This is something to think about when you decide that you are big stuff in this world…
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20 Statistics That Prove That Global Wealth Is Not Balanced…
#1 According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the number of “least developed countries” has doubled over the past 40 years.
#2 “Least developed countries” spent 9 billion dollars on food imports in 2002. By 2008, that number had risen to 23 billion dollars.
#3 Average income per person in the poorest countries on the continent of Africa has fallen by one-fourth over the past twenty years.
#4 Bill Gates has a net worth of somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 billion dollars. That means that there are approximately 140 different nations that have a yearly GDP which is smaller than the amount of money Bill Gates has.
#5 A study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research discovered that the bottom half of the world population owns approximately 1 percent of all global wealth.
#6 Approximately 1 billion people throughout the world go to bed hungry each night.
#7 The wealthiest 2 percent own more than half of all global household assets.
#8 It is estimated that over 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where the income gap between the rich and the poor is widening.
#9 Every 3.6 seconds someone starves to death and three-quarters of them are children under the age of 5.
#10 According to Gallup, 33 percent of the people on the globe say that they do not have enough money for food.
#11 As you read this, there are 2.6 billion people around the world that lack basic sanitation.
#12 According to the most recent “Global Wealth Report” by Credit Suisse, the wealthiest 0.5% control over 35% of the wealth of the world.
#13 More than 3 billion people, close to half the world’s population, live on less than 2 dollar a day.
#14 CNN founder Ted Turner is the largest private landowner in the United States. Today, Turner owns approximately two million acres. That is an amount greater than the land masses of the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Turner also advocates restricting U.S. couples to 2 or fewer children to control population growth.
#15 There are 400 million children in the world today that have no access to safe water.
#16 Approximately 28 percent of all children in developing countries are considered to be underweight or have had their growth stunted as a result of malnutrition.
#17 It is estimated that the United States owns approximately 25 percent of the total wealth of the world.
#18 It is estimated that the entire continent of Africa owns approximately 1 percent of the total wealth of the world.
#19 In 2008, approximately 9 million children died before they reached their fifth birthdays. Approximately a third of all of these deaths was due either directly or indirectly to lack of food.
#20 The most famous banking family in the world, the Rothschilds, has accumulated mountains of wealth while much of the rest of the world has been trapped in poverty. The following is what Wikipedia has to say about Rothschild family wealth….
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- 10% of world will speak Spanish by 2050 – expert (globalnation.inquirer.net)
- The Population Explosion in The World (socyberty.com)
- New Tally of Global Wealth Illuminates Staggering Disparities (alternet.org)
- Bill Gates says vaccines can help reduce world population … (projectworldawareness.com)
- One-Third of The World’s Population Online By the End of 2010 (voices.allthingsd.com)
- The Giving Pledge: Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Ted Turner Talk Philanthropy (VIDEO) (huffingtonpost.com)
- Who Put Bill Gates In Charge of the World? Updated Version (ppjg.wordpress.com)
- The World’s Wealth Gap is Shrinking (creditloan.com)
- Are We in the Final Stages of ‘The Culling?’ (musicians4freedom.com)
- What percentage of the worlds population do you think recycles? (greenanswers.com)
The Two Halves of Our Brain…
Did You Know This? What our two halves of our brain do…
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
A Few Tidbits About George Washington!
First President – George Washington
Lifespan – 1788 – 1824
Place of Birth – February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
Term as President – 1789-1797
Political Party – Federalist
Vice President / Vice Presidents – John Adams
Religion – Episcopalian
George Washington, Military Experience – Commander in Chief of Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Name of Wife – George Washington was married to Martha Dandridge Washington, a widow with children
Career of George Washington – Surveyor, Farmer, Politician, Statesman, Commander in Chief of Continental Army during the American Revolution
Space Aliens or Pranks?
Southern Russia’s Krasnodar region just had these strange designs appear in a field of wheat!
“The figure consists of eight circles and rings around them that are interconnected,” the group coordinator, Vadim Chernobrov, told Interfax news agency. “Their sizes vary from 5 to 25 meters.” (Link)
Svet and Kyle
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Common surnames whose original meanings were occupations:
- Ackerman: plowman
- Barker: leather tanner
- Baxter: baker
- Brewster: brewer
- Carter: wagon driver
- Chandler: candle maker
- Clark: clerk
- Cohen: priest
- Collier: coal miner
- Conner: inspector
- Cooper: barrel maker
- Currier: curer of hides
- Dyker: stonemason
- Faber: artisan
- Ferrier: blacksmith
- Fletcher: arrow maker
- Fowler: bird hunter
- Fuller: cleaner of cloth goods
- Granger: farmer
- Hacker: woodcutter
- Harper: minstrel
- Hayward: fence inspector
- Hooper: maker of barrel hoops
- Kaufman: merchant
- Keeler: bargeman
- Lederer: leather maker
- Marshall: horse doctor
- Mercer: cloth merchant
- Pitman: coal miner
- Sawyer: sawer of timber into boards
- Schneider: tailor
- Tinker: traveling saleman
- Travers: collector of bridge tolls
- Tucker: cleaner of cloth goods
- Webster: weaver
- Wainwright: wagon maker
- Wechsler: moneychanger
Did You Know?
The average human eyelash lives about 150 days.
The average person’s hair will grow approximately 590 inches in a lifetime.
The average woman’s thighs are 1.5 times larger in circumference than the average man’s.
An average person uses the bathroom six times per day.
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In The 1500′s:
England is old and small and they started running out of places to bury people. So, they would dig up coffins and would take their bones to a house and reuse the grave. In reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on their wrist and lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night to listen for the bell. Hence on the “graveyard shift” they would know that someone was “saved by the bell” or he was a “dead ringer”.
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You can’t get much older than 6 million years. That is when the first human beings, known as Hominidae, evolved. They were not like apes; they had bigger brains, different teeth, and walked upright. Would you like an introduction to some of your ancestors?
Australopithecus, also called “southern ape,” lived in Africa in 3 million B.C. Some were the size of modern people; others were as small as chimpanzees. Their heads were apelike with low foreheads, flat noses, and jutting jaws. “Lucy” was a complete australopithecus found in Ethiopia in 1974. (She was named for the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which was playing in the camp when she was excavated.) Lucy was 20 years old when she died.
Homo habilis, or “Handymen,” lived 2 million years ago and used tools. Their brain was half the size of the human brain today. Their heads were rounder and faces smaller than those of australopithecus. Homo habilis was the first to build huts for shelter. “Piltdown Man” was long accepted as a skeleton of Homo habilis. In 1953 he was shown to be a hoax made from a human skull, ape’s jaw, and the bones of extinct animals.
Homo erectus, the “stand-up people,” lived 1 million years ago and were the first people to use fire. Their skulls were thick, their faces flat, and they had a sloping forehead with no chin. They lived in China, Japan, Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
Neanderthals lived in Europe about 150,000 years ago and were the first to wear clothes. They looked much like modern people except that their skulls bulged more at the back and they had receding chins, larger cheeks, and more pronounced eyebrow ridges. They were also smaller and stockier and had heavier features. They cared for their sick and buried their dead. Less than half the population reached the age of 20.
Homo sapiens means “wise humans.” We are Homo sapiens and first lived on earth about 100,000 years ago. By 33000 B.C. we were the dominant species, living everywhere but in North and South America. We look different from our ancestors because of our smaller teeth, flat foreheads, straight faces, and rounded heads. We were the first of the earth’s inhabitants to communicate through art, the spoken word, and religion.
Cro-Magnon people were named after the Cro-Magnon caves near Dordogne, France, where their remains were discovered. They were early Homo sapiens, quite tall and erect.