Kryon Berlin Tour & Seminar - Berlin, Germany, Sept 17-22 2019 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)

Kryon Berlin Tour & Seminar - Berlin, Germany, Sept 17-22 2019 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)
30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Council of Europe (CoE) - European Human Rights Court - founding fathers (1949)

Council of Europe (CoE) - European Human Rights Court - founding fathers (1949)
French National Assembly head Edouard Herriot and British Foreign minister Ernest Bevin surrounded by Italian, Luxembourg and other delegates at the first meeting of Council of Europe's Consultative Assembly in Strasbourg, August 1949 (AFP Photo)

EU founding fathers signed 'blank' Treaty of Rome (1957)

EU founding fathers signed 'blank' Treaty of Rome (1957)
The Treaty of Rome was signed in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, one of the Renaissance palaces that line the Michelangelo-designed Capitoline Square in the Italian capital

Shuttered: EU ditches summit 'family photo'

Shuttered: EU ditches summit 'family photo'
EU leaders pose for a family photo during the European Summit at the EU headquarters in Brussels on June 28, 2016 (AFP Photo/JOHN THYS)

European Political Community

European Political Community
Given a rather unclear agenda, the family photo looked set to become a highlight of the meeting bringing together EU leaders alongside those of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Britain, Kosovo, Switzerland and Turkey © Ludovic MARIN

Merkel says fall of Wall proves 'dreams can come true'


“ … 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.)




"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. …

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

EU shuts down Belgium tax breaks for multinationals

Yahoo – AFP, Alex Pigman, January 11, 2016

The EU says tax breaks offered major multinationals in Belgium, including
 beer giant AB InBev and British American Tobacco, were illegal
(AFP Photo/John Thys)

Brussels (AFP) - The EU on Monday closed a major tax break that Belgium offered to dozens of multinationals, including beer giant AB InBev, and ordered the companies to return 700 million euros ($762 million) in unpaid taxes.

In the latest Brussels crackdown on tax avoidance, it ruled that the benefit to some 35 multinational companies was illegal and breached the European Union's rules on state aid to companies.

It comes in the wake of the "Luxleaks" scandal, which revealed details of tax breaks given to dozens of major firms in Luxembourg when current European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker was prime minister.

European Commissioner for competition
 Margrethe Vestager addresses a press
 conference in Brussels on January 11, 
2016. (AFP Photo/Emmanuel Dunand)
"The European Commission has concluded that selective tax advantages granted by Belgium under its 'excess profit' tax scheme are illegal under EU state aid rules," Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told a news conference.

"Belgium has given a select number of multinationals substantial tax advantages that break EU state aid rules. It distorts competition on the merits by putting smaller competitors who are not multinational on an unequal footing," Vestager said.

She did not name the companies but sources familiar with the case said they included oil giant BP, chemical company BASF and Stella Artois brewer AB InBev, which is undergoing an $121-billion buyout of rival SABMiller.

The AB InBev case is especially sensitive in Brussels where fears are ripe that the company will use the tie-up as an opportunity to leave its Belgium headquarters to seek lower taxes elsewhere.

A spokeswoman for AB InBev said that even though the company was "disappointed by this decision, we remain confident that our tax rulings are in full compliance with the EU jurisprudence and that we have always complied with Belgian and international tax provisions".

'Secret sweetheart deals'

Belgian Finance Minister Johan Van Overtveldt said the decision was no surprise and that the tax break had been effectively suspended in February when the EU probe began.

"At this point we do not exclude any option. This also applies to the possibility of an appeal against the decision," the minister said in a statement sent to AFP.

The European Union has also launched investigations into other countries' tax deals: US tech giant Apple's deals with Ireland, coffee-shop chain Starbucks with The Netherlands and McDonald's with Luxembourg.

In October the Commission decided that Luxembourg and the Netherlands have granted unfair tax advantages to Fiat and Starbucks, respectively, and ordered the firms to repay some taxes.

EU rules say some tax breaks offered to big companies breach the bloc's rules on state aid, as they amount to a government subsidy that is aimed at attracting multinationals to do business in certain countries.

The deals are not illegal and critics say the EU has been unfairly targeting US companies.

But Vestager said that in the Belgium case, 500 of the 700 million euros in avoided taxes were owed by European companies.

Belgium's system, dubbed "Only in Belgium", allows companies to reduce tax by registering "excess profits" that allegedly result from the advantage of being part of a multinational group.

Vestager insisted those tax breaks should be available for stand-alone companies or Belgian groups, rejecting Belgium's claims that the system avoids "double taxation" in two or more countries.

Fair taxation activists said the decision, like the other EU moves after Luxleaks, was too cautious.

"Instead of unclear tax laws and secret sweetheart deals between governments and multinational corporations, we need clear rules that ensure everyone pays their fair share," said Tove Maria Ryding, a tax specialist at European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad).

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