Education Minister Chris Hipkins is set to become New Zealand’s next prime minister after emerging as the only candidate Saturday to replace Jacinda Ardern. Hipkins still needs the endorsement from his Labour Party colleagues, but that’s believed to be a formality at this point. He’d have just over eight months in the role until the next general election. “It’s a big day for a boy from the... 

Amid the bustling streets of Guangzhou in southern China, chaos erupted as protesters clashed with riot police, donned in hazmat suits, in a display of defiance against President Xi Jinping’s oppressive regime and his controversial zero-Covid policies. Shouts and the shattering of glass reverberated through the air as demonstrators confronted the heavily equipped riot police. The police, clad... 

In a shocking turn of events, New Zealand authorities are attempting to remove a critically ill, 4-month-old baby from his family after the parents requested “pure blood” be used during vital heart surgery. The 4-month-old baby needs surgery for pulmonary valve stenosis, a heart valve disorder. The boy’s mother says she wants “pure blood” to be used, arguing that it is “safe” for her... 

In late January, 2021, just a month after the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines were granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December 2020, a dramatic change in Google trend searches for “decidual cast” was evident. Another surge in interest occurred in mid-June 2021, a month after the Pfizer vaccine was granted an expanded EUA for adolescents... 

As it mulls kicking Elon Musk’s Twitter off the app store, it has now been revealed that Apple restricted the use of AirDrop in China, a move that harmed the organizational efforts of demonstrators protesting against the CCP’s lockdowns. Over the past week, multiple major cities across China have seen massive protests against lockdowns, with the normally compliant Chinese exploding into rage in... 

A group of doctors in California are suing Governor Gavin Newsom over a law that gives the State’s Medical Board the authority to sanction doctors who hold views that are not in line with the official narrative regarding Covid-19. California became the first State to attempt this type of censorship by regulating what doctors can say to their patients about Covid after Governor Newsom signed Assembly... 

A 72-year-old man has been sentenced to six months in prison for the crime of serving mince pies with wine at his shooting club in 2020 while the area was under a lockdown. The BBC reports that “Maurice Snelling broke tier three restrictions at Cloudside Shooting Grounds in 2020,” by allowing people to sit in at his premises rather than take away. Mr Snelling pleaded guilty to perverting the course... 

After the controversial, two-months long coronavirus lockdown of Shanghai, China has once again placed a city of more than 20 million people under house arrest. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, a coronavirus lockdown in Chengdu in Central China that had started on Thursday was prolonged Monday. Mass tests are being carried out after the city saw 71 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday. While... 

Germans who are deemed “vaccinated” will not be subject to some of the contentious Health Minister’s new restrictive legislation. German citizens must get ready for universal mask regulations and stronger “protective standards” beginning in October, notwithstanding declining Covid numbers. Karl Lauterbach, the federal minister of health, is continuing with his divisive... 

Does anyone still remember how exciting it was in late 2020 when the COVID-19 vaccines were finally within reach? Excellent trial outcomes suggested that the epidemic might end in 2021. The key concern was the vaccinations’ accessibility, along with their fair distribution among nations. Even though scientists I know and trust had expressed skepticism about the vaccinations’ ability to... 

A senior EU official has had the audacity to claim that the bloc never pushed people into getting jabbed against Covid. Her claim has not surprsingly been met with disbelief from critics. Eurocrat Věra Jourová stunned onlookers on Tuesday after claiming that the bloc had never pushed citizens into getting jabbed in order to allow them access to public services. She said that claims to the contrary... 

Just over a week after we reported that “Shanghai was finally lifting its Covid lockdown“, China’s commercial capital is once again backsliding into the warm embrace of Wuhan’s proudest export, and will “briefly” lock down most of the city this weekend for mass testing as Covid-19 cases continue to emerge, causing more disruption and triggering a renewed run on groceries days after exiting... 

Hopes that the CCP might be easing its Shanghai lockdown were dashed this week as authorities loosened restrictions for manufacturers and others businesses, while mostly keeping restrictions on residential areas intact. Instead of winding down restrictions in Shanghai, authorities are now scrambling to suppress an outbreak in Beijing which they believe may have been spreading for as long as a week.... 

It appears as though a mass genocide is currently taking place in Shanghai as government officials starve residents to death in order to keep them “safe” against the latest strain of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). Reports are flooding in depicting troops and tanks on the streets, people screaming in terror, people jumping out of windows to commit suicide and farmers being arrested. And Big... 

China is reportedly facing its worst Covid crisis since early 2020 when an entire population was locked down to contain the virus in Wuhan and its surrounding province. Now, two years on, covid is seeing tens of millions of people forced into lockdown again, this time in the entire northeastern province of Jilin and the southern cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan. ABC news reports: China, the last major...