Today's Must-Reads - 27 February 2023

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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Climate Change

• Bill Gates invests in a carbon capture start-up after tech breakthrough. At the same time Mr. Micro Soft says governments need to introduce carbon taxes to fund carbon capture. But he’s a philanthropist so we must listen, must make ourselves poorer and must make him richer.

  Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd

  LISTEN: Bill Gates Says Governments Need to Add Economy-Wide Carbon Taxes To Fund Direct Air Carbon Capture Coincidently, Bill Gates invested $80M last year in a startup that does…direct air carbon capture seattletimes.com/business/bill-…

Covid

• Is it a coincidence that Woody Harrelson made his monologue on SNL and the WSJ published an article on Covid having leaked from a lab in Wuhan within hours of each other? Since then many MSM outlets have reported on the US Energy Department’s conclusion that Covid likely originated in a lab, including the NY Times, Forbes and the Guardian. After discussion about the origins of Covid have been supressed for so long, the question is, why is this information coming out now? Does causing panic about potential Gain of Function viruses allow the WHO’s international pandemic preparedness treaty to go ahead without scrutiny?

  don findlay @don_find_lay

  #pandemic #PandemicTreaty #GreatReset #NewWorldOrder #vaccines #WHO The WHO and the European Council are launching an International Pandemic Treaty that will threaten national healthcare sovereignty. Trudeau is all in. consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/co…

Covid Mandates & Lockdowns

• The Irish Times talks to Professor Martin Cormican who says the Covid pandemic response ‘depended on fear’. However, he defends mandatory vaccination saying that there was overwhelming evidence for making the jabs compulsory. And this comes from a man who was critical of the pandemic response.

Economy/Energy/Finance

• All eyes should still be on the bond markets. German 10 year yields at 2.57 are at their highest level since 2011. UK 30 year Gilt yields are also rising rapidly. Now at 4.13, they are entering the danger zone where we saw the pension crisis unfold late last year.

• The supply of vegetables in Europe will be limited until spring says an article in Fresh Plaza. From what I can see there is plenty of supply at higher prices but the larger supermarkets don’t want to shock customers or reduce their profits so are refusing to pay these inflated prices.

• European sanctions on Russian oil doesn’t mean it has been lying around without a buyer. Instead North African countries have been snapping it up. There is suspicion that Russian oil is being blended with North African oil and then re-exported back to Europe.

  

• US durable goods orders plunged -4.5% in January, the biggest monthly drop since Covid lockdowns in 2020.

  

Health

• Accept nothing the hospitals tell you - my lesson for patients’ families says the TCW. A now familiar story about the experience of an elderly lady when hospitals were in lockdown mode.

Politics

• Net Zero enthusiasts want you to eat less meat. The Netherlands have come up with a ‘master plan’ to do this by doubling legume consumption by 2030. With Prince Charles worried about burping cows, I don’t see how bean-eating, farting humans will help the situation.

• George Orwell’s chilling prediction has come true and Roald Dahl is the tip of the iceberg. The Telegraph looks at the censorship of books, statues and history in an attempt to eradicate the past and enforce a single point of view.

• Monty Python accurately predicting the future in 1975. A comedy sketch which will probably be banned if things continue as they are.

  Dr. Sydney Watson @SydneyLWatson

  A joke in 1975. Reality in 2023.

Ukraine

• Dr. Edward Herman discusses the United States role in Ukraine’s 2014 coup. “My view is that actually what’s happened in Ukraine made it imperative for Putin to make a move”.

  kanekoa.substack.com @KanekoaTheGreat

  You're listening to Dr. Edward Herman, the late Emeritus Professor at Wharton, UPenn, and co-author of "Manufacturing Consent" with Noam Chomsky, discussing the United States' involvement in Ukraine's 2014 coup: "Russia was pushed up against the wall. My view is that actually… https://t.co/uhZTI2cQA4

• Trudeau interrupted his recent statement on Ukraine to tell a Canadian citizen to stop heckling him. “I think Ukrainians can tell you a little about freedom and liberty”, Trudeau told the man heckling him, a year after he restricted freedom and liberty for Canadians.

  Viva Frei @thevivafrei

  It’s totally normal to see @JustinTrudeau syphoning $1 billion of taxpayer funds to Ukraine, while wearing that foreign country’s flag as a scarf, and standing before that foreign country’s flag while berating Canadians. And if you think that’s weird, you’re the extremist.

• Native Russian speaking Zelensky puts an earpiece in for translation of a Russian question during a press conference. And they say it is all theatre.

  Richard @ricwe123

  This is the bullshit we are dealing with: During a press conference, Zelensky was told that a question would be in Russian. He then reached for his earpiece for translation. Zelensky is a native speaker of Russian who never spoke Ukrainian until he became president.... 🤡🤡🤡

Vaccines

• A preprint evaluating the factors associated with strokes after Covid-19 vaccination found that there was an 8x increase in the risk of strokes after the jab.

• Reuters reports that there isn’t enough data to support multiple annual Covid boosters. Only 16% of the US population have received booster shots since updated versions were authorised in September.

• The NY Post says that it’s insane that college still mandate vaccines. Shockingly, some campuses only have mandates for students but not for elderly or vulnerable staff. “Risk of myocarditis in young men and menstrual cycle irregularities in women are recognized side effects of the vaccines that weren’t fully known when they were first made available. What else will we discover in hindsight, and who will be liable?”