Monday, June 30, 2014
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Jean Lievens: Sarwant Singh on Smart Cities – A $1.5 Trillion Market Opportunity — With Comment by Robert Steele on the Real $4 Trillion Opportunity Being Ignored
Sarwant Singh
Forbes, 19 June 2014
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “India is to be found not in its few cities, but in its 700,000 villages.” Though that may at one time have been true, it is no longer the case. With about 30 country dwellers moving lock, stock and barrel every minute from Indian villages to become city dwellers, not many villages will be left in India by end of this century.
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Towards the end of the last decade, our planet achieved two remarkable feats. First, our human population crossed the seven billion mark and for the first time in history, 50 percent of the world’s population was living in urban areas. This is expected to accelerate to 60 percent before 2025, globally; with the Western, developed world reaching an 80 percent urbanization level during this time frame. Urbanization has become so important that it has elevated some cities, like Brussels, Seoul, Bogota, and many more, to be even more important than the countries themselves contributing to over 40 percent of the country’s GDP. Interestingly, the UK has already demonstrated its efforts in focusing on this Mega Trend of urbanization and city as growth hubs with the creation of a new ministry role called the “minister for cities.” This person is tasked with unlocking the economic potential of cities, thus giving them more empowerment and freedom to do so.
Martin Armstrong Warns Civil Unrest Is Rising Everywhere: "This Won't End Pretty"
Submitted by Martin Armstrong of Armstrong Economics,
The greatest problem we have is misinformation. People simply do not comprehend why and how the economic policies of the post-war era are imploding. This whole agenda of socialism has sold a Utopian idea that the State is there for the people yet it is run by lawyers following their own self-interest. The pensions created for those in government drive the cost of government up exponentially with time. The political forces blame the rich and this merely creates a class warfare with no resolution for the future. Even confiscating all the wealth of the so-called rich will not sustain the system. Consequently, we just have to crash and burn and start all over again.
Submitted by Martin Armstrong of Armstrong Economics
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Everything is Racism
Academic freedom, Adam Sandler films, Adopting black children, Air,Aladdin, All you can eat taco bars, Aloof, American Girl, American flag,Amnesty, Angry, Arab face/white belly dancers, Arresting international gun runners, Avatar, Babies, Banning Baggy Pants, Banning hoodies, Beards,Being against minimum wage increase, Being against ObamaCare, Being anti-union, Being white, Being white, Benghazi investigation, Bitcoin, Black dogs, Body Mass Index, Boehner, John, Black hole, Black-on-white rape,Border security, Breaking Bad, Brown bag lunch, Bugger, Calling a jerk a jerk, Calling a spade a spade, Capitalism, Carp, Changing election days/times, Charter schools, Chicago, Chicago Blackhawks, Chinese Fire Drill, Christians, Christianity, Cleveland Indians, Climate change, Clint Eastwood’s chair, Clinton, Bill (opposition to), Coachella Valley Arabs,Coconut bras, Colbert (Stephen), College transcripts, Colorblindness, The Constitution, Country music, Crime, Crossing your arms, Cruz (Ted),Cutting off a mic, Death penalty, Democrats, Descartes, Democracy,Discussing war on Christmas, Dogs, Duck Dynasty, Dumbo, Dylan (Bob),Ears, Ecstasy, Emojis, Ending racism, The Enlightenment, Entitlement society, Expensive vacations, Experience, Fantasia, Fat, FBI rat, Fewer black Major League Baseball players, Fingernails, Firefighter tests, Flower Drum Song, Food stamps, Founding Fathers, Fox News, Fracking, Game of Thrones, Getting food poisoning at an ethnic restaurant, Global warming,Golf, Google, Government shutdown, Grass skirts, Gummy Bears, Guns,Gun owners, Gun rights, Gyp, Harvard Business School, Hashtags, Hello kitty video, Hiring a hitman, Hump day, Hurricane during a political convention, Hussein, I Blame Myself video, Ice cream trucks, Impeaching a corrupt bureaucrat, Impeachment, Improving a neighborhood, Improving failed schools, Incompetent, Insulting drug dealers, Intelligence, Interracial marriage, Internal Revenue Service, Job performance reviews, The Jungle Book, Kaling (Mindy), Kicking a door, The King & I, Kitchen Cabinet, Lack of black Oscar winners, Lackadaisical, Lady and the Tramp, Law & Order,Lazy, Lesbians, Liar, The Little Mermaid, The Lone Ranger, Lord of the Rings, Lorde, Los Angeles police dogs, Losing a union vote, Low information voters, Master bedroom, Marijuana laws, Military haircuts,Nabbing corrupt politicians, The national debt, The national debt (again),The NBA, Nigerian email scammers, Not expanding Medicaid, Not liking tacos, Not liking Washington DC, Not visiting a mosque, Nullification,Obama (yes, Obama), Obama’s declining popularity, Old men, Only dating people of your own race, Opposing big government, Opposing Bill Clinton,Opposing Common Core, Opposing gay marriage, Opposing immigration reform, Opposing Medicare reform, Paddy wagon, Palin (Sarah), Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, Peanut gallery, Perry (Rick), Peter Pan,Phiesta, Phi Gamma, Photography, Pocohotas, Play on words, Pollution,Pre-school, President Obama, Private schools, Privileged, Professor,Prosecuting a black abortionist, Pro-Life, Punctuation/spelling/grammar,Punishing an organization that repeatedly violates university rules,Questioning a black person’s genius, Race neutral college admission policies, Radio talk show hosts, Reading, Reagan (Ronald), Recognizing Israel, Republicans, Rescheduling elections, Romney (Mitt), Romney voters, Santa Claus, School mascots, Scrutinizing Obama, Self defense,Selfies, Siouxper drunk, Showboat, Shuck and jive, Sick days, Silicon Valley, Snow, Someone else’s money, Stating a crime suspect’s race, Star Trek, States rights, Superhero movies, Supreme Court, Surviving a concentration camp, Sushi chef Halloween costume, Swan, Take back our country, Taking jobs from Americans, Teacher tenure, The Tea Party, The terms “black” and “white”, The Village People, Thomas (Clarence),Thoroughly Modern Milly, Thug Twain (Mark), The word ugly,Unemployment benefits (not extending), University of Utah fight song, Union bosses, Unqualified, Uppity, Urban, Venture capital, Video games, Voter ID laws, War on drugs, Washington Redskins, Welfare, Welfare queen, White Jesus, Winning 50% of the vote, Workfare instead of welfare, You didn’t build that, You lie, You people, Zero tolerance rules that impact black students, Zionism
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