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Gentlemen, Let’s Be Well!

Dr. Michael LaitmanThe new society that exists in balance with the laws of nature will not face any everyday problems. We will reach a state where people will be physically healthy because physical problems are the consequence of our opposition to nature.

We do not understand what it is to live a proper and good life. Phobias and fears are feelings that keep us from doing certain harmful deeds and stimulate a corresponding social behavior. However, in an integrated system, all social phobias disappear.

The system of mutual, integrated inner dependence operates the same way as the system of our organism, when all its parts work in unison. Each part does what it needs to do and supports the common organism. This way, it remains healthy. The same applies to society. A healthy society where everyone has his place seems to shine its inner strength on everyone and maintains us in a healthy state.

Health is the balance of all inner parameters of a human organism, such as blood pressure, sugar level, and so forth. When we come into balance with all of nature, we restore the balance in us.

All of nature is based only on balance. Any law is a law of balance. Any formulas that we find basically become one formula: our inner balance with nature, when we really enter it like an integral part.

Animals existing in normal conditions do not get sick. They only suffer and fall ill because we introduce abnormalities into nature and deviate from it.

All problems only derive from man because he is the highest degree of development after the still, vegetative, and animate levels of nature. The level of “man” affects all the lower levels, and this is why we are the source of problems for the entire world. The extent to which we will aspire toward integration will determine the condition of the rest of the world.
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From a TV Program “The Integral World” 10/30/2011

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The Army May Be Used To Suppress People’s Resistance

Dr. Michael LaitmanIn the News (from American Free Press): “In November 2010, CNBC’s Eamon Javers had this to say about last year’s exercise: ‘Ever since the crash of 2008, the defense-intelligence establishment has been paying a lot of attention to global markets and how they can serve as a threat to U.S. national security interests.’

“Javers went on to report: ‘The Army is having a very interesting yearlong exercise called Unified Quest 2011. In that war-gaming series, the Army is looking at the implications of a large-scale economic breakdown in the U.S. that would force the Army to keep domestic order amid civil unrest and deal with global fragmented power and drastically lower budgets.’

“Officials picked the scenario of a worldwide economic collapse because it was deemed a plausible course of events given the current global security environment. In such a future, the United States would be broke, causing a domino effect that would push economies across the globe into chaos.”

“According to Army Lt. Col. Mark Elfendahl, these were some of the conclusions drawn during a three-day session connected to that exercise: ‘The Army would have to significantly alter its ‘investment portfolio,’ focusing on light and inexpensive forces… an increased focus on domestic activities might be a way of justifying whatever Army force structure the country can still afford.’

“‘The only silver lining,’ concluded the article, is that ‘the Army would have an influx of qualified recruits as the result of an unemployment rate of 25 and 30 percent.’

“Tracing the government’s contingency plans back even further—to 2008—we find The Washington Post and Russia Today both reporting on the Pentagon’s plans to train 20,000 troops by 2011 to help as a response to threats of a possible mass terror attack or civil unrest following an economic collapse.

“In July, Shepard Ambelas wrote for the popular alternative news website The Intel Hub that the Pentagon’s 2008 announcement dovetails ‘into the current troop and equipment movements around the country reported by truckers as well as many troop sightings by citizens.’”

My Comment: Namely in order to prevent clashes between exasperated citizens and the authorities, we suggest creating a wide education and upbringing network for newly unemployed and, in general, for all citizens in advance. Only this will allow everyone to understand the new world that is being born and what exactly the new circumstances require from us. This will help us go through the birth of the new society of mutual guarantee peacefully.
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Unemployment: Is There Light At The End Of The Tunnel?

Dr. Michael LaitmanOpinion: (Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman): ‘“I do think that a considerable part of the unemployment that we are seeing is cyclical. Final comment, cyclical unemployment left untreated, so to speak, for a long time can become structural unemployment as people lose skills, they lose attachment to the labor force.’

‘“Unemployment is far too high. Inequality, which is not a new phenomenon – increases in inequality have been going on for at least 30 years – but as that has continued, we have a more unequal society than we’ve had in the past.”’

My Comment: Unemployment and inequality will continue to grow until market capitalism is replaced by the system of mutual guarantee with reasonable consumption. We can come to it through wars or through a deliberate change.
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Stanley Fischer Reassured The World

Dr. Michael LaitmanOpinion: (Stanley Fischer, Bank of Israel Governor): “Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer believes the Israeli economy is in a ‘relatively good condition’ compared to the global economic crisis.

Speaking in a press conference he convened on Tuesday to discuss the recent economic developments in the world, Fischer said Israel ‘can ride through this period successfully if we run the economy in a responsible and organized manner.

“As for the global economy’s situation, Fischer said, ‘The situation in the US is reasonable. It’s not good, but there is growth and no foreseeable danger, at least in the short term, for the US to enter another recession. Talks are of a 2.5% growth in 2012 – that’s not impressive and not close to the potential growth rate, but it’s a relatively good growth rate.’

“‘The forecast for all of Europe hasn’t dropped much since the beginning of the year. The expectation for European growth next year is less than 0.5% – that’s not a recession, but an undesirable situation.'”

My Comment: I present a variety of “opinions” so that later we can see how mistaken a person is in the vision of the world he lives in.
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The Crisis In The EU Hit Cocaine Consumers

In the News (from EMCDDA): “The ‘Annual report 2011: the state of the drug problem in Europe’ shows drug use to be relatively stable in Europe, with some positive signs that cocaine use may have peaked and that cannabis use continues to decline among young people.

“Recent surveys of cocaine use reveal some positive signs in countries most affected. Denmark, Spain, Italy and the UK for example — four of the five countries with highest levels of use — report some decline in last-year cocaine use among young adults (15–34 years), echoing the trend observed in Canada and the United States. Recent targeted surveys in recreational settings in some countries have also shown a decrease in cocaine use.

“‘The financial burden associated with regular cocaine use may make it a less attractive option in countries where austerity is now the order of the day,’ states the report. The average retail price of cocaine in most EU countries ranges between EUR 50 and EUR 80 per gram.”
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What A Bazaar!

Dr. Michael LaitmanIn the News (from Bloomberg Businessweek): “When Tuvalu, a string of atolls in the Pacific Ocean with a population of 11,000, received fresh water from a Russian-backed breakaway region of Georgia last month, the emergency shipment had strings attached.

“While Georgia lifted its veto over Russia joining the World Trade Organization last month, their conflict is now playing out 9,000 miles away in the Pacific Ocean. So far four countries acknowledged the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the separatist state Russia and Georgia went to war over in 2008. Abkhazia has approached a total of 14 countries in the region, including Fiji, [Juris] Gulbis [Abkhazia’s ambassador to the Asia-Pacific] said.

The other three countries that have given official recognition are Nauru, another Pacific island, and Nicaragua and Venezuela in Latin America.

“Pacific island nations are used to bartering recognition for aid, after exploiting competition between China and Taiwan, said Fergus Hanson, research fellow at the Sydney-based Lowy Institute for International Policy.

“Australia, which along with New Zealand is a major donor to the South Pacific region, is urging Russia to desist from effectively bribing Pacific nations to align with its interests.”

My Comment: That is the way international “recognition” is bought!
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The Collapse Of Europe Has Begun

Opinion: (Beatrice di Mauro, a member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s council of economic advisers, from Süddeutsche Zeitung): “Policy makers are making effort to tame the debt crisis. Yet, it is the eurozone that is under the biggest threat. The crisis can also spread to the rest of the world…

“The debt reduction only works long term. Our goal is that in about two decades, the national debt in all eurozone countries is 60% of their GDP.

“With regard to the collapse of the EU, it has long since begun. For ten years, there has been an illusion that a single currency means a single zone. Now, the national vision of problems is dominant everywhere, and it turns out that the last 10 years have passed in vain….”
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The Birth Of A New State

Dr. Michael LaitmanWe see that over the course of the last several decades that the world is starting to understand that it is interconnected and interdependent, that everyone has certain responsibilities in relation to one another, and that the world’s socio-political system must reach a certain balance.

For now, wars continue and we keep hearing explosions. But this is exactly how Earth was born as it went through consecutive states of development: explosions, periods of cooling down and warming up, with the creation of craters, volcanoes, ice ages, and so on. All these are stages of the birth of a new state.

If we manage to accelerate our development and soften it, we will reach a balanced state much quicker. Just like over time Earth reached balance (the lithosphere and life formed on it, and so on), the same way human society will eventually reach the necessary balance after a number of cataclysms.

Balance is built on a connection between us, and this connection must be universal. Today we are discovering that nature is obligating us to be this way.

We must restructure ourselves and our relationships, and then we will reach a completely different society. Once we reach balance with the general nature, we will see how our interconnection on the level of human society has a positive influence on all of nature, and it will begin to recover from the damage we have caused it.
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From a TV Program “The Integral World” 10/30/2011

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Millionaires Ask Congress To Raise Their Taxes

Dr. Michael LaitmanIn the News (from CNN): “A group of two dozen millionaires stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday, demanding lawmakers raise their taxes.

“‘We want to pay more taxes,’ said California millionaire Doug Edwards, a former marketing director for Google (GOOG, Fortune 500). ‘If you’re fortunate, and you make more than a million dollars a year, you ought to pay more taxes.’

“The millionaires want Congress to allow the tax cuts passed during the George W. Bush administration to expire. Some want higher taxes generally.”

My Comment: “It is better to give willingly, proudly, and less than have them take everything,” the instinct of survival says. But this will not help. The only thing that can help is a quick investment of their funds in educating the public about life in the new world of moderate and reasonable consumption and the fostering of unity of people towards similarity with an integral world.
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The 21st Century Is Critical

Opinion: (Mikhail Gorbachev, the former first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union): “The XXI century will be a сentury either of total all-embracing crisis or of moral and spiritual healing that will reinvigorate humankind. It is my conviction that all of us – all reasonable political leaders, all spiritual and ideological movements, all faiths – must help in this transition to a triumph of humanism and justice, in making the XXI century a century of a new human renaissance.”
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