Today's Must-Reads - 4 March 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
Because right now, climate change is on the top of every Ukrainian’s mind, EU President Ursula von der Leyen has announced that they will deliver the first batch of 5,700 solar panels soon. Phew, the Ukrainians will be relieved, a weight off their shoulders.
Covid
The Washington Examiner looks at the top virologists who initially flirted with the lab leak theory but then changed their tune. Turns out they received millions in NIH grants.
Nowhere is the lab-leak debate more personal than among the experts investigating the origins of Covid. Jeffrey Sachs says “Fauci behaved very badly, NIH behaved very badly, a small group of very vocal scientists that were part of that group have behaved very badly”.
The WHO is urging all countries to come clean on Covid origins intel following US claims of a Chinese lab leak and furious denials from Beijing. “The WHO has not abandoned any plans to identify the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic”, director-general Tedros said.
C19early.org conducts a real-time analysis of 2,577 studies to compare the cost of early treatment per life saved.
Covid Mandates & Lockdowns
Fraser Nelson looks at the ‘Lockdown Files’ and concludes that a toxic culture of fear meant lockdown scepticism was dismissed as ‘hard-right’ paranoia. The Lockdown Files expose a toxic culture where any minister or civil servant asking “awkward” questions knew they were liable to be briefed against, sidelined or ostracised.
Even after the ‘Lockdown Files’ show how politicians were literally laughing at us, the majority of Brits still think they weren’t strict enough with us.
Alex Gutentag writes about how mask mandates defaced us all. Masks perpetuated the lie of universal risk on which lockdowns were predicated, and thereby helped keep in place school and business closures and stay-at-home orders.
Is there anyone who still thinks lockdowns were a good idea? The number of UK children in food poverty has almost doubled in a year to 4 million. People are starting to wonder why a constant stream of money to support Ukraine is available but not anything for starving children.
I can’t believe this is 2023 but Novak Djokovic is pulling out of the Indian Wells Open because the US still won’t allow him in due to his unvaccinated status.
Why were deaths falling or around the average level before lockdowns started? In almost every country that instigated lockdowns, death rates rocketed upwards almost on the day they began but never before.
Economy/Energy/Finance
Truth Talk UK looks at CBDCs, claiming it is the ‘endgame’. “Don’t fall for the assurances of safeguards, the promises of anonymity and of data protection. They are all deceptions and diversions to obscure the malevolent intent behind the global rollout of CBDC”.
Similar to what is happening at the Bank of England, the US Treasury has introduced a CBDC working group to discuss the potential routes for a digital dollar.
The deindustrialisation of Germany continues with energy-intensive industries and chemical production falling further and faster than during the pandemic.
Health
More warnings of heart attacks or strokes. This time for women who have children in their early 20s.
25 young military cadets in Chile were hospitalised with serious respiratory symptoms after a training event on 25 February. Three of them are on ventilators.
A new disease in birds has been discovered - Plasticosis. This disease is caused by the persistent presence of plastic in the body’s digestive system, leading to long-term inflammation. It would be interesting to see if this also affected humans.
Politics
MSM is trying its hardest to link concern about 15 minute cities with far-right, conspiracy paranoia. London Major, Sadiq Khan also labelled people that disagreed with his emission zone expansion as far-right, covid-deniers and vaccine-deniers. My favourite part of the video below is at 0.53 where a disgruntled woman responds to the Major with the typically British phrase of “the bloody cheek”.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a new warning about China. China is the US military’s top priority. “An increasingly aggressive China is trying to shape the international rules-based system to suit its authoritarian preferences”.
Ukraine
The Spectator asks is Putin winning? According to them, the world order is changing in Putin’s favour. A multi-polar world is being born according to the Russians, whilst the US clings on to the unipolar world of the past.
Vaccines
A Russian virologist who helped develop the country’s COVID vaccine has been found dead after an intruder strangled him in his apartment. Andrey Botikov was one of 18 scientists who helped develop the Sputnik V vaccine. It had been reported that he had survived the attack but later news stories changed this.
Vanden Bossche says unvaccinated people living in highly vaccinated countries are the best protected due to their immune systems being constantly trained.
The Washington Examiner has a number of articles which provide some degree of insight about the "lab leak theory" but restricts its reporting to what appears to be very selective information or sources; Dr.David Martin has provided a recent video presentation(which has been mostly ignored) which shows very compelling and irrefutable evidence that the "virus" was engineered specifically to produce a respiratory pathogen to infect humans and was RELEASED intentionally, not by accident; it was the WIV1COV, an infectious clone synthetically developed with Wuhan assistance; but the actual experimentation and manufacturing was done at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and actually tested in living animals (in vivo); Martin provides "published admissions", the actual documentation which describes in detail and openly what was being done at the UNC labs; because this work was against the law, being GOF and prohibited it was subsequently transferred to virologists in Wuhan; the plot thickens from there but there is clear evidence of kickbacks and illegal funding at taxpayer expense to maintain a criminal conspiracy which benefiited many stakeholders; these were "racketeering crimes" perpetrated by the same familiar nefarious actors we all know about and whose evil plans had to be known by politicians and government alike but deliberately ignored, as they have been in recent Congressional investigations; BTW, Dr Martin has NEVER had to retract any evidence he has ever put forth!
LMAO at the solar panels delivered to the Ukrainians in the midst of the fight for their very lives…. Progs everywhere are the same