WORLD STATISTICS & A MEMORY TEST .....

The population of Earth is around 7.8 Billion.

For most people, it is a large figure, that is all.

However, if you condensed 7.8 billion in the world into 100 persons   , and then into various percentage statistics.

The resulting analysis is relatively much easier to comprehend.

Out of 100:

 11 are in Europe

5 are in North America

9 are in South America

15 are in Africa

60 are in Asia

49 live in the countryside

51 live in cities

12 speak Chinese

5 speak Spanish

5 speak English

3 speak Arabic

3 speak Hindi

3 speak Bengali

3 speak Portuguese

2 speak Russian

2 speak Japanese

62 speak their own language.

77 have their own houses

23 have no place to live.

21 are over-nourished

63 can eat full meals

15 are under-nourished

1 ate the last meal, but did not make it to the next meal.

The daily cost of living for 48 is less than 2 USD (2 USD).

87 have clean drinking water

13 either lack clean drinking water or have access to a water source that is polluted.

75 have mobile phones

25 do not.

30 have internet access

70 do not have conditions to go online

7 received university education

93 did not attend college.

83 can read

17 are illiterate.

33 are Christians

22 are Muslims

14 are Hindus

7 are Buddhists

12 are other religions

12 have no religious beliefs. 

26 live less than 14 years

66 died between 15 - 64 years of age

8 are over 65 years old.

If you have your own home, eat full meals & drink clean water, have a mobile phone,

Can surf the internet, and have gone to college, You are in the miniscule privileged lot (in the less than 7% category).

Among 100 persons in the world, only 8 can live or exceed the age of 65.

If you are over 65 years old,   be content and grateful. Cherish life, grasp the moment.

You did not leave this world before the age of 64 years like the 92 persons who have gone before you. You are already the blessed among mankind.

Take good care of your own health.  Cherish every remaining moment.

And, if you think you are suffering memory loss, google Anosognosia. 

In the following analysis the French Professor Bruno Dubois Director of the Institute of Memory and Alzheimer's Disease (IMMA) at La Pitié-Salpêtrière - Paris Hospitals / addresses the subject in a rather reassuring way:

"If anyone is aware of his memory problems, he does not have Alzheimer's."

1. I forget the names of families ..

2. I do not remember where I put some things ..

It often happens in people 60 years and older that they complain that they lack memory. "The information is always in the brain, it is the "processor" that is lacking."

This is "Anosognosia" or temporary forgetfulness.

Half of people 60 and older have some symptoms that are due to age rather than disease.

The most common cases are:

-         forgetting the name of a person,

-         going to a room in the house and not remembering why we were going there,

-         a blank memory for a movie title or actor, an actress,

-         a waste of time searching where we left our glasses or keys ..

After 60 years most people have such a difficulty, which indicates that it is not a disease but rather a characteristic due to the passage of years ...

Many people are concerned about these oversights hence the importance of the following statement:

"Those who are conscious of being forgetful have no serious problem of memory."

"Those who suffer from a memory illness or Alzheimer's, are not aware of what is happening."

Professor Bruno Dubois, Director of IMMA, reassures the majority of people concerned about their oversights:

"The more we complain about memory loss, the less likely we are to suffer from memory sickness."

Now for a little neurological test.   Only use your eyes/

1- Find the C in the table below!

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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOO

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2- If you have already found the C, then find the 6 in the table below.

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69999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

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3- Now find the N in the table below.

Attention, it's a little more difficult!

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MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

If you pass these three tests without problem:

- you can cancel your annual visit to the neurologist.

- your brain is in perfect shape!

- you are far from having any relationship with Alzheimer's.

Thanks for your time, stay safe and well.

THEY BOMB,WE BOMB, WE BOMB,THEY BOMB....

 

The Biden administration is continuing the devastating cycle of endless war, on Feb. 25, president Biden ordered airstrikes on militia allegedly backed by Iran, in eastern Syria. Days later, rockets were launched on an airbase housing U.S. troops in western Iraq, further escalating the situation of hit and get hit back, then hit again. 

Obviously the U.S. is being dragged into this situation and a further possibility of a total war engulfing Iran, Iraq, Syria and very likely Lebanon and Israel. Plus the situation in the Persian/Arab gulf, Yemen, Libya, and Palestine itself, or whatever is left of it, all this while Israel has been for more than 2 years actively adding a new atomic reactor to its existing one in Dimona in the Israeli negev desert, and their hundreds of existing nuclear heads, playing as the only legit nation with the right to own and possibly execute nuclear attacks in an area the size of Europe.

The Israelo/American attacks and occupation have fueled instability, caused immense suffering, created millions of displaced and millions of refugees, and cost millions of lives. It all strictly only benefited Zionist Israel and its present fanatical zealous regime and war machine. Their obsessions with colonial old dreams and hegemony to restore Biblical prophecies, while destroying all their neighbors. This status quo has got to go, It is high time to admit that we cannot bomb our way to peace and order, diplomacy has to reign again. 

Because we've been there, in similar situations before, we've also learned what works and what doesn't, at least in principle, there is one straight forward, simple way, we stop the cycle of endless war, get U.S. troops out of conflicts zones, out of harm's way, and stop them from deepening or causing new harm. Let's bring them home, and let's better control our allies into less war attitude, less hegemony, and better coexistence with their different neighbors. 

For years now, bit by bit, the U.S. and its closest allies have become more entwined in what soldiers call it "the forever war". And what insures a complete supremacy of the war machine over all of our governments and people. Many of our friends and neighbors have known and lived this war their entire adult lives, it has defined the modern American experience, it is expanding rapidly now to many friendly and not so friendly countries in the Middle-East, and beyond. 

This situation has to come to an end. In 2021 ending the forever war, the U.S. and all others have to stop behaving as such, and give diplomacy and negotiations a better chance of settling conflicts and issues. we have the absolute capability of doing and enforcing that. Here it is the people and congress duty to pressure any and all administrations to declare and abide once more that enough is enough. 

The decision to put our boys and girls in harm's way is too important to rest with any one person, Republican or Democrat. We can be so much better, invest seriously in so much more at home and show the world more enlightened leadership, and save ourselves many trillions of Dollars wasted on the forever war, and usurper countries and entities. 

            My usual many thanks to all, please stay safe and well .   

         

PRESSURING AND BRIBING FOR PEACE .....

 

The last in a series of normalization of relations between Arab countries and Israel under the Trump and his oligarchy incitements is unfolding in these days, and it's revealing a fierce competition among the various Arab entities of who can get what and when. And who can prove more brotherly and accommodating to the 70 years classic enemy. As the new adminis-tration has some different views and tactics to the entire affair. 

While on the American side, previous administrations were always inclined to work and expand the covert peace between some of the Arabs like Morocco and the Gulf emirates rather than bring it out of the closet with defiant tactics and pressures, they simply didn't want to risk paying a higher price or loosing general Arab and Muslem support. Trump shelled out for it without a blink of an eye, and the loss of support never became a reality, the same when he approved the annexation of the Golan heights and Jerusalem and parts of the West Bank and its new waves of settlers. 

The latest addition, Morocco, has won an obvious good price as a result of its agreement to normalize relations with Israel, American and Israeli recognition of its sovereignty over Western Sahara, a situation not approved by most international organizations and countries. while both countries, hoping for a defacto   recognition of their illegal annexations of territories gained under arms and full force of wars. And once more some-one is approving and giving away something that doesn't belong to them. 

Some Trump followers wonder why a fair majority of Americans and world wide citizens and leaders were more than jubilant to see Mr. Trump and his oligarchy lose the elections and vacate the White House. Many accuse most politicians in America of being at the mercy of Israeli lobbies, but most at least through the years, tried to maintain a semblance of decency, and some restrained actions and statements, that was the reason, at least partly, Jerusalem was not approved as capital of the strictly Jewish state and parts of stolen territories of Arab neighbors were not recognized.

But once again, Trump and his oligarchy proved to America and the world that anything goes, as long as the price is well and right, and maintaining power and office justifies any action at all. Congress has it backward, it should be very difficult for a president to take the country to war and easy for that war to be ended. Time after time the "peace" candidate usually wins the elections, and no matter how tired Americans are of endless wars, the war machine finds a way to keep chugging along and returning to some form of war. The Trump administration was very close, and now we're a little further away. 

The Biden administration announced lately it was restoring relations with the Palestinians and renewing aid to Palestinian refugees. "Yet, we recognize that Arab Israeli normalization is not a substitute for Israeli/Palestinian peace" said acting U.S. Ambassador Richard Mills, not to mention the Biden cold stance on some of the other incitements by the previous administration, as in arms and advanced jet fighters and nuclear tech to Saudi, aid and easement of policies to Sudan, and its cold acceptance of the Morocco Western Sahara conflict. 

The insistence of the Biden team to a greater international mediation, and more balanced peace initiative between Palestinians and Israeli sides by fairer negotiations and not coerciveness, force and ruse, is the better approach and the one accepted by most international organizations and parties, as well as the Palestinian side. The only sides opposing it and any serious attempt at peace were Zionist Israel and the Trump administration and oligarchy. 

As Stephen Wertheimer said in a NY times article recently, "the task for Mr. Biden, and a new generation, is not to restore American leadership of the world, but rather to lead America to a new place in the world .

          As always, my many thanks to all, stay safe and well.