News analysis A new scientific study titled “Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA vaccination in randomized trials” provides the best evidence yet concerning the safety of the mRNA COVID vaccines. For most vaccines in common use, benefits far outweigh risks, but that may not be the case for the mRNA COVID vaccines, according to this…
E-Payment Industry Growing in China, Despite Risks
News Analysis The electronic payment (e-payment) industry and RMB digital business have been rapidly pushing forward over the past year in China, highlighting the way money will be more easily controlled by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Compared to other payment methods such as cash, bills, or bank cards, e-payments are often more convenient,…
EU Renews Digital COVID Pass Despite 99 Percent Negative Public Feedback
News analysis Acting on a proposal of the European Commission, the European Parliament, as expected, voted on June 23 to renew the EU Digital COVID Certificate for another year. The vote was 453 for, 119 against, and 19 abstentions. The certificate regulation had been scheduled to expire on June 30. Earlier this month, a delegation from the…
There Is No Basis for the FDA to Authorize COVID Vaccines for Toddlers
News analysis In a historically embarrassing decision, the FDA recently became the only international regulatory body to authorize the use of mRNA vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer for children aged six months to five years. For the overwhelming majority of young children and toddlers, there is likely no justification or need for this concerning authorization. They are…
WHO and Lancet Commission Chiefs Come Out In Support of Lab Leak Theory
News analysis World Health Organization (WHO) Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reportedly admitted to a senior European politician that the virus that causes COVID-19 most likely came out of a Wuhan lab. The Daily Mail reports that Tedros made the admission citing a catastrophic lab accident. The disclosure comes on the heels of a WHO investigative report…
A Tutoring Company Seeks Way-out from Bilingual Livestream E-Commence Amid a Targeted Crackdown
News Analysis A new type of bilingual live sales is hot in China, likely indicating a successful transformation for New Oriental, a renowned tutoring company, that struggled for survival after the Chinese communist regime imposed an ever-harsher crackdown on the off-campus tutoring sector. Yuhui Dong, a former teacher for New Oriental off-campus tutoring company, became…
Book Review: ‘Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less’
It’s easy to see why the legacy media has placed a target on Alex Epstein’s back: the “Fossil Future” author fights to win. In the weeks leading up to the release of his latest book, “The Washington Post” planned to attack Epstein by labeling him a bigot. When Epstein learned about it beforehand, he struck…
Are Social Credit Scores Coming to America?
News Analysis As new technology is developed to track peoples’ behavior and generate environmental and social credit scores, some state lawmakers are sounding the alarm that the United States may be following China in imposing behavioral ratings on its citizens. China has been working since 2014 to impose a social credit system on its population…
Russia: The Road Not Taken
News Analysis Russia and China have a long land border, both countries have an ostensibly strong military and nuclear weapons, and both have large populations that it seems their regimes don’t mind sacrificing for their own survival. Both were ruled by communist regimes; one still is. During the Cold War, President Richard Nixon and Secretary…
A ‘Goldilocks’ May Jobs Report, But …
Commentary May jobs printed at 390,000 new jobs above the consensus estimate of 325,000. The unemployment rate was 3.6 percent, unchanged from last month, but down from last May’s 5.8 percent. The labor force participation rate was 62.3 percent, up from the 61.1 percent that printed in May 2021. The Labor Participation Rate was 62.3 percent, up 10 basis…
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