Today's Must-Reads - 4 February 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
Good news. Despite almost 500 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions, there has been no global warming for 8 years and 5 months. Watts Up With That asks, why then, the mounting hysteria in Western nations about the imagined and (so far, at any rate) imaginary threat of global warming rapid enough to be catastrophic?
They won’t give up that easily - when it’s warm it’s global warming, when it’s cold it’s climate change. In the US it’s so cold in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York that the record-breaking wind chill factors are off the charts.
So cold in fact that the US recorded it’s lowest ever temperature in Mount Washington at -108F (-78C).
Sadly, the global warming brainwashing causes massive disruption for children. Innes FitzGerald, a promising 16 year old British athlete was selected to compete in the World Cross Country Championships in Australia. Sadly for her, she has turned down this possibly once in a life time opportunity because she doesn’t want to fly in a climate crisis.
Covid Mandates & Lockdowns
According to Trial Site News, proposed new laws in Brazil mean anti-vaxxers could be locked up for almost a decade. You’re not an anti-vaxxer? Just mRNA vaccine hesitant? You could still go to jail for eight years for refusal. Share news considered false by the authorities, another eight years. Oppose mandatory vaccines for kids? You’ll be ok, only three years inside for you.
Some good news on the horizon! The U.S. House is planning to vote to end Covid vaccine mandates for foreign air travellers.
Economy/Energy/Finance
Stock markets rising, inflation falling, good news? I’m not convinced. Companies in the UK are going insolvent at the fastest rate since the Global Financial Crisis.
Full marks for effort - the authorities are still trying to find evidence that Russia blew up the Nord Stream pipelines but still haven’t found anything yet.
Health
How do you feel about your brain dead body being preserved to allow gay and infertile couples to have children? The Daily Mail floats the dystopian idea from a Norwegian philosopher whereby women can agree for their bodies to be used as surrogates in the event of them becoming brain dead!
Politics
I’m sure you’ve all read about the Chinese balloon currently floating across the US. Other balloons have been spotted in Canada and South America. Questions to ask include why is it being given so much attention? Why was it not shot down as soon as it entered US airspace and is it really a Chinese balloon? If it is Chinese, what surveillance can a balloon do that a satellite can’t, could it carry a payload or is it just intimidation?
Or is this a distraction from other news such as the announcement of big US-South Korea military exercises?
Ukraine
After Ukraine or its allies blew up part of the Crimean bridge, Russia has been quickly trying to rebuild it. However, repairs will be slowed after a major factory in Russia, involved with the rebuild, went up in flames early this morning.
Old news but an interesting report from the BBC before Ukraine became untouchable. In the 2006 article, it was reported that Ukraine was the stem cell capital of the world, where new-born babies would be stolen, killed and harvested for their stem cells.
Head of the defence committee, Tobias Ellwood (and part of the 77th Brigade) is pushing for WWIII by declaring that Britain should engage directly in the war with Russia.
Vaccines
A new Nordic study looking at clinical outcomes of myocarditis after mRNA vaccination found 4.8 times more cases after vaccination compared with post Covid infection. There were greater than 10 times more cases in 12-24 year olds.
In a Japanese press conference, led by Professor Fukushima, an investigation in to vaccine harms was called for. The Professor stated that if the Health Ministry refuses to acknowledge the harms, they will file lawsuits.
Tobias Ellwood sounds like the clowns on Fox news about the spy baloon, as hysterical as the "squad" in our Congress rendering their garments, wailing and gnashing their teeth over Ilhan Omar being removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
We are lead by the worst among us.
"proposed new laws in Brazil"
Not sure about all the proposed laws, but the one cited in Trial Site News (PL 555/2020) is "old news", as it was proposed nearly 3 years ago and there has been no legislative action on it since October 2021. It was the subject of a public consultation, with "No" winning by 12 to 1:
https://www25.senado.leg.br/web/atividade/materias/-/materia/146046