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. …

Thursday, June 6, 2013

German Court Orders Gay Tax Equality in Blow to Merkel

Jakarta Globe – AFP, Deborah Cole, June 6, 2013

German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AFP Photo)

Berlin. Germany’s top court ruled Thursday that same-sex partners in civil unions are entitled to the generous tax benefits granted to married couples, in another landmark step for gay rights in Europe.

The decision marks a bruising setback for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling conservatives less than four months ahead of a general election, as the opposition blasted her party as out of touch.

The Federal Constitutional Court in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe said denying gays and lesbians in so-called registered partnerships tax breaks extended to married people violated their civil rights.

The scarlet-robed judges said their ruling applied retroactively to August 1, 2001, the day on which Germany established civil unions for same-sex couples — a status that falls short of marriage under the law.

The court said that gay and lesbian couples must now be granted the same tax benefits as heterosexual married couples because there were no “substantial grounds for unequal treatment”.

It ordered parliament to quickly pass appropriate legislation.

Married couples who have a big difference in salary, or where one partner does not work, benefit from having their incomes pooled in the calculation of their individual tax bills.

Same-sex couples had been denied such a tax break and the ruling will mean that the German tax authorities will have to reimburse millions to gays and lesbians in civil unions who overpaid over the past 12 years.

All parties in the Bundestag lower house of parliament had expressed their support for such a policy with the exception of Merkel’s conservative Christian Union bloc.

“What a joy — another step toward equality,” Katrin Goering-Eckardt, a candidate for chancellor from the opposition Greens, tweeted in reaction to the decision.

“And another embarrassment for the Merkel government.”

Germany’s openly gay foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle from the Free Democrats, who are junior partners in Merkel’s government, also hailed the ruling.

“When loving people take responsibility for each other, the state must not discriminate against them,” he told news website Spiegel Online.

“It is time that German tax law become as modern as our society.”

And the Lesbian and Gay Association, a national rights group, said the ruling represented another case in which the federal court had been forced to “tutor” the government on constitutional rights.

Merkel said in a newspaper interview in December that she did not favour putting gay couples on the same tax footing as heterosexual ones because the constitution “sees marriage as directly linked to the family and both are under special protection of the state”.

The chancellor has moved her party steadily toward the centre since taking power in 2005 but gay rights remains one of the few issues on which Merkel differs sharply from the centre-left opposition.

The Social Democrats have complained that Merkel has repeatedly co-opted their issues during this year’s campaign, most recently with a proposal to cap home rent increases.

Their chief whip Thomas Oppermann said the court’s decision showed that Merkel’s government had long discriminated against same-sex couples and had a “pre-modern view of society”.

Family affairs minister Kristina Schroeder of Merkel’s CDU party broke ranks, saying that the ruling is “good and correct and clarifies something that is self-evident to more and more people in Germany”.

Political scientist Gero Neugebauer at Berlin’s Free University said the decision “did not make the CDU look good.”

“It could create the impression that it is not leading and lets other institutions take decisions for it when there’s a conflict,” he told AFP.

Thursday’s decision followed a ruling in February which found that gays in a civil partnership should be allowed to adopt their partners’ adopted children.

Gay couples are still forbidden from adopting children together in Germany.

Neighboring France legalized same-sex marriage last month amid a bitter controversy over the issue, making it the 14th country to do so and the seventh in the European Union.

Nine US states as well as the capital Washington have also granted gays the right to marry.

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