Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:

• Japan Says Chinese Military Drone Spotted Near Island of Okinawa.
• Yen Starts Year on Front Foot as Traders Eye Dollar Cliff Edge.  
• European Bond Markets Were Roiled This Year In Ways Few Imagined.
  
• Ukraine Latest: Russia Launches Drone Attacks on New Year’s Day.
  
• US Jobs Report Likely to Show Still-Tight Labor Market.  
• New Year Stand-Offs and Price Dips Predicted for Housing Market in 2023.

 Wall Street Journal: 

• EV Shift Triggers Auto-Factory Building Boom.
• U.S. Offshore-Wind Plans Face Threat From Rising Costs.
• The Year Big Tech Stocks Fell From Glory.
• Rookie Traders Are Calling It Quits, to Their Families’ Relief.
• Are Vaccines Fueling New Covid Variants? The virus appears to be evolving in ways that evade immunity.
• McCarthy’s Speaker Bid Faces Final Hurdle.

Fox News:

• WATCH:Americans grade Biden's performance halfway through term.

CNBC:

• More social media regulation is coming in 2023, members of Congress say.
• Nasdaq closes out its first four-quarter slump since dot-com crash.
• North Korea’s Kim orders ‘exponential’ expansion of nuke arsenal.

Zero Hedge:

• Top 10 Conspiracy Theories That Will Be Validated In 2023.
• 'Radicalized' Times Square Attacker Was On FBI Watchlist.
• Tesla Tax Loss And Positive Catalysts.
• America's Top New Year's Resolutions For 2023.
• In War For Control Of Humanity, Thoughts And Emotions Are The Battlefield: Dr. Robert Malone.
• 15 Million Americans Set To Lose Medical Coverage As Public Health Emergency Ends.
• Excerpts For The Democrat-To-English Dictionary: Updated For 2023.
• 2023: You Wanted Endless Stimulus, You Got Stagflation.
• Swiss National Referendum Will Limit Population To 10 Million Through Strict Immigration Control, To Save Environment.
• 2022's Ten Most 'Conspiratorial' Events.

NewsMax:

• Border, Inflation, Energy Dominate Issues for Republicans in New Year: AP-NORC Poll.
• Norquist: Corporate Taxes Will Hurt Americans in 2023.
• Rep. Gimenez: 'Woke' Blue State Policies, More Crime.

TheGatewayPundit.com:

• BIDEN ECONOMY: Biden Wiped Out $10 Trillion of Americans’ Wealth – 2022 Was Worst Stock-Bond-Equity Year Since 1871. 
• In Your Face: McConnell to Host Biden at Infrastructure Bill Celebration in Kentucky the Day After GOP Takes House Majority.
• Democrats to Increase Taxes in 2023 During Highest Inflation in 40 Years and Worst Stock-Bond-Equity Losses Since 1871.
• Large Trucks and Buses Made Before 2010 Now Banned From California Roadways
• California is Now a ‘Sanctuary State’ For Transgender Children.
• BREAKING: Suspect Behind NYPD New Year’s Eve Attack Was on FBI Radar – Trevor Bickford a Recent Convert to Islam.
• Archbishop Vigano Calls on Faithful to Fast for Three Days for Jan 6 Political Prisoners – On January 3rd, 4th and 5th.
• Socialist-Marxist Leadership Sweeps Across South America as 2023 Begins – With the Help of the Pro-China Biden Regime. 
• Josh Hawley Slams Mitch McConnell For Poor Republican Outcome in 2022 Midterms.
  

The Epoch Times:

• ‘Mind Dominance’: The CCP’s Disinformation War on US Social Media.

Twitter:

• @dockaurG - Stanford Prof Ioannidis et al Covid pre-vaccination Infection Fatality Rate paper is now peer-reviewed & published. Conclusions all same. Catastrophic societal harms imposed d/t irrational fear & mass hysteria of a virus with IFR lower than influenza.

OpenVAERS:

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 912,074 Reports(+6,021 from prior week) Through December 16th, 2022. 

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).