Post No. 1,357 – Gnwmythr’s News Ed. No. 270

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 an objective or free-from-bias journalist (this is a spiritual blog);
(2) I do NOT hold copyright to, nor claim authorship of, any of the articles I link to, except for links to material I have written for this and my related blogs, and my commentary in these posts.

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. Note that clearing (rescue) of uncooperatives should ONLY be 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 (many others are doing this work, including some who will be stronger), and content yourself with clearing the smaller nonBPM units within your capability – which will weaken stronger uncooperatives. It is OK to take a break or cut back this work if you need. Be mindful that the energies we use and manifest in our daily lives contribute to the larger soup of energies that influence world events, so address those as well (or keep them out of the psychic soup :) ).

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”, and there are notes at the end of this post about other options for those who do not like this way of working.

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 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, clear thinking, and calm, de-escalating speech;     (2) where problems exist, advocate for being BPM and BPM responses;     (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 th POTUS45 requires:     1. eroding POTUS45’s nonBPM influences and strengthening his 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 POTUS45’s marginal supporters to allow them to “come to their senses, and simultaneously strengthening their BPM influences;     3. physical world activism  – e.g., this, helping those who are doing this work including clearing nonBPM blockages;     and     4. ensuring opposition to POTUS45 is unified, cohesive and FOCUSED;

(d)   the major events this week are:
       (i)   as the search for humans rights abusers continues, further to the current map of genocides this week there are risks of mass atrocities in   Democratic Republic of the Congo, burma, and Sudan,
       (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,     the major issue this week is the growing aggression, tension and risk of war between Iran and the USA;     society continues to struggle with change, difference, and non-conformity – and the related problem of limited awareness;     people continue to struggle with exercising power at all, let alone exercising well and not turning a blind eye;     improved awareness on economics, including health impacts and ideological influences;     people continue to try to justify hate;     the momentum of “how things are” and “that’s how it is done” is allowed to continue when it is bad, but may be interrupted when it is good;     coercion and control continue to be problems;

(e)   may all nonBPM influences/units causing/contributing to the aggression, threats and growing tensions and Iran and the USA be BPM neutralised, reversed, and cleared;

(f)   may the leaders of the USA and Iran and all levels of their forces be fully BPM aware of how calamitous war would be, and thus the need for both restraint on their part, and allowing some saving of face on the part of the other;

(g)   may all people have the BPM courage to not flinch from BPM ethical use of power and influence based on BPM awareness, reflection, and perspective;

(h)   may all people BPM call out hate, and may they be BPM guided on how best to challenge and demonstrate the fallacy and wrongness of that hate;

(i)   may all people have the BPM discernment to know the difference between good and bad, when things need to change and when they shouldn’t, and how to effect change without throwing the baby out with the bathwater;

(j)   may people never allow themselves to be coerced;

(k)   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 crisis 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 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 people     (a) recognise, irrespective of the appearance of difference, the essential shared humanness of other people, the strength of BPM collaboration, the benefits of diversity, and choose fairness and inclusivity;     (b) choose to live modestly;     (c) be in better communication with the better parts of their nature – especially those who need that;
• Matters warranting particular attention:
       this week on reversing the deliberate, well-funded, long-term strategy (from about the 70s – and the 90s) 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;     “more women are choosing not to have kids, and society can't cope”;     “the benefits of employment on mental health might be gained from just one day’s work a week”;     older (less mobile) victims of genocide, including in burma – “fleeing my whole life”;     “in the 1990s, . . . policymakers set the world on its current, hyperglobalist path, requiring domestic economies to be put in the service of the world economy instead of the other way around” – and recommendations to fix the problem, including antidumping duties, “let governments respond to so-called social dumping, the practice of countries violating workers’ rights in order to keep wages low and attract production . . . countercyclical capital regulation . . . changes in its rules must produce benefits for all rather than the few”;
     on genocide, especially the Rohingya  genocide being committed by  historically  violently  expansionist  burma, and similar matters this week:
     -   the UN “has warned it will withdraw support . . . to avoid complicity in a government ‘policy of apartheid’ for Rohingya Muslims”;     “China is murdering members of the Falun Gong spiritual group [and detainees] and harvesting their organs for transplant [in] a potential genocide”;     ASEAN must consider the causes of the Rohingya being refugees;
     on other matters requiring particular attention:
     -   “preventing [POTUS45’s] re-election will take everything the [US] Democrats have”;     “experts alarmed by new Pentagon 'war-fighting' doctrine”;
     -   tensions, demands questionable / irresponsible actions (see here, and this assessment of the evidence) and over the crisis resulting from the attack on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman continue to grow, raising concerns about a possible war – which has not been helped by Iran shooting down a US drone and POTUS45 allegedly ordering and then rescinding and buying time about an attack – and issuing a warning to Iran (commercial airliners have been diverted) - see also this legal analysis;
     -   the likely next climate refugees, from low lying islands in South Asia;    “a ‘Responsibility to Prepare’: a strategy for [US] presidential leadership on the security risks of climate change”;     a criticism of tourism;     the murders of environmental journalists;     “permafrost . . . is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted”;     Ireland will commit to 180 actions to wean “the state, businesses, farms and households” off fossil fuels and attain carbon neutrality by 2050;     the developed world’s plastic is still being dumped on the developing world;     deforestation in Asia;     “greening the world’s drylands isn’t only possible, it’s imperative” (reforestation and new forests to spread rain further will be key to this – see Chapter 18 of the book I reviewed in this post);     “India has become proficient at saving lives by evacuating people ahead of major storms, but . . . six weeks after India's eastern state of Odisha was battered by the strongest storm since 2013, officials are considering how to build back damaged homes and power networks to better withstand future wild weather, as well as protecting the coast with trees”;     “consumer choice is destroying both the Earth and the future of our children” (in the early 80s, protection of productive agricultural land was a key consideration of where I worked in central Queensland: it is a crime that has been lost since, and had been lost earlier elsewhere – including in my current home city);     a second US state is closer to energy neutrality, and a 3^rd has started down that path;
     -   a controversial neochristian sports player has now extended his bile by also attacking trans children;     more homophobia in sport;     “far-right groups have now become more insidious than ridiculous”;
     -   “four [Australian] laws that need urgent reform to protect both national security and press freedom”;
     -   sexual threats against backpackers;     a “second alleged [rape] victim [is] pursuing a complaint about [northern Australian] police losing forensic evidence” (is there a systemic problem? Or misogyny?);     “US Democratic lawmakers vote to repeal global gag rule on abortion”;     “Spain's Supreme Court has ruled that five men who attacked a teenager at a bull-running festival were guilty of rape, not the lesser crime of sexual abuse, concluding a case that sparked mass protests across Spain over chauvinism and sexual abuse”;
     -   “West Africa's Sahel region must reduce rates of child marriage to end spiralling ethnic and [violent extremist] conflict”;     “locking up kids damages their mental health and sets them up for more disadvantage”;     Saudi Arabia has been using child soldiers in its war in Yemen;
     -   police in the USA threatened “to shoot a father and his pregnant partner after their four-year-old daughter allegedly took a Barbie doll from a store without paying”;     a “boy [has been] kept ‘completely naked’ in [an Australian city’s] watch house for days”;     “thousands of people continue to work as bonded labourers in India, with employers often keeping children as collateral when their parents travel back home” - one such child slave has died . .. ;
     -   “since 2008, the restraint technique used on [two indigenous brothers] has been implicated in the deaths of 24 people”;     strong indications of racism in a US county’s pursuit of death penalties;
     -   nuclear risks in South Asia;
     -   as protestors refuse to show their faces out of fear of China’s reach, reminders that families, fearing for their children’s future, are part of the protests - “they’re kids, not rioters”, which now include police;     following rejection of an apology, pressure grew on Hong Kong’s leader to resign as an admission is made that police sought protestors being treated in hospitals;     Hong Kong’s history – including a reminder that it has only 28 more years of nominally being a “second system” within China’s oppressive communist regime, and an examination of the current state of protests and options, and an assessment of the possibility that more genuine international support could lead to change;
     -   the coercive collection of biometric data from refugees;
       this week’s atrocity alert at R2P lists   Democratic Republic of the Congo, burma, and Sudan;
• With regard to democracy (which can be measured [as can goodness],     requires  protection of minorities and the vulnerable),     freedom,     governance (e.g., here, here, here, here, here, here)     and     ethics:
     analyses, research and commentary this week include:
     -   a review of the possibility that the USA and Russia can agree to limit political interference;     how to keep transnational crime out of Australia-China trade;     in a review of how to maintain the Australia-US relationship despite tensions over China, a call for the USA to be more transparent;
     of concern internationally this week:
     -   criticism of a technology company for “corporate gaslighting” a female MP;     “small tech companies fear retaliation from big tech firms . . . if they assist in an investigation into allegations the companies misuse their massive market power”;
     on the US-China – and other - trade war this week:
     -   a US-focused view of the current state of the US-China trade war;     a call for the US to be a fairer trading nation;
     of concern in my nation (Australia) this week:
     -   the misogynistic neoliberals tax plan favours men;     attempts to prevent  public review of defence projects;     a warning that “Australian employment opportunities [are] misaligned with job seekers needs”;     more controversy and disputes over coal mines – including from farmers;     a Guardian Australia exclusive reports alleged preliminary enquiries about the possibility of “watering down” environment laws to help business interests of a Minister;     38 people have died from flu in northern Australia;     an allegedly climate crisis government body could fund coal-fired power stations – which one expert described as “insane”;     concerns about changes to health care for serving members of the military;
     with regard to cyber warfare and other cyber problems (including AI) this week:
     -   another example of security ineptness;     an historical review of US information warfare;     Australia still wants to spy on Australians – but denies that . . . ;     “democratic defence against disinformation”;     the US-Russian power grid cold war;
     -   other events related to cyber warfare have occurred or are developing in:   France;
     in the grey/mixed [good and bad aspects] or neutral area this week:
     -   the UK and Russia are considering meeting to resolve their tensions;     “with climate change likely to sharpen conflict, NZ balances pacifist traditions with defence spending”;
     good news this week includes:
     -   Australians are reporting tax avoiders;
     on such matters in my nation this week:
     -   my home state is considering changing its local governance structure – see also this;     calls for the main opposition party to rethink factional influences;     “for up to a century . . . an increase in compulsory super contributions . . . would add to, rather than ease, the burden on taxpayers” (concerning that we spend 4% on pensions whereas the OECD spends 9% on average);
• With regard to the USA and POTUS45 (see here on actions for US residents, and note that the VP is at least as bad):
     -   “decades of being wrong again and again has done nothing to reduce the influence of tax-cut cranks on the G.O.P”;
     -   POTUS45 has been accused of a sexual assault more than 20 years ago;
     -   a fight is brewing over the type of nuclear fuel on US warships;
     -   a war over wording (“concentration camp”) is showing the right’s hypocrisy;
• 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 by “Cure Violence“, BPM counter-narratives, and good, old fashioned police work (I don’t name groups to reduce their publicity):
     -   according to this Wikipedia page, in the last week there have been 4 attacks in Iraq, 2 attacks in Afghanistan,   and 6 attacks in Syria   (out of a total of 27, causing at least 356 deaths and 193 wounded);
• With regard to refugees (noting the New York Declaration), and remembering Haiti, Ethiopia, Madagascar, DR Congo, and the Philippines), asylum seekers, and migrants:
     -   debunking myths about refugees;     criticism of risk management in Australia’s detention centres, which are supposed to be administrative, not punitive - and “the Australian onshore immigration detention system is becoming ‘more and more like prison’ and unlike similar operations any other liberal democracy” (hardly surprising, given the hardline ex-copper at the head of it);     as pressure grows to resettle refugees and the Home Minister (see this, on that department’s dinosaur head) gets caught out again, PNG wants Australia not to renew the current controversial security contract for refugees on the Manus Island gulag;     a two year old refugee in an Australian refugee camp has been denied a birthday cake;     an example of what Australia has been missing out on;     a call for MPs to keep Australia’s medevac laws, which the neoliberals are trying to reverse – see also here;     the poor nations doing the most for refugees need more aid – see also here;     teachers need more support to aid traumatise refugees (finally! I’ve been trying to get this across to people for years – and not only in education!);
     -   other refugee-related matters have also occurred in:   Turkey,   USA / Mexico,   business (good news),   Hungary,   Colombia / Venezuela,   DR Congo / Uganda;
• With regard to other human (and other) rights and discrimination     (incidentally, NOT all people choose to discriminate so those that do aren’t thinking clearly):
     -   “the ILO has just adopted a new Convention on Violence and Harassment in the World of Work”;
     -   other human rights matters have also occurred in:   France / Chad,   USA;
     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 broader look at discrimination;
     on white supremacist and other forms of RACISM / CULTURAL DISCRIMINATION and Indigenous matters (including land rights) generally this week:
     -   “the payment for ecosystem services (PES) model is supporting a new wave of self-determined construction on Aboriginal homelands” (given the role that the term “homelands had in South Africa’s apartheid, that term is a little unfortunate, but the scheme seems good);
     -   other white supremacy / racism problems have also occurred in:   Europe (Roma),   Congo;
     on TRAFFICKING, and CHILDREN’s and associated human rights this week (from Thomson Reuters Foundation and other sources):
     -   Reuters  reports companies are using legal action to avoid Brazil’s slave labour “dirty list”;     an examination of business activities (including “marketing”) from the point of view of risk to children;     “one in 30 young men were married as children”;
     -   also on child abuse, including institutional, this week:   Viêt Nám;
     -   also on slavery / human trafficking this week:   UK / fast fashion,   Mexico,   here,   USA,   China,   USA / Malawi,   Niger and Nigeria (improvements),   helping survivors;
     on SEXISM this week (keeping in mind the overblown influence given to testosterone, and the potential value to women of using anger):
     -   five unheralded female scientists;     the story of Australia’s first female commercial jetliner pilot – after an historic court case – and see also this, on remaining sexist aspects of taxation, and this;
     -   on sexual harassment/misconduct/violence this week, see:   here,   ride sharing companies,   Pakistan (hopefully good news),   Colombia / Venezuela,   Africa (FGM);
     -   other sexism matters have also occurred in:   India;
     on WORKERS’ rights this week:
     -   seven people died cleaning a septic tank in India;     a crew abandoned on a cargo ship for 18 months over a pay dispute has been paid;
     -   other workers’ rights matters have also occurred in:   India;
• With regard to war (noting that economic ties do NOT prevent war), violence and hate generally:
     -   the “modernisation of world nuclear forces continues despite [an] overall decrease in number of warheads”;     mine clearance in Angola;     NATO also wants a “space force” . . . :
• With regard to spirituality,   personal growth,    and     psychism generally     (including empathy, revolutionary love, survival after death, good religion, UFOs (now “UAPs”), being single / asexual / off-grid / non-conformist / true to yourself):
     -   interfaith learnings for clergy;
• With regard to natural and other disasters:
     -   more than 40 people have died in a bus crash in India;
• With regard to overcrowding and “modern“ lifestyle issues     (such as     smart phones’ environmental harm,   child labour,   conflict  minerals,   FOMO [which can be overcome],   addiction or unthinking pro-technology bias [new is NOT always good – see here],   AI ethics,   plane pollution,     and     work, busy-ness and lifestyles causing depression and burnout,   being duped by modern mantras,  management  fads and corporate misuse of mindfulness as a distraction,   “failing“ at being well,   life options,   financialisation of homes,   agroforestry,   raising Prince Boofheads and forcing everyone to have children,   the “Earth3” model [SDGs + 9PBs]):
     on climate crisis (our World War III?) and other environmental matters:
     -   government data shows “Australia's Emissions Reduction Fund is failing to deliver”;     a mystery virus is blinding Australia’s tree kangaroos;     as environmentalists are criticised for failing to communicate well with farmers, a call for better management of soil as a carbon sink;     single use plastic shopping bags will be banned in my home state in a few months;     “Australia [has been] quizzed by [the] EU and China on whether it can meet 2030 Paris climate target”;     a reports suggests that northern Australia “embracing clean energy could dramatically expand the electricity, mining and mineral processing industries while reducing living costs”;     “an area twice the size of the UK has been destroyed for products such as palm oil and soy over the last decade”;     “Australia’s energy exports increase global greenhouse emissions, not decrease them” (there are idiots who think we decrease the worlds GHG emissions?);     advice for consumers on recycling plastic;     the UK Parliament will hold a Citizens’ Assembly on the climate crisis;
     on economic and financial matters, including consumer complaints:
     -   “inducing consumer paralysis: how retailers bury customers in an avalanche of choice”;     suggestions for people considering setting up their own business (unless you have good savings, you will need someone who is prepared to support you –willingly, without coercion - for ~3 years, and you have to think about momentum – you can’t take a break if that cuts your business’s momentum);     the problems of under-and over-paying people;
     on affordable, sustainable and decent housing and homelessness matters    (politicians with “investment properties” have a conflict of interest):
     -   garages as affordable homes;     advice to NOT buy new apartments in development of more than a few stories – see also this, on “buck passing”;     sleeping rough: “waiting for the sun”;     a review of tenancy laws in social housing;     the “invisible” homeless women;
• 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:   Egypt;
• With regard to education:
     -   whilst Australia’s education department is still focused on education as a tool of economics, others want a more rounded approach;     class distinctions shown by Australian schools’ differing access to resources;     a suggestion to use experienced, now new, teachers in difficult schools to improve retention rates;     “how uncapped university funding actually boosted Indigenous student numbers”;
• With regard to crime, judicial matters and policing     (noting (1) an uncle of mine resigned when corruption was not comprehensively cleaned out of the police force he served in, I have high expectations of police, and I consider all violence, abuse of power and failure to understand the impacts of their actions [e.g., see here and here] undermines and weaken all police – who are under incredible pressure, and (2) all people charged are innocent until proven guilty):
     -   the first four suspects in the downing of a commercial jet airliner have been named (remember: they’re only guilty after a proper trial finds them so – until then, they’re innocent);     “the crown prince of Saudi Arabia should be investigated over the murder of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi because there is ‘credible evidence’ that he and other senior officials are liable for the killing, according to a damning and forensic UN report”;     a major drug bust in the USA;     idiots are posting about suspicious (in the criminal sense) behaviour on social media but not ringing the police (this puts them at risk of being identified as a witness).

Location based News:

• With regard to Africa, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (and other sources) has:
      on Africa generally, and multi-African nations:
     -   the USA is looking to counter China’s long standing influence in Africa;
     -   after floods, “Zimbabwe’s 2019 maize crop is set to come in at half that of 2018 and Mozambique’s at a quarter”;
     on specific African nations:
     -   17 civilians have been killed by violent extremists in Burkina Faso;
     -   “over 80 per cent of schools in Anglophone Cameroon [have been] shut down, as [the] conflict worsens”;
     -   recommendations to strengthen the African Union (AU)-sponsored peace agreement between the Central African Republic and fourteen armed groups;
     -   the Congolese army will protect a Chinese run copper mine;
     -   Guinea Bissau will hold presidential elections on 24^th November;
     -   protests in Malawi as the election result is challenged in court;     the first ever female speaker of the Malawi Parliament;
     -   41 people have been killed in more violence in Mali;
     -   two police were killed by violent extremists;
     -   more fatal violence in Nigeria;
     -   a setback to attempts to clean up South Africa’s government;
     -   Sudan’s ruling military junta says it has no preconditions to talks;
     -   murder, rape, and environmental problems at a Tanzanian gold mine;
     -   the USA has “pressed Zimbabwe for political reforms after it cracked down on protesters” (and it is stockpiling more weapons);
• With regard to South and Central America:
     -   a review of Mexico’s foreign policy choices under her new President;
     -   recommendations to help Nicaragua’s nascent move to peace;
• 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):
     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 violently occupied nation of Tibet:
     -   South Korean food aid to North Korea;
     elsewhere in Asia:
     -   “why Malaysia’s Prime Minister is warming to China’s Belt and Road”;
     and in the Pacific:
     -   “Australian-based company’s PNG mine could pose [a] big environmental [and social] risk”;
• With regard to Russia,     Russian influenced nations     and     eastern Europe,     Central Asia,     and responses to same (see also elsewhere):
     in Central Asia:
     -   violent anti-Russian protests in Georgia; 
• With regard to the conflict in  sexist Afghanistan (noting that Afghanistan was once a peaceful and modern society, even allowing women in miniskirts, before the Russian invasion – see here):
     -   China has met with a delegation of misogynistic violent extremists from Afghanistan to try to promote peace;
• With regard to South Asia (aka the Indian sub-continent), The Hindu and other sources have:
     on India:
     -   yoga-plomacy;     “India faces the worst long-term water crisis in its history”;     “land titles of farmers who kill themselves in an Indian state will be given to their widows . . . granting inheritance equality in a nation where their property rights are often denied”;     preventable child deaths in India;
• With regard to West Asia (aka “the Middle East”) and Northern Africa, the Middle East Eye, the Times of Israel, and other sources have:
     -   the ongoing Saudi-UAE campaign against Qatar;
     on Israel and Palestine:
     -   “Israel's first lady [has been] convicted of misusing state funds”;     concerns about the case against a Palestinian charged with child sexual assault;     the Palestinian fishing industry is frustrated by Israeli changes to fishing regulations in response to actions the fishers didn’t commit;     Israel is using Mossad to try to disrupt the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (how much effort would be required to treat Palestinians decently?);
     on the  conflict and the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis in Yemen:
     -   “a phased-suspension of food assistance in Yemen [is] likely to begin . . . over a diversion of aid and lack of independence in [rebel]-controlled areas”;     UK weapons sales to Saudi Arabia have been declared unlawful, and the US Senate has rejected POTUS45’s attempt to bypass the US Congress;
     on Syria (where the Assad Dictatorship has lost all pretence of legitimacy, and partition is needed):
     -   as the UN urges Turkey and Russia to stabilise Syria’s Idlib province “without delay”, Syria remarks that it doesn’t want to fight Turkey . . . ;
     elsewhere in the region:
     -   Egypt’s first democratically elected leader in modern Egypt, who was deposed by a military coup, has collapsed in court and subsequently died after years of detention – see also here, and also this, on control of the media;     Egypt is eroding state institutions;
     -   violent extremists are waging revenge economic war by burning crops in Iraq;
     -   “the looting of archaeological sites is a problem in Tunisia”.

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 (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 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 healers on Saturdays. 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.