Today's Must-Reads - 13 June 2023 - Too Hot For Solar Panels - Great Covid Grift - German Deindustrialization - N. Korea Leads WHO - Cyber Sabotage - Evac Plans For Taiwan - Monkey DNA In Vaccines

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

• Great Reset: Dutch Govt. Launches Farmer Buyout Scheme. The Dutch government launched its long-anticipated Great Reset-style farmer buyout scheme on Monday, which could potentially see upwards of ten thousand farms shut down forever to fall in line with the green agenda of the European Union. The buyout program will initially impact approximately 3,000 privately-owned farms which are deemed to emit too much nitrogen.

• Britain fires up coal plant as solar panels suffer in hot weather. Rush to turn on air conditioning during heatwave causes spike in demand for electricity. High temperatures over the weekend also reduced the amount of energy generated from solar panels. Output on Sunday was almost a third lower than a week earlier, despite temperatures climbing above 30 degrees celsius across large parts of the country. Solar panels are tested at a benchmark of 25C. For every degree rise in temperature above this level, the efficiency is reduced by 0.5 percentage points.

• Government proposes barring gas boilers from new buildings. If the law is passed, the new rules could come into effect as early as next April across Scotland. The regulations would prevent the use of heating systems which produce “more than a negligible level of greenhouse gas emissions” during normal operation.

Covid

• The Great Grift: How billions in COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted. Fraudsters used the Social Security numbers of dead people and federal prisoners to get unemployment checks. Cheaters collected those benefits in multiple states. And federal loan applicants weren’t cross-checked against a Treasury Department database that would have raised red flags about sketchy borrowers. All of it led to the greatest grift in U.S. history, with thieves plundering billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief aid intended to combat the worst pandemic in a century and to stabilize an economy in free fall.

• The real Covid conspiracy - Supine scientists such as Jeremy Farrar are being let off the hook. Farrar was at the centre of this deceptive web, spinning lines to impede unfettered debate on the origins of the biggest public health crisis for a century. Along with two of his Wellcome Trust colleagues, he joined 24 other scientists to sign a key letter in The Lancet journal sycophantically praising Chinese experts for their “rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data” and hitting out at “conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin”. It was later discovered to have been covertly organised by Daszak, who had spent years working with his friend Shi Zhengli, the celebrated lead researcher into bat coronaviruses at WIV.

Covid Mandates

• New Normal Germany Blues. Given its history and the character of its denizens, Berlin felt like the last place on Earth that was ever going to go totalitarian again … and then it did. In the blink of an eye. Like someone had flipped a big “fascism on” switch. Constitutional rights were abruptly cancelled. Protests against the New Normal were banned. The German media started pumping out propaganda like a Goebbelisan keyboard instrument. Public displays of conformity were mandated. “The Unvaccinated” were banned from society. Hate drunk mobs of New Normal Germans began hunting down maskless people on trains. By the end of it, the government was making plans to forcibly “vaccinate” the entire population.

• Gorsuch Condemns COVID Policies for Violating Civil Liberties: Where Are the Rest? In a statement relating to the case of Arizona v. Alejandro Mayorkas (Secretary of Homeland Security), US Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch, condemned government-imposed COVID policies that turned the legal and legislative process on its head and violated civil liberties. The justice’s review of actions taken by local, state, and federal governments over the past three years reads like a report on human rights abuses from the socialist Soviet Union era. Previous generations of Americans would have thought the justice’s statements were from a dystopian novel, not current events.

Economy/Energy/Finance

• Big commercial real estate downturn could sink 300+ banks: Report. More than 300 banks have enough commercial real estate loans on their books to see their Tier 1 capital wiped out under a worst-case scenario, Richard Barkham, chief economist and head of research at CBRE, said this week during a conference hosted by the National Association of Real Estate Editors.

• The Deindustrialization of Germany Will Cripple the EU for a Long Time. Germany has two major problems, an aging workforce and deindustrialization. Both will impact the EU for a long time.

• Americans Don't Want A Central Bank Digital Currency; New Poll Finds. A poll from the Cato Institute indicates that, while about half of Americans do not have an opinion regarding whether the Federal Reserve should “begin offering a government-issued digital currency, called a ‘central bank digital currency’ (CBDC),” among those with an opinion on the matter over twice as many - 34 percent of poll participants - oppose the prospect as support it - 16 percent.

Health

• Record Low Autopsy Rates in the US: Why It Matters and What It Reveals. The autopsy rate in 2020 reached a record low of 7.4 percent, marking the lowest rate between 1972 and 2020. According to the report, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant decrease in autopsy rates, particularly for COVID-19 deaths. The autopsy rate for COVID-19 deaths in 2020 was only 0.9 percent.

• North Korea Joins WHO’s Leadership. North Korea (or the Peoples’ Democratic Republic of Korea), a dictatorship run by four generations of the Kim family and known for concentration camps and a habit of executing senior officials, has just commenced a 3-year term on the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO). Nations from different regions of WHO take their turn, and it’s North Korea’s turn on behalf of the Southeast Asian Region.

Politics

• Americans should prepare for cyber sabotage from Chinese hackers, US official warns. Chinese hackers are all but certain to disrupt American critical infrastructure, such as pipelines and railways, in the event of a conflict with the United States, a senior U.S. cybersecurity official said Monday. In comments made during an appearance at the Aspen Institute in Washington, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly said Beijing was making major investments in the capability to sabotage U.S. infrastructure.

• Fox Slaps Tucker Carlson With Cease & Desist Notice Over Twitter Show. Fox News has sent a "case and desist" letter to Tucker Carlson, after the former Fox host racked up a combined 169 million combined views in his first two episodes of his show on Twitter, Axios reports. After 'parting ways' in April following the network's historic settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, Fox notably refused to let Carlson out of his contract in which they have exclusive rights to his content through Dec. 31, 2024 - after the next presidential election. There was reported (but unconfirmed) claims that Carlson's contract prohibits him from appearing on any network - not necessarily a social media platform.

• Japan extends order to destroy North Korea rocket or debris. Japan has extended an order to destroy any North Korean ballistic missile, rocket or debris that threatens the nation's territory, according to the Defense Ministry, after a satellite launch window announced by Pyongyang expired Sunday. The destroy order would remain in place “for the time being,” the ministry said in a statement released Sunday.

• The US Is Preparing Evacuation Plans for American Citizens in Taiwan. Wars in Ukraine and Afghanistan hang over planning for worst-case scenarios. The planning has been underway for at least six months and “it’s heated up over the past two months or so,” said a senior U.S. intelligence official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the planning.

  The official said a “heightened level of tension” had driven the preparations.

Science

• There is a "Highly Habitable" Planet Just 4 light years from Us, Astronomers Say. A nearby exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of a star just 4.2 light-years from Earth may be home to a vast ocean, boosting its chances of supporting life. Since its discovery, questions about the conditions at the surface of Proxima b have been swirling; the planet’s mass is just about 1.3 times that of Earth’s, and the red dwarf star it circles is similar in age to our sun.

• Skeptic: Whistleblower claim on UFOs isn’t ‘accurate’. Contradicting David Grusch’s claim is science writer and conspiracy theory debunker Mick West, who tells “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” that what Grusch is saying isn’t accurate and that “the video evidence doesn’t stack up.” West said he does believe that UFOs “are a real thing” and that there may be some unidentified flying objects out there, but he doesn’t believe there are aliens.

Ukraine

• [2022] The Crisis in Ukraine Is Not About Ukraine. It’s About Germany and, in particular, a pipeline that connects Germany to Russia called Nord Stream 2. Washington sees the pipeline as a threat to its primacy in Europe and has tried to sabotage the project at every turn. Even so, Nord Stream has pushed ahead and is now fully operational and ready to go. Once German regulators provide the final certification, the gas deliveries will begin. German homeowners and businesses will have a reliable source of clean and inexpensive energy while Russia will see a significant boost to their gas revenues. It’s a win-win situation for both parties.

Vaccines

• Green Monkey DNA Found in COVID-19 Shots. The COVID-19 shots are turning out to be more of a time bomb than ever imagined. This new discovery of the presence of green monkey DNA, including tumor-linked viral promoters, in the jabs has this microbiologist and immunologist calling for an immediate halt in the use of mRNA “vaccines.”