Cempaka Belanda: International law took back seat to politics

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"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. …”

Thursday, January 14, 2010

International law took back seat to politics

NRC International, 14 January 2010 11:41, EDITORIAL

Peace Palace, home to the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the Hague Academy of International Law

International law was sacrificed to political interests. Don't pretend otherwise.

Anyone who believed international law had an influence on issues of war and peace is an illusion poorer after the report of the Davids commission on the Dutch support for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In 2002, international law carried no weight in the Dutch political capital, The Hague, we discovered yesterday. Legal arguments were subordinated to political interests. According to the commission, there was no adequate legal mandate for the military operation. The legal argument that was employed by the Netherlands “could not be defended”. And there was also no thorough or real legal preparation. At the ministry of Foreign Affairs, moreover, officials were radically divided on the matter, an “extremely unfortunate” state of affairs.

For the standing of the Netherlands, these assertions amount to no less than a disgrace. After all, the Dutch government traditionally pursues a strict legal and ethical policy related to international organisations, human rights and treaties. Moreover, the cabinet seeks to make The Hague the global capital of international law. But once the Netherlands is put under pressure by its traditional transatlantic allies, law must bow to power. And in no small way either.

Dishonest and hypocritical

In 2002, when the ministry of Foreign Affairs had to think through the legitimacy of an invasion of Iraq, international law was misused to justify it. The Davids commission provides sad evidence of this in the form of a quote from an official at the ministry. That official described the legal basis for the invasion as “paper thin [but] maybe just sufficient for us to go along with it”. During the official decision-making that followed, ‘paper-thin’ was thickened to ‘thin’, ‘not cast-iron’, and ‘feeble’ via ‘sufficient’, to the position that a new UN resolution providing a more solid legal basis was ‘not essential’. Finally, the minister dared to pronounce the legal foundation for Dutch support “sufficient” and “adequate”.

Even then, that was a risky position to adopt. The invasion was, after all, aimed at removing a government, while international law never offered an independent foundation for this. At the time, it was seen as high legal opportunism to stitch together ‘collected’ UN resolutions that Bagdad had failed to fulfil –some of which were ten years old- and define them as a sort of collective justification for invasion.

The remarks made by commission member and former foreign affairs official, Peter van Walsum, that the cabinet would have done better by admitting that there were no convincing legal grounds, is a late admission of guilt. Indeed it would be better to make clear that international law was sacrificed to vital political objectives. But don’t pretend that’s not what occurred. It’s disingenuous and hypocritical.

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Willibrord Davids presenting his committee's report to prime minister Jan-Peter Balkenende. Photo WFA

Report available in English

The Davids' committee report, which contains an extensive English summary is available online.