A continuing question and other matters:
Dear @TheElders and @_AfricanUnion (and @FelixUdps), in view of the widespread suffering there, what are you going to do for Uganda this year? @amnesty @hrw @POTUS @VP @UNHumanRights #SaveUganda #StandwithUganda #MissingPersonsUganda @MarisePayne @SenatorWong
Save Salla 2032 https://youtu.be/sSZSrjmmSIo #savesalla #Salla2032
This week I have made the following posts on my other blogs:
- Follow
up to “ Is Peter Dutton evil?”
As a follow up to “Is Peter Dutton evil?“, the hardline ex-cop bigotry / toxic masculinity of this says “yes”. - From
Pearls and Irritations: Whitlam, Keating, Anzac, and the drums of wars past
This post from another site is important enough to deserve to stand out alone: https://johnmenadue.com/whitlam-keating-anzac-and-the-drums-of-wars-past/
Please read it. - Mental
health under lockdown vs. mental health in office environments
According to an article reporting on research into mental health in Australia under the pandemic lockdown, there are indications that some improvements to personality characteristics have occurred while people have been going through lockdown.
The article reports on some speculations as to why, but I consider one factor that has to be taken into consideration is the benefit of not working in office environments - especially offices with the psychologically damaging "open plan" configurations or that stop or limit personalisation.
. . . - Breaker
Morant
A streaming service has started showing some older Australian films, including “Breaker Morant“. I want to get on record my opinion of the events as they happened historically:
- there were atrocities committed by both sides in this Second Boer War before these events, and the British concentration camps were both deplorable and a moral liability during and after World War Two;
- the torture, mutilation and death of Harry “Breaker” Morant's best friend appears to have created a state of mental illness - possibly PTSD, or grief worsened by PTSD, or some other condition;
- in his state of mental illness, Breaker was responsible for war crimes;
- the attempted defence of “just following orders” was demonstrated to be unacceptable after World War Two in the Nuremberg trials: it was also unacceptable at that time - and it had been unacceptable during the 1400s;
. . .
Interesting reading / viewing / sites this week:
- “Activism is for those who CARRY the label, not those outside of the community”;
- “You are a network. You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role”;
- Sunday,
Monday,
Wednesday,
Thursday,
Saturday,
(these candles are the “lite” substitute for my former news posts, and include daily news items).
