Post No. 2,381 - No PWR this week

I will not do a Psychic Weather report this week, and, as far as psychic work goes, I will repeat last week's work.

Post No. 2,380 - Communicating with non-humans - and the ethical implications thereof

So scientists have been catching up with pet owners of the last few millennia (maybe the last few tens of millennia) and learning that it is possible to communicate with non-humans ... 

Actually, that’s a little unfair: scientists have actually been working out how to perform two way communication with wild animals, as well as pets - see here. This is not something new - animal behaviour has been studied methodically (“scientifically”) for decades, and some primates have been taught hand signals for communication - which is something they do in the wild anyway. 

Delving back in to the world of pets, buttons for communicating have become more widely used (see here, here, and here), and I consider should be universal for all suitable pets (and I consider all cats should be permanently indoors). 

So the issue is not whether animals can communicate: they do - both domestic and wild animals.

Similarly, the issue is not communication with domesticated animals (I’ve seen videos of birds talking where they are using variants of words that convey the same meaning - and sometimes the trainer doesn’t catch on to that), but definable communication with wild animals - and, dare I say it, with animals used in farming. 

And this is where the article I started this post with raises a couple of issues: 

• “Anthropocene centrism” ... the idea that the only interactions that matter are human - which also gets into communication that humans are simply unaware of, such as infra- or ultra-sound (the article is quite eloquent on this aspect); and
  
• ethics - including the possible weaponisation of this technology (and the US military “has form” on militarised use of animals - see here, here, here, here, and here), and the ethics of killing sentient beings for food.
  

Hello? Vegan here - we've been around for some time now - vegetarianism has been for millennia, and some of those early vegetarians sounded suspiciously like vegans.

On that topic I will say: scientists have been catching up ... I hope!!!

 

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Post No. 2,379 - Correcting more errors and misconceptions about polarity

One of the authors I respect is Josephine McCarthy - and I've mentioned her previously - see here, here, here, and here - which is particularly relevant as it refers to use of a hexagram as a clairvoyance aid. 

I am now reading Josephine McCarthy’s “The Magical Knowledge Trilogy” (Quareia Publishing, 2020; Apple; Amazon), and finding it largely excellent. 

My one point of dissension so far that is strong enough for me want to write something concerns the polarities contained within a hexagram. 

This has been described in the usual bipolar terms: each triangle represents a polarity. 

However, much as the halves of the Taijitu illustrate the dynamic nature of such matters by each half containing the seeds of the opposite, so too does the fact of the two triangles coming together and intermingling inherently points out that the polarities are not all there is. Some parts of the triangle in fact protrude beyond the other, so there is clearly not a linear progression from one polar extreme to the other. 

In fact, in Hinduism the hexagram symbolises humanity’s position between heaven and earth, and in some occult traditions the interpenetration represents a third outcome - e.g., the perfect human coming out of the joining of a human’s higher and lower nature.  Other sources refer to the symbol as indicating balance.

To think this is an illustration of bipolar extremes is to fail intellectually as well as spiritually.

 

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Post No. 2,378 - A (sort of) Farewell to Social Media

Life is rarely (read: never) simple and straightforward ... thus there are topics that I come back to several times as life experience dictates I should change my stance, possibly in response to a change of circumstances. 

The topic I am revisiting in this post ... is named in the post title, so pretending it is a surprise doesn’t really work 😂 : social media. (Past posts include here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and earlier posts that I don’t want to spend time tracking down.)

As of now - or, more accurately, a few weeks ago when I started writing this - I’ve decided to cut down on my social media ... or perhaps more accurately, I’ve decided to invest less importance to it. 

I have learned a lot, met some great people, and enjoyed interactions (especially some of the humour), but there are some problems: 

• social media has people who are at different stages of evolution/development of particular topics, which can be a little like having kindergarten children and post-graduate Uni students all shouting in the same space.
  In that environment, finding someone who will understand and aid you on a topic without being judgemental can be difficult.
  It is also a reminder that, going the other way, one can never make all people happy; 
• some attempts at consideration can develop into shutting others down - and, on that, I have had a lifelong problem with low self esteem and need to have the confidence to back myself more.
  An example of that is "liking" posts about distressing matters because it is a sign of approval of the poster: I could never bring myself to do that on the social media platform I originally used (dying, soon likely to be dead), and resisted it for a long time on my current choice of social media platform - and then when I gave in, got soundly and rightly criticised by someone who had the same values that I did. (That was actually the trigger for this post.)
  One of these days I will write about the problems of trying to hold to values without any support - and of others having unreasonable expectations of what I will tolerate/do; 
• some of the focus is trivial - such as questions about which way toilet paper should hang, FFS - stuff that is so trivial it is offensive. Other aspects are truly clueless to the point of being discriminatory - such as polls about whether TGD people should be allowed to exist (the wording was about views on TGD people - which was basically giving bigots a platform);
  
• the final point is the variable acceptance of me - which is something I have found in real life as well - I am thinking in particular of several women and trans people (none in my life now, thank the Goddess) who have painted themselves as progressive and yet have judged me for not meeting their stereotypes of women/progressiveness - which is also a useful reminder of something I have found many times in life: no community is perfect, any more than any single person is.
  

I have better things to do with the end stage of my life. Time to simply focus on doing those tasks I know I have to complete, and self care, in whatever time I have left on this earth (I have not recovered from last few years of family - and growing personal - illnesses, work demands, the effects of the pandemic, the psychic impact of right wing haters and decades of neoliberal selfishness and hate, etc), and enjoy existing and any new friendships that come along. That doesn’t mean I will isolate myself or completely step away from social media, but I will give less focus and weight to digital life other than those aspects that are genuinely inclusive and either enjoyable or tolerable while being instructive - unpleasantry doesn’t help learning, and I cannot be bothered wasting my life with fools who want to direct sarcasm at me.

 

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Post No. 2,377 - Reading and other links [Note: Content Warning for news links - reader discretion is advised]

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 of 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, wear a face mask in public if prudent to do so, and follow informed medical advice.

We also need to be more human being rather than human doing. 

Having made those points, here are some links that you, Dear Reader, may find of interest or value (articles by others unless stated otherwise): 

• a reminder that people have differences of personality such as extraversions. vs. introversion, and thus cope differently with situations;  
  
• my thoughts on:   “US newspaper tries to defend reporting along the lines of that used to justify eugenics, sexism/misogyny, racism/white supremacism”;  
  
• from YouTube:  [CW: swearing] deconstruction and swearing;   a critique of some modern runic designs known as “the Web of Wyrd”;  
  
• from my favourite Druid  blogger:  “Paganism is a religion of doing”;  
  
• this week’s “afterlife report” by the Zammits. 

In preparation for tomorrow’s psychic weather report, I do a weekly summary of news links - every one of which is an opportunity to do the work of this blog, which I outlined at the start of this post. That can be accessed at: 

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/02/some-human-rights-and-other-news-links_25.html
  

One part of the post covers natural and other disasters, which are always an excellent opportunity to do the work of this blog, so I will copy that section here: 

• on NATURAL and OTHER DISASTERS (noting Article 1(3) of the UN Charter): 
  
• on the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria:   although some survivors have been found (DW), most efforts are shifting (TND) from rescue to humanitarian (TG) aid (F24);   another (TND) earthquake (TG);   possible impacts on governance (TC);   1.5 million are homeless (UN) - one city is empty after a third earthquake (ABC);   as a third border crossing opens to let more aid in (UN), the Assad regime is trying to score a propaganda win off social media lies (DW);   Rohingya refuges are sending aid (TG);  Türkiye is trying to suppress criticism (TG);   a powerful display using red balloons (ABC);  
  
• storms in NSW (TND) as a flooded home buyback scheme in Qld helps offset past incompetent governance (TC) - see also this (ABC), and aid is being offered to help businesses in the Kimberley recover from floods (NIT) - and questions are asked about building in landslide zones in New Zealand (TC) where some people are still “uncontactable” (ABC);   “neighbours swim across river to rescue woman from [a] house fire” (ABC);   floods in Brazil (F24);   a cyclone is approaching Mauritius and Madagascar (R);   the global risk of bushfires (TND);   a grassfire in Vic (TND) - see also here (ABC);   donor fatigue concerns about aid to Somalia (VoA);   an open cut coal mine has partially collapsed in (Inner) Mongolia (TG);  

Another part lists a few key points from the news, which are also an excellent opportunity to do the work of this blog, so I will also copy that section here: 

• a reminder that people have differences of personality such as extraversions. vs. introversion, and thus cope differently with situations (Psychology Today);   oligarchs run both russia and the USA (TG);   “the website that wants you to kill yourself — and won’t die” (Mother Jones);   “all US extremist mass killings in 2022 linked to far right” (Axios);   “today’s climate activist ‘criminals’ are tomorrow’s heroes: silencing them in court is immoral” (TG);   compassion fatigue (DW);   “‘gender trolling’ is curbing women’s rights – and making money for digital platforms ... Online hate has become a tool of the right and a lucrative business. It’s driving women out of public life, putting democracy and human rights at risk” (TG);   “why the right wing is obsessed with (our) kids ... hate is a social construction” (M);   “NSW police criticised for ‘outrageous’ midnight arrest of student who protested at RBA” (TG);   “advocates criticise Victoria’s decision to allocate affordable housing by ballot rather than need” (TG);   “what coverage of Nicola Bulley, Emma Pattison and Brianna Ghey tells us about an out-of-control media” (TG);   a philosophical opinion that “we humans have reached a dead end” because of our economic and digital obsessions (F24);   a nuanced examination of the problem of predators for developed and developing nations (TC);   AI is not trusted (TC);  

I generally do the PWRs on Sunday in Australia, with an aim to get it online by 8pm on the Australian east coast - which, in the southern winter, is midday in Geneva, 11am in London, 6am in New York, and 3am on the US west coast.

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Post No. 2,376 – This Week’s Psychic Weather Report and Work No. 0337

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, wear a face mask in public if prudent to do so, and follow informed medical advice.

This week’s assessment is: 

 

This shows that, this week: 

Overall, the world is BPM on the basis of area and population. Area BPM energy has increased and BPM population energy has stayed the same. NonBPM influences have increased slightly by population and massively by area. 

In more detail, compared to last time: 

• BPM influences are significantly stronger in: Europe, Southern Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, West Pacific Ocean, Australia, Central America, and South Asia;   significantly weaker in:  East Asia;   and   have held everywhere else.
• nonBPM influences are significantly worse in: East Pacific Ocean, Arctic, Europe, Australia, Indian Ocean, North America, southern Africa, Southern Ocean, Central America, North Atlantic Ocean, archipelagic South East Asia, and northern Africa;   significantly weaker in:   East Asia;   and   are the same everywhere else. 

Areas of energetic concern this week are:   Europe;   areas of concern this week for other reasons are:  Türkiye and Syria (because of the earthquake), the East European Plain, North America, and West Asia;   and areas of particular  energetic strength are:   the Arctic, the North Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, North America, Europe, and South Asia. 

From my review of the news stories this week, I have detected a connection (PS - see this) between the backward and ultra-reactionary elites/haters/fascists in the USA and their tools/sock puppets and the ultra-reactionary elites in Russia and their tools/sock puppets. This is a bit like a psychic equivalent of the meteorological phenomenon known as a jet  stream: something that is hard to detect, but sill there. Unlike the jet stream, the psychic connection between those two flows both ways. I will deal with that outside of the normal weekly psychic work.

I have also found a live 24-hour display of output from the Global Consciousness Project, and https://acleddata.com/conflict-pulse/ and https://acleddata.com/early-warning-research-hub/global-threat-tracker/, which I will be referring to regularly as a supplement to this. 

My assessment of elemental energies on various levels for this week is: 

 

This indicates (as a generalisation for all eight billion of us - there will be considerable individual variation in this): 

Æther is strongly nonBPM, Water moderately nonBPM, Fire slightly nonBPM, and Air and Earth moderately BPM.
Compared to the last time, Earth is still BPM but less strongly, Air has become BPM, and Æther has become strongly nonBPM and Fire slightly nonBPM.

Relatively, Æther is  weaker and Water is stronger than the other elements.
Compared to the last time, Æther and Water are much weaker, Air much stronger, and the others around the same.

There is a very slight tendency towards a focus on the etheric level.
Last time the mental and astral levels had a slight relative weakness.

Outward focused Æther and Water are likely to continue strongly manifesting nonBPM (very much so, in the case of Æther), and outwards focused Air will likely continue to focus BPM. 

Fire and Æther are strongly focused inwards, Water and Air slightly focused inwards, and Earth slightly focused outwards.
Last time all elements were focused inward - strongly so, in the case of Æther and Air. 

The last few week's work did not include elements. 

When Æther becomes nonBPM, it is inherently weaker from a quality or moral standpoint. We need to build on the foundation of security that Earth is giving, and start having an egalitarian community sensibility. 

This week’s plan is, in addition to doing the work of this blog to support the recovery, healing and rebuilding of  earthquake-affected Türkiye and Syria, which I will continue doing every day: 

 

My approach this week will be (incidentally, if you disagree, please use your own interpretations, or your own divinations):

Sunday: refer to map

Monday: refer to map

Tuesday: refer to map

Wednesday: refer to map

Thursday: refer to map

Friday: refer to map

Saturday: this day will now be reserved for rest, recuperation and healing – of all those who are trying in a BPM way to make this planet a better place.
May any and all healers who wish to contribute to this, take a few minutes to contribute to this goal on this day.

(The colours for the days are:   Sunday - gold,   Monday - grey,   Tuesday - orange,   Wednesday - green,   Thursday - blue,   Friday - violet.)

Routine Explanation / commentary

My “Magickal Battle of the World”, dowsing, and other courses on this blog can be found at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/p/on-line-courses-on-this-blog.html.

There is an introduction / reminder / explanation about these posts here (and also see here for some investigation into evidence of the effectiveness of this type of work, which shows variability [and mentions causes] and cycles in the energetic/consciousness response), and some additional comments at the end of this post. Please also note that I hope this work will be taken up by a network of competent dowsers and BPM psychic warriors (also, this blog was created for spiritual reasons, including a course: this is just part of it). See also this excellent analysis on this topic.

As you read this, consider this: how does one outflank an idea, or attack an emotion in the rear? It is as well to consider what those who are unbalanced could do to good ideas and emotions, as well as considering BPM ways to outflank or “attack in the rear” bad ideas/emotions. Also consider geopolitics, and this mapping exercise.

Remember, the meditation (see here, here, and here) consists of:

 - appropriate and responsible protection (see here, here, here), prayer and ritual (e.g., here) to establish and check protection (re-do or re-schedule, if you don’t feel safe and secure);

 - establish a personal connection to higher BPM influences;

 - flush one's aura with emerald green, royal blue and royal purple;

 - fill one’s Heart Chakra (and maybe one’s Earth Star, Solar Plexus, Third Eye and Crown Chakras) with emerald green, royal blue and royal purple; send a weave of three streams of this colour from the Chakra(s) to a visualisation of a gigantic, multi-faceted emerald (which has been created to facilitate networking of BPM workers) through your facet until you see your energy enlivening other areas of the emerald and can feel similar energies flowing back to you;

 - visualise the rune / bindrune (if given - or, on Sunday, the group of symbols provided);

 - generate  feelings of love, peace, joy and respect;

 - strengthen those feelings (energies);

 - radiate those energies to the world for nine to eighteen minutes;

 - close your chakras, centre yourself and close your aura, use the banishing version of the LBRP to close circle, ground and release all excess energy; and make sure you are grounded and closed down – eat, if you need to, or seek help from someone capable and trusted. As a final point, note that your BPM family of choice (i.e., friends - especially those outside this area of your life) and BPM family will help keep your life grounded - but they must be BPM: as the Wiccan  Rede says “With a fool no season spend, nor be counted as their friend”. Similarly, you should focus on all that you love in life outside this work at the end of a session - and, if you have nothing else, you must broaden your life for the sake of being balanced and thus capable (and seek expert help, if necessary); and
 - make sure you are yourself again - free of any lingering attachments or (misguided) ideas of being subservient, respectful of yourself and your integrity as you should be of others.

Important note: although I show the flow of energy using arrows, they are really - to continue the weather chart analogy - more like the passage of a frontal system as shown on a synoptic (“weather”) chart. Also, if I ever miss doing a Psychic Weather Report, I have posted a standard, fall-back, default version here, which I will update from time to time when needed.

My changing the personality of oppressors and other world leaders post is here. It is also worth contemplating that one of the greatest weaknesses of those who oppose Balanced Positivity is the inherent pain, suffering and negativity of their aims and means – from the personal slights, insults and traumas left by the petty tyrant or autocrat, dictator or monarch or those oligarchs who are ruthless (some at least are not; some are BPM), through the social dislocation of the economic ideologue, to the long-lasting trauma, injury, death and desolation of society caused by those who use violence or war as a means to achieve power or impose their will. It may take time, but people WILL eventually realise what is not good, and will take action – which is why slavery is no longer ubiquitous, and why the march to freedom and democracy is underway – tentatively, and with backsliding and mistakes along the way, but inexorable nevertheless.

Also, if you’re interest is healing, I have changed the way I do these posts to more clearly show opportunities for doing healing.

In addition, those interested in providing protection for others always have a place – refer to the first item from yesterday’s summation of world events (details and link above), for instance.

Finally, a reminder that if none of this is of any interest to you, but you would still like to contribute energetically / psychically to making the world a better place, there are other options – for instance, this comprehensive list, and see also here, here, here, here, here, here, here (and here), here, here , and this group (based on coherence of heart energies via an app and broadcasting love) – and, no doubt, many other places on the internet.

WLNGRHDMT

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Post No. 2,375 - 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 of 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, wear a face mask in public if prudent to do so, and follow informed medical advice.

We also need to be more human being rather than human doing. 

Having made those points, here are some links that you, Dear Reader, may find of interest or value (articles by others unless stated otherwise): 

• I updated my “definition” of “negative learning” to include the following:  
  

To put this into context, consider the following, from “Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World” by Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall: 

“Positive attention, in other words, is thirty times more powerful than negative attention in creating high performance on a team. (It’s also, if you’re keeping score, twelve hundred times more powerful than ignoring people)” 

• “I was feeling anxious and an imposter, then my buddy said: ‘Judge yourself by your friends’”; 
• this is not bad - particularly the warning against predictions as people use the to abdicate responsibility and freewill but also the descriptions around passing over, but I disagree with victim thinking being a problem when it is often what drives making the world a better place, and the use of neochristian terminology is grating - it is still worth thinking about viewing; 
• the problem of archaeological bias ruling children out of being active, contributory members of society - which also ignores the role of children in less industrialised nations now and all nations within a century or two; 
• “it’s important to educate teens about the logical connections between our evolutionary past, social groups and moral beliefs. This will contribute toward a more secular consensus around what is right and wrong, thus removing some key moral contradictions in the social and cultural environment, and provide a truer north for youth to calibrate their moral compasses. This will likely help temper aberrant moral convictions during adolescence, such as racism and homophobia, and help teens navigate the increasingly complex social issues they are likely to encounter as adults”; 
• another alternative to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs;
• my thoughts on:   burying power lines;
  
• this week’s “afterlife report” by the Zammits. 

In preparation for tomorrow’s psychic weather report, I do a weekly summary of news links - every one of which is an opportunity to do the work of this blog, which I outlined at the start of this post. That can be accessed at: 

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/02/some-human-rights-and-other-news-links_18.html
  

One part of the post covers natural and other disasters, which are always an excellent opportunity to do the work of this blog, so I will copy that section here: 

• on NATURAL and OTHER DISASTERS (noting Article 1(3) of the UN Charter): 
  
• on the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria:   anger (DW), including at not learning from past disastrous earthquakes (TG) (see also this [TG]), has led to violence (TG) and the shutdown (TND) of some aid operations;   unexpected survivals (SBS) and the critical survival consequences (ABC) of the devastation;   “more aid reaches Syria’s quake victims but it’s not enough” (UN);   the death toll is expected to double (as of Monday) (TG);   the differences of the situations in Syria and Türkiye (TND) - see also here (TC);   Syria has opened (TG) two (UN) more border crossings;   the waiting (F24);   more on secondary crises (TC);   “children sleep in streets, too afraid to go home after quake disaster” (UN);   an appeal for funds for Syria (UN);   regional politics will be impacted (Lowy);   alleged looters are being attacked (so mob (in)justice could be happening) (DW);  
  
• “Syria’s future generation of young people is being lost due to the multiple crises affecting the country, according to a senior official at the UN World Health Organisation” (UN);   fifty bushfires in Qld (ABC) and one with toxic smoke in SA (TG), and heatwaves (TND) and storms in northern Australia generally (TND);   a cyclone has impacted Norfolk Island (TND) - see also this (ABC) and New Zealand (TG) - see also this (TND), this (TG), this (TG), this (TG), and this (TND) - and New Zealand has also had an earthquake (ABC) - see also this (TND) ... and this all proves power lines should be underground (TC);   floods in South Africa (The Citizen);   a Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea (HA) - see also this (UN);   “eight countries eliminated a neglected tropical disease in 2022” (Nature);   a fatal mine accident in Australia (TG);   a heatwave in Australia (TG);   the devastating floods in Pakistan have exposed the government’s hypocrisy for its attacks on climate activists (DW);  

Another part lists a few key points from the news, which are also an excellent opportunity to do the work of this blog, so I will also copy that section here: 

• the continued intensification of the vicious transgenocide in the USA and attacks on democracy - including by Israel, which continues to destroy its international standing, are notable this week. Against that, there have also been notable advances towards good - in Spain and the FDA. Toxic personalities and personality aspects/expressions continue to not be addressed, and the climate crisis, COVID pandemic, and natural disasters get little to token or no attention/response. In other words, most of the world continues to shove its head in the sand, leaving advances to a dedicated, perceptive, and ethical few;
  
• outstanding advances for women (including menstrual law) and LGBTIQA+ people in a new Spanish law (HRW);   diversity plans will be required for medical trials (Nature);   as one US state moves to try to kill trans adults as well as trans children (M), revelations that the prior bullying of two murdered queer kids was ignored (M);   “the global wall-building boom suggests a return to divisive cold war mindsets. It marks a failure of progressive politics – and reflects the resurgence of authoritarian ideologies of fear, separation and difference. More to the point, geopolitically, ethically and practically speaking, this damaging policy is a dud. Walls won’t work” (TG);   AI should not control nuclear weapons (Washington Examiner);   an examination of the appeal of the toxic masculinity of the so-called “manosphere” (TC) as referrals of male followers of a notorious violent misogynist currently in jail in Romania to a UK counter-extremism body increase (TG) and a call is made for parents to talk to sons about that misogynist (TG);   a survivor of two gun massacres has appealed for real change in the USA (TND) - where “one in 20 US homicides are committed by police – and the numbers aren’t falling” (TG);   “a team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media has been exposed in a new investigation” (TG) - see also this (F24);   emotional intelligence has declined globally (6 Seconds research);   a suggestion to aim for harmony rather than balance (Aeon);   “‘catfish[ers]’ ... have higher psychopathy, sadism, and narcissism” (TC);  

I generally do the PWRs on Sunday in Australia, with an aim to get it online by 8pm on the Australian east coast - which, in the southern winter, is midday in Geneva, 11am in London, 6am in New York, and 3am on the US west coast.

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