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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, June 12, 2007

Water taxi hours extended after weekend success

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Despite a few flaws, public reaction to the city's new water taxis has been enthusiastic, with the administration announcing plans to extend their operating hours.

"The number of passengers on the water taxis in the first two days of their operation, Saturday and Sunday, reached 930 people," agency head Nurrachman told reporters at City Hall on Monday.

He added that the agency was planning to add two more hours for the operation of the two water taxis, up from the current four hours. The taxis, launched last Wednesday by Governor Sutiyoso, currently run from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m on Saturday and Sunday.

The water taxis ply a 1.7-kilometer route from Halimun, South Jakarta, to Karet, Central Jakarta, along the Ciliwung River."To anticipate the high demand of passengers, we will operate from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., maybe starting next week," he said.

He said most passengers took a round trip on the water taxis that cost them Rp 3,000 (US33 cents) per person.

"That means most of them rode the taxis for fun," he said.

He said that there were still several problems in the operation of the taxis, such as the garbage floating in the river and the changes made to the river's depth by opening and closing the sluice gates.

He added that the agency was also planning to change the boats currently used as water taxis because the boats currently in use were formerly used to transport people from Jakarta Bay to Kepulauan Seribu (Thousand Islands), and were not specifically designer for rivers.

The boats, Kerapu III and Kerapu VI, have a maximum capacity of 28 people each.

The city administration launched water taxis to introduce a new mode of transportation to help alleviate Jakarta's traffic congestion.

It also hopes to teach resident not to throw garbage in the river because it can hamper the operation of the taxis.

Nurrachman said that the transportation agency and the public works agency were evaluating the possibility of making another water taxi route along the Angke River.

"There is a possibility to open a route along Angke River, at least from Pesing, West Jakarta to Teluk Gong, North Jakarta," he said.

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