Monday, January 4, 2021

Monday Mania

On the first manic Monday of 2021, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a U.K. judge denies a U.S. request to extradite Julian Assange.

From FrontpageMag, "woke" college students benefit from modern-day slavery.

From Townhall, Georgians should realize how important their vote is.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-MN) calls a self-defense police shooting "state sanctioned murder".

From the Washington Examiner, capturing the Senate could have a downside for Democrats.

From The Federalist, ignoring or ridiculing concerns about election fraud won't make them go away.

From American Thinker, the media are lying about President Trump's phone conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.  (I wonder how many people now ready to accuse Trump of soliciting election fraud had no problem with Georgian vote counters pulling ballots from under a table and counting them after observers were sent home.)

From CNS News, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) describes her family as Catholic and Democratic, the two being connected.  (I'd say that this was true several decades ago, before Democrats told pro-lifers to go fly a kite.)

From LifeZette, Pelosi sends a "brutal warning" to congresscritters who ignore social distancing guidelines.  (Even with no coronavirus going around, I wouldn't want to get near most congresscritters.  I would also recommend socialist distancing, as in staying as far away from socialists as possible.)

From NewsBusters, news editor John Solomon points out how President-elect Biden benefited from the Trump economy which he assailed.

From Canada Free Press, global fascism advances in the U.S.

From CTV News, inmates at the Saskatoon Provincial Correction Centre stage a hunger strike calling for the resignation the minister of corrections over his handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

From The Conservative Woman, is the Brexit deal the best that U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson could get?

From the Evening Standard, Johnson gets ready to address the U.K. public as 80 percent support coronavirus restrictions.

From EuroNews, why does the U.S. want to extradite Julian Assange?

From Euractiv, the U.K. rolls out the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish ministers don't expect schools to reopen on January 11th.

From VRT NWS, why is Belgium's coronavirus vaccination campaign starting so slowly?

From Free West Media, about half of Germany's nursing staff decline coronavirus vaccination.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a German Protest church official calls the Koran the "third Testament".

From Radio Prague, according to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, everyone in the Czech Republic can apply for coronavirus vaccination starting on February 1st.

From The Slovak Spectator, Magurka, Slovakia is the highest settlement in the Low Tatras.

From Romania-Insider, Romania's new government declines to reopen the country's schools just yet.

From Novinite, Bulgaria has a record low amount of power consumption over New Year's.

From Balkan Insight, migrants and refugees decide against returning to a torched camp in Bosnia.

From Total Slovenia News, as holidays come to an end, large Slovenian firms test their employees for the coronavirus.

From ANSA, the Italian government is set to enact post-holiday coronavirus restrictions.

From RFI, thousands of French people get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From El País, the slow rollout of coronavirus vaccines in Spain raises fears that some intended targets may have been missed.

From The Portugal News, a new variant of the coronavirus is found in Portugal.

From ReMix, "the most important fight of the 21st century is against globalism".

From Turkish Minute, a jailed lawyer who filed complaints against torture is called a "dangerous inmate".

From Armenpress, the bodies of 19 servicemen and one civilian are found in searches of battle zones.

From The Syrian Observer, more Turkish troops go to northwestern Syria.

From The Times Of Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu will convene with other Israeli ministers to decide on new coronavirus lockdown steps.

From Egypt Today, Egypt and Ethiopia terminate their dam meeting because Sudan didn't attend.

From IranWire, the Iranian parliament tables a bill to "destroy" Israel by 2041.

From PT Profit, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan orders a crackdown against smuggled oil products.  (Pakistan Today seems to have changed its name and format.)

From The Hans India, the company Bharat Biotech sends its first batch of coronavirus vaccine to the Indian government for further distribution.

From the Dhaka Tribune, the Bangladeshi government is confident of timely receiving a coronavirus developed by the Serum Institute of India.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan navy captures four suspects allegedly smuggling crystal meth and hashish.

From The Jakarta Post, according to Oxford Economics, Indonesia's economy is expected to grow about 6 percent in 2021.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation finds Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine to be safe and without long-term side effects.

From Vietnam PlusPrime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attends a ground-breaking ceremony for a project to build an expressway in southern Vietnam.

From Gatestone Institute, the wisdom of Moroccan King Mohammad VI.

From The Stream, a gift from Republicans that President-elect Biden should accept, but won't.

From The Daily Signal, the new radical rules for the new radical 117th congress.

From SmallBizDaily, how to speak to an audience that has coronavirus pandemic fatigue.

From The American Conservative, when American democracy was even worse than it was in 2020.

From Breitbart, the NCAA's March Madness will take place entirely within the state of Indiana.

From The Daily Wire, "antiracism" has become a booming business.

And from the New York Post, can I get an "amen"......and an "awoman", too?

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