Solar storm heads Earth's way after double sun blasts

Solar storm heads Earth's way after double sun blasts
The Aurora Australis is observed from the International Space Station during a geomagnetic storm on May 29, 2010 (AFP Photo)

Northern lights over Terschelling, Friesland..

Northern lights over Terschelling, Friesland..
(Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands - 27-28 February, 2014)

Northern lights delight Dutch in surprise showing in north and east.

Northern lights delight Dutch in surprise showing in north and east.
Still from timelapse film by Schylgefilm (Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands - 17 Mar 2015)


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"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.) -

“ … 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.)
(Subjects: Who/What is Kryon ?, Egypt Uprising, Iran/Persia Uprising, Peace in Middle East without Israel actively involved, Muhammad, "Conceptual" Youth Revolution, "Conceptual" Managed Business, Internet, Social Media, News Media, Google, Bankers, 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. …

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Monday, February 15, 2010

Speculation on the demise of the euro

NRC International, 15 February 2010 12:33, by Egbert Kalse

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With the euro under siege, some economists are arguing radical solutions, like splitting the currency in two.


Could the euro fall after all? Until recently, the scenario seemed unthinkable, but now that the European monetary union is decomposing at the seams, it suddenly seems realistic. Only 11 years after it was introduced to the financial markets, the currency has become the plaything of currency traders.

The Greek debt crisis has triggered traders to gamble on the euro, and economists to speculate with them.

“What’s happening now is exactly what we have been warning people of for years,” says Alfred Kleinknecht, a professor of economics at Delft University. Self-proclaimed eurosceptic Arjo Klamer, a professor of cultural economy at Rotterdam’s Erasmus University agrees. “Unless the rules of the game are changed the euro will be done for quickly,” he says.

European Cassandras

The two were part of a group of 70 Dutch economists who published an open letter opposing the Economic and Monetary Union, the predecessor of the eurozone, in 1997. They then argued a monetary union like the euro could only be successful if it was backed up by a strong political union. Without it, the euro would be doomed. The economists were heckled as Cassandras at the time, but now that the euro is in hot water, their dire warnings ring more true.

In the absence of clear political leadership, confidence in the euro has begun to waiver. Even though the current exchange rate of approximately 1.36 dollars is not dramatic, historically speaking, the sentiment in the market is. British and American press seem to have declared war on the euro and opportunistic hedge funds are trading against the beleaguered currency.

Right now, Greece is the staging ground for an all-out attack on the euro. But next month, it could be Spain, Portugal or Italy’s turn.

Some, like Age Bakker, a Dutch executive director with the International Monetary Fund, feel the current unrest and pressures emanating from financial markets provide the perfect opportunity for the currency to prove itself in tough times.

Kleinknecht, however, argues the euro needs some strong medicine. He suggests breaking the eurozone into two parts, a northern one and a southern one. The former can then adopt the Nordic, or Northern currency, the latter the Medic, or Mediterranean currency.

Klamer has an even more radical solution. “We should get rid of the entire euro. It would lead to unrest in the financial market, but it would allow the smaller member states to adopt their own social policies again.”

Kleinknecht offers that after a break-up of the eurozone, countries like Hungary and Rumania, that are now excluded, could join the proposed southern currency. “This is the only way we can bring balance back to the eurozone,” he says.

Who will join the southern euro?

Casper de Vries, a professor of monetary economics at Erasmus University begs to differ however. “Who would want to be a member of the southern currency union? No one, that’s who,” he says.

Bakker of the IMF also thinks little of radical solutions. “The current attack on the euro has had a disciplinary effect. But it is a pity that the eurozone’s member states needed such a stern warning before they realised the euro needs tending to. That goes for Greece as well as it does for all the other European countries that need to get their budgets in order,” Bakker says. The IMF did not fear an imminent collapse of the currency, he adds. “We look at currency exchanges regularly and the euro is fundamentally in a good place.”

According to Kleinknecht, the problems the 16 eurozone member states are currently experiencing can be chalked up to imbalances within it. “The eurozone is having the same problems China and the US are on a larger scale. Countries like the Netherlands and Germany have gargantuan trade surpluses, while countries like Spain, Portugal and Greece have trade deficits amounting to some ten percent of their domestic product. Those deficits are mostly paid for with borrowed money. Rising employment in the Netherlands is effectively stolen from southern member states. This can only last for so long,” Kleinknecht says.

Klamer agrees. “A strong political union backing the monetary one has repeatedly proven to be a bridge too far. One of the two will have to go: national budgetary sovereignty or the unified currency,” he says.

De Vries acknowledges the eurozone suffers from these inequalities. “Theoretically, labour migration is the way to even out these disparities, but in practice language barriers and pension problems pose roadblocks,” he says. Free trade, a possible substitute for the open exchange of labour, can also do little good in this respect, since it only applies to products and not to services, which make up 70 percent of the European economy. “The Greeks will do whatever it takes to remain part of the euro. The only option left is lowering wages,” De Vries says

The three economists agree on one thing: the monetary union’s continued existence can only be guaranteed if Europe will provide for political and budgetary leadership

Something rotten in Greece

  • The current euro crisis was set off by the Greek budget deficit, which the Greek government announced late last year, would top 12 percent in 2009. The European Union has been slow to respond to the problem so far, causing uncertainty in financial markets. The finance ministers of the Eurozone are set to meet today to discuss how to handle the problem.

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