Today's Must-Reads - 11 October 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.
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Covid
Science - Evidence [from Peter Daszak!] suggests pandemic came from nature, not a lab, panel says. New report takes sides in debate over COVID-19’s origins. The acrimonious debate over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic flared up again this week with a report from an expert panel concluding that SARS-CoV-2 likely spread naturally in a zoonotic jump from an animal to humans—without help from a lab.
Brownstone - Why Did Covid Cause Thousands of Deaths in Spring 2020 Even Though it Had Been Hanging Around All Winter? Some sceptics argue that it’s because Covid isn’t really a more severe virus than flu, but the excess deaths were all caused by how we started responding to it in February and March 2020. For example, the overuse of ventilators particularly in New York City and the surrounding states in the first wave has been suggested by some to account for tens of thousands of additional deaths. However, while a ventilator panic in and around NYC will explain some of the additional deaths that spring, it wouldn’t explain the deadly outbreaks elsewhere, or the deadly outbreaks that kept coming in subsequent waves even as the use of ventilators was scaled back.
Telegraph - China ‘began stockpiling PPE months before Covid outbreak’
China also started to buy up global PPE stocks in Europe, Australia and the US around the same time, experts say. The fall in PPE supplies exiting China, the world’s biggest manufacturer of PPE, raises new questions about the true timeline of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. An altered timeline would significantly challenge the theory that the pandemic originated from a seafood market in Wuhan, where the first cases emerged in December 2019.
Covid Mandates
Zero Hedge - UN Recruited Over 100,000 'Digital First Responders' To Push Establishment COVID Narrative. In a podcast, Melissa Fleming, head of global communications for the United Nations, explains how the COVID pandemic and lockdowns created a “communications crisis” in addition to a public health emergency. Fleming acknowledged that in order to fight so-called “misinformation” about the pandemic, the UN tapped up 110,000 people to amplify their messaging across social media.
Economy/Energy/Finance
Daily Mail - Forcing farmers to join the rush for Net Zero will see MILLIONS go hungry, warns cattle and wheat farmer of 40 years. There are so many threats to British agriculture. Too much sun, not enough rain. Rising costs for fuel and fertiliser. Catastrophic labour shortages. And shockingly low profit margins which have left farmers scrabbling to survive or selling up entirely.
Politics
Guardian - Kwasi Kwarteng’s secret meetings with Saudi oil firms revealed. Exclusive: Meetings while in Saudi Arabia undisclosed due to ‘administrative oversight’, says business department. Documents released using the Freedom of Information Act (FoI) show Kwarteng held undisclosed meetings with the chief executive of Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil producer; the chief executive of Sabic, the world’s fourth largest petrochemical company; and the chair of Alfanar Group, an industrial conglomerate.
Wa Po - Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations. Complaints about the U.S. military’s influence operations using Facebook and Twitter have raised concern in the White House and federal agencies. Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy, last week instructed the military commands that engage in psychological operations online to provide a full accounting of their activities by next month after the White House and some federal agencies expressed mounting concerns over the Defense Department’s attempted manipulation of audiences overseas, according to several defense and administration officials familiar with the matter.
Post Millennial - Biden admin requires trans women to register for draft if they were born male. "US citizens or immigrants who are born male and changed their gender to female are still required to register. Individuals who are born female and changed their gender to male are not required to register."
FT - ‘North Korea has already won’: US urged to abandon denuclearisation farce. Washington and its allies have failed to arrest the development of Kim Jong Un’s missile arsenal. The US should admit defeat in its campaign to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons and focus on risk reduction and arms control measures instead, experts have urged.
On Tuesday, North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time since 2017, sparking renewed condemnation from Washington and its allies.
Epoch Times - PayPal Reverses Course, Says Company Will Not Seize Money From People for Promoting ‘Misinformation’. PayPal on Oct. 8 said it was not implementing a new policy that would have enabled the company to seize money from users who allegedly promote “misinformation” or “hate.”
“An AUP notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information. PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy,” a PayPal spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email.
Science
Ukraine
Arms Watch - Chechen funded Azov members to oppose Zelensky: leaked data. Who funded far-right nationalists associated with the Azov Battalion in Ukraine – the answer may be very surprising to many. New data has been published online following an alleged cyber attack on the computer network in the office of a member of the Russian parliament.
The GrayZone - EXPOSED: Before Ukraine blew up Kerch Bridge, British spies plotted it. The Grayzone has obtained an April 2022 presentation drawn up for senior British intelligence officers hashing out an elaborate scheme to blow up Crimea’s Kerch Bridge with the involvement of specially trained Ukrainian soldiers. Almost six months after the plan was circulated, Kerch Bridge was attacked in an October 8th suicide bombing apparently overseen by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence services.
Daily Fetched - Why Global Elites Won’t End War in Ukraine Until Russia is Destroyed. The goal is clearly to get Putin out of the way, but is that just because of the threat of Russia’s nuclear capabilities, or is there something much deeper they are scared of?
Telegraph - Ukraine unveils stamps celebrating Kerch bridge explosion - hours after the attack. Timing of the Post Office announcement, just hours after the Crimea bridge was destroyed, raises questions about the nature of the explosion.
Vaccines
HART - The impact of synthetic spike protein. Europe reanalysed with Australia as the control group. The weekly tally of deaths above expected levels from non covid causes is finally being started to be reported in a few mainstream media outlets. There has been a wide range of speculation about the cause, with a number of mechanisms postulated including post covid sequelae and lack of access to healthcare during lockdowns in 2020 and early 2021. The hypothesis that a proportion of these deaths may be related to injecting synthetic spike protein is never voiced by proponents of the vaccines, which includes all “mainstream” media.
PubMed - Bilateral Retinal Detachments in a Healthy 22-year-old Woman After Moderna SARS-COV-2 Vaccination.
Pfizer spokesperson answering the question as to whether their vaccine was tested to show that it prevented transmission prior to being released to the market: "no, we had to move at the speed of science". If not testing a hypothesis is how science moves quickly today, we are doomed. That's not science; that's surfing on the wave of fear being generated around the world.
Zoonotic... Yeah sure guys. Three words: furin cleavage site.