For the sake of my health, until I retire or change to an
easier day job , I have cut back these posts.
Information and Summary of News with Opinion / Advocacy / Analysis:
Notes:
(1) I am NOT a journalist (this blog was created for spiritual
reasons, including a course), and make NO
claims to objectivity or freedom from bias.
(2) Furthermore, I do NOT
hold copyright to any of the articles I link to, nor do I claim authorship,
except for those links to material I have written for this and my related
blogs, and my
commentary in these posts. (I try to make sure quotes are shown using
quotation marks.)
The purpose of posting these news
links is
not only
to inform; it is also to
stimulate a connection to:
- nonBPM units that
need to be cleared,
and
- BPM units that
need to be strengthened,
so that you
can do the clearing / strengthening that is required.
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.
As part of that, note
that there are key
uncooperatives
to be cleared (
rescued):
you should
ONLY address those that are within your ability – if you get a
sense
(e.g., through meditation) or are told by your BPM
Guides/
Higher
Self to back off, do so, and content yourself with clearing the smaller
nonBPM units within your capability – which
will weaken those
uncooperatives. More importantly,
there are many people doing this sort of
work, and others are quite likely to be able
to clear the uncooperatives concerned.
That is also one of the
many reasons it is OK to take a break or cut back this work if you need – in
fact, doing so will help you deal with the next point, which is …
… the energies we use and manifest in our daily lives contribute to the larger
soup of energies that influence world events, so it pays to address those as
well, to the extent that one can, or to at least stop oneself projecting them into
the psychic soup.
There are some notes at
the end of this post about other options for those who do not like this way of
working.
Finally, one of the biggest concerns I have about spirituality in the
world now is that the concept of agape type love has been perverted into both a
quest for emotional warm fuzzies, and an excuse to avoid doing the hard work of
improving oneself and
all that one does. See also here
and here.
The themes that come to mind for my work
this week, after I review all this news, are:
(a) based on my interpretation of information here and here with Uranus in
Aries contributing to fresh and possibly radical starts (until March
2019),
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 nonBPM energy – the thought forms,
unattached energy and scars of the collective unconscious created by millennia
of violence, including spirit rescue, and healing the warped views, seemingly “inherent” biases, and other
damage created. Also, remember:
(1) the counter to fear is genuine EQ and clear
thinking, expressed
through calm,
de-escalating speech,
(2) where problems exist, advocating for BPM responses, and
being as BPM as one can be, are constructive solutions,
(3) peace is powerful, but it is a process requiring
patient, persistent and nuanced nurturing, and a blend of conventional
spiritual work, clearing nonBPM units, and physical
world activism;
(c) dealing
with the 45th “President” of the USA requires:
1. eroding (i.e., slow, patient and persistent clearing of the
little bits one can SAFELY cope with – remember, you are but one of many) the nonBPM
influences feeding his arrogance and his mind-set, and strengthening that
person’s BPM Guides and giving those BPM Guides whatever BPM help they need to present a BPM alternative to promote a change of heart,
2. lifting the nonBPM influences from the shoulders of that
person’s marginal supporters, allowing them to “come to their senses”, which may result in them feeling bewilderment/shame, and simultaneously strengthening the BPM influences around them (e.g., their BPM
Guides) to counter them backsliding,
3. physical world
activism (especially education) – e.g., this. As well as doing what one can there, help
those who are doing this work (e.g., sending them “positive vibes”) and look for
nonBPM blockages that can be cleared (e.g., setting up a BPM vortex above meetings to draw away
external nonBPM influences/energies/units, so that the audience can listen as they
are, without any obsession/possession);
(d) the
major events this week are:
(i) as attraction to violence continues to be
inadequately addressed and the search for humans rights abusers continues, the
risks of mass atrocities in Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Yemen and Nigeria,
(ii) ongoing violent conflicts and crises in
Syria, Afghanistan, Mexico, Iraq, Burma, Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, Central
African Republic, Libya, Sudan (Darfur and South Kordofan), Yemen, Egypt
(Sinai), Kurdistan, the Philippines, Ethiopia, Mali, DR Congo, Burundi,
Kashmir, Baluchistan (Pakistan and Iran), India (Maoist and other
insurgencies), the Maghreb (Africa), Ukraine, and elsewhere;
(iii) refugee and humanitarian crises; - the
political madness of regimes with authoritarian leaders – and all who put or
keep them there; - and, specific to this week, fertility
rates are declining; calls for corporations’ version of
capitalism – and other damaging terminology - to be rethought; calls to end discrimination to end the
waste of human talent; the SDGs have
been combined with nine planetary boundaries; imperfect media coverage in some ways, but
an exposé of the long term damage done to Iraq; the stupidity (including the stupid
expectations) of the West’s so-called “festive season”; some promising and some incautious /
dangerous thinking; abusing laws as
the thin end of the wedge to drive more elitist authoritarianism into
society; stupid selfishness;
(e) may all people who are not in or of the
elite avoid mental laziness so they can be BPM aware of manipulation and BPM resist same;
(f) may the rich and powerful genuinely realise
(i) they are NOT
inherently better or different than others, (ii) that they cannot suppress
others for forever, and (iii) there will, ultimately, be a holding to account,
as is starting to happen with Iraq, and they will irredeemably lose reputation
and standing if they deny, defer or defray same;
(g) may complementary / balancing concepts be BPM brought together, as has happened with the
SDGs and 9PBs;
(h) may all people learn to BPM think for the long term, and the BPM ethical;
(i) may all else that should BPM asked for be done;
News and other matters
from this past week follows:
news items are presented in the following
sections (there is overlap, and items may
appear more than once; those without news deleted each week):
- Permanent Issues and Thematically Arranged
News:
permanent issues; particular attention;
democracy, freedom, governance, and
ethics; the USA and POTUS45;
violent extremism; refugees and migrants; human rights
(including homophobia/transphobia, white
supremacism, trafficking
and children’s rights, sexism, religious
rights, workers’ rights, animals’ rights,
and privacy, differently abled and other
rights); war, violence and hate;
peace;
spirituality and psychism;
natural and other catastrophes;
modern lifestyle (including climate change and environment, technology
and science, economic and financial,
housing, health and medical);
media;
education; crime judicial and police;
- Location-based News:
Africa;
South and Central America;
mainland China, East and South East Asia,
and the Pacific; Europe;
Ukraine; Russia and Central Asia; Afghanistan; South Asia;
West Asia and northern Africa;
- Other Sites;
opportunities/good
news (in my opinion)
are shown in green;
comments (by me) are shown in purple;
and
WARNING: some of
these links may contain triggers around issues such as violence, sexual assault,
discrimination, etc.
Permanent Issues and Thematically Arranged News:
- Permanent issue: may all
actual and potential BPM Leaders and
their Significant Others be kept BPM safe, undetectable and inviolable against indirect psychic
attack, and may they have all the BPM resources (including an assured income), opportunities and assistance for
them to be BPM effective, all as is for the Highest Spiritual Good;
- Permanent issue: may all
humans recognise, irrespective of the appearance of difference, the essential
shared humanness of other people, the strength of BPM
collaboration, and the opportunities of having a diverse, inclusive and
welcoming population, and may all people choose fairness, when such decisions
are before them;
- Permanent issue: may all
actual and potential BPM Violence
Interrupters (and Interrupters of
hate / fear / anger) of be kept BPM safe, and may they have all the BPM
opportunities and assistance for them to be BPM effective at containing and
stopping – along the lines of the Cure
Violence model - the spread
of violence (and hate / fear / anger),
all as is for the Highest Spiritual Good;
- Permanent issue: may all
humans choose to live modestly – to forgo outdoing others, or trying to have
more than they need - for the sake of an easier, more manageable life, if they
cannot do it for the sake of the planet, and may we all exercise our human
characteristics of reason, self discipline and improvement to overcome the often
evil flaw of seeking social status;
- Permanent issue: may all
humans be in better communication with the better parts of their nature – especially
those who need that more than other, better people;
- Matters warranting particular attention:
this week on reversing the
deliberate, well-funded, long-term strategy (from about the 70s) to make self-interest seem normal and a
commitment to fairness (such as
former US President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms) an aberration (see also here, here, and here) : the entirety of this blog and all other
spiritual work and physical activism I and many others do; “declining fertility rates around the world should be cause
for celebration, not alarm, a leading
expert has said, warning that the focus on boosting populations was
outdated and potentially bad for women”; a call for a social media company to rethink
its version of capitalism; “changing the gender bias in agriculture”; “stemming [the] waste of human talent”; a TED talk on combining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
and “nine
planetary boundaries” to develop FIVE
POLICIES FOR THE WORLD AND ITS PEOPLE TO SURVIVE; a call “to
reject the politically charged distinction between ‘lifters’ and ‘leaners’ ”;
on other matters requiring
particular attention:
-
this week I found nothing in the news on the Rohingya;
-
a long,
powerful exposé of the vengefulness that has perverted
“justice” and life in Iraq after the violent extremist crisis (caused by US mistakes) that led to hate perverting hearts and minds
and may yet export more hate and revenge to the world – see also
this critique
of the article and its message (which is how I
found the article);
-
China’s brainwashing
and surveillance now extends to children;
-
largely owing to people choosing to get drunk, “between November and January, there is a 25 per cent increase in trauma presentations and 30 per cent of road fatalities for the
year occur during this period”;
an attempted
murder charge raises, in my opinion, the issue of expectations around the festive
season exacerbating problems, including domestic violence;
-
some outstanding young innovators; a US innovator “wants to put chips in our brains. I'd prefer to stay human. . . .
claims [the chips] will rescue
humanity [from a “robotic,
algorithm-dominated universe that lies just ahead, we will be restricted, if we
survive at all, to a few protected zones, comparable to the steadily shrinking
territories, little more than big cages, where the last chimpanzees and
mountain gorillas eke out their existence”]. But without
our biological flaws, we lose an essential part of who we are”;
an examination (from a US
perspective) of legal
aspects of “active cyber defence”;
in its twice yearly transparency report, a major tech company reported
it “received 2,357 ‘device requests’ [“made for a range of reasons . . .
subpoenas, court orders, warrants and wiretap orders”] from the Australian government and law enforcement in the first half of
2018, the third-highest rate of requests in the world”; another moronic
drone
operator has had an impact – this time stopping aerial firefighting;
-
a retrospective
on the year 2018 CE;
upcoming events (opportunities to do
BPM clearing etc): a call
for the upcoming conference on the Buenos Aires Plan of Action in the Argentina
in March, 2019 to boost south-south cooperation, and not only be a presentation
of demands from the south to the north;
this week’s atrocity alert
at R2P lists Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Yemen and Nigeria;
- With regard to democracy (which can
be measured [as can goodness], requires protection of minorities and the vulnerable - and are you fighting to change things [by 198 nonviolent methods], or to
punish), freedom, governance (e.g., here, here, here, here, here) and ethics:
Note:
I have a section specifically for POTUS45 below
analyses, research and commentary this
week include:
-
an examination of attempts by trolls (in political parties . . . )
to create generational
discord; as Egypt becomes the
latest in a long line of governments banning symbol of protests elsewhere, “we find that the occurrence of a democracy
protest in one country does not significantly increase the likelihood of protests in other countries”
(hmm . . . I would have hoped democracy
was contagious – and what about the Arab spring?); a (jargon
plagued) TED talk (by a former)
on micro-managers; a TEDx talk on the culture
of abusing umpires/referees and bad sportspersonship, and the eluding of
responsibility of man and the few who are trying to fix this invidious problem; the
human face of being an unemployed “couch surfer”; an idealistic / unrealistic opinion
that “the best way to scupper Putin and
Trump [is to] scrap Brexit”; “Born
as a response to [POTUS45’s] aid
cuts, SheDecides has blossomed into a vast movement, with women across
the globe joining its rallying cry”;
of concern internationally this week:
-
the financial and development impacts
of closer relations between China and the Gulf states; a Guardian
exclusive reports that a tech company “tried to gain influence and potentially shape lucrative government
contracts”; “why
Muslim nations remain silent as
China sends ethnic minorities to re-education camps” (China's economic and
political clout, and reciprocity for China’s “non-intervention”
. . . );
of concern in my nation (Australia) this
week:
-
an exclusive by “The Age” reports
that, following threats of resignations by commissioners and allegations of
political interference by government, the Victorian Multicultural Commission
will be reviewed; a conservative
politician spent more
than half a million dollars on refurbishing his electorate office
. . . ; against a
background of chaotic management of an on-partially
off-on
again evacuation of a new building in an Australian city after it developed
cracks, and poor reporting (1 – 2 mm movement is normal – buildings move all
the time in response to wind, temperature, etc: the movement would have been
larger, if people felt it and felt concerned – and doors jamming is indicative
of larger movement, and the published photos clearly show larger movement),
the blame
game has started as an urgent
investigation gets underway and a well-informed opinion
piece outlines the cost-cutting pressures in the construction industry and
similar problems elsewhere and an article shows the human
face of construction industry crises: sub-contractors; a
former conservative MP in Australia has identified dinosaur
views, dating back to the evil
(in my
opinion) John Howard, as the reason that party has so many problems
with women;
also of concern this week:
-
other concerning events have occurred or are developing in: Tunisia, Somalia, Sudan, UK, Italy;
and democracy/governance/political
matters in my home nation this week:
on
the Royal Commission into banks, and similar matters:
-
a review
states the Royal Commission showed that claims the financial planning
industry’s problems were just “a few bad
apples” was “a bald-faced lie”,
and “the root cause was greed”; a major bank “broke [the] law with calls to
customers about rolling over superannuation”;
on
other matters:
-
upcoming legal cases and other actions which may
impact free speech; this “festive
season” has seen several people drown (see
here, here, and here) – which is a problem in Australia, including for immigrants who
do not understand the dangers that can be hidden in seemingly innocuous scenes
and for all who are affected by alcohol;
the history
of political insults in Australia (which I consider never does anything constructive);
- With regard to the USA and their
schoolyard BULLYING, unpresidential, uncomprehending, delusional 45th “President” (“POTUS45”)
(see here on actions for US residents; the VP is at least as bad):
-
the USA has gone into yet another of its periodic
bouts of insanity called a (partial,
in this instance) “shut down” – to the displeasure
of some in POTUS45’s party (and voters
are blaming POTUS45) in response to POTUS45’s anger over lack of funding for his wall (he has threatened to close the border if he doesn’t get funding). Compounding this,
concerns about the USA being “on the edge
of the economic precipice”, and POTUS45
possibly pushing it over are highlighted by the USA’s Treasury Secretary having
“made plans to convene a group of officials known as the ‘Plunge Protection Team’ [as]
US stocks have fallen sharply in recent
weeks on concerns over slowing economic growth, with the S&P 500 index on
pace for its biggest percentage decline in December since the Great Depression”; a “we
told you so” on POTUS45’s recklessness;
-
after making a “secret” flight – tracked
by aviation enthusiasts – to a combat zone, POTUS45 put
special forces soldiers at risk by posting a photo without their faces
being blurred, and showing where they currently are; the “US
envoy to anti-IS coalition . . . [has quit] over [POTUS45's] withdrawal from Syria”;
-
against a background of the US Supreme Court
blocking
POTUS45’s plan to reject certain claims for asylum and the hypocrisy
of the USA insisting on “the best” immigrants, a “former refugee from Somalia [has
become] one of the first two Muslim women representatives” (although there have been Islamophobic responses);
-
the US Defence Secretary’s “replacement
[will] start two months early after [POTUS45’s] anger at [the] resignation letter”;
-
“though some may be worried about
a quid pro quo with Russia, the process by which sanctions were lifted actually tells a story of respect for the
rule of law . . . here
are legitimate reasons why the administration might want to lift sanctions”;
-
in addition to governance concerns over a memo from the next US Attorney-General
on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US Presidential
election, this criticism
of the legal aspects of the memo has been made;
- With regard to violent
extremism (VE) (aka, terrorism)
(ALL people advocating hate or discrimination in response to
violent extremism are actively doing the work of violent extremists. This will be countered, in part, by “Cure
Violence”,
real and perceived disempowerment as
well as acknowledging the variety in what provides genuine, BPM fulfilment as a counter to fanaticism as a source of meaning, and good
old fashioned police work. Also,
I don’t name groups in order to reduce their publicity):
-
according to this
Wikipedia page, there have been 4 attacks in Iraq, 7 attacks in Afghanistan, and 2 attacks in Syria (out
of a total of 35);
- With regard to refugees (noting the New York Declaration), people
seeking asylum and migrants:
-
as a second refuge child is reported to have died in US custody, an exclusive
by The Guardian reports that the “United
Nations monitor who acts as global watchdog on the treatment of migrants [has
called] for an in-depth independent investigation into what happened to [the] seven-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in
the custody of the US government”;
in Australia’s Nauru gulag, an “asylum
seeker with mental health problems [is]
‘rapidly deteriorating’ ”; “Malta
has airlifted a newborn and his mother from a Spanish
migrant rescue ship and rejected accusations that it had refused food to
more than 300 other migrants on board”;
in Nigeria “returnee migrants [refugees?] are
telling their personal stories on radio as part of the IOM's Migrants as
Messengers campaign against irregular migration”
. . . hmm;
-
other refugee-related matters have also occurred in: the English Channel;
- With regard to other human (and other) rights and
discrimination (incidentally,
bigots clearly have flaws of observation and thinking – shown by the fact that NOT all people choose to
discriminate [and there’s this]):
-
in addition to opportunities below on child abuse and human trafficking,
general opportunities to take action on human rights here, here;
-
other human rights matters have also occurred in: Indonesia, Madagascar, Iran, Italy;
on HOMOPHOBIA/TRANSPHOBIA (including
heteronormativity and cisgender-normativity and noting that trans kids are the same as cis kids of the
trans kids’ true gender):
-
one tech company has removed a homophobic app, another
is expected to, and a third will look at it;
on white supremacist and other forms of RACISM / CULTURAL DISCRIMINATION and
Indigenous matters generally this
week:
-
“an [enquiry] has been ordered after a referee told a US high-school
wrestler he would have to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit a match” – see also
here;
-
other white supremacy / racism problems have also occurred in: Australia;
on TRAFFICKING, and CHILDREN’s
and associated human rights this week (from Thomson
Reuters Foundation, Freedom
United, and other sources):
-
“a British national who was
abducted by her father 32 years ago and taken to war-torn Yemen has fled to Egypt after efforts by her mother to
get her back to the UK”;
the problem of sensationalised
media reporting missing human trafficking that is “hiding in plain sight”;
-
also on child abuse, including
institutional, this week: USA, USA/
Israel, Israel, India;
on SEXISM this week (keeping in mind the overblown influence given to
testosterone, and the potential value to women of using anger):
-
in one Australian territory, all “public servants . . . will be trained in spotting domestic violence, including little-understood controlling and
coercive behaviours, how to respond to victims and
where to find them help”; “an Argentine radio host accused of misogynist diatribes has been ordered to host a
feminist guest every week for five months as part of a deal with
prosecutors” and he “must not interrupt his guests for 10 minutes, nor can he
criticise them after they finish”; a TEDx talk on the problem of forced –
including child - marriage in the USA; an warning that “ ‘strong is the new skinny’ isn't as empowering as it sounds”
. . . ;
-
on sexual harassment/misconduct/violence this week, see: UAE, here (remember that
being charged does NOT mean guilty);
-
other sexism matters have also occurred in: Egypt, Argentina;
on RELIGIOUS rights this week:
-
religious rights / Islamophobia matters have also occurred in: China, Egypt, USA, USA, USA,;
on WORKERS’ rights this week:
-
a UK company providing “agency
care workers has been fining staff who phone in sick [even after car
crashes, or 24 hours’ notice] . . .
raising concerns that frontline employees are being forced to turn up for shifts when
they are not fit for work and risk spreading illnesses to vulnerable patients”; a staggering admission
by the ABC that it has underpaid at least one casual employee;
on PRIVACY, AGED, DIFFERENTLY ABLED, AND OTHER
forms of human (and other – e.g., ANIMAL) rights this week:
-
“my wheelchair doesn’t bind me – it liberates me”;
- With regard to war (noting that
economic ties do NOT prevent war), violence
and hate generally:
-
the paperwork generated by combatants (governments and rebels alike) has become a source
of material for wide ranging research;
a sports fan “has died of his
injuries after being knocked down by a van amid violence ahead of a
match” in Europe;
- With regard to peace:
-
events concerning peace have occurred or are developing in: Japan;
- With regard to natural and other catastrophes:
-
hundreds of people have been killed and injured in Indonesia by a tsunami
which arrived without a warning earthquake “following
an undersea landslide caused by a volcano” (a side of the volcanic island below water collapsed) – and more problems may come
so people in the affected areas have been asked to stay
500 m away from the sea and flights have been diverted; a volcano in Italy is erupting
– low level, so far;
- With regard to overcrowding and “modern” lifestyle issues (such as conflict minerals,
environmental harm and child labour in smart phones, FOMO [which can be overcome], addiction or unthinking pro-technology bias [new is NOT
always good], second thoughts,
social media making people miserable or envious, work and lifestyles causing depression, being duped by modern mantras and management fads,
“failing” at being well, life options,
AI ethics, corporate misuse of mindfulness as
a distraction from working conditions, embedded emissions, plane pollution,
bigger, flashier homes/cars and financialisation,
the need for agroforestry,
insisting on busy-ness,
raising Prince Boofheads,
trying to force everyone to have children, the “Earth3” model [SDGs + 9PBs]):
on climate change (our World
War III?) and other
environmental matters:
-
putting solar cells in functional
objects (e.g., furniture,
greenhouses); communities
in the USA that suffer higher pollution and their history of suffering at the
hands of economic expediency; “trees are made of human breath”; a project to restore “Asia’s zebra” – the Asiatic wild ass; a brief
history of how a rainforest was saved from logging three decades ago; 50 Australian plant species face extinction
within a decade; “Christmas beetles are slowly disappearing, and we're not sure why”;
a poorly
written article on recycling dog poo: (1)
environmental impacts also include oxygen deprivation and eutrophication, (2) the
warning of human risks should be earlier, and include a call to keep children
away and use gloves, and (3) composting is rarely done well in homes – the
temperature needs to be attained for long enough, and the compost heap remixed
several times so ALL of it gets up to that temperature); in northern Australia, “crocodiles released from traps by offenders
posing greater risk to community”; a “French tech
company . . . has developed a . . . tracker that can be
inserted into the horns of rhinos to help conservationists monitor and protect
the endangered species”;
-
other environmental matters have occurred in: Italy, India, Malawi, Italy, Libya (good news);
on technology and science matters:
-
attempts to enable banter by a virtual assistant have gotten out
of kilter;
on economic and financial matters:
-
“Australians lose more than $200 million a year by paying with cards [rather than] cash”;
on health and medical:
-
another initiative reduce the stigma
of mental distress in farmers; a call for
people (unless they’re being
treated for insomnia) to have ten to twenty
minute naps; “the
head of the UN agency that provoked a massive outcry and some ridicule when it
declared that bacon, red meat and glyphosate weedkiller caused cancer has defended its work, denying the announcements were mishandled
and insisting on its independence”;
- With regard to press aka the
media, and freedom of expression (claims
of presenting “both sides” of a debate can be WRONG if the other side is RUBBISH –as is the case
on LGBTIQ issues. Also, media can be unprofessional, but funding is an issue … ):
-
“the German reporter . . .
accused . . . of faking stories could now face
embezzlement charges”; “two Reuters journalists jailed while
reporting on the Rohingya crisis in [burma] are set to appeal the decision . . . after spending more than a year in
prison”; a long read on an “Indian journalist [who has been] jailed for a year for [critical
social media] posts”; “a
man and woman arrested then released over the [UK airport closure by a] drone . . . have been ill
treated by an incautious media”
and
police, leaving them feeling violated and in
need of medical care, although they may
be able to get damages (this is where the tabloid trash – and the f wits who buy
the trash - cause problems for respectable media);
- With regard to crime, judicial
matters and policing (noting that an
uncle of mine resigned when corruption was not comprehensively cleaned out of
the police force he served in, I also have high expectations of police [to
match their powers], and I consider all violence, abuse of power and failure to
understand the impacts of their actions [e.g., see here and here] by police – who are under incredible
pressure –is, nevertheless, undermining and weakening all police and what they
are trying to achieve):
-
another article on the abusive
use of strip searches, which are a form of sexual assault; “when
we put children in prison we condemn them to fail”;
from an article published some months ago: “American police forces were adopting some of the militarised tactics
that [he] had seen give rise to
insurgencies abroad. “We have to stop treating people like we’re
in Fallujah,” he told me. “It
doesn’t work. Just look what happened in Fallujah” ”; the brother
of a witness against Italy’s mafia has been murdered; an Australian state’s police “investigate [a] video of officer
appearing to tell [a] driver 'go back
to China' during [a] traffic stop”; more youth
crime problems in my home city; a massive drug bust; private
vigilante (“police”) forces in the USA are enforcing rich people’s perceptions of
niceness;
-
other crime, judicial and
policing matters have occurred in: UK, India.
Location based News:
- With regard to Africa, the Africa
Center for Strategic Studies (and other sources) has:
-
“10 Burkina Faso Police Officers [have
been] killed in [an] ambush”;
-
“a
Burundian court has acquitted three civil rights activists who
had been handed 10-year jail terms [in]
a rare victory for rights activists”;
-
“24 patients fled an Ebola treatment centre in [DRC] when it came under attack by protesters” (UN peacekeepers pushed the protestors away, the patients are all safe
and have returned or are in contact);
“regional blocs . . .
have denounced the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo against civilians and
the United Nations Observation Mission”;
“the European Union [has] lashed out at DR Congo’s decision to expel
its ambassador, calling the move ‘completely unjustified’, just three days before crucial elections”; the DRC’s President has contradicted DRC
health officials and blamed Ebola for a restriction of voters;
-
“Eritrea has partially closed two border
crossings with Ethiopia that opened this year after the former East African
rivals made peace and restored relations”;
-
Madagascar’s President has objected
to losing the election . . . ;
-
overfishing
in Malawi;
-
“hundreds
of Moroccans have attended a vigil . . . for two Scandinavian tourists . . .
murdered [by violent extremists]”;
-
“French judges have dropped a long-running
investigation into the shooting down of a plane carrying the former Rwandan president” in 1994, which
was the excuse (“trigger”) for the genocide;
-
“Senegal's Museum of Black Civilisations [has asked] the West to return
stolen treasures”;
-
a political intervention may
escalate unrest in south western Somalia; “sand dams which retain water above and below sand bars,
is improving access to water supplies for people in
Somalia as the country continues to weather periods of damaging drought”;
-
“fresh anti-government protests [with a disputed death toll from a ‘disproportionate’
response– some have now been dispersed with only tear
gas, others with stun
grenades] have erupted in Sudan as
doctors said they would go on strike to increase pressure on [the] President” – who is rapidly losing
support as professionals
call for more protests and opposition leaders are arrested;
- With regard
to South and Central America:
-
“women in Argentina are
. . . [speaking] out against gender violence”;
-
Colombia has killed
a FARC dissident who had rejected the peace treaty to continue being
violent and murdered three Ecuadorians;
- With regard to mainland China (may her
growing middle class bring a love of peace and freedom), East
and South East Asia and the Pacific (and noting the risks of atrocities in North Korea and burma):
on increasingly totalitarian mainland China, and also Hong
Kong, the DPRK (North Korea) and South Korea (which need to accept their partition – for
now – and sign a peace treaty), Taiwan, and the free but invaded and occupied nation of Tibet:
-
a “prominent Chinese human rights lawyer . . .
[is]
on trial in closed court years
after [his] arrest”; China is trying to increase its
birth rate to address its aging population problem; “Christmas
is celebrated as a shopping festival across most of China . . . but a growing emphasis on traditional culture
. . . and the systematic suppression of
religion” has led to “at least
four Chinese cities and one county” banning
Christmas decorations this year; “China's former deputy intelligence chief
has been sentenced to life in prison for corruption” (how
real are the charges – or are they political? Was the trial a show trial?
Corruption is an issue, but China’s credibility is so lacking it is not
possible to assume this was a step towards managing that problem); a protest
by uni students;
-
other events concerning China have occurred or are developing in: Muslim
nations;
-
improved infrastructure
(road and
railway) connections between north and
South Korea are proceeding – with the USA’s acquiescence;
-
in a symbolic gesture, a US Federal judge “has ordered . . . North Korea to pay more than $US500 million in a
wrongful death suit filed by the parents of” an American college student who
died after being arrested and abused by North Korea;
-
“thousands of Taiwanese people,
taking a page from France's yellow vest movement, have protested . . .
for the third time in a week to demand lower taxes and the fair handling of tax disputes” (is personal
survival an issue – is that why taxes are seen as too high? Is this the cost of
defence against mainland China [also an issue for Israel]? Or are the Taiwanese
getting good value for their taxes – roads, schools, hospitals, etc? The
comment about higher wages in China is significant – was that genuine, or made
by an agent of mainland China?);
elsewhere in Asia:
-
the Indonesian military has dismissed claims
it used white phosphorus grenades in West Papua;
-
“Japan’s emperor has marked his
last birthday before his abdication next year by calling
for his country’s younger generations to be taught accurately about the
horrors of war and expressing relief that his reign has been a peaceful one for
Japan”; “Japan [will] restart commercial whaling”;
-
“Thailand has approved marijuana
for medical use and research, the first legalisation of the drug in a region with some of the world's
strictest drug laws” (this is a step towards
effective harm minimisation, rather than the imposition of
authoritarian/reactionary will);
after “four years of oppressive
and undemocratic rule by a military junta”, Thailand’s often delayed
elections may
finally happen . . . ;
- With regard to Europe and the European Union (EU) (which need
to step up, as the USA steps down):
-
deaths associated with France’s extremely
violent gilets jaunes cost of living protests now include a car
driver; “ignorance about the Holocaust and revisionism” in France;
-
“Italian farmers wage war on protected grey wolves”; “while Italian agriculture is in a leading position
in terms of organic farming, sustainable agriculture and being at the forefront
of biodiversity conservation; water scarcity, illegal workers and the role of
women and combined ageing of its workforce remain pressing concerns”;
-
“pharmaceutical organisations
working with [the UK government] to
maintain medicine supplies in the event of a no-deal Brexit have signed 26 ‘gagging orders’ that bar
them from revealing information to the public”; an examination suggests the UK’s
opposition leader is not
anti-Semitic;
- With regard to the (forgotten or
ignored and underreported) conflicts in Ukraine, particularly in the east:
-
“Ukraine [has celebrated
a] Nazi collaborator, [and banned a] book critical of pogroms leader”;
- With regard to Russia, Russian influenced nations and eastern Europe, Central Asia, and responses to same (see also
elsewhere):
Russia:
-
Russia claims
to have tested a Mach 20 intercontinental hypersonic glide vehicle (if true, could
this destabilise the international arms situation?);
- 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):
-
as “many potential candidates had
been unable to meet registration requirements and
extreme weather meant their teams could not organise for” the original date, “next year's presidential election in
Afghanistan has been postponed by three months”;
- With regard to South Asia (aka
the Indian
sub-continent), The
Hindu and other sources have:
on India:
-
“pollution in Delhi has reached
its worst level this year in the past two days, prompting authorities to rate
conditions as ‘severe to emergency’, which indicates the potential for a public health crisis”;
investigations
into a police officer’s murder have led to one arrest so far; a move towards
affordable healthcare;
an operation to rescue 15 miners trapped in an illegal mine has expanded;
India’s attempted trans bill is flawed;
on Pakistan:
-
a “former Pakistani Prime Minister
. . . has been sent back to jail after a fresh corruption conviction”;
elsewhere in South Asia:
-
elections
are being held in Bangladesh;
- With regard
to West Asia (aka “the Middle East”) and
Northern Africa, the Middle East Eye, the Times
of Israel, and other sources have:
on Israel and Palestine:
-
as a corruption scandal grows and threats
are made against Israel’s Attorney-General over his pursuit of justice, Israel
has brought
elections forward to April, 2019;
the oppression of Bethlehem
and Palestine; see here
and here
on Israeli-Brazilian relations; more work to block violent extremists’ tunnels; “are
Israeli media too soft on the country’s popular [90% trust, as compared to 31% trust in
government] military?”; a major bank
has divested
from an Israeli defence company; condemnation
of plans for 2,000 more illegal settlement homes; the grief
and anger of a missing Israeli soldier;
“Israel turned away a record 19,000 visitors in 2018 . . . [most] due to fear they would work illegally, a
handful were blocked for supporting BDS”;
-
on other violent incidents this week, see: here;
-
other events concerning Israel/Judaism and/or Palestine have occurred or
are developing in: UK, France, USA, USA, Qatar;
on the conflict and the world’s biggest
humanitarian crisis in Yemen:
-
UN truce monitors have arrived
in Hodeidah;
on Syria (where
the Assad Dictatorship has lost all pretence of legitimacy, and partition is
needed):
-
an article on Syria’s constitutional
committee; now that the USA is
withdrawing, Turkey will invade
parts of Syria to kill formerly
US allied Kurds – and the Assad regime is pre-invading
those areas to allegedly “stop Turkey” . . . yeah, right- see also this,
and this
call to not leave a void; Russia
has criticised
a recent airstrike by Israel, but the USA is supportive; recovery
in one Syrian city; Bahrain and the
UAE are acting to restore
relations with the Assad regime;
elsewhere in the region:
-
“Egyptian authorities have [“released” to home detention] a prominent activist who had criticised the government and spoken out
over sexual harassment after more than seven months of detention”; discrimination
against a Coptic christian sporting group;
-
“a British-Iranian academic who
was arrested and detained in Iran on security charges has
returned to the UK” (others remain in jail);
-
“in the wake of more than four
years of intense conflict in Iraq to dislodge [violent extremists], the rehabilitation of the health system
and improvements to lifesaving medical services . . . remains a top priority”;
-
a recent violent extremist “attack
on [the] foreign ministry, [was] an attack on all Libyans”,
according to the UN – see also here
and here; protecting turtles;
-
“Saudi Arabia’s King . . .
has ordered a wide-ranging overhaul of top government posts, including a new foreign minister, after the
international fallout from the killing of the Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi”
– and a space
agency will also be created;
-
in Tunisia “protests spread after
journalist sets himself on fire . . . as anger grows at . . .
unfulfilled pledges of 2011”;
-
the UAE family who sent armed men aboard a vessel to assault crew and
abduct their (princess) daughter who was trying to flee are now trying
to claim she is OK . . . - and “the former UN high commissioner for human rights, has come under fire for claiming” that the princess is “in the loving care of her family” (I’d
also like to know why no-one is thinking of the crew that was assaulted by
Saudi agents?).
General Comments/Information
(Dear Reader, please remember, I expect you
to THINK when reading this blog, and I reserve the right to
occasionally sneak in something to test
that)
Many
others are very capably 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'
(see also here,
here,
and here), 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 (running for decades);
the “
CE 5 ET
contact” movement started by Dr
Steven
M
Greer, which is the one which
appears to me to most capitalise on the teachings of “The Nine”,
the
“Network of Light” meditations;
the
1 Million Meditators
movement,
and
also see
here,
here and
here –
even commercial organisations
(for instance, see here), online groups (e.g. here
and here
– which I do not know the quality of)
and even
an app.
Thus,
if you don't like
what I am suggesting here, but want to be of service, there are many other
opportunities for you – including secular opportunities: e.g., see
here,
here and
here.
Again,
activism in the physical world is also required - see
here,
here
and
here,
here,
and, of course,
here.
(I specifically have a role for (absent) healers on Saturdays [see Psychic
Weather Report]. Anyone who wishes to be protector has a role every day. At all
times, on all levels and in ways, BOTH must ALWAYS be BPM in the way they perform such roles.)
If I am ever late getting
my Psychic Weather Report up any week, there is a
default
plan.
I apologise for publishing these posts
twice, but Blogger keeps changing my formatting.
