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Demonstrators arrive on the National Mall in Washington, DC, for the 'Women's March on Washington' on January 21, 2017 (AFP Photo/Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS)

March for Science protesters hit the streets worldwide

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Thousands of people in Australia and New Zealand on Saturday kicked off the March for Science, the first of more than 500 marches around the globe in support of scienceThousands of people in Australia and New Zealand on Saturday kicked off the March for Science, the first of more than 500 marches around the globe in support of science

Bernie Sanders and the Movement Where the People Found Their Voice

"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.)


Hong Kong's grandpa protesters speak softly but carry a stick

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'Grandpa Wong' is a regular sight at Hong Kong's street battles (AFP Photo/VIVEK PRAKASH)
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A student holds a sign reading "Don't shoot, listen!!!" during a protest
on June 17, 2013 in Brasilia (AFP, Evaristo)

FIFA scandal engulfs Blatter and Platini

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FIFA President Sepp Blatter (L) shakes hands with UEFA president Michel Platini after being re-elected following a vote in Zurich on May 29, 2015 (AFP Photo/Michael Buholzer)
"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. …

Wall Street's 'Fearless Girl' statue to stay until 2018

Wall Street's 'Fearless Girl' statue to stay until 2018
The " Fearless Girl " statue on Wall Street is seen by many as a defiant symbol of women's rights under the new administration of President Donald Trump (AFP Photo/ TIMOTHY A. CLARY)



“… The Fall of Many - Seen It Yet?

You are going to see more and more personal secrets being revealed about persons in high places of popularity or government. It will seem like an epidemic of non-integrity! But what is happening is exactly what we have been teaching. The new energy has light that will expose the darkness of things that are not commensurate with integrity. They have always been there, and they were kept from being seen by many who keep secrets in the dark. Seen the change yet?

In order to get to a more stable future, you will have to go through gyrations of dark and light. What this means is that the dark is going to be revealed and push back at you. It will eventually lose. We told you this. That's what you're here for is to help those around you who don't see an escape from the past. They didn't get their nuclear war, but everything else is going into the dumper anyway. … “

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Monday, November 5, 2012

HSBC warns money-laundering fines could top $1.5bn

Bank braces for 'significantly higher' fines from the US authorities as it sets aside further $800m to cover money-laundering fines

guardian.co.uk, Jill Treanor, Monday 5 November 2012

HSBC has warned on rising fines from money laundering claims. Photograph:
David Levene

HSBC is braced for fines from the US authorities of at least $1.5bn (£940m) – one of the largest in the financial services industry – for laundering billions of dollars, and warned on Monday that the final penalties could be even greater.

The scale of the potential cost of the revelations contained in a US Senate report, which showed how billions of dollars were laundered into the US for drug barons and terrorists, came as the bank set aside an additional $800m in the third quarter to cover the potential fines. The additional provision comes on top of the $700m set aside at the half year, taking the total cost so far to $1.5bn.

Stuart Gulliver, the bank's chief executive, admitted even more money may be needed to cover the actions that it faces from a number of US regulators under anti-money-laundering laws covered by the Bank Secrecy Act and Office of Foreign Assets Control. The bank also warned there was a "high degree" of uncertainty about the fines and that it could also face "corporate criminal as well as civil charges and the imposition of significant fines, penalties and/or monetary forfeitures".

"We are actively engaged in discussions with US authorities to try to reach a resolution, but there is not yet an agreement. The US authorities have substantial discretion in deciding exactly how to resolve this matter. Indeed, the final amount of the financial penalties could be higher, possibly significantly higher, than the amount accrued," Gulliver said.

He put his own reputation on the line. "It's up to me and my team to restore the trust of the public and the reputation of the firm," Gulliver said, adding that a "number of people have left the bank or had clawback according to their compensation" but had refused to say how many.

"We deeply regret our past failings and we must work individually and as an industry to rebuild trust," said Gulliver, who was appointed 20 months ago during a boardroom reshuffle caused by Stephen Green's decision to resign as chairman, accept a peerage and become a government trade minister. He conceded the money laundering allegations, which date back to 2002, had "undoubtedly damaged" the HSBC brand.

A further provision for UK "customer redress programmes" – largely the payment protection insurance (PPI) scandal – led to a further $353m charge, taking the total to $2.1bn. HSBC is the last of major UK banks to report its third-quarter results during which the PPI scandal has emerged as the costliest mis-selling scandal in the UK, costing more than £12bn.

Gulliver also made clear that the PPI provision could also rise further.

The provisions led to a fall in pre-tax profit in the third quarter to $3.5bn pre-tax, compared with $7.1bn in the same quarter last year. Some $5.8bn of the fall was due to changes in the value of the bank's debt and it stressed that underlying profits were $5bn. HSBC's shares were among the biggest fallers in the FTSE 100 in early trading, down 1.6% to 615p.

The bank, which under Gulliver has embarked on a retrenchment from some of its international outposts, has cut 22,000 roles so far this year to take its workforce to 267,000. But, as around 15,000 of these roles went when businesses were sold off, more roles would need to go until 2013 to achieve his target to cut 30,000 roles in total, Gulliver said.

"We have announced 24 disposals and closures this year, including eight since 30 June 2012, making a total of 41 since the beginning of 2011, exiting non-strategic markets and selling businesses and no-core investments," Gulliver said.

The results are overshadowed by the damaging US Senate report that described the bank as having a "pervasively polluted" culture that exposed the bank to not only drug-trafficking but also financing of terrorism.

At a hearing before the Senate in July, David Bagley, HSBC's head of compliance, dramatically resigned. According to the register maintained by the Financial Services Authority, Bagley remains with the bank and authorised in a series of compliance functions although last week the bank named – only in an "acting" capacity – his successor as board adviser David Shaw. It is not immediately clear what Bagley's future role will be.

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