13 May 2023 - Must-Reads

A selection of the latest news, studies, reports and articles

I spend a lot of time each day gathering together new information and interesting articles. I then pick one or two of the most interesting topics and write about them. However, that leaves a lot of missed out information that I’m not sharing.

Below is a summary of all the latest articles and information that I’ve found. Today, this is a slimmed down version for all subscribers but will be for paid subscribers only a lot of the time in the future.

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Climate Change

• Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry warned Wednesday that the world can't tackle climate change without first addressing the agriculture sector's emissions. "We can't get to net-zero, we don't get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us understand here the depths of this mission."

• Biden is so impressed with how Germany de-industrialised its economy that he wants power plants to cut pollution by 90 percent — or shut down. The administration is launching Washington’s most ambitious effort in almost a decade to reduce the nation’s second-largest source of greenhouse gases — and hopes this one will survive in court.

• From 2024, German network operators will be able to limit the amount of electricity customers can use - without their consent.

  

• Heat pumps are starting to look like a conspiracy against the public. British Gas has just thrown a large spanner into a policy that is looking increasingly unworkable, costly and embarrassing for Government.

Covid

• It’s Official: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Expired on Thursday – Here’s What that Means For You.

• If only they had followed the WHO’s advice from 2011 which strangely disappeared.

  

Covid Mandates & Lockdowns

• MagsPress says a 9-Year-Old boy was refused a life-saving kidney transplant because his Father is unvaccinated. “Individuals who are actively infected with COVID-19 have a much higher rate of complications during and after surgery, even if the infection is asymptomatic,” the hospital stated.

• Federal officials gave more than $23 billion COVID-19 aid to the nation’s top 20 nonprofit hospitals even as a 62 percent increase in their collective net assets led parallel surges in the institutions’ total profits and revenues during the 2018-2021 time period spanning the Coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report. Only two of the 20 institutions have repaid the government for the COVID-19 aid they received.

Economy/Energy/Finance

• Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said “We have to default on something” if no debt ceiling deal is reached. “If Congress fails to do that, it really impairs our credit rating. We have to default on some obligation, whether it’s Treasuries or payments to Social Security recipients. “That’s something America hasn’t done since 1789. And we shouldn’t start now. So we’ve not discussed what to do.”

Health

• Mpox is no longer a global health emergency, World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared at a press briefing Thursday. There has been a steep decline in mpox — previously known as monkeypox — over the past three months, with countries reporting 90% fewer cases than they had in the previous three-month period, Tedros said.

• Thrombosis UK has warned that deaths involving blood clots are higher than expected as it called for more transparency over the work hospitals are doing to reduce the risk for patients. In March 2020, the NHS in England took the decision to suspend the data collection on venous thromboembolism (also known as VTE) risk assessments to “release capacity in providers and commissioners to manage the Covid-19 pandemic”.

Politics

• Britain could well be heading for seismic electoral reform that'll keep the Left in power for ever. And Starmer may sign up to it without voters even getting a say. “You can understand why the Left is excited. But how could it come about? Easy. Labour emerges from the next Election the largest party but ­without an overall majority”.

• UK net migration is estimated to hit one million this year. Well those MPs pensions aren’t going to pay themselves and we wouldn’t want the pension black hole exposed.

  

Science

• Giant alien squid or another damp squib? NASA is holding a public meeting at 10:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, May 31, of its independent study team on categorizing and evaluating data of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The agency also will host a media teleconference at the conclusion of the meeting.

• A mysterious infrasound signal has been detected in Earth’s upper atmosphere, and U.S. Department of Energy scientists say they are currently unsure of its source.

Technology

• Billionaire and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg won gold in his first jiu-jitsu tournament and took home both gold and silver medals. Last year, Zuckerberg said training helps him "solve whatever problem at work for the day."

• There's A Greater-Than-50% Chance AI Wipes Out All Of Humanity By 2050, One Advisory Finds. Goldman Sachs equity research took a deep dive into the implications of AI for the world (and beyond).

Vaccines

• Fraser Myers from Spiked wrote an article about Andrew Bridgen MP calling him an anti-vax conspiracy theorist. This followed with a debate on GB News and then a follow up article by Fraser in which he claims HART is “notorious for its anti-vax statements”. This is HART’s response to the incorrect statements from Fraser Myers.

• A FOIA from the CDC reveals that John Su, head of the VAERS team, noted that they were “seeing a fair bit of ‘exposure by breast milk’”, when discussing the Covid vaccine.

  

• A new Pfizer mRNA vaccine has been proposed, one that makes your cells produce multiple non-spike antigens. The T-cell-directed vaccine BNT162b4 encoding conserved non-spike antigens protects animals from severe SARS-CoV-2 infection

• Covid booster jabs are ‘less effective if you’re obese’. Those seriously overweight may need extra vaccinations because immunity wears off more quickly, scientists discover.