Post No. 2,183 - Reading and other links

I'm going to begin this with a reminder that the work of this blog is: 

• clearing nonBPM nonphysical  units (in a sense, doing the shadow work of the world), including doing spirit rescues,

and

• BPM  strengthening  BPM units - some nonphysical, some incarnated people . . . and one of, if not the, best ways that is done is strengthening people's connection with their own Higher Self (which is often not what they interpret as their conscience).
  

Also:

Black Lives Matter! Be Anti-Racist, Anti-Sexist, and Actively Inclusive in ALL Areas.
The Climate Crisis is real, urgent and existential!

The Pandemic is Real, and Vaccinations save lives. Stay safe - wash your hands, practice social distancing and wear a face mask in public, and follow informed medical advice - and be considerate towards those at risk or in situations of vulnerability (including economic) while the COVID-19 pandemic is a problem.

Having made those points, here are some links that you, Dear Reader, may find of interest or value: 

• an interesting - and inspiring - interview with Kathleen  Marden, a niece of 1960s contactees  Betty  and  Barney  Hill, who subsequently has become a UFO experiencer researcher - and experiencer herself; 
• my thoughts on "surveillance and bigotry" and "learning the lessons of history"; 
• the body as a vessel for living;

Human rights related links (originally published on my political blog) that you, Dear Reader, may find of interest or value: 

• on the climate crisis and environment: 
• a toxic chemical released by tyres wearing on roads has been found in Australia for the first time;   the national neolib nitwits are speeding extinction;   the importance of forests;   another warning of the risk of the climate crisis - this time by former military leaders so beloved of the national neolib nitwits;   oil pollution by shipping;   the deadly risk of extreme heat;   criticism of our emissions reduction scheme as a "rort";   microplastics have been found in human blood;   the world's richest 1% are driving global warming;   the "Fridays for Future" campaign;   plans to boost India's use of manure-generation of power;  
   
• on the COVID-19 pandemic: 
• decades after advocates started calling for it, moves to improve ventilation of buildings;   another warning against lifting pandemic restrictions too soon;  
   
  
• on Putin and his cronies' illegal invasion of Ukraine: 
• an opinion that Russia is heading for strategic defeat in Ukraine (and this may be the undoing of the rabid bigots in power in Chechnya, also);   Russia has moved its attacks further towards Ukraine's western border, started using more advanced weaponry (which may interfere with its ability to respond to to or initiate other military violence) ... and now claims it goals actually lie in eastern Ukraine ... ;   Russia may have reached the point where it has to defend the land it has stolen (Ukraine has retaken some of that) - and boost manufacture;   wounded Russian soldiers are "filling Belorussian hospitals";   an apparently accidental post has shown the probable death toll amongst Russian soldiers being comparable already to that over ten years in Afghanistan;   NATO will provide nuclear-biological-chemical protection kits;   the risk of Putin moving to biological, chemical or nuclear warfare (“Advocates for nuclear weapons have long argued that they keep the peace, acting as a stabilizing force,” said Stephen Young, the senior Washington representative for the Union of Concerned Scientists. “Putin is turning that belief on its head, using the threat of nuclear war to deter others from intervening against his forces in Ukraine”), or using attacks on the hardware or software of the internet, are being considered and prepared for;
  
• Europe considers democracy is standing up against autocracy in Ukraine;   an examination of the possibility of this war triggering another Arab Spring (depends of quality of governance);   a call for oil companies to act on sanctions - which may open opportunities for African nations;   a French car maker has resumed operations in Russia . . . and stopped in response to protests;   Poland has expelled Russian diplomats;   sanctions have recreated the USSR;   the concept of a European defence force is being reconsidered;   the food shortages and price increases Putin's invasion of Ukraine is causing could lead to food riots;  
  
• Putin has been long cultivating and using neo-nazis, and using disinformation;   critics of Putin's war against Ukraine are fleeing  Russia - or risking arrest under a suppression campaign (which Kyrgyzstan is also echoing);   some idiots who don't realise (a) the means affects the end, and (b) tyrants never exist on their own, but with a clique around them (thus killing them only does not "remove" a problem) are calling for Putin to be murdered;   forced  deportations of civilians from Ukraine to who-knows-what abuses in Russia;   transphobic abuses by Ukrainians;  
  
• after slowing the internet, Russia has now banned some social media;  
   
• on international affairs: 
• a nuanced critique of the "security agreement" between China and the Solomon Islands;
   
  
•  on corruption and misgovernance: 
• continuing concerns about aged care; 
  
• concerns that a war memorial is continuing to accept money from inappropriate donors; 
• as a femicide unit starts to have successes (including reclassifying crimes that were covered up as alleged "suicides"), "the most persuasive explanation for the containment of violence in Yucatán has to do with coordination between federal and state elected officials, as well as among state security agencies"; 
• a resignation letter shows that a US enquiry was not going to bring POTUS45 to justice;
   
• on democracy: 
• in a staggering attack on Parliamentary principles, Scott Morrison threatened to JAIL an MP if she spoke about a refugee deal; 
  
• Putin's key opponent has been jailed on what appear to be politically motivated charges; 
  
• an opinion that "ABC should expose News Corp’s agendas, not Labor’s “Mean Girls”";   the campaign to get a social media platform to pay fairly for news;
  
• a comparison of how nations declare war; 
• recommendations for an improved judicial system, in my home state;
   
  
• on human rights: 
• "four million Somalis [are] in danger of starvation";   the crisis is continuing in Afghanistan;   another legal action against Australia by refugees - which will finally allow some refugees to leave ongoing abuse;   Iran's use of abusive - and sometimes fatal - "hostage diplomacy";   Tigrayan fighters have agreed to a cessation of hostilities;   as hunger grows and violence resumes, a call to extend the Human Rights Council-mandated Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan;   violence in Somalia;   the abuses in Uganda, DRC, Sudan, Mali, and Sudan;   France will investigate allegations that the Emirati general who heads Interpol has used torture;  
  
• the USA has finally caught up with the rest of the world and determined that Burma committed genocide against the Rohingya years ago;  
  
• a reminder that child abuse victims include males (and I'll also remind that abusers can be female);    more indirect abuse of children by threatening teachers who are openly gay or lesbian;   a US state has proposed a law to protect TGD children from other US states;   a homophobic US clerk can be sued;   homophobia in Sri Lanka has been condemned;  
  
• Malaysia's government has shown how stupid and backward it is by promoting a conversion abuses app;   as concerns are expressed by an expert about Victoria Police investigating themselves, a police officer who indulged in transphobic abuse has been acquitted;   fatally violent LGBT-phobia in Iraq;  
  
• as a new register is  used, the air-brushing of racism in Australia;   Indigenous people have a right to know the truth about colonisation;   gag clauses are preventing Indigenous people opposing industrial developments on their land;  
  
• more on the misogyny in sport;   feminism in China;   the misogynists in control of Afghanistan have shown they lied to the world;  
  
• religious repression in Yemen (it's not all the rebels); 
  
• a suggestion for "shadow boards" for human rights organisations; 
• a short term rental is using secret (social media etc) surveillance of potential customers; 
• a call for a sports organisation to stop allowing sportswashing; 
• Mali is attempting to stop the truth about the death in custody of a former Prime Minister being revealed; 
• China will put an Australian journalist on trial (or show trial?) for allegedly spying; 
  
• a call to address poor sleep resulting from the gig economy and other practices as a human rights issue;
   
• extreme stress - including workplace bullying - causes heart problems.