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QuickBooks Online Goes Global Posted By  Annie Pilon  On September 27, 2012 @ 4:00 pm In  Finance   Accounting software for small businesses has traditionally been focused on all things local – local tax laws, local taxes, local accounting standards, and more. That’s why it can be difficult for many small businesses to go global or cross over borders,  especially without taking the time to grow first   [1] . Norton's comment : As a Quickbooks ProAdvisor, I am very excited to see that my services can help small businesses both locally and globally.  The Online versions can save clients money and time while allowing me to respond more quickly to their requests.

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We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say | Motherboard : "It’s hunger, plain and simple" http://www.viceland.com/viceblog/80453462Riots-global.jpg What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and simple. If there’s a single factor that reliably sparks social unrest, it’s food becoming too scarce or too expensive. So argues a group of complex systems theorists in Cambridge, and it makes sense. In  a 2011 paper , researchers at the Complex Systems Institute ..." 'via Blog this' Are you ready with food supplies when the power is out for an extended period of time?

The Great De-regulator Former President Bill Clinton addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. By Robert Scheer posted Sept 10, 2012 by  AP/Charles Dharapak - Truthdig Bill Clinton bears as much responsibility as any politician for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the wild applause for his disingenuous speech at the Democratic National Convention last week is a sure sign of the poverty of what passes for progressive politics.... How convenient to ignore the Financial Services Modernization Act, which Clinton signed into law to summarily end the Glass-Steagall barrier against the commingling of investment and commercial banking. Do the Democrats not remember that Citigroup, the first too-big-to-fail bank made legal by the law Clinton signed, became the $15 million employer of Robert Rubin, the Clinton treasury secretary who led the fight for the law that legalized the creation of Citigroup? Or that Citigroup—led by Sanford W...