Cool graphic comparing deaths due to terrorism/cancer vs. money spent fighting each.

[pampango]

http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=594

[liberal N proud]

1. Greed is the driver behind it all

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Some say that cancer symptom medication is more profitable than cancer cures

but we -are- seeing some true breakthroughs in cancer cures lately...

[azul]

2. Salute your masters of war,

and die of mindless chemical poisoning because we're too scared to think straight.

This is where we need to focus on prevention and cure:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3024548/

[NeedleCast]

3. Really puts things in perspective

[PETRUS]

4. "war is a racket" K&R nt

[tk2kewl]

5. k&r

:evilfrown:

[leftstreet]

6. K&R

[Gregorian]

7. THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SHOUTING!

It's bullshit!

It's all a way of getting money for wars, and prisons, and STUFF. Stuff that is nonproductive.

You have a better chance of being struck by lightning than the imaginary terrorism. And it is imaginary for all practical purposes.

[BrendaBrick]

9. Cost of war.com

From the National Priorities Project:

http://costofwar.com/en/

Ten Years After 9/11: The Dollars and Sense of War

Friday, October 7, 2011 will mark ten years since the beginning of the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
In light of an already increasing level of interest, NPP is releasing new numbers, analysis and tools around the costs of a decade at war.

You can find them here. http://costofwar.com/en/publications/2011/ten-years-after-911/

[A Simple Game]

10. How many people do you know that died or were injured from a terrorist attack?

How many do you know that have died or had their lives ruined by cancer?

Where do you think we should spend our money and energy?

I ask people these questions all the time.

[woo me with science]

11. Thank you. We are headed toward war with Iran unless

we can come together as a population and stop them. A more serious war is their trump card.

If they can start a war with Iran, the military industrial complex and the banks that fund it become indispensable.

[stuntcat]

12. Humanity Fail

k and r

[Beam Me Up]

13. But KILLING PEOPLE is an ENORMOUS stimulus to the economy.

Seriously. Think about it. Whole INDUSTRIES geared toward medical emergencies of one sort and another.

That's not to mention the WAR PROFITEERING that goes on, costing us 99% trillions that could have gone to creating a world full of life, love and hope!

What a totally fucked up world we are in.

[stuntcat]

14. word for word, what you say

It's so plain to see how fear greed and corruption got us to where we are. What's very hard to see is how it could be undone, when so many are just complacent.