Cempaka Belanda: All-volunteer Amsterdam media impress China

"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. …”

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

All-volunteer Amsterdam media impress China

RNW, 14 December 2010

(Photo: CRTV)

Amsterdam-based CRTV is a Chinese media group producing radio, TV, Internet and a magazine. The 44-strong staff also organise cultural events. It’s an all-volunteer enterprise which makes a big impact, reaching an audience of over 200,000 - by Tao Yue

Founded in 1996 by several second generation Chinese, CRTV started off broadcasting two hours of news radio a week in the Netherlands. The programmes, in Cantonese, were designed to help older Chinese immigrants who often don’t speak Dutch plug into their host society. Fourteen years on, the station now has six hours of live broadcasting a week in Cantonese, Mandarin and Dutch. There’s also a monthly TV programme, a bimonthly full-colour magazine, and Internet multimedia. The only thing hasn’t changed is that all staff still work on a voluntary basis.

People-centric

CRTV’s 44 volunteers all work or study fulltime and see the broadcasting as a “hobby”. “We don’t have the means to pay our staff,” says Hong Tong Wu, Chairman of CRTV, “but we offer them opportunities to learn about media and journalism, to realise their creative dreams, and to make friends or network.”

The Mandarin group members are mostly students in the Netherlands temporarily. For them, CRTV is a way to meet like-minded people, enrich their lives and expand their social networks. “Student life in Holland is quite boring,” says Si Han Ding, a volunteer from Leiden University. “However, I met many interesting people at CRTV and it feels like a family.”

His schoolmate Li Pan volunteered for a completely different reason. “I grew up listening to radio with my father—I don’t watch TV—and my dream was to become a radio DJ. How can I refuse such a golden opportunity of sitting in front of a microphone with the red ‘On Air’ sign above my head?” She laughs.

Opportunities

CRTV has also attracted several media professionals like Sandra Lau, a writer, and Jimmy Tai, a TV and film producer. They were keen to start their own projects and CRTV helped make it happen. “This is how we attract talents— by giving them autonomy to create,” Hong Tong says. Just like that, CRTV magazine and TV were born with Jimmy and Sandra chief editor and producer respectively.

Multiple Targeting

CRTV broadcasts in three languages with three distinct audience bases. Its Cantonese radio programmes, focusing on Dutch news, target older Chinese immigrants who came to the Netherlands from Hong Kong in the 1960s and 70s.

Its Dutch radio programmes cater for these immigrants’ children and grandchildren who are fluent in Dutch culture but want to learn more about their roots. The same goes for the magazine on Chinese culture which is published in Dutch

The Mandarin radio programmes capture an entirely different group - students and young professionals who have recently arrived from Mainland China. Listeners can get information and tips on living in the Netherlands, as well as relieving homesickness by “meeting” fellow Chinese on air.

The TV programmes focus on entertainment and cultural events related to China and are broadcast in either Cantonese, Mandarin or Dutch.

Shanghai Collaboration

In April this year, CRTV’s Mandarin radio programmes expanded their audience to include 200,000 listeners in Shanghai. A number Hong Tong says is more than he’d ever dreamed of reaching. This followed a trip he made to China in 2009, after which he was asked by the Shanghai Media Group if CRTV was interested in placing its material on Live It Up Shanghai—a popular English-Chinese lifestyle show with a 200,000 strong audience of mostly upper-middle class Chinese and expatriates.

Since then the Mandarin team has been busy working with Shanghai. They supply a ten-minute clip every week on how Chinese students and yuppies experience life in the Netherlands. “Shanghai listeners like our informal chatty style,” says Xue Fei Chen, the producer. “No matter what we talk about, they find it refreshing!” “There are still limits, however,” adds Li Pan. “Shanghai explicitly said no sex or drugs.” The team has now started work on a new series about travelling in Europe at Shanghai’s request.

Future plans, says Hong Tong, include expand the Mandarin broadcasts and supplying more material to Live It Up Shanghai. CRTV is also talking with Zhejiang Radio and two TV production companies in Shanghai. “Though moving slowly, we are getting there!” he says modestly.

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