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By Tyler Falk | October 29, 2013

If you’re a small or mid-sized business it will be easiest to do business if you’re based in Asia — places like Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia.

A new report from the World Bank, says that Asia has about half of the top economies in the world for their ease of doing business. The report ranks 189 world economies based on 11 indicators for how easy it is to start a small or mid-sized business, from access to credit and electricity to ease of employing workers to ability to trade across borders.

“A better business climate that enables entrepreneurs to build their businesses and reinvest in their communities is key to local and global economic growth,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. “Doing Business shows that economies with better business regulations are more likely to empower local entrepreneurs to create more jobs – another step in the right direction toward ending extreme poverty by 2030.”

Here are the report’s 10 most business-friendly economies in the world:

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Paul Craig Roberts: Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out The Human Race

03 Economy, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, IO Sense-Making, Officers Call

Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out The Human Race

To inform people is hard slugging. Everything is lined up against the public being informed, or the policymakers for that matter. News is contaminated by its service to special interests and hidden agendas. Many scientists or their employers are dependent on federal money. Even psychologists and anthropologists were roped into the government’s torture and occupation programs. Economists tell lies for corporations and Wall Street. Plant and soil scientists tell lies for agribusiness and Monsanto. Truth tellers are slandered and persecuted. However, persistence can eventually win out. In the long-run, truth sometimes emerges. But not always. And not always in time.

I have been trying to inform the American people, economists, and policymakers for more than a decade about the adverse impacts of jobs offshoring on the US economy. The word has eventually gotten out. Last week I was contacted by 8th grade students competing for their school in CSPAN’s StudentCam Documentary Contest. They want to interview me on the subject of jobs offshoring for their documentary film.

America is a strange place. Here are eighth graders far ahead of the economics profession, the President, the Congress, the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, and the financial press in their understanding of one of the fundamental problems of the US economy. Yet, people say the public schools are failing. Obviously, not the one whose students contacted me.

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2013/10/30

SchwartzReport: Good News and Bad

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

BAD NEWS:

Democrats and Republicans alike, for different reasons, have conspired to corrupt the safety of America's food system. Here is some truth about this subject.

Analysis of Impact of Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production Finds Administration and Congress Have Exacerb
John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Here is even more about Fukushima. Click through to see the very important animated maps. Also click through to see the hot links that will take you to the research sites that support the claims made in this report. Ronlyn and I are going to get a geiger counter, and we will have to stop eating locally sourced fish, mussels, and clams.

Arctic Temperatures at 44,000-year High Because of Greenhouse Gases
Aljazeera America

GOOD NEWS:

Here is some good news that speaks directly to our failing educational system. There are alternatives that work.

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses
WIRED

This is very good news, but also an example of what I have been predicting for five years: the rise of bi-region collaborations, in the face of the failure of the Federal government to address climate change, and an example of the growing Schism Trend. As I said, this is good news for the West Coast, and it is going to result in another growing dif! ference between the Red value states and the Blue value states, with the former falling further and further behind. In Virginia and North Carolina Theocratic Rightist politicians have literally outlawed even the use of words like climate change in state government documents.

Climate Change Pact Signed by California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia
PAUL ROGERS – San Jose Mecury News

2013/10/29

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Cultural Intelligence

Adversarial Journalism

Decision-Makers Needs

Decision Makers Needs Workshop Report

Fukushima and the Yakuza

Inevitable Transhumanism? How Emerging Strategic Technologies will affect the Future of Humanity

INTERVIEW: D/DIA on Special Ops and Clandestine HUMINT

On the Computational Theory of Mind

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Open Mind: Wilcock on Fulford – Cabal Planning Mega-Event

07 Other Atrocities, Civil Society, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence

Comments from David Wilcock

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 01:56 PM PDT

David is not the only one saying similar things, especially about Obama. I have followed David for many years, read both his recent books, and highly respect his work. He is not always “right on”, but he is always pretty close and mostly right on.

Tom

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David Wilcock Comments of Fulford: “The Cabal are Planning on Creating a Mega-Event of Some Sort..”

Posted By: Jordon [Send E-Mail]
Date: Monday, 28-Oct-2013 15:52:12

In Response To: Fulford Blurb: Big Moves Made Against The Cabal in The Past Week (Jordon)

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Marcus Aurelius: CSA Interview + AWC SSI Reminder — Answers from the 1990’s Long Ignored…

Ethics, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Strategy

PDF (1 Page): (U) CSA Interview (Defense News, 28Oct13)-1

Interview

GEN. RAY ODIERNO

US Army Chief of Staff

Defense News 10/28/2013

At last week’s Association of the United States Army annual meeting and exposition in Washington, thousands gathered to hear senior leaders explain where the service is headed in this era of austerity. And the message from Gen. Ray Odierno, Army chief of staff, was one of frustration with uncertain budgets and automatic and inflexible defense cuts that are gutting readiness, with only two of his brigades ready for combat. The Army has been cutting personnel at a breakneck pace to save as much money as possible, given additional budget cuts are likely.

The Army is headed from a force of 570,000 soldiers, just a few years ago, down to 490,000. That number could get smaller, given sequestration is likely to continue and deeper reductions are expected over the coming months as part of a broader debt and spending deal.

Q. What is the real impact of past and future budget cuts on the force? Why are you so alarmed? And what is the way out of it?

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SchwartzReport: Fukushima Fries the West Coast 28 Ways — US Map & Links — Deeply Frightening, Pity There Is No One Attending to the Public Interest….

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This is the latest on Fukushima and the impact it is making on the U.S. West Coast. This directly affects me, as well as tens of millions of other Americans, and there doesn't seem to be a thing we can do about it.

28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima
MICHAEL SNYDER – Global Research – Centre for Research and Globilization

The map below comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center. It shows that radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all over the country are elevated. As you will notice, this is particularly true along the west coast of the United States.

Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean. That means that the total amouont of radioactive material released from Fukushima is constantly increasing, and it is steadily building up in our food chain. Ultimately, all of this nuclear radiation will outlive all of us by a very wide margin. They are saying that it could take up to 40 years to clean up the Fukushima disaster, and meanwhile countless innocent people will develop cancer and other health problems as a result of exposure to high levels of nuclear radiation. We are talking about a nuclear disaster that is absolutely unprecedented, and it is constantly getting worse. The following are 28 signs that the west coast of North America is being absolutely fried with nuclear radiation from Fukushima.

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