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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. …”

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Indonesia's Bukit Asam in $1.8 bln coal transport project

Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:07am EST

JAKARTA, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Indonesian coal miner PT Tambang Batubara Bukit Asam Tbk PTBA.JK said on Friday it plans to improve coal deliveries with new infrastructure projects worth a combined $1.8 billion.

Ageing infrastructure has hampered Bukit Asam's ability to deliver coal to its customers, who include the state electricity firm.

Bukit Asam -- the smallest of Indonesia's three listed coal miners, with a market value of $2.9 billion -- said it will upgrade the existing railway linking its coal mine in Sumatra to the port, and will build a new railway in the same area.

Sukrisno, president director of Bukit Asam, said the firm plans to form a joint venture with PT Kereta Api Indonesia to upgrade the infrastructure by improving stations, coaches, bridges and tracks.

"PT KA (Kereta Api) and PT BA (Bukit Asam) will work together to improve the infrastructure in a bid to raise the company's annual capacity to transport coal to 20 million tonnes by 2012," Sukrisno told Reuters.

Bukit Asam produced 8.5 million tonnes of coal in 2007 and wants to increase its production to 9.3 million in 2008.

PT Kereta Api could not be reached for comment.

Bukit Asam estimated that upgrading the railway would cost $734 million, and could be funded out of cashflow or using bank loans, Sukrisno said.

The Indonesian coal miner will team up with China Railways Engineering and PT Trans Pacific to build a second railway line and a port in Bandar Lampung, on the southern tip of Sumatra.

The project, worth $1.1 billion, will increase its coal transport capacity by a further 20 million tonnes by 2011, Sukrisno said.

Bukit Asam reported unaudited net profit of 760 billion rupiah ($83.8 million) for 2007, compared to 485.67 billion in 2006. Sales revenue climbed 16 percent to 4.11 trillion rupiah.

Work on the project will start at the end of this year or early next year, Sukrisno said, adding that the firm expects its coal output to reach 50 million tonnes a year in five years' time.

Indonesia is the world's top thermal coal exporter. Coal prices was quoted at $130 a tonne free on board Newcastle port late on Wednesday. Coal prices hit an all-time high of $150 a tonne for a spot deal struck earlier this month.


($1=9,070 rupiah) (Reporting by Mita Valina Liem and Andreas Ismar, editing by Sara Webb)
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