Today's Must-Reads - 12 April 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

• From 17th September 2023 the default speed limit in Wales is changing from 30mph to 20mph. It will be quicker to walk. But then again, that’s what they want.

  

• Germany is still going to close their last 3 nuclear power plants in three days time. This is despite Europe’s energy crisis and a massive manufacturing sector reliant on affordable energy.

Covid

• A House Subcommittee Releases Key Documents on the Pandemic Origin Paper. These documents formed the basis of a memo made public before the first hearing on the origin of Covid.

• Covid deaths are soaring in Australia. AMA president warns of ‘more illness, more loss of life’ from Covid as cases rise. But I thought Australia beat Covid with draconian lockdowns, mandates and vaccines?

• WaPo says research with exotic viruses risks a deadly outbreak. A growing number of scientists are reconsidering the dangers of prospecting for unknown viruses and conducting other high-stake work with pathogens.

Covid Mandates & Lockdowns

• After 1,135 days, the Covid emergency is over in the US (after a short one-liner, see below) but unvaccinated non-citizens still can’t travel there. Has the emergency really ended? Can they ever hand power back? On a positive note, vaccine mandates have ended at Google and the State University of New York.

  

Economy/Energy/Finance

• Credit may be contracting in the West but in China it is growing at almost 15%.

  

• The Fed’s holdings of US Treasuries had its largest weekly decline in history.

  

• Meanwhile, the US Government’s spending was 13% higher than 2022. Revenues dropped 3% with the country likely to hit a $2 trillion deficit this year.

• US money supply (M2) continues to crash. In February it reached -2.4%.

  

• The money printers caused the inflation we’re currently experiencing, right? Wrong. You did. Booking a flight or hotel despite knowing the price is outrageous perpetuates inflation says Bloomberg.

Health

• The biggest fungus outbreak in US history sees nearly 100 staff at paper mill in Michigan struck down by a rare mold strain that kills one in 100 victims. More evidence that people’s immune systems have been messed around with.

• In Taiwan, births fell by 2.2% and deaths rose by 12.8% (or 25% if compared with 2021) last month.

Politics

• After Twitter labelled the BBC as government funded, Elon Musk did a last minute interview with a BBC ‘journalist’. Needless to say the journalist got roasted by Elon, especially when he was quizzed on hate speech. Elon asked about the BBC’s role in publishing misinformation about masks and vaccine injuries. For both sides of the story, this is the BBC’s take on the interview.

• After controversy over a Beijing-linked donor, the whole board of the Trudeau Foundation resign.

• Rob Jenkins looks at why politicised science is dangerous. An interesting article which refers heavily on Michael Crichton’s essay appended to his novel, State of Fear.

Technology

• After Italy banned ChatGPT, the Biden Administration is weighing in with possible rules for AI tools. Fears are growing over the potential use of AI to commit crimes and spread falsehoods (or spot crimes and falsehoods?).

• Twitter is no longer Twitter. It has merged with a new entity called X Corp. Is this the beginning of Musk’s everything app, merging into a social credit system?

  

Ukraine

• Recently leaked US Intel on Twitter has revealed that 50 elite British troops are inside Ukraine. This is three times more special ops soldiers that any other NATO ally.

• Other leaked documents claim to show that the President of Egypt, one of the US’ closest allies, has been producing and secretly shipping up to 40,000 rockets to Russia.

Vaccines

• A Danish study looked at adverse events by batch. There were clear good, bad and terrible batches. I’ve always suspected that if big pharma was going to conduct the biggest experiment they have ever done, they would have different batches with which to compare different metrics.

  

• The same day as Biden ends the Covid emergency, a $5 Billion effort to develop new Covid vaccines and therapies is launched. The program will take a similar approach to Operation Warp Speed.

• This paper shows ACE2 expression in testicular cells. These are known to bind to Covid’s spike protein. Nothing to see here.

• Tiffany Dover is alive…or is she? The nurse who collapsed on stage after her Pfizer vaccine has finally reappeared to tell us she is ok. She couldn’t tell us before because her employer wouldn’t let her. She left her job a year ago but has spent the last 12 months changing her hair, features and accent as well as buying a very expensive house.