Thursday, November 18, 2021

Thursday Things

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

From National Review, President Biden launches a "phony" investigation of gasoline prices.  (If he truly wishes to find a reason for high gas prices, using a mirror would help.)

From FrontpageMag, a group which Biden removed from terror list storms the U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen.

From Townhall, coronavirus vaccines are "shots in the dark".

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden's climate push prompts concern about investment in the county that leads the world in carbon dioxide emissions.

From the Washington Examiner, the judge in charge of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial bars MSNBC after one of its employees allegedly followed the jury bus.

From The Federalist, coronavirus vaccines cause chaos in the military as some service members seek religious exceptions.

From American Thinker, the winner of the second annual "Hoax of the Year" award is.....

From CNS News, the DEA seizes a record 12,000 pounds of fentanyl, enough to kill the entire U.S. population.

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, the storm gathers again.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, NPR decries the elections of an Asian woman as Boston's next mayor.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, a left-wing "dark money" group funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros spent $410 million to defeat then-President Trump and Republicans in 2020.

From CBC News, a "mammoth" cleanup will start, with the help of some military personnel, in the Canadian province of British Columbia as floodwaters recede.

From TeleSUR, a former policeman allegedly involved in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise dies while in a hospital.

From TCW Defending Freedom, questions which candidates in local elections in the U.K. should answer.

From the Express, French police stand and watch as migrants climb into dinghies to cross the English Channel.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, the 5 percent of the Irish population who are not vaccinated "are causing a lot of the trouble" in the fight against the coronavirus.

From VRT NWS, family medicine professor Dirk Devroey of the Free Flemish University of Brussels is not impressed with the Belgian government's latest measures.

From the NL Times, over 23,000 people test positive for the coronavirus in the Netherlands, a new Dutch record.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany introduces new coronavirus measures.

From the CPH Post, a record number of women are elected mayor in Denmark.

From Polskie Radio, about 200 migrants attempt to illegally enter Poland from Belarus near the village of Dubicze Cerkiewne.

From EuroNews, about 370 Iraqi migrants stranded at the Poland-Belarus border fly home.

From Radio Prague, the Czech government approves a "raft" of restrictions on people not vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak cabinet approves a lockdown for people not vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From Daily News Hungary, according to opposition prime ministerial candidate Péter Márki-Zay, if the opposition wins next year's election, Hungary will keep its border fence.

From Russia Today, the Russian government cancels Moscow's Christmas festivities for the second straight year due to coronavirus-related concerns.

From Romania-Insider, Bucharest Mayor Nicuşor Dan asks the Romanian government for €200 million to keep its central heating system operational.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at HotNews.)

From Novinite, Bulgaria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summons the ambassador from Turkey let Turkish officials know that they should refrain from making statements during Bulgaria's elections.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece bars people not vaccinated against the coronavirus from all enclosed venues.

From Balkan Insight, wanted former oil company boss Rezart Taci, now living in Milan, Italy, tells the media that he's ready to face justice in his home country of Albania.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia commemorates the massacre in the town of Škabrnja on its 30th anniversary.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian universities and research institutes urge Slovenes to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From The Malta Independent, the Maltese island of Gozo inaugurates its first reverse osmosis plant.

From ANSA, Italian postal police target anti-vaccination extremists in a nationwide operation.

From ReMix, Italy's open border policy makes of joke of the Poles and Baltic peoples defending the E.U.'s east flank.

From Euractiv, Austria is ready to sue the E.U. over its inclusion of nuclear energy in its green finance taxonomy.  (As some of us on the right like to point out, people who are against fossil fuels very often don't like nuclear either, even though nuclear plants don't generate carbon dioxide.)

From Allah's Willing Executioners, the Austrian public broadcaster ORF secretly deletes a report about the persecution of Christians and Jews in Europe.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From SwissInfo, a petition from Swiss civil society groups calls for a ban on automatic facial recognition and video surveillance technology.

From El País, a bot network on Twitter supports Spain's Socialist Party and insults journalists.

From The Portugal News, Porto is the best English-speaking city in Portugal.  (As for the best Portuguese-speaking city in the U.K., the U.S., or any other English-speaking country, your guess is as good as mine.)

From Free West Media, Gibraltar, Iceland, Taiwan and Israel "paint a bleak picture" for people vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From Morocco World News, the U.S. government approves the sale of Patriot missiles to Morocco.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco resumes its mandatory military service, which was suspended due to the coronavirus.

From the Libyan Express, Libyan House Speaker Aguila Saleh announces that he will run in Libya's presidential election.

Form Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey releases an Israeli couple from detention.

From Rûdaw, wheat farmers in Iraqi Kurdistan deal with increasing fertilizer prices.

From Armenpress, the foreign ministers of Armenia and Cyprus hold a phone conversation.

From In-Cyprus, according to deputy pharmaceutical services head Elena Panagiotopoulou, Cyprus may soon receive monoclonal antibody medicines.

From The Syrian Observer, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad replaces four governors.

From The961, Zeinab Soleimani, the daughter of the late terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani, donated money for Lebanese girls to marry Hezbollah terrorists.  (The article uses the euphemism "militants".  I don't.)

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli President Issac Herzog welcomes Natali and Mordy Oknin, released from detention in Turkey, back to Israel.

From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian military personnel start a joint training exercise with troops from Greece, Cyprus and the UAE.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, police in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia catch two suspects red-handed with 50 illegal guns.

From the Saudi Gazette, the Arab coalition carries out military operations against Houthis in Yemen.

From The New Arab, can the democratic opening in Sudan be reopened?

From RadioFreeEuope/RadioLiberty, Reporters Without Borders condemns the "unrelenting persecution" of an Iranian journalist.

From Dawn, Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan leader Hafiz Saad Hussain Rizvi is released from jail in Lahore, Pakistan.

From Khaama Press, according to acting Afghan Minister of Education Noorullah Munir, girls have a legal right to education, and the curriculum will be Islamic.

From The Hans India, Amazon introduces an all-female delivery station in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dr. Abdul Momen lauds a U.N. resolution oin the Rohingya Muslims.

From the Colombo Page, two biomedical companies are encouraged to establish facilities in Sri Lanka.

From Raajje, a murder suspect dies in the Maldives' Malé Prison.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia faces the "coal hard facts".

From Free Malaysia Today, police in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia arrest four men allegedly involved in drug trafficking.

From The Mainichi, a major Japanese pub chain apologizes after a customer's Tweet shows insects in its food.

From Gatestone Institute, China's united front is a "malign foreign influence".

From The Stream, the climate change cult wants everyone to drink a half-trillion dollars worth of Kool-Aid.

From The Daily Signal, meet the candidate who won a school board seat in Minnesota by running as a conservative and opposing critical race theory.

From Space Daily, the U.S. is still characterizing the damage done to a satellite by a Russian missile test.

From Space War, the Philippines accuses Chinese Coast Guard vessels of firing water cannons at its supply boats.

From The American Conservative, further reflections on the debacle in Afghanistan.

From The Western Journal, journalist Tucker Carlson exposes a big mistake made the by the prosecution in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.

From BizPac Review, President Biden mumbles that he "gotta take orders" after being told where to stand while being shown around a General Motors electric vehicle plant.

From The Daily Wire, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) trolls Biden by signing bills against vaccine mandates in Brandon, Florida.  (This could be good for tourism.  Instead of "let's go, Brandon", the slogan could be "let's go to Brandon".)

From the Daily Caller, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) tells nominee Saule Omarova that he doesn't know whether to call her "professor" or "comrade".

From the New York Post, rumors of a dog living in and trying to sell a house in Florida once owned by pop singer Madonna are greatly exaggerated.

From Breitbart, according to congresscritter Kevin Brady (R-TX), two out of three millionaires will "get a big tax cut" if the "Build Back Better" bill is passed.  (Wait a minute, I thought it was Democrats who objected to "tax cuts for the rich".)

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Steve Scalise (R-LA), Biden is lying to the American people about tax cuts.

And from the Genesius Times, Biden assures Americans that the supply chain of illegal immigrants will remain open.

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