Thursday, July 29, 2021

Thursday Links

On a cloudy Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, what the Biden administration is afraid of.

From FrontpageMag, in Cuba, it's about socialism, stupid.

From Townhall, what Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal), according to congresscritter Jim Banks (R-IN), doesn't want America to know about the security breakdown on January 6th.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the federal government gives millions to a group that wants police to be defunded.

From the Washington Examiner, Eric Clapton is neither God nor the devil.

From The Federalist, the "shocking" double standards about bringing rioters to justice.

From American Thinker, questions which the January 6th commission should ask, but won't.

From CNS News, Senator Chuck Grassely (R-Iowa) points out that open borders and national sovereignty are opposites.

From LifeZette, Vice President Harris blames illegal immigration on, among other things, the weather.

From NewsBusters, Big Tech companies force their employees to get coronavirus vaccinations.

From Canada Free Press, here comes the delta coronavirus pandemic.

From Global News, what can Canada do to prosecute crimes committed at residential schools?

From TeleSUR, Guatemalan citizens demand the resignation of President Alejandro Giammattei and Attorney General Consuelo Porras.

From The Conservative Woman, 100 years ago today, the head of an obscure political party. who had fought in World War I, starting calling himself der Führer.

From the Evening Standard, coronavirus vaccine passports come to the U.K.

From Free West Media, the coronavirus is rampant among vaccinated sailors on U.K. aircraft carrier named after her majesty.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces "six weeks to gauge further loosening of restrictions".

From The Brussels Times, Uccle, Belgium will build three bridges for squirrels.

From Dutch News, a moth of a species thought to be extinct is spotted near Biervliet, Netherlands.

From EuroNews, a German court rules that Facebook has mishandled how it moderates "hate speech".

From the CPH Post, in Denmark, "let's get back together".

From Hungary Today, fencer Aida Mohamed makes Hungarian history by competing in her seventh Olympic games.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Nemzeti Sport.)

From ReMix, migrants attack border guards while attempting to illegally cross from Serbia into Hungary.

From Sputnik International, the Russian women's fencing team wins the gold medal in the foil event at the Tokyo Olympics.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian railways will offer a narrow-gauge excursion on August 1st.

From Ekathimerini, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control warns against traveling to 13 Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.  (Yours truly has visited two of them.)

From Balkan Insight, three Balkan countries plan to establish a "mini-Schengen" by 2023.

From The Slovenia Times, an exhibition on the joint struggle against Nazism opens in Maribor, Slovenia.

From Malta Today, a man from Xewkija, Malta is arrested for allegedly throwing a Somali man into the Mediterranean Sea.

From Italy24News, the Italian region of Lazio reports 780 new coronavirus case, 80 percent of them of the delta variant.

From RFI, French President Emmanuel Macron sues a billboard owner for depicting him as the aforementioned Führer.  (Here in America, I'm wondering which of my presidents has not been likened to der Führer.)

From Euractiv, European ministers call for E.U.-wide standards for turkey farming.

From The North Africa Post, two kidnapped Mauritanians and three Chinese citizens are released in Mali.

From Turkish Minute, on the 50th anniversary of its closing, the U.S. calls for Turkey to reopen the Halki Seminary in İstanbul.

From DuvaR, Turkey sees a 158 percent increase in police violence toward women.

From The Times Of Israel, Israelis at least 60 years old can get a third dose of coronavirus vaccines starting next week.

From Egypt Today, an Egyptian court sentences 24 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death for attacking police.

From The New Arab, according to an advisor for parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi, Tunisia needs a "national salvation government".

From Al Arabiya, a kidney donated by an Israeli woman is flown to the UAE, from which another kidney will be donated to the woman's mother.

From IranWire, how a corrupt "privatization" of Iranian power plants led to blackouts.

From The Express Tribune, according to Prime Minister Imran Khan, neither Pakistan nor the Taliban's spokesman is responsible for the group's actions.

From APB Live, according to a report, prize-winning Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was not killed in crossfire but was executed by the Taliban.

From India Today, rain strands over 140 tourists in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

From New Age, Bangladeshis lead the world in illegally migrating to Europe.

From the Daily Mirror, coronavirus cases rise in Sri Lanka again.

From CBN News, do the lives of black Christians in Nigeria matter?

From The Straits Times, China accuses the BBC of "fake news" in its reporting of the country's floods.

From the Borneo Post, a woman gives birth on a boat traveling between the towns of Belaga and Kapit in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc visits coronavirus-stricken Ho Chi Minh City.

From Gatestone Institute, fighting the anti-Semitic blight of Durban, South Africa.

From The Stream, despite alarmism over the delta variant, U.S. coronavirus deaths are at their lower since March 2020.

From Space War, France's nuclear tests in Algeria during the 1960s still poison the ties between the two countries.

From The American Conservative, one and a half years of magical thinking.

From The Daily Signal, the border crisis in not an accident, but President Biden making good on his campaign promises.

From Yahoo Sports, American gymnast Surisa Lee's family celebrates her historic gold medal in the all-around competition.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Henry Cuellar (D-TX) begs Biden to stop dumping illegal migrants in his district.

From BizPac Review, a "bipartisan" infrastructure bill advances in the Senate.

From The Daily Wire, a response to Ben & Jerry's decision to stop selling ice cream in Judea and Samaria.

From the Daily Caller, immigration officials allegedly ignored calls to buy underwear for detained migrant children.

From the New York Post, New York state would get billions for transit, airports and other thinks under the infrastructure bill.

From Breitbart, according to congresscritter and physician Greg Murphy (R-NC), there is no science behind masking kids to stop coronavirus transmission.

From Newsmax, the Senate passes an emergency spending bill to cover the costs of defending the Capitol building on January 6th and for granting visas to Afghans who aided the U.S.

And from Insider, Dubai tries to cope with 125-degree heat by using lasers in an attempt to make it rain.

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