Friday, March 18, 2022

Friday Phenomena

On a warm sunny Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review and the "I'll believe it when I see it" department, a lawyer who represented the mother of Hunter Biden's daughter predicts that Biden will be indicted.

From FrontpageMag, ISIS is back, including here in the U.S.

From Townhall, Hunter Biden is not a government employee, but there is a complication.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Jewish students at the University of Virginia defeat a campaign to have the university sever ties with speakers and organizations who support Israel.  (Due to this development, even a Hokie such as myself can cheer for these 'Hoos.)

From the Washington Examiner, a Russian regulator calls YouTube "terrorist in nature".

From The Federalist, a primer on the Russian collusion hoax plot to take down candidate and then-President Trump.

From American Thinker, Russian President Putin's modern-day Sudetenland.

From CNS News, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, President Biden (U.S.) will tell President Xi (China) that China will face "costs" if it supports Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

From LifeZette, Biden is rewarding America's enemies with deals involving oil.

From the eponymous site of Rob Maness, according to former Speaker Gingrich (R-GA), the U.S. is "intimidated" by Putin.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, Russian atrocities against Ukrainians are nothing new.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the media will never blame Biden for rising gasoline prices.

From Canada Free Press, Dr. Fauci pivots back yet again on coronavirus restrictions.

From TeleSUR, Peruvians protest against their Constitutional Court's decision to support the pardon given by former President Pedro Kuczinsky to fellow former President Alberto Fujimori.

From TCW Defending Freedom, praise the House of Lords for rejecting an assisted suicide bill.

From Free West Media, a Dutch journalist in Ukraine claim that people are happy that the Russians are there.

From EuroNews, an Italian man living in Vienna with his Ukrainian wife goes to rescue his mother-in-law and other relatives from Ukraine.

From Euractiv, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia expel a total of 20 Russian diplomats.

From ReMix, Prime Minister Orban moves to Debrecen, Hungary to coordinate defense and aid efforts.

From Balkan Insight, Albanian police are criticized for making large-scale arrests at protests.

From Morocco World News, Spain endorses Morocco's plan for autonomy in the region of Western Sahara, which Morocco appreciates.

From The North Africa Post, the American ambassador to Libya urges outgoing Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah to engage in discussions with Prime Minister-designate Fathi Bashagha.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan opens the Çanakkale bridge over the Dardanelles Strait.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's Board of Judges and Prosecutors disbars four prosecutors and a judge for alleged Gülen links.

From Rûdaw, the Iraqi city of Erbil considers opening a gasoline station for women only.

From Armenpress, Armenian Ambassador to the U.K. Varuzhan Nersesyan points out how Armenians know what it's like to be under bombardment against civilians.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan talks with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, and with Dutch diplomat Thijs van der Plas.

From In-Cyprus, bus workers in the Cypriot cities of Nicosia and Larnaca go on strike.

From The Syrian Observer, mass graves found in Syria could contain evidence of war crimes.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has a discussion with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the party Lapid urges the U.S. to keep regarding Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.

From The Jerusalem Post, Nelson Mandela's grandson blames Russia's invasion of Ukraine on NATO, "neo-Nazis" and Israel.

From YNetNews, ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky dies at age 94.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt temporarily abolishes fines for Russian visitors who overstay their visas.  (This means that under normal circumstances, being an illegal alien in Egypt is gonna cost ya, pilgrim.)

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel El-Sisi makes an inspection tour of Old Cairo speaks to citizens there.

From the Sudan Tribune, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia hold more secret dam talks.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia postpones the bidding process to partially privatize the state-run service provider Ethio Telecom.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia holds its biggest masquerade party.

From The New Arab, 187 protesters in Sudan are wounded in the latest round of clashes with police.

From IranWire, Iranian conservationist Morad Tahbaz is taken back to prison.

From Iran International, questions linger over Iran's release of two dual nationals whose other citizenship is of the U.K.

From Khaama Press, the Taliban releases three Afghan journalists after holding them for a 24 hours.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, according to experts, the formation of a reconciliation commission in Afghanistan is a positive step.

From the Afghanistan Times, the Biden administration grants Afghans temporary relief from deportation.

From Israel Hayom, according to an Afghan official, the Taliban will reopen high schools for girls next week.

From NewsX, an Islamist mob vandalizes a temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

From Devdiscourse, alleged jihadists kill at least 19 people who were riding a bus in western Niger.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. must reestablish its deterrence.

From The Stream, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's record on sex offenders and other criminals.

From The Daily Signal, the U.S. should conduct a new "Berlin Airlift" for Ukrainian civilians.  (Papa Bigfoot was involved in the Berlin Airlift as a tele-typist when he was in the Army Air Corps.)

From The American Conservative, Ukrainians reportedly head for the U.S.-Mexico border.

From The Western Journal, acquitted defendant Kyle Rittenhouse trolls President Biden's gasoline prices.

From BizPac Review, President Putin gives his conditions for ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

From The Daily Wire, according to the father of a swimmer for the aforementioned University of Virginia, it's "soul crushing" to watch Lia Thomas defeat female swimmers.

From the Daily Caller, a video shows a Russian tank in Ukraine getting taken out.

From the New York Post, Russians were reportedly "forced" into Moscow Stadium to attend Putin's pro-war rally.

From Breitbart, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) claims that fossil fuel extraction sites have a "correlation" with the abductions and murders of indigenous women.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Austin Scott (R-GA) points out that the war in Ukraine could cause worldwide food shortages.

And from the Fox 58a basketball wedged behind a net's backboard at a game between Indiana University and Saint Mary's is dislodged by Indiana's cheerleaders.  (via the Daily Caller)

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