Ideologies are exemplified by examples such as Marxism, Liberalism and Capitalism. These ideologies are seen as static belief systems indicating that it does not change or evolve over time.  

The Money Slave: Exponential Growth: Multiply Safety:

My wise brother gave me a book on “The Richest Man in Babylon”. It contains the wise teachings of the ancients where saving 10% of your income followed by its subsequent wise investment most always should result in prosperity.

The Safety Plateau is a phenomenon that has emerged over the last 20 years and longer. It can also be observed in graphs depicting current safety performance metrics such as (external work related) fatalities per year per industry, where the graphs do not show any sustained improvement over periods of time while known budgets (to improve it) were expended.

Investigating or even exuding new ideas is part of an Executive's responsibility. It may be deemed interesting by most activists, but the main raison d'etre is to determine and manage risk. Therefore, a conference about innovation is generally aimed at rationalizing innovation and in this instance, rationalizing the risk of innovation.

Since the declaration of a Welfare State by the Zuma-government, a few interesting statements were made. One statement was recently reported from the SA Public Works Minister: Geoff Doidge as follows:

South Africa started a short time ago (1994) on the premise that a liberal democratic dispensation will be free and fair to all its citizens, thereby dispelling any notion of blood and revenge, unrest and instability. It worked.

Over the past several years our research CSIR has aimed at answering the question: "What kind of a person commits a crime of violence with no empathy, no compassion and no concern for the consequence of his acts?" It is this kind of crime that sets us apart from other places where crime is a problem; it is the kind of crime that fills us with fear, that makes some of us pack up and leave behind this beautiful country and that makes many others for whom leaving is not an option, wish for a different life.

Special Report: President Hu Visits Canada, Attends G20 Summit

Chinese President Hu Jintao attends a plenary session of the fourth summit of the Group of 20 (G20), in Toronto, Canada, June 27, 2010. (Xinhua/Fan Rujun)

Russia's Putin unleashes coal mine safety shakeup
By: Reuters
Published: 24th June 2010
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NOVOKUZNETSK – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called for systemic changes on Thursday to promote safety in the country's coal industry, signalling more mine closures and tighter supply in global markets.

Historic joint mining declaration ‘very important step in right direction' – Leon
By: Martin Creamer
Published: 30th June 2010
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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The joint mining declaration over which Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu presided on Wednesday was "a very important step in the right direction", regulatory lawyer Peter Leon told Mining Weekly Online in a video interview.