'Dump Trump': Tens of thousands join global march

'Dump Trump': Tens of thousands join global march
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

March for Science protesters hit the streets worldwide
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

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

FIFA scandal engulfs Blatter and Platini
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, October 12, 2015

Why France, pioneer against foreign bribery, has convicted zero firms

Yahoo – AFP, Eric Randolph, 12 Oct 2015

France has failed to convict a single company for corruption abroad since an
 international anti-bribery convention came into force 15 years ago, and some critics
say it is now time to American-ise the judicial system (AFP Photo/Patrick Kovarik)

Paris (AFP) - France has failed to convict a single company for corruption abroad since an international anti-bribery convention came into force 15 years ago. Some critics say it is now time to American-ise the judicial system.

Last year, French power company Alstom agreed to pay a huge $772-million (688-million-euro) fine for bribing officials all over the world, including in Egypt, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.

But the record fine headed straight into the coffers of the United States Department of Justice, which carried out the prosecution.

In 2014, French power company Alstom
 agreed to pay a huge $772-million fine in
 the US for bribing officials all over the
 world, including in Egypt, Indonesia and
 Saudi Arabia (AFP Photo/Jean-Sebastien
 Evrard)
"It's humiliating for everyone in France that our judiciary is not capable of doing the work themselves," said Daniel Lebegue, president of the French arm of non-governmental anti-corruption group Transparency International.

France pushed hard for the 1999 convention against foreign bribery at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), but Paris has been consistently criticised in its reports ever since.

Only seven individuals have been convicted for minor infringements, with the biggest fine just 20,000 euros ($22,500).

The only French-led conviction against a whole company -- aerospace giant Safran -- was overturned on appeal in January.

"France was one of the pioneers of the anti-bribery convention when it was negotiated, it would therefore be logical to see more results in terms of convictions," was the diplomatic assessment of Patrick Moulette, the OECD's head of anti-corruption, in a recent interview with AFP.

A spokesman for the French justice ministry said there had been efforts to increase enforcement, with 24 cases opened for corruption abroad between 2012 and 2014, but did not comment on the lack of convictions.

'Lack of political will'

The only French-led conviction against 
a whole company -- aerospace giant 
Safran -- was overturned on appeal in
January (AFP Photo/Frank Perry)
Some say France just isn't trying hard enough.

"The law that France has in place is largely sufficient and in many ways better than other countries, including the US," said Severin Wirz of TRACE International, a US-based anti-corruption business association.

"The issue isn't so much the law as the lack of political will of the enforcement agencies, and the lack of financial resources, staff, experience and knowledge," he said.

But many point the finger at a critical missing instrument in France's judicial toolbox: US-style negotiated settlements.

Out-of-court settlements allow companies to accept fines and monitoring programmes to avoid the ruinous publicity and expenses of a trial.

Also known as "deferred prosecutions", settlements were invented for youth drug crimes in the 1970s in a bid to keep children out of prison.

Graphic on Transparency International's
 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index 
(AFP Photo)
They were recycled by US prosecutors in the 1990s to crack down on corruption without permanently destroying businesses by dragging them through the courts.

Major international prosecutions, including Alstom, have been settled in this way. Britain, Germany and Switzerland have also boosted their success rates against bribery by introducing settlements.

Transparency International recently called for France to do the same.

"Experience shows negotiated settlements are much faster, much simpler for the company and therefore much more effective," said Lebegue.

'Must change behaviour'

But the idea still sits uneasily with some Europeans, who fear settlements are a way for companies to buy their way out of trouble.

"Alstom may have been given huge fines, but the managers who should ultimately be held liable for the behaviour are still in their posts," said Laetitia Liebert of Sherpa, a Paris-based non-governmental organisation of lawyers that is studying how France should change its bribery laws.

"We are not against settlements in France, but we must be sure they change the behaviour of companies and lead to greater accountability. Otherwise, companies will just see them as a cost of doing business," she said.

Moulette, the OECD's anti-corruption chief, agreed that settlements "cannot be the answer to everything".

He said there were clear signs France was taking the challenge more seriously, appointing a national financial prosecutor last year, and launching further reforms this autumn.

In July, Finance Minister Michel Sapin vowed to replace the current anti-corruption body, which has minimal investigative powers, with something more aggressive.

France pushed hard for the 1999 convention against foreign bribery at the 
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, but Paris has been
consistently criticised in its reports ever since (AFP Photo/Eric Piermont)

It said this would include monitoring of companies "inspired by Anglo-Saxon procedures."

"We can only hope the new bodies are more active and efficient, with more specialisation, and the OECD stands ready to work with the French authorities to improve the law on foreign bribery," said Moulette.

"That was a big part of the problem in the past -- it's such a specific form of criminality you need the right type of resources and expertise, both in quality and in quantity."

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