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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, December 24, 2007

Discounted bus fares during holiday season

The Jakarta Post

Even with the holiday season just around the corner, business was slow at Kalideres bus station in West Jakarta on Friday, with several intercity bus companies ready to reduce fares.

"Next week we will reduce bus fares to attract more passengers," said Eko, a ticket seller for Handoyo bus company.

A ticket for an air-conditioned bus to Surakarta (Solo), Central Java, for example, will be sold for Rp 70,000 (US$8), Rp 5,000 cheaper than the current price.

Passengers can buy tickets at the terminal or any of its five ticket counters in Jakarta and Bekasi.

Eko said he could usually sell 10 tickets for a bus with 54 seats.

"But this year's holiday season is really sluggish, with only one person buying a ticket for the bus that left for Solo this morning," he said.

Eko predicted other bus companies, especially smaller ones like Handoyo, would reduce fares too.

This month people enjoy a long holiday that began last Thursday when Muslims celebrated the Day of Sacrifice, or Idul Adha.

Waryono, a ticket seller for Sinar Jaya bus company, also said business was slow.

"Last year, ahead of the Day of Sacrifice we could send off buses filled to their capacity of 59 passengers," he said.

This holiday season, he said, the number of people using buses might only reach half of last year's total.

"I think people are reluctant to go home because they don't have enough money to buy tickets," he said.

The decreased number of passengers at the inter-city terminal was evident in the daily records at the terminal's office.

Some 2,897 buses left the terminal Tuesday. The number increased to 3,904 on Wednesday but it decreased to 3,543 a day later.

"Many people prefer to take trains or maybe airplanes as there are airlines offering cheap prices," said Suryatna of the West Jakarta transportation office. (JP/ewd)

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