This Week's Must Reads - 21-27 August 2023
A summary of this week's most interesting news, studies, reports and articles
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 best articles and information from this week. This weekly summary is a slimmed down version for all subscribers but daily summaries will be for paid subscribers only.
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Climate Change
Tenerife wildfires that have caused 12,000 to be evacuated ‘started deliberately’. Canary Islands regional president Fernando Clavijo said police suspected arson and had opened three lines of investigation. There are no reports on any arrests.
The religion of climate alarmism. Heretics who speak out against the priesthood’s wishes get quite rapidly closed down. In fact, it seems that the priesthood wishes to make such wrongspeak a criminal offence.
There’s nothing new about mainstream climate scientists conspiring to bury papers that throw doubt on catastrophic global warming. The Climategate leaks showed co-compiler of the HadCRUT global temperature series Dr Phil Jones emailing Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann, July 8, 2004. Thanks to a science whistle-blower, there’s now documentation of a current exercise as bad as that captured in the Jones-Mann correspondence.
Don’t believe the renewables myth. Wind and solar are not cheap. Sunshine and breeze are indeed free, but vast amounts of subsidised infrastructure are not.
Eco-friendly paper straws contain more toxic 'forever chemicals' than plastic straws, study finds. European researchers examined 39 brands of straws available in Belgian stores.
Covid
A True Account of Covid in Israel. Can a single study provide insight — unintentionally — into all of the following aspects of the pandemic? Misclassification of non-Covid deaths as Covid deaths. The “healthy vaccinee” bias. Biases in vaccine effectiveness studies. Short-term vaccine fatalities. The death toll of Covid vis-à-vis the death toll of fear-mongering and “mitigation”.
A molnupiravir-associated mutational signature in global SARS-CoV-2 genomes. If some patients treated with molnupiravir do not fully clear SARS-CoV-2 infections, there could be the potential for onward transmission of molnupiravir-mutated viruses.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome correlation with SARS-CoV-2 N genotypes. Epigenetics and clinical observations referring to Betacoronavirus lead to the conjecture that Sarvecovirus may have the ability to infect lymphocytes using a different way than the spike protein.
US intelligence censored over scientists’ findings on likely origins of Covid-19. Buried away inside one of the US intelligence agencies’ secret laboratories, a group of eminent scientists examined the structure of Covid-19 in order to determine its origin.
Covid Mandates & Lockdowns
Secret Letter to CDC: Top Epidemiologist Suggests Agency Misrepresented Scientific Data to Support Mask Narrative. Documents recently obtained from the National Institutes of Health suggest public health officials used inaccurate information and misrepresented medical research to advance their policy objective that masks prevent severe COVID-19 and virus transmission—despite opposing scientific evidence received from experts.
[January] The richest 1% of people amassed almost two-thirds of new wealth created in the last two years, Oxfam says. A total of $42 trillion in new wealth has been created since 2020, with $26 trillion, or 63%, of that being amassed by the top 1% of the ultra-rich, according to the report. The remaining 99% of the global population collected just $16 trillion of new wealth, the global poverty charity says.
Beware the creeping return of mask mandates. Numerous experts are calling for a restoration of the new normal. This week a handful of American schools, businesses and healthcare facilities re-imposed mask mandates and other Covid safety policies.
Alberta woman denied organ transplant over vax status dies. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) said Alberta resident Sheila Annette Lewis has passed away. “Justice delayed is often justice denied,” tweeted the JCCF on Thursday. “The decision to remove Ms. Lewis from the transplant list over her COVID vaccination status may have cost Ms. Lewis her life.”
The vanity of Fox and the GOP: UFOs but nothing about COVID fascism. It was the 800-pound gorilla not in the room at the debate. It was the elephant not in the room either at the debate or during the Tucker Carleson interview with Trump, although it has a lot to do with Trump. The Fox moderators did not utter the word COVID the entire night, nor did Tucker ask Trump about his doubling down on the vaccines and refusing to acknowledge any mistakes with the lockdowns.
Economy/Energy/Finance
Why the Era of Historically Low Interest Rates Could Be Over. Higher productivity and increased deficits could raise the ‘neutral’ rate of interest, limiting Fed cuts. Despite the Federal Reserve’s raising interest rates to a 22-year high, the economy remains surprisingly resilient, with estimates putting third-quarter growth on pace to easily exceed its 2% trend.
Mass panic over energy, yet we give up our food security without a murmur. Europe paid a heavy price for relying on Putin’s gas. Now a vital chemical process is being outsourced. Britain is shutting down its only remaining Haber-Bosch plant.
Mindlessly printing money has ruined Britain’s economy and politics. We must return to sanity. The scale of quantitative easing since 2009 is scarcely believable, and the results simply catastrophic.
The Problem With Economics. The core of economics boils down to solving one problem: how do we allocate the limited resources available to us given our unlimited wants and needs? The issue is that social sciences are subjective. Unlike hard sciences such as physics, there are no concrete rules and laws.
Monthly mortgage payments in the US have hit a record $2,322 per month. This is almost double the peak during the GFC.
Government makes biggest payment to Bank of England in history to fund bond losses. The Government transferred a record £14.3bn to the Bank of England last month as increases in interest rates lumbered the Treasury with heavy losses from quantitative easing (QE).
The rise of the BRICS after the inclusion of Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE, Egypt, Ethiopia and Argentina. Say goodbye to the Petro-Dollar.
Mortgage applications are now at their lowest point since 1995.
Health
The Science Behind Japan's Plan to Empty Nuclear Wastewater Into Pacific. Treated water from the wrecked Fukushima plant will be discharged into the sea from this week, a proposal that’s prompted alarm from nations including China.
Inhibition of Human Lung Cancer Cell Proliferation and Survival by Post-Exercise Serum Is Associated with the Inhibition of Akt, mTOR, p70 S6K, and Erk1/2. Exercise is associated with health benefits and a limited number of studies indicate that serum from physically active individuals inhibit mammary and prostate cancer cell growth.
Politics
[2021] Like billionaire-controlled media, the Guardian misinforms its readers on the UK’s role in the world. Millions of its readers believe The Guardian offers critical, independent reporting that is different to the right-wing, billionaire-controlled UK media. But its limited coverage of British foreign and security policies gives a misleading picture of what the UK does in the world.
Killing Gaddafi was a ‘serious mistake’ – Italian FM. The Libyan head of state was executed by US-backed militants during a NATO military intervention. Speaking on the sidelines of an event in Tuscany on Wednesday, Italian Foreign Minister and deputy premier Antonio Tajani described Libya’s troubles since Gaddafi was overthrown and murdered, saying he was “certainly better than those who arrived later…It was a very serious mistake to let Gaddafi be killed.
Vivek Ramaswamy Told Allies He’s Running to Sabotage Ron DeSantis. Those watching the GOP primary race have noticed that Ramaswamy’s strategy is extremely friendly and deferential to Trump, verging on — or maybe blatantly — sucking up to the former president.
Trump colluded with the Swamp. His promise of a materialist revolution was a lie. However, upon entering office, the promise of a genuine materialist revolution evaporated. President Trump made two tacit bargains, one with conservative elites and another with liberal ones.
Tucker Carlson interview with President Trump rapidly approaches 100 MILLION views on X within hours. Trump on Wednesday morning said that "sparks will fly," announcing that his interview would air the same time as candidates polling in second place or lower took to the stage.
German Courts Are Going FULL Dystopia. Many of you likely already know that satirist and playwright (and frequent OffG contributor) CJ Hopkins is being prosecuted in Germany for “disseminating propaganda, the contents of which are intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organization,” All because the cover of his book has a swastika on it.
DOJ sues SpaceX for not hiring asylum seekers and refugees. The U.S. Department Justice on Thursday announced it is suing SpaceX over employment discrimination.
The West is losing the plot. From Covid to Ukraine, a narrative crisis festers. For more than a decade, our ability to form a coherent narrative about ourselves has been degrading.
Russian delegate storms out of G20 summit after ‘corrupt Putin’ comment. Tom Tugendhat at centre of diplomatic ‘walkout’ that led Kremlin representative to call London ‘a hive of corruption’.
Science
China's ancient water pipe networks show they were a communal effort with no evidence of a centralized state authority. A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need for a centralized state authority.
China's rover maps 1,000 feet of hidden 'structures' deep below the dark side of the moon. Scientists were able to visualize the upper 1,000 feet of the moon's surface for the first time. Their results reveal billions of years of previously hidden lunar history.
Noncoding DNA explains a majority of the heritability of dairy cattle traits, like milk production and fertility. Regulatory genes—genes that control how other genes are used—are responsible for 69% of the heritability of dairy cattle traits such as milk production and fertility.
NASA scientist is 'absolutely certain' there is alien life in our Solar System - and reveals why extraterrestrials are most likely to be hiding on Venus. The new theory was put forward by Dr Michelle Thaller, a research scientist at the US-based Goddard Space Flight Centre.
“Forest bathing” might work in virtual reality too. Could electronic forests elicit the same physiological responses as real ones? The Japanese concept of “forest bathing,” or shinrin-yoku (森林浴), has long been acclaimed for its supposed health benefits.
Technology
Russian scientist who worked on failed moon mission suddenly hospitalised after demanding ‘no cover up’ over crash. Marov, 90, was a reportedly a key consultant on the mission - and is one of the most respected physcists and astronomers in Russia.
Au10tix selfie biometrics for identity verification coming to X. X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is rumored to have introduced a new selfie biometrics and ID document verification process, according to app researcher Nima Owji.
Northrop Grumman’s phantom laser delivers compact, rugged, high-energy beam weapon source to empower US tactical capabilities. At just 12 cubic feet in size, Phantom, Northrop Grumman’s new 10-kilowatt laser, is tough enough to handle extreme environments, while being small enough to allow the laser’s deployment in even the most demanding combat situations.
Ukraine
Why Peace Talks, But No Peace? The U.S. has prevented earnest negotiations and prolonged the war in Ukraine.
Troop Deaths and Injuries in Ukraine War Near 500,000, U.S. Officials Say. Ukraine and Russia have lost a staggering number of troops as Kyiv’s counteroffensive drags on.
UK to provide £192m loan guarantee to boost Ukraine nuclear capabilities. The government hopes funding will strengthen Ukraine's energy security and help end its dependence on nuclear services and nuclear fuel from Russia.
Vaccines
Growing Concern Vaccine Heart Damage in Adolescents May be Permanent. Hong Kong study finds 58 percent of COVID-19 vaccine myocarditis confirmed by MRI not resolved at one year. Forty adolescents, mean age of 15, mostly boys, were evaluated. It was notable that 73 percent had no cardiac symptoms, so without an evaluation, the parents would have had no idea their child was suffering heart damage from the COVID-19 vaccine.
Health Canada Not Concerned About Scientists' Finding of Plasmid DNA Contamination in COVID Shots. After two scientists independently raised red flags about an inordinate amount of plasmid DNA in the COVID-19 mRNA shots—which they say could potentially alter the human genome—Health Canada did not express concern with the findings, given the testing data provided by the manufacturers.
Probe into why NHS staff still aren't getting Covid jabs - as data shows only one in 10 got latest booster in parts of the country. The health service has paid 'behavioural insight' consultants £50,000 to explore medics' attitudes to vaccination in the North West, West Midlands and London.
How do we SAFELY reverse the course which these corrupt centralized entities have us on?
We build new systems that make the old ones obsolete- ones 100% controlled and built by the people - then plug them into the system with decentralized leadership.
We feel like we are down a rabbit hole and found a fix for all of the corruption and most of our problems, but can’t scream loud enough for others to hear us. We need to build better Swarming systems, and plug them into our current broken systems using leaders who decentralize their own positions. We implore you to read this and understand the importance https://joshketry.substack.com/p/human-swarm-intelligence-the-most?r=7oa9d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I very much appreciated the article “The Problem With Economics.”
I hope you will link to Part 2, if you think it as valuable.