Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Links For International Women's Day

On a cloudy and cool Tuesday on which falls International Women's Day, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the "Russia hawks" have turned out to be right.

From FrontpageMag, the left is not letting the Ukraine crisis go to waste.

From Townhall, congresscritter Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) notices something missing from President Biden's trip to Texas.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Alexandria, Virginia withdraws its plan to observe "Abortion Provider Appreciation Day".

From the Washington Examiner, Biden blames oil companies and Russian President Putin for high oil and gas prices, not his own policies.

From The Federalist, "half the country" spoke the coronavirus-related truths that CDC Director Rochelle Walensky insists that "nobody said", and they were smeared for it.

From American Thinker, then-Senator Biden's (D-Del) filibuster of a black female judicial nominee might come back to haunt him.

From CNS News, Biden's reported attempts to obtain oil from Nicolas Maduro's Venezuela get blasted - by a Democrat Senator.

From LifeZette, the U.S. plans to ban the importing of Russian oil.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, according to a poll, if the U.S. is attacked, most Democrats would run away.  (I'm still waiting for the people who promised to run away if George W. Bush or Donald Trump is elected president to do so.  The story comes via LifeZette.)

Form the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, the Democrat coronavirus police are coming for you.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the networks go Sergeant Schulz at the latest pronouncement from congresscritter Ilhan Omar.

From Canada Free Press, when the world's nutjobs get to gang up against everyone else.

From TeleSUR, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel condemns U.S. sanctions against Russia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the story of how the drug ivermectin was "cancelled".

From Free West Media, some hospitals in Germany received funding without ever treating a single coronavirus patient.

From EuroNews, the U.N. denies forbidding its staff from using the words "war" and "invasion" in describing the war in which Ukraine is undergoing an invasion.

From Euractiv, according to some europarliamentcritters, the disinformation leading up to the war in Ukraine is years in the making.

From ReMix, the Czech army sends troops to Slovakia to help construct and operate a refugee camp.

From Balkan Insight, in southeastern Europe, people march for women's rights in International Women's Day.

From Morocco World News, MWN presents its Woman of the Year, Hannou Oumarouch.

From The North Africa Post, the African Development Bank approves a €104 million credit line to Tunisia for modernizing its road infrastructure.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan promises to continue high-level diplomacy to stop the war in Ukraine.

From Turkish Minute, inflation in Turkey hits women the hardest.

From Rûdaw, dozens of people rally in Erbil, Iraq on International Women's Day against the recent surge in femicide.

From Armenpress, the Azerbaijani army obstructs repairs to a natural gas pipeline running from Armenia to the Azerbaijani region of Artsakh.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, according to the Armenian Ministry of Defense, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense is still spreading misinformation.

From In-Cyprus, dead turtles are found on the Cypriot beaches of Argaka Gialia.

From The Syrian Observer, according to the opposition Syrian National Coalition, the Syrian people are familiar with the suffering now experienced by the Ukrainian people.

From The691, this year's Beirut International Women Film Festival honors women's leadership.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Interior Minister Ayalet Shaked, Israel is prepared to temporarily host 25,000 Ukrainian refugees.

From The Times Of Israel, a family in Mariupol, Ukraine takes a large risk to tell their daughter in Israel that they're still alive.

From The Jerusalem Post, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanks Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for his mediation efforts.

From YNetNews, displayed Ukrainian Jewish children shelter in Israel.

From the Egypt Independent, the price of gold jumps in an unprecedented manner in Egypt and in the world.

From Egypt Today, Egypt has stored a six-month supply of wheat.  (A certain Israelite who was given a position of power in Egypt would be proud of this development.)

From the Sudan Tribune, Sudan's commission appointed to investigate attacks in 2019 against pro-democracy protesters suspends its activities.

Form the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde launches a humanitarian support hotline.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian King Salman welcome Egyptian President Abdel El-Sisi.

From The New Arab, an Egyptian pharmacist who was attacked by female coworkers for not wearing a hijab is released from custody while facing terror-related charges.  (Let me get this straight.  The woman who was the victim of the attack gets arrested for alleged terror involvement?  No assault charges for the women who allegedly attacked the pharmacist?  And what about the hijab being a choice, as some have claimed?)

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, the U.S. and France agree to continue their "close coordination" on reviving the Iran nuclear deal.

From IranWire, in Tehran, the women's drug addiction treatment center Sun House is "forced" to close its doors.

From Iran International, 95-year-old Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati warns that the Iranian government's ability to prevent hunger is limited.

From Khaama Press, according to the International Organization of Migration, 120,000 Afghans have returned to Afghanistan in the past two months.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, according to a U.N. report, 397 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan since the Taliban retook power.

From the Afghanistan Times, on International Women's Day, concerns mount about the status of Afghan women.

From FX Empire, more on the civilians killed in Afghanistan.

From Al Jazeera, "no one cares" about the "invisible" victims of ISIS.

From Gatestone Institute, as the Biden administration appeases Iran's mullahs as Iran escalates its assassination attempts.

From The Stream, President Biden looks for oil around the world while ignoring the oil in his back yard.  (Perhaps "under his nose" is a better phrase.)

From The American Conservative, the invasion of Ukraine is becoming unpopular with the Russian people, but it probably won't lead to any regime change.

From HistoryNet, how a new design is giving 60-year-old B-52 bombers a new life.

From Space War, Iran claims to have put a new military satellite into orbit.

From The Daily Signal, what China is learning from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

From American Wire, a solution to the triple problem of inflation, oil prices, and Putin.

From BizPac Review, right-wing journalist Tucker Carlson dissects the "shocking" report on the 2020 election in Wisconsin.

From The Western Journal, NBC tells Americans to save on gas by driving slower.

From The Daily Wire, Russian arteries have a chance to become healthier.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Andy Biggs (R-AZ) starts a hearing by showing a video of Democrats calling for defunding the police.

From Breitbart, in a U-turn, the Polish government makes its MIG-29 fighter jets available to Ukraine.

From Newsmax, former National Security Council Chief of Staff Alex Gray enters the Republican senatorial primary in Oklahoma.

And from the New York Post, the wish of a Ukrainian border guard on Snake Island in the Black Sea, that a Russian warship go [bleep] itself, has apparently been granted.

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