In the News (of two minds.com): “Correspondent Bart D. (Australia) captured the entire global economy in three words: The Landfill Economy. Stuff is manufactured, energy is consumed shipping it somewhere, consumers buy it and shortly thereafter it ends up as garbage in the landfill.

“This is of course the definition of ‘economic growth’: waste, inefficiency, environmental destruction—none of these matter. Only two things matter: maximize ‘growth’ by any means necessary, and maximize profits by any means necessary.

“The Landfill Economy now encompasses the entire planet. The swirling gyre of plastic trash the size of Texas between Hawaii and California: it’s just one modest example of the planetary trash dump that ‘growth’ and profit generate as byproducts/blowback.

“The planet’s oceans are one giant trash dump. Everything from plastic water bottles to abandoned fishing nets to radiation to containers that fell off ships is floating around even the most distant corners of the seas. Seabirds nesting in remote islands die of starvation as their guts fill with plastic bits of ‘permanent growth.’ …

“The Keynesian Cargo Cults that rule global economics love The Landfill Economy because it means more ‘growth.’ Never mind the poisoned seas, rivers and land, or the immense waste of energy, commodities and labor that result from the global manufacture and distribution of shoddy products: if it adds to ‘growth,’ it’s all good in the warped view of the Keynesian Cargo Cults.”

My Comment: The only solution to all the problems that lead humanity to annihilation is changing human nature, which should take place according to nature’s plan. A crisis is the birth of our future state, which we can attain not by changing the world around us, but by changing ourselves, by changing our nature from an egoistic one to an altruistic one.
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In the News (El Pais): “For decades the EU was concentrated on itself, while the United States have drawn away from Europe to pay increasing attention to Asia. But now, unexpectedly, we face serious challenges, which are similar here and there and do not come from outside but from within our own countries. And by sharing our familiar demons, again we become aware that we function as a true community destination. …

“First, faith falters on economic progress, believed indefinite, and goes installing the impression, shared by broad layers of the population, that new generations will live worse than the preceding. And secondly, the fear is heightened to a loss of identity linked to cultural changes brought about by immigration.”

My Comment: Optimism is the result of new prospects for the development of society. But to see it, people must open their eyes and understand how society develops as the egoistic force in nature develops and requires the revelation of the altruistic force. The wisdom of Kabbalah reveals this process to us. Today we have come to the point in which the revelation of the second force of nature is vital, the second force that is meant to balance the negative egoistic force.
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Question: Out of all nuclear disasters, the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant caused the greatest harm to humanity, because it is located on the sea at the exit to the Pacific Ocean and continues to release three hundred tons of radioactive materials into its water on a daily basis.

Fixing the leak is not possible for either robots or people due to the high temperature.

Will humanity continue to live with breaking nuclear plants and changing ecology?

Answer: We have built hundreds of nuclear power plants in the world that will gradually break down or be destroyed by bombing. It doesn’t even require atomic bombs, it is enough to drop one simple bomb on the nuclear reactor and that’s it.

Question: How long can we live with this?!

Answer: How much longer does humanity have to live? A person only needs to correct his nature and through this he will rise to a new dimension.

Everything is directed only to convince us that there is no solution for our lives in this world. For example, I know that I will die after some time. So what? I just submit to fate and nothing more. It is the same for humanity.

What is all this for? In order to plunge us into a state of fear and the inevitability of obeying the development program of nature that will force us to rise above our nature.

This will really make us discover the program of creation. A person won’t be allowed to die, even if he wants to, “Death is better than this life!” You ask for mercy for yourself, but the Creator is stiff-necked, He won’t let you die.

I am absolutely serious. Humanity itself will choose the path of correction or it will have to be led to this path with the help of suffering.

It means it is necessary to compel humanity to want, against its nature, to rise above the egoism and to work only with the intention to bestow. After all, with the slightest contact with egoism you feel terrible suffering and run away from it.

Egoism is called, “help against you.” It tells you: “Get out of me as soon as possible!” In other words, it will push a person out, like a pit out of a cherry. This is what we are advancing to.

Or it can be mitigated by self-awareness. Let’s acknowledge the program of nature, its inevitability, its purpose, its bright future, and try to realize it, but only by the implementation of Kabbalah.

This is a kind way. It is possible. Even if we don’t choose to use the wisdom of Kabbalah ourselves, we will still reach it, but after great suffering.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 10/5/16

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In the News (Ynet): “An upcoming report from the World Obesity Federation (WOF) has shown that over half a million Israeli children are overweight. Compared to European countries, the group in which the Jewish state is categorized, Israel is in first place for overweight persons and in second place compared with Europe and third place globally when children are included. …

“The report maps the state of children’s health in different countries and states that 28.8 percent of Israeli children under the age of 18 are overweight. The forecast for the future is worrying: The report states that within eight years, that datum is likely to jump 50 percent, and the number of obese and overweight children in the country is expected to reach 740,000, an unprecedented number by any measure. …

“Israel is in first place in the European group for obesity, with 12.6 percent of its children being considered obesity by this index. Globally, Israeli children are only behind their US counterparts, 12.9 percent of whom are obese. The European average is 7.4 percent for children. If children with BMIs of 25–30 are included, that figure increases to 23 percent of European children. …

“‘The parents need to teach their children how to behave correctly and to choose the right food amidst the jungle of advertisements for harmful food,’ concluded Dubnov-Raz. ‘Like a parent teaches their child how to act safely on a bicycle in the urban jungle—that’s how it needs to be with food. Otherwise, we’ll wake up in a few years, and we won’t understand how we got ourselves in this situation.'”

My Comment: The food products in Israel are of relatively high quality and we usually don’t indulge in high-calorie foods, but we still consume large amounts of foods.

The main reason is that we are a high-tech nation in which very few people have manual jobs where they engage in hard physical work. In fact, we are a high-tech nation in agriculture, computers, and military technologies, so it is only natural that people, including young people, sit for many hours and move very little.

How should we handle this process? We need to produce low-calorie food, and of course launch a campaign promoting participation in sports.

I believe that sports should become an integral part of our social frameworks since otherwise we will end up with a huge “army” of people who are sick and weak and have to be taken care of. It is of course better to invest a little in sports, in promoting participation in physical activities, than to invest in healing sick people. A person has to live a healthy life and die healthy.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 11/2/16

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In the News (ria): “The victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election came as a shock to most European politicians, for the political leadership of the European Union is thoroughly drenched in neo-liberal values.

“Major European media continue to vilify Trump. The subtitle of the German Der Spiegel says: ‘Victory of the destroyer.’ Another German magazine, the Stern, stated that the election of Trump caused ‘surprising, anxiety and panic in Germany.’

“German Defense Minister Ursula von der Lyayen stated that ‘deep shock is felt,’ Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel described the Trump victory as ‘a warning to all of us (Europeans).’

“French ambassador to Washington Gerard Araud called the election result a catastrophe. According to him, ‘we are witnessing the world being destroyed.’ French President Francois Hollande also expressed disappointment with the Trump victory that ‘opens a period of uncertainty.’ Under these conditions, Hollande said, Europe must be united.”

My Comment: I don’t think that the election of Trump will push the European Union to unite. Their “song is sung.” The liberals must leave; their time has passed. It is necessary to shake off the illusions and stop building them at the expense of the people.

The European Union, as well as the United States, must reorganize! Without a doubt, we see a movement in the EU toward more sober-minded policies, an understanding of the new times. The main task of Europe is to educate its citizens toward the union of the continent, like that of the United States.
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Comment: The elections in the US are over and Trump has indeed won. During the race, you claimed that Trump was the better candidate. To be honest, I had many doubts about his victory and I don’t understand how it happened.

Answer: I felt that the Creator is still leading us along a smoother path in  Achishena (I shall hasten it) and not in Beito (in its time), not by blows but by support, just as you carry a stubborn child in the right direction against his will.

It is on the spiritual level, not the corporeal level where someone places his ballot or presses a button. Spiritual forces are much stronger than all the corporeal forces.

The outcome of the elections is a sign that Obama’s failing foreign policy and his support of radical Islam has come to end. Eventually it caused great damage to everyone, to the Arabs, to Europe, and to the whole world.

Obama engaged in turning different states and nations against each other, North Africa, the Middle East, Russia, etc. He left a torn world behind him and America’s status weakened in the world. Consequently, the world is now facing the threat of world war.

I don’t advise you to trust the big statistics and PR offices whose only goal is to make a profit. They deceive people and do what is beneficial for their clients. Trump who is surrounded by advisors counted on his instinct and turned to the heart of the American people repeatedly using his winning motive of making America great again.

Question: Do you believe that there will be a strong civil resistance to Trump?

Answer: I don’t think so, the upper force has helped Trump and brought his victory; the whole world has received a timeout, and especially we Kabbalists, and we have to use this time properly.

The nation of Israel has to reveal the method of unity to the world, the method of attaining the right connection between people, of attaining harmony between us and with nature.

This is our duty to the world. If we don’t do it, the world will eventually turn against us. We must understand our mission and fulfill it in order to balance the world and bring it to harmony.

Only then will the world acknowledge and understand the uniqueness of our mission, stop hating us, and even understand that the hatred they feel toward Israel stems from the fact that Israel haven’t fulfilled their mission. But now, when they begin to fulfill it, the world has to support Israel. I hope that we will succeed in our mission and save the world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 11/9/16

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In the News (Independent): “Male, 26, single, quite well-educated but not an expert on the Quran – this is the profile of an average fighter joining Isis. …

“Another startling finding was the level of education listed, with most of the recruits saying they had completed secondary school and many listing higher education and university degrees.

“The report described the group as ‘generally well educated’ and said that although some of the fighters recorded no formal education, a roughly equal number held advanced degrees.”

My Comment: The fact that educated people are joining Daesh (ISIS) is a very interesting phenomenon. It seems to them that they have found an idea for which it is worth existing, an idea on the level of life and death, so it appears to be great to them.

This is a phenomenon typical of an educated person who looks around and sees that the world is falling apart, going nowhere. The world is becoming lost, the world is shallow, is leveled to zero.

A person searches for something to hold onto so he will have a reason to exist. And then they begin to lure him. In addition, there is also the support of an environment; suddenly friends appear, a society, which has its own ideas. He is “turned on”!

There is no ideological concept that holds him, but what surrounds it! It has been proven that even a person who serves in the army is not interested in the homeland like when they used to shout, “For the homeland!”

What interest him are the comrades in arms. “We are repelling the attack. We are protecting ourselves. We are conquering!” It means that it is all about that limited group in which he feels camaraderie. That is what the person is missing and that is where he finds it. They know how to exploit this in the “Islamic State.”

Question: How is it possible to attract them somewhere else? Is such a thing possible?

Answer: To do this we need to raise the intensity of life to the level that exists in these organizations: the fight, the intoxication of struggle, solidarity, propaganda about the idea that leads and sets a person on fire so he is always in a state of global revolution. For this we need romantics, special souls. But we also need organizers.

Question: Does this mean that a stronger, ‘romantic” idea is required that burns and leads us forward? Does such an idea exist?

Answer: That idea exists with us in the wisdom of Kabbalah. In contrast, I believe that the “Islamic State,” as always, is going to lead toward a situation in which the revolution begins to “devour” its children. They are already “eating” each other! They are unable to unite, because if they unite, they lose the sense of friction, the feeling of “sparks” that they create when they are at work. In revolutionary currents of this type, very large numbers of small groups generally appear and they are all in conflict, in debates. For them, happiness is from arousing fear in the world. In this way they want to say that they are special and worthy of something. So everything is advancing in one direction; the world is falling into an abyss in every sense, and they hover over it like vultures selecting new victims. They pounce on them and grab them. There is no final idea here for these or for those. And how will we open the ideal of the wisdom of Kabbalah? That is another problem.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 10/10/16

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In the News (The Huffington Post): “A Marie Claire piece published last week presented readers with one of society’s biggest taboos: parents who regret having their kids. One woman in the article describes motherhood as a ‘life-altering mistake’ and a ‘middle-class prison.’ The mostly career-oriented interviewees resent that changing diapers has kept them from writing books and describe themselves as ‘not mother material.’ Facebook groups with names such as ‘I Regret Having Children’ and books such as The Mother Bliss Lie: Regretting Motherhood prove these women are not alone. …

“The decision about whether to spawn or not won’t truly feel like a choice until there’s no longer a taboo against women who don’t want to be moms.

“Fewer millennials are looking to motherhood for fulfillment. Last year, the number of births in the U.S. hit a record low and a 2012 survey from the University of Pennsylvania found that in a 20-year span, the number of students who planned to have children dropped from 78 to 42 per cent. Yet cultural attitudes haven’t caught up with reality. …

“Women should choose motherhood because they want kids, not because of societal pressure. The horrible reality that some parents regret having children proves our expectations need to change.”

My Comment: Society’s distorted view of life is reflected in its attitude regarding offspring, the future of the family, the nation, the world, and further influences every individual’s opinion about his own life and family. The solution to the problem is undoubtedly only by changing society’s attitude, which depends on educating society. It must be addressed in a comprehensive manner, involving mass media.
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In the News (Time): “Being a good provider isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, says a new study. Guys who are required to earn the lion’s share of the family income are less happy and less healthy than guys who aren’t. And the higher the percentage of the bacon a guy has to bring home, the bigger hit his body and brain take.

“The new study… looked at 15 years of data on married people between the ages of 18 and 32 from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. ‘The data definitely seems to indicate that, in general, as men take responsibility for greater and greater shares of the couple’s pooled income, they experience declines in their psychological well-being and health,’ says the lead author Christin Munsch, an assistant professor of sociology at University of Connecticut.

“The data suggests that men are at their lowest when they are their families’ only breadwinner. That’s when happiness scores fall to 5% lower and health scores 3.5% lower, on average, than when both partners pitch in equally.

“For women, carrying a heavier financial load has the opposite effect. As they earn more their psychological wellbeing rises. And when they earn less, they feel worse. Unlike the men, women’s health didn’t seem to be affected by their earning status within the family.”

My Comment: This situation causes men to feel pressure because man in modern society is not the same provider of the past who went hunting with a spear. Today there are such conditions of psychological stress that man didn’t have originally. Therefore, we can sympathize with modern men.

Women, on the contrary, feel more confident in stressful situations. By nature, she is more suited to psychologically withstand pressure. Men are suited to carry out physical activities, and women are suited to carry inner pressures. Women also get stronger through regular daily problems and men do not.

The current situation of humanity, society and the state is unnatural. The man who in principle is ready to work and provide a livelihood deals with huge sources of stress and is under many pressures that are very difficult cope with. The female mind is more suited to deal with such pressures. Women’s intuition and psychology is more prone to multiple, reusable, and multilateral influences and the men are not. Sorry men.

Question: Do we come closer to our roots by the measure of our correction?

Answer: Of course. We will remove all external completely unnecessary tensions and pressures, and a man will be able attain what he needs to—the material, and then the spiritual food.

We will all work reasonable hours to ensure our optimal corporeal fulfillment: food, clothes, etc. All the other contentment, first men will achieve from their spiritual work. If the spiritual work is realized in normal conditions, then it only strengthens.

Question: There are no tensions in it?

Answer: There is a lot of stress, but the stress is of a completely different order. If they come from efforts of constantly strengthening the connection between us and through this connection drawing the Upper Light, then they are positive tensions. But if the stress comes from the turmoil of daily life, from the tremendous amount of problems at work, with the authorities, with police, etc., then of course it is very exhausting to the male body.

Question: Will our standard of living decline as a result of spiritual stress?

Answer: To the contrary.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 8/21/16

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New Life #598 – Greece And The European Union
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

Why isn’t the European Union suitable for the weaker nations; how is it possible to reach a good and stable union between nations, and what does the wisdom of Kabbalah offer as a solution to the crisis with Greece?

From its beginning, there was no unity, there was no equality in the European Union. The strong exploited the weak for their own good. In general, the world economy is based on exploitation of the weak by the strong.

The solution can only be in a paradigm shift, when the goal of life will be equality and connection and not competition. We must begin educating people for a new life, a study of the trend in evolution toward which nature is leading us.

Connection between differences means that each one remains how he is in his nature, and everyone complements each other. Only after years of education and connection, will it be possible to establish a true European Union.

The European Union of today was built on a completely opposing view, the strong exploiting the weak. If we don’t teach Europe to advance toward true connection, anti-Semitism will become stronger and war is already on the horizon.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #598 – Greece And The European Union,” 7/12/15

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