Post No. 1,132 – Gnwmythr’s News Ed. No. 203

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 45^th 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;

It is absolutely VITAL that this psychic / metaphysical / spiritual work be performed non-violently and as is for the Highest Spiritual Good – which is part of being BPM – on all levels and in all ways. Always remember (see here): Do you fight to change things, or to punish? See also here, here, here, here, here, and my comments about “authentic presence” in this post.

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 70^th 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 45^th 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 45^th 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 45^th 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 45^th 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 45^th 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 45^th 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 45^th 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 fiancée;
     -   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 45^th 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.

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