17 May 2023 - Must-Reads - Artificial Food Crisis - Leaked Pentagon Report - Florida Bans CBDCs - Reasons Why Tucker Carlson Was Ousted - China Ready To Smash Taiwan Self-Rule

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

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I spend a lot of time each day gathering new information and interesting articles. I then pick the most interesting topic and write about it but that leaves a lot of 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 on other days will be for only paid subscribers.

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Climate Change

• Net Zero’s artificial food crisis paves the way for ‘future foods’. Net Zero rules employed by the United Nations, European Union, and domestic political parties across the world are expected to cause the imminent shutdown of high-production farmland, or at least, significantly reduce its capacity. The two emerging food groups for the latter half of this century are bugs and printed food – both of which are frequently grown in a lab.

Covid

• Leaked Pentagon Report forensically dismantled Fauci-led natural origin study. The takedown, dated May 26, 2020, was written in the form of a working paper called “Critical analysis of Andersen et al. The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.” It was authored by Commander Jean-Paul Chretien, a Navy doctor working at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Dr. Robert Cutlip, a research scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency.

• COVID-19 could put us at a greater risk of neurodegenerative diseases and stroke. Analysis of nearly one million Danish health records has found patients who tested positive for COVID-19 were subsequently more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and stroke. Or were the people more likely to test, more likely to be older and therefore more likely to be at greater risk from these diseases?

• How Fauci, scientists with ties to Wuhan lab persuaded the intelligence community COVID had a natural origin. Scientists with connections to the Wuhan Institute of Virology — including Anthony Fauci — steered the U.S. national security state away from hypotheses about the origins of COVID-19 that could implicate their research, emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show.

Covid Mandates & Lockdowns

• Simon Dolan thinks he could have halted lockdown but for Hancock’s lies. He took legal action against the government over their lockdown measures in 2020, aiming to put a stop to them. Had the government been honest with the courts, and indeed with the country, he believes that the judiciary might have ruled in our favour, and we wouldn’t be facing the extreme consequences of lockdown now.

Economy/Energy/Finance

• Wolf Richter says after years of money printing and pandemic stimulus, it’s hard to wring all this liquidity out of the financial system. Financial conditions and lending standards have become less loosey-goosey than they were during the free-money era when deposits paid 0% interest, and banks borrowed from their depositors for free. And “financial stress,” which spiked briefly during the SVB collapse, subsided again and returned to loosey-goosey, but just a little less loosey-goosey than during the free money era. It’s like the partying is over, but now they’re just relaxing in la-la-land, instead of suffering from a hangover.

• Ex-SVB CEO says was unaware of bank's problems when he sold stock. The former chief executive officer of Silicon Valley Bank was unaware the U.S. lender was in trouble when he sold stock weeks before it failed, he told senators in his first public comments defending his conduct after the lender’s shock collapse. It’s reassuring how all these smart people have ‘no idea’ what’s going on.

• Florida on Tuesday became the first U.S. state to outlaw the use of a federally adopted Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) as well as foreign CBDCs. The legislation, signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, is intended to safeguard the financial freedom of Floridians from what he terms “government overreach” and “globalist efforts to adopt a worldwide digital currency.”

• Millions in UK face loan repayments battle as cost of living rises. Regulator reveals 10.9mn people reported struggling to meet bills and credit payments this month.

• US Now Spends More Servicing Its Debt Than On National Defense. Thanks to rising yields, the US government now has to spend more each year on servicing its immense debt burden than it spent on national defense in 2022. The calculation is based on estimated annualized debt payments as of end of April versus the Treasury’s release of last year’s budget expenditures.

• Home Depot posts worst revenue miss in about 20 years, lowers forecast as consumers delay big projects. Chief Financial Officer Richard McPhail said customers are buying fewer big-ticket items, such as patio sets and grills, and taking on smaller home improvement projects. Definitely not a recession.

Health

• Perth mum told young son has leukaemia, loses parental rights the next day. Twenty-four hours after hearing her six-year-old son likely had leukaemia, a Perth mother was told he was being removed from her care. The mother wanted a second opinion before consenting to treatment but the hospital called the Department of Communities who put her son into foster care.

• Vitamin D: Everything You Need to Know. Many peer-reviewed research articles conclusively demonstrate that a low level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in the bloodstream significantly increases the risk of severe disease, long-term damage, and death from COVID-19. That this information remains relatively unknown three years after the onset of the pandemic can be attributed to a pervasive pattern of corruption and/or glaring incompetence among many doctors, immunologists, public health officials, and mainstream media outlets.

• Two Brits are struck down with bird flu but health chiefs insist there's no proof killer virus is spreading between humans. Both workers tested positive this month after working on an infected farm in England and were detected during routine monitoring. Neither of the workers experienced any symptoms of avian influenza and have since tested negative for the virus. Uh-oh asymptomatic bird flu.

• Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research. In an unprecedented effort, health scientists at the University of Washington scrutinized decades of research on red meat consumption and its links to various health outcomes, introducing a new way to assess health risks in the process. They only found weak evidence that unprocessed red meat consumption is linked to colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, and ischemic heart disease, and no link at all between eating red meat and stroke.

• Excess mortality in Quebec shows high rates for 0-49 year olds. For the week ending 8 April 2023 there was a 71% increase in excess death, the single worst week in the whole pandemic.

  

• Long-term sickness in the UK hits a record high of 2.6 million. It doesn’t look like it’s coming down any time soon either.

  

Politics

• The WSJ writes about John Durham’s Report and a Presidency in Crisis. The press covers its eyes about Joe Biden and helps re-elect Donald Trump. The news blackout can’t conceal the suspicious details unearthed by congressional investigators about Biden family bank accounts, shell companies and transfers from shady foreign actors. It can’t conceal that Mr. Biden may owe his presidency to a de facto U.S. intelligence agency operation to bamboozle voters about his son’s laptop.

• Fox News producer caught on tape saying Tucker Carlson was 'ousted' as part of Dominion settlement, network beholden to Pfizer, big tech money. Carlson was a thorn in the side of the White House, and asked questions that no one else in the prime time, mainstream news outlet were really interested–or perhaps just not daring enough–to ask.

• UK policing minister pushes for greater use of facial recognition. According to a report to be submitted to parliament on Tuesday, the Home Office briefed the biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner during closed-door meetings on Chris Philp’s desire to expand the use of the controversial systems by law enforcement.

• China Says Ready to 'Smash' Taiwan Self-Rule as US Increases Support. U.S. President Joe Biden is preparing to approve the sale of $500 million in arms to Taiwan and to send more than 100 military personnel to evaluate training methods and offer suggestions for improving the island's defenses.

Ukraine

• Putin and Zelensky 'agree to meet African leaders to discuss peace plan'. No details were provided on the possible parameters of the talks. Mr Zelensky has previously said he would not consider a peace deal to end the 15-month war until Russian forces withdraw fully from Ukrainian territory. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres was briefed on the African delegation's planned meetings and 'welcomed the initiative'. Why has Zelensky been out of Ukraine for so long?

Vaccines

• A Plethora of Skin Symptoms Reported After COVID Vaccination, Solution Exists. Musician and singer Emaline Delapaix has consulted at least 16 medical specialists, all of whom believe that her conditions are linked to the vaccine. She has been diagnosed with mast cell syndrome, a potentially deadly condition in which “everything that comes in could be an enemy,” she said.