Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Tuesday Tidings

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

From National Review, information from the CBO shows that President Biden and other Democrats are wrong about numbers of illegal migrants and the cost of the "Build Back Better" bill.

From FrontpageMag, the Pentagon is finally stepping up its efforts to get Americans out of Afghanistan.

From Townhall, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admits that illegal aliens can apply for taxpayer-funder payments.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a member of the Bush family sponsors an event with a blacklisted Chinese government contractor.

From the Washington Examiner, Democrats will take up the "Build Back Better" bill before its cost is analyzed.  (Once again, it appears that we have to pass the bill in order to find out what's in it.)

From The Federalist, seven media lies that Katie Couric and the Aspen Institute would denounce, if they really were concerned about disinformation.

From American Thinker, Biden's cookbook for inflation.

From CNS News, encounters between the Border Patrol and illegal migrants in October of this year are up greatly over the Octobers of the past two years.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, is former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) considering running for public office again?  (via LifeZette)

From Red Voice Media, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the coronavirus vaccine is killing more people than all other vaccines combined.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, economist Paul Krugman admits getting inflation wrong.

From Canada Free Press, recently indicted former White House counselor Steve Bannon won't be "pussyfooting around".

From Global News, over 1,100 homes are evacuated in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada due to floods.

From TeleSUR, security personnel for Venezuela's elections will include Bolivian soldiers.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Europe leads the way toward "medical apartheid".

From the Evening Standard, Prime Minister Boris Johnson (U.K.) tells Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Greece) that the Elgin Marbles are rightfully owned by the British Museum.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces new coronavirus measures.

From The Brussels Times, a medical research team at the University of Leuven is developing a vaccine that is expected to be effective against all variants of the coronavirus.

From Dutch News, over 110,000 people in the Netherlands test positive for the coronavirus in a week.

From EuroNews, a team at Delft University in the Netherlands work on designing a V-shaped airplane.  (Besides guitars known as the "Flying V", there could be a literal flying V.)

From ReMix, the 18 unresolved problems which fuel Germany's immigration crisis.

From Euractiv, thousands of migrants gather at the closed border crossing in Kuźnica, Poland.  (Looking up Kuźnica on GoogleMaps, I learned that there are several place in Poland with this name.  This one is on the border with Belarus and is northeast of a city named Białystok.  According to GoogleTranslate, the word kuźnica means "ironworks".)

From Hungary Today, according to prime ministerial chief of staff Gergely Gulyás, Hungary does not need E.U. funds for people who work.  (The article was first published in German at Ungarn Heute.)

From Sputnik International, the Russia military publishes a video showing its successful test of an anti-satellite missile.

From The Sofia Globe, according to We Continue the Change party co-leader Kiril Petkov, talks will start with three other parties in an effort to form a new government for Bulgaria.

From Ekathimerini, according to the aforementioned Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis, the return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece is an issue of "values".

From Balkan Insight, Serbian NGOs claim to have been denied access to Vietnamese workers brought into Serbia to build a factory for a Chinese company.

From The Slovenia Times, Minister for Slovenians Abroad Helena Jaklitsch visits Slovenians in the Austrian state of Styria.  (Clicking on TST several articles, I've noticed that some require you to enter your email address in order to read them in their entirety.)

From Malta Today, the Maltese parliament starts debating "radical" cannabis reforms.

From Italy24News, the supermarket chain Carrefour Italy lays off employees in the city of Milan and the region of Lombardy.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl is beaten by her family for refusing to wear a burqa - in Ostia, Italy.

From Free West Media, Austrian Olympic athlete Felix Gottwald says that he's "ashamed of the government" due to its coronavirus policy.

From RFI, France and the U.K. plan to step up their effort to curb illegal crossings of the English Channel, as French police clear a migrant camp.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria's decision to suspend supplying gas to Europe is still making waves.

From Turkish Minute, the Turkish government gives the city of İstanbul 120 more funding for its "Nation's Gardens" than for earthquake safety measures.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli diplomats make their first visit with an Israeli couple held in Turkey.

From Egypt Today, an aid caravan arrives in Aswan, Egypt.

From The New Arab, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip demand that the international community save the U.N. refugee agency from collapse.

From IranWire, as universities in Iran reopen, fake coronavirus vaccination certificates already circulate.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani government and opposition legislators brace for a joint sitting of parliament.

From The Afghanistan Times, according to the World Food Program, 24 million Afghans face acute hunger.

From ANI, in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir, police send a Pakistani terrorist and an "associate" to their virgins.

From New Age, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party plan to hold demonstrations in the capital of Dhaka to protest the deaths of four Bangladeshis by Indian border police.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan parliamentcritter Diana Gamage proposes that the government legalizes cannabis and cultivates it on state patronage.

From The Straits Times, the Myanmar government claims that the coronavirus and internal conflict are both on the wane, and seeks to reopen the country's borders.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia will implement walk-in registration for coronavirus booster shots for eligible individuals starting on November 22nd.

From Vietnam Plus, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam sets up temporary hospitals to treat moderately ill coronavirus patients.

From Gatestone Institute, a conversation with British politician Anne Marie Waters.

From The Stream, the Biden regime is government of, by and for the powerful.

From The Daily Signal, the Senate starts giving some long-overdue attention to the National Defense Authorization Act.

From The American Conservative, it would be a mistake for the U.S. to go "Russian into war".

From The Western Journal, the judge in the trail of Kyle Rittenhouse instructs the jury to ignore opinions from anyone, even President Biden.

From BizPac Review, comments from TV host Joe Scarborough are used by Rittenhouse's defense.

From The Daily Wire, retail sales increase, indicating that consumers are absorbing inflation.

From the Daily Caller, according to RNC chairperson Ronna McDaniel, who wrote the article, Americans are suffering under the Biden economy.

From the New York Post, PolitiFact is slammed for its "fact-check" claiming that Rittenhouse's possession of a gun was illegal.

From Breitbart, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who displayed guns as a mob invaded their neighborhood in St. Louis, make an appearance outside the Kenosha, Wisconsin courthouse where Rittenhouse is on trial.

From Newsmax, a second group of states files a lawsuit against the Biden administration's coronavirus vaccine mandates.

And from TechSideline, my alma mater and head football coach Justin Fuente decide to "mutually part ways".

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