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)


Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"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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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Black Dutchmen, who are they?

RNW, 15 October 2010 - 3:30pm | By Hélène Michaud

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The scene is utterly confusing, even for those most at ease in multicultural settings: tall, black, curly haired older men in African attire; short, fragile, dark skinned, flat nosed women draped in Asian prints; the lighter skinned, more Mediterranean looking youths, and then the lighter haired Caucasians. What they have in common are their Indo-African roots.

Every other year or so, the Belanda Hitam, or Black Dutchmen as they are now known in the Netherlands, gather to celebrate their unique ancestry.

With African music, Indonesian food, and an Indo-African fashion show, about 150 of them gathered again recently to share stories about their common ancestors.

“Our story”

The African roots were long kept hidden. Was it shame, or the desire to blend into Dutch society that prevented the Indo-African elders from revealing their secret?

“It’s our story”, says Joyce Cordus, and it’s still largely unknown in the Netherlands”, despite several books having been written about the Black Dutchmen. Her father is Daan Cordus, 89, the oldest remaining descendent of the group in the Netherlands who has devoted the past decades to gathering information about their shared background. Today, Joyce is taking over his responsibility as chairman of their association.

Like her, young members of the 5th generation want to understand why they feel different in Dutch society. “They have lots of questions and we have to look for other ways to reach them.” Joyce plans to do that by using social media platforms such as Facebook, its Dutch equivalent Hyves, and Twitter.

Few historical documents

There are very few written historical documents about their history. Joyce says she’d like to know how the Africans who settled in Indonesia experienced being “not entirely Indonesian, not completely Dutch, not completely African, just being a mix, and what that meant to them as individuals and as parents.”

Joyce Cordus is proud that her father dug into their history and helped found their association.

In Africa, this story of three continents has yet to be told. Yaw Ohene-Dankwa, from Ghana, is at the gathering in the Netherlands to work on a documentary film on the subject. While Ghanaians know about their brothers and sisters in the West Indies, the story of the East Indian Diaspora is unknown to them.

He says he felt emotional when he entered the hall and saw this mix of people with Asian and African features. “It feels as if I’m one of them although I’m a full-blooded Ghanaian. How on earth can we lose out on all these brothers and sisters who are so attached to Africa?”

No European blood

Angeline Baron
Photo: Helene Michaud
He listens intensely as Angeline Baron Hill, probably with the darkest skin amongst the 150 people here, tells her story. She said years ago she was proud of the fact that she has no European blood at all. She still is.

Angeline has never lived in Africa, but she remembers how she immediately felt at home during a visit to Ghana. She said people she met at the market looked like her aunts and uncles and thought she was “one of theirs”. Angeline decided to buy a plot of land there.

When asked what’s African about her, Maureen, Angeline’s daughter, says: “we’re all outgoing, we like people and family around us, we’re always outdoors, we love our food, and we make a lot of noise!”

Maureen has noticed that her lighter skinned teenaged children have started asking questions about their roots, and tend to mix with people from different cultures.

Fewer immigrants

With their mixed backgrounds, one might expect Maureen and Angeline to show concern over the new Dutch government’s plans to reduce the number of new immigrants in the country by half. They aren’t.

“They treated us like foreigners but we never felt like foreigners. This is not affecting me personally,” Angeline insists.

Joyce Cordus, however, reacts visibly emotionally when asked how she views the anti-immigrant wave in Dutch politics. “It’s terrible. I feel as if as they’re attacking me. I’m worried about my 2 grandchildren. In what kind of country will they grow up, what did the Dutch learn from their own history? These people they are attacking now, most of them came here because they had no choice, like most of the Indonesians who came here. It really makes me very angry. Maybe people like us should gather around this theme and think about how to turn things around, because this is not the right way to go”

Who are they?

  • The Black Dutchmen are the descendants of 3,000 young, able bodied West African men who were “bought” by the Dutch colonial army to come and help crush uprisings in what is now Indonesia. They were given Dutch nationality, Dutch names, and many of the privileges of the colonial masters. The largest contingent is believed to have been recruited at slave markets in Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Kingdom in what is now Ghana.

    Many of these men chose to settle in Central Java, and took native wives. Their sons continued to serve in the colonial army until Indonesia's independence. The Belanda Hitam, or Black Dutchmen, as they were called, then sailed off the Netherlands, the homeland they had never seen.

    The largest group is now living in the Netherlands (between 500-750), there are 15 families in the United States, a handful in Canada, 4 in Brazil and 12 descendants on Java Island in Indonesia.

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