Post No. 789 – 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, so, if you don't like what I am suggesting here, but want to be of service, there are many other opportunities for you.

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,more outward focused BPLF Aether, outward and inward BPLF Air and Water, and inward BPLF Earth is needed;

(d)   there have been encouraging calls for balance and consideration from a range of sources, and few other encouraging signs, to offset the reactions of the fearful, poorly informed and simplistically thinking – and some unscrupulous leaders of same;

(e)   as the world stumbles towards a global understanding and response to climate change, it needs to show a similar maturity towards violent extremism – beginning with cutting off finance, which may well be akin to destroying Nazi Germany’s oil in World War Part Two;

(f)   on the other hand, some disturbing alliances and influences are appearing – such as the United Arab Emirates;

(g)   the problem of not backing down to avoid loss of face remains a problem;

(h)   deflection and “shooting the messenger” remain problems of concern;

Specific energy related suggestions are also provided below, in the Section discussing R2P recommendations for Burma.

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:   a corporate tax enquiry appears to be in need of fact checks, perhaps;   a heated and at times violent dispute over the re-election of the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq is continuing, and extending to have regional implications;   in India, Bihar’s new Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav has said corruption would not be tolerated;   Vanuatu's president has dissolved the country's parliament in an attempt to resolve an impasse after the conviction of 14 government MPs for bribery;   a call for those drafting Thailand’s new constitution to reject suggestions for inclusion of an amnesty for Thai soldiers;   in Argentina, after excesses in the 90s led a financial meltdown, the “Kircher era” led to a more socially responsible form of government, which will now move somewhat back to a position between the two after the election of Mauricio Macri as President;   Pope Francis told Christian and Muslim leaders in Kenya that they have little choice but to engage in dialogue to guard against the “barbarous” violent extremist attacks that have struck the African country recently, saying religious leaders must be “prophets of peace” in a world sown by hatred;   a South Korean politician has been jailed for five years for accepting bribes;
• with regard to Da’esh and violent extremism generally (and I consider ALL people advocating hate or discrimination in response to violent extremism to actively be doing the work of violent extremists. This PARTICULARLY includes those cretins who use that acronym ISIS, which is actually the Greek name of the Egyptian Goddess Aset – and others - and actively perpetuates the patriarchal and sacrilegious evil that Da’esh are trying to accomplish in this world):   the former Greek finance minister has said the “only solution” is to starve Da’esh of cash - see here for an analysis of Da’esh’s funding, which shows oil sales are still the main source of revenue;   the urgent need to prevent backlashes after terrorist attacks –a report of such attacks on British Muslims, and also here, here, and a businesswoman leading a fight against "intolerance and hate" in Bendigo says the city's anti-mosque demonstrations must be stopped before they spread across Australia – where a Muslim soldier has been discriminated against, and, following the appalling 16^th December, 2014 attack by the so-called “Pakistani Taliban” on the Army Public School in Peshawar, which killed 145 people, including 132 children, Pakistani police have been carrying out an unlawful reprisal campaign against Afghani refugees, as France and the USA agree the Turkish border should be closed, which is a blow to refugees there and humanity generally;   an editorial calling for Europe – and the West, incidentally, has suffered less than three per cent of terrorist caused deaths - to move away from “overwrought” martial rhetoric to “sobriety and determination”;   why Da’esh is not Islamic;   an analysis which shows that US-born citizens are – statistically - more violent there than refugees;   concerns that French laws can be used to abuse human rights;   the problem of “selective sympathy”;   an historical perspective on current violent extremists and their world view;   2 bombs have exploded outside an Egyptian hotel in the Sinai, killing at least one person;   an explosion has hit a bus carrying presidential guards in Tunisia's capital, killing at least 12 people and leading to a concerning set of backlashes;  a bomb attack has killed at least 21 Shias in Nigeria;   a “militant” attack on an army camp in Kashmir has resulted in the death of three “militants” and 1 civilian; the UN Secretary-General has condemned an explosive attack against a convoy of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), which killed one person;   the response in Iran, where concerns have emerged over terrorist attacks and Russian President Putin has visited to discuss Syria, to the Paris attacks was one of overwhelming, but at times heavily “nuanced”, condemnation of the carnage;   Paris is fighting back against the terrorist attacks with normality, and Belgium with humour;   an assessment of France’s response to the Paris attacks, which includes “As experts point out, France - with its historically cordial ties to Russia, its membership of NATO, and its presence in the Middle East region - is in a unique position to help procure an agreement, and with it greater security at home”;   Australia will not relax its rules of engagement, which are intended to prevent civilian casualties, for air attacks against Da’esh, but the USA apparently does plan to relax its rules (this conflict of ethics arose during the Iraq War, as well);   the 2011 attacks on Libya resulted in Tauregs who had been part of Gaddafi’s repression fleeing back to Mali, and taking their ideology and violence with them;   a former head of Pakistan’s intelligence agency has said the problem with military interventions is the backlash;   a common sense overview;   a right winger in Australia has been jailed for possessing a Taser and poison, as another is arrested for what is suspected to be a bomb hoax, questions are asked over why the right wingers wore face masks at a recent demonstration, and the shooting of a police car is linked to an earlier shooting at a “Good Samaritan”;   Australians are remaining calm, despite increased risk of terrorist attacks – and see also here;  a call for Nigerian victims of terrorism to receive support;   given the security challenges posed by Afghanistan, Uzbekistan is likely to adopt a more cooperative attitude towards its Central Asian neighbours and Russia, a leading Central Asia expert says;   militants in Jammu and Kashmir are intensifying their efforts before winter snows, and an editorial raises concerns over changes in the insurgency there;   Da’esh has turned its attention to Taiwan;   a founder of a Pakistani terror group has been shot dead in the middle of Lahore, in an incident that senior police sources privately admitted was a killing staged by the authorities;
• with regard to refugees:   the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced that 100,000 Bhutanese refugees have moved from camps in eastern Nepal to eight countries to start new lives, in the past 8 years;   the World Health Organization (WHO) has convened a high-level meeting in Rome, Italy, bringing together health ministers and others, to discuss how to improve healthcare for refugees and migrants;   Syrian refugees are being stopped from entering Turkey;   the Greek coastguard has denied that it attempted to deliberately sink a boat filled with refugees after footage published last week appeared to show an official piercing a rubber dinghy; France and the USA agree the Turkish border should be closed, which is a blow to refugees there and humanity generally;   the UN Secretary-General has expressed his serious concerns on the recent border restrictions imposed by a number of States in the Balkans, pointing out that profiling asylum seekers on the basis of their alleged nationality infringes the human right of all people to seek asylum, irrespective of their nationality and to have their individual cases heard;   Finland is staying open to refugees, and trying to learn to overcome past xenophobic mistakes;   a reminder that refugees are still drowning in the Mediterranean Sea;
• with regard to human rights and discrimination (including associated violence / crime):   indigenous leader Noel Pearson has criticised both sides of politics;   a female police officer has discussed her experience of domestic violence, and see also here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and especially here;   the scourge of child marriages in Zimbabwe;   Bahraini security forces are allegedly torturing detainees;   China has denied justice to a human rights lawyer by delaying his trial;   a feminist group has discriminated on the basis of disability;   Uzbekistan has arrested Uktam Pardaev, a prominent human rights activist;   although Kenya’s security crisis is an ongoing concern, the Kenyan response has included disappearances, extrajudicial killings and attacks on organisations documenting those abuses;   Australia is becoming increasingly isolated on human rights because of its backwardness;   sexual assaults continue to be a major problem in Tunisia;   the Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh has banned female genital mutilation, saying it is not required in Islam;   gender bias in mental health care;   an artist has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for atheism;   an award winning comedian has used his acceptance speech to question the lack of any women in the short list - which was cut from the telecast - as another calls out ageism against women;   this week saw the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the launch of UN Women’s civil society-driven 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign which will last until Human Rights Day on 10^th December;   a forthcoming law that will restrict the activities of charity organisations and human rights groups in Tajikistan is already having an effect, as human rights activists and others quietly leave the country;   recent Black Lives Matter – a movement with incredible organisational skills and talents, including when not subjected to media attention - protests were not violent, but were not calm;   a ban on protesters harassing people within 150 metres of abortion clinics has become law in Victoria after the upper house voted overwhelmingly in favour of the bill – and about time!;   an assessment of the human rights assessment of Australia, and the government’s (idiotic, in my view) response;   with the change of Prime Minister, the President of Australia’s Human Rights Commission is “in from the cold”;
• with regard to crime, judicial matters and policing:   a right winger in Australia has been jailed for possessing a Taser and poison, as another is arrested for what is suspected to be a bomb hoax and the shooting of a police car is linked to an earlier shooting at a “Good Samaritan”;   a female police officer has discussed her experience of domestic violence;   following a change of policy on police car chases aimed at increasing public safety, police have asked for helicopters to prevent criminals being “emboldened”;   hundreds of people were gathered at a New Orleans playground for a music video shoot when two groups in the crowd opened fire on each other, wounding 16 people;   an AFP officer has said the Australian Government ignored human rights abuses in Papua New Guinea and the investing of criminal proceeds in Australia, for fear of losing the right to detain asylum seekers on Manus Island;   “mass redress” as an alternative to group court actions;   six years after gunmen flagged down a convoy of cars in a southern Philippine province and massacred all 58 occupants, relatives of the victims said Monday they are losing hope of seeing justice;   a white Chicago policeman has been charged with murdering a black teenager in a prosecution that was sped up in the hope of staving off a fresh burst of the turmoil over race and police use of deadly force that has shaken the United States for more than a year;   tribal law is appealing to some in Yemen, as it is faster and less expensive;   an entrepreneur and a former gang member in Denver are working to counter gang culture;   a founder of a Pakistani terror group has been shot dead in the middle of Lahore, in an incident that senior police sources privately admitted was a killing staged by the authorities;   the Indian state of Bihar is banning alcohol in an attempt to curb violence, including sexual assaults on women; 
• with regard to media and freedom of expression:   two prominent Turkish journalists have been charged with espionage after alleging that Turkey's secret services sent arms to Islamist rebels in Syria;   students have turned their backs on a notorious hate speaker;
• with regard to overcrowding and “modern” lifestyle issues (is YOUR smart phone free of conflict  minerals?):   the merits of allowing children to be bored (from my point of view, such led to me doing a lot of thinking), and the toxicity of parents trying to be friends (parenting is NOT a relationship of equals);   government systems create a living nightmare;   a long overdue call for girls not to be taught to put relationships above all else;   the fallacies of economic analysis in an environmental context (my profound apologies for using a social media link);   a five-year analysis released today by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that the global average surface temperature in 2015 is likely to be the warmest on record and to reach the symbolic and significant milestone of 1° Celsius above the pre-industrial era;   rather than connecting with strangers, most adolescents use digital media to interact with friends and acquaintances in their face-to-face social networks;   the importance of unions in the fight against wealth inequality;
• with regard to education:   more from the Safe Schools Coalition;
• 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):   unidentified gunmen in Afghanistan have kidnapped 14 bus passengers - believed to be from the Hazara ethnic minority - 10 days after the killing of seven Hazaras by terrorists sparked one of the biggest protests in Kabul in years;  Afghans have demanded better oversight of tax revenues;
• with regard to Africa (where I am still looking for a comprehensive local source of news, one akin to the Middle East Eye or The Hindu) generally, in addition to mentions elsewhere:      the Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, has been in Algeria to meet with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Ministers of the Algerian Government;   a returned Ethiopian engineer has championed a new railway which is saving lives, has potential to be expanded to other nations, and is part of a growing resurgence in this form of public infrastructure;   more violence, including killings, have occurred in the Central African Republic, but the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has said that the Quick Reaction Force from the UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) has now fully deployed to Bangui;   the UN Special Adviser of the Secretary-General, Jamal Benomar, has in recent days held meetings with the African Union in Addis Ababa and with Ugandan senior officials in Kampala, and is now in Burundi to work with the government and other concerned stakeholders in support of an inclusive inter-Burundian dialogue and peaceful resolution of conflict;   the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Sahel (the transition from the Sahara to sub-Saharan Africa, which has the G5 countries [Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad and Niger] in it), Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, has told the UN Security Council that security threats continue to be the main preoccupation in the region, taking money from these poor countries’ budgets away from other important matters;   the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has deplored the decision by Burundian authorities to suspend ten non-governmental organisations, including several organizations working on peace and human rights issues such as torture and the rights of women and children;   Pope Francis has said that the illegal trade in ivory and diamonds fuels conflict and could destroy Africa's environment;   the problem of poverty and massive unemployment in Zimbabwe;
• with regard to China and East Asia:   China is claiming to have been “restrained” in its response to the USA’s recent freedom of navigation exercise;   a coal mine fire has killed 21 people (coal mining in China is a dangerous and large industry);   China has denied justice to a human rights lawyer by delaying his trial;   China will shake up its military by establishing a joint operational command structure by 2020, and a military base in the African nation of Djibouti;
• 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):   Iraqi security forces have abused protestors;   an analysis of problems in Kurdish forces and coalition thinking shown by the recapture of Sinjar;
• with regard to the Libyan civil war:   two rival Libyan tribes, the Tuareg and Toubou, have signed a ceasefire deal to end months of fighting in the southwestern Libyan city of Ubari and also help thousands of displaced people return to their homes, but this article questions whether that will overcome the building enmity;
• with regard to Russia (see also Syria);   civil society in Russia is under siege;
• with regard to Sudan and South Sudan:   the Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that the humanitarian situation in South Sudan is continuing to deteriorate;
• with regard to the conflict in Syria:   the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has met with and briefed representatives of the Syrian opposition on the outcomes reached by the International Syria Support Group, including the close linkage between a ceasefire and a parallel political process. In this context, the Special Envoy elaborated on his efforts to prepare for intra-Syrian talks under UN auspices, with a view to a Syrian-led process aimed at establishing credible, inclusive and non-sectarian governance and drafting a new constitution in Syria, a process now called the intra-Syrian talks, which is building upon previous work. In this regard, Mr. de Mistura welcomed Saudi Arabia’s initiative to convene a delegation of the Syrian opposition;   medical staff in Syria are facing a terrible toll;   a Russian jet has been shot down, allegedly in Turkish air space (as have some Syrian government jets, and one Turkish jet), which has escalated tensions dramatically and led to economic retaliation – see also here, here, here, here, here, and here;   two prominent Turkish journalists have been charged with espionage after alleging that Turkey's secret services sent arms to Islamist rebels in Syria;   an explanation of why a power-sharing government, similar to that in Lebanon, is not appropriate for Syria;
• with regard to Turkey:   a Russian jet has been shot down, allegedly in Turkish air space (as have some Syrian government jets, and one Turkish jet), which has escalated tensions dramatically and led to economic retaliation – see also here, here, here, here, here, and here;   claims that US soldiers are in now in Kobane to train Kurdish forces to battle;
• with regard to the conflicts in Ukraine, particularly in the east:   Ukrainian nationalists and Crimean Tatars began a border blockade in September which has resulted in restricted power and a suspension of all goods delivery to the Crimea, and an escalation of ill will and tensions;   Ukraine has closed its air space to Russian planes;   the World Food Programme (WFP) has delivered food to non-government controlled areas of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine for the first time since the suspension of humanitarian activities four months ago;
• with regard to the war in Yemen:   the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, continues to hold consultations with both Yemeni parties, and he has been encouraged by his recent talks at a time when 21.2 million people in Yemen - 82 per cent of the population - require some kind of humanitarian assistance to meet their basic needs or protect their fundamental rights, according to the Yemen Humanitarian Needs Overview for 2016, and, since March, there have been more than 32,200 casualties and close to 9,000 verified reports of human rights violations;   Yemen's Houthi rebel movement is obstructing the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Taiz;   tribal law is appealing to some in Yemen, as it is faster and less expensive;
• with regard to natural and other catastrophes:   a new UN-backed report has found that, in the past 20 years, 90 per cent of major disasters have been caused by nearly 6,500 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other weather-related events, mostly in the United States, China, India, the Philippines, and Indonesia, which have killed more than 600,000 people and left an additional 4.1 billion people injured, homeless or in need of emergency assistance;   a landslide in a jade mine in Myanmar has killed over 100 people;   toxic mud that swamped several Brazilian towns when a dam collapsed earlier this month has devastated forests over a large area;   a fast moving bushfire is affecting a large area in South Australia, and several people have been killed;   a five-year analysis released today by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that the global average surface temperature in 2015 is likely to be the warmest on record and to reach the symbolic and significant milestone of 1° Celsius above the pre-industrial era;   the biggest environmental challenge at the coming climate talks in Paris may be India, which is already the world's third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and it plans a massive increase, proposing to treble CO2 emissions within the next 15 years because, for India, economic growth comes first;

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

• the UN Secretary-General congratulated leaders gathered for the ASEAN-UN summit on the signing of the inspiring ASEAN Community Vision 2025, which he said should be carried out in tandem with the Sustainable Development Goal, stressed that there can be no sustainable development without climate action and, at the ASEAN East Asia summit, he welcomed the recent Trilateral Summit that brought together leaders of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea;
• the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, Sandra Honoré over the weekend condemned the recent violence in the country;
• the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) released today updated guidelines for countries on pesticide legislation and labelling;

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

• the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) also has:
  - 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, Yemen, Sudan, Lake Chad Basin, and Burma), 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”: Burundi, South Sudan and the Central African Republic), 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”: Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya);
     Recommended actions from the occasional report for the nation of Burma, where the existence of the Rohingya is under threat, warnings have been issued that violence could be a crime against humanity and the army is an ongoing threat to several ethnic minorities (I will work through other nations from the report in coming weeks) are:
      - the current and newly-elected government must uphold their Responsibility to Protect all populations, regardless of their ethnicity or religion, and should abolish the Rakhine Action Plan and end institutionalised discrimination against the Rohingya, including the denial of citizenship, hold accountable all those who commit abuses, including inciting ethnic and religious intolerance and violence;
      - in Arakan/Rakhine state the government must facilitate the safe, voluntary return of internally displace people to their communities, and neighbouring countries should offer protection and assistance to Rohingya refugees;
      - the international community must urge the new government to develop a comprehensive reconciliation plan, demonstrably improve the welfare of ethnic and religious minorities, and end discriminatory practices that pose an existential threat to the Rohingya community;
      - a central component of the government's reform process must be constitutional reform that addresses the needs of ethnic minorities, as well as the development of an independent judiciary as a means of safeguarding human rights and tackling the culture of impunity regarding past mass atrocity crimes;
      - From an energetic point of view, healing is needed to give Burma’s new leaders the strength, inspiration and determination to cope with additional issues and demands beyond those that they have been focused on.
• 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:
• the Justice in Conflict blog has:   the need for more victim-focused innovations at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to give them a say – which was a key part of the ICC’s founding;
• the Political Violence at a Glance blog has:   consideration of some of the ethical aspects of emergency humanitarian aid;
• the Middle East Eye also has:
     a politician who called for an early election is now being “investigated”;   the United Arab Emirates is increasingly frustrated with al-Sisi, and a document reveals plans to rule Egypt in the future;
     more violence and repressive responses in Israel and the West Bank – and also see here;   Israel’s psychological campaign;   Israel is going to open a diplomatic mission in the United Arab Emirates;
     at least 1,000 members of Saudi Arabia's Shia minority have demanded the release of activists on death row, including one who was aged 17 when he was arrested;
• Also on West Asia / the Middle East:
     at an event today marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson, said that, one year after the last ruinous conflict, security hope remains low, with Palestinians deeply frustrated over an occupation that has lasted nearly fifty years and Israelis strongly fearful for their security, and the lack of a political horizon to achieve the two-State solution seriously increases the risk of the situation spiralling out of control;   Israeli justice appears to be selective;   2 bombs have exploded outside an Egyptian hotel in the Sinai, killing at least one person;   US Secretary of State John Kerry has called the situation for Palestinians in the West bank and Gaza "very dire";   the Indian state of Bihar is banning alcohol in an attempt to curb violence, including sexual assaults on women;   Sri Lanka has called on Saudi Arabia to pardon a domestic worker sentenced to death by stoning after she admitted committing adultery while working in the Arab nation;
• The Hindu also has:   India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the oceans, space and cyberworld should not become “new theatres of contests” but be the avenues of “shared prosperity”;   Actor Aamir Khan has joined the outcry against intolerance, saying he was “alarmed” by a number of incidences and that his wife Kiran Rao even suggested that they should probably leave the country;   the Mahatma Gandhi International Centre in Matale, about 150 km from Colombo, has been inaugurated - three-decades after the original was burned down in anti-Tamil riots;   gender discrimination is adversely affecting India’s reduced fertility;   a discussion in Parliament to commemorate the Constitution and its framer has been a day of contested statements over the meaning of “secularism”;   a female journalist has been subjected to an online abuse campaign – including, in effect, by facebook - after posting of having witnessed “immoral conduct” in a madrassa (school) when she was younger;
  Also on the Indian sub-continent:
     the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) said today that it is alarmed by reports that at least four people have been killed, bringing the total to 50, and many injured, from both sides, in violent clashes over the weekend during protests in the Terai area of southern Nepal;   the biggest environmental challenge at the coming climate talks in Paris may be India, which is already the world's third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and it plans a massive increase, proposing to treble CO₂ emissions within the next 15 years because, for India, economic growth comes first – although there is this Hindu support for action;   six years after the end of the civil war that killed at least 100,000 people, Jaffna seems to be on a slow and steady ascent towards freedom and normality, but still fears to remember the war dead;

and from a range of other sites:

• a speech on “Australians at war” (I can relate to the elders the speaker mentions: my favourite uncle was one of the Kokoda Trail “choco’s”, and a gentle, loving and wonderful man);
• the British government has refocused its overseas aid towards stopping conflicts around the world;

[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 ... )

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Tom Fletcher, Former UK Ambassador to Lebanon

• If your “gut” (your instinct/intuition) is telling you something is wrong, but logic and the available evidence is saying otherwise, the proper conclusion to draw is that you need better, more personally credible evidence. Your “gut” could be wrong, right, or missing the nuances / “shades of grey” . So could the available evidence.
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Tags: activism, discrimination, energy work, magick, meditation, nonviolence, peace,  society, violence, war,

First published: Laugardagr, 28^th November, 2015

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Saturday, 28^th November, 2015