Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Wednesday Wanderings

Other than the Blue Origins space flight reported on earlier, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Loudon County, Virginia school district finally breaks its silence about an alleged transgender sexual assault.

From FrontpageMag, coronavirus vaccination mandates were never intended for those who made them.

From Townhall, White House press secretary Jen Psaki proves that President Biden was unprepared for the supply chain crisis.

From The Washington Free Beacon, almost half of the Taliban government's leaders are on the U.N.'s terrorist blacklist.

From the Washington Examiner, a federal judge rules that D.C. corrections officials have infringed the riots of some of the alleged January 6th rioters.

From The Federalist, where are teachers learning critical race theory.

From American Thinker, how to spot the authoritarians.

From CNS News, according to Senator Roger Marshal (R-KS), Americans are angry and panicked about inflation.

From LifeZette, Biden is not a moderate.

From NewsBusters, former President Trump blasts new censorship on Google.

From Canada Free Press, U.S. parents are indeed protesting at school board meetings.

From Global News, Canada's oil and gas industries need workers.

From TeleSUR, Mexico will reopen its border with the U.S. in November.  (It seems that the areas of the border controlled by the drug cartels are already open.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, who can be trusted to tell the truth?

From Snouts in the Trough, does British journalist Andrew Neil now believe teenage activist Greta Thunberg on climate change?

From the Evening Standard, a teenage Afghan refugee is stabbed to death in the London section of Twickenham.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Taoiseach Micheál Martin, there is "no guarantee" that Irish society will fully reopen on October 22nd as planned.

From Euractiv, an Irish privacy watchdog endorses Facebook's method of protecting personal data.

From The Brussels Times, the University of Leuven abolishes the "baptism" of new students.

From Dutch News, police in Amsterdam arrest a man for allegedly planning an attack on Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at the Volkskrant.)

From Allah's Willing Executioners, the German public broadcaster ZDF hires a known Islamist who hates Israel.  (If you read German, read the story at Bild.)

From EuroNews, a man in Norway kills and injures people with a bow and arrow.

From ReMix, migrants in the Czech Republic film their ride on a truck chassis and then walk on a highway to Prague.

From Hungary Today, will the resignation of Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz change Austria's relationship with Hungary.

From Sputnik International, according to President Putin, Russia is not to blame for gas price increases in Europe.

From The Sofia Globe, according to Bulgaria's Maritime Administration, the cargo ship Vera Su may have been deliberately flooded.  (I have occasionally misspelled this site's name as "The Sofia Glove".  As it turns out, there is such a thing as a Sofia glove.)

From Ekathimerini, Greece considers issuing temporary drivers license to 17-year-olds.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the house in Thessaloniki, Greece in which Kemal Atatürk was born is visited by two Turkish scientists who helped to develop the first coronavirus vaccine.

From Balkan Insight, violence in Serb-majority northern Kosovo draws diverse reactions.

From The Slovenia Times, a fact-finding mission from the European Parliament starts a visit to Slovenia.

From Malta Today, a dog breeder in Żejtun, Malta is banned from owning dogs due to his neglecting them.

From Italy24News, the dearth of Green passes held by dockworkers in Italian port will result in a "black Friday".

From RFI, a spectator who caused a large crash on the Tour de France will appear in court in the region of Brittany.

From Free West Media, according to a former Pentagon software chief, the U.S. has lost the fight for artificial intelligence against China.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan economy is expected to bounce back to 6.2 percent growth for 2021.

From Turkish Minute, seven Turkish pro-government organizations share 679 dormitories seized by the government for alleged Gülen links.

From The Times Of Israel, 250 inmates in Israeli prisons who are members of Islamic Jihad announce a hunger strike.

From Gatestone Institute, why Palestinians would rather work in Israel than in areas governed by Hamas or by the Palestinian Authority.

From Egypt Today, the Egyptian government announces a holiday to celebrate the prophet Mohammed's birth day.

From The New Arab, over 100 Houthi rebels die fighting south of Marib, Yemen.

From IranWire, Iranian women mourn their girlhoods lost to child marriage.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani scientist Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary is awarded the Mustafa Prize International.

From the Afghanistan Times, the E.U. announces a $1.5 billion humanitarian aid package to Afghanistan.

From ANI, at least three people die from a "mysterious" fever in Agra, India.

From the Daily Mirror, from 10 to 30 percent of coronavirus patients in Sri Lanka suffer from post-coronavirus symptoms.

From The Straits Times, lines form at mall as coronavirus status checks start under Singapore's new measures.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia's Ministry of Health still start administering coronavirus booster shots for senior citizens and frontliners.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan attends the third Eurasian Women's Forum.

From The Stream, the foundation of one of the oldest black churches in the U.S. is found under a parking lot in Williamsburg, Virginia.

From The Daily Signal, getting rid of "F" grades for students is a new kind of "soft bigotry of low expectation".

From The American Conservative, right-wing journalist Éric Zemmour is the French equivalent of Pat Buchanan.

From The Western Journal, the Social Security Administration announces its largest benefit increase in 39 years.

From BizPac Review, is the Biden administration starving children in Alabama?

From The Daily Wire, the Catholic Diocese of Dallas threatens to expel students whose parents who opposed a mask mandate.

From the Daily Caller, illegal aliens crossing from Mexico to the U.S. thank President Biden.

From Breitbart, according to a survey, an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose giving aid to the Taliban-controlled government of Afghanistan.

From Newsmax, journalist Katie Couric reportedly admits to "protecting" the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by omitting her comments about athletes who kneel during the national anthem.

And from the New York Post, the Rolling Stones retire the song Brown Sugar.

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