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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 10, 2007

City weighs price scheme for main roads

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

The Jakarta Transportation Agency is drawing up plans to introduce Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) to better control traffic and improve air quality in the capital.

The agency's deputy head, Udar Pristono, said his employees were finalizing details of the plan.

"We are analyzing the legal aspects to synchronize the system with government regulations on taxes and the bylaw about traffic," he explained.

"We are also studying the technical aspects to identify which is going to be the most appropriate system to be adopted here."

The system, which is in use in countries including Singapore, Germany, Austria and Belgium, would require car owners to purchase an electronic ticket to drive on main thoroughfares in the city.

ERP is expected to replace the current three-in-one policy, which requires cars to have at least three passengers in order to use major streets during peak hours.

According to Udar, the most suitable ERP for Jakarta would be one like Singapore's, which uses a pre-paid smart card. He said the agency had yet to determine the optimal ticket price.

"There are many criteria that we should consider, including people's ability and willingness to pay," he told The Jakarta Post.

Udar was upbeat about people's likely acceptance of the system, noting that people already shell out money for extra passengers in order to use major roads during the peak hours.

"If they are now willing to pay the three-in-one jockeys, why would they mind buying an ERP ticket? They will get what they pay for," he said. He added that the agency would set an affordable price.

The agency will work together with the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) and other related stakeholders to develop the system.

ITDP founder and president Michael Replogle said the system offered many advantages, including increasing road capacity to its maximum productive level and increasing vehicle speeds.

"The system can also reduce congestion, pollution and fuel consumption since it may encourage people to use public transportation," he said Thursday during a discussion of ERP.

"Thus, the revenue of public transportation will also rise."

Oscar Alarik, deputy director of Stockholm's congestion charge secretariat, who also attended the discussion, said Sweden had conducted a seven-month trial of the system in 2006.

"The people were skeptical about ERP before we started the trial. Based on survey results, about 60 percent of them opposed it," he said.

"But after we had applied the system for six months, more people changed their perception as they began to feel the benefits of the system."

Sweden is the most recent country to adopt the ERP.

According to data from ITDP, the number of vehicles in Jakarta grows by 11 percent per year. There are around five million private cars and motorcycles on the city's roads.

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