Today's Must-Reads - 10 March 2023
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
Massachusetts has its first ever climate chief. Melissa Hoffer has been appointed to the position to incorporate climate change considerations into “all relevant decision-making” at every state agency.
Covid
Twitter has been blocking a watchdog group from placing advertisements promoting the lab leak hypothesis. White Coat Waste Project which tracks NIH grants, had its promoted tweets rejected due to “distasteful references to COVID-19” and for violating its “inappropriate content policy”.
Fox News asks if Biden is silencing the world’s premier spy agency over Covid? They say that the CIA not having enough information to assess Covid origins is utter nonsense.
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield has revealed that Covid was likely created by Gain of Function research funded by Fauci and the NIAID.
Covid Mandates & Lockdowns
DeSantis has written to Biden on behalf of Djokovic. Novak has been denied entry into the US due to his unvaccinated status. How about you just let in everybody who is unvaccinated, Mr. Biden.
Economy/Energy/Finance
Biden has proposed a 30% tax on crypto mining electricity usage. This would cover electricity generated from both on and off-grid sources. It’s “hindering the transition to a low-emission energy future”, the White House said.
M2 money supply growth is contracting. This has only happened four times in the previous 150 years. Each time the fall-out was terrible. An inflationary debt based system does not do well when the money supply declines.
Health
The never-ending illness is now being reported in the Netherlands. “Not since the beginning of this century have so many people reported sick at work”. Absenteeism due to illness was 5.6% in the past quarter, the highest for almost 25 years.
Politics
The New Statesman says there’s a real risk the EU could “lose” member states on its eastern fringes due to instability and disillusionment if it dithers over membership plans. The EU is like any empire, continually looking to expand. And with EU membership comes NATO membership, meaning more provocation with Russia.
Climate Change journalist, George Monbiot, writes in the Guardian today about Russell Brand. He says Russell is warming his hands at the far right’s flaming torch due to his choice of subjects. Does George understand what the far right is? Should discussions about lockdowns, the World Economic Forum, Fauci, vaccines and natural immunity be censored because George considers them far-right topics? Does he not realise that he is causing more division?
Saudi Arabia is asking the US for nuclear help. It wants to add nuclear to its energy mix but there are fears it could stoke an arms race with Iran.
North Korea continues its weapons testing, this time firing six short range missiles into the Yellow Sea. This comes as the US and South Korea continue to conduct regular air exercises, the largest for years.
For years Japan has been constrained in its military spending but the gloves are now off and this year has increased its budget by 26%.
Tucker Carlson discusses the response to his leaked January 6th videos. He is surprised by various reactions and says that it is the response you get when somebody lies and is doubling down on those lies.
Whoopi Goldberg says showing the unseen footage is tantamount to radicalisation and “should be against the law”. Another TV host says Tucker is more destructive than Donald Trump. Whilst another says repeating his content on Substack can lead to domestic terrorism.
Ukraine
The Pope has declared that the war in Ukraine is driven by the interests of several ‘empires’ and not just Russia. “It is typical of an empire to put nations in second place”, the Pope said. He has previously suggested that the invasion of Ukraine may have been provoked.
Russians rushed to nuclear bomb shelters and took anti-radiation pills after TV stations servers were hacked. This is the third such hacking in the past month where chilling messages were broadcast on state television.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has snubbed Zelensky after he was invited to visit Ukraine. This comes after a German delegation visit to the US followed by the story about pro-Ukrainians blowing up the Nordstream pipelines. Spot a pattern?
Vaccines
Norman Fenton in TCW looks at the murky record-keeping that helped NHS fiddle Covid figures. In 2021 the new government narrative was ‘vaccines stop you being hospitalised and dying from Covid’. To support this, false data was pumped out claiming that almost everyone in hospital was unvaccinated.
As part of the Twitter Files statement to Congress, Matt Taibbi discusses an email where the Virality Project recommends that multiple platforms take action even against “stories of true vaccine side effects” and “true posts which could fuel hesitancy”.
Always makes me scratch my head that we fund a cadre of reviewers to censor "true posts which could fuel vaccine hesitancy” and politicians making policy to outpace an airborne virus but nobody can find $34 TRILLION lost in the Pentagon spending. It's like when my kiddies were young and explain only the dinner part of their tummy was full the dessert part still had room for more!
I'd just like to put on record my considered opinion that George Monbiot is an asshole.