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“Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.” (Matthew 24:7; Revelation 6:4) Writer Ernest Hemingway called World War I “the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth.” According to the book The World in the Crucible—1914-1919, this was “a new scope of war, the first total war in the experience of mankind. Its duration, intensity, and scale exceeded anything previously known or generally expected.” Then came World War II, which proved much more destructive than World War I. “The twentieth century,” says professor of history Hugh Thomas, “has been dominated by the machine gun, the tank, the B-52, the nuclear bomb and, finally, the missile. It has been marked by wars more bloody and destructive than those of any other age.” True, much was said about disarmament after the Cold War ended. Still, one report estimates that after proposed reductions some 10,000 to 20,000 nuclear warheads will remain—more than 900 times the firepower used during World War II.

“There will be food shortages.” (Matthew 24:7; Revelation 6:5, 6, 8) Since 1914 there have been at least 20 major famines. Afflicted areas include Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Nigeria, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sudan. But famine is not always caused by a lack of food. “The world’s food supply over recent decades has grown faster than its population,” concluded a group of agricultural scientists and economists. “But because at least 800 million people remain in deep poverty, . . . they are unable to purchase enough of the abundance to lift them out of chronic malnutrition.” Political meddling is involved in other cases. Dr. Abdelgalil Elmekki of the University of Toronto cites two examples in which thousands starved while their countries were exporting massive amounts of food. The governments seemed far more concerned with raising foreign currency to finance their wars than with feeding their citizens. Dr. Elmekki’s conclusion? Famine is often “a matter of distribution and government policy.”

“Pestilences.” (Luke 21:11; Revelation 6:8) The Spanish influenza of 1918-19 claimed at least 21 million lives. “The world had never in history been ravaged by a killer that slew so many human beings so quickly,” writes A. A. Hoehling in The Great Epidemic. Today, pestilences rage on. Each year, cancer kills five million people, diarrheal diseases claim the lives of more than three million infants and children, and tuberculosis slays three million. Respiratory infections, mainly pneumonia, annually kill 3.5 million youngsters under five years of age. And a staggering 2.5 billion—half the world’s population—suffer from sicknesses that stem from insufficient or contaminated water and poor sanitation. AIDS looms as a further reminder that man, despite his significant medical accomplishments, is incapable of eradicating pestilences.

“Men will be . . . lovers of money.” (2 Timothy 3:2) In lands around the world, people seem to have an insatiable hunger for greater wealth. “Success” is often measured by the size of one’s paycheck, “accomplishment” by how much one owns. “Materialism will continue to be one of the driving forces in American society . . . and an increasingly important force in other major markets as well,” declared the vice president of an advertising agency. Is this happening where you live?

“Disobedient to parents.” (2 Timothy 3:2) Present-day parents, teachers, and others have firsthand evidence that many children are disrespectful and disobedient. Some of these youngsters are either reacting to or imitating their parents’ misbehavior. Increasing numbers of children are losing faith in—and rebelling against—school, the law, religion, and their parents. “As a trend,” says one veteran schoolteacher, “they seem to have very little respect for anything.” Happily, though, many God-fearing children are exemplary in behavior.

“Fierce.” (2 Timothy 3:3) The Greek word translated “fierce” means ‘untamed, wild, lacking human sympathy and feeling.’ How well this fits many perpetrators of today’s violence! “Life is so traumatic, so bloodied with horror that it takes a cast-iron stomach to read the daily news,” said one editorial. A housing-police sergeant noted that many youths seem to blind themselves to the consequences of their actions. He said: “There is a feeling that, ‘I don’t know about tomorrow. I’ll get what I want today.’”

“Having no natural affection.” (2 Timothy 3:3) This phrase is translated from a Greek word meaning “heartless, inhuman” and denoting a “lack of natural, family affection.” (The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology) Yes, affection is often missing in the very environment in which it should flourish—the home. Reports of abusive treatment of marriage mates, children, and even of elderly parents have become disturbingly common. One research team commented: “Human violence—be it a slap or a shove, a knifing or a shoot-out—occurs more frequently within the family circle than anywhere else in our society.”

“Having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power.” (2 Timothy 3:5) The Bible has the power to change lives for the better. (Ephesians 4:22-24) Yet, many today use their religion as a screen behind which they carry on unrighteous activities that displease God. Lying, stealing, and sexual misconduct are often condoned by religious leaders. Many religions preach love but support warfare. “In the name of the Supreme Creator,” observes an editorial in the magazine India Today, “human beings have perpetrated the most abominable atrocities against their fellow creatures.” In fact, the two bloodiest conflicts of recent times—World Wars I and II—erupted in the heart of Christendom.

“Ruining the earth.” (Revelation 11:18) More than 1,600 scientists, including 104 Nobel laureates, from around the world endorsed a warning, issued by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), that stated: “Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. . . . No more than a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats will be lost.” The report said that man’s life-threatening practices “may so alter the world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know.” Ozone depletion, water pollution, deforestation, loss of soil productivity, and the extinction of many animal and plant species were cited as urgent problems that must be addressed. “Our tampering with the interdependent web of life,” said the UCS, “could trigger widespread effects, including collapses of biological systems whose dynamics we imperfectly understand.”

“This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth.” (Matthew 24:14) Jesus foretold that the good news of the Kingdom would be preached earth wide, for a witness to all the nations. With divine help and blessing, millions of Jehovah’s Witnesses are devoting billions of hours to this preaching and disciple-making work. (Matthew 28:19, 20) Yes, the Witnesses realize that they would be bloodguilty if they did not declare the good news. (Ezekiel 3:18, 19) But they are delighted that each year thousands gratefully respond to the Kingdom message and take their stand as true Christians, that is, as Witnesses of Jehovah. It is an inestimable privilege to serve Jehovah and thus spread the knowledge of God. And after this good news is preached in all the inhabited earth, the end of this wicked system will come.

Is the U.S.A the best country in the world?

Probably True ......There are top 10 reasons why U.S.A is best country in the world.....

10. Entertainment

The movies the world watches, the television shows they tune into, and the music they listen to are, for the most part, produced in the United States.

9. Immigration

During the hundred years ending in the 1920s, a majority of the world's immigrants came to one lone country: the United States. Today, the U.S. takes in more immigrants than at any point in its history.

8. Technology

Nothing disproves the Leftist mantra that "all cultures are equal" more than technology does. Americans have given the world motion pictures, the telephone, the television, the computer, the Internet, the airplane, the VCR, and a host of other machines and devices that have vastly improved the quality of life on the planet.

7. Creating Wealth

America is the sun around which the world economy revolves. The typical creator of wealth in the world is an American. Foreigners benefit from buying better products from American companies and working better jobs manufacturing such products. Take America's $9 trillion dollar economy out of the picture, and the economic well being of the rest of the world nose-dives.

6. Generosity

With great wealth comes great generosity. In 2000, Americans gave more than $200 billion in charity, dwarfing the amount donated elsewhere. Since World War II, the U.S. government has given well in excess of $500 billion (not adjusted for inflation) in foreign aid. Last year, our government distributed more than $20 billion to 130 countries. While American taxpayers have a right to gripe, what are we to make of foreign beneficiaries who return our favor by burning U.S. flags and chanting "death to America"?

5. Human Achievement

Americans have stretched the bounds of the possible. The first transatlantic flight, putting a man on the moon, breaking the speed of sound, constructing the Hoover Dam, and building the Panama Canal serve as testimony to American courage and ingenuity.

4. Enlightened Power

The Soviet Empire ruled over Eastern Europe. The Ottoman Empire claimed dominion over vast stretches of the Islamic world. The Empire of the Sun sought dominion over the Orient. The American Empire rules...only Americans.

3. Medicine

Will Nigerian doctors make the blind see? Will Cambodians cure AIDS? Will Pakistanis eradicate cancer? The answer is probably not. Why? The reason is that non-Westerners have had no discernable impact on modern medicine. This year, like 45 of the last 60, an American won a share of the Nobel Prize in the field of medicine. Americans cured polio and tuberculosis, developed vaccines for hepatitis B and yellow fever, pioneered modern chemotherapy, and produced the CAT scan and MRI. What's there to hate about that?

2. Democracy

Leftists harp that American democracy is tainted because not everyone possessed the right to vote at the Founding. Denial of the vote in the 18th century, however, was universal. What made America unique was not that some people could not vote, but that anybody could. More than 215 years after the Constitutional Convention, most people on the planet still do not have a right to vote. Every Arab country, more than three-fourths of African nations, and many of the most populous nations in the Orient still deny their citizens the right to choose their own leaders. Despite the continued rejection by many foreign leaders, the ideals of the American Founding became contagious. Our example served to topple regimes far from our shores. Pro-democracy activists don't quote the founding documents of Saudi Arabia or appropriate the cultural symbols of China. They cite passages from the Declaration of Independence and hoist replicas of the Statue of Liberty.

1. Freedom

America has shined as a beacon of freedom in an unfree world for more than two centuries. To this day, for instance, most people living outside our borders reside in countries where the private practice of broadcast journalism is illegal and where the state is the dominant banker. Americans can say anything they want, worship any god they choose, and associate with any motley crew around. Our legacy is not slave chains, Wounded Knee, and the murder of James Byrd, but American GIs liberating a Nazi death camp, an immigrant's first glance of lady liberty's torch, and Ronald Reagan exhorting the Soviet's to tear down the Berlin Wall. If nothing else, America means freedom.

In the world as a whole what is the number one way to die?

Well, aren't you just a little ray of sunshine on a rainy day? Seriously - are you being held in this country against your will? Because my friends and I will come and spring you, and ship you to whatever place you would prefer to live.

to answer your actual question though, here is a list of worldwide mortality causes, listed in order.

[1] Cause Percent

of

deaths Deaths per 100,000 per year

All Male Female

– All Causes 100.00 916.1 954.7 877.1

A Cardiovascular diseases 29.34 268.8 259.3 278.4

B Infectious and parasitic diseases 19.12 175.2 185.1 165.1

A.1 Ischemic heart disease 12.64 115.8 121.4 110.1

C Malignant neoplasms (cancers) 12.49 114.4 126.9 101.7

A.2 Cerebrovascular disease (Stroke) 9.66 88.5 81.4 95.6

B.1 Respiratory infections 6.95 63.7 63.5 63.8

B.1.1 Lower respiratory tract infections 6.81 62.4 62.2 62.6

D Respiratory diseases 6.49 59.5 61.1 57.9

E Unintentional injuries 6.23 57.0 73.7 40.2

B.2 HIV/AIDS 4.87 44.6 46.2 43.0

D.1 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 4.82 44.1 45.1 43.1

– Perinatal conditions 4.32 39.6 43.7 35.4

F Digestive diseases 3.45 31.6 34.9 28.2

B.3 Diarrheal diseases 3.15 28.9 30.0 27.8

G Intentional injuries (suicide, murder, war, etc.) 2.84 26.0 37.0 14.9

B.4 Tuberculosis 2.75 25.2 32.9 17.3

B.5 Malaria 2.23 20.4 19.4 21.5

C.1 Lung cancers 2.18 20.0 28.4 11.4

E.1 Road traffic accidents 2.09 19.1 27.8 10.4

B.6 Childhood diseases 1.97 18.1 18.0 18.2

H Neuropsychiatric disorders 1.95 17.9 18.4 17.3

– Diabetes mellitus 1.73 15.9 14.1 17.7

A.3 Hypertensive heart disease 1.60 14.6 13.4 15.9

G.1 Suicide 1.53 14.0 17.4 10.6

C.2 Stomach cancer 1.49 13.7 16.7 10.5

I Diseases of the genitourinary system 1.49 13.6 14.1 13.1

F.1 Cirrhosis of the liver 1.38 12.6 16.1 9.1

I.1 Nephritis/nephropathy 1.19 10.9 11.0 10.7

C.3 Colorectal cancer 1.09 10.0 10.3 9.7

C.4 Liver cancer 1.08 9.9 13.6 6.2

B.6.1 Measles 1.07 9.8 9.8 9.9

G.2 Violence 0.98 9.0 14.2 3.7

– Maternal conditions 0.89 8.2 0.0 16.5

– Congenital abnormalities 0.86 7.9 8.1 7.7

J Nutritional deficiencies 0.85 7.8 6.9 8.7

C.5 Breast cancer 0.84 7.7 0.1 15.3

C.6 Esophageal cancer 0.78 7.2 9.1 5.2

A.4 Inflammatory heart disease 0.71 6.5 6.7 6.2

H.1 Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 0.70 6.4 4.7 8.1

E.2 Falls 0.69 6.3 7.5 5.0

E.3 Drowning 0.67 6.1 8.4 3.9

E.4 Poisoning 0.61 5.6 7.2 4.0

C.7 Lymphomas, multiple myeloma 0.59 5.4 5.4 5.4

A.5 Rheumatic heart disease 0.57 5.3 4.4 6.1

C.8 Oral cancers and oropharynx cancers 0.56 5.1 7.1 3.1

E.5 Fires 0.55 5.0 3.8 6.2

B.6.2 Pertussis 0.52 4.7 4.7 4.8

C.9 Prostate cancer 0.47 4.3 8.6 0.0

C.10 Leukemia 0.46 4.2 4.7 3.8

F.2 Peptic ulcer disease 0.46 4.2 5.0 3.5

J.1 Protein-energy malnutrition 0.46 4.2 4.2 4.2

– Endocrine/nutritional disorders 0.43 3.9 3.4 4.4

D.2 Asthma 0.42 3.9 3.9 3.8

C.11 Cervical cancer 0.42 3.8 0.0 7.7

C.12 Pancreatic cancer 0.41 3.7 3.9 3.5

B.6.3 Tetanus 0.38 3.4 3.4 3.5

B.7 Sexually transmitted diseases excluding HIV 0.32 2.9 2.9 2.9

C.13 Bladder cancer 0.31 2.9 4.0 1.7

B.8 Meningitis 0.30 2.8 2.9 2.7

G.3 War 0.30 2.8 5.0 0.5

B.7.1 Syphilis 0.28 2.5 2.7 2.3

– Neoplasms other than malignant 0.26 2.4 2.4 2.4

J.2 Iron deficiency anemia 0.24 2.2 1.5 2.9

C.14 Ovarian cancer 0.24 2.2 0.0 4.4

B.9 Tropical diseases 0.23 2.1 2.5 1.6

H.2 Epilepsy 0.22 2.0 2.2 1.8

– Musculoskeletal diseases 0.19 1.7 1.2 2.2

B.10 Hepatitis B 0.18 1.7 2.3 1.0

H.3 Parkinson's disease 0.17 1.6 1.6 1.6

H.4 Alcohol use disorders 0.16 1.5 2.5 0.4

H.5 Drug use disorders 0.15 1.4 2.2 0.5

B.1.2 Upper respiratory infections 0.13 1.2 1.2 1.2

C.15 Uterine cancer 0.12 1.1 0.0 2.3

– Skin diseases 0.12 1.1 0.8 1.4

C.16 Melanoma and other skin cancers 0.12 1.1 1.1 1.0

B.11 Hepatitis C 0.09 0.9 1.1 0.6

B.9.1 Leishmaniasis 0.09 0.8 1.0 0.7

B.9.2 Trypanosomiasis 0.08 0.8 1.0 0.5

I.2 Benign prostatic hyperplasia