Asean Summit, Malaysia on Nov 21, 1015

Asean Summit, Malaysia  on Nov 21, 1015
Asean Establishes Landmark Economic and Security Bloc
"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - Text version)

“….. Here is the prediction: China will turn North Korea loose soon. The alliance will dissolve, or become stale. There will be political upheaval in China. Not a coup and not a revolution. Within the inner circles of that which you call Chinese politics, there will be a re-evaluation of goals and monetary policy. Eventually, you will see a break with North Korea, allowing still another dictator to fall and unification to occur with the south. ….”

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.

They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."
"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)
(Subjects: Who/What is Kryon ?, Egypt Uprising, Iran/Persia Uprising, Peace in Middle East without Israel actively involved, Muhammad, "Conceptual" Youth Revolution, "Conceptual" Managed Business, Internet, Social Media, News Media, Google, Bankers, Global Unity,..... etc.)









North Korean defector criticises China in rare Beijing talk

North Korean defector criticises China in rare Beijing talk
North Korean defector and activist Hyeonseo Lee, who lives in South Korea, poses as she presents her book 'The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story' in Beijing on March 26, 2016 (AFP Photo/Fred Dufour)

US under fire in global press freedom report

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …

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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Asian countries to boost growth by hiking minimum wages

Deutsche Welle, 3 May 2013


Asian economies have remained resilient to the 2008/9 financial crisis, but regional growth is slowing and the poverty alleviation efforts of the last decade risk being undone, says the United Nations.

On January 1, Thailand rolled out a nationwide minimum wage of 300 baht a day (8 euros or $10). For eligible workers in the poorest provinces, the standardization of the policy saw a one-off hike of about 40 percent. The Malaysian government also set a 900 RM (223 euros, $295) per month minimum wage at the start of the year.

More than 20 Asia Pacific countries have either raised minimum wages or introduced them for the first time over the past 15 months, according to the UN regional body The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).  Officials say in turbulent economic times, increasing the pay of the poorest workers is key to promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, while heading off widening income inequalities.

New economic model needed

ESCAP thinks the financial crisis showed that the 'growth at all costs' economic model led by China over the past two decades was unsustainable. Many countries, it says, need to boost domestic demand rather than rely so heavily on exports. Asia can also no longer rely on exploiting its cheap human capital, warn UN officials.

Long-term the Chinese economic
 growth model is unsuistainable,
ESCAP says
"It's the fastest growing region, but on the other hand poverty is still stuck and inequality has increased.  It means demand is not rising with the growth of the economy," said Dr Anis Chaudhry, Director of ESCAP's Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division.

"You are still depending on the West because you're exporting.  But now they're having problems, so you have to look at your local demand and find domestic drivers. And the only way you can find domestic drivers of growth is to give people purchasing power."

In Thailand, enforcement of the new minimum wage remains difficult due to widespread corruption and an estimated 1.5 million undocumented migrant workers from its neighbors Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos.

Reactions to the policy have been mixed. With an unemployment rate of roughly 0.5 percent, some analysts think the government couldn't have picked a better time to do it. The jobless figure is unlikely to move much higher in a strong economy, they say.

Invest in workers

"If you raise the minimum wage, you basically give a quality of life, which in the long run also helps to raise the productivity of workers, because they can spend on education, they can spend on good health.  This also adds to the demand, the productivity and adds to the skill formation of the workers," said Chaudhry.

But business leaders think the measure has made some of Thailand's traditional boom industries uncompetitive. The number of firms going bust has also increased over the past six months.

Any slowdown threatens poverty reduction efforts in a region with nearly
two-thirds of the world's poor

"The effect will vary from one sector to another. The ones that will be suffering the most in the short term will be all the labor intensive, low cost sectors like agriculture, fisheries or some of the labor intensive garment sectors," said the Asia Foundation's Chief Economist Veronique Salze-Lozac'h.

"There are some indications that some of those low cost companies may be more interested in investing in Myanmar or in Cambodia, where the labor cost is lower."

Some economists think higher minimum wages don't leave the poor any better off, as inflation eats up the extra income. But UN projections suggest that if other Asian countries follow Thailand's example the poor won't just stop getting poorer. They should see their quality of life improve.

Other tools to boost domestic demand are large investments in health, education and social security. ESCAP warns that income inequalities could rise further still without them.

Won't work everywhere

But in such a diverse region, not all countries are able to make the investment, especially those nations with the lowest incomes like Myanmar, Laos and Bangladesh.

Some experts say higher minimum
 wages don't leave the poor any better
off
"Especially a country where there wouldn't be other ways of compensating costs (through the easing of taxation), where the government doesn't have resources to do so – or the structure. Then the risk is that some of the firms will go out of business because of high labor costs," said the Asia Foundation's Salze-Lozac'h.

"There is also the risk that having a higher official minimum wage will boost the informal sector, those not complying with the policy. But that's only likely where countries have a huge unemployment rate. In Thailand, where unemployment is pretty low, one effect could be that it would attract more migrants from neighboring countries.”

And that's just what the Thai government doesn't want. Officials here have spent the last year trying to get more than a million undocumented migrant workers registered. Many of them currently earn as little as 60 baht (2 euros or $3) a day.

The recommendations are included in ESCAP's Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2013. The UN warns of turbulent economic times - especially on the other side of the world - and urges regional governments to ensure policies in place that help build a more robust model for future economic growth.

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