Day 85: Crimes against Life: Witholding the means to Live

Original Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255359/Seven-die-230-collapse-fitness-test-job-South-Africas-traffic-police.html

Excerpt from the article: 

15,500 applicants turned out for the South African traffic police fitness test for 90 jobs (file picture of unemployed South Africans). 

Seven jobseekers died and 230 collapsed after 15,500 unemployed youths took part in a fitness test in the hope of securing one of 90 jobs with South Africa's traffic police.
The massive crowd of jobseekers took part in the deadly fitness test - which was held in a football stadium - after they each received text messages informing them they had been 'shortlisted' for the precious traffic police jobs. 

They were told that they needed to complete a four kilometre (2.4 mile) jog within thirty minutes to meet the force's minimum fitness level requirement.
But by the time they started running late last Thursday afternoon, temperatures inside Pietermaritzburg's Harry Gwala football stadium had reached over 33 degrees Centigrade (91.5 degrees Fahrenheit). 

Many of the desperate jobseekers had neither eaten nor drunk anything all day. They all had very limited access to drinking water.A total of 230 people collapsed from heat exhaustion and dehydration during the run. Of these, six died.

A seventh man committed suicide by slitting his throat when he learnt he had not finished the race in time.
Among the dead was Lenny Nxumalo, 28-year-old father of two whose body was only discovered over four hours after he died when the vast crowd finally cleared out of the stadium.

Yesterday his best friend Brian Ngcobo told the local The Witness newspaper: 'My friend was so determined to become a traffic officer that he ran his life out because he was such a dedicated person.'
Another applicant, Lindelani Kubheka told the paper that he collapsed at the 'horribly disorganised' event after he ran on an empty stomach and without water.

The test was held in Pietermaritzburg's Harry Gwala stadium (pictured) where temperatures rose to 91 degrees as dehydrated and underfed applicants were told to run four kilometres in 30 minutes

South Africa's desperate youth face an effective unemployment rate of around 40 per cent and turn up in large numbers, as in this picture taken outside a factory, in search of work (file picture)
'We were starving and needed water, but the venue is isolated from fast food outlets, so it was difficult for many of us to survive the scorching heat without water and food', he said after waking up in hospital on Friday.
The tragedy is just the latest example of the problems that can occur when South Africa's desperate youth - who face an effective unemployment rate of around 40 per cent - struggle to make successes of their lives.
Government positions, such as those with the police force or army, are highly sought after as they are relatively well paid, have low entry criteria and because the application process positively discriminates in favour of blacks.
Previous 'mass job interviews' for jobs such as these have seen tens of thousands of desperately poor and ill-educated young people descend on a location in the hope of securing one of perhaps just a dozen positions.

Pietermaritzburg, the town in which the traffic police test was held, is the capital and second largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
In this latest example, over 150,000 people applied for the 90 jobs within the regional KwaZulu Natal traffic police department.
Of these, 34,000 were sent text messages on Christmas Day telling them to report to the Harry Gwala stadium in two groups on Thursday and Friday.
More than 230 applicants were taken to hospital when they collapsed during the first day's fitness test.
The politician responsible confirmed that 'more than 34,000 applicants qualified for the 90 trainee posts which were advertised', but that 'scores of them could not cope with the hot weather condition and collapsed.'
South Africa's Communist Party - which is in political alliance with the ruling African National Congress - demanded a full enquiry into the traffic police fitness test tragedy.
And the opposition Inkatha Freedom Party has called on Willies Mchunu, the politician with ultimate responsibility for the debacle, to step down.
'What happened in Pietermaritzburg was a classic display of being power-drunk, to an extent treating ordinary suffering people as subhuman.

'No one in their right mind could in the first place short-list about 35,000 people for just 90 jobs,'IFP politician Blessed Gwala said."

If one observe the last two comments of 'classic display of being power-drunk' and 'no one in their right mind' - once could extend that by stating - you have to be 'power drunk' and 'out of your mind' to continue supporting Capitalism - as it clearly shows - according to the example above - that the principle of Capitalism - firstly allowed for corporations and companies to take control of the Resources which are provided by the earth for all of the Physical, equal and one to the Earth; then through agreement between the people, as the founding principles of capitalism were established it was decided that if you do not have money you cannot gain access to Resources. Then we end up aproximately 500 years later having job shortages where in most countries you see a vast number of unemployed and minimum wage workers - who are unable at the best of times to obtain the financial means to be able to have access to these Resources.

In the example above, we see yet again the outflow and consequences of a system that might have sounded viable 500 years ago as a means to control conflicts and the development of economic wealth - but is now only about serving the rich at whatever means possible - and the extent of abuse to Life on this planet is unsurmountable. Nobody asks the question 'well if it does not work anymore why not change it?', because the human has become addicted to this game of life, where we accept ourselves as born into lives where we struggle to survive, while desiring personal wealth which comes from having what others do not have - which is all a game of the Ego. The fact of the matter is - that every day - just like in the example above, millions of people and animals are abused extensively and lead to their painful deaths - all for capitalism -all so that the average family does not have to bother asking these questions such as 'well of it aint working anymore, why not change it?'. Everybody is firstly too accepting of the abuse that exists due to capitalism, because as discussed above we have become extensively addicted to energy and the exchange of values between consumer (ourselves as the Mind) and the product (energy) and that is why no human will speak up and suggest changes to the current capitalistic system. Even in the face of harsh abuse and death to others - we still do not question why this is still a viable system to have. I ask myself the question when I read such articles - 'would I be willing to go and take the place of any one of those people' who had to die for the 'tiny chance that they might get employed' - and the question is no I do not want that for myself - therefore in common sense obviously as I see this happening to my fellow humans, I do not want it happening to any other being - and to conveniently believe that those who died deserved it - while fearing it would happen to me - as I know I do not want to give up my life for money - shows how brainwashed humanity is - because we do not see, realize and understand the principle of oneness and equality - but are merely grateful that it did not happen to us. They speak of evilnes existing as a devil or demon - but is this not the real evil we face in this world? To blatantly in ones thoughts want suffering and death for another, so that Capitalism can exist while not being willing to walk in the shoes of the other and also play the role of victim/abused. We allow such suffering around us all day - and yet every human actually reacts extensively to such stories - thinking 'please let that never be me'. What about the man/woman who died, or the animal that is suffering due to its economic value - do they not also have that same desire to live and have a dignifies life? Who are we to trade the lives of others -so that we can play our games in the Capitalistic System?


Please investigate our proposals and research into Equal Money Capitalism.

Equal Money Capitalism will be the necessary transition step to as a global society towards establishing an Equal Money System as presented at www.equalmoney.org.

We are thus here starting a project of investigating what Capitalism should be like according to its very own principles - and thus, what requires to be adjusted within the current Capitalistic system to make it a system that works for everyone.


EQUAL MONEY CAPITALISM - THE WAY FORWARD


EQUAL MONEY CAPITALISM - REDEFINING PROFIT


EQUAL MONEY CAPITALISM - PREPARING THE ROAD FOR CHANGE

Day 83: International Crime Research: Killed for Kindness

In the South African newspaper 'Weekend Witness', December 22nd, there is an article about a man and his 24 year old passenger whom he was giving a lift to from work, who were attacked after he decided to give two hitchhikers a lift. The two men after getting in the car shot the man, and drove the woman off to a secluded area, where they raped her and abandoned her and the car.


The question that most will ask, after reading this article is why did the two men do this, as it is obvious that they were not doing it to steal the car for monetary gain, but rather these acts point towards spitefulness and the deliberate intention to cause harm to others.

There are many ways of looking at this event, as people try and make sense of why such things are happening, especially in South Africa where 'hate crimes' are a common place occurrence, after the apartheid regime. Now we are left on a global scale with the aftereffects and consequences of atrocities such as apartheid. Most countries have some dubious historical recollection of Abuse between various ethnical and political groups - and the outflow, as we have noticed is usually, mostly a retaliation for many generation by the group that was oppressed towards the oppressors or the state. What is not being learnt or grasped by anybody - as we are able to see by these vengeful acts - where unfortunately we will probably again one day see a hatred for young black men by those who have been victimised - where the cycles of race discrimination is merely going to repeat itself - is 'self responsibility'. Lets look at the example again of this murder and rape - which is a common place occurrence with South Africa; The two men responsible for the act - were doing so based probably on a combination of factors - as one will notice is the case in most of these attacks. In some cases it is due to them acting out towards society, for being oppressed within socio-economic lives that have cased them fear and distress, at other times it forms part of the 'new south african syndrome' which Criminologists discuss as being the result of the younger generation, who themselves were not even part of the abuse that was done to their parents and grandparents within the apartheid ear - but who are now part of a 'culture of violence' in which young people are feeding of the anger of the previous generations and allowing this to be their outlet for other angers, fears or in some cases expressions and outlets for boredom and alcohol/drug related actions.

So, let's look at these various factors involved and see how and when and to whom the responsibility belongs of directing the problem. Through the media and constant bombardment of picture, the youths are shown that it is 'cool' to take what you want and be who you want - now that apparently oppression is over with. This has also been the tactic of politicians to get the masses to vote for them as they promise 'opportunities' for all to have 'better lives' if they make it possible for that political part to be in power. This if one uses basic maths, has been a clear deception as no political party has thus far established any equality for people to have dignified lives by making it possible for all to have a decent income - as the politicians are only interested in yet again protecting the system fo capitalism, from which they themselves profit, so that the Elite may become richer and the only way to do this is obviously to maintain a gap between the rich and poor - because after all if everybody has the same stuff - then it would not be such a special experience for the Elite to have more stuff than other people.

Therefore,'doing what you want and being who you want' -in this current world system - requires money. So, what is not being explained to any young person being impulsed only with the luxurious life style they 'could have' are the technicalities behind getting what you want, as this would imply that those doing the explaining such as parents and educators would have to explain why the existing money system for example forces people into categories of life according to what money you have, which is dependent on what job you have and that for most people their incomes does not match their basic life necessities.

This the younger generations are seeing and understanding for themselves, as they are encouraged to 'think for themselves' -and this is mostly creating confusion, comparison, jealousy and eventually anger which fuels into rage as the person constantly uses backchat (internal conversations) to fuel the point through thinking and rationalising. Combine the socia-economic frustrations and angers from the parents and grandparents, with unmet desires - from constantly being bombarded through movies, celebrities, music and the media with pictures of wealth, comfort and accomplishment - and you are sitting with a generation that is explosive, to say the least. This problem is not going to go away - so getting back to the question of self responsibility - who is responsible for eventually one day, when human starts considering that there must be another way - for CHANGE? It is easy for us, living comfortable middle and upper class lives who are becoming the victims of such 'offenses' to say 'they must change' - as if the people acting out on their brainwashing and impulsing must just 'do what is best for all' - when there is really no incentive for them - as the entire point and motivation of such violent acts - is the only reward they know - within a contant life of survival and abuse.

Yes - the people responsible for these deeds will have their own responsibility to consider - but about the rest of us that agree to the existence of the dividing line between rich and poor and all the impulsing that goes around making those who do not have money jealous of those who have? What if it is not just a matter of having the next gucci hand bag - which probably wont drive you to acts of murder - but what if you grew up in a life where your parents could hardly feed you and basic survival such as a place to live safely is a constant concern? Let's place ourselves in the shoes of those who are acting out - what did we expect -when we created a system of capitalism, which functions specifically according to spitefulness, and driving people to madness basically as they are impulsed through pictures, constantly being driven from intense human emotions and feelings to points of desire and fear? Who takes responsibility for the system of capitalism that has been designed by all of us as the consumer? Yes - money is the reason why we do what we do in business - but it is the human's need for being driven from energy, addictions and the obsession with consuming that gives capitalists permission to basically 'do whatever they want' to make sure the public will participate in the movement of money. Who takes responsibility for the layers of value systems given to things like sexuality? Nobody wants to take responsibility for sexual addiction, and the porn industry and always points fingers at 'them', they did it' not realising yet again that any industry only exist because of the human. So we as the human have all given permission to the world systems and how they function and how they evolve - we are always the cause of it - therefore in society and within the human psyche if there is a evolution towards an outlet in relation to how the system directs people through education, the media, societal value systems - we cannot be surprised - as we are seeing the consequences of what we have accepted and allowed thus far.

So - here you have an example of a family pleading for the police to capture their fathers murderer and for justice to be served - the facts are that we will see these 'crimes' escalating more and more -as we have already noticed over the last 30 years or so. The question is - are we always going to pick up a newspaper and only feel pity and shock as we read yet again another horror story which only serves to sell a newspaper by stimulating human emotions and feelings -and has no other solution to the problem explained in the paper? When do we stop just reading these stories and start changing the systems behind why these problems occur? I mean, we all know that Capitalism functions according to influencing, stimulating and manipulating humans through wants, needs, desires and fears - so are we really so surprised then when people act on how they have been impulsed such as in this case where two young men raped and killed two people simply out of rage and spitefulness?

Join us in discussion on the Principles of an Equal Money System: http://equalmoney.org/

Day 60: Education Fraud Part 21 – Medicalization of the Education System Part 9 - Self-Forgiveness on 'Professionals involved in the medicalizing process' Part 2

This blog is a continuation from:

http://crimesjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/09/day-52-international-crime-research.html

http://crimesjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/09/day-53-education-fraud-part-14.html

http://crimesjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-54-education-fraud-part-15.html#

http://crimesjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-55-education-fraud-part-16.html

http://crimesjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-56-education-fraud-part-17.html

http://crimesjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-57-education-fraud-part-18.html#

http://crimesjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-58-education-fraud-part-19.html

http://crimesjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-59-education-fraud-part-20.html



If you have a moment I suggest read the following article:

http://www.academia.edu/1531137/Medicalization_Ambivalence_and_Social_Control_Mothers_Descriptions_of_Educators_and_ADD_ADHD

This blog's self-forgiveness is focussed on the content of the article, specifically the summary provided in

Day 58: Education Fraud Part 19 – Medicalization of the Education System Part 7 - Professionals involved in the medicalizing process.

" - the medicalization of ADD/ADHD was, at the time of the study, far more entrenched in Canada than in the UK in both professional and lay circles. It is not surprising, then, that mothers describe a high preparedness of teachers in Canada to accept the ADD/ADHD label when compared withdescriptions of UK educators."

I forgive myself as parent for accepting and allowing myself to be condition by and through society, doctors ans scientists into accepting the human condition as it currently exists, as a flawed organic robot, which exists as a consumer, fragile and waiting to die, requiring drugs and conventional thinking tied in with the morality code we have come to accept - even though we are able to see generations down the line that who we have accepted ourselves to be up until now, is not the image and likeness of self perfection - but a conglomeration of thought patterns dictated to us, to lull the human into accepting ourselves as needing to be fixed/guided/controlled.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself as parent to become and allow the same thoughts within my mind about how I should act, feel, think, believe ad function - as what is considered acceptable by the rest of society - not seeing, realizing and understanding the consequences of simply accepting what has thus far been accepted as 'normal' human behavior.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the condemnation that has been subjected onto and as humanity, as I also allow religion, beliefs and culture to dictate my every move, even though we have proven through time that religious and spiritual people have up until now not been able to change the psyche of the human, and instead hide behind words like jesus, god and the bible to not have to face our own creations and to take direct self responsibility.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to subject my child to this same self-brainwashing as I train my child from young into emotional and feeling addictive patterns - where I myself have come to believe that energy patterns of the mind are who we are supposed to be - without actually considering that the child who is born into the physical did not have all these emotion and feeling behaviors - and that through examples I trained the child to conjure up emotions and feelings within them, by linking these energetic reactions to pictures, words and experiences - thus trapping my child into a life time of manipulating self and other for emotion/feeling energy.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to train my child how to create characters to fit into this world and through this takes away from my child the ability to simply live, here in this physical reality, as the physical, moving and directing themselves here in the body - but making it about adjusting themselves into and as a persona - which comes from a blueprint created in moments through impressions -to fit into situations.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to train my children to accept themselves only if they are accepted for the characters they become, not realizing that these characters I trained them to become are not real - but simply like actors preparing for a role - where the child firstly imprints the energetic experience of the character with the thoughts around why and what the character is - which is connected to what the character will support the child in being able to do in the specific environment the character is stimulated within.

and it is for this reason, that as adult I sit and watch what the media does, what the education system says and what the scientists agree on - what is best for my child - because I have already submitted my thinking and the character creation process I go through to 'the authorities' who claim to do what is best for all - but in essence are only protecting an industry, which is designed to design the human into a functional organic system that requires the mind-system to function. Once the being accepts the Mind to function - we no longer exist in our physical bodies, equal and one to the body and are therefore trapped slowly through time, as we grow up into the mind as thoughts, feelings, emotions and backchat, which create systematic responses that then require of the bing to keep participating in these systems, due to the Mind functioning according to Energy. Therefore after a while, as we can now see happening to our children, the being becomes obsessed and dependent on certain behaviors and patterns, which allow them to constantly feed the energy patterns of the mind

this is why we see children for example becoming highly, obsessively addicted to tv games, cell phones, conversations, gossip, jealousy, fashion, trends, communication, sports, socializing, drugs, alcohol, activities - anything that constantly stimulates the mind to create energy.

therefore

we create energy junkies out of our children - and then claim as the parents that we dont know how our children became obsessive and out of control as they stop valuing life and only seek the next energy high - as we see happening more and more in more evolved forms on the internet and news everyday

That is why

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself as adult to patiently listen to the scientists and accept any new law, therapy or diagnosis they have for my children, because I have already just like watching and engineer, engineer machines - watched as my children have through my direct participation, been turned into machines of the Mind - where everything that the child does, wants, desires and fears is linked to and because of a system of energy that is directing the child through thoughts to act according to the parameters/guidelines of the system.

If you are not clear on how the Mind is designed with regards to the points indicated above, I suggest read the Heaven's Journey to Life blogs - these blogs are written from the Interdimensional perspective looking into the exact minuscule, exact design of how the mind was created, how we evolve the mind, why we use the mind and how the Human exists paralel to how the current world system functions:

http://heavensjourneytolife.blogspot.com/

For more information on the Human and our behaviors:

http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/



I commit myself to when I start fearing living in the physical body as the Physical, instead of the Mind-System, to stop and breathe and to realize my commitment to Life as myself.

I commit myself, that when and as I become afraid for my child due to thoughts and backchat that starts running about 'how will my child survive in the system', to stop and breathe, and realize that the Mind-System as indicated in my reaction, is designed to survive and that it will use backchat, thoughts and idealized or feared pictures as moments (memories) to capture my attention and bring me back into the energetic pattern of fearing the what ifs, due to me giving permission to the feeling of fear that moves through my body.

I commit myself, when my my mind repeats the feeling as energy of fear, to stop and breathe and realize that the experience is not real and in any given moment I am able to stop the experience, just as I originally allowed the experience to 'come up inside me'

I commit myself as parent to stop judging my child and to stop allowing my own backchat and fear in relation to the system rejecting my child and my child dying if I do not follow the guidelines of the 'experts'

I commit myself as parent to become the director of my relationship with my own mind and body and from there to self purify my own relationship with myself, into a living expression of the physical.

I commit myself to walk this process of self purification, equal and one with my child and to not allow fear and the what if backchat inner conversations, to direct how I support my child's development.

Cool Quote for the day:

"with the Birth of a Child, the Physical Body which is a Quantum Physical Machine, integrates the Mind as a copy from the parents (you can see this with a Feral child where the child is brought up by a wolf, they will copy the Mind of a wolf) - with this happening by the time the child start using the Mind and categorizing the words, pictures, and energy design into a coherent story, which will eventually become the story that is thoughts, words, language, culture, religion, the child is already lost within and as the Mind and the connection with the Original Life Force as the Physical Body is already lost. Therefore, any and all communication within any and all points as Energy, as the Mind, as Spirituality, as Consciousness, is the result of a preprogrammed design, specifically and deliberately placed to Control the Story to be what Heaven wants it to be, and from this, through time, developed our present day media in all its forms - doing exactly the same: as above so below. "

http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/10/day-180-after-death-communications-part.html



Source:

 Malacrida C, "Medicalization, Ambivalence and Social Control: Mothers’ Descriptions of Educators and ADD/ADHD." Academia.edu. Publication Date: Jan 1, 2004. Accessed on 8 Oct 2012.

Day 42: International Crime Research: Education Fraud Part 4 – the Recession

This is a follow up on: http://crimesjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/09/day-41-international-crime-research.html#

I suggest watch the following Documentary:

The College Conspiracy 

From the transcription of the Documentary I will draw information for the application of self-forgiveness on the current Education System of the World:

“College tuition has seen a five point one five percent annual price inflation over the past five years. This is despite the fact that the US real estate prices are down twenty six percent from their peak in july of 2006 and the dow jones is down 18% from its peak in october of 2007. Even oil is down 38% from its peak in july of two thousand eight. During the financial crisis of two thousand eight Americans lost ten point two trillion dollars in paper wealth. College is the only thing in America besides the cost of health care they did not temporarily decline in price.     

Gerald Celente from Trends Research Institute: “Inflation has made it impossible. When I was a kid you never heard parents say “we're planning and putting money away for your education because it's going to cost us a hundred thousand dollars and we have to keep putting that money away, so that when you graduate not only will you not pay us back – your not even going to get a job.”   Over just a two year period from December of 2007 through December 2009 eight million three hundred sixty three thousand jobs in America were lost, or one percent of total jobs. One year later in December of 2010 thanks to the federal reserve in the US government, spending four point six trillion dollars on bailouts stimulus programs and other government spending, one point one two four million jobs in America or point nine percent of total jobs has been recovered. That is over four million dollar spent for each job created.
 As we move deeper into this great recession, as inflation continues to skyrocket, the reality of the great depression will come in because people will realize that all that worthless money you have cannot buy you much of anything. You are going to see more and more people believing that by going to college that's going to be their passport to the future. Its not what it use to be - a college degree – what will that buy you?”

Before continuing with the Self-Forgiveness on the Education Scam, let first look at ‘the Recession’:

"RECESSION IN SIMPLE TERMS"

Source: http://mmohsin.blogspot.com/

 "A recession is a prolonged period of time where a nation's economy is slowing down or as the economists usually put it contracting. This slow down is actually characterized by a number of different trends, some of those trends are: People buying less stuffDecrease in factory productionGrowing unemploymentSlump in personal incomeAn unhealthy stock market But just because the economy is slowing down or contracting that doesn't automatically mean that there is a recession going on. In fact according to the actual definition of a recession the slowdown in the economy actually has to last for at least six months or two consecutive quarters. But even though we have a definition of what a recession is and we understand what it means to be in a recession, this definition actually causes more questions than it actually answers. The reason for this is that even though we talk about the US economy or any economy as an independent entity, it is actually the result of millions of people's actions. And economists use all sorts of terms to describe the connection between people's actions and the economy as a whole. But even though they use all sorts of terms you can get the basic understanding of how people's actions are connected to the economy as a whole by looking at a few basic concepts. Those concepts are: producers, consumers, markets, supply and demand. 

Understanding producers and consumers

To put it in simple terms a nation's economy is the production and consumption of goods (food, clothes, cars, etc) and services (repairs, haircuts, lawn care, etc) in that particular nation. And basically anybody who is producing or consuming the goods or services in that nation plays some kind of role in that nation's economy. What this boils down to is that a nation is dependent on both businesses and consumers; businesses produce the goods and services, while consumers actually purchase the goods or use the services. In fact this all boils down to the fact that production and consumption are intertwined, basically one cannot exist without the other. The reason for this is that in order for people to be able to consume things you actually need to have someone or something producing the things that the people are consuming. And in order to produce things you are going to need to consume things. A great example of needing to consume things in order to produce things is the fact that if you are producing clocks you are going to need to consume people's labor to make those clocks and you are going to be consuming natural resources when you are running the plant to produce those clocks.  

Understanding markets 

In the United States rather than being a market economy we are actually a modified market economy. But in either case in both types of economies production and consumption are connected in various markets. And in both cases a market is simply a place where consumers can go to buy things from producers and producers can go to sell things to consumers. In fact in most economies there are two basic kinds of markets, a physical market and an abstract market. But the most interesting thing to note is that in most cases everybody is going to be a producer and a consumer, but to be each of these they are going to be acting in different markets. A physical market is where producers and consumers can go to buy and sell their goods. A great example of a physical market is a grocery store. The reason for this is that with a grocery store people can go to the store if they are looking to consume food. At the store they can purchase the food from the producers, but in most cases they are purchasing it through a series of middlemen. Two great examples of the abstract market are the labor market and the stock market. With the labor market businesses who want to consume work pay people to produce labor. And with the stock market people and businesses or consumers and producers buy and sell percentages of ownership for various companies.
Understanding supply and demandBasically the goal of every producer is to make money and in order to make money the producer is going to need to sell their product at a higher price than what it cost them to make the product. And with consumers their main goal is to buy the products for the cheapest price possible. This is where supply and demand comes into play in the economy. In any kind of market the action of both the producers and consumers determine the value of goods and services, basically the actions determine the price that is paid for goods and services. The producers are the ones who actually set the price of the products, but they set the price based on how their consumers are behaving. What this boils down to is if a product is not selling than the producer knows that the price is too high so they are going to need to lower it. But if a product is selling, but not selling quickly the producers know they have two options, lower the price again or decrease the supply of the product. How the consumers affect the price of the product is through demand, either they want the product or they don't. Producers need to pay close attention to the demand when pricing products, but even if there is a high demand for a certain product the producers still need to keep the price as low as possible because all the consumers need to do is buy it from somebody else. 

How these factors work in a growing economy and a contracting economy

The first thing that you need to know about a growing economy is that in this type of economy consumer demand is actually increasing more than it is decreasing. And since there is an increasing demand producers are going to want to increase supply. But in order to increase supply producers are going to need to increase their consumption of other goods and services, including labor.  What this boils down to is that when labor increases people can get paid more for their work, which in turn means they have more money to spend on various products and services. And because people have more money to spend this means that demand is going to increase even more. And if the demand increases enough producers can actually increase their prices, in a hope of decreasing the demand a little bit. Overall in a growing economy both consumers and producers feel good about the growing economy and tend to make numerous investments because they know that if things keep going the way they have been their investment is going to increase in value. But history of the economy has actually proven that no economy can expand forever, there just comes a time when the economy has to contract. And a prolonged period of contraction is known as a recession and as most of us know if the recession lasts for a prolonged period of time, several years, it is then referred to as a depression. In fact there are all kinds of things that can change the course of the economy, which can lead to a recession. One huge factor that plays a role in a recession is the confidence level of the millions of consumers and producers. Basically if they stop feeling confident about the economy, including job security or the value of their investments, they are not going to buy as much stuff. But another thing that can help to start a recession is over-production, which means there is more supply of a product then there is demand for a product. But no matter what the cause of the recession basically what happens is that people lose their jobs because the demand for products and services are not there. And when people lose their jobs they tend to spend as little money as possible because they need that money to live on. But also people who are working are affected because they are afraid that they might not be working much longer so rather than spend money on products and services they are going to save that money just in case they lose their job. In a contracting economy what happens is rather than spiraling upwards everything is spiraling downwards. 

More: Reasons for Global Recession: In plain simple English

Next Blog: ‘Self Forgiveness on ‘The Recession’

Also see:

Day 73: Living the Dream is the Purpose of Life

http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/06/day-73-living-dream-is-purpose-of-life.html

Day 96: Advertising Success Secrets or Economic Doom?

http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-96-advertising-success-secrets-or.html

Day 75: Jesus had a Neat Trick with the Rich

http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/06/day-75-jesus-had-neat-trick-with-rich.html

DAY 84: FISCAL POLICY AND THE BUDGET

http://economistjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/08/day-84-fiscal-policy-and-budget.html#.UE3bbaT26Fc

Sources:

Mohammed, Mohsin. “Recession in Simple Terms.” [http://mmohsin.blogspot.com/].  Retrieved on: 10 September 2012.

“College Conspiracy.” Top Documentary Films. [http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/college-conspiracy/].  Retrieved on 10 September 2012.

Day 7: South African Crime Research - The Voice of the Victim

The Victim Impact statement

The Victim Impact statement is used within South African law, as a written document by a victim, whom is the person who suffered personal harm (physical, psychological, social and financial) as a direct result of an offense (The South African Law Commission 2002:68). 

A victim impact statement differs from the general victim testimony in court, as it allows the victim to ‘personalize the crime’ and to ‘express their anguish, pain and devastation caused to them, so that the consequences of the crime may be understood by all involved in the law proceedings.

A criminologist compiles the victim impact statement to contribute towards a ‘more balanced view’ between the various components such as the seriousness of the offense, the physical harm, psychological harm, evidence provided, testimonies. Therefore the purpose of the victim impact statement is for those involved in the law proceedings to get a glimpse into the actual experience of the victim, as a means of grasping the seriousness of the crime on the life of a victim. (Criminology and Security Science 2012: 77 – 85) 

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the existence of crime within my world.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing no real solutions to be found for the existence of crime and to instead have to manipulate the jurors and judges through emotions and feelings to find it within them to relate to the victim and punish the perpetrator, without any clear understanding of how and why crime exists.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the existence of victim impact statements, instead of getting to the direct cause of why people commit crimes and to address the issue directly, equally for all.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the use of inner conflict within beings to fuel the current situation within the world based on anger and fear towards each other.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to stand firstly for the end of all crime, by ending all crimes against life, as that which I have already manifested as the world systems, which by definition abuses and separates and forces people into abusive lives, which then has the outflow and consequence of further abuse.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing ignorance to exist within me as an idea and opinion that bad people commit crime and should be punished.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realize that the real evil that exists in this world are those who stand by and enjoy the fruits of the abuse that is done towards the humans, animals and planet earth whom are in positions and whom have no say and have no choice but to survive.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the capitalistic system, on which we have built this deceitful acceptance of abusing beings on this planet for the profit and greed of a minority while the rest of us as the elite who benefit from capitalist, sit back and pretend ignorance.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing money to be the driving force behind everything I do on this planet, as the driving force of me as survival.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing money to be my life and that which motivates me, instead of me being motivated to live life and to see life equally being lived by all, with no fear and hatred and greed being the driving force of myself.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing greed to exist in this world and to use that as an excuse for why we can force billions of beings into survival daily where most do not have sufficient needs met, forcing many into survival based abusive practices to feed themselves and their families.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the period of waiting to see what happens, where the end result is people having to write out emotional letters placing themselves as further victims within the system, instead of priority being given to the welfare of each.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to ignore the effect that our current world system has on the beings that inhabit this planet, and instead of acting to solve the problems, to postpone the inevitable, waiting generation after generation for suffering to compound until it is too late.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself as the victim, the one that waits for somebody else to change my world, to change me and to stand up for the life within me.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to be the victim, because growing up I believed I was nothing and that some god or man would come and take care of me, through which I abdicated my self-responsibility and my self-will – to stand before the system dependent and without a voice, accepting life without question.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself as the perpetrator – the one that wants to take from others, without considering and applying myself here within practical self-responsibility.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the existence of the perpetrator within me, the hiding and sulking and blaming others for the decisions I have made in my life.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to become the judge and jury who judge others for their actions, without considering my part in this reality and that which I have directly and tacitly agreed to by accepting out current reality as it is.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself as the perpetrator – the one that wants to take from others, without considering and applying myself here within practical self-responsibility.

I commit myself within equality to stop the abuse that I allow in my world in the name of greed and self-interest.

I commit myself through writing to reveal that within my world, within myself which does not serve life on this planet.

I commit myself to reveal to myself the practices and ideologies that are based on lies and deception.

I commit myself to stop emotionally feeding off the suffering of others in the name of self-entertainment.

I commit myself to re-write myself as the living word into a being that can be trusted and who will stand for all life, and to serve life as what is best for all.

I commit myself to stop the crimes against life that I have come to accept as myself – where I live in a world where starvation and abuse is acceptable because we make money from it.

I commit myself to find ways to stop any and all forms of abuse and to not ‘beat around the bush’ about why crime exist, but to directly see and communicate the lies we have come to accept as our society, for all to see and hear.

I commit myself to stop the genocide of life, before it is too late and there is nothing left of us but our ugly nasty entity minds that devour and consume everything round us.

I commit myself to stop participating in the rotten child syndrome, through which we feed of the spoils of the earth, watching countless beings suffer and crying for mercy once it is too late.

I commit myself to see, hear and understand what it is that I am required to do to bring about a dignified life for all.

I commit myself to not accept the existence of crime as normal and to not accept any justification for abuse and crime, as no reason could possibly exist for us to abuse each other, this planet and nature.

I commit myself to stop participating in the energy reactions of listing to someone’s crime story in which I allow my curiosity to have reactions direct me to maintain my world of abuse and torture where I will deliberately turn a blind eye to what is happening in my world because it stimulates my mind.

I commit myself to bring about a world system that is best for all, so that all may have their basics needs met and have equal opportunity to love and express here in dignity and in full expression of life as the physical.

I commit myself to bring about a new economic system that will benefit all who live on this planet and to transform my old ways of living and being as the crime against life into something new – which will be the living manifestation of what is best for all.