Post No. 1,173 – Gnwmythr’s News Ed. No. 220

For the sake of my health, until I retire or change to an easier day job , I have cut back these posts.

Information and Summary of News with Opinion / Advocacy / Analysis:

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 courage of more BPM Fire;
      mentally, the inspiration of more BPM Æther;
      a plot of the elemental influences on a causal/spiritual level follows, and shows a need for the compassion more BPM Water;

(d)   I’ve created a bindrune for this week’s work, which is:

(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   Central African Republic, Cameroon and Nicaragua, 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 consequences of acts of evil (especially rape) include the possibility of more evil . . . ;     more arrogant imperialist behaviour from the current head of the USA and his hangers on, including abuse of children that has been likened to Nazi Germany – and a widespread slide by the meek, mild and cowardly into fascism;     an accidental challenge to a flawed body as a result of an intended snub;     others are trying to join in to the latent Korean peace treaty;     more misuses of technology continue to harm both their direct victims and deny those who could be helped the opportunity to see the potential gains from good application;     “the devastating impact of blurred boundaries between work and leisure”;     continued misogyny by those who are afraid;     political versions of “cultural cringe”;     the need for “unexciting” small gains as well as chasing the big ones;     “bureaucratic bastardry”;     pretentiousness;     twisting evidence to match prejudices;

(g)   may all people overcome their fear to become comfortable with the diversity and variety that is – incorrectly - termed chaos by some;

(h)   may all attend to the details, with patience, forbearance and acceptance of good advice (and discernment and rejection of bad) so that those changes that are good and valid may be applied properly, effectively and comprehensively;

(i)   may people accept and be comfortable with where they are in the scheme of things – especially when to be otherwise would result in destructive competition and/or growth;

(j)   may all remember that there are good, valid and necessary reasons for separating work and the rest of our life, and overcome their fear of missing out or losing out in order to allow that separation to be respected and allowed to manifest fully and properly;

(k)   may all that is good be shared around;

(l)   may all be courageous enough to call out what is wrong;

(m)   may we all listen to and become “the better angels of our nature”.

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 (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 the Rohingya crisis and genocide this week:
     -   support is being organised for babies born as a result of rape and their stigmatised mothers;     in a rare moment of pleasure, Ferris wheels for children;
     on other matters requiring particular attention:
     -   the USA has decided to militarise space;     an opinion that the USA’s dishonourable, autocratic, dangerous and misogynistic 45^th President “is creating his American caliphate, and democracy has no defence”;     the USA has pulled out of the UN’s  flawed  Human Rights Council, allegedly over bias against Israel and while saying it is still committed to multilateralism, which will “lower” its participation (leaving Australia in a lonely, awkward spot);     “human rights group Amnesty International has accused [the USA’s 45^th President] of “hateful” politics and of being a threat to human rights”  see also here;     an examination of Voldemort II’s aggressive, bullying “style” of diplomacy;
     -   appalling abuse of children by US border forces (including forcible drugging)- which has been compared to Nazi Germany’s behaviour by a child survivor of the Holocaust who was separated from her parents has angered Americans;     as outrage – possibly wanted - over the USA’s – sometimes permanent – traumatic separation continues, the USA’s allegedly “family values” party is allegedly trying to find a “way out” – allegedly with the support of the 45^th US President, who is responsible – not laws, as falsely claimed – for this human rights abuse crisis, and employees have asked a US tech giant to stop working with the heartless US Border Patrol;     more out-of-touch hardline rhetoric from the USA’s dishonourable, autocratic, dangerous and misogynistic 45^th President;     a refugee now owns their past;     a former advisor to the USA’s 45^th President has mocked people with disabilities, and the first lady has worn a jacket casting doubt on her previous “concern” . . . ;    see also here, here, and here (good news);
     -   South Korea and Russia are moving to get involved in talks between North Korea and the USA, as US forces prepare to receive from North Korea the bodies of soldiers who died in the Korean war;
     -   Russia has raised the retirement age above the average male life expectancy;
     -   compulsory use of advanced technology is resulting in abuse of the elderly;     a tech company has been fined $9 million for “misleading” (why is that not lying? Is there a legal definition which results in the word “misleading” being used instead, or are the differences in motivation?) customers with faulty iPhones and iPads about their rights;     “gaming addiction is now officially classified as a mental disorder”;     concerns over the alleged bias of a secretive editor on an online encyclopaedia;
     -   the devastating impact of blurred boundaries between work and leisure, nomadic and shared living house-“incubators” on the concept of “home”;
     -   “terrible and vile” messages sent to social media set up to mourn a young woman who was raped and murdered;     “in Australia, 80 per cent of men say they feel safe walking alone at night. But just 50 per cent of women say the same” – which is lower than in 31 other nations;     as a constructive men’s liberation movement – and a regional men’s group - shows what can be done, a call for men in sport to take a lead in fighting violence against women – see also here;     “shocking” levels of sexual harassment against women at music festivals;     what police should have said;     Australia will launch an enquiry into sexual harassment in the workplace;     a stupid fast food chain offered free burgers to women who got pregnant to Russian soccer players . . . ;
       this week’s atrocity alert at R2P lists   Central African Republic, Cameroon and Nicaragua;
• 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, research and commentary this week include:
     -   the need to boost youth employment by the “unexciting” filling of existing gaps;     residents are leaving Australia at record numbers (the examination of why in the article is poor: further analysis is need);     a long read challenging Australia’s “dangerous” obsession with the USA and the UK;
     -   for other analyses see:   education (student debt);
     of concern this week:
     -   in a case of what has been described as “bureaucratic bastardry”, Australia’s Department of Veterans' Affairs “secretly deleted an incapacity policy to prevent an injured veteran claiming compensation”;     an article about the “irretrievable loss of reputation” of an amusement park company which appears to have downplayed safety and is – morally, if not legally – responsible for the irretrievable loss of four lives and the devastation that caused;     Australia’s neoliberal arty has voted to become even more hard-line right, with support for privatising the national broadcaster and moving Australia’s Israel Embassy to Jerusalem . . . ;     the US Supreme Court chickened out of taking action on gerrymandering;     the USA’s 45^th President is seen as a critical threat to Australia;     concerning allegations coming out at an enquiry into deaths at an amusement centre;
     -   other concerning events have occurred or are developing in:   Sudan,   my home state (police),   Australia,   Yemen,   Algeria;
     in the grey/mixed [good and bad aspects] or neutral area this week:
     -   one Australian state Parliament’s rules against being ridiculed . . . ;     a former deputy mayor has been jailed for electoral fraud;
     good news this week includes:
     -   good news has occurred:   G5  Sahel;
     on development (in an “end poverty/thirst/hunger” sense – and being mindful of “intimate activism”):
     -   a call for the Sustainable Development Goals to be incorporated into corporate reporting (some already do – e.g., water Authorities in my home state – see also here);
     and democracy/governance/political matters in my home nation this week:
     on the Royal Commission into banks, and similar matters:
     -   “revelations from the banking royal commission prove Australia’s class action laws have “never been more needed” . . . as big business leaders push for new regulations to curb litigation”;     farmers still won’t be heard;
     on other matters:
     -   an attempt to remove the GST from sanitary products has made progress, but not enough;    many Indigenous births are not being officially recorded;     “multinationals move $16 billion from Australia to tax havens each year”;     another, credible warning on proposed Australian legislation which will (or may, given recent changes?) impact on privacy and journalism;
• 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):
     -   an opinion on the varying place people can have in the resistance to Voldemort II, and the recovery afterwards (if nothing else, he does have term limits);
     -   more on the increasing extreme poverty in the USA;
     -   a US University is trying to bust a union that struggling to survive post-graduate students were part of;
• 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 1 attack in Iraq, 3 attacks in Afghanistan, and 1 attack in Syria (out of a total of 11);     in addition:     violent extremist threats are or may be developing in   Mozambique;     and actions (Note: there are many others that don’t reach the media I read) have occurred this week against violent extremists in:   Indonesia,   Turkey;
     -   after finding a slight increase in deaths of Muslims (who are the main victims of such attacks) from violent extremism during Ramadan, this article concludes “media reports on acts of violent extremism can inadvertently serve to advance the causes of those who seek to declare Ramadan as a month of terror. As Muslims comprise nearly 25% of the global population, it is important to remember that what Ramadan means for most of them differs dramatically from the views held by extremist groups”;
• With regard to refugees (noting the New York Declaration) and people seeking asylum:
     -   “the number of people forced to flee their homes last year rose by nearly three million to 68.5 million”;     a locally popular asylum seeker family will be deported;   “how the Australian government is forcing people seeking asylum to destitution”;   an Eritrean being deported from the USA has died by suicide;     1,000 refugees have died this year in the Mediterranean;
     -   other refugee-related matters have also occurred in:   Hungary,   Argentina,   Libya,   Germany;
• 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]):
     -   investors are increasing pressure on a tech company over lack of diversity – and more on the lack of diversity in science;
     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):
     -   homophobia has been ramped up by one reactionary neochristian church;     more homophobia in sport;     the “gay glass ceiling”;
     on white supremacist and other forms of RACISM / CULTURAL DISCRIMINATION and Indigenous matters generally this week:
     -   “the first travel guide to Indigenous Australia — a handy reference for how tourists might best travel through different cultures and sacred lands”;     an “all-Indigenous police station, aiming to repair a community's mistrust”;     an interesting review of the 1967 rebellion (I will never describe that as a riot again);
     on TRAFFICKING, and CHILDREN’s and associated human rights this week:
     -   helicopter parenting has been linked to behavioural problems;     the number of kids going missing from “prison-like” care in my home state has doubled over three years;
     -   also on child abuse, particularly neochristian and other institutional, this week:   Rohingya camps,   Kenya;
     -   also on slavery / human trafficking this week:   Indonesia,   Qatar,   UK (good news),   UK,   a tech company (good news),   India;
     -   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,   and,   this week,   here,   here;
     on SEXISM this week (keeping in mind the overblown influence given to testosterone):
     -   the problem of severe PMS;     the problem of overwhelming bills that go with breast cancer;     domestic violence spikes during some sporting events;     discrimination against widows;
     -   other sexism matters have also occurred in:   Spain,   India (good news),   India / China;
     on WORKERS’ rights this week:
     -   a former union official has been jailed for an appalling abuse of union funds;     another underpayment case;
     on PRIVACY, AGED, DIFFERENTLY ABLED, AND OTHER forms of human (and other – e.g., ANIMAL) rights this week:
     -   privacy, differently abled, animal, and other forms of human or other rights matters have also occurred in:   Australia,   Yemen:
     -   opportunities to take action here;
     on ANIMALS’ rights this week:
     -   the licence of Australia’s largest live sheep exporter has been suspended;
• With regard to war, violence and hate generally:
     -   “the effects of conflict-related sexual violence echo across generations, in the form of trauma, stigma, and unwanted pregnancy [and] the scourge [is] “a threat to our collective security” and “a stain on our common humanity’ ”;     “hundreds of thousands of lives still lost each year to small arms”;     “with the number of people killed in armed conflict rising tenfold since 2005, preventive action is ‘more necessary than ever’ ” the UN Secretary-General has said;
• With regard to peace:
     -   the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s SIPRI Yearbook 2018 found that reductions in nuclear weapons has slowed and “modernisation” is continuing, and that, globally, the number of “peacekeepers” is declining as demand increases;
• With regard to spirituality and/or psychism generally (including revolutionary love, survival after death, and good religion), 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):
     -   brilliance is NEVER an excuse for bad behaviour;     one study suggests people who do yoga or meditation can become arrogant;
• With regard to natural and other catastrophes:
     -   the number of people missing from an Indonesian ferry sinking has been raised to 180;     floods in the Ivory Coast;
• 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:
     -   “proposed protections for some of the world's last unspoiled desert oases near its proposed coal mine in [an Australian state] won't work at all and are ‘all about protecting [the coalminer] from prosecution’ ”;     one US state has banned a harmful pesticide that the climate change denying dinosaur in charge of the US EPA kept in use, despite the US EPA’s advice;    a strawberry farmer is trying to cut waste caused by supermarket standards;     “peak health bodies have called for urgent action on revelations that at least three remote communities in [an Australian territory] were drinking water contaminated with high concentrations of uranium”;     a loan has been approved for a “giant water battery” for a solar farm in northern Australia;     a gas plant is wiping out solar emission savings;    in traduced pasture grasses are harming kangaroos;
     on technology and science matters this week:
     -   the VALID reasons that most people don’t read their privacy policies;
     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?):
     -   “earth bag” construction of affordable homes;     an imminent crisis as $360 billion of interest-only house loans begin to roll over to capital and interest repayment, house price falls in Australia are looking inevitable;
     on health and medical this week:
     -   as life expectancy increases, more Australians are seriously ill (so how about we look at stress and overcrowding, etc???);     bees also can get stressed;
     on other matters in the category this week:
     -   an examination of sharing, and how to increase that;
• 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 … ):
     -   as a warning is given against hobbling the loved ABC to create a ‘market failure organisation’ and a microsite has been started to support the ABC, an opinion that, if Australia’s neoliberal is re-elected, it may not sell the ABC but it would “intensify its bullying and denigration of the public broadcaster”;
     -   other media / freedom of expression matters have occurred in:   the Pacific,   India;
• With regard to education:
     -   a review of evidence suggests student debt has a negative impact;
• 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):
     -   an increasingly violent and unsafe private prison in Australia;     an interesting review of the 1967 rebellion (I will never describe that as riots again);     “deficiencies” have been identified in how police in my home state investigate complaints;
    -      other crime,   judicial and policing matters have occurred in:   Argentina,   The Gambia.

Location based News:

• With regard to Africa, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (and other sources) has:
      on Africa generally:
     -   the “G5 Sahel” nations are working together, with help, to improve their security and governance;
     on specific African nations:
     -   Algeria’s 81 year old President wants a fifth term . . . ;
     -   Gambia’s police chief has resigned following the police killing of two protestors;
     -   South Sudan’s opposition has rejected a peace treaty –see also here and here;
     -   a warning on electronic voting technology proposed for Sudan;     arrests of those protesting a water crisis;     clashes over the ICC arrest warrant for Sudan’s President;
     -   political parties in Zimbabwe will sign a peace pledge;
• With regard to South and Central America:
     -   concerns over the government’s attitude to the peace deal in Columbia;
     -   more protestors have been killed by disproportionate responses by security forces and militias in Nicaragua after talks collapsed, allegedly because of the government;
• With regard to mainland China (may her growing middle class bring a love of peace and freedom), East and South East Asia and the Pacific (noting the risks of atrocities in North Korea and Burma):
     on mainland 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:
     -   the challenges to China’s “Belt and Road” initiative in Xinjiang;
     elsewhere in Asia:
     -   Malaysia’s former Prime Minister may be charged soon;
     and in the Pacific:
     -   PNG has joined China’s “Belt and Road” initiative;     “a Chinese station has taken over some of the shortwave radio frequencies once used by the ABC in the Pacific region, following the broadcaster's decision to end shortwave services”;
• With regard to Europe and the European Union (EU) (which need to step up, as the USA steps down):
     -   increasingly totalitarian Hungary has now criminalised those who help refugees . . . ;
     -   five men in Spain who joked about a gang sexual assault but were cleared of rape will be released (this raises serious questions about Spain’s legal system, in my opinion);
• With regard to South Asia (aka the Indian sub-continent), The Hindu and other sources have:
     -   a call for peace in Kashmir;
     on India:
     -   a Dalit farmer has been set on fire;   India will teach international students satellite technology;     “a four-day fair to mark the annual menstruation of the goddess at Kamakhya temple”;     a ten year old boy has been fatally shot – allegedly for picking mangoes;
• 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:
     -   “Israeli jets have hit militant positions in Gaza after Palestinians fired rockets and mortars into Israeli territory”;     the UN has said “ ‘no steps taken’ so far to end Israel’s illegal settlement activity on Palestinian land”;     a warning that the US “peace plan” will “normalise Israeli apartheid”;     “Friday of the wounded” –see also here;     the wife of Israel’s Prime Minister has been charged with fraud;     a Palestinian diary;     the UK opposition would recognise Palestine if elected;     a dispute over archaeological changes;
     -   violent incidents this week include:   two bombs in Israel have been defused;
     -   other events concerning Israel/Judaism and/or Palestine have occurred or are developing in:   USA;
     on the conflict in Yemen:
     -   lobbying efforts are trying to get the USA to withdraw its support for the Saudi-led coalition;     Yemenis have accused UAE officers of committing sexual torture inside secret prisons;
     on Syria (where the Assad Dictatorship has lost all pretence of legitimacy, and partition is needed):
     -   the looming crisis in southern Syria;
     elsewhere in the region:
     -   the blockade of Qatar has strengthened its independence and self-identity;
     -   Tunisia’s balancing act on NATO;
     -   economic wobbles could influence Turkey’s election.

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.