Too much TV can kill you

We know anything that says in Torah not only is good for us spiritually but also physically. we know anything that Tzadikim tell us in each generation help us keep the Torah and the mizvos.

we know in 1954 and on other occasions the rebbe spoke about television and how you should not have one.

here is an interesting article that says if you wathc too much TV it can kill you. so listening to the rebbe also keeps you healthy in this materialistic and physical.

here is the article.

How watching too much television can kill you.. literally

Jan 12 2010 By Gayle Ritchie

TELLY addicts have been warned that each hour a day in front of the box boosts the risk of dying from heart disease by a fifth.

Researchers found that people who spent more than four hours a day watching TV were 80 per cent more likely to die from cardiac illness than those who watched less than two hours.

David Dunstan, who led the Australian study, said: "Many people simply shift from the car to the office to the chair in front of the television. Sitting for long periods has an unhealthy influence on body sugar and blood fats."

The sad truth is that most of us spend years of our time doing things that are bad for our health.

Whether we waste days watching mind-numbing reality TV or stuffing junk food into our mouths, there's no doubt we could be making better use of our time.

Is the "sun" coming out in it's strengh?

Is the "sun" coming out in it's strengh?

and "hashem will remove the sun from it's sheath....

The Talmud (Nedarim 8B) says that in the time of moshiach hashem will remove the sun from it's sheath and the righuts will be healed by it...many people were saying that this might have something to do with the holes in the ozone layer but now NASA is warning that the bubble around the sun (not around the earth like the Ozone) is shrinking read it is definitly something to think about!


Sun's protective 'bubble' is shrinking
The protective bubble around the sun that helps to shield the Earth from harmful interstellar radiation is shrinking and getting weaker, Nasa scientists have warned.

By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent Last Updated: 9:23AM BST 19 Oct 2008

Data has shown that the sun's heliosphere is shrinking Photo: AP
New data has revealed that the heliosphere, the protective shield of energy that surrounds our solar system, has weakened by 25 per cent over the past decade and is now at it lowest level since the space race began 50 years ago.

Scientists are baffled at what could be causing the barrier to shrink in this way and are to launch mission to study the heliosphere.

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, will be launched from an aircraft on Sunday on a Pegasus rocket into an orbit 150,000 miles above the Earth where it will "listen" for the shock wave that forms as our solar system meets the interstellar radiation.
Dr Nathan Schwadron, co-investigator on the IBEX mission at Boston University, said: "The interstellar medium, which is part of the galaxy as a whole, is actually quite a harsh environment. There is a very high energy galactic radiation that is dangerous to living things.
"Around 90 per cent of the galactic cosmic radiation is deflected by our heliosphere, so the boundary protects us from this harsh galactic environment."

The heliosphere is created by the solar wind, a combination of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields that emanate a more than a million miles an hour from the sun, meet the intergalactic gas that fills the gaps in space between solar systems.

At the boundary where they meet a shock wave is formed that deflects interstellar radiation around the solar system as it travels through the galaxy.

The scientists hope the IBEX mission will allow them to gain a better understanding of what happens at this boundary and help them predict what protection it will offer in the future.
Without the heliosphere the harmful intergalactic cosmic radiation would make life on Earth almost impossible by destroying DNA and making the climate uninhabitable.
Measurements made by the Ulysses deep space probe, which was launched in 1990 to orbit the sun, have shown that the pressure created inside the heliosphere by the solar wind has been decreasing.

Dr David McComas, principal investigator on the IBEX mission, said: "It is a fascinating interaction that our sun has with the galaxy surrounding us. This million mile an hour wind inflates this protective bubble that keeps us safe from intergalactic cosmic rays.
"With less pressure on the inside, the interaction at the boundaries becomes weaker and the heliosphere as a whole gets smaller."

If the heliosphere continues to weaken, scientists fear that the amount of cosmic radiation reaching the inner parts of our solar system, including Earth, will increase.
This could result in growing levels of disruption to electrical equipment, damage satellites and potentially even harm life on Earth.

But Dr McComas added that it was still unclear exactly what would happen if the heliosphere continued to weaken or what even what the timescale for changes in the heliosphere are.
He said: “There is no imminent danger, but it is hard to know what the future holds. Certainly if the solar wind pressure was to continue to go down and the heliosphere were to almost evaporate then we would be in this sea of galactic cosmic rays. That could have some large effects.

“It is likely that there are natural variations in solar wind pressure and over time it will either stabilise or start going back up.”

Swords into Plowshares

One of the things it says about the time of moshiach is that "they will beat their swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks " (incidentally this is written on the U.N. building in N.Y.) because then there will be no war and we will have no use for implements of war I.E. swords and spears. The Rebe has pointed out that the fact that the military is assisting in humanitarian aid and providing food for people is the beginning the fulfilment of this concept. being that the militariy's might and resources are being used for feeding people I.E. "swords into plowshares".

below are excerpt from an article today that says the Japanese military will dispatch aid to the Earthquake and this is the first significant military dispatch involving the 2 countries and for what? to provide help!

Another interesting point in this article is that Japan and china have have had "cold" relations since the 1930's seemingly this event has led to 1) a military using its resources to provide life rebuilding as opposed to death and destruction. 2) Help came from a military that is not a friend!

below are excerpt from the article....

China seeks earthquake aid from Japan

(CNN) -- China is turning to its former enemy Japan for help as it seeks to boost its relief operations following the deadly earthquake that has devastated the southwestern Sichuan province.

China has begun talks with Tokyo about what would be the first significant military dispatch involving the two countries since World War II, The Associated Press reported Thursday.

"Given the magnitude of this disaster, if some countries or militaries are ready to provide us with material in urgent need, we will express our welcome," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang, AP reported.
The Kyodo news agency said Japan plans to dispatch Self-Defense Forces aircraft to transport tents and other relief supplies to main airports.....
its relations with Japan have been cold since the invasion by its neighbor in the 1930s -- which caused a residual resentment among the Chinese population, especially as chemical weapons were abandoned there by Japanese troops, AP said.
China has criticzed Japan for atoning for its war-time activities, but relations have thawed in the past two years and leaders from each nation have since made symbolic visits to meet their peers......

Countdown Towards a Good World

Maimonides says that a person should always see themselves and the world in a perfect balance and one good deed, could change the balance of the world for good, and thus bring redemption to the entire world. Every time a country moves towards Democracy (away from dictatorship and tyranny) that changes that part of the world from a "bad" place (country) to a "good" place.

Since the early 199o's there have been enormous changes in the world, there has never been a time in history where this many countries have been under democratic rule versus dictatorship and tyranny. once India became democratic and now that china is slowly but steadily moving towards democracy that changes the entire playing field. Beacuse when these countries become democratic that causes a shift in the entire balance of the world because India and China together have about a third of of world living in their countries (1.2 billion people in India and 1.25 Billion in China) which suddenly puts a huge percentage of the world on the good side. in fact in December of 2007 it was announced that India is now the largest democracy in the world.

in Fact the Rebe pointed out that all these changes are signes of moshiach's coming ( he specifically mentioned the changes in India and China) and the fact that these are happening without bloodshed is also a first in history there has never been a time where such big changes took place without bloodshed.

below is another country that just got rid of their Dictator and finally became a democratic nation.


Main News
Nepal declared federal republic
By Ambar Mainali/ Prakash Acharya

Kathmandu, May 29

Nepal turned into a federal democratic republic Wednesday ending about four centuries old monarchial culture through an overwhelming 560 votes of the Constituent Assembly (CA). In a historic verdict, the first meeting of the CA formally implemented the republican agenda provisioned in the Interim Constitution 2063 declaring Nepal a federal democratic republic state to be run under a presidential system. The verdict has put to rest 240 years of Shah rule turning Nepalese into sovereign citizens.

.....CA Chairman Gurung congratulated the members for being elected to undertake a historic responsibility of implementing the republic agenda and writing a new democratic constitution.

....Addressing the historic meeting, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala reiterated the need to forge consensus not only till the time of writing the constitution but also after that to ensure the consolidation of democracy and human rights. He said that consensus among the political parties in the course of the past two years had been instrumental to bring epochal changes in the nation. Hence as consensus is more powerful than any weapon, all political parties should bury their differences and come forward to forge enduring consensus to address all the problems faced by the nation.“I would like to recall my saying that a day would come in an era when the nation would finally change its course,” Koirala said adding, “My dream has finally come true today and the nation’s dream also has come into fruition

....“We have arrived at a historical juncture where monarchy will now be rooted out completely and Nepal would be declared a federal democratic republic,” the PM said.

...Koirala said that a legal path had been opened towards ending all forms of violence in the country and the nation should focus on consolidation of democracy and human rights. “The CA should encompass the views of all caste, groups, class and community without inflicting any damage on the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the nation.” “I have always believed in rule of law and a democratic system,” he said adding, “I firmly stand by my belief and want all parties to stick to it.”

Misers No More!!!

One of the primary messages of the Rebe is that increasing in acts of goodness and kindness will hasten the coming of moshiach. since 1991 the concept of goodness and kindness has exploded through the world just try to Google random acts of goodness and kindness you Will get close to 400,000 results. there have sprung all kinds of foundations, clubs, associations, that are engaged in acts of goodness kindness.

We also know what Maimonides says that a person should always sees themselves and the world in a perfect balance and one good deed, could change the balance of the world for good. the fact that "charity" or goodness and kindness is spreading to the entire world shows us clearly that we are moving closer towards moshiach.

In addition we know that the Talmud says that when the nations of the world give charity it is a sin offering for them. meaning it kind of cleans the slate and again makes the world a more good world. after the Tsunami in 2004 the outpouring of charity was unprecedented the amount of charity the world gave was unparalleled. Now even the Saudis are starting to give charity albeit they are being shamed into it. let's hope it is a good start.... Sooner or later the entire world will be giving charity and doing acts of goodness and kindness. Either you do it on your own or circumstansnes will force you to give charity....so why not do it right the first time...

Misers No More? Saudi Arabia Pledges $500 Million to World Food Program

Friday, May 23, 2008

Two weeks after a FOX News investigation showed oil-rich Saudia Arabia had donated nothing this year to help the United Nations World Food Program feed the world's hungry, the globe's number one oil exporter is finally opening its checkbook.

The United Nations this morning told FOX that the Saudis have pledged WFP a whopping $500 million contribution in response to the urgent WFP appeal in early April for $775 million to help it cope with a crisis caused by lower international grain stocks and rising energy costs. According to WFP that threatened to put at least 100 million more people around the world on the edge of starvation.

The Saudi contribution came two weeks after FOX revealed, based on WFP donor records, that Saudi Arabia had given nothing at all to the food agency this year, despite spiraling oil prices that had brought on the food crisis.

All of OPEC — the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries — had collectively given just $1.5 million, or about 1 minute and 10 seconds worth of OPEC's 2007 oil revenues, FOX disclosed.

Those revenues will be vastly greater this year due to even sharper oil-price hikes.

In noting the Saudi contribution, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that it “comes not a moment too soon, given the needs of millions of people dependent on food rations.”