In the News (from Ynetnews): “Several anti-Semitic incidents have been reported during the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York as Jews were blamed for the turmoil in America’s financial markets. In addition, anti-Israel signs were raised against ‘Israel’s occupation of Gaza.’

“The Emergency Committee for Israel has published a hard-to-watch clip in which Jews are attacked and blamed for the financial crisis and assistance to Israel.

“It should be noted that the video is political in nature and seeks to tie President Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to the protesters, urging them to ‘stand up to the mob.’

“The White House, on its part, is trying to take advantage of the demonstrations against Wall Street while the anti-Obama camp is attempting to tie the protesters to the far Left and Israel’s enemies.

“In the clip, a young demonstrator is seen arguing with an older Jewish man wearing a yarmulke. At one point, the young man says: ‘I work, earn seven dollars an hour. You have the money. You don’t speak English? You are from Israel? Go back to Israel.’

“Another African-American protester accuses the Jews of taking over America. ‘The smallest group in America controls the money, media, and all other things. The fingerprints belong to the Jewish bankers. I am against Jews who rob America. They are one percent who control America. President Obama is a Jewish puppet. The entire economy is Jewish. Every federal judge in the East Coast is Jewish.’”

My Comment: According to Kabbalah, after the capitalist system, we can continue our development along the evolutionary chain by moving either towards Nazism and World War III or towards communism, which can be reached through the establishment of the society of mutual guarantee. Hence, it is not surprising that similar slogans appear in the U.S., especially since there is no shortage of instigators, and the government is active.

The previous post “One Super-Corporation Runs The World” helps us to examine whether the instigators are right or indeed nobody rules the world!
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Opinion: (Irina Hakamada, economist, from utro.ru): “’The U.S. economy is already in recession, Europe is experiencing tremendous debt pressure on the government, thus inevitably, the wave of recession will spread to Russia, and unpopular measures will be required.’

“’In Russia, 1 percent of the population consumes more than 50 percent of national income. We have an unjust society, and it is bad for many people. So I think that if the second wave of the crisis will cover Russia, it will again hit the middle class, who will lose jobs and will get burned with loans and mortgages.”

My Comment: However, due to the slave mentality of the population, the remnants of serfdom, and the habitual obedience during the Soviet era, the strengthening of nationalist and other circles or protests are unlikely.

By the way, this is for the better because it allows for immediately starting the search for new solutions—in the unity of society, similarity to nature, bringing Vernadsky’s ideas to life, and building in reality what was only spoken about during the Soviet years. Back then, the authorities forced it by power, artificially, and thus the people resisted, but today Nature compels us to reach mutual guarantee. There is no other alternative to survive.
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Statistics (from The American Dream): “A new Sesame Street character that is poverty-stricken and hungry is not the only unusual sign that things have changed in America.

“-Things are so bad in America that now Hallmark is actually offering a 6 card line of ‘job loss’ greeting cards.

“-Things are so bad in America that now gangster rappers are actually making rap videos about using food stamps.

“-Things are so bad in America that the number of Americans that are submitting applications for temporary work visas in Canada has approximately doubled since 2008.

“-Things are so bad in America that thieves are now stealing air conditioners, drain covers, hair extensions and even embalming fluid.’

“But things are especially bad for children.

“The following are some jaw-dropping statistics about how children are faring in our declining economy….

“The poverty rate for children living in the United States increased to 22% in 2010.  That means that tonight more than one out of every five U.S. children is living in poverty.

“Right now, one out of every four American children is on food stamps.

“There are 314 counties in the United States where at least 30% of the children are facing food insecurity.

“In Washington D.C., the ‘child food insecurity rate’ is 32.3%.

“More than 20 million U.S. children rely on school meal programs to keep from going hungry.

“Approximately one-third of the entire population of Alabama is now on food stamps.

“The number of Americans that are going to food pantries and soup kitchens has increased by 46% since 2006.

“It is being projected that approximately 50 percent of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point in their lives before they reach the age of 18.

“Last year, the number of Americans living in poverty increased by an all-time record 2.6 million.

“It is estimated that up to half a million children may currently be homeless in the United States.

“More than 45 million Americans are now on food stamps.  The number of Americans on food stamps has increased 74% since 2007.

“Sometimes it is hard to believe that this is still the United States of America.

“Aren’t we supposed to be the most prosperous nation on the planet? Sadly, it looks like things are starting to take a turn for the worse once again. U.S. employers announced 212 percent more job cuts this September than they did last September.

“America is changing, and not for the better.

“Unless fundamental changes are made, our economy is going to continue to deteriorate and a lot more people are going to suffer.”
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In the News (from InoPressa, originally published in The Times): “Politicians were negligent by allowing the euro-zone crisis to spread. Now they are finally considering radical and necessary measures, including debt restructuring.

“The creation of the euro has become one of the greatest political mistakes of today. …Now, the world leaders can only reduce the damage. Judging by the measures proposed at the IMF summit in Washington…, politicians, at least, understand the importance and scale of the problem. This step… gives some hope that the right decisions will be made.

“The scheme of saving the euro has to be precise. According to the preliminary data, it will consist of three elements: a write-down of as much as 50 percent of Greek sovereign debt, the strengthening of the reserves of European banks, and a significant expansion of the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF), a temporary rescue fund to save the euro, from 440 billion euros to around 2 trillion euros. … While the omens are not good, European governments are taking their time, and investors lack confidence.

“But this is the only logical course of stabilization of the euro zone and prevention of an economic collapse at even larger scale… Politicians are aware of this. Now, they must act.”

My Comment: Of course, all these measures will cushion the blows of the crisis because they are the actions of unity. But they do not solve the problem because the crisis manifests in our egoistic relationships on purpose so that we replace our egoistic relationships with mutual guarantee, bestowal, connection, and unity, meaning so that we change ourselves!
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Question: How do you separate the mind that you have received at birth from the acting higher mind?

Answer: Our life experience will gradually show us that our corporeal mind is not worth anything. Even though we still exalt it because it’s the only thing that elevates us above animals.

However, in the end we see that our mind and intellectual abilities are bringing us to a life worse than that of the animals. We are constantly in a state of fear, concern, worries, tension, and a thousand different calculations. We cause our illnesses and poison our environment. What other animal ruins their environment like this?

We intentionally create enemies and haters around us. Who else does this other than man? Ultimately, all our actions bring us to destruction. The mind makes man the worst and a truly unhappy animal. How does it help us?

We are slowly coming to these conclusions, even though it’s not easy to agree with them. This is the mind that we have received from nature which determines all our desires and inclinations. We need to decide with our mind (head) and in our desires (heart) that all of this only hurts us, and it would be better to not even use them at all.

Humanity gradually started discovering this. Our desire to develop science has disappeared because it does not give us the feeling of a happier life. And in our days humankind is entering a new system of relations, and it will soon reveal itself to us and show us our absolute connection and dependence upon one another.

We are in a common system that binds our hands and feet, and neither feelings nor mind can help us. If I am chained to billions of other people, connected with invisible threads in a way that makes me unable to make a single independent move, then how can my sensitivity and intellect help me? After all, from the very start, I am unable to make the slightest move that I choose to make in such system.

I suddenly discover that I am simply a rivet, a tiny element in the system, forced to act and left with no freedom. I can flap as much as I want, but all my moves only exist in my imagination; I only think that I am changing things. But in reality we are in a firm and well-balanced system, and no one is asking for our opinion.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/2011, “The Acting Mind”

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We have been created with qualities that do not allow us to create a healthy, balanced society. No matter how much we try, our actual essence denies us this opportunity.

Even if all of humanity really wants to bring things into order on their own, the initial defect within us will destroy all the efforts. We can spend a million years going around the idea of unity, but we will not be able to realize it. Only the upper Light can do it. Our own “initiatives” will only add problems.

There are seven billion of us, and our egoism has been growing over the course of history. We have finally become a “round” system that our egoism has united into. Today, we see the screws tightening this system. We see it compress, become tighter, and we see it revealing new connections between us.

This interconnection did not manifest before, but now it is coming out. We will mark the beginning of this process as the year 1995, even though Baal HaSulam wrote in the forties that the world had become one family.

It will be 2012 soon, and the system is consolidating before our eyes. New continuous and reciprocal threads of connections are coming through. Reciprocity is mutual guarantee, no matter how it manifests, whether in a positive or a negative way.

This way, Nature obligates us to unite, and it will continue to act in a timely manner through suffering. The question is what kind of compression and pressure will be needed for us to say: “Enough, it’s time to do something with society.” However, so far, we are gripped in a vice only slightly.

One way or another, only the upper Light that Reforms will be able to give us peace. Only it will reveal the proper interconnection to us and change us so that we would want to unite or, to be more precise, to accept what already exists.

After all, we are connected, but against our will. This is where the crisis comes from. The world crisis is the manifestation of the distance between the desired and the actual. Universal interconnection is a fact. Professionals and researchers testify about it, and Baal HaSulam writes about it. It is real, but undesirable. Only the upper Light will give us the necessary desire. Nothing else will help man change his nature.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/18/2011, “Peace in the World”

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Question: In response to the blog entry, Economics Done By The Balance Formula, there appears to be another dimension here, concerning resources. To cut down our use of non-renewable resources like oil will only extend the availability of these resources. But it’s still a very finite matter. It seems that to make the argument convincing, we need to show that this will indeed be long enough for new replacement resources to become available.

Answer: We don’t have to economize, but only use all the means for a balanced economy of reasonable necessities.

Question: What is the role of government for our next generation?

Answer: We have to educate the masses through the right environment (dissemination), and they will in turn demand changes from the government.

Question: Why do we talk about improving our life on Earth through mutual guarantee, etc.? Is not the aim of creation to progress beyond the physical life on Earth and enter spiritual unity? Will peace in the world not sink us deeper into this dreamlike state we think is reality?

Answer: That’s because for 99% of the world’s population, improving their lives is the purpose of life. And only for the 1%, those who have a point in the heart, the embryo of the soul, is the purpose of life to reveal the upper world. But by uniting together as Galgalta Eynaim and AHP, we reveal the upper world together.
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Question: Besides everything else, we have to establish contact with economists, but they are guided by specific computational models. We have not developed our own economic model. What axioms should it be based on?

Answer: First of all, we have to accept as a fact that the capitalistic model of the last 70-80 years went bankrupt. A race for consumer goods and services is no longer possible for several reasons: Resources are being depleted, the environment is polluted, and overall, the system no longer functions. We clearly see now that it goes against Nature’s development. It’s not realistic to keep increasing production and consumption; on the contrary, the tendency switched to bearish (downward moving) market activities.

We still want more, but it doesn’t work out. Human society is naturally developing in the other direction, towards unity, and absolutely not to where an egoistic economist would want to lead us. Nothing can be done: Regardless of what they think, everything is developing differently.

As a result, we find ourselves in a crisis, although in reality, it is not a crisis but a dead-end. Our own deadlocked way of thinking puts us into a hopeless situation. Thus, we need to open our eyes and realize that Nature sets a different course. It has its own program, and our counter plans won’t stop it. A stubborn child is sometimes allowed to do something on his or her own in order to learn from their error and to find themselves in a deadlock. And humanity is in that same situation now.

Thus, we have to show evidence that is supported by Nature itself: We are required to be in balance with it, meaning that we have to lower ourselves to the level of a balanced economy. Gradually, we have to “climb down the tree,” and go in a completely different direction, build a new paradigm, and look at life, ourselves, the family institution, employment, and so on through that prism.

First of all, there is no need for everyone to be working 8-10 hours a day. What is it needed for? Look at what is happening to our children. It’s better for them to stay with their mothers. That’s how it has been for ages, and only in the last hundred years we moved the rural population, both men and women, into cities and factories. Free the people from this yoke.

Then children will be getting a good education supported by an “adjusted” television and Internet. Finally, mothers will be spending time with them instead of sending them to full-time day care. Is it a right thing to do to leave a one or two month old baby out of the home from morning till evening? What is it needed for? What good does it do? Who is winning from that? Billions in profits for the rich, besides increasing their bank accounts, bring harm to everyone, and also stop bringing pleasure to them as well.

Thus, we have to build a new perception of the world, a new outlook on life: Everyone is working as much as it is needed for social balance, and not for an imposed “prosperity.” Real prosperity reflects a blossoming of our relationships, with a feeling of life being full, and not an exhausting competition. We’ve had enough of competition with each other for imaginary prizes that melt in our hands.

It’s necessary to consciously and thoughtfully, with the help of upbringing, bring “everyone down to earth” and put their feet firmly on the ground after this prolonged stay with our heads in the clouds of illusions. Otherwise there will be a crash, and we will be learning via troubles and suffering. Thus it’s better to initiate changes through education and alleviate the blows society will have to go through.

We simply have no other choice. The new economy has to gradually lower us to a level of balanced consumption.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/2011, “One Commandment”

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In the News (from Todaynews): “The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters — also known as the ’99 percent’ — have struck a chord with at least a few members of an unexpected audience: America’s rich and privileged.

“United under the banner ‘We are the 1 percent: We stand with the 99 percent,’ a band of entrepreneurs, trust fund babies, professionals and inheritors has taken to the web to share their abhorrence of corporate greed and support for tax code changes that would see them pay a higher share of their considerable wealth.

“Among other things, they’re posting their stories on a Tumblr page created by Wealth for the Common Good and Resource Generation, two groups dedicated to working for ‘fair taxation and just wealth distribution.’

“Farhad A. Ebrahimi, 33, who shares his inherited wealth through a charity that he founded, says he attends the Occupy Boston protest every day. … At the protest, he often wears a homemade T-shirt that reads: ‘I’m a member of the 1 percent and I fully support the 99 percent’ on the front, and, ‘Tax me, I’m good for it,’ on the back.”

My Comment: Thus, we are getting closer to understanding the solution to the question of shifting to a society of equal, reasonable consumption. Their funds should be used to organize a common, worldwide, integral upbringing for everyone, especially the unemployed, which will replace their working hours and have their studies be considered the same as work because there won’t be other work in the future!
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Humanity is experiencing labor pains today. This is the birth of a new world. We ourselves discover these external conditions, while nothing changes in the world itself. There are people in the world today who commit suicide because of the financial crisis or because of fears and other problems. But at the same time you can find people who are not worried about anything and don’t feel the crisis at all.

It all depends on how a person discovers the world, but the world itself has no form of its own. Thus we can relax, think that it is all right, and wait until the regular flow of life will bring us somewhere by itself. Or we can also bring ourselves to a state where we will feel that we can’t agree to remain in this state any longer and must finally connect and discover spirituality, which is only revealed in a connection between us.

Everything depends on the pressure that we ourselves create. And then the usual, relaxed reality in which the rest of the people live will seem to us like the darkness of Egypt. We will feel how our enemies, Pharaoh’s troops, push us from behind, and we must jump into spirituality, like into the Red Sea.

Everything depends on how a person perceives his own state and by this leaves himself no choice but to connect with others.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/2011, Writings of Rabash

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