Monday, January 11, 2021

Stories For 1/11

On the 11th day of the first month of 2021, here are some things going on:

From National Review, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) captains a sinking ship.

From FrontpageMag, although his remaining time in office is short, Democrats want to drive out their scapegoat.

From Townhall, the purge from liberal fascists.

From The Washington Free Beacon, retired General Colin Powell keeps leaving the Republican Party.

From the Washington Examiner, police in San Francisco prepare for possible pro-Trump demonstrations in front of Twitter's headquarters.

From The Federalist, Big Tech uses the Capitol riot as an excuse to push communist-style social credit systems.

From American Thinker, we will not be lectured by the violent anti-American left.

From CNS News, Democrat congresscritters introduce a resolution to impeach President Trump.

From LifeZette, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) admits that the Democratic congresscritters might not send the impeachment to the Senate until Biden becomes president.

From NewsBusters, the platform Gab reportedly archived anti-Trump Tweets that Twitter allowed.

From Canada Free Press, "welcome to the endarkenment".

From CBC News, a hospital CEO in London, Ontario, Canada is fired for traveling to the U.S. five times during the coronavirus pandemic.

From TeleSUR, over 14 million people register to vote in Chile's next election.

From The Conservative Woman, even with Brexit, the U.K. is still an occupied country.

From EuroNews, a Libyan man is sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing three friends to death in Reading, England.

From the (U.K.) Independent, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, supermarkets in the U.K. should ban people from entering without a mask.

From the (Irish) Independent, a family in Midleton, Ireland gets their stolen dog back.

From VRT NWS, seven Lithuanian lynxes will be are being cared for at a nature center in Oudsbergen, Belgium.

From the NL Times, new coronavirus infections hit their lowest point in the Netherlands since December 2nd.

From Free West Media, Dutch politician Geert Wilders wants to establish a ministry of "immigration, remigration and de-Islamization".

From the CPH Post, are Denmark's latest coronavirus numbers cause for optimism?

From Polskie Radio, according to the Polish prime minister's office, over 203,000 Poles have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From ReMix, according to a Polish editor, social media censoring of U.S. President Trump "signals a dark age for free speech".

From Radio Prague, the Czech Constitutional Court rules against allowing same-sex foreign couples to adopt Czech children.

From The Slovak Spectator, thousands of people in Slovakia were tested for the coronavirus last weekend.

From Daily News Hungary, hundreds of medieval coins are excavated at the Hungarian site of Újlengyel.

From Sputnik International, according to President Putin, leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia have signed a statement on the development of Karabakh.

From Romania-Insider, the new strain of the coronavirus has reached Romania.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Profit(dot)Ro.)

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria sends 22 tons of illegal waste back to Italy.

From Ekathimerini, a stricter seven-day coronavirus lockdown is imposed on the Greek region of Viotia.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, negotiations between North Macedonia and Bulgaria intensify.

From Balkan Insight, a double standard about large gatherings emerges in Kosovo.

From Total Slovenia News, mass coronavirus testing in Ljubljana, Slovenia moves to the city's exhibition and convention center.

From Malta Today, the Maltese parliament starts discussing a law to ensure that more women become parliamentcritters.

From ANSA, according to Health Minister Roberto Speranza, coronavirus restrictions in Italy need to continue.

From SwissInfo, how safe is Switzerland?

From France24, France hosts the One Planet Summit intended to protect biodiversity.

From The Portugal News, the Portuguese presidential campaign begins.

From Euractiv, according to a study, positive "tipping points" could provide hope for the earth's climate.

From Turkish Minute, a Turkish court gives a cult leader a very long prison sentence.

From Armenpress, according to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, some issues over Nagorno Karabakh still remain.

From In-Cyprus, only five intensive care units are available in Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, fuel shortages continue in Damascus.

From The Times Of Israel, Blue and White party leader Gantz admits being wrong to shake Prime Minister Netanyanu's hand.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt reveals the reason for the most recent failure of the dam talks.

From the Saudi Arabia, since the reopening of the Two Holy Mosques in Mecca and Medina, Muslims have performed six million Umrah pilgrimages.

From The New Arab, for the first time in its history, Oman will have a crown prince.

From Radio Farda, part 2 of an Ukrainian plane crash victim's family member speaks.  (Read part 1 here.)

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announces a move to a cashless economy.

From The Hans India, India records its lowest number of new coronavirus cases in six months.

From the Daily Mirror, Jaffna University did not give permission for anyone to build a war monument on its premises.

From The Straits Times, coronavirus vaccination centers will soon be operating in Singapore.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia will ban interstate and inter-district travel for two weeks starting on January 13th in an attempt to reduce coronavirus infections.

From Vietnam Plus, the importance to Vietnam and China of their maritime boundary in the Gulf of Tonkin.

From Gatestone Institute, can the Senate try President Trump after he leaves office?  (I believe that they could, but the only penalty they could impose is a ban from holding public office in the future.)

From The Stream, soon-to-be-President Biden's love of big lies.

From The Daily Signal, court-packing would put two branches of government at risk.

From The Daily Wire, what retired Professor Carol Swaim can teach us about racism.

From Military History Matters, divers recover a World War II-era Enigma coding machine from the Baltic Sea.

From CBS Philly, health officials in Pennsylvania ask for patience as the state seeks to expand coronavirus vaccine distribution.

From Fox News, gorillas at the San Diego Zoo test positive for the coronavirus.

From the New York Post, ProFa takes Manhattan.

And from The Babylon Bee, in a clear incitement to violence, Trump calls everyone to "remain peaceful".

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As a bonus, here is something put out last April by the Frank Report, 125 of President Trump's accomplishments.

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