Post No. 766 – For Sunday evening’s meditation-clearing

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 … and also here is interesting.) 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 20^th 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.

 

The insights this shows are on the diagram.
From the news, overall, BPLF leaders need more Fire, nonBPLF leaders need more Æther, and the world needs more Æther and Air;

Other themes:

   (d)   Syria has become a lynchpin for the world’s tensions: the USA, Europe and the rebels in Syria on one side, China, Russia and Assad on another side, and Da’esh and violent extremism on another – and all of it created by the lack of genuine political dialogue in that nation. What happens here will either promote a true and lasting peace, or chaos and bloodshed – possibly expanding. BPLF firmness and strength is required, along with the insight Assad showed some years ago, when he offered to stand down. Syria staying united is not as important as is creating peace and safety for civilians  and both the Assad regime and Da’esh are against that, so, ultimately, both must go. “Authoritarian” Russia and dictatorship China have chosen the wrong side of history to support;. To put that another way, does Assad want to be remembered as the Hitler of the 21^st Century? And if Putin wants to be a statesmen, find a way for Assad to go – perhaps to Iran? If he can’t maybe he isn’t as good as he fancies himself to be … ;

   (e)   Turkey’s Erdogan and the PKK have also BOTH chosen the wrong side of history with their actions;

   (f)   naiveté can be an act of criminal, as well as spiritual, stupidity. I remember the psychopaths who made my life hell as a child, so wasn’t surprised psychologists have finally worked out that children can be psychopaths. Family members must also be prepared to admit that others can … “lose their way”, and go bad, and be prepared to consider the family of humanity that they are also part of. The problem of naiveté also is a curse in some of the unsophisticated, ignorant/unaware and reactionary approaches to aspects of life that plague us;

   (g)   being good at the status quo is no reason to keep it;

   (h)   those who would be of the BPLF must be genuine in their commitment;

   (i)   talking – listening, but also arguing for a greater view on things – remains paramount in solving violent conflict, but there comes a time when action is needed – as is shown by the problem of domestic violence, and some larger events;

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:   Catalonia has voted for secession from Spain;   concerns that Pakistan’s military is effectively ruling that nation;   the changes happening in Mexico in response to the search for justice for the missing 43 students;   economists have identified what appears to be corruption in land rezoning in Australia;   anti-corruption marches in South Africa;   the UN Secretary-General has called on all national stakeholders in Burkina Faso to act responsibly, exercise restraint and work in the best interests of the country, for the members of the Presidential Guard and the national armed forces to abide by the terms of the agreement that they signed on 22^nd September, and for the transitional authorities to intensify efforts towards holding early presidential and legislative elections;   following a high-level meeting on Somalia, the Secretary-General, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, the African Union, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the League of Arab States, issued a communique calling on all Somalis to work together in the interests of peace- and state building;   militias are intimidating voters in Burma;   elections in Brazil will now be free of corporate influence;   an examination of changes to management of electoral rolls in India;   at a high level meeting on the Central African Republic, the UN Secretary-General said the situation in Bangui showed the fragility of that nation, and that attempts were being made to undermine the transition process;   the challenges facing Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia’s only even nominal parliamentary democracy;   a 25 year review of the reunification of Germany;   some thoughts on Australia’s change of Prime Minister here, here, here, here, and some concerns here (partly, perhaps, due the limitation most leaders have, of having to take those they are leading with them) and here;   digital diplomacy;

   with regard to Da’esh and violent extremism generally:   despite US concerns, an intelligence groups to fight Da’esh has been formed by Iraq, Iran, Russia and Syria;   Da’esh has attacked checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan, in a rare coordinated move;   Australia and Indonesia will work together to rehabilitate former terrorists;   HRW has reviewed anti-foreign fighter measures, and found many with excessive, draconian and anti-democratic measures;   a call for the Afghan government to ensure that women have a full role in any negotiations between the government and the Taliban and other insurgent groups;   the Taliban have seized control of a major Afghan city for the first time since the US-led invasion – the later left / were driven out, and claimed that their success showed the strength of the insurgency;   concerns over the possibility of “lone wolf” strikes in South Asia;   at the Leaders’ Summit on countering violent extremism, organised by the United States, the UN Secretary-General said that violent extremist groups – including Da’esh and Boko Haram – pose a direct threat to international security, mercilessly target women and girls, and undermine universal values of peace, justice and human dignity;   there appears to be a reasonable political consensus on how to stop Da’esh: the challenge now is to implement it;   the Kurdish Peshmerga are claiming that Da’esh is retreating in Iraq;   an editorial calling for a balanced, nuanced response to the risk of terrorism in India;   5 young girls have launched a suicide attack in Nigeria which killed themselves and 9 others, and injured 39;   a leading Islamic scholar in the USA wants to prevent radicalisation;   a boy has murdered a police employee, in an act of terrorism in NSW;

   with regard to refugees:   a call for change to Australia’s abuse of refugees, as the UN cancels a trip as a result of our draconian laws;   more refugees have been raped on Nauru, leaving one pregnant;   concerns that the EU is trying to evade responsibility, rather than deal with it;   a detailed report on the experiences of Afghani refugees;   more callousness from Australia;   religious bias in Poland’s response to refugees;   Tunisia is violating international law in its handling of refugees;   Australia’s new Prime Minister has admitted being concerned over rape of refugees in Australia’s refugee prison on Nauru;   UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has opened a United Nations meeting on Europe's asylum seeker crisis with an appeal to keep borders open and combat xenophobia;   a questioning of whether European governments have a moral compass;   tension in Germany, which has largely won acclaim for its warm reception to refugees and migrants, appears to be rising after several riots gripped migrant centres and camps in recent weeks;   minefields in the Balkans killed more than 10,000 people during the wars in the early 90s, and over 2,000 since: now, refugees are at risk, and emergency mine clearances are underway;   a member of a parliamentary delegation touring South-East Asia says she has been denied access to refugees resettled in Cambodia from the Australian-run detention centre on Nauru;

   with regard to human rights and discrimination (including associated violence / crime):   cyberviolence against women;   a call for the Afghan government to ensure that women have a full role in any negotiations between the government and the Taliban and other insurgent groups;   defying body stereotypes;   “Australia’s piecemeal response shows it doesn’t properly “get” domestic violence” – see also here;   Chinese President Xi has been – correctly – accused of hypocrisy for hosting a women’s right forum at the UN while attacking women’s rights activists in China;   a call for the rights of the child to trump that of parents, including a statement that men who are abusive towards their partners are not good parents;   pervasive homophobic violence in Kenya;   a 22-year-old Tunisian man accused of engaging in homosexual acts was sentenced to a year in prison on 22^nd September, 2015, in violation of Tunisia’s constitution and international law;   an appalling tabloid column has drawn criticism – and rightly so;   the participation of women in India’s economy is declining – at the expense, ultimately, of the Indian economy;   surprisingly positive reaction in China to a gay marriage proposal on a subway station platform;   In an unprecedented initiative, 12 UN agencies have issued a joint call to end violence and discrimination against LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) people;   some thoughts on the experiences of disabled people;   half the callers to PNG’s new anti-domestic violence hotline have been men;   the United Nations Human Rights Council has called upon Colombo to establish a credible judicial process, with the participation of Commonwealth and other foreign judges, defence lawyers and authorised prosecutors and investigators, to investigate alleged human rights violations during the Sri Lankan civil war;   an assessment of the vicious, racist booing of Adam Goodes;   the AFL has appalling problems of sexism, violence, and a thuggish culture – which it has tried to address to some extent, but with limited success: see here (which puts the problem into a broader context of society’s problems on these matters), here (which is actually about the attitudes of young people, not the AFL), here, here, here, and here;   a healthy response to unhealthy criticism;

   with regard to crime, judicial matters and policing:   concerns over use of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia;   the ICC has gained custody of Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, a member of the Ansar Dine group allegedly responsible for the brazen destruction of shrines in Timbuktu, Mali;   an analysis of the recent breakthrough on transitional justice in the Colombian peace process;   a Mexico City judge has sentenced three men to 520 years in jail each for their roles in the kidnapping and murder of 13 young people two years ago;   six international and national human rights groups have called on Guinea’s political leaders to put ending impunity and completing reform of the country’s judicial system at the centre of their priorities, ahead of the sixth anniversary of the massacre of protesters in a Conakry stadium on 28^th September, 2009. “Following the 11^th October, 2015 presidential elections, it is essential for the government to provide the judicial system with all the resources needed to try the crimes committed during the stadium massacre under the best possible conditions in 2016”;   a German court’s conviction of two Rwandan rebel leaders for crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo has brought an important measure of justice to victims of mass crimes there;   Police Remembrance Day was observed this week;   a cautionary note regarding police body cameras;   police in Western Australia have admitted fault after a 5 hour delay in responding to a domestic violence incident;   a call for better justice for the victims of atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo;

   with regard to media and freedom of expression:      journalists for a Kurdish newspaper in Turkey have been detained overnight and allegedly assaulted;   a presidential advisor in Azerbaijan has confirmed that detentions are a “warning” to journalists;

   with regard to overcrowding and “modern” lifestyle issues:   some of the problems with being excessively lean (towards the end of the article);   a link between smoking by mothers, and behavioural problems in children;   VW lying about its car’s emissions may have caused up to 106 deaths;   with profound apologies for using a social media link, and interesting article on the benefits of slowing down;   at a Pacific Islands forum, the UN Secretary-General emphasised the need for global responsibility in addressing climate change;   a questioning of workplace resilience programmes;

   with regard to education:   potentially promising classes on ethics. I’ll judge these on the results when I see these kids in 20 years;

   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):   a call for the Afghan government to ensure that women have a full role in any negotiations between the government and the Taliban and other insurgent groups;   a detailed report on the experiences of Afghani refugees;   as the situation unfolds in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the UN Mission (UNAMA) has reminded all parties to the conflict of their obligations, under international humanitarian law, to protect civilians from harm and to respect human rights at all times; ;   the problems faced by Afghan security forces (I would also add that the US-led forces relied heavily on air and artillery, and that is no longer there. Before condemning the Afghan army, spend a moment wondering how things would have been for the NATO forces without air power etc?);

   with regard to China:   a Chinese warship is heading towards Syria, possibly to further reinforce Assad;

   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):   poverty is growing in Iraq;   the Kurdish Peshmerga are claiming that Da’esh is retreating in Iraq;   the fight to retake Ramadi from Da’esh has been on an "operational pause" and Iraqi troops were trained in counterinsurgency, and not how to deal with the group's conventional battlefield techniques;   Yazidi women are being trained to fight for themselves;

   with regard to the Libyan civil war:   a review of the possibility of a peace agreement in Libya, and what that would lead to;   former UK Prime Minister Blair urged Gaddafi to flee “to end the violence”, in 2011 – which is an approach that has been successful elsewhere in history;

   with regard to Russia:   US President Obama has thanked Russian President Putin for his role in the Iranian nuclear deal;   an analysis of why Russia is supporting Assad – and also here; Russia dropping its opposition to a tribunal may allow some justice to be achieved in Syria;   a rebuttal of Russian claims that Assad must stay in power for peace to be achieved – which Syrians are reported to fear;   Russia will not send ground troops to Syria, and may join in air strikes against Da’esh;   a review of the possibility that the USA and Russia may cooperate … although Russia is now bombing anti-Assad rebels (killing 36 civilians along the way), not Da’esh, which is a major setback;   the Kremlin's three-year war against independent groups has been driven by government distortion and hysteria, but it just crossed a new line into the absurd;   Russia may be using the conflict in Syria to test its jets;   a new type of Russian rocket system has been observed in eastern Ukraine;   an examination of the possibility that Syria could be another Afghanistan for Russia;

   with regard to Sudan and South Sudan:   the UN Secretary-General has noted that the leaders of South Sudan had a chance to correct their grave mistakes and focus on the well-being of those who entrusted them with this role – the people of South Sudan;

   with regard to the conflict in Syria:   an analysis of why Russia is supporting Assad – and also here   Saudi Arabia has demanded that Assad step down, or face “military action”;   US President Obama has now said that Assad must go;   Syrian rebels are insisting that Assad must go;   a wave of assassinations has killed 35 people in rebel-held Daraa, in Syria;   an assessment of how Assad has manipulated media and the West’s perceptions;   the UN Secretary-General has noted that the creation of extremism and terrorism in the country was largely a consequence of the lack of political dialogue, there was no military solution to the conflict and that the Government had to fulfil its responsibility to engage constructively in the political process;   Iranian troops are also coming to help prop up Assad;

   with regard to Turkey:   an assessment that, as Northern Ireland's Sinn Fein has shown, the Kurdish HDP party must separate itself from the PKK in order to revive peace hopes in Turkey – and another, suggesting that such a split is likely;  2 girls were killed and 4 people injured following clashes between Kurdish separatists and Turkish police, which each side blaming the other;   journalists for a Kurdish newspaper have been detained overnight and allegedly assaulted;   Turkey’s rise and relapse;

   with regard to the conflict in eastern Ukraine:   a new type of Russian rocket system has been observed in eastern Ukraine;

   with regard to the war in Yemen:   more civilian casualties in Yemen;   a new report from a human rights group operating in Yemen says that human rights violations have reached unprecedented levels, with more than 3,000 people murdered by the insurgent Houthi militia and its allies in Yemen;   the Secretary-General has condemned the airstrikes that reportedly struck a wedding party in Wahijah village in Yemen, killing as many as 135 people;   the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has reported that the number of deaths and injuries caused by explosive weapons in Yemen is the world’s highest - some 4,500 civilians during the first seven months of 2015;

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

   the Secretary-General has condemned the attack on 27^th September against peacekeepers of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operations in Darfur in which one South African peacekeeper died and four others were wounded in an exchange of fire;

   the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, has reported an alarming upsurge in arrests, detention and killings in Burundi since the beginning of September;

From other sites (note that articles from these sites may have already been provided):

   Human Rights Watch also has:   cretins in El Salvador have been jailing women for miscarrying;   a woman who alleged rape has been disappeared by the military;   Rwandan authorities are arbitrarily arresting and unlawfully holding some of the country’s most vulnerable people in an unofficial detention center;   the 23^rd September, 2015 agreement between the Colombian government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) guerrillas would deny justice to thousands of victims of grave violations of human rights and humanitarian law by allowing their abusers to escape meaningful punishment, HRW has said. While this is true, it needs also to be kept in mind that such provisions may be essential to stop the fighting, and thus stop many more atrocities being committed. Where the criticism should be directed, in my view, is towards the failure to successfully emulate the process of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which not only brought a sense of some justice, but laid the ground for healing a nation;   the Philippine military has repeatedly stood aside while paramilitary forces have attacked indigenous villages and schools in the southern region of Mindanao;   a call for the USA to get touch on the problem of child soldiers, as it officially became a club of one - the only United Nations member country that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child;

   the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) also has:
   a paper on the failure to prevent atrocities in the Central African Republic;   a paper on preventing atrocities in west Africa, and a call for the UN Security Council to do more;
   an occasional report, aiming to give background, offer analysis, track international response and suggest necessary action, for five nations in immediate crisis (“mass atrocities are occurring and urgent action is needed”: Syria, Iraq, Sudan, South Sudan and Nigeria), one nation 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”: Yemen), 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”: Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma/Myanmar, and Libya);

   Recommended actions are:

   in Syria (I will work through other nations from the report in coming weeks) four years of war have killed nearly a quarter of a million Syrians, and 12 million in need of urgent humanitarian assistance – 5 million of whom are in inaccessible areas.
      Syrian government forces and armed opposition groups must facilitate immediate and unimpeded humanitarian access to civilian populations;
      the international community must intensify efforts towards finding a potential political solution to the conflict;
      the UN Security Council needs to take proximate steps to end atrocities in Syria, including imposing an arms embargo, referring the situation to the International Criminal Court, expeditious action to end the use of chemical and other indiscriminate and illegal weapons, and holding all perpetrators accountable, regardless of position or affiliation;
      Russia, Iran and Hezbollah must cease enabling the crimes of the Syrian government; countries opposed to the rule of President Bashar Al-Assad must withhold support to armed groups who commit war crimes or target minority communities; states participating in airstrikes against Da’esh must ensure all necessary precautions are taken to avoid civilian casualties and uphold international humanitarian law.

      From an energetic point of view, Presidents Putin and Assad need to start thinking of what their conduct will do to their legacy – the way that history will genuinely view them, not what Putin thinks history will view him as.

   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:   concerns over ongoing politicisation of the US intelligence community;

   the Political Violence at a Glance blog has:   an examination of the peace deal in Colombia, which finds it is promising, albeit flawed;   lessons gained from studies of defectors during the conflict in Colombia which may be useful for the fight against Da’esh;   based particularly on the situation in Mozambique, for rebel groups to stay involved in influencing the country in a significant way, they must build a political party that is independent of their violent groups;   politics, not piety, is a driver of violent extremism among Muslims;

   the Institute for War and Peace Reporting also has:   Azerbaijan has cut ties with the European Union rather than “do the right thing” on human rights and corruption;

   the International Crisis Group has:   recommendations to address violence in Nigeria;

   the Middle East Eye also has:
  - an exposé that Israeli schools are focusing on producing good soldiers, rather than good citizens;   concerns that the killing of an unarmed Palestinian woman by Israeli soldiers may lead to another intifada;   more violence at the al-Aqsa mosque;   investigators are considering laying criminal charges against soldiers who fired cross the Egyptian border at Sudanese refugees;
  - at the risk of massive environmental damage, Egypt is flooding tunnels used by smugglers in Gaza with sea water;   University students have been threatened with beheading if they demonstrate;
  - Iran has proposed a prisoner swap with the USA;   an interesting assessment of Iran’s willingness to cooperate diplomatically with the USA, and its call for the US to modify its stance on violence in West Asia / the Middle East, based on a public speech by Iranian President Rouhani;
  - a call for Saudi Arabia to rethink crowd control, after the Hajj tragedy;   an analysis which suggests that Saudi Arabia will collapse in years to come;   Mauritanian women are being subjected to sexual harassment, physical abuse and slave-like conditions in Saudi Arabia;
 - a critique of President Obama’s record on peace, which claims that arms sales under Obama have exceeded that under Bush by $30 billion;
  - a prediction that the garbage crisis in Lebanon is in the process of causing profound change to Lebanon;
 - Bahrain has broken off diplomatic relations with Iran;

Also on West Asia / the Middle East:
 - Palestinian President Abbas has declared that Palestine is no longer bound by the Oslo Accords;
- a statement issued on behalf of the Quartet, comprising Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State John Kerry, European Union High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, and the Secretary-General, after having met amongst themselves and also with key Arab and other partners, reaffirmed its steadfast commitment to achieving a two-state outcome that meets Israeli security needs and Palestinian aspirations for statehood and sovereignty, ends the occupation that began in 1967, and resolves all permanent status issues in order to end the conflict;

   The Hindu also has:   a proposed anti-terror bill in the Indian State of Gujarat has been restrained slightly;   an editorial on Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the USA;   the need for job skills in India;   the “revolt of the aspirational class”: which includes the sentence “One wonders if this world represents the altruistic world envisaged by Gandhi and Patel”;   a racist has changed his views after studying under an Indian teacher at the University of Texas;   a call for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to include caste;   the Sri Lankan government has decided to take up the construction of 65,000 houses “on a priority basis” for Eelam War-hit families in the Northern and Eastern Provinces;   an editorial supporting a proposal to have an independent arbiter of politicians’ pay;   calls for the Comptroller and Auditor General of India to be strengthened, not weakened;   the draft resolution on Sri Lanka tabled at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by the USA and other countries has addressed the main issues of accountability and reconciliation, according to the Tamil National Alliance;   the politics of meat-bans in some Indian states is polarising the communities, leading to violence and a recent murder;   an editorial calling for a balanced, nuanced response to the risk of terrorism in India;   concerns over the violence being engendered by Hindutva groups;   India has set ambitious climate change targets;   an editorial calling for India to resolve its problems with Pakistan over Kashmir for the sake of its desire for a seat on the UN Security Council;   an examination of the relationship between India and Germany: “A strong Germany in Europe, like a strong India in Asia, will facilitate a more balanced global dispersal of power and prevent the return of hegemony”;   a review of the political significance of ahimsa;

  the (South African) Mail & Guardian also has:   anti-corruption marches in South Africa;

and from a range of other sites:

   the Catholic Church’s Pope Francis’ views have rattled conservatives in the USA, but not the UN;

   concerns that secret trade deals may threaten the Sustainable Development Goals - see also here;

   pressures on grandparents;

   Muslim-Christian clashes after a Muslim taxi driver was found murdered have left 21 dead, 100 injured and thousands displaced in the Central African Republic – and hundreds of prisoners have escaped from a jail. The UN Secretary-General has called for an immediate end to the unacceptable violence in the country, and the Humanitarian Coordinator in the country also condemned the attacks against relief organizations and residences and called for free movement of aid workers to reach people in need;

   President Obama has pushed the case for diplomacy over strong arm tactics, at the UN;

   Nepal has accused India of imposing an economic blockade over its displeasure with Nepal’s new constitution – and see also here;

   speaking at the opening session of the high-level debate of the UN General Assembly on Monday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said a politically troubled world is suffering from a lack of empathy. “One hundred million people require immediate humanitarian assistance,” he told delegates, pointing out that at least 60 million people have been forced to flee their homes or their countries. He lamented that the global humanitarian system is not broken, “it is broke” - it needs more funding: 20 billion dollars to meet this year’s needs – six times the level of a decade ago, but less than the trillions spent on military budgets;

   allegations of excessive, abusive and clearly illegal treatment at the hands of the Australian military, by protestors, with further allegations of obstruction of due legal process;

   at least three people have been killed and 17 wounded in a clash between police and highlands farmers protesting against a $7.4 billion Chinese-owned copper mining project in Peru;

   a questioning of the West’s connection to Saudi Arabia;

   as it celebrates its 70^th birthday, a proud achievement of the United Nations over its lifetime is the framework of multilateral treaties that it has been instrumental in putting in place;

   a new report, produced jointly by the Economic Commission for Africa, the African Union, the African Development Bank) and the UN Development Programme, found that poor implementation mechanisms and excessive reliance on development aid undermined the economic sustainability of several of the eight MDGs, including the elimination or reduction of extreme poverty and hunger, and now “African countries have the opportunity to use the newly launched Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to tackle remaining challenges and achieve a development breakthrough”;

   a review of a biography of Dag Hammarskjold;

   a good news story about a boy finding some money;

   a commentary on the 50^th anniversary of the violent revolution in Indonesia;

   another mass shooting in the USA;

   good news on poverty;

   a good speech on the rule of law in the digital age;

   a call for US children to continue to receive government assistance;

   a critique of “ecomodernism”;

   lessons – particularly in relation to extremist language - from the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin for modern politicians;

[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, Pagan Energy Worker, 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.

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.

Tom Fletcher, Former UK Ambassador to Lebanon 

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First published: Laugardagr, 3^rd October, 2015

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Saturday, 3^rd October, 2015