Post No. 1,187 – Gnwmythr’s News Ed. No. 223

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

My apologies for missing the Psychic Weather Report last week: work took priority again.

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

Notes:

(1) I am NOT a journalist, and make NO claims to objectivity or freedom from bias.
(2) 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 March 2019), 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)   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 that person’s BPM Guides and giving those BPM Guides 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 that person’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);

(d)   the major events this week are:   -   as attraction to violence continues to be inadequately addressed, the risks of mass atrocities in  the DR Congo and burma, and ongoing violent conflicts and crises in Syria, Afghanistan, Mexico, Iraq, Burma, Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Libya, Sudan (Darfur and South Kordofan), Yemen, Egypt (Sinai), Kurdistan, the Philippines, Ethiopia, Mali, DR Congo, Burundi, Kashmir, Baluchistan (Pakistan and Iran), India (Maoist and other insurgencies), the Maghreb (Africa), Ukraine, and elsewhere;   -   refugee and humanitarian crises;   -   the political madness of regimes with authoritarian leaders – and all who put or keep them there;   -   and, specific to this week,     more unconscionable insanity from the USA’s 45^th President,     dangerous wars of words,     some signs of following through on promises,     abuse and misuse of power – including at the expense of minorities,     continuing growth of inequality,     calls for responsibility and respect in the too often discriminatory development and use of technology;     lazy, incomplete thinking and analysis;

(e)   genuine BPM commitment to a BPM sense of responsibility;

(f)   empathy;

(g)   genuine BPM commitment to a BPM depth and breadth of thinking and analysis;

(h)   patience;

(i)   refusal to blinded by the glitziness of the new simply because it is new;

(j)   refusal to throw the baby out with the bathwater;

(k)   willingness to consider change where it is warranted;

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 (see also here, here, and here) :     the entirety of this blog and all other spiritual work and physical activism I and many others do;     we need those genuine non-commercial BPM lightworkers who are Warriors of Light to take a stronger lead in acting against those nonBPM units which are influencing those enabling the political untouchability ILLUSION of the USA’s racist, lying, dishonourable, autocratic, dangerous, obnoxious, and misogynistic 45^th President;  
     on the Rohingya crisis and genocide this week:
     -   no news items that I saw this week;
     on other matters requiring particular attention:
     -   the political leaders of both the USA and Iran and their cronies are ignoring the silent majorities in their nations who want to live peaceful lives, and inflaming their hard headed simpletons and the situation, a bit like the build-up to regime change in Iraq (although claims the USA may be ready for a military strike have been denied . . . ). Meanwhile, a suggestion not to hide behind civility (I disagree: don’t drag yourself down to their level) and an opinion that the USA’s racist, dishonourable, autocratic, dangerous, obnoxious, and misogynistic 45^th President (aka Voldemort II) recent kowtowing to Russia and lying about it afterwards (and he now claims he didn’t know about the 2016 meeting between Russia and his son) hasn’t done long term damage (I’m not so sure) although it would have destroyed any other president – nor has his ridiculous claims about illegality in connection to an aide the US FBI says collaborated with Russia nor his vindictive threats of removing security clearance in response to being criticised. At least the Russian President’s visit has been deferred and, after the G20 finance ministers warned that trade tensions could undermine the global economy, Voldemort II and the EU went back to a trade deal between the two economies;
     -   a controversial social media company (which has lost market value over privacy and fake news concerns) has FINALLY changed one of its platforms that has been used to incite mob violence and murder in India. It has also suspended another data analytics company as details emerge of unwanted data sharing (overriding privacy setting) that could have put members of the military at risk . . . Meanwhile, the story of fake social media accounts during recent elections in Indonesia, the reality of child slavery in mobile phone manufacture, an example of invasion of privacy against a woman travelling on a plane, and a call to “focus on ‘responsible innovation’ in the face of technologies that threaten to worsen inequality”;
     -   a disgraceful media beat-up by a neoliberal politician linking a young woman’s murder to ethnic gangs was factually wrong;
     -   as an analysis points towards the anger of ordinary people towards CEO’s salaries, yet another article pointing out the advantages of a four day working to employees and employers;
       this week’s atrocity alert at R2P lists   the DR Congo and burma;
• With regard to democracy (which can be measured [as can goodness],     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
     of concern this week:
     -   as Singapore’s on-line health database is hacked, the impending switch of Australia’s on-line health records system from opt-in to opt-out - which a government MP has opted out of, others have compared to a failed UK system “that was cancelled after it was found to be selling patient data”, can be accessed by police without warrants, has specific concerns about teenager’s privacy, and has had at least one case of “bureaucratic nightmare” - is “scrambling to put tough new restrictions on mobile phone apps that use its sensitive patient data” as the human rights commissioner warns that changes are needed;     after many years of buying votes by cutting taxes (or promising to do so), someone has noticed that this is undermining one of the bases of civilised society in Australia;     apart from the excesses of the USA’s 45^th President, abuses and misuse of power this week include Australia’s shocking pursuit of a whistleblower who exposed Australia’s spying on Timor Leste representatives during sensitive negotiations (calls have been made for the opposition to do more against these charges), Sri Lanka (where “progress towards reform has “virtually ground to a halt” and brutal torture is used with impunity”), another police assault (which could lead to charges – which has happened in the case of the violent “bodyguard” of the French President along with reorganisation to prevent a recurrence – although see also this criticism), bureaucratic bungles are costing Australia “millions” in compensation (how much of that is due to understaffing?) and one state government will fail to meet a deadline “for developing a crucial water resource plan that will underpin the Murray-Darling basin plan”, the Philippines mass killing programme is extended to include beer drinkers;     a call for a boycott of forthcoming elections in the struggling “democracy” of Cambodia;     Nicaragua's President has refused to stand down despite the deaths of three hundred protestors;     former UK intelligence officers warn against trusting a controversial Chinese telecommunication company;
     in the grey/mixed [good and bad aspects] or neutral area this week:
     -   disability advocates have welcomed a proposal to pre-empt possible “organised crime” in (or defrauding of) the NDIS (I was quite sceptical, particularly given the very low numbers to date, until I heard that advocate interviewed on radio [although that might have been the deflection that minorities sometimes use as a result of discrimination . . . ]);     former cricket star Imran Khan has claimed victory in the violent election in the troubled and insecure democracy of Pakistan;     after years of problems were revealed by the media, the ambulance service in my home state will “review” its use of debt collectors;     an MP in my home state caught drink driving resigned his shadow ministry, and will not recontest his seat;     China’s Chairman Xi is doing a little tour of Africa before the BRICS summit;
     good news this week includes:
     -   the story of an Italian MP who, having been forced to marry in to the mafia at a young age, has now decided to stop hiding her face (which had been done for safety reasons);
     on development (in an “end poverty/thirst/hunger” sense – and being mindful of “intimate activism”):
     -   a billionaire is aiming to transform the economy of Puerto Rico (now for someone to do the same for Palestine . . . );
     and democracy/governance/political matters in my home nation this week:
     on the Royal Commission into banks, and similar matters:
     -   Australia’s morally questionable banks and financial institutions have not been outperforming industry superannuation – which is possibly vulnerable to another global financial crisis (could “plain packaging” financial advice help?), but at least a court case could force them to prepare for climate change;
     on other matters:
     -   “there is no evidence supporting an expansion of the cashless welfare card trials and such a move would further discriminate against Indigenous people”;     a former head of the Australian Medical Association is (breaking ranks and) joining the former chief minister of the Northern Territory to lobby senators in support of a private member’s bill repealing the (evil) Howard-era ban on Australia’s territories being able to legalise euthanasia - and other doctors think it has “become too hard to die”;     a disabled man featured in an ad campaign supporting the NDIS has been rejected . . . ;     recent allegations show the need for a Code of Conduct for Commonwealth MPs;     the government in my home state is under police investigation for misuse of public funds during an election, itself is investigating branch stacking allegations, and has been referred over the revealing of former government staffers’ personal details;     members of a controversial union (which has given me a strong impression of misogyny) have left in protest after debt collectors started chasing them over a levy they didn’t agree to for political lobbying;     followings its failure on homophobic concerns that Australia’s electoral commission is unable to enforce campaign laws on political advertising originating abroad;
• With regard to the USA (which has some … “unique” characteristics that don’t exist elsewhere in the world)    and their BULLYING 45^th President (who is dangerous – see here on actions for US residents [and the useful principles]) 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 is at least as bad):
     -   a warning that the proposed border wall between the USA and Mexico could “cause great ecological damage”;     a student who went to the USA from Mexico illegally as a child cannot leave her city “because it is surrounded by checkpoints and she fears being deported”;
     -   the partial remains of an Australian soldier killed in World War part One and then arrogantly and paternalistically taken to the USA have been returned to France;
     -   “payments to bury embarrassing stories about a political candidate can be treated as a violation of US campaign finance laws”;
• 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, and good old fashioned police work.     I don’t name groups to reduce their publicity):
     -   according to this Wikipedia page, there have been 3 attacks in Iraq,   2 attacks in Afghanistan,   and 3 attacks in Syria   (out of a total of 20),   including   Syria;
     -   a reminder that most violent extremism (99%) is experienced in the developing world. Meanwhile, in the “developed” world, the talk by a (female) right wing extremist that made the news because it was charged by police for protection found those police were necessary, with violent (and therefor hypocritical, unethical, stupid, ineffective and downright counter-productive) protests outside;     after two years in detention, a British man has been cleared of involvement in a terrorist attack;
• With regard to refugees (noting the New York Declaration) and people seeking asylum:
     -   as Italy resumes a stance of decency by allowing ships with refugees to dock “until the EU reaches a deal to distribute new arrivals” and the conduct of those who are effectively abusing kids in detention in the USA raises questions in my mind about whether they are fit to be parents, Australia’s “offshore entry” connivance – an excision of some islands that boats of refugees were forced to travel to - from Australia’s official migration zone “was never valid because the lagoon at Ashmore Reef, declared a “proclaimed port” by the then immigration minister, Philip Ruddock, was never a port at all”, according to a court (rendering a decade of abuse of refugees illegal . . . ) - which protestors would appreciate, and Australia has (petulantly?) refused to sign the UN global compact for migration, which aims to address migration issues in a “safe, orderly and regular” way, because our neoliberal government wants to use detention as the first resort, not the last (this is cheap votes using a misleading claim of border control – choosing to let genuine refuges in IS control, but GOOD, DECENT control . . . how much xenophobia – on the part of politicians and public – is there in this?);     in Sweden, a student protestor has bravely stopped the deportation of an asylum seeker to Afghanistan - resisting attempts by some cabin staff and another passenger to steal her phone, and mixed reactions from other passengers finally culminating in applause;
• 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]):
     -   a strongly supported petition shows that, in the last few decades, the world has evolved to the extent that many people – but not a streaming service (“let fat people write great roles for fat actors. Let’s see a happy fatty “) – understand that fat shaming is not helpful, and trivialising weight / weight loss is actively harmful;     Tunisia is moving to build up on recent reforms (since 2011) and catch up with the late 20^th Century on a range of matters;     calls for, and promises of, improvements in an Australian territory’s understaffed child protection service;
     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):
     -   as a trans woman is murdered in Fiji, trans people in Pakistan have been standing for election;     being trans has NOTHING to do with drag;     Cuba will approve Equal Marriage;
     on white supremacist and other forms of RACISM / CULTURAL DISCRIMINATION and Indigenous matters generally this week:
     -   from the story of a song about lynchings in the USA, I came across the USA’s Black Holocaust Museum, and an Australian art display shows how the violent anti-Chinese Lambing Flat riots eventually led to the hateful White Australia Policy as the map of massacres from Australia’s “frontier wars” continues to grow. On stupid policies, “the official ‘colour-blindness’ of the French state ignores the realities of race and racism”;     one interesting story emerged this week of a black police officer in the USA who became an undercover member of a notorious racist organisation (it has been made into a book and a film);     a US celebrity, who is a person of colour, has refused to apologise for racist comments against Australian indigenous women, and also illustrating the problem of trying to manage online reputation;
     on TRAFFICKING, and CHILDREN’s and associated human rights this week:
     -   a “Kuwaiti social media star is facing a backlash after criticising new laws improving conditions for the country’s Filipino domestic workers”;
     -   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):
     -   appalling misogyny has been shown by an Australian bank and its lawyers when it forced a former employee to “recount details of a past rape as part of the bank's defence in a sexual harassment case” in the USA – where a notorious misogynist was hired by the US White House . . . (the apology is insufficient, in my opinion: those responsible should be sacked, and that bank’s entire approach to anti-discrimination – which is clearly ineffective – reviewed). At least India, scene of so many violent rapes of women and girls, has scrapped the tax on sanitary products in an attempt to boost girls education, and a women’s union has won the right to sit during work days – and have toilet breaks. (Africa is also in the news on sexism, as an idiot tries to defend female genital mutilation after his ten year old daughter died . . . and in Indonesia, the victim of a sibling rape has been jailed for having an abortion . . . ) On menstruation, an article has warned of the health risks of using menstrual blood to feed plants (I hadn’t through of that being used on indoor pot plants, which I haven’t had for decades; the article, of course, is silent on the energetic aspects of this, but the health risks do need to be taken into account). The medical profession is not free of blame on sexism, as women are only half as likely as men to get proper heart attack treatment;     as UK businesses fail to tackle sexual harassment in the workplace, the UK’s stupid lack of no-fault divorce leads to this absurdity and a staggering and incredibly offensive claim has been made about a sexual assault on unconscious woman, woman who are positive role models in science and history (warrior Queen Amina in what is now Nigeria, harem-born Huda Shaarawi who launched a successful feminist revolution in Egypt, and the Ghanaian warrior queen Yaa Asantewaa who protected the Golden Stool of the Ashanti Kingdom against the British Empire);     in the USA, when women earn more than their husbands, both spouses lie about it . . . ;
     on WORKERS’ rights this week:
     -   claims that a ride sharing service is, in effect, stealing wages;
     on PRIVACY, AGED, DIFFERENTLY ABLED, AND OTHER forms of human (and other – e.g., ANIMAL) rights this week:
     -   a call for those who work with elders as carers to be screened and accredited in a coordinated, national scheme;
     -   opportunities to take action here;
• With regard to war, violence and hate generally:
     -   the USA has just allowed 3D printed guns . . . ;     another article on the success of “Cure Violence” movement;
• With regard to natural and other catastrophes:
     -   as causes of a northern hemisphere heatwave are examined, 80 have died and 22,000 needed treatment in Japan because of a two week heatwave, which has been declared a natural disaster, and fires have killed at least 20 people in Greece;     a dam collapse in Laos has left several people dead and hundreds missing (so was this an error in design, construction or operation, because, in this day and age, it is unlikely to be something else . . . );
• With regard to overcrowding and “modern” lifestyle issues     (such as conflict  minerals,     environmental harm and child labour in smart phones,     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:
     -   one man has illustrated the extent of waste by collecting one tonne of foil thrown out by hairdressers (the price of vanity includes environmental … ). This in the week that the overconsumption of the Earth’s resources, which began in the 1970s, now has reached a point where Earth Overshoot Day has reached a new record, early date: 1^st August. On the plus side, an Indian industrialist has found that found solar power backed by “firming” storage technologies made better economic sense than coal, while an Australian state's new neoliberal government will come close to meeting the previous government's renewable energy target that it had denigrated - as had the neoliberal Commonwealth government, which is now backing down on its energy targets, although the locking in of coal will keep prices higher and jobs are at risk;     indigenous rangers are the key to managing Australia’s massive, out-of-sight annual bushfires;
     on technology and science matters this week:
     -   another article on the body image problems caused by airbrushed celebrities on social media;
     on economic and financial matters this week:
     -   another warning about a ride sharing service - this one of fraud committed by drivers;
     on health and medical this week:
     -   an entertaining critique of a (fertility) app sold as super accurate, which is unreliable “because our bodies are unreliable” and the requirements for taking an accurate reading are ridiculous (“women must record their temperature at the same time each morning, immediately upon waking, before sitting up”), and a comment that “doctors should ask why so many women would consider trusting an app over a medical professional, and researchers should look at why so many people are unhappy with the prescribed pills, injections and implants, and work to improve them”;
     on other matters in the category this week:
     -   as a warning is reiterated that drivers – especially those who dehumanise cyclists – can kill, a moronic “prank” injures a cyclist;     a guide for those who have loved ones go missing;
• 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 … ):
     -   the unprecedented (“irrational”) hostility of Australia’s neoliberal government and conservative media against the ABC has been enhanced by a stunning purchase – enabled by changes to media ownership law by the neoliberal government - of the struggling Fairfax Media (I stopped reading them years ago when they outsourced their sub-editing, and started using homophobic/transphobic clickbait headlines) by the declining Channel Nine TV network, which will probably cut the developing investigative connection between the Fairfax newspaper “The Age” and the ABC, and has led to concerns about setbacks to media reporting. Meanwhile, in the USA, rival media networks have banded together to protest against a vindictive ban by the US White House on one reporter;
• With regard to education:
     -   some schools are rejecting the helicopter-parenting / fear-of-lawsuits approach to raising kids by allowing kids to run around and play actively in Nature;
• 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):
     -   my home state has given “extraordinary” new anti-association powers to another 2,500 officers, and denies those are aimed at youth gangs – on which, there has been a call to focus on the causes of youth crime, not the unbalanced focus one ethnicity who have been left terrified, showing the stupidity of incorrect comments by politicians inflaming the situation that they haven’t attacked the whole community [if you don’t say you are referring to a minority, you are referring to the lot] (I know the problem that associating with criminals can have: an ex- and I brought one of her kids to where we lived to break exactly that until he was mature enough to go back; I’m not sure a hardline, possibly bigoted police officer is the best person to exercise such powers without oversight . . . ). Meanwhile, a conman’s use of the courts to bankrupt his enemies has shown the need for reform, laws have been changed to keep a police killer in jail for life (whilst I can understand and empathise with the anger that drives this [as a kid, every time I heard of a bank robbery, I feared for my father, and I have had friends in the force], but I question the long term wisdom of this), an excellent examination of some recent murders calls for those not to be used to “score ideological points”, and those abandoned or neglected kids who were charged with being abandoned or neglected (how insane were some of these legal system people in the past?) will have their records expunged;   police in one Australian state who refused to cross into another state to help a family suffering a violent home invasion should have helped and will be retrained;     as an enquiry into the recent death of a prisoner continues, guards will be trained on asphyxiation;     Japan has sent six unredeemed mass murderers to their next and possibly even angrier and/or more evil incarnation, and PNG will do so to 8 rabidly superstitious bigots (and scores have been jailed) for murder over alleged sorcery.

Location based News:

• With regard to Africa, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (and other sources) has:
     -   residents in a slum in Kenya have been displaced after their homes were demolished to make way for a road;
     -   alleged bribery of coach in Nigeria;
     -   gunmen in South Africa have murdered 11 taxi drivers;
     -   South Sudan’s leaders have agreed to peace – again . . . (will this deal stick, or also only last a few years?);
     -   a scarf in the colours of the nation’s flag, and thus connected to the 2016 “this flag” movement, is helping Zimbabwe's new president to rebrand the country - and distance himself from his notorious predecessor;
• 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     (and noting the risks of atrocities in North Korea and Burma):
     on increasingly totalitarian mainland China, and also 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:
     -   further confirmation that, despite its official denials, China has reinstituted, from some of its darkest history, “re-education” (brainwashing) camps;     China has ordered an investigation into a vaccination scandal as panic grows;
     -   as a question is asked about whether the rest of the world is “drunk on optimism”, North Korea has dismantled those parts of its nuclear testing facility that can be rebuilt fairly easily, and has started returning the remains of US (which has also needed to do its own returning of remains) soldiers;
     -   some airlines are resisting Chinese bullying over Taiwan;
     and in the Pacific:
     -   more concerns over China’s growing influence –this time, in the Solomon Islands;    a Vanuatuan island which has been covered in ash from a continuing volcanic eruption will be evacuated;
• With regard to Europe and the European Union (EU) (which need to step up, as the USA steps down):
     -   Finland’s capital is building an underground shelter system for protection against the Russian threat;
• 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):
     -   a returning, controversial (former war lord) vice-president was gone before a violent extremist attack murdered 14 people;
• With regard to West Asia (aka “the Middle East”) and Northern Africa, the Middle East Eye, the Times of Israel, and other sources have:
     -   as reports describe the latest violence between Israel and Gaza, causing deaths on both sides, as “an escalation”, Israel’s new law defining it as a Jewish state is decried by at least one Israeli (who considers the law racist, and shameful), but Israel has rescued some of Syria’s famed White Helmets to Jordan (but it recently turned other Syrians away) – and shot down a Syrian jet which crossed its border;
     on Israel and Palestine:
     -   a dispute over the UK Labour party’s decision to accept the working definition of antisemitism produced by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance but only those examples which cannot be “used to deny Palestinians, including Palestinian citizens of Israel and their supporters, their rights and freedoms to describe the discrimination and injustices they face in the language they deem appropriate” is intensifying – and, in my opinion, becoming extremist in the inflammatory wording being used;     Israeli soldiers have raided the al-Aqsa mosque , 3^rd holiest Muslim site in the world, in pursuit of Palestinian youths after clashes;
     on the conflict and the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis in Yemen:
     -   sadly, this week, I found nothing in the news on this topic.

Other News:

• the British guard was right: the tourist was stupid, irresponsible and breaking the law and security conditions.

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 [see Psychic Weather Report]. 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.