Thursday, October 15, 2020

Thursday Things - Part 1

On a mild sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former FLOTUS/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argues against originalism, and possibly even regarding a written constitution as binding.

From FrontpageMag, Democrats don't pay attention to the real need for reparations.

From Townhall, witnesses from the American Bar Association testify favorably about SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to federal data, the U.S. has the lowest number of police officers in 25 years.

From the Washington Examiner, a look at some of former Vice President Biden's tax proposals.

From The Federalist, if we let big tech companies censor the media, our freedoms disappear.

From American Thinker, is ProFa becoming "the establishment" in Portland and Denver?

From CNS News, by his own admission, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) is "struggling" to understand why Democrats consider Judge Barrett "such a threat to them".

From LifeZette, Barrett "shines" during her last day of questioning by the Senate.

From NewsBusters, the "Big Three" networks tried to bury Hunter Biden's Ukraine scandal in 2019.

From CBC News, a deal between the companies Unifor and Fiat Chrysler could bring electric vehicles and 2,000 jobs to Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

From Global News, what the political parties are promising in the Saskatchewan provincial elections.

From CTV News, members of the First Nations tribe Sinixt hope that Canada's Supreme Court will recognize that declarations of their extinction have been greatly exaggerated.

From TeleSUR, Brazil recently conducted war games near the border with Venezuela.

From Morocco World News, inventor Rachid Yazami urges Moroccan authorities to invest in his battery technology.

From Hürriyet Daily News, President Erdoğan dismisses calls for early elections in Turkey.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey steps up its suppression of the Kurdish language.

From Rûdaw, remote schooling is just about impossible at the Hamam al-Alil camp for internally displaced persons in the Iraqi province of Nineveh.

From ArmenPress, according to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the self-determination of the people of Nagorno Karabakh is an "unbreakable red line".

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus reports a daily high of 93 new coronavirus cases.

From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian governorate of Tartous suffers from a lack of bread.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Defense Minister Benny Gantz, coronavirus numbers in Israel have gone down due to citizens obeying lockdown measures.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli authorities plan to allow preschools and some businesses to reopen this coming Sunday.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Israeli Knesset approves the peace deal with the UAE.

From YNetNews, according to Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, the exit from Israel's coronavirus lockdown "won't be short".

From the Egypt Independent, controversy erupts over Israeli actress Gal Gadot being cast in the role of Cleopatra.

From Egypt Today, the world's second largest container ship passes through the Suez Canal.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia's Central Bank collects 7.49 billion birr in old currency.

From the Saudi Gazette, 19 Arab Coalition POWs arrive in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

From The New Arab, the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels start a prisoner exchange.

From Radio Farda, Iran confirms that two of its government agencies were subjected to cyber attacks.

From IranWire, an Iranian journalist gets a six-month prison sentence for filming a wall of the house of an advisor to Supreme Leader Khamenei.

From Dawn, 13 Pakistani security personnel and seven private guards are killed in two attacks in the province of Balochistan and the district of North Waziristan.

From The Express Tribune, fourth graders in Karachi, Pakistan are "over the moon" after NASA astronauts answer their questions.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau is likely to file 11 corruption charges two former prime ministers and others.

From Khaama Press, Afghan security forces prevent a terror attack in Kabul after finding a vehicle carrying an IED.

From The Hans India, scientists find possible groundwater "arsenic hotpots" in India.

From the Hindustan Times, coronavirus PCR tests in Delhi, India register a positivity rate of 6.12 percent.

From ANI, according to the Uttar Pradesh state Chief Minister, the language Sanskrit "should be linked with modernity".

From India Today, according to an Indian government website, stubble burning in the states of Punjab and Haryana has contributed 6 percent of the air pollution in the Delhi area.

From the Dhaka Tribune, is the coronavirus in Bangladesh getting weaker?

From the Daily Mirror, essential outlets will be reopened tomorrow in Sri Lankan areas where a coronavirus curfew was imposed.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan Minister of Health Pavithra Devi Wiannarachchi issues a new gazette on coronavirus quarantine rules.

From Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands reopens guesthouses in its outer atolls.

From News24, according to a U.N. report, al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia pile up money through fear.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian authorities and indigenous people on the island of Timor clash over disputed land.

From The Straits Times, Singapore and Hong Kong set up a leisure air travel bubble without quarantine.

From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian cabinet decides to set up a committee to ensure the supply, access, and safety of a coronavirus vaccine, when one becomes available.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian state of Sarawak extends its entry restrictions until November 15th.

From Vietnam Plus, almost 270 Vietnamese citizens are brought home from Australia.

From The Mainichi, Hiroshima University opens to the public a trove of documents on the movements of A-bomb survivors.

From Gatestone Institute, will Iran try to transfer arms to South America?

From The Stream, the Christian nation Armenia faces a threat from its neighbors.

From Sino Daily, a U.S. warship sails through the Taiwan Strait, which enrages the Chinese government.

From Space Daily, the Swedish Space Corporation will become able to launch satellites from Esrange Space Center.

From The Daily Wire, the University of Minnesota offers a 12-step program to recover from being white.

From Fox News, the TSA groped screened 984,354 passengers this past Sunday, its highest number since April.

And from WPVI-TV, why anyone would want to steal a lemur might be hard to understand, but one was indeed stolen from the San Francisco Zoo.

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