Post No. 3,065 - Reflections on the past week, and some interesting reading/viewing [Content Warning - oppression/bigotry/hate/violence/abuse/war. Reader discretion is advised]

Note: CONTENT WARNING - some of this content is about upsetting, disturbing or triggering events & attitudes. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. 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]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/. 

 

The purposes of this post are:   

(1) to provide information, including news, which may be of interest, value, or use to Readers;   

(2) to identify both BPM and nonBPM opportunities to do the work of this blog (particularly clearing nonBPM nonphysical  units,   BPM  healing,   and   BPM  strengthening of BPM units);   and   

(3) to help engage and frame my emotional, mental, and other nonphysical (psychic, spiritual, Higher Self, BPM  Guides, etc) aspects both for doing my weekly PWR and for doing the work that flows from the PWR - which may also occur for some others. 

Some of the news information will likely be distressing - hence the content warning, to allow people to choose times they have high energy and/or are in a good state to view these, or to ensure they have access to support resources if they may be triggered, or to choose to either temporarily or permanently skip viewing this post or the “News” sections, as is best for their health and wellbeing. 

Within the news section, I generally try to identify what is considered “good” news in green, possibly also with green background, but owing to time, energy, and health limitations, may not always be able to do so. 

URLs of sources of news and/or information are included as in-text hyperlinks.  

PS - I have given up trying to take the clickbait use of caps out of YouTube video titles, as I am posting too many to have the time to adjust that. Nevertheless, I still dislike that practice.

News:   

On the existential climate crisis and nuclear threats this week:      “more than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck [the] world in 2024, says [the] UN | Climate crisis | The Guardian”;      a US court has found  Greenpeace  liable for US$667 million in damages over a oil pipeline blockade that was intended to protect a First Nations water supply. The decision will be appealed, and an anti-intimidation case is underway in The Netherlands against the fossil company, but there are fears this will bankrupt the organisation and have a chilling effect on protest - one description is “criminalising dissent” (for more background see Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia, and Harvard Law School - which includes historical Indian Treaties and mentions state vs. Federal jurisdictions);      many glaciers will not survive this century, which will imperil the food and water supplies of two billion people. 

In the global war against the radical right/f_s c_sm (including their networks) this week (and for links on what can be done - now, see here [Indivisible] and Dem-Optimism and this [Robert Reich] and this [AOC] and this [Devon Price] aand this [PBS Voices] and this [on burnout] and this [efficacy of nonviolent protest] and this book and this book and this and these links ):      

Overall/in summary, reviewing a range (remember, this is global, not USA-focused - and Kuwait and Serbia are examples of the worst & best of global authoritarianism) of press reports and commentary has left me with the following impressions:   the US experiment of republican democracy - government of the people, by the people, for the people - is over ... so, what will rise from the ashes?   Vindictiveness, arrogance, vicious silencing of dissent/anything that isn’t adoration of The Great Leader, and mindless adherence to the powerful has been on show around the world this week - along with blatant lies and charades along the “I don’t  understand why _” type.   Equally disturbing has been the compliance - and there has been a bit of frustration at people not heeding warnings ... but there has also been some holding to account (for abuses quite some time ago [years], in some cases) and better resistance. 

 

Also in the USA this week, we have:      

• a thought that what future generations may get out of the current troubles (particularly the admission of the US administration breaching a court order) in the USA is what is being created now - and see this, this, on united grassroots resistance, and this, on the end of the US experiment;      a judge has ordered the restoration of US AID;      the US Supreme Court’s Chief Justice has  rebuked the US administration;      a judge has blocked the US administration’s hatchet group accessing social security admin systems;      brutal conduct by US border staff including this [CW - abuse of child], this, and this (which is being investigated by Germany) shows that US hiring practices are fatally flawed and incompetent;      criticism of a judge by the current US president that included an opinion the judge should be impeached has led to republicans in Congress starting impeachment proceedings;      Russia and China are celebrating the closure of Voice of America;      a Canadian car show has withdrawn a US brand of EV for security reasons;      

• a private, independent not-for-profit organisation has also been attacked by DOGE using  armed, unidentified people and police and allegedly FBI agents - but a judge has allowed the violent takeover;      
  

• dangerous use of violence (such fires can spread or cause explosions [notice the lithium  batteries, anyone?], and those who have to fight them are at risk every time they do so - and shooting guns is ALWAYS dangerous - e.g., ricochets) by some of those who are opposed to the current US administration and its backers and the damage they are doing to societies and the millions of lives that have been put at risk - see also this perspective (I disagree that destruction of property is not violence [e.g., destruction of medicines/personal possessions that have sentimental value/essential shelter/etc] - and see my comments above about the risk of fire, but most of the rest is spot on) ... see also this on why - globally - people should be angry;     
  

See also:   “How our global friends can help us”   https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-our-global-friends-can-help   “Don’t come here”   by Robert Reich      and a call for urgent action, particularly on the 5^th April, in the USA.

Also note that, given:   this post of mine;   the news reports linked to in this post (especially the rendition-style deportations of US citizens and others);   this report that the current US president has people actively working on a third term;   and this video discussing the complete and utter lack of a plan - despite knowing for months or maybe years that Project 2025 was coming - on the part of the US Democratic Party for keeping (as much as is possible) and then restoring democracy in the USA, I consider that the USA has ceased to be a fully functioning democracy, and is now largely an authoritarian oligarchy marked by hate, fear, and revenge. 

This week the Israel-Palestine war/ceasefire has seen:      

• the end of the ceasefire in Gaza - see here. There is at least one opinion that Netanyahu is doing this for his political benefit (see also this) - and another that this will destroy hope, as well as lives - and there have been more genocidal  threats and a sense of reduced constraint. See also “Thousands protest in Israel over ‘attack on democracy’ by Netanyahu”   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/thousands-protest-in-israel-over-attack-on-democracy-by-netanyahu   “Protesters accuse PM of continuing Gaza war for political reasons and ignoring plight of hostages still held by Hamas” - and the head of the Israeli security service (which is investigating some aides of the Israeli Prime Minister for possible corruption - which charge the PM is being tried for) will be fired despite large scale protests;     
  
• a call for the long neglected and downplayed Islamophobia in Australia to be effectively addressed following yet another threat against a mosque. 

In other international news, including the illegal and unprovoked war against Ukraine:      

• authoritarians in a wide range of nations (including Serbia, which may have used an illegal sonic weapon) are experiencing public resistance;      concerning parallels between the language Germany used against Poland before invading the latter in 1939 and the language the USA is currently using against Canada;      a French parliamentarian has asked the USA to return the Statue of Liberty on the grounds that the USA “no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue”;      the USA has rejected South Africa’s ambassador over US discomfort with the truth, and has gutted the press channel it used to use to convey truth to the world;      Rwanda has severed diplomatic ties with Belgium over the conflict in eastern DRC;      the arrest of former Philippines president Duterte has been welcomed by Nobel laureate Maria Ressa as an indication that the global rules-based order continues to hold, although that has been marred by the US “descending into hell” at the hands of the same forces that consumed the Philippines and social media being used to undermine democracy around the world;      as Iceland takes the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) that the USA abandoned, reports to the HRC present evidence that “Ukrainians [have been] tortured, raped, executed by Russian captors” and the “UN rights chief [slammed the] ‘unconscionable’ US border policy of separating migrant children from parents”;      an excellent assessment, including history, of the conflict in eastern DRC;      during a visit to the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan, the “UN High Commissioner for Human Rights acknowledged the country’s recent economic growth but cautioned that narrowing space for civil society and press freedom could undermine progress.   “For societies to thrive, they need to be rooted in human rights, non-discrimination and the rule of law. This also reassures investors,” he said”;     
  

• the USA has withdrawn from precautionary plans to defend Europe that were made after Ukraine was invaded, emphasising the recently recognised need for a self reliant (Canadian and) European defence - and Germany has approved a €500 billion spending boost as “The French government is reportedly planning to send a “survival manual” to every household in the country with instructions on how to prepare for an “imminent threat” including armed conflict, a health crisis or a natural disaster”   (even India is joining in on the defence self reliance attitude);      France has pointed out that Russian permission is not needed to deploy troops to Ukraine;      an excellent  analysis of Ukraine’s invasion of and withdrawal from the Kursk region, with commentary on the thinking of and actions by various US administrations - and see also this video recommended in that analysis;      Russia is using criminal networks to sabotage and undermine Europe;      Russia’s list of demands before it will agree to a ceasefire appear to be quite ludicrous, but it will stop attacking Ukraine’s energy grid (which cessation has been welcomed ... but must happen, and has NOT yet) and will join in talks - and reportedly Ukraine and the USA have had good follow up talks (albeit with some weird  aspects);      ACLED’s weekly update;      

• Canada and Australia will develop an Arctic missile-detection radar system;       the USA has been told hands off Australia’s PBS by both government and opposition, and after blatant foreign interference by the USA, Australia*s university sector has urged use of Europe for funding. 

In human rights news:      

• an example of someone changing their position in response to finding out real facts;      increasingly authoritarian and xenophobic Kuwait has removed citizenship from 42,000 Kuwaitis;      a The Guardian exclusive reports that Chinese and Hong Kong police are offering bounties for dissidents in Australia, with a key Jewish group disgusted at the antisemitic aspects of the tactics;      a rejection of the UK’s disability cuts and the claimed basis for them;      concerns continue to grow over the apparent use of acoustic weapons against anti-corruption protestors in Serbia;     
  

• from The New Humanitarian:   “in retaliation for the US decision to revoke a license allowing Chevron to operate in the country, Venezuela stopped receiving removal flights. Meanwhile, Ecuador and Mexico announced they would not accept deported migrants from other nations. So-called third-country deportations left more than 100 migrants subject to abuse in Panama, prompting lawyers to file a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights” - but the USA has deported  hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador - treating them as t_rr_r_sts or violent criminals WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE - despite a court order to not do so (and admitting breaching the court order an refusing requests for further information), with the use of a war powers act to enable that subsequently blocked by a court   ...  The USA is disappearing LGBTQ asylum seekers, a soccer player tortured by the current Venezuelan regime because of a team tattoo, silencing pro-Palestinian voices (who are NOT automatically antisemitic or supporters of VEs), blocking people because of confusion over names or with text messages criticising the US administration, detaining TOURISTS (which is particularly amathiac given their spending will become more essential to the tanking US economy), and state governors forcing officials to comply with ICE thuggery.   See also this in-depth analysis.  
  When are the US Marshals going to do their job? Is another step required other than the breach of the order - e.g., do the US Marshals act on bench warrants specifically, and not court orders in general (without further direction)? Because as things are now, apart from the direct human rights abuses committed by those doing the deportations and what the USA is doing to its already shattered reputation, the judge and the US Marshals are also damaging their standing in the eyes of the rest of the world ...
  And another judge has allowed the US taxation authority to share information to identify potential deportation targets (things like this raise questions about why vulnerabilities were allowed by authorities to continue, and why those who were vulnerable didn’t act to manage their risks before now - especially once it became apparent that there was going to be a new regime. They may have been thinking about their children’s future, but their thinking was obviously inadequate to the reality, and what they wanted has been reversed and their children imperilled);     
  See also:   “The evil at your door”   https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-at-your-door   “Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States ...”   The article lists ten specific problems associated with this act;     
  and a far-right group claims it has submitted “thousands of [pro-Palestinian] names” to the US government for deportation;      

• a call for mass racist discrimination against Aboriginal children at a pool close to the infamous Moree pool which, in 1965, saw discrimination trigger human rights campaigning, to be investigated;      
• a doctor has criticised the UK’s transphobic policies as harming children;      a US judge has ruled trans care is health care, and accordingly struck down a ban on trans care;      the USA’s ban on trans people serving in the US military has been struck  down, with the US Federal judge noting the ban was unscientific, “soaked in animus and dripping with pretext”,   but a transphobic bathroom ban has been upheld;      a ciswoman who was attacked as being trans will defend her gold medal - and has struck back at criticism from the US administration;      another US state has attempted to kill trans children. 

In societal and governance matters:      how to fight the fear & intimidation used by tyrants;      a brilliant satire makes an important point about minority government;       the harm done by one example of poor management;      a critique of the tough on crime reactionary rubbish;      an opinion that free speech is being killed (in many places - NOT only the USA) for everyone EXCEPT oligarchs;      a review has found that the head of an enquiry who leaked confidential information to journalists “engaged in ‘serious corrupt conduct’” - which, contrary to the bravery, integrity and ethics being shown elsewhere in the world, have cast serious doubt on former judges here;      a reminder that budgets are always about political priorities and choices;      media companies are trying to bully/intimidate/threaten Australia into surrendering on the protection of news outlets;      Australian government agencies could be users of military-grade spyware from Israeli firm Paragon Solutions, according to a new report by Citizen Lab;      the need for new leaders in the humanitarian sector - and see also this excellent rethinking;      an example of the dangers of blind obedience to people who do not know what they’re doing;      an opinion that discussions on health in the UK is failing to address the politics that are causing ill health. 

 

From a spiritual perspective:      there are two main themes that strike me:      the first is being able to cope with events that turn lives upside down - whether those be the invention of smart phones/the Internet/controlled flight/cars/the printing press/agriculture/the Industrial Revolution/the wheel/the control of fire, or events such as major wars/the GFC of 2008-09/the Great Depression/COVID/the 1918 Flu/the Great Death (bubonic plague in Europe in the 1300s)/the ending of the last Ice Age/the Younger Dryas (in the northern hemisphere)/volcanic winters/the climate crisis, or events such as major illnesses or accidents to oneself or loved ones/fires or floods that destroy a lifetime’s work or memories/life changing changes of economic or political policies/or having a child with a disability;      the second is the problem of silofication of people’s lives - something that has been identified in business and other systems (especially those associated with intelligence failures such as those before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, before 9/11, and before 7^thOctober, 2023). However, I am writing this while listening to a webinar on consciousness (with some spectacularly amathiac blindness on human rights problems and conflating principles with politics, and social privilege - how does a child living in poverty in Africa or India redirect their attention or shut out the negative? Maybe that exists to tests the consciousness and compassion of those people who are NOT in those situations???), having just before that watched an online Pagan event, and also for the last few months consuming more than usual political presentations. Now, specialisation is a good thing (one of the problems in many magickal groups is wanting everyone to be good at everything, which is an attitude that would have prevented most of the events I listed above), but it becomes a problem when people live in their own INTELLECTUAL bubbles. I am less concerned about social and political bubbles these days - especially when they allow bigots to justify being bigots because they have not personally had the chance to interrogate members of every single minority group. However, spiritual groups need to understand and accept the need to work on human rights including global inequity, the overwhelming damage caused by being raised in poverty, the blindness of social privilege, and ALL PEOPLE need to be prepared for their lives to be turned upside down and adapt accordingly.   (BTW, silofication is NOT disengagement.)   

 

 

On the resistance to fascism:

• everything in my candles that applies   (may all  resistance  be non-violent and BPM  properly informed of and responsive to legitimate grievances that led to this situation);
  

• “A Christian Nation Is Not Of Jesus!”   https://youtu.be/iMhN2VXKm70   “... It’s okay to have a country, it’s okay to live in a country and it’s okay to love the country we live in and it’s okay to want to to improve the country we live in. It’s okay to want to improve the lives of the citizens of the country that we live in, and it’s okay to want to improve the lives of citizens of other countries - that is true, but no, Christian, it is not okay for us to take possession of a country.”   Very well explained - and I like the parallel that is drawn with Buddhism      Also see   “Christians Are To Want Nothing From This World ...”   https://youtu.be/t_9E-R9IFkY     
  

• “Why I'm Okay With the Far Left, But Not the Far Right”   https://youtu.be/panW3d27484   Excellent commentary about false equivalence, the separate problem of authoritarianism, and people trying to seem “clever”      

• “On Ideological Purity”   https://www.joanwestenberg.com/on-ideological-purity/   “But the point isn't perfection. The point is intention.   ...   If enough people tried—just tried, even imperfectly—things would shift.”   In my opinion, this is a useful rewording (for the modern era) of Voltaire’s “perfect is the enemy of the good” (more literally “the best is the enemy of the good”)      

• “Trans Psychiatrist Explains - The Transphobic Pyramid - How Anti-Trans Attitudes Lead To Genocide”   https://youtu.be/-FETInFQBQ4   “Hi! I'm Dr. Jamie (she/they). I'm a medical doctor, psychiatrist, WPATH GEI SOC8 certified member, and gender researcher who specializes in gender affirming care.   In this video, I discuss the transphobic pyramid and how transphobic attitudes lead to genocide.   Reference: “Exposed: The Scale of Transphobia Online”   https://www.brandwatch.com/reports/transphobia/ “Exploring transphobia and pro-trans conversation on social media” ”       and   “Wins for Science and Trans Rights in the EU AND the US”   https://youtu.be/9GGtcANHnCw     
  

• “[the current US president] Isn’t America’s First Autocratic President”   https://youtu.be/Pmr86YghX3A   “... he’s smart enough to know that if a court tells him not to do something, or Congress tells him not to do something, or existing law and legal precedent tells him not to do something - even if the Constitution itself tells him not to do something, and he goes ahead and does it anyway, and nobody stops him or punishes him for it ... that’s just as good as being allowed to do it”   It should also be noted that many of the Cherokee and other groups did NOT survive autocrats ... - and this situation is FAR worse than anything that has gone before     
  

• “History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED”   https://youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw   (see also this book)      

• “Why Do Corporations Love Authoritarianism?”   https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-do-corporations-love-authoritarianism/   The comment that the median life a dictatorship is around nine years was interesting (although no source for that was provided) given the interest of corporations in stability in the long term - and the violent chaos associated with the end of most dictatorships       

Here are some llinks that might also be of interest or value:

• the 2025 World  Happiness Report has been released (list here), with Finland at the top for the eighth year in a row (my nation was 11^th; other nations included Singapore 34^th, France 33^rd, Hong Kong 88^th, the USA 24^th, Austria 17^th, Germany 22^nd, Mexico 10^th, Ukraine 111^th, India 118^th, China 68^th, Israel 8^th, Norway 7^th, Russian Federation 66^th, Canada 18^th, Brazil 36^th, Netherlands 5^th, United Kingdom 23^rd). The discussion on aspects that contribute to happiness is well worth reading and thinking about; 

• an experiment shows a response from a tree to 10 minutes per day of love and appreciation;  

• “‘No one wants to work any more’- said every generation ever!”   https://youtu.be/LtHNimA6C7U   Very good analysis and explanation - and shows the aspects of my generation that I absolutely detest. This problem can also be traced back to whinging by some of the ancient Greek philosophers      

• “Don’t Let Tech Drain the Life Out of Living”   https://www.joanwestenberg.com/dont-let-tech-drain-the-life-out-of-living/      

• “People Making Up Utter Twaddle About The Blood Moon. A Very Cross Rant.”   https://youtu.be/l47s2F-uWbk   “So...  It was the Blood Moon last night, right?  Trust random people on FB to get it all completely and utterly wrong.  (Featuring sounds that previously only my children have heard me make....)”   I’m with her!     
  

• “Advanced Shadow Work - Midday With Rev Don”   https://www.youtube.com/live/Mx3fEEPJwoE   This also includes excellent comments on karma, world walkers, soul retrieval - including via parallels etc, the significance of places/locations & clearing hauntings, the importance of not confusing images of Deity(ies) with the essence (like the message not the platform), etc. For those who use digital rather than physical methods, an alternative to writing something on paper and then burning it may be to type it on a file, and then close the file but without saving it - thereby releasing the electrons from that pattern, which is also symbolic of dissolving (clearing) nonBPM units (including energy) or releasing attachment to what was written ...     
  

• for UFO/UAP/ET/“anomalous phenomena” experiencers, a support  group;    

• “There’s no monotheism in the Bible”   https://youtu.be/i6sD4Mc2-m8   Hmm.      
  

• this week’s “afterlife report” by the  Zammits:  
     https://www.victorzammit.com/March21st2025/  
  

• also from YouTube:
  

• “This saved my mum’s life & it might save yours too”   https://youtu.be/L26Mf6m7LW4   “This is a difficult video to make, but my family have gone through a very difficult year so far. This video contains my top recent strategies to ensure that your encounters with health systems are better for you”   Incompetent unprofessional medical staff are a problem in many parts of the world - whatever the causes, and bigotry is one such cause     
  
  
• from YouTube and elsewhere on neurodivergence: 
• “The Many Falsehoods of Erica Komisar About ADHD”   https://youtu.be/zUBaqaGchpQ      
  
  
• “ADHD people can be found ...”   https://youtube.com/shorts/6Vp_Za1Y5uk     
  

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

 

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