Friday, February 18, 2022

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, the Oscars implement some coronavirus-related double standards.

From FrontpageMag, the Biden administration changes the mission statement of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

From Townhall, thousands of refugees from Afghanistan were not properly vetted for terror links.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a tribute to the recently departed author P.J. O'Rourke.

From the Washington Examiner, the media war over alleged spying against candidate and President Trump.

From The Federalist, five media lies about the latest revelations from Special Counsel John Durham's investigation.

From American Thinker, the left's Orwellian delusion about "equity, diversity and inclusion".

From CNS News, Russian President Putin mocks U.S. media for trying to predict when Russia might invade Ukraine.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, CNN harbors a fundraiser for BLM.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, is the possible invasion of Ukraine a scam by Putin?  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the "dirty tricks" are back.

From Canada Free Press, the Canadian government's officious overreach.

From TeleSUR, 274 cities in Colombia are at risk of suffering armed attacks.

From TCW Defending Freedom, 300 medical professions call for a halt to childhood coronavirus vaccination, call it "all risk and no benefit".

From Free West Media, most young Germans are annoyed at gender politics.

From EuroNews, a Ukrainian separatist leader calls residents to evacuate to Russia.

From Euractiv, France moves towards a more flexible electricity generation system.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Nantes, France celebrates Women's Month by showing a picture of a woman wearing a veil.  (If you read French, read the story at Valeurs Actuelles.)

From ReMix, according to former Polish Deputy Defense Minister Romuald Szeremietiew, assurances from Russia about any de-escalation on its border with Ukraine should not be taken seriously.

From Balkan Insight, Albania, Kosovo, and Bosnia all deny sending any "mercenaries" to Ukraine.

From Morocco World News, Morocco will reduce its medical training requirement to 6 years.

From The North Africa Post, Ryanair will launch a new Marrakech express, from Edinburg, Scotland.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, the status quo in the Black Sea is vitally important.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish prosecutors issue detention warrants for 114 more people accused of having Gülen links.

From Rûdaw, a woman in Erbil, Iraq feeds stray dogs in the twilight hours.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his wife Anna Hakobyan visit the History Museum of Armenia.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, an Armenian balloon sets a world record for longest flight without landing.

From In-Cyprus, a Pakistani man living is Cyprus in wanted for allegedly trafficking migrants.

From The Syrian Observer, according to U.N. envoy Geir Pederson, constitutional talks in Syria will resume.

From The961, the French company CMS CGM wins the contract to rebuild and expand the port of Beirut.

From Arutz Sheva, IDF fighter jets fly over Hezbollah strongholds.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel prepares for possible flare-ups in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel's Iron Dome defense system is activated after a drone enters from Lebanon.

From YNetNews, according to Israel's Nature and Parks Authority, Palestinians use cruel practices when hunting animals in the West Bank.

From the Egypt Independent, Presidents Abdel al-Sisi (Egypt) and Kais Saied (Tunisia) meet in Brussels, Belgium.

From Egypt Today, President al-Sisi meets with Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia and Djibouti agree to trade more fruits and vegetables.

From the Saudi Gazette, the Saudi Ministry of the Interior clarifies the penalties imposed for private businesses that violate the country's coronavirus rules.

From The New Arab, a lawyer calls for stripping the director of a film that portrays a gay couple of his Egyptian citizenship.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian authorities don't like a Radio Farda exposé on corruption and infighting in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.

From IranWire, according to Iran's deputy health minister, the coronavirus did more damage to Iran than the war against Iraq did.

From Iran International, Iranians in Tehran demonstrate against protest against a hijab ban in the Indian state of Karnataka.

From Khaama Press, amid tensions over Afghanistan's U.N. seat, a letter from former Afghan Foreign Minister Naseer Faiq is rejected.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, a six-year-old boy in the Afghan province of Zabul who fell down a well dies despite rescue efforts.

From the Afghanistan Times, women in Kabul rally against U.S. President Biden's decision on Afghan assets.

From NDTV, a polio outbreak in Malawi is attributed to a case "imported" from Pakistan.

From Gatestone Institute, new evidence shows the extent of Iran's support for the Houthi terrorists in Yemen.

From The Stream, enough with the comments about swastikas, already.

From The Daily Signal, a mother fighting against school mask mandates gets censored on YouTube.

From Space Warthe Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate performs an experiment with directed energy and kinetic energy.

From The American Conservative, what conservative American journalist Josh Hammer saw in Hungary.

From BizPac Review, in leaked audio, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky reveals her agency's true intentions on masks in schools.

From The Western Journal, Biden claims to have been a lifeguard at Lake Oswego, New York, but the lake doesn't exist.

From The Daily Wire, Fox Business host Dagen McDowell calls Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "a haircut with an ego".

From the Daily Caller, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) launches an investigation into the Chinese-owned app TikTok over its suspected use in human trafficking.

From the New York Post, a recently-ousted member of the San Francisco school board uses the "white supremacists" copout.

From Breitbart, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach expects the coronavirus to last 10 years.  (If you read German, read a related story at Der Spiegel.)

And from Newsmax, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy announces that he, his wife, and their two children have all contracted the coronavirus.

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