'Dead' baby wakes at China funeral parlour before cremation

Google – AFP, 21 November 2013

Illustration: A Chinese baby boy who had been declared dead is saved from

 being cremated alive when he started crying at a funeral parlour, media reports

(AFP/File, Philippe Huguen)

Beijing — A Chinese baby boy who had been declared dead was saved from being cremated alive when he started crying at a funeral parlour, media reported Thursday.

The parents of the critically-ill boy, who was less than one month old, had agreed to end his medical treatment at Anhui Provincial Children's Hospital in eastern China, hospital sources told Xinhua state news agency.

A death certificate was issued before the baby was sent to an undertakers in Hefei, the provincial capital -- only for staff there to be alerted by crying on Wednesday.

It was unclear how long he had been at the funeral parlour, or when his cremation had been due.

The baby was immediately sent back to the hospital, several news outlets including the Beijing News reported on Thursday.

"Because the baby still had life signs, we continued to give him transfusion to maintain his life for humanitarian reasons," a hospital staff member told Xinhua.

The baby was born with a "congenital respiratory system malformation", the agency added.

He was receiving treatment at the hospital late Wednesday, reports said.

A doctor had been suspended, a nursing worker laid off and an investigation launched into the incident, Xinhua cited the hospital as saying.

Users of China's weibo microblogging services were outraged, blaming both the boy's parents and the doctors involved.

"Please sentence the parents to five years in jail for abandonment," said one poster on Thursday.

Another wrote: "Doctors with white coats are really irresponsible, simply treating patients' lives with utter disregard."

Euthanasia declaration should be renewed regularly

DutchNews.nl, Tuesday 19 November 2013

Trouw (ANP)

A written euthanasia declaration should be renewed regularly to give doctors more certainty about their patients' wishes, six doctors and scientists told Trouw on Tuesday.

In a statement published in the paper, they say written requests for euthanasia should be renewed every two years, particularly in cases of dementia.

The more recent the declaration, the easier it is for doctors to carry out the patient's wishes. A recent declaration together with the opinion of family and carers would also help doctors in their decision to employ euthanasia in cases where the patient can no longer make an informed opinion.

Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands under strict conditions. For example, the patient must be suffering unbearable pain and the doctor must be convinced the patient is making an informed choice. The opinion of a second doctor is also required.

Last year, 4,188 people died by euthanasia. The majority were people with cancer: 3,251. In 42 cases, people with dementia were involved and 13 had severe psychiatric problems.

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Kryon Q&A

Question: I've been wondering about this for a while now. Do we decide how and when we're going to die before we come into the world? Is that why some people live a long and healthy life, while others die from an illness or accident at an early age? Does it have anything to do with our past lives?

Answer: Human death is not seen on this side of the veil as anything but a transition of energy and a freshening of expression. This is difficult for you to understand, for to you, death is pain, suffering, and grief. Can you even begin to understand why this is the setup? We see it as part of the "play of Earth." In any play, even the Human with the knife in his chest gets up after the curtain comes down and has a party with the cast. The cast members all know that the adventure in the play is not real. But in the play of Earth, your reality says that life is everything there is. Therefore, it's played "for keeps." It has to be this way, to make the challenge and the test... fair.

Yes, you all have a beginning setup contract where your shift (death) is planned. Sometimes it's to facilitate another person (such as the profound energy created through the death of a child or suicide). So it can be part of an agreement with great energy around it, or a simple potential to leave when it's time. Each case is different, and yes, it is often tempered with a balance from past-life experience. It's also entirely temporary and waiting to be rewritten!

All this is changing greatly. With the new energy brings a change in the system of life and death on Earth. Indigo Children are coming into the planet without past-life karmic attributes. They're "clean" of this karma, and also have a very different setup. They still have a potential life line, and they carry information about past-life experience and the wisdom of what they learned, but they're also aware that they can create a change in that beginning contract. This is the biggest difference between the old- and new-energy Human. The old-energy Human somehow feels that the contract is absolute, that nothing can change it. He actually tries to follow this beginning temporary setup to its destination! This is information that has to be unlearned for most of you. The child? He knows better. He can do anything! Did you notice his attitude? He comes in ready to create and manifest. He's frustrated that you don't see the potentials, or that you wallow in some linear system, or that you try to follow an old setup. Did you notice? This is all part of the new Human-life scenario.

Whereas the plan of old created life and death as a cycle in a karmic engine of lesson - creating energy to help the earth - that is now void. The new system is one that encourages a contract rewrite, including death time, age, and even life lesson. It's a startling change, and brings new meaning to death in the new energy.

Also, there's this fact: We told you in 1989 that a great number of Humans might have to pass quickly in these times for the new energy to manifest. You're seeing it now. With war and disease, the numbers are quickly being fulfilled. What does this mean? It means that many actually had the agreement to pass at this time if the earth had accomplished a vibratory rate shift. It did, and the process began.

What is the reason for this? Although you might fee that it's too sorrowful to think about, we give you the truth: The new Indigo color of Human Being will do far better on the planet than one with a very old energy. Therefore, many are leaving early to immediately come back as Humans with the Indigo color. This will facilitate peace on Earth faster than anything else.

 "Current" Events –  Apr 10, 2005 (Kryon Channelling by LeeCarroll)

"... The Ethics of Life

You, as a Human Being, are designed to appreciate and love life. But you put it in a box. You think you live once. You say, life is precious; make it count; keep it going at all costs; make it work. And the underlying thought is that because you only go around one time, all the purpose is wrapped up in one lifetime. Well, I'm going to give you something to think about, something that happened just recently that tens of millions of people all over earth who have the western news media know of.

It was all about one woman's life, and you know who I'm talking about. I'm talking about Terri [Terri Schiavo]. And I'm going to talk about Terri because, you know, she's here [speaking of the real Terri]! And I'm going to give you a perspective about Terri that perhaps you hadn't thought about before, and as I do it, she's going to watch.

It's very metaphysical, you know? This perspective is one from my side of the veil. Terri leaned into the wind of birth many years ago, just as you did. I was there, too. There were potentials laying in front of her - a track that she could take if she wished. There was no predestination, only predispositions of energy that laid before her: the parents she would have (which she had selected), the man she might meet or marry, the accident waiting to happen. All of these things were in her "potential track," and she could have chosen not to go there.

But like so many of you, she looked at it and examined it. These were the times we spoke to her and said, "Dear one, you're going into another Human lifetime that has a potential that's awesome - grander than most Humans on the planet will ever experience. You'll get to present something to tens of millions of people. You'll make them think about life. You'll change the legal system of your country. You'll awaken peoples' awareness to situations that need to be addressed with respect to morality, integrity, and even intuition. Will you do it?"

And I remember what she said. The grand angel who stood before me, who you now call Terri, smiled broadly and said, "I'm ready for that." And some of you cry in your sorrow and say "Why is this Human dead? How could such a thing be tolerated? Why would such a thing happen? Life is so precious." And I ask you this, as Terri looks on in her joy, would you take this away from her? Would you take that away from humanity, what she showed and did that resulted directly in her passing?

Start thinking of these things, perhaps differently. We've told you before that there are even those Human Beings who come in with a predisposition of suicide! What a horrible thought, you might say. "Kryon, could that even be appropriate?" And we say this: More than appropriate, it's by design! "But why should that be?" You might say. "What a horrible dishonorable death." And if that's your reaction, you're placing the whole grand picture in your own little Human box.

When you start examining it spiritually, without Human bias, you start to see that around a suicide there's this energy that develops. It's all about the family. Is there shame? Is there drama? Does it kick the family in the pants so that perhaps they might study things they never did - or perhaps they might they even look within themselves for spirituality? Blessed is the one that comes in with these tasks [like suicide]. There are so many of them who do. For these are the grease of personal change within families, and provide a gift that is grand!

You see, Spirit looks at these things differently. The curtain goes up, it goes down. You come and you go and there are profound lessons, some of which are taught harshly, by those who teach them through their own deaths.

"Well, what is it Kryon? Don't dodge the question with a diversion to suicide, for this isn't what Terri did. Is it proper or is it improper to have somebody in this vegetative state put to death by others around her?" Our answer: Exactly which Human are you talking about? You want a blanket answer, don't you? For six and half billion souls and paths, you want one answer for all. Well, you won't get one. For Terri, the answer is a solid yes. It was as it should have been. She came in with this grand opportunity to change the world, and she did it while everyone watched.

There is appropriateness in all things and sometimes you create for yourselves what seems to be inappropriate. Yet later you understand what the gift was within the challenge. Celebrate Terri, and don't think of this as a shameful thing that Humans did to her. Think of it instead as a book that was written for you to look at, one which pushes you to a place to ask, "What should we do about this now, personally? What should our legislatures do about this, if anything? How can we approach these things more humanely and with more honor? Is our culture addressing this issue? Are we addressing this issue personally?" Let's put these questions where they belong. It's not about "right to life"; it's about the appropriateness of "this life." Each case is individual, and some are profoundly given for the planet and for those around the individual.

Oh, as all of you came into this planet and leaned into the wind of birth separately, each was unique. Each of you has a different story, a different goal, but all have the same purpose: the elevation of the vibration of the planet. Sometimes it happens to many of you at the same time. We'll get to that before we finish. ..."

"Common Questions from Non-Lightworkers" - Feb 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)

"... Question Two: What happens when you die?

This is so complicated, but I'm going to divide it into two parts, both spiritual. The death of a Human, which all of you in the room have experienced, is not the end. This is intuitive within you, because you've gone through it before. But the truth of it hides just under the surface. You're not really quite sure what will happen to you, but your intuition tells you it's not the end.

There is no sting in death. Not for you. But for the ones around you, there is. So the first thing I want to tell you about death is that those around you often suffer. Sometimes that is appropriate, for it brings them to their knees, especially when you leave too soon. Sometimes, because of that, they will discover what is inside of them, incredible spiritual solace, and then realize that your death was the catalyst for their enlightenment. Do you understand that process? Sometimes you are partners in this, with agreements in advance for potentials to help each other even through Human death. So it's not something to mourn at all. Often, it's the completion of a beautiful arrangement.

What happens when you die physically? That's easy - you return to the dust of the planet. What more do you want to know? Corporeal? Easy. That's just part of the Gaia process. But let me tell you about the moment of transition. You lose three ounces of something that no one knows about. The three ounces is quantum information. It's the quantum part of your spiritual core, everything that ever was of you, and it doesn't go up, it goes down. It goes back to the Cave of Creation and beyond.

We've told you this before. Part of it also goes to the Crystalline Grid. Some of it even goes to the cetaceans of the earth. There is a system here that allows Gaia to remember your life, and it's stored in the planet. Your spirit comes home, but not your Akashic Record. It stays on the planet because the planet owns it. You have changed the planet by what you've done, but you don't bring it home with you. When you come home, however, we have a party. I've told you that before. Oh, dear one, there's no sting in death. Not your own. You will know it right away, within three days. By then, you are "fully aware" that you're a piece of God. You remember. You hear the music again.

Then soon, you come back here (Earth), and when you do, it's sometimes faster than you've been told, for things are speeding up. Sometimes you come back born into your own family as grandchildren within your same karmic group. That's a process of the Lightworker so that your grandparents can teach you things that only they can teach you.

And when you take your first breath, you pick up something. You pick up all of the soul energy from the Cave of Creation and the Crystalline Grid that you stored there when you left. That is called Akashic inheritance. Artists become artists. Policemen become policemen. It's in your genes. It's in your DNA, who you used to be. Even the proclivities for the things you like and don't like - like food, choices - come in with you from the past Akashic inheritance.

Sometimes the question is asked, "Should I be a vegetarian? What is correct for my body spiritually?" I will tell you what is correct for your body spiritually - the thing that makes sense to you! If you've spent lifetimes in Tibet or India, you're probably craving different foods than that which is in the United States. That's how it works, dear ones. Your body reacts to what it remembers, and if that serves you by not eating meat, then that is what you should do for your health. Do not project it onto your friends, for they have their own Akashic health remembrance. They have their own system that works for them.

Humans love to compartmentalize everything and, therefore, when someone finds something good for them, they wish everybody to do it. Do not criticize others because they don't have your unique remembrance. This also applies to the belief systems of others. The ones who have found God or have found joy in a system that works for them is because they are tuned to it. Perhaps they were the very disciples of the masters! They're tuned to it and they want for everyone what works for them. Much of it has integrity, but it may not be for you.

What happens at death? It's a system - beauty, honor, and you become the piece of God that you know you are. When Elijah ascended, you got to see it through the eyes of Elisha. Elijah turned into a light so bright that Elisha couldn't even look at it. Then it split into parts. Elisha saw the Merkabah, the field around the Human, the chariot that Elijah rode in. He saw it and reported it. What do you think it was? The Human got to see ascension. That's death. ...."

"THE THREE WINDS" – Feb 23-24, 2013 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Humanity, Home - other side of the veil, Wind of Birth - Birth, Wind of Existence - Life, Wind of Transition - Death) - (Text version)

We're as shocked as you are, say Taiwan's food producers

Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2013-11-19

Taisun president Chan Yueh-lin says the Spanish company from which he
imports olive oil is very respected. (File photo/Fang Chun-cher)

Food makers in Taiwan said on Nov. 17 that the nation's food safety standards and regulations should be as strict as international standards, and supervision mechanisms be better organized.

"There should be a national standard for us to follow to make it easier for us to find problems, if there are any," said Chan Yueh-lin, head of the Taiwan Food Industry Development Association and president of Taisun Enterprise Co, following the revelation that Taisun's olive oil imported from Spain contained the illegal coloring agent copper chlorophyllin.

"I think the problem would be how we test it," Chan said. "The Spanish company we are working with is over 100 years old and has a great reputation and it is inconceivable that something like this could happen."

Chan urged the government to come up with standards that match those in other countries. "We need a rule to follow," he said.

Lin Li-chung, head of Formosa Taffeta's food oil department, said the company is not capable of carrying out tests for copper chlorophyllin in the products they import. "We will not import them any more, nor items of which we cannot be 100% sure," Lin said.

An unnamed manager for Uni-President said the company's imports from Spain all came with certificates. "How do we know that the product can be wrong even when it has a certificate?" he said.

DSM to spin off pharmaceuticals arm and create new firm with JLL

DutchNews.nl, Tuesday 19 November 2013

NOS/ANP

Specialty chemicals and vitamins group DSM is spinning off its pharmaceuticals arm to create a $2.6bn new company in a joint venture with private equity group JLL.

The new company will have anticipated annual sales of around $2bn and will be 51% owned by JLL and 49% by DSM.

The new company has not yet been named but will be formed by combining DSM’s pharmaceutical products group with drugs firm Patheon in which JLL is a majority shareholder. The deal values DSM’s pharmaceuticals activities at $670m

The new firm will operate in 23 different locations worldwide and have a workforce of 8,300, DSM said in a statement. It will operate as an independent stand-alone company and Patheon chief executive Jim Mullen will take the top job.

After the deal is completed early next year, DSM will have three divisions: nutrition, polymers and performance materials.

I wasted £30,000 trying to have a baby I didn't want

Single and in her 40s, Claudia Connell decided to have a baby – it was now or never. But during her third IVF attempt, she began to regret the whole idea

The Guardian, Claudia Connell, Saturday 16 November 2013

Claudia Connell: ‘Perhaps I needed to go through the emotional journey of IVF in
 order to discover that I don’t want children after all.’ Photograph: Sarah Lee for the
Guardian

Most of us have made extravagant purchases that we've regretted wasting money on. Things that seemed a good idea at the time but, down the line, left you wondering what on earth you were thinking about.

My highly regretted buy set me back the best part of £30,000 and now, some 18 months on, I still feel sick when I think about it. In my case, though, I'm not talking about a flash sports car or a wardrobe full of designer clothes. Neither is it something I can sell and try to claim some money back on. I am talking about fertility treatment. Three cycles of IVF to try to conceive a child that I now know with absolute certainty I do not want.

As many women do when they approach their late 30s, I began to ponder the baby issue. I'd just read Baby Hunger by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, in which she made a strong case for the fact that today's "have it all" woman was facing the prospect of a very lonely and unfulfilled middle age. She hammered home the point with some alarming statistics: nearly half of high-achieving women were childless in America at the age of 40, most of them bitterly regretting leaving it so late.

To make matters even more complicated, I am single, so any journey into motherhood would be a lone venture. But, after much thought, I decided that I needed to give it a shot. I had a nice home, a bit of money put by, a steady if not entirely dependable career as a journalist and, besides, I liked children, didn't I? I have four nieces, three nephews and several godchildren.

Aged 41, I visited one of the biggest sperm banks in the UK to ask about artificial insemination with donor sperm. I was told that, at my age, it was unlikely to be successful and I was better off having IVF instead.

Even though my own eggs were becoming distinctly hard-boiled, and an interactive online IVF tool calculated my chances of success at 2.9% (or to look it another way: a 97.1% chance of failure), I wanted to use them. With no help available from the NHS, a shortage of donor sperm in the UK and clinics still decidedly sniffy about treating single women, I opted to go abroad – to Athens. The clinic had a ready supply of sperm donors – I selected a 6ft 2in, 28-year-old doctor – but the consultant told me that the fibroids from which I suffered greatly impeded my chance of success and would have to be removed. The NHS disagreed, and I ended up spending £8,000 having the operation done privately.

After healing from the surgery and forking out another £2,000 or so on drugs and endless blood tests, I was ready to undergo my £4,000 cycle. I had two "perfect" embryos transferred. I underwent the whole thing without confiding in a soul – not my family, not my closest friends. I now believe my reason was that I still wasn't convinced I was doing the right thing and was faintly embarrassed about it all. Instead, I joined an internet forum for single women having IVF.

Two weeks after the embryo transfer, a negative pregnancy test proved what I knew from the beginning – my body wasn't going to beat those impossible odds. While the women on the forum I used were devastated by a negative cycle, I felt oddly indifferent. The clinic in Athens booked a conference call with me to discuss my case and any future protocol treatment, but when they rang I didn't take the call.

A year went by. Two of my closest friends had babies the good, old-fashioned way (with a husband) and, once again, the noise of a loudly ticking biological clock became the soundtrack to my life. Some of the older women on the forum I was using were having success with the eggs of much younger donors, mostly from eastern Europe.

Following a brief hiatus where I looked into – and ruled out – adoption, I again travelled to Athens, to another clinic, for a second cycle of IVF. This time I used the eggs of a 26-year-old Polish teacher and the sperm of a 19-year-old Danish student. That last part still makes me feel a bit icky. I wouldn't dream of having sex with a 19-year-old so to take sperm from one felt somehow very weird.

Drug protocol is different when using donor eggs and, on the second attempt, I had to switch off my own natural cycle to avoid ovulating, sending my body crashing head first into a very brief but intense menopause. My bones ached, the hot flushes were unreal and the huge doses of progesterone I was taking made me constantly dizzy.

But with the eggs and sperm of two such young and fertile donors, my chances of success were put at around 60% – none of your 2% nonsense. Even so, it didn't work and another £8,000, secured via a loan on my house, was down the pan.

After two cycles I decided I'd had a fair crack at it and would move on. Far from feeling sad and unfulfilled, I felt happy, content and at peace with my life as a childless singleton.

I wish I could tell you why, aged 44, I decided to have one last roll of the dice and attempt another cycle of IVF. Was it because I had secured a good job and was earning a lot of money? Was it because I had always regarded 45 as the cut-off and I was nudging dangerously close to it? Perhaps it's because I read somewhere that the majority of women having IVF will be successful after three cycles.

Whatever the reason, I chose to return to the same clinic and attempt one final cycle with frozen embryos. Once again I took the down-regulating drugs. This time a few steroids were thrown into the mix to suppress my overactive immune system, causing me to balloon by a stone.

The egg donor was Russian, 20 years old and a student, while the sperm donor was a 26-year-old architect. Other than that, all I knew was their hair and eye colours, and height.

On the day of the embryo transfer I had a massive panic attack and told one of the nurses that I didn't want to go through with it. Puzzled and with poor English skills, she just said: "You still pay."

By the time the consultant entered the room, he was buzzing with excitement. My defrosted embryos were among the best he'd ever seen. Grade one. He felt certain it was going to work.

Claudia Connell in her mid-30s. 'I wish I 

could tell you why I decided to have one

last roll of the dice at the age of 44.'

As ridiculous as it sounds, telling him that I no longer wanted them felt somehow rude. So I went ahead with the transfer. In the middle of the procedure, flat on my back, legs in stirrups, my phone rang. It was my elderly neighbour, Patricia, back in London. Her burglar alarm was going off and she couldn't remember how to deactivate it. And so it was that I found myself in the absurd situation of being impregnated with strangers' embryos as I talked an old lady through the complicated procedure of turning off her alarm.

During the two-week wait before I found out whether the cycle had been successful, I ignored advice about drinking and taking baths. Unlike during the first two cycles, I felt nauseous and began to suspect that this one might have worked – and the idea was freaking me out. Instead of thinking lovely thoughts about newborn babies, I obsessed over how a child with whom I had no biological link would turn out. What if it were really ugly? What if one or both of its biological parents were dull and humourless? None of the Russian women I'd met were exactly happy-go-lucky. These were shallow and trivial things that really shouldn't be troubling the mind of any woman with deep maternal instincts.

At night I couldn't sleep, and when I did I had horrible nightmares in which I gave birth to deformed half-human, half-beast babies. I decided that if this cycle worked, I would have to terminate the pregnancy. I didn't want a baby after all.

When the pregnancy test showed a faint positive, instead of sharing the happy news I starting Googling for information about early abortions.

Concerned that the pregnancy test wasn't more conclusive, my consultant advised me to go for a blood test. The results revealed that the pregnancy hormone was not as strong as it should have been and that the pregnancy would not "stick". A week later, I had a heavy period and it was all over.

I deleted my membership of the IVF forum, chucked out all my fertility paperwork and test results, and drew a line under the whole sorry affair.

Today, I am happy being childless. I like my life without children and I know that I would not have been a good mother. My body still suffers from the effects of the IVF. I struggled to lose the weight I put on and it might be a coincidence but I still suffer from menopausal symptoms at the relatively young age of 46.

Perhaps I needed to go through the emotional journey of IVF in order to discover that I don't want children after all. But as I am now stony broke, I can't help feeling it was a very expensive, foolish and miserable way to find out.

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Seven billion people and climbing, but not everywhere

"Recalibration of Free Choice"–  Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth,  4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical)  8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)

“…  3 - Longer Life is Going to Happen, But…

Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?

The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].

Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”

Twins were born, but haven't realized that (Video)

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Kryon Q&A

Question: Dear Kryon, my two sisters and I are triplets. We've been told that we are one soul in three bodies. I was under the belief that each body houses a separate soul. I think my ego is upset that I'm not an "individual" if this is true. Can you enlighten me on this?

Answer: The most difficult thing to explain to a Human is the concept of how something singular in appearance can be many things in reality. You appear to be one soul because you have one body. When angels are drawn in your books and paintings, even though they are multidimensional beings, you give them skin and wings and call them one name!

So you continue to believe in "one body, one soul." The reality is that every Human alive is multidimensional and is in many places at one time. Even as you sit there reading this, parts and pieces of you are in other places doing other things. Is that, then, one soul in many places, or many souls? The answer is both. Your single-digit dimensionality limits your concept of how this is, since everything before your reality is singular.

So the very premise of your question can't be answered, since nobody on the face of the earth has one soul. A better question would be, "Do your sisters share a singular purpose with you?" The answer, as your intuition told you, is no. They may have the same astrological aspects, but each Human is a separate piece of God, multidimensional and therefore not singular. Each is a different piece of God, on Earth in lesson to be independent.

The confusing part in all of this is what you do share with your sisters. You all share a common thread of divinity that might actually look like "one soul" to a reader (in 4D). This thread is your karmic bond, and why you all came in together the way you did. This has to do with potentials, past energies, and your current expression of lesson. But it's not the "same soul."

Again, we liken this to a bowl of soup. It is singular in appearance, yet fluid inside. You can't ask how many soups there are in the bowl. It's different for all, but each bowl is singular. The soup is the divinity. Don't ever let the container fool you. It may be the same size and color, but the soup in each is diverse and tastes different. It's composed of many parts that make up what it is. It might be nourishing or poisonous. Only the soup can decide what vibration it will be.

Celebrate this with me! Isn't it a wonderful situation that you have? The connection to your sisters is unique to humanity. Only twins and other multiple-birth Humans have it. This is why you will always be "connected" as long as you live. When one of you leaves, finally, watch what happens: You will still be connected! Multidimensional things are like that.

Question: Why do babies cry in their mother's wombs, and does it have any meaning?

Answer: Not any more meaning than why they often cry when they're born. It's just an infant's way of expressing displeasure with their surroundings... both in and out of their wombs.

Obama: we deserved to be 'slapped' over health rollout

Google – AFP, 14 November 2013

US President Barack Obama speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the

White House on November 14, 2013 in Washington, DC (AFP, Mandel Ngan)

Washington — Barack Obama admitted Thursday he deserved to be "slapped around" over the chaotic debut of his health care law, and pledged to work hard to restore confidence in his reeling presidency.

Obama, with his approval rating tanking and fellow Democrats in open revolt, promised to fix website and coverage failures that have hampered the rollout of the new law and sparked an opening for gleeful Republicans.

The sports-mad president chose an American football metaphor to encapsulate his remorse.

"These are two fumbles on ... a big game, but the game's not over," Obama said, announcing a plan to make good on his discredited promise that Americans who liked their existing health care plans could keep them.

"Everybody is properly focused on us not doing a good job on the rollout. And that's legitimate and I get it.

"There have been times where I thought we were, you know, slapped around a little bit unjustly. This one's deserved, all right? It's on us."

But the president denied that he had known ahead of the website's launch on October 1 that it would not work properly.

"Had I been informed, I wouldn't be going out saying, 'Boy, this is going to be great,'" Obama said, though he warned that buying health care was a complicated business and was "never going to be like buying a song on iTunes."

Obama's apology came as his second term risks being consumed by controversy over the health care law, with Capitol Hill Democrats particularly showing signs of panic that plummeting public confidence in the president could hamper their own prospects in mid-term elections next year.

In a Quinnipiac University poll this week, the president's approval rating plunged to a lowest ever 39 percent and surveys show his previously solid ratings on character and trust eroding.

Republicans, who en masse opposed Obamacare, immediately warned that his contrition did not go far enough.

"President Obama needs to admit that Obamacare cannot be fixed," said Eric Cantor, the Republican House Majority leader.

"Pointing fingers and claiming ignorance is not leadership. For four years, the President told the American people they could keep the plans they liked and costs would go down, and even he now acknowledges that was simply not true."

Nayie Villa (L) speaks with Rudy Figueroa an insurance agent with Sunshine 

Life and Health Advisors as she looks to purchase an insurance policy under the

 Affordable Care Act at a kiosk setup at a mall on November 5, 2013 in Miami, 

Florida (Getty Images/AFP/File, Joe Raedle)

Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, insisted the only remedy was to dismantle the president's proudest domestic achievement.

"What makes this admission even worse is the fact that it was prompted not by the heartbreaking stories of millions of Americans, but by the private pleadings of a handful of endangered Democrats," McConnell said.

"Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the fact Obamacare is broken beyond repair."

The president's current political woes stem partly from his repeated assurance that those with health care plans could keep them when Obamacare comes into force.

But that turned out not to be true as hundreds of thousands of Americans received notices from their health insurance companies that their policies would be cancelled as they did not satisfy the higher quality requirements of the new law.

Obama announced Thursday that policy cancellations would be postponed for a year while Obamacare's problems are fixed.

"The American people -- those who got cancellation notices deserve and have received -- an apology from me," Obama said.

While admitting that the online marketplace for consumers to find new health plans had a "rough start," Obama warned his political opponents not to try to overturn the entire law.

"I will not accept proposals that are just another brazen attempt to undermine or repeal the overall law and drag us back into a broken system," he said.

Figures released Wednesday showed only 106,185 people have been able to register for the program, 1.5 percent of the number the administration had planned to recruit by the end March next year.

Obama's plans did little to placate his foes or allies.

Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen called for a two-year transition period.

Republican Senator John Hoeven complained: "Obama's fix is "like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted."

"I just don't think it's going to work, it's not enough. We really need to... get rid of Obamacare and start over."

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Opposition to President Obama and the Transition to Uncorrupted Governments

goldenageofgaia.com, Steve Beckow, An Hour with an Angel, September 30, 2013, with Archangel Michael

"... SB: Oh! Very good! Okay.  I think I recall you mentioning Medicare in Canada. Canada has a wonderful system of universal medicare. When will the United States enjoy the same quality of medicare? Or other nations, for that matter.

AAM: You see, this is one of the fundamental rights, and your United Nations has just begun to peek at this.  All of your — yes, all — of your medical systems have been based on false grids that you are eligible for disease. Many, many industries have grown up around this belief system.

Now, we would not dismantle this in a day, because the displacement would be very large, but you have already begun to see the shift to wellness, to healing centers, to alternative methods of energy healing. And with the arrival of your star brothers and sisters this will become even more so.

So not only universal medical care, but universal healthcare and the right to wellness is going to become the simple stand-alone fact over the next year to two years. Oh, and it will happen much more quickly in the United States.

SB: Oh, that’s good to hear. So many people are bankrupted by a sudden illness. And it never should be that way.

AAM: It is an atrocity that one may suffer and die because one does not have adequate money. That is absurd.  ..."

African Union head calls for end to child marriage

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma makes plea at family planning talks as she attempts to allay fears over African population surge

theguardian.com, Claire Provost, Wednesday 13 November 2013

Child marriage and teenage pregnancies have been a focus of global family
planning talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, chair of the African Union (AU), has thrown her weight behind calls to end child marriage, which is increasingly being identified by human rights activists and public health experts as a priority concern.

"We must do away with child marriage," Dlamini-Zuma said in a speech at the opening ceremony of the largest international summit on family planning. In too many African countries "girls who end up as brides at a tender age are coerced into having children while they are children themselves".

The third international conference on family planning, which opened on Tuesday at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, includes a special focus on reducing the rate of teenage pregnancies and ensuring that young people also have access to contraception.

Dlamini-Zuma said it was paramount to keep up the momentum around expanding access to family planning, but argued that the conversation must go beyond fears of a "population explosion". "Family planning is not just about fewer kids," she said. Enabling women to have more choices about whether and when they have children must be seen as part of the "quest for women's emancipation".

There is concern that the global family planning agenda is being driven, at least in part, by those keen to stem population growth, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The world population, now at 7.2 billion, could exceed 9.5 billion by 2050, according to UN estimates. More than half of this growth is expected in Africa, where the number of people is expected to more than double, from 1.1 billion to 2.4 billion.

Earlier this year, the veteran BBC presenter David Attenborough called for more debate about population control and controversially argued that famine in Africa was nature's response to too many people and not enough land.

Dlamini-Zuma and others at the Addis Ababa talks are determined to reframe the conversation about family planning, emphasising human rights and drawing links with issues such as child marriage.

The executive director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), Babatunde Osotimehin, said it was critical that young people benefited from the resurgence of interest in, and funding for, family planning.

Africa is often referred to as the youngest continent, with an estimated 65% of its population below the age of 35. More than 35% are 15-35.

"Africa needs to grow its young people, and build its human capacity," said Osotimehin. "For as long as we have teenage pregnancies, in the kind of epidemic we have on this continent … we're not going to get there"

Before the summit's opening ceremony, more than two dozen African ministers attended a high-level meeting focused on how increasing access to family planning can contribute to long-term economic growth on the continent.

Osotimehin said child marriage was holding back progress in some areas, and that, while critical, it was not enough for governments to enact legislation against it.

Despite international commitments to end the practice, one in three girls in developing countries is married before the age of 18, and 50 million girls are at risk of being married before the age of 15 between now and 2020, according to a report published last month by the UNFPA.

Communities and traditional, local leaders must be brought into the conversation, said Osotimehin, which must tackle fundamental inequalities between boys and girls. "We must build gender-neutral societies … where girls [and boys] are treated the same," he said.

The conference aims to build on the momentum of last year's family planning summit in London, where donors pledged $2.6bn (£1.6bn) in new funding and committed to providing 120 million more women with access to modern contraceptives by 2020.

According to the first progress report on the London summit FP2020 commitments, published on Wednesday, a quarter of the countries that made commitments have since launched detailed, costed national family planning strategies and a third have increased their national budget allocations for family planning.

Some progress has also been made on developing new contraceptive technologies, according to the report, which highlights agreements to make two long-acting contraceptive implants – Jadelle and Implanon – available to some of the world's poorest countries at more than a 50% price reduction.

Valerie DeFillipo, director of the FP2020 taskforce, said there was a need for better indicators to measure informed choice, autonomy and the extent to which family planning programmes are being implemented in accordance with human rights principles. It is critical, she said, that women are not denied access to contraception and there is absolutely no coercion in rolling out family planning programmes.

Many countries and donors track progress using contraceptive prevalence rates, with data based primarily on surveys conducted every five years. These measures look simply at the percentage of women using contraceptives, regardless of what their experiences are.

As part of the FP2020 campaign, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is investing in new methods to collect more real-time data on family planning, using mobile technology, and gather information not only on contraceptive use but also the quality of health care, how choices are made, and how women access services.

"Our vision is, by 2020, to have a much more rigorous and robust approach to tracking rights-based programmes," DeFillipo said.

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"Recalibration of Free Choice"–  Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth,  4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical)  8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)

“…  3 - Longer Life is Going to Happen, But…

Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?

The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].

Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”