Monthly Archives: September 2011

Perfect Storm

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Michaela

By Mark Levine Perhaps the title isn’t fair. The storm that awaits Barack Obama at the UN is not entirely of his own creation. He did not create half a century of US foreign policy based on support for authoritarianism … Continue reading →

Posted in Breaking the mould, The world we live in Now | Tagged Barack Obama, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian people, United Nations | Leave a comment

The dogmatist

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Michaela

From ” Der Spiegel” One thing is already clear: The two men will be all smiles when they meet. If all goes according to plan, German President Christian Wulff will greet the pope at 11:15 a.m. this Thursday in front … Continue reading →

Posted in Breaking the mould, The world we live in Now | Tagged Berlin, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Dogma, Pope Benedict XVI | Leave a comment

Unstoppable ?

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Michaela

From the Economist So grave, so menacing, so unstoppable has the euro crisis become that even rescue talk only fuels ever-rising panic. Investors have sniffed out that Europe’s leaders seem unwilling ever to do enough. Yet unless politicians act fast … Continue reading →

Tagged Eurobond, European Central Bank, European Financial Stability Facility, European Union, Eurozone, Government, Greece | 2 Comments

Debt, division & delay

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Michaela

…because we just don’t know what to do….meanwhile the Swiss were close to ban investment banking after UBS lost about 2.3 bio Euros on unauthorised trades.

Posted in The world we live in Now | Tagged Austerity, Debt, DEfault, ECB, Economy, European Union, Politics | Leave a comment

Bleeding

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Michaela

By Paul Krugman Doctors used to believe that by draining a patient’s blood they could purge the evil “humors” that were thought to cause disease. In reality, of course, all their bloodletting did was make the patient weaker, and more … Continue reading →

Posted in The world we live in Now | Tagged Austerity, Economic policy, European Union, Great Depression, United States | 1 Comment

Relaxed Focus

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Michaela

Florian Schlosser on Presence and what happens if we let go

Posted in Teacher & Teachings | Tagged Attention, awareness, Consciousness, Florian Schlosser, Identification, Presence | 1 Comment

Pointer

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Michaela

The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It’s never outside. Eckhart Tolle

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Abandon realism

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Michaela

By David Deutsch It was recently discovered that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, not slowing, as was previously thought. Light from distant exploding stars revealed that an unknown force (dubbed “dark energy”) more than outweighs gravity on cosmological scales. Unexpected by … Continue reading →

Posted in Breaking the mould, The world we live in Now | Tagged Albert Einstein, dark matter, expansion, General relativity, Isaac Newton, Physics, universe | Leave a comment

A new heaven, a new earth

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Michaela

Should one be worried if prophecies start to make complete sense ? I don’t know how this is going to happen, I just know this IS happening right now and we all are a part of it. In fact, we … Continue reading →

Posted in Make new from old | Tagged death, God, New Earth, New Jerusalem, Revelation | 3 Comments

Unglued

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Michaela

By STEVEN LEE MYERS By Stephen Lee Myers While the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring created new opportunities for American diplomacy, the tumult has also presented the United States with challenges — and worst-case scenarios — that would have once … Continue reading →