Oil Prices Slide as China Broadens Coronavirus Lockdowns
Oil prices were down about two percent on Friday as China broadened its coronavirus lockdowns and travel restrictions, greatly reducing its import demand.
Oil prices were down about two percent on Friday as China broadened its coronavirus lockdowns and travel restrictions, greatly reducing its import demand.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) “lied” about the reality of school closures during Tuesday night’s debate, a Michigan Freedom Fund ad reveals, walking viewers through the reality of the situation, which had some students out of school for well over a year.
The city of Shanghai on Tuesday began dispensing aerosolized booster shots for China’s woefully ineffective coronavirus vaccine products, a technique meant to make booster doses faster and more palatable to the population than traditional injection methods.
Author Michael Walsh said the World Economic Forum (WEF) pushes its Great Reset to impose control over people’s food, mobility, and housing.
The Chinese Communist regime announced on Wednesday that Universal Beijing Resort will be closed indefinitely, and several districts in the major cities of Wuhan and Guangzhou have been locked down, due to surging coronavirus cases.
Florida’s approach throughout the Chinese coronavirus — prioritizing in-person learning — has proven to be wise, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] results, which further demonstrates the devastating impact coronavirus shutdowns had, particularly on children.
Peng Lifa, identified as a Chinese physicist and dissident responsible for hanging banners against communism in Beijing last week, has reportedly inspired a wave of copycat protest messages in at least eight Chinese citizens, Australia’s news.com.au reported on Wednesday.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is reportedly planning to replace up to half of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, and up to four members of the powerful seven-seat Politburo Standing Committee, as he consolidates power ahead of his unprecedented third term.
The Chinese government was scheduled to release its third-quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report on Tuesday, but the publication was suddenly delayed indefinitely on Monday, without a formal announcement or explanation.
David Bahnsen, chief investment officer at the Bahnsen Group, spoke with Breitbart News about how the combination of Democrats’ massive spending and shutdowns contributed to the record-high inflation Americans are dealing with today.
Republican Tudor Dixon hammered Democrat Gretchen Whitmer for her nursing home policy and overall coronavirus response at the debate.
Coronavirus lockdowns returned to the Chinese mega-city of Xi’an on Tuesday, as classes were suspended, public venues shut down, and tourist attractions closed. Chinese citizens, both those residing in Xi’an and outside the city, flooded social media with angry and frightened posts at the latest twist in China’s seemingly endless lockdown horror show.
The Chinese-controlled government of Hong Kong announced last week that it will give away 500,000 free airline tickets worth HK$2 billion ($254.8 million) to tourists and business travelers next year as part of a plan to revitalize the nation’s ravaged tourism industry after two years of fierce Chinese coronavirus travel restrictions.
The Chinese Communist Party’s newspaper People’s Daily on Monday told citizens to “boost their confidence” and be “patient” with China’s brutal coronavirus lockdowns as the Communist Party Congress (CPC) begins next weekend.
After enduring two months of brutal lockdowns that left its populace on the brink of starvation, residents of China’s oppressed Xinjiang region were told on Wednesday they will not be allowed to leave the region because the Chinese coronavirus is still running wild.
The U.S.-based news organization Radio Free Asia (RFA) confirmed with Chinese officials this weekend that at least 13 people, believed to all be of Uyghur background, died in East Turkistan as a result of poisoning from “disinfecting” agents the Communist Party has flooded the region in as a form of pandemic response.
China’s Communist Party boasted this weekend of packing Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, site of the party’s most famous massacre, with over 200,000 people to celebrate the fall of China to communism.
An ongoing lockdown in occupied Tibet and mass internment of residents in Chinese coronavirus quarantine camps have led locals to post dozens of videos expressing panic and condemning the Communist Party for ill-treatment in the past month, resulting in a rare apology from local officials followed by brutal censorship online.
China’s Global Times government newspaper accused leftist President Joe Biden this week of declaring the Chinese coronavirus pandemic “over” as a means of boosting Democrat prospects in the upcoming midterm elections, predicting that doing so would “lead to a spike in cases and deaths” throughout America.
A commission assembled by the renowned British medical journal Lancet to examine worldwide responses to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic issued a scathing report on Wednesday, blasting governments around the globe for exposing themselves as “untrustworthy and ineffective.”
Pro-lockdown Wisconsin Senate Democrat candidate Mandela Barnes mocked small business owners as “selfish” after the pandemic, a video unearthed by the Republican National Committee shows.
Nili Kaplan-Myrth, a physician based in Ottawa, framed the word “normal” as “far-right language” used by “anti-vaxxers” while wearing a mask.
Math and reading scores for nine-year-olds dropped to their lowest since 1990 during the coronavirus pandemic a survey shows.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, is attempting to deflect blame for promoting school closures that crippled American students’ educations.
The huge Chinese city of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, extended its coronavirus lockdown and mass testing program on Sunday, trapping most of its 21 million citizens in their homes.
Schmidt pointed a new report which showed how 9-year-olds saw the largest average score decline in reading since 1990.
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said Thursday on CNN’s “New Day” that the worst drop in math and reading scores in decades is disturbing but not surprising because of remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic.
The endless nightmare of China’s “zero Covid” coronavirus lockdowns continued this week, as millions of people in major cities were marched back into quarantine restrictions.
The Chinese Communist government slapped its bureaucratic panic buttons on Monday, announcing various “task forces” to deal with a crumbling national economy, particularly the record-high 19.9% youth unemployment rate recorded in July.
One of the two candidates vying to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, said that it was wrong to have “empowered” unelected scientists during the Chinese coronavirus crisis, but claimed that he was gagged by the administration from publicly airing his objections to lockdown measures.
Tudor Dixon said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) views the governoship of Michigan as a step towards fulfilling her White House ambitions.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky responded to a question on whether coronavirus lockdowns went too far by stating that she doesn’t “want to re-visit the question of lockdowns that predated
A.J. Rice, author of The Woking Dead, said zoomers are having their human authenticity undermined by Me Too, lockdowns, and digital overload.
The Chinese Communist Party announced it would “close off residential communities” in the occupied Uyghur region of East Turkistan, which the Party calls Xinjiang, on Wednesday after an influx of tourists allegedly triggered an outbreak of Chinese coronavirus.
Contrary to reassuring pronouncements from Chinese Communist Party officials, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) reported on Thursday that foreign capital flight from China continued for the sixth consecutive month in July, pulling another $3 billion out of the $20 trillion bond market.
A poll conducted by the Caixin news service on Monday found China’s economy foundering as the second half of 2022 began, with slower manufacturing activity, higher unemployment, and a depressed real estate market.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday called on Chinese citizens to maintain their “resolve” while Beijing undertakes a “great struggle” in future months amid an economic downturn in China, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Tudor Dixon, a Republican candidate running for governor in Michigan, said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D-MI) abusive lockdowns — ostensibly decreed to reduce coronavirus transmission — were part of a broader audition to be selected as President Joe Biden’s running mate during the 2020 presidential campaign season.
Critics roasted President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci after he falsely claimed he never advocated for lockdowns, deeming him the “biggest cheerleader” for such restrictions, rules, and invasive mandates.
The government “doesn’t know” if travel restrictions imposed during lockdown prevented the spread of the virus, a report from MPs found.