Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Wednesday Wanderings

As the mild weather continues on a Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden won't be able to spin his way out of the current inflation crisis.

From FrontpageMag, a look at the 2021 election and the "leave us alone".

From Townhall, more on Biden and inflation.

From The Washington Free Beacon, inflation is at its highest level in over 30 years.

From the Washington Examiner, history has some bad news for Biden and the Democrats.

From The Federalist, if leftists end parental rights, people might need licenses to raise their own children.

From American Thinker, experts struggle to explain why relatively free Florida has half the coronavirus infection rate as masked and vaccine-mandated California.

From CNS News, Remington becomes the latest gun manufacturer to flee and anti-gun state.

From LifeZette, the far left would pay a price within the Democrat party.

From Red Voice Media, the "infrastructure" bill requires all new cars to have breathalizer-style systems starting in 2026.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, may the door not hit occasionally fake journalist Brian Williams on his way out.

From Canada Free Press, congresscritter (AOC) preaches to those who see the planet on their plates.

From CBC News, Canadians of Ukrainian heritage fight to save a cemetery in the Abitibi region in the Canadian province of Quebec.

From TeleSUR, the caravan of Central American migrants decides against passing through Mexico City on their intended way to the U.S.

From TCW Defending Freedom, in the U.K., coronavirus deaths plunge while damage from vaccines soars.

From Snouts in the Trough, are the U.K.'s expensive RT-PCR coronavirus tests worth anything?

From the Express, U.K. Health Secretary Sajid Javid does not rule out requiring people over 65 years old to get a coronavirus booster in order to enter public spaces.

From Euractiv, according to Brexit Minister David Frost, the U.K. has no plans to suspend the Northern Ireland protocol.

From the (Irish) Independent, a 29-year-old child care assistant makes an impressive recovery after allegedly injuring her knee at the Dublin Airport.

From VRT NWS, everyone in Belgium will be offered a coronavirus booster shot.

From the NL Times, at the climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the Netherlands pushes for emission-free trucks by 2040.

From Deutsche Welle, if you're traveling to Germany, please don't bring with you any endangered clams.

From Free West Media, Germany has the world's most expensive electricity.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, the former chairman of a mosque community in Göttingen, Germany is investigated for incitement.  (If you read German, read the story at NDR.)

From the CPH Post, Danish parties constituting the Blue Bloc attracts vaccine skeptics.

From Polskie Radio, according to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the migrant crisis on the Belarusian border is designed to destabilize the E.U.

From EuroNews, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the influx of migrants to the Poland-Belarus border is a "hybrid attack".

From Radio Prague, the Czech Health Ministry will pay for the coronavirus vaccination of foreigners living legally in the Czech Republic.

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak Agriculture and Food Chamber announces price hikes for groceries.

From Daily News Hungary, a fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic is expected to break out in a bunch of Hungarian cities.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Portfolio.)

From Russia Today, 18 Russian prison guards are fired after video clips show them torturing inmates.

From Romania-Insider, Romanian coalition partners hope to have their new government ready by November 18th.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at HotNews.)

From Novinite, according to immunologist Radka Argirova, green certificates for coronavirus antibodies will be valid for three groups of people in Bulgaria.

From the Greek Reporter, Athens, Greece will soon get its first-ever Japanese garden.  (I hope that it will be more authentically Japanese than the one in Giverny, France on the estate of painter Claude Monet.  See this blog's archives for May 2014.)

From Balkan Insight, Croatian police investigate death threat allegedly made against journalist Boris Dežulović over his recent column about the town of Vukovar.

From Total Croatia News, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković announces an extension of the Croatian government's measure to cap fuel prices.

From Total Slovenia News, the synagogue in Ljubljana, Croatia reopens after being renovated.

From The Malta Independent, animal welfare officers confiscate 18 dogs from a "puppy mill" in Pietà, Malta.

From ANSA, the remains of a man who died decades ago are found in a cave on Mount Etna, on the Italian island of Sicily.

From SwissInfo, let them wear bracelets.

From France24, the European Commission grants the French firm Valneva approval to supply coronavirus vaccines.

From ReMix, according to French parliamentcritter Éric Ciotti, the "Great Replacement" is indeed happening.

From El País, an unknown "restorer" puts grey cement onto a 13th-century church in Castronuño, Spain.

From The Portugal News€1 million is invested a cheese factory in Castello Branco, Portugal.

From Morocco World News, former Polisario member Mustafa Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud urges the Moroccan government to help facilitate Sahrawis to return from the Tindouf camps.

From The North Africa Post, Royal Air Maroc plans to have direct flights between Casablanca and Tel Aviv by December 12th.

From the Libyan Express, Libyan High Council of State leader Khalid Al-Mishri calls for a boycott of Libya's elections.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey commemorates is founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on the 83rd anniversary of his death.

From Rûdaw, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan official Mala Bakhtiar recovers from alleged poisoning.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chairs a consultation on economic priorities.

From In-Cyprus, illegal migrants from Lebanon arrive in Paphos, Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, U.S. and Russian envoys will meet to discuss the situation in Syria.

From The961, fuel prices in Lebanon are increased.

From Arutz Sheva, according to opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel has become a vassal of the United States.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt bans the importation of all tuk-tuk components.

From the Ethiopian Monitors, Ethiopian parliamentcritters form 11 committees and select their respective chairpersons.

From the Saudi Gazette, reports of Saudi Arabia withdrawing from the coalition in Yemen are greatly exaggerated.

From The New Arab, according to a monitoring group, Syria has the world's worst landmine casualty numbers.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, according to Human Rights Watch, Iran's new population law violates women's rights.

From Dawn, according to an opinion column, Pakistan's Daimer-Bhasha dam, now under construction, "is neither green nor cheap".

From Khaama Press, according to Afghan spokesman Khalil Hamraz, over 600 people affiliated with ISIS-K have been arrested in the past three months.

From Anadolu Agency, the Taliban set of military tribunals to in Afghanistan to enforce sharia.

From ANI, hotel and restaurant associations in the Indian state of Kerala demand the rollback of recently increased LPG prices.

From the Dhaka Tribune, the Dhaka airport will close for eight hours each day for maintenance.

From the Colombo Page, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is disappointed with Sri Lanka's Opposition for actually being an opposition.

From Raajje, Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed appoints a new president and vice president for the Human Rights Commission of Maldives.

From Gatestone Institute, how Palestinian leaders inflict pain on Palestinians, while the E.U. shrugs.

From The Stream, an open letter to all Christians who voted to elect Joe Biden president.

From WKRN, a teenager from Dyer County, Tennessee is hospitalized with Guillain-Barré Syndrome after being vaccinated against the coronavirus.  (via LifeZette)

From ITR Economics, "inflation starts to bite".

From The Daily Signal, the "build back better" bill would build a bigger, but not better, IRS.

From The American Conservative, say "goodbye" to the guilted age.

From The Western Journal, the Biden administration has no idea how to reunite over 1,000 Afghan children in the U.S. with their parents.

From BizPac Review, the fashion magazine InStyle denies "embalming" actress Reese Witherspoon.

From The Daily Wire, a second mock-up of a U.S. aircraft carrier is discovered in a remote Chinese desert.

From the Daily Caller, Kyle Rittenhouse's defense team asks for a mistrial.

From the New York Post, according to the chief Pentagon spokesman, the climate and China are "equally important" threats to the U.S.  (Since China is the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, and thus the main cause of any threat from climate change, I'd say that the two threats actually overlap.)

From Breitbart, congresscritter Byron Donalds (R-FL) blasts the 13 Republican congresscritters who voted for the "infrastructure" bill.

From Newsmax, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) blames President Biden for inflation and illegal inflation.

And from the Genesius Times, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg proposes to fix supply chain issues by making all U.S. highways gay.

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