Monday, March 14, 2022

Links For Pi Day

As warm weather returns on 3/14, here are some things going on:

From National Review, what would some people do without their grievance obsession?

From FrontpageMag, President Biden signs of on sanctuary cities for crack and heroin users.

From Townhall, Russian President Putin places his intelligence chiefs under arrest.

From The Washington Free Beacon, conservative activist Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, wants to set the record straight about January 6th.

From the Washington Examiner, despite what some may claim, climate change is not an "existential threat".

From The Federalist, if Biden really cared about border security, ICE would be arresting more illegal aliens instead of releasing them.

From American Thinker, some myths and reality about NATO expansion.

From CNS News, according to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the possibility of Russia using chemical weapons in Ukraine is "a very legitimate concern".

From LifeZette, Russia is reportedly asking China for military help in Ukraine.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) "shreds" FERC Chairman Richard Glick over his statements about pipelines.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, the media once "gushed" over the Soviet Union.

From Canada Free Press, why are Canada's churches still closed?

From TeleSUR, left-wing candidates win in Columbia's parliamentary elections.

From TCW Defending Freedom, was the coronavirus crisis a fraud made to cancel global debt?

From Free West Media, over 300 attacks against Russian-speaking people have occurred in Germany since the start of the invasion of Ukraine.

From EuroNews, a new round of talks between Russia and Ukraine offers a "glimmer of hope".

From Euractiv, Slovakia and Italy call for adjusting the Common Agricultural Policy due to the war in Ukraine.

From ReMix, according to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Russia's ability to blackmail Europe with its gas supplies will become a thing of the past.

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo arrests 48 police officers and two customs officers for allegedly taking bribes.

From Morocco World News, Korean National Railway secures a contract for constructing a railroad between the Moroccan cities of Marrakech and Agadir.  (This will result in a new section of the Marrakech Express.)

From The North Africa Post, Tunisian President Kais Saied places a travel ban on the leader of a movement opposed to his July 25th exceptional measures.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan announces a new package to improves the personal rights of healthcare workers.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals finds reasonable a sentence reduced by a lower court for a man convicted of killing his girlfriend after she rejected his marriage proposal.

From Rûdaw, according to the U.S. State Department, the missiles launched by Iran toward Erbil, Iraq targeted a civilian residence, not the U.S. consulate.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken have a telephone conversation.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, in the breakaway region of Artsakh, Russian peacekeepers respond to Azerbaijani provocations.

From In-Cyprus, Ukrainians stranded in Egypt due to the invasion of their country will be housed in Famagusta, Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian opposition has an internal crisis due to statements by a former Qatari prime minister.

From The961, photos from Baadarane, Lebanon.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett talks with the aforementioned President Putin.

From The Times Of Israel, Russian oligarchs in Israel come under increased scrutiny.

From The Jerusalem Post, a hacker group allegedly linked to Iran claims responsibility for a cyberattack against an Israeli government web domain.

From YNetNews, according to Bennett, refugees from Ukraine will be allowed to stay in Israel until it's safe for them to return.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt's Transport Ministry starts construction on a second express train line.

From Egypt Today, 2,000 Egyptian students who have returned from Ukraine are registered to complete their studies in Egypt.

From the Sudan Tribune, a human rights watchdog calls for the release of two South Sudanese men detained for criticizing their government.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian customs official capture items worth 71.8 million birr.  (That's the equivalent of about $141,000.)

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia will get some cold weather.

From The New Arab, Egyptian naval forces rescue the crew of a sinking Lebanese cargo ship off the coast of Alexandria.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Foreign Ministers Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (Iran) and Sergei Lavrov (Russia) plan to meet in Moscow.

From IranWire, widespread religious discrimination is reported in Iran.

From Iran International, the Iranian foreign ministry claims that Iraq is hosting third-party threats against Iran.

From Khaama Press, 1.2 million children in Afghanistan will be vaccinated against the measles.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, unemployed journalists in the Afghan province of Ghazni start their own poultry business.  (You could say that their chickens have literally come home to roost.)

From the Afghanistan Times, the three-day conference Grand Pushtoon Jirga calls for the end of the Afghan military's involvement in administrative affairs.  (My spellchecker objects to "Pushtoon", but has no problem with "Jirga".)

From Ips International, some information about the laws on marriage in the UAE.

From Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinians at a rally chant "martyrdom is the call of Allah" and "kidnap a soldier for my children".

From Gatestone Institute, why did Putin have his military invade Ukraine?

From The Stream, "life during wartime".  (Not to be confused with a song by the Talking Heads.)

From The American Conservative, how solid are American war guarantees?

From Space Daily, Germany plans to buy up to 35 U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets.

From Robo Daily, helping humans to understand robots.  (Or maybe, how to welcome our robot overlords.)

From The Daily Signal, a podcast about "how to fix the media".

From The Western Journal, top Democrat congresscritters harshly criticize President Biden for keeping one of former President Trump's policies in place.

From BizPac Review, former congresscritter Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) fires back at Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) for calling her a "treasonous" liar for claiming that the U.S. has biological labs in Ukraine.

From The Daily Wire, according to a poll, over 60 percent of Americans agree with Florida's "Parental Rights in Education" bill.

From the Daily Caller, the aforementioned Senator Manchin joins his Republican colleagues in opposing the nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin to the Federal Reserve board of governors.

From the New York Post, socialite scammer and visa overstayer (and thus illegal alien) Anna "Delvey" Sorokin will be released from ICE custody and deported to Germany.

From Breitbart, congresscritter Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich) appears to have changed her mind about American energy.

From Newsmax, the oil company Chevron is set to Venezuelan oil if the U.S. relaxes sanctions on that country.

And from Food Safety News, if you're in Wyoming and wish to find some roadkill, there's an app for that.

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