Saturday 16 April 2022

Post No. 2,199 - Reading and other links

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

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 possibly 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: 

  • a thought I had after reading this article, which has "Years ago, pundits assumed the Internet would open a new era of democracy, giving everyone access to the truth. But dictators like Putin and demagogues like Trump have demonstrated how naïve that assumption was" as its second paragraph, was that similar assumptions have been made about most advances over human existence - the printing press led to cheaper access to knowledge (it still does), but also to tabloids; radio also improved access to knowledge (it still does - especially on health matters in Africa), but also to propaganda (most notoriously perhaps, when used to direct the Rwandan genocide); and the Internet, as the author stated, also improved access to knowledge (it still does - e.g., Bellingcat and other investigative journalism), but it also gives conspiracy fantasists and IPOCs like POTUS45 and tyrants like Putin a voice.
    The issue here is that ENABLING people to do something also REQUIRES of them a choice: in what manner will they use that new thing? Will they be BPM, or not?
    Their conduct provides us a means by which to judge them, more so than the technology - see, for instance, this;

  • this week's "afterlife report".

Given an alleged (anonymous) complaint (from Russia? Blogger? Whoever at Google keeps redirecting Amnesty International's urgent action campaign emails to the spam folder? More probably Blogger's algorithms - and possibly the desire to stamp out of mirroring etc) I apparently cannot re-post my human rights (and news) information for this week here. My human rights post for this week is at https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/04/some-mostly-human-rights-links-and_16.html.