Thursday, July 7, 2022

Thursday Things For 7/7

On a cloudy Thursday on the seventh day of the seventh month, here are some things going on:

From National Review, left-wingers are wrong to call the American system "illegitimate".

From FrontpageMag, Human Rights Watch accuses the Palestinian Authority and Hamas of torture, thus taking time out from its usual course of denouncing Israel.

From Townhall, Democrat Senators turn on President Biden over his administration's policy on cannabis.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a financial services firm blacklists companies that supply arms to Israel.

From the Washington Examiner, climate activist Greta Thunberg accidentally reveals the green left's inconsistency.

From The Federalist, a way to deter mass shootings that would be more effective than red flag laws.

From American Thinker and the "believe it or not" department, former President Trump is still winning, thanks to Democrats.

From CNS News, U.K. Prime Minister Boris "the Spider" Johnson resigns.  (I'm pleased to realize that I'm not the only one who calls him "the Spider".)

From LifeZette, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) calls for "civility" after saying "[bleep] Clarence Thomas".

From NewsBusters, MSNBC blames other states for gun crime in Illinois, which has tough gun laws.

From Canada Free Press, will the real Canadian armed forces personnel stand up?

From TeleSUR, Ecuador and Panama each confirm their first cases of monkeypox.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the coronavirus and the rebirth of eugenics.

From Free West Media, in the Netherlands, it's farmers out and asylum seekers in.

From EuroNews, who could replace Johnson as the U.K.'s prime minister?

From Euractiv, europarliamentcritters call for abortion to become a fundamental right in the E.U.

From ReMix, Poland has its lowest unemployment in 32 years, but it highest inflation in 25 years.

From Balkan Insight, the Albanian parliament approves a resolution honoring the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.

From The North African Post, the Algerian military regime bans ties with Moroccan academics.

From The New Arab, the Jordanian media denies plans for a "safe zone" on a border between Jordan and Syria.

From Dawn, in a letter to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, President Dr. Arif Alvi condemns the harassment of journalists.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani army troops using helicopters "successfully rescue stranded mountaineers".

From Pakistan Today, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan warns against obeying "illegal" orders from Punjab provincial Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz ahead of local elections.

From The Hans India, the government of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh asks Twitter to check for posts that hurt religious sentiments.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian actor-politician is sentenced to two years in jail for assaulting a polling officer.

From ANI, police in the Indian state of Punjab bust an international cyber fraud operation.

From India Today, will Indian politician Anand Sharma move from the Congress Party to the Bharatiya Janata Party?

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh's metro rail project is progressing quickly despite power outages.

From New Age, a fly in coffee results in a fine for a restaurant in Barisal, Bangladesh.

From the Colombo Page, according to the governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, inflation in the country could hit 70 percent.

From the Daily Mirror, the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation wants its fuel to be purchased with U.S. dollars.

From Raajje, resort chef Maha Naseer becomes the first Maldivian to be awarded the title of Master Chef by the Master Chef Society of the World.

From Jewish News Syndicate, UNRWA materials urge Palestinians to take up killing Israelis as a "hobby".

From The Straits Times, a truck driver is arrested after his truck rams into 11 vehicles on the causeway connecting Singapore with Malaysia.

From Tempo(dot)Co, the death penalty to continue to exist in Indonesia.

From Free Malaysia Today, according to former Malaysian minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan, not voting is an option in a democracy.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia's Jihad Against Inflation Special Task Force instructs agencies to find a way to reduce the price of cooking oil.

From Vietnam Plus, according to spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang, Vietnam is ready to cooperate and share its experience in combatting illegal fishing.

From the Taipei Times, Taiwan reports its first case of the coronavirus subvariant BA.5.

From The Mainichi, the Japanese city of Karatsu launches a mobile polling station for its remote areas.

From Gatestone Institute, Turkish President Erdoğan's demands on Finland and Sweden will not be his last blackmail.

From The Stream, once again, anti-Semitism comes from Christians.

From The Daily Signal, 90 left-leaning attorneys general and district attorneys refuse to enforce pro-life laws.

From Sino Daily, inspired by Ukrainians, Taiwanese civilians study urban warfare.

From Space Daily, a physics professor at The University of Texas at Arlington is selected for a NASA mission.

From The American Conservative, New York City bodega worker Jose Alba doesn't deserve jail.

From The Western Journal, Vice President Harris is roasted for an awful speech that makes President Biden look like Shakespeare.

From BizPac Review, at the request of actor Hugh Grant, Benny Hill Show music is blasted outside the U.K. parliament building ahead of Prime Minister Johnson's ouster.

From The Daily Wire, rapper 50 Cent mocks state Senator and twerker Tiara Mack (D-RI).

From the Daily Caller, are Americans disappearing?

From Breitbart, future First Son Hunter Biden filmed himself taking drugs while detoxing at a wellness center in 2019.

From CWB Chicago, a 16-year-old boy is arrested after allegedly robbing five stores in Chicago in less than one hour.  (via Breitbart)

From Newsmax, according to its executives, Twitter removes over a million spam accounts every day.

And from the New York Post, actor James Caan goes to the big screen in the sky.

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