Thursday, January 14, 2021

Thursday Things

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

From National Review, the knowns and unknowns of President Trump's second impeachment.

From FrontpageMag, Democrats impeach Trump a second time, again without evidence.

From Townhall, a mob on Twitter falsely accuses a retired Chicago firefighter of attacking police during the Capitol riot.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a senior NASA scientist pleads guilty to falsely denying his connection to a Chinese spy program.

From the Washington Examiner, the entire National Mall will be closed for President-elect Biden's inauguration day.

From The Federalist, Capitol protesters just wanted their voices to be heard.

From American Thinker, don't abandon the Republican party, or it might already be dead.

From CNS News, Biden promises to order all schools that receive federal funding to identify locker rooms and bathrooms according to "gender identity".

From LifeZette, congresscritter David Cicilline (D-RI) does a poor job of observing coronavirus protocols.

From NewsBusters, left-wing journalists demand censorship and "deprograming" for right-wingers.

From Canada Free Press, the effort to squash protests in the U.S.  (The article calls coronavirus lockdowns "mass imprisonments".  I prefer the term "house arrest without trial".)

From Global News, the Canadian province of Alberta's contract tracing app has been used in only 32 coronavirus cases so far.

From TeleSUR, a new migrant caravan from Honduras sets off for the U.S.-Mexico border.

From The Conservative Woman, a critic of the U.K.'s coronavirus lockdown gets unpersoned.

From the Express, hundreds of students in Leeds, England break coronavirus rules to have a snowball fight.

From ReMix, Belgians have become a minority in their own capital city of Brussels.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany's ruling CDU party prepares to replace its leader Angela Merkel.

From Free West Media, a violent criminal from Libya allegedly murders a schoolgirl in a bicycle cellar in Hamburg, Germany.

From EuroNews, a former Danish immigration minister faces an impeachment trial.

From Hungary Today, the European People's Party appears to be preparing to expel the Hungarian party Fidesz.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at HVG(dot)HU.)

From Russia Today, Twitter restores the account of Russia's first coronavirus vaccine.

From the Greek Reporter, a Greek athlete breaks the Guinness World Record for the most hand-release pushups in one minute.

From Euractiv, Greece seeks to send 1,450 migrants back to Turkey.

From Balkan Insight, the anniversary of the mass killings of 45 Kosovo Albanians evokes memories of a missing mother.

From ANSA, the pope and the retired pope have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From France24, France will impose a 6:00 p.m. curfew and offer coronavirus vaccines to all people having a high risk.

From El País, animals in Spain suffer the effects of global warming.

From Morocco World News, Moroccan and Spanish intellectuals hold a debate on the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey starts rolling out mass coronavirus vaccination.

From Rûdaw, according to local residents, porcupines are being overhunted in the Iraqi region of Kurdistan.

From Armenpress, according to Armenian Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazian, conflict settlement in Nagorno Karabakh should be based its people's right to self-determination.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz holds a video conference with his counterparts from Morocco, Sudan, Bahrain and the UAE.

From the Egypt Independent, the UAE makes a proposal to break the dam deadlock.

From the Saudi GazetteForeign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan accuses Iran of "wreaking havoc" in the Middle East.

From Radio Farda, Iran has become a killing field for media personnel.

From PT Profit, traders in Peshawar, Pakistan demand the relocation and expansion of the city's dry port.

From Khaama Press, the Afghan government warns against flying drones in and around the presidential palace.

From NewAge, Afghan traffic authorities stop issuing license plates having the number "39".

From the Hindustan Times, a vegetable vendor in Delhi, India allegedly kills a man who was extorting him.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh has its lowest coronavirus test positivity rate since last April 5th.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa opens South Asia's largest tire factory.

From The Jakarta Post, what you should know about Indonesia's latest coronavirus restrictions.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian state of Sabah will allow logging to continue, even during the Movement Control Order period.

From The Mainichi, according to a Japanese minister and a government panel chief, the country's coronavirus state of emergency could be extended.

From Gatestone Institute, will there be a reconciliation between Turkey and Israel?

From The Stream, one last word on the 2020 presidential election.

From The Daily Signal, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson explains how to help the homeless in your community.

From The Daily Wire, Politico defends publishing an article written by right-wing journalist Ben Shapiro.

From CBS Philly, barriers and police officers are added to the security for the Pennsylvania state Capitol in Harrisburg.

From Breitbart, the messaging app Telegram has a huge increase in users.

From the New York Post, with help from Japan, NASA cements a way to return to the moon.

And from The Hollywood Reporter, a Batman comic book s auctioned for a record $2.2 million.  (via the New York Post)

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