Monday, November 15, 2021

Monday Links

On a cool cloudy Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, "we'll always have Paris", and all the other climate conferences.

From FrontpageMag, the big left-wing lie about critical race theory.

From Townhall, Texas state House legislator Ryan Guillen switches from Democrat to Republican.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congressional Republicans move to reimpose sanctions on the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, which the Biden administration had removed.

From the Washington Examiner, according to an opinion column, former congresscritter Bob O'Rourke (D-TX) "keeps trying to fail upward".  (The column uses O'Rourke's favorite nickname "Beto", but I like to call him "Bob" because he appears to have little if any Hispanic heritage, and because his full first name is "Robert", without a final "o".  By the way, did you know that O'Rourke once played bass in a band?)

From The Federalist, coronavirus lockdowns gave climate tyrants the means to crush freedom.

From American Thinker, even with so many people being vaccinated, why are coronavirus cases surging again?

From CNS News, President Biden is urged to address China's "malign behavior" when he talks with President Xi.

From LifeZette, the results from the 2021 elections show the importance of elections being free and fair.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, the duality of former President Trump.  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, at a high school principal in Austin, Texas, "smokin' in the boy's room" gets more difficult.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the networks go Sergeant Schulz on a Biden nominee who praised the Soviet Union and wants to abolish oil and gas production.

From Canada Free Press, an open letter to right-wing journalist Tucker Carlson about "the real opioid story".

From CBC News, search and rescue crews prepare to help travelers stranded by landslides on a highway in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

From TeleSUR, five mayors in Costa Rica are detained on corruption charges.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland has been a "hypocrites' jamboree".

From the Express, Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon is urged to back down on her position against having nuclear power and weapons in Scotland.

From the (Irish) Independent, good doggie!

From VRT NWS, about 200 police officers stage a protest as the Belgian royal family enters the Brussels Cathedral to attend the King's Day Te Deum.

From the NL Times, when in the Netherlands, don't ride your scooter on bike paths.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany's coronavirus incidence rate passes 300 for the first time.

From the CPH Post, Denmark sees its highest number of new coronavirus cases since 2020.

From Free West Media, Gothenburg, Sweden rises up against "medical apartheid".

From Polskie Radio, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki asks NATO for help as tensions rise on its border with Belarus.

From Euractiv, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia consider invoking NATO's Article 4.

From Radio Prague, a team of Czech scientists find a way to look inside an atom.

From The Slovak Spectator, travel into the E.U. across Slovakia's eastern border is temporarily restricted.

From Daily News Hungary, according to prime ministerial chief of staff Gergely Gulyás, Hungary's parliamentary election in 2022 is "crucial".

From EuroNews, the E.U. agrees to impose new sanctions on Belarus over the migrant crisis at its border with Poland.

From Russia Today, President Putin (Russia) tells President Macron (France) that the E.U. should talk to Russia over the situation at the Poland-Belarus border.

From Romania-Insider, the emergence of a new government for Romania might take a bit longer than expected.  (If you read Romania, read this related story and this other related story, both at HotNews.)

From Novinite, some results from Bulgaria's elections.

From the Greek Reporter, a five-year-old boy from Heraklion, Greece on the island of Crete has an IQ of 140.

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo's governing party Vetevendosje loses 8 out of 12 municipal elections in which its candidates were running.

From Total Croatia News, the town of Poreč in the region of Istria sets a Croatian record for number of primary school students.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Morski.)

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian medical professionals Slovenia's Chamber of Commerce and Industry call for more vaccination as the country undergoes its fourth coronavirus wave.

From The Malta Independent, according to Prime Minister Robert Abela, the coronavirus vaccine is the "foundation" of Malta's "road back to normality".

From ANSA, coronavirus "Green Passes" are required for riding trains in Italy.

From SwissInfo, Zurich might become the second Swiss canton to lower the voting age to 16.

From France24, Paris lowers its speed limit for scooters after a woman dies in a collision with one.

From ReMix, according to Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, France must get rid of political correctness in order to defeat Islamism.

From El País, a man dies while clearing volcanic ash from his home on the Spanish island of La Palma.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, after trainee police officers are attacked at a disco in Peñíscola, Spain, some of the attackers shout, "Here we Arabs have the say!".  (You could say that the town has an unfortunate name.  If you read Spanish, read the story at La Razón.  If you read French, read the story at FDeSouche.)

From The Portugal News, according to a study, the Portuguese people are willing to travel by train instead of airplane and are willing to introduce climate change taxes.  (I have a sneaking suspicion that Portuguese delegates to climate change conferences still prefer to use private jets.)

From Morocco World News, King Mohamed VI reaffirms Morocco's support for an independent Palestinian state.

From The North Africa Post, import-export operations are digitalized at Morocco's Tanger-Med port.

From the Libyan Express, according to a spokesman for the International Criminal Court, its arrest warrant for Saif al-Islam Qaddafy, son of the late dictator Muammar Qaddafy, is still valid.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, sanctions against Iran should be discontinued.

From Rûdaw, Iraq plans to state repatriation flights for migrants who wish to return from the Polish-Belarusian border.

From Armenpress, according to Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, Azerbaijan is still putting a siege on the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot committee for scientific advice on the coronavirus decides against new measures but recommends vaccine booster shots.

From The Syrian Observer, Cham Wings Airlines suspends flights between Damascus, Syria and Minsk, Belarus.

From Arutz Sheva, groups of Arabs allegedly attack at the Homesh yeshiva in Samaria.

From the Egypt Independent, when in Aswan, Egypt, watch out for scorpions and snakes.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian Airlines and Boeing sign a deal to exchange airplane landing gear.

From the Saudi Gazette, 27 Islamic scholars, doctors and academics are granted Saudi citizenship.

From The New Arab, the fight against honor crimes in Jordan.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, two earthquakes having magnitudes above 6 strike in southern Iran, resulting in at least one person being killed.

From Dawn, a man is shot dead and his wife and two other people are injured when unidentified attacks open fire on their car in Karachi, Pakistan.

From Khaama Press, the Taliban conducts large-scale operations against ISIS-K terrorists in the Afghan province of Kandahar.

From the Hindustan Times, India's worst AQI is recorded, not by the capital of Delhi, but by the city of Narnaul in the state of Haryana.

From the Dhaka Tribune, despite extensive spending, Dhaka, Bangladesh keeps getting waterlogged.

From the Colombo Page, according to Sri Lankan Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila, the Sapugaskanda oil refinery will be closed for 50 days, but this will not create a fuel shortage.

From Raajje, the Maldivian Health Protection Agency announces timings for coronavirus booster shots.

From The Jakarta Post, a fire breaks out at the Cilacap oil refinery in the Indonesian province of Central Java, but its operations are not significantly interrupted.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian navy will receive the first of its controversial littoral combat ships in 2025.

From The Mainichi, Tokyo reports seven new coronavirus cases for today, a low for this year.

From Gatestone Institute, why Palestinian Arabs are getting out of the Gaza Strip.

From The Stream, Kinney County, Texas plans to defend its section of the U.S.-Mexico border.

From The American Conservative, trying to find a house during a pandemic.

From The Daily Signal, according to Governor Ron DeSantis (R), Florida "chose freedom over Fauci-ism, and we're better off for it".

From BizPac Review, according to an opinion column, reports of a "great Pacific garbage patch" twice the size of Texas are fake.

From The Western Journal, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) nails the Republican congresscritters who voted for the "infrastructure" bill.

From The Daily Wire, students at Florida State University protest ahead of a speech by right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro.  (FSU has sometimes been called "Free Shoes U." due to football players allegedly being given discounts on shoes, and more recently "Free Seafood U." due to quarterback Jameis Winston allegedly stealing crab legs.  The acronym is thus also rendered "F$U".)

From the Daily Caller, astronauts on the International Space Station are warned about a "debris-generating event".

From the New York Post, President Biden signs the "infrastructure" bill.

From Breitbart, Vermont requires middle and high schools to provide students with free condoms.

From Newsmax, tipped off by a whistleblower in San Diego, congresscritter Lance Gooden (R-TX) claims to have seen documents about how California nonprofits are aiding illegal migrants.

And from the Babylon Bee, the judge in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse instructs the jury to ignore the angry mob threatening to burn down the courthouse.

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