While watching CNN yesterday, the headlines showed:
"North Korea: Nuclear War Could Erupt at Any Moment."
"Pence to North Korea: Don't Test Trump."
Below is a quote from the article, Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
"After the Interim Committee decided to drop the bomb, the Target Committee determined the locations to be hit, and President Truman issued the Potsdam Proclamation as Japan’s final warning, the world soon learned the meaning of “complete and utter destruction.” The first two atomic bombs ever used were dropped on Japan in early August, 1945."
Seven decades after the United States unleashed "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" on the two Japanese cities, it's critical that Americans understand the two major differences between nuclear war in 1945 and 2017.
The catastrophic differences are:
- Nuclear weapons are more advanced than they were 72 years ago.
- Unlike Japan, North Korea has the ability to counter a nuclear attack launched by America.
The losers would not be Kim Jong-un or Donald Trump, those who would suffer and perish are the citizens of North Korea and the United States.
After the 1945 calamity, listed below are the deleterious effects that befell the Japanese population:
- Over 90% of persons within 500 meters (1,600 ft) of ground zero in both cities died.
- Anyone in the open air was either vaporized or turned to carbon in an instant.
- "Little Boy" was detonated over the center of Hiroshima, 140,000 people killed.
- "Fat Man" exploded over the outskirts of Nagasaki, 70,000 people killed.
- Temperatures on the ground reached 9000 degrees Fahrenheit.
- People near the hypocenter were instantly vaporized.
- Winds from the explosion reached 1000 mph.
There remains today, myriad physical after-effects that plague subsequent generations of the Japanese people, such as: leukemia, cataracts, thyroid, breast and lung cancer, birth defects, including mental retardation, disfiguring keloid scars, and other health-related maladies.
We must put aside racial, religious, and political differences and ask ourselves the question: Are we as a nation of lucid thinking Americans going to sit back and allow this to happen? In a Nuclear War, there are no winners!
Do you know what Albert Einstein meant when he stated, "I don't know what weapons will be fought in WWIII, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones."
The 31st President of the U.S., Herbert Hoover stated, "Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die."
This aphorism by Carl Sagan is relevant as well, "the nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist-deep in gasoline, one with 3 matches [Korea] the other with 5 [USA]."
Where are Pope Francis (the purported 'Vicar of Christ'), the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican? Where are the megachurch leaders across the globe? Could it be their silence verifies the fact that Religion and War are birds of the same malevolent, financially manipulative feather?
I think we know the answer. The Church did not step in to stop Chattel Slavery; the Church did nothing to prevent the Holocaust; the Church stood silently by and allowed the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It's time to take a stand. It's time to get our collective heads out of the sand. The late astrophysicist Carl Sagan also told us, "In all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves." In other words, 'Jesus is not coming out of the clouds' because that particular myth will never be true, no matter how strong or faithful you may be. The millions of casualties that will be the result of a nuclear war, will be predominately civilians. One out of two American soldiers will not make it back home.
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The patriotic praises go something like this:
"These guys are such heroes, the Special Ops, the military, a person who, day in and out, risk their lives to preserve democracy, to preserve our way of life. You have to respect that."
"You can agree or disagree with politics all you want, but at the end of the day, when someone is willing to put their life on the line, to protect our freedom, you must commend, respect and honor them."
"These people keep our country safe, they really do."
The late iconic actor, John Wayne is quoted as saying, "get off your butt and join the marines." Wayne never saw one day of military duty, except in Hollywood, in the Cinema, on the big screen.
Therefore, he wouldn't necessarily be concerned about the little Vietnamese girl who lost limbs along with her eyesight because she stepped on a hidden land mine, lying dormant for the past 20 years.
Dr. King so eloquently stated, "If we succumb to the temptation of using violence in our struggle for justice, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate life of bitterness, and our chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos."
His statement is now a reality. We are currently living in that "endless reign of meaningless chaos." Those who support war and organized religion (specifically Christianity and Islam) are being pimped by the clergy and the political establishment.
All the pompous rhetoric, the speeches, the endorsements by celebrities, are simply ways to keep society collectively motivated and immersed in a warmonger mindset. You are being bamboozled in order to continue the global duplicity and to perpetually ravage and abuse all sentient species on planet earth.
Let's say you disagree with the political structure of America. If you do, then you must disagree with war. As far as making our country safe, that's pure, unadulterated poppycock. America is the instigator of most wars because we're in it for profit and profit alone. Those who are behind the war machine do not care about human casualties.
The majority who read this article will despise the author for having the gall to publicize such a perfidious stance.
"How dare he?" That's fine, I've come to enjoy the criticism because I know that I've struck a nerve.
Mother Teresa never wanted war; Gandhi didn't support it; MLK despised it; and JFK spoke out against it. If these historic icons of peace, with all their heart, soul and energy, campaigned to eliminate war, then, why aren't we doing likewise?
Humanity must keep climbing until we reach higher ground; until we have a better, more loving understanding of our differences. War is no way to accomplish world peace (especially since that is not the goal of America). War leads to an implosion from within and ultimately to global annihilation.
No matter how you slice it, camouflage, patronize, commercialize or glorify warfare, it's wrong!
There are some people who realize that religion is a ruse but still support one or two televangelistic charlatans based on their ability to motivate audiences.
If these guys were who they profess to be, they would be speaking out loudly against War. They would have protested vehemently when the first bomb dropped in Iraq after 9/11.
They would have screamed at the top of their lungs to find out what really occurred on Sept 11, 2001. He may touch on the ills of war in a sermon to his sycophantic flock, that's later edited out of any public videos, but his words are meaningless.
These shysters have thousands of people sitting in their congregations on any given Sunday and millions watching on television. Their audience includes physicians, lawyers, writers, professors and entrepreneurs who, if a collaborative effort were made on the part of their spiritual leaders, it's no telling what they could accomplish.
At one time Carlton Pearson headed one of the largest churches in Oklahoma with an average attendance of 5000 people. He had a dream about religion being all-inclusive and that there was no such place as Hell. He began to speak about this new revelation and ultimately lost his wife, his church, and his tremendous wealth.
According to Wikipedia:
"Pearson rapidly began to lose his influence in ministry with the Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops and was eventually declared a heretic by his peers in 2004."
What the hell (pardon the pun) gives these guys, in the 21st century mind you, the audacity to "declare someone a heretic?" It's all BS, plain and simple.
When Dr. King took began to speak out against the Vietnam War, his own advisor's urged him not to get involved. They told him that he had his hands full with the Civil Rights Movement.
Dr. Martin Luther King's response,
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
T.D. Jakes, Joel Osteen, Creflo Dollar, Joyce Meyer, Benny Hinn, Pat Robertson, Eddie Long and many others, would not dare speak out against War and Dirty Politics because they know they would suffer the same fate as Carlton Pearson. These people are scam artist at the highest level and part of the most colossal ponzi scheme in the history of humankind.
While watching CNN yesterday, the headlines showed:
