Monday, August 9, 2021

Monday Mania

On just another manic Monday in August, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the abject hypocrisy of former Senator (D-MA), former Secretary of State and current climate czar John Kerry.

From FrontpageMag, a neo-communist group of lawyers sues to restore the Hawaiian monarchy.

From Townhall, President Biden calls a lid for today.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the last "Blue Dog" Democrats call on their party to save the Hyde Amendment.

From the Washington Examiner, the Democrats are selective about which police lives matter.

From The Federalist, why liberals hate Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban so much.

From American Thinker, the media push a fake narrative about the coronavirus and the border.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter (R-IN) and Ukraine native Victoria Spartz, Biden's policies look a lot like a "socialist system".

From LifeZette, can Texas be turned blue?

From NewsBusters, the IPCC continues its long tradition of "climate fear porn".

From Canada Free Press, RINOs again betray the Republican grass roots base.

From Global News, dozens of U.S. vehicles line up to enter the Canadian province of British Columbia.

From TeleSUR, the Red Cross warns of more displacements in Colombia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. taxpayer money funds the Stonewall gender propaganda machine.

From Snouts in the Trough, the climate catastrophists have a big week.

From the Evening Standard, the Tower Bridge in London has some technical difficulties.

From Michael Smith News, why isn't a women dying after being burned alive in Bury, England a big news story?

From the Irish Examiner, a member of Sinn Féin defends the party's tribute to an IRA hunger striker who was convicted of manslaughter.

From The Brussels Times, graffiti workshops give a makeover to a flood wall in Antwerp, Belgium.

From Dutch News, Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima will throw a reception for the most successful Olympic team in the history of the Netherlands.

From DuvaR, Turkish boxer Ünsal Arık, who has been critical of President Erdoğan, is attacked by a mob - in Germany.

From Free West Media, Denmark abolishes at of its coronavirus measures, effective on October 1st.

From Hungary Today, the Hungarian opposition party Jobbik calls for a protest against the closure of small post offices.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at 24HU.)

From Euractiv, according to Belarusian President Lukashenko, the Olympic sprinter who fled to Poland was "manipulated".

From Sputnik International, President Putin pledges that Russia will ensure security in the Persian Gulf and the Atlantic Ocean amid surging piracy.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria has a "day of drama" as the vote on its proposed government approaches.

From Ekathimerini, a wanted suspected terrorist is arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece.

From EuroNews, the Greek government draws criticism over its handling of the country's wildfires.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Airport wants to host long haul flights.

From Balkan Insight, NGOs, political parties and local residents demand action after a fire breaks out in a landfill and covers Belgrade, Serbia with smoke.

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenians greet their men's basketball team after it places fourth in this year's Olympics.

From Malta Today, Malta and other Mediterranean counties will "bake" under a "heat dome".

From Italy24News, the largest ship in Italy makes a stop at the port of Naples.

From ReMix, the NGO ship Ocean Viking arrives in Sicily carrying 549 migrants.

From RFI, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin confirms that a priest was murdered in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, France, allegedly by an asylum seeker from Rwanda.  (If you read French, read the story at FranceInfo.  In an update found at Breitbart, the suspect is the same person who admitted about a year ago that he set fire to the Nantes Cathedral.)

From The North Africa Post, members of the former cabinet of sacked Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi are banned from leaving Tunisia.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey is rattled by the suggestion that alleged members of the Gülen movement have been poisoned while in prison.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett urges Israeli Arabs to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From Egypt Today, Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport receives receives its first flight from Russia since 2015, after a ban on such flights its lifted.

From The New Arab, bread runs out in Daraa Al-Balad, Syria as the Syrian government continues its blockade of the city.

From IranWire, various kinds of hardliners vie for positions in the new Iranian cabinet.

From The Express Tribune, according to foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan is being made a "scapegoat" for mistakes made by others in Afghanistan.

From the Hindustan Times, India might ease more of its coronavirus restrictions on September 1st if the number of cases decreases.

From Big News Network, Congress party leader Jaiveer Shergill asks the Indian government to immediately evacuate Hindus and Sikhs from Afghanistan.

From New Age, Bangladesh allows green chilis to be imported from India.

From the Daily Mirror, about 40,000 elderly people decline coronavirus vaccination in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

From The Daily Star, in Afghanistan, suspected Taliban terrorists kill a radio station manager and kidnap a journalist.

From The Guardian, at least 51 people are killed by suspected jihadists in northern Mali.

From Gatestone Institute, nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran "come unglued".

From The Straits Times, Singapore celebrates the 56th anniversary of its independence with a ceremonial parade comprising 600 participants.

From the Borneo Post, according to Malaysian Deputy Health Minister Dr. Noor Azmi Ghazali, there is no decision yet whether to provide walk-in coronavirus vaccination for pregnant women.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese and Laotian provinces seek to boost their mutual cooperation.

From The Stream, web designer Lorie Smith has a lot in common with baker Jack Phillips.

From Space War, Nagasaki observes the 76th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped on the city by the U.S. near the end of World War II.

From The American Conservative, "it's not just about the masks".

From The Daily Signal, the U.S. government needs to stop pretending that it's March 2020 all over again.

From KWTX, a judge in Austin orders that the Texas Democrat fleebaggers can't be arrested if they return.  (via BizPac Review)

From BizPac Review, a top aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) suddenly resigns.

From The Western Journal, the Biden administration sets a deadline for U.S. military personnel to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, happy birthday to Dr. Fauci's hypocrisy.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Wayne Dupree, former First Lady Melania Trump responds to a reporter's accusation that she "ruined" the White House Rose Garden.  (via LifeZette)

From The Daily Wire, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) explains why she didn't go to former President Obama's birthday party.

From the Daily Caller, according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, it's sexist to call her "nice".

From the New York, the skies clear in California enough to allow aircraft to help fight the Dixie wildfire.

From Breitbart, surveillance video shows a group of 85 migrants illegally entering the U.S. in the Yuma, Arizona sector of the border.

From Newsmax, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) urges Americans to "resist" new coronavirus mandates.

And from The Babylon Bee, the Y chromosome is suspended from Twitter for calling Olympic weightlifter Laurel Hubbard a man.

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