Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, the Democrats walk back their IRS reporting rule on transactions as low as $600.

From FrontpageMag, 12,000 Afghans have been brought into the U.S. and have no IDs.

From Townhall, the latest good to be hit with "Biden-flation".

From The Washington Free Beacon, two lawyers plead guilty to a charge of making or possessing a destructive device.

From the Washington Examiner, a coroner is called to a park in Florida after clothing and a backpack belonging to fugitive Brian Laundrie are found.

From The Federalist, a sex abuse scandal in Rotherham, U.K. looms over Loudoun County, Virginia.

From American Thinker, the important factor in world history is capability.

From CNS News, as school spending goes up, test scores go down.

From LifeZette, liberals are outraged at Jon Stewart for criticizing the media.

From NewsBusters, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appears on The View and crushes critical race theory.

From Canada Free Press, a possible cybersecurity option for the 2022 elections.

For CBC News, Canada sees its highest inflation is almost 20 years.

From TeleSUR, a Brazilian Senate Commission accuses President Jair Bolsonaro of crimes against humanity.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.N., the coronavirus, and climate change.

From the Express, here comes Boris the Spider.  (This time, I'm not using that term to refer to the U.K.'s prime minister.)

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin wants a crackdown on coronavirus certifications.

From VRT NWS, the margin of tolerance for speeding will disappear on seven Belgian highways.

From the NL Times, according to Outbreak Management Team chairman Jaap van Dissel, no lockdown is expected for the Netherlands for the coming winter.

From Deutsche Welle, German police seize weapons in a raid on a far-right group calling itself "Berserker Clan".

From Free West Media, migrant reception centers in Germany are overflowing.

From the CPH Post, a round-up of news in Denmark, including a recent increase in the coronavirus infection rate.

From Polskie Radio, speaking at a conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, Polish President Andrzej Duda warns of the return of armed conflict to that region of Europe.

From ReMix, speaking to the European Parliament, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warns that Poland will not tolerate financial blackmail from the E.U.

From Radio Prague, Czech Health Minister Adam Vojtěch wants tougher coronavirus measures.

From The Slovak Spectator, pieces of the Berlin Wall arrive in Nitra, Slovakia.

From Euractiv, the Hungarian government will send money to renovate churches in Hungarian-majority towns in Slovakia without the involvement of the Slovakian government.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary spent €1.2 billion defending its borders from migrants.

From Russia Today, in response to an increase in coronavirus-related deaths, Russia announces a national "non-working" week.

From EuroNews, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny wins the Sakharov Prize.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian parliament votes against a government proposed by Prime Minister-designate Dacian Cioloş.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Digi24.)

From Novinite, violating Bulgaria's Green Pass is gonna cost ya, pilgrim.

From the Greek Reporter, hominid footprints on the Greek island of Crete are re-dated to 6.5 million years old.  (The 23,000-year-old human footprints in New Mexico have nothing on these guys.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to acting Health Minister Stoicho Kacharov, protests against Bulgaria's coronavirus measures are "political".

From Balkan Insight, according to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, complaints against his plan to set up a "Media and Information Agency" are "false alarms".

From Total Croatia News, an emergency maritime medical service is established for Croatian coastal cities including Dubrovnik.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at HRTurizam.)

From Total Slovenia News, two Slovenian nurses are caught selling fake coronavirus vaccination certificates.

From The Malta Independent, Malta will continue to allow finch trapping under a "research" derogation.

From ANSA, a former municipal councilor in northern Italy is freed from house arrest after fatally shooting a Moroccan migrant, which he claims was in self-defense.

From SwissInfo, the University of Lausanne takes on gender bias in its medical school.

From France24, a teacher is convicted of inciting racial hatred for carrying an anti-Semitic sign in Metz, France.

From El País, residents of La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands try to stay a step ahead as a new stream of lava from its erupting volcano nears the sea.

From The Portugal News, Portugal integrates immigrants and refugees.

From Morocco World News, a reported 84.2 percent of Moroccan households expect unemployment to increase in 2022.

From The North Africa Post, the U.S. ties military aid to Morocco to a return toward democracy.

From the Libyan Express, Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Al-Mangoush and U.N. representatives Rosemary DiCarlo and Jan Kubis discuss the "Libya Stability Initiative".

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to President Erdoğan, Turkey will deepen its bilateral cooperation with Nigeria.

From Rûdaw, Kurdistan regional Prime Minister Masrour Barzani urges people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus as cases rise in the region.

From Armenpress, the deputy prime ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia hold a sitting of their trilateral working group.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus deploys a mobile coronavirus vaccination unit for mountainous areas.

From The Syrian Observer, UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi comes under fire for suggesting that Syrians return to government-controlled areas.

From The961, according to two new studies, the amount of ammonium nitrate which exploded in Beirut was not as much as had previously been claimed.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, his government got Israel out of a spiral of consecutive elections.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt appoints 98 female judges to its State Council.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian government accuses the U.K. paper The Telegraph of  inaccurately translating a speech by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

From the Saudi Gazette, the Saudi Arabian government starts giving out coronavirus booster shots.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, China's war on terror and an unofficial military base.

From Dawn, according to Pakistani Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, while gasoline prices have increased, prices of other commodities are going down.

From Khaama Press, according to U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, the war in Afghanistan is over, but it is not the country's final chapter.

From India Today, Pune, Maharashtra, India records a day with no coronavirus deaths for the first time in eight months.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists in Bangladesh observe their respective holy days side by side.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan Navy recovers the body of a missing Indian fisherman.

From Raajje, two more suspects are charged over the attempted assassination of former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed.

From The Jakarta Post, according to an opinion column, Indonesia's winning the Thomas Cup in badminton is blemished.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian government is urged to spend more on national parks.

From The Mainichi, the volcano Mount Aso in southwestern Japan erupts, but climbers walk away without injury.

From Gatestone Institute, a reason why Palestinians can't make peace with Israel.

From The Stream, the U.N. wants countries to criminalize criticism of gender ideology.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From The Daily Signal, a new study confirms that women want men who are good providers.

From The American Conservative, NATO is stuck in the past.

From The Western Journal, the truth about the U.S. economy is even worse that we've imagined.

From BizPac Review, according to The Washington Post, there is a lack of diversity among zookeepers.

From The Daily Wire, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) grills President Biden's judicial nominee Holly Thomas for her past claim that boys in girls' bathrooms would not lead to violence.

From the Daily Caller, in addition to the aforementioned clothing and backpack belonging to fugitive Brian Laundrie, possible human remains are found in a Florida park.

From Breitbart, according to Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), reports of him leaving the Democrat Party are greatly exaggerated.

From Newsmax, the NYPD's largest union sues New York City over its coronavirus vaccine mandate.

And from the New York Post, a New York City e-scooter driver weaves through traffic on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

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