority are not dealers / are users (often just casual users of pot). The Edmonton Sun USA--The World’s Policemen: Our allies have been dismantling their armed forces. In 1990, the United Kingdom had 305,000 soldiers & sailors / but today 195,000 (behind Eritrea and Burma)….& Canada is down to 62,000. Why? because they can count on us to defend them. Thus, we must often act almost alone necessarily. LosAngelesTimes Mormons Baptize “In The Name Of The Dead”: One of the most controversial Mormon practices is “proxy baptism”. In this ritual, they retroactively baptize those who have long since died, to help ensure their access to heaven. Millions have been so baptized & is the reason for Mormonism’s extensive genealogical records. The Week [Personal Comment: Even though it is extremely arrogant and misguided of them, I could care less whether they get ahold of my name from the obituaries after I’ve passed on and do so. It doesn’t mean a thing. That’s not how things work in the “celestial kingdom”.] Captain America Assassinated: The American superhero fell to sniper’s bullets while fighting for civil rights in last month’s comic. Marvel company execs declared an end to his illustrious 66 year career--- but that a movie is possible. U.S.News & World Report [My Comment: It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.] USPS Gone Postal?!: Because of long lines and customer frustration due to wait-times, the post offices are taking down all the clocks in all 37,000+ of their lobbies. The spin is that the no-clock policy is part of a “retail standardization program”. The Week [ I nominate the USPS for a Rowan & Martin “Fickle Finger of Fate Award”] Down Syndrome Treatment?: Although a new drug called PTZ offers new promise for the treatment of people with this genetic disorder, it has thus far only proven effective in treating mice….PTZ blocks a neurotransmitter called GABA, which is believed to be overabundant in such persons. [Even so, we all need to sensitize our children to the feelings of all Sp Ed kids.] |
Posted 3/17/2007 7:37 PM CDT
| A Century of Blood | ||
| Some estimates suggest as many as 200 million people died in state-sponsored violence during the 20th century. The list of 20th century wars and genocides with fewer than a million victims is too lengthy to present here; the following a list of just those with civilian and military casualties greater than 1 million. | ||
| Deaths (est.) | Event | Year(s) |
| 55 million | World War II | 1939–45 |
| 38 million | China; Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward” | 1958–62 |
| 15 million | World War I | 1914–18 |
| 13 million | Soviet Union; purges under Joseph Stalin | 1936–37 |
| 11 million | China; Mao Zedong’s “Cultural Revolution” | 1966–69 |
| 9 million | Russia; Soviet Revolution | 1917–21 |
| 7 million | Soviet Union at war with Ukraine | 1932–33 |
| 4 million | Korean War | 1950–53 |
| 3.8 million | Democratic Republic of the Congo; Second Congo War | 1998–2003 |
| 3 million | Vietnam War | 1964–73 |
| 2.5 million | Ethiopia; civil wars and genocide | 1974–91 |
| 2.4 million | China; Xinhai Revolution | 1911 |
| 2 million | China; Nationalist-Communist Civil War | 1927–37 |
| 2 million | Sudan; Second Sudanese Civil War | 1983–2002 |
| 1.7 million | Cambodia under Khmer Rouge | 1975–79 |
| 1.6 million | North Korea; purges under Kim Il Sung | 1948–94 |
| .3 million | Soviet Union at war in Afghanistan | 1979–88 |
| 1.2 million | Ottoman Empire slaughters Armenians | 1915 |
| 1.2 million | China; Nationalists defeated by Communists | 1946–49 |
| 1.1 million | China; Manchurian War | 1931 |
| 1 million | Spain; Francoist-Republican Civil War | 1936–39 |
| 1 million | Partition of India and Pakistan | 1947 |
| 1 million | Iran-Iraq War | 1980–88 |
| 1 million | Rwanda; genocide against Tutsis | 1994 |
