Cempaka Belanda: Meet the new Dutch prime minister: Mark who?

"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. …”

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Meet the new Dutch prime minister: Mark who?

RNW, 29 September 2010 - 11:38am | By John Tyler

(photo: ANP)

Mark Rutte is set to become the first liberal prime minister of the Netherlands since 1918. But you'd be forgiven if you have never heard of him. Many people right here in the Netherlands have the same feeling.

Who is Mark Rutte? And how did he get to such a senior position?

Friendly and articulate

In my first encounter with Mark Rutte I got a feel for his qualities. On a hectic evening in the lobby outside parliament, it was my first day on the job. A colleague spotted Rutte, tapped him on the shoulder and pointing at me said "He's got a question for you".

Rutte grinned down at me, expectantly. And in two minutes, in perfect English, explained why his government should keep Dutch troops in Afghanistan.

In the three years since then, Mark Rutte has been accessible, friendly and articulate whenever I needed him for a story. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone - journalist, politician, civil servant or entrepreneur - who doesn't say the same thing about Mark Rutte.

Big family

He was born on Valentine's Day in 1967 in The Hague. He grew up in a middle class neighbourhood, and his family was comfortable but not well-off. His father was already 58 when Mark was born. Mark was the seventh child, although his eldest brothers and sisters were born to a different mother. Rutte senior's first wife died during World War II and he married for a second time - to his first wife's younger sister.

In interviews Rutte says his parents taught him humility - he stresses the down-to-earth values his background taught him, the importance of work, being humble and offering each other support.

Politics came early, with young Mark joining the youth organisation of the VVD, the free-market liberal party he now leads, when he was 16 years old.

Talents

Rutte is an accomplished pianist, and considered going to music conservatory. He chose instead to study history at Leiden University, where his far-ranging curiosity and intelligence started to catch people's attention.

After earning his Master's degree in 1992, he went to work for Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever. During a ten-year stint at the multinational food conglomerate, he served in various management functions.

Politics

But even while working in the private sector, politics was never far from his heart. He helped run the VVD as a member of the executive committee during the 1990s.

So it came as no surprise in 2004 when party colleague Gerrit Zalm, then finance minister, pulled Mark Rutte out of Unilever and into Jan Peter Balkenende's second cabinet, as deputy social affairs minister. He was moved to education after two years, in a cabinet reshuffle.

Just before that goverrnment fell, Rutte was elected leader of the VVD. It was a close-run thing. Immigration minister Rita Verdonk also wanted the job, and had a much higher profile. She wanted to stir things up, while Rutte campaigned as a dependable, stable factor in a time of turbulence in the party.

There were questions about his leadership for a while, as the party hit rock bottom in opinion polls. Prominent members Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders left - but Rutte won the day, eventually kicking his one time rival Rita Verdonk out of the party.

Right-wing

Once considered on the left within the VVD, he has more recently turned to the right, emphasising reducing taxes and cutting government spending. He promotes a get-tough approach to crime and a restrictive immigration policy.

In 2009 his debating skills won him the accolade 'Politician of the Year' from his fellow MPs. Since then he has been on an upswing, culminating in June 2010 in a narrow election win - by one seat. The margin may have been slim but it was still the VVD's first national victory since the party was founded in 1948.

And now Mark Rutte's genial nature will be put to the ultimate test. He is going to lead the country's first minority cabinet - with parliamentary support from a controversial party, Geert Wilders' right-wing anti-Islam Freedom Party.

The country is divided and entering an era of smaller government, requiring sacrifice from all quarters. Rutte has had it tough in the past but the political storms ahead are sure to test him to the full. Whether he continues to be as open and friendly in the future as he was on my first day three years ago, remains to be seen.