This chimp feels like my brother.  His laugh is mine.

"I want to watch this over and over again. Such unhinged delight at seeing the impossible happen" pic.twitter.com/qQU2Tna1rz

— Alan Alda (@alanalda) December 24, 2021

Monkees a Capella for Christmas

The Monkees doing a Spanish carol a capella in a single crisp take. 

One big melting pot of lovely harmony by The Monkees. Recorded in December of 1967. pic.twitter.com/AF9J1xCL8Y

— Vintage Los Angeles (@alisonmartino) December 24, 2021

Athlete Collapses and Deaths 2021

The chart covers just one year, 2021.
The December results are probably imcomplete and should be disregarded.
However, the October peak and November decline may well be real.
That November decline holds out the hope that  damage may be short term during the vaccine's active phase and not long term damage, but one hopeful month isn't enough data.

This chart turned up in an arrticle reporting that the American Pilots Association magazine was recording extremely high deaths this year.  If you chase that story down, you'll find it's bogus.  Death tallies refer mostly to retired pilots and sometimes past year deaths aren't reported to the Association for a year or two.  This produces a misleading 2021 tally with over 100 2021 deaths and under 10 2020 and 2019 deaths.   Actually, reported deaths in 2021 are down a bit from the two previous years.

Update on Los Angeles/Long Beach ship congestion:

Another factor is a secular shift in container delivery direct to the Gulf Coast and East Coast, thanks to the widening of the Panama Canal (2016) and the fact that 60% of the US population lives east of the Mississippi.

What's with Biden's announcement that wait times are down a bit at Los Angeles/Long Beach ports?

Key roadblocks summarized here.  A feature I overlooked is  "Loitering Offshore & Slow Steaming". See chart.  The number of ships"in harbour" is going down

but the number of ships not completing their trips has not.

"(The) secular trend was interrupted by COVID, which flipped the balance of power back to the west.  Passenger planes were grounded, slashing air cargo capacity. Air freight rates spiked at the very time locked-in Americans accelerated their use of e-commerce. Importers needed goods faster to accommodate surging consumer demand. Some that had previously used air shifted to premium, high-speed trans-Pacific ocean service. Others that had previously favored the East Coast switched to LA/LB to save two weeks in transit time.

According to new data from Shifl, average transit time from China to New York is now actually lower than from China to Los Angeles."

Paxlovid almost as good as off-patent Ivermectin? Dr. John Campbell reports the research in 22 minutes Video.

All in one place, Dr. Campbell presents the science comparing Pfizer's patented Paxlovid pill to off-patent Ivermectin.  They have different architectures which means Pfizer can patent Paxlovid.  However, both can be turned to AFTER developing Covid-19 symptoms.  Both inhibit the snipping power of the same enzyme.  The Covid-19 virus relies on the 'CL-3 protease' snipper enzyme to chop our own protein down to shorter lengths that the virus can use to build copies of itself.  Annoyingly, it appears that inexpensive Ivermectin handily beat the other 23 drugs that researchers checked out as candidates to be repurposed.  It hobbled the novel coronavirus, but is actively disallowed in many countries and forums.  Don't worry about this being fringe science.  Links to the full research papers are included at every step.

Pro tip:  You'll get better results from DuckDuckGo than from Google for questioning Covid-19 narratives.      Confession:  I wanted to say "fora" instead of "forums" but prefer to be understood.

We are in an abusive relationship with government.

 h/t to theconservativetreehouse.com

 

Gun Homicides in Canada and the US are the Same, if You Don't Count Blacks and Hispanics. Ouch, That Messes the Narrative.

 

Greasing Clinton Palms Doesn't Matter Any More. Clinton Foundation Donations Crater.

"This pretty well leaves the purpose of the operation butt-naked. 
It's always been a political influence-peddling operation."

Chart from Issues&Insights.

Correlation between Stock Market values (P/E ratio) and Inflation for the last 150 years.

How to read the chart: (Sourced here)
Red-blue-green from left to right is arbitrary, implying 0 to 3% is a good normal and it doesn't tell you which dots are old and which ones are new.  The exceptions to that are below:Near the middle, are a few connected dots for Aug/Sept 1929Just above is a connected loop of orange dots showing the Tech Bubble 1998-2001.
Above that is a connected line of brown dots showing 2014 to the present, our current trend line.
At the top and off to the right a bit is a yellow dot for today at the end of the trendline.
That yellow dot is high for inflation but the shocker is the price people are paying compared to the earnings companies actually report. This hasn't been seen in the last century and a half.

John  Mauldin writes:

"That suggests one of two things needs to happen: either inflation needs to drop dramatically or the stock market needs to drop significantly, or some combination of the two—at least from a historical perspective. Depending on how you measure standard deviation, we are somewhere between 4–5 standard deviations from the mean. Again, dramatically higher than the Roaring 20s (well more than double) or the tech bubble (more than 50% higher)."

All I see from Covid overspending is inflation coming out the ying yang for years. 

 

Chart from CDC data shows Covid Vax has killed more people than all other vaccines since 1988.

 This data is extracted from CDC's own database.  You can find it readily on DuckDuckGo but good luck finding it on Google today.  Search term:  "VAERS reported deaths by Vaccine Type (1988-2021)".  In a sane world, the vaccine would have been pulled immediately.

 

Delta, Nu, Omicron ( But not Xi) are dumbed down summaries. The Coronavirus has thousands of forms with some families on the uptick.

 This chart and map show how many varieties of the Covid-19 inducing virus had spurng up and been spotted in the labs in the first sixty days and where they were most common.    We're a year and a half past that.  Back then "Blue" was mostly in China and "Red" was mostly in western US and Canada.

 

The Jab in the Arm is a Stab in the Heart: Dramatic Inflammation Increase. OR NOT. See update below.

Don't jab your kids in the heart!
New COVID vaccine research published Nov 8th in 'Circulation':

"We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination."  S.R. Gundry.

 

I've read that COVID-19 is best characterized as a disease of the "vascular endothelium", the cells lining our blood delivery system.  New to me is the report that T cells, our attack team, are being found within the heart muscle.  They shouldn't be finding enemies there. 

A link here to Dr Coleman who several hours after reading the paper above, urged an immediate halt to these vaccinations.    "This is the moment when the jabbing has to stop".  Maybe we should offer immunity from prosecution to allow the mandaters to save face when they stop doubling down.

CIRCULATION has posted a caveat
How serious is this?  Typography, not so much.  Lack of data in the abstract summary doesn't mean it won't be in the main paper.  The extended article at the link has "ad hominem" attacks on Gundry.  The outcry seems linked to defence of the prevailing narrative.  However,  that "only anecdotal data was used" is a big flag.

"After an outcry, Circulation flagged the published poster with the following notice: 

Soon after publication of the above abstract in Circulation, it was brought to the American Heart Association Committee on Scientific Sessions Program’s attention that there are potential errors in the abstract. Specifically, there are several typographical errors, there is no data in the abstract regarding myocardial T-cell infiltration, there are no statistical analyses for significance provided, and the author is not clear that only anecdotal data was used. 

We are publishing this Expression of Concern until a suitable correction is published to indicate that the abstract in its current version may not be reliable."

Why do the double VAXXED still carry and transmit infections?

The VAX triggers production of the virus spike protein which triggers production of Immunoglobulin antibodies, type G and A.  More G than A and the A begins to decline quickly.

Type G mainly circulates on patrol in the blood but Type A is mainly patrolling the mucosal lining of nose and throat.  Unfortunately, the nose and throat surfaces are the landing zone and first nursery of the Covid-19 virus.  Therefore, the "fully vaccinated" can harbour and breed Covid-19 virus in the landing zone because the first line of defence weakens soon after the shots, even while having a second line of defence circulating in their blood.
Source at NIH

The illustration from the NIH source shows the pinkish area is the main domain of IgG and the lining of inside passages through us (nose, throat,lungs, bowels) are predominantly patrolled by IgA.

As a kid you read about world poverty. Update your data. Most extreme poverty has disappeared..

 Fifty years ago, maybe half the world could be considered living in extreme poverty. Today it's about one tenth.  Sad for the tenth, great improvement for four tenths.  Sources.

2300 year old multi-tool from a Roman soldier

 

Source

"I didn't move". The center moved in US politics

Posted by Colin Wright.

Bizarre Metaverse Intro Featuring Zuckerberg Himself. YOU ARE THE CONTENT.

 Mr Zuckerberg is promoting rather than hiding this video in which he presents a vision for the future, a future where pretend replaces "is" and you don't just provide the content for Facebook's profit, YOU ARE THE CONTENT.   Zuckerberg playing Zuckerberg is off-putting.

The hour-long version on Connect Oct 28 2021 is here.
An excerpted eight minute version is here.
An acerbic edit with Russel Brand commentary is here.