There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition:
In today’s 24-hour-news, short-attention-span, knee-jerk world, long term thinking is rare.
Dr. George Friedman is rare and right (in my opinion).
Listen to his predictions for The Next 100 Years… Tell me what you think!
My good friend, Bob Barrett, allowed me special access to the Lantern Balcony of Saint Helena’s Episcopal Church — the highest point in Beaufort, South Carolina!
Watch below, then make some comments here on the blog – tell me what you think.
The “Money Shot” is Video #4 below!
The fastest growing mega-city in the world… Lagos, Nigeria
by Mariana von Zeller for CurrentTV
A megacity is usually defined as a recognized metropolitan area with a total population in excess of 10 million people. In 2000, there were 18 megacities – conurbations* such as Tokyo, Mexico City, Bombay, Sao Paulo and New York City – that have populations in excess of 10 million inhabitants. Greater Tokyo already has 35 million, more than the entire population of Canada.
By 2025, according to the Far Eastern Economic Review, Asia alone will have at least 10 hypercities, those with 20 million or more, including Jakarta, Indonesia (24.9 million people), Dhaka, Bangladesh (25 million), Karachi, Pakistan (26.5 million), Shanghai (27 million) and Bombay (with a staggering 33 million).[9] Lagos, Nigeria has grown from 300,000 in 1950 to an estimated 15 million today, and the Nigerian government estimates that city will have expanded to 25 million residents by 2015.[10] Chinese experts forecast that Chinese cities will contain 800 million people by 2020.
–Source: Wikipedia
*A conurbation is an urban area comprising a number of cities, large towns and larger urban areas.
