Post No. 697 – For Sunday evening’s meditation-clearing

For everyone’s convenience, I’ve shifted the reminders / explanations about Sunday’s meditation-clearing to this post.

Now, the themes – short, medium and long term - that come to mind for my work this week, after I review all this news, are (and no apologies if this repeats the themes of any previous weeks – in fact, given the size of this task, that is to be expected):

(a) beware small, slight changes that can lead to serious problems later, much as one should not be negligent, even in trifling matters;

(b) one person can make a difference – maybe not initially, and maybe not what was desired, but such deeds can plants good seeds;

(c) naivety is a problem – in fact, I would go so far as to regard it as a spiritual crime. The cure is education – of the soul, as well as the mind and body;

(d) dealing with shock, mistakes and evil (especial evil in its most banal of forms) can be wearing, and self care for activists is important, if possible. Where it is not possible, it is up to others to start sharing the load;

(e) inflexibility can be a major problem, particularly when negotiating for peace. The spiritual cure for inflexibility is change; in the context of peace negotiations, pragmatic approaches enabling people to save face (i.e., “have room to move”) may be required;

News and other matters from this week include the following (opportunities/good news are shown in green; comments are shown in purple; WARNING: some of these links may contain triggers around issues such as violence, sexual assault, discrimination, etc). Incidentally, the purpose of reading these news links is not only to inform: it is also to stimulate a connection to nonBPLF units that need to be cleared and BPLF units that need to be strengthened. That only works if you don’t let yourself be overwhelmed by this, so take it in small chunks if you need to, but remember to actively clear and heal! … including yourself.

• permanent issue: may all actual and potential BPLF [1] Leaders be kept BPLF safe, including keeping them undetectable to the nonBPLF and keeping all their Significant Others inviolable against being used for indirect psychic attack, all as is for the Highest Spiritual Good;

From the Daily Briefings of the United Nations (UN) (and other sources):

• the earthquake in Nepal has resulted in more than 5,000 people killed and more than 10,000 injured, with eight million people affected in 39 of the country’s districts. More than 1.4 million people need food assistance, including 750,000 people who live near the epicentre in poor quality housing - food trucks are on their way to districts affected outside the Kathmandu valley and distribution is expected to begin on the 28^th of April; UN and humanitarian partners are supporting teams that are deploying to affected districts to assess the most urgent needs, and the Humanitarian Country Team is coordinating international relief efforts to support the government - the priority will be to address the needs of the most vulnerable and save lives (i.e., search and rescue and debris removal to find and save people); Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos has released $15 million through the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to allow international humanitarian organizations to rapidly scale up their operations and provide immediate assistance to people in desperate need, and the UN and its partners have urgently appealed for $415 million. The World Food Programme (WFP) is mobilising teams specialising in logistics and emergency response. This is the largest earthquake since 1934 to hit Nepal.   Remember to clear nonBPLF units, rescue those who have died and send healing and BPLF energy to those directly and indirectly affected, and to those who can help – directly or indirectly.   This article covers a long term concern about agricultural production (but then, according to this we’re in dire straits agriculturally anyway), and “The Hindu”    coverage of the Nepal earthquake, including an editorial and a report that China will not try to compete with India over relief. See also here, for a report on ways that high tech companies are helping;

• in a message delivered on behalf of the Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson, the Deputy Secretary-General said earlier this week, at the opening of the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), that eliminating nuclear weapons is a top priority for the United Nations. The Secretary-General is deeply concerned that previous progress towards a nuclear weapon-free world has stalled, and called on leaders to abandon short-sighted political posturing and instead embrace a bold and global vision that meets the demands of humanity or the sake of present and future generations and true national security see also here and here;

• humanitarian colleagues have said that we must prevent the Central African Republic from becoming a forgotten crisis - nearly 900,000 people have been forcibly displaced (both to neighbouring countries and internally) since the outbreak of violence in December 2013 and, inside the country, 2.7 million people are in need of humanitarian aid, but there is a humanitarian funding shortfall, said Clare Bourgeois, the Humanitarian Coordinator in the country;

• the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that more than114,000 people have been displaced by fighting in Ramadi. Humanitarian agencies and partners continue to respond to the needs of the displaced people - some 1,100 people in Abu Ghraib District and the Doura area of Baghdad, received core relief items through the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF distributed 1,584 water and sanitation kits, including water, hygiene items and buckets in Baghdad Governorate;

• the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has reported shelling and exchange of fire between SPLA and opposition elements for approximately two hours in Bentiu, Unity State. Government troops prevented a Mission patrol from reaching Bentiu and UNMISS flights to the Unity State capital have been suspended. On Sunday, 26^th April, a UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) team cleared Malakal Airport of unexploded ordnance left over from last week's clashes, and the Mission reported that it extracted ten women and children who had been trapped by fighting on Friday, and brought them back to the Mission’s protection-of-civilians site;

• the head of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), Mongi Hamdi, expressed his great concern for the peace process following the events in Ménaka yesterday and in Timbuktu today, where vehicles of MINUSMA were targeted. The Secretary-General has called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in northern Mali Earlier this week, there had been optimism;

• the Secretary-General has condemned the outbreak of violence in Burundi following the nomination of President Pierre Nkurunziza as the presidential candidate of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy–Forces for the Defense of Democracy party. The Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed deep concern about the series of measures taken this week by Burundian authorities to curtail the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful expression and assembly. This is about democracy, and on that, I don’t normally agree with this politician, but there is food for thought in this article on “use or lose” democracy – and concern that Japan is reported to be restricting media;

• three UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) contractors, who were abducted on 23rd April in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have been released unharmed;

• a report from the International Labour Organization (ILO) says that more than half the people living in rural areas worldwide do not have access to essential health-care services - more than double the proportion of those without access in urban areas;

• the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today that Southern Africa's maize harvest is expected to shrink this year by some 26 percent compared with 2014's bumper crop. This could trigger food price increases and adversely affect recent food security gains;

• the UN has finished its enquiry into incidents affecting UN premises in Gaza during last year’s conflict, and the Secretary-General has called for a durable ceasefire. These incidents included seven involving the loss of 44 Palestinian lives, at least 227 injured or damage at UN facilities, and three involving weapons found in UNRWA schools, including instances in which Palestinian armed groups may have used UNRWA school premises to launch attacks, but, beyond the report’s contents, it reminds us that there has still been no progress on the critical elements that would secure long-term peace for the people of the region;

• a delegation from the UN Human Rights Office recently visited the Maldives to examine the broader issues related to the criminal case against the former president, Mohammad Nasheed, met with Government and judicial officials, civil society members and Mr. Nasheed, and found that, however serious the allegations against him, the trial of Mr. Nasheed was vastly unfair and his conviction was arbitrary and disproportionate;

• in a statement issued over the weekend, the Secretary-General appealed to the Government of Indonesia to refrain from carrying out the execution, as announced, of ten prisoners on death row for alleged drug-related crimes. Later in the week, he expressed deep regret at the executions, reaffirmed his belief that the death penalty has no place in the 21^st century, and noted that a record 117 States voted in the UN General Assembly in December 2014 for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty. See also here for some reflections on the possible moral culpability of media and public, here for an opinion that Australia’s appalling “push the boats back” policy has possibly contributed to Indonesian implacability (I was hoping someone would raise this), and a report here that Indonesia executes foreigners for drug crimes, but is lenient for locals (I also consider the doubt I had expressed in a recent Psychic Weather Report over the significance of these events to be misplaced: reactions show it probably is a major factor in the energy state there) and also see here;

• the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has announced that heavy investments in animal disease prevention have helped Somalia export a record 5 million livestock in 2014, the highest number of live animals exported from Somalia in the last 20 years. An investment in livestock means an investment in economic growth for the whole of Somalia, says FAO adding that livestock remains the mainstay of the Somali economy, contributing 40 percent to the country's Gross Domestic Product;

From other sites:

• Human Rights Watch has:   a report on a crackdown in Burundi on protestors;   a report on the healing that has worked for some survivors of Da’esh;   a report that, despite Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani’s pledges to defend media freedom, the opposite seems to be happening, and another report calling for Afghanistan to make human rights a reality;   a report on the experience of disabled people in the conflict in the Central African Republic;  a report that Hungary is deliberately building intolerance (and also wants to re-introduce the death penalty, which this report says some Australians support – true, on the basis of my experience, but no reason to reintroduce it);   a report on the crisis in Venezuela’s health care system;   a call for Turkey to stop prosecuting people who insult the President (see here for a report on the response to murder of a woman fighting off a rapist);   an article on the lack of evidence that capital punishment deters crime;   a call for better treatment of those rescued from Boko Haram;   an article on the poor investigations by both sides into abuses during fighting in Gaza;

• the Middle East Eye has:   a report that new funding from Saudi Arabia could be giving the rebels in Syria a resurgence (and this report reviews Iran’s support of Assad, and this report states Iran has been invited by the USA to join negotiations; the UN sponsored Geneva Consultations on Syria will begin next week Monday, 4^th May, at the Palais des Nations and last for an initial period of five to six weeks);   a report that “outgoing UN envoy on Yemen, Jamal Benomar, has told the UN Security Council that rival Yemeni groups were on the verge of a peace deal before Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes last month and declared that ‘outside interference’ will only worsen the conflict” (also, the Secretary-General has strongly condemned the shelling and aerial bombardment of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus on 28^th April despite assurances from the Syrian Government that the camp would not be attacked while civilians remained inside), and see here for a current overview Also, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported that violence has disrupted services at two major health facilities in Yemen: militants entered the main hospital in Aden and started shooting (patients and doctors fled), and the main public hospital in Haradh, which serves more than 150,000 people, is almost deserted after an attack on 24^th April. In Sana'a, water processing plants that supply drinking water have closed. There are estimates that more than 300,000 people have now been displaced, and credible reports of snipers targeting civilians in the street. Food distributions (to nearly half a million people so far) and other humanitarian operations will stop today and in the next few days because of lack of fuel, and a report that Iranian naval vessels are possibly poised to resupply the Houthis as violence intensifies in Aden, and Houthis start hiding weapons in civilian areas and attack the Saudi border;   a report that Canada will aid Jordan with refugees and security;   a report on the potential for gas fields that Palestine has claim to being exploited by Israelis (shades of the Australia-Timor oil dispute, anyone?), a report on the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, a critique of Western assistance to Israel’s nuclear programme, an article on the Palestinian Authority, a report that former US president Jimmy Carter is undertaking Saudi-backed mediation efforts between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, a report that the Israelis have given some confiscated fishing vessels back to the Palestinians and a report that Israeli police have assaulted an Ethiopian Jew, leading to protests against racism;   a review of the refugee problem in the Mediterranean Sea, and how this is linked to the failures of the Arab Spring, with an article here on the shortcomings of the Arab left;   a report on tensions between Algeria and Mauretania;   claims by Saudi Arabia that it has foiled an attack by Da’esh, a report that Da’esh makes $100 million a year selling plundered antiquities, and a report that Da’esh is expanding into southern Syria;   a report that police in Egypt have charged journalists who documented police abuses, although a TV anchor has criticised the Egyptian President, and see reports on sexual assaults in Egypt here, here (about rape by police), here (about a woman who drowned trying to escape her attackers);

• the Nonviolent Conflict site has links to:   a report that Russian workers are striking in protest against economic conditions;   a report on people fleeing repression in Eritrea (and winding up in the Mediterranean Sea);   a plea from the Maldives opposition for India to help;   a report that proposed Canadian anti-terror legislation also targets those resisting tar sand exploitation;   a report that a leading proponent of civil society in Pakistan was killed after hosting a human rights event;   claims that Iran is oppressing its Arab population;

• the US-based and -centric “War on the Rocks” blog (which I have found may also have other articles that I have concerns with - and thus do not provide links to, unless I want you to think … :) ) has:   an article on corruption in Afghanistan, and how this contributed to the insurgency;   a fairly detailed review of the history and tactics of Da’esh;   an article on the UK possibly refocusing from abroad to within;

• the Political Violence at a Glance blog has:   an article on Turkey’s “puzzling” response to the Armenian genocide;   a review of the link between discrimination and protests, including violent protests (the statistics on that are concerning), and that violent response to discrimination appears to be higher in the Middle East;

• the Institute for War and Peace Reporting has:   a report on World Press Freedom Day, as Azerbaijan suppresses the media (and Fiji is not doing too well on that issue);   a report that Armenia could benefit from the lifting of sanctions on Iran, and a report on Armenian remembrance of the Armenian Genocide;   a report that police in Tajikistan have been issuing warnings to women wearing Islamic hijab and shaving off men’s beards, with experts commenting that idea that banning Islamic forms of dress will eliminate extremism is facile;

and, from other sources: 

• reports that Da’esh is a bigger threat than communism, and on French-Australia cooperation by counterterrorism, is balanced by a renowned expert’s warning against conflating threats and thus overinflating risks;

• the costs of violence, and the numbers of people at risk;

• the World Bank is asking leaders of religions for help on poverty;

• despite US President Obama’s concerns, this is not necessarily a bad thing;

• although he is wanted for international war crimes, re-elected President Bashir offers Sudan stability, according to this;

• a review of Ukraine’s government, including possible restructuring here;

• a report that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has been executing any who challenge his authority, 15 in the last year;

• whoever started this, including whoever sent the first tweet, as well as all those who forwarded the tweet or took part, are all guilty of spiritual crimes including violence, inciting violence, destruction of property, threats, attempting to control others and possibly attempted murder - irrespective of whatever the situation is legally. Furthermore, they are impeding the family of the killed man from obtaining justice or taking action to prevent this happening again. They are utter morons. Similar sentiments apply to the Fox network and other journalists who have been misreporting matters. It all has similar energies to the UK riots a few years ago (see also here). However, on the other hand, there were definitely problems in Baltimore - and elsewhere (see also here, for a Pagan perspective on the situation), and there have been some excellent community building responses, and it is promising that the police have been charged ... and the great Dr Martin Luther King Jr. pleaded with the US government for a credible basis for hope the year before riots, and there have been very few signs of hope of change on racism in the USA (or here, for that matter) ... so the blame lies with ... ?;

• a review of Pope Francis which finds that he is neither radical nor a reformer;

• a report on a political party for Arab citizens of Israel;
• an account on one Europeans transformation from anti-Semite to Jew;

• the UN has criticised Australia’s deportation of an Iranian man in 2010;

• the USA might be rethinking the issue of surveillance;

• The Hindu has:   coverage of the agrarian crisis, including an editorial;   a review of Indian-Afghani relations;   an article on the crushing of dissent in Pakistan;   a report that an MP wants states to take responsibility for managing community disharmony, and to ban religious conversions (a position contradicted by Prime Minister Modi, who supported religious freedom);   a report that Vietnam is claiming no-one can stop exploration for oil in their territorial waters (this could feed tensions with China);   a report that more women and girls have been freed from Boko Haram in Nigeria;   a report on tougher legislation against corruption;   a report that, three years after militants shot Malala Yousafzai — then 14 years old — as she returned in a bus from her school in Pakistan’s Swat district, an anti-terrorism court has sentenced 10 Taliban militants to 25 years in prison;   a report on criticisms of India for religious violence;   a prediction of increased disease in Mumbai in response to water problems;  an editorial on an employment guarantee scheme (which is the sort of approach I would like to see elsewhere; on health, this is significant);   a report on “lavender marriages” and similar, which are a response to bigotry against LGBTIQ people;   an editorial on urban liveability;   an opinion piece stating that democracy is the state that best allows human development, economic reform is not a required precursor to democracy (contrary to the “view of the late Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on the one hand, and Communists on the other”), and education needs to foster, in addition to cognitive intelligence, “other dimensions of intelligence: emotional, social, moral, spiritual, environmental, and innovational”;

• the BBC has:   a report that the European Union will not send peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine;   a report on a new US-Japan defence deal;   a claim that Germany failed to pass on warnings of the danger of flying over eastern Ukraine before MH17 was shot down;   a report that pro-Putin bikers have been stopped at the Polish border (good!);   a report that a landslide in north-eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 52 people;   a report that North Korea may have restarted its nuclear reactor;   a report that France will be merciless on any soldiers found to have abused children;

• Spiegel International has:   a report that Greece promises to repay all debt;   an interview with the separatist leader of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, who hopes for Russian annexation;

I have a simplified blogiography of posts related to this work here, a list of themes I have identified here, and my changing the personality of oppressors post, which I am contemplating expanding to include some key people to work on, is here.

[1] BPLF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Light Forces. See here and here for more on this.

[2] Please see here, here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

[3] I apologise for the formatting: it seems Blogger is no longer as WYSIWYG as it used to be, and there are a lot of unwanted changes to layout made upon publishing, so I often have to edit it immediately after publishing to get the format as close to what I want as possible.

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr, Wéofodthegn

(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga ... )

My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me for a few minutes at some time between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate-clear for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible.

Tags: activism, discrimination, energy work, magick, meditation, nonviolence, peace, society, violence, war,

First published: Laugardagr, 2^nd May, 2015

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Saturday, 2^nd May, 2015