Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Wednesday Whatnot - Part 1

On a sunny and somewhat warm Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why talks on coronavirus relief between President Trump, Republican congresscritters and Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) collapsed.

From FrontpageMag, a response to accusations for former First Lady Michelle Obama.

From Townhall, according to a poll, voters back Judge Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation to the Supreme Court.

From The Washington Free Beacon, noted leftist Jane Fonda calls the coronavirus "God's gift to the left".  (I'd have to agree with her.  The coronavirus has given the left a chance to do what they live for, which is to control people's lives.)

From the Washington Examiner, the White House press corps deals with a furry hazard of the job.

From The Federalist, at tonight's debate, vice presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) needs to tell what she would do as president.

From American Thinker, as California's attorney general, Harris may have already provided a preview of what she would do.

From CNS News, can a group of four people marry each other?

From LifeZette, former Vice President Biden's badly done dog whistle to Islamists.

From NewsBusters, media attitudes toward Vice President Pence and Senator Harris are just about what you'd expect them to be.

From Canada Free Press, Trump's key to beating Biden and the media is with Twitter and Fox News.

From CBC News, Canadian Liberals ban single use plastics, to take effect by the end of 2021.

From Global News, Canadians in the Atlantic provinces start home gardens due to the coronavirus.

From CTV News, the Canadian province of Quebec records less than 1,000 daily new coronavirus cases for the first time in a week.

From TeleSUR, indigenous peoples ask for a meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duque.

From Morocco World News, a U.N. report stresses hunger and malnutrition in the Tindouf camps.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan visits Kuwait and Qatar.

From Turkish MinuteErdoğan has a "long arm in Europe".

From Rûdaw, an Italian-Kurdish team wins two international archaeological awards for discovering ancient Assyrian rock carvings in the Iraqi province of Duhok.

From ArmenPress, according to Armenia's foreign ministry, there cannot be negotiations and military operations at the same time.

From In-Cyprus, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades decries North Cyprus's decision to reopen the beach area in Varosha, an abandoned quarter in the city of Famagusta.

From The Syrian Observer, a truck bomb kills 11 people in al-Bab, Syria.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli authorities bust a "pirate" coronavirus testing ring.

From The Times Of Israel, Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israel's prime minister, reportedly allowed a hairdresser to visit their home, in violation of the country's coronavirus lockdown.

From The Jerusalem Post, Prime Minister Netanyahu tells Israeli mayors that the country has no "green" cities.

From YNetNews, a man in Bat Yam, Israel is arrested after a video showing him abusing a dog goes viral.

From the Egypt Independent, according to Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, Egypt has sufficient supplies of coronavirus medication.

From Egypt Today, Egypt's immigration ministry offers advice on running for the eight parliamentary seats that are reserved for Egyptians living outside Egypt.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, according to President Sahle-Work Zewdie, Ethiopia will have dam power in the next 12 months.

From the Saudi Gazette, according to Human Rights Watch, Saudi Arabia is stern toward anyone depriving women of their inheritance.

From The New Arab, at least 90 combatants have been killed this month in clashes between Syrian government forces and ISIS.

From Radio Farda, the Iranian government calls on Armenia to pull out of Nagorno-Karabakh.

From IranWire, Iranian President Rouhani calls off a meeting with parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf after the latter visits an ICU having coronavirus patients.

From Dawn, six policemen in Karachi, Pakistan are arrested after wrongly shooting three civilians whom they mistook for robbers, killing one.

From the Express Tribune, former provincial governor Muhammad Zubair goes to a police station in Karachi, Pakistan and offers to turn himself in.

From Pakistan Today, the Islamabad High Court issues a summons to former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif through newspaper advertisements.

From Khaama Press, a magnetic mine injures two people in the Afghan province of Balkh.

From The Hans India, the Indian cabinet decides to launch a coronavirus awareness campaign.

From the Hindustan Times, India's University Grants Commission designates 24 universities as fake.

From ANI, the government of Delhi, India allows all weekly markets to open.

From India Today, the Indian state of Rajasthan reports a spike in rapes, with 12 of its districts accounting for about 10 percent of the country's total.

From the Dhaka Tribune, the Bangladeshi government sends more troops to quell a drug turf war in the large Rohingya refugee camp in the area of Cox's Bazar.

From the Daily Mirror, should turtles in Sri Lanka pay the price for the the oil spill from the tanker New Diamond?

From the Colombo Page, according to Sri Lanka's chief epidemiologist, the coronavirus may have been in a garment factory weeks before any of its workers were diagnosed.

From Maldives Insider, the Nautilus Maldives is voted the best resort on the Indian Ocean.

From Dunya News, women in Afghanistan fear the return of the Taliban.

From Gatestone Institute, the Chinese way of "assimilation".

From The Jakarta Post, the Denpasar Agricultural Quarantine Agency on the Indonesian island of Bali foils an attempt to smuggle birds.

From The Straits Times, a Singaporean man admits illegally operating a KTV outlet while entertainment venues were under coronavirus restrictions.  (From what I can find on the net, a KTV is a karaoke bar, sometimes called a "karaoke box".)

From the Borneo Post, according to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, parody media accounts can be subject to civil action.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian education ministry decide to close all schools in the country's "red zones".

From Vietnam Plus, a Vietnamese woman is arrested for allegedly "spreading anti-state propaganda".

From The Mainichi, Typhoon Chan-hom heads toward southwestern Japan.  (If you like living in areas which get earthquakes like the west coast of the U.S., and get tropical storms like the southeastern U.S., you would love living in Japan.)

From The Stream, we conservatives resist a hostile ideology, not race.

From The American Conservative, "the petty tyranny of license laws".

From The Daily Signal, the fight to defend free speech.

From Breitbart, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) calls tech censorship "today's greatest threat to free speech and democracy".

From Fox News, a New Jersey postal worker dumps 1,875 pieces of mail, including 99 general election ballots.

From The Daily Wire, the NBA decides to leave its social justice messages "off the floor" next season.

From WPVI-TV, Petco decides to stop selling shock collars.

And from the New York Post, for possibly up to $500K, you can have Ursula Andress's bikini from the James Bond movie Dr. No.

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