The Nut Bag by MrNotoriousT

The Best Conspiracy Theories

2011-06-04T16:54:00.000-07:00

Everyone enjoys hearing about a good conspiracy theory and many people enjoy coming up with new ones. You can spend an incredible amount of time reading about theories and wondering if there is any truth to them. This list of my top 10 conspiracy theories. Enjoy!!!

10:Was Obama former CIA Agent

Was Barack Obama recruited and trained by the CIA to infiltrate Pakistani (Taliban) and Russian (Soviet) schooling systems? I don’t think so. But Dr. James David Manning seems to think otherwise, thanks to his “intense investigation”.

Allegedly, young Obama’s Muslim background caught the CIA’s attention and not long after that, he was attending Karachi and Moscow universities to help the Taliban army oppose the Soviets’ invasion of Afghanistan.

This link to entire post: http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Articles/Obama_CIA.htm

9.Alien Reptiles are dominating the world

According to BBC Reporter David Icke, reptilian humanoids are the force behind a worldwide conspiracy directed at manipulation and control of humanity. He contends that most of the world's leaders, from William Jefferson Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and George W. Bush to members of the British royal family, are in fact related to the 7-foot (2.1 m) tall, blood-drinking reptilians from the star system Alpha Draconis.

Conspiracies won't stop there. According to an interview with Icke, Christine Fitzgerald, a confidante of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, claims that Diana told her that the Royal Family were reptilian aliens, and that they could shapeshift. David Icke and others have claimed that U.S. President George W. Bush and his family are part of this same bloodline.

Icke claims, based on his exploration of genealogical connections to European royalty, that many presidents of the United States have been and are reptilian humanoids. In his view, United States foreign policy after September 11 is the product of a reptilian conspiracy to enslave humanity, with George W. Bush as a servant of the reptilians. He also theorizes that the reptilians came to Earth from the constellation Draco.

8.The Aids virus was created in a laboratory

Based on the theories of Dr William Campbell Douglass, many believe that that HIV was genetically engineered in 1974 by the World Health Organisation.

Dr Douglass believed that it was a cold-blooded attempt to create a killer virus which was then used in a successful experiment in Africa. Others have claimed that it was created by the CIA or the KGB as a means to reduce world population.

7.Global warming is a hoax

Some climate change doubters believe that man-made global warming is a conspiracy designed to soften up the world's population to higher taxation, controls on lifestyle and more authoritarian government.

These sceptics cite a fall in global temperatures since last year and a levelling off in the rise in temperature since 1998 as evidence.

6.Fluoridation

Fluoride is commonly added to drinking water as a way to reduce tooth decay. However, there has been some evidence that there could be some harmful side effects from fluoride and conspiracy theorists believe that this information is known and recognised by those responsible for adding the fluoride, but that they continue the practice regardless.

Drug companies have been targeted as possible beneficiaries, as they will profit from a population with ill-health. Another motive is that fluoride lowers mental abilities thereby "dumbing down" the entire population.

5.Nasa faked the moon landings

People who think that the Apollo moon landings were not all that they seemed at the time believe that Nasa faked some or all of the landings. Some of the theories surrounding this subject are that the Apollo astronauts did not land on the Moon; Nasa and possibly others intentionally deceived the public into believing the landings did occur by manufacturing, destroying, or tampering with evidence, including photos, telemetry tapes, transmissions, and rock samples; and that Nasa and possibly others continue to actively participate in the conspiracy to this day.

Those who think that Nasa faked some or all of the landings base their theories on photographs from the lunar surface which they claim show camera crosshairs partially behind rocks, a flag planted by Buzz Aldrin moving in a strange way, the lack of stars over the lunar landscape and shadows falling in different direction. Many commentators have published detailed rebuttals to the hoax claims, and these theories have been generally discounted but belief in them - particularly on the web - persists.

4.Diana, Princess of Wales, was murdered

Why won't this one go away? Despite an official inquiry that found no evidence of a plot by MI6 or any other entity to murder the princess and Dodi Fayed in 1997, fevered speculation continues.

The theory is that rogue elements in the British secret service decided that Diana's relationship with Fayed was a threat to the monarchy and, therefore, to the British state.

A plot was hatched in which a white Fiat Uno carrying agents was sent to blind and disorientate driver Henri Paul as he sped through the Paris underpass pursued by photographers. Later, Paul's blood was switched with a sample of somebody who had drunk a lot of alcohol. The trouble with the theory? Not a shred of evidence exists to support it.

3.The Illuminati and the New World Order

A conspiracy in which powerful and secretive groups (the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group and other shadowy cabals) are plotting to rule mankind with a single world government. Many historical events are said to have been engineered by these groups with one goal - the New World Order (NWO).

The groups use political finance, social engineering, mind control, and fear-based propaganda to achieve their aims. Signs of the NWO are said to be the pyramid on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States, inset, strange and disturbing murals at Denver International Airport, pictured, and pentagrams in city plans.

International organisations such as the World Bank, the IMF, the European Union, the United Nations, and Nato are listed as founding organisations of the New World Order.

2.The assassination of John F Kennedy

The 35th President of the United States was shot on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas at 12.30pm . He was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy - in a motorcade. The ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963 to 1964, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) of 1976 to 1979, and other government investigations concluded that the President had been assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald - who was himself shot dead by Jack Ruby while in police custody.

But doubts about the official explanation and the conclusion that Oswald was the lone gunman firing from the Texas Book Depository overlooking Dealey Plaza where Kennedy was hit surfaced soon after the commission report. Footage of the motorcade taken by Abraham Zapruder on 8mm film supported the growing belief that at least four shots were fired - not the three that the Warren Commission claimed. The moments of impact recorded on the film also suggested that at least one of the shots came from a completely different direction to those supposedly fired by Oswald - evidence backed up by testimony of several eye witnesses. Many believed that several shots were fired by gunmen hiding behind a picket fence on a grassy knoll overlooking the plaza.

The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation and has spawned numerous conspiracy theories, though none of these has been proven. In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) found both the original FBI investigation and the Warren Commission Report to be seriously flawed. The HSCA also concluded that there were at least four shots fired and that it was probable that a conspiracy existed. However, later studies, including one by the National Academy of Sciences, have called into question the accuracy of the evidence used by the HSCA to support its finding of four shots.

1.September 11, 2001

Thanks to the power of the web and live broadcasts on television, the conspiracy theories surrounding the events of 9/11 - when terrorists attacked the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington - have surpassed those of Roswell and JFK in traction. Despite repeated claims by al-Qaeda that it planned, organised and orchestrated the attacks, several official and unofficial investigations into the collapse of the Twin Towers which concluded that structural failure was responsible and footage of the events themselves, the conspiracy theories continue to grow in strength.

At the milder end of the spectrum are the theorists who believe that the US government had prior warning of the attacks but did not do enough to stop them. Others believe that the Bush administration deliberately turned a blind eye to those warnings because it wanted a pretext to launch wars in the Middle East to usher in another century of American hegemony. A large group of people - collectively called the 9/11 Truth Movement - cite evidence that an airliner did not hit the Pentagon and that the World Trade Centre could not have been brought down by airliner impacts and burning aviation fuel alone. This final group points to video evidence which they claim shows puffs of smoke - so-called demoliton squibs - emerging from the Twin Towers at levels far below the aircraft impact zones and prior to the collapses. They also believe that, on the day itself, the US air force was deliberately stood down or sent on exercises to prevent intervention that could have saved the lives of nearly 3,000 people.

Many witnesses - including firemen, policemen and people who were inside the towers at the time - claim to have heard explosions below the aircraft impacts (including in basement levels) and before both the collapses and the attacks themselves. As with the assassination of JFK, the official inquiry into the events - the 9/11 Commission Report - is widely derided by the conspiracy community and held up as further evidence that 9/11 was an "inside job". Scientific journals have consistently rejected these hypotheses

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Greatest Wrestlers of all time

2011-03-18T14:23:00.000-07:00

Wrestling has been one if those sports or entertainment which you either love or hate. But everyone growing up has watched wrestling or still does. I don't think its boring at the moment just because I don’t watch it much as I once did.

Remember that professional wrestling is an art form and that everyone has different taste. Some fans are drawn in by a well-developed storyline and some crave hardcore blood-n-guts and wild brawling

For the majority of us, a strong angle that logically brings together two capable in-ring storytellers and climaxes with an emotional, dramatic, technically impressive battle is the absolute best set of circumstances to leave us feeling like we’ve witnessed something special.

On the subject of Special the wrestlers have to be special to in order to produce something memorable.

Its March and its the biggest card on wrestling calendar...Wrestlmania

Its where stars are born and great wrestlers produce some of the most memorable moments.

What makes a wrestler special? key points to a great wrestler: personality, mic skills, charisma, way he sells the moves, in ring skills and technical ability

But who were the wrestlers that stood out not just wrestling but had the full package such as entertain the crowd and produce moment of brilliance.

Well here is my top 10:

10: Joint Tenth place Rey Mysterio and Rob Van Dam

Mysterio came from lucha libre style of wrestling he is able to do a lot more acrobatic moves and that makes him way faster then a lot of wrestler

he's the "best little man", and always the underdog because of his size. But Rey's real purpose for being in the WWE is so Vince can boast about having a bona fide luchador on his roster (and one of the best luchadors ever). This is why Vince insisted Rey put his mask back on when he signed him to the WWE

I remember when he rolled onto the scene in the WWE, he was incredibly innovative. In one of his earlier matches with Jamie Noble, he pulled off an amazingly original finisher. Ray is one of the most consistent wrestlers and always keeping the crown on their feet with his acrobatic moves.

Rob Van Dam

Rob Szatkowski, better known to wrestling fans as Rob Van Dam. Rob is a trained kickboxer and martial artist and He placed 2nd in the Kalamazoo Heavyweight Toughman Contest.

RVD has had an illustrious career in the wrestling business working for every major promotion in the U.S as well as working all around the world doing various tours and one off shows. RVD’s athletic risk taking style brought him into the hearts of many as well as getting known as “Mr. Monday night” and “The whole F’n show.” RVD is truly one of wrestling’s modern day phenomenon’s who has already written himself in to the history books

RVD has always been better on the mic which in my opinion is important to being a World Champion. WWE never really gave RVD the time to talk and when they did they really watered down his abilities.

He has also appeared in several movies and television shows. He also had a radio show called RVD Radio and a tv show called RVD TV

9. The Undertaker

Undertaker is still the most respeceted and feared wrestlers in the game and is probably the third most powerful man in WWE. First of course its Vince, Second his son in law triple h and third yes The Undertaker. He is currently married to Michelle McCool in real lfe.

The Undertaker has two contrasting gimmicks: "The Deadman", an undead occult like figure, and "The American Bad Ass", a biker. The specialty matches connected to The Undertaker are the Casket match, the Buried Alive match, the notorious Hell in a Cell. The Undertaker's half-brother is Kane, whom he has teamed up with as the Brothers of Destruction. Glenn Jacobs (Kane) and Mark Calaway (Undertaker) are not related in real life, but they have trained together for a number of years and are very close friends in real life. The Undertaker is undefeated at WrestleMania with an 18–0 record, which is the single longest undefeated Wrestlemania streak in WWE history

8. Bret Hart

Bret Hart should be higher on this list but his cut and dry style of interview takes him down a notch. Hart was a premiere wrestler for the WWF during the mid-80s to the late-90s. Trained by his father Stu Hart in the famous Hart Family Dungeon in Calgary, he was one of the best technical wrestlers ever. His famous matches range with such greats as Shawn Michaels, Steve Austin, Ric Flair, Owen Hart, Undertaker, Sting, Chris Benoit and more.

The infamous Montreal Screw-job led to his departure and quick arrival in WCW. From there he didn’t do much due to backstage politics and suffered a career threatening concussion in a match with Goldberg in 1999. He suffered a stroke, unrelated to wrestling, in 2002 but has since made a strong recovery.

7. John Cena

John Cena is the Hulk Hogan of this generation. He has held countless World Championships, has headlined WrestleMania six different times, has starred in a number of theatrically released films and television commercials, and has sold out the biggest arenas in the world.

However, the reactions he gets from location to location vary too much, from heavy cheers, to heavy boos, to most often a mixed and split reaction within the audience in attendance..

A lot of wrestling fans seem to blame John Cena for everything they dislike in Professional Wrestling. People who say John Cena wins too much are probably too young to remember that Hulk Hogan's first Championship Reign lasted Over 4 Years , And way way way before my time Bruno Sammartino's first reign lasted over 7 years . A big factor in the reason for the fans fickleness is the era that we live in now. A lot of fans still have passion from the attitude era of WWE where The Rock would trash talk, where Austin would drink beer in middle of ring and flashed the middle finger like it was a greeting.

The reason I personally think John Cena is in the position he is in with the WWE, is not only his charisma, which I admit, is top notch, but his position outside the company and the way he conducts himself. He is often seen taking time to sign autographs, help out with charity work and is a common sight in the public eye

6. Kurt Angle

The only Olympic Gold Medal winner to ever wrestle for WWE clocks in at number six. He didn't get his start in professional wrestling until after his 1996 amazing win which in itself is truly unbelievable. How could a guy so young into the industry be so great so fast? Angle is the best technincal wrestler in the world today. With a scary expertise at the entertainment craft and the wrestling craft, he is pure gold. It took about three years from the time he won his Olympic Medal to sign a WWF/E contract but he hasn’t looked back.

He’s endured a number of surgeries to repair a painful neck injury stemming from his amateur wrestling days. There’s no telling how much time left he has to wrestle so it’s suggested that you take in everything you can and enjoy

Kurt now with TNA has recently started to focus on helping out the young wrestlers within tna. Expect to see him and the rest starting to put over these younger guys, and bring them up to the main event level.

5. Chris Benoit

Benoit was widely regarded as one of the most popular, respected and gifted technical wrestlers in history Benoit also won the 2004 royal rumble and went to win the WWE Champion ship at Wrestlemania that year.

He such a perfect wrestler that in the end thats what killed him. His ridiculous intensity, workrate, and obsession with making it look 'damn real' is what finished him off. For example, a normal guy would protect himself from a direct chairshot. Benoit didnt, he wanted it to look more real.

Benoit was one of the extremely rare wrestlers that never phoned it in, and could have a great match with anybody.

At the WWE Vengeance: Night of Champions PPV Benoit was set to win the ECW title but he missed a house show and told WWE officials he missed it because is wife and son was vomiting blood due to food poisoning. And then told them he will have to miss the PPV because of a family emergency.

On June 27th 07Nancy, Daniel, and Chris Benoit were found dead.

Over a three day period, Benoit had killed his wife and son before he hanged himself. His wife was bound before the killing. Benoit's son was drugged and likely unconscious before Benoit strangled him. Benoit then committed suicide with a weight machine

After all signs pointed to a double murder-suicide WWE stopped selling all Chris Benoit Merchandise.

chris Benoit was a "different" kind of person be it for better or worse, his personal life doesn't take away from the "On-screen Chris Benoit".

Unfortunately the negative publicity he gathered has pretty much buried him in the history books and I doubt the WWE will ever recognize him again

4. Hulk Hogan

I put hogan at #4 because of the publicity he gave wrestling and so many fans were pulled in by hogan. He did OK as a heel for NWO but even then, his mic skills were average. In my opinion Hulk along with a few others was the demise of wcw. Instead of putting the younger guys over he had to be pampered by wcw and stay in the top spot

But he did possess incredible charisma and physical stature he helped transform wrestling from a niche pastime; spread out over several regional promotions to a mainstream brand of entertainment. Hogan’s marketability and appearances in movies and television helped turn the WWE into a billion dollar industry and paved the way for today’s high paid stars and elaborately produced shows. His in-ring ability; however left much to be desired, as he is widely regarded as a below average wrestler. Nevertheless Hogan rarely lost a match, even into his 50s. Yes I know most people would be quick to put the hulkster at number one. As much as I respect Hogan, I just don't feel like he is the best wrestler

3. Shawn Michaels

Shawn is hands down the one of the greatest "In ring performer" in the history of the business. No one has more Five Star matches/Matches of the year than Shawn. i.e. WM21 Kurt Angle,The Undertaker, WM12 Bret Hart WM14 Stone Cold. WM10 Razor Ramon WM24 Flair WM25 Undertaker WM20 Benoit Triple H. You name it. First man ever to win every major title (grand slam winner). Why do you think Shawn was in the first Iron Man Match, Hell in a Cell, Elimination Chamber, etc.

Shawn has made many wrestlers careers, and has headlined wrestlemania more times than hulk hogan.

This guy was like super man particularly before his back injury and even after to perform at the level is just special). the ability to tell a story and bring his real life issues into the story was fascinating for fans too. fantasy mixed with some reality always with HBK

Even Ric Flair said so, Shawn Michaels is the best! Shawn has done it all, winning ever major championshp in the wwe before being forced to retire early due to a severe back injury

2. Stone Cold Steve Austin

Austin personified the “Attitude” era of professional wrestling (mid to late 1990s.) At this time wrestling was at its peak and he was its brightest star. Austin captivated both hardcore and casual fans with his rebellious personality. Austin vs his boss Vince Mcmahon proved to be one of the most successful wrestling angles ever portrayed. The extremely charismatic Austin was hugely popular due to his tireless effort inside the ring and flawless microphone skills.

Steve Austin is the sole reason why WWE is still in business today. In the mid-1990s the WWF was at a crossroads, business was down and WCW was beating the hell out of ‘em. It was at this point in 1996 that a guy

Together with The Rock he helped make wrestling as popular as it is today

1. The Rock

If God was to create a wrestler, it would be The Rock. Blessed with all the natural attributes and charisma possible, Dwayne Johnson quickly went the way of Hollywood. He is easily the best athlete on this list and accomplished a great deal in the business in a very short amount of time. Wildly popular and extremely entertaining, The Rock is and probably will always be the best wrestler ever to pick up a microphone.

The Rock has done as much as anyone in the wrestling business. He jumped on the national scene in 1996 and less then a year he become the brunt of fans loathing him. It wouldn’t take much long until he would jump into stratosphere and become on of the all time greats. His ability to entertain people on the microphone is unmatched by anyone, Nobody had a crowd in his palm much like he did.

When he returned to the ring to take on Hulk Hogan a few years ago, he helped create an unforgettable night in Toronto. The Rock just hasn’t become a movie star but also has open the floodgates for other wrestlers to become movie stars. Such as John Cena and triple H.

The Lord of War - Evil Dictators

2011-02-09T04:55:00.000-08:00

A warlord is a person with power who has both military and civil

Dictators, as defined in the dictionary, is a person who rules with utter supremacy, and usually uses force to get their way

Dictators usually go for the government system called “communism”, which is an unrestricted political system: the political theory or system in which all property and wealth is owned in a classless civilization by all the affiliates of that society.

I am happy to live in a democracy because I feel we have the rights and freedom to speak, write, and express views. You can say what you want but doesn’t mean anyone listens to it. Everyone always says this is a free country, but I feel we also have our restrictions as well.

The 20th century brought us some of the world’s most powerful and rich dictatorships. While most followed a straightforward recipe of murder, terror, and genocide, the following managed to plunder the nations they had taken control of in ways that boggle the mind

I have spent a considerable amount of time researching dictators and have come up with an official top 5. Finding estimates on some of these guys is near impossible.

Anyway Enjoy:

5. Idi Amin

Uganda 1971 – 1979

Death Toll – 300,000

Movies based on Idi Amin – The last King of Scotland

Idi Amin was a military leader and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and eventually held the rank of Major General and Commander of the Ugandan Army prior to taking power in the military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. He later promoted himself to Field Marshal while he was the head of state.

Two-thirds of the army's 9,000 soldiers were executed by Amin during his first year in power. In total, he killed around 300,000 people.

In 1972, Amin expelled the country's 40,000-80,000 Indians and Pakistanis in the closing months of the year, reportedly after receiving "a message from God" during a dream

During 1975 he staged a publicity stunt for the world media, forcing white residents of Kampala to carry him on a throne then kneel before him and recite an oath of loyalty

Near the end of 1976, Amin officially declared himself "the uncrowned King of Scotland". (despite the fact that the proper name for the title is King of Scots) Amin lavished his guests and dignitaries with Scottish accordion music, while dressed in Scottish kilts.

In January 1979, Nyerere mobilised the Tanzania People's Defence Force and counterattacked, joined by several groups of Ugandan exiles who had united as the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA). Amin's army retreated steadily, and despite military help from Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi, he was forced to flee into exile by helicopter on 11 April 1979 when Kampala was captured. He escaped first to Libya where he stayed until 1980, and ultimately settled in Saudi Arabia where the Saudi royal family allowed him sanctuary and paid him a generous subsidy in return for his staying out of politics.

4. Slobadan Milosevic

Yugoslavia, 1992-99

Death Toll 400,000

Movies Based on Slobdan Milosevic: None. But there are movies based on the war: Behind the enemy lines and The Hunting Party

Yugoslavia was the name of a country made up of six states located in the Balkans region of Eastern Europe. Each state represented different ethnic groups.After the fall of Communism in 1989, Bosnia and Croatia, two of the six states, decided to break away from Yugoslavia and become independent. The break-up of Yugoslavia caused three different wars.
Slobodan Milosevic, president of Yugoslavia at that time, wanted to keep all the states under his control, so he went to war with them. However, Milosevic did not fight the clean fight.
When Milosevic was president, he had a plan for a Greater Serbia, which meant a state for Serb people. The Serbs are a distinct ethnic group, with their own language and religion.
As the former Yugoslavia states split apart, Milosevic developed a plan for a Serb-only state that was similar to what Hitler sought to do in Germany.
Slowly, thousands of non-Serbs living in Yugoslavia disappeared. Many were killed, and their bodies later discovered in mass graves throughout Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Non-Serbs, lucky not to be outright killed, were fired from their jobs and kicked out their homes. Their homes and jobs were given to Serbs.
When Milosevic stepped up his plan to slaughter all the ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo, NATO, an international force led by the United States, launched air strikes to stop him.
In 1999, NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days, destroying roads, bridges and utilities. The bombing stopped after Milosevic backed away from his plan.
In October 2000, the people of Yugoslavia voted Milosevic out of office.

Mr Milosevic faced charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged central role in the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo during the 1990s. He also faced genocide charges over the Bosnia war.

He was found dead in the detention centre at The Hague tribunal

3.Adolf Hitler

Germany - 1934 to 1945

Death Toll: 17 Million

Movies Based on Hitler: The Boys from Brazil. Movies based on World War 2: The Great Escape, Saving Private Ryan and Das Boot

He was the leader of the Nazi Party. He was the absolute dictator of Germany from 1934 to 1945. He gained support by promoting values like German nationalism and anti-semitism. Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933 and began the Third Reich. Hitler was power hungry as all hell, hated the shit out of Jews (and others), and wanted hegemony in Europe. The militarization that was needed to complete such a lofty goal led to the outbreak of World War II. Nazi forces engaged in the systematic murder of as many as 17 million civilians,an estimated six million of whom were Jews, and 1.5 million Romanis.

Hitler’s role in this dark era of history will likely never be forgotten and neither will his quiet elimination of several million Jews, Gypsies, communists, homosexuals, and the handicapped in what we now call the holocaust. This was quite literally murder on an epic scale, on the battlefield, in the concentration camps and on the streets.

Were it not for the holocaust, Hitler might have been forgiven for the war and remembered as a great general in the same way as Napoleon. He might even have been patted on the head for having a really good go at world domination and given a sticker reading ‘I tried my best.

2.Jozef Stalin

USSR 1932-39

Death Toll: 23 Million

Movie based on Stalin: Red Terror

Joe Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union which time he killed or exported millions of ethnic minorities, oversaw the starvation of thousands of his own people and sent anybody who even looked at him the wrong way to labour camps. Still, he did kick the crap out of Nazi Germany. That’s something to thank him for. Although the establishment of the Eastern Bloc in it’s place was not so much of an improvement.

Stalin oversaw a massive overhaul of the soviet economy, industry and agriculture. The resulting disruption, however, was the cause of mass starvation in the Ukraine. There the situation was so extreme that reports of cannibalism spread. Without a doubt the darkest component of Stalin’s regime, however, was his ‘great purge’ which killed an estimated 700,000 people. The majority of those killed in the purge were ordinary citizens. This attempt to purge the nation of traitors, spies and even potential radicals meant that even uttering the word capitalism could have you sent to the gulag to be worked, starved, beaten or shot to death.

1.Mao Zedong

(China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50)

Death Toll: 49 to 78 Million

Mao was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist, and communist leader who led the People’s Republic of China. Mao, while controversial, is still widely considered a savior of the nation. During his first five years from 1949 – 53 he is said to have systematically killed between 4 to 6 million people by sentencing them to die or by sending them to “reform through labor” camps. He organized mass repressions, established execution quotas, and defended his actions in these early years as necessary for securing power for “The People’s Republic of China”.

His social programs the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution are two of the most ill-fated, poorly named, initiatives ever. The first was an effort to rapidly industrialize China. His focus was on making China a premier exporter of steel, and to this end he asked everybody to make it. The problem was it got many citizens to make smelting shops in their backyards. Not only was the steel of little value, but it was made from everything lying around the house including their own cooking supplies! Without the tools to make food, no money coming in from the steel, and no money to survive ~ a lot of people starved to death. The estimates on this program alone are 20 million deaths!

His policies and political purges from 1949 to 1976 caused the deaths of 49 to 78 million people.

Above guys were sick, but there were many more sick dictators about.

Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908)

Death Toll 8,000,000

Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44)

Death Toll 5,000,000 (civilians in WWII)

Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20)

Death Toll 1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20)

Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79)

Death Toll 1,700,000

Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94)

Death Toll 1.6 million (purges and concentration camps)

Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78)

Death Toll 1,500,000

Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970)

Death Toll 1,000,000

Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982)

Death Toll 900,000

Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994)

Death Toll 800,000

Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Libya, 1934-45; Yugoslavia, WWII)

Death Toll 300,000

Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88)

Death Toll 600,000

Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996)

Death Toll 220,000

Richard Nixon (Vietnam, 1969-1974)

Death Toll 70,000 (Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians)

Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999)

Death Toll 30,000

Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe, 1982-87, Ndebele minority)

Death Toll 20,000

I can keep going on but the list will never stop

Sources

· Charny (1988) Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review

· Stephane Courtois: Black Book on Communism (1995)

· Matthews: Guiness Book of Records (2000)

· Clodfelter: Warfare and Armed Conflicts (1992)

· Elliot: Twentieth Century Book of the Dead (1972)

· Bouthoul : A List of the 366 Major Armed Conflicts of the period 1740-1974, Peace Research (1978)

· R.J. Rummel: Death by Government - Genocide and Mass Murder (1994)

· Matt White's website

http://www.popten.net/2010/05/top-ten-most-evil-dictators-of-all-time-in-order-of-kill-count/

http://akorra.com/2010/03/04/top-10-most-infamous-dictators-in-history/

http://www.popten.net/2010/05/top-ten-most-evil-dictators-of-all-time-in-order-of-kill-count/

http://www.oddee.com/item_90544.aspx
and Wikipedia

The Best Secret Intelligence Agencies in the World

2011-01-24T05:32:00.000-08:00

Intelligence agencies in any country play a very important role. Every country has its own intelligence agency. These agencies work is purely secret. Nobody knows that how they work.
There has been many great movies like James Bond, Bourne Ultimatum and great tv shows like 24. They are all based on Intelligence agencies. Are there really agents like Jack bauer and Jason Bourne. Do they really exist?
So which agency is the best in the world? There are plenty of movies based on Intelligence Agencies?
Agencies operate in a shadowy world. The best agencies are the ones which attract no attention to themselves
Here is my Top 5:
Apologies in advance regards to the you tube videos. As most videos are based on the negative factors rather the positives. But as journalist and Media people would say Negative stories sells more and attracts more viewers. I mean who would want to watch a video of someone rescue a cat from a tree? Well no one apart from the owner of the cat.
Anyway...take two: Here is my Top 5:

5. GRU/SVR - RUSSIA

When one thinks of Russian intelligence, they usually think of the KGB.

Back in the day KGB was One of the most dreaded player in the game of spying. It lives on the principle of – It is not sufficient to know, it is necessary to react. But the KGB was disbanded by Boris Yeltsin in 1995 This was broken up after the collapse of communism Now there are two main agencies who influence the foreign affairs.

SVR is the official foreign-operations successor to many prior Soviet-era foreign intelligence agencies. Its domestic equivalent, the FSB

GRU is the country's main military intelligence and reconnaissance agency, and reports directly to the general staff of Russia's armed forces. The directorate is much bigger than the KGB .

GRU were purported to be behind the assassination of former Chechen President Zelimkhan Abdumuslimovich Yandarbiyev, who was living in Qatar in 2004 and was accused of having links to Al-Qaeda by Russia and the United Nations. The former president was assassinated when a bomb ripped through his SUV in the Qatari capital of Doha.

SVR sends to the Russian president daily digests of intelligence, similar to the President's Daily Brief produced by the Central Intelligence Agency in the US. However, unlike the CIA, the SVR recommends to the president which policy options are preferable.

SVR actively recruits Russian citizens who live in foreign countries. "Once the SVR officer targets a Russian émigré for recruitment, they approach them, usually at their place of residence and make an effort to reach an understanding," said former FSB officer Aleksander Litvinenko. "If he or she refuses, the intelligence officer then threatens the would-be recruit with legal prosecution in Russia, and if the person continues to refuse, the charges are fabricated". It was reported that SVR prey on successful Russian businessmen abroad.

Best movies based on KGB/FSB OR GRU: Yuri Nosenko (1986), Red Scorpion( 1989), Bond movies such as The Living Daylight, From Russia with Love and many more.

4. MI 6 - U.K

Number 4. No way, some pople would say. I am saying they are lucky they are not in sixth place like their name. They have been so much in news over the last year for finding bodies in gym bag.
If you like watching movies then you must be knowing James Bond and his fondness of sophisticated guns, attractive babes and Smirnoff. This british spy agency is popular for its notorious and daredevil agents with a clear understanding of what they are expected to achieve

MI6 or, as it is known formally, the Secret Intelligence Service, was created just prior to World War I primarily to keep a close eye on the activities of the Imperial German government. Since then, MI6 has been heavily engaged during the major conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries. Even before the 9/11 attacks, MI6 actively collaborated with their American counterparts in order to share intelligence and carry out particularly dicey covert ops

On 9/11, only 30 of MI6s 1,600 agents were working on counterterrorism. Since then, the agency has been on an all-out recruitment blitz that includes previously unheard of measures, such as taking out ads in newspapers and allowing agents to grant interviews

Among the fun facts revealed: There really is a person called Q who designs gadgets, just like in the James Bond films, but M is actually called C. MI6 has also taken out ads in online spy-themed computer games such as Tom Clancys Splinter Cell

Best MI6 Movies : James Bond Movies, The Bank Job

3. CIA - USA

Again no chance only third place, they had to be number one. Everyone knows they are the daddy of all agencies. Sorry again. But everyone knows CIA, as they are mentioned in every movie possible. They can’t be that damn covert. We all know that they exist.

CIA is the largest of the intelligence agencies and is responsible for gathering data from other countries that could impact U.S. policy. Agency (CIA) has three stated functions: 1) Obtaining and analyzing information about foreigners; 2) Propaganda and public relations; and, 3) Covert operations at the direction of the president

Highly funded and technologically most advanced Intelligence set-up in the world.

Despite the funding It has failed to control terrorism activities including 9/11, Not even a single top level Al-Qaeda leader captured own its own in the past 9 years – ‘they missed 1 Million’ Soviet troops marching into Afghanistan’. Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, Have the found them yet? You might get better answer by watching Greenzone movie starring Matt Damon.

But no one knows that what CIA really does

Best Movies based on CIA: Syriana (2005), Body of Lies(2008),Bourne Movies (Identity, Supremacy and Ultimatum) ,The Good Shepherd(2008) AND Greenzone (2010)

2. Mossad - ISRAEL

The Mossad known in full as the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations is the national intelligence agency of Israel. “Mossad” is a Hebrew word for institute or institution

Its responsible for intelligence collection, counter-terrorism and various covert operations. Its director reports directly to the head of state, the Prime Minister. Mossad is a civilian service, and does not use military ranks, although most of its staff have served in the Israeli defense forces as part of the country's compulsory draft system. Mossad's most notorious wing is the "Special Operations Division" or "Metsada," as it's also known. The Metsada has been involved in several assassinations, paramilitary operations, sabotage, and psychological warfare.

Mossad Operation in Dubai – part 1

Israel’s intelligence agency is most famous for having taken out a number of PLO operatives in retaliation for the attack that killed eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich.

Also In 1960, the Mossad discovered that Adolf Eichmann, a notorious Nazi war criminal, was living in Argentina under the name of Ricardo Klement. He was captured by a team of Mossad agents and smuggled in to Israel where he was tried and executed

Mossad Operation in Dubai – part2

Movies based on Mossad: Munich (2005), You don’t mess with Zohan (2008) and Walk on Water (2004)

Mossad Operation in Dubai – part3

1 ISI - PAKISTAN

Suprised....ISI, who are? Well I mentioned in the beginning that the best agency doesn’t attract attention

With the lengthiest track record of success, the best know Intelligence so far on the scale of records is ISI.

No double agents, no agent ever caught on camera, the lowest budget but still affective.
In war with 6 big intelligence agencies of the world. ISI has even countered MOSSAD in the 1980s and late ‘90s when there was a plan of a possible strike on Pakistan’s nukes

KGB, the best of its time, failed to counter ISI and protect Soviet interests in Central Asia

It has protected its nuclear weapons since formed and it has foiled Indian attempts to attain ultimate supremacy in the South-Asian theatres through internal destabilization of India.

The Inter-Services Intelligence was Established in 1948 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. for safeguarding Pakistan’s interest, monitoring opposition politician and sustaining military rule in Pakistan, ISI is one of the very well organized intelligence agency in world. Apart from its outstanding structure it is controversial too and once it was termed as state within a state due to its cross-purpose policies

Its is believed to have one of the highest number of agents worldwide, close to 10,000. Only CIA have more.

Best movies based on ISI- None. Honestly could not find any. Apologies.

I even struggled to find youtube video. But I have added the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDbGn4jTTGI

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Greatest Rappers of all time

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So who is the greatest rapper when it comes delivering the lyrics? There have been hundreds and thousand of rappers that have come and gone. But there were handful who really made the difference.

This isn’t who has made the best video or just come with crap lyrics like I’ve got whores in different area code. This is about who was The Daddy in the Rap industry. If you are a fan of Kanye West or Lil Wayne you will be disappointed. This is about serious rapping.This about rappers who have made the impact through out the world. And rappers who were revolutionist.

This my Top 10:

10:

Dre

You may be surprised what is doing dre in the top 10. Well Dre has been there with best from the start. With Pac and snoop dog to eminem and fiddy.

Dr. Dre, is an American record producer, rapper, record executive, and actor. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records, also having produced albums for and overseeing the careers of many rappers signed to those record labels, such as Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent. As a producer he is credited as a key figure in the popularization of West Coast G-funk, a style of rap music characterized as synthesizer-based with slow, heavy beats.

Dr. Dre began his career in music as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru and he later found fame with the influential gangsta rap group N.W.A with Eazy-E and Ice Cube which popularized the use of explicit lyrics in rap to detail the violence of street life. His 1992 solo debut, The Chronic, released under Death Row Records, led him to become one of the best-selling American performing artists of 1993 and to win a Grammy Award for the single "Let Me Ride". In 1996, he left Death Row to establish his own label, Aftermath Entertainment. Under that label, he produced a compilation album titled Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath in 1996, and released a solo album titled 2001 in 1999, for which he won the Grammy producer's award the next year.

During the 2000s, he focused his career on production for other artists, while occasionally contributing vocals to other artists' songs. Dr. Dre signed Eminem and 50 Cent to his record label in 1996 and 2003 respectively while contributing production on their albums. They have both gone on to become some of the biggest names in hip hop in the 2000s

50 Cent (32 pence In English currency)

50 Cent: Curtis James Jackson III, a.k.a. 50 Cent, rose to fame after releasing Get Rich or Die Tryin' and The Massacre. The first album has gone 8 times platinum and sold more than 15 millions copies across the world. The second album has gone 5 times platinum and sold over 11 million copies across the world. Although, he has had a rocky start to his life and career, 50 Cent will always be counted as one of those who know their music.

After releasing his album Guess Who's Back? in 2002, Jackson was discovered by rapper Eminem and signed to Interscope Records. With the help of Eminem and Dr. Dre, who produced his first major commercial successes, Jackson became one of the world's highest selling rappers. In 2003, he founded the record label G-Unit Records, which signed several successful rappers such as Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo. 50 Cent was ranked as the 6th best artist of the 2000-2009 decade by Billboard magazine. The magazine also ranked him as the 4th Top male artist and as the 3rd Top rapper behind Eminem and Nelly Jackson has engaged in feuds with other rappers including Ja Rule, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Cam'ron, Rick Ross, and former G-Unit members The Game and Young Buck

Llcool j

Becoming the first artist ever signed to Def Jam, LL Cool J has held down the Hip Hop scene for 20 years now. Releasing 11 gold and platinum albums, no other artist has been more consistent. His landmark album "Mama Said Knock You Out" changed LL's persona and unleashed a rage in his rhymes that would continue for the next ten years.

Becoming an elder statesman for Hip Hop, LL cut out the profanity from his lyrics, a request his grandmother made before she died. LL has endured many battles, most commonly with Kool Moe Dee. As LL has proved, though he may never be beat in a battle, there is always room for the ladies.

Shaun Carter (Jay-Z)

Better known by his stage name Jay-Z, is an American rapper and businessman. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in Americahaving had a net worth of over $450 million in 2010.He has sold approximately 50 million albums worldwide, while receiving ten Grammy Awards for his musical work, and numerous additional nominations.

Jay-Z co-owns The 40/40 Club, is part-owner of the NBA's New Jersey Nets and is also the creator of the clothing line Rocawear. He is the former CEO of Def Jam Recordings, one of the three founders of Roc-A-Fella Records, and the founder of Roc Nation. As an artist, he holds the record for most number one albums by a solo artist on the Billboard 200. Jay-Z also has had four number ones on the Billboard Hot 100, one as lead artist.

He released his debut album Reasonable Doubt in the mid-90’s, and has since been nearly untouchable. It seems like everything Jay-Z touches sells, whether it be his albums or even his own clothing line. He has released one classic in Reasonable Doubt, and another possible one in The Blueprint. Most of his other albums are good aswell, with just a few exceptions that don’t even deserve to get mentioned in this. In 2003, Jay-Z supposedly ended his saga in rap with The Black Album, a hugely successful CD that bared not one, not two, but six chart topping singles. Sounds like a pretty good way to end a career. has been the most consistently excellent MC in the game, and it seems like he's at his apex every year. He is one of only a handful of MCs whose flow is so potent that his tongue can effortlessly glide over any track and still destroy a verse with line-for-line firepower.

Jay-Z will always be remembered as one of the icons of rap.

Ice cube

He began his career as a member of C.I.A and later joined the rap group N.W.A. After leaving N.W.A in 1989, he built a successful solo career in music, and also as a writer, director, actor and producer in cinema.

Ice Cube- One of the founding fathers of Gangsta Rap, and part of one of the most influential rap groups of all-time. NWA were the leaders of the Gangsta Rap movement and West Coast rap in the late 80′s. Prior to the rise of NWA, the West Coast was never really respected in the rap game. These guys gave real credibility to the “Left Coast.” Ice Cube was the leader of the group. Cube, was the lead rapper, and wrote the majority of the songs. He even wrote the Eazy-E classic track “Boyz N Tha Hood.” NWA never recovered after Cube departed. Cube went on to be one of the most successful solo acts and released 9 solo records. Cube would still land top five for his solo work in the early 90s. Jetting to New York after helping to define the West Coast sound, he got with the Bomb Squad and mixed the personal with the political in larger doses than had ever been witnessed in rap. Amerikka’s Most Wanted and Death Certificate are so devastating because Cube delivers his hood tales as his experience. Not saying, Although his last 5 albums were pretty horrible, his earlier work is not to be ignored!

Nasir Jones

Nas burst onto the hip-hop scene in 1994 with perhaps the greatest rap album of all time 'illmatic.' Although only just over half an hour long, the raw and intelligent street poetry combined with the subtle yet vibrant production from some of New York's best producers' has left the album for ever engraved on the memories of hip-hop fans. Since then Nas career may have fluctuated somewhat, with subsequent albums not living up to his debut, but it is safe to say that since the turn of the millenium Nas has consolidated his position at the top of the hip-hop pyramid and as one of the greatest rappers of all time

Nas is the poet of true age, holding back nothing and rapping about everything. Even in a controversial battle against Jay-Z, he rose victorious overall. Nas needs no more introductions; he is one of the biggest contributors to modern-day hip-hop and a trademark rapper of the century, and that’s with one album alone.

He has great flows, rhymes, and the best lyrics I've ever consistantly heard from an artist. They are genuinely poetic and thought provoking, yet you can always understand him and the thoughts he's trying to convey. He has better versatality than any other rapper I've seen, and can use his raps to embody any type of emotion or thought.

Eminem

Eminem is one of the most original rappers I've ever seen . He has the best vocal skills and quickness I've ever seen in a rapper, great rhymes, freestyling skills, charisma,, and definently uses emotion to fuel his lyrics

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo album in United States history. It brought Eminem increased popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition.

He was spotted by rapper/producer Dr. Dre, who turned the Detroit native into a star. Eminems first appeared on the mainstream rap scene with the hit single My Name Is and was instantly turned into a star. His first major release, The Slim Shady LP is one of the most successful rap albums in recent history, but was topped by his own 2nd album, The Marshall Mathers LP. Eminem has totally changed his style over to appeal to an even wider audience. But rap fans simply can’t forget his golden days when he was at the top of the rap game.

He's one of the few rappers around today that makes songs that are not about money and parties and are still sucessful with the mainstream

Notorious B.I.G

Even with only two albums released before his sudden death, he is noted to be one of the most influential rappers in history.

Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. Biggie Smalls He was raised in the poor Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant as the son of a preschool teacher. Dropping out of high school at the age of seventeen

When Wallace released his debut album Ready to Die in 1994, he became a central figure in the East Coast hip-hop scene and increased New York's visibility at a time when West Coast artists were more common in the mainstream.The following year, Wallace led his childhood friends to chart success through his protégé group, Junior M.A.F.I.A.. While recording his second album, Wallace was heavily involved in the East Coast/West Coast hip-hop feud, dominating the scene at the time.

On March 9, 1997, Wallace was killed by an unknown assailant in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles.

When you came up on stage and mess with him, he belts out poisonous single-line verses that would put Luda to shame. He would beat it out as if he wrote it before you even met, attaching simple words into a complex and witty verse no human can come up with in an hour, let alone in spur of the moment. For sure, Biggie left an indelible mark on the game. But is he really deserving of the title Greatest of All-Time? The answer is a no. Life After Death was a good album but it’s not the classic that everyone makes it out to be. Clearly, Diddy was already starting to corrupt Biggie’s gritty sound with chart-friendly R&B hooks, and this would’ve continued if Biggie had been fortunate enough to survive that shooting. Biggie brought such a deep level of cinematic detail to his rhymes that you couldn’t help but become hypnotized. That said, he was also more willing than any other MC of his era to kick party rhymes to the masses. Diddy might not have invented the remix, but in the form of Biggie Smalls, he invented the million-selling hardcore rap crossover

RAKIM

You might suprisesd and think whats Rakim doing in second place surely the battle was between Tupac and Biggie. Wrong guys..Rakim is widely regarded as one of the most influential and most skilled mc's of all time due to his exceptional flow and complex lyrical craftsmanship. Eric B. & Rakim's classic album Paid In Full was named the greatest hip hop album of all time by MTV.

In addition to his career as a rap artist, he is a writer, and poet. Rakim's rapping, which pioneered the use of internal rhymes in hip hop, set a higher standard of lyricism in the genre and served as a template for future rappers. Rakim began his career as a emcee for part of one of the most important rap duos of the golden age hip hop era: Eric B. & Rakim.

People might say Tupac was the rapper that turned the whole game around,which is true to a certain extent. But while Pac made some changes to rap, Rakim revolutionized the game. He took hip-hop to another level.. Paid In Full. The album that changed it all. This album was 5-10 years ahead of its time when it dropped late in the 80’s. Although Rakim hasn’t gotten nearly as much respect as he deserves from the average rap fans, people who truly know the game realize what Rakim did for it. This guy wasn’t just years ahead of his time, he was light years ahead of it. He made the advanced lyrical genre of music we all know and love what it is currently, only without that J-Kwon and Chingy crap. He has been one of the most influential people in all kinds of music in recent history, and although most rap fans might state that Pac is untouchable on the list of the greatest, you just make sure to tell them what you’ve learned today. Rakim is hands down the greatest rhymer to ever touch the mic.

Rakim’s smooth delivery and lyrics made him one of the founders of the Hip-Hop genre. He was a pioneer and took MCs to another level. Social consciousness and the ability to rock the mic make him a Legend amongst Legends. Although he has always been more of an underground artist, rappers still site him as one of the most influential rap artists of all-time. Kool Mo Dee, MTV and Vibe Magazine list him as the greatest Rapper of All-Time.

Tupac

Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide,making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. In the United States alone he has sold 37.5 million records.Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time

In September 1996, Shakur was shot four times in the Las Vegas. He was taken to the University Medical Center, where he died of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest

More albums have been released and gone platinum after his death, than when he was alive. Through his words, you can hear his spirit and his passion for both his people and the direction they were headed. People of all colors respond to his music becomes he teaches hope.

Tupac gave the west coast the respect that it still has today. He gave rap the status that it has today; he was one of the main reasons that it became such a huge industry. His rhymes weren’t just about jewelry and women, they touched on nearly all objects from teen pregnancy to just having love for your mama.

He is the biggest icon in rap history. He is the epitome of all rap artists. He is the most widely respected rapper, possibly even musician, in the last 20 years. And yes, I am talking about Tupac Shakur. Tupac was simply phenomenal; there was no other rapper who could even come close to releasing the amount of brilliant work this man did. Although his life was tragically cut short, Pac is widely considered the best ever in his profession. He is still selling albums even after his demise, and even has whole new albums with his name on them being sold. This is just simply unheard of, nobody could still have new material being released and sold over 5 years after his or her death. Nobody except Tupac. Pac wasn’t just another rapper; he was at a whole different level than other MCs. Representing California to the fullest over the course of his life

Most rappers nowadays would be heard saying that 2Pac has had a big influence in their careers, eve n if he has been viewed as a public menace. Whether you believe in the Man or the Myth, Tupac’s status has gone beyond iconic to legendary

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Top 10 biggest Sport Icons in the World

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Welcome. Today I will be discussing who are the biggest sports Icon in the world. Not big icons in their villages, towns or country. I am talking about big sporting icons that are reconised and well respected throught out the world.

This my Top 10:

10:

Brian Charles Lara
Brian Lara is undoubtedly one of the best batsmen of all time and certainly one of the best of the modern era.
He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, holds the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994 that was only in only 428 balls by hitting 62 boundaries and 10 huge sixes, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history

He Also holds the record of highest individual score in test cricket with 400 not out for Windies against England.
He is the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a senior career. Lara also holds the test record of scoring most number of runs in a single over in a Test match, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003
At that Lara was smashing all the bowlers even the best. The hunger to score runs was there and he was playing some marvellous cricket at that time. It was not to easy to dismiss Brian Lara at that time, he was treating some very good and talented bowlers like an average bowler. He was full of self confidence at that time.
For his cricketing exploits, he remains an inspiration to many young cricketers, particularly batsmen, in Trinidad and Tobago.
Unlike Sachin Tendulkar, he can play all over the world with authority, whereas people consider Sachin as a very good player only of home soil.

9:

Jonah lomu
New Zealand rugby union footballer who has played 73 times (63 caps) as an All Black
He is generally regarded as the first true global superstar of rugby union. One of the sport's most intimidating players on the field, he has had a huge impact on the game
At 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Lomu is as tall as most locks, and at 119 kg (262 lb) is as heavy as most props. Despite his size (he was the All Blacks heaviest ever back), at his peak he was still able to run 100 metres in 10.89 seconds

At the height of his powers Jonah Lomu was by far the best and most famous rugby player in the world. His fame spread beyond only rugby supporters and he is considered one of the first real superstars of the sport

One of the sport's most intimidating players on the field, he has had a huge impact on the game. He was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame on 9 October 2007.
Jonah turned down a multi-million dollar offer to play American football.

Jonah has a wax likeness of himself at Madame Tussauds in London.
Has his own Playstation game - "Jonah Lomu's Rugby"

8:

David Beckham
You might think David Beckham? He’s only good at two thing’s crossing the ball and taking a free kicks.
But Without doubt, England’ former captain David Beckham. He is the most searched for sports personality on the Internet and the most recognized non-politician in the world. Ask anyone in any football playing countries the world - i.e. 99.9% of countries - for their heroes, and Beckham comes close to the top especially in Asia.

In addition to his success on the pitch, Beckham has been recognized by Time magazine as one of the Time 100 (Heroes & Icons) and has received many other accolades for his charitable work and leadership off the pitch. He was given the "Britain's Greatest Ambassador" award in May 2007.Most recent on sports BBC’s sports personality of the year David Beckham won life time award which was presented by his former team mate Ryan Giggs. Who I thought was a better player and deserved the award more then Beckham did.
In the early 2000's, Beckham was the world's highest-paid player, and is today well-known as an elite global advertising brand.

7:

Roger Federer
Roger Federer is he the greatest Tennis player the world has seen? I think so. Is he better then Pete Sampras? A tough one to answer. I say yes, he was a better tennis player then Sampras and better then other players. If you remember which player knocked Sampras in Wimbledon 2001 when Sampras was going for his fifth straight title which would have equalled Bjorn Borg's record, was silenced in a five-set thriller by a composed teenager with a tantalising array of shots Roger Federer.

He simply has the most complete game the world has ever seen. Where Pete Sampras had a weak backhand, Federer’s subtle flick of the wrist is one of the delights of world tennis. Where Bjorn Borg burnt out, Federer’s career is long-lived. Where Agassi would scuttle back to the baseline Federer is equally imperious at the net as he is from the back of the court.

Roger Federer is undoubtedly the most consistent and talented sportsman of the last decade. He has reached an incredible 22 consecutive grand slam finals, spanning five years, and has won an unprecedented 15 grand slams.
But more than his shot making, it is his mental strength that places him on a different playing field from others.
Roger Federer’s dominance of the men’s tennis scene since 2003 has been unprecedented. He’s just the sixth player to notch a career Grand Slam and no player has won more Slams than he has.

6:

Michael Jordan
In my eyes, Michael Jordan is the best basketball player of all time. There are many other people that would agree with me, even if they don’t like the Chicago Bulls or even Jordan himself, just because his achievements demand respect. Very few people have even come close to greatness the way Michael Jordan has, and few ever will. He is a major part of the NBA’s history. He has left a legacy that started before my time and will last long after.
Michael Jordan is an American icon in a multitude of ways, but above all he speaks as a cultural icon with his amazing, all-around, graceful, improvisational and lightning quick skills on the basketball court.
Jordan can score from the perimeter and inside of the paint. He can handle the ball, and most importantly, he can play defence.

Jordan's individual accolades and accomplishments include five MVP awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honours, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances, three All-Star Game MVP awards, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award. He holds the NBA records for highest career regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and highest career playoff scoring average (33.45 points per game). In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN, and was second to Babe Ruth on the Associated Press's list of athletes of the century
Jordan is also noted for his product endorsements. He fuelled the success of Nike's Air Jordan trainers, which were introduced in 1985 and remain popular today. Jordan also starred in the 1996 feature film Space Jam as himself. He is the majority owner and head of basketball operations for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats; he recently won a bidding war to buy controlling interest in the team from founding owner Robert L. Johnson.
Michael Jordan has captured the hearts and minds of black and white America as a basketball player who symbolizes the American Dream and has become a true American icon. With his distinctive style of play, he has dominated the NBA since his rookie year and been deemed the greatest basketball player of all time by publications and broadcasts from Sports Illustrated to ESPN SportsCenter.
There have been many great players come in NBA Since Jordan has retired. Kobe Byant, lebron and Iverson. But none of them can match Michael Jordan charisma, drive and magic when needed.

5:
Usain Bolt
There have been some great sprinters such as Carl Lewis, Linford Christie, Maurice Green and Asafa Powell. But now we have the one. Usain Bolt is the fastest man on the planet and a sportsman like no other. Bolt now surpassed Michael Johnson as the best athlete off all time. He has beaten Michael Johnson's 200m world record and smashed his own world record.

The Jamaican sprinter’s performance at the Beijing Games was one of the most remarkable in history. It was there that he set the Olympic and world records for the 100 metres at 9.69 seconds (even though he slowed down at the finish to celebrate), the 200 metres at 19.30 seconds, and also the world record for the 4x100 relay, making him the first man to win all three events at a single Olympics since Carl Lewis in 1984, and the first man in history to set world records in all three at a single Olympics. That he set these records without seemingly trying makes it all the more unbelievable.
The first sport to interest him was cricket and he said if he was not a sprinter he would be a fast bowler instead As a child he was a supporter of Pakistan and admired the bowling of Waqar Younis.He is also a fan of Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar, West Indian opener Chris Gayleand Australian opener Matthew Hayden. Bolt has also expressed his love for football and is a fan of Manchester United

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Michael Schumacher
This was a difficult one to choose. It was either Michael Schumacher or Ayton Senna. This blog is about greatest sport icons in the world. In that sense it has to be the Red Barron Scheuy. Senna was one of the greats but Schumacher was the greatest record-breaker in the history of sport. You name it, he achieved it. Senna was the complete driver: brave, fast, skilful, exciting and daring. We will never know whether Senna would have overcome Schumacher in what could have been one of the most fascinating battles in the history of Formula One.

Although controversies about collisions will perhaps tarnish his legacy, the record seven-time Formula One world drivers’ champion is regarded as the best F1 driver in history. Not only is he credited with helping to turn Ferrari into the team it is today, but he is the only F1 driver to have an entire season of podium finishes, an achievement he accomplished in 2002.
His unprecedented five Formula One championships in a row (2000-04) made him arguably Europe's most famous athlete. (In '04, Schumacher hauled in about $80 million from endorsements, second only to Tiger.) In 2002, he won 11 of 17 races during a season in which he never finished lower than third, and in '04 set the F1 single-season mark of 13 wins, all while rules and technologies were changed for the sake of a little parity as well as safety.

Tiger Woods
The number of people interested in golf, as a sport or as a recreation, is drastically increasing. Golf used to be known as a boring sport that was played by snobby rich old people with silly checked sweaters and hats. Not anymore Tiger Woods has changed the image of the Golf. He made the sport seem "cool" Tiger Woods is the reason why so many people watch golf when he’s playing and not watch when he isn’t. Tiger has been a big influence on kids, adults and fellow pro players. He has changed the way pga players now train to play golf. All pga players today have a personal trainer which was not the case before Tiger.

His achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No. 1, he is the highest-paid professional athlete in the world, according to Forbes, Woods is the first athlete to earn a cool billion in winnings and endorsements, although his public image has taken a huge hit with a flood of revelations about his infidelity.

In a sport where he competes against the world's best, Tiger Woods has proven he is the best of the best .Woods won the 2008 U.S. Open in a 91-hole marathon over Rocco Mediate while playing on a double-stress-fractured left leg and with a torn ligament in his knee that subsequently required surgery and eight months of recovery.
Tiger already holds most of the records that matter and he is only in his 30s. Tiger Woods is the most talented golfer ever to play the game. The golfer is looked up to as a role model of hard work and determination. He is also into a charity helping the underprivileged who dream to become the best golf players someday.
The best golf player there will ever be, even with all this scandals and what not. Wood wins absolutely every tournament

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Diego Maradona
This was between Diego and Pele. Of course Pele was a great player. But Diego was better then Pele. Diego Maradona was never surrounded by great players when he played for Argentina. Pele did throughout his career for Brazil. For example there were number of decent of players in the team of 58 such. In 1962 when Brazil won their 2^nd world cup, it was Garrincha that was the player of the tournament. In 1970 again they had talented team.
For club sides Pele never played in Europe. Maradona played in the two of the toughest league of Spain and Italy.

Diego Maradona won the 1986 World Cup almost single-handedly. He will always be remembered for his unbelievable performance at the 1986 edition of the competition. His two goals against England in the quarterfinals included the infamous "Hand of God" goal and one of the best World Cup feats of all time, as he left five English players in his wake to score single-handedly. Argentina would go on to win the competition thanks to Maradona. He also had a tremendous club football career, for Boca Juniors, Barcelona and in particular, Napoli. It was at Napoli that he elevated the team to the most successful era in their history. Led by Maradona, Napoli won their only Serie A Italian Championships in 86/87 and then in 89/90. They also came second in 87/88 and 88/89, as well as winning the Coppa Italia in 87, the UEFA Cup in 89 and the Italian Super cup in 90. Also Maradona was the top scorer in Serie A in 87/88.
Maradona's main strength was his incredible technique, which allowed him to move the ball with pin-point accuracy. Maradona was voted best player of all time in an internet poll held by FIFA, much to the chagrin of Pele-fans, who contended that such a poll was bound to attract voters who had never seen Pele play.
Since his retirement from football, Maradona's life has been marred by drugs abuse and health issue.
Arguably, football's greatest ever talent also remains one of the sport's most controversial players
Football remains a team sport, but Maradona seems an exception to that maxim.

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Mohammed Ali
Possibly the greatest of them all. Ali wowed fans in the boxing ring with his great hand speed, quick feet and taunting tactics. Undoubtedly the most coveted fighter in boxing history Ali entertained fans out of the ring also with his controversial beliefs, amazing confidence and famous sayings

Ali is not just known as the greatest boxer to have lived, he is also considered one of the greatest sportsmen of all time – in 1999 Ali was named “Sportsman of the Century” by Sports Illustrated magazine. The boxer defeated almost every top heavyweight in his era, and was named “Fighter of the Year” by Ring Magazine more times than any other boxer.
Muhammad Ali was electrifying. Ali was an exciting, outspoken, undefeated boxing phenomenon in his prime. He fought in some of the most interesting fights in boxing history. If you look at who he fought; Ken Norton (2x), Sonny Liston (2x), George Foreman, Leon Spinks and Joe Frazier. His class was a tough one.

His first professional achievement happened in 1960, when he defeated Tunney Hunsaker. During the period between 1960-1963, Muhammad Ali had a record breaking winning spree by defeating pros such as Tony Esperti, Jim Robinson, Alonzo Johnson, Doug Jones etc. In 1964, Ali defeated Sonny Liston and won the Heavyweight Champion of the World title. It is also said that Ali, disgusted with incidents of racism, chucked his Olympic medal into a river as a way of protest and opted for Islam religion.

Ali refused to serve in the U.S. military during the war in Vietnam; his title was revoked and he was sentenced to five years in prison for draft evasion. (The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the conviction in 1971.) He had a long-running rivalry with fellow heavyweight Joe Frazier, whom he fought three times: Ali lost the first match in 1971, but won rematches in 1974 and 1975. Ali also defeated George Foreman in the famous 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" held in Kinshasa, Zaire. Ali retired from boxing in 1981, but in the decades since has remained one of the world's best-known athletes

He was also known for his pre-match hype, where he would 'trash talk' opponents on television and in person some time before the match, often with rhymes. These personality quips, idioms along with an unorthodox fighting technique made him a cultural icon. In later life, Ali developed Parkinson's disease due to the injuries he sustained throughout his career. In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC.

Classic Mobile Phones. Top 10 Mobile Phones that made the differance.

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Mobile phones have progressed at an alarming speed over the years The mobile phone industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds as it has in the past few decades. Even though it started a little more than 20 years ago, manufacturers have created an abundance of new technologies that keep mobile phone users coming back for more. They continue to increase the number of capabilities and services to accommodate the growing needs of today’s “on the go” culture. Waiting anxiously is the only way to find out what they will think of next.

There has been hundreds and thousands of phone come and gone, but which phone has made the big impact and will be known as the classic?

Below are pick of phones that I believe are the classics and made the differance

Motorola StarTAC (1996)
This was the first ever clamshell mobile phone and
very small relative to the competition. The StarTAC was the must-have

gadget of its day and one of the first phones to feature a vibrating call alert.

Back in the day, if you were lucky enough to own a StarTAC, you were the top

man in town

Nokia 8110 aka Banana Phone (1996)

Released in 1996 the Nokia 8110 was the first of Nokia's high-end, 8xxx series of phones. Its distinctive styling (which at its release earned it the nickname of "banana phone") was the first example of a so-called 'slider' form factor, with an active sliding cover over the buttons, which extended down to bring the microphone nearer the mouth when speaking. In reality, the phone's sliding keypad cover was not spring loaded, but moved by hand; the spring feature was added for the film "The Matrix"

Nokia 3210 (1999)
You might be wondering why this humble handset has made it on the list, but this simple-looking phone was straightforward to use, didn't have an aerial and most importantly let you customise its covers. Not only did this phone sell by the boatload, it put Nokia firmly on the map as the easy-to-use handset manufacturer who made attractive, well-built mobiles. And it had Snake.

RIM BlackBerry 6210 (2003)
Launched in 2002, the first BlackBerry phone from RIM allowed business types to compose emails, make phone calls, send faxes and browse the web, all from their mobile handset. Back at the turn of the millennium being able to keep tabs on your email while away from the office was a massive deal and it's only very recently that rivals have caught up with RIM’s initial innovation.

Hailed as a convergence classic, RIM's line of devices has gone on to become something of a behemoth in global terms, accounting for one fifth of the total global market for smartphones

Nokia N –GAGE (2003)

Nokia developed the N-Gage, a device that integrated these two devices. N-Gage is the first device of its kind - an always connected game deck with fully functional GSM phone and organiser. You can play online games via GPRS, local multiplayer games via Bluetooth as well as standard, single player games. The N-Gage also included MP3 and Real Audio/Video playback and PDA-like features into the system

The N-Gage is an impressive device. This was the phone was well ahead of it times. Probably came out couple of years too early. You could play games with friends from all over the world via GPRS, install favourite Series 60 applications, listen to MP3 music and radio stations and browse the Internet

It didn’t too well in the market this was due to poor sales performance. Can be attributed to the poor selection of games compared to its competitors and its cost at launch; it was more than twice as expensive as a Game Boy Advance SP on release day.

Motorola Razr V3 (2004)
When the RAZR first hit the shelves people went bananas over it, and amazingly it's still selling today, due to smooth design and cool looks. This incredibly thin clamshell phone marked a turning point in mobile design - a pocket-friendly phone that looked great.

The only problem was that the Razr's interface was below par and many users complained of a variety of bugs. But it still remains a classic in terms of chassis design and truly changed how we viewed mobiles - particularly in the US, where the Razr arguably made phones be seen as desirable consumer electronics, rather than utilitarian devices

Nokia 6230 (2003)

Maybe one of the most popular and appreciated Nokia classic cell phones is the Nokia 6230. The Nokia 6230 is a mobile phone based on the Nokia Series 40 platform. It was announced in the fourth quarter of 2003 and released in the first quarter of 2004. When it was first released in the markets, it became a hit and it became very popular. Even today, when people own a Nokia mobile phone that was made many years ago, it is usually a 6230. This was first mobile device to have everything. Camera, video recording, voice recording and expansion to add more memory on SD card.

Samsung D500 (2004)

This was the first mobile phone from outside Europe that took on the very popular Nokia and Sony ericsson. Who were the big heavyweights. The D500 won the prestigious award "the worlds best cell phone at the 3GSM world congress in Cannes, 2005. The D500 was popular with consumers because of the large screen-size to front-surface ratio, the smooth button and sliding action, powerful flash, and good video/photograph/sound quality. The D500 was regarded as compact and as having a good feature set for its time. Samsung experienced remarkable success with the introduction of the D500 and has therefore introduced several other slider-style mobile phones in recent years, some fairly successful, others not so much. This phone helped to popularise the 'active' sliding phone concept across all brands.

Nokia N95 (2007)

Nobody could ever accuse the Nokia N95 of being a fashion phone.. announced in 2006, the N95 defined an entirely new class of handsets that were stuffed with just about every feature you could think of.

Featuring 3.5G support, WiFi, GPS, a superb 5 megapixel camera, a large screen, powerful multimedia player and a clever two-way slider, the N95 was the most advanced phone that we had ever seen.

The N95 demonstrated that there was a market for high-end and expensive mobile phones, and it became the benchmark to beat. Even three years after launch, the N95 is still a very popular phone and there are only a tiny handful of devices that can beat it.

Apple iPhone (2007)

The Apple iPhone was announced early in 2007, and it's a love-it-or-hate-it device. But there's no doubting that it is a highly influential device that has inspired competitors to come out with a raft of "me too" devices.

The original iPhone lacked 3G or GPS, had a pretty poor camera and a number of other disappointments.. but it was the most polished phone to date with a fantastic user interface that won admiring glances.. even from those who claimed not to like the thing.

To many people the Apple iPhone is arguably the most important mobile phone release of all time, changing the way that consumers interact with their mobile phones forever – introducing the concept of a handset individually tailored to you thanks to a massive suite of apps.

The newest iteration of the iPhone showcases pin-sharp Retina display and a super-fast processor capable of playing host to some truly amazing 3D games. With the backing of Apple and a hugely successful App Store packed with games, applications and other programs, the iPhone’s importance in the current mobile market cannot be understated.

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