Today's Must-Reads - 16 March 2023 & Reader Poll
A selection of the latest news, studies, reports and articles
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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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Question of the day - What do you think the next psyop will be to distract us from other things?
Covid
WHO do you trust? Newsweek says trust in public health has been shattered but the US government is doubling down on World Health Organisation decrees that directly circumvent public oversight.
Covid Mandates & Lockdowns
Even the darlings of Hollywood are sick of the Covid rules. Tilda Swinton is about to shoot a movie in Ireland but has said that she will not follow lingering Covid protocols requiring her to wear a mask.
Sam Harris still doesn’t get it.
Economy/Energy/Finance
After another bank failure, surprise surprise, execs once again quietly sold stocks before the crash. First Republic Bank’s chairman sold $4.5 million, the CCO sold $2.5 million a few days before SVB crashed and the head of wealth management sold 73% of his shares in January.
But once again Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced that the US banking system remains sound and Americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when needed thanks to “decisive and forceful” actions. Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.
However, she has also said that fiscal restraint cannot be a condition for raising the debt ceiling.
In reality much of the banking system is bankrupt. Zero Hedge writes about unsound banking and why most of the world’s bank are headed for collapse. Don’t worry though, your money is safe, it might just be returned to you in CBDCs.
Or perhaps you will have to wait until July when the Fed’s long-awaited digital payment system will be launched.
If you are unsure where to put your money, try the failed bank SVB. They are telling clients that there is not a safer place to keep your deposits because they are now fully insured with no limits or caps.
And here are the historical and current policy projections for debt held by the US public. This was from a report in 2021 so the situation is already far worse.
Interesting
A fascinating video showing how deep the oceans really are.
Technology
ChatGPT v4 has just been released meaning more mundane human tasks are being taken over by AI. Microsoft has revealed its ‘copilot for work’ which drafts emails, summarises Teams meetings, as well as writing Word documents almost from scratch.
Just as AI gets more powerful what do you do first? That’s correct, fire your AI ethics team. Experts are calling the decision “damning” and saying it’s time for regulators to get involved.
Vaccines
Peter Hotez has written a new paper on vaccine hesitancy. Not only are you an anti-vaxxer if you don’t get vaccinated but you’re now also an anti-sciencer and an anti-semite.
Florida Surgeon General has gone on record again to say that the mRNA vaccines have a “terrible safety profile”. “I’m not sure anyone should be taken them”, he says.
Former Pussycat Dolls member Jessica Sutta has gone on air to say that she was severely injured by the Moderna vaccine. She developed tremors and body jerks after her second jab.
FOIA emails have revealed that the CDC was being warned about kids getting vaccine injured in 2021.
World
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, 2.5 tons of uranium has gone missing from a site in Libya. Militia later said they had found it but there are fears it had been taken on behalf of a country seeking to make nuclear weapons.
With North Korea testing missiles every day, the Pentagon has warned that the Regime will ‘End’ if it uses nukes.
Anti-Semite for not getting a vaccine? These people can call me whatever they want. Nothing will convince me. Their words are meaningless
That email from Newburger is unreal! Asking should they 'attempt' to gather data on vax injured young people. The whole apologetic tone speaks volumes of the fear of speaking out and this is from a Professor of Pediatrics. Why isn't there a clear pathway to reporting any adverse effects? This should be compulsory for goodness sake.