Sunday, October 31, 2021

Links For Halloween

On the last day of October, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the NBC would do well to heed Enes Kanter's warnings about China.

From Townhall, according to the writer's opinion, his favorite white supremacist at the Lincoln Project's stunt was the black guy.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about musician Eddie Van Halen.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden reaches new lows ceding leadership to the far left.

From The Federalist, Governor Kay Ivey (R-AL) blocks efforts to pass a ban on coronavirus vaccination mandates.

From American Thinker, Russian President Putin's remarks about "woke" culture should be seriously considered.

From LifeZette, an anti-Trump Republican in Washington state accepts an appointment from Biden.

From NewsBusters, the news organization Reuters draws ire from the right for saying that "Republicans" tried to smear Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin (R).

From Canada Free Press, this is indeed one scary Halloween.

From TeleSUR, 82 people have been massacred in Colombia so far this year.

From TCW Defending Freedom, something to read before it's too late.

From Free West Media, a shortage of fertilizer threatens the world's food production.  (Anyone worried about a fertilizer shortage should come to Washington, D.C., where there is plenty of fertilizer coming from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.)

From EuroNews, leaders at the G20 summit make mild pledges about carbon neutrality and coal financing.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco opens its pavilion at the world exhibition Expo 2020 Dubai.

From The New Arab, Amnesty International urges Egypt to stop trials before its Emergency State Security Court.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Italian football coach recalls his stay in Saudi Arabia.  (If you read German, read the story at Blick, which is a Swiss site.)

From Roya News, three gunmen open fire at a wedding in Shamspur Mar Chundi, Afghanistan, killing three people, because music was played.

From Gatestone Institute, can journalist Éric Zemmour become France's next president?

From The Stream, a Halloween commercial for the candy bar Twix "sends a ghoulish message".

From The Daily Signal, four taxpayers take a Pennsylvania school board to court over free speech issues.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Rashida Tlaib's (D-Mich) attempt at a "slam dunk" over a business leader falls flat.

From BizPac Review, the original anthem kneeler is sacked for comparing the NFL combine to the slave trade.

From The Daily Wire, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg points out the "nobody gets everything that they want" after the Democrats drop paid family leave from their spending bill.  (I vaguely recall Mick Jagger saying something like that.)

From Breitbart, the Democrats get some scary news.

From Newsmax, according to former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, the American people are now seeing the double standards and hypocrisy of the media.

And from the New York Post, a man dies after being gored by a bull at the annual Trampling Of The Idiots in Pamplona, Spain.  (Disclaimer:  I did not invent the term "Trampling Of The Idiots".)

Saturday, October 30, 2021

Saturday Stories

As the last weekend of October arrives, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Lincoln project thinks it can fight white nationalism by dressing up as white nationalists.

From Townhall, according to Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), the Democrat spending bill is "Build Back Socialism".

From The Washington Free Beacon, most American parents are unaware that China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are major donors to U.S. universities.

From the Washington Examiner, the University of Florida bars faculty members from testifying in a lawsuit against Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

From American Thinker, how white privilege is a myth.

From LifeZette, the Virginia gubernatorial race focuses on three issues.

From NewsBusters, did Saturday Night Live just admit that President Biden's mental state is in question?

From Canada Free Press, say "election 2020" and get crickets, but say "new world order" and get "huh?" as a response.

From TeleSUR, the migrants in Mexico attempting to reach the U.S. refuse visitor's cards and relocation proposals from the Mexican government.

From TCW Defending Freedom, David is defenseless against the green Goliath.

From Snouts in the Trough, even GB News now believes the climate catastrophe nonsense from "Greta Doomberg".

From Free West Media, an illegal migrant "accidentally" beheads a woman in Belgium.

From EuroNews, climate activists and other protesters march in Rome ahead of the G20 summit.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is one of only three African countries to meet the WHO's coronavirus vaccination goal.

From YNetNews, the daughter born in Israel of Congolese migrant worker parents finally gets her Israeli citizenship.

From The New Arab, Kuwait expels the charge d'affaires from Lebanon over a Lebanese minister's comments about the war in Yemen.

From Global Village Space, the Taliban push to unfreeze billions of dollars worth of Afghan assets abroad.

From The Washington Post, the U.K. admits 29 LGBTQ Afghans.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Afghan migrant in Germany vandalizes a church because, according to him, he "cannot accept Christians".  (If you read German, read the story at Unser Mitteleuropa.  The last three stories come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, the E.U. has a dangerous policy toward Iran's mullahs.

From The Stream, how should the Church respond to people who want to be gay?

From The Daily Signal, to save the country, heal the family.

From The American Conservative, a review of the book The Family Roe.

From BizPac Review, the Lincoln Project brags about their fake white nationalist stunt.

From The Daily Wire, actor Alec Baldwin and his wife snap at reporters who ask questions about the investigation of the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

From the Daily Caller, today is the 20th anniversary of President George W. Bush's ceremonial first pitch in the World Series.

From Breitbart, five key indicators which favor Glenn Youngkin (R) in the Virginia gubernatorial race.

From Newsmax, according to U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Queen Elizabeth II was "on very good form" during their weekly conversation.

From the New York Post, 26 New York City firehouses are shuttered due to a staff shortage resulting from the city's coronavirus vaccine mandate.

And from The Western Journal, this weekend, the Northern Lights are expected to be seen as far south as Arkansas.

Friday, October 29, 2021

Friday Fuss

On a cool rainy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Pennsylvanians are not amused with their former Health Secretary Rachel Levine.

From FrontpageMag, how much of witch folklore is true?

From Townhall, the Associated Press is puzzled that a Democrat could lose an election.  (I've come to believe that the left-wing definition of a "free and fair election" is one which is won by a Democrat.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a coalition of black lawyers, New York state's concealed carry restrictions are racist.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden gives a "bizarre" answer when asked if he and Pope Francis discussed abortion during their meeting.

From The Federalist, seven "insane" things about how U.S. elections are allegedly "rigged".

From American Thinker, Americans are starting to realize where the left wants to take us.

From CNS News, congresscritter Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) calls herself "the best example" of the American dream.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, Biden becomes not only the Grinch of Christmas but also the Grinch of Halloween.  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, congresscritter Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) decides to call it a career.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, CNN and MSNBC try to hide the Loudoun County, Virginia school board cover-up of a rape in a high-school bathroom for 17 nights.  (The story cites an article in The Daily Wire, to which you'll have to subscribe in order to read.)

From Canada Free Press, what a woman (who wrote the article ) learned from the Communist Party.

From Global News, Kingston, Ontario, Canada will put on its nighttime Santa Claus parade this year.

From TeleSUR, a Mexican journalist is shot to death in the state of Chiapas.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the traffic blockers from Insulate Britain need to get real about "crimes against humanity".

From the Evening Standard, Prime Minister Boris Johnson promises to take "appropriate action" in the U.K,'s fishing dispute with France.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Taoiseach Micheál Martin, the Irish government could decide on vaccinating children aged 5 to 12 against the coronavirus within the next month.

From The Brussels Times, some coronavirus rules in Belgium which change today.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a woman is beaten and critically injured on a bus in Belgium.  (If you read French, read the story at FDeSouche.)

From Dutch News, Dutch ministers meet to decide on new coronavirus measures.

From ReMix, according to Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk, ethnic Poles are being discriminated against in Ukraine.

From Hungary Today, Budapest, Hungary reintroduces its coronavirus restrictions.

From Free West Media, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, E.U. bureaucrats live "on another planet".

From Sputnik International, a Tajik blogger and his female Russian friend are given 10 months in jail for a photo prank in front of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.

From EuroNews, Russian parliamentcritter Valery Rashkin is accused of illegal hunting after parts of an elk carcass is found in his car.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev appoints caretaker Justice Minister Yanaki Stoilov to judge on the country's Constitutional Court and names a replacement justice minister.

From Ekathimerini, a cargo ship carrying about 400 migrants is led to a safe anchorage by the Greek coast guard after suffering engine problems.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Montenegrin Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić will not resign.

From Balkan Insight, truck drivers protest the new tolls at the border between Kosovo and North Macedonia.

From Malta Today, a man from Gzira, Malta who was on bail crashes a stolen vehicle into a police car, for which his bail is revoked.

From Italy24News, rapid coronavirus tests in Italy are not valid for its Green Pass.

From RFI, France's ambassador to the U.K. is set have talks with U.K. politicians over fishing rights.

From Euractiv, Europe's energy crunch appears to have been profitable for European gas companies.

From The North Africa Post, the U.N. Security Council extends Morocco's mandate over the region of Sahara for one year.

From the Libyan Express, the U.N. and U.S. imposes sanctions on a man accused of running a migrant detention center in Zawiyah, Libya.

From Turkish Minute, media outlets critical to the Turkish government are not allowed to cover Turkey's Republic Day ceremonies.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The Times Of Israel, Israel joins the growing number of countries pledging to be "carbon neutral" by 2050.  (I put "carbon neutral" in quotes because the term is somewhat misleading, because it leaves out the word "dioxide".)

From Egypt Today, Egyptian High Education Minister Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar will also perform the duties of Health Minister Hala Zayed until she recovers from her recent heart attack.

From The New Arab, the Sudanese general who seized power in a military coup says that he will appoint a new prime minister within a week.

From IranWire, according to eyewitnesses, Iranian border guards gunned down women and children trying to enter from Afghanistan.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani authorities establish a "red line" on a bridge over the river Jhelum to prevent the group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan from reaching the capital city of Islamabad.

From ANI, Delhi, India will allow schools for all grade starting on November 1st.

From New Age, Bangladeshi job seekers are unhappy about having to perform up to recruitment 13 tests per day.

From the Daily Mirror, according to an adolescent psychiatrist, the coronavirus pandemic has led to an increase in child abuse in Sri Lanka.

From Yahoo Finance, an Indonesian Islamic organization declares cryptocurrency to be forbidden.

From The Straits Times, a senior aide to deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is sentenced to 20 years in prison.

From the Borneo Post, a look at Malaysia's 2022 budget.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh co-chairs a World Economic Forum dialogue on Vietnam.

From Gatestone Institute, a pact between Greece, the U.S. and France is a deterrent to Turkish aggression.

From The Stream, addressing God as "Mother" goes against scripture.

From Fox 5 New York, according to NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, people calling for defunding the police "own" the shooting death of a 71-year-old tourist from Florida.  (via the Washington Examiner)

From the Daily Mail, President Biden rides through Rome in an 85-car motorcade.

From The Daily Signal, the G-20 summit needs an agenda for freedom and prosperity more than ever.

From The American Conservative, China is proving that no amount of government force can destroy the coronavirus.

From BizPac Review, when a 15-year-old girl is reportedly denied entry to a school event for not having a vaccination card, her mother would have none of it.

From The Western Journal, a car dealership in Texas shows how bad the supply chain crisis is.

From Knox News, the University of Tennessee bans 16 students and 9 others from athletic events after they threw trash at Neyland Stadium during a football game against Ole Miss.  (via The Daily Wire)

From The Daily Wire, Facebook's new name has an unfortunate meaning when read as a Hebrew word.  (I'm reminded of the Chevrolet car model Nova, which didn't sell very well in Spanish-speaking countries, because no va in Spanish means "doesn't go".)

From the Daily Caller, Iowa passes legislation allowing people who lose their jobs for refusing coronavirus vaccination to collect unemployment benefits.

From Breitbart, Dr. Fauci's division of the National Institutes of Health funded experiments at Kansas State University in which puppies were injected with mutant bacteria and subjected to ticks.

From Newsmax, U.S. intelligence still doesn't know whether the coronavirus spread to humans from an animal or was leaked from a lab.

From Entertainment Weekly, actress Jamie Lee Curtis wants to act as the voice of the devil in the new reboot of the Exorcist movies.  (via the New York Post)

And from the New York Post, a hunter in Michigan claims to have taken a picture of my namesake.

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Thursday Things

As the cool sunny weather continues on a Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Senate does have the function of thwarting the will of the people.

From FrontpageMag, a study from U.C. Berkeley explains why defending Muslim women in wrong.

From Townhall, the Democrat spending plan gives the IRS more power and resources.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden has had a "disastrous" four months.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Obama is wrong to regard critical race theory and transgender teaching as "phony issues".

From The Federalist, our elites are losing control and are desperately lashing out.

From American Thinker, the Trump effect has outlasted his presidency.

From CNS News, Attorney General Merrick Garland doesn't know if the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan will increase the risk of a terror attack.

From LifeZette, the Biden administration predictably declares war on parents.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, Biden's loss of Afghanistan has created a power vacuum.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, the Biden administration devotes its time to coming up with a national gender strategy.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, hypocrites at CNN keep panicking over Republican redistricting.

From Canada Free Press, "the abortion culture".

From CBC News, police in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada are concerned over a rise in violent street crime.

From TeleSUR, according to the Pan American Health Association, 44 percent of Latin Americans are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the coronavirus vaccine victims who will not allow anyone to silence them.

From Snouts in the Trough, the climate book written by the author of SitT is "inflammatory".

From the Express, the U.K. promises to retaliate after France seizes a British vessel fishing in its waters without a license.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Irish Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, schoolchildren exposed to coronavirus cases may be given take-home antigen tests.

From VRT NWS, inflation in Belgium exceeds 4 percent, thus reaching a 13-year high.

From the NL Times, according to its planning office, the Netherlands won't reach its climate goals even in the most favorable scenario.  (How has the Netherlands done, compared to other countries?)

From Deutsche Welle, as energy prices soar, inflation in Germany reaches a 28-year high.  (You could say that when it comes to inflation, Germany just told Belgium to "hold my beer".  Come to think of it, beer drinking is very popular in both counties.)

From the CPH Post, some things to check out in Denmark during November.

From Polskie Radio, a Polish-led "counter-revolution" is gaining support in the E.U.

From Radio Prague, Czechs celebrate the 103rd anniversary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia.

From The Slovak Spectator, Bratislava, Slovakia will install 1,000 benches designed by a Czech team.

From Daily News Hungary, the number of new coronavirus infections in Hungary is skyrocketing.

From Russia Today, a Russian blogger is investigated for allegedly "insulting" the memory of war heroes by placing a portrait of himself in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

From EuroNews, natural gas prices in Europe drop after Russian President Putin orders the company Gazprom to send more gas to the E.U.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian Chamber of Deputies approves a bill to "cap and subsidize" energy prices.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Profit(dot)Ro.)

From Novinite, Bulgarians protest against their government's green certificate requirements.

From the Greek Reporter, Thessaloniki, Greece holds a military parade to celebrate "Oxi Day".

From Independent Balkan News Agency, civic leader Ana Novaković Đurović points out the importance of Montenegro's Law on the Origin of Property.

From Balkan Insight, Albanian opposition leader Lulzim Basha renews his call for vetting politicians.

From Total Croatia News, discovering the town of Đurđevac and Croatia's only desert nearby.

From Total Slovenia News, some headlines from this morning in Slovenia.

From The Malta Independent, fishermen write a letter to Maltese Transport Minister Ian Borg asking him to withdraw plans for a marina in the port of Marsascala.

From ANSA, the Italian government deploys more police officers to Rome to brace for the G20 summit.

From SwissInfo, Swiss Environment Minister Simonetta Sommaruga bemoans the lack of investment in renewable energy sources.

From France24, according to French President Emmanuel Macron, Australia must "redefine" its relations with France after a submarine deal between the two countries is scrapped.

From Euractiv, France moves to ban U.K. ships from its harbors as the fishing dispute between the two countries deepens.

From ReMix, in an interview with the Hungarian site Magyar Nemzet, French politician Marine Le Pen opines that nationalism will defeat globalism.  (If you read Hungarian, read the interview.)

From El País, the number of people employed in Spain exceeds 20 million for the first time since 2008.

From The Portugal News, the Portuguese government approves a fuel discount of 10 cents per liter.

From Free West Media, some FDA reviewers of Prizer's child coronavirus vaccine have also worked for Pfizer.

From Morocco World News, Morocco extends its coronavirus emergency until November 30th.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to President Erdoğan, Turkey will spend $3.157 billion on climate-friendly projects.

From Rûdaw, Iraq's interior ministry opens an investigation into a terror attack that killed over a dozen people northeast of Baghdad, for which ISIS claims responsibility.

From Armenpress, according to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the opening of an Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See in Yerevan is a stimulus for Armenia-Vatican relations.

From In-Cyprus, gender equality has progressed in Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, Russian warplanes strike opposition sites in the Syrian region of Idleb.

From The961, Saudi Arabia classifies the group Al-Qard Al-Hasan a terrorist entity due to its links to Hezbollah.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, a rotation deal with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is unlikely.

From the Egypt Independent, according to the secretary general of the Arab League, members of the U.N. Security Council are "manipulating" the dam dispute between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia.

From the Sudan Tribune, according to South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, the only way to solve Sudan's political crisis is through dialogue.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia's first quarter coffee exports do better than expected.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia will have hosted over 100 cultural events by the end of this year.

From The New Arab, six Western ambassadors meet with deposed Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Tajikistan approves the construction of a Chinese-funded military base near the border with Afghanistan.

From Tasnim News Agency, according to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, martyrdom is the best deal with God.

From Dawn, thousands of members of the banned group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan continue protesting in Gujranwala, Pakistan.

From Khaama Press, more on the planned Chinese military base in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan.

From the Hindustan Times, leaders of 18 Indian opposition parties will meet during the last week of November to discuss various issues.

From Northeast Now, stories of a mosque burning in the Indian state of Tripura are fake news.

From the Dhaka Tribune, according to Transparency International Bangladesh, Bangladesh could become one of Asia's worst polluters due to carbon dioxide emissions.  (It look like Bangladesh would have to put out a lot more in order to catch up to India or China.)

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa hands 164 vehicles over to government agencies.

From Raajje, the U.S. government promises $2 million to support the Maldivian response to the coronavirus.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia faces a "new dawn for carbon trading".  (The article does indeed use the word "dioxide".)

From Free Malaysia Today, according to deputy minister Rosol Wahid, the Malaysian government will let the market decide the price of coronavirus self-test kits.

From The Mainichi, 2.86 million yen in cash is found at a Japanese garbage disposal and recycling center.

From Gatestone Institute, the role of Iranian mercenaries in Palestinian terrorism.

From The Stream, three red pills about January 6th.

From Space War, the communist Chinese government regards the U.S. ban on the company China Telecom as "malicious suppression".

From Sino Daily, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen admits that a small number of U.S. troops are in Taiwan to help with training.

From The Daily Signal, amid controversy over public schools in Virginia, more students are enrolled in religious private schools.

From The Western Journal, a "bizarre" gaffe by President Biden that everyone missed.

From BizPac Review, the Mankato, Minnesota school board requires parents to state their addresses before speaking, and bans criticism of its officials.

From The Daily Wire, Facebook changes its company name to "Meta".

From the Daily Caller, Republican congresscritters on the House Judiciary Committee demand hearings about the letter from the National School Board Association.

From Breitbart, congresscritter Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) throws cold water on President Biden's attempt to rebrand his "Build Back Better" agenda.

From Newsmax, "Rocket Man" losses about 44 pounds.

And from the New York Post, comedian Dave Chappelle's transgender stance is defended by (you guessed it) Caitlyn Jenner.

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Wednesday Wanderings

On a cool mostly sunny Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden wants to greatly raise the tax on tobacco, which would definitely affect people making less than $400,000 per year.

From FrontpageMag, the Trump derangement virus mutates into its Goldberg variant.

From Townhall, Attorney General Merrick Garland is grilled over why an FBI agent fired for lying still gets millions of dollars.

From The Washington Free Beacon, on his interactions with the National School Boards Association, Biden gets a dose of "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha", and I don't mean Brady.

From the Washington Examiner, yes, Virginia, your schools do indeed have some "serious problems".

From The Federalist, the Biden FBI joins Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) in blocking Republicans from investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

From American Thinker, why the Democrat plan to tax unrealized capital gains should terrify you.

From CNS News, the State Department issues the first U.S. passport with an "X" gender designation.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, former Trump aide Steve Bannon is a target for arrest, but dog torturer Dr. Anthony Fauci is not.  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) runs from a reporter asking about his coronavirus mandate plans.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Houston Texans chairman Cal McNair is shamed for telling the truth about where the coronavirus came from.

From NewsBusters, American Principles Project president Terry Schilling has his functions on Twitter limited after Tweeting about gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) and Loudoun County school district scandals.

From CTV News, Canadian indigenous leaders call for an apology and compensation from Pope Francis amid his possible plans to visit Canada.

From TeleSUR, the Haitian gang G9 calls for Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign.  (Would you like to live in a country where organized criminals get to decide who is in charge of the government?)

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. trans activists call for a boycott of the company Tunnock's after it donates tea cakes to the LGB alliance.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K.'s Office for Budget Responsibility warns that inflation could hit its highest level in three decades.

From Free West Media, Poland makes illegal entry more risky.

From About Hungary, according to Justice Minister Judit Varga, Hungary could soon digitize its justice system.

From The Moscow Times, according to the Russian rights group Memorial, the number of political prisoners in Russia has greatly increased this year.

From ReMix, after Russia cuts off gas to Moldova, Moldova buys gas from Poland.

From Radio Bulgaria, construction costs rise sharply in Bulgaria.

From Euractiv, the "biggest irritant" in Bulgaria's upcoming elections is its coronavirus certificate.

From the Greek City Times, according to seismology professor Gerasimos Papadopoulos, Greece is going through a period of increased seismic activity.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Montenegrin government officials present a model for seizing property acquired illegally.

From Balkan Insight, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina will erect a monument to the victims of the wartime Kazani Pit killings, without naming the perpetrators.

From EuroNews, the Italian Senate rejects a "divisive" bill that would add five more categories to its hate crimes law.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Muslim man in France gets 18 months, with 12 suspended, for threatening to slit the throat of a public official.  (If you read French, read the story at L'Indépendant.)

From The North Africa Post, procuring coronavirus vaccines will cost Morocco 7 billion dirhams.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel goes ahead with its plan to build 3,130 settler homes despite a request against doing so from the U.S. government.

From The New Arab, the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen claims to have killed 105 Houthi rebels in airstrikes around the city of Marib.

From Iran International, Iran wants nuclear talks to be resumed before December, but also wants the U.S. to unfreeze $10 billion of its assets.

From Pakistan Today, four policemen are killed and over 250 people are injured as police clash with members of the banned group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan in Gujranwala, Pakistan.

From The Hans India, India successfully test-fires the missile Agni-5.  (The missile is named after the Hindu fire god Agni.)

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem will be "a nail in the coffin of peace".

From The Stream, "the Church must respond to Marxism".

From The Daily Signal, ahead of a major Supreme Court case on abortion, the March for Life eyes equality for the unborn.

From ITR Economics, there is compelling evidence for an economic correction.

From Sino Daily, according to the communist Chinese government, Taiwan "has no right to join the United Nations".

From Space Daily, communist China successfully launches the Shijian-21 satellite.

From Space War, the U.S. bans China Telecom due to national security concerns.

From The American Conservative, communist China's infiltration playbook.

From The Western Journal, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) slams the Biden administration for "begging OPEC" to lower the price of oil.

From BizPac Review, Associated Press fact-checkers finally start fact-checking President Biden.

From The Daily Wire, New York City could lose 30 percent of its police force and fire department because of its coronavirus vaccine mandate.

From the Daily Caller, former Trump White House advisor Dr. Scott Atlas slams Dr. Deborah Birx for blaming the failure of coronavirus lockdowns on those who criticized them.

From Breitbart, according to the Atlanta Fed's GDPNOW model, economic growth in the U.S. was an estimated 0.2 percent during the third quarter of this year.

From Newsmax, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo urges voters to reject replacing the city's police department with a public safety unit.

And from the New York Post, travelers donate frequent-flyer miles to Afghan refugees.

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Tuesday Tidings

On a cool breezy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, rationality is not just for white males.

From FrontpageMag, how money from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Democrats an advantage in Pennsylvania in the 2020 election.

From Townhall, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) blast the IRS's plan to monitor transactions as low as $600.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the last time Terry McAuliffe (D) was Virginia's governor, the state's parole board released a violent offender who later robbed a woman and her kids at knifepoint.

From the Washington Examiner, high school students in Loudoun County, Virginia walk out of class to protest their school board's handling of a sexual assault.

From American Thinker, law firms that wanted to defend terrorists held in GITMO won't do anything for the January 6th defendants.

From American Thinker, beagles aren't the only animals being tortured using funding from the NIH.

From CNS News, how Big Tech cancels your voice and even your vote.

From LifeZette, the aforementioned gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe insults Virginian parents.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (R) recognizes that there are two genders, even as a state representative doesn't.  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, former President Trump announces the creation of a new company that will challenged the dominance of big tech and big media.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the CNN show Smerconish highlights the illegal migrant caravan now in Mexico, unlike the rest of that network.  (According to this article from Human Events, being illegally present in Mexico is a felony.  Thus, these migrants are technically felons under Mexican law.)

From Canada Free Press, how did Virginia, the "mother of presidents" become a danger to her children?

From Global News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reshuffles his cabinet.

From TeleSUR, President Daniel Ortega claims that the U.S. is interfering with Nicaragua's elections.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how would the "Iron Lady" have dealt with the coronavirus?

From Snouts in the Trough, how many coronavirus jabs will you and your family get?

From the Evening Standard, a noted World War II-era truck mechanic reportedly has "regretfully decided" against hosting the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.  (Yes, I like to refer to Her Majesty by her military specialty.  How many current heads of state have "wartime truck mechanic" on their resumes?)

From the Irish Examiner, when in Ireland, be careful how you ride your scrambler or quad bike, or the gardaí might take it away.

From The Brussels Times, the Belgian commune of Flanders orders the American company 3M to either show that its emissions do not pose a risk or to halt its production.

From Dutch News, coronavirus-related hospital admissions in the Netherlands increase by 34 percent in the last week.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a man in Berlin, Germany is beaten up for not shouting "free Palestine".  (If you read German, read the story at Jung Freiheit.)

From Free West Media, Swedish politician Bertil Malmberg is convicted of incitement for citing facts about the IQs of South Sudanese people.

From ReMix, Poland comes up with an infrastructure plan.

From Hungary Today, according to Hungarian health experts, people should keep on social distancing and wearing masks.

From EuroNews, five takeaways from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's meeting with French "far-right" politician Marine Le Pen.  (These days, anyone in Europe who wants any degree of sovereignty for his own country, instead of having to submit everything for E.U. approval, is in danger of being called "far-right".)

From Sputnik International, Russian Marines save a civilian ship from pirates.

From The Sofia Globe, the stranded cargo ship Vera Su is towed to the Bulgarian port of Varna.

Form Ekathimerini, seven police officers on trial for murder for a fatal shooting in Piraeus, Greece claim to have acted in self-defense.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Romanian Prime Minister-designate Nicolae Ciucă has so far not been able to secure a parliamentary majority.

From Balkan Insight, activists gather in Pristina, Kosovo to protest the light sentence given to a man convicted of sexually abusing a 15-year-old.

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenia sees its highest daily number of new coronavirus cases since January.

From Malta Today, a man is cleared of involvement in a robbery at an ice cream factory in Żejtun, Malta in 2014.

From Italy24News, Italian-made cars are used by police in Dubai.

From RFI, French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurates a museum dedicated to the "Dreyfus affair".

From Euractiv, according to a report, facial recognition technology is already being used in 11 E.U. countries.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco pleads for a strategic update of the partnership between the African Union and the European Union.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey sentences 450 lawyers to a total of 2,786 years in prison on "trumped-up" charges relating to the 2016 coup.

From The Times Of Israel, according to a climate watchdog, Israel is over-polluting and underpreparing when it comes to climate change.

From Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinian police and Fatah teach 50 girls to regard terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi as a role model.

From Egypt Today, the Italian company Eni announces three oil and gas discoveries in Egypt's Western Desert.

From The New Arab, Sudanese people protest against their country's military coup.

From IranWire, Iranians ask Supreme Leader Khamenei where their gasoline is.

From The Express Tribune, Foreign Minister Shan Mahmood Qureshi highlights Pakistan's contribution to U.N. peacekeeping missions.

From The Afghanistan Times, women protest in Kabul, Afghanistan over the closing of schools for girls.

From India Today, the Indian federal government asks the state of West Bengal its coronavirus situation due to a spike in cases after the Durga Puja festival.

From New Age, Bangladeshi and U.S. troops start a disaster response exercise.

From the Daily Mirror, the Sri Lankan Health Ministry sounds the alarm over a slight rise in coronavirus-related deaths.

From AFP Fact Check, reports of the death of an Indian politician appear to have been greatly exaggerated.

From The Straits Times, for the first time ever, Asean leaders convene their annual summit without Myanmar.

From the Borneo Post, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin reminds Malaysians to obey the ban on smoking in eateries.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc hopes for stronger trade relations with New Zealand.

From Gatestone Institute, Poland claws back its sovereignty from the E.U.

From The Stream, what does the Bible really say about socialism and capitalism?

From The Daily Signal, congress did not give OSHA the authority to impose coronavirus vaccine mandates.

From The American Conservative, the global economy works when governments refrain from intervening.

From The Western Journal, former President Trump's new social media platform should remind Christians about where truth ultimately comes from.

From BizPac Review, comedian Dave Chappelle refuses to bend to anyone's demands.

From The Daily Wire, according to CNN, the current labor shortage is just what the U.S. economy needs.

From the Daily Caller, according to an opinion column, Democrats and the media want Americans to believe that Trump's rally on January 6th and the attack on the Capitol are the same thing.

From the New York Post, President Biden will stump for the twice-aforementioned Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe (D), and Vice President Harris will do so again.

From Breitbart, according to a survey, most Americans think that chanting "Let's go, Brandon" and "[bleep] Joe Biden" are "appropriate" ways to protest Biden's administration.

From The Hill, Trump-endorsed congressional candidate Anna Paulina Luna leads her fellow Republicans in the race to replace congresscritter Charlie Crist (D-FL).  (via Newsmax)

From Newsmax, former MLB player and manager Bobby Valentine runs for mayor of Stamford, Connecticut as an independent.

And from the Genesius Times, the Democrats change their 2022 campaign slogan to "try to lower your expectations".

Monday, October 25, 2021

Monday Links

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

From National Review, Extinction Rebellion activists block traffic in New York City.  (I thought that this group operated mainly in Europe, but it looks like they're on this side of the Pond, too.  They don't seem to realize that by blocking traffic, the cause vehicles to emit more carbon dioxide.)

From FrontpageMag, a Minneapolis police officer originally from Somalia gets less than five years for killing an unarmed woman.

From Townhall, congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) asks President Biden about the "alarming" number of migrants and the Democrats' push for amnesty.

From The Washington Free Beacon, climate czar John Kerry holds a $1 million stake in a company linked to human rights abuses of the Uyghurs in China.

From the Washington Examiner, according to an opinion column, Biden will give the left whatever it wants.

From The Federalist, how the photo op for "four-star Admiral" Rachel Levine will damage U.S. security.

From American Thinker, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) tells the U.N. to "pound sand".

From CNS News, migrants apprehended at the southern border during September include people from Haiti, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and China.  (The last time I checked, only one of these countries is in the Western Hemisphere.)

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, according to Elise Stefanik (R-NY), DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas should be fired.  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, according to Dr. Fauci, due to data from Pfizer, kids might be getting jabbed by Thanksgiving.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, CNN hails the huge Democrat spending bill as our time's "new deal".

From Canada Free Press, Biden is too busy to deal with the border crisis, but not for ice cream.

From CBC News, supply chain problems hit Canada.

From TeleSUR, former Mexican President Enrique Peña-Nieto is branded a thief.

From TCW Defending Freedom, eight wise doctors and a "glimmer of hope" on the coronavirus.

From the Express, U.K. House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle demands that Chancellor Rishi Sunak must resign.

From the Irish Examiner, Ireland's Climate Change Advisory Council presents its first ever "carbon budget", which is expected to affect all sectors of the country's economy.  (Considering how low Ireland's carbon dioxide output already is, I don't think that this "carbon budget" will have much of an effect on the climate.)

From VRT NWS, federal police in Antwerp, Belgium arrest 10 people for alleged involvement in the trafficking of she-don't-lie.

From Free West Media, 55 percent of new coronavirus-related hospital admissions in Belgium were already vaccinated.

From the NL Times, Schiphol Airport will use tow vehicles to bring airplanes to runways, thus reducing their carbon dioxide output while taxiing.

From Deutsche Welle, are rising energy prices causing Germans to rethink their aversion to nuclear power?

From EuroNews, a German woman who joined ISIS gets 10 years from a court in Munich for letting an enslaved girl in Iraq die to thirst.

From the CPH Post, vandals deface election posters with swastikas, for both left-wing and right-wing candidates.

From Polskie Radio, Poland signs the international agreement to impose a worldwide minimum corporate tax rate.

From Radio Prague, as coronavirus numbers rise in the Czech Republic, new restrictions come into force.

From ReMix, according to Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, "Europe is committing suicide" with its energy policies.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovaks deciding whether to get vaccinated against the coronavirus are influenced by conspiracy theories.

From Daily News Hungary, the richest man in Hungary sells two ski hotels in Austria to a company associated with Prime Minister Orban's son-in-law.

From Russia Today, as coronavirus cases hit new highs, Russian President Putin orders an 11 p.m. curfew on nightlife establishments.

From Romania-Insider, Romania's interim government enforces sanitary conditions starting today.

From Novinite, Bulgaria starts issuing post-illness coronavirus antigen certificates.

From the Greek Reporter, a magnitude-2.9 earthquake hits Athens.

From Euractiv, Albania remains reluctant to find the missing 6,000 victims of its former communist government.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Croatian Interior Minister Davor Božinović announces tighter control of coronavirus measures.

From Balkan Insight, Serbia refuses to allow the Kosovo boxing team to enter the country and participate in the Men's World Boxing Championships in the capital city of Belgrade.

From Total Croatia News, the Croatian embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina strongly condemns attacks on Croatian symbols in that country.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša, Defence Minister Matej Tonin, and other officials receive mailed death threats, some including live bullets in the letters.

From The Malta Independent, according to Prime Minister Robert Abela, Malta will hold its next general election in 2022.

From ANSA, a man is killed and a woman goes missing to a flash flood in Scordia, Italy, which is on the island of Sicily.

From SwissInfo, Swiss businesses face supply chain problems.

From France24, France seeks to shield local bookstores from Amazon with a minimum delivery charge.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a student in Les Ulis, France who threatened to behead a teacher is punished only by being required to attend a course on the dangers of digital technology and social media.  (If you read French, read the story at FDeSouche.)

From El País, the volcano on La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands opens its fifth vent.

From The Portugal News, how solar storms affect Portugal's electricity grid.

From Morocco World News, Morocco's 2021 finance bill includes five measures to improve education.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria threatens the Gulf countries over their support for Moroccan autonomy over the Sahara region.

From the Libyan Express, Japan announces new financial support for elections in Libya.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan is set to visit Azerbaijan for the third time since its victory in the region of Karabakh.

From Rûdaw, the Iraqi government will send over a million liters of gasoline to every day to the region of Kurdistan.

From Armenpress, the Iranian ambassador to Armenia condemns Azerbaijan for charging tolls on Iranian trucks going to Armenia.

From In-Cyprus, Cypriot ecologists react to the trapping of birds and reptiles with nets.

From The Syrian Observer, the E.U. condemns the Syrian government's execution of 24 people convicted of arson.

From The961, 68 people are charged with murder and sedition by a Lebanese military court after the Tayyouneh clashes.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Israel opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, "we want elections now".

From the Egypt Independent, no, a rock discovered near the Giza pyramids is not another sphinx.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian government calls for calm in neighboring Sudan.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman announces a series of regional climate initiatives.

From The New Arab, Sudan's military detains civilian government leaders, which is denounced as a "coup".

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, according to the top U.S. envoy on Iran, the Iranian government may be delaying talks in order to advance its nuclear program.

From Dawn, at the Middle East Green Initiative Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan urges the world to take climate change more seriously.

From Khaama Press, the E.U. plans to reopen a diplomatic office in Kabul, Afghanistan within the next month.

From ANI, Uttar Pradesh becomes the first Indian state to impose stock limits on edible oils.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh's ban on catching ilish fish expires tonight.  (By the time I publish this post, it will already be nighttime in Bangladesh.)

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan primary students return to school today.

From Raajje, over 354,000 people in the Maldive Islands have received both doses of coronavirus vaccines.

From The Jakarta Post, it's "screening season" in Indonesia.

From Free Malaysia Today, according to the Malaysian foreign ministry, all Malaysians in Sudan are safe.

From The Mainichi, Tokyo and neighboring Japanese prefectures lift their coronavirus restrictions on eateries.

From Gatestone Institute, the imprisoned Palestinians whom no one wants to talk about.

From The Stream, Democrats try to sneak gender dogma into a bill about preventing family violence.

From The Daily Signal, risk is necessary to keep a nation healthy.

From Space Daily, "a world without access to space".

From Space War, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wants more money for hypersonic missiles.

From The American Conservative, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) takes California.

From Komando, five ways to stop robocalls.

From The Western Journal, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) won't commit to honoring a promise she made in 2018.

From BizPac Review, "experts" at The Washington Post explain why parents should not tell schools what to teach their kids.

From The Daily Wire, a college journalist reaches a settlement with the school paper which fired him for expressing his Catholic views.

From the Daily Caller, U.S. companies warn shoppers that there could be fewer holiday discounts.

From the New York Post, President Biden keeps telling his "false" story about Amtrak.

From Breitbart, Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter debuts sneakers having images inspired by the Tiananmen Square massacre.

From Newsmax, a U.S. federal court rules that hippos (if their parents were once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar) are people, too.

And from The Babylon Bee, Dr. Fauci hopes that the experiments he performed on puppies will distract everyone from the experiments he has performed on humans for the past 18 months.