Today's Must-Reads - 18 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

• The UK Net Zero fanatics get stranger by the day. This time they are renaming an area in Wales known as the Brecon Beacons over its links to climate change. The park has a symbol of a ‘carbon burning beacon’ which is just not acceptable in this day and age.

  

• The Just Stop Oil protestors have come up with another ridiculous way to ‘raise awareness’ about climate change. This time they disrupted the World Snooker Championships by throwing orange powder on the tables.

• Germany’s nuclear lunacy means ordinary Germans will pay a heavy price for their elites’ green fear-mongering. This weekend Germany shut down the last of its three nuclear reactors. Hours before the closure, price rises were announced, jumping 45%. They have also rejected Bavaria’s request for nuclear power comeback.

Covid Mandates & Lockdowns

• A Californian judge has ordered a church that defied Covid rules to pay $1.2 million. The huge fine comes after the church did the terrible deed of meeting for worship and not requiring masks.

• Face-mask evangelism has undermined trust in science says Robert Dingwall, former UK government advisor. It was a scandalous failure of science and government that mask mandates were imposed with so little evidence to support their use.

• In her new book ‘Blindsight in 2020’, author Gabrielle Bauer introduces readers to many of the free-spirited and courageous characters who became dissident voices during the Covid nightmare.

• Covid Derangement Syndrome - Debbie Lerman looks at how America’s national security complex took over the pandemic response. This was in a sharp break from official pandemic preparedness plans.

Economy/Energy/Finance

• US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the Dollar’s dominance is at risk. Several countries how now given up selling cross-border trade in US Dollars and are using their local currencies.

• The Digital Currency Monetary Authority has launched an International Central Bank Digital Currency. It was announced at the IMF’s Spring Meetings 2023 and is said to strengthen the monetary sovereignty of participating central banks.

Health

• Scientists looks for more funding warn that a pandemic ‘more devastating than Covid’ is coming. ‘We must act now’, they say as the next pandemic is inevitable.

Politics

• American officials are increasingly worried about cyber attacks if China invades Taiwan. Politico asks what will it look like if China launches cyberattacks in the US? Chinese hackers are likely to target US military networks and other critical infrastructure in the event of an invasion on Taiwan.

• Talking to The New York Foreign Press Center on 14 April, Major General John Olson, Mobilization Assistant to the Chief of Space Operations for the US Space Force acknowledged the global presence of UFOs and underlined the importance of international collaboration.

• Californian electric bills will be based on how much you earn. Three major utility companies are looking to restructure customer billing. The more you earn, the more you pay.

Technology

• Google is devising its own radical search changes to beat back AI rivals. The tech giant is sprinting to protect its core business with a flurry of projects, including updates to its search engine and plans for an all-new one. The new features, under the project name Magi, will bring AI powered features to search.

• At the same time, Google CEO says he doesn’t fully understand how their AI program ‘Bard’ works. On 60 Minutes the CEO is perplexed at how his AI machine taught itself an entire foreign language it was not asked to do and cited fake books in order to solve an economics problem.

• The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has followed other broadcasters, including the BBC, by complaining about their new “government-funded media” label on Twitter. This time, however, CBC are temporarily ceasing its Twitter activities in protest.

• On Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk says that “various government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on Twitter,” including to the users’ direct messages.

• DeepMind have developed an AI program that creates a 3D map of all the 200 million proteins known to science. Its CEO claims that this would have taken a billion years for humans to complete manually.

• A new farming robot that uses AI kills 100,000 weeds per hour. The autonomous weeder could soon replace weed labourers with high-powered carbon dioxide lasers. This could reduce the need for pesticides. Let’s just hope AI doesn’t start viewing humans as weeds with these new guns!

• Chinese scientists have been carrying out ‘rule-breaking’ AI experiments in space. Researchers from Wuhan University gave AI technology full control of a satellite and set it free for 24 hours. The AI machine picked a few places and ordered the small near-Earth orbiter to take a closer look.

Ukraine

• Build Back Better is back and is being used to describe the path forwards for Ukraine. At a US-Ukraine Forum, a BlackRock senior advisor mentions it as well as the Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine who says Ukraine is ready to Build Back Better.

• According to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Seymour Hersh, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his senior officials in Kiev have been embezzling hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars meant for Ukrainian military diesel fuel procurement in 2022. In total at least $400 million has been stolen from the US aid package. The only shock about this revelation is that the number is so small.

• Why are the UK and US special forces in Ukraine, Peter Hitchens asks. What are they doing there and what would happen were they to be killed? And do we have a clue why we’re involved in this war?

Vaccines

• Covid vaccine injury victims in the UK have been ‘betrayed’ as pay-out claims are plagued with delays. Hundreds of people left with ‘debilitating’ conditions are waiting more than a year for their application for compensation to be assessed.

• On MSNBC, Sally Susman, Pfizer’s Chief Corporate Affairs Officer says she “knew we were going to have a scientific transformation. I set an intention to also create a trust transformation”. If she means nobody trusts the company anymore then she did an excellent job.

• Whilst the Snooker World Championships have been disrupted by Climate Change loons throwing orange powder on the tables, Scott Donaldson has been forced out due to a vaccine injury. He had been suffering with a tremor since taking the Covid vaccine in 2021 but it cleared up last year. Sadly, it has returned with shakes in his leg proving unbearable to play through.

• Leaks show that doctors were bribed to push Covid shots onto patients. According to the document, health professionals could get from $20 to $250 per patient for “vaccination with at least one dose”.