Cempaka Belanda: Dutch businessman tries to stop screening of festival film

"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. …”

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Dutch businessman tries to stop screening of festival film

RNW, 18 November 2011

Mads Brügger, the maker and writer of the controversial documentary, The Ambassador, which opened this year’s International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam, came face to face with a Dutch businessman – depicted as a shady figure selling dubious diplomatic passports in the film - during the premiere screening.

Mads Brügger

The businessman, Willem Tijssen, flew specially from Africa to the Netherlands to try to prevent the documentary being shown. He has put an army of lawyers on IDFA’s back, but all his attempts to stop the screening failed, says the IDFA's director in Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, “because we have a really powerful lawyer”.

The Danish director used hidden cameras almost exclusively as he posed as a Liberian consul in the Central African Republic eager to get involved in the lucrative blood diamond trade. He used a cover story of opening a new matchstick factory and signed all kinds of shifty contracts with various local politicians.

It was a risky set-up, but Brügger – an investigative journalist by profession – pulled it off and managed to enter the underworld of African shady business practices.

Dutchman beguiled

The Ambassador reveals how easy it is for wealthy Western businessmen to obtain diplomatic credentials from poor African countries. In one scene, Brügger is shown handing over 50,000 dollars to Tijssen for his diplomatic passport. Once back in the Netherlands, the Dutchman claimed that the conversations and scenes featuring him had been taken out of context and that the money he was given was to cover costs.

At the screening in Amsterdam’s Tuschinski cinema, Tijssen confronted Brügger. “It was a bizarre situation,” said Brügger in de Volkskrant. The documentary maker understands the businessman’s rage, but thinks it has worked to his advantage: “If Tijssen were my PR agent, then I’d say ‘Good work!’”

1,000-euro boots

To pull off the role, Brügger attended various receptions at embassies to see how diplomats behaved and what they drank. He dressed himself as a kind of neo-colonialist, spending 1,000 euros on a pair of leather Ann Demeulemeester boots which he wore over his trousers. “Two ministers asked me to bring them back a pair each on my next visit,” says the film-maker.

Brügger said he used the role of diplomat because he sees them as a sort of super-journalist with access to state secrets and powerful circles. "Most of my life I have been working as a journalist," he said. "Journalism is really the foundation of my work as a filmmaker... And I think of this film as journalism at its best, and also documentary-making as it is meant to be,” says Brügger on website Indiewire.

The Ambassador is a follow-up to the Sundance Film Festival award-winning The Red Chapel, where Brügger headed to North Korea with two Danish-Korean comedians under the guise of a cultural exchange.

More: video interview with filmmaker and writer Mads Brügger