John Linton I read the SA v Aus test report earlier this morning after noticing the unbelievable 'head line' - it remained unbelievable after reading the details. Also unbelievable, at least to me, is that Standard & Poor could make a 'mistake' that affected France's borrowing abilities:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8846201/Debt-crisis-live.html
and, if it is to be believed, the financial stability of the planet. I don't know whether the last pair making more runs than the first nine batsmen, Michael Clarke making more runs in his first innings than the other 19 batsmen of both sides in theirs or the fact that Greece, Italy and France have been allowed to borrow so much more money than they can ever pay back bewilders me more. I think it's a nice counterpoint that the news that the Qantas pilots are going to court to overturn the "Fairwork" ruling simply sums it all up - in 2011 Qantas pilots think $500,000+ a year is inadequate payment for some pretty mundane skills - and people wonder why the world's largest countries can't pay their debts?
So the sheer inconsequentiality of trying to work out how we can provide better sales training for our newer Sri Lankan employees or how we can provide higher levels of service to our Australian corporate customers makes me want to give up. It's somewhat like building a sand castle on a beach not realising there is a Tsunami coming. I am anything but a 'defeatist' but sometimes I do wonder whether events around the world will make every hour I have spent during my 'working life' completely worthless and I really should have been joining protests about the evils of capitalism with all the rent a crowds that seem to be able to put a roof over their family's head and food on the table without the necessity of having a paid job.
Perhaps Rupert Murdoch is right to have closed the News of The World and is now threatening to close the Sun in the UK? Perhaps the increasing media condemnation of the two Sydney Channels 6.30 "news sensationalism" is totally correct? Perhaps the world would be a much better place without any "news" as currently presented by the world's media because, as far as I can see, the world's media - with a tiny number of exceptions can be divided in to only two categories - sensational nonsense containing no truth whatsoever or paid propaganda pushing some government or commercial agenda. Journalists? Simply people who can't get any other job who base their lives on trying to get paid more money by generating as many column inches (or their video equivalents) as possible so they can be paid more. Lets face it "news" that is based on some recent adolescent's attempts to get more money is a very, very flawed concept. As equally flawed as the hierarchy of sub-editors who work for editors who work for publishers who take money from governments and major commercial corporations to "report news" of their direction/choosing.
Strange how an abject performance by a cricket team can lead to such dark thoughts.
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