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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. …

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Kalimantan railroad 'in the works'

Ika Krismantari and Nurni Sulaiman, The Jakarta Po - 2007-04-17 10:27

Jakarta, April 17, 2007 (The Jakarta Post) - Following the enactment of the new Rail Transportation Law, which allows the private sector to play a role in the development and operation of railroads, Japan's Itochu has announced preliminary plans to build a 700-kilometer rail line in Central Kalimantan.

The railroad, which will be the first in Kalimantan and is expected to cost about US$1 billion to build, will initially be used to transport coal in the natural resource-rich province. To show its commitment to the plan, the company signed a memorandum of understanding with the central government Monday for the conducting of a four-month-long feasibility study to determine the design of the railroad and the actual cost of the scheme — the first rail project outside of Java and Sumatra islands.

Itochu's chief officer for Indonesia; Yasuo Ichimura, said that the feasibility study would be conducted on the first 300-kilometer stretch of line from Muara Teweh in North Barito regency, Central Kalimantan, where the company has a coal concession trading under the name Marunda Grahamineral, to Buntok, which is located on the banks of the Barito river.

The first phase of the project, which is estimated to cost about $300 million, would be open to traffic by 2012.

"The next 400 kilometers will be built two years after the opening of the first segment," Ichimura said.

He said that the company was fully aware of the project's great future potential given the province's abundant coal resources — estimated at more than 50 percent of the country's total coal reserves of 5.8 billion tons.

The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry expects that a railroad coal transportation system will be in place to link coal mines and terminals in the northern part of East Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan and the southern part of South Kalimantan by 2020. It also expects there to be some 38 coal mining firms availing of the railroad network by that time.

Ichimura said that Itochu had proposed a public-private financing scheme, under which the Indonesian government and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation would cover 70 percent of the cost required for track-laying and the construction of other infrastructure, while the remaining 30 percent of the cost would be covered by the company and its partners.

Responding to this suggestion, Transportation Minister Hatta Radjasa, who represented the central government during the MoU signing ceremony, said the government could only afford to cover 30 percent of the total project cost.

Separately, Public Works Minister Djoko Kirmanto said that his ministry had rejected a request from the East Kalimantan provincial administration for some Rp 11 trillion (about $1.2 billion) to be allocated from the national budget to cover the cost of part of the 1,860-kilometer Trans East Kalimantan Highway.

The central government, which this year paid out some Rp 540 billion for public works in East Kalimantan, had no more money to meet the request, Djoko said Monday during a visit to Balikpapan.

The highway, which is 87 percent completed, will connect big cities in East Kalimantan, including Balikpapan and Samarinda.

The project is part of a government project to open up road access in remote areas of the country, which it is hoped will be completed by 2009.

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