Monday, March 15, 2021

Links For The Ides Of March

On the 15th of March, as you're observing the anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar or listening to the band named after today's date, here are some things going on:

From National Review, two men are charged with assaulting Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, but the cause of his death remains unknown.

From FrontpageMag, the Zionist Organization of America points out the errors about Israel in former President Obama's book A Promised Land.

From Townhall, the celebrities who should be jailed under California Governor Gavin Newsom's (D) coronavirus restrictions.

From The Washington Free Beacon, faculty at Cornell University push back against a partnership with China.

From the Washington Examiner, BLM activists take the stage at the Grammys and demand "justice" from President Biden.

From The Federalist, the U.S. military has become an attack machine against Biden's opponents.

From American Thinker, our economic problems are not caused by the top one percent.

From CNS News, according to my governor, coronavirus vaccine hesitancy among Republicans is not entirely the fault of former President Trump.

From LifeZette, while the military targets right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson, it loses simulated war games to China.

From NewsBusters, evening newscasts say nothing about ProFa violence in Portland, Oregon.

From Canada Free Press, where the Democrat victory in the 2020 election leaves the free West.

From CBC News, the Canadian government and the Quebec provincial government will invest $100 million in an electric vehicle battery maker.

From TeleSUR, Cuba's only legal political party starts debates ahead of its eighth summit.

From The Conservative Woman, the police at a vigil for murder victim Sarah Everhard in London "were trying to enforce a rotten law".

From the Express, crowds gather outside the Houses of Parliament in London in protest of a policing bill.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish authorities arrest a "recruiter and account controller" of a fraud operation.

From VRT NWS, an 88-year-old filing station attendant in Herentals, Belgium decides to retire.

From the NL Times, the Netherlands suspends using the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to investigate blood clots.

From Free West Media, Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders tells Prime Minister Mark Rutte that the three largest parties in the Netherlands should form a coalition.

From Deutsche Welle, elections in German states deepen the troubles of Chancellor Merkel's party the CDU.

From the CPH Post, some schools and department stores in Denmark are allowed to reopen.

From Gatestone Institute, Denmark bans the foreign funding of mosques.

From Polskie Radio, Poland imposes coronavirus lockdowns in two provinces as case numbers soar.

From Radio Prague, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš sets a goal for April of 100,000 coronavirus vaccinations per day.

From ReMix, Poland prepares a response to the European Parliament's "LGBTIQ freedom zone".

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak Labor Minister Milan Krajniak resigns.

From Daily News Hungary, on today's date in 1848, Hungarians stated a War of Independence against Austria.

From Russia Today, according to a Kremlin spokesman, Russia and Belarus "have a brotherly bond".

From Romania-Insider, Romania will keep "mild" coronavirus restrictions for 30 more days.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Profit(dot)ro.)

From Novinite, actress Maria Bakalova becomes the first Bulgarian to be nominated for an Oscar.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece will keep using the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonian authorities detain businessman Orce Kamcev due to a suspected risk that he might try to flee the country.

From Total Croatia News, a Croat whom you don't want to mess with opens a gym for kids.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Poslovni Dnevnik.)

From Total Slovenia News, a human trafficking and prostitution ring, whose victims were mostly from the Dominican Republic, is busted in Šentilj, Slovenia.

From the Malta Independent, according to Maltese Energy Minister Miriam Dalli, measures to help businesses to get back on their feet are coming soon.

From ANSA, half of Italy is a coronavirus red zone.

From EuroNews, the Vatican decrees that it cannot bless same-sex unions because God "cannot bless sin".

From SwissInfo, the company Lonza opens a site in Visp, Switzerland at which the active ingredient of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine can be made.

From France24, France suspends using the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

From El País, why Spain's National Library covered up the theft of work by Galileo.

From The Portugal News, Portugal will keep its land and river border controls until April 5th.

From Euractiv, Portugal is optimistic about reforms to its Common Agricultural Policy.

From Morocco World News, Morocco awards a U.K. mining company three licenses to explore for minerals.

From The North Africa Post, the new Libyan government is sworn in before parliament in the city of Tobruk.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to experts, the number of coronavirus cases in Turkey might start to decline in May.

From Rûdaw, protesters block roads in Erbil, Iraq.

From Armenpress, French intellectuals call on their government to mediate in talks for the release of Armenian POWs.

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot Health Ministry forbids restaurants from playing music that makes people want to dance.

From The Syrian Observer, Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad could be prosecuted and stripped of her U.K. citizenship.

From Arutz Sheva, the head of the Yesha Council and a candidate for chairman of the Palestinian Authority jointly call for Israel to vaccinate Palestinians against the coronavirus.

From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian and French naval forces conduct a joint exercise in the Red Sea.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Sudan rejects a four-way dam mediation.

From The New Arab, Jordanians protest across their country after six coronavirus patients die due to a shortage of oxygen at a state hospital.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani province of Sindh tightens its coronavirus restrictions until April 15th.

From ANI, according to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, no parliament should discuss laws passed by other parliaments.  (The Lok Sabha is the lower house of the Indian parliament.)

From the Dhaka Tribune, oil prices in Bangladesh increase again.  (This is not about petroleum, but various types of vegetable oil.)

From the Colombo Page, according to Trade Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardena, Sri Lanka will import rice if there is a shortage.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian immigration officers will be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysian police identify a person behind a video allegedly instigating people against the recent judicial decision to allow non-Muslims to use the word "Allah".

From the Malay Mail, an unemployed man in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is fined for insulting Islam on Facebook.

From The Mainichi, the bones of a Japanese American who died after hiking from the Manzanar internment camp to the Sierra Nevada are reinterred in Santa Monica, California.

From The Stream, coronavirus hypocrisy at President Biden's White House.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, Biden lectures about following rules while allowing thousand of coronavirus-positive illegal aliens to stream into the U.S.  (via LifeZette)

From ITR Economics, keep calm and keep drilling.

From SmallBizDaily, spending from people staying at home reportedly keeps increasing.

From Military History Matters, a lost letter from World War II finally reaches the family of its intended recipient.

From The American Conservative, why it's urgent to reopen schools now.

From CBS News, a "bug" on Twitter locks the accounts of users who mention "Memphis".  (via Breitbart)

From Newsmax, LGBTQ Catholics are "stung" by the Vatican's ruling on same-sex unions.

From Breitbart, actress Natalie Portman rewrites classic fairy tales to make them "gender neutral".  (Naturally, I would expect her to object to my use of the gendered term "actress".)

From the New York Post, a man is arrested for allegedly selling drugs out of a daycare center on Long Island.

And from The Babylon Bee, new M1 Abrams tanks will come equipped with diaper changing tables.

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