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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. …”

Monday, March 19, 2007

Proton plans to open 10 centres in Indonesia


By Zuraimi Abdullah, The Business Times

March 19 2007

PROTON Holdings Bhd, which officially entered Indonesia last Friday, plans to open up to 10 sales and service centres in the republic by March 2008.

This is to facilitate the national carmaker's target of capturing a 1.7 per cent share of all vehicles sold in the republic in five years, said heads of Proton's Indonesian marketing arm.

Three outlets were opened simultaneously in Slipi, Jalan Warung Buncit and Pokok Indah, all in Jakarta, on Saturday.

PT Proton Edar Indonesia directors Norhisham Kamal and Dwi Sasetia said its other outlets will be located in Samarang, Surabaya, Bali, Makasar, Medan, Jogjakarta and Bandung.

Total cost of setting up the outlets could reach US$8 million (RM28 million), they added.

Norhisham and Dwi spoke to Malaysian reporters before Proton's launch in Indonesia by International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz on Friday in Jakarta.

Proton would directly operate two outlets including the one in Slipi. The balance of eight are to be run by independent dealers.

Savvy and Gen. 2 are the first Proton models being sold in Indonesia as passenger cars from last Saturday, while the Wira model has been on the road here as a taxi since last August.

"We have to change the perception that Proton is only a taxi manufacturer. We need to have strong promotion. We do hope that with the outlets in the main cities, Indonesians will accept Proton's other models too," Dwi said.

Dwi and Norhisham are bullish on Proton's prospects, going by Toyota's success in having its other models well-accepted here despite the Vios being sold as taxis.

Meanwhile, the first Proton car buyer in Indonesia, only known as Fauze, has selected a red Gen. 2.

"This is my third car and I am proud to have a Malaysian car. I thought, 'Why not this time I add an Asian-made car to my collection?" Fauze, in his 40s, added that he fell in love with the Gen. 2 while visiting a motor show in Kuala Lumpur last year.

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