Post No. 1,262 – Gnwmythr’s News Ed. No. 247

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:

Notes:

(1) I am NOT a journalist (this blog was created for spiritual reasons, including a course), 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. 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 his mind-set, and strengthening 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:
       (i)   as attraction to violence continues to be inadequately addressed and the search for humans rights abusers continues, the risks of mass atrocities in   Democratic Republic of the Congo, burma, and Nicaragua
       (ii)   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;
      (iii) 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,     current genocidaires are continuing to punish whistleblowers (journalists, in particular);     a call for a more natural, human-based time system, and more human work expectations;     hints of a reduction in environmental impact through population decline in a decade;     undemocratic, aggressive, repressive regimes continue to threaten and focus on power (especially macho PUTW stuff) rather than their people;     influence, covert and overt, beneficial and bad, is an issue this week;     the importance of accurate communication – including calling out fascism and white supremacism;     reactions to outrageous, inflammatory behaviour has, at times, been problematic;     an inability to recognise taught biases, let alone change them, and addiction to power (covert and overt) continue to make all the –isms a problem, which is not helped by stupidity in justice systems and xenophobic politics – but there has been some accountability;    some of the forms of interconnectedness has been better recognised;     the vulnerable continue to be out-of-sight, out-of-mind – even if they aren’t out of sight;     flawed bureaucracies are an issue, as are other flawed systems;

(e)   may BPM courage and ethical commitment always be BPM respected, treasured and rewarded;

(f)   may all people act to BPM cut off inflammatory actions and reactions;

(g)   may all people recognise that true authentic BPM power never diminishes or detracts, and BPM refuse to submit or support (by either omission or commission) abuses / misuses of power, nor “fake” power;

(h)   may all people be BPM reflective, BPM self-aware and BPM prepared to grow and change;

(i)   may all people responsible for creating, using or maintaining systems never lose sight of the ultimate BPM purpose (to make other people’s lives better) and thus never lose their BPM senses of proportion and perspective;

(j)   may people never the consequences / significance of an event sway them from the BPM truth, nor from taking BPM action;

(k)   may all accountability be only BPM, with no people making the mistake of fighting to punish rather than to change;

(l)   may all people BPM recognise the essential humanness of other people, and never be afraid or blinded by taught or other hate;

(m)   may all else that should BPM asked for, also be done;

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; those without news deleted each week):
   -   Permanent Issues and Thematically Arranged News:
          permanent issues;     particular attention;
          democracy, freedom, governance, and ethics;     the USA and POTUS45;
          violent extremism;     refugees and migrants;     human rights
           (including homophobia/transphobia, white supremacism, trafficking
          and children’s rights, sexism, religious rights, workers’ rights, animals’ rights,
          and privacy, differently abled and other rights);     war, violence and hate;
          peace;     spirituality and psychism;     natural and other catastrophes;
          modern lifestyle (including climate change and environment, technology
          and science, economic and financial, housing, health and medical);     media;
          education;     crime judicial and police;

   -   Location-based News:
         Africa;     South and Central America;
          mainland China, East and South East Asia, and the Pacific;     Europe;
          Ukraine;     Russia and Central Asia;     Afghanistan;     South Asia;
          West Asia and northern Africa;

   -   Other Sites;

   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 and their Significant Others be kept BPM safe, undetectable and inviolable against indirect  psychic attack, and may they have all the BPM resources (including an assured income), opportunities and assistance for them to be BPM effective, 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 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 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, and 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 call to go back to natural, not clock, time;
     on the Rohingya  genocide this week:
     -   burma has rejected the jailed Reuters journalists’ appeals;
     on other matters requiring particular attention:
     -   this week I found nothing in the news on Afghanistan,   nor   Ukraine;
     -   “China's population is set to peak at 1.44 billion people in 2029 — but it then faces a long period of “unstoppable” decline (this is good news for an over-populated world);     as China faces the US trade war, territorial disputes over the South China Sea and Taiwan (the President of Taiwan, which has seen China erode democracy in Hong Kong, vowed “to defend the self-ruled island's democracy and way of life”), Chairman Winnie the Pooh (aka President Xi) wants the country's military to “nurture new types of combat forces” and “strengthen their sense of urgency and do everything they can to prepare for battle”;     as another “freedom of navigation” exercise is held in disputed waters is highlighted by China’s deployment of “intermediate ballistic missiles to the country's north-west region [which] have the capacity to destroy US ships entering disputed waters in the South China Sea”, US-China “trade war talks” have commenced;     Poland has arrested two men, one Polish and one Chinese, on charges of spying for China;     more Chinese censorship, including the targeting of Uighur intellectuals;
     -   as the US plans an international summit to counter Iran’s influence, “the Iranian Revolution and its legacy of terrorism”;
     -   following a neo-nazi / fascist / white supremacist rally in my home city that was attended by a sympathetic politician (at public expense – although not as bad as this), right wing media tinkers belatedly with putting out “the far-right flames it helped fan”, a left wing activist group gets into dangerously stupid territory with a decision to target specific right wing politicians, a powerful call is made to call a spade a spade by identifying the neo-nazi/fascist groups as being such (“a fascist movement can only be kept small if we call it by its name”), and an analysis reminds us that white supremacists have a history of public “credibility”;     in a move which plays right into fascist’s hands, a neo-nazi has been beaten unconscious in Germany;     deep concerns over abuse of an MP in the UK that included shouts of “Nazi”;
     -   after a young woman from Saudi Arabia, which has an appalling guardianship system and is where woman can be arrested for disobeying their father (who, in this case, caused concerns by going to Thailand – and is where a progressive couple have disappeared), who fears being killed for leaving Islam is tricked into surrendering her passport over a visa (there was some confusion over whether Australia had cancelled her visa) and then barricades herself into a hotel room to (successfully) avoid deportation, the UN HCR found she is a refugee and asked Australia to resettle her – which Australia said would be done slowly . . . so Canada stepped in and offered her refuge;     “Saudi Arabia has failed to respond to a request from a cross-party group of British politicians and international lawyers to visit detained female human rights activists in Saudi Arabia to investigate claims that they are being tortured”;     an appalling example of “mistake of fact defence”, where a rapist who climbed into a 13-year-old girl’s bed while she is sleeping and rapes her despite her struggling, reaching for a metal bar and kneeing him in the gut, is not convicted . . . ;     “the developers of a female-focused sex toy are alleging gender bias . . . after organizers revoked an innovation award [because it was] ‘deemed . . . to be immoral, obscene, indecent, profane or not in keeping with CTA’s image’ [but they allowed] men to watch pornography in public as consumers walk by”. Meanwhile, a female co-founder of “South Korea’s biggest pornography website has been jailed for four years . . . as the country attempts to tackle a voyeurism epidemic” and a young female member of the US Congress has had fake nude images published of her;     a male supremacist has paraded his sexist and ageist misogyny – which may well be about getting greater admiration from younger women;
     -   a Guardian exclusive reports that Australian soccer and government authorities have finally, after more than 40days, taken some action over an Australian-based refugee and professional soccer player who was detained in Thailand;
     -   after a night where I had a fairly typical – for me – six hours sleep, Japanese companies are using measures such as comfortable naps at work and asking people to leave by 9 PM and refrain from excessive overtime to address an “epidemic of sleeplessness” that is estimated to cost their economy $138 billion a year and a rising incidence of “karoshi”, or death from overwork;
       this week’s atrocity alert at R2P lists   Democratic Republic of the Congo, burma, and Nicaragua;
• With regard to democracy (which can be measured [as can goodness],     requires  protection of minorities and the vulnerable   -   and are you fighting to change things [by 198 nonviolent methods], or to punish),     freedom,     governance (e.g., here, here, here, here, here)     and     ethics:
  Note: I have a section specifically for POTUS45 below
     analyses, research and commentary this week include:
     -   “a new study shows how trade-related job losses translate into increases in military enlistment. . . . the study . . . raises important questions and highlights one potential pitfall of political-economic analysis: focusing on partial equilibrium results in a full-equilibrium world”;     a ranking of democracies put the USA in the “flawed” category;     a consideration of the strategic / tactical aspects of managing cyber vulnerabilities;     an examination of privacy across national borders in Asia;     “the moral and intellectual collapse of Australian conservatism”;     South Korea’s attempt to improve the economy by raising taxes and the minimum wage hasn’t worked;
     of concern internationally this week:
     -   the “World Bank Group President . . . , who was at odds with [POTUS45’s] policies on climate change, will resign . . . more than three years ahead of his term's expiration” (people close to the resigning President have said “he was leaving of his own accord and was ‘not pushed out’ “);     a US health care company CEO has stood down after a woman in vegetative state for 10 years delivered a baby;     “the seven countries in our Asia-Pacific backyard where kings and queens still rule”;
     of concern in my nation (Australia) this week:
     -   as the home care industry “faces [a crackdown amid concerns over quality of providers”, a long read despairing at how we, as a society, mislead, mistreat and hide our elderly;     “Commonwealth prosecutors have been accused of acting unfairly in the Witness K case [against a whistleblower who exposed Australia’s duplicity in negotiations against Timor Leste, and his lawyer] after dumping their brief of evidence on defence lawyers about 6pm on the last working day of the legal year”;     a man has been arrested for sending suspicious packages, possibly containing asbestos, to foreign consulates in Australian cities;
     also of concern this week:
     -   other concerning events have occurred or are developing in:   Australia,   Israel,   Turkey,   Africa/Russia,   Australia,   Australia;
     in the grey/mixed [good and bad aspects] or neutral area this week:
     -   after the US arrested a Russian citizen one day after a US citizen was arrested on charges of spying, Russia has rejected the idea of a swap . . . but that may be on the cards;
     good news this week includes:
     -   good news has occurred:   Ethiopia;
     on development (in an “end poverty/thirst/hunger” sense):
     -   the people who are in the category “poor”;
     and democracy/governance/political matters in my home nation this week:
     -   Australia’s privatised system for helping the unemployed find work has been strongly criticised;     as stabilisation works to address a number of confirmed design and construction issues near completion, some residents of a “defect-plagued skyscraper” will be allowed to move back in, but some homes have been “absolutely trashed” ;
• With regard to the USA and their schoolyard BULLYING, unpresidential, uncomprehending, delusional 45^th “President” (“POTUS45”) (see here on actions for US residents; the VP is at least as bad):
     -   as unpaid air safety workers call in sick and vandalism and other problems overwhelm volunteers and a skeleton staff to force the closure of National Parks, POTUS45 attempts to overcome a loss of publicity, lack of public interest in his wall and risks of loss of support by having his first address from the Oval Office on the shutdown, a speech with funding claims that have been debunked, lies about undocumented immigrants including drugs and crimes, a speech which was followed by a rebuttal by the Democrats which pointed out the decline in overall crossings and that women and children are not a threat, talks between the two sides that POTUS45 walked out of, and a political stunt visit to the border where he threatened to declare a National Emergency to bypass the US Congress;
     -   details have emerged of some of the “quiet elite” (and the evangelicals) who back and influence POTUS45;     the US House of representatives has taken action to force POTUS45 to fill the role of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act;
     -   as it becomes possible that the newly installed chairman of the House intelligence committee, a former federal prosecutor himself, rather than the Special Prosecutor may become the person to investigate POTUS45’s family finances, something POTUS45 declared would be a “violation”, an assessment that removing POTUS45 would not be enough to stop, let alone reverse, the harm (his appointees must also go – see also here), and another assessment that “moneyed interests” in the Democrats, “in favour of helping America’s poor and of reversing climate change”, “will do little to slow or reverse the growing imbalance of wealth and power . . . unless they are pushed to do so”;
     -   a Democrat Senator who is a woman of colour with better credential than Barack Obama and has already won the overwhelming support and respect of influential women of colour (much as POTUS45 did for older white men) could be a candidate to stand against POTUS45 in 2020, but will need to “effectively demonstrate that she is listening and responding to [white working-class voters across the rust-belt states] in order to overcome the culture wars”;     “Senator Bernie Sanders [has apologised] to women who have shared experiences of harassment by male supervisors while working on his 2016 presidential campaign, a controversy that has raised fresh questions about his potential second run in 2020”;
     -   a third high-ranking Pentagon officer has followed the former US Secretary of Defence and his Chief of Staff into retirement within a fortnight (these are high wear and tear positions, and two years is about the normal length of service);
     -   POTUS45 has follow up his debunked claim of poor ‘forest management’ leading to fires by threatening to cut bushfire relief;
     -   analysis of the suspected sonic attack on the US Embassy in Cuba shows it may have been the song of the Indies short-tailed cricket;
• 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 as well as 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.     Also, I don’t name groups in order to reduce their publicity):
     -   according to this Wikipedia page, there have been 6 attacks in Iraq, 9 attacks in Afghanistan,   and 5 attacks in Syria   (out of a total of 41);
• With regard to refugees (noting the New York Declaration), people seeking asylum and migrants:
     -   “50,000 Syrian refugees [have to] learn to survive -20°C in [otherwise warmly welcoming Canada”;     “Malta [will] let stranded asylum seekers disembark ahead of redistribution in EU”;     a Syrian refugee who left Australia’s gulag system because of a promise he would be reunited with his family within four months has found it took two years;     “a report from the United Nations warns that once migrants have arrived, host countries often fail to make use of their talents”;     “the number of [refugees] trying to cross the Mediterranean for Europe has been dropping and that is partly because of tougher measures introduced on the migrant routes”;
• With regard to other human (and other) rights and discrimination     (incidentally, bigots clearly have flaws of observation and thinking – shown by the fact that NOT all people choose to discriminate [and there’s this]):
     -   other human rights matters have also occurred in:   China;
     on HOMOPHOBIA/TRANSPHOBIA     (including heteronormativity and cisgender-normativity and noting that trans kids are the same as cis kids of the trans kids’ true gender):
     -   “a historic procession [has been] led by a Hindu congregation of transgender people”;
     on white supremacist and other forms of RACISM / CULTURAL DISCRIMINATION and Indigenous matters generally this week:
     -   Indigenous communities in one Australian state are “reeling after [the] suicides of two girls within a day”;     the first Asian woman has hosted the UK’s entertainment industry awards;     as a crowdfunding scheme helps release some women, calls for change (I heard one good suggestion for community service in lieu of jail time so (a) the community doesn't pay for the costs of jailing people, and (b) there is some positive outcome) to one Australian state’s system of jailing people for unpaid fines – as had been recommended some years ago following an Indigenous death in custody, but has been only partly implemented;     a call to “remember that while farming and agriculture were crucial to establishing [Australia], they were also intimately involved in settler-colonial violence, as well as the dispossession of Indigenous Australians’ land and foodways”;
     on TRAFFICKING, and CHILDREN’s and associated human rights this week (from Thomson Reuters Foundation, Freedom United, and other sources):
     -   “almost every brand of tuna on supermarket shelves shows why modern slavery laws are needed”;     a woman who, one of 1.5 million trafficking victims in the USA, was jailed for killing a man who was raping her when she was trafficked into slavery has been granted clemency;     a call for a national child sex offender schedule in Australia has been challenged by experts – particularly as it may lead to victims being identified, although it may deter "first time abusers" (what a terrible phrase – although it is more accurate to say what a terrible thing that phrase represents) . . . but it will provide a sense of safety for parents, albeit at the price of possible vigilantism;     as an extra 44 incidents per day occur during holidays in my home state, an opinion that children are at risk because judges cannot rule on violence early enough (“there is clear evidence past violence is one of the best predictors of future violence”);
     -   also on slavery / human trafficking this week:   conflict zones,   Cambodia,   Hong Kong,   fashion industry,   Mauritania,   Thailand,   India,   India,   Bangladesh,   USA;
     on SEXISM this week (keeping in mind the overblown influence given to testosterone, and the potential value to women of using anger):
     -   “a Nepali mother and her two children have been found dead after the woman was banished to a ‘menstruation hut’ ” – which is illegal (the deaths may be from smoke ‘inhalation’);
     -   on sexual harassment/misconduct/violence this week, see:   here,   here (trigger warning),   here,   here,   here;
     -   other sexism matters have also occurred in:   India,   Croatia,   India;
     on WORKERS’ rights this week:
     -   another massive underpayment of workers;
     on ANIMALS’ rights this week:
     -   in western Australia, a “remote pastoral station is under investigation after hundreds of cattle allegedly died from being left without adequate water in scorching conditions”;     “animals rescued from Aleppo, Mosul and Gaza have found new lives in a peaceful sanctuary surrounded by mountains” in Jordan;
     -   other animals’ rights matters have also occurred in:   USA;
     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:   here,   Kazakhstan;
• With regard to war (noting that economic ties do NOT prevent war), violence and hate generally:
     -   in the USA “three men have been killed and four injured in a shooting“ which “stemmed from a fight between two large groups of people”;
• With regard to spirituality    and/or     psychism generally     (including empathy, revolutionary love, survival after death, good religion, UFOs, being single / asexual / off-grid / non-conformist / true to yourself,     overcoming: belief in management  fads and fashions,   filling time / distraction):
     -   “sharing is contagious” – and “even the most uncooperative of people, who are "holding back their sharing instinct", can learn to change”;     scientists have rediscovered that oysters have a lunar clock (this was covered in Lyall Watson’s “Supernature” in the 1970s);
• With regard to natural and other catastrophes:
     -   survivors of a recent tsunami in Indonesia fear a second disaster as the volcano responsible continues to erupt;     after a fire in an “escape room”, where players are locked in and must solve puzzles to find a key and get out, killed five teenagers, 13 such establishments have been shut down;
• 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], addiction or unthinking pro-technology bias [new is NOT always good],     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,     life options,     AI ethics, corporate misuse of mindfulness as a distraction from working conditions,     embedded emissions,     plane pollution,     bigger, flashier homes/cars and financialisation,     the need for agroforestry,     insisting on busy-ness,     raising Prince Boofheads,     trying to force everyone to have children,     the “Earth3” model [SDGs + 9PBs]):
     on climate change (our World War III?) and other environmental matters:
     -   “an oil tanker has exploded off the coast of Hong Kong, killing at least one person and leaving three missing”;    as Australia has its third hottest year on record and warnings are made of the catastrophe that is vanishing glaciers, warmer water has led to an algal bloom and resultant fish kill along a 40-kilometre stretch of the Darling River, and jellyfish territories and long term patterns, leading to thousands of stings and 22 hospitalisations;     human encroachment into elephant corridors, started by the British and accelerated more recently by rapid industrialisation and population growth, is leading to human-elephant conflict, resulting in hundreds of people and elephants being killed each year and subsistence farmers sometimes losing an entire year’s crops, but there are plans to try to salvage some of the corridors;     a rare butterfly which depends on an ant species and mistletoe shows the need to preserve roadside fragments of vegetation which also carry “the beneficial organisms on which . . . farmers are dependent”;     thousands of cane toads have been caught in Australia to try to stop the spread of this introduced pest;     outback regeneration at a property within the traditional lands of the Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara people, which was bought 10 years ago by Bush Heritage;     another dust storm;     a “right to repair” movement is gathering strength in Europe, aiming at household goods that last longer / are easier to repair, and thus have reduced environmental impact;     a sad update on Australia’s recycling crisis;     after the capacities of its facilities are exceeded more than ten times, tourists are being turned away from a beach;     elephant dung has plastic in it;     the oceans are warming faster than expected;
     on technology and science matters:
     -   residents are concerned – particularly regarding health - over the installation of “small cell” (mobile phone) boxes ahead of the 5Gnetwork;     another airport closure (this one brief) in response to a drone;     something idiot technophiles have never acknowledged is that their adulated products can have problems: in the case of maps, “GPS and Google have certainly eaten into the market . . . but I think paper is going to make a comeback. You just cannot orientate yourself as well with a handheld device” (paper never went away, which is why Melway is still here);     a flawed social media moderation system;
     on health and medical:
     -   “why doctors are backing pill testing at music festivals”;
• With regard to press aka the media, and freedom of expression     (claims of presenting “both sides” of a debate can be WRONG if the other side is RUBBISH –as is the case on LGBTIQ issues.     Also, media can be unprofessional,     but funding is an issue … ):
     -   media / freedom of expression matters have occurred in:   Turkey;
• With regard to education:
     -   if elected, Australia’s opposition party will introduce minimum standards for entry into teaching degrees;     “most uni students get a job within months of finishing but some courses do better than others”;
     -   other education matters have occurred in:   South Africa;
• 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 I 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):
     -   in a follow up to their previous exposé, the Guardian has reported that an Australian territory has rejected a Freedom of Information request in relation to problems at a notorious youth detention centre for “frivolous” reasons;     a US “police officer [has been sacked for shooting neighbourhood dog during confrontation”;
    -      other crime, judicial and policing matters have occurred in:   Israel,   India,   Kenya.

Location based News:

• With regard to Africa, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (and other sources) has:
      on Africa generally:
     -   the number of coups in Africa is declining (the information is well presented);
     -   Russia is trying to rebuild influence in Africa (with arms sales, and possibly mercenaries), but lacks the resources of the former USSR;
     on specific African nations:
     -   a call for “international unity as [the] DR Congo [awaited electoral results” . . . which, surprisingly (church monitoring allegedly suggested otherwise), were for the opposition leader, raising the possibility of a court challenge and the actuality of violent protests;
     -   “the reopening of the border between former enemies Ethiopia and Eritrea has dramatically changed the towns near the frontier”;     the head of an Ethiopian military-run industrial conglomerate has been charged with corruption;
     -   a coup has occurred in Gabon;
     -   resistance is growing to police violence and abuses in Kenya;
     -   some aid workers have been withdrawn from Nigeria over fears of violent extremism;     concerns at reports of intimidation during recent elections;
     -   a “photo of [a] ‘segregated’ classroom [has reopened] old wounds in post-apartheid South Africa”;
     -   “Sudan's National Human Rights Commission, the top governmental human rights body, has condemned the killing ‘by bullets’ of protesters during the ongoing wave of protests across the country, calling on the authorities to bring those responsible to justice”;
     -   Uganda is continuing its unsuccessful attempt to criminalise dissent;
     -   a call for political talks to resolve Zimbabwe’s crises;
• With regard to South and Central America:
     -   Guatemala has expelled the UN-backed anti-corruption commission;
     -   concern that, on Mexico’s most vexing public policy issue: ongoing violence, the plans of Mexico’s new president “indicate a deepening of the same militarization paradigm that has largely failed over the last twelve years”;
     -   a Venezuelan Supreme Court judge has fled to the USA “to protest over [the President's] second term in office”;     “Latin American countries say [they] won't recognise . . . Venezuela's president” – neither will Venezuela’s National Assembly;     military officers and their families are being arrested and tortured;
• 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:
     -   an article on the high-profile people who were disappeared by China in 2018;     “a Uyghur woman has detailed conditions she says were tantamount to torture inside one of China's ‘re-education camps’ ”;     “a 49-year-old man has been arrested after attacking 20 children at a primary school in Beijing with a hammer”;     the Chinese scientist who was disappeared after controversial gene editing could be facing the death penalty;
     -   as POTUS45 claims the USA and DPRK are negotiating the location of a second summit (small steps), the DPRK’s leader, who recently warned the USA he has other options, is visiting China . . . ;
     elsewhere in Asia:
     -   the massive problem of illegal drugs in burma – which is the largest part of some burmese state’s economies, and suggested actions;
     -   although the “vast majority of Cambodians alive today did not live through the horrors” of the Khmer Rouge and “Cambodia has been through massive economic and social change” since their fall, that nation is “still dealing with ‘painful legacies’ [“perpetrators can still be found living next door to their victims”] , while politics remains ‘polarised’ ”;
     -   Indonesia is cracking down on West Papuan separatists in a new “chapter of persecution”;
     -   Malaysia’s King has unexpectedly abdicated after just two years on the throne, which is rumoured – a lá Edward VIII - to be over a marriage to a non-royal;
     and in the Pacific:
     -   a “major hospital in Papua New Guinea has warned there will be a mass burial of 154 bodies held in its overflowing morgue unless family members collect the bodies”;     a first-time actor, who starred in Oscar-nominated Australian-Vanuatu film, has died of an untreated leg infection, showing the need for resources to help get medical knowledge disseminated;
• With regard to Europe and the European Union (EU) (which need to step up, as the USA steps down):
     -   the USA is examining how committed it will be militarily to eastern Europe;
     -   “Croatia has been experiencing its own #MeToo moment, as women protest at being put through avoidable suffering and abuse during pregnancy and childbirth”;
     -   both the French government and some of those protesting are trying to address the problem of violence in recent protests, but anti-Semitism is also a problem;
• 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 mine collapse has killed thirty people;
• With regard to South Asia (aka the Indian sub-continent), The Hindu and other sources have:
     on India:
     -   “the organisers of a major Indian science conference distanced themselves . . . from speakers who [dismissed] Einstein’s discoveries and claim ancient Hindus invented stem cell research”;     a trial will pair stray cattle and the elderly to attempt to improve the wellbeing of both;     a teenage girl was murdered and mutilated by her family for eloping;     recent state election losses have led India’s ruling party to focus on agriculture and social welfare;     a current mine rescue attempt may lead to compensation for past victims of mining disasters;     protests against citizen changes in India’s north east over disenfranchisement;
     elsewhere in South Asia:
     -   moves toward a new constitution in Sri Lanka;
• 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’s Prime Minister has demanded a “confrontation” with state witnesses in the corruption case against him;     “Israel believes Russia is trying to meddling in its elections, but feels it can foil their efforts”;     this week Israeli  soldiers have killed a woman and injured twenty five other Palestinians, including a journalist and a paramedic;     a Palestinian has attacked Israeli soldiers;     a fuel crisis is threatening Gazan hospitals;     five Israeli soldiers have been arrested for violence against Palestinians;     an “Israeli minor who is suspected of killing Palestinian woman [has been] kept in custody”;     a Palestinian citizen’s resolve has been strengthened by the violence Israelis committed against him;     “Palestinian farmers caught between Israeli rock and PA hard place”;     the main political rival to re-election of Israel’s current Prime Minister, a former head of the military, has previously said Israel must strive for peace;
     -   other events concerning Israel/Judaism and/or Palestine have occurred or are developing in:   France,   France,   Iran;
     on the  conflict and the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis in Yemen:
     -   rebels have used a drone to attack a base and kill several people;
     on Syria (where the Assad Dictatorship has lost all pretence of legitimacy, and partition is needed):
     -   the USA’s “national security adviser . . .added a new condition . . . to the slowing US withdrawal from Syria [although the withdrawal has started], saying Turkey must agree to protect the United States’ Kurdish allies” . . . but Turkey has rejected that, so that it can do whatever it wants with Kurdish people, anywhere . . . ;
     elsewhere in the region:
     -   “Egypt [has acquitted] Muslim Brotherhood leaders of violence charges for [the] first time”;
     -   Turkey has jailed a journalist for telling embarrassing truths about powerful people;
     -   criticism of Western interference in Libya’s attempts to find peace;     a call for Libya’s military to stop running prisons.

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.