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The purposes of this post’s news section include:
(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 - the news items helps draw in/helps me find those people and other units in need of any of the help I can provide); 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 often included as in-text hyperlinks.
News:
On the existential climate crisis and nuclear threats this week:
Concern over melting Himalayan glaciers in Nepal; China has imposed tariffs on a particular type of plastic being dumped from the USA, EU, Japan, and Taiwan; “a major Australian energy company has acknowledged that carbon offsets do not prevent or undo damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions and apologised to its customers for allegedly misleading marketing”; oil drilling on ancestral lands in Peru will not proceed; the limited sources of minerals that are critical for renewables; loss of biodiversity;
In the global war against f_sc_sm this week:
Items of concern/note (and associated resistance/actions) in/regarding the USA include:
⇒ An opinion that what is happening in the USA is the hypernormalisation that afflicted the USSR (i.e., the Soviet era Russia). ““What you are feeling is the disconnect between seeing that systems are failing, that things aren’t working … and yet the institutions and the people in power just are, like, ignoring it and pretending everything is going to go on the way that it has,” Harfoush says in her video. Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening. The hypernormalisation framework offers a way to understand what we’re feeling and why. Harfoush created her video “to reassure others that they’re not alone” and that “they aren’t misinterpreting the situation or imagining things”. ... Naming an experience can be a form of psychological relief. ... Progressive commentators have urgently called for moral clarity and mobilisation in response to changes like the cuts to USAID funding, which has resulted in an estimated 103 deaths per hour across the globe ... “Where is the outrage?” asks the Nation’s Gregg Gonsalves. ... “I don’t know if there’s a massive shift toward racism as much as an expanded indifference toward it,” the historian Robin DG Kelley said in a February interview with New York Magazine. ... Experts say action can break the spell.”
A warning against allowing/accepting a slow/passive slide into a cold civil war as christo-fascism is promoted and fascism continues to advance and questions are asked about how the UK - which has its own viciousness - will treat refugees from US fascism; judiciary vs. executive in the USA; the US Congress is attempting to prevent enforcement of contempt, and a warning the new anti-good governance budget bill will kill disabled people; grave concerns about what appears to be corruption - and the attempts to defend that; this; indications the current US president will not be a reliable ally to other authoritarians; concerns about the incompetence (including politicisation) being shown by the current US regime; more hate in the USA; the current US president is going to try to bully the EU into subservience with the threat of tariffs; a statistical debunking of the current US president’s claims of having a mandate (he did not even have a majority!);
⇒ an opinion that, while the mainstream media’s coverage last year of Biden was flawed, their coverage of the now current US president was far worse - and culpable; “Zelensky had to remind [the current US president] peace talks already underway during call with EU leaders, Axios reports”; more sanity questioning behaviour - including sharing a racist, flat earth account - by the current US president when meeting South Africa's president - which included lies about Australia; another blatant lie by the current US president;
§ On migration, border control, rendition, deportations, and associated legal matters, the US supreme court has ruled “deportees under Alien Enemies Act entitled to due process and ‘reasonable notice’”; Federal US magistrate judges “have started dismissing national security charges against immigrants accused of crossing ... through a newly designated military zone, finding little evidence that immigrants knew about the zones”; an “unusual” request has been made (and is being considered) for National Guard troops to assist the US Department of Homeland Security with arrests/deportations/renditions inside the USA; even if the wrongs done under the current attitudes are reversed, too often the harm done cannot be undone; the US supreme court will allow the current US regime to remove protections from 350,000 Venezuelans; “US must keep control of migrants sent to South Sudan in case removals were unlawful, judge rules” ... and those removals have now been determined to be unlawful;
§ On resistance, a US-based proposal for weekly protests wherever people are; Romania has voted for stability and freedom; a lawyer has shown ethics and courage by calling out her firm and then resigning;
Items of concern/note (and associated resistance/actions) in/regarding West Asia include:
As a journalist’s long campaign notes that unquestioning support for Israel is now starting to break, with media changing their stance (noting that a conservative right wing (transphobic) mainstream media outlet has reported that the right wing organisation behind Project 2025 also openly - for months - planned the campaign to “crush the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States” by “surveilling, silencing and punishing pro-Palestinian activists, including deporting non-U.S. citizens and withholding funds from universities” and “to rebrand all critics of Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters as providing material support for terrorism””) and Spain referring to Israeli actions as genocidal (as 14,000 babies are at risk of death by starvation, Human Rights Watch is concerned that “Israel’s policy on Gaza is “inch[ing] closer to extermination””), mainstream media reports that the UK (which has a strong historical colonialist responsibility for what has and is happening), France, and Canada have threatened “concrete” action against Israel if it fails to let aid in at realistic levels (Israeli words about allowing aid into Gaza are not being matched by actions - but the UN has a detailed, realistic plan, and is calling on Israel to accept it) and/or continues it’s current campaign to take over an ethnically cleansed Gaza, with a statement subsequently being issued by 23 nations and the UK suspending trade talks with Israel - and, in what organisers have called the nation’s biggest demonstration in two decades, tens of thousands of protesters have demanded the Netherlands’ government do more to halt Israel’s campaign in Gaza. Notably, the current US president did not include Israel in his recent trip to West Asia (although that excluded other human rights and ethical concerns), and commented on the need to let aid in ... And a former IDF General and now Member of the Knesset has criticised the war in Gaza, saying “a sane country doesn’t engage in fighting against civilians, doesn’t kill babies as a hobby and doesn’t set for itself the goals of expelling a population”.
Diplomats are preparing the ground for a conference in June on a two state solution ...
⇒ Also, note this opinion that what is happening in Gaza shows what happens when humans lack empathy. There has also been a call for Kosovo-style military intervention in Gaza as an opinion is published that both sides are showing “biblical hatred” (to which it should be noted that, although possibly true for many, it does NOT cover ALL PEOPLE on both sides, and only one has significant amounts of modern weaponry and warfare systems), and, in response the item reported in the following paragraph, an opinion that the USA is plagued by an “‘era of violent populism’ ... “This is a chronic illness in our country,” Pape said. “This is not a set of isolated events.”” And this sort of unrestrained/uncontested hate - allowed for DECADES from that bigot in order, in my opinion, to cater for an extremist version of so-called free speech (which, in international law, is constrained by others’ rights - including the right for protection against hate speech) - is what has contributed to the infestation of evil in the USA. (And, also in my opinion, the ideological hate speech extremism of McCarthyism and the lies to “justify” the invasion of Iraq in 2003 have also actively aided that spread of evil.)
In an utterly contemptible and unjustifiable act of hate, two Israeli embassy staffers - who were a couple - have been shot and killed in the USA, with a suspect who yelled “free, free Palestine” after he was arrested. In response to this, France has boosted security at key Jewish sites.
The IDF has fired “warning shots” at a delegation of regional, European and Western diplomats visiting the West Bank, leading to alarm, outrage and condemnation.
Meanwhile, a major US tech company’s admission of involvement in Israeli actions in Gaza but with a denial of culpability for harmful Israeli actions has been followed up by an employee protest at the CEO’s keynote address, with a subsequent explanation that included: “[the company] has immeasurable power to do the right thing: demand an end to this senseless tragedy, or we will cease our technological support for Israel ... The world has already woken up to our complicity and is turning against us. The boycotts will increase and our image will continue to spiral into disrepair”.
And a “village where Israelis and Palestinians live together to promote peace” is facing an attack by extreme (Israeli) taxation on funds.
Items of concern (and associated resistance/actions) in/regarding Ukraine/Russia include:
⇒ Firstly, an assessment of Russia’s almost mystical and obsessive quest for “Great Power” status, which is why they consider their war against Ukraine is defensive (because Ukraine favouring Europe is considered by Russia to be a threat to Russia’s notion that being able to “influence” the nations near them as a KEY part of their “Great Power” status), and how this guides Russia’s decision making.
After Russia made absurd demands, as expected talks ended with no ceasefire, but an agreement for follow up talks and a large prisoner swap - with Ukrainians frustrated at what seems a farce & at Putin’s ability to manipulate (“mock”) the USA (and Russia is - hypocritically, IMO [see, for instance, this, this, this, this, and this] - continuing its trope over alleged lack of legitimacy) and Europe frustrated with the USA’s inconsistency and - with Ukraine - calling for increased pressure on Russia (and Estonia subsequently attempted to stop a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker with concerning escalation showing an increased risk of war - see this ACLED assessment). See also this excellent analysis - which includes criticism of the current US president (who looks to have been duped yet again after another ineffective meeting with Putin - who he claims to trust), and that Europe MUST follow through with consequences or lose their credibility ... and what are described as major sanctions will be imposed by Europe and the UK (including on Russia’s shadow fleet) as Russia is described as trying to buy time ... and the week draws to a close with the current US president FINALLY admitting that Russia does not want peace. As Poland drives a Russian shadow tanker away from a subsea power cable, concern that the Finland-Russia border could be the next conflict zone after the Ukraine war - and debate is occurring within Ukraine over possibly having to accept some loss of land.
Russia has been accused of trying to disrupt aid to Ukraine by a cyberattack - and a Russian-led global cybercrime network has been dismantled;
Europe has launched a funding mechanism to improve defence;
Items of concern/note (and associated resistance/actions) elsewhere include:
a challenge: “Are we really going to live through an age of tyranny?” because of an emboldened far right? A UK newspaper that “supported H_t l_r until the moment when it became no longer possible for it to do so, fleeing fascism is ‘woke’, when all term means is that those accused of it are people who care” (actually, that definition is a simplification: see here); calls for economies to avoid ‘US-style inequality’ and be “weaponised against fascism”; Uganda’s Parliament has defied their Supreme Court by allowing military jurisdiction over civilians;
Noteworthy acts of resistance (noting the advice/examples/guidance here, here, here, here, here, here, here, this [on the efficacy of nonviolent protest], this book, this book, this, and these) include:
a warning from a North Korean activist that ‘silence is complicity’;
On other international affairs/political news matters this week:
discussions between Iran and Europe over a nuclear tensions and a possible deal; for the first time ever, the USA’s credit rating has been downgraded from triple A (which may benefit the world if it becomes less USA-centric); the EU has proposed a security pact with Australia, as Australia reaffirms support for Ukraine; India is furious with the current US president for misrepresenting (exaggerating) his role in the ceasefire; the UN is struggling for funds, including late payments; Taiwan’s “president calls for ‘peace’ with China but says island must prepare for war ... [as] China has ramped up military drills and war games around Taiwan in the past 12 months” (and has a concerning fleet of small boats); the USA appears to have rendered the G7 useless; sanctions have been eased to aid Syria’s transition; Yemen is “on the brink of catastrophe”; more scientists are looking to leave the USA; Chagossians feel betrayed by the UK over what has happened to their homeland;
- “The Deadly Global Gold Rush” https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/deadly-global-gold-rush “How to Stop the Illicit Mining and Trade That Fuel War and Repression ... The Sentry’s Sasha Lezhnev and John Prendergast expose how the illicit gold trade is fuelling devastating wars in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Ukraine”
§ Journalism/press, concerns about journalists jailed in Niger for reporting on Niger’s links to Russia (where an election monitor has been jailed), Cambodia, and in Pakistan, Jordan’s ban on reports of alleged aid corruption, loss of press freedom in Peru - and the USA, and calls for legal protection of press freedom in the Philippines.
On human rights matters:
Human Rights Watch has urged China to release Tibet’s 11th Panchen Lama, and for ‘concerned parties’ to assert Tibetan rights; blood minerals from the eastern DRC; “the United Nations special rapporteur on torture has urged Queensland’s parliament to vote down the government’s headline youth crime legislation, calling it “incompatible with basic child rights”” - and the legislation has led to accusations of attempted destruction of First Peoples communities; an Australian state government has admitted vicarious liability for a prison guard*s sexual abuse of a female inmate (the article creates an impression that this was known to be happening, and allowed by other guards to continue - making all involved morally reprehensible, and the abuse acts of repugnance, if not evil, that undermine that states entire justice system, IMO); the current US regime is rolling back anti-racist/anti-police violence measures; more Rohingya refugees have been lost at sea;
“Queer man, same misogyny: What happened to me on the dance floor” https://qnews.com.au/queer-man-same-misogyny-what-happened-to-me-on-the-dance-floor/ “Cis male entitlement in action ... But here’s the thing: you don’t have to want to **** me to violate me”
§ On LGBTQIASB+ rights - particularly TGDNB, one US state’s judiciary is not buying transphobic claims about bathroom bans (““No Evidence” The Ban Prevents Violence”) as another far right group tries to ban trans people from sport in the USA.
On societal and governance matters:
A claim that AI chatbots (which allegedly contributed to a death by suicide) have freedom of expression rights has been rejected by a US court. Widespread anger in the USA at the lack of federal response to devastating storms - and concern at the effects of cutbacks to weather forecasting. An Australian state education department was caught unawares when an online meeting platform started collecting students’ biometric data. Some perspective on the issue of migration and the proportion of residents of nations born elsewhere. “But the truth is that no one is truly voiceless. What makes people unheard is not their silence, but the structures built to ignore them.”
As a call is made for the recently re-elected ALP Australian government to seize the opportunity it has - albeit with a warning from the architect of its victory against overreach, an analysis reminds us all that productivity is defined as “the amount of output of goods and services that can be extracted from each unit of input of labour or physical capital”, that productivity improvement has “slowed throughout the developed world” over the last decade or so, and “productivity is determined by how efficiently every workplace is organised ... [and] ... if the economy’s productivity isn’t improving from year to year, it’s primarily because the nation’s bosses aren’t bothering to improve it” - not anything the government is or isn’t doing/supplying, despite business people’s comment that are “usually thinly disguised rent-seeking” - and a few other points that lead to the unusual proposal to improve productivity;
- “On linear and non-linear thinking and the consequences for political decision making” https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05/19/on-linear-and-non-linear-thinking-and-the-consequences-for-political-decision-making/ and the problem of “knowns” that are ignored, downplayed, or misrepresented - “unknown knowns”.
From a spiritual perspective: persistence, and the self care that enables that, are crucial this week, together with a continued determination to be human, humane, and ethical, even if you do not have the precise words to back yourself (as a teenager in the third quarter of last century objecting to corporal punishment, all I could think of was "barbaric", and when objecting to racism only had that word, and at other times would simply say "that is wrong")
Here are some llinks that might also be of interest or value:
- “Paganism and the Resurgence of Religion” https://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2025/05/paganism-and-the-resurgence-of-religion.html See also “There’s no monotheism in the Bible” https://youtu.be/i6sD4Mc2-m8 and “The one where YHWH loses to another god” https://youtu.be/DzV5Se8CMFU by Dan McClellan, a (Christian) “Scholar of the Bible and religion”
- “‘I feel free’: the people who quit office jobs for the great outdoors – and would never go back” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/18/i-feel-free-the-people-who-quit-office-jobs-for-the-great-outdoors
- “Plasma-Based Intelligence Pt 1” https://youtu.be/IWyQXx-ruiY?si=nMBUc07APzOK_SC2 and “Plasma-Based Intelligence Pt 2: Kordylewski Clouds” https://youtu.be/t7cab_Uir7M (and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kordylewski_cloud&oldid=1279173602) and “Plasma-Based Intelligence Pt 3: Are UFOs Alive?” https://youtu.be/54QGYDA8E8g which is a series of short but interesting videos from Cosmosis [Formerly The UFO Rabbit Hole]
- “Unearthing Power: Female Leadership and Building a Monumental Society at Copper Age Valencina” https://wildhunt.org/2025/05/unearthing-power-female-leadership-and-building-a-monumental-society-at-copper-age-valencina.html
- “A New View of the Moon - YouTube” https://youtu.be/XCrJ3NflOpE
- this week’s “afterlife report” by the Zammits: https://www.victorzammit.com/May23rd2025/
- also from YouTube:
- from YouTube and elsewhere on neurodivergence (noting asymmetrical bifurcation but also synaptic (under)pruning and neuroplasticity with regard to autism):
- another explainer on why diagnoses have increased; the conflict between neurodivergence and (the evil known as) neoliberalism (which I very much relate to); the problem of grievance parents; an excellent consideration of “Autism vs Introversion”;
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