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MICRO and PICO ECONOMICS for FAST PEOPLE who CHOOSE to MATTER by LEARNING to COUNT (and to read the fine print well ...)
Are you ready for the new economy?
Ready or not, here it comes!!!
Itˇ¦s no longer a zero sum game, very unpleasant when the ZERO is on YOUR T-shirtˇ
Now the rules of the game are being changed in the middle of it, and the sooner you learn them, the easier you will adjust to the idea that everybody else can have credit too!
And produce more wealth for all! The
INTELLECTUAL ECONOMY is coming to a bank near you, all the hippies you laughed at became millionaires by doing just what you had laughed at them for, and now they are having the last laugh, because they were the first to wean their EGO from validation by material goods..
The zero sum game has one basic rule:
If I give you even a tiny part of what I have, I no longer have it, thus I hoard it instead, just in case, no matter how improbably, I could face a future famine; moreover, if instead of producing wealth I invest it in preventing you from producing more wealth, competing with you for artificially scarce resources, in other words I attach imaginary permanence to the long range ephemeral value of their substitutes: Cash, Gold, Art, Clothes, Antiques, Clothes, Real Estate to prove to those I ( would, if I were you, but I am not, hence I do not) hate (yes, you do, because you think they feel the same way about youˇK). Plenty more of reasons/excuses to hate can be found to hurt your health and pocket, because if you are not kissing all the butts you can to get your name in the newspaper which tomorrow will wrap fish, you eat your heart out when itˇ¦s your neighborˇ¦s name being printed, and spread all the dirt you can on his/her name so you can feel that G-d loves you more because you made sure to be seen worshipping at the Mall (WallˇK). Now the rules are changing and INTELLECTUAL ECONOMY makes abundance possible for everybody = If I have Cash or material goods worth NIS 100 and I give you NIS 50 of either without getting in exchange the same amount from you, one of us has lost and the other has gained, whereas if I have KNOWLEDGE worth NIS 100 I can give you the whole NIS 100, and not only I have my NIS 100 afterwards, but you have NIS 100 too, which have just being created by our sharing, thus we both have gained from the intellectual transaction and now we have an estimated 120 NIS each, and society has gained too, because its aggregate wealth has increased by NIS 140 NET (if one of us took the bus to reach the other to perform the intellectual transaction the return fare is deducted as cost, but if we shared our knowledge by e-mail the cost is negligible, and if I have imparted in this way my knowledge to 100 more blog subscribers, I have created ex nihilo 10.000 New Intellectual Shekels worth of intellectual wealth for society with almost the same investment of time, assuming all the 100 recipients have understood me completely, and if only 5 of them write back to me, at 20 NIS of knowledge that I gain from each, I have doubled my stock faster than by canning tomatoes. We have actually created in the barter process complementary knowledge neither of us possessed before the transaction, which did not hitherto exist, just like a couple which is strengthened by reciprocal love, instead of being weakened by indifference and idealization of a surrogate in the media image circus. This is what has happened in the intellectual realm for thousands of years of our history, whenever TORAH SH'B'ALPEH IS SHARED IN FRONT OF AN OPEN GEMARA, and yet so many of us are incapable of putting down the Torah when it is time to practice the teaching by LOVING THEIR NEIGHBORS! = SHARING THEIR KNOWLEDGE WITH THEM INSTEAD OF HOARDING IT UNUSED TILL IT IS OBSOLETE. Even if they are poor, sick, divorced, not dressed elegantly enough, hitch-hiker, Sephardi, Askenazi, right winger, left winger, secular, religious etcˇK
BEYOND THE MALL
Eliahu Gal-Orˇ¦s book (first edition in English, a Hebrew one will Bˇ¨H follow when translation and editing are affordable) on the New Intellectual Economy includes a multimedia CD-ROM packed with many years of Cyberspace research on alternative economy, education, healing, Am Israelˇ¦s future, rehabilitation, world Jewish resources and many more amazing surprises. Its income is dedicated to reopening J.A.G.U.A.R. ( the Jewish Artistsˇ¦ Gallery and Community center once on Misgav Ladach 17 in the Old City) in downtown Jerusalem and you can help us get started by ordering it in advance at half price (this offer is limited to the first 1.000 copies printed, which will be specially bound, numbered and autographed).
To order your copy of ˇ§Beyond the Mallˇ¨ (haTikkun haCalcaliˇ¦) Send us a check for at least NIS 100.00 (includes shipping in Israel) made out to ˇ§Keren Shabbatˇ¨ for Israeli Tax deduction, or at least US$ 18.00 for the book plus $3.50 for surface mail or $8.00 for express shipping, made out to ˇ§Friends of Amenˇ¨ which clear in USA, for your US Tax Deduction.
You may also use PayPal by e-mailing editor@parnassa.org to specify the amount of the requested PayPal invoice; after you confirm it your book/CD-ROM combo will be on its way.
A benefit concert for AMEˇ¨N is scheduled on 10th February 10th, 2005, and the first General assembly, followed by a sumptuous Italian Dinner prepared by Eliahu Gal-Or and featuring interesting participants from around the world by satellite TV and Internet link, and great live entertainers, is set for February 27th. Venue depends on the number of seats booked by January 31st, 2005. Advance booking is by deposit of US$ 26.00 (or its NIS equivalent) per place, which is a discount on the $75.00 price at the door, lowering it to @49.00.
HaSh-m is my witness that all you are reading on this site is truthfully done for the sake of Heaven and not for my own gain, and that I have worked many thousands of unpaid hours on this project ever since I came to Israel, spending on it at least a quarter million dollars of my own money while living like a pauper, undergoing enormous personal sacrifices and never giving up on this holy task. I wonˇ¦t give it up even if your dime tarries (please, if you can, do put in more than a dime, it will all be used honestly) in it, but why should you miss on the merit of helping prevent the divorce or suicide of another Jew? (not me in any case; I am already divorced and a finding mate is my highest priority, but even if suicide were not against Halacha to which I am absolutely committed, I would not under any circumstances whatsoever burden my children with the inheritance of such a precedent).
Thank you for reading all this, and please click the link below to send me your questions, thoughts, and with your Hanukkah Gelt help our Maccabee flame say AM ISRAEL HAI. Please specify if we are allowed to list the donation in your name on our website or you prefer us to credit the amount to ˇ§Anonymousˇ¨.
Thank You in advance from Jerusalem, may the Blessing of our Forefathers and Foremothers be with you, and may you see the Good of Jerusalem all the days of your life,
Eliahu Gal-Or, a Neapolitan Jew AKA: Lightwave, AKA: Luciano
Home: Meˇ¦Or Modiim 106 MAIL ONLY TO: P.O.B. 31403 ˇV Jerusalem 91313
Book Orders and Dinner Bookings: editor@parnassa.org inquiries: eliahu@kotl.tv
Lab: Meˇ¦Or Modiim 114 Office: BenYehuda 2/248 Jerusalem
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VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Due to the temporary inability of our main sponsor to keep up his financial support of our activities, we have been forced to close the facility on Misgav Ladach 17 and need another building to re-open J.A.G.U.A.R.; your help is urgently needed and may be extended by:
1) sending a check to:The Shabbat Fund, P.O.B. 31403 - Jerusalem 91313 Israel
2) sending a bank transfer to "The Shabbat Fund"
acct. # 113332 - Bank Mizrahi, Old City Branch, Jerusalem, Israel -
We have just received the donation of FIVE Austin Mini Metro cars, two of which roadworthy and the rest as a source of spare parts, but we need more vehicles to start a Car Gemach for the needy and we have not yet gathered the means to renovate the Me'Or Modiim factory building and put it in use as multimedia production school/studio; the budget is $ 30.000 and a serious sponsor will have an unbelievable opportunity to improve the quality of life and society in Israel on a pilot scale, besides naming the complex as (s)he wishes.
Please e-mail me for further details.
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The Worldwide Community Switchboard, is being administered by AME"N as a separate fund during an interim period, in the same locations: the office on Ben Yehuda 2/248, Jerusalem, and the laboratory in Me’Or Modiin Bldg.114 including the operation of its offices and facilities and the use of all its appurtenances, tools, computers, office furniture, vehicles, etc…, and including payment by AME”N of all WWCS’s outstanding rent and utility bills, which remain in the interim period registered to the WWCS over and operates the offices for its activities along with, when possible, the gathering of data on the WWCS’s activities and finance for the purposes stated above.
The Center for Communication and Creativity Studies. Until an adequate space is obtained, this branch, temporarily replaces the WWCS’s Laboratory in Me’Or Modiim until its building can be repaired or a new one is obtained, by meeting outdoors or in local restaurants and external facilities.
The Issachar and Zevulun Fund This fund, meant to be operated by the WWCS, is taken over by AME”N for the same purpose: A matchmaking service between members talented, able and eager to work, and partners/investors who provide them with tools, capital, facilities and a guaranteed overhead, including supervised administration or sheltered employment when required, typically in exchange for half the net profits, but possibly in other hybrid forms of employment/partnership, as they are developed by AME”N and in the rest of the world.
The Einstein Book and Magazine Co-Op: a computerized catalog of publications and multimedia recordings, possessed by members and available for sale, loan or barter mutually and to the public at large; when appropriate space is obtained, this will constitute a regular bookshop whose income will further the Organization’s aims.
The Business Absorption and Rescue Center Will be located in a Kibbutz or Moshav when one is found which is willing to participate in its activities; it will provide temporary business and/or residential space for a fixed period, envisioned in three months, but extendable as needed up to one year depending on the recovery plan implemented. The fiscal responsibilities will be under supervision by the hosting authority and the technical aspects will be managed by AME”N, in conjunction with other public or private Organizations as required.
J.A.G.U.A.R. the Jewish Artists’ Gallery, Ubiety, Access and Resources Originally located in the Old City of Jerusalem, this is essentially the continuation of S. Francisco’s House of Love and Prayer, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach’s urban Art and Creativity Community which Eliahu Gal-Or and Rabbi Joseph Cooper co-directed until 1976, when it closed and its members jointly made Aliyah to found Moshav Modiin, now Ishuv Kehilati Me’Or Modiim. It is a hybrid form of Yeshiva which while operating on the same principles offers an expanded program which includes Art and Science studies in a co-operative setting, tailor made for the mutual social inclusion of both religious and secular Jews in a common meeting ground, with the purpose of breaking down barriers, suspects and prejudice, to share learning and put to fruit the skills and talents which G-d (undoubtedly, according to the author of this document) bestows on H-s creatures. A Gallery of this type provides the artist with the ability to exhibit and possibly sell his intellectual and physical product, free from the constraints of political or affinity protexia which prevents morally principled emerging artists to establish themselves and earn their livelihood by putting their talent to use. Ubiety (from ubi which means where in Latin) is having a reliable address to be found at, and to keep a mailbox and/or telephone number when traveling or living elsewhere, including books, painting, records or other intellectual property or products for exhibition and/or sale. Access: Communication lines, Internet access and use of sites. Resources objects which one does not possess or normally takes along while traveling; in S. Francisco art supplies, musical instruments, film and video equipment could be found and/or borrowed by artists in need, who had also the option to contribute their tithe to keep the House open and fill its refrigerator; in its heyday, the HLP fed hundreds of hungry people a day, and many more found jobs or loans they never dreamed they would qualify for, besides business and life partners. Its last embodiment as J.A.G.U.A.R. in the Old City also offered delicious Shabbat meals in a non-humiliating environment, and hosted concerts, exhibitions and video evenings until the main supporter could not afford the expense and no one else came along to help with the burden. This kind of facility is too urgently needed in Jerusalem today to wait until the money is found to process a truckload of paperwork, especially since when the author of this document, who is a law abiding citizen of Israel, was informed that the WWCS Non-Profit status had been canceled without any proper notification and appeal procedure, immediately ceased to solicit funds for it, supporting it as he had always done out of his own pocket alone, but not on the level required to properly function.
WWW.KOTL.TV: A live video streaming Internet TV station, meant to webcast live and recorded Torah classes from the Kotel, based on one or more wireless cameras relayed to the web by a base station, plus live coverage of Bar Mitzvahs in the same place, to allow family members who are unable to travel to watch the ceremony from their computer or TV set.
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