Today's Must-Reads - 7 May 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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Energy/Economy/Finance

• US banking crisis: Close to 190 banks could collapse, according to study. After the demise of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March, a study on the fragility of the U.S. banking system found that 186 more banks are at risk of failure even if only half of their uninsured depositors (uninsured depositors stand to lose a part of their deposits if the bank fails, potentially giving them incentives to run) decide to withdraw their funds.

• Bill Gates powers up bid to build new nuclear reactors in Britain. The Microsoft billionaire and environmentalist chairs a US nuclear developer, called TerraPower, which is preparing to throw its hat in the ring for a new government-backed competition to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) in the UK.

• Power supply in the US could be tight this summer, ERCOT says. Tight power supplies are possible during late evenings in Texas this summer, as grid operators cautioned Wednesday the state won't have enough on-demand power generation to meet the need during peak hours.

• De-dollarization is heading for a breakthrough due to rising global discontent with US 'casino capitalism', Pepe Escobar, geopolitical analyst and veteran journalist, told Sputnik News. "It's a gigantic snowball all over the world. We cannot even keep up with it,” Pepe Escobar said in an interview with the New Rules podcast. “It's very important what is going to be discussed at the BRICS summit in South Africa. This will probably be the crossroads moment where things are going to then go."

Politics

• Repeal the 17th Amendment Now. In effect, the 17th Amendment put the major cities of the country in power over everywhere else. That’s why they have dominated ever since. The system has proven deeply oppressive. The Democrats have learned to manipulate this advantage. They campaign mostly in major cities where people robotically, mechanistically, and predictably vote for Democrats and the policies the party represents. Now, thanks to insane COVID changes, which allowed every form of ballot manipulation, the dominance of the population centers over the rest of the country has arrived at the next level.

• Police accused of ‘alarming’ attack on protest rights after anti-monarchist leader arrested. Graham Smith, head of Republic, among those detained on coronation route with environmentalists and women’s safety campaigners also held

• Like a Tweet, Lose Your Job. The president of Thomas Jefferson University may lose his job for liking tweets from Alex Berenson on his personal account. The episode marks a warning against those in mainstream institutions that any deviation from prevailing orthodoxy – no matter how minor – will not be tolerated.

• Yes, the Media Bury the Race of Murderers—If They're Not White. Free Beacon analysis shows how homicide coverage downplays the race of minority offenders.

Technology

• Israeli researchers create AI to translate ancient cuneiform Akkadian texts. This new technology has the potential to revolutionize the study of ancient history by making it more accessible and open to a wider audience. In 2020, the same group of researchers created an AI model called “the Babylonian Engine.” The contemporary model is supposedly a better and reworked version of it. Historians note that hundreds of thousands of clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia, written in cuneiform, have been found by archaeologists, far more than can be translated by the limited number of experts who can read them.

Ukraine

• Ukraine says downed hypersonic missile is ‘historic’ first time. Ukraine said Saturday that it had for the first time downed a Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile during a wave of Russian attacks in the night between last Wednesday and Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who unveiled the Kinzhal missile in 2018, has termed it “an ideal weapon” that is extremely difficult for missile defences to intercept.

Vaccines

• FDA Overhaul Needed for New Vaccines and mRNA Therapies. The FDA approved the first mRNA “vaccine” injected into the human body without checking the biodistribution of the “contents” (the mRNA and spike protein) for human safety. They only checked the LNP “shell” on animals before giving their stamp of approval. Even the limited LNP testing data is alarming. Despite this lack of adequate safety testing for the first mRNA “vaccine” used in humans, the FDA granted authorization and assured the public with authoritative certainty that the entire product was safe. As serious adverse events unfolded at an unprecedented rate, the FDA doubled down on its safety claims, requiring no additional studies.

• Shattered mum breaks downs as she reveals how her 'healthy' daughter, 21, died after receiving Covid booster - and the 'insensitive' text she received from her GP one year later.