Post No. 3,425 - Some (hopefully) interesting reading / viewing / listening

I recently found the following interesting and/or useful, and am posting them here in case anyone else does as well. 

 

• “In Conversation with Tim Kaney”   https://youtu.be/dJ510oG_CxQ   “Tim is not a newcomer to BTS and we did a film about his experience. In this conversation we catch up on Tim's story and how this experience has evolved for him into something meaning and important.”   The discussions on interactions with animals and those who have just died were particularly interesting for me.   

• “When the Stars wink at you, wink back”   https://breakingthesilenceproject.com/2026/04/06/when-the-stars-wink-at-you-wink-back/   Excellent thoughts on disclosure - including that the current violence in the world will prevent it   I used this as the starting point for “Post No. 3,424 - The disclosure distraction”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2026/04/post-no-3424-disclosure-distraction.html , which also included a SubStack article from “The Sentinel” which raised questions about well known people, organisations, and acts in the disclosure world that was reposted by the BTS team the next day   

• “First Scientific Confirmation of Consciousness in a Tiny Fish”   https://youtu.be/Drbl5udwk9I   The commentary about these fish testing the properties of the mirror was particularly interesting   

• “The Subtle Test People Use to See If They Can Walk All Over You”   https://youtu.be/MeKGfhfyb4o   

• “This is What Benevolent Sexism Really Looks Like”   https://youtu.be/mSWj8IM05H0   “They are smart, articulate, and highly educated. They are also the Manosphere's ultimate defense.   Louise Perry, Dr. Sarah Hill, and Erica Komisar are selling a very specific message to modern women: You are unhappy because you are too free.   In this deep dive, I am exposing how these three "female experts" provide the intellectual framework for the Manosphere. We’re breaking down how they repackage submission as "safety," biological essentialism as “wellness”, and professional guilt as “motherly love”.   We are deconstructing Benevolent Sexism—the dangerous psychological trap that treats women as precious creatures who need protection, rather than equal human beings who need respect.”   I (and others) refer to this as toxic femininity. The discussions by the presenter in this are eloquent, informative, and very useful   

• “The Manosphere: Reboot”   https://clementinef.substack.com/p/the-manosphere-reboot   “Inspired by Soraya Chemaly’s recent piece on men’s cultivated ignorance (and the fact women have been writing about the violence of ‘the manosphere’ for years without receiving the same cultural attention given to male-helmed documentaries), I’m sharing a complete chapter (fittingly titled ‘The Manosphere’) from my 2018 book, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship.”   

• “Human Are Still Evolving and In Some Really Bizarre Ways - YouTube”   https://youtu.be/5J6ZEUKmSl0    

 

 

• “A Historian Spent 30 Years Interviewing Nazis. He Identified 12 Warning Signs of Fascism. All 12 Are Present in Tr_mp's America Right Now.”   https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/a-historian-spent-30-years-interviewing   “The evidence is not opinion. It is public record. And it demands your attention before November.”   This is US-based and focused, but the points identified by Laurence  Rees in “The N_z_ Mind: Twelve Warnings from History” (pub. Penguin, 2025, ISBN 9781405974745;  Kobo,  Barnes & Noble,  Amazon) are worth considering everywhere    

• “Can Paper Stop Tyrants?”   by public resistance historian Tad Stoermer   https://youtu.be/Qzu5riIu4QM   People have to act on conventions/constitutions/etc    

• “The Terrifying Real Reason For Jeffrey Epstein's Remote Zorro Ranch Emerges When You Examine the Ranch Next Door”   https://substack.com/home/post/p-193590181   “Part 2 of a series of articles looking at the relationship between Epstein and the San Cristobal Ranch, owned by former OSS member Henry Singleton”   written by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez   https://alisav.substack.com/   This collates and presents evidence that this was part of Israel’s attempts to obtain nuclear weapons   

• “Why has the US had to beg for peace with Iran?”   https://youtu.be/Jwi4VCmr-7Q   (text only version at https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/10/why-has-the-us-had-to-beg-for-peace-with-iran/)   “The United States did not start peace negotiations with Iran because diplomacy prevailed. It did so because it had no choice. It is running out of weapons.   In the course of a few weeks, the US military has used somewhere between eight and ten years’ worth of Tomahawk missile production. The United States can manufacture approximately one hundred Tomahawk missiles per year. It has fired many hundreds, and possibly a thousand, in this conflict alone. Those stocks cannot be replenished quickly. They cannot be replenished at all in the near term. And without them, and other critical weapon supplies, the USA has no credible capacity to restart a war with Iran.   This is not a temporary logistics problem. It is a structural failure, and neoliberalism created that. The US military, like the US economy, has been run on just-in-time principles:   minimal stockholding,   maximum efficiency,   profits prioritised over resilience.   In addition, more than half of every US missile is manufactured outside the United States, across global supply chains that are now disrupted by the very conflict those missiles were used to fight. Aluminium, a critical component, is, for example, in short supply precisely because the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has constrained the materials needed to make the weapons that were supposed to open it.   The damage goes beyond missiles. Maybe three complex radar systems have been destroyed in the Middle East, each taking up to seven years to replace. The B-52 bombers flying missions from the UK are operating well beyond their operational lifespan. So are the refuelling tankers that support them.   As a result, the Financial Times is reporting that Tr_mp himself appealed for peace via Pakistan, a reality that Pete H_gs_th and the White House press operation will never publicly acknowledge.   Meanwhile, Iran’s military model, based on low-cost, simple, rapidly replicable weapons, has proved devastatingly effective against the world’s most expensive and over-engineered military power. Low-tech warfare has beaten the neoliberal military. Now, as a result, time favours Iran. It can replenish its arsenal quickly. The USA cannot.   The conclusion is stark: US military hegemony has been structurally weakened, and not just temporarily set back. It will take years, and possibly a decade, to rebuild. And in that window, the United States cannot threaten, coerce, or intervene with the credibility it once had. The world has changed. This video explains exactly how and why neoliberalism is the ideology that brought the world’s biggest military power to its knees.”   

 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

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

 

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