Friday, February 4, 2022

Friday Phenomena

As the wet weather continues on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden's male bovine waste about gun-makers being immune from lawsuits.

From FrontpageMag, the truth about Biden's "war" with Russia.

From Townhall, who's paying for those flights for illegal aliens?

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, American athletes face "enormous risk the minute they set foot in China" for the Winter Olympics.

From the Washington Examiner, Chinese law enforcement drags away a Dutch journalist while he was broadcasting.  (The "enormous risk" of which Ambassador Haley speaks does not appear to be limited to the athletes.)

From The Federalist, Democrat politicians were never afraid of the coronavirus as they want us to be.

From American Thinker, there's a reason why the left-wing media attacked Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s speech.

From CNS News, an expected increase in employment is better than expected.

From LifeZette, the Biden administration is trying to shut down podcaster Joe Rogan.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Red Voice Media, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's half-brother comes out in support of the protesting truckers.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, hypocrites at The New York Times keep on trucking.

From Canada Free Press, if a disease has a name and a label, money follows.

From CBC News, police in Ottawa, Canada launch a "surge and contain" strategy to manage protesters.

From Global News, according to Canada's top doctor, residents of Ottawa should follow public health advice amid the trucker protest.

From CTV News, organizers of a convoy in Quebec City, Canada say that their protest will start this afternoon.

From TeleSUR, the Colombian Constitutional Court postpones the debate on decriminalizing abortion.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a plan to fix immigration now would guarantee victory for the U.K.'s Conservative Party.

From the Express, Queen Elizabeth shows off her Jubilee display.

From the Evening Standard, efforts at Cambridge University's Jesus College to remove a memorial to an investor in slave-trading companies are likened to getting rid of an unpopular relative.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is hit with another no-confidence letter, this one from Conservative parliamentcritter Aaron Bell.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Taoiseach Micheál Martin, the "door is open" for former Agriculture Minister Dara Calleary to return to the Irish Cabinet.

From the Irish Examiner, a long-awaited runway extension for the Waterford, Ireland airport gets approved.

From VRT NWS, teenagers in the Belgium commune of Flanders will be offered coronavirus vaccine booster shots.

From The Brussels Times, 10 years ago today, Belgium recorded its coldest day ever.

From the NL Times, according to Rotterdam, Netherlands Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, no decision has been made as to whether to dismantle a bridge to allow Jeff Bezos's yacht to pass through.

From Dutch News, all classrooms in the Netherlands will get a carbon dioxide meter.

From Deutsche Welle, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder joins the board of the Russian energy company Gazprom.

From the CPH Post, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen reshuffles her cabinet.

From Polskie Radio, Polish President Andrzej Duda arrives in Beijing for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.

From Radio Prague, the leaders of the Czech Republic and Poland sign a deal to resolve a dispute over a mine in Turów, Poland, but some critics still cry foul.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia and the U.S. sign a defense cooperation agreement.

From Daily News Hungary, what Hungarian Prime Minister Orban and Russian President Putin talked about at their recent meeting.

From Hungary Today, Justice Minister Judit Varga tells the European Commission that Hungary is protecting children, not discriminating against LGBTQI people.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at 444.)

From About Hungary, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary intends to import natural gas from Azerbaijan.

From ReMix, Hungary drafts its National Civil Guard Association to help defend its borders.

From EuroNews, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Russia will face "massive costs" if it invades Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, wanted Kosovo Serb businessman Milan Radoičić escapes arrest on the border with Serbia.

From Free West Media, harmful substances are found in masks distributed to schools in the Swiss canton of Ticino.  (My visit to Switzerland in 1996 included a day in Ticino, including the city of Lugano.  My alma mater has a campus in Ticino.)

From Euractiv, according to Turkish President Erdoğan, Turkey and Israel can jointly bring natural gas to Europe.

From The North Africa Post, Khalifa Haftar resumes his position as commander of the Libyan National Army.

From The New Arab, residents of Atme, Syria are shocked to learn that ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, who killed himself as U.S. troops approached, was their neighbor.

From Gatestone Institute, helping China in space is suicide.

From The Stream, President Biden throws out almost six decades of desegregation.

From Space Daily, the roof of the satellite navigation world.

From The Daily Signal, a doctor prevented from practicing medicine in Rhode Island sues the state.

From The American Conservative, when it comes to the coronavirus, all of the institutions failed.

From The Western Journal, retired NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal comes out against coronavirus vaccine mandates.

From BizPac Review, Bath & Body Works gets blowback for its woke Black History Month collection.

From The Daily Wire, after black Delegate Aijalon Cordoza (R) is denied membership in the Virginia black caucus, Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears (R) proposes a "you're not black enough" caucus.

From the Daily Caller, lawyer Michael Avenatti is found guilty of fraud in a case involving his former client Stormy Daniels.

From Breitbart, 40 percent of Americans refuse to watch the Beijing Winter Olympics due to anger at the Chinese government.

From Newsmax, New York City's "Vegan Fridays" school lunches include chickpea wraps and veggie tacos.

And from the New York Post, a man with pneumonia claims to have "heard God" while tripping on antibiotics.

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