In the News (from Geek.com): “NASA calms 2012 end of the world fears with website” To dispel the myths and legends, NASA has launched a website which directly responds to some of the doomsday claims surrounding 2012. One of the touted indicators of the world’s end is the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in that year. NASA explains the calendar ends like your kitchen calendar ends on December 31, 2009. That does not mean the world is going to end in 2009. It means you need a new calendar.

My Comment: Actually, the end of the world will come, but it won’t be anything to be sad over because the world will first go through a global correction of egoism and global unification. As a result, everyone in the world will feel the eternal and perfect flow of life, beyond this world.

Kabbalah says that this will happen no later than 2239, but if we correct ourselves sooner, it can happen even earlier.

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In the News: (translated from MediaPortal.ru): Sergei Litvintzev, a psychiatrist in Saint Petersburg,  has suggested that Russians who feel happy are mentally ill. In fact, 72% of the population in the Russian Federation consider themselves to be happy.

Dr. Litvintzev noted that feeling happy without any reason is a well known symptom of some mental disorders. For example, “People with the manic syndrome feel euphoria without any reason,” he said.

My Comment: Indeed, maybe it’s really better to feel this way. But humanity’s growing egoism will eventually eliminate the feeling of happiness in us all.

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In the News (from StrategyAnalytics): “Global Handset Shipments Fall at Fastest Rate in History during Q1 2009” Handset vendors shipped 245 million cellphones worldwide in Q1 2009, down a huge 13% from 282 million units a year earlier. This was the fastest rate of annual decline in handset shipments since our records began.

My Comment: The cellphone frenzy is winding down as the market becomes saturated, our egoism continues growing, and the annoying connections only disturb us. It is getting too difficult to run away from everyone. The connection we have gotten so used to now feels like slavery and dependency. All of this will lead people to recognize that there is nowhere to run from others, that we are surrounded on all fronts by virtual connections!

And then, people will recognize that it is necessary to establish an inner connection, a connection among the souls instead of the bodies, without all of the external communication. That is where we will find the highest harmony and the absolute fulfillment.

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In the News: (from the annual report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute):“Global military expenditure set new record in 2008″ Global military expenditure in 2008 is estimated to have totaled $1464 billion. This represents an increase of 4 percent in real terms compared to 2007, and of 45 per cent since 1999. Military expenditure comprised approximately 2.4 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) in 2008.

My Comment: The “reason” for military spending has been changed over the years: before it was done for the sake of maintaining a balance between the East and West, whereas now it is done in the name of a global war on terrorism. Everyone has successfully been able to use this “just cause” to militarize their countries even more.

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In the News (from The Age): “G8 agree to fight protectionism” The world’s biggest economies have agreed to fight protectionism and limit global warming as the major emerging powers confront the Group of Eight rich nations at their Italian summit.

My Comment: But that would be like having wolves watching over sheep. How is this even possible without changing man’s egoistic nature? Clearly, this change cannot happen overnight, because it can only take place if a person chooses and desires it. This is why the change must start with upbringing and education.

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Established in 1876, Corriere della Sera is the most famous and most important newspaper in Italy.  The paper published an article  about me (shown below) in one of its recent issues:

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In the News (translated from Rabkor.ru): Good news became goods in short supply. News is being made up and intentionally disseminated. Governments of all countries have spent trillions of dollars, not on recovery of crashing economies, but on the manufacturing of good news.
Markets immediately interpret this as an investment that drives markets upwards thus creating the next “financial bubble” that sucks money out of the real sectors. Politicians give beautiful speeches about fighting economic downfall and creating good news, but they are not able to overcome the crisis.

My Comment: The lies of our world will be revealed along with the necessity of  destroying  them and attaining the quality opposite to egoism, the quality of bestowal and benevolent connection. We can break free from evil only if we see it as evil, but it has to be big and obvious.  Thus, bigger financial bubbles are awaiting us!

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In the News: Rupert Murdoch has announced to his newspapers’ readers that they will soon need to pay to access the Internet sites of their favorite newspapers. During the next 10 years, physical newspapers will become obsolete and in the next 2 years, people will be able to have full access to news delivery through any mobile device, with information being updated every hour.

My comment: If only we were fed something good to read!  But our higher degree of egoism will begin to reject the inferior quality of the information, and it won’t fulfill us.

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In the News (from JTA): “President proclaims Jewish American Heritage Month” President Obama has issued a proclamation deeming May Jewish American Heritage Month. “Among the greatest contributions of the Jewish American community … is the example they have set for all Americans,” writes Obama in the proclamation.

My Comment: The Jews have brought the country to this point, so let them lead it further.

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In the News (from CNN ): “Kerry: newspapers an ‘endangered species’” Sen. John Kerry said that newspapers are “becoming an endangered species” as more people turn to the “power, efficiency and technological elegance” of Internet news.

In the News (from Yahoo News): “No bailout for newspaper industry“ White House spokesman Robert Gibbs: US newspapers have been grappling with a steep drop in print advertising revenue, steadily declining circulation and the migration of readers to free news online. The Senate subcommittee on communications, technology, and the Internet announced plans meanwhile to hold a hearing on “The Future of Journalism.”

My Comment: There’s no doubt that all information will soon be “online,” because the egoism that is now developing is “virtual.” Therefore, it’s pointless to resist these changes.

However, the content of the new type of information will have to answer the new types of desires that people have, because people’s egoism is becoming global and integral. And this can only be accomplished by understanding the system of our new relationships. Those who understand this will eventually come out on top.

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