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"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Train workers vow to hold huge strike

Ridwan Max Sijabat, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Employees of state-owned railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) threatened Wednesday to stage a national strike.

They claimed to have the full support of workers in other parts of the transportation sector in taking industrial action over management and labor conditions at the company.

The KAI Workers Union (SPKA) said the threat was serious, pointing out that the national strike would cost the government financially and image-wise.

"The national strike is our last resort to tell the government about the urgent need to repair the company's mismanagement and poor labor conditions in order to improve its performance and service to the public," SPKA chairman Eddy Setiawan said.

Workers from state-owned transport companies such as Garuda Indonesia, Merpati Nusantara, state-run bus company PPD, and the Jakarta International Terminal Company have expressed their support for the plan.

The International Transport Workers Federation and the State Ministry for State Enterprises have been informed of the strike, along with KAI's management and security authorities in Bandung in West Java, Medan in North Sumatra and Jakarta where workers will also hold rallies.

Eddy said the KAI workers were disappointed with the government's lack of commitment to revamping the company, as it had promised in 2005, as well as opposing the management's plan to lay off 11,000 of its total 33,000 workers.

"Transportation Minister Hatta Radjasa and State Minister for State Enterprises Sugiharto pledged before President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla to repair the mismanagement and the poor labor conditions but nothing has changed, and what we have seen is more and more train accidents happening," he said.

Reports of mismanagement in the company have long been the subject of public criticism, which peaked with the government's decision to suspend paying Rp 400 billion (US$44 million) in its annual subsidy to the company in the form of the public service obligation funds, which are supposed to be used to cover maintenance costs and improve workers' social welfare.

Eddy said the company's workers were not registered with the social security programs of state-owned insurance firm PT Jamsostek and that 11,000 workers would be laid off within the next two years.

Separately, Marjono, a senior staff member at PT KAI in Jakarta, said the increasing number of train accidents was related to the government's suspension of the funds for annual maintenance.

"In the past three years, the management spent Rp 11.8 trillion on maintaining all trains, wagons and railway networks in Sumatra and Java, causing the management to cut the labor cost," he said, while adding that 111 train accidents have happened this month and most were caused by technical errors.

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