The Met Office have put out a warning of yet another major Gale approaching. This one being called Gail Bradbrook.

Like so many at this time, its power is exponentially increased due to global warming and climate emergency.

Gail herself, in dark colours and handcuffs, held a cool front about the truth of this in contrast to the hot air coming out of Westminister, saying if they’d speak the truth about climate and commit to zero carbon by 2025 she’d calm down, though adding for her, its increasingly about creating a truer democracy and establishing a binding citizen’s assembly with both the teeth and power to guide us to a more just and equitable way. 

Likely Factors: increasing the Gail: witnessing bail outs for the bankers and the weight of austerity then being put on the greater majority of people. Deep love of the Earth and people.+

Possible solutions: Who wants to solve Gail Bradbrook anyway? Though i don’t necessarily agree with everything she says or all her actions, overall we need more of her forthright down to earth truth and feisty standing for justice. If the authorities want to qwell the storm, they need to truly serve all the people and our planet home, not just a rich elite, and bring their actions in line with what’s needed.  Join the call for a CLIMATE and ecological emergency CITIZEN’S ASSEMBLY as well as forming and participating in people’s assembl;ies which include council of our earth: Let’s find a better way together.

In War, crimes against the planet soar exponentially….think of all the extra carbon spent by all that machinery poncing about, posturing and shooting at each other, and then there’s the weapons:

Bush and Blair having waded into Iraq to “save” its people on the FALSE pretext of weapons of mass destruction, having already lied to their own people, used Uranium tipped missiles, leading not just to massive immediate loss of life but long term birth defects amongst Iraqi’s…”thanks for saving us guys, not.”

Although it was little publicised more recently Trump dropped with seeming glee “the mother of all bombs” in Afghanisthan…their people as guinea pigs to this experiment in a continued action totally out of proportion (like the earlier invasion according to a distinguished british diplomat) to anything the country has done. (“Proportional response” is what is needed according to this former British Ambassador to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan – Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles KCMG LVOE in his 2018 talk entitled “what the jihadis really want.”).

A thousand wrongs do not make a right…and when they also exponentially add to climate emergency they are very far from saving anyone.

Likely Culprits: Ignorance, greed, an unwillingness self examine

Possible solutions: Engaging in shadow integration work. As a Jungian Elder (Julian David) suggested, the only real evil is when we put it outside of ourselves, it is often then that the most evil acts are committed claiming to be good, in an effort to extinguish it outside ourselves, yet in doing so revealing it inside ourselves.

Though on a local level it can be necessary to restrain another from causing harm, the real work is as Carl Jung says, if “someone is brave enough,” to “withdraw all their projections….they (then) have become a serious problem to themselves…as they are now unable to say that they do this or that, they are wrong, and they must be fought against….Such a person knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in themselves, and if they only learn to deal with their own shadow they have done something real for the world” “Psychology and Religion” (1938). In CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East. P.140

From wikipedia in relation to uranium tipped missiles it is shared that though:

The U.S. Department of Defense claims that no human cancer of any type has been seen as a result of exposure to either natural or depleted uranium.^[87] Militaries have long had risk-reduction procedures for their troops to follow,^[88] and studies are in consistent agreement that veterans who used DU-enhanced munitions have not suffered, so far, from an increased risk of cancer (see the Gulf War and Balkans sections below). The effects of DU on civilian populations are, however, a topic of intense and ongoing controversy.

in contrast:

As early as 1997, British Army doctors warned the Ministry of Defence that exposure to depleted uranium increased the risk of developing lung, lymph and brain cancer, and recommended a series of safety precautions.^[89] According to a report issued summarizing the advice of the doctors, “Inhalation of insoluble uranium dioxide dust will lead to accumulation in the lungs with very slow clearance—if any. … Although chemical toxicity is low, there may be localised radiation damage of the lung leading to cancer.” The report warns that “All personnel … should be aware that uranium dust inhalation carries a long-term risk … [the dust] has been shown to increase the risks of developing lung, lymph and brain cancers.”^[89] In 2003, the Royal Society called, again, for urgent attention to be paid to the possible health and environmental impact of depleted uranium, and added its backing to the United Nations Environment Programme‘s call for a scientific assessment of sites struck with depleted uranium.^[90] In early 2004, the UK Pensions Appeal Tribunal Service attributed birth defect claims from a February 1991 Gulf War combat veteran to depleted uranium poisoning.^[91][92] Also, a 2005 epidemiology review concluded: “In aggregate the human epidemiological evidence is consistent with increased risk of birth defects in offspring of persons exposed to DU.”^[13] Studies using cultured cells and laboratory rodents continue to suggest the possibility of leukemogenic, genetic, reproductive, and neurological effects from chronic exposure.^[8]

And in Iraq:

Iraqi population

Since 2001, medical personnel at the Basra hospital in southern Iraq have reported a sharp increase in the incidence of child leukemia and genetic malformation among babies born in the decade following the Gulf War. Iraqi doctors attributed these malformations to possible long-term effects of DU, an opinion that was echoed by several newspapers.^{[85][139][140][141]} In 2004, Iraq had the highest mortality rate due to leukemia of any country.^[142][143] In 2003, the Royal Society called for Western militaries to disclose where and how much DU they had used in Iraq so that rigorous, and hopefully conclusive, studies could be undertaken out in affected areas.^[144] The International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW) likewise urged that an epidemiological study be made in the Basra region, as asked for by Iraqi doctors,^[145] but no peer-reviewed study has yet been undertaken in Basra.

A medical survey, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009″ published in July 2010, states that the “…increases in cancer and birth defects…are alarmingly high” and that infant mortality 2009/2010 has reached 13.6%. The group compares the dramatic increase, five years after wartime exposure in 2004, with the lymphoma that Italian peacekeepers^[146] developed after the Balkan wars and the increased cancer risk in certain parts of Sweden because of the Chernobyl fallout. The origin and time of introduction of the carcinogenic agent causing the genetic stress the group will address in a separate report.^[147] The report mentions depleted uranium as one “potentially relevant exposure” but makes no conclusions on the source.

Four studies in the second half of 2012—one of which described the people of Fallujah as having “the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever studied”—renewed calls for the US and UK to investigate the possible links between their military assault on the city in 2004 and the explosion in deformities, cancers, and other serious health problems.^[148] Despite the known use of depleted uranium by allied forces, no depleted uranium has been found in soil samples taken from Fallujah.^[149]

An interesting case this one – whilst the planet has slowly been tail spinning into a human induced 6^th mass extinction, Inactavists have been on the increase – evidently not a problem for those who want us to “obey, consume, be silent, die.” Indeed some say they encourage it with “weapons of mass distraction,” but more of an issue for those of us who’d like decent conditions for life to be part of our children’s inheritance.

We called in an experienced unit – Phantom 23 and a half, in a bid to try to unstick a number of inactivists glued to their tv screens, and even younger inactivists glued to games on their phones. The unit said this is much tougher job than that XR lot and themselves had to wear blinkers so as not to be distracted by the drama and exposed flesh of that vital programme at this time: love island…

Are you having trouble peeling away from tv and other screens? Do you feel it could be an addiction or are you in denial?

Don’t let it stop you going out, you could always wear your screen like this man does, but also you could brave going out without it, and why not invite others bring your creative minds together in relation to what is really needed at this time – together we can support the Great Turning – away from an extractive economy to an earth loving one.

Likely Culprits: the media, pollution dulling brains, depression – ungrieved grief

Note to Investigator: 1. sometimes the news is just a distraction. 2. Joanna Macy suggests apathy is actually rooted in fear of suffering.

Possible solutions:  shake yourself a wake, attend a grief tending, sing dance, learn to listen to the earth and ways of working together eg: peoples assermblies with the children’s fire at the centre : Let’s find a better way together.

here also is a link to some grief tending offerings: https://grieftending.org