Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Rap hopefuls spread anti-AIDS message

"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. …”

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Rap hopefuls spread anti-AIDS message

The Jakarta Post

Young rappers from across the country performed Saturday at the Pasar Festival Arts Center in Kuningan, South Jakarta, sending a message to fellow youngsters about the dangers of HIV/AIDS.

Some 35 young rappers from 21 provinces gathered for the AIDS rap competition grand finale organized by the National Family Planning Coordinating Agency (BKKBN).

The competition, which saw singer Edo Kondologit and rap star Iwa K. among the judges, was held to mark World AIDS Day, which fell on Dec. 1.

"With rapping, I think young people will listen," said Ainuddin "Blackball", 27, a rapper from Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan.

"I mean, they're not going to listen to old people talking on a podium about what they need to know about HIV/AIDS. They're going to listen to this."

"They may still end up breaking the rules and having unprotected sex or using drugs, but at least they have listened."

Blackball's song, Watch out, talks about the importance of being aware of the dangers of the virus and, at the same time, the need to show compassion to those who have it.

Adi Raja, 20, a rapper from Pontianak, West Kalimantan, said he knew all about the discrimination that people with HIV or AIDS had to deal with as he often counseled them.

"People are scared of them, which is just so wrong as the virus is easily avoided, not like bird flu," said Adi, a former drug user.

"So, I rap instead of talking. It's my means for getting messages across and my way of fighting against that sort of attitude."

According to the latest Health Ministry's data, drug users top the list of people with HIV/AIDS in Jakarta, with more than 70 percent of 2,894 users having become infected through needle sharing.

In addition, those aged between 20 and 29 years of age accounted for over 75 percent of the total of population with HIV/AIDS.

The BKKBN's family planning division deputy director, Siswanto Agus Tilopo, told The Jakarta Post that the event would help spread the message to young people engaging in unprotected sex or using drugs.

"This event is for young people ... We feel that they can connect with rap music," he explained.

He said that although rap music was often filled with violent themes and sexual innuendo, the content of the music played during this event was different.

"What's important is disseminating the message: Don't sin any more (by engaging in promiscuity or using drugs) than you're already doing," said Siswanto. JP/anw

(*) - Picture Above: AIDS DAY: A girl is pictured among some of 1,000 inflated condoms during the World AIDS Day campaign in Jakarta on Saturday. Indonesia marked the day with the launch of its first national campaign to promote the use of condoms. (JP/R. Berto Wedhatama)