Nick Fletcher (Extracted from "Crime scene clear-up firm poised for stock market float ", The Guardian, 7 November 2005)

"A business specialising in clearing up after major accidents and terror attacks is to join the stock market when its parent company Autoclenz is floated at the end of this month.

React was called in by the authorities after the July 7 bombings in London and works for rail and road companies, prisons and housing associations. Its jobs range from disposing of abandoned hypodermic needles, to removing debris after motorway and train incidents, including suicides."

[Ed: Nothing could be a more eloquent comment on our times! It is not so much that the ideologies of the neoconservatives and economic growthists are totally wrong. It is that they applied to former times and are valid no longer. Ever since about 1985-90 there have been no new consumer goods with uniquely different uses or features than previously, able to sweep down from the richest to the poorest, able to lift all boats and satisfy the status aspirations of everybody. High consumer spending since then has been largely based on borrowed money and growing government debt. We are moving into a brand new era and brand new analyses are needed of what actually makes economies tick.]