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.
(Also, see here for some
investigation into evidence of the effectiveness of this type of work, which
shows variability [and mentions causes] and cycles in the
energetic/consciousness response.) A range of information on emotions is here,
and suggestions on how to work with emotions is here.
The purpose of posting 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.
Also, in the same way that activists used to argue that “the personal
is political”, the energies we use and manifest in our daily lives contribute
to the larger soup of energies that influence world events. If you want to, for
example, improve the communication of nations, improve yours. To help stop
abuses of power, be always ethical in your conduct. Want peace? Then work in an
informed, understanding, intelligent and nuanced
way for peace in yourself and your life.
Finally, remember that many others are doing this type of work – for
instance, the Lucis Trust's Triangles network (which has been running
for many decades), the
Correllian Tradition's 'Spiritual War for Peace' (begun in 2014, and the website was recently
updated to include many more activities), the Hope, Peace, Love and Prosperity Spell (also from the Correllian Tradition, in around 2007
or 2008), the
Healing Minute started by the
late, great Harry
Edwards (held at 10Am and 10PM local time
each day, and one can pay to be officially registered. This also has been
running for decades);
and also see here and here,
and even commercial organisations are getting involved (for instance, see here).
No doubt there are many others.
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) based
on my interpretation of information here and here with Saturn in Sagittarius contributing to
finding an authentic balance (until 20th December, 2017), Uranus in
Aries contributing to fresh and possibly radical starts (until some date
in the Year 2018), and Pluto in Capricorn contributing to a transformation
of power and business (and careers) (until some date in the Year 2024), conditions
are ripe for a change for the better in world politics;
(b) there is an enormous need to clear nonBPLF
energy – the thought forms, unattached energy and scars of the collective
unconscious created by millennia of violence. This need includes rescuing those
who have been trapped by that history, and healing the warped views, seemingly “inherent” biases, and other
damage done by the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual violence committed
on scales large and small in that timeframe;
(c) viewing
the overall emotional state of the world from an elemental point of view, region
specific divinations and suggestions are shown below (sorry about the sliver of
elbow).
From the news, overall, we have a need for more air, both inward and outward
focused;
(d) substance is always better than style, but
even better is when substance can be presented –with style – provided the
substance is untrammelled
by the style;
(e) no
matter how long and vigorously it is suppressed, consideration of a true and
lasting morality (akin to a true a lasting peace, a morality that is
spiritually mature
and balanced
positive) will always – eventually – be necessary;
(f) actions,
physical and nonphysical, must always be proportionate, for the sake a true and
lasting outcome, albeit one that may take longer to get to;
(g) being properly generous can be hard when it
stretches resources – or even causes the perception
of stretching resources. That does not change the rightness of sharing, although
destroying the generous one is not only unwise, but also morally repugnant and
spiritually wrong;
(h) change
is inevitable: that means growth is inevitable. One can fight it, kicking and
screaming all the way (as some AFL fans in WA are doing), or take an
active part in it, and thus control it – including the rate of change, to an
extent, and the right to have the occasional holiday;
(i) doing
something that harms others for the sake of social conformity – e.g., FGM
– is morally and spiritually repugnant. So is attempting to control others,
whether coercion through emotional
blackmail, or the intimidation/control of physical violence – including war
and domestic violence;
(j) no
matter how powerful they seem, leaders – including tyrants and dictators – have
a support base, whether it is a political party, a secret police, or the
abdication of responsibility of voters, and it is there that they are
vulnerable;
(k) the
world is a complex system – including the human social world. So too are people’s
lives, in many cases. Managing one’s involvement in both takes care, genuine
effort and management of time, energy and other resources. These skills are
also needed by those in temporal
and spiritual power/hierarchies;
(l) communicate,
communicate, communicate;
(m
for children, educate, educate, educate (in ways that BPLF develop psyches and
open minds).
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).
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 democracy, freedom and governance: criticism of an Australian politician’s “moronic” statements on refugees; a change of Prime Minister in Australia, with Tony Abbott replaced by Malcolm Turnbull. Despite the gross damage Abbott has done to the fabric of Australian society – and elsewhere, I do not place him into the category of evil that I do John Howard and Joh Bjelke-Petersen – he lacks the intelligence, subtlety and manipulativeness to be there. In the course of this debate there have been rubbish statements about the people of Australia having the right to choose their elected leader. Well, that is a manipulative lie: we choose the party and its advertised policies, we do not vote directly for the leader. At this stage, it appears Turnbull may be more of a “small l liberal” leader than Abbott: it is to be hoped he will show the better attitude towards climate change that has been hinted at, and that some basic competence will be restored to foreign affairs and other government functions. I suspect the changes to refugees will be fairly minor (see here for an detailed of what this could mean in terms of how the government functions); a comparison of leadership of Australia’s Labor Party and the United Kingdom’s Labour Party; the Tajik government should reverse its decision to order the closure of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and allow the party to operate freely, according to Human Rights Watch, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, and the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia; claims that the ruling BJP party in India has violated the electoral code; Guatemala’s anticorruption movement; in a major set back for the nation’s transition to democracy, there has been a coup in Burkina Faso; a new constitution has been approved in Nepal, but a secessionist threat remains in the country’s south;with regard to Da’esh and violent extremism generally: Morocco claims to have dismantled a Da’esh linked cell; Bangkok bomb suspects have been arrested in Malaysia; Egypt claims to have killed 55 Da’esh insurgents (and also 12 tourists); 2 of 18 Turkish workers who were kidnapped have been released in Iraq; a good review of the legality of Australia bombing Da’esh in Syria; the UN has said that 1.4 million children have fled Boko Haram; two security personnel and 13 militants have been killed following an attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar;with regard to refugees: criticism of an Australian politician’s “moronic” statements on refugees, and a challenge to the view that the current European refugee crisis is the USA’s fault; ahead of a European Council of Ministers of the Interior, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said that the recent successive announcements of different border control measures by a number of European countries only underline the urgency of establishing a comprehensive European response to avoid the risk of refugees moving around in a legal limbo rather than receive the protection they are entitled to receive in line with international law, and stressed that this response must be based on the creation of effective reception centres, properly assist, register and screen people upon arrival in Greece, Italy and Hungary, and must be accompanied by the rapid implementation of a relocation programme as proposed by the European Commission; the role played by Germany’s attempts to remember its history of atrocities in the current response to the refugee crisis, and another assessment of Germany’s mixed reactions to refugees, another of the border checks which argues that they do not threaten Europe’s unity, a call for reform, and an assessment of Angela Merkel; a good review of the causes of the current European refugee crisis; a Queensland mayor, remembering the assistance they had in the 2010-11 floods, has offered to house 1,500 refugees; the UN Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) 2015 Nansen Refugee Award went to a teacher from Afghanistan, who has dedicated her life to bringing education to refugee girls in Pakistan; a South African farmer is sheltering 150 people fleeing xenophobic violence in South Africa; the United Arab Emirates is providing relief for Syrian refugees in Lebanon; the situation in Hungary is getting worse; police concerned at the threat posed by minefields left over from Croatia's 1991-95 war have called in demining experts to ensure all remaining minefields are properly marked; a call for Thailand to release asylum seekers; Afghanis are fleeing worsening violence; accusations of corruption prior to the Victorian state government being elected; more allegations of abuse of refugees on Nauru are being investigated; the UN has said that 1.4 million children have fled Boko Haram;with regard to human rights and discrimination: looks like some AFL fans, particularly from Western Australia, are stuck in the mentality of racism, with a hefty dose of denial as well; a teenager has been convicted of a racist assault; academia has signed up to a campaign to fight the bigotry that stops many women pursuing careers requiring STEM; Bendigo’s anti-mosque element has been so disruptive that police had to be called. I’m glad I didn’t move there, as I considered doing a few years ago; more troll responses to a woman standing up to sexism; men in Pakistan are taking a role in the fight against child marriage;with regard to crime, judicial matters and policing: calls for the undercover police officer who recently used excessive force against former US tennis star James Blake to be sacked – which I consider to be a valid call: there is a question mark over that officer's fitness to be an officer; a call for Jordan to strengthen proposed amendments to its 1960 penal code to better protect human rights; a judge has questioned what society has become as witnesses did nothing while a man bashed his wife to death over a five hour period; a senior police officer in Melbourne has been charged by the Professionals Standards Command with serious misconduct, and police cars have been rammed by thieves who also put pedestrians lives at risk; a trial is underway of a mother who appallingly allowed her daughter to suffer genital mutilation; Saudi authorities may soon execute a Saudi man for crimes related to a 2011 protest movement, committed when he was only 17. His trial was marred by serious due process violations, and the court failed to investigate his allegations that he had been tortured in detention; a call for Chile to set aside its amnesty law, to enable justice for the victims of the Pinochet regime; a call for more funding of anti-domestic violence measures; the Indian Supreme Court has directed the Delhi police to protect a 23-year-old Dalit woman and her family who fled Baghpat after a khap panchayat condemned her and her sister to be raped and paraded naked as punishment for their brother’s elopement with a married, dominant caste woman; what can happen when students (children) are arrested; six teenage boys were hooded and transferred to an adult prison after a disturbance at a Darwin juvenile detention facility, despite two of them not being involved in the disturbance and one being younger than the age legally allowed to be held in an adult jail, a report has revealed;with regard to media and freedom of expression: a call for Malaysia to drop charges against an activist who showed a film about the recent war is Sri Lanka; the army may be threatening media freedom in Pakistan; a call for Thailand’s junta should immediately release Pravit Rojanaphruk, a well-known reporter for The Nation newspaper, who has been detained incommunicado since 13th September, 2015 for criticizing military rule; a Thai journalist and prominent critic of the country's military rulers has resigned from his newspaper, a day after being released from jail, to save the paper form further pressure; Ukraine has banned dozens of journalists;with regard to overcrowding and “modern” lifestyle issues: some common sense comments on parenting; better options around workplace design; almost half the world's marine mammals, birds, reptiles and fish have been lost;with regard to education: the Victorian state government is going to take the education level of parents into account when distributing assistance to schools. (I consider this potentially good, as I’ve been trying to get people to think of the benefits of having children grow up in a social milieu where grandparents and care givers are well educated – it would be an excellent counter to some of the rubbish ideas I’ve come across in some such settings); in “Kids Teaching Kids” week, indigenous children have passed on what they know about caring for country; what can happen when students (children) are arrested; the UN has said that 1.4 million children have fled Boko Haram;with regard to the conflict in Afghanistan (noting that Afghanistan was once a peaceful and modern society, even allowing women in miniskirts, before the Russian invasion – see here): the World Food Programme (WFP) has reported that five of its trucks have been lost following an attack on its convoy last Friday, in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province; Afghanis are fleeing worsening violence; the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nick Haysom, has said that Afghanistan continues to need the support of the international community, as well as the sustained attention of the Security Council as it faces difficult economic, security and political challenges, and the conflict continues to take “a horrid toll on Afghan civilians”. In the first eight months of 2015 alone, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) documented the highest level of civilian casualties since it began records;with regard to China: a call for China to be held to account for the detention and death of Chinese activist Cao Shunli; an assessment of China’s growth, and the possibility of peaceful cooperation with the USA, with reference to the “Thucydides Trap”;with regard to the conflict in Iraq (noting that Iraq was once a peaceful and prosperous society, before the USA / CIA backed revolution – see here): Ján Kubiš, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Iraq, has condemned acts of violence targeting electoral staff and expressed his deepest condolences to the families of several dozens of electoral personnel who lost their lives in attacks perpetrated by Da’esh elements, and expressed the United Nations’ continuing commitment and support in promoting the professionalism, independence and impartiality of Iraq’s electoral institutions; the Iraq Ministry of Health issued a declaration of a cholera outbreak today, according to information provided to the World Health Organization (WHO);with regard to the Libyan civil war: the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) reported over the weekend that Libyan parties attending the UN-facilitated talks on Morocco have reached what it consider a consensus on the main elements. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, Bernardino Leon, has addressed the press in Morocco, where Libyan parties have been attending the UN-facilitated dialogue on the political agreement, and stressed that this is the closest Libyan parties have come to an agreement after months of negotiations. He said that the agreement will be based on respect for the principles of inclusion and balance. Later in the week, The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Libya, Bernardino León, welcomed the agreement among the House of Representatives delegation to address the country’s new transitional phase; two Indians have been abducted;with regard to Russia: Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at an airfield it is allegedly building, at the centre of a military build-up in Syria, two US officials have said, adding that the intentions of Moscow's latest deployment of heavy military equipment were unclear. Russia has defended its actions. This could possibly shift the balance of power there, depending on how much Russia is willing to getting embroiled in another Afghanistan, but also strengthens an abhorrent regime against another abhorrent regime – where does consideration for the Syrian people appear in any of this? There may be short term gains against Da’esh and al Qaeda, but any moderate rebels will also be pressured: will a true and lasting peace come out of this? I think not, but maybe a short term form of “peace”, at the expense of Syria – unless Russia can pressure Assad into reform. Analysts are now looking at the possibility of a proxy war, and Iranian influence in response. There is also the prospect that this may lead to Russia taking Syrian refugees …; a response to a recent assessment of Putin’s strategic abilities that was more favourable; an assessment that Russia is the main obstacle to peace in the eastern Ukraine; Russia proposed more than three years ago that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could step down as part of a peace deal, according to former Finnish president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Martti Ahtisaari – the failure to accept such as proposal, if true, is now an obvious and profound error;with regard to the conflict in Syria: Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at an airfield it is allegedly building, at the centre of a military build-up in Syria, two US officials have said, adding that the intentions of Moscow's latest deployment of heavy military equipment were unclear. Russia has defended its actions. This could possibly shift the balance of power there, depending on how much Russia is willing to getting embroiled in another Afghanistan, but also strengthens an abhorrent regime against another abhorrent regime – where does consideration for the Syrian people appear in any of this? There may be short term gains against Da’esh and al Qaeda, but any moderate rebels will also be pressured: will a true and lasting peace come out of this? I think not, but maybe a short term form of “peace”, at the expense of Syria– unless Russia can pressure Assad into reform. Analysts are now looking at the possibility of a proxy war, and Iranian influence in response. There is also the prospect that this may lead to Russia taking Syrian refugees …; a double bomb blast has killed 20 and injured 70; prediction that the fall of a major urban centre could seriously exacerbate the current refugee exodus; Russia proposed more than three years ago that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could step down as part of a peace deal, according to former Finnish president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Martti Ahtisaari – the failure to accept such as proposal, if true, is now an obvious and profound error; Staffan de Mistura, the Special Envoy for Syria, has met the Omani Foreign Minister, and he said afterwards that they had discussed ways to promote a political solution in Syria; an admission that US forces are active in Syria;with regard to Turkey: a call for Turkey’s ruling Party (AKP) to remember that it started out as a reform movement; right wing violent extremist street gangs are surfacing in Turkey, using links to an organisation known for its history of political violence, and sending clear signals of intolerance of pluralism;with regard to the conflict in eastern Ukraine: an assessment that Russia is the main obstacle to peace in the eastern Ukraine; a decision by rebels in eastern Ukraine to hold elections poses a "great danger" to the peace process, President Petro Poroshenko has warned; Ukraine has banned dozens of journalists;with regard to the war in Yemen: in light of the reservations expressed by the Government of Yemen, the UN Special Envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, planned to return to Riyadh in order to have further consultations with the Government of Yemen, other Yemeni stakeholders and states in the region and address outstanding concerns. It is his position and that of the Secretary-General that there is no military solution to the conflict; a call for accountability for the horrors of the war in Yemen; Houthis have disappeared Muhammad Qahtan, 57, a leader of the Islah party, detained on 4th April, 2015. The Houthis would have far greater credibility when they do things like say the current president should be dismissed because he called the Saudis in, if they were not committing so many atrocities themselves. Two wrongs do not make a right; two senior United Nations officials have condemned “the virtual silence” about the increasing impact on civilians of the escalating conflict in Yemen, and urged leaders from all sides to refrain from manipulating religious identities for political purposes;with regard to the natural and other catastrophes : forest fires in Indonesia, an annual problem (see here, here, here – and note the link to El Niño in the latter, and here) generally credited to slash and burn agriculture, have killed asthmatics as the government rules out evacuations; more than a million people have been affected, including 60 deaths, by flooding in Assam; the UN has urged Pacific Island nations to prepare now for a looming El Niño emergency which could affect more than four million people; flash floods in Arizona have killed 12 people; a strong earthquake off Chile’s coast has caused a tsunami and around a million people have been evacuated; 14 people have died of dengue fever in Delhi, India;
in a statement issued ahead of International Day of Peace, which will be celebrated on 21st September, Secretary-General called on all partners to lend their voices to urge people to lay down of arms, and to work non-stop in the days to come to bring about a 24-hour cease fire on that day;at the award ceremony for the UN Energy Grant, the Secretary-General explained how energy underpins our common efforts to achieve development objectives - from reducing extreme poverty to enhancing food security, to powering essential health services and providing electricity for education - today, one person in five still lacks access to electricity and more than a third of the world’s population relies on wood, charcoal, animal and crop waste for cooking and heating;the UN has called on the international community to step up support for Cameroon, where the Far North region hosts almost 200,000 forced migrants, including 80,000 internally displaced persons and over 57,000 Nigerian refugees who fled violence, all of whom are at risk because of the lack of food and water, malnutrition and deadly epidemics such as cholera and measles;the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has warned of major crop losses in Central America due to El Niño;the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) (MINUSCA) has received an allegation of sexual exploitation committed by one of its civilian staff on 12 September 2015. MINUSCA has informed the country’s authorities of this allegation. The UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) has immediately taken steps to investigate this case, consistent with the Secretary-General’s zero tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse, and MINUSCA has condemned in the strongest possible terms any instance of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN personnel in the CAR;the UN Children Fund’s (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham has championed a letter signed by 18 child survivors of violence that calls on world leaders to end the widespread abuse that affects millions of children around the world;a new United Nations report identified patterns of grave violations in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2011, strongly indicating that war crimes and crimes against humanity were most likely committed by both sides to the conflict;
From other sites (note that articles from these sites may
have already been provided):
Human Rights Watch also has: Human Rights Watch and three anonymous individuals have filed a complaint over surveillance by the United Kingdom; a review of problems in Gambia over the last two decades; widespread fear in the Central African Republic; a call for support for the proposal for a hybrid court in Sri Lanka;the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) also has:
the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre will run a two week course on R2P;
an occasional report, aiming to give background, offer analysis, track international response and suggest necessary action, for four nations in immediate crisis (“mass atrocities are occurring and urgent action is needed”: Syria, Iraq, Sudan and South Sudan), three nations at imminent risk (“the situation is reaching a critical threshold and the risk of mass atrocity crimes occurring in the immediate future is very high if effective preventive action is not taken”: Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi), and five nations for which there is serious concern (“significant risk of occurrence, or recurrence, of mass atrocity crimes within the foreseeable future if effective action is not taken”: Central African Republic, Burma/Myanmar, Libya, Yemen and Pakistan);Recommended actions are:in Burundi (I will work through other nations from the report in coming weeks) There is a risk that trouble in Burundi may reignite Tutsi-Hutu tensions and destabilise the entire Great Lakes Region. A number of recommended actions in the edition I have, have been overtaken by recent events.:
immediate steps must be taken by the government to deescalate tensions and avoid any further deterioration or militarisation of the current conflict;all political organizations must refrain from using inflammatory language or inciting violence. All paramilitary groups and militias, including the Imbonerakure, should be immediately demobilised and disbanded. The African Union (AU) should urgently deploy human rights observers and military experts to verify disarmament;the AU’s Peace and Security Commission and United Nations’ (UN) Security Council should consider imposing sanctions on any individuals deemed responsible for inciting violence or breaching the Arusha Peace Agreement;the East African Community (EAC), AU and UN should coordinate mediation efforts between the Burundian government and the political opposition in order to resolve the current crisis and consolidate the last decade of peacebuilding.From an energetic point of view, the rampant aggression needs to be replaced by genuine leadership – which has consideration for the people one is attempting to lead. Recall the story from the neochristian bible about the woman who would let her child go, rather than the child being cut in half? That is what is needed here.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 … :) ) also has: a call for civility in the debate over inclusion of women in combat units in the USA - which continues to ignore the fact of women being in combat;the Political Violence at a Glance blog has: an assessment of the importance of leaders of parties making agreements to maintain functional unity in their own ranks for the agreement to work – specifically, looking at the Northern Ireland peace agreement; the role of alienation in creating violent extremists;
the Middle East Eye also has:
- a review of Morocco’s political left;
- Algeria’s President may be preparing the situation in Algeria for his successor, by measures to possibly reduce accountability for himself and his supporters;
- the British Labour Party’s new leader may push for a less interventionist role in the Middle East;
- the Israeli Labor Party’s role in expelling Palestinians in the early years of Israel have led to Palestinians losing patience and accusing Labour of being more racist than Likud; a critical opinion piece on Israel’s refusal to accept refugees; violence at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem; Palestinian lawyer, who recently went on a 66-day hunger strike to protest his administrative detention by Israel, started his strike on Wednesday after Israel renewed his detention without trial;
- dozens of anti-corruption protestors in Lebanon have been arrested when they tried to force their way into Parliament;
- an interview with Oliver Stone on the filmmaker’s view that the USA has been causing problems in West Asia/the Middle East since the 1930s;Also, on West Asia / the Middle East:
- Egypt’s military has mistakenly attacked (five times in three hours) and killed tourists, with questions raised about their competence and the prevalence of “militants” as a result; Egypt claims to have killed 55 Da’esh insurgents;
- Nickolay Mladenov, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said on Sunday that he was particularly concerned by the provocations and violence in and around the Holy Sites of the Old City of Jerusalem. He urged all to do their part in ensuring that visitors and worshippers demonstrate restraint and respect for the sanctity of the area. He encouraged all to stand firmly against incitement and violence, especially during the sensitive period of the Jewish High Holy Days and ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Adha;
- hope, just as “the wild furies of sectarianism threaten to tear apart West Asia” (aka, “the Middle East” – I like that term West Asia, and will attempt to remember to use it in future);
- the Israeli prime minister has vowed to "use all necessary means" to stop stone throwers after an Israeli man died in a car crash linked to such an attack;
- an analysis of the possibility that Iran could become a stabilising influence;
- a review of Turkish-Kurdish tensions, and what is happening in Turkey;The Hindu also has: an explosion of illegally stored explosives has killed around 100 people, raising significant questions about enforcement; a critique of the stability of the views of the new British Labour Party leader; an analysis of Nepal’s struggle towards a pluralistic democracy, including a call to avoid repression; a review of India’s health systems, with a call for Indian states to take advantage of current funding opportunities; the challenges and opportunities in the Indian-Sri Lankan relationship; Sri Lanka has unveiled a set of proposals to redress the “grievances of the Tamil people,” including the adoption of a new Constitution and setting up of a truth commission; India may be moving a step closer towards a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council; North Korea plans to launch satellites, which may provoke international concerns; India wants closer ties to North Korea; Russia proposed more than three years ago that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could step down as part of a peace deal, according to former Finnish president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Martti Ahtisaari – the failure to accept such as proposal, if true, is now an obvious and profound error; the Sri Lankan government has vowed to pay “due attention” to the content and recommendations of a report released by the U.N. on Wednesday on the alleged war crimes in the country; a series of incidents in recent months, most of them leaving a trail of questions and confounding serious observers of conflicts, is dragging the Kashmir Valley back into chaos;the BBC also has: Argentine soldiers were subjected to abuse and torture by their own superiors during the 1982 Falklands War against Britain, files released by Argentina's armed forces reveal; the US Navy has agreed to limit its use of sonar that may inadvertently harm whales and dolphins in waters near Hawaii and California; Brazil has cut spending and raised taxes; Authorities in Tajikistan say former deputy defence minister Abdukhalim Nazarzoda was among a group of rebels killed on Wednesday;the (South African) Mail & Guardian also has: a call to meet tyranny with rage, not violence; more charges may be laid in investigations in to the FIFA scandal; concerns over corruption in South Africa;Spiegel International also has: an interview with Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, in which he discusses Germany's reaction to the refugee crisis, his disappointment in Hungary's response and his idea of sanctions for Eastern European countries that aren't sharing the burden;
and from a range of other sites:
a report released today by one of Australia’s leading economic modelling centres has warned the growth in living standards will dramatically slow over the next decade and, more worryingly, decline for some of the country's most disadvantaged groups;an interview with an author regarding the democracy movement in Myanmar – which extends beyond Aung San Suu Kyi;North Korea is indulging in more provocative language;a US Presidential candidate has a proposal to rein in the USA’s rampant gun culture;Australia is opposed to be proposed nuclear ban because it considers itself dependent on the USA’s nuclear deterrent(groan);an informed opinion piece on Brazil’s economic crisis;Japanese legislators have scuffled over a bill which would allow its security forces to fight overseas;Mozambique has declared itself free of landmines, ending two decades of work to rid the country of a legacy of war that killed or maimed thousands of people, many of them civilians;a review of the risk of a nuclear war occurring;an excellent critique of attitudes towards morality, and how they change with time (more on the referenced Hester Biddle here);
[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
(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.
The real dividing line is not between
Christianity and Islam, Sunni and Shia, East and West. It is between people who
believe in coexistence, and those who don’t.
Tags: activism, discrimination, energy work, magick, meditation, nonviolence, peace, society, violence, war,
First published: Laugardagr, 19th September, 2015
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's
and other minor matters): Saturday, 19th September, 2015
