Monday, September 13, 2021

Monday Mania

On a partly sunny and warm Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a U.S.-funded group ignored masking rules during bat coronavirus research in Wuhan, China.

From FrontpageMag, six problems with President Biden's vaccine mandate speech.

From Townhall, according to FDA officials, Americans don't need a coronavirus vaccine booster, but Biden will go ahead with one anyway.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Norwegian pension fund boycotts Israeli companies in the West Bank but invests in Chinese companies linked to slave labor.

From the Washington Examiner, most voters believe that Biden's vaccine mandate is unconstitutional.

From The Federalist, how parents in Woodlawn Park, Colorado created a "no politics" public school in just one year.

From American Thinker, the contrast between the modern left and right.

From CNS News, according to Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), we need to talk about inflation and the national debt.

From LifeZette, senatorial candidate Hershel Walker (R-GA) runs hard.

From NewsBusters, left-wing TV host Bill Maher calls the "black national anthem" at NFL games "segregation".

From Canada Free Press, Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandate is a "dead copycat" of Obamacare.

From CBC News, all day surgeries in the health zone of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada are postponed as hospitals care for coronavirus patients.

From TeleSUR, according to President Alberto Fernandez, his administration is committed to meet the needs of Argentina's people.

From TCW Defending Freedom, in the U.K., coronavirus numbers don't add up.

From Snouts in the Trough, why is there a large difference in unemployment between blacks and non-blacks in the U.K.?

From the Express, when visiting Scotland's Airth Castle, beware of the ghost dog.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to a survey, the Irish people trust the E.U. more than their own government.

From Free West Media, according to new data, 54 percent of coronavirus is Ireland's hospitals are fully vaccinated.

From VRT NWS, police in Antwerp, Belgium investigate anti-LGBTQ stickers as a possibly hate crime.

From the NL Times, nine "stowaways" are rescued from a sea container at the port in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

From Deutsche Welle, German CDU candidate Armin Laschet presents a 100-day program for if and when he becomes chancellor.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Muslim presenter on German TV took part in an anti-Semitic rally.

From the CPH Post, Copenhagen is ranked fourth on the world's best cities list of the International Time Out Magazine, after being unranked in 2019.

From Polskie Radio, PR unveils the "Lem Galaxy" website in tribute to Polish science fiction author Stanisław Lem, who was born 100 years ago yesterday.

From Radio Prague, the aforementioned International Time Out Magazine names Prague, Czech Republic the world's seventh best city to live in.

From ReMix, the Czech Republic prepares for an influx of migrants.

From The Slovak Spectator, most of the coronavirus cases imported into Slovakia this summer were from Croatia.

From Daily News Hungary, will mandatory mask-wearing return to some parts of Hungary?

From Euractiv, speaking in Hungary, Pope Francis warns against letting the "fuse" of anti-Semitism burn.

From Russia Today, Russia's Communist Party runs in this year's parliamentary elections.

From Romania-Insider, school starts in Romania for about 3 million students, but not all will attend in person.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at HotNews.)

From Novinite, the Bulgarian parliament will be dissolved on September 16th, with President Rumen Radev appointing a caretaker cabinet.

From the Greek Reporter, where to travel in the Greek region of Argolis.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Montenegrin Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić and Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović both go on diplomatic missions.

From Balkan Insight, Serbia and Kosovo are urged to publish the details of their agreement to open up their war archives.

From Total Croatia News, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković is confident that Croatia will be ready to join the euro area on January 1st, 2023.  (This would mean that Croatia will adopt the euro and discontinue its national currency the kuna.  It would also mean that the kuna coins which I brought home from there in 2007 will become collector items.)

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian cavers go over a kilometer underground in the Kanin Mountains.  (The Kanin are a section of the Western Julian Alps located along the border of Italy and Slovenia.  On the Italian side is the Resia valley, where the Resian dialect of Slovene is spoken.)

From The Malta Independent, the hotel quarantine requirement for Maltese citizens returning from outside the country is challenged in court.

From ANSA, according to Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamborgese, a knife attack by a Somali asylum seeker in Rimini, Italy was not an act of terrorism.

From SwissInfo, an online petition demands that coronavirus tests in Switzerland remain free.

From France24Éric Zemmour is a "far-right" pundit who threatens to outflank right-wing politician Marine Le Pen.

From El País, efforts to contain a wildfire in the Spanish province of Málaga finally start to yield results.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese police seize 117 kilos of she-don't-lie.

From EuroNews, according to an audit, the E.U.'s "inefficient" system for deporting illegal migrants "encourages illegal immigration".

From Morocco World News, following his appointment by King Mohammed VI to head Morocco's new government, Aziz Akhannouch starts withdrawing from his family's businesses.

From The North Africa Post, Tunisian political and civil society activists reject President Kais Saied's "putschist" deviations from the country's constitution.

From the Libyan Express, Libyan militia leader Khalifa Haftar plans to fly to the U.S. to visit family there and pretend that it's a Libyan official visit.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to a study, mucilage in the Sea of Marmara still poses a threat.

From Rûdaw, the 122nd patriarch of the Assyrian Orthodox Church is inaugurated in Erbil, Iraq.

From ArmenPress, Armenian military personnel participate in the West 2021 drills in Russia.

From In-Cyprus, Turkish Cypriots file lawsuits pertaining to six issues against the Republic of Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, a scored earth policy appears to have be used in the Syrian region of Daraa al-Balad.

From The961, a fight breaks out the Lebanese foreign ministry.

From Arutz Sheva, Arab rioters throw fireworks at a tent used by medical staff for coronavirus testing in Tayibeh, West Bank.

From the Egypt Independent, an Egyptian doctor is arrested for allegedly bullying a nurse and forcing him to bow down to a dog.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian Airlines acquires its 32nd Dash 8-400 airplane from De Havilland Aircraft of Canada.

From the Saudi Gazette, about 300,000 students withdraw from schools after remote study is continued for the kindergarten and elementary phases.

From The New Arab, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Egyptian President Abdul Al-Sisi meet in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iran is urged to answer questions from the IAEA about undeclared nuclear sites.

From Dawn, in Islamabad, Pakistan, politicians and civil society activists join journalists in protesting against a proposed governmental media authority.

From Khaama Press and the "good luck with that" department, the U.N. plans to ask the Taliban for a written guarantee about humanitarian issues.

From Yahoo News, a female doctor in Afghanistan claims that she and her family were beaten by the Taliban.

From India Today, according to geneticist Gyaneshwer Chaubey, India will soon have a third coronavirus wave that is less deadlier than the first two.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladeshi extremists find a virtual sanctuary.

From the Colombo Page, the Colombo High Court issues summonses to 25 defendants from the Easter Sunday terror attacks.

From Raajje, Maldivian President Ibrahim Solih will address the U.N. General Assembly for the second time.  (I have recently run across Raajje due to one of its articles being linked at The Religion Of Peace.  I had previously discontinued citing the Maldive Insider because its articles were mainly about resorts in the Maldives and not much about the country itself.)

From The Jakarta Post, according to an opinion column, freedom of religion is at risk in Indonesia.

From Free Malaysia Today, 4D shops in Malaysia are set "to reopen tomorrow" for the fully vaccinated.

From The Mainichi, 102 steel plates used to cover a drainage ditch are stolen in Shirakawa, Japan.

From Gatestone Institute, what should the world expect from the gifting of Afghanistan to Islamic fundamentalists?  (I remember realizing, during the invasion and occupation of Iraq, that the U.S. protesters who wanted us out of there were really asking us to give Iraq to the terrorists, whether or not they realized it.  That's basically what happened in Afghanistan.  We gave the country to the terrorists.)

From The Stream, we trust in God, but not so much in the government.

From SmallBizDaily, five post-pandemic marketing ideas for business-to-business businesses.

From Space War, U.S. First Lady Jill Biden and U.K. Prince Harry host an event for wounded soldiers.

From The American Conservative, Washington, D.C. in the shadow of 9/11.

From The Daily Signal, President Biden's divisive coronavirus vaccination plan favors coercion over persuasion.

From The Western Journal, Dr. Fauci calls for even more coronavirus vaccine mandates.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) scolds the aforementioned Senator Manchin (D-WV) for calling her "young lady".  (I'd say that "young lady" is by no means the worse thing that she could be called.  However, I'll refrain from presenting any particular examples.)

From The Daily Wire, at a House hearing, Secretary of State Antony Blinken dodges answering whether President Putin (Russia) threatened President Biden (U.S.).

From the Idaho Press, an anti-Biden protest takes place at the National Interagency Fire Center near the airport in Boise, Idaho.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Darrell Issa (R-Cal) presses Blinken about a warning from U.S. embassy workers that Afghanistan would fall.

From the New York Post, the U.K. begins the world's largest trial of a blood test for 50 types of cancer.

From Breitbart, according to California Republican Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson, Biden campaigns for Governor Gavin Newsom (D) as Californians remain stuck in Afghanistan.

From Newsmax, thousands of coronavirus patients in Florida are treated with monoclonal antibodies.

And from The Babylon Bee, American rednecks disguise themselves as Taliban terrorists so that Biden will give them billions of dollars worth of firearms.

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