Thursday, February 10, 2022

Thursday Things

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

From National Review, the Chinese bat virus that hasn't been found infecting any Chinese bat.

From FrontpageMag, did Leicester University in the U.K. destroy an archive of documents on communist terrorism?

From Townhall, a new army report details more failures in Afghanistan by the Biden administration.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration won't commit to submitting a new proposed nuclear deal with Iran to Congress, as required by law.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden may extend coronavirus-related mask mandates even as blue states end theirs.

From The Federalist, how coronavirus vaccine-related discrimination caused hospital care shortages in Wisconsin.

From American Thinker, how to understand former Indiana Governor (R) and Vice President Mike Pence.

From CNS News, according to Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), trade between the U.S. and communist China is "not really free trade".

From LifeZette, actor Matthew McConaughey wants to run for public office, but not just yet.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, some Republican congresscritters want Biden to take a cognitive test, as then-President Trump did.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, "misinformation" is whatever the media doesn't want to hear.

From Canada Free Press, the Freedom Convoy of Canadian truckers is making roadkill of the Great Reset and lying politicians.

From CBC News, protesting truckers step up their blocking of access to the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario, Canada and Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

From Global News, Ottawa, Canada police are besieged by fake 911 calls.

From CTV News, Conservative Canadian parliamentcritters push for their government to present a plan to end coronavirus-related mandates.

From TeleSUR, two Colombian army troops are killed in a car bomb attack in the department of Meta.

From TCW Defending Freedom, money is the reason why an English soccer player who kicked a cat is still allowed to play.

From the Express, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick resigns.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer thinks that the cat-kicking soccer player should be dropped by his team.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. Home Office prevents a group of orphaned siblings in Ethiopia from joining their refugee sister in the U.K.

From the (Irish) Independent, the Irish government will announce today measures to address the impact of inflation on households.

From VRT NWS, a new "Freedom Convoy" heads for Brussels, Belgium.

From The Brussels Times, according to Corona Commissioner Pedro Facon, Belgium can "gradually" start relaxing its coronavirus rules.

From the NL Times, the Dutch cabinet is considering a proposal to allow bars and restaurants to stay open until 1:00 a.m.

From Dutch News, an investigator who wrote a book alleging that Anne Frank and her family were betrayed to the Nazis by a Jewish notary stands by his findings.

From Deutsche Welle, on her first trip to the Middle East as Germany's Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock commemorates victims of the Holocaust.

From the CPH Post, almost 80 percent of soccer players on Denmark's six national youth teams were born in the first half of the year.

From Polskie Radio, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau urges politicians to find the will to end the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

From ReMix, left-wing NGOs urge the E.U. to stop construction of Poland's wall on its border with Belarus.

From Radio Prague, people in the Czech Republic will no longer have to show their coronavirus papers.

From The Slovak Spectator, President Zuzana Čaputová and the Slovak parliament ratify the new defense agreement between Slovakia and the U.S.  (As an American of mostly Slovak descent, I can't help but be pleased by this development.)

From Daily News Hungary, the reason why Hungary is a small country is 75 years old.

From Hungary Today, houses in and around Budapest, Hungary cost a third more than a year ago.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Portfolio.)

From About Hungary, the Hungarian party Fidesz claims to have "irrefutable evidence" of double standards against Hungary.

From Free West Media, a "freedom convoy" to Bern, Switzerland is indirectly successful.

From EuroNews, police in Paris ban a planned "Freedom Convoy" demonstration.

From Euractiv, according to a position paper from the European fuel industry, Europe is in danger of not meeting its demand for fuel due to E.U. restrictions on biofuels.

From The North Africa Post, the U.S. turns over a fossilized dinosaur skull to the Moroccan embassy in Washington, D.C.

From The New Arab, according to the Yemen Data Project, January was the most deadly month for airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.

From Digital World, Islamic police in Kano, Nigeria destroy 4 million bottles of beer.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Amnesty International aids and abets antisemitism.

From Gatestone Institute, "the real apartheid in the Middle East".

From The Stream, will highly populated China actually run out of people, and is the African-American population endangered?

From The Daily Signal, Hollywood has a shameful love affair with communist China.

From The American Conservative, what Russia wants, and has wanted for about 30 years, in Ukraine.

From The Western Journal, inflation rises to a 7.5 annual rate in January.

From BizPac Review, Texas gubernatorial candidate Bob O'Rourke (D) is called a "liar" after changing his tune on the 2nd Amendment.

From The Daily Wire, after congresscritter AOC (D-NY) asks about housing on social media, conservative readers respond by recommending books on economics.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Con) traded stock in the platform Robinhood while he and some colleagues called for it to be investigated.

From the New York Post, a "cryptic" new coronavirus variant might have come from rats in New York City's sewers.  (This might give the expression "you dirty rat" a whole new meaning.)

From Breitbart, in Culpeper, Virginia, President Biden is greeted by protesters shouting "let's go Brandon" and "build crack better".

From Newsmax, my governor asks our state's State Board of Education to end mask mandates in schools.

From CNN, the U.K.'s Prince Charles tests positive for the coronavirus for the second time, despite being fully vaccinated.  (It seems that neither vaccines nor natural immunity prevented his second case of the virus.)

And from NBC Sports Washington, the U.S. ice hockey team beats China 8-0 in their Olympics opener.  (via The Western Journal)

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