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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, February 9, 2009

E. Java admits slow work in southern coast highway

Ridwan Max Sijabat, THE JAKARTA POST, SURABAYA | Mon, 02/09/2009 5:13 PM  

The East Java provincial administration admitted the construction of the southern coastal highway has been slow going due to topographic challenges. 

The highway stretches from Banyuwangi regency in the east to Pacitan regency in the west. 

The administration said it might not complete the 627-kilometer highway project estimate to cost Rp 3.1 trillion (US$265.52 million) by 2012 as scheduled. 

The highway megaproject chief, Joko Purwanto, said over the weekend that last year the project only managed to finish the opening of a 26-km section in a mountainous area in Blitar, including the hardening of a 4.7-km section and the asphalting of a 4.4-km span. 

"The slow work has a lot to do with the difficult terrain. High hills and deep ravines require additional heavy equipment and operators. Plus it's difficult to operate them during the rainy season," he told The Jakarta Post. 

"Besides, we have to coordinate with local administrations and the Forestry Ministry to compensate villagers and the state-owned forestry firm PT Perhutani for their land being taken over for the road." 

The highway is part of the trans-Java highway connecting southern coastal areas of Central Java, Yogyakarta, West Java and Banten provinces to end the isolation in the southern part of the island and spur economic activity. 

In East Java, the project must acquire 13.5 million square meters of land from Ketapang in Banyuwangi to Pacitan. 

Currently, three main arteries traverse Java: the northern coastal (Pantura), the central and the southern highways. The central and southern highways are far more winding and narrow than the broad and relatively straight Pantura highway. 

Joko said before President Megawati Soekarnoputri launched the southern highway project in 2002, the provincial transportation agency had conducted a feasibility study and taken remote images. 

He said from 2002 to 2008, 74.6 kms of road had been laid down as well as 1.7 kms of the 6.5 kms of bridges planned.

"This year, we are asking to acquire portions of protected forest in Blitar, Trenggalek and Tulungagung regencies," he said. 

When asked about the funds spent in the past six years, Joko said the construction of the 74.6-km road had consumed Rp 232.2 billion from state budgets, Rp 272.8 billion from provincial budgets and Rp 75.1 billion from regency budgets. 

"The project is closely supervised by provincial authorities and audited annually by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK)," he added. 

Joko said this year construction will lay down the 5.5-km Pacitan-Prigi section, the 12-km Grejo-Sirene Beach section in Tulungagung, the 5-km Tulungagung-Jolosutro section in Blitar and the 9-km Selok Awar-Jatimulyo section in Lumajang.


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