BANKERS: THE SOURCE OF EVERY WAR IN HISTORY

A MEMORIAL TO EVERY SOLDIER, LIVING AND DEAD:

PRIVATE BANKERS ARE THE SOURCE OF EVERY WAR IN HISTORY

IS IT TIME TO START SHOOTING SOME BANKERS?

PEACE: NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARSENAL WILL KILL EVERTHING 50 TIMES OVER

Are you relieved to know that a few lunatics who recently predicted the "End of Days" got the date wrong? Not to worry. The end it still coming. It's already been planned, built and paid for by YOU and your "LEADERS". The human race has developed enough nuclear weapons to turn every living creature on the planet into a lifeless chunk of charcoal more than 50 times over.  YOU AND I VOTE FOR THE CRIMINALS POLITICIANS WHO PASS LAWS TO GUARANTEE THAT THIS LUNACY CONTINUES. In case you haven't been paying attention since 1945 when the first A-Bomb was tested, the human race is still racing:  toward total destruction of all life on Earth.  Here are a few facts to bring you up to speed on the real "End of Days":

Globally there are now  approximately 23,000 nuclear warheads. (Upated as of October 2009) Russia 13,000 United States 9,400 France 300 China 240 United Kingdom 185 Israel 80 Pakistan 70-90 India 60-80 North Korea <10 Estimated Total:  23,375 This total is from the Federation of American Scientists source: http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/nukestatus.html

Consequences of Using Nuclear Weapons by Dean Babst and David Krieger, 1997 

Nuclear Overkill

Since humanity can only destroy itself once, nuclear overkill serves no purpose, wastes billions of dollars in maintenance costs, and increases the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons by terrorists, or by accident, miscalculation, or misunderstanding.

Russia has a nuclear weapons destructive force of 2,900 megatons, which is an ability to destroy humanity 29 times. Russia, which is in terrible financial shape, is wasting vast sums of money to maintain far more strategic nuclear warheads (7,150) than it can use without destroying itself.

The United States has a total nuclear weapons destructive force of 1,800 megatons, which is an ability to destroy humanity 18 times. While struggling mightily to reduce deficit spending, the U.S. is spending some $27 billion annually to maintain far more strategic nuclear warheads (7,250) than it can use without destroying itself.

While the total nuclear destructive power of the United Kingdom, France and China represents only a small part of the world's nuclear weapons destructive force, it is still enough to destroy the world several times. Each of these countries is struggling with great difficulty to pay for their nuclear weapons.

The destructive power estimates are conservative since they only include the power of strategic nuclear weapons. If tactical nuclear weapons were added, the overkill capability would be even greater.

Israel, India and Pakistan also have the ability to produce and deliver nuclear weapons. As global awareness grows that nuclear weapons use is likely to be massively destructive, including self-destructive, hopefully these states, too, will reevaluate the appropriateness of maintaining nuclear arsenals.

Global Mental Block

Why does humanity waste vast sums maintaining far more nuclear weapons than are needed to destroy itself? In an earlier study we discovered the main reason for such illogical behavior is that there is a worldwide reluctance to think about what the consequences would be if nuclear weapons were used -- a mental block. We discovered that virtually nothing is being published anywhere in the world on the self-destructive consequences of the use of nuclear weapons despite the great peril they present to all.

An example of this mental block was recently reported by General Lee Butler (USAF, Ret.). When General Butler became head of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, he went to the Omaha headquarters to inspect the 12,000 targets in the former Soviet Union. He was shocked to find that dozens of warheads were aimed at Moscow (as the Soviets once targeted Washington). General Butler said, "We were totally out of touch with reality."(20) U.S. planners had no grasp of the destructive power of nuclear weapons. One small nuclear warhead alone could destroy a major city.

While it is understandable that people are reluctant to think about how terrible the consequences of nuclear weapons use could be, this reluctance has allowed humankind to place itself in danger of self-annihilation, and to spend some $8 trillion over the course of the Nuclear Age doing so."

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Compiled and commented upon by Lawrence R. Spencer.  http://lawrencerspencer.com

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THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND DEATH

SURVIVAL OPTIONS

by Lawrence R. Spencer

Like millions of world citizens I am slipping down the Rabbit Hole of Physical Mortality toward a certain and irrevocable death of my physical body.  I will be 65 years old in August of 2011, along with 36.3 million others in the USA.  There will be 86.7 million people 65 and over by the year 2050.  That’s a 147% projected increase in the 65-and-over population between 2000 and 2050. By comparison, the population as a whole would have increased by only 49 percent over the same.
THE VALUE OF LIVING
Isn’t the purpose of living in a body to experience as much joy and pleasurable experience as possible?  Sumptuous smells, sexual sensation, marvelous sights, exhilarating sounds, unpredictable motions, textures, physical / emotional impact and dramatic moments of interaction with other living beings are worthy reasons for life.  Wonder, intellectual intrigue, mental challenges, freedom to play and barriers to accomplishment are all a part of the games that make life a pleasant preoccupation.
Conversely, isn’t the purpose of every living being to avoid painful sensation and emotion, failure, loneliness and oblivion?
Memories of pleasure never diminish from the mind: remember your first true love? Your most exquisite moments of sexual bliss or the most tender moments of compassion, cuteness, communication and compassion? The joys of living endure in our heart and mind forever.  We can resurrect and relive the emotional rapture of music, the aesthetics of dance, the exuberance of sporting competition, dramatic performances, victories in life and each passionate moment of love: simply by remembering. Every moment of pleasure can be relived in the present as though it happened yesterday!
Painful memories, however, can be suppressed and forgotten with medication, drugs, time and ultimately with death. Pain does not linger beyond consciousness.  For millennia sages and seers have assured us that it is washed away in the amnesia waves of afterlife. Likewise, the newborn baby does not suffer from memories of a life recently departed. Rather, it eagerly grasps the vigorous promise of action, joy and the sensations of new adventures that await.
Isn’t it logical, then, to live out one’s natural life with as much enjoyment as possible? Do the supposed benefits of physical longevity justify the disability, pain, dysfunction, financial expense and burden of labour placed upon others who must become your care-givers during these so-called “Golden Years” of life?
THE COSTS OF DYING
In truth, the vast majority of people live those “golden” years in ever-increasing pain, loneliness and sorrow -- a relentless accumulation of physical and emotional pain and dysfunction during their declining years. They must also endure agony and grief as their life partners, friends, family and workmates wither and die around them.
In addition, the majority of people over 65 years of age can anticipate a multitude of diseases such as heart failure, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, pneumonia, atrophied muscles, dementia, failing memory, inability to function sexually, digestive disorders and depression to name of few. And finally, the ultimate certainty of death.
What about the financial expense involved to support an aging person for 10, 20 or 30 years after they leave the work force? What are the cumulative expenses of hospitalization, medical examinations, medical insurance, medical testing, prescription drugs, long-term care assistance and medical support? How much of one’s accumulated life savings or investments are consumed in order to keep an old, disabled, pain-riddled body alive for these last, lingering days?
$100,000?  $500,000? $1,000,000? $5,000,000 or more?
In the US we spend an average of $6,500 to bury a depleted corpse six feet under the ground.  There are about 23,000 active cemeteries in the United States alone. Every year we bury enough embalming fluid to fill eight Olympic-size swimming pools, enough metal to build the Golden Gate Bridge, and so much reinforced concrete in burial vaults that we could build a two-lane highway from New York to Detroit!
How much real estate is used to accommodate the billions of dead bodies that pile up under the Earth in a decade?  What could the millions of acres of land used for graveyards be used for instead? The cost of maintaining cemeteries is billions of dollars a year! For what purpose? To remind living people that you had a body once, but that it’s dead now? Is this the height of vanity or the abyss of stupidity? Or both.
What does the tremendous expense of dying and death really buy?  Who is the recipient of this money? Doctors, hospitals, drug companies, pharmacies, insurance companies, assisted living facilities, morticians, funeral homes, lawyers, government tax collectors, and possibly – if you plan very carefully and don’t outlive your life savings – your own family.
YOUR FINAL VACATION
How much pleasurable life experience could you pay for with the same amount of money if you spent it on a few years of pleasurable traveling, luxurious living and youthful adventures?  What kind of vacation could you pay for with $350,000 or $750,000?  How about 2 years in a luxury condominium on the beach in Maui? Or, perhaps first class accommodations on an 18-month luxury cruise ship around the world? Perhaps you could visit every beautiful travel destination you ever imagined: Tuscany, Paris, The Norwegian fjords, New Zealand, Switzerland, Banff, or the Grand Tetons.
Or, with a little planning the benefactors of your life insurance policy upon your death could live a more comfortable, pleasurable life.  You could invest the same money in putting all of your grandchildren through college.  Why not become the benefactor of a charity that creates a better future for the adults of tomorrow, or ensures the well-being of the natural environment for future generation?  Your generosity will ensure that you name lives in the mind and hearts of others for centuries: at least as engraved on a plaque or monument or building façade, instead of a gravestone.
What if we combined the resources spent on supporting each of our 150 pounds of decaying flesh for the last 20 or 30 more years of painfully unproductive lives?  These accumulated resources, carefully distributed and ethically invested, could be used to turn Earth into an actual Paradise for all living creatures, the environment and for future generations of people.
How you would feel if you suddenly become completely certain that you would return to live again shortly after your death to live a new body, and begin a new life?

VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA AND CREMATION

If you knew this could you chose to knowingly plan a painless end of your own life?  Does it make any sense to suffer through decades of pain and decay when you could leave this world in a blaze of joy, pleasure while ensuring a life of prosperity for the those to come – which may even effect your own future self?
The paraphrase the ethical enigma posed by the Elizabethan bard:
Painful, lingering death or a pleasant departure? That is the question. Whether it is nobler in the lives of men to bear the slings and arrows of misfortune, or, to die with grace and dignity with prosperity for all?
I wish you and all of us a happy and prosperous “Rest of your Eternity”.
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Here are a few EDUCATIONAL LINKS to assist you to make an educated decision about the options available to you:

Unassisted Euthanasia: http://www.exitinternational.net/page/Home
“Green Burial” (Cremation) Information: http://www.greenburials.org/index.htm
Cremation Facilities in your area: http://www.greenburialcouncil.org/finding-a-provider/
Planning Your “Final Cruise”: http://www.cruisecritic.com/
Charitable Giving: http://www.charitywatch.org/toprated.html

ALIEN INTERVIEW — THE MOVIE

ALIEN INTERVIEW — THE MOVIE

GODS CREATING GODS

"We Create gods as someone to blame for our own mistakes.

A Creator Knows That They Are The Source of Creation"

-- Lawrence R. Spencer. Copyright © 2011.  All Rights UnReserved.