Today's Must-Reads - 10 June 2023 - Covid Increases With Wildfires - European De-Industrialisation - Taurine Elixir Of Life - Deep Fake Trump - UFO Crash Retrieval - Greta Wants Putin Punished

A selection of the latest 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 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

• Media blames ‘climate change’ for Canadian wildfires despite arrest of multiple arsonists. While the mainstream media continues to point to 'climate change' as the source of the wildfires, reports show that multiple people have been arrested in connection with dozens of intentionally set fires in the country.

Covid

• Climate Change means more Covid! - Wildfire Smoke Increases the Risk of Contracting Covid-19. One study identified a link between the 2020 wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington State and an increase of Covid cases and deaths. “Exposure to air pollution from wildfire smoke can increase susceptibility to Covid and other respiratory diseases,” says Kristie Ebi, a climate and health professor at the University of Washington.

• Covid inquiry will investigate if secret do not resuscitate orders allowed over-70s to die in hospitals. Inquiry chair, Lady Hallett, personally shocked at bereaved family’s claims that Do Not Attempt to Resuscitate notices were issued without relatives’ consent. Some bereaved families believe the goal of “protecting the NHS” – to reduce pressure on a health service under maximum strain – meant some arbitrary decisions were taken to not save lives of older people, even if they were normally fit and well before contracting Covid.

• Why did USAID fund the Wuhan lab? Taxpayers financed the creation of deadly pathogens. The vast majority of this money was funnelled through a New York-based NGO called EcoHealth Alliance, led by British zoologist Peter Daszak. And by far the largest portion of US money channelled through EcoHealth — no less than $65 million — came from USAID. Not even the pandemic could put a stop to investment. As recently as late 2021, well after EcoHealth Alliance had been rebuked by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for improper practices regarding its funding of the Wuhan lab, USAID gave EcoHealth Alliance a further $4.67 million.

Covid Mandates & Lockdowns

• Covid disinformation unit made 'hourly contact' with tech firms, its leader reveals. The civil servant – who can today be named as Sarah Connolly – said that one of the Counter Disinformation Unit’s (CDU’s) main functions was “passing information over” to companies such as Facebook and Twitter to “encourage… the swift takedown” of posts. Separately, the BBC – who attended government meetings at which so-called misinformation was discussed – was accused of acting as “the broadcast arm of the Government” during the pandemic, as journalists described being mocked if they tried to give a voice to lockdown sceptics.

• The Downside of the New Normal. The New Normal of the post-pandemic world has both a downside and an upside. Let’s tackle the downside first. Now that America has ended the Covid emergency laws, everyone is keen to get back ‘to normal.’ What they crave are the old routines, the familiar lifestyles, and the comfortable liberties. The problem for America and other nations who behaved in concert with the unholy trinity of vaccine mandates, lockdowns, and masks is that going back to normal is impossible.

Economy/Energy/Finance

• Dutch industrial production YoY percentage change is dropping to levels last seen in the 2008 financial crisis.

  

• Gas demand in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Spain & the UK fell 9.7% in May versus a year earlier. This is despite the price of gas being three times cheaper than last May.

  

Health

• From Energy Drinks to Extending Life? Supplement Slows Aging in Mice and Monkeys. Taurine helped stave off death in laboratory animals, but researchers cautioned that the supplement is not a magic elixir. Strength, memory and metabolism improved in the lab animals, according to the new study, published on Thursday in Science. Inflammation and DNA damage were kept at bay. And middle-aged mice that regularly took taurine supplements lived significantly longer than those that did not.

• WHO’s updated abortion care guideline and its implications for Member States. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that babies’ lives may be ended up until the moment they emerge from the birth canal, without delay, whenever a pregnant woman requests it. Through its updated Abortion Care Guideline released in 2022, WHO expects all Member States to implement this policy. The WHO's updated abortion care guidelines illustrate a deliberate misuse of human rights norms to force a particular world view on others.

Politics

• 'Night Fury': Documents Detail DHS Project to Give 'Risk Scores' to Social Media Users. The Department of Homeland Security contracted the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2018 to design methods for assigning a “risk score” to potential pro-terrorists accounts on social media, as well as identifying information of interest regarding illegal opioid supply chain and disinformation efforts, according to internal DHS documents reviewed by Motherboard. The project is dubbed “Night Fury,” according to a report from the DHS Inspector General.

• The Democrats are Silencing RFK. He is exposing the truth behind their lies, and the powers that be are silencing him. YouTube has begun scrubbing videos featuring RFK from their site as they with anyone who questioned the pandemic. He already has a massive platform from his famous father and uncle. The establishment does not like those who expose their secrets. Kennedy recently claimed that the CIA was responsible for killing his father when he ran for the presidency in 1968. Hearing about the blatant corruption among US intelligence agencies makes this claim plausible to many who would have previously dismissed it as conspiracy.

• The Taliban’s Successful Opium Ban is Bad for Afghans and the World. The Taliban have done it again: implementing a nearly complete ban against cultivation of opium poppy — Afghanistan’s most important agricultural product — repeating their similarly successful 2000-2001 prohibition on the crop. But the temptation to view the current ban in an overly positive light — as an important global counter-narcotics victory — must be avoided. This is particularly true given the state of Afghanistan’s economy and the country’s humanitarian situation. Indeed, the ban imposes huge economic and humanitarian costs on Afghans and it is likely to further stimulate an outflow of refugees.

• DeSantis Campaign Uses AI-Generated Images Of Trump Hugging, Kissing Fauci. Mounting an utterly flimsy defense, figures in the DeSantis circle implied the images were obviously fake -- disingenuously likening them to a video where the face of DeSantis was superimposed on the Michael Scott character in a scene from "The Office," and to a "photo" of DeSantis riding a rhinoceros -- and ignoring the fact that accompanying words on the screen say "REAL LIFE TRUMP."

• Bombshell FBI Document Alleges $5 Million Bribe Paid To Joe Biden By Burisma Exec. Someone has leaked the contents of the stonewalled FBI document, form FD-1023, which alleges that President Joe Biden was paid $5 million by an executive of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, where his son Hunter sat on the board.

Science

• Stunning UFO crash retrieval allegations deemed ‘credible,’ ‘urgent’. According to explosive reporting, the powerful internal investigative body that oversees the nation’s intelligence agencies found a whistleblower’s claims of an illegal government UFO crash retrieval and exploitation effort to be “credible and urgent.” To eliminate potential ambiguity regarding such an extraordinary development, a knowledgeable source confirmed to me that the intelligence community inspector general found “allegations that there is a [UFO crash retrieval] program [to be] urgent and credible.”

Technology

• Why Are So Many Younger Americans OK With Big Brother Monitoring Their Homes? Children raised in an atmosphere of fear become adults who prioritize security over liberty. Younger generations have grown up with less privacy than older generations because of technological trends related to smartphones and social media so this finding may represent a greater comfort with more surveillance as a result of how they grew up. The second is a story of mental health driving changing attitudes. Younger generations are more anxious and when people are anxious they become more likely to privilege security over freedom so this finding may represent a greater comfort with less freedom as a result of greater mental distress.

Ukraine

• DOD Announces $2.1 Billion Assistance Package for Ukraine. The Defense Department yesterday announced an additional security assistance package for Ukraine containing more air defense and ammunition capabilities to arm against Russia's unprovoked war of aggression. In total, the U.S. has provided more than $39.7 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of Russia's invasion in February 2022.

• Zelensky “turned the country into a new Afghanistan” – former Ukrainian PM. “Over the years, presidents of Ukraine made promises to turn the country into either a new France or a new Switzerland. However, Zelensky went further than anyone and turned the country into a new Afghanistan, to the delight of the Anglo-Saxons and defence companies,” Azarov wrote in a social media post.

• Greta Thunberg demands Vladimir Putin be punished for ‘ecocide’ in Ukraine. Flooding from the breached dam has had a detrimental impact on human and animal life, while the draining of Ukraine’s largest drinking water reservoir poses further issues. A step too far for Thunberg, the climate activist tweeted: “This ecocide as a continuation of Russias unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine is yet another atrocity which leaves the world lost for words.”

Vaccines

• More Than 100 Young Children Suffered Seizures After COVID Vaccination: Study. The researchers examined events that fit one or more of 23 prespecified outcomes, including seizures and myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation, following messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccination.