Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Tuesday Things To Start March

As March gets started on a cloudy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, we don't need fencing inspired by the January 6th riot for the State of the Union speech.

From FrontpageMag, the U.S. sends its agents to protect the border - of Poland.  (Considering that Border Patrol agents at our southern border are required to learn Spanish, will those deployed to Poland have to learn any Polish?)

From Townhall, according to a poll, just 21 percent of Americans are satisfied with the current state of our union.

From The Washington Free Beacon, while Russia wages war in Ukraine, the U.S. Army trains its officers about gender identity.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) fumes as the U.S. buys Russian oil.

From The Federalist, according to a report submitted by a Special Counsel to the Wisconsin Assembly, grant money from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg violated the state's bribery laws.

From American Thinker, why is the Biden administration protecting illegal aliens who drive under the influence?

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Kat Cammack (R-FL), the best word to describe President Biden's upcoming State of the Union speech is "bloviate".

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, the Russian army invading Ukraine is using old equipment and untrained conscripts.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, after banning former U.S. President Trump, Twitter allows Russian President Putin to continue posting.

From Canada Free Press, Putin's war crimes.

From TeleSUR, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo accepts the resignation of Transport Minister Juan Silva.

From TCW Defending Freedom, "the evil of three little words" in German.  (The words are not the well known arbeit macht frei, but they still appeared at a concentration camp.)

From Snouts in the Trough, will Russia's generals save us from Putin?

From Free West Media, one in every 25 Germans sought medical attention due to injury from coronavirus vaccines.

From Gatestone Institute, in a "historic reversal", Germany abandons its pro-Putin policy toward Russia.

From Russia Today, five people are killed after two explosions strike a TV tower in Kyiv, Ukraine.

From Sputnik International, the Russian government accuses Western governments and internet sites of censoring Russian media while pushing "hostile propaganda".

From The Moscow Times, slow progress and Ukrainian resistance could lead Russia to launch a brutal offensive.

From Euractiv, E.U. ministers brace for a future with energy from Russia.

From EuroNews, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tells europarliamentcritters to "prove that you're with us".  (The article spells his name with two y's, but I've mostly seen it spelled with just one.)

From Romania Insider, according to President Klaus Iohannis, Romania supports the admission of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia into the E.U.

From Novinite, Bulgaria's Council for Electronic Media suspends the broadcasting of the Russian TV stations Russia Today and Sputnik.

From The Sofia Globe, the Bulgarian parliament chooses Dragomir Zakov as the country's new defense minister, and he soon afterwards points out the "NATO is not a dirty word".

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria allows refugees from Ukraine to stay beyond six months without a visa if humanitarian reasons justify such an extension.

From the Greek Reporter, a demonstration in support of Ukraine is held in Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece.

From Ekathimerini, Greece sends military equipment to Ukraine.

From the Greek City Times, six bodies wash up and are recovered on the Greek island of Lesvos.

From Balkan Insight, Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs anchor their luxury yachts at the Montenegrin port of Tivat.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian President Zoran Milanović supports Ukraine's bid to join the E.U.

From Total Slovenia News, the Slovenian winery Vinakoper enters the African market through Ghana.

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša and several NGOs call for protests in support of Ukraine.

From The Malta Independent, Russia's ambassador to Malta is suspended from his honorary membership at the Casino Maltese.

From Malta Today, Malta lifts its coronavirus travel ban for refugees from Ukraine.

From ANSA, speaking to the Italian Senate, Prime Minister Mario Draghi points out that the Russian invasion of Ukraine shows that peace can't be taken for granted.

From SwissInfo, as a result of sanctions against Russia, the Swiss company in charge of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline fires 140 employees based in Zug, Switzerland.  (I did not know that this company, whose pipeline is intended to connect Russia with Germany, is based in Switzerland.)

From France24, the war in Ukraine hijacks the French presidential campaign.

From RFI, French President Macron cancels his first campaign meeting, when had been scheduled to take place in the city of Marseille.

From El País, a video shows a group of armed men killing 17 people in San José de Gracia, Michoacán, Mexico.

From ReMix, the Spanish right-wing party Vox is polling ahead of the governing center-right Popular Party

From The Portugal News, according to Minister for the Environment João Pedro Matos Fernandez, Portugal has "comfortable reserves" of gas and fuel.  (My spellchecker has no problem with the minister's first name.)

From The North Africa Post, the Egyptian government is set to allocate 30 percent of its budget for green investments.

From The New Arab, EgyptAir sends an airliner to Bucharest, Romania to bring Egyptian students who had fled Ukraine back to Egypt.

From The News, the Taliban will require women traveling outside of Afghanistan to have male escorts.

From The Print, the Taliban conduct house to house searches in areas where the most common ethnic groups are Tajik or Hazara.

From Israel Hayom, a Saudi political analyst realizes that Israel is preferable to Iran.

From U.S. News & World Report, Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei calls homosexuality an example of Western immorality.

From The Stream, does "freedom" for Ukraine mean coronavirus lockdowns and thought police enforcing wokeness?

From The American Conservative, the blindness of Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

From The Daily Signal, Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) is poised to withdraw Virginia from a multi-state climate agreement.

From iNews, after Russian President Putin's nuclear threat, the American "doomsday plane" makes a four-hour flight.  (via The Western Journal)

From The Western Journal, Vice President Harris shows off her ability to speak in different accents.

From BizPac Review, according to Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.N. Sergiy Kyslytsya, Putin does not need nuclear weapons to kill himself.

From The Daily Wire, as Ukrainians die from their country being invaded, CBS News focuses on their acceptance of transgenders.

From the Daily Caller, several Republican congresscritters will not attend President Biden's State of the Union address.

From the New York Post, a New York City man is indicted for allegedly stashing 110 pounds of she-don't-lie in a food truck.

From Breitbart, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) decides to skip Biden's State of the Union address.

From Newsmax, a conservative group places a message on a billboard in New York City which says nyet to Russian oil.

And from The U.S. Sun, instead of flower girls, a Miami couple employs "fireball fairies" at their wedding.  (via the New York Post)

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