Search results for category: Chaos
BP’s safety record is a shocker
Submitted by Mike.
on 2010-06-21 03:10 PM.
BP used to stand for British Petroleum. Then it became “Beyond Petroleum”, now a US Senator has renamed it “Beyond Patience”. It seems more appropriate to stand for “Bugger Principles”.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-10-16 12:37 PM.
South Africa, like Africa, has learnt to play the Power Game. Slave traders, colonisers and imperialists brought it here and it has taken root. It is a game of the power of the powerful over the powerless at its most extreme but in every sphere of life it determines human behaviour.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-08-11 10:45 AM.
One short, but startling, paragraph from the book BIOMIMICRY by Janine M. Benyus stood out for me.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-08-11 10:38 AM.
We are destroying Planet Earth. It has been overrun by humans who multiply faster than the land can cope, who design technology that is both good and awfully destructive and who wantonly destroy the environment.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-08-03 09:26 AM.
I haven’t checked, but I would guess that the word “crisis” is high up on Google’s list of most searched words. “Recovery” is high only on our wish lists.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-04-07 03:42 PM.
In May 2008 I wrote an article entitled “Power R.I.P.” predicting the demise of POWER as the way to make things happen.
The demise appears to be happening much sooner than I thought!
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-01-22 03:45 PM.
On 24th September 2008 Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric – history’s most favourably managed company – denied that he was planning to raise capital to save the company.
“We feel very secure about how the funding looks”, he claimed.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2008-11-19 11:00 AM.
In the 26th September 2008 issue of Financial Mail the issues facing local government were dealt with under the headline “Corrupt and Moribund”. It makes depressing reading.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2008-09-09 04:00 PM.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2008-06-25 04:27 PM.
