Thursday, September 17, 2020

Links For Constitution Day - Part 1

On the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787, here are some things going on:

From National Review, focusing on climate change obscures the complex reality of wildfires.

From FrontpageMag, if you hate President Trump, the problem might be you.

From Townhall, how former Senator (D-MA)/Secretary of State John Kerry was "hilariously" wrong about Trump moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Department of Health and Human Services has left $50 billion in coronavirus relief money unspent.

From the Washington Examiner, Justice Department officials considering pressing charges against leaders in Portland, Oregon.

From The Federalist, woke pandering to the original anthem kneeler and "social justice" causes will never succeed.

From American Thinker, some questions raised by the riots.

From CNS News, Trump promises a speedy coronavirus vaccine rollout.

From LifeZette, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany "hammers" the media over their not asking questions about the historic peace deals between Middle Eastern countries.

From NewsBusters, the "big three" networks ignore good economic news.

From Canada Free Press, Occupy Wall Street doesn't realize that its raison d'être n'existe pas plus.

From CBC News, a Canadian judge upholds the coronavirus-related travel restrictions made by the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

From Global News, 28 students at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada test positive for the coronavirus.

From CTV News, the province of Ontario reports almost 300 new coronavirus cases.

From TeleSUR, a penguin is found dead on a beach in Brazil after eating a face mask.

From Morocco World News, visa processing delays frustrate Moroccans wishing to study in Germany.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish starts clinical trials of a potential coronavirus vaccine from China.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey removes Kurdish-language signs amid a reported increase in racist attacks against Kurds.

From Rûdaw, according to the Iraqi government, a border crossing with Saudi Arabia closed since 1999 will reopen within 20 days.

From Panorama, a resigning Armenian lawmaker invites a minister to have a debate.  (via The Armenian Reporter)

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot government stresses that negotiations should not be done under threats.

From The Syrian Observer, the Damascus International Airport will reportedly soon be reopened for international flights.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, "this lockdown is necessary".

From The Times Of Israel, the new lockdown is caused by necessity, but of what kind?

From The Jerusalem Post, according to U.S. counter-terrorism official Nathan Sales, Hezbollah mover large amounts of ammonium nitrate the E.U.

From YNetNews, needy Holocaust survivors fear the impact of Israel's new coronavirus lockdown.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt will acquire 22 more Hungarian-Russia railway coaches.

From Egypt Today, six Egyptians kidnapped by human traffickers in Libya return home.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian cabinet approves a nuclear energy deal with Russia.

From the Saudi Gazette, daily new coronavirus cases in Saudi Arabia fall below 600 for the first time in four months.

From The New Arab, the Hirak protest movement in Algeria prepares for a comeback.

From Radio Farda, according to his lawyer, the execution of Iranian athlete Navid Afkari was "hasty".

From IranWire, the Iranian judiciary statement on Afkari's execution was "riddled with legal issues".

From Dawn, 22 educational institutions are closed for disobeying Pakistan's coronavirus measures.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani government decides to elevate the region of Gilgit-Baltistan to the status of province.

From Pakistan Today, the victim of the motorway gang-rape in Lahore, Pakistan identifies both alleged offenders.

From Khaama Press, 20 members of the Afghan army are killed in attacks by the Taliban in the province of Nangarhar.

From The Hans India, terrorists groups from Syria and Iran are reportedly active in 12 Indian states.

From The Hindustan Times, a 17-year-old boxer in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India teaches yoga to Muslim women while wearing a burqa.

From ANI, 90 kilos of Ganja are seized from three drug peddlers in Bengaluru, India.

From India Today, the Indian army seizes 52 kilos of explosives in the territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

From the Dhaka Tribune, according to an investigation, illegally located gas and power lines led to the explosion at a mosque in Narayanganj, Bangladesh.

From the Daily Mirror, five people are arrested for allegedly using a forged deed to obtain property owned by one of the Easter Sunday bombers.

From the Colombo Page, the Greek captain of the fire-stricken oil tanker New Diamond is summoned to appear in a Sri Lankan court.

From Maldives Insider, a Swiss airline named after an Alpine flower will resume flights to the Maldive Islands on September 26th.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia gets creative dealing with violators of its coronavirus measures.

From The Straits Times, airlines offer scenic "flights to nowhere", which are quickly sold out.

From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian government restores an allowance for fishermen to a previous level.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia agrees to extradite two alleged hackers to the U.S.

From Vietnam Plus, tropical storm Noul heads toward central Vietnam.

From The Mainichi, what is new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's vision for his country?

From Gatestone Institute, a growing number of Arabs realize that Israel is not their enemy.

From The Stream, "why do we support free speech?"

From AP News, the Justice Department considered whether its should charge Portland, Oregon officials over the unrest in city.  (via Townhall)

From Sino Daily, the U.S. sends a top-level diplomat to Taiwan, thus defying communist China.

From The Daily Wire, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows suggests taking pictures at Washington's Reagan Airport of congresscritters leaving without passing a coronavirus relief bill.  (For this story, the label "legislation" includes "or lack thereof".)

From Breitbart, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman (R) thinks that if reelected, President Trump will turn the U.S. into another North Korea.  (As Stephen Stills sang, "paranoia strikes deep".)

From the Daily Caller, President Trump plans to sign an executive order reforming how schools teach American history.

From Fox News, according to California Governor Gavin Newsome (D), an announcement about theme parks reopening is coming soon.

From the New York Post, Eric Trump promises to cooperate with an investigation into possible misdeed by the Trump organization - after the election.

And from The Daily Signal, a writer for TDS receives a notice from California that he will be sent a mail-in ballot, even though he moved out of the state eight years earlier.

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