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They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

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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. …”

Monday, February 6, 2012

Dutch ban on bonuses - just populist politics?

RNW, 6 February 2012, by Maike Winters

(Photo: ANP/Brero)

Ban bonuses for bankers - a good idea or just a populist hobbyhorse for politicians? The Dutch parliament’s finance committee met on Monday to discuss a proposal for legislation to ban bankers’ bonuses submitted by two opposition parties, Labour and the Socialist Party.

Kilian Wawoe, former human resources director at ABN-Amro bank, is scathing about the banking sector’s bonus culture:

“Take Dexia Bank in Belgium as an example. Dexia’s CEO recently received a bonus of 600,000. You might think that was reasonable for someone at the helm of a financial institution making millions in profits. The point is, a year later, the same person had to quit and the bank had to be rescued with government funds. I mean, his performance looked a lot poorer in retrospect.”

Wawoe was responsible for handing out his bank’s annual bonuses. The turning point came when he noticed that ABN-Amro kept awarding generous bonuses during the credit crisis of 2008, when the bank was taken over by the Dutch state. He felt moved to write a book entitled Bonus. “I saw that the profit always went to the bankers and the losses were always picked up by society.”

Creating money

Financial expert and founder of the Gold & Discovery Fund, Willem Middelkoop, describes bonuses as “bordering on theft”.

“They’re the result of the fact that banks are able to create money. They can purchase money cheaply from the European Central Bank at 1 percent interest, lend it out at 4-5 percent and declare the difference as profit. Then they get to divide up the spoils. Of course, it’s very peculiar that bankers are the ones who get to create money. That’s a job for government, I would have thought. Strangely enough, that’s something that is never discussed.”

European measures

Middelkoop sees proposals aimed at reducing or restricting bonuses as only “good for election campaigns”. If you really want to change things, he argues, it has to be done on a larger scale - with agreements at European level, for example. Otherwise, the competitive position of Dutch banks will suffer.

Joost Goudsmit agrees. He is managing director of an executive search club, headhunting for senior positions in major companies.

“If you really want to do that, you first have to figure out how to organise it at the European or global level. One country doing it alone solves nothing.”

Evil

The debate is not just heating up in the Netherlands but also in the rest of Europe and the United States. In Great Britain recently, Fred Goodwin, former head of the Royal Bank of Scotland - and popularly known as Fred the Shred - had to hand back his bonus and was even stripped of his knighthood.

Goudsmit says discussion has gone too far:

“People always act as if bonuses are somehow evil. It’s just getting paid extra for doing your work really well. I know there have been excesses, but I think the discussion is getting too populist. The government is particularly guilty, given that they have never worked with bonuses and don’t understand them.”

The Dutch finance committee may decide to present the opposition proposal on banning bankers’ bonuses to the Lower House of parliament. Depending how MPs respond, it may then be taken further.

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