Post No. 1,146 – Gnwmythr’s News Ed. No. 209

Owing to illness and work demands, this week’s Gnwmythr’s News is very cut down, and begins with a summary of news stories after I had to cut back my efforts on this.Sorry, but I have to pay the bills, and this is just a non-paying hobby until I get to retirement.

There were a few key points from last week that I would like to note. Those include concerns over the watering down of the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message, the start of the process of holding some police to account over their apparent (sadistic, in one case) abuses of power (whenever I read those sorts of accounts, I think of an uncle in my birth family who left the Queensland police because “the Fitzgerald enquiry didn’t get all the crooked coppers”) – and there are concerns about police and ATO excesses over a whistleblower – and small businesses (does the ATO have something to hide?), about Australian police seeking US-style military weapons (and thinking?), and, on holding people to account, a past abuser is being searched for as the scope of a current, truly appalling [trigger warning] case is found to be wider, an alleged abuser at a major international event in Australia has got off scot free, questions are raised about the use of sonic security, aged care homes are grossly  understaffed (and health costs for Australians are increasing [with the possible exception of the rich, who have been busily pushing private insurance for .. what? To make their mates rich?] as awareness of endometriosis finally starts to grow, and a call is made for better drug recovery services [I wonder how it would be if we applied the “just say no” principle to those in power who abuse their power? Should they have “just said no” in the first place?]), a former South Korean President has been jailed as Brazil’s former President tries to dodge going to jail, a call has been made for the company responsible for an oil spill which killed five fishermen when it caught fire and caused massive devastation to be held to account – and a moron in one oil company claimed an oil spill in a sensitive area would be good for the economy ... , and an ignored past indigenous sporting team is finally acknowledged.

On other environmental matters, a group of dinosaurs in Australia’s Parliament is still pushing for coal – and has been asked by the Monash family to stop using their name, the effect of the battery storage system in South Australia is quite widespread, a call to embrace bush tucker, the backstory and human costs of a past far-sighted environmental conservation decision, a proposal to use disease to control an introduced species, an enquiry will seek to determine if new ivory artefacts are being passed off as old, the legacy of Agent Orange (which is infinitely worse in Viêt Nám). The cost of making Australia’s waste industry truly self-sufficient – as it should ALWAYS have been: very short-sighted thinking – is revealed (see also here), as another case of nutrient pollution from farms (which has been known about for decades, and dates back – probably – to Australia’s stupid superphosphate bounty) is revealed.

Meanwhile, a call has been made for Australia’s Commonwealth Parliament to be strong on indigenous rights as a state Parliament sees an appalling breach of conventions (yet another example of why I don’t consider conventions worth the paper they’re written on). An article on gender bias in Australian culture (and the appalling practices of virginity testing and ghost weddings overseas) and the arrogance of men, and another on the connections between disadvantage and politics. Transphobia in sports and the Pacific. In a hopeful sign, those who wanted watered down gun controls in one state won’t be worried if they don’t get them. Interestingly (and, I think, a bit naively), a call has been made to turn Australia’s reserve Bank into a sort-of people’s bank to make house loans cheaper, and a warning issued on the dangers of shared land ownership. A staggering idea to turn one of Australia’s refugee gulags into a tourist spot …

In nicer news, a novel (quirky) bookstore.

Internationally, the USA and China (the land where its citizens are obediently and in a sheep-like manner giving up their privacy, is also tightening its screws on religions – as is Rwanda, both doing so to increase control over their populations) are ramping up their tariff war, and tensions between the UK and Russia continue to rise as it emerges that the UK’s Foreign Minister – stupidly – misrepresented the advice he had from a testing laboratory (the victims are recovering), a woman has attacked the headquarters of a social media outlet (I always get concerned at the way US police treat survivors at these events), there has been another major earthquake in PNG, Australia has increased its TOTAL aid to Yemen to a paltry 92 cents per Australian … , the USA will deploy its militia to its Mexican border, and Israel is continuing to kill and injure Palestinians,

A warning of the risks and limitations associated with on-line DNA testing kits.

When I look at this overall, the themes that emerge are holding aggressively to one’s own little tribe or clan in society and lacking any care for others, as well as the arrogance of abusing power. This week, I consider we need more humility, empathy and ethics.

Information and Summary of News with Opinion / Advocacy / 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.

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:
     on the Rohingya crisis this week:
     -   a boatload of Rohingyan refugees has been allowed in to Malaysia;   after the USA rejected her, an Afghan woman who had been mutilated in a domestic violence attack has found refuge in Canada;
     on the North Korean and general nuclear tensions this week:
     -   North Korea’s leader has watched South Korean pop groups;
     on other matters requiring particular attention:
     -   China and Russia are developing closer military ties;
     -   child abusers are using civil rights to circumvent working with children checks (from radio news, it is possible that this either has been or will shortly be addressed, but it probably should have been foreseen – by the experienced and capable Parliamentary drafters who write the text of laws, if no-one else);
     -   an appalling incident of police abuse of a disabled man in my home state has raised concerns over poor credibility of police investigations of themselves (how do they consider the interests of the public?), and should possibly raise the vexed issue of training police how to handle people with mental illness – again … ;   33% of indigenous youth would not seek help from the police because of harassment (similarly in my communities);
     -   a nuanced examination of the good and bad finds reason for caution over a major social media’s potential impact on democracy;   another warning over social media data;   Nigeria will examine the potential of the data analytics company currently at the centre of a scandal;   a gay dating app has shared HIV status information;
     -   an opinion that sledging and “banter” in sport are both forms of bullying, and should not be there - see also this call for civility, concerns over the severity of the sentence, and this reflection;
• 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 and commentary this week include:
     -   a suggestion for beating oligarchs hiding their money in shell companies;   the history and debate over the US CIA’s torture programme (whenever I read about the multiple simulated deaths that waterboarding causes, I recall the way the nazi’s hanged people: they would hang them, revive them, hang them again, revive, etc … and the USA is supposed to be better?);
     of concern this week:
     -   “the average taxpayer gives more to wealthy Australians than Newstart [i.e., the dole] recipients but the government demonises the latter” – particularly, it would seem, during holidays;   concern over the consolidation and enforced conformity of a conservative media chain – see also here;
     and democracy/governance/political matters in my home nation this week:
     -   Australia has retracted the racist idiocy spouted recently (and still) by the Home Affairs Minister;   the lack of disabled access in Parliament is interfering with an Australian Senator’s ability to do his job;   a call for Pacific workers, rather than backpackers, to do regional work such as fruit picking (which still has trouble finding people) to boost the Pacific’s income;   how one refugee family made a new start in Australia in the 1990s;   after a premature death in an aged care facility, concerns that cuts to qualified staff are putting elderly residents at risk;
• With regard to the USA and their 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):
     -   even US conservatives are worried about the hawks in the current US administration;
     -   while making the congratulatory call to Putin’s re-pseudo-election he wasn’t supposed, Voldemort II also apparently invited the Russian leader to the White House … ;   the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election has issued its first jail sentence (over lying);   an explanation of the enquiry’s terminology and challenges;
     -   Voldemort II’s Easter tantrum includes cancelling any deal over the “Dreamers” and threatening Mexico over the free trade agreement renegotiations;
     -   one of the former gang members – who helped police – who is now facing deportation to death as a result of Voldemort II’s simplistic crack down (and there go the chances of future informers … );
     -   more concerns over the social media messages of the USA’s 45^th President, and what they indicate of his thinking;
     -   the USA’s current Education Secretary was a disaster in her previous role
• 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 [and there’s this]):
     -   the role of Indigenous women in US history;
     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 stupid transphobic “joke” by a retailer;
     -   other homophobic/transphobic (and heteronormativity / cisgender-normativity) matters have also occurred in: Costa Rica;
     on white supremacist and other forms of RACISM / CULTURAL DISCRIMINATION and Indigenous matters generally this week:
     -   historical photos showing racial diversity in the USA’s coal country;   the 40 year anniversary of an indigenous land claim that highlighted the misunderstandings, fears and fake news of that issue in that era – and the 20 year anniversary of a mine blockade has lessons for today’s activists;
     on TRAFFICKING, and CHILDREN’s and associated human rights this week:
     -   logos that show chocolate is free of child labour/slavery/trafficking;  police have uncovered a case of appalling abuse over two decades;
     -   also on slavery / human trafficking this week: Thailand, UK, Kenya;
     on SEXISM this week (keeping in mind the overblown influence given to testosterone):
     -   a couple have been arrested in the USA for violently abusing their daughter when she refused an arranged marriage;   a prediction achieving equality will take two centuries;
     -   on sexual harassment/misconduct/violence this week: here, here, India;
     on RELIGIOUS rights this week:
     -   a call for the Australian Human Rights Commission to review the (neochristian) school chaplains program in my home state on the grounds that it harms freedom of religion;
     on WORKERS’, PRIVACY, AGED, AND OTHER forms of human (and other – e.g., ANIMAL) rights this week:
     -   workers’, privacy, differently abled, animal, and other forms of human or other rights matters have also occurred in: India:
     -   opportunities to take action here;
• With regard to war, violence and hate generally:
     -   the challenges owing to the size - including number of employees - of weapons industries;
• 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):
     unbelievably, an article has been written on how to make a good apology … then again, quite a few people need it;
• With regard to natural and other catastrophes:
     -   a cyclone has killed several people and caused major flooding in Fiji;
• 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 technology and science matters this week:
     -   a driver who died in a self-driving car recently ignored several warnings from the system to take over;
     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?):
     -   land sharing;
• 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 … ):
     -   some interesting (don’t assume I agree with everything!) interviews on media here, here (refers to the News Literacy Project), here (although the sound quality is poor), here, and here (refers to The Trust Project);
• With regard to education:
     -   educational inequality is costing Australia more than $3 billion a year;   US teachers are demanding more money for students;
     -   other education matters have occurred in: USA;
• With regard to crime, judicial matters and policing:
     -   a rich kid who got off killings people while driving drunk but was eventually put in a low security prison is out again … ;   a prisoner gave birth in a cell because the jailors couldn’t unlock the door … ;
    -    other crime, judicial and policing matters have occurred in: an interesting streaming TV series, USA.

Location based News:

• With regard to Africa, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (and other sources) has:
     -   the human face of violence in the DR Congo;
     -   a range of child-friendly educational materials warning about human trafficking aimed at Kenyan children has been launched;
     -   “fears that newly proposed laws in Nigeria which stipulate a death penalty for hate speech will severely undermine freedom of expression” (this is a backward and excessive step that is made worse by it being claimed to be in the name of human rights – but hate speech should be curtailed);
     -   Zimbabwe is seeking to expand its relationship with imperialist China;
• With regard to South and Central America:
     -   an interesting video on the still living, but under threat, language of Quechua (good suggestions about how to keep this pleasant sounding language alive);
     -   Costa Rica’s new President has promised to legalise Equal Marriage;
     -   an indigenous town in Mexico rebelled against illegal loggers and the corrupt politicians and police who enabled them, threw them all out, has started restoring the environment and has not had a single kidnapping or extortion attempt since … but has had one murder, and anyone wanting to vote for a President has to go to another town;
• 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:
     -   as expected, China has retaliated against US tariffs;
     -   a Taiwanese literary prize nominee has had his nationality changed after pressure from China;
     elsewhere in Asia:
     -   the activist who exposed abuse of workers in Thailand has been found guilty of defamation of those guilty of abuse;
     -   Viêt Nám and China are moving closer to the resolving their maritime dispute in the South China Sea;
     and in the Pacific:
     -   women and children in PNG are facing a doubled trauma – tribal fighting, followed by the recent devastating earthquake;   claims Russia is also expanding its influence in the Pacific;
• With regard to Europe and the European Union (EU) (which need to step up, as the USA steps down):
     -   an assessment of Italy’s new government;
• 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):
     -   the dozens of casualties from an Afghan air strike include many civilians;
• With regard to South Asia (aka the Indian sub-continent), The Hindu and other sources have:
     on India:
     -   sexual violence against women and girls with disabilities;
• With regard to West Asia (aka “the Middle East”) and Northern Africa, the Middle East Eye, the Times of Israel, and other sources have:
     on Israel and Palestine:
     -   Israel has rejected international calls for an enquiry into the deaths of 16 protestors;   a sporting goods company has been called on to divest from sports team in illegal Israeli settlements;
     elsewhere in the region:
     -   an interview with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince shows that he sees West Asia as divided between “a triangle of evil” (including Iran) and moderates, and that Israel has a right to exist.

Other News:

• the laziness – and arrogance – of Anglophones.

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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