Month: December 2021

As we noted earlier, the US and worldwide tallies for the number of new COVID cases confirmed in a day are hitting fresh record highs as the year ends, giving some the impression that the global pandemic has barely been impacted by all the lockdowns, vaccines, boosters and other restrictions that have arisen over the past 2 years.

But as political leaders scramble to keep the media stocked with omicron-oriented FUD to report, it looks like we may have been correct a little over a week ago when we surmised that the peak of the outbreak in London may already be at hand.

In the US, there’s been a lot of focus on New York City, where COVID cases and hospitalizations are climbing, though still below their levels from last year’s winter wave.

Source: @ScottGottliebMD

Here’s where things stand in New York: Thursday was another record-breaking day, with 74,207 newly reported COVID cases in NY State, with a stunning 43,985 in NYC alone. The positivity rate continues to increase; it’s now 23.1%. Hospitalizations in NYC are also rising fast, now at 3,565, with 884 new admissions in past day alone.

Fortunately for New Yorkers, across the pond, Londoners are seeing what Dr. Scott Gottlieb believes might be a peak in the omicron wave (just in time since the NHS is already building field hospitals “just in case”).

If the past is any guide, as Gottlieb points out in his tweet, NYC’s peak in cases could arrive within 2 weeks now that London’s peak appears to have finally arrived.

While data is skewed by reduced holiday reporting, there’s increasing signs #Omicron wave in London may be peaking. The huge wave has occurred, so far, with only a small rise in hospital admissions requiring mechanical ventilation. New York City may be about 2 weeks behind London pic.twitter.com/WIqFkB16f9

— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) December 31, 2021

Source: @ScottGottliebMD

Going by hospitalizations that require mechanical ventilation and deaths, the peak in London is well below levels from last year.

Source: @ScottGottliebMD

Scientists have inferred that the UK is about two weeks ahead of New York when it comes to the seasonal COVID waves. So, if London is already past the week, how much longer will New Yorkers need to put up with behavior like this:

Protestors in NYC are arrested for entering Burger King without showing proof of vaccination pic.twitter.com/XmwMHBcJi6

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 28, 2021

At any rate, the governor’s mansion has decided to extend mask and vaccine mandates through Feb. 1.

Put another way, maybe JPM’s Marko Kolanovic will finally be proven correct in that the omicron wave is bullish for risk because it means the end of the pandemic phase of COVID.

Authored by C.J.Baker via AmericanThinker.com,

As we approach the end of annus horribilis 2 (also known as 2021 A.D.), it seems worthwhile to to look back and summarize the events that have brought us where we are in the COVID-19 saga.

Here, in ten sentences, is how we got here.

1. Since at least 2014, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), through Anthony Fauci’s NIAID division, have sent millions of U.S. tax dollars to communist China to fund research involving the genetic alteration of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

2. Around October 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic began when a new coronavirus leaked out of the same Wuhan Institute of Virology and into the human population.

3. The Communist Chinese Party imposed a tight lockdown of its own population, while simultaneously allowing international travel to and from China, facilitating the virus’s worldwide spread.

4. As the pandemic unfolded, public health officials and the media used grossly overestimated death rates and false promises of self-limited measures (“two weeks to flatten the curve”) to promote unprecedented policies of prolonged, widespread quarantine of heathy populations, which continue to this day — two years later.

5. Simultaneously, in places such as New York State under former governor Andrew Cuomo, authorities knowingly put sick COVID-19 patients into close contact with highly vulnerable persons such as nursing home residents, resulting in tens of thousands of unnecessary and avoidable deaths.

6. Despite definitive evidence from the early stages of the pandemic that COVID-19 poses minimal risk of severe illness and statistically zero chance of death in children, and that children are not significant drivers of its spread, the Democrat party and the public teachers’ unions — with the help of health officials and the mainstream media — have forced schools to close for in-school learning for multiple school years, and continue to push for renewed school closures in many areas of the country.

7. As cheap, existing, and safe medications and treatments were identified that showed effectiveness in treating COVID-19, a systematic, worldwide movement to suppress and discredit such treatments was instigated by Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, the mainstream media, Big Pharma, and social media corporations, to protect their financial interests in vaccines and other proprietary medicines they had in development, resulting in tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.

8. As COVID-19 vaccines became available in the U.S. through Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA, these extremely new treatments were heavily promoted by Fauci, Gates, the media, Big Pharma, and social media under knowingly false pretenses, including repeated false claims that the vaccines 1) would provide herd immunity, 2) were equal or even superior to natural immunity, 3) stopped contraction and transmission of the virus, and 4) were safe and effective for all ages.

9. Even as the COVID-19 vaccines have now been shown to 1) lose effectiveness in a matter of weeks; 2) be ineffective at stopping transmission and spread of the virus; and 3) be inferior to natural immunity, and even as more than 20,000 vaccine-related deaths have been reported in the CDC’s own Vaccine Emergency Reporting System (VAERS) — with a similar level of reports in EudraVigilance (the E.U.’s reporting system), the likes of Fauci, President Joe Biden, current New York governor Kathy Hochul, and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio continue to press ever harder for repeated doses of these same vaccines, including among young children.

10. Although the current dominant strain of COVID-19 — the omicron variant — has been demonstrated to be more transmissible and much less deadly than prior strains, as well as dramatically mutated from the original strain after which the vaccines were modeled, Fauci, the Biden administration, the Democrat Party, and the mainstream media are now employing a policy of endless boosters with the increasingly obsolete yet lucrative vaccines, alongside the systematic scapegoating of unvaccinated persons, rather than employing the focused protection of the vulnerable and promotion of normal life and natural immunity among the healthy that has already been successfully implemented in numerous “free” states.

What conclusions can we draw from this series of events?  Here are a few:

• First, the “health care industry” is largely a syndicate run by government bureaucrats like Tony Fauci and Francis Collins, Big Pharma, and ultra-rich investor-influencers like Bill Gates.

• Second, the mainstream media and major social media platforms like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are diametrically opposed to freedom of speech and the free exchange of ideas.  In fact, their goal is the opposite: an Orwellian thought control of the population and the suppression of all dissenting voices.

• Third, the Democrat party is utterly corrupt and power-hungry, while the Republican Party is hopelessly gutless and ineffective.

• Lastly, the formula has been revealed for the permanent extinguishing of the civil liberties outlined in the Bill of Rights: declare an emergency, terrify the populace, control the message, stifle all dissent, and revoke the citizens’ freedoms indefinitely, all while grabbing and consolidating political power.  Coming soon: the climate “emergency.”

Happy 2022!

In his final Global Economics Analyst report of 2021, Goldman’s chief economist Jan Hatzius has published his favorite 10 charts to illustrate the key global themes that stood out this year and are likely to shape 2022.

In his brief previews, Hatzius writes that “the global economy recovered rapidly in 2021 as demand surged. Mass vaccinations and adaptation made growth less sensitive to infections although risk aversion to the virus remained high in Asia-Pacific for much of the year.Fiscal policy turned from a large boost in the spring into a modest drag in the US. However, policy remains more expansionary in the Euro Area.”

Of course, 2021 was a year when Goldman’s inflation forecasts – like those of most other career economists and Fed officials – were catastrophically wrong and the bank was forced to hike its year-end CPI and PCE forecast virtually every month as inflation went from “transitory” to not. That’s why in his final note the chief economist writes that “following this very rapid rebound in demand, our short-run output gaps tightened into overheating territory in the UK and, to a lesser degree, in the EuroArea, and the US.”

Not surprisingly, the Goldman economist admits that “the biggest surprise of the year was the global inflation surge, which was particularly pronounced for US goods, global energy, and Latin America.” Meanwhile, persistent labor shortages boosted wage growth in the US and the UK,which remained softer in the Euro Area.

As a result, Hatzius concludes, “G10 central banks tapered or ended asset purchases earlier than expected. The interest rate normalization process started in Norway, New Zealand, the UK, and much of Latin America and CEEMEA, and is set to broaden and deepen in 2022.”

So without further ado, here are Goldman’s Top charts of 2021.

We start with global growth, which ran sharply above potential as the Goldman “Effective Lockdown Index” trended down.

Unlike 2020, Goldman claims that mass vaccinations “reduced the virus sensitivity of the economy” although one should insert a big footnote here, as the Omicron variant appears to be prevalent almost exclusively among vaccinated individuals.

That said, risk aversion to covid remained high in much of Asia-Pacific where containment proved to be far more difficult.

Looking at the policy response, Goldman notes that fiscal policy began to drag in the US where Biden’s Build Back Better crashed and burned in Congress, but remained expansionary in the Euro Area thanks to pent-up savings (which however, we contend have been largely spent by the lower and middle classes, an argument which Morgan Stanley has also made repeatedly).

Goldman’s own output gap estimates tightened into overheating territory in the UK, and to a lesser extent in the Euro area and the US…

… which according to Goldman was due in part to a slow recovery in the labor force participation rate as workers simply refused to get back to the labor force.

And with fewer available workers, wage growth surged in the US and UK, and to a lesser extent in the Euro area.

Meanwhile, the sharply above trend demand for US goods boosted goods prices…

… while together with impaired supply led to much higher than expected inflation in most G10 economies.

Finally, in response to soaring prices, G10 central banks “tapered or ended” QE much sooner than expected, and with the Fed preparing for rates liftoff as soon as mid-2022, the normalization process already started in Norway, New Zealand, UK and much of LatAm and CEEMEA.

Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,

Every Friday we publish a roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty. For the end of 2021, we collected the best—or worst— stories that we wrote about this year. Enjoy… perhaps with the alcohol of your choice to ease the pain.

“Chestfeeding People” is the New Gender Inclusive Term in UK Hospitals

The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals are part of the UK’s National Health Service network.

About a year ago, the hospitals laid out their 2021 policy on “Gender Inclusion Language Guidance in Maternity Services”.

“For us, a gender-additive approach means using gender-neutral language alongside the language of womanhood, in order to ensure that everyone is represented and included.”

Apparently the term ‘breastfeeding’ is now offensive according to our social warlords. And it’s even more offensive to refer to a mother who’s nursing as a “breastfeeding woman,” because that terminology is not gender-inclusive.

So the hospitals therefore began referring to such people as “chestfeeding people”.

The hospital cites precedents set by the British Medical Association which “recognises that a large majority of people who get pregnant and give birth are women however some may be trans men or non-binary people.”

Therefore, the term “pregnant people” is more politically correct than “expectant mothers”.

Click here to read the bulletin.

Prayer Book: “Dear God, Please help me to hate White people.”

A prayer book called “A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal,” is a number one bestseller on Amazon in the category “meditation”.

One prayer, called “Prayer of a Weary Black Woman,” by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, a theology professor at Mercer University, starts:

“Dear God, Please help me to hate White people. Or at least to want to hate them… I want to stop caring about their misguided, racist souls, to stop believing that they can be better, that they can stop being racist.”

The “prayer” then describes the type of White person they want to hate— not the actual blatantly racist ones, but the “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who “don’t see color”, are friendly and accepting on the surface.

“Lord, if it be your will, harden my heart. Stop me from striving to see the best in people. Stop me from being hopeful that White people can do and be better. Let me imagine them instead as white-hooded robes standing in front of burning crosses. Let me see them as hopelessly unrepentant, reprobate bigots who have blasphemed the Holy Spirit and who need to be handed over to the evil one.”

“Grant me a Get Out of Judgment Free Card if I make White people the exception to your commandment to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.”

This is a sick, insane, religious cult of hateful people. But institutions like churches, schools, and corporations are pushing this blatant racism mainstream.

The book is also available at Target— a store which banned a book that gave voice to transgender people who regretted their decisions to transition.

But hatred of white people is perfectly acceptable.

Click here to see photos of the excerpts.

California Public Schools want to introduce prayer— to Aztec gods of human sacrifice

An approved state wide curriculum in California for elementary and high school students attempts to “decolonize” American society with an “ethnic studies” course.

In the course, children are instructed in Aztec chants to various gods of human sacrifice and cannibalism, asking the gods to make them warriors for social justice.

This is all to help the children “challenge racist, bigoted, discriminatory, imperialist/colonial beliefs” rooted in “white supremacy, racism and other forms of power and oppression.”

For example, Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war, was traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice. The school children will ask the deity to instill in them “a revolutionary spirit.”

The curriculum’s vision statement admits this is not about education, but rather a “tool for transformation, social, economic, and political change, and liberation.”

Click here to read the full story.

To protect women, UK politician suggests 6pm curfew for men

UK politician Jenny Jones, a Baroness in the House of Lords, said she might introduce “an amendment to create a curfew for men on the streets after 6 pm, which I feel would make women a lot safer, and discrimination of all kinds would be lessened.”

Except of course discrimination against the vast majority of innocent men who go out every evening and don’t harass women.

But hey, that logic didn’t stop public health officials from ordering a curfew for healthy people when a small minority of the public became infected with Covid-19.

Precedent suggests that a curfew for all men would be an entirely appropriate solution if violence against women is labeled a public health crisis.

During her comments, Jones referenced the murder of Sarah Everand, who disappeared during a nighttime walk in London.

The only problem with Jones’ solution: a Metropolitan Police Officer was convicted of the murder.

But perhaps that just means all officers on duty after 6pm would also have to be female. Why not create a parallel female society, so women never have to come into contact with men?

Naturally, anyone who has a problem with this logic must be science denier.

Click here to read the full story.

An actual medical journal says whiteness is “a malignant, parasitic-like condition”

“Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which ‘white’ people have a particular susceptibility.”

Sadly, this is not an Onion or Babylon Bee satirical news story— but it’s becoming harder to tell the difference.

The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, is a real academic journal which published a research article called On Having Whiteness.

The author is Donald Moss, a faculty member of both the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

He wrote:

“Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse. These deformed appetites particularly target nonwhite peoples. Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate. Effective treatment consists of a combination of psychic and social-historical interventions.”

The abstract notes that “There is not yet a permanent cure,” but perhaps scientists are developing a final solution…

Click here to read the study’s abstract.

Oppose COVID restrictions? You might be a terrorist.

Leading up to the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security warned about potential terrorism.

But for some reason, it was not focused on foreign terrorists harbored by the likes of the Taliban— now back in power in Afghanistan.

Instead, the DHS is focused on domestic extremists, saying:

“Such threats are also exacerbated by impacts of the ongoing global pandemic, including grievances over public health safety measures and perceived government restrictions.”

Wait, what?? “Perceived” government restrictions? It’s as if these people think the restrictions aren’t real. We’ve apparently been imagining all the restrictions over the past two years.

And anyone who does imagine these “perceived” restrictions, like mask mandates for school children, must be a domestic terrorist.

That makes perfect sense.

Click here to read the bulletin.

Australian Town Executes Dogs… to Prevent COVID

Volunteer workers at a dog shelter in Cobar, Australia were set to rescue several animals from a dog pound located approximately 100 miles away in the town of Bourke.

But the local government council in Bourke didn’t want any mangy, disgusting, diseased human beings coming into their town.

So the town council of Bourke ordered the dogs to be shot to death. Yes I’m serious.

The council said it killed the dogs “to protect its employees and community, including vulnerable Aboriginal populations, from the risk of COVID-19 transmission.”

Click here to read the full story.

The Designer of AOC’s “Tax the Rich” Dress Hasn’t Paid Her Taxes

In September, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore a dress emblazoned with “Tax the Rich” to the $35,000 per ticket MET Gala.

The designer of her dress is Aurora James, who sells overpriced dresses to celebrities. The design company owned by James owes almost $180,000 worth of taxes.

For failure to remit payroll taxes, the company owes New York state almost $15,000 and the federal government over $100,000. It also owes $62,000 in Worker’s Compensation to New York state.

Those debts were incurred before the pandemic. But during the pandemic, Aurora James’ company took over $41,000 in pandemic relief aid.

James also owes $2,500 in property taxes on a $1.6 million home she owns in Los Angeles.

Click here for the full story.

Woke, pro-mask pediatricians censor their own research

For years, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has stressed the importance of visual cues in childhood development.

In other words, young children develop language skills by seeing facial expressions in the adults they’re interacting with; when mommy smiles, it helps the child understand the words that she’s using, and that contributes heavily to overall language development.

The AAP had even published significant research on the topic, underscoring how critical it was for children to be able to see facial expressions.

But then COVID came along…

… and suddenly the “science” changed.

In August, the AAP completely reversed itself, almost in 1984 style.

In a Twitter blitz, the AAP stated that “[t]here are no studies to support this concern” that, if adults wear facemasks when speaking to children, their language development would be harmed.

Amazing. After years of publishing the exact studies they’re talking about— that visual cues and facial expressions are critical to a child’s language development, suddenly the AAP claims there are no studies.

They even went as far as scrubbing their own website and DELETING THEIR OWN RESEARCH!

Perhaps even more hilarious is that, when the AAP was caught censoring their own research, they claimed it was because of an ‘unscheduled web migration.’

Trust the science. Obey.

Click here to read the full story.

A School Tied a Mask Onto A Disabled Girl’s Face

A Florida father, Jeffrey Steele, was surprised one day when his young daughter Sophia came home from school with a mask on.

Jeffrey did not send Sophia to school wearing a mask because she has Down syndrome, cannot speak, and has an enlarged tongue, which makes it dangerous to force her to wear a mask.

And besides, Governor Ron DeSantis has banned Florida schools from requiring masks.

But Jeffrey was even more furious when he realized that the mask had been tied to Sophia’s face with nylon string so that she couldn’t take it off.

He soon discovered that school officials had been tying the mask to Sophia’s face every day for six weeks. But Sophia couldn’t alert her father, because she is non-verbal.

Only when school employees forgot to take the mask off before sending Sophia home one day did her father discover what was going on.

The school had previously given Sophia a mask exemption.

But apparently that was just for show— they thought nothing of inflicting literal child abuse on this girl.

These are the type of fanatics that educate your children.

Click here to read the full story.

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Much to the celebration of environmental “activists” and the chagrin of anyone applying common sense to the argument of why gas prices are so high at the moment, the world of oil and gas discoveries has run bone dry. 

Oil and gas firms are currently having their worst year for new fossil fuel discoveries since 1946, a new report from Quartz revealed this week.

The industry is set to discover 4.7 billion barrels of oil this year, marking the worst performance in 75 years.  The ratio of “proven reserves to production” is now at its lowest level since 2011, according to data from research firm Rystad Energy.

Large discoveries have typically account for most of the world’s new reserves, the report notes. 40% of all petroleum discovered has come from just 900 oil and gas fields, Quartz writes, stressing the importance of these new discoveries for the industry. Once discovered, existing wells then begin to deplete. In fact, global oil production declines by about 7% per annum without additional investment in existing fields.

But not only have there been no major new discoveries, cash for reinvesting in new supply is reportedly “scarce”. Cap Ex at oil and gas firms has been slashed due to the shockwave Covid send through the industry. 

The API told Quartz: “The industry was in a survival mode throughout 2020, reducing its capital expenditures to match with low cash flows through the 2020 covid-19 recession.”

Peter McNally from research firm Third Bridge, commented: “The companies are being run to generate free cash more than growth.”

The continued supply crunch, coupled with “re-opening” demand rising, could continue to push up prices into next year, the report says. “The next two years could require nearly all of the world’s spare oil production capacity,” Quartz concluded.