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/Analysis:
Note: I am NOT a journalist, and make NO claims to objectivity or
freedom from bias. 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.
The reminders / explanations about Sunday’s
meditation-clearing
are
here;
see also
here,
here,
here,
(here and also here and here are interesting),
here,
here,
here,
and
this
post reminds us to be patient and persistent, like a “speeding oak”.
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. On that, it may help to consider the simplification
that one cannot love perfectly until one has learned how to perfect. (And one of the concerns I have about
those resisting change is that they are so shallow / superficial /stupid that
they thing their actions have ONLY the meaning of their [limited] conscious
intention … ) 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 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 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) viewing the overall emotional state of the world from an elemental point of view, this week we
need:
emotionally (astrally), and mentally,
the reflection of more BPM Air;
a plot of the elemental
influences on a causal/spiritual level follows, and shows a need for the
reflection of more BPM Air;
(d) I have selected the following rune for this
week’s work:
(e)
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 mind-set, and strengthening the USA’s CEO’s BPM Guides and giving them 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 the USA’s CEO’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);
(f) the
major events this week are: - as attraction to violence continues to be
inadequately addressed, the risks of mass atrocities in Syria and burma,
and 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; - refugee and humanitarian crises; - the political madness of regimes with
authoritarian leaders; - and indifference;
(g)
as all actions taken in pursuance of social status are evil, may we
exercise our human characteristics of reason, self discipline and improvement
to overcome that flaw, and the viciousness and destructiveness that go with it;
(h)
may the social filter bubbles around all nonBPM people lead to hubris
and all the associated flaws, weaknesses, lack of attention and other mistakes;
(i) may
we all learn to BPM care;
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):
- Permanent and Thematically Arranged
News,
- Location Based News,
- (from
a range of) Other Sites;
opportunities/good
news are shown in green;
comments 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
be kept BPM safe, including keeping them undetectable to the nonBPM and keeping
all their Significant Others inviolable against being used for indirect psychic
attack, and may they have all the BPM resources (including an assured income, given the power that nonBPM forces have
in the structures of the material world), opportunities and assistance (including so-called “good luck”) for
them to be BPM effective at influencing the world’s direction, development and
unfoldment, 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 inherent resilience, the dynamic power,
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 (so-called
“good luck”) 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;
- 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: the entirety of
this blog and all other spiritual work and physical activism I and many others
do; a personal journey leading to a call to “revolutionary
(agape) love” in “a time of rage” (I like the
comments about “not abandoning one’s post”, “when we are free from hate, we see
the ones who hurt us not as monsters, but as people who themselves are
wounded”, “when we chose to wield our swords and shields to battle bad systems,
that's when we saw change”, and the importance of loving ourselves is a feminist
intervention on top of the work of Gandhi, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. and
Mandela);
on the Rohingya crisis this
week:
-
burma is busy bulldozing mass grave to hide
evidence of its genocide against the Rohingya – see also here; the first civilian witness in the trial of
two journalists has contradicted
police evidence; the experience
of a Rohingyan refugee who has escaped the deliberate and un-healable harm of
Australia’s refugee gulag for the uncertainty of the USA; imminent severe weather is putting Rohingyan
refugees at risk;
on the fallout from the USA’s
recognition of (all?) Jerusalem as Israel’s capital:
-
the US Embassy in Israel will open
in West Jerusalem by Israel’s 70th anniversary; the USA’s peace plan is declared
useless by a Palestinian group;
on the latest mass murder at a US
school using a gun:
-
following the latest
mass murder using guns in the USA, a comment
that “curing all mental illnesses would
only prevent a small fraction—about 4 percent—of all violence”, and plans
by the survivors to march
on Washington to demand gun
control; a misleading
statistic being quoted on the latest mass murder using guns in the USA; a call for an
examination of what worked in those US cities and states who have reduced gun-related violence (with the interesting comment “Background
checks and gun control have proven effective at reducing gun suicides and
domestic shootings (both very worthwhile goals), but not the gun homicides or
mass shootings such remedies are invoked to redress”); young people have asked “am I next?” at demonstration against inaction by the United States of Gun Raffles in the
wake of the latest mass murder using guns as the 45th US President,
who has a history of shifting his positions in response to events or advice,
indicates support for better background checks – see also here,
on the inspiring leadership of one young person, and here,
on their chance of success; an aide was
fired after falsely suggesting that student survivors of the mass
shooting in Parkland were “actors”, repeating a conspiracy theory that has
been used to harass victims, but more constructive responses include a tiny
response from the 45th US President (and even smaller concessions from others), a conservative donor stopping
until there is gun reform, major support from the
Clooneys, and one gun owner destroying
his assault rifle; the utterly stupid
idea of guns in classrooms is now being promoted (turning teachers into potential killers is
fundamentally inappropriate, but also, military experience shows how difficult
it is to turn people into killers – unless they are psychopathic already … Oh,
and the notion that cops could be librarians shows how uninformed and
incompetent the thinking of those promoting this is) - and there was
an armed guard at the school, but he stayed outside … ; the experiences of students including one
being traumatised
by SWAT treating him as a suspect;
a gun nut has tried to confront
survivors at a media event – but it didn’t
go the NRA’s way; as threats against schools increase from ten a day to fifty a day following the recent
mass murder, “school shootings have
become such a regular occurrence in the US that unless there are many
fatalities, the attention is often only fleeting”; the moronic Unexceptional States of America
state that the recent mass murder occurred in has refused to debate gun
control, but has declared porn a health issue … ;
on the emerging sexual
abuse/misconduct crisis in the aid industry:
-
thoughts on the need
for accountability in charities shown by the currently emerging sexual misconduct and
abuse crisis (apparently the charity of
the centre of this had signed up to this); 120 aid workers were sacked in 2017 for
such offences;
on other matters requiring
particular attention:
-
see the reports in the section on Syria;
-
“Earthlings likely to welcome alien life rather than panicking”;
-
although since the disaster of
1999 the UN Security Council has generally agreed
on peacekeeping, and the use of force, the application of force has been
ineffective;
-
Russian bots are aiming to build
anger;
-
“an anonymous website where
children can report harmful behaviour is uncovering self-harm clubs, drug dealing, bullying and illegal activity at an
increasing rate”;
-
“the intersection between
race, gender and medical imperialism”;
-
how
to apologise (how
can people not know this?);
-
a warning that Artificial
Intelligence is ripe for exploitation by rogue states, criminals and terrorists;
-
a US labour-disputes body deemed parts of the memo that led to dismissal
of an engineer at Google “so harmful,
discriminatory, and disruptive as to shed
their status as protected speech in the workplace”;
-
the story of a woman who escaped
a neochristian cult to become a teacher and children's author;
-
densification of wood makes it ten times stronger;
this week’s atrocity alert
at R2P lists Syria and burma;
- With regard to democracy (which can
be measured [as can goodness], and requires protection of minorities and the vulnerable – and remember
Gandhi’s question about whether one is fighting to change things, or to punish,
and note this list of 198 methods of nonviolent action), freedom,
governance (e.g., here, here, here and here, and see also here) and ethics:
Note:
I have a section specifically for the 45th US President below
analyses this week include:
-
concern over the ease
of hacking democratic elections; a
somewhat philosophical assessment of the recent crisis around Australia’s
deputy Prime Minister from the point of view of morality; a
warning that the US crisis is “broader
and deeper than those of the recent past, and nascent trends have accelerated
in a dangerous and unpredictable fashion”, with grave harm to institutions,
abdication from world leadership, and an unfit for office President as US
elites negligently allowed civic life to decay, and a call for Australia to avoid the same fate by having leaders care about political and
social cohesion, and investments in civic education to ensure people can “discern political fact from fiction, and
are apprised of the case for liberal democracy as the best (least worst) form
of government”; despair
at Australian politics becoming “untethered
from shame, or modesty, or dignity, or proportion”; human rights, a
bottom up approach, the importance of gender equality, and the need to change
the perception of corruption in order to fight it; a call for an evidence based approach
to migration;
-
for other analyses see: here (on Russia), here (on India), Poland
(declining democracy), South
Asia;
of concern this week:
-
a bankrupt auction house that stopped people collecting items they had
bought is now charging
exorbitant storage fees; following
the violent militarised response (including
attacks on the media) to protests against an oil pipeline in the USA (the land allegedly of free speech), “56 bills have been introduced in 30 states
to restrict protests”;
Australian Federal police are considering whether to investigate a conservative
MP for pointing
a gun at “greenie punks”; residents
of aged care homes “were wrongly charged tens of thousands of dollars because of basic errors with a
government-run automated fee calculation system”;
-
other concerning events have occurred or are developing in: Kenya,
India, Ethiopia,
Bangladesh,
Afghanistan;
in the grey/mixed [good and bad
aspects] or neutral area this week:
-
the head of a US car company is leaving immediately
following an internal investigation into unspecified “inappropriate behaviour”;
good news this week includes:
-
“a
$500 monthly cheque from the government for every American earning less than
$50,000, financed by taxing the wealthy, would provide financial stability for millions of people in the United States, said the
co-founder of facebook”;
and democracy/governance/political
matters in my home nation this week:
-
an increasing proportion of younger people with psychological conditions
on the disability support pension could see recipients remain on the payment
for twice
as many years as the current average (so is anyone prepared to admit there is something wrong
with the pressure of modern life, yet?); a former neoliberal Prime Minister of
Australia has called for immigration to be cut
from 190,000/year to the figure inaccurately claimed to be the average under a
former neoliberal government (the figure
had risen to a steady 160,000/year over the last years) “at least until
infrastructure, housing stock and integration has better caught up” and on
claims – not backed up by OECD evidence (or
his colleagues) – that immigrants harm housing prices and wages (there is also
the beneficial relative youthfulness of immigrants); exaggerated
claims of job losses if pokies are removed from pubs and clubs; concerns that the small-minded reactionary
state of politics in Townsville in the Australian state of Queensland is an indication
of what Australia could become; the
Australian public – which is sceptical
about the benefits of immigration, but not isolationist, recognising the
benefits of trade agreements - isn't
accepting buy the neo-classical trickle down economic theory the government is
selling, preferring political economy, where economics is seen less as an
equation and more as a product of history, culture and politics and cost of
living pressures as a product of the government’s failure to land a plan to
transition energy, or protect home buyers from speculators, or support
job-creating industries; tax cuts will
reduce government income, services and jobs, making the claimed benefits look even
shakier
than analyses already show; a review
of a book outlining Chinese influence and subterfuge in Australia; stagnant wage growth and high housing costs
are pushing
Australian workers into homelessness;
- With regard to the 45th
President (who is dangerous – see here on actions
for US residents [and the useful principles]) of the Unexceptional
States of America (which has some … “unique” characteristics that don’t
exist elsewhere in the world) generally this week (I avoid using
the 45th US President’s name for psychic reasons – I may use either
“the USA’s CEO” or “Voldemort II” as an alias; also, the US Vice-President
needs to be worked on – and typically takes about three times as much effort to
clear of negativity):
-
a call for the media to ask – like a broken record, persistently,
endlessly, and challenging every unsatisfactory answer - the 45th US
President if
he has nothing to hide, why is he so soft on Russia?; a lawyer who worked with one of the 45h US
President’s key and controversial former advisors has pleaded guilty
to lying to FBI;
-
the 45th US President’s son has shown how staggeringly out
of touch with reality he is by praising poor people in India for smiling …
-
the US administration will effectively force
poor people out of public housing;
-
the US government no
longer considers it is a nation of immigrants … ; the USA has rejected
100 mostly christian refugees from Iran;
-
“from scorning immigrants to
accepting the president’s profanity, evangelicals
are proving just how flexible
their values can be”;
-
support for a plantation to counter Voldemort II’s backing away from
climate change containment measures;
-
suggestions
for fighting monopolies in the USA;
-
one US city in the southern USA has become
the first to force
employers to give workers sick leave (the USA has the stupidest health “system” I have ever
come across .. );
-
Bernie Sanders’ son could
stand for election;
- 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 and acknowledging the variety in what
provides genuine, BPM fulfilment as a counter to fanaticism as a source of meaning. I don’t name groups
to reduce their publicity):
-
violent extremist attacks/acts have occurred this week in Afghanistan,
South
Africa, and, according to this
Wikipedia page, there have been 3 attacks in Iraq, 8 attacks in
Afghanistan, and 1 attack in Syria (out of a total of 28); violent extremist threats are or may be
developing in South
Africa; and actions (Note:
there are many others that don’t reach the media I read) have occurred this
week against violent extremists in: Nigeria;
- a US
citizen who committed a hate crime by
murdering his Arab-American neighbour has been sentenced to life in prison; Australia has admitted that
Israel helped avert a violent extremist plot last year, and Lebanon has said it
also provided information; a UK court
case has led to revelations
that MI6 courted Libya and viewed British Muslims as threats after the mass
murder committed by violent extremists on 9/11; improved coordination
on the UN’s counter violent extremism strategy;
- the
extraordinary scope and cost
of the USA’s - official and mercenary - “war on terror”, and the lack
of care shown by US citizens;
-
other violent extremist matters have also occurred in: Nigeria,
UK,
France;
- With regard
to refugees (noting the New York Declaration) and people
seeking asylum:
-
Australia will
not release a woman at “high and imminent risk of … heart attack or sudden
death” from our Nauru gulag because she – understandably, particularly given the history of
assaults that Australia has allowed there - won’t leave her young
son alone on the island; despite
ongoing concerns, a Tamil asylum seeker –
whose evidence of association with the LTTE (accepted in other cases) was rule
out because he was too afraid to present it early - will be deported
to Sri Lanka after the UN committee against torture withdrew a request to
Australia to halt his removal while it investigated the risk of him being
tortured upon return; people “rescued from Libya's prisons “start again
from zero” ”; after four years, staff
and refugees in one of Australia’s gulags are still being exposed to mould
which is 76
times the safe level;
-
other refugee-related matters have also occurred in: Italy,
France,
USA/Iran,
Rwanda,
Israel,
Syria/Lebanon;
- With regard to other human (and other) rights and discrimination (incidentally,
I consider it vital to identify people who are bigots, as they clearly have
flaws of observation and thinking – shown by the fact that NOT all people choose to discriminate unless they have been
educated otherwise):
on HOMOPHOBIA/TRANSPHOBIA (including heteronormativity and
cisgender-normativity) this week (and noting that trans kids are the same as cis kids of the
trans kids’ true gender):
-
a corporation trying to
capitalise on being an LGBTIQA ally has falsely
claimed the A is for ally – it is NOT, it is for “asexual” (and/or “agender”, depending on who you ask); ongoing
hypocrisy by the MP who use morality to fight against Equal Marriage who is
now objecting to the same morality – and calling for the privacy that he denied
gay families and their children … fortunately the repulsive
git is now gone; the ongoing abuse of debunked “gay conversion “therapy” ”; Bermuda has decided
to slip back to the 1950s … ;
anti-LGBT
hate in the Unexceptional States of America;
on white supremacist and other forms of RACISM and indigenous matters generally
this week:
-
“I’m a black man in America. I’ve
been dealing with fake news ever since we’ve been here”;
“layers are being created within and between Indigenous communities, making closing the
gap ever more difficult”;
Australia’s neoliberal Prime Minister has been accused of deliberately
throwing out a bipartisan approach to Indigenous constitutional recognition,
after a new poll that found 57% of voters — including 38% who typically vote
for the neoliberals — would support
an Indigenous voice model; a racist
hate crime is suspected against the British royal family’s newest fiancĂ©e;
-
other white supremacy / racism problems have also occurred in: France;
on TRAFFICKING, and CHILDREN’s
and associated human rights this week:
-
boys tend to be the silent
victims of sex trafficking; a US court
case over forced
labour in a detention centre can represent 60,000 others; a crisis has emerged in a remote Australian won over the sexual assault of a
toddler, despite repeated warnings to authorities; a call to respect children’s rights by embracing
mother languages; a short-term home rental
company will act
on concerns that some of its properties have become “pop-up (slavery) brothels”; Ethiopians are being exploited in Lebanon; prosecutors from a dozen nations will cooperate against human traffickers and slavers; technology is helping seafood companies eliminate slavery from their
supply chains; Singapore
is helping migrant workers track unpaid wages; several companies are looking into a report alleging that
inmates of a Chinese prison made packaging the companies used; the UN has received 40 allegations of sexual
abuse in the last quarter of 2017;
-
also on child abuse,
particularly neochristian and other institutional, this week: here,
here,
here,
here;
-
also on slavery / human
trafficking this week: Malaysia,
USA,
Australia,
South Asia;
on SEXISM this week (keeping in mind the overblown influence given to
testosterone):
-
some nuanced thoughts on rape culture;
advice on what
to do when being sexually harassed – see also the “respect is the rule” campaign; a man
has got a lighter sentence than the woman he sexually assaulted, who
was also sentence for assault; “women have changed the mood” but “now we need to change policy”;
81% of women have experienced sexual harassment; the “brave
woman fighting against female genital mutilation”;
-
on sexual harassment/misconduct this week - more accusations / descriptions
of effects and commentary / responses / resignations: here,
here,
here,
here,
here;
-
other sexism matters have also occurred in: Australia,
Afghanistan;
on RELIGIOUS rights this week:
-
thank the Goddess, one of the early
neochristian TV preachers of hate (see
this opinion that he was “on the wrong
side of history”) has gone to the Summerlands – may he learn to
genuinely love in his next incarnation – see also this
balanced opinion; Islamophobia in UK
schools (and media);
on WORKERS’, PRIVACY, AGED, AND OTHER forms of human (and other –
e.g., ANIMAL) rights this week:
-
“mediation services developed to deal with complex child custody disputes could
be used to resolve cases of elder abuse”;
-
other workers’, privacy, differently abled, animal, and other forms of human
or other rights matters have also occurred in: South Sudan, South Sudan;
-
opportunities to take action here;
- With regard to war, violence
and hate generally:
-
two men in Australia have been charged after a child was accidentally
shot by an unsecured
gun; an extended family has been
removed from a cruise ship over their prolonged
intimidation of other passengers and physical violence; myths
are crippling attempts to reduce the recruitment of child soldiers;
- With regard to peace and/or spirituality generally (including revolutionary
love, survival after death, and good religion),
development (in an “end poverty/thirst/hunger” sense – and being
mindful of “intimate activism”) and the
occasional nice story (and to get people to constructively remedy: fear of
being single / asexual / off-grid or a rebel / innovator / non-conformist /
true to yourself, belief in management fads and fashions, distracting themself aka filling their
time, and accept extraterrestrial UFOs):
interesting
spiritual reflections; in praise of solitude (how to turn loneliness
into joyous solitude); some well-thought-out
opinions on fear; Serena Williams has used her near death
after giving birth to bring
attention to lack of care for many black women in the USA and more
generally around the world; the need is for aid that helps locals, not multinationals and bloated NGOs or is dictated by Western nations;
other events concerning peace,
spirituality and development have occurred or are developing in: Mozambique;
- With regard to natural and other catastrophes:
-
an earthquake
in Mexico has led to deaths, including from a helicopter
crash; a plane
crash in ad weather in Iran; garbage
mound collapse in Mozambique; an
expert has called for a review
of commercial development at airports;
after a pre-emptive
state of emergency for a former cyclone, New Zealand is considering a new,
sixth category for cyclone (for the sake of international consistency, why not use
the US system, which already extends higher?); a landslide
has killed 7 people in Indonesia;
- With regard to overcrowding and “modern” lifestyle issues (such as conflict minerals, environmental harm and child labour in smart phone , FOMO [which can be overcome] and addiction or unthinking pro-technology bias, 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 or failing to consider life options, AI ethics, corporate misuse of mindfulness as
a distraction from working conditions, embedded emissions, plane pollution, bigger, flashier homes/cars– which means
actively abusing the environment and society’s cohesion and contributing to financialisation, the need for agroforestry, the accursed “new is always good”
groupthink of the computer world, abuse of workers by insisting on busy-ness, raising Prince Boofheads):
on climate change and other environmental matters this week:
-
an article on why US cities are “divesting
from oil”; ways are being considered to enable renters to access solar power; “nearly
60 Australian industrial sites have been given the green light to increase
greenhouse gas pollution, potentially cancelling out hundreds of millions of dollars of public spending on emissions cuts”; France will allow the wolf population to grow
40% despite pressure from farmers who are worried about their sheep flocks; claims the “global tide of ocean plastic pollution is a clear violation of
international law”, leading to calls for a new global treaty to replace the
current, clearly ineffective agreements;
deep sea mining (no comment
about the destruction of the communities around the vents ... ); an abnormal
cyclone season in northern Australia;
an US delivery company will switch
to electric vans; the Netherlands will build an offshore solar energy farm; another firefighting chemicals contamination
problem; Bill
and Melinda Gates on grid-scale storage, liquid fuels, mini-grids, alternative
building materials, and geothermal power to fight climate
change; plans
for a zero carbon footprint shopping centre; the challenges
to sustainable palm oil; diesel cars may
be banned from European cities; an alternative
to all-meat burgers;
on technology and science matters this week:
-
a social media platform could
be fined over $150 million for breaching privacy laws in Belgium; fish farming is becoming more high tech; automation has caused six thousand job
losses in one case (and no-one thought to do anything to pre-emptively help
them get other jobs or careers … );
a cyber blackmailer has been jailed;
on economic and financial matters this week:
-
we have excessive
housing debt (anyone
prepared to get away from the growth beyond population growth furphy yet?); a glib and flippant article on changing
careers; a fruit fly outbreak is threatening
Tasmania’s fruit industry;
on affordable, sustainable and decent housing and homelessness matters
this week (why are politicians with “investment properties” not admitting a
conflict of interest and staying out of
housing affordability debates?):
-
another great
tiny house, and some common sense comments here; a warning to treat
your house like your home;
an
interesting talk on using recycled materials and fresh thinking for house
building;
on health and medical this week:
-
a study shows weight
loss is linked to healthy eating (more
vegetables and fewer processed foods, sugary drinks and unhealthy fats), not genetics; shrinks are finally starting to
recognise that depression is, as the World Health Organisation put it, “socially
produced”;
on other matters in the category this week:
-
a quirky new trend of combining jogging and litter collection: “plogging”; four months after a mining
company damaged a road so seriously it cut off a rural community no repairs
are underway; cuts
to neighbourhood houses in my nation; concerns
in the USA that a major data breach has not been properly investigated;
- 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 … ):
-
a far right wing provocateur has dropped
his lawsuit over his cancelled book; a
social media platform will help
financially support the Rory Peck Trust for three years; the background
to the imprisonment and release of a German journalist in Turkey;
-
other media / freedom of expression matters have occurred in: USA;
- With regard to education:
-
workplace stress
is causing burnout and depression in school principals;
- With regard to crime, judicial
matters and policing:
-
the law
around pet attacks on other pets; why
a gold mining company gave an employee who
stole from it “the
chance to say sorry”; a ship’s crew has fought
off pirates; concerningly, US police can escape
sexual assault charges by claiming it was consensual; demands for transparency
around the police use of Tasers after a mentally ill man died; the problem
of neighbourhood tree disputes (why isn’t this basic law taught in schools?); unethical
behaviour by the head of a police integrity unit;
-
other crime, judicial and policing matters have occurred in: the
Netherlands, Afghanistan.
Location based News:
- With regard to Africa, the Africa
Center for Strategic Studies (and other sources) has:
on Africa generally:
-
the growing problem of West African piracy; a rebuttal
of the assumptions being applied to Africa’s “youth bulge”; agriculture is helping
address youth unemployment; an opinion
that peace, stability and prosperity can be achieved in the
Sahel; concerns over a potential
African “brain
drain”;
-
Cameron’s opposition leader has stepped
aside for the younger generation;
-
the “road to peace in Central
African Republic remains long
and difficult” (another perfect situation for
the application of the psychic techniques taught on this blog – clear the “negative”
[nonBPM] and strengthen the “good” ]BPM]); lack of aid funding is killing people in the
CAR;
-
Switzerland has imposed sanctions
on allies of the President of the DR Congo;
-
ongoing concerns about the state
of democracy and international
pressure in Djibouti;
-
Ethiopia will train
Equatorial Guinea;
-
Ethiopia has released
details (including limitations on
politics) of the six month state of emergency it has declared – and, oddly,
its “political reforms” have been welcomed … ;
-
an examination
of Germany’s attempt to promote jobs in Ghana;
-
concerns Kenya is sliding
towards dictatorship; responses to youth
joblessness in Kenya; following
failures attributed to graft and lack of consultation, a call for future
projects to stop
imposing solutions on them;
-
more internally
displaced people in Mali;
-
a garbage mound collapse has killed
17 people in Mozambique;
-
475 violent extremist suspects have been released
in Nigeria for rehabilitation; some of
the schoolgirls missing
after a violent extremist attack in Nigeria have
been rescued; allegations
of abuses by Nigerian security forces;
more Cameroonian separatists have been detained
in Nigeria;
-
five Congolese refugees have been killed during protests
over reduced food rations in Rwanda;
-
in exchange
for getting some of its national debt paid off, the Seychelles has “agreed to protect 210,000 sq. km of ocean”;
-
concerns
that Somalia is unlawfully detaining and at times prosecuting in military
courts children with alleged ties to violent extremism;
-
an assessment
of South Africa’s possible “new dawn”;
- mediation
is making
progress for Togo;
on Sudan and
South Sudan:
-
despite
promised releases, hundreds are still in jail in Sudan; an assessment
of Sudan’s difficult economic and geopolitical situation (it should be recalled that a lot of this
was created by Sudanese war crimes and crimes against humanity);
-
more
horrendous abuses by government forces in South Sudan – which may be war crimes; violations of rights to
freedom of opinion and expression in South Sudan;
- With regard
to South and Central America:
-
Mexico is investigating
the disappearance of three Italian men who were reportedly detained by police; US trade threats are causing Mexico to turn
to Brazil for corn; “Mexico … has now become a destination … for
children and families fleeing gang violence in Northern Central America”;
- Peru's ex-President Alberto Fujimori will be tried for the
1992 killings of six farmers; the problems
facing Peru’s rural
poor;
-
more electoral controversy in
Venezuela;
- With regard to China (may her
growing middle class bring a love of peace and freedom), East and
South East Asia and the Pacific (noting the risks of atrocities in North Korea and Burma):
on China, 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:
-
some villages which have built
their economy around corruption and crime may lose it as a result of the
current anti-corruption drive; China’s investment in science is paying off;
details have emerged over a physical altercation between Chinese
security staff, unaware of diplomatic requirements – and for whose behaviour
China apologised,
and US security staff, who were overly aggressive during the recent visit by
the 45th US President;
China's crackdown on pollution is paying off, but some fear the problem
is just being pushed
elsewhere; a warning that the army
needs to stay out of politics;
-
the North Korean delegation to the winter olympics closing ceremony will
include the man responsible for the sinking
of a South Korean naval vessel that killed 46 people; more
sanctions … ;
elsewhere in Asia:
-
the family of a murdered Cambodian government critic, whose death
sparked major protests, has – unusually,
given our generally profound xenophobia - been granted a special
humanitarian refugee visa by Australia;
Cambodia’s Prime Minister has threatened
violence against protestors during his visit to Australia;
-
a volcano has erupted
in Indonesia;
and in the Pacific:
-
neochristian “health centres” are deliberately
failing to meet their obligations of providing a full family planning
service in PNG;
- With regard to Europe and the European Union (EU) (which need
to step up, as the USA steps down):
-
concern that France’s proposals to speed up requests threaten
the rights of asylum seekers;
France will attempt to cut
off radicalisation in prisons and reintegrate returning violent extremists;
-
Germany’s army is struggling
to modernise; appalling
taste by a German skater at the winter olympics;
-
a xenophobic
party is emerging in Italy which is planning to introduce mass deportations
of refugees;
-
corruption allegations
in Latvia;
-
Dutch police have warned that the Netherlands is becoming a narco-state,
with many victims not reporting drug-related crimes and organised gangs having
a “free rein”;
-
the attack
on democracy in Poland, the nation which took such a strong stand for
freedom and democracy and against communism in the 1980s; Poland’s denials of all
collusion in the Holocaust “risk” damaging its international reputation (I’d say this
and other matters mean the reputation is gone);
-
with the support of intelligence experts, the leader of the UK’s
opposition has dismissed
as “ridiculous smears” the idea he gave information to a communist spy during
the cold war, saying the only reason some newspapers are publishing the claims
are because they are worried about a Labour government;
- With regard to the (forgotten or
ignored and underreported) conflicts in Ukraine, particularly in the east:
-
thousands have marched to call
for the resignation of Ukraine’s President;
- With regard to Russia (which is
currently supporting an – in my opinion, based on R2P principles - illegitimate
regime in Syria), Russian influenced nations and eastern Europe, Central
Asia, and responses (see also elsewhere):
Russia:
-
an opinion
that Russia is “not so much a (re)rising
superpower as a skilled strategic spoiler”;
-
other events concerning Russia, eastern Europe or Central Asia have
occurred or are developing in: USA/Russia;
- 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):
-
activists are using murals
to spread messages against corruption and for peace; tension
between regional governors and the central government; a call for investigation
of reports that Afghan special forces summarily executed civilians; whilst welcoming the new Penal Code in
Afghanistan, the UN is concerned by the removal of the chapter
penalising violence against women;
- With regard to South Asia (aka
the Indian
sub-continent), The
Hindu and other sources have:
-
nomads who have been stranded by the closure
of the Afghan-Pakistan border are running out of food and watching their stock
die; abuse of female
textiles workers in South Asia includes verbal and sexual harassment,
underpayment and long hours; Indian
civilians have been moved after shelling
by Pakistan;
on India:
-
an interesting examination of the
history and development of democracy in India; the court case over alleged defrauding of a
bank of more than a billion dollars could be a sign of
a far deeper problem in India's banking system; the British Empire resisted women’s
suffrage in India; the USA is getting cranky
over Indian tariffs; Indians fighting for cleaner
air; aided by US intelligence, India has charged a Pakistani diplomat and others
over an alleged
violent extremist plot; age
discrimination in medical courses in India has been upheld; Canada will hold its officials accountable
for the embarrassment caused by the presence of an extremist Sikh sympathiser
at tour events in India; concerns over
disunity in India’s Supreme
Court (what
is wrong with dissenting opinions? They are a key part of justice elsewhere); women’s
political rights are being pursued
in a nominally matrilineal Indian state; “democracy in India cannot exist without the
extension
of the democratic imagination to the region”;
on Pakistan:
-
Pakistan will be subjected to international
scrutiny over concerns about funding violent extremism;
elsewhere in South Asia:
-
an examination of the high
levels of violence in Bangladesh’s democracy;
-
as China and India compete for influence in the crisis-ridden, human
rights denying Maldives, concerns
over a Chinese fleet moving into the area;
-
solar powered pumps are helping quake-affected
farmers in Nepal recover;
- With regard
to West Asia (aka “the Middle East”) and Northern
Africa, the Middle East Eye, the Times
of Israel, and other sources have:
-
continuing tensions
over gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean;
on Israel and Palestine:
-
Israel has reiterated its view that Iran is the world’s greatest threat, and says it would
act if necessary; more on the
Palestinian teenager who has been charged
with assaulting an Israeli soldier; two
Palestinians have been wounded in riots
on the Gaza fence; Israel will legalise
another illegal settlement; an autopsy has contradicted
Israeli claims a Palestinian died from tear gas (he was shot); Israel has jailed
seven Eritreans refusing deportation;
an assessment that hardliners in Israel are getting their desired
sanctions to commit
more violence;
on the conflict in Yemen:
-
MSF’s
work in Yemen; a critique
of the good (e.g., “bringing women and
other civilians to the same negotiating table as generals and warlords to
explain exactly what bombs and bullets do to the children they are trying to
raise in crater-pocked towns and villages”) and bad (links via his British service to Saudi Arabian weapons) of Yemen’s
new UN envoy, taking on the jo after two predecessors gave up in frustration;
on Syria (where
the Assad Dictatorship has lost all pretence of legitimacy, and partition is
needed):
-
Syria has killed dozens of its civilians in a bombardment of a
rebel-held area (including hospitals),
UNICEF has issued a literally blank statement to show there are no words to describe the suffering of Syrian children, and despair that the world fails to be outraged;
suggestions that Russia knew
what it was doing when its mercenaries attacked US allies; Turkey has shelled
a civilian aid convoy; the lack of any
safe place to go to means rebels will keep
fighting in Ghouta; the pursuit of self-interest
by international influences in Syria;
concerns over the coercive
return of Syrian refugees from Lebanon;
calls for more
support for Syrian refugees and
the nations hosting them; the
UN aid chief has said the Security Council can still save lives in
Ghouta;
on
Iraq (which was a peaceful and prosperous society before the UK / USA / CIA backed revolution – see here) and Kurdistan:
-
the Iraq Body Count project
reports 80 civilians violently killed in the last week (474 civilians in January);
on Iran:
-
the International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran has stayed
within the main limits of the nuclear deal, but Iran may
withdraw if banks “stay away”;
on the Armenian-Genocide-Denying Grand Sultanate of Turkey:
-
Turkey continues to be alarmed that
someone is helping the Kurds –
outside of Turkey, where, against a background of denial of the Armenian
genocide committed by Turkey’s predecessor state, they are actively, violently
and viciously suppressed – move towards continued existence, and possibly a
homeland; Turkey’s Grand Sultan wants
to recriminalise
adultery … (what’s
next: amputations and stoning?);
elsewhere in the region:
-
those released
from jail in Egypt face suspicion, social isolation and exclusion;
-
although Iran is trying to consolidate groups in Lebanon, a major group
is focusing on Lebanese elections instead.
Other News:
- a Thai court has “ruled in favour of a wealthy Japanese man who fathered 13 surrogate
children through Thai mothers, naming him their legal parent and sole guardian”.
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, as
explained in the Psychic Weather Report posts. 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.
No signature block for these posts.
