JUST continue the ACTION of zBlogging THE WORDS … AS YOU DO

THERE IS definately a way …
which will require the establishment of  …
“an understanding” of the inevitable consequences of past actions  and …
an awarenesss of the need to ACT NOW to allay those consequences …

” The G8 states ought to be ideally placed to deal with such issues. They may account for just 14 per cent of the world's population, but they produce 65 per cent of its wealth and control 72 per cent of its military expenditure …

BUT THE WORLD NEEDS LEADERS NOT ROBOTS ”

EXACTLY … What NOW ??? … might I first suggest that we start by accepting that …
OUR SPECIES as a whole is comprised of …

Individuals - families of individuals  a NATION of families & a FAMILY of NATIONS …

and that, as has been so since the outset of human evolution, the leadership of families, nations of families and the family of nations has itself evolved.

WE NOW NEED to evolve a set of leadership values, appropriate to the global community, embodying crystal clear realization of verticality and complexity, which will address the ” profit before people versus people before profit inbalance”, which has been established because of  the lack of a common understanding of leadership … to which Albert, so rightly, alludes.

Perhaps, in the context of TOO MANY CHIEFS - NOT ENOUGH INDIANS …
we should let the people decide ?

The Kosmos Journal has been on its own evolutionary journey for many years and has acted as a powerful conduit of ideas, for ALL the perspectives of the tripartite factions of business, government and the people, in the context of establishing a global community for our species as a whole.

Although generally very well intended it has only been successful in identifying the way to establish a top-down network of  “islands of integration” rather than a totally integrated bottoms-up/top-down Global Commons solution … as is often the case when one tries to modify an existing mechanism to provide an appropriate answer to a new problem.

I have been much encouraged of late, however, by the journal's development of the themes of connectivity, collaboration and collective intelligence as precursor components of the process by which a Global Commons solution might be established. I am particularly enamoured with the Coalition for the Global Commons initiative, in the context of addressing the issue of TOO MANY CHIEFS - NOT ENOUGH INDIANS, but skeptical that this will itself become the catalyst of yet another members-by-invite club, which will not operate as an appropriate system for the “global common good” !

The wisdom of knowledge of understanding , to which I have made reference throughout my zBlogging@gaia and its supportive AlphaINDEX of stories, does NOT appear to have been subscribed to by the vast majority of the leaders of either the private or public spheres  or indeed  by many  of  the  leaders  of  the commons  sphere, as exemplified by John Schmidt's article on Living Leadership in a 2007 edition of Kosmos.

We must now take time to think about what the commons require of their tripartite leaders and which of the tripartite leaders would best serve those requirements.

SUCCESS - will depend …

… a NEW DAWN indeed

… and SUCCESS has MANY PARENTS …

IT IS appropriate, on this day on which Barack Obama will give his speech to the people of Berlin, prior to the 100th anniversary of the FBI on Saturday, that we acknowledge that OSHO was indeed, to a significant degree “a corrupt asshole”, but equally … that there is a propensity for all powermasters to be so, as is the wont of leaders in general, past and present, who control the lives of the people on a day to day basis.

Therein lies the problem & dilemma of our times, in respect to leadership, but as always, without suffering there can be no wisdom of knowledge of understanding of LOVE.

OSHO is my hero, however, because his own wisdom of knowledge of understanding of ZEN was as sharp as an arrowhead and best exemplified by his statement that – Zen means to be so alone that there is NO THING to meditate upon. No object, just subjectivity exists – consciousness without clouds, a pure sky. Zen is not interested in dogma. It is interested in helping you to contact your own being – a statement which Douglas Harding understood for many years before he had even heard of Zen !!!

All of which pre-dated OSHO being captivated by self-sophisticated arrogance, corruption & greed, as is  the case with politicians & religious leaders, in particular, who fall into the category of those who are too full of their  own importance,  doing the wrong  things,
for the wrong reasons.

… but as one powermaster has stated …

” It's urgent that we begin to define a new moral, philosophical, and spiritual context that will, in its depth and breadth of vision, be able to embrace the multidimensional nature of the human predicament in all its complexity at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Some bold pathfinders are already well along in that endeavor. But the most important part of this project, I feel, is actually being willing to transform ourselves, as individuals coming together for a higher purpose, so that more and more of us will be able to directly intuit the contours and parameters of this new context from the evolving edge of consciousness itself …

I am convinced that the awakening of the spiritual impulse in our own hearts and minds is actually an evolutionary trigger—an urgent whisper from the Self to Itself, God’s quiet voice imploring us to relinquish our attachment to our culturally conditioned ignorance, our materialism, and our pathological narcissism. Why are we being called? So we will take responsibility for the evolution of our own consciousness and culture, publicly, in such a way that raises the bar for all of us at the leading edge “ 

and another has juxtaposed before him …

and raised THE DILEMMA, which couldn't be better exemplified than by this !

Masters of the Universe: we are ruled by naked emperors

In this financial meltdown, who has the guts to govern Britain?

How we have learned the limits to free markets - the hard way

ARE US taxpayers being enrolled in an economic chain gang ?

… which now requires, in the  prescient words of Thomas Jefferson, that … 
banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies
and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity is but swindling futurity on a large scale thus necessitating the need to consider that  the issuing  power should be taken from banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

Why propping up banks will not rescue a debauched financial system

Financial Crisis  !!!

Where were you when Europe's leaders had their cosy little chat ?

Whatever ever happened to the evolution of integral politics ?

Dagur Eggertsson, a former mayor of Reykjavik, said: ”Someone called it 'bumblebee economics' because it is hard to figure out how it flies, but it does, and very nicely, too.“  The bumblebee, though, like the billionaires who thought they could buy up the British high street, is no longer flying high.

One of the characteristics of bumblebees, that I have noted over the years,
IS that the have a propensity to suddenly “drop dead” and fall out of the sky !

CHANGE the WORLD - indeed !

“GOOD LUCK AMERICA on your ever continuing journey of discovery”

… always BEING cogniscent of the fact that, as Russell Targ has recently said in an ElightenNext Interview with Tom Huston , about his latest book …

“for any event that happens, there is a complex series of previous events that cause it to turn out the way it does. So because we live in this continuity of cause and effect, we have a lot less free will than we often think. However, to the extent that you can step out of this stream of causation through psychic practices or meditation, for example, and gain an objective view on it, you can access information that gives you more choices than you might otherwise have.”

… and maybe another from Peer Steinbrück ? particularly in the context of James Doran’s article in the December 2008 edition of SPECTATOR BUSINESS, entitled Paulson’s bail-out:a feeding frenzy for free cash in which he says …

the outgoing secretary’s $700 billion bank rescue plan failed to resolve market confidence, and its chances of success in revised form look little better. It is doubtful we will see any real progress towards recovery in America until the distraction of this giant free lunch has gone and ALL the greedy pigeons are forced to go back to finding their own means of survival.

Perhaps the US big three car makers should be forced into fending for themselves such that demand for cars is reduced even further and the oil giants will be economically forced into maximising their ”alternative energy agenda” ?

T. A. R. P. Tearing Apart the Rescue Plan

A PROCESS of new dimensions EXACTLY and 2009 will BE very exciting for Europe

ABSOLUTELY and despite ALL the problems which “EUROPE” has to address they pale into insignificance compared with those whom would aspire to be a superpower !  I would be fascinated to hear Andrew Cohen’s take on this.

BTW isn’t it Conde Naste that publish Vogue Magazine who were one of the first to move me off in this direction !

WE ARE DEFINITELY of the SAME MIND-SET on ALL of the above Albert !

thank you for putting up with my sometimes tongue in cheek, toe in the water,
what do you think of that statements, tinged on occassion with raw British sarcastic humour.

I AM NOT AMUSED either … apart from the size of my parsnip of course !

What was I saying about the US big three car makers being …

forced into fending for THEMSELVES ? …

harsh as job losses are, it was Margaret Thatcher who first realised that using taxpayer’s money to keep a car manufacturer afloat, because nobody wanted to buy its cars, was not a viable option. Particularly when the car workers unions refused to take a pay cut.

Better a job with lower pay than no job at all … BUT perhaps the US taxpayer’s money would best be spent at an even better place ?

… or perhaps ALL of this IS the pre-cursor to a NEW CAPITALISM ?

” The American government may be committing itself to a policy that is
economically unsound and even irresponsible, but its insistence on
maintaining the compact with its own voters – on putting their concerns
first – will at least ensure that democracy will survive there.

I am not at all sure that will be true in Europe. ”

                                                                    Janet Daley

Regardless of whether the American Revolution was social or political, however, was it not President John Adams who said, in some ways tragically, that …

THE true history of the American Revolution IS LOST.