Post No. 1,753 - Interesting Reading/Viewing and Posts from my Other Blogs

A permanent question:

Hey @TheElders and @AfricanUnion, given the widespread suffering, are you going to do anything for Uganda this year?

This week I have made the following posts on my other blogs:

Political Musings of Kayleen:

• Incorrect media reports: it’s not a trade “war”
  The term “war“ implies two sides are fighting. In the case of China’s economic attacks on Australia, China is behaving aggressively, but not Australia.
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• Commentary on matters from the news
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  First up, the poem that was read at Biden’s inauguration was impressive: there is a copy of the text at
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  Next, an excellent description of the political shift (from Ministerial competence to slavish political loyalty) that the utterly evil John Howard was responsible for
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• Problems within the LGBTIQ+ communities
  Something that has been reasonably widely acknowledged for around 15 years now is that there are problems of discrimination within and between the various LGBTIQ+ communities.
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• Endemic, systemic racism in authorities
  It is not only the US police and US government who have problems with systemic, endemic racism:
  The brother of someone close to me left the UK police years ago because of their racism, and I have now read an interview with a man who left the WA police because of their racism - violent racism, also found in other police forces. In fact, the situation is so bad that we have been described as “‘choosing to invest’ in hurting Indigenous kids”.
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• Welcome to a world where an unstable psychopath does not hold the keys to the USA’s nuclear weapons
  After a four year nightmare, preceded by two increasingly worrying years, the world has taken a step back towards decency with the removal of twice impeached, corrupt psychopath and attempted coup leader trump from the position of elected monarch of the Unexceptional States of America.
  In his place, the USA now  has (46^th) President  Joe  Biden, and (49^th  Vice-President  Kamala  Harris.
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• Uganda
  An excellent article from the International Crisis Group on Uganda:
     “Uganda’s Museveni Clings to Power – But Trouble Lies Ahead”.
• More on trump’s attempted coup
  This topic, terrible thought it is, is providing quite a bit of information - albeit US-focused in many cases.
  An interesting case is the video “COURTSIDE - Episode 63 - Trump’s troika of Bannon, Flynn & Stone facing new legal trouble”, which covers impeaching officials who are no longer in power.
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• trump’s attempted coup shows the need for emotional and human competence
  Something that has hit home very hard with this video is that, although the violent insurrectionists were overwhelmingly predominantly white and overwhelmingly predominantly male, there were enough women and professionals/business owners there to emphasise that the focus of action to reverse/prevent this violent radicalisation (and experts in that field were issuing warnings) has to be not only on those who lost out from globalisation, but others - who, I suspect, are showing signs of emotional immaturity or incompetence: people lacking in empathy and/or other characteristics of emotional intelligence.
  “Healing the nation” is not going to be enough: chronological adults in the USA - around 70 million of ‘em - and elsewhere have to be taught how function constructively, capably, and maturely with healthy emotions . . . have to be taught how to have empathy . . . have to be taught how to see through propaganda and thus think for themselves (properly - those claiming to “have done their own research” are clearly doing so off the back of a cereal box, but if they haven’t been taught how to identify errors, inconsistencies and problems, we as a society [globally] have only ourselves to blame!) . . . have to be taught that democracy is not build on blind, mindless and uncritical loyalty to a personality like some sort of slavering thing.
  We also need to address - globally - the infestation of white supremacism and other forms of bigotry that afflict police forces, security forces, and militaries. Data shows
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I have done a ramble for this week, which is embedded below: 

 

My online candles blog:

• Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
  (these candles are the “lite” substitute for my former news posts).