{"id":5963,"date":"2013-07-21T20:35:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T00:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2013-07-21T20:35:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T00:35:33","slug":"hey-hey-how-many-world-stats-would-you-like-to-see-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/hey-hey-how-many-world-stats-would-you-like-to-see-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey! Hey! How many world stats would you like to see today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! Hey! What do you say? How many barrels did we burn today? Hey! Hey! What do you say? How much food did we waste today?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve often thought that the sanest people in the world are the people we lock away and call insane. They may be the only sane ones. The world&#8217;s sure gone crazy. Doesn&#8217;t it seem like it to you? While people are starving, we toss thousands of tons of food into the garbage. We&#8217;ve got about 15,000 days left until the world runs out of oil. Still we&#8217;re burning it up like there&#8217;s no tomorrow. It&#8217;s almost like the world&#8217;s being run by Alfred E. Newman &#8212; &#8220;What? Me worry?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Worldometers gives you live, instantly updated statistics about many things. It&#8217;s quite interesting as well as quite disturbing &#8212; unless, you don&#8217;t care. If you don&#8217;t care, that&#8217;s fine. Life&#8217;s a journey, a journey to share. I don&#8217;t why I care, but I do. It bothers me. It bothers me that the average worker makes $49 a day, while the average Fortune 500 CEO makes over $16,000 a day. Who in the heck is worth $16,000 a day? I can&#8217;t even get $6 a day out of EB.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this site is just plain amazing to me. Maybe you&#8217;ll find it amazing too. Here&#8217;s a little sample of some of the least interesting stuff on this site:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2013\/pop.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"580\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a little snippet from Worldometers &#8220;About us&#8221; page:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Worldometers is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world. We have no political, governmental, or corporate affiliation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Worldometers is cited as a source in over 450 published books, in more than 130 professional journal articles, and in over 120 Wikipedia pages. The website is considered a formidable educational tool and it is shown in classrooms around the world. Worldometers was recently voted as one of the best free reference websites by the American Library Association (ALA).<\/p>\n<p>Worldometers, within the Real Time Statistics Project, has launched other websites such as 7 Billion World (7 billion people on 1 webpage), USA Right Now (live stats on the U.S.A.), StoptheHunger, and ItaliaOra (Italian stats).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re the kind of person who likes to think and ponder the world and it&#8217;s craziness and its people,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldometers.info\/\">you&#8217;ll love our Site of the Week &#8220;Worldometers&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldometers.info\/\">Please accept my personal invitation to visit one of the most interesting and thought-provoking sites I&#8217;ve ever visited.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bonus time! If you like Worldometers, you&#8217;ll love these two sites as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopthehunger.com\/\">http:\/\/www.stopthehunger.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usarightnow.com\/\">http:\/\/www.usarightnow.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! Hey! What do you say? How many barrels did we burn today? Hey! Hey! What do you say? How much food did we waste today? I&#8217;ve often thought that the sanest people in the world are the people we lock away and call insane. They may be the only sane ones. The world&#8217;s sure gone crazy. 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