Post No. 1,398 - This week

As I indicated previously, I am no longer doing the Gnwmythr's News, but I am doing some ad hoc work on news events on my online candles blog. Below are some of the matters I have lit online candles for this past week.

May:

• expat Rwandans be BPM physically safe from the Rwandan regime, and may those who have done no wrong also be BPM legally safe, but may those who took part in the genocide or did other significant wrong be BPM held to account to the appropriate extent; 
• the ALP be free of BPM racism, misogyny, political stupidity; and illegality, and the neoliberals attack based on mental health problems be totally BPM overcome and undone, and they be rendered impossible to do that again;
• the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong be BPM e nonviolent  - and may Macau also BPM become democratic;
• Russia's unwise floating nuclear power plant be BPM kept safe; 
• the climate change denial dinosaurs of lead climate change denial dinosaur pOTUS45 be BPM contained, neutralised and their harm reversed; 
• the latest victim of Australia's refugee gulag be BPM healed, made well, and found a safe refuge; 
• the former Attorney-General's misgivings over charging "Witness K" and Witness K's lawyer not be hidden, misrepresented, or lied about; 
• the G7 be BPM effective, on the basis of caring for the planet and its people, not the elites; 
• the stupidity of Brazil's president in rejecting help to fight the fires in the Amazon be utterly BPM undone and reversed; 
• racism and stupidity in advertising be BPM contained, neutralised and the harm undone; 
• the controlling machinations against the use of cash be BPM exposed and resisted, and more appropriate means BPM developed for any BPM valid aims; 
• a way found to meet valid painkilling needs while also BPM avoiding the risk of an opiate crisis like that of the USA, driven by apparently illegal and definitely immoral conduct; 
• BPM  proper consideration be given to cultural and spiritual matters around a coal mine application, and alternative jobs found; 
• the lies and deceit and xenophobic bigotry of Home Affairs be BPM exposed and made known; 
• gender biases at work be BPM overcome; 
• Indonesia's new capital be BPM successful, but those in Jakarta also not be forgotten about, and BPM given proper aid; 
• the members of bigotted gangs be brought into the 21st Century, and the gangs BPM contained, neutralised and their harm undone; 
• the desperation of older renters, retirees and others with a mortgage be overcome; 
• the duplicity, dishonesty and immorality of Centrelink be BPM overcome; 
• the latest underpayment case be BPM successful; 
• the safety of teachers and students attacked by a child also be BPM considered; 
• Nauru's new leader be BPM successful; 
• sexting also BPM included in sex education;
• the hardliner who is secretary of the ultra-right hyper-big Home Affairs Department have enough BPM objectivity and ethics to realise that he should resign; 
• the UK's shifty PM continue to have his questionable politics BPM made known, and voters BPM choose sensibly and intelligently and with forethought who to vote for; 
• the ALP's new national leader emerge from wherever he is hiding, and BPM do something - including about this; 
• the human rights of people in India be BPM protected against India; 
• the attempt to help disadvantaged job seekers be BPM successful; 
• the Amazon fires continue to be BPM fought; 
• Australian universities get enough brains to BPM insist that students from communist China - who have been brainwashed -  agree to respect Australian culture - including freedom of speech - before they can begin studying; 
• racism in schools be BPM stopped; 
• fair elections in Tunisia; 
• attempts to manage the Ebola outbreak be BPM successful; 
• the Burundi-Rwanda row be BPM resolved - and the Ethiopia-Kenya row; 
• the attempts at justice in Gambia be BPM successful; 
• attempts to bring freedom, democracy, peace, safety, and stability to Sudan be BPM successful; 
• South Sudan BPM respect press freedom; 
• the safety, and rights including the right to nonrefoulement, of refuges and trafficking survivors be BPM respected; 
• fake news be BPM successfully overcome; 
• misogyny and other abuses at yet another fire service be BPM stopped; 
• the idiotic anti-homeless mayor in Queensland be BPM educated, enlightened and, if necessary, dismissed;
• people never get drunk and assault others, and the integrity, safety and wellbeing of all people be absolutely BPM respected, and may they BPM find justice where that does not happen; 
• people give up their obsession with finding a physical cause for being LGBTIQ+, as THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING LGBTI+; 
• those sick people who create deepfake videos be BPM identified, found, charged, and given the psychological help they need; 
• ScoMo's and Uhlman's transphobia be BPM contained, neutralised and reversed; 
• Indonesia's military be prevented from further abuses and violence in West Papua, and BPM actions taken to address the problems; 
• violent gangs be BPM identified, found, charged, and given the psychological help they need; 
• counter insurgency continue to BPM include countering ideas; 
• jail authorities always act with BPM responsibility and fairness, and without prejudice, bigotry or bias - or stupidity; 
• China's increased, now active garrison inside Hong Kong not be used; 
• Vietnam's duplicity be made BPM known and effectively challenged; 
• China's claims to parts of Kashmir, which is based on its invasion and occupation of Tibet, where it has and is committing a genocide, be actively BPM denied; 
• the Great Barrier Reef crisis be BPM acknowledged and properly responded to; 
• the horrors of working for neoliberals be BPM made known and countered; 
• Australia's evil conduct against East Timor be BPM acknowledged and reversed; 
• injustices in the USA continue to be BPM reversed; 
• the wrongs committed by women in colonisation be BPM acknowledged and reversed; 
• the attacks on democracy by the UK's bully boy PM be BPM contained, neutralised and reversed; 
• companies put the planet before profit; 
• the deaths of civilians in conflict zones be BPM prevented - or at the very least minimised, and those missing be found, preferably safe and well; 
• sanctions against those blocking peace in Mali be BPM effective; 
• the autonomy referendum for a part of Ethiopia be BPM safe, proper and genuine; 
• violence and anti-democratic actions in Uganda be BPM contained, neutralised and reversed; 
• problems such as PTSD, survival, etc amongst refugees and host communities be BPM resolved; 
• the evil of Zimbabwe's current regime be BPM contained, neutralised and reversed; 
• slavery in Thailand be BPM contained, neutralised and reversed; 
• indigenous water rights be BPM respected, and the rights of the indigenous people in and near Indonesia's new capital also be BPM respected; 
• existing forests everywhere be BPM kept safe, and reforestation undertaken to the extent that is needed; 
• Amnesty's efforts to free a Uighur woman be BPM successful; 
• my home state's hearing into tightening gun legislation be BPM successful, and the enquiry into the effects of animal rights activism be BPM fair and reasonable; 
• the needs of Rohingya and other refugees be BPM met, not forgotten; 
• the so-called religious discrimination bill NOT be a licence to hate; 
• Zambia BPM respect democracy; 
• Nigeria find a lasting BPM solution to the conflict between farmers and herders over grazing lands; 
• improved understanding BPM guide our response to the various environmental crises we are facing; 
• the support of scientists for abortion be BPM effective; 
• actions to achieve the SDGs be BPM implemented; 
• political analysis on autocracy vs. democracy be BPM duly noted; 
• the extension of history teaching in the USA to include LGBTIQ+ rights be BPM effective and more widely adopted - including in sport; 
• Brazil's anti-indigenous moves be BPM contained, neutralised and reversed; 
• violence in Cameron be BPM contained, neutralised and reversed;  
• Nepal BPM take proper action against slavery.
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I also lit candles for:

• the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances; 
• those killed, harmed or affected by the fires in the Amazon or the floods in Sudan; 
• those killed, harmed or affected by the violence or violent extremist attacks in Niger, Sudan, DR Congo, Cameroon, South Africa, Kenya;
• the International Day against Nuclear Tests; and 
• those killed, harmed or affected by the violent extremist attacks in Nigeria.

So mote it be.