Today's Must-Reads - 07 August 2022
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. Today, this is for all subscribers but will be for paid subscribers only a lot of the time in the future.
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Climate Change
Forbes - Will There Be A Vaccine Against Climate Change?
Net Zero Watch - Great Barrier Reef breaks coral cover record again. Official data released today reveals that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is in excellent health, with coral cover reaching record levels for the second consecutive year.
Telegraph - Rationing is back – and Britain’s authoritarian greens are delighted. Too many seem to think it is preferable to limit water and energy usage rather than to ensure a reliable supply.
Covid
medRxiv - Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is common in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC): Results from a post-COVID-19 multidisciplinary clinic.
Covid Mandates
NHM - Pandemic face masks could harm wildlife for years to come. A study using community science observations from around the world found that disposable face masks and plastic gloves could pose an ongoing risk to wildlife for tens if not hundreds of years.
Japan Times - Experts urge Japan to downgrade COVID to similar class as seasonal flu.
The Age - ‘Shocking and perplexing’: Census reveals COVID toll on mental health. Young Australians have reported far higher levels of psychological distress than any other age group, with the census capturing the upheaval and mental toll of living through a pandemic.
Just The News - Censored doctors join AGs' lawsuit against feds for Big Tech collusion, new officials sued. Louisiana and Missouri legal effort boosted by revelation of CDC communications with social media companies, DHS whistleblower on Disinformation Governance Board's scope. Suit incorporates new federal threats for not censoring climate, abortion disinformation.
Economics/Energy/Finance
Guardian - Another court case fails to unlock the mystery of bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto. As Craig Wright’s legal tussles pile up, the world is no closer to knowing who the currency’s inventor really is.
Epoch Times - UN, World Economic Forum Behind Global ‘War on Farmers’: Experts. They say 'Agenda 2030' development goals at root of sustainability policies that could lead to food shortages.
Health
Daily Mail - COVID reinfection rate with treatment Biden is taking is more than 40% - and not 2% as marketed: Paxlovid is thought to suppress immune response meaning body can’t fight off new infection.
Daily Mail - 'Hundreds' of New Yorkers may already be infected with polio, Empire state health chief warns - as the virus is detected in wastewater of a SECOND county.
NBC - Prices of new drugs have soared. Will legislation be able to stop it?
The launch prices of new drugs rose, on average, by 11 percent every year from 2008 through 2021, researchers found.
EE News - Sewage reveals spread of monkeypox virus. Stanford University researchers have been monitoring wastewater for Covid-19 at 10 treatment plants in western California for the past two years, including sites in Silicon Valley, Sacramento, Palo Alto and several other cities in California’s Bay Area. In June, they added the monkeypox virus to their assay. What they found: confirmation of the virus at almost every site.
Technology Review - This startup wants to copy you into an embryo for organ harvesting. With plans to create realistic synthetic embryos, grown in jars, Renewal Bio is on a journey to the horizon of science and ethics.
Politics
OutKick - Hypocrite Justin Trudeau takes private jet to vacation in Costa Rica. The prime minister of Canada was recently spotted landing in Costa Rica for a family trip, which on its own is nothing to be concerned about. Except, of course, the Trudeau family took a large private jet and appeared to have traveled entirely maskless.
National Post - Names of everyone who flew on Jeffrey Epstein's planes subpoenaed by U.S. Virgin Islands AG. The flight logs would include records on Epstein's four helicopters and three planes — one of which was dubbed the 'Lolita Express' — spanning from 1998 until his death last year.
Washington Post - Musk’s countersuit contains aggressive new claims. Twitter is rebutting them. Musk’s countersuit was filed last Friday under seal. Twitter filed a fiery rebuttal on Thursday.
Ukraine
Telegraph - Amnesty is now utterly morally bankrupt. Its anti-Western obsession has driven it into the gutter.
Daily Mail - Head of Amnesty International in Kyiv QUITS after group accused Ukrainian forces of endangering civilians by fighting to repel Russian invasion.
Vaccines
MaryAnne Demasi - FDA authorised new mRNA formula for kids without a clinical trial. In October 2021, Pfizer requested the permission of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to amend the formulation of its covid-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11 yrs. But there was a problem. There were no clinical studies of the new formula in children. The FDA only looked at the “analytical comparability” and did not request any safety or efficacy studies of the newly formulated vaccine prior to it being rolled out to millions of children.
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Thank you so much for such a comprehensive selection of items - much appreciated.
Amusing to see the demoralized NPCs react to Amnesty's condemnation of Ukraine.
Apparently, War Crimes are just fine if it's "our" guys doing it, though America has operated on that basis for over 70 years so it's no surprise.