Asean Summit, Malaysia on Nov 21, 1015

Asean Summit, Malaysia  on Nov 21, 1015
Asean Establishes Landmark Economic and Security Bloc
"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.) - Text version)

“….. Here is the prediction: China will turn North Korea loose soon. The alliance will dissolve, or become stale. There will be political upheaval in China. Not a coup and not a revolution. Within the inner circles of that which you call Chinese politics, there will be a re-evaluation of goals and monetary policy. Eventually, you will see a break with North Korea, allowing still another dictator to fall and unification to occur with the south. ….”

“ … 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.)









North Korean defector criticises China in rare Beijing talk

North Korean defector criticises China in rare Beijing talk
North Korean defector and activist Hyeonseo Lee, who lives in South Korea, poses as she presents her book 'The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story' in Beijing on March 26, 2016 (AFP Photo/Fred Dufour)

US under fire in global press freedom report

"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. …

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Malaysia should learn from past economic lessons

the star online, Making a Point - By Jagdev Singh Sidhu

TEN years ago, as the Asian financial crisis was wreaking havoc and countries in the region were engaged in some serious economic firefighting, I had a heated discussion with my fellow journalists discussing the once-in-a-generation turmoil before us.

There was considerable pride in how we tackled the crisis compared with other countries which were in worse financial shape and badly hit by the ensuing trail of economic problems. The conversation eventually reached the all-too-familiar “at least we are better than them” comment.

But here’s the thing. It is pointless to compare Malaysia with countries that are worse off. Progress should be measured against what we hope to become. In other words, we ought to compare Malaysia with countries that are better off than us.

Fast forward 10 years (today) and the self-glorifying comment above seems far less realistic.

Thailand and Indonesia, the two countries that the journos were comparing Malaysia with then, paid a tremendous social cost from the International Monetary Fund aid package which was accompanied by a market liberalisation agenda; but they have rebounded strongly.

For Malaysia, failure to vigorously improve the economy through market and economic liberalisation initiatives in the aftermath of the Asian crisis is rearing its cost today.

The Government has signalled it will act but what is likely forcing its hand in this matter could be the decline of the private sector’s role in the economy today.

Prior to the Asian crisis, the country’s ratio of gross domestic capital formation as a percentage of GDP was over 40%, hitting 43% in 1997 compared with 34% for Thailand and 32% for Indonesia. Right after the crisis in 1998, the ratios for all three countries plunged with Thailand and Indonesia falling much more than Malaysia.

But over the years, gross domestic capital formation as a percentage of GDP for those two countries started to rise but in Malaysia, that ratio has steadily fallen; in 2008, it was just below 20% whereas in Thailand it was 29% from a low of 20.5% in 1999 and 28% for Indonesia from a low of 11% in 1999.

Over that time, the Government has repeatedly declared that the private sector will resume its role as the engine of growth, much like it was prior to the crisis, but that has not materialised.

With falling private sector investment in Malaysia, the Government has had to shoulder much of the burden of generating economic growth.

There were times, both politically and economically, Malaysia could have instituted change that would have addressed that decline much sooner as the cost of supporting growth has become too large solely for the Government to be burdened with.

Being the engine of growth is a task the Government cannot continue indefinitely, given the already huge strain it has put on the national accounts by virtue of the repeated budget deficits since the Asian crisis.

Knowing this, there is seemingly a rush by the current administration to eradicate the malaise afflicting the economy and to get private sector to take over the reins of the economy.

It intends to lift the lid on the economy by revamping the NEP to bring about much needed entrepreneurship into the economy. The administration is also trying to figure out how best to reverse the perception or reality that the private sector is being crowded out of the economy in favour of government-linked companies. Subsidies are also in the crosshairs of the Government.

To tackle this, the Government is preparing a new economic model to get the services industry to invest more in the economy with the intention of moving the country’s per capita income up to the range of that of a high income economy.

All of that can only be accomplished if it manages to convince businesses to invest more in the economy. Companies today have more choices as to where to invest their money today than they did in the early to mid-1990s.

There is a lot of competition for investment money not only from our neighbours but also from the larger BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations and emerging markets in Europe.

The Government has to position Malaysia, more so for local companies, as the destination of choice for businesses and come up with policies that will reverse the worrisome decline in private investment in the country.

Such a task is monumental and whether Malaysia will succeed is unknown as history has taught us that getting an economy out of the middle income range is extremely difficult to accomplish.

But try they must. There’s no time to waste.

l Jagdev Singh Sidhu is a deputy news editor at The Star. Someone should have known that procrastination is the thief of time as history is also littered with countries that were once better off economically but today are a shadow of their former glory.

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