Thursday, October 29, 2020

Thursday Links - Part 1

On a rainy Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, arguments calling for Justice Barrett to recuse herself are "ridiculous".

From FrontpageMag, a possible reason why President Trump's rallies are packed while former Vice President Biden's are sparsely attended.

From Townhall, two frightening observations by congresscritter Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) from the hearing involving "Big Tech" CEOs.

From The Washington Free Beacon, approaching police officers with a knife is not going to end well.

From the Washington Examiner, all in all, its almost 400 miles of new wall.  (Apologies to Pink Floyd.)

From The Federalist, 12 graphs which show how mask mandates don't stop the coronavirus.

From American Thinker, after 10 years, a court strikes down a ban on ads offering help to people who leave Islam.

From CNS News, the American GDP grew at an annual rate of 33.1 percent during the third quarter of this year.  (This follows a 31.4 percent annual rate decrease during the second quarter.)

From LifeZette, BLM loots in another Democrat-controlled city.

From NewsBusters, 93 percent of American newspapers have endorsed Biden.

From Canada Free Press, people whom Trump's past rival called "deplorables" turn the table on poll hucksters.

From CBC, the Cree First Nation in the province of Quebec welcomes a Canadian Supreme Court decision against hearing an appeal of a decision to halt the development of a uranium mine.

From Global News, police in Montreal, Quebec, Canada issue a report on the "realities" of their work, including racial profiling.

From CTV News, 5 million images of shoppers in Canadian malls are captured by facial recognition software without their knowledge.

From Morocco World News, Morocco's House of Councillors condemns Islamophobia and insults to the prophet Mohammed in France.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey's foreign ministry summons the French embassy's charge d'affairs over a cartoon depicting President Erdoğan.

From Turkish Minute, a reporter denied access to a funeral of a Turkish historian in Romania accuses Turkey of "exporting censorship".

From Rûdaw, according to an expert, Iraq is becoming less important to the U.S.

From ArmenPress, according to Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, Armenia has "irrefutable evidence" that Turkey has sent militants from Syria and Libya to Nagorno Karabakh.

From In-Cyprus, residents of Tseri, Cyprus want their mayor to do something about an illegal asphalt plant and its fumes.

From The Syrian Observer, almost 30 fighters are killed in clashes between Syrian government forces and ISIS.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Prime Minister Netanyahu, the decision to place Israel under a second coronavirus lockdown was justified, and that its exit must be done carefully.

From The Times Of Israel, with its large exercise in northern Israel, the IDF "prepares for war on multiple fronts".

From The Jerusalem Post, researchers discover a 2,000-year-old gem seal depicting the Greek deity Apollo under the City of David in Jerusalem.

From YNetNews, according to mediators, maritime talks between Israel and Lebanon have been productive.

From the Egypt Independent, in a Tweet, Egyptian president Abdel al-Sisi welcomes the normalization of relations between Israel and Sudan.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian Road Authority launches road construction projects in the country's eastern Somali region.

From the Saudi Gazette, up to 20,000 Umrah pilgrims and 60,000 worshipers will be allowed into the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia during each day.

From The New Arab, Dubai will sell wine made in the Golan Heights.

From Radio Farda, the head of Iran's state-run radio and TV agency calls for the prosecution of Persian-speaking channels outside Iran.

From IranWire, since Tuesday, one Iranian has died from the coronavirus every four minutes.

From Dawn, an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad, Pakistan acquits Prime Minister Imran Khan in a case relating to an attack on the country's Parliament House in 2014.

From The Express Tribune, Imran has over 10 million followers on Facebook.

From Pakistan Today, the coronavirus test positivity rate in Pakistan crosses three percent.

From Khaama Press, four-year-old twins in Nili, Afghanistan are given non-Afghan names.

From The Hans India, the Indian government passes a new law against air pollution in the Delhi area.

From the Hindustan Times, China provides its soldiers in the region of Ladakh with high-tech equipment to manage the upcoming winter.

From ANI, schools and colleges in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are set to reopen on November 2nd.

From India Today, tiles in a bathroom at a railway station in Gorakhpur, India are changed because their colors resembled those on the flag of a political party.

From The Times Of India, eight people are booked for allegedly forcing a 16-year-old girl to convert to Islam.

From the Dhaka Tribune, schools and colleges in Bangladesh will stay closed until November 14th due to the coronavirus.

From the Daily Mirror, people attempt to travel outside of Sri Lanka's Western Province despite police requests against doing so.

From the Colombo Page, Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena signs the 20th Amendment to Sri Lanka's Constitution.

From Maldives Insider, Switzerland removes the Maldive Islands from its coronavirus watchlist, thus allowing quarantine-free travel.

From The Jakarta Post, Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Java erupts and sends ash 2,000 meters into the air.

From The Straits Times, Singapore will allow travelers from China and from the Australian state of Victoria to enter without quarantine if they pass a coronavirus test on arrival.

From the Borneo Post, the king and queen of Malaysia wish Muslims Maulidur Rasul celebration.

From Free Malaysia Today, the agriculture and plantation sectors in the Malaysian state of Sabah are set to resume full operation tomorrow.

From Malay Mail, according to a Malaysian politician, Muslims "have the right to punish" the French for their alleged wrongs committed against Muslims.

From Vietnam Plus, forces rush to search for victims in areas of Vietnam affected by Storm Molave.

From The Mainichi, four Vietnamese men are arrested in Maebashi, Japan for allegedly slaughtering a pig in an apartment.

From Gatestone Institute, will there be a new nuclear treaty with Iran?

From The Streamdoes quoting Scripture get former Vice President Biden off the hook?

From Space Daily, Chinese space engineers try to make their rockets smarter.

From The Daily Signal, the U.S. leads the international call to action for the economic empowerment of women.

From Breitbart, neighbors of senatorial candidate Theresa Greenfield (D-Iowa) regard her as being too far to the left and endorse incumbent Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) instead.

From Fox News, a plan to detect the coronavirus in waste water may help contact tracing efforts.

From WPVI-TV, a look at traveling to Hawaii during a pandemic.

And from The Peedmont, Richmond, Virginia Mayor Levar Stoney hopes that everyone will just forget the past six months.

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