The Internet - The first Worldwide Tool of Unification ("The End of History")

" ... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

" ... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy. For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history?... " Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

"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)

“…5 - Integrity That May Surprise…

Have you seen innovation and invention in the past decade that required thinking out of the box of an old reality? Indeed, you have. I can't tell you what's coming, because you haven't thought of it yet! But the potentials of it are looming large. Let me give you an example, Let us say that 20 years ago, you predicted that there would be something called the Internet on a device you don't really have yet using technology that you can't imagine. You will have full libraries, buildings filled with books, in your hand - a worldwide encyclopedia of everything knowable, with the ability to look it up instantly! Not only that, but that look-up service isn't going to cost a penny! You can call friends and see them on a video screen, and it won't cost a penny! No matter how long you use this service and to what depth you use it, the service itself will be free.

Now, anyone listening to you back then would perhaps have said, "Even if we can believe the technological part, which we think is impossible, everything costs something. There has to be a charge for it! Otherwise, how would they stay in business?" The answer is this: With new invention comes new paradigms of business. You don't know what you don't know, so don't decide in advance what you think is coming based on an old energy world. ..."
(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.)


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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

US Moves Help Iranians Get Online But Hit Economy

Jakarta Globe – AFP, Mohammad Davari,  June 5, 2013

A picture taken from inside a car shows an Iranian couple riding a motorcycle
 on Jomhouri (Republic) street in downtown Tehran on June 4, 2013. (AFP
Photo/Behrouz Mehri)

Tehran. The United States is making it easier for information-hungry Iranians to get on the Internet and use social media, but has also slapped new sanctions on the economy that could make their lives more painful.

Ahead of a June 14 presidential election, during a campaign in which authorities have allegedly tightened Internet access, the US has lifted a ban on selling communications gear and software to Iran.

Thursday’s move came just two weeks before the polls, but a senior official insisted that it was not related to the election.

“This is a response to their efforts to deprive their citizens of their rights,” the official said. “The timing is really driven by the continued crackdown within Iran.”

Users and experts claim the government has been tightening controls on the Internet to forestall the sort of trouble that erupted after the last presidential election in 2009.

Amid widespread claims the re-election of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was fraudulent, a vigorous social networking campaign fueled massive street demonstrations that were brutally crushed by the authorities.

US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki has said the move would allow Iranians to skirt the government’s “attempts to silence its people” and exercise “the right to freedom of expression.”

Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, cheered the lifting of the 30-year-old ban as a move toward intelligent sanctions.

“We finally put an end to one of the worst examples of sanctions that hurt ordinary Iranians, undermine civil society and human rights, and empower the regime,” Parsi said.

The European Union, United States and United Nations have all imposed sanctions on Iran over its refusal to suspend enriching uranium, which in a highly refined form can be used as the fissile core for an atomic bomb.

Tehran insists that its nuclear program is for purely peaceful ends.

The council’s Jamal Abdi told AFP: “Iranians seeking to exercise their right to freedom of expression were doing so with one hand tied behind their backs because of sanctions.

“Thankfully that knot has now been loosened.”

In practice, the decision allows US companies to begin selling computers, tablets, mobile phones, software, satellite receivers and other equipment for personal use to Iranians.

It also permits the provision of instant messaging, chat, email, social networking, sharing of photos and movies, web browsing and blogging.

Light at the end of the tunnel?

Ehsan is a 32-year-old laptop salesman at Paytakht, one of several tech centers in Tehran where Apple products, Windows-based laptops and cracked software are available in abundance.

“This gesture, along with any other that would help us connect to the modern world, is most welcome,” Ehsan said.

IPhone seller Nima, 25, praised the lifting of the ban.

“I don’t want to jump the gun and say it’ll be all over soon but, for the first time, I am seeing some light at the end of this tunnel,” he said of the sanctions regimes.

Previously, web surfers had to use proxy servers or virtual private networks to appear as if they were online in other countries whose access to American companies such as Apple or Adobe was not restricted.

They also had to try to circumvent tough filtering by the regime, which banned access to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and millions of other sites after the 2009 election.

A senior US official said “our hope is… this will help make some hardware and software, including things like antivirus software or software that helps protect from malware, more available to them and make them more able to protect themselves against government hackers.”

While welcoming “this smart move,” Delphine Hagland, US director of Reporters Without Borders, said “we have to be careful that this… will not open the door for US companies to sell filtering technology to the Iranian authorities.”

That was a reference to the regime’s ability in the past to buy US technology that allowed them to censor the Internet and spy on citizens’ online activities.

Tehran has yet to react to the US move, but the ultra-conservative Mashregh News website warned of the “threats” from smart phones.

“Smart phones, as a mobile computer system, can play a very substantial role in social riots,” it said, warning that they could lead to “events even more widespread” than in 2009, given the high interest among young Iranians for the devices.

But the upbeat mood could be soured in part by a new round of sanctions Washington slapped on Tehran on Monday. The country’s vital oil industry and access to global banking are already under painful sanctions.

The latest measures, authorize sanctions on foreign banks that make transactions in the Iranian currency, the already heavily depreciated rial.

That could weaken the rial further, making imports more expensive, and also make it more difficult to acquire imports.

They will also penalize anyone involved in selling goods or services to Iran’s auto industry, the country’s second-largest employer.

In the end, tech-savvy 26-year-old Ramin said “sanctions have created problems for the government but it will always be the people who pay the real price.”

Agence France-Presse
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