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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, May 13, 2013

Indonesian Poor to Receive Rp 14 Trillion in Aid Ahead of Fuel Hike

Jakarta Globe, Ezra Sihite, May 13, 2013

A street vendor sells fuel in a plastic containers in Samarinda,
 East Kalimantan on March 24, 2013. (Reuters Photo)

The Indonesian government is poised to distribute up to Rp 14 trillion ($1.4 billion) in aid to the poor ahead of the central government’s planned fuel price hike.

The central government is trying to ween Indonesian motorists off the nation’s costly fuel subsidies — which cost the state some Rp 211.9 trillion in 2012 and heavily favor middle class drivers. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has issued instructions which require the government to simultaneously slash fuel subsidies and increase welfare spending.

This round of payouts will reach some 15.5 million households living on less than $2 a day, Coordinating Minister of Welfare Agung Laksono said. Additional spending in the form of school aid and subsidized rice will be handed out as the fuel subsidy cuts take effect, Agung explained.

The coordinating minister said the government must spend some of the savings on the nation’s poor.

“The potential budget savings [from subsidy cuts] is up to Rp 37 trillion,” he said. “It must be returned to the poor people through compensation programs and also infrastructure development.”

Previous efforts to raise the price of subsidized fuel sparked days of chaotic protests. The plan was scuttled by Golkar Party and Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) factions in the House as protests peaked in Jakarta.

Critics of the plan argue that higher fuel prices will hurt the poor by causing food prices to rise. But the government spends more on energy subsidies than it spends on either education or health care.

The government has floated raising the price of premium subsidized fuel from Rp 4,500 per liter to Rp 6,000. The price hike is expected to take effect next month.
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