Saturday 4 March 2023

Post No. 2,384 - 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:

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):

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. Before I get in to that, a CONTENT WARNING - some of the news links are about upsetting, disturbing or triggering events & attitudes. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. Content shown in green (which may be only part of a news story) is about what is generally considered “good news”, but personal history may still make such events triggering. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that linked articles may contains names and/or images of deceased people. Reader caution is recommended. For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]).  

The news post can be accessed at:

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:   “Türkiye and Syria earthquake death toll passes 50,000, as 18,000 war refugees return to Syria” (ABC);   a mass (DW) drowning (TND) of refugees (TG) off Italy;   training on asbestos hazards (APHEDA);  
    • HOW to recover better after natural disasters (community-led is better) (TC) - see also this (NIT) and this (TG);   floods (TND) in NT (ABC);   a cyclone has hit Vanuatu (AJ) ... and a second one (TG);   cholera in Africa (AP);   20,000 people have been potentially exposed to measles at a religious event in the USA (TG);   extreme impact from a winter storm in the US state of California (TND);   an air ambulance crash in the USA (TG) and a helicopter crash in Somalia (VoA);   an appeal for aid for Yemen (UN);   a train (TG) collision (ABC) in Greece (TND) - see also this (TND);   continuing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan (UN);   violence may cut back aid in Haiti (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: 

  • this week has seen the incredibly consequential admission of wrongdoing by a notorious media magnate (details below), the start of a reversal of the rich people’s war on civil society through the taxation system, and admissions of “making false statements to support [the] robodebt scheme”. Even the ludicrous social contagion fantasy has had another rebuttal, so there have been some good advances - and those include a small prospect of peace in the war in Ukraine, and several good governance matters (particularly here in Australia, but also elsewhere). The world is still, however, disturbingly unhealthy, dangerous, and regressive - in part due to mistakes by people/nations who should do/be better, but there are encouraging signs that decency is fighting back.

  • the ALP has come up with a secret proposal to use a national digital ID instead of 100 points of ID that has MASSIVE dangers (TSP);   US police ALLOWED far right wing violent extremists to violently beat LGBTIQA+ people (M) - see also this (M);   “New York City to pay millions over police ‘kettling’ at Floyd protest” (The Philadelphia Inquirer);   as Indigenous youths are targetted in streets, “online anti-crime groups propel Queensland to a political reckoning ... people with pitchforks on social media pages are raising fears of vigilantism but others say they want real solutions, not just more kids in jail” (TG) - see this, on similar racial profiling and targetting problems in WA (TG), this (TG), this, on sexual assault via strip searches and sexual threats of detained children (TG);   forestry waste exacerbated the devastation in New Zealand from a recent cyclone (TG);    concerns the CCP’s censorship could affect the Internet (FH);   the ethical questions around having children (TC);   “(how) fascism is when people don’t want you to exist” (M);   a US “republican ... faced fierce criticism for ‘grotesque suggestion’ in southern state with history of lynchings” (M);   the USA “is destroying everything by making it a business” (M);   “martyrs won't save the world” (SS - JW);   further to the recent debates on changed content, “why one children’s books editor turned down Roald Dahl titles” (TG);  
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.

If you appreciated this post, please consider promoting it - there are some links below.
I am on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Gnwmythr.

 


 

Posted by at
Labels: , , ,