For a range of reasons, this is a very cut down version this week.
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.
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), the strength and
endurance of more BPM Earth;
mentally, the compassion and empathy of more BPM Water;
a plot of the elemental influences on a
causal/spiritual level follows, and shows a need for more BPM Fire;
(d) I’ve
created a bindrune for this week’s work, which is:
(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 Burundi,
Central African Republic and Sudan, 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
the backing away from progress around North Korea, triggered by clumsy
comments perhaps, but maybe towards a truthfulness that would have emerged
later, anyway; the ongoing personal
violence of some conservatives;
the environmental devastation (and desecration, in my view) of capitalism
and its unfounded addiction to growth;
continued addiction to power; challenges and challenging events that may
yet lead to a more genuine commitment to ethics on the part of
corporations; continuing repression
in China and Chinese invade and occupied territory, despite growing material
prosperity; awkward, clumsy, and
stilted attempts by neoliberals to implement policies proposed by others on the
basis of compassion; continuing
cruelty; head-in-the-sand nostalgia;
(g) may all people develop emotional empathy and
maturity, compassion, and overcome empathy/compassion overload and/or fatigue;
(h) may the holding of personal be seen for the
fleeting thing it is, and may all people learn to focus on helping all people
and groups to grow in a BPM manner;
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 (if I have any
this week);
opportunities/good
news (in my opinion)
are shown in green;
comments (by me) are shown in purple;
and
WARNING: some of
these links may contain triggers around issues such as violence, sexual
assault, discrimination, etc.
Permanent Issues and Thematically Arranged News:
- Permanent issue: may all
actual and potential BPM Leaders
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, may we all exercise our human
characteristics of reason, self discipline and improvement to overcome the often
evil flaw of seeking social status;
- Permanent issue: may all
humans be in better communication with the better parts of their nature – especially
those who need that more than other, better people;
- Matters warranting particular attention:
this week on reversing the
deliberate, well-funded, long-term strategy (from
about the 70s) to make self-interest
seem normal and a commitment to fairness (such as former US President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms) an aberration: the entirety of this blog and all other spiritual work
and physical activism I and many others do;
on other matters requiring
particular attention:
-
in an “unsurprising return to the norm”, the proposed
meeting between the USA and North Korea has been cancelled
by the USA;
-
to stop
domestic violence in the neochristian church, women must be believed
(this is the
next in a year long series on the staggering problem of domestic violence in
neochristianity, and raises yet more questions about hypocrisy); disturbing details of both what changed
from consenting sex to a violent sexual assault raise questions about one
Australian states laws, and its practices around trying such cases (she “endured
cross-examination on her drinking, drug use, minor criminal history and whether
she was wearing underwear on the night” – in this day and age?!) ;
-
“the future of work run by robots appears to be a dystopian march to rising inequality,
falling wages and higher unemployment according to [the] International Monetary Fund”;
-
for the first time since 1961,
Sweden will send out instructions to its citizens next week on how
to cope with an outbreak of war (including
getting clean water, spotting propaganda, finding a bomb shelter, what an air
raid warning sounds like and their duty to act), as the country faces an assertive
Russia across the Baltic Sea;
-
the USA and China are reportedly putting their trade war “on
hold” . . . ;
this week’s atrocity alert
at R2P lists Burundi, Central African
Republic and Sudan;
- 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, research and commentary this
week include:
-
a perspective
that one of China’s reasons for its growing military aggressiveness is the
surrounding “ring” of US and allied bases (I disagree with this assessment: China has Russia to the
north so the “ring” is hyperbole. Also, another issue is likelihood of being
used – and, with all its flaws under its current President, I have greater
concerns about seriously repressive China, which has shown that it is acquiring
disputed territory [and has done so back to the illegal invasion and occupation
of Tibet, which was followed by genocide); the background
to the savagery of Russia’s President sexist vengeance against Hilary Clinton,
and his anger towards the USA; an excellent
analysis on organisational ethics
(they are moral agents, but holding them
to account means addressing organisation-level features [the schemes,
structures, culture, expectations, etc “that produce the organisation's values,
goals, beliefs, etc, and the cycles by which those features reinforce each
other”], not “the small collection of humans that happen to sit at the top at
any one point in time”, although the individuals have duties); a legal analysis of the US
withdrawal from the Iran P55+1 nuclear deal;
of concern this week:
-
a departmental head has claimed
his references to “burning this
department to the ground” were not threats . . . ; Chinese influence
in one Pacific Island nation’s elections;
against the background of an assessment
that the China-Australia relationship is strained, but not broken, China has told
Australia to stop seeing its aggressiveness (my term) as anything but good . . . and a warning
to businesses that despite “ a fond hope
for years, that the modernisation of China meant that they were being
westernised, and that's patently not true”, and an acknowledgement that
Australian companies or farmers don’t need to kowtow to Chinese
buyers or the government, Australians need to understand Chinese regulations
and what will affect demand; questions
over the use of Parliamentary privilege after an “ultra-patriot”,
neochristian, anti-communist, former soldier MP ignored current legal (defamation) proceedings and identified
an Australian citizen (often described in
the media as “Chinese-Australian”) as person who allegedly bribed a UN
official – which the Australian citizen denies; a crucial Australian crossbench senator “repeatedly”
voted in Parliament in support of a coal mining company that he
had invested in; a US “government employee in southern China has
reported suffering from “abnormal” sounds and pressure leading to a mild brain injury, the US embassy said — recalling similar
experiences among American diplomats in Cuba”;
-
other concerning events have occurred or are developing in: India, Ukraine/USA,
Australia;
good news this week includes:
- improved local government governance in my home state;
on development (in an “end
poverty/thirst/hunger” sense – and being mindful of “intimate activism”):
-
Australia’s foreign aid budget has been cut
in each of the past five years;
and democracy/governance/political
matters in my home nation this week:
on
the Royal Commission into banks, and similar matters:
-
possible
changes from the Royal Commission;
despite being found
to have acted unconscionably, the Federal Court found the Australian
Securities and Investments Commission had not made out its case against one of
Australia’s “big four” banks for breaching the Corporations Act provisions
against market manipulation or market rigging; yet another of the big four has a collapse
of its internet and phone services;
-
see also: here;
on
other matters:
-
more
concerns over implementation of the NDIS, with one mother feeling “blackmailed and pressured”; a right wing party has withdrawn
its support for the proposal by Australia’s neoliberal government to reduce
company tax rates, apparently over an failure to meet a promise to provide
apprenticeship funding; regional communities have praised migrant workers for
keeping schools and shops open, and are calling
for more
arrivals; in a troubling
escalation of gang violence in one area of my home city, a hand
grenade has, for the first time ever, been used to attack a “notorious
family”, with a window not breaking preventing serious injury to a mother and
her child; “Australian farmers who have been foreclosed on hope the next round of banking royal
commission hearings [likely to be a special hearing in coming months] will expose the tactics of big banks they
claim put them out of business” (a “2016 parliamentary inquiry . . . did find
some farmers had been treated unfairly at the hands of major banks”); the delayed
and protracted election campaigns for by-elections resulting from the
resignation of MPs with dual citizenship will put smaller candidates at a
financial disadvantage (roll on public funding- and the deliberate timing during
an opposition party’s national conference is a particularly dirty political
“trick”) -see also this
analysis; Australia’s neoliberal
government has rejected
an opposition proposal for a federal anti-corruption commission;
- With regard to the USA and their 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):
-
an examination of the situation
of the USA’s 45th President, whose latest fantasy-land scenario is
that the FBI infiltrated
his election campaign team . . . ; the personal lawyer of the USA’s 45th
President accepted a secret
$400,000 payment to arrange a meeting between the Ukrainian and US Presidents;
-
a court decision means the USA’s 45th President cannot lock users on his social
media;
- 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):
-
according to this
Wikipedia page, there have been 3 attacks in Iraq and3 attacks in
Afghanistan, (out of a total of 20);
-
questions
over why Australia’s counter-violent extremism assistance in the Philippines
has “gone dark”; the Australian
Federal Police Commissioner has been unable
to explain what the penalties would be for people failing to provide
identification to his officers in the nation's airports;
- With regard to refugees (noting the New York Declaration) and people
seeking asylum:
-
a refugee in Australia’s Manus Island refugee gulag - where a fire
forced the relocation of 120 refugees - has “apparently” died by suicide,
highlighting the lack
of medical care;
- 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]):
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 woman who lived and worked as
a man until her death at age 88 in 1975 (was she trans? Why didn’t the story even mention the
possibility?); boxing's
first black heavyweight champion has been posthumously
pardoned for a 1913 conviction by an all-white jury for violating the Mann
Act by travelling with his white girlfriend;
on white supremacist and other forms of RACISM / CULTURAL DISCRIMINATION and
Indigenous matters generally this
week:
-
an article on a fairly obvious point: it is acceptable for minorities to
reclaim abusive words, but that does NOT mean people from majorities to
use those words now; 31 years after
issues and challenges were identified in the “landmark” Women's Business
report, Indigenous girls and women “have
a greater sense of the truth of systemic issues [which are still present], and how they are experienced”, and need
help to reach their full potential and live enriching lives; more racism - dressed up as
“de-politicising” - in US sports; a Senator from a very small minded part of
a small minded Australian state has claimed
he hasn't seen enough racism to merit a commissioner ... (lack of recognition of what is staring
people in the face, and flippant dismissal, are relevant issues here); the history of an abusive settlement for
stolen aboriginal children and others where
hundreds died is being revealed;
on TRAFFICKING, and CHILDREN’s
and associated human rights this week:
-
in a landmark ruling which specifically rejected the argument that “as child sexual abuse was not considered a
serious crime in the 1970s, it was not worthy of being reported to authorities”,
the most senior Catholic clergyman to be charged with concealing
child sexual abuse has been found guilty, following which he stepped down
but not
resigned, and may be jailed (for up to
two years) for reasons of “deterrence” and “denunciation” –see also here; a loophole
used by the neochristian catholic church in my home state to avoid legal action
from its victims has been closed;
-
also on child abuse,
particularly neochristian and other institutional, this week: India;
-
also on slavery / human
trafficking this week: India, UK;
-
opportunities to take action here,
here (which I found
difficult – eyesight’s not so good these days, and there’s only so much zoom),
here (great links to
useful information), here
(perhaps not
so useful for casual, infrequent shoppers like me), here
(tremendous
to see others acknowledged – and I stunned how many organisations are close by,
here,
here
(if you are
inclined towards creativity), here
(includes
donation request for those who can), here,
here, here,
here,
here,
and here;
on SEXISM this week (keeping in mind the overblown influence given to
testosterone):
-
a “free fitness program where survivors of domestic violence train alongside a police officer and social
worker is making an ‘enormous difference’ ” (why
the police officer?); the lies in the business
world around the wholly subjective topic of “merit” – which is “a myth, a mask for bias, that certainly
won’t help increase the number of women in leadership positions anytime soon.
Which is perhaps why it appeals”; Australia’s neoliberal party has admitted it
is gender biased; the first
prosecution of an FGM case in one Australian state; as
another state catches up with mine on protecting
abortion clinics, an offensive, belittling and downright stupid remark
by a neochristian tries to claim a false
equivalence; another abusive
men’s group has been sharing techniques for targeting
women;
-
on sexual harassment/misconduct/violence this week, see: here,
here;
-
other sexism matters have also occurred in: Australian
police;
on WORKERS’ rights this week:
-
another possible episode of underpaying
workers; a labour hire company in
Australia has been suspended
amid allegations the company underpaid labourers from Vanuatu; future
legislation will make underpayment
more clearly a punishable crime in my home state,
and those responsible for workplace deaths will
be charged with manslaughter;
on ANIMALS’ rights this week:
-
a company director whose falsification of documents allowed 22,000 sheep
to be imported into Pakistan, where they were brutally killed in vision that
shocked Australia, has not
been jailed despite pleading guilty;
- With regard to war, violence
and hate generally:
-
the police chief of the US city where their latest school mass murder by
guns has occurred has called
for change; as the convicted
felon-led US gun lobby blames Ritalin and the 45th US President
sticks to the usual, well-rehearsed script, more US citizens have been killed in schools this year than
have lost their lives in military service to their nation;
- With regard to natural and other
catastrophes:
-
dozens of people have died
in Pakistan, where a severe heatwave has coincided with the start of
Ramadan; the volcanic eruption in
Hawaii is continuing,
with lava reaching the sea and creating white plumes of acid with extremely
fine shards of glass; an extremely late bushfire in Australia
after a burn off got out
of control; at least 49 people
have drowned after a boat capsized
on the Congo River;
- 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:
-
“green roofs for
Australian cities would help reduce flooding and save on bills”; pollution
of a creek in my home city (I used to see such problems in the 80s and 90s there,
too); a study shows that
the combined
weights of humans, who cut the total
weight of plants (who are 80% of the
total) by half and wild mammals by
85 per cent, is about one ten-thousandth of the total (bacteria are nearly 13 per cent of the world's biomass, and fungi —
yeast, mould and mushrooms — are about 2 per cent); “people are embracing a buy-nothing, fix-everything
attitude to end throwaway culture” . . . but more people need to do that, to
greater extent, and need to put pressure on companies and politicians to help
that; a Japanese waste
incinerator is being viewed as entertainment
. . . ; “rice grown in high carbon dioxide environments may be less nutritious”; an examination
of “vegan leather”; the impact
of land clearing on the Great Barrier Reef;
commercial fishermen will be allowed
to harvest and sell sea urchins from a marine park in
a bid to improve seagrass habitat at a crucial wetlands biodiversity site;
on technology and science matters this week:
-
an examination
of one social media platform's 7,500 content reviewers; Australia’s NBN has ditched
plans for high speed connections . . . ;
an Internet of Things home
assistant recorded a private conversation in a family’s home and sent it to
a random contact;
-
other technology and science matters have occurred in: home
detention;
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?):
-
in the past five years, homelessness in Australia has gone up 14% and
rough sleeping by 20% since 2011 (50%
increase in Sydney, 30%pc increase in Darwin, and 20% increase in Brisbane),
which is blamed on inadequate
spending on low-cost housing – despite the more than $9 billion spent since
2009 through the National Affordable Housing Agreement;
on health and medical this week:
-
the “commonly held” notion that pregnancy is a cause of long-term weight
gain has been challenged
by new research, which suggests unemployment and depression are instead likely
factors; a rise in pedestrian deaths
so far this year has been blamed on motorists and road design, not smartphones or headphones (interestingly, police in some Australian
states and territories can fine pedestrians $110 if they walk “without
consideration to other road users”, but there is no specific offence for using
a phone while crossing a road);
persistent pelvic pain is not only endometriosis, and is not
helped by ignorance, stigma, and inadequately trained “generations of
doctors”; after a teenager died by
suicide, a call has been made for greater
integration of hospital and medical records; an app
to help the recovery of accident victims;
on other matters in the category this week:
-
concerns about growing
road rage between truckers and grey nomads have led to calls to for
understanding, better etiquette and sharing;
a US judge has ordered
a 30-year-old man to move out of his parents' house (strewth . . . I’m aware of excuses about
costs, but those excuses have been around for decades, and are just that:
excuses – it is more important to mature as a human being than to own your own
house [saving for a deposit is the usual excuse]);
- 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 … ):
-
media / freedom of expression matters have occurred in: Fiji
(good news);
- With regard to education:
-
the reality
of a teacher’s day;
- With regard to crime, judicial
matters and policing (noting that an uncle of mine resigned when corruption
was not comprehensively cleaned out of the police force he served in, I also
have high expectations of police [to match their powers], and consider all
violence, abuse of power and failure to understand the impacts of their actions
[e.g., see here and here] by police – who are under incredible
pressure –is, nevertheless, undermining and weakening all police and what they
are trying to achieve):
-
following a recent controversial court decision not to jail two
drug-affected women who committed a serious assault on paramedics, such
assaults will classified as “Category 1” offences, and thus mitigating influences
(e.g., life circumstances, choosing to
use drugs and alcohol, "psychosocial immaturity" for 18 to
21-year-olds) will be given “less weight”, effectively resulting in mandatory
jail sentences– although there are questions about the severity of assault,
and issues such as assaults by emergency services workers (for instance, what about when gender
diverse people are misgendered?);
a recent mobile phone service outage left prison authorities in two
states and one territory in Australia unable
to track of criminals in home detention;
“the death of a woman who was
strangled by a man with whom she'd had a brief intimate relationship could have
been prevented were it not for a “litany of errors” by police”; two men who
dangerously bungled an attempted citizen's arrest have been found guilty
of dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm, and of then attempting to
cover it up; jurors serving their
duty on “gruesome” cases have welcomed a report recommending
counselling (as is already done in
Australia); two police officers
are being tried
over alleged assault and an allegation of ordering a video of the assault be
deleted (i.e., attempting to pervert the
course of justice); Malaysia has
decided to demonstrate that not all lives are valuable, and to suppress evidence
rather than contributing the curing causes, by sentencing a drug smuggler to death;
-
other crime, judicial and
policing matters have occurred in: USA,
Brazil (good news;
Location based News:
- With regard to Africa, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (and other
sources) has:
-
in the DR Congo, where more than 600 people have had contact with known Ebola
cases and require vaccination, three infected patients escaped from a hospital
holding them in quarantine, with two subsequently dying and one being put back
into observation;
-
“South Africa looks likely to
implement land redistribution under existing laws rather than by changing the constitution”;
- With regard
to South and Central America:
-
a novel prison without guards or weapons in Brazil that focuses on (agape) love, work, restorative justice
and rehabilitation to create a safer, cheaper and more humane answer to that
nation's prison crisis;
-
Venezuela is facing an international
backlash (including the withdrawal of
fourteen ambassadors and new US economic sanctions) after the President was
re-elected in a process marred by an opposition boycott and claims of
vote-rigging;
- 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):
elsewhere in Asia:
-
after a year
during which the man was detained, a Cambodian court “has wrapped up its investigation into allegations an Australian
filmmaker spied for a foreign entity, but is yet to decide whether the case
will go to trial”; the “hero
rats” helping the clearing of landmines;
-
in the usual highly questionable cycle, Indonesia has reacted to the
recent violent extremists by allowing
the attackers to change how life is lived (i.e.,
win) by introducing new laws;
-
Malaysia’s former Prime Minister, currently being investigated
over corruption allegations, fears
for his safety and has sought police protection;
and in the Pacific:
-
“Fiji's High Court has found three
executives of The Fiji Times newspaper and another man not guilty of sedition” – “Amnesty
International has said the charges were politically motivated and designed to
silence one of the few independent media outlets left in the country”;
- With regard to Europe and the European Union (EU) (which need
to step up, as the USA steps down):
-
German police have reported ten families
for taking their children out of school early, probably to avoid travelling at
the peak holiday time, despite laws obliging them to send their children to
school (they were allowed to travel as
“it would have been disproportionate to take the children back to school, as
the families had paid for their holidays”);
-
Italy has a new Prime Minister who has no
political experience;
- 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:
-
for the first time, investigators have named
a Russian unit and presented evidence connecting it to the shooting down of
a passenger plane;
- With regard to South Asia (aka
the Indian
sub-continent), The Hindu
and other sources have:
on India:
-
an examination of the use of bribery in Indian
elections;
- 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:
-
despite concerns over the health of the incumbent, Palestinians appear
to be indifferent
as to who may become their third President;
on Syria (where the Assad Dictatorship has
lost all pretence of legitimacy, and partition is needed):
-
the Assad regime’s army has claimed
it has control of all areas surrounding the capital for the first time
since early in the seven-year-old war;
elsewhere in the region:
-
Iran has condemned the USA for vowing to impose the “strongest sanctions in
history”;
-
Turkey has refused to release two Greek border guards arrested on
suspicion of espionage, and appears
to be trying to blackmail Greece into returning eight Turkish commandos who
were granted asylum after the failed coup;
a Turkish court “has sentenced 104 former
military officers to life in prison for their involvement in a 2016 coup
attempt” (Turkey's behaviour raises doubts in my
mind about (a) their guilt and, (b) if guilty, whether the extent justifies the
sentence).
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.
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