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"Alan" wrote in message
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Cutting to the chase....


In conclusion, the Sept 11 event and the 2004 tsunami event, terrible
as they are, are dwarfed by current human activity [industrial
development], could easily be dwarfed by a meteor strike, and
unfortunately dwarfed even more by the onset of modern diseases.

Cheers


When I look at all the needless and early deaths this planet
has served up the last few centuries, I see a single and
obvious commonality to them all.

For starters....

WARS 1900 TO 1995
http://www.ppu.org.uk/war/facts/www00-95a.html

Civilians Military Total
TOTALS 62,085,800 43,832,200 109,655,500


And I'm sure that's a conservative estimate as the effects
of wars cascade and endure. As for natural disasters it
seems obvious that underdeveloped countries
suffer far more than the wealthier countries at the
hands of nature. So what is the common thread in
all these needless deaths?

It is the lack of democracy!

I can't think of any wars taking place between two democracies.
But I can point to an unstable dictatorship, of any kind, for almost
every major war. Same goes for famines and diseases, just look
at how AIDS is devastating countries in southern Africa and
Asia. Just look at how the tsunami killed mostly the poor.

We MUST look for that 'one thing', a principle, that is at the
heart of most suffering and conflict. We MUST champion
the spread of freedom and democracy as the greatest
humanitarian, economic and political cure of all.

It is!

Right now ONE FOURTH of the world is ruled by ONE DOZEN tyrants.

This quarter of the world lives under the most repressive
dictatorial regime ever seen on this planet, while also suffering
under a form of capitalism that is unbridled in it's abuse of
workers. With no labor unions or worker laws at all.

Here are the faces and names of the DIRTY DOZEN.
http://www.cecc.gov/pages/virtualAca...ateleaders.php

We should all know who they are, we should all revile
them like no others. As they OWN one of every four people
on this PLANET. We cannot pretend to be civilized while
turning our faces away from this monstrosity of human
depravity

How can we sit here and allow ONE DOZEN people that control
the Chinese Communist Party central committee to enslave a fourth
of the world, while they destroy our manufacturing base and
take our jobs.


The Middle East has shown us all too clearly the dangers of
tyrants in their endless conflicts and suffering.

China needs to be next. That country needs to go the
way of the Soviet Union.

The math is clear on this, as a system, democracy mimics Nature.
http://www.calresco.org/sos/sosfaq.htm

Our guiding axiom should be the love of Nature and returning
the world to Her embrace.

It can be done, the world can once again swim in the beauty
and elegance of Nature. All we have to do is understand
Nature, we don't now, and place ourselves trustingly in
Her hands. We must dispense with the notion we can
out-think....out-design Nature as the last century
has ignorantly decreed with all those 'planned' rigid societies
such as socialism, religious and military dictatorships or
unrestrained capitalism.

Evil is proportional to the level of extremism defining a
society, whether left or right, socialism or capitalist
religious or military.


Extremes, like boxers in their corners, are designed for only conflict
and define unnatural. Natural is the middle ground, where
both extremes combine to form a temperate whole.

Like two lovers.


Jonathan



"NATURE, the gentlest mother,
Impatient of no child,
The feeblest or the waywardest,-
Her admonition mild

In forest and the hill
By traveller is heard,
Restraining rampant squirrel
Or too impetuous bird.

How fair her conversation,
A summer afternoon,-
Her household, her assembly;
And when the sun goes down

Her voice among the aisles
Incites the timid prayer
Of the minutest cricket,
The most unworthy flower.

When all the children sleep
She turns as long away
As will suffice to light her lamps;
Then, bending from the sky,

With infinite affection
And infiniter care,
Her golden finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.


By E Dickinson





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Sometimes things are more understandable if not said with many too
many words. A quote I noticed as footer in a rec.arts.sf.fandom
serves nicely he

"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space
program." -- Larry Niven

Cheers -- Martha Adams

Martha H Adams wrote:

"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space
program." -- Larry Niven

Which is a nice sound bite, but silly. They became extinct because
they weren't intelligent and technological, which would have enabled
them to survive the K-T boundary event even without a space program.

Paul

Paul F. Dietz wrote:

Martha H Adams wrote:

"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space
program." -- Larry Niven


Which is a nice sound bite, but silly. They became extinct because
they weren't intelligent and technological, which would have enabled
them to survive the K-T boundary event even without a space program.

Paul


I thought I understood they didn't go extinct, but evolved into Kentucky
Fried Chicken. From K-T to KFC.

In article , Jo Schaper wrote:
I thought I understood they didn't go extinct, but evolved into Kentucky
Fried Chicken. From K-T to KFC.

Thats BADD! G

It's not the dinosaurs chirping in the trees that get up my nose,
it's the mess their droppings make of my car!

--
Aidan Karley,
Aberdeen, Scotland,
Location: 57°10'11" N, 02°08'43" W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233