Evening Headlines

Bloomberg:

• Biden Says He’s Convinced Putin Has Decided to Invade Ukraine.
  
• Russian Media Reports Fire at Gas Pipeline: Ukraine Update.
• Gold Price Pushes Above $1,900 as Ukraine Crisis Spurs Haven Demand.
• Oil Posts First Weekly Loss Since December as Rally Cools Off.
  
• End of ECB Reign as Dovish Holdout Seen Fueling Euro Rebound.
• Crisis in China’s Property Industry Deepens With No End in Sight.
  
• China’s New Crackdown Shows $1.5 Trillion Tech Rout Not Over Yet.
• Top Fed Officials Back March Liftoff as Consensus Takes Shape.
• Cathie Wood’s Portfolio Hit as Roku, Tesla, Roblox Shares Drop.
• Capitol Girding for Potential Trucker Protest at State of Union.  
• New York City Renters Are Lining Up to Fight Brutal Bidding Wars.  
• Delay in AT&T’s 3G Shutdown Is Sought to Keep Home Alarms Working.  
• Brainard Says It’s Appropriate to Start Series of Fed Hikes in March.

Wall Street Journal:

• Good Riddance to the Beijing Olympics. That wasn’t the Olympic spirit, so let’s see some real reforms.
• U.S. Warns of Imminent Russian Invasion of Ukraine With Tanks, Jets, Cyberattacks.
• Inside Facebook’s $10 Billion Breakup With Advertisers.
• America’s Power Grid Is Increasingly Unreliable.
• Fed Officials Push Back Against Prospect of Half-Point Increase in March.
• Frackers Hold Back Production as Oil Nears $100 a Barrel.
• How Government Spending Fuels Inflation. When debt grows so much that people don’t believe the Treasury will pay it, they sell their bonds and buy other things, sending prices through the roof.
• Ship Backup Off Port of Charleston Swells to 30 Vessels.

Fox News:       

• Biden admin, allies concerned about big decision by Ukraine's president as US makes invasion prediction.
• Former Obama official hits Biden for 'reactive response' to Putin's actions towards Ukraine.
• US preps big banks for Russian cyberattacks amid Ukraine crisis.
• Pastors rebuke liberal prime minister for 'tyrannical actions' against protesters.
• Trans athlete dominates rival women swimmers at Ivy League Championship.

CNBC:

• Dow sheds more than 200 points Friday as Russia-Ukraine tensions roil markets.
• Fed approves rules banning its officials from trading stocks, bonds and also cryptocurrencies.
• Intel delays 2023 server chip, says it needs to boost spending to catch competitors.
• The Fed is going to hike rates regardless if Biden’s nominees are confirmed, economists say.

Zero Hedge:  

• Powerful Gas Pipeline Explosion Rocks Eastern Ukraine; Biden "Convinced By Intel" Putin Has Decided To Invade.
• Heavily-Armed Ottawa Police Arrest At Least 70 'Freedom Convoy' Protesters, Will Run "24 Hours A Day" To Clear City.
• California High School Caves After Students Stage Walkout Over Mask Mandate.
• 1 In 5 'Gen Z' Adults Now Say They Are LGBTQ.
• Modern Monetary Theory, And The "Economists" Advocating For It, Will Destroy The United States.
• U.S. Diesel Stocks Set To Fall Critically Low.
• Markets Are Focused On The Wrong Fed Put.
• A Fed Policy Mistake Would Be To Stay Loose Relative To Markets.
• One Bank Spots A Market Signal That A "Recession Shock" Is Coming.
• Rand Paul Vows To "Force A Repeal Of The Federal Regulation Mandating Masks".
• "Bottomless ATM": Brooklyn Gang Members Scammed Over $4 Million From COVID Relief Funds.
• "The People's Convoy" Heading To Washington, Organizers Unveil Their Plans.
• Gold Soars, Credit Cracks, Stocks Sink As Putin, Powell, & The President Pontificate.

MarketWatch.com:     

• Death cross crystallizes in Nasdaq on Friday for first time in 2 years, in a bearish sign for the stock market.
  
• You’re already paying more for groceries and gas. Here’s where consumers will feel the next round of ‘sticker shock.’.

NewsMax:

• Maureen Steele: Thousands Expected for US Trucker Convoy.
• Rep. Reed: 'Asinine Political Decisions' Behind Gas Price Hikes.
  
• Germany to Put Its Troops in NATO's Quick Reaction Force on Higher Alert.

TheGatewayPundit.com: 

• BIG STANDOFF IN OTTAWA – Hundreds of Cops Brought In – Snipers on Buildings – Trudeau’s Tiananmen Square.
• CRACKDOWN RAMPS UP: Ottawa Police Clash with Truckers As They Make Mass Arrests – Begin Smashing Windows to Forcefully Remove Protesters from Vehicles – (VIDEO).
• Banana Republic: Friday’s Parliamentary Debate on Trudeau’s Use of Emergencies Act is CANCELED Due to Police Crackdown on Truckers.
• Meta-Facebook Axes Employee Caught in Underage Sex Sting.
• Jen Psaki Again Insists Ukraine Should Not Be Invaded by Unwanted Foreigners — Forgets About US Southern Border (VIDEO).
• Wisconsin Speaker Vos Is Determined to Prevent Legitimate Results in the 2020 Election from Being Uncovered While Preventing Free and Fair Elections Going Forward.
• IT’S TRUE! Missouri GOP Lawmakers Sell Their Souls for ‘Ranked Choice Voting’ that Ensures Democrats Win Future Elections in a Trump +15 State.
• Canadian Convoy Protest Organizers Tamara Lich, Chris Barber Arrested in Ottawa.
• Biden’s Fully Vaxxed and Boosted Surgeon General Vivek Murthy – and His Entire Family – Test Positive For Covid.
• Ottawa Police Threaten to Arrest Media Covering Freedom Convoy Arrests.
• “My Choices Now are Between my Job and my Life” – Woman Shares Her Tragic Story Following Pfizer Shots.
• CDC Quietly Changes Guidelines on Children’s Age-Specific Speech Expectations Following Two Years of Devastating Masking Policies.
• Meanwhile in Western Canada: Violent Leftists with Axes Attack Canadian Gas Pipeline Company — Try to Torch Vehicle with Workers Inside, Cause MILLIONS of Dollars in Damages… Where’s Trudeau?
• Trudeau Donated to Black Lives Matter and Kneeled in Obedience — Then Arrests Working Truckers, Freezes Their Bank Accounts and Steals Their Dogs who Oppose His Vax Mandates.
• Legendary NFL Sideline Sportscaster Michele Tafoya Resigns – Stands Up Against Critical Race Theory Being Taught to Her Kids.

The Epoch Times:

• Olympic Committee President Rebukes China Over Comments on Taiwan, Xinjiang.

Twitter:

• @bennyjohnson - Mark Levin BURIES Trudeau FOR GOOD in the BEST DEFENSE of Freedom Truckers You’ll Ever See. (video) WATCH FULL FASCISM ON DISPLAY IN OTTOWA. Police ripping children from their parents. Assaulting peaceful protesters. Arresting grandmothers. Harassing media. Pure Gestapo tactics. Share this so people see the TRUTH: They want to criminalize dissent. Power over everything. (video)
  
• @DesantisProject - 19 RINO Senators just voted to continue all vax mandates:
• @TruthMediaEN - #Canadian police now threatening to arrest journalists trying to cover their brutal crackdown on peaceful protestors.
• @TheRealKeean - The head of the Freedom Convoy, @Tamara_MVC, is preparing to be arrested. "I think it is inevitable. I want you to know that I am not afraid. Stay peaceful, and please take care of each other." If Canada is ever governed by a non-tyrant, Tamara deserves the Order of Canada. (video)
• @fFreedomConvoy - Tamara Lich has been arrested, but we will continue to #holdtheline. (video)
• @lincolnmjay - "like them, we are patriots, we love our nation and we want our country back." You won't see this from the state broadcaster or corporate media here in. Kuljeet and his fellow Sikh brothers travelled from Toronto to Ottawa to stand with the truckers.(video)
• @UkraineDiary - GAS PIPELINE TO EUROPE DESTROYED IN LUGANSK. Reports say it carries half the European gas. (video)
• @LFCNewsMedia - Not Sure What Mounted Police is Attempting to do in Ottawa but it Sure Looks Like Trampling. (video) An Ottawa Police Officer Beats and Knee Thrusts an Already-Wounded Man to the Ground. (video)

GETTR:

• @DiscloseTV - NEW - Bill Gates at Munich Security Conference: "Sadly the virus itself particularly the variant called Omicron is a type of vaccine, creates both B cell and T cell immunity and it's done better job of getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines." (video)
  

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 753,481 Reports(+5,722 from prior week) Through February 4, 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).