Melodies Of The Stock Markets
Posted on February 8th, 2009
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In the News (from Mail Online): “Police ‘ran away’ from jeering Gaza demonstrators” Video footage posted on a website shows police officers running away from chanting demonstrators who took part in a violent protest in London against Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip… protesters chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is Greatest).
My Comment: Why don’t the citizens question the demonstrators’ right to act this way? Something isn’t right in the United Kingdom!
The Book of Zohar says that at the end of days (at the end of the world’s correction), the sons of Ishmael (Abraham’s son from whom the Arabs originated) will try to take over the world (economically – through oil, and physically – by force) in order to assert their religion, Islam, in the whole world. And they won’t spare even their own lives to achieve this goal because they believe that they will go to heaven for it. It is written, “His hand is on everything in the world, but everyone’s hands are also on him.”
In the News (translated from Infox): The crisis is forcing the British to cross the line of the law. Crime has risen significantly in the country. People who are in despair are more likely to engage in robbery or theft.
My Comment: It’s like those scary Hollywood movies about the future where lonely, hungry thieves roam the streets of deserted cities… until the suffering will force people to change and the world will be revived.
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In the News (translated from NEWSru.com): Economists believe that the worst is yet to come. Professor of Economics at NYU, N. Rubini, said: “My estimation of the losses suffered by American banks is 3.7 trillion dollars. The global recession will turn into a long-term depression, lasting many years, unless we take the proper measures.”
The policy that fixates the currency rate in Russia, Kazakhstan, the Baltic States, Bulgaria, and Romania will encounter a currency crisis. Russia should not have “defended the ruble.”
The Head Economist of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, Klaus Schmidt–Gebel, said, “The fall of GDP in the world will continue into 2009, and even 2010.” The President of the International Institute of Freedom and Democracy, Hernando de Soto, said, “The current crisis is a crisis of trust. We don’t trust anyone in the market.”
Governments that pump the market with additional liquidity or provide tax incentives to the economy, do not take the cause of the crisis into account.
Head of PIMCO, Richard Klarid, said, “In Washington they believe that this is a liquidity crisis, and keep pouring new money into the market. But this is not a liquidity crisis. This is a crisis of inadequacy, and it is much harder to solve.”
My Comment: People are gradually starting to understand that the cause of our problems isn’t the economy, but the trust between people. And as the crisis keeps growing, people will open their eyes and will start treating one another by the laws of “a small village.” At first this will happen artificially, but later it will become natural.
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In the News (from The Financial Times): “Governments turn to barter deals as credit to secure food dries up” Countries struggling to secure credit have resorted to barter and secretive government-to-government deals to buy food, with some contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In a striking example of how the global financial crisis and high food prices have strained the finances of poor and middle-income nations, countries including Russia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Morocco say they have signed or are discussing inter-government and barter deals to import commodities from rice to vegetable oil.
The revival of these trade practices, used rarely in the past 20 years and usually by nations subject to international embargoes and the old communist bloc, is a result of the countries’ failure to secure trade financing as bank lending has dried up.
My Comment: Now all the countries are becoming like that – outlaws of the global government! Our lack of balance with Nature (the regulator) will affect everything we do. To people’s surprise, anytime a person will start doing something, he’ll find that “nothing’s going right,” that things just “don’t work out” for some reason. Even bartering won’t help: despite every person having something to give to another and something he can receive in return, the barter just won’t go through. Why?
Imagine that you did not comply with one of the laws of physics, or you complied with it, but did so incorrectly. Then, you would find that you always fail at everything you do. This is the state we are in. Indeed, people are acting like children, naively believing that everything will fall into place the way they want it to, rather than by the laws of Nature.
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In the News (from Contrarian Investors’ Journal): “Baltic Dry Index indicates a collapse in global trade” In May 2008, the BDI [price of moving the major raw materials by sea] fell from a record high of 11,793 to a low of 663 since 1986. It has been said that such low reading means that shipping costs is very close to the “combined operating costs of vessels, fuel and crew.”
My Comment: What else do you need when you receive a higher reward for these actions, when your soul is fulfilled, when you feel perfection and eternity, the Upper Harmony that’s above this temporal and imperfect life? People should only change (correct themselves) from reception to bestowal. This is merely a psychological problem, because people will receive billions times more than they do now, and they will receive it forever.
A question I received: The overwhelming majority of people do not recognize “the quality” of the current crisis and the reason for it – that our egoism breaks and distorts all our connections, and that the only way to survive is by attaining the quality of “love for your neighbor.” Moreover, people don’t realize that they need help from the Creator, Ohr Makif, to do this. They do not realize this because they were created on the still level, Domem, and maybe they will never be able to realize this, and they don’t need to.
So what is the purpose of Kabbalah dissemination? If the elite are deaf because they are caught in the vicious cycle of their profiteering interests, and the masses are deaf because of their low level of development, then who are we disseminating to, and what are we disseminating?
My Answer: We are disseminating the science of how every person can correct himself. And every person will apply this science to the extent of his free will, which emerges due to the development of his desire (heart) and mind, through suffering and recognition.
By applying this science, every person will make his path of correction easier, shifting it from the natural one (under Nature’s blows, the way all evolution takes place), to evolution that happens by means of one’s aspiration for the goal, for the quality of bestowal and love for everyone. The global crisis is an indication that this is necessary.
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In the News (from A Fistful of Euros): “The Ruble Fall Continues As Unemployment Soars” The Central Bank does not rule out the possibility of a new wave of the crisis erupting in the banking sector, the bank’s Chairman Sergei Ignatyev told the Russian State Duma on Friday. …First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov told the State Duma today, “The crisis will continue for three years, of which 2009 will be the most difficult… We must be prepared for further economic decline.”
My Comment: Neither the government nor the experts have any plan for coping with the crisis. And they can’t have a plan, because the plan must be based on the knowledge of the final state and of the path to get there, and no government in the world has either of these!
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In the News (from The Guardian): “Shaken survivors of economic blast ask: what went wrong?” The mood in Davos, Switzerland [the site of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum] has been broken as badly as the banks. Few people here will admit to have done anything personally wrong. The failures have gone into hiding, and the biggest absentees are the Americans. There is no real sense of collective guilt, or serious consideration of what to do next, other than rebuild the world that has just been lost. What no one wants to admit is that perhaps there is no solution – only decline.
My Comment: The only way we will be able come out of the crisis is through the recognition of evil and the true reason for the crisis. We will not be able to come out of the crisis by restoring the past, but rather by collectively building the future – a future that’s global and integral. When we realize that we are absolutely interdependent, we will be able to understand how to accomplish this. Until we come to this realization, we will have to learn from the blows that are driving us towards happiness.
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News Report (from Media Release of the World Bank): “Call for Greater Focus to Help the Hungry” The Bank’s Managing Director, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said with the food crisis still affecting millions of people around the globe, the international community needs to boost its effort to help the poor and vulnerable feed themselves. “Food prices are now volatile and that factor, combined with the impact of the financial crisis, only serves to heighten the challenges confronting the developing world, ”Okonjo-Iweala said.
My Comment: Since “love and hunger rule the world,” it’s possible that hunger will lead us to love (for our neighbor). However, we’ll be better off if we listen to Kabbalah’s advice and circumvent the hunger, going straight to love.
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News Report (from La Rouche Pac): “UNODC’s Costa Warned on Mafia Being Only Source of Cash for Banks in November” United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime director Antonio Maria Costa already warned that the world’s organized crime had become the “only sources of credit” to banks, in his personal blog on the UNODC website back in 2008.
In his entry for Nov. 19, 2008, Costa wrote:
“Today, the financial crisis is providing an extraordinary opportunity for even greater mafia penetration of cash-strapped financial houses: with the banking crisis choking lending, these cash-rich criminal groups have emerged as the only sources of credit.”
My Comment: This is how the egoistic world dies, while “getting high.”
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