Evening Headlines

Bloomberg:

• China Accuses Walmart of ‘Stupidity’ Over Missing Xinjiang Goods.
  
• Kim Jong Un Prioritizes Food Crisis Over Nuclear Talks in 2022.  
• Five Things to Watch in Asia Stocks Amid 2022 Reversal Hopes.  
• South Korea Exports Gain as Annual Shipments Reach Record.
• Cases Rise ‘Through the Roof’ as Omicron Sweeps Across U.S.  
• U.S. Schools Push Covid Tests After Anxiety of Holiday Surge.
• Three Monster Years for the S&P 500 Set a Towering Bar for January.
• Bitcoin Ends Its Bang of a 2021 With a December Whimper.
• Bull Market Overcame Virus Waves, Fed Pivot in Tempestuous 2021.
• Investing in 2022 Will Be More Challenging, CalSTRS’ Ailman Says.  
• Commodities Notch Their Best Year Since Financial Crisis Rebound.  
• Exxon in Danger of Being Next Blockbuster, Kodak, CalSTRS CIO Says.  
• For First Time, All 11 S&P 500 Sectors in Double Digits: Chart.

Wall Street Journal:

• Many Hospitals Fail to Comply With Price-Disclosure Rules.
• Chief Justice Roberts Pledges to Bolster Judicial Ethics.
• Beijing Fell Short on Trade Promises, Creating Dilemma for Biden.
• Omicron Blurs Oil Outlook After Demand Roars Back.
• Who Won in Afghanistan? Private Contractors.

Fox News:  

• Legendary actress Betty White, known for decades of iconic roles and beloved as national figure, dies at 99.
• EXCLUSIVE: What DeSantis was doing when critics claimed he was 'missing'.

CNBC:

• S&P 500 ends 2021 with a nearly 27% gain, but dips in final trading day.
• Bought your kid a VR headset for Christmas? You might end up regretting it.
• FDIC chair intends to resign in February, giving Biden more say over regulation.
• From SPACs to chips: Five ways 2021 may have forever changed the auto industry.
• China warns Walmart over alleged removal of Xinjiang-sourced products from stores.

Zero Hedge: 

• China Launches Mineral Hunting Satellite To Maintain Rare Earth Monopoly.
• China Phasing Out All NEV Subsidies By 2023.
• Fauci Goes There: Finally Admits Kids Not Being Hospitalized From COVID.
• Mapped: Top Trending Searches Of 2021 In Every US State.
• Hate-Crime Hoaxes Of 2021.
• COVID Testing Has Become Ridiculous & Even Counterproductive.
• COVID-19 Explained In 10 Sentences.
• The Biggest Junk Science Of 2021.
• CDC Sued For Withholding Post-Licensure V-Safe Data On COVID Vaccines.
• Goldman's Top Charts For 2021. 
• Oil And Gas Discoveries Plunge To Lowest Level In 75 Years.
• The 10 Most Ridiculous Stories From The Past Year.
• Watch: Kamala Harris Gives Bizarre Answer To Inflation Question.
• Is The Peak Of NYC's Omicron Wave Just Around The Corner?
• The Fall Of The Mainstream Media And The Biggest Lies They Told In 2021.
• Cryptos & Crude Soar As Stocks End 2021 At Most Expensive Level Ever.

MarketWatch.com:       

• These are the best-performing S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 stocks of 2021.   
• Wall Street’s favorite stocks for 2022 include Alaska Air, Caesars and Lithia Motors.

NewsMax:

• Experts Warn Pfizer Antiviral Pills May Pose Risks With Other Medications.   
• Retired Gen. Holt: Vax Mandate Sows Division in Military Ranks.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• JUST IN: Federal Prosecutors Drop Case Against Epstein Jail Guards.
• New York Gov. Hochul Declares Racism A ‘Public Health Crisis’ Then Withholds COVID Treatments From White Patients.
• WTH? Biden Regime Signs $137 Million Deal with GERMAN Company to Make COVID Test Strips — Will Start Producing in Late 2024 at the Earliest.
• Without Warning The Gateway Pundit Is Banned from Paypal.
• Despite Entire Team Being Fully Vaccinated – Two Thirds of Antarctic Polar Researchers Have Contracted COVID-19.
• Part 2: Canada COVID Care Alliance Analysis Shows Pfizer’s Vaccination for Kids is ‘ALL RISK’ and No Benefit – Pfizer Acknowledges it Will Cause Myocarditis in Children (VIDEO).
• NEW REPORT REVEALS the Ruthless, Efficient Strategy Used By Detroit Election Officials, Paid Workers and Outside Agitators To Prevent GOP Poll Challengers From Uncovering Voter Fraud.

The Epoch Times:

• China Pursues ‘Brain Control’ Weaponry in Bid to Command Future of Warfare.
• Chinese Regime Brings Back Public Humiliation by Parading COVID-19 Rule Breakers in Southwest China.

Twitter:

• @DiscloseTV - JUST IN - 89.7% of people infected with #Omicron in Denmark are either "fully vaccinated" or had their first booster, per report from today. 77.9% of the population is fully vaccinated.
• @JackPosobiec - Are you paying attention yet? The DOJ and Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers have made a deal that her “little black book” of contacts will never be made public.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 709,083 Reports(+7,757 from prior week) Through December 24, 2021.
  

SKirsch.com:

• Using the MGH numbers with our own VAERS queries, we have 247 cases per million doses from the MGH study divided by 5.97 cases per million doses from VAERS. 247/5.97 = 41. This suggests that the VAERS under-reporting factor (URF) is 41X.

Covid-19(Data, Maps, Graphs):

• Our World in Data:  New Global Covid-19 Cases(7-day rolling average graphs). New US Covid Hospital Admissions/ICU Admissions/Deaths
  
• FT.com:  Fully Vaccinated by Country(graph). Global Lockdown Stringency Index(map).
• Bloomberg.com:  International Travel Restrictions.  Case Graphs by State.
  
• NYTimes.com:  County Trends and Clusters. Local ICU Occupancy.
  
• Brown School of Public Health:  Covid Severity by State/County(map).  US Hospital Capacity(region).
  
• CovidActNow:  Covid Severity/Infection Rate by Metro Area.
  
• KFF:  US Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity.
  
• Carnegie Mellon: Covid-Like Symptoms in Community. Covid Symptom Searches on Google. Covid-Related Dr.Visits.  Restaurant Visits. Wearing Masks. (graphs)
  
• Safegraph.com:  Commerce Patterns(graphs).