Today's Must-Reads - 29 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

• Has RFK Jr been red-pilled on the climate agenda?! RFK Jr. declares climate ‘being exploited by the WEF & Bill Gates’ in ‘the same way that COVID was exploited’ – ‘Top-down totalitarian controls on society’.

Covid

• Could particulate matter be used as a potential SAR-CoV-2 carrier? Or could the symptoms of Covid be explained by the respiratory exposure to implanted or inhaled engineered nanoparticles?

• Professor Nicholson is not only one of the world’s foremost experts in understanding the mechanics of the virus and how it interacts with individuals, he also observed the impact of long-COVID first-hand. “In some people it sets up a chronic inflammatory response that affects organs from kidneys and the liver to the brain. At this stage, there aren’t any effective treatments, which is really worrying…All the efforts that have been made in preventative medicine over the last 30 to 40 years have been negated by COVID-19,” Professor Nicholson said.

• Scientists launch manhunt for 'longest ever' Covid patient in Ohio who has been infected for two YEARS — as they warn patient's virus is so mutated it could spark 'concerning' outbreak. The patient - thought to live in the Columbus area - is carrying a highly mutated version of the virus that is 'unlike anything' experts have seen.

Covid Mandates & Lockdowns

• "All travellers arriving into Japan from 29 April will no longer be required to show proof of a COVID19 vaccination or a COVID-19 test result for travellers who are not vaccinated."

• Randi Weingarten, one of the most powerful teachers union bosses in the country, was admonished Thursday on CNN for supporting school lockdowns. CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings told off Weingarten in a conversation on school lockdowns and America’s COVID response. "Speaking on behalf of millions of American parents," Jennings said as he began what would be a lengthy rebuke of Weingarten's pro-lockdown rhetoric.

• TCW says it’s time to resist the call to ‘move on from Covid’. One who is not moving on is Mark A Tarrant, producer and director of Tudsbury Films in Sydney. He is making a documentary about the September 2021 incident in Melbourne when a lockdown protester was violently hurled on to a concrete floor by police, hitting his head. You can see a video here.

• Three things you can be certain of in life - death, taxes and experts calling for the return of masks. Britons should start wearing face masks on public transport again, experts have urged, as a super-infectious Covid variant sweeps the country.

  Arcturus now makes up one in 40 new cases, sparking fears that it could soon become a dominant strain and trigger a fresh wave of disease.

Economy/Energy/Finance

• First Republic, the 16th largest bank in the US has failed and surprise, surprise - they wait until a Friday before announcing that US regulators are set to take it over. This gives them an extra few days over the weekend to deal with the fallout.

• Meanwhile there is nothing to worry about in the US. One year Credit Default swaps are the highest they have been in a long time.

  

• Eurozone economy avoids recession ‘by a whisker’. It’s funny how these things are always so narrowly avoided, almost as if things were manipulated. Warmer winter, lower energy prices and China’s reopening help bloc surprise economists and stave off severe downturn.

• Retail sales in Sweden are down almost 14% relative to trend.

  

Health

• Major depressive disorder linked to interplay of gut microbiome and blood metabolome. An international team of medical researchers has found a link between major depressive disorder (MDD) and an interplay between the gut microbiome and the blood metabolome. For their study, reported in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, the group analyzed data in the UK Biobank.

Politics

• In Ireland, the Incitement to Hatred and Hate Crime Bill is on its way to getting passed and will mean prison time for merely possessing “hateful” material on your device. Obviously nobody wants anyone possessing hateful material but who defines what is “hateful”. Furthermore, the burden of proof is on the accused who has to prove that they didn’t intend to spread hate with the material.

• China's railroad to world domination: $58 billion rail link with Pakistan will reduce reliance on West. Chinese rail review board says system connecting Pakistan to China will change trade and geopolitics

Science

• Something Just Crashed Into The Moon And Astronomers Captured It. Using cameras set to monitor the moon, Daichi Fujii, curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum, recorded an event that occurred on February 23 at 20:14:30.8 Japan Standard Time (7:14 a.m. EST, or 1114 GMT).

Technology

• An interesting interview in Futurism with the engineer Google fired for saying its AI had come to life. "There's a chance that — and I believe it is the case — that they have feelings and they can suffer and they can experience joy, and humans should at least keep that in mind when interacting with them."

Vaccines

• ABC News admitted to editing remarks by Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after the news outlet pressed him on his stance on vaccines. Journalist Linsey Davis gave a warning ahead of the interview, telling viewers that the Biden challenger peddled misinformation and disinformation about vaccines.