Post No. 1,195 – Gnwmythr’s News Ed. No. 226

For the sake of my health, until I retire or change to an easier day job , I have cut back these posts - a little more so, this week, owing to family illness.

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   Yemen and Cameroon;   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;
• 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;     a reminder that, despite our flaws, “people aren't the worst – they are the only hope for the planet” – and, furthermore, if we blame people, we are letting the real culprits off the hook;     a warning against the corporate world’s device of blurring the boundaries of work and home (so … don’t buy in to this! Keep them separate, and calmly [placidly, even] resist this corporate evil [noting that friendly co-workers will share such details of their own volition]);     an interesting video with advice for engineers and voters (know thyself :) ), to which I would add: those who are psychic can do a “Cure Violence” type of interruption by stopping nonBPM  units  exacerbating attempts at manipulating our feelings – let people deal with what is genuinely theirs, but don’t allow others to falsely magnify those emotions;     hundreds of US news organisations have defended freedom of the press in a coordinated push back against the USA’s (racist, lying, dishonourable, autocratic, dangerous, obnoxious, and misogynistic) 45^th President - who has removed security clearance from some critics, resulting in comparisons to the evils of McCarthyism and support for the person whose clearance - “dirty war against the free press”;     a livestreamed conversation with a white supremacist rally organiser was interrupted when his father admonished the 35-year-old (who was living at home because of legal costs resulting from his past rallies) on video, and told him to get out of the father’s room – and the uncle of a Presidential adviser has also published an essay calling his nephew (who is “well aware of his [Jewish] heritage”) a hypocrite;     a US senator tipped as a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, has unveiled new plans - the Accountable Capitalism Act - for legislation aimed at reining in big corporations, forcing them look beyond profit, and giving workers and local communities a bigger say;
     on the Rohingya crisis and genocide this week:
     -   Israel is selling weapons to genocidal burma;
     on other matters requiring particular attention:
     -   sadly, this week, I found nothing in the news on   Ukraine,   and   Yemen;
     -   Australia’s most socially backward state now has a Commonwealth Senator who – in a speech using a notorious nazi phrase, showing a line had been crossed, perhaps as a result of the neoliberals “playing with fire on race” (“a nation divided is never safe”) - wants (with his party’s support) to re-institute the White Australia policy . . . (see also here). This speech led to condemnation by all other MPs (personally, I find the reaction of dog-whistling neoliberals hypocritical), a warning that the “origins of genocide lie in permissive bias and discrimination”, combined with a reminder that “our greatness and our uniqueness come from our ability to integrate and synthesise different peoples into a coherent, working model of national existence” and reflections on our history of racism and its continued existence, as well as the need to decide who we want to be;
     -   an analysis of the latest security  theatre implementation of the politics  of  fear through expanded surveillance legislation, and what we can do now to lobby against that;   a warning not to underestimate the threat of facial recognition technology (which “could be used to draw conclusions about who you are, what you believe, what you have done – and what you might do in the future”);
     -   after an internal investigation conducted by the same detective unit that failed to act on the initial complaint, Queensland police have – unprofessionally and incompetently, in my opinion - trivialised the shredding of a young woman’s rape statement as “a misunderstanding”;
     -   an assessment that North Korea has played the USA and that the DPRK’s “nuclear program isn't going anywhere”;
     -   as fears mount it could affect the world’s economy, the next tit-for-tat exchange of the latest trade war under the USA’s 45^th President (who is also fighting a major US motorcycle manufacturer) is Turkey’s leader calling for a boycott of US goods;
     -   “Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to” – see also this;    a social media executive renowned for blunt talking has warned media that not being part of social media means their businesses will die;
       this week’s atrocity alert at R2P lists   Yemen and Cameroon;
• 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
     analyses, research and commentary this week include:
     -   a critique (undermined by the reference to neochristianity) of the word “fascist” – but see also this, and this;     Bureau of Statistics data shows that, as the number of workers changing jobs and occupations grows (particularly when compared to the 1960s), there is no easy policy fix for the growing problem of underemployment, due in part to the growing numbers of underemployed people;    a US author  considers that “the [US] Obama White House watched Arab democracy fall, and now the [45^th US President’s] administration is embracing Egypt's autocratic president”;     an examination of the history and status of extradition between the USA and Russia;     an interview on NATO;     a comprehensive Senate examination of climate change and its impact on housing (this document is political, and includes a range of supplementary views: from a quick scan, though, it does appear to cover most key issues);     weak implementation of an AML/CFT regime (anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism) in the DR Congo has created money laundering and violent extremists financing opportunities;     a commentary on the trickle-down theory (which is that “if you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows”);     a report on inequality in Australia (not read by me yet);
     of concern internationally this week:
     -   an international sporting body that has been criticised for corruption and for inaction over human rights has now removed corruption as an official misdemeanour from its latest code of ethics, and has introduced defamation as an offence;     a call for sanctions against the pseudo-democracy in Cambodia (the despotic leader of Cambodia has been described as “Asia’s Robert Mugabe”);
     of concern in Australia this week:
       Australia’s oil reserve is still inadequate;     the details (and lack of) on proposals for enhanced access to phones for police and intelligence organisations;     the grave concerns over Army “call out” powers;     a FactCheck backs up claims that wages growth has stagnated;          major corruption in an Australian state health department;     Australia’s neoliberal Prime Minister has been forced by conservative colleagues to abandon plans to enshrine the Paris climate targets in legislation;
     also of concern this week:
     -   other concerning events have occurred or are developing in:   Indonesia,   Hong Kong;
     in the grey/mixed [good and bad aspects] or neutral area this week:
     -   one Australian state political party has condemned the “inappropriate” prosecution of a whistleblower who revealed Australia’s unconscionable spying on East Timor during sensitive negotiations;
     good news this week includes:
     -   the Australian Senate has “voted to censure [a conservative, controversial Senator] for “derogatory, defamatory and sexist” statements” – which are the subject of a defamation action – against another, female Senator;     Malaysia has become the first nation in the world to roll back its so-called “fake news” law, which had been introduced by a former Prime Minister facing up to 125 years in jail if found guilty of corruption;
     -   other good news has occurred:   Afghanistan;
     on development (in an “end poverty/thirst/hunger” sense – and being mindful of “intimate activism”):
     -   provided it doesn't get into the hands of the big corporations, cracking the DNA code of wheat has enormous potential;     a call for Pacific Island leaders to band together and press China to write off their debts, as at least one small nation is suffering "serious" debt distress;
     -   other development news has occurred:   Gambia (good news);
     and democracy/governance/political matters in my home nation this week:
     on the Royal Commission into banks, and similar matters:
     -   an Australian bank withheld information on victim compensation . . . ;     superannuation horror  stories;
     on other matters:
     -   a call for Australia’s Commonwealth government to catch up on political donations reform;     over one million Australians have put off seeing a doctor because they can’t afford it (one comment on radio said this was a step closer to the USA’s disastrous “system”);
• 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):
     -   an FBI agent who disparaged the USA’s (racist, lying, dishonourable, autocratic, dangerous, obnoxious, and misogynistic) 45^th President, and once led the investigation into Russian election interference, has been fired;
     -   a major kerfuffle has erupted over a sacked staffer for the USA’s 45^th President having taped her sacking – while in a secure room (which apparently isn’t illegal – which surprises me) – and starting to release the tapes as part of the promotion of her book, which led to major concerns over the use of non-disclosure agreements (which restrict the effectiveness of governments), and an admission that there is a recording of the already well-known to be racist Voldemort II using the “N word”;
• 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 4 attacks in Iraq and 5 attacks in Afghanistan   (out of a total of 24),   including   Afghanistan;
     -   other violent extremist matters have also occurred in:   Cameroon;
• With regard to refugees (noting the New York Declaration) and people seeking asylum:
     -   as a 12 year old refugee boy – and others - nears a much forewarned death from “resignation syndrome”, Australian and Nauruan government officials are – privately - deeply concerned about the upcoming Pacific Islands Forum, where those few reporters allowed rare access to the usually off-limits island may – despite attempts to block them, allegedly for the refugees benefit - bring abuses of refuges into the full glare of unwanted publicity;     the story behind the translation of a refugee’s “masterful” prose poetry novel, using an “horrific surrealism” style to expose the savagery of Australia’s gulags;
• 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]):
     -   opportunities to take action here;
     -   other human rights matters have also occurred in:   Iran:
     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 staggering social media backlash against the woman cast as a gay superhero charging that she is not Jewish (where did that come from?!) or “gay enough” . . . ;     improving media portrayals of trans people;     it now emerges the UK cricketer who was charged over a fight was defending the gay couple who were abused;     “this year, 43 transgender candidates have run for political office at all levels in the US” and one has achieved “a major step towards becoming the first ever transgender governor of a US state”;     a talk by a delusional trans-basher has been cancelled;     Austria has used some utterly staggering stereotypes to reject a gay Afghani’s request for asylum;
     on white supremacist and other forms of RACISM / CULTURAL DISCRIMINATION and Indigenous matters generally this week:
     -   one year after a white supremacists killed a woman, white supremacists at a rally in the USA were vastly outnumbered by counter-protestors, with a major police presence keeping the peace;     “abhorrent” racism at a workplace in a northern Australian state has gone to court;     the precariousness of “survival sex”;     US police are reacting defensively and aggressively to protests by US sports players asking for justice and accountability;     a wave of youth crime in one regional town, attributed by some to “entrenched dysfunction at home”, is leading to an increase in racism and fears of vigilantism;     the intergenerational trauma caused to the Stolen Generations and their descendants;     the US film industry is finally giving Asian stories a spotlight;     a critique of unconscious bias and racism – see also this, on cultural bias;
     on TRAFFICKING, and CHILDREN’s and associated human rights this week:
     -   the UK is “refusing asylum to more ex-child slaves despite safety fears”;     the USA will no longer force trafficked children to testify in court;     dozens of trafficked children have been found in Europe and scores of people have been arrested;     an utterly moronic superstition is leading to the rape of girls in Peru;
     -   also on child abuse, including neochristian and other institutional, this week:   USA (catholic church);
     -   also on slavery / human trafficking this week:   Central America;
     -   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,   here;
     on SEXISM this week (keeping in mind the overblown influence given to testosterone):
     -   a FactCheck confirms that equality for Australian women, compare to the rest of the world, has fallen in the last six or eight years;     a reminder that alcohol is no excuse for domestic violence;     an utterly pathetic excuse for sexism;     a female University professor has been found guilty of sexual harassment of a male student (as someone who has been sexually abused by women both as a child and as an adult, I find any surprise seriously lacking in credibility);     “Siberia’s isolated community of forgotten women”;     “female skaters . . . experience violence, put-downs and back-handed compliments but they are changing the culture of skateboarding”;
     -   other sexism matters have also occurred in:   Nigeria,   Indonesia;
     on WORKERS’ rights this week:
     -   calls for a Council to be investigated after a worker died by suicide;     abuse of US workers by forcing them to be pseudo-contractors;     an employers group has tried to blame workers for employers underpaying them (is that victim blaming?);     the Workforce Disclosure Initiative is “pushing for meaningful data on how workers are treated in global supply chains”;
     on ANIMALS’ rights this week:
     -   appalling, deliberate and savage cruelty by a truck driver (I hope whoever it is, is charged) shown as one Australian state reports measures to protect its few remaining koalas are failing;
• With regard to war, violence and hate generally:
     -   “an election promise to change Tasmania's gun laws has been abandoned, with the [neoliberal] Government acknowledging the community's ‘deeply held concerns’ over safety and confidence in the law”;
• 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 beneficent extraterrestrial UFOs):
     -   how one person escaped (neochristian) fundamentalism;     an opinion that the almost “industrial scale” of this new age of stone-stacking is a plague that disrespects the origins of that act;
• With regard to natural and other catastrophes:
     -   a major bridge collapse in Europe has killed over a score of people, and led to a call for Structural Health Monitoring and maintenance needs to set budgets for bridges;     as fires continue in one state and a warning if made of an imminent disastrous bushfire season in another, drought is driving emus into regional Australian towns;     the worst monsoon in nearly a century has killed hundreds in parts of India (and what of other nations – especially where the Rohingya are?);
• 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:
     -   the environmental damage and harm to children’s health being committed by the current US administration;     more on the surprise in scientific circles on the controversial $440 million grant to the small Great Barrier Reef Foundation, who are likely to need staff from the CSIRO as a result;     a flawed rehabilitation of an ash dam has led to potentially hazardous particles being blown across a town of 14,000 residents for the last two years, with public health organisation “Doctors for the Environment” warning of longer-term health issues;     one Australian state may finally catch up with three others and start using treated biosolids as a crop fertiliser;     “a new class of pesticides positioned to replace neonicotinoids may be just as harmful to crop-pollinating bees”;    a caution that using the Internet for or to “support” animals may not be what you think . . . ;
     -   other environmental matters have occurred in:   the Philippines;
     on technology and science matters this week:
     -   mobiles phones aimed at minimising usage;     a scam warning about blackmail threats, the details of which I won’t mention as I don’t have that adult filter;
     on economic and financial matters this week:
     -   teenagers and phone debt;
     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?):
     -   “presentations from the National Homelessness Conference 2018”;     “New Zealand [has banned] foreigners from buying property in effort to clamp down on house price growth”;     more battles in my home state for a decent rentals and the right to create a home in the houses that are rented;
     on health and medical this week:
     -   reducing noise pollution in hospitals;     a call to stop victim blaming those who are overweight because of food companies use of “sugar to bypass our natural appetite control mechanisms” and “army of food scientists and psychologists to trick us into eating more than we need, while their advertisers use the latest findings in neuroscience to overcome our resistance. They hire biddable scientists and think tanks to confuse us about the causes of obesity. Above all, just as the tobacco companies did with smoking, they promote the idea that weight is a question of “personal responsibility”. After spending billions on overriding our willpower, they blame us for failing to exercise it”;     the health effects of weather – especially heat;
     on other matters in the category this week:
     -   basic suggestions on changing career;
• 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 … ):
     -   although the (flawed) media “watchdog” didn't uphold a complaint by conservative MPs, I suspect the ABC ending a poorly rating, significant production cost, comedy show may be seen as a response to political pressure and/or a failure to follow through on a commitment to nurture new talent;     in consideration of “who gets to decide what the public ‘needs’ to know?” and “Indigenous people telling our stories in our words”, a call to support independent media outlets;
     -   other media / freedom of expression matters have occurred in:   Yemen,   Israel,   Mozambique;
• 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):
     -   a drug war in my home city has now including firebombing;     the problem of domestic violence victims being incorrectly blamed for being perpetrators;
    -      other crime,   judicial and policing matters have occurred in:   USA.

Location based News:

• With regard to Africa, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (and other sources) has:
     -   a call for Cameroon to encourage more violent extremists to surrender;
     -   the war in the DR Congo is preventing management of the Ebola outbreak;
     -   the International Fund for Agricultural Development in investing in rural women in Gambia;
     -   “many landlords in Nigeria suspect single women of being prostitutes, making it difficult for them to rent apartments”;
     -   “a UN report has urged Somalia to build on the significant gains made in its peace process in the last five years and take steps to ensure future elections are not marred by the human rights violations and abuses committed during the 2016-2017 electoral process”;
     -   other events concerning Africa have occurred or are developing in:   DR Congo;
• With regard to South and Central America:
     -   events concerning South and Central America  have occurred or are developing in:   Nicaragua;
• 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:
     -   surprisingly, China has allowed a Swedish doctor to examine a “disappeared” Hong Kong book seller;     the US-China trade war may have dented the popularity of Chairman Winnie the Pooh;
     -   the unforeseen consequences for part-time and manual workers from South Korea’s attempt to counter a spike in suicides attribute “long hours in Seoul’s steel and glass office towers” (the fact that feel compelled to take on extra work raises serious questions about survival, as well as culture);
     elsewhere in Asia:
     -   paid social media propagandists in Indonesia;     a 15-year-old girl who, after being repeatedly raped by her brother and eventually miscarrying, has been jailed, in a staggeringly backward decision in Indonesia;     Indonesian police are unapologetic as they wrap up their Duterte-style “blitz” on crime ahead of a major sports event, having killed at least 15 (alleged) petty criminals and injuring dozens more;
     -   staggering waves of rubbish being washed ashore in the Philippines;
• With regard to Europe and the European Union (EU) (which need to step up, as the USA steps down):
     -   perfectly understandable outrage at the installation of eco-friendly but completely exposed urinals in the streets of Paris;
     -   an opinion that the UK opposition is being pushed towards reversing Brexit;     in the UK, humanist weddings in Scotland have prompted calls for reform in England and Wales;
• 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 provincial capital is under major attack from misogynistic violent extremists (who allegedly are talking peace . . . and have withdrawn protection for the Red Cross) - see also this analysis of the problems that show;     progress is being made towards 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:
     -   Israel has offered Gaza a sea passage if the border attacks stop - see also here;     the UN is considering the possibility of a military force to protect Palestinians - see also here;     the final stage of peace talks have been put on pause for a religious holiday;     “more than 80 [black, Asian and minority ethnic] groups [have rejected a] definition of anti-Semitism they say suppresses discussion of 'colonial history' of Palestine”;
     -   other violent incidents this week include:   this,   this;
     on Syria (where the Assad Dictatorship has lost all pretence of legitimacy, and partition is needed):
     -   an explosion at a building thought to contain munitions has killed dozens;     the USA is “ending funding for Syria stabilisation projects . . . citing increased contributions from anti-Islamic State coalition partners” hmm . . . ;     scores of drones have attacked a Russian base (I was a dubious about this concept of drone attacks recently, but this does confirm that drones can potentially be a threat);     Russia wants to hand Syria’s Golan to UN peacekeepers;
     elsewhere in the region:
     -   concerns over Iran’s detention of a human rights lawyer as that nation continues to stifle dissent;     in another parallel to the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, the USA has established an Action Group to coordinate anti-Iran activities;     a reminder of the benefits of a stable Iran;
     -   after nearly a year in detention, a Saudi cleric will have a secret trial;
     -   Turkey rejected an appeal by a jailed US pastor, but made an offer to release the pastor in exchange for some “goodwill” gestures – which has been rejected.

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.