Ric Vatner | May 11, 2010
Damien also pointed out that many of the businesses that go broke each year do so not because they can’t get work but because they can’t get paid.
My client points out that many businesses are in a bind. If you have a council as a regular client or a large property developer you can’t afford to stop working for them because they will easily find another company that will but when times return to normal, you probably won’t get any more work from them.
Category: Business, In my opinion, World Affairs |
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Tags: Business, Business and Economy, Dun & Bradstreet, Employment, Magazines and E-zines, Money, Private sector, Small business
Ric Vatner | February 25, 2010
I would like to ask you what do you foresee in the next 50 or 100 years? Not from a technological point of view but rather how do you feel man will evolve “sociologically” over the next 50 to 100 years? Will all the problems we face today; economic, global warming, population and environmental, change us for the better or worse or not at all? Will we still be here in a hundred years?
Category: Life, Love & Philosophy, Technology, World Affairs |
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Tags: 2010, 2010 the future today, Decline of Cities, economic decline of the west, Futurist look at 2010, Henri Pirenne, Medieval Cities, Philosophy, Technology, The future, the next 100 years, the next 50 years, value of money
Ric Vatner | February 14, 2010
I just added a short story to my blog at Shadow in the Flame – you can read it here: http://bit.ly/avBfQd
It’s a simple parable about an enterprising boy who starts a great little business at infant’s school. I like the little blighter but he does make you think. This is the American Dream (which is now the world’s dream) but is it what we really want.
Category: Life, Love & Philosophy, Short Stories, World Affairs |
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Tags: A parable about the banking crisis, Ric Vatner, short story, The American Dream, The great Chocolate rip off
Ric Vatner | February 4, 2010
I found a lot of good material during my research and if you are interested in world affairs including who’s hot and whose not and where the world is heading politically I think you will enjoy reading it.
Category: Life, Love & Philosophy, Public Speaking, World Affairs |
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Tags: Amican Foreign Policy, Dr Coral Bell AO, End of the Vasco da Gama Era, Lowy Institute, Vasco da Gama
Ric Vatner | October 10, 2009
The thing that makes me smile is that western philosophers regularly refer to Eastern Philosophy as Mysticism or Religion rather than as philosophy but it is the great mono theistic religions that promise a better life in the next world whereas in China Confucianism and Taoism seem to be happy to teach a philosophy that helps you to live in peace and contentment in this life.
So which one is Mysticism or religious-philosophy and does it really matter?
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Tags: Eastern Philosophy, Islamic Philosophy, Mystisism, Religion, Western Philosophy
