Cempaka Belanda: Gays in the US military follow Dutch lead

"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 21, 2011

Gays in the US military follow Dutch lead – ‘Proud to Serve’

RNW, 21 September 2011, by Michel Walraven

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It’s A-ok to be ‘sexually different’ in the US armed forces. Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender service personnel have the same legal rights as their heterosexual colleagues. At the end of last year, President Barack Obama ended the ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, rolled out by Bill Clinton in 1993. The policy prohibited military personnel from discriminating against their homosexual colleagues, but also barred gay servicemen and women from being open about their sexuality.

The Dutch Homosexuality & the Armed Forces Foundation (SHK) has been advising the US Pentagon on how to implement the new policy. Evidently the US military sets some store by Dutch experience - The Hague stopped banning gays from the armed forces way back in 1974.

Dutch openness

Major Peter Kees Hamstra from the SHK welcomes the new US policy. He says homosexuals, at least in The Netherlands, are generally willing to consider a career in the armed forces. “Openness about sexual preference is not necessarily going to make things easy right away, but in the long run it will make their acceptance a lot easier.” Major Hamstra says that one of the most important things is to show that management backs this openness 100 percent. “And yes, there will be incidents during the first period of change, but eventually everybody will get used to the fact that people are open about their sexuality.”

Sexual revolution

In 1974, in the wake of the 1960s sexual revolution, the Dutch defence ministry decided to lift the ban on gays in the military. This made the Dutch armed forces the first in the world to accept openly homosexual personnel. According to Major Hamstra the percentages of open gays and those ‘in the closet’ in the military are roughly the same as in the civilian world. “Generally, it’s pretty safe to be gay in our armed forces. There’s almost no open discrimination. Those guilty of it can easily be sacked.” However there are some problems:

“Combat units are usually made up of young straight white males. Studies show that within these groups acceptance of homosexuality is still an issue. And when it comes to transgender people, it’s a totally different story. This group seems to find it much harder to be accepted in any area of life. Many people don’t realise that as many as 0.5 percent of the population have some transgender tendencies. We are currently working on setting guidelines for military personnel who are going through sexual transition. Not only social guidelines need to be set, but also medical and administrative ones.”

Proud 2 Serve

Even though much has been achieved in the Dutch armed forces, there are still reports of ‘sexually different’ military personnel suffering harassment. This summer, however, another milestone was reached. The defence ministry had its own boat in Amsterdam’s Gay Pride Canal Parade – the motto of the men and women from the Dutch military on board was ‘Proud 2 Serve’.

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"The Akashic System" – Jul 17, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: Religion, The Humanization of God, Benevolent Design, DNA, Akashic Circle, (Old) Souls, Gaia, Indigenous People, Talents, Reincarnation, Genders, Gender Switches, In “between” Gender Change, Gender Confusion, Shift of Human Consciousness, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version) New !