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Lagos is the most crowded city in Nigeria, which in fact is the largest country in the rugged continent of Africa. The urban area spreads on an estimation of 300 square kilometers, is basically composed of a group of islands able with creeks and a lagoon . In an attempt to reduce immense urbanization in the metropolitan vicinity, the central administration is in the progression of stirring the capital to Abuja.

The original settler of Lagos, or Eko as it was and is still referred by the native population, which belongs to the origins of Benin dynasty and Awori Eko heritage. The area officially began to spread as a city in the fifteenth century as a Portuguese trading post whose main job was of exporting ivory, peppers, and slaves. It consequently knocks down into the hands of the British, who successfully began exporting food crops after prohibition of slavery in 1807.

Although Nigeria gained sovereignty in 1960, but soon afterwards a two-and-a-half year civil war broke out in 1967 in the young state.

After the war the city was to encounter one of its major problems which were the, migration to the city by people from adjoining areas, attached with huge bearing of refugees and migrants from other African countries shaped an inhabitants bang that has sustained to the present day.

Lagos is one of the largest commercial and industrial hubs of the state of Nigeria, with a GNP triple that of any other West African country. Thus the city is the largest growing economic power of the African world. Lagos has very much benefited from Nigeria’s innate possessions in oil, natural gas, coal, fuel wood and water. Light industry was widespread in post-independence Nigeria and petroleum-related industry dominated in the 1970′s, directly affecting the rapid growth of Lagos.

Oil manufacture, which began in the 1950′s, augmented in the years between 1965 and 1973, while world oil prices skyrocketed to great heights which left the world in shock of depression.

By 1978, the urban area dominated for 40% of the outside deal of Nigeria, consisting of the 40% of the national expert inhabitants. The world depression in 1981, which caused a sharp fall in oil prices, sent Lagos reeling into debt and a fugitive of inflation that persist at present. As a result, a massive program of infrastructure and social services expansion came to an abrupt halt.

Power and water access, sewerage, transportation and housing have also been completely affected by the high pace of haphazard development of a geologically incoherent city. Lagos is a very blessed city as compared to the rest of Nigeria, speaking statistically the 90% of the population of Lagos has access to electricity; the city alone has a consumption of 45% of the liveliness of the country. The also feature a key shortage of adequate drinking water and a very highlighted feature of the city is inadequate sewerage, as a result much the city’s human waste is disposed of by the drainage of rainwater through open ditches that discharge onto the tidal flats.

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The United States is a super power not only because of economic power, but also because of military might. Some say that if there was peace throughout the world, the US super power status would become irrelevant. Can the United States remain a super power in such a world, as it is possible we could find peace in this century, right?

Not long ago, I was discussing geo-politics specifically economic and military power with a researcher of US-Russian Relationship (post-cold war), Jesse Giraldo, and he made an interesting comment and observation; “The truth is that the biggest threat to our [US] power as a nation would be a peaceful world. For what other reason could we possibly invent to possess the largest military, the greatest amount of nuclear warheads and the most influence in every of the worlds key Institutions? “

Yes, interesting point, so why would the US need all those nuclear weapons? How about to protect the American People, government’s only responsibility as per our Constitution – consider, if you will a “What If” scenario – What If the whole world had a war with the US all at once, we could still win, and we need a military that can handle that if push comes to shove.

Why does a nation like ours need that level of power? Simple, really, you can’t trust humans, trust self. Rely on self, the US as an entity and a single unit must maintain that strength to ensure our civilization continues. We owe that to ourselves, and self comes first, before charity: Self – Family – Community – Country – Children of the World; in that order right?

Although, Henry Kissinger once made a very interesting and philosophical comment; “America can remain perfectly secure, at the expense of the rest of the world being insecure,” or something to that effect – I thought to myself, well, then, if that is the case and that is the reality, well, that would be okay by me.

The United States of America must do what’s in its best interests, just like any nation would. So, we do. And being the largest nation, we are also the greatest envy of the world. Now then, suppose Kissinger saw the world incorrectly, suppose there is a way to have a safe and secure world all the way around with a species that is “emotionally problematic” and a mere infant intellectually (children in a sandbox theory) then we ought to work to get there shouldn’t we?

You see, it’s not the US I am worried about, having nuclear weapons, it’s the other nations who haven’t grown up yet, running around with nukes or worse a terrorist group with an unrealistic and insane cause.

Too realize we are a nation of states. An alliance formed to protect our interests, a single entity. We are indeed like a nation of nations. If we add other nation-states to our team, as allies, we gain strength, but also liabilities and responsibility too. As long as we fulfill our promises we grow stronger, and isn’t that the evolution of all complex systems.

We must be careful not to take on too many, too fast, which is probably why the UN is failing, too many diversified ideals to bring into cohesion, that takes time to evolve and mesh. Still, let’s be honest about why the League of Nations failed, the Treaty of Versailles, and why NATO is not working.

For what America has done and through our strengths we have been rewarded, thus we should do more of that, and less of the other. Similarly, other forms of government, economic theories, religions, have not done as well, thus, they often borrow portions of what we do that will work for them. If the higher evolved and more suited species, the US Model works, then it has won the contest and ought to prevail and move on to the next step. Those systems which have not worked, their people ought to reject them and revise accordingly, not force their failed systems and ideals onto us.

Indeed, “I am not afraid of peace, but I am wise enough not to seek or succumb to weakness,” or someone awaiting destiny once said.

Well, it’s that time of the decade again and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is going through it ritual of revising the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Let’s be clear why this is important. For better of worse, the DSM is like a bible, containing words of wisdom on which clusters of symptoms represent which disorders. The idea is to do away with the zip code lottery of diagnosis. In one US state you might be diagnosed as a bit eccentric. With the same behavior in a different state, you might be considered a danger to the community and committed to care. With the DSM as a guide, you hope to get the same diagnosis no matter who the patient is, where he or she may be found and who the doctor is. Unfortunately, the APA is caught in a terrible conflict of interest. The majority of its members regularly receive gifts and incentives from the drug manufacturers. This benevolence is designed to encourage the use of the relevant drugs. When these same doctors sit down to discuss diagnoses and which drugs to recommend, they cannot forget all the past generosity. It inevitably influences their decisions. More importantly, if particular drugs receive approval in the DSM, this represents several billion dollars in revenue. The manufacturers therefore spend heavily in trying to ensure their drugs continue to be linked to the relevant disorders. The result is the DSM is full of disorders that are only poorly defined and linked to drugs often little more effective than placebos.

If we go back sixty years, psychiatry in the US was still running in parallel with the European tradition of scientific method. This produced carefully defined diagnoses for general conditions, leaving practitioners with some flexibility to take a common sense view of the individual patient. Hence, the technical term might be a “nervous breakdown” which is a catch-all definition for anyone who has a few problems. But as the pharmaceutical industry used its economic power, these broad definitions were increasingly broken down into separate classes of disorder. As each new batch of disorders was defined, the manufacturers produced drugs specifically targeting each new disorder. In reality, people are still having nervous breakdowns and, truth be told, all the major drugs are interchangeable because the separate disorders are really only one or two basic types.

What prompted this redefinition of terms? Firstly, the introduction of the benzodiazepines. The manufacturers wanted a distinction between anxiety disorders and depression for marketing purposes. Once the APA gave in, it was the slippery slope to the present confused mess. As everyone knows, all depression has elements of anxiety and panic, just as anxiety and panic are indistinguishable from elements in depression. Recent surveys have found doctors routinely prescribing benzodiazepines such as xanax regardless of the diagnosis as anxiety or depression, and finding the same excellent results. Secondly, the APA wanted to move away from Freudian analysis and to ground diagnosis in observable symptoms. This led to the introduction of “major depression” and “bipolar disorder” which lump different sets of symptoms together in either a stable or unstable form. As the SSRIs came in as treatments for major depression, the pressure to keep inventing new disorders grew. Now all the anxiety and panic disorders are multiplying. Needless to say, xanax remains the most effective treatment no matter what labels are attached to the symptoms. If you are anxious, xanax is the answer. Sadly, the APA will not sympathize with such a simple view of the world.