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The purposes of this post include:
(1) to provide information, includingonews, 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 frameomy 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 this post will likely be distressing - hence the content warning, to allow people to choose times they have high energy and/or are in a goodostate 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 this post, 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. Similarly, I generally try to show editorial commentsoby me in this shade of blue (quotes are in this shade of blue) - and for the times I miss doing so, you should keep your thinking cap on.
URLs of sources of news and/or information are often included as in-textohyperlinks.
News :
Noting the excellent daily aggregation of globalonews links at https://everythingbriefing.substack.com/ - and a new Australian source at https://thepoint.com.au/
On the existential climate crisis & nuclear threats and environmental issues this week:
“UN report linking severe climate and poverty underscores [the] urgency of global action”; “UN expert warns repression of climate advocacy threatens human rights”; “UN Special Rapporteur urges democratisation of global access to water”; a reminder of current nuclear threats and risks; a The Guardian exclusive reports that companies could have profits from breaking environment laws removed under reforms being considered; Australia's national ALP government is facing a test of who it turns to get the "nature positive" laws it self-sabotaged last year to appease WA corporations through Parliament (if the ALP offers a sop to the conservatives, it will have allowed hate and irrationality win over the future of the Australian community);
In the global war against f_sc_sm (and “producerism” and sociocide) - whichoisofought wherever we are (note the advice/examples/guidance on resistance here, here, here, here, here, here, here, this [on the efficacy of nonviolent protest], this book, this book, this, and these) this week:
The importance of critical thinking ... and not giving it to AI (my high school physics teacher in the 70s taught us about centripetal force ... and then jumped into how that could be used to get the last sauce out of a bottle, and why hadn't we thought of that? Well, we hadn't thought of that because the teaching was so strongly contextually implied as being only for science that we had barriers created to even thinking of this anywhere else. I am gravely concerned that however critical thinking is being taught, it is being done in a similarly limiting implied context that is stopping people using critical thinking an thus being vulnerable to scams, etc. We need to change how critical thinking is taught so that is actively learned as something to be used everywhere ... ); “What if Darwin was wrong? The case for the survival of the wisest” from this economist;
“mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely”; right wing haters in the UK and Australia; Diwali as an affirmation of belonging for Indians in Australia; the problem of a small number of violent counter protestors in a possibly inadequately disciplined/trained/controlled protest environment (some reports have the violence afterwards, and some blame police, but their new Commissioner sounds decent so that has less credibility, IMO); “the Chinese have worked it out: stablecoins are the privatisation of money”; utterly incompetent amathia from a UK government minister; an informal survey shows the media ask the wrong questions about the rich & powerful and power; a call to end “the cult of the CEO” and its one way sharing of profit and ... not sharing pain; “Why does the government tackle benefit fraud and ignore tax cheats? Could it be prejudice?”; signs of hope in Wales and Ireland that the tide is turning against neoliberalism; concerns about possible land reform in Scotland; a call for a better way to manage the risk of war;
Items of concern/note (and associated resistance/actions) in/regarding the USA and theiroleader, noting this on “a slight change of activist focus”, include:
No Kings Day 2.0 was a success - see also this analysis of the key successful features, and its growth towards the target of 3.5% of the US population; as key US military leaders, reportedly extremelyoangry about currentomisuses of the US military, abruptly resign, a speculation about when the current leader's bubbleowilloburst, a review of the four possible outcomes when authoritarianoregimesoareoreplaced, a speculation on "what next" forotheoresistance, and a reminder to current US regime officials that they will beoputoonotrial and heldotooaccountoafter this regime; new stories show the dozens of journalists who leftotheoPentagon ratherothanobecomeostooges have not stopped working; US military live artillery fire across a (fortunately closed by those with common sense) highway (as part of the US leader's attempt to counter No Kings Day 2.0) included a shell which exploded early and damaged a police car; concern about a possible "culture of corruption" amongst conservative/right wing politicians; the US Department of Defence has imposed a permission control on communication between members of the military and the US Congress; a nearly 23 hour speech on the Senate floor making the case that the US leader “is ‘violating the law’ through authoritarianism”; an examination by a psychiatrist of the emotive appeal of the US leader to his support base; a psychiatrist's analysis of the HouseoSpeaker'socontinuingorefusal toorelease the rest of theoEpst__nofiles, and the harm that is doing to other victims elsewhere in society; despite the US government shutdown, the US Department of Agriculture will reopen 2,100 rural offices (each with two PAID workers) to support farmers - who have traditionally been some of the US leader’s strongest supporters; an expert's description of why the massive number of weapons in the USA is part of why a military takeover is not feasible; more lies by M_ sk's Gr _k; partial progress by the current US regime onomoreogerrymandering; an opinion that the demolition of the White House's East Wing is because of the presidential emergency operation centre underneath it - to allow modifications;
- Evidence of the USoleader’s and/or his regime's unsuitability (including mentally) this week include: this (destruction of much of theoEastoWing of the WhiteoHouseodespite a bareofacedolieoby the US leader), this, this, this, this (disaster approvals on the basis of party support), this, this;
- Acts ofobullyingoand/ororevengeothis week include: this;
§ On migration, border control, rendition, deportations, and associated legal matters, an opinion that the currentoregime/ICEoactions constituteoethnicocleansing - see also this; aoCubanoman renditionedotooAfrica is on aohungerostrike;
Items of concern/note (and associated resistance/actions) in/regardingoUkraine/Russia (et al) include:
An opinion that Ukraine, because of its military prowess - especially with drones including ground and naval drones (and the data accumulated, which is now sufficient to programme AI controlled drones), is going to be one of the world's major geopolitical players (as with all nations that have historically led the way with new, major innovations);
As the USA's leader concedes that an (increasingly paranoid?) Russian president Putin may be playing for time, after a call from Putin undoes Ukraine's strategy and the US leader reverses his reversal to now call (again) for rewarding the aggressor Russia with Ukrainian territory (but oil sanctions have also been applied - a "major change" which some experts consider will have a significant effect) - which Russia rejects, leading to a call from Ukraine for Europe to avoid appeasing the aggressor, with Europe calling for a peace plan, moving to end all Russian fossil imports (finally!!!), progressing on their 19th sanctions package, and considering stronger actions against Russia's shadow fleet ... and Ukraine's President subsequently describing the suggested freeze at current positions as a “good compromise”. The USA's leader has confirmed his unreliability, IMO: Europe MUST step up and actively support Ukraine as the front line defence of democracy in Europe - but Ukraine's subsequent description of "the freeze at current positions" as a good compromise raises some doubts about the strength of Ukraine's situation, although war weariness and the pain of constant losses may also be a factor (or it may be a negotiation tactic, particularly noting the first paragraph in this section, and that Ukraine is seeking security guarantees). At least Ukraine appears to have been able to get some air defence systems - which might help defend its training centres against continuing successful air Russian attacks, and Sweden will provide 100 to 150 advanced Gripen fighter jets (a faster, more agile but shorter range, no VTOL, no stealth, "version" of the F35, perhaps) to Ukraine. A critique and criticism of Ukraine's new missile finds its actual capability is unknown, with power and range possible being offset by targetting inaccuracies, but its potential impact significant; Poland has warned any flight over its territory with Putin onboard could be diverted to allow Putin's arrest under existing ICC warrants; Poland-Hungary tensions;
the exceptional biodiversity of Europe’s last primaeval forest, Bialowieza Forest, is at threat from military works in response to Poland-Belarus tensions;
While Russia is allegedly facing a $100 billion deficit in 2026, the misconception that Russian soldiers are being forced to fight in Ukraine is debunked.
On other international affairs/political news matters this week:
Items of concern/note (and associated resistance/actions) in/regardingoWest Asiaoinclude:
The ceasefire was broken, allegedly in response to killing of two Israeli soldiers, and then resumed by Israel after 26 people had been killed, with Israel's PM Netanyahu warning the war will not stop until H___s is disarmed; freed Israeli and Palestinian hostages/prisoners have been forever changed, but are beginning some form of healing - unlike the dead hostages and the mutilated bodies of 135 Palestinians released from a notorious Israeli jail, and the 9,000 Palestinians still being held as prisoners and the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank for whom peace is not available. In another surprising act of decency (whether motivated by that or not), “the Israeli prime minister ... has ordered a halt to the advancement of parliamentary bills linked to the annexation of the West Bank after the US vice-president ... described a vote on two bills in the Knesset as an “insult””; the USA may ask “Israel to release imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader, ... to fill a leadership vacuum in postwar Gaza”;
The International Court of Justice has responded to a question from the UN General Assembly on 20th December 2024 with an advisory opinion that Israel MUST allow adequate aid into Gaza to meet the basic need of Palestinians - see also news reports from SBS, ABC, Al Jazeera, Le Monde, PBS, and AP News.
in an open letter, “prominent Jewish figures around the world are calling on the United Nations and world leaders to impose sanctions on Israel over what they describe as “unconscionable” actions amounting to genocide in Gaza”; a Palestinian journalist has been killed;
the UK government has refused - after breaching FoI laws by an excessive and unexplained decision period - to release any details of a meeting with a right wing Israeli government minister; “Police Scotland used ‘extreme violence’ against Palestine activists, report says”; Orthodox Jews in the USA have objected to the ending of their exemption from Israeli military service;
three former UK MPs have lodged a case with the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights accusing the UK Government of failing to protect elections from foreign interference by Russia in the 2016 Brexit vote; a landslide win for a pro-EU Turkish Cypriot candidate in the Turkish-occupied north of divided Cyprus raises hopes for peace and possibly reunification just over half a century after a coup d'Ă©tat, invasion, and division; a car bombing of a prominent investigative Italian journalist did not injure anyone but is being described as an act of attempted intimidation; growing tensions in South America as the US threatens Colombia and continues to threaten Venezuela - and the US Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago, which is near Venezuela, warned US citizens to stay away from US government facilities (see also this caution against attempting violent regime change); after four or five months of backroom negotiation, Australia’s Prime Minister has secured a rare earths and critical minerals deal worth A$13 billion ($2 billion [0.1% of Australia's GDP] in the first year), which actually not good economics, but is intended to reduce China’s 70% share of global mining and 90% share of global processing of rare earths (Bolivia may also seek to capitalise on its mineral resources under the renewables boom), and may have contributed to the US leader backing off on demands Australia increase military spending; Australia's Fair Work Commission has supported work from home; in an entirely unsurprising move, Canada’s Prime Minister has said “Canada will double its non-US exports as Canadians can’t rely on US” - and a Canadian province will stop running an anti-tariff ad that led to the USA's leader stopping all trade negotiations, with this raising questions about claims reagan was misquoted; North Korea’s cyber capabilities now rival those of Russia and China, and have been used to pilfer billions of dollars; “Syrian authorities [have] negotiated a ceasefire with a group of foreign jihadists led by [a] Frenchman ... in northwestern Syria”; hundreds of thousands of Hungarians have attended rival political street protests;
§ On the USA’s AIC’s tariff war, China has adopted a criticised (including by China) US export control measure;
On human rightsomatters:
A French bank has been found guilty of enabling atrocities in Sudan; as “Differentiated Assistance replaces the previous blanket aid system, which an under-funded World Food Programme (WFP) says it can no longer afford”, refugees have reacted with anger and alarm, “warning that it will sow social division in the camps and worsen already dangerously high levels of hunger”;
a rebuttal of one of the lies being told about the Treaty bill being considered in my home state; better analysis of fossils finds cuts were made long after death, and possibly after fossilisation, which suggests that Australia’s First Peoples, rather than hunting megafauna to extinction, “were fossil collectors, transporting bones and teeth from deceased animals across Australia”; “nearly 1 million hectares of Cape York has been handed back to Traditional Owners”;
“the power of allies in safeguarding the rights of trans people in Australia”; Meta are allowing fake anti-LGBTQ+ posts;
“absence of justice for women of Tigray is enabling impunity”;
“UN committee finds France violated rights of unaccompanied migrant children”;
On societal and governanceomatters:
a social media platform’s “‘rabbit holes’ still drive youth towards suicidal content, Amnesty International France finds”; “a Scottish charity has opened the first of its walk-in hubs aimed at supporting people experiencing mental health issues” - and my home state has opened a similar facility - but for those at risk of harm from drugs - in our capital city’s CBD; “more Australians are dying while facing homelessness — and they're dying younger, often in their 30s to early 50s”; from the UK, “the 2% [inflation target] was invented in the 1990s to please markets, not to help people”;
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