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The Four Horsemen
It is only if you say it is. . .
If you believe in the prophecy of global apocalypse set out in Revelations, fathom this. . .
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.americaabroadmedia.org/darfu
Apocalyptic Four ~ Call it "Change. . . "
source of photo: crowblanket.com
In the movie Zeitgeist there is mention made of four major economic cartels, ie. Amero, Euro, Afro and Asian trading blocks. With much media activity around the U.S. and the Middle East, are we oblivious to what is happening in other parts of the world? ie. Africa, China, South America. . . Brazil, Taiwan, China, parts of Africa and northern Russia involving human exploitation for financial gain and access to natural resources, including cheap labour, drugs and money laundering. The world is shifting on a macro scale, however, local economies continue to flourish. Much of what happens behind the scenes is all but unrecorded and highly unreported. For instance, the small business training program in Canada funded by the Federal government to kick start small business in a wasteland where secure sustainable jobs are unavailable to skilled labour is an alternative for self-reliance and hope for the individual to become self sustaining, while contributing to both public social program taxation and job renewal as well as owning and growing their business. In India micro-lending has spurted a whole new entrepreneurial drive from street level up. The time of rape and pillage must end! We are all in this together.
O Canada, Land of Opportunity!
"As of 2006 there were 56% of the working population in Canada was represented by 2.4 million small to medium businesses employing 7.5 million workers. Small businesses are normally classified as those having annual sales of less than $2 million." ~ source: The Centre for National Business Development
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
Small Business Startup and Expansion Grants Agencies
http://sbinfocanada.about.com/od/smallb
Towards a Global Economy . . .
The World is Flat ~ Thomas Friedmann
Flat = Connected: "The lowering of trade and political barriers and the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution that have made it possible to do business, or almost anything else, instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet. " ~ Tom Nissley
"The flat world created by the confluence of technology, globalization, demographics and the rising economic power of India and China is making companies fundamentally alter their business assumptions. What and where they produce, whom they sell to, at what price, and how they manage it all – the fundamental tenets of their business model are being entirely revisited.
This is likely to lead to the most dramatic transformation of firms in every aspect of their business, as significant as the role of mass manufacturing in remaking the industrial revolution in the early 20th century." ~ Nandan M. Nilekani
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
The World is Flat
http://www.amazon.com/World-Flat-Update
Think Flat
http://www.infosysblogs.com/thinkflat/2
Financing Global Gazelles ~ Government of Canada Policy, Program Incentives and Constraints
http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/sme_fdi-p
However, BEWARE of the business of buying and selling businesses! ~ Business Beware! Hostile Takeover, it's the American Way and it's unfair practices are spreading to other trade blocks, backed by pseudo-democratic militant coup.
Today, information is the most valuable commodity on the planet, next to humans, of course . . .
Buying or Selling . . . Business Beware! ~ All is Not Fair in Love and War
Small Business Opportunity: The World of Business Brokers
Business brokers are the matchmakers of the business world bringing together buyers and sellers of small and mid-sized companies. "The majority of business brokerage firms handle the sale of everything from the corner dry cleaner to the local quick print to the local liquor store – and every thing in between." says Tom West, founder and former president of The International Business Brokers Association (IBBA).
IBBA estimates there are approximately 3500 business brokerage firms in America with surveys indicating that 35 percent are sole practitioners.
The field of business brokerage continues to match buyers and sellers each year. Sunbelt Business Advisors began franchising in 1993. Since 2000 the company has grown from 232 franchises throughout the United States and internationally to over 397 in 2004. VR Business Brokers of Ft. Lauderdale have also experienced rapid growth, adding 72 franchisees over 5 years.
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://sbinformation.about.com/od/bizop
"Little India" Microlending: An Anti-Poverty Success Story ~ Ask MA . . .
"Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, teach him how to fish, he'll live forever!" ~ Chinese Proverb
In rural India, a loan of $50 can spell the difference between poverty and economic self-sufficiency for an entire family. Such is the power of microlending, a form of finance that is helping to eradicate poverty in countries all over the world. Vinod Khosla, founding CEO of Sun Microsystems and a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, calls it "one of the most important economic phenomena since the advent of capitalism and Adam Smith."
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
Microlending: An Anti-Poverty Success Story
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headli
Muhammad_Yunus
The man who started micro-lending in India was a Nobel person. . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Y
Micro Business Works . . . when it's not being raked off by corporate, government or militant forces!
Millions missing from Iraq fund ~ is an example of too much power in teh hands of the few. That's like over 50 small businesses missing in action . . .
"A $5.2bn (£2.6bn) fund used to train and equip Iraqi security forces cannot be shown to have been used properly, US military auditors say in a new report."
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
Millions missing from Iraq fund
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nearly $9 billion of money spent on Iraqi reconstruction is unaccounted for because of inefficiencies and bad management, according to a watchdog report published Sunday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/m
BBC. 5.2 billion dollars, to be exact. The title should be "'Billions' Missing From Iraq Fund". BBC often downplays the severity of the problems in Iraq.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_e
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c7c_1191
More Truth Than Fiction ~ Who's Zooming Whom?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ee_1197
"In a joint TV investigation with Channel 4's Dispatches Programme and GuardianFilms, Dr Ali Fadhil, a 29 year old Iraqi doctor, investigates what has happened to billions of dollars worth of Iraqi money which was put into the care of the US led coalition to be spent for the benefit of Iraqi people on the reconstruction of their country.
He uncovers a shocking story of fraud incompetence and corruption, unscrupulous foreign contractors who made millions from dodgy contracts, and literally billions of dollars which cannot be properly accounted for.
And at the same time he visits the people who are paying the price of broken Coalition promises to rebuild Iraq. The people struggling without power or clean water. The doctors and nurses in hospitals without basic drugs and equipment. The parents who lose their newborn children as a consequence of those shortages."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianf
Big Red Dragon ~ China as a Rising Super Power
China's Role in the World Economic System
"Along with the U.S., China is one of the principal engines of world economic growth today. Economic growth in our countries has huge positive spillover effects in the Asia-Pacific region, and on the world economy as a whole. This means that other countries look both to China and the U.S. to pursue rapid, sustained growth that will create new opportunities not only for our own people, but for their people as well." ~ Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.state.gov/e/rls/rm/2003/2702
The Stabilizing Factor? ~ Economy -- Yes! Military -- No!
"China's influence on the world is seen as positive by more people than is the case for the US or Russia, according to a new BBC World Service poll."
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pac
The Hong Kong Connection
"China was a risk only big multinationals were willing to take. But these days, more and more U.S. small businesses are taking the plunge. "
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/co
The World Bank
Since its founding in 1944, the World Bank has been involved in over 165 countries. The Bank argues that less developed countries stand little chance to prosper economically without substantial subsidized loans from the developed world. It further contends that it is uniquely positioned to meet this challenge and that it must continue to transfer capital to poor countries.
The World Bank is wrong. The data show that most long-term recipients of World Bank money are no better off today then they were when they received their first loan. Many are actually worse off. Consider the following:
1) Of the 66 less developed countries receiving money from the World Bank for more than 25 years (most for more than 30 years), 37 are no better off today than they were before they received such loans.
2) Of these 37 countries, most (20 in all) actually are poorer today than they were before receiving aid from the Bank.
Former less developed countries that have prospered over the past 30 years did so by freeing up the productive forces of their economies. The best examples are Hong Kong and Singapore. Even though a country like Singapore received a small amount of money from the World Bank, the evidence shows that what most effected economic growth was not World Bank aid, but economic freedom.
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
The World Bank and Economic Growth: 50 Years of Failure
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Intern
French Post-colonial Emissary to Africa
A Face For Africa ~ "Rama Yade, France's Secretary of State for Human Rights, attends a meeting with French non-governmental organisations in charge in Darfur in Paris October 29, 2007. Earlier in the day Yade said France would offer full assistance to a group of French charity workers who are detained in Chad as they prepared to fly 103 children to France." REUTERS/John Schults (FRANCE)
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.nancarrow-webdesk.com/wareho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_Yade
"I was surfing the web, when I found by coincidence this photo of the minister of Human Rights in the French government, Rama Yade.
Away from any political considerations, and mainly my stance against Sarkozy's France and whatever comes from there, I kept looking at this really beautiful minister.
I then realized a fact that we usually miss.
It is that beauty has no face, race, or colour.
Unfortunately we limited ourselves to a racist view of beauty, which limits it to blond, and blue or green eyed babes.
Maybe it's because of our admiration to anything that comes from the west, and considering everything black inferior.
But for sure, Rama Yade's beauty is not just because of her look, but also because of her ability as a black woman to cross all obstacles made by racism and reach a position like this." ~ Eastern Bird (blogger)
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2
African Market Women and Economic Power: The Role of Women in African Economic Development ~ Open Your Eyes and Open Your Mind. . .
Bessie House-Midamba and Felix K. Ekechi
1 Esan Women Traders and Precolonial Economic Power, Onaiwu W. Ogbomo
2 Gender, Business, and Space Control: Yoruba Market Women and Power, Toyin Falola
3 Gender and Economic Power: The Case ofIgbo Market Women of Eastern Nigeria, Felix K. Ekechi
4 Muslim Women Traders of Northern Nigeria: Perspectives from the City of Yola, Catherine VerEecke
5 Kikuyu Market Women Traders and the Struggle for Economic Empowerment in Kenya, Bessie House-Midamba
6 Comparative Advantage: Women in Trade in Accra, Ghana, and Nairobi, Kenya, Claire Robertson
7 Baganda Women's Night Market Activities, Nakanyike B. Musisi
8 Women's Fresh Produce Marketing in Harare, Zimbabwe: Motivations for Women's Participation
and Implications for Development, Nancy E. Horn
9 Trade, Economy, and Family in Urban Zimbabwe, Mary Johnson Osirim
10 The Growth and Dynamics of Women Entrepreneurs in Southern Africa, Jeanne Downing
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=27535996
Look for Truth Hiding in the Realms of the Unreal. . .
.
If you believe in the prophecy of global apocalypse set out in Revelations, fathom this. . .
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.americaabroadmedia.org/darfu
Apocalyptic Four ~ Call it "Change. . . "
source of photo: crowblanket.com
In the movie Zeitgeist there is mention made of four major economic cartels, ie. Amero, Euro, Afro and Asian trading blocks. With much media activity around the U.S. and the Middle East, are we oblivious to what is happening in other parts of the world? ie. Africa, China, South America. . . Brazil, Taiwan, China, parts of Africa and northern Russia involving human exploitation for financial gain and access to natural resources, including cheap labour, drugs and money laundering. The world is shifting on a macro scale, however, local economies continue to flourish. Much of what happens behind the scenes is all but unrecorded and highly unreported. For instance, the small business training program in Canada funded by the Federal government to kick start small business in a wasteland where secure sustainable jobs are unavailable to skilled labour is an alternative for self-reliance and hope for the individual to become self sustaining, while contributing to both public social program taxation and job renewal as well as owning and growing their business. In India micro-lending has spurted a whole new entrepreneurial drive from street level up. The time of rape and pillage must end! We are all in this together.
O Canada, Land of Opportunity!
"As of 2006 there were 56% of the working population in Canada was represented by 2.4 million small to medium businesses employing 7.5 million workers. Small businesses are normally classified as those having annual sales of less than $2 million." ~ source: The Centre for National Business Development
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
Small Business Startup and Expansion Grants Agencies
http://sbinfocanada.about.com/od/smallb
Towards a Global Economy . . .
The World is Flat ~ Thomas Friedmann
Flat = Connected: "The lowering of trade and political barriers and the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution that have made it possible to do business, or almost anything else, instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet. " ~ Tom Nissley
"The flat world created by the confluence of technology, globalization, demographics and the rising economic power of India and China is making companies fundamentally alter their business assumptions. What and where they produce, whom they sell to, at what price, and how they manage it all – the fundamental tenets of their business model are being entirely revisited.
This is likely to lead to the most dramatic transformation of firms in every aspect of their business, as significant as the role of mass manufacturing in remaking the industrial revolution in the early 20th century." ~ Nandan M. Nilekani
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
The World is Flat
http://www.amazon.com/World-Flat-Update
Think Flat
http://www.infosysblogs.com/thinkflat/2
Financing Global Gazelles ~ Government of Canada Policy, Program Incentives and Constraints
http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/sme_fdi-p
However, BEWARE of the business of buying and selling businesses! ~ Business Beware! Hostile Takeover, it's the American Way and it's unfair practices are spreading to other trade blocks, backed by pseudo-democratic militant coup.
Today, information is the most valuable commodity on the planet, next to humans, of course . . .
Buying or Selling . . . Business Beware! ~ All is Not Fair in Love and War
Small Business Opportunity: The World of Business Brokers
Business brokers are the matchmakers of the business world bringing together buyers and sellers of small and mid-sized companies. "The majority of business brokerage firms handle the sale of everything from the corner dry cleaner to the local quick print to the local liquor store – and every thing in between." says Tom West, founder and former president of The International Business Brokers Association (IBBA).
IBBA estimates there are approximately 3500 business brokerage firms in America with surveys indicating that 35 percent are sole practitioners.
The field of business brokerage continues to match buyers and sellers each year. Sunbelt Business Advisors began franchising in 1993. Since 2000 the company has grown from 232 franchises throughout the United States and internationally to over 397 in 2004. VR Business Brokers of Ft. Lauderdale have also experienced rapid growth, adding 72 franchisees over 5 years.
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://sbinformation.about.com/od/bizop
"Little India" Microlending: An Anti-Poverty Success Story ~ Ask MA . . .
"Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, teach him how to fish, he'll live forever!" ~ Chinese Proverb
In rural India, a loan of $50 can spell the difference between poverty and economic self-sufficiency for an entire family. Such is the power of microlending, a form of finance that is helping to eradicate poverty in countries all over the world. Vinod Khosla, founding CEO of Sun Microsystems and a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, calls it "one of the most important economic phenomena since the advent of capitalism and Adam Smith."
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
Microlending: An Anti-Poverty Success Story
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headli
Muhammad_Yunus
The man who started micro-lending in India was a Nobel person. . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Y
Micro Business Works . . . when it's not being raked off by corporate, government or militant forces!
Millions missing from Iraq fund ~ is an example of too much power in teh hands of the few. That's like over 50 small businesses missing in action . . .
"A $5.2bn (£2.6bn) fund used to train and equip Iraqi security forces cannot be shown to have been used properly, US military auditors say in a new report."
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
Millions missing from Iraq fund
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nearly $9 billion of money spent on Iraqi reconstruction is unaccounted for because of inefficiencies and bad management, according to a watchdog report published Sunday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/m
BBC. 5.2 billion dollars, to be exact. The title should be "'Billions' Missing From Iraq Fund". BBC often downplays the severity of the problems in Iraq.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_e
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c7c_1191
More Truth Than Fiction ~ Who's Zooming Whom?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ee_1197
"In a joint TV investigation with Channel 4's Dispatches Programme and GuardianFilms, Dr Ali Fadhil, a 29 year old Iraqi doctor, investigates what has happened to billions of dollars worth of Iraqi money which was put into the care of the US led coalition to be spent for the benefit of Iraqi people on the reconstruction of their country.
He uncovers a shocking story of fraud incompetence and corruption, unscrupulous foreign contractors who made millions from dodgy contracts, and literally billions of dollars which cannot be properly accounted for.
And at the same time he visits the people who are paying the price of broken Coalition promises to rebuild Iraq. The people struggling without power or clean water. The doctors and nurses in hospitals without basic drugs and equipment. The parents who lose their newborn children as a consequence of those shortages."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianf
Big Red Dragon ~ China as a Rising Super Power
China's Role in the World Economic System
"Along with the U.S., China is one of the principal engines of world economic growth today. Economic growth in our countries has huge positive spillover effects in the Asia-Pacific region, and on the world economy as a whole. This means that other countries look both to China and the U.S. to pursue rapid, sustained growth that will create new opportunities not only for our own people, but for their people as well." ~ Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.state.gov/e/rls/rm/2003/2702
The Stabilizing Factor? ~ Economy -- Yes! Military -- No!
"China's influence on the world is seen as positive by more people than is the case for the US or Russia, according to a new BBC World Service poll."
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pac
The Hong Kong Connection
"China was a risk only big multinationals were willing to take. But these days, more and more U.S. small businesses are taking the plunge. "
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/co
The World Bank
Since its founding in 1944, the World Bank has been involved in over 165 countries. The Bank argues that less developed countries stand little chance to prosper economically without substantial subsidized loans from the developed world. It further contends that it is uniquely positioned to meet this challenge and that it must continue to transfer capital to poor countries.
The World Bank is wrong. The data show that most long-term recipients of World Bank money are no better off today then they were when they received their first loan. Many are actually worse off. Consider the following:
1) Of the 66 less developed countries receiving money from the World Bank for more than 25 years (most for more than 30 years), 37 are no better off today than they were before they received such loans.
2) Of these 37 countries, most (20 in all) actually are poorer today than they were before receiving aid from the Bank.
Former less developed countries that have prospered over the past 30 years did so by freeing up the productive forces of their economies. The best examples are Hong Kong and Singapore. Even though a country like Singapore received a small amount of money from the World Bank, the evidence shows that what most effected economic growth was not World Bank aid, but economic freedom.
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
The World Bank and Economic Growth: 50 Years of Failure
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Intern
French Post-colonial Emissary to Africa
A Face For Africa ~ "Rama Yade, France's Secretary of State for Human Rights, attends a meeting with French non-governmental organisations in charge in Darfur in Paris October 29, 2007. Earlier in the day Yade said France would offer full assistance to a group of French charity workers who are detained in Chad as they prepared to fly 103 children to France." REUTERS/John Schults (FRANCE)
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.nancarrow-webdesk.com/wareho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_Yade
"I was surfing the web, when I found by coincidence this photo of the minister of Human Rights in the French government, Rama Yade.
Away from any political considerations, and mainly my stance against Sarkozy's France and whatever comes from there, I kept looking at this really beautiful minister.
I then realized a fact that we usually miss.
It is that beauty has no face, race, or colour.
Unfortunately we limited ourselves to a racist view of beauty, which limits it to blond, and blue or green eyed babes.
Maybe it's because of our admiration to anything that comes from the west, and considering everything black inferior.
But for sure, Rama Yade's beauty is not just because of her look, but also because of her ability as a black woman to cross all obstacles made by racism and reach a position like this." ~ Eastern Bird (blogger)
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2
African Market Women and Economic Power: The Role of Women in African Economic Development ~ Open Your Eyes and Open Your Mind. . .
Bessie House-Midamba and Felix K. Ekechi
1 Esan Women Traders and Precolonial Economic Power, Onaiwu W. Ogbomo
2 Gender, Business, and Space Control: Yoruba Market Women and Power, Toyin Falola
3 Gender and Economic Power: The Case ofIgbo Market Women of Eastern Nigeria, Felix K. Ekechi
4 Muslim Women Traders of Northern Nigeria: Perspectives from the City of Yola, Catherine VerEecke
5 Kikuyu Market Women Traders and the Struggle for Economic Empowerment in Kenya, Bessie House-Midamba
6 Comparative Advantage: Women in Trade in Accra, Ghana, and Nairobi, Kenya, Claire Robertson
7 Baganda Women's Night Market Activities, Nakanyike B. Musisi
8 Women's Fresh Produce Marketing in Harare, Zimbabwe: Motivations for Women's Participation
and Implications for Development, Nancy E. Horn
9 Trade, Economy, and Family in Urban Zimbabwe, Mary Johnson Osirim
10 The Growth and Dynamics of Women Entrepreneurs in Southern Africa, Jeanne Downing
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=27535996
Look for Truth Hiding in the Realms of the Unreal. . .
.
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