Saturday, 23 May 2015

Post No. 709 – For Sunday evening’s meditation-clearing [Note: Content Warning for news links - reader discretion is advised]

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

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) be mindful of inner conflicts – attend to them, and resolve the issues in a Spiritually Mature and Balanced Positive way;
(b) remember to acknowledge – celebrate, if you wish – the gains of the Clear Light  BPLF;
(c) when you become upset at events in the world, something which may help some of you (it usually doesn’t help all, or even most) is to meditate – genuinely meditate – on how one has learned from past mistakes and trials, and then shift one’s perspective out to thousands of years;
(d) communication and awareness are of great importance: if you wish to help the world, you must communicate with the world – beginning by listening through all means you have, including your BPLF Guidance, meditation, and … media;
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;
  • with regard to the war in Yemen:   Iran could send military advisors, but has agreed to an Iranian ship headed for Yemen being inspected;   the UN has called for an extension of the ceasefire;   UN led talks are reported to have commenced in Saudi Arabia without the Houthis;   half a million Yemenis have been displaced;   a conference of Yemeni political factions on Tuesday vowed support for "resistance" forces battling anti-government militias, while laying a political foundation for the country's future;
  • with regard to the Libyan civil war:   the UN has warned that the shelling which killed 8 children in Benghazi could be a war crime;   the World Food Programme has reported that it is currently providing assistance for 51,000 of the most vulnerable Libyans who have been displaced in the west of the country, and plans to help nearly quarter of a million internally displaced people in Libya with life-saving food assistance over the next six months;
  • with regard to Da’esh and violent extremism generally:   an article suggesting young women and girls going to Da’esh are doing so because of the appeal of the ‘bad boy’ factor, but noting that (Australian) Muslim women aren’t likely to do such (and also noting that distrust of Western media and the ‘slick’ campaigns by Da’esh are issues … maybe this is where something like Al Jazeera – which has been accused of bias after a promising start - can play a constructive influence?);   a report that Da’esh is making gains in Iraq (see also here, which credits those gains to suicide car bombings, and here, for an analysis of the impact of those gains – including possible effects on US policy; also, the UN reports over 6,500 families displaced by the fighting) but losing ground in Syria - except for Palmyra;   the Saudis claim to be successfully returning violent extremists to normal life, whilst others are facing criminal charges;  claims that the appalling mass rapes of Boko Haram are an attempt to breed the next generation of fighters;   a poet has written a poem criticising Da’esh;   an article on Germany’s struggle for the soul of returning extremists;   the Secretary-General has condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack targeting a Shia mosque in the town of al-Qudaih in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which caused many deaths and injuries as people were gathering for prayers;
  • with regard to the conflict in eastern Ukraine:   Ukraine’s President has referred to the situation as a “real war” with Russia, and warned of further attacks by Russia;   two men captured by Ukrainian troops confess to being members of the Russian armed forces, according to European mediators;
  • with regard to the earthquake in Nepal, natural and other catastrophes :   there has been a landslide in Colombia which has killed dozens of people;   a fire in a factory in the Philippines has killed 72 people;   Turkey is sending four tons of aid to Nepal;
  • with regard to refugees:   the appalling crisis created in South East Asia by turning boats back;   the Philippines has said it is open to sheltering up to 3,000 "boat people" from Myanmar and Bangladesh;   the heads of the UN Refugee Agency, the UN Human Rights Office, the International Organization for Migration and the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Migration and Development have jointly issued a statement on the situation in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea calling on the leaders of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand to protect migrants and refugees stranded on vessels in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, to facilitate safe disembarkation, and to give priority to saving lives, protecting rights, and respecting human dignity. Later this week, the UN Refugee Agency welcomed the commitment announced by the Foreign Ministers of Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand to resolve this issue (the Prime Minister of my nation, Australia has refused to consider accepting any refugees, thereby further illustrating his lack of understanding of the issues, and his lack of humanity and thus unfitness for the position – and changes further diminish our reputation on this matter);   an article on the Sahrawi refugee crisis, which began in late 1975 just as Western Sahara (then Spanish Sahara) was due to be decolonised but was instead annexed by Morocco – and another here;   Qatar and Turkey have launched a University for Syrian refugees;   a report that EU ministers have approved plans to establish a naval force to “combat” people-smugglers operating from Libya;   entire towns in Thailand are helping ‘human traffickers’;
  • with regard to democracy, freedom and governance:   allegations that lobbyists are having too much influence in Australia;   a scandal rocking Macedonia;   an older couple of articles about concerns about the CIA here and here;   a review about the help some Danes gave to Jews during World War Part Two;   there are ongoing concerns over Burundi’s stability, and the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes, Said Djinnit, has met with the President of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, following which he spoke to the media and reiterated the Secretary-General’s condemnation of the attempt to oust an elected government and the need for political dialogue to create conditions for holding free and fair elections;   USA President Barack Obama has been urged to “be bold” in supporting Tunisia;   the consultative political dialogue between Burundian stakeholders, including representatives of the Government, opposition parties and religious organizations, facilitated by the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region, Said Djinnit, has resumed;   a review of Thailand since the coup;   a review of ‘ground-up’ movements;
  • with regard to discrimination:   possible signs of class divides in China;   registrations open for a conference at the Nobel Institute in Norway on ways to end discrimination against the Rohingya in Myanmar, and some encouraging comments from within Myanmar;   an article on the denial of education to millions of children in India because they are Dalit;   a call for the international community to end its complacency over Indonesia’s so-called virginity tests;   a review of last year’s war in Gaza, including why so many civilians died;   Ethiopian Jews have protested discrimination in Israel;   a last minute attack of sanity;   a case of extreme bigotry against women in India, and a lovely example of fighting homophobia;   Mumbai Police have charged leading diamond conglomerate Hare Krishna Exports for discrimination after denying a young man a job because he was a Muslim;   a Dalit youth has been brutally assaulted and killed in the temple town of Shirdi in Maharashtra, allegedly over his mobile ringtone;
  • with regard to police and policing:   a plea for balanced responses (and an article here on media misreporting on crime);   a report on police torture and abuses in China;   a report that police in Franc have been cleared of “failing to help” two boys they were chasing, whose deaths sparked weeks of riots;   a report that US President Obama has banned some military gear going to police;   an article on “why US police are killing black men”;   concerns of possible abuses in Ballarat, Victoria;
  • with regard to media and freedom of expression:   this does not help the cause of the media;   a Washington Post journalist has been arrested and accused of spying in Iran;   some Western journalists have had unduly close relationship with Assad;   anger at Japan’s trampling of media freedom;   an article on a journalist who investigated other journalists (a bit reminiscent of Media Watch);
From the Daily Briefings of the United Nations (UN) (and other sources):
  • the Secretary-General has noted with serious concern the sentence of death issued by the Egyptian Criminal Court against former President Mohamed Morsi and 105 others, and reaffirmed the United Nations' position against capital punishment;
  • the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has announced that 442 members of the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Front (FRPI) have said that they are willing to surrender;
  • the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has said that it is deeply concerned by the fighting that took place in Malakal, in Upper Nile State, this last weekend, following an attack launched by opposition forces on Friday afternoon, and strongly condemned this new cycle of violence and yet another violation of the cessation of hostility agreement. Later in the week UNMISS reported that heavy fighting between Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and Opposition forces resumed this morning around Melut in Upper Nile State. The Secretary-General has strongly condemned the escalation of hostilities in the past ten days;;
  • the Joint AU-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) continues to engage with relevant government authorities and local community stakeholders to facilitate a cessation of hostilities and reconciliation between the Ma’alia and Rezeigat communities in East Darfur;
  • the UN Sustainable Energy for All Forum was held at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel in New York from 18th to 19th May, with more than 70 multi-stakeholder sessions that brought together governments, the private sector and civil society, before moving to the UN on 20th and 21st May for the Global Energy Ministerial;
  • the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, Nicholas Kay, said that while it is too soon to celebrate definitive success in Somalia, the international community must look at the progress made in the country, including a better functioning governance, political dialogue and efforts to counter violent extremism;
  • the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Yury Fedotov, has issued a statement warning that women and girls continue to be killed in large numbers around the world - at least 43,000 women were murdered by their intimate partners or family members in 2012;
  • the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali has strongly condemned an night attack at a residence housing several UN military personnel in Bamako (France claims to have killed several violent extremists);. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) remains concerned that attacks by armed groups and individuals around Timbuktu in northern Mali are forcing people to flee their homes - more than 20,000 people have fled since 15th May to Gourma Rharous, Timbuktu and Goundam;
  • the Deputy Spokesman said that the Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, James W. Rawley, and the Director of UN Relief and Works Agency Operations for the West Bank, Felipe Sanchez, have expressed their grave concern that Israel is rapidly advancing plans to transfer Palestinian Bedouins in the central West Bank from their current communities;
  • the Secretary-General appointed a high-level panel on humanitarian financing, which is due to report by November, 2015 on ways in which the gap between rising needs and the resources available to meet them can be closed, and solutions around the issues of more timely and predictable funding, as well as ways in which resources can be used more effectively;
  • the Incheon Declaration has been adopted at the conclusion of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Education Forum in the Republic of Korea, will underpin the education targets in the Sustainable Development Goals to be ratified in September at the UN. It encourages countries to provide inclusive, equitable, quality education and life-long learning opportunities for all;
From other sites:
  • Human Rights Watch has:   doubts on Sri Lankan government’s pledges to credibly investigate alleged war crimes;   a call for Burma’s parliament to vote down a draft population law that authorities could use to repress religious and ethnic minorities;   a report on the obvious: anti-LGBT laws harm LGBT kids (listening, Mr kill-LGBT-kids Putin?);   reports on sexual abuse in the US military, and the abuse of those who report those crimes;   a report on legislation in Russia which may impede activism (through selective implementation);   a report on a safe schools project for kids in conflict zones;
  • the Middle East Eye has:
      - a report that Poland has paid damages to a Palestinian and a Saudi detained by CIA;
      - a report on a rally in the lead up to Turkey’s elections in a few weeks, which may see a change of government as President Erdogan hopes to gain enough power to change the constitution;
      - the appeal of stability to Iranians;   a former Iranian foreign minister has denied that Iran was involved in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina, following renewed interest in the case after the death of an investigator;
      - despite explicitly stating otherwise during the recent election campaign, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini that he is committed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict;
    - a report that the USA will sell bombs to Israel and helicopters to Saudi Arabia;
      - despite promises to combat sexual harassment in Egypt, a report claims unprecedented levels of state-sanctioned sexual violence;   a claim (based on “a leak”) that Egypt and the UAE have been arming one of the groups fighting in Libya;   British police investigating allegations that the Egyptian government had command and control responsibility for the torture and mistreatment of prisoners have been handed evidence authenticating a secret recording in which high-ranking officials in the office of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi discuss how to fabricate evidence about Mohammed Morsi’s illegal initial detention;   an Egyptian academic has claimed he was sacked from his post at a high-profile university for opposing the institution’s policy of supporting the arrest of students and professors
      - Qatar is failing to deliver on promised labour reforms;
  • the Nonviolent Conflict site has links to:   teachers in Iran have protested low wages;   an article on citizens holding governments accountable;   thousands in Guatemala have called for the President’s resignation;   China is starting to exert a quiet censorship on books in Hong Kong;   there have been three days of protests against US bases on Okinawa;
  • 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:   from over a year ago, a report on nuclear cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan;   another older article arguing that ‘going green’ - i.e., reducing reliance on petrol/diesel - would save lives in combat situations, based on the author’s experiences in fuel convoys in Iraq;   a review of next week’s Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual security forum that is attended by many of Asia’s top defence leaders;   an article on China’s slow motion competition for a contested peace;   an article on Moldova, stuck between Russia and Europe;
and, from other sources: 
  • The Hindu has:   an article on “the commodification of violence”;   a review of “big data”;   the 11 Afghani policemen who murdered a woman have been sentenced to only one year in jail;   an editorial on passive euthanasia, following the death, after four decades in a coma, of a rape victim;   an editorial calling for India to pursue the India-EU Free Trade Agreement talks;   an opinion piece saying “there is no free Chinese lunch;
  • the BBC has:   a review of the divide between the USA and the Gulf Cooperation Council over Iran;   Sri Lanka's president has promised to seek reconciliation on the sixth anniversary of the army's victory over Tamil Tiger separatists (but see the HRW report mentioned above);   a report of new disappearances in Mexico;   a report that Nigeria has transferred some of the women and children rescued from Boko Haram out of fear some of them have been radicalised;
  • Spiegel International has:   an interview with famed Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei;, in which he states that “the state is scared”, that he believes progressive change in the country is inevitable and discusses shameful human rights violations in the United States;   an interview with Iran’s Foreign Minister, in which states his optimism that a deal will be reached on nuclear energy, but that Iran is not seeking rapprochement with the West;
  • the Nigerian army is reportedly so under-resourced that it is allegedly “broken”;
  • concerns over the African Union’s ability to fight terrorism;
  • a report on Russian patriotism;
  • an analysis of the implications of North Korea’s recent launch of a missile from a submarine;
  • there have been simultaneous explosions at pro-Kurdish offices in Turkey;
  • a review of Australia’s position in the growing US-China tensions;
  • a call for schools to teach peace;
  • the use of native pouched rats to find landmines in Africa;
  • a military exercise has been held between the USA and around 20 Asian-Pacific nations - excluding China, with thoughts that it may help to “contain” China;
  • a review of a book which was a source for the HBO series “The Pacific”, which includes the following epilogue:
    “Sledge went on to college, married and embarked on a long career as a biologist and teacher. He did find healing of a sort in his parents' love, his marriage and his academic work but he never forgave the soldiers of the Empire of Japan. He denied regret for the men he had shot but regretted the ones he had missed.[19] (This is in contrast to his earlier description of mixed emotions described when he killed a man face to face in the Battle of Peleliu,[20] and to his description of empathy toward birds and animals to the point where he gave up his long term hobby of hunting.)[21]
    He expressed concern over historical revisionism about the Pacific war and what he termed might have been a "Rape of Nanking" in American cities if the Japanese had not been defeated. This was his opinion as a man who tried to live with the Socratic ideal of self-knowledge: "There is no 'mellowing' for me - that would be to forgive all the atrocities the Japanese committed against millions of Asians and thousands of Americans. To 'mellow' is to forget."[19] "
    I have found this attitude common amongst those who fought the Japanese in World War Part Two, and consider the atrocities which are the basis for that need to be kept in mind - excusing the atrocities as “that was how they did things”, or “they treated their own people badly, too” is a completely unacceptable cop out. The solution, however, is not to hate, or exclude Japan - or to forget or gloss over what was done: it is to insist that Japan shows the true face of courage, and faces squarely up to what it did. See also here;
  • an article on being Muslim in Australia by a very respected journalist;
  • the International Institute for Strategic Studies has said that, despite fewer wars, the number of deaths has trebled since 2008 due to an ‘inexorable intensification of violence’;
  • a critique of Australia’s policy towards China;
[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, 23rd May, 2015
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Saturday, 23rd May, 2015 


 


 

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