Notes From The Editor Posts
"And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet."Matthew 24:6
As the dust settles after a tense G20 Summit in St Petersbu...
Attrition
Flash.point /‘flaSHpoint/- The lowest temperature at which a volatile material can vaporise to form an ignitable mixture in air.
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Depending on the source, between 500 and 2000 lie dead amidst the to and fro of skirmish, retaliation and reprisal in the capital of the Arab R...
"Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it."Lao Tzu (6th Century BCE)
News reaches us that the tiny Gulf state of Kuwait has discovered a new oil and gas field in the west o...
"When people lose everything, they have nothing left to lose, and they lose it"-Gerald Celente (1946 - )
They are calling it Tahrir II, and like most movie sequels it will be bloodier,...
"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."– Paul S...
"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun." Ralph Nader (1934- )
In 1938, President Lâzaro Cârdenas expropriated of all resources and facilities of foreign oil and gas op...
"There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you." Charles Dudley Warner (1829 – 1900)
According to a report released yes...
It seems the unrest that has rocked the Middle East has spread to Asia Minor as clashes across Turkey rage into a fifth day.
"By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember" Homer, The Odyssey
"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives" Lakota Proverb
A sound that had not been heard for more than a generation rang out across the Drift Prairie...
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." Henry Ford (1863-1947)
After March’s "Durban...
"If you open up a barrel, don't be surprised if people turn up with fish and a couple of shotguns"W.C. Fields (1880-1946)
Wainwright, Alaska, USA (70°38′50″N160°00′58″W)
Population: 546
Yearly average temperature range: -48°C to 25°C
"Britain is a tragedy – It has sunk to borrowing, begging, stealing until North Sea oil comes in."US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, 1975
"No one would remem...
As the drillbits and dryholes screech out the end of Easy Oil, is it time to begin revelling in the era of Easy Gas?
Whilst we are burrowing several miles beneath the seabed at thousands of pounds per square inch...
"Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion" Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
" All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
Aristotle
Thus spoke the great polymath, as he sat imparting his musings as Royal Tutor for the King of Macedon. An unpaid job apparently, but not without the o...
"You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
Ray Bradbury
The US population will feel lucky that this wasn’t the...
"In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing"
– Apollon...
