...dian Economy 64 6 Fixing Global Finance Acronyms ASEAN The Association of Southeast Asian Nations ATMs Automated Teller Machines BCBS Basel Committee... ...nstitutional Investor FOREX Foreign Exchange FTA Free Trade Agreement GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services GCC Gulf Cooperation Council GDP Gro... ... $1.3 trillion in bad loans was written off between 2007 and first half of 2009 with additional write-downs of $1.5 trillion expected over the next fe... ...s has led to sharp deterioration in the global economy which contracted in 2009, the first time since World War II. There is not a single country in t... ...he US and Japan remain the largest contributors to the NAB. In addition, a general allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) equivalent to $250 bill... ...rength to deal with external shocks. Since social welfare programs in many African countries are heavily dependent on international aid, it would make... ...e flows were much lower in 2009 than pre- crisis levels. In contrast, many South Asian countries (such as India and Pakistan) which receive substantia... ...inancial crisis had very limited impact through financial channels as most African banks and financial institutions had very little or no direct expos... ...,” The Economist, November 25, 2004. 3. In April 2005, during the national election campaign in Germany, Franz Muntefering, then Chair of the Social D...

... baby was born on our planet. In Sarajevo, Bosnia. Kofi Anan, the Secretary General of the United Nations made the trip to the Balkans to celebrate,... ...her it is merely a sexual attack by a deranged coward—it should not happen. South Africa has the highest AIDS rate in the world. By 2020 AIDS had k... ...he highest AIDS rate in the world. By 2020 AIDS had killed over 40 million Africans. The number of children orphaned by HIV is an international tr... ...an children whose parents farm them out on that anti-slavery island, or the African children who are sold outright as slaves. “Just look at ... ...reducing their native populations. Countries like Japan, Germany, Italy and South Korea would lose population if they didn’t take in immigrants from... ...Constitution was written, then less than a century later it was illegal and generally frowned upon. The idea of the God approved practice that women... ...ore. They campaign on the need for more money for education, then after the election it’s business as usual slopping the pork barrels. “Rel... ...just as many abortions. They don’t follow the same political party lines in elections. They act as if they are secular—except for a few hours on Sun... ...0, 2008 1aa. USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion Report August 2009. (Housing is the largest single expense, followed by food and chil...

...omewhere west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea pareo. ----------------------... ... what really makes them happy.‖ 15 ―The research shows that generally children make us less happy. So does losing one‘s job. Sex makes... ...he goodness or badness of an action, our own or that of others. Often the general public thinks it‘s only about sexual conduct or life and death issu... ...nd the shortest route. That‘s why transatlantic flights go northwest then southwest, rather than directly west. But of course that‘s only a small par... ...tions seem clear. If we look at Jefferson‘s platform for his presidential election he said ‗I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers t... ...rs as your older population. This might be because more are educated. And African-Americans, who have less education on the average, have twice the n... ...ssions. ―We have increased the rights of deserving minorities, such as African-Americans and Hispanics, while concurrently expanding the rights o... ... those U.S. presidential candidates who win the popular vote and lose the election because of the non-democratic electoral college?‖ —―Let‘s a... ...ordinary means for physical life preservation can be averted. ―In 2009 Pope Benedict XVI said that euthanasia is a "false solution" to suffer...

...t filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? 4. Scripting ... ... backed a Mergenthaler competitor. Michael Hart’s Involvement In late 2009, an online correspondence began with Michael S. Hart, inventor of the ... ...s  Forecast events  Recall places and actions far removed  Abstract, generalize, and synthesize. Fully articulated speech let our ancestors s... ...st humans probably evolved from their nutrient-rich shoreline diet.‖ In 2009, Charles Weatherby wrote in Vital Choices, an online newsletter: ―More... ...r west as the Atlantic Ocean, as far northeast as the Pacific, and as far southeast as India. As they dispersed, generation after generation scatt... ...holars dispute the Noah’s Flood account, but it seems consistent with the generally accepted theses that the Indo-European language family (1) evolve... ... the reality of segregation at that time and funded separate libraries for African-Americans. o DDC cards in catalog drawers enabled patrons to find... ...e of data and programs.  Transistors replace vacuum tubes. 1952  Pre-election polls predicted a close contest between Illinois Gov. Adlai Steven... ...inois Gov. Adlai Stevenson and five-star Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Early election night, the ENIAC predicted a landslide victory for the GOP’s gene...

...European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? -- 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape-Scripting symbolic images lets man communicate over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-k...

...t filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? 4. Scripting ... ...he backed a Mergenthaler competitor. Michael Hart’s involvement In late 2009, an online correspondence began with Michael S. Hart, inventor of the ... ...s  Forecast events  Recall places and actions far removed  Abstract, generalize, and synthesize. Fully articulated speech let our ancestors s... ...iest humans probably evolved from their nutrient-rich shoreline diet.‖ In 2009, Charles Weatherby wrote in Vital Choices, an online newsletter: ―More... ...r west as the Atlantic Ocean, as far northeast as the Pacific, and as far southeast as India. As they dispersed, generation after generation scatter... ...holars dispute the Noah’s Flood account, but it seems consistent with the generally accepted theses that the Indo-European language family (1) evolve... ... the reality of segregation at that time and funded separate libraries for African-Americans. Although access to stacks containing reference materia... ...e of data and programs.  Transistors replace vacuum tubes. 1952  Pre-election polls predicted a close contest between Illinois Gov. Adlai Steven... ...inois Gov. Adlai Stevenson and five-star Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Early election night, the ENIAC predicted a landslide victory for the GOP’s gene...

...87-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use vari... ...ns and permutations of differences and dissimilarities of all things that are generally the same size in the Universe proves beyond any doubt that t... ...tus is not inertia. Neither is it mass. It is an Organic Force. There is a general phenomenon throughout the Universe that Science calls Inertia.... ...ht, smell and hearing, compete and survive during the seasonal drought of the African Veldt? The drying up of vegetation, waterholes, the migrating... ...n live for 2 weeks in the Veldt from the marrow found in the thigh bone of an African antelope. Not only could they eat what was inside the bones, ... ...riginal Runners. Who ran with the wild migrating herds in their yearly North- South migrations. As a result: they became slightly braver than Lion... ...was no such thing as a desert on Earth. The oldest desert is Namib Desert in Southern Africa: Reverse the name Namib Desert and you get Bi-man… yo... ...a Republic in name only… as it was the Emperor’s own nephew that won the first election, and became the first legally elected President. This legal ... ...ing; the U.S. Government has managed to sabotage nearly every democratic free election ever held in a 3 rd world nation. The U.S. needs to keep the...

... society as a whole, rather than the rights of the individual citizens, are generally primary. They have also eliminated religion as a political forc... ...lled „rights.‟ It makes me wonder if these individual „rights‟, that are generally based on individual selfishness rather than the social good, ar... ...n‘t want the farmers going into the information technology businesses. But South Korea is just as high, and I don‘t know how many snow plows they ne... ...cotton is being raised, even though it isn‘t needed. Meanwhile sub- Saharan African countries are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in los... ...eference for males and seldom use amniocentesis for sex selection. South Korea showed us the way when they reversed their male to female birt... ...industry, health services, human services and several at-large members. The elections take place every 2 years so we always have two-thirds of the le... ...l always be ruled by imagination and emotion, not by reason.‘ Possibly the election of Barack Obama changed this a little. Certainly his low key att... ...ld have that problem in your country, or even if it were proposed for some African countries by Anglos. But here it is Asians reducing the populatio... ...ions. So until we meet again. . . ― NOTES 1. The Economist, July 23, 2009 1a. Sayings of Confucius Ch. 5 2. Mokdad AH et al. ―Actual causes o...

...ious belief system‘. It might even be self-centered, ‗I want to get into a gang.‘ Or perhaps it‘s greed, I wanted his watch or his money. The genera... ... wanted his watch or his money. The general lack of reasoning ability in our human race is sad, when we all think we are thinking, but we are genera... ...genes. There is also a great deal of animal research that points to the existence of instincts. ―We mentioned Robert Ardrey‘s book ‗Africa... ...need for this vitamin. ―If people got 10 to 15 minutes of sunlight a day they could get all the D they need. This may be easy in the southe... ... power at the expense of his victim. A winning candidate at th expense of the loser. Of course here, the loser had the choice not to enter the electi... ...mentioned Helen Keller who, deaf and blind, graduated from college and became a famous author and lecturer. Then there is Oscar Pistorius, the South ... ...ned Helen Keller who, deaf and blind, graduated from college and became a famous author and lecturer. Then there is Oscar Pistorius, the South Africa... ... religiousness, and happiness in children aged 8-12 years. Journal of Happiness Studies. And: Health News , University of Cincinnati, Jan. 8, 2009) ...