2011/12/31 – 2011 in review for your Process:Self-Honesty Blog

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 27,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

 

[Edit] Total views for this blog in 2011 was 29,950, up from 2010′s total views of 6,270. Nice. 2012 will be even more numerical…

 

Top Five Posts that were viewed in 2011:

1) Manipulated by the Politics of Hope

2) The Secrets of Lucifer,Part 1

3) The Shame of India’s Child Labor

4) China’s Ghost Towns

5) Amy Winehouse’s Death Predicted by Desteni in 2007

 

My personal favorite  Top Five post for 2011:

1) C.S. Lewis and the Cosmic Sadist

2) Transitory Capitalism

3) The Cult of the Deprogrammer: Rick Ross

4) The Necessity of a Global Government

5)Practical Living Without Money?

 

Click here to see the complete report.

2011/12/26 – How Capitalism Will Eat Itself

If one takes a careful survey of the condition of workers across the world, one would scarcely be surprised at how much workers  have to give up to remain “economically viable” within the capitalist system. In the USA, workers are under immense pressure as the job market continuously shrinks the so-called “Middle Class” out of existence. In the Euro zone, there is great discomfort as the global debt bomb crisis threatens to tank the Continental economy and tear the Euro apart. In Central and Latin America (and Africa) under the thumb of the IMF and World Bank austerity limits, political corruption and organized crime has created a perpetual state of underdevelopment where disenfranchised workers are condemned to survive hand – to – mouth. And in China, the workers (and natural resources)  are exploited and repressed by the State to such an extent, one wonders if the Communist Chinese leadership (as the 21st Century version of the neo bourgeoisie) are aware of the ironic joke that they have become.

Within all this there seems only three major trajectories that Capitalism will proceed. 1) The neo-liberal transnational American version backed by military intervention, 2) the Chinese model that represses and reduces its citizens to mere cattle for the good of the “State,” and 3) something entirely different.  The first two options will end in the same neighborhood of perpetual enslavement and disenfranchisement. We can create the third option into something never tried before, the creation of a system that will serve all equally. But understand one thing – capitalism will eat itself. It has to due to its own internal logic. In its pathological desire for endless profit that must consume resources that are limited, there is a point of no return that must be crossed, and once crossed, everything that was once taken for granted will no longer be here. What will be left will be the consequences of trashing our world to the point of near-collapse. And we will have to walk through the nightmare and be chastened and thankful for lessons learned too late.

People will scoff today at such ideas as Equal Money and the Basic Income Grant, but there will not be any other viable options after Capitalism eats itself. Best to educate oneself now about the only great social movement that matters; universal equality for all.

 

2011/12/25 – 2011 Post-Mortems. FLASH!

2011 is almost gone. Do you know where your Light-body is?

Welcome, back. It’s been a while since I’ve made a post here, but I’ve been working on several writing projects and just completed one of them, so that’s good news.

My goal at the beginning of last year was to boost the readership of the blog, and I am happy to report  Mission: Accomplished. Views nearly quadrupled over the previous year, and I attribute that to several reasons, the main one being that I actually posted more blogs than I ever have before.

In looking back at the events of 2011, it seems that the old adage of, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” The “Arab Spring,” which began almost a year ago when a young Tunisian fruit merchant set himself on fire in protest against the crushing economic climate he was forced to participate within, we wonder how much has changed. Ironically, according to this Al Jazeera, the young man’s family had to leave Sidi Bouzid out of fear.

In Egypt, President-for-life Hosni Mubarak was toppled from power after the military repeatedly fired on its own citizens. With Mubarak gone, guess what the military is up to these days? Firing on its own citizens.

In Libya, the story is far from over. Although Qadhafi has been toppled from power and killed, his prescient comments made in 2008 to his fellow Middle Eastern leaders seem to carry more weight as time goes on.

Syria of course, has resisted the uprisings by brutally repressing its citizens. In reports that can only be termed as “surprising,” former pals Syria’s Assad and Hamas (the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement in Israel) are not on speaking terms.

Osama bin Laden was allegedly assassinated by American Navy Seals. We don’t know for sure because the man’s body was thrown into the ocean. Allegedly.

The EU had been rocked by one financial tsunami after another. Japan was rocked by an actual tsunami and had one of its nuclear reactors melt down.

Steve Jobs, the leader of Apple died. His reported last words: “Oh, wow.“

Excuse me, but didn’t you used to be Occupy Wall Street?

Okay, we’ll be back soon with even more great blogs.