Monday, February 7, 2022

Monday Links

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

From National Review, President Putin regards Russia as the only sovereign state in his neighborhood.

From FrontpageMag, activist Tommy Robinson produces a documentary about rape gangs in the U.K.

From Townhall, Americans are fed up with both government regulations and corporate wokeness.

From The Washington Free Beacon, possible Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was once an advocate for terror suspects housed at Guantanamo Bay.

From the Washington Examiner, after GoFundMe shuts down its page for the Canadian Freedom Convoy truckers, GiveSendGo steps up.

From The Federalist, whistleblower videos show widespread alleged election code violations in Delaware County, Pennsylvania in 2020.

From American Thinker, a single photo of former President Obama shows the lies about "climate change" and the coronavirus.

From CNS News, as Russian weapons arrive in Belarus, the U.S. warns it against being part of any plan to invade Ukraine.

From LifeZette, several factors point to a Russian invasion of Ukraine by the end of this month.

From Maness, First Lady Jill Biden admits being "disappointed" with the Democrats.  (via LifeZette)

From the Objectivist, American-born skater Zhu Yi, who defected to China in 2018 to compete for that country, comes in last in her event at the Winter Olympics.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the networks ABC and CBS lament the "insurrection" Canadian truckers opposing the Canadian government's "efforts to control" the coronavirus.  (I'm pretty sure that if a left-wing group were to oppose a right-wing government's efforts to control something, these networks and others would call it "what democracy looks like".)

From Canada Free Press, police in Ottawa, Canada can steal fuel from the truckers, but "can't extinguish the fires of freedom".

From TeleSUR, the Haitian Senate calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Australia's coronavirus tyranny is "just a test run".

From Snouts in the Trough, a look at how vaccinations have affected coronavirus-related hospitalizations in various countries.

From Russia Today, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, aid from the West is helping to deter Russia.

From Sputnik International, Russian athletes have the most medals so far at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.

From The Moscow Times, President Macron (France) hopes for some de-escalation of tensions over Ukraine in his talks with President Putin (Russia), but no major breakthroughs are expected from their meeting.

From Romania-Insider, Romanian banks report record-breaking annual profits, after just 11 months.

From Novinite, Bulgaria reports a 49 percent increase in housing for the last quarter of 2021.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev wants Prime Minister Kiril Petkov questioned over his allegations about corruption.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office want to question former Bulgargaz executive director Nikolay Pavlov.

From the Greek Reporter, the "priceless treasures" of Dion, a site in the Greek region of Macedonia.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek party New Democracy expels Sparta Mayor Petros Doukas.

From the Greek City Times, a group of Greek hackers attack the website of North Macedonia's Ministry of Education.

From Keep Talking Greece, historical photos show a mosque on the Acropolis in Athens, erected when Greece was under Ottoman Turkish rule.

From Balkan Insight, a group of governing and opposition Montenegrin parliamentcritters sacks Speaker Aleksa Bečić.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia seeks workers from India, Nepal, and other distant places.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia wins the gold medal in mixed team ski jumping at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenian President Borut Pahor visits the Vatican.

From The Malta Independent, four men are charged with inciting suicide for allegedly urging a man to jump off a bastion in Valletta, Malta.

From Malta Today, Malta's Planning Authority approves the destruction of part of an old farmhouse and a "mysterious" oval wall to build a road.

From ANSA, wind blows off part of the roof of Milan's central railroad station.  (Believe or not, there's a song for that.)

From SwissInfo, are the glass ceilings for women in Swiss banks ready to be shattered?

From France24, a live blog including the aforementioned talks between Presidents Macron and Putin.

From RFI, Angola turns over to France two 18th-century sculptures which had been looted by the occupying Nazis during World War II.

From Euractiv, France plans to invest €6.5 billion to decarbonize its industries.

From El País, the American embargo of Cuba is now 60 years old.

From The Portugal News, new rules for entering Portugal are now in force.

From Free West Media, another fully vaccinated soccer player dies.

From EuroNews, the U.K. and Germany send hundreds of more troops to NATO's eastern flank.

From ReMix, 40 Czech police are deployed to Hungary to protect its border with Serbia.  (This would seem analogous to using RCMP personnel to protect the U.S. border with Mexico, but apparently the E.U. allows for such deployment.)

From The North Africa Post, 300 Syrian fighters contracted by the Russian private military company Wagner leave Libya.

From The New Arab, the Libyan parliament announces that there will be no elections this year.

From the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the Muslim group CAIR criticizes the use of a Confederate statue in a privately owned park in Bentonville, Arkansas.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, according to an Armenian Ombusman, Azerbaijani authorities are inciting religious hatred at a state level.  (Does this give me another Armenian source?  We shall see.)

From Sky News, children as young as 12 are housed in a prison run by the Taliban in the Afghani province of Herat, and a female governor at the prison has vanished.

From Gatestone Institute, do not open the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

From The Stream, a suggestion for podcaster Joe Rogan that could educate everyone.

From RebelNews, Rumble tries to lure Rogan away from Spotify.

From The Daily Signal, President Biden's budget proposal to Congress is AWOL.

From The American Conservative, an opinion against the military's coronavirus vaccine mandate.

From The Western Journal, is China using coronavirus quarantines to rig the Winter Olympics?

From BizPac Review, Forward Party founder and former Democrat Andrew Yang apologizes for defending Rogan.

From The Daily Wire, according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, the Biden administration is ready for whatever Russian President Putin does next.

From the Daily Caller, gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams's (D) campaign tries for some damage control after her maskless photo appearance with masked schoolchildren.

From the New York Post, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) regrets his resignation over a sexual harassment scandal.

From Breitbart, an activist from Peterborough, Ontario, Canada dares Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "to come and speak to our faces".

From Newsmax, NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom agrees to speak at CPAC later this month.

And from The Babylon Bee, Trudeau orders the RCMP to round up all geese and have them shot for honking in solidarity with the protesting truckers.

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