Today's Must-Reads - 15 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

• Push to Net Zero or push to turn the UK into a third world country? The Government is already calling for smart water meters to cut water usage from 144 litres a day to 122. Now, water companies are telling residents to stop flushing the toilet after having a wee.

Covid

• WaPo says there’s new light as to the origins of Covid. And lingering questions in the mystery of Wuhan. Last week, Chinese officials insisted they had done everything possible to discover the answers. The MSM is suddenly very keen to blame China, when they didn’t care for three years.

• George Gao, former Chinese CDC director, says true origins of Covid may never be revealed but says there is no evidence which animals the virus could be traced back to. “It’s too sensitive; too politicised,” he claimed.

• The Covid virus has mutated so much since 2019 that some experts say it should be renamed SARS-CoV-3. They also say there’s a real chance for a new variant to surge.

Covid Mandates & Lockdowns

• The NY Post looks at the corrupted science behind Biden’s Covid vax mandates. Newly disclosed emails shows that the FDA saying the jabs were “safe and effective” was the result of bureaucratic bait-and-switch.

• A recently revised and peer-reviewed paper by John Ioannidis looks at the flaws and uncertainties in pandemic global excess death calculations. Globally, deaths directly due to SAR-CoV-2 may be the minority of calculated excess deaths.

Economy/Energy/Finance

• US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says banks are likely to become more cautious and may tighten lending further in the wake of recent bank failures, possibly negating the need for further Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.

• The Canadian property bubble is popping. March saw the second biggest decline in the single family home price index in recent times. Prices are still too high to be affordable, however.

  

• Argentina is buckling under 103% inflation. It is also grappling with one if its worst droughts in history, that has hammered soy, corn and wheat crops, knocking billions off the economy.

• President of Brazil Lula has called for an end to dollar trade dominance. The leftist president lends his voice to Beijing’s efforts to boost renminbi’s role in global commerce.

• Will the next crisis be Commercial Real Estate? Dublin office space take-up drops 42% in sign of further stress. Vacancies rose 13%. Similar is happening in other countries around the world with Working From Home hitting hard.

• Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warns that bank runs can snowball faster as customers can swap messages and withdraw funds instantly. Translation - It’s all your fault and CBDCs are the answer.

Health

• Slovakia has become the latest country to ban Ukrainian grain from its markets over pesticides that are prohibited in the EU. Romania and Bulgaria are also in discussions about how best to protect their markets against cheap commodity imports from Ukraine.

• A new peptide may hold potential as an Alzheimer’s treatment. The peptide blocks a hyperactive brain enzyme that contributes to the neurodegeneration seen in Alzheimer’s and other diseases.

Politics

• The Biden administration is looking at expanding how it monitors social media sites and chatrooms after US intelligence failed to realise classified Pentagon documents circulated online for weeks, officials briefed on the matter say. Never let a good crisis go to waste!

• After Elon ate a BBC journalist for dinner, the Telegraph says the BBC’s liberal bubble has finally burst. In one stroke, no-nonsense Elon Musk exposed the Left-wing prejudices at the heart of the BBC’s reporting.

• Two US non-profit groups tied to the Global Disinformation Index, a British entity blacklisting conservative media outlets, are refusing to disclose key details about their operations, citing an obscure federal exemption law on “harassment”.

• Among a sea of disclosures made by the leaked classified Pentagon documents is the alarming revelation that China tested a long-range hypersonic missile dubbed the ‘DF-27’ that can penetrate the US mainland defences.

Science

• Million year old viruses help fight cancer, say scientists. Relics of ancient viruses, that have spent millions of years hiding inside human DNA are woken up when cancerous cells spiral out of control.

Technology

• Elon Musk has created a new artificial intelligence company called X AI. Musk is planning on starting a rival to Open AI, which he helped to found. This comes after he called for a pause in AI research a few weeks ago.

• Asteroid mining startup AstroForge is preparing for its first missions. The company, which plans to mine asteroids, has placed a payload on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in an attempt to vaporize and sort the materials into their elemental components.