Post No. 3,555 - Some (hopefully) interesting reading / viewing / listening - Sarurday 24th October, 2026

I recently found the following interestingoand/orouseful, and am posting them here inocase anyoneoelse does asowelll.   

• Others are now writing about their concerns about alleged UFO/UAP/ET/NHI whistleblower Grusch:   https://substack.com/@redpilljunkie207952/note/c-350419214   

• For those in the northern hemisphere:   “Welcoming the Fall” (i.e., autumn)   Raven Dana   https://youtu.be/hrdXr2nU9Vc   “It's the season of letting go of that which no longer serves us. A time to communicate with the Ancestors, visit the beloved dead and stand in the crossroads to clear the way for the coming year.”   

• “In Conversation with Luci Moral”   https://youtu.be/vTfm8Wb90Rw   

 

On neurodivergenceoand associatedomatters:    

• “My autistic/ADHD wife helped me escape a cult”   https://youtube.com/shorts/bJ_xTKvJVO4    Her pattern recognition skills were key    

 

On society, governance, humanorights, etc (noting the childish thinking of M_G_):     

This week’s dominant news here has been the appalling attack on the well liked and effective independent female Member of Parliament Helen Haines, and reported violence in France that has been associated with protests for better schools and education. Both have been shifted to “Post No. 3,552 - From this week’s coming news/interesting reading post:   attack on Helen Haines, MP, and violence in France”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2026/10/post-no-3552-from-this-weeks-coming.html , along with my recommendations for actions to take.   

• An excellent explainer of stochastic t_rr_r_sm on Substack (also at least one comment is excellent) at  https://substack.com/@jessheksdatter/note/c-367080697   

• There are other concerns as well, including unprofessional attitudes strongly suggesting psychological unfitness of one police officer (and the absence of any contrary comments makes the others suspect as well):   “Bodycam video shows police officer shoving Herzog protester before ‘I punched him in the head’ boast”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/20/herzog-protest-police-bodycam-video-boasts-punch-to-protester-ntwnfb   “Lawyer Nick Hanna argues footage aired in Sydney court depicts ‘unlawful use of force’ by ‘very officer boasting about how he pumped him’”   

• However, there have been also successes:   “The pro-Palestine movement is winning beyond the court of public opinion”   Andrew Brown   https://michaelwest.com.au/the-pro-palestine-movement-is-winning-beyond-the-court-of-public-opinion/   “The job is not done. There is still a mountain to climb. The greatest crime of this century is still being committed in Gaza, and Western governments, Australia among them, remain complicit through the arms they supply and the diplomatic cover they provide. No courtroom win in Sydney feeds a child in Khan Younis.   But take encouragement from what the movement has achieved. Israel’s power is being diminished, slowly and measurably, by the people who kept marching when they were told it was pointless.”   AND ALSO   “It’s working! Tax changes edge 25 years of housing failures into reverse”   Greg Jericho   https://michaelwest.com.au/its-working-tax-changes-edge-25-years-of-housing-failures-into-reverse/   “Jim Chalmers won’t admit it, and investors cry foul, but a downturn in real estate prices and an upturn in new house construction is good news for Australians looking for a home. Greg Jericho says tax changes are doing their job.”   

• There have also been some interesting articles on strategy for progressives:   “Unions Must be Independent of Political Parties”   https://www.fabians.org.au/unions_must_be_independent_of_political_parties?   AND ALSO   “The Australian left needs a strategy to win - Labor Tribune”   https://labortribune.net.au/the-australian-left-needs-a-strategy-to-win/   AND ALSO   “We can build a new society out of the wreckage of neoliberalism”   https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10/20/we-can-build-a-new-society-out-of-the-wreckage-of-neoliberalism/   AND ALSO   “Passing the gas. Twelve years of tax data show Australia’s loss”   https://michaelwest.com.au/passing-the-gas-twelve-years-of-tax-data-show-australias-loss/   

• And other useful commentary:   “How Plato Predicted Tr_mp”   https://lucasbean.substack.com/p/how-plato-predicted-trump   “The Republic Book 8”   AND ALSO   “History professor: Why has Australia surrendered its strategic autonomy?”   Robert Barwick   https://youtu.be/d2C8d0q8z2Q   “An excerpt from Sydney Uni history professor James Curran's speech to the Sydney Institute on his book "Grand Ambition" about Paul Keating's foreign policy.   Curran concluded his speech with this powerful denunciation of Australia's surrender of its sovereignty to the US and UK, through AUKUS.”   AND ALSO   “The only time I have ever been labeled as “divisive” are by white cisgender women (straight and queer) who made the distinct life choice to fuse their identities with violent institutions. There is a specific recklessness that comes from choosing to carry water for white supremacist settler-colonial patriarchy, in the hopes you feel “seen” and “safe.” It. Never. Works. And it never will.”   https://substack.com/@yourweirdofriend/note/c-365886229   

• And news:   “Meta ordered to pay $25bn to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica data-privacy case”   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/21/meta-fined-new-mexico-data-privacy-case   AND ALSO   “How to Protect Humanity from AI”   https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-protect-humanity-from-ai   “5 essential guardrails”   AND ALSO   “Could your brain data be used against you? UN calls for limits on neurotechnology”   https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/10/1168609   “Brain signals recorded by a gaming headset or a wellness gadget could one day be used as evidence against you in court, according to a new UN report which warns that neurotechnology is outpacing the laws meant to protect human rights.”      

 

Selectedopopularoand other posts on my otheroblogs and former YouTube channel:   

• “Slow living: pushing back against the pace of life”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/07/slow-living-pushing-back-against-pace.html   AND ALSO   “Crime”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2016/11/crime.html   AND ALSO   “Accumulation of damage (~250 words, 1 - 2 min. read)”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/08/accumulation-of-damage-250-words-1-2.html   AND ALSO   “A Poem: Heartlight”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-poem-heartlight.html   AND ALSO   “The blinkers of education (Poem)”   https://musingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2007/07/blinkers-of-education-poem.html    

 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlightopossible flaws / issues youoshouldoconsider: 

• there mayobe flawedologicaloarguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ freeoonline course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinkingocaps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

 

Gnwmythr 

teaching the "good" (balancedopositive and spirituallyomature [BPM]) 
safer and more effective ways to counter the "bad" (outoofobalance, spirituallyoimmature [nonBPM/antiBPM]) 

IMO, OTAAT (“one term at a time”) is the next action to save representative  democracy, along with establishment of an organisation of human-rights observing  democracies as a functional alternative to the UN (especially the veto-sabotaged UN SC), along with all organisations being run using the seven "business" principles listed here, but also note this “Vision for Humanity” 

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Post No. 3,554 - From a recent activism email to an MP

This is from a recent activism email to an MP. 

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The inspiration for this email was an "Ette Media" podcast which focused on the PM's use of the term "turn down the heat" - which I consider clearer than the journo making the podcast seems to think, but 

• it is worth being aware of this critique; 
• there are some (critical) points in the podcast which merit consideration; and 
• the podcast raised some past issues which I have been concerned about. 

Firstly, the podcast details: 

• “ONLY FRAN: It’s not the public who must turn the temperature down” on Ette Media’s “We Used to be Journos” podcast   https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/we-used-to-be-journos/id1823491652?i=1000797824978   or   https://youtu.be/nFHZCB7qYok  “In the wake of the violent and deplorable attack on Independent MP Helen Haines, the Prime Minister has been asking everyone to “turn the temperature down”, but Jan Fran is not entirely clear on what that means or who it’s directed at. In this episode of Only Fran, Jan Fran combs through previous examples of the PM using that phrase and finds that some people are turning the temperature up more than others.”  
  

The concerns raised in that podcast about the actions of   

• the [ ... ] head of the current US regime,   

          and   

• [ ... ] party,   

are, IMO, important, and need to be addressed - for the sake of social cohesion, which includes ensuring that Australia is genuinely livable for targetted minorities, including women, LGBTQIASB+ people, the disabled, and First Peoples and other people of colour, which requires addressing structural discrimination and unmanaged unconscious bias, as well as interpersonal conduct (and bigots, in my experience, never hide their hate as well as they think - their facial expressions and body language are particularly telling to people on the receiving end of hate, who need to be able to "read the room" for the sake of survival). 

As you know, I am a member of the first four of those five groups I listed. The hate that has come our way over the last fifteen years or so (from political and media [ ... ] on the far right) has been particularly extraordinary, although a lot of the hate has also been around for much longer. 

The worsening of that hate is, IMO, connected to the rise of the extreme/far right - a group that I consider does meet the definition of fascism, and, in making that comment, I note Madeline Albright wrote a book warning about this, and journalists such as Rachel Maddow and other experts such as Professor Timothy Snyder, Anne Applebaum, and Tad Stoermer have also been making the same sort of warning (including in books and online) for years. 

In such matters, defending democracy and "social cohesion" does not require an enforced superficiality of niceness: it requires those who are agents of hate being vigorously, nonviolently, and effectively addressed. 

As I write that, an incident from (neoliberal, conservative, right wing) Reagan's presidency comes to mind, which was when his advisors pointed out that USA's refusal to ratify an international convention meant the USSR could use that to avoid human rights obligations, very effectively trashing the USA's reputation in the process. Once the treaty was ratified, the USA's standing was restored, and their comments promoting a better world - i.e., one where human rights were better respected and realised - were more effective. 

In our case, things like failing to charge the homophobic child abusers who were using lies to campaign against things like drag reading and LGBTQIASB+ events in libraries a few years ago provided: 

1. active encouragement for the haters; 
   and 
2. evidence that [ ... ] 

To be clear:  

• I consider events such as the violent assault on Camp Sovereignty was very likely encouraged by the failure to act against anti-LGBTQIASB+ (especially anti-trans) hate. 

Under such circumstances, calls for calm are seen by those haters as a sign of weakness. 

It should also be noted that there is quite a bit of commentary, from sources that seem competent to me, about disturbing aspects such as the desire to cause pain of long term, rusted on haters - such as the long term members of M_oG_ in the USA and their equivalents here. No amount of nice words will affect them, but then, as Dr Martin Luther King Jr put it: 

• "It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless." 

That is why we need laws, and why those laws need to be used. 

This is particularly important in this world, which, since 6th January, 2021 (although less so here), has been increasingly divorced from anything bearing resemblance to "normal" politics - as outlined, in part, in a video from Tad Stoermer today at https://youtu.be/gNJYzgCmKvY. 

In summary, we do need words urging civilised, civil, decent responses and actions, but we also need actions that recognise, as with the build up to World War Two, the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the ongoing climate crisis, that our situation is not "normal", and extraordinary actions are required. 

 

PS - one of the reasons addressing these threats to our democracy is so difficult is that they cannot be approached solely from the point of view of rationality/intellect: emotion is a key part of it. 

To illustrate that with an example, this week SBS had a human interest story about a woman who has chosen not to have children as a result of what may happen in the future. That was portrayed as fear, which is an aspect of it, but there is also incredible ethical strength and responsibility (when the predicted death toll from the climate crisis varies from one to four billion), manifested as giving up what is undoubtedly a major life goal for most people. 

Our - meaning all of humanity - response to the climate crisis has been marked by emotional overwhelm - which is something that cannot be rationalised away or intellectualised into submission: the emotions, particularly around grief at the loss of planned or expected life, must be dealt with as emotions ... which is why I want critical thinking and emotional competence (not emotional intelligence, which has been perverted into a tool for manipulation) taught from as early as possible in schools (I have seen recommendations for critical thinking for kindergarten). 

That is a reason for compassion for those who are struggling to adapt to the world's current circumstances, but not for inaction or letting haters off the hook: the price of inadequate or ineffective action is too high 

 

*** 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlightopossible flaws / issues youoshouldoconsider: 

• there mayobe flawedologicaloarguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ freeoonline course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinkingocaps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

  

Gnwmythr 

teaching the "good" (balancedopositive and spirituallyomature [BPM]) 
safer and more effective ways to counter the "bad" (outoofobalance, spirituallyoimmature [nonBPM/antiBPM]) 

IMO, OTAAT (“one term at a time”) is the next action to save representative  democracy, along with establishment of an organisation of human-rights observing  democracies as a functional alternative to the UN (especially the veto-sabotaged UN SC), along with all organisations being run using the seven "business" principles listed here, but also note this “Vision for Humanity” 

If you’re new here, consider looking at the Landing Page for Newbies   

If you appreciated this post, pleaseoshare it. I am now on SubStack, Patreon, 
and you can support me at PayPal (or PayPal Repeating Support Options) or Ko-Fi 
Any and all support will be greatlyoappreciated, and willoaid me in continuing this work 

 

Remember: we generallyoneed to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgenderingois an act of activeotransphobia/transmisiaothat 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 descriptoroto prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and  

 

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here, and Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear  

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2026     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. AI was NOT used to write this article. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/