BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Greek government and financial markets were cheered on Tuesday by an agreement between euro zone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund to reduce Greece's debt, paving the way for the release of urgently needed aid loans.

The deal, clinched at the third attempt after weeks of wrangling, removes the biggest risk of a sovereign default in the euro zone for now, ensuring the near-bankrupt country will stay afloat at least until after a 2013 German general election.

"Tomorrow, a new day starts for all Greeks," Prime MinisterAntonis Samaras told reporters at 3 a.m. in Athens after staying up to follow the tense Brussels negotiations.

After 12 hours of talks, international lenders agreed on a package of measures to reduce Greek debt by more than 40 billion euros, projected to cut it to 124 percent of gross domestic product by 2020.

In an additional new promise, ministers committed to taking further steps to lower Greece's debt to "significantly below 110 percent" in 2022.

That was a veiled acknowledgement that some write-off of loans may be necessary in 2016, the point when Greece is forecast to reach a primary budget surplus, although Germany and its northern allies continue to reject such a step publicly.

Analyst Alex White of JP Morgan called it "another moment of ‘creative ambiguity' to match the June (EU) Summit deal on legacy bank assets; i.e. a statement from which all sides can take a degree of comfort".

The euro strengthened, European shares climbed to near a three-week high and safe haven German bonds fell on Tuesday, after the agreement to reduce Greek debt and release loans to keep the economy afloat.

"The political will to reward the Greek austerity and reform measures has already been there for a while. Now, this political will has finally been supplemented by financial support," economist Carsten Brzeski of ING said.

PARLIAMENTARY APPROVAL

To reduce the debt pile, ministers agreed to cut the interest rate on official loans, extend the maturity of Greece's loans from the EFSF bailout fund by 15 years to 30 years, and grant a 10-year interest repayment deferral on those loans.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Athens had to come close to achieving a primary surplus, where state income covers its expenditure, excluding the huge debt repayments.

"When Greece has achieved, or is about to achieve, a primary surplus and fulfilled all of its conditions, we will, if need be, consider further measures for the reduction of the total debt," Schaeuble said.

Eurogroup Chairman Jean-Claude Juncker said ministers would formally approve the release of a major aid installment needed to recapitalize Greece's teetering banks and enable the government to pay wages, pensions and suppliers on December 13 - after those national parliaments that need to approve the package do so.

The German and Dutch lower houses of parliament and the Grand Committee of the Finnish parliament have to endorse the deal. Losing no time, Schaeuble said he had asked German lawmakers to vote on the package this week.

Greece will receive 43.7 billion euros in four installments once it fulfils all conditions. The 34.4 billion euro December payment will comprise 23.8 billion for banks and 10.6 billion in budget assistance.

The IMF's share, less than a third of the total, will be paid out only once a buy-back of Greek debt has occurred in the coming weeks, but IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the Fund had no intention of pulling out of the program.

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann welcomed the deal but said Greece still had a long way to go to get its finances and economy into shape. Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger told reporters the important thing had been keeping the IMF on board.

"It had threatened to go in a direction that the IMF would exit Greek financing. This was averted and this is decisive for us Europeans," he said.

The debt buy-back was the part of the package on which the least detail was disclosed, to try to avoid giving hedge funds an opportunity to push up prices. Officials have previously talked of a 10 billion euro program to buy debt back from private investors at about 35 cents in the euro.

The ministers promised to hand back 11 billion euros in profits accruing to their national central banks from European Central Bank purchases of discounted Greek government bonds in the secondary market.

BETTER FUTURE

The deal substantially reduces the risk of a Greek exit from the single currency area, unless political turmoil were to bring down Samaras's pro-bailout coalition and pass power to radical leftists or rightists.

The biggest opposition party, the hard left SYRIZA, which now leads Samaras's center-right New Democracy in opinion polls, dismissed the deal and said it fell short of what was needed to make Greece's debt affordable.

Greece, where the euro zone's debt crisis erupted in late 2009, is proportionately the currency area's most heavily indebted country, despite a big cut this year in the value of privately-held debt. Its economy has shrunk by nearly 25 percent in five years.

Negotiations had been stalled over how Greece's debt, forecast to peak at 190-200 percent of GDP in the coming two years, could be cut to a more bearable 120 percent by 2020.

The agreed figure fell slightly short of that goal, and the IMF insisted that euro zone ministers should make a firm commitment to further steps to reduce the debt if Athens faithfully implements its budget and reform program.

The main question remains whether Greek debt can become affordable without euro zone governments having to write off some of the loans they have made to Athens.

Germany and its northern European allies have hitherto rejected any idea of forgiving official loans to Athens, but European Union officials believe that line may soften after next September's German general election.

Schaeuble told reporters that it was legally impossible for Germany and other countries to forgive debt while simultaneously giving new loan guarantees. That did not explicitly preclude debt relief at a later stage, once Greece completes its adjustment program and no longer needs new loans.

But senior conservative German lawmaker Gerda Hasselfeldt said there was no legal possibility for a debt "haircut" for Greece in the future either.

At Germany's insistence, earmarked revenue and aid payments will go into a strengthened "segregated account" to ensure that Greece services its debts.

A source familiar with IMF thinking said a loan write-off once Greece has fulfilled its program would be the simplest way to make its debt viable, but other methods such as forgoing interest payments, or lending at below market rates and extending maturities could all help.

German central bank governor Jens Weidmann has suggested that Greece could "earn" a reduction in debt it owes to euro zone governments in a few years if it diligently implements all the agreed reforms. The European Commission backs that view.

The ministers agreed to reduce interest on already extended bilateral loans in stages from the current 150 basis points above financing costs to 50 bps.

(Additional reporting by Annika Breidhardt, Robin Emmott and John O'Donnell in Brussels, Andreas Rinke and Noah Barkin in Berlin, Michael Shields in Vienna; Writing by Paul Taylor; editing by David Stamp)

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Sananda: Take Heart in Your Many Abilities

As Channeled Through Fran Zepeda ~ November 26, 2012

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Hello, dear ones, Light of the Universes. I come before you today to bring you wonderful tidings again. Much has transpired in your world as of this moment.

Since the last portal openings of November, you have reached a point of awakening that has made a huge opening in the Cosmic Register and thus allowing much more possibility for shift in consciousness as you approach the next portal of 12-12-12. With much delight we relay this to you from the Spiritual and Galactic Realms.

Take heart in knowing that you have achieved so much in so little time and as the momentum increases, so does your opportunity to leap to new heights unequaled ever in your history. Take Heart, dear ones, for that is how you are doing it, and how you are achieving it – with your Hearts.

From now until the next portal opening of 12-12-12, it is crucial that you take heed of your progress and to take heed of what you still need to clear.

It is like spring cleaning; throw out everything that you have no need for, even those things you think you do, but on a closer second look, is that something you really need or are able to bring into the higher dimensions and densities? If the fabric is not made of Love, or Compassion, or what would support the good of all, throw it out. Put it in a Light-lined container and lovingly discard it, leaving space for more Love and Light to enter your lives.

You are getting quite adept at this. It just requires you to keep looking deeper and deeper at your life and at your heart to see what is still there that represents fear or competition, or separateness. You know by now that that is all illusion and it isn’t going to be sustained in the higher dimensions. Step on over to your new way of living, in a huge field of Love that has no bounds for Abundance, Love and Compassion for all. Take it in stride and immerse yourselves totally into it, dear ones.

You are making great strides in the transformation of your Light Bodies. The pace is increasing as we speak. Allow yourselves to put that as a priority in your lives. It will require more adjustment in your daily lives and schedules, but it will be well worth it. You are in the “big leagues” now, so to speak – “no-holds- barred”, as they say. The sky is the limit as to how high you can go from this moment forward, so give it your all, give it all your attention, and give it all your Love for yourself and others.

Pay attention to your dreams more than ever; take stock in your visions for New Earth and for your new lives. Flesh them out as much as possible and watch them unfold. That is the Reality, not what you hear and see around you that still corresponds to duality.

Dear beloveds, you are getting so close. You are making great strides. There is no time to be “on the fence”. Choose Abundance, choose Joy, choose Love, choose Compassion; choose looking at life through the lens of possibilities and miracles. Partake in your visions as if they are already happening. Choose that perspective and view from now on.

I don’t have to tell you that this is not easy, but my friends, you have really gotten through the toughest part. Your uniting together over and over in meditations and visualizations has pushed you to the top; continuing on in that vein and manner will solidify you in the higher realms.

You are treading the edge of greatness, and you always had it in you; we have always seen it in you. You have turned the corner in realizing this greatness, this Divine nature that is capable of so many more things than you could imagine. Take heart in your many abilities. Take a moment to congratulate yourselves and then get back on the train that is speeding along to your Ascension, with renewed vigor and determination to surpass all dreams.

You are forever and always in our sights and in our hearts and in our arms of protection, dear ones. We are making the last leg of your travels with you. Take Heart in that.

I Am Sananda, always at your service.

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Jesus: This is a Time to Cherish as the Clock Ticks Down

As channeled by John Smallman –November 28, 2012

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The last stage in your journey of awakening is beginning as you move down the final stretch on your path home.

It has so far been a very grueling experience, but that is all about to change as you sweep downhill towards the finish. Enormous amounts of spiritual energy have been released into your energy fields to assist you, as the numbers of you meditating and praying with the intent for humanity to awaken continue to increase.

This should help you strengthen your inner confidence in God’s plan for humanity, while providing you with a sense of peace and serenity as you look forward with keen anticipation to your moment of awakening. It is going to happen, so let go of your doubts, or ask your guides and angels to strengthen your faith, and they will. This is a time to cherish as the clock counts down through the remaining period, leading to the start of the new age.

Humanity’s long sojourn in unreality is almost over. There have been a few good moments, but on the whole it has been a painful and depressing experience. The longer it lasted the more ingrained became your heartless and unfeeling belief in the need to sacrifice some for the “good” of others.

And of course the “good” were those on your side, and those sacrificed were often “unavoidable collateral damage” who unfortunately happened to be in the way! The senselessness of those attitudes has finally penetrated the minds and hearts of sufficient numbers of you to enable you to stand back a little from beliefs that had become almost completely carved in stone, and to allow yourselves to look at issues collectively through new eyes.

New eyes give a new perspective, and that new perspective has shown that without trust and respect for one another, lasting solutions to issues that divide you can never be found. Many are now working to revise the practices with which you engage each other (individually, or nation to nation) in discussion and negotiation, so that new and enlightened patterns or models can be formulated that will honor all involved. These practices will then become normal and standard forms of behavior as you move into the new era that you are collectively building, where those old and outworn attitudes and beliefs have no place.

At present, those showing the way, carrying the Light, or generally working lovingly in the caring professions are sending enormous waves of compassion and acceptance flowing throughout the world, bringing respite to those who are suffering, as a sense of hope for, and anticipation of, the new age begins to permeate their consciousness. This sense of hope is strong, emphatic, and irresistible, because it carries with it the intention to awaken into a far, far better world where poverty, destitution, suppression, and coercion no longer exist. Many of those experiencing these feelings have never before felt so hopeful or so optimistic, and it is uplifting but puzzling for them.

As the dawning of the new age gets ever closer, the numbers of impoverished or destitute ones that this energy field of warmth and compassion envelops will grow steadily larger until it encompasses even the least spiritually aware, who feel utterly lost and abandoned as they struggle for survival deep within the illusion, assisting them towards awakening, unless they choose otherwise. There are still a few, even in abject poverty, who are not yet willing to choose awakening, but they will be neither forgotten nor discounted, and when they are ready the path to awakening will be there to lead them home.

Reality is unlimited, undiscriminating, and totally accepting of all whom God has created, because all who have been created were created in Love, which is the eternal state to which all will return. If any of you have worries or concerns about loved ones whom you think are unaware of the essential spirituality of their nature, or who appear unwilling to give it credence, or whom you imagine for any reason at all will not awaken, release those worries because they are totally unfounded as God always takes care of His own, and all forms of consciousness and sentience are His own. Those worries just keep you attached or clinging to the illusion when you should be focusing on releasing all those limiting and distracting ties.

God’s Will for you all is that you awaken — and so it is inevitable that you will. Because however you may feel at present, in the grander scheme of things your will is completely aligned with His. All are free to continue playing games in the illusion, but eventually all will grow tired of them, and, like the prodigal son, all will return Home to a magnificent celebratory welcome. Everyone is gloriously welcomed on returning Home; there are absolutely no exceptions because all are infinitely loved and honored for who they truly are.

Your loving brother, Jesus

SaLuSa: November 28, 2012

Channelled by Mike Quinsey

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Andrew: SaLuSa remarks on the fact that 2012 has been a ‘normal’ year so far with few of the predictions for the year having occurred, particularly with respect to expectations of upheavals and catastrophes. We can take much credit for this outcome, as the vibrations of the Earth have been raised considerably in recent years, thus lessening the need for more energetic cleansing. However, he says that much happens that goes unreported.

Our last few weeks in duality should pass peacefully, allowing us to concentrate on preparing for Ascension. He says that dramatic changes will follow Ascension, many of which we should already have had but for the stalling tactics of the dark Ones. However, the new Age will see us uplifted and bring us all together in mutual love and respect with all past differences set aside. In the future our service to others will take us all over the Universe where we will be looked on as Masters of Light.

SaLuSa says that the Galactics place a great deal of importance on Disclosure, as it will bring us together and permit them to oversee the vast changes to our society. Following Disclosure, which is not far away, matters will be able to progress with full speed.

As you are realising, very few of the long-standing predictions for this year have come true and it has been very much a normal year. There is always much happening of a physical nature which goes largely unreported. So it is nice to report that little has happened that could fulfil the expectations of those preparing for major upheavals and catastrophes.

You can take much credit for the outcome, as the vibrations of the Earth have been considerably lifted to what they were just a few years ago. The amount of Light attracted to the Earth has lessened the need for more energetic cleansing. We of the Galactic Federation have also helped by taking part in the cleansing and generally preventing pollution from becoming worse. That also includes Chemtrails which had the potential to seriously affect all forms of life.

Now your path through the final few weeks of duality should pass quite peacefully, allowing you to concentrate on your preparations for Ascension. The best advice is to keep calm and peaceful, and do not let anything distract you from your focus on it.

You will be making history by being one that is actually on Earth to experience everything associated with Ascension. The old vibrations will no longer be able to interfere with your evolution, and in their place will be heightened vibrations that will lift you up. Most of you should register some pleasant reactions to the changes, although for some they will be difficult to assimilate. A total frequency change is naturally far reaching, and all life forms will be affected to some degree.

Dramatic changes will follow Ascension, many of which you should have already experienced. However all will happen in good time, but in quick time to give you the advancements that should have already commenced, but for the stalling tactics of the dark Ones.

The dark Ages with all of their limitations will be replaced by one that sees you uplifted in so many ways, and brings the people of your civilization together in mutual love and respect for each other. All past differences will be set aside, to bring you close together in loving co-operation and unity. That will no longer be difficult to achieve, as the false barriers placed between you will fall away as trust replaces the fears created to keep you apart.

You can start now to become your real self, by being outgoing and loving and able to express your true feelings. For too long you have been bound by fear of what others may think of you, that you have even hesitated to show your natural love for others. Find the inner child within your heart that knows not of your doubts and caution, but glories in being able to freely share its Light and Love.

You have been moulded into what you think of as yourself by selective training all through your upbringing. You are being set free to share your enjoyment of life with all others. In the future no one will be offended by a show of love and it will become a quite natural way of greeting each other, as you are all One.

Yes, the meek shall inherit the Earth, and those who have caused so much trouble with their deliberate wars of death and destruction will be removed from your midst. Only the gentle and loving souls shall remain to enjoy a happy and joyful life, such as they have not known in duality.

You have proved that you are mighty souls with hearts of gold, and all will recognize you as Ascended Beings. Your creative powers will be channelled into purposeful creations for the good of all. Hitherto, you have not realised how powerful you really are, and have not been in control of your abilities. Do not worry however as with Ascension your increase in levels of consciousness will change all of that.

You are co-creators with God, and your service to others will take you all over the Universe. You will have unique qualities resulting from your varied experiences in duality. You will be looked upon as the Masters of Light, and help other emerging civilizations to evolve. However, that time lays somewhat ahead of where you are now, but you will be drawn to serve others in that way.

You have had a long and arduous journey, but have gained much that is greatly admired by us. You will take your place along side us as equals, and many of you will choose to join the Federation. You know enough about us now to make such decisions, and our comments apply equally to both male and female. In that respect unlike now, you will both be balanced in the two energies, and the differences in them will be hardly noticeable.

In spite of the turmoil in your world at present the prospect of peace remains very real. It is being approached at the highest level, and the response is encouraging. It is removal of the fear of the big powers that holds smaller countries back, but we can easily maintain the peace once an agreement is reached to disarm.

Peace is an absolute must if you are to enter the higher dimensions, as it will not support the low vibrations of the threat of war. Together with the moves to achieve governmental changes that are also proceeding, dramatic changes will occur that will alter the whole face of your civilization. Then you can add Disclosure, and matters will be able to go forward with all speed. These events are not far away at all, and our allies are working very hard to bring them to fruition.

We clearly place a great deal of importance on Disclosure, as it is a means of bringing us together and entering a relationship that is necessary for your progress. More importantly is our part in overseeing the vast changes to your society, and helping your big commercial companies handle the changes affecting them.

There have to be changes that reflect the need for smaller groups rather than monopolies, and adjustments to new ways of working. You will see that in future business will be on an open basis, so that everyone will know what is taking place and that it is operating on honest and just principles. That should be easy as those criminal elements that exist in your society now will have been removed.

I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and want you to remove your focus from the past, and give your energy to the new in accordance with your expectations. That way you will help bring it in much quicker, and also be more prepared for what will take place. We are with you Dear Ones, and it will always be so.

Thank you SaLuSa

Mike Quinsey