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PREDATORS AND PARASITES

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PREY - PREDATORSymbiosis (from Ancient Greek σύν “together” and βίωσις “living”) is close and often long-term interaction between two or more different biological species.

Some of the most common and frequent symbiotic relationships examples are prey-predator and parasitism.

Parasitism is yet anther example of symbiotic relationship. The concept is fairly simple and it can be seen throughout nature. Mosquitoes for example, represent one form of parasitism. Other kinds can be seen in animals who have fleas and ticks.

Symbiosis can be a vital process for some species. A great example is Prey-Predator in which only one species can win the other being killed and annihilated.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that International BANKERS are anything more or less than Predators and Parasites.  These “creatures” are NOT the same species of animal as human beings. When a BANKER looks at you, he sees FOOD.  You are very carefully fed with “CREDIT” lies, false aspirations and false values to entice you into becoming a victim of the false economic institutions that literally CREDIT MONEY FROM NOTHING, and convince that it has “real value”.  Factually, what we call “money” is created from thin air by PARASITES AND PREDATORS who produce NOTHING of value and STEAL all of your possessions, your work and your future from you.

The common-sense approach to preventing yourself from becoming “food” in the mouths of bankers is to AVOID them, or EXTERMINATE them!

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A MASTER OF INTELLIGENT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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 The Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker is a master of natural resource management, conservation, symbiosis, and being a good neighbor!summer-sapsuckerOn a walk through the forest you might spot rows of shallow holes in tree bark. In the East, this is the work of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, an enterprising woodpecker that laps up the leaking sap and any trapped insects with its specialized, brush-tipped tongue.

The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker makes two kinds of holes in trees to harvest sap. Round holes extend deep in the tree and are not enlarged. The sapsucker inserts its bill into the hole to probe for sap. Rectangular holes are shallower, and must be maintained continually for the sap to flow. The sapsucker licks the sap from these holes, and eats the cambium of the tree too. New holes usually are made in a line with old holes, or in a new line above the old.

  • The sapwells made by Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers attract hummingbirds, which also feed off the sap flowing from the tree. In some parts of Canada, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds rely so much on sapwells that they time their spring migration with the arrival of sapsuckers. Other birds as well as bats and porcupines also visit sapsucker sapwells.
  • Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers have been found drilling sapwells in more than 1,000 species of trees and woody plants, though they have a strong preference for birches and maples.
  • Sapsuckers tend to choose sick or wounded trees for drilling their wells, and they choose tree species with high sugar concentrations in their sap, such as paper birch, yellow birch, sugar maple, red maple, and hickory. They drill wells for sap throughout the year, on both their breeding and wintering grounds. In addition to sap, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers also eat insects (mostly ants) and spiders, gleaning them from beneath a tree’s bark like other woodpeckers. And at times they perch at the edge of a tree branch and launch after flying insects to capture them in midair, like a flycatcher.

LEARN MORE: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-bellied_sapsucker/lifehistory/ac

MILAREPA

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MILAREPA

Jetsun Milarepa  (c. 1052 – c. 1135 CE) is generally considered one of Tibet’s most famous yogis and poets.

Milarepa is famous for many of his songs and poems, in which he expresses the profundity of his realization of the dharma. Through the illustration of his own life, Milarepa set for all Buddhists an example of the perfect Bodhisattva, and a model of the incorruptible life of a genuine practitioner of Buddhist Tantrism. His life is an unmistakable testimony to the unity an interdependency of all Buddhist teachings – Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana – for Buddhahood is not attainable if any of the three is lacking. He made it clear to all that poverty is not a kind of deprivation, but rather is a necessary way of emancipating oneself from the tyranny of material possessions; that Tantric practice by no means implies indulgence and laxity, but hard labor, strict discipline, and steadfast perseverance; that without resolute renunciation and uncompromising discipline, as Gautama Buddha Himself stressed, all the sublime ideas and dazzling images depicted in Mahayana and Tantric Buddhism are no better that magnificent illusions.

CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DAY

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Follow the cities and states who have stopped celebrating Columbus Day and celebrate, instead, “Indigenous People’s Day.”

Are you afraid that an “Alien Invasion” might wipe out the human race?  Are you concerned about Armageddon?  Are you afraid that looming signs of the “End of Days” are all around you?  Do you think the NWO may be planning your extermination to reduce population?  Well, meet some people whose ancestors already experienced it.  There are a few of them still living among us.

 Learn more about the culture and history of the original citizens of the American Continents, before they were hunted almost into extinction by the Caucasian European Invasion.  Before Columbus, The Spanish Conquistadors, The Pilgrims and the hordes of ignorant, filthy, greedy Caucasian European Invaders migrated in their blood-thirsty millions to the Americas there were estimated to be 100 Million people already living here.  Caucasian Europeans systematically set about slaughtering every man, woman, child on the entire continent with guns, fire and blankets infested with small pox.

Visit the wonderful website below to experience some of the majesty, dignity, beauty and pain of those indigenous people.

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Pictures/American-Indians-00.html

Follow the cities and states who have stopped celebrating Columbus Day and celebrate, instead, “Indigenous People’s Day.”

THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND DEATH

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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