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    Career Development - Training For Two (or more) Careers
    The working environment these days is insecure, and there is no such thing as a job for life any more. While some careers are far more secure than others, such as a profession with rare skills like veterinary surgeon or doctor, generally speaking you should not expect to go into a job for life when you leave college or university. You may not even get the type of job you want in the career that you want.When you start to think about career training, it is probably in your interests to be prepared for alternative careers, or maybe careers that can be moved from one industry to another. If you set off on a single track and that route hits a dead end, then you may struggle to redirect yourself into another career.Precisely how you go about dual career training is going to depend on what your first choice career is, and the types of skills that are required for that career.I will use my own example and hope that it may give you some ideas for your own situation. As a teenager I presumed I would make a living from writing, but I was realistic enough to realise that that would not happen overnight, so started working in offices at 18, in order to save money for travelling and take off 6 months at a time to write.I soon realised, back in 1970, that there were two skills that would become increasingly important across a wide range of jobs: finance and computing. With writing in the background, I focused on developing finance and computing skills, and always keep up with developments.As it turned out, like many who aspire to writing, I made no living from that whatsoever; although today, 36 years later, I do. In the meantime, I have metamorphosed through computer systems analysis, computer system testing, qualifying as a management accountant and into project management where all those skills were used. I was able to move from one project to another quite different type of project without too much of a problem. All of that set me up with the business skills and confidence to have my own business in the UK.Looking back, it was important that I kept developing a range of skills and was flexible about moving between jobs and disciplines. I had several career changes along the way, but all built on that original decision to develop skills in finance and computing. All that led to being able to take an occupational pension early, at 50, and carve out a new living online and writing from my dream location, a tropical
    r choose to make a positive difference.

    When I discovered that a subsidiary of BHP was mining uranium, I felt so bad about it that I donated some of my BHP dividends to my favourite charity***. Now, BHP were not making uranium nuclear weapons, it was for nuclear energy; and it was not BHP, just one of their connections.

    I am not crazy enough to sell all of my BHP shares just because some of their friends are a little environmentally unfriendly: -- that would be silly. Besides, I can do a lot more for the environment by gifting thousands of dollars to good causes, than I can by chaining myself to a bulldozer… Bulldozer. Hmm, that gives me another excuse to use the term “juggernaut”… ☺

    Speaking of big powerful, heavy things without restraint or social conscience, let’s have a look at the world’s biggest super power and largest economy. Do you know who it is? Do you think tha

    Focusing on Consistency (Part 1)
    When we aim for consistency in our communications, values, messages, images, offerings, and the customer experiences we create, we take another significant step toward developing long-lasting and meaningful customer relationships that will boost our bottom line.We know that as consumers, we are able to exercise our choices to achieve the most enjoyable and efficient experiences possible. But whenever we are unhappy consumers, how likely are we to complain about it?Research shows that only a small fraction of customers will inform a company of what they dislike. The majority of silent, unhappy buyers "vote with their feet" and simply don't return. Sam Walton, the late Wal Mart founder, said: "There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."So, since buyers are unlikely to complain (unless they're very unhappy), we must be extremely careful to ensure that they don't become unhappy about anything in their experiences, or they're likely to leave without telling us why! This article (the first in a series) explains the role of consistency in boosting customer retention and satisfaction.Inventing Your Customer "Secret Sauce"What recipe makes any relationship with a product or service stand out deliciously from all of the others? Creating consistent customer experiences is the mantra savvy businesses have been chanting to achieve great prosperity. These companies pull out all the stops to ensure that dealing with their products, staff, and services is so consistently pleasant, buyers will want to become loyal customers.But that's not all -- pleasantness is fast becoming the minimum experience buyers expect. The fierce competition today requires creating raving fans of customers so they cannot stop telling their colleagues, friends, and family about your products or services. This requires raising the bar even further!What does it take to go from being a silently shunned company to one that creates raving fans?Assembling the FillingThe success of this recipe comes from paying close attention to key ingredients. These ingredients pertain to quality, business systems, marketing/sales, customer service, and good common sense. They shape the "touch points" that influence our customers' experiences. For example:* It's far more cost effective to keep existing customers than to find new
    Back to the past

    You may also recall reading a newsletter with information on who the world’s biggest oil companies were (refer to “Invest News” August 2005) and how they spent their money diversifying into other industries. The “common sense” belief that higher oil prices would make oil companies go broke, may be commonly held… this doesn’t mean that it is true….

    Oil goes up, buy more oil...

    Huh? Since the article was written, the price of oil (and petrol) has continued to rise at a massive rate. The profits of oil companies have increased dramatically, as has their share price. Did you buy into any oil companies? Prices on fuels and lubricants have risen by 21%, so did we all buy 20% less oil? Nope, we bought 18% MORE.

    The oil companies don’t just have us over a barrel; they have us over millions of barrels a day… Did you buy into oil companies yet?

    See the Past, now look at the Now

    OK, so you’ve got the message about the oil companies. Like the dinosaurs that they dig up, these huge juggernauts* will rule the world for a long time. Don’t fight it, get used to it, and learn to profit from it. If you don’t take my word for it, look at what the major investment managers are doing with their money.

    Which fund managers are buying into oil companies, and how much are they buying? Are they hoping to make more money in the future than they did this year? The fund manager’s job is to make money in the future, so what are they doing now?

    Fund Manager -----

    What is in their Top Ten? (as at June 30th 2005)

    Credit Suisse---- Mortgages, phone companies and finance companies.

    Barclays: -----Total Fina Elf is number two, Exxon Mobil at seven.

    Merril Lynch -----Total Fina Elf is number two stock on their list also Platinum Royal Dutch Shell is number ten stock

    UBS Global ----Total Fina Elf is number 3, BP at number 10

    Westpac Intl ----Exxon Mobil number 1 stock held

    BT USA ----Exxon Mobil number 2

    BT Global ----Exxon Mobil number 1

    BT European ----Royal Dutch Shell number 1, Total Fina Elf number 3

    Oil = Money

    If the oil companies are NOT going to make massive billions of dollars worth of profits in future years, then why are the biggest and smartest fund managers investing into the oil companies? Perhaps with all their money and all their research, the major oil companies know that major oil companies will continue to turn gargantuan profits. Perhaps with the largest fund managers’ money and research, the fund managers have also come to the same conclusion: oil equals money.

    Save the trees: shoot a beaver…

    Sure, you can buck the trend against the juggernauts*. You can invest all of your money into stocks other than mining and oil. You can invest into “new” areas such internet stocks and bio-technology. You can invest into mortgages and finance companies like Credit Suisse. You can invest into eco-responsible, genetically unmodified, environmentally-sustainable alfalfa-eating, alpaca-friendly, tree-hugging hippy stocks**.

    It may make you feel good. It may even make you a dollar or two. A good idea is to diversify your money: -- have some smiley, care-bear investments** and also have a little bit of investment into some of the “smash, pillage and wreck the environment” stocks.

    Exxon/Mobil hurt some penguins with a leaking oil-tanker. Fine, sell their shares, punch the CEO, or volunteer at Greenpeace.

    Union Carbide upset some people with dodgy battery acid. Throw out your torches, toys and computers or choose to make a positive difference.

    When I discovered that a subsidiary of BHP was mining uranium, I felt so bad about it that I donated some of my BHP dividends to my favourite charity***. Now, BHP were not making uranium nuclear weapons, it was for nuclear energy; and it was not BHP, just one of their connections.

    I am not crazy enough to sell all of my BHP shares just because some of their friends are a little environmentally unfriendly: -- that would be silly. Besides, I can do a lot more for the environment by gifting thousands of dollars to good causes, than I can by chaining myself to a bulldozer… Bulldozer. Hmm, that gives me another excuse to use the term “juggernaut”… ☺

    Speaking of big powerful, heavy things without restraint or social conscience, let’s have a look at the world’s biggest super power and largest economy. Do you know who it is? Do you think that

    Add Value Always and Clients Naturally Follow
    If you’re anything like me, you’re being bombarded with ezines and emails that continually try to sell you something. Sometimes a particular ezine even arrives on a daily basis, and truthfully, I sit there at my desk, wondering why I subscribe, so much so that I often unsubscribe just as fast as I sign up for them.Now, don’t get me wrong. I strongly believe in marketing and promoting what you’ve got (with consistency and conviction) because it’s the answer to someone’s problem, and if you’ve been given a talent and a gift for helping others, you OWE it to them to let them know you’re out there.But it’s HOW you promote that makes all the difference. I consider it a turn-off when I’m being sold to again and again, without getting much value otherwise. It just feels icky sometimes and, because I don’t have a lot of extra time in my day (who does?), I’d rather not get any additional stuff I can’t really use.On the flip side, if I’m getting value and I find it helpful, then I’m OK with some promo here or there. Kinda like reading a magazine. If the articles are really good, then I don’t mind the ads (and often, the ads are something that I’m interested in.) But if there’s not much content or value, then I don’t want any of it, not the articles, and not the ads either.I was on a group coaching call led by Thomas Leonard, founder of CoachU.com and Coachville.com a few years ago, and although I don’t remember the exact topic of the call, I remember one thing he said very distinctly:To build a large network and attract lots of clients, you need to continually add value, just for the fun of it. However simple this statement (and the longer I’m in business, the more I realize that it’s the SIMPLE things that are the most powerful), it’s one that struck me like lightening and has stayed with me ever since.Thomas was a MASTER of adding value. I remember him giving a LOT of information, so every time I got an email from him (an ezine or something else) I read it without fail, the WHOLE thing. And when he launched a product or service and promoted it, I read that too. That’s because he added value no matter what he did. He used to say, the more value you give, the more people want to “hang out” around you, the more they’ll follow your lead, the more they’ll recommend you.His theory, as he stated once, was to offer lots of freebie stuff of value, just for the f
    ?

    See the Past, now look at the Now

    OK, so you’ve got the message about the oil companies. Like the dinosaurs that they dig up, these huge juggernauts* will rule the world for a long time. Don’t fight it, get used to it, and learn to profit from it. If you don’t take my word for it, look at what the major investment managers are doing with their money.

    Which fund managers are buying into oil companies, and how much are they buying? Are they hoping to make more money in the future than they did this year? The fund manager’s job is to make money in the future, so what are they doing now?

    Fund Manager -----

    What is in their Top Ten? (as at June 30th 2005)

    Credit Suisse---- Mortgages, phone companies and finance companies.

    Barclays: -----Total Fina Elf is number two, Exxon Mobil at seven.

    Merril Lynch -----Total Fina Elf is number two stock on their list also Platinum Royal Dutch Shell is number ten stock

    UBS Global ----Total Fina Elf is number 3, BP at number 10

    Westpac Intl ----Exxon Mobil number 1 stock held

    BT USA ----Exxon Mobil number 2

    BT Global ----Exxon Mobil number 1

    BT European ----Royal Dutch Shell number 1, Total Fina Elf number 3

    Oil = Money

    If the oil companies are NOT going to make massive billions of dollars worth of profits in future years, then why are the biggest and smartest fund managers investing into the oil companies? Perhaps with all their money and all their research, the major oil companies know that major oil companies will continue to turn gargantuan profits. Perhaps with the largest fund managers’ money and research, the fund managers have also come to the same conclusion: oil equals money.

    Save the trees: shoot a beaver…

    Sure, you can buck the trend against the juggernauts*. You can invest all of your money into stocks other than mining and oil. You can invest into “new” areas such internet stocks and bio-technology. You can invest into mortgages and finance companies like Credit Suisse. You can invest into eco-responsible, genetically unmodified, environmentally-sustainable alfalfa-eating, alpaca-friendly, tree-hugging hippy stocks**.

    It may make you feel good. It may even make you a dollar or two. A good idea is to diversify your money: -- have some smiley, care-bear investments** and also have a little bit of investment into some of the “smash, pillage and wreck the environment” stocks.

    Exxon/Mobil hurt some penguins with a leaking oil-tanker. Fine, sell their shares, punch the CEO, or volunteer at Greenpeace.

    Union Carbide upset some people with dodgy battery acid. Throw out your torches, toys and computers or choose to make a positive difference.

    When I discovered that a subsidiary of BHP was mining uranium, I felt so bad about it that I donated some of my BHP dividends to my favourite charity***. Now, BHP were not making uranium nuclear weapons, it was for nuclear energy; and it was not BHP, just one of their connections.

    I am not crazy enough to sell all of my BHP shares just because some of their friends are a little environmentally unfriendly: -- that would be silly. Besides, I can do a lot more for the environment by gifting thousands of dollars to good causes, than I can by chaining myself to a bulldozer… Bulldozer. Hmm, that gives me another excuse to use the term “juggernaut”… ☺

    Speaking of big powerful, heavy things without restraint or social conscience, let’s have a look at the world’s biggest super power and largest economy. Do you know who it is? Do you think tha

    List Building - Don't Be a Dunce About Mail Handling
    We've already talked about why list building is so important to your online business. List building is the first thing you should think about. But if you don't handle mailing and list building right, you could get yourself into a whole lot of trouble.Even if you have a great email program--Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird, etc.--like it a lot, and think that you can handle emailing customers that way...Don't do it. Just don't.And forget buying email handlers, and there are several programs out there. They're great for keeping names and email addresses, but what's going to happen when you try to send 650 of the exact same email from your personal email account? Your ISP will shut you down. Do you see where that’s a problem?If your Internet Service Provider shuts you down, even if you have double opted-in email addresses, you're going to lose. It will take you a long time to get set up with another ISP, and what if you need broadband and there's only one service in your area that has broadband, and they shut you down? That would just totally suck!Your Internet Service Provider doesn’t want you spamming people either.Instead, get a reliable autoresponder, like MyFirstAutoresponder.comWhat happens is that you use their form on your list building squeeze page, right? Then, the name and email address goes right to them. They handle getting people to verify their subscription to your newsletter or whatever. They do the adding of names and email addresses to your list and they store them for you. When you want to email your list, aside from the autoresponder series of messages you have preloaded into their system, you go and make what's called a "broadcast" message. That's all handled for you, too.Plus, the autoresponder's deliverability rate is going to be much higher. It's their address that's mailing out all the emails for you, not your personal address. If you mail 650 messages of your own and are tagged as a spammer, other ISPs can block your mail, too. They'll block your IP address or your whole domain. You really need to be careful of how your messages are delivered.List building is very, very important. The list building squeeze page is important. The autoresponder messages are important. The products you're selling are important. Yet, if you get shut down or your mail can't be delivered, your list building efforts are completel
    eir list also Platinum Royal Dutch Shell is number ten stock

    UBS Global ----Total Fina Elf is number 3, BP at number 10

    Westpac Intl ----Exxon Mobil number 1 stock held

    BT USA ----Exxon Mobil number 2

    BT Global ----Exxon Mobil number 1

    BT European ----Royal Dutch Shell number 1, Total Fina Elf number 3

    Oil = Money

    If the oil companies are NOT going to make massive billions of dollars worth of profits in future years, then why are the biggest and smartest fund managers investing into the oil companies? Perhaps with all their money and all their research, the major oil companies know that major oil companies will continue to turn gargantuan profits. Perhaps with the largest fund managers’ money and research, the fund managers have also come to the same conclusion: oil equals money.

    Save the trees: shoot a beaver…

    Sure, you can buck the trend against the juggernauts*. You can invest all of your money into stocks other than mining and oil. You can invest into “new” areas such internet stocks and bio-technology. You can invest into mortgages and finance companies like Credit Suisse. You can invest into eco-responsible, genetically unmodified, environmentally-sustainable alfalfa-eating, alpaca-friendly, tree-hugging hippy stocks**.

    It may make you feel good. It may even make you a dollar or two. A good idea is to diversify your money: -- have some smiley, care-bear investments** and also have a little bit of investment into some of the “smash, pillage and wreck the environment” stocks.

    Exxon/Mobil hurt some penguins with a leaking oil-tanker. Fine, sell their shares, punch the CEO, or volunteer at Greenpeace.

    Union Carbide upset some people with dodgy battery acid. Throw out your torches, toys and computers or choose to make a positive difference.

    When I discovered that a subsidiary of BHP was mining uranium, I felt so bad about it that I donated some of my BHP dividends to my favourite charity***. Now, BHP were not making uranium nuclear weapons, it was for nuclear energy; and it was not BHP, just one of their connections.

    I am not crazy enough to sell all of my BHP shares just because some of their friends are a little environmentally unfriendly: -- that would be silly. Besides, I can do a lot more for the environment by gifting thousands of dollars to good causes, than I can by chaining myself to a bulldozer… Bulldozer. Hmm, that gives me another excuse to use the term “juggernaut”… ☺

    Speaking of big powerful, heavy things without restraint or social conscience, let’s have a look at the world’s biggest super power and largest economy. Do you know who it is? Do you think tha

    Does Punctuation Really Matter in Email?
    So much depends on choosing the correct mark of punctuation at the correct time. Each little period, each hyphen, each dash conveys meaning to the reader. And when the conventions of punctuation are ignored, readers tend to become confused. As I teach every single one of my clients, the point of all business writing is clarity. If a document—-whether email, letter, memo, or report—-isn’t clear, no business is going to get done. Period.Writers have been confused by the comma for ages. Either they overuse commas or underuse them. Either way, using too many or too few can cause confusion. In particular, confusion often occurs with whether to use commas after introductory phrases and whether to use commas when listing a series of items. Read on for answers to both questions.Commas after introductory phrasesThe way we use punctuation over time influences how meaning is applied to those marks of punctuation. The comma causes a tremendous amount of controversy in writing and carries an enormous amount of weight. Look, for example, at the sentence below: “She sat in a caf? drinking coffee, wearing clogs and a scarf upon her head.”What do you see? No, really; what do you SEE? Do you see a woman with clogs on her head along with a scarf? That’s exactly what you should see. Based on the punctuation (and wording) the image is that of a woman with shoes on her head. This sentence can be made clearer simply by changing the punctuation and moving the “and”: “She sat in a caf? drinking coffee and wearing clogs, a scarf upon her head.”How about leaving a comma out? Does meaning become unclear without a comma? Consider this: “When Margaret ate pizza dripped from her chin.”Not a very pretty sight, eh? Add a comma, and you’ll know what was dripping from her chin (though what she was actually eating is still unclear): “When Margaret ate, pizza dripped from her chin.”Commas in seriesWhat about using the comma when listing items in series? Do you put the comma before the “and” or do you leave it out? “We’ll be preparing the budget, writing the proposal, and presenting the data at the conference.”If you put it in, you are a fan of the serial comma right along with me! If you left it out because you remember being told the “and” replaced the comma, then you might be struggling with what I’m going to say next: the serial comma helps to clarify information for the reader. When the serial comma is used,
    k the trend against the juggernauts*. You can invest all of your money into stocks other than mining and oil. You can invest into “new” areas such internet stocks and bio-technology. You can invest into mortgages and finance companies like Credit Suisse. You can invest into eco-responsible, genetically unmodified, environmentally-sustainable alfalfa-eating, alpaca-friendly, tree-hugging hippy stocks**.

    It may make you feel good. It may even make you a dollar or two. A good idea is to diversify your money: -- have some smiley, care-bear investments** and also have a little bit of investment into some of the “smash, pillage and wreck the environment” stocks.

    Exxon/Mobil hurt some penguins with a leaking oil-tanker. Fine, sell their shares, punch the CEO, or volunteer at Greenpeace.

    Union Carbide upset some people with dodgy battery acid. Throw out your torches, toys and computers or choose to make a positive difference.

    When I discovered that a subsidiary of BHP was mining uranium, I felt so bad about it that I donated some of my BHP dividends to my favourite charity***. Now, BHP were not making uranium nuclear weapons, it was for nuclear energy; and it was not BHP, just one of their connections.

    I am not crazy enough to sell all of my BHP shares just because some of their friends are a little environmentally unfriendly: -- that would be silly. Besides, I can do a lot more for the environment by gifting thousands of dollars to good causes, than I can by chaining myself to a bulldozer… Bulldozer. Hmm, that gives me another excuse to use the term “juggernaut”… ☺

    Speaking of big powerful, heavy things without restraint or social conscience, let’s have a look at the world’s biggest super power and largest economy. Do you know who it is? Do you think tha

    How to Apply EMyth Principles to Your Leadership Role
    Following on from a previous article on 'The EMyth Perspective' inspired by Michael Gerber’s book “The EMyth Manager,” I thought it might be useful to give you the overall context to this perspective and explain all 5 of Gerber’s EMyth principles.Gerber believes that every manager should treat the organisation (or their part in it) as a small business and think of themselves as small business owners; so these principles apply to leaders and managers in any size organisation, as well as to business owners.The first core principle is concerned with your life. Gerber believes (as do I) that you need to think of your business as a way of getting more from your life. Obviously in order to do that you need to know the purpose of your life, or have a vision of who you want to be and the kind of life you want to lead: Gerber describes this as your primary aim.Once you’ve established this you can then ask yourself whether the organisation’s aim serves your aim, whether the work you’re currently doing allows you to fulfil your aim, whether your company is a place where you can grow and experience yourself becoming the person you want to be.In other words, as a manager you must do the internal work first, the work on yourself that enables you to answer these questions, otherwise you might fall into the trap of accepting the organisation’s purpose as your own, committing yourself to it, fighting battles for it and progressing well. But you might wake up one day and ask yourself “Who am I?” “Where am I?” “What happened?” If so, you’ll realise you’ve passively relinquished responsibility for creating your own purpose, your own vision, your own life! Your vision, or primary aim, once created will become your internal benchmark against which you make all decisions concerning life and work.The second EMyth principle is ojectivisation or objectivising the business; viewing it as apart from rather than a part of you. You must see the business as a way of 'serving' your primary aim as opposed to 'being' your primary aim. Obviously, this would be impossible if you’d not worked on the creation of your own vision for your life, which is why the principles are in this order.This principle involves deciding on the purpose of the business, or its strategic objectives. This means viewing the business as if it was a product sitting on a shelf and competing for the customer’s attention against a whole shelf of competing
    r choose to make a positive difference.

    When I discovered that a subsidiary of BHP was mining uranium, I felt so bad about it that I donated some of my BHP dividends to my favourite charity***. Now, BHP were not making uranium nuclear weapons, it was for nuclear energy; and it was not BHP, just one of their connections.

    I am not crazy enough to sell all of my BHP shares just because some of their friends are a little environmentally unfriendly: -- that would be silly. Besides, I can do a lot more for the environment by gifting thousands of dollars to good causes, than I can by chaining myself to a bulldozer… Bulldozer. Hmm, that gives me another excuse to use the term “juggernaut”… ☺

    Speaking of big powerful, heavy things without restraint or social conscience, let’s have a look at the world’s biggest super power and largest economy. Do you know who it is? Do you think that the answer may change in future?

    Live in the Now, Look to the future

    Hey, I don’t wish to be an alarmist; you have the newspapers and horror movies to make you frightened. I just wish to point out a few things and make you “alert but not alarmed”.

    Question 1 Who in the world uses the most oil?

    Question 2 Where do the oil users get the oil from?

    Question 3 What are they prepared to do to keep it this way?

    If you answered, “USA”, “The Middle East” and “start wars”, you would be fairly close to the truth… or the truth, as it was, for most of the last century. In the last few decades we have seen the USA using most of the world’s oil, and sourcing it from the Middle Eastern countries. We have seen the USA involved in conflicts in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq (part two).

    In more recent years, the amount of oil being used by China is on the rise. Soon, your answers to the above three questions will be “China”, “Africa”, and “anything”.

    Be prepared for a world-wide shifting of the scales. Why does China source their oil from African countries and not Middle Eastern countries? Does the oil taste nicer? Does it last longer? Is it cheaper? Or does it simply not raise the ire of the US government, as Africa is not seen as de-facto US soil?

    Anyone stomping around in the Kuwaiti oil-fields for long enough would eventually upset the USA: look at what happened to poor old Saddam Hussein in 1991. Oops, it happened again in 2003. The USA sees the Middle East as their own little vegetable patch. They let the gardeners have a few carrots to keep them happy, but they don’t like any rogue rabbits intruding, or any sign that someone else wants to dictate gardening terms or market conditions.

    Prepare for War….again….ho-hum

    Will there be more wars in the Gulf? Probably. Will things change? Not much. Sometimes the US sells arms to the left side (“allies”) and sometimes the US sells arms to the right side (“axis of evil”). Sometimes they sell weapons to both sides (“Iran-contra”) and blame it on Oliver North. So long as one side wins and agrees to sell oil to the USA at a fair price, they are happy.

    In the style of true diversity, the US doesn’t really care who wins: the winner will sell them oil, and the loser will come back and buy more weapons for next time. The USA is a business. They sell guns and buy oil in the same way that Australia sells steel and buys DVD players. War is a business activity for some countries. It is good for their economy. Realise this, and thank God if you are smart enough to stay out of the firing line and in front of the check-out queue.

    So the wars in the Middle East will continue, much like the war between Coke and Pepsi, or McDonalds and Burger King. It’s just business. It’s just money. It’s nothing personal. The “War on Terror” will be never-ending; it will just ebb and flow, like the tides. America makes weapons and needs to sell them. They use oil and need to buy it. What are you gonna do? They are the biggest economy in the world and they need to protect their economy from anything that would threaten it. God bless America…

    In all probability, the pugilistic Americans are a threat to world peace, inasmuch as they believe that it is their duty to police the world (“finish the wars that others start”) and supply arms to the highest bidder. By the same token, we are probably lucky to have them. Without the massive power of the world’s “school bully”, there could be complete anarchy.

    As much as the US Marshall Plan is objectionable, it

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