Update is a new format we’ll try out from time to time where we talk about current events going on in the world. This episode is the second half of our review of what happened in 2022 and why the incidents might be interesting to a conspiracy enthusiast.
April:
- Apr 12 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologies and is fined for attending parties during COVID-19 lockdown
- Alex jones files for bankruptcy
May:
- Lake mead receding reveals bodies
- May 31 Lost 3,400 year-old Bronze Age city unearthed on the Tigris river, Iraq due to drought, likely part of the Mittani Empire, including 100 cuneiform tablets
June:
- Jun 9 NASA announces it will begin research into UFOs, focusing on unidentified aerial phenomena (U.A.P.s)
- Jun 13 A Google engineer claims one of its AI systems, Lamda, might have a sentient mind, causing the company to place him on leave - Jun 25 30,000-year-old intact remains of a baby wooly mammoth found frozen in permafrost in Klondike gold fields in the Yukon, Canada
- Jun 28 Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in US federal prison for grooming and aiding Jeffery Epstein to abuse underage girls
July:
- Jul 2 Earliest evidence for the use of opium from 14th century bce found in burials at Tel Yehud, ancient Canaan (now Israel) - Jul 6 First ever joint appearance by MI5 head Ken McCallum and the FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, warning China is the "biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security" - Jul 24 Wild monkey attacks on at least 42 people, including in their homes, in Yamaguchi city, Japan, led police to be armed with tranquilizer guns [1]
August:
- Aug 3 Cells of recently dead pigs brought back to life by researchers at Yale University, with huge implications for organ transplants and stroke sufferers, as well as ethical questions over definition of death - Aug 5 Actress Anne Heche crashes her car into a house in Mar Vista, Los Angeles, igniting a fire that puts her in a coma and destroys much of the house - Aug 16 Sections of China's Yangtze River launch weather modification programs due to severe drought conditions, including seeding clouds with silver iodide rods to encourage rain - Aug 18 Huge megalithic complex of more than 500 standing stones announced discovered at La Torre-La Janera, Huelva, southern Spain - Aug 23 In US domestic terrorism case two men found guilty of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Witmer
September:
- Sep 7 Discovery of the earliest evidence of surgery from 31,000 year old skeleton with amputated lower leg in a cave in East Kalimantan, Borneo published in "Nature" - Sep 26 Edward Snowden, former US intelligence contractor who exposed NSA surveillance program granted Russian citizenship by Vladimir Putin
October:
- Oct 12 American conspiracy theorist, radio host, and provocateur Alex Jones ordered by a Connecticut defamation trial jury to pay $965 million to families of those killed in 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School for falsely and repeatedly claiming on his broadcasts that none of the 20 children and six adults killed had actually died and that their relatives were crisis actors - Oct 25 German sportswear manufacturer Adidas cuts ties with American rapper and fashion designer Kenye West over anti-Semitic remarks he made in interviews and on his social media - Oct 27 Elon Musk takes ownership and control of Twitter, immediately fires 4 executives
November:
- Nov 11 Cypto currency FTX, founded by Sam Bankman-Fried files for bankruptcy, amid accusations of financial mismanagement and criminal misconduct - Nov 14 Earliest evidence of fire being used to cook by humans found in study of fish remains 780,000 years ago at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in northern Israel - Nov 28 Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'gaslighting' while Collins' is 'permacrisis'
December:
- Dec 3 FBI investigate a targeted attack on two electricity substations in North C
