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THE MINIATURE EARTH
If we could turn the population of the earth into a small community of 100 people, keeping the same proportions we have today, it would be something like this: 61 Asians 12 Europeans 14 Americans (from North and South America) 13 Africans 01 Australian (Oceania) 50 women 50 men 10 are homosexuals 33 are Christian (Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox) 18 are Muslims 16 are Hindus 16 are non-religious 6 are Buddhists 11 practice other religions 41 live without basic sanitation 16 live without an improved water source 6 people own 59% of the entire wealth of the community 13 are hungry or malnourished 14 can't read only 7 are educated at a secondary level only 8 have a computer only 4 have an internet connection 1 adult, aged 15-49, has HIV/AIDS. Of the village's total annual expenditures of just over US$ 3,000,000 per year: US$ 181,000 is spent on weapons and warfare... US$ 159,000 is spent on education... US$ 132,000 is spent on health care. If you keep your food in a refrigerator And your clothes in a closet If you have a roof over your head And have a bed to sleep in You are richer than 75% of the entire world population. If you have a bank account You're one of the 30 wealthiest people in the world. 25 struggle to live on US$ 1.00 per day or less... 47 struggle to live on US$ 2.00 per day or less. Requiem for a Child yet Undead.
Pencil on white paper 9 x 18 May 9th, 37 (III) 'Mother and Dead Child on Ladder' Picasso study : "But even the mothers descent is close to a fall. The conspicuous enlargement of the thighs lowers the torso's center of gravity and transforms the organ of locomotion into a part of the inert torso, which hangs downward from - that is -"de-pends" on the center of action. Like the large body the heads and the baby's limbs sag. The panic has changed active, voluntary movement into passive dropping, a lifeless submission to material weight. Vertical and horizontals - the least dynamic directions determine the pattern throughout. The reduced tempo of action is expressed in the central theme; the sluggish flow of blood, which moved from the neck wound of the child almost without decent, fuses with the contour of the child's arm, and dries up after oozing through the paces between the mother's fingers." (Last week I studied colour photo images of the innocent children wounded and killed in the last Iraq war - ) From the Internet,
REH
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