I was supposed to participate in the new Filmonik workshop this week but for the past couple of days I've had a strange fever that seems to come and go. It's quite unusual, other people can actually feel the heat coming off of my skin like a tummo meditator yet I'm not sweating. I've had some problems with my memory, my coordination and I feel like sleeping for the next week but instead I'll stay in bed and write.
During this precious recovery time I've been looking at the statcounter of my human rights ezine World Women International and I've noticed some hits from surprising locations during the summer period. On the 9th of August at 16:10 GMT I had a hit from The Boeing Company, the world's largest weapons manufacturer ($28,050,000,000 in military equipment sales annually) from the IP address 130.76.32.144, which tells me that it was from their Everett Factory, the world's largest structure by volume where they assemble most of their "goods." The second unusual hit was only a week later from the headquarters of the Northrop Grumman Corporation, the world's second largest weapons manufacturer ($27,590,000,000 in military equipment sales annually) on the 16th of August 2010 at 18:08 GMT from their headquarters in California, IP address 157.127.155.214.
It warms my heart that large weapon's manufacturers are interested in international women's rights. Corporate social responsibility is increasing ever more these days, benefiting the business world in so many ways, providing a perspective broader and more far reaching than their own immediate, short-term profits.
The blokes at Boeing were particularly interested in my editorial “The Dichotomy of Women's Rights in Indonesia” whilst the employees of Northrop Grumman were more interested in my article “Rape As A Political Weapon.” I envisage the social enlightenment they provided spreading like wildfire throughout their companies, transforming their thoughts to new postulates of corporate social responsibility that will metamorphosize the way they do business.
Now I'm going to have a cup of Ayurvedic Chocolate Tea and talk to my cat whilst I work on my new novel “The Souls of Objects,” a story about spiritual awakening, sexual politics, compartmentalization, altered consciousness and the search for meaning in a world where it seems even souls can become objects...
