Weekend Reading #47

 Some longer and more involved reading for weekend:

•  Up first, as is generally the case, is Greg Ellifritz's Weekend Knowledge Dump. Lots of good stuff, but here are some articles/topics that in particular caught my attention:
• "30 Facts About Childhood Today that Will Terrify You." A brief overview of troubling statistics and trends among our children, most of which derive from too little outdoor activity and too much screen time.
• "TERMINATING TERRORISTS | The Head-Shot Triad." Where you need to shoot to immediately shut down a bad guy. 
• "Controlling Your Fear." Tips on inoculating yourself to the fear that you will have in a violent confrontation. 
• "How to Survive a Mass Shooting While Unarmed." 
• "Tourniquets Can’t Fix Everything. Why You MUST Learn Wound Packing." 
• "Small Unit Tactics for Patrol." This is written for police officers, but discusses some military tactics that are adaptable to use by police. I think this has relevance to preppers in that it teaches different types of movement under fire or in areas of potential ambush.  

• "F&S Classics: The Wire"--Field & Stream. A big-game hunter and guide try and track down a Cape Buffalo that had been caught in a poacher's snare and somehow amputated its leg. A good reminder why Cape Buffalo are considered one of the most dangerous game animals in Africa.
• "The Wendigo and 6 Other Ancient Monsters From Indigenous Folklore"--Atlas Obscura. 
• More: "Beware the Wendigo, the Frostbitten Flesheater of North America’s Chilly Heartland"--Atlas Obscura.  
• "Academia is Women’s Work"--Postcards from Barsoom. Discussing the reason (a reason) men are abandoning academic work:

    Men are constantly on the lookout for arenas in which they can prove their worth, and thereby attract a mate or, more accurately, as many mates as possible. Across the myriad competitive arenas that men have invented, there is one common element shared by all of them, which both men and women are exquisitely sensitive to:

    An arena cannot be dominated by women.

    The reason for this is obvious. The purpose of the arena, from the male point of view, is to demonstrate his worth relative to other men. To enter an arena filled with women is to engage in a lose/lose proposition: if one does poorly, one has been beaten (up) by girls; if one does well, one has beaten (up) girls. Neither outcome is going to impress the girls. Or, for that matter, the guys.

    For this reason, men who enter a social environment in which women predominate will tend to make a hasty exit. There is nothing for them there.

•  "The Deep Rabbit Hole of Israel Spying on America"--Aletho News. This 2015 article is not particularly long, but it has a fair number of links to other sources including a lengthy Newsweek article. It is not just spying on the U.S. that is discussed, but also the disproportionate amount of foreign aid that has gone to Israel, and the suspicion that Israel stole 100 kg. of weapons grade uranium to jump start their nuclear weapons program. Unmentioned is their extensive industrial espionage. And, obviously coming after 9/11, there is no discussion of the extensive Israeli intelligence ring that was discovered in the aftermath which abruptly pulled up stakes and fled the U.S. after the attack. (See my 2023 post, "Dancin' In The Streets: The 5 Israelis Arrested Following 9/11"). Whether or not there was any connection between the Israeli agents and the events of 9/11, one still has to wonder why so many Mossad agents (some 60 were arrested or detained in the aftermath of 9/11) were operating in the U.S. 

• More: "Israeli espionage in the United States"--Wikipedia. 
• More: "Israel’s Covert Economic Espionage Against Its Strategic Ally, US – OpEd"--Eurasia Review.